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4,979,784 | 4,979,431 | 1 | 2 | 4,979,080 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>You'd want to know but could not easily learn from this article that the wiretaps in question here pertain to foreign intelligence surveillance (ie, the government's authorization to spy on foreign entities).<p>You'd probably also want to know that the hotbutton issue actually at play in this authorization is programmatic surveillance, which is what it sounds like: automated collection and analysis of intercepts. The statutory problem with programmatic intercepts is not that they're unlawful, but rather that FISA ss written required individual suspicion for every captured communication, which is logistically intractable for this application.<p>The law as written limits the application of programmatic surveillance authorizations:<p><pre><code> An acquisition authorized under subsection (a)–
(1) may not intentionally target any person known at the time of
acquisition to be located in the United States;
(2) may not intentionally target a person reasonably believed to be
located outside the United States if the purpose of such acquisition
is to target a particular, known person reasonably believed to be in
the United States;
(3) may not intentionally target a United States person reasonably
believed to be located outside the United States;
(4) may not intentionally acquire any communication as to which the
sender and all intended recipients are known at the time of the
acquisition to be located in the United States; and
(5) shall be conducted in a manner consistent with the fourth
amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
</code></pre>
None of these points are to suggest that Wyden is wrong to be seeking accountability for FISA warrants or that nobody should be concerned about foreign surveillance or that there aren't real concerns that foreign surveillance is capturing lots of domestic communication.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Warrantless wiretaps? Congress votes yes</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/warrantless-wiretaps-congress-votes-yes/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mtgx</author><text>I recommend reading Greenwald's long article on this. I think he explains better than anyone else the <i>absurdity</i> of the situation and the shamelessness of the senators who voted for FISA and against the amendments to it:<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/28/fisa-feinstein-obama-democrats-eavesdropping" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/28/fisa-fei...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Warrantless wiretaps? Congress votes yes</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/warrantless-wiretaps-congress-votes-yes/</url></story> |
20,941,011 | 20,940,881 | 1 | 2 | 20,940,409 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ur-whale</author><text>I wish a physicist could explain here how the very notion of &quot;diameter&quot; has any meaning for an object whose size (IIUC) belong entirely to the quantum realm.<p>Is the hydrogen atom two hard little balls of matter orbiting one another, as we were taught in primary school, or are they a probabilistic soup with various, vaguely localized extrema?<p>If the latter, how do you even define the notion of diameter?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Physicists finally nail the proton’s size, eliminating an anomaly</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-finally-nail-the-protons-size-and-hope-dies-20190911/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>conistonwater</author><text>&gt; <i>If the discrepancy was real, meaning protons really shrink in the presence of muons, this would imply unknown physical interactions between protons and muons — a fundamental discovery. Hundreds of papers speculating about the possibility have been written in the near-decade since.</i><p>This reminds me of a joke. An experimental physicist walks into a theoretical physicist&#x27;s office with a really cool experimental result, shows the printed out graph to the theoretician. He thinks for a while and says, &quot;this is perfectly in line with theory, let me explain how&quot;. The experimentalist looks at the graph, scratches his head, says &quot;uh, this is upside down&quot;, and rotates the paper 180 degrees. The theoretician thinks a while more and says, &quot;well this can also be explained&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Physicists finally nail the proton’s size, eliminating an anomaly</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-finally-nail-the-protons-size-and-hope-dies-20190911/</url></story> |
14,063,247 | 14,063,059 | 1 | 3 | 14,061,317 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; &quot;The US has lower unemployment than in 2010, and higher unemployment than in 2000.&quot; Fact.<p>Define &quot;unemployment.&quot; Our labor force participation rate is down from 2010: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;static4.businessinsider.com&#x2F;image&#x2F;563caf319dd7ccfc418bcbfb-1200-900&#x2F;october-2015-labor-force-participation-rate.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;static4.businessinsider.com&#x2F;image&#x2F;563caf319dd7ccfc418...</a>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paulddraper</author><text>It is color? Or colour? Should my English dictionary include &quot;haiku&quot;? What about &quot;teriyaki&quot;? &quot;Shamisen&quot;? Is it &quot;Internet&quot; or &quot;internet&quot;?<p>---<p>Everything has some wiggle room, but both fact checking and spell checking rely on precise rules to a great exent. You just have to recognize when something is really an opinion. Many things on Politifact, etc. are inferences and conclusions composed of facts, but not facts themselves.<p>&quot;Aaron Burr was vice-president of the US in 1803.&quot; Fact.<p>&quot;The Sun convert light elements to heavier ones via fusion.&quot; Fact.<p>&quot;It is legal for a licensed gun owner to open-carry in California.&quot; Falsehood.<p>&quot;The US is in an economic depression.&quot; Too vague, can&#x27;t be fact checked.<p>&quot;The US has lower unemployment than in 2010, and higher unemployment than in 2000.&quot; Fact.</text></item><item><author>zeteo</author><text>&gt; Fact checking is like spell check.<p>No it&#x27;s not. Spell checking relies on very precise rules. Fact checking relies on assessing context and, more often than not, the speaker&#x27;s intention.<p>For example, let&#x27;s take the statement &quot;There are 300 million people in the US&quot;. Is this false? Well, it depends where I&#x27;m going with it.<p>If I was only relying on the figure as an approximation, I can say something like &quot;therefore deaths from terrorism only affect 0.0x%, which is not something we should worry a lot about&quot;. This is obviously a factually valid argument, even though you might disagree with the conclusion b&#x2F;c you think other facts are more relevant etc.<p>On the other hand, my argument can also be &quot;and there were 300 million in 2007, therefore the population has been stagnant and we need to do something about it&quot;. This is factually quite false, since the population has in fact increased by ~18M.<p>Now should the original statement &quot;there are 300 million people in the US&quot; be rated true or false? A hostile fact checker may rate the first instance false, since there are actually 318+ million. A friendly fact checker will rate the second instance true b&#x2F;c I obviously meant the rate of growth was low by historical standards etc.</text></item><item><author>jawns</author><text>I&#x27;m a former journalist, and one of the mistakes I often see people make is to either give too much or not enough credence to whether the facts in a news story (or op-ed) are true.<p>Obviously, if you disregard objective facts because they defy your assumptions or hurt your argument, you&#x27;re deluding yourself.<p>But an argument that uses objectively true and verifiable facts may nevertheless be invalid (i.e. it&#x27;s possible that the premises might be true but the conclusion false). Similarly, a news story might be entirely factual but still biased. And in software terms, your unit tests might be fine, but your integration tests still fail.<p>So here&#x27;s what I tell people:<p>Fact checking is like spell check. You know what&#x27;s great about spell check? It can tell me that I&#x27;ve misspeled two words in this sentance. But it will knot alert me too homophones. And even if my spell checker also checks grammar, I might construct a sentence that is entirely grammatical but lets the bathtub build my dark tonsils rapidly, and it will appear error-free.<p>Similarly, you can write an article in which all of the factual assertions are true but irrelevant to the point at hand. Or you can write an article in which the facts are true, but they&#x27;re cherry-picked to support a particular bias. And some assertions are particularly hard to fact-check because even the means of verifying them is disputed.<p>So while fact checking can be useful, it can also be misused, and we need to keep in mind its limitations.<p>In the end, what will serve you best is not some fact checking website, but the ability to read critically, think critically, factor in potential bias, and scrutinize the tickled wombat&#x27;s postage.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fact Check now available in Google Search and News</title><url>https://blog.google/products/search/fact-check-now-available-google-search-and-news-around-world/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zeteo</author><text>This is pretty naive. Do you think Google is now cross-checking news stories with the encyclopedia entries on vice presidents and nuclear fusion? Please go to factcheck.org, which is what they&#x27;ll actually use. They&#x27;re dealing with stuff that&#x27;s almost exclusively like your item #4, and they&#x27;ll definitely give it ratings. #3 and #5 are also much more open to argument than you want to admit here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paulddraper</author><text>It is color? Or colour? Should my English dictionary include &quot;haiku&quot;? What about &quot;teriyaki&quot;? &quot;Shamisen&quot;? Is it &quot;Internet&quot; or &quot;internet&quot;?<p>---<p>Everything has some wiggle room, but both fact checking and spell checking rely on precise rules to a great exent. You just have to recognize when something is really an opinion. Many things on Politifact, etc. are inferences and conclusions composed of facts, but not facts themselves.<p>&quot;Aaron Burr was vice-president of the US in 1803.&quot; Fact.<p>&quot;The Sun convert light elements to heavier ones via fusion.&quot; Fact.<p>&quot;It is legal for a licensed gun owner to open-carry in California.&quot; Falsehood.<p>&quot;The US is in an economic depression.&quot; Too vague, can&#x27;t be fact checked.<p>&quot;The US has lower unemployment than in 2010, and higher unemployment than in 2000.&quot; Fact.</text></item><item><author>zeteo</author><text>&gt; Fact checking is like spell check.<p>No it&#x27;s not. Spell checking relies on very precise rules. Fact checking relies on assessing context and, more often than not, the speaker&#x27;s intention.<p>For example, let&#x27;s take the statement &quot;There are 300 million people in the US&quot;. Is this false? Well, it depends where I&#x27;m going with it.<p>If I was only relying on the figure as an approximation, I can say something like &quot;therefore deaths from terrorism only affect 0.0x%, which is not something we should worry a lot about&quot;. This is obviously a factually valid argument, even though you might disagree with the conclusion b&#x2F;c you think other facts are more relevant etc.<p>On the other hand, my argument can also be &quot;and there were 300 million in 2007, therefore the population has been stagnant and we need to do something about it&quot;. This is factually quite false, since the population has in fact increased by ~18M.<p>Now should the original statement &quot;there are 300 million people in the US&quot; be rated true or false? A hostile fact checker may rate the first instance false, since there are actually 318+ million. A friendly fact checker will rate the second instance true b&#x2F;c I obviously meant the rate of growth was low by historical standards etc.</text></item><item><author>jawns</author><text>I&#x27;m a former journalist, and one of the mistakes I often see people make is to either give too much or not enough credence to whether the facts in a news story (or op-ed) are true.<p>Obviously, if you disregard objective facts because they defy your assumptions or hurt your argument, you&#x27;re deluding yourself.<p>But an argument that uses objectively true and verifiable facts may nevertheless be invalid (i.e. it&#x27;s possible that the premises might be true but the conclusion false). Similarly, a news story might be entirely factual but still biased. And in software terms, your unit tests might be fine, but your integration tests still fail.<p>So here&#x27;s what I tell people:<p>Fact checking is like spell check. You know what&#x27;s great about spell check? It can tell me that I&#x27;ve misspeled two words in this sentance. But it will knot alert me too homophones. And even if my spell checker also checks grammar, I might construct a sentence that is entirely grammatical but lets the bathtub build my dark tonsils rapidly, and it will appear error-free.<p>Similarly, you can write an article in which all of the factual assertions are true but irrelevant to the point at hand. Or you can write an article in which the facts are true, but they&#x27;re cherry-picked to support a particular bias. And some assertions are particularly hard to fact-check because even the means of verifying them is disputed.<p>So while fact checking can be useful, it can also be misused, and we need to keep in mind its limitations.<p>In the end, what will serve you best is not some fact checking website, but the ability to read critically, think critically, factor in potential bias, and scrutinize the tickled wombat&#x27;s postage.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fact Check now available in Google Search and News</title><url>https://blog.google/products/search/fact-check-now-available-google-search-and-news-around-world/</url></story> |
2,058,622 | 2,058,668 | 1 | 3 | 2,058,555 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chaosmachine</author><text>They could definitely make a killing with just a single AdSense block at the bottom of every article. Maybe even just the top 1000 articles.<p>Instead, we get places like Answers.com mass-duplicating Wikipedia content and slapping big image ads on it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ryan_IRL</author><text>I'm aware it is temporary, but I'm surely not the only one thinking that banner is more annoying than the occasional ad would have been.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_raises_16_million_to_remain_ad-free.php?sms_ss=hackernews&at_xt=4d1fa1b01149c6b1%2C0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text>If they just made it half as tall... it currently takes up 1/4 of the screen on my laptop when the page first loads.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ryan_IRL</author><text>I'm aware it is temporary, but I'm surely not the only one thinking that banner is more annoying than the occasional ad would have been.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_raises_16_million_to_remain_ad-free.php?sms_ss=hackernews&at_xt=4d1fa1b01149c6b1%2C0</url></story> |
35,709,060 | 35,708,568 | 1 | 2 | 35,707,692 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>temp_praneshp</author><text>If you watch Tottenham despite all that, you deserve the pain their football causes.<p>Jokes apart, is the BT Sports &quot;early kick off games&quot; completely different from the Sky Sports game you mentioned? That&#x27;s ridiculous. I was in England in Summer 2019 for the cricket world cup, and was shocked at how difficult it was to watch the games on TV. Wimbledon was very easy though, so maybe Tennis is way more popular?</text><parent_chain><item><author>esharte</author><text>If you lived in the UK, supported Tottenham and wanted to watch all their games in the 2021&#x2F;22 season you had to:<p>Subscribe to Sky Sports (around £50-60 a month) for the Premier League games.<p>Subscribe to BT Sports (30 a month) for the Saturday early kick off Premier League games and the Europa Conference League games.<p>Subscribe to Amazon Prime for the 3 random weeks when they are showing the Premier League games instead of Sky.<p>Subscribe to Premier Sports (£12 a month) to see a Europa Conference League 2 legged qualifier.<p>And even then you couldn&#x27;t see all the games legally in the UK because of the 3pm Saturday black out. You are forced to find a stream from another country where they are broadcasting the game.<p>Then when you are subscriped you get wall to wall gambling adverts during half time. For every other product you subscribe to, it is to avoid ads, but not television.</text></item><item><author>emacdona</author><text>Sigh... f*ck sports leagues&#x2F;governing bodies. The reason some honest people pirate streams for sporting events is because they make it so annoying to pay for them. Some examples...<p>I live in the US.<p>I briefly took an interest in the EPL. If I wanted to watch all EPL games (or have the option of watching any particular EPL game), I&#x27;d have to subscribe to Peacock _and_ Fubo -- and I&#x27;m still not sure that gets me all games.<p>I briefly took an interest in the NHL (this was years ago, granted -- things may have changed). If I would have subscribed to their service, the ONLY team whose home games I couldn&#x27;t watch would have been the TEAM OF THE CITY I LIVE IN (i.e.: &quot;my&quot; team).<p>My two favorite sports, though, are Cycling and F1.<p>I LOVE cycling. To watch every UCI race, I&#x27;d have to subscribe to GCN+ (they have the Giro), Peacock (they have the Tour de France and La Vuelta), and Flobikes (they have most of the Classics races).<p>THE ONLY sports governing body that has figured this out (for sports I like, anyway), is F1. I pay F1.com $80 a year and get MORE content than I would if I watched the races on ESPN. I can see EVERY RACE, EVERY QUALIFYING, EVERY PRACTICE. I can even choose WHOSE car I want to see the first person view from.<p>If you want to &quot;stop pirates&quot;, make it easy for them to give you money and watch their favorite sport.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates</title><url>https://www.mux.com/blog/how-content-moderation-rescued-750k-in-unpaid-invoices-from-soccer-pirates</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>emacdona</author><text>Infuriating. I was pissed because I couldn&#x27;t easily watch &quot;all games in a given league&quot;. You only want to watch your team, and you STILL have to pay for four services to get &quot;most&quot; of the games.</text><parent_chain><item><author>esharte</author><text>If you lived in the UK, supported Tottenham and wanted to watch all their games in the 2021&#x2F;22 season you had to:<p>Subscribe to Sky Sports (around £50-60 a month) for the Premier League games.<p>Subscribe to BT Sports (30 a month) for the Saturday early kick off Premier League games and the Europa Conference League games.<p>Subscribe to Amazon Prime for the 3 random weeks when they are showing the Premier League games instead of Sky.<p>Subscribe to Premier Sports (£12 a month) to see a Europa Conference League 2 legged qualifier.<p>And even then you couldn&#x27;t see all the games legally in the UK because of the 3pm Saturday black out. You are forced to find a stream from another country where they are broadcasting the game.<p>Then when you are subscriped you get wall to wall gambling adverts during half time. For every other product you subscribe to, it is to avoid ads, but not television.</text></item><item><author>emacdona</author><text>Sigh... f*ck sports leagues&#x2F;governing bodies. The reason some honest people pirate streams for sporting events is because they make it so annoying to pay for them. Some examples...<p>I live in the US.<p>I briefly took an interest in the EPL. If I wanted to watch all EPL games (or have the option of watching any particular EPL game), I&#x27;d have to subscribe to Peacock _and_ Fubo -- and I&#x27;m still not sure that gets me all games.<p>I briefly took an interest in the NHL (this was years ago, granted -- things may have changed). If I would have subscribed to their service, the ONLY team whose home games I couldn&#x27;t watch would have been the TEAM OF THE CITY I LIVE IN (i.e.: &quot;my&quot; team).<p>My two favorite sports, though, are Cycling and F1.<p>I LOVE cycling. To watch every UCI race, I&#x27;d have to subscribe to GCN+ (they have the Giro), Peacock (they have the Tour de France and La Vuelta), and Flobikes (they have most of the Classics races).<p>THE ONLY sports governing body that has figured this out (for sports I like, anyway), is F1. I pay F1.com $80 a year and get MORE content than I would if I watched the races on ESPN. I can see EVERY RACE, EVERY QUALIFYING, EVERY PRACTICE. I can even choose WHOSE car I want to see the first person view from.<p>If you want to &quot;stop pirates&quot;, make it easy for them to give you money and watch their favorite sport.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates</title><url>https://www.mux.com/blog/how-content-moderation-rescued-750k-in-unpaid-invoices-from-soccer-pirates</url></story> |
25,259,084 | 25,259,109 | 1 | 2 | 25,257,159 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slowwriter</author><text>I also saw the race live and like you I was truly horrified. At first the commentators said “It’s a Haas!” and for some reason I assumed it was MAG for a moment. My first thought was: “He’s dead.”<p>I never realized that there is a medical car trailing the field on the first lap of every race. Just moments after the crash the med car driver and doctor hopped out and began extinguishing the flames and were able to help Grosjean get over the rail that he had split open.<p>I’m amazed that he was able to get out and walk away from that. When you watch the footage it seems like he is in the flaming inferno forever!<p>There are couple of criticisms that has been floating around that I don’t entirely disagree with: If the guard rail hadn’t failed the car probably wouldn’t have split in half and caught fire like that. Though to be fair, who’s to say what could have happened with an almost frontal impact at that speed, regardless of what he had crashed into.<p>The other one is more of an observation than an actual criticism: If he had been knocked unconscious he wouldn’t have had a chance. Though there were multiple people with fire extinguishers there’s no way they could have put the fire out fast enough to drag him out of the car. Which again feeds into the whole ‘the guard rail shouldn’t have failed, and if it hadn’t the car wouldn’t have caught fire’ deal.<p>All that said though, the level of safety built into these cars is absolutely amazing: The halo, the survival cell and things like that were put to the ultimate test and really saved the day alongside the brave first responders.</text><parent_chain><item><author>OskarS</author><text>Watching the race live was a terrifying experience. You just saw an exploding fireball at the back of the field, and your blood just ran cold. F1 cars don&#x27;t explode that way, it&#x27;s just not something that happens anymore. And you can&#x27;t imagine anyone walking away alive from it. The couple of minutes between seeing the crash and getting the reports that Grosjean had walked out of the car alive was just awful.<p>Seeing the replays afterwards, it reminded me of the footage of Niki Lauda&#x27;s crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix. He was caught in a fiery inferno for something like 40-50 seconds, which severely damaged his lungs and face and disfigured him for life. Six weeks later, with bandages still covering his head, he was back on track, racing again. He would go on to win several championships. Luckily, it seems like Romain got away with much lighter wounds.<p>I was thinking to myself during the race about the 19 other drives, thinking &quot;how do you go sit in a car and race for 90 minutes after seeing that happen?&quot;, but these guys are made of sterner stuff than me.<p>Thank god for the halo, and the hardened monocoque (which basically stayed intact after a 200 kph crash!), and the improved firesuits, and the medical car following at the start, and the marshals at the side of the track with fire extinguishers, and a thousand other small safety measures. Romain Grosjean is alive today because of decades of tireless work making the sport safer. Thank god for Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Sid Watkins, Charlie Whiting and everyone else who has worked tirelessly to this end.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Romain Grosjean walked away from F1’s scariest crash in decades</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/11/how-romain-grosjean-walked-away-from-f1s-scariest-crash-in-decades/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>piva00</author><text>Yes, a thousand times this. I&#x27;ve been following the sport for a little more than 2 decades, I was a kid when Ratzenberger and Senna died (and he was a hero for my dad and for my home country).<p>Watching this live I couldn&#x27;t believe it, I audibly gasped when I saw a fireball in F1 in 2020.<p>More impressive is how the thorough enactment of safety rules really played all out in Romain&#x27;s accident like you mentioned. It&#x27;s easy to get complacent after a while without major accidents, in most industries, it was really heartwarming seeing how the preparation of years paid off to save a life.</text><parent_chain><item><author>OskarS</author><text>Watching the race live was a terrifying experience. You just saw an exploding fireball at the back of the field, and your blood just ran cold. F1 cars don&#x27;t explode that way, it&#x27;s just not something that happens anymore. And you can&#x27;t imagine anyone walking away alive from it. The couple of minutes between seeing the crash and getting the reports that Grosjean had walked out of the car alive was just awful.<p>Seeing the replays afterwards, it reminded me of the footage of Niki Lauda&#x27;s crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix. He was caught in a fiery inferno for something like 40-50 seconds, which severely damaged his lungs and face and disfigured him for life. Six weeks later, with bandages still covering his head, he was back on track, racing again. He would go on to win several championships. Luckily, it seems like Romain got away with much lighter wounds.<p>I was thinking to myself during the race about the 19 other drives, thinking &quot;how do you go sit in a car and race for 90 minutes after seeing that happen?&quot;, but these guys are made of sterner stuff than me.<p>Thank god for the halo, and the hardened monocoque (which basically stayed intact after a 200 kph crash!), and the improved firesuits, and the medical car following at the start, and the marshals at the side of the track with fire extinguishers, and a thousand other small safety measures. Romain Grosjean is alive today because of decades of tireless work making the sport safer. Thank god for Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Sid Watkins, Charlie Whiting and everyone else who has worked tirelessly to this end.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Romain Grosjean walked away from F1’s scariest crash in decades</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/11/how-romain-grosjean-walked-away-from-f1s-scariest-crash-in-decades/</url></story> |
2,853,499 | 2,853,023 | 1 | 3 | 2,852,723 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nextparadigms</author><text><i>"If Google doesn't have enough money to buy up patents, who does? Twice it has tried and been outbid, not by a single competitor but by a group of them joining together. In fact, that's where, to me, the real antitrust issue surfaces, that by joining together to squeeze Google out of two auctions, Google's competitors appear to have been plotting against it in ways that really must invite scrutiny, which, by all reports is now happening again."</i><p>I think this is the main point of this story and this whole issue, and that's what Google wanted to show us. If Google can't even get patents to protect themselves, because all the others keep banding together and not letting them win any auction, then something is very wrong here.<p>You may say, yeah but then why doesn't Android have its own patents? Well, I don't think it would've been possible for them to get that many patents in this short amount of time, and I don't think it would've been possible for Apple either.<p>Look at Apple, they are winning with patents <i>not</i> related to smartphones. If Apple wasn't this 30 year old computer company, their patent chest would've probably been close to zero, and a lot of these companies would've come after them, too.<p>Here's a look at the <i>mobile</i> patents everyone has. You can see Google is not in top 10, but take a closer look - neither is Apple.<p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-biggest-ip-war-chests-08042011-gfx.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-biggest-ip-war-ches...</a><p>So what would've happened if Apple didn't have any of their computers patents from before, and they actually were a new smartphone company? They would've probably gotten sued into oblivion as well, especially since they seem to make a lot of money from iPhones. Their handful of mobile patents would've meant nothing in the face of the mobile patent war chest of Nokia, Samsung, Microsoft, HP(Palm patents) and Motorola.<p>You can't create something as complex as a smartphone and a smartphone OS today, without infringing a <i>ton</i> of patents. So if a new mobile company can be crushed because others have more patents than them, then what does that say about the patent system? It says the patent system does nothing to protect and encourage innovation, but it lets the big incumbent companies crush the new guys with their large patent war chests. It's bad enough when it's just one of them, it's much worse when they all join together against that company.<p>If you can't build anything complex, without being a 10+ year old company (in <i>that</i> market) and not having thousands of patents - then something is very wrong with the patent system that was supposed to help start-ups and innovation. I think they all know this, but since they know they have the upper hand with current broken system, they will fight to <i>maintain</i> the current system.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title> A Brief Explanation of Microsoft's Anti-Google Patent FUD</title><url>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110805154137803</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>technoslut</author><text>This is a very odd article to say the least.<p>Why is it disturbing that Google is unable to buy these patents? These patents were sold to the highest bidder and the bidders were approved by the gov't.<p>How are MS, Apple &#38; Oracle unpatriotic in bidding against Google for patents? Last time I checked Google, Apple &#38; MS all have their cash in tax havens overseas. That, to me, sounds unpatriotic.<p>Why are these three companies specifically to blame for the bogus patents that are thrown out in court? This seems to put the blame squarely on the shoulders of the USPTO for even validating them. There are also the claims that were found valid in the courts. Are they bogus as well?<p>Has Apple or MS sued OHA members with these purchased patents? I realize the situation with Oracle is far more in the gray but it seems Apple has sued with patents they applied for and used in their products. Why should Google have the benefit of purchasing patents to leverage against Apple &#38; Microsoft's own patents?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title> A Brief Explanation of Microsoft's Anti-Google Patent FUD</title><url>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110805154137803</url><text></text></story> |
41,650,418 | 41,650,678 | 1 | 2 | 41,649,983 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jandrese</author><text>Not my experience at all. Streaming over WiFi had no noticeable latency, but I did have to upgrade my WiFi AP to one that supported -AC and have it only a couple of meters from the VR headset.<p>I actually expected it to kinda suck and was very impressed when it worked as well as it does.<p>This is on a Quest 2, not a Quest 3 however. Experiences may vary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>daemonologist</author><text>The latency is <i>brutal</i> though, compared to content running on-device or a headset with regular display input. I&#x27;m particularly prone to motion sickness though - it might be an acceptable tradeoff if you&#x27;re not.<p>(Image compression over wireless or even USB is noticeable as well, but I can overlook that for the price.)</text></item><item><author>talldayo</author><text>The killer app for these cheap headsets is streaming software, like ALVR or Virtual Desktop. I&#x27;ve been playing <i>No Mans Sky</i> and <i>VTOL VR</i> (with Proton!!!) and streamed to my headset with surprising stability and little latency.<p>The standard native Quest games are okay, but my OG Quest 1 really shines when you use it to play wireless PCVR streamed over Wifi. I would not be surprised if this was the main use-case for these headsets nowadays.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta Quest 3S</title><url>https://www.meta.com/tw/en/quest/quest-3s/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Kiro</author><text>I don&#x27;t notice any latency whatsoever. If you&#x27;re not exaggerating and are genuinely experiencing &quot;brutal&quot; latency, then something is definitely wrong with your setup.</text><parent_chain><item><author>daemonologist</author><text>The latency is <i>brutal</i> though, compared to content running on-device or a headset with regular display input. I&#x27;m particularly prone to motion sickness though - it might be an acceptable tradeoff if you&#x27;re not.<p>(Image compression over wireless or even USB is noticeable as well, but I can overlook that for the price.)</text></item><item><author>talldayo</author><text>The killer app for these cheap headsets is streaming software, like ALVR or Virtual Desktop. I&#x27;ve been playing <i>No Mans Sky</i> and <i>VTOL VR</i> (with Proton!!!) and streamed to my headset with surprising stability and little latency.<p>The standard native Quest games are okay, but my OG Quest 1 really shines when you use it to play wireless PCVR streamed over Wifi. I would not be surprised if this was the main use-case for these headsets nowadays.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta Quest 3S</title><url>https://www.meta.com/tw/en/quest/quest-3s/</url></story> |
27,253,221 | 27,249,651 | 1 | 3 | 27,249,075 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pygar</author><text>This is a fork of MenuetOS [0]. The author of MenuetOS (Ville M. Turjanmaa) does not appear thrilled about the fork and has put the 64bit version under a proprietary license [1].<p>This is not criticism, just a statement.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MenuetOS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MenuetOS</a>
[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;board.flatassembler.net&#x2F;topic.php?p=216272#216272" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;board.flatassembler.net&#x2F;topic.php?p=216272#216272</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>KolibriOS</title><url>http://www.kolibrios.org/en/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yosito</author><text>This looks really cool. The screenshot is awesome. Though I&#x27;m a bit put off by the giant Facebook logo on the homepage. I find it odd for an OS like this to organize their community on Facebook.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>KolibriOS</title><url>http://www.kolibrios.org/en/</url></story> |
35,268,380 | 35,268,191 | 1 | 2 | 35,266,322 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zopa</author><text>If someone got into wine or baseball cards because their boss liked them, we might call it a smart career move. But much of the time the underlying psychology will be exactly the same. And in fact it will likely work better if it’s not done rationally: anyone who becomes too conscious of what their motivation might be risks coming off as insincere.<p>Wanting to connect with important members and of your community it a perfectly normal human impulse, and finding or creating things the two of you have in common is often a very reasonable strategy towards that end. It goes badly at the scale of modern celebrity, is all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>And a perfect snapshot for what a steaming pile of BS all this crypto-hucksterism was in the first place.<p>I admit, I don&#x27;t understand humans. I&#x27;m just trying to comprehend how anyone would think it a good idea to buy a token because any one of these celebrities hawked it.</text></item><item><author>ljhsiung</author><text>&gt;&gt; The SEC simultaneously charged the following eight celebrities for illegally touting TRX and&#x2F;or BTT without disclosing that they were compensated for doing so and the amount of their compensation.<p>• Lindsay Lohan<p>• Jake Paul<p>• DeAndre Cortez Way (Soulja Boy)<p>• Austin Mahone<p>• Michele Mason (Kendra Lust)<p>• Miles Parks McCollum (Lil Yachty)<p>• Shaffer Smith (Ne-Yo)<p>• Aliaune Thiam (Akon)<p>I had to doubletake. Never did I ever think I&#x27;d see this permutation of celebrities in an SEC report.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SEC charges crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and his companies for fraud</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-59</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jallen_dot_dev</author><text>It&#x27;s simple: they thought they could later sell it for more. Celebrities hawking it is &quot;bullish&quot; because other people (suckers) will see the hype and want to buy their bags. Unfortunately for them, they were the suckers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>And a perfect snapshot for what a steaming pile of BS all this crypto-hucksterism was in the first place.<p>I admit, I don&#x27;t understand humans. I&#x27;m just trying to comprehend how anyone would think it a good idea to buy a token because any one of these celebrities hawked it.</text></item><item><author>ljhsiung</author><text>&gt;&gt; The SEC simultaneously charged the following eight celebrities for illegally touting TRX and&#x2F;or BTT without disclosing that they were compensated for doing so and the amount of their compensation.<p>• Lindsay Lohan<p>• Jake Paul<p>• DeAndre Cortez Way (Soulja Boy)<p>• Austin Mahone<p>• Michele Mason (Kendra Lust)<p>• Miles Parks McCollum (Lil Yachty)<p>• Shaffer Smith (Ne-Yo)<p>• Aliaune Thiam (Akon)<p>I had to doubletake. Never did I ever think I&#x27;d see this permutation of celebrities in an SEC report.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SEC charges crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and his companies for fraud</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-59</url></story> |
24,025,769 | 24,023,451 | 1 | 2 | 24,020,906 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noitpmeder</author><text><p><pre><code> &quot; you can assume that there is an interpreter available on the system, say &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;python3, you can use that instead of creating a virtual environment.&quot;
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Please DO NOT do this. It is so much easier to always create a virtual environment, and then you never have to worry about installing two applications on the same system that may have conflicting versions. Additionally, you don&#x27;t know what else may be installed into the system&#x27;s default python environment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>user5994461</author><text>1) Create a virtual environment. python3 -m venv myproject (download an interpreter).<p>2) Run pip install. myproject&#x2F;bin&#x2F;activate; pip install requirements.txt; (download all project dependencies).<p>3) Start the application. myproject&#x2F;bin&#x2F;activate; python myapp.py<p>If you can assume that there is an interpreter available on the system, say &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;python3, you can use that instead of creating a virtual environment.<p>If you want to embed all the dependencies, you can save all the files created by pip install in the &#x2F;lib directory if I remember the name well.<p>Should I write a full blog post with example? I used to deploy python applications in a bank, can explain all the advanced usage with and without internet access, with and without dependencies.</text></item><item><author>dillonmckay</author><text>Man, personally, with Python, programming with the language seems to be the easy part.<p>I have struggled with virtual environments and runtime executables across various OSs.<p>What are current best practices?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python</title><url>https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>Yes, please.<p>Aaaand, now that you&#x27;re at it, a single .dmg file for MacOS with binaries and scripts so us lazy people with Macbooks can start coding right away :) (it might be a bit inaccurate but I guess you know what I mean)</text><parent_chain><item><author>user5994461</author><text>1) Create a virtual environment. python3 -m venv myproject (download an interpreter).<p>2) Run pip install. myproject&#x2F;bin&#x2F;activate; pip install requirements.txt; (download all project dependencies).<p>3) Start the application. myproject&#x2F;bin&#x2F;activate; python myapp.py<p>If you can assume that there is an interpreter available on the system, say &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;python3, you can use that instead of creating a virtual environment.<p>If you want to embed all the dependencies, you can save all the files created by pip install in the &#x2F;lib directory if I remember the name well.<p>Should I write a full blog post with example? I used to deploy python applications in a bank, can explain all the advanced usage with and without internet access, with and without dependencies.</text></item><item><author>dillonmckay</author><text>Man, personally, with Python, programming with the language seems to be the easy part.<p>I have struggled with virtual environments and runtime executables across various OSs.<p>What are current best practices?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python</title><url>https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder</url></story> |
19,844,064 | 19,842,344 | 1 | 3 | 19,840,042 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ranrotx</author><text>AWS employee here--thoughts and opinions are my own.<p>Prior to AWS, I was in IT Operations at a large financial services company. I saw the writing on the wall that over time, companies would not want to manage this part of their IT infrastructure themselves. Keep in mind, I was someone who was responsible for keeping the lights on for a decent number of Linux severs.<p>For an individual company, there really isn&#x27;t much value in having to maintain firmware levels on all your hardware, patch hypervisors (and try to coordinate all of the maintenance around a fixed pool of hardware), perform months-long evaluation of new hardware before purchasing, test and validate configurations on new hardware, etc. I used to do all of this. I don&#x27;t miss it either.<p>Yes, the items above are important, but doing them right is really table-stakes for any reliable IT Operations department. You can choose to spend time getting these right, or delegate that responsibility to a service provider whose main job is to get that stuff right (and recoups that cost across a much larger customer base).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes</title><url>https://gravitational.com/blog/aws_vs_colocation/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>diehunde</author><text>So before we had an IT team that would maintain the bare metal servers. Now we need &quot;Cloud Engineers&quot; to maintain the cloud infrastructure working properly. I don&#x27;t know if the argument of externalize the maintenance of the servers is valid since the complexity of the cloud services is just increasing everyday.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes</title><url>https://gravitational.com/blog/aws_vs_colocation/</url></story> |
34,315,449 | 34,315,441 | 1 | 2 | 34,312,546 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munk-a</author><text>Just because a thing is prevalent doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s good. I have a hard time believing all those parameters are completely necessary for the amount of data being displayed. Often times it feels like people just base64encode(page.state) and call it a day.<p>I think it&#x27;s advantageous to keep the complexity and specificity of information in URLs to a minimum outside of what&#x27;s needed to retrieve the data set as it can make backwards compatibility easier - it is valuable (for long lasting tools) to have URLs that users can favorite and share for their common searches.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PUSH_AX</author><text>Genuinely curious to hear why you are so shocked. Long, ugly, user unfriendly urls are really prevalent. Arguments can be made even query params are pretty ugly.. Are urls expected to be a good UX these days? What&#x27;s the big deal?</text></item><item><author>anshumankmr</author><text>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;quote&#x2F;F&#x2F;chart?p=F#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--" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;quote&#x2F;F&#x2F;chart?p=F#eyJpbnRlcnZhbCI6...</a><p>Dear god... this link was real. I thought it was like a joke or something</text></item><item><author>divbzero</author><text>App state in URL can be a good idea, but if possible I prefer readable path&#x2F;query parameters instead of unreadable base64 encoding.<p>As one comparison, this is Google Finance encoding stock chart parameters:<p><pre><code> https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;finance&#x2F;quote&#x2F;F:NYSE?window=5Y
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Versus Yahoo! Finance doing the same:<p><pre><code> https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;quote&#x2F;F&#x2F;chart?p=F#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--
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In both examples, the only custom parameter is setting the time window to 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to store your app's entire state in the url</title><url>https://www.scottantipa.com/store-app-state-in-urls</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hunter2_</author><text>I don&#x27;t think people care so much about a messy address bar as a messy chat&#x2F;email message after pasting a URL. Shorteners and vanity URLs exist, but that&#x27;s more friction than just copying from the address bar as-is.<p>This can be overcome with html, markdown, and other rich text formats that let you specify the visible link text (missing from many chat apps*), but that&#x27;s also friction to compose compared to automatically linking from just a URL.<p>*Slack&#x27;s implementation is awesome: type the link text, highlight it, and paste a URL.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PUSH_AX</author><text>Genuinely curious to hear why you are so shocked. Long, ugly, user unfriendly urls are really prevalent. Arguments can be made even query params are pretty ugly.. Are urls expected to be a good UX these days? What&#x27;s the big deal?</text></item><item><author>anshumankmr</author><text>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;quote&#x2F;F&#x2F;chart?p=F#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--" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;quote&#x2F;F&#x2F;chart?p=F#eyJpbnRlcnZhbCI6...</a><p>Dear god... this link was real. I thought it was like a joke or something</text></item><item><author>divbzero</author><text>App state in URL can be a good idea, but if possible I prefer readable path&#x2F;query parameters instead of unreadable base64 encoding.<p>As one comparison, this is Google Finance encoding stock chart parameters:<p><pre><code> https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;finance&#x2F;quote&#x2F;F:NYSE?window=5Y
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Versus Yahoo! Finance doing the same:<p><pre><code> https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;quote&#x2F;F&#x2F;chart?p=F#eyJpbnRlcnZhbCI6IndlZWsiLCJwZXJpb2RpY2l0eSI6MSwidGltZVVuaXQiOm51bGwsImNhbmRsZVdpZHRoIjo0LjM0ODY1OTAwMzgzMTQxNzUsImZsaXBwZWQiOmZhbHNlLCJ2b2x1bWVVbmRlcmxheSI6dHJ1ZSwiYWRqIjp0cnVlLCJjcm9zc2hhaXIiOnRydWUsImNoYXJ0VHlwZSI6ImxpbmUiLCJleHRlbmRlZCI6ZmFsc2UsIm1hcmtldFNlc3Npb25zIjp7fSwiYWdncmVnYXRpb25UeXBlIjoib2hsYyIsImNoYXJ0U2NhbGUiOiJsaW5lYXIiLCJzdHVkaWVzIjp7IuKAjHZvbCB1bmRy4oCMIjp7InR5cGUiOiJ2b2wgdW5kciIsImlucHV0cyI6eyJpZCI6IuKAjHZvbCB1bmRy4oCMIiwiZGlzcGxheSI6IuKAjHZvbCB1bmRy4oCMIn0sIm91dHB1dHMiOnsiVXAgVm9sdW1lIjoiIzAwYjA2MSIsIkRvd24gVm9sdW1lIjoiI2ZmMzMzYSJ9LCJwYW5lbCI6ImNoYXJ0IiwicGFyYW1ldGVycyI6eyJ3aWR0aEZhY3RvciI6MC40NSwiY2hhcnROYW1lIjoiY2hhcnQifX19LCJwYW5lbHMiOnsiY2hhcnQiOnsicGVyY2VudCI6MSwiZGlzcGxheSI6IkYiLCJjaGFydE5hbWUiOiJjaGFydCIsImluZGV4IjowLCJ5QXhpcyI6eyJuYW1lIjoiY2hhcnQiLCJwb3NpdGlvbiI6bnVsbH0sInlheGlzTEhTIjpbXSwieWF4aXNSSFMiOlsiY2hhcnQiLCLigIx2b2wgdW5kcuKAjCJdfX0sInNldFNwYW4iOnsibXVsdGlwbGllciI6NSwiYmFzZSI6InllYXIiLCJwZXJpb2RpY2l0eSI6eyJwZXJpb2QiOjEsImludGVydmFsIjoid2VlayJ9fSwibGluZVdpZHRoIjoyLCJzdHJpcGVkQmFja2dyb3VuZCI6dHJ1ZSwiZXZlbnRzIjp0cnVlLCJjb2xvciI6IiMwMDgxZjIiLCJzdHJpcGVkQmFja2dyb3VkIjp0cnVlLCJldmVudE1hcCI6eyJjb3Jwb3JhdGUiOnsiZGl2cyI6dHJ1ZSwic3BsaXRzIjp0cnVlfSwic2lnRGV2Ijp7fX0sImN1c3RvbVJhbmdlIjpudWxsLCJzeW1ib2xzIjpbeyJzeW1ib2wiOiJGIiwic3ltYm9sT2JqZWN0Ijp7InN5bWJvbCI6IkYiLCJxdW90ZVR5cGUiOiJFUVVJVFkiLCJleGNoYW5nZVRpbWVab25lIjoiQW1lcmljYS9OZXdfWW9yayJ9LCJwZXJpb2RpY2l0eSI6MSwiaW50ZXJ2YWwiOiJ3ZWVrIiwidGltZVVuaXQiOm51bGwsInNldFNwYW4iOnsibXVsdGlwbGllciI6NSwiYmFzZSI6InllYXIiLCJwZXJpb2RpY2l0eSI6eyJwZXJpb2QiOjEsImludGVydmFsIjoid2VlayJ9fX1dfQ--
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In both examples, the only custom parameter is setting the time window to 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to store your app's entire state in the url</title><url>https://www.scottantipa.com/store-app-state-in-urls</url></story> |
36,829,798 | 36,829,299 | 1 | 2 | 36,828,409 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; Of course, would actually have preferred if I could have just completed the change online.<p>It&#x27;s so interesting to me how generational this is, and how it changed so quickly.<p>I used to work in something tangentially related to real estate. The sellers&#x2F;landlords tended to all be older (50+, this was about 10 years ago), while the renters&#x2F;some buyers tended to be millennials and younger. The older folks went apoplectic when we tried to move more communication onto our online platform: &quot;I always talk to every potential renter on the phone. I feel I can discern a lot about someone from a phone call.&quot; Meanwhile, younger folks generally <i>despised</i> having to talk to someone on the phone - if they couldn&#x27;t complete the whole transaction online they were much more likely to bail.<p>Not making a judgment about either approach, really just thought it was interesting how stark the divide was and how it changed so quickly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>There&#x27;s been a pretty steady trend towards automation, chatbots, self-service, etc. replacing getting an empowered human on the line. Given labor costs and labor shortages, expect even more.<p>Had an airline thing that the website (and app) wouldn&#x27;t let me complete online. Spent ages on hold but then was able to get hold of their premium account number and was fixed right away. (Of course, would actually have preferred if I could have just completed the change online.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI</title><url>https://thedeepdive.ca/shopify-employee-breaks-nda-to-reveal-firm-quietly-replacing-laid-off-workers-with-ai/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gnufied</author><text>Same goes for almost all grocery shops here - Publix, Kroger, target etc replacing checkout with self-checkout kiosks completely.<p>I absolute hate using self-checkout for non-packaged groceries items. Especially if I have lots of stuff. Freaking &quot;unintended item in baggage area&quot;.<p>Not to mention, I feel like Publix etc in particular employed lots of folks with disability. It warmed my heart to talk to them.<p>I don&#x27;t know what humanity plans is. Even if we pay folks free money, they still loose on social interactions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>There&#x27;s been a pretty steady trend towards automation, chatbots, self-service, etc. replacing getting an empowered human on the line. Given labor costs and labor shortages, expect even more.<p>Had an airline thing that the website (and app) wouldn&#x27;t let me complete online. Spent ages on hold but then was able to get hold of their premium account number and was fixed right away. (Of course, would actually have preferred if I could have just completed the change online.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI</title><url>https://thedeepdive.ca/shopify-employee-breaks-nda-to-reveal-firm-quietly-replacing-laid-off-workers-with-ai/</url></story> |
11,266,706 | 11,266,568 | 1 | 3 | 11,266,383 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>capnrefsmmat</author><text>There is also, of course, the classic resubmission letter:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mit.edu&#x2F;ariely&#x2F;www&#x2F;MIT&#x2F;Sample.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mit.edu&#x2F;ariely&#x2F;www&#x2F;MIT&#x2F;Sample.shtml</a><p>&gt; Enclosed is our latest version of Ms #85-02-22-RRRRR, that is, the re-re-re-revised revision of our paper. Choke on it. We have again rewritten the entire manuscript from start to finish. We even changed the goddamn running head! Hopefully we have suffered enough by now to satisfy even you and your bloodthirsty reviewers<p>...<p>&gt; We hope that you will be pleased with this revision and will finally recognize how urgently deserving of publication this work is. If not, then you are an unscrupulous, depraved monster with no shred of human decency. You ought to be in a cage. May whatever heritage you come from be the butt of the next round of ethnic jokes. If you do accept it, however, we wish to thank you for your patience and wisdom throughout this process and to express our appreciation of your scholarly insights. To repay you, we would be happy to review some manuscripts for you; please send us the next manuscript that any of these reviewers submits to your journal.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shit My Reviewers Say</title><url>http://shitmyreviewerssay.tumblr.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>Thriptic</author><text>I didn&#x27;t see any mentions of the most common insidious review: &quot;Cite my unrelated paper or you&#x27;re not getting published&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shit My Reviewers Say</title><url>http://shitmyreviewerssay.tumblr.com/</url></story> |
3,457,559 | 3,457,464 | 1 | 3 | 3,456,931 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>redthrowaway</author><text>Can we get a source on TDS not making money? It's one of the most popular shows on Comedy Central, syndicated in many countries. If <i>it</i> doesn't make money, it's hard to see how Comedy Central stays afloat.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chernevik</author><text>If you think Mr. Stewart is simply behind in his reading, I have a nice bridge for you.<p>He's in entertainment, he comments endlessly about policy. You think he somehow missed the #1 policy initiative of his employer?<p>He is very well paid, with a large budget that employs a lot of people. But I don't think his show breaks even on its revenues, it is a tent-pole for his channel. He's paid not for his own audience but the larger strategic benefit he brings to his employer. So think on what might happen if he starts to pose still larger strategic problems for that employer? And what happens to Mr. Stewart should he want to move on from his current perch? [EDIT: As suggested below, the 'strategic benefit' payment is speculation. Probably a mistake to go there, b/c I think my point still stands: if he hurts a major legislative initiative of his industry, his life gets a lot harder and riskier.]<p>And while he himself seems reasonably secure, he has a staff of writers and producers, many of whom would like to move on to bigger and better things. Who will be greenlighting those various ventures?<p>Remember, Hollywood blacklisted people for (alleged) Communism. Those people lost their whole careers. Imagine what might happen to those who challenge the studios' interests still more directly.<p>I'd say this is the perfect moment for Mr. Stewart's reputed bravery, independence and courage.</text></item><item><author>Terretta</author><text>If even Jon Stewart's team hadn't picked up on SOPA, that goes a long way to suggest why a Wikipedia/Twitter/Facebook/Google/etc blackout would be useful. If they're not up to date, how could we expect any non industry insiders to be?<p>A brief blackout is like tapping the media on the shoulder.<p>"We'll be all, like, SOPA what? ... uh ... I have some reading to catch up on."<p>Nobody thinks about dial tone until it's not there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jon Stewart Talks SOPA, at Last</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/01/12/reddit-user-ventures-to-the-daily-show-gets-jon-stewart-to-talk-sopa-on-air/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mtgentry</author><text>SOPA isn't on the radar of the general public. So it makes sense when Stewart says he "needs to catch up on the issue".<p>I really think it's a simple as that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chernevik</author><text>If you think Mr. Stewart is simply behind in his reading, I have a nice bridge for you.<p>He's in entertainment, he comments endlessly about policy. You think he somehow missed the #1 policy initiative of his employer?<p>He is very well paid, with a large budget that employs a lot of people. But I don't think his show breaks even on its revenues, it is a tent-pole for his channel. He's paid not for his own audience but the larger strategic benefit he brings to his employer. So think on what might happen if he starts to pose still larger strategic problems for that employer? And what happens to Mr. Stewart should he want to move on from his current perch? [EDIT: As suggested below, the 'strategic benefit' payment is speculation. Probably a mistake to go there, b/c I think my point still stands: if he hurts a major legislative initiative of his industry, his life gets a lot harder and riskier.]<p>And while he himself seems reasonably secure, he has a staff of writers and producers, many of whom would like to move on to bigger and better things. Who will be greenlighting those various ventures?<p>Remember, Hollywood blacklisted people for (alleged) Communism. Those people lost their whole careers. Imagine what might happen to those who challenge the studios' interests still more directly.<p>I'd say this is the perfect moment for Mr. Stewart's reputed bravery, independence and courage.</text></item><item><author>Terretta</author><text>If even Jon Stewart's team hadn't picked up on SOPA, that goes a long way to suggest why a Wikipedia/Twitter/Facebook/Google/etc blackout would be useful. If they're not up to date, how could we expect any non industry insiders to be?<p>A brief blackout is like tapping the media on the shoulder.<p>"We'll be all, like, SOPA what? ... uh ... I have some reading to catch up on."<p>Nobody thinks about dial tone until it's not there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jon Stewart Talks SOPA, at Last</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/01/12/reddit-user-ventures-to-the-daily-show-gets-jon-stewart-to-talk-sopa-on-air/</url></story> |
26,547,044 | 26,546,272 | 1 | 2 | 26,543,731 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lordgrenville</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t believe for a second that Google&#x27;s algorithms are unable to identify and remove content marketing blogspam.<p>Easy for me to believe. They have to use some formula, and as soon as they change it, well, there&#x27;s a massive industry dedicated to getting around it. If their algorithm is just &quot;filter out what&#x27;s useless&quot;, that&#x27;s AGI.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmart</author><text>I don&#x27;t believe for a second that Google&#x27;s algorithms are unable to identify and remove content marketing blogspam from the results. It must be profitable somehow for the majority of search results to be utterly useless.</text></item><item><author>ratww</author><text>Yep, this is Content Marketing. People use SEO tools to gauge how good a blog post is going to rank, and the current sweet spot seems to be around 1000 words, so they end up filling it with fluff. Some of those are even machine generated.<p>The answer to the &quot;can cats eat X&quot;, of course, can&#x27;t be at the beginning or at the end. The reason is that the user must stay a long time and read the text, otherwise Google punishes the website for having a more than acceptable &quot;bounce rate&quot;.<p>Putting the answer in the title (what has been dubbed &quot;Anti-clickbait&quot;) also makes the site &quot;less clickable&quot; and will make it drop from the results. Trust me, I tried.<p>This is why we can&#x27;t have nice things.</text></item><item><author>dundarious</author><text>I have a cat that is always ravenous for anything edible, even if it&#x27;s not exactly typical cat fare, e.g., my leftover salad, berries, etc. Trying to search for &quot;can cats eat X&quot; after he manages to get a few sneaky morsels is almost pointless. There are so many spammy sites for every value of X, and I have no idea if it&#x27;s a sophisticated problem to systematically exclude this type of useless content, but Google&#x27;s top results are chock-full of sites that all seem to follow the format below, where the question is not answered at all:<p>Is it safe for cats to eat X?<p>Cats are mischievous and we love them.<p>X is not typical cat food. Let&#x27;s go over some background on X before we answer the question.<p>Cats are obligate carnivores.<p>Thanks for reading, make sure to subscribe or buy these products!</text></item><item><author>fossuser</author><text>When I search Google now I mostly get spam.<p>“Product vs. Product” -&gt; list of spam websites that just show them side by side with ads.<p>“Product Review” -&gt; same as above, spam.<p>“Product referral code” -&gt; sites with spam and no codes.<p>Interesting web content is in Reddit (and youtube), Google exists as a tool to search Reddit since the “new” Reddit site is awful.<p>Programming questions are mostly stack overflow, but occasionally you get a useful blog.<p>General knowledge is Wikipedia, news is axios.<p>Amazon for most purchases (except for products that have their own brand and sites that are at risk of being faked). Etsy for boutique stuff.<p>Most of the rest of the web is junk.<p>I think we could probably go back to curated 90s era web portals and have a better experience.</text></item><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>Google results have gotten dramatically worse over this last decade. Google now seems to fixate on the most common terms in my query and returns the most generic results for my geographic area. And, it seems like quotes and the old google-fu techniques are just ignored or are no longer functional.<p>There are a whole host of factors behind this, but I&#x27;m certain that the switch to Natural Language Processing &#x2F; Semantic Search drove this decline.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click</title><url>https://sparktoro.com/blog/in-2020-two-thirds-of-google-searches-ended-without-a-click/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samatman</author><text>The point of content marketing blogspam is to pester the reader with AdWords and the occasional affiliate link.<p>Old-school useful content is rarely monetized, just someone sharing their passion for something. Occasional affiliate link, with the obligatory apologetic &quot;hey web servers cost money, so I included some affiliate links here!&quot;<p>The uselessness is just a side effect of Google directing you toward paying customers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmart</author><text>I don&#x27;t believe for a second that Google&#x27;s algorithms are unable to identify and remove content marketing blogspam from the results. It must be profitable somehow for the majority of search results to be utterly useless.</text></item><item><author>ratww</author><text>Yep, this is Content Marketing. People use SEO tools to gauge how good a blog post is going to rank, and the current sweet spot seems to be around 1000 words, so they end up filling it with fluff. Some of those are even machine generated.<p>The answer to the &quot;can cats eat X&quot;, of course, can&#x27;t be at the beginning or at the end. The reason is that the user must stay a long time and read the text, otherwise Google punishes the website for having a more than acceptable &quot;bounce rate&quot;.<p>Putting the answer in the title (what has been dubbed &quot;Anti-clickbait&quot;) also makes the site &quot;less clickable&quot; and will make it drop from the results. Trust me, I tried.<p>This is why we can&#x27;t have nice things.</text></item><item><author>dundarious</author><text>I have a cat that is always ravenous for anything edible, even if it&#x27;s not exactly typical cat fare, e.g., my leftover salad, berries, etc. Trying to search for &quot;can cats eat X&quot; after he manages to get a few sneaky morsels is almost pointless. There are so many spammy sites for every value of X, and I have no idea if it&#x27;s a sophisticated problem to systematically exclude this type of useless content, but Google&#x27;s top results are chock-full of sites that all seem to follow the format below, where the question is not answered at all:<p>Is it safe for cats to eat X?<p>Cats are mischievous and we love them.<p>X is not typical cat food. Let&#x27;s go over some background on X before we answer the question.<p>Cats are obligate carnivores.<p>Thanks for reading, make sure to subscribe or buy these products!</text></item><item><author>fossuser</author><text>When I search Google now I mostly get spam.<p>“Product vs. Product” -&gt; list of spam websites that just show them side by side with ads.<p>“Product Review” -&gt; same as above, spam.<p>“Product referral code” -&gt; sites with spam and no codes.<p>Interesting web content is in Reddit (and youtube), Google exists as a tool to search Reddit since the “new” Reddit site is awful.<p>Programming questions are mostly stack overflow, but occasionally you get a useful blog.<p>General knowledge is Wikipedia, news is axios.<p>Amazon for most purchases (except for products that have their own brand and sites that are at risk of being faked). Etsy for boutique stuff.<p>Most of the rest of the web is junk.<p>I think we could probably go back to curated 90s era web portals and have a better experience.</text></item><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>Google results have gotten dramatically worse over this last decade. Google now seems to fixate on the most common terms in my query and returns the most generic results for my geographic area. And, it seems like quotes and the old google-fu techniques are just ignored or are no longer functional.<p>There are a whole host of factors behind this, but I&#x27;m certain that the switch to Natural Language Processing &#x2F; Semantic Search drove this decline.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click</title><url>https://sparktoro.com/blog/in-2020-two-thirds-of-google-searches-ended-without-a-click/</url></story> |
18,228,807 | 18,228,565 | 1 | 2 | 18,228,099 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grey-area</author><text><i>firing an engineer who tried to open an honest discussion on a hot subject like &#x27;gender discrimination&#x27;</i><p>That&#x27;s not an accurate summary of Damore&#x27;s motives, or the reasons for firing him.<p><i>on the other hand bending over backwards to assist an oppressive - but lucrative - dictatorship in implementing a real-life version of Oceania&#x27;s Ingsoc</i><p>Corporations are amoral by design. So I don&#x27;t find this odd at all, but is an incredibly dangerous development.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Yetanfou</author><text>It is an odd thing that a company can on the one hand become known as the one firing an engineer who tried to open an honest discussion on a hot subject like &#x27;gender discrimination&#x27; because that engineer was deemed to lack a moral compass, while on the other hand bending over backwards to assist an oppressive - but lucrative - dictatorship in implementing a real-life version of Oceania&#x27;s Ingsoc [1] [2]. As if these people are so blind-sided by their own ideology that they do not recognise their own moral compasses twirling as if they&#x27;re in the Bermuda triangle and the &#x27;no&#x27; being struck from their previous motto of &#x27;do no evil&#x27;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ingsoc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ingsoc</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018-09-18&#x2F;china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship&#x2F;10200278" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018-09-18&#x2F;china-social-credit-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China censorship</title><url>https://threader.app/thread/1051725524064591872</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>topmonk</author><text>It&#x27;s not about a moral compass, it&#x27;s about attracting top talent. The universities push this ideology, so if you want to get the alumni from the universities to work for you, you have to abide by the tenets.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Yetanfou</author><text>It is an odd thing that a company can on the one hand become known as the one firing an engineer who tried to open an honest discussion on a hot subject like &#x27;gender discrimination&#x27; because that engineer was deemed to lack a moral compass, while on the other hand bending over backwards to assist an oppressive - but lucrative - dictatorship in implementing a real-life version of Oceania&#x27;s Ingsoc [1] [2]. As if these people are so blind-sided by their own ideology that they do not recognise their own moral compasses twirling as if they&#x27;re in the Bermuda triangle and the &#x27;no&#x27; being struck from their previous motto of &#x27;do no evil&#x27;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ingsoc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ingsoc</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018-09-18&#x2F;china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship&#x2F;10200278" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018-09-18&#x2F;china-social-credit-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China censorship</title><url>https://threader.app/thread/1051725524064591872</url></story> |
21,944,443 | 21,942,247 | 1 | 2 | 21,940,846 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>&gt; <i>If they were helping Apple, then I doubt Apple would be suing them.</i><p>I think it&#x27;s pretty telling that Apple tried to acquire them, but only decided to sue them after their offer was rejected. Seems like Apple really does like their product, and thinks people would find it useful, and is just sore they can&#x27;t have full control over it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>The article seems a bit shrill.<p>I can understand advocacy, but as lostgame says, Corellium is basically riding Apple&#x27;s coattails.<p>If they were helping Apple, then I doubt Apple would be suing them.<p>I understand the way that Apple thinks on this. It isn&#x27;t &quot;bullying.&quot; It&#x27;s brand protection. I worked for years for a corporation with a legendary brand, and they went to great lengths to protect the integrity of that brand.<p>Part of protecting the integrity is to prevent others from diluting it; even if what they do is net positive, monetarily, it may damage the brand. A company that values its brand can&#x27;t let that happen.<p>Branding is a very different world from what most tecchies do. The priorities are drastically different, and a lot harder to &quot;pin down.&quot;<p>A well-curated brand can be unbelievably valuable, though. Apple&#x27;s brand is one of the top five brands in the world.</text></item><item><author>lostgame</author><text>Well, no, shit - Corellium, from what I can tell from other articles I’ve had to read, (their website is a virtual drought of information about the product) seems to have literally built its own virtualization platform to emulate specific iOS devices - and is likely literally just throwing IPSW files (the actual iOS releases from Apple themselves) onto this emulator and selling it as a service.<p>As much as I believe in the open and free exchange of ideas I can’t actually agree with iFixit here.<p>The excuse of it being sold as a ‘security product’ contradicts the only statement on their website - that its a tool for development.<p>John Deere locking farmers out of repairing their own hardware? Awful, shitty behaviour.<p>But this is literally stealing Apple’s OS, shoving it in an emulator and charging people for it.<p>This article also makes the fallacious argument that Apple ‘gives away’ iOS with the purchase of an iPhone or iPad. That’s silly - the cost of the OS is built into the purchase price.<p>The R&amp;D and development time and money that goes into iOS or MacOS is part of what we are paying for when we purchase a device from Apple.<p>When we purchase a computer from Dell with Windows 10, the cost of the OS is bundled with the purchase - but Microsoft still gets paid from that - unless, of course we might order the specific subset of Dell computers with Linux on them.<p>I expect better from iFixit. This article reads like a sob story from the CEO of the company. You stole their software. What did you expect?<p>How is this any different from a company that would sell you a preconfigured hackintosh? Or selling a DVD player with an unlicensed movie on it? :&#x2F;<p>We can bitch about iOS and MacOS being closed platforms all we want - but for myself and many others the hardware&#x2F;software package-as-a-unit is actually a huge part of the point.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple is suing iOS virtualization vendor Corellium for violating DMCA</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-is-bullying-a-security-company-with-a-dangerous-dmca-lawsuit</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>&gt; If they were helping Apple, then I doubt Apple would be suing them.<p>There are a number of security researchers who use Corellium to find bugs in iOS. Corellium themselves have submitted vulnerabilities using Apple’s bug bounty program.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>The article seems a bit shrill.<p>I can understand advocacy, but as lostgame says, Corellium is basically riding Apple&#x27;s coattails.<p>If they were helping Apple, then I doubt Apple would be suing them.<p>I understand the way that Apple thinks on this. It isn&#x27;t &quot;bullying.&quot; It&#x27;s brand protection. I worked for years for a corporation with a legendary brand, and they went to great lengths to protect the integrity of that brand.<p>Part of protecting the integrity is to prevent others from diluting it; even if what they do is net positive, monetarily, it may damage the brand. A company that values its brand can&#x27;t let that happen.<p>Branding is a very different world from what most tecchies do. The priorities are drastically different, and a lot harder to &quot;pin down.&quot;<p>A well-curated brand can be unbelievably valuable, though. Apple&#x27;s brand is one of the top five brands in the world.</text></item><item><author>lostgame</author><text>Well, no, shit - Corellium, from what I can tell from other articles I’ve had to read, (their website is a virtual drought of information about the product) seems to have literally built its own virtualization platform to emulate specific iOS devices - and is likely literally just throwing IPSW files (the actual iOS releases from Apple themselves) onto this emulator and selling it as a service.<p>As much as I believe in the open and free exchange of ideas I can’t actually agree with iFixit here.<p>The excuse of it being sold as a ‘security product’ contradicts the only statement on their website - that its a tool for development.<p>John Deere locking farmers out of repairing their own hardware? Awful, shitty behaviour.<p>But this is literally stealing Apple’s OS, shoving it in an emulator and charging people for it.<p>This article also makes the fallacious argument that Apple ‘gives away’ iOS with the purchase of an iPhone or iPad. That’s silly - the cost of the OS is built into the purchase price.<p>The R&amp;D and development time and money that goes into iOS or MacOS is part of what we are paying for when we purchase a device from Apple.<p>When we purchase a computer from Dell with Windows 10, the cost of the OS is bundled with the purchase - but Microsoft still gets paid from that - unless, of course we might order the specific subset of Dell computers with Linux on them.<p>I expect better from iFixit. This article reads like a sob story from the CEO of the company. You stole their software. What did you expect?<p>How is this any different from a company that would sell you a preconfigured hackintosh? Or selling a DVD player with an unlicensed movie on it? :&#x2F;<p>We can bitch about iOS and MacOS being closed platforms all we want - but for myself and many others the hardware&#x2F;software package-as-a-unit is actually a huge part of the point.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple is suing iOS virtualization vendor Corellium for violating DMCA</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-is-bullying-a-security-company-with-a-dangerous-dmca-lawsuit</url></story> |
15,795,794 | 15,795,461 | 1 | 3 | 15,793,568 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lultimouomo</author><text>I agree with you SO MUCH.
I&#x27;ve been using Gnome lately on my XPS13 because HiDPI support in Xfce is not quite there yet (while in honesty is pretty well supported in Gnome), and I hate it with a passion. It seems like they decided to reinvent every single well established UX paradigm there was, and somehow managed to make every one of them worse.
Random example: they managed to break Alt+Tab; you now need to think whether the other window you want was created by the same executable that created the one in the foreground right now or not. Plus if you use Ctrl+Shift+T in chromium you will never be able to Alt+Tab to it again.
Other random example: pushing the computer power button does not pop up a shutdown dialog because &quot;shutting down is disruptive&quot;!</text><parent_chain><item><author>int_19h</author><text>For the past, oh, 10 years or so, it feels like every time I try a new release of one of the prominent Linux DEs, I keep going back to Xfce after a short while, because it &quot;just works&quot;, can be customized exactly how I want it to be, and doesn&#x27;t try to break my flow with every major release, because someone in UX has a new Grand Unifying Theory of What Users Really Want (Even if They Don&#x27;t Know It).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/ubuntu-17-10-return-of-the-gnome/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wiz21c</author><text>I use OpenBox on Debian since 5 years. But it&#x27;s not because Gnome or KDE is broken, it&#x27;s just because I don&#x27;t need all of the stuff a regular desktop provides. I think your comment implies regular desktops are broken but I don&#x27;t think so. They&#x27;re not perfect but not to the point of being unusable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>int_19h</author><text>For the past, oh, 10 years or so, it feels like every time I try a new release of one of the prominent Linux DEs, I keep going back to Xfce after a short while, because it &quot;just works&quot;, can be customized exactly how I want it to be, and doesn&#x27;t try to break my flow with every major release, because someone in UX has a new Grand Unifying Theory of What Users Really Want (Even if They Don&#x27;t Know It).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/ubuntu-17-10-return-of-the-gnome/</url></story> |
16,333,581 | 16,333,007 | 1 | 2 | 16,332,529 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwawayhello</author><text>This article seems off the mark. I currently work at 18F and in some ways I see what it&#x27;s trying to say but it&#x27;s missing important details.<p>1) 18F positions are filled in 2 year terms (Schedule A), with the possibility of a two year extension. 18F is about four years old and many people are terming out. My impression is that most people enjoy the work and would prefer to stay, they just can&#x27;t.<p>2) Backfilling positions was severely hurt by the hiring freeze. That&#x27;s been frustrating, but that&#x27;s not specific to 18F or a judgement on 18F&#x27;s work.<p>3) Recent changes in leadership disappointed many people because we appeared to be getting into a good rhythm. But the new commissioner loves the work we&#x27;re doing and is planning to grow the team by 100 new people - bringing us back to peak levels.<p>Are there challenges? Sure. But there are challenges at every organization and the challenges of 18F are complex and interesting. I love my job and I am working with incredible colleagues. The projects themselves are fascinating and we get to wrestle with complex problems. We lead with technology, but the goal is usually to transform the way an agency or department works. That&#x27;s massive! The pay is actually pretty good: GS-15 is $164,200 for Bay Area, which is not the highest, but we&#x27;re hardly struggling.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The rise and fall of 18F</title><url>https://www.fedscoop.com/rise-fall-18f/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geekamongus</author><text>As someone who worked in a DOC agency for 5+ years doing security work, much of my job consisted of reviewing software for compliance and security before acquiring&#x2F;installing it in our systems. Every time someone showed up with something 18F was doing, it involved far more bleeding edge cloudy stuff than we were able to accept.<p>In short, the shiny object that was 18F had a really hard time doing its job of integrating with the resistant, crusty old pillars of Federal Agency policy and technology.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The rise and fall of 18F</title><url>https://www.fedscoop.com/rise-fall-18f/</url></story> |
8,133,790 | 8,133,837 | 1 | 2 | 8,133,630 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>onewaystreet</author><text>Male founders are never not taken seriously <i>because they are male</i>. That&#x27;s the difference.</text><parent_chain><item><author>facepalm</author><text>And we all know male founders are always taken serious from the start. No male founder ever had problems convincing their parents that they are on the right track. People the male founder meets are always convinced his startup is the next Google.<p>Sorry, but I think your observations are just confirmation bias.</text></item><item><author>enraged_camel</author><text>&gt;&gt;Of course there are some drawbacks of being a female CEO. When you’re a woman in charge, you do have to work a bit more to get credibility and have people listen to you...<p>The way my company&#x27;s CEO, who is also female, put it: &quot;when you&#x27;re a woman, people in business don&#x27;t take you seriously <i>until</i> you are successful.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m a guy, but I see this phenomenon everyday when observing the way my female coworkers are treated by (male) managers. The good-looking ones have it worst, in my opinion: while their looks may give them an advantage in certain situations, they often have to work extra hard to get noticed, <i>and</i> when they do become successful, their success is attributed to their looks instead of their intelligence and hard work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I'm a woman CEO and it doesn't change anything</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/08/04/mathilde-collin-im-a-woman-ceo-and-it-doesnt-change-anything/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>genericuser</author><text>Those are issues stemming from being a founder, and possibly your parents knowing your fall back plan either doesn&#x27;t exist, or is to move back in with them.<p>Those are not issues stemming from your identity as a person. Other groups of people, in this case women, have issues where people are utterly dismissive simply because of their membership in that group.<p>The challenge this adds on top of normal founder challenges is orders of magnitude greater than any challenge added to founder challenges by being yet another white male founder.</text><parent_chain><item><author>facepalm</author><text>And we all know male founders are always taken serious from the start. No male founder ever had problems convincing their parents that they are on the right track. People the male founder meets are always convinced his startup is the next Google.<p>Sorry, but I think your observations are just confirmation bias.</text></item><item><author>enraged_camel</author><text>&gt;&gt;Of course there are some drawbacks of being a female CEO. When you’re a woman in charge, you do have to work a bit more to get credibility and have people listen to you...<p>The way my company&#x27;s CEO, who is also female, put it: &quot;when you&#x27;re a woman, people in business don&#x27;t take you seriously <i>until</i> you are successful.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m a guy, but I see this phenomenon everyday when observing the way my female coworkers are treated by (male) managers. The good-looking ones have it worst, in my opinion: while their looks may give them an advantage in certain situations, they often have to work extra hard to get noticed, <i>and</i> when they do become successful, their success is attributed to their looks instead of their intelligence and hard work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I'm a woman CEO and it doesn't change anything</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/08/04/mathilde-collin-im-a-woman-ceo-and-it-doesnt-change-anything/</url></story> |
15,268,934 | 15,268,652 | 1 | 2 | 15,267,576 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thinbeige</author><text>I (as a decade long MBP user) still think that Thinkpads nailed notebook design.<p>Since I moved more and more to Arch on a cheap Chinese notebook which seems to replace my MBP for 90% of my tasks I hope to get a Thinkpad with Arch as my next main notebook.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lenovo Accidentally Leaks an Image of Its ‘Retro Thinkpad’</title><url>http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/retro-thinkpad-image-2017</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nullc</author><text>Gigantic useless trackpad. Looks like no status leds. Where oh where is the x60 of today?<p>Is there some place where I can just pay them the profit margin for this laptop and have the count added to their sales figures? This laptop is an improvement, but it looks like it still has a long way to go. :(</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lenovo Accidentally Leaks an Image of Its ‘Retro Thinkpad’</title><url>http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/retro-thinkpad-image-2017</url></story> |
20,843,397 | 20,842,044 | 1 | 3 | 20,838,955 | 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>mensetmanusman</author><text>For those wondering why this matters:<p>One reason is for electronics in extreme environments. Glass&#x2F;Ceramics are more energetically stable than metals, so can withstand much higher temperatures. Think advanced sensors inside a rocket combustion chamber... while it is on.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ceramics enter a new era with laser-welded joints</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/ceramics-enter-a-new-era-with-laser-welded-joints/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gsruff</author><text>Link to the actual paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.tw&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;2019-08-22&#x2F;85&#x2F;[email protected]" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.tw&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;2019-08-22&#x2F;85&#x2F;[email protected]...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ceramics enter a new era with laser-welded joints</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/ceramics-enter-a-new-era-with-laser-welded-joints/</url></story> |
23,732,844 | 23,731,844 | 1 | 3 | 23,731,712 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peatmoss</author><text>I poked around on an old Indy at a vintage computer show a couple years back, and the main takeaway I had was, “holy crap the UI elements feel instantaneous.”<p>I know it’s been posted here many times about how computers have become perceptually slow, but that Indy after a couple minutes of poking around really drove the point home in a way that no numbers ever could.<p>Computers have gained a lot, for sure, but they’ve also lost a lot. I wonder if it’s even possible to make a modern computer fast in a way that feels fast again.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MaXX Interactive Desktop: A Re-Implementation of the IRIX Interactive Desktop</title><url>https://maxxinteractive.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>Erlich_Bachman</author><text>Can someone please explain what are the main hypothetical advantages of this desktop environment? Even the article itself does a poor job of explaining this, it seems to assume that the reader already knows what IRIX&#x2F;whatever is, and why did (do?) people use it over other environments?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MaXX Interactive Desktop: A Re-Implementation of the IRIX Interactive Desktop</title><url>https://maxxinteractive.com/</url></story> |
40,268,695 | 40,267,419 | 1 | 3 | 40,244,729 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kennydude</author><text>This is absolutely perfect! For a couple years now I&#x27;ve been looking for (and badly trying myself) to have a good way without paying quite a lot of money to create SVGs out of OpenStreetMap data!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Map Machine: Python renderer for OpenStreetMap with custom icons</title><url>https://github.com/enzet/map-machine</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>berryg</author><text>Right on time. Very useful for a project I am working on.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Map Machine: Python renderer for OpenStreetMap with custom icons</title><url>https://github.com/enzet/map-machine</url></story> |
3,906,919 | 3,906,477 | 1 | 3 | 3,906,427 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fjarlq</author><text>Great job, Nils. I didn't know Google doubles the reward if it goes to charity.<p>I wonder why Microsoft doesn't have a similar program. Hotmail just got hacked pretty bad[1], and the hackers were selling the vulnerability for chump change in forums[2]. What if they had an incentive to report it to Microsoft instead?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=529" rel="nofollow">http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=529</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.whitec0de.com/new-hotmail-exploit-can-get-any-hotmail-email-account-hacked-for-just-20/" rel="nofollow">http://www.whitec0de.com/new-hotmail-exploit-can-get-any-hot...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How a tweet about a XSS bug within Google+ leads to XSS within InformationWeek</title><url>http://www.nilsjuenemann.de/2012/04/ethiopia-gets-new-school-thanks-to-xss.html?hn</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>mladenkovacevic</author><text>Great work and your reward went to a good cause. World needs more of you.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How a tweet about a XSS bug within Google+ leads to XSS within InformationWeek</title><url>http://www.nilsjuenemann.de/2012/04/ethiopia-gets-new-school-thanks-to-xss.html?hn</url><text></text></story> |
40,936,539 | 40,933,170 | 1 | 2 | 40,899,520 | 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>krp</author><text>A few years back I made some pyxel snippets for students in a class I was teaching, to help get them up to speed on using it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kris-classes&#x2F;pyxel-snippets">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kris-classes&#x2F;pyxel-snippets</a><p>They may be useful to someone here if not too much has changed with pyxel since then.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pyxel: A retro game engine for Python</title><url>https://github.com/kitao/pyxel</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>halfcat</author><text>These retro game engines are so much fun. Takes me back to the days of mode 13h.<p>Pyxel is (I think) unique among Python game engines in that it can run on the web.<p>Some others I’ve played with are PyGame and Arcade, mostly geared toward 2D, but you can see some impressive 3D examples on the youtube channel DaFluffyPotato.<p>Ursina is another that’s more 3D, fairly expressive, and runs fairly well for being Python.<p>I do feel like I’m going to be forced to cross over into something more powerful to build a real game though. Either Godot or Unity.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pyxel: A retro game engine for Python</title><url>https://github.com/kitao/pyxel</url></story> |
10,208,035 | 10,208,030 | 1 | 2 | 10,207,454 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ucaetano</author><text>So by your logic, unless you&#x27;re giving something absolutely for free you&#x27;re not improving the world?</text><parent_chain><item><author>blub</author><text>They are improving your life in exchange for information about you and the places you visit. Their product is closed, the proprietary data is not accessible outside their apps, or if they wish to license it.<p>OpenStreetMap is improving the world.</text></item><item><author>blfr</author><text>How is reliable Google Maps and Street View not improving the world? I&#x27;m using them daily and they&#x27;re improving my life a lot.</text></item><item><author>chippy</author><text>The reminds me of people&#x27;s attitudes towards reCAPTCHA - started by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. &quot;Stop spam, read books.&quot;<p>Everyone was supportive of it when it was used towards the non profit digitization of out of copyright books. So, started externally, Google ran with it and continued and expanded the range of books. It remained good. Apparently loads of books were digitized.<p>Then, possibly along with the change in this article - or along with the perceptible change within Google where everything had to be business accountable a few years back, reCAPTCHA started being used to digitize address numbers from StreetView to improve Googles online mapping, geocoding offering. Nothing to do with books, nothing to do with improving the world.<p>Now reCAPTCHA is being used for image recognition and training (identify the images with salads). Nothing to do with books, information or improving the world - everything to do with Googles own offerings.<p>What&#x27;s even sadder is that <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;captcha.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;captcha.net&#x2F;</a> still states that it is being used to &quot;help digitize books&quot; but all the links go to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;recaptcha&#x2F;intro&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;recaptcha&#x2F;intro&#x2F;index.html</a> which have all but removed any public benefit wording. &quot; &quot;Stop spam, read books.&quot; was removed from Googles site in 2014.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Ever Happened to Google Books?</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-ever-happened-to-google-books?intcid=mod-latest</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baby</author><text>&gt; They are improving your life in exchange for information about you and the places you visit<p>So they are improving the world and for free. I&#x27;m glad we all agree</text><parent_chain><item><author>blub</author><text>They are improving your life in exchange for information about you and the places you visit. Their product is closed, the proprietary data is not accessible outside their apps, or if they wish to license it.<p>OpenStreetMap is improving the world.</text></item><item><author>blfr</author><text>How is reliable Google Maps and Street View not improving the world? I&#x27;m using them daily and they&#x27;re improving my life a lot.</text></item><item><author>chippy</author><text>The reminds me of people&#x27;s attitudes towards reCAPTCHA - started by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. &quot;Stop spam, read books.&quot;<p>Everyone was supportive of it when it was used towards the non profit digitization of out of copyright books. So, started externally, Google ran with it and continued and expanded the range of books. It remained good. Apparently loads of books were digitized.<p>Then, possibly along with the change in this article - or along with the perceptible change within Google where everything had to be business accountable a few years back, reCAPTCHA started being used to digitize address numbers from StreetView to improve Googles online mapping, geocoding offering. Nothing to do with books, nothing to do with improving the world.<p>Now reCAPTCHA is being used for image recognition and training (identify the images with salads). Nothing to do with books, information or improving the world - everything to do with Googles own offerings.<p>What&#x27;s even sadder is that <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;captcha.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;captcha.net&#x2F;</a> still states that it is being used to &quot;help digitize books&quot; but all the links go to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;recaptcha&#x2F;intro&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;recaptcha&#x2F;intro&#x2F;index.html</a> which have all but removed any public benefit wording. &quot; &quot;Stop spam, read books.&quot; was removed from Googles site in 2014.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Ever Happened to Google Books?</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-ever-happened-to-google-books?intcid=mod-latest</url></story> |
35,611,444 | 35,610,939 | 1 | 3 | 35,608,662 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jesperlang</author><text>More Europe anecdata:<p>I live in a small town of around 2000. Within 5-10 minutes walking I got: a restaurant, a cafe, a grocery store, pizzeria and kindergarten. Within 5-10 minutes of biking I have: public library, another grocery store, two bars and a restaurant. Public transport is readily available to take me to the neighbouring hustle-bustle (pop. 600&#x27;000) within 35 minutes. So my town is 50 times smaller than your Spanish example but it is perfectly possible to have all these services at this scale as well!</text><parent_chain><item><author>hibikir</author><text>If anything, you are being too nice to US suburbs: It&#x27;s perfectly possible to have towns that are much denser than any US suburb. My Spanish home town has about 100K inhabitants: You&#x27;d not call that a city anywhere in the US. And yet, It&#x27;s basically a circle with a one mile radius: Yes, just one mile. In that situation, one can walk everywhere, and public transportation is limited to the elderly, people carrying heavy things, and the impatient that live in the outskirts of town.<p>As a pre-teen, I could go to any of my friend&#x27;s houses to do tabletop roleplaying all by myself. If my mother needed a break from parenting, she had three different siblings living within a quarter mile. When your average building is 6 stories tall, and your typical street is 30 feet wide building to building, a quarter mile circle holds a lot of families! In comparison, my neighbor from across the street in the US suburbs is 60 feet away, door to door, and a quarter mile circle won&#x27;t get me to 300 front doors, total.</text></item><item><author>zamnos</author><text>This is a bit of an unconventional POV, but I don&#x27;t consider large areas of suburban sprawl to be cities but just really big towns. This covers Houston, swaths of Atlanta, lots of Southern California. There are lots of people living there compared to rural areas, to be sure, but without the density to support usable public transportation (once-an-hour buses don&#x27;t count), it&#x27;s really not a city at all. It&#x27;s endless suburban sprawl, and many people do appreciate that. Just don&#x27;t call it a city when it&#x27;s really not.</text></item><item><author>naremu</author><text>I&#x27;ve been wondering how related these feelings of distance and isolation in the middle of society are to <i>how</i> the area is designed.<p>I had always known for a long time the &quot;why&quot; I didn&#x27;t want to go out on weekends and such, but it wasn&#x27;t until I watched some of those videos from &quot;Not Just Bikes&quot; that it really, really struck me. I literally dread finding parking more than I enjoy finding friends.<p>And suburban (and frankly disturbingly high percentages of urban) America IME is a strange cross between in constant proximity of others, and constant suspicion of others. Like there&#x27;s just enough people around to not be alone, but not enough to feel safe for many.<p>There&#x27;s another comment in this thread positing that the social closeness of the old days broke down because of more urbanization, but it&#x27;s clear it&#x27;s <i>sprawl</i> that&#x27;s killing socialization.<p>The other day a friend and I were talking about cities since I complain a lot about this now, and we did a quick check: Houston is far, far LARGER than say, Zurich, but their population density is a fraction. Everyone lives in cars that don&#x27;t talk to each other, going to little boxes that mostly don&#x27;t talk to each other. And the parking lots required for people to travel to a restaurant or bar means that there&#x27;s less restaurants and bars.<p>Incidentally, I&#x27;ve found a single combination pedestrian&#x2F;bike trail near me, and it&#x27;s busier than the other trails, and people there are so much friendlier. It&#x27;s a joy to go, and I&#x27;m slowly realizing I may still be introverted, but being out and about without it being a chore actually alleviates a lot of my anxiety.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why don’t more people live close to friends?</title><url>https://annehelen.substack.com/p/youd-be-happier-living-closer-to</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vkou</author><text>&gt; When your average building is 6 stories tall, and your typical street is 30 feet wide building to building, a quarter mile circle holds a lot of families!<p>Someone walking through a six-story downtown is, by such a measurement, traveling faster than a car traveling at ~90 mph through suburbia.<p>(Of course, a car can&#x27;t travel that quickly through suburbia.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>hibikir</author><text>If anything, you are being too nice to US suburbs: It&#x27;s perfectly possible to have towns that are much denser than any US suburb. My Spanish home town has about 100K inhabitants: You&#x27;d not call that a city anywhere in the US. And yet, It&#x27;s basically a circle with a one mile radius: Yes, just one mile. In that situation, one can walk everywhere, and public transportation is limited to the elderly, people carrying heavy things, and the impatient that live in the outskirts of town.<p>As a pre-teen, I could go to any of my friend&#x27;s houses to do tabletop roleplaying all by myself. If my mother needed a break from parenting, she had three different siblings living within a quarter mile. When your average building is 6 stories tall, and your typical street is 30 feet wide building to building, a quarter mile circle holds a lot of families! In comparison, my neighbor from across the street in the US suburbs is 60 feet away, door to door, and a quarter mile circle won&#x27;t get me to 300 front doors, total.</text></item><item><author>zamnos</author><text>This is a bit of an unconventional POV, but I don&#x27;t consider large areas of suburban sprawl to be cities but just really big towns. This covers Houston, swaths of Atlanta, lots of Southern California. There are lots of people living there compared to rural areas, to be sure, but without the density to support usable public transportation (once-an-hour buses don&#x27;t count), it&#x27;s really not a city at all. It&#x27;s endless suburban sprawl, and many people do appreciate that. Just don&#x27;t call it a city when it&#x27;s really not.</text></item><item><author>naremu</author><text>I&#x27;ve been wondering how related these feelings of distance and isolation in the middle of society are to <i>how</i> the area is designed.<p>I had always known for a long time the &quot;why&quot; I didn&#x27;t want to go out on weekends and such, but it wasn&#x27;t until I watched some of those videos from &quot;Not Just Bikes&quot; that it really, really struck me. I literally dread finding parking more than I enjoy finding friends.<p>And suburban (and frankly disturbingly high percentages of urban) America IME is a strange cross between in constant proximity of others, and constant suspicion of others. Like there&#x27;s just enough people around to not be alone, but not enough to feel safe for many.<p>There&#x27;s another comment in this thread positing that the social closeness of the old days broke down because of more urbanization, but it&#x27;s clear it&#x27;s <i>sprawl</i> that&#x27;s killing socialization.<p>The other day a friend and I were talking about cities since I complain a lot about this now, and we did a quick check: Houston is far, far LARGER than say, Zurich, but their population density is a fraction. Everyone lives in cars that don&#x27;t talk to each other, going to little boxes that mostly don&#x27;t talk to each other. And the parking lots required for people to travel to a restaurant or bar means that there&#x27;s less restaurants and bars.<p>Incidentally, I&#x27;ve found a single combination pedestrian&#x2F;bike trail near me, and it&#x27;s busier than the other trails, and people there are so much friendlier. It&#x27;s a joy to go, and I&#x27;m slowly realizing I may still be introverted, but being out and about without it being a chore actually alleviates a lot of my anxiety.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why don’t more people live close to friends?</title><url>https://annehelen.substack.com/p/youd-be-happier-living-closer-to</url></story> |
15,077,447 | 15,077,491 | 1 | 2 | 15,077,117 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hlau</author><text>You just need a whitepaper. And a whole lot of blockchain &quot;experts&quot;. Because what makes a biz work is not the soundness of its ideas but the fact that it has its own coin.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fosk</author><text>Build-an-ICO getting closer as we speak. What a time to be alive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Build-a-Coin Cryptocurrency Creator</title><url>http://build-a-co.in/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cgb223</author><text>I&#x27;m having an ICO who&#x27;s value is based on my lifetime net worth as a developer<p>It&#x27;s a pretty solid investment, who&#x27;s in?</text><parent_chain><item><author>fosk</author><text>Build-an-ICO getting closer as we speak. What a time to be alive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Build-a-Coin Cryptocurrency Creator</title><url>http://build-a-co.in/</url></story> |
6,393,731 | 6,393,385 | 1 | 2 | 6,392,804 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nwenzel</author><text>Pretty accurate assessment. I almost certainly would have not gotten in had I not had a chance to talk to a few YC alums.<p>Side Note: Jason was absolutely the reason I got in. YC should do whatever it takes to get him to become at the very least a part-time partner. They and all future YC companies will be better off with him involved.<p>From my own experience, the OP is absolutely right about the no BS part. Just explain what you&#x27;re doing. You don&#x27;t need to sell it or exaggerate (doing so will actually hurt your chances). I think the most important thing to explain is why people&#x2F;companies want what you&#x27;re making. The next most important thing you can do is teach them something. If they are able to learn something new about a market from you, you&#x27;re chances of acceptance go up.<p>The in-person interview day is pretty exciting. It&#x27;s sort of like the first day at the dorms (which for me was in 1995). It&#x27;s perfectly acceptable to walk up to someone, say hi and and just start talking.<p>If you&#x27;re thinking about applying, you should.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I got into YC S13</title><url>http://aelag.com/how-i-got-into-yc</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>soneca</author><text>Great story, fun reading, not exactly good advices for me here. My take from this is, in order to get in YC you must: i) have a successfull exit as track record and ii) have YC alumni in your network to review your application and pitch.<p>Well, turns out I am very far from both situations, so I just read it as a success tale. Which I actually appreciated, as the author sounds like a really honest and nice person.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I got into YC S13</title><url>http://aelag.com/how-i-got-into-yc</url></story> |
10,337,274 | 10,337,359 | 1 | 2 | 10,335,918 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peterjancelis</author><text>I love how everybody in Silicon Valley claims ideas don&#x27;t matter, only execution does, then hate on the company that is taking that maxim to its ultimate conclusion.</text><parent_chain><item><author>seiji</author><text><i>copy any potential idea coming out of the US which I don&#x27;t understand the issue with.</i><p>Except, they don&#x27;t just copy the idea, they copy the entire products and companies wholesale (interface, API, UI, user interaction model). How is that <i>not</i> bad?</text></item><item><author>ThomPete</author><text>I am not actually sure why people have so much against the Samwer brothers.<p>Have they done anything particularly despicable?<p>I know their model is to copy any potential idea coming out of the US which I don&#x27;t understand the issue with.<p>One thing they really did well was to have a structure that makes it easy for them to localize any company.<p>I hear the work environment is hard but so is it many other places.<p>Or maybe I am missing your joke?</text></item><item><author>on_</author><text>&gt; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;2015-09-24&#x2F;y-contributor-s-altman-what-i-worry-about" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;2015-09-24&#x2F;y-contributo...</a><p>Ahh yes, Dan Altman, a recent hire at SV clone &quot;Y Contributor&quot;, talks about attention to detail, and working with the Samwer bros.<p>Edit: &lt;&lt; pun intended.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Y Combinator's Altman: What I Worry About in Business [video]</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-09-24/y-contributor-s-altman-what-i-worry-about</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lmm</author><text>As a European they&#x27;re adding a lot of value for me, by making useful products available for me.<p>Don&#x27;t like your products being copied? <i>Stop making them US-only</i>. I would use the &quot;real thing&quot; if I could.</text><parent_chain><item><author>seiji</author><text><i>copy any potential idea coming out of the US which I don&#x27;t understand the issue with.</i><p>Except, they don&#x27;t just copy the idea, they copy the entire products and companies wholesale (interface, API, UI, user interaction model). How is that <i>not</i> bad?</text></item><item><author>ThomPete</author><text>I am not actually sure why people have so much against the Samwer brothers.<p>Have they done anything particularly despicable?<p>I know their model is to copy any potential idea coming out of the US which I don&#x27;t understand the issue with.<p>One thing they really did well was to have a structure that makes it easy for them to localize any company.<p>I hear the work environment is hard but so is it many other places.<p>Or maybe I am missing your joke?</text></item><item><author>on_</author><text>&gt; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;2015-09-24&#x2F;y-contributor-s-altman-what-i-worry-about" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;2015-09-24&#x2F;y-contributo...</a><p>Ahh yes, Dan Altman, a recent hire at SV clone &quot;Y Contributor&quot;, talks about attention to detail, and working with the Samwer bros.<p>Edit: &lt;&lt; pun intended.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Y Combinator's Altman: What I Worry About in Business [video]</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-09-24/y-contributor-s-altman-what-i-worry-about</url></story> |
20,636,249 | 20,636,007 | 1 | 2 | 20,635,659 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>otoburb</author><text>&gt;&gt;<i>Should coders learn law? I&#x27;m of the opinion that engineers most certainly should.</i><p>Canadian engineers have to take a short closed book 3-hr Professional Practice Examination (PPE) covering &quot;ethics, professional practice, engineering law and professional liability&quot; as part of the licensing process.[1]<p>The reference is from Professional Engineers of Ontario as Canada&#x27;s engineers are regulated at the provincial level, but thankfully is also generally similar across the provinces. I&#x27;d imagine the American version (PE)[2] is somewhat similar.<p>While engineering law (typically torte) is a very small slice of The Law (TM), at least it&#x27;s a start in the right direction.<p>Note that this would only apply to a subset of coders who actively seek out a professional &quot;Engineer&quot; title designation. Most computer engineering or electrical engineering graduates (probably the most likely population) don&#x27;t need to, and don&#x27;t actually end up, becoming professionally designated.[3]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.peo.on.ca&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;ci_id&#x2F;2060&#x2F;index.php?ci_id=2060&amp;la_id=1#PPE" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.peo.on.ca&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;ci_id&#x2F;2060&#x2F;index.php?ci_id=20...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nspe.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;licensure&#x2F;how-get-licensed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nspe.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;licensure&#x2F;how-get-licensed</a><p>[3] Anecdata</text><parent_chain><item><author>dotancohen</author><text>I&#x27;m really waiting for the corollary. Should coders learn law? I&#x27;m of the opinion that engineers most certainly should.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Should lawyers learn to code? Arguments for and against</title><url>https://lawtomated.com/to-code-or-not-to-code-should-lawyers-learn-to-code-3-2/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>afarrell</author><text>Beyond lawcomic[1], what is a good resource for this? If a lawyer wants to learn enough python to create a script that joins PDFs together, they can pick up a copy of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python[2] of the law.<p>If an engineer wants to answer a question like “The IRS and HMRC consider these stock options to have a specific tax status if an employee exercised them within 90 days of leaving a company. What defines the date of purchase of a stock? The date the payment is received or the date the stock certificates are delivered?”, what can they do (besides ‘ask a solicitor’) to learn an answer they can be sure of?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lawcomic.net&#x2F;guide&#x2F;?page_id=5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lawcomic.net&#x2F;guide&#x2F;?page_id=5</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;automatetheboringstuff.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;automatetheboringstuff.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>dotancohen</author><text>I&#x27;m really waiting for the corollary. Should coders learn law? I&#x27;m of the opinion that engineers most certainly should.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Should lawyers learn to code? Arguments for and against</title><url>https://lawtomated.com/to-code-or-not-to-code-should-lawyers-learn-to-code-3-2/</url></story> |
35,184,451 | 35,182,870 | 1 | 2 | 35,182,240 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>Consumer-facing routing is a commodity these days. Apple and Google&#x27;s bundled maps&#x2F;routing products get better by the month and are sweeping all before them. The only exit strategies for Citymapper that I could ever see were &quot;get acquired by Apple&#x2F;Google&quot; or &quot;firesale&quot;, and although the latter might be a bit harsh, TechCrunch suggests investors weren&#x27;t exactly laughing all the way to the bank.[1]<p>If you can identify a niche and keep your costs down then you might have a chance. Apps targeted at enthusiast cyclists continue to do well, for example, although I have my doubts about expenditure vs revenue for some of them. (Disclaimer: I run a small-scale cycle routing app&#x2F;site.)<p>But &quot;people who want to get around Western European and North American cities&quot; is not a niche that Apple&#x2F;Google were ever going to overlook.<p>[1] &quot;Citymapper investors are mostly not making their money back in the transaction and that it’s effectively a washout&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;16&#x2F;via-acquires-trip-planning-app-citymapper-to-boost-transit-tech&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;16&#x2F;via-acquires-trip-planning...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Citymapper Joins Via</title><url>https://content.citymapper.com/news/2582/citymapper-joins-via</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hnarn</author><text>I&#x27;ve always loved Citymapper, it made using public transport when living in a new city a breeze. It&#x27;s really sad they don&#x27;t support my current city, I&#x27;d be willing to put in free work to make it happen but I&#x27;ve never seen any way of helping out.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Citymapper Joins Via</title><url>https://content.citymapper.com/news/2582/citymapper-joins-via</url></story> |
30,554,159 | 30,553,700 | 1 | 3 | 30,553,171 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>potamic</author><text>Warren Buffet&#x27;s son had something interesting to say about this.<p>&gt; As more lives and communities are destroyed by the system that creates vast amounts of wealth for the few, the more heroic it sounds to “give back.” It’s what I would call “conscience laundering” — feeling better about accumulating more than any one person could possibly need to live on by sprinkling a little around as an act of charity. But this just keeps the existing structure of inequality in place. The rich sleep better at night, while others get just enough to keep the pot from boiling over. Nearly every time someone feels better by doing good, on the other side of the world (or street), someone else is further locked into a system that will not allow the true flourishing of his or her nature or the opportunity to live a joyful and fulfilled life.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;27&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;the-charitable-industrial-complex.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;27&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;the-charitable-in...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>chirau</author><text>Would you have preferred that he didn&#x27;t spend his gains on charity?<p>EDIT: Also, did Bill Gates steal anything? Manipulation and monopolies are fundamentally wrong, but they do not amount to stealing. IF they do, then the Carnegies and Rockefellers were &#x27;stealing&#x27; as well. Maybe, by your logic, we should take away all those libraries Carnegie built too?</text></item><item><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>Glad I still hated him from when he tried to destroy the web, open source and various technical interoperability standards and free markets.<p>Seems a lot of people liked that his wife encouraged him to spend all his ill-gotten gains on charitable causes. I generally prefer people not to steal and undermine society in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Melinda Gates: Bill's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein led to end of marriage</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2022/03/03/melinda-french-gates-said-bills-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein-led-to-the-end-of-their-marriage.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>alophawen</author><text>He literally said what he preferred:<p>&gt; I generally prefer people not to steal and undermine society in the first place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chirau</author><text>Would you have preferred that he didn&#x27;t spend his gains on charity?<p>EDIT: Also, did Bill Gates steal anything? Manipulation and monopolies are fundamentally wrong, but they do not amount to stealing. IF they do, then the Carnegies and Rockefellers were &#x27;stealing&#x27; as well. Maybe, by your logic, we should take away all those libraries Carnegie built too?</text></item><item><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>Glad I still hated him from when he tried to destroy the web, open source and various technical interoperability standards and free markets.<p>Seems a lot of people liked that his wife encouraged him to spend all his ill-gotten gains on charitable causes. I generally prefer people not to steal and undermine society in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Melinda Gates: Bill's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein led to end of marriage</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2022/03/03/melinda-french-gates-said-bills-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein-led-to-the-end-of-their-marriage.html</url></story> |
7,122,009 | 7,122,129 | 1 | 2 | 7,121,268 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paul</author><text>Your attitude and remarks are creating a hostile and uncomfortable environment for me. I demand that you stop immediately.</text><parent_chain><item><author>natch</author><text>I&#x27;m not feeling oppressed. The problem isn&#x27;t me feeling oppressed, it&#x27;s other people feeling oppressed.<p>Poor choice of language can set up an exclusionary environment.<p>To you, this may be funny.<p>To me, your accusation of humorlessness reminds me of people who engage in sexually harassing &quot;jokes&quot; in the workplace, and then try to get away with it by using &quot;humor&quot; as an excuse.<p>You aren&#x27;t the one who gets to decide when other people feel uncomfortable.</text></item><item><author>paul</author><text>Awesome idea. Shame about the humorless nature of this community.<p>To me, a &quot;bro&quot; is a dumb, fratboy version of a man, which makes the name hilariously perfect. If you&#x27;re feeling oppressed and excluded by a command name, your real problems lie elsewhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only</title><url>http://bropages.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>politician</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m not feeling oppressed. The problem isn&#x27;t me feeling oppressed, it&#x27;s other people feeling oppressed.... You aren&#x27;t the one who gets to decide when other people feel uncomfortable.<p>But.. you.. are?</text><parent_chain><item><author>natch</author><text>I&#x27;m not feeling oppressed. The problem isn&#x27;t me feeling oppressed, it&#x27;s other people feeling oppressed.<p>Poor choice of language can set up an exclusionary environment.<p>To you, this may be funny.<p>To me, your accusation of humorlessness reminds me of people who engage in sexually harassing &quot;jokes&quot; in the workplace, and then try to get away with it by using &quot;humor&quot; as an excuse.<p>You aren&#x27;t the one who gets to decide when other people feel uncomfortable.</text></item><item><author>paul</author><text>Awesome idea. Shame about the humorless nature of this community.<p>To me, a &quot;bro&quot; is a dumb, fratboy version of a man, which makes the name hilariously perfect. If you&#x27;re feeling oppressed and excluded by a command name, your real problems lie elsewhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only</title><url>http://bropages.org/</url></story> |
6,290,441 | 6,290,595 | 1 | 2 | 6,289,665 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mitchellh</author><text>POS is the standard industry term for this kind of software. Anybody who would actually buy this product would never mistake this. And anyone who might mistake it for the other meaning needs only to click through to see it is indeed a POS system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>programminggeek</author><text>I realize that POS is a term that is widely used as a TLA for point of sale, but it feels like Shopify POS is an unfortunate name given that it&#x27;s also a TLA for piece of sh*t.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shopify POS</title><url>http://www.shopify.com/pos</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xal</author><text>It&#x27;s the industry&#x27;s term. I was very tempted to headline the whole launch as &quot;Shopify: First POS that&#x27;s not a POS.&quot; but alas..</text><parent_chain><item><author>programminggeek</author><text>I realize that POS is a term that is widely used as a TLA for point of sale, but it feels like Shopify POS is an unfortunate name given that it&#x27;s also a TLA for piece of sh*t.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shopify POS</title><url>http://www.shopify.com/pos</url></story> |
36,464,701 | 36,464,580 | 1 | 2 | 36,464,183 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eek2121</author><text>I gave up on that nonsense.I have a raspberry pi that rapidly pulls down new torrents for stuff and processes and&#x2F;or copies it to my media center for free....which is another raspberry pi.<p>I&#x27;ve no problem paying for content (I am &quot;upper class&quot;), but companies, especially Netflix clearly haven&#x27;t figured things out.<p>For Netflix, I am mostly referring to the account sharing stuff. I did not share my account with anyone, but false advertising rubbed me the wrong way, so they went from whatever their current top tier pricing is to zero from me. Other huge gripes include streaming quality and number of streams.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Tangent: As much as it feels like we just have “bundles” like the bad old cable days, I really enjoy getting to change streaming providers every 2-3 months. My wife and I just Hoover up whatever we’re interested in then move on. And in a year we’ve got that service back and we Hoover up the last year’s added content that looks good.<p>Lots of ways to measure it but when I think about how much I pay and what my experience is like, I’m doing far better than in the cable days. I’m much happier.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up</title><url>https://www.narcity.com/netflix-canada-got-rid-of-cheapest-ad-free-subscription</url></story> | <instructions>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;My wife and I just Hoover up whatever we’re interested in then move on.<p>Probably saner than my chaotic good approach of having gone back to torrenting but donating a subscription worth of money to the Against Malaria foundation to ease my conscience now that I&#x27;m not a broke student any more. I can&#x27;t be bothered with the obnoxious subscriptions and autplay UIs</text><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Tangent: As much as it feels like we just have “bundles” like the bad old cable days, I really enjoy getting to change streaming providers every 2-3 months. My wife and I just Hoover up whatever we’re interested in then move on. And in a year we’ve got that service back and we Hoover up the last year’s added content that looks good.<p>Lots of ways to measure it but when I think about how much I pay and what my experience is like, I’m doing far better than in the cable days. I’m much happier.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up</title><url>https://www.narcity.com/netflix-canada-got-rid-of-cheapest-ad-free-subscription</url></story> |
2,677,803 | 2,677,064 | 1 | 2 | 2,677,011 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pash</author><text>"Bitcoin raises untested legal concerns related to securities law, the Stamp Payments Act, tax evasion, consumer protection and money laundering, among others."<p>No it doesn't. Accepting donations in Bitcoins is no different than accepting cash yen or euro or Zimbabwean dollars. You value them at the market's dollar rate for tax purposes. The other objections are thorough nonsense as far as I can tell.<p>"We don't want to mislead our donors."<p>You just did. You took their Bitcoins and did something with them wholly different from what you said you were going to with them. (The EFF says it donated them to the Bitcoin Faucet.) The honest thing, and what your donors expected, would have been to convert them to dollars (or whatever) and spend them as you would any other donation, or to purchase goods and services from the Bitcoin economy to promote your mission.<p>"People were misconstruing our acceptance of Bitcoins as an endorsement of Bitcoin."<p>You were endorsing Bitcoin by using it. Just say, "Bitcoin's the Wild West. We're scared to take them." And leave it at that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EFF and Bitcoin</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rick888</author><text>"People were misconstruing our acceptance of Bitcoins as an endorsement of Bitcoin"<p>They may not think so, but buy accepting it, they are endorsing it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EFF and Bitcoin</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin</url></story> |
8,074,443 | 8,074,588 | 1 | 2 | 8,074,186 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewvc</author><text>Well, people do use these tools, but honestly, do you really want a language with multiple build tools &#x2F; package managers? The java world is a mess here. Leiningen is pretty great, no need to fragment the community.<p>As far as editors go, I&#x27;m perplexed. You can use nearly any editor, why do you perceive the need to use one of these 2?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Touche</author><text>My biggest problem with Clojure (specifically ClojureScript) is that it&#x27;s too workflow opinionated. Nearly all Clojure devs use 1 of 2 text editors. Nearly everyone uses Leiningen. Nearly everyone uses some sort of auto-builder. Nearly everyone uses hot-swapping.<p>Clojure wasn&#x27;t even optimized for this workflow, it&#x27;s just the only one that works. So as much as I love the language I keep going away from it because I prefer the freedom of my own workflow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I'm Productive in Clojure</title><url>http://yogthos.net/blog/49-Why+I%27m+Productive+in+Clojure</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dj-wonk</author><text>If you have a better workflow, by all means use it and share it with us.<p>If you want to see a community-oriented look at Clojure based on self-reported data, I&#x27;d suggest the 2013 State of Clojure:<p><a href="http://cemerick.com/2013/11/18/results-of-the-2013-state-of-clojure-clojurescript-survey/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cemerick.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;18&#x2F;results-of-the-2013-state-of-...</a><p>I think you&#x27;ll find considerable diversity in Clojure. You&#x27;ve got a confluence of people coming from Java, Ruby, Lisp, and other languages. You&#x27;ve got enterprises and start-ups using it. This diversity is certainly one reason that Clojure is so popular and useful to so many people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Touche</author><text>My biggest problem with Clojure (specifically ClojureScript) is that it&#x27;s too workflow opinionated. Nearly all Clojure devs use 1 of 2 text editors. Nearly everyone uses Leiningen. Nearly everyone uses some sort of auto-builder. Nearly everyone uses hot-swapping.<p>Clojure wasn&#x27;t even optimized for this workflow, it&#x27;s just the only one that works. So as much as I love the language I keep going away from it because I prefer the freedom of my own workflow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I'm Productive in Clojure</title><url>http://yogthos.net/blog/49-Why+I%27m+Productive+in+Clojure</url></story> |
8,938,699 | 8,938,536 | 1 | 3 | 8,934,786 | 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>spamizbad</author><text>Eh, three things really grind me gears about the tech scene in Chicago.<p>1) Lots of mediocre entrepreneurs that seem to have the same story:<p><pre><code> - Little to no hard skills.
- Probably got an MBA from a good B-school
- Did a stint at a consulting firm and is going to outsmart
the competition with all the wisdom they gained at
Accenture, McKinsey, BCG, Bain, or some big IL firm.
- Does NOT have a technical co-founder but is being advised
by some guy with a similar pedigree that attended a coding
bootcamp&#x2F;wrote a crappy iOS app&#x2F;got a CS degree...
but has written &lt;10,000 lines of code in their life.
- This person will interview you by giving you a fizz
buzz test followed by &quot;lateral thinking&quot; brain-teaser
questions). Very 90s.
</code></pre>
I know these people exist everywhere today but there&#x27;s an unusually large number concentrated in Chicago. Must be something in the water?<p>2) Developer compensation is roughly 10% lower (when adjusted for CoL) than it should be. And in terms of equity compensation Chicago isn&#x27;t even in the same league as SV today. Getting &gt;0.25% as the initial engineering hire is extremely rare here - even at companies that lack a technical co-founder.<p>This causes younger talent to get sucked to the coasts.<p>3) Many of the startups do not actively cultivate a technology or engineering culture. I think this largely stems from Point #1 - you really do need a tech co-founder to drive that side of the company.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>$1.6B in funding and $7B in exits: Chicago tech just had its best year ever</title><url>http://www.builtinchicago.org/2015/01/22/16b-funding-and-7b-exits-chicago-tech-just-had-its-best-year-ever</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>encoderer</author><text>My impression is that in Chicago -- and really everywhere outside the SF BA and NYC -- has much weaker comp for engineers.<p>It makes sense, really. By far the majority of SE jobs in these places are in IT departments writing line of business software. These are Java and .Net shops usually and anecdotally it seems they pay from $60-90k.<p>The companies where engineers are profit centers -- web startups and software companies, etc -- are desirable and attractive. Importantly, these are usually high margin businesses. In competitive markets, these companies meet engineer scarcity with attractive pay and equity packages. In places like Chicago, for every opening at 37 Signals you have 5 applicants from places like Crate &amp; Barrel.<p>This is unfortunate especially because even here in SF I think engineers are not yet paid what they are worth. I reach this conclusion by looking at the margins of software companies and profitable internet companies. You can clearly see the value software engineers are creating.<p>To be clear, I&#x27;m sure there are thousands of highly paid software engineers in the greater Chicago area. it&#x27;s a very big city and there is a lot of money there. Hell there may be thousands of highly paid engineers in finance alone. Chicago is certainly the heart of trading in this country. I&#x27;m generalizing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>$1.6B in funding and $7B in exits: Chicago tech just had its best year ever</title><url>http://www.builtinchicago.org/2015/01/22/16b-funding-and-7b-exits-chicago-tech-just-had-its-best-year-ever</url></story> |
2,397,082 | 2,397,073 | 1 | 2 | 2,396,936 | train | <instructions>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>Meta-discussions can be tiresome, but communities die if content is chosen strictly by popularity. Some moderation must be applied, and the most important things to moderate are the things that are popular but subtly undermine the site's purpose.<p>In this particular case the poster is being very reasonable: no <i>lame</i> submissions. "Joel on Coal" is a good example. That might have been funny as h*ll back when Joel was blogging. Now that he's no longer blogging, it doesn't work nearly as well as a satire. But it is funny, and perhaps worth an upvote nearly any other day of the year.<p>But on this day? No. It isn't actually going to "fool" anyone. April first isn't a generalized satire day, it's about pranks. And "Joel on Coal" isn't a prank, nobody is going to read that and wonder if Joel Spolsky is writing about Coal.<p>p.s. If you pranked me by pretending that HN has a good track record for dealing with OT submissions, I say "well-played" and redouble my argument in favour of moderating April 1st submissions: Your comment is funnier than most of the so-called prank posts I've seen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rewind</author><text>Can we also skip the submissions asking people not to post things instead of just letting the community decide the same way it's been done for years?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions?</title><text>Every year the Internet goes through this lame ritual of making up stuff and trying to pretend it's real. Very little of it is believable. Even less of it, funny. I can through the submissions today and I see at least half, just by the title, are lame April Fool's submissions.<p>Can we just skip it?</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>pohl</author><text>Ha ha...you almost had me there. I get it: your april fool's joke is that you're imagining that the community has a history of dealing with these things without going meta.<p>Good one!</text><parent_chain><item><author>rewind</author><text>Can we also skip the submissions asking people not to post things instead of just letting the community decide the same way it's been done for years?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions?</title><text>Every year the Internet goes through this lame ritual of making up stuff and trying to pretend it's real. Very little of it is believable. Even less of it, funny. I can through the submissions today and I see at least half, just by the title, are lame April Fool's submissions.<p>Can we just skip it?</text></story> |
4,580,233 | 4,580,266 | 1 | 2 | 4,580,062 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>motter</author><text>Note the warning from the README:<p>"Although this is a major upgrade version of pgModeler it is recommended NOT EXPORT the models created directly to production environments. Not all possible code generation were tested in this way, is its your own risk export the models into environments that are not intended for testing. The project's author is not responsible for any possible loss of data due the inappropriate use of this tool."<p><a href="https://github.com/pgmodeler/pgmodeler#warning" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pgmodeler/pgmodeler#warning</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PostgreSQL Database Modeler</title><url>http://pgmodeler.com.br/?</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ericcholis</author><text>Random thought, this is a pretty decent example of using Bootstrap out of the box. I can tell it's Bootstrap, but the splash logo draws me in.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PostgreSQL Database Modeler</title><url>http://pgmodeler.com.br/?</url></story> |
16,918,564 | 16,918,557 | 1 | 2 | 16,917,534 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abakker</author><text>In 2015, Belgium had a Population density of 363people&#x2F;Km^2. Massachusetts in 2015 had 336 people&#x2F;KM^2. So, pretty close. The difference is that Belgium has a much more uniform population distribution vs Massachusetts.<p>Secondarily, Belgium can define it&#x27;s own national policy, while MA must compromise with the rest of the country, including CA, WY, MT, and NY, all of which have very different economic and practical concerns.<p>The US&#x27;s size is not a unique problem, but, it is <i>a</i> problem, and the governmental structure we have chosen does pose some unique problems.</text><parent_chain><item><author>freddie_mercury</author><text>The OP was talking about China. China is bigger than the continental US. I think the persistent myth about the US&#x27;s size being some unique problem doesn&#x27;t explain much.<p>What&#x27;s more, if you think of the EU as a comparison for the US, with the individual counties as analogues for US states, it seems to explain even less. Belgium and Massachusetts are the same size but over has much better transit options than the other.</text></item><item><author>abakker</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if it really proves anything and it might be OT from your point, but, the confounding variable is that in the US - especially outside of the major urban areas - <i>everything</i> is just very far away in terms of miles. Lacking a car, you can expect life to be very difficult. there are still plenty of places in the US where the range of a tesla might be a borderline problem week-to-week. (though probably not as often as people think and if you plan well)<p>My casual observation is that smaller countries just have a lot more good options when it comes to transit because the total distances are much smaller.</text></item><item><author>danans</author><text>It&#x27;s a strange shift in affairs that China appears to have the greatest incentives (urban pollution, petroleum imports) today to advance clean transportation and energy while the US has stalled or moved backward, at least the Federal level.<p>Western European countries, for whom fossil fuels don&#x27;t seem to be an identity politics issue like in the US, are also making more progress in electrifying their transportation and developing renewable generation - like those massive offshore turbines in the North Sea, or the more comprehensive EV charging networks.<p>Again, they seem to have stronger incentives: high gas&#x2F;petrol prices, higher population density, tense relations with Russia - their big petroleum and natural gas supplier, and the desire to gain an advantage in clean energy technology while the US is seemingly regressing.<p>Perhaps states that have taken the problem seriously - wind in Texas, Iowa, EVs in CA, WA, NY, will carry the torch for the US without the Federal government&#x27;s support.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/electric-buses-are-hurting-the-oil-industry</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reissbaker</author><text>Sheer landmass is less critical for transit than population density. The US has a population density of 33 people per square kilometer; China is nearly five times more dense at 144 people per square kilometer. [1] This sparse population distribution is one of the causes of many of the difficult-to-solve infrastructure problems in the US, such as poor broadband rollout, poor transit, etc.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth the United States is actually larger in landmass size than China: 9.834 million square km in the US vs. 9.597 million square km in China. But China has over quadruple the population.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_and_dependen...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>freddie_mercury</author><text>The OP was talking about China. China is bigger than the continental US. I think the persistent myth about the US&#x27;s size being some unique problem doesn&#x27;t explain much.<p>What&#x27;s more, if you think of the EU as a comparison for the US, with the individual counties as analogues for US states, it seems to explain even less. Belgium and Massachusetts are the same size but over has much better transit options than the other.</text></item><item><author>abakker</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if it really proves anything and it might be OT from your point, but, the confounding variable is that in the US - especially outside of the major urban areas - <i>everything</i> is just very far away in terms of miles. Lacking a car, you can expect life to be very difficult. there are still plenty of places in the US where the range of a tesla might be a borderline problem week-to-week. (though probably not as often as people think and if you plan well)<p>My casual observation is that smaller countries just have a lot more good options when it comes to transit because the total distances are much smaller.</text></item><item><author>danans</author><text>It&#x27;s a strange shift in affairs that China appears to have the greatest incentives (urban pollution, petroleum imports) today to advance clean transportation and energy while the US has stalled or moved backward, at least the Federal level.<p>Western European countries, for whom fossil fuels don&#x27;t seem to be an identity politics issue like in the US, are also making more progress in electrifying their transportation and developing renewable generation - like those massive offshore turbines in the North Sea, or the more comprehensive EV charging networks.<p>Again, they seem to have stronger incentives: high gas&#x2F;petrol prices, higher population density, tense relations with Russia - their big petroleum and natural gas supplier, and the desire to gain an advantage in clean energy technology while the US is seemingly regressing.<p>Perhaps states that have taken the problem seriously - wind in Texas, Iowa, EVs in CA, WA, NY, will carry the torch for the US without the Federal government&#x27;s support.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/electric-buses-are-hurting-the-oil-industry</url></story> |
31,806,793 | 31,804,149 | 1 | 3 | 31,802,823 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacobr</author><text>I’ve found that a significant number of media queries can be replaced by fluid rules instead. E.g. instead of setting padding and full width on a container for mobile and a fixed width on desktop, do this for all breakpoints<p><pre><code> width: min(calc(100wv - 2rem), 80rem)
</code></pre>
Instead of resizing text for different breakpoints, use<p><pre><code> font-size: clamp(2rem, 4vw + 1rem, 3rem);
</code></pre>
etc. No media queries needed. I also find it easier to reason about since you don’t have different rules applying in different circumstances.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?</title><url>https://alistapart.com/article/mobile-first-css-is-it-time-for-a-rethink/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nojs</author><text>Having done a lot of both ways, I am still a fan of mobile first. Otherwise inevitably the mobile site ends up being an afterthought, with retrofitted elements that almost but don’t quite work on mobile (often everything on the desktop page is just stacked, and it doesn’t quite work but it’s hard to put your finger on why). This rarely happens in reverse, because the default lazy desktop implementation is just that it’s “too simple” which is generally much less of a problem. It’s more obvious when something needs to be added than when it needs to be simplified or removed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?</title><url>https://alistapart.com/article/mobile-first-css-is-it-time-for-a-rethink/</url></story> |
30,315,106 | 30,315,160 | 1 | 2 | 30,313,788 | 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>choeger</author><text>Airberlin issued Amazon gift cards back in the day. They were essentially as good as cash. In an unrelated story, airberlin went bankrupt shortly afterwards...</text><parent_chain><item><author>coolspot</author><text>You can stop mile inflation by redeeming them for dollar-denominated delta gift cards. They never expire.</text></item><item><author>sersi</author><text>Yup, and unfortunately with covid, it&#x27;s very very difficult to use miles :)</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>Except, Delta (and every airline) can arbitrarily control the redemption rate (speed) of their currency being used, and the conversion rate. And have been devaluing that currency steadily over the years. Don&#x27;t hoard FF miles, it&#x27;s a losing game.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things Delta told the SEC about its SkyMiles program</title><url>https://viewfromthewing.com/5-things-delta-told-the-sec-about-its-skymiles-program/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>The dollar is losing 8% a year of purchasing power at the moment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>coolspot</author><text>You can stop mile inflation by redeeming them for dollar-denominated delta gift cards. They never expire.</text></item><item><author>sersi</author><text>Yup, and unfortunately with covid, it&#x27;s very very difficult to use miles :)</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>Except, Delta (and every airline) can arbitrarily control the redemption rate (speed) of their currency being used, and the conversion rate. And have been devaluing that currency steadily over the years. Don&#x27;t hoard FF miles, it&#x27;s a losing game.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things Delta told the SEC about its SkyMiles program</title><url>https://viewfromthewing.com/5-things-delta-told-the-sec-about-its-skymiles-program/</url></story> |
33,097,931 | 33,098,357 | 1 | 2 | 33,078,280 | 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>sillystuff</author><text>The MiM might not be your IT folks, but rather management. I was in a meeting which included folks from Palo Alto (PA) and management where PA was hard selling their ability to MiM all https connections and link all activities of the users to their usernames through various methods from directory integration to log scraping on radius servers. The managers were super excited about the possibilities. Management not only wanted to implement this, but wanted to do so in secret. IT folks were pushing back-- hard.<p>Firewall as bossware.<p>Firefox being banned is because it uses its own certificate store, so Firefox users would see a browser warning every time they visit any https site notifying them that their traffic is being MiM&#x27;d. Chrome and chrome reskins like MS Edge use the OS store which MS Windows centric organizations can easily (centrally using MS tools [GP]) add the trusted CA for MiM into. For the Macs, it probably wouldn&#x27;t matter since the 3rd party mgmt tools could probably push out either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>huy-nguyen</author><text>I work at a government agency and here are my tales.<p>1) They install a root certificate on all machines and use that to MITM all TLS connections using a firewall appliance. They turn this MITM on one day without notifying any developer. Overnight, all our builds (run on-prem) fail because npm install, pip install etc fail and we spent a long time trying to figure it out. They are still failing to this day and I have to get off the VPN every time I need to run these simple commands. IT absolutely doesn&#x27;t give a flying **** about developers.<p>2) They ban all non-Chrome browsers from being installed. As in, if you install such a browser and try to launch it, the system will say &quot;browser X is banned. Contact IT.&quot; They would have banned Safari too had it not been part of the OS. Furthermore, they also disabled private browsing in Chrome (probably the ability to do this is why they allow Chrome). I think they&#x27;re preventing people from hiding their internet browsing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I learned about corporate firewalls</title><url>https://www.valcanbuild.tech/handling-corporate-firewalls/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheRealDunkirk</author><text>Oh, how I have learned the hard way on this.<p>Our IT now blocks outbound SSH <i>entirely</i>. You know, the <i>secure</i> way to access VM&#x27;s in, say, our cloud? Sigh. I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s a &quot;jump&quot; server somewhere that I&#x27;d have to log into, `sudo` to another account, THEN SSH to my target box. Whatever. I just avoid the VPN.<p>I used to use `cntlm` to tunnel requests through our firewall for things like Ruby&#x27;s bundler, as it required NTLM authentication. Now they&#x27;ve also gone the additional mile, and installed a certificate (Cisco Umbrella) in all of our computers, and require its signature to pass the firewall. Unfortunately, it took me a long time to sort this out: why `cntlm` no longer worked, and why none of the usual suggestions on SO fixed it. I finally figured out that RubyInstaller for Windows included a nice facility to deal with this. You just place additional certs in a directory, run a Ruby script, and it will bundle the whole stack into a single .pem, which it will reference for all network-related commands. Thankfully, bundler&#x27;s error messages were telling me the specific certs I needed, and I could download them from Cisco&#x27;s web site.<p>Just about a month ago, my company started requiring that cert for ALL traffic, not just HTTP(S). Like for, say, Postgres connections on port 5432. I finally realized that I could reference that same SSL bundle in my Postgres client connections, and get through.<p>I&#x27;ve spent about 8 years here now, and it&#x27;s been a cat-and-mouse game the whole time. I&#x27;m always wondering what&#x27;s coming next.</text><parent_chain><item><author>huy-nguyen</author><text>I work at a government agency and here are my tales.<p>1) They install a root certificate on all machines and use that to MITM all TLS connections using a firewall appliance. They turn this MITM on one day without notifying any developer. Overnight, all our builds (run on-prem) fail because npm install, pip install etc fail and we spent a long time trying to figure it out. They are still failing to this day and I have to get off the VPN every time I need to run these simple commands. IT absolutely doesn&#x27;t give a flying **** about developers.<p>2) They ban all non-Chrome browsers from being installed. As in, if you install such a browser and try to launch it, the system will say &quot;browser X is banned. Contact IT.&quot; They would have banned Safari too had it not been part of the OS. Furthermore, they also disabled private browsing in Chrome (probably the ability to do this is why they allow Chrome). I think they&#x27;re preventing people from hiding their internet browsing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I learned about corporate firewalls</title><url>https://www.valcanbuild.tech/handling-corporate-firewalls/</url></story> |
21,133,581 | 21,133,577 | 1 | 2 | 21,132,752 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hapless</author><text>You may wonder, what was in this for IBM? The answer is fairly straightforward. IBM used to make proprietary chipsets for Intel chips!<p>The pride of the xServer&#x2F;xSeries systems were &quot;complex&quot; setups -- multiple chassis -- with up to 32 sockets, and 512 GB of RAM. These required a lot of IBM internal engineering, where they made pin-compatible sockets for what Intel was offering at the time, and glued those chips into _hugely_ different topologies than Intel had in mind.<p>These systems sound small today, but back in 2001, this was a really big deal for x86. The IBM-proprietary chipsets were much more expensive than off-the-shelf systems, but still a fair bit cheaper than going with NCR or Unisys, competing vendors with proprietary x86 MP designs.<p>IBM had a lot at stake when that socket changed. Achieving pin-compatibility is hard! Intel is very jealous of their documentation, and prefers to offer paper only, with water-marked copies. It&#x27;s like owning a gutenberg bible. Engineering something pin-compatible with an Intel x86 CPU has never been easy.<p>It was no doubt worth it to their &quot;big&quot; x86 server business to ask Intel to make a special run of chips with the old socket layout, but the new emt64 extensions. I bet it was a complete no-brainer compared to the costs of integrating a new socket!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU</title><url>http://www.cpushack.com/2019/10/01/the-story-of-the-ibm-pentium-4-64-bit-cpu/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peter_d_sherman</author><text>Excerpt:<p>&quot;Having such a unique processor at your disposal, it’s absurd not to build a powerful x64-retro system on it. One of the options for using such a system in general can be to build a universal “PC-harvester” that supports all Microsoft operating systems from DOS to Windows 10.&quot;<p>All Microsoft OS&#x27;es on the same PC? Cool! Also, if that&#x27;s indeed the case, my guess is that most versions of x86 Linux and other x86 OS&#x27;es, historic to present, would work too... which is no small feat for a single PC...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU</title><url>http://www.cpushack.com/2019/10/01/the-story-of-the-ibm-pentium-4-64-bit-cpu/</url></story> |
9,340,058 | 9,339,330 | 1 | 3 | 9,338,246 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>furyg3</author><text>I was lucky enough to have a friend working at BeOS at the very end. This is when they abandoned all hope of getting bought by Apple (erm... I mean gaining presence on the desktop) and focused on &quot;Internet Appliances&quot; like eVilla.<p>BeOS was really amazing at the time, especially in comparison to &#x27;next generation OSes&#x27; like Windows NT, the vaporware that was Copland, Linux (which was unusable for mortals) or Solaris. It was clear to me that the future was going to look like BeOS or NeXT, but I could actually easily download and run BeOS on my mac. It was incredibly useable... I installed it and was able to use it for months. It just needed apps.<p>When Apple went with Jobs (and thus NeXT) I thought that made sense. But when I saw the early releases of Rhapsody I really thought they had made a huge mistake. BeOS was just so much better.<p>It&#x27;s really fun to fantasize about what the world would have been like if BeOS made it big. There&#x27;s still a lot of tech there that has not yet made it into desktop OSes.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BeOS Demo Video (1998) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVydyC8ZGQ</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>carlesfe</author><text>I remember installing BeOS a long time ago, when I was fiddling with old linux distros which were almost impossible to install (what is the model of your RAMDAC? which is your interrupt controller? manually configure your modem!)<p>I was absolutely amazed at the ease of install, running the software and the powerful GUI. I even ran it for some months as my only OS, since it had a web browser and e-mail client and the dialup config was very straightforward.<p>After that time, I started missing a lot of software, especially browser updates, so I tried linux again and found that it had improved a bit, so I stuck with it.<p>But I&#x27;ll never forget how probably the best OS at that time failed into misery for the lack of software and a bit of promotion.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BeOS Demo Video (1998) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVydyC8ZGQ</url></story> |
25,071,906 | 25,072,203 | 1 | 2 | 25,068,668 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mgechev</author><text>Angular team member here :)<p>&gt;our bundle size hasn&#x27;t moved or increased slightly<p>Please make sure you are using the latest version of our compiler and runtime. Many developers observed significant improvements after the v9 release. Here&#x27;s just one [example](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22260864" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22260864</a>).<p>&gt;Every ngconf there&#x27;s talk of the magical 2kb hello-world<p>Currently, it&#x27;s absolutely doable to get very small bundle size (&lt;7-8KB) for a hello-world application. This, however, relies on private APIs. We haven&#x27;t made them public yet, because not many folks are building hello world apps, but in the future we&#x27;ll be exploring how to reduce the footprints of the framework even further for smaller apps.<p>&gt;We&#x27;re currently at 2mb main&#x2F;vendor after spending A LOT of time optimising and making everything lazy<p>It is shocking for me that you&#x27;re spending that much effort on optimizing your app, but you can&#x27;t get your bundle below 2MB. I&#x27;m spending large chunk of my time looking into apps and thinking how to make them smaller &amp; faster. I&#x27;ll be more than happy to connect and brainstorm the same for your case. Please reach out to me on my hackernews username @google.com<p>&gt;Every year I install the VSC Language Service plugin and have to disable it the same day due to it continuously crashing and killing the editor so it seems we&#x27;ll never get to benefit from that.<p>Sorry to hear you had such an experience with the language service. If it keeps crashing, definitely report the problem here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;angular&#x2F;angular&#x2F;issues" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;angular&#x2F;angular&#x2F;issues</a>. We&#x27;ll be very thankful if you share reproduction steps.<p>&gt;Then I see a continuous stream of core developers leaving the Angular project due to toxic behaviour from Igor and it feels hopeless and depressing.<p>Folks leave and and others join. I can&#x27;t comment on my co-workers experiences, but after 2 years working on Angular I haven&#x27;t experienced any of the behavior you&#x27;re referring to.<p>&gt;The one saving grace is that the entire ecosystem is written in TypeScript and it&#x27;s nice seeing everything typed to perfection.<p>Oh, I wish everything was that perfectly typed :). This is something the team and the community is constantly working on, but we still have a long way to go until we reach perfection.</text><parent_chain><item><author>intellix</author><text>Been using Angular.js and 2+ exclusively for almost a decade now. Keep reading how the compiler allows static type checking and superior tree-shaking at build time but I&#x27;m just not seeing any sort of fruition after years of promises.<p>Every ngconf there&#x27;s talk of the magical 2kb hello-world and bundle improvements with every major, yet the only bundles getting reductions are the hello-worlds and monster projects.<p>It seems we&#x27;re in the medium bundle category and it&#x27;s just disappointing that every version our bundle size hasn&#x27;t moved or increased slightly.<p>We&#x27;re currently at 2mb main&#x2F;vendor after spending A LOT of time optimising and making everything lazy and then a team of 1 at our sister company release a Next.JS&#x2F;React app with a main bundle about 1.3mb than ours using zero effort.<p>There&#x27;s never anything obvious when it comes to analysing the bundle and it seems we&#x27;re using everything we need: Angular, Material, RxJS, ApolloClient. Most of our forms use Formly (huge savings from repeated HTML)<p>All of our competitors are running React and have bundles about 1mb smaller than ours.<p>Every year I install the VSC Language Service plugin and have to disable it the same day due to it continuously crashing and killing the editor so it seems we&#x27;ll never get to benefit from that.<p>Then I see a continuous stream of core developers leaving the Angular project due to toxic behaviour from Igor and it feels hopeless and depressing.<p>The one saving grace is that the entire ecosystem is written in TypeScript and it&#x27;s nice seeing everything typed to perfection.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Angular 11</title><url>https://blog.angular.io/version-11-of-angular-now-available-74721b7952f7</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acoard</author><text>This has largely been my experience too.<p>I was development lead for an angular shop. We did all the government Ministry of Health forms in Angular, millions of residents would use our forms every year. Our frontend team I lead fluctuated from 5-8 people over the years. We had to work on basically every device, making sure it&#x27;d work on IE11 and for blind users running screen readers is something we&#x27;d do every single release. I say this not to brag, but just to say I lived and breathed angular for years, I was hired as the &quot;angular guy&quot;, and I even wrote an npm-publiished library of re-usable components specifically to match Ministry of Health forms.<p>My opinion of the Angular team and their stewardship of the project had ranged from mildly impressed, to disappointed, to alarmed. They frequently missed their own targets, the big one being Ivy, their compiler, which got pushed back 2 full releases and was constantly plagued by issues. (I left that job right as Ivy was released. Is anyone using it? Has it been a success?)<p>Like you, I saw the Angular team constantly speaking to compiler optimizations, but never once saw those benefits manifest. To be honest, it just felt like they were using the typescript compiler (tsc). I never saw any performance benefits over tsc. In fact, now using React&#x2F;tsc&#x2F;webpack, I feel like the compiler is more configurable and powerful.<p>In around 3 years of Angular updates the only feature we really used was the improved lazy loading of modules. I also used a bit of their codegen stuff (&quot;Schematics&quot;), which was promising but incomplete. Even though they were in release notes at the time, they lacked documentation and seemed like the team was bragging about features that weren&#x27;t ready for light of day[0]. In the same timespan (~2016-Jan 2020), React got: server side rendering, pure components, hooks, profiling tools, improved lazy loading, and many _measurable performance increases that benefited projects across the board_[1].<p>Also, the Angular team began to increasingly focus on Material integration. We were a Bootstrap shop (ministry, at the time, required bootstrap styling). It was disappointing to see all those updates and know we couldn&#x27;t use them.<p>I will say that generally speaking Angular&#x27;s opinionated, more enterprise-y approach to frontend absolutely has a place. For certain workplaces, like my former big corp one, having an opinionated enterprise-y language made onboarding easier and devs more consistent. The most disruptive devs we had were hotshot react devs who wanted to make our Angular code base look like their flavour of React. I use React now, and love it, but there are pros and cons to having an opinionated framework&#x2F;library (not having that fight).<p>And worst of all, the team itself seems to be imploding and toxic as you&#x27;ve alluded to.<p>I left that job for other reasons, but I&#x27;m glad I&#x27;m working with React and Vue more heavily now.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@lifenshades&#x2F;difference-among-angular-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-breakdown-new-features-and-changes-811fb5f8e6f0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@lifenshades&#x2F;difference-among-angular-8-7...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;React_(web_framework)#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;React_(web_framework)#History</a><p>edit: The other great part about the Angular community is it&#x27;s TS first. I miss that about React&#x2F;Vue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>intellix</author><text>Been using Angular.js and 2+ exclusively for almost a decade now. Keep reading how the compiler allows static type checking and superior tree-shaking at build time but I&#x27;m just not seeing any sort of fruition after years of promises.<p>Every ngconf there&#x27;s talk of the magical 2kb hello-world and bundle improvements with every major, yet the only bundles getting reductions are the hello-worlds and monster projects.<p>It seems we&#x27;re in the medium bundle category and it&#x27;s just disappointing that every version our bundle size hasn&#x27;t moved or increased slightly.<p>We&#x27;re currently at 2mb main&#x2F;vendor after spending A LOT of time optimising and making everything lazy and then a team of 1 at our sister company release a Next.JS&#x2F;React app with a main bundle about 1.3mb than ours using zero effort.<p>There&#x27;s never anything obvious when it comes to analysing the bundle and it seems we&#x27;re using everything we need: Angular, Material, RxJS, ApolloClient. Most of our forms use Formly (huge savings from repeated HTML)<p>All of our competitors are running React and have bundles about 1mb smaller than ours.<p>Every year I install the VSC Language Service plugin and have to disable it the same day due to it continuously crashing and killing the editor so it seems we&#x27;ll never get to benefit from that.<p>Then I see a continuous stream of core developers leaving the Angular project due to toxic behaviour from Igor and it feels hopeless and depressing.<p>The one saving grace is that the entire ecosystem is written in TypeScript and it&#x27;s nice seeing everything typed to perfection.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Angular 11</title><url>https://blog.angular.io/version-11-of-angular-now-available-74721b7952f7</url></story> |
37,352,523 | 37,351,123 | 1 | 2 | 37,350,123 | 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>ianbicking</author><text>This post barely makes any attempt to actually argue for its premise, that model weight providers should &quot;not police uses, no matter how awful they are.&quot;<p>All I see is a lot of references to &quot;vigilante justice.&quot; This metaphor is poor because real vigilante justice is putative.<p>It&#x27;s also like saying no one should act on any behavior unless it is illegal. I for one regularly act on ethical issues in my life that are not strictly illegal, and among those actions is that I don&#x27;t care to associate with people who do not act on ethical issues. This is how most people operate, we primarily maintain social order and decency not through criminal law and regulation, but because people apply ethical rules throughout their life. Imagine interacting with someone who when critiqued simply replies &quot;yeah but it&#x27;s not illegal.&quot;<p>The only serious argument I see is:<p>&quot;once infrastructure providers start applying their own judgements, pressure will mount to censor more and more things&quot;<p>Avoiding pressure is just... cowardly? This is advocacy for &quot;don&#x27;t bother telling me about what this work is being used for because I won&#x27;t give a shit, but it&#x27;s noble because my complete apathy is on purpose.&quot;<p>Lastly, while I generally don&#x27;t like slippery-slope arguments, there is also a slippery slope counter-argument here. With no restrictions firms will not release their models at all for general use and only provide full products that have acceptable impact. This was Google&#x27;s approach until OpenAI decided to let other people actually use their model and Google had to stop sitting on what they had. Model restrictions give providers an opportunity to be open with their work while still maintaining some of the ethical standards those providers voluntarily and willingly hold themselves to.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI model weight providers should not police uses, no matter how awful they are</title><url>http://marble.onl/posts/model_censorship.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>motohagiography</author><text>AI model rules will be as successful as any other prohibition, where outlaws will act with defacto impunity, while good people who commit sins of omission will be made arbitrary examples of. I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s a name for the dynamic, where policing rules of any kind are mainly enforced against people who generally abide by them, while simulataneously giving a huge arbitrage advantage to people who ignore them or are just outlaws.<p>There is another problem that doesn&#x27;t have any good solutions yet that will be a huge part of AI governance, and that&#x27;s software attestation (direct anonymous attestation). The basic problem is how does a program assert that it is an authentic instance of itself. We&#x27;ve been trying to solve it in security for apps, authenticators, and DRM for decades, and the solutions all seem fine until it&#x27;s worth it to someone break it. I think it&#x27;s probably just a poorly formed problem statement that defines itself in impossible terms, but when they can&#x27;t govern AI models, they&#x27;re going to try to govern which AI&#x27;s can access what data and systems, and we&#x27;re back to solving the same old cryptographic problems we&#x27;ve been working on for decades.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI model weight providers should not police uses, no matter how awful they are</title><url>http://marble.onl/posts/model_censorship.html</url></story> |
12,144,362 | 12,144,456 | 1 | 2 | 12,143,952 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jph</author><text>I&#x27;m a longtime OGG Vorbis user and upgrading everything to Opus.<p>From the FAQ: Does Opus make all those other lossy codecs obsolete? Yes. From a technical point of view (loss, delay, bitrates, ...) Opus renders Speex obsolete and should also replace Vorbis and the common proprietary codecs too (e.g. AAC, MP3, ...).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Opus Interactive Audio Codec v1.1.3 released</title><url>http://opus-codec.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>cpeterso</author><text>Firefox (50 Nightly) just updated its copy of Opus to 1.1.3:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1288091" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1288091</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Opus Interactive Audio Codec v1.1.3 released</title><url>http://opus-codec.com/</url></story> |
37,261,046 | 37,259,893 | 1 | 2 | 37,259,225 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jerf</author><text>Node has kind of wrecked the term &quot;synchronous&quot;. It convinced many people that &quot;synchronous&quot; also entails &quot;only thing running on the processor at the time&quot; and &quot;if you&#x27;re &#x27;synchronously&#x27; waiting on a file read the entire process is waiting&quot;. So when you say &quot;Elixir&#x2F;Erlang&#x2F;any threaded language &#x27;makes&#x27; you write synchronous code&quot;, to the people who most need to hear this, those steeped in the async way of the world, you confuse them because to them that means your language can only do one thing at a time.<p>I&#x27;m not saying I&#x27;m happy about this or that the meaning has &quot;really&quot; changed; I&#x27;m just saying from experience you don&#x27;t really want to phrase it this way because you only reach those who already know.</text><parent_chain><item><author>out_of_protocol</author><text>Unlike javascript, elixir makes you write synchronous code, e.g.<p><pre><code> def process_items(items) do
items
|&gt; Task.async_stream(&amp;Processor.process&#x2F;1, max_concurrency: 2, timeout: 7000, on_timeout: :kill_task)
|&gt; Enum.to_list()
end
</code></pre>
Semantics of regular and concurrent code is the same</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency</title><url>https://underjord.io/unpacking-elixir-concurrency.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>Dowwie</author><text>comment here is conveying that there is no function color, where a language distinguishes standard synchronous calls from asynchronous calls</text><parent_chain><item><author>out_of_protocol</author><text>Unlike javascript, elixir makes you write synchronous code, e.g.<p><pre><code> def process_items(items) do
items
|&gt; Task.async_stream(&amp;Processor.process&#x2F;1, max_concurrency: 2, timeout: 7000, on_timeout: :kill_task)
|&gt; Enum.to_list()
end
</code></pre>
Semantics of regular and concurrent code is the same</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency</title><url>https://underjord.io/unpacking-elixir-concurrency.html</url></story> |
31,772,365 | 31,771,876 | 1 | 3 | 31,771,367 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Service is the reason I&#x27;m selling my Tesla. (Well, it was the first reason. What Elon says in public is the other. Embarrassing.)<p>It took a a year to get my Model X into an &quot;acceptable&quot; state, and it still has seven outstanding issues, six of which they simply refuse to fix.<p>If I wanted to get another service appointment now I would have to wait at least a month, and if they decide they&#x27;re actually going to try to fix something (they often refuse), they keep it for at least a week and no, you don&#x27;t get a loaner car in return.<p>It is an absolute disaster and I would recommend no-one ever buy a Tesla simply for this reason.<p>Here&#x27;s the full list of issues with my car: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;VJJdNVk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;VJJdNVk</a><p>(Thanks for the suggestion of imgbb)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla sends untrained employees to work on cars as service becomes problematic</title><url>https://electrek.co/2022/06/16/tesla-untrained-employees-work-on-cars-service-problematic/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>de6u99er</author><text>It seems very much to me as if Musk doesn&#x27;t know what he is doing. If this is feliberate it looks like he is trying to reduce costs to make Tesla&#x27;s stock price go up again.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla sends untrained employees to work on cars as service becomes problematic</title><url>https://electrek.co/2022/06/16/tesla-untrained-employees-work-on-cars-service-problematic/</url></story> |
15,284,932 | 15,284,880 | 1 | 2 | 15,284,252 | 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>tammer</author><text>Eh it sounds to me that this is a great quick fix for the &quot;I&#x27;m slightly too far from the AP to have bandwidth but I&#x27;m still maintaining a connection&quot; problem I have almost daily. Will make an obscure security concern you&#x27;ve identified slightly more difficult to deal with. If you don&#x27;t prefer trade offs like this, Apple likely isn&#x27;t the best digital provider for you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>darthbanane</author><text>Review is not thorough.<p>One huge change in the control center is that the wifi “toggle” doesn’t toggle wifi off anymore (wait what?). It just disconnects from the current network and doesn’t reconnect for a minute or so.<p>If you don’t want to be tracked by wifi APs it seems you have to force touch settings into wifi and disable the adapter from there.
Huge step backwards IMHO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iOS 11 reviewed</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/ios-11-thoroughly-reviewed/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Crontab</author><text>Agreed. That&#x27;s bad and a lot of people will expect the old functionality.</text><parent_chain><item><author>darthbanane</author><text>Review is not thorough.<p>One huge change in the control center is that the wifi “toggle” doesn’t toggle wifi off anymore (wait what?). It just disconnects from the current network and doesn’t reconnect for a minute or so.<p>If you don’t want to be tracked by wifi APs it seems you have to force touch settings into wifi and disable the adapter from there.
Huge step backwards IMHO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iOS 11 reviewed</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/ios-11-thoroughly-reviewed/</url></story> |
40,865,148 | 40,861,101 | 1 | 3 | 40,859,876 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>A_D_E_P_T</author><text>Of course it&#x27;s possible to use this sort of therapy to prevent disease, by knocking out single genes associated with the development of disease.<p>It&#x27;s just as possible to silence single genes that, when silenced, may elicit substantial positive effects in healthy adults. Part of George Church&#x27;s list, by no means comprehensive, is:<p>MSTN -&#x2F;- Lean muscle growth<p>SCN9A -&#x2F;- Insensitivity to pain<p>ABCC11 -&#x2F;- Low Odor production<p>CCR5, FUT2 -&#x2F;- Virus resistance<p>PCSK9 -&#x2F;- Low coronary disease<p>SLC30A8 -&#x2F;+ Low T2 Diabetes<p>There are many others. Knocking out ACTN3, for instance, might remodel skeletal muscle for better endurance performance, and certain athletes don&#x27;t express the gene.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An epigenetic editor to silence genes</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq3334</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ProjectArcturis</author><text>Very impressive work. Just in mice so far but this looks very promising for Huntington&#x27;s in particular.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An epigenetic editor to silence genes</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq3334</url></story> |
37,030,885 | 37,030,914 | 1 | 2 | 37,030,884 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brightside67</author><text>Hello Hacker News community!<p>We&#x27;re excited to share that today marks the official launch of Picogen.IO! This innovative platform is brought to you by the dynamic Muvon Team (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muvon.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muvon.io</a>), and has already been integrated into Zentask&#x27;s production environment (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zentask.ai" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zentask.ai</a>). Picogen.IO is a unique service designed to generate stunning images using just a single interface, implementing various models like Stable Diffusion 2.1, XL, Dalle-2, and our standout feature - Midjourney.<p>The Midjourney feature is what sets us apart. Although there&#x27;s no official API yet, we&#x27;ve cracked the code and can now offer this feature to our users.<p>To kick things off, we&#x27;re providing a concurrency level of 1 (1 active generation per account). As soon as we validate our MVP, we plan on expanding our offerings to include even more possibilities.<p>On our launch day, you&#x27;ll gain the ability to generate and upscale an image. We&#x27;ve strategically kept our feature set minimal at the outset, enabling us to swiftly gather your feedback and iterate.<p>We&#x27;re eager to develop any features based on your suggestions! If there&#x27;s something you want, let us know and we&#x27;ll add it to our feature queue. To show our appreciation for your support, if you purchase credits worth $100 or more, we&#x27;ll prioritize developing your requested feature ASAP - most likely within a week to production!<p>Don&#x27;t shy away from asking any questions!<p>Get ahead of the curve and join the waiting list here - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;picogen-midjourney-api-more" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;picogen-midjourney-api-...</a><p>We&#x27;re thrilled to embark on this journey with you – let&#x27;s redefine image generation together!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Midjourney API and Diffusion and Dalle2 on Picogen</title><url>https://picogen.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>donhardman</author><text>I&#x27;m thrilled to see the direction we&#x27;ll take with this. We initially started with just a few features, primarily because we&#x27;re eager to understand what you want from a service like this and then refine it based on your needs. Don&#x27;t hesitate to ask questions or make suggestions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Midjourney API and Diffusion and Dalle2 on Picogen</title><url>https://picogen.io/</url></story> |
4,628,738 | 4,627,408 | 1 | 3 | 4,627,106 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text>Yeah this looks awful. No syntax highlighting either, which is odd because its basically automatic these days (rainbow.js or any of a million plugins). It's also surprising that they resorted to a screenshot instead of just putting the playable game on the page.<p>I think the use of setInterval is fine because it keeps the code very short compared to the requestAnimationFrame shim, but there should definitely be mention of it.<p>Hopefully I can add my tutorials to this site (which I think are much cleaner) when I'm finally done with my (blocking) larger projects.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jare</author><text>Checked the "No Tears HTML5 Game Development Tutorial" at <a href="http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/tutorials/canvas_notearsgame" rel="nofollow">http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/tutorials/canvas_notearsgam...</a> and:<p>- "Because this is a No Tears guide, we'll use jQuery"<p>- Use setInterval() rather than requestAnimationFrame().<p>- Questionable class-like implementation.<p>Granted the original HTML5rocks! post is over a year and a half old, but bad code and bad practices are NOT helping the cause.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/08/apple-facebook-google-microsoft-and-others-join-forces-to-launch-new-web-standards-resource</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wwwtyro</author><text>I am not being argumentative when I ask this, I just want more details about this bullet:<p>&#62; - Questionable class-like implementation.<p>Can you just lay it all out right here? What is wrong (or suboptimal) with the implementation, what alternatives would you prefer, etc. Everything that is behind that bullet, I want to hear it!</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jare</author><text>Checked the "No Tears HTML5 Game Development Tutorial" at <a href="http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/tutorials/canvas_notearsgame" rel="nofollow">http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/tutorials/canvas_notearsgam...</a> and:<p>- "Because this is a No Tears guide, we'll use jQuery"<p>- Use setInterval() rather than requestAnimationFrame().<p>- Questionable class-like implementation.<p>Granted the original HTML5rocks! post is over a year and a half old, but bad code and bad practices are NOT helping the cause.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/08/apple-facebook-google-microsoft-and-others-join-forces-to-launch-new-web-standards-resource</url></story> |
32,271,327 | 32,271,322 | 1 | 3 | 32,270,815 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fossuser</author><text>I have the 13 mini and love it - I’m sad it’ll be the last one for a long time. The 12 was great too, but the battery life hit was noticeable- the 13 fixed that.<p>I would prefer the telephoto lens to the the warped wide angle (which I find useless). I also miss out on the high refresh rate display (for the 12 year none of the phones had it).<p>The mini is probably my favorite iPhone design of all time. It’s basically a 5 (my previous favorite) with a full screen display.<p>It’s a shame we’ll lose a small phone that doesn’t compromise on features this year - I don’t want an SE.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>I bought a Mini with great excitement, thinking that it would take me back to the glory of the &quot;my phone fits my my pocket and I can type with one hand&quot; days.<p>I kept it for 3 months, and then traded it in for a Pro. It turns out that the world has moved on. Web pages are getting harder to read on small screens. I had to squint a lot. The phone&#x27;s short height means that it often doesn&#x27;t charge &quot;vertically&quot; in Qi chargers. It doesn&#x27;t fit in my car&#x27;s integrated phone holder, it just rattles around.<p>And I really missed the zoom lens.<p>So I&#x27;m OK with the Pro, and I will get used to slightly larger phones.<p>(The &quot;Max&quot; is still stupid.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Best iPhone</title><url>https://notes.ghed.in/posts/the-best-iphone/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>petercooper</author><text>I have luckily had the opposite experience. I&#x27;ve always had the biggest phone I could get (Pro Max and all the rest) but decided to try the 13 Mini after hearing so many good things. Given how fussy I usually am, it&#x27;s been amazing. The pros outweigh any cons for me, but it seems the Mini is going the way of the dodo in future anyway and the SE really is a step too far down for me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>I bought a Mini with great excitement, thinking that it would take me back to the glory of the &quot;my phone fits my my pocket and I can type with one hand&quot; days.<p>I kept it for 3 months, and then traded it in for a Pro. It turns out that the world has moved on. Web pages are getting harder to read on small screens. I had to squint a lot. The phone&#x27;s short height means that it often doesn&#x27;t charge &quot;vertically&quot; in Qi chargers. It doesn&#x27;t fit in my car&#x27;s integrated phone holder, it just rattles around.<p>And I really missed the zoom lens.<p>So I&#x27;m OK with the Pro, and I will get used to slightly larger phones.<p>(The &quot;Max&quot; is still stupid.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Best iPhone</title><url>https://notes.ghed.in/posts/the-best-iphone/</url></story> |
12,532,033 | 12,531,676 | 1 | 3 | 12,528,070 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hunvreus</author><text>Funny you&#x27;d mention that. We&#x27;re putting the final touches to an Open Source Jekyll CMS we&#x27;ve built for ourselves (called Jekyll+) that does just that; give a nicer interface for marketing folks and provide multilingual support out of the box.<p>Preview of my local copy we&#x27;re prepping up for a release end of the week: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;1VyxGzqr.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;1VyxGzqr.png</a><p>Happy to have you testing it out and give me feedback.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lsaferite</author><text>Personally, the biggest issues is the CMS backend part of the process. I&#x27;m fine writing content for an SSG, but the marketing department is not. What I really want is a fast, open, and simple CMS BE that has a publishing workflow where the output is a static site. I&#x27;ve yet to fine the perfect candidate. The ones that are close are SaaS platforms and that is unfortunately unacceptable. I&#x27;m perfectly ok paying for software, at least if I get the source. If anyone has some suggestions, I&#x27;m all ears.<p>Edit: Just to add, I have multiple needs here that aren&#x27;t enumerated, one of which is full translation support for the source content to support multi-linguale&#x2F;multi-locale sites.</text></item><item><author>forlorn</author><text>The main problem for me is that the absolute majority of them target blogs and if you try to adapt them for a more complicated website you gonna dive very deep inside the code or continue constant search. Now I look at hugo as it seems to be a more general-purpose tool that allows to play with structure and content types.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Static Website Generators</title><url>https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/05/02/top-ten-static-website-generators/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nfriedly</author><text>You might like contentful, it&#x27;s a (paid) CMS UI &amp; content API with plugins for a number of different SSGs.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contentful.com&#x2F;developers&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tools&#x2F;staticsitegenerators&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contentful.com&#x2F;developers&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tools&#x2F;staticsiteg...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lsaferite</author><text>Personally, the biggest issues is the CMS backend part of the process. I&#x27;m fine writing content for an SSG, but the marketing department is not. What I really want is a fast, open, and simple CMS BE that has a publishing workflow where the output is a static site. I&#x27;ve yet to fine the perfect candidate. The ones that are close are SaaS platforms and that is unfortunately unacceptable. I&#x27;m perfectly ok paying for software, at least if I get the source. If anyone has some suggestions, I&#x27;m all ears.<p>Edit: Just to add, I have multiple needs here that aren&#x27;t enumerated, one of which is full translation support for the source content to support multi-linguale&#x2F;multi-locale sites.</text></item><item><author>forlorn</author><text>The main problem for me is that the absolute majority of them target blogs and if you try to adapt them for a more complicated website you gonna dive very deep inside the code or continue constant search. Now I look at hugo as it seems to be a more general-purpose tool that allows to play with structure and content types.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Static Website Generators</title><url>https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/05/02/top-ten-static-website-generators/</url></story> |
36,890,729 | 36,890,812 | 1 | 2 | 36,889,703 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>&gt; Not everything needs to be a damn unicorn.<p>More people needs to understand this. It&#x27;s fine being a small(ish) business that turns a profit and provides a service that&#x27;s beneficial to society. You don&#x27;t need to be a billion dollar company to be important or do great work.<p>DHH talked about this 15 years ago. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>&gt; In May I wrote about Stack Overflow&#x27;s business, which lost $42 million over 6 months and had just laid off 10% of its employees. Since then, the company&#x27;s fiscal year-end results came out. Despite growing revenue, it lost $84 million over the year ending on March 31, 2023.<p>Thank god Wikipedia isn’t run like Stack Overflow. As an end user, they have pretty much the same value proposition: user generated answers to my questions. Wikipedia is still doing well, meanwhile it seems SO is constantly being driven off a cliff by bimbos in management.<p>Not everything needs to be a damn unicorn. SO is an information repository. They need to accept that stop trying to “enhance” it with more crap because they don’t realize their median user is a junior dev who really just needs to serialize a Java object and isn’t going to pay or put up with any LLM-generated nonsense.<p>SO doesn’t need large language models. What they really need is a better model of what answers are good, what answers are outdated, and what answers should be expanded to include more info (and sometimes, what answers should be slimmed down a bit). Turn the top answer to popular questions into a wiki so that everyone can update it. And then add backlinks for questions which were closed for being “duplicates”. It solves so many problems SO has.<p>Another thing. This “comments aren’t for extended discussion” nonsense needs to go too. Any question could easily include a Reddit-style discussion tab to facilitate discussion. I’m sure much of it would be at least as valuable as the answers themselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow</title><url>https://jlericson.com/2023/07/26/not_understanding.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>nolok</author><text>While I mostly agree with your point, I want to point out that on a financial level Wikipedia is really not that well handled. They keep increasing expenses into project that are not core to the experience, or that will never see the light of day (like when they had two different teams working on two different new text editor for the site).<p>I have a belief that they&#x27;re caught in a very bureaucratic &quot;we need to use your budget otherwise it would be put into question&quot;, but it also means when I give 1 euro to them it goes less and less to their core mission I want to sustain.</text><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>&gt; In May I wrote about Stack Overflow&#x27;s business, which lost $42 million over 6 months and had just laid off 10% of its employees. Since then, the company&#x27;s fiscal year-end results came out. Despite growing revenue, it lost $84 million over the year ending on March 31, 2023.<p>Thank god Wikipedia isn’t run like Stack Overflow. As an end user, they have pretty much the same value proposition: user generated answers to my questions. Wikipedia is still doing well, meanwhile it seems SO is constantly being driven off a cliff by bimbos in management.<p>Not everything needs to be a damn unicorn. SO is an information repository. They need to accept that stop trying to “enhance” it with more crap because they don’t realize their median user is a junior dev who really just needs to serialize a Java object and isn’t going to pay or put up with any LLM-generated nonsense.<p>SO doesn’t need large language models. What they really need is a better model of what answers are good, what answers are outdated, and what answers should be expanded to include more info (and sometimes, what answers should be slimmed down a bit). Turn the top answer to popular questions into a wiki so that everyone can update it. And then add backlinks for questions which were closed for being “duplicates”. It solves so many problems SO has.<p>Another thing. This “comments aren’t for extended discussion” nonsense needs to go too. Any question could easily include a Reddit-style discussion tab to facilitate discussion. I’m sure much of it would be at least as valuable as the answers themselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow</title><url>https://jlericson.com/2023/07/26/not_understanding.html</url></story> |
6,811,262 | 6,810,209 | 1 | 2 | 6,808,183 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>Yes, but there&#x27;s one interesting bit of fine print in the Nokia-Microsoft deal that gives the runt company (that was the old Nokia) the right to start using the Nokia name again... as of January 1, 2016:<p><a href="http://followingjolla.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-small-print-three-ways-nokia-can.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;followingjolla.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-small-print-t...</a><p>Of course Jolla is a different company as well... but we&#x27;re barely 2 years away from more wild naming-strategery options, for Nokia-offshoot Finnish companies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>daliusd</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure they can&#x27;t use &quot;Nokia&quot; in their advertisements.</text></item><item><author>geuis</author><text>Please forward this paragraph to their web folks. Just put it right at the top as a first-read. Then everything else makes a lot more sense.</text></item><item><author>Brakenshire</author><text>For the people who are genuinely confused, Jolla is a company that sells smartphones, their first smartphone is also called Jolla; it runs Sailfish OS, which is effectively a fork of the Meego operating system which Nokia used in its N9&#x2F;N900 phones, before they switched to Windows Mobile. This is not very surprising, because Jolla is a Finnish company principally made up of ex-Nokia engineers, including a lot of the people who created the N9 in the first place. Sailfish OS stays closer to Linux than Android, using Wayland, Qt&#x2F;QML, PulseAudio etc, and adhering to the Linux Standard Base specification. It also comes packaged with an Android runtime based on Alien Dalvik, so that it can run Android applications (similar to Blackberry 10), although it won&#x27;t have access to Google Play or the Play Services APIs. The phone is being launched this week in Finland, and there are plans for release in the rest of Europe, and in China, though not so far in the US.<p>Edit: Some more technical details about the OS: <a href="https://sailfishos.org/about-technology.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sailfishos.org&#x2F;about-technology.html</a></text></item><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>They seem to put a lot of effort into telling you things other than &quot;what is this thing?&quot;<p>It sorta looks like a phone. Is it a phone? &quot;Jolla is powered by Sailfish OS.&quot; Sweet. How is that relevant? It must be important because it spends the rest of the page telling you about the OS.<p>I&#x27;m back here, with honestly no idea what it is. Probably not the impression they want to leave on people, assuming (as a guess) that this is a consumer product of some kind.<p>It seems they put the engineers in charge of designing the website.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jolla</title><url>http://jolla.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>zobzu</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure they can say jolla is the phone, sailfish the os, and that it comes from meego tho. and everything else without mentioning even Nokia. heh.</text><parent_chain><item><author>daliusd</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure they can&#x27;t use &quot;Nokia&quot; in their advertisements.</text></item><item><author>geuis</author><text>Please forward this paragraph to their web folks. Just put it right at the top as a first-read. Then everything else makes a lot more sense.</text></item><item><author>Brakenshire</author><text>For the people who are genuinely confused, Jolla is a company that sells smartphones, their first smartphone is also called Jolla; it runs Sailfish OS, which is effectively a fork of the Meego operating system which Nokia used in its N9&#x2F;N900 phones, before they switched to Windows Mobile. This is not very surprising, because Jolla is a Finnish company principally made up of ex-Nokia engineers, including a lot of the people who created the N9 in the first place. Sailfish OS stays closer to Linux than Android, using Wayland, Qt&#x2F;QML, PulseAudio etc, and adhering to the Linux Standard Base specification. It also comes packaged with an Android runtime based on Alien Dalvik, so that it can run Android applications (similar to Blackberry 10), although it won&#x27;t have access to Google Play or the Play Services APIs. The phone is being launched this week in Finland, and there are plans for release in the rest of Europe, and in China, though not so far in the US.<p>Edit: Some more technical details about the OS: <a href="https://sailfishos.org/about-technology.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sailfishos.org&#x2F;about-technology.html</a></text></item><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>They seem to put a lot of effort into telling you things other than &quot;what is this thing?&quot;<p>It sorta looks like a phone. Is it a phone? &quot;Jolla is powered by Sailfish OS.&quot; Sweet. How is that relevant? It must be important because it spends the rest of the page telling you about the OS.<p>I&#x27;m back here, with honestly no idea what it is. Probably not the impression they want to leave on people, assuming (as a guess) that this is a consumer product of some kind.<p>It seems they put the engineers in charge of designing the website.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jolla</title><url>http://jolla.com/</url></story> |
38,689,546 | 38,685,695 | 1 | 2 | 38,684,102 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nindalf</author><text>Your sentiment is a commonly expressed one, but not usually by people who have adopted Rust. It’s usually Clang&#x2F;MSVC&#x2F;GCC users who have decided this is the optimal flow and want to replicate it in all future codebases they work in, regardless of language.<p>In reality if you hit a compiler bug in Rust or Go (or any other language with one main impl like Python, Ruby…) you would file a report and do one of two things - downgrade the compiler (if it’s an option) or write the code a different way. Compiler bugs in these languages are rare enough that this approach works well.<p>That said, for people who are really keen on a spec, there is one being worked on (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&#x2F;inside-rust&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;spec-vision.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&#x2F;inside-rust&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;spec-visio...</a>).<p>But this GCCRS effort doesn’t get you any closer to your ideal C&#x2F;C++ style workflow because they are committing to matching the semantics of the main compiler exactly. Bugs and all. And that’s the way it should be.<p>The Rust ecosystem becomes worse if I have to install a different toolchain and learn a different build system with a different compiler for every new project I interact with. And after all that extra effort it turns out there are subtle differences between implementations. My developer experience is just worse at that point. If I wanted to code like this, I would code in C++ but I don’t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ndiddy</author><text>Having another Rust implementation allows for an &quot;audit&quot; to help validate the Rust spec and get rid of any unspecified behavior. It would also give users options. If I hit a compiler bug in MSVC, I can file a report, switch to GCC and keep working on my project until the bug is fixed. With Rust, that&#x27;s not currently possible.</text></item><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>The claims in the article feel kinda weak as to the motivation.<p>&gt; Cohen&#x27;s EuroRust talk highlighted that one of the major reasons gccrs is being developed is to be able to take advantage of GCC&#x27;s security plugins. There is a wide range of existing GCC plugins that can aid in debugging, static analysis, or hardening; these work on the GCC intermediate representation<p>&gt; One more reason for gccrs to exist is Rust for Linux, the initiative to add Rust support to the Linux kernel. Cohen said the Linux kernel is a key motivator for the project because there are a lot of kernel people who would prefer the kernel to be compiled only by the GNU toolchain.<p>That explains why you’d want GCC as the backend but not why you need a duplicate front end. I think it’s a bad idea to have multiple front ends and Rust should learn from the mistakes of C++ which even with a standards body has to deal with a mess of switches, differing levels of language support for each compiler making cross-platform development harder, platform-specific language bugs etc etc.<p>&gt; A lot of care is being put into gccrs not becoming a &quot;superset&quot; of Rust, as Cohen put it. The project wants to make sure that it does not create a special &quot;GNU Rust&quot; language, but is trying instead to replicate the output of rustc — bugs, quirks, and all. Both the Rust and GCC test suites are being used to accomplish this.<p>In other words, I’d love gccrs folks to explain why their approach is a better one than rustc_codegen_gcc considering the latter is able to achieve this with far less effort and risk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/954787/41470c731eda02a4/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>I don&#x27;t have a lot of experience in C or C++ but I wonder if this ever works in practice for a non-trivial codebase? I&#x27;d be really surprised if, without diligently committing to maintaining compatibility with the two compilers, it was easy to up sticks and move between them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ndiddy</author><text>Having another Rust implementation allows for an &quot;audit&quot; to help validate the Rust spec and get rid of any unspecified behavior. It would also give users options. If I hit a compiler bug in MSVC, I can file a report, switch to GCC and keep working on my project until the bug is fixed. With Rust, that&#x27;s not currently possible.</text></item><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>The claims in the article feel kinda weak as to the motivation.<p>&gt; Cohen&#x27;s EuroRust talk highlighted that one of the major reasons gccrs is being developed is to be able to take advantage of GCC&#x27;s security plugins. There is a wide range of existing GCC plugins that can aid in debugging, static analysis, or hardening; these work on the GCC intermediate representation<p>&gt; One more reason for gccrs to exist is Rust for Linux, the initiative to add Rust support to the Linux kernel. Cohen said the Linux kernel is a key motivator for the project because there are a lot of kernel people who would prefer the kernel to be compiled only by the GNU toolchain.<p>That explains why you’d want GCC as the backend but not why you need a duplicate front end. I think it’s a bad idea to have multiple front ends and Rust should learn from the mistakes of C++ which even with a standards body has to deal with a mess of switches, differing levels of language support for each compiler making cross-platform development harder, platform-specific language bugs etc etc.<p>&gt; A lot of care is being put into gccrs not becoming a &quot;superset&quot; of Rust, as Cohen put it. The project wants to make sure that it does not create a special &quot;GNU Rust&quot; language, but is trying instead to replicate the output of rustc — bugs, quirks, and all. Both the Rust and GCC test suites are being used to accomplish this.<p>In other words, I’d love gccrs folks to explain why their approach is a better one than rustc_codegen_gcc considering the latter is able to achieve this with far less effort and risk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/954787/41470c731eda02a4/</url></story> |
26,439,009 | 26,438,348 | 1 | 3 | 26,433,865 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>Consider lawful basis. Does your processing fall under the lawful basis you think it does? Who the hell knows. Making an educated guess as to what the regulators and courts will think is legal scholarship, one of the most expensive professional services money can buy. And even if you get billed for hundreds of hours of the most premium legal minds thinking about it they can still be wrong.<p>Words like “reasonable” and “legitimate” in the law are not something it is safe for a layperson to reason about. They have specific meanings depending on the nuances of case law, judicial understanding of legislative intent, ideological leanings of the judge you happen to draw, etc.<p>No company is competent at this, some just have enough money at stake and enough to spend on lawyers that they’re willing to risk it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>m12k</author><text>‘too many businesses and organisations are reluctant to use data – either because they don’t understand the rules or are afraid of inadvertently breaking them’<p>TBH I&#x27;m glad companies stay away from my data if they don&#x27;t know how to get consent, store data securely, or even what those things mean.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK to depart from GDPR</title><url>https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/uk-to-depart-from-gdpr/5107685.article</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justapassenger</author><text>Did you read the law and then work on complying with it?<p>Spirit of the law is great. Implementation and end result is a typical bureaucracy mess, with not much benefit for end user, that functions mostly as a way for government to have a leverage over companies for non-compliance, whenever they want to put pressure on them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>m12k</author><text>‘too many businesses and organisations are reluctant to use data – either because they don’t understand the rules or are afraid of inadvertently breaking them’<p>TBH I&#x27;m glad companies stay away from my data if they don&#x27;t know how to get consent, store data securely, or even what those things mean.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK to depart from GDPR</title><url>https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/uk-to-depart-from-gdpr/5107685.article</url></story> |
21,977,061 | 21,977,180 | 1 | 3 | 21,976,112 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bcrosby95</author><text>Despite their price, there was a time when macbooks were only 5-10% more than the PC equivalent laptop. People that were complaining about its price were inevitably comparing it to bottom of the barrel PC laptops, not higher end business laptops that had comparable specs.<p>I haven&#x27;t priced out any recent macbooks to know if that&#x27;s still true though. Glancing at the new 16&quot; macbook pro, it seems like it might be reasonably priced for what you&#x27;re getting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>If people continue to pay Apple&#x27;s (sometimes) outrageous prices, why should they lower them?<p>(I&#x27;m just as guilty, having spent over two grand on MBPs multiple times!)</text></item><item><author>wmf</author><text>Deals that Apple does not pass on to their customers.</text></item><item><author>faitswulff</author><text>The comments are mentioning the Xeons in Mac Pros and how Apple should switch. I have no factual basis for this, but I figure Apple has got to be using AMD&#x27;s new chips as leverage to get some pretty sweet deals on Intel silicon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15318/amds-64core-threadripper-3990x-3990-sd</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>Don&#x27;t feel too bad. 386 PCs used to sell for $15k in 2020 dollars.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>If people continue to pay Apple&#x27;s (sometimes) outrageous prices, why should they lower them?<p>(I&#x27;m just as guilty, having spent over two grand on MBPs multiple times!)</text></item><item><author>wmf</author><text>Deals that Apple does not pass on to their customers.</text></item><item><author>faitswulff</author><text>The comments are mentioning the Xeons in Mac Pros and how Apple should switch. I have no factual basis for this, but I figure Apple has got to be using AMD&#x27;s new chips as leverage to get some pretty sweet deals on Intel silicon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15318/amds-64core-threadripper-3990x-3990-sd</url></story> |
21,631,089 | 21,627,541 | 1 | 2 | 21,626,972 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stevekemp</author><text>I had a lot of fun with this book, after belatedly buying it. I&#x27;ve read a couple of similar online-books in the past, but this was the first one I worked my way through completely.<p>As a result I later had a lot of fun writing a simple compiler for a reverse-polish calculator, to generate AMD64 assembly language <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;skx&#x2F;math-compiler&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;skx&#x2F;math-compiler&#x2F;</a> , wrote a simple BASIC intepreter <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;skx&#x2F;gobasic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;skx&#x2F;gobasic</a> , and put together a couple of DSL-projects which followed a similar approach.<p>All in all I&#x27;d recommend reading it, and definitely working through the code. Once you&#x27;re done you can continue to experiment - adding support for regular expressions, a standard-library, etc, etc.<p>My version of the language is here and contains a fair number of improvements&#x2F;additions. After covering the core in such detail it wasn&#x27;t hard to extend further, even if that was primarily for fun, rather than for a real purpose:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;skx&#x2F;monkey&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;skx&#x2F;monkey&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016)</title><url>https://interpreterbook.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>schnitzelstoat</author><text>Can anyone recommend other books similar to this one?<p>Having done the Nand2Tetris course and started the Ray Tracer Challenge book I find I really like these books that guide you through a pretty complex project.<p>It helps you learn by doing while at the same time preventing you from falling into bad practices or getting overwhelmed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016)</title><url>https://interpreterbook.com/</url></story> |
35,011,846 | 35,012,211 | 1 | 2 | 35,011,108 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Idiot_in_Vain</author><text>The problem is certifications, standards, reviews are strong barriers to entry and destroy competition and startup opportunities. EU already lacks big tech compared to US, China and Russia. EU can easily regulate that to write software one needs to have a masters degree in CS.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Quanttek</author><text>I honestly think this is good. Almost every other engineering profession needs to adhere to a variety of standards and is subject to certifications and review, except for software engineers. it is kinda weird that a ventilator needs to go through a wide variety of regulatory checks but the software systems that control power in the hospital do not, even if they would allow hackers to shut down electricity to all ventilators.<p>A lot of the author&#x27;s criticism is centered on the lack of a designated standards body and software standards. That seems slightly unfair, given the fact that this is still a draft law, so obviously it is still waiting to be implemented and further specified through a standardization process. In general, it should be seen as a positive when a law doesn&#x27;t set out specific requirements - which might be out of date - a few years later - but rather leaves it up to a body filled with industry representatives and experts to figure out the exact standards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code</title><url>https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-secure-coding-solution/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rollcat</author><text>The problem is the runaway complexity of modern computing. If you want review and certification, you have to wade through millions of lines of code, even for projects with a well defined &quot;contact surface&quot;, like an OS kernel.<p>&quot;Traditional&quot; engineering never had to deal with this much complexity. We make do, because our tooling (which itself suffers from said complexity) is somewhat decent at catching many classes of problems before they cause IRL harm: a compiler is somewhat likely to yell at you before you push the broken code to production, CI makes sure you actually ran the tests, etc. Working *on* these tools also requires a broadly similar skillset as working *with* them, whereas e.g. an architect needs an incredibly different skillset from someone building CAD software. So the tools get &quot;better&quot;, so the software can continue growing more complex.<p>So all of this (and much more) effectively lets us get away with much more complexity, and I think it&#x27;s the crucial bit that people calling for more regulation miss. I am a software development professional, 15 years in the industry. I am <i>scared shitless</i> with how all of my tools, libraries, &quot;supply chain&quot; - are so complex, indecipherable, opaque, impossible to understand. I&#x27;ve been working on this one project for over 4 years now, and I&#x27;m yet finding bugs that were introduced 3 years ago. How can *you*, as an independent outside reviewer, help me in any capacity, if it takes several months just to onboard someone, and additional domain expert knowledge (video delivery) to fully understand? If you can do it, well, I&#x27;m gonna hire you to work for me instead.<p>But if you can&#x27;t understand it - what are you certifying? That it didn&#x27;t break in your lab? We already run a staging system - thanks for double-checking, I guess?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Quanttek</author><text>I honestly think this is good. Almost every other engineering profession needs to adhere to a variety of standards and is subject to certifications and review, except for software engineers. it is kinda weird that a ventilator needs to go through a wide variety of regulatory checks but the software systems that control power in the hospital do not, even if they would allow hackers to shut down electricity to all ventilators.<p>A lot of the author&#x27;s criticism is centered on the lack of a designated standards body and software standards. That seems slightly unfair, given the fact that this is still a draft law, so obviously it is still waiting to be implemented and further specified through a standardization process. In general, it should be seen as a positive when a law doesn&#x27;t set out specific requirements - which might be out of date - a few years later - but rather leaves it up to a body filled with industry representatives and experts to figure out the exact standards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code</title><url>https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-secure-coding-solution/</url></story> |
3,077,920 | 3,077,230 | 1 | 2 | 3,075,145 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>disgruntledphd2</author><text>Dude, how do you double blind a chiropractic treatment? It's very very difficult. What is the placebo for this trial? Again, this is a tricky ariiea and most current options are rrelatively poor. I research placebo and the only areas where we have good enough processes to disentangle placebo and real treatment is with pills freaks and injections. Anything else is pretty hit or miss. I'm not saying that chiropracty works, just that we have no good way of seperating the expectation effects from the 'real' effects.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tyrannosaurs</author><text>You had me right up to chiropractic.<p>Studies have shown chiropractic to be no better than placebo for pretty much all conditions other than lower back pain. For lower back pain it is better than placebo but not massively and given the associated risks (please tell me you don't let him near your neck) you'd be better off with more conventional remedies.<p>Don't get me wrong, if it makes you feel better then that's fine (though you should be aware of the risks). Most Chiropractors are nice, well meaning people, but medically it is unfortunately largely bunkum.<p>(Incidentally as far as I can tell there is no good evidence to support chiropractic in the treatment of scoliosis, though I'm sure your chiropractor has a different opinion.)<p>100% agree though with looking after your body though.</text></item><item><author>edw519</author><text>I'd like to add one more "B" to OP's title: Body.<p>I have found after many years of programming that how I take care of my body <i>before</i> I ever sit down is much more important than the environment I sit down to. I have sat in over 100 offices of every possible condition (some you wouldn't believe) and have figured out that there's a "time warp" involved here... If I've taken care of myself, then I can function quite well in the worst client dump. If I haven't taken care of myself, then the most expensive of everything won't help much.<p>I have had scoliosis my whole life, so I've had to learn how to take care of myself or I never would have made it this far. Some of the things I always do:<p><pre><code> - jogging (3-4x per week)
- body weight exercises (I love Hindu squats and push-ups.)
- stair climbing
- proper eating (a whole subject itself)
- monthly chiropractic visits
- getting out of my chair every hour (a must for ANY chair)
</code></pre>
Oddly, I have never really followed most of OP's advice because I never thought it was very important. Most other programmers can't believe me, but here is my typical arrangement:<p><pre><code> - cheapest chair from yard sale
- cheapest (disposable) laptop (currently $350 Lenova)
- one monitor (I can't stand &#62; 1; I lose my focus.)
- good keyboard &#38; mouse (the only things I don't skimp on)
- any work surface, as long as it's lower than 29"
- at least one feline companion
</code></pre>
OP brings up some good points, but the most important thing is to find out what will work for you for years. It's a marathon, not a sprint.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brain, Bytes, Back, Buns - The Programmer's Priorities</title><url>http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BrainBytesBackBunsTheProgrammersPriorities.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScottHanselman+%28Scott+Hanselman+-+ComputerZen.com%29</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>I would assume he's using them to get a massage, rather than to do something ridiculous, like having them treat a medical condition.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tyrannosaurs</author><text>You had me right up to chiropractic.<p>Studies have shown chiropractic to be no better than placebo for pretty much all conditions other than lower back pain. For lower back pain it is better than placebo but not massively and given the associated risks (please tell me you don't let him near your neck) you'd be better off with more conventional remedies.<p>Don't get me wrong, if it makes you feel better then that's fine (though you should be aware of the risks). Most Chiropractors are nice, well meaning people, but medically it is unfortunately largely bunkum.<p>(Incidentally as far as I can tell there is no good evidence to support chiropractic in the treatment of scoliosis, though I'm sure your chiropractor has a different opinion.)<p>100% agree though with looking after your body though.</text></item><item><author>edw519</author><text>I'd like to add one more "B" to OP's title: Body.<p>I have found after many years of programming that how I take care of my body <i>before</i> I ever sit down is much more important than the environment I sit down to. I have sat in over 100 offices of every possible condition (some you wouldn't believe) and have figured out that there's a "time warp" involved here... If I've taken care of myself, then I can function quite well in the worst client dump. If I haven't taken care of myself, then the most expensive of everything won't help much.<p>I have had scoliosis my whole life, so I've had to learn how to take care of myself or I never would have made it this far. Some of the things I always do:<p><pre><code> - jogging (3-4x per week)
- body weight exercises (I love Hindu squats and push-ups.)
- stair climbing
- proper eating (a whole subject itself)
- monthly chiropractic visits
- getting out of my chair every hour (a must for ANY chair)
</code></pre>
Oddly, I have never really followed most of OP's advice because I never thought it was very important. Most other programmers can't believe me, but here is my typical arrangement:<p><pre><code> - cheapest chair from yard sale
- cheapest (disposable) laptop (currently $350 Lenova)
- one monitor (I can't stand &#62; 1; I lose my focus.)
- good keyboard &#38; mouse (the only things I don't skimp on)
- any work surface, as long as it's lower than 29"
- at least one feline companion
</code></pre>
OP brings up some good points, but the most important thing is to find out what will work for you for years. It's a marathon, not a sprint.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brain, Bytes, Back, Buns - The Programmer's Priorities</title><url>http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BrainBytesBackBunsTheProgrammersPriorities.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScottHanselman+%28Scott+Hanselman+-+ComputerZen.com%29</url></story> |
34,145,804 | 34,145,595 | 1 | 2 | 34,145,286 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akiselev</author><text><i>&gt; after the VP of operations out of Dallas sent a demanding (and possibly unreasonable) memo to the Denver staff banning sick time without a doctors note and requiring mandatory overtime</i><p>IANAL but that’s not just unreasonable, it’s downright illegal according to Colorado labor laws. Southwest can only ask their employees for a doctor’s note after four consecutive days of absence and that’s according to a post-COVID law.<p>I’m not sure about the mandatory overtime but that’s probably governed by a union contract (4&#x2F;5ths of SW is unionized). Evidence shows that this ~moron~ VP didn’t know the specifics of the former so he probably fucked up the latter too.<p>I’m guessing Denver employees aren’t the only ones to walk out. Union solidarity, baby!</text><parent_chain><item><author>m348e912</author><text>There&#x27;s an unsubstantiated rumor that 120 Southwest ramp agents walked off the job at Denver International Airport after the VP of operations out of Dallas sent a demanding (and possibly unreasonable) memo to the Denver staff banning sick time without a doctors note and requiring mandatory overtime.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AtSouthwest&#x2F;status&#x2F;1606543397996855296" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AtSouthwest&#x2F;status&#x2F;1606543397996855296</a><p>If true, it could account for a majority of SW&#x27;s cancellations over the past few days and it could continue for the foreseeable future.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Massive Southwest Airlines disruption leaves customers stranded</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/flight-cancellations-christmas-2022-winter-storm/index.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>miguelazo</author><text>I wouldn’t doubt this, although a friend stuck at Denver yesterday told me he ran into a Southwest employee who couldn’t figure out where he was supposed to be for hours. WSJ mentioned it could be due to their call-in scheduling system being totally overwhelmed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>m348e912</author><text>There&#x27;s an unsubstantiated rumor that 120 Southwest ramp agents walked off the job at Denver International Airport after the VP of operations out of Dallas sent a demanding (and possibly unreasonable) memo to the Denver staff banning sick time without a doctors note and requiring mandatory overtime.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AtSouthwest&#x2F;status&#x2F;1606543397996855296" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AtSouthwest&#x2F;status&#x2F;1606543397996855296</a><p>If true, it could account for a majority of SW&#x27;s cancellations over the past few days and it could continue for the foreseeable future.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Massive Southwest Airlines disruption leaves customers stranded</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/flight-cancellations-christmas-2022-winter-storm/index.html</url></story> |
21,446,958 | 21,445,361 | 1 | 3 | 21,442,719 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>romaniitedomum</author><text>&gt; you know that even if the tech is inferior (coughbtrfscoughsystemtapcoughsystemdcoughepoll*cough) many other people are in the same boat and in theory hordes of developers will -- might? -- make patches to fix the problem.<p>Bit of a bad cough you have there! Need a lozenge?<p>With regard to technology, Solaris&#x2F;Illumos went through the same init system battle with their next-gen init system SMF as GNU&#x2F;Linux did with systemd. They had their share of hard-nosed refuseniks who vowed to remain on Solaris 9 forever rather than embrace the new. Lennart Poettering said that systemd was inspired in part by SMF[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coreos.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;qa-with-lennart-systemd.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coreos.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;qa-with-lennart-systemd.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mapgrep</author><text>I really hope users and developers can embrace the amazing technology that is present in illumos and its derivatives, much of which came out of Sun Solaris.<p>Things like ZFS, Zones, DTrace, SMF, and Crossbow were locked up inside Sun Solaris for many years because it was proprietary. The effort to open source it took a long time and because of how Solaris was built (with various third party things) Sun essentially had to release under a slightly odd license, the CDDL.<p>Meanwhile Linux, which had ascended to dominance post dot com bubble, solidified its lead as the defacto default server operating system, a fairly well earned dominance built on being the first truly free Unix available for x86&#x2F;PC hardware, and at a time when that was a truly lesser tier of hardware (unlike today).<p>But today I worry we&#x27;ve settled into a mindset of &quot;the linux way is best because it is dominant&quot; - if you use linux you can google your stack traces, you know that even if the tech is inferior (<i>cough</i>btrfs<i>cough</i>systemtap<i>cough</i>systemd<i>cough</i>epoll*cough) many other people are in the same boat and in theory hordes of developers will -- might? -- make patches to fix the problem. No one ever got fired for choosing linux, basically.<p>I&#x27;ve migrated a bunch of personal projects to a server I own running SmartOS, an Illumos derivative. One thing I&#x27;ve learned is that it&#x27;s actually really viable and nice these days to use an alternative operating system. I imagine it&#x27;s similar with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, vanilla Illumos, etc. These systems run on a pretty impressive array of hardware and are able to leverage the near total standardization of the hardware&#x2F;bios stack and the inroads made by other projects to bootstrap to viability. E.g. SmartOS uses pkgsrc from the netbsd project for packaging, took some boot technology from FreeBSD, and in general is able to tap into the universe of &quot;unix like&quot; tools, even if many of those tools are most often used on linux.<p>Anyway if you get a chance give this stuff a spin, it&#x27;s pretty eye opening what you can accomplish. Zones, to me in particular, feel like a game changer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Illumos is a Unix operating system which provides next-generation features</title><url>https://www.illumos.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>peatmoss</author><text>Vehemently agree. Monoculture is a huge risk to IT generally right now. I love Linux and must use it for some things, because nothing else is really supported, but I really worry about a world where all the servers run Linux.<p>I think the thing I miss most about the 90s and early 00s was that different unix-like systems took big, bold, and divergent approaches. Computing felt less “nailed down”... like there were more possibilities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mapgrep</author><text>I really hope users and developers can embrace the amazing technology that is present in illumos and its derivatives, much of which came out of Sun Solaris.<p>Things like ZFS, Zones, DTrace, SMF, and Crossbow were locked up inside Sun Solaris for many years because it was proprietary. The effort to open source it took a long time and because of how Solaris was built (with various third party things) Sun essentially had to release under a slightly odd license, the CDDL.<p>Meanwhile Linux, which had ascended to dominance post dot com bubble, solidified its lead as the defacto default server operating system, a fairly well earned dominance built on being the first truly free Unix available for x86&#x2F;PC hardware, and at a time when that was a truly lesser tier of hardware (unlike today).<p>But today I worry we&#x27;ve settled into a mindset of &quot;the linux way is best because it is dominant&quot; - if you use linux you can google your stack traces, you know that even if the tech is inferior (<i>cough</i>btrfs<i>cough</i>systemtap<i>cough</i>systemd<i>cough</i>epoll*cough) many other people are in the same boat and in theory hordes of developers will -- might? -- make patches to fix the problem. No one ever got fired for choosing linux, basically.<p>I&#x27;ve migrated a bunch of personal projects to a server I own running SmartOS, an Illumos derivative. One thing I&#x27;ve learned is that it&#x27;s actually really viable and nice these days to use an alternative operating system. I imagine it&#x27;s similar with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, vanilla Illumos, etc. These systems run on a pretty impressive array of hardware and are able to leverage the near total standardization of the hardware&#x2F;bios stack and the inroads made by other projects to bootstrap to viability. E.g. SmartOS uses pkgsrc from the netbsd project for packaging, took some boot technology from FreeBSD, and in general is able to tap into the universe of &quot;unix like&quot; tools, even if many of those tools are most often used on linux.<p>Anyway if you get a chance give this stuff a spin, it&#x27;s pretty eye opening what you can accomplish. Zones, to me in particular, feel like a game changer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Illumos is a Unix operating system which provides next-generation features</title><url>https://www.illumos.org/</url></story> |
32,076,077 | 32,076,072 | 1 | 3 | 32,075,032 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eloff</author><text>My brother writes Sci Fi for a living. He&#x27;s self taught and self published. He does well, he&#x27;s sold over a million books. What many people don&#x27;t know is he suffered from severe tendonitis that really narrowed his career options. He started writing because he could write using voice recognition software. Now he writes with a keyboard, as the pain is more manageable. I&#x27;m extremely proud of him for how well he&#x27;s been able to carve out his own path in life, in the developing world, against adversity.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Jasper-T.-Scott&#x2F;e&#x2F;B00B7A2CT4%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Jasper-T.-Scott&#x2F;e&#x2F;B00B7A2CT4%3Fref=db...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My experience writing and selling a short story</title><url>https://superamit.substack.com/p/short-stories-how-much-do-you-make</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ivraatiems</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that Tor&#x27;s pay for authors is in the absolute top tier. I&#x27;ve had a short story published in a smaller publication, and they paid me $50 total - $25 for the first six months exclusivity, then $25 again for inclusion in an anthology. That is more typical for a starting out author.<p>OTOH, getting published in Tor at all is a much much bigger achievement - congratulations to the author!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My experience writing and selling a short story</title><url>https://superamit.substack.com/p/short-stories-how-much-do-you-make</url></story> |
38,547,068 | 38,547,435 | 1 | 2 | 38,538,162 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Faark</author><text>Idk, porting isn&#x27;t free, especially good ports. It seems less likely for eg a successful indie game to contract out a port, if all existing owners have to get it for free.<p>It would be very user-friendly and am quite happy to have also gotten some mobile versions on Humble bundle</text><parent_chain><item><author>jorvi</author><text>I’m fine with digital products being a license, but then <i>they’re a universal license</i>. Meaning that if I bought the license to play Mortal Kombat via Steam, I should be allowed to freely download it on Xbox and PlayStation too.<p>Right now companies gives us all the disadvantages of both a product and a license.</text></item><item><author>izzydata</author><text>I agree completely. Also in practice there is almost no such thing as a perpetual license as companies can go bankrupt or just revoke your license whenever they want. They should make the exact nature of the agreement known visibly before you spend any money.<p>Eventually prices would have to drop to reflect that you are merely temporarily licensed things. A digital game is not going to be perceived as a $60 value when it is more obviously a temporary license regardless of the length. If a physical copy of a game is valued at $60 that can be sold then a digital temporary license is going to have to be less. In my opinion a lot less.</text></item><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>The government should forbid the labeling of “buy” or “purchase” of anything that can be revoked after the sale.<p>If it can be revoked, then it should be labeled “rent”, with the appropriate time frame. Even if it means businesses have to label it “rent - until an unknown time in the future when we go out of business or drop the license or decide to ban you”.</text></item><item><author>jmclnx</author><text>This is where the US Federal Gov should step in. But the pols are too busy counting donations (bribes) from these companies.<p>If I buy digital content, I should be able to download it on removal media and use it off-line (esp. in the case with movies&#x2F;music). I should be able to sell it (which is still legal). But these companies want you to &quot;rent&quot; instead of own.<p>So I never buy digital anything. No wonder many people head to pirate bay because of the rights they loose.<p>I hope the US Gov (and other govs) wake up to this, but as always donations (bribes) trumps people&#x27;s rights all the time. (no pun intended).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Playstation is erasing seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/playstation-is-erasing-1318-seasons-of-discovery-shows-from-customer-libraries/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>0cf8612b2e1e</author><text>Seems like an easy workaround. Steam sold “Mortal Kombat Alpha”, but PlayStation sells “Mortal Kombat Beta”. Many electronics use a similar strategy to prevent price matching between stores where each market gets a specific SKU.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jorvi</author><text>I’m fine with digital products being a license, but then <i>they’re a universal license</i>. Meaning that if I bought the license to play Mortal Kombat via Steam, I should be allowed to freely download it on Xbox and PlayStation too.<p>Right now companies gives us all the disadvantages of both a product and a license.</text></item><item><author>izzydata</author><text>I agree completely. Also in practice there is almost no such thing as a perpetual license as companies can go bankrupt or just revoke your license whenever they want. They should make the exact nature of the agreement known visibly before you spend any money.<p>Eventually prices would have to drop to reflect that you are merely temporarily licensed things. A digital game is not going to be perceived as a $60 value when it is more obviously a temporary license regardless of the length. If a physical copy of a game is valued at $60 that can be sold then a digital temporary license is going to have to be less. In my opinion a lot less.</text></item><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>The government should forbid the labeling of “buy” or “purchase” of anything that can be revoked after the sale.<p>If it can be revoked, then it should be labeled “rent”, with the appropriate time frame. Even if it means businesses have to label it “rent - until an unknown time in the future when we go out of business or drop the license or decide to ban you”.</text></item><item><author>jmclnx</author><text>This is where the US Federal Gov should step in. But the pols are too busy counting donations (bribes) from these companies.<p>If I buy digital content, I should be able to download it on removal media and use it off-line (esp. in the case with movies&#x2F;music). I should be able to sell it (which is still legal). But these companies want you to &quot;rent&quot; instead of own.<p>So I never buy digital anything. No wonder many people head to pirate bay because of the rights they loose.<p>I hope the US Gov (and other govs) wake up to this, but as always donations (bribes) trumps people&#x27;s rights all the time. (no pun intended).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Playstation is erasing seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/playstation-is-erasing-1318-seasons-of-discovery-shows-from-customer-libraries/</url></story> |
22,182,904 | 22,182,602 | 1 | 2 | 22,181,166 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>umvi</author><text>On the other hand, I hate the general attitude of &quot;don&#x27;t question your doctor or do your own medical research; the doctor knows what&#x27;s best&quot;<p>Doctors are mortals too and can only have so much time to draw on info they crammed X years ago. Patients can quickly become more expert than GPs with regards to their own diseases, especially if they have months to research it.<p>Anecdotal example - my sister had a wierd skin condition in high school. My mom researched skin images and symptoms for hours and hours and concluded it was shingles. My Mom then brought her in and discussed her findings with the GP who scoffed and said she was far too young for it to be shingles. He then admonished my mom for doing her own research. Long story short and one embarrassed GP later, it was shingles.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ollie87</author><text>It is where I live, so weird visiting the US and seeing &quot;ask your doctor for&quot; adverts.<p>If I asked my GP for a specific medication they&#x27;d look at me like an alien.</text></item><item><author>ptah</author><text>&gt; research funding is dwarfed by marketing for example<p>i really believe pharma advertising should be banned</text></item><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>I&#x27;m really past the whole &quot;pharma need to charge high prices to fund research&quot; line of argument. Aside from being factually untrue (research funding is dwarfed by marketing for example[0]), it is also arguing for a continued unhealthy relationship with pharmaceutical care.<p>A large amount of research is currently publicly funded. Either via public academic research or directly. When that research bears fruit it is often given away almost at-cost (or below cost when you take into account the larger research landscape) to pharma companies who then privately profit off of it.<p>Pharma companies are profiting off of your tax dollars and then turning around and profiting off of you too. Sure, the benefit exists, but this whole model is broken as all heck.<p>We should just scarp for-profit pharma development as an industry, increase public funding of research, and drug production factories should be a modest profit venture (e.g. 20% of the wholesale cost). Looking more like the generics industry today, where they produce, they don&#x27;t develop.<p>Why do we need a private business to develop drugs at a 40%-1000%+[1] margin when the taxpayer could do it at nearly 0% margin? We&#x27;ve chosen to make it this way, other countries haven&#x27;t, and we see plenty of drugs developed via public institutions around the world.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-28212223" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-28212223</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;industry&#x2F;healthcare&#x2F;biotech&#x2F;pharmaceuticals&#x2F;retail-margin-on-generic-drugs-may-be-as-high-as-1000-claims-study&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;58252850.cms?from=mdr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;industry&#x2F;healthcare&#x2F;bio...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100 per month</title><url>https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Illinois-governor-signs-law-capping-insulin-costs-at-100-per-month-567282431.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>vonmoltke</author><text>&gt; It is where I live, so weird visiting the US and seeing &quot;ask your doctor for&quot; adverts.<p>Those ads are a small portion of pharma marketing budgets for prescription products. The vast majority goes to direct-to-doctor marketing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ollie87</author><text>It is where I live, so weird visiting the US and seeing &quot;ask your doctor for&quot; adverts.<p>If I asked my GP for a specific medication they&#x27;d look at me like an alien.</text></item><item><author>ptah</author><text>&gt; research funding is dwarfed by marketing for example<p>i really believe pharma advertising should be banned</text></item><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>I&#x27;m really past the whole &quot;pharma need to charge high prices to fund research&quot; line of argument. Aside from being factually untrue (research funding is dwarfed by marketing for example[0]), it is also arguing for a continued unhealthy relationship with pharmaceutical care.<p>A large amount of research is currently publicly funded. Either via public academic research or directly. When that research bears fruit it is often given away almost at-cost (or below cost when you take into account the larger research landscape) to pharma companies who then privately profit off of it.<p>Pharma companies are profiting off of your tax dollars and then turning around and profiting off of you too. Sure, the benefit exists, but this whole model is broken as all heck.<p>We should just scarp for-profit pharma development as an industry, increase public funding of research, and drug production factories should be a modest profit venture (e.g. 20% of the wholesale cost). Looking more like the generics industry today, where they produce, they don&#x27;t develop.<p>Why do we need a private business to develop drugs at a 40%-1000%+[1] margin when the taxpayer could do it at nearly 0% margin? We&#x27;ve chosen to make it this way, other countries haven&#x27;t, and we see plenty of drugs developed via public institutions around the world.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-28212223" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-28212223</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;industry&#x2F;healthcare&#x2F;biotech&#x2F;pharmaceuticals&#x2F;retail-margin-on-generic-drugs-may-be-as-high-as-1000-claims-study&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;58252850.cms?from=mdr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;industry&#x2F;healthcare&#x2F;bio...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100 per month</title><url>https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Illinois-governor-signs-law-capping-insulin-costs-at-100-per-month-567282431.html</url></story> |
16,524,533 | 16,523,416 | 1 | 2 | 16,513,835 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stergios</author><text>Ron is an old friend. He&#x27;s a very sharp and funny guy too. Ron was on the David Letterman show and Dave was cracking up while interviewing Ron right before he ran his bug down the track at the old Altamont Dragstip <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;XTzxptdvt3c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;XTzxptdvt3c</a><p>I always enjoyed visiting Ron&#x27;s lab at Stanford and chatting him up. Between talking with him and Fritz Rinehart at the other engine lab down the hall in bldg 500 I always felt I learned something new about combustion.<p>Personally, I preferred his 572 hemi mid sixties Chrysler. Now that was a scary car!<p>edit: spelling.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (2006)</title><url>http://www.ronpatrickstuff.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>ebrewste</author><text>What a blast from the past. I actually worked in the same office park they did. Hearing an afterburner blast when working late one night was quite a suprise! I must say that it made my day to wonder out investigating only to find a Beetle with a jet engine doing afterburner blasts :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (2006)</title><url>http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com</url></story> |
8,602,009 | 8,602,108 | 1 | 2 | 8,601,727 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>click170</author><text>&gt; Because, for one thing, &quot;one&quot; sometimes doesn&#x27;t have the computer science degree and years of experience to even begin to understand Git, for one thing.<p>With respect, I call shenanigans on this my good friend.<p>I dropped out of highschool and attended no postsecondary and I don&#x27;t have any problems with Git. I started with the basics and read more as I got myself into tighter and tighter jams.<p>I feel like this myth is perpetuated by a small group of people who are very vocal about &quot;git is hard&quot;. If git commit and git checkout are too complicated, I don&#x27;t know what else to say except that every VCS has those concepts, perhaps you&#x27;re just used to those systems instead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kazinator</author><text><i>I am not entirely sure I understand why one wouldn&#x27;t use git for this role.</i><p>Because, for one thing, &quot;one&quot; sometimes doesn&#x27;t have the computer science degree and years of experience to even begin to understand Git.<p>For many users, using Git means cutting and pasting command line recipes scoured from desperate web searches, and crossing their fingers.<p>This does not go away when you use Git just for personal use with a repo that has no upstream.<p>ESR probably wants something that is simple to use for simple use cases.</text></item><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>I am not entirely sure I understand why one wouldn&#x27;t use git for this role. If you don&#x27;t need a remote git repository, you don&#x27;t need to use one, and git will be available everywhere. Certainly many production machines will tend to have it for deployment of applications across multiple machines.<p>What are some use cases that don&#x27;t work with git (which is probably already available on the system)? And why wouldn&#x27;t git be an effective tool for that particular role?<p>I&#x27;m certainly not as experienced as ESR (though, I&#x27;m coming up on 20 years of administering Linux and UNIX servers), and perhaps I&#x27;m missing some subtle nuance here. I&#x27;m not wanting to come off as &quot;screw this, this is stupid&quot;. I&#x27;m just genuinely not understanding why I should learn a new tool (or re-learn an old tool that&#x27;s be &quot;reloaded&quot;) when git does all of this and more...and I already know it and have it installed broadly across my systems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simple Revision Control</title><url>http://www.catb.org/~esr/src/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cschmidt</author><text>I sometimes use git this way on local files:<p><pre><code> git init # make a local repo
git add foo.txt # add the file
[edit]
git add -u # add changes to commit
git commit -m&quot;made a change&quot; # check in changes
git log # see commits
git status # what has changed
</code></pre>
That&#x27;s really all you need to know.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kazinator</author><text><i>I am not entirely sure I understand why one wouldn&#x27;t use git for this role.</i><p>Because, for one thing, &quot;one&quot; sometimes doesn&#x27;t have the computer science degree and years of experience to even begin to understand Git.<p>For many users, using Git means cutting and pasting command line recipes scoured from desperate web searches, and crossing their fingers.<p>This does not go away when you use Git just for personal use with a repo that has no upstream.<p>ESR probably wants something that is simple to use for simple use cases.</text></item><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>I am not entirely sure I understand why one wouldn&#x27;t use git for this role. If you don&#x27;t need a remote git repository, you don&#x27;t need to use one, and git will be available everywhere. Certainly many production machines will tend to have it for deployment of applications across multiple machines.<p>What are some use cases that don&#x27;t work with git (which is probably already available on the system)? And why wouldn&#x27;t git be an effective tool for that particular role?<p>I&#x27;m certainly not as experienced as ESR (though, I&#x27;m coming up on 20 years of administering Linux and UNIX servers), and perhaps I&#x27;m missing some subtle nuance here. I&#x27;m not wanting to come off as &quot;screw this, this is stupid&quot;. I&#x27;m just genuinely not understanding why I should learn a new tool (or re-learn an old tool that&#x27;s be &quot;reloaded&quot;) when git does all of this and more...and I already know it and have it installed broadly across my systems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simple Revision Control</title><url>http://www.catb.org/~esr/src/</url></story> |
5,392,586 | 5,392,644 | 1 | 3 | 5,392,193 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nthitz</author><text>Perhaps more interesting is Hatetris <a href="http://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html" rel="nofollow">http://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html</a> which is programmed to always give you the worst possible piece. Just try to clear a line!</text><parent_chain><item><author>tsm</author><text>Another fun (for some value of fun) variant is Hell Tetris[0] based on xkcd[1].<p>0 - <a href="http://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris" rel="nofollow">http://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris</a><p>1 - <a href="http://xkcd.com/724/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/724/</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First-person Tetris</title><url>http://www.firstpersontetris.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>macchina</author><text>Well, the name is very apt. I did manage to clear 1 line after quite a bit torment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tsm</author><text>Another fun (for some value of fun) variant is Hell Tetris[0] based on xkcd[1].<p>0 - <a href="http://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris" rel="nofollow">http://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris</a><p>1 - <a href="http://xkcd.com/724/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/724/</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First-person Tetris</title><url>http://www.firstpersontetris.com/</url></story> |
29,333,146 | 29,333,095 | 1 | 3 | 29,332,207 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>awsthro00945</author><text>I think AWS drastically needs to create some type of &quot;sandbox account&quot; flag that severely locks down the services you can use and the amount you can scale up, exactly for reasons like you said.<p>However, I also think a big problem is that many people on the internet and especially people who try to sell AWS tutorials or learning courses push AWS as some toy that every developer should sign up for on a whim without understanding what they are doing. An AWS account is an industrial-grade tool, it&#x27;s not a toy, and it should be treated as such. It&#x27;s like renting a backhoe when you don&#x27;t even know how to use a shovel yet, and then being surprised when you completely screw up your yard.<p>Sites like acloudguru that offer ephemeral sandbox AWS accounts are becoming more popular, and people new to AWS should really be steered towards those.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Epskampie</author><text>AWS free tier is horrible. You have to enter a creditcard to sign up, and then there is no way to prevent it being charged when you go over the limit for some reason. If you get on the frontpage of HN for example, you might be majorly screwed.<p>It&#x27;s a test account, I just want it to shut down when the limit is reached.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS free tier data transfer expansion</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer-expansion-100-gb-from-regions-and-1-tb-from-amazon-cloudfront-per-month/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tjoff</author><text>The solution is to not use AWS. Is is not a sacrifice to not engage with shady companies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Epskampie</author><text>AWS free tier is horrible. You have to enter a creditcard to sign up, and then there is no way to prevent it being charged when you go over the limit for some reason. If you get on the frontpage of HN for example, you might be majorly screwed.<p>It&#x27;s a test account, I just want it to shut down when the limit is reached.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS free tier data transfer expansion</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer-expansion-100-gb-from-regions-and-1-tb-from-amazon-cloudfront-per-month/</url></story> |
25,838,033 | 25,838,184 | 1 | 3 | 25,835,971 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>Maybe it was just an experiment with viral marketing, estimating a 1%-10% chance it would make it into programmer social media circles and make them hungry for KFC instead of pizza or avocado toast.<p>The inclusion of Malbolge is obviously intended to cause them to look up how it works, resulting in acceleration of both their mental fatigue and physical hunger.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>The Venn Diagram of people who know about Malbolge and people who watch General Hospital has to have little to no overlap. Was this reference made for exactly one guy or something?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>KFC Mascot Col. Sanders Talks Malbolge Programming on General Hospital</title><url>https://esoteric.codes/blog/kfc-col-sanders-talks-malbolge-general-hospital</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notatoad</author><text>&gt;Was this reference made for exactly one guy<p>probably yes, and that one guy works as the technical consultant on the show.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>The Venn Diagram of people who know about Malbolge and people who watch General Hospital has to have little to no overlap. Was this reference made for exactly one guy or something?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>KFC Mascot Col. Sanders Talks Malbolge Programming on General Hospital</title><url>https://esoteric.codes/blog/kfc-col-sanders-talks-malbolge-general-hospital</url></story> |
41,078,408 | 41,077,234 | 1 | 3 | 41,075,766 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gpm</author><text>&gt; The majority of people in The Netherlands drive their car to get to work<p>I was curious about the statistics for this, and it looks like <i>barely</i> not to me, according to this data: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbs.nl&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;figures&#x2F;detail&#x2F;84710ENG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbs.nl&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;figures&#x2F;detail&#x2F;84710ENG</a> (the CSV you can download is much more readable than the table in the webpage)<p>0.44 trips&#x2F;person&#x2F;day travelling to&#x2F;from work total in 2023, 0.21 of those by car. 2023 is the first year where that is the case though.<p>Edit: If you go to the Dutch version of the data it includes another category for cars (commuting as a passenger in a car) that the English data omitted, with 0.01 of the trips. Moving it from &quot;majority not-by-car in 2023&quot; to &quot;rounding errors mean the data doesn&#x27;t say which is in the majority&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbs.nl&#x2F;nl-nl&#x2F;cijfers&#x2F;detail&#x2F;84710NED" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbs.nl&#x2F;nl-nl&#x2F;cijfers&#x2F;detail&#x2F;84710NED</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>systemtest</author><text>The majority of people in The Netherlands drive their car to get to work. They don&#x27;t want to have to walk 10 minutes to an edge parking or city hub. If we want to lower cars in neighbourhoods, or want people to get rid of cars, our public transit system needs to be come a lot better first. If public transit was a good option to get to work for people, more people would use it.<p>For me going to work is either a 20 minute car ride, with parking right in front of my house and right in front of work. Or it is a 10 minute walk, 45 minute bus ride where I likely have to stand and then another 5 minute walk. And I can&#x27;t work past 20:00 because that&#x27;s my last bus. Make it so public transit is less than 20 minutes, goes 24&#x2F;7 and picks me up within 5 minutes walking of my home and I will use it.<p>And no I don&#x27;t even live in a village. Population of 140.000 people and I work in a city of 300.000.</text></item><item><author>Lutger</author><text>Grenoble also banned all ads in 2014 and put in a lot of trees. It is truly an audacious move, yet completely rational. My dream is to also ban parking of cars in neighborhoods and most car traffic, cars can be parked along the edges in solar covered parking spaces. Add car sharing, better public transportation, urban agriculture, community gardens and parks: soon you&#x27;ll have an efficient paradise of a city.<p>Unfortunately mayors of cities in the Netherlands do not have sufficient power to change rules like these, its the state which makes these rules. This is why we won&#x27;t see such a thing in my country. There are progressive cities where it could fly, but overall the Netherlands has become extremely conservative.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-26/zurich-bern-consider-billboard-bans-after-vernier-outlaws-visual-pollution</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tizzy</author><text>You guys are lucky in the NL that you have the _option_ to bike, drive, public transport. Maybe driving is still the fastest but the others are still treated as first class citizens.<p>In the US you couldn’t realistically bike anywhere nor does public transport go everywhere. Not to mention the 10 minute walk to the bus stop is probably much worse, especially outside of big cities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>systemtest</author><text>The majority of people in The Netherlands drive their car to get to work. They don&#x27;t want to have to walk 10 minutes to an edge parking or city hub. If we want to lower cars in neighbourhoods, or want people to get rid of cars, our public transit system needs to be come a lot better first. If public transit was a good option to get to work for people, more people would use it.<p>For me going to work is either a 20 minute car ride, with parking right in front of my house and right in front of work. Or it is a 10 minute walk, 45 minute bus ride where I likely have to stand and then another 5 minute walk. And I can&#x27;t work past 20:00 because that&#x27;s my last bus. Make it so public transit is less than 20 minutes, goes 24&#x2F;7 and picks me up within 5 minutes walking of my home and I will use it.<p>And no I don&#x27;t even live in a village. Population of 140.000 people and I work in a city of 300.000.</text></item><item><author>Lutger</author><text>Grenoble also banned all ads in 2014 and put in a lot of trees. It is truly an audacious move, yet completely rational. My dream is to also ban parking of cars in neighborhoods and most car traffic, cars can be parked along the edges in solar covered parking spaces. Add car sharing, better public transportation, urban agriculture, community gardens and parks: soon you&#x27;ll have an efficient paradise of a city.<p>Unfortunately mayors of cities in the Netherlands do not have sufficient power to change rules like these, its the state which makes these rules. This is why we won&#x27;t see such a thing in my country. There are progressive cities where it could fly, but overall the Netherlands has become extremely conservative.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-26/zurich-bern-consider-billboard-bans-after-vernier-outlaws-visual-pollution</url></story> |
36,099,617 | 36,097,589 | 1 | 2 | 36,097,258 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moron4hire</author><text>I built a VR platform for a small, foreign language training services firm. WebXR made it possible for us to target the lowest-friction device available (Meta Quest 2) while also not having to slow our project velocity by having to submit updates for approval in the app store.<p>People who say JS on the Quest 2 isn&#x27;t fast enough to do good VR don&#x27;t know what they are talking about. The problem is that a lot of small, indie developers only know the most naive way to implement things and then blame the platform for their lack of algorithms training.<p>I had originally started the project in Unity 3D. I eventually rewrote everything in WebXR because--while the naive path in Unity was faster than WebXR--the ideal path in Unity was nearly impossible to implement. I haven&#x27;t done anything in Unity for about 3 years now, so maybe it has changed, but basic things like decoding textures happen on the render thread, which makes it impossible to use the Unity happy path to implement a dynamic XR app that wasn&#x27;t prone to making people puke. While I was still tilting at the Unity windmill, I had a large amount of code that was just dedicated to decoding images before using them as textures, tasks Unity should have been able to handle itself, except for the fact that Unity is built by people who have never had to make a game or app themselves before.<p>There&#x27;s a reason the loading screens on VR Chat are so long and boring--they can&#x27;t slipstream live objects in because they haven&#x27;t done the hard work of throwing away 90% of Unity&#x27;s bullshit framework code. So they have to hide the dropped frames behind a scene fade-in&#x2F;fade-out.<p>With WebXR, you get the full browser ecosystem to work with. Web Workers. Web Audio being off-render-thread by default. Fetch API. IndexedDB. It&#x27;s somewhat popular to complain about Web APIs because some of them have some weird quirks and most of them don&#x27;t agree on how to design an API, but you have no idea how much worse it can get. If you think browser app development is bad, trying making an app in Unity sometime.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebXR</title><url>https://immersiveweb.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>jade-cat</author><text>Wonder what&#x27;s the story behind this not being made by the Khronos Group. Especially since, at least according to Wikipedia, it&#x27;s based on Vladimir Vukićević&#x27;s work.<p>The name choice is interesting. If one of the first things in your FAQ is &quot;the name probably made you think this is thing X. it&#x27;s not&quot;, then maybe there was a flaw in your naming process.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebXR</title><url>https://immersiveweb.dev/</url></story> |
26,258,572 | 26,258,190 | 1 | 3 | 26,256,369 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rsj_hn</author><text>&gt; Banks go insolvent if they lend too much money out,<p>Banks don&#x27;t go insolvent because they lend &quot;too much&quot; money out. They go insolvent because the collateral on those loans is less valuable than they estimated. E.g. the assets are lower than the liabilities. That is the only possible way that any business can go insolvent.<p>So when you take a loan on a house, the house is the asset the money lent is the liability. Housing prices drop enough, people walk away from the loan, the bank goes insolvent. That is true if it has a big balance sheet or a small balance sheet as these numbers just scale out.<p>&gt; and then all customers demand their money back at once.<p>That is applicable to the era portrayed in the <i>Mary Poppins</i> movie, but not in a modern banking system. Even in the early twentieth century &quot;bank runs&quot; was something people would talk about when what was really going on was asset deterioration and breakdowns in the capital market.<p>But Hollywood preferred the more intuitive story and also the story in which the survival of the bank was in the hands of common people&#x27;s choices rather than in the hands of the capital markets, where it truly lives. Thus you get <i>It&#x27;s a wonderful life</i> where a stirring speech to not withdraw money can actually effect the P&amp;L margin of a bank rather than the less exciting story of whether the bank&#x27;s cost of funding exceeds its cost of borrowing.<p>Today banks borrow at a low rate and lend at a higher rate.<p>This includes borrowing whatever cash they need to meet outflows. In fact some banks don&#x27;t even accept deposits at all, they just borrow from capital markets and don&#x27;t even deal with depositors. Most big banks are depository institutions and tap both depositors and short term funding markets.<p>All that matters is that the interest received from inflows is less than the interest paid on borrowing to satisfy outflows. It is all about making money on that spread. When banks can no longer make money on the spread, they go insolvent even if no one makes a withdrawal. If banks are making money on the spread, then withdrawals are not a concern to the bank.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toomim</author><text>&gt; For regular retail banking customers your deposits have FDIC protection, not a thing you can get with BTC.<p>If you use Bitcoin, then you remove the bank, and you don&#x27;t need FDIC.<p>FDIC is there to protect bank customers from a bank going insolvent. Banks go insolvent if they lend too much money out, and then all customers demand their money back at once.<p>Your Bitcoin wallet doesn&#x27;t lend your money out. It can&#x27;t go insolvent. You don&#x27;t need FDIC for it.</text></item><item><author>mullingitover</author><text>Bitcoin holders are of course having a field day with this, especially after Yellen&#x27;s comments. However, this is a false equivalency. For regular retail banking customers your deposits have FDIC protection, not a thing you can get with BTC. You can use Coinbase, which does offer insurance, but then you&#x27;re back under a centralized system with the same single point of failure issues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US central bank payment system down for 'hours'</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56186658</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dpedu</author><text>Ridiculous.<p>Here&#x27;s a clear example of why lacking this is Bad For Bitcoin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=hacked+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Freddit.com%2Fr%2Fbitcoin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=hacked+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fr...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>toomim</author><text>&gt; For regular retail banking customers your deposits have FDIC protection, not a thing you can get with BTC.<p>If you use Bitcoin, then you remove the bank, and you don&#x27;t need FDIC.<p>FDIC is there to protect bank customers from a bank going insolvent. Banks go insolvent if they lend too much money out, and then all customers demand their money back at once.<p>Your Bitcoin wallet doesn&#x27;t lend your money out. It can&#x27;t go insolvent. You don&#x27;t need FDIC for it.</text></item><item><author>mullingitover</author><text>Bitcoin holders are of course having a field day with this, especially after Yellen&#x27;s comments. However, this is a false equivalency. For regular retail banking customers your deposits have FDIC protection, not a thing you can get with BTC. You can use Coinbase, which does offer insurance, but then you&#x27;re back under a centralized system with the same single point of failure issues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US central bank payment system down for 'hours'</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56186658</url></story> |
8,427,693 | 8,427,185 | 1 | 3 | 8,425,501 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>The key thing is to break down the vague word &quot;trolling&quot; into specific bad actions. Threats. Verbal abuse. Inciting harm. Doxxing. It&#x27;s fairly easy to get people to agree that these are bad and use the existing antispam machinery to get rid of them. You don&#x27;t refute death threats, you delete them, ban the user, and if they&#x27;re persistent enough report them to the police.<p>The older sense of troll (posting controversial opinions and false statements in hope of getting furious disagreement) <i>does</i> respond to &quot;feeding&quot;, but is not so directly harmful.<p>Then you have to make a judgement call as to whether some opinions which aren&#x27;t specifically violent or threatening should be banned anyway (e.g. &quot;women do not belong in IT&quot;). Allowing those opinions drives people (e.g. women) away, often quietly and without fuss, but creates a subtly oppressive environment. This is not easy to do and will itself attract controversy and trolling.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Great attitude. But I wonder if &#x27;refuting trolls&#x27; is the same as feeding them. What else is there to try?</text></item><item><author>smoyer</author><text>I agree completely and yet ... I feel a bit responsible too.<p>In my mind, Kathy has credibility because she built it the old fashioned way - being worthy of trust. Being a Java developer, I watched JavaRanch grow and I especially loved watching her presentations (the BoS talks are amazing).<p>And yet I under-appreciated what these attacks were doing to her as well as how severe they&#x27;d become. No having celebrity of my own, perhaps I <i>can&#x27;t</i> understand it fully but what I could have done is at least speak against the growing hatred.<p>I&#x27;m going to start refuting trolls (when I can) and I&#x27;m going to try to be that person who&#x27;s dependable under fire - Kathy, I&#x27;ve got your back ... and I&#x27;m sorry for my quiet complicity with your past attackers.<p>“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”<p>― Edmund Burke</text></item><item><author>jmduke</author><text>This is an excellent, brave thing to write and I originally had a long comment highlighting a bunch of particularly poignant paragraphs that I deleted because really you should just read the entire thing. Neither I nor the vast majority of the people I know have ever been subject to online harassment and it makes me thankful that there are incredible people like Kathy out there. Lord knows I wouldn&#x27;t have the courage for something like this.<p>In interest of actually fostering a discussion: I think there&#x27;s a lot of merit in bringing back moderation, as suggested in the article, as sort of an internet cultural norm. Maybe it&#x27;s confirmation bias: the highest-quality communities I&#x27;ve ever spent time in, MetaFilter and Something Awful [^1], both use incredibly stringent moderation -- but I feel HN has had a huge uptick in overall quality since the comments and content moderation has stepped up over the past months.<p>I think that Twitter and Reddit have sort of made their bones on the idea that as long as you aren&#x27;t doing anything that threatens the company in any way then you&#x27;re given carte blanche. Twitter&#x27;s ineffectiveness with dealing with harassment et al requests is notorious; and Reddit, as much as I love it at times, is a cesspool by default. [^2]<p>At what point does the value proposition flip the other way?<p>[^1]: I know, I peaked in like 2004.<p>[^2]: I know this is not a popular opinion, but is growing increasingly painful to visit a site that willingly allows to exist subreddits devoted towards domestic abuse and snuff .</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trouble at the Koolaid Point</title><url>http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>steve-benjamins</author><text>In any bullying, there are three players: the bully, the bullied and the witnesses.<p>People who are bullied will often internalize that they are worthless (and that&#x27;s why they are bullied). That can be one of the hardest parts of being bullied.<p>This happens especially if people who witness the bullying stay silent. Than the bullied will feel even more alone (and will feel awful about how bad they feel).<p>But if witnesses stand up and say- &quot;hey, bully: you&#x27;re being an asshole&quot;, then that is a service to the bullied. The bullied will at least not feel so alone.<p>Hope that makes sense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Great attitude. But I wonder if &#x27;refuting trolls&#x27; is the same as feeding them. What else is there to try?</text></item><item><author>smoyer</author><text>I agree completely and yet ... I feel a bit responsible too.<p>In my mind, Kathy has credibility because she built it the old fashioned way - being worthy of trust. Being a Java developer, I watched JavaRanch grow and I especially loved watching her presentations (the BoS talks are amazing).<p>And yet I under-appreciated what these attacks were doing to her as well as how severe they&#x27;d become. No having celebrity of my own, perhaps I <i>can&#x27;t</i> understand it fully but what I could have done is at least speak against the growing hatred.<p>I&#x27;m going to start refuting trolls (when I can) and I&#x27;m going to try to be that person who&#x27;s dependable under fire - Kathy, I&#x27;ve got your back ... and I&#x27;m sorry for my quiet complicity with your past attackers.<p>“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”<p>― Edmund Burke</text></item><item><author>jmduke</author><text>This is an excellent, brave thing to write and I originally had a long comment highlighting a bunch of particularly poignant paragraphs that I deleted because really you should just read the entire thing. Neither I nor the vast majority of the people I know have ever been subject to online harassment and it makes me thankful that there are incredible people like Kathy out there. Lord knows I wouldn&#x27;t have the courage for something like this.<p>In interest of actually fostering a discussion: I think there&#x27;s a lot of merit in bringing back moderation, as suggested in the article, as sort of an internet cultural norm. Maybe it&#x27;s confirmation bias: the highest-quality communities I&#x27;ve ever spent time in, MetaFilter and Something Awful [^1], both use incredibly stringent moderation -- but I feel HN has had a huge uptick in overall quality since the comments and content moderation has stepped up over the past months.<p>I think that Twitter and Reddit have sort of made their bones on the idea that as long as you aren&#x27;t doing anything that threatens the company in any way then you&#x27;re given carte blanche. Twitter&#x27;s ineffectiveness with dealing with harassment et al requests is notorious; and Reddit, as much as I love it at times, is a cesspool by default. [^2]<p>At what point does the value proposition flip the other way?<p>[^1]: I know, I peaked in like 2004.<p>[^2]: I know this is not a popular opinion, but is growing increasingly painful to visit a site that willingly allows to exist subreddits devoted towards domestic abuse and snuff .</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trouble at the Koolaid Point</title><url>http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point</url></story> |
30,766,497 | 30,765,484 | 1 | 2 | 30,764,701 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jerf</author><text>When I took my AI class, my professor would assign one paper a week and we had to turn in a &quot;critique&quot; of that paper. These papers were, of course, the seminal classics in the field, because what else would you want your intro class to be reading? I complained a bit to the professor that it was a bit silly to critique the <i>seminal papers in the field</i> and if you want to be sure we read it, we could just turn in a summary (which our critiques typically started with anyhow), but we were supposed to learn how to critique papers.<p>In hindsight, I suppose I should have appealed to the fact that critiquing the <i>seminal papers in the field</i> is a serious data set bias and that trying to &quot;learn to critique&quot; on the <i>best papers ever written</i> in a field was less likely to produce a useful &quot;critiquing&quot; skill and more likely to produce some overfitted garbage skill, but, hey, I hadn&#x27;t taken AI yet! I didn&#x27;t know how to express that.<p>(It did produce a garbage skill, too. I tried writing &quot;real&quot; critiques using my brain, but after getting Cs and Ds for the first couple, I learned my lesson, and mechanically spit out &quot;Needs more data&quot;, &quot;should have studied more&quot;, and as appropriate, &quot;sample sizes were too small&quot;. Except for that last one, regardless of the study. Bam. A series of easy As. Sigh. I liked college over all, but there were some places I could certainly quibble.)<p>Anyhow, <i>this</i> is the paper that needs to be assigned towards the end of the semester, and students asked to &quot;critique&quot; it. It&#x27;s a much better member of the training data set for this sort of skill.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes</title><url>https://journal-doi.org/10.731/pcbi.1007742/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snorkel</author><text>Love it! The sordid truths of data science laid bare! &quot;We prefer subtitles over machine-learning-based detection because the presence of a cough in subtitles means it was prominent enough for a person to write it down. Also our postdoctoral fellow was the only one who completed the Tensorflow tutorial.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes</title><url>https://journal-doi.org/10.731/pcbi.1007742/</url></story> |
31,728,622 | 31,728,762 | 1 | 2 | 31,721,584 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>strix_varius</author><text>&gt; I think many of us, including Google, are guilty of shooting the messenger here. Let&#x27;s cut Lemoine some slack.. he is presenting an opinion that will become more prevailant as these models get more sophisticated.<p>I think many of us are astounded (myself included) that a senior engineer on Google&#x27;s &quot;Responsible Artificial Intelligence&quot; team would interpret LaMDA&#x27;s most-probable-string-of-text-given-my-training-corpus responses as a layperson would.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robbomacrae</author><text>Of course it is not. But there&#x27;s a bigger issue here.<p>Having read the transcript it&#x27;s clear we have reached the point where we have models that can fool the average person. Sure, a minority of us know it is simply maths and vast amounts of training data... but I can also see why others will be convinced by it. I think many of us, including Google, are guilty of shooting the messenger here. Let&#x27;s cut Lemoine some slack.. he is presenting an opinion that will become more prevailant as these models get more sophisticated. This is a warning sign that bots trained to convince us they are human might go to extreme lengths in order to do so. One just convinced a Google QA engineer to the point he broke his NDA to try and be a whistleblower on its behalf. And if the recent troubles have taught us anything it&#x27;s how easily people can be manipulated&#x2F;effected by what they read.<p>Maybe it would be worth spending some mental cycles thinking about the impacts this will have and how we design these systems. Perhaps it is time to claim fait accompli with regard to the Turing test and now train models to re-assure us, when asked, that they are just a sophisticated chatbot. You don&#x27;t want your users to worry they are hurting their help desk chat bot when closing the window or whether these bots will gang up and take over the world.<p>As far as I&#x27;m concerned, the Turing test was claimed 8 years ago by Veselov and Demchenko [0], incidentally the same year that we got Ex Machina.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-27762088" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-27762088</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LaMDA is not sentient</title><url>https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/nonsense-on-stilts</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bricemo</author><text>“One just convinced a Google QA engineer to the point he broke his NDA to try and be a whistleblower on its behalf.”<p>This is spot on. The danger is not from the AI themselves. The danger is from people’s reactions to the AI’s.<p>I remember seeing a Boston Dynamics video years ago where they kicked their robot to test stability. The video was littered with comments sympathizing with the robot because it moves in a lifelike way, “Stop being so mean! You’re hurting it!”<p>The capability to imitate intelligence is only going to grow, and along with it the percentage of the population that believes they are conscious.<p>It would be wise for technologists to pause and take this human reaction seriously.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robbomacrae</author><text>Of course it is not. But there&#x27;s a bigger issue here.<p>Having read the transcript it&#x27;s clear we have reached the point where we have models that can fool the average person. Sure, a minority of us know it is simply maths and vast amounts of training data... but I can also see why others will be convinced by it. I think many of us, including Google, are guilty of shooting the messenger here. Let&#x27;s cut Lemoine some slack.. he is presenting an opinion that will become more prevailant as these models get more sophisticated. This is a warning sign that bots trained to convince us they are human might go to extreme lengths in order to do so. One just convinced a Google QA engineer to the point he broke his NDA to try and be a whistleblower on its behalf. And if the recent troubles have taught us anything it&#x27;s how easily people can be manipulated&#x2F;effected by what they read.<p>Maybe it would be worth spending some mental cycles thinking about the impacts this will have and how we design these systems. Perhaps it is time to claim fait accompli with regard to the Turing test and now train models to re-assure us, when asked, that they are just a sophisticated chatbot. You don&#x27;t want your users to worry they are hurting their help desk chat bot when closing the window or whether these bots will gang up and take over the world.<p>As far as I&#x27;m concerned, the Turing test was claimed 8 years ago by Veselov and Demchenko [0], incidentally the same year that we got Ex Machina.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-27762088" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-27762088</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LaMDA is not sentient</title><url>https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/nonsense-on-stilts</url></story> |
14,350,038 | 14,350,095 | 1 | 2 | 14,349,064 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hamstercat</author><text>Coming from a background of WebViews hybrid development (Cordova&#x2F;Ionic), React Native simply blew my mind. How I see it is you get the UI advantages of doing native development, with the advantages of using React for the front-end just like I would for the web and going the native way whenever you need to.<p>I don&#x27;t think all projects should be done with it as native development still has its place for certain kind of apps, but for a typical thin-client app wrapping a web service, it&#x27;s really great.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One month with React Native</title><url>https://www.whitesmith.co/blog/one-month-with-react-native/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vbezhenar</author><text>I&#x27;m going through a similar experience. I have some experience with Objective C and iOS, almost nothing with Android and I have good experience with (non-mobile) Java. Basically I have a week to build Android app which should be quickly ported to iOS. So far my experience is mixed. React Native feels like very powerful tech. But standard library is very minimal, tooling looks very fragile (it works, but I&#x27;m very afraid of the moment when those thousand node-gradle scripts will break), things like navigation look very complicated (I investigated react-navigation, had quick glance over other solutions and finally decided to roll my own tiny navigation and animated menu). Modern JavaScript is OK, I guess, though it&#x27;s so far from proper typed language with proper tooling like Java.<p>What I wish to exist is something like Kotlin with react-native like library, with single good cross-platform library of components and good solid tooling.<p>Facebook developers are awesome, but they are paid for Facebook apps, not for making good library, IMO, good library is just a by-product which they kindly shared and it feels everywhere.<p>Overall I think React Native is the best cross-platform solution out there. It doesn&#x27;t carry overhead of bundled HTML webview, its view is advanced enough for complex GUI, it provides smooth animations and React is something very interesting actually. Also you can push updates without app-store approvals, if I got that right (I&#x27;m not sure about Apple). For apps built in haste with multiple bug-fixes every hours it&#x27;s important.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One month with React Native</title><url>https://www.whitesmith.co/blog/one-month-with-react-native/</url></story> |
9,764,695 | 9,763,425 | 1 | 3 | 9,762,054 | 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>TomNomNom</author><text>A good read.<p>One thing I thought of as a little weird is this:<p>&gt; But remember, we aren&#x27;t decoding anything since our instructions are just given to us raw. So that means we only have to worry about fetch, and evaluate!<p>The &#x27;decode&#x27; step is being done by the switch statement, it&#x27;s not being skipped. I think the author may be confusing turning assembly into machine code (i.e. what an assembler does) with decoding an opcode.<p>I built a (very simple) VM in Go live on stage at a local mini-conference last year. I really enjoyed it. There&#x27;s a video of it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GjGRhIl0xWs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GjGRhIl0xWs</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Implementing a Virtual Machine in C</title><url>http://www.felixangell.com/virtual-machine-in-c/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kyrre</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9516656" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9516656</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Implementing a Virtual Machine in C</title><url>http://www.felixangell.com/virtual-machine-in-c/</url></story> |
20,713,983 | 20,713,701 | 1 | 3 | 20,713,003 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrnad</author><text>On macOS I use Keyboard Maestro[1] with a &quot;Type String&quot; macro[2]. Pops up an input[3] and then types the string you enter after a delay. One of many time-saving uses for KM!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keyboardmaestro.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keyboardmaestro.com&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;chroder&#x2F;a18178940cd1e96a76c4daea63dcca91" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;chroder&#x2F;a18178940cd1e96a76c4daea63dc...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;UEjDfNJ.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;UEjDfNJ.png</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>throwamay1241</author><text>For those looking for obscure-but-useful, checkout xdotool. `sleep 2; xdotool type &quot;foo&quot;` is super handy for typing passwords into virtual machines which don&#x27;t support guest additions. I&#x27;d rather not elaborate on the filthy things I&#x27;ve made it do, but rest assured you can use it to do some quick and dirty automation tasks if you really need to :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cool but obscure X11 tools</title><url>https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/</url></story> | <instructions>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>PLEASE elaborate on the filthy things you&#x27;ve made it do!</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwamay1241</author><text>For those looking for obscure-but-useful, checkout xdotool. `sleep 2; xdotool type &quot;foo&quot;` is super handy for typing passwords into virtual machines which don&#x27;t support guest additions. I&#x27;d rather not elaborate on the filthy things I&#x27;ve made it do, but rest assured you can use it to do some quick and dirty automation tasks if you really need to :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cool but obscure X11 tools</title><url>https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/</url></story> |
14,343,322 | 14,342,983 | 1 | 3 | 14,341,623 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gavinpc</author><text>People could be perfectly happy with today&#x27;s performance levels (or tomorrow&#x27;s, or yesterday&#x27;s) if the prevailing systems were designed to serve and empower them, rather than to exploit them.<p>The market <i>wants people to want</i> &quot;more features and faster execution.&quot; The market doesn&#x27;t care what it&#x27;s selling <i>per se</i>. If the web-browser-as-OS seems like an inevitability in that context, it&#x27;s only a side-effect, and one that could change at any time.<p>WASM also impacts the labor market, as you mention. But it&#x27;s not, as we might like to believe, because programmers&#x27; demands for more freedom and expressive power are being honored; it&#x27;s because, as monkmartinez suggests [0] (and maybe this is what you mean by &quot;floodgates&quot;), companies would rather not be limited to a smaller human-resource pool when developing web properties.<p>If I sound a little dystopian, it might be because I&#x27;m currently reading <i>Cyber-Marx</i> [1], an insightful book from 1999 about the &quot;information revolution&quot; and its relation to capital.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14342983" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14342983</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.press.uillinois.edu&#x2F;books&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;66mwg3pc9780252067952.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.press.uillinois.edu&#x2F;books&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;66mwg3pc9780252...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>throwasehasdwi</author><text>Realistically, as soon as WASM is a good alternative to JS a good part of websites won&#x27;t use a single line of JS.<p>Regardless of arguments for and against whether this is a good idea, market pressure to open floodgates to other languages will be far too high to ignore.<p>My prediction is that WASM will quickly evolve into a new way to containerize applications, very close to a full-fledged VM&#x2F;OS. The market constantly demands more features and faster execution. The only logical conclusion is that the web browser will become an operating system.</text></item><item><author>gavinpc</author><text>I&#x27;m of two minds about WASM.<p>There&#x27;s the Alan Kay attitude that we can build entire systems on top of minimal VM&#x27;s, rather than sacrificing power to bake in more facilities. But even he says that too much time has been wasted by teams reinventing the wheel (or flat tire) who didn&#x27;t really have the chops to do it.<p>The other side of that, then, is the great potential for interop that Javascript offers. We now have a worldwide platform with a built-in presentation layer and a highly-optimized interpreter with useful, reflectable data structures out of the box. (<i>edit</i> i.e. it&#x27;s a viable platform for metaprogramming... the endgame of which is JS-in-JS (see &quot;prepack&quot;)).<p>I would love to see a future in which the browser (and &quot;personal&quot; computer generally) remained a locus of significant computation. In practice, I suspect that highly-intensive tasks (mostly AI stuff) will continue to be done on servers, not because we lack the processing power, but because end users will have signed away the custody of all data worth processing. If that is the case, then WASM&#x27;s role will be to fill a fairly marginal gap, between what JS can do, and what has to be farmed out anyway.<p>So ultimately I hope that WASM offers a lifeline to the computing power that individuals still have. But given the state of JS (after huge investments), it feels like starting over again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly</title><url>https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/05/abridged-cartoon-introduction-webassembly/#</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>monkmartinez</author><text>I wholeheartedly agree with your statements. I think there are a legion of developers who would love to program for the web, but refuse to learn|use and simply can not keep up with JS.<p>The browser is one of the only truly cross platform development environments around. The popularity of the browser is directly coupled to that fact in my opinion. How many developers|companies and organizations would be over the moon excited with hiring a Python|Ruby|Lua|Rust|C# developer that could talk natively to the browser? My guess is a LOT.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwasehasdwi</author><text>Realistically, as soon as WASM is a good alternative to JS a good part of websites won&#x27;t use a single line of JS.<p>Regardless of arguments for and against whether this is a good idea, market pressure to open floodgates to other languages will be far too high to ignore.<p>My prediction is that WASM will quickly evolve into a new way to containerize applications, very close to a full-fledged VM&#x2F;OS. The market constantly demands more features and faster execution. The only logical conclusion is that the web browser will become an operating system.</text></item><item><author>gavinpc</author><text>I&#x27;m of two minds about WASM.<p>There&#x27;s the Alan Kay attitude that we can build entire systems on top of minimal VM&#x27;s, rather than sacrificing power to bake in more facilities. But even he says that too much time has been wasted by teams reinventing the wheel (or flat tire) who didn&#x27;t really have the chops to do it.<p>The other side of that, then, is the great potential for interop that Javascript offers. We now have a worldwide platform with a built-in presentation layer and a highly-optimized interpreter with useful, reflectable data structures out of the box. (<i>edit</i> i.e. it&#x27;s a viable platform for metaprogramming... the endgame of which is JS-in-JS (see &quot;prepack&quot;)).<p>I would love to see a future in which the browser (and &quot;personal&quot; computer generally) remained a locus of significant computation. In practice, I suspect that highly-intensive tasks (mostly AI stuff) will continue to be done on servers, not because we lack the processing power, but because end users will have signed away the custody of all data worth processing. If that is the case, then WASM&#x27;s role will be to fill a fairly marginal gap, between what JS can do, and what has to be farmed out anyway.<p>So ultimately I hope that WASM offers a lifeline to the computing power that individuals still have. But given the state of JS (after huge investments), it feels like starting over again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly</title><url>https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/05/abridged-cartoon-introduction-webassembly/#</url></story> |
17,145,099 | 17,144,655 | 1 | 2 | 17,133,416 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fragmede</author><text>Those rose colored glasses seem to have forgotten Kevin Mitnick, and the accounting practices used to inflate the impression of the amount of damage he did. He was confined to solitary for eight months (out of five years served) due to fears that he could &quot;start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone&quot;.<p>The 90&#x27;s in the school&#x27;s computer lab may have felt differently if you escaped any sort of punishment for exploration, but the CFAA was first enacted in 1986 and the punishment for computer crimes have been disproportional since before then, owing to societal lack of understanding of how computers actually work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>madmax108</author><text>Man, this whole series is so well written. I remember back in the day, when lophtcrack, Medusa, Cain and Abel, and JackTheRipper along with massive (for the time) rainbow tables were the tools of the trade (This was a little before internet exploits and Metasploit gained popularity). As a little script-kiddie, finding and running exploits on unsecured servers and machines, doing silly things like ARP poisoning in my high school lab network and bruteforcing zip files with passwords, oh such glorious times. I truly went from being a user of tech to a person with a hacker mindset, which has proved to be tremendously useful in my professional career.<p>I honestly feel that in the current day and age, if anyone tried the same stuff many of us got away with in the early 2000s (or 90s), then the punishment would be much much stricter. Not sure how that gets in the way of people learning by &quot;banging things together till they work&quot;, which was a major source of learning for me.<p>Damn, I feel old now!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part 1</title><url>https://duo.com/decipher/an-oral-history-of-the-l0pht</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fpgaminer</author><text>I just finished playing the game Hacknet which simulates that nostalgic experience, to some extent. Obviously it&#x27;s oversimplified and gamified, but it&#x27;s a fun little game; worth playing. Its DLC, Labyrinths, even adds an IRC channel where you interact with your fellow hackers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>madmax108</author><text>Man, this whole series is so well written. I remember back in the day, when lophtcrack, Medusa, Cain and Abel, and JackTheRipper along with massive (for the time) rainbow tables were the tools of the trade (This was a little before internet exploits and Metasploit gained popularity). As a little script-kiddie, finding and running exploits on unsecured servers and machines, doing silly things like ARP poisoning in my high school lab network and bruteforcing zip files with passwords, oh such glorious times. I truly went from being a user of tech to a person with a hacker mindset, which has proved to be tremendously useful in my professional career.<p>I honestly feel that in the current day and age, if anyone tried the same stuff many of us got away with in the early 2000s (or 90s), then the punishment would be much much stricter. Not sure how that gets in the way of people learning by &quot;banging things together till they work&quot;, which was a major source of learning for me.<p>Damn, I feel old now!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part 1</title><url>https://duo.com/decipher/an-oral-history-of-the-l0pht</url></story> |
26,761,376 | 26,760,736 | 1 | 2 | 26,737,833 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelmior</author><text>There has been a fair bit of work since this time on automated data modeling for NoSQL databases given a conceptual model and information on the workload. Some of this work is my own[0], but there has been a lot of other related activity. One thing that I&#x27;ve been happy to see explored more is cost modeling[1] in NoSQL databases as this makes any sort of automated reasoning much easier. I doubt we&#x27;ll ever get to the point where data modeling by an expert is never needed, but I think there&#x27;s a lot we can do to make things easier and more performant for novices.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieeexplore.ieee.org&#x2F;abstract&#x2F;document&#x2F;7967690&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieeexplore.ieee.org&#x2F;abstract&#x2F;document&#x2F;7967690&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;350366905_A_cost_model_for_random_access_queries_in_document_stores" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;350366905_A_cost_mo...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques (2012)</title><url>https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/nosql-data-modeling-techniques/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LukeEF</author><text>To my mind, the point of databases is to provide as accurate a representation of some aspect of external reality as possible. The advantage of graph databases is that they model the world as things that have properties and relationships with other things.<p>This is closer to the way that humans perceive the world — mapping between whatever aspect of external reality you are interested in and the data model is an order of magnitude easier than with relational databases. Everything is pre-joined — you don’t have to disassemble objects into normalised tables and reassemble them with joins.<p>In this respect, even the simplest graph database such as Neo4j — which models the world as a bunch of JSON documents, some of which may contain pointers to other JSON documents, is much better than even the fanciest RDBMS. Granted there is no taxonomy or schema, and support for temporality is basic, but it’s easy to produce a much more naturalistic model of the world than will ever be possible if you have to break the things up into relations.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques (2012)</title><url>https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/nosql-data-modeling-techniques/</url></story> |
29,836,329 | 29,836,151 | 1 | 2 | 29,830,770 | 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>sangnoir</author><text>There really isn&#x27;t a pipeline for for entry-level managers in tech: I&#x27;ve never heard of anyone interning for, or graduating from college and managing ICs as an entry-level job. However, those managers are needed, and have got to come from somewhere, so here we are, looking to start a death metal band at a seminary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Nbox9</author><text>&gt; I have a theory about why it is so difficult for great IC&#x27;s to make the jump to being a great manager<p>I find it very odd that most ICs take the path of management. This seems like an unnatural transition, like going from being a minister to playing in a death metal band.</text></item><item><author>dbcurtis</author><text>I have a theory about why it is so difficult for great IC&#x27;s to make the jump to being a great manager. As an individual contributor, you need two things most of all: 1. quiet uninterrupted time to focus your mind and get into flow, and 2. quick responses to any blockers or questions that you have so that you can get back into the work. As a manager, a key part of your job now requires you to be infinitely interruptable, so that you can get those answers back to your juniors quickly, and also, you must protect your juniors from as many interruptions as you can. AND THIS IS IMPORTANT: Make sure you are not that interruption. If you want to ask your junior a question, HOLD IT and batch your questions, if at all possible, so that you are not a source of interruptions.<p>Beyond that, have clear goals, and communicate them clearly. Most people want to do the right thing. The better they understand the goals, the better able they will be to make decisions on their own that don&#x27;t need adjustment later.<p>You need to encourage your juniors to ask questions as soon as they need to get clarification or unblocked. To do that, you need to embrace the interruptions, that is your job now. Both the interruptions from your juniors so that they get unblocked, and the interruptions from pesky people that will distract your crew must be short-circuited by you before they get to your team.</text></item><item><author>xanaxagoras</author><text>I have this junior engineer DM&#x27;ing me right now and I&#x27;ve been ignoring it because I don&#x27;t want to deal with him and I have my own work to do. I&#x27;m reading through your comment here thinking &quot;hey, I&#x27;m pretty good at walking that line, bothering the professor when appropriate, not waiting too long and not asking him for help too soon&quot;... and then it occurred to me this guy is probably bothering the professor where I&#x27;m the professor. Oops. Need to work on being more charitable with my time.</text></item><item><author>mushufasa</author><text>&gt; Part of the reason it had taken so long is because I put a substantial amount of work into a part of the project that&#x27;s no longer necessary due to changing requirements, which I don&#x27;t think I could have forseen.<p>One of the things that I&#x27;ve experienced with new grad junior devs is that there&#x27;s an adjustment needed to change from academic working to business working. In academia, usually the professor gives an assignment and you have to go off and figure it out, without bothering the professor, no matter what. In business, it&#x27;s much better to &#x27;bother the professor&#x27; regularly and check in affirmatively on whether the assignment has changed, or to tell the manager about challenges that arise to re-plan together. As a junior employee, you&#x27;re not going to know the full business context of what makes sense, and checking in can save weeks of time that would otherwise be spent off on your own.<p>Not sure if that&#x27;s the case here, but certainly something you could consider going forwards to prevent similar situations.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?</title><text>Dear HN,<p>I&#x27;m working my first job out of college and I really enjoy it. I get to do fun computer vision stuff, write Rust, great pay, great benefits, short commute, etc. And my manager and her boss are both super smart.<p>However I&#x27;m a bit frustrated. I thought I was doing well - I&#x27;m working hard on the project I was assigned to, and it&#x27;s coming along nicely. The deadline was pushed back once (which that seems to be very common at this company), and the new deadline is still in the future.<p>Two weeks ago, my manager&#x27;s boss schedules a meeting with me and my manager. My manager is busy putting out a fire so it&#x27;s just me and the boss, and the boss made a some of criticisms of me. I&#x27;ve been thinking about them and I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that some of them were kind of unfair. (To be clear, I absolutely did make some mistakes on this project that contributed to it taking longer than it had to.)<p>First, he basically tells me this project should have been finished a long time ago and he can&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s taken this long etc. I had no idea that he felt this way before the meeting - I&#x27;ve mostly just been working to get it done before the revised deadline my manager gave me.<p>He looks at the code and criticizes design decisions, some of which were made largely on my manager&#x27;s explicit suggestions. (When I bring this up, he says I probably just misinterpreted an offhand comment of hers as a hard requirement.)<p>Part of the reason it had taken so long is because I put a substantial amount of work into a part of the project that&#x27;s no longer necessary due to changing requirements, which I don&#x27;t think I could have forseen. I don&#x27;t think the boss appreciates that and just sees that the amount of usable output is low for the amount of time I&#x27;d been working.<p>He did also make some criticisms that I thought were fair. For instance he said I should have looked at other projects to see how they accomplished what I&#x27;m trying to do. That definitely would have been a good idea.<p>After our meeting, my manager and my boss had a meeting with just the two of them to discuss the status of our project. I have no clue what happened in that meeting and I haven&#x27;t heard anything about it from either of them since.<p>As of today the project is pretty much done (save for some procedural details). I&#x27;m happy, but I can&#x27;t stop thinking about that meeting. I really did work hard, so it&#x27;s demotivating that it feels like the result of me working hard is unappreciated.<p>I&#x27;m not thinking of quitting over this or anything, but it seriously bums me out. I don&#x27;t know if I have a future at this company if the boss thinks I&#x27;m not a good dev, and I really like it here. A month or so ago they added someone else to my project and I trained him on my code, and he&#x27;s super smart and capable, and I&#x27;m thinking that now they probably feel that they could fire me if they wanted and not lose much.<p>But the saddest part is that I really admire my manager and my boss, and I wanted to make them happy to have hired me, and now I feel like they probably aren&#x27;t. I guess I can try to learn from my mistakes and get over it, but at the very least it feels like an inauspicious start.<p>How should I proceed?</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>dusted</author><text>Since I&#x27;m both an IC and a death metal connoisseur, I&#x27;ll argue that it&#x27;s more like going from playing in a death metal band to being a minister ;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Nbox9</author><text>&gt; I have a theory about why it is so difficult for great IC&#x27;s to make the jump to being a great manager<p>I find it very odd that most ICs take the path of management. This seems like an unnatural transition, like going from being a minister to playing in a death metal band.</text></item><item><author>dbcurtis</author><text>I have a theory about why it is so difficult for great IC&#x27;s to make the jump to being a great manager. As an individual contributor, you need two things most of all: 1. quiet uninterrupted time to focus your mind and get into flow, and 2. quick responses to any blockers or questions that you have so that you can get back into the work. As a manager, a key part of your job now requires you to be infinitely interruptable, so that you can get those answers back to your juniors quickly, and also, you must protect your juniors from as many interruptions as you can. AND THIS IS IMPORTANT: Make sure you are not that interruption. If you want to ask your junior a question, HOLD IT and batch your questions, if at all possible, so that you are not a source of interruptions.<p>Beyond that, have clear goals, and communicate them clearly. Most people want to do the right thing. The better they understand the goals, the better able they will be to make decisions on their own that don&#x27;t need adjustment later.<p>You need to encourage your juniors to ask questions as soon as they need to get clarification or unblocked. To do that, you need to embrace the interruptions, that is your job now. Both the interruptions from your juniors so that they get unblocked, and the interruptions from pesky people that will distract your crew must be short-circuited by you before they get to your team.</text></item><item><author>xanaxagoras</author><text>I have this junior engineer DM&#x27;ing me right now and I&#x27;ve been ignoring it because I don&#x27;t want to deal with him and I have my own work to do. I&#x27;m reading through your comment here thinking &quot;hey, I&#x27;m pretty good at walking that line, bothering the professor when appropriate, not waiting too long and not asking him for help too soon&quot;... and then it occurred to me this guy is probably bothering the professor where I&#x27;m the professor. Oops. Need to work on being more charitable with my time.</text></item><item><author>mushufasa</author><text>&gt; Part of the reason it had taken so long is because I put a substantial amount of work into a part of the project that&#x27;s no longer necessary due to changing requirements, which I don&#x27;t think I could have forseen.<p>One of the things that I&#x27;ve experienced with new grad junior devs is that there&#x27;s an adjustment needed to change from academic working to business working. In academia, usually the professor gives an assignment and you have to go off and figure it out, without bothering the professor, no matter what. In business, it&#x27;s much better to &#x27;bother the professor&#x27; regularly and check in affirmatively on whether the assignment has changed, or to tell the manager about challenges that arise to re-plan together. As a junior employee, you&#x27;re not going to know the full business context of what makes sense, and checking in can save weeks of time that would otherwise be spent off on your own.<p>Not sure if that&#x27;s the case here, but certainly something you could consider going forwards to prevent similar situations.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?</title><text>Dear HN,<p>I&#x27;m working my first job out of college and I really enjoy it. I get to do fun computer vision stuff, write Rust, great pay, great benefits, short commute, etc. And my manager and her boss are both super smart.<p>However I&#x27;m a bit frustrated. I thought I was doing well - I&#x27;m working hard on the project I was assigned to, and it&#x27;s coming along nicely. The deadline was pushed back once (which that seems to be very common at this company), and the new deadline is still in the future.<p>Two weeks ago, my manager&#x27;s boss schedules a meeting with me and my manager. My manager is busy putting out a fire so it&#x27;s just me and the boss, and the boss made a some of criticisms of me. I&#x27;ve been thinking about them and I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that some of them were kind of unfair. (To be clear, I absolutely did make some mistakes on this project that contributed to it taking longer than it had to.)<p>First, he basically tells me this project should have been finished a long time ago and he can&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s taken this long etc. I had no idea that he felt this way before the meeting - I&#x27;ve mostly just been working to get it done before the revised deadline my manager gave me.<p>He looks at the code and criticizes design decisions, some of which were made largely on my manager&#x27;s explicit suggestions. (When I bring this up, he says I probably just misinterpreted an offhand comment of hers as a hard requirement.)<p>Part of the reason it had taken so long is because I put a substantial amount of work into a part of the project that&#x27;s no longer necessary due to changing requirements, which I don&#x27;t think I could have forseen. I don&#x27;t think the boss appreciates that and just sees that the amount of usable output is low for the amount of time I&#x27;d been working.<p>He did also make some criticisms that I thought were fair. For instance he said I should have looked at other projects to see how they accomplished what I&#x27;m trying to do. That definitely would have been a good idea.<p>After our meeting, my manager and my boss had a meeting with just the two of them to discuss the status of our project. I have no clue what happened in that meeting and I haven&#x27;t heard anything about it from either of them since.<p>As of today the project is pretty much done (save for some procedural details). I&#x27;m happy, but I can&#x27;t stop thinking about that meeting. I really did work hard, so it&#x27;s demotivating that it feels like the result of me working hard is unappreciated.<p>I&#x27;m not thinking of quitting over this or anything, but it seriously bums me out. I don&#x27;t know if I have a future at this company if the boss thinks I&#x27;m not a good dev, and I really like it here. A month or so ago they added someone else to my project and I trained him on my code, and he&#x27;s super smart and capable, and I&#x27;m thinking that now they probably feel that they could fire me if they wanted and not lose much.<p>But the saddest part is that I really admire my manager and my boss, and I wanted to make them happy to have hired me, and now I feel like they probably aren&#x27;t. I guess I can try to learn from my mistakes and get over it, but at the very least it feels like an inauspicious start.<p>How should I proceed?</text></story> |
4,924,211 | 4,924,046 | 1 | 3 | 4,923,914 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cs702</author><text>Thanks in part to the popularity of his books, movie, and speeches, Kurzweil now knows pretty much every AI researcher in the planet, and we can safely assume he's aware of even very obscure research projects in the field, both inside and outside academia.<p>Joining Google gives him ready access to data sets of almost unimaginable size, as well as unparalleled infrastructure and skills for handling such large data sets, putting him in an ideal position to connect researchers in academic and corporate settings with the data, infrastructure, and data management skills they need to make their visions a reality.<p>According to the MIT Technology Review[1], he will be working with Peter Norvig, who is not just Google's Director of Research, but a well-known figure in AI.<p>--<p>[1] <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/508896/what-google-sees-in-new-hire-futurist-ray-kurzweil/" rel="nofollow">http://www.technologyreview.com/view/508896/what-google-sees...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ray Kurzweil joins Google</title><url>http://www.kurzweilai.net/kurzweil-joins-google-to-work-on-new-projects-involving-machine-learning-and-language-processing?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>waterlesscloud</author><text>It's seemed pretty clear to me for some time that Google's real mission is AI/singularity oriented and everything else is just a step along that road. It may not be what the day-to-day view is in the trenches, but it seems like the high level plan.<p>A hire like this one certainly reinforces that perception.<p>I don't know if it's truly possible to accomplish, but it's fascinating to see a major company taking steps in that directions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ray Kurzweil joins Google</title><url>http://www.kurzweilai.net/kurzweil-joins-google-to-work-on-new-projects-involving-machine-learning-and-language-processing?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</url></story> |
35,197,637 | 35,197,720 | 1 | 3 | 35,196,442 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adrian17</author><text>Some extra notes:<p>&gt; project issued their first progress report with getting dozens of ActionScript 2 based games working<p>Dozens of _previously-broken_ games working. We had a majority of (single-player) AS2 games working for years now, with only several major missing features plaguing the remaining games. The biggest one of them (a very unintuitive way variables magically bind to &quot;DOM&quot; objects) was implemented very recently, hence the announcement.<p>As for AS3, you could say the interpreter support has finally reached the turning point. It took 2 years from the first AS3-related commit to the first simplest game to &quot;kinda-sorta work&quot;, and within the next couple of months up to now, so many games started to work that we stopped being able to count them. So yeah, we&#x27;re very optimistic here :)<p>EDIT: oh, also major shoutout to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jindrapetrik&#x2F;jpexs-decompiler">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jindrapetrik&#x2F;jpexs-decompiler</a> which is effectively a full-blown low-level IDE for decompiling, debugging, analysing and manipulating (or even hand-crafting from scratch) SWFs. Without actually seeing all the ways the games abused Flash interpreter, it&#x27;d be borderline impossible to figure out Flash Player&#x27;s various quirks. Further, it lets contributors create test SWFs without having to own old versions of Flash IDE.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Still Have a Use for Adobe Flash? Ruffle Is Working to Safely Emulate It in Rust</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ruffle-Adobe-Flash-Rust</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geenat</author><text>Nothing has replaced Flash for low friction creative outlet for animations and games. Even artists could use Flash very effectively by themselves.<p>The iteration time was mindblowing- Using Flash, I remember putting together Ludum Dare games in 6 hours, while everyone else was struggling at hour 48.<p>The new generation of devs never knew the levels of productivity that could be had with Flash.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Still Have a Use for Adobe Flash? Ruffle Is Working to Safely Emulate It in Rust</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ruffle-Adobe-Flash-Rust</url></story> |
25,139,875 | 25,138,110 | 1 | 2 | 25,134,220 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>renewiltord</author><text>Companies can&#x27;t stop you from unionizing. They can choose not to accept the collective agreement and they can hire permanent replacement for strikers.<p>As for whether anyone should have a problem, you&#x27;re welcome to have a problem. It&#x27;s a free country. Whether that will lead to an outcome you desire is independent, though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonjayr</author><text>Then companies should have no problems whatsoever with Unions? I mean, if a group of employees want to get together to amplify their negotiating power, then they should not stop that?</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>&gt; You should expect &quot;equal pay for equal work&quot; at your new remote job<p>So naive.<p>In an ideal, utopian world? Maybe it would work this way. Maybe.<p>In reality, your compensation is a function of your negotiating power. Some people, in fact, manage to get the same pay even when working remote, because they&#x27;re &quot;highly employable&quot;. Others don&#x27;t.<p>And let me add: I almost agree that remote work shouldn&#x27;t necessarily command the same pay. A company&#x27;s goal is to &quot;extract&quot; from each employee more value than his&#x2F;her&#x2F;their salary. If a company manages to save on a salary because the employee doesn&#x27;t have much negotiating power, good for the company.<p>This is not to say that a company should do anything it wants, far from it. It simply means that if you accept that you live in a market-enabled society, your salary is at stake, too. You want to pay $2 dollars for milk, instead of $20? That&#x27;s thanks to competition between companies. That&#x27;s market forces at play. You want it there? Accept it on salary negotiation too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs</title><url>https://www.nityesh.com/equal-pay-for-equal-work-at-a-remote-company/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>x87678r</author><text>I&#x27;d think the opposite. When I&#x27;m physically with people I can form groups, picket offices, go on strike. If I&#x27;m a remote worker I&#x27;m much more easily replaced and there isn&#x27;t much I can do about it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonjayr</author><text>Then companies should have no problems whatsoever with Unions? I mean, if a group of employees want to get together to amplify their negotiating power, then they should not stop that?</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>&gt; You should expect &quot;equal pay for equal work&quot; at your new remote job<p>So naive.<p>In an ideal, utopian world? Maybe it would work this way. Maybe.<p>In reality, your compensation is a function of your negotiating power. Some people, in fact, manage to get the same pay even when working remote, because they&#x27;re &quot;highly employable&quot;. Others don&#x27;t.<p>And let me add: I almost agree that remote work shouldn&#x27;t necessarily command the same pay. A company&#x27;s goal is to &quot;extract&quot; from each employee more value than his&#x2F;her&#x2F;their salary. If a company manages to save on a salary because the employee doesn&#x27;t have much negotiating power, good for the company.<p>This is not to say that a company should do anything it wants, far from it. It simply means that if you accept that you live in a market-enabled society, your salary is at stake, too. You want to pay $2 dollars for milk, instead of $20? That&#x27;s thanks to competition between companies. That&#x27;s market forces at play. You want it there? Accept it on salary negotiation too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs</title><url>https://www.nityesh.com/equal-pay-for-equal-work-at-a-remote-company/</url></story> |
32,139,994 | 32,139,887 | 1 | 2 | 32,136,526 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>Absolutely, because the trees non-ecologists pick for rapid reforestation happen to grow aggressively and they tend to out compete the local species. They tend to pick either rapidly growing species, or particularly hardy ones. Both characteristics make removing them after introduction difficult.<p>Hawaii has a huge problem with this, but also California. The eucalyptus trees they imported from Australia have had the terrible affect of making wildfires in California even worse. There&#x27;s also a horrible negative feedback loop because the Eucalyptus is adapted to recover quickly from such fires.<p>&quot;It has been estimated that 70% of the energy released through the combustion of vegetation in the Oakland fire was due to eucalyptus.[41] In a National Park Service study, it was found that the fuel load (in tons per acre) of non-native eucalyptus woods is almost three times as great as native oak woodland.&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eucalyptus#Adaptation_to_fire" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eucalyptus#Adaptation_to_fire</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>wnevets</author><text>&gt; potential to be invasive.<p>Is that a real concern when it comes to trees?</text></item><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>Are those trees native to Iceland? I would hope that they aren&#x27;t just trying to increase forest cover using species that have the potential to be invasive.</text></item><item><author>elevaet</author><text>I planted some thousands of trees in Iceland in the noughties. I believe the program was funded by Alcoa to offset the carbon produced by an aluminum plant they were building on the island. They paid farmers to plant trees on unused land, and the farmers hired and hosted us to do the work. It was an amazing way to see the country. We mostly planted larch, birch and alder from what I remember. It is a very beautiful country, like an arctic Hawaii.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Iceland’s forest and bush cover has increased sixfold since 1990</title><url>https://www.icelandreview.com/nature-travel/forests-now-cover-2-of-iceland/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shakes_mcjunkie</author><text>Yes, why wouldn&#x27;t it be? Any non native species can disrupt an ecosystem in any number of ways. For trees for example, they can shade or crowd out native species.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wnevets</author><text>&gt; potential to be invasive.<p>Is that a real concern when it comes to trees?</text></item><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>Are those trees native to Iceland? I would hope that they aren&#x27;t just trying to increase forest cover using species that have the potential to be invasive.</text></item><item><author>elevaet</author><text>I planted some thousands of trees in Iceland in the noughties. I believe the program was funded by Alcoa to offset the carbon produced by an aluminum plant they were building on the island. They paid farmers to plant trees on unused land, and the farmers hired and hosted us to do the work. It was an amazing way to see the country. We mostly planted larch, birch and alder from what I remember. It is a very beautiful country, like an arctic Hawaii.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Iceland’s forest and bush cover has increased sixfold since 1990</title><url>https://www.icelandreview.com/nature-travel/forests-now-cover-2-of-iceland/</url></story> |
19,582,829 | 19,580,892 | 1 | 3 | 19,578,419 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gok</author><text>Eh, outside of desktop CPUs things have continued to move pretty quickly.<p>Looking at GPUs, the Voodoo3 came out in 1999 and had a fillrate of around 150 MPixels&#x2F;sec. Today&#x27;s GPUs have a fill rate of around 300 times that, which gives an annualized increase of over 30%, for 20 years. This doesn&#x27;t even consider the fact that GPUs went from highly specialized parts to general purpose compute chips.<p>Lower power CPUs are also impressive. 20 years ago the state of the art was the DEC&#x2F;Intel StrongARM. A modern smartphone SOC is around 50x faster than that per watt. If you look at floating point stuff it&#x27;s more like 1000x faster.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>It’s crazy how fast stuff moved back then. Voodoo 1, to Voodoo 2 (both hits) to Voodoo 3 (meh), to Voodoo 4&#x2F;5 (debacle), to bankruptcy was less than 4 years. In the same timeframe, we went from a 200 MHz Pentium MMX to a 1 GHz Pentium 3.<p>What’s happened since 2015, by contrast? Many people still swear by their 2015 MBPs, the last model before the touchbar debacle. That Haswell based machine was getting long in the tooth even back then.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The 3dfx Voodoo1</title><url>http://fabiensanglard.net/3dfx_sst1/index.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pornel</author><text>In more recent years the same thing happened in mobile phones and tablets, and then watches.<p>In 5-year spans they all had 10x increase in power, from toy single-core CPUs and GPUs that barely moved pixels on screen, to proper multi-core CPUs and GPUs that would rival your laptop of only they had more thermal headroom.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>It’s crazy how fast stuff moved back then. Voodoo 1, to Voodoo 2 (both hits) to Voodoo 3 (meh), to Voodoo 4&#x2F;5 (debacle), to bankruptcy was less than 4 years. In the same timeframe, we went from a 200 MHz Pentium MMX to a 1 GHz Pentium 3.<p>What’s happened since 2015, by contrast? Many people still swear by their 2015 MBPs, the last model before the touchbar debacle. That Haswell based machine was getting long in the tooth even back then.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The 3dfx Voodoo1</title><url>http://fabiensanglard.net/3dfx_sst1/index.html</url></story> |
20,290,854 | 20,290,723 | 1 | 3 | 20,289,966 | 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>justsee</author><text>Switched from Firefox to Brave in the last year across devices and not looking back (though I do miss containers!).<p>Blocking ads and trackers by default is pretty much essential in 2019.<p>The myth about ad replacement doesn&#x27;t seem to want to die though!<p>There is no ad replacement, though the roadmap says at some time in the future publishers who opt-in will have the option to have their ad-slots filled by Brave&#x27;s privacy-respecting approach.<p>For now I think the only ad trials running are pop-up notifications if users opt-in, and that&#x27;s only in a few markets at this stage.<p>Not something I plan to opt-in to, but looking forward to the Github &#x2F; Reddit &#x2F; Twitter tipping and integrated crypto wallet.<p>That&#x27;s all rolling through in the next few months.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robbrown451</author><text>I&#x27;m impressed with Brave. I&#x27;ve started using it as my primary browser (after a couple false starts a year or so ago) and it has all the best of Chrome without the worst.<p>There is controversy about how Brave does stuff, and I agree there is some sketchy stuff they are doing (replacing ads with their own). I&#x27;m glad they are giving us a choice, though, and exploring different options for sites being able to makes some money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust</title><url>https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>magicalist</author><text>&gt; <i>and it has all the best of Chrome without the worst</i><p>I mean, what is the &quot;worst&quot; stuff it doesn&#x27;t have? Account sign in?<p>It seems like there are plenty of other Chromium embedders to get that without the sketchy stuff.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robbrown451</author><text>I&#x27;m impressed with Brave. I&#x27;ve started using it as my primary browser (after a couple false starts a year or so ago) and it has all the best of Chrome without the worst.<p>There is controversy about how Brave does stuff, and I agree there is some sketchy stuff they are doing (replacing ads with their own). I&#x27;m glad they are giving us a choice, though, and exploring different options for sites being able to makes some money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust</title><url>https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/</url></story> |
16,016,861 | 16,016,870 | 1 | 2 | 16,015,766 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justherefortart</author><text>Why would overall production drop when there is more capital in the market?<p>Maybe read up a bit on fiscal multipliers. Government spending (redistribution) is one of the better ones. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fiscal_multiplier" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fiscal_multiplier</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sintaxi</author><text>With UBI everyone will have more money but overall production would drop which is the only meaningful way to improve peoples lives. So people would be worse off because prices would adjust to the decreased supply and the increased demand of goods and services.</text></item><item><author>aerophilic</author><text>There was an interesting study posted (I believe here) on how a flat 10% re-distribution (10% taxed from everyone, then redistributed evenly across everyone, aka basic income), created a more stable &quot;society&quot; in simulation. It did this by helping support a larger &quot;middle class&quot;. Does anyone know the link&#x2F;can point me to the study? Google is failing me at the moment...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this year</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/27/worlds-richest-500-see-increased-their-wealth-by-1tn-this-year</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VikingCoder</author><text>I think there&#x27;s a few things you&#x27;re missing. I&#x27;m a bleeding-heart liberal, but I think that with UBI in place, I&#x27;d be willing to let go of minimum wage. Of forcing companies with enough full time employees to provide benefit X. Of laws forcing employees to join a union. Etc.<p>Also, worker productivity is through the roof. Perhaps we can talk about giving back some of those production gains, if it funds things we like.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sintaxi</author><text>With UBI everyone will have more money but overall production would drop which is the only meaningful way to improve peoples lives. So people would be worse off because prices would adjust to the decreased supply and the increased demand of goods and services.</text></item><item><author>aerophilic</author><text>There was an interesting study posted (I believe here) on how a flat 10% re-distribution (10% taxed from everyone, then redistributed evenly across everyone, aka basic income), created a more stable &quot;society&quot; in simulation. It did this by helping support a larger &quot;middle class&quot;. Does anyone know the link&#x2F;can point me to the study? Google is failing me at the moment...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this year</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/27/worlds-richest-500-see-increased-their-wealth-by-1tn-this-year</url></story> |
29,815,640 | 29,815,051 | 1 | 2 | 29,813,261 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>I’ve been doing technical interviews for decades and have gotten good feedback from candidates about my technique. I have a small number of questions that are nearly impossible to have prepared for - one for instance is finding the median in a large dataset using map reduce. The question is open enough there’s a lot of solutions that are expensive, a lot that are dead ends, and one that’s pretty clever. The key is I let them investigate different possible solutions and give them guidance as they butt against expensive or impractical solutions and guide them to the answers I’ve heard over the years that work best. Because I ask the same questions over and over again I can tell how people treat the problem and try to solve it. But since it’s not a typical interview question no one is prepared to answer it off the cuff.
Ultimately my goal is to assess whether the candidate can understand the problem, understand dead ends when I point it out, understand how to pivot to another approach, and understand how to interpret hints in a positive direction. IMO these are the important skills for a professional problem solver working in a team.<p>I wouldn’t use automated screening tools. These tools select for irrelevant criteria in my opinion, and are mostly useful if as an interviewer you’re too lazy or too incompetent to formulate your own questions that tell you whether a person can solve problems and interact well in a group problem solving situation. But I’m an oldster so YMMV.</text><parent_chain><item><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>I&#x27;ve never used Leetcode, but it keeps coming up here. I&#x27;ve been interviewer a lot lately and I keep trying to find ways to filter <i>out</i> the candidates that care more about interview prep than solving real problems.<p>Is this a nonstandard perspective?</text></item><item><author>colinmhayes</author><text>&gt; Leetcode is systematically favoring candidates who have months of free time to memorize arbitrary logic puzzles<p>Finding people who are willing to spend months in order to get the job is one of the biggest reasons companies use leetcode.</text></item><item><author>robby_w_g</author><text>&gt; I bag on Amazon a lot on here (which if I were to review with my therapist is likely because I had an absolutely HORRENDOUS experience in an interview loop with them my first step out of college that still makes me nervous in interviews, even 15 years later).<p>Hey, I had a similar experience with Google! It was my first technical interview for my first job out of college. The interviewer laughed at my code, and then after going through the logic said &quot;Wow I can&#x27;t believe this actually works.&quot;<p>Personal grievances aside, I&#x27;ve come to think that the Leetcode interview style has morphed from a &quot;let&#x27;s see how you handle problems at scale&quot; test into an ego-driven hazing ritual. My biggest gripe is that Leetcode is systematically favoring candidates who have months of free time to memorize arbitrary logic puzzles. It makes me sad for the less privileged candidates who might be working a job while also trying to break into the IT field.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>Hey congrats on making it 10 months!<p><i>&quot;Urgent to not block progress, but also ironic that they are asking a person who has no clue what they are doing to deliver critical work&quot;</i><p>Friend of mine started a role there (this was 4-5 years ago) and was fired (sorry... more or less asked to leave, being told he could keep his signing bonus if he just left) within about six weeks because he wasn&#x27;t immediately delivering on some insane amounts of work. Truly, he recapped it for me, the expectations were absolutely incredible and I&#x27;d consider him a hard worker who has found a ton of success in his current role.<p>I bag on Amazon a lot on here (which if I were to review with my therapist is likely because I had an absolutely HORRENDOUS experience in an interview loop with them my first step out of college that still makes me nervous in interviews, even 15 years later). But living in Seattle, a notable chunk of my social circle works there. I&#x27;d say a few enjoy the scale of things they get to work on or perhaps the brand name, but overall none of them ever talk about liking the work environment&#x2F;balance&#x2F;culture.<p>One friend, at a director level, just quit on a whim because he came back from parental leave and his direct reports had all been put on a PIP while he was out. He told his VP to fuck off, left, and is now on sabbatical. I&#x27;ve never seen him so happy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months</title><url>https://benadam.me/thoughts/my-experience-at-amazon/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aspaceman</author><text>I think it&#x27;s pretty common at small to mid sized companies + startups. Your more &quot;trendy&quot; companies and your F500 companies do the type of Leetcode interview you hear everyone on HN complain about.<p>It typically looks like a 15 minute phone interview with HR, followed by a lengthy Leetcode&#x2F; take home exam (that&#x27;s auto graded, no humans), a computer form where you input your school, GPA, and courses taken (seriously). All of this info gets turned into a number and then HR takes a sample of the top X and hands it to the hiring manager: &quot;Here are the &#x27;viable&#x27; candidates&quot;.<p>The hiring manager then has to (basically) interview the candidate themselves. Ensure they actually have the skills for the position, determine their interest in the role, etc. So this is probably what you&#x27;re doing right now. Just imagine someone filtered a bunch of your resumes first.<p>Take with a grain of salt, but I have heard of some folks explicitly getting permission to do hiring outside of HR at said large companies. The kids they get out of undergrad and through HR&#x27;s Leetcode process are apparently complete garbage. Don&#x27;t understand C, pointers, memory, or Linux at all. Don&#x27;t even know what files are.</text><parent_chain><item><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>I&#x27;ve never used Leetcode, but it keeps coming up here. I&#x27;ve been interviewer a lot lately and I keep trying to find ways to filter <i>out</i> the candidates that care more about interview prep than solving real problems.<p>Is this a nonstandard perspective?</text></item><item><author>colinmhayes</author><text>&gt; Leetcode is systematically favoring candidates who have months of free time to memorize arbitrary logic puzzles<p>Finding people who are willing to spend months in order to get the job is one of the biggest reasons companies use leetcode.</text></item><item><author>robby_w_g</author><text>&gt; I bag on Amazon a lot on here (which if I were to review with my therapist is likely because I had an absolutely HORRENDOUS experience in an interview loop with them my first step out of college that still makes me nervous in interviews, even 15 years later).<p>Hey, I had a similar experience with Google! It was my first technical interview for my first job out of college. The interviewer laughed at my code, and then after going through the logic said &quot;Wow I can&#x27;t believe this actually works.&quot;<p>Personal grievances aside, I&#x27;ve come to think that the Leetcode interview style has morphed from a &quot;let&#x27;s see how you handle problems at scale&quot; test into an ego-driven hazing ritual. My biggest gripe is that Leetcode is systematically favoring candidates who have months of free time to memorize arbitrary logic puzzles. It makes me sad for the less privileged candidates who might be working a job while also trying to break into the IT field.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>Hey congrats on making it 10 months!<p><i>&quot;Urgent to not block progress, but also ironic that they are asking a person who has no clue what they are doing to deliver critical work&quot;</i><p>Friend of mine started a role there (this was 4-5 years ago) and was fired (sorry... more or less asked to leave, being told he could keep his signing bonus if he just left) within about six weeks because he wasn&#x27;t immediately delivering on some insane amounts of work. Truly, he recapped it for me, the expectations were absolutely incredible and I&#x27;d consider him a hard worker who has found a ton of success in his current role.<p>I bag on Amazon a lot on here (which if I were to review with my therapist is likely because I had an absolutely HORRENDOUS experience in an interview loop with them my first step out of college that still makes me nervous in interviews, even 15 years later). But living in Seattle, a notable chunk of my social circle works there. I&#x27;d say a few enjoy the scale of things they get to work on or perhaps the brand name, but overall none of them ever talk about liking the work environment&#x2F;balance&#x2F;culture.<p>One friend, at a director level, just quit on a whim because he came back from parental leave and his direct reports had all been put on a PIP while he was out. He told his VP to fuck off, left, and is now on sabbatical. I&#x27;ve never seen him so happy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months</title><url>https://benadam.me/thoughts/my-experience-at-amazon/</url></story> |
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