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21,767,170 | 21,767,270 | 1 | 3 | 21,766,886 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>KingMachiavelli</author><text>I really can&#x27;t convince myself to put any stock in this. How can one compare In-N-Out Burger to Google? Aside from a small fraction, most of the positions don&#x27;t overlap.<p>Also when really big, recognizable companies have their rating change so drastically, it&#x27;s obviously reflects more about the PR of the company than it&#x27;s work environment. If you don&#x27;t consider ideology, Google didn&#x27;t actually become a terrible place to work rather it&#x27;s its employees, by the nature of their demographic, be more informed and apt to oppose certain policy and also feel they have the leverage to cause internal change.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-11/big-tech-companies-slide-in-annual-best-places-to-work-survey</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>r00fus</author><text>Another day, another &quot;best place to work&quot; list that has no real quality controls on the reviews or methodology to ensure reviews are not fake or coerced.<p>They all do not control for systemic bias of reviews.<p>At what point is it just a marketing piece?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-11/big-tech-companies-slide-in-annual-best-places-to-work-survey</url></story> |
17,015,078 | 17,014,028 | 1 | 2 | 17,011,938 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smsm42</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s just giving some people money. It would be very surprising if this didn&#x27;t yield positive outcomes for that group.<p>It would be not surprising at all. It all depends on how you give the money and in what context. There are a lot of stories about people winning the lottery or getting an inheritance and ending up broke and in rehab (or worse). There is statistics that only a small percentage of people who found gold in various gold rushes managed to keep it long-term.<p>There&#x27;s a concept of &quot;poverty trap&quot;, where combination of means-tested welfare programs and wage structure essentially makes stopping being poor unaffordable to the poor, because there&#x27;s a summary income drop when moving up the scale of earned income, and the person can not afford taking that drop.<p>There&#x27;s also a concept of external dependency ruining local business, so that if you flood local marked with foreign aid and money, local businesses can not compete or sustain traditional price&#x2F;market structure and once they are gone, there&#x27;s no means to sustain the economy but continuing the stream of foreign aid forever.<p>Giving people money is not always unquestionably positive, all depends on how. That&#x27;s why real-life testing is important to know if UBI can work or not.<p>&gt; Anything short of UNIVERSAL experimentation will not address these.<p>True but one can argue some insight can be gained from small-scale testing. When we test new drug, we do not test it on every person, even though every person&#x27;s body is different. We test it on limited set of people, and hope they are representative. Sometimes it fails, but it&#x27;s better than not having any drugs until we can test it on everyone, isn&#x27;t it?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tribune</author><text>Any UBI study that doesn&#x27;t include everyone in a society is not studying &quot;universal&quot; basic income at all. It&#x27;s just giving some people money. It would be very surprising if this didn&#x27;t yield positive outcomes for that group.<p>The big question marks surrounding UBI involve its implementation at a society-wide level. (What are the macroeconomic effects? What if people blow their UBI on dumb things and still end up starving?) Anything short of UNIVERSAL experimentation will not address these.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income</title><url>http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/articles/12-year-study-looks-at-effects-of-universal-basic-income/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>commandlinefan</author><text>Not only that, but I don&#x27;t believe (correct me if I&#x27;m wrong) that any UBI skeptics would argue that UBI wouldn&#x27;t &quot;help&quot; the people who received it in the short-term, like in a 12-year-period, but that it&#x27;s unsustainable in even the lifetime of a single generation. It&#x27;s more like social security, which was a great deal for the first generation that started receiving it, but is getting more expensive and less beneficial with each passing year.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tribune</author><text>Any UBI study that doesn&#x27;t include everyone in a society is not studying &quot;universal&quot; basic income at all. It&#x27;s just giving some people money. It would be very surprising if this didn&#x27;t yield positive outcomes for that group.<p>The big question marks surrounding UBI involve its implementation at a society-wide level. (What are the macroeconomic effects? What if people blow their UBI on dumb things and still end up starving?) Anything short of UNIVERSAL experimentation will not address these.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income</title><url>http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/articles/12-year-study-looks-at-effects-of-universal-basic-income/</url></story> |
23,338,702 | 23,338,996 | 1 | 2 | 23,337,091 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>padenot</author><text>Hi, I work at Mozilla doing audio programming for Firefox, I see in your about page that you have issues with the Web Audio API, ping me (same nick a bit everywhere on the web, and also @mozilla.com) and we&#x27;ll answer any question or fix any issue you have. Lots of things have happened in the audio space on the web since 2018!<p>In particular, low latency (like native roundtrip latencies, so &lt;10ms easy, but depending on the OS) no-jitter&#x2F;real-real-time audio programming is now something that developers can do. Lock-free&#x2F;wait-free programming and SIMD are coming in the next weeks&#x2F;months.<p>Very cool project in any case, I&#x27;ll use it when I need to quickly do very high zoom on wave forms to debug things for Firefox.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pantelisk</author><text>Hello hackernews!<p>I am the author! Wow, I can&#x27;t believe the attention this is getting! Hopefully this proves to be useful as a tool, and not just as a JS demo! :)<p>The next plans are
- redo drawing library to further improve performance!
- polish a bit some audio plugins (like the paragraphic EQ) since some parts feel a bit off (the limiter, paragraphic eq for example).
- Add some tutorials! Some things might not be straightforward like using Shift + [keys] for shortcuts etc.
- Easier recording mode (like the ability to open a new empty audio project)
- Multitrack mode, for more channels!
- play a bit more with the concept of having different windows that can be in different screens (check out the frequency analyzer under &quot;view&quot;)<p>To answer a few questions, I plan to have a very open license this is just a fun side project for me. but I need to figure out the licenses of some libs I am using first (eg wavesurfer, lzma-wasm) and do proper attribution!<p>Thanks again!<p>PS. I wrote this in 2018, and just kept it on my hard disk until recently, so certain features might be slightly different than back then :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor</title><url>https://audiomass.co/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>idreyn</author><text>Are you open to a couple of feature suggestions from someone who uses Audacity for scientific applications?<p>1. An port of Audacity&#x27;s &quot;Noise Reduction&quot; filter. I have done this once [0] (with some difficulty and no doubt with errors) and I am so tempted to just translate it to JavaScript and put up a PR, but I&#x27;m slammed right now.<p>2. It would be very useful to be able to view the spectrograph as an alternative to the waveform, rather than having it live in a separate &quot;spectrum analyzer&quot; pane. Especially if zooming along the frequency axis were implemented, this would make it much more useful for, well, spectrum analysis.<p>Thank you for making this. It&#x27;s impressive in its own right but doubly so as a web application.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;robin-labs&#x2F;robin&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;noisereduce&#x2F;noisereduce.pyx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;robin-labs&#x2F;robin&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;noisereduce&#x2F;...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pantelisk</author><text>Hello hackernews!<p>I am the author! Wow, I can&#x27;t believe the attention this is getting! Hopefully this proves to be useful as a tool, and not just as a JS demo! :)<p>The next plans are
- redo drawing library to further improve performance!
- polish a bit some audio plugins (like the paragraphic EQ) since some parts feel a bit off (the limiter, paragraphic eq for example).
- Add some tutorials! Some things might not be straightforward like using Shift + [keys] for shortcuts etc.
- Easier recording mode (like the ability to open a new empty audio project)
- Multitrack mode, for more channels!
- play a bit more with the concept of having different windows that can be in different screens (check out the frequency analyzer under &quot;view&quot;)<p>To answer a few questions, I plan to have a very open license this is just a fun side project for me. but I need to figure out the licenses of some libs I am using first (eg wavesurfer, lzma-wasm) and do proper attribution!<p>Thanks again!<p>PS. I wrote this in 2018, and just kept it on my hard disk until recently, so certain features might be slightly different than back then :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor</title><url>https://audiomass.co/</url></story> |
28,379,949 | 28,378,099 | 1 | 2 | 28,371,203 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>irae</author><text>I am curious why the government would need to punish people because they are living as they wish, in land they bought and own.<p>I mean, it is 100% fair to say a region will never get some types of utilities, or postal service, as it is part of city&#x2F;environmental planing. They can also prohibit regions to have septic tanks, etc, for the same reasons. Thats fair, I guess?<p>But why would they go as far as punish people that are using compost toilets, being environmentally friendly and largely self sufficient in small lots?</text><parent_chain><item><author>arexxbifs</author><text>Regarding questions in the comments: Assuming allotments in .dk works roughly as in .se, they are designed not to be actual homes.<p>You&#x27;re not allowed to use them as your listed place of residence; authorities require you to have a &quot;real&quot; residence as well. This can of course be circumvented by claiming you live with a friend and listing yourself at their address, but it&#x27;s illegal and measures will be taken accordingly if you&#x27;re found out - you&#x27;ll surely lose your allotment, if nothing else.<p>Allotments are concentrated to specific areas, typically on municipal or county land rented by a co-op consisting of the inhabitants. Nowadays, most co-ops have installed municipal utilities (water, electricity) but not plumbing for human waste, which means most of them still have outhouses. Outhouse waste management is of course also heavily regulated. Often these utilities, at least water, are turned off during winter.<p>The permanence of allotments is fleeting; many of them are continually moved or chopped off in order to make room for actual residential buildings. They are however very popular among apartment dwellers who move out to their cosy little allotment houses at the first sign of spring.<p>Regarding the OP, nice work! Looks great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My House</title><url>https://carltheperson.com/posts/my-house</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>carltheperson</author><text>It&#x27;s legal in Denmark to live here in the summer months. I can set it as my legal address if I want to. Someone is already doing that where I live but I have not gotten around to it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arexxbifs</author><text>Regarding questions in the comments: Assuming allotments in .dk works roughly as in .se, they are designed not to be actual homes.<p>You&#x27;re not allowed to use them as your listed place of residence; authorities require you to have a &quot;real&quot; residence as well. This can of course be circumvented by claiming you live with a friend and listing yourself at their address, but it&#x27;s illegal and measures will be taken accordingly if you&#x27;re found out - you&#x27;ll surely lose your allotment, if nothing else.<p>Allotments are concentrated to specific areas, typically on municipal or county land rented by a co-op consisting of the inhabitants. Nowadays, most co-ops have installed municipal utilities (water, electricity) but not plumbing for human waste, which means most of them still have outhouses. Outhouse waste management is of course also heavily regulated. Often these utilities, at least water, are turned off during winter.<p>The permanence of allotments is fleeting; many of them are continually moved or chopped off in order to make room for actual residential buildings. They are however very popular among apartment dwellers who move out to their cosy little allotment houses at the first sign of spring.<p>Regarding the OP, nice work! Looks great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My House</title><url>https://carltheperson.com/posts/my-house</url></story> |
23,896,548 | 23,895,906 | 1 | 2 | 23,892,773 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>quanticle</author><text>Android wasn&#x27;t built by Google. It was the result of an acquisition. Same with YouTube. Same with Google Earth. Heck, even Google Docs was the result of them acquiring Writely.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s more accurate to say that Google are one of the best companies in the world at <i>buying</i> products.</text><parent_chain><item><author>badestrand</author><text>This is objectively false as they have developed many of the most successful products on this planet. There are hundred of web mail products but gmail is the best. Google Maps is the best in class, other great products are Google Earth, Analytics, YouTube, Cloud, Android and many more.<p>Yes, you can find flaws in any of those but it&#x27;s also hard to find better products in the same category. Google is not in any way &quot;terrible at building products&quot;, they are one of the best companies in the whole world in building products.</text></item><item><author>packetlost</author><text>This. Google seems to not have anyone with a cohesive vision or even anyone that knows how to build a platform or maintain a product. I personally would like to know what&#x27;s going on with the product owners at Google, because it really seems like <i>none</i> of them talk to each other.<p>Google is a fantastic <i>engineering</i> company, but terrible at building products.</text></item><item><author>staticassertion</author><text>Google seems terribly run, frankly. I wouldn&#x27;t use them as an example of good process, organization, or really anything other than that being early to advertising and being the internet&#x27;s front page for ~20 years is a great way to make money</text></item><item><author>sukilot</author><text>Regardless of whether OKRs are meaningful or important (IMO they aren&#x27;t), Google had OKRs in 1999, less than a year after founding, before AdWords. They didn&#x27;t have notable product teams before OKRs.</text></item><item><author>gregdoesit</author><text>This is the key of the article:<p>“ Those successful companies aren’t successful because they use OKR’s. They use OKR’s because it is designed to leverage the empowered product team model.
And as I have tried to make clear with years of articles and talks, the empowered product team model is a fundamentally different approach to building and running a tech-product organization.”<p>Amen to this. Google is an example company that claims to have had great success with OKRs. But let’s not forget that before OKRs, they had empowered teams, a growing market which they disrupted and grew, and a unique culture.<p>My bet is they would have done spectacularly well without OKRs, using some other method as well. You can’t say that OKRs caused Google to succeed, and they certainly won’t be enough to turn a company or org around, like the author argues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why OKRs might not work at your company</title><url>https://svpg.com/team-objectives-overview/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kerng</author><text>Gmail is by far <i>not</i> the best mail system - in enterprise settings it&#x27;s possible the worst actually. Its cluttered, threads are unreadable, tiny window by default to write a message... maybe it was hip 16 years ago, but that&#x27;s past. Because of all these things I&#x27;m not even using it in private setting either.<p>YouTube is full with ads and fake comments including spam.<p>I agree with the parent post that Google products benefited most from being first or being acquisitions - it&#x27;s like Microsoft early 2000s or so.</text><parent_chain><item><author>badestrand</author><text>This is objectively false as they have developed many of the most successful products on this planet. There are hundred of web mail products but gmail is the best. Google Maps is the best in class, other great products are Google Earth, Analytics, YouTube, Cloud, Android and many more.<p>Yes, you can find flaws in any of those but it&#x27;s also hard to find better products in the same category. Google is not in any way &quot;terrible at building products&quot;, they are one of the best companies in the whole world in building products.</text></item><item><author>packetlost</author><text>This. Google seems to not have anyone with a cohesive vision or even anyone that knows how to build a platform or maintain a product. I personally would like to know what&#x27;s going on with the product owners at Google, because it really seems like <i>none</i> of them talk to each other.<p>Google is a fantastic <i>engineering</i> company, but terrible at building products.</text></item><item><author>staticassertion</author><text>Google seems terribly run, frankly. I wouldn&#x27;t use them as an example of good process, organization, or really anything other than that being early to advertising and being the internet&#x27;s front page for ~20 years is a great way to make money</text></item><item><author>sukilot</author><text>Regardless of whether OKRs are meaningful or important (IMO they aren&#x27;t), Google had OKRs in 1999, less than a year after founding, before AdWords. They didn&#x27;t have notable product teams before OKRs.</text></item><item><author>gregdoesit</author><text>This is the key of the article:<p>“ Those successful companies aren’t successful because they use OKR’s. They use OKR’s because it is designed to leverage the empowered product team model.
And as I have tried to make clear with years of articles and talks, the empowered product team model is a fundamentally different approach to building and running a tech-product organization.”<p>Amen to this. Google is an example company that claims to have had great success with OKRs. But let’s not forget that before OKRs, they had empowered teams, a growing market which they disrupted and grew, and a unique culture.<p>My bet is they would have done spectacularly well without OKRs, using some other method as well. You can’t say that OKRs caused Google to succeed, and they certainly won’t be enough to turn a company or org around, like the author argues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why OKRs might not work at your company</title><url>https://svpg.com/team-objectives-overview/</url></story> |
19,772,413 | 19,772,189 | 1 | 3 | 19,770,575 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jammygit</author><text>As far as mild-moderate concussions go, there is unfortunately not much to do by way of treatment besides low stimulation rest.<p>I hope this person was okay. Concussions are truly hell when they don&#x27;t clear up nicely.<p>Side note, I was told once by an occupational therapist specializing in brain injury that most concussions are from standing up from a crouch in the kitchen and hitting your head on a corner of a cupboard (MVA&#x2F;sports are very common too). I didn&#x27;t believe her at the time, but I don&#x27;t write it off either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>frankbreetz</author><text>Funny true story about this:
One time a man came up to me and handed me his phone, and asked me to call his mom. He was about to pass out and he asked me not call an ambulance (God bless America) , he appeared to have a concussion.
By this time there was about 10-15 people around him and he could barely talk. I asked him what his phone code was and instead of just giving it to me he said &quot;it&#x27;s the first four prime numbers&quot;.
Immediately, about five people shout &quot;1,2,3,5&quot;. I am no longer holding the phone, because I handed to someone else to make sure it was okay.
Sure enough, I was in a mathematical proofs class and we had just discussed this topic. So, I say &quot;one is not a prime number&quot;.
Of course, we get the phone unlocked in the second try with &quot;2,3,5,7&quot; and the guys mom is on the way. Everyone thought I was a genius a hero.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why isn't 1 a prime number?</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/why-isnt-1-a-prime-number/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>speg</author><text>You can also dial emergency contacts without unlocking the phone. They are accessible from the medical ID page on iOS, I assume Android has similar.</text><parent_chain><item><author>frankbreetz</author><text>Funny true story about this:
One time a man came up to me and handed me his phone, and asked me to call his mom. He was about to pass out and he asked me not call an ambulance (God bless America) , he appeared to have a concussion.
By this time there was about 10-15 people around him and he could barely talk. I asked him what his phone code was and instead of just giving it to me he said &quot;it&#x27;s the first four prime numbers&quot;.
Immediately, about five people shout &quot;1,2,3,5&quot;. I am no longer holding the phone, because I handed to someone else to make sure it was okay.
Sure enough, I was in a mathematical proofs class and we had just discussed this topic. So, I say &quot;one is not a prime number&quot;.
Of course, we get the phone unlocked in the second try with &quot;2,3,5,7&quot; and the guys mom is on the way. Everyone thought I was a genius a hero.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why isn't 1 a prime number?</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/why-isnt-1-a-prime-number/</url></story> |
41,199,442 | 41,194,995 | 1 | 2 | 41,193,968 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cedws</author><text>Companies don’t care about any of that, they care about cheaper labor that comes from a larger hiring pool.</text><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>If what the article says is true, it seems they rolled back about a decade and a half of diversity in tech initiatives. It also speaks to how little power those organizations have.<p>Since I can remember there have been nonstop “women in tech” clubs to encourage women to advance their career even if it’s not easy. And it’s not easy if you have to take care of a child. The company might have a monthly zoom call and schedule a female senior manager to give a speech about her career. Wonderful.<p>And then RTO hits. And some of those same senior managers are requiring their teams to commute to an office and sit at a desk for vague, unspecified, or otherwise underjustified reasons.<p>The result is predictable. People resign. But some people are more likely to leave than others. Single men with no other obligations are less likely to mind leaving at 8:30 and getting back at 6:30. Women may not be able to.<p>It turns out, those zoom calls were largely useless. It’s not a mindset issue. It’s a labor issue. Women in tech initiatives were tolerated as long as they positioned themselves as mindset or career growth within the company, and didn’t encourage organizing or asking anything of the company. But a truly effective movement would have gave employers pause before mandating RTO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Employers used return-to-office to make workers quit</title><url>https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4800828-office-mandates-cause-attrition/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I buy into this super connected WFH and diversity argument.<p>Folks working to 8:30 are working to 8:30 from home or work, both are going to hit people of different backgrounds differently depending on their personal situation as much as anything else.</text><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>If what the article says is true, it seems they rolled back about a decade and a half of diversity in tech initiatives. It also speaks to how little power those organizations have.<p>Since I can remember there have been nonstop “women in tech” clubs to encourage women to advance their career even if it’s not easy. And it’s not easy if you have to take care of a child. The company might have a monthly zoom call and schedule a female senior manager to give a speech about her career. Wonderful.<p>And then RTO hits. And some of those same senior managers are requiring their teams to commute to an office and sit at a desk for vague, unspecified, or otherwise underjustified reasons.<p>The result is predictable. People resign. But some people are more likely to leave than others. Single men with no other obligations are less likely to mind leaving at 8:30 and getting back at 6:30. Women may not be able to.<p>It turns out, those zoom calls were largely useless. It’s not a mindset issue. It’s a labor issue. Women in tech initiatives were tolerated as long as they positioned themselves as mindset or career growth within the company, and didn’t encourage organizing or asking anything of the company. But a truly effective movement would have gave employers pause before mandating RTO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Employers used return-to-office to make workers quit</title><url>https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4800828-office-mandates-cause-attrition/</url></story> |
37,821,428 | 37,821,648 | 1 | 2 | 37,820,192 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>strongpigeon</author><text>I don’t think the point is that it’s fraudulent, remember that this is in the context of the antitrust trial. I think the point here is that they could only do that since they have a monopoly.<p>Though I’m not sure I even agree with that. It burns advertiser’s goodwill for sure, but they advertise on Google because it provides them with a ROI, not because there is no where else. This just forces them to tweak their bids more.<p>That’s without weighing in on whether Google has an illegal monopoly on search</text><parent_chain><item><author>junon</author><text>I&#x27;m not understanding this, how can it be fraud? (Genuine question, I&#x27;m not insinuating anything.)</text></item><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>Ahh okay, the missing piece is that the winner pays the second-highest bid, plus a penny. I can definitely see how this would be fraud, and how it could be justified internally by Google as &quot;it&#x27;s still less than they bid&quot;.</text></item><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>Correct way: Winner bids $1.00, 2nd Place bids $0.80, Winner pays $0.81<p>New way: Winner bids $1.00, 2nd place bids $0.80, Google adds 15%* markup to 2nd bid, Winner pays $0.93.<p>*used as example, not a verified number</text></item><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s too early, but that article was not clear to me. Is it alleged that Google incorrectly stated the value of the second place bidder in order to make it look higher, in order to pressure the first place bidder to bid higher? Even that doesn&#x27;t make much sense, so I&#x27;m missing something.<p>&gt; The shift sought “to raise the prices against the highest bidder,” Whinston told Judge Amit Mehta in federal court in Washington... To help eliminate that 20% between the runner-up and what the winner was willing to pay, Google gave the second-place bidder a built-in handicap to make their offer more competitive, Whinston said... Whinston’s comments Friday described Google’s technique, called “squashing,” that seeks to make the runner-up’s bid more competitive.<p>If they&#x27;re inflating the second-place bid to be higher than the first-place bid, I&#x27;d wonder why that wouldn&#x27;t backfire for them and result in the second highest bid winning a lot of the time. And if they didn&#x27;t inflate it above the first-place bid, why would the winning bidder feel any pressure to increase their bid?<p>I&#x27;m sure it all makes sense, it&#x27;s just not clear to me from this explanation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google changed ad auctions, raising prices 15%, witness says</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-changed-ad-auctions-raising-191333390.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>pyrale</author><text>Winner expects to pay runner-up bid (this is a very important piece, because this changes the behaviour of bidders). Google quotes them an incorrect bid in order to collect more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>junon</author><text>I&#x27;m not understanding this, how can it be fraud? (Genuine question, I&#x27;m not insinuating anything.)</text></item><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>Ahh okay, the missing piece is that the winner pays the second-highest bid, plus a penny. I can definitely see how this would be fraud, and how it could be justified internally by Google as &quot;it&#x27;s still less than they bid&quot;.</text></item><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>Correct way: Winner bids $1.00, 2nd Place bids $0.80, Winner pays $0.81<p>New way: Winner bids $1.00, 2nd place bids $0.80, Google adds 15%* markup to 2nd bid, Winner pays $0.93.<p>*used as example, not a verified number</text></item><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s too early, but that article was not clear to me. Is it alleged that Google incorrectly stated the value of the second place bidder in order to make it look higher, in order to pressure the first place bidder to bid higher? Even that doesn&#x27;t make much sense, so I&#x27;m missing something.<p>&gt; The shift sought “to raise the prices against the highest bidder,” Whinston told Judge Amit Mehta in federal court in Washington... To help eliminate that 20% between the runner-up and what the winner was willing to pay, Google gave the second-place bidder a built-in handicap to make their offer more competitive, Whinston said... Whinston’s comments Friday described Google’s technique, called “squashing,” that seeks to make the runner-up’s bid more competitive.<p>If they&#x27;re inflating the second-place bid to be higher than the first-place bid, I&#x27;d wonder why that wouldn&#x27;t backfire for them and result in the second highest bid winning a lot of the time. And if they didn&#x27;t inflate it above the first-place bid, why would the winning bidder feel any pressure to increase their bid?<p>I&#x27;m sure it all makes sense, it&#x27;s just not clear to me from this explanation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google changed ad auctions, raising prices 15%, witness says</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-changed-ad-auctions-raising-191333390.html</url></story> |
31,942,519 | 31,941,325 | 1 | 3 | 31,939,424 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>torstenvl</author><text>I used to be able to tell I was about to get a GSM text message by the way my (wired) computer speakers would make a distinct quiet staccato crackle sound.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SECProto</author><text>My favourite part about wires is that there&#x27;s never interference or poor connectivity. Aux headphones, ethernet cables, wired mouse and keyboard - all so much more painless.</text></item><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>To summarize: If you use a Logitech bluetooth device, it creates enough interference that high-bandwidth products like the Airpods will not function correctly.<p>If you switch the Logitech device to use their &quot;unifying&quot; adapter, which doesn&#x27;t use bluetooth but a different proprietary wireless protocol, the problem goes away.<p>Logitech acknowledged the problem about six months ago but thus far have deflected any further questions about a fix.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods</title><url>https://support.logi.com/hc/en-001/community/posts/4419966780055-Mx-3-master-and-airpods-pro-microphone-issue</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>esperent</author><text>Living in a country where ground wires are not installed as standard, oh you are so wrong. Anything that has a wall plug carries crazy levels of background hum to any audio equipment I plug into it. I&#x27;m sure there is something I could buy to fix that (I can&#x27;t fix the electrics though as I&#x27;m renting).<p>On the other hand, instead of doing loads of research and buying new equipment, I can just connect my headphones or speakers by Bluetooth and the noise is gone.<p>Now I have to deal with the annoyances of Bluetooth which are not zero either. But it&#x27;s a great tradeoff for me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SECProto</author><text>My favourite part about wires is that there&#x27;s never interference or poor connectivity. Aux headphones, ethernet cables, wired mouse and keyboard - all so much more painless.</text></item><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>To summarize: If you use a Logitech bluetooth device, it creates enough interference that high-bandwidth products like the Airpods will not function correctly.<p>If you switch the Logitech device to use their &quot;unifying&quot; adapter, which doesn&#x27;t use bluetooth but a different proprietary wireless protocol, the problem goes away.<p>Logitech acknowledged the problem about six months ago but thus far have deflected any further questions about a fix.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods</title><url>https://support.logi.com/hc/en-001/community/posts/4419966780055-Mx-3-master-and-airpods-pro-microphone-issue</url></story> |
22,966,203 | 22,966,283 | 1 | 2 | 22,962,830 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>The only major changes I&#x27;ve seen in IT organizations of companies was where the existing IT department had declined or was let go over time and any development was in slumber mode. Then an excited manager comes around and erects a new IT organization from nothing (usually leaning heavily on consultants and freelancers), having sold a Digital Transformation to the company. The new IT &#x2F; developer department spends millions a year in conjuring up a new server stack (cloud native) and a new software architecture (microservices woo), often building on top of existing ancient software (probably running on a mainframe three further abstraction levels down), with the intent of eventually replacing them. Eventually. Maybe.<p>Usually those things got bogged down in the end because after 1-2 years, the first wave of developers get bored and move on to other opportunities, and the architecture they made is poorly abstracted microservices communicating via undocumented and unstructured REST APIs, with not nearly enough end-to-end tests or traceability to reliably make changes or add features.<p>[&#x2F;rant]</text><parent_chain><item><author>hpoe</author><text>I work at a very large IT org (1000+) and the only way I have ever seen anything change substantially and persistently was when the change was introduced and made it far easier to do the right thing. Ultimately if you want people to do the right thing you can&#x27;t force them into it, you have to make them want it.<p>It seems to me there are lots of opinions on how to change an organization or introduce improvements but ultimately if you aren&#x27;t making people&#x27;s lives easier, making them want the change you are trying to bring about, you&#x27;ll find it almost impossible to succeed, human inertia is just too great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Releasing software to the fleet far too quickly broke stuff</title><url>http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/04/23/rel/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davedx</author><text>If only CloudFormation followed this philosophy. Unfortunately, doing things &quot;The Right Way (tm)&quot; within AWS means torturously long feedback loops, tearing down stacks and rebuilding them again over and over again (and when you&#x27;re working with RDS databases, &quot;tear down&quot; is 10 mins and &quot;rebuild&quot; is 15 mins), then some stacks fail to delete because an IAM role that was just created is now somehow unable to be deleted...<p>Our company has restricted it so CloudFormation is the only way to provision infrastructure because doing things the right way makes our lives significantly harder.<p>And so the &quot;native cloud&quot; tax continues to accumulate and grow until you spend more and more time and money on just building and maintaining infrastructure...</text><parent_chain><item><author>hpoe</author><text>I work at a very large IT org (1000+) and the only way I have ever seen anything change substantially and persistently was when the change was introduced and made it far easier to do the right thing. Ultimately if you want people to do the right thing you can&#x27;t force them into it, you have to make them want it.<p>It seems to me there are lots of opinions on how to change an organization or introduce improvements but ultimately if you aren&#x27;t making people&#x27;s lives easier, making them want the change you are trying to bring about, you&#x27;ll find it almost impossible to succeed, human inertia is just too great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Releasing software to the fleet far too quickly broke stuff</title><url>http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/04/23/rel/</url></story> |
23,406,666 | 23,405,575 | 1 | 3 | 23,404,681 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tipsysquid</author><text>I believe it was this Marketplace podcast episode[0] that talks about the UK and their relationship with Huawei.
If I can recall, the UK is tied tightly to Huawei across several industries, one including nuclear reactor&#x2F;plant development that has been in on going for ages and involves packages of training lots of UK workers.<p>The podcast goes on to say that the UK is in a tough position because to break ties with any part of Huawei could have a chain reaction of cancellations&#x2F;retaliations that could be extremely costly to UK in a time of uncertainty with Brexit and now covid-19.
&quot;Damned if they do, damned if they don&#x27;t&quot; was the general sentiment.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketplace.org&#x2F;shows&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;what-weighs-down-gdp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketplace.org&#x2F;shows&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;what-weighs-do...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cgh</author><text>This is why Canada detained Huawei&#x27;s CFO Meng Wanzhou. I&#x27;m also guessing this news is why Telus, a major Canadian telco, just dropped Huawei for its 5G rollout and went with Ericsson instead. This is in line with other Canadian telcos and I believe the rest of the Five Eyes as well. Although didn&#x27;t the UK flirt with Huawei for a while there?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-iran-probe-exclusive/exclusive-huawei-hid-business-operation-in-iran-after-reuters-reported-links-to-cfo-idUSKBN23A19B</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>billfruit</author><text>How exactly does US sanctions restrict&#x2F;constrain a Chinese or any other nationality company from doing business with Iran? Do China have sanctions on Iran?</text><parent_chain><item><author>cgh</author><text>This is why Canada detained Huawei&#x27;s CFO Meng Wanzhou. I&#x27;m also guessing this news is why Telus, a major Canadian telco, just dropped Huawei for its 5G rollout and went with Ericsson instead. This is in line with other Canadian telcos and I believe the rest of the Five Eyes as well. Although didn&#x27;t the UK flirt with Huawei for a while there?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-iran-probe-exclusive/exclusive-huawei-hid-business-operation-in-iran-after-reuters-reported-links-to-cfo-idUSKBN23A19B</url></story> |
1,317,938 | 1,317,718 | 1 | 2 | 1,317,620 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Acacia has been doing this for <i>years</i>, they have a very big warchest filled with the money from previous extortions.<p>They simply bit off more than they could chew, you can bet that in the future they're not going to change their game much, they will just go after smaller companies again.<p>I really hope that this will set precedent in the sense that a future defendant will be able to point to this suit and link this party with their previous loss, unfortunately that is not how it normally works in the courtroom.<p>It's a pity that the lawyers didn't get reprimanded for bringing this case, that would have been better still. After all, if you can get the legal profession to think twice before bringing bogus lawsuits then Acacia et al will have do a lot of homework beforehand instead of hoping that the sheer pressure of a lawsuit will cause their opponents to capitulate, as has happened so frequently in the past.<p>Here's a link to a previous case they lost, it doesn't seem like that deterred them much:<p><a href="http://www.eff.org/files/acacia-patent-invalidated.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.eff.org/files/acacia-patent-invalidated.pdf</a><p>and a blog article about that:<p><a href="http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2009/09/good-day-for-the-industry-federal-court-invalidates-acacia-streaming-patents.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/200...</a><p>Another party that should be in the docket here is the patent office, they should somehow be made liable for the cost of litigation stemming from the issuing of patents that should never have been granted in the first place.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Total victory for open source software in a patent lawsuit</title><url>http://opensource.com/law/10/5/total-victory-patent-lawsuit-against-open-source-software</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mmelin</author><text>"Plaintiffs attempted to exploit this inexperience by arguing that open source software involved behavior that was, if not downright illegal, at least ethically dubious. They promoted the fallacy that open source distributors unfairly take the property of others and thereby unfairly profit. They also suggested that Red Hat's public criticisms of the U.S. patent system as it relates to software and related calls for legal reform were un-American and indicated a secret fondness for the writings of Karl Marx."<p>Wow. It's like a bad movie.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Total victory for open source software in a patent lawsuit</title><url>http://opensource.com/law/10/5/total-victory-patent-lawsuit-against-open-source-software</url></story> |
32,081,813 | 32,081,356 | 1 | 2 | 32,080,540 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andybak</author><text>&gt; MagicLinks are a mobile nightmare. Mobile email clients use their own browser and cookie jar which consume the session cookie you&#x27;re trying to put into the user&#x27;s main browser.<p>It might be howling into the void but the conclusion I reach from this is that &quot;Mobile email clients are a nightmare&quot;.<p>Generally speaking, embedded browsers in mobile apps are a terrible idea and break user expectations in multiple ways.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robrobrobrob</author><text>MagicLinks are a mobile nightmare. Mobile email clients use their own browser and cookie jar which consume the session cookie you&#x27;re trying to put into the user&#x27;s main browser. This results in users &#x27;never staying signed in&#x27; and a lot of frustration.<p>Sending a one-time code via email fixes this, and is in practice about as easy to use as a link on desktop.<p>In our app (Loomio) we default to magic&#x2F;codes, but let users use passwords if they prefer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are Magic Links Outdated?</title><url>https://zitadel.com/blog/magic-links</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Joker_vD</author><text>It&#x27;s actually pretty insane: there is a setting on Android to always use the main browser (Chrome) to open links, I&#x27;ve turned it on, and yet the Gmail app <i>still</i> opens the links in the embedded Chrome browser — which has different cookies, different history that apparently is not synced with my other Chromes, and even looks sli-i-ightly different than &quot;normal&quot; Chrome, somehow.<p>I&#x27;ve no idea why it is so difficult for apps to open links in the user-selected browser. Isn&#x27;t it just &quot;xdg-open <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com&#x2F;</a>&quot;?</text><parent_chain><item><author>robrobrobrob</author><text>MagicLinks are a mobile nightmare. Mobile email clients use their own browser and cookie jar which consume the session cookie you&#x27;re trying to put into the user&#x27;s main browser. This results in users &#x27;never staying signed in&#x27; and a lot of frustration.<p>Sending a one-time code via email fixes this, and is in practice about as easy to use as a link on desktop.<p>In our app (Loomio) we default to magic&#x2F;codes, but let users use passwords if they prefer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are Magic Links Outdated?</title><url>https://zitadel.com/blog/magic-links</url></story> |
16,149,752 | 16,149,425 | 1 | 2 | 16,148,217 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>Yes, but many of those people will be moving from other neighborhoods in the same city; when they move they vacate an older, less attractive, <i>lower rent</i> dwelling.<p>The history of US housing is (with a few exceptions, notably the post WWII housing boom) a story of people building premium housing that, as it ages, becomes affordable housing. Thing how many big old houses end up converted into duplexes or townhouses.<p>But lately we&#x27;ve 1) used zoning to stop the conversion of premium housing into cheaper housing and 2) used zoning and planning permission to stop the construction of premium housing and then wondered why we don&#x27;t have enough affordable housing. What a mystery!<p>&gt; It is complicated, though.<p>It&#x27;s a complex system with many different forces in play, yeah, but it&#x27;s not <i>that</i> complicated. If you build more housing, the price of housing drops. Building expensive apartments in a neighbourhood doesn&#x27;t magically create affordable apartments in the same neighbourhood, but it certainly doesn&#x27;t hurt.<p>The exception would be if, somehow, building 100 units of housing somehow attracts more than 100 families into the city from outside the area, which...I dunno, it could happen, but is it? Has it ever? It sounds unlikely at first glance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smelendez</author><text>It is complicated, though.<p>Rich people moving in to a working class neighborhood makes the neighborhood more attractive to other rich people, both directly and by bringing in rich people amenities. So building high end housing can ultimately cause more demand and higher bids for the existing housing in the neighborhood.</text></item><item><author>weeksie</author><text>Holy shit, supply and demand is still a thing!<p>Last year I was in Seattle and all I heard was complaints about all of the highrises going up as if that was what was causing the high rents. <i>headdesk</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rents dropping significantly across the Seattle area after new construction</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-area-rents-drop-significantly-for-first-time-this-decade-as-new-apartments-sit-empty/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>weeksie</author><text>While that&#x27;s intuitive, that&#x27;s not an argument against building high end housing.<p>I do agree that it&#x27;s complicated, though!<p>As someone who lives in New York, I can attest that affluent people will just rent the apartments that already exist in the neighborhood and drive the prices up for everyone. The difference is that the shitty tenement one bedroom gets bumped to 3k&#x2F;month because the affluent will displace the current occupants.<p>If you build luxury buildings, the affluent will move into those. Sure, that will have a second order effect on the desirability of the neighborhood (which is what I believe you are arguing), but I am of the belief that that is a separate issue. Gentrification is its own bag of worms.<p>A while back someone said &quot;Luxury Housing is future middle class housing&quot; and that rings pretty true. The economic incentives are to build nice properties and over time those properties get old. A good percentage of them get divided up into smaller places or simply rented for less as new inventory comes on line.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smelendez</author><text>It is complicated, though.<p>Rich people moving in to a working class neighborhood makes the neighborhood more attractive to other rich people, both directly and by bringing in rich people amenities. So building high end housing can ultimately cause more demand and higher bids for the existing housing in the neighborhood.</text></item><item><author>weeksie</author><text>Holy shit, supply and demand is still a thing!<p>Last year I was in Seattle and all I heard was complaints about all of the highrises going up as if that was what was causing the high rents. <i>headdesk</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rents dropping significantly across the Seattle area after new construction</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-area-rents-drop-significantly-for-first-time-this-decade-as-new-apartments-sit-empty/</url></story> |
18,249,261 | 18,249,315 | 1 | 2 | 18,248,471 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>subcosmos</author><text>This is getting absolutely rediculous ...<p>Epoxy resins may very well have created the Diabetes epidemic, with genetic data backing it.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;2J3Btq5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;2J3Btq5</a><p>And the chemical used to make Teflon was dumped into the Mississippi river valley for years, leading to a spate of birth defects and other more common medical problems. Dupont paid hundreds of millions : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;2fFAw9Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;2fFAw9Q</a><p>Carlin had it right .... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/microplastics-found-90-percent-table-salt-sea-salt/?user.testname=none</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>burlesona</author><text>This kind of stuff makes me wonder if plastics are to us as lead was to the romans. To useful to avoid even though we know it has risks, but perhaps we don’t appreciate the risks fully... and it’s very difficult to precisely measure exposure or to know how much is safe. The world is complicated. :&#x2F;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/microplastics-found-90-percent-table-salt-sea-salt/?user.testname=none</url></story> |
27,657,330 | 27,657,361 | 1 | 2 | 27,656,344 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prvc</author><text>&gt;§ 15.1 Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.<p>&gt;§ 15.2 Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.<p>Indeed, this is covered by the Charter. Confer with &quot;All animals are equal&#x2F; But some etc.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>neartheplain</author><text>I suspect anti-white speech would not be considered hate speech according to the YMCA of Canada. An &quot;intersectional equity lens&quot; often implies the redefinition as racism as racism-plus-power, viewing all whites as empowered and all non-whites as oppressed.<p>We know anti-white speech can and does incite violence, as it did last week in Daytona Beach:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gwupoe&#x2F;status&#x2F;1409137548899893251" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gwupoe&#x2F;status&#x2F;1409137548899893251</a><p>It can also incite white identity politics, which to me is the much bigger problem caused by this sort of law.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>This is bad. The bill does not define &quot;hate speech&quot;; that&#x27;s left for later administrative determination. All we have so far is “expresses detestation or vilification of a person or group on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.”<p>Combining &quot;detestation&quot; (&quot;I don&#x27;t like you&quot;) with vilification (&quot;You&#x27;re evil&quot;) is a concern. The first is legitimate opinion. The second is defamation. For which truth is a defense under US law.<p>The committee report that fed into this bill [1] is scary. &quot;Finding that certain expression falls within political speech does not close off the enquiry into whether the expression constitutes hate speech.&quot;[2] This is at least in part about suppressing political speech on certain issues.<p>YMCA of Canada proposed a definition: &quot;integrate an intersectional gender equity lens and consider the gendered impacts of anti-Black racism, anti-Indigenous racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and Xenophobia in any definition of “hate” and “online hate”&quot;. Think of trying to defend against a claim of that in court.<p>The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs proposed the IHRA definition of antisemitism, the one that includes some kinds of criticism of the Israeli government.[3]<p>This isn&#x27;t classic hate speech, intended to incite people to violence. Such as &quot;Hang Mike Pence&quot;. This is far, far broader.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ourcommons.ca&#x2F;DocumentViewer&#x2F;en&#x2F;42-1&#x2F;JUST&#x2F;report-29&#x2F;page-57#11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ourcommons.ca&#x2F;DocumentViewer&#x2F;en&#x2F;42-1&#x2F;JUST&#x2F;report...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scc-csc.lexum.com&#x2F;scc-csc&#x2F;scc-csc&#x2F;en&#x2F;item&#x2F;12876&#x2F;index.do?q=whatcott" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scc-csc.lexum.com&#x2F;scc-csc&#x2F;scc-csc&#x2F;en&#x2F;item&#x2F;12876&#x2F;inde...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jta.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;15&#x2F;global&#x2F;the-ihra-definition-of-anti-semitism-and-why-people-are-fighting-over-it-explained" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jta.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;15&#x2F;global&#x2F;the-ihra-definition-of...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Canada to make online hate speech a crime punishable by fine</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/canada-to-make-online-hate-speech-a-crime-punishable-by-1847163213</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TMWNN</author><text>&gt;It can also incite white identity politics, which to me is the much bigger problem caused by this sort of law.<p>&quot;Part of left&#x27;s problem is it expects&#x2F;demands blacks&#x2F;hispanics to vote on ethnic basis but is appalled when whites do&quot; (&lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JYDenham&#x2F;status&#x2F;796345533124186113" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JYDenham&#x2F;status&#x2F;796345533124186113</a>&gt;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>neartheplain</author><text>I suspect anti-white speech would not be considered hate speech according to the YMCA of Canada. An &quot;intersectional equity lens&quot; often implies the redefinition as racism as racism-plus-power, viewing all whites as empowered and all non-whites as oppressed.<p>We know anti-white speech can and does incite violence, as it did last week in Daytona Beach:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gwupoe&#x2F;status&#x2F;1409137548899893251" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gwupoe&#x2F;status&#x2F;1409137548899893251</a><p>It can also incite white identity politics, which to me is the much bigger problem caused by this sort of law.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>This is bad. The bill does not define &quot;hate speech&quot;; that&#x27;s left for later administrative determination. All we have so far is “expresses detestation or vilification of a person or group on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.”<p>Combining &quot;detestation&quot; (&quot;I don&#x27;t like you&quot;) with vilification (&quot;You&#x27;re evil&quot;) is a concern. The first is legitimate opinion. The second is defamation. For which truth is a defense under US law.<p>The committee report that fed into this bill [1] is scary. &quot;Finding that certain expression falls within political speech does not close off the enquiry into whether the expression constitutes hate speech.&quot;[2] This is at least in part about suppressing political speech on certain issues.<p>YMCA of Canada proposed a definition: &quot;integrate an intersectional gender equity lens and consider the gendered impacts of anti-Black racism, anti-Indigenous racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and Xenophobia in any definition of “hate” and “online hate”&quot;. Think of trying to defend against a claim of that in court.<p>The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs proposed the IHRA definition of antisemitism, the one that includes some kinds of criticism of the Israeli government.[3]<p>This isn&#x27;t classic hate speech, intended to incite people to violence. Such as &quot;Hang Mike Pence&quot;. This is far, far broader.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ourcommons.ca&#x2F;DocumentViewer&#x2F;en&#x2F;42-1&#x2F;JUST&#x2F;report-29&#x2F;page-57#11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ourcommons.ca&#x2F;DocumentViewer&#x2F;en&#x2F;42-1&#x2F;JUST&#x2F;report...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scc-csc.lexum.com&#x2F;scc-csc&#x2F;scc-csc&#x2F;en&#x2F;item&#x2F;12876&#x2F;index.do?q=whatcott" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scc-csc.lexum.com&#x2F;scc-csc&#x2F;scc-csc&#x2F;en&#x2F;item&#x2F;12876&#x2F;inde...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jta.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;15&#x2F;global&#x2F;the-ihra-definition-of-anti-semitism-and-why-people-are-fighting-over-it-explained" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jta.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;15&#x2F;global&#x2F;the-ihra-definition-of...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Canada to make online hate speech a crime punishable by fine</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/canada-to-make-online-hate-speech-a-crime-punishable-by-1847163213</url></story> |
19,803,149 | 19,803,270 | 1 | 3 | 19,802,558 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slg</author><text>&gt;I feel like the solution here is to not bribe your children&#x27;s way into school.<p>Or maybe the solution should be to stop accepting bribes. I really am surprised that almost all of the public outrage is being directed at the parents and more of it isn&#x27;t being directed at the people who actually received the cash. I think lots of parents are willing to stretch their morals in order to give their kid every possible advantage in life. That isn&#x27;t exactly noble behavior, but it is more forgivable to me than the old-fashioned financially motivated corruption of the people who accepted the bribes. And even the school agreeing to the &quot;buying a building&quot; style bribe has some type of altruistic motive to improve the welfare of the school. The people accepting these bribes were just trying to get rich.</text><parent_chain><item><author>olliej</author><text>I feel like the solution here is to not bribe your children&#x27;s way into school.<p>If your children aren&#x27;t academically talented and you don&#x27;t have the money to publicly buy a building for the school you should accept that and just let them live off your money and power as is traditional.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents in Admissions Scandal</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/college-admissions-scandal.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>sgustard</author><text>Stanford has explicitly said they do not accept donations in return for admission, for what that&#x27;s worth.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.stanford.edu&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;14&#x2F;admission-case-info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.stanford.edu&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;14&#x2F;admission-case-info&#x2F;</a><p>&quot;A donation does not purchase a place at Stanford, and we work very hard to ensure that prospective donors understand this. Stanford does not accept gifts if it knows a gift is being made with the intention of influencing the admission process.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>olliej</author><text>I feel like the solution here is to not bribe your children&#x27;s way into school.<p>If your children aren&#x27;t academically talented and you don&#x27;t have the money to publicly buy a building for the school you should accept that and just let them live off your money and power as is traditional.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents in Admissions Scandal</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/college-admissions-scandal.html</url></story> |
21,694,951 | 21,693,067 | 1 | 3 | 21,691,024 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway894345</author><text>According to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18496054" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18496054</a>, these programs have to halt? How does this system guarantee that the programs halt? Does this mean eBPF is not Turing complete?</text><parent_chain><item><author>hackworks</author><text>eBPF can be viewed as a mechanism to safely run user code in kernel since it uses a DSL and a compiler before the byte code is executed in kernel. This opens up doors for running performance critical functionality in kernel without having to bundle it with the kernel or very tightly coupled with the kernel version.<p>Optimizing FUSE is an example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extfuse.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extfuse.github.io&#x2F;</a><p>I expect custom security auditing software, reverse proxies, firewalls with rule engines implemented in eBPF in the coming future. This will avoid having to copy dates across kernel and user boundary and the switching overheads.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BPF: A New Type of Software</title><url>http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-12-02/bpf-a-new-type-of-software.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>nikanj</author><text>Bytecode + compiler was also how both Flash and Java Applets worked. Have we forgotten how secure those were?</text><parent_chain><item><author>hackworks</author><text>eBPF can be viewed as a mechanism to safely run user code in kernel since it uses a DSL and a compiler before the byte code is executed in kernel. This opens up doors for running performance critical functionality in kernel without having to bundle it with the kernel or very tightly coupled with the kernel version.<p>Optimizing FUSE is an example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extfuse.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extfuse.github.io&#x2F;</a><p>I expect custom security auditing software, reverse proxies, firewalls with rule engines implemented in eBPF in the coming future. This will avoid having to copy dates across kernel and user boundary and the switching overheads.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BPF: A New Type of Software</title><url>http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-12-02/bpf-a-new-type-of-software.html</url></story> |
18,468,284 | 18,468,341 | 1 | 2 | 18,466,641 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>liftbigweights</author><text>&gt; That&#x27;s a relievingly admirable way to look at these creatures.<p>What&#x27;s &quot;admirable&quot; or not &quot;admirable&quot; about. It&#x27;s just language. If you read about the way orangutans are treated in indonesia, I doubt you&#x27;d feel it was admirable.<p>&gt; I find the English &quot;it&quot; an exceptionally tiring feature.<p>Then don&#x27;t use it.<p>&gt; We call ourselves hackers<p>Who is we? I haven&#x27;t seen many hackers here. Just people with agendas, particular leftist social agendas.<p>&gt; but where&#x27;s a hackaday.io or hackathons for human language, the ubiquitous communication medium?<p>Are you saying english is the &quot;human language&quot;? Also, math is the closest thing to the ubiquitous communication medium.<p>Not sure what your complaining about. Orangutan is part of the english language as well. You don&#x27;t have to use &#x27;it&#x27;. And as for your &quot;hacking the language&quot;, I don&#x27;t care for your or anyone else Newspeak. Language is a tool and it should evolve as the need requires, not because people have a social agenda to push.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmos62</author><text>That&#x27;s a relievingly admirable way to look at these creatures. I find the English &quot;it&quot; an exceptionally tiring feature. There are so many prejudices and world views embded in our languages. We call ourselves hackers, but where&#x27;s a hackaday.io or hackathons for human language, the ubiquitous communication medium?</text></item><item><author>emerongi</author><text>&gt; The name &quot;orangutan&quot; (also written orang-utan, orang utan, orangutang, and ourang-outang) is derived from the Malay and Indonesian words orang meaning &quot;person&quot; and hutan meaning &quot;forest&quot;,[10] thus &quot;person of the forest&quot;.[11]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orangutan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orangutan</a></text></item><item><author>se7entime</author><text>&quot;orangutan&quot; if i translate to my Native Languange (i&#x27;m Indonesian), orang = human in general (could be man&#x2F;woman), utan = forest, so i can say &quot;orangutan&quot; mean &quot;The Human that Live in Forest&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Orangutans are the only great apes besides humans to ‘talk’ about the past</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/orangutans-are-only-great-apes-besides-humans-talk-about-past</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atlantic</author><text>With 6500 languages to choose from, I&#x27;m sure there are more than a few incorporating a world-view which aligns with yours. Rather than create something entirely new, wouldn&#x27;t it be more reasonable to delve into what is already on offer?</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmos62</author><text>That&#x27;s a relievingly admirable way to look at these creatures. I find the English &quot;it&quot; an exceptionally tiring feature. There are so many prejudices and world views embded in our languages. We call ourselves hackers, but where&#x27;s a hackaday.io or hackathons for human language, the ubiquitous communication medium?</text></item><item><author>emerongi</author><text>&gt; The name &quot;orangutan&quot; (also written orang-utan, orang utan, orangutang, and ourang-outang) is derived from the Malay and Indonesian words orang meaning &quot;person&quot; and hutan meaning &quot;forest&quot;,[10] thus &quot;person of the forest&quot;.[11]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orangutan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orangutan</a></text></item><item><author>se7entime</author><text>&quot;orangutan&quot; if i translate to my Native Languange (i&#x27;m Indonesian), orang = human in general (could be man&#x2F;woman), utan = forest, so i can say &quot;orangutan&quot; mean &quot;The Human that Live in Forest&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Orangutans are the only great apes besides humans to ‘talk’ about the past</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/orangutans-are-only-great-apes-besides-humans-talk-about-past</url></story> |
8,967,055 | 8,966,569 | 1 | 2 | 8,966,304 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>macspoofing</author><text>&gt;Its such a great concept that using LO is like stepping back into the Office 97 days.<p>Maybe there&#x27;s a reason why ribbon-style components haven&#x27;t really taken off outside of core Microsoft products. I don&#x27;t think the ribbon is actually that great-looking and I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s that functional.<p>I&#x27;m also a fan of a LO forging it&#x27;s own identity. For far to long Open Office strove to mimic MS Office in look-and-feel.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>While this is certainly a step in the right direction, it displeases me that the FOSS community is so hostile to the ribbon-style UI MS uses in its office product. Its such a great concept that using LO is like stepping back into the Office 97 days. Frankly, I&#x27;d rather just pay every few years for a home edition of Office than do all the mental gymnastic needed to properly switch to LO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever</title><url>http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/01/29/libreoffice-4-4-the-most-beautiful-libreoffice-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>e40</author><text>That&#x27;s your opinion. I don&#x27;t like the new MS UI. In fact, paying for Office every few years means relearning a new UI, or at least relearning where everything is on the menus now. I find that incredibly frustrating and annoying.<p>My issue with LO is that it doesn&#x27;t work on complex spreadsheets and powerpoints. I had spreadsheets corrupted and I just had to turn away from LO and go back to Office. I was much happier in LO, but alas I cannot stay.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>While this is certainly a step in the right direction, it displeases me that the FOSS community is so hostile to the ribbon-style UI MS uses in its office product. Its such a great concept that using LO is like stepping back into the Office 97 days. Frankly, I&#x27;d rather just pay every few years for a home edition of Office than do all the mental gymnastic needed to properly switch to LO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever</title><url>http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/01/29/libreoffice-4-4-the-most-beautiful-libreoffice-ever/</url></story> |
4,228,639 | 4,228,656 | 1 | 2 | 4,227,849 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>In Japan you guys wouldnt survive :)
You get 10 days vacation a year, and you will be damn lucky if you can take them all since it depends on the willingness of your employer to allow them when you want them. People usually work late and night and often on saturdays depending on the work pressure.<p>I am not saying whats wrong or right, but I know my friends back in Europe think its crazy to work such a long time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>While I appreciate getting my vacations paid like that, the article shows a bit how Americans vs other continents see the vacations.<p>Here in Europe the only people I know that dare to have any contact with their company during vacations are usually labeled as workaholic.<p>We appreciate our 22-30 days vacations, without any contact with the employer while enjoying friends and family.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation.</title><url>http://www.fullcontact.com/2012/07/10/paid-paid-vacation/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rmc</author><text>Not to mention that "15 days paid holidays" would be illegal in EU. 20 is the legal minimum, even for lowly jobs like people who sweep floors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>While I appreciate getting my vacations paid like that, the article shows a bit how Americans vs other continents see the vacations.<p>Here in Europe the only people I know that dare to have any contact with their company during vacations are usually labeled as workaholic.<p>We appreciate our 22-30 days vacations, without any contact with the employer while enjoying friends and family.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation.</title><url>http://www.fullcontact.com/2012/07/10/paid-paid-vacation/</url></story> |
37,733,032 | 37,733,106 | 1 | 2 | 37,732,203 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wkat4242</author><text>It&#x27;s indeed sickening how seemingly sane people constantly repeat the company PR line like brainless little corporate drones. Or post stupid jokes or &quot;investment opportunities&quot;. I immediately unfollow everyone on my feed when I see them do that. I have very few people still on it.<p>LinkedIn brings out the worst in people but in a really weird corporate PR packaging. Or some people really believe in their own marketing. I can&#x27;t decide what&#x27;s worse.<p>Ps I also hate all the sales people using LinkedIn to find my details and offer commercial services, usually totally irrelevant to my job. I block them and their companies immediately. But I wish I could report them to spamhaus or something. Microsoft 365 does nothing with the reports because most spammers are also their customers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tamimio</author><text>If you don’t need LinkedIn, don’t use it, I can’t think of any other “social media” platform that’s so cringy and weird like LinkedIn, there’s something off putting about it that no matter how I promise myself to be active there, I stop after one day. If you need it however, just get a burner phone, that’s what I do, I have a second number for all these kind of stuff, my personal never shared in any online service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks</title><text>I&#x27;ve used Linkedin for over two decades. Now I&#x27;m being forced to disclose my mobile number in order to log in.<p>Given their track record of being hacked, I&#x27;m reluctant to share it with them.<p>Moreover, I&#x27;m already inundated with spam phone calls, and I&#x27;m not looking for another source. This is a thinly veiled attempt to harvest my data so they can hide it in a page with six dozen toggles which will periodically make my phone number visible to people who buy it if I am not logging into check what they&#x27;ve changed every day. Have you seen how difficult it is to opt-out of email notifications using their website?<p>If they were actually concerned about my security, they would give me other 2FA options that are more secure, like a Yubikey or authenticator application.<p>No thanks. I&#x27;m done with Linkedin.</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>chunk_waffle</author><text>LinkedIn is hot nuclear garbage. Most of the job listings are ghost jobs and the rest are ones I&#x27;d not want anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tamimio</author><text>If you don’t need LinkedIn, don’t use it, I can’t think of any other “social media” platform that’s so cringy and weird like LinkedIn, there’s something off putting about it that no matter how I promise myself to be active there, I stop after one day. If you need it however, just get a burner phone, that’s what I do, I have a second number for all these kind of stuff, my personal never shared in any online service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks</title><text>I&#x27;ve used Linkedin for over two decades. Now I&#x27;m being forced to disclose my mobile number in order to log in.<p>Given their track record of being hacked, I&#x27;m reluctant to share it with them.<p>Moreover, I&#x27;m already inundated with spam phone calls, and I&#x27;m not looking for another source. This is a thinly veiled attempt to harvest my data so they can hide it in a page with six dozen toggles which will periodically make my phone number visible to people who buy it if I am not logging into check what they&#x27;ve changed every day. Have you seen how difficult it is to opt-out of email notifications using their website?<p>If they were actually concerned about my security, they would give me other 2FA options that are more secure, like a Yubikey or authenticator application.<p>No thanks. I&#x27;m done with Linkedin.</text></story> |
36,974,493 | 36,974,496 | 1 | 3 | 36,973,882 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dcsommer</author><text>Why are unalienable IDs an awful idea? Unalienable IDs seem to me to be the &quot;default&quot; of human societies. Before technology, everyone had &quot;unalienable IDs&quot; -- if you saw Bob, it was Bob.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jrm4</author><text>Good, because this is an awful and stupid and terrible and ridiculous and exploitative idea.<p>On its no-pun-intended face.<p>Let&#x27;s be clear, it does not matter at ALL if Sam Altman or anyone presently involved has good intentions; the goal is biometric crypto, and biometrics -- which is to say, unalienable IDs, is by default an awful idea and should probably be dismissed outright.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/2/23817147/kenya-worldcoin-suspended-sam-altman-eyeball-scanning</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevinventullo</author><text>I do think this project sounds scary and dystopian, but aren’t SSN’s effectively unalienable IDs?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jrm4</author><text>Good, because this is an awful and stupid and terrible and ridiculous and exploitative idea.<p>On its no-pun-intended face.<p>Let&#x27;s be clear, it does not matter at ALL if Sam Altman or anyone presently involved has good intentions; the goal is biometric crypto, and biometrics -- which is to say, unalienable IDs, is by default an awful idea and should probably be dismissed outright.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/2/23817147/kenya-worldcoin-suspended-sam-altman-eyeball-scanning</url></story> |
29,983,182 | 29,983,165 | 1 | 3 | 29,978,723 | 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>mdasen</author><text>AOL&#x2F;TimeWarner was a failure because because it valued AOL at $200B and TimeWarner at $164B. AOL was just way over-valued. It wasn&#x27;t really an integration failure so much as paying too much for something. If Time Warner had bought AOL for $2B, it would have been fine. The problem is that they merged valuing AOL at 100x that when it wasn&#x27;t worth it and later sold for $4.4B to Verizon.<p>Likewise, Yahoo&#x2F;Verizon bought a lot of properties at inflated values. Tumblr wasn&#x27;t worth $1.1B, but Yahoo wanted to buy one of the hot up-and-coming properties to feel relevant.<p>I think the big issue is the price one is paying and whether one has a plan for the purchase or if the purchase is more &quot;but if I don&#x27;t make a big move, what am I doing? I can&#x27;t go wrong following trends, right?&quot;<p>For example, AOL&#x2F;TimeWarner was a situation of over-paying because TimeWarner was afraid that the internet was going to eat the world and they needed to stay relevant. AOL was so hot and it&#x27;s easy to get swept up in the moment thinking &quot;I need to get on board now or I&#x27;ll miss it!&quot; Likewise, Yahoo feared becoming irrelevant as Google took over the internet and thought buying Tumblr would make them the hip forward company once again.<p>Activision Blizard seems like a reasonable add-on for Microsoft. $69B isn&#x27;t that much money for it given it would represent a P&#x2F;E ratio of around 26. Apple&#x27;s P&#x2F;E is 30, Amazon 62, Microsoft 34, Google 26. So they aren&#x27;t paying an absurd amount given Activision&#x27;s profits. Even if they did no integration or strategy, Activision could simply continue doing its thing and contribute favorably to Microsoft&#x27;s bottom line.<p>With a tiny bit of strategy, it seems clear Microsoft could get even more value out of the company. Maybe a few Xbox exclusive titles to push their console business. Maybe some stuff for their game streaming service.<p>If Disney has shown us something over the past few years, it&#x27;s that owning IP that people like allows you to keep spinning new versions of that IP. Activision has lots of that kind of IP in the gaming space so Microsoft should be able to use that to its advantage.<p>I think there&#x27;s a big difference between buying Activision at a price whose P&#x2F;E ratio is better than your own and where there are clear strategies that could offer you even more value compared with the &quot;omg, I&#x27;m getting left behind! I&#x27;ll pay anything you want&quot; panic purchases&#x2F;mergers of other companies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mathattack</author><text>People may be flooding into vertical integration, though the history of that isn’t great. (Look at AOL&#x2F;TimeWarner or Verizon&#x2F;AOL&#x2F;Tumblr&#x2F;Yahoo)<p>All it takes is missing one generation and the house of cards gets written down. Someone can create the next generation blockbuster for a lot less than $69bln.<p>To argue against myself, they’ve become a lot better at picking trends since Balmer left too.</text></item><item><author>curiousllama</author><text>It&#x27;s wild how Microsoft has been able to vertically integrate gaming.<p>They now own the distribution (Xbox Cloud Gaming, Xbox Game Pass), the games (Call of Duty, WoW, Starcraft + what they owned before), the OS (Windows, Xbox), the hardware (Xbox, many PCs), and the back end compute (Azure). The only thing they&#x27;re missing, the network bandwidth, is mostly a commodity anyway.<p>That&#x27;s a heck of a moat.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard</title><url>https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bravetraveler</author><text>Intel has also been feeling the pain of vertical integration. Like with most things, double edged sword.<p>They fabricated their chips - not sure if they still do. Initially this was great, they owned the equipment and got things &#x27;at cost&#x27;. However, they had trouble refining their tooling to get &lt; 14nm for several generations.<p>This made them less competitive for a while, while having a pile of expenses a more lean design house wouldn&#x27;t have. They&#x27;ll surely be fine, but it&#x27;s not the same sprint they&#x27;ve had for quite a while.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mathattack</author><text>People may be flooding into vertical integration, though the history of that isn’t great. (Look at AOL&#x2F;TimeWarner or Verizon&#x2F;AOL&#x2F;Tumblr&#x2F;Yahoo)<p>All it takes is missing one generation and the house of cards gets written down. Someone can create the next generation blockbuster for a lot less than $69bln.<p>To argue against myself, they’ve become a lot better at picking trends since Balmer left too.</text></item><item><author>curiousllama</author><text>It&#x27;s wild how Microsoft has been able to vertically integrate gaming.<p>They now own the distribution (Xbox Cloud Gaming, Xbox Game Pass), the games (Call of Duty, WoW, Starcraft + what they owned before), the OS (Windows, Xbox), the hardware (Xbox, many PCs), and the back end compute (Azure). The only thing they&#x27;re missing, the network bandwidth, is mostly a commodity anyway.<p>That&#x27;s a heck of a moat.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard</title><url>https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/</url></story> |
18,694,471 | 18,694,651 | 1 | 2 | 18,694,006 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>azhenley</author><text>About as scary as my Tesla on autopilot going around a curve at 75mph. Every time I ask myself, what if there is a bug or if it turns off...</text><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>Seems like electromagnets could help compensate for distance by drawing more current when far apart, and less when close together. A microcontroller could essentially make the force linear like a spring. Of course, then you need wires hooked up to your pogo, and that might be scary if the microcontroller has a bug (or somehow fails) since you are now essentially hopping onto a railgun.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick?</title><url>https://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=pogo-stick-spring</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>applecrazy</author><text>Not only that, but you can adjust the “springiness” by having a variable spring constant.</text><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>Seems like electromagnets could help compensate for distance by drawing more current when far apart, and less when close together. A microcontroller could essentially make the force linear like a spring. Of course, then you need wires hooked up to your pogo, and that might be scary if the microcontroller has a bug (or somehow fails) since you are now essentially hopping onto a railgun.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick?</title><url>https://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=pogo-stick-spring</url></story> |
2,762,735 | 2,762,601 | 1 | 3 | 2,762,325 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>randallsquared</author><text>In the postwar era, we [Americans, though I wasn't born, yet] were hopeful about the future. Our science fiction reflected this, but it was just the tip of the iceberg: the whole culture assumed progress and advancement. Immediately after, though, there was a time of fear and pessimism about the future, bringing the concepts of nuclear winter, climate change, resource shortages, and the end of the space age. We call this period "the 70s", and our current culture seems to be far more influenced by that than it is by the previous expectation of momentum and progress.<p>Also, our basic understanding of physics-as-applied-to-the-limits-of-technology hasn't much changed from 1960 to 2010, unlike the period from 1910 to 1960.</text><parent_chain><item><author>redthrowaway</author><text>These articles always remind me of how prescient Star Trek was when it came to technology, and how we really don't have anything like that these days. The last big SciFi show, Battlestar Galactica, seemed to go out of its way to avoid making any bold tech predictions, and the Star Trek franchise seems to have fizzled out (that movie doesn't count). ST:TOS predicted cloaks just <i>six years</i> after the first <i>laser</i> was ever fired, and 3 years before development began on UNIX. Holograms took until TNG, but they were still a good 20 years early.<p>I feel like we're getting ripped off. I want radical predictions that I can watch daytime specials on Discovery about in 50 years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First Demonstration Of Time Cloaking</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RyanMcGreal</author><text>I'm not sure that Star Trek was prescient about what we would go on to invent, so much as it actually inspired a generation of inventors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>redthrowaway</author><text>These articles always remind me of how prescient Star Trek was when it came to technology, and how we really don't have anything like that these days. The last big SciFi show, Battlestar Galactica, seemed to go out of its way to avoid making any bold tech predictions, and the Star Trek franchise seems to have fizzled out (that movie doesn't count). ST:TOS predicted cloaks just <i>six years</i> after the first <i>laser</i> was ever fired, and 3 years before development began on UNIX. Holograms took until TNG, but they were still a good 20 years early.<p>I feel like we're getting ripped off. I want radical predictions that I can watch daytime specials on Discovery about in 50 years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First Demonstration Of Time Cloaking</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/</url></story> |
19,053,372 | 19,050,366 | 1 | 2 | 19,048,126 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>efdee</author><text>In my experience, a lot of unit tests are written with mocks, expectations, and way too much knowledge of the implementation details, which leads to broken tests simply by refactoring, even if the behavior does not change at all.<p>If you test units in isolation, while adhering to SRP which results in many smaller units depending on eachother to do a task, then simply refactoring without changing behavior screws up a considerable portion of your tests.<p>As for &quot;tests cast away fear&quot;, that is definitely true. Whether or not the lack of fear is warranted is something else, and depends heavily on the quality of the unit tests. I&#x27;ve seen plenty of devs confident of their change because it didn&#x27;t break any unit tests, only to discover that it broke something they forgot to test.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hathawsh</author><text>My rule of thumb: tests cast away fear. Whenever I get that sinking feeling that I&#x27;ll break things when I change the code, I write tests until my doubts disappear. It works every time.<p>In response to the article: it&#x27;s true that &quot;you should very rarely have to change tests when you refactor code&quot;, however, most of the time, most coders are changing the expected behavior of the code due to changed or added requirements, which is not refactoring. Tests should change when the requirements change, of course. I am not contradicting the article, only clarifying that the quoted statement does not apply outside refactoring. (Refactoring is improving the design or performance of code without changing its required behavior.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (2017)</title><url>https://blog.kentcdodds.com/write-tests-not-too-many-mostly-integration-5e8c7fff591c</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>I find it helps when I consider the tests to be part of the code. If I need to change existing functionality, of course I&#x27;ll need to change the tests so they test the new requirement(s). If I&#x27;m adding new functionality I add new tests to test the new requirement, but I shouldn&#x27;t break any of the old tests when I do that. If I&#x27;m changing code with no requirements changes (as in, pure refactoring, not &quot;tidying up as part of new feature development&quot;), all the existing tests need to pass unchanged...</text><parent_chain><item><author>hathawsh</author><text>My rule of thumb: tests cast away fear. Whenever I get that sinking feeling that I&#x27;ll break things when I change the code, I write tests until my doubts disappear. It works every time.<p>In response to the article: it&#x27;s true that &quot;you should very rarely have to change tests when you refactor code&quot;, however, most of the time, most coders are changing the expected behavior of the code due to changed or added requirements, which is not refactoring. Tests should change when the requirements change, of course. I am not contradicting the article, only clarifying that the quoted statement does not apply outside refactoring. (Refactoring is improving the design or performance of code without changing its required behavior.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (2017)</title><url>https://blog.kentcdodds.com/write-tests-not-too-many-mostly-integration-5e8c7fff591c</url></story> |
24,124,344 | 24,121,895 | 1 | 2 | 24,121,290 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>curo</author><text>I&#x27;ve been looking for this for a while -- love it.<p>a) is SalesForce integration in the queue? Our primary use case is syncing customer records<p>b) i presume since you store the tokens, there&#x27;s massive vendor lock-in right? just wondering how we might be at the mercy of your team (e.g., if you got acquired, raised prices, etc)<p>I think you&#x27;re onto something big! At first I thought this was Auth0-like, so I suppose something more obvious in the landing page copy might help (e.g., &quot;Build integrations into your SaaS apps in minutes&quot;)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: Xkit (YC S18) – OAuth infrastructure as a service</title><text>Hey HN,<p>I’m Trey, the founder of Xkit (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkit.co" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkit.co</a>). Xkit helps developers build and maintain native integrations by turning OAuth for 25 of the most popular SaaS apps into a single API call that always returns fresh access tokens.<p>I went through YC two years ago in S18 (and some of you may have seen our launch) with Sparkswap, a trust-minimized bitcoin exchange. After a year and half of building that product and building up a small but loyal following, I made the hard decision to shut it down. The audience for a trust-minimized service like Sparkswap was too niche and the regulatory costs were too high. It felt like the only way to stay in that business would be to compromise on some of our core principles (e.g. go after gambling behavior, play regulatory games), so I decided to stop working in crypto and move to FinTech more broadly.<p>While doing customer discovery for a more traditional FinTech service, I encountered a pretty common request: integrations to the SaaS products my prospective customers were already using. As I was implementing OAuth with a slight variation for the 5th time, I realized I was re-writing code that thousands of other developers (probably including a bunch of people here) have already written (and debugged, and maintained).<p>So I stopped working on that FinTech service (for those keeping score at home, yes that&#x27;s two pivots) and started building a tool to let you outsource the pain of authorizing 3rd party apps with a particular focus on OAuth. From my perspective, for an integration to really be native, it will probably be faster and easier to just write some code instead of fighting against a GUI. But my goal was to make sure that nearly every line of code you write is actually <i>for your integration</i>, not authorization boilerplate.<p>Two years and two pivots after I went through YC, I&#x27;m excited to share Xkit: the tool I wanted when I was building native integrations.<p>Xkit is really two things: 1) An end-user experience for viewing and connecting 3rd party apps, and 2) An API for retrieving always-fresh access tokens.<p>To make the first work, we establish a session with your user by piggy-backing on your existing authentication method (e.g. you send us their current JWT, and we validate it). From there, we can handle the OAuth dance: CSRF&#x2F;state tokens, scope handling, callbacks, etc. For the end-user UI, we have a pre-built integration catalog to give your users an interface to browse your integrations, connect new ones, and repair broken ones. In fact, our integrations page (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkit.co&#x2F;integrations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkit.co&#x2F;integrations</a>) is just our pre-built catalog rendered directly on our Webflow site. If you want more control over the experience you can do that too: our xkit.js library has all the tools for you to quickly build your own catalog without having to dig into OAuth.<p>For the API, just call it with the ID of the user and the name of the service, and we return a non-expired access token. You can call it from any backend process: a cloud function&#x2F;lambda, a microservice, or a monolithic server. This makes your integration code a lot simpler: one API call using one API key rather than storing, encrypting, and refreshing tokens. You can even get access tokens on the front-end if you have a valid user session, so if you&#x27;re building a front-end only app you no longer have to even think about whether a specific provider implements PKCE (looking at you, Atlassian).<p>We already work with over 25 of the most popular SaaS apps (Intercom and Zendesk added just last week!) and setting each one up typically just involves plugging in your OAuth credentials.<p>Imagine you had a team at your company that were experts in all the weird (sometimes undocumented) ways that various providers extend the OAuth spec, and they built an internal service that does all that stuff The Right Way™, lets you move it out of your core applications, and still gives PM and Design flexibility on the integration experience. That&#x27;s Xkit.<p>You can get a free dev account (up to 10 users) to try it out here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.xkit.co&#x2F;sign-up" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.xkit.co&#x2F;sign-up</a>, and if you send me an email (trey@) telling me that you came from this post, I&#x27;ll give you 50% off your first year of the Startup or Pro plans. Thanks for making it through the wall of text. Would love to hear what you think!<p>Trey</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>jaywalk</author><text>So I have to trust your company with valid access tokens for all of my users. No thanks.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: Xkit (YC S18) – OAuth infrastructure as a service</title><text>Hey HN,<p>I’m Trey, the founder of Xkit (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkit.co" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkit.co</a>). Xkit helps developers build and maintain native integrations by turning OAuth for 25 of the most popular SaaS apps into a single API call that always returns fresh access tokens.<p>I went through YC two years ago in S18 (and some of you may have seen our launch) with Sparkswap, a trust-minimized bitcoin exchange. After a year and half of building that product and building up a small but loyal following, I made the hard decision to shut it down. The audience for a trust-minimized service like Sparkswap was too niche and the regulatory costs were too high. It felt like the only way to stay in that business would be to compromise on some of our core principles (e.g. go after gambling behavior, play regulatory games), so I decided to stop working in crypto and move to FinTech more broadly.<p>While doing customer discovery for a more traditional FinTech service, I encountered a pretty common request: integrations to the SaaS products my prospective customers were already using. As I was implementing OAuth with a slight variation for the 5th time, I realized I was re-writing code that thousands of other developers (probably including a bunch of people here) have already written (and debugged, and maintained).<p>So I stopped working on that FinTech service (for those keeping score at home, yes that&#x27;s two pivots) and started building a tool to let you outsource the pain of authorizing 3rd party apps with a particular focus on OAuth. From my perspective, for an integration to really be native, it will probably be faster and easier to just write some code instead of fighting against a GUI. But my goal was to make sure that nearly every line of code you write is actually <i>for your integration</i>, not authorization boilerplate.<p>Two years and two pivots after I went through YC, I&#x27;m excited to share Xkit: the tool I wanted when I was building native integrations.<p>Xkit is really two things: 1) An end-user experience for viewing and connecting 3rd party apps, and 2) An API for retrieving always-fresh access tokens.<p>To make the first work, we establish a session with your user by piggy-backing on your existing authentication method (e.g. you send us their current JWT, and we validate it). From there, we can handle the OAuth dance: CSRF&#x2F;state tokens, scope handling, callbacks, etc. For the end-user UI, we have a pre-built integration catalog to give your users an interface to browse your integrations, connect new ones, and repair broken ones. In fact, our integrations page (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkit.co&#x2F;integrations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkit.co&#x2F;integrations</a>) is just our pre-built catalog rendered directly on our Webflow site. If you want more control over the experience you can do that too: our xkit.js library has all the tools for you to quickly build your own catalog without having to dig into OAuth.<p>For the API, just call it with the ID of the user and the name of the service, and we return a non-expired access token. You can call it from any backend process: a cloud function&#x2F;lambda, a microservice, or a monolithic server. This makes your integration code a lot simpler: one API call using one API key rather than storing, encrypting, and refreshing tokens. You can even get access tokens on the front-end if you have a valid user session, so if you&#x27;re building a front-end only app you no longer have to even think about whether a specific provider implements PKCE (looking at you, Atlassian).<p>We already work with over 25 of the most popular SaaS apps (Intercom and Zendesk added just last week!) and setting each one up typically just involves plugging in your OAuth credentials.<p>Imagine you had a team at your company that were experts in all the weird (sometimes undocumented) ways that various providers extend the OAuth spec, and they built an internal service that does all that stuff The Right Way™, lets you move it out of your core applications, and still gives PM and Design flexibility on the integration experience. That&#x27;s Xkit.<p>You can get a free dev account (up to 10 users) to try it out here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.xkit.co&#x2F;sign-up" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.xkit.co&#x2F;sign-up</a>, and if you send me an email (trey@) telling me that you came from this post, I&#x27;ll give you 50% off your first year of the Startup or Pro plans. Thanks for making it through the wall of text. Would love to hear what you think!<p>Trey</text></story> |
7,617,479 | 7,615,891 | 1 | 2 | 7,615,365 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>konstruktor</author><text><a href="http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>
Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.</text><parent_chain><item><author>te_chris</author><text>I use Rested, it&#x27;s a simple, cheap, mac app and works great. <a href="http://www.helloresolven.com/portfolio/rested/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.helloresolven.com&#x2F;portfolio&#x2F;rested&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: Why the hell was I downvoted for suggesting a good app? goddammit...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services</title><url>http://www.getpostman.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>dfc</author><text>In addition to the other suggestions, there is also the usual suspects:<p><pre><code> * fat fingered an upvote
* vote ring detection evasion bot randomly selected you
for an upvote</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>te_chris</author><text>I use Rested, it&#x27;s a simple, cheap, mac app and works great. <a href="http://www.helloresolven.com/portfolio/rested/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.helloresolven.com&#x2F;portfolio&#x2F;rested&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: Why the hell was I downvoted for suggesting a good app? goddammit...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services</title><url>http://www.getpostman.com/</url></story> |
8,057,567 | 8,057,595 | 1 | 2 | 8,057,470 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>majke</author><text>Mr Zdziarski gave this talk also at the HOPE conference yesterday. It&#x27;s highly recommended. Slides:<p><a href="http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/iOS_Backdoors_Attack_Points_Surveillance_Mechanisms.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdziarski.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;iOS...</a><p>For the people wanting to secure their iphone, go to the end to the slide &quot;Apple Configurator&quot; and follow the described steps to disable your iphone from paring with anything.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices</title><url>http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/iOS_Backdoors_Attack_Points_Surveillance_Mechanisms.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wyager</author><text>&gt;This is due to iOS&#x27; behavior of automatically joining networks whose name (not MAC address) it recognizes, such as “linksys” or “attwifi”.<p>Discriminating by MAC addresses would not help at all. MAC addresses are trivial to spoof, even though they are &quot;in hardware&quot;.<p>It would be cool if we had a standardized trust-on-first-use cryptographic authentication model for wireless APs, like we do with SSH right now. You connect to the AP, it sends you its pubkey, your phone says &quot;Do you want to trust AP with key AB:CD:BE:EF...&quot;. The discriminating paranoid person can choose to make sure this is the right key hash, and the average person gets at least limited protection from later AP spoofing attacks.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices</title><url>http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/iOS_Backdoors_Attack_Points_Surveillance_Mechanisms.pdf</url></story> |
12,517,283 | 12,516,838 | 1 | 2 | 12,511,202 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mbrameld</author><text>Yeah, I thought the same thing when I joined as a 3C0x2 in 99. 10 years later I was still a 3C0x2 (3D0x4 by then I think, I got out shortly after the AFSC changed), but I was attached to an Army infantry unit (3-1 INF) in Afghanistan as part of the ILO, or in lieu of, program where they would take an Airman from a similar career field in lieu of a soldier. They later renamed it to JET, joint expeditionary tasking. I experienced direct enemy contact as an enlisted Air Force computer programmer. About half of our 80-person team was AF, most in on-the-fob support roles like services and supply, but the mechanics, medics, and civil engineers that were out with us every day were all AF, and all enlisted except two of the CE folks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Diederich</author><text>Yes, this is all well stated.<p>In basic training, I ended up being very close to a lot of different people that I would have otherwise never come in contact with, to that level.<p>And in my opinion, this is a very healthy thing.<p>One thing I&#x27;d like to share that cracks me up, all these years later. Pardon the forthcoming ramble.<p>I had been handling guns from a pretty early age, but I was still looking forward to training on the M-16.<p>Well, at least in the early 90s, there is exactly one (1) day of weapons training in USAF basic training.<p>In the morning, we got on a bus and went to the ass-end of Lackland AFB where the gun ranges were. We then received our weapons, with no ammo in sight, and &#x27;trained&#x27; on them in several hours of classes.<p>Note, this classroom was just a classroom, with desks, with the normal classroom density. And so 50 young men and women were sitting at desks with M-16s. And, on various cadences, we all held them up, put the clip in, simulated chambering a round, aimed, and pulled the trigger.<p>But we had to aim...kind of up and to our left. Because we were never suppose to point the weapon at another person we didn&#x27;t mean to shoot, loaded or otherwise.<p>It was an absolutely absurd scene.<p>Many of my class-mates were openly afraid of handling these weapons, and it showed.<p>After lunch we marched, weapons slung, over to the firing range. We were to each fire sixty rounds that day. The first thirty were warmup&#x2F;practice. The second 30 were for qualification. We each lay supine with the weapon on sandbags. Only then were each of us handed three rounds each, which we pushed into the clip. And then we fired those three rounds.<p>The young lady next to me was terrified of guns, and had never touched one. I noticed that she was closing her eyes before each shot.<p>After we fired our 30 rounds into the targets, our final scores were calculated. My target had 30 holes tightly grouped in the middle. But there was another hole, off all by itself, right on the edge of the target.<p>Somehow I managed to score 31 out of 30 that day, though it was recorded as 30.<p>The young lady next to me repeated &#x27;gun day&#x27; twice more, with different flights (groups), before she qualified.<p>Sorry for the ramble!<p>The real punch line came when I asked my training instructor, later on, why we bothered with only a single day of weapon training.<p>He laughed out loud and said something like, fuck if I know. Think about it, Diederich. What do you think would be going on if Airmen were forced to actually use their weapons against an enemy. The war would already be over!<p>Indeed! The USAF: where the best chance of direct enemy contact comes from becoming one of the few tens of thousands of officers who actually venture into enemy territory on occasion. The &#x27;grunts&#x27;, the enlisted, no way.</text></item><item><author>coldtea</author><text>I did compulsory service, and the most important lessons for me from it are:<p>1) You get (well, are forced) to mingle and cooperate with people outside your &quot;circle&quot; and bubble (of course this is truer for compulsory service).<p>2) You are in place where no one treats you like a &quot;unique snowflake&quot;.<p>3) You get to do all the shit people usually have their parents, mothers, cleaning services, etc do for them, even more so than when merely living alone, because there you are forced to do it, and to do it for 100s of people.</text></item><item><author>Diederich</author><text>Funny you mention two days of basic training being your worst mistake.<p>My biggest problem with basic was keeping myself from laughing out loud at the various antics. Once I was able to control that urge, it was pretty straightforward. I saw it, essentially, as six weeks of necessary bullshit that allowed me to get to the next level.<p>My term in the USAF as a 3C0X2 (computer programmer) was fantastically beneficial. I&#x27;d already been programming for over a decade when I went in. But the installation I landed at allowed me to really learn in a lot of new directions.<p>Having said that, I know a lot of folks that had a far less productive time. But it&#x27;s still a pretty good way to bootstrap a life independent from family, in my opinion at least. The money from the GI bill is very valuable, plus, with some measure of self control, single Airmen can save up a ton of money, since the USAF pays in full for food, housing and medical.</text></item><item><author>hodgesrm</author><text>Fun article. The idea of faking your death has probably occurred to a lot of people in military service.<p>It sure did in my case--it only took two days of basic training to make clear that signing up for the US Air Force was the worst mistake of a heretofore untroubled life. It&#x27;s gratifying to see my proposed method (an untimely hiking accident) so highly praised.<p>Just out of curiosity for anybody who has gone through this exercise what method(s) did you consider? Extra points for originality.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Faking your death</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/so-you-think-can-fake-your-own-death-elizabeth-greenwood</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snerbles</author><text>&gt; The &#x27;grunts&#x27;, the enlisted, no way.<p>This was less the case in the past fifteen years, where USAF personnel in certain career fields were often pressed into Army roles. Particularly in convoy and military police operations, the Army had overextended itself and needed the other branches to fill in the gaps of trained personnel.<p>For most airmen, it can be years before you&#x27;re even considered for deployment. Less than a year into my enlistment as a Security Forces airman, I was sent to be a prison guard (&quot;detainee operations&quot;) at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq. There were Army and Navy personnel, but most of their guards were troops put into a role outside of their usual training...a couple years prior such non-police &quot;augmentee&quot; soldiers without proper use-of-force training were involved in the torture incident in the prison at Abu Ghraib.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Diederich</author><text>Yes, this is all well stated.<p>In basic training, I ended up being very close to a lot of different people that I would have otherwise never come in contact with, to that level.<p>And in my opinion, this is a very healthy thing.<p>One thing I&#x27;d like to share that cracks me up, all these years later. Pardon the forthcoming ramble.<p>I had been handling guns from a pretty early age, but I was still looking forward to training on the M-16.<p>Well, at least in the early 90s, there is exactly one (1) day of weapons training in USAF basic training.<p>In the morning, we got on a bus and went to the ass-end of Lackland AFB where the gun ranges were. We then received our weapons, with no ammo in sight, and &#x27;trained&#x27; on them in several hours of classes.<p>Note, this classroom was just a classroom, with desks, with the normal classroom density. And so 50 young men and women were sitting at desks with M-16s. And, on various cadences, we all held them up, put the clip in, simulated chambering a round, aimed, and pulled the trigger.<p>But we had to aim...kind of up and to our left. Because we were never suppose to point the weapon at another person we didn&#x27;t mean to shoot, loaded or otherwise.<p>It was an absolutely absurd scene.<p>Many of my class-mates were openly afraid of handling these weapons, and it showed.<p>After lunch we marched, weapons slung, over to the firing range. We were to each fire sixty rounds that day. The first thirty were warmup&#x2F;practice. The second 30 were for qualification. We each lay supine with the weapon on sandbags. Only then were each of us handed three rounds each, which we pushed into the clip. And then we fired those three rounds.<p>The young lady next to me was terrified of guns, and had never touched one. I noticed that she was closing her eyes before each shot.<p>After we fired our 30 rounds into the targets, our final scores were calculated. My target had 30 holes tightly grouped in the middle. But there was another hole, off all by itself, right on the edge of the target.<p>Somehow I managed to score 31 out of 30 that day, though it was recorded as 30.<p>The young lady next to me repeated &#x27;gun day&#x27; twice more, with different flights (groups), before she qualified.<p>Sorry for the ramble!<p>The real punch line came when I asked my training instructor, later on, why we bothered with only a single day of weapon training.<p>He laughed out loud and said something like, fuck if I know. Think about it, Diederich. What do you think would be going on if Airmen were forced to actually use their weapons against an enemy. The war would already be over!<p>Indeed! The USAF: where the best chance of direct enemy contact comes from becoming one of the few tens of thousands of officers who actually venture into enemy territory on occasion. The &#x27;grunts&#x27;, the enlisted, no way.</text></item><item><author>coldtea</author><text>I did compulsory service, and the most important lessons for me from it are:<p>1) You get (well, are forced) to mingle and cooperate with people outside your &quot;circle&quot; and bubble (of course this is truer for compulsory service).<p>2) You are in place where no one treats you like a &quot;unique snowflake&quot;.<p>3) You get to do all the shit people usually have their parents, mothers, cleaning services, etc do for them, even more so than when merely living alone, because there you are forced to do it, and to do it for 100s of people.</text></item><item><author>Diederich</author><text>Funny you mention two days of basic training being your worst mistake.<p>My biggest problem with basic was keeping myself from laughing out loud at the various antics. Once I was able to control that urge, it was pretty straightforward. I saw it, essentially, as six weeks of necessary bullshit that allowed me to get to the next level.<p>My term in the USAF as a 3C0X2 (computer programmer) was fantastically beneficial. I&#x27;d already been programming for over a decade when I went in. But the installation I landed at allowed me to really learn in a lot of new directions.<p>Having said that, I know a lot of folks that had a far less productive time. But it&#x27;s still a pretty good way to bootstrap a life independent from family, in my opinion at least. The money from the GI bill is very valuable, plus, with some measure of self control, single Airmen can save up a ton of money, since the USAF pays in full for food, housing and medical.</text></item><item><author>hodgesrm</author><text>Fun article. The idea of faking your death has probably occurred to a lot of people in military service.<p>It sure did in my case--it only took two days of basic training to make clear that signing up for the US Air Force was the worst mistake of a heretofore untroubled life. It&#x27;s gratifying to see my proposed method (an untimely hiking accident) so highly praised.<p>Just out of curiosity for anybody who has gone through this exercise what method(s) did you consider? Extra points for originality.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Faking your death</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/so-you-think-can-fake-your-own-death-elizabeth-greenwood</url></story> |
16,302,948 | 16,302,836 | 1 | 2 | 16,302,530 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>My favourite part:<p>&gt; our verification work resulted in uncovering and fixing a bug in Rust’s standard library, demonstrating that our model of Rust is realistic enough to be useful.<p>The bug was <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;41622" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;41622</a>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RustBelt: securing the foundations of the Rust programming language</title><url>https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3177123.3158154</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fovc</author><text>Adrian Colyer did a good write up of this paper recently on The Morning Paper : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.acolyer.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;18&#x2F;rustbelt-securing-the-foundations-of-the-rust-programming-language&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.acolyer.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;18&#x2F;rustbelt-securing-the-fo...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RustBelt: securing the foundations of the Rust programming language</title><url>https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3177123.3158154</url></story> |
15,376,419 | 15,375,486 | 1 | 2 | 15,374,966 | 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>kohanz</author><text>&gt; but in the long run it may return to normal and in my opinion, our world will be uglier.<p>Not just uglier, but less safe in my opinion. If people have returned to their normal driving habits (speeding over these 3d illusions) it means that at some level, they have reprogrammed their brains to ignore some 3d-like obstacles, because they may be fake. It works in case of the illusion, but I wonder if it would eventually impede their reaction time to other real, but similarly appearing obstacles.</text><parent_chain><item><author>malgorithms</author><text>There is an analogy here to the slippery-slope of attention-getting ads on the Internet. Once upon a time an ad was just a static (not even animated) banner of a certain size and shape. 468x60 was one of the earliest, IIRC. Advertisers invented new formats (&quot;skyscrapers&quot;, &quot;xl-leaderboards&quot;, &quot;300x250&quot;, and so on), and also they got animated, and then they started expanding outside their areas, and so on; each new ad temporarily performed literally dozens of times better than the previous due to shock value.<p>A year or two after a new, more intrusive format became ubiquitous, its performance would fall back to the old format&#x27;s, and, worse, the old format would fall even further because it was too subtle. So in the long run, the money would stay the same, but the pages got uglier, formats got crazier. The game theory is clear: everyone is incentivized to upgrade to the new formats, but once there, no one is better off (neither the publishers nor advertisers), and the readers themselves are far worse off.<p>We&#x27;re seeing this now with traffic signals: if every crosswalk in the world is replaced with this 3D version, we&#x27;ll see a temporary boost in safety, but in the long run it may return to normal and in my opinion, our world will be uglier. I don&#x27;t like our public spaces covered in optical illusions.<p>In my area I&#x27;ve started to see red lights that are so bright you are temporarily blinded at night if you look at them. And they&#x27;ve even begun attaching strobing white LED&#x27;s to the center of some of them. I would guess these perform great in short-term studies. Just like flash ads with games in them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>3D crosswalk in Iceland helps slow down speeding motorists</title><url>http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/photos-video-3d-crosswalk-isafjordur-helps-slow-down-speeding-motorists</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kartan</author><text>&gt; A year or two after a new, more intrusive format became ubiquitous, its performance would fall back to the old format&#x27;s<p>When Sweden changed driving side, that is exactly what happened.<p>&quot;The relatively smooth changeover saw a reduction in the number of accidents. On the day of the change, only 157 minor accidents were reported, of which only 32 involved personal injuries, with only a handful serious. On the Monday following Dagen H, there were 125 reported traffic accidents, compared to a range of 130 to 198 for previous Mondays, none of them fatal. Experts suggested that changing to driving on the right reduced accidents while overtaking, as people already drove left-hand drive vehicles, thereby having a better view of the road ahead; additionally, the change made a marked surge in perceived risk that exceeded the target level and thus was followed by very cautious behavior that caused a major decrease in road fatalities. Indeed, fatal car-to-car and car-to-pedestrian accidents dropped sharply as a result, and the number of motor insurance claims went down by 40%.<p>These initial improvements did not last, however. The number of motor insurance claims returned to &#x27;normal&#x27; over the next six weeks and, by 1969, the accident rates were back to the levels seen before the change.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dagen_H" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dagen_H</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>malgorithms</author><text>There is an analogy here to the slippery-slope of attention-getting ads on the Internet. Once upon a time an ad was just a static (not even animated) banner of a certain size and shape. 468x60 was one of the earliest, IIRC. Advertisers invented new formats (&quot;skyscrapers&quot;, &quot;xl-leaderboards&quot;, &quot;300x250&quot;, and so on), and also they got animated, and then they started expanding outside their areas, and so on; each new ad temporarily performed literally dozens of times better than the previous due to shock value.<p>A year or two after a new, more intrusive format became ubiquitous, its performance would fall back to the old format&#x27;s, and, worse, the old format would fall even further because it was too subtle. So in the long run, the money would stay the same, but the pages got uglier, formats got crazier. The game theory is clear: everyone is incentivized to upgrade to the new formats, but once there, no one is better off (neither the publishers nor advertisers), and the readers themselves are far worse off.<p>We&#x27;re seeing this now with traffic signals: if every crosswalk in the world is replaced with this 3D version, we&#x27;ll see a temporary boost in safety, but in the long run it may return to normal and in my opinion, our world will be uglier. I don&#x27;t like our public spaces covered in optical illusions.<p>In my area I&#x27;ve started to see red lights that are so bright you are temporarily blinded at night if you look at them. And they&#x27;ve even begun attaching strobing white LED&#x27;s to the center of some of them. I would guess these perform great in short-term studies. Just like flash ads with games in them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>3D crosswalk in Iceland helps slow down speeding motorists</title><url>http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/photos-video-3d-crosswalk-isafjordur-helps-slow-down-speeding-motorists</url></story> |
8,465,647 | 8,465,531 | 1 | 3 | 8,464,493 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bazzargh</author><text>This:<p>1. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 and 3, each Party shall make patents available for any invention, whether a product or process, in all fields of technology, provided that the invention is new, involves an inventive step, and is capable of industrial application.<p>which appears to mean software patents in the EU; and <i>mathematical</i> patents in the US (because MX specifically try to exclude that below)<p>Also this:<p>[CL&#x2F;NZ&#x2F;PE&#x2F;MY&#x2F;BN&#x2F;VN&#x2F;CA&#x2F;MX oppose: Except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, including Article QQ.G.8 (Berne 18&#x2F;TRIPS 14.6),] a Party shall not be
required to restore protection to subject matter than on the date of entry into force of this Agreement has fallen into the public domain in its territory.<p>So the Govt&#x27;s of CL&#x2F;NZ&#x2F;PE&#x2F;MY&#x2F;BN&#x2F;VN&#x2F;CA&#x2F;MX appear to want to reprotect parts of the public domain?</text><parent_chain><item><author>teachingaway</author><text>As an IP lawyer, I&#x27;d like to say that reading this draft document is super boring. The parts that I skimmed (less than 10%) was all just harmless procedural rules. Can someone point out or quote the controversial parts? Here&#x27;s the skeleton ToC and a few highlights:<p>A: General Provisions [seems boring]<p>B: Cooperation [seems boring]<p>C: Trademarks<p>D: Geographical Indications<p>E: Patents [including genetic stuff - probably controversial]<p>- Article QQ.E.2387: {Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Genetic Resources}<p>F: Industrial Designs<p>G: Copyright<p>- [basically Fair Use:] - Article QQ.G.Y: {Limitations and Exceptions} - &quot;Each Party shall endeavor to achieve an appropriate balance in its copyright and related rights system, inter alia by means of limitations or exceptions... including those for the digital environment, giving due consideration to legitimate purposes such as, but not limited to: criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, and other similar purposes...&quot;<p>- [DRM stuff:] - Article QQ.G.10: {Technological Protection Measures}<p>H: Enforcement</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Updated Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement – IP Chapter</title><url>https://www.wikileaks.org/tpp-ip2/</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>wavefunction</author><text>Personally? You just listed one:<p>Section E: Patents (including genetic stuff)<p>I don&#x27;t think genetics should be patentable. The thinking behind patenting genes is repulsive to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>teachingaway</author><text>As an IP lawyer, I&#x27;d like to say that reading this draft document is super boring. The parts that I skimmed (less than 10%) was all just harmless procedural rules. Can someone point out or quote the controversial parts? Here&#x27;s the skeleton ToC and a few highlights:<p>A: General Provisions [seems boring]<p>B: Cooperation [seems boring]<p>C: Trademarks<p>D: Geographical Indications<p>E: Patents [including genetic stuff - probably controversial]<p>- Article QQ.E.2387: {Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Genetic Resources}<p>F: Industrial Designs<p>G: Copyright<p>- [basically Fair Use:] - Article QQ.G.Y: {Limitations and Exceptions} - &quot;Each Party shall endeavor to achieve an appropriate balance in its copyright and related rights system, inter alia by means of limitations or exceptions... including those for the digital environment, giving due consideration to legitimate purposes such as, but not limited to: criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, and other similar purposes...&quot;<p>- [DRM stuff:] - Article QQ.G.10: {Technological Protection Measures}<p>H: Enforcement</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Updated Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement – IP Chapter</title><url>https://www.wikileaks.org/tpp-ip2/</url><text></text></story> |
10,436,249 | 10,435,692 | 1 | 2 | 10,434,974 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bazillion</author><text>This reminds me of when I was in the Navy -- at one point I had lived with hundreds of other guys in a ship&#x27;s berthing and at another duty station I mentioned to a coworker that I could determine someone&#x27;s race from their sweat. Of course, they called bullshit on that statement (as I&#x27;d imagine most on here would) and we tested it out with 4 guys (1 black[1], 2 white[2], 1 hispanic[3]) who sweated into the same size shirts, and I was able to identify them with 100% accuracy. Another time, I walked into a cubicle, wrinkled my nose, and said &quot;Man! It smells like an old deck of cards in here!&quot;. One of the guys standing next to me then pulled out a rather well-played-through deck of cards out of his pocket.<p>One of the reasons people give for the difference in smell are the difference in foods that different cultures eat. I definitely know this is not the case, as everyone on that ship was eating the exact same food, and their smells were extremely distinct.<p>I understand that lack of science applied to my specific anecdotes, but I think there&#x27;s something to be said for having a keen sense of smell, since people are already geared towards smelling other people&#x27;s sweat to determine immunocompatibility[4].<p>[1] A black person&#x27;s sweat is the one I can identify with absolute certainty, as it&#x27;s completely unmistakable for anything else<p>[2] A white person&#x27;s sweat smells like a distinct type of onion to me<p>[3] I couldn&#x27;t really identify his race if it were just this shirt, but had that one by process of elimination.<p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Major_histocompatibility_complex_and_sexual_selection#MHC-mediated_mate_choice:_case_studies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Major_histocompatibility_compl...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34583642</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IkmoIkmo</author><text>The thing that most surprised me were the odds that a person in the control group (no parkinson&#x27;s), actually did have parkinson&#x27;s (diagnosed early according to the woman) and was diagnosed later to indeed have parkinson&#x27;s.<p>After all, the prevalence is 0.3% in the general population. The odds at least one of the six in the control group had parkinson&#x27;s is around 2% (even less considering it&#x27;s already a filtered audience in a way). Not impossible but very unlikely, which incidentally makes her insistence of that single particular person to have PD all the more interesting.<p>There&#x27;s definitely something there, looking forward to more testing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34583642</url></story> |
13,267,347 | 13,267,210 | 1 | 3 | 13,266,845 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>contingencies</author><text>Cute title. For those who missed the reference - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Maslow&#x27;s_hierarchy_of_needs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Maslow&#x27;s_hierarchy_of_needs</a><p>A business version would be good, something above the pure profit-motive... actualization as a moral, sustainable, environmental, socially engaged organization that gives more than it takes from society. (Note: This is critically different to the SV-dominant self-image band-aid approach of large scale post-profit philanthropy.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+lizthegrey/posts/MLAJFVyEb2f</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rb2k_</author><text>Here&#x27;s a similar one we use a lot in all sorts of slide sets at Facebook: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;EN0G8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;EN0G8</a><p>(Stolen from Pedro&#x27;s &quot;Notes from Production Engineering&quot; talk: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ugkkza3vKbc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ugkkza3vKbc</a> , Pyramid shows up around 47:30 min
PE = Production Engineer. It&#x27;s a similar role although not exactly the same as the usual SRE role.)<p>It&#x27;s a bit of a different view on the same underlying work. Interesting to see how they slightly differ.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+lizthegrey/posts/MLAJFVyEb2f</url></story> |
24,004,658 | 24,004,785 | 1 | 2 | 23,999,934 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>plusCubed</author><text>DuckDuckGo &quot;most commonly&quot; uses Bing for link search results, so it would mostly be redirecting queries to Microsoft: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.duckduckgo.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-help-pages&#x2F;results&#x2F;sources&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.duckduckgo.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-help-pages&#x2F;results&#x2F;so...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>esperent</author><text>If Google search vanished overnight the world would turn to DDG within a day. Ok, that would probably crash their servers but I&#x27;m sure they and other search engines could scale up quickly.</text></item><item><author>voidhorse</author><text>If you watched the hearing, you will have noticed many of the congressmen and women, after asking their questions in a harsh, accusatory manner, sometimes speaking over the witnesses, turn down to their laps to look at their Apple or Google phones, Google search something, post it to Twitter and or Facebook, and maybe purchase something on Amazon for good measure.<p>That kind of illustrates the point that these companies just <i>might</i> be too big, but what I don&#x27;t hear anyone discussing are the potential <i>consequences</i> of breaking these companies up--they are a <i>hard</i> dependency in some way for most of the American populace if not the world&#x27;s day to day operations and the quality of their services is largely <i>reliant</i> on their scale--I don&#x27;t think the analogy to Standard Oil does justice to the complexity of the situation. We&#x27;re not talking about a simple consumer product here, we&#x27;re talking about complicated data-driven <i>services</i>, services that all rely on access to massive pools of information collected over <i>years</i> at this point, once you fragment the access to that data, the services will no longer perform as they currently do--then what will happen to the little guy we&#x27;re trying to protect from the big boys who relies on Facebook and Google to advertise, Amazon to feed part of his supply chain, and Apple hardware? How might his business look if you suddenly swap out all of these behemoth quality services he depends on for disjointed shadows of their former selves, many of which will no longer be able to justify the gratis offerings and free tiers they currently can?<p>Not saying it these giants shouldn&#x27;t be broken up, just saying it&#x27;s a process that will require a <i>lot</i> of incredibly careful thought and to be honest I&#x27;m not confident those with the power to make the decisions in this case have all the tools they need to ensure such a transition happens without having catastrophic side-effects.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case</title><url>https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/07/30/googles-problems-are-bigger-than-just-the-antitrust-case</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>losvedir</author><text>You&#x27;re trivializing search. DDG only works because for the hard stuff it&#x27;s grandfathered into an old Bing API. DDG is small and scrappy but it&#x27;s built on the shoulders of a giant investing billions of dollars.</text><parent_chain><item><author>esperent</author><text>If Google search vanished overnight the world would turn to DDG within a day. Ok, that would probably crash their servers but I&#x27;m sure they and other search engines could scale up quickly.</text></item><item><author>voidhorse</author><text>If you watched the hearing, you will have noticed many of the congressmen and women, after asking their questions in a harsh, accusatory manner, sometimes speaking over the witnesses, turn down to their laps to look at their Apple or Google phones, Google search something, post it to Twitter and or Facebook, and maybe purchase something on Amazon for good measure.<p>That kind of illustrates the point that these companies just <i>might</i> be too big, but what I don&#x27;t hear anyone discussing are the potential <i>consequences</i> of breaking these companies up--they are a <i>hard</i> dependency in some way for most of the American populace if not the world&#x27;s day to day operations and the quality of their services is largely <i>reliant</i> on their scale--I don&#x27;t think the analogy to Standard Oil does justice to the complexity of the situation. We&#x27;re not talking about a simple consumer product here, we&#x27;re talking about complicated data-driven <i>services</i>, services that all rely on access to massive pools of information collected over <i>years</i> at this point, once you fragment the access to that data, the services will no longer perform as they currently do--then what will happen to the little guy we&#x27;re trying to protect from the big boys who relies on Facebook and Google to advertise, Amazon to feed part of his supply chain, and Apple hardware? How might his business look if you suddenly swap out all of these behemoth quality services he depends on for disjointed shadows of their former selves, many of which will no longer be able to justify the gratis offerings and free tiers they currently can?<p>Not saying it these giants shouldn&#x27;t be broken up, just saying it&#x27;s a process that will require a <i>lot</i> of incredibly careful thought and to be honest I&#x27;m not confident those with the power to make the decisions in this case have all the tools they need to ensure such a transition happens without having catastrophic side-effects.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case</title><url>https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/07/30/googles-problems-are-bigger-than-just-the-antitrust-case</url></story> |
27,308,600 | 27,307,540 | 1 | 2 | 27,306,754 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deckard1</author><text>Minority Report came out in 2002. I remember people were talking about the targeted advertising going on in the movie. Two years later Facebook came out along with their pitch deck[1]. Now that movie seems quaint.<p>Developers and entrepreneurs are actively chasing dystopia. We&#x27;ve become increasingly numb and blasé about the encroachment of the internet and smartphones into our lives. Eventually we&#x27;ll have The Running Man with live streaming. The end result of our social isolation and filter&#x2F;engagement bubbles due to technology is moral apathy and rot. To speak the VC speak, the past few years have validated a market for cruelty, hate, and mob justice. The only question left is, <i>how do I buy in today</i>? Citizen seems like an early answer to this.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.slidebean.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;s15UZQkE7T&#x2F;Facebooks-original-pitch-deck" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.slidebean.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;s15UZQkE7T&#x2F;Facebooks-original-pi...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jakelazaroff</author><text><i>&gt; Citizen, using a new livestreaming service it had just launched called OnAir, would catch the suspect live on air, with thousands of people watching.</i><p>I&#x27;m sorry, is this describing real life or an episode of Black Mirror? It&#x27;s so blatantly dystopian that I&#x27;m at a loss for words.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dpyw/inside-crime-app-citizen-vigilante</url></story> | <instructions>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>It&#x27;s a scene taken almost directly from Fahrenheit 451.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sparknotes.com&#x2F;lit&#x2F;451&#x2F;section9&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sparknotes.com&#x2F;lit&#x2F;451&#x2F;section9&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jakelazaroff</author><text><i>&gt; Citizen, using a new livestreaming service it had just launched called OnAir, would catch the suspect live on air, with thousands of people watching.</i><p>I&#x27;m sorry, is this describing real life or an episode of Black Mirror? It&#x27;s so blatantly dystopian that I&#x27;m at a loss for words.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dpyw/inside-crime-app-citizen-vigilante</url></story> |
1,506,585 | 1,506,149 | 1 | 2 | 1,505,707 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peterwwillis</author><text>as a person who deals with tens of thousands of machines/network devices, i disagree that it's a bikeshed. yes you have to refer to a database for specific information. but it can be a huge time saver if the information that is most generally needed is just there, not needing to be looked up.<p>for us, we basically have 4 types of information in a fqdn: datacenter, lan, type of host (web server, database, filer, router, switch, etc) and an additional datacenter identifier. after the root domain comes the datacenter, and if there's an additional subdomain that's the lan. after that is the host name which is a number prefixed by the host type. the number is a randomly-selected number within a certain range. the range indicates what datacenter it's in, so 4000-5999 are in one place and 6000-7999 are in another place (incase whatever you're looking at did not include the subdomains). now we can refer to 'ws1234' and know what it is and where it is. it still has much more specific information, but that can be looked up as necessary. since it's less random it's also easier to read hostnames to people and grep through logs.<p>after having worked with much more confusing naming conventions, i like this simple straightforward method because it's easy to read, talk about, and gives the basic information i need before i look up the specifics in the inventory db. can you do without it? of course. but does that make my job easier or harder?</text><parent_chain><item><author>lsc</author><text>Naming is a classic bikeshed. Sure, a good naming system is a good thing, and helps you recognize what box is where. But once you hit between 20 and 200 hosts (depending on your memory) you are going to need to stick 'em in a database and sort 'em into groups to manage them in a sane manner anyhow, and at that point, naming schemes won't mean much anyhow.<p>The problem is that as a bikeshed, /everyone/ has an opinion and everyone wants to have that opinion heard. I've been places where we spent more effort arguing about naming schemes than it would have taken to write the database and tools for retrieving groups of hosts.<p>So generally, when this comes up in situations where I'm in charge, I loudly declare it a bikeshed, and we choose the scheme essentially at random.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A couple neat things about using chemical elements as hostnames</title><url>http://geoff.greer.fm/2009/06/17/hostnames/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>Declaring bikeshed should be like calling shotgun--whoever declares it should make the decision.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lsc</author><text>Naming is a classic bikeshed. Sure, a good naming system is a good thing, and helps you recognize what box is where. But once you hit between 20 and 200 hosts (depending on your memory) you are going to need to stick 'em in a database and sort 'em into groups to manage them in a sane manner anyhow, and at that point, naming schemes won't mean much anyhow.<p>The problem is that as a bikeshed, /everyone/ has an opinion and everyone wants to have that opinion heard. I've been places where we spent more effort arguing about naming schemes than it would have taken to write the database and tools for retrieving groups of hosts.<p>So generally, when this comes up in situations where I'm in charge, I loudly declare it a bikeshed, and we choose the scheme essentially at random.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A couple neat things about using chemical elements as hostnames</title><url>http://geoff.greer.fm/2009/06/17/hostnames/</url></story> |
6,340,856 | 6,340,800 | 1 | 3 | 6,339,434 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anologwintermut</author><text>Ok, first, there is an oligopoly of cell phone carriers: you don&#x27;t actually have enough for it to be a free market. Second, you likely don&#x27;t want there to be enough real carriers(i.e. with their own towers), for there to be a free market. That would involve massive amounts of wasted infrastructure. Thankfully, third, because of those infrastructure costs, it&#x27;s unlikely you&#x27;d ever see that many cell phone carriers. Cell phone infrastructure isn&#x27;t quite a natural monopoly[0], but it&#x27;s close.<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Natural_monopoly</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&gt; it will remove unmerited earnings<p>If people are currently paying roaming costs, then the earnings are clearly merited. You might find the practice distasteful, and wish it did not exist, but that does not make it illegitimate; they found something the market would pay for, and successfully got the market to pay for it.<p>There&#x27;s no monopoly on cell carriers, as evidenced by the three separate carriers mentioned just in the sentence you quoted.</text></item><item><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; Her proposals have faced fierce opposition from the largest networks, including Vodafone, Orange and Telefónica, which say the end of roaming within Europe could cost them €7bn (£5.9bn).<p>Delicious tears.<p>Though I object to the use of the word &quot;cost&quot;, it will remove unmerited earnings but will not add costs to their balance sheet: notice how the operators whining the most are the pan-european ones? That&#x27;s because they can currently charge roaming fees for operations within their network, fleecing their own users.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/sep/05/europe-law-ban-mobile-roaming-charges</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>njs12345</author><text>Roaming charges are too high and I want to start a new cell carrier to compete on this basis. How would you suggest I go about it?</text><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&gt; it will remove unmerited earnings<p>If people are currently paying roaming costs, then the earnings are clearly merited. You might find the practice distasteful, and wish it did not exist, but that does not make it illegitimate; they found something the market would pay for, and successfully got the market to pay for it.<p>There&#x27;s no monopoly on cell carriers, as evidenced by the three separate carriers mentioned just in the sentence you quoted.</text></item><item><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; Her proposals have faced fierce opposition from the largest networks, including Vodafone, Orange and Telefónica, which say the end of roaming within Europe could cost them €7bn (£5.9bn).<p>Delicious tears.<p>Though I object to the use of the word &quot;cost&quot;, it will remove unmerited earnings but will not add costs to their balance sheet: notice how the operators whining the most are the pan-european ones? That&#x27;s because they can currently charge roaming fees for operations within their network, fleecing their own users.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/sep/05/europe-law-ban-mobile-roaming-charges</url></story> |
34,335,872 | 34,332,965 | 1 | 3 | 34,332,114 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>havercosine</author><text>Ignoring all the flak Stephen Wolfram gets, this is something that Wolfram Alpha does much better. Asking `escape velocity on Enceladus` to ChatGPT, it gave correct formula and still wrong result. All the hard-work of generating computable verified results for the Wolfram Engine database seems invaluable in comparison.<p>The deeper fact that Stephen Wolfram talks about in comparing ChatGPT vs Symbolic AI is true too. A layer deeper from ChatGPT is just a bunch of floats. So it is a lot harder to debug why the system arrived at the wrong result. For symbolic computations there might be a way to resolve how the expressions were transformed by the compiler and where it went off track, a debugging in true sense.<p>It is my gut feeling that we might see a next AI winter in a decade where we will finally start combining symbolic and connectionist approaches.</text><parent_chain><item><author>personjerry</author><text>I&#x27;ve built some AI-powered software before, and the issue for a lot of the consumer-facing tools such as this one is that a few incorrect results voids the value of the whole system. I think you&#x27;d probably need &gt;95% accuracy for the benefits to outweigh the cost, and looking at the comments here it&#x27;s clear that that bar has not been cleared.<p>To put it simply: If you can&#x27;t be sure that the results are accurate, how can you default to this search system?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NeevaAI</title><url>https://neeva.com/blog/introducing-neevaai</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tylersmith</author><text>This has actually been my issue with Neeva since before the AI thing. I love the idea of a search engine I can fund by paying directly instead of hoping Google can continue to make money off giving me stuff, but 95% of my Neeva searches result in going to Google anyways.<p>For a while my muscle memory when searching was to prefix with a &quot;g&quot; so why pay a middle man?</text><parent_chain><item><author>personjerry</author><text>I&#x27;ve built some AI-powered software before, and the issue for a lot of the consumer-facing tools such as this one is that a few incorrect results voids the value of the whole system. I think you&#x27;d probably need &gt;95% accuracy for the benefits to outweigh the cost, and looking at the comments here it&#x27;s clear that that bar has not been cleared.<p>To put it simply: If you can&#x27;t be sure that the results are accurate, how can you default to this search system?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NeevaAI</title><url>https://neeva.com/blog/introducing-neevaai</url></story> |
13,418,995 | 13,418,253 | 1 | 3 | 13,417,037 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lokedhs</author><text>I never understood the attitude of some companies to fire an employee immediately if they make a mistake such as accidentally deleting some files. If you keep this employee, then you can e pretty sure he&#x27;ll never made that mistake again. If you fire him and hire someone else, that person might not have had the learning experience of completely screwing up a system.<p>I think that employees actually makes less mistakes and are more productive if they don&#x27;t have be worried about being fired for making a mistake.</text><parent_chain><item><author>woliveirajr</author><text>The biggest difference, I think, was leaving the hunting for a head for a second moment, or even not doing it at all.<p>Commitment would be very different if people were being asked to help while some heads were rolling. Because you&#x27;re a real team when everybody is going in the same direction. Any call on &quot;people, work hard do recover while we&#x27;re after the moron who deleted everything&quot; wouldn&#x27;t have done it.<p>You just commit to something when you know that you won&#x27;t be under the fire if you do something wrong without knowing it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)</title><url>https://www.quora.com/Pixar-company/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Story-2-during-production/answer/Oren-Jacob</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mr_luc</author><text>I remember this from the <i>Field Guide to Understanding Human Error</i>. Making recovering from human error a well-understood process is important, and as you point out, that process will work best if people aren&#x27;t distracted by butt-covering.</text><parent_chain><item><author>woliveirajr</author><text>The biggest difference, I think, was leaving the hunting for a head for a second moment, or even not doing it at all.<p>Commitment would be very different if people were being asked to help while some heads were rolling. Because you&#x27;re a real team when everybody is going in the same direction. Any call on &quot;people, work hard do recover while we&#x27;re after the moron who deleted everything&quot; wouldn&#x27;t have done it.<p>You just commit to something when you know that you won&#x27;t be under the fire if you do something wrong without knowing it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)</title><url>https://www.quora.com/Pixar-company/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Story-2-during-production/answer/Oren-Jacob</url></story> |
18,960,245 | 18,958,322 | 1 | 2 | 18,954,018 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dkarl</author><text>I think what this quote is responding to is people disseminating some first world millennial&#x27;s first uninformed guess about an issue as if were a revolution and a blessing to the world, instead of stopping to think that their precious intellectual virtues are not limited to people of their class, education, and supposed intelligence.<p>The idea that our enlightened attitudes set us apart from the rest of unwashed humanity is <i>our</i> fake news -- the stuff we consume unreflectively because it flatters us and plays nicely with our prejudices. Presented in a neutral context, the idea that the agricultural industry was throwing away significant quantities of produce because of aesthetic flaws would meet a lot of skepticism. Presented in the context of <i>you are special because you understand how wrong this practice is</i> and <i>special people like us can help save the world by fixing this problem</i> the idea gets uncritically accepted and widely shared on social media.<p>Calling people &quot;classist as fuck&quot; is designed to startle and threaten exactly the people who tend to accept these narratives uncritically, and put them in a frame of mind to consider that they might be wrong. Whatever the truth of the issue is, we won&#x27;t get there unless we stop seeing ourselves as the hero of the story.</text><parent_chain><item><author>feross</author><text>&gt; The &quot;eat ugly fruit!&quot; movement is classist as FUCK. You&#x27;ve got to have a debilitating level of ignorance to assume that if Whole Paycheck Market doesn&#x27;t stock ugly fruit, it must be getting &quot;wasted.&quot;<p>It is possible to not know much about the agricultural industry without being &quot;classist as fuck.&quot; There are an infinite number of things one can learn about and a finite amount of time. While the content is interesting, I find the condescending tone off-putting.<p>Are there advantages to this communication style that I&#x27;m missing?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam</title><url>https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1086055092321697794</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeswin</author><text>I guess the author was upset that a great many people parroted the &#x27;ugly fruits get disposed&#x27; line without doing any research. I might have mentioned it myself, because it was all over the news.
I can understand why someone who works in the industry would find this frustrating - it&#x27;s basically just fake news and the damage is real. A rebuttal would get nowhere near the press the sensationalist original story would get.<p>The lesson from this is - share stories only within your area of expertise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>feross</author><text>&gt; The &quot;eat ugly fruit!&quot; movement is classist as FUCK. You&#x27;ve got to have a debilitating level of ignorance to assume that if Whole Paycheck Market doesn&#x27;t stock ugly fruit, it must be getting &quot;wasted.&quot;<p>It is possible to not know much about the agricultural industry without being &quot;classist as fuck.&quot; There are an infinite number of things one can learn about and a finite amount of time. While the content is interesting, I find the condescending tone off-putting.<p>Are there advantages to this communication style that I&#x27;m missing?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam</title><url>https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1086055092321697794</url></story> |
38,335,823 | 38,334,205 | 1 | 3 | 38,331,669 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>svnt</author><text>What is your concern exactly?<p>This was a first-pass study in a field addressing some of the criticisms leveraged against an earlier study where the spatial reasoning problems were viewed to be too hard. They seemingly made the spatial reasoning questions as easy as they could.<p>The qualifications they put on MTurk are pretty standard if you want humans who care about what they are doing responding to your study. It costs more to do this.<p>It is a limitation of science that is both budgetary and procedural.<p>By calling into question their results you seem to be suggesting that an average human would only 33% of the time be able to tell e.g. how many points are inside a box, or whether more points are inside or outside of a box. This is extremely basic spatial reasoning we are talking about.<p>The problem they were addressing with the settings is just noise in the results by cheap bots and clicky humans trying to earn $0.50. It is endemic on MTurk.</text><parent_chain><item><author>krona</author><text>This paper evaluates performance compared to a &#x27;human&#x27; which presumably is an average adult human without cognitive impairment. I had to dig in to the references:<p><i>In the first batch of participants collected via Amazon Mechanical Turk, each received 11 problems
(this batch also only had two “minimal Problems,” as opposed to three such problems for everyone
else). However, preliminary data examination showed that some participants did not fully follow
the study instructions and had to be excluded (see Section 5.2). In response, we made the screening
criteria more strict (requiring a Master Worker qualification, 99% of HITs approved with at least
2000 HIT history, as opposed to 95% approval requirement in the first batch). Participants in all
but the first batch were paid $10 upon completing the experiment. Participants in the first batch
were paid $5. In all batches, the median pay-per-hour exceeded the U.S. minimal wage.</i><p>(Arseny Moskvichev et al)<p>So in conclusion, this isn&#x27;t a random sample of (adult) humans, and the paper doesn&#x27;t give standard deviations.<p>It would&#x27;ve been more interesting of they had sampled an age range of humans which we would place GPT-4 on rather than just &#x27;it&#x27;s not as good&#x27; which is all this paper can say, really.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Comparing humans, GPT-4, and GPT-4V on abstraction and reasoning tasks</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09247</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>a1j9o94</author><text>Another thing I take issue with is this doesn&#x27;t seem to be using known ways to improve performance of LLMs such as chain of thought and tree of thought prompting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>krona</author><text>This paper evaluates performance compared to a &#x27;human&#x27; which presumably is an average adult human without cognitive impairment. I had to dig in to the references:<p><i>In the first batch of participants collected via Amazon Mechanical Turk, each received 11 problems
(this batch also only had two “minimal Problems,” as opposed to three such problems for everyone
else). However, preliminary data examination showed that some participants did not fully follow
the study instructions and had to be excluded (see Section 5.2). In response, we made the screening
criteria more strict (requiring a Master Worker qualification, 99% of HITs approved with at least
2000 HIT history, as opposed to 95% approval requirement in the first batch). Participants in all
but the first batch were paid $10 upon completing the experiment. Participants in the first batch
were paid $5. In all batches, the median pay-per-hour exceeded the U.S. minimal wage.</i><p>(Arseny Moskvichev et al)<p>So in conclusion, this isn&#x27;t a random sample of (adult) humans, and the paper doesn&#x27;t give standard deviations.<p>It would&#x27;ve been more interesting of they had sampled an age range of humans which we would place GPT-4 on rather than just &#x27;it&#x27;s not as good&#x27; which is all this paper can say, really.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Comparing humans, GPT-4, and GPT-4V on abstraction and reasoning tasks</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09247</url></story> |
12,979,832 | 12,979,775 | 1 | 2 | 12,978,893 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajacksified</author><text>When I was first building m.reddit.com, I put it under `reddit.horse`, mostly because I found it hilarious that `.horse` existed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewStephens</author><text>I have a .horse domain - I tried every permutation horse puns and in-jokes (my.lovely.horse, etc) but they were all taken by squatters or reserved for stupid prices.<p>Eventually I settled for sheep.horse, which is easy to remember but not much else.</text></item><item><author>stephenr</author><text>I wonder how much to buy &quot;my.horse&quot;.<p>Then I can setup a sole mailbox &quot;look&quot;, and have it auto respond to any messages with &quot;my horse is amazing&quot;.<p>I wonder how may will get the joke.</text></item><item><author>echelon</author><text>This seems to have become the de facto pattern with the new gTLD system. A company swoops in and buys a namespace for $200k (or more if there is a competitive bid), and they effectively turn into the cartel equivalent of the domain squatter.<p>You can register your new gTLD for anywhere between $1 and $100, depending on what I suppose they expect their target demographic to be willing to pay. Dot horse is more expensive than dot webcam, for instance, and I imagine dot lawyer is more expensive than dot lol.<p>However, if your domain name uses a word or phrase that happens to be in their &quot;premium domain&quot; dictionary, then they&#x27;ll charge an elevated price based on heuristics similar to what yesteryear&#x27;s domain squatters used. Some simple and concise domains can run hundreds of thousands of dollars.<p><pre><code> cheap.horse is $25&#x2F;yr
tiny.horse is $100&#x2F;yr
internet.horse is $1000&#x2F;yr
free.horse is &quot;ask us&quot;
</code></pre>
Controlling the TLD is the ultimate form of domain squatting.<p>I wonder what will happen when some of these companies go under because they can no longer afford to pay off their debts? Will those that registered domain names lose them outright? Can someone else buy the gTLD and take them all over?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The .blog Bait and Switch</title><url>http://chrisschidle.com/the-dot-blog-bait-and-switch/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>I&#x27;m glad that someone snagged hoarse.horse and is doing more with it than I would have.<p>not.horse is available, too, if someone wants to tell that joke via a TLD.<p>And of course, bad.horse is exactly what you expect it to be.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewStephens</author><text>I have a .horse domain - I tried every permutation horse puns and in-jokes (my.lovely.horse, etc) but they were all taken by squatters or reserved for stupid prices.<p>Eventually I settled for sheep.horse, which is easy to remember but not much else.</text></item><item><author>stephenr</author><text>I wonder how much to buy &quot;my.horse&quot;.<p>Then I can setup a sole mailbox &quot;look&quot;, and have it auto respond to any messages with &quot;my horse is amazing&quot;.<p>I wonder how may will get the joke.</text></item><item><author>echelon</author><text>This seems to have become the de facto pattern with the new gTLD system. A company swoops in and buys a namespace for $200k (or more if there is a competitive bid), and they effectively turn into the cartel equivalent of the domain squatter.<p>You can register your new gTLD for anywhere between $1 and $100, depending on what I suppose they expect their target demographic to be willing to pay. Dot horse is more expensive than dot webcam, for instance, and I imagine dot lawyer is more expensive than dot lol.<p>However, if your domain name uses a word or phrase that happens to be in their &quot;premium domain&quot; dictionary, then they&#x27;ll charge an elevated price based on heuristics similar to what yesteryear&#x27;s domain squatters used. Some simple and concise domains can run hundreds of thousands of dollars.<p><pre><code> cheap.horse is $25&#x2F;yr
tiny.horse is $100&#x2F;yr
internet.horse is $1000&#x2F;yr
free.horse is &quot;ask us&quot;
</code></pre>
Controlling the TLD is the ultimate form of domain squatting.<p>I wonder what will happen when some of these companies go under because they can no longer afford to pay off their debts? Will those that registered domain names lose them outright? Can someone else buy the gTLD and take them all over?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The .blog Bait and Switch</title><url>http://chrisschidle.com/the-dot-blog-bait-and-switch/</url></story> |
41,332,367 | 41,330,001 | 1 | 2 | 41,326,357 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>d0mine</author><text>The presence of subconscious processes doesn&#x27;t deny the existence of conscious ones.<p>Focus&#x2F;diffuses modes are widely known&#x2F;accepted.<p>You can direct the unconscious thoughts too. If I spend some time intensely trying to solve a problem on the conscious level, often I get new ideas on how to approach it in the morning or during a long run (without thinking about it on the conscious level).<p>---<p>Unrelated: the discussions about free will often miss that the existence of atoms doesn&#x27;t imply that a wooden table doesn&#x27;t exist: they are on different levels of abstraction--no point in comparing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kaiwen1</author><text>Off topic, but eureka moments are my favorite go-to evidence for the absence of free will. No one chooses to have a eureka moment. They just arrive. And not just those moments, but every thought in every moment. They all just arrive, none are choosen.</text></item><item><author>BrandoElFollito</author><text>I am an ex-physist who stopped after his PhD in particle physics. I love physics but while money does not bring happiness, it is better to cry in a Mercedes than on a bike (this is not true, I just laughed when I first read it).<p>I went through the stages of OP (on a way smaller scale, I do not have his experience) and I think this is awesome. You continuously go from &quot;oh yeah, now I get it&quot; to &quot;crap&quot;. This always have you on the bleeding edge between &quot;this si physics, I know that&quot; and &quot;yes, but what if...&quot;. To me this is the essence of knowledge though curiosity.<p>I started my PhD on a specific topic and at some point I was a bit stuck (not panic mode stuck but pissed off stuck). I had dinner with a friend, we were discussing about my work (she is also a physicist) and she off-handly suggested something. And bam! my world changed. The direction of the thesis changed. I added an extra thesis director because what I was about to do was a world where the hands of men did not step on yet.<p>I thanked her profusely for her help in the thesis and suggested a joined publication (which she did not want to take because she was not interested and asked me to stop stalking her :))<p>And this is how science moves: because of eureka moments under the shower or at dinner or because someone thought &quot;hmmm...&quot; (looking at you Nikola Tesla).<p>So the fact that this guy doubts about what the world is, and that he is a theoretical physicist (so hopefully will not switch to some insanities) is awesome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist</title><url>https://nautil.us/confessions-of-a-theoretical-physicist-787199/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cameldrv</author><text>I don’t think it rules out free will, but perhaps free will is more limited. There is a self reflective part of your mind, probably physically located in your frontal lobe, but there are also many other parts of your mind and brain that do important things, but aren’t self reflective. I’ve come to think of my brain as a committee. There are many things I can do, like walk or even do a mathematical proof, that I cannot really describe the process. We see in things like addiction that the self reflective mind also does not always (or maybe even often) have ultimate control over behavior. Kahenaman and Gallwey talk about this as System 1&#x2F;2 and Self 1&#x2F;2. Julian Jaynes even thinks that people used to have complete other simulated people inside of themselves that they called gods, and this still happens to people with Schizophrenia.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kaiwen1</author><text>Off topic, but eureka moments are my favorite go-to evidence for the absence of free will. No one chooses to have a eureka moment. They just arrive. And not just those moments, but every thought in every moment. They all just arrive, none are choosen.</text></item><item><author>BrandoElFollito</author><text>I am an ex-physist who stopped after his PhD in particle physics. I love physics but while money does not bring happiness, it is better to cry in a Mercedes than on a bike (this is not true, I just laughed when I first read it).<p>I went through the stages of OP (on a way smaller scale, I do not have his experience) and I think this is awesome. You continuously go from &quot;oh yeah, now I get it&quot; to &quot;crap&quot;. This always have you on the bleeding edge between &quot;this si physics, I know that&quot; and &quot;yes, but what if...&quot;. To me this is the essence of knowledge though curiosity.<p>I started my PhD on a specific topic and at some point I was a bit stuck (not panic mode stuck but pissed off stuck). I had dinner with a friend, we were discussing about my work (she is also a physicist) and she off-handly suggested something. And bam! my world changed. The direction of the thesis changed. I added an extra thesis director because what I was about to do was a world where the hands of men did not step on yet.<p>I thanked her profusely for her help in the thesis and suggested a joined publication (which she did not want to take because she was not interested and asked me to stop stalking her :))<p>And this is how science moves: because of eureka moments under the shower or at dinner or because someone thought &quot;hmmm...&quot; (looking at you Nikola Tesla).<p>So the fact that this guy doubts about what the world is, and that he is a theoretical physicist (so hopefully will not switch to some insanities) is awesome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist</title><url>https://nautil.us/confessions-of-a-theoretical-physicist-787199/</url></story> |
14,343,055 | 14,341,706 | 1 | 3 | 14,340,035 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zkanter</author><text>You missed the whole point of my post. I said specifically said Amazon&#x27;s moats have nothing to do with things like 2-day shipping, which are easily copied. The FBA program, as one example, allows <i>any Amazon seller to ship product to Amazon&#x27;s warehouse, and then have that product be eligible for 2-day (or faster) shipping</i> - with zero effort (and unbeatable fulfillment fees). <i>That</i> program - and the dozens of others like it - will be extraordinarily difficult to copy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>resoluteteeth</author><text>&gt; The truth is that each of these is feasible for a large competitor to replicate and it’s reasonable to think that Walmart could build or acquire these capabilities within the next few years. The key component to profitable 2-day (or 1-hour) delivery is the customer’s proximity to a distribution center.<p>This is incredible. Walmart has free two-day shipping on orders over $35 <i>right now</i>, with <i>no membership required</i>, and yet people are still writing articles like this asking, &quot;will it be possible for Walmart to get 2 day shipping within the next couple years?&quot;<p>Because of the problems with third party sellers (combining different sellers into the same product page, comingling, fake reviews, etc.) it&#x27;s getting harder and harder to buy stuff on Amazon, plus you need a prime membership to get fast free shipping. I&#x27;ve also had tons of problems with Amazon deliveries since they switched to their own logistics company. In comparison, Walmart is looking better and better by the day.<p>This isn&#x27;t some day in the future, it&#x27;s now. I&#x27;m seriously considering cancelling prime and just using walmart when I need 2 day delivery.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Amazon is eating the world</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/why-amazon-is-eating-the-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>onion2k</author><text>This is a great example of a challenge that every business faces - if the customer doesn&#x27;t know about your product then it doesn&#x27;t matter how good it is. You can&#x27;t sell to someone if you&#x27;ve failed to communicate your product to them in a way that they understand. In this case Walmart has a product (2 day delivery) that customers don&#x27;t know about, which means Walmart <i>completely fail</i> to compete with Amazon for customers who want that service.<p>If you can&#x27;t communicate your product well enough to the customer then the product effectively <i>doesn&#x27;t exist</i> as far as that customer is concerned. This is why sales and marketing are <i>really important</i> to a startup.</text><parent_chain><item><author>resoluteteeth</author><text>&gt; The truth is that each of these is feasible for a large competitor to replicate and it’s reasonable to think that Walmart could build or acquire these capabilities within the next few years. The key component to profitable 2-day (or 1-hour) delivery is the customer’s proximity to a distribution center.<p>This is incredible. Walmart has free two-day shipping on orders over $35 <i>right now</i>, with <i>no membership required</i>, and yet people are still writing articles like this asking, &quot;will it be possible for Walmart to get 2 day shipping within the next couple years?&quot;<p>Because of the problems with third party sellers (combining different sellers into the same product page, comingling, fake reviews, etc.) it&#x27;s getting harder and harder to buy stuff on Amazon, plus you need a prime membership to get fast free shipping. I&#x27;ve also had tons of problems with Amazon deliveries since they switched to their own logistics company. In comparison, Walmart is looking better and better by the day.<p>This isn&#x27;t some day in the future, it&#x27;s now. I&#x27;m seriously considering cancelling prime and just using walmart when I need 2 day delivery.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Amazon is eating the world</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/why-amazon-is-eating-the-world/</url></story> |
3,233,987 | 3,233,529 | 1 | 2 | 3,233,201 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nosequel</author><text>One nitpicky-type thing for me in the article is saying that Sebastian Thrun invented the first driverless car. Yes, he was the head of the Standford team who won in 2005, but he was on the CMU team the competition before where Red Whitaker was the team lead. The fact that these teams were quite huge also prevents someone from saying that one person invented the driverless car. Being team lead on a team who wins the second competition certainly doesn't mean that person invented the tech. I know I'm being anal about it, but there were a lot of people who competed in the DGC, and it is quite annoying to hear people mention his name in that regard. Having talked to Sebastian a few times during the competition, I would think he thinks the same way.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/technology/at-google-x-a-top-secret-lab-dreaming-up-the-future.html?_r=1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neilk</author><text>Here's a collection of quotes from the triumvirate about artificial intelligence.<p><a href="http://ignoranceisfutile.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/google-founders-artificial-intelligence-quotes-archive/" rel="nofollow">http://ignoranceisfutile.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/google-fou...</a><p>(Except, ignore the Moffett field thing. That has nothing to do with AI research as far as I know.)<p>Anyway, any Googler will confirm that Sergey Brin, in particular, keeps returning to this idea: that Google's ultimate destiny is to realize Strong AI.<p>I'm not saying they've achieved anything. But I would not be surprised if they were putting substantial resources into it. It's even directly related to their bottom line. It doesn't have to end in HAL 9000. They may come up with some technology that is just more insightful about search queries. But even that would be worth billions and billions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/technology/at-google-x-a-top-secret-lab-dreaming-up-the-future.html?_r=1</url></story> |
9,564,522 | 9,564,411 | 1 | 2 | 9,564,281 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lawtonfogle</author><text>I&#x27;ve been moving more and more to the notion that freedom of speech is an all or nothing proposition. On a technical level when dealing with systems that protect the transfer of information such as encryption, this is an absolute, because the technology that provides the security (and thus freedom) cares not the content and any backdoor would destroy all integrity regardless of how it is used. But there has been a notion that laws, rights, and duties do not have the same requirement. We can build compromises in the laws, so we should be able to create a system where only the stuff that should be banned is banned and all other speech is free, no? But now I doubt that, as any ban sacrifices the integrity of the entire system. Maybe in theory it is still possible, but as many of us have seen time and time again, theory and practice differ far more in practice than in theory.<p>From this, I&#x27;ve moved to adopting an ever stricter view of all speech as being free. I will not say it is perfect as it does have flaws. But the flaws are a small price to pay to ensure one of the axiomatic rights is defended. For without free speech, we lose the power to criticize, to discuss, to be democratic.<p>While I know the author isn&#x27;t regarded quite as highly in the UK and the US, I think the following passage captures the importance of the exchange of information being free.<p>&gt;The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thoughtcrime</title><url>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/05/thoughtcrime.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>nodata</author><text>I COMPLETELY missed what Cameron said the first time. Like, completely:<p>&quot;For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens &#x27;as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone&#x27;.&quot;<p>Obeying the law is no longer enough. Great.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thoughtcrime</title><url>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/05/thoughtcrime.html</url></story> |
28,282,094 | 28,281,869 | 1 | 3 | 28,280,514 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>failrate</author><text>Yes, the fed issues currency by fiat, but the actual resources consumed by this war probably account for the monetary price tag. Additionally, the money spent did not vanish in a puff of smoke at the end of a gun: it lined the war chests of the military industrial complex. This gives these people and organizations outsized influence to manipulate our government into staying in wars in order to justify buying expensive munitions. This destructive feedback loop is the true cost of war.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we paid for the War on Terror</title><url>https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-34-how-we-paid-for-the</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>keewee7</author><text>Why is American warfare so expensive?<p>Russian, French and Turkish interventionism in the Middle East and Africa are an order of magnitude smaller but they seem to have accomplished more than the US&#x2F;NATO did in Afghanistan.<p>The Iraq war is a complicated beast. The Iraqis I know feel the country improved for the better but US foreign policy on Israel-Palestine and warmongering against Iran (most Iraqis are Shia) has eroded whatever goodwill they had after the fall of Saddam.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we paid for the War on Terror</title><url>https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-34-how-we-paid-for-the</url></story> |
17,279,785 | 17,278,935 | 1 | 2 | 17,277,018 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noitsnot</author><text>I&#x27;m 100% sure I am passed-over and filtered out because I don&#x27;t have a CS degree. Nevermind my experience, I don&#x27;t hit the checkbox. HR and IT managers have it in their mind they NEED it. However, I relate well to managers without a CS degree.</text><parent_chain><item><author>koboll</author><text>I&#x27;ve never been asked about any education in developer interviews, only experience.<p>Obviously YMMV, but after a couple years of experience, employers simply stop caring about education level.</text></item><item><author>user5994461</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; I have been working productively as a systems software developer for 32 years. I do not have a degree; I&#x27;m a high-school dropout.<p>It&#x27;s easy to say coming from a generation where higher education was not the norm.<p>A 20 year old saying he dropped out of high school will not be received well in any job interview. 98% of the population can do better than that.</text></item><item><author>mmjaa</author><text>I have been working productively as a systems software developer for 32 years. I do not have a degree; I&#x27;m a high-school dropout. I&#x27;ve built systems you&#x27;ve probably used, and&#x2F;or may still be using.<p>The #1 technical lever I have found worth exploiting, worth far more than anything a university can provide, is the willingness to get the job done.<p>It hasn&#x27;t mattered if I wrote CP&#x2F;M code ISR&#x27;s, PROGRESS 4GL modules, Unix daemons, Pascal, .. Java, C, C++, Objective-C, Lua, Swift, &amp;etc. - through the thick of it all, the fact that I was willing to get the job done, no matter what, is what made the difference.<p>On the other end of this scale, is a bit of decadence.<p>From my particularly tainted point of view, the ideological basis of the current cultural norm of &quot;university==well-paid job&quot; is entirely decadent. People seem to have expectations that, because they&#x27;re in a certain class, they don&#x27;t have to work hard at developing other real life issues, and too many times I&#x27;ve seen the well-educated, well-connected, nevertheless incompetent developer fall to pieces under pressure. I am grateful for these guys, because they make my life easier.<p>Yet, those who are in this group, who haven&#x27;t got a decadent ideal of their own worth, but rather get things done in computing, whatever it takes: great.<p>So its really not a matter of educated-enough. Its whether the will to perform is, through whatever means, inculcated - and then manifest by taking the actions to get the state of things, done.<p>Some of the best developers I&#x27;ve ever worked with, have come from utterly dire circumstances. Some of the worst, too. Likewise for the privileged, candied elite.<p>The one differentiator, truly, is the will of the individual. Computers, being machines of will, equalise us all that way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged</title><url>https://www.amasad.me/github</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JanisL</author><text>Anecdotally the most dysfunctional place I&#x27;ve worked at was the most obsessed about educational credentials. I had highly relevant experience (including some that was open sourced on GitHub) and a degree in a related field but it wasn&#x27;t the exact degree they were looking for. This struck me as really strange at the time, I found out later that the managing director was pressuring the people doing to hiring to only take people that were eligible for some particular government funding that had rather narrow conditions about credentials. The only reason I got hired was because the position had been open for a long time and they were starting to get a bit desperate. I shudder to think how many other skilled applicants didn&#x27;t get that job in the months before I did.</text><parent_chain><item><author>koboll</author><text>I&#x27;ve never been asked about any education in developer interviews, only experience.<p>Obviously YMMV, but after a couple years of experience, employers simply stop caring about education level.</text></item><item><author>user5994461</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; I have been working productively as a systems software developer for 32 years. I do not have a degree; I&#x27;m a high-school dropout.<p>It&#x27;s easy to say coming from a generation where higher education was not the norm.<p>A 20 year old saying he dropped out of high school will not be received well in any job interview. 98% of the population can do better than that.</text></item><item><author>mmjaa</author><text>I have been working productively as a systems software developer for 32 years. I do not have a degree; I&#x27;m a high-school dropout. I&#x27;ve built systems you&#x27;ve probably used, and&#x2F;or may still be using.<p>The #1 technical lever I have found worth exploiting, worth far more than anything a university can provide, is the willingness to get the job done.<p>It hasn&#x27;t mattered if I wrote CP&#x2F;M code ISR&#x27;s, PROGRESS 4GL modules, Unix daemons, Pascal, .. Java, C, C++, Objective-C, Lua, Swift, &amp;etc. - through the thick of it all, the fact that I was willing to get the job done, no matter what, is what made the difference.<p>On the other end of this scale, is a bit of decadence.<p>From my particularly tainted point of view, the ideological basis of the current cultural norm of &quot;university==well-paid job&quot; is entirely decadent. People seem to have expectations that, because they&#x27;re in a certain class, they don&#x27;t have to work hard at developing other real life issues, and too many times I&#x27;ve seen the well-educated, well-connected, nevertheless incompetent developer fall to pieces under pressure. I am grateful for these guys, because they make my life easier.<p>Yet, those who are in this group, who haven&#x27;t got a decadent ideal of their own worth, but rather get things done in computing, whatever it takes: great.<p>So its really not a matter of educated-enough. Its whether the will to perform is, through whatever means, inculcated - and then manifest by taking the actions to get the state of things, done.<p>Some of the best developers I&#x27;ve ever worked with, have come from utterly dire circumstances. Some of the worst, too. Likewise for the privileged, candied elite.<p>The one differentiator, truly, is the will of the individual. Computers, being machines of will, equalise us all that way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged</title><url>https://www.amasad.me/github</url></story> |
40,684,197 | 40,683,612 | 1 | 2 | 40,681,784 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sneak</author><text>Look into Nebula (or Tailscale if you trust third parties). I have all my workstations and servers on a mesh network that appears as a single &#x2F;24 that is end to end encrypted, mutually authenticated and works through&#x2F;behind NAT. I can spawn a vhost on any server that reverse proxies an API to any port on any machine.<p>It’s been an absolute gamechanger.</text><parent_chain><item><author>logtrees</author><text>Whoa, so you have code running in AWS making use of your local hardware via what is called a reverse SSH tunnel? I will have to look into how that works, that&#x27;s pretty powerful if so. I have a mac mini that I use for builds and deploys via FTP&#x2F;SFTP and was going to look into setting up &quot;messaging&quot; via that pipeline to access local hardware compute through file messages lol, but reverse SSH tunnel sounds like it&#x27;ll be way better for directly calling executables rather than needing to parse messages from files first.</text></item><item><author>philipkglass</author><text><i>Instead of using AWS another approach involves self hosting the hardware as well. Even after factoring in energy, this does dramatically lower the price.</i><p><i>Assuming we want to mirror our setup in AWS, we’d need 4x NVidia Tesla T4s. You can buy them for about $700 on eBay.<p>Add in $1,000 to setup the rest of the rig and you have a final price of around:<p>$2,800 + $1,000 = $3,800</i><p>This whole exercise assumes that you&#x27;re using the Llama 3 8b model. At full fp16 precision that will fit in one 3090 or 4090 GPU (the int8 version will too, and run faster, with very little degradation.) Especially if you&#x27;re willing to buy GPU hardware from eBay, that will cost significantly less.<p>I have my home workstation with a 4090 exposed as a vLLM service to an AWS environment where I access it via reverse SSH tunnel.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct</title><url>https://blog.lytix.co/posts/self-hosting-llama-3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brrrrrm</author><text>I use my mac mini exactly as described by the parent post but using ollama as the server. Super easy setup and obv chatgpt can guide you through it</text><parent_chain><item><author>logtrees</author><text>Whoa, so you have code running in AWS making use of your local hardware via what is called a reverse SSH tunnel? I will have to look into how that works, that&#x27;s pretty powerful if so. I have a mac mini that I use for builds and deploys via FTP&#x2F;SFTP and was going to look into setting up &quot;messaging&quot; via that pipeline to access local hardware compute through file messages lol, but reverse SSH tunnel sounds like it&#x27;ll be way better for directly calling executables rather than needing to parse messages from files first.</text></item><item><author>philipkglass</author><text><i>Instead of using AWS another approach involves self hosting the hardware as well. Even after factoring in energy, this does dramatically lower the price.</i><p><i>Assuming we want to mirror our setup in AWS, we’d need 4x NVidia Tesla T4s. You can buy them for about $700 on eBay.<p>Add in $1,000 to setup the rest of the rig and you have a final price of around:<p>$2,800 + $1,000 = $3,800</i><p>This whole exercise assumes that you&#x27;re using the Llama 3 8b model. At full fp16 precision that will fit in one 3090 or 4090 GPU (the int8 version will too, and run faster, with very little degradation.) Especially if you&#x27;re willing to buy GPU hardware from eBay, that will cost significantly less.<p>I have my home workstation with a 4090 exposed as a vLLM service to an AWS environment where I access it via reverse SSH tunnel.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct</title><url>https://blog.lytix.co/posts/self-hosting-llama-3</url></story> |
32,804,503 | 32,803,646 | 1 | 3 | 32,767,242 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xani_</author><text>&gt; HA is overrated, i&#x27;d much rather go for a low mean time to repair.<p>Those are almost entirely independent domains<p>the only point where they connect is that<p>&gt; full down to back online if hardware is not damaged is less than 15 min.<p>automation makes both easier to deal with.<p>&quot;Mean time to repair&quot; is all fine if you don&#x27;t have to drive 30 minutes to datacenter to swap out stuff.<p>Even if its cloudy cloud and you have backups, restores can take a lot of time.<p>Also you <i>will</i> want HA when it&#x27;s your internet gateway to die<p>There are also levels of implementation. Making fully redundant set of loadbalancers is relatively easy. But any stateful app is much, much harder. In case of applications active-passive type of setups are also much easier than full on active active redundancy, especially if app wasn&#x27;t written for it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>woopwoop24</author><text>HA is overrated, i&#x27;d much rather go for a low mean time to repair.
Backups, reinstall, ansible playbook is my way to go if hardware fails, which is quite rare to be honest. HA goes beyond hardware in terms of &quot;electricity, internet connection, storage, location etc.., IMO people quite often underestimate what it means to have real HA --&gt; second location with identical setup to shift workload or even have active-active instead of active-passive.
i have an intel nuc as plain debian server with containers on it.
2 raspberry pi&#x27;s(act as loadbalancers with traefik and authelia on top) and a hetzner vm all connected through wireguard.
All is configured via ansible and i rely on LE certificates to connect via https or directly via wireguard vpn to http if i want it only exposed via vpn.
encrypted backups are copied via wireguard to an offsite storage box.<p>full down to back online if hardware is not damaged is less than 15 min.<p>it is very easy to do and rock solid, unattend-upgrades does the trick.
i tried almost every combination and even though i am a k8s user from version 1.2 onwoards the complexity for k8s at home or even vsphere is too much for me vs. this super simple and stable configuration i now have.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Old school Linux administration – my next homelab generation</title><url>https://scholz.ruhr/blog/old-school-unix-administration/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bravetraveler</author><text>I completely agree, but there&#x27;s an important balance to consider. HA is a good investment for things that are &#x27;stateless&#x27; -- eg: VIPs&#x2F;LBs<p>Rebuilding existing systems (or adding new ones) is excellent, but sometimes life really gets simpler when you have one well-known&#x2F;HA endpoint to use in a given context</text><parent_chain><item><author>woopwoop24</author><text>HA is overrated, i&#x27;d much rather go for a low mean time to repair.
Backups, reinstall, ansible playbook is my way to go if hardware fails, which is quite rare to be honest. HA goes beyond hardware in terms of &quot;electricity, internet connection, storage, location etc.., IMO people quite often underestimate what it means to have real HA --&gt; second location with identical setup to shift workload or even have active-active instead of active-passive.
i have an intel nuc as plain debian server with containers on it.
2 raspberry pi&#x27;s(act as loadbalancers with traefik and authelia on top) and a hetzner vm all connected through wireguard.
All is configured via ansible and i rely on LE certificates to connect via https or directly via wireguard vpn to http if i want it only exposed via vpn.
encrypted backups are copied via wireguard to an offsite storage box.<p>full down to back online if hardware is not damaged is less than 15 min.<p>it is very easy to do and rock solid, unattend-upgrades does the trick.
i tried almost every combination and even though i am a k8s user from version 1.2 onwoards the complexity for k8s at home or even vsphere is too much for me vs. this super simple and stable configuration i now have.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Old school Linux administration – my next homelab generation</title><url>https://scholz.ruhr/blog/old-school-unix-administration/</url></story> |
34,270,394 | 34,266,283 | 1 | 2 | 34,265,433 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saghm</author><text>There was an online service subscription I had several years back (not Twilio, but something somewhat similar) that I stopped needing. I forget if there either wasn&#x27;t any way to this on their website or if it was just broken, but after repeatedly trying and failing, I ended up just disputing the charge the next time the monthly payment came up, and my bank stopped the transactions from that point on, so I forgot about it. A while later (probably around 6-12 months), I got an email from that company asking me to go back and tell my bank that the transactions were fine. Given that it had been so long and I only disputed the charge due to their website not giving me the ability to cancel through them, I didn&#x27;t think it was worth trying to talk to someone at the bank to figure out how that would even work. It left an impression on me because it was the first time that I felt like I actually had any power in my relationship with a company as a customer rather than just having to hope that the company would chose to do right by me with nothing forcing them to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Terretta</author><text>Your only power to encourage them to fix this is to do the thing they&#x27;re begging you not to: <i>dispute the charges</i>.<p>If a threshold of Twilio customers dispute charges, Twilio loses the ability to process credit cards at a lower risk rate, then with all but high risk processors, then may lose the ability to process them at all.<p>If enough of their customers are getting burned, and enough dispute, Twilio would no longer be able to accept credit cards. They are terrified of that, so begging you not to dispute charges <i>for their lack of fraud prevention</i>.<p>You accepting anything less than full refund of all fraudulent use they&#x27;re cascading back on you is a gift to them. You accepting less than a full refund, while not dinging them at all with a chargeback is also a gift to them. If they don&#x27;t want to give you the full refund for misuse they should be preventing, dispute it, <i>as is your right</i>.<p>The correct course for Twilio is for Twilio to refund these charges <i>no questions asked</i> while fixing the problem.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twilio’s toll fraud problem</title><url>https://billychasen.medium.com/twilios-toll-fraud-problem-28b3aef39243</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bragr</author><text>&gt;Your only power to encourage them to fix this is to do the thing they&#x27;re begging you not to: dispute the charges.<p>I&#x27;d check their TOS to see if they offer some kind of arbitration option. As noted in other threads, triggering that process can be a surprisingly effective way to make someone from the company actually engage with the issue. Disputing the charges is always a nuclear option. They may never do business with you after that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Terretta</author><text>Your only power to encourage them to fix this is to do the thing they&#x27;re begging you not to: <i>dispute the charges</i>.<p>If a threshold of Twilio customers dispute charges, Twilio loses the ability to process credit cards at a lower risk rate, then with all but high risk processors, then may lose the ability to process them at all.<p>If enough of their customers are getting burned, and enough dispute, Twilio would no longer be able to accept credit cards. They are terrified of that, so begging you not to dispute charges <i>for their lack of fraud prevention</i>.<p>You accepting anything less than full refund of all fraudulent use they&#x27;re cascading back on you is a gift to them. You accepting less than a full refund, while not dinging them at all with a chargeback is also a gift to them. If they don&#x27;t want to give you the full refund for misuse they should be preventing, dispute it, <i>as is your right</i>.<p>The correct course for Twilio is for Twilio to refund these charges <i>no questions asked</i> while fixing the problem.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twilio’s toll fraud problem</title><url>https://billychasen.medium.com/twilios-toll-fraud-problem-28b3aef39243</url></story> |
20,774,645 | 20,774,705 | 1 | 2 | 20,774,229 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>choonway</author><text>What would tactics involving deepmind look like? suppose everyone has a camera that beams images back and headphones that give voice commands to the individual soldiers (including logistics). It would probably look like unimaginably organized chaos.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>List of military tactics</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_tactics</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>galaxyLogic</author><text>I think we need more games that teach us how to avoid conflicts, how to avoid wars. Are there any such games?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>List of military tactics</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_tactics</url></story> |
31,580,822 | 31,579,333 | 1 | 3 | 31,577,960 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eddieroger</author><text>The greatest gift Palm&#x27;s WebOS gave us was the unified calendar (and the greatest curse was those ads with the lady on the rock). I agree that having too many calendars is problematic, but I think a handful of calendars, shown together, and shared as necessary, is the answer. I also am troubled by putting personal stuff on a work calendar, because I think that&#x27;s a line that should be rarely, if ever, crossed. If you were unsatisfied with your employer and interviewing, would you put interviews on your work calendar?<p>Another commenter mentioned it, and I agree, there is something to running a calendar server of one&#x27;s own, if one is capable of doing it. I&#x27;ve been trying to scratch this itch for years to little success, but feel like it gets closer all the time. Things like NextCloud make it even easier still, but lack the way I want to deal with groupware (service accounts). I&#x27;m hopeful that Apple Family Sharing can solve some of this for me and my partner as we both use iCloud calendars today, but haven&#x27;t set it up yet.<p>Over all, I agree, and wish I knew the answer, but I don&#x27;t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smartmic</author><text>Having more than one calender app is very problematic to me. My life maps only to one real calendar. And since my employer is dictating Outlook for my work life, I am stuck with it for the rest also. I would love to use other solutions though (have looked into calcurse and remind so far) but the hassle of importing&#x2F;exporting&#x2F;syncing with other calendar implementations is not worth the effort and has never really worked for me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Modern TUI calendar and task manager with customizable interface</title><url>https://github.com/anufrievroman/calcure</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>3np</author><text>I haven&#x27;t tried this[0], just found it through a quick search but it looks like it should be possible to get a CalDAV interface to Outlook.<p>Both calcurse and remind support CalDAV sync (experimental in the case of calcurse). calcure does not seem to support it; just opened an issue for it.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caldavsynchronizer.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caldavsynchronizer.org&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: Several mentions of Outlook on software listed under <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devguide.calconnect.org&#x2F;CalDAV&#x2F;introduction&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devguide.calconnect.org&#x2F;CalDAV&#x2F;introduction&#x2F;</a>, maybe there is something that works for you</text><parent_chain><item><author>smartmic</author><text>Having more than one calender app is very problematic to me. My life maps only to one real calendar. And since my employer is dictating Outlook for my work life, I am stuck with it for the rest also. I would love to use other solutions though (have looked into calcurse and remind so far) but the hassle of importing&#x2F;exporting&#x2F;syncing with other calendar implementations is not worth the effort and has never really worked for me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Modern TUI calendar and task manager with customizable interface</title><url>https://github.com/anufrievroman/calcure</url></story> |
27,400,426 | 27,397,888 | 1 | 2 | 27,396,783 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davesque</author><text>Amazing that the Chinese government in power today is the same as the one that deployed the tanks in that photograph to mow down its own citizens. Even more amazing that American celebrities such as LeBron James and John Cena see it fit to parrot that same government&#x27;s propaganda for the sake of dollars. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I&#x27;d live to see something like it. The word &quot;pathetic&quot; falls utterly short in describing it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The story of the Tank Man photo by its photographer</title><url>http://www.jeffwidener.com/stories/2016/09/tankman/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iso1631</author><text>Tank man is popular today because somebody noticed duckduckgo&#x2F;bing were censoring search results<p>This was raised on HN [0] and immediately flagged by &quot;long standing boring users of the site&quot; [1]<p>There was then another story about the Tank Man photo, which was marked as &quot;dupe&quot;, despite never having been posted before<p>As of now (1919 GMT) the original DDG bug hasn&#x27;t been fixed<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27394925" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27394925</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27397406" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27397406</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27395028" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27395028</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The story of the Tank Man photo by its photographer</title><url>http://www.jeffwidener.com/stories/2016/09/tankman/</url></story> |
33,396,030 | 33,394,037 | 1 | 3 | 33,391,995 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>UIUC_06</author><text>Crichton&#x27;s and Grisham&#x27;s books are both forgettable but quite enjoyable reads. In both cases, their formula is easily learned, and the 2nd and nth books you read just seem to scream out &quot;formula.&quot; That&#x27;s why I&#x27;ve read one or two of their books and don&#x27;t feel the need to read any more.<p>It&#x27;s a good formula. It can make very good movies. Sir Walter Scott [1] was <i>hugely</i> popular in his day. Some people do still read him. In 200 years, some analogous paragraph to this will appear for Crichton &amp; Grisham.<p><i>Following the Modernist movement in literature in the aftermath of the first World War, Scott’s rambling and verbose text (indeed he was alleged to omit punctuation in his writing, preferring to leave this to the printers to insert as required) was no longer in vogue.</i><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.historic-uk.com&#x2F;HistoryUK&#x2F;HistoryofScotland&#x2F;Sir-Walter-Scott&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.historic-uk.com&#x2F;HistoryUK&#x2F;HistoryofScotland&#x2F;Sir-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Michael Crichton’s and John Grisham’s ambition types</title><url>https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/10/28/on-michael-crichtons-busy-ambition/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Xenoamorphous</author><text>Two of my favourite authors. I know that their books the equivalent to blockbuster movies in cinema but man, I loved their books during my teenage years.<p>I already loved dinosaurs as a kid (whick kid doesn’t love them, though) and Jurassic Park the novel and then the movie (I was 10 and 13 when they came out) blew me away. I just started reading Jurassic Park again, this time in English (I couldn’t as a kid) and damn, so many memories…<p>Never cared for The Lost World though, neither the book nor the film.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Michael Crichton’s and John Grisham’s ambition types</title><url>https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/10/28/on-michael-crichtons-busy-ambition/</url></story> |
12,525,466 | 12,525,199 | 1 | 3 | 12,524,866 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>msisk6</author><text>No, this is out in west Texas where wind is plentiful along with cheap land.<p>Nearly all wind and solar farms inject energy into the grid just like any other generator. In an open energy market like ERCOT (where this wind farm is located) there&#x27;s a market where energy is traded.<p>If they inject &quot;X&quot; units of energy into the grid and pull out the same &quot;X&quot; units all is good. If not (the usual case since generation and demand need to equal 100% at all times) there are rules to govern the buying and selling of energy all generators (&quot;market participants&quot;) follow.<p>Suffice it to say, grid management in an open energy market is complicated. If you really want to know more about the rules you can read more here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ercot.com&#x2F;mktrules" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ercot.com&#x2F;mktrules</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>johnm1019</author><text>Are these wind farms located near data centers and such use the power directly? Or do they dump into the grid and sell it as power then claim all their power usage is renewable because it is &quot;offset&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Amazon Wind Farm Texas</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/ps9c2vfu7fcm4t6?ref_=aa_lc_0&pf_rd_r=6F894AHA5W2FQZBQTYZB&pf_rd_p=3fffa90a-17f6-470a-82ad-414308e970a2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mtmail</author><text>The press release itself reads &quot;Amazon will purchase about 90% of the power generated by the wind farm.&quot; so I assume the primary purpose is their data centers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>johnm1019</author><text>Are these wind farms located near data centers and such use the power directly? Or do they dump into the grid and sell it as power then claim all their power usage is renewable because it is &quot;offset&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Amazon Wind Farm Texas</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/ps9c2vfu7fcm4t6?ref_=aa_lc_0&pf_rd_r=6F894AHA5W2FQZBQTYZB&pf_rd_p=3fffa90a-17f6-470a-82ad-414308e970a2</url></story> |
24,077,501 | 24,077,613 | 1 | 3 | 24,077,359 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fach</author><text>&gt; This smells like sour apples from an employee who focused more on their plans to take down their employer than their actual job.<p>The story didn&#x27;t read as &quot;sour apples&quot; to me but rather an employee pointing out evidence that contradicts the &quot;two strikes&quot; policy Zuckerberg explained at the company Q&amp;A. It&#x27;s tough to write that off as &quot;Facebook isn&#x27;t perfect&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wiredone</author><text>“Potential” Political bias.<p>Can we just acknowledge for a moment what it’d be like to have a colleague who’s desperately trying to prove that your work is a “big conspiracy” when you’re honestly all just trying to do your best.<p>I see so many of these stories of weirdly rogue political activist type employees recently surprised when they their employer doesn’t like that they’re purposely trying to undermine them and their employees work. I’m sure Facebook isn’t perfect, but I know enough good people who work there to know they’re not all out to “get” us.<p>This smells like sour grapes* from an employee who focused more on their plans to take down their employer than their actual job.<p>*ed: previously written as “sour apples”...it’s been a long day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>newacct583</author><text>Did you read the story? The details seem pretty damning to me.<p>&gt; I’m sure Facebook isn’t perfect, but I know enough good people who work there to know they’re not all out to “get” us.<p>Yeah, I don&#x27;t think you read the article. That&#x27;s what&#x27;s happening: a bunch of employees are blowing the whistle on what seems to be executive abuse of the fact check program.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wiredone</author><text>“Potential” Political bias.<p>Can we just acknowledge for a moment what it’d be like to have a colleague who’s desperately trying to prove that your work is a “big conspiracy” when you’re honestly all just trying to do your best.<p>I see so many of these stories of weirdly rogue political activist type employees recently surprised when they their employer doesn’t like that they’re purposely trying to undermine them and their employees work. I’m sure Facebook isn’t perfect, but I know enough good people who work there to know they’re not all out to “get” us.<p>This smells like sour grapes* from an employee who focused more on their plans to take down their employer than their actual job.<p>*ed: previously written as “sour apples”...it’s been a long day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results</url></story> |
32,622,221 | 32,622,303 | 1 | 2 | 32,621,642 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tmpz22</author><text>There are over 2 MILLION prisoners in the US prison population of a population of 330M.<p>This gives the USA the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world.<p>The next four?<p>* Rwanda<p>* Turkmenistan<p>* El Salvador<p>* Cuba<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldpopulationreview.com&#x2F;country-rankings&#x2F;incarceration-rates-by-country" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldpopulationreview.com&#x2F;country-rankings&#x2F;incarcera...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>standardUser</author><text>What drives me absolutely insane about stories like this is that so many of the people suffering under these policies are guilty of little more than market participation. The government strains, at <i>extraordinary</i> expense, to pretend they can stop drugs from being made, bought and sold, but they can&#x27;t. They simply can&#x27;t. Countless laws, countless billions of dollars and countless ruined lives later, drugs are no less popular or accessible than they ever were in the past. The government gave it their best shot, failed in spectacular fashion over generations, and anyone who still supports this approach is either hopelessly brainwashed or, maybe, just not very smart.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/crime-prisons-lawsuits-connecticut-074a8f643766e155df58d2c8fbc7214c</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xfitm3</author><text>Portugal is an excellent role model, there are numerous studies on their approach to drugs[0]. While I am not an expert on the subject the model is morally appealing to me, and I believe public order is maintained. Begin researching on your own if you&#x27;re interested in this subject. I feel for anyone who loves a drug user.<p>Separately I just learned fentanyl test strips are not legal in all 50 states. Given that fentanyl is a leading cause of death, giving access to test strips can save lives. I don&#x27;t know how heavily this law is enforced, but it&#x27;s a great example of cutting your nose to spite your face. To me it&#x27;s a litmus test that reinforces the notion the USA&#x27;s stance on drugs was never about harm reduction.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;substanceabusepolicy.biomedcentral.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;10.1186&#x2F;s13011-021-00394-7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;substanceabusepolicy.biomedcentral.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;10.1...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>standardUser</author><text>What drives me absolutely insane about stories like this is that so many of the people suffering under these policies are guilty of little more than market participation. The government strains, at <i>extraordinary</i> expense, to pretend they can stop drugs from being made, bought and sold, but they can&#x27;t. They simply can&#x27;t. Countless laws, countless billions of dollars and countless ruined lives later, drugs are no less popular or accessible than they ever were in the past. The government gave it their best shot, failed in spectacular fashion over generations, and anyone who still supports this approach is either hopelessly brainwashed or, maybe, just not very smart.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/crime-prisons-lawsuits-connecticut-074a8f643766e155df58d2c8fbc7214c</url></story> |
19,364,413 | 19,358,897 | 1 | 2 | 19,358,465 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GuB-42</author><text>Psychedelics are unpredictable. They can:<p>- Change your life for the better, like with your &quot;friend&quot;.<p>- Fuck you up completely. It is rare and usually tied to preexisting conditions, but it happens.<p>- Give you a good, enjoyable, and rather inconsequential trip. I&#x27;d say it is by far the most common outcome, especially on low doses.<p>- Give you a horrible experience. It usually stops you from wanting to do any more psychedelics.<p>- Something else.<p>The problem, and the reason why they are not currently used in mainstream (scientific) medicine is that you don&#x27;t know in advance which scenario will apply to you. Things like set and setting help but there is no sure fire technique.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fb03</author><text>I knew there would be some relation with drugs in the text.<p>People who think psychedelic drugs (even Cannabis) are just about &#x27;having fun&#x27; or &#x27;getting high&#x27; are skipping past the biggest ability these compounds have: to make you change some already hardcoded aspects of your life.<p>Someone who isn&#x27;t me started working out and eating properly after having an epiphany on cannabis which prompted him to openly evaluate his relationship with food. After seeing truly how he ate, it disgusted him. This person is now 50kg slimmer and away from obesity BMI.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist</title><url>http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thraway-burnout</author><text>Please congratulate that person on my behalf. Even though it may be the result of an epiphany, self-restraint is still hard to achieve and a noble goal in itself :-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>fb03</author><text>I knew there would be some relation with drugs in the text.<p>People who think psychedelic drugs (even Cannabis) are just about &#x27;having fun&#x27; or &#x27;getting high&#x27; are skipping past the biggest ability these compounds have: to make you change some already hardcoded aspects of your life.<p>Someone who isn&#x27;t me started working out and eating properly after having an epiphany on cannabis which prompted him to openly evaluate his relationship with food. After seeing truly how he ate, it disgusted him. This person is now 50kg slimmer and away from obesity BMI.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist</title><url>http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/</url></story> |
34,642,322 | 34,642,269 | 1 | 2 | 34,640,922 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spivak</author><text>The issue isn&#x27;t who&#x27;s doing the shipping. The issue is that Amazon is, for most product categories, 90% a front for Alibaba resellers. Nothing against Alibaba&#x2F;Aliexpress, I get stuff from them all the time, but there are times when I specifically don&#x27;t want those products.<p>If you&#x27;re willing to wait a month Aliexpress is all the same stuff for 1&#x2F;10 the price.</text><parent_chain><item><author>staringback</author><text>Have you ever tried to search for something on Aliexpress? It is the worst experience I have ever had. &quot;Free Shipping&quot; button (sometimes) shows things with free shipping, or the actual price of the item showing as $0.99 when that is for the optional plastic lid or whatever. Only about half the time I try to use Aliexpress it gives me the results I want.<p>Furthermore, it is stupidly obvious when something is just being dropshipped vs coming from Amazon&#x27;s warehouse, just look for the Prime logo on the items. At least with Amazon I get things relatively quickly even compared to other US based options such as Ebay or even going through the retailer directly</text></item><item><author>kps</author><text>Amazon is now Aliexpress with (sometimes) local shipping.<p>For years we&#x27;ve been told that the worker in Shenzhen is cheaper than the one in Seattle. Now I tell you, Jeff, that the <i>entrepreneur</i> in Shenzhen is cheaper than the one in Seattle.</text></item><item><author>diceduckmonk</author><text>There was a 5+ year period in my life where I was receiving Amazon deliveries every week.<p>Last year, I purchased a single item on Amazon.<p>In the midst of moving apartments right now, and looking for basics + upgrades. I&#x27;ve noticed what made Amazon so great and dare I say addicting was trustworthy reviews and crowd-wisdom curation of good-enough products. This shopping cycle, that magic felt gone. The audacity of product search to be littered with ads. A few years into that Amazon habit, I started reaching for &quot;fake amazon reviews&quot; on Google to get an estimate of how authentic the reviews are. Even that step has been gamed and noisy now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon reports its first unprofitable year since 2014</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/02/02/1153562994/amazon-reports-its-first-unprofitable-year-since-2014</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>explodingwaffle</author><text>My _favourite_ part of searching on AliExpress is that, when you’re logged in, 90% of any search results have nothing to do with, you know, the search query, and are just (related to) products you’ve previously looked at. Why?!?</text><parent_chain><item><author>staringback</author><text>Have you ever tried to search for something on Aliexpress? It is the worst experience I have ever had. &quot;Free Shipping&quot; button (sometimes) shows things with free shipping, or the actual price of the item showing as $0.99 when that is for the optional plastic lid or whatever. Only about half the time I try to use Aliexpress it gives me the results I want.<p>Furthermore, it is stupidly obvious when something is just being dropshipped vs coming from Amazon&#x27;s warehouse, just look for the Prime logo on the items. At least with Amazon I get things relatively quickly even compared to other US based options such as Ebay or even going through the retailer directly</text></item><item><author>kps</author><text>Amazon is now Aliexpress with (sometimes) local shipping.<p>For years we&#x27;ve been told that the worker in Shenzhen is cheaper than the one in Seattle. Now I tell you, Jeff, that the <i>entrepreneur</i> in Shenzhen is cheaper than the one in Seattle.</text></item><item><author>diceduckmonk</author><text>There was a 5+ year period in my life where I was receiving Amazon deliveries every week.<p>Last year, I purchased a single item on Amazon.<p>In the midst of moving apartments right now, and looking for basics + upgrades. I&#x27;ve noticed what made Amazon so great and dare I say addicting was trustworthy reviews and crowd-wisdom curation of good-enough products. This shopping cycle, that magic felt gone. The audacity of product search to be littered with ads. A few years into that Amazon habit, I started reaching for &quot;fake amazon reviews&quot; on Google to get an estimate of how authentic the reviews are. Even that step has been gamed and noisy now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon reports its first unprofitable year since 2014</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/02/02/1153562994/amazon-reports-its-first-unprofitable-year-since-2014</url></story> |
33,728,036 | 33,727,467 | 1 | 3 | 33,726,816 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>Ah I am glad to see someone else talking about using public domain images!<p>Honestly it baffles me that in all this discussion, I rarely see people discussing how to do this with appropriately licensed images. There are some pretty large datasets out there of public images, and doing so might even help encourage more people to contribute to open datasets.<p>Also if the big ML companies HAD to use open images, they would be forced to figure out sample efficiency for these models. Which is good for the ML community! They would also be motivated to encourage the creation of larger openly licensed datasets, which would be great. I still think if we got twitter and other social media sites to add image license options, then people who want to contribute to open datasets could do so in an easy and socially contagious way. Maybe this would be a good project for mastodon contributors, since that is something we actually have control over. I&#x27;d be happy to license my photography with an open license!<p>It is really a wonderful idea to try to do this with open data. Maybe it won&#x27;t work very well with current techniques, but that just becomes an engineering problem worth looking at (sample efficiency).</text><parent_chain><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>Is there a good explanation of how to train this from scratch with a custom dataset[0]?<p>I&#x27;ve been looking around the documentation on Huggingface, but all I could find was either how to train unconditional U-Nets[1], or how to use the pretrained Stable Diffusion model to process image prompts (which I already know how to do). Writing a training loop for CLIP manually wound up with me banging against all sorts of strange roadblocks and missing bits of documentation, and I still don&#x27;t have it working. I&#x27;m pretty sure I also need some other trainables at some point, too.<p>[0] Specifically, Wikimedia Commons images in the PD-Art-100 category, because the images will be public domain in the US and the labels CC-BY-SA. This would rule out a lot of the complaints people have about living artists&#x27; work getting scraped into the machine; and probably satisfy Debian&#x27;s ML guidelines.<p>[1] Which actually <i>does work</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stable Diffusion 2.0</title><url>https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-v2-release</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>echelon</author><text>&gt; train this from scratch<p>If you&#x27;re talking about training from scratch and not fine tuning, that won&#x27;t be cheap or easy to do. You need thousands upon thousands of dollars of GPU compute [1] and a gigantic data set.<p>I trained something nowhere near the scale of Stable Diffusion on Lambda Labs, and my bill was $14,000.<p>[1] Assuming you rent GPUs hourly, because buying the hardware outright will be prohibitively expensive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>Is there a good explanation of how to train this from scratch with a custom dataset[0]?<p>I&#x27;ve been looking around the documentation on Huggingface, but all I could find was either how to train unconditional U-Nets[1], or how to use the pretrained Stable Diffusion model to process image prompts (which I already know how to do). Writing a training loop for CLIP manually wound up with me banging against all sorts of strange roadblocks and missing bits of documentation, and I still don&#x27;t have it working. I&#x27;m pretty sure I also need some other trainables at some point, too.<p>[0] Specifically, Wikimedia Commons images in the PD-Art-100 category, because the images will be public domain in the US and the labels CC-BY-SA. This would rule out a lot of the complaints people have about living artists&#x27; work getting scraped into the machine; and probably satisfy Debian&#x27;s ML guidelines.<p>[1] Which actually <i>does work</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stable Diffusion 2.0</title><url>https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-v2-release</url></story> |
11,073,407 | 11,072,564 | 1 | 2 | 11,070,147 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewl</author><text>Good article. One difference I&#x27;ve seen between big cats and house cats is that big cats never (as far as I know) tuck their feet under their bodies in the &quot;bread loaf&quot; position that house cats do. I always assumed it was because it put too much pressure on the big cat&#x27;s legs. So house cats often sit like this:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nedhardy.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;images&#x2F;2014&#x2F;september&#x2F;cat_loaves&#x2F;cat_loaves_17.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nedhardy.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;images&#x2F;2014&#x2F;septe...</a><p>While big cats put their legs out in front, like this:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cbs.umn.edu&#x2F;sites&#x2F;cbs.umn.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;public&#x2F;african_lion_king-wide_1.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cbs.umn.edu&#x2F;sites&#x2F;cbs.umn.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;public&#x2F;african_li...</a><p>House cats will take the lion position, but lions do not take the house cat position.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Weird Thing About Cat Legs</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/the-weird-thing-about-cat-legs/459369/?single_page=true</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krylon</author><text><i>We are, I realize, trying to out-stealth a cat. It&#x27;s going about as well as you&#x27;d expect.</i><p>I don&#x27;t have time read the full article right now, but this pair of sentences alone is priceless...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Weird Thing About Cat Legs</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/the-weird-thing-about-cat-legs/459369/?single_page=true</url></story> |
33,744,138 | 33,743,422 | 1 | 2 | 33,741,952 | 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>alexktz</author><text>I was just saying to my wife last night when her Lego Hobbits game crashed that I don&#x27;t recall a single crash in my 1000+ hours in Factorio. Not one!<p>Factorio is the standard against which I compare not only other games, but all other software. For polish, stability and craftsmanship. I hope they read this thread because the love for the game everywhere is truly well deserved.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cedws</author><text>This humble, relatively small dev team has written their game on top of a barebones engine and ported it to more three platforms and architectures, yet multi-billon dollar studios claim supporting anything beyond x86_64 Windows is an impossible feat.<p>I have so much respect for Wube. Absolutely amazing quality and care in everything they do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Factorio runs on Apple Silicon</title><url>https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-371</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tpush</author><text>&gt; [...] yet multi-billon dollar studios claim supporting anything beyond x86_64 Windows is an impossible feat.<p>Who actually claims that? The issue is more that the ROI just isn&#x27;t there. Remember that porting to a platform incurs additional support costs that need to be payed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cedws</author><text>This humble, relatively small dev team has written their game on top of a barebones engine and ported it to more three platforms and architectures, yet multi-billon dollar studios claim supporting anything beyond x86_64 Windows is an impossible feat.<p>I have so much respect for Wube. Absolutely amazing quality and care in everything they do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Factorio runs on Apple Silicon</title><url>https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-371</url></story> |
25,060,662 | 25,059,299 | 1 | 2 | 25,059,296 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munro</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why people use config servers like this, instead of keeping it in version control. Keeping it in the repository allows me audit changes of everything. If you move it to an external service, you lose that. And even if the external service has an audit trail, now you have two sources of version control. My assumption why people would do this is because 1) they&#x27;re told that&#x27;s how it should be done 2) they have a slow deployment processes, where it takes too long to get the change merged &amp; deployed. Anyway, I&#x27;ve very happily never used a config service, and I still remain unconvinced. :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Config.ly – Never hardcode your data again</title><url>https://www.config.ly</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeremyis</author><text>I’m Jeremy, cofounder of Config.ly. It’s like a CMS for your static variables &#x2F; copy &#x2F; constants so you can easily update them from a web UI instead of deploying code.<p>We’re software engineers and saw that the source of many bugs, incidents and time-sinks stem from hard-coding data. For example - waiting a day or longer for an iOS app store approval of a copy change, waiting hours on an internal CI&#x2F;deployment process to bump a timeout during a traffic spike incident, or having the same dollar-cost value diverge while hard-coded on iOS, Android and web clients.<p>In an ideal world, data would be completely separate from code. Databases can do this but often aren’t used that way for good reasons (they can be cumbersome to wire-up, there are scale concerns about adding extra load to your DB, it’s risky to touch a production database, etc). So we built Config.ly.<p>It has a simple web interface to define Strings, Numbers, Booleans and JSON objects and arrays. We think it’s so simple that even non-technical folks can update basic Config data like copy and colors (so you can focus on code!). We have client libraries (in four techs and growing!) that fetch these values from the server and intelligently handle optimizations like caching.<p>It’s free to use (with genorous size and bandwidth caps) and getting started from sign-up to fetching values in your client should take &lt; 5 minutes.<p>And we’d love to hear what you think!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Config.ly – Never hardcode your data again</title><url>https://www.config.ly</url></story> |
22,936,436 | 22,936,211 | 1 | 3 | 22,935,476 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munificent</author><text>One easy dumb trick I use to filter out &quot;interesting&quot; results that are likely just getting causality backwards is to flip the title around and see if it immediately sounds like an obvious truism. In the case of this article, it goes from:<p><i>&gt; Remote Software Developers Earn 22% More Than Non-Remote Developers</i><p>To something like:<p><i>&gt; Higher-paid software developers more likely to be working remotely</i><p>And at that point, yes, it&#x27;s fairly obviously going to be true. Working remotely is a perk for those who prefer it so we should expect it to be positively correlated with other forms of compensation.<p>I think all that your data really shows is a hidden variable: competence. Better software developers get paid more, work remotely more, and probably also get more paid time off, larger bonuses, and all sorts of other perks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whoisnnamdi</author><text>Author here<p>Agreed, which is why I didn&#x27;t say,&quot;working remote causes developers to earn 22% more&quot;, only that developers who work remote earn 22% more, which is an interesting fact in itself.<p>Early in the article I adjust this for various controls to better get at causality. This includes observable factors like age, years of experience, hours worked, size of employer, programming languages used, etc.<p>As I note in the article:
&gt;Much of the apparent premium earned by remote developers is in fact driven by seniority and tenure. These are older, more experienced developers who either prefer to work remote or whose organizations grant them that privilege.<p>However, controlling for manually selected factors doesn&#x27;t imply causality, so I use principled covariate selection to select the best set of controls and get closer to something that could be called causal. You can read more about this method, called Double Lasso Selection, in Urminsky, Hansen, and Chernozhukov [0].<p>This results in an adjusted pay premium of 9.4% for remote developers relative to those that never work remote. Hard to know for sure if this is causal either, but it&#x27;s likely much closer to whatever the true causal impact is. Unsurprisingly, it&#x27;s a lower number.<p>Thanks for reading!<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.uchicago.edu&#x2F;ourminsky&#x2F;Variable_Selection.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.uchicago.edu&#x2F;ourminsky&#x2F;Variable_Selection.pdf</a></text></item><item><author>JackPoach</author><text>I think that it&#x27;s cause and effect issue. Developers who&#x27;ve proven themselves to be reliable and experienced can &#x27;force&#x27; their preferences onto employers. And they happen to cost more as well. I don&#x27;t believe that going remote magically makes you able command higher salary.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers</title><url>https://whoisnnamdi.com/remote-software-developers-earn-more/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whack</author><text>&gt; <i>Early in the article I adjust this for various controls to better get at causality. This includes observable factors like age, years of experience, hours worked, size of employer, programming languages used, etc.</i><p>There are likely many other factors which aren&#x27;t &quot;observable&quot; by your methodology, which are causing the 9.4% pay-premium. Factors like competency, domain knowledge, and how essential they are to the organization. I find it much more believable that these unobservable factors are causing both the pay-premium, and working-remote flexibility.<p>This is a common problem that comes up in such studies. Adjusting for various observable factors is great, but it still leaves behind the other unobservable factors. At which point you have to use your judgement to figure out whether those unobservable factors are more compelling than the hypothesis being tested.<p>That said, this is still a very cool analysis that demonstrates an interesting correlation. Thanks for sharing!</text><parent_chain><item><author>whoisnnamdi</author><text>Author here<p>Agreed, which is why I didn&#x27;t say,&quot;working remote causes developers to earn 22% more&quot;, only that developers who work remote earn 22% more, which is an interesting fact in itself.<p>Early in the article I adjust this for various controls to better get at causality. This includes observable factors like age, years of experience, hours worked, size of employer, programming languages used, etc.<p>As I note in the article:
&gt;Much of the apparent premium earned by remote developers is in fact driven by seniority and tenure. These are older, more experienced developers who either prefer to work remote or whose organizations grant them that privilege.<p>However, controlling for manually selected factors doesn&#x27;t imply causality, so I use principled covariate selection to select the best set of controls and get closer to something that could be called causal. You can read more about this method, called Double Lasso Selection, in Urminsky, Hansen, and Chernozhukov [0].<p>This results in an adjusted pay premium of 9.4% for remote developers relative to those that never work remote. Hard to know for sure if this is causal either, but it&#x27;s likely much closer to whatever the true causal impact is. Unsurprisingly, it&#x27;s a lower number.<p>Thanks for reading!<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.uchicago.edu&#x2F;ourminsky&#x2F;Variable_Selection.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.uchicago.edu&#x2F;ourminsky&#x2F;Variable_Selection.pdf</a></text></item><item><author>JackPoach</author><text>I think that it&#x27;s cause and effect issue. Developers who&#x27;ve proven themselves to be reliable and experienced can &#x27;force&#x27; their preferences onto employers. And they happen to cost more as well. I don&#x27;t believe that going remote magically makes you able command higher salary.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers</title><url>https://whoisnnamdi.com/remote-software-developers-earn-more/</url></story> |
24,860,464 | 24,858,575 | 1 | 3 | 24,855,750 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samprotas</author><text>The number of comments here specifically upset with this part of the current design is a bit discouraging, but not necessarily surprising.<p>Yes, many mainstream languages have near-zero support for Tagged&#x2F;Discriminated Unions or Enums with Associated Data or Algebraic Data Types (pick your favorite name for the same concept). This is a limitation of those languages, which should not force a language-agnostic protocol to adopt the lowest common denominator of expressiveness.<p>Consider the problem they&#x27;re avoiding of mutually exclusive keys in a struct&#x2F;object. What do you do if you receive more than one? Is that behavior undefined? If it is defined, how sure are you that the implementation your package manager installed for you doesn&#x27;t just pick one key arbitrarily in the name of &quot;developer friendliness&quot; leading to security bugs? This seems like a much more bug-ridden problem to solve than having to write verbose type&#x2F;switching golang&#x2F;java.<p>Implementing more verbose deserialization code in languages with no support for Tagged Unions seems like a small price to pay for making a protocol that leaves no room for undefined behavior.<p>To be clear, _many_ statically typed languages have perfect support for this concept (Rust&#x2F;Swift&#x2F;Scala&#x2F;Haskell, to name a few).</text><parent_chain><item><author>parhamn</author><text>&gt; Polymorphic JSON. The protocol elements have different data types that convey additional contextual meaning, allowing us to avoid mutually exclusive protocol elements and design a more succinct and readable protocol.<p>Yeah... let&#x27;s not please.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OAuth 3</title><url>https://oauth.net/3/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevincox</author><text>Yeah, put a `type` tag in there and call it a day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>parhamn</author><text>&gt; Polymorphic JSON. The protocol elements have different data types that convey additional contextual meaning, allowing us to avoid mutually exclusive protocol elements and design a more succinct and readable protocol.<p>Yeah... let&#x27;s not please.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OAuth 3</title><url>https://oauth.net/3/</url></story> |
31,253,468 | 31,253,129 | 1 | 2 | 31,251,974 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asciimov</author><text>In Texas and can confirm as I&#x27;ve been to one. My mom was a participant of cow patty bingo in the late-80&#x27;s&#x2F;early-90&#x27;s. It was part of some radio station contest for a car. Everybody that called in and won a minor prize over a quarter was invited to a party with the bingo as the big event.<p>They had a large pen, say a quarter acre (about the size of 2 basketball courts) divided up into squares. The participants drew a number, went into the pen to find their spot. After all the participants found their spot they let the cow out to roam around. (You need a fairly docile cow to have people on the field when this happens)<p>In our game the cow started and did most of it&#x27;s business on my mom&#x27;s square, but finished on an adjoining square of young single blonde. I&#x27;ll let you guess how DJ ruled who won the car. (hint: wasn&#x27;t my mom)<p>&gt; Are people watching the cow with bated breath?<p>Kinda? I mean if the prize is good it&#x27;s fun to watch.<p>&gt; Are plots closer to the gate considered better?<p>Might be worse actually. Usually they run the cows into the pen instead of letting them just mosey in. When and where the cow does its business isn&#x27;t even known to the cow. The cows can take a while to go too, better part of an hour sometimes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>honkdaddy</author><text>“Among the weirder things he’s insured? Cow patty bingo (video here).<p>“It’s big in the Midwest,” says Gilmartin. “You divide a big field into, say, 100 squares, give each one a number, then let a cow loose. If the cow poops on a preselected number, the person wins a prize.””<p>I burst out laughing at this one. Can any Midwestern HNers confirm? Are people watching the cow with bated breath? Are plots closer to the gate considered better?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The strange business of hole-in-one insurance</title><url>https://thehustle.co/the-strange-business-of-hole-in-one-insurance/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nmwnmw</author><text>Did this in north Alabama back in the mid 90s for a school fundraiser. They hired a surveyor to plot the squares on the football field. We discovered that the field was narrower on one end by about 7 feet! The cow plopped on a square boundary with an unsold square so the winner only got half. As I recall it was a whole lot of standing around and waiting. Funny for the first 20 minutes, then very, very boring.</text><parent_chain><item><author>honkdaddy</author><text>“Among the weirder things he’s insured? Cow patty bingo (video here).<p>“It’s big in the Midwest,” says Gilmartin. “You divide a big field into, say, 100 squares, give each one a number, then let a cow loose. If the cow poops on a preselected number, the person wins a prize.””<p>I burst out laughing at this one. Can any Midwestern HNers confirm? Are people watching the cow with bated breath? Are plots closer to the gate considered better?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The strange business of hole-in-one insurance</title><url>https://thehustle.co/the-strange-business-of-hole-in-one-insurance/</url></story> |
3,459,022 | 3,458,963 | 1 | 2 | 3,458,261 | 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>invalidOrTaken</author><text>Finding this sort of thing always makes me stop short and realize, "Oh yeah, no matter how smart I think I am, there are people a million times more accomplished than me on HN." Not to make me despair so much as take care to avoid blathering the first thing on my mind before reading and considering what others have said.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gojomo</author><text>Hey! I invented the magnet link, almost 10 years ago.<p>Great to see it still evolving and spreading, based simply on its loosey-goosey merits.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-will-stop-serving-torrents-120112/?utm_source=dlvr.it&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>nestlequ1k</author><text>It's weird, I've been seeing it for years but I never understood what it is. I still don't really.<p>But when I click on the magnets things seem to download immediately. So looks like you built something pretty amazing. Congrats!</text><parent_chain><item><author>gojomo</author><text>Hey! I invented the magnet link, almost 10 years ago.<p>Great to see it still evolving and spreading, based simply on its loosey-goosey merits.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-will-stop-serving-torrents-120112/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter</url></story> |
12,491,164 | 12,490,975 | 1 | 2 | 12,488,420 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>It should be made more difficult because of the harm that could come if it&#x27;s used unjustly is much greater than any good it can cause by being used correctly.<p>Just because someone has sworn to protect you doesn&#x27;t mean they&#x27;ll actually do it. And that doesn&#x27;t prevent anyone else from using it against you either. In a perfect world, all the police follow the law, all the governments follow the law, and there are no criminals to steal this information.<p>&gt; at making the job of people sworn to protect them more difficult<p>What job is made easier by providing a list of all gun owners?<p>&gt; is not only acceptable, but preferred.<p>It&#x27;s pretty much the entire foundation of America. You don&#x27;t trust the person. You trust the system, and hopefully design the system in a way that minimizes abuse. No, it&#x27;s not perfect and never can be. But one concrete example is the fourth amendment. The ability for an officer to search a home for evidence without permission is just too ripe for abuse, even if it does allow criminals to get away with things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drusepth</author><text>It always blows my mind to see people suggest that making the job of people sworn to protect them more difficult is not only acceptable, but preferred.</text></item><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; Allowing a paper trail but not allowing digital records doesn&#x27;t really benefit gun owners<p>I&#x27;d say anything making the job of the police a little more tedious is worth bonus points. There is so much asymmetry of power against citizens that such measures restore a little bit of balance. You can&#x27;t have both Freedom and a super effective police force on the other hand. It&#x27;s always a trade-off.</text></item><item><author>knz</author><text>Do we still trust that these types of rules are being followed (particularly in the context of mass surveillance)? If I recall correctly, the public has been told on many occasions that the NSA&#x2F;FBI&#x2F;local police were not doing something only to be told years later that this was not the case.<p>Laws such as this just highlight how asinine gun policy can be. Allowing a paper trail but not allowing digital records doesn&#x27;t really benefit gun owners (Completing a 4473 would be a lot easier if they could verify that you are already a responsible gun owner) or make policing gun laws any safer (straw purchases would be easier to track if the records were digitized).</text></item><item><author>rb808</author><text>Interesting how gun records are forbidden to be computerized. NRA knows how to avoid big brother.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gq.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;inside-federal-bureau-of-way-too-many-guns" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gq.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;inside-federal-bureau-of-way-too-man...</a><p>&gt;&gt; That&#x27;s been a federal law, thanks to the NRA, since 1986: No searchable database of America&#x27;s gun owners. So people here have to use paper, sort through enormous stacks of forms and record books that gun stores are required to keep and to eventually turn over to the feds when requested. It&#x27;s kind of like a library in the old days—but without the card catalog. They can use pictures of paper, like microfilm (they recently got the go-ahead to convert the microfilm to PDFs), as long as the pictures of paper are not searchable. You have to flip through and read. No searching by gun owner. No searching by name.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Watched: Police are stockpiling databases with personal information</title><url>https://data.postandcourier.com/saga/watched/page/1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pc86</author><text>It always blows my mind to see people willfully misinterpret the meaning of a statement.<p>In this context there is obviously a belief that the police are doing something they should. Whether it&#x27;s illegal, or immoral, or legal but contrary to the spirit of the Constitution, or whatever the reasoning may be.<p>They could just as easily have said &quot;anything that makes it more difficult for the NSA to track my interests and whereabouts is bonus points&quot; and I think a majority of people on here would probably agree with that statement.<p>Just because it&#x27;s a local cop sworn to protect Americans vs. an NSA analyst or FBI agent doesn&#x27;t make them any more likely to actually do it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drusepth</author><text>It always blows my mind to see people suggest that making the job of people sworn to protect them more difficult is not only acceptable, but preferred.</text></item><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; Allowing a paper trail but not allowing digital records doesn&#x27;t really benefit gun owners<p>I&#x27;d say anything making the job of the police a little more tedious is worth bonus points. There is so much asymmetry of power against citizens that such measures restore a little bit of balance. You can&#x27;t have both Freedom and a super effective police force on the other hand. It&#x27;s always a trade-off.</text></item><item><author>knz</author><text>Do we still trust that these types of rules are being followed (particularly in the context of mass surveillance)? If I recall correctly, the public has been told on many occasions that the NSA&#x2F;FBI&#x2F;local police were not doing something only to be told years later that this was not the case.<p>Laws such as this just highlight how asinine gun policy can be. Allowing a paper trail but not allowing digital records doesn&#x27;t really benefit gun owners (Completing a 4473 would be a lot easier if they could verify that you are already a responsible gun owner) or make policing gun laws any safer (straw purchases would be easier to track if the records were digitized).</text></item><item><author>rb808</author><text>Interesting how gun records are forbidden to be computerized. NRA knows how to avoid big brother.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gq.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;inside-federal-bureau-of-way-too-many-guns" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gq.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;inside-federal-bureau-of-way-too-man...</a><p>&gt;&gt; That&#x27;s been a federal law, thanks to the NRA, since 1986: No searchable database of America&#x27;s gun owners. So people here have to use paper, sort through enormous stacks of forms and record books that gun stores are required to keep and to eventually turn over to the feds when requested. It&#x27;s kind of like a library in the old days—but without the card catalog. They can use pictures of paper, like microfilm (they recently got the go-ahead to convert the microfilm to PDFs), as long as the pictures of paper are not searchable. You have to flip through and read. No searching by gun owner. No searching by name.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Watched: Police are stockpiling databases with personal information</title><url>https://data.postandcourier.com/saga/watched/page/1</url></story> |
31,966,870 | 31,962,574 | 1 | 2 | 31,944,555 | 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>rcshubhadeep</author><text>It is named after Prof Satyendra Nath Bose. A physicist and true polyglot from pre-independent India. He was in his twenties when he figured this out. Of course never really received any larger fame, as is customary for Theoretical scientists from South East Asia (well most of the time) but if anyone is interested here is the story - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Satyendra_Nath_Bose" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Satyendra_Nath_Bose</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lalalandland</author><text>FWIW Bosons are named after a person</text></item><item><author>lokimedes</author><text>After we discovered the particle in June 2012, there was a large summer conference in Stockholm (a good few months before the Nobel announcement). In the spirit of jubilation the Municipality had arranged a classical “Nobel” reception at the Mayor’s Hall and banquet at the Vasa Museum in the evening.<p>As a good friend of the chair of the organizing committee, I was asked to help that evening, collecting invitations as people entered. After greeting the first 100 or so, up came this elderly man who has lost his invitation. He was very sorry, and asked if there was any way for him to prove he in fact was invited. I told the gentleman, that he could have mine in case there was any trouble. As Peter Higgs was allowed to enter the little dress rehearsal for what was to befall him in autumn, there was a warm chuckle around us.<p>I have met him on other occasions and perhaps it is exactly his non-selfish personality that has allowed the particle to carry his name in the first place. The rest of particle physics is luckily void of attributing eternal properties of nature to individuals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-higgs-boson-ruined-peter-higgss-life/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lokimedes</author><text>You got me. But being a Fermion or a Boson is (IMO) a label for a generic property. and we have plenty of other such theoretical constructs named after the inventor: Weyl, Dirac, etc. we need language and labels to communicate ideas, so that is alight. But the Higgs particle and mechanism represents physical reality (now at least) which brings it to the level of electrons, quarks and the fundamental forces of nature. These names will stand for as long as our civilization. Who cares that someone predicted them a couple of years before their discovery when we are a century down the line.
Just imagine if fire was known as the Peterson effect?
Anyway that’s just my opinion.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lalalandland</author><text>FWIW Bosons are named after a person</text></item><item><author>lokimedes</author><text>After we discovered the particle in June 2012, there was a large summer conference in Stockholm (a good few months before the Nobel announcement). In the spirit of jubilation the Municipality had arranged a classical “Nobel” reception at the Mayor’s Hall and banquet at the Vasa Museum in the evening.<p>As a good friend of the chair of the organizing committee, I was asked to help that evening, collecting invitations as people entered. After greeting the first 100 or so, up came this elderly man who has lost his invitation. He was very sorry, and asked if there was any way for him to prove he in fact was invited. I told the gentleman, that he could have mine in case there was any trouble. As Peter Higgs was allowed to enter the little dress rehearsal for what was to befall him in autumn, there was a warm chuckle around us.<p>I have met him on other occasions and perhaps it is exactly his non-selfish personality that has allowed the particle to carry his name in the first place. The rest of particle physics is luckily void of attributing eternal properties of nature to individuals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-higgs-boson-ruined-peter-higgss-life/</url></story> |
29,651,056 | 29,651,024 | 1 | 3 | 29,650,255 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Comevius</author><text>They confused it with Sega Saturn, that&#x27;s the one that was pushed under the bus by Nintendo 64 in 1996. Nintendo however was late to the game, the PS1 was already entrenched.</text><parent_chain><item><author>b15h0p</author><text>The article states that the Dreamcast &quot;fell out of the public eye as the Nintendo 64 was released&quot;. Am I missing something here? As far as I know the N64 was released more than two years before the Dreamcast&#x27;s release. The Dreamcast always felt like it belonged to the PS2&#x2F;Xbox&#x2F;Gamecube console generation more than the PS1&#x2F;N64 generation, although it was released in between generations.<p>Release dates:<p><pre><code> * PlayStation 1: &#x27;94&#x2F;&#x27;95
* N64: &#x27;96
* Dreamcast: &#x27;98&#x2F;&#x27;99
* PlayStation 2: 2000
* XBox: 2001
* GameCube: 2001</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Dreamcast Legacy</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2021/12/22/the-dreamcast-legacy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arprocter</author><text>Article also seems confused that the NES competed against the Genesis - the Master System was Sega&#x27;s 8-bit console; and no mention of the 32X or Sega&#x2F;Mega CD either<p>iirc a big selling point of the PS2 was it could play DVDs, whereas the Dreamcast couldn&#x27;t</text><parent_chain><item><author>b15h0p</author><text>The article states that the Dreamcast &quot;fell out of the public eye as the Nintendo 64 was released&quot;. Am I missing something here? As far as I know the N64 was released more than two years before the Dreamcast&#x27;s release. The Dreamcast always felt like it belonged to the PS2&#x2F;Xbox&#x2F;Gamecube console generation more than the PS1&#x2F;N64 generation, although it was released in between generations.<p>Release dates:<p><pre><code> * PlayStation 1: &#x27;94&#x2F;&#x27;95
* N64: &#x27;96
* Dreamcast: &#x27;98&#x2F;&#x27;99
* PlayStation 2: 2000
* XBox: 2001
* GameCube: 2001</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Dreamcast Legacy</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2021/12/22/the-dreamcast-legacy/</url></story> |
38,220,252 | 38,217,487 | 1 | 3 | 38,216,196 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BurningFrog</author><text>Google has Search and Ads, which generate vastly more money than they need to operate. Google Search is one of the Great Inventions in human history, so I think the money is well deserved.<p>But this creates an environment where the natural empire building among managers isn&#x27;t tempered by the need for their units to produce revenue covering their costs. So the organization tends to grow to where it consumes all the billions raining from the sky.<p>Disclaimer: Just a loose thought from a cynical ex Googler.</text><parent_chain><item><author>adrianmsmith</author><text>&gt; One of the primary metrics for leadership success at Google is how many people you have under you.<p>Yeah this is definitely one of those things that sounds good on paper but has unintended &quot;consequences&quot; shall we say.<p>I worked for one company about a decade ago where the task was to redesign the corporate homepage. The &quot;about us&quot; pages on the homepage, not the actual product the company was selling. These pages got a few hundred hits a month. The decision was made to create two sub-teams, one would create a custom CMS, the other would &quot;render&quot; the data entered into the CMS to the website visitors. So that was about 10-20 people in total. The project took over a year. All completely unnecessary.<p>I didn&#x27;t understand why this was happening. Who gained from this? I couldn&#x27;t figure it out. I supposed it was just a lack of controls on how long things took, and this was the result, but that didn&#x27;t really feel right to me. It felt like someone had to really gain from this, but I couldn&#x27;t work it out.<p>Anyway, during my leaving drinks, after a few pints, my boss told me &quot;yeah I think I&#x27;m going to get promoted, the other managers who are applying for this job manage far fewer people so I think I&#x27;m well positioned to get it&quot;.<p>The penny dropped. The purpose of this project was to occupy people, so that more people could get hired, so his headcount increased, so he could get a promotion, and a payrise.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I skipped to the ending</title><url>https://danangell.com/blog/posts/i-skipped-to-the-ending/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leosanchez</author><text>&gt; So that was about 10-20 people in total. The project took over a year. All completely unnecessary.<p>What are the bosses above your boss are doing if resources are allocated on useless projects ?</text><parent_chain><item><author>adrianmsmith</author><text>&gt; One of the primary metrics for leadership success at Google is how many people you have under you.<p>Yeah this is definitely one of those things that sounds good on paper but has unintended &quot;consequences&quot; shall we say.<p>I worked for one company about a decade ago where the task was to redesign the corporate homepage. The &quot;about us&quot; pages on the homepage, not the actual product the company was selling. These pages got a few hundred hits a month. The decision was made to create two sub-teams, one would create a custom CMS, the other would &quot;render&quot; the data entered into the CMS to the website visitors. So that was about 10-20 people in total. The project took over a year. All completely unnecessary.<p>I didn&#x27;t understand why this was happening. Who gained from this? I couldn&#x27;t figure it out. I supposed it was just a lack of controls on how long things took, and this was the result, but that didn&#x27;t really feel right to me. It felt like someone had to really gain from this, but I couldn&#x27;t work it out.<p>Anyway, during my leaving drinks, after a few pints, my boss told me &quot;yeah I think I&#x27;m going to get promoted, the other managers who are applying for this job manage far fewer people so I think I&#x27;m well positioned to get it&quot;.<p>The penny dropped. The purpose of this project was to occupy people, so that more people could get hired, so his headcount increased, so he could get a promotion, and a payrise.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I skipped to the ending</title><url>https://danangell.com/blog/posts/i-skipped-to-the-ending/</url></story> |
16,897,310 | 16,896,862 | 1 | 2 | 16,895,953 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>factsaresacred</author><text>&gt; <i>I asked John how his product was doing, and he said that he’s looking to hire a CEO with more product experience...when I talked to him further, he said he was still looking to launch his MVP...So after 1.5 years, John basically spent $10,000+ attending financial conferences, collected no revenue, and hasn’t even launched a working website</i><p>Laughing at how real this is. This is exactly the situation with me and a friend. We both had an idea for different businesses 2 years ago.<p>He prints business cards, incorporates a business, talks about partnerships, a launch party, worries about getting too big....and has no users.<p>I quit my job to code away in the morning, reply to user feedback in the afternoon and emulate my competitor&#x27;s marketing at night. I did this every day....and just passed 100,000 users. Hardly anybody knows what I do.<p>The difference between us: he works for a big tech company where everyone talks about their <i>app idea</i>™ over lunch and lives in a city where splashing $1000 on bottle service is seen as smart instead of foolish. I don&#x27;t. Instead I grind for two simple reasons: to be free of a boss and to make something people find valuable.<p>I love my friend and I&#x27;m not knocking his approach, nor saying mine is better. But printing business cards before gaining users is a bizarre way to order one&#x27;s priorities.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Unhealthy Desire for Prestige</title><url>https://www.financialsamurai.com/the-unhealthy-desire-for-prestige-is-ruining-your-life/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrleiter</author><text>To seek prestige runs far deeper in our minds than one would think. It comes from a place of uncertainty and fear.<p>There is an interesting theory called &quot;social comparison&quot; [1], which states that one way to define ourselves is to compare us with our peers, either upward or downward. It&#x27;s pretty on point in my personal opinion, because I do it as well. And when I have mentioned this theory while chatting with friends, they confirmed that they do it, too.<p>We humans are brittle creatures that pretend to be very strong and independent in order to survive and not be vulnerable.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psychologytoday.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;basics&#x2F;social-comparison-theory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psychologytoday.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;basics&#x2F;social-comparison-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Unhealthy Desire for Prestige</title><url>https://www.financialsamurai.com/the-unhealthy-desire-for-prestige-is-ruining-your-life/</url></story> |
11,079,531 | 11,079,616 | 1 | 2 | 11,072,085 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheCoreh</author><text>Now, would it even make sense to merge into the mainline codebase of LLVM backend code targeting a platform that noone else can test or use?<p>Is Google planning on eventually releasing this architecture publicly or maybe licensing it to third party manufacturers, a-la ARM?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LLVM Patches Confirm Google Has Its Own In-House Processor</title><url>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Lanai-Architecture</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>desdiv</author><text>This story has a little more info, including the chip&#x27;s origin from Myricom:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;09&#x2F;google_processor&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;09&#x2F;google_processor&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LLVM Patches Confirm Google Has Its Own In-House Processor</title><url>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Lanai-Architecture</url></story> |
26,521,240 | 26,519,606 | 1 | 2 | 26,516,824 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lasagnaphil</author><text>Yeah, it&#x27;s still dissapointing how much system resources it takes to get a plot running (even with all the improvements in 1.6, benchmark taken from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oxinabox.net&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;Julia-1.6-what-has-changed-since-1.0.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oxinabox.net&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;Julia-1.6-what-has-chang...</a>).<p><pre><code> julia&gt; @time (using Plots; display(plot(1:0.1:10, sin.(1:0.1:10))))
9.694037 seconds (18.29 M allocations: 1.164 GiB, 4.17% gc time, 0.40% compilation time)
</code></pre>
To be honest, this isn&#x27;t really something the devs should be proud about. 10 seconds, 18.29 M allocations and 1.164 GiB of memory just to render a simple static image is just unacceptable. In order for Julia to be a good-enough language for general scientific usage the current slow LLVM-based JIT compiler sadly isn&#x27;t enough. I really want Julia to succeed, but this one problem is triumphing over every good language feature.<p>In an ideal world Julia would have two backends:<p>- A fast, hand-made JIT backend (something like LuaJIT) which is mostly interpreted and only JIT-compiled in frequently run code paths.<p>- The current slow, almost-AOT-like LLVM backend which is only used for precompilation of packages<p>It&#x27;s just like Debug&#x2F;Release bulids in C++, except that the Debug builds are lightning fast to compile (but slower at runtime) and Release builds are slower to compile (but hyper-optimized for runtime speed). I guess there&#x27;s going to be an immense engineering effort if something like this happens, given that Julia today is immensely coupled with the LLVM compiler&#x2F;runtime. But that&#x27;s just my pipe dream.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kasperset</author><text>I really want to love Julia language but the overhead of package loading annoys me. Perhaps this may be just me being lazy or spoiled after using R packages or Python libraries.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Data Science in Julia for Hackers</title><url>https://datasciencejuliahackers.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>alpaca128</author><text>One of the things I took away from trying Julia was that unicode is incredibly dumb in some aspects. Unicode lacks support for parts of the latin alphabet in subscript and superscript formatting(similar for the greek alphabet)[0].<p>As Julia relies on Unicode for its neatly formatted variable names this is an annoying limitation that the developers can&#x27;t even do much about.<p>Unicode has over 100k symbols, including about 3500 emoji. But a continuous set of 26 small letters, either in lowercase or uppercase(or both) is too much bloat apparently.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;17908593&#x2F;how-to-find-the-unicode-of-the-subscript-alphabet&#x2F;17909597#17909597" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;17908593&#x2F;how-to-find-the...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kasperset</author><text>I really want to love Julia language but the overhead of package loading annoys me. Perhaps this may be just me being lazy or spoiled after using R packages or Python libraries.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Data Science in Julia for Hackers</title><url>https://datasciencejuliahackers.com/</url></story> |
15,438,654 | 15,434,898 | 1 | 3 | 15,433,196 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adrianratnapala</author><text>Wait, so the articles says that that around 60k years ago, at this particular site, people started staying put longer and the artifacts became <i>less</i> sophisticated.<p>From the headline I thought this was going to shed light on the so-called &quot;great-leap forward&quot; which is supposed to be about artifacts becoming more sophisticated (or perhaps just more artistic) at very roughly the same time period in different parts of the world.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Staying longer at home' was key to stone age technology change 60k years ago</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2017-10-longer-home-key-stone-age.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>icc97</author><text>Makes me wonder what research they&#x27;ll be doing about us in 58,000 years.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Staying longer at home' was key to stone age technology change 60k years ago</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2017-10-longer-home-key-stone-age.html</url></story> |
21,450,401 | 21,450,423 | 1 | 3 | 21,447,215 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yason</author><text>Patents have suffered a fate similar to something like metrics that have succumbed to Goodhart&#x27;s law.<p>Patents could&#x27;ve worked somewhat originally, at least in principle, but soon people started gaming the system, rendering the patent system worthless. Except for maybe certain domains patents do not currently host important inventions in the meaningful sense. Especially in software, execution matters much more than the actual idea.<p>And the execution part usually is akin to a trade secret: for example, it&#x27;s not so much what Google and Amazon do, it&#x27;s about the mountain of work they did in building all that <i>and</i> also making it scale. That&#x27;s the non-trivial part that you couldn&#x27;t replicate even if you read and bought all their patents.<p>A low-hanging fruit of fixing the patent system would be to reduce it to a mere notary service of timestamping ideas. Establishing the patent de facto would require the patent to be defended in courts: this alone would cut down the amount of bogus patents.<p>Defending a complex, vague system would cost a lot of money, balancing the usefulness of gaining a court-verified monopoly on the idea. On the other hand, a simple but truly novel idea would be rather easy to defend, even for a private person. There&#x27;s no downgrade to the current state of matters: it&#x27;s not as if the current patent system would allow individual inventors a low-cost way to sue and win big companies trying to abuse their patents already.<p>There are other ways but in any case gains need to be balanced with cost, that&#x27;s the only way to make people and companies prioritise and valuate the true worth of their ideas. No party is going to spend a lot of money trying to defend a vague patent that was written only to win the first-to-file race and game its coverage within the patent system. They already know it&#x27;s bollocks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nine_k</author><text>Please remember that patents were invented as a way to fight trade secrets.<p>A patented invention should be described in sufficient detail, and the description is made public. This is how important inventions do not get hidden form sight forever, even if they don&#x27;t bring any profit.<p>This also allows people (including governmental agencies) have an idea of what is being sold as a new invention. Would you take a new medicine whose chemical formula is a tightly guarded secret?<p>I think that what makes a patent worth it is the first-mover advantage. What makes a patent problematic is a long expiration time which does not depend on its being used productively.<p>The best idea I saw is an exponential patent fee. Say, first year it&#x27;s $100, second, $400, third, $1600 (all amounts acceptable even for a lone-wolf inventor), ... tenth, $26M, ... fifteenth, $27B.<p>This way any useful invention can enjoy a patent coverage for some time, and afford it for some more time if it&#x27;s bringing in significant profits, but sitting on a patent for a long time would be impossible even for the richest companies. Keeping a portfolio of unused patents would become pointless, too, and patent trolling, likely unprofitable.</text></item><item><author>spectramax</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked in China extensively and I feel strong about the following:<p>A) Cloudfare can defend, but a mom-and-pop small business cannot. A startup cannot.<p>B) China can hedge against western bureaucracy and gain unprecedented speed in innovation and new ventures - precisely because of hard pressing and blocking issues such as patent law.<p>C) Even if there were no patent trolls, China can still manage to steal, copy, espionage or fearlessly innovate - why? Because of three things - culture, law and international relations.<p>In my opinion, Patents need to end. Yep, completely get rid of patents. Not shorten it, not amend it, just simply stop taking new applications. Existing patents can be still be active until they expire (or better yet, shorten the expiration date). Ideas are cheap, execution is where companies need to compete.<p>This is not a level playing field for the rest of the nations. China gives no fucks about law and the west is gonna watch China lead the way in exponential progress while we are still playing in the dirt with our little patent litigations.<p>I wonder if people here have felt this before: Get an idea, start building a prototype, demo it to a friend, friend suggests checking google.com&#x2F;patents, excitement collapses :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloudflare-stood-up-to-a-patent-troll-and-won/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gdhbcc</author><text>Except that idea is simply historically untrue. Patent were started primarily as a way to modernize the guild monopolies that were common place at the time, but were unsuited given the greater levels of globalization and international trade.<p>The idea that they were meant to serve as a way to reduce trade secrets falls flat in the face of the fact that most places with strong patent and copyright law, also have strong laws protecting trade secrets</text><parent_chain><item><author>nine_k</author><text>Please remember that patents were invented as a way to fight trade secrets.<p>A patented invention should be described in sufficient detail, and the description is made public. This is how important inventions do not get hidden form sight forever, even if they don&#x27;t bring any profit.<p>This also allows people (including governmental agencies) have an idea of what is being sold as a new invention. Would you take a new medicine whose chemical formula is a tightly guarded secret?<p>I think that what makes a patent worth it is the first-mover advantage. What makes a patent problematic is a long expiration time which does not depend on its being used productively.<p>The best idea I saw is an exponential patent fee. Say, first year it&#x27;s $100, second, $400, third, $1600 (all amounts acceptable even for a lone-wolf inventor), ... tenth, $26M, ... fifteenth, $27B.<p>This way any useful invention can enjoy a patent coverage for some time, and afford it for some more time if it&#x27;s bringing in significant profits, but sitting on a patent for a long time would be impossible even for the richest companies. Keeping a portfolio of unused patents would become pointless, too, and patent trolling, likely unprofitable.</text></item><item><author>spectramax</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked in China extensively and I feel strong about the following:<p>A) Cloudfare can defend, but a mom-and-pop small business cannot. A startup cannot.<p>B) China can hedge against western bureaucracy and gain unprecedented speed in innovation and new ventures - precisely because of hard pressing and blocking issues such as patent law.<p>C) Even if there were no patent trolls, China can still manage to steal, copy, espionage or fearlessly innovate - why? Because of three things - culture, law and international relations.<p>In my opinion, Patents need to end. Yep, completely get rid of patents. Not shorten it, not amend it, just simply stop taking new applications. Existing patents can be still be active until they expire (or better yet, shorten the expiration date). Ideas are cheap, execution is where companies need to compete.<p>This is not a level playing field for the rest of the nations. China gives no fucks about law and the west is gonna watch China lead the way in exponential progress while we are still playing in the dirt with our little patent litigations.<p>I wonder if people here have felt this before: Get an idea, start building a prototype, demo it to a friend, friend suggests checking google.com&#x2F;patents, excitement collapses :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloudflare-stood-up-to-a-patent-troll-and-won/</url></story> |
22,963,424 | 22,962,352 | 1 | 3 | 22,961,666 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>I really wonder about all these services that eat into the layers of implementation that organisations usually do in house, but at the same time quick form a complex web of lock in that prevents you ever leaving Amazon. It seems to me that these services are very seductive but there are very few cases where it&#x27;s truly in an organisation&#x27;s long term interest to adopt them. At best, use them as a quick interim solution to bootstrap what you are building and then use that as your requirements for an open source or at least vendor-neutral equivalent.<p>Curious what the HN crowd thinks about this issue?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon AppFlow</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lilfermat</author><text>This is an interesting addition to AWS! I wonder how is this better than stitch or fivetran? It’s not immediately clear to me. Also I am doing the back the envelope math. It seems like app flow cost more than our current usage of stitch or even fivetran to our redshift warehouse and doesn’t even include some of our bigger other sources we use (MySQL, stripe). I am gonna do more analysis on this and see if this can be a potential cost saver for us in the longer.
It’s exciting to see more competition in this space none the less.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon AppFlow</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/</url></story> |
2,260,556 | 2,260,166 | 1 | 2 | 2,259,784 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Getahobby</author><text>This is going to kill me to say this because I have been using freebsd since 2.x but the lack of commercial support from the likes of Dell really hurts. Recently I couldn't find the cli utility to manage a raid card because the ports system had an out of date location for the source. I was reduced to shutting down a production server just to flip some configuration bits. Freebsd is absolutely rock solid as an OS. The support from certain hardware vendors is a different story.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FreeBSD 8.2 released</title><url>http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trotsky</author><text>Does anyone have any insight into how well freebsd runs on laptops? Power management, suspend, wireless and such? As an X desktop is it in the same league as fedora/opensuse when running KDE?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FreeBSD 8.2 released</title><url>http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html</url><text></text></story> |
25,134,259 | 25,132,995 | 1 | 2 | 25,132,164 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ixacto</author><text>We already saw the US navy get dominated by unconventional warfare in the Millennium Challenge<p>&quot;After the war game was restarted, its participants were forced to follow a script drafted to ensure a Blue Force victory. Among other rules imposed by this script, Red Force was ordered to turn on their anti-aircraft radar in order for them to be destroyed, and was not allowed to shoot down any of the aircraft bringing Blue Force troops ashore.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Millennium_Challenge_2002" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Millennium_Challenge_2002</a><p>So yeah lots of the big ships might not be that useful in a present-day conflict if they can get destroyed by suicide-attack boats. Of course that puts the whole need for the amount of military funding&#x2F;pork into question and that makes the military-industrial-congressional complex very nervous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Iv</author><text>The one trillion dollar question (actually possibly even more than that) is the cost of sinking an aircraft carrier in a symmetrical conflict.<p>Aircraft carriers are great if you need to project force into a territory occupied by groups over which you have superiority. Against an enemy with state of the art anti-ship missiles deployed along the coast, modern radar and satellite capabilities, all bets are foo.<p>Some people think in such a conflict, aircraft carriers are overpriced targets that can be disabled or even sunk in the first hours of a conflict for the cost of a few missiles and a few light ships to launch them. IIRC a red team managed to disable most of the US Navy in that fashion in an exercise a few years ago.<p>There are countermeasures deployed, several layers of them, and missiles have counter-counter measures. Only very few are actually deployed and really tested on the field.<p>We know in good conditions, they work, on some missiles. In a real conflict, how many will they stop? 100%? 99%? 50%? 20%? How well can missile decoys fool countermeasures? What hidden tricks have different sides kept in their sleeves in preparation?<p>We will learn it on a very fateful day that could either see the record on tonnage sunk on a single day or a very fast conflict deescalation from the attacking side (assuming US would be the defending one, credible in the case of China)</text></item><item><author>DenverCode</author><text>During my time in the Navy, there was a paper being passed around the officers concerning removing aircraft carriers from the fleet. Reason being that a single shot to the flight deck would render them useless in the aspect of air warfare and defense.</text></item><item><author>herendin2</author><text>Context: China very recently claimed to have struck a ship at sea over a thousand miles away with an ICBM fired from the interior of China. That&#x27;s an obvious threat to US carrier group-based force projection<p>So this demonstration looks likely a response to that, not specifically about WMD threats this time<p>Probably both these tests were under ideal conditions, as usual, but they&#x27;re about sending a message as much as anything practical</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test</title><url>https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/11/17/us-navy-destroyer-shoots-down-an-icbm-in-milestone-test/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dirtyid</author><text>I think USN confidence of current abilities is reflected by the fact the Pompeo, as much of aChina hawk he is, no longer sends US carriers through the Taiwan strait. Clinton sent two during the third strait crisis. My understanding is USN is 5+ years out from having credible counters to Chinese AShM right now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Iv</author><text>The one trillion dollar question (actually possibly even more than that) is the cost of sinking an aircraft carrier in a symmetrical conflict.<p>Aircraft carriers are great if you need to project force into a territory occupied by groups over which you have superiority. Against an enemy with state of the art anti-ship missiles deployed along the coast, modern radar and satellite capabilities, all bets are foo.<p>Some people think in such a conflict, aircraft carriers are overpriced targets that can be disabled or even sunk in the first hours of a conflict for the cost of a few missiles and a few light ships to launch them. IIRC a red team managed to disable most of the US Navy in that fashion in an exercise a few years ago.<p>There are countermeasures deployed, several layers of them, and missiles have counter-counter measures. Only very few are actually deployed and really tested on the field.<p>We know in good conditions, they work, on some missiles. In a real conflict, how many will they stop? 100%? 99%? 50%? 20%? How well can missile decoys fool countermeasures? What hidden tricks have different sides kept in their sleeves in preparation?<p>We will learn it on a very fateful day that could either see the record on tonnage sunk on a single day or a very fast conflict deescalation from the attacking side (assuming US would be the defending one, credible in the case of China)</text></item><item><author>DenverCode</author><text>During my time in the Navy, there was a paper being passed around the officers concerning removing aircraft carriers from the fleet. Reason being that a single shot to the flight deck would render them useless in the aspect of air warfare and defense.</text></item><item><author>herendin2</author><text>Context: China very recently claimed to have struck a ship at sea over a thousand miles away with an ICBM fired from the interior of China. That&#x27;s an obvious threat to US carrier group-based force projection<p>So this demonstration looks likely a response to that, not specifically about WMD threats this time<p>Probably both these tests were under ideal conditions, as usual, but they&#x27;re about sending a message as much as anything practical</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test</title><url>https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/11/17/us-navy-destroyer-shoots-down-an-icbm-in-milestone-test/</url></story> |
23,154,377 | 23,154,525 | 1 | 3 | 23,146,897 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; That&#x27;s an Americanism, right? Your milk isn&#x27;t shelf-stable?<p>No milk, I&#x27;m fairly certain, is shelf-stable once opened; shelf-stable (until opened) milk is widely available but not as popular as milk that isn&#x27;t in the US, and the “milk in the pantry” reference is implicitly in the context of having just poured from it, so it has been opened. So, while it probably doesn&#x27;t reference shelf-stable milk, it wouldn&#x27;t be any different if it did.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>However, it&#x27;s more putting the milk in the pantry type stuff</i><p>That&#x27;s an Americanism, right? Your milk isn&#x27;t shelf-stable?</text></item><item><author>Balgair</author><text>Between the twitter rants, the poverty vow, the new child, the name of the new child, and now this, well.. All in the last 10 days or so too. The last few years have not been all that kind either.<p>I mean, new fathers, even after the other six babies, still do pretty goofy things. However, it&#x27;s more putting the milk in the pantry type stuff, or mixing up coffee grounds and water.<p>Not daring public officials to arrest you during a pandemic and all but demanding employees to work during said pandemic.<p>I feel for the guy, things are tough now. I hope he finds the peace that he seems to need.</text></item><item><author>ardy42</author><text>&gt; You must also take into account the history of intentional civil disobedience where the government has over reached and the population simply reaches the point where it refuses to comply.<p>&gt; Prohibition is obviously a prime example of this, but if you consider various laws that once existed or are currently on the books but no longer enforced (think laws pertaining to racial segregation, sexuality, drug use, and such) you realize that...<p>The thing is: public safety laws <i>aren&#x27;t</i> like racial segregation at all. If they are, I look forward to stuff like &quot;civil disobedience&quot; against child labor laws, etc.<p>&gt; ...being a law abiding citizen does not mean you are no longer allowed to think for yourself.<p>That&#x27;s true, but it also means being accountable and not acting without regards to others. Musk is acting like a petulant brat here, and I hope the Alameda County sheriff talks some sense into him.</text></item><item><author>mgolawala</author><text>You must also take into account the history of intentional civil disobedience where the government has over reached and the population simply reaches the point where it refuses to comply.<p>Prohibition is obviously a prime example of this, but if you consider various laws that once existed or are currently on the books but no longer enforced (think laws pertaining to racial segregation, sexuality, drug use, and such) you realize that being a law abiding citizen does not mean you are no longer allowed to think for yourself. Read up on &quot;Jury Nullification&quot; or &quot;Jury Equity&quot;.</text></item><item><author>geofft</author><text>&gt; <i>This is locking down for the sake of locking down, not an evidence-first safety driven approach. That is something I cannot support.</i><p>&quot;Support&quot; is a bit of an overloaded word. I do agree with you that I do not support a government policy that isn&#x27;t evidence-driven. But I do support the <i>ability</i> of the government to set policy without convincing every one of its constituents of the validity of its evidence.<p>As a simple analogy, perhaps the speed limits for highways in my state are capped at 60 mph, but there&#x27;s evidence that the roads can safely accommodate drivers at 70 mph, they&#x27;re well-maintained, they are built to appropriate safety standards, etc. I wouldn&#x27;t support the government keeping the speed limit at 60 mph based on flimsy evidence. But I also wouldn&#x27;t object to the government enforcing the speed limit as it is - because the end result of saying that every driver has the right to make their own private judgment of whether the speed limit laws are validly reasoned is that there is no speed limit anymore.</text></item><item><author>dannyw</author><text>The reasons for not restarting production seem to be dogmatic and not evidence driven. Tesla is running the factory at a 30-40% capacity, and the Fremont factory has 5.3 million square feet of manufacturing and office space. Tesla claims their plan will ensure 6 ft of distance for every employee, and PPE and masks are provided and mandatory. Even the HVAC is changed to optimise for fresh air turnover and filters are changed on a regular basis.<p>Tesla&#x27;s full list is available here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;blog_attachments&#x2F;Tesla-Return-to-Work-Playbook.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;blog_attachments&#x2F;T...</a><p>A Tesla factory is a much safer place to be than a Home Depot or a Costco, and many other businesses open in California today. We aren&#x27;t talking about sporting events here: we&#x27;re talking about some of the lowest risk and unavoidable interactions.<p>Carmakers are also defined as a COVID19 critical industry, and every other carmaker manufacturing in the United States is either open, or capable of open today. This puts Tesla at a serious disadvantage.<p>This is locking down for the sake of locking down, not an evidence-first safety driven approach. That is something I cannot support.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>It&#x27;s not an Americanism to keep your milk in the fridge after you open it. Which country are you from where you&#x27;d keep opened milk in the room temp pantry (which is what is being discussed here)?<p>These attempts at &quot;Americans do the darnedest things XD&quot; comments always seem so forced to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>However, it&#x27;s more putting the milk in the pantry type stuff</i><p>That&#x27;s an Americanism, right? Your milk isn&#x27;t shelf-stable?</text></item><item><author>Balgair</author><text>Between the twitter rants, the poverty vow, the new child, the name of the new child, and now this, well.. All in the last 10 days or so too. The last few years have not been all that kind either.<p>I mean, new fathers, even after the other six babies, still do pretty goofy things. However, it&#x27;s more putting the milk in the pantry type stuff, or mixing up coffee grounds and water.<p>Not daring public officials to arrest you during a pandemic and all but demanding employees to work during said pandemic.<p>I feel for the guy, things are tough now. I hope he finds the peace that he seems to need.</text></item><item><author>ardy42</author><text>&gt; You must also take into account the history of intentional civil disobedience where the government has over reached and the population simply reaches the point where it refuses to comply.<p>&gt; Prohibition is obviously a prime example of this, but if you consider various laws that once existed or are currently on the books but no longer enforced (think laws pertaining to racial segregation, sexuality, drug use, and such) you realize that...<p>The thing is: public safety laws <i>aren&#x27;t</i> like racial segregation at all. If they are, I look forward to stuff like &quot;civil disobedience&quot; against child labor laws, etc.<p>&gt; ...being a law abiding citizen does not mean you are no longer allowed to think for yourself.<p>That&#x27;s true, but it also means being accountable and not acting without regards to others. Musk is acting like a petulant brat here, and I hope the Alameda County sheriff talks some sense into him.</text></item><item><author>mgolawala</author><text>You must also take into account the history of intentional civil disobedience where the government has over reached and the population simply reaches the point where it refuses to comply.<p>Prohibition is obviously a prime example of this, but if you consider various laws that once existed or are currently on the books but no longer enforced (think laws pertaining to racial segregation, sexuality, drug use, and such) you realize that being a law abiding citizen does not mean you are no longer allowed to think for yourself. Read up on &quot;Jury Nullification&quot; or &quot;Jury Equity&quot;.</text></item><item><author>geofft</author><text>&gt; <i>This is locking down for the sake of locking down, not an evidence-first safety driven approach. That is something I cannot support.</i><p>&quot;Support&quot; is a bit of an overloaded word. I do agree with you that I do not support a government policy that isn&#x27;t evidence-driven. But I do support the <i>ability</i> of the government to set policy without convincing every one of its constituents of the validity of its evidence.<p>As a simple analogy, perhaps the speed limits for highways in my state are capped at 60 mph, but there&#x27;s evidence that the roads can safely accommodate drivers at 70 mph, they&#x27;re well-maintained, they are built to appropriate safety standards, etc. I wouldn&#x27;t support the government keeping the speed limit at 60 mph based on flimsy evidence. But I also wouldn&#x27;t object to the government enforcing the speed limit as it is - because the end result of saying that every driver has the right to make their own private judgment of whether the speed limit laws are validly reasoned is that there is no speed limit anymore.</text></item><item><author>dannyw</author><text>The reasons for not restarting production seem to be dogmatic and not evidence driven. Tesla is running the factory at a 30-40% capacity, and the Fremont factory has 5.3 million square feet of manufacturing and office space. Tesla claims their plan will ensure 6 ft of distance for every employee, and PPE and masks are provided and mandatory. Even the HVAC is changed to optimise for fresh air turnover and filters are changed on a regular basis.<p>Tesla&#x27;s full list is available here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;blog_attachments&#x2F;Tesla-Return-to-Work-Playbook.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;blog_attachments&#x2F;T...</a><p>A Tesla factory is a much safer place to be than a Home Depot or a Costco, and many other businesses open in California today. We aren&#x27;t talking about sporting events here: we&#x27;re talking about some of the lowest risk and unavoidable interactions.<p>Carmakers are also defined as a COVID19 critical industry, and every other carmaker manufacturing in the United States is either open, or capable of open today. This puts Tesla at a serious disadvantage.<p>This is locking down for the sake of locking down, not an evidence-first safety driven approach. That is something I cannot support.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891</url></story> |
12,488,579 | 12,487,957 | 1 | 2 | 12,487,307 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bargl</author><text>I just want to go out there and say, they don&#x27;t have the right to poison you, but you don&#x27;t have the right to their content...<p>I fall in this weird spot with ads. I don&#x27;t like them, they slow down the experience, they can have PORN on them (this happened to my brother the other day), they have little oversight and track you. Many things I do not approve of.<p>What I DO approve of is paying content creators. And unless you are paying to remove ads through google or something else then you aren&#x27;t paying the content creators and this is how we get paywalls. Which I personally don&#x27;t like and even worse, plagiarized articles from pay-walled articles so that we can see them on sites where we can just block ads.<p>I&#x27;m not saying I think ad blockers are bad. I just think we shouldn&#x27;t feel that we have a right to content without ads if they are done properly. I.E. Not tracking, no malware in ads, etc. etc. If we get ads that server all 3 parties (consumer, ad companies, and content creators) so that consumers don&#x27;t have to pay then I think we should be ready to get back on board.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jwise0</author><text>Well, the royal &quot;we&quot;, perhaps :-)<p>I started blocking ads because they dramatically slowed down my browsing experience. But I keep blocking ads because, fundamentally, I believe that advertisements are neurotoxins, and nobody has the right to poison me.<p>The old Sean Tejaratchi quote - popularized by Banksy - applies here, I think - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.readingfrenzy.com&#x2F;ledger&#x2F;2012&#x2F;03&#x2F;taking_the_piss" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.readingfrenzy.com&#x2F;ledger&#x2F;2012&#x2F;03&#x2F;taking_the_piss</a></text></item><item><author>etatoby</author><text>I, for one, agree with them.<p>We started blocking ads because they had become 1. obnoxious, interfering with the fruition of the actual content; 2. dangerous, being a vector for malware and disrespecting our privacy; and 3. costly, for those with a slow or metered connection.<p>Most people accept ads, if they are acceptable.<p>They are the first company to actually push through with a plan to restore this market to sanity, so it&#x27;s only natural they would take a small profit from it. Other well-known technology companies grab well into the two digit percent off other people&#x27;s earnings.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adblock Plus now sells ads</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/13/12890050/adblock-plus-now-sells-ads</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>That fits my definition of acceptable. I, we, aren&#x27;t blind to people&#x27;s need to make money for the time and effort. But we don&#x27;t want 50% clickbait video poppin up randomly. Same for battery life, etc etc. No JS.<p>With some fixed not too screamy image smartly positionned, I&#x27;d never block ads.<p>I don&#x27;t get the logic behind these ads. They really think that shouting red stuff at my face will make me spend time and money ? If someone is looking for something he&#x27;ll react to subtler cues. If the ad is really relevant (not just word match) to the content, it&#x27;s even better. But that&#x27;s a rare oddity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jwise0</author><text>Well, the royal &quot;we&quot;, perhaps :-)<p>I started blocking ads because they dramatically slowed down my browsing experience. But I keep blocking ads because, fundamentally, I believe that advertisements are neurotoxins, and nobody has the right to poison me.<p>The old Sean Tejaratchi quote - popularized by Banksy - applies here, I think - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.readingfrenzy.com&#x2F;ledger&#x2F;2012&#x2F;03&#x2F;taking_the_piss" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.readingfrenzy.com&#x2F;ledger&#x2F;2012&#x2F;03&#x2F;taking_the_piss</a></text></item><item><author>etatoby</author><text>I, for one, agree with them.<p>We started blocking ads because they had become 1. obnoxious, interfering with the fruition of the actual content; 2. dangerous, being a vector for malware and disrespecting our privacy; and 3. costly, for those with a slow or metered connection.<p>Most people accept ads, if they are acceptable.<p>They are the first company to actually push through with a plan to restore this market to sanity, so it&#x27;s only natural they would take a small profit from it. Other well-known technology companies grab well into the two digit percent off other people&#x27;s earnings.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adblock Plus now sells ads</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/13/12890050/adblock-plus-now-sells-ads</url></story> |
26,941,713 | 26,941,870 | 1 | 2 | 26,940,263 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>motoboi</author><text>I’m not trying to start a flame war, but I’m genuinely curious: if you want and need all this, why not use Java?<p>Java has all the strong typing and static checking, all you need is to type a lot more words.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Interfaces and Protocols in Python</title><url>https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2021/03/interfaces-and-protocols.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>albertzeyer</author><text>It&#x27;s the first time I hear about Zope, and also zope.interface. How widely is this used?<p>I personally would be hesitant to adopt something depending on some not-well-known library.<p>Then on the other side, if sth like interfaces are missing in core Python, and typing.Protocol is not quite the same thing, maybe we should try to extend the core typing for sth like typing.Interface?
Or maybe first to typing_extensions.<p>Or, as I understood it, maybe we just need to fix ABCMeta (for MyPy), and then already have what we want?<p>I&#x27;m also not quite sure I understood: Why do I need this base class zope.interface.Interface at all? Why not just implement IPlugin or whatever like it is mentioned there, but not deriving from Interface, and throw NotImplementedError in methods (tools like PyCharm then recognize this is an abstract method). And all concrete types&#x2F;classes just explicitly need to derive from this IPlugin class. That&#x27;s mostly what I anyway do already, and what I also see in other projects code. This approach seems to be fine. What&#x27;s the problem with it?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Interfaces and Protocols in Python</title><url>https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2021/03/interfaces-and-protocols.html</url></story> |
22,909,047 | 22,908,594 | 1 | 3 | 22,908,224 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>I moved my entire team to this program because of how simple (and reasonably hard to screw up) it is. It&#x27;s also incidentally one of the cheapest non-buggy tools you can use to access redshift. Even if you buy multiple licenses it&#x27;s cheaper than navicat et al.<p>Also to note that their free version is still _very_ usable, I survived on that itself for many months spending hours in the tool.</text><parent_chain><item><author>HHad3</author><text>The application looks and feels nice, but the per-device pricing&#x2F;licensing model seems severely outdated to me. I will not make a purchase unless named licenses, which enable me to use the application on all devices and operating systems I use (with reasonable limits if DRM is needed for some reason), are available.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management</title><url>https://tableplus.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>annoyingnoob</author><text>I tend to agree. I&#x27;m not sure about <i>all</i> devices but a license being install-able on somewhere between 2 to 5 devices seems reasonable.<p>I&#x27;ll be a paying customer but I need a little flexibility. I use more than one computer and some other devices - I don&#x27;t need an SQL tool on all of them but definitely on more than one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>HHad3</author><text>The application looks and feels nice, but the per-device pricing&#x2F;licensing model seems severely outdated to me. I will not make a purchase unless named licenses, which enable me to use the application on all devices and operating systems I use (with reasonable limits if DRM is needed for some reason), are available.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management</title><url>https://tableplus.com/</url></story> |
37,779,769 | 37,777,048 | 1 | 2 | 37,776,492 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>But I had my pitchfork out and everything...<p>Seriously, 9 times out of 10 when I see stuff like this, I&#x27;m happy I can go to the HN comments and see what the real deal is. I don&#x27;t think Google deserves a free pass in their decisions, and lots of times I see them push things for &quot;user safety&quot; or &quot;better user experience&quot;, oh and oh yeah it also happens to allow Google to better track you. But still, Google has tons of competing issues they need to balance, and I loath it when people pretend like <i>their</i> need is the only one that matters.<p>It&#x27;s like the debate over Google requiring 2FA for logins. &quot;People losing their 2FA device&quot; is a valid concern, but so is the 10 or 100x the people who get hacked with bad passwords. Not arguing there is a single solution, but you can&#x27;t argue in good faith by pretending the problem Google is trying to address doesn&#x27;t exist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>This is because google docs is now widely used as a malware vector.<p>Send the user to a google docs page, and because it is on the google domain it is trusted by corporate firewalls and AV scanners.<p>The &#x27;tracking&#x27; is in fact this page:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;url?q=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wikimediafoundation.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;url?q=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wikimediafoundation.org...</a><p>And that alerts the user to the fact they are leaving google and ending up on another site - which hopefully reduces the effectiveness of using google docs to distribute malware.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Docs adds tracking to links in document exports</title><url>https://fosstodon.org/@Joe_0237/111145684757912952</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nemetroid</author><text>The complaint is about documents <i>exported</i> from Google Docs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>This is because google docs is now widely used as a malware vector.<p>Send the user to a google docs page, and because it is on the google domain it is trusted by corporate firewalls and AV scanners.<p>The &#x27;tracking&#x27; is in fact this page:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;url?q=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wikimediafoundation.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;url?q=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wikimediafoundation.org...</a><p>And that alerts the user to the fact they are leaving google and ending up on another site - which hopefully reduces the effectiveness of using google docs to distribute malware.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Docs adds tracking to links in document exports</title><url>https://fosstodon.org/@Joe_0237/111145684757912952</url></story> |
4,713,816 | 4,713,826 | 1 | 2 | 4,712,924 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>w1ntermute</author><text>&#62; Why is it we have amazing 16:10 2560-by-1600 in a 10" tablet but commonplace laptops (13-15") rarely surpass 1680x1050 or even worse 1366x768?<p>Because Windows and Windows apps don't support resolution-independent UI scaling.<p>&#62; Sometimes, on high-end models, you can pay an extra $200 to "upgrade" to 1920x1080<p>Because they know they can rip you off, and because it's a lot more expensive to produce high resolution displays (or rather, displays of any resolution) when they're being produced in small quantities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>meritt</author><text>Why is it we have amazing 16:10 2560-by-1600 in a 10" tablet but commonplace laptops (13-15") rarely surpass 1680x1050 or even worse 1366x768? Sometimes, on high-end models, you can pay an extra $200 to "upgrade" to 1920x1080 (I'll leave my rant about 16:10 vs. 16:9 for another time).<p>Technology is so ridiculous at times.</text></item><item><author>mtgx</author><text>And with that crazy resolution.</text></item><item><author>w1ntermute</author><text>And just $399 for the 16 GB version!</text></item><item><author>fr0sty</author><text>And someone finally implements the killer-feature for the "Family Tablet": Multi-Account Support:<p>&#62; But what makes Nexus 10 unique is that it's the first truly shareable tablet. With Android 4.2, you can add multiple users and switch between them instantly right from the lockscreen. We believe that everyone should have quick and easy access to their own stuff -- email, apps, bookmarks, and more. That way, everyone can have their own home screens, their own music, and even their own high scores.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/nexus-best-of-google-now-in-three-sizes.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tadfisher</author><text>Because of the leading desktop operating systems, only Apple has started to divorce screen resolution from UI element sizes, and even that support is half-assed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>meritt</author><text>Why is it we have amazing 16:10 2560-by-1600 in a 10" tablet but commonplace laptops (13-15") rarely surpass 1680x1050 or even worse 1366x768? Sometimes, on high-end models, you can pay an extra $200 to "upgrade" to 1920x1080 (I'll leave my rant about 16:10 vs. 16:9 for another time).<p>Technology is so ridiculous at times.</text></item><item><author>mtgx</author><text>And with that crazy resolution.</text></item><item><author>w1ntermute</author><text>And just $399 for the 16 GB version!</text></item><item><author>fr0sty</author><text>And someone finally implements the killer-feature for the "Family Tablet": Multi-Account Support:<p>&#62; But what makes Nexus 10 unique is that it's the first truly shareable tablet. With Android 4.2, you can add multiple users and switch between them instantly right from the lockscreen. We believe that everyone should have quick and easy access to their own stuff -- email, apps, bookmarks, and more. That way, everyone can have their own home screens, their own music, and even their own high scores.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/nexus-best-of-google-now-in-three-sizes.html</url></story> |
16,447,804 | 16,447,054 | 1 | 2 | 16,446,250 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonw</author><text>Using GitHub issues to power notifications in this way is absolutely inspired!<p>You get single-sign-in for anyone with a GitHub account.<p>You get both email AND push-based notifications without needing to run ANY of the infrastructure yourself.<p>Your scrapers get to run in their own time and publish via a very well-documented and easy to use API.<p>I&#x27;m totally sticking this idea in my back-pocket. It&#x27;s brilliant.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos</title><url>https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trextrex</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t this be done a lot more simply with a mailing list or RSS feed? Using GitHub issues seems a bit convoluted, although I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s probably because it&#x27;s easier to set up and free to use. It seems like somebody should build a service which makes use cases like this 0 config.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos</title><url>https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos</url></story> |
36,801,301 | 36,798,988 | 1 | 2 | 36,798,092 | train | <instructions>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>&quot;It seems odd that Valve would preemptively go and ask Nintendo for their input.&quot;<p>Ah, this is one of those cases where you must apply a decoder ring. Valve literally sends to Nintendo &quot;Hey, for no reason whatsoever we&#x27;re just happening to ask if you&#x27;ve heard that Dolphin is coming out on Steam?&quot; and Nintendo says &quot;Here&#x27;s why they shouldn&#x27;t be allowed to do this with some legal reasoning&quot;.<p>But what actually happened was Valve said &quot;Hey, Nintendo, are you going to sue us for any reason if we do this?&quot; and Nintendo said &quot;Yes&quot;. Everyone at Valve and Nintendo are fully aware of the underlying conversation.<p>One of the most amusing things to me about human politics, and I mean of all kinds not just national-scale governmental politics, are those cases where everyone involved understands that what is being said actually means something else entirely, and despite the fact that everyone involved from top to bottom knows what is actually being said, they still act as if there is some public or set of uninformed individuals who need that fig leaf covering over the real conversation. This is one of the simpler and more obvious cases, which makes it good practice for realizing when it&#x27;s happening in other contexts. It is a super common characteristic of human politics, this constant playing to an audience that may not even exist, and everyone may <i>know</i> does not exist, yet we must still play to them.<p>And it happens because it works. We&#x27;d all be much more up in arms than we are if Valve had indeed nakedly asked Nintendo if they would be sued and Nintendo simply said yes. That&#x27;s exactly what happened, and yet, the fig leaf works. (And bear in mind I said <i>more</i> upset. You may be upset now, and it may be justified. But we&#x27;d be even <i>more</i> up in arms if the actual conversation had happened rather than the fig leaf conversation.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>mberning</author><text>It seems odd that Valve would preemptively go and ask Nintendo for their input. Curious if they have done that for other items on Steam. It would seem that if Valve allowed this on their platform and Nintendo became upset about it they could easily point to the fact that the software is easily accessible off Steam and Nintendo has done very little about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?</title><url>https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/07/20/what-happened-to-dolphin-on-steam/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jwie</author><text>Dolphin on the Steam Deck in an officially supported capacity is likely the concern. That’s a strictly better Switch running exclusive Nintendo games.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mberning</author><text>It seems odd that Valve would preemptively go and ask Nintendo for their input. Curious if they have done that for other items on Steam. It would seem that if Valve allowed this on their platform and Nintendo became upset about it they could easily point to the fact that the software is easily accessible off Steam and Nintendo has done very little about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?</title><url>https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/07/20/what-happened-to-dolphin-on-steam/</url></story> |
34,018,961 | 34,018,784 | 1 | 2 | 34,018,332 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>martinald</author><text>This isn&#x27;t really as big a deal as it&#x27;s been made out to be, IMO.<p>This is Pillar 2 of the OECDs tax reform for corporations.<p>Pillar 1 is much more interesting, and would require corporations to actually book profits where they are made (so not putting everything through Ireland for example). This will have a much bigger impact imo than this 15% ruling, because right now there are a bunch of tricks you can use to get round any tax rate.<p>For example, even though Ireland&#x27;s headline tax rate is currently 12.5%, the effective rate after all the tricks for many US tech cos was &lt;1% to the Irish state.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64004673</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacooper</author><text>&gt; The landmark deal between nearly 140 countries aims to stop governments racing to cut taxes in a bid to attract companies.<p>&gt; It was praised by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as &quot;an historic agreement which helps even the playing field&quot;.<p>This is a global goal, not just an EU Law.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64004673</url></story> |
14,423,525 | 14,422,034 | 1 | 2 | 14,420,972 | 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>eloisant</author><text>Firefox took marketshare from IE because Microsoft abandoned it for several years (IE6) then did an half-assed update with IE7. It was a big pile of poop and Firefox succeeded not because it was a great product because because it was the right product at the right time.<p>For Chrome on the other hand, its near-monopoly situation is worrisome but it&#x27;s actually a pretty good product. So there is no pragmatic reasons to leave it for Firefox, only ideological reasons and it&#x27;s a driver nearly not as powerful as suffering every day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JoshMnem</author><text>Firefox took marketshare from IE when that was impossible. It could do it again with Chrome, if things change a bit.<p>Some problems with Mozilla are that they don&#x27;t do community management well any more. In the old days, there were amazing grassroots-driven projects like spreadfirefox.com. It is not like that any more. Grassroots supporters have trouble participating, even if they try.<p>For example, I tried to create a Firefox programmers&#x27; meetup group in Berkeley, and even though some community people from Mozilla joined the group, no one from Mozilla would reply to my inquiries. (I still would like to restart that idea, but I don&#x27;t have time to chase them down. We have 4,000 members in our various meetup groups at the moment.)<p>Another problem is that they are doing things that make their most-dedicated core users lose interest. They should have realized the incredible enthusiasm for Firefox that plugins like Pentadactyl were creating. They&#x27;re killing off the API that it depends on. Instead, they should have funded the development of Pentadactyl and made it a reason why tech-savvy users choose Firefox. Tech-savvy users drive adoption, but they have abandoned many of their tech-savvy supporters.<p>There is still hope for Firefox if they are able to get the messages about privacy across. Chrome is slower to use out of the box, partially because of the auto-completion algorithm that tends to send people to Google Search to click on ads before reaching their destination. The older Firefox search box didn&#x27;t waste users&#x27; time like that. (Recently it changed so that it shows titles rather than URLs, which is also slow, because there is an extra security risk of going to phishing sites, if you don&#x27;t stop to look at the URLs.)<p>Also, Firefox is the only mobile browser that allows add-ons, so that&#x27;s another benefit that they should be promoting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chrome Won</title><url>https://andreasgal.com/2017/05/25/chrome-won/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taf2</author><text>The thing is chrome is an open source browser with a lot of really smart people working to make it better everyday . IE, was none of theses things when Firefox came into the market. You also have to remember many of the core developers who built Firefox went on to build Chrome. And then even many of developers that built IE went on to work on chrome. In 2007, they had pulled together an amazing team to kick off the browser that is now chrome. IMO - Mozilla should use blink and be the privacy focused browser.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JoshMnem</author><text>Firefox took marketshare from IE when that was impossible. It could do it again with Chrome, if things change a bit.<p>Some problems with Mozilla are that they don&#x27;t do community management well any more. In the old days, there were amazing grassroots-driven projects like spreadfirefox.com. It is not like that any more. Grassroots supporters have trouble participating, even if they try.<p>For example, I tried to create a Firefox programmers&#x27; meetup group in Berkeley, and even though some community people from Mozilla joined the group, no one from Mozilla would reply to my inquiries. (I still would like to restart that idea, but I don&#x27;t have time to chase them down. We have 4,000 members in our various meetup groups at the moment.)<p>Another problem is that they are doing things that make their most-dedicated core users lose interest. They should have realized the incredible enthusiasm for Firefox that plugins like Pentadactyl were creating. They&#x27;re killing off the API that it depends on. Instead, they should have funded the development of Pentadactyl and made it a reason why tech-savvy users choose Firefox. Tech-savvy users drive adoption, but they have abandoned many of their tech-savvy supporters.<p>There is still hope for Firefox if they are able to get the messages about privacy across. Chrome is slower to use out of the box, partially because of the auto-completion algorithm that tends to send people to Google Search to click on ads before reaching their destination. The older Firefox search box didn&#x27;t waste users&#x27; time like that. (Recently it changed so that it shows titles rather than URLs, which is also slow, because there is an extra security risk of going to phishing sites, if you don&#x27;t stop to look at the URLs.)<p>Also, Firefox is the only mobile browser that allows add-ons, so that&#x27;s another benefit that they should be promoting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chrome Won</title><url>https://andreasgal.com/2017/05/25/chrome-won/</url></story> |
21,031,123 | 21,030,975 | 1 | 3 | 21,029,131 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Bartweiss</author><text>Mechanically, I believe the main difference is that NPM corresponds to PyPi + pip; it&#x27;s both registry and repository. PyPi is Python&#x27;s official package repository and pip&#x27;s default source, but it&#x27;s not pip&#x27;s <i>only</i> possible source. If someone pulls code off PyPi, pip can still link to it elsewhere.<p>When the left-pad debacle [1] broke major packages, the triggering event was that NPM-the-registry took a module name away from a developer and gave it to a company (which held it as a trademark). He got mad and took all his code off NPM-the-repository, including left-pad. To settle the chaos, NPM had to restore the deleted code against the developer&#x27;s wishes - even though his code was still available on GitHub.<p>Realistically, though, that would still cause some chaos and it doesn&#x27;t seem to be the key difference. The more important differences are legal and practical.<p>npm, inc. is a private company, while PyPi (via Warehouse) and pip are both open-source and donation funded. Even if npm doesn&#x27;t get up to anything malicious, they depend on keeping their registry and repository unified, and they&#x27;re more likely to attract and buckle under trademark suits than PyPi.<p>Even more importantly, npm modules are <i>tiny</i>. PyPi packages and Ruby gems may be single-purpose, but they usually do something which isn&#x27;t completely trivial, and common functions like math libraries are built into larger packages. npm left-pad was 17 lines of string-padding code that almost anyone could write. Other modules are even sillier; isArray has millions of weekly downloads for what is effectively a <i>single line</i> of code. Blank npm templates have tens of thousands of files loaded even before you start coding.[2] So fundamentally, a big part of the issue is just that node projects tend to pull in 10x or 100x more dependencies than most other projects.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;23&#x2F;npm_left_pad_chaos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;23&#x2F;npm_left_pad_chaos&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.davidhaney.io&#x2F;npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how-to-program&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.davidhaney.io&#x2F;npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>president</author><text>As someone who has no insight into the Node&#x2F;NPM&#x2F;JS world, how is this different from Python&#x27;s PyPi, which I would think suffers the same issue?</text></item><item><author>knightofmars</author><text>Yes. The Node ecosystem is a huge liability just waiting to happen. Any organization that depends on NPM is making a huge gamble. You can do a lot to mitigate this (private NPM repo, locks) but the reality is that the dependency chains are dangerous. Is someone in an organization going to audit all of those dependencies? Especially under the circumstances where they&#x27;ve been declared without an explicit version (&gt;, &gt;=, &lt;, &lt;=, ~, ^, 1.2.x, *).</text></item><item><author>asien</author><text>I’m fascinated by the fact that while node has become a new standard in the industry , and the project is receiving lots of supports from all sorts of companies ( IBM , Microsoft etc...) absolutely no discussion has been opened about how much at risk the JavaScript ecosystem actually is with « npm » and it’s weekly dramas<p>Not a month pass without something going wrong inside of inc, millions of developers are dependant on it but nothing seem to worry people...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NPM CEO Bryan Bogensberger Resigned</title><url>https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/npm-inc-announces-leadership-change-300922517.html?tc=eml_cleartime</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>josegonzalez</author><text>The number of packages you need to audit for what would otherwise seem to be a trivial feature is exponentially larger in JS world than in Python. A good example of that is the left-pad debacle, wherein a package that left-pads a string was taken down, causing other packages - notably React - to fail to be installed because of either direct or transitive dependencies.<p>In the Python world, it is indeed likely that unpublishing requests will cause issues, but the number of dependencies you&#x27;d need to audit&#x2F;vendor is _much_ smaller for a typical python app than it is for a typical nodejs app, so your &quot;attack surface&quot; is also comparatively much smaller.</text><parent_chain><item><author>president</author><text>As someone who has no insight into the Node&#x2F;NPM&#x2F;JS world, how is this different from Python&#x27;s PyPi, which I would think suffers the same issue?</text></item><item><author>knightofmars</author><text>Yes. The Node ecosystem is a huge liability just waiting to happen. Any organization that depends on NPM is making a huge gamble. You can do a lot to mitigate this (private NPM repo, locks) but the reality is that the dependency chains are dangerous. Is someone in an organization going to audit all of those dependencies? Especially under the circumstances where they&#x27;ve been declared without an explicit version (&gt;, &gt;=, &lt;, &lt;=, ~, ^, 1.2.x, *).</text></item><item><author>asien</author><text>I’m fascinated by the fact that while node has become a new standard in the industry , and the project is receiving lots of supports from all sorts of companies ( IBM , Microsoft etc...) absolutely no discussion has been opened about how much at risk the JavaScript ecosystem actually is with « npm » and it’s weekly dramas<p>Not a month pass without something going wrong inside of inc, millions of developers are dependant on it but nothing seem to worry people...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NPM CEO Bryan Bogensberger Resigned</title><url>https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/npm-inc-announces-leadership-change-300922517.html?tc=eml_cleartime</url></story> |
35,891,188 | 35,891,289 | 1 | 3 | 35,889,709 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jhp123</author><text>If all large tech employers play follow the leader then it&#x27;s not natural reversion, it&#x27;s a textbook example of tacit oligopoly coordination.</text><parent_chain><item><author>csa</author><text>It doesn’t take illegal back channel coordination to play follow the leader.<p>All it takes is one major company to pull the trigger, then the rest will follow.<p>The hiring market during covid was wonky in a way that favored applicants, and a lot of folks who got hired were under-qualified, overpaid, or both. This is just a natural reversion to a more balanced state across the industry.</text></item><item><author>pydry</author><text>I wonder how much illegal back channel coordination there is going on between the big tech companies on this.</text></item><item><author>galoisscobi</author><text>Wondering how long it’ll take for other tech companies to copy this move and pretend that they independently arrived at these conclusions after their meticulous macroeconomic analysis.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Freezes Salaries for 2023</title><url>https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1656331173390327811</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pydry</author><text>Coordination is required to make sure that one company decide to &quot;defect&quot; and start offering pay rises to all the best people at Microsoft.<p>At least, thats what the illegal agreement was about last time this happened (between Apple and Google).</text><parent_chain><item><author>csa</author><text>It doesn’t take illegal back channel coordination to play follow the leader.<p>All it takes is one major company to pull the trigger, then the rest will follow.<p>The hiring market during covid was wonky in a way that favored applicants, and a lot of folks who got hired were under-qualified, overpaid, or both. This is just a natural reversion to a more balanced state across the industry.</text></item><item><author>pydry</author><text>I wonder how much illegal back channel coordination there is going on between the big tech companies on this.</text></item><item><author>galoisscobi</author><text>Wondering how long it’ll take for other tech companies to copy this move and pretend that they independently arrived at these conclusions after their meticulous macroeconomic analysis.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Freezes Salaries for 2023</title><url>https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1656331173390327811</url></story> |
36,609,043 | 36,605,771 | 1 | 2 | 36,583,419 | 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>i-use-nixos-btw</author><text>This sounds very cool. Wait, no, hot.<p>In a factory setting, there is a bunch of heat wasted in other processes, e.g. waste heat from machines. Is this heat collected and fed into the air source?</text><parent_chain><item><author>franckl</author><text>We are building the world&#x27;s highest temperature heat pump.
It can reach 1000℉, when other commercial heat pumps usually reach a maximum of 320 ℉.<p>It is a big deal because factories have to rely on polluting natural gas to produce their process heat.<p>We estimate that it represents 3% of the world’s annual CO2 emissions and a $10B+ annual market opportunity.<p>We are currently building a 5kW prototype at 480℉&#x2F;250C to cook french fries for McCain (world&#x27;s largest manufacturer of frozen potato products), our industrial partner for the first pilot.<p>If you would like to support our decarbonization efforts, feel free to email us on [email protected] or to invest in our crowdfunding! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wefunder.com&#x2F;airthium" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wefunder.com&#x2F;airthium</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?</title><text>Amidst the sea of software startups, I&#x27;m keen to learn who in our community is braving the often-quoted &quot;hardware is hard&quot; mantra. Whether you&#x27;re working on IoT, robotics, consumer electronics, or something completely off the wall, please feel free to share below.<p>Remember, no venture is too small or niche! It&#x27;s the passion and innovation that counts.</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>barelyauser</author><text>What is the COP of a heat pump operating against this temperature gradient?</text><parent_chain><item><author>franckl</author><text>We are building the world&#x27;s highest temperature heat pump.
It can reach 1000℉, when other commercial heat pumps usually reach a maximum of 320 ℉.<p>It is a big deal because factories have to rely on polluting natural gas to produce their process heat.<p>We estimate that it represents 3% of the world’s annual CO2 emissions and a $10B+ annual market opportunity.<p>We are currently building a 5kW prototype at 480℉&#x2F;250C to cook french fries for McCain (world&#x27;s largest manufacturer of frozen potato products), our industrial partner for the first pilot.<p>If you would like to support our decarbonization efforts, feel free to email us on [email protected] or to invest in our crowdfunding! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wefunder.com&#x2F;airthium" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wefunder.com&#x2F;airthium</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?</title><text>Amidst the sea of software startups, I&#x27;m keen to learn who in our community is braving the often-quoted &quot;hardware is hard&quot; mantra. Whether you&#x27;re working on IoT, robotics, consumer electronics, or something completely off the wall, please feel free to share below.<p>Remember, no venture is too small or niche! It&#x27;s the passion and innovation that counts.</text></story> |
41,336,754 | 41,336,761 | 1 | 3 | 41,336,446 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hi-v-rocknroll</author><text>Well, reddit became worse than that ~10 years ago because of the inconsistent, absurd, immature unreasonableness of a sizable fraction of mods who added suck and subtracted cool from the world. Maybe this is a pattern common to most all group-oriented social media platforms where community mods skew towards being drama-oriented, elitist, and&#x2F;or crazy because no one else wants the job and so, like policing, it attracts certain personality disorder-like individuals.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maipen</author><text>&gt; but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine.<p>Pretty much sums up every popular social media platform these days.<p>HN is still a good place to learn about whats going on in the tech world and what not because it&#x27;s simple and filters out alot of &quot;brainrot&quot;, although there is an increasing number of comments that soley react at the headline.<p>Reddit has become like meta, you either have an account or your user experience will be so horrible that you won&#x27;t use it.<p>X simply doesn&#x27;t allow you to use it, atleast it doesn&#x27;t pretend.<p>I think we need more simple websites again, but I am not sure about the incentive structure.</text></item><item><author>mubu</author><text>Reddit was my favorite website growing up. I&#x27;d discover new interesting subs, read random posts and comments. The frontpage was somewhat interesting too, but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine.<p>I still use Reddit but way less than I used to before, and I no longer use it for fun but just to read niche tech subs.<p>I refuse to use the official mobile app. I&#x27;ve always used Baconreader and then Relay on Android. Relay survived the API changes and adopted a subscription model.<p>But thanks to Revanced I was able to patch an old version of Relay to use my own API key for free.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit banned me for developing Geddit</title><url>https://www.buzl.uk/2024/08/24/reddit.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>mulmen</author><text>&gt; I think we need more simple websites again, but I am not sure about the incentive structure.<p>Then go make one. It’s easier now than ever. The social media mistake was trying to make one site everything to everyone but the web is still there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maipen</author><text>&gt; but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine.<p>Pretty much sums up every popular social media platform these days.<p>HN is still a good place to learn about whats going on in the tech world and what not because it&#x27;s simple and filters out alot of &quot;brainrot&quot;, although there is an increasing number of comments that soley react at the headline.<p>Reddit has become like meta, you either have an account or your user experience will be so horrible that you won&#x27;t use it.<p>X simply doesn&#x27;t allow you to use it, atleast it doesn&#x27;t pretend.<p>I think we need more simple websites again, but I am not sure about the incentive structure.</text></item><item><author>mubu</author><text>Reddit was my favorite website growing up. I&#x27;d discover new interesting subs, read random posts and comments. The frontpage was somewhat interesting too, but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine.<p>I still use Reddit but way less than I used to before, and I no longer use it for fun but just to read niche tech subs.<p>I refuse to use the official mobile app. I&#x27;ve always used Baconreader and then Relay on Android. Relay survived the API changes and adopted a subscription model.<p>But thanks to Revanced I was able to patch an old version of Relay to use my own API key for free.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit banned me for developing Geddit</title><url>https://www.buzl.uk/2024/08/24/reddit.html</url></story> |
8,739,076 | 8,739,067 | 1 | 3 | 8,738,939 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ezequiel-garzon</author><text>As zurn pointed out, it&#x27;s not taken out of context at all. Right before your excerpt comes:<p>&quot;The whole &quot;let&#x27;s parallelize&quot; thing is a huge waste of everybody&#x27;s time. There&#x27;s this huge body of &quot;knowledge&quot; that parallel is somehow more efficient, and that whole huge body is pure and utter garbage.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>VMG</author><text>Heavily editorialized title. Actual quote:<p>&gt; Parallel stupid small cores without caches are horrible unless you have a very specific load that is hugely regular (ie graphics).<p>And<p>&gt; The only place where parallelism matters is in graphics or on the server side, where we already largely have it. Pushing it anywhere else is just pointless.<p>Edit: &quot;editorialized&quot; meaning &quot;choosing the most extreme quote of a rant&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus: Parallel computing is a huge waste of everybody's time</title><url>http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=146066&curpostid=146227</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zurn</author><text>Actual quotes:<p>&gt; The whole &quot;let&#x27;s parallelize&quot; thing is a huge waste of everybody&#x27;s time.<p>And<p>&gt; Give it up. The whole &quot;parallel computing is the future&quot; is a bunch of crock.</text><parent_chain><item><author>VMG</author><text>Heavily editorialized title. Actual quote:<p>&gt; Parallel stupid small cores without caches are horrible unless you have a very specific load that is hugely regular (ie graphics).<p>And<p>&gt; The only place where parallelism matters is in graphics or on the server side, where we already largely have it. Pushing it anywhere else is just pointless.<p>Edit: &quot;editorialized&quot; meaning &quot;choosing the most extreme quote of a rant&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus: Parallel computing is a huge waste of everybody's time</title><url>http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=146066&curpostid=146227</url></story> |
12,637,587 | 12,636,849 | 1 | 3 | 12,633,439 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>1wd</author><text>The rationale given for including mirrored half-stars as separate codepoints is right-to-left languages. I wondered why this was needed, since Unicode already has the a right-to-left mark (RLM)[1].<p>I found the answer in a comment on &quot;Explain XKCD&quot;.[2] The RLM usually only reorders characters, but does not mirror their glyphs. The exception are glyphs with the &quot;Bidi_Mirrored=Yes&quot; property, which are mapped to a mirrored codepoint.[3]<p>The half-stars proposal includes a note on that property: &quot;Existing stars are in the “Other Neutrals” class, so half stars should probably use the ON bidirectional class. The half stars have the obvious mirrored counterparts, so they can be Bidi mirrored. However, similar characters such as
LEFT HALF BLACK CIRCLE are not marked as mirrored. I&#x27;ll leave it up to the Unicode experts to determine if Bidi Mirrored would be appropriate or not.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Right-to-left_mark" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Right-to-left_mark</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.explainxkcd.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;1137:_RTL" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.explainxkcd.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;1137:_RTL</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unicode.org&#x2F;Public&#x2F;UNIDATA&#x2F;BidiMirroring.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unicode.org&#x2F;Public&#x2F;UNIDATA&#x2F;BidiMirroring.txt</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too)</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2016/10/inspired-by-hn-comment-four-half-star.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>treve</author><text>The one I&#x27;m surprised about is not the stars, but actually the bitcoin character. It&#x27;s just a form of branding to me, and while I think there&#x27;s interesting uses for blockchain technology, public interest seems to be a bit inflated. Plus that blockchain tech will likely outlive bitcoin itself.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too)</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2016/10/inspired-by-hn-comment-four-half-star.html</url></story> |
12,503,064 | 12,503,098 | 1 | 2 | 12,502,696 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nbschulze</author><text>I ran 80-90 miles per week while in college and continued running 20-30 per week for a couple of years after until my knee stopped cooperating (I&#x27;m really looking forward to knee surgery in October).<p>I have experienced some of the described symptoms (irregular heartbeat and etc), but wouldn&#x27;t have done much differently. Honestly, this article basically boils down to &#x27;do what your body can handle&#x27;.<p>People are different. Bodies are different. Some people can handle 120 miles per week. Some people struggle to run one. Running is obviously good for your health, just don&#x27;t over do it. And stretch and foam roll, that&#x27;s as important as anything.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Running Good or Bad for Your Health?</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/09/14/493803246/is-running-good-or-bad-for-your-health?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160914</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jfoutz</author><text>&gt; [Lee concludes his data] &quot;don&#x27;t support that more is worse. But more may not be better.&quot; [Williams concludes] 40 miles a week [...] were 26 percent less likely to develop coronary heart disease than those running just 13 miles per week.<p>So to sum up, running is way way better than doing nothing. More than 40 miles a week <i>may</i> have not only diminishing returns, but negative consequences.<p>I&#x27;d guess most people here don&#x27;t realize what a crazy time commitment running 40 miles a week actually is. Even if you can pull off 6 minute miles (4 hours&#x2F;week), there&#x27;s still a need for rest after the run, more sleep, more food, replacing shoes and clothes as they wear out. The extra time adds up.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Running Good or Bad for Your Health?</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/09/14/493803246/is-running-good-or-bad-for-your-health?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160914</url></story> |
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