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38,395,943 | 38,395,333 | 1 | 3 | 38,394,364 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RajT88</author><text>&gt; I am just saying this is a common practice<p>This is how AppleTV works. I assume Apple does this with other services too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>namanyayg</author><text>One way apps get high MRR is by offering free trial for a small period, then charging for subscriptions later<p>The user forgets about the subscriptions and ends up paying for a while before cancelling<p>This is probably what apple means by &quot;bait and switch&quot;<p>Of course I can&#x27;t say if these app did this or not, I am just saying this is a common practice</text></item><item><author>mortallywounded</author><text>Something feels off... those apps don&#x27;t seem like 33K&#x2F;MRR worthy. I suspect some kind of manipulation was being done to... help?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developer account removed by Apple</title><url>https://seraleev.notion.site/Our-developer-account-was-removed-by-Apple-and-they-haven-t-paid-out-108-878-b61192711c74487480373badc70d42c0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikepurvis</author><text>I appreciate that you can cancel the subscription right away at the start of the trial and Apple and the vendor isn&#x27;t notified.</text><parent_chain><item><author>namanyayg</author><text>One way apps get high MRR is by offering free trial for a small period, then charging for subscriptions later<p>The user forgets about the subscriptions and ends up paying for a while before cancelling<p>This is probably what apple means by &quot;bait and switch&quot;<p>Of course I can&#x27;t say if these app did this or not, I am just saying this is a common practice</text></item><item><author>mortallywounded</author><text>Something feels off... those apps don&#x27;t seem like 33K&#x2F;MRR worthy. I suspect some kind of manipulation was being done to... help?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developer account removed by Apple</title><url>https://seraleev.notion.site/Our-developer-account-was-removed-by-Apple-and-they-haven-t-paid-out-108-878-b61192711c74487480373badc70d42c0</url></story> |
25,593,234 | 25,592,067 | 1 | 3 | 25,590,962 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zubspace</author><text>I&#x27;ve used Nin for this years advent-of-code challenge. Never used Nim before but there are some great tutorials [1].<p>It&#x27;s a nice language with a great standard library. Implicit static typing is great after a bit of getting used to. Some things like tuples or &quot;Object Variants&quot; are fun to use.<p>The only thing I&#x27;m missing is strong debugging support. You can use GDB and there is even some basic support for debugging in VSCode (through gdb behind the scenes). But most of the time I had to fall back to simple &quot;echo&quot; debugging because names were sometimes mangled, variables were not displayed or lines in nim did not correspond with lines in the final output, making debugging a chore. Unfortunately someone once started to write an embedded debugger (ENDB) for all platforms, but development stopped.<p>What&#x27;s your opinion on this? In some way I would love to use Nim more in the future, but I&#x27;m afraid, that the larger the codebase gets, the more I&#x27;d suffer just because of debugging...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tut1.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tut1.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nim in 2020: A Short Recap</title><url>https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/12/28/nim-in-2020-a-short-recap.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>rattray</author><text>Wow, 35% growth in the package ecosystem is a great sign!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nim in 2020: A Short Recap</title><url>https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/12/28/nim-in-2020-a-short-recap.html</url></story> |
36,828,855 | 36,828,738 | 1 | 2 | 36,826,210 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sdfgionionio</author><text>&gt;And from what ChatGPT tells me, it&#x27;s likely that this would have been an investment with a positive ROI.<p>Wonderful.<p>It&#x27;s interesting to me that, in just a few months, I&#x27;ve already developed muscle memory for checking whether or not things I read online are machine-generated. The first thing I do on any website is search for &quot;GPT&quot;, &quot;Bing&quot;, and &quot;AI&quot; and stop reading if I find them.<p>Reading someone&#x27;s writing is an exercise in trust. If they claim something, I have to be able to trust that they have done enough of their homework to back it up. If they cite a source, I have to be able to trust it says what they claim. Otherwise what&#x27;s the point? If I can&#x27;t rely on the author, then reading their writing requires checking everything they&#x27;ve said. Their writing is useless to me since I&#x27;ll need to do my own research anyway.<p>If you write something and ask me to read it, you are asking me to trust that you have done the legwork. If you really just typed it into ChatGPT, that&#x27;s more than just stupid. It&#x27;s a betrayal.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A brief history of computers</title><url>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vfRpzyGsikujm9ujj/a-brief-history-of-computers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Sharlin</author><text>Boole didn’t introduce propositional logic; what he did was come up with an <i>algebra</i> that encodes propositional logic.<p>Abstract algebra was a new snd developing thing back then, the idea that you can generalize from numbers and addition and multiplication to other structures that have something like numbers and addition and multiplication.<p>Boole found that if you take the two-element set {0, 1} and choose saturating addition as the addition-like operation and normal multiplication as the multiplication-like operation, you get an algebra (specifically a ring) that is isomorphic to propositional logic with its AND and OR operations.<p>So the idea that the number 1 can represent true and the number 0 false was Boole’s insight and the foundation of modern digital circuits.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A brief history of computers</title><url>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vfRpzyGsikujm9ujj/a-brief-history-of-computers</url></story> |
10,088,174 | 10,087,937 | 1 | 2 | 10,087,549 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amzn_throwaway</author><text>I wasn&#x27;t planning on responding to anything, but your comment has enough truth that the criticism is worth responding to.<p>I <i>am</i> aware that I don&#x27;t work as well as I could with others, especially those who hold lots of power but little technical aptitude. Its not out of a smug sense of superiority...I recognize these people are very much my superior in other ways. It is probably limitations of my vocabulary and inexperience at conveying complex ideas with common language. I have no problem claiming to possess numeric and analytical intelligence, but social intelligence is a daily struggle. I even recognize that I was probably hard to manage from a higher-than-direct level, especially when I let my frustrations get the best of me.<p>Regardless, I find that to be beside the point I am trying to make.<p>I was sold on a meritocratic position under a boss who believed in a meritocratic ideal, and <i>I thought I could do that job well</i>. As the job was described to me, and as I was told of my criteria for promotion, I actually <i>did</i> do that job well. However, I was judged by a standard that was opaque, never communicated clearly (in fact, some internal rules prohibit a more clear explanation), and I languished for several years in absolute naivety and ignorance while believing every line they fed to me hook, line, and sinker. It took someone who actually cared about me as a person to open up and explain how it all really worked before I got it.<p>My story <i>absolutely</i> is one of being hard to work with, having naive expectations, and going about things all wrong. But it is also one about being lied to repeatedly about how to do my job right, destroying my quality of life in the pursuit of the game as it was communicated to me, being cast aside for people who played the deliberately obscured game better, and getting burnt out by it. And given the recent statements by senior level executives about how Amazon is so meritocratic, it is a story of how even those who rise to the high performance meritocratic expectations that they talk about can get obliterated by aspects of the company culture that those same executives claim do not exist.<p>I&#x27;m not perfect, but I knew well before I started that political intelligence was a weak spot for me...and if I had any indication of how insanely political the promotion process was, I probably would have never accepted the offer. I wanted the meritocratic Amazon that was sold to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tsunamifury</author><text>It seems obvious that this person is aware they don&#x27;t work well with others, and actively refuses to try to do better -- while writing a self-aggrandizing story about how he is both the smartest person in the room and most everyone around him was an idiot. He seems to believe there was no one else smart at Amazon either, and all projects that &#x27;got in his way&#x27; were created my simple minded peons. This type of retrospective naiveté smacks of narcissism.<p>I&#x27;m not saying Amazon is a great place to work -- but its clear this person isn&#x27;t a great person to work with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Amazon Burnout Experience</title><url>https://gist.github.com/anonymous/c1f6419d54d80af6c079</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slunk</author><text>I stopped reading a few paragraphs in when all the author had managed to convey was how great they are. I also find it strange that someone so competent who wants to remain anonymous would reveal so much information about their situation in the company. What little I read seems like it would be enough to pinpoint them within the organization.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tsunamifury</author><text>It seems obvious that this person is aware they don&#x27;t work well with others, and actively refuses to try to do better -- while writing a self-aggrandizing story about how he is both the smartest person in the room and most everyone around him was an idiot. He seems to believe there was no one else smart at Amazon either, and all projects that &#x27;got in his way&#x27; were created my simple minded peons. This type of retrospective naiveté smacks of narcissism.<p>I&#x27;m not saying Amazon is a great place to work -- but its clear this person isn&#x27;t a great person to work with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Amazon Burnout Experience</title><url>https://gist.github.com/anonymous/c1f6419d54d80af6c079</url></story> |
38,758,032 | 38,757,057 | 1 | 3 | 38,755,165 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>The dirty truth is that the ideal Silicon Valley CEO is whomever can be a perfect sockpuppet for investors and still understand technical velocity.<p>The more ability you have to be kind of waterproof so to speak - like a duck - because of a mixture of positioning, ruthlessness, access, intelligence, perseverance, etc the better you are. Most importantly you have to regularly show allegiance to specifically investors over all other considerations, and boom you’re perfectly crafted.<p>Altman has brilliantly positioned himself as that perfect fulcrum between venture and technical skills such that he is (in his own mind and to a tiny subset of incredibly powerful people in SV) indispensable to the silicon valley crowd who doesn’t really know how to navigate the intersection between venture and technical skills.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bmitc</author><text>Why are these people so sycophantic, especially to such an inexperienced person?</text></item><item><author>hutzlibu</author><text>Also this other bit was news to me:<p>&quot;Graham said it was his wife’s doing. “If anyone ‘fired’ Sam, it was Jessica, not me,” he said. “But it would be wrong to use the word ‘fired’ because he agreed immediately.” &quot;</text></item><item><author>gwern</author><text>Many points of interest here, including the answer to an earlier HN discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38384090">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38384090</a> Why were the YC posts about Altman stepping down as YC president &amp; becoming chairman so confusingly edited, and Altman seems to have either never been chairman or have quickly left? Well, because his post lacked candor about him becoming YC chairman:<p>&quot;To smooth his exit, Altman proposed he move from president to chairman. He pre-emptively published a blog post on the firm’s website announcing the change. But the firm’s partnership had never agreed, and the announcement was later scrubbed from the post.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help from bigshot friends</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>queuebert</author><text>He&#x27;s surrounded by VCs with confirmation bias.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bmitc</author><text>Why are these people so sycophantic, especially to such an inexperienced person?</text></item><item><author>hutzlibu</author><text>Also this other bit was news to me:<p>&quot;Graham said it was his wife’s doing. “If anyone ‘fired’ Sam, it was Jessica, not me,” he said. “But it would be wrong to use the word ‘fired’ because he agreed immediately.” &quot;</text></item><item><author>gwern</author><text>Many points of interest here, including the answer to an earlier HN discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38384090">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38384090</a> Why were the YC posts about Altman stepping down as YC president &amp; becoming chairman so confusingly edited, and Altman seems to have either never been chairman or have quickly left? Well, because his post lacked candor about him becoming YC chairman:<p>&quot;To smooth his exit, Altman proposed he move from president to chairman. He pre-emptively published a blog post on the firm’s website announcing the change. But the firm’s partnership had never agreed, and the announcement was later scrubbed from the post.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help from bigshot friends</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68</url></story> |
24,262,882 | 24,261,303 | 1 | 2 | 24,257,648 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>I&#x27;m all for reducing avian fatalities from wind turbines. But it&#x27;s also important to understand that this is not going to make a significant dent in how many birds are killed by human causes. Glass buildings kill 2500 times as many birds as wind turbines. House cats kill <i>10,000 times</i> as many.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;chart&#x2F;amp&#x2F;15195&#x2F;wind-turbines-are-not-killing-fields-for-birds&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;chart&#x2F;amp&#x2F;15195&#x2F;wind-turbines-are-n...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Increasing wind turbine rotor blade visibility reduces avian fatalities</title><url>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.6592</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>3JPLW</author><text>This seems like a noisy low-probability event.<p>&gt; While the number of recorded carcasses increased at the control turbines (7 vs. 18), they decreased at the treated turbines (11 vs. 6 [expected: 28]) (Table 1).<p>I didn&#x27;t read the article very closely, but it also reads like they&#x27;re doing lots of hypothesis tests on different groupings to find significant (p &lt; 0.05) results:<p>&gt; However, the annual fatality rates fluctuated considerably between years (Figure 3 lower panel), stressing the necessity of a long‐term study. Seasonally, fatality rates (across years) were strongly reduced at the painted turbines after treatment during spring and autumn, but increased during summer (Figure 4). When grouping data by season instead of years, painting reduced seasonal fatality rates by 70.9% (95% CI: 61.7%–77.7%; z = −2.003, p = .042, n = 64).<p>I&#x27;m not convinced.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Increasing wind turbine rotor blade visibility reduces avian fatalities</title><url>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.6592</url></story> |
16,983,631 | 16,983,230 | 1 | 2 | 16,976,000 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jsty</author><text>Algolia had a great 8-part series of &#x27;under the hood&#x27; blog posts:<p>Part 1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.algolia.com&#x2F;inside-the-algolia-engine-part-1-indexing-vs-search&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.algolia.com&#x2F;inside-the-algolia-engine-part-1-in...</a><p>No affiliation, just thought they were really interesting.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service</title><url>https://stackshare.io/posts/how-algolia-built-their-realtime-search-as-a-service-product</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thomasfromcdnjs</author><text>If you have never used Algolia, I&#x27;d recommend doing so. For any reason.<p>They are one of those great companies that you want to emulate, their entire setup is polished and perfect.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service</title><url>https://stackshare.io/posts/how-algolia-built-their-realtime-search-as-a-service-product</url></story> |
8,012,625 | 8,012,538 | 1 | 2 | 8,011,872 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patio11</author><text>It&#x27;s almost certainly a pump and dump operation or a target of opportunity by a pump and dump operation. Assuming it doesn&#x27;t get delisted by the SEC first, it will continue for a few days and then suddenly lose 98%+ percent of that valuation in a matter of hours.<p>Edit: Yep, see their financial statement. <a href="https://www.otciq.com/otciq/ajax/showFinancialReportById.pdf?id=122455" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.otciq.com&#x2F;otciq&#x2F;ajax&#x2F;showFinancialReportById.pdf...</a> It&#x27;s even worse than you would otherwise think.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Company with zero revenue and one employee currently worth 3.8B</title><url>https://www.google.com/finance?q=OTCMKTS%3ACYNK&ei=VvW6U4ihAoShiQK2mYC4Cg</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dm2</author><text>Their site: <a href="http://site.introbiz.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;site.introbiz.com</a><p>Apparently they&#x27;re selling the contact information of celebrities, investors, developers, politicians, etc.<p>&quot;At Black Book we provide contact information to world class artists. Upon purchase you will receive a file with the required information to be able to contact the artist.&quot;<p>&quot;The information usually includes email and phone numbers to the artist&#x27;s talent agent, publicist, legal representative, etc.&quot;<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cynk-technology-2014-7" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;cynk-technology-2014-7</a><p><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-09/full-list-companies-audited-cynks-public-auditor" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zerohedge.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014-07-09&#x2F;full-list-companies...</a><p>Formerly &quot;Introbuzz&quot;, also associated with &quot;Sanchez Medical Services&quot;<p><a href="http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/filing.ashx?filingid=8174360" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&#x2F;markets&#x2F;ipos&#x2F;filing.ashx?filingid=8174...</a><p><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1540160/000116552713000428/0001165527-13-000428.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;1540160&#x2F;0001165527130...</a><p><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-09/sheer-insanity-no-revenue-company-rises-over-1-billion-today-57k-shares-traded" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zerohedge.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014-07-09&#x2F;sheer-insanity-no-r...</a><p>Marlon Luis Sanchez and Kenneth Carter seem to be the two primary executives of the company.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Company with zero revenue and one employee currently worth 3.8B</title><url>https://www.google.com/finance?q=OTCMKTS%3ACYNK&ei=VvW6U4ihAoShiQK2mYC4Cg</url></story> |
19,610,113 | 19,610,276 | 1 | 2 | 19,608,828 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>systematical</author><text>We&#x27;re going to be too late. This doesn&#x27;t mean stop trying, but it does mean accept it and begin exploring climate engineering and carbon capture. When I say the latter, I literally mean remove the stuff out of the atmosphere and some progress has been made. For the former: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;show&#x2F;as-planet-warms-scientists-explore-far-out-ways-to-reduce-atmospheric-co2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;show&#x2F;as-planet-warms-scientists...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Arctic Has Entered 'Unprecedented State' That Threatens Global Climate Stability</title><url>https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/08/researchers-warn-arctic-has-entered-unprecedented-state-threatens-global-climate</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thatoneuser</author><text>So looking at the graphs in the video it seems that 2016-2017 saw very significant jumps. Is there significant reason to think that wasn&#x27;t a random phenomenon? AFAIK, contributers to climate change didn&#x27;t also jump up (ie, we don&#x27;t have 20% more emissions). If so, what&#x27;s the thing that the science is suggesting is the cause?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Arctic Has Entered 'Unprecedented State' That Threatens Global Climate Stability</title><url>https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/08/researchers-warn-arctic-has-entered-unprecedented-state-threatens-global-climate</url></story> |
17,463,609 | 17,462,246 | 1 | 3 | 17,460,918 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amelius</author><text>&gt; The problem is there no laws to stop whoever becomes the lucky recipient of such a network effect from doing whatever they want.<p>There&#x27;s the Telecommunications Act of 1996.<p>Quoting from Wikipedia:<p>&gt; Since communications services exhibit network effects and positive externalities, new entrants would face barriers to entry if they could not interconnect their networks with those of the incumbent carriers. Thus, another key provision of the 1996 Act sets obligations for incumbent carriers and new entrants to interconnect their networks with one another, imposing additional requirements on the incumbents because they might desire to restrict competitive entry by denying such interconnection or by setting terms, conditions, and rates that could undermine the ability of the new entrants to compete.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Telecommunications_Act_of_1996" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Telecommunications_Act_of_1996</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>devit</author><text>The real problem here is that after this stunt I&#x27;d like to completely stop using Whatsapp and switch to something else instead, but I can&#x27;t because other people use Whatsapp and communicating with other people is essential to me.<p>The problem is there no laws to stop whoever becomes the lucky recipient of such a network effect from doing whatever they want.<p>Instead antitrust law needs to be expanded to consider network effect platforms like social network as monopolies on ways of interacting with their users, and restrict them from several behaviors like this one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WhatsApp sends Cease and Desists for apps that use native Android APIs</title><url>https://www.xda-developers.com/whatsapp-sends-cease-desist-apps-native-android-api/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oliwarner</author><text>Saying ~&quot;We need more laws!&quot; isn&#x27;t enough. What do you <i>specifically</i> want here?<p>We could demand that all network protocols are fair game for reverse-engineering to enable interoperability. Or mandate public specs and save everybody a bit of effort.<p>But if it&#x27;s my app —not the protocol or the service itself— that&#x27;s generating revenue to pay for the whole thing (eg adverts), why is it fair to let people and other providers usurp that? What if I rely on a specific client setup for security (eg anti-cheat in multiplayer games)?<p>I do <i>very much</i> see your point about social colonies forming and creating their own localised monopolies, but I just cannot see a clean way to fix it. Do you?</text><parent_chain><item><author>devit</author><text>The real problem here is that after this stunt I&#x27;d like to completely stop using Whatsapp and switch to something else instead, but I can&#x27;t because other people use Whatsapp and communicating with other people is essential to me.<p>The problem is there no laws to stop whoever becomes the lucky recipient of such a network effect from doing whatever they want.<p>Instead antitrust law needs to be expanded to consider network effect platforms like social network as monopolies on ways of interacting with their users, and restrict them from several behaviors like this one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WhatsApp sends Cease and Desists for apps that use native Android APIs</title><url>https://www.xda-developers.com/whatsapp-sends-cease-desist-apps-native-android-api/</url></story> |
39,470,337 | 39,470,352 | 1 | 3 | 39,469,716 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Aurornis</author><text>You won&#x27;t get very far by only playing whack-a-mole with negative behaviors. You have to start introducing deliberate, positive behaviors. Structure your home, workspace, and workday around what you choose to be doing.<p>The little tricks to limit things and set timers can help, but the root problem is that you&#x27;re describing yourself as being on autopilot: You get magnetically pulled to the next time waster.<p>Work on being more deliberate in your choices. Fill your time with things that provide a sense of accomplishment and remind yourself throughout the day what the goal is. If it helps, write the goal out on sticky notes and put it on your monitor, then review it throughout the day.<p>When you&#x27;re tired and need a break, get away from the computer. Go for a walk or just stretch. Don&#x27;t let your autopilot draw you back into the default easy time waster yet again. Create an array of positive activities to fill your time with so that you have more things to choose from, not just another round of scrolling something on a screen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>data_ders</author><text>I’m so addicted to the internet that when I block social media, I find I get quite the similar fix from work Slack. Like browsing channels I have no business being a part of and constantly checking for validation of my comments via emoji reactions.<p>Does anyone know of ways to be a successful work-from-home knowledge worker while also locking down Slack to not be another slot machine??<p>Does anyone else feel conflicted about the internet as both a means to a comfortable&#x2F;lucretive career but also the ultimate drug?<p>I’ve thought of only allowing Slack for 10 min each hour to make it more like an IV drop of info, but what happens when I actually need to DM in real time?<p>meta P.S. I’m refreshing this and reading the replies — what a rush! So much more rewarding than what I should be doing. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube addiction, one month sober</title><url>https://www.sophiajt.com/youtube-addiction-one-month-sober/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chezui</author><text>Biggest for me was realizing this behavior is rooted in escaping discomfort and boredom. When I was writing my thesis I would go into a ton of internet &quot;research&quot; rabbit holes like bushcrafting or electronic music production or video games but after I defended, I found that these things no longer have much appeal to me, something that I surfed the internet for obsessively seems boring now.<p>Becoming comfortable with discomfort was huge -- the thing that I&#x27;m avoiding is probably the thing I need to do and will feel great afterwards.<p>Sometimes the anxiety is high and I find working with another person helps, either sitting beside them or actively. In the WFH era I found FocusMate to be super helpful, you pair with another person and share what you plan to do to in that time block via video chat and then go on mute and check in after the session to see how much progress you&#x27;ve made.<p>I find this alleviates a lot of anxiety and having a block of time where you verbalize your goals makes it manageable.<p>You can try for free and do up to 3 sessions per week. I did it and found it helpful so I bought the year subscription.<p>Here&#x27;s my referral link: www.focusmate.com&#x2F;?fmreferral=Tj3Vcqqaei<p>Or if you don&#x27;t want to use that just www.focusmate.com</text><parent_chain><item><author>data_ders</author><text>I’m so addicted to the internet that when I block social media, I find I get quite the similar fix from work Slack. Like browsing channels I have no business being a part of and constantly checking for validation of my comments via emoji reactions.<p>Does anyone know of ways to be a successful work-from-home knowledge worker while also locking down Slack to not be another slot machine??<p>Does anyone else feel conflicted about the internet as both a means to a comfortable&#x2F;lucretive career but also the ultimate drug?<p>I’ve thought of only allowing Slack for 10 min each hour to make it more like an IV drop of info, but what happens when I actually need to DM in real time?<p>meta P.S. I’m refreshing this and reading the replies — what a rush! So much more rewarding than what I should be doing. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube addiction, one month sober</title><url>https://www.sophiajt.com/youtube-addiction-one-month-sober/</url></story> |
11,872,639 | 11,870,559 | 1 | 3 | 11,870,208 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>This highlights what was a huge misconception for me about a PhD. I thought a PhD was about making an original contribution to my field. I thought Academia was a place where you took risks in pursuit of knowledge, and a PhD was your first real go at it.<p>In retrospect (I&#x27;m a PhD dropout) the PhD is really more about training in the fundamentals of scholarship. It&#x27;s about building up background knowledge, and learning the mechanics of research and publishing.<p>The actual scholarly contribution matters <i>almost not at all</i>. This is why faculty will pressure you to pick a conservative project... the results are besides the point. The point is demonstrating that you can do all the steps. Because lots of great people can only do half the steps. A PhD means you can do all.<p>Once you have your PhD, then its your career on the line and you can do whatever you want. Before that point, you&#x27;re really working on borrowed (from your advisor) time, and as much as it might seem like you are supposed to blaze a path, they really just want you to show that you can walk in a straight line.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Sad Story of Heisenberg's Doctoral Oral Exam (1998)</title><url>https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199801/heisenberg.cfm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>archgoon</author><text>&quot;But that fall Heisenberg&#x27;s worried father wrote to the famed Gottingen experimentalist James Franck, asking Franck to teach his boy some experimental physics. Franck did his best, but could not overcome Heisenberg&#x27;s complete lack of interest and gave up the effort. If Heisenberg was going to survive at all in physics it would be purely as a theorist.&quot;<p>I had not heard this part; and might shed some additional light onto why the German atomic project was significantly behind. When the lead of your project is a famous physicist, but who isn&#x27;t strongly grounded in experiment, but who nevertheless feels like he can&#x27;t simply be a manager and must have input, you&#x27;re likely going to have problems.<p>Maybe not though; be an interesting line of investigation though. Anyone know if this was a documented issue? I know that Heisenburg had seriously overestimated the amount of necessary fissile material needed for a bomb.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nuclearsecrecy.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;13&#x2F;what-did-the-nazis-know-about-the-manhattan-project&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nuclearsecrecy.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;13&#x2F;what-did-the-nazis...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Sad Story of Heisenberg's Doctoral Oral Exam (1998)</title><url>https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199801/heisenberg.cfm</url></story> |
7,330,906 | 7,330,760 | 1 | 3 | 7,329,766 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ninjin</author><text>A noble effort and looks like a decent game. As-of-yet though, I think &quot;Papers, Please&quot; is possibly the best take on a dystopian game. The oppression in that game isn&#x27;t just some puzzle mechanic but the whole monotonous process and being a cog in a gigantic bureaucratic machine. Could something similar be made for surveillance?<p><a href="http://papersplea.se/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;papersplea.se&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QP5X6fcukM" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_QP5X6fcukM</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nothing to Hide – Game inspired by government surveillance</title><url>https://github.com/ncase/nothing-to-hide</url><text>Article on it:
http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rockpapershotgun.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;12&#x2F;nothing-to-hide-is-a-very-smart-anti-stealth-game&#x2F;<p>Back it: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;back.nothingtohide.cc&#x2F;</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>ncasenmare</author><text>The devs are also running a crowdfunding campaign for this,
with 10% of the donations going to the EFF, Demand Progress, Mozilla, etc:
<a href="https://back.nothingtohide.cc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;back.nothingtohide.cc</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nothing to Hide – Game inspired by government surveillance</title><url>https://github.com/ncase/nothing-to-hide</url><text>Article on it:
http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rockpapershotgun.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;12&#x2F;nothing-to-hide-is-a-very-smart-anti-stealth-game&#x2F;<p>Back it: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;back.nothingtohide.cc&#x2F;</text></story> |
10,195,996 | 10,195,612 | 1 | 2 | 10,195,423 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pimlottc</author><text>Might be a clearer as &quot;How Soundcloud ended up with microservices&quot;. I was expecting a piece on the general trend within the industry.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we ended up with microservices</title><url>http://philcalcado.com/2015/09/08/how_we_ended_up_with_microservices.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>jacques_chester</author><text>It&#x27;s easy and obvious to set up queues and hand offs. It seems efficient and logical and it looks good on a whiteboard. The throughput of work in flight is of course amazing.<p>Then, much later, you realise latency sucks. People don&#x27;t care that you have 100 features coming in 2 years. They care that you have the killer feature <i>now</i>.<p>So that&#x27;s what counts here: <i>latency to customer value</i>.<p>The time between picking the next most valuable feature and putting it in front of paying customers, is the one loop that needs to be optimised.<p>I&#x27;m lucky to work Pivotal Labs. Our archetypal team is one product manager, one designer, two engineers from us and two engineers from the client. Currently we are experimenting with building teams with embedded data scientists as well. It works because we can, as an autonomous unit, do all the work that needs to be done to take a feature from ideation to production.<p>When you have that, it&#x27;s amazing what you can get done.<p>I know I sound all-knowing and clever and stuff. But if I&#x27;d been setting up a software project before working at Labs, I&#x27;d have done a lot of the same things as this article describes as the starting point.<p>[edited to try and remove the impression that I would&#x27;ve Done It Perfectly From The Beginning, which is the opposite of what I was trying to say]</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we ended up with microservices</title><url>http://philcalcado.com/2015/09/08/how_we_ended_up_with_microservices.html?</url></story> |
17,028,077 | 17,027,560 | 1 | 2 | 17,026,215 | 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>deanCommie</author><text>This is highly misleading.<p>What made &quot;Service-orientated-architecture&quot; stand out in the 90&#x27;s and 2000&#x27;s was standardized communication protocols. It made integrating across teams, and even across companies easier than it&#x27;s ever been before.<p>But there were no best practices around service architecture. Sure, methods were decoupled by responsibility (maybe). But when companies thought about their &quot;Web Service&quot; strategy that meant putting up ONE service exposed to the world, and moving on.<p>Internally, &quot;SOA&quot; meant 1-5 services for a mid-sized shop.<p>This worked for a while until it didn&#x27;t. First, the services became monoliths of conflicting responsibilities, then the mobile revolution and big data led to scalability challenges that the era of SOA never had to consider.<p>THAT is what microservices promised to solve. By being brutal with decomposing and decoupling your concerns you could scale each intelligently and independently. Containers are just an implementation detail, and weren&#x27;t around yet when Microservices first made their impact.<p>Of course, plenty of people don&#x27;t get this. They think of microservices as just another buzzword. So, it&#x27;s been ruined like &quot;agile&quot; has, and you hear companies about their &quot;Microservice architecture&quot;, when really all they&#x27;ve done is migrated their backend to node.js and moved to the cloud.<p>Shame. It&#x27;s a good idea a lot of the time (and sometimes it isn&#x27;t, as with all good ideas).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Everything old is new again: Microservices</title><url>https://blogs.dxc.technology/2018/05/08/everything-old-is-new-again-microservices/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>I&#x27;ve come to terms with the fact that every tech trend is cyclical. Just look at the comeback functional programming is making right now. Or the way we went from thin clients (terminals) to thick clients (PCs) to thin clients (early web pages) to thick clients (progressive web apps). All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Everything old is new again: Microservices</title><url>https://blogs.dxc.technology/2018/05/08/everything-old-is-new-again-microservices/</url></story> |
16,775,218 | 16,775,422 | 1 | 3 | 16,774,129 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lr4444lr</author><text>Somehow, the National Enquirer existed for decades alongside the newspapers of record in every town of the United States, and we didn&#x27;t degenerate into a know-nothing lawless society. Tastes changed, and though correlation is not causation, the slippage of America&#x27;s educational performance comparative to other countries&#x27; can&#x27;t be flat out ignored.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rdiddly</author><text>The market will sort out the real from the fake? The market is how we got where we are. The market favors clickbait, not necessarily truth.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I find all the calls for somebody to <i>do something</i> (i.e. restrict free speech) equally troublesome.<p>I basically think there&#x27;s no solution. Liars gonna lie.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Free speech cannot be sacrificed to strike fake news</title><url>http://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/381871-free-speech-cannot-be-sacrificed-to-strike-fake-news</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexilliamson</author><text>&gt; Liars gonna lie<p>Agreed. As they always have since humans or our ancestors first stood to gain from deception. You&#x27;ll never stop it.<p>But I think the solution may still come from market forces. Not as in tech companies inventing showy systems for flagging and muting fake news. But I think people are slowly becoming smarter news consumers, more skeptical about what they take as fact. Who hasn’t become smarter about filtering out BS in the last two years?<p>The problem for Trump and Fox with all their “fake news” tirades is that you can’t <i>partially</i> open people’s minds to skepticism. Once they begin questioning one news source, they begin developing general critical reasoning ability. Tribalism may keep them defending their bad news source for some time, but as they continue to tear apart other sources, they will become increasingly unable to turn a blind eye to their own. In the long run, Fox making accusations of fake news will cannibalize their own fake news. Whether that happens in the next 8 years or on a longer horizon? Who knows…</text><parent_chain><item><author>rdiddly</author><text>The market will sort out the real from the fake? The market is how we got where we are. The market favors clickbait, not necessarily truth.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I find all the calls for somebody to <i>do something</i> (i.e. restrict free speech) equally troublesome.<p>I basically think there&#x27;s no solution. Liars gonna lie.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Free speech cannot be sacrificed to strike fake news</title><url>http://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/381871-free-speech-cannot-be-sacrificed-to-strike-fake-news</url></story> |
11,604,608 | 11,603,803 | 1 | 2 | 11,601,824 | 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>joesmo</author><text>Exactly! If the fingerprint scanner on the gun works like the one on my phone, many people will unnecessarily die. What do their families do then? Sue Congress?<p>Seriously, the idea of smart guns is really stupid. Can you build a system that&#x27;s 100% reliable? No. Then people will die unnecessarily because of this legislation and, of course, no gun owner will want this optional piece of equipment with a nonzero failure rate. I&#x27;m glad no gun company wants to make this idiotic and dangerous technology.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crikli</author><text>I&#x27;m an engineer, gun owner, and former NRA member[1].<p>I hate the idea of smart guns, but politics are a distant secondary concern.<p>Firearms fail all the time, even the simple reliable ones. Bad primers, failure to eject, failure to cycle, stovepipes, etc. It takes education and then repeated training to know how to deal with failures. In a pressure situation you revert to your lowest level of training; muscle memory will give you the best chance to respond appropriately.<p>Just dealing with mechanical failures quickly and correctly takes very intentional practice.<p>The last thing I want to have is another thing that can fail in a pressure situation that can&#x27;t be resolved via trained response. E.g., for a bad primer or failure to eject I can do what&#x27;s called a tap&#x2F;rack&#x2F;bang drill. But there&#x27;s nothing I can do to train for some type of software failure or battery being dead or some other type of non-mechanical failure that bricks my firearm.<p>[1]Former because the NRA&quot;s lobbing efforts and powers are ridiculously overstated. Their entire entire existence as near as I can tell is to sell their member&#x27;s names to third parties. I&#x27;ve never received as much crap snail mail and email as I did during the year I belonged to the NRA.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the NRA hates smart guns</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/30/why-the-nra-hates-smart-guns/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drmilsurp</author><text>They have a &quot;do not promote&quot; list that you must request to be added to which solves the spam&#x2F;marketing mail problem. That you have to ask is problematic but there is a solution if this was the only problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crikli</author><text>I&#x27;m an engineer, gun owner, and former NRA member[1].<p>I hate the idea of smart guns, but politics are a distant secondary concern.<p>Firearms fail all the time, even the simple reliable ones. Bad primers, failure to eject, failure to cycle, stovepipes, etc. It takes education and then repeated training to know how to deal with failures. In a pressure situation you revert to your lowest level of training; muscle memory will give you the best chance to respond appropriately.<p>Just dealing with mechanical failures quickly and correctly takes very intentional practice.<p>The last thing I want to have is another thing that can fail in a pressure situation that can&#x27;t be resolved via trained response. E.g., for a bad primer or failure to eject I can do what&#x27;s called a tap&#x2F;rack&#x2F;bang drill. But there&#x27;s nothing I can do to train for some type of software failure or battery being dead or some other type of non-mechanical failure that bricks my firearm.<p>[1]Former because the NRA&quot;s lobbing efforts and powers are ridiculously overstated. Their entire entire existence as near as I can tell is to sell their member&#x27;s names to third parties. I&#x27;ve never received as much crap snail mail and email as I did during the year I belonged to the NRA.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the NRA hates smart guns</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/30/why-the-nra-hates-smart-guns/</url></story> |
40,011,176 | 40,009,731 | 1 | 3 | 40,004,889 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lb1lf</author><text>I came within a cat&#x27;s whisker of being flown from Molde, Norway to Oslo rather than to my intended destination of Bergen when I was a teen.<p>Molde Airport is a very small affair, a handful of flights every day, and no such fancy thing as boarding tunnels; rather, you were just passed through at the gate and let onto the apron, where a plane would be waiting.<p>Only on that day, there were TWO planes waiting, one hidden from view behind a hangar - but both were from then national flag carrier Braathens.<p>So, I get out from my gate as the very last passenger, having bought a standby ticket, so no pax to follow, lemmings style, to my plane.<p>Walking over to single plane in view, I board and find my seat on the nearly empty flight, door closes, pre-departure briefing, taxiing towards runway.<p>And then they announce that estimated flight time to Oslo will be 45 minutes. Uh, Oslo?<p>So, I call for a stewardess, who suggests that whatever I may need, just wait until we&#x27;re airborne. &#x27;Uh, that&#x27;s kind of the point - I am going to BERGEN, not Oslo.&#x27;<p>She runs off to alert the captain, and a minute or two later, a truck with boarding stairs come zipping alongside, I disembark, get driven over to the plane to Bergen and as I board the correct plane, a guy is getting off the Bergen-bound plane and is driven over to the plane I had just left.<p>As we both had stumbled onto the wrong plane, the tally matched the expected numbers and all seemed normal - until they&#x27;d announced where we were actually going, that is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zeroonetwothree</author><text>Once I accidentally got on the wrong plane, because two flights at adjacent gates were boarding at the same time. Apparently the boarding pass scanner didn&#x27;t even check that the flight matched! It turned out that the person who actually had my seat on that flight was really late and so we didn&#x27;t find out until just before the plane left the game. Fortunately I was able to rush over and make it onto my actual flight. But it would have been awkward if the other passenger hadn&#x27;t made it at all...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught</title><url>https://onemileatatime.com/news/man-creatively-sneaks-onto-delta-flight/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>victorbjorklund</author><text>I always secretly hope I get on the wrong plane and end up somewhere fun. It does seem like it can happen from time to time since Ryanair now always informs &quot;if you are on the wrong plane tell us!&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zeroonetwothree</author><text>Once I accidentally got on the wrong plane, because two flights at adjacent gates were boarding at the same time. Apparently the boarding pass scanner didn&#x27;t even check that the flight matched! It turned out that the person who actually had my seat on that flight was really late and so we didn&#x27;t find out until just before the plane left the game. Fortunately I was able to rush over and make it onto my actual flight. But it would have been awkward if the other passenger hadn&#x27;t made it at all...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught</title><url>https://onemileatatime.com/news/man-creatively-sneaks-onto-delta-flight/</url></story> |
3,018,416 | 3,018,251 | 1 | 3 | 3,018,047 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dholowiski</author><text>I wonder what kind of 'bad activity' detection Amazon does, if any? Did they have to call Amazon ahead of time, just to warn them they were about to boot up "3,809" instances? If I tried to do that, would Amazon prevent it?<p>The reason I ask... how hard would it be to boot up, say 10,000 micro-instances (using a stolen credit card or AWS account) to be used for a DDOS? What do you have to do before red lights start appearing in the AWS NOC?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/30000-core-cluster-built-on-amazon-ec2-cloud.ars</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ericHosick</author><text>Amazon's EC2 technology is quite amazing (to me anyway). We've been using their CloudFormation service. This has allowed us to create our entire server environment (rails/php, mysql, mongo, load balancer, route53, security groups, alarms, etc.) for different stacks (sandboxes, staging, production) with a few clicks.<p>"Cycle combines several technologies to ease the process" -
Did that include Amazons CloudFormation services?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/30000-core-cluster-built-on-amazon-ec2-cloud.ars</url></story> |
40,430,178 | 40,430,204 | 1 | 2 | 40,429,275 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saalweachter</author><text>Just out of curiosity, what do people mean when they say &quot;publish the algorithm&quot;? A poster-sized UML diagram? A million lines of spaghetti code saying &quot;if foo &gt; 11.78 then bar += 2.6&quot;? An exhaustive design document exactly specifying the entire ranking system (which absolutely does not exist at any company)? The ranking signals the algorithm operates on?</text><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>I saw Mark Cuban advocating for any platform which shows content to children to be required to publish their algorithm. IMO it is the most logical approach to the entire discussion.</text></item><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>The law to ban tiktok was passed because the Chinese government has direct control over the content shown to users.<p>All the talk about privacy and data collection were mostly to muddy the waters by bringing in all tech to the conversion, and divert attention from solely tiktok (&quot;Everyone does it so why focus on tiktok?!&quot;). It&#x27;s still a threat, I&#x27;m not trying to minimize it, but tiktok was banned primarily because of who controls the content delivered, not who is collecting the data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online</title><url>https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/how-shadow-banning-can-silently-shift-opinion-online</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>biftek</author><text>Sounds good in theory but how many people are actually qualified to interpret those algorithms? Average Joe on facebook is going to believe it does what ever Bob tells him it does.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>I saw Mark Cuban advocating for any platform which shows content to children to be required to publish their algorithm. IMO it is the most logical approach to the entire discussion.</text></item><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>The law to ban tiktok was passed because the Chinese government has direct control over the content shown to users.<p>All the talk about privacy and data collection were mostly to muddy the waters by bringing in all tech to the conversion, and divert attention from solely tiktok (&quot;Everyone does it so why focus on tiktok?!&quot;). It&#x27;s still a threat, I&#x27;m not trying to minimize it, but tiktok was banned primarily because of who controls the content delivered, not who is collecting the data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online</title><url>https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/how-shadow-banning-can-silently-shift-opinion-online</url></story> |
17,090,351 | 17,089,260 | 1 | 3 | 17,087,961 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>Yep, the arbitrariness and oddity of the experiences cemented materialism for me.<p>Something an acquaintance in the old Atari users group I was a part of in the 80s&#x2F;90s said to me (when I was a teenager, saying &quot;acid could be neat to try&quot;) stuck with me.<p>&quot;You know how if you drop some screws or something on video circuitry of the PCB of your computer and the display gets all scrambled? That&#x27;s analogous to what LSD is doing to your brain.&quot;<p>The patterns displayed across the TV after doing that might be really cool. But it&#x27;s a profound mistake to assume meaning in them. In fact it&#x27;d be very difficult to work backwards from what&#x27;s on the screen to how the video circuitry works.</text><parent_chain><item><author>taneq</author><text>I find this very interesting because I had precisely the opposite reaction once when I tried psylocibin. Despite being pretty solidly materialist and agnostic, I&#x27;d always held a bit of a soft spot for Cartesian duelism and a bit of a &quot;but it&#x27;d be cool if...&quot;<p>What I didn&#x27;t expect was that the effects wouldn&#x27;t just &quot;feel real&quot; or &quot;be convincing&quot;, they <i>were</i> real. Subjectively, it wasn&#x27;t inside my head, it was the actual world that changed. The fact that a small amount of psychoactive substance could fundamentally alter my perceived reality put the final nail in the coffin for any possibility that my mind was generated by something outside my own skull.</text></item><item><author>Jedi72</author><text>Im a stable, sane, not depressed or anything person. I once took LSD (mixed with other things aswell...) and had a trip during which I spoke to God, Satan and various other imaginary beings. It was not a fun experience - I&#x27;m a man of science, but the feeling&#x2F;perception was so real, my entire world view was shattered. It stuck with me for months after. I&#x27;ve gone from someone who 100% believed in evolution and a material universe, to someone who deep down thinks there may be a God, and I may actually have to face some kind of hell for some kind of sins I may unknowingly commit in this life. I don&#x27;t consider this a spiritual awakening or something profound - it&#x27;s more like I put a crack in my sanity that I can never completely fix.<p>These drugs are extremely powerful. They can potentially destroy healthy minds. I support more research and even, in time, legalisation - but I am sharing the story so others may take away the point that when you start hacking with your brains firmware, you should be EXTREMELY careful you dont accidentally brick it.<p>EDIT: For clarity purposes, this wasn&#x27;t my first time doing LSD and it wasn&#x27;t a huge dose. Nobody understands exactly how these drugs work, maybe this was a 1&#x2F;1000 event. But it happened - and I don&#x27;t do drugs any more.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of psychedelics</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/15/611225541/reluctant-psychonaut-michael-pollan-embraces-the-new-science-of-psychedelics</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>therein</author><text>Yup, when I consumed some `golden teacher` and started perceiving the people around me in `The Simpsons Cartoon Style` rendered in realtime with perfect realism replacing my reality, I was sold on that being a very real possibility as well.<p>And music... It takes a whole other dimension. Calling it `high def` doesn&#x27;t do it any justice. Experiencing music aside, it feels as though you live the music you are hearing. It is hard to explain. It also becomes your reality.</text><parent_chain><item><author>taneq</author><text>I find this very interesting because I had precisely the opposite reaction once when I tried psylocibin. Despite being pretty solidly materialist and agnostic, I&#x27;d always held a bit of a soft spot for Cartesian duelism and a bit of a &quot;but it&#x27;d be cool if...&quot;<p>What I didn&#x27;t expect was that the effects wouldn&#x27;t just &quot;feel real&quot; or &quot;be convincing&quot;, they <i>were</i> real. Subjectively, it wasn&#x27;t inside my head, it was the actual world that changed. The fact that a small amount of psychoactive substance could fundamentally alter my perceived reality put the final nail in the coffin for any possibility that my mind was generated by something outside my own skull.</text></item><item><author>Jedi72</author><text>Im a stable, sane, not depressed or anything person. I once took LSD (mixed with other things aswell...) and had a trip during which I spoke to God, Satan and various other imaginary beings. It was not a fun experience - I&#x27;m a man of science, but the feeling&#x2F;perception was so real, my entire world view was shattered. It stuck with me for months after. I&#x27;ve gone from someone who 100% believed in evolution and a material universe, to someone who deep down thinks there may be a God, and I may actually have to face some kind of hell for some kind of sins I may unknowingly commit in this life. I don&#x27;t consider this a spiritual awakening or something profound - it&#x27;s more like I put a crack in my sanity that I can never completely fix.<p>These drugs are extremely powerful. They can potentially destroy healthy minds. I support more research and even, in time, legalisation - but I am sharing the story so others may take away the point that when you start hacking with your brains firmware, you should be EXTREMELY careful you dont accidentally brick it.<p>EDIT: For clarity purposes, this wasn&#x27;t my first time doing LSD and it wasn&#x27;t a huge dose. Nobody understands exactly how these drugs work, maybe this was a 1&#x2F;1000 event. But it happened - and I don&#x27;t do drugs any more.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of psychedelics</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/15/611225541/reluctant-psychonaut-michael-pollan-embraces-the-new-science-of-psychedelics</url></story> |
21,067,955 | 21,066,474 | 1 | 3 | 21,064,517 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kerkeslager</author><text>The problem is that there&#x27;s numerous conflicts of interests and a strong possibility for abuse.<p>A lot of people on HN seem to have an &quot;assume everything is okay until there is insurmountable evidence that it has been catastrophically wrong for a long time&quot; approach to regulating corporations. Historically this approach has allowed corporations to abuse workers, customers, the environment, and whoever&#x2F;whatever else is profitable to abuse.<p>Amazon isn&#x27;t some ethical outlier of a corporation: they have plenty of ongoing history of worker abuses and leveraging their power in one sector to gain unfair advantage in another. So why would this be any different?<p>So no, I don&#x27;t think people are misunderstanding this, I think they&#x27;re approaching what Amazon is doing with an appropriate level of skepticism. It&#x27;s incredibly naive to assume that Amazon is only going to use this in the positive ways outlined in their press releases.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dangus</author><text>So far, the comments here are seriously misunderstanding what Amazon is doing here, and are getting unnecessarily inflammatory just because it’s Big Bad Amazon.<p>It’s just a remote care benefit. My current employer offers it, administered by a vendor, and it’s separate from your actual insurance. You can call or video chat, send pictures, and even get prescriptions filled off-hours. It comes in handy for a lot of common quick scenarios.<p>The only news is that Amazon is big enough to self administer it.<p>It’s pretty much inevitable that companies of that immense size save money by self-administering or self-insuring many benefits like this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual medical clinic for employees</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/24/amazon-launches-employee-health-clinic-amazon-care.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>arcticbull</author><text>Much as I think this is a job for the state and not private sector, America has a long history of employers providing healthcare. Kaiser started out as a shipbuilding company with in-house medical clinic, and eventually the shipbuilding arm folded and the medical arm opened up to all comers, yielding today’s KP.<p>What’s old is new again, as they say.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dangus</author><text>So far, the comments here are seriously misunderstanding what Amazon is doing here, and are getting unnecessarily inflammatory just because it’s Big Bad Amazon.<p>It’s just a remote care benefit. My current employer offers it, administered by a vendor, and it’s separate from your actual insurance. You can call or video chat, send pictures, and even get prescriptions filled off-hours. It comes in handy for a lot of common quick scenarios.<p>The only news is that Amazon is big enough to self administer it.<p>It’s pretty much inevitable that companies of that immense size save money by self-administering or self-insuring many benefits like this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual medical clinic for employees</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/24/amazon-launches-employee-health-clinic-amazon-care.html</url></story> |
39,878,420 | 39,878,437 | 1 | 3 | 39,878,156 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lxgr</author><text>Let’s be reasonable here: CDNs aren’t free. They might be spending a couple of cents per user!<p>But yeah, people might not like the implementation or idea of intellectual property, but that’s what’s happening here. Pretending it’s something else makes it hard to argue about it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eliben</author><text>Adobe facing pressure as study finds $99 program can be made for $0</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1k drug can be made for $5</title><url>https://fortune.com/europe/2024/03/28/ozempic-maker-novo-nordisk-facing-pressure-as-study-finds-1000-appetite-suppressant-can-be-made-for-just-5/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>musicale</author><text>$60&#x2F;month, but that does include 100 GB of storage that you might otherwise have to store on a $20 SD card.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eliben</author><text>Adobe facing pressure as study finds $99 program can be made for $0</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1k drug can be made for $5</title><url>https://fortune.com/europe/2024/03/28/ozempic-maker-novo-nordisk-facing-pressure-as-study-finds-1000-appetite-suppressant-can-be-made-for-just-5/</url></story> |
29,553,003 | 29,553,164 | 1 | 3 | 29,552,135 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wffurr</author><text>That&#x27;s... completely backwards? City dwellers have the smallest environmental impact.<p>Air quality within cities is actually a totally different issue from whether living in a city is in and of itself harmful for the environment.<p>As the OP mentioned, reducing fossil fuel usage within city centers (both power generation and vehicle usage) can dramatically reduce smog and improve air quality within the city. While even more dramatically reducing the city dwellers&#x27; environmental footprint.<p>Living in the suburbs is reliant on largely fossil-fuel burning vehicular transport, which even if electrified, is substantially less efficient than mass transit, cycling, or walking, all of which are much more feasible within a city. Not to mention the sheer land area used for pavements and stormwater drainage and such in spread-out areas.</text><parent_chain><item><author>retwe321</author><text>This argument is mostly against cities though. Nowadays humans don&#x27;t need to be tightly packed into pollution centres. Efforts should be made to make city living as expensive as possible since it&#x27;s harmful for the environment. Internet has made cities pretty much obsolete anyway.</text></item><item><author>retrac</author><text>Great point. There&#x27;d be compelling reasons to stop poisoning ourselves ASAP even if we weren&#x27;t boiling ourselves alive in the process.<p>Ontario phased out coal electricity for a mix of natural gas and renewables in the early-mid 2000s. Climate wasn&#x27;t the primary motivator. Regular air pollution was. Smog has essentially disappeared from Toronto. I haven&#x27;t had burning eyes and a scratchy throat on what would have once been bad summer days in almost two decades personally (atmospheric NO2 levels): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;files.ontario.ca&#x2F;2086-figurea35-en.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;files.ontario.ca&#x2F;2086-figurea35-en.jpg</a> Atmospheric mercury levels alone have fallen by 40%. I didn&#x27;t even know so much Hg in the environment came from coal ash!<p>&gt; An independent assessment conducted by Toronto Public Health in 2014 suggests that improvements in Ontario’s air quality have translated into significant health benefits for Ontario residents. Toronto Public Health found that improvements in Toronto’s air quality from 2000 to 2011 have reduced air pollution-related premature deaths by 23% (from 1,700 to 1,300 per year) and hospital admissions by 41% (from 6,000 to 3,550 per year) in Toronto alone.</text></item><item><author>Glench</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget there&#x27;s also the millions of people dying from fossil fuel-based air pollution every year! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lrb.co.uk&#x2F;the-paper&#x2F;v43&#x2F;n23&#x2F;david-wallace-wells&#x2F;ten-million-a-year" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lrb.co.uk&#x2F;the-paper&#x2F;v43&#x2F;n23&#x2F;david-wallace-wells&#x2F;ten-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three loud climate warning signals</title><url>https://www.axios.com/three-climate-warning-signals-9f930b4e-110a-4225-9eb9-c63a22993b82.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>ddulaney</author><text>It&#x27;s a little more complicated -- if living in a city means that you switch from a car to public transit, that&#x27;s a major environmental win. If living in a city means you switch from a free-standing house to an apartment building, that&#x27;s a smaller but substantial environmental win. Sewers are generally better than septic tanks, trash collection is more efficient when people live closer together, and so on.<p>Cities concentrate pollution and completely overwhelm the local environment&#x27;s capacity to absorb human impacts. However, they generally reduce overall pollution when compared to suburban or rural living at the same income level.</text><parent_chain><item><author>retwe321</author><text>This argument is mostly against cities though. Nowadays humans don&#x27;t need to be tightly packed into pollution centres. Efforts should be made to make city living as expensive as possible since it&#x27;s harmful for the environment. Internet has made cities pretty much obsolete anyway.</text></item><item><author>retrac</author><text>Great point. There&#x27;d be compelling reasons to stop poisoning ourselves ASAP even if we weren&#x27;t boiling ourselves alive in the process.<p>Ontario phased out coal electricity for a mix of natural gas and renewables in the early-mid 2000s. Climate wasn&#x27;t the primary motivator. Regular air pollution was. Smog has essentially disappeared from Toronto. I haven&#x27;t had burning eyes and a scratchy throat on what would have once been bad summer days in almost two decades personally (atmospheric NO2 levels): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;files.ontario.ca&#x2F;2086-figurea35-en.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;files.ontario.ca&#x2F;2086-figurea35-en.jpg</a> Atmospheric mercury levels alone have fallen by 40%. I didn&#x27;t even know so much Hg in the environment came from coal ash!<p>&gt; An independent assessment conducted by Toronto Public Health in 2014 suggests that improvements in Ontario’s air quality have translated into significant health benefits for Ontario residents. Toronto Public Health found that improvements in Toronto’s air quality from 2000 to 2011 have reduced air pollution-related premature deaths by 23% (from 1,700 to 1,300 per year) and hospital admissions by 41% (from 6,000 to 3,550 per year) in Toronto alone.</text></item><item><author>Glench</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget there&#x27;s also the millions of people dying from fossil fuel-based air pollution every year! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lrb.co.uk&#x2F;the-paper&#x2F;v43&#x2F;n23&#x2F;david-wallace-wells&#x2F;ten-million-a-year" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lrb.co.uk&#x2F;the-paper&#x2F;v43&#x2F;n23&#x2F;david-wallace-wells&#x2F;ten-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three loud climate warning signals</title><url>https://www.axios.com/three-climate-warning-signals-9f930b4e-110a-4225-9eb9-c63a22993b82.html</url></story> |
27,020,121 | 27,019,878 | 1 | 2 | 27,013,880 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crooked-v</author><text>&gt; all of it is garbage compared to appliances from 20 yrs ago<p>There were garbage appliances 20 years ago, too... you just don&#x27;t see them around anymore because they already broke down long ago.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kirse</author><text>The thing is, all of it is garbage compared to appliances from 20 yrs ago before mfgr&#x27;s started designing everything to planned obsolescence and IoT. American GE at least has an extensive parts network in country, while if your LG&#x2F;Samsung breaks at this point you are basically SOL. On top of that the COVID-19 supply shock issues have exacerbated this situation.</text></item><item><author>imglorp</author><text>Similar experience with a Miele. Inside it&#x27;s about 4x more complicated than an American model: far more engineering around sensors and actuators and quality, while the American ones are designed with short lifetime and manufacturing costs as goals. Fortunately it came with a circuit diagram which made it easy to find a bad relay which had a generic replacement. Back in business for more years.<p>ps. Just remembered, that Miele also had a diagnostic&#x2F;debug mode to tell you what system was faulting. Try that with your shitty builder&#x27;s grade Whirlpool.</text></item><item><author>boatsie</author><text>My $1200 7 year old Miele dishwasher stopped working a few months ago, with the “Intake&#x2F;drain” light on red when starting a load. Dishwashers during the pandemic were sort of scare due to massive home remodeling demand, and the professional repair people would have cost $300 just to diagnose, so I went to try to fix it myself.<p>It turns out the water intake valve solenoid was jammed or gummed up somehow, as applying 120V to it directly had no effect. I went to find an OE replacement online only to find that they are $580, sold by only 2 places, and sold out. You need to be a certified Miele technician to buy them.<p>Given I knew the specifications from the model number and the printing on the solenoid itself wrt voltage and flow rate, I bought the cheapest replacement I could find on Amazon, spliced the wires into the existing harness and boom, it worked perfectly.<p>One thing I didn’t understand was why there were so many different inlet valves that all did the same thing. There were 120V AC and 12V DC versions but other than that the only difference was the water connector&#x2F;dongle&#x2F;bracket. It seemed absurd there would be so many but the reality is that actual solenoid is super generic and should only cost $20 and should be made to fit them all. Of course nobody really repairs things these days but I think this is the reason why. Even when the part could easily be standardized and replaced&#x2F;repaired like a light bulb, companies want you to buy a whole new one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM</title><url>https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>American GE at least has an extensive parts network in country</i><p>Maytag, too. I had no problem finding Maytag parts recently.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kirse</author><text>The thing is, all of it is garbage compared to appliances from 20 yrs ago before mfgr&#x27;s started designing everything to planned obsolescence and IoT. American GE at least has an extensive parts network in country, while if your LG&#x2F;Samsung breaks at this point you are basically SOL. On top of that the COVID-19 supply shock issues have exacerbated this situation.</text></item><item><author>imglorp</author><text>Similar experience with a Miele. Inside it&#x27;s about 4x more complicated than an American model: far more engineering around sensors and actuators and quality, while the American ones are designed with short lifetime and manufacturing costs as goals. Fortunately it came with a circuit diagram which made it easy to find a bad relay which had a generic replacement. Back in business for more years.<p>ps. Just remembered, that Miele also had a diagnostic&#x2F;debug mode to tell you what system was faulting. Try that with your shitty builder&#x27;s grade Whirlpool.</text></item><item><author>boatsie</author><text>My $1200 7 year old Miele dishwasher stopped working a few months ago, with the “Intake&#x2F;drain” light on red when starting a load. Dishwashers during the pandemic were sort of scare due to massive home remodeling demand, and the professional repair people would have cost $300 just to diagnose, so I went to try to fix it myself.<p>It turns out the water intake valve solenoid was jammed or gummed up somehow, as applying 120V to it directly had no effect. I went to find an OE replacement online only to find that they are $580, sold by only 2 places, and sold out. You need to be a certified Miele technician to buy them.<p>Given I knew the specifications from the model number and the printing on the solenoid itself wrt voltage and flow rate, I bought the cheapest replacement I could find on Amazon, spliced the wires into the existing harness and boom, it worked perfectly.<p>One thing I didn’t understand was why there were so many different inlet valves that all did the same thing. There were 120V AC and 12V DC versions but other than that the only difference was the water connector&#x2F;dongle&#x2F;bracket. It seemed absurd there would be so many but the reality is that actual solenoid is super generic and should only cost $20 and should be made to fit them all. Of course nobody really repairs things these days but I think this is the reason why. Even when the part could easily be standardized and replaced&#x2F;repaired like a light bulb, companies want you to buy a whole new one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM</title><url>https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder</url></story> |
26,943,253 | 26,942,581 | 1 | 3 | 26,939,929 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cletus</author><text>I have to disagree somewhat: versioning objects or endpoints is never the right solution. I&#x27;d go so far as to say that versioning the whole API is simply the least bad option.<p>What constitutes a major version? Simple: as soon as existing clients break it&#x27;s a new major version. That means you can, for example, add new endpoints because that&#x27;s not a breaking change. You simply can&#x27;t remove or change any of the existing endpoints, fields or objects.<p>It also means that a client can&#x27;t mix-and-match what major versions to use ie you can&#x27;t use &#x2F;v1&#x2F;customer and &#x2F;v2&#x2F;account. Why? Because clients will do that as a quick hack and you need to save them from themselves.<p>So why not version endpoints or objects? Because of environment bifurcation. Let&#x27;s say you have 2 API versions (v1 and v2). To verify your API you can test each independently. That&#x27;s relatively easy.<p>But imagine you have 10 endpoints and each is versioned separately. Now you have to test 2^10 possibilities. Clients will do stupid things like use a different version as a quick hack or even when they don&#x27;t need to and you&#x27;ll be debugging those things forever. Don&#x27;t give your API users footguns.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>API versioning has no “right way” (2017)</title><url>https://apisyouwonthate.com/blog/api-versioning-has-no-right-way</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I liked this article, but after trying many different approaches in the past, I&#x27;ve found that GraphQL&#x27;s &quot;evolvable&quot; approach is by far the best. And while the author correctly points out that some REST APIs have used this approach for a while, there are a couple important things that make this approach really easy to use in GraphQL:<p>1. When you deprecate fields, they disappear from the &quot;default&quot; documentation in the Graphiql browser. Which means it&#x27;s always easy to see the latest &quot;version&quot; of the API.<p>2. Since <i>clients</i> request fields, you don&#x27;t feel like you&#x27;re unnecessarily returning an object that&#x27;s twice as big as it needs to be with all the new and deprecated fields in the same response.<p>3. Corollary to #2, but since clients request fields it&#x27;s easy to detect who hasn&#x27;t migrated and who is using deprecated fields, which makes it easier to notify these clients or at least make an informed decision about when you can remove deprecated fields.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>API versioning has no “right way” (2017)</title><url>https://apisyouwonthate.com/blog/api-versioning-has-no-right-way</url></story> |
38,291,210 | 38,291,226 | 1 | 2 | 38,290,145 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tuetuopay</author><text>The thing is, stuff that require hard realtime cannot satisfy with &quot;many cycles to spare for misses&quot;. And CPU cycles is not the whole story. A badly made task could lock down the kernel not doing anything useful. The point of hard realtime is &quot;nothing cannot prevent this critical task from running&quot;.<p>For automotive and aerospace, you really want the control systems to be able to run no matter what.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>I wonder if this being fixed will result in it displacing some notable amount of made-for-realtime hardware&#x2F;software combos. Especially since there&#x27;s now lots of cheap, relatively low power, and high clock rate ARM and x86 chips to choose from. With the clock rates so high, perfect real-time becomes less important as you would often have many cycles to spare for misses.<p>I understand it&#x27;s less elegant, efficient, etc. But sometimes commodity wins over correctness.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The real realtime preemption end game</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/951337/e9139cdb65a9cb93/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>binary132</author><text>I get the sense that applications with true realtime requirements generally have hard enough requirements that they cannot allow even the remote possibility of failure. Think avionics, medical devices, automotive, military applications.<p>If you really need realtime, then you <i>really need</i> it and &quot;close enough&quot; doesn&#x27;t really exist.<p>This is just my perception as an outsider though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>I wonder if this being fixed will result in it displacing some notable amount of made-for-realtime hardware&#x2F;software combos. Especially since there&#x27;s now lots of cheap, relatively low power, and high clock rate ARM and x86 chips to choose from. With the clock rates so high, perfect real-time becomes less important as you would often have many cycles to spare for misses.<p>I understand it&#x27;s less elegant, efficient, etc. But sometimes commodity wins over correctness.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The real realtime preemption end game</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/951337/e9139cdb65a9cb93/</url></story> |
16,511,954 | 16,511,180 | 1 | 3 | 16,494,280 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bumbledraven</author><text>James Harvey and Yuran Lu co-founded QuicklyChat (YC S12 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20120816231511&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quicklychat.com&#x2F;about.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20120816231511&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quickl...</a>) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ycombinator.com&#x2F;quicklychat-yc-s12-brings-push-to-talk-video&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ycombinator.com&#x2F;quicklychat-yc-s12-brings-push-...</a><p>I guess they had no trouble with question 3 on the YC application: <i>Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Lottery Hackers</title><url>http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mistersquid</author><text>That was a fantastic long read! Wow.<p>A lot of intrigue in it, too, especially with the emergence of the MIT cohort, computer programmers, and electrical engineers.<p>Excellent decision on the part of the investigative reporter Jason Fagone to tell the story from the vantage of the Selbees.<p>The article is fun even as it smudges the Selbees (and other bulk ticket purchasers) with a dab of questionable ethics as is appropriate for a (minor-ish) vice such as lottery gambling.<p>Thanks for sharing.<p>EDIT: noun verb agreement</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Lottery Hackers</title><url>http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/</url></story> |
24,080,792 | 24,080,835 | 1 | 2 | 24,080,635 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragonelite</author><text>Just look at the EU and you have your answer about protecting your young markets.</text><parent_chain><item><author>erklik</author><text>From a non-developed world viewpoint, is it even possible for China&#x2F;India etc to have there companies grow to such a massive size to rival Facebook, Micrisoft etc without protecting them from multi-nationals with way more immense power and the capacity to simply buy companies?<p>Ala, Facebook bought Instagram. If there was no such restriction, could they not have just bought Tencent in its infancy?<p>Essentially ensuring that currently countries that have not developed will continually never develop.</text></item><item><author>msandford</author><text>Hasn&#x27;t China already gone halfway to that by putting up the Great Firewall and strongly funding local &quot;copycats&quot; of many companies that were founded and based in the US?<p>I&#x27;m not suggesting that what the US is planning is good! I think it&#x27;s not great. But it doesn&#x27;t seem to be a pre-emptive thing that&#x27;s being done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is the US about to split the internet?</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53686390</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>votepaunchy</author><text>The US had the opportunity to stop the purchase of Instagram, just as aching could have stopped any purchase of Tencent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>erklik</author><text>From a non-developed world viewpoint, is it even possible for China&#x2F;India etc to have there companies grow to such a massive size to rival Facebook, Micrisoft etc without protecting them from multi-nationals with way more immense power and the capacity to simply buy companies?<p>Ala, Facebook bought Instagram. If there was no such restriction, could they not have just bought Tencent in its infancy?<p>Essentially ensuring that currently countries that have not developed will continually never develop.</text></item><item><author>msandford</author><text>Hasn&#x27;t China already gone halfway to that by putting up the Great Firewall and strongly funding local &quot;copycats&quot; of many companies that were founded and based in the US?<p>I&#x27;m not suggesting that what the US is planning is good! I think it&#x27;s not great. But it doesn&#x27;t seem to be a pre-emptive thing that&#x27;s being done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is the US about to split the internet?</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53686390</url></story> |
16,097,064 | 16,096,943 | 1 | 3 | 16,096,085 | 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>goodside</author><text>It makes it possible for the asset to be traded on third-party markets without the knowledge, consent, or control of the organization that issued the tokens.<p>It also helps you trust that movement of the asset will not be hindered by the issuer&#x27;s inability to keep servers running in the face of potential DDoS attacks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Maro</author><text>What&#x27;s the value of the in-app currency being a cryptocurrency (putting aside hype&#x2F;pr), vs calling it a virtual currency, a Mysql database with a API on top?<p>Dropping to a technical level, if the miners are all run by Telegram, then I think it&#x27;s just a pointless overhead over Mysql. On the other hand, if anybody can run miners, I don&#x27;t comprehend what value that adds, what it means.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Telegram plans multi-billion dollar ICO for chat cryptocurrency</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/telegram-open-network/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>s_dev</author><text>&gt;What&#x27;s the value of the in-app currency being a cryptocurrency<p>In a word -- decentralization -- is the key difference between a virtual currency described by some SQL tables and an API and one described by a blockchain.<p>A gov if it wants can take down a server if it is physically hosted in that country. A blockchain unless you&#x27;ve gargantuan CPU power is nigh on impossible to take down.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Maro</author><text>What&#x27;s the value of the in-app currency being a cryptocurrency (putting aside hype&#x2F;pr), vs calling it a virtual currency, a Mysql database with a API on top?<p>Dropping to a technical level, if the miners are all run by Telegram, then I think it&#x27;s just a pointless overhead over Mysql. On the other hand, if anybody can run miners, I don&#x27;t comprehend what value that adds, what it means.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Telegram plans multi-billion dollar ICO for chat cryptocurrency</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/telegram-open-network/</url></story> |
31,391,132 | 31,390,152 | 1 | 2 | 31,388,163 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>driverdan</author><text>&gt; How can we get companies to respect their users?<p>Stop buying their broken products.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mleonhard</author><text>When I receive a call, my Bose SoundSport headphones randomly ring at max volume, with audible clipping. This happens when the iOS ring volume slider is set to the middle and hearing protection is enabled at 75dB. The sound is shockingly loud, especially when listening to an audio book at low volume. There was a multi-year megathread about it on the Bose forums before the company removed the forums entirely.<p>I chatted with five different Bose Support staff and they all refused to file a bug report. They are happy to send me a third pair with the same problem.<p>How can we get companies to respect their users?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jabra denies support for Elite 85t Bluetooth earbuds on computers</title><text>I purchased Jabra 85t bluetooth earbuds a 2 months ago.
After updating Macos to Monterey, the mic drops after a random amount of time on Google Hangout and sometimes Slack, in the span of 20 minutes.<p>This is not an isolated case, users have been complaining about it.
For instance on Reddit:
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Jabra&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qjwxdu&#x2F;muting_during_slackzoom_calls_on_mac_elite_85t&#x2F;<p>On this post, official Jabra Support declares: &quot;We do not support the use of the Jabra Elite 85t on computers&quot;
I also reached out to their support per email, and after a few back and forth and reaching their Lead, the answer is the same.
They won&#x27;t provide a refund nor solutions.<p>This limitation isn&#x27;t advertised on the official Amazon offer nor on their official website.
Amazon: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Jabra-Wireless-Bluetooth-Earbuds-Titanium&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B08HR78C46&#x2F;
Official website: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jabra.com&#x2F;bluetooth-headsets&#x2F;jabra-elite-85t<p>In the absence of advertised limitation, shouldn&#x27;t the mic work (without dropping) with every device supporting the adequate BT profiles?
How is a user supposed to know they don&#x27;t support computers?</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>nyanpasu64</author><text>Ouch. I&#x27;m not sure if this fixes your problem, but on Android I like to enable developer options and disable absolute volume to decouple the phone and speaker&#x2F;headphone volumes, so I can use the device itself to turn down the peak volume (and hopefully noise floor) no matter how loud of a sound the phone tries to output. This might help ringtones, but probably not sounds generated by the headphones. Unfortunately this doesn&#x27;t seem to be exposed by Apple for iPhones.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mleonhard</author><text>When I receive a call, my Bose SoundSport headphones randomly ring at max volume, with audible clipping. This happens when the iOS ring volume slider is set to the middle and hearing protection is enabled at 75dB. The sound is shockingly loud, especially when listening to an audio book at low volume. There was a multi-year megathread about it on the Bose forums before the company removed the forums entirely.<p>I chatted with five different Bose Support staff and they all refused to file a bug report. They are happy to send me a third pair with the same problem.<p>How can we get companies to respect their users?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jabra denies support for Elite 85t Bluetooth earbuds on computers</title><text>I purchased Jabra 85t bluetooth earbuds a 2 months ago.
After updating Macos to Monterey, the mic drops after a random amount of time on Google Hangout and sometimes Slack, in the span of 20 minutes.<p>This is not an isolated case, users have been complaining about it.
For instance on Reddit:
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Jabra&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qjwxdu&#x2F;muting_during_slackzoom_calls_on_mac_elite_85t&#x2F;<p>On this post, official Jabra Support declares: &quot;We do not support the use of the Jabra Elite 85t on computers&quot;
I also reached out to their support per email, and after a few back and forth and reaching their Lead, the answer is the same.
They won&#x27;t provide a refund nor solutions.<p>This limitation isn&#x27;t advertised on the official Amazon offer nor on their official website.
Amazon: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Jabra-Wireless-Bluetooth-Earbuds-Titanium&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B08HR78C46&#x2F;
Official website: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jabra.com&#x2F;bluetooth-headsets&#x2F;jabra-elite-85t<p>In the absence of advertised limitation, shouldn&#x27;t the mic work (without dropping) with every device supporting the adequate BT profiles?
How is a user supposed to know they don&#x27;t support computers?</text></story> |
24,448,652 | 24,447,467 | 1 | 2 | 24,446,880 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>InTheArena</author><text>I don&#x27;t have a problem with the app store rules, for apps that are in the app store. What i do have a major problem with is the inability to use a third party app store with different rules. Marco is opposed to this - primarily because it offsets the immediate advantage he would get if Apple was forced to abandon IAP, while also making him have to possibly go with multiple app stores - but legally I don&#x27;t think the government can force Apple to set a given rate (they appear to be in line with what Sony and Microsoft get for their hardware, and what Google gets on the app store) or legal terms.<p>The security in iOS is tied to the sandboxing model - not the app store. The app store is there to protect Apple&#x27;s interests. If a customer wants to load a separate app store, thats on them.<p>Apple doesn&#x27;t own the hardware. We do. It should be our choice to open it up to apps and ecosystems (native app stores) that are competitive.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In-App Purchase Rules</title><url>https://marco.org/2020/09/11/app-review-changes</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jamil7</author><text>I hope Apple takes notice of the path their walking down right now. When people like Marco are calling them out on their bullshit it&#x27;s a clear indicator that they&#x27;ve pushed the envelope too far. Alienating 3rd party developers is the same mistake that nearly cost Microsoft everything.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In-App Purchase Rules</title><url>https://marco.org/2020/09/11/app-review-changes</url></story> |
5,121,473 | 5,121,144 | 1 | 3 | 5,120,301 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dxbydt</author><text>Result of artificially constraining an activity by arbitrary parameters can be wildly creative, not to mention hugely lucrative. Think of something like Bollywood - get rid of serious, credibile drama, and replace with mindless 3 hour melodrama with 5 titillating songs per film, your film finds a guaranteed million plus audience, no matter what garbage you churn out:) Intellectual filmmakers in India who fight this market and mindset with "improving content" are very quickly driven to bankruptcy &#38; become Roger Eberts for the local trade publications :))<p>Programming languages are ultimately an exercise in artificially tying up your arms &#38; asking you to type with your left toe. Try coding a naturally recursive catamorphism in a language that doesn't support recursion. Try storing a billion emails under a megabyte with clever supercompact data structures. Try coding functionally in imperative C. All of these things can &#38; have been done. Why do people do these things ? So also Vine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>will_brown</author><text>Ah...the results of the race to be the "Instagram of Video".<p>Vine is no different than any number of recent video sharing apps. Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support. Just like the others Vine will try to convince you that through focus groups they have found "3 second" videos will revolutionize video sharing and discovery, but this is nothing new.<p>Examples:<p>Threadlife: Supports 3 second videos
Viddy: Supports 15 second videos
Animoto: Supports 30 second videos
Klip: Supports 60 second videos<p>now Vine and its 6 second videos.<p>I am left wondering, what problem do all these video sharing apps think they are solving by setting arbitrary video time limits? Short videos might increase likelihood a user will sit through a whole video, but contrary to what these apps want you to believe they are not improving content quality through these arbitrary time limits. Further, time limits do not help users discovery quality content, so what problem have any of these apps solved?<p>The company that is dubbed the "Instagram of video" in the media is going to do the same thing Instagram did, improve content sharing and discovery. Of course, I hope my start up is that company, but even if not I think it is safe to say the company who deserves this title will not get it for setting video time limits as a result of focus groups.<p>Disclosure: I founded my own video sharing website with the goal to address the current problems with video sharing and discovery. I have done this by making Google Earth the UI for discovery of video content.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets</title><url>http://vinepeek.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>pdog</author><text><i>&#62; Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support.</i><p>Imposing arbitrary contraints is very common in poetry, which often requires the writer to use a particular verse form, and other creative endeavors[1]. So even if that's all they do, it could be worthwhile.<p>[1] - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>will_brown</author><text>Ah...the results of the race to be the "Instagram of Video".<p>Vine is no different than any number of recent video sharing apps. Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support. Just like the others Vine will try to convince you that through focus groups they have found "3 second" videos will revolutionize video sharing and discovery, but this is nothing new.<p>Examples:<p>Threadlife: Supports 3 second videos
Viddy: Supports 15 second videos
Animoto: Supports 30 second videos
Klip: Supports 60 second videos<p>now Vine and its 6 second videos.<p>I am left wondering, what problem do all these video sharing apps think they are solving by setting arbitrary video time limits? Short videos might increase likelihood a user will sit through a whole video, but contrary to what these apps want you to believe they are not improving content quality through these arbitrary time limits. Further, time limits do not help users discovery quality content, so what problem have any of these apps solved?<p>The company that is dubbed the "Instagram of video" in the media is going to do the same thing Instagram did, improve content sharing and discovery. Of course, I hope my start up is that company, but even if not I think it is safe to say the company who deserves this title will not get it for setting video time limits as a result of focus groups.<p>Disclosure: I founded my own video sharing website with the goal to address the current problems with video sharing and discovery. I have done this by making Google Earth the UI for discovery of video content.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets</title><url>http://vinepeek.com</url></story> |
40,050,571 | 40,048,158 | 1 | 2 | 40,047,193 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gchamonlive</author><text>The more junk the higher the probabilities of an accident. It doesn&#x27;t have to reach two digits probability for it to start to be a problem. Densely populated areas + high likelihood of space debris could lead to unacceptable risks. Although I agree the actual danger is in the orbits and with deployed satellites.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhhaskin</author><text>You would have to have some pretty bad luck to be hit by space junk like that. Not saying it&#x27;s a good thing or anything, just that the odds are pretty astronomical.</text></item><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; The cylindrical piece of space junk is made of a metallic alloy called Inconel, they added. It weighs 1.6 pounds (0.7 kg) and measures 4 inches (10 centimeters) high by 1.6 inches (4 cm) wide.<p>I’m no rocket scientist, but I’m pretty sure that would kill you if you got hit. Though we’ll have to run a couple more tests to be sure.<p>Home owner says it tore through two floors: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Alejandro0tero&#x2F;status&#x2F;1768729031493427225" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Alejandro0tero&#x2F;status&#x2F;176872903149342722...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Object that slammed into Florida home was space junk for ISS, NASA confirms</title><url>https://www.space.com/object-crash-florida-home-iss-space-junk-nasa-confirms</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bagels</author><text>People have been hit by meteorites (which of course are more plentiful currently):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;smart-news&#x2F;only-person-ever-h" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;smart-news&#x2F;only-person-ever-h</a>...</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhhaskin</author><text>You would have to have some pretty bad luck to be hit by space junk like that. Not saying it&#x27;s a good thing or anything, just that the odds are pretty astronomical.</text></item><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; The cylindrical piece of space junk is made of a metallic alloy called Inconel, they added. It weighs 1.6 pounds (0.7 kg) and measures 4 inches (10 centimeters) high by 1.6 inches (4 cm) wide.<p>I’m no rocket scientist, but I’m pretty sure that would kill you if you got hit. Though we’ll have to run a couple more tests to be sure.<p>Home owner says it tore through two floors: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Alejandro0tero&#x2F;status&#x2F;1768729031493427225" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Alejandro0tero&#x2F;status&#x2F;176872903149342722...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Object that slammed into Florida home was space junk for ISS, NASA confirms</title><url>https://www.space.com/object-crash-florida-home-iss-space-junk-nasa-confirms</url></story> |
7,953,223 | 7,952,046 | 1 | 2 | 7,951,547 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jon-wood</author><text>After spending some time as a contractor doing systems work for a few companies I&#x27;ve stopped ever assigning an internal network to 192.168.0.0, 192.168.1.0, or 10.0.0.0.<p>The number of times I found myself attempting to VPN into a clients network, only to find it conflicted either with my home network, or whatever coffee shop I was sitting in, was ridiculous. Depending how many hosts you need to run on your network there are huge numbers of possible subnets you could use for an internal network - do yourself a favour and keep off the ones set up be default on every router sold.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sliverstorm</author><text>I kind of like having standard private subnets. My router is always 192.168.1.1, or sometimes 10.0.1.1, and so is my friend&#x27;s, my parent&#x27;s, and my grandparent&#x27;s.</text></item><item><author>rdl</author><text>Right, but if everyone used IPv6 there would be no need to use non-routeable private IPs for anything, you could just use non-conflicting IPv6 addresses and not route them.</text></item><item><author>cheald</author><text>I think it has more to do with the fact that there are a standard series of private IP blocks.</text></item><item><author>agwa</author><text>&gt; The main blocker to this easy migration was that Facebook’s private IP space conflicts with that of EC2<p>IPv6 adoption could not happen soon enough.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Migrating From AWS to FB</title><url>http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/89992572022/migrating-aws-fb</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>EvanAnderson</author><text>It creates a lot of pain when you need to connect these networks to each other, though. Admittedly, that&#x27;s probably not a problem for parents, friends, etc.<p>At my Old Job I demanded we keep a &quot;registry&quot; of the RFC1918 address space we allocated to Customers. We never allocated Customers in overlapping address spaces. It made VPN connectivity to Customer A while on-site with Customer B much easier. It also helped out in one case where one Customer acquired another.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sliverstorm</author><text>I kind of like having standard private subnets. My router is always 192.168.1.1, or sometimes 10.0.1.1, and so is my friend&#x27;s, my parent&#x27;s, and my grandparent&#x27;s.</text></item><item><author>rdl</author><text>Right, but if everyone used IPv6 there would be no need to use non-routeable private IPs for anything, you could just use non-conflicting IPv6 addresses and not route them.</text></item><item><author>cheald</author><text>I think it has more to do with the fact that there are a standard series of private IP blocks.</text></item><item><author>agwa</author><text>&gt; The main blocker to this easy migration was that Facebook’s private IP space conflicts with that of EC2<p>IPv6 adoption could not happen soon enough.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Migrating From AWS to FB</title><url>http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/89992572022/migrating-aws-fb</url></story> |
33,907,527 | 33,905,480 | 1 | 2 | 33,904,105 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>luma</author><text>You&#x27;ve thrown out a lot of performance numbers here but most of us aren&#x27;t compliling rust on our routers. Have you stood up iperf to see how fast it routes? The task is harder than you think if you want any features to go with that and there&#x27;s a good reason most vendors (Mikrotik and Ubiquiti included) offload most of the task to silicon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sliken</author><text>Seems like MikroTik and Ubiquiti haven&#x27;t been particularly good on documenting how their routers work, what each process does, and how to debug&#x2F;verify what they are doing. I&#x27;ve been particularly worried about Ubiquiti, since they seem to be ignoring the MIPS based EdgeRouter line. The various consumer NAS vendors have been a nightmare security wise, and it&#x27;s far from clear that the prosumer routers from Ubiquiti and MikroTik are any better.<p>Should it really require reverse engineering to figure out how a Linux box passes packets?<p>I gave up on Ubiquiti and bought a tiny $120 router ($140 with a nice metal case) that&#x27;s a NanoPi R6s. Pretty impressive specifications. 8GB ram, 8 cores (4 fast Ax76 and 4 slow A55s) and no fans. Has 2x2.5GBe and 1x1GBe for networking. I&#x27;ve installed a port of OpenWRT called FriendlyElec and Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. I didn&#x27;t bother cross compiling, it&#x27;s plenty fast for native compiles.<p>I&#x27;ve been impressed so far. It compiles Rust about half as fast as my Quad core Xeon server from years ago, and is <i>SEVEN</i> times faster than a RPi 4 8GB! I have an Apple M1 mini around that manages the same compile in 13 minutes. A nice bonus is neither network or storage is USB attached, unlike the RPi.<p>Burned it in overnight, running all 8 cores flat out, with no problems. Haven&#x27;t decided what to use, maybe shorewall or just raw nftables&#x2F;iptables.<p>Similarly there&#x27;s 4 and 6 port 2.5 Gbe boxes with various N5000 and N6000 celerons at around $200. ServerTheHome has reviewed many of them, they seem to be evolving nicely, better cases, better heat sinks, better 2.5Gbe Intel chips, etc. Run *WRT, pfsense, or whatever else floats your boat. STH even demod running the firewall under proxmox on one of these cheap 4-6 port 2.5GBe widgets. Would be nice to keep your complete config in git or the config management widget of your choice (often Puppet or Ansible).<p>Guess I&#x27;m just getting less trusting in my old age.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS</title><url>https://margin.re/2022/06/pulling-mikrotik-into-the-limelight/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>glogla</author><text>I think building it yourself works well for routers and NASes, but there&#x27;s a gap for WiFi. Lot of the bells and whistles that make modern wifi perform well (beamforming, MIMO, ...) is locked behind proprietary software and your homemade access point will never work all that well.<p>Interestingly, this is also something MikroTik isn&#x27;t very good at - their long-range wifi is nice, but their consumer wifi used to be stuck at 2x2 and basically worse than cheap Asus &quot;wifi router&quot; which is somewhat embarrassing.<p>For switches, if you want <i>fast</i>, for small installation it is hard to beat the Mikrotik 4xSFP+ 10G switch for $150.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sliken</author><text>Seems like MikroTik and Ubiquiti haven&#x27;t been particularly good on documenting how their routers work, what each process does, and how to debug&#x2F;verify what they are doing. I&#x27;ve been particularly worried about Ubiquiti, since they seem to be ignoring the MIPS based EdgeRouter line. The various consumer NAS vendors have been a nightmare security wise, and it&#x27;s far from clear that the prosumer routers from Ubiquiti and MikroTik are any better.<p>Should it really require reverse engineering to figure out how a Linux box passes packets?<p>I gave up on Ubiquiti and bought a tiny $120 router ($140 with a nice metal case) that&#x27;s a NanoPi R6s. Pretty impressive specifications. 8GB ram, 8 cores (4 fast Ax76 and 4 slow A55s) and no fans. Has 2x2.5GBe and 1x1GBe for networking. I&#x27;ve installed a port of OpenWRT called FriendlyElec and Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. I didn&#x27;t bother cross compiling, it&#x27;s plenty fast for native compiles.<p>I&#x27;ve been impressed so far. It compiles Rust about half as fast as my Quad core Xeon server from years ago, and is <i>SEVEN</i> times faster than a RPi 4 8GB! I have an Apple M1 mini around that manages the same compile in 13 minutes. A nice bonus is neither network or storage is USB attached, unlike the RPi.<p>Burned it in overnight, running all 8 cores flat out, with no problems. Haven&#x27;t decided what to use, maybe shorewall or just raw nftables&#x2F;iptables.<p>Similarly there&#x27;s 4 and 6 port 2.5 Gbe boxes with various N5000 and N6000 celerons at around $200. ServerTheHome has reviewed many of them, they seem to be evolving nicely, better cases, better heat sinks, better 2.5Gbe Intel chips, etc. Run *WRT, pfsense, or whatever else floats your boat. STH even demod running the firewall under proxmox on one of these cheap 4-6 port 2.5GBe widgets. Would be nice to keep your complete config in git or the config management widget of your choice (often Puppet or Ansible).<p>Guess I&#x27;m just getting less trusting in my old age.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS</title><url>https://margin.re/2022/06/pulling-mikrotik-into-the-limelight/</url></story> |
5,645,471 | 5,644,067 | 1 | 2 | 5,643,532 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hglaser</author><text>What a predictable top comment for a Hacker News thread. :(<p>A government website showcases a design that is <i>leaps and bounds</i> ahead of <i>any other government site we can think of</i>, and HN's top comment casually dismisses it.<p>To rewrite something you said: "This is the perfect example of everything wrong with [HN comments]."<p>I, for one, am floored that someone in city government was able to rise above the bureaucracy and ship something truly useful and delightful for citizens. I would love nothing more than to meet the people involved and buy them a pint. Well done, guys.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>I applaud the change and thinking outside of the box, but the Manchester City Council website looks like a $45 Wordpress theme off of Themeforest. The slider appears to offer no value to the site other than taking up a massive amount of room without really justifying its existence. I'm not a designer, I'm a developer and I am struggling to understand the reasoning behind that slider.<p>While I agree that the trendy look of the site is better than most Government sites, it tries too hard to the point the change and potential this site could have had is gone. The reason Government websites are usually ugly is not because Government's are afraid of change or can't justify the cash it's because there are content accessibility guidelines to adhere too. And when you've got to make your content accessible to people with disabilities well your options can be somewhat limited (especially colour use).<p>This is the perfect example of everything wrong with modern web design. Instead of thinking, "What can we NOT add to this site design" designers seem to be thinking, "How many full screen images, rounded corners, parallax effects, CSS animations, Javascript effects and large amounts of custom fonts can we cram into this site?"<p>I can foresee a lot of issues for people with eyesight problems on this site, aren't Governments supposed to adhere to WCAG rules and a lot more stricter than non-Government websites do? The images don't even have alt tags on them, Web Developer common sense rule #1 — Always put alt tags on images, especially when they're being used as icons in content sections, wow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Manchester City Council</title><url>http://www.manchester.gov.uk/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>talkingquickly</author><text>I'd agree with you on the slider not being a good use of space. But I'd argue that it does get some other things right which a lot of uk government sites fail on.<p>In particular the simple presentation of the primary services people access with the option to expand out for other less frequently used ones. This is a huge improvement on, for example <a href="http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/home.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/home.htm</a><p>I have to use that site quite regularly and pretty much the only way to get anything is googling site:www.lambeth.gov.uk with the service you're looking for.<p>Agree accessibility could be an issue although looking at the fairly prominent accessibility section at the top of the site, it does look like they've at least considered it. I don't know enough about accessibility to evaluate whether what they've done is sufficient.<p>Perhaps holding this up as how they "should" be designed is a step too far but to me it looks like a step in the right direction.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>I applaud the change and thinking outside of the box, but the Manchester City Council website looks like a $45 Wordpress theme off of Themeforest. The slider appears to offer no value to the site other than taking up a massive amount of room without really justifying its existence. I'm not a designer, I'm a developer and I am struggling to understand the reasoning behind that slider.<p>While I agree that the trendy look of the site is better than most Government sites, it tries too hard to the point the change and potential this site could have had is gone. The reason Government websites are usually ugly is not because Government's are afraid of change or can't justify the cash it's because there are content accessibility guidelines to adhere too. And when you've got to make your content accessible to people with disabilities well your options can be somewhat limited (especially colour use).<p>This is the perfect example of everything wrong with modern web design. Instead of thinking, "What can we NOT add to this site design" designers seem to be thinking, "How many full screen images, rounded corners, parallax effects, CSS animations, Javascript effects and large amounts of custom fonts can we cram into this site?"<p>I can foresee a lot of issues for people with eyesight problems on this site, aren't Governments supposed to adhere to WCAG rules and a lot more stricter than non-Government websites do? The images don't even have alt tags on them, Web Developer common sense rule #1 — Always put alt tags on images, especially when they're being used as icons in content sections, wow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Manchester City Council</title><url>http://www.manchester.gov.uk/</url></story> |
2,115,588 | 2,115,419 | 1 | 2 | 2,115,358 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbk</author><text>So funny to see Zugo around...<p>They've had offered us to bundle their 'nice' toolbar inside the VLC installer so that every install of VLC would have install this thing...<p>And they proposed a very high value for each install...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_3rd_biggest_advertiser_is_a_bing_affilia.php</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JacobAldridge</author><text>I wonder if Bing has seen an uptick in searches for 'why has Google changed colours' and 'why is Google now spelled Bing'?<p>I suspect the mystery of the changed homepage and new toolbar is, to many users, alongside the mystery of why the printer sometimes doesn't work or my cell phone drops out when I'm still in the living room. 'It's technology. It happens. Nothing I can do about it.'<p>Which I guess means Zugo [Edit - actually, Make-my-baby.com] is manipulating the uneducated (in a tech sense). Borderline business behaviour, though a well thought out and executed strategy.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_3rd_biggest_advertiser_is_a_bing_affilia.php</url></story> |
33,582,338 | 33,580,899 | 1 | 3 | 33,579,703 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stevekemp</author><text>For me my reversing started and ending with discovering and documenting the List of Lists:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fd.lod.bz&#x2F;rbil&#x2F;interrup&#x2F;dos_kernel&#x2F;2152.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fd.lod.bz&#x2F;rbil&#x2F;interrup&#x2F;dos_kernel&#x2F;2152.html</a><p>That allowed TSRs to do clever things.<p>I didn&#x27;t use CP&#x2F;M before DOS, but these days I know all about the PSP via writing code for CP&#x2F;M, in Z80. Kinda impressive how long all these backwards compatibility things last.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ksaj</author><text>I studied MS-DOS inside and out (quite literally).<p>One thing that I always thought was interesting was all the stuff that gets packed in the first 100h bytes before a .COM file&#x27;s entry point, called the Program Segment Prefix (PSP). It is why you could simply execute a RET (return) and have it drop back to DOS again. The first bytes of the PSP are a literal INT 20h which is the Drop To DOS interrupt, and a RET with nothing left on the stack will return you to that zero offset, and then Drop to DOS.<p>Probably a bit hacky, but really clever.<p>I wrote my own DOS clone in Assembler, that I called PoverDOS because it was surely going to make me about that much money, and managed to make a boot sector that was far more functional than the one that comes standard with MS and PC DOS. The main thing it did was self-diagnostics to determine if the system had been infected by a boot sector virus. That was quite a feat, but became a moot point once 64 bit computing came about, because the boot sequence also gained a whole lot more space to work in.<p>Don&#x27;t bring it up with me at a party, &#x27;cos all those DOS intricacies are still among my favourite subjects, and 97% of the population probably would not be nearly as enthusiastic. DOS is still the party killer it always was.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Inside Look at MS-DOS – The design decisions behind the popular OS (1983)</title><url>https://patersontech.com/Dos/Byte/InsideDos.htm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zozbot234</author><text>&gt; One thing that I always thought was interesting was all the stuff that gets packed in the first 100h bytes before a .COM file&#x27;s entry point ...<p>AIUI that design was in CP&#x2F;M already, and retained for compatibility.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ksaj</author><text>I studied MS-DOS inside and out (quite literally).<p>One thing that I always thought was interesting was all the stuff that gets packed in the first 100h bytes before a .COM file&#x27;s entry point, called the Program Segment Prefix (PSP). It is why you could simply execute a RET (return) and have it drop back to DOS again. The first bytes of the PSP are a literal INT 20h which is the Drop To DOS interrupt, and a RET with nothing left on the stack will return you to that zero offset, and then Drop to DOS.<p>Probably a bit hacky, but really clever.<p>I wrote my own DOS clone in Assembler, that I called PoverDOS because it was surely going to make me about that much money, and managed to make a boot sector that was far more functional than the one that comes standard with MS and PC DOS. The main thing it did was self-diagnostics to determine if the system had been infected by a boot sector virus. That was quite a feat, but became a moot point once 64 bit computing came about, because the boot sequence also gained a whole lot more space to work in.<p>Don&#x27;t bring it up with me at a party, &#x27;cos all those DOS intricacies are still among my favourite subjects, and 97% of the population probably would not be nearly as enthusiastic. DOS is still the party killer it always was.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Inside Look at MS-DOS – The design decisions behind the popular OS (1983)</title><url>https://patersontech.com/Dos/Byte/InsideDos.htm</url></story> |
7,531,877 | 7,532,081 | 1 | 2 | 7,531,480 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>naterator</author><text>It should be noted that a parallel study[1] at the National Institute for Aging (NIA) found that this was not the case. The authors of this study (UW) claim (as far as I understand) that the NIA study was flawed because both Control and Calorie Restricted (CR) monkeys were fed diets that were both restrictive, and not sufficiently different. There also seem to be some debate about the composition of the diets. The controls in the UW study were allowed to eat as they pleased (i.e. become fatties if they wanted). They claim that if both &quot;modest&quot; or &quot;moderate&quot; CR are equivalent, it would be a very important conclusion. The practical consequence, if true, would be that we wouldn&#x27;t have to starve ourselves too much.<p>Mouse models had suggested years ago that calorie restriction could lead to ~%50 increase in lifetime. However, the problem with mouse studies is that they are pretty different, and also the mice they use are really inbred and perhaps non-ideal examples. The conclusion from the primate studies is really stacking up to be a common sense &quot;eat in moderation, healthy, and you&#x27;ll live at least a little longer, maybe a lot&quot;. Not really groundbreaking stuff, to be honest. And still not conclusive when you consider the resources that went into these studies. This also teaches us nothing about mechanisms, which would be <i>really</i> useful. Just my cursory assessment so far.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/science/low-calorie-diet-doesnt-prolong-life-study-of-monkeys-finds.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;30&#x2F;science&#x2F;low-calorie-diet-d...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Caloric restriction reduces age-related and all-cause mortality in rhesus monkeys</title><url>http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140401/ncomms4557/full/ncomms4557.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>jasonkolb</author><text>Caloric restriction is absolutely fascinating in all forms. I think intermittent fasting might be the best-known variant of this, but there are others. All of them cause dramatic changes in the way bodies function, from changing the hormones secreted to changing the form of fuel it uses to run itself (e.g. ketones in low-carb diets instead of glucose).<p>Caloric restriction has a whole bunch of knock-on effects, any one of which could have a huge impact on health and aging. For example, restricting calories means that you&#x27;re restricting protein. Most people think of protein as a good thing, but that&#x27;s what stimulates the hormone IGF-1 to be secreted, which is necessary for growth of all kinds--muscle growth (which is why bodybuilders eat as much protein as possible), but also including cancer.<p>I&#x27;ve seen research that suggests that cells don&#x27;t go into &quot;repair mode&quot; in the presence of IGF-1. This is just one example of a possible mechanism that caloric restriction could have a hugely beneficial effect on aging and illness in general.<p>I have a half-written blog post about this I should push out. I&#x27;d love to get some more conversation going around this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Caloric restriction reduces age-related and all-cause mortality in rhesus monkeys</title><url>http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140401/ncomms4557/full/ncomms4557.html</url></story> |
21,279,718 | 21,279,836 | 1 | 3 | 21,276,984 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>inopinatus</author><text>I think this mocking of their intention and problem statements is misplaced.<p>&gt; So your model used a many-to-one relationship when you really wanted a many-to-many?<p>In many schema discussions you’d be right, but in the case of payments systems it’s not the case. Payments and payouts are separate transactions and only loosely related. The allocation of credit from one leads to an increment in the settlement of the other, but there’s no structural relationship in the journal itself.<p>&gt; Preventing inconsistencies by enforcing constraints is a key point of an RDBMS. This is literally why people use SQL DBs<p>The inconsistencies in question relate to the domain model of accounting, not referential integrity or other (normally) easily enforced database invariants.<p>&gt; You mean, like a NOT NULL constraint? Or, if you mean zeroed out, an appropriate constraint and&#x2F;or before update trigger protecting the amount?<p>When you want to archive off aged records, or constrain across db shards, this is a serious issue. Taking the piss doesn’t make it go away. But in that particular paragraph I believe they’re referring to the payout itself become void e.g. due to a reversal, and having designed around similar issues I understand their concern. It’s exactly where single-column ledgers become a huge pain in the audit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>This looks good but some of the background has the air of the kind of artificial problems presented in late night infomercials:<p>&gt; It’s impossible to split a single payment into multiple payouts, since there is a many-to-one relationship of payments to payouts.<p>So your model used a many-to-one relationship when you really wanted a many-to-many?<p>&gt; Since this is just a SQL database, there’s nothing preventing the payouts from becoming inconsistent.<p>Preventing inconsistencies by enforcing constraints is a key point of an RDBMS. This is literally why people use SQL DBs.<p>&gt; The payout_id can be ensured to be a valid foreign key, but nothing is stopping it from being nulled out.<p>You mean, like a NOT NULL constraint? Or, if you mean <i>zeroed</i> out, an appropriate constraint and&#x2F;or before update trigger protecting the amount?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service</title><url>https://developer.squareup.com/blog/books-an-immutable-double-entry-accounting-database-service/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elvinyung</author><text>(Disclaimer: I work at Square, but not on Books.)<p>&gt;Preventing inconsistencies by enforcing constraints is a key point of an RDBMS. This is literally why people use SQL DBs.<p>This comment is not specific or related to the work at hand, but note that this is only true for a single-machine database or a sharded setup in which you never have to perform transactions across shards. That is, the ACID guarantees are only enforceable in most RDBMS if all your data is on the same machine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>This looks good but some of the background has the air of the kind of artificial problems presented in late night infomercials:<p>&gt; It’s impossible to split a single payment into multiple payouts, since there is a many-to-one relationship of payments to payouts.<p>So your model used a many-to-one relationship when you really wanted a many-to-many?<p>&gt; Since this is just a SQL database, there’s nothing preventing the payouts from becoming inconsistent.<p>Preventing inconsistencies by enforcing constraints is a key point of an RDBMS. This is literally why people use SQL DBs.<p>&gt; The payout_id can be ensured to be a valid foreign key, but nothing is stopping it from being nulled out.<p>You mean, like a NOT NULL constraint? Or, if you mean <i>zeroed</i> out, an appropriate constraint and&#x2F;or before update trigger protecting the amount?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service</title><url>https://developer.squareup.com/blog/books-an-immutable-double-entry-accounting-database-service/</url></story> |
26,169,877 | 26,165,421 | 1 | 3 | 26,163,346 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>That&#x27;s not really an argument against paper catalogs specifically, it looks more like an argument against consumerism in general.<p>But taken to the logical conclusion, that argument can look rather hypocritical, for example why is the discussion about paper vs electronic catalogs for buying furniture and not about why we even need beds and chairs to begin with, while people in japan are fine w&#x2F; futons[0] and kotatsu[1]?<p>One can take the argument to extremes and argue that amazonian forests burning in Brazil are partly due to you and I existing and needing to eat and wanting to have kids who need to be fed.<p>It&#x27;s clearly a slippery slope, and if one draws the moral line to make others bad, while conveniently claiming to be &quot;kosher&quot; themselves, that&#x27;s not really a convincing line.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Futon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Futon</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kotatsu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kotatsu</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Well, that covers the paper, for the most part. Thanks for explaining that.<p>Now, let&#x27;s talk about the other components:<p>the ink (petrochemicals, for the most part)<p>the production, transportation, and containers for the ink<p>the runoff into our biosphere from the ink production<p>the transportation of the paper to the printing facility<p>the binding (glue)<p>the transportation of the catalogs to the stores<p>the plastic wrap and other packaging for the catalogs<p>the labor put into it (perhaps those people could be paid to rest instead? probably better for everyone all-around)<p>Did I miss anything?<p>How many dead, displaced, or injured animals do you think that is per catalog? How many humans harmed by exposure to manufactured poison? How many gallons of diesel extracted, transported, refined, transported again, and burned? How many dozen pieces of trucks, trains, and container ships mined, produced, and worn down? Is it still better than viewing the same catalogs online on an already existing computer screen?<p>Every single artefact produced by our system has a similar footprint. It&#x27;s not just money cost. And I think it&#x27;s worth considering.</text></item><item><author>hef19898</author><text>There is a ton of misconceptions out there about paper. Not saying using less isn&#x27;t a good thing, so.<p>Most paper uses a very decent amount of recycled paper, has ti actually. To the point the industry faced issues last Q1 when demand went down and there wasn&#x27;t enough recycled paper on the market. Trees are grown explicitly for paper production, and are regrown in the same forests. Net forest losses are mainly due to farming, e.g. in the Amazon region. Energy wise, paper production offers great opportunities to balance the grid.<p>Most paper, at least in Europe, is actually recycled.<p>And electronics do have there issues as well. They consume raw earthes, are consumed as well, end up in land fills and also have quite extensive supply chains and CO2 foot prints. And they consume electricity, which has to produced. And we are nowhere near the necessary levels of renewables.<p>I do support getting rid of useless paper consumption, it just not as straight forward as it seems.</text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Good riddance, in my opinion. 40 million copies of a thick catalog with glossy pages means a couple shittons of not just trees but petroleum and petrochemicals for production, distribution, and disposal. Every year! And ten years ago, it was nearly 200. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;rHAhG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;rHAhG</a><p>Can you even imagine a stack of one million catalogs?<p>That&#x27;s space, trees, plants, mammals, birds, insects, mushrooms, ... all being squeezed for a glossy catalog, most of which will get thumbed through once or twice and sent to the landfill to rot.<p>These catalogs do not biodegrade well, by the way, because they&#x27;re not just paper.<p>I love paper books, and I enjoyed browsing this catalog just like many others in this thread, and yet I don&#x27;t think I will miss this one. Hopefully, other thick glossy catalogs will follow suit.<p>Production of catalogs like this squeezes our biome, and if we don&#x27;t turn back, it will pop, and we&#x27;ll be left with only enough resources for a small fraction of us to survive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run</title><url>https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/ikea-catalog-to-be-discontinued</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>&gt; Did I miss anything?<p>You missed coatings, which can include minerals or plastics. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Coated_paper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Coated_paper</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Well, that covers the paper, for the most part. Thanks for explaining that.<p>Now, let&#x27;s talk about the other components:<p>the ink (petrochemicals, for the most part)<p>the production, transportation, and containers for the ink<p>the runoff into our biosphere from the ink production<p>the transportation of the paper to the printing facility<p>the binding (glue)<p>the transportation of the catalogs to the stores<p>the plastic wrap and other packaging for the catalogs<p>the labor put into it (perhaps those people could be paid to rest instead? probably better for everyone all-around)<p>Did I miss anything?<p>How many dead, displaced, or injured animals do you think that is per catalog? How many humans harmed by exposure to manufactured poison? How many gallons of diesel extracted, transported, refined, transported again, and burned? How many dozen pieces of trucks, trains, and container ships mined, produced, and worn down? Is it still better than viewing the same catalogs online on an already existing computer screen?<p>Every single artefact produced by our system has a similar footprint. It&#x27;s not just money cost. And I think it&#x27;s worth considering.</text></item><item><author>hef19898</author><text>There is a ton of misconceptions out there about paper. Not saying using less isn&#x27;t a good thing, so.<p>Most paper uses a very decent amount of recycled paper, has ti actually. To the point the industry faced issues last Q1 when demand went down and there wasn&#x27;t enough recycled paper on the market. Trees are grown explicitly for paper production, and are regrown in the same forests. Net forest losses are mainly due to farming, e.g. in the Amazon region. Energy wise, paper production offers great opportunities to balance the grid.<p>Most paper, at least in Europe, is actually recycled.<p>And electronics do have there issues as well. They consume raw earthes, are consumed as well, end up in land fills and also have quite extensive supply chains and CO2 foot prints. And they consume electricity, which has to produced. And we are nowhere near the necessary levels of renewables.<p>I do support getting rid of useless paper consumption, it just not as straight forward as it seems.</text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Good riddance, in my opinion. 40 million copies of a thick catalog with glossy pages means a couple shittons of not just trees but petroleum and petrochemicals for production, distribution, and disposal. Every year! And ten years ago, it was nearly 200. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;rHAhG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;rHAhG</a><p>Can you even imagine a stack of one million catalogs?<p>That&#x27;s space, trees, plants, mammals, birds, insects, mushrooms, ... all being squeezed for a glossy catalog, most of which will get thumbed through once or twice and sent to the landfill to rot.<p>These catalogs do not biodegrade well, by the way, because they&#x27;re not just paper.<p>I love paper books, and I enjoyed browsing this catalog just like many others in this thread, and yet I don&#x27;t think I will miss this one. Hopefully, other thick glossy catalogs will follow suit.<p>Production of catalogs like this squeezes our biome, and if we don&#x27;t turn back, it will pop, and we&#x27;ll be left with only enough resources for a small fraction of us to survive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run</title><url>https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/ikea-catalog-to-be-discontinued</url></story> |
4,586,148 | 4,585,535 | 1 | 2 | 4,585,043 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blauwbilgorgel</author><text>If the user had linked to a torrent hosted on its own domain, and the Adsense user got banned for it, then I'd call it an absurd outcome. Now I see a user who probably didn't read/understand/or forgot the Adsense policy. This was no false positive, if you follow the letter:<p><pre><code> AdSense program policies
Publishers may not place AdSense code on pages with content
that violates any of our content guidelines.
Sites with Google ads may not include or link to:
- Hacking/cracking content
- Any other content that is illegal, promotes illegal
activity or infringes on the legal rights of others
</code></pre>
Linking to The Pirate Bay or Demonoid could be in violation of above, regardless of whether you wrote the book or not.<p>I wonder if the same holds for organic search and that it could hurt your rankings. If Google deemed The Pirate Bay a "bad neighborhood", their Webmaster Guidelines seem to say so:<p><pre><code> Linking schemes can be:
- Links to web spammers or bad neighborhoods on the web
</code></pre>
I don't expect Google to follow my links to a shady domain, check if the torrent is a lone non-infringing Linux distro, or one of the many other infringing torrents on The Pirate Bay. That might be possible though.<p>EDIT: <a href="http://python-ebook.blogspot.nl/" rel="nofollow">http://python-ebook.blogspot.nl/</a> if the links appeared in the sidebar, like the new link to a self-hosted torrent, it meant that two links to a bad neighborhood were on every page of that website, not just a lone link.<p><pre><code> "Why? Because they claimed he was distributing copyrighted
content illegally." - Techdirt
</code></pre>
But quoted just below is the Google email with the claim:<p><pre><code> "Violation explanation
... as well as providing links for ... sites that contain
copyrighted material."
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Perhaps the wording could use some fine-tuning (sites that contain copyright-<i>infringing</i> material) and match the specific violation more closely. But is this Google failing to communicate? Or an Adsense user failing to follow the rules and failing to understand the, still pretty clear, feedback. At least I find the title "Google disables AdSense account of user for sharing free book via torrent" not factually true and rather sensationalist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mcherm</author><text>This again points out the REAL problem with customer relations that companies like Google have. I would have no objection if Google banned him, then he appealed, explaining the situation, and they reinstated him. But since Google fails to provide a WAY to communicate to a human and appeal a situation, it leads to absurd outcomes like this one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google disables AdSense account of user for sharing free book via torrent</title><url>http://www.geekosystem.com/google-aggressive-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>libria</author><text>Thankfully, the Hacker News front page doubles as a Google Customer Service Department quite well. We recommend you use inflammatory titles to expedite your case.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mcherm</author><text>This again points out the REAL problem with customer relations that companies like Google have. I would have no objection if Google banned him, then he appealed, explaining the situation, and they reinstated him. But since Google fails to provide a WAY to communicate to a human and appeal a situation, it leads to absurd outcomes like this one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google disables AdSense account of user for sharing free book via torrent</title><url>http://www.geekosystem.com/google-aggressive-ads/</url></story> |
17,915,079 | 17,913,519 | 1 | 3 | 17,908,212 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dillondoyle</author><text>I work in digital D politics professionally. I can&#x27;t tell you how many Congressman use multiple @yahoo or whatever personal email accounts, social, and wordpress accounts with very guessable and repeated passwords. Even the young &#x27;savvy&#x27; ones.<p>And I know this because the creds are shared in plain text with multiple people over email (like me) or put into a shared google doc.<p>We enforce 2fa for our consultancy staff. I would love to enforce it for campaigns but I can guarantee endless problems and troubleshooting especially needy candidates calling because they can&#x27;t figure out how to get their email.<p>Another big problem is shitty wordpress sites filled with plugins. Literally I see $10k sites (FEC reports!) designed using a $100 paid drag and drop theme with even more plugins thrown on top. It&#x27;s a big pet peeve of mine and when I can I move clients to a static plain html site hosted on s3 or similar.<p>My big concern here is if you have write access to wordpress I could see a scenario where you could upload say verification-hash.html and then reclaim ownership of a domain or regain access to email. Or perhaps some turst attack domain.com&#x2F;my-innocent-file-has-virus.file<p>The main D voter file GUI (votebuilder) which all campaigns use to contact voters and work with voterfile data does have 2fa but it&#x27;s still only SMS. This is my real name so I don&#x27;t want to throw too much public shade, but let&#x27;s just say when I have to work with campaign data stored in van first thing I do is export out.<p>ActBlue which is increasingly the monopoly online fundraising app in my experience has good engineering and for me personally they are the only &#x27;tech&#x27; provider for Dems that I jive with (don&#x27;t get me started on NGPVAN or maybe do, but over PM). AB has 2fa token support, though they should make it mandatory given that if you have AB login access you can do a lot of damage (I&#x27;ve actually had this conversation with them about campaign provided js that shows up on donate pages, putting on separate cookie domain, iframe etc).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Email security on Democratic campaigns is as bad as 2016</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/04/im-teaching-email-security-democratic-campaigns-its-bad/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matt4077</author><text>Note the plural: <i>campaigns</i>, hinting at the explanation: There are many campaigns, and they operate entirely independent from each other, at least when it comes to technology infrastructure.<p>The reason for that is something that HN would usually respect, namely the attempt to keep ownership of information. So of course the old discussion about cloud services is being replayed here: &quot;Why would you trust Google?&quot; &#x2F; &quot;Why do you think my small company has better security than Google&quot; &#x2F; ...<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure their next presidential candidate will activate 2-factor authentication etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Email security on Democratic campaigns is as bad as 2016</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/04/im-teaching-email-security-democratic-campaigns-its-bad/</url></story> |
28,932,564 | 28,932,711 | 1 | 2 | 28,905,182 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Perhaps we need a Mohs scale for sci-fi hardness then.<p>TBP and the rest of the trilogy aren&#x27;t <i>hard</i> in terms of fully valid science, or even in terms of Atomic Rocket&#x27;s[0] rule of &quot;one scientifically implausible item per story&quot;. But they aren&#x27;t soft either, not like (say) Star Trek. It&#x27;s something in between.<p>--<p>[0] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectrho.com&#x2F;public_html&#x2F;rocket&#x2F;sealofapproval.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectrho.com&#x2F;public_html&#x2F;rocket&#x2F;sealofapproval....</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>schwartzworld</author><text>Sure.<p>Just like harry potter explores what happens if you have a cloak of deception or time turner. What would happen if Dementors invaded Hogwarts? Forgive me, I haven&#x27;t actually read the whole series.<p>I&#x27;ve never heard a definition of hard SF that didn&#x27;t require some effort to make the science part sound plausible. It&#x27;s one thing to not hold up to the scrutiny of experts, but there were a number of times I looked up from TBP and thought &quot;that sounds wrong&quot;.<p>If TBP is hard scifi than so is How To Train Your Dragon.</text></item><item><author>lazyweb</author><text>People have different opinions. I think the label &quot;hard sc-fi&quot; is too fuzzy with everyone having their own expectations. Personally I found the books to be immensely entertaining. There&#x27;s a number of very intriguing thought experiments.<p>What happens when a ship is sliced in half by an almost infinitely strong piece of string? What if people were able to enter and move around in 4-dimensional space, or if 3D space suddenly collapsed to 2D? What could happen if the speed of light dropped to 16km&#x2F;s?</text></item><item><author>schwartzworld</author><text>The Three Body Problem should be retitled. Here are some ideas:<p>- Nothin&#x27; But Plot Holes<p>- Attack of the Flat, Interchangable Characters<p>- the Four Body Problem (since the trilsolarans don&#x27;t actually live in a 3-body system<p>I&#x27;m convinced that the only way to like that book is to have never read real SF before. It&#x27;s so hackneyed and tropey. People call it hard sf, but it&#x27;s the opposite.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/writer-liu-cixin-on-how-his-visions-of-the-future-collide-with-reality-11633446000</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>most &#x27;hard science fiction&#x27; is essentially high concept fiction or science fiction that adopts a sociological frame. It is, and never really as been, about &#x27;plausible science&#x27;.<p>just take the posterboy of American hard SF, Arthur C. Clarke. (whose writing resembles Liu Cixin a lot). A lot of his stuff is straight up fantastical or cosmic. Childhood&#x27;s end for example (sort of TBP like) or The City and the Stars. The science in either one isn&#x27;t really plausible. Hard science fiction was always distinguished by ditching characters and traditional adventure or hero narratives for ideas. It was never about writing a physics PhD thesis.</text><parent_chain><item><author>schwartzworld</author><text>Sure.<p>Just like harry potter explores what happens if you have a cloak of deception or time turner. What would happen if Dementors invaded Hogwarts? Forgive me, I haven&#x27;t actually read the whole series.<p>I&#x27;ve never heard a definition of hard SF that didn&#x27;t require some effort to make the science part sound plausible. It&#x27;s one thing to not hold up to the scrutiny of experts, but there were a number of times I looked up from TBP and thought &quot;that sounds wrong&quot;.<p>If TBP is hard scifi than so is How To Train Your Dragon.</text></item><item><author>lazyweb</author><text>People have different opinions. I think the label &quot;hard sc-fi&quot; is too fuzzy with everyone having their own expectations. Personally I found the books to be immensely entertaining. There&#x27;s a number of very intriguing thought experiments.<p>What happens when a ship is sliced in half by an almost infinitely strong piece of string? What if people were able to enter and move around in 4-dimensional space, or if 3D space suddenly collapsed to 2D? What could happen if the speed of light dropped to 16km&#x2F;s?</text></item><item><author>schwartzworld</author><text>The Three Body Problem should be retitled. Here are some ideas:<p>- Nothin&#x27; But Plot Holes<p>- Attack of the Flat, Interchangable Characters<p>- the Four Body Problem (since the trilsolarans don&#x27;t actually live in a 3-body system<p>I&#x27;m convinced that the only way to like that book is to have never read real SF before. It&#x27;s so hackneyed and tropey. People call it hard sf, but it&#x27;s the opposite.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/writer-liu-cixin-on-how-his-visions-of-the-future-collide-with-reality-11633446000</url></story> |
4,733,276 | 4,732,697 | 1 | 2 | 4,731,356 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Matt_Cutts</author><text>Hi there, allow me to correct this misconception. I've debunked that idea often enough that I wrote a blog post about this four years ago: <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/toolbar-indexing-debunk-post/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/toolbar-indexing-debunk-post/</a> I wrote an earlier debunk post in 2006 too: <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/debunking-toolbar-doesnt-lead-to-page-being-indexed/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/debunking-toolbar-doesnt-lead-...</a><p>I noticed a new twist in your post though: you're saying that because of Safe Browsing (which checks for e.g. malware as users surf the web), those urls are sent to Google. The way that Chrome and Firefox actually do Safe Browsing is that they download an encrypted blob which allows the browser to do a lookup for dangerous urls on the client side--not by sending any urls to Google. I believe that if there's a match in the client-side encrypted table, only then does the browser send the now-suspect url to Google for checking.<p>Here's more info: <a href="https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/</a> I believe the correct mental model of the Safe Browsing API in browsers is "Download a hash table of believed-to-be-dangerous urls. As you surf, check against that local hash table. If you find a match/collision, then the user might be about to land on a bad url, so check for more info at that point."<p>Hope that helps. Further down in the discussion, someone posted this helpful link with more explanation: <a href="http://blog.alexyakunin.com/2010/03/nice-bloom-filter-application.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.alexyakunin.com/2010/03/nice-bloom-filter-applic...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lazyjones</author><text>The URLs don't need to be posted online. Some browsers (Chrome, possibly Firefox with Safe Browsing mode, very likely any browser with a Google Toolbar installed) send visited URLs to Google and they will be indexed. I don't know if this is officially documented by Google, but several people have reported seeing this while testing new/beta websites that weren't published or linked anywhere.</text></item><item><author>mkjones</author><text>My name is Matt Jones, and I work on the Facbook security team that looked into this tonight. We only send these URLs to the email address of the account owner for their ease of use and never make them publicly available. Even then we put protection in place to reduce the likelihood that anyone else could click through to the account.<p>For a search engine to come across these links, the content of the emails would need to have been posted online (e.g. via throwaway email sites, as someone pointed out - or people whose email addresses go to email lists with online archives).<p>As jpadvo surmised, the nonces expire after a period of time. They also only work for certain users, and even then we run additional security checks to make sure it looks like the account owner who's logging in. Regardless, due to some of these links being disclosed, we've turned the feature off until we can better ensure its security for users whose email contents are publicly visible. We are also securing the accounts of anyone who recently logged in through this flow.<p>In the future if you run into something that looks like a security problem with Facebook, feel free to disclose it responsibly through our whitehat program: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/whitehat" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/whitehat</a>. That way, in addition to making some money, you can avoid a bunch of script kiddies exploiting whatever the issue is that you've found.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed </title><url>https://www.google.com/search?q=bcode%3D&oq=bcode%3D&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=inurl:bcode%3D%5B*%5D%2Bn_m%3D%5B*%5D+site:facebook.com&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&filter=0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=8c0bb27d33614e56&bpcl=37189454&biw=1560&bih=698</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>franze</author><text>an old meme, and my usual recommendation: just test it: create a page that i not linked from anywhere. visit it with the browsers mentioned above. watch the logfiles. wait for it. nope, no googlebot request. it is unbelievable easy to test, i have done so on various occasions in the past, so there is no need for you to spread a "several people have reported" rumor. just ... test ... it.<p>as for the old stories, that google does this kind of thing: people, especially SEOs or people who think they know SEO, always blame google. oh, my beta.site has been indexed, it must be because of ... google is evil.<p>most of the times i have seen cases where googlebot found a not published yet site it was because of (just some examples, not a complete list) i.e.:<p>* turned on error reporting (most of the PHP sites)
* the URLs were already used in some javascript
* server side analytics software, open to the public
* apaches shows file/order structure
* indexable logfiles
* people linked to the site
* somebody tweeted about it
* site was covered on techcrunch (yes, really)
* all visited URLs in the network were tracked by a firewall, the firewall published a log on an internal server, the internal server was reachable from the outside
* internal wiki is indexable
* intranet is indexable
* concept paper is indexable<p>testing your hypothesis "chrome/google toolbar/... push URLs into the googlebot discovery queue, which leads to googlebot visits" is easily testable. no need to spread rumors. setup for testing this: make an html-page (30 seconds max, basically ssh to your server, create a file, write some html), tail &#38; grep logfiles (30 sec max), wait (forever)</text><parent_chain><item><author>lazyjones</author><text>The URLs don't need to be posted online. Some browsers (Chrome, possibly Firefox with Safe Browsing mode, very likely any browser with a Google Toolbar installed) send visited URLs to Google and they will be indexed. I don't know if this is officially documented by Google, but several people have reported seeing this while testing new/beta websites that weren't published or linked anywhere.</text></item><item><author>mkjones</author><text>My name is Matt Jones, and I work on the Facbook security team that looked into this tonight. We only send these URLs to the email address of the account owner for their ease of use and never make them publicly available. Even then we put protection in place to reduce the likelihood that anyone else could click through to the account.<p>For a search engine to come across these links, the content of the emails would need to have been posted online (e.g. via throwaway email sites, as someone pointed out - or people whose email addresses go to email lists with online archives).<p>As jpadvo surmised, the nonces expire after a period of time. They also only work for certain users, and even then we run additional security checks to make sure it looks like the account owner who's logging in. Regardless, due to some of these links being disclosed, we've turned the feature off until we can better ensure its security for users whose email contents are publicly visible. We are also securing the accounts of anyone who recently logged in through this flow.<p>In the future if you run into something that looks like a security problem with Facebook, feel free to disclose it responsibly through our whitehat program: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/whitehat" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/whitehat</a>. That way, in addition to making some money, you can avoid a bunch of script kiddies exploiting whatever the issue is that you've found.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed </title><url>https://www.google.com/search?q=bcode%3D&oq=bcode%3D&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=inurl:bcode%3D%5B*%5D%2Bn_m%3D%5B*%5D+site:facebook.com&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&filter=0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=8c0bb27d33614e56&bpcl=37189454&biw=1560&bih=698</url></story> |
12,874,063 | 12,874,138 | 1 | 2 | 12,867,991 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Analemma_</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s based on information. As such, your opinion is objectively wrong.<p>Hang on, I&#x27;m not making the claim you think I&#x27;m making. Pinker observes that the level of violence in society is at an all-time low- that is, as you say, an objective fact beyond dispute (modulo measurement error). But there is a clear implied claim there that this fact means pessimism for the future is unwarranted. <i>That</i> is what I am disputing, because I think trends and incentives are more important than current numbers (think about how a company&#x27;s share price can fall even if they have a great quarter, if investors don&#x27;t think its future prospects are great)<p>I also dispute your claim that _every_ metric shows things are getting better. Some are, especially in areas like health and lifespan, but others (income inequality, social cohesion, faith in democracy, etc.) are not. There are legitimate grounds for disagreement as to which metrics are more important to the question of &quot;should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the future&quot;, and maybe your opinion differs from mine, but that does not make me objectively wrong.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text><i>we should also carefully note whether we currently appear to be on an upward or downward trajectory (IMO, downward)</i><p>There&#x27;s no interpretative reasoning required when you&#x27;re looking at a graph of the level of violence in society - it can be, and is, something that we can measure. You don&#x27;t need an opinion about it. There&#x27;s nothing subjective to think about and decide on. It&#x27;s based on information. As such, your opinion is <i>objectively</i> wrong. There is a wealth of evidence about how bad things have been over the past 200 years or so, and every metric shows that things are getting better. The only way to make the numbers look like things are getting worse is to cherry pick a short window - for example, you can show violent crime rose in the first decade of the 21st century, but it fell for the previous 5 decades to that, so things are still better now.</text></item><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>The whole &quot;better angels of our nature&quot; optimism thing kind of seems like sticking your head in the sand to me. Of course we should have a sense of perspective about how bad things are currently (which seems to be what Pinker is saying), but we should also carefully note whether we currently appear to be on an upward or downward trajectory (IMO, downward), and more importantly, whether there are any forces or incentives on the horizon that might reverse the trend (IMO, no).<p>Better futures have to be consciously fought for. We can&#x27;t really rely anymore on the &quot;End of History&quot; theory that the arrow of time inevitably points toward peaceful liberal democracy. Even Fukuyama was iffy about that as he admitted in a WSJ interview in 2014, and things have only gotten dicier since. My current pessimism about the future is not a function of how bad things currently are-- it has definitely been much worse-- but that all the incentives are aligned toward making it worse and I don&#x27;t see many people or forces aligned toward making it better. Pinker ignores that to his detriment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence</title><url>https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/steven-pinker-language-instinct-evolutionary-psychology-darwin-chomsky-linguistics-b792d7cd2a05#.pr8d00o74</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lsd5you</author><text>Sorry but this is arrogant (and condescending) hubris and is wilfully misintepreting the gp comment.<p>Firstly there is no single bias free set of figures. Information has been thrown away and distorted to produce a single line, without error bars. (Even error bars themselves suffer from the same issue)<p>Then what you describe sounds like overfitting. You cannot just discard a change in a trend out of hand. It may be a blip or it may not be.<p>Worst of all though is that graphs of complex systems do not contain all the information (obviously) about the future direction of that particular graph. It may be better to distrust other information sometimes, but thoughtful and cautious thinkers should be encouraged to be skeptical.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text><i>we should also carefully note whether we currently appear to be on an upward or downward trajectory (IMO, downward)</i><p>There&#x27;s no interpretative reasoning required when you&#x27;re looking at a graph of the level of violence in society - it can be, and is, something that we can measure. You don&#x27;t need an opinion about it. There&#x27;s nothing subjective to think about and decide on. It&#x27;s based on information. As such, your opinion is <i>objectively</i> wrong. There is a wealth of evidence about how bad things have been over the past 200 years or so, and every metric shows that things are getting better. The only way to make the numbers look like things are getting worse is to cherry pick a short window - for example, you can show violent crime rose in the first decade of the 21st century, but it fell for the previous 5 decades to that, so things are still better now.</text></item><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>The whole &quot;better angels of our nature&quot; optimism thing kind of seems like sticking your head in the sand to me. Of course we should have a sense of perspective about how bad things are currently (which seems to be what Pinker is saying), but we should also carefully note whether we currently appear to be on an upward or downward trajectory (IMO, downward), and more importantly, whether there are any forces or incentives on the horizon that might reverse the trend (IMO, no).<p>Better futures have to be consciously fought for. We can&#x27;t really rely anymore on the &quot;End of History&quot; theory that the arrow of time inevitably points toward peaceful liberal democracy. Even Fukuyama was iffy about that as he admitted in a WSJ interview in 2014, and things have only gotten dicier since. My current pessimism about the future is not a function of how bad things currently are-- it has definitely been much worse-- but that all the incentives are aligned toward making it worse and I don&#x27;t see many people or forces aligned toward making it better. Pinker ignores that to his detriment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence</title><url>https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/steven-pinker-language-instinct-evolutionary-psychology-darwin-chomsky-linguistics-b792d7cd2a05#.pr8d00o74</url></story> |
3,921,062 | 3,921,093 | 1 | 3 | 3,920,918 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raquo</author><text>You don't need to store the password in plaintext, you can just capture the password from a successful login attempt and generate new acceptable hashes from different variations of it. That way you'd gradually add this feature for most of the active accounts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomkinstinch</author><text>This raises several questions:<p>Have they always done this, or is this new?<p>For those of us who haven't changed our Facebook password in years, does this mean that we don't get this option, or do we? And if we do, is Facebook storing our passwords in plaintext?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Passwords For Your Facebook Account</title><url>http://www.labnol.org/internet/facebook-account-passwords/21241/</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>masterzora</author><text>Rather than asking questions I tried some science. Last time I changed my FB password was roughly 6 months ago and I am only able to get the correct-case password to allow access. I'm not too inclined to spend much more time on this but surely someone who hasn't changed their password in a while can try it out. They can see if the alternate casings work, change their password and see if they work then, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomkinstinch</author><text>This raises several questions:<p>Have they always done this, or is this new?<p>For those of us who haven't changed our Facebook password in years, does this mean that we don't get this option, or do we? And if we do, is Facebook storing our passwords in plaintext?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Passwords For Your Facebook Account</title><url>http://www.labnol.org/internet/facebook-account-passwords/21241/</url><text></text></story> |
28,447,040 | 28,447,197 | 1 | 2 | 28,446,303 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Godel_unicode</author><text>The government is going to have to make an official recommendation for which wallet to use, and from their perspective the risk of promoting an existing wallet whose provenance they don&#x27;t know is pretty high.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aazaa</author><text>&gt; To warm up a skeptical public, Bukele has promised every citizen $30 in bitcoin if they sign up for a government digital wallet. Ahead of the launch, El Salvador bought 400 bitcoins, Bukele said, helping drive the currency price above $52,000 for the first time since May.<p>&gt; In the early hours of Tuesday the wallet had not appeared on Apple Inc., Google and Huawei’s app download platforms, however, prompting a series of tweets from Bukele, including one with a red-faced “angry” emoticon.<p>The involvement of a government-issued wallet gives this story an even stranger dimension. First, it&#x27;s not clear how the government will identify those eligible to receive the $30 bitcoin deposit. Second, why would the government be involved at all in developing a wallet? There are plenty to choose from now, so what features exactly were missing in those? Finally, what government in its right mind would hitch its fortunes to the vagaries of a walled-garden App Store based in the US, a country clearly hostile to the Salvadoran experiment?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/el-salvador-adopts-bitcoin-official-currency-first-country-rcna1910</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nomoreplease</author><text>The most logical reason is that they want to connect the human identity to the wallet&#x2F;address, thereby easily removing anonymity and ensuring the government can monitor their population effectively</text><parent_chain><item><author>aazaa</author><text>&gt; To warm up a skeptical public, Bukele has promised every citizen $30 in bitcoin if they sign up for a government digital wallet. Ahead of the launch, El Salvador bought 400 bitcoins, Bukele said, helping drive the currency price above $52,000 for the first time since May.<p>&gt; In the early hours of Tuesday the wallet had not appeared on Apple Inc., Google and Huawei’s app download platforms, however, prompting a series of tweets from Bukele, including one with a red-faced “angry” emoticon.<p>The involvement of a government-issued wallet gives this story an even stranger dimension. First, it&#x27;s not clear how the government will identify those eligible to receive the $30 bitcoin deposit. Second, why would the government be involved at all in developing a wallet? There are plenty to choose from now, so what features exactly were missing in those? Finally, what government in its right mind would hitch its fortunes to the vagaries of a walled-garden App Store based in the US, a country clearly hostile to the Salvadoran experiment?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/el-salvador-adopts-bitcoin-official-currency-first-country-rcna1910</url></story> |
33,520,428 | 33,519,110 | 1 | 3 | 33,482,042 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joshlemer</author><text>I&#x27;ll also add that the anger of motorists towards cyclists rolling through stop signs is completely irrational when you take into consideration that approximately 100% of motorists also run through almost all stop signs, so long as they aren&#x27;t blocked by an other car.<p>This twitter video exemplifies it pretty well <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;toddnickel&#x2F;status&#x2F;1560358628707618816" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;toddnickel&#x2F;status&#x2F;1560358628707618816</a><p>We just take for granted that cars will blast through stop signs at a pretty high speed (maybe 10 - 20 km&#x2F;h?). But when we see a cyclist do it, for some reason there seems to be some sort of optical or logical illusion that makes it stick out to us more. If you look at the speed these cars are going at, a lot of them are probably actually going at around the full cruising speed of a casual cyclist. So, considering most cyclists would actually slow down somewhat to roll through a stop sign, they&#x27;re probably actually going faster.<p>Oh the Urbanity! Recently had a great episode on this as well <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HT_KdFCVEdc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HT_KdFCVEdc</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>SamBam</author><text>This seems designed to start a bicycle argument.<p>I&#x27;ll go ahead and present the cyclist&#x27;s view, and try not to get flamed:<p>A cyclist&#x27;s head is much closer to the end of their vehicle, and they have a much more unobstructed view around them. By the time they are a few feet from the stop sign, they can already see much further down the street than a driver in a car could. This means it&#x27;s easier to assess safety and make a snap decision to keep going. Coming to a complete stop doesn&#x27;t really add any more safety.<p>Further, while accidents that harm pedestrians do certainly happen, and shouldn&#x27;t be minimized, the vast majority of the time the biggest danger to a cyclist is themselves. Cars kill people every day, so it is reasonable that they be held to a higher standard. If you started out with a bicycle-only intersection with a yield sign, and then started allowing cars through, wouldn&#x27;t you want to increase the safety of that intersection by requiring a stop?<p>As a final thought, most red lights in America could probably be stop signs or yield signs. The UK has been working towards this (with roundabouts too) and in general roads are safer when you require drivers to think and make decisions. I think much of car drivers&#x27; anger towards cyclists treating red lights as stop signs is not so much the safety aspect as a feeling of unfairness that <i>they</i> are stuck at the light while the cyclist checks the road and then bikes through.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Idaho Stop</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>I will make it more technical: a cyclist doesn&#x27;t have an windshield A-pillar blocking part of their view.<p>When two vehicles approach an intersection, if they do so at the same speed (including same variation in speed, like both decelerating), the relative view angle from one vehicle to the other stays the same. It&#x27;s possible for another road user to be entirely hidden behind a driver&#x27;s A pillar during an approach to the intersection. In spite of several glances in that direction, it is possible to fail to spot the other vehicle. A proper stop is the only sure thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SamBam</author><text>This seems designed to start a bicycle argument.<p>I&#x27;ll go ahead and present the cyclist&#x27;s view, and try not to get flamed:<p>A cyclist&#x27;s head is much closer to the end of their vehicle, and they have a much more unobstructed view around them. By the time they are a few feet from the stop sign, they can already see much further down the street than a driver in a car could. This means it&#x27;s easier to assess safety and make a snap decision to keep going. Coming to a complete stop doesn&#x27;t really add any more safety.<p>Further, while accidents that harm pedestrians do certainly happen, and shouldn&#x27;t be minimized, the vast majority of the time the biggest danger to a cyclist is themselves. Cars kill people every day, so it is reasonable that they be held to a higher standard. If you started out with a bicycle-only intersection with a yield sign, and then started allowing cars through, wouldn&#x27;t you want to increase the safety of that intersection by requiring a stop?<p>As a final thought, most red lights in America could probably be stop signs or yield signs. The UK has been working towards this (with roundabouts too) and in general roads are safer when you require drivers to think and make decisions. I think much of car drivers&#x27; anger towards cyclists treating red lights as stop signs is not so much the safety aspect as a feeling of unfairness that <i>they</i> are stuck at the light while the cyclist checks the road and then bikes through.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Idaho Stop</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop</url></story> |
39,933,429 | 39,933,162 | 1 | 2 | 39,932,324 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pkkim</author><text>I want to plug one of her lesser known books, Always Coming Home. It&#x27;s set among a tribe of people living in the Bay Area way, way after some apocalypse has erased the memory of our civilization. Much of the book is reports from an anthropologist studying the people.<p>I think a lot of her books are about how many different ways of life and types of society and culture are possible, and this book is one of her best at bringing you in to another culture.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reading more Ursula Le Guin (2019)</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/7886/ursula-le-guin-carrier-bag-theory</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>goostavos</author><text>How timely. I just finished reading The Word for World is Forest last night.<p>Nobody likes a poo-pooer, but, holy moly, I thought it was unbelievable trash. Are her other books better? This one was &quot;noble savages: the book&quot;. The Creechies can&#x27;t even <i>conceive</i> of inter-species murder until Big Bad Comic Book Evil Guy (who just <i>loves</i> being evil) introduces it. The creechies don&#x27;t know evil. They settle their disputes as all superior noble people would: through <i>art</i>.<p>I probably just got in my own way while reading. There was a lot of &quot;wait.. they&#x27;re sending _wood_ through interstellar space?&quot;. They have an ecology that can support a supply chain that produces food in excess to perform 40+ year round trips through space, but... they can&#x27;t grow a tree? A tomato plant? Sure. A tree? Nah.<p>It might be a good kids book, if not for all the... raping.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reading more Ursula Le Guin (2019)</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/7886/ursula-le-guin-carrier-bag-theory</url></story> |
17,911,538 | 17,910,869 | 1 | 2 | 17,908,691 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trolleyhacker</author><text>As long as web designers and developers continue to target imaginary users or themselves, they&#x27;ll also leave real users wanting more.<p>Great, you&#x27;ve shaved off 150-350ms of refresh load time. So why does your website take 10-15 seconds to load on my phone when I&#x27;m walking about the supermarket?<p>Get out of the lab. Start testing with real users in real contexts. You&#x27;ll quickly learn that many of your assumptions about what users want disappear.</text><parent_chain><item><author>coding123</author><text>There are two different kinds of web development:<p>a) Apps where the user is expected to stay a while<p>b) Sites where the user is there, maybe once ever (most likely also scared off by the ads)<p>For Apps, I would always prefer a pre-load of JS that was built with React and downloads about 2-4 MB. If there is an update I will be forced to download it again.<p>On the UPSHOT, almost everything I do in that app is now a 3-8KB request. This means transitioning pages, changing states of things, all happen in about 50ms including whatever visual changes are required on the screen.<p>Compare that to full-screen refresh apps and I am usually waiting 200-400ms. It just feels too damn slow.<p>Why am I even typing this? This is the freaking whole point of an SPA. Are we not all caught up on this yet?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Conservative web development</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2018/09/04/Conservative-web-development.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>zelon88</author><text>Your math sounds wrong, so I did it on paper and proved that it&#x27;s wrong.<p>The average bandwidth for a mobile device in the USA is about 3.25 mb&#x2F;s (26mbps). So to load your &quot;2-4mb&quot; Javascript library you&#x27;re looking at 400ms to connect + 1000ms to download resources. That&#x27;s 1400ms.<p>Now for the rest of the math I benchmarked my own website. My homepage is ~300kb and loaded in 461ms. The fastest you&#x27;re going to get ANYTHING back from my server is about ~170ms.<p>Lets start with your App. 1,400ms and the app is loaded. Load another page and it takes 200ms to load another 5kb of content. Load one more page and it&#x27;s another 200ms for 5kb of content. I&#x27;ve been waiting on your website for a total 1,800ms and viewed three &quot;pages&quot; of content.<p>Lets move on to my website. ~450ms and the site is loaded. Load another page and it takes another ~450ms to load another 300kb. Load another page and that&#x27;s another ~450ms to load another 300kb. I&#x27;ve been waiting on my website for a total of 1,350ms and viewed three actual pages of content, but the user only had to download 900kb instead of 4mb.<p>So I think you proved the OP&#x27;s point.</text><parent_chain><item><author>coding123</author><text>There are two different kinds of web development:<p>a) Apps where the user is expected to stay a while<p>b) Sites where the user is there, maybe once ever (most likely also scared off by the ads)<p>For Apps, I would always prefer a pre-load of JS that was built with React and downloads about 2-4 MB. If there is an update I will be forced to download it again.<p>On the UPSHOT, almost everything I do in that app is now a 3-8KB request. This means transitioning pages, changing states of things, all happen in about 50ms including whatever visual changes are required on the screen.<p>Compare that to full-screen refresh apps and I am usually waiting 200-400ms. It just feels too damn slow.<p>Why am I even typing this? This is the freaking whole point of an SPA. Are we not all caught up on this yet?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Conservative web development</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2018/09/04/Conservative-web-development.html</url></story> |
38,667,765 | 38,667,365 | 1 | 2 | 38,665,334 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>analog31</author><text>I suspect it&#x27;s because nobody wants to admit that a penny has become worthless, and probably a nickel too. Also, there may be people who are worried that they will start getting ripped off by the rounding process.<p>I read a book about units of measure, and there was often strong local resistance to adopting regional or national standards because folks thought it would be a chance for merchants to surreptitiously raise prices. They were probably right.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cbhl</author><text>Worth noting this piece was written in 2002. Ten years later in 2012, Canada finally took the penny ($0.01 coin) out of circulation.<p>Cash transactions were to be rounded to the nearest nickel, whereas cashless transactions were still computed in pennies.<p>(As far as I can tell, the main reason the US hasn&#x27;t done the same is due to the prevalance of souvenir penny press machines.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What This Country Needs is an 18¢ Piece (2002) [pdf]</title><url>https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Papers/change2.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>bryanlarsen</author><text>The removal of the penny was done in Canada at a time when the government needed a distraction from a scandal. It worked fabulously, and was way more popular than people expected due to the pro-penny faction being way louder than the silent majority who were glad to be rid of the things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cbhl</author><text>Worth noting this piece was written in 2002. Ten years later in 2012, Canada finally took the penny ($0.01 coin) out of circulation.<p>Cash transactions were to be rounded to the nearest nickel, whereas cashless transactions were still computed in pennies.<p>(As far as I can tell, the main reason the US hasn&#x27;t done the same is due to the prevalance of souvenir penny press machines.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What This Country Needs is an 18¢ Piece (2002) [pdf]</title><url>https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Papers/change2.pdf</url></story> |
21,495,739 | 21,492,643 | 1 | 3 | 21,490,850 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>packet_nerd</author><text>My wife is from Myanmar, where most people only have one name (no first, last, etc.) and has experienced endless frustration since immigrating here to the US. It&#x27;s been quite difficult for her and even limiting in some ways and she&#x27;s broken down in tears more than once.<p>Some places just put a few letters into each field (like say for the name Jessica, first: Jes, middle: si, last: ca, or something like that). The DMV did that, and then listed her name on her license as &lt;last&gt;\&lt;first&gt; &lt;middle initial&gt;. Others have insisted on putting &quot;nosurname&quot; in the last name field. The immigration people put &quot;FNU&quot; as first name, and her given name in the last. At some places she&#x27;s put her name twice, once in the first, and once in the last.<p>Not anything close to what she&#x27;s had to endure, but my name doesn&#x27;t fit the standard mold either. I prefer to use my middle name and really dislike using my first name (shared whith my dad, who I don&#x27;t have a good relationship with). I&#x27;m endlessly having to explain every single stinking time I interact with pretty much anyone.<p>Anyway, the take away is, please please please (!!!) don&#x27;t make assumptions about people&#x27;s names! Ideally just one field labeled &quot;name&quot;, and let the user interpret that as they see fit. If you need to collect a legal name then you need to validate it anyway. If you really must do first name &#x2F; last name then at least make the last optional and also include a field for &quot;what should we call you&quot; or &quot;nick name&quot; or something.<p>Great ted talk about Myanmar names: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;cynthia_ma_shwe_sin_win_not_good_with_names_local_name_customs_in_a_global_village" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;cynthia_ma_shwe_sin_win_not_good_w...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>deathanatos</author><text>I have a suffix (the Roman numeral Ⅳ), and it causes all sorts of problems. Some sites will have me &quot;prove&quot; that I&#x27;m me by asking questions about &quot;my&quot; credit history, and very often I&#x27;ll get my father&#x27;s. Half the time I&#x27;ve already supplied a SSN… which makes it even more appalling that they can&#x27;t get this right.<p>I&#x27;ve also been issued a driver&#x27;s license for a &quot;4TH&quot;. I have no idea how TSA would ever spot a fake. (Since they don&#x27;t flag me! But I&#x27;m also in a demographic that tends to get passes in the security theatre…)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My name causes an issue with any booking</title><url>https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/149323/my-name-causes-an-issue-with-any-booking-names-end-with-mr-and-mrs</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sargram01</author><text>I have a hyphen in my last name that caused the California DMV to make one of my last names a middle name, and the Social Security Administration can’t verify my name on their website also due to it.<p>I feel like it’s time software needs to level up, ok 30 years ago sure mistakes were made, but now if you live on planet earth you have to know how names work after how many thousands of years our current systems have been in place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>deathanatos</author><text>I have a suffix (the Roman numeral Ⅳ), and it causes all sorts of problems. Some sites will have me &quot;prove&quot; that I&#x27;m me by asking questions about &quot;my&quot; credit history, and very often I&#x27;ll get my father&#x27;s. Half the time I&#x27;ve already supplied a SSN… which makes it even more appalling that they can&#x27;t get this right.<p>I&#x27;ve also been issued a driver&#x27;s license for a &quot;4TH&quot;. I have no idea how TSA would ever spot a fake. (Since they don&#x27;t flag me! But I&#x27;m also in a demographic that tends to get passes in the security theatre…)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My name causes an issue with any booking</title><url>https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/149323/my-name-causes-an-issue-with-any-booking-names-end-with-mr-and-mrs</url></story> |
9,191,049 | 9,191,109 | 1 | 3 | 9,189,177 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjc50</author><text><i>The military is simply doing its job when presented with a task</i><p>That was presented as a defense of My Lai and was a not successful argument.<p><i>The military is achieving far more value</i><p>You&#x27;re going to need to quantify this statement, because from this distance it doesn&#x27;t look like much is being achieved at all. Yemen has fallen to the rebels and ISIS still hold much of northern Iraq.<p><i>answers like &quot;don&#x27;t invade other countries&quot; are pretty worthless.</i><p>Absolutely not! It&#x27;s a simple, clear, actionable, moral rule. It&#x27;s also a core principle of international law. I&#x27;m not sure why this is so much of a problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>knowaveragejoe</author><text>It might be a surprise to you, but it is the military who learned the most from Vietnam. It is the American public and our politicians who seem to have learned the least. The military is simply doing its job when presented with a task, whether it was spawned out of noble intentions or kneejerk reactionism.<p>They know that they must be careful in pursuing anything that looks vaguely like a target, because the sentiment of the population is far more important than a small victory like that. Hence the multi-billion-dollar communications and failsafes chain described in this article. This is a key concept that seems to be going over people&#x27;s heads in this thread. Yes, it failed in this case and in many others. But the very fact that it <i>exists at all</i> and is sophisticated as it is should be a clue as to the lessons learned. The military is achieving <i>far more</i> value with <i>far less</i> collateral damage. Contrast this with the Soviet&#x27;s preferred method of waging war against the Afghani Mujahideen, which was to <i>kill every living thing</i> and <i>totally and utterly raze every structure</i> in the direction from which they were shot at from.<p>So again, can you conceive a better alternative for dealing with reality as it is now? Time travel is not possible, answers like &quot;don&#x27;t invade other countries&quot; are pretty worthless. Nobody wants this war(well, nobody with a soul and a modicum of compassion), but it is what it is, and as far I know, it&#x27;s the best solution to minimize civilian deaths.</text></item><item><author>tessierashpool</author><text>What the US should do now in Iraq is learn some restraint, diplomacy, and humility.<p>In other words, we should learn the lessons everybody but the military had already learned from Vietnam.</text></item><item><author>Udik</author><text>Except that the US are the main cause for those bad guys being there in the first pace, as they waged war (with justifications that later proved worthless) against the dictator that was able to keep the area under control.<p>So, what the US should do now in Iraq? I have no idea. What should they do in general and in the future? Stop messing with foreign countries, destabilizing governments and waging wars with the silly idea of making the world a safer and more peaceful place. It doesn&#x27;t work.</text></item><item><author>karmacondon</author><text>The links you posted reference Iraq, which was not a very nice place over the last decade. In many cases, a strong personality would emerge as a local leader. He&#x27;ll usually have access to several small arms and enough money to feed and pay several dozen militia fighters. To legitimize his power he&#x27;ll coordinate attacks on US personnel, usually ambushes, and make deals with people who have connections to global &quot;terrorist and extremist&quot; organizations who can provide him with resources to pay for more weapons and manpower. This hypothetical leader isn&#x27;t beholden to the law and makes up the rules for the people in the areas that he controls based on his interpretations of religious teachings and personal views on justice and proper conduct. The government has so many problems to deal with that they aren&#x27;t in a position to oppose him or restore any kind of rule of law to the people that live in his sphere of influence. As his power increases, he becomes a more useful piece on a larger chess board, controlled by leadership in Mosul, Yemen or Saudi Arabia.<p>To the US, the solution is clear: Kill that guy. The force of his personality is what&#x27;s holding his local power structure together, and if he&#x27;s dead there&#x27;s a good chance that the whole thing will collapse. This will take a piece off the board for a global opponent and give the national or regional government one less problem to deal with. Given that he lives in a remote area that he knows like the back of his hand, getting close to him would be difficult. But if they can pay someone to tell them where he is at a specific time, all it takes is one drone strike to solve a lot of problems for a lot of people.<p>It&#x27;s not a perfect system. Sources will frequently give false locations in order to kill their own enemies or settle personal scores. Sometimes the intelligence is out of date by only a few hours, the target leaves a house and innocent people move in to it behind him. Or the weapons just plain miss.<p>The question is, do you have a better plan? Because the guys at the Pentagon would really like to hear it. Ceding large swaths of a country to random strong men doesn&#x27;t seem like a sustainable solution. It&#x27;s not good for the people in that country, it&#x27;s not good for global security and it&#x27;s not good for business. Civilian casualties are always regrettable and make for compelling headlines. But at some point, someone has to have an eye on the bigger picture. If there&#x27;s a better course of action, then it should be taken immediately. Until then all the US government can do is to use the tools that it has available to deal with the current situation.</text></item><item><author>bjelkeman-again</author><text>It is always intriguing that people in the West are so sheltered from the fact that this has been going on for over a decade. And they then are, not surprisingly, surprised that the people at the receiving end of this and those that are from the area are very upset about it.<p>What if some other nation had been bombing remote villages in your country whilst attempting to target &quot;terrorists and extremists&quot;, but often killing civilians because of misstakes and poor intelligence?<p>Nice timeline for doing your research: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/Iraq/page/0,12438,793802,00.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;Iraq&#x2F;page&#x2F;0,12438,793802,00.html</a><p>Example of airstrikes killing civilians and accusations of poor intelligence preparations being the cause: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/14/iraq.usa" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2004&#x2F;jun&#x2F;14&#x2F;iraq.usa</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins</title><url>http://boingboing.net/2015/03/11/drones-and-the-rise-of-the-hig.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>saiya-jin</author><text>nobody wants this war? are you kidding sir?
there is a lot to earn on every single war, these one being no exception. All companies manufacturing weapons, ammunition, subcontractors etc. Stop wars, they are out of job.<p>Is it utterly immoral? But yes of course.
Is it clear to most people outside of US? Not much doubt there.
Is this going to happen again? You bet it will. Why? Just because US can.<p>There was not so long ago perception that US is the world police, the good guys. Well, these days, you guys are working hard to convince all the rest that China might be more suitable for this task.<p>Is it really hard to see how much evil is US creating in our tiny world? Did it at least once to people like you occurred, that you really, REALLY cannot well justify waging war half across the world, for laughable reasons?</text><parent_chain><item><author>knowaveragejoe</author><text>It might be a surprise to you, but it is the military who learned the most from Vietnam. It is the American public and our politicians who seem to have learned the least. The military is simply doing its job when presented with a task, whether it was spawned out of noble intentions or kneejerk reactionism.<p>They know that they must be careful in pursuing anything that looks vaguely like a target, because the sentiment of the population is far more important than a small victory like that. Hence the multi-billion-dollar communications and failsafes chain described in this article. This is a key concept that seems to be going over people&#x27;s heads in this thread. Yes, it failed in this case and in many others. But the very fact that it <i>exists at all</i> and is sophisticated as it is should be a clue as to the lessons learned. The military is achieving <i>far more</i> value with <i>far less</i> collateral damage. Contrast this with the Soviet&#x27;s preferred method of waging war against the Afghani Mujahideen, which was to <i>kill every living thing</i> and <i>totally and utterly raze every structure</i> in the direction from which they were shot at from.<p>So again, can you conceive a better alternative for dealing with reality as it is now? Time travel is not possible, answers like &quot;don&#x27;t invade other countries&quot; are pretty worthless. Nobody wants this war(well, nobody with a soul and a modicum of compassion), but it is what it is, and as far I know, it&#x27;s the best solution to minimize civilian deaths.</text></item><item><author>tessierashpool</author><text>What the US should do now in Iraq is learn some restraint, diplomacy, and humility.<p>In other words, we should learn the lessons everybody but the military had already learned from Vietnam.</text></item><item><author>Udik</author><text>Except that the US are the main cause for those bad guys being there in the first pace, as they waged war (with justifications that later proved worthless) against the dictator that was able to keep the area under control.<p>So, what the US should do now in Iraq? I have no idea. What should they do in general and in the future? Stop messing with foreign countries, destabilizing governments and waging wars with the silly idea of making the world a safer and more peaceful place. It doesn&#x27;t work.</text></item><item><author>karmacondon</author><text>The links you posted reference Iraq, which was not a very nice place over the last decade. In many cases, a strong personality would emerge as a local leader. He&#x27;ll usually have access to several small arms and enough money to feed and pay several dozen militia fighters. To legitimize his power he&#x27;ll coordinate attacks on US personnel, usually ambushes, and make deals with people who have connections to global &quot;terrorist and extremist&quot; organizations who can provide him with resources to pay for more weapons and manpower. This hypothetical leader isn&#x27;t beholden to the law and makes up the rules for the people in the areas that he controls based on his interpretations of religious teachings and personal views on justice and proper conduct. The government has so many problems to deal with that they aren&#x27;t in a position to oppose him or restore any kind of rule of law to the people that live in his sphere of influence. As his power increases, he becomes a more useful piece on a larger chess board, controlled by leadership in Mosul, Yemen or Saudi Arabia.<p>To the US, the solution is clear: Kill that guy. The force of his personality is what&#x27;s holding his local power structure together, and if he&#x27;s dead there&#x27;s a good chance that the whole thing will collapse. This will take a piece off the board for a global opponent and give the national or regional government one less problem to deal with. Given that he lives in a remote area that he knows like the back of his hand, getting close to him would be difficult. But if they can pay someone to tell them where he is at a specific time, all it takes is one drone strike to solve a lot of problems for a lot of people.<p>It&#x27;s not a perfect system. Sources will frequently give false locations in order to kill their own enemies or settle personal scores. Sometimes the intelligence is out of date by only a few hours, the target leaves a house and innocent people move in to it behind him. Or the weapons just plain miss.<p>The question is, do you have a better plan? Because the guys at the Pentagon would really like to hear it. Ceding large swaths of a country to random strong men doesn&#x27;t seem like a sustainable solution. It&#x27;s not good for the people in that country, it&#x27;s not good for global security and it&#x27;s not good for business. Civilian casualties are always regrettable and make for compelling headlines. But at some point, someone has to have an eye on the bigger picture. If there&#x27;s a better course of action, then it should be taken immediately. Until then all the US government can do is to use the tools that it has available to deal with the current situation.</text></item><item><author>bjelkeman-again</author><text>It is always intriguing that people in the West are so sheltered from the fact that this has been going on for over a decade. And they then are, not surprisingly, surprised that the people at the receiving end of this and those that are from the area are very upset about it.<p>What if some other nation had been bombing remote villages in your country whilst attempting to target &quot;terrorists and extremists&quot;, but often killing civilians because of misstakes and poor intelligence?<p>Nice timeline for doing your research: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/Iraq/page/0,12438,793802,00.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;Iraq&#x2F;page&#x2F;0,12438,793802,00.html</a><p>Example of airstrikes killing civilians and accusations of poor intelligence preparations being the cause: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/14/iraq.usa" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2004&#x2F;jun&#x2F;14&#x2F;iraq.usa</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins</title><url>http://boingboing.net/2015/03/11/drones-and-the-rise-of-the-hig.html</url></story> |
12,884,755 | 12,884,497 | 1 | 2 | 12,884,055 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&quot;But there is no apparent fallout from this for CSIS yet. While the spy agency says it will stop analyzing the contentious data, there are no indications that it will destroy the data.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s not really illegal if there&#x27;s no enforcement, is there?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Canada’s federal court rules intelligence service bulk data collection illegal</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/in-scathing-ruling-federal-court-says-csis-bulk-data-collection-illegal/article32669448/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noodles23</author><text>Considering how hard it is to explain how Google Analytics works to the standard business owner, I imagine it wouldn&#x27;t be hard to obscure all manners of data collection programs from oversight.<p>In times like this, the importance of civics education is highlighted. The very idea that people in law enforcement think it&#x27;s acceptable to treat judges and the legal system with such contempt is scary. Even if you disagree with a certain law or system, you still need to respect it as a public servant.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Canada’s federal court rules intelligence service bulk data collection illegal</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/in-scathing-ruling-federal-court-says-csis-bulk-data-collection-illegal/article32669448/</url></story> |
14,501,753 | 14,501,840 | 1 | 2 | 14,500,184 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Evolved</author><text>This already exists. I posted links in response to the OP referencing a RadioLab episode where precisely this occurred over Fallujah and helped to track down suicide bombers&#x2F;bomb makers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>So when a crime happens in public: in addition to a dump of all cellphones in the area they&#x27;ll also have access to all scanned faces and license plates (via lidar) to reconstruct what happened. Plus potentially an always-on eye in the sky via drones&#x2F;planes which allows them to &quot;rewind&quot; peoples and cars movements up until that point. Pretty scary to think how easy their jobs will be.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK police arrest man via automatic face-recognition tech</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/police-automatic-face-recognition/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>darkhorn</author><text>The&#x27;ll have instant connection to any CCTV facing public places (including hotel corridors) and any dash cam. After all, all the videos will be uploaded to data centers via 7G.<p>Identification of humans, dogs, car plates will be in real time plus the identities will be logged for 5 years.<p>The CCTVs will record in PetaHD, enough for fingerprint identification from distance of 120 meters.<p>PetaHD © records use two cameras (for 3D) with auto zooming for moving objects.<p>All cars will have black boxes with video and sound recording. Illegal turns will be autofined (if you were able to turn illegally, because most of the time your car won&#x27;t allow you).</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>So when a crime happens in public: in addition to a dump of all cellphones in the area they&#x27;ll also have access to all scanned faces and license plates (via lidar) to reconstruct what happened. Plus potentially an always-on eye in the sky via drones&#x2F;planes which allows them to &quot;rewind&quot; peoples and cars movements up until that point. Pretty scary to think how easy their jobs will be.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK police arrest man via automatic face-recognition tech</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/police-automatic-face-recognition/</url></story> |
21,673,386 | 21,673,413 | 1 | 2 | 21,672,481 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nootropicat</author><text>The part you buy is dns that runs on ethereum (iirc), but with artificial scarcity because they want to make money. This part is completely pointless, because the actual system could work as well on ens directly, or even dns.<p>The actual urbit is like docker with standard API for communication between all apps on different containers, but it runs on a lisp-machine like architecture, except instead of lisp there&#x27;s a new esoteric language called Hoon.<p>If not for the scammy wealth extraction attempt with the name system, I would consider it to be in the same general category as TempleOS - a form of art.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I have seen Urbit a couple times but never really understood it. From the &quot;Understanding Urbit&quot; page -<p>&gt;Imagine that you can login from anywhere with one name and password.<p>&gt;And when you do, your entire OS appears.<p>&gt;Inside is your whole digital life. All of your communities, conversations, and connections. All of your biometric data and devices. Your entire personal archive in one place that’s secure, private, and designed to last forever.<p>What does this mean? My whole digital life? It sounds like I&#x27;m signing in to a VPS from which I access all of my digital life. Is that it? Do I get a VPS?<p>That seems kind of like what I&#x27;m getting. The first line on urbit.org is &quot;Urbit is your last computer&quot; - but I don&#x27;t see how I&#x27;m buying a computer, for a one time fee, for life, without paying a ton of money.<p>I see this website [1] has an Urbit &quot;Planet&quot; available for .04 ETH, or about 6 USD. Could I get a life long VPS for 6 dollars? If so, I&#x27;d definitely be up for it. If not, what, exactly am I getting for 6 dollars?<p>The page &quot;Understanding Urbit&quot; also says that Urbit OS &quot;can never show you ads&quot;. What does that even mean? It can&#x27;t run Chrome? The OS can&#x27;t show ads? Any image or text can be an ad. I don&#x27;t get it.<p>What I would like to see is a simple explanation of what Urbit is. Maybe a video, where someone logs in to Urbit, and interacts with it in someway, doing something that can&#x27;t easily be done in some other way. I&#x27;d like to know the difference between planets, stars, and galaxies.<p>There has to be a better way to explain this.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensea.io&#x2F;assets&#x2F;0x6ac07b7c4601b5ce11de8dfe6335b871c7c4dd4d&#x2F;4738720" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensea.io&#x2F;assets&#x2F;0x6ac07b7c4601b5ce11de8dfe6335b871...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Urbit</title><url>https://urbit.org/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>theamk</author><text>Urbit “planet” is like a VM, but running an OS developed completely independently from existing computing words. There is a custom language, a custom network layer, a custom cryptography and custom identity system. There are even custom words for common terms. This has no GUI, but it does has a web interface that you can connect to.<p>From the practical standpoint, you have a linux process running from a data directory. You run it, and the you can access it via CLI and via web interface (which also has a terminal-like webapp). It then uses regular IP to talk to other urbits in P2P fashion.<p>From what I could find, the whole thing is full of magic and pretty opaque - you are only supposed to interact with it by running it and typing commands there. In particular, you’d probably want to back it up. The only instructions I could find is to stop it and tar it up, and back up manually. Better do it often if you want your “digital life” to be safe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I have seen Urbit a couple times but never really understood it. From the &quot;Understanding Urbit&quot; page -<p>&gt;Imagine that you can login from anywhere with one name and password.<p>&gt;And when you do, your entire OS appears.<p>&gt;Inside is your whole digital life. All of your communities, conversations, and connections. All of your biometric data and devices. Your entire personal archive in one place that’s secure, private, and designed to last forever.<p>What does this mean? My whole digital life? It sounds like I&#x27;m signing in to a VPS from which I access all of my digital life. Is that it? Do I get a VPS?<p>That seems kind of like what I&#x27;m getting. The first line on urbit.org is &quot;Urbit is your last computer&quot; - but I don&#x27;t see how I&#x27;m buying a computer, for a one time fee, for life, without paying a ton of money.<p>I see this website [1] has an Urbit &quot;Planet&quot; available for .04 ETH, or about 6 USD. Could I get a life long VPS for 6 dollars? If so, I&#x27;d definitely be up for it. If not, what, exactly am I getting for 6 dollars?<p>The page &quot;Understanding Urbit&quot; also says that Urbit OS &quot;can never show you ads&quot;. What does that even mean? It can&#x27;t run Chrome? The OS can&#x27;t show ads? Any image or text can be an ad. I don&#x27;t get it.<p>What I would like to see is a simple explanation of what Urbit is. Maybe a video, where someone logs in to Urbit, and interacts with it in someway, doing something that can&#x27;t easily be done in some other way. I&#x27;d like to know the difference between planets, stars, and galaxies.<p>There has to be a better way to explain this.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensea.io&#x2F;assets&#x2F;0x6ac07b7c4601b5ce11de8dfe6335b871c7c4dd4d&#x2F;4738720" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensea.io&#x2F;assets&#x2F;0x6ac07b7c4601b5ce11de8dfe6335b871...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Urbit</title><url>https://urbit.org/</url></story> |
37,499,652 | 37,499,482 | 1 | 2 | 37,499,259 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>Recent and related:<p><i>Unity Can Get Fucked</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37497128">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37497128</a> - Sept 2023 (13 comments)<p><i>Unity wants 108% of our gross revenue</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37495868">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37495868</a> - Sept 2023 (30 comments)<p><i>“This Is a Disaster:” Game Developers Scramble to Deal with Unity’s New Fees</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37493028">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37493028</a> - Sept 2023 (145 comments)<p><i>Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37491002">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37491002</a> - Sept 2023 (71 comments)<p><i>Unity’s pay per install is unworkable</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37489247">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37489247</a> - Sept 2023 (9 comments)<p><i>The Death of Unity</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37486431">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37486431</a> - Sept 2023 (208 comments)<p><i>Unity plan pricing and packaging updates</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37481344">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37481344</a> - Sept 2023 (504 comments)<p>---<p>Here&#x27;s a quick refresher on how we handle a Major Ongoing Topic (MOT) like this one: we downweight follow-ups until there is Significant New Information (SNI). I don&#x27;t see any SNI yet; readers of &quot;Unity Can Get Fucked&quot;, &quot;The Death of Unity&quot;, and &quot;This Is a Disaster&quot; don&#x27;t need a new article to tell them that devs are mad at Unity right now. Once something happens to significantly (or interestingly—i.e. something non-repetitive) advance the story, we can have another frontpage thread.<p>Past explanations on follow-ups and SNI:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;query=follow-up%20downweight&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;que...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment&amp;query=%22significant%20new%20information%22%20by%3Adang" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;so...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/09/game-developers-unite-against-unitys-new-per-install-pricing-structure/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marcusestes</author><text>The outrage is warranted. Two things about this are poorly designed:<p>1) Charing for installs vs sales. Because installs are potentially a multiple of sales (and thus, revenue), this will make it extremely difficult to build accounting models for in advance of launch.<p>2) For the thousands and thousands of devs that decided to invest in learning Unity (vs Unreal or otherwise), many of them did so with the understanding that the business model would always offer a royalty free tier. This was asserted by the CEO! They&#x27;ve since raised (arguably) way too much private equity capital and now have to put the screws on their customer base.<p>While Unity has been slowly losing its focus (indie &#x2F; mobile), Unreal has been executing better and better. If you&#x27;re invested in Unity, it&#x27;s time to strongly consider a switch.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/09/game-developers-unite-against-unitys-new-per-install-pricing-structure/</url></story> |
35,703,629 | 35,703,587 | 1 | 2 | 35,700,918 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spaceman_2020</author><text>Everything has been fundamentally detached from reality, from stocks to housing.<p>Houses can sit empty without tenants for years but they’ll only go up. Companies can be unprofitable for literal decades but they’ll keep finding funding and buyers. Commercial properties can bleed tenant but the prices will only be up.<p>In a world of shrinking growth , stalling productivity, and dying demographics, the market behaves like infinite growth is baked in.<p>It’s very clear to any observer that the markets don’t follow any rationality anymore.</text><parent_chain><item><author>neurobama</author><text>The whole stock market in 2023 makes no sense to me, not just Bed Bath and Beyond. So many companies no longer pay dividends. So many classes of stock are now non-voting shares. Common stock shareholders usually get nothing if a company goes bankrupt and liquidates.<p>So if I don&#x27;t get dividends, can&#x27;t vote, and am not entitled to a share of the company&#x27;s assets, what is the actual value in owning stock? Do I just wait for the share price to go up, sell at the peak, and pass my shares on to the greater fool? That&#x27;s starting to smell a lot like the worst sort of crypto trading.</text></item><item><author>humanlion87</author><text>I find the whole situation fascinating. Bed Bath continued to sell hundreds of millions of shares while they were preparing for bankruptcy and retail investors (or meme stock investors) continued to buy them. I assume Bed Bath did all the paperwork that is necessary (like calling out risks, that the raised capital will go to creditors first, etc) for such a stock sale. But it is clear they were doing it out of bad-faith to the new investors.<p>As usual Matt Levine&#x27;s take on this is a good read.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bed Bath and Beyond files for bankruptcy</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/business/bed-bath-beyond-bankruptcy.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>NoboruWataya</author><text>Others have mentioned buybacks, but the broader point is that if a company is consistently profitable, it will <i>eventually</i> pay dividends (or do buybacks). The board, who decide what to do with the company&#x27;s money, have fiduciary obligations to the shareholders. They can hold cash reserves to cover future liabilities and they can re-invest profits in growing the business, but ultimately when the board cannot identify profitable investment opportunities, that money has to go back to the shareholders.<p>Also, it is only in insolvent liquidations that shareholder get nothing back. If the company were to wind up while still solvent, the shareholders would get their share of its net assets. (Though I don&#x27;t think this happens much with public companies.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>neurobama</author><text>The whole stock market in 2023 makes no sense to me, not just Bed Bath and Beyond. So many companies no longer pay dividends. So many classes of stock are now non-voting shares. Common stock shareholders usually get nothing if a company goes bankrupt and liquidates.<p>So if I don&#x27;t get dividends, can&#x27;t vote, and am not entitled to a share of the company&#x27;s assets, what is the actual value in owning stock? Do I just wait for the share price to go up, sell at the peak, and pass my shares on to the greater fool? That&#x27;s starting to smell a lot like the worst sort of crypto trading.</text></item><item><author>humanlion87</author><text>I find the whole situation fascinating. Bed Bath continued to sell hundreds of millions of shares while they were preparing for bankruptcy and retail investors (or meme stock investors) continued to buy them. I assume Bed Bath did all the paperwork that is necessary (like calling out risks, that the raised capital will go to creditors first, etc) for such a stock sale. But it is clear they were doing it out of bad-faith to the new investors.<p>As usual Matt Levine&#x27;s take on this is a good read.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bed Bath and Beyond files for bankruptcy</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/business/bed-bath-beyond-bankruptcy.html</url></story> |
15,721,752 | 15,721,299 | 1 | 2 | 15,718,470 | 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>sooheon</author><text>&gt;People are citizens. People can exercise their rights. Both of those statements are true whether they do so as individuals or whether they do so as a group. In other words, a group of people has the same legal rights collectively that they do as individuals.<p>I in turn detest <i>this</i> meme. It is symptomatic of everything I think is wrong with corporatism.<p>Size and power distort incentives and moral accountability. Each individual in a group should continue to have the rights they have as individuals, but these rights should not aggregate with a &quot;simple sum&quot;, so to speak. There must be some cost to aggregating your &quot;rights&quot; in this way, because there is a clear dampening factor for aggregate blame and accountability, which counterbalance &quot;rights&quot;. People behave differently in groups (worse), and with more power (worse), and it is impossible to pin moral blame on a corporation.<p>People perpetrate violence on other people. People can perpetrate said violence as a group. People and groups with more means (money, power, influence) can perpetrate and get away with more violence, as the scale and degrees of removal from the effects of the violence become incomprehensible. Hence I can&#x27;t blow smoke in the face of my neighbor because I will feel bad, and I will have to deal with the repercussions. But BP can spill 4.9 million gallons of oil in the gulf because not a single person will go to jail, the fees are a negligible cost of doing business, and nobody feels bad because everyone was &quot;just doing their job&quot;. No, I don&#x27;t believe corporations deserve any rights whatsoever.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&gt; As an American this is what I truly hate about corporations. They are afforded person-hood and &quot;citizenship&quot; where it benefits them but are treated as a company &#x2F; corporation &#x2F; non-living entity when that benefits them most.<p>As an American, I detest this meme, because it perpetuates major misconceptions about corporate law in the US.<p>Corporations are not granted &quot;personhood and citizenship&quot;. People are citizens. People can exercise their rights. Both of those statements are true whether they do so as individuals or whether they do so as a group. In other words, a group of people has the same legal rights collectively that they do as individuals.<p>This concept is often abbreviated as &quot;corporate personhood&quot;, which is unfortunate because it&#x27;s a seriously misleading term. It&#x27;s not that corporations become people - it&#x27;s a way of referring to way individuals can exercise their rights through a group. Corporate personhood isn&#x27;t even a single provision; it&#x27;s a way of summarizing a collection of unrelated case law in a short phrase.</text></item><item><author>scoggs</author><text>&gt; This is what makes a European a European, and an American, American. We have different standards and expectations about the social contract between enterprises and society.<p>As an American this is what I truly hate about corporations. They are afforded person-hood and &quot;citizenship&quot; where it benefits them but are treated as a company &#x2F; corporation &#x2F; non-living entity when that benefits them most.<p>I&#x27;ve been tired of telling international friends that I don&#x27;t set nor agree with the vast majority of American policies. I, sadly, have no faith that the day will ever come where I won&#x27;t feel so defensive when the topic of my country and it&#x27;s influence on the globe becomes the topic for discussion.</text></item><item><author>iagooar</author><text>This is what makes a European a European, and an American, American. We have different standards and expectations about the social contract between enterprises and society.<p>Also, no wonder American companies tend to grow a lot faster without many impediments. The whole American system is built to support and protect the enterprise, not the people. In Europe, as an enterprise, you have a lot more requirements and obligations to fulfill.<p>And even though I have a disadvantage running a company in Europe as compared to the US, as a European I believe it&#x27;s the right thing to do.</text></item><item><author>doikor</author><text>&gt; Those same employees were also told that they&#x27;re unlikely to get their final paycheck.<p>This as a Finn sounds crazy. Here the employees are protected to a degree if the company goes bankrupt then the government will pay the final paycheck and the government will be the first one to get their money back from the bankruptcy (before any banks&#x2F;other creditors when any existing assets are sold)</text></item><item><author>uncletammy</author><text>They informed employees of the shutdown as they were firing them. This was a few days AFTER they revoked the employees insurance benefits without notice or explanation. Those same employees were also told that they&#x27;re unlikely to get their final paycheck.<p>As for me, I was suckered into pre-paying for $500 worth of classes that I&#x27;ll never be reimbursed for. So many people who&#x27;s livelihoods depended on their facilities were completely blindsided. Members who had been there for years were told they had hours to remove their belongings or they would be confiscated. The whole thing is a complete mess.<p>All of this just a few weeks after opening a brand new location in Brooklyn. I simply can&#x27;t comprehend the level of negligence and mismanagement here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TechShop shuts down all U.S. locations, declares bankruptcy</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/15/techshop-shuts-down-all-u-s-locations-declares-bankruptcy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ejstronge</author><text>I&#x27;m not very knowledgeable in this area, but have a question, as you seem to have thought about this.<p>I feel the GP&#x27;s point relates to things like corporations receiving favorable tax treatment when individuals would not; corporations receiving very lenient punishments for crimes when individuals would not; corporations, as above, being able to avoid payments when an individual&#x27;s property might otherwise be at risk, and so on. Perhaps I&#x27;m just not aware that these possibilities are available to me. Am I mistaken here?<p>Overall, I feel your response deals with the legal framework around what GP said as opposed to the ideas that inspired GP&#x27;s comment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&gt; As an American this is what I truly hate about corporations. They are afforded person-hood and &quot;citizenship&quot; where it benefits them but are treated as a company &#x2F; corporation &#x2F; non-living entity when that benefits them most.<p>As an American, I detest this meme, because it perpetuates major misconceptions about corporate law in the US.<p>Corporations are not granted &quot;personhood and citizenship&quot;. People are citizens. People can exercise their rights. Both of those statements are true whether they do so as individuals or whether they do so as a group. In other words, a group of people has the same legal rights collectively that they do as individuals.<p>This concept is often abbreviated as &quot;corporate personhood&quot;, which is unfortunate because it&#x27;s a seriously misleading term. It&#x27;s not that corporations become people - it&#x27;s a way of referring to way individuals can exercise their rights through a group. Corporate personhood isn&#x27;t even a single provision; it&#x27;s a way of summarizing a collection of unrelated case law in a short phrase.</text></item><item><author>scoggs</author><text>&gt; This is what makes a European a European, and an American, American. We have different standards and expectations about the social contract between enterprises and society.<p>As an American this is what I truly hate about corporations. They are afforded person-hood and &quot;citizenship&quot; where it benefits them but are treated as a company &#x2F; corporation &#x2F; non-living entity when that benefits them most.<p>I&#x27;ve been tired of telling international friends that I don&#x27;t set nor agree with the vast majority of American policies. I, sadly, have no faith that the day will ever come where I won&#x27;t feel so defensive when the topic of my country and it&#x27;s influence on the globe becomes the topic for discussion.</text></item><item><author>iagooar</author><text>This is what makes a European a European, and an American, American. We have different standards and expectations about the social contract between enterprises and society.<p>Also, no wonder American companies tend to grow a lot faster without many impediments. The whole American system is built to support and protect the enterprise, not the people. In Europe, as an enterprise, you have a lot more requirements and obligations to fulfill.<p>And even though I have a disadvantage running a company in Europe as compared to the US, as a European I believe it&#x27;s the right thing to do.</text></item><item><author>doikor</author><text>&gt; Those same employees were also told that they&#x27;re unlikely to get their final paycheck.<p>This as a Finn sounds crazy. Here the employees are protected to a degree if the company goes bankrupt then the government will pay the final paycheck and the government will be the first one to get their money back from the bankruptcy (before any banks&#x2F;other creditors when any existing assets are sold)</text></item><item><author>uncletammy</author><text>They informed employees of the shutdown as they were firing them. This was a few days AFTER they revoked the employees insurance benefits without notice or explanation. Those same employees were also told that they&#x27;re unlikely to get their final paycheck.<p>As for me, I was suckered into pre-paying for $500 worth of classes that I&#x27;ll never be reimbursed for. So many people who&#x27;s livelihoods depended on their facilities were completely blindsided. Members who had been there for years were told they had hours to remove their belongings or they would be confiscated. The whole thing is a complete mess.<p>All of this just a few weeks after opening a brand new location in Brooklyn. I simply can&#x27;t comprehend the level of negligence and mismanagement here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TechShop shuts down all U.S. locations, declares bankruptcy</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/15/techshop-shuts-down-all-u-s-locations-declares-bankruptcy/</url></story> |
36,891,202 | 36,889,623 | 1 | 2 | 36,859,614 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>secretsatan</author><text>Many (Most) of the rivers and lakes are swimmable in Switzerland, the standards for water are incredibly high, more dangerous is not knowing the currents.<p>Going down the Aare river from Thun&#x2F;Uttigen to Bern is a hugely popular activity to do in summer, but every year a few people drown. Even so, I&#x27;d recommend it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;madeinbern.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;stories&#x2F;along-the-aare-river-2#:~:text=The%20trip%20from%20Thun%20to,it%20is%20only%204%20minutes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;madeinbern.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;stories&#x2F;along-the-aare-river-2#:~:...</a>).</text><parent_chain><item><author>ugiox</author><text>Swimming in the Rhine river in Basel (Switzerland) has been possible for a long time and is even officially sanctioned by the city <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.basel.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;activities-excursions&#x2F;swimming-rhine" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.basel.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;activities-excursions&#x2F;swimming-rhin...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66238618</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>refactor_master</author><text>Swimming in the Copenhagen harbor (Denmark) is also possible<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.visitcopenhagen.com&#x2F;copenhagen&#x2F;activities&#x2F;baths-and-beaches" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.visitcopenhagen.com&#x2F;copenhagen&#x2F;activities&#x2F;baths-...</a><p>It might have a slight upper hand in cleanliness with being directly connected to the sea.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ugiox</author><text>Swimming in the Rhine river in Basel (Switzerland) has been possible for a long time and is even officially sanctioned by the city <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.basel.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;activities-excursions&#x2F;swimming-rhine" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.basel.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;activities-excursions&#x2F;swimming-rhin...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66238618</url></story> |
36,259,949 | 36,260,097 | 1 | 2 | 36,257,523 | train | <instructions>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;Email is a great example where most people wouldn&#x27;t be interested in a version of email that only let&#x27;s you email other @gmail.com users. Having a email address that can contact anyone, a phone number that can ring any other phone number etc instead of being locked into a single corporation network is a clear value add that people care about.<p>That is only because those technologies predate those companies. Normal people don&#x27;t care that you can&#x27;t DM a Reddit user on Twitter or that your Instagram posts don&#x27;t automatically show up on your Facebook page. People are generally fine with centralized corporate platforms as long as it isn&#x27;t a restriction of a previously free technology and the network effect has done its thing to attract enough people to the platform.</text><parent_chain><item><author>benrutter</author><text>I don&#x27;t know that I agree. I think most people don&#x27;t care about decentralization but they do care about the effects it brings.<p>Email is a great example where most people wouldn&#x27;t be interested in a version of email that only let&#x27;s you email other @gmail.com users. Having a email address that can contact anyone, a phone number that can ring any other phone number etc instead of being locked into a single corporation network is a clear value add that people care about.<p>The main issue from my perspective is that we only have a select few large tech companies that operate as monopolies so are effectively able to block out new decentralized protocols from coming to be.<p>RCS messaging is a great example which I think most people would use over alternatives like WhatsApp and Imessage except that apple refusing to support it locks a huge fraction of the market out and stops widespread adoption being possible.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a question of preference, or people being uninterested. It&#x27;s just a boring and repeated story of corporate monopolies intentionally reducing consumer choice.</text></item><item><author>the_pwner224</author><text>A decentralized system will never work because 99% of users do not care at all; the centralized systems are easier to sign up for and use. It&#x27;s been demonstrated over and over and over again.<p>Even if the underlying tech is decentralized, the community will settle around one or a few big instances (for example, Gmail and GitHub) which often end up having significant control over the trajectory of the entire ecosystem. If you run your own email server and you get put onto Google&#x27;s spam list - you&#x27;re fucked.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>This, along with recent Reddit goings-on has made me realize a major risk with the current structure of online communication. Take either Reddit or Stack Exchange as examples. They build a platform, and users contribute their time, thought, energy, and knowledge to build a community on that platform. Those companies can then gatekeep and restrict access to all that the community built, when all they did is provide the platform, and store the data. We need to rethink this model.<p>The thought and knowledge of communities and users need to belong to those communities and users. To people they intentionally and thoughtfully delegate to and trust. We need to decentralize our communications, like how the internet used to be before the arrival of social media and mega forums. We need to revert to small, focused forums, with less anonymous, more persistent communication, run by people we trust. Otherwise, we will continue to see mega companies harvest our data and use it (or not provide it) against our wishes. If we don’t work to mitigate that dynamic, we have nobody to blame for the poor outcomes but ourselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>June 2023 Data Dump is missing</title><url>https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/390023/6212</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grumpymouse</author><text>I think things like being able to contact anyone are important to people, but decentralisation doesn&#x27;t necessarily provide that (e.g. if I sign up on a Mastodon instance will I be able to see the messages of everyone on every Mastodon instance, and will they be able to see mine? Will I even know if somebody I care about can see my messages or not?)<p>I think decentralisation is not a selling point to most people. It&#x27;s an implementation detail that they&#x27;re happy to go along with but it&#x27;s a negative if it make the experience worse, makes everything more complicated, if they can&#x27;t talk to the people they know IRL, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>benrutter</author><text>I don&#x27;t know that I agree. I think most people don&#x27;t care about decentralization but they do care about the effects it brings.<p>Email is a great example where most people wouldn&#x27;t be interested in a version of email that only let&#x27;s you email other @gmail.com users. Having a email address that can contact anyone, a phone number that can ring any other phone number etc instead of being locked into a single corporation network is a clear value add that people care about.<p>The main issue from my perspective is that we only have a select few large tech companies that operate as monopolies so are effectively able to block out new decentralized protocols from coming to be.<p>RCS messaging is a great example which I think most people would use over alternatives like WhatsApp and Imessage except that apple refusing to support it locks a huge fraction of the market out and stops widespread adoption being possible.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a question of preference, or people being uninterested. It&#x27;s just a boring and repeated story of corporate monopolies intentionally reducing consumer choice.</text></item><item><author>the_pwner224</author><text>A decentralized system will never work because 99% of users do not care at all; the centralized systems are easier to sign up for and use. It&#x27;s been demonstrated over and over and over again.<p>Even if the underlying tech is decentralized, the community will settle around one or a few big instances (for example, Gmail and GitHub) which often end up having significant control over the trajectory of the entire ecosystem. If you run your own email server and you get put onto Google&#x27;s spam list - you&#x27;re fucked.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>This, along with recent Reddit goings-on has made me realize a major risk with the current structure of online communication. Take either Reddit or Stack Exchange as examples. They build a platform, and users contribute their time, thought, energy, and knowledge to build a community on that platform. Those companies can then gatekeep and restrict access to all that the community built, when all they did is provide the platform, and store the data. We need to rethink this model.<p>The thought and knowledge of communities and users need to belong to those communities and users. To people they intentionally and thoughtfully delegate to and trust. We need to decentralize our communications, like how the internet used to be before the arrival of social media and mega forums. We need to revert to small, focused forums, with less anonymous, more persistent communication, run by people we trust. Otherwise, we will continue to see mega companies harvest our data and use it (or not provide it) against our wishes. If we don’t work to mitigate that dynamic, we have nobody to blame for the poor outcomes but ourselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>June 2023 Data Dump is missing</title><url>https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/390023/6212</url></story> |
8,998,957 | 8,997,623 | 1 | 3 | 8,996,466 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pixl97</author><text>&gt;Buying and updating an MS product shouldn&#x27;t be a gamble. They&#x27;re supposed to be the conservative and stable big brother to the industry<p>You can tell who&#x27;s young around here. In the distant past you could have put IBM or Novel in that same blank 20 years ago. It wasn&#x27;t till around the release of server 2003 that anybody thought that.<p>Next, every product is a gamble these days. If you&#x27;re connected to the net, you&#x27;re at risk. Before exploits may have taken weeks or months to fully circulate, now 0-days are very common and other vendors release the exploit information they have on your products in 90 days or less.<p>&gt;Now just installing an Exchange rollup is asking for a complete reimaging<p>Again, I&#x27;m not sure when Exchange didn&#x27;t explode in the past either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>This is probably why so many of the Windows Updates this year broke critical things, especially for enterprise. I feel Nadella is taking a &quot;cheaper, faster&quot; approach which is fine and dandy in the otherwise non-critical mobile space (mobile users are used to being treated like crap and having buggy releases) but in enterprise there&#x27;s simply a higher standard of quality.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what this means for MS. At our shop we now have to overly-test all patches and then wait a minimum of 30 days to see what happens. This has saved our bacon several times under Nadella&#x27;s MS when before we only had to do pretty casual testing of patches. This also means a lot of shops are no longer rushing to get security patches in because of his negligence and corner cutting. That means a less secure internet for all.<p>I really wish someone would step in and show Nadella that MS shouldnt just be an Apple-lite and that catering to enterprise should be MS&#x27;s main goal, especially considering that&#x27;s where almost all its revenue comes from. I&#x27;m sure playing Steve Jobs-lite is fun for Nadella, but its about time he grew up and started running with the big dogs. Frankly, I&#x27;m sick of the focus on mobile and other popular technology taking away from the core competencies that made some of these companies great. The recent actions and changes on OSX are disheartening as well. Or how the steam behind the Chromebook is more or less dead as Android eats the world.<p>Buying and updating an MS product shouldn&#x27;t be a gamble. They&#x27;re supposed to be the conservative and stable big brother to the industry. Ironically, its only now under new leadership that we have so much more incentive to move to FOSS products. Its the same amount of headaches, except with FOSS I have no licensing worries. Under Gates and Balmer, the commercial MS products were less headaches and delivered a fair amount of value. Now just installing an Exchange rollup is asking for a complete reimaging. We don&#x27;t even bother with service packs anymore. Might as well roll out a new image with that cooked in. The fail rate on those is unacceptably high.<p>edit: why the downvotes? this echoes the sentiment at places like stackexchange and &#x2F;r&#x2F;sysadmin. testing at MS has gone to hell and everyone knows it. burying my comment does nothing to stop that reality. Its well known Nadella personally redid the QA and testing parts of MS and those outcomes have only gotten worse.</text></item><item><author>weavie</author><text>&quot;He has changed the way engineering teams are structured, largely eliminating testers to speed software releases,... &quot;<p>What could possibly go wrong?<p>Ok.. the sentence continues :<p>&quot;and adding data scientists and designers to the engineering teams to ensure all features are informed by rigorous testing and good design principles. &quot;<p>I don&#x27;t quite understand, how can data scientists help to catch bugs? Automated testing?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Nadella's Second Year as Microsoft CEO Will Be a Lot Harder</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/why-nadella-s-second-year-as-microsoft-ceo-will-be-a-lot-harder</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jare</author><text>Those are good points worth reading. What you describe is very much the feared outcome of removing SDETs before SDEs are ready to deliver tested and solid products in the new model. I have personally not suffered any troubles, but your experience does not surprise me one bit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>This is probably why so many of the Windows Updates this year broke critical things, especially for enterprise. I feel Nadella is taking a &quot;cheaper, faster&quot; approach which is fine and dandy in the otherwise non-critical mobile space (mobile users are used to being treated like crap and having buggy releases) but in enterprise there&#x27;s simply a higher standard of quality.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what this means for MS. At our shop we now have to overly-test all patches and then wait a minimum of 30 days to see what happens. This has saved our bacon several times under Nadella&#x27;s MS when before we only had to do pretty casual testing of patches. This also means a lot of shops are no longer rushing to get security patches in because of his negligence and corner cutting. That means a less secure internet for all.<p>I really wish someone would step in and show Nadella that MS shouldnt just be an Apple-lite and that catering to enterprise should be MS&#x27;s main goal, especially considering that&#x27;s where almost all its revenue comes from. I&#x27;m sure playing Steve Jobs-lite is fun for Nadella, but its about time he grew up and started running with the big dogs. Frankly, I&#x27;m sick of the focus on mobile and other popular technology taking away from the core competencies that made some of these companies great. The recent actions and changes on OSX are disheartening as well. Or how the steam behind the Chromebook is more or less dead as Android eats the world.<p>Buying and updating an MS product shouldn&#x27;t be a gamble. They&#x27;re supposed to be the conservative and stable big brother to the industry. Ironically, its only now under new leadership that we have so much more incentive to move to FOSS products. Its the same amount of headaches, except with FOSS I have no licensing worries. Under Gates and Balmer, the commercial MS products were less headaches and delivered a fair amount of value. Now just installing an Exchange rollup is asking for a complete reimaging. We don&#x27;t even bother with service packs anymore. Might as well roll out a new image with that cooked in. The fail rate on those is unacceptably high.<p>edit: why the downvotes? this echoes the sentiment at places like stackexchange and &#x2F;r&#x2F;sysadmin. testing at MS has gone to hell and everyone knows it. burying my comment does nothing to stop that reality. Its well known Nadella personally redid the QA and testing parts of MS and those outcomes have only gotten worse.</text></item><item><author>weavie</author><text>&quot;He has changed the way engineering teams are structured, largely eliminating testers to speed software releases,... &quot;<p>What could possibly go wrong?<p>Ok.. the sentence continues :<p>&quot;and adding data scientists and designers to the engineering teams to ensure all features are informed by rigorous testing and good design principles. &quot;<p>I don&#x27;t quite understand, how can data scientists help to catch bugs? Automated testing?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Nadella's Second Year as Microsoft CEO Will Be a Lot Harder</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/why-nadella-s-second-year-as-microsoft-ceo-will-be-a-lot-harder</url></story> |
11,550,170 | 11,550,323 | 1 | 2 | 11,549,946 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BuildTheRobots</author><text>Host Europe Group&#x27;s robots.txt still makes me chuckle: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirrors.uk.heg.com&#x2F;robots.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirrors.uk.heg.com&#x2F;robots.txt</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Whatup</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/test.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>tyingq</author><text>Prompted me to do a little experimentation with google query parameters. Some potentially concerning stuff out there...<p>This one seems offline, but a typical example:<p>ftp:&#x2F;&#x2F;asapdata.arc.nasa.gov&#x2F;incoming&#x2F;BOB&#x2F;HyspIRI&#x2F;data-bob&#x2F;00_README.MASTERweb_updating.txt<p><pre><code> 3. Login to MASTER database:
http:&#x2F;&#x2F;asterdb.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;log&#x2F;dbstart.asp
a. User: eric; Password: Upd8t3r</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Whatup</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/test.html</url></story> |
17,107,960 | 17,107,358 | 1 | 2 | 17,105,373 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>z3t4</author><text>I&#x27;m currently developing a web app and while my nw.js&#x2F;electron version is around 50 MB and uses 200+ MB of memory, loading it in Firefox it&#x27;s a 600kB bundle, fully renders in less then half a second, and uses a whopping 8 MB of memory in Firefox. Actually less the HN! So while I think this project is cool, if you consider using it, also consider making a <i>in browser</i> web app. Also remember that the browser is more then just a HTML renderer. You have stuff like speech recognition, text-to-speech, user input, sound api, 2d&#x2F;3d api, support for a bunch of mobile sensors like accelerometer, etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Vuido builds desktop apps using Vue.js without Electron</title><url>https://forum.vuejs.org/t/vuido-native-desktop-applications-using-vue-js/34538</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jasonkester</author><text>I feel like there&#x27;s room for an Electron variant that&#x27;s just &quot;less electron&quot;. As in, I don&#x27;t need <i>all</i> of Chrome to do my thing; just the HTML rendering engine and JavaScript interpreter.<p>The thing that makes it 50gb is all the web sockets and ie4-comparable-iframe-shims that nobody ever uses on the desktop. Lop all that stuff and see how big the install is and how much memory it uses. My guess is it would be a lot less.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Vuido builds desktop apps using Vue.js without Electron</title><url>https://forum.vuejs.org/t/vuido-native-desktop-applications-using-vue-js/34538</url></story> |
12,229,904 | 12,229,578 | 1 | 3 | 12,228,957 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vilhelm_s</author><text>A house older than three decades, but there was an interesting story (previously discussed on Hacker News) about some poor guy unexpectedly finding a huge lump, probably left over from an old heating system.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10357115" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10357115</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>1) DOT4 doesn&#x27;t exactly jump through the skin-- it&#x27;s no dimethylmercury, or even DMSO. Its MSDS recommends against &quot;prolonged&quot; skin contact. It&#x27;s not much worse than any other common hydrocarbon solvent, like gasoline. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brake-eng.com&#x2F;global&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;dot4fl%20dot%204%20material%20safety%20data%20sheet.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brake-eng.com&#x2F;global&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;dot4fl%20dot%204%2...</a><p>2.) Hot water certainly doesn&#x27;t &quot;evaporate&quot; lead-- lead&#x27;s boiling point is 1700C. Hot water can <i>leach</i> lead from solder joints, if your water isn&#x27;t treated properly: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;ground-water-and-drinking-water&#x2F;basic-information-about-lead-drinking-water" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;ground-water-and-drinking-water&#x2F;basic-in...</a><p>3.) Yeah, lead solder isn&#x27;t great to spend a lot of time with, which is why RoHS was introduced in 2003: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Restriction_of_Hazardous_Substances_Directive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...</a><p>4.) Where are you going to find bulk metallic mercury in any house built in the last three decades?<p>5.) Lead paint was also phased out years ago.<p>6.) Leaded avgas <i>does</i> still exist, and <i>is</i> bad. Don&#x27;t buy property near airports that fly small planes.<p>7.) Teflon is about as chemically inert as a flororcarbon can possibly be. You might be thinking of Perfluorooctanoic acid, which is involved in Teflon production, and is pretty nasty: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Perfluorooctanoic_acid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Perfluorooctanoic_acid</a><p>8.) Aluminum cookware isn&#x27;t toxic, are you nuts?</text></item><item><author>xlayn</author><text>There are things that we shouln&#x27;t work with, but we do because we don&#x27;t know the associated risk, some examples:<p><pre><code> -maintenance of your DOT4 brakes? do not touch the DOT4
brake fuild, it&#x27;s absorbed though your skin and it will
kill your kidneys when they try to filter it.
-Old house in america? check you don&#x27;t have any pipe
soldered with lead, hot water will eventually make it
evaporate
-lead in electrical solder wire
-mercury, a powerful neuro-toxin
</code></pre>
Edit:<p><pre><code> -again, old house, check to change the paint, yep, lead
in the pain again.
-close to an airport? beside noise, lead in the airplanes
fuel
-Teflon... again Dupont and 3M
-Aluminum on cookware... toxic
</code></pre>
lead was one of the technical debts introduced by a guy (1)... the same guy who introduce it to the fuel making a generation at least 10 iq point less smart.... and created the CFCs in aerosol... Dupont, GM and others did a lot of money on that.... as always.<p>(1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thomas_Midgley,_Jr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thomas_Midgley,_Jr</a>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things I Won’t Work With: Peroxide Peroxides (2014)</title><url>http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/things_i_wont_work_with_peroxide_peroxides</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>steffan</author><text>While we&#x27;re issuing corrections...<p>&gt; Hot water can leech lead from solder joints,<p>It&#x27;s <i>leach</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>1) DOT4 doesn&#x27;t exactly jump through the skin-- it&#x27;s no dimethylmercury, or even DMSO. Its MSDS recommends against &quot;prolonged&quot; skin contact. It&#x27;s not much worse than any other common hydrocarbon solvent, like gasoline. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brake-eng.com&#x2F;global&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;dot4fl%20dot%204%20material%20safety%20data%20sheet.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brake-eng.com&#x2F;global&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;dot4fl%20dot%204%2...</a><p>2.) Hot water certainly doesn&#x27;t &quot;evaporate&quot; lead-- lead&#x27;s boiling point is 1700C. Hot water can <i>leach</i> lead from solder joints, if your water isn&#x27;t treated properly: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;ground-water-and-drinking-water&#x2F;basic-information-about-lead-drinking-water" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;ground-water-and-drinking-water&#x2F;basic-in...</a><p>3.) Yeah, lead solder isn&#x27;t great to spend a lot of time with, which is why RoHS was introduced in 2003: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Restriction_of_Hazardous_Substances_Directive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...</a><p>4.) Where are you going to find bulk metallic mercury in any house built in the last three decades?<p>5.) Lead paint was also phased out years ago.<p>6.) Leaded avgas <i>does</i> still exist, and <i>is</i> bad. Don&#x27;t buy property near airports that fly small planes.<p>7.) Teflon is about as chemically inert as a flororcarbon can possibly be. You might be thinking of Perfluorooctanoic acid, which is involved in Teflon production, and is pretty nasty: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Perfluorooctanoic_acid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Perfluorooctanoic_acid</a><p>8.) Aluminum cookware isn&#x27;t toxic, are you nuts?</text></item><item><author>xlayn</author><text>There are things that we shouln&#x27;t work with, but we do because we don&#x27;t know the associated risk, some examples:<p><pre><code> -maintenance of your DOT4 brakes? do not touch the DOT4
brake fuild, it&#x27;s absorbed though your skin and it will
kill your kidneys when they try to filter it.
-Old house in america? check you don&#x27;t have any pipe
soldered with lead, hot water will eventually make it
evaporate
-lead in electrical solder wire
-mercury, a powerful neuro-toxin
</code></pre>
Edit:<p><pre><code> -again, old house, check to change the paint, yep, lead
in the pain again.
-close to an airport? beside noise, lead in the airplanes
fuel
-Teflon... again Dupont and 3M
-Aluminum on cookware... toxic
</code></pre>
lead was one of the technical debts introduced by a guy (1)... the same guy who introduce it to the fuel making a generation at least 10 iq point less smart.... and created the CFCs in aerosol... Dupont, GM and others did a lot of money on that.... as always.<p>(1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thomas_Midgley,_Jr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thomas_Midgley,_Jr</a>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things I Won’t Work With: Peroxide Peroxides (2014)</title><url>http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/things_i_wont_work_with_peroxide_peroxides</url></story> |
15,296,896 | 15,296,845 | 1 | 2 | 15,296,438 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>Considering the recent Pixels were made by HTC, I think Google just wants to cut out the middle man and have its own phone hardware business for the Pixel. This allows them to compete with Apple by having an official flagship and by being able to produce this flagship without the added cost of another company&#x27;s profits and the whims of cellphone OEMs too focused on their own branded products, and all the inefficiencies that brings.<p>HTC has everything Google needs for an in-house Pixel from soup to nuts and they&#x27;re hurting for money. Its a happy coincidence HTC is collapsing right when Google is getting serious about launching its own branded flagship phones.<p>I also suspect aggressive moves like this mean that Samsung is probably going to pull the trigger on a full Tizen move and eventually stop producing android phones. The Pixel is aimed right at Galaxy buyers. I&#x27;m skeptical this is just a coincidence. The agreement that Nexus was kinda, sorta a developer&#x27;s phone and will always be hobbled by mid-range camera, battery, and storage seems to have ended with the Pixel line.<p>I just received a Pixel after my 6P died and its about the closest to iPhone quality I&#x27;ve seen on an Android device. Its clearly a serious attempt by Google to have a proper branded flagship.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gorbachev</author><text>I think this is a good deal for nobody but those HTC engineers Google is going to hire, at least short term.<p>The $330M price is so low none of the HTC investors are going to make any money on it. HTC&#x27;s mobile phone business has been unprofitable for years and Google won&#x27;t make any money on it either.<p>Who knows maybe Google is planning on using the HTC business unit as a sort of an R&amp;D lab for Android hardware, with no real plan on making it a traditionally profitable business.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/google-is-said-close-to-buying-htc-assets-to-bolster-hardware</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gorbachev</author><text>Evan Blass claims Google is acquiring some engineering assets of HTC, and that HTC will retain the brand name.<p>That seems to support my hypothesis about the R&amp;D lab.<p>source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;evleaks&#x2F;status&#x2F;910458246082826240" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;evleaks&#x2F;status&#x2F;910458246082826240</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>gorbachev</author><text>I think this is a good deal for nobody but those HTC engineers Google is going to hire, at least short term.<p>The $330M price is so low none of the HTC investors are going to make any money on it. HTC&#x27;s mobile phone business has been unprofitable for years and Google won&#x27;t make any money on it either.<p>Who knows maybe Google is planning on using the HTC business unit as a sort of an R&amp;D lab for Android hardware, with no real plan on making it a traditionally profitable business.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/google-is-said-close-to-buying-htc-assets-to-bolster-hardware</url></story> |
35,128,930 | 35,129,154 | 1 | 2 | 35,128,646 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>This sounds like it&#x27;s basically the opposite of a bailout: It&#x27;s the FDIC stepping in, removing management, likely wiping out shareholders, but otherwise letting the bank operate normally with customers fully protected - instead of letting management continue to run the bank in ways that may lead to losses.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FDIC Establishes Signature Bridge Bank, N.A., As Successor to Signature Bank</title><url>https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23018.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>everybodyknows</author><text>&gt; The transfer of all the deposits was completed under the systemic risk exception approved earlier today. All depositors of the institution will be made whole.<p>Signature was #32 by total assets. By other Treasury pronouncements, only #1-#4 were &quot;systemically important&quot;. One&#x27;s head spins ...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;banks.data.fdic.gov&#x2F;bankfind-suite&#x2F;financialreporting?establishedEndRange=3%2F12%2F2023&amp;establishedStartRange=01%2F01%2F1792&amp;inactiveEndRange=3%2F12%2F2023&amp;inactiveStartRange=01%2F01%2F1970&amp;incomeBasis=YTD&amp;institutionType=banks&amp;limitEstablishedDate=false&amp;limitInactiveDate=false&amp;pageNumber=2&amp;reportPeriod=20221231&amp;resultLimit=25&amp;sortField=ASSET&amp;sortOrder=DESC&amp;unitType=%24" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;banks.data.fdic.gov&#x2F;bankfind-suite&#x2F;financialreportin...</a><p>&gt; No losses will be borne by the taxpayers.<p>None except those with bank accounts, who can expect higher fees as the balance sheet losses are recovered by what is effectively a systemwide tax on all banks.<p>&gt; Any losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) to support uninsured depositors will be recovered by a special assessment on banks, as required by law.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FDIC Establishes Signature Bridge Bank, N.A., As Successor to Signature Bank</title><url>https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23018.html</url></story> |
9,700,154 | 9,700,097 | 1 | 3 | 9,699,721 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aaggarwal</author><text>These projects on Kickstarter or Indiegogo platforms quickly gets overfunded because of the huge amounts coming to the projects from shady sources. If you would look at the backers of some of these projects, you will see a lot of big anonymous backings. I have even come across some agencies who will take money from the owners of these projects and put them back with multiple fake accounts to make it seem legit. This is why, even some of the hardware projects asks for a little money like 10,000$, when it is clear that hardware production involves high costs. After quickly getting overfunded, these companies takes advantage of PR and tech articles on popular blogs such as techcrunch, wired, and finally end up attracting a few good-natured tech enthusiasts who get deceived. Some of the projects on these platforms are extremely vague with no prototypes, but still are made to be successfully funded. It is great that finally they will be accountable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sageabilly</author><text>I&#x27;m curious why the FTC went after this particular Kickstarter. Was it seen as an &quot;easy win&quot; so the FTC could test the waters of going after other Kickstarter scammers? Will this expand outwards to include other crowdfunding sites as well?<p>I&#x27;m always amazed by how quickly some of the popular Kickstarters are overfunded- like the one recently that was basically a complete rip off of Google&#x27;s Project Ara. Why would someone invest in that? Why would anyone even begin to think that a small no-name company could possibly pull off something like that? <i>Why would someone give them money?</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FTC goes after board game campaign gone wrong in first crowdfunding case</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/06/11/the-ftcs-first-crowdfunding-enforcement-is-over-a-failed-board-game-on-kickstarter/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smackfu</author><text>It seems like there was actual fraud in this case, where he wasn&#x27;t spending the money from the Kickstarter on the project.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sageabilly</author><text>I&#x27;m curious why the FTC went after this particular Kickstarter. Was it seen as an &quot;easy win&quot; so the FTC could test the waters of going after other Kickstarter scammers? Will this expand outwards to include other crowdfunding sites as well?<p>I&#x27;m always amazed by how quickly some of the popular Kickstarters are overfunded- like the one recently that was basically a complete rip off of Google&#x27;s Project Ara. Why would someone invest in that? Why would anyone even begin to think that a small no-name company could possibly pull off something like that? <i>Why would someone give them money?</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FTC goes after board game campaign gone wrong in first crowdfunding case</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/06/11/the-ftcs-first-crowdfunding-enforcement-is-over-a-failed-board-game-on-kickstarter/</url></story> |
27,877,846 | 27,877,780 | 1 | 3 | 27,876,366 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Nbox9</author><text>We’ve known about this effect for awhile. Tree growth has increased on volume but decreased in density since the industrial revolution[0]. A small bump in plant growth can not be seen as anything but the smallest of a silver lining.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0378112718310600" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S037811271...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)</title><url>https://www.noaa.gov/news/study-global-plant-growth-surging-alongside-carbon-dioxide</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nealabq</author><text>I assume plant life is constrained by different things in different locations:<p>- lack of water<p>- too hot<p>- too cold<p>- not enough light (ground level of the rain forest?)<p>- lack of soil nutrients (rain forest?)<p>- too much salt<p>I&#x27;ll add CO2 levels to my mental list, a constraint that&#x27;s independent of location.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)</title><url>https://www.noaa.gov/news/study-global-plant-growth-surging-alongside-carbon-dioxide</url></story> |
7,008,313 | 7,006,307 | 1 | 3 | 7,005,711 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pwang</author><text>I wish more people in the dev community would ponder your experience and decision-making process.<p>I don&#x27;t think Python 3 was a mistake. I understand the reasons for doing it, and the difficult decision making process there. I also have tremendous confidence in core dev team and Guido to make the right decisions even if they are difficult.<p>However, I think calling it Python-next or -NG or something non-numerical would have been better, and CLEARLY signalling that Python 2.x IS NOT DEAD. The big problem is that 3 is bigger than 2, and by advertising that 3 is not yet ready but 2 will no longer be supported, there is sort of an Osborne effect (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Osborne_effect</a>) that is hurting adoption of Python 2 AND Python 3.<p>&quot;Python 3 is the future&quot; but &quot;Python 2 is also the immediate future&quot;, like for the next 3-4 years AT LEAST. My company is undoubtedly going to need to support it for well beyond that. There is no problem here. Python 2 evolved so much over its point revisions that the idioms in 2.7 for instance are vastly more concise and improved from 2.4. Would it have made sense for someone to not learn Python 2.4 just because eventually 2.7 would improve or deprecate some of the things they&#x27;d learned?<p>Looking through the main python.org page through the eyes of a beginner, it&#x27;s hard to find clear guidance on this.<p>My company is squarely in the space of promoting the use of Python for scientific computing and data analysis, and it&#x27;s difficult sometimes to get folks in the community to recognize the difficult job of ambassadorship to other languages, like R, Java, C#, etc. That being said, there is still <i>tremendous</i> adoption of Python for data and scientific purposes, so I&#x27;m not really worried. I&#x27;m just sad to hear that a potential newcomer was driven away by unclear messaging.<p>(Especially to stick with R... &lt;shudder&gt; :-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Stubb</author><text>Speaking from the perspective of someone who doesn&#x27;t code in Python: I recently considered doing so for a scientific computing task at work but quickly ditched the notion. Python 3 seemed the recommended choice for a green-field project, but good luck getting anywhere with it due to poor library support. Want to access a MySQL database, generate 3-D graphics, or use someone else&#x27;s code? Good luck with that! Python 3 may have been released five years ago, but uptake among developers appears negligible. So why not use v2.7? Several features in v3 looked appealing, and documentation makes it clear that v3 is the future. So I decided not to invest in a language that can&#x27;t make up it&#x27;s mind and stuck with R.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python 2.x vs. 3.x survey results</title><url>https://wiki.python.org/moin/2.x-vs-3.x-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>Ixiaus</author><text>This is unnecessarily pessimistic. Most of the major packages support Py3k and if they don&#x27;t it&#x27;s usually very simple to port over (it usually means combining 2to3 with some bytestring to string conversion debugging).<p>I&#x27;m not in the scientific field so forgive me if I&#x27;m being parochial but I&#x27;ve been writing software in Py3k exclusively for a year and half now. Using scientific computing, distributed queue processing, webapp, CLI utilities, etc...<p>[EDIT] Better words.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Stubb</author><text>Speaking from the perspective of someone who doesn&#x27;t code in Python: I recently considered doing so for a scientific computing task at work but quickly ditched the notion. Python 3 seemed the recommended choice for a green-field project, but good luck getting anywhere with it due to poor library support. Want to access a MySQL database, generate 3-D graphics, or use someone else&#x27;s code? Good luck with that! Python 3 may have been released five years ago, but uptake among developers appears negligible. So why not use v2.7? Several features in v3 looked appealing, and documentation makes it clear that v3 is the future. So I decided not to invest in a language that can&#x27;t make up it&#x27;s mind and stuck with R.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python 2.x vs. 3.x survey results</title><url>https://wiki.python.org/moin/2.x-vs-3.x-survey</url></story> |
9,483,174 | 9,483,098 | 1 | 2 | 9,482,618 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Macha</author><text>So, I&#x27;ve actually been working for the past while on a project to allow building more native apps on Android using Python. It is built on the Kivy tools, but I have had to make some changes to python-for-android specifically because it&#x27;s not as seperated from Kivy as the developers think. I&#x27;ve also had to make a small change to PyJNIus, as it has a dependency on SDL when on Android.<p>The reason I chose to work on this is while you can already create an application using Kivy, it sort of exists in its own world compared to standard Android apps. Because you don&#x27;t have separate activities, you can&#x27;t really do stuff like have one of them be launched to handle a specific file or URL (disclaimer: what I&#x27;m building can&#x27;t either yet). There&#x27;s also the same issues you get with mobile apps that are web apps in an APK, where someone has attempted to reimplement native UI widgets and there&#x27;s certain behaviours that are not quite right or missing, or you can&#x27;t use them yet because they haven&#x27;t been replicated in your environment yet.<p>So basically what I&#x27;m doing is the Python equivalent of Xamarin.Android (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.xamarin.com&#x2F;guides&#x2F;Android&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.xamarin.com&#x2F;guides&#x2F;Android&#x2F;</a> ) built on some of the Kivy tools. The idea is that you&#x27;d have the bulk of your logic in cross platform Python and a thin UI layer for any platforms you had. And in the future if someone made a similar thing for iOS, you could build a layer overlying the two of them and get actually native behaviour on both.<p>Overall I&#x27;ve gotten it to the stage where you can create activities, access some standard UI elements and launch third-party apps via Python code, but like I said, it&#x27;s still at a pretty early stage.<p>I&#x27;d intended to open source it when it got to a more usable state, as it&#x27;s pretty much in proof of concept state atm. (bugs ahoy, tests and docs are very lacking, feature coverage is low, setup is a PITA, and the API is too close to the Java API to make for nice Python). These are problems I believe are fixable. If you want to see the current state of it though, it&#x27;s on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;tonyfinn&#x2F;pydroid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;tonyfinn&#x2F;pydroid</a> , but it&#x27;s a bit off how far I&#x27;d like to be before sharing it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python on Android</title><url>http://kivy.org/planet/2015/04/python-on%C2%A0android/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WaxProlix</author><text>Kivy is really cool, but getting started on it sort of sucks. Lots of compilation errors (especially if you&#x27;re trying to install on windows) due to its dependencies on pygame (and therefore cython, and therefore a particular version of MSVS for the specific dll... all a hassle). The on-site tutorials are sort of obtuse too, if you&#x27;re looking to do UIs rather than games - until other resources[1][2] became available, I sort of just gave up because it didn&#x27;t seem worth it to jump through the hoops for a new framework.<p>1 <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;inclem.net&#x2F;pages&#x2F;kivy-crash-course&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;inclem.net&#x2F;pages&#x2F;kivy-crash-course&#x2F;</a><p>2 <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pythonthusiast.pythonblogs.com&#x2F;230_pythonthusiast&#x2F;archive&#x2F;1347_starting_to_use_kivy__developing_letter_of_heroes_an_android_alphabet_teaching_aid_for_kids_part_2_of_2.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pythonthusiast.pythonblogs.com&#x2F;230_pythonthusiast&#x2F;arc...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python on Android</title><url>http://kivy.org/planet/2015/04/python-on%C2%A0android/</url></story> |
41,537,421 | 41,536,856 | 1 | 2 | 41,536,137 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Scoundreller</author><text>&gt; Officials said the vast number of parcels made it harder to block shipments of faulty products and illegal drugs like fentanyl.<p>I don’t believe for a second that their fentanyl interceptions will sufficiently improve otherwise.<p>The reality is that the margin is so strong, other methods (if small individual parcels were even a factor) would fill any gap. Even more interceptions would just lead to more shipments. That’s how good the margins are.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US targets trade loophole used by ecommerce groups Temu and Shein</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/2f07510b-d2c6-4bae-bae3-aa5dfa8bd796</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cheschire</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;aGdbX" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;aGdbX</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US targets trade loophole used by ecommerce groups Temu and Shein</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/2f07510b-d2c6-4bae-bae3-aa5dfa8bd796</url></story> |
37,190,609 | 37,188,675 | 1 | 3 | 37,188,015 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>el_benhameen</author><text>The first computer shop that I went to as a kid (back when computer shops were a thing) had a very distinct smell that still evokes very strong memories for me now. I guess it probably wasn’t the computers themselves, but maybe that foamed rubber material used for mousepads and such, plus maybe some static charge in the air from CRTs or something? Any time I catch that smell, I’m immediately back playing Loom and Monkey Island and oogling at Pentiums and 1 GB hard drives.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nmeagent</author><text>This article immediately brought to mind a particular conversation in season one of Buffy the Vampire Slayer...<p>Jenny: &quot;Honestly, what is it about them that bothers you so much?&quot;<p>Giles: &quot;The smell.&quot;<p>Jenny: &quot;Computers don&#x27;t smell, Rupert.&quot;<p>Giles: &quot;I know. Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no no texture, no-no context. It&#x27;s-it&#x27;s there and then it&#x27;s gone. If it&#x27;s to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible, it should be, um, smelly.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why do old books smell so good?</title><url>https://scienceswitch.com/2023/08/19/why-do-old-books-smell-so-good/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ktpsns</author><text>Computers can be smelly, too. Ever booted up your old Windows 95 box from the basement? The dust blown from the fans has a particular smell. It is even more dramatic for real vintage computing like punch card machines, which smell very oily, in a similar way like very old cars and planes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nmeagent</author><text>This article immediately brought to mind a particular conversation in season one of Buffy the Vampire Slayer...<p>Jenny: &quot;Honestly, what is it about them that bothers you so much?&quot;<p>Giles: &quot;The smell.&quot;<p>Jenny: &quot;Computers don&#x27;t smell, Rupert.&quot;<p>Giles: &quot;I know. Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no no texture, no-no context. It&#x27;s-it&#x27;s there and then it&#x27;s gone. If it&#x27;s to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible, it should be, um, smelly.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why do old books smell so good?</title><url>https://scienceswitch.com/2023/08/19/why-do-old-books-smell-so-good/</url></story> |
25,002,260 | 25,002,165 | 1 | 3 | 25,001,173 | train | <instructions>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;we&#x27;ve had the opposite problem: lots of highly paid tech firms moving into SF.<p>Quite the problem ... the kind of problem that multitudes of cities and regions in the world are desperately trying to recreate.<p>&gt;This has changed the nature of San Francisco in a way that many dislike, including me.<p>This is where progressives don&#x27;t live up to their name. The nature of cities is constant change. Meanwhile the activists are desperately trying to keep change to a minimum so that the character of neighborhoods never changes. It&#x27;s an interesting dichotomy.<p>&gt;because rents have gone up so much, and also it&#x27;s just not as fun, it&#x27;s crowded and stressed.<p>Rents will drop if you increase density ... but that would mean building higher density housing and thereby accepting that the character of cities and neighborhoods change.<p>&gt;I am aware that I am a part of the problem: my wife and I are white, yuppie, dink tech workers. :)<p>The fact that you&#x27;re white and a tech worker isn&#x27;t the problem. It&#x27;s that you had the opportunity to move to San Fransciso for work due to the tech boom, and now you&#x27;re trying to pull the ladder up so others cannot do the same.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kmtrowbr</author><text>I have lived in San Francisco since 2005. Over the time I&#x27;ve lived here, we&#x27;ve had the opposite problem: lots of highly paid tech firms moving into SF. This has changed the nature of San Francisco in a way that many dislike, including me. I was initially attracted to San Francisco because, it was chill, it was beautiful, and it had a lot of eccentric, really interesting people. Many of our good friends had to leave over the years as SF has becoming more unlivable because rents have gone up so much, and also it&#x27;s just not as fun, it&#x27;s crowded and stressed.<p>I am aware that I am a part of the problem: my wife and I are white, yuppie, dink tech workers. :)<p>These issues are complex.<p>I voted yes on Proposition L: the tax is quite small and I think the tech firms are unlikely to leave, meanwhile SF can get more taxes from them (many of them were historically given tax breaks, like Twitter, to move into the mid-market area). If they do leave, I don&#x27;t see that as a bad thing.<p>Meanwhile socioeconomic disparity is an oozing sore in San Francisco, we have billionaires rubbing elbows with homeless people every day. Nationally, we&#x27;ve had round after round of tax cuts for the wealthiest, if SF wants to tax excessive income disparity, I say, fair enough.</text></item><item><author>umeshunni</author><text>More likely, this will just result in businesses continuing to leave San Francisco.<p>The pandemic has given most companies a good reason to do so already and my bet is on most of them not returning to their overpriced San Francisco headquarters when this is eventually over.</text></item><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>Sounds like business will be booming for temp agencies as well as janitorial and facilities maintenance contractors.<p>Whatever the net positive here is wholly negated by the number of stable long term jobs that are going to go away and be replaced by whoever the body shop chooses to send that day. Working for these middle men really sucks compared to working for whoever the service is being provided for (and I say that from experience).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-05/san-francisco-voters-approve-taxes-on-ceos-big-businesses</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cheriot</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen people take that position and I see a fundamental mistake. Look at rust belt cities. Look at NYC in the 70s. When employers leave the people left behind are not better off. This doesn&#x27;t mean we need to kiss big tech ass, but we have a city where getting a job is a solved problem. Very few places on earth have that.<p>Rent prices are the underlying problem pushing people out. Underlying _that_ problem is a lack of supply. SF zoned for and issued permits for a large number of offices, but not the corresponding residential structures to house those new workers. So they came here and were forced to compete with existing residents for a place to live.<p>The fix is to keep the economic prosperity and build more housing.<p>&gt; Meanwhile socioeconomic disparity is an oozing sore in San Francisco<p>I&#x27;d argue that mixed income neighborhoods are the best kind. Many of the mechanisms for disadvantaging poor communities require geographic segregation. School quality, policing practices, etc</text><parent_chain><item><author>kmtrowbr</author><text>I have lived in San Francisco since 2005. Over the time I&#x27;ve lived here, we&#x27;ve had the opposite problem: lots of highly paid tech firms moving into SF. This has changed the nature of San Francisco in a way that many dislike, including me. I was initially attracted to San Francisco because, it was chill, it was beautiful, and it had a lot of eccentric, really interesting people. Many of our good friends had to leave over the years as SF has becoming more unlivable because rents have gone up so much, and also it&#x27;s just not as fun, it&#x27;s crowded and stressed.<p>I am aware that I am a part of the problem: my wife and I are white, yuppie, dink tech workers. :)<p>These issues are complex.<p>I voted yes on Proposition L: the tax is quite small and I think the tech firms are unlikely to leave, meanwhile SF can get more taxes from them (many of them were historically given tax breaks, like Twitter, to move into the mid-market area). If they do leave, I don&#x27;t see that as a bad thing.<p>Meanwhile socioeconomic disparity is an oozing sore in San Francisco, we have billionaires rubbing elbows with homeless people every day. Nationally, we&#x27;ve had round after round of tax cuts for the wealthiest, if SF wants to tax excessive income disparity, I say, fair enough.</text></item><item><author>umeshunni</author><text>More likely, this will just result in businesses continuing to leave San Francisco.<p>The pandemic has given most companies a good reason to do so already and my bet is on most of them not returning to their overpriced San Francisco headquarters when this is eventually over.</text></item><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>Sounds like business will be booming for temp agencies as well as janitorial and facilities maintenance contractors.<p>Whatever the net positive here is wholly negated by the number of stable long term jobs that are going to go away and be replaced by whoever the body shop chooses to send that day. Working for these middle men really sucks compared to working for whoever the service is being provided for (and I say that from experience).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-05/san-francisco-voters-approve-taxes-on-ceos-big-businesses</url></story> |
37,332,233 | 37,331,850 | 1 | 2 | 37,323,727 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonathanlb</author><text>Also, early web content was text-heavy due to bandwidth limits and lack of quality cameras. Now, video platforms like TikTok and Instagram dominate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amrocha</author><text>What changed is that people post their content on platforms now, instead of on the open web.</text></item><item><author>ethbr1</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe &#x27;There&#x27;s no good content anymore.&#x27; There are more people; there&#x27;s more connectivity; there are more digital cameras.<p>IMHO, the thing that changed was the signal:noise ratio.<p>When Google started, it was, what? 1:10? 1:100? Interesting pages : crap.<p>Now it&#x27;s... 1:10,000? 1:1,000,000?<p>That turns a challenging problem into a possibly impossible one.<p>Granted, Google bears culpability in this, because at some point they realized: we can make as much or more money if we optimize for ad delivery than user search intent. And once they showed those cards with a wink, content optimized to this for its own monetization.<p>FFS, look at National Geographic these days: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>smogcutter</author><text>The problem is that the internet we remember from when google was good no longer exists. Blogs are dead. Personal websites are dead. Noncommercial, informational or niche interest websites are dead. Search sucks primarily because there’s nothing worth searching for anymore.<p>Yes, we can most of us name real websites that we still read &amp; rely on. When did those sites <i>start</i> publishing? How many of the creator-controlled, non-commercial websites&#x2F;blogs you read began less than say 5 years ago? I bet the number rounds down to 0.<p>Google search sure as hell played their part in creating this world, but fixing search isn’t going to bring back an internet worth searching.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The End of the Googleverse</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23846048/google-search-memes-images-pagerank-altavista-seo-keywords</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pphysch</author><text>Has the # of &quot;open web&quot; users actually decreased? The proportion obviously has, but what about the absolute number?</text><parent_chain><item><author>amrocha</author><text>What changed is that people post their content on platforms now, instead of on the open web.</text></item><item><author>ethbr1</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe &#x27;There&#x27;s no good content anymore.&#x27; There are more people; there&#x27;s more connectivity; there are more digital cameras.<p>IMHO, the thing that changed was the signal:noise ratio.<p>When Google started, it was, what? 1:10? 1:100? Interesting pages : crap.<p>Now it&#x27;s... 1:10,000? 1:1,000,000?<p>That turns a challenging problem into a possibly impossible one.<p>Granted, Google bears culpability in this, because at some point they realized: we can make as much or more money if we optimize for ad delivery than user search intent. And once they showed those cards with a wink, content optimized to this for its own monetization.<p>FFS, look at National Geographic these days: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>smogcutter</author><text>The problem is that the internet we remember from when google was good no longer exists. Blogs are dead. Personal websites are dead. Noncommercial, informational or niche interest websites are dead. Search sucks primarily because there’s nothing worth searching for anymore.<p>Yes, we can most of us name real websites that we still read &amp; rely on. When did those sites <i>start</i> publishing? How many of the creator-controlled, non-commercial websites&#x2F;blogs you read began less than say 5 years ago? I bet the number rounds down to 0.<p>Google search sure as hell played their part in creating this world, but fixing search isn’t going to bring back an internet worth searching.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The End of the Googleverse</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23846048/google-search-memes-images-pagerank-altavista-seo-keywords</url></story> |
8,805,042 | 8,805,075 | 1 | 2 | 8,804,934 | 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>sosuke</author><text>Just on the subject of programmer salaries, I was talking with someone who had much more experience in the computing industry than myself and he pointed out something I&#x27;d never known. He said that programmer salaries from pre-bubble days was six-figures, and that we&#x27;re still in that range, and not higher is proof that salaries have been kept low. Six-figures today is not what six-figures was worth in 1998. Inflation alone from $100,000 1998 to 2014 is $144,877.91 using <a href="http://www.usinflationcalculator.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usinflationcalculator.com</a><p>And yes, I don&#x27;t trust anyone who cries foul about a shortage of workers and then offers 40% under market wages, anecdote of course.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Immigration, Engineers Simply Don’t Trust VCs</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/27/on-immigration-engineers-simply-dont-trust-vcs/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>On one of the previous threads about this topic, someone suggested that accepting H1-B applicants in order from higher to lower salaries instead of based on a lottery would clear up a lot of the lottery spots that currently go to the below-market-wage-indentured-servant type shops to be used for more deserving companies and applicants.<p>Seems like a solid change to me, without an obvious downside. (But I am not an expert and haven’t done any detailed analysis, so maybe this would have negative consequences I’m not anticipating.)<p>Another change that might be a big improvement, it seems to me, is to let H1-B visa holders more easily change jobs once they’re here, without so much risk or paperwork hoops to jump through. If it were easier for H1-B workers to switch jobs, then abusive employers would have less leverage to exploit them (forced overtime, below-market wages, etc.).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Immigration, Engineers Simply Don’t Trust VCs</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/27/on-immigration-engineers-simply-dont-trust-vcs/</url></story> |
29,913,474 | 29,913,370 | 1 | 3 | 29,912,717 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>testfoobar</author><text>I wish you the best as you figure out the direction of your life.<p>I&#x27;m a bit older and have kids. They&#x27;ve positively impacted my life in ways I could not have imagined when I was younger. Having said that, the speed of climate change and what feels like a global political class that is incapable of taking meaningful action, I am very concerned for my kids&#x27; near future. I cannot imagine a life without them, but I do wonder whether they will suffer, or whether my grand kids will suffer due to climate change. And so I wonder whether the joy and fulfillment they bring me will be worth any suffering they will be forced to endure. I cannot successfully do this computation. I am left with a persistent concern that will not lift.<p>But then I think about people who had children during times of war and during famines. The urge to procreate is so amazingly strong.<p>By definition the adults who will tackle climate change have to be conceived by the adults who will suffer from it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>willio58</author><text>Is anyone on HN reconsidering having children because of climate change? Recently I&#x27;ve had a big shift myself on this topic, probably influenced by not many women my age (younger than 30) having any interest in bringing a child into a world where they could potentially suffer real physical danger due to climate change.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World ocean temperatures in 2021 were the hottest ever recorded</title><url>https://www.axios.com/global-ocean-temperatures-record-high-935b1b7e-2adf-4759-b8a6-d4747a94c809.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>jvanderbot</author><text>Well, the birds aren&#x27;t going to fix climate change.<p>I can&#x27;t speak for the women you know, but the women I know in their 20s-30s tell me they aren&#x27;t thinking about children at all probably thanks to the empowerment of women of the last 100 years.<p>Over my life, I&#x27;ve heard all kinds of excuses for all people to not consider children until they are in their late 30s or 40s, then it&#x27;s a rush. I did the same.<p>I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s climate change.</text><parent_chain><item><author>willio58</author><text>Is anyone on HN reconsidering having children because of climate change? Recently I&#x27;ve had a big shift myself on this topic, probably influenced by not many women my age (younger than 30) having any interest in bringing a child into a world where they could potentially suffer real physical danger due to climate change.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World ocean temperatures in 2021 were the hottest ever recorded</title><url>https://www.axios.com/global-ocean-temperatures-record-high-935b1b7e-2adf-4759-b8a6-d4747a94c809.html</url></story> |
5,765,492 | 5,765,597 | 1 | 3 | 5,765,270 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>minikomi</author><text>Also kind of related - programming by "wishful thinking". You first lay out the flow of the program as calls to high level functions which don't yet exist, and then go back and fill in the functions as you can. The first few SICP video lectures are all about this style, and I found the idea simple but very useful to avoid trying to hold too much of a problem in your head at once.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cheald</author><text>This is really kind of the whole idea behind the "red, green, refactor" mantra. The point isn't to write perfect code right out of the gate, it's to write <i>working</i> code. Once the test is green, then you can refactor as necessary with the confidence that you aren't going to accidentally break things (as the test will backstop you).<p>Ironically, I think this is something that affects seasoned programmers more than new ones; the more you know about the trade, the more voices you have saying "no, that's wrong! Don't do that!", which can freeze progress. The way I combat it is by writing down pseudocode in my source code - literally just english, non-compiling pseudocode - which I then "refactor" into working code (thus the first "green" is "it parses"). By making step 0 the expression of the idea rather "writing the fist line of code", I can get right into the process rather than getting hung up on the "how".</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Too scared to write a line of code</title><url>https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/eef96ea6f4cb?imm_mid=0a9102&cmp=em-velocity-newsletters-vl-save20-20130523-direct</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mawhidby</author><text>Recently (as in a crazy experience over the past week), I've been feeling the same way described by you, and by the OP; but I've scaled this up to a much higher abstracted level.<p>The only way I can really describe it is (in terms of what you just said): "red, green, refactor" your life, not just your job. Constantly question everything you're doing, and find out what you don't like about it. Find the root cause of that feeling, and figure out what you can do to fix it. Find and take the steps to complete that.<p>Edit: I will add though, that the trick is to do so without stopping progress, as you said.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cheald</author><text>This is really kind of the whole idea behind the "red, green, refactor" mantra. The point isn't to write perfect code right out of the gate, it's to write <i>working</i> code. Once the test is green, then you can refactor as necessary with the confidence that you aren't going to accidentally break things (as the test will backstop you).<p>Ironically, I think this is something that affects seasoned programmers more than new ones; the more you know about the trade, the more voices you have saying "no, that's wrong! Don't do that!", which can freeze progress. The way I combat it is by writing down pseudocode in my source code - literally just english, non-compiling pseudocode - which I then "refactor" into working code (thus the first "green" is "it parses"). By making step 0 the expression of the idea rather "writing the fist line of code", I can get right into the process rather than getting hung up on the "how".</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Too scared to write a line of code</title><url>https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/eef96ea6f4cb?imm_mid=0a9102&cmp=em-velocity-newsletters-vl-save20-20130523-direct</url></story> |
27,664,335 | 27,628,355 | 1 | 3 | 27,623,605 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eries</author><text>We looked into this extensively before deciding to pursue an exchange, but found it just isn&#x27;t workable. Investors simply don&#x27;t believe a &quot;certification&quot; is especially binding, as companies can easily undo the certification at any time.<p>People today think of exchanges as just platforms to facilitate trading, but historically this is not how they used to be seen. Exchanges have always had a dual role, as avatars of corporate governance as well as sources of liquidity. We are trying to bring that balance back into the financial infrastructure of capital markets.</text><parent_chain><item><author>liamcardenas</author><text>Last time I read up on LTSE I noticed that the exchange doesn’t operate differently than a traditional stock exchange. Instead the companies in LTSE adopt specific language in their bylaws that orients them toward the long-term. Is this a correct understanding?<p>If you aren’t implementing any exchange-level mechanisms, why does this need to be an exchange at all? Why not just create a template for corporate bylaws that you can certify, like a B-Corp? An LT-Corp, if you will.</text></item><item><author>eries</author><text>Founder&#x2F;CEO of LTSE here. Happy to answer questions if anyone wants to know more, AMA</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twilio, Asana to List on Long Term Stock Exchange</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/twilio-asana-to-list-on-long-term-stock-exchange-as-esg-push-continues-11624565701</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dna_polymerase</author><text>I love how this question, posted mere minutes after the offer to answer any questions, just sits here.<p>LTSE looked like BS before, now I&#x27;m convinced.</text><parent_chain><item><author>liamcardenas</author><text>Last time I read up on LTSE I noticed that the exchange doesn’t operate differently than a traditional stock exchange. Instead the companies in LTSE adopt specific language in their bylaws that orients them toward the long-term. Is this a correct understanding?<p>If you aren’t implementing any exchange-level mechanisms, why does this need to be an exchange at all? Why not just create a template for corporate bylaws that you can certify, like a B-Corp? An LT-Corp, if you will.</text></item><item><author>eries</author><text>Founder&#x2F;CEO of LTSE here. Happy to answer questions if anyone wants to know more, AMA</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twilio, Asana to List on Long Term Stock Exchange</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/twilio-asana-to-list-on-long-term-stock-exchange-as-esg-push-continues-11624565701</url></story> |
37,449,159 | 37,447,676 | 1 | 3 | 37,415,804 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drexlspivey</author><text>ARM is preparing to IPO next week, their main business is collecting license fees. Here are last year’s income statement:<p>Revenue: $2.67B (down from 2.7)<p>Gross profit margin: 96%<p>Net Profit: $524m<p>And they are planning to IPO at a valuation of 60-70 billion dollars! Thats a P&#x2F;E of 130 and a P&#x2F;S of 25. Frankly this is ridiculous for a company that collects license fees, there is no potential for massive growth, all smartphones are using ARM chips already and their biggest client has a perpetual license already. Why is it valued like a tech startup?<p>This is Softbank dumping on retail and they somehow got Apple and Intel to buy a small piece of the IPO (700m combined).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel announces Arm investment, talks up RISC-V</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-confirms-arm-investment-arm-and-risc-v-is-where-the-volumes-are</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>micvbang</author><text>Somewhat related: I believe RISC-V is going to well in the coming decade. I&#x27;ve been trying to figure out what I can invest in to get exposed to it, but have been unable to find anything. If anybody had got any angles, I&#x27;d love to hear them!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel announces Arm investment, talks up RISC-V</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-confirms-arm-investment-arm-and-risc-v-is-where-the-volumes-are</url></story> |
39,475,051 | 39,474,256 | 1 | 2 | 39,473,592 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>I forgot where it was mentioned [1] that the mess comes from a poor management of international feature list.<p>In particular, Google wanted it to be successful in India.<p>But the prior app was designed with USA sensibilities and requirements. Such as, oh, requiring an email and Google account! The thought was that this wouldn&#x27;t fly in India, and it had to work with just a phone number.<p>I&#x27;m sure there were perverse&#x2F;crossed incentives on delivery deadlines that lead the leadership team to decide that completely breaking the existing flow&#x2F;splitting the userbase was the way forward.<p>[1] Perhaps this Ars Technica article from 2022: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;google-wallet-rolls-out-to-users-will-live-alongside-google-pay-in-the-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;google-wallet-rolls-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>dcchambers</author><text>Google&#x27;s history with their payment apps&#x2F;platform is almost as convoluted as their history with message apps&#x2F;platforms.<p>I swear they have gone back and forth on Android Pay&#x2F;Google Wallet&#x2F;Google Pay a half dozen times.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Pay app will no longer be available</title><url>https://support.google.com/googlepay/answer/14555219?hl=en</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>You mean Google TalkVoiceWaveBuzzDiscoHangoutsmeetHuddleHangoutsAlloDuoHangoutsmeetHangoutschatPhonemessagingChat?<p>Google does not mess around with adherence to &quot;naming things is hard.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>dcchambers</author><text>Google&#x27;s history with their payment apps&#x2F;platform is almost as convoluted as their history with message apps&#x2F;platforms.<p>I swear they have gone back and forth on Android Pay&#x2F;Google Wallet&#x2F;Google Pay a half dozen times.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Pay app will no longer be available</title><url>https://support.google.com/googlepay/answer/14555219?hl=en</url></story> |
26,090,358 | 26,087,809 | 1 | 3 | 26,080,760 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yatac42</author><text>&gt; Also, the mutable default arguments problem is quite difficult to solve in any other way. Python never copies things for you.<p>Why would it need to copy anything? What&#x27;s wrong with just evaluating the default argument expression every time the function is called with a default argument rather than once at definition-time? That&#x27;s how it works in other languages.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toxik</author><text>A previous mistake does not make a convincing argument for making a new mistake. Also, the mutable default arguments problem is quite difficult to solve in any other way. Python never copies things for you.<p>Pattern matching is a desired feature, but the shortcomings are too costly for what it provides. You just outlined yourself the quickest foot-gun I&#x27;ve ever seen.<p>My second problem is that this violates many of the invariants you rely on while programming Python. f(x) always gives you the value of applying f to x. Nope, not in case. | means bitwise or. Nope, not in case. a means the value of a. NOPE. Not in case.</text></item><item><author>davesque</author><text>Honestly I&#x27;m not sure what all the fuss is about. I just skimmed over PEP 634 and PEP 636 (the accompanying tutorial) and I&#x27;m actually kind of excited to use this. I&#x27;ve missed this feature after using langs like Rust, Haskell, and Scala. People have pointed out some surprising edge cases such as this:<p><pre><code> NOT_FOUND = 404
match get_status():
case NOT_FOUND:
# this actually assigns to the global NOT_FOUND
# and is effectively the default case
case _:
# this never gets triggered
</code></pre>
Yeah, I agree that&#x27;s a bit ugly. But you <i>can</i> apparently do this:<p><pre><code> class Status(Enum):
NOT_FOUND = 404
match get_status():
case Status.NOT_FOUND:
# works as expected
...
</code></pre>
And really how is any of that more ugly than this?<p><pre><code> def func_with_default(foo={}):
if &quot;bar&quot; not in foo:
# &quot;bar&quot; is set in the module-level dict that
# was initialized when the func def was parsed,
# not in a dict that is created per call
foo[&quot;bar&quot;] = ...
...
</code></pre>
And we&#x27;ve been living with that one for years. These are just the things that you have to learn when you start using Python, just like any other language.<p>I, for one, am excited to start using this syntax.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pattern matching accepted for Python</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/845480/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>globuous</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it the same in ML though (using the same syntax in different contexts) ? Compare `| [a, b] =&gt; a + b` and `let my_list = [a, b]`. Same in JS, `let {a, b} = {a: 1, b: 2}` and `let d = {a, b}`. It&#x27;s weird at first but then you just get used to it.<p>edit: updated list name since pipe (&quot;|&quot;) and small L (&quot;l&quot;) look kind similar in the code snippets.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toxik</author><text>A previous mistake does not make a convincing argument for making a new mistake. Also, the mutable default arguments problem is quite difficult to solve in any other way. Python never copies things for you.<p>Pattern matching is a desired feature, but the shortcomings are too costly for what it provides. You just outlined yourself the quickest foot-gun I&#x27;ve ever seen.<p>My second problem is that this violates many of the invariants you rely on while programming Python. f(x) always gives you the value of applying f to x. Nope, not in case. | means bitwise or. Nope, not in case. a means the value of a. NOPE. Not in case.</text></item><item><author>davesque</author><text>Honestly I&#x27;m not sure what all the fuss is about. I just skimmed over PEP 634 and PEP 636 (the accompanying tutorial) and I&#x27;m actually kind of excited to use this. I&#x27;ve missed this feature after using langs like Rust, Haskell, and Scala. People have pointed out some surprising edge cases such as this:<p><pre><code> NOT_FOUND = 404
match get_status():
case NOT_FOUND:
# this actually assigns to the global NOT_FOUND
# and is effectively the default case
case _:
# this never gets triggered
</code></pre>
Yeah, I agree that&#x27;s a bit ugly. But you <i>can</i> apparently do this:<p><pre><code> class Status(Enum):
NOT_FOUND = 404
match get_status():
case Status.NOT_FOUND:
# works as expected
...
</code></pre>
And really how is any of that more ugly than this?<p><pre><code> def func_with_default(foo={}):
if &quot;bar&quot; not in foo:
# &quot;bar&quot; is set in the module-level dict that
# was initialized when the func def was parsed,
# not in a dict that is created per call
foo[&quot;bar&quot;] = ...
...
</code></pre>
And we&#x27;ve been living with that one for years. These are just the things that you have to learn when you start using Python, just like any other language.<p>I, for one, am excited to start using this syntax.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pattern matching accepted for Python</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/845480/</url></story> |
4,541,006 | 4,540,970 | 1 | 2 | 4,540,725 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vm</author><text>RPX Corporation was created to be the white knight that you describe. It is a for-profit company with a $600M mkt cap. Kleiner, CRV and Index invested significant capital in it (I believe Kleiner incubated it).<p>Basically, your company pays a % of revenues to be part of their patent protection scheme. They get to license your patents, which they allow other members to use. They purchase patents outright as well (though haven't been able to compete with bids from Apple, Google, Microsoft and the like).<p>From their website: "Our pioneering approach combines principal capital, deep patent expertise, and client contributions to generate enhanced patent buying power to manage patent risks and ongoing costs. By acquiring potential problem patents, we significantly reduce patent assertions directed at our client network. We will never assert or litigate the patents in our portfolio."<p>This doesn't solve the problem of large companies litigating frivolous patent claims, though it does fight against patent trolls.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robomartin</author><text>I've posted this a few times on HN. The solution to this problem is, in my humble opinion, very simple. Rather than presenting a divided community to trolls, we have to present a united front. This would come in the form of a legal support organization that would be 100% dedicated to fighting trolls on behalf of it's members.<p>Call it insurance, if you will. Member companies would pay a monthly or yearly membership fee. In exchange for this the organization would evaluate any and all patent lawsuits and consider them for representation. It's stated mission would be to defend members from trolls.<p>How?<p>Well, for starters, imagine a legal organization with hundreds of
millions of dollars in the bank. How many trolls would dare risk going up against them?<p>Second, I am not a lawyer, but I imagine that there would be a way for this organization to also create a cross-licensing ecosystem for member companies. Maybe this is ridiculous. I don't know. Imagine that every patent of every member company becomes an automatic IP license --only for the purpose of patent defense-- for all members. This means that for my annual fee I could have a virtual shield consisting of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of patents protecting me.<p>How much is that worth? Any company doing anything at all that is not trivial should easily be able to afford a $10K per year fee. larger companies could do a lot more. Smaller ones less. It is not hard to imagine raising tens of millions of dollars per year and even reaching a hundred million. With careful management this organization could easily amass a billion dollars in the bank over a number of years.<p>This would effectively destroy the troll business without legislation and it would probably do wonders towards decimating bullshit software patents (or bullshit patents in general).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay</title><url>http://www.rackspace.com/blog/patent-trolls-make-them-pay/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>Ironically, this was more or less the original business model behind Intellectual Ventures themselves. I guess they quickly figured out that the money is on the other side.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robomartin</author><text>I've posted this a few times on HN. The solution to this problem is, in my humble opinion, very simple. Rather than presenting a divided community to trolls, we have to present a united front. This would come in the form of a legal support organization that would be 100% dedicated to fighting trolls on behalf of it's members.<p>Call it insurance, if you will. Member companies would pay a monthly or yearly membership fee. In exchange for this the organization would evaluate any and all patent lawsuits and consider them for representation. It's stated mission would be to defend members from trolls.<p>How?<p>Well, for starters, imagine a legal organization with hundreds of
millions of dollars in the bank. How many trolls would dare risk going up against them?<p>Second, I am not a lawyer, but I imagine that there would be a way for this organization to also create a cross-licensing ecosystem for member companies. Maybe this is ridiculous. I don't know. Imagine that every patent of every member company becomes an automatic IP license --only for the purpose of patent defense-- for all members. This means that for my annual fee I could have a virtual shield consisting of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of patents protecting me.<p>How much is that worth? Any company doing anything at all that is not trivial should easily be able to afford a $10K per year fee. larger companies could do a lot more. Smaller ones less. It is not hard to imagine raising tens of millions of dollars per year and even reaching a hundred million. With careful management this organization could easily amass a billion dollars in the bank over a number of years.<p>This would effectively destroy the troll business without legislation and it would probably do wonders towards decimating bullshit software patents (or bullshit patents in general).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay</title><url>http://www.rackspace.com/blog/patent-trolls-make-them-pay/</url></story> |
16,227,050 | 16,225,890 | 1 | 2 | 16,225,531 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dumbneurologist</author><text>I am a neurologist. this is actually the exact opposite of what you <i>should</i> care about, which is &quot;does it work to treat ___&quot;<p>In this trial, and 99% of other trials, there is no mechanism provided by the study, only a measurement of causality (which is the same thing as effectiveness).<p>The authors may think they know based on other, prior, basic science research (as they are postulating here), but it does not affect the conclusions of the trial ( whether they do or don&#x27;t (or even if they are wrong).<p>Obviously it&#x27;s intellectually satisfying to understand WHY, but it&#x27;s not as important as &quot;is it true?&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrguyorama</author><text>&gt;Because curcumin&#x27;s anti-inflammatory properties may protect the brain from neurodegeneration<p>My very first question was: Please provide a possible physiological pathway for this. I&#x27;m so glad it was answered in the very first sentence. So many of these &quot;Superfood does X&quot; studies are just trials with 10 people over a month, with no explanation as to __how__ it could possibly happen. It significantly increases the skepticism I have whenever something like this comes up<p>I also did not know Turmeric had anti-inflammatory properties. I guess I have reading to do.<p>Also interesting that they used (what seems to be) a name brand supplement instead of Turmeric</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds</title><url>https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1064748117305110/1-s2.0-S1064748117305110-main.pdf?_tid=55b0e2e0-013c-11e8-b35b-00000aab0f01&acdnat=1516822117_7ded3d2cd7f5c27fedf6a8992e549857</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blacksmith_tb</author><text>For all the claims of bioavailability, I was surprised to see that Theracumin(R) doesn&#x27;t seem to contain piperine[1] or any perines (which are usually in curry powder courtesy of black pepper). The 90mg dosage also seemed low, I have been taking 500mg of 95% extract daily for a couple of years.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;9619120" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;9619120</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mrguyorama</author><text>&gt;Because curcumin&#x27;s anti-inflammatory properties may protect the brain from neurodegeneration<p>My very first question was: Please provide a possible physiological pathway for this. I&#x27;m so glad it was answered in the very first sentence. So many of these &quot;Superfood does X&quot; studies are just trials with 10 people over a month, with no explanation as to __how__ it could possibly happen. It significantly increases the skepticism I have whenever something like this comes up<p>I also did not know Turmeric had anti-inflammatory properties. I guess I have reading to do.<p>Also interesting that they used (what seems to be) a name brand supplement instead of Turmeric</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds</title><url>https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1064748117305110/1-s2.0-S1064748117305110-main.pdf?_tid=55b0e2e0-013c-11e8-b35b-00000aab0f01&acdnat=1516822117_7ded3d2cd7f5c27fedf6a8992e549857</url></story> |
9,145,059 | 9,143,968 | 1 | 2 | 9,143,570 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joshuaheard</author><text>As a lawyer, I am always excited to see innovation in the legal space. This seems like an interesting concept: using an algorithm to summarize a document (contract) and to flag unusual clauses. Put the document in, and out comes the legal blessing.<p>However, I am a little concerned about the viability of this concept in terms of producing a valuable analysis. A true analysis considers the context of a document. For instance, a one-year term is a common residential lease clause. However, what if the tenant was under a 6 month employment contract and needed to change locations? The algorithm would not know this and would not flag the clause. Or what if the tenant was 17 years old and couldn&#x27;t legally sign contracts in the first place?<p>Sometimes interpretation of a contract comes down to the exact wording of a contract. Most boilerplate language is the result of years of evolution and precedent. A summary might subtly change or obscure the meaning.<p>Finally, you are getting very close, if not into, the unauthorized practice of law. I recommend contacting your state bar association for feedback.<p>That being said, I input my email address into your website and look forward to monitoring your progress.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Understand contracts before you sign them</title><url>https://www.lawgeex.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>pdkl95</author><text>We have the ability to calculate a rough estimate of the time required to read a given text. This means we can create a law that states that for a contract to be valid, each party must be given at least 80% of that time[1] for the contract to be considered valid.<p>Don&#x27;t want to give the necessary 30-60min? Don&#x27;t write so long of a contract, or figure out a way to do without.<p>[1] 20% is to remove any margin of error in the calculation; the exact amount is configurable</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Understand contracts before you sign them</title><url>https://www.lawgeex.com</url></story> |
11,460,236 | 11,459,659 | 1 | 3 | 11,454,408 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spangry</author><text>Phoronix is great for quickly getting up to speed with what&#x27;s happening in core &#x2F; desktop linux development. I tried using it with an adblocker exception, but the pages loaded so slowly or not at all (because the adserver was overloaded or something). Adblocker went back on after that.<p>I really want to subscribe for a year, but the only option is a recurring subscription through paypal. Yes, yes, I know I can just go in to paypal and cancel the recurring subscription (once I figure out where it is). But I have this weird paranoia that canceling in paypal will also cancel my premium access.<p>Michael, if you&#x27;re reading this, I have a few suggestions on how you might increase conversion rates to premium:<p>- Offer non-recurring annual subscription<p>- Make it easier to sign up for premium. Instead of having to create a forum account first, why not have it run the other way (or both ways)? Someone hits the premium button on the front page, enters their email, password and payment and that&#x27;s it. Afterwards, they can optionally choose a forum nickname.<p>- Consider offering forms of payment other than paypal. I always feel a little dirty after using paypal, and avoid them if I can. Bitcoin would be nice (maybe through one of those intermediaries that shields you from BTC volatility risk).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Premium-For-Everyone-Today</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>devin_lane</author><text>Did not realize Michael works on that 100+ hours a week. Totally insane. Thanks for all the benchmarks and Linux info -- $35&#x2F;year for you :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Premium-For-Everyone-Today</url></story> |
15,361,463 | 15,361,560 | 1 | 3 | 15,356,771 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>StanislavPetrov</author><text>&gt;But I keep hearing employment is great, productivity is great, stock market is great<p>The question you have to ask is, who are you hearing this from? The answer is: people with a vested interest in making you believe the economy is doing great, or people fooled into believing this by those with a vested interest.<p>I suggest you closely examine the metrics used by those who claim the &quot;economy is great&quot;. First these metrics are usually comparing year-over-year changes to point to &quot;positive changes&quot; in the economy. What they fail to announce is that the formulas they use to calculate these metrics are &quot;adjusted&quot; regularly to ensure that the numbers they seek are reflected. CPI is a perfect example. The FED claims that inflation has been very low, if not non-existent for years (good for workers, since their wages have fallen or remained stagnant for decades). Some have noted, however, that prices for most of the things people need to survive (food, rent, education, healthcare, insurance) continue to rise dramatically. How can this be? Well one way the FED lies with their numbers is through a mechanism called the &quot;hedonic adjustment&quot;. If you paid $2 for a roll 60-sheet roll of toilet paper last year. This year you paid $3 for a 60-sheet roll this year, that&#x27;s some serious inflation, right? Not according to the FED. The FED claims that the quality of the toilet paper is better now. Even though you are paying 50% more, the FED says the toilet paper is 50% better, so there is no inflation. How are these &quot;hedonic adjustments&quot; calculated? Arbitrarily by FED functionaries, in a black-box.<p>Rising debt, falling and stagnant wages, higher prices, consolidation of wealth - these are the real conditions we face and why our economy is lagging. Many will look at you as if you are wearing a tinfoil hat if you question the &quot;official numbers&quot;, but even casual scrutiny of the methods and metrics used (the ones they do release) will raise substantial doubts about their worth.</text><parent_chain><item><author>1_2__4</author><text>I hate sounding both old and weird but I cannot shake the feeling that much of the claims of economic health and growth in the US is... if not fake (I’m not totally nuts) but not accurate. My most charitable interpretation if I’m right is that we’re using the wrong metrics (possibly intentionally) that give a distorted view of the economy. But I keep hearing employment is great, productivity is great, stock market is great, and yet it seems like most anecdotal evidence I see and read about suggest this is all hollow, and things are actually really bad for the average American.<p>I don’t know. I know how it sounds. But I can’t stop thinking that stuff isn’t adding up. And this article is one more to add to the pile of “how can this be happening if the economy is actually healthy, at least in a way that means people’s financial lives are healthy and prosperous?”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More Americans Are Falling Behind on Student Loans, and Nobody Quite Knows Why</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/more-americans-are-falling-behind-on-student-loans-and-nobody-quite-knows-why</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CaptSpify</author><text>Sure it&#x27;s fake. Our economic models are so out of touch with reality, it&#x27;s a wonder the system works at all. We treat digital goods the same as physical goods, we spend tons of money to prop up giant failing structures instead of letting them fall apart, we let those that make the most walk away without paying their fair share, we subsidize stuff that nobody wants and is harmful to us, and aren&#x27;t even close to making anyone pay for externalities accurately.<p>I feel like we&#x27;re headed into a really deep economic downturn, but hey, at least we have plenty of golden parachutes for the rich!</text><parent_chain><item><author>1_2__4</author><text>I hate sounding both old and weird but I cannot shake the feeling that much of the claims of economic health and growth in the US is... if not fake (I’m not totally nuts) but not accurate. My most charitable interpretation if I’m right is that we’re using the wrong metrics (possibly intentionally) that give a distorted view of the economy. But I keep hearing employment is great, productivity is great, stock market is great, and yet it seems like most anecdotal evidence I see and read about suggest this is all hollow, and things are actually really bad for the average American.<p>I don’t know. I know how it sounds. But I can’t stop thinking that stuff isn’t adding up. And this article is one more to add to the pile of “how can this be happening if the economy is actually healthy, at least in a way that means people’s financial lives are healthy and prosperous?”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More Americans Are Falling Behind on Student Loans, and Nobody Quite Knows Why</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/more-americans-are-falling-behind-on-student-loans-and-nobody-quite-knows-why</url></story> |
12,858,635 | 12,858,746 | 1 | 2 | 12,858,382 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atourgates</author><text>&gt; The Ugly: Really expensive, even in the context of past MacBook Pros.<p>I find this conclusion, and the article&#x27;s discussion of Apple&#x27;s current laptop lineup, to be the most interesting part of the article.<p>In comparison to the 2015 13&quot; MacBook pro, you get some minor hardware updates, a bit of increased thinness, some changes to ports, and the honor of paying an extra $200.<p>It doesn&#x27;t seem like a very good value, especially when it&#x27;s the bottom of the lineup distinguished more by what&#x27;s missing (touch bar, touchID and extra ports) than what it adds to last year&#x27;s model.<p>I was hoping that the marketplace would punish them, but if Schiller&#x27;s comments about the new MacBook Pro getting more orders than any previous pro model are accurate, it looks like I&#x27;m in the minority.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Review: The MacBook Pro is an expensive MacBook Air on the inside</title><url>http://m.arstechnica.com/apple/2016/11/review-cheapest-2016-macbook-pro-is-good-but-its-missing-all-the-cool-stuff/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gnicholas</author><text>It is amazing that a review in Ars recommends—even for a subset of users—getting a refurb last-gen model. But I give them credit for making this honest assessment.<p>Just yesterday I was thinking that when I upgrade from my current laptop (the recently-discontinued 11&quot; MBA), it will likely be to a used 13&quot; MBP. If money and dongles were no object, I&#x27;d take the plunge on a new one. (But cost is a consideration for me, and dongles is a consideration for everyone!)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Review: The MacBook Pro is an expensive MacBook Air on the inside</title><url>http://m.arstechnica.com/apple/2016/11/review-cheapest-2016-macbook-pro-is-good-but-its-missing-all-the-cool-stuff/</url></story> |
34,006,205 | 34,006,193 | 1 | 2 | 34,005,889 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jrib</author><text>not an expert, but my understanding is it depends on how the severance is paid off.<p>If the company keeps you on payroll and pays you weekly, then you cannot collect unemployment. If the company gives you a lump sum then you may be able to.<p>If a condition of the severance is that you sign a document saying you are quitting instead of being fired, then you cannot collect unemployment.<p>My understanding comes from recent googling because of similar layoffs that happened at my company. I&#x27;d welcome more informed thoughts on the matter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robofanatic</author><text>just curious, can one collect unemployment during severance?</text></item><item><author>jackson1442</author><text>Layoffs are going to suck regardless, but this is one of the best severance packages I&#x27;ve seen in this wave:<p>* 15 weeks base pay + 1 week per year of employment<p>* 6 months COBRA + $300 mental health<p>* no 1-yr cliff, options can be exercised thru next year<p>* you can keep all your equipment</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apollo Layoffs</title><url>https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/ceo-geoff-schmidts-message-to-apollo-employees/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cmh89</author><text>It&#x27;s state by state. I know you can collect unemployment while receiving severance in Washington.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robofanatic</author><text>just curious, can one collect unemployment during severance?</text></item><item><author>jackson1442</author><text>Layoffs are going to suck regardless, but this is one of the best severance packages I&#x27;ve seen in this wave:<p>* 15 weeks base pay + 1 week per year of employment<p>* 6 months COBRA + $300 mental health<p>* no 1-yr cliff, options can be exercised thru next year<p>* you can keep all your equipment</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apollo Layoffs</title><url>https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/ceo-geoff-schmidts-message-to-apollo-employees/</url></story> |
32,657,027 | 32,655,083 | 1 | 2 | 32,649,123 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>assttoasstmgr</author><text>Have you considered that your average soft SV male feminist-type isn&#x27;t the target audience for a couple of east coast comedians - who are by and large complete degenerates, and I use that term with all due respect - riffing on degenerate topics that are humorous to a significant segment of the population?<p>Much of stand up comedy comes from an extremely dark place, and its successes derived from relating stories about their messed up lives to an audience who for a fleeting moment live vicariously through them or find humorous the complete insanity and barbarity they just witnessed. And this type of comedy is very successful. To deny this is at best naive and myopic and at worst deliberate ignorance of the world around us.<p>It&#x27;s not exclusive to the east coast; go listen to some Bobby Lee brothel stories on YouTube and prepare to be uncomfortable. These are real people, telling real stories about their past.<p>Please understand that people have different tastes; there is a large audience for this type of humor; everyone else try not to choke on your own tears laughing it up with Stephen Colbert.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>I&#x27;m not going to bother digging up the clip cuz it&#x27;s easy to find, but it pretty much tells you what you need to know about Rogan.<p>It&#x27;s him talking to Joe Diaz, where Diaz is bragging about how when he was the manager at Laugh Factory he wouldn&#x27;t book female comics unless they sucked his dick. Rogan asks him how many women he did this to and Diaz says a dozen or something, and Rogan starts hyena laughing like it&#x27;s the funniest thing he&#x27;s ever heard.<p>Rogan gets some great guests on, but don&#x27;t be fooled by his &quot;aw schucks I&#x27;m just a bro asking questions&quot; act. He knows exactly what he&#x27;s doing and he&#x27;s a lot more predatory than his on camera character.<p>Something to consider before you associate your brand with him. Probably better to find an up and rising podcast.<p>Edit: freetime2 dug up the clip below and it&#x27;s even worse than I recalled.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience</title><url>https://lulu.substack.com/p/joe-rogan-has-a-werewolf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>freetime2</author><text>Here&#x27;s the clip for anyone who&#x27;s curious:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;arts-entertainment&#x2F;comedy&#x2F;news&#x2F;joe-rogan-joe-coco-diaz-female-comedians-oral-sex-podcast-video-a9576961.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;arts-entertainment&#x2F;comedy&#x2F;news...</a><p>I&#x27;m generally fairly ambivalent about Joe Rogan. I will listen occasionally if he has an interesting guest, and I feel a lot of the outrage about him is overblown. But I agree this is pretty disgusting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>I&#x27;m not going to bother digging up the clip cuz it&#x27;s easy to find, but it pretty much tells you what you need to know about Rogan.<p>It&#x27;s him talking to Joe Diaz, where Diaz is bragging about how when he was the manager at Laugh Factory he wouldn&#x27;t book female comics unless they sucked his dick. Rogan asks him how many women he did this to and Diaz says a dozen or something, and Rogan starts hyena laughing like it&#x27;s the funniest thing he&#x27;s ever heard.<p>Rogan gets some great guests on, but don&#x27;t be fooled by his &quot;aw schucks I&#x27;m just a bro asking questions&quot; act. He knows exactly what he&#x27;s doing and he&#x27;s a lot more predatory than his on camera character.<p>Something to consider before you associate your brand with him. Probably better to find an up and rising podcast.<p>Edit: freetime2 dug up the clip below and it&#x27;s even worse than I recalled.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience</title><url>https://lulu.substack.com/p/joe-rogan-has-a-werewolf</url></story> |
23,899,495 | 23,898,985 | 1 | 2 | 23,897,779 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ageitgey</author><text>You are misunderstanding the point of this study. This is a Phase 1 study designed to show that the vaccine itself doesn&#x27;t directly make people sick and to measure their antibody responses via blood tests.<p>The on-going Phase 2&#x2F;3 trials in the UK, South Africa and Brazil are designed to establish the efficacy of the vaccine under viral challenge. The idea is that you vaccinate a bunch of people (and an equally-sized control group) and wait around until a subset of them test positive for the virus. Then you unblind the groups and make sure that the people who got sick were in the control group. You also check for ADE (antibody dependent enhancement) to make sure the vaccine doesn&#x27;t amplify the strength of the virus.<p>All your questions are valid, but this study doesn&#x27;t claim to answer them. Those results are still forthcoming. Additionally, the risk of ADE is well understood and carefully considered in the design of these trials.<p>(Disclaimer - I&#x27;m a participant in the UK Phase 2&#x2F;3 trial)</text><parent_chain><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>It seems like they tested for antibodies, but this article makes no mention of challenges to the real virus.<p>It&#x27;s important to remember that vaccines for previous coronaviruses (SARS&#x2F;MERS) had reports of generating anitbodies, but also causing immunopathic responses or immune enhancement syndrome:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3335060&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3335060&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;117&#x2F;15&#x2F;8218" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;117&#x2F;15&#x2F;8218</a><p>&gt;Is it safe?<p>It&#x27;s really really to early to say yes or no, and the fact that the article tries to make a claim either way, is worrying. Vaccines for new families of viruses traditionally take years or decades to develop. We still don&#x27;t have vaccines for retroviruses like HIV&#x2F;Herpes (and it may not be possible due to the nature of those viruses).<p>I&#x27;ve had all my vaccinations; I&#x27;m not an anti-vaxer. But I do have concerns on trying to push out any novel vaccine in less than two years without adequate testing.<p>Although this virus has killed many, the risk factor for it is nowhere near high enough to warrant an emergency vaccine. There are trials underway for inhaled steroids that look very promising, and there&#x27;s a good chance this virus will burn out in our population long before a truly safe vaccine comes to market.<p>Having a viable treatment option seems much more valuable and safer than vaccinations in this particular case.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53469839</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>KaiserPro</author><text>&gt; Although this virus has killed many, the risk factor for it is nowhere near high enough to warrant an emergency vaccine. There are trials underway for inhaled steroids that look very promising, and there&#x27;s a good chance this virus will burn out in our population long before a truly safe vaccine comes to market.<p>I think your perception of the numbers are a little off here. In the UK, we were loosing 1100 people a day entirely through covid (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coronavirus.data.gov.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coronavirus.data.gov.uk&#x2F;</a>) That was most from a few hot spots like london. (less than 10% of the population.) We were very close to overwhelming hospitals. when a hospital system is overwhelmed you get a very large spike in deaths, because stuff that&#x27;s treatable isn&#x27;t treated<p>without lockdown, those deaths would have grown exponentially. Something like 200-400k preventable deaths.<p>so, if we want to get out of lockdown, we need to have something to reduce the spread of the virus. One way is heard immunity (thats what the US is doing, and its not going very well) another is vaccine.<p>Now, given the UK example, if the vaccine causes 10 deaths, and 1000 severe reactions(ie hospitalised) thats still better than the 200k deaths and close to a million cases with complications<p>Deaths arn&#x27;t the whole picture, its the people that recover with life altering injuries as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>It seems like they tested for antibodies, but this article makes no mention of challenges to the real virus.<p>It&#x27;s important to remember that vaccines for previous coronaviruses (SARS&#x2F;MERS) had reports of generating anitbodies, but also causing immunopathic responses or immune enhancement syndrome:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3335060&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3335060&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;117&#x2F;15&#x2F;8218" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;117&#x2F;15&#x2F;8218</a><p>&gt;Is it safe?<p>It&#x27;s really really to early to say yes or no, and the fact that the article tries to make a claim either way, is worrying. Vaccines for new families of viruses traditionally take years or decades to develop. We still don&#x27;t have vaccines for retroviruses like HIV&#x2F;Herpes (and it may not be possible due to the nature of those viruses).<p>I&#x27;ve had all my vaccinations; I&#x27;m not an anti-vaxer. But I do have concerns on trying to push out any novel vaccine in less than two years without adequate testing.<p>Although this virus has killed many, the risk factor for it is nowhere near high enough to warrant an emergency vaccine. There are trials underway for inhaled steroids that look very promising, and there&#x27;s a good chance this virus will burn out in our population long before a truly safe vaccine comes to market.<p>Having a viable treatment option seems much more valuable and safer than vaccinations in this particular case.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53469839</url></story> |
12,065,005 | 12,063,439 | 1 | 3 | 12,059,776 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elliotchance</author><text>That is a fantastically comprehensive list - I was racking my brain for a while to try and think of something before I replied. Not sure if this one is covered already but maybe...<p>Student; is able to ask for help.<p>A lot of these are hard to objectively test for (in a recruiting sense) because they can be subjective or be dependant on the working environment itself. It never hurts to have more information that less, though!</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewstuart</author><text>I wrote on characteristics of a great software developer a while back.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supercoders.com.au&#x2F;blog&#x2F;50characteristicsofagreatsoftwaredeveloper.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supercoders.com.au&#x2F;blog&#x2F;50characteristicsofagreat...</a><p>The problem is that people try to recruit for these things.<p>When recruiting, follows Joel&#x27;s advice - smart and gets stuff done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Makes a Great Software Engineer? Just My Thoughts</title><url>http://elliot.land/what-makes-a-great-software-engineer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>billforsternz</author><text>Really impressive work. You&#x27;ve taken &quot;smart and gets things done&quot; to the next level.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewstuart</author><text>I wrote on characteristics of a great software developer a while back.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supercoders.com.au&#x2F;blog&#x2F;50characteristicsofagreatsoftwaredeveloper.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supercoders.com.au&#x2F;blog&#x2F;50characteristicsofagreat...</a><p>The problem is that people try to recruit for these things.<p>When recruiting, follows Joel&#x27;s advice - smart and gets stuff done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Makes a Great Software Engineer? Just My Thoughts</title><url>http://elliot.land/what-makes-a-great-software-engineer</url></story> |
27,706,645 | 27,705,780 | 1 | 2 | 27,703,014 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>barefootcoder</author><text>About 4 or 5 years ago I was working at one place as a consultant where I’d previously been an employee. Being a consultant I provided my own hardware. I needed really beefy hardware for the project, so I bought a brand new Thinkpad P50, completely maxed out.<p>One day the IT guy was making the rounds distributing new laptops. I got to chatting with him about the new hardware and he said something like “yeah, these are great compared to that old thing, 8 GB, dual core, 256 GB SSD… blah blah…”, while pointing to my brand new Thinkpad. I started telling him the specs on my Thinkpad (which are still good today, but were especially good then) — quad core i7, 64 GB RAM, RAID striped dual M.2 SSDs, … he just said something like “Oh” and walked away without continuing the conversation. Haha…</text><parent_chain><item><author>arp242</author><text>I worked at a repair tech at a local computer shop, already over 10 years ago. Certainly all the tech people were secretly a little bit embarrassed we were selling Acer laptops. I did some sales too, when it was busy and people were needed, and always tried to steer people away from Acer.<p>For some of their models we had over 50% return rates. Far from all models mind you, but still: it was ridiculous. Many came back after warranty as well with hardware issues related to the casings and hinges. Their warranty service took forever and often we had to send back the machines again because they didn&#x27;t actually fix the issue (we weren&#x27;t allowed to repair them ourselves too, we had to use their repair centres; other vendors tended to be more flexible about this, especially if we had a long relationship with them).<p>But they were cheap. So we sold many.<p>We didn&#x27;t usually sell ThinkPads, but we did on special demand. One customer returned theirs for whatever reason (T400 IIRC). We put it in the showroom, and it was there for well over year before we managed to sell it, at quite a loss I might add. We actually had a lot of business customers as we also did office management etc., but people just don&#x27;t want a €1,000 laptop.<p>Another aspect is that ThinkPads just don&#x27;t look good to most people when put next to flashy Asus or Acer laptops. The keyboard is more &quot;wonky&quot; instead of the neat rectangular square; it&#x27;s clearly better designed instead of the cramped 1cm Shift keys and such, but it doesn&#x27;t look as good. The more matte display is better for loads of people, but it looks kinda crappy next to a bright Acer in demo mode showing off cool pictures. And the &quot;black box&quot; design doesn&#x27;t seem to appeal to many people&#x27;s tastes (although personally, I always felt it looked quite handsome; I miss the blue Enter keys btw, I always thought they added something).<p>Oh, and gosh, don&#x27;t get me started on the Acer &quot;laptop&quot; they put out with a desktop Pentium CPU, regular DIMMs, and 3.5&quot; HDD. That was truly an abomination.</text></item><item><author>xnyan</author><text>In college I sold a lot of laptops for best buy. Acer often had great specs, seemingly solid looking hardware that was clearly influenced by good designs (Apple) and a great price for the specs and features.<p>All laptops have problems, but Acer was by far the worst - More often then not, the problems stemmed from bad heat management (the most common killer of laptops IME) and quality control that was seemingly laser focused on avoiding problems for exactly as long as the warranty lasted.<p>PSA: Lenovo has tons of problems w&#x2F;r&#x2F;t how they operate as a company, but the thinkpad is far and away the best overall non-mac laptop brand you can readily buy anywhere in the world.</text></item><item><author>nrjames</author><text>I purchased one of these computers for my child. It made a loud buzzing noise and turned off last week. I discovered the locked BIOS for myself when I tried to boot from a USB to diagnose the problem. Acer wants $619.99 to diagnose it at their repair center, since it is 2 weeks out of warranty.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020)</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RKILN7HFLF4CS/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stordoff</author><text>&gt; when put next to flashy Asus or Acer laptops<p>Speaking of Asus, I&#x27;ve had no end of issues with the Asus laptop I&#x27;ve been using for the last 3-4 years. Decent spec for the money, but:<p>* audio output no longer detects external devices<p>* I&#x27;ve had to replace the display twice due to it flickering&#x2F;losing part of the image<p>* multiple keys (~10) fell off the keyboard[1]<p>* bottom case cracked when I lifted the laptop (plastic appears to have gone brittle over time)<p>* drive&#x2F;RAM access cover is held on with electrical tape, as it&#x27;s broken away from the screw that should hold it in place<p>* charger cable insulation broke where it meets the DC Jack; replacement charger is starting to do the same<p>* trackpad occasionally isn&#x27;t recognised from a cold boot<p>* USB3 ports are flakey - the slightest nudge can cause devices to disconnect (tried with multiple devices&#x2F;cables, and they&#x27;re all fine on other machines)<p>* keyboard sometimes locks into repeating the last key until I disconnect a USB device or change my keyboard layout with the mouse (probably a software issue, but I haven&#x27;t managed to track it down)<p>Combining the repairs (display, bottom case, keyboard, charger) with some upgrades (SSD, HDD, RAM, WiFi card), it&#x27;s a real ship of Theseus at this point. There&#x27;s not _that_ much of the original machine left. This is my first Asus machine, and I really can&#x27;t say I recommend it.<p>[1] And I didn&#x27;t notice until after I&#x27;d ordered the replacement keyboard that it&#x27;s not really designed to be replaced without replacing the top case (it fits between the top case and a metal shield, and they&#x27;re heat staked together), so that was an interesting repair</text><parent_chain><item><author>arp242</author><text>I worked at a repair tech at a local computer shop, already over 10 years ago. Certainly all the tech people were secretly a little bit embarrassed we were selling Acer laptops. I did some sales too, when it was busy and people were needed, and always tried to steer people away from Acer.<p>For some of their models we had over 50% return rates. Far from all models mind you, but still: it was ridiculous. Many came back after warranty as well with hardware issues related to the casings and hinges. Their warranty service took forever and often we had to send back the machines again because they didn&#x27;t actually fix the issue (we weren&#x27;t allowed to repair them ourselves too, we had to use their repair centres; other vendors tended to be more flexible about this, especially if we had a long relationship with them).<p>But they were cheap. So we sold many.<p>We didn&#x27;t usually sell ThinkPads, but we did on special demand. One customer returned theirs for whatever reason (T400 IIRC). We put it in the showroom, and it was there for well over year before we managed to sell it, at quite a loss I might add. We actually had a lot of business customers as we also did office management etc., but people just don&#x27;t want a €1,000 laptop.<p>Another aspect is that ThinkPads just don&#x27;t look good to most people when put next to flashy Asus or Acer laptops. The keyboard is more &quot;wonky&quot; instead of the neat rectangular square; it&#x27;s clearly better designed instead of the cramped 1cm Shift keys and such, but it doesn&#x27;t look as good. The more matte display is better for loads of people, but it looks kinda crappy next to a bright Acer in demo mode showing off cool pictures. And the &quot;black box&quot; design doesn&#x27;t seem to appeal to many people&#x27;s tastes (although personally, I always felt it looked quite handsome; I miss the blue Enter keys btw, I always thought they added something).<p>Oh, and gosh, don&#x27;t get me started on the Acer &quot;laptop&quot; they put out with a desktop Pentium CPU, regular DIMMs, and 3.5&quot; HDD. That was truly an abomination.</text></item><item><author>xnyan</author><text>In college I sold a lot of laptops for best buy. Acer often had great specs, seemingly solid looking hardware that was clearly influenced by good designs (Apple) and a great price for the specs and features.<p>All laptops have problems, but Acer was by far the worst - More often then not, the problems stemmed from bad heat management (the most common killer of laptops IME) and quality control that was seemingly laser focused on avoiding problems for exactly as long as the warranty lasted.<p>PSA: Lenovo has tons of problems w&#x2F;r&#x2F;t how they operate as a company, but the thinkpad is far and away the best overall non-mac laptop brand you can readily buy anywhere in the world.</text></item><item><author>nrjames</author><text>I purchased one of these computers for my child. It made a loud buzzing noise and turned off last week. I discovered the locked BIOS for myself when I tried to boot from a USB to diagnose the problem. Acer wants $619.99 to diagnose it at their repair center, since it is 2 weeks out of warranty.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020)</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RKILN7HFLF4CS/</url></story> |
2,752,456 | 2,752,274 | 1 | 3 | 2,752,133 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peterzakin</author><text>It would probably be too much work if "circling" were done after following a person, but since circling is merely part of the process of following someone, it doesn't seem like that much of a burden.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nollidge</author><text>I fail to see how Circles is "high work". You make a simple decision about which circle(s) to put someone in. It's not multi-variable calculus.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Circles is high work and low return</title><url>http://garry.posterous.com/google-circles-is-high-work-and-low-return-wh</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>stevenleeg</author><text>Especially since this decision is required to be made when you first "follow" someone. It's not like Facebook where there's a small box for you to choose a list after you've already accepted a friend request.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nollidge</author><text>I fail to see how Circles is "high work". You make a simple decision about which circle(s) to put someone in. It's not multi-variable calculus.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Circles is high work and low return</title><url>http://garry.posterous.com/google-circles-is-high-work-and-low-return-wh</url><text></text></story> |
9,625,272 | 9,624,759 | 1 | 3 | 9,623,281 | 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>IgorPartola</author><text>&gt; Should the self driving car swerve into you to avoid greater moral hazard?<p>The self-driving car&#x27;s first priority should be to protect those inside it. Anything else is more complicated. I read an article a little while ago about this topic and it posed a question along the lines of &quot;should a self-driving car do the thing that&#x27;ll kill its own passengers, yet save a larger number of others around it?&quot; Think about how difficult it would be for a self-driving car to estimate this. Even more importantly, how would two self-driving cars cooperate in the event of an inevitable accident? Would we allow them to directly talk to each other, or are they only allowed to interpret each others&#x27; trajectories?<p>I think the simplest directive is &quot;save your own passengers&quot;. That is what human drivers currently do, and I believe in the long run this would be effective at saving the optimal number of lives. Besides, if choosing between a car with this directive and a car that&#x27;s programmed to sacrifice you to save someone else, which would you buy?</text><parent_chain><item><author>deepnet</author><text>Stuart Russel of AI a Modern Approach fame ( with Norvig ) asks us to consider the ethics of AI research - killer robotics, &amp; hunter drones.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;robotics-ethics-of-artificial-intelligence-1.17611#&#x2F;russell" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;robotics-ethics-of-artificial-int...</a><p>He calls for a moritorium until we can get a neural net to learn Asimov&#x27;s 1st Law.<p>Should the self driving car swerve into you to avoid greater moral hazard ?<p>Humour aside as researchers and robotocists do we have a moral obligation to obey the 1st Law ?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luhn7TLfWU</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LesZedCB</author><text>I thought the whole point of Asimov&#x27;s exploration of his three laws was that they were fundamentally insufficient for any real ethical security.</text><parent_chain><item><author>deepnet</author><text>Stuart Russel of AI a Modern Approach fame ( with Norvig ) asks us to consider the ethics of AI research - killer robotics, &amp; hunter drones.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;robotics-ethics-of-artificial-intelligence-1.17611#&#x2F;russell" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;robotics-ethics-of-artificial-int...</a><p>He calls for a moritorium until we can get a neural net to learn Asimov&#x27;s 1st Law.<p>Should the self driving car swerve into you to avoid greater moral hazard ?<p>Humour aside as researchers and robotocists do we have a moral obligation to obey the 1st Law ?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luhn7TLfWU</url></story> |
24,764,730 | 24,764,606 | 1 | 2 | 24,763,734 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cycloptic</author><text>&gt; One downside they don&#x27;t mention is that the license restricts who can contribute to your project.<p>In that case Google&#x27;s policy is what is restricting you, not the license. The AGPL doesn&#x27;t say you can&#x27;t contribute if you work for Google. I&#x27;m sure AGPL users (like the company in TFA) wouldn&#x27;t mind if Google reversed their policy and gave their employees permission to contribute.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mtlynch</author><text>One downside they don&#x27;t mention is that the license restricts who can contribute to your project.<p>When I worked at Google (2014-2018), it was easy to get permission to contribute to open source projects as long as the license was BSD, MIT, or Apache 2.0. The more restrictive licenses like GPL 2 or AGPL, I think Google either flat out denied or you had to do a lot more work to get permission.<p>Now that I work for myself, I much prefer not having to ask anyone for permission to contribute to open source, but I generally default to MIT&#x2F;Apache2 unless I have a reason to do otherwise, out of consideration for employees at Google or other corps who may want to participate in my project.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why we’re changing to the AGPL license</title><url>https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joerichey</author><text>As a current Google employee, the OSS contribution process has gotten way better. Basically, anything that is BSD&#x2F;MIT&#x2F;Apache&#x2F;LGPL&#x2F;GPL&#x2F;EPL&#x2F;MPL no longer needs approval.<p>AGPL and the non-commercial licenses are still banned.<p>Edit: The Google OSS contribution guidelines are actually public, if anyone wants to take a look: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensource.google&#x2F;docs&#x2F;patching&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensource.google&#x2F;docs&#x2F;patching&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mtlynch</author><text>One downside they don&#x27;t mention is that the license restricts who can contribute to your project.<p>When I worked at Google (2014-2018), it was easy to get permission to contribute to open source projects as long as the license was BSD, MIT, or Apache 2.0. The more restrictive licenses like GPL 2 or AGPL, I think Google either flat out denied or you had to do a lot more work to get permission.<p>Now that I work for myself, I much prefer not having to ask anyone for permission to contribute to open source, but I generally default to MIT&#x2F;Apache2 unless I have a reason to do otherwise, out of consideration for employees at Google or other corps who may want to participate in my project.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why we’re changing to the AGPL license</title><url>https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses</url></story> |
26,738,019 | 26,738,068 | 1 | 3 | 26,735,958 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>foobarian</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s amazing to hear they put it together in one night at a diner! :-D<p>I guess you&#x27;re saying that in good humor. But I&#x27;ll add this because it makes me appreciate how these things happen:<p>&gt; What happened was this. We had used the original UTF from ISO 10646 to make Plan 9 support 16-bit characters, but we hated it.<p>&quot;We hated it&quot; -- there is just so much going on in those 3 words. They could have been suffering with the previous state for a year for all we know. And even if not, to know you hate something just takes a lot of system building experience to get to. And then when opportunity struck they probably already had a laundry list of grievances they had built up over that time and were ready to pounce.</text><parent_chain><item><author>julian37</author><text>UTF-8 is just... so well designed.<p>One little feature I like in particular is that if you&#x27;re looking for an ASCII-7 character in a UTF-8 stream -- say, a LF or comma -- you don&#x27;t have to decode the stream first because all bytes in the encoding of non-ASCII-7 characters have the high bit set. Or as Wikipedia puts it:<p>&gt; Since ASCII bytes do not occur when encoding non-ASCII code points into UTF-8, UTF-8 is safe to use within most programming and document languages that interpret certain ASCII characters in a special way, such as &#x2F; (slash) in filenames, \ (backslash) in escape sequences, and % in printf.<p>It&#x27;s amazing to hear they put it together in one night at a diner! :-D</text></item><item><author>TorKlingberg</author><text>I think we should take a moment to appreciate how great UTF-8 is, and how it well it worked out. It&#x27;s easy to get disillusioned with internet standards when IPv6 is taking forever and messaging is all proprietary locked down protocols. Yet character encodings used to be a horrible mess and now it&#x27;s not. In the 90&#x27;s the only practical solution was for everyone to use the same OS, same word processor, same web browser, and who cares about talking with foreigners anyway?<p>I don&#x27;t think it was always guaranteed to turn out well. China and Japan could have stayed with their own encodings. Microsoft and Apple could have done incompatible things. The tech world is full of bad things we&#x27;re stuck with because there&#x27;s no way to coordinate a change.<p>Unicode has it&#x27;s flaws, UTF-16 is still lurking here and there, everyone loves to argue about emoji, but overall text just works now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003)</title><url>http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>comeonseriously</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s amazing to hear they put it together in one night at a diner! :-D<p>On the one hand, sure. But on the other you have Ken Thompson.</text><parent_chain><item><author>julian37</author><text>UTF-8 is just... so well designed.<p>One little feature I like in particular is that if you&#x27;re looking for an ASCII-7 character in a UTF-8 stream -- say, a LF or comma -- you don&#x27;t have to decode the stream first because all bytes in the encoding of non-ASCII-7 characters have the high bit set. Or as Wikipedia puts it:<p>&gt; Since ASCII bytes do not occur when encoding non-ASCII code points into UTF-8, UTF-8 is safe to use within most programming and document languages that interpret certain ASCII characters in a special way, such as &#x2F; (slash) in filenames, \ (backslash) in escape sequences, and % in printf.<p>It&#x27;s amazing to hear they put it together in one night at a diner! :-D</text></item><item><author>TorKlingberg</author><text>I think we should take a moment to appreciate how great UTF-8 is, and how it well it worked out. It&#x27;s easy to get disillusioned with internet standards when IPv6 is taking forever and messaging is all proprietary locked down protocols. Yet character encodings used to be a horrible mess and now it&#x27;s not. In the 90&#x27;s the only practical solution was for everyone to use the same OS, same word processor, same web browser, and who cares about talking with foreigners anyway?<p>I don&#x27;t think it was always guaranteed to turn out well. China and Japan could have stayed with their own encodings. Microsoft and Apple could have done incompatible things. The tech world is full of bad things we&#x27;re stuck with because there&#x27;s no way to coordinate a change.<p>Unicode has it&#x27;s flaws, UTF-16 is still lurking here and there, everyone loves to argue about emoji, but overall text just works now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003)</title><url>http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history</url></story> |
16,890,287 | 16,888,966 | 1 | 3 | 16,882,200 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>KKKKkkkk1</author><text><i>But there is one feature I notice that is generally missing in Cargo Cult Science. That is the idea that we all hope you have learned in studying science in school—we never explicitly say what this is, but just hope that you catch on by all the examples of scientific investigation. It is interesting, therefore, to bring it out now and speak of it explicitly. It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty—a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you’re doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid—not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you’ve eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked—to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.</i><p>Richard Feynman</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Losing the Nobel Prize</title><url>http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10211</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tombone12</author><text>Go read Hossenfelder&#x27;s review instead, its a better teardown. The fourth paragraph is:<p>&gt; “Losing the Nobel Prize” is well written and engaging and has a lot of figures and, ah, here I run out of nice things to say. But we all know you didn’t come for the nice things anyway, so let’s get to the beef.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Losing the Nobel Prize</title><url>http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10211</url></story> |
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