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40,925,476 | 40,923,699 | 1 | 3 | 40,921,038 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davedx</author><text>This seems highly relevant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2406.01506" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2406.01506</a><p>&gt; In this paper, we study the two foundational questions in this area. First, how are categorical concepts, such as {&#x27;mammal&#x27;, &#x27;bird&#x27;, &#x27;reptile&#x27;, &#x27;fish&#x27;}, represented? Second, how are hierarchical relations between concepts encoded? For example, how is the fact that &#x27;dog&#x27; is a kind of &#x27;mammal&#x27; encoded? We show how to extend the linear representation hypothesis to answer these questions. We find a remarkably simple structure: simple categorical concepts are represented as simplices, hierarchically related concepts are orthogonal in a sense we make precise, and (in consequence) complex concepts are represented as polytopes constructed from direct sums of simplices, reflecting the hierarchical structure.<p>Basically, LLM&#x27;s <i>already partially encode information as semantic graphs internally</i>.<p>With this it is less surprising that augmenting them with external knowledge graphs has a lower ROI.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Knowledge Graphs in RAG: Hype vs. Ragas Analysis</title><url>https://aiencoder.substack.com/p/graphrag-analysis-part-1-how-indexing</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>visarga</author><text>The Microsoft GraphRAG paper focuses on global sensemaking through hierarchical summarization, which is a fundamental aspect of their approach. The blog post analysis, however, doesn&#x27;t address this core feature at all. Another issue is the corpus size, the paper focuses on sizes on the order of 1M tokens, while the reference text used in the blog post is probably shorter. On shorter text a simple LLM call could do summarization directly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Knowledge Graphs in RAG: Hype vs. Ragas Analysis</title><url>https://aiencoder.substack.com/p/graphrag-analysis-part-1-how-indexing</url></story> |
16,015,287 | 16,015,068 | 1 | 2 | 16,014,849 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>There was a shift in the aviation market that wasn&#x27;t entirely straightforward to predict. Airbus bet that the market would continue with a hub-and-spoke model, with lots of regional jets providing connections to hub airports. Boeing bet that the market would shift towards point-to-point service, with direct flights between second-tier airports facilitated by mid-size jets with extended range.<p>Boeing clearly made the right call, but there&#x27;s an element of hindsight at play. Emirates, Etihad and Singapore have been very successful as pure hub-and-spoke airlines and there&#x27;s still a vast amount of traffic going through the major hub airports.<p>The lead time on new aircraft designs is immense - the A3XX project started in 1994 and took the first orders in 2000. Airbus made some strategic blunders and didn&#x27;t respond quickly enough to market conditions, but in some respects they were just unlucky. Boeing&#x27;s 747X project failed and they have struggled with sales for the 747-8, but they avoided heavy losses by re-using old IP rather than launching a completely new platform. Both manufacturers were caught off-guard by the events of 2008.</text><parent_chain><item><author>code4tee</author><text>Boeing played the market correctly here. When everyone was oohing over the A380 Boeing said super jumbos were on their way out and focused on the 787. If it hadn’t been for Emirates buying so many A380s to begin with it would have been a flop from the start (Emirates alone operates almost half of the A380s ever built).<p>The future in long haul is mid-size highly efficient twin engine jets and here Airbus is scrambling to catch up with Boeing in both sales and design.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Airbus ready to axe A380 if fails to win Emirates deal</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-a380/airbus-ready-to-axe-a380-if-fails-to-win-emirates-deal-sources-idUSKBN1EL11L</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pmcollins</author><text>Boeing&#x27;s market analysis said that the market could barely support one super-jumbo, let alone two, so they opted for the much cheaper 747 upgrade and we got the 747-8 (which is also headed for extinction).<p>I heard an analyst say that you have to carry a lot of fuel to carry a lot of fuel. The optimal size from an efficiency perspective is the much smaller 737 -- the more you deviate from that, the larger the efficiency penalty.</text><parent_chain><item><author>code4tee</author><text>Boeing played the market correctly here. When everyone was oohing over the A380 Boeing said super jumbos were on their way out and focused on the 787. If it hadn’t been for Emirates buying so many A380s to begin with it would have been a flop from the start (Emirates alone operates almost half of the A380s ever built).<p>The future in long haul is mid-size highly efficient twin engine jets and here Airbus is scrambling to catch up with Boeing in both sales and design.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Airbus ready to axe A380 if fails to win Emirates deal</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-a380/airbus-ready-to-axe-a380-if-fails-to-win-emirates-deal-sources-idUSKBN1EL11L</url></story> |
38,363,313 | 38,363,184 | 1 | 3 | 38,362,541 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>disruptiveink</author><text>The issue is that a major point of this upgrade was defeated as the article slightly mentions, but doesn&#x27;t dwell on it: the signalling upgrade that the line sorely needs was axed during the Covid TfL budget crisis negotiations and is not coming back. The whole point of the &quot;New Tube for London&quot; project was that new modern trains were tied to signalling upgrades, which would let more trains run on the existing lines in a more reliable way.<p>The trains were already ordered so will be delivered, with the associated flashy benefits of new carriages, but now the line capacity won&#x27;t increase, so you&#x27;ll still get the same breakdowns and delays that currently happen now. The Piccadilly line also won&#x27;t be able to stop at the stations it currently skips (since they don&#x27;t want to delay service any further than now) – making the Piccadilly Line stop at some of the stations it currently skips was also tied to the signalling upgrades.<p>It&#x27;s classic top-down &quot;you need to cut on costs&quot; decision making leading to having to make compromises on a project in a way that it&#x27;ll still cost a bunch of money, but without a major benefit at the expense of a (comparatively) small cost saving. You see this in software engineering all the time too.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Piccadilly line’s new air conditioned trains</title><url>https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/cool-commutes-ahead-inside-look-at-londons-new-piccadilly-line-trains-undergo-testing-in-germany-67513/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>the_mitsuhiko</author><text>I found it very funny to see these trains parked behind my house. I live in Vienna, but apparently some were assembled here.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Piccadilly line’s new air conditioned trains</title><url>https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/cool-commutes-ahead-inside-look-at-londons-new-piccadilly-line-trains-undergo-testing-in-germany-67513/</url></story> |
5,172,370 | 5,171,140 | 1 | 2 | 5,170,182 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kalid</author><text>Don't feel bad about charging for your app. Imagine you are opening a new restaurant.<p>Q: The food plucked from the ground tastes better than yours.<p>A: Great! Pluck away. I offer convenience.<p>Q: I want your meal but don't want to pay for it.<p>A: Uh... ok. Here's the recipe. Cook away.<p>Q: Why are you charging money for your food in the first place?<p>A: I need to pay for knives, forks, and the macronutrients that keep my body alive. I hope that's ok with you.<p>A one-time purchase of a few dollars is well worth saving a HN reader minutes a day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eliaskg</author><text>Hi, app developer here. I hope some of you may like my little app. To prevent too much ranting here are some quick answers to possible questions:<p>Q: The Hacker News website provides much more functionality than your app.<p>A: That's right. The app isn't made to replace the Hacker News website. It's made for frequent readers like me who want a quick and friendly-on-the-eye way to access the stories.<p>Q: I want your app but I don't want to pay for it.<p>A: No problem, Hacky is open source! Just get a copy of the source on GitHub and build it on your machine.<p>Q: Why are you then charging money for it in the first place?<p>A: Personally I like getting my apps via Mac App Store. It means easy updating and restoring. Unfortunately providing an app in the MAS isn't free for the developer as he has to purchase a Developer Certificate from Apple. (Additionally a developer likes to buy a beer from time to time)<p>Relevant Links:<p>Website: <a href="http://www.hackyapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.hackyapp.com</a><p>Mac App Store: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacky/id584949645?ls=1&#38;mt=12" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacky/id584949645?ls=1&#38;m...</a><p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/eliaskg/Hacky" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/eliaskg/Hacky</a><p>Edit: Here, have some Promo Codes:<p><pre><code> NPLEWFH4PT6X
XNLHAXHPA3FN
FRAAR3RL797W
MHLW7MH9EYYP
KPM36X9KY4EN</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Hacky – Hacker News app for Mac</title><url>http://www.hackyapp.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>bpatrianakos</author><text>In a perfect world you wouldn't have to explain that this isn't meant to replace the site or justify charging money for it, but we don't live in a perfect world. I'm on a Windows machine here at work but as soon as I get home I'm going to get this. And thanks for making it open source. I honestly could never understand how anything open source could make money (besides charging for support) but your app finally drove the point home for me. I know how to get your source and compile it myself but I just don't want to go through the hassle so I'm going to buy it.<p>Anyway, thanks for this. I've been hoping someone would make this exact app for a long time now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eliaskg</author><text>Hi, app developer here. I hope some of you may like my little app. To prevent too much ranting here are some quick answers to possible questions:<p>Q: The Hacker News website provides much more functionality than your app.<p>A: That's right. The app isn't made to replace the Hacker News website. It's made for frequent readers like me who want a quick and friendly-on-the-eye way to access the stories.<p>Q: I want your app but I don't want to pay for it.<p>A: No problem, Hacky is open source! Just get a copy of the source on GitHub and build it on your machine.<p>Q: Why are you then charging money for it in the first place?<p>A: Personally I like getting my apps via Mac App Store. It means easy updating and restoring. Unfortunately providing an app in the MAS isn't free for the developer as he has to purchase a Developer Certificate from Apple. (Additionally a developer likes to buy a beer from time to time)<p>Relevant Links:<p>Website: <a href="http://www.hackyapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.hackyapp.com</a><p>Mac App Store: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacky/id584949645?ls=1&#38;mt=12" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacky/id584949645?ls=1&#38;m...</a><p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/eliaskg/Hacky" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/eliaskg/Hacky</a><p>Edit: Here, have some Promo Codes:<p><pre><code> NPLEWFH4PT6X
XNLHAXHPA3FN
FRAAR3RL797W
MHLW7MH9EYYP
KPM36X9KY4EN</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Hacky – Hacker News app for Mac</title><url>http://www.hackyapp.com</url></story> |
36,658,755 | 36,658,986 | 1 | 2 | 36,657,540 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ec109685</author><text>The playground summarizes it as this via GPT-4:<p>Prompt:<p><i>Please summarize the following book found on Project Gutenberg<p>The Ruby of Kishmoor</i><p>Response:<p>&quot;The Ruby of Kishmoor&quot; is a short adventure story written by Howard Pyle. The narrative revolves around the life of Jonathan Rugg, a young man who is enticed by a mysterious stranger to come to the Caribbean to secure a valuable relic, the Ruby of Kishmoor.<p>Once Jonathan reaches the Caribbean, he learns of the ruby&#x27;s grave curse. Despite this, his innate curiosity and the prospect of considerable wealth drive him to risk his life and go after the highly prized gem. After facing a slew of challenges and trials, he surprisingly stumbles upon the ruby through sheer luck rather than organized search efforts.<p>In the course of his journey, Jonathan delves into the depths of human greed and the lengths to which individuals go for materialistic gains. The story encapsulates an amalgamation of high-tide adventures, brushes with supernatural elements, noteworthy instances of bravery, and deep moral reflections, demanding readers to rethink about the real value of materialistic pursuits.<p>Jonathan finally manages to escape with the ruby but at great personal cost. The story ends on a sobering note, making readers wonder if the adventures and trials were worth the prize, thus engaging them in a discourse about the true value of life and material pursuits.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Imnimo</author><text>&gt;On information and belief, the reason ChatGPT can accurately summarize a certain copyrighted book is because that book was copied by OpenAI and ingested by the underlying OpenAI Language Model (either GPT-3.5 or GPT-4) as part of its training data.<p>While it strikes me as perfectly plausible that the Books2 dataset contains Silverman&#x27;s book, this quote from the complaint seems obviously false.<p>First, even if the model never saw a single word of the book&#x27;s text during training, it could still learn to summarize it from reading other summaries which are publicly available. Such as the book&#x27;s Wikipedia page.<p>Second, it&#x27;s not even clear to me that a model which only saw the text of a book, but not any descriptions or summaries of it, during training would even be particular good at producing a summary.<p>We can test this by asking for a summary of a book which is available through Project Gutenberg (which the complaint asserts is Books1 and therefore part of ChatGPT&#x27;s training data) but for which there is little discussion online. If the source of the ability to summarize is having the book itself during training, the model should be equally able to summarize the rare book as it is Silverman&#x27;s book.<p>I chose &quot;The Ruby of Kishmoor&quot; at random. It was added to PG in 2003. ChatGPT with GPT-3.5 hallucinates a summary that doesn&#x27;t even identify the correct main characters. The GPT-4 model refuses to even try, saying it doesn&#x27;t know anything about the story and it isn&#x27;t part of its training data.<p>If ChatGPT&#x27;s ability to summarize Silverman&#x27;s book comes from the book itself being part of the training data, why can it not do the same for other books?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>monocasa</author><text>I mean, that&#x27;s the way you state facts that your suit is based on in order to start setting the bounds of discovery. They&#x27;re asserting that they have reason to believe it&#x27;s true, and now with a suit, they can look for themselves to be sure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Imnimo</author><text>&gt;On information and belief, the reason ChatGPT can accurately summarize a certain copyrighted book is because that book was copied by OpenAI and ingested by the underlying OpenAI Language Model (either GPT-3.5 or GPT-4) as part of its training data.<p>While it strikes me as perfectly plausible that the Books2 dataset contains Silverman&#x27;s book, this quote from the complaint seems obviously false.<p>First, even if the model never saw a single word of the book&#x27;s text during training, it could still learn to summarize it from reading other summaries which are publicly available. Such as the book&#x27;s Wikipedia page.<p>Second, it&#x27;s not even clear to me that a model which only saw the text of a book, but not any descriptions or summaries of it, during training would even be particular good at producing a summary.<p>We can test this by asking for a summary of a book which is available through Project Gutenberg (which the complaint asserts is Books1 and therefore part of ChatGPT&#x27;s training data) but for which there is little discussion online. If the source of the ability to summarize is having the book itself during training, the model should be equally able to summarize the rare book as it is Silverman&#x27;s book.<p>I chose &quot;The Ruby of Kishmoor&quot; at random. It was added to PG in 2003. ChatGPT with GPT-3.5 hallucinates a summary that doesn&#x27;t even identify the correct main characters. The GPT-4 model refuses to even try, saying it doesn&#x27;t know anything about the story and it isn&#x27;t part of its training data.<p>If ChatGPT&#x27;s ability to summarize Silverman&#x27;s book comes from the book itself being part of the training data, why can it not do the same for other books?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai</url></story> |
34,006,980 | 34,006,309 | 1 | 2 | 34,005,889 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lfittl</author><text>The &quot;$300 mental health&quot; seems odd - for any kind of counseling&#x2F;therapy&#x2F;etc sessions this is a drop in the bucket in terms of cost.<p>It will easily cost 10x to work with a mental health professional (and insurance companies sadly pay a very small amount of it). So why add this to an otherwise reasonable package?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jackson1442</author><text>Layoffs are going to suck regardless, but this is one of the best severance packages I&#x27;ve seen in this wave:<p>* 15 weeks base pay + 1 week per year of employment<p>* 6 months COBRA + $300 mental health<p>* no 1-yr cliff, options can be exercised thru next year<p>* you can keep all your equipment</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apollo Layoffs</title><url>https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/ceo-geoff-schmidts-message-to-apollo-employees/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcadam</author><text>Crazy. Usually it&#x27;s just &quot;Pay stops today, benefits at the end of the month.
Hand in your badge - off you go.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>jackson1442</author><text>Layoffs are going to suck regardless, but this is one of the best severance packages I&#x27;ve seen in this wave:<p>* 15 weeks base pay + 1 week per year of employment<p>* 6 months COBRA + $300 mental health<p>* no 1-yr cliff, options can be exercised thru next year<p>* you can keep all your equipment</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apollo Layoffs</title><url>https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/ceo-geoff-schmidts-message-to-apollo-employees/</url></story> |
39,264,606 | 39,264,554 | 1 | 2 | 39,263,736 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sho_hn</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if you have much experience running non-profits, but giving an overly large one-time grant to an org which isn&#x27;t necessarily prepared for it can be a fairly bad idea and often leads to the org doing mad yo-yo things and ending up penniless.<p>Spending money requires a certain amount of structure and process, and it takes a while to adapt to a money windfall. Going from a little money to a lot changes an org very significantly.<p>Granted, I also haven&#x27;t looked much into the Rust Foundation, but I&#x27;m going to assume a $1 mio is significant for them. Google can always donate more down the road when the investment pays off and is digested usefully.<p>(Edit: The Rust Foundation had an income of $2.89 mio in 2022 and $2.56 mio in 2023 according to their annual reports. $1 mio sounds about right for what they should be able to usefully handle, from the gut.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>digdugdirk</author><text>It blows my mind that Google is celebrating a 1 million dollar grant to something that serves as a cornerstone of every aspect of the future of their business.<p>$1 mil is less than a rounding error for an organization like that. I&#x27;d love to know how much they&#x27;ve burned on the numerous projects that occupy their product graveyard, and imagine a future where that was devoted to the growth and education surrounding core language development in every language - Rust, Go, C++, Python, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++</title><url>https://security.googleblog.com/2024/02/improving-interoperability-between-rust-and-c.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>steveklabnik</author><text>&gt; something that serves as a cornerstone of every aspect of the future of their business.<p>I think it&#x27;s great that Google has been embracing Rust, but this feels hyperbolic to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>digdugdirk</author><text>It blows my mind that Google is celebrating a 1 million dollar grant to something that serves as a cornerstone of every aspect of the future of their business.<p>$1 mil is less than a rounding error for an organization like that. I&#x27;d love to know how much they&#x27;ve burned on the numerous projects that occupy their product graveyard, and imagine a future where that was devoted to the growth and education surrounding core language development in every language - Rust, Go, C++, Python, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++</title><url>https://security.googleblog.com/2024/02/improving-interoperability-between-rust-and-c.html</url></story> |
28,530,545 | 28,525,486 | 1 | 2 | 28,523,946 | 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>laumars</author><text>There was a Korean movie about a vaguely similar topic: salvaging space debris that I enjoyed<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt12838766&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt12838766&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>So here&#x27;s a potential business model for this: salvage rights.<p>When ships sink, the owner generally still retains ownership of any property. Sometimes the location of the wreck is known. Sometimes it needs to be found. It can cost a lot of money to find a wreck and recover any property.<p>So salvage rights are a principle of maritime law such that whoever does this is entitled to a reward commensurate with the value of the goods recovered (eg 10%).<p>I imagine there are orbital slots that are essentially unusable because of space debris (eg Project West Ford [1]). If orbital slots are sufficiently scarce then these could have value. At some point it may become commercial to spend the effort cleaning up an orbit and making it available. Companies could then be compensated for the value they create this way.<p>I do believe this will still require a dramatic decrease in launch costs, as in orders of magnitude more. But we&#x27;ll see.<p>My personal belief (and hope) is that the future of getting into orbit is orbital rings [2]. If so, that completely changes the game because cleaning up an orbit essentially becomes a problem of just holding up a giant &quot;paddle&quot; (for lack of a better word) that is fixed to a point on Earth (essentially) and just letting the debris hit it.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_West_Ford" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_West_Ford</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit</title><url>https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/apple-founder-wozniak-space-debris-company-b1919747.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>mc32</author><text>At the speeds those things whiz by, what sort of materials are there that can withstand impacts and not create more debris? Or do they try to do it via relative speeds and say let them hit the &quot;paddle&quot; at 50mph? And in that case, might it not be more effective to have hunting &quot;nets&quot; to collect the objects?</text><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>So here&#x27;s a potential business model for this: salvage rights.<p>When ships sink, the owner generally still retains ownership of any property. Sometimes the location of the wreck is known. Sometimes it needs to be found. It can cost a lot of money to find a wreck and recover any property.<p>So salvage rights are a principle of maritime law such that whoever does this is entitled to a reward commensurate with the value of the goods recovered (eg 10%).<p>I imagine there are orbital slots that are essentially unusable because of space debris (eg Project West Ford [1]). If orbital slots are sufficiently scarce then these could have value. At some point it may become commercial to spend the effort cleaning up an orbit and making it available. Companies could then be compensated for the value they create this way.<p>I do believe this will still require a dramatic decrease in launch costs, as in orders of magnitude more. But we&#x27;ll see.<p>My personal belief (and hope) is that the future of getting into orbit is orbital rings [2]. If so, that completely changes the game because cleaning up an orbit essentially becomes a problem of just holding up a giant &quot;paddle&quot; (for lack of a better word) that is fixed to a point on Earth (essentially) and just letting the debris hit it.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_West_Ford" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_West_Ford</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit</title><url>https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/apple-founder-wozniak-space-debris-company-b1919747.html</url></story> |
26,671,439 | 26,668,441 | 1 | 2 | 26,664,714 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fractionalhare</author><text>In all likelihood, Apple would just refuse to play ball and tell them to go ahead and sell it to someone else if they&#x27;re so confident. Zerodium and other markets already exist, and I don&#x27;t think people at Apple lose much sleep over it. And you better hope you close that deal before Google Project Zero finds it independently and tells Apple for free. Plus the mere mention that a vulnerability exists in a specific piece of software may lead Apple engineers to finding and patching it before you can sell it. Give away too many details and it&#x27;s burned.<p>People tend to vastly overestimate the economic impact of an exploited security vulnerability. A vulnerability which can be patched in a centralized manner has a low value half-life: it rapidly decreases in value over time. I would guess over 90% of active daily users of macOS already have the patch for this bug due to automatic updates. New buyers are essentially guaranteed not to have the vulnerability at all. The vulnerability would have to be absolutely catastrophic to be worth something, and in that case it would probably be used for targeted exploitation and burned after a short period of time.<p>Contrast with something like heartbleed, which is still around. That is a vulnerability with serious half-life and significant economic impact. The pool of available victims who can be exploited by heartbleed is nontrivial and persistent years later. Criminals will actually pay for something like that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>philosopher1234</author><text>I like this idea.<p>1. Company verifies the bug<p>2. Assigns it a price according to impact<p>3. Keeps details hidden until Apple pays them, then reveals the bug. Thus Apple is forced to pay, but bad actors dont get access.<p>Different bug markets can compete to correctly price bugs.</text></item><item><author>Zhenya</author><text>It seems backwards that Apple acknowledges the issue, PATCHES it, but still hasn&#x27;t paid out.<p>Maybe a good business is bug escrow company.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail</title><url>https://mikko-kenttala.medium.com/zero-click-vulnerability-in-apples-macos-mail-59e0c14b106c</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonny_eh</author><text>That may be considered black-mail by some courts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>philosopher1234</author><text>I like this idea.<p>1. Company verifies the bug<p>2. Assigns it a price according to impact<p>3. Keeps details hidden until Apple pays them, then reveals the bug. Thus Apple is forced to pay, but bad actors dont get access.<p>Different bug markets can compete to correctly price bugs.</text></item><item><author>Zhenya</author><text>It seems backwards that Apple acknowledges the issue, PATCHES it, but still hasn&#x27;t paid out.<p>Maybe a good business is bug escrow company.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail</title><url>https://mikko-kenttala.medium.com/zero-click-vulnerability-in-apples-macos-mail-59e0c14b106c</url></story> |
30,744,653 | 30,743,578 | 1 | 2 | 30,741,556 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>As a french kid, we knew about them, we even had tiny stilt races at yearly school fairs. But for some reason, they never gave us a third stabilizing stick ! Still very fun, but you gotta plan ahead quite a bit more.<p>A few years back I also saw people with spring loaded powerskips doing &quot;powerhikes&quot; in the forest, a sort of evolution :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The stilt-walking shepherds of France's grasslands, 1843-1937</title><url>https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stilt-shepherds-of-france-1843-1937/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wincy</author><text>This is super interesting. Curious how using stilts helps in a swamp land as my assumption would be that the stilts would get stuck. Obviously there was some practical advantage or they wouldn’t have done it, though. Also why did the swamps dry up? Was this because of weather changes or human intervention?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The stilt-walking shepherds of France's grasslands, 1843-1937</title><url>https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stilt-shepherds-of-france-1843-1937/</url></story> |
20,681,934 | 20,681,927 | 1 | 3 | 20,681,739 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amscanne</author><text>It’s worth noting that the 55% is capped at the equivalent ~29k&#x2F;yr, and the 33% is capped at ~17k&#x2F;yr.<p>Many employers will top off to 80% or 100% for some period of time, but I don’t know of any companies that do 18 months.<p>&gt; Interestingly, often you hear about people getting in at businesses because &quot;they had a temp opening because of a mat-leave!&quot;. This works a lot like an internship, where the employer gets to test out a potential employee while not committing to them since the person on leave will be back on a specific date. Great way to get experience and networking for young people.<p>You’re failing to articulate the down side of this. Both as a direct consequence (backfill) and indirect consequence (not wanting FTEs that can disappear for multiple 18 month periods with no recourse), there are far more recurring contract-only positions.<p>I know multiple people that are stuck in perpetually-renewed annual contracts, no security and no benefits. At least two of those cases started as backfill, and as you note.. they did a good enough job that the employer wanted them to stay. But why would they actually risk hiring young women of child bearing age?<p>(Just to cut off the obvious criticism, several of the people that I’m aware of actually work for the government, directly and indirectly. Canada has a big public sector.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>I&#x27;m quite fond of Canada&#x27;s system for parental leave[0]. The person giving birth gets 15 weeks off with 55% of their pay covered by their employment insurance (EI), and the couple get to share, however they decide to split it, either 40 weeks (at 55% pay) or 69 weeks (at 33% pay). No cost to the employer, but they have to ensure there&#x27;s the same job waiting when the person gets back. It also covers adoptions.<p>It probably is hard as an employer but every business is playing on the same field. It&#x27;s not like &quot;Well, I won&#x27;t participate in that because my competition would have an advantage over me&quot;. It&#x27;s not optional and it&#x27;s illegal to fire someone over it. Every business with employees has to accept this will happen eventually. The only optional choice (which my employer does) is to cover the other 45% of the pay for a certain number of weeks.<p>Interestingly, often you hear about people getting in at businesses because &quot;they had a temp opening because of a mat-leave!&quot;. This works a lot like an internship, where the employer gets to test out a potential employee while not committing to them since the person on leave will be back on a specific date. Great way to get experience and networking for young people.<p>My teammate, for example, left a few weeks ago when his child was born. He&#x27;ll be back in January. Sucks for our team to work without him that long, but it&#x27;s nice to know that if I decide to have kids that option will be there for me too.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.canada.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;services&#x2F;benefits&#x2F;ei&#x2F;ei-maternity-parental.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.canada.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;services&#x2F;benefits&#x2F;ei&#x2F;ei-maternity-p...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paternity Leave Was Crucial After the Birth of My Child</title><url>https://parenting.nytimes.com/work-money/alexis-ohanian-paternity-leave</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cperciva</author><text><i>I&#x27;m quite fond of Canada&#x27;s system for parental leave</i><p>You mean the system where, in upwards of 90% of cases, women take 50 weeks of leave and men take 5 weeks? I wouldn&#x27;t call that a great system, personally.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>I&#x27;m quite fond of Canada&#x27;s system for parental leave[0]. The person giving birth gets 15 weeks off with 55% of their pay covered by their employment insurance (EI), and the couple get to share, however they decide to split it, either 40 weeks (at 55% pay) or 69 weeks (at 33% pay). No cost to the employer, but they have to ensure there&#x27;s the same job waiting when the person gets back. It also covers adoptions.<p>It probably is hard as an employer but every business is playing on the same field. It&#x27;s not like &quot;Well, I won&#x27;t participate in that because my competition would have an advantage over me&quot;. It&#x27;s not optional and it&#x27;s illegal to fire someone over it. Every business with employees has to accept this will happen eventually. The only optional choice (which my employer does) is to cover the other 45% of the pay for a certain number of weeks.<p>Interestingly, often you hear about people getting in at businesses because &quot;they had a temp opening because of a mat-leave!&quot;. This works a lot like an internship, where the employer gets to test out a potential employee while not committing to them since the person on leave will be back on a specific date. Great way to get experience and networking for young people.<p>My teammate, for example, left a few weeks ago when his child was born. He&#x27;ll be back in January. Sucks for our team to work without him that long, but it&#x27;s nice to know that if I decide to have kids that option will be there for me too.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.canada.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;services&#x2F;benefits&#x2F;ei&#x2F;ei-maternity-parental.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.canada.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;services&#x2F;benefits&#x2F;ei&#x2F;ei-maternity-p...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paternity Leave Was Crucial After the Birth of My Child</title><url>https://parenting.nytimes.com/work-money/alexis-ohanian-paternity-leave</url></story> |
12,349,936 | 12,349,919 | 1 | 3 | 12,349,384 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_ibu9</author><text>The missing explanation is that `smaller` is a third argument to the function. It&#x27;s type is a proof that x &lt;= y. Since it is in curly brackets with the auto keyword, the compiler will fill in this proof in many cases, like when the values are statically known.<p>In the case where the values are read from the external environment, first you would have to compare them before calling the function. The comparator would return either a proof that x &lt;= y, or x &gt; y. In the first case you plug that value into the `smaller` argument, in the second case it&#x27;s your responsibility to signal whatever kind of application-specific error is appropriate (assuming x &gt; y is some kind of erroneous condition).</text><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>The Idris example seems to need further explanation:<p>&gt; In Idris, we can say &quot;the add function takes two integers and returns an integer, but its first argument must be smaller than its second argument&quot;:<p>&gt; add : (x : Nat) -&gt; (y : Nat) -&gt; {auto smaller : LT x y} -&gt; Nat<p>&gt; add x y = x + y<p>That&#x27;s all well and good, if you know the values of x and y at compile time. Consider a program that reads x and y from STDIN. The user could provide an x that is equal to or larger than y (or could provide only one value, or values that are not numbers). I see no way to deal with that except to throw a runtime error. Is that what would happen?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Types</title><url>https://gist.github.com/garybernhardt/122909856b570c5c457a6cd674795a9c?</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>platz</author><text>not in idris, because it would force you to do that check manually and pass in the evidence as proof. it has a bunch of tools to help you do this.. namely lifting values into types with &#x27;dependent pairs&#x27;. idris doesnt automagically calculate everything for you, but makes sure at compile time, that you provide evidence at run time for the things you have asserted in the types. it makes more sense after going through some of the tutorials and books.</text><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>The Idris example seems to need further explanation:<p>&gt; In Idris, we can say &quot;the add function takes two integers and returns an integer, but its first argument must be smaller than its second argument&quot;:<p>&gt; add : (x : Nat) -&gt; (y : Nat) -&gt; {auto smaller : LT x y} -&gt; Nat<p>&gt; add x y = x + y<p>That&#x27;s all well and good, if you know the values of x and y at compile time. Consider a program that reads x and y from STDIN. The user could provide an x that is equal to or larger than y (or could provide only one value, or values that are not numbers). I see no way to deal with that except to throw a runtime error. Is that what would happen?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Types</title><url>https://gist.github.com/garybernhardt/122909856b570c5c457a6cd674795a9c?</url></story> |
8,680,426 | 8,680,419 | 1 | 2 | 8,679,394 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vacri</author><text>I liked Intersteller a lot as well, but its plot was horribly contrived in places and the science isn&#x27;t as good as it was purported to be - even moreso if you include the behaviour of the scientists involved :). The science was certainly better than most other serious sci-fi films though. The real problem with the film is the needlessly long hour of character establishment.<p>(SPOILER) Rather interestingly, I&#x27;ve seen very little discussion about the christ story in the film - the 33-year-old man, who is also the &#x27;father&#x27;, who is also the &#x27;ghost&#x27;; who disappears presumed dead, only to return; who has the only information that can save humanity (the &#x27;quantum data&#x27;) and also sacrificed himself to save humanity; and who was helped along by 12 others - one being the questionable [Dr] Man[n] who is weak of spirit. There&#x27;s a few more other parallels, but the gist is there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chton</author><text>Surely Kip Thorne himself has to realize that he&#x27;s grasping at straws. A lot of the things he mentions are of the type &quot;in this precise, extremely rare situation it is possible, if we ignore all the other side effects&quot;. For example, I&#x27;m sure his calculations will be correct regarding the planet orbiting a black hole close enough for relativistic effects. What it also means is that the planet would pass through the extremely hot accretion disk twice every orbit, killing everything and evaporating all the water. And considering the speed that a stable orbit would require, that would be a very common occurrence.<p>The point is: don&#x27;t claim that you&#x27;re scientifically accurate. Usually, a good sci-fi movie will set up rules for itself, and follow those rules appropriately. If you make your ruleset &quot;real world physics&quot;, you have to be extremely accurate if you still want to make it believable. The rules set up expectations, and breaking your own rules is an instant turn-off for science fiction fans.<p>The movie shows other cases where it doesn&#x27;t follow its own rules: they have spaceplanes that can get to orbit from a planet with 1.8 times earth gravity, but not from earth without huge boosters?<p>For the record: I like Interstellar a lot. It was a great film, and I&#x27;ll definitely be buying it when it comes out on DVD. I just have my gripes with the lofty claims of accuracy that Hollywood films so love to make.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kip Thorne: The science of Interstellar</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/11/28/parsing-the-science-of-interstellar-with-physicist-kip-thorne/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>harshreality</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t agree more. I don&#x27;t understand why Kip Thorne is so desperate to declare that the movie doesn&#x27;t violate known physics, when it clearly does, just not in the areas he&#x27;s most concerned with. Planetary dynamics, propulsion systems... but as long as there aren&#x27;t Na&#x27;vi or dragons on the planets, I suppose they consider it realistic enough. On second thought, Na&#x27;vi or dragons might be more realistic than some of what&#x27;s shown.<p>FTL travel is &quot;possible&quot; too, if quantum gravity provides some loophole for violating GR on scales where GR is currently assumed. It seems like there&#x27;s a reasonable basis for excluding it from the plot without declaring it impossible: if Earth technology was that advanced, they wouldn&#x27;t need to travel to Gargantua&#x27;s system.<p>I think Nolan&#x27;s insistence on the extreme time dilation for the first planet in the plot is a mistake, because if they thought about what time dilation would mean for the readings sent back, they never would have investigated that risky planet first.<p>What&#x27;s great about Interstellar, though, is that it gets viewers talking and thinking about physics. On that point, it&#x27;s far better than Gravity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chton</author><text>Surely Kip Thorne himself has to realize that he&#x27;s grasping at straws. A lot of the things he mentions are of the type &quot;in this precise, extremely rare situation it is possible, if we ignore all the other side effects&quot;. For example, I&#x27;m sure his calculations will be correct regarding the planet orbiting a black hole close enough for relativistic effects. What it also means is that the planet would pass through the extremely hot accretion disk twice every orbit, killing everything and evaporating all the water. And considering the speed that a stable orbit would require, that would be a very common occurrence.<p>The point is: don&#x27;t claim that you&#x27;re scientifically accurate. Usually, a good sci-fi movie will set up rules for itself, and follow those rules appropriately. If you make your ruleset &quot;real world physics&quot;, you have to be extremely accurate if you still want to make it believable. The rules set up expectations, and breaking your own rules is an instant turn-off for science fiction fans.<p>The movie shows other cases where it doesn&#x27;t follow its own rules: they have spaceplanes that can get to orbit from a planet with 1.8 times earth gravity, but not from earth without huge boosters?<p>For the record: I like Interstellar a lot. It was a great film, and I&#x27;ll definitely be buying it when it comes out on DVD. I just have my gripes with the lofty claims of accuracy that Hollywood films so love to make.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kip Thorne: The science of Interstellar</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/11/28/parsing-the-science-of-interstellar-with-physicist-kip-thorne/</url></story> |
30,356,733 | 30,356,578 | 1 | 2 | 30,356,312 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>klabb3</author><text>With most attack vectors, like buffer overflows, csrf, SQL injection, I (and many developers that aren&#x27;t security domain experts) am acutely aware of best practices and mitigations. I know exactly where they can appear and how to prevent them. (Well not literally but it&#x27;s a simple web search away).<p>With unicode, I really don&#x27;t know what to do. What strings need to be sanitized (or validated)? File names? Urls? How do I sanitize them without causing agony for most of the world? Are there other unicode attack vectors?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (2013)</title><url>https://galogetlatorre.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-can-you-be-fooled-by-u202e-trick.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>Waterluvian</author><text>Please correct me if I’m overreacting but I feel like Unicode in most cases is just a giant security flaw and the only reason we tolerate it is because it does tremendous good making things more equitable for other languages and cultures.<p>Unicode in URLs and usernames and filenames is just so easy to trick people with.<p>Will there be Unicode email addresses?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (2013)</title><url>https://galogetlatorre.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-can-you-be-fooled-by-u202e-trick.html</url></story> |
20,171,493 | 20,170,982 | 1 | 3 | 20,169,104 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SwellJoe</author><text>My dad and I found one at a garage sale when I was a kid. I bought, repaired, and resold mostly 8 bit machines, but found a big bunch of Apple Lisa stuff for not a lot of money, maybe $150. I didn&#x27;t really know much about it, but it was interesting and I figured I could get my money back out of it. It had the computer, three external hard disks (2x5MB and 1x10MB), and some software and other accessories.<p>This would have been around 1988-1989, and the Mac had been out for a while; this seemed like a quaint old computer at the time. Since the Lisa wasn&#x27;t <i>quite</i> Mac compatible, there wasn&#x27;t really anything you could do with it...the software it had (early variants of stuff like Mac Write and Paint and such, called, I think Lisa Write, etc.) was what you got.<p>When I unboxed everything I found the receipts from when the original owner bought it all new. He&#x27;d spent something like $20,000+ on the whole setup. Computer was $10k, and each of the hard disks was several thousand dollars.<p>I sold the whole setup for about twice what I paid for it (I seem to recall about $300, but it&#x27;s been a long time, and it wasn&#x27;t <i>super</i> memorable...I bought and sold a lot of weird old computers back then), after cleaning it up and testing everything and tinkering with it until I was bored (I was a Commodore kid with a C128D and saving up for my first Amiga...Apple stuff was just a curiosity, not anything I wanted for myself).<p>Though I wasn&#x27;t super into it at the time, it&#x27;s one of the few things I kinda wish I still had all these years later. It has real historical significance that I didn&#x27;t really appreciate at the time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>icedchai</author><text>This makes the new Mac Pro look like a bargain... especially after you adjust for inflation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Reveals ‘Lisa’, Its $50M Gamble (1983)</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/apple-reveals-lisa-its-50-million-gamble-207032</url></story> | <instructions>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>coincidentally I just looked these up the other day:<p>Apple Lisa 1983 $9,995 ($25,143 in 2018 dollars)<p>Apple Macintosh 128k 1&#x2F;24&#x2F;84 $2,495 ($6,000 in 2018 dollars)<p>Macintosh II 3&#x2F;2&#x2F;87 $5,498 ($12,125 in 2018)<p>Next Cube 9&#x2F;18&#x2F;90 $10,000 ($19,177 in 2018 dollars)</text><parent_chain><item><author>icedchai</author><text>This makes the new Mac Pro look like a bargain... especially after you adjust for inflation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Reveals ‘Lisa’, Its $50M Gamble (1983)</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/apple-reveals-lisa-its-50-million-gamble-207032</url></story> |
35,649,010 | 35,647,262 | 1 | 2 | 35,646,436 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skissane</author><text>This is a great feature, but its name is going to confuse people.<p>Before I read the article, I thought it was going to be about some kind of additional verification process to check that publishers are not malicious and have adequate security practices, resulting in two tiers of publishers, &quot;trusted&quot; and &quot;untrusted&quot;. You might then configure pip to only install packages from &quot;trusted publishers&quot; by default, and you have to go through some scary confirmation prompts to install packages from untrusted ones.<p>Then I read the article, and I realise it wasn&#x27;t what I was expecting at all. If you&#x27;d called it &quot;OIDC Authenticated Publishers&quot;, I would have known what it was about from the start, and wouldn&#x27;t have walked into the topic with the wrong expectation</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing 'Trusted Publishers'</title><url>https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-04-20-introducing-trusted-publishers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>I’m one of the people who helped design and build this functionality; happy to answer any questions about it!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing 'Trusted Publishers'</title><url>https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-04-20-introducing-trusted-publishers/</url></story> |
10,521,823 | 10,519,454 | 1 | 2 | 10,518,951 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>riskable</author><text>Why do I keep seeing Heartbleed and Shellshock mentioned in articles specifically about Linux security? Those two vulnerabilities had nothing to do with Linux.<p>Software using OpenSSL or bash on <i>any</i> platform were vulnerable. That includes Macs and Windows.<p>Linux is extremely popular for servers and embedded systems where OpenSSL and bash are common but bringing them up every time &quot;security + Linux&quot; are discussed is a bit like talking about tires that blow out whenever the topic of logistics comes up.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus Torvalds Talks Linux Security at LinuxCon</title><url>http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/linus-torvalds-talks-linux-security-at-linuxcon.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>mrweasel</author><text>&gt;Most of the security issues we&#x27;ve had in the kernel have been just completely stupid bugs...<p>Wouldn&#x27;t that be an argument to be more stringent in reviewing and auditing the kernel code? I don&#x27;t know to which extend they already do audits, but if you find a bug of a certain type, maybe consider combing the tree for other instances of that type of bug. I believe that&#x27;s the approach OpenBSD has taken.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus Torvalds Talks Linux Security at LinuxCon</title><url>http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/linus-torvalds-talks-linux-security-at-linuxcon.html</url></story> |
20,743,458 | 20,742,741 | 1 | 2 | 20,740,179 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>DanG, there is a book in here somewhere, or at least a substantial collection of essays, on a coherent theory of moderated speech and debate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dang</author><text>There are two site guidelines that apply to this. First, it&#x27;s not ok to use HN primarily for political, ideological, or national battle. If a commenter is posting as you describe, we ask them to stop. Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20727426" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20727426</a>.<p>But by no means does it follow that a commenter behaving that way must be a sockpuppet, astroturfer, shill, spy, foreign agent, etc. That&#x27;s where the second guideline comes in: the one that asks users not to insinuate these things in HN threads, but rather to email us at [email protected] so we can look for actual evidence. Accusing others without evidence is a serious breach of the rules, and a personal attack. When people do that, we ask them to stop as well. Example, from the same thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20727420" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20727420</a>.<p>Does that mean that abuse doesn&#x27;t exist, or that we don&#x27;t take it seriously? No—it does and we do. But the way we take it seriously is by looking for evidence. So far, such evidence as we&#x27;ve found on HN nearly always indicates that the commenter is legit—they just hold a view that some other commenters find so wrong that they can&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s sincere. (Corporate astroturfing is a different can of worms, btw, and I&#x27;m not talking about that here.)<p>Here&#x27;s the most remarkable case we&#x27;ve seen of a mass influx of new accounts angrily defending &quot;pro-China&quot; views: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20236444" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20236444</a>. Most users who are inclined to perceive astroturfing would have declared this an obvious case of manipulation. The only reason we didn&#x27;t get an inundation of such accusations is that the wave of new accounts only showed up a day or two later, after most readers had stopped looking at the thread. But even this case, when we followed up on the evidence, turned out to be something quite different. I emailed every one of those commenters who had left an email address in their profile, and many responded. It turned out that the study under discussion had gone viral in China, someone had posted a link to the HN thread to the Chinese Quora-equivalent, and the new accounts were people who had found their way to HN from there and created accounts to speak their minds. I also posted in the thread asking the new accounts to explain how they&#x27;d come to HN, and several replied with the same story. Does that prove they weren&#x27;t communist agents? No, nothing would prove that. But the null hypothesis—that people hold their views sincerely—was amply supported by the evidence. This was an extreme case, but over and over, the story we see is like that. Ornate machinations add zero explanatory power, but invoking them poisons the community; therefore we ask users not to invoke them.<p>Most people hold the views that they do because of their background. HN is a large, international community, orders of magnitude larger than your or my circle of acquaintances. What are the odds that in a group this large, quite a few people will have different backgrounds than you or I, and thus hold different views? The odds are basically 1. That means you&#x27;re going to hear some &quot;pro-China&quot; views here, because there are users whose background connects them to China—by birthplace, family, education, work history, you name it—in ways that HN&#x27;s Western audience mostly doesn&#x27;t share.<p>Because this is happening, we have to decide what kind of community HN should be. Should we ban accounts, or allow them to be persecuted, for &quot;pro-X&quot; views where X is outside, say, a standard deviation of what most people here take for granted? Or do we want to be a pluralistic community that is strong enough to hold space for such views, and such people, even when most of us disagree? It&#x27;s unclear which way HN is going to go about this—sctb and I can&#x27;t control HN, only try to persuade—but I know that I&#x27;m only interested in participating in the latter. The other way leads to a community in which it&#x27;s ok to smear others (such as a nation or ethnicity) and have mob attacks on innocent individuals: see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19403358" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19403358</a> for one example that turned out ok; unfortunately there have been others which didn&#x27;t, and users have been run out of town. I don&#x27;t believe anyone here wants those things, but the tragedy of the commons will take us there if we don&#x27;t all consciously resist it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a></text></item><item><author>woah</author><text>Even here on Hacker News, a week or so ago I saw someone being chided for “breaking the HN guidelines” by calling out a sock puppet. When I looked at the comment history of the account doing the chiding, all of its comments were on China related articles, taking a pro-China view.</text></item><item><author>tmux314</author><text>Good on Twitter and Facebook.<p>On top of blocking thousands of websites (which includes Facebook, Google, Twitter) China&#x27;s government employs thousands of government employees just to purge even the most mild criticism of the CCP on Weibo [1]. They also employ tens of thousands to export their propaganda overseas, using sock puppet accounts to push their worldview[2]. And their worldview is fiercely anti-democratic.<p>The Internet cannot remain free if we allow governments to use their power to control narratives and suppress the truth. US-based Social media companies are not ideal judges, but at least they publish their methodology and allow public criticism of their platforms.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sina_Weibo#Censorship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sina_Weibo#Censorship</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;50_Cent_Party" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;50_Cent_Party</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Information operations directed at Hong Kong</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/information_operations_directed_at_Hong_Kong.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>throwaway83263</author><text>&gt; Should we ban accounts, or allow them to be persecuted, for &quot;pro-X&quot; views where X is outside, say, a standard deviation of what most people here take for granted?<p>When those views are formed under the pressure and oppression of an increasingly influential authoritarian regime? Yes, you should. Otherwise there won&#x27;t be much of a community left to protect. There is little reason to believe you can have it both ways as it isn&#x27;t a level playing field. Ambivalence is one of the costs of democracy and it can&#x27;t measure up to the adjusted views formed under a watchful eye.<p>This is why authoritarianism is on the rise all over the world. Because as people become afraid of the effects of global conflicts, economics, and politics all the establishment can offer are arguments of apathy and equivalence. Leaving the hardliners the only ones left standing with a message resembling anything close to common values.<p>I do believe you are writing in good faith, but I&#x27;m not sure you understand the situation. Facing undue pressure to confirm to certain views because of your background and thereby not being free to form your own _is_ what is damaging. That is what oppression is. Authoritarianism is there to achieve this result. The idea that these views are remotely equivalent is contradicted by all those facing the consequence of not wanting to conform to them and suggesting otherwise is a disservice to all parties.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dang</author><text>There are two site guidelines that apply to this. First, it&#x27;s not ok to use HN primarily for political, ideological, or national battle. If a commenter is posting as you describe, we ask them to stop. Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20727426" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20727426</a>.<p>But by no means does it follow that a commenter behaving that way must be a sockpuppet, astroturfer, shill, spy, foreign agent, etc. That&#x27;s where the second guideline comes in: the one that asks users not to insinuate these things in HN threads, but rather to email us at [email protected] so we can look for actual evidence. Accusing others without evidence is a serious breach of the rules, and a personal attack. When people do that, we ask them to stop as well. Example, from the same thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20727420" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20727420</a>.<p>Does that mean that abuse doesn&#x27;t exist, or that we don&#x27;t take it seriously? No—it does and we do. But the way we take it seriously is by looking for evidence. So far, such evidence as we&#x27;ve found on HN nearly always indicates that the commenter is legit—they just hold a view that some other commenters find so wrong that they can&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s sincere. (Corporate astroturfing is a different can of worms, btw, and I&#x27;m not talking about that here.)<p>Here&#x27;s the most remarkable case we&#x27;ve seen of a mass influx of new accounts angrily defending &quot;pro-China&quot; views: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20236444" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20236444</a>. Most users who are inclined to perceive astroturfing would have declared this an obvious case of manipulation. The only reason we didn&#x27;t get an inundation of such accusations is that the wave of new accounts only showed up a day or two later, after most readers had stopped looking at the thread. But even this case, when we followed up on the evidence, turned out to be something quite different. I emailed every one of those commenters who had left an email address in their profile, and many responded. It turned out that the study under discussion had gone viral in China, someone had posted a link to the HN thread to the Chinese Quora-equivalent, and the new accounts were people who had found their way to HN from there and created accounts to speak their minds. I also posted in the thread asking the new accounts to explain how they&#x27;d come to HN, and several replied with the same story. Does that prove they weren&#x27;t communist agents? No, nothing would prove that. But the null hypothesis—that people hold their views sincerely—was amply supported by the evidence. This was an extreme case, but over and over, the story we see is like that. Ornate machinations add zero explanatory power, but invoking them poisons the community; therefore we ask users not to invoke them.<p>Most people hold the views that they do because of their background. HN is a large, international community, orders of magnitude larger than your or my circle of acquaintances. What are the odds that in a group this large, quite a few people will have different backgrounds than you or I, and thus hold different views? The odds are basically 1. That means you&#x27;re going to hear some &quot;pro-China&quot; views here, because there are users whose background connects them to China—by birthplace, family, education, work history, you name it—in ways that HN&#x27;s Western audience mostly doesn&#x27;t share.<p>Because this is happening, we have to decide what kind of community HN should be. Should we ban accounts, or allow them to be persecuted, for &quot;pro-X&quot; views where X is outside, say, a standard deviation of what most people here take for granted? Or do we want to be a pluralistic community that is strong enough to hold space for such views, and such people, even when most of us disagree? It&#x27;s unclear which way HN is going to go about this—sctb and I can&#x27;t control HN, only try to persuade—but I know that I&#x27;m only interested in participating in the latter. The other way leads to a community in which it&#x27;s ok to smear others (such as a nation or ethnicity) and have mob attacks on innocent individuals: see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19403358" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19403358</a> for one example that turned out ok; unfortunately there have been others which didn&#x27;t, and users have been run out of town. I don&#x27;t believe anyone here wants those things, but the tragedy of the commons will take us there if we don&#x27;t all consciously resist it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a></text></item><item><author>woah</author><text>Even here on Hacker News, a week or so ago I saw someone being chided for “breaking the HN guidelines” by calling out a sock puppet. When I looked at the comment history of the account doing the chiding, all of its comments were on China related articles, taking a pro-China view.</text></item><item><author>tmux314</author><text>Good on Twitter and Facebook.<p>On top of blocking thousands of websites (which includes Facebook, Google, Twitter) China&#x27;s government employs thousands of government employees just to purge even the most mild criticism of the CCP on Weibo [1]. They also employ tens of thousands to export their propaganda overseas, using sock puppet accounts to push their worldview[2]. And their worldview is fiercely anti-democratic.<p>The Internet cannot remain free if we allow governments to use their power to control narratives and suppress the truth. US-based Social media companies are not ideal judges, but at least they publish their methodology and allow public criticism of their platforms.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sina_Weibo#Censorship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sina_Weibo#Censorship</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;50_Cent_Party" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;50_Cent_Party</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Information operations directed at Hong Kong</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/information_operations_directed_at_Hong_Kong.html</url></story> |
1,402,144 | 1,402,080 | 1 | 2 | 1,402,050 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adamhowell</author><text>Not to be a stickler, but the series plainly says "'Profitable and proud' is a Signal vs. Noise series that profiles companies that have $1MM+ in revenues, didn’t take VC, and are profitable..."<p>And here, in just the second post of the series, a company states "taking this investment from John H. Phillips was probably the best decision we ever made. Apart from allowing us to meet payroll for the first year..."<p>That's not exactly "didn't take VC".</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Profitable & Proud: Shopify</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2378-profitable-proud-shopify</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gr366</author><text>Their Unicorn system for paying out bonuses is a great idea: Revenue sharing across the entire staff, but distributed based upon input from the staff.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Profitable & Proud: Shopify</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2378-profitable-proud-shopify</url></story> |
15,882,895 | 15,883,003 | 1 | 2 | 15,882,214 | 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>pc2g4d</author><text>The high transaction fees are forcing Bitcoin in this direction. If buying a hamburger cost you $30 in fees on top of the $6 burger, you&#x27;d stop using dollars for everyday purchases, too.<p>Seems we&#x27;re stuck in this situation so long as the block size remains where it is. That artificially reduces the supply of transactions, forcing the price up. No matter how many miners there are competing for those transaction fees, there can never be more transactions. The transaction market is really one half of a market, or a market with a &quot;supply ceiling&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s ironic that Bitcoin&#x27;s transaction count is essentially limited _by fiat_---by fiat of the Bitcoin code that implements the block limit.<p>But given the relative failure of forks that increase that block limit, it seems Bitcoin is what it is and other coins will have to pick up that slack.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/2592/bitcoin-is-none-of-the-things-it-was-supposed-to-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>agorabinary</author><text>Responding to problems with this article as they appear:<p>1. Coinbase buckling is a failure of a web application grappling with unprecedented load. Not with bitcoin.<p>2. The dark web mostly uses Monero, which would not exist without Bitcoin coming along first. Also the notion of a $65 fee on a $250 tx is ridiculous, not to mention a 24 hour wait time.<p>3. The existence of exchanges and dark web websites that allow you to convert fiat to bitcoin and facilitate trades (middlemen as the authors calls them) is a failure of Bitcoin? Building a centralized exchange&#x2F;facilitator will ALWAYS come before a decentralized alternative because decentralized apps are hard.<p>4. Applications that provide immeasurable convenience at the cost of a little privacy and security are an inevitable step in the road towards a better system. This is the equivalent of RMS bemoaning the existence of Ubuntu because it uses a few propriety programs, when whatever free distro he recommends is straight out of 1992<p>5. &quot;retains none of the exciting features&quot;? Rapidly increasing prices does not remove the most innovative features (smart contracts, off-chain transactions, etc) of the crypto world. It accelerates them if anything by providing the capital to finance their development<p>Feel free to attack Bitcoin for its shortcomings, but don&#x27;t act like things could have easily gone differently. Bitcoin still has tremendous potential for privacy, security, and everyday use --- if you get past the clickbait headlines.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/2592/bitcoin-is-none-of-the-things-it-was-supposed-to-be</url></story> |
24,445,596 | 24,445,147 | 1 | 2 | 24,444,497 | 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>PragmaticPulp</author><text>This is actually the misunderstanding that the author is talking about:<p>People commonly misunderstand the concept and assume that obscurity is a bad practice in general, even when used as a secondary layer. It&#x27;s not uncommon for junior engineers to object to any level of obfuscation or security because they can imagine a scenario where a sufficiently skilled attacker can defeat it, but that&#x27;s missing the point. Slowing down your adversaries and weeding out the low-effort attacks is still valuable.<p>&gt; So, sure, you can do non-standard stuff to make it harder for _some_ not discover your vulnerabilities (ssh non-standard port is actually a good thing given the massive amounts of bots around), but that should never be your only (or your main) layer of defense<p>That&#x27;s exactly what the author says in the article. I don&#x27;t see where the author is disagreeing with what you said.<p>I would go one step further and say that engineers commonly underestimate the volume of low-effort attacks that will pour in at scale. Some of these, such as brute-forcing or DDoS, can be disruptive to users unless you have perfect rate limiting (which you won&#x27;t at first). Adding layers of obscurity before attackers can authenticate with and interact with core services can dramatically reduce the volume of these low-effort attacks. The skilled attackers tend to be more surgical.</text><parent_chain><item><author>n0on3</author><text>It seems to me that the article is missing a few of points on what &quot;security by obscurity&quot; means.<p>From Wikipedia: &quot;reliance [...] on design or implementation secrecy as _<i>the main method</i>_ of providing security [...]&quot;<p>So, to use the model mentioned in the article, a single slice of cheese. It&#x27;s not &quot;an additional layer of defense&quot;, it&#x27;s the main one (so you have other... weaker layers? ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯)<p>Second, &quot;reliance on secrecy of design and implementation&quot; is different from &quot;reliance on secrecy of _whatever-else_&quot;, because design and implementation are most often either easily discoverable (sure, occasional skids might not scan port 64323 but what about someone who can observe your traffic?) or pretty much guaranteed to be discovered by adveraries with (not even as much as one might think) time and motivation.<p>Third, some of the examples mentioned (e.g., the decoy cars) are not even security by obscurity, that&#x27;s called deception.<p>So, sure, you can do non-standard stuff to make it harder for _some_ not discover your vulnerabilities (ssh non-standard port is actually a good thing given the massive amounts of bots around), but that should <i>never</i> be your only (or your main) layer of defense.<p>Security by obscurity is not underrated, by definition it&#x27;s just bad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Security by obscurity is underrated</title><url>https://utkusen.com/blog/security-by-obscurity-is-underrated.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>jjeaff</author><text>I agree with your understanding of security by obscurity. But I think the popular understanding has started to be more along the lines that the author counters. That if any security measure is &quot;obscurity&quot; then don&#x27;t do it, it&#x27;s bad.</text><parent_chain><item><author>n0on3</author><text>It seems to me that the article is missing a few of points on what &quot;security by obscurity&quot; means.<p>From Wikipedia: &quot;reliance [...] on design or implementation secrecy as _<i>the main method</i>_ of providing security [...]&quot;<p>So, to use the model mentioned in the article, a single slice of cheese. It&#x27;s not &quot;an additional layer of defense&quot;, it&#x27;s the main one (so you have other... weaker layers? ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯)<p>Second, &quot;reliance on secrecy of design and implementation&quot; is different from &quot;reliance on secrecy of _whatever-else_&quot;, because design and implementation are most often either easily discoverable (sure, occasional skids might not scan port 64323 but what about someone who can observe your traffic?) or pretty much guaranteed to be discovered by adveraries with (not even as much as one might think) time and motivation.<p>Third, some of the examples mentioned (e.g., the decoy cars) are not even security by obscurity, that&#x27;s called deception.<p>So, sure, you can do non-standard stuff to make it harder for _some_ not discover your vulnerabilities (ssh non-standard port is actually a good thing given the massive amounts of bots around), but that should <i>never</i> be your only (or your main) layer of defense.<p>Security by obscurity is not underrated, by definition it&#x27;s just bad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Security by obscurity is underrated</title><url>https://utkusen.com/blog/security-by-obscurity-is-underrated.html</url></story> |
23,194,498 | 23,193,150 | 1 | 2 | 23,192,566 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kosei</author><text>As someone who works in the video games industry, I can guarantee it is the lockdown. Stay at home orders align really closely with significant lifts in new players, increased hours played, and many other core metrics across the industry. And many games have seen significant lifts in their existing live service performance (not just new games).</text><parent_chain><item><author>ArtWomb</author><text>I&#x27;d argue it&#x27;s not just lockdown. This has been an epic release year: Animal Crossing, Half Life Alyx, Doom Eternal, Gears Tactics, Valorent, Sea of Thieves. And on and on. Paper Mario: Origami King trailer looks like so much fun there is no reason to leave the house this summer ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/15/us-video-game-sales-have-record-quarter-as-consumers-stay-at-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>duxup</author><text>Half Life Alyx<p>Big name, but random googling says Half Life Alyx sold 50k vs.... Animal Crossing at 11 million+ by March 31.<p>I&#x27;m not sure Half Life Alyx has any relevance as far as volume of play goes ;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>ArtWomb</author><text>I&#x27;d argue it&#x27;s not just lockdown. This has been an epic release year: Animal Crossing, Half Life Alyx, Doom Eternal, Gears Tactics, Valorent, Sea of Thieves. And on and on. Paper Mario: Origami King trailer looks like so much fun there is no reason to leave the house this summer ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/15/us-video-game-sales-have-record-quarter-as-consumers-stay-at-home/</url></story> |
24,111,105 | 24,110,996 | 1 | 2 | 24,110,127 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>billti</author><text>When I&#x27;m testing locally with a trivial site, those favicon 404 requests bugged me when checking the log. I&#x27;m also a little bit obsessive about keeping my pages small. This resulted in me going down a rabbit hole of the GIF spec to see the smallest inline blank favicon I could create. I ended up with:<p><pre><code> &lt;link rel=&quot;icon&quot; href=&quot;data:image&#x2F;gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAQAAAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACASgAOw==&quot;&gt;
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Putting that small line in my HEAD tag gets rid of those annoying extra requests, and results in no favicon (it&#x27;s just a totally transparent image).<p>If interested in the format, I put a gist up at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;billti&#x2F;81d4b601c9022ba3655a3a03873caff8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;billti&#x2F;81d4b601c9022ba3655a3a03873ca...</a> with the small node.js script I wrote to generate various examples. (You can see more examples and links in the comments in the top if interested).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How We Got the Favicon (2017)</title><url>https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/how-we-got-the-favicon/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neilv</author><text>I&#x27;ve never heard the definitive story of how autocomplete got added to the URL bar, but it might&#x27;ve been a particular route from Emacs...<p>I was talking with a manager for one of the Web browsers in &#x27;96, and mentioned a little Emacs add-on, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neilvandyke.org&#x2F;webjump&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neilvandyke.org&#x2F;webjump&#x2F;</a> , which combined Emacs autocompletion with a bunch of arbitrary site-specific code to be a smart hotlist&#x2F;bookmarks&#x2F;search&#x2F;etc. for Web browsers. The manager suddenly ignored everything else we were talking about, which I thought was more important, and drilled down into this little Emacs curiosity. Next thing I knew, completion was added to their browser&#x27;s URL bar (but not the other things WebJump did).<p>The autocompletion wasn&#x27;t my invention (it might&#x27;ve been Emacs&#x27;s, decades earlier), of course, and a lot of people knew about it, including via noted Emacs hacker JWZ famously at Netscape, so there are numerous other paths it could&#x27;ve coincidentally gotten into browsers. I&#x27;d just be slightly tickled if that one conversation happened to be the prompt for someone&#x27;s effort to add it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How We Got the Favicon (2017)</title><url>https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/how-we-got-the-favicon/</url></story> |
41,361,532 | 41,361,533 | 1 | 2 | 41,360,808 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lovethevoid</author><text>There is no logical inconsistency here. Durov, a citizen of France, failed to comply with their own country&#x27;s process. This isn&#x27;t a &quot;random country&quot; applied &quot;for anyone&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>OutOfHere</author><text>What you&#x27;re saying in effect is that any random country should be able to subpoena records for anyone. To be logically consistent, what if say Iran wants the records of the head of the CIA? The concern is not limited to Telegram; it generalizes to any messaging app.</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>Everyone must cooperate when they receive legal warrants and subpoenas. That&#x27;s normal police work.<p>There is the right way and the wrong way.<p>Wrong way: Telegram keeps records and refuses to cooperate. Telegram faces consequences.<p>Right way: Signal cooperates. They give two Unix timestamps. One for when the account was created and the date the account last connected to the Signal service. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;bigbrother&#x2F;cd-california-grand-jury&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;bigbrother&#x2F;cd-california-grand-jury&#x2F;</a> See also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;bigbrother&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;bigbrother&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic human rights</title><url>https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1827695836832334169</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>What you&#x27;re saying in effect is that any random country should be able to subpoena records for anyone</i><p>Durov is a French citizen. He was arrested in France. This isn&#x27;t a Kim Dotcom situation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>OutOfHere</author><text>What you&#x27;re saying in effect is that any random country should be able to subpoena records for anyone. To be logically consistent, what if say Iran wants the records of the head of the CIA? The concern is not limited to Telegram; it generalizes to any messaging app.</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>Everyone must cooperate when they receive legal warrants and subpoenas. That&#x27;s normal police work.<p>There is the right way and the wrong way.<p>Wrong way: Telegram keeps records and refuses to cooperate. Telegram faces consequences.<p>Right way: Signal cooperates. They give two Unix timestamps. One for when the account was created and the date the account last connected to the Signal service. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;bigbrother&#x2F;cd-california-grand-jury&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;bigbrother&#x2F;cd-california-grand-jury&#x2F;</a> See also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;bigbrother&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;bigbrother&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic human rights</title><url>https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1827695836832334169</url></story> |
38,558,965 | 38,558,846 | 1 | 2 | 38,557,228 | 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>nemothekid</author><text>&gt;<i>I just don&#x27;t understand how one entity can have this much power, in this case they essentially are the government they could demand whatever the hell they wanted.</i><p>When you zoom out and look at the actors involved, this isn&#x27;t all that strange. This is a strike - if the citizens of a country don&#x27;t want to do business with a certain entity isn&#x27;t that how the government, ideally, should work? Citizens should be able to demand whatever the hell they wanted; otherwise who does the government work for?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ApolloFortyNine</author><text>Allowing the government owned post office to pick and choose who gets mail just seems like a step too far.<p>But even then the court wasn&#x27;t forcing them to deliver mail, just allowing that mail to be picked up. And now that&#x27;s blocked?<p>I just don&#x27;t understand how one entity can have this much power, in this case they essentially are the government they could demand whatever the hell they wanted. Your choice is to leave the country or agree to the demands of the postal service.<p>People hate tesla and Musk right now so they&#x27;ll by and large support this, but eventually the post office will realize how much power they weild and use it for some other gain.<p>And how is this not similar to the post office choosing not to deliver tax documents, forcing an entity to eventually become delinquent? The government agency responsible for sending license plates only uses the government owned mail provider (makes sense) but that provider can pick and choose who it delivers mail to?</text></item><item><author>eckesicle</author><text>&gt; Postal workers even decided not to deliver mail to the electric automaker, including license plates – an action that Musk called &quot;insane&quot;. The local court has since put a stop to that action.<p>This is no longer true. A higher court overturned that decision and the license plates are again blocked from reaching Tesla.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/swedish_tesla_strike_international/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>manuelabeledo</author><text>&gt; Allowing the government owned post office to pick and choose who gets mail just seems like a step too far.<p>The government isn&#x27;t doing this, workers are.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t it be more problematic if the government stepped in and forced the hand against their workers, and in favour of a private company like Tesla?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ApolloFortyNine</author><text>Allowing the government owned post office to pick and choose who gets mail just seems like a step too far.<p>But even then the court wasn&#x27;t forcing them to deliver mail, just allowing that mail to be picked up. And now that&#x27;s blocked?<p>I just don&#x27;t understand how one entity can have this much power, in this case they essentially are the government they could demand whatever the hell they wanted. Your choice is to leave the country or agree to the demands of the postal service.<p>People hate tesla and Musk right now so they&#x27;ll by and large support this, but eventually the post office will realize how much power they weild and use it for some other gain.<p>And how is this not similar to the post office choosing not to deliver tax documents, forcing an entity to eventually become delinquent? The government agency responsible for sending license plates only uses the government owned mail provider (makes sense) but that provider can pick and choose who it delivers mail to?</text></item><item><author>eckesicle</author><text>&gt; Postal workers even decided not to deliver mail to the electric automaker, including license plates – an action that Musk called &quot;insane&quot;. The local court has since put a stop to that action.<p>This is no longer true. A higher court overturned that decision and the license plates are again blocked from reaching Tesla.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/swedish_tesla_strike_international/</url></story> |
9,021,118 | 9,021,076 | 1 | 3 | 9,020,592 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zv-</author><text>Those banks had contracts with the executives, saying they would get the bonuses if X metrics were met (likely what it was, maybe it was just a straight bonus every year, and the assumption is that they would be fired if they didn&#x27;t preform). Those contracts don&#x27;t go away because of a bailout.<p>I would be interested in legislation that changes this. If a private bank (I don&#x27;t think there are many truly private banks anymore) wants to give whatever bonuses it wants, I really don&#x27;t care.<p>But once public money is involved, I agree we need some strict controls.</text><parent_chain><item><author>javiramos</author><text>Yeah, but when the bank needs loans to stay in business it shouldn&#x27;t be paying out bonuses. Particularly so if the government (i.e. taxpayers&#x2F;us) went through giant efforts and took a significant amount of risk to hand out these &#x27;loans&#x27;.<p>EDIT: I believe that the bailout was needed and it did (IMO) prevent significant negative ripples from flowing through our financial system. What I really despise is the lack of discipline and regulatory oversight during the bailout process. This left a very sour taste in many struggling Americans and demonstrated that our political structures are incapable of focused, regulated, and disciplined action.</text></item><item><author>tomp</author><text>I don&#x27;t mean to detract from your point, but you have to keep in mind the fact that those were loans, and the government actually made money on those loans (AFAIK). Also, if the damage to the economy would be greater than the taxpayer loss of the bail-outs, they still make sense, as long as they are accompanied by legislation that makes hem less likely in the future (which, sadly, hasn&#x27;t happened yet).<p>&gt; Also I clearly need a job in banking...<p>If you want to become a good cook, get a cooking job. If you want to earn good money, get a money (banking) job :)</text></item><item><author>tormeh</author><text>&gt;“When the banks did well, their employees were paid well. When the banks did poorly, their employees were paid well,” Cuomo’s office said in the 22-page report. “When the banks did very poorly, they were bailed out by taxpayers and their employees were still paid well. Bonuses and overall compensation did not vary significantly as profits diminished.”<p>Waaat. I think the government should stop bailing out businesses. Either you let the company go bankrupt or you nationalize.<p>Also I clearly need a job in banking...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009)</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aHURVoSUqpho</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>easytiger</author><text>How do you think banks work? They are see-saws of money on one big balance sheet.<p>Also the regulatory situation in Europe is still much more stringent than in the US. In US banking there are a load of utter time wasting rules that provide little sanity to the issues suffered</text><parent_chain><item><author>javiramos</author><text>Yeah, but when the bank needs loans to stay in business it shouldn&#x27;t be paying out bonuses. Particularly so if the government (i.e. taxpayers&#x2F;us) went through giant efforts and took a significant amount of risk to hand out these &#x27;loans&#x27;.<p>EDIT: I believe that the bailout was needed and it did (IMO) prevent significant negative ripples from flowing through our financial system. What I really despise is the lack of discipline and regulatory oversight during the bailout process. This left a very sour taste in many struggling Americans and demonstrated that our political structures are incapable of focused, regulated, and disciplined action.</text></item><item><author>tomp</author><text>I don&#x27;t mean to detract from your point, but you have to keep in mind the fact that those were loans, and the government actually made money on those loans (AFAIK). Also, if the damage to the economy would be greater than the taxpayer loss of the bail-outs, they still make sense, as long as they are accompanied by legislation that makes hem less likely in the future (which, sadly, hasn&#x27;t happened yet).<p>&gt; Also I clearly need a job in banking...<p>If you want to become a good cook, get a cooking job. If you want to earn good money, get a money (banking) job :)</text></item><item><author>tormeh</author><text>&gt;“When the banks did well, their employees were paid well. When the banks did poorly, their employees were paid well,” Cuomo’s office said in the 22-page report. “When the banks did very poorly, they were bailed out by taxpayers and their employees were still paid well. Bonuses and overall compensation did not vary significantly as profits diminished.”<p>Waaat. I think the government should stop bailing out businesses. Either you let the company go bankrupt or you nationalize.<p>Also I clearly need a job in banking...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009)</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aHURVoSUqpho</url></story> |
29,891,597 | 29,890,261 | 1 | 2 | 29,888,095 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>But someone leads. Look around you. Most leaders are really managers phoning it in.<p>But when the right person with the right resources at the right time is there, magic happens. All three legs of the stool have to be there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guerrilla</author><text>&gt; Had it not been for Alexander the Great, the Greeks would not have stomped all the way to India<p>How do you know that? Leadership and management are real jobs but there&#x27;s often existing demand, goals and plans that these people are employed by those around them for. I&#x27;m willing to go out on a limb and wager that&#x27;s the way it always is actually. Everyone&#x27;s a product of their environment and their times, standing on the shoulder of giants, workers and peasants alike.</text></item><item><author>gherkinnn</author><text>I&#x27;m torn.<p>Had it not been for Alexander the Great, the Greeks would not have stomped all the way to India. Same foot soldiers. Same cooks. But it was Alexander who got them there.<p>And yet we loose so much by glossing over the cooks and masons and smiths and horsemen. Stories lost. Lives lost. Knowledge lost. It&#x27;s been a mere 70 years and the logistics that went in to D-Day are never talked about. It&#x27;s all cliffs, Private Ryan, and Eisenhower. They put 150,000 men across the channel in a single day. And nobody seems to know about the how.<p>Original poem: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lyricstranslate.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;bertolt-brecht-fragen-eines-lesenden-arbeiters-lyrics.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lyricstranslate.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;bertolt-brecht-fragen-eines-l...</a><p>In Our Time on Persepolis, with a rather critical take on Alexander (the Great | of Macedon): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;programmes&#x2F;b0b4z075" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;programmes&#x2F;b0b4z075</a>.<p>13 Minutes to the Moon, a BBC production about the moon landing. A good amount of detail about the invisible work that went in to the spectacular feat: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;programmes&#x2F;w13xttx2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;programmes&#x2F;w13xttx2</a></text></item><item><author>MichaelMoser123</author><text>This reminds me of a poem by Berthold Brecht:<p><pre><code> Questions From A Worker Who Reads
Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
And Babylon, many times demolished
Who raised it up so many times? In what houses
of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live?
Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished
Did the masons go? Great Rome
Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom
Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song
Only palaces for its inhabitans? Even in fabled Atlantis
The night the ocean engulfed it
The drowning still bawled for their slaves.
The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
Caesar beat the Gauls.
Did he not have even a cook with him?
Philip of Spain wept when his armada
Went down. Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the Second won the Seven Year&#x27;s War. Who
Else won it?
Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every ten years a great man?
Who paid the bill?
So many reports.
So many questions.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Monumental Record: the lives of the workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza</title><url>https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/monumental-record</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>api</author><text>There are some great recent counterexamples to this. Here are two: when Steve Jobs took the helm of Apple in the early 2000s, and Elon Musk with reusable rockets and rebooting space in general.<p>We seem wired to rally around leaders to get things done. Most people seem to wait around to be told what to do. This makes modern people very uncomfortable (for some very rational reasons) to the point that we engage in denialism about it.<p>In ancient tribal societies with group sizes close to Dunbar&#x27;s number, this probably worked out much better than it does now. People had direct relationships with the leader and could see clearly what was happening, and if a leader lost favor they had to face people directly. Sometimes the results were brutal.<p>In modern society we have systems so large with so many layers of social and economic abstraction that it&#x27;s very easy for leaders to abuse their power and to hide that abuse for a long time. It&#x27;s also very easy for leaders to lose sight of the &quot;ground truth&quot; and&#x2F;or for the people to lose sight of what the leader is doing. I&#x27;m sure sometimes leaders don&#x27;t set out to abuse their power but kind of &quot;back into it&quot; for various reasons. It gets pretty dysfunctional but when you think about it it&#x27;s kind of astounding that we are able to scale at all to societies this large given our species&#x27; background.<p>Edit:<p>I also wonder if there&#x27;s an ego protecting mechanism at work. When Elon Musk says he&#x27;s going to build a reusable rocket, we can get behind him and work for him... but if the effort fails we can blame the whole thing on him. If we succeed the leader gets the credit, which is the part we hate, but if we fail the leader also gets the blame.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guerrilla</author><text>&gt; Had it not been for Alexander the Great, the Greeks would not have stomped all the way to India<p>How do you know that? Leadership and management are real jobs but there&#x27;s often existing demand, goals and plans that these people are employed by those around them for. I&#x27;m willing to go out on a limb and wager that&#x27;s the way it always is actually. Everyone&#x27;s a product of their environment and their times, standing on the shoulder of giants, workers and peasants alike.</text></item><item><author>gherkinnn</author><text>I&#x27;m torn.<p>Had it not been for Alexander the Great, the Greeks would not have stomped all the way to India. Same foot soldiers. Same cooks. But it was Alexander who got them there.<p>And yet we loose so much by glossing over the cooks and masons and smiths and horsemen. Stories lost. Lives lost. Knowledge lost. It&#x27;s been a mere 70 years and the logistics that went in to D-Day are never talked about. It&#x27;s all cliffs, Private Ryan, and Eisenhower. They put 150,000 men across the channel in a single day. And nobody seems to know about the how.<p>Original poem: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lyricstranslate.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;bertolt-brecht-fragen-eines-lesenden-arbeiters-lyrics.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lyricstranslate.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;bertolt-brecht-fragen-eines-l...</a><p>In Our Time on Persepolis, with a rather critical take on Alexander (the Great | of Macedon): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;programmes&#x2F;b0b4z075" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;programmes&#x2F;b0b4z075</a>.<p>13 Minutes to the Moon, a BBC production about the moon landing. A good amount of detail about the invisible work that went in to the spectacular feat: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;programmes&#x2F;w13xttx2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;programmes&#x2F;w13xttx2</a></text></item><item><author>MichaelMoser123</author><text>This reminds me of a poem by Berthold Brecht:<p><pre><code> Questions From A Worker Who Reads
Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
And Babylon, many times demolished
Who raised it up so many times? In what houses
of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live?
Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished
Did the masons go? Great Rome
Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom
Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song
Only palaces for its inhabitans? Even in fabled Atlantis
The night the ocean engulfed it
The drowning still bawled for their slaves.
The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
Caesar beat the Gauls.
Did he not have even a cook with him?
Philip of Spain wept when his armada
Went down. Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the Second won the Seven Year&#x27;s War. Who
Else won it?
Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every ten years a great man?
Who paid the bill?
So many reports.
So many questions.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Monumental Record: the lives of the workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza</title><url>https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/monumental-record</url></story> |
13,392,153 | 13,391,576 | 1 | 3 | 13,390,511 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdpedrie</author><text>This is nothing new. Those on the right have felt the same squeeze you&#x27;re describing over the Obama years in the form of politically targeted pressure from the IRS.<p>The lesson &#x2F;should&#x2F; be that when the government is powerful enough to use against your political enemies, it&#x27;s powerful enough to be used against you. Unfortunately, the allure of what you can do with that power next time you run the show seems strong enough to override a lot of rational concerns.</text><parent_chain><item><author>benmcnelly</author><text>This is a bad time to be a liberal. Let me explain.<p>On nearly the eve of handing over the country to Trump, Obama is laying the groundwork for policy that has huge potential to be abused. I am confused, because if anything you would think he would do the opposite, but I refuse to believe it was done to give him a noose to hang himself, but why?<p>Why is it a bad time to be a liberal? Because there is a good chance you will disagree with a lot of upcoming policy. But with this in place, criticizing your government or standing against tyranny could make you a target, one that is now easier than ever to trudge through an archive of your online life for anything remotely wrong, and prosecute you, retroactively, for it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/obama-expands-surveillance-powers-his-way-out</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>piffey</author><text>This is a thought exercise, not my opinion as it&#x27;s too complex&#x2F;conspiracy theory-ish and more the plot of a Tom Clancy novel, but what if Obama is expanding the power and handing the reins over to intelligence groups that Trump has sidelined? The NSA&#x2F;CIA are fantastic at collapsing and running foreign governments -- why not ours?</text><parent_chain><item><author>benmcnelly</author><text>This is a bad time to be a liberal. Let me explain.<p>On nearly the eve of handing over the country to Trump, Obama is laying the groundwork for policy that has huge potential to be abused. I am confused, because if anything you would think he would do the opposite, but I refuse to believe it was done to give him a noose to hang himself, but why?<p>Why is it a bad time to be a liberal? Because there is a good chance you will disagree with a lot of upcoming policy. But with this in place, criticizing your government or standing against tyranny could make you a target, one that is now easier than ever to trudge through an archive of your online life for anything remotely wrong, and prosecute you, retroactively, for it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/obama-expands-surveillance-powers-his-way-out</url></story> |
34,540,260 | 34,540,297 | 1 | 2 | 34,532,927 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PuppyTailWags</author><text>I would offer some hesitations to offer Church without knowing too much about someone or without caveats. Lots of people have religious trauma from being sexually assaulted&#x2F;abused by church members or religious leaders, being ostracized for being LGBTQ or even just not performing gender strongly enough, or from being autistic&#x2F;ADHD&#x2F;a weirdo. When religion is good, it&#x27;s a great pin to community building and mutual aid. When religion is bad it&#x27;s a nightmare.</text><parent_chain><item><author>citilife</author><text>I recommend people try to go to Church -- even if you&#x27;re not exceptionally religious (you can even tell them that, I&#x27;ve never seen anyone mind; though they may try to convince you).<p>It&#x27;s an easy place to meet 30-40 people in a day, everyone there has different interests and comes from different walks of life. If you attend for a few weeks you&#x27;ll often start attending lunch together, meeting out at some activities, etc. Plus, all you have to do is show up. People at a church tend to be outgoing, at least some of them are. Someone is bound to reach out to you if you sit there and drink a coffee.</text></item><item><author>com2kid</author><text>&gt; but no matter how much I try I never seem to be able to cultivate any kind of lasting relationship with others.<p>I used to run a startup focused on this, here is what I learned:<p>Time. The answer is time. Research shows there are two ways long term bonds are formed, shared adversity[1], or lots of time spent together. General rule of thumb for relationship building:<p>1. 10 hours together is someone you know
2. 100 hours together is a good acquittance.
3. 1000 hours together is a good friend and a relationship that can now last a long time<p>This is why activities such as football watching (3*18, 54 hours a year, 2 years and you now have the beginnings of a good friends circle), or weekly poker matches (2 hours, almost 100 hours in a year) are so effective at building relationships.<p>Interpersonal hobbies with lots of down time, like rock climbing or playing in a band, accelerate this process greatly.<p>For people with kids, weekly play dates, or a weekly rotated dinner hosting.<p>Friendship is literally grinding hours, when we are young it is easy, studying and hanging out get those hours in, but when we get older, we have to be purposeful about it.<p>[1] Military boot camps are an example of this, so are the various culture wars. If you make people feel they are part of an oppressed group, preferably while isolating them from society at large, you will forms a cohesive group that acts together and one where everyone feels connected to each other. &quot;Both sides&quot; of the political spectrum do this, once you learn to spot it you start seeing it everywhere.</text></item><item><author>incognito_robot</author><text>It is uncanny how much this mimics my own experience.<p>Was bullied between ages 11-16. Grew a a social circle in high school, which started fragmenting once everyone went off to university. I rarely if ever see any of them anymore.<p>Before the bullying, I was aparently happy and excited for most things (according to siblings). After it I have always been the low energy serious guy.<p>20 years on I feel an intense need for human connection, but no matter how much I try I never seem to be able to cultivate any kind of lasting relationship with others.</text></item><item><author>likeabbas</author><text>There&#x27;s no single cause and no single cure which is why it&#x27;s so hard.<p>I moved cities at 10 years old, and was bullied and isolated during the entirety of Middle School. Ever since then, I&#x27;ve always had negative and depressive thoughts lurking around. It&#x27;s just my normal.<p>A psychiatrist helped me understand that those formative years are when your cortex is developing. The cortex learns through repetition, and during those years I was having constant sadness and suffering events. So, my emotional intelligence learned to be that way and that&#x27;s why I&#x27;ve suffered ever since.<p>If I&#x27;m not pro active in thinking about being happy or doing active things, I default to being depressed. After almost 20 years, I&#x27;m still suffering.<p>A side effect of being isolated during those years is my social skills have taken longer to develop. I didn&#x27;t have a true batch of friends until college, but now I&#x27;ve lost all of them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Neuropsychiatric researchers rethink what depression might be</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cause-of-depression-is-probably-not-what-you-think-20230126/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boppo1</author><text>I have considered this, however I&#x27;m agnostic asymptotically approaching atheist. It&#x27;s not really important to me and I don&#x27;t care to talk about it, but I really wouldn&#x27;t want to lie about it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>citilife</author><text>I recommend people try to go to Church -- even if you&#x27;re not exceptionally religious (you can even tell them that, I&#x27;ve never seen anyone mind; though they may try to convince you).<p>It&#x27;s an easy place to meet 30-40 people in a day, everyone there has different interests and comes from different walks of life. If you attend for a few weeks you&#x27;ll often start attending lunch together, meeting out at some activities, etc. Plus, all you have to do is show up. People at a church tend to be outgoing, at least some of them are. Someone is bound to reach out to you if you sit there and drink a coffee.</text></item><item><author>com2kid</author><text>&gt; but no matter how much I try I never seem to be able to cultivate any kind of lasting relationship with others.<p>I used to run a startup focused on this, here is what I learned:<p>Time. The answer is time. Research shows there are two ways long term bonds are formed, shared adversity[1], or lots of time spent together. General rule of thumb for relationship building:<p>1. 10 hours together is someone you know
2. 100 hours together is a good acquittance.
3. 1000 hours together is a good friend and a relationship that can now last a long time<p>This is why activities such as football watching (3*18, 54 hours a year, 2 years and you now have the beginnings of a good friends circle), or weekly poker matches (2 hours, almost 100 hours in a year) are so effective at building relationships.<p>Interpersonal hobbies with lots of down time, like rock climbing or playing in a band, accelerate this process greatly.<p>For people with kids, weekly play dates, or a weekly rotated dinner hosting.<p>Friendship is literally grinding hours, when we are young it is easy, studying and hanging out get those hours in, but when we get older, we have to be purposeful about it.<p>[1] Military boot camps are an example of this, so are the various culture wars. If you make people feel they are part of an oppressed group, preferably while isolating them from society at large, you will forms a cohesive group that acts together and one where everyone feels connected to each other. &quot;Both sides&quot; of the political spectrum do this, once you learn to spot it you start seeing it everywhere.</text></item><item><author>incognito_robot</author><text>It is uncanny how much this mimics my own experience.<p>Was bullied between ages 11-16. Grew a a social circle in high school, which started fragmenting once everyone went off to university. I rarely if ever see any of them anymore.<p>Before the bullying, I was aparently happy and excited for most things (according to siblings). After it I have always been the low energy serious guy.<p>20 years on I feel an intense need for human connection, but no matter how much I try I never seem to be able to cultivate any kind of lasting relationship with others.</text></item><item><author>likeabbas</author><text>There&#x27;s no single cause and no single cure which is why it&#x27;s so hard.<p>I moved cities at 10 years old, and was bullied and isolated during the entirety of Middle School. Ever since then, I&#x27;ve always had negative and depressive thoughts lurking around. It&#x27;s just my normal.<p>A psychiatrist helped me understand that those formative years are when your cortex is developing. The cortex learns through repetition, and during those years I was having constant sadness and suffering events. So, my emotional intelligence learned to be that way and that&#x27;s why I&#x27;ve suffered ever since.<p>If I&#x27;m not pro active in thinking about being happy or doing active things, I default to being depressed. After almost 20 years, I&#x27;m still suffering.<p>A side effect of being isolated during those years is my social skills have taken longer to develop. I didn&#x27;t have a true batch of friends until college, but now I&#x27;ve lost all of them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Neuropsychiatric researchers rethink what depression might be</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cause-of-depression-is-probably-not-what-you-think-20230126/</url></story> |
32,396,149 | 32,385,751 | 1 | 3 | 32,378,695 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gregwebs</author><text>This is actually talked about on every HN energy thread and it’s now incorrect, particularly about batteries.<p>Solar has supply bottlenecks at the moment that are stopping further price declines- hopefully they will get solved.<p>But there’s a lithium shortage that is already showing up in the price of lithium going up 5x. Analysts predict that by around 2025 lithium will limit the battery market that is trying to grow 40x to meet electrification demands [1]. Note that opening a new lithium mine takes a minimum of 7 years. sodium based batteries are coming to help this situation, but they are a new technology that will take time to productionize and ramp up.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;5v-DTS-ibow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;5v-DTS-ibow</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>abetusk</author><text>Energy? I feel like it&#x27;s been talked about a lot but maybe not?<p>Solar panels are dropping in cost at an exponential rate [0]. As of this writing, consumer &quot;new&quot; panels are $0.75&#x2F;W and used are at around $0.30&#x2F;W right now (I won&#x27;t give a link as a Google search will do).<p>Battery technology is also dropping at an exponential rate. I believe, with a little effort, one can purchase batteries at about $0.08&#x2F;Wh.<p>Taken together, one can purchase a 30KWh (daily) solar panel and battery storage system for about $4,200 (not including labor and extra hardware&#x2F;electronics), which puts the return on investment (ROI) at about 3.5 years if we consider the average house spends around $1200 (in the USA).<p>Dropping costs will quickly put that in the 2 year ROI range which, in my opinion, is the inflection point where it effectively becomes too good to pass up for the average consumer.<p>The dropping price of energy comes with all sorts of side effects, like a potentially decentralized energy grid, use cases for excess energy (eg bitcoin mining, carbon capture, hydrogen production, etc.), novel power storage systems etc., which is maybe the &quot;novel&quot; part that I haven&#x27;t heard too much talk about.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Swanson%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Swanson%27s_law</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?</title><text>Blockchain &amp; AI don&#x27;t count, because they&#x27;re being talked about plenty!</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>aaronax</author><text>Hopefully the other pieces get cheap enough to enable some revolution in the wiring side of it. Falling costs enable some acceptable loss of efficiency, so you can blow 100W on unnecessary power conversion and another 100W or whatever on losses due to smaller cabling.<p>It badly needs to be standardized in a consumer-friendly way...like power-over-ethernet in reverse. Field-installable, hot-pluggable, fool proof connectors. You can get 90W over some variations of network cabling...bump that up a couple sizes so you can handle 400W.<p>So you buy a bunch of solar panels and some patch cables, and plug those in to a one or more &quot;power switches&quot; on the roof top. Then run a QSFP+ equivalent &quot;power backhaul&quot; down into utility room where you have your &quot;power aggregation switch&quot; which has a bunch of (power)QSFP+ ports and plug batteries in to a few of those. And of course a couple big QSFP28 ports to an inverter to power legacy 120V loads, which maybe someday you don&#x27;t need any more as household things move to using PoLE (power over large ethernet).</text><parent_chain><item><author>abetusk</author><text>Energy? I feel like it&#x27;s been talked about a lot but maybe not?<p>Solar panels are dropping in cost at an exponential rate [0]. As of this writing, consumer &quot;new&quot; panels are $0.75&#x2F;W and used are at around $0.30&#x2F;W right now (I won&#x27;t give a link as a Google search will do).<p>Battery technology is also dropping at an exponential rate. I believe, with a little effort, one can purchase batteries at about $0.08&#x2F;Wh.<p>Taken together, one can purchase a 30KWh (daily) solar panel and battery storage system for about $4,200 (not including labor and extra hardware&#x2F;electronics), which puts the return on investment (ROI) at about 3.5 years if we consider the average house spends around $1200 (in the USA).<p>Dropping costs will quickly put that in the 2 year ROI range which, in my opinion, is the inflection point where it effectively becomes too good to pass up for the average consumer.<p>The dropping price of energy comes with all sorts of side effects, like a potentially decentralized energy grid, use cases for excess energy (eg bitcoin mining, carbon capture, hydrogen production, etc.), novel power storage systems etc., which is maybe the &quot;novel&quot; part that I haven&#x27;t heard too much talk about.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Swanson%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Swanson%27s_law</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?</title><text>Blockchain &amp; AI don&#x27;t count, because they&#x27;re being talked about plenty!</text></story> |
12,096,071 | 12,096,039 | 1 | 2 | 12,094,834 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jacqued</author><text>Or maybe they _could_ afford much more if basic necessities such as housing did not swallow up any gain otherwise expected. (Not to mention children, education, healthcare depending on countries).<p>When 35-50% of your income is taken up by rent, you don&#x27;t care that much that home appliances cost less than they used to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>woodpanel</author><text>I think if we want to understand the recent surge of populist movements in western countries, this study gives one good reason for it. Regardless of wether statements&#x2F;positions of those groups are correct or outrageous.<p><i>“In Sweden, for example, where the government intervened to preserve jobs, market incomes fell or were flat for only 20%, while disposable income advanced for almost everyone. In the United States, government taxes and transfers turned a decline in market incomes for 81% of income segments into an increase in disposable income for nearly all households.”</i><p>So, protectionism works? At least it seems consequential to me, that for western workers came with globalization an increase in wage-competition from workers in emerging markets.<p>That most western workers can afford much more from their flattened or fallen income than they could 10 years ago is the other part of the story that neither this data-point tells nor the populist movements.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Up to 70% of people in developed countries 'have seen incomes stagnate'</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/14/up-to-70-per-cent-people-developed-countries-seen-income-stagnate</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HillaryBriss</author><text>&gt; ... most western workers can afford much more from their flattened or fallen income than they could 10 years ago ...<p>Afford much more of what?<p>It&#x27;s probably easy to find evidence that computing power in a smartphone is more affordable.<p>But, can people now afford more quality in their children&#x27;s education or their family&#x27;s health care?<p>And what about food? Maybe the price per calorie has actually decreased in real terms, but what about the quality of those calories? Is a calorie of corn equivalent to a calorie of fresh fruits and vegetables?<p>And housing? Is a condominium equivalent to a house with a yard? etc.<p>It seems like a mixed picture. Some things are more affordable, but some other important things appear to be more expensive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>woodpanel</author><text>I think if we want to understand the recent surge of populist movements in western countries, this study gives one good reason for it. Regardless of wether statements&#x2F;positions of those groups are correct or outrageous.<p><i>“In Sweden, for example, where the government intervened to preserve jobs, market incomes fell or were flat for only 20%, while disposable income advanced for almost everyone. In the United States, government taxes and transfers turned a decline in market incomes for 81% of income segments into an increase in disposable income for nearly all households.”</i><p>So, protectionism works? At least it seems consequential to me, that for western workers came with globalization an increase in wage-competition from workers in emerging markets.<p>That most western workers can afford much more from their flattened or fallen income than they could 10 years ago is the other part of the story that neither this data-point tells nor the populist movements.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Up to 70% of people in developed countries 'have seen incomes stagnate'</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/14/up-to-70-per-cent-people-developed-countries-seen-income-stagnate</url></story> |
12,556,752 | 12,555,965 | 1 | 3 | 12,555,810 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rm2889</author><text>I live in India and despite some improvements, the level of antibiotic abuse here is shocking. They&#x27;re available over the counter and people self-medicate with antibiotics all the time. The attitude is, &quot;if my sore throat doesn&#x27;t go away in a couple of days, its time to take antibiotics. No point in going to the doc coz they&#x27;ll prescribe antibiotics too and this way I save money.&quot;<p>People self-medicating on antibiotics end up taking an incomplete dose without fully understanding the implications. This has lead to the rise of superbugs like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;New_Delhi_metallo-beta-lactamase_1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;New_Delhi_metallo-beta-lactama...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Age of the Superbug Is Here</title><url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/antibiotic-resistance-crisis-un_us_57d8ea87e4b0fbd4b7bc66c4</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lossolo</author><text>This is an amazing video[1] from Harvard Medical School released couple of days ago showing evolution of bacteria that evolve in 10 days to become resistant to antibiotics.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;plVk4NVIUh8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;plVk4NVIUh8</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Age of the Superbug Is Here</title><url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/antibiotic-resistance-crisis-un_us_57d8ea87e4b0fbd4b7bc66c4</url></story> |
20,197,369 | 20,195,223 | 1 | 3 | 20,193,786 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text><i>&gt; It&#x27;s a challenging read even for this human!</i><p>You make a good point. I thought about transcribing the images when I originally wrote the post, but eventually convinced myself that was something I could get around to later, which of course meant that I never actually got around to it.<p>Your comment gave me the necessary kick in the butt to actually go back and do that, so thanks! Transcriptions are now provided for all the images. And as long as I was in there, I went ahead and added links to various contemporary terms that might not be clear to the modern reader, pointing to more information on what they mean.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sho</author><text>Very interesting. I confess I actually would be interested in some sort of modern equivalent, if that could even exist. Those few times I&#x27;ve been lucky enough to stay in truly excellent hotels, or international business class lounges, I have sort of wondered what the other people there are thinking about and what they might have to say if I were to be so indiscrete to ask. I&#x27;m not saying rich people know it all, or anything in particular - but just being present in a rarefied place like that does have <i>some</i> story behind it and I&#x27;m endlessly curious to know what that might be.<p>On another note, also interesting is the frankly crap quality of the scanned text, which one unfortunately presumes is the only copy remaining in existence. Is there any current or near future OCR&#x2F;ML system which might be capable of transcribing the raw scans with any acceptable level of accuracy? It&#x27;s a challenging read even for this human!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>People Met in Hotel Lobbies (2017)</title><url>https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2017/05/people-met-in-hotel-lobbies/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tgb</author><text>The modern equivalent seems to be &quot;People of New York&quot; which of course is not focused on just the well-to-do and influential but still has the spirit of thinking that there&#x27;s a story if you just ask.<p>I would also assume that there are microfilm copies of the Washington Post though perhaps the scan is actually of good quality. The newspapers are intentionally cheaply printed and this was a hundred years ago. It might have just looked like that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sho</author><text>Very interesting. I confess I actually would be interested in some sort of modern equivalent, if that could even exist. Those few times I&#x27;ve been lucky enough to stay in truly excellent hotels, or international business class lounges, I have sort of wondered what the other people there are thinking about and what they might have to say if I were to be so indiscrete to ask. I&#x27;m not saying rich people know it all, or anything in particular - but just being present in a rarefied place like that does have <i>some</i> story behind it and I&#x27;m endlessly curious to know what that might be.<p>On another note, also interesting is the frankly crap quality of the scanned text, which one unfortunately presumes is the only copy remaining in existence. Is there any current or near future OCR&#x2F;ML system which might be capable of transcribing the raw scans with any acceptable level of accuracy? It&#x27;s a challenging read even for this human!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>People Met in Hotel Lobbies (2017)</title><url>https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2017/05/people-met-in-hotel-lobbies/</url></story> |
40,301,060 | 40,301,363 | 1 | 2 | 40,297,748 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gnicholas</author><text>That looks absolutely amazing. Super cool that you can maintain elevation at less than 6 MPH — I was expecting it to be closer to 10 or 15 MPH.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RajT88</author><text>Peak efficiency probably looks like this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newatlas.com&#x2F;marine&#x2F;jetcycle-hydrofoil-pedal-bike&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newatlas.com&#x2F;marine&#x2F;jetcycle-hydrofoil-pedal-bike&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>causal</author><text>Yeah I think for most uses I would still prefer fins for their agility. Cool idea though, and we probably haven&#x27;t seen peak efficiency here.</text></item><item><author>pge</author><text>Interesting that the CIA conclusion for a device very similar to the article is &quot;Not recommended for operational use due to its discomfort and very slight gain in speed over that of a swimmer equipped with fins.&quot;</text></item><item><author>wood_spirit</author><text>It’s obscure but there was such a contraption trialled by the seals and cia in the 1950s <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hisutton.com&#x2F;CIA_Water-Air_1958.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hisutton.com&#x2F;CIA_Water-Air_1958.html</a><p>Here’s a pedal powered smuggling submarine from the 1940s <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hisutton.com&#x2F;Swiss-Pedal-Powered-Smuggling-Submarine.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hisutton.com&#x2F;Swiss-Pedal-Powered-Smuggling-Submar...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed</title><url>https://newatlas.com/marine/seabike-swimming-propeller/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tigen</author><text>Looks like pretty hard work compared to land bikes. You never get to coast downhill. I wonder if you can get it to surf on waves.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RajT88</author><text>Peak efficiency probably looks like this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newatlas.com&#x2F;marine&#x2F;jetcycle-hydrofoil-pedal-bike&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newatlas.com&#x2F;marine&#x2F;jetcycle-hydrofoil-pedal-bike&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>causal</author><text>Yeah I think for most uses I would still prefer fins for their agility. Cool idea though, and we probably haven&#x27;t seen peak efficiency here.</text></item><item><author>pge</author><text>Interesting that the CIA conclusion for a device very similar to the article is &quot;Not recommended for operational use due to its discomfort and very slight gain in speed over that of a swimmer equipped with fins.&quot;</text></item><item><author>wood_spirit</author><text>It’s obscure but there was such a contraption trialled by the seals and cia in the 1950s <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hisutton.com&#x2F;CIA_Water-Air_1958.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hisutton.com&#x2F;CIA_Water-Air_1958.html</a><p>Here’s a pedal powered smuggling submarine from the 1940s <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hisutton.com&#x2F;Swiss-Pedal-Powered-Smuggling-Submarine.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hisutton.com&#x2F;Swiss-Pedal-Powered-Smuggling-Submar...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed</title><url>https://newatlas.com/marine/seabike-swimming-propeller/</url></story> |
10,332,191 | 10,332,272 | 1 | 3 | 10,331,237 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yawz</author><text>&gt; &quot;not connected to money...&quot;<p>Kaaba has always been about trade&#x2F;commerce&#x2F;money, since well before Muhammad and Islam.<p>It is not a coincidence that Muhammad&#x27;s tribe had the control of Kaaba where pagan pilgrims came before Islam to revere their many gods (whose representations (statues, icons, figures, etc.) were placed around Kaaba). And, very conveniently, it remained to be a holy place in Islam where each and every Muslim who can afford it must visit at least once during their lifetime.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tboyd47</author><text>One thing I like to reflect on when seeing this pictures is the vast difference in the number of people present at the hajj. It&#x27;s truly orders of magnitude more.<p>This huge increase in pilgrims over the last century is because of new technology like air travel, and the peace the world has experienced over the past few decades that allows people to move freely across the world. But it is due to the efforts of the Saudis to expand the masjid, build camps at Mina, allow hotels to be constructed, modernize the facilities, etc. that every person is able to actually perform the rites of hajj at the proper times. Hajj consists of a number of rites that have to be performed in certain places at certain times on certain days. Think about what it takes to organize millions of people trying to do this. It&#x27;s very different than organizing thousands, or tens of thousands. You have to accommodate all their sleeping arrangements. You have to provide enough space for marketplaces so they can get something to eat. You have to widen the roads, air condition the facilities, make sure each group leaves at their own time, etc.<p>It&#x27;s true that the Saudis aren&#x27;t perfect, and they make mistakes, but my point is that it&#x27;s easy to get the impression from the massive construction projects that they are just trying to make another Dubai or Olympics. But really, there is a spiritual purpose behind it, not connected to money, and there is also a lot going on behind the scenes that you can&#x27;t see in the pictures. It would be easier for the Saudis to just restrict the visas to a tiny fraction and not go through with all of the construction and organizing, but they are making the effort as you can see. I know this is not going to be a popular comment here but I&#x27;m just trying to offset all the negative comments with some positive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mecca Then and Now – 128 Years of Growth</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/09/mecca-then-and-now-128-years-of-growth/408013/?single_page=true</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>&gt; there is a spiritual purpose behind it, not connected to money,<p>Religion, especially in what&#x27;s pretty much a theocracy-lite, is very much tied to power and money.<p>SA is swimming in oil money, so it doesn&#x27;t need to perform some crass commercialization (although I&#x27;m sure the restaurant, transportation, and hotel industry benefit directly), but maintaining and consolidating power is part of this game. Humanity didn&#x27;t start religion because we felt unusually generous. Its a way to gain power and resources by exploiting various human desires like the need for meaning, the need for afterlife beliefs, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tboyd47</author><text>One thing I like to reflect on when seeing this pictures is the vast difference in the number of people present at the hajj. It&#x27;s truly orders of magnitude more.<p>This huge increase in pilgrims over the last century is because of new technology like air travel, and the peace the world has experienced over the past few decades that allows people to move freely across the world. But it is due to the efforts of the Saudis to expand the masjid, build camps at Mina, allow hotels to be constructed, modernize the facilities, etc. that every person is able to actually perform the rites of hajj at the proper times. Hajj consists of a number of rites that have to be performed in certain places at certain times on certain days. Think about what it takes to organize millions of people trying to do this. It&#x27;s very different than organizing thousands, or tens of thousands. You have to accommodate all their sleeping arrangements. You have to provide enough space for marketplaces so they can get something to eat. You have to widen the roads, air condition the facilities, make sure each group leaves at their own time, etc.<p>It&#x27;s true that the Saudis aren&#x27;t perfect, and they make mistakes, but my point is that it&#x27;s easy to get the impression from the massive construction projects that they are just trying to make another Dubai or Olympics. But really, there is a spiritual purpose behind it, not connected to money, and there is also a lot going on behind the scenes that you can&#x27;t see in the pictures. It would be easier for the Saudis to just restrict the visas to a tiny fraction and not go through with all of the construction and organizing, but they are making the effort as you can see. I know this is not going to be a popular comment here but I&#x27;m just trying to offset all the negative comments with some positive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mecca Then and Now – 128 Years of Growth</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/09/mecca-then-and-now-128-years-of-growth/408013/?single_page=true</url></story> |
33,373,786 | 33,372,784 | 1 | 2 | 33,371,268 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dilap</author><text>Yep, it&#x27;s completely jacked. Very annoying. Of course, back in Twitter also randomly loses your place, too. I guess it&#x27;s one of those &quot;we&#x27;re a big deal site now&quot; checklist items: Fuck up the back button.</text><parent_chain><item><author>petargyurov</author><text>Has anyone experienced a bug with navigating back from a video? It&#x27;s been happening for months now but it&#x27;s on and off.<p>When you&#x27;re watching a video and you go back, the url updates but the page doesn&#x27;t refresh&#x2F;redirect, the video just ends up restarting. Very annoying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse</title><text>The only two possible filters on the list of videos of a channel now are most recent and most popular.<p>I know it&#x27;s a small thing but somehow this hits me really hard.<p>Also, there&#x27;s less videos on a single row now. Because we can&#x27;t read more than that without our attention span going poof.</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>tiluha</author><text>Yes, that is very annoying. In general YouTubes UX is getting worse constantly. They moved the read more button for video descriptions up and to the right directly behind the end of the description text, which makes it almost completely invisible. Even now that i know where to look, it is still very hard to find.
The like button is now only an outline, which is filled when active. I find this confusing, which lead to me unliking and reliking a video because i could not determine the state of the button visually. Was never a problem, back when the thimb turned blue.
The site is quite sluggish in general, at least for me.<p>Overall YouTube makes for a nice example of how modern design often makes the experience worse</text><parent_chain><item><author>petargyurov</author><text>Has anyone experienced a bug with navigating back from a video? It&#x27;s been happening for months now but it&#x27;s on and off.<p>When you&#x27;re watching a video and you go back, the url updates but the page doesn&#x27;t refresh&#x2F;redirect, the video just ends up restarting. Very annoying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse</title><text>The only two possible filters on the list of videos of a channel now are most recent and most popular.<p>I know it&#x27;s a small thing but somehow this hits me really hard.<p>Also, there&#x27;s less videos on a single row now. Because we can&#x27;t read more than that without our attention span going poof.</text></story> |
39,677,420 | 39,676,375 | 1 | 3 | 39,675,249 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Scarblac</author><text>I&#x27;ve also done this a lot, as has everybody. My experience is that there are two problems.<p>One, it turns out I never ever end up doing the actual steps as I planned to. After a few I have new insights, realize I forgot something, see an easier way, I don&#x27;t know -- the plan is never followed.<p>The other is that I <i>really hate</i> working like this because it seems all the creative effort of thinking about how to make something is put in the first part. And then, the rest is still most of the work, but it&#x27;s the <i>really boring</i> part. It&#x27;s much more fun (and therefore faster, and resulting in better work) to spread the creativity and the boredom out more equally.<p>The two are probably related, and it&#x27;s not inconceivable that I have ADHD.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Breaking down tasks</title><url>https://jacobian.org/2024/mar/11/breaking-down-tasks/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hnaccountme</author><text>Software development cannot be managed like this. This sort of task break downs come from classic management training. The problem most people are unaware of is software development is more a creative activity than anything else. Yes there are serious technical aspects to it but since the problem is virtual and not bound by any real world limitations, like how civil engineering would be, there isn&#x27;t one optimal solution. Trying to define the solution before the problem has been properly examined would only limit the final output. Most of the exploration only happens when people actually start coding.<p>Not having a well defined final output and time is not very relevant for software, mostly because there is no per unit cost. Most managers do not realize this is they are not from a software engineering background. A versatile product can be sold to many different customers without additional development costs.<p>But since most companies are managed as factories, all the processors will ultimately create a very limited product targeted at a specific customer. What the big tech companies have avoided is this .</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Breaking down tasks</title><url>https://jacobian.org/2024/mar/11/breaking-down-tasks/</url></story> |
28,907,052 | 28,907,330 | 1 | 3 | 28,906,285 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; Why would they be different?<p>It doesn&#x27;t make a lot of sense, but the fact of the matter is that the phrase &quot;income tax&quot; as commonly used does not include payroll taxes. &quot;Income tax&quot; refers only to the tax on &quot;taxable income&quot;, i.e. your net income after deductions and credits. Payroll tax, by way of contrast, is taken from the very first dollar you make, so the only way you can avoid paying that is if you are unemployed. Saying that &quot;61% of Americans do not contribute to the pool of money that is spent by the federal government as a result of their income&quot; is tantamount to saying that 61% of Americans are unemployed, which is plainly not the case. (BTW, &quot;income&quot; in the sense of &quot;income tax&quot; <i>does</i> include dividends and capital gains, which are <i>not</i> subject to payroll taxes. So it is possible to make millions while unemployed and pay no payroll taxes. That is actually not uncommon. In fact, it&#x27;s the norm among retired people.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>TameAntelope</author><text>Digging into the report, 43.3% of people didn&#x27;t pay either in 2020 [1], if that helps you out at all.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxpolicycenter.org&#x2F;model-estimates&#x2F;tax-units-zero-or-negative-income-tax-liability-august-2021&#x2F;t21-0161-tax-units-zero" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxpolicycenter.org&#x2F;model-estimates&#x2F;tax-units-ze...</a></text></item><item><author>mikeyouse</author><text>Right, but the misleading &quot;Don&#x27;t pay Federal Income Taxes&quot; trope purposefully ignores that they <i>do</i> pay Federal Payroll Taxes -- which per your chart is another 36% of government revenue.</text></item><item><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>&gt; Why specify what specific tax it is?<p>Because the majority (50%) of the money spent by the US Federal government is mainly from federal income tax.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxpolicycenter.org&#x2F;briefing-book&#x2F;what-are-sources-revenue-federal-government" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxpolicycenter.org&#x2F;briefing-book&#x2F;what-are-sourc...</a></text></item><item><author>skinnymuch</author><text>Key word “federal”. Why specify what specific tax it is? Does it not muddy the waters vs talking about taxes overall?<p>I did an anecdotal test with a few people near me. They read this as those people pay no taxes. Most people aren’t thinking about the specifics of state, federal, FICA (SS + Medicare), sales, property, and more.<p>I can’t think of any good faith reason this is done.</text></item><item><author>pwned1</author><text>Related: 61% of Americans paid no federal income taxes in 2020<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;61percent-of-americans-paid-no-federal-income-taxes-in-2020-tax-policy-center-says.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;61percent-of-americans-paid-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.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>JamesBarney</author><text>The report says that the % of people(tax units) who didn&#x27;t pay either in 2020 was 20.5%.<p>The 43.3% was the % of tax units that had a net negative income and payroll taxes (thought I doubt this included the employer side of the tax which for economics purposes falls on the worker). But that was also the Covid year.<p>Most years it&#x27;s 25%-22%, which doesn&#x27;t seem high for the poor, the disabled, and the retired.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TameAntelope</author><text>Digging into the report, 43.3% of people didn&#x27;t pay either in 2020 [1], if that helps you out at all.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxpolicycenter.org&#x2F;model-estimates&#x2F;tax-units-zero-or-negative-income-tax-liability-august-2021&#x2F;t21-0161-tax-units-zero" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxpolicycenter.org&#x2F;model-estimates&#x2F;tax-units-ze...</a></text></item><item><author>mikeyouse</author><text>Right, but the misleading &quot;Don&#x27;t pay Federal Income Taxes&quot; trope purposefully ignores that they <i>do</i> pay Federal Payroll Taxes -- which per your chart is another 36% of government revenue.</text></item><item><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>&gt; Why specify what specific tax it is?<p>Because the majority (50%) of the money spent by the US Federal government is mainly from federal income tax.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxpolicycenter.org&#x2F;briefing-book&#x2F;what-are-sources-revenue-federal-government" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxpolicycenter.org&#x2F;briefing-book&#x2F;what-are-sourc...</a></text></item><item><author>skinnymuch</author><text>Key word “federal”. Why specify what specific tax it is? Does it not muddy the waters vs talking about taxes overall?<p>I did an anecdotal test with a few people near me. They read this as those people pay no taxes. Most people aren’t thinking about the specifics of state, federal, FICA (SS + Medicare), sales, property, and more.<p>I can’t think of any good faith reason this is done.</text></item><item><author>pwned1</author><text>Related: 61% of Americans paid no federal income taxes in 2020<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;61percent-of-americans-paid-no-federal-income-taxes-in-2020-tax-policy-center-says.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;61percent-of-americans-paid-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html</url></story> |
34,189,374 | 34,189,434 | 1 | 2 | 34,186,886 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dtnewman</author><text>From the article:<p>&gt; <i>June 2022 comes, and the orders for this retailer start coming in from the distributor. This coffee was shipping to five distribution centers so we were receiving multiple orders. The orders were large but we thought we could handle it. Then the orders kept coming, spread apart by days.</i><p>So it sounds like they had an initial agreement for 6000 units, but the actual purchase orders were coming in piecemeal.<p>There&#x27;s no question that these business owners made some stupid mistakes and probably failed to read the fine-print. On the other hand, when you are a small business looking to grow, you learn as you go along. And oftentimes you have about zero leverage with a multi-billion dollar distributor or a supermarket. You can&#x27;t really ask them to change their legal terms from their boilerplate language because fuck if they are going to get their lawyers involved to change boilerplate documents at the request of a new manufacturer fulfilling a tiny order [1]. So you sign anyway and hope for the best.<p>[1] Reminds me of my friend who got a lucrative job offer from a large investment bank out of college, but wanted to adjust the terms in the non-compete section of their contract (something you hear suggested a lot by people here on HN). They literally laughed at him when he suggested it and said something sarcastic along the lines of &quot;yeah, let&#x27;s phone our legal team and tell them that the first year analyst wants a personalized job contract&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>Others have pointed this out, but no one has actually done the math yet, so...<p>6000 &quot;units&quot; for $250,000 is $41&#x2F;unit. At wholesale. For a product that retails for $16&#x2F;bag.<p>It is just inconceivable that no one noticed this discrepancy. This is not a &quot;grift&quot; by the distributor, this is an elementary and obvious fuckup by the producer.<p>In fact, it&#x27;s so elementary and obvious that it would not surprise me a bit if this whole thing turns out to be a publicity stunt that succeeded spectacularly well, at least for a little while, because once the cat is out of the bag all the people who bought that coffee will realize that they are the ones who got played.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Distributor cancelled an order and we need to move 30k bags of coffee [updated]</title><url>https://www.modest.coffee/2022/12/how-we-got-grifted/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>There is undeniable an F-up on the producers part here, however I think you are assuming too much in your calculation. They don&#x27;t say at any point the $250k order value was the initial order as they understood it. They explicitly state that they kept getting further orders past what they understood as the initial 6k units.<p>I think what&#x27;s happed here is that as the order kept a growing they took on more debt to fulfil it. I don&#x27;t think they believed the initial order was for $250k and that they were being payed more than wholesale per bag.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>Others have pointed this out, but no one has actually done the math yet, so...<p>6000 &quot;units&quot; for $250,000 is $41&#x2F;unit. At wholesale. For a product that retails for $16&#x2F;bag.<p>It is just inconceivable that no one noticed this discrepancy. This is not a &quot;grift&quot; by the distributor, this is an elementary and obvious fuckup by the producer.<p>In fact, it&#x27;s so elementary and obvious that it would not surprise me a bit if this whole thing turns out to be a publicity stunt that succeeded spectacularly well, at least for a little while, because once the cat is out of the bag all the people who bought that coffee will realize that they are the ones who got played.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Distributor cancelled an order and we need to move 30k bags of coffee [updated]</title><url>https://www.modest.coffee/2022/12/how-we-got-grifted/</url></story> |
23,952,405 | 23,952,523 | 1 | 2 | 23,945,620 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noch</author><text>&gt; Be careful here. This is bordering on elitism.<p>Be careful about the soft bigotry of low expectations.<p>A generation has grown up thinking that skill&#x2F;knowledge elitism is a real thing and that it&#x27;s oppressive. Instead we should learn to identify people who do difficult things, recognise how they do difficult things well, systematically emulate their methods as we attempt difficult things, and constantly work at the edge of our ability.<p>The only thing that happens if we don&#x27;t do difficult things is that we become people who can&#x27;t do difficult&#x2F;valuable things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>movedx</author><text>&gt; Being able to run metasploit and wireshark does not make one a hacker. By doing this, pentesters test for yesterday&#x27;s hacks, not tomorrow&#x27;s.<p>Be careful here. This is bordering on elitism.<p>Having someone come into a business and check for &quot;yesterday&#x27;s hacks&quot; is better than no one doing any checks at all, therefore such skills are still valuable and worthwhile.<p>In learning how networking works; how operating systems are designed and implemented; why and how the OWASP Top Ten work; and knowing solutions to these problems is still a valuable skill set.<p>What you&#x27;re suggesting is everyone has to be willing and able to write fresh exploitation on the spot when they&#x27;re testing a client&#x27;s network when in fact there&#x27;s a lot that can be discovered (and resolved) with basic scans and simple questions based off of Security+ grade knowledge.</text></item><item><author>GekkePrutser</author><text>I think the cybersecurity (I hate the term cyber btw as it&#x27;s usually used by people who don&#x27;t know what they&#x27;re talking about), is very focused on the &#x27;think like a hacker&#x27; skillset right now.<p>While I do agree this is important in various roles in the security realm, there are also many jobs where this doesn&#x27;t really add value. A lot of work is about implementing things like MFA, role-based-access etc where knowledge of the platform used (e.g. Microsoft) and internal processes are more important. After all, most companies already fail at the &#x27;fix the obvious&#x27; stage, it&#x27;s not necessary to go looking for clever ways in when there are many doors left open.<p>Just to elaborate: A lot of discussions go like this. A pentest or random scan finds obvious issue. Ticket is raised to the security team. They go like &quot;WTF why do we still have Windows 95?? Kill it.&quot;. Then their boss goes like &quot;Sorry, Bill the manufacturing VP lobbied with the CEO, we have to leave that one alone&quot;. Of course when it actually gets hacked, Bill is nowhere to be found. This is why internal influencing skills are so important in real everyday security jobs.<p>Of course in the pentesting role this kind of thinking is absolutely necessary. However even there the kind of training given right now is too much in the realm of &#x27;scriptkiddie&#x27;ism. Hacking is about inventing and true mastery of technology, not about using the tools everyone uses. Being able to run metasploit and wireshark does not make one a hacker. By doing this, pentesters test for yesterday&#x27;s hacks, not tomorrow&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thinking of a Cybersecurity Career?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/thinking-of-a-cybersecurity-career-read-this/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ozim</author><text>Decent sysadmin should be able to setup automated scanning, know about OWASP, keep systems patched. That should be absolute baseline for sysadmin work. Checking for yesterdays hacks is valuable but that is called auditing and you should have checklist for that.<p>Pentesting should be focusing on hacking and uncovering stuff that was not in audits like making custom exploits on the spot.<p>Problem is that running scanners and checking basic stuff should be an audit but that does not sound as cool as &quot;pentest&quot; and &quot;white hat hacker&quot;&#x2F;&quot;cybersecurity specialists&quot; sounds way cooler than auditor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>movedx</author><text>&gt; Being able to run metasploit and wireshark does not make one a hacker. By doing this, pentesters test for yesterday&#x27;s hacks, not tomorrow&#x27;s.<p>Be careful here. This is bordering on elitism.<p>Having someone come into a business and check for &quot;yesterday&#x27;s hacks&quot; is better than no one doing any checks at all, therefore such skills are still valuable and worthwhile.<p>In learning how networking works; how operating systems are designed and implemented; why and how the OWASP Top Ten work; and knowing solutions to these problems is still a valuable skill set.<p>What you&#x27;re suggesting is everyone has to be willing and able to write fresh exploitation on the spot when they&#x27;re testing a client&#x27;s network when in fact there&#x27;s a lot that can be discovered (and resolved) with basic scans and simple questions based off of Security+ grade knowledge.</text></item><item><author>GekkePrutser</author><text>I think the cybersecurity (I hate the term cyber btw as it&#x27;s usually used by people who don&#x27;t know what they&#x27;re talking about), is very focused on the &#x27;think like a hacker&#x27; skillset right now.<p>While I do agree this is important in various roles in the security realm, there are also many jobs where this doesn&#x27;t really add value. A lot of work is about implementing things like MFA, role-based-access etc where knowledge of the platform used (e.g. Microsoft) and internal processes are more important. After all, most companies already fail at the &#x27;fix the obvious&#x27; stage, it&#x27;s not necessary to go looking for clever ways in when there are many doors left open.<p>Just to elaborate: A lot of discussions go like this. A pentest or random scan finds obvious issue. Ticket is raised to the security team. They go like &quot;WTF why do we still have Windows 95?? Kill it.&quot;. Then their boss goes like &quot;Sorry, Bill the manufacturing VP lobbied with the CEO, we have to leave that one alone&quot;. Of course when it actually gets hacked, Bill is nowhere to be found. This is why internal influencing skills are so important in real everyday security jobs.<p>Of course in the pentesting role this kind of thinking is absolutely necessary. However even there the kind of training given right now is too much in the realm of &#x27;scriptkiddie&#x27;ism. Hacking is about inventing and true mastery of technology, not about using the tools everyone uses. Being able to run metasploit and wireshark does not make one a hacker. By doing this, pentesters test for yesterday&#x27;s hacks, not tomorrow&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thinking of a Cybersecurity Career?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/thinking-of-a-cybersecurity-career-read-this/</url></story> |
11,368,221 | 11,367,098 | 1 | 2 | 11,366,265 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jernfrost</author><text>Not sure if those are fair analogies, nor an accurate representation of the choices. I live in a social democratic country and low unemployment has always been the cornerstone of social democratic policy. I associate basic income more with liberal politicians.<p>There are a lot ways in which a job centric approach would affect economic policy which doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean hole diggers. E.g. in my home country Norway it was seen by the social democrats that maintain an industrial base and the jobs that came with that was crucial. That is why strict rules on usage of oil money in budgets were devised to hinder deindustrialization due to inflation and loss of industrial jobs.<p>When the oil was found, the conservatives in Norway were ready to hand all the work over to foreign companies. Norway had no expertise at all on oil drilling at the time. But the social democratic government decided that we should have our own oil industry and companies. They established schools, research and a state oil company to reach those goals. Some of the rules had similarities to what China has done to build up their industry with e.g. partnership rules. In fact the Chinese came to Norway decades ago to learn about our policies on this area (undoubtedly they went many other places as well). The previous Chinese experience was that foreign companies owned all the industry, knowledge and took all the profits.<p>The free market reforms in China has undoubtedly produced much prosperity. But it also seem clear to me that China including every other successful country has had some form of industrial policy. None of the successful asian tigers really follow a laissez-faire system. Pundits will argue they could have been more successful if they did, but I am not convinced.</text><parent_chain><item><author>luso_brazilian</author><text>&gt; &quot;There was room for improvement, he argued, for what he called “job-centric” economics and politics. In a job-centric system, job creation would be the nation’s No. 1 objective, with the government setting priorities and arraying the forces necessary to achieve the goal, and with businesses operating not only in their immediate profit interest but also in the interests of “employees, and employees yet to be hired.”&quot;<p>Although a valid concern putting &quot;job creation&quot; as a goal for governments can (and in a lot of occurrences in recent history, did) backfire spectacularly.<p>In the most reductive analogy it creates incentive for the government to create &quot;hole diggers&quot; and &quot;hole fillers&quot; type of jobs that, in aggregate, generate very few useful work while fulfilling this basic goal of job creation.<p>I believe this &quot;job creation as priority&quot; approach is inferior to both the &quot;laissez-faire&quot; capitalist alternative and the &quot;basic income&quot; social democratic one.<p>As an example of its dangers it suffices to see the kafkaesque process of fund allocation (and sourcing) for the public funded aerospace industry, both the military procurement (fighter jets, bombers) and the civilian NASA one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/opinion/andy-groves-warning-to-silicon-valley.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tw04</author><text>Given the absolutely embarrassing state of our country, hole diggers are exactly what we need. Legitimately go pay someone to dig holes all day and lay single-mode fiber to every home. Pay them to turn a wrench replacing support brackets on a bridge.<p>The Works program was the single most successful employer in this country&#x27;s history and we replaced it with welfare because &quot;unemployment is low and we don&#x27;t need it anymore&quot;. Stupidity. The US is a prime example of exactly how a government focused on job creation can be a raving success!</text><parent_chain><item><author>luso_brazilian</author><text>&gt; &quot;There was room for improvement, he argued, for what he called “job-centric” economics and politics. In a job-centric system, job creation would be the nation’s No. 1 objective, with the government setting priorities and arraying the forces necessary to achieve the goal, and with businesses operating not only in their immediate profit interest but also in the interests of “employees, and employees yet to be hired.”&quot;<p>Although a valid concern putting &quot;job creation&quot; as a goal for governments can (and in a lot of occurrences in recent history, did) backfire spectacularly.<p>In the most reductive analogy it creates incentive for the government to create &quot;hole diggers&quot; and &quot;hole fillers&quot; type of jobs that, in aggregate, generate very few useful work while fulfilling this basic goal of job creation.<p>I believe this &quot;job creation as priority&quot; approach is inferior to both the &quot;laissez-faire&quot; capitalist alternative and the &quot;basic income&quot; social democratic one.<p>As an example of its dangers it suffices to see the kafkaesque process of fund allocation (and sourcing) for the public funded aerospace industry, both the military procurement (fighter jets, bombers) and the civilian NASA one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/opinion/andy-groves-warning-to-silicon-valley.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0</url></story> |
17,566,516 | 17,566,390 | 1 | 3 | 17,565,652 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MrBuddyCasino</author><text>&gt; Everything is broken. Everything is fine.<p>This is the correct conclusion. The people getting outraged over this are the same that will hold long and boring monologues about how everybody does REST wrong.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Java type system is broken</title><url>http://wouter.coekaerts.be/2018/java-type-system-broken</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>It’s pretty tragic how people respond to such criticism emotionally, instead of acknowledging the issues and working towards fixing them or educating others in the traps and compromises involved.<p>HN is less prone to toxicity, but this is reminiscent of Reddit and it drives away the people that want to help.<p>As a piece of advice, some type theory never harmed anyone ;-)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Java type system is broken</title><url>http://wouter.coekaerts.be/2018/java-type-system-broken</url></story> |
10,744,408 | 10,743,403 | 1 | 2 | 10,739,798 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slr555</author><text>This is not a new phenomenon. In the law enforcement community it has been well recognized for many years that people who carried concealed weapons will often exhibit reduced arm swing on the gun side. The habit is driven by two issues. The first is training and a desire to keep the strong side arm indexed to the weapon for faster unholstering. The second is a reaction to the first and involves trying to unlearn the reduced arm swing, which more recently has been seen as a &quot;tell&quot; which may give warning to potential adversaries that one is armed and may be a potential threat. As a corollary people are now taught to be aware of reduced arm swing in others.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing</title><url>http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h6141</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adaml_623</author><text>That article reads like a William Gibson story. It&#x27;s not relevant to my life but I&#x27;m happier for having read it.<p>10&#x2F;10 - would laugh about in the pub.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing</title><url>http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h6141</url></story> |
14,935,825 | 14,935,362 | 1 | 2 | 14,934,581 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cannonedhamster</author><text><i>you don&#x27;t un-people people.</i><p>But without trying to devolve into the actual politics of it, a large portion of Americans (I&#x27;d wager it&#x27;s the majority) believe that it&#x27;s okay to exclude people for one reason or another. Americans have voted since Pres. GW Bush on protectionist principles, even President Obama was barely for extending rights until he was forced into it by VP Biden. America is in the middle of a massive demographic shift from the Baby Boomers who have ruined the economy, created massive public debt, destroyed worker protections, and shifted the political power from those in the middle to those at the very top. They did this by unpeopling people. This was an intentional thing done by the religious right starting in the late 70s and really gaining steam in the 80s. Their brand of us vs them found a receptive audience in America, because the Baby Boomers are afraid that what they&#x27;ve created will change, and for the moment there&#x27;s more of them than other voting populations. Of course this is the natural outcome. Look at how many centrist politicians have left. So yes I personally disagree with what this guy said, but in a public sphere he has every right to say it. Inside of Google however they have the right to fire him for any reason, because there are no worker protections for free speech.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fennecfoxen</author><text>Google is substantially located in the Bay Area. Of course they hate ideological diversity, in practice if not in principle. It is an attitude common in their workforce.<p>This is a tendentious statement, so I will relate my own experience. Once upon a time I was working in California, at a tiny startup, and was reading some election results from &quot;back home&quot; in North Carolina, which had just passed Amendment One by about a 3:2 margin. Observing the results thoughtfully, my coworker casually remarked &quot;wow, 60% of North Carolina is literally horrible, terrible people.&quot;<p>I just quietly sat back and thought &quot;why, how nice of you, sir, to refer to some unknown fraction of my family and the friends I had growing up in such a lovely manner.&quot;<p>At one point my girlfriend (now an ex-girlfriend) attended a party that he was hosting. She had just left Missouri out of disgust for its Missouri-ness, and was very much in love with San Francisco and its people – yet left the party modestly offended – not for saying anyone in particular was bad this time, but just <i>with all the best of intentions</i> saying it was inevitable that they&#x27;d all come around to the modern views on things like gay marriage (and, in the process, utterly trivializing their religion, values, and world-views).<p>I do not seek to cast him as a bad person for this remark. This is a man who, if anything, is one of the nicest people I know, easily far above the average, and a quitessential San Franciscan (well above and beyond your typical tech hipster). But he is immersed in a culture which specifically and explicitly denies human dignity of people who are not alike and do not think alike.<p>This is very sad. You would think if there is one lesson we could take from the history of the US, religious tolerance in the colonies, slavery, the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, our wars with Native Americans, the likes of the Japanese Internment, women&#x27;s suffrage, <i>everything</i> ... if there&#x27;s one resounding strain here, it&#x27;s that you <i>don&#x27;t un-people people</i>.<p><i>(but it&#x27;s okay to un-people these people, because they&#x27;re bad people!)</i><p>In conclusion:<p>I sympathize with this guy who wrote this manifesto. It is also unfortunate that, from what I hear and understand of the matter, this guy is factually in error, probably sexist, and almost certainly undermining his cause.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes 'Internally Viral'</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzbm4a/employees-anti-diversity-manifesto-goes-internally-viral-at-google</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway2812</author><text>&gt;from what I hear and understand of the matter, this guy is factually in error, probably sexist, and almost certainly undermining his cause.<p>That&#x27;s my take too, having read the doc. Reminds me of The_Donald -- sometimes correctly identifies an issue, but misses the point entirely on so many levels and does more harm than good to whatever the author&#x27;s goal was.<p>&gt;you don&#x27;t un-people people<p>And that&#x27;s exactly how the doc started from the get-go. It decried anyone who dared disagree with it as shunning communication. That&#x27;s really not the case -- people discussed it, and disagreed with it. It reminds me of those religious freedom laws, that guarantee people&#x27;s freedom to discriminate to protect their own beliefs. The more layers you follow down, the more of a contradiction the laws become.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fennecfoxen</author><text>Google is substantially located in the Bay Area. Of course they hate ideological diversity, in practice if not in principle. It is an attitude common in their workforce.<p>This is a tendentious statement, so I will relate my own experience. Once upon a time I was working in California, at a tiny startup, and was reading some election results from &quot;back home&quot; in North Carolina, which had just passed Amendment One by about a 3:2 margin. Observing the results thoughtfully, my coworker casually remarked &quot;wow, 60% of North Carolina is literally horrible, terrible people.&quot;<p>I just quietly sat back and thought &quot;why, how nice of you, sir, to refer to some unknown fraction of my family and the friends I had growing up in such a lovely manner.&quot;<p>At one point my girlfriend (now an ex-girlfriend) attended a party that he was hosting. She had just left Missouri out of disgust for its Missouri-ness, and was very much in love with San Francisco and its people – yet left the party modestly offended – not for saying anyone in particular was bad this time, but just <i>with all the best of intentions</i> saying it was inevitable that they&#x27;d all come around to the modern views on things like gay marriage (and, in the process, utterly trivializing their religion, values, and world-views).<p>I do not seek to cast him as a bad person for this remark. This is a man who, if anything, is one of the nicest people I know, easily far above the average, and a quitessential San Franciscan (well above and beyond your typical tech hipster). But he is immersed in a culture which specifically and explicitly denies human dignity of people who are not alike and do not think alike.<p>This is very sad. You would think if there is one lesson we could take from the history of the US, religious tolerance in the colonies, slavery, the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, our wars with Native Americans, the likes of the Japanese Internment, women&#x27;s suffrage, <i>everything</i> ... if there&#x27;s one resounding strain here, it&#x27;s that you <i>don&#x27;t un-people people</i>.<p><i>(but it&#x27;s okay to un-people these people, because they&#x27;re bad people!)</i><p>In conclusion:<p>I sympathize with this guy who wrote this manifesto. It is also unfortunate that, from what I hear and understand of the matter, this guy is factually in error, probably sexist, and almost certainly undermining his cause.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes 'Internally Viral'</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzbm4a/employees-anti-diversity-manifesto-goes-internally-viral-at-google</url></story> |
15,453,315 | 15,453,441 | 1 | 2 | 15,440,433 | 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>Tomminn</author><text>I remember talking to a friend, who was stressed about the risk in her next career move, and I said:<p>&quot;Realistically, the worst case scenario is that you have to move back in with your parents for a while, and I&#x27;m pretty sure they&#x27;d be stoked to have you back.&quot;<p>And she just burst out laughing. Because it had never occurred to her that that is <i>exactly</i> the limit of how much it was possible for her to materially suffer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The privilege of risk</title><url>http://blog.edtechie.net/asides/the-privilege-of-risk/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>colemannugent</author><text><i>Risk becomes a vehicle by which privilege reinforces itself – only the privileged can take risks and only risk is rewarded. Which is not to say we should all be cautious and people or institutions should never venture to do unusual things.</i><p>I agree with what the author is trying to say here, but disagree with the second part of the first sentence. Everyone can take risks, and risk is not the only factor that determines reward.<p>Anyone can take risks, but me investing half my net worth into a company is fundamentally different than Elon Musk throwing half of his into a business venture. While we both would essentially be betting the same 50%, taking 50% from me might put me into financial hardship while Musk, though I&#x27;m sure he would be very upset about it, would not struggle to make ends meet.<p>Say both of our 50% bets paid off and we made a 5x return on investment, that would immediately put me into a higher tier of quality of life, while Musk is still just another billionaire. In this example I, the comparatively less privileged, have far more to gain than the more privileged Musk.<p>From a purely financial standpoint Musk seems to come out better in terms of risk to reward ratio, but there is more than just money at play in our internal risk evaluation strategies.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The privilege of risk</title><url>http://blog.edtechie.net/asides/the-privilege-of-risk/</url></story> |
25,984,828 | 25,984,171 | 1 | 2 | 25,983,265 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcfrei</author><text>It&#x27;s virtually guaranteed that this stock popped up on the radars of the funds who run momentum trading strategies. And it would be very weird for a lot of them not to jump on that bandwagon (at the very least because it&#x27;s their mandate to do so).</text><parent_chain><item><author>robbomacrae</author><text>So many conspiracy theories on both sides these days. Don&#x27;t forget Ocram&#x27;s razor. I don&#x27;t think there are many sophisticated actors here at all. I&#x27;m speaking as one who did DD on GME back in September and throw some money in (thought it was a great opportunity mainly because of Cohen +
the upcoming console super cycle with a tiny chance of squeeze thrown in) It was a smart discovery by WSB and got a bit more than average attention but then it kept growing.. every week more DD&#x27;s posted and more attention. Now the entire sub is so dedicated to GME its actually annoying.<p>I think it really is the simple dumb story of a really bad bet by a hedge fund getting called out online and a with more and more jumping on the wagon and with the hedge fund making more and more dumb mistakes. And everyone is underestimating the redditors who, behind the emojis and crap talk, are actually pretty smart. Collectively they can, and did, cause this.. no need to invent other actors to explain it.</text></item><item><author>kyrieeschaton</author><text>How much evidence is there that the &quot;reddit onslaught&quot; actually moved the price, as opposed to them being the stalking horse for more sophisticated actors with more capital exercising a vanilla short squeeze strategy?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/hedge-fund-melvin-sustains-53-loss-after-reddit-onslaught/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rantwasp</author><text>this is a classic example of a positive feedback loop. wsb did not do all of this but they were the spark that created the fire.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robbomacrae</author><text>So many conspiracy theories on both sides these days. Don&#x27;t forget Ocram&#x27;s razor. I don&#x27;t think there are many sophisticated actors here at all. I&#x27;m speaking as one who did DD on GME back in September and throw some money in (thought it was a great opportunity mainly because of Cohen +
the upcoming console super cycle with a tiny chance of squeeze thrown in) It was a smart discovery by WSB and got a bit more than average attention but then it kept growing.. every week more DD&#x27;s posted and more attention. Now the entire sub is so dedicated to GME its actually annoying.<p>I think it really is the simple dumb story of a really bad bet by a hedge fund getting called out online and a with more and more jumping on the wagon and with the hedge fund making more and more dumb mistakes. And everyone is underestimating the redditors who, behind the emojis and crap talk, are actually pretty smart. Collectively they can, and did, cause this.. no need to invent other actors to explain it.</text></item><item><author>kyrieeschaton</author><text>How much evidence is there that the &quot;reddit onslaught&quot; actually moved the price, as opposed to them being the stalking horse for more sophisticated actors with more capital exercising a vanilla short squeeze strategy?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/hedge-fund-melvin-sustains-53-loss-after-reddit-onslaught/</url></story> |
33,454,937 | 33,455,070 | 1 | 3 | 33,453,819 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rmah</author><text>This is a myth. The government publishes multiple unemployment rates (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;news.release&#x2F;empsit.t15.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;news.release&#x2F;empsit.t15.htm</a>) along with the &quot;official&quot; headline rate. You probably want the U-4 or U-5 rate. In reality, all of the rates are highly correlated and what&#x27;s important is the rate relative to historical norms.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>Remember that the government doesn&#x27;t count people who are not looking for work (perhaps because they&#x27;ve given up hope of ever finding a job, for example) as &quot;unemployed&quot;.<p>So the actual number of people who are not working is certainly higher.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Number of unemployed persons per job opening</title><url>https://www.bls.gov/charts/job-openings-and-labor-turnover/unemp-per-job-opening.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>joe_the_user</author><text>Oppositely, I suspect they do count fake (or unfillable) job openings that employers post for a variety of reasons (needed formally for internal promotions to the need to say you&#x27;re hiring in order to say you&#x27;re growing to bureaucracies confused about they&#x27;re aims etc).</text><parent_chain><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>Remember that the government doesn&#x27;t count people who are not looking for work (perhaps because they&#x27;ve given up hope of ever finding a job, for example) as &quot;unemployed&quot;.<p>So the actual number of people who are not working is certainly higher.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Number of unemployed persons per job opening</title><url>https://www.bls.gov/charts/job-openings-and-labor-turnover/unemp-per-job-opening.htm</url></story> |
31,082,651 | 31,082,200 | 1 | 3 | 31,082,046 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonh</author><text>The tank isn&#x27;t dead because armies still need the capabilities the tank gives them. You need a long range direct fire weapon, capable of engaging armoured targets and infantry (canister or airburst rounds), with rapid engagement of multiple targets, low time to target, rapid reloads and follow up shots, and high survivability.<p>Lighter wheeled gun armed vehicles can be cheaper, but they don&#x27;t have the survivability. They also can&#x27;t go everywhere a tracked tank can go, such as jungle busting or just driving right through many kinds of buildings or cover. Missile have much longer flight times to target than gun rounds. A tank can move into position, fire, destroy it&#x27;s target and be back in cover before a missile gets anywhere near it&#x27;s target. The missiles are also vastly more expensive than tank rounds.<p>Yes tanks are vulnerable when not properly integrated with air support, artillery and infantry. They&#x27;re still a lot more survivable than pretty much anything else that can provide the same capabilities though. One tank in the second Gulf War shrugged off 14 RPG hits, and overall tanks in that conflict amply proved their value, when used effectively.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade, the ... ?</title><url>https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/the-tank-is-dead-long-live-the-javelin-the-switchblade-the/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>On that topic: why Russian tanks are so vulnerable to these missiles and explode spectacularly [1]. Basically the canon auto-loads shells, and the shell storage is not in a different compartment than the turret.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;davidhambling&#x2F;2022&#x2F;04&#x2F;01&#x2F;why-do-russian-tanks-explode-violently-when-hit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;davidhambling&#x2F;2022&#x2F;04&#x2F;01&#x2F;why-do...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade, the ... ?</title><url>https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/the-tank-is-dead-long-live-the-javelin-the-switchblade-the/</url></story> |
7,655,046 | 7,654,686 | 1 | 2 | 7,654,601 | 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>yason</author><text>I think that &quot;Mostly functional&quot; is actually the sweet spot.<p>Going to any extreme makes some things horribly difficult and going to another does the same for other things. So, optimally, multiple paradigms coexist in the single codebase, applied where they&#x27;re most useful.<p>Functional programming with as many immutable bits as possible is definitely a good start. I generally do that for whatever problem I&#x27;m solving: I have a model for the data and then I write (if at all possible) pure functions to transform the inputs into meaningful outputs. But then you need know where to drop the ball and move over to some other paradigm that does something else right and merely drives the functional parts from the top level.<p>For example, such a data analysis library can be written with minimal state and using only pure functions but if -- and when -- you need some sort of an user interface so that the program can actually be used, an imperative&#x2F;procedural approach is generally the most native approach because UIs are basically I&#x2F;O. If you&#x27;re adding a graphical user interface, you might use object oriented approach to build the UI tree which is probably the world&#x27;s most idiomatic, canonical use for OO anyway. But even those are generally driven with an innately imperative event loop.<p>Also, note that the different approaches or paradigms aren&#x27;t language specific either.<p>In the first stage, languages are tools that shape your thinking into accepting new programming paradigms but at some point you have a number of different ways of thinking in your head, and you can just forget about the languages they came from.<p>But in the second stage, you can just think directly in paradigms: you can consider different ways to build different parts of your program but you might actually use only one language to implement everything. You can write functional, imperative, object-oriented, and whatever code in C. Or you can use several languages with strengths in each paradigm, depending on what trade-offs produce the best engineering in each case.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Mostly functional” programming does not work</title><url>http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2611829</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>Debugging a functional program is so difficult (data flow debuggers don&#x27;t really exist) that equational reasoning is necessary because you want be able to fix your code otherwise. But really, mixing list comprehensions with effects is really a bad idea, and we C# programmers have no trouble avoiding it.<p>There are ways to tame side effects without going monads, which don&#x27;t really fix the complexity problem anyways (it just makes all effects explicit). See this paper for ideas on how to do that:<p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/211297/managedtime.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;211297&#x2F;managedtime.pdf</a><p>We shouldn&#x27;t treat state like an unwanted but necessary evil, we should embrace it and deal with it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Mostly functional” programming does not work</title><url>http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2611829</url></story> |
19,263,918 | 19,263,988 | 1 | 2 | 19,258,489 | 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>alexhutcheson</author><text>If you have an Instant Pot (or maybe another electric pressure cooker), it has a &quot;yogurt&quot; setting that automates steps 1, 2, and 5. It will heat your milk, alert you to when to add the starter, and hold the temperature in the desired range for as long as you want. If you&#x27;re lazy like me, you can skip the jars and just make the yogurt directly in the stainless steel inner pot.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yogurtforyou</author><text>Making (and eating!) yogurt is one of the simplest and most satisfying pleasures in the kitchen.<p>1. Heat milk to 180 degrees (F)<p>2. Let the milk cool to 108-112 degrees (F)<p>3. Add starter*<p>4. Divide into jars and cover with lids<p>5. Leave your jars someplace warm...in a lightly warmed oven in the winter...on the counter in the summer<p>I like mine tart...so I&#x27;ll leave it out for 24 hours. But generally if you leave it overnight, you&#x27;ll have delicious yogurt in the morning.<p>*If you don&#x27;t have access to someone with yogurt to borrow starter, you can get a starter powder in the store. The first generation won&#x27;t have much flavor. But you can re-use a few spoons of your homemade yogurt as the starter moving forward. Each generation will successively develop great flavor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For South Asian Cooks, Yogurt Starter Is an Heirloom</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/dining/homemade-yogurt-starter-south-asia.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>notanote</author><text>For a fun variation: Nordic yoghurt cultures work at room temperature. Viili (Finnish) and filmjölk (Swedish) are a bit more kefir like, and (fair warning) not to everyone’s taste. They are a combination of leuconostoc and lactococcus strains.<p>It might be harder to get a good starter for these in the US. Keeping a yoghurt culture in good health requires commitment too. It’s like having a pet, it needs regular maintenance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yogurtforyou</author><text>Making (and eating!) yogurt is one of the simplest and most satisfying pleasures in the kitchen.<p>1. Heat milk to 180 degrees (F)<p>2. Let the milk cool to 108-112 degrees (F)<p>3. Add starter*<p>4. Divide into jars and cover with lids<p>5. Leave your jars someplace warm...in a lightly warmed oven in the winter...on the counter in the summer<p>I like mine tart...so I&#x27;ll leave it out for 24 hours. But generally if you leave it overnight, you&#x27;ll have delicious yogurt in the morning.<p>*If you don&#x27;t have access to someone with yogurt to borrow starter, you can get a starter powder in the store. The first generation won&#x27;t have much flavor. But you can re-use a few spoons of your homemade yogurt as the starter moving forward. Each generation will successively develop great flavor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For South Asian Cooks, Yogurt Starter Is an Heirloom</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/dining/homemade-yogurt-starter-south-asia.html</url></story> |
28,909,655 | 28,909,504 | 1 | 2 | 28,908,031 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sounds</author><text>Just to underscore this, memory physically closer to the cores has improved tRAS times measured in nanoseconds. This has the secondary effect of boosting the performance of the last-level cache since it can fill lines on a cache miss much faster.<p>The step up from DDR4 to DDR5 will help fill cache misses that are predictable, but everybody uses a prefetcher already, the net effect of DDR5 is mostly just better efficiency.<p>The change Apple is making, moving the memory closer to the cores, improves unpredicted cache misses. That&#x27;s significant.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Unklejoe</author><text>The M1 still uses DDR memory at the end of the day, it&#x27;s just physically closer to the core. This is in contrast to L3 which is actual SRAM on the core.<p>The DDR being closer to the core may or may not allow the memory to run at higher speeds due to better signal integrity, but you can purchase DDR4-5333 today whereas the M1 uses 4266.<p>The real advantage is the M1 Max uses 8 channels, which is impressive considering that&#x27;s as many as an AMD EPYC, but operates at like twice the speed at the same time.</text></item><item><author>PaulKeeble</author><text>400GB&#x2F;s available to the CPU cores in a unified memory, that is going to really help certain workloads that are very memory dominant on modern architectures. Both Intel and AMD are solving this with ever increasing L3 cache sizes but just using attached memory in a SOC has vastly higher memory bandwidth potential and probably better latency too especially on work that doesn&#x27;t fit in ~32MB of L3 cache.</text></item><item><author>fotta</author><text>I think the higher memory is also a huge win, with support for up to 64gb.</text></item><item><author>bla3</author><text>This is about the processors, not the laptops, so commenting on the chips instead. They look great, but they look like they&#x27;re the M1 design, just more of it. Which is plenty for a laptop! But it&#x27;ll be interesting to see what they&#x27;ll do for their desktops.<p>Most of the additional chip area went into more GPUs and special-purpose video codec hardware. It&#x27;s &quot;just&quot; two more cores than the vanilla M1, and some of the efficiency cores on the M1 became performance cores. So CPU-bound things like compiling code will be &quot;only&quot; 20-50% faster than on the M1 MacBook. The big wins are for GPU-heavy and codec-heavy workloads.<p>That makes sense since that&#x27;s where most users will need their performance. I&#x27;m still a bit sad that the era of &quot;general purpose computing&quot; where CPU can do all workloads is coming to an end.<p>Nevertheless, impressive chips, I&#x27;m very curious where they&#x27;ll take it for the Mac Pro, and (hopefully) the iMac Pro.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/10/introducing-m1-pro-and-m1-max-the-most-powerful-chips-apple-has-ever-built/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GeekyBear</author><text>Apple also uses massive cache sizes, compared to the industry.<p>They put a 32 megabyte system level cache in their latest phone chip.<p>&gt;at 32MB, the new A15 dwarfs the competition’s implementations, such as the 3MB SLC on the Snapdragon 888 or the estimated 6-8MB SLC on the Exynos 2100<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;16983&#x2F;the-apple-a15-soc-performance-review-faster-more-efficient" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;16983&#x2F;the-apple-a15-soc-perfo...</a><p>It will be interesting to see how big they go on these chips.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Unklejoe</author><text>The M1 still uses DDR memory at the end of the day, it&#x27;s just physically closer to the core. This is in contrast to L3 which is actual SRAM on the core.<p>The DDR being closer to the core may or may not allow the memory to run at higher speeds due to better signal integrity, but you can purchase DDR4-5333 today whereas the M1 uses 4266.<p>The real advantage is the M1 Max uses 8 channels, which is impressive considering that&#x27;s as many as an AMD EPYC, but operates at like twice the speed at the same time.</text></item><item><author>PaulKeeble</author><text>400GB&#x2F;s available to the CPU cores in a unified memory, that is going to really help certain workloads that are very memory dominant on modern architectures. Both Intel and AMD are solving this with ever increasing L3 cache sizes but just using attached memory in a SOC has vastly higher memory bandwidth potential and probably better latency too especially on work that doesn&#x27;t fit in ~32MB of L3 cache.</text></item><item><author>fotta</author><text>I think the higher memory is also a huge win, with support for up to 64gb.</text></item><item><author>bla3</author><text>This is about the processors, not the laptops, so commenting on the chips instead. They look great, but they look like they&#x27;re the M1 design, just more of it. Which is plenty for a laptop! But it&#x27;ll be interesting to see what they&#x27;ll do for their desktops.<p>Most of the additional chip area went into more GPUs and special-purpose video codec hardware. It&#x27;s &quot;just&quot; two more cores than the vanilla M1, and some of the efficiency cores on the M1 became performance cores. So CPU-bound things like compiling code will be &quot;only&quot; 20-50% faster than on the M1 MacBook. The big wins are for GPU-heavy and codec-heavy workloads.<p>That makes sense since that&#x27;s where most users will need their performance. I&#x27;m still a bit sad that the era of &quot;general purpose computing&quot; where CPU can do all workloads is coming to an end.<p>Nevertheless, impressive chips, I&#x27;m very curious where they&#x27;ll take it for the Mac Pro, and (hopefully) the iMac Pro.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/10/introducing-m1-pro-and-m1-max-the-most-powerful-chips-apple-has-ever-built/</url></story> |
25,294,151 | 25,293,548 | 1 | 2 | 25,288,538 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buran77</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s not like other ARM chip manufacturers are going to have to go through all of the same R&amp;D expense to figure out how to make chips that are comparably fast--they just need to copy what Apple did without infringing on any particular patents<p>Very handwaivy but the devil is in the details of that &quot;all they have to do&quot;. Copying success is not that straight forward or else AMD would have had a response to Conroe in 2007, Intel for Zen in 2018, and Qualcomm for A-chips around 2014.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>When iPhone came out in 2007, Android was still an OS for BlackBerry like devices. It didn&#x27;t take long for Android to discover touch screens once Apple made it clear that they were dramatically better. Similarly, it&#x27;s not like other ARM chip manufacturers are going to have to go through all of the same R&amp;D expense to figure out how to make chips that are comparably fast--they just need to copy what Apple did without infringing on any particular patents. Even if they did have to spend the same R&amp;D expense to get there, <i>Apple has already derisked it</i>. So they have a small fraction of Apple&#x27;s expense and none of the risk, so I would fully expect to see M1 competitive chips come out in a few years&#x27; time. This isn&#x27;t to say that they&#x27;ll catch up with Apple completely; only that they&#x27;ll be able to recoup a significant amount of the gap in a relatively short period of time such that there will be a similar breakthrough in the PC market (this is effectively what TFA is predicting as well, if that lends me any credibility).</text></item><item><author>zepto</author><text>The numbers say otherwise.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>Apple&#x27;s ARM SoCs are definitely ahead, but it&#x27;s not like the competition is hugely far behind. Top of the line Android phones and tablets perform well enough for most desktop tasks IMO. It&#x27;s mostly the software and I&#x2F;O that makes them unusable as such.</text></item><item><author>s3cur3</author><text>It&#x27;s not just &quot;ARM is fast,&quot; though—Apple&#x27;s ARM chips in particular beat the pants off their ARM competitors. (See benchmarks of any iPhone compared to flagship Android devices.) I don&#x27;t think you should expect similar levels of performance from a run-of-the-mill ARM chip on the desktop (though I&#x27;m happy to be shown benchmarks to the contrary).</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>I&#x27;ve never owned a Mac and don&#x27;t intend to own one but I&#x27;m very happy with this M1 move, mainly for the reasons highlighted in the introduction to the article:<p>&gt;M1 Macs embarrass all other PCs — all Intel-based Macs, including automobile-priced Mac Pros, and every single machine running Windows or Linux. Those machines are just standing around in their underwear now because the M1 stole all their pants.<p>I think it&#x27;s a bit unfair to lump Linux in there since it&#x27;s been running on ARM and other embedded, low-power devices basically forever, but it is true that few of us run our Linux desktop on an ARM board.<p>But I think the overarching point is true: now desktop and laptop makers can&#x27;t just pretend that having a hot and&#x2F;or slow, clunky, noisy x86-based architecture is just a fact of life. I hope and expect that it&#x27;ll help create a new generation of ARM-based laptops and maybe even desktops that will run cool and smooth.<p>I want to believe.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/2020/12/m1_macs_truth_and_truthiness</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snazz</author><text>In my opinion, Apple &quot;derisked&quot; high-performance ARM chips with the A9-ish era five years ago. Other companies have had a <i>long</i> time to spend catching up to Apple mobile chips, and they haven&#x27;t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>When iPhone came out in 2007, Android was still an OS for BlackBerry like devices. It didn&#x27;t take long for Android to discover touch screens once Apple made it clear that they were dramatically better. Similarly, it&#x27;s not like other ARM chip manufacturers are going to have to go through all of the same R&amp;D expense to figure out how to make chips that are comparably fast--they just need to copy what Apple did without infringing on any particular patents. Even if they did have to spend the same R&amp;D expense to get there, <i>Apple has already derisked it</i>. So they have a small fraction of Apple&#x27;s expense and none of the risk, so I would fully expect to see M1 competitive chips come out in a few years&#x27; time. This isn&#x27;t to say that they&#x27;ll catch up with Apple completely; only that they&#x27;ll be able to recoup a significant amount of the gap in a relatively short period of time such that there will be a similar breakthrough in the PC market (this is effectively what TFA is predicting as well, if that lends me any credibility).</text></item><item><author>zepto</author><text>The numbers say otherwise.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>Apple&#x27;s ARM SoCs are definitely ahead, but it&#x27;s not like the competition is hugely far behind. Top of the line Android phones and tablets perform well enough for most desktop tasks IMO. It&#x27;s mostly the software and I&#x2F;O that makes them unusable as such.</text></item><item><author>s3cur3</author><text>It&#x27;s not just &quot;ARM is fast,&quot; though—Apple&#x27;s ARM chips in particular beat the pants off their ARM competitors. (See benchmarks of any iPhone compared to flagship Android devices.) I don&#x27;t think you should expect similar levels of performance from a run-of-the-mill ARM chip on the desktop (though I&#x27;m happy to be shown benchmarks to the contrary).</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>I&#x27;ve never owned a Mac and don&#x27;t intend to own one but I&#x27;m very happy with this M1 move, mainly for the reasons highlighted in the introduction to the article:<p>&gt;M1 Macs embarrass all other PCs — all Intel-based Macs, including automobile-priced Mac Pros, and every single machine running Windows or Linux. Those machines are just standing around in their underwear now because the M1 stole all their pants.<p>I think it&#x27;s a bit unfair to lump Linux in there since it&#x27;s been running on ARM and other embedded, low-power devices basically forever, but it is true that few of us run our Linux desktop on an ARM board.<p>But I think the overarching point is true: now desktop and laptop makers can&#x27;t just pretend that having a hot and&#x2F;or slow, clunky, noisy x86-based architecture is just a fact of life. I hope and expect that it&#x27;ll help create a new generation of ARM-based laptops and maybe even desktops that will run cool and smooth.<p>I want to believe.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/2020/12/m1_macs_truth_and_truthiness</url></story> |
5,470,138 | 5,470,036 | 1 | 2 | 5,469,646 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidmr</author><text>Disclaimer: while I worked for a DOE supercomputing lab, it wasn't one of the NNSA (nuke) labs, so I don't have all the info. (And even if I did, I certainly wouldn't be allowed to comment on it.)<p>You're a bit right in that it's more complicated than they say in the article. The power of keeping it up and running is definitely costly, but there's more to it than that.<p>* It takes people to run it. They're expensive, and you don't want your people wasting a lot of time on the old super while your new one is being installed and accepted. I don't recall having seen any plans for a new super at LANL, but there's probably something new showing up soon.<p>* The architecture of roadrunner is outdated and obsolete. The NNSA isn't buying any more, and you can bet that with the new Blue Gene/Q at Lawrence Livermore (sequoia), all their new code is being written for different non-roadrunner architectures. There is considerable cost to porting new code to legacy hardware.<p>* Kind of in line with the last point, sequoia is &#62;17x faster than roadrunner at only 3.5x the power. There's not a lot of point in paying such a premium in flops/watt by running on roadrunner since the new one is already online.<p>* 2.3MW is only what the computer itself uses. There's a ton of other supporting equipment needed to use it (chillers, disk, control nodes, etc.)<p>* This computer isn't being manufactured anymore, so maintenance is going to cost a fortune. When they bought it, they either paid for a hardware support contract or bought a ton of spares and did self-maintenance. If they did the former, IBM is either charging through the nose for replacements or refusing to support it outright. If they did the latter, they're probably running low on spares.</text><parent_chain><item><author>naftaliharris</author><text>Something about these numbers doesn't quite make sense. The reason cited for dismantling the machine is that "it isn't energy-efficient enough to make the power bill worth it." But the supercomputer uses 2345 kilowatts, which at US prices of around 15 cents per kWh would cost $352 / hour to run in energy costs. By comparison, the $120 million cost of building roadrunner, amortized over the four years it's been running, comes out to $3400 / hour. The article makes it sound like the power bill is costing them a fortune, at $3 million a year, it isn't that much at all next to the $120 million price tag.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World’s top supercomputer from ‘09 is now obsolete, will be dismantled</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-from-09-is-now-obsolete-will-be-dismantled/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noahdesu</author><text>The tri-labs have a rotating schedule for acquiring new machines, that include capacity and capability classes (the later being RR). The last time I was in the computing center at LANL the computing floor was quite packed. So, regardless of the claims made in the article for disposal reasons, there are other issues such as total machine weight, cooling requirements (which dominate), making room for new machines, etc...<p>I do not know if RR will be physically shredded, but I'm hoping that it is retired to the brand-new PRObE (<a href="http://nmc-probe.org/" rel="nofollow">http://nmc-probe.org/</a>) computing center where RR would be available for use by academic researchers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>naftaliharris</author><text>Something about these numbers doesn't quite make sense. The reason cited for dismantling the machine is that "it isn't energy-efficient enough to make the power bill worth it." But the supercomputer uses 2345 kilowatts, which at US prices of around 15 cents per kWh would cost $352 / hour to run in energy costs. By comparison, the $120 million cost of building roadrunner, amortized over the four years it's been running, comes out to $3400 / hour. The article makes it sound like the power bill is costing them a fortune, at $3 million a year, it isn't that much at all next to the $120 million price tag.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World’s top supercomputer from ‘09 is now obsolete, will be dismantled</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-from-09-is-now-obsolete-will-be-dismantled/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29</url></story> |
9,826,254 | 9,826,439 | 1 | 2 | 9,826,131 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jebblue</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t look like he was CyberSquatting to me. I hope it resolves in his favor. If the person bringing the suit should win it would set a bad precedent for all Internet business.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Startup Sues a Domain Name Owner to Grab a 16-Year-Old URL</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/03/startup-sues-a-domain-name-owner-to-grab-a-16-year-old-url/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text><i>The unfortunate thing about the case is that both parties are Internet natives and, Mehta especially, part of the startup ecosystem.</i><p>What the fuck does this mean?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Startup Sues a Domain Name Owner to Grab a 16-Year-Old URL</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/03/startup-sues-a-domain-name-owner-to-grab-a-16-year-old-url/</url></story> |
5,259,706 | 5,259,636 | 1 | 2 | 5,258,942 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jasonlotito</author><text>I'm surprised the part on combatting friendly fraud (4.2) didn't include a part about contacting the customer directly, most likely via phone. If you are in an industry where this occurs more often, you might even want to invest in telephone authentication. While it won't stop the friendly fraud, it will be a deterrent.<p>Anyways, contacting the customer can usually get things resolved as well, even if they went straight for the chargeback.<p>Never underestimate human contact. You might be surprised why they went with a chargeback. Some just thing it's the way to get a refund for something that was wrong. Yes, sometimes the person is just being a douche, in which case you can assure the person that you thank them for reporting the case, and that you will be following up by filing a police report. When they realize what information you have available, some are quick to want to work something out, usually that involves calling the bank in a 3 way conference call and canceling the charge back.<p>It won't always work, but the nature of chargebacks means every little bit helps.<p>Again, this also depends on the nature of the industry you are in.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nothing is certain, except death and taxes .. and chargebacks</title><url>http://blog.balancedpayments.com/death-taxes-chargebacks-balanced/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nym</author><text>Use digital cash- no chargebacks, no middlemen.<p>The best option today if you don't want chargebacks is adopting Bitcoin for payments (like how Reddit did for Reddit Gold with Coinbase).<p><a href="http://blog.coinbase.com/post/40131065845/hosted-payment-pages-email-invoices-and-more" rel="nofollow">http://blog.coinbase.com/post/40131065845/hosted-payment-pag...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nothing is certain, except death and taxes .. and chargebacks</title><url>http://blog.balancedpayments.com/death-taxes-chargebacks-balanced/</url></story> |
7,750,226 | 7,750,449 | 1 | 2 | 7,750,036 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>natdempk</author><text>This seems like a valuable approach. If we could come up with examples of services like nonprofits that would be unable to pay and have their services negatively affected I think that could make people care about this issue. Maybe if we focused on things like Khan Academy, where their content is largely video. I think in that case its clear their money would be better spent developing a larger knowledge base instead of paying extortion money to ISPs, and it might strike a chord with average users.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ColinDabritz</author><text>&quot;And he promised a series of measures to ensure the new paid prioritization practices are done fairly and don&#x27;t harm consumers.&quot;<p>I have a measure in mind that won&#x27;t harm consumers. Don&#x27;t allow ISPs to discriminate against users regarding their already paid for internet traffic based on what they request. (Gee that sounds a lot like net neutrality.)<p>Anything less is open for abuse.<p>Perhaps &quot;Discrimination&quot; is a good word to tar this with, because it is. It&#x27;s discrimination against companies, but it&#x27;s also discrimination against users based on their tastes, preferences, and possibly socioeconomic status.<p>To say nothing of de-facto censorship issues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/15/fcc-approves-plan-to-allow-for-paid-priority-on-internet/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mwsherman</author><text>CDNs are essentially identical (technologically and economically) to what Netflix bought from Comcast: <a href="http://clipperhouse.com/2014/05/07/what-netflix-bought-from-comcast-is-a-cdn/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clipperhouse.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;07&#x2F;what-netflix-bought-from-...</a><p>To my mind, I can’t imagine a rule that describes a fast lane that doesn’t also describe a CDN.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ColinDabritz</author><text>&quot;And he promised a series of measures to ensure the new paid prioritization practices are done fairly and don&#x27;t harm consumers.&quot;<p>I have a measure in mind that won&#x27;t harm consumers. Don&#x27;t allow ISPs to discriminate against users regarding their already paid for internet traffic based on what they request. (Gee that sounds a lot like net neutrality.)<p>Anything less is open for abuse.<p>Perhaps &quot;Discrimination&quot; is a good word to tar this with, because it is. It&#x27;s discrimination against companies, but it&#x27;s also discrimination against users based on their tastes, preferences, and possibly socioeconomic status.<p>To say nothing of de-facto censorship issues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/15/fcc-approves-plan-to-allow-for-paid-priority-on-internet/</url></story> |
7,491,506 | 7,491,046 | 1 | 3 | 7,490,664 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Aqueous</author><text>Just goes to show you - it&#x27;s sometimes better to ask for forgiveness than permission.<p>Imagine if Tesla hadn&#x27;t opened stores in these locations - they would be indefinitely, unconditionally barred from doing so unless they had flouted the auto dealer rules and went forward with the stores regardless. Now they have a foothold. When you realize that the stakeholders (in this case, New York State Politicians) have a political interest in you flouting their rules then the rules just don&#x27;t seem that rul-y anymore.<p>It&#x27;s also what&#x27;s going to get their foot in Texas, as well.<p>Elon Musk is one smart dude.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Strikes Deal To Keep Dealerships In New York</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/28/tesla-strikes-deal-to-keep-dealerships-in-new-york/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rtfeldman</author><text>Certainly no one should expect this status quo to last for long. The dealers will keep lobbying to kick Tesla out, and Tesla will keep lobbying to lift this restriction.<p>In that light, this is an interesting long-term strategic move on Musk&#x27;s part. It arms him with a &quot;we&#x27;ve been selling in this state for X years with Y thousand satisfied customers, so how can this be so problematic that it needs restriction?&quot; argument for his lobbying efforts a few years down the line.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Strikes Deal To Keep Dealerships In New York</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/28/tesla-strikes-deal-to-keep-dealerships-in-new-york/</url></story> |
23,828,576 | 23,826,459 | 1 | 3 | 23,824,689 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vesche</author><text>Author here. Thanks for reading &amp; the feedback. I&#x27;ll try to unpack some of this.<p>&gt; A lot of exploits are two-stage. Stage one is usually the vulnerability, usually written in C given the low-level and tightly controlled instructions required. The exploit breaks security to run an executable or otherwise gain control. Stage two is usually downloading a python executable to grab the goods.<p>This seems like a gross oversimplification &amp; commonly incorrect. Often times a &quot;stage one&quot; vulnerability to gain initial access would be network code written in a high level language such as Python or Ruby (see Metasploit). And an executable payload to interact with the system would be generally written in a compiled language like C or C++. My article is detailing the uncommon rise of interpreted languages (especially Python) being used over the past ~5 years as malware dropped on an endpoint in an attack.<p>&gt; Just seems like a minor observation, rather than some doom trend.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t say this is a minor observation or a &quot;doom trend.&quot; I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s a very interesting and insightful observation that is worth keeping an eye on. Malicious actors are no longer operating in a world of slow endpoints and lack of resources. They instead are operating in a world of high-speed internet, very fast endpoints, and have a rich ecosystem of open-source tools at their disposal.<p>I find it highly interesting that malicious code written in interpreted languages, bundled with their interpreters into an executable, are finding their way into the arsenal of high-tier malicious threat actors over the past few years. Just as the web browser is slowly eating away at the operating system, interpreted languages are slowly eating away at compiled languages in a variety of domains- including malware.</text><parent_chain><item><author>NullInvictus</author><text>I think a lot of people will read &#x27;python malware&#x27; and assume packages; that&#x27;s not what this is about.<p>A lot of exploits are two-stage. Stage one is usually the vulnerability, usually written in C given the low-level and tightly controlled instructions required. The exploit breaks security to run an executable or otherwise gain control. Stage two is usually downloading a python executable to grab the goods.<p>There&#x27;s nothing especially sinister about the selection of Python for this case over other interpreted languages. Malware authors are just regular developers - they don&#x27;t want to spend hours trying to hack together a C binary to dump a database when six lines of Python will do it. Python just runs on a lot of platforms, has a lot of mature drop-in libraries, and decent documentation. They use it for the same reason we use it.<p>The article just makes it sound like malware developers are using modern packaging tools to turn that two-stage exploit into a single-stage. That doesn&#x27;t strike me as particularly surprising. Teams tend to gravitate towards specializing in one tool when they can. I&#x27;d obviously prefer to write a bunch of python than do the same in C, when performance isn&#x27;t a huge concern (It&#x27;s the other guy&#x27;s CPU, after all).<p>Just seems like a minor observation, rather than some doom trend.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python malware on the rise</title><url>https://www.cyborgsecurity.com/python-malware-on-the-rise/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>photon12</author><text>Interviewed someone last night for my podcast who has written some python malware tools, and there&#x27;s enough stuff out there to where you can&#x27;t exactly call it a new concept.</text><parent_chain><item><author>NullInvictus</author><text>I think a lot of people will read &#x27;python malware&#x27; and assume packages; that&#x27;s not what this is about.<p>A lot of exploits are two-stage. Stage one is usually the vulnerability, usually written in C given the low-level and tightly controlled instructions required. The exploit breaks security to run an executable or otherwise gain control. Stage two is usually downloading a python executable to grab the goods.<p>There&#x27;s nothing especially sinister about the selection of Python for this case over other interpreted languages. Malware authors are just regular developers - they don&#x27;t want to spend hours trying to hack together a C binary to dump a database when six lines of Python will do it. Python just runs on a lot of platforms, has a lot of mature drop-in libraries, and decent documentation. They use it for the same reason we use it.<p>The article just makes it sound like malware developers are using modern packaging tools to turn that two-stage exploit into a single-stage. That doesn&#x27;t strike me as particularly surprising. Teams tend to gravitate towards specializing in one tool when they can. I&#x27;d obviously prefer to write a bunch of python than do the same in C, when performance isn&#x27;t a huge concern (It&#x27;s the other guy&#x27;s CPU, after all).<p>Just seems like a minor observation, rather than some doom trend.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python malware on the rise</title><url>https://www.cyborgsecurity.com/python-malware-on-the-rise/</url></story> |
9,865,842 | 9,865,843 | 1 | 3 | 9,864,534 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davb</author><text>Yeah, using OpenVPN allows your client and server to reside on the same subnet, which I presume is necessary for Steam In-Home Streaming.</text><parent_chain><item><author>micro-ram</author><text>Is Openvpn even necessary? Open 3389 to only your IP address in the security group.</text></item><item><author>Wilya</author><text>The guide advocates an EC2 security group that allows everything, plus disabling the Windows firewall. That&#x27;s quite insecure, and unnecessary.<p>It&#x27;s probably better, and not more work, to create a security group that only allows:<p>* UDP on port 1194 (Openvpn server)
* TCP on port 3389 (Remote Desktop)
* ICMP (for ping)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2</title><url>http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.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>jmiwhite</author><text>For this setup, yes - a VPN is necessary to use Steam&#x27;s inbuilt streaming feature.</text><parent_chain><item><author>micro-ram</author><text>Is Openvpn even necessary? Open 3389 to only your IP address in the security group.</text></item><item><author>Wilya</author><text>The guide advocates an EC2 security group that allows everything, plus disabling the Windows firewall. That&#x27;s quite insecure, and unnecessary.<p>It&#x27;s probably better, and not more work, to create a security group that only allows:<p>* UDP on port 1194 (Openvpn server)
* TCP on port 3389 (Remote Desktop)
* ICMP (for ping)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2</title><url>http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html</url></story> |
27,393,947 | 27,394,091 | 1 | 2 | 27,392,558 | 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>trainsplanes</author><text>As a kid, I had more fun playing in untamed woods and patches at the edge of the property where plants did their own thing than I ever did on dried out, razor-sharp summer grass.<p>Kids aren’t too picky about what they play in. They’ll make do with anything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>I have kids who like to play in our yard. All sorts of sports and running around. For that type of activity, grass is ideal.<p>In contrast, a yard full of native plants sounds nice ... but you can&#x27;t really <i>do</i> anything in it. It becomes ornamental rather than functional. I can&#x27;t play a game a baseball if my entire yard is ferns and flowers rather than grass.<p>That said, in garden beds and places where plants and trees do make sense, installing native species is a no-brainer. We&#x27;re in the process of getting rid of a bunch of non-native shrubs and plants and replacing them with native.<p>And in that case, we&#x27;re making a transition from ornamental to functional. Previously, the trees and shrubs looked nice, but the birds and bugs didn&#x27;t particularly care for them. Now, the birds are eating the berries, the butterflies and bees are loving the flowering plants, and we spend less time on maintenance.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Replacing grass lawns with native plants</title><url>https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opinion/ct-sta-slowik-pandemic-garden-project-st-0530-20210528-2kklpxumlrfnhecwr2ljx7e2qe-story.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>peterb</author><text>I also have kids, but where I live we have plenty of pine &amp; maple trees and traditional grass doesn&#x27;t grow well in the shade. But we are lucky and native moss filled in. Moss is great for balls, they bounce &amp; roll better, especially for games like bocce &amp; croquet. The kids love it and I rarely have to mow or water. Sometimes there is a native alternative to grass, sometimes not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>I have kids who like to play in our yard. All sorts of sports and running around. For that type of activity, grass is ideal.<p>In contrast, a yard full of native plants sounds nice ... but you can&#x27;t really <i>do</i> anything in it. It becomes ornamental rather than functional. I can&#x27;t play a game a baseball if my entire yard is ferns and flowers rather than grass.<p>That said, in garden beds and places where plants and trees do make sense, installing native species is a no-brainer. We&#x27;re in the process of getting rid of a bunch of non-native shrubs and plants and replacing them with native.<p>And in that case, we&#x27;re making a transition from ornamental to functional. Previously, the trees and shrubs looked nice, but the birds and bugs didn&#x27;t particularly care for them. Now, the birds are eating the berries, the butterflies and bees are loving the flowering plants, and we spend less time on maintenance.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Replacing grass lawns with native plants</title><url>https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opinion/ct-sta-slowik-pandemic-garden-project-st-0530-20210528-2kklpxumlrfnhecwr2ljx7e2qe-story.html</url></story> |
8,324,202 | 8,324,191 | 1 | 2 | 8,323,989 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>This means Sequoia expects Docker to either go public or to be acquired for at least (10 * $40M &#x2F; sequoia_ownership) in order to be considered a &quot;win,&quot; right? (A &quot;win&quot; in the sense of being worth the VC&#x27;s investment, not in the sense of being valuable to the world.)<p>The reason I say this is because a VC who merely breaks even on investments will eventually go out of business, so it would be a mistake to invest unless the expectation is that Docker might be a win for them.<p>Assuming Sequoia owns, say, 35%, then that comes to an expected acquisition price of about $1.15B for Sequoia to earn 10x their money back.<p>What are some hypothetical scenarios which end with Docker going public? What are some scenarios where a company would acquire Docker for north of $1B?<p>I&#x27;m not trying to imply anything about Docker with these questions. Personally, I love Docker. It&#x27;s just fun to theorycraft.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Docker closes $40M Series C led by Sequoia</title><url>https://blog.docker.com/2014/09/docker-closes-40m-series-c-led-by-sequoia/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>weavie</author><text>How are Docker monetizing their product? Is it just in hosting and support? By open sourcing Docker they have opened up the door to hundreds of competitors offering the same thing, often for a much lower cost? Is their only competitive advantage the fact that they own the project and thus understand it better and can dictate its course?<p>I&#x27;m sure they would make for a very interesting case study on how to do open source right.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Docker closes $40M Series C led by Sequoia</title><url>https://blog.docker.com/2014/09/docker-closes-40m-series-c-led-by-sequoia/</url></story> |
41,605,642 | 41,605,331 | 1 | 2 | 41,603,698 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rty32</author><text>I wasn&#x27;t &quot;appalled&quot; but definitely felt uneasy about it. I am aware I could opt out and read all the discussions about it here on HN. I didn&#x27;t do anything about it, despite being a very privacy conscious person (using firefox, use max adblocking&#x2F;anti tracking etc). Why? I don&#x27;t want to be an asshole, hold the queue and cause trouble for a TSA agent who is just doing the job and likely have no idea what &quot;opt out&quot; means, and with, let&#x27;s admit it, no practical benefit for myself. (If anything, help myself miss a flight.) The feds and local law enforcement probably already have my face data anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blackeyeblitzar</author><text>I was appalled to see TSA facial recognition scanners at airports recently, where instead of checking your ID and boarding pass they scan your face. Almost everyone simply accepted the new process instead of opting out. I’m not sure how the eventual forced violation of biometrics can be stopped when most people don’t care.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition</title><url>https://therecord.media/federal-civil-rights-watchdog-facial-recognition-technology-report</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mmooss</author><text>They don&#x27;t understand and also they despair - both in part because the people who should help them (people like us) also buy into despair.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blackeyeblitzar</author><text>I was appalled to see TSA facial recognition scanners at airports recently, where instead of checking your ID and boarding pass they scan your face. Almost everyone simply accepted the new process instead of opting out. I’m not sure how the eventual forced violation of biometrics can be stopped when most people don’t care.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition</title><url>https://therecord.media/federal-civil-rights-watchdog-facial-recognition-technology-report</url></story> |
36,192,669 | 36,191,570 | 1 | 2 | 36,187,705 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>computershit</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m tired of ecosystems.<p>&gt; Bring back the 90s. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms.<p>Not sure if you remember the 90s like I do. The percentage of people sharing their own content on their own terms was dwarfed by that of content hosted on &#x27;ecosystems&#x27;. In fact, I&#x27;d assert that the path to accomplishing the same is far less steep now compared to then.</text><parent_chain><item><author>GenericDev</author><text>I wish they would just let Reddit die.<p>I hate it so much. I&#x27;m tired of ecosystems.<p>We need to get away from content farms. Get away from shitty monetization driven efforts. Get away from shitty people moderating communities without giving members any locus of control.<p>Bring back the 90s web. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms.<p>God I hope Reddit sticks to this API nonsense and kills themselves in the process.<p>Part of me wants this to happen to Hacker News too. This community sucks, but for different reasons.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/140b6q6/rlifeprotips_will_be_going_dark_from_june_1214_in/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>urda</author><text>Today&#x27;s reddit mods are the same as Digg&#x27;s power user&#x27;s back in the day. It&#x27;s an open secret that a few dozen or so individuals control the top 100 or so subreddits, and calling that fact out is often met with site wide bans.<p>Reddit died a long time ago, and it&#x27;s time we let it go.</text><parent_chain><item><author>GenericDev</author><text>I wish they would just let Reddit die.<p>I hate it so much. I&#x27;m tired of ecosystems.<p>We need to get away from content farms. Get away from shitty monetization driven efforts. Get away from shitty people moderating communities without giving members any locus of control.<p>Bring back the 90s web. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms.<p>God I hope Reddit sticks to this API nonsense and kills themselves in the process.<p>Part of me wants this to happen to Hacker News too. This community sucks, but for different reasons.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/140b6q6/rlifeprotips_will_be_going_dark_from_june_1214_in/</url></story> |
25,836,775 | 25,835,946 | 1 | 3 | 25,833,291 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fiftyfifty</author><text>The previous king (current king&#x27;s father) was revered in Thailand and I think far fewer people had a reason to violate this law. Now that the son is king there&#x27;s going to be a lot more problems with Thai citizens wanting to be openly critical of him. I married into a Thai family and we&#x27;ve had a lot of discussions about this exact issue, since long before the previous king passed. In my mind you can&#x27;t have a free and open democracy when you still have these monarchs hanging around and especially when you aren&#x27;t allowed to be openly critical of them. Thailand has an elected assembly and prime minister, but the king is still head of the military and both the previous king and current king use[d] their influence to stir things up as they saw fit. Thailand has technically been under a military dictatorship (with the king ultimately at the head) since 2014 which is why these lèse-majesté laws are much more frequently enforced now. In my opinion trying to maintain a monarchy (even as a symbolic figure) and democracy doesn&#x27;t work, they&#x27;ve had 20 different constitutions in Thailand since 1932 and they&#x27;ve had the 4th most coups in the world in modern history. Currently Bangkok is in state of civil unrest with pro-democracy protestors forming the #MilkTeaAlliance with protestors in Hong Kong and Taiwan. We&#x27;ll see if they are able to enact any real change in the country.</text><parent_chain><item><author>apexalpha</author><text>Imagine living in a country where this is your king: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;thailands-king-living-in-luxury-quarantine-while-his-country-suffers&#x2F;a-53303644" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;thailands-king-living-in-luxury-quaran...</a><p>Siphoning off your tax money AND you&#x27;re not allowed to say anything about it. Ridiculous.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/world/asia/thailand-king-lese-majeste.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>gadders</author><text>The Spectator in the UK published an article about him as well. It wasn&#x27;t very positive as you may be able to guess from the URL:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spectator.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-depraved-rule-of-thailands-caligula-king" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spectator.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-depraved-rule-of-tha...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>apexalpha</author><text>Imagine living in a country where this is your king: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;thailands-king-living-in-luxury-quarantine-while-his-country-suffers&#x2F;a-53303644" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;thailands-king-living-in-luxury-quaran...</a><p>Siphoning off your tax money AND you&#x27;re not allowed to say anything about it. Ridiculous.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/world/asia/thailand-king-lese-majeste.html</url></story> |
41,028,460 | 41,025,658 | 1 | 3 | 41,023,547 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AndyKelley</author><text>I use it with Zig. It&#x27;s pretty handy in conjunction with Zig&#x27;s allocator because it writes 0xaa bytes upon free and doesn&#x27;t reuse addresses, so it very likely causes a crash, then you can put a watchpoint on the memory and rewind to the point where it got freed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>laserbeam</author><text>Is it truly only for C&#x2F;C++?<p>My limited understanding says a debugger needs: a list of symbols (.pdb files on windows, can&#x27;t remember what they are on linux), understanding of syscalls and a few other similar things. I thought they don&#x27;t care too much what generated the binaries they are debugging (obviously as long as it&#x27;s native code).<p>Doesn&#x27;t rr work with other languages like rust, zig, odin, nim, and similar ones? Obviously, I wouldn&#x27;t expect it to work for python, js, c# and other languages with managed memory.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++</title><url>https://rr-project.org/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vchuravy</author><text>We use RR a lot with Julia. It only gives you a GDB view of the system, but it can work with any interpreted or compiled language.<p>Things that don&#x27;t work are drivers that update mapped addresses directly. An example of this is CUDA in order to replay one would need to model the driver interactions (and that&#x27;s even before you get to UVM)<p>Another great thing is that RR records the process tree and so you can easily look at different processes spawned by your executable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>laserbeam</author><text>Is it truly only for C&#x2F;C++?<p>My limited understanding says a debugger needs: a list of symbols (.pdb files on windows, can&#x27;t remember what they are on linux), understanding of syscalls and a few other similar things. I thought they don&#x27;t care too much what generated the binaries they are debugging (obviously as long as it&#x27;s native code).<p>Doesn&#x27;t rr work with other languages like rust, zig, odin, nim, and similar ones? Obviously, I wouldn&#x27;t expect it to work for python, js, c# and other languages with managed memory.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++</title><url>https://rr-project.org/</url></story> |
14,424,093 | 14,421,511 | 1 | 3 | 14,420,972 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>larsberg</author><text>I&#x27;m not quite ready to throw in the towel yet, though that&#x27;s certainly a sentiment I hear a lot of around town :-)<p>As technology shifts to a world where most people do not have a monitor on their home computer or a screen on their phone, what it means to be a browser will dramatically change. Certainly, we could post-it the current user experience into whatever we will have tomorrow, but if VR, AR, Speech, and AI and ample cheap private computing power don&#x27;t excite people for the future of browsers and user agency, I don&#x27;t know what will.<p>I know we&#x27;ve been working on tech such as Servo for a long time, but sometimes even just being &quot;better&quot; isn&#x27;t enough, especially when there&#x27;s a large legacy gap to close. You also need to get lucky with a point where consumers are making massive changes and open to new things.<p>I think that time is much sooner than the &quot;always 5--10 years quoted&quot;, and you&#x27;re going to see mind-blowing things on the web in general and supported by the browser and related services specifically. And I&#x27;m betting (at least with my current career) that Mozilla will lead the charge.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>Mozilla has had &quot;we&#x27;ll be #1 again once X is launched!&quot; things since I was there 5 years ago (and servo was one of those things back then). It won&#x27;t happen.<p>Mozilla won the browser war. Firefox lost the browser fight. But there&#x27;s many wars left to fight, and I hope Mozilla dives into a new one.</text></item><item><author>lewisl9029</author><text>Agreed that Mozilla&#x27;s original mission has been accomplished in spades, but I wouldn&#x27;t count Mozilla out of the browser race just yet.<p>Servo and Webrender[0] will completely shake up the browser landscape, and will allow web apps to match (maybe even surpass?) native mobile apps in terms of rendering performance. Unless Chrome, IE, and Safari can develop an answer to Servo and Webrender by the time those technologies are ready for prime time, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to see &quot;Best viewed in Firefox&quot; badges start popping up everywhere.<p>[0]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;servo&#x2F;webrender&#x2F;wiki" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;servo&#x2F;webrender&#x2F;wiki</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;air.mozilla.org&#x2F;bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;air.mozilla.org&#x2F;bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>I agree with this blog post. But I don&#x27;t think Mozilla lost.<p>I worked for Mozilla for a few years, after seeing John Lily (CEO at the time) speak. It was right after Chrome started getting popular, and a smug person in the crowd asked him about how he felt about Chrome.<p>John&#x27;s response was awesome. &quot;This is the web that we wanted. We exist not because we want everyone to use Firefox, but because we wanted people to have a choice&quot; Firefox was a response to a world of &quot;best viewed in IE&quot; badges, and it changed the browser landscape.<p>Now, we have options. Chrome is great, but so are Safari, Edge, Brave, Opera and Firefox. There&#x27;s a lot of options out there, and they&#x27;re all standards compliment. And that&#x27;s thanks to Mozilla.<p>So, in my mind, Mozilla won. It&#x27;s a non-profit, and it forced us into an open web. We got the world they wanted. Maybe the world is a bit Chrome-heavy currently, but at least it&#x27;s a standards compliment world.<p>I hope Mozilla sees that. I hope they take credit, and move on to what&#x27;s next: privacy and net neutrality. Our privacy is under attack, and Mozilla is one of the few companies that can (and would want to) help. I know, I know. Nobody cares about privacy. Nobody cared about web standards, either, but Mozilla bundled it into an attractive package and it worked. It&#x27;s time for Mozilla to declare victory, high five the Chrome team, and move on to the next big challenge.<p>We really need someone to fight for our privacy and neutrality. And I really believe that this could be Mozilla&#x27;s swan song.<p>-----<p>EDIT: Hey cbeard - My email is in my profile; I&#x27;d love to talk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chrome Won</title><url>https://andreasgal.com/2017/05/25/chrome-won/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>Servo barely existed 5 years ago.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>Mozilla has had &quot;we&#x27;ll be #1 again once X is launched!&quot; things since I was there 5 years ago (and servo was one of those things back then). It won&#x27;t happen.<p>Mozilla won the browser war. Firefox lost the browser fight. But there&#x27;s many wars left to fight, and I hope Mozilla dives into a new one.</text></item><item><author>lewisl9029</author><text>Agreed that Mozilla&#x27;s original mission has been accomplished in spades, but I wouldn&#x27;t count Mozilla out of the browser race just yet.<p>Servo and Webrender[0] will completely shake up the browser landscape, and will allow web apps to match (maybe even surpass?) native mobile apps in terms of rendering performance. Unless Chrome, IE, and Safari can develop an answer to Servo and Webrender by the time those technologies are ready for prime time, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to see &quot;Best viewed in Firefox&quot; badges start popping up everywhere.<p>[0]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;servo&#x2F;webrender&#x2F;wiki" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;servo&#x2F;webrender&#x2F;wiki</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;air.mozilla.org&#x2F;bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;air.mozilla.org&#x2F;bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>I agree with this blog post. But I don&#x27;t think Mozilla lost.<p>I worked for Mozilla for a few years, after seeing John Lily (CEO at the time) speak. It was right after Chrome started getting popular, and a smug person in the crowd asked him about how he felt about Chrome.<p>John&#x27;s response was awesome. &quot;This is the web that we wanted. We exist not because we want everyone to use Firefox, but because we wanted people to have a choice&quot; Firefox was a response to a world of &quot;best viewed in IE&quot; badges, and it changed the browser landscape.<p>Now, we have options. Chrome is great, but so are Safari, Edge, Brave, Opera and Firefox. There&#x27;s a lot of options out there, and they&#x27;re all standards compliment. And that&#x27;s thanks to Mozilla.<p>So, in my mind, Mozilla won. It&#x27;s a non-profit, and it forced us into an open web. We got the world they wanted. Maybe the world is a bit Chrome-heavy currently, but at least it&#x27;s a standards compliment world.<p>I hope Mozilla sees that. I hope they take credit, and move on to what&#x27;s next: privacy and net neutrality. Our privacy is under attack, and Mozilla is one of the few companies that can (and would want to) help. I know, I know. Nobody cares about privacy. Nobody cared about web standards, either, but Mozilla bundled it into an attractive package and it worked. It&#x27;s time for Mozilla to declare victory, high five the Chrome team, and move on to the next big challenge.<p>We really need someone to fight for our privacy and neutrality. And I really believe that this could be Mozilla&#x27;s swan song.<p>-----<p>EDIT: Hey cbeard - My email is in my profile; I&#x27;d love to talk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chrome Won</title><url>https://andreasgal.com/2017/05/25/chrome-won/</url></story> |
27,515,770 | 27,515,070 | 1 | 2 | 27,514,188 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gjulianm</author><text>That statistic, by itself, is meaningless. Immigrants have almost double the poverty rate of US natives too.<p>The point of the parent is not to say &quot;you can&#x27;t do anything to improve&quot; but that, in general, starting conditions are the major factor deciding how much you can improve. Someone born in a poor family with hard access to education will need to work much more than others born in rich families to reach the same point. Maybe instead of saying &quot;just work hard&quot; to everyone we should also focus on those inequalities so people have the same opportunities to work hard and improve themselves.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nexus_dave</author><text>In 2019, immigrant entrepreneurs made up 21.7 percent of all business owners in the United States, despite making up just over 13.6 percent of the population and 17.1 percent of the U.S. labor force. As an immigrant I can assure you that my starting position was not that great. It is super sad to see the west being turned into an epicurean type world.</text></item><item><author>wishigotitfree</author><text>Starting conditions (where one was born, levels of wealth and opportunity there, one&#x27;s parents&#x27; education and jobs) are shockingly predictive about an individual&#x27;s future. Hard work leading to social mobility has always been the exception, not the rule. Most will not beat the odds since if they did, those wouldn&#x27;t BE the odds. A lot of us are just so deluded by survivorship bias borne of listening only to success stories, but it seems more and more people are seeing through the illusion. In my opinion, that&#x27;s a good thing, as recognizing the true state of things is the first step to improving them, and this combination of consciousness and lived experience can prove to be potent immunization against bad faith actors who want to maintain the illusion of widespread social mobility.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life</title><url>https://insidermag.net/survey-shows-people-no-longer-believe-working-hard-will-lead-to-a-better-life/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ferrumfist</author><text>It&#x27;s because immigrants proactively make their lives better while average Americans reactively complain about why their lives aren&#x27;t perfect</text><parent_chain><item><author>nexus_dave</author><text>In 2019, immigrant entrepreneurs made up 21.7 percent of all business owners in the United States, despite making up just over 13.6 percent of the population and 17.1 percent of the U.S. labor force. As an immigrant I can assure you that my starting position was not that great. It is super sad to see the west being turned into an epicurean type world.</text></item><item><author>wishigotitfree</author><text>Starting conditions (where one was born, levels of wealth and opportunity there, one&#x27;s parents&#x27; education and jobs) are shockingly predictive about an individual&#x27;s future. Hard work leading to social mobility has always been the exception, not the rule. Most will not beat the odds since if they did, those wouldn&#x27;t BE the odds. A lot of us are just so deluded by survivorship bias borne of listening only to success stories, but it seems more and more people are seeing through the illusion. In my opinion, that&#x27;s a good thing, as recognizing the true state of things is the first step to improving them, and this combination of consciousness and lived experience can prove to be potent immunization against bad faith actors who want to maintain the illusion of widespread social mobility.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life</title><url>https://insidermag.net/survey-shows-people-no-longer-believe-working-hard-will-lead-to-a-better-life/</url></story> |
7,571,080 | 7,571,089 | 1 | 2 | 7,570,494 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tpeng</author><text>If the market were efficient, it would already price in the dilution from newly minted coins, as it does for share dilution in the stock market (which is actually quite common due to employee stock options). However, every indication is that the bitcoin market is not at all efficient. It is largely driven by speculators playing a greater fool game, not investors who are betting on intrinsic value per bitcoin based on a future estimate of coins outstanding. The result has been a series of manias and panics, which will continue until real buyers enter the market.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paul</author><text>Is anyone tracking how much money miners are pulling out of bitcoin on a daily basis? I assume they have to sell some fraction of their earnings in order to pay for hardware and power. This should create a constant downward pressure on the price, since there always has to be new money flowing into the system, but very few people &quot;need&quot; to buy bitcoin in the way that miners &quot;need&quot; to sell (most buying is for speculative purposes).<p>This is almost the opposite of public companies, which rarely issue new shares, and have a constant buy pressure coming from 401k plans and other automatic investment vehicles.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin Falls Below $400</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/10/bitcoin-falls-below-the-400-mark-down-more-than-60-from-its-all-time-high/?utm_campaign=fb&ncid=fb</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>harryh</author><text>3600 coins are currently added to the system per day. There are currently ~12.6M coins in circulation.<p>So that&#x27;s an increase of .02% per day.<p>This doesn&#x27;t come close to accounting for the price swings we&#x27;ve seen in the last 6 months. There are much larger forces at work. What these forces are exactly is...difficult to determine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paul</author><text>Is anyone tracking how much money miners are pulling out of bitcoin on a daily basis? I assume they have to sell some fraction of their earnings in order to pay for hardware and power. This should create a constant downward pressure on the price, since there always has to be new money flowing into the system, but very few people &quot;need&quot; to buy bitcoin in the way that miners &quot;need&quot; to sell (most buying is for speculative purposes).<p>This is almost the opposite of public companies, which rarely issue new shares, and have a constant buy pressure coming from 401k plans and other automatic investment vehicles.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin Falls Below $400</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/10/bitcoin-falls-below-the-400-mark-down-more-than-60-from-its-all-time-high/?utm_campaign=fb&ncid=fb</url></story> |
27,718,799 | 27,718,459 | 1 | 3 | 27,693,560 | train | <instructions>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; but we did not intend to go viral either :)<p>This is hilarious and makes me wonder about the relationship of the value of going viral with the repercussions in going viral before you feel you are ready for it.<p>Great, lots more people know about the app.<p>Not so great, some people&#x27;s first impressions are negative because of flaws that you are probably already working to fix.<p>Overall it is an impressive app with lots of potential to be even better.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elephantum</author><text>We ignore color by default now.<p>MOCs library is not very big at the moment, but we did not intend to go viral either :)<p>The library of different builds will grow for sure!</text></item><item><author>guepe</author><text>I just tried it on my kids&#x27; Legos. I made two scans, one per box: it found ~2500 bricks, which I think is a very high hit rate.
However, the build suggestions are very, very lacking. For reference, my kids are 8 and 4.
The builds proposed are very simple, small, and still mention missing pieces (probably related to colors, which honestly most kids don&#x27;t care about).
I think my 8yo would like it, she tends to build &quot;worlds&quot;, assembling many related contraption that each are fairly simple and match the themes found on suggestions.<p>As for my 4yo, forget it. He is a builder, making very elaborate and complex constructions, the bigger the better. He would find suggestions absolutely uninteresting.
I didn&#x27;t try to scan Technic legos (which he is fond of and make astonishingly complex contraption given his age). But it&#x27;s an even more complex problem to solve.<p>I suspect work on the app was focused on recognition, which honestly is impressive. The second part, finding models, maybe need a bit of work ?
I would recommend at least having an option to &quot;ignore color&quot;: it&#x27;s nice to have a build that looks good, but overall most kids - including myself - like to build first.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations</title><url>https://twitter.com/AlexanderNL/status/1410253599502962692</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>breck</author><text>This is so cool! UX is so simple and smooth. I was impressed by just it counting how many bricks I put out. This will be fun with my daughters as they get older and we collect more.<p>I&#x27;m a big fan of all Lego communities like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mecabricks.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mecabricks.com&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;lego&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;lego&#x2F;</a> and your Brickit just made my day. Thank you!</text><parent_chain><item><author>elephantum</author><text>We ignore color by default now.<p>MOCs library is not very big at the moment, but we did not intend to go viral either :)<p>The library of different builds will grow for sure!</text></item><item><author>guepe</author><text>I just tried it on my kids&#x27; Legos. I made two scans, one per box: it found ~2500 bricks, which I think is a very high hit rate.
However, the build suggestions are very, very lacking. For reference, my kids are 8 and 4.
The builds proposed are very simple, small, and still mention missing pieces (probably related to colors, which honestly most kids don&#x27;t care about).
I think my 8yo would like it, she tends to build &quot;worlds&quot;, assembling many related contraption that each are fairly simple and match the themes found on suggestions.<p>As for my 4yo, forget it. He is a builder, making very elaborate and complex constructions, the bigger the better. He would find suggestions absolutely uninteresting.
I didn&#x27;t try to scan Technic legos (which he is fond of and make astonishingly complex contraption given his age). But it&#x27;s an even more complex problem to solve.<p>I suspect work on the app was focused on recognition, which honestly is impressive. The second part, finding models, maybe need a bit of work ?
I would recommend at least having an option to &quot;ignore color&quot;: it&#x27;s nice to have a build that looks good, but overall most kids - including myself - like to build first.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations</title><url>https://twitter.com/AlexanderNL/status/1410253599502962692</url></story> |
34,436,757 | 34,434,696 | 1 | 3 | 34,433,023 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jongjong</author><text>&gt;&gt; You need to find people who are capable of understanding you<p>This is spot on. I made a comment independently which made a similar point.
Also, people who are too memetic (who tend to want what other people want) tend to lack self-understanding.<p>Such people tend to feel uncomfortable when they hang around other people who understand themselves because it makes them question their own motives and realize that their desires were never their own to begin with.<p>They are not capable of figuring out the meaning of their own life so they keep trying to borrow it from others around them and the futility of this makes them feel lonely. They can never find someone who can fill that void but they can&#x27;t stop looking for them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>standardUser</author><text>I really like the thrust of this argument (loneliness is about not being understood) but I think the solution is off the mark...<p>&gt; So it’s your task to make others understand you<p>There is another task that is just as important. You need to <i>find people who are capable of understanding you</i>. It may sound like a cart&#x2F;horse issue where you need to understand enough about yourself to find people who are receptive. That my be true to a degree. But no amount of self-understanding is going to change how people respond to you if who you are is not comprehensible to those people.<p>As an example, imagine you are a straight man with many close friends who have known you for a long time. And at some point, you begin to grapple with the idea that you&#x27;re not straight, but maybe bisexual. It is possible that some of your old straight friends will have the capacity to listen and understand and respond in ways that make you feel known. But it&#x27;s not necessarily likely. And if those are the only people you are close to, no amount of self-knowledge is going to change <i>their</i> capacity to make you feel seen and heard.<p>You&#x27;re gonna need some new friends.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Loneliness is a measure of self-understanding</title><url>http://stan.bar/loneliness/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rjzzleep</author><text>Is sexuality the only conflicting thing we can think of nowadays? I can think of at least 10 things people might freak out about me, without even getting to thinking about what sexuality I may have.<p>In general I agree with the premise of &quot;You need to find people who are capable of understanding you&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s actually a combination of that and your feeling about yourself. I&#x27;m not sure how to describe it, but I&#x27;ll just call it once you&#x27;re in balance with yourself, i.e. in an okay(maybe not perfect or ideal) mental state, and you have some sort of pillar you can lean on(your beliefs, your understanding of the world, etc.), then its no longer about your desire to get others to accept you, but rather putting yourself in an environment where you feel okay.</text><parent_chain><item><author>standardUser</author><text>I really like the thrust of this argument (loneliness is about not being understood) but I think the solution is off the mark...<p>&gt; So it’s your task to make others understand you<p>There is another task that is just as important. You need to <i>find people who are capable of understanding you</i>. It may sound like a cart&#x2F;horse issue where you need to understand enough about yourself to find people who are receptive. That my be true to a degree. But no amount of self-understanding is going to change how people respond to you if who you are is not comprehensible to those people.<p>As an example, imagine you are a straight man with many close friends who have known you for a long time. And at some point, you begin to grapple with the idea that you&#x27;re not straight, but maybe bisexual. It is possible that some of your old straight friends will have the capacity to listen and understand and respond in ways that make you feel known. But it&#x27;s not necessarily likely. And if those are the only people you are close to, no amount of self-knowledge is going to change <i>their</i> capacity to make you feel seen and heard.<p>You&#x27;re gonna need some new friends.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Loneliness is a measure of self-understanding</title><url>http://stan.bar/loneliness/</url></story> |
6,466,527 | 6,466,071 | 1 | 2 | 6,465,880 | 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>chetanahuja</author><text>The texas east district stuff is fascinating. What if the app and software developers start licensing their apps with a license and technical measures explicitly excluding East Texas (or the entire state of texas, for extra safety) from the operation of the app.<p>It could be enforced by some soft of geofencing at app startup that splashes a &quot;You&#x27;re from East Texas, our app doesn&#x27;t work there&quot; type language. Will that affect the ability of the trolls to venue shop at least (if not to bring the suite in the first place).<p>Of course an even better response would be if smartphone vendors disable their entire OS&#x27;s in that district. That might be fun.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/judge-tosses-apple-motion-allows-patent-troll-lodsys-to-continue-rampage/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>x0054</author><text>Apple should hire a nation wide law firm to defend any and all apple developers who are sued by Lodsys fore these patents. Instruct the lawfirm to never settle and actively file actions on beheld of each client against Lodsys. It&#x27;s simple, once they realize that no one will settle with them, they will go away.<p>Now, where on earth is that patent troll bill congress has been promising?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/judge-tosses-apple-motion-allows-patent-troll-lodsys-to-continue-rampage/</url></story> |
40,000,878 | 40,000,524 | 1 | 2 | 39,998,849 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tumult</author><text>Humanity lost some things when it gained recorded music. It made the profession of performer less valuable, and diminished the number of performers who could make a living. But humanity got something very valuable in return — the ability to record and play back music. The same goes with the tradeoffs made for photography and motion pictures.<p>I see little value to humanity in tools that are able to generate an endless amount of music derived from existing music, specifically designed to neatly slot into the place of human artists. We gain little in return from that.<p>Some people will make an argument like, this lets people generate lots of low-quality music for use in elevators or grocery stores. Well, there is already a massive oversupply of completely free music which can do that. Do people pretend to not know this?<p>The other weak argument is that it lets people express themselves who haven&#x27;t studied or practiced music. But, it doesn&#x27;t, because the interfaces (text prompts or &quot;upload an existing file&quot;) are designed to take the place of a human being given instructions for criteria to fill, as if they were a worker, not an expression of the person giving the instructions. If the person giving the instructions were expressing themselves, most of the AI tool would not be redundant. It&#x27;s as expressive as telling another person to write a song for you with some instructions. Hardly expressive at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Max-q</author><text>When recorded music was invented, musicians protested. Recorded music was devoid of any vitality or soul. Recorded music still became a hit. Then we got the synthesizer. Again we got the same complaints, lifeless and without soul. The synthesizer still became a hit. Now the next step is happening, and we see the same complaints all over.<p>Only time will show if the next step will happen anyway. My gut feeling tells me that AI art will gain acceptance over time, and we will just think of it as &quot;art&quot; or &quot;music&quot;, just as we did with recorded mysic and synthetic sounds.</text></item><item><author>chilmers</author><text>To me the feeling of AI generated content is less &quot;slop&quot; and more &quot;in-flight magazine&quot;. It can have a surface sheen of quality that you can lure you in, but you realise it&#x27;s devoid of any vitality or soul.</text></item><item><author>cedws</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I can endure much more AI slop seeping its way into my life.</text></item><item><author>epaga</author><text>I have to say, I completely lost it at the whisper &#x27;(The &quot;Software&quot;)&#x27; (0:18)... give this tech another year or two and it will be better quality than your average radio song.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License</title><url>https://suno.com/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moritzwarhier</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I follow your argument, because neither synthesizers nor recordings write music.<p>For augmenting comoposers, sure, GenAI can be a tool like others. Musicians have been incorporating rhythms and melodies shipped with their electronic instruments for ages.<p>Entire genres have been defined by sounds and synth presets, too.<p>So I do see a bit of the similarities that you describe, but I think this is largely misleading.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Max-q</author><text>When recorded music was invented, musicians protested. Recorded music was devoid of any vitality or soul. Recorded music still became a hit. Then we got the synthesizer. Again we got the same complaints, lifeless and without soul. The synthesizer still became a hit. Now the next step is happening, and we see the same complaints all over.<p>Only time will show if the next step will happen anyway. My gut feeling tells me that AI art will gain acceptance over time, and we will just think of it as &quot;art&quot; or &quot;music&quot;, just as we did with recorded mysic and synthetic sounds.</text></item><item><author>chilmers</author><text>To me the feeling of AI generated content is less &quot;slop&quot; and more &quot;in-flight magazine&quot;. It can have a surface sheen of quality that you can lure you in, but you realise it&#x27;s devoid of any vitality or soul.</text></item><item><author>cedws</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I can endure much more AI slop seeping its way into my life.</text></item><item><author>epaga</author><text>I have to say, I completely lost it at the whisper &#x27;(The &quot;Software&quot;)&#x27; (0:18)... give this tech another year or two and it will be better quality than your average radio song.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License</title><url>https://suno.com/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a/</url></story> |
27,351,580 | 27,351,256 | 1 | 2 | 27,349,469 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bumbada</author><text>&gt;Thus, every cent spent on this project actually takes us farther away from a renewable-energy future, vs. that same money put into building out wind and solar capacity and storage.<p>I believe you don&#x27;t understand there is a law of diminishing returns on everything. If I spend 10x more on electronic chip research, I don&#x27;t get 10x faster electronics, I get 1.2x, because improving becomes harder and more expensive.<p>The same happens with renevables. There is real state for solar and wind, places with lots of solar light and access to cheap refrigeration, like Algeria or Morocco, or places with lots of wind like the US Great Planes. Once you build on this real state, energy is way more expensive and it gives you worse returns.<p>On the contrary, it is a very good idea to explore different fields, because it is extremely cheap(the investment in nuclear fusion has been minimal compared to other energy sources) and gives you lots of scientific developments, because of the same law of diminishing returns.<p>It does not need to give you a new energy extraction mechanism. Just exploring what nobody else has done before, like getting plasmas at millions of degrees, have always provided scientific breakthroughs in the past.<p>Just putting all your eggs in one basket is not a good strategy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ncmncm</author><text>It is a real achievement in plasma fluid dynamics engineering to have got a stable plasma so hot for so long.<p>However, it does not mean there will <i>ever</i> be practical, commercially competitive power produced using this method or anything much like it. The total mass of material fusing in a reasonable volume is so small that, despite the large amount of energy per nucleus fused, the power produced is nowhere near what would be needed to pay for plant construction, never mind operation and maintenance--not to speak of having to replace all the most expensive parts after minimal use, as they are destroyed by neutron irradiation.<p>Thus, every cent spent on this project actually takes us farther away from a renewable-energy future, vs. that same money put into building out wind and solar capacity and storage.<p>This is a fundamental problem in any hot-neutron fusion system. The real reason governments pour so much money into Tokamak fusion projects is as jobs programs for hot-neutron physicists, and subsidy for contractors, to keep them all ready for when they will be tapped for weapons work.<p>This is similar to the way NASA is still funding SLS: nobody expects it ever to be useful for anything, but the contractors involved need to be kept busy and employing staff for when a new missile system is needed.<p>There are lots of probably-practical ideas for aneutronic fusion that don&#x27;t get peanuts because they fail to provide a conduit for funding to thd right places. E.g. D-H3 fusion in FRC may well be practical for spacecraft propulsion, but development is on a shoestring budget, hoping to test something in maybe 2035.</text></item><item><author>jtchang</author><text>Seeing humanity achieve net fusion in my lifetime would be a total game changer and repoint a good chunk of our future. Things like this make me think we are closer than most people imagine if only because climate change is pushing is hard in this direction. Not only are the economics starting to make sense but also the political will to make this a reality before we all roast due to climate change.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese ‘Artificial Sun’ experimental fusion reactor sets world record</title><url>https://nation.com.pk/29-May-2021/chinese-artificial-sun-experimental-fusion-reactor-sets-world-record-for-superheated-plasma-time</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rossjudson</author><text>I think what you&#x27;re saying is that we should let the Sun do fusion because it&#x27;s really good at that, and we should do photovoltaics and wind because we&#x27;re really good at that, and maybe leaving fusion on the Sun where it belongs is sensible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ncmncm</author><text>It is a real achievement in plasma fluid dynamics engineering to have got a stable plasma so hot for so long.<p>However, it does not mean there will <i>ever</i> be practical, commercially competitive power produced using this method or anything much like it. The total mass of material fusing in a reasonable volume is so small that, despite the large amount of energy per nucleus fused, the power produced is nowhere near what would be needed to pay for plant construction, never mind operation and maintenance--not to speak of having to replace all the most expensive parts after minimal use, as they are destroyed by neutron irradiation.<p>Thus, every cent spent on this project actually takes us farther away from a renewable-energy future, vs. that same money put into building out wind and solar capacity and storage.<p>This is a fundamental problem in any hot-neutron fusion system. The real reason governments pour so much money into Tokamak fusion projects is as jobs programs for hot-neutron physicists, and subsidy for contractors, to keep them all ready for when they will be tapped for weapons work.<p>This is similar to the way NASA is still funding SLS: nobody expects it ever to be useful for anything, but the contractors involved need to be kept busy and employing staff for when a new missile system is needed.<p>There are lots of probably-practical ideas for aneutronic fusion that don&#x27;t get peanuts because they fail to provide a conduit for funding to thd right places. E.g. D-H3 fusion in FRC may well be practical for spacecraft propulsion, but development is on a shoestring budget, hoping to test something in maybe 2035.</text></item><item><author>jtchang</author><text>Seeing humanity achieve net fusion in my lifetime would be a total game changer and repoint a good chunk of our future. Things like this make me think we are closer than most people imagine if only because climate change is pushing is hard in this direction. Not only are the economics starting to make sense but also the political will to make this a reality before we all roast due to climate change.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese ‘Artificial Sun’ experimental fusion reactor sets world record</title><url>https://nation.com.pk/29-May-2021/chinese-artificial-sun-experimental-fusion-reactor-sets-world-record-for-superheated-plasma-time</url></story> |
12,715,990 | 12,715,682 | 1 | 2 | 12,715,280 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sdrapkin</author><text>An important part of the Signal Protocol is Triple-DH. I did not find a good illustration of how it works, so I made one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sdrapkin&#x2F;status&#x2F;738419956371628033" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sdrapkin&#x2F;status&#x2F;738419956371628033</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Textsecure Protocol Works</title><url>http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/10/how-textsecure-protocol-signal-whatsapp.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>Canada</author><text>This post doesn&#x27;t explain the protocol all that well.<p>This is a great explainer:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;117532499" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;117532499</a><p>I can&#x27;t seem to find the PDF of the slides of this talk anymore.<p>These are also very useful for understanding:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whispersystems.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;advanced-ratcheting&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whispersystems.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;advanced-ratcheting&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whispersystems.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;private-groups&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whispersystems.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;private-groups&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trevp&#x2F;double_ratchet&#x2F;wiki" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trevp&#x2F;double_ratchet&#x2F;wiki</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Textsecure Protocol Works</title><url>http://www.alexkyte.me/2016/10/how-textsecure-protocol-signal-whatsapp.html</url></story> |
28,545,984 | 28,544,980 | 1 | 2 | 28,544,615 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>apeace</author><text>A parallel between Facebook and Big Tobacco had never occurred to me until I read this:<p>&gt; In a move straight out of big tobacco&#x27;s playbook, Facebook downplayed the negative effects of its product and hid this research from the public and even from members of Congress who specifically asked for it<p>What would our world be like if it were illegal to have a social media account until you were 21 years old? Interesting to think about.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook under fire over secret teen research</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58570353</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notyourwork</author><text>Does anyone remember Cosmopolitan and other like magazines. Teenage body issues and associated anxiety are not new. What has happened is we gave everyone internet access so now they can look at pictures of unrealistic bodies all day everywhere they go. The result is body dysmorphia on steroids.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook under fire over secret teen research</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58570353</url></story> |
535,851 | 535,849 | 1 | 2 | 535,818 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ruby_roo</author><text>Not bad, but I think it would be more useful if I could submit an image and have the engine give me all the facts it could dig up about it, based on its context in other pages, geo tags and camera type (if available), etc.<p>I think we're going to see some very interesting developments along these lines very soon. Scary stuff too. Imagine submitting a picture of yourself and finding out what the internet knows about you based on your physical appearance. Better keep those Facebook profiles private, folks! More than that, you'll have to convince your friends to keep their profiles private if they have pics of you as well!<p>&#60;tangent&#62; This is what is rather frightening about the next web; even if you want to remain anonymous, you're going to have to do battle with all the other folks who are more than happy to post and tag pictures of you for the world to see (with good -natured intentions, I might add). Remember that embarrassing moment at that party where you had a little too much to drink? Oh, you were too drunk to recall? Well, it's on somebody's public Facebook profile now. With your name on it. And if I am your employer, what's to stop me from taking your badge photo and plugging it into a service to pull down other pictures of you from the cloud? :O &#60;/tangent&#62;<p>Anyway, back to the matter at hand! I do see your service as being particularly valuable to IP holders who want to know who is displaying their copyrighted images or logos without authorization. If your site were comprehensive enough, you could probably go freemium and become a paid tattle-tale. Take that a step further and "For a nominal fee, you can click here to have our partners at LegalZoom.com send a takedown notice."<p>:)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse image search engine</title><url>http://tineye.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>palish</author><text>Finally, a practical way to find out the names of porn actresses.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse image search engine</title><url>http://tineye.com/</url></story> |
36,497,001 | 36,496,351 | 1 | 2 | 36,495,943 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pxc</author><text>When I was a teenager adventuring through the GNU&#x2F;Linux userland and all its interchangeable components (including on Gentoo!), OpenRC was awesome compared to what I was used to (SysV). Beautiful colorized output, fast startup with parallel execution of jobs... all before Upstart (RIP, though I don&#x27;t miss it) and Systemd.<p>I&#x27;m pretty happy with Systemd these days, and in some ways I don&#x27;t mind the way it has &#x27;standardized&#x27; (read: dominated) Linux stacks. But I&#x27;m glad that people are still doing the work to keep OpenRC viable and integrating it into a full-featured, long-lived, relatively popular distro.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems</title><url>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bamfly</author><text>I&#x27;ve used several Linux init systems over the years.<p>OpenRC is the only one I&#x27;ve ever <i>liked</i> using. Not sure why it never seemed to catch on with any of the major distros, even before Systemd made itself nigh-unavoidable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems</title><url>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC</url></story> |
9,082,537 | 9,082,495 | 1 | 2 | 9,081,482 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dreamweapon</author><text>You&#x27;re not just leaving out important context -- you&#x27;re missing the main point, entirely:<p><i>This morning, as always, my son was up and dressed before the rest of the household; he likes time to play Minecraft before school starts. But he also cleaned the dirty glass on the woodstove, started the fire and brought wood into the house. Because he wants to.</i><p>The whole point is that they let him &quot;slack off&quot; sometimes because they&#x27;ve chosen to let him feel empowered to <i>make his own decisions</i> about how he spends his time generally. And they&#x27;ve seen that it pays off -- <i>sometimes</i> he plays minecraft, but <i>most of the time</i> he&#x27;s on the ball, helping with chores and such. And (they say) he&#x27;s doing it because he <i>wants to</i>, not because he&#x27;s told to.<p><i>Here&#x27;s a novel idea - don&#x27;t let your kid play minecraft until he starts doing better in school.</i><p>Again, you&#x27;re missing the main point of the article -- it&#x27;s not that kid is failing school (and needs to be disciplined back into shape); it&#x27;s that the school is failing the kid.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blkhp19</author><text>There are also plenty of boys and girls who don&#x27;t have this problem. I was a bit of a trouble maker in elementary and middle school - enough to get a call home from the teacher once or twice a year - but I always did my work and gave a damn about my performance.<p>I don&#x27;t understand this parent. &quot;I let my son play minecraft in the morning before school&quot; - so your son is slacking off in school, but you&#x27;re still giving him everything he wants? He&#x27;s your son. He needs to be shown that sometimes, you have to suck it up and work, even when you don&#x27;t want to. That&#x27;s a tough lesson to teach an 8 year old, but it&#x27;s something that parents should enforce early. Eventually, their kid will see that hard work and self control will pay off. Here&#x27;s a novel idea - don&#x27;t let your kid play minecraft until he starts doing better in school.<p>That being said, I do think physical activity should be more common. If it&#x27;s rainy or cold out, kids should be able to go to their school&#x27;s gym for an extra PE class - or maybe be able to play minecraft on the school computers. Boys and girls needs to be able to do something like this throughout the day. Article like this will hopefully make schools rethink some things - but until change actually happens, this mom needs to take control instead of just throwing her hands up and telling her son &quot;it&#x27;s not your fault. now go play minecraft.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why schools are failing our boys</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2015/02/19/why-schools-are-failing-our-boys/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bjt</author><text>&gt; so your son is slacking off in school, but you&#x27;re still giving him everything he wants?<p>I don&#x27;t see how you get from playing Minecraft in the morning to her letting her son do &quot;everything he wants&quot;. You&#x27;re assuming that playing Minecraft is frivolous or negative or that shouldn&#x27;t be allowed in the morning, much less encouraged. And you have little information on what other activities she has encouraged, permitted, or forbidden.<p>It&#x27;s tempting to pass judgment on other people&#x27;s parenting. This temptation should be resisted.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blkhp19</author><text>There are also plenty of boys and girls who don&#x27;t have this problem. I was a bit of a trouble maker in elementary and middle school - enough to get a call home from the teacher once or twice a year - but I always did my work and gave a damn about my performance.<p>I don&#x27;t understand this parent. &quot;I let my son play minecraft in the morning before school&quot; - so your son is slacking off in school, but you&#x27;re still giving him everything he wants? He&#x27;s your son. He needs to be shown that sometimes, you have to suck it up and work, even when you don&#x27;t want to. That&#x27;s a tough lesson to teach an 8 year old, but it&#x27;s something that parents should enforce early. Eventually, their kid will see that hard work and self control will pay off. Here&#x27;s a novel idea - don&#x27;t let your kid play minecraft until he starts doing better in school.<p>That being said, I do think physical activity should be more common. If it&#x27;s rainy or cold out, kids should be able to go to their school&#x27;s gym for an extra PE class - or maybe be able to play minecraft on the school computers. Boys and girls needs to be able to do something like this throughout the day. Article like this will hopefully make schools rethink some things - but until change actually happens, this mom needs to take control instead of just throwing her hands up and telling her son &quot;it&#x27;s not your fault. now go play minecraft.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why schools are failing our boys</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2015/02/19/why-schools-are-failing-our-boys/</url></story> |
17,911,330 | 17,910,452 | 1 | 2 | 17,909,898 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>csomar</author><text>Okey Dokey, so I&#x27;m assuming Amazon has to reach singularity in order to sustain that value?<p>Something is not quite right. We are reaching significant highs and the US dollar is getting stronger. Several economies are collapsing mainly due to their currency crashing against the USD (Turkey, Argentina, Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, etc...).<p>I&#x27;ll probably fail to find the comment but I was very bullish on tech stocks a year or more earlier. I&#x27;m <i>still</i> VERY bullish on them. Albeit I have to say that the risks now for a substantial correction is starting to go up.<p>Here are two possibilities:<p>1. Things go back to normal. Tech Stocks go up a bit more and then we correct. Possibly getting into a bear market. This time is not different.<p>2. This time it is different. Tech stocks carry on the bull market. Everything is a bull market even the US dollar. This crashes pretty much the rest of the world stocks and economies. The US economy and dollars crashes several economies and makes a come back as the most powerful economy on the planet.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon hits $1T market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/04/amazon-hits-1-trillion-in-market-value.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>samfisher83</author><text>You can justify Apple&#x27;s valuation through cash flow. You can&#x27;t do it with Amazon. However it has always traded at a high valuation. Lets suppose it becomes the size of walmart which close ~500 bil in revenue. On the retail end their margins aren&#x27;t really any better. So that is ~300 billion dollar business. That would mean AWS + prime video&#x2F;music + amazon ads are worth 700 billions?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon hits $1T market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/04/amazon-hits-1-trillion-in-market-value.html</url></story> |
15,336,539 | 15,336,267 | 1 | 3 | 15,335,216 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_jgdh</author><text>I&#x27;ve been predicting this govt would do poorly long before they were elected to power. Having said that, you&#x27;re completely mistaken about this issue. It&#x27;s the govt&#x27;s job to provide infrastructure. If all households are electrified by 2019 that makes a massive difference to people&#x27;s lives - lights and fans at night improve the quality of life, children can study, phones can be charged etc. Further, this actually increases the rate of growth because these people will likely earn and consume more. Honestly, I&#x27;m thrilled about this.<p>Just to play Modi&#x27;s advocate for a second, I think replacing all indirect taxes with one indirect tax will benefit Indian businesses in the long run. Although it will be painful for now, especially for corner cases the govt hasn&#x27;t thought about (exporters having to pay tax and getting a refund months later) it will get better with time. I predict that the software will improve to the point that filing the tax will become more or less automated. India is taking the hit to growth today to reap the benefit of tax simplification 2+ years from now.<p>As for demonetization, I doubt even Modi&#x27;s mother could spin that positively. It was a disaster, no doubt. Perhaps the tiny silver lining that was completely unintended is that most urban merchants accept digital payments now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thewhitetulip</author><text>It&#x27;s highly ironic that the ruling party is now receding to the level of the previous govt that they destroyed in the 2014 elections. The UPA also used to offer free things to poor and used to do minority appeasement two years before the elections.<p>The thing is, this govt came to power in all but 4 Indian states and it has just destroyed the economy. The GDP rate has skid down to 4% just as the previous PM, Dr Manmohan Singh said it would and at that time, everyone mocked him.<p>Guess who is laughing now?<p>The current govt has failed absolutely at every way, the Demonetization exercise was a total and epic disaster and it shocked the economy without fulfilling it&#x27;s motive of &quot;war on black money&quot; as 99% of the invalid notes were returned to the RBI.<p>But that&#x27;s not the only problem, the problem is, this govt takes decisions just to win elections. DeMo happened just before UP elections after the &quot;surgical strike&quot; lost it&#x27;s glitter in the media.<p>Even the most ardent supporters of the current govt are asking the question, if the earlier govt was able to keep the GDP growth rate above 7 in horrible world economic condition, why is the current govt unable to do so even when the crude oil prices are half of what it was earlier?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>India unveils $2.5B plan to electrify all households by end 2018</title><url>https://in.reuters.com/article/india-power/india-unveils-2-5-billion-plan-to-electrify-all-households-by-end-2018-idINKCN1C029S</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>harigov</author><text>Minor correction. They are NOT offering free electricity. Just free electric connections. Consumers have to pay the monthly bill on their own. Also, GDP growth under previous govt was accompanied by a significant increase in inflation and govt debt so it is not exactly apples-to-apples comparison.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thewhitetulip</author><text>It&#x27;s highly ironic that the ruling party is now receding to the level of the previous govt that they destroyed in the 2014 elections. The UPA also used to offer free things to poor and used to do minority appeasement two years before the elections.<p>The thing is, this govt came to power in all but 4 Indian states and it has just destroyed the economy. The GDP rate has skid down to 4% just as the previous PM, Dr Manmohan Singh said it would and at that time, everyone mocked him.<p>Guess who is laughing now?<p>The current govt has failed absolutely at every way, the Demonetization exercise was a total and epic disaster and it shocked the economy without fulfilling it&#x27;s motive of &quot;war on black money&quot; as 99% of the invalid notes were returned to the RBI.<p>But that&#x27;s not the only problem, the problem is, this govt takes decisions just to win elections. DeMo happened just before UP elections after the &quot;surgical strike&quot; lost it&#x27;s glitter in the media.<p>Even the most ardent supporters of the current govt are asking the question, if the earlier govt was able to keep the GDP growth rate above 7 in horrible world economic condition, why is the current govt unable to do so even when the crude oil prices are half of what it was earlier?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>India unveils $2.5B plan to electrify all households by end 2018</title><url>https://in.reuters.com/article/india-power/india-unveils-2-5-billion-plan-to-electrify-all-households-by-end-2018-idINKCN1C029S</url></story> |
21,369,199 | 21,369,103 | 1 | 3 | 21,368,932 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>omarhaneef</author><text>Without going back in time, one has the impression that people didn’t “see” a particular technology coming. You’ll hear people claim that a particular CEO didn’t see the web, or mobile, or VoIP and other technologies rising.<p>But when you go back and read their work or view their videos — like this one — it’s remarkable how clear and detailed their vision is of how things will be.<p>Jobs is famous for this so you might think it’s a cherry picked example but I think it’s largely true (no doubt you’ll find an exception) of almost any big time tech executive. They have a clear, detailed, largely accurate view of how things will turn out.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video]</title><url>https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/PDC/PDC-1996/PDC-1996-Keynote-with-Bob-Muglia-and-Steve-Jobs</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xmodem</author><text>WebObjects was very ahead of its time, but unfortunately crippled by its high price tag</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video]</title><url>https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/PDC/PDC-1996/PDC-1996-Keynote-with-Bob-Muglia-and-Steve-Jobs</url></story> |
6,566,567 | 6,566,672 | 1 | 3 | 6,565,869 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I&#x27;m upvoting this, and I hate to be cranky asshole guy, but something&#x27;s been buggin&#x27; me and I&#x27;m not sure how or where to provide this feedback.<p>Gwern&#x27;s articles are, well, <i>deep</i>. There&#x27;s usually huge wall of text with lots of allusions and footnotes. Looks like a term paper somebody would write for a college course, (only extremely well done, btw)<p>My problem is that I&#x27;m finding it difficult to actually consume the articles. Sure, if I had an extra hour everyday to lounge around studying the intricate details of his self-experiment with LSD, such things might interest me. But the sheer volume and technical facade of the piece works against it. At best it engages my natural inclination to nit-pick. At worst it&#x27;s just boring. In either case, I&#x27;m not left with a greater understanding. Having said that, if it&#x27;s something I already agree with, it does make me feel like <i>gee, I&#x27;m really smart for feeling this way. Here&#x27;s this well-researched article that agrees with me!</i><p>I freely admit to being an outlier, so take my feedback for what it&#x27;s worth. I am interested, however, that my feelings validate what newspaper editors found out centuries ago: state your conclusion in the lead, then supporting evidence. Write in a pyramid fashion. That way people can review the point at their leisure, then dive down if they feel it&#x27;s worthwhile. Articles for the general public should not read like mystery novels. Say what you want to say, punch them in the nose. Then make your case and impress them with how smart you are.<p>Since I&#x27;m playing grumpy old guy already, I&#x27;ll also note that these essays are getting upvoted <i>way</i> quicker than it&#x27;s possible to actually read the things. I&#x27;m not implying a voting ring, more like a bandwagon effect. (Same result, but without all the sinister implications)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LSD microdosing: a randomized, blind self-experiment</title><url>http://www.gwern.net/LSD%20microdosing</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>&quot;The claims made by psychonauts are frequently extravagant and unjustified; the tangible benefits are either unrelated to the truth of the experience (such as lessened anxiety of death)&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t think this is accurate. The key mediating variable for reduced anxiety is having a mystical experience, and one of the defining characteristics of the mystical experience is that it feels more real than real life. C.f. csp.org&#x2F;psilocybin<p>&quot;Physicalism, by contrast, could be easily falsified. If science ever established the existence of ghosts, or reincarnation, or any other phenomenon which would place the human mind (in whole or in part) outside the brain, physicalism would be dead.&quot;<p>I know he&#x27;s just quoting Harris here, but this is BS. There is literally no known phenomena which you couldn&#x27;t explain away with some as yet undiscovered materialist phenomena. C.f consciousness, spooky action at a distance, etc.<p>&quot;Many years later, I have yet to have a mystical or religious or peak experience which could either convert me or leave me unmoved, and thus empirically settle the issue as to why I am an atheist - absence of experience, or reasoned belief?&quot;<p>Given that 80% of people have these experiences in the lab while on psilocybin, if you are judging without having had these experiences yourself then that&#x27;s just lazy. Even if you don&#x27;t want to go the drug route, the vast majority of people also have chakra type experiences within the first few days of taking up meditation in a retreat setting.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LSD microdosing: a randomized, blind self-experiment</title><url>http://www.gwern.net/LSD%20microdosing</url></story> |
28,279,818 | 28,279,922 | 1 | 2 | 28,274,819 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>traek</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m not sure how 21% lower is considered &quot;not statistically significant&quot;, in trying to suppress the spread, ANYTHING &gt; 0% is helpful. Full stop.<p>Statistical significance has a specific meaning in the context of hypothesis testing. It is a measure of likelihood that the observed result occurred due to a real difference between groups (rather than random chance).</text><parent_chain><item><author>hackersword</author><text>Have you looked at the actual report and not the anti-vax site summation of the report?<p>&gt;. The 21% lower incidence in schools that required mask use among students was not statistically significant compared with schools where mask use was optional.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how 21% lower is considered &quot;not statistically significant&quot;, in trying to suppress the spread, ANYTHING &gt; 0% is helpful. Full stop.<p>Other stand out qualifiers from same report<p>&gt;This finding might be attributed to higher effectiveness of masks among adults, who are at higher risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection but might also result from differences in mask-wearing behavior among students in schools with optional requirements. Mask use requirements were limited in this sample;<p>&gt;The findings in this report are subject to at least four limitations.<p>&gt; * First, many COVID-19 cases were self-reported by staff members and parents or guardians, and prevention strategies reported by administrators or nurses might not reflect day-to-day activities or represent all school classrooms, and *did not include an assessment of compliance* (e.g., mask use).<p>&gt;* Second, the study had limited power to detect lower incidence for potentially effective, but less frequently implemented strategies, such as air filtration and purification systems; only 16 schools reported implementing this ventilation improvement.<p>&gt; * Third, the response rate was low (11.6%), and some participating schools had missing information about ventilation improvements. However, incidence per 500 students was similar between participating (3.08 cases) and nonparticipating (2.90 cases) schools, suggesting any systematic bias might be low.<p>&gt;* Finally, the data from this cross-sectional study cannot be used to infer causal
relationships.<p>Basically was relying on self reporting. If a student contracted and was asymptomatic, not shown here, etc.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; It boggles my mind why there is pushback on mandating kids to wear masks in schools.<p>It really shouldn’t if you’re an educated person who is following what scientific authorities are saying. The science here is still uncertain, but leaning towards masks for kids in schools not being worth it. See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-science-of-masking-kids-at-school-remains-uncertain.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-science-of-maski...</a><p>&gt; At the end of May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a notable, yet mostly ignored, large-scale study of COVID transmission in American schools… Distancing, hybrid models, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and, most notably, requiring student masking were each found to not have a statistically significant benefit. In other words, these measures could not be said to be effective.<p>&gt; In the realm of science and public-health policy outside the U.S., the implications of these particular findings are not exactly controversial. Many of America’s peer nations around the world — including the U.K., Ireland, all of Scandinavia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy — have exempted kids, with varying age cutoffs, from wearing masks in classrooms.</text></item><item><author>adrr</author><text>People aren’t scared up. Concern is around ICU usage and that elective surgery in hot areas are put on hold which include critical cancer removal surgeries.<p>Also we have a large group of unvaccinated group which are under kids under 12. With life going back to normal, the standard diseases are back like RSV, paraflu and others. Get two at the same time and it’s a emergency room visit. Get 3 at the same time and it’s life threatening. Two at the same time isn’t uncommon before covid. Now my pediatrician says 3 is happening and it’s a kid killer. It boggles my mind why there is pushback on mandating kids to wear masks in schools.</text></item><item><author>h3cate</author><text>Unpopular opinion but as countries get majority vaccinated they have to learn to not be as scared of it.</text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>Good article, but doesn&#x27;t mention the other reason that covid-19 is never going completely away: animal reservoirs. We know that dogs, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mink, white-tailed deer, a gorilla, and a tiger have been found to have been infected with covid-19. It is implausible that it will ever cease to have an animal reservoir, especially given the finding in Canada of 30% of white-tailed deer having it.<p>Of diseases that get as widespread as this, with animal reservoirs, I don&#x27;t believe there is any case of eliminating it. But, like vaccines can teach the immune system how to respond more intelligently (and less self-destructively) to covid-19, hopefully society can learn to respond more intelligently, and less self-destructively, to the fact that it&#x27;s always in circulation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Coronavirus Is Here Forever</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how-we-live-coronavirus-forever/619783/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>timr</author><text>&gt; <i>did not include an assessment of compliance</i> (e.g., mask use).<p>This is not a rebuttal.<p>If you establish a policy, and people <i>do not follow the policy</i>, that&#x27;s on you, not on the people. You don&#x27;t get to compare your intervention against an ideal world and claim that &quot;it would have worked, if only for those darned humans!&quot;<p>&gt; Basically was relying on self reporting. If a student contracted and was asymptomatic, not shown here, etc.<p>A great many of the pro-mask papers in 2020 that claimed to &quot;prove&quot; that masks work started from self-reported data (the infamous &quot;hairdressers&quot; CDC report comes to mind...if a customer was asymptomatic, they were ignored; there was no control, so it&#x27;s impossible to know what would have happened otherwise; etc.) The standards for &quot;proof&quot; across the pandemic have been dismally low, and tribalism and politics have supplanted science.<p>The difference here is that we actually have examples from across the globe where kids <i>weren&#x27;t</i> masked in schools, and no matter how you look at it, it doesn&#x27;t seem to make much of a difference. If we&#x27;re going to be skeptical (we should!) let&#x27;s be skeptical of <i>every claim</i>, and demand proof of effectiveness for our medical interventions before imposing them across all of human society.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hackersword</author><text>Have you looked at the actual report and not the anti-vax site summation of the report?<p>&gt;. The 21% lower incidence in schools that required mask use among students was not statistically significant compared with schools where mask use was optional.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how 21% lower is considered &quot;not statistically significant&quot;, in trying to suppress the spread, ANYTHING &gt; 0% is helpful. Full stop.<p>Other stand out qualifiers from same report<p>&gt;This finding might be attributed to higher effectiveness of masks among adults, who are at higher risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection but might also result from differences in mask-wearing behavior among students in schools with optional requirements. Mask use requirements were limited in this sample;<p>&gt;The findings in this report are subject to at least four limitations.<p>&gt; * First, many COVID-19 cases were self-reported by staff members and parents or guardians, and prevention strategies reported by administrators or nurses might not reflect day-to-day activities or represent all school classrooms, and *did not include an assessment of compliance* (e.g., mask use).<p>&gt;* Second, the study had limited power to detect lower incidence for potentially effective, but less frequently implemented strategies, such as air filtration and purification systems; only 16 schools reported implementing this ventilation improvement.<p>&gt; * Third, the response rate was low (11.6%), and some participating schools had missing information about ventilation improvements. However, incidence per 500 students was similar between participating (3.08 cases) and nonparticipating (2.90 cases) schools, suggesting any systematic bias might be low.<p>&gt;* Finally, the data from this cross-sectional study cannot be used to infer causal
relationships.<p>Basically was relying on self reporting. If a student contracted and was asymptomatic, not shown here, etc.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; It boggles my mind why there is pushback on mandating kids to wear masks in schools.<p>It really shouldn’t if you’re an educated person who is following what scientific authorities are saying. The science here is still uncertain, but leaning towards masks for kids in schools not being worth it. See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-science-of-masking-kids-at-school-remains-uncertain.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-science-of-maski...</a><p>&gt; At the end of May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a notable, yet mostly ignored, large-scale study of COVID transmission in American schools… Distancing, hybrid models, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and, most notably, requiring student masking were each found to not have a statistically significant benefit. In other words, these measures could not be said to be effective.<p>&gt; In the realm of science and public-health policy outside the U.S., the implications of these particular findings are not exactly controversial. Many of America’s peer nations around the world — including the U.K., Ireland, all of Scandinavia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy — have exempted kids, with varying age cutoffs, from wearing masks in classrooms.</text></item><item><author>adrr</author><text>People aren’t scared up. Concern is around ICU usage and that elective surgery in hot areas are put on hold which include critical cancer removal surgeries.<p>Also we have a large group of unvaccinated group which are under kids under 12. With life going back to normal, the standard diseases are back like RSV, paraflu and others. Get two at the same time and it’s a emergency room visit. Get 3 at the same time and it’s life threatening. Two at the same time isn’t uncommon before covid. Now my pediatrician says 3 is happening and it’s a kid killer. It boggles my mind why there is pushback on mandating kids to wear masks in schools.</text></item><item><author>h3cate</author><text>Unpopular opinion but as countries get majority vaccinated they have to learn to not be as scared of it.</text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>Good article, but doesn&#x27;t mention the other reason that covid-19 is never going completely away: animal reservoirs. We know that dogs, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mink, white-tailed deer, a gorilla, and a tiger have been found to have been infected with covid-19. It is implausible that it will ever cease to have an animal reservoir, especially given the finding in Canada of 30% of white-tailed deer having it.<p>Of diseases that get as widespread as this, with animal reservoirs, I don&#x27;t believe there is any case of eliminating it. But, like vaccines can teach the immune system how to respond more intelligently (and less self-destructively) to covid-19, hopefully society can learn to respond more intelligently, and less self-destructively, to the fact that it&#x27;s always in circulation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Coronavirus Is Here Forever</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how-we-live-coronavirus-forever/619783/</url></story> |
27,899,793 | 27,899,518 | 1 | 3 | 27,894,640 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>conductr</author><text>We pay CNA&#x27;s $12&#x2F;hr in some markets. Their job is like daycare but geriatrics instead of toddlers. It&#x27;s a lot of hands on service on both ends of the gastrointestinal tract. There are RN&#x27;s around in fewer numbers that earn more and do the actual clinical parts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ac29</author><text>I&#x27;m curious where in the US are healthcare workers getting less than $15&#x2F;hr and what kind of work it is. Even the sort of jobs that require no certification, no degree, and no experience seem to pay quite a bit more than that.</text></item><item><author>conductr</author><text>&gt; The employers aren’t raising their wages either<p>They are. It takes time but they are. I work in a business that is having a hard time hiring entry level healthcare workers because Walmart and Amazon warehoueses is now paying $15-20&#x2F;hr when it was only $12 pre-covid. Walmart and Amazon would only raise wages if they truly had a labor supply issue, which they do, we all do.</text></item><item><author>yepthatsreality</author><text>Sure but this goes beyond restaurants in my opinion. Look at these states that had mass migration of people during the pandemic. You will find the (big) sky-rocketing cost of living where those who are moving in on a whim are also not seeking jobs in the state. However all these businesses need employees to handle the new increase in customers. The employers aren’t raising their wages either, which is also not attracting people to work. When the lower classes are forced to move elsewhere (Outside the cities) then this problem will get worse.<p>Return to office might have some reverse effect but online remote employees can be one of the biggest generators of this problem.</text></item><item><author>namdnay</author><text>Honestly, as necessary as that is, it’s not a magic solution. People are quitting the restaurant industry in France too, despite having none of the tip silliness.<p>It’s just that people are realizing that there are easier minimum wage jobs than working in a kitchen</text></item><item><author>yepthatsreality</author><text>The restaurant industry has known the solution for a long time but everyone wants to pretend it would be too difficult.<p>Stop the tipping guilt trip placed on the public, raise your prices 20%, and pay your employees a livable wage. The public will still show up to eat in your restaurant.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Restaurant workers quit at record rate</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/07/20/1016081936/low-pay-no-benefits-rude-customers-restaurant-workers-quit-at-record-rate</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FireBeyond</author><text>EMTs and paramedics.<p>Often working 24, 36 or even 48 hour shifts.<p>Often for $15&#x2F;hr or less (many places will pay EMTs literally minimum wage, and tell their employees, &quot;you can have as much OT as you want&quot;).<p>Part of it is supply and demand. Private EMS is often an in-road or holding pattern to a more &quot;cushy&quot; unionized fire department EMS position (where firefighter paramedics can make into the six digits). So private EMS has little motivation to be competitive - &quot;there&#x27;s a line of 21 year olds who will happily take your job&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ac29</author><text>I&#x27;m curious where in the US are healthcare workers getting less than $15&#x2F;hr and what kind of work it is. Even the sort of jobs that require no certification, no degree, and no experience seem to pay quite a bit more than that.</text></item><item><author>conductr</author><text>&gt; The employers aren’t raising their wages either<p>They are. It takes time but they are. I work in a business that is having a hard time hiring entry level healthcare workers because Walmart and Amazon warehoueses is now paying $15-20&#x2F;hr when it was only $12 pre-covid. Walmart and Amazon would only raise wages if they truly had a labor supply issue, which they do, we all do.</text></item><item><author>yepthatsreality</author><text>Sure but this goes beyond restaurants in my opinion. Look at these states that had mass migration of people during the pandemic. You will find the (big) sky-rocketing cost of living where those who are moving in on a whim are also not seeking jobs in the state. However all these businesses need employees to handle the new increase in customers. The employers aren’t raising their wages either, which is also not attracting people to work. When the lower classes are forced to move elsewhere (Outside the cities) then this problem will get worse.<p>Return to office might have some reverse effect but online remote employees can be one of the biggest generators of this problem.</text></item><item><author>namdnay</author><text>Honestly, as necessary as that is, it’s not a magic solution. People are quitting the restaurant industry in France too, despite having none of the tip silliness.<p>It’s just that people are realizing that there are easier minimum wage jobs than working in a kitchen</text></item><item><author>yepthatsreality</author><text>The restaurant industry has known the solution for a long time but everyone wants to pretend it would be too difficult.<p>Stop the tipping guilt trip placed on the public, raise your prices 20%, and pay your employees a livable wage. The public will still show up to eat in your restaurant.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Restaurant workers quit at record rate</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/07/20/1016081936/low-pay-no-benefits-rude-customers-restaurant-workers-quit-at-record-rate</url></story> |
6,616,592 | 6,616,553 | 1 | 2 | 6,616,032 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text>There is a motto with helmets in many sports I have participated in:<p><i>The best helmet, is the helmet you will wear</i><p>The rms approach, while effective, is untenable for most people. Sometimes more moderate <i>livable</i> recommendations will wind up doing more good, because people will wear them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drill_sarge</author><text>I am surprised that the EFF is recommending two factor auth instead of avoiding Google, Facebook etc. at all. Also no mention not to use certain proprietary OS.<p>I think this list provides some better overview of alternatives:
<a href="https://prism-break.org/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prism-break.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/ten-steps-against-surveillance</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>r0h1n</author><text>Exactly! While 2-factor is a good defense against data&#x2F;identity theft from criminals or malicious hackers, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;ll be of much help against governments.<p>In fact I&#x27;d argue that 2-factor authentication actually <i>helps</i> governments <i>and</i> private Internet companies because we willingly associate our mobile phones to our Internet accounts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drill_sarge</author><text>I am surprised that the EFF is recommending two factor auth instead of avoiding Google, Facebook etc. at all. Also no mention not to use certain proprietary OS.<p>I think this list provides some better overview of alternatives:
<a href="https://prism-break.org/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prism-break.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/ten-steps-against-surveillance</url></story> |
3,371,505 | 3,371,539 | 1 | 2 | 3,371,286 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>I disagree that subprocess is complicated. Replacing the os.system() is really simple: <a href="http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#replacing-os-system" rel="nofollow">http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#replacing-os-...</a><p>I think people are just used to system(), particularly if they come from C.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LeafStorm</author><text>Most of this I agree with, with a few comments/caveats:<p>&#62; Easy Stuff First<p>The unfortunate part about this particular example is that subprocess's interface isn't really that well-designed, and so people resort to os.system simply because it is less complicated than subprocess.<p>&#62; Ducks In A Row<p>I don't think isinstance is really that bad, but checking based on something's exact type is definitely wrong.<p>&#62; Toys are for Children<p>One of the problems of a batteries-included stdlib is that you have to support it just about forever. Though I would like to note that for basic async programming Tornado is surprisingly good, and less complex than Twisted.<p>&#62; Foreign Concepts<p>Apparently this is especially useful for scientific and mathematical computing. I can't see how it's especially dangerous since just about everyone will use list instead.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unfortunate Python</title><url>http://excess.org/article/2011/12/unfortunate-python/</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>angusgr</author><text><i>&#62; Foreign Concepts</i> ... <i>I can't see how it's especially dangerous since just about everyone will use list instead.</i><p>I think it's potentially dangerous if/when Python newbies from other languages pick up old idioms and (ab)use them thinking they're "Pythonic".<p>I haven't seen it with a Python codebase, but I have worked on a Java codebase that was developed from scratch by C developers new to Java. They used lots of arrays (same sin), minimal Collections, and lots of for(i = 0; i &#60; arr.length; i++) instead of foreach. Urgh.<p>So it isn't Python's fault, but I see how it could pose a danger.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LeafStorm</author><text>Most of this I agree with, with a few comments/caveats:<p>&#62; Easy Stuff First<p>The unfortunate part about this particular example is that subprocess's interface isn't really that well-designed, and so people resort to os.system simply because it is less complicated than subprocess.<p>&#62; Ducks In A Row<p>I don't think isinstance is really that bad, but checking based on something's exact type is definitely wrong.<p>&#62; Toys are for Children<p>One of the problems of a batteries-included stdlib is that you have to support it just about forever. Though I would like to note that for basic async programming Tornado is surprisingly good, and less complex than Twisted.<p>&#62; Foreign Concepts<p>Apparently this is especially useful for scientific and mathematical computing. I can't see how it's especially dangerous since just about everyone will use list instead.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unfortunate Python</title><url>http://excess.org/article/2011/12/unfortunate-python/</url><text></text></story> |
2,466,270 | 2,466,094 | 1 | 2 | 2,465,927 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>16s</author><text>Buy a CD from them. They are the reason we all have OpenSSH. Without that, Unix/Linux/BSD (as we know it today) would be much less secure. 4.9 CDs may be pre-ordered now: <a href="http://openbsd.org/orders.html" rel="nofollow">http://openbsd.org/orders.html</a><p>You won't find a simpler, cleaner Unix anywhere.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenBSD: a puffy in the aquarium</title><url>http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110420080633</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arespredator</author><text>Neat and quite impressive, given how exotic OpenBSD seems to most people. One thing that bothers me though: why? I mean, why wouldn't they do it with any linux distribution? It would probably require less work, less custom tools (like these apps for automatic network configuration or scripts for automounting usb drives they mention), and with some security patches/kernel configurations it should give a similar security level OpenBSD does.<p>Or am I missing something?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenBSD: a puffy in the aquarium</title><url>http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110420080633</url></story> |
21,811,029 | 21,810,838 | 1 | 2 | 21,802,674 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>millstone</author><text>I would say it like so: pi has many transcendental neighbors, which are in no way related to pi. But e and pi, despite being numerically distant, are in one sense &quot;close&quot; - related - via Euler&#x27;s formula. So there&#x27;s a &quot;local closeness&quot; - the arithmetic difference of pi and its neighbor - but also a &quot;relationship closeness&quot; where pi and e are intimately linked.<p>Perhaps quantum states obey the relationship closeness, not the arithmetical one. Classical physics obeys &quot;arithmetical closeness&quot; meaning that small differences in dynamical properties are close in state-space. But actually this is an emergent property: highly sensitive quantum experiments reveal that small differences in dynamical properties can be highly separated in state-space.<p>Rationals are all pretty easily related, but pi has nothing in common with a random close transcendental neighbor.<p>More: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Implicate_and_explicate_order" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Implicate_and_explicate_order</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>themgt</author><text>I find this Quora answer convincingly reflects my thinking as to why Superdeterminism can&#x27;t possibly be correct given Bell’s theorem[1]<p>Skimming the actual paper[2] I&#x27;m not really seeing a convincing explanation, this in particular just strikes me as hard to believe &#x2F; failing Occam&#x27;s razor:<p><i>The belief that such tests tell us something about (the implausibility of) Superdeterminism goes back, once again, to the idea that a state which is intuitively “close” to the one realized in nature (eg, the wavelength of the light from the distant quasar was a little different, all else equal) is allowed by the laws of nature and likely to happen. However, in a superdeterministic theory what seems intuitively like a small change will generically result in an extremely unlikely state; that’s the whole point. For example, in a superdeterministic theory, a physically possible counterfactual state in which the wave-length of the photon was slightly different may also require changes elsewhere on the past hypersurface, thereby resulting in the experimenter’s decision to not use the quasar’s light to begin with.</i><p>&quot;Reality is a giant deterministic conspiracy&quot; is more plausible than abandoning local realism? They do (kinda?) propose an experiment at least?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Why-do-some-crackpot-scientists-go-after-super-deterministic-theories-when-Bells-theorem-has-proved-that-local-realism-is-false" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Why-do-some-crackpot-scientists-go-aft...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1912.06462.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1912.06462.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Superdeterminism: The path we didn’t take</title><url>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-path-we-didnt-take.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>perl4ever</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if everything being deterministic is an abhorrent, invalid option, but I also don&#x27;t see why reality has to be local. I mean, the limitation of light speed is something that exists to make a consistent theory, not something that somehow has value in itself...?<p>My problem is probably not just a lack of math, but a lack of taste.</text><parent_chain><item><author>themgt</author><text>I find this Quora answer convincingly reflects my thinking as to why Superdeterminism can&#x27;t possibly be correct given Bell’s theorem[1]<p>Skimming the actual paper[2] I&#x27;m not really seeing a convincing explanation, this in particular just strikes me as hard to believe &#x2F; failing Occam&#x27;s razor:<p><i>The belief that such tests tell us something about (the implausibility of) Superdeterminism goes back, once again, to the idea that a state which is intuitively “close” to the one realized in nature (eg, the wavelength of the light from the distant quasar was a little different, all else equal) is allowed by the laws of nature and likely to happen. However, in a superdeterministic theory what seems intuitively like a small change will generically result in an extremely unlikely state; that’s the whole point. For example, in a superdeterministic theory, a physically possible counterfactual state in which the wave-length of the photon was slightly different may also require changes elsewhere on the past hypersurface, thereby resulting in the experimenter’s decision to not use the quasar’s light to begin with.</i><p>&quot;Reality is a giant deterministic conspiracy&quot; is more plausible than abandoning local realism? They do (kinda?) propose an experiment at least?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Why-do-some-crackpot-scientists-go-after-super-deterministic-theories-when-Bells-theorem-has-proved-that-local-realism-is-false" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Why-do-some-crackpot-scientists-go-aft...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1912.06462.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1912.06462.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Superdeterminism: The path we didn’t take</title><url>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-path-we-didnt-take.html</url></story> |
8,188,289 | 8,188,205 | 1 | 3 | 8,185,021 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelsbradley</author><text>In 1937, Pope Pius XI published a kind of &quot;review&quot; of the ideas in Mein Kampf and the actions of the Nazi Party. <i>Mit Brennender Sorge</i> (&quot;With Burning Anxiety&quot;) remains the only papal encyclical ever principally published in a language other than Latin. That is, the official edition was published in German and other translations were derived from the German rather than a Latin original. Apparently, the Pope&#x27;s harsh critique enraged Hitler.<p><a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_14031937_mit-brennender-sorge_en.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vatican.va&#x2F;holy_father&#x2F;pius_xi&#x2F;encyclicals&#x2F;docume...</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mit_brennender_Sorge" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mit_brennender_Sorge</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940)</title><url>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmBhYakPbYtT3k5cDd4Sm1SRUE/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>Htsthbjig</author><text>With what we know today we could see Orwell picture of Germany was incomplete.<p>People did not want struggling at the time. After the Great depression created by the banks bubble and having everything they could produce taken by countries like France as payment for WWI GERMANS WERE ALREADY STRUGGLING.<p>Germans were dying in winter because the coal was sent to France as payment. And this is not like winter in Morocco. In Germany you have no energy in winter, with 30 Celsius degrees under zero you die.<p>Not only they were struggling, but having all what they could make confiscated to pay debts created a very dangerous situation, there was NO HOPE.<p>They had become slaves. Romans already measured that a slave worked way less than half what a free man did.<p>So Hitler brought hope. He stopped paying the debt(default), the military occupied the coal areas back for Germany and brought hope.<p>Is not that he promised suffering, but that he promised that suffering will end.<p>He also made suffering more tolerable making it social. Hitler created social programs for workers that let them travel and meet other people.<p>It is probably hard to understand for Westerns, but there are millions of people in Africa or India that are happier than people from the West, even while being very poor, because money is not everything, there are friends, for example, that people from Africa have more than isolated westerns.<p>Today the world is in Great Depression number II. Countries are over indebted, and we have the same problem they had: economies had stop to a halt and will be there until bad debts are cleaned, and defaults are issued.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940)</title><url>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmBhYakPbYtT3k5cDd4Sm1SRUE/edit</url></story> |
12,527,528 | 12,526,963 | 1 | 3 | 12,526,717 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>feross</author><text>Hi, creator of WebTorrent here.<p>&gt; [BitTorrent] isn&#x27;t designed to sequentially stream data<p>We’re working on improving the algorithm to switch back to a rarest-first strategy when there is not a high-priority need for specific pieces. In other words, when sufficient video is buffered, there’s no need to deviate from the normal piece selection algorithm.<p>But the fact is that with the speed of today’s internet connections, the user is going to finish fully downloading the torrent in a fraction of the time it takes to view it, so they will still spend more time seeding than downloading.<p>In practice, the only time that the rarest-first algorithm is important is on poorly-seeded torrents, or in the first few hours of a torrent being published when the ratio of seeders to leechers is really bad. I plan to keep improving the piece selection algorithm so that WebTorrent can be a good citizen.<p>Also: you should note that not all WebTorrent users stream sequentially. That&#x27;s just one option for downloading the data.<p>Also: It&#x27;s noteworthy that BitTorrent Inc.&#x27;s official torrent client (as well as the largest player by marketshare), uTorrent, offers sequential downloading, as well as selective file downloading. And the BitTorrent network remains very healthy.<p>&gt; why they didn&#x27;t take this opportunity to design a protocol that has more suitable trade-offs than BitTorrent<p>BitTorrent is the most successful, most widely-deployed P2P protocol in existence. It works <i>really</i> well. My goal with WebTorrent was to bring BitTorrent to the web in a way that interoperates with the existing torrent network.<p>Re-inventing the protocol would have made WebTorrent fundamentally incompatible with existing clients and prevented adoption. The way we&#x27;ve done it is better. The wire protocol is exactly the same, but there&#x27;s now a new way to connect to peers: WebRTC, in addition to the existing TCP and uTP.<p>Also, re-inventing the protocol is a huge rabbit hole. There was already a lot of risk when I started the project -- will WebRTC get adopted by all the browser vendors? Will data channel stabilize and be performant? Is JavaScript fast enough to re-package MP4 videos on-the-fly for streaming playback with the MediaSource API? My thinking was: Why add inventing a new wire protocol and several algorithms to the table?<p>Thanks for your thoughtful comment. Hope you&#x27;ll give WebTorrent and our new desktop app, WebTorrent Desktop a try!</text><parent_chain><item><author>jzelinskie</author><text>I work on some BitTorrent software and while it&#x27;s a really cool protocol, it isn&#x27;t designed to sequentially stream data. Some clients support streaming, but the act of prioritizing sequential chunks of data rather than chunks that are most likely to be unavailable in the future is bad behavior for the collective group of peers.<p>I haven&#x27;t personally given much thought to solving the problem of streaming, but I am surprised that the WebTorrent FAQ doesn&#x27;t mention why they didn&#x27;t take this opportunity to design a protocol that has more suitable trade-offs than BitTorrent. I&#x27;m getting mixed messaging; is their goal to connect the BitTorrent network with WebRTC or enable high quality P2P streaming via WebRTC?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent</title><url>https://instant.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>alecco</author><text>Weird, a friend of mine used to stream with utorrent years ago without problems. Maybe one pause of a few seconds for a whole TV episode.<p>The problem is not the protocol but the lack of features like subtitles. And torrent contents not being standard. All this can be easily scripted to cover most cases.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jzelinskie</author><text>I work on some BitTorrent software and while it&#x27;s a really cool protocol, it isn&#x27;t designed to sequentially stream data. Some clients support streaming, but the act of prioritizing sequential chunks of data rather than chunks that are most likely to be unavailable in the future is bad behavior for the collective group of peers.<p>I haven&#x27;t personally given much thought to solving the problem of streaming, but I am surprised that the WebTorrent FAQ doesn&#x27;t mention why they didn&#x27;t take this opportunity to design a protocol that has more suitable trade-offs than BitTorrent. I&#x27;m getting mixed messaging; is their goal to connect the BitTorrent network with WebRTC or enable high quality P2P streaming via WebRTC?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent</title><url>https://instant.io/</url></story> |
22,793,797 | 22,791,391 | 1 | 2 | 22,789,953 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xvilka</author><text>The same can be done also with Coq[1], it is easy to learn[2], actively developed[3], and better documented[4]. You can also visit their discussion board[5]. Regarding the usual Lean vs Coq &quot;war&quot; and so-called &quot;setoid hell&quot; you can read a lengthy discussion on their GitHub[6].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;coq.inria.fr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;coq.inria.fr&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnxinyminutes.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;coq&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnxinyminutes.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;coq&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coq&#x2F;coq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coq&#x2F;coq</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu&#x2F;</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coq.discourse.group&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coq.discourse.group&#x2F;</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coq&#x2F;coq&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10871" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coq&#x2F;coq&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10871</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Doing a math assignment with the Lean theorem prover</title><url>https://ahelwer.ca/post/2020-04-05-lean-assignment/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>For people interested in using Lean, note that there&#x27;s a community fork (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leanprover-community&#x2F;lean" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leanprover-community&#x2F;lean</a>) of the last official Lean 3 release 3.4.2 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leanprover&#x2F;lean" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leanprover&#x2F;lean</a>). The fork is still under active maintenance, so might be a better place to start (the main development team have moved onto developing Lean 4.0 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leanprover&#x2F;lean4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leanprover&#x2F;lean4</a>), and it&#x27;s not clear when that will be ready).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Doing a math assignment with the Lean theorem prover</title><url>https://ahelwer.ca/post/2020-04-05-lean-assignment/</url></story> |
40,936,485 | 40,936,402 | 1 | 2 | 40,934,898 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>redslazer</author><text>Jetbrains only “did it right” because there was huge community outcry about their move to pure subscription so they moved to the “if you subscribe for X amount of time you get to keep the last version you had when you stop subscribing”.<p>Props to them for listening to the community but question whether they should be the gold standard given it is still a compromise position.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>I was so hopeful when subscriptions became a thing because it could technically solve one of the big problems with desktop software: updates.<p>Selling a version of software that you &quot;own&quot; creates a perverse incentive: charge as much as you can and as often as you can for &quot;upgrades&quot;. Back when Photoshop was sold this way, support for the raw formats of new cameras that came out was gated for absolutely no reason behind buying a newer version of Photoshop. Even bugfixes would eventually only be applied to the latest version or two.<p>And what constitutes a major version requiring a paid upgrade anyway? Well that&#x27;s completely arbitrary but the company is incentivized to make that happen as often as possible.<p>Subscriptions technically mean the company can just keep updating the software. There&#x27;s only one version to support, really. There&#x27;s no incentive to gate features behind another paid update.<p>The gold standard for subscriptions is Jetbrains. Cancel anytime. When you do cancel, whatever version you had you got to keep, basically. You got warnings in your email that you would be charged in a few weeks if you didn&#x27;t cancel. The prices were reasonable. Jetbrains quite literally did everything right.<p>Then there&#x27;s Adobe. The subscription prices are pretty outrageous. No warning. Hard to cancel. Easy to get a recurring charge. Adobe, like many companies, seems to have decided that whatever the sticker price was for the standalone software, charge that every year in a subscription.<p>But before you start waxing lyrical about the halcyon days of software you &quot;own&quot;, you&#x27;ve either forgotten or never experienced the shady things software compnaies did to maximize revenue then as well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions</title><url>https://icpen.org/news/1360</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>squigz</author><text>&gt; But before you start waxing lyrical about the halcyon days of software you &quot;own&quot;, you&#x27;ve either forgotten or never experienced the shady things software compnaies did to maximize revenue then as well.<p>Just because there was shady shit back then doesn&#x27;t mean it wasn&#x27;t, in some ways, a better system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>I was so hopeful when subscriptions became a thing because it could technically solve one of the big problems with desktop software: updates.<p>Selling a version of software that you &quot;own&quot; creates a perverse incentive: charge as much as you can and as often as you can for &quot;upgrades&quot;. Back when Photoshop was sold this way, support for the raw formats of new cameras that came out was gated for absolutely no reason behind buying a newer version of Photoshop. Even bugfixes would eventually only be applied to the latest version or two.<p>And what constitutes a major version requiring a paid upgrade anyway? Well that&#x27;s completely arbitrary but the company is incentivized to make that happen as often as possible.<p>Subscriptions technically mean the company can just keep updating the software. There&#x27;s only one version to support, really. There&#x27;s no incentive to gate features behind another paid update.<p>The gold standard for subscriptions is Jetbrains. Cancel anytime. When you do cancel, whatever version you had you got to keep, basically. You got warnings in your email that you would be charged in a few weeks if you didn&#x27;t cancel. The prices were reasonable. Jetbrains quite literally did everything right.<p>Then there&#x27;s Adobe. The subscription prices are pretty outrageous. No warning. Hard to cancel. Easy to get a recurring charge. Adobe, like many companies, seems to have decided that whatever the sticker price was for the standalone software, charge that every year in a subscription.<p>But before you start waxing lyrical about the halcyon days of software you &quot;own&quot;, you&#x27;ve either forgotten or never experienced the shady things software compnaies did to maximize revenue then as well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions</title><url>https://icpen.org/news/1360</url></story> |
26,578,479 | 26,577,914 | 1 | 3 | 26,577,349 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dblooman</author><text>&gt;Very few places accept them<p>I have heard this since I was a kid, in reality, it isn&#x27;t true, at least not in London. I have never been refused when presenting a £50, not that I have carried them more than a dozen times. Most places that have issues taking them are small merchants who give away too many notes breaking them, so will often ask for a smaller note. When I was in New York once, I went into a CVS and bought $60 of sweets to bring home, the cashier shouted &#x27;bill check&#x27; when i presented a $100 bill, so I guess I look more dodgey in the US.</text><parent_chain><item><author>carmen_sandiego</author><text>Cool design + polymer, but they should probably just abolish the £50 already. Very few places accept them. Never mind the £100 notes you can get in some parts of the UK. I would say they should encourage better acceptance of these denominations, but cash seems to be dying in general.<p>I look to Switzerland with envy, where as far as I can tell you can stroll into the supermarket and drop a 1000-franc note without issue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Alan Turing £50 note design is revealed</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56503741</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dan-robertson</author><text>The problem was that £50 notes were most likely forged, I think, although I don’t know how true that was. So the solution surely isn’t to get rid of the notes as that just shifts the forgery to the next note down. Surely instead the solution would be higher valued notes being created. But:<p>- I don’t really think the problem is forgery. I think it’s that it is annoying for a lot of shops to make change for £50.<p>- I don’t think the government is particularly interested in making cash more convenient for people (card transactions are easier to track) and wealthy people mostly aren’t interested in carrying around high-value notes as credit cards exist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>carmen_sandiego</author><text>Cool design + polymer, but they should probably just abolish the £50 already. Very few places accept them. Never mind the £100 notes you can get in some parts of the UK. I would say they should encourage better acceptance of these denominations, but cash seems to be dying in general.<p>I look to Switzerland with envy, where as far as I can tell you can stroll into the supermarket and drop a 1000-franc note without issue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Alan Turing £50 note design is revealed</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56503741</url></story> |
29,839,898 | 29,840,061 | 1 | 3 | 29,838,908 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>potamic</author><text>Many a time I receive multiple challenges on a site despite having selected all images perfectly, and can&#x27;t help but wonder, &quot;Hey, are they getting me to do more work than necessary because they&#x27;re running behind on their labelling backlog?&quot;. There&#x27;s definitely a conflict of incentives in this case. If you&#x27;re a website owner, you&#x27;re better off choosing a different service which doesn&#x27;t have adverse incentives, otherwise it can affect your site experience. And please don&#x27;t put captcha on GET requests. Use a CDN if you&#x27;re unable to handle bot load. And don&#x27;t even get me started on CDNs that throw captcha.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jdavis703</author><text>First, I’m going to teach you to fish. Go to hCaptcha’s website, then scroll to the footer. Click around on the about links. It’ll reveal their business model. This trick also works for other businesses and NGOs.<p>Now, if we look at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hcaptcha.com&#x2F;labeling" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hcaptcha.com&#x2F;labeling</a> we can tell they make money by labeling data sets for a fee. So as a guess, there’s someone out there that needs to improve computer vision detection of transportation vehicles. My guess is it’s a self driving car company, but who knows.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?</title><text>It seems all the hCaptcha verifications I receive are for buses, boats and trains? They don&#x27;t seem limited by geography or by recency. I&#x27;m curious why these particular artifacts and whether this has always been the case.</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>kqr</author><text>This became obvious to me when during some period the regular crosswalks, stop lights, and buses got replaced by chimneys, trees, and mountains (!). It was right around the time when some big companies started advertising AI driven quadcopter services.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jdavis703</author><text>First, I’m going to teach you to fish. Go to hCaptcha’s website, then scroll to the footer. Click around on the about links. It’ll reveal their business model. This trick also works for other businesses and NGOs.<p>Now, if we look at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hcaptcha.com&#x2F;labeling" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hcaptcha.com&#x2F;labeling</a> we can tell they make money by labeling data sets for a fee. So as a guess, there’s someone out there that needs to improve computer vision detection of transportation vehicles. My guess is it’s a self driving car company, but who knows.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?</title><text>It seems all the hCaptcha verifications I receive are for buses, boats and trains? They don&#x27;t seem limited by geography or by recency. I&#x27;m curious why these particular artifacts and whether this has always been the case.</text></story> |
9,976,133 | 9,973,456 | 1 | 2 | 9,973,087 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>logfromblammo</author><text>Whenever the word &quot;white&quot; is used in a scientific or quasi-scientific context, it should probably be specified whether the speaker means &quot;perceived by the human eye to be white&quot;, or &quot;emitting a continuous spectrum across all frequencies of visible light&quot;, or something in between.<p>A tricolor LED and a white (phosphor-based) LED can both emit light perceived by a human to be white when viewed directly. But the former is actually only trichromatic, and will have different color rendering properties when reflecting from nearby objects.<p>An R+G+B laser is not a white laser.</text><parent_chain><item><author>prewett</author><text>Interesting, although a bit light on details. From the article it would seem like the laser is essentially three lasers (red, green, blue) coupled together, and by changing the amount of R, G, and B you tune the color. I&#x27;m curious how coherent the R, G, and B are with each other. A true &quot;white&quot; laser would be coherent on all frequencies, but I&#x27;m guessing that&#x27;s pretty hard to accomplish (so limited holography uses).<p>I question the claim that &quot;lasers are brighter, [and] more energy efficient [than LEDs],&quot; though. I&#x27;m assuming LEDs are much more efficient (more lumens of output per watt of input), but I&#x27;d believe that the laser might be more intense (more lumens&#x2F;m^2). Typically lasers are pretty ineffient. [1] reports efficiencies of 7% - 8.9% with semiconductor lasers. Wikipedia [2] appears to be reporting LED efficiencies of 20% - 39%, and one research group [2] reports on getting over 100% efficency, with an LED emitting &quot;more optical power than the electrical power it consumes,&quot; although at very low power levels.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laserfocusworld.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;print&#x2F;volume-48&#x2F;issue-08&#x2F;world-news&#x2F;semiconductor-lasers-green-laser-diode-emits-at-536-nm.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laserfocusworld.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;print&#x2F;volume-48&#x2F;issu...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Light-emitting_diode#Efficiency_and_operational_parameters" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Light-emitting_diode#Efficienc...</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2012-03-efficiency.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2012-03-efficiency.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World's first white laser</title><url>https://asunews.asu.edu/20150728-worlds-first-white-laser</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sigterm</author><text>Not sure what you mean by &quot;how coherent the R, G, and B are with each other&quot;. They are not coherent, since they have different frequencies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>prewett</author><text>Interesting, although a bit light on details. From the article it would seem like the laser is essentially three lasers (red, green, blue) coupled together, and by changing the amount of R, G, and B you tune the color. I&#x27;m curious how coherent the R, G, and B are with each other. A true &quot;white&quot; laser would be coherent on all frequencies, but I&#x27;m guessing that&#x27;s pretty hard to accomplish (so limited holography uses).<p>I question the claim that &quot;lasers are brighter, [and] more energy efficient [than LEDs],&quot; though. I&#x27;m assuming LEDs are much more efficient (more lumens of output per watt of input), but I&#x27;d believe that the laser might be more intense (more lumens&#x2F;m^2). Typically lasers are pretty ineffient. [1] reports efficiencies of 7% - 8.9% with semiconductor lasers. Wikipedia [2] appears to be reporting LED efficiencies of 20% - 39%, and one research group [2] reports on getting over 100% efficency, with an LED emitting &quot;more optical power than the electrical power it consumes,&quot; although at very low power levels.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laserfocusworld.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;print&#x2F;volume-48&#x2F;issue-08&#x2F;world-news&#x2F;semiconductor-lasers-green-laser-diode-emits-at-536-nm.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laserfocusworld.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;print&#x2F;volume-48&#x2F;issu...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Light-emitting_diode#Efficiency_and_operational_parameters" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Light-emitting_diode#Efficienc...</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2012-03-efficiency.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2012-03-efficiency.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World's first white laser</title><url>https://asunews.asu.edu/20150728-worlds-first-white-laser</url></story> |
30,513,324 | 30,509,879 | 1 | 2 | 30,509,760 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Kaotique</author><text><i>Teyuto is a product that allows you to create a customized video channel, which is also available on all mobile and smart tv applications!
The comment must be original and different from any other user e positive about the product.</i><p>They even forgot to remove the instruction on how to write the original comment. What a joke.<p>When we launched on PH we did zero marketing for it and you do get some nice comments and replies from it. Even with zero marketing we managed to get top 10 of the day, but I am sure you can really game the system with some real effort or by using a bunch of fake supporters.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Product Hunt is full of shill accounts, paid upvotes and spam</title><text>Product Hunt was once a curated collection of interesting new products, shared to a small newsletter list of enthusiasts.<p>Today, it has become a pyramid scheme of paid upvotes, shill accounts, and rampant spam. And nobody is talking about it.<p>Have a look at Today&#x27;s #2Product of the Day with 500+ upvotes. They are ALL sock puppet accounts, and most comments and upvotes within a short period of time.<p>The comments are all obvious astro-turfing, with names like &quot;AccountHolder2&quot;. Most of the other top products of the day have the same problem. See for yourself here:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;teyuto-2<p>Something is deeply rotten with Product Hunt. There are maybe 2 or 3 posts in the top products of the day that aren&#x27;t full of utter garbage comments from fake accounts.<p>I shared a link to this before and it was marked as Dead. I&#x27;m assuming because the system thought it was promoting someone&#x27;s Product Hunt launch rather than pointing out a huge failing in one of the most important communities online.<p>Most upvotes are commercially driven. It seems like something that could be fixed with reasonable moderation.</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>smt88</author><text>Maybe I was too late to PH, but it always seemed to be this way to me.<p>For years, &quot;#1 on ProductHunt&quot; is a strong signal to me to stay away. It means the product is not much more than a landing page and is run by marketers trying to fake it until they make it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Product Hunt is full of shill accounts, paid upvotes and spam</title><text>Product Hunt was once a curated collection of interesting new products, shared to a small newsletter list of enthusiasts.<p>Today, it has become a pyramid scheme of paid upvotes, shill accounts, and rampant spam. And nobody is talking about it.<p>Have a look at Today&#x27;s #2Product of the Day with 500+ upvotes. They are ALL sock puppet accounts, and most comments and upvotes within a short period of time.<p>The comments are all obvious astro-turfing, with names like &quot;AccountHolder2&quot;. Most of the other top products of the day have the same problem. See for yourself here:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;teyuto-2<p>Something is deeply rotten with Product Hunt. There are maybe 2 or 3 posts in the top products of the day that aren&#x27;t full of utter garbage comments from fake accounts.<p>I shared a link to this before and it was marked as Dead. I&#x27;m assuming because the system thought it was promoting someone&#x27;s Product Hunt launch rather than pointing out a huge failing in one of the most important communities online.<p>Most upvotes are commercially driven. It seems like something that could be fixed with reasonable moderation.</text></story> |
12,896,670 | 12,896,232 | 1 | 2 | 12,893,956 | 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>roel_v</author><text>I&#x27;ve been programming C++ for too long to really understand why people find pointers hard, but I do remember that I did too at the beginning, and I do remember my epiphany (reading on the train, funny how I remember such senseless details 15 years later yet can&#x27;t memorize a 4-item shopping list): given a declaration of<p><pre><code> struct Foo {
int a;
};
Foo* f;
</code></pre>
, the following two are equivalent:<p><pre><code> int b = f-&gt;a;
</code></pre>
and<p><pre><code> int b = (*f).a;
</code></pre>
Never had it spelled out for me like this, probably because it&#x27;s so obvious once you get it - thought I&#x27;d share in case it gives anyone else an &#x27;aha&#x27; moment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>protomikron</author><text>IMHO pointers are mostly hard at the beginning because the asterisk-operator is overloaded: On one hand it declares (and optionally initializes) a pointer (type * x = ...;) and on the other it dereferences it (type y = * x;). At least for me that was the thing that puzzled me the most. I would prefer something like that:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; declare and initialize x
@uint32_t x = 42;
&#x2F;&#x2F; dereference x
uint32_t y = ~x;
</code></pre>
I.e. have different symbols for the type and the dereferencer (&#x27;@&#x27; and &#x27;~&#x27; as an example).<p>&#x2F;&#x2F;edit: thanks for the help, fixed snippets - HN&#x27;s parser does not get pointers either apparently :)</text></item><item><author>krat0sprakhar</author><text>I&#x27;ve been programming in Python for a long time and recently took up an OS class which exclusively used C. Syntactic differences aside (declarations in C can get pretty hairy), the steepest learning curve while writing anything useful in C is with a) pointers and b) memory management which this guide doesn&#x27;t seem to cover.<p>From my experience, the best way for learning C has been [0] Build Your Own Lisp and Zed Shaw&#x27;s [1] Learn C The Hard Way.<p>That and of course spending countless hours debugging segfaults and memory leaks.<p>[0] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buildyourownlisp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buildyourownlisp.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learncodethehardway.org&#x2F;c&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learncodethehardway.org&#x2F;c&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>C for Python programmers (2011)</title><url>http://www.toves.org/books/cpy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>emmelaich</author><text>You can consider them the &quot;same&quot; thing if you regard the asterisk as binding closer to the var instead of the type.<p>Which the declaration syntax hints at:<p><pre><code> int i, *p;</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>protomikron</author><text>IMHO pointers are mostly hard at the beginning because the asterisk-operator is overloaded: On one hand it declares (and optionally initializes) a pointer (type * x = ...;) and on the other it dereferences it (type y = * x;). At least for me that was the thing that puzzled me the most. I would prefer something like that:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; declare and initialize x
@uint32_t x = 42;
&#x2F;&#x2F; dereference x
uint32_t y = ~x;
</code></pre>
I.e. have different symbols for the type and the dereferencer (&#x27;@&#x27; and &#x27;~&#x27; as an example).<p>&#x2F;&#x2F;edit: thanks for the help, fixed snippets - HN&#x27;s parser does not get pointers either apparently :)</text></item><item><author>krat0sprakhar</author><text>I&#x27;ve been programming in Python for a long time and recently took up an OS class which exclusively used C. Syntactic differences aside (declarations in C can get pretty hairy), the steepest learning curve while writing anything useful in C is with a) pointers and b) memory management which this guide doesn&#x27;t seem to cover.<p>From my experience, the best way for learning C has been [0] Build Your Own Lisp and Zed Shaw&#x27;s [1] Learn C The Hard Way.<p>That and of course spending countless hours debugging segfaults and memory leaks.<p>[0] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buildyourownlisp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buildyourownlisp.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learncodethehardway.org&#x2F;c&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learncodethehardway.org&#x2F;c&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>C for Python programmers (2011)</title><url>http://www.toves.org/books/cpy/</url></story> |
22,126,070 | 22,125,945 | 1 | 2 | 22,124,929 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>3xblah</author><text>&quot;He is currently Director of Engineering at Netflix, working on Open Connect, Netflix&#x27;s home CDN also known as the CDN moving about 30% of the total US Internet traffic&quot;<p>There is something about CDNs and DNS, usually not good. According to Paul Vixie, that is how we ended up with EDNS0 despite the objection of IETF. Wonder if this company gets permission to share data with Netflix. I would read the terms carefully.<p>Hopefully people will choose to run their own Pi-Holes on their home networks, preferably without pointing them at third party &quot;upstream&quot; DNS providers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Terretta</author><text>Shout out to nextdns.io, they run a global pi-hole grid. OK, it’s better, but conceptually.<p><i>”Block ads, trackers and malicious websites on all your devices. Get in-depth analytics about your Internet traffic.
Protect your privacy and bypass censorship. Shield your kids.”</i><p>All you do is point your DNS at it. (Or let one of their apps point DNS for you.)<p>But I really like the ethos:<p><i>”NextDNS was founded in May 2019 in Delaware, USA by two French founders Romain Cointepas and Olivier Poitrey. Olivier has been working on Internet infrastructures for the last 20 years. In 2005, he founded Dailymotion, the largest video sharing service after Youtube and the most popular European website in the world at the time. He is currently Director of Engineering at Netflix, working on Open Connect, Netflix&#x27;s home CDN also known as the CDN moving about 30% of the total US Internet traffic. Romain and Olivier closely worked for years at Dailymotion on many different projects. Romain ended up leading the mobile &amp; TV department.”</i><p><i>”We are true supporters of the net neutrality and Internet privacy. We believe that un-encrypted DNS resolvers operated by ISPs are detrimental to those two principals. Alternative solutions like Google DNS or Cloudflare DNS are great, but we think more actors need to step up and provide alternative services to avoid centralization of powers.”</i><p>In ~8 months it’s gotten mom proof while also being something I can recommend to techos. For me, it’s been more reliable than the enterprise Zscalar DNS filtering, and more configurable than other filters, particularly in allowing ad blocking and custom block lists and white lists along a rich set of built-ins.<p>I’m at 7% blocked out of 4 million queries in last couple months.<p><pre><code> Ads &amp; Trackers 256,212
Facebook 7,150
Spotify 1,245
Messenger 1,027
Snapchat 938
Twitter 916
</code></pre>
I should note that I don’t use Facebook, Spotify, Messenger, Snapchat, or Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”</title><url>https://twitter.com/poa_nyc/status/1220199103658971143</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cocochanel</author><text>Cool, sounds great! I went to NextDNS website only to find out they run Google Analytics...</text><parent_chain><item><author>Terretta</author><text>Shout out to nextdns.io, they run a global pi-hole grid. OK, it’s better, but conceptually.<p><i>”Block ads, trackers and malicious websites on all your devices. Get in-depth analytics about your Internet traffic.
Protect your privacy and bypass censorship. Shield your kids.”</i><p>All you do is point your DNS at it. (Or let one of their apps point DNS for you.)<p>But I really like the ethos:<p><i>”NextDNS was founded in May 2019 in Delaware, USA by two French founders Romain Cointepas and Olivier Poitrey. Olivier has been working on Internet infrastructures for the last 20 years. In 2005, he founded Dailymotion, the largest video sharing service after Youtube and the most popular European website in the world at the time. He is currently Director of Engineering at Netflix, working on Open Connect, Netflix&#x27;s home CDN also known as the CDN moving about 30% of the total US Internet traffic. Romain and Olivier closely worked for years at Dailymotion on many different projects. Romain ended up leading the mobile &amp; TV department.”</i><p><i>”We are true supporters of the net neutrality and Internet privacy. We believe that un-encrypted DNS resolvers operated by ISPs are detrimental to those two principals. Alternative solutions like Google DNS or Cloudflare DNS are great, but we think more actors need to step up and provide alternative services to avoid centralization of powers.”</i><p>In ~8 months it’s gotten mom proof while also being something I can recommend to techos. For me, it’s been more reliable than the enterprise Zscalar DNS filtering, and more configurable than other filters, particularly in allowing ad blocking and custom block lists and white lists along a rich set of built-ins.<p>I’m at 7% blocked out of 4 million queries in last couple months.<p><pre><code> Ads &amp; Trackers 256,212
Facebook 7,150
Spotify 1,245
Messenger 1,027
Snapchat 938
Twitter 916
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I should note that I don’t use Facebook, Spotify, Messenger, Snapchat, or Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”</title><url>https://twitter.com/poa_nyc/status/1220199103658971143</url></story> |
13,969,388 | 13,969,034 | 1 | 3 | 13,968,512 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewla</author><text>It seems even odder considering that many of the pharmaceutical companies are not US based, so it doesn&#x27;t seem to make sense even from a protectionist standpoint.<p>Just as an exercise in cherry-picking, I grabbed the first drug from [1], &quot;Relvar Ellipta&quot;, which apparently costs 6.3 times more in the US than the UK. This is despite the fact that the drug is manufactured by GSK [2], which is UK-based. It was developed by Innoviva, though, which is US-based [3]. What this means in terms of price-setting agreements and licensing, though, is not easy to see, and whether research grants would substitute for the expected profits from the pricing discrepencies.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5023951&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5023951&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fluticasone_furoate&#x2F;vilanterol" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fluticasone_furoate&#x2F;vilanterol</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inva.com&#x2F;contact-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inva.com&#x2F;contact-us&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>doktrin</author><text>&gt; These high prices support innovation, they argue—not just for America, but for the world.<p>I suspect this is in fact somewhat true, but how is it a coherent argument in favor of higher prices? The American people &#x2F; American <i>elderly</i> (obviously) don&#x27;t have some unspoken moral obligation to subsidize pharmaceutical R&amp;D for the whole world.<p>Governments around the world are able to negotiate affordable rates for their citizens, yet in the US we have to listen to these completely insane justifications?<p>IMO if the US government (who presumably agree with the drug companies on this) feels this strongly about subsidizing research they could always expand federal research grants and&#x2F;or NIH funding. Yet I suspect that&#x27;s a non starter for political reasons.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why drug prices in America are so high (2016)</title><url>http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/09/economist-explains-2?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/whydrugpricesinamericaaresohigh</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Symmetry</author><text>Milton Freidman&#x27;s solution was to allow re-importation of drugs from countries where they were less expensive. Either the drug companies could raise prices abroad, accept lower prices domestically, not sell abroad, or some combination of all of the above.</text><parent_chain><item><author>doktrin</author><text>&gt; These high prices support innovation, they argue—not just for America, but for the world.<p>I suspect this is in fact somewhat true, but how is it a coherent argument in favor of higher prices? The American people &#x2F; American <i>elderly</i> (obviously) don&#x27;t have some unspoken moral obligation to subsidize pharmaceutical R&amp;D for the whole world.<p>Governments around the world are able to negotiate affordable rates for their citizens, yet in the US we have to listen to these completely insane justifications?<p>IMO if the US government (who presumably agree with the drug companies on this) feels this strongly about subsidizing research they could always expand federal research grants and&#x2F;or NIH funding. Yet I suspect that&#x27;s a non starter for political reasons.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why drug prices in America are so high (2016)</title><url>http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/09/economist-explains-2?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/whydrugpricesinamericaaresohigh</url></story> |
1,227,776 | 1,227,802 | 1 | 2 | 1,227,712 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chime</author><text>I completely agree about the jQuery UI themes looking a bit goofy. Aristo looks gorgeous. As great as the jUI themeroller is, the themes themselves look pretty toy-ish. I never understood why jUI tabs have a weird background (see tabs here: <a href="http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/" rel="nofollow">http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/</a> )<p>I hope jQuery UI team incorporates Aristo into theme roller.
It would be awesome to be able to customize Aristo to my site's color scheme.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing "Aristo", A jQuery UI Theme/Experiment</title><url>http://taitems.tumblr.com/post/482577430/introducing-aristo-a-jquery-ui-theme</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>hellotoby</author><text>Hahaha! How strange. I actually started working on this exact thing on the weekend (<a href="http://github.com/hellotoby/Jquery-UI-Aristo-Theme" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/hellotoby/Jquery-UI-Aristo-Theme</a>)!<p>This one looks great though, perhaps I should stop working on mine...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing "Aristo", A jQuery UI Theme/Experiment</title><url>http://taitems.tumblr.com/post/482577430/introducing-aristo-a-jquery-ui-theme</url><text></text></story> |
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