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2,413,613 | 2,413,645 | 1 | 3 | 2,411,500 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robryan</author><text>So you just massively increase your price for the same value, put a call for discounts or whatever, offer them the original price and they will be happy to have got such a good deal. Weird how these things work..</text><parent_chain><item><author>modoc</author><text>I started a company that sells to enterprise customers and we thought we could differentiate ourselves by making our pricing public, simple, and affordable. It was VERY easy for anyone to figure out how much we'd charge them without having to call. There were no hidden fees, nothing tricky or weird.<p>This has proven to be a mistake for two main reasons: Firstly, everyone expects huge discounts (since all their other enterprise contracts give them big discounts off of the list price). Trying to explain that we're already the cheapest option they're looking at does help. They all want more off. Secondly I think we're losing opportunities because we aren't making people call us. Those phone calls are missed opportunities for us to really pitch our advantages for their specific situation and needs better than our website ever could.</text></item><item><author>bradleyland</author><text>My thoughts exactly. Space X can quote a price on their website, but if I want to know what "Infrastructure Monitoring Tool XYZ" costs, I have to call and talk to some retired used car salesman.<p>I now have hope for our future.</text></item><item><author>garyrichardson</author><text>Wow, I like how candid they are about the pricing. It feels like they are targeting consumers more than governments -- most 'expensive,' enterprise targeted products are of the 'call us and ask for pricing' variety.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpaceX Falcon Heavy announced: 53 metric tons to low earth orbit</title><url>http://www.spacex.com/falcon_heavy.php</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>po</author><text>Thirdly, they want free steak dinners and tickets to ball games on company time while a salesman reassures them that they're buying the best option.</text><parent_chain><item><author>modoc</author><text>I started a company that sells to enterprise customers and we thought we could differentiate ourselves by making our pricing public, simple, and affordable. It was VERY easy for anyone to figure out how much we'd charge them without having to call. There were no hidden fees, nothing tricky or weird.<p>This has proven to be a mistake for two main reasons: Firstly, everyone expects huge discounts (since all their other enterprise contracts give them big discounts off of the list price). Trying to explain that we're already the cheapest option they're looking at does help. They all want more off. Secondly I think we're losing opportunities because we aren't making people call us. Those phone calls are missed opportunities for us to really pitch our advantages for their specific situation and needs better than our website ever could.</text></item><item><author>bradleyland</author><text>My thoughts exactly. Space X can quote a price on their website, but if I want to know what "Infrastructure Monitoring Tool XYZ" costs, I have to call and talk to some retired used car salesman.<p>I now have hope for our future.</text></item><item><author>garyrichardson</author><text>Wow, I like how candid they are about the pricing. It feels like they are targeting consumers more than governments -- most 'expensive,' enterprise targeted products are of the 'call us and ask for pricing' variety.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpaceX Falcon Heavy announced: 53 metric tons to low earth orbit</title><url>http://www.spacex.com/falcon_heavy.php</url></story> |
14,320,867 | 14,319,763 | 1 | 2 | 14,319,340 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lev1a</author><text>About the only game in Steams Early Access program I would recommend to buy is Factorio[0]. It is essentially a factory building&#x2F;automation game that&#x27;s constantly getting updated, with one big patch about a week ago and several bugfix versions since. They are also open about their development process, i.e. some devs playing the game live with streamers and answering questions from the streamers and the chat to the best of their ability. In one such instant IIRC they even said they&#x27;re planning for the 1.0 release towards the end of this year.<p>All in all, this game is definitely worth your time and money if you&#x27;re into this game genre.
There&#x27;s even a demo version if you&#x27;re not sure.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;427520&#x2F;Factorio&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;427520&#x2F;Factorio&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>thesuitonym</author><text>This will probably not be a well-liked response but I&#x27;m going to post it anyway.<p>I preordered Star Citizen back in 2012 or 2013. Whenever the original Kickstarter was. I&#x27;ve kind of forgotten about it. I&#x27;ve never preordered another game--or anything really. And I don&#x27;t think this was a bad experience.<p>I haven&#x27;t received a game yet, but I have played some demos that were really fun. I&#x27;ve seen hours of content (Sure, that content is freely available, but so is NPR), read some great stories, and had some great conversations about the game.<p>In 2013 I paid $60 for a game I have not yet played. That year I also went to a casino one night with $80 in my pocket. Both times I came away with nothing but a fun experience and some stories. In both cases I feel like I paid for some entertainment and received it.<p>This isn&#x27;t a post to excuse vaporware titles on Steam Greenlight or preordering broken-on-launch games. Quite the contrary. I won&#x27;t buy EA games until at least a year after they come out. I will NEVER buy a pre-release game on Steam. But I bought Star Citizen. I took a gamble, and I had some fun. I wouldn&#x27;t have done that if I didn&#x27;t think there would be some fun along the way.<p>Star Citizen could never come out, and I wouldn&#x27;t really feel cheated, because I still got something out of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Star Citizen Raised $148M from Fans, and Now It’s Raising Concerns</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/technology/personaltech/video-game-raised-148-million-from-fans-now-its-raising-issues.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>wlesieutre</author><text>They&#x27;ve fairly recently published a schedule for the alpha 3.0 release (first public access to the procedural planet tech, among other things), along with a video about estimating timelines for the project. The folks who develop software for a living might not find it as interesting as I did, but it&#x27;s a decent look at where the project is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qOjXfNnhxf0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qOjXfNnhxf0</a><p>I&#x27;ve gotten some fun out of the alpha game itself, but also quite a lot of value out of these videos and other info they put out. It&#x27;s a fascinating look into game development, which is something I&#x27;m interested in but not looking to pursue a career for myself.<p>Thursday is &quot;Around the Verse&quot; day, so they should be releasing one of their status update videos tonight. These are rotating through the four studios and covering what a particular studio has been working on over the last month, followed by a deeper dive into some particular subject.<p>Last week was the Austin studio update and touched on growing the studio&#x27;s build systems. Previously they&#x27;ve covered subjects like QA testing, ship designs, procedural planets, procedural space stations, and a lot more. It&#x27;s usually really interesting to watch.<p>I think this week is the UK studio. They&#x27;re the ones working on a lot of the bigger ships, so I&#x27;ve got my fingers crossed for a look at the Aegis Reclaimer. But they were late in getting the video up last month, so we might be waiting until tomorrow. It&#x27;s already 11 PM over there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thesuitonym</author><text>This will probably not be a well-liked response but I&#x27;m going to post it anyway.<p>I preordered Star Citizen back in 2012 or 2013. Whenever the original Kickstarter was. I&#x27;ve kind of forgotten about it. I&#x27;ve never preordered another game--or anything really. And I don&#x27;t think this was a bad experience.<p>I haven&#x27;t received a game yet, but I have played some demos that were really fun. I&#x27;ve seen hours of content (Sure, that content is freely available, but so is NPR), read some great stories, and had some great conversations about the game.<p>In 2013 I paid $60 for a game I have not yet played. That year I also went to a casino one night with $80 in my pocket. Both times I came away with nothing but a fun experience and some stories. In both cases I feel like I paid for some entertainment and received it.<p>This isn&#x27;t a post to excuse vaporware titles on Steam Greenlight or preordering broken-on-launch games. Quite the contrary. I won&#x27;t buy EA games until at least a year after they come out. I will NEVER buy a pre-release game on Steam. But I bought Star Citizen. I took a gamble, and I had some fun. I wouldn&#x27;t have done that if I didn&#x27;t think there would be some fun along the way.<p>Star Citizen could never come out, and I wouldn&#x27;t really feel cheated, because I still got something out of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Star Citizen Raised $148M from Fans, and Now It’s Raising Concerns</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/technology/personaltech/video-game-raised-148-million-from-fans-now-its-raising-issues.html</url></story> |
37,938,156 | 37,933,235 | 1 | 2 | 37,931,383 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>The one issue is, unlike social data, you’ve not just given up your data, but you’ve condemned your entire future lineage to this leak. All their genetic information can be partially imputed from this info.<p>Maybe this doesn’t matter today but who knows what it’ll be valued at 50 years from now?<p>Don’t upload your saliva to the internet folks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bdamm</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t really matter. The genetic matching models are so primitive that there&#x27;s really not much of value in the data anyway. Facebook and Google have a far more accurate picture of what can be used to manipulate you. 23andme is little more than a curiosity.<p>My data is probably in this breach too, and I am not going to waste one second of my life on regret over it.<p>Stay tuned to find out if you get something from the class action lawsuit. Like the experion hack, you may at least get an interesting coffee table artifact when they mail you a pathetically small check.</text></item><item><author>nerdjon</author><text>23andMe is one of my biggest regrets in my life, I did it before I really started caring about privacy. It was on sale on Amazon and yeah.<p>It sucks since I have zero trust that they would actually delete my data if I asked them too, and even if they do is that data still living somewhere fed into some model or research or whatever.<p>I hate to say that there is a part of me that kinda doesn&#x27;t want to know if my data is a part of this, this just feels different than a credit card or some shopping data leaking.<p>Even worse since I have not gone to 23andme in a while, I feel like this was likely also before I cared about proper password security so it would not surprise me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/18/hacker-leaks-millions-more-23andme-user-records-on-cybercrime-forum/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>keep_reading</author><text>This is also my opinion: they stole a really poor social graph, that&#x27;s all</text><parent_chain><item><author>bdamm</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t really matter. The genetic matching models are so primitive that there&#x27;s really not much of value in the data anyway. Facebook and Google have a far more accurate picture of what can be used to manipulate you. 23andme is little more than a curiosity.<p>My data is probably in this breach too, and I am not going to waste one second of my life on regret over it.<p>Stay tuned to find out if you get something from the class action lawsuit. Like the experion hack, you may at least get an interesting coffee table artifact when they mail you a pathetically small check.</text></item><item><author>nerdjon</author><text>23andMe is one of my biggest regrets in my life, I did it before I really started caring about privacy. It was on sale on Amazon and yeah.<p>It sucks since I have zero trust that they would actually delete my data if I asked them too, and even if they do is that data still living somewhere fed into some model or research or whatever.<p>I hate to say that there is a part of me that kinda doesn&#x27;t want to know if my data is a part of this, this just feels different than a credit card or some shopping data leaking.<p>Even worse since I have not gone to 23andme in a while, I feel like this was likely also before I cared about proper password security so it would not surprise me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/18/hacker-leaks-millions-more-23andme-user-records-on-cybercrime-forum/</url></story> |
11,321,010 | 11,319,399 | 1 | 3 | 11,318,316 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>That&#x27;s just how the design industry is. You could say the same thing for almost all forms of design:<p>There is a terrible trend among designers to start doing <i>visual design</i> too early.<p>There is a terrible trend among designers to start doing <i>typography</i> too early.<p>There is a terrible trend among designers to start doing <i>UI design</i> too early.<p>The cold truth that designers don&#x27;t want to admit is that most companies never even reach the stage where graphic design matters. It is almost entirely done to appease the fetishes of early adopters. Look at Craigslist. Look at Amazon. Look at Flappy Bird.<p>The thing is, the kind of design companies actually need: which is Capital D, integrated, cross-disclipline Design, most professional designers don&#x27;t actually know how to do. They know how to push words and pictures around around in an image file. They know how to conduct a brainstorming session. If you&#x27;re lucky they know how to do usability testing. And if you&#x27;re really lucky they know how to think like a user. But they don&#x27;t know how to move in a principled way through all of the domains of production at their company and articulate a vision for how design practices can be dispatched to advance their goals.<p>And the subset of designers who do know how to do that, are generally so disenfranchised within their organization that they are fought every step of the way until they give in and just make pretty mockups because that&#x27;s what their coworkers want.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>There is a terrible trend among designers to start doing motion design for mobile apps way too early.<p>Before even the app&#x27;s purpose is properly conceptualized, someone digs up one of those great new animation-oriented prototyping tools and starts making flipping buttons and sliding blocks like the ones shown in the original post. &quot;This is going to be our app&#x27;s unique personality!&quot;<p>That effort can end up being misspent and misleading if it&#x27;s done before proper prototyping. Having ultra-polished animations in mockups will guide development towards implementing those rather than asking questions about what users might want to do.<p>The article refers to Facebook&#x27;s Paper app:
<i>&quot;Can you imagine Facebook designers presenting their iOS Paper app as a static layout? It would look pretty lame.&quot;</i><p>Ironically, Paper has been discontinued and the Facebook Creative Labs group that created it has been disbanded. Turns out that awesome animations didn&#x27;t give the app a purpose of its own.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Motion Design Is the Future of UI</title><url>https://blog.prototypr.io/motion-design-is-the-future-of-ui-fc83ce55c02f</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>Motion is the the bass player in the band. You shouldn&#x27;t notice them but when they&#x27;re gone something definitely doesn&#x27;t feel right.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>There is a terrible trend among designers to start doing motion design for mobile apps way too early.<p>Before even the app&#x27;s purpose is properly conceptualized, someone digs up one of those great new animation-oriented prototyping tools and starts making flipping buttons and sliding blocks like the ones shown in the original post. &quot;This is going to be our app&#x27;s unique personality!&quot;<p>That effort can end up being misspent and misleading if it&#x27;s done before proper prototyping. Having ultra-polished animations in mockups will guide development towards implementing those rather than asking questions about what users might want to do.<p>The article refers to Facebook&#x27;s Paper app:
<i>&quot;Can you imagine Facebook designers presenting their iOS Paper app as a static layout? It would look pretty lame.&quot;</i><p>Ironically, Paper has been discontinued and the Facebook Creative Labs group that created it has been disbanded. Turns out that awesome animations didn&#x27;t give the app a purpose of its own.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Motion Design Is the Future of UI</title><url>https://blog.prototypr.io/motion-design-is-the-future-of-ui-fc83ce55c02f</url></story> |
13,247,075 | 13,246,156 | 1 | 2 | 13,244,337 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cstrahan</author><text>I believe that, when most people say &quot;string interpolation&quot;, they mean &quot;first class string interpolation syntax&quot;, as opposed to the use of function invocation. I don&#x27;t have citations, but I hope this perspective helps in some way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rantanplan</author><text>String interpolation isn&#x27;t a new feature, you are confused.<p>Python just got <i>one more</i> way of doing string interpolation.</text></item><item><author>perlgeek</author><text>As a long-time Perl developer, it&#x27;s kinda amusing that <i>this</i> is the new big Python feature now, when shells, awk, Perl, PHP and Ruby have had string interpolation for ages.<p>Yes, I know you can do more with format strings than plain interpolation, but that&#x27;s all that the basic examples show.<p>(Also: Perl has allowed underscores in number literals for ages).</text></item><item><author>chrisshroba</author><text>I absolutely LOVE format strings. Whereas before, you had to format strings in one of these ways (among other more verbose ways):<p><pre><code> &quot;My name is {} and I am {} years old&quot;.format(name, age)
&quot;My name is %s and I am %s years old&quot; % (name, age)
&quot;My name is {name} and I am {age} years old&quot;.format(name=name, age=age)
</code></pre>
Now, we can finally use f-strings, where anything in brackets is eval&#x27;ed, with the result subbed in:<p><pre><code> f&quot;My name is {name} and I am {age} years old.&quot;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python 3.6.0 released</title><url>https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2016-December/717624.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>TAForObvReasons</author><text>printf-style specifiers and substitutions, like in the examples GP provided, aren&#x27;t considered string interpolation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rantanplan</author><text>String interpolation isn&#x27;t a new feature, you are confused.<p>Python just got <i>one more</i> way of doing string interpolation.</text></item><item><author>perlgeek</author><text>As a long-time Perl developer, it&#x27;s kinda amusing that <i>this</i> is the new big Python feature now, when shells, awk, Perl, PHP and Ruby have had string interpolation for ages.<p>Yes, I know you can do more with format strings than plain interpolation, but that&#x27;s all that the basic examples show.<p>(Also: Perl has allowed underscores in number literals for ages).</text></item><item><author>chrisshroba</author><text>I absolutely LOVE format strings. Whereas before, you had to format strings in one of these ways (among other more verbose ways):<p><pre><code> &quot;My name is {} and I am {} years old&quot;.format(name, age)
&quot;My name is %s and I am %s years old&quot; % (name, age)
&quot;My name is {name} and I am {age} years old&quot;.format(name=name, age=age)
</code></pre>
Now, we can finally use f-strings, where anything in brackets is eval&#x27;ed, with the result subbed in:<p><pre><code> f&quot;My name is {name} and I am {age} years old.&quot;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python 3.6.0 released</title><url>https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2016-December/717624.html</url></story> |
40,917,245 | 40,917,534 | 1 | 3 | 40,916,193 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>graypegg</author><text>Interesting concept! It does remind me of the observables somewhat, where nodes are functions, which accept data coming in from events, which it transforms, and then chooses to emit new values or not.<p>This flips that, so nodes are data, which accept functions from events, it applies that function to itself, then decides to propagate that event onwards or not.<p>I like it! That model works really well for this sort of visual programming demoed in the infinite canvas stuff.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scoped Propagators</title><url>https://www.orionreed.com/posts/scoped-propagators</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>low_tech_punk</author><text>Reminds me of Gerald Sussman&#x27;s talk &quot;We Really Don&#x27;t Know How to Compute!&quot; (2011)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HB5TrK7A4pI?si=99cUwmS_03VwLUP7&amp;t=2038" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HB5TrK7A4pI?si=99cUwmS_03VwLUP7&amp;t=2038</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scoped Propagators</title><url>https://www.orionreed.com/posts/scoped-propagators</url></story> |
20,480,915 | 20,479,783 | 1 | 2 | 20,479,015 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jadell</author><text>It seems he&#x27;s doing something with header detection. I used Puppeteer to play around with the site and various configurations I use when scraping.<p>In headless Chrome, the &quot;Accept-Language&quot; header is not sent. In Puppeteer, one can force the header to be sent by doing:<p><pre><code> page.setExtraHTTPHeaders({ &#x27;Accept-Language&#x27;: &#x27;en-US,en;q=0.9&#x27; })
</code></pre>
However, Puppeteer sends that header as lowercase:<p><pre><code> accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9
</code></pre>
So it seems the detection is as simply: if there is no &#x27;Accept-Language&#x27; header (case-sensitive), then &quot;Headless Chrome&quot;; else, &quot;Not Headless Chrome&quot;.<p>This is a completely server-side check, which is why he can say the fpcollect client-side javascript library isn&#x27;t involved.<p>Here are some curl commands that demonstrate:<p>Detected: not headless<p><pre><code> curl &#x27;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arh.antoinevastel.com&#x2F;bots&#x2F;areyouheadless&#x27; \
-H &#x27;User-Agent: Mozilla&#x2F;5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit&#x2F;537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome&#x2F;76.0.3803.0 Safari&#x2F;537.36&#x27; \
-H &#x27;Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9&#x27;
</code></pre>
Detected: headless<p><pre><code> curl &#x27;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arh.antoinevastel.com&#x2F;bots&#x2F;areyouheadless&#x27; \
-H &#x27;User-Agent: Mozilla&#x2F;5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit&#x2F;537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome&#x2F;76.0.3803.0 Safari&#x2F;537.36&#x27;
</code></pre>
Detected: headless<p><pre><code> curl &#x27;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arh.antoinevastel.com&#x2F;bots&#x2F;areyouheadless&#x27; \
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-H &#x27;accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9&#x27;</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Detecting Chrome headless, the game goes on</title><url>https://antoinevastel.com/bot%20detection/2019/07/19/detecting-chrome-headless-v3.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>Pinbenterjamin</author><text>I run the division at my company that builds crawlers for websites with public records. We scrape this information on-demand when a case is requested, and we handle an enormous volume of different sites (or sources as we call them). We recently passed 700 total custom scrapers.<p>Recently, we have seen a spike in sites that detect, and block our crawlers with some sort of Javascript we cannot identify. We use headless Chrome and selenium to build out most of our integrations, I&#x27;m starting to wonder if the science of blocking scraping is getting more popular...<p>I don&#x27;t think what I&#x27;m doing is subversive at all, we&#x27;re running background checks on people, and we can reduce business costs by eliminating error-prone researchers with smart scrapers that run all day.<p>I don&#x27;t want to seem like the bad guy here, but what if I wanted to do the opposite of this research? Where do I start? Study the chromium source? Can anyone recommend a few papers?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Detecting Chrome headless, the game goes on</title><url>https://antoinevastel.com/bot%20detection/2019/07/19/detecting-chrome-headless-v3.html</url></story> |
21,305,474 | 21,305,372 | 1 | 2 | 21,304,568 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gumby</author><text>&gt; There is, however, a simple formula for checking if what you’re doing is sustainable: how long does it take on a vacation or weekend until you stop feeling anxious, and how anxious do you start feeling when you think about returning to work on Monday? If work anxiety is a constant companion, then change your situation even if it feels like a step back in the short-term: your success depends on sustained impact, not spikes.<p>Amen!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Forty Year Career</title><url>https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I found a lot I could resonate with in that post. My father was in the Air Force and retired at 40 after 20 years in the service. It seemed to me like he had a great deal, a retirement check to cover expenses and time to do what he wanted to do[1]. I wanted to do something like that as well so I resolved to retire at 40 :-). But what I was missing was the understanding of skills that would be useful while &quot;retired.&quot;<p>Thinking about that only came later and so I have spent time (and money) on creating space for lots of exploratory activity. The result is a fairly complete lab where I can work on things and learn new stuff. The goal being a space that is fun and engaging to work in until I die[2]. It wasn&#x27;t what I expected I would be working toward when I was a kid.<p>[1] I later learned that money was pretty tight during that period but as a kid I didn&#x27;t have any visibility into that.<p>[2] EDIT: It goes without saying that the lab has a low cost to operate so it isn&#x27;t a drain on my funds over time. My wife commented &quot;You&#x27;re life&#x27;s work is to build a fun play room eh?&quot; Which isn&#x27;t too far from the truth :-)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Forty Year Career</title><url>https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/</url></story> |
8,157,728 | 8,157,474 | 1 | 3 | 8,156,786 | 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>anigbrowl</author><text>My house is 100 years old, and having some construction experience myself I take care of small maintenance issues. I&#x27;m European but I grew up with both imperial and metric systems side-by-side, so it was easy for me to pick up American standards on things like stud distances and so on. It is convenient to have some things like that standardized, although the particular standardized measures themselves are highly arbitrary.<p>However, because my house is old nothing is perfectly standard any more - all the angles are off by a degree or two, different parts of the house have slightly stretched or compressed over the course of a century, and so on. So whenever I measure something I end up noting both metric and imperial - imperial because I am going to be forced to deal with it at the store&#x2F;supply depot, metric because I want to get the numbers right and I would way rather work in base 10 that mirrors my 10 fingers than juggling fractions of an inch (a unit which is divided into 16ths instead of 12ths because...er...um...).<p>Unfortunately, I don&#x27;t expect this change any time soon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jwecker</author><text>I am not anti-metric by any means, but having done carpentry a lot in the past it always strikes me when this comes up that one of the central arguments for (a limited use-case of) the imperial system is usually glossed over: the fact that in many crafts (especially historically), using base-12 makes certain things much easier. It divides into 3rds far more easily, divides into 4ths slightly more easily, and still divides into 5ths with only one digit after the decimal.<p>Just like computer programmers have no problem immediately recognizing that 256 is 2^8, it became intuitive when working with the Imperial system (at limited scales) that 48 inches is the same as 4-feet but that it is also 3-stud-distances long (studs in walls are often placed 16 inches apart).<p>Even if you don&#x27;t work in crafts where dividing things by 3 is more frequent than dividing by 5 it is easy to imagine how certain things might be more difficult if we used base-10 for time (as, it has been pointed out, has been attempted)- and thereby using the ability to easily divide an hour into 3 parts (for example).<p>Consistent base-10 and international standardization has advantages that far outweigh these minor things- but I think it&#x27;s important to recognize that there is, surprise, a rational practical reason for sticking in some cases to Imperial units- it&#x27;s not purely tradition or politics or their &quot;organic-ness&quot; (anymore).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/books/2014/08/john_marciano_s_whatever_happened_to_the_metric_system_reviewed.single.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>sb057</author><text>Here&#x27;s a page featuring more examples like you mentioned.<p><a href="http://www.dozenalsociety.org.uk/metrix/pontius" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dozenalsociety.org.uk&#x2F;metrix&#x2F;pontius</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jwecker</author><text>I am not anti-metric by any means, but having done carpentry a lot in the past it always strikes me when this comes up that one of the central arguments for (a limited use-case of) the imperial system is usually glossed over: the fact that in many crafts (especially historically), using base-12 makes certain things much easier. It divides into 3rds far more easily, divides into 4ths slightly more easily, and still divides into 5ths with only one digit after the decimal.<p>Just like computer programmers have no problem immediately recognizing that 256 is 2^8, it became intuitive when working with the Imperial system (at limited scales) that 48 inches is the same as 4-feet but that it is also 3-stud-distances long (studs in walls are often placed 16 inches apart).<p>Even if you don&#x27;t work in crafts where dividing things by 3 is more frequent than dividing by 5 it is easy to imagine how certain things might be more difficult if we used base-10 for time (as, it has been pointed out, has been attempted)- and thereby using the ability to easily divide an hour into 3 parts (for example).<p>Consistent base-10 and international standardization has advantages that far outweigh these minor things- but I think it&#x27;s important to recognize that there is, surprise, a rational practical reason for sticking in some cases to Imperial units- it&#x27;s not purely tradition or politics or their &quot;organic-ness&quot; (anymore).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/books/2014/08/john_marciano_s_whatever_happened_to_the_metric_system_reviewed.single.html</url></story> |
21,838,288 | 21,838,514 | 1 | 2 | 21,835,990 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xenophonf</author><text>Classified information is antithetical to Thomas Jefferson&#x27;s ideal of a well informed citizenry to whom government is ultimately responsible and accountable. He affirmed this idea throughout his political writings, but most notably in Bill 79, &quot;A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge.&quot; Its preamble reads as follows:<p><i>Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth, that, possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes; And whereas it is generally true that that people will be happiest whose laws are best, and are best administered, and that laws will be wisely formed, and honestly administered, in proportion as those who form and administer them are wise and honest; whence it becomes expedient for promoting the publick happiness that those person, whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or other accidental condition or circumstance; but the indigence of the greater number disabling them from so educating, at their own expence, those of their children whom nature hath fitly formed and disposed to become useful instruments for the public, it is better that such should be sought for and educated at the common expence of all, than that the happiness of all should be confided to the weak or wicked:...</i><p>Bill 79 was mostly about public schooling, but it contains the kernel of an argument for more open governance and against ubiquitous secrecy in language like &quot;give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth, that, possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>Do you think that the existence of classified information is antithetical to the 1st amendment? I don&#x27;t see how a nation can have secrets without being able to enforce at least <i>some</i> limitations on free (and commercial...) speech.</text></item><item><author>cryptica</author><text>&gt; Snowden&#x27;s former work agreements with the CIA and NSA are clear that he (and any other employee) must submit the contents of books or speeches for review.<p>I noticed that there seems to be a trend to use legal technicalities to enforce bizarre rules that completely defy the intent of the constitution.<p>I&#x27;d be questioning whether it should be legal for any company or agency to force prospective employees to sign away their most basic human rights as part of a work contract.<p>Same thing goes for big corporations like Google which use contractual clauses to take possession of their employees&#x27; personal side projects. That is BS.<p>How would they like it if the government told CEOs and other corporate executives that in order to be an American citizen and live in America, they need to sign away their rights to all the work they did and all the assets they amassed while living in the US? Imagine if every developed country in the world demanded the same.<p>That&#x27;s what it&#x27;s like in today&#x27;s institution and corporation-dominated world. You can&#x27;t work for a decent wage unless you&#x27;re prepared to give up all your basic rights. It&#x27;s disturbing that nobody is protesting this. It ought to be criminal.<p>If the company can&#x27;t make sure that employees don&#x27;t work on side projects during company time then it&#x27;s because managers are incompetent and such poorly run company doesn&#x27;t deserve any legal protection.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Feds Get Permission to Seize Edward Snowden's Book Profits</title><url>https://reason.com/2019/12/18/the-feds-get-permission-to-seize-edward-snowdens-book-profits/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hos234</author><text>Cheney and crew not only leaked stuff. They misused it to justify a pointless war that has had a high cost - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iraqi_aluminum_tubes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iraqi_aluminum_tubes</a><p>But the way the law works is they get to retire in peace.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>Do you think that the existence of classified information is antithetical to the 1st amendment? I don&#x27;t see how a nation can have secrets without being able to enforce at least <i>some</i> limitations on free (and commercial...) speech.</text></item><item><author>cryptica</author><text>&gt; Snowden&#x27;s former work agreements with the CIA and NSA are clear that he (and any other employee) must submit the contents of books or speeches for review.<p>I noticed that there seems to be a trend to use legal technicalities to enforce bizarre rules that completely defy the intent of the constitution.<p>I&#x27;d be questioning whether it should be legal for any company or agency to force prospective employees to sign away their most basic human rights as part of a work contract.<p>Same thing goes for big corporations like Google which use contractual clauses to take possession of their employees&#x27; personal side projects. That is BS.<p>How would they like it if the government told CEOs and other corporate executives that in order to be an American citizen and live in America, they need to sign away their rights to all the work they did and all the assets they amassed while living in the US? Imagine if every developed country in the world demanded the same.<p>That&#x27;s what it&#x27;s like in today&#x27;s institution and corporation-dominated world. You can&#x27;t work for a decent wage unless you&#x27;re prepared to give up all your basic rights. It&#x27;s disturbing that nobody is protesting this. It ought to be criminal.<p>If the company can&#x27;t make sure that employees don&#x27;t work on side projects during company time then it&#x27;s because managers are incompetent and such poorly run company doesn&#x27;t deserve any legal protection.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Feds Get Permission to Seize Edward Snowden's Book Profits</title><url>https://reason.com/2019/12/18/the-feds-get-permission-to-seize-edward-snowdens-book-profits/</url></story> |
5,845,178 | 5,845,258 | 1 | 2 | 5,844,972 | 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>brown9-2</author><text>Marc Ambinder (the author) posted a new article late last night which goes into much more detail: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theweek.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;index&#x2F;245360&#x2F;solving-the-mystery-of-prism" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theweek.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;index&#x2F;245360&#x2F;solving-the-mystery-...</a><p><i>Each data processing tool, collection platform, mission and source for raw intelligence is given a specific numeric signals activity&#x2F;address designator, or a SIGAD. The NSA listening post at Osan in Korea has the SIGAD USA-31. Clark Air Force Base is USA-57.<p>PRISM is US-984XN.<p>Each SIGAD is basically a collection site, physical or virtual; the SIGAD alphanumerics are used to indicate the source of intelligence FOR a particular report.<p>The NSA often assigns classified code names to the product of SIGADs. These can be confused with the nicknames or proper names of the collection platforms themselves, which may or may not be classified. What PRISM does is classified; the fact that there is a &quot;PRISM&quot; tool that does something is not.<p>...<p>So: An analyst sits down at a desk. She uses a tool, like PRISM, to analyze information collected and deposited in a database, like CONTRAOCTAVE. Then she uses another tool, perhaps CPE (Content Preparation Environment), to write a report based on the analysis. That report is stored in ANOTHER database, like MAUI. MAUI is a database for finished NSA intelligence products. Anchory is an intelligence community-wide database for intelligence reports.</i><p>---------------<p>And here is the core of it:<p><i>This is all very complicated, and that is on purpose. But this brief tutorial is important. PRISM is a kick-ass GUI that allows an analyst to look at, collate, monitor, and cross-check different data types provided to the NSA from internet companies located inside the United States.<p>The programs that use PRISM are focused, as the government said yesterday, on foreign intelligence. A lot of foreign intelligence runs through American companies and American servers.<p>...<p>Now, these accounts are being updated in real-time. So Facebook somehow creates a mirror of the slice of stuff that only the NSA can access. The selected&#x2F;court-ordered accounts are updated in real-time on both the Facebook server and the mirrored server. PRISM is the tool that puts this all together. Facebook has no idea what the NSA is doing with the data, and the NSA doesn&#x27;t tell them.</i><p>So, PRISM is the name of the software application(s) used by an analyst that allows them to pull together all the various pieces of data that they receive from these companies, along with other sources, for their analysis.<p>Which of course, explains why the companies have never heard of this name. There is no reason for them to have.<p>And what the NSA has isn&#x27;t necessarily &quot;direct access&quot; to the servers - PRISM gives the analyst &quot;direct access&quot; to the data that has already been collected by many different means.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sources: NSA sucks in data from 50 companies</title><url>http://theweek.com/article/index/245311/sources-nsa-sucks-in-data-from-50-companies</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>codeulike</author><text>Here&#x27;s a section that seemed important to me:<p><i>One official likened the NSA&#x27;s collection authority to a van full of sealed boxes that are delivered to the agency. A court order, similar to the one revealed by the Guardian, permits the transfer of custody of the &quot;boxes.&quot; But the NSA needs something else, a specific purpose or investigation, in order to open a particular box. The chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, said the standard was &quot;a reasonable, articulatable&quot; suspicion, but did not go into details.<p>Legally, the government can ask companies for some of these records under a provision of the PATRIOT Act called the &quot;business records provision.&quot; Initially, it did so without court cognizance. Now, the FISC signs off on every request.<p>Armed with what amounts to a rubber stamp court order, however, the NSA can collect and store trillions of bytes of electromagnetic detritus shaken off by American citizens. In the government&#x27;s eyes, the data is simply moving from one place to another. It does not become, in the government&#x27;s eyes, relevant or protected in any way unless and until it is subject to analysis. Analysis requires that second order.</i><p>So, the govt and NSA distinguish between &#x27;having the data&#x27; (receiving a van full of boxes, in the metaphor above) and &#x27;subjecting the data to analysis&#x27; (opening a box, in the metaphor). They have a broad order for having the data, but need more specific sign-off to process or analyse the data.<p>This differentiation between &#x27;having data&#x27; and &#x27;analysing data&#x27; is not one we&#x27;d generally make in the IT world - because if they already have the boxes in their possession, how do we know they are getting the right permission before they open the boxes? How is any oversight possible in that situation?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sources: NSA sucks in data from 50 companies</title><url>http://theweek.com/article/index/245311/sources-nsa-sucks-in-data-from-50-companies</url><text></text></story> |
30,420,192 | 30,419,791 | 1 | 2 | 30,394,701 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Broken_Hippo</author><text>You can&#x27;t take care of your kids well if you don&#x27;t take care of yourself. That being said, if there is only enough for one of you to eat... well, the kid eats first and you get leftovers. Taking care of yourself has to work around the child&#x27;s needs as well, especially when they are young and simply cannot do for themselves.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Once kids enter the picture, they they are the priority. Not giving up the &quot;authentic life&quot; to give your children the &quot;best life&quot; is pure selfishness. Once you have kids, your life is no longer your own...it&#x27;s theirs.<p>This mentality is not only wrong, it&#x27;s extremely unhealthy. Your personal life doesn&#x27;t end when you become a parent. Parents shouldn&#x27;t let their children&#x27;s lives become the all-consuming center of your universe to the exclusion of all things self.<p>This mindset is actually extremely unhealthy for both the parents and the children. It&#x27;s true that you need to provide attention and love and care to children, but you also need to grant them some space and autonomy as they grow older.<p>Take care of your kids, yes, but take care of yourself too. Everything in life is about balance and moderation. Go too far in any one direction to the neglect of other important things and you&#x27;re only going to create problems for yourself, no matter how well-intentioned you thought you were.</text></item><item><author>stronglikedan</author><text>Once kids enter the picture, they they are <i>the</i> priority. Not giving up the &quot;authentic life&quot; to give your children the &quot;best life&quot; is pure selfishness. Once you have kids, your life is no longer your own...it&#x27;s theirs. It&#x27;s been proven myriad ways that kids are better off with both parents for many developmental reasons. I&#x27;m not against divorce, but it should be an insurmountable rift that leads there.</text></item><item><author>dpweb</author><text>The relationship has to come first. It precedes the marriage and family, and I think societal norms are to put the children and the piece of paper first.<p>It&#x27;s a living thing that needs to be fed, and when times get tough what do people often do. Stop being kind to each other, stop having sex, building resentment and accelerating the decline.<p>The goal is not to keep it together at all costs. The goal is to live an authentic life, and if that is going to be with a partner, don&#x27;t lose sight of that fact it&#x27;s the two of you that&#x27;s important, not all the other stuff that comes along.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How relationship satisfaction changes across your lifetime</title><url>https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_relationship_satisfaction_changes_across_your_lifetime</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jklinger410</author><text>Putting your kids first doesn&#x27;t mean you can&#x27;t take care of yourself. You are implying that, but no one else is.<p>Of course children need a happy and healthy parent to care for them, so your needs are still included in the mix, in case you were worried about that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Once kids enter the picture, they they are the priority. Not giving up the &quot;authentic life&quot; to give your children the &quot;best life&quot; is pure selfishness. Once you have kids, your life is no longer your own...it&#x27;s theirs.<p>This mentality is not only wrong, it&#x27;s extremely unhealthy. Your personal life doesn&#x27;t end when you become a parent. Parents shouldn&#x27;t let their children&#x27;s lives become the all-consuming center of your universe to the exclusion of all things self.<p>This mindset is actually extremely unhealthy for both the parents and the children. It&#x27;s true that you need to provide attention and love and care to children, but you also need to grant them some space and autonomy as they grow older.<p>Take care of your kids, yes, but take care of yourself too. Everything in life is about balance and moderation. Go too far in any one direction to the neglect of other important things and you&#x27;re only going to create problems for yourself, no matter how well-intentioned you thought you were.</text></item><item><author>stronglikedan</author><text>Once kids enter the picture, they they are <i>the</i> priority. Not giving up the &quot;authentic life&quot; to give your children the &quot;best life&quot; is pure selfishness. Once you have kids, your life is no longer your own...it&#x27;s theirs. It&#x27;s been proven myriad ways that kids are better off with both parents for many developmental reasons. I&#x27;m not against divorce, but it should be an insurmountable rift that leads there.</text></item><item><author>dpweb</author><text>The relationship has to come first. It precedes the marriage and family, and I think societal norms are to put the children and the piece of paper first.<p>It&#x27;s a living thing that needs to be fed, and when times get tough what do people often do. Stop being kind to each other, stop having sex, building resentment and accelerating the decline.<p>The goal is not to keep it together at all costs. The goal is to live an authentic life, and if that is going to be with a partner, don&#x27;t lose sight of that fact it&#x27;s the two of you that&#x27;s important, not all the other stuff that comes along.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How relationship satisfaction changes across your lifetime</title><url>https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_relationship_satisfaction_changes_across_your_lifetime</url></story> |
15,296,524 | 15,296,357 | 1 | 3 | 15,295,813 | train | <instructions>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>&gt; <i>People typically place them up high and the burglars wear hoodies. He recommended putting them down low and hiding them, like in a bushy potted plant on your doorstep, in bushes, a hole in a fence, etc.</i><p>Sounds like there&#x27;s a tension between high-visibility for deterrence and better placement for apprehension&#x2F;prosecution. Perhaps the best plan is to put up a dummy camera up high and a real one down low.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrissnell</author><text>I used to live in Tacoma, WA, which had a lot of petty crime. My neighbor was a cop and he told us that the biggest problem with security cameras was that they didn&#x27;t capture faces and so the videos were useless to police and prosecutors. People typically place them up high and the burglars wear hoodies. He recommended putting them down low and hiding them, like in a bushy potted plant on your doorstep, in bushes, a hole in a fence, etc.<p>I don&#x27;t get the point of expensive, tamper-resistant cameras for home use. I&#x27;d rather have more cameras.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nest launches an outdoor security camera</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/20/nest-launches-a-new-349-smart-outdoor-security-camera/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>traviswingo</author><text>Also, even if the camera captures a face, most local police departments won&#x27;t be able to do anything with that image except put up &quot;wanted posters&quot; for a while. They don&#x27;t necessarily have the authority&#x2F;luxury to run it through a facial recognition system to find a stolen tv.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrissnell</author><text>I used to live in Tacoma, WA, which had a lot of petty crime. My neighbor was a cop and he told us that the biggest problem with security cameras was that they didn&#x27;t capture faces and so the videos were useless to police and prosecutors. People typically place them up high and the burglars wear hoodies. He recommended putting them down low and hiding them, like in a bushy potted plant on your doorstep, in bushes, a hole in a fence, etc.<p>I don&#x27;t get the point of expensive, tamper-resistant cameras for home use. I&#x27;d rather have more cameras.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nest launches an outdoor security camera</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/20/nest-launches-a-new-349-smart-outdoor-security-camera/</url></story> |
9,429,223 | 9,429,052 | 1 | 3 | 9,428,907 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_yosefk</author><text>You know who <i>never</i> goes to jail? Regulators.<p>Madoff, for instance, moved from Wall Street into a cell where he belongs, refuting the above headline. His regulators, however, weren&#x27;t even charged with anything AFAIK. That despite their inaction for many years being either criminal negligence or the result of being bribed.<p>(From <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloombergview.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2014-01-07&#x2F;jpmorgan-pays-for-shorting-madoff-without-telling-anyone" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloombergview.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2014-01-07&#x2F;jpmorgan-pa...</a> - &quot;The government regulators, led by the Securities and Exchange Commission, also didn&#x27;t catch Bernie Madoff, even though they were his regulators and that was literally their job. And while yes JPMorgan ignored some red flags, so did the SEC. Like, the many many credible letters they got to the effect of &quot;Bernie Madoff is a big ol&#x27; Ponzi scheme.&quot; Should the SEC be paying an even bigger penalty than $1.7 billion?&quot;)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Cheating teachers go to jail. Cheating Wall Streeters don’t. What’s up?”</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/04/23/jon-stewart-cheating-teachers-go-to-jail-cheating-wall-streeters-dont-whats-up-with-that/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>falsestprophet</author><text>Jon Stewart&#x27;s thesis is that teachers are punished for crimes and &quot;Wall Street&quot; is not.<p>In this segment he singularly cites the actions of loan officers soliciting incorrect information comparing their actions to teachers falsifying test results.<p>First of all, loan officers are hardly &quot;Wall Street&quot; fat cats. They are low level employees who are paid an average of $50,000 [1] and do not work for &quot;Wall Street&quot; firms like investment banks.<p>Secondly, loan officers operate throughout the United States rather than actually on Wall Street or in Manhattan and, as a group, are subject to the jurisdiction of the federal government, 50 states, and 3,144 counties each with independent prosecutors (elected state&#x27;s attorneys, district attorneys, etc.).<p>If none of the thousands of entities who could have brought cases have done so, either there is conspiracy vaster than any other or there are not credible cases to bring.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.com&#x2F;Salaries&#x2F;loan-officer-salary-SRCH_KO0,12.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.com&#x2F;Salaries&#x2F;loan-officer-salary-SRCH_K...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Cheating teachers go to jail. Cheating Wall Streeters don’t. What’s up?”</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/04/23/jon-stewart-cheating-teachers-go-to-jail-cheating-wall-streeters-dont-whats-up-with-that/</url></story> |
26,884,424 | 26,884,194 | 1 | 2 | 26,877,526 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vehementi</author><text>That&#x27;s exactly it yes. Discord is ventrilo&#x2F;mumble&#x2F;teamspeak, but hosted and with IRC channels.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tru3_power</author><text>The voice chat rooms reminds me exactly of this program called Ventrillo or “vent” as we used to call it back when I was in high school. I’m officially old!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ventrilo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ventrilo.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>fish45</author><text>Speaking as an 18 y.o. doing my first year college online, I wouldn&#x27;t have made it through quarantine without Discord. I&#x27;ve a server with my high school friends and since Discord lowers the barrier to join a voice call so much it&#x27;s super chill to just hop in a channel when doing homework or playing a game or whatever else, and anyone else who&#x27;s free can join.<p>I really wish there were competition, but there&#x27;s nothing AFAIK that can replicate this particular experience except for Teamspeak, which has other problems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/discord-ends-deal-talks-with-microsoft-11618938806</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lacker</author><text>okay oldie... when I was in high school if you wanted to talk to your friends while playing games with them you both needed a second phone line, so your 56k modems could use the other line to play Doom</text><parent_chain><item><author>tru3_power</author><text>The voice chat rooms reminds me exactly of this program called Ventrillo or “vent” as we used to call it back when I was in high school. I’m officially old!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ventrilo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ventrilo.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>fish45</author><text>Speaking as an 18 y.o. doing my first year college online, I wouldn&#x27;t have made it through quarantine without Discord. I&#x27;ve a server with my high school friends and since Discord lowers the barrier to join a voice call so much it&#x27;s super chill to just hop in a channel when doing homework or playing a game or whatever else, and anyone else who&#x27;s free can join.<p>I really wish there were competition, but there&#x27;s nothing AFAIK that can replicate this particular experience except for Teamspeak, which has other problems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/discord-ends-deal-talks-with-microsoft-11618938806</url></story> |
12,307,084 | 12,306,756 | 1 | 3 | 12,305,389 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eximius</author><text>For everyone that complains about Let&#x27;s Encrypt, I just want to state that Let&#x27;s Encrypt solves the single largest use case for issuing certificates for domains - a single server you control which hosts one (or more) website(s).<p>All of these issues with 3 month certs, rate limiting, and limited certs&#x2F;domain stem from much more complicated problems and it isn&#x27;t fair to expect Let&#x27;s Encrypt to tackle those.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rate Limits</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nstj</author><text>Letsencrypt is really a fantastic project. I can (sorta) understand why people might squeal about 90 day cert lifetimes, but just wanted to put it out there that I think that LE makes the internet a better place. @jaas adding to this thread and providing context on the decisions they made is really is just the icing on the cake :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rate Limits</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/</url></story> |
15,988,368 | 15,988,277 | 1 | 2 | 15,987,348 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agarden</author><text>If I were convinced the apocalypse were going to happen in the next couple years, I would start storing up ramen noodles, Hersheys chocolate bars, and M&amp;Ms. Cheap to purchase, easy to store, and likely to have astronomic value post-apocalypse.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>Serious question: what value would gold have in a post-apocalyptic world? If I&#x27;m selling something, why should I take gold in exchange for it, instead of something useful, like ammunition or food or water?</text></item><item><author>monocasa</author><text>And a big piece of gold&#x27;s value is that it&#x27;s been a store of value for longer than recorded history.<p>Hell, if the world went belly up, Mad Max style, there&#x27;s a good chance that whatever gold you have would be worth even more.</text></item><item><author>IkmoIkmo</author><text>There&#x27;s essentially nothing driving the price increase in 2017. Payment processing, remittance, asset-backing, digital identities, micropayments, bitcoin ATMs, VC-backed bitcoin startups, none of these things took off at all in 2017, in fact if anything the exciting years regarding these usecases&#x2F;infrastructure ventures were 2013-2015.<p>I bet if you ask 100 people why they bought and if they use bitcoin for anything in particular, 99 will say no. That&#x27;s why none of this is a real surprise.<p>On the other hand, apart from appreciation of gold as jewellery (partially because it&#x27;s expensive) and some industrial use (fraction of the gold industry), in large part gold too exhibits price growth sustained by nothing but a simple cultural notion that it&#x27;s scarce and valuable. Countries, banks, pension funds etc aren&#x27;t putting hundreds of billions of dollars worth into stacks of gold bars locked in vaults because of their industrial or jewellery usage, after all. Bitcoin, as little the growth of real-life usecases has been in 2017, may have established itself as an alternative store of value. I don&#x27;t agree with that myself (just as like I think it&#x27;s utterly useless to invest in gold as a store of value), but who cares about me.<p>So it remains to be seen what&#x27;ll happen the next ten years, maybe it&#x27;ll still remain as a store of value. I&#x27;m no longer buying though. The &#x27;using bitcoin&#x27; vs &#x27;bitcoin as store of value&#x27; became completely lopsided in favour of the latter, which was the point I cashed out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/22/bitcoin-crypto-crashed-hard/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CamelCaseName</author><text>Because there&#x27;s an expectation that you can use gold to buy something else you need.<p>This expectation may not hold, but whatever the post-apocalyptic world settles on first will likely be there to stay for a while.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>Serious question: what value would gold have in a post-apocalyptic world? If I&#x27;m selling something, why should I take gold in exchange for it, instead of something useful, like ammunition or food or water?</text></item><item><author>monocasa</author><text>And a big piece of gold&#x27;s value is that it&#x27;s been a store of value for longer than recorded history.<p>Hell, if the world went belly up, Mad Max style, there&#x27;s a good chance that whatever gold you have would be worth even more.</text></item><item><author>IkmoIkmo</author><text>There&#x27;s essentially nothing driving the price increase in 2017. Payment processing, remittance, asset-backing, digital identities, micropayments, bitcoin ATMs, VC-backed bitcoin startups, none of these things took off at all in 2017, in fact if anything the exciting years regarding these usecases&#x2F;infrastructure ventures were 2013-2015.<p>I bet if you ask 100 people why they bought and if they use bitcoin for anything in particular, 99 will say no. That&#x27;s why none of this is a real surprise.<p>On the other hand, apart from appreciation of gold as jewellery (partially because it&#x27;s expensive) and some industrial use (fraction of the gold industry), in large part gold too exhibits price growth sustained by nothing but a simple cultural notion that it&#x27;s scarce and valuable. Countries, banks, pension funds etc aren&#x27;t putting hundreds of billions of dollars worth into stacks of gold bars locked in vaults because of their industrial or jewellery usage, after all. Bitcoin, as little the growth of real-life usecases has been in 2017, may have established itself as an alternative store of value. I don&#x27;t agree with that myself (just as like I think it&#x27;s utterly useless to invest in gold as a store of value), but who cares about me.<p>So it remains to be seen what&#x27;ll happen the next ten years, maybe it&#x27;ll still remain as a store of value. I&#x27;m no longer buying though. The &#x27;using bitcoin&#x27; vs &#x27;bitcoin as store of value&#x27; became completely lopsided in favour of the latter, which was the point I cashed out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/22/bitcoin-crypto-crashed-hard/</url></story> |
37,709,042 | 37,708,946 | 1 | 3 | 37,708,292 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qingcharles</author><text>I already use Photoshop Generative Fill for uncropping videos, but it only works for fixed camera shots. Photoshop just added feature where you can just drag the video file in and do the uncrop in one step.<p>The problem I&#x27;m solving is converting videos from widescreen to vertical and sometimes you need some extra height.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Wow.<p>This actually feels like it could be an <i>incredibly</i> valuable post-production tool in film and TV, once they get it working consistently across multiple frames.<p>Not only for more flexibility in &quot;uncropping&quot; after shooting (there was a tree&#x2F;wall in the way), but this could basically be the holy grail solution for converting 4:3 to widescreen without cutting off content on the top and bottom.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models</title><url>https://realfill.github.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>emodendroket</author><text>I can see it working great for some stuff but wouldn&#x27;t you ultimately face the issue with more artistic work that the framing might not be very good if just artificially extending.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Wow.<p>This actually feels like it could be an <i>incredibly</i> valuable post-production tool in film and TV, once they get it working consistently across multiple frames.<p>Not only for more flexibility in &quot;uncropping&quot; after shooting (there was a tree&#x2F;wall in the way), but this could basically be the holy grail solution for converting 4:3 to widescreen without cutting off content on the top and bottom.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models</title><url>https://realfill.github.io/</url></story> |
15,987,183 | 15,986,910 | 1 | 2 | 15,986,217 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryanbrunner</author><text>If you have a user name, why do you care about e-mail? Let people enter an arbitrary user name, and log in with that. Username enumeration doesn&#x27;t carry privacy concerns since users can ensure their usernames don&#x27;t reveal personal information. For duplicate e-mails on signup, who cares? Since you&#x27;re not using them as an identifier, let multiple users have the same e-mail address.<p>Making your validation errors cross mediums and a wait for an e-mail to delivered is an unnecessarily hostile user experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cdancette</author><text>Signup and login should behave the same, and provide no information wether the email is registered or not. And username should be treated as public.<p>So for login: always say &quot;email or password is incorrect&quot;.<p>And for register: as he said, always say &quot;we sent you an email to verify your email&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Username or password is incorrect” is bullshit</title><url>https://hackernoon.com/username-or-password-is-incorrect-is-bullshit-89985ca2be48</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bo1024</author><text>Why? I don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s important to hide existence of a user unless you&#x27;re allowing people to try multiple logins per second on your site. (I&#x27;m not an expert so I am sincerely asking to help me understand.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>cdancette</author><text>Signup and login should behave the same, and provide no information wether the email is registered or not. And username should be treated as public.<p>So for login: always say &quot;email or password is incorrect&quot;.<p>And for register: as he said, always say &quot;we sent you an email to verify your email&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Username or password is incorrect” is bullshit</title><url>https://hackernoon.com/username-or-password-is-incorrect-is-bullshit-89985ca2be48</url></story> |
33,597,048 | 33,596,724 | 1 | 2 | 33,595,949 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oceanplexian</author><text>Amazon has something like 100k corporate employees, and their URA targets force managers to PIP approximately 6% of the corporate employees every year, so going from 6% to 10% isn’t exactly a massive change.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mjr00</author><text>There&#x27;s a big difference between reducing the number of hourly workers (warehouse, drivers) and cutting 10,000 corporate jobs.</text></item><item><author>green-eclipse</author><text>This is just the latest round of cuts at Amazon: &quot;From April through September, it reduced head count by almost 80,000 people, primarily shrinking its hourly staff through high attrition.&quot;<p>Also: &quot;Amazon froze hiring in several smaller teams in September. In October, it stopped filling more than 10,000 open roles in its core retail business. Two weeks ago, it froze corporate hiring across the company, including its cloud computing division, for the next few months.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon is said to plan to lay off thousands of employees</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/amazon-layoffs.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>green-eclipse</author><text>Agreed. I&#x27;m just illustrating that it&#x27;s part of an ongoing pattern at Amazon. Not some new, shocking thing. I&#x27;d expect more in the future.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mjr00</author><text>There&#x27;s a big difference between reducing the number of hourly workers (warehouse, drivers) and cutting 10,000 corporate jobs.</text></item><item><author>green-eclipse</author><text>This is just the latest round of cuts at Amazon: &quot;From April through September, it reduced head count by almost 80,000 people, primarily shrinking its hourly staff through high attrition.&quot;<p>Also: &quot;Amazon froze hiring in several smaller teams in September. In October, it stopped filling more than 10,000 open roles in its core retail business. Two weeks ago, it froze corporate hiring across the company, including its cloud computing division, for the next few months.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon is said to plan to lay off thousands of employees</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/amazon-layoffs.html</url></story> |
40,432,697 | 40,432,892 | 1 | 2 | 40,431,412 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skilled</author><text>The original letter Hans sent was discussed here,<p><i>Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel</i>
(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39042626">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39042626</a>) - Jan 2024 (438 comments)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux 6.10 Honors One Last ReiserFS Request Made by Hans Reiser</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-README-Linux-6.10</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xenonite</author><text>At first, I wondered why the third person in the letter is missing from the diff, but a paragraph has already been there anyways: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux.git&#x2F;tree&#x2F;fs&#x2F;reiserfs&#x2F;README" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;lin...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux 6.10 Honors One Last ReiserFS Request Made by Hans Reiser</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-README-Linux-6.10</url></story> |
27,550,412 | 27,550,146 | 1 | 3 | 27,549,604 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_jal</author><text>The recommendation of _The UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook_ is a good one.<p>As far as Comcast, I&#x27;m stuck with them, too. At least in my experience, they don&#x27;t monkey with DNS - I run and use my own DNS servers, and have never seen interference.<p>They do run deep packet inspection, and if they detect you, for instance, torrenting commercial media, they&#x27;ll inject scary messages in port 80 traffic. Given that nearly all web traffic is encrypted now, the main effect of this is to break things like automated `apt-get update`s.<p>One thing you can do to detect transparent DNS hijacking is to ask a nonexistent server a question. Something like `dig @13.14.15.16 news.ycombinator.com` should not give you an answer. If it does, someone&#x27;s spying on and&#x2F;or gaslighting you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>I only know enough about networking to be dangerous but I am convinced Comcast is doing shady shit with my modem when I change the DNS settings to use non-Comcast servers. Every once in a while I’ll attempt to use Wireshark to try to make sense of what’s happening but I’m pretty clueless and don’t really know what I’m looking at&#x2F;for.<p>If anyone knows any good resources to learn about the ISP nuts and bolts that make internet magic happen between my modem and everyone else’s servers I would be most appreciative.</text></item><item><author>gman83</author><text>I always find it odd that we worry so much about how much our browsers are tracking us, but almost nothing about what our ISPs are doing. Every time I&#x27;ve looked into it, it seems much worse. As far as I can tell, ISPs are legally allowed to sell your browsing history to third parties: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;for-sale-your-private-browsing-history&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;for-sale-your-pr...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brave, the false sensation of privacy</title><url>http://ebin.city/%7Ewerwolf/posts/brave-is-shit/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bewuethr</author><text>I found The UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition), chapters about networking and DNS very instructive, and they list a ton of additional references if you want to dig deeper.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>I only know enough about networking to be dangerous but I am convinced Comcast is doing shady shit with my modem when I change the DNS settings to use non-Comcast servers. Every once in a while I’ll attempt to use Wireshark to try to make sense of what’s happening but I’m pretty clueless and don’t really know what I’m looking at&#x2F;for.<p>If anyone knows any good resources to learn about the ISP nuts and bolts that make internet magic happen between my modem and everyone else’s servers I would be most appreciative.</text></item><item><author>gman83</author><text>I always find it odd that we worry so much about how much our browsers are tracking us, but almost nothing about what our ISPs are doing. Every time I&#x27;ve looked into it, it seems much worse. As far as I can tell, ISPs are legally allowed to sell your browsing history to third parties: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;for-sale-your-private-browsing-history&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;for-sale-your-pr...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brave, the false sensation of privacy</title><url>http://ebin.city/%7Ewerwolf/posts/brave-is-shit/</url></story> |
13,553,161 | 13,553,069 | 1 | 3 | 13,551,610 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zardo</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t trust the testimony of a paid expert witness. They always have strong convictions in favor of the side paying the bill, even if the evidence available clearly can&#x27;t support such absolute conclusions.<p>Even if they aren&#x27;t just liars, the lawyers can just keep trying different &#x27;experts&#x27; untill they get one who tells the story they want to hear. It&#x27;s just cover for making an argument from authority.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregw2</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda hard to square John&#x27;s post-trial comments &quot;I never tried to hide or wipe any evidence, and all of my data is accounted for, contrary to some stories being spread.&quot; with ZeniMax&#x27;s post-trial comments at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gameinformer.com&#x2F;b&#x2F;news&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;zenimax-awarded-500-million-in-oculus-lawsuit.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gameinformer.com&#x2F;b&#x2F;news&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;zenima...</a> that &quot; (vi) Carmack intentionally destroyed data on his computer after he got notice of this litigation and right after he researched on Google how to wipe a hard drive—and data on other Oculus computers and USB storage devices were similarly deleted (as determined by a court-appointed, independent expert in computer forensics); ... (viii) Carmack filed an affidavit which the court&#x27;s expert said was false in denying the destruction of evidence; &quot;<p>What is a reasonable explanation of this discrepancy? Varying notions of what consitutes &quot;evidence&quot;? Or differences in facts?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1913546895546485&id=100006735798590</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mememachine</author><text>It looks like either someones lying or wrong</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregw2</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda hard to square John&#x27;s post-trial comments &quot;I never tried to hide or wipe any evidence, and all of my data is accounted for, contrary to some stories being spread.&quot; with ZeniMax&#x27;s post-trial comments at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gameinformer.com&#x2F;b&#x2F;news&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;zenimax-awarded-500-million-in-oculus-lawsuit.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gameinformer.com&#x2F;b&#x2F;news&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;zenima...</a> that &quot; (vi) Carmack intentionally destroyed data on his computer after he got notice of this litigation and right after he researched on Google how to wipe a hard drive—and data on other Oculus computers and USB storage devices were similarly deleted (as determined by a court-appointed, independent expert in computer forensics); ... (viii) Carmack filed an affidavit which the court&#x27;s expert said was false in denying the destruction of evidence; &quot;<p>What is a reasonable explanation of this discrepancy? Varying notions of what consitutes &quot;evidence&quot;? Or differences in facts?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1913546895546485&id=100006735798590</url></story> |
10,565,527 | 10,565,419 | 1 | 3 | 10,565,160 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rav</author><text>&gt; The irony of it all is that last year when i had a couple of computer science applying for a job, they told me that they had assignments of doing bits and parts of a civilization clone at the university as part of the studies, so i guess that the university got smarter in the meantime.<p>Yes, indeed. The Software Architecture course at Aarhus University (which is where the FreeCiv founders are from) now contains the HotCiv project: &quot;This project develops a framework for defining strategy games similar to the classic computer game, Civilization.&quot; The lecturer, Henrik Bærbak, wrote a textbook for the course: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.baerbak.com&#x2F;description.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.baerbak.com&#x2F;description.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Freeciv founded 20 years ago today</title><url>http://play.freeciv.org/blog/2015/11/freeciv-founded-20-years-ago-today/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DiabloD3</author><text>Dear God, I&#x27;ve been playing this for that long? Its just as bad as nethack. Okay, almost as bad as nethack. Goddamnit nethack, go away, I have work to do.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Freeciv founded 20 years ago today</title><url>http://play.freeciv.org/blog/2015/11/freeciv-founded-20-years-ago-today/</url></story> |
10,845,388 | 10,845,257 | 1 | 2 | 10,844,612 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>Refreshing to see a critique talking alternatives instead of another fanboy post on Bitcoin&#x27;s blockchain. Monoculture is a good word for it. Almost all the research and attention is going in one direction when there are <i>many</i> valid directions worth exploring with <i>fewer</i> issues than Bitcoin. Some leverage proven approaches in finance, databases, or transaction processing. Just need extensions, more analysis, open implementations, etc.<p>So, I look forward to more articles like this to draw attention to solutions other than Bitcoin architecture. Another thing I look forward to are links to interesting alternatives like SCP and Interledger in this. I haven&#x27;t reviewed them yet but brief descriptions seemed more exciting than &quot;Cut-and-Pasted-Coin launched yesterday while promising to change the world.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On the dangers of a blockchain monoculture</title><url>https://tonyarcieri.com/on-the-dangers-of-a-blockchain-monoculture</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geofft</author><text>It took me a while to understand why Certificate Transparency is sound without requiring proof-of-work, and Bitcoin is not, but the answer turns out to be fairly simple: you can merge two CT log entries without conflicts, but you can&#x27;t merge two Bitcoin transactions. If I want to log &quot;Certificate A exists for bitcoin.org&quot; and you want to log &quot;Certificate B exists for mtgox.com&quot;, both of our data items are valid on their own (and can be independently verified, just by checking the signature on the cert) and the ordering doesn&#x27;t matter. So as soon as a write goes to <i>some</i> log server, as long as I trust the log server to propagate writes via the gossip protocol, I&#x27;m done; I don&#x27;t need to care about merges or retries. (Also, it&#x27;s possible for the log server to send me a signed promise to propagate writes, that I can later use to prove its misbehavior if that entry never shows up.)<p>On the other hand, if I have a transaction &quot;Transfer 1 BTC to bitcoin.org&quot; and you have a transaction &quot;Transfer 1 BTC to mtgox.com&quot;, they don&#x27;t necessarily commute or merge because of the double-spend problem: they might both be trying to spend the same 1 BTC.<p>There are a number of nifty decentralized systems you can build that don&#x27;t have to think about double-spend problem, where all transactions commute&#x2F;merge. Associating names with public keys <i>seems</i> to be one of them, as long as you allow a name to be validly bound to multiple keys. (A Keybase-style binding of external service usernames to public keys would permit this, since you simply have multiple valid Keybase proofs; the external usernames are arbitrated by the various centralized services. A Namecoin-style approach doesn&#x27;t, since names are first-come-first-serve, and you don&#x27;t want multiple people to be served the same name.)<p>There appear to be ways to make a money-transfer system avoid the double-spend problem: as I understand Stellar, it simply just makes the spending account legitimately owe both people money (and puts limits on how much each link can transfer at a time, so that the money is actually recoverable). But for non-money-transfer systems, if you can arrange your problem statement such that double-spending isn&#x27;t a concern in the first place, you can use regular Merkle trees and avoid the entire proof-of-work overhead.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On the dangers of a blockchain monoculture</title><url>https://tonyarcieri.com/on-the-dangers-of-a-blockchain-monoculture</url></story> |
5,034,421 | 5,034,410 | 1 | 2 | 5,034,090 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelgrafl</author><text>CDs sounded cold because converters were bad and engineers didn't have much experience mastering for it, not because they sounded too perfect.<p>Early CDs still sound bad, and I would take the respective vinyl over the CD any day still. Modern CDs sound amazing, if we leave the loudness wars aside for a moment.<p>I suppose there are two reasons why people use Instagram filters. Firstly, because most phone cameras aren't very good and the filters distract from the bad picture quality. Secondly, because it's in fashion, and people just do it because the cool people do.<p>I don't even understand where you were trying to go with the Facebook/Twitter/Youtube thing. It's a trivial statement and provides no illumination.<p>24 frames per second with a 180° shutter will always be more engaging than 48 frames per second with a 240° shutter or whatever they use, unless they manage to make the last one look more like the first one and add to it in some way. Like with modern CDs and vinyl.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pud</author><text>Humans like flaws.<p>When CDs first came out, people argued that they sounded "cold," even though they're near-perfect recreations of the music that was recorded. People like the hiss and compression of records and tapes.<p>This is also the same reason why people like Instagram filters. Normal iPhone pics are too good. Let's fuzz em up a bit.<p>Also, look at v1 of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other popular sites - they were far from pretty.<p>There's a lesson here. Somewhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps</title><url>http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2013/01/pain_of_the_new</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chc</author><text>&#62; <i>Humans like flaws.</i><p>&#62; <i>When CDs first came out, people argued that they sounded "cold," even though they're near-perfect recreations of the music that was recorded. People like the hiss and compression of records and tapes.</i><p>&#62; <i>This is also the same reason why people like Instagram filters.</i><p>This sounds more like "hipsters like flaws." CDs absolutely ROFLstomped both vinyl and cassette very quickly once they became affordable for normal people. People had the option of buying CD or cassette in the mid-'90s, and they generally preferred CDs. MP3 did the same thing despite similar complaints.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pud</author><text>Humans like flaws.<p>When CDs first came out, people argued that they sounded "cold," even though they're near-perfect recreations of the music that was recorded. People like the hiss and compression of records and tapes.<p>This is also the same reason why people like Instagram filters. Normal iPhone pics are too good. Let's fuzz em up a bit.<p>Also, look at v1 of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other popular sites - they were far from pretty.<p>There's a lesson here. Somewhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps</title><url>http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2013/01/pain_of_the_new</url></story> |
29,717,620 | 29,717,536 | 1 | 2 | 29,706,391 | train | <instructions>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>The “if you’re straight and white and normal” sure doesn’t track with my experience. I’m a software engineer in Overland Park, Kansas, and live in a middle class neighborhood in the suburbs. Cows a mile one way and IKEA the other way. It’s the “American Dream” town, and it’s MORE diverse than when I lived in the city. My neighbors are Indian and Jordanian, Kenyan, Chinese, Vietnamese, Pakistani, African American, Caucasian (some from US, some from other countries). I bought this house from a Nepalese couple based on their names.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vineyardmike</author><text>As a new englander, living in the PNW, dreaming of returning to california sun, I sure do miss my time in the midwest (although i&#x27;ve never been to Minnesota specifically).<p>Obviously you can&#x27;t generalize everyone, but the people i met in the MW were way nicer than the people i knew from the east coast or west coast. I&#x27;ve been invited into many strangers homes as if i was a close friend. Very few people seem to be captured by a blind viral drive towards success the way you find in places like NYC or SF, and instead people are just happy and enjoy their position in life. (not to say people don&#x27;t do good work, or don&#x27;t succeed at goals). If you dream of a nice middle class life, with a quaint house and a nice family, and all that jazz, it seems like a great place to be, and a culture that wants you to have it... if you&#x27;re straight and white and &quot;normal&quot;.<p>The weather sure does suck though. Hot summers, cold snowy winters. Worse than new england, with less money to keep roads and infra in shape. That said, i find myself every fall on the west coast missing &quot;real fall&quot; where the leaves change and the brisk wind cools you down outside as you can see your breath. Throwing on a soft flannel and grabbing something warm to drink while you stand outside and enjoy nature...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Midwest Developer</title><url>https://lanie.dev/tech/midwest/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coldpie</author><text>&gt; The weather sure does suck though.<p>Ahhhhh you gotta embrace it and find the good in it or you&#x27;ll just resent everything :) St Paulite here. This morning it was 9 degrees F on the way to the bus. The snow has a beautiful, sparkling layer of ice from the rainy drizzle we got the other day. Most of the plants were covered in a thin coating of ice, the streetlights reflecting through them looked like inverted icicles. It&#x27;s snowing now, we&#x27;ll probably get 2&quot; this afternoon, lovely to crunch through.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vineyardmike</author><text>As a new englander, living in the PNW, dreaming of returning to california sun, I sure do miss my time in the midwest (although i&#x27;ve never been to Minnesota specifically).<p>Obviously you can&#x27;t generalize everyone, but the people i met in the MW were way nicer than the people i knew from the east coast or west coast. I&#x27;ve been invited into many strangers homes as if i was a close friend. Very few people seem to be captured by a blind viral drive towards success the way you find in places like NYC or SF, and instead people are just happy and enjoy their position in life. (not to say people don&#x27;t do good work, or don&#x27;t succeed at goals). If you dream of a nice middle class life, with a quaint house and a nice family, and all that jazz, it seems like a great place to be, and a culture that wants you to have it... if you&#x27;re straight and white and &quot;normal&quot;.<p>The weather sure does suck though. Hot summers, cold snowy winters. Worse than new england, with less money to keep roads and infra in shape. That said, i find myself every fall on the west coast missing &quot;real fall&quot; where the leaves change and the brisk wind cools you down outside as you can see your breath. Throwing on a soft flannel and grabbing something warm to drink while you stand outside and enjoy nature...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Midwest Developer</title><url>https://lanie.dev/tech/midwest/</url></story> |
12,130,389 | 12,130,422 | 1 | 3 | 12,129,453 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>btilly</author><text>Argue for your limitations, and surely they&#x27;re yours.<p>To the extent that you can focus on what is under your personal control, you are likely to be happier and more productive. To the extent that you focus on things that are not under your control and can&#x27;t be changed, you will be unhappy, unproductive, and will have a built-in excuse for your failures. This is not an either-or choice, it is a spectrum. And the farther you manage to go towards taking responsibility for your life, generally the better you will do.<p>This does not diminish the real challenges that various historically disadvantaged groups have. It is what I believe the best advice is for them based on everything that I have learned..including from people I respect who are members of various disadvantaged groups.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AngrySkillzz</author><text>If you are a member of a disadvantaged group, you often do not have the ability to identify as a professional first and a group member second. That is the effect of being disadvantaged. Other people will make your life seem primarily about being a group member. Think about dealing with sexist&#x2F;sexually-charged comments, racial tension at the office. Even if you want to just be a professional, other people will get in your way (and not always intentionally). Maybe imagine what life would be like for one of those people.</text></item><item><author>btilly</author><text>I personally know several successful professional women who have a policy of refusing to belong to any women-only groups. Their reason is that in their experience such groups are populated by people seeking reassurance. The result is that they offer the &quot;support&quot; of lowered expectations. Which won&#x27;t help you succeed.<p>One also pointed out to me that if a group of men were to form a men&#x27;s only business club, that would be seen as sexist. It is no less sexist to form a women&#x27;s only club, but nobody sees fit to criticize it.<p>This is not a bias against women in general. They just refuse to deal with people whose identify first as women, and only secondarily as professionals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech</title><url>https://soledadpenades.com/2016/07/20/why-i-wont-talk-about-being-a-woman-in-tech-and-neither-should-you/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pc86</author><text>And imagine how much harder it must be to advocate that you&#x27;re a professional first and a group member second when you&#x27;re the Vice President of &quot;Women Coders of San Diego&quot; or whatever other group advocacy organization would be relevant.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AngrySkillzz</author><text>If you are a member of a disadvantaged group, you often do not have the ability to identify as a professional first and a group member second. That is the effect of being disadvantaged. Other people will make your life seem primarily about being a group member. Think about dealing with sexist&#x2F;sexually-charged comments, racial tension at the office. Even if you want to just be a professional, other people will get in your way (and not always intentionally). Maybe imagine what life would be like for one of those people.</text></item><item><author>btilly</author><text>I personally know several successful professional women who have a policy of refusing to belong to any women-only groups. Their reason is that in their experience such groups are populated by people seeking reassurance. The result is that they offer the &quot;support&quot; of lowered expectations. Which won&#x27;t help you succeed.<p>One also pointed out to me that if a group of men were to form a men&#x27;s only business club, that would be seen as sexist. It is no less sexist to form a women&#x27;s only club, but nobody sees fit to criticize it.<p>This is not a bias against women in general. They just refuse to deal with people whose identify first as women, and only secondarily as professionals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech</title><url>https://soledadpenades.com/2016/07/20/why-i-wont-talk-about-being-a-woman-in-tech-and-neither-should-you/</url></story> |
18,579,890 | 18,579,831 | 1 | 2 | 18,579,076 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>monktastic1</author><text>Looks like no:<p>&quot;No solutions, sadly, but maybe that would be a good idea for a GitHub repo associated with the book…&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jeremykun.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;01&#x2F;a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics&#x2F;#comment-69568" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jeremykun.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;01&#x2F;a-programmers-introduction-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>threwythrw</author><text>Do the exercises have solutions? The most annoying things about math books is the lack of solutions. A beginner absolutely needs to know whether or not their solutions are correct.<p>The “the reader should know if they are correct” logic doesn’t apply here. A beginner could easily have faulty logic and fool themselves into thinking their solutions are correct.<p>I usually don’t buy math books without solutions if I’m self-studying. Would like to know if solutions are provided in this book. If not, I won’t consider buying it.<p>If this book doesn’t make the cut with a solution manual, does anyone have recommendations on an intro to proofs book with one?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics</title><url>https://jeremykun.com/2018/12/01/a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Koshkin</author><text>Agree. Actually, studying a good solution even if you have one of your own is one of the best ways to learn mathematical tricks of the trade, so to speak - just as it&#x27;s a great way to learn coding: one learns from the master (as one should) and not just &quot;from the book.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>threwythrw</author><text>Do the exercises have solutions? The most annoying things about math books is the lack of solutions. A beginner absolutely needs to know whether or not their solutions are correct.<p>The “the reader should know if they are correct” logic doesn’t apply here. A beginner could easily have faulty logic and fool themselves into thinking their solutions are correct.<p>I usually don’t buy math books without solutions if I’m self-studying. Would like to know if solutions are provided in this book. If not, I won’t consider buying it.<p>If this book doesn’t make the cut with a solution manual, does anyone have recommendations on an intro to proofs book with one?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics</title><url>https://jeremykun.com/2018/12/01/a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics/</url></story> |
41,520,949 | 41,520,819 | 1 | 2 | 41,515,730 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dartos</author><text>Sometimes you don’t want to share all your data with the largest corporations on the planet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>faangguyindia</author><text>Question is why even use these small models?<p>When you&#x27;ve Google Flash which is lightening fast and cheap.<p>My brother implemented it in option-k : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zerocorebeta&#x2F;Option-K">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zerocorebeta&#x2F;Option-K</a><p>It&#x27;s near instant. So why waste time on small models? It&#x27;s going to cost more than Google flash.</text></item><item><author>sippeangelo</author><text>For as much as I would love for this to work, I&#x27;m not getting great results trying out the 1.5b model in their example notebook on Colab.<p>It is impressively fast, but testing it on an arxiv.org page (specifically <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2306.03872" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2306.03872</a>) only gives me a short markdown file containing the abstract, the &quot;View PDF&quot; link and the submission history. It completely leaves out the title (!), authors and other links, which are definitely present in the HTML in multiple places!<p>I&#x27;d argue that Arxiv.org is a reasonable example in the age of webapps, so what gives?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reader-LM: Small Language Models for Cleaning and Converting HTML to Markdown</title><url>https://jina.ai/news/reader-lm-small-language-models-for-cleaning-and-converting-html-to-markdown/?nocache=1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oezi</author><text>What is Google Flash? Do you mean Gemini Flash? If so, then the article talks about that general purpose LLMs are worse than this specialized LLM for Markdown conversion.</text><parent_chain><item><author>faangguyindia</author><text>Question is why even use these small models?<p>When you&#x27;ve Google Flash which is lightening fast and cheap.<p>My brother implemented it in option-k : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zerocorebeta&#x2F;Option-K">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zerocorebeta&#x2F;Option-K</a><p>It&#x27;s near instant. So why waste time on small models? It&#x27;s going to cost more than Google flash.</text></item><item><author>sippeangelo</author><text>For as much as I would love for this to work, I&#x27;m not getting great results trying out the 1.5b model in their example notebook on Colab.<p>It is impressively fast, but testing it on an arxiv.org page (specifically <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2306.03872" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2306.03872</a>) only gives me a short markdown file containing the abstract, the &quot;View PDF&quot; link and the submission history. It completely leaves out the title (!), authors and other links, which are definitely present in the HTML in multiple places!<p>I&#x27;d argue that Arxiv.org is a reasonable example in the age of webapps, so what gives?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reader-LM: Small Language Models for Cleaning and Converting HTML to Markdown</title><url>https://jina.ai/news/reader-lm-small-language-models-for-cleaning-and-converting-html-to-markdown/?nocache=1</url></story> |
28,215,250 | 28,213,537 | 1 | 2 | 28,211,137 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>flixic</author><text>Both Netflix[0] and the company I worked at designed custom fonts to _save_ money. As other comment threads say, it&#x27;s a standard practice to license by pageviews, and it can be difficult to negotiate. Alternative: just have your own custom font, exclusive and unlimited license.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;3&#x2F;21&#x2F;17147170&#x2F;netflix-sans-custom-font-typeface" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;3&#x2F;21&#x2F;17147170&#x2F;netflix-sans-cus...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>philosopher1234</author><text>I never understood under what circumstances you would really need a custom font. Could you say more about why that was the case?</text></item><item><author>com2kid</author><text>&gt; Am I crazy for expecting fonts to be free? There are so many good options that I can use without paying a license fee. I can&#x27;t imagine liking the tiny differences in a font so much that I would get myself locked into a yearly licensing fee.<p>Having worked at Microsoft for years, I also got a chance to work directly with Monotype on custom fonts for a project&#x27;s specific needs (wearable, tiny screen, specific DPI).<p>Monotype is <i>amazing</i> to work with. And given the amount of work they did, and what we got out of it, the price was absurdly reasonable.<p>For your blog? Use a free font.<p>But if you <i>need</i> a custom font, you really do need a custom font, and Monotype is #1 in the industry for a good reason.</text></item><item><author>todd3834</author><text>Am I crazy for expecting fonts to be free? There are so many good options that I can use without paying a license fee. I can&#x27;t imagine liking the tiny differences in a font so much that I would get myself locked into a yearly licensing fee.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Helvetica Now Variable</title><url>https://www.monotype.com/fonts/helvetica-now-variable</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abegnoche</author><text>Video Games is an example, each AAAA games I worked on had custom fonts (that was used in-game but also for our powerpoints presentation during the making of the game).</text><parent_chain><item><author>philosopher1234</author><text>I never understood under what circumstances you would really need a custom font. Could you say more about why that was the case?</text></item><item><author>com2kid</author><text>&gt; Am I crazy for expecting fonts to be free? There are so many good options that I can use without paying a license fee. I can&#x27;t imagine liking the tiny differences in a font so much that I would get myself locked into a yearly licensing fee.<p>Having worked at Microsoft for years, I also got a chance to work directly with Monotype on custom fonts for a project&#x27;s specific needs (wearable, tiny screen, specific DPI).<p>Monotype is <i>amazing</i> to work with. And given the amount of work they did, and what we got out of it, the price was absurdly reasonable.<p>For your blog? Use a free font.<p>But if you <i>need</i> a custom font, you really do need a custom font, and Monotype is #1 in the industry for a good reason.</text></item><item><author>todd3834</author><text>Am I crazy for expecting fonts to be free? There are so many good options that I can use without paying a license fee. I can&#x27;t imagine liking the tiny differences in a font so much that I would get myself locked into a yearly licensing fee.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Helvetica Now Variable</title><url>https://www.monotype.com/fonts/helvetica-now-variable</url></story> |
12,051,595 | 12,051,149 | 1 | 3 | 12,050,895 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>soared</author><text>I&#x27;m stunned they weren&#x27;t already doing this. It takes all of 30 seconds [1] to track this and is &#x2F;incredibly&#x2F; useful, especially on a site that&#x27;s used largely for outbound links. I have outbound link tracking set up for every client and personal website. Same with email address clicks, button clicks, file downloads, etc.<p>Did anyone really think websites weren&#x27;t doing this? This is incredibly innocuous compared to other things.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazeemetrics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;google-tag-manager-tutorial-part-1-tracking-outbound-links-gtm-version-2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazeemetrics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;google-tag-manager-tuto...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, existing users opted in</title><url>https://np.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/4rl5to/outbound_clicks_rollout_complete/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moultano</author><text>Hopefully they can use this to substantially improve their algorithm. (Voting without clicking, click to vote interval, click duration) Lots of reddit&#x27;s problems are due to algorithmic flaws that they just didn&#x27;t have the data to correct.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, existing users opted in</title><url>https://np.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/4rl5to/outbound_clicks_rollout_complete/</url></story> |
3,915,810 | 3,914,604 | 1 | 3 | 3,914,318 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lsc</author><text>eh, for me? I am type A mostly because I don't enjoy negotiation and hard sales. If you have an expensive product, at least in my sector, you are expected to negotiate, sometimes for months on price. Then you are expected to give a discount to the customers that waste the most of your time.<p>With low-value products? Here is the price. want it? If you want to change the price, sure, sometimes you need to do that, but you change it for everyone. (In fact, in the VPS sector, It is traditional to change the price for existing customers as well as new customers. Linode deserves some of the credit for making that traditional. In the co-lo or bandwidth business, where it's all negotiated? it's traditional to offer like 50% better deals to new customers and to squeeze your old customers until they leave, like it is in real-estate leases. I recently lowered the price on my low-end co-lo and gave the lower price to all my existing customers, to much surprise. )<p>Right now, I'm trying to move some products that are traditionally sold with lots of negotiation (Like co-location) into the "here is the price, you want it?" model, which is really in everyone's interest except the salesguy. And salesguys in this industry make a lot of money; two big local co-lo salesguys have contacted me; I know they are good, and that they can bring me customers, as I know a bunch of people that bought through them. The problem? they want 10% of the revenue from the customer for the life of the customer. 10% isn't far from my own target margin for co-lo, and some plans, I don't even make that much. And for the life of the customer? through any upgrades down the road? it seems like a bookkeeping nightmare.<p>The other advantage of having lots of small customers is that if someone wants something that you don't want to do? (in my case, for instance, people that want password auth to my infrastructure, or people that want to run windows) it's pretty easy for me to say "That's not what I do. Here is a refund; I hear that provider X can help you out" - whereas if that customer was 1/10th of my revenue? I'd be spending all night trying to get a microsoft system working, or cleaning up after a script kiddie broke into a weak password and got into the customer's management interface.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?</title><url>http://blog.asmartbear.com/price-vs-quantity.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>molsongolden</author><text>My favorite part of this article was the first half of the summary:<p>"If you want happiness and fulfillment from a small company, strive for B"<p>$10,000/mo revenue with only 10 customers to keep happy vs. 1000 customers to service? Yes, please.<p>Company B could have just as much potential for growth as company A. Sure A has the potential to have more brand evangelists bringing in new customers but B has more time to devote to totally babying their 10 customers and making sure they will be likely to recommend the product/service to others in their industry. Company B only needs 1 referral to make another $1,000 per month whereas company A would need 100 referrals.<p>Also think about upselling down the road, if a company can afford $1,000/mo for your base product they will probably be willing and able to pay for upgrades that will make their work easier or more efficient.<p>I'm not arguing that B is better than A, but I think that B could have just as much growth with less stress.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?</title><url>http://blog.asmartbear.com/price-vs-quantity.html</url><text></text></story> |
8,518,526 | 8,518,443 | 1 | 2 | 8,516,244 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blurri</author><text>Yes, raw files have quite the dynamic range and the current generation of raw processors can really pull a lot of detail out of the shadows and highlights.<p>The strange black dots you find in the shadows are noise. Simple no data to produce any results.<p>The key part to in camera HDR is, <i>automatic</i>. No manually fixing your camera to tripod, copying them onto computer and the loading into software capable of HDR and finally manually processing them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ioedward</author><text>I&#x27;ve been messing around with the Google Camera app and the new Camera API provided by Android 5. It turns out that you can actually obtain a lot higher quality images by using the DNG (digital negative) of the photo, instead of using the JPEG. By &quot;HDRing&quot; images yourself, you can actually outperform Google Camera&#x27;s HDR+ functionality.<p>Here&#x27;s the JPEG, non HDR+ shot on a Nexus 5:
<a href="http://i.imgur.com/So44muL.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;So44muL.jpg</a><p>Here&#x27;s a similar image shot with HDR+:
<a href="http://i.imgur.com/QFS3ZYd.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;QFS3ZYd.jpg</a>.<p>As you can see, the dynamic range is increased greatly; however there&#x27;s strange black spots in the shadows.<p>Here&#x27;s the same photo that I took in DNG format, edited in Lightroom:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/VRFsnf5.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;VRFsnf5.jpg</a><p>And here&#x27;s my HDR photo, combined 5 DNG exposures inside Photoshop HDR Pro&#x27;s functionality:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/RTT6ULz.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;RTT6ULz.jpg</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Low Light and High Dynamic Range photography in the Google Camera App</title><url>http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/10/hdr-low-light-and-high-dynamic-range.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>marak830</author><text>Wow thats quite interesting, i think ill try that this weekend, see if i can setup an automated solution too if i can get it working smoothly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ioedward</author><text>I&#x27;ve been messing around with the Google Camera app and the new Camera API provided by Android 5. It turns out that you can actually obtain a lot higher quality images by using the DNG (digital negative) of the photo, instead of using the JPEG. By &quot;HDRing&quot; images yourself, you can actually outperform Google Camera&#x27;s HDR+ functionality.<p>Here&#x27;s the JPEG, non HDR+ shot on a Nexus 5:
<a href="http://i.imgur.com/So44muL.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;So44muL.jpg</a><p>Here&#x27;s a similar image shot with HDR+:
<a href="http://i.imgur.com/QFS3ZYd.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;QFS3ZYd.jpg</a>.<p>As you can see, the dynamic range is increased greatly; however there&#x27;s strange black spots in the shadows.<p>Here&#x27;s the same photo that I took in DNG format, edited in Lightroom:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/VRFsnf5.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;VRFsnf5.jpg</a><p>And here&#x27;s my HDR photo, combined 5 DNG exposures inside Photoshop HDR Pro&#x27;s functionality:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/RTT6ULz.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;RTT6ULz.jpg</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Low Light and High Dynamic Range photography in the Google Camera App</title><url>http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/10/hdr-low-light-and-high-dynamic-range.html?</url></story> |
40,142,496 | 40,141,768 | 1 | 2 | 40,138,228 | 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>balloob</author><text>If there are people reading this and are excited to try out ESPHome: try it out without writing a single line of configuration by installing some of our ready-made projects: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esphome.io&#x2F;projects&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esphome.io&#x2F;projects&#x2F;</a><p>It allows you to turn a cheap microcontroller into a voice assistant, bluetooth proxy or media player directly from your browser.</text><parent_chain><item><author>balloob</author><text>One of the people leading ESPHome here. Let me know if there any questions.<p>Last Saturday we announced that ESPHome is now owned by the Open Home Foundation. The Open Home Foundation fights for privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. And for every person who lives in one. Learn more at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openhomefoundation.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcing-the-open-home-foundation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openhomefoundation.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcing-the-open-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ESPHome</title><url>https://esphome.io/index.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Gazebra12</author><text>No questions, only praise. This project is simply awesome, I&#x27;ve been astonished time and time again by the features. I had done a complete dive into the Espressif SDK trying to implement a wireless switch with temperature sensor and mqtt and had nearly finished the project when I stumbled on ESPHome obsoleting all of my work at once. It was just everything I had written so far plus many added features and obsoleted all my work at once.</text><parent_chain><item><author>balloob</author><text>One of the people leading ESPHome here. Let me know if there any questions.<p>Last Saturday we announced that ESPHome is now owned by the Open Home Foundation. The Open Home Foundation fights for privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. And for every person who lives in one. Learn more at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openhomefoundation.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcing-the-open-home-foundation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openhomefoundation.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcing-the-open-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ESPHome</title><url>https://esphome.io/index.html</url></story> |
18,706,741 | 18,706,363 | 1 | 2 | 18,705,959 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gardaani</author><text>If you think that the # syntax for private fields needs to be improved, then go to JS Committee&#x27;s GitHub Issues and give feedback about it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-class-fields&#x2F;issues" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-class-fields&#x2F;issues</a><p>There&#x27;s at least three specifically about the #:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-class-fields&#x2F;issues&#x2F;177" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-class-fields&#x2F;issues&#x2F;177</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-class-fields&#x2F;issues&#x2F;149" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-class-fields&#x2F;issues&#x2F;149</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-class-fields&#x2F;issues&#x2F;142" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-class-fields&#x2F;issues&#x2F;142</a><p>Remember to be constructive or just give a thumbs up to comments you like.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drinchev</author><text>&gt; V8 v7.2 adds support for public class [1] fields. Support for private class [2] fields is planned for a future V8 release.<p>For those who don&#x27;t know private class fields add the weird &quot;#&quot; character for defining them inside the `class {}` block.<p><pre><code> class IncreasingCounter {
#count = 0;
get value() {
console.log(&#x27;Getting the current value!&#x27;);
return this.#count;
}
increment() {
this.#count++;
}
}
</code></pre>
This looks way worse than having what TypeScript did by introducing `public` &#x2F; `private` keywords. Is there any body
which votes for es-next features such as this one? I wonder how the &quot;#&quot; private field popped up in Chrome specs.<p>1 : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;updates&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;class-fields" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;updates&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;class-fiel...</a><p>2 : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;updates&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;class-fields#private_class_fields" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;updates&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;class-fiel...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>V8 release v7.2</title><url>https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-72</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>__ryan__</author><text>The rationale for the &quot;#&quot; syntax is that it makes it clear that the field is NOT an object property. This is an important distinction because you can do this:<p><pre><code> class Example {
#myVar = 100;
getPrivateMyVar() {
return this.#myVar;
}
getLocalMyVar() {
return this.myVar();
}
}
const example = new Example();
example.myVar = 200;
console.log(example.getPrivateMyVar()) &#x2F;&#x2F; 100;
console.log(example.getLocalMyVar()) &#x2F;&#x2F; 200;
</code></pre>
I agree the syntax is terrible. But you need to be able to distinguish between the own object property <i>myVar</i> and the private field <i>myVar</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drinchev</author><text>&gt; V8 v7.2 adds support for public class [1] fields. Support for private class [2] fields is planned for a future V8 release.<p>For those who don&#x27;t know private class fields add the weird &quot;#&quot; character for defining them inside the `class {}` block.<p><pre><code> class IncreasingCounter {
#count = 0;
get value() {
console.log(&#x27;Getting the current value!&#x27;);
return this.#count;
}
increment() {
this.#count++;
}
}
</code></pre>
This looks way worse than having what TypeScript did by introducing `public` &#x2F; `private` keywords. Is there any body
which votes for es-next features such as this one? I wonder how the &quot;#&quot; private field popped up in Chrome specs.<p>1 : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;updates&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;class-fields" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;updates&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;class-fiel...</a><p>2 : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;updates&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;class-fields#private_class_fields" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;updates&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;class-fiel...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>V8 release v7.2</title><url>https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-72</url></story> |
37,438,642 | 37,438,679 | 1 | 2 | 37,431,425 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fooker</author><text>Generate a large number of strings and maps programmatically in compile time.<p>You are pretty much limited to macros and macro-like languages (llvm-tablegen) if you want to do this today.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kccqzy</author><text>I find that there&#x27;s no use case for a constexpr std::string. Maybe I&#x27;m just not imaginative enough. If I want a string literal constant, I use string_view which can be constexpr. If somehow I need an actual std::string object, I use a regular const not constexpr. What would be a use case that prompts the author to explore using constexpr with std::string?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Just how constexpr is C++20’s std:string?</title><url>https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2023/09/08/constexpr-string-firewall/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hudsonwillis</author><text>It enables users to process string at compile time. You can implement a constexpr getRFC3339DateString(int year, int month, int day) -&gt; string and then construct a constexpr string list.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kccqzy</author><text>I find that there&#x27;s no use case for a constexpr std::string. Maybe I&#x27;m just not imaginative enough. If I want a string literal constant, I use string_view which can be constexpr. If somehow I need an actual std::string object, I use a regular const not constexpr. What would be a use case that prompts the author to explore using constexpr with std::string?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Just how constexpr is C++20’s std:string?</title><url>https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2023/09/08/constexpr-string-firewall/</url></story> |
41,480,383 | 41,478,982 | 1 | 3 | 41,440,997 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>authorfly</author><text>That&#x27;s cool but dogs remembering names is more insightful in an exciting way, let me elucidate on why it&#x27;s pretty fascinating!<p>We know how place memories work quite well, Place and Grid cells specifically. There is a natural and almost physical level of 1:1 mapping at various scales[1] from location (based on different tracking systems - point integration, landmarks, your own steps) to activating cells in your brain. Simple co-activation alongside reward, like a literal map, sets down &quot;good stuff here&quot; signs in your brain.<p>Once attenuated and activated by Dopamine, the place cells to triangulate (at different &quot;distances&quot;) that position have basically fewer mechanims and binding opportunities for neurotransmitters to change upon other interaction(they have little input beside place + pleasure + pain), so they do not result in loss of their attenuation or association (part of why place stays longest in Alhzeimers patients association).<p>Memory of sounds however, isn&#x27;t so clearly mappable, there is no obvious grid&#x2F;comparable formulation of sound memories in any kind of &quot;order&quot; like there is with location and places in Place Cells. And clearly we humans forget many of the sounds we have heard (e.g. songs, lyrics). That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s quite interesting that dogs remember toys names for a long time. It makes you ask questions like &quot;If we had less sounds&#x2F;named things to remember, could we remember the ones we do remember for much longer, with less forgetting?&quot;. &quot;What is the difference between permanent, event and temporal memories?&quot;, &quot;Could we resolve neurodegenerative diseases by modifying neurons to be longer lasting or impervious to future modification in strategic areas of the brain? Could be retain some learning?&quot;<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rsb.org.uk&#x2F;images&#x2F;biologist&#x2F;Features&#x2F;Grid_mouse_diagram_large.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rsb.org.uk&#x2F;images&#x2F;biologist&#x2F;Features&#x2F;Grid_mouse_d...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>petepete</author><text>I&#x27;ve had my Labrador for 12 years, she was about 1 when we rescued her.<p>In the first week I was walking her and passed a bus stop mainly used by school kids. There&#x27;s a small wall behind it and she dashed around and emerged with half a sausage roll hanging out of her mouth.<p>To this day, every time we pass that spot she enthusiastically pulls and goes round to inspect.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/04/dogs-remember-names-toys-years-study-pets-memory</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bionsystem</author><text>My grandfather&#x27;s dog (some bastardized belgium shepherd) was annoyed at some electric cable hanging too low in some place where he would go for a walk ; after a storm the pylon fell a bit and he would jump up and bite the cable (which was isolated of course), and bark a lot at it.<p>Years later after everything was fixed, going to walk in this area the dog would always look up at this exact spot and bark a few times. Like &quot;heck don&#x27;t you dare coming low again I&#x27;m watching you&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>petepete</author><text>I&#x27;ve had my Labrador for 12 years, she was about 1 when we rescued her.<p>In the first week I was walking her and passed a bus stop mainly used by school kids. There&#x27;s a small wall behind it and she dashed around and emerged with half a sausage roll hanging out of her mouth.<p>To this day, every time we pass that spot she enthusiastically pulls and goes round to inspect.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/04/dogs-remember-names-toys-years-study-pets-memory</url></story> |
25,922,107 | 25,922,228 | 1 | 3 | 25,921,632 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>opwieurposiu</author><text>When I was working in the machine shop business around 2016 another shop owner called our shop asking if we had any work to sub out. I was surprised because his shop was running at max capacity the year before, making gun parts. Apparently when a republican becomes president the gun parts market dries up; when a democrat wins, the market booms.<p>I think the arms retailers are having a boom right now and have plenty of money for ads.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jabroni_salad</author><text>I&#x27;m not completely sure this is just political people. Up until recently I only got ads for kickstarter doodads and airtable, but then it suddenly switched to gun stuff. I don&#x27;t browse any firearm or political communities, haven&#x27;t bought stuff, don&#x27;t watch firearm youtube videos, haven&#x27;t even been window shopping.<p>There were 5 million new gun owners last year. I think the ad networks just view it as a highly probable click since so many people are suddenly showing interest in firearms that weren&#x27;t before. Especially for people in my demo&#x2F;geo... I am white and rural.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with combat gear ads. See for yourself</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/26/facebook-ads-combat-gear-rightwing-users</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smoe</author><text>Could be similar as when the covid lockdowns, mass layoffs and advertisment budget cuts started, I suddenly got bombarded (where it passed the ad blocker) with ads on how to rapidly become a millionaire by investing in stuff from home and similarly sketchy products&#x2F;services.<p>I think could really be a risen interest in the gun topic within that demo and&#x2F;or other companies not targeting them as much currently in the US while other see oportunity to sell more in this moment?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jabroni_salad</author><text>I&#x27;m not completely sure this is just political people. Up until recently I only got ads for kickstarter doodads and airtable, but then it suddenly switched to gun stuff. I don&#x27;t browse any firearm or political communities, haven&#x27;t bought stuff, don&#x27;t watch firearm youtube videos, haven&#x27;t even been window shopping.<p>There were 5 million new gun owners last year. I think the ad networks just view it as a highly probable click since so many people are suddenly showing interest in firearms that weren&#x27;t before. Especially for people in my demo&#x2F;geo... I am white and rural.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with combat gear ads. See for yourself</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/26/facebook-ads-combat-gear-rightwing-users</url></story> |
22,960,541 | 22,959,801 | 1 | 3 | 22,952,572 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>apozem</author><text>This is a nice thought that does not grapple with the reality of modern-day politics.<p>The Republican Party is hellbent on holding onto power by any means necessary. They will oppose any structural reforms that could reduce their power. Would they allow a system such as you propose, that allows California greater independence? Of course not.<p>Look how they oppose vote by mail [1], <i>in the middle of a pandemic</i>. Madness, until you realize they believe vote-by-mail will advantage Democrats. This is not a party that is interested in pro-democracy experiments, only changing the rules to keep themselves in power.<p>&gt; There is no part of the Republican Party — not its president in the White House, not its leadership in Congress, not its conservative allies on the Supreme Court, not its interest groups or its affiliated media — that has an interest in or commitment to a fair, equal and expansive democracy...<p>&gt; Republican lawmakers nationwide have taken every opportunity to restrict voting and entrench themselves against voters who might want an alternative. They’ve passed strict photo ID requirements, implemented mass voter purges, put new restrictions on registering voters, closed polling sites and ended extended voting periods. With few exceptions — Utah introduced vote by mail in 2013 — a state with a Republican executive and a Republican Legislature is a state that will restrict voting long before it tries to make it easier and more accessible. [2]<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;08&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;republicans-vote-by-mail.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;08&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;republicans-v...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;10&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;wisconsin-primary-2020-election.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;10&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;wisconsin-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>narak</author><text>I suspect the most practical way to reform our institutions is through increased competition in governance, just like we &quot;fix&quot; stagnant institutions in the private sector. We already have this baked into our constitution: States rights and their ability to pass amendments. There&#x27;s a movement happening around this. [0]<p>Justice Brandeis said it best: &quot;state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.&quot; [1]<p>Imagine if States could try different healthcare systems, or basic income, etc. Citizens would be able to vote with their feet and move to the best systems. This should be a bipartisan movement.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Convention_to_propose_amendmen...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Laboratories_of_democracy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Laboratories_of_democracy</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why We Can't Build</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build-government-coronavirus</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bhupy</author><text>This is exactly how Switzerland operates, and it appears to be working rather well for them.<p>It also helps to think of the United States as more akin to the European Union, rather than any of its individual member states. This is purely conjecture, but an EU that is as centrally powerful as the US would likely be equally disastrous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>narak</author><text>I suspect the most practical way to reform our institutions is through increased competition in governance, just like we &quot;fix&quot; stagnant institutions in the private sector. We already have this baked into our constitution: States rights and their ability to pass amendments. There&#x27;s a movement happening around this. [0]<p>Justice Brandeis said it best: &quot;state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.&quot; [1]<p>Imagine if States could try different healthcare systems, or basic income, etc. Citizens would be able to vote with their feet and move to the best systems. This should be a bipartisan movement.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Convention_to_propose_amendmen...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Laboratories_of_democracy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Laboratories_of_democracy</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why We Can't Build</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build-government-coronavirus</url></story> |
1,115,886 | 1,115,916 | 1 | 3 | 1,115,574 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coffeemug</author><text>I would argue that the only skill a business owner <i>really</i> needs is the skill to identify, hire, and lead talent. Everything else is probably secondary. If you're not good at programming, learning to program in order to do it yourself is ridiculous advice - unless you spend ten years learning full time, you'll end up with a mediocre product.<p>Delegation works. Just do it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How old were you when you decided to start giving up?</title><url>http://blog.inklingmarkets.com/2010/02/how-old-were-you-when-you-decided-to.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tron_carter</author><text>This was an inspiring article for someone like me with an business degree and aspirations for creating a startup but without the programming ability. Would starting out learning a language like python be recommended as a good one in general for putting an idea into action? After some iteration and traction, I'd bring on a capable coding partner to do it right. FWIW, I've also heard that Python is useful for making scripts for automating tasks or improving productivity.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How old were you when you decided to start giving up?</title><url>http://blog.inklingmarkets.com/2010/02/how-old-were-you-when-you-decided-to.html</url><text></text></story> |
23,981,292 | 23,980,997 | 1 | 2 | 23,979,608 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jpdus</author><text>&gt; Picture a few large cities with contractors running around every roof tending to solar panels and compare to a few experts at a single nuclear power plant. For the contractors-on-roofs, the slip &amp; falls add up even though they&#x27;ll never get an HBO mini-series.<p>This is a very flawed and short-sighted argument. Averages don&#x27;t matter when you are talking about fat-tailed&#x2F;power law risk distributions.
Nobody would be opposed to PVs on roofs in their neighborhood b&#x2F;c some construction workers fall to death every year - this risk is well calculable.
But (almost) everyone would be opposed to a fission plant or nuclear waste facility next door - and rightfully so.<p>Without enormous direct and indirect subsidies, nuclear (fission) isnt commercially viable anywhere in the world. Heck, you still can&#x27;t insure a fission plant.<p>Yes, in theory fission would have been the best option for carbon-free energy. No, in practice humanity never figured out how to safely and efficiently use this power source and now renewables are a way safer and cheaper bet. You won&#x27;t find any objective economic analysis (that incorporates such indirect subsidies as the implicit state guarantee and realistic building and waste handling&#x2F;storing costs) that can show otherwise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjoonathan</author><text>Hydro is actually pretty bad in terms of big safety incidents (Banqiao: 171000 dead, Machchu: 5000 dead, South Fork: 2208 dead) and solar&#x2F;wind have trouble beating nuclear on metrics like death&#x2F;watt because you need lots of infrastructure per watt. Picture a few large cities with contractors running around every roof tending to solar panels and compare to a few experts at a single nuclear power plant. For the contractors-on-roofs, the slip &amp; falls add up even though they&#x27;ll never get an HBO mini-series.<p>Anyway, I tend to agree that going forward solar + storage is probably workable. The storage part isn&#x27;t proven yet but I have faith we&#x27;ll figure it out. There are lots of promising options under investigation and the proven fallbacks aren&#x27;t <i>that</i> horrendously expensive, all things considered.<p>It&#x27;s just a pity we stopped building nuclear 40 years ago because it was viable all the way back then. Heck, we got to 20% nuclear! Compare to 2% solar today. If we had merely continued building nuclear at the same pace instead of stopping in the 1980s our grid would be 100% low-CO2 <i>today</i> instead of maybe 30 years from now if we hurry. But that didn&#x27;t happen. We made the super-mature and responsible decision to fill our atmosphere with CO2 instead and now we get to live with that decision. So it goes.</text></item><item><author>andrepd</author><text>I&#x27;m also a fusion power fanboy but<p>&gt;nuclear power is the only realistic way to solve the looming energy crisis of the 21st century while still maintaining the same standard of living for everyone<p>This is just not true, there&#x27;s no way you can say this. Solar costs are going down massively. Hydro is dirt cheap already. So renewables can absolutely be part of an energetic transition in the near future, while fusion is at best many decades away. So while I think fusion energy has the potential to transform energy generation, and by extent everything about our life, it&#x27;s wrong to assume renewables aren&#x27;t probably our safest bet in the near future.<p>Also there&#x27;s something amusing about &quot;Here&#x27;s my sure assessment. Anyway I checked the wiki page on fusion power and&quot;.</text></item><item><author>usui</author><text>I am going to need some help on this one as my knowledge on physics is limited: What makes scientists believe that the solution to nuclear fusion power is only a matter of scale? I desperately want nuclear fusion to work because nuclear power is the only realistic way to solve the looming energy crisis of the 21st century while still maintaining the same standard of living for everyone. It&#x27;s also 500% more important that nuclear fusion works because most people around the world think that nuclear fission is scary (weaponization concerns even though fission power is different from bomb-making, radioactive waste, reactor meltdowns, etc.), even though it&#x27;s the only realistic method we have today of going carbon-neutral.<p>However, I looked up the article on &quot;fusion power&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fusion_power" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fusion_power</a>) and it says &quot;but to date, no design has produced more fusion power output than the electrical power input, defeating the purpose.&quot;<p>Can anyone help explain what I am missing, or what is not explained well? My common-person impression is if a laboratory experiment cannot even produce desired outcomes, what makes people think that an engineered, faulty-prone system will? The way I see it is that researchers produce the proof-of-concept, and engineering will attempt to reproduce that at scale. Isn&#x27;t this preemptive? Or, from the article, it seems that it is necessary to build this thing in order to get any conclusive research results.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53573294</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dghughes</author><text>Hydroelectric projects also cause an increase in mercury levels specifically methylmercury. You&#x27;d think hydroelectric would be a safe method of generating power with flooding being the only bad effect. An Inuk guy in Labrador I follow on Twitter (@AndersenAngus) is trying to raise awareness about methylmercury due to flooding of land for hydroelectric dams.<p>Here is some info on it via the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seas.harvard.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;human-health-risks-hydroelectric-projects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seas.harvard.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;human-health-risks...</a><p>&quot;Microbes convert naturally occurring mercury in soils into potent methylmercury when land is flooded, such as when dams are built for hydroelectric projects. The methylmercury moves into the water and animals, magnifying as it moves up the food chain. This makes the toxin especially dangerous for indigenous communities living near hydroelectric projects because they tend to have diets rich in local fish, birds and marine mammals such as seals. &quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjoonathan</author><text>Hydro is actually pretty bad in terms of big safety incidents (Banqiao: 171000 dead, Machchu: 5000 dead, South Fork: 2208 dead) and solar&#x2F;wind have trouble beating nuclear on metrics like death&#x2F;watt because you need lots of infrastructure per watt. Picture a few large cities with contractors running around every roof tending to solar panels and compare to a few experts at a single nuclear power plant. For the contractors-on-roofs, the slip &amp; falls add up even though they&#x27;ll never get an HBO mini-series.<p>Anyway, I tend to agree that going forward solar + storage is probably workable. The storage part isn&#x27;t proven yet but I have faith we&#x27;ll figure it out. There are lots of promising options under investigation and the proven fallbacks aren&#x27;t <i>that</i> horrendously expensive, all things considered.<p>It&#x27;s just a pity we stopped building nuclear 40 years ago because it was viable all the way back then. Heck, we got to 20% nuclear! Compare to 2% solar today. If we had merely continued building nuclear at the same pace instead of stopping in the 1980s our grid would be 100% low-CO2 <i>today</i> instead of maybe 30 years from now if we hurry. But that didn&#x27;t happen. We made the super-mature and responsible decision to fill our atmosphere with CO2 instead and now we get to live with that decision. So it goes.</text></item><item><author>andrepd</author><text>I&#x27;m also a fusion power fanboy but<p>&gt;nuclear power is the only realistic way to solve the looming energy crisis of the 21st century while still maintaining the same standard of living for everyone<p>This is just not true, there&#x27;s no way you can say this. Solar costs are going down massively. Hydro is dirt cheap already. So renewables can absolutely be part of an energetic transition in the near future, while fusion is at best many decades away. So while I think fusion energy has the potential to transform energy generation, and by extent everything about our life, it&#x27;s wrong to assume renewables aren&#x27;t probably our safest bet in the near future.<p>Also there&#x27;s something amusing about &quot;Here&#x27;s my sure assessment. Anyway I checked the wiki page on fusion power and&quot;.</text></item><item><author>usui</author><text>I am going to need some help on this one as my knowledge on physics is limited: What makes scientists believe that the solution to nuclear fusion power is only a matter of scale? I desperately want nuclear fusion to work because nuclear power is the only realistic way to solve the looming energy crisis of the 21st century while still maintaining the same standard of living for everyone. It&#x27;s also 500% more important that nuclear fusion works because most people around the world think that nuclear fission is scary (weaponization concerns even though fission power is different from bomb-making, radioactive waste, reactor meltdowns, etc.), even though it&#x27;s the only realistic method we have today of going carbon-neutral.<p>However, I looked up the article on &quot;fusion power&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fusion_power" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fusion_power</a>) and it says &quot;but to date, no design has produced more fusion power output than the electrical power input, defeating the purpose.&quot;<p>Can anyone help explain what I am missing, or what is not explained well? My common-person impression is if a laboratory experiment cannot even produce desired outcomes, what makes people think that an engineered, faulty-prone system will? The way I see it is that researchers produce the proof-of-concept, and engineering will attempt to reproduce that at scale. Isn&#x27;t this preemptive? Or, from the article, it seems that it is necessary to build this thing in order to get any conclusive research results.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53573294</url></story> |
31,413,924 | 31,414,319 | 1 | 2 | 31,412,440 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>axg11</author><text>That sounds like a complex solution. Sometimes a dumb solution that works good enough is better than a complex solution that _probably_ can&#x27;t be exploited.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I never understood why they didn&#x27;t use randomized length micro batches to solve this.<p>Instead of processing orders instantly, wait between 200ms and 500ms and then process all orders that came in that window in random order. Then being 5ms closer to the server wouldn&#x27;t matter.</text></item><item><author>gareth_untether</author><text>Reminds me of the cable lengths for black boxes connected to the network in Wall Street. Each cable is the same length regardless of which computer is closer to the access point.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Riot Games: Artificial Latency for Remote Competitors</title><url>https://lolesports.com/article/riot-games-tech-blog-artificial-latency-for-remote-competitors/blt44154a33b5d5a616</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>w-m</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I get how that solves the issue: you would have set a fixed cutoff time, where you switch from one window&#x2F;batch to the next. It doesn&#x27;t matter when you arrive within the window. But statistically, even for random window lengths, if you have a smaller latency, you will make the cutoff for the earlier window more often.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I never understood why they didn&#x27;t use randomized length micro batches to solve this.<p>Instead of processing orders instantly, wait between 200ms and 500ms and then process all orders that came in that window in random order. Then being 5ms closer to the server wouldn&#x27;t matter.</text></item><item><author>gareth_untether</author><text>Reminds me of the cable lengths for black boxes connected to the network in Wall Street. Each cable is the same length regardless of which computer is closer to the access point.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Riot Games: Artificial Latency for Remote Competitors</title><url>https://lolesports.com/article/riot-games-tech-blog-artificial-latency-for-remote-competitors/blt44154a33b5d5a616</url></story> |
13,844,348 | 13,844,254 | 1 | 2 | 13,843,364 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mwfunk</author><text>None of that is obvious to me, nor does it seem like it has to be a binary choice between two extremes. That only makes sense if you are thinking of insurance purely as a business proposition between the insurer and an individual (well, millions or billions of individuals).<p>Insurance has a societal benefit, in the sense that it spreads risk around the population as equitably as it can. I&#x27;m not required to have car insurance to drive in California because the nanny state wants to protect me from myself. I&#x27;m not required to have car insurance to drive in California because some insurance company donated a bunch of money to the relevant politicians. Both of those things might be true, but that&#x27;s not why I have to have car insurance. I have to have car insurance to protect everyone else from me, and vice versa. The alternative is a world in which many more people have accidents and go bankrupt or sue each other for damages, and that&#x27;s a worse world for everyone, even the people who never get in an accident. Insurance is like a low-pass filter for tragedies.<p>Health insurance is a similar situation. Access to preventative care, or just being able to see a doctor outside of an emergency room situation is a lot less expensive in the long run for everybody. Medicare and Medicaid costs (that all taxpayers eventually have to shoulder the burden of) scale with the health of the population on Medicare and Medicaid. Giving everyone the opportunity for health has a selfish reward as well as a humanitarian one, even if you don&#x27;t care about poor people being able to see doctors when they have problems. It&#x27;s much cheaper for everyone in the long run. This necessitates solutions in between the two extremes you presented.</text><parent_chain><item><author>superbaconman</author><text>Only if you think insurance shouldn&#x27;t optimize for cost (this obviously includes age and pre-existing conditions). Either insurance should be optimized for cost, or insurance should be outlawed.</text></item><item><author>nitrogen</author><text><i>Insurance</i> doesn&#x27;t need to know anything about the person covered. <i>Doctors</i> are the ones who provide healthcare.</text></item><item><author>superbaconman</author><text>It&#x27;s not like government mandated insurance isn&#x27;t going to demand this at one point anyway. Health care <i>should</i> take genetic factors into account for health care optimization; If it doesn&#x27;t, it&#x27;s probably not the best health care you could get.</text></item><item><author>aurelianito</author><text>Well, if so it would be quite natural to do genetic testing to all the Congress members and also the POTUS. Even better, it should be done to all the candidates, so the US people can vote using all the information they need. If they don&#x27;t need it, the rest of the employers do not need it either.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>House Republicans would let employers demand workers’ genetic test results</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/10/workplace-wellness-genetic-testing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ksdale</author><text>This! If insurance companies aren&#x27;t allowed to know anything about customers AND they have to insure people with pre-existing conditions, then we&#x27;re not paying for insurance, we&#x27;re just paying for our healthcare out of pocket before we get sick (or other people&#x27;s healthcare in the case of young healthy people with high premiums).<p>It very well may be what&#x27;s best for society, but it&#x27;s definitely not insurance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>superbaconman</author><text>Only if you think insurance shouldn&#x27;t optimize for cost (this obviously includes age and pre-existing conditions). Either insurance should be optimized for cost, or insurance should be outlawed.</text></item><item><author>nitrogen</author><text><i>Insurance</i> doesn&#x27;t need to know anything about the person covered. <i>Doctors</i> are the ones who provide healthcare.</text></item><item><author>superbaconman</author><text>It&#x27;s not like government mandated insurance isn&#x27;t going to demand this at one point anyway. Health care <i>should</i> take genetic factors into account for health care optimization; If it doesn&#x27;t, it&#x27;s probably not the best health care you could get.</text></item><item><author>aurelianito</author><text>Well, if so it would be quite natural to do genetic testing to all the Congress members and also the POTUS. Even better, it should be done to all the candidates, so the US people can vote using all the information they need. If they don&#x27;t need it, the rest of the employers do not need it either.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>House Republicans would let employers demand workers’ genetic test results</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/10/workplace-wellness-genetic-testing/</url></story> |
23,419,783 | 23,420,030 | 1 | 2 | 23,419,101 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>etaioinshrdlu</author><text>So this is pretty misleading. It&#x27;s really a full system emulator (qemu) running inside Docker, using root privileges on the container that make the isolation very weak (--privileged).<p>It also uses hardware assisted virtualization (KVM) which is not going to be available most of the time Docker is.<p>You can think of the Docker platform itself as subset of the Linux platform. With many common features removed by default... SYS_PTRACE, cgroups come to mind as not allowed within the container. (This &quot;Docker as a subset of Linux&quot; is also what you end up getting from most &quot;Docker as a service&quot; platforms offered by clouds, including kubernetes. I&#x27;m referring to AWS Fargate, Google Cloud Run, GKE, AKS, here.)<p>So don&#x27;t think of this as macOS in docker wherever docker runs.<p>What would be a lot more analogous to macOS in docker would be running Darling in docker: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.darlinghq.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.darlinghq.org&#x2F;</a> ... if that could be made to work for the entire system (highly unlikely)<p>Darling is more like Wine in that it runs native executables for one platform as native processes on another platform using a compatibility layer. Wine, by the way, definitely works quite well inside Docker.<p>Also, one final thought. I wonder if you could get macOS to boot in QEMU without hardware assisted virtualization. Then you could probably run this in a fully isolated container again. The performance would likely be abysmal though!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>macOS in QEMU in Docker</title><url>https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cercatrova</author><text>I just want a good CI&#x2F;CD system for macOS to build iOS apps without needing to buy a farm of Mac Minis, or even buy a Mac, is that too much to ask?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>macOS in QEMU in Docker</title><url>https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX</url></story> |
30,210,919 | 30,205,297 | 1 | 3 | 30,204,604 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tijdreiziger</author><text>&gt; That&#x27;s three months old, has anyone heard of a followup suggesting their solution is being treated non-compliant by the regulators?<p>Yes, reported on yesterday by Reuters [1]:<p>&gt; As for Google&#x27;s plan, the official said the KCC was aware of concern over Google&#x27;s planned policy of only reducing its service charge to developers by 4 percentage points when users choose an alternative billing system, and the regulator is waiting for additional information from Google.<p>&gt; &quot;As a result of any policy, if app developers find it realistically difficult to use an alternative payment system and resort to using the dominant app store operator&#x27;s payment system, it would not fit the law&#x27;s purpose,&quot; the official said, adding that this stance would likely be reflected in the final ordinance.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;skorea-seeks-improved-compliance-plans-apple-google-app-store-law-2022-02-03&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;skorea-seeks-improved-com...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jsnell</author><text>Is it really nuts though? This should be a completely unsurprising move, given this is exactly what Play Store did in South Korea [0]. That&#x27;s three months old, has anyone heard of a followup suggesting their solution is being treated non-compliant by the regulators? This solution also seems to be in line with what the US courts found in the Epic vs. Apple case.<p>&gt; Imagine if in the past Apple would have had to pay 30% of their gross to Microsoft in order to be allowed to run their software on Windows.<p>Anyone making software for the Xbox has to pay Microsoft. Why is this different?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers-kr.googleblog.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;enabling-alternative-billing-in-korea-en.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers-kr.googleblog.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;enabling-altern...</a><p>Edit: Good grief, people. I am not pro-App Store. But jacquesm is literally claiming that Apple is nuts and that their solution will never fly. But everything we&#x27;ve seen so far in analogous cases suggests it will.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>They&#x27;re nuts. All they are doing is setting themselves up for another set of lawsuits.<p>Seriously: Apple should focus on selling hardware and be happy to facilitate those payments that people - and application developers - voluntarily process through their system.<p>All this stupid taxation of other peoples&#x27; businesses should stop, it is anti-competitive behavior that they themselves would never tolerate.<p>Imagine if in the past Apple would have had to pay 30% of their gross to Microsoft in order to be allowed to run their software on Windows.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/04/apple-will-charge-27-commission-for-purchases-made-using-alternative-payment-systems-in-the-netherlands/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>clusterfish</author><text>Why? Because how much you have to pay is determined by how much the platform owner can get away with. There is no fundamental logic to it other than market power. Why don&#x27;t you compare to better, open platforms instead - desktop apps, the web. Why does everything has to be as shitty as something else.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jsnell</author><text>Is it really nuts though? This should be a completely unsurprising move, given this is exactly what Play Store did in South Korea [0]. That&#x27;s three months old, has anyone heard of a followup suggesting their solution is being treated non-compliant by the regulators? This solution also seems to be in line with what the US courts found in the Epic vs. Apple case.<p>&gt; Imagine if in the past Apple would have had to pay 30% of their gross to Microsoft in order to be allowed to run their software on Windows.<p>Anyone making software for the Xbox has to pay Microsoft. Why is this different?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers-kr.googleblog.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;enabling-alternative-billing-in-korea-en.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers-kr.googleblog.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;enabling-altern...</a><p>Edit: Good grief, people. I am not pro-App Store. But jacquesm is literally claiming that Apple is nuts and that their solution will never fly. But everything we&#x27;ve seen so far in analogous cases suggests it will.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>They&#x27;re nuts. All they are doing is setting themselves up for another set of lawsuits.<p>Seriously: Apple should focus on selling hardware and be happy to facilitate those payments that people - and application developers - voluntarily process through their system.<p>All this stupid taxation of other peoples&#x27; businesses should stop, it is anti-competitive behavior that they themselves would never tolerate.<p>Imagine if in the past Apple would have had to pay 30% of their gross to Microsoft in order to be allowed to run their software on Windows.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/04/apple-will-charge-27-commission-for-purchases-made-using-alternative-payment-systems-in-the-netherlands/</url></story> |
21,060,642 | 21,060,734 | 1 | 3 | 21,058,975 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>est31</author><text>Also note that this might not be a one way street. They might use brain machine interfaces to stimulate your brain according to the ads you are watching. E.g. you watch ads for beer and you get the feeling of beer taste on your mouth or you watch ads for bread and you get the smell of freshly baked bread, etc. Or when you are in a store, the implant will give you a serotonin kick when you foveate on a specific product (whose manufacturer paid for that kick). etc.<p>It&#x27;s creepy af. But 20 years ago when you told someone about the privacy intrusions of smartphones, people would&#x27;ve been creeped out as well so I&#x27;m pessimist and saying it will come.</text><parent_chain><item><author>asdkhadsj</author><text>Interesting that this is a tech I&#x27;ve wanted for ages, yet with these days of privacy issues where mere mouse behavior can lead to identifying signatures... I&#x27;m not letting anyone near my brain patterns.<p>I&#x27;ll wear a tinfoil hat on this one.. but not knowing what possible behavioral&#x2F;emotional&#x2F;matchable patterns might exist in my waves is a bit terrifying. Thanks no thanks Facebook. If there even was a company I&#x27;d trust with my brain signature, it&#x27;s sure as hell not you.<p><i>edit: I should note, it sounds like this is not specifically brain waves.. but still. My opinion in this arena doesn&#x27;t change hah.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook to acquire CTRL-Labs, a startup for controlling computers with the mind</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-23/facebook-to-buy-startup-for-controlling-computers-with-your-mind</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nathanyz</author><text>When will we all learn that ad-supported versus paid products are just a variation of the Stanford marshmallow experiment.<p>Free, ad-supported products are all about short term gratification because it costs us nothing today. Instead if we consider the long term when making these choices, then an investment in a paid no tracking product would be a better decision.<p>The problem is that the experiment itself showed the majority chose the short term gratification.</text><parent_chain><item><author>asdkhadsj</author><text>Interesting that this is a tech I&#x27;ve wanted for ages, yet with these days of privacy issues where mere mouse behavior can lead to identifying signatures... I&#x27;m not letting anyone near my brain patterns.<p>I&#x27;ll wear a tinfoil hat on this one.. but not knowing what possible behavioral&#x2F;emotional&#x2F;matchable patterns might exist in my waves is a bit terrifying. Thanks no thanks Facebook. If there even was a company I&#x27;d trust with my brain signature, it&#x27;s sure as hell not you.<p><i>edit: I should note, it sounds like this is not specifically brain waves.. but still. My opinion in this arena doesn&#x27;t change hah.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook to acquire CTRL-Labs, a startup for controlling computers with the mind</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-23/facebook-to-buy-startup-for-controlling-computers-with-your-mind</url></story> |
4,413,554 | 4,413,633 | 1 | 3 | 4,413,277 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>austenallred</author><text>I come from a marketing background, and I have to say that sometimes the negative view of marketers is completely deserved. All it takes is some kid in business school to watch The Social Network and decide he needs a "code monkey" to build his awesome idea. He becomes the "idea" guy, tries to find someone to give 10% equity to build everything, and gets ready to snort cocaine in Palo Alto.<p>But if you've ever worked with a truly talented marketer, it's an incredible experience. The way they can take something, craft the messaging to it's JUST RIGHT and find the proper channels to market on - it's a beautiful thing. But for someone who doesn't come from a marketing background, it's very hard to discern.<p>I'm sure there are really bad hackers (or do we still call them "hackers?"), but if you're a marketer it's hard to tell the difference.<p>Generally disrespect comes from a lack of willingness to understand what actually happens on the other side. I think it should be mandatory for every marketer to learn how to code - even if it's some basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Hackers should all have to try and acquire customers, and see that it's not all sending out a couple of tweets or emailing a TechCrunch columnist. Whether you consider the other side a "code monkey" or a "non-technical idiot," you're in big trouble. It takes two hands to clap, and both are immensely difficult to accomplish.<p>You have to specialize, but you also have to understand.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What A Hacker Learns After A Year In Marketing</title><url>http://brooklynhacker.com/post/29901112213/what-a-hacker-learns-after-a-year-in-marketing</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kerryfalk</author><text>I was a bit hesitant to click the link, but I'm glad I did.<p><i>"As it turns out, the ones who do it well are rare and far less visible because - like good programmers - their work is a lot harder to notice."</i><p>This sums my experience perfectly. It takes a long time to be able to understand who is good at something and who is not.<p>Pardon my language but many marketers are charlatans. When I first started in marketing I thought the charlatans were the ones who were good (incompetent people [me at that time] are the least competent at recognizing those who are good). Now, after a decade at it I can firmly agree with the statement above and I think it bodes very well for the author.<p>I believe the 2nd point is the most important to understand when trying to get good at marketing. The rest is ancillary to doing a great job, but having the data is essential to knowing <i>what</i> to do.<p>I believe great marketers are like methodical scientists. They can put aside their own biases and test their hypothesis and analyze the data. Beyond that, they can look at the data in front of them, identify what they need to know more about, and discover things they did not expect. Through this they can affect change that improves the entire organization.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What A Hacker Learns After A Year In Marketing</title><url>http://brooklynhacker.com/post/29901112213/what-a-hacker-learns-after-a-year-in-marketing</url></story> |
37,962,782 | 37,961,874 | 1 | 3 | 37,961,873 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edsimpson</author><text>This really interesting, would love to see how Signal stacks up.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Energy, WiFi and RAM use by Android messaging apps</title><url>https://decentim.grafana.net/public-dashboards/92602d3a4aa842ce97812d310077691d</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrey_utkin</author><text>Hi! I would like to show you my small analysis of Android messaging apps: power draw, bandwidth and RAM use.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Energy, WiFi and RAM use by Android messaging apps</title><url>https://decentim.grafana.net/public-dashboards/92602d3a4aa842ce97812d310077691d</url></story> |
41,637,227 | 41,632,693 | 1 | 2 | 41,609,771 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wallstprog</author><text>If you&#x27;re using dynamic linking, the following two tools will come in very handy:<p>- pldd (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man7.org&#x2F;linux&#x2F;man-pages&#x2F;man1&#x2F;pldd.1.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man7.org&#x2F;linux&#x2F;man-pages&#x2F;man1&#x2F;pldd.1.html</a>) shows the <i>actual</i> dynamic libs linked into a running process. (Contrast this with ldd, which shows what the dynamic libs <i>would be</i> based on the current shell environment).<p>- libtree (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;haampie&#x2F;libtree">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;haampie&#x2F;libtree</a>) which shows dependencies similarly to ldd, but in tree format.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Picking Glibc Versions at Runtime</title><url>https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/glibc-versions-runtime</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>theamk</author><text>There are ways to switch glibc other than &quot;rewrite every binary&quot; and &quot;full-on containers&quot;.<p>In particular, if you need to replace not just glibc, but also a bunch of system libraries (pretty common case for complex apps), it&#x27;s often easier to unshare(CLONE_NEWNS), followed by bind-mounting over new &#x2F;lib64 and &#x2F;usr&#x2F;lib to override specific directories. This is much lighter than full-on containers, and allows overriding any specific directories - for example if your app looks at &#x2F;usr&#x2F;share&#x2F;appname, you can override it too.<p>This method has a bunch of upsides: you can use binaries unmodified, subprocesses work, and hard-coded data locations can be taken care of as well.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Picking Glibc Versions at Runtime</title><url>https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/glibc-versions-runtime</url></story> |
41,255,879 | 41,255,543 | 1 | 2 | 41,254,740 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alberth</author><text>Does this handle the special case of timezone changes (and local time discontinuity) that Jon Skeet famously documented?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;6841333&#x2F;why-is-subtracting-these-two-epoch-milli-times-in-year-1927-giving-a-strange-r" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;6841333&#x2F;why-is-subtracti...</a><p>And computerphile explains so well in their 10-min video:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY</a><p>---<p>I&#x27;ve long ago learned to never build my own Date&#x2F;Time nor Encryption libraries. There&#x27;s endless edge cases that can bite you hard.<p>(Which is also why I&#x27;m skeptical when I encounter new such libraries)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: High-precision date/time in SQLite</title><url>https://antonz.org/sqlean-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>mynameisash</author><text>I find the three different time representations&#x2F;sizes curious (eg, what possible use case would need nanosecond precision over a span of billions of years?). More confusing is that there&#x27;s pretty extreme time granularity, but only ±290 years range with nanosecond precision for time durations?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: High-precision date/time in SQLite</title><url>https://antonz.org/sqlean-time/</url></story> |
12,804,412 | 12,804,366 | 1 | 3 | 12,804,289 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>Let me do a mini-askHN: I&#x27;m thinking of joining Twitter to work on their anti-abuse efforts. What factors should I consider in my decision?<p>At first consideration, this news doesn&#x27;t worry me a ton. They provide a product that provides a lot of user value, just to a smaller user base than they&#x2F;investors hoped. They&#x27;ve found a reasonable way to monetize it, with $2b+&#x2F;year in revenue. Their expenses are too high for that, but not egregiously so, with previously committed stock compensation being a big chunk of things. There&#x27;s still a lot they can do with the product. And they&#x27;ve got a unique value that&#x27;s hard for other people to replicate: it&#x27;s the place for public figures (public figures at all scales) to interact.<p>Am I crazy here? I know I&#x27;m taking a risk, but I&#x27;m not seeing more risk than, say, joining a Series A startup, which I&#x27;ve happily done before.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter beats estimates, cuts jobs with eye on 2017 profitability</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results-idUSKCN12R1GW?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social</url></story> | <instructions>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><i>Reuters</i> leading with &quot;Twitter beats revenue estimates...&quot; while the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> chose &quot;Twitter to Cut 9% of Workforce as Revenue Growth Slows&quot; [1]. This is usually a sign of a political fragmentation, <i>e.g.</i> within management, within the Board, between the former or within the shareholder base.<p>(<i>Reuters&#x27;</i> correspondent is based in Bangalore; the <i>Journal</i>&#x27;s in the Bay Area [2]. Neither contains any direct quotes. <i>Journal</i> cites multiple Wall Street analyst reports.)<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;twitter-to-cut-workforce-as-revenue-growth-slows-1477566772" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;twitter-to-cut-workforce-as-reve...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;dseetharaman" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;dseetharaman</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter beats estimates, cuts jobs with eye on 2017 profitability</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results-idUSKCN12R1GW?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social</url></story> |
6,097,596 | 6,097,614 | 1 | 2 | 6,097,155 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jenniferDewalt</author><text>Just before I started the project, I looked around the internet for some resources to see what I was getting myself into. There are so many awesome places to get information out there. Stack Overflow, the Wikipedia, demos, tutorials, documentation. I spend about 10 hours a day working on the project and the vast majority of that time is me digging through those amazing resources.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wellingtons</author><text>I have to ask: How on earth do you find the time to do this?<p>As much as I&#x27;d love to do this in order to get my hands dirty on web development and out of systems, I can&#x27;t ever fathom having the free time available every day consecutively.<p>I mean, for someone &quot;learn(ing) to code&quot; on Day 1 and by Day 15 doing &quot;Dropping Boxes&quot;, it just seems a little far fetched. Obviously you have had a good portion of coding experience and are using -some- level of resources, or you are a savant.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to sound rude, I just feel like the readers deserve a deeper level of explanation and cited resources, rather than believing you reinvented Conway&#x27;s Game of Life by day 108.<p>Edit: I have to add that this is all very excellent work and good on you for sticking to your goals so far. Clearly you are a very talented individual. Cheers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115</title><url>http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-to-code-by-building-180-websites-in-180</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jamesaguilar</author><text>She implemented Conway&#x27;s Game of Life, which is substantially easier than reinventing it. Here is someone implementing it in eight minutes in APL, while explaining it, and futzing around with other stuff: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4</a>.<p>Also, I don&#x27;t really understand the suspicion this gets here. Where&#x27;s the win in giving someone the Spanish inquisition for posting something cool? What&#x27;s the upside of this skepticism? Does it accomplish something useful? It&#x27;s not like this person is trying to sell you something or has any reason to deceive you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wellingtons</author><text>I have to ask: How on earth do you find the time to do this?<p>As much as I&#x27;d love to do this in order to get my hands dirty on web development and out of systems, I can&#x27;t ever fathom having the free time available every day consecutively.<p>I mean, for someone &quot;learn(ing) to code&quot; on Day 1 and by Day 15 doing &quot;Dropping Boxes&quot;, it just seems a little far fetched. Obviously you have had a good portion of coding experience and are using -some- level of resources, or you are a savant.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to sound rude, I just feel like the readers deserve a deeper level of explanation and cited resources, rather than believing you reinvented Conway&#x27;s Game of Life by day 108.<p>Edit: I have to add that this is all very excellent work and good on you for sticking to your goals so far. Clearly you are a very talented individual. Cheers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115</title><url>http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-to-code-by-building-180-websites-in-180</url></story> |
4,131,129 | 4,129,611 | 1 | 3 | 4,127,393 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>They are probably not trying to "take control of a limited resource". Most people don't think of bandwidth in that way.<p>I sometimes use the shared wifi on trains and overhear people who are confused as to why they can view webpages but 1080p video doesn't seem to stream very well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>orbitingpluto</author><text>Running Linux?<p>Avoid any ASUS routers unless you're flashing a new firmware. Awful experience. My last one was the N15. It wouldn't even give out a DHCP lease to two different computers and four different NICs.<p>And, as for:<p>"Ever sat in an internet shop, a hotel room or lobby, a local hotspot, and wondered why you can't access your email? Unknown to you, the guy in the next room or at the next table is hogging the internet bandwidth to download the Lord Of The Rings Special Extended Edition in 1080p HDTV format."<p>Nmap is your friend. Find the offending port and flood it. Since the local connection is always quicker than the Internet connection, it's easy to do. I've done this countless times, and only to those torrenting. At one cafe I use to frequent I would just start scanning whenever this one guy came in. I wonder if he ever developed a negative Pavlovian response to seeing me at the cafe and his torrenting success.<p>Do I feel guilty about basically DoS? Really, no. If someone tries to take control of a limited resource... shit is going to happen.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Because Everyone (Still) Needs a Router</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/because-everyone-still-needs-a-router.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>awakeasleep</author><text>Can you explain any more about how this works?<p>I'm assuming you find someone with a high random port open, but I have no idea where to go from there.<p>How would you go about flooding that connection? Are you relying on a card in passive mode to gather data and replay it? What do you use to replay?</text><parent_chain><item><author>orbitingpluto</author><text>Running Linux?<p>Avoid any ASUS routers unless you're flashing a new firmware. Awful experience. My last one was the N15. It wouldn't even give out a DHCP lease to two different computers and four different NICs.<p>And, as for:<p>"Ever sat in an internet shop, a hotel room or lobby, a local hotspot, and wondered why you can't access your email? Unknown to you, the guy in the next room or at the next table is hogging the internet bandwidth to download the Lord Of The Rings Special Extended Edition in 1080p HDTV format."<p>Nmap is your friend. Find the offending port and flood it. Since the local connection is always quicker than the Internet connection, it's easy to do. I've done this countless times, and only to those torrenting. At one cafe I use to frequent I would just start scanning whenever this one guy came in. I wonder if he ever developed a negative Pavlovian response to seeing me at the cafe and his torrenting success.<p>Do I feel guilty about basically DoS? Really, no. If someone tries to take control of a limited resource... shit is going to happen.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Because Everyone (Still) Needs a Router</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/because-everyone-still-needs-a-router.html</url></story> |
17,284,654 | 17,284,076 | 1 | 2 | 17,283,758 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sumoboy</author><text>You wouldn&#x27;t know lemonade stands were shutdown if social media didn&#x27;t expose it. But what it should be is a lesson for cities to adopt a young entrepreneur license for like $10&#x2F;year. There will always be some angry a-hole who will call the cops or HOA idiot whining.<p>My suburbia neighborhood there were people who wanted to share books with people freely in a small mailbox near the curb, like a mini-library. Someone started whining and the city was like &quot;it&#x27;s illegal to have such a structure&quot; so once it hit the news people went crazy over the stupidity of the cities response.<p>I always stop for the bad lemonade at these stands, even tell these kids how to market better with better signs that you can read. I remember knocking on doors selling vegetable seed packets, shoveling snow and whatever to make a few bucks to really appreciate the dollar. I think it&#x27;s a great PR idea, definitely a creative video, and everytime they intervene it&#x27;s another story.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Country Time Lemonade Will Pay Legal Fees for Unlicensed Lemonade Stands</title><url>http://www.mymoneyblog.com/country-time-lemonade-stand-legalade.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>Matt3o12_</author><text>This seems to be PR move since not a lot of people can participate and only $300 of the legal fees are reimbursed:<p>&gt; Open to legal residents of the 50 U.S. (including D.C.), who are the parents or legal guardians of a child 14 years of age or younger operating a lemonade stand. Program ends 11:59pm ET on 8&#x2F;31&#x2F;18 or when $60,000 worth of offers have been awarded, whichever comes first. For complete Terms and Conditions, including status of available offers, and all other details, visit countrytimelegalade.com.<p>&gt; [From the article]: You can’t even be 13 or younger to participate due to child privacy laws<p>Nevertheless, aren’t there any laws that help such “hobbies“ (considering how little money that should make, and that underage children are voluntarily “working”, one can’t really call it a “business”.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Country Time Lemonade Will Pay Legal Fees for Unlicensed Lemonade Stands</title><url>http://www.mymoneyblog.com/country-time-lemonade-stand-legalade.html</url></story> |
20,860,062 | 20,859,777 | 1 | 2 | 20,858,458 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zamadatix</author><text>I think it&#x27;s best to say it the way they did. It&#x27;s one thing to be faster per dollar but it&#x27;s another thing for to win on performance as well.<p>From single core to same number of cores to having more cores the 7742 wins in each case and still comes out on top. That&#x27;s far more amazing than being 5x cheaper. Everyone has known Intel has charged an outrageous premium for a long time but it was also the best so people dealt with it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>localhost</author><text>&quot;You&#x27;re getting 24.83% more performance while costing 73.29% less.&quot;<p>This is a terrible performance summary. Let&#x27;s try to normalize it in terms of Geekbench points &#x2F; $:<p><pre><code> Intel = 155050 &#x2F; $52044 = 2.97 &#x2F; $
AMD = 193554 &#x2F; $13011 = 14.88 &#x2F; $
</code></pre>
AMD has a 5x advantage on the price of the CPU alone, not factoring in the price of the motherboard and other components (this is a 4 socket Intel motherboard vs. a dual socket AMD).<p>5X. That&#x27;s incredible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Geekbench 4</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dual-amd-epyc-7742-vs-quad-intel-xeon-platinum-8180m,40288.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>Buraksr</author><text>AMD has always had the problem of having weaker cpu&#x27;s that were better per dollar. I agree they should have highlighted the 5x advantage, but for a long time people have regarded AMD as the value weaker option; this is what changed this gen and what they are trying to higlight. Finally AMD gets more performance for cheaper and is no longer just a better value in some applications</text><parent_chain><item><author>localhost</author><text>&quot;You&#x27;re getting 24.83% more performance while costing 73.29% less.&quot;<p>This is a terrible performance summary. Let&#x27;s try to normalize it in terms of Geekbench points &#x2F; $:<p><pre><code> Intel = 155050 &#x2F; $52044 = 2.97 &#x2F; $
AMD = 193554 &#x2F; $13011 = 14.88 &#x2F; $
</code></pre>
AMD has a 5x advantage on the price of the CPU alone, not factoring in the price of the motherboard and other components (this is a 4 socket Intel motherboard vs. a dual socket AMD).<p>5X. That&#x27;s incredible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Geekbench 4</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dual-amd-epyc-7742-vs-quad-intel-xeon-platinum-8180m,40288.html</url></story> |
8,130,577 | 8,130,593 | 1 | 2 | 8,130,413 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>axman6</author><text>Seems like [1] could benefit from use of the X macro [2], should make adding new instructions much easier and you can avoid the hassle of having to keep two separate tables in sync. There&#x27;s probably quite a few places where the code could be made clearer by using it. Also in the implementation of your functions, there&#x27;s a hell of a lot of repetition in all the binary operations, another macro which you pass in the operation and the function name would make life earier:<p><pre><code> #define binop(NAME, OP) definstr (NAME) { \
long long b, a; \
if (carp_stack_pop(&amp;m-&gt;stack, &amp;b) == -1)\
carp_vm_err(m, CARP_STACK_EMPTY);\
if (carp_stack_pop(&amp;m-&gt;stack, &amp;a) == -1)\
carp_vm_err(m, CARP_STACK_EMPTY);\
carp_stack_push(&amp;m-&gt;stack, a OP b);}
binop(ADD,+)
binop(MUL,*)
...
</code></pre>
The repetition of<p><pre><code> if (carp_stack_pop(&amp;m-&gt;stack, &amp;a) == -1)
carp_vm_err(m, CARP_STACK_EMPTY);
</code></pre>
seems like a good place to just use a function to encapsulate all the error checking and handling.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/tekknolagi/carp/blob/master/src/carp_instructions.h" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tekknolagi&#x2F;carp&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;carp_inst...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.embedded.com/design/programming-languages-and-tools/4403953/C-language-coding-errors-with-X-macros-Part-1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.embedded.com&#x2F;design&#x2F;programming-languages-and-too...</a> and the following parts</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C</title><url>https://github.com/tekknolagi/carp</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>panic</author><text>The implementation is really clean! The mixing of general-purpose registers, special-purpose registers and the stack makes the instruction set a bit weird, though.<p>For example, instead of using registers, why not have OR pick values off the stack like ADD, or vice versa? Why use EAX for the conditional jump instructions when you could look at the top of the stack? Why have REM when you can just MOV from ERX?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C</title><url>https://github.com/tekknolagi/carp</url></story> |
8,589,422 | 8,588,865 | 1 | 3 | 8,588,542 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Shinkei</author><text>Glenn Beck&#x27;s article reeks of a promotional piece and I am somewhat skeptical of the reporting of his medical symptoms. It&#x27;s like &#x27;telephone&#x27; where a lot is lost in transmitting the information, because it doesn&#x27;t sound reasonable to me that a physician would say any of the things he said. For example, you always hear the whole, &quot;You&#x27;ve got x number of years to live,&quot; but in reality almost no physician I&#x27;ve ever worked with would say something like that. They will give you data in cancer survival for example, but someone with an undefined illness as he describes could not be given a prognosis! And then the moment he refrences this &#x27;healing center&#x27; that performs &#x27;miracles&#x27; my alarms were going off. I think you need to also consider that a lot of the symptoms he was supposedly showing are commonly seen in facticious or somatization disorder.<p>Open up his medical record to scrutiny by other physicians and let me see the data, otherwise I am very doubtful of his &#x27;facts.&#x27;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Time Collapse” and My Broken Brain</title><url>http://uncrunched.com/2014/11/10/time-collapse-and-a-broken-brain/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akanet</author><text>I actually have similar symptoms on a smaller scale - I never remember my dreams, and I generally can&#x27;t tell you if an event happened in the last month or the last year.<p>I get plenty of sleep, though, so I&#x27;m just going to chalk that up to having a bad memory.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Time Collapse” and My Broken Brain</title><url>http://uncrunched.com/2014/11/10/time-collapse-and-a-broken-brain/</url></story> |
41,061,514 | 41,061,222 | 1 | 2 | 41,060,102 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>layer8</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ll be calling &quot;private&quot; repos &quot;unlisted&quot;<p>The same for “deleted” repos.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hackerbirds</author><text>Users should never be expected to know these gotchas for a feature called &quot;private&quot;, documented or not. It&#x27;s disappointing to see GitHub calling it a feature instead of a bug, to me it just shows a complete lack of care about security. Privacy features should _always_ have a strict, safe default.<p>In the meantime I&#x27;ll be calling &quot;private&quot; repos &quot;unlisted&quot;, seems more appropriate</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub</title><url>https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisandchris</author><text>Yep, I see GitHub as &quot;public only&quot; hosting, and if I want to host something private, I will choose another vendor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hackerbirds</author><text>Users should never be expected to know these gotchas for a feature called &quot;private&quot;, documented or not. It&#x27;s disappointing to see GitHub calling it a feature instead of a bug, to me it just shows a complete lack of care about security. Privacy features should _always_ have a strict, safe default.<p>In the meantime I&#x27;ll be calling &quot;private&quot; repos &quot;unlisted&quot;, seems more appropriate</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub</title><url>https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github</url></story> |
11,214,182 | 11,214,053 | 1 | 3 | 11,212,818 | 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>prebrov</author><text>I&#x27;m delighted to see Congress taking a stand for&#x27;s right here, and I hope politicians finally realised they do have a personal stake in the matter.<p>They do have secrets, like most of us and effects of revealing these secrets would have far worse consequences for them and their careers than for most &quot;ordinary citizens&quot;, which makes them high-profile targets. Easy targets, too, if (or when) FBI&#x2F;NSA&#x2F;CIA allies with some party in domestic political struggle.<p>Given surveillance powers these guys want, it won&#x27;t be too long before they decide that next order of business is to find more effective ways to steer political discourse in the favourable direction.<p>I can see how &quot;ordinary people&quot; would think they &quot;aren&#x27;t important enough&quot; when it comes to surveillance, but it amazes me that ambitious politicians wouldn&#x27;t see themselves as &quot;important enough&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pdkl95</author><text>I also watched most of the hearing[1], and Comey was very practiced at sticking to his story. However, one bit in particular stood out as something I haven&#x27;t heard before: he seemed to criticize Apple for trying to protect people. He went off on a brief tangent at one point where he said things like[2]:<p>&quot;It&#x27;s not Apple&#x27;s job to protect the American people.&quot;<p>&quot;They sell phones, they don&#x27;t sell public safety. That&#x27;s our business to worry about.&quot;<p>He spent a minute or two saying things like that. This almost sounds like Comey sees this as some sort of turf war, with Apple infringing on his responsibilities. I&#x27;m not sure how to interpret that - isn&#x27;t it the job of <i>any</i> manufacturer to make sure their product is safe? Wouldn&#x27;t any kind of courier have a duty to protect what that which they carry?<p>[1] side note: I&#x27;m actually very impressed by most of Representatives understanding of the issue and the fairness of their questions.<p>[2] These may not be exact quotes! This is what I remember, I&#x27;ll see if I can find the spot in the video later.</text></item><item><author>sigmar</author><text>I watched most of the hearing (can be viewed here <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw</a>), this article seems like a pretty accurate characterization. Comey&#x27;s parsing of words in his response to the question of whether any gov&#x27;t agency can access the phone reminded me of Clapper&#x27;s &quot;least untruthful&quot; answer (ie his lie about NSA data collection).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Congress finally showed it's willing to fight the FBI on encryption</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/01/congress-showed-willing-fight-fbi-encryption-finally</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alanwatts</author><text>It is a turf war because times are changing. This is actually a central theme in the newest James Bond movies, and one that Marshall Mcluhan wrote about back in the 70&#x27;s:<p>&gt;<i>Man Hunter and Sleuth: Posture and Imposture</i><p>&gt;In one of Sherlock Holmes&#x27;s adventures his quarry demurs when Holmes declares that he had seen him at a particular spot. The quarry retorts that &quot;I saw nobody follow me there.&quot; And Holmes comments, &quot;That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.&quot;<p>&gt;Half the world today is engaged in keeping the other half &quot;under surveillance.&quot; This, in fact, is the hang-up of the age of &quot;software&quot; and information. In the preceding &quot;hardware&quot; age the &quot;haves&quot; of the world had kept the &quot;have-nots&quot; under &quot;surveillance.&quot; This old beat for flatfoots has now been relegated to the world of popular entertainment. The police state is now a work of art, a bureaucratic ballet of undulating sirens. That is a way of saying that the espionage activities of our multitudinous man hunters and &quot;crediting&quot; agencies are not only archaic, but redundant and irrelevant.<p>-Marshall McLuhan, Take Today: The Executive as Dropout</text><parent_chain><item><author>pdkl95</author><text>I also watched most of the hearing[1], and Comey was very practiced at sticking to his story. However, one bit in particular stood out as something I haven&#x27;t heard before: he seemed to criticize Apple for trying to protect people. He went off on a brief tangent at one point where he said things like[2]:<p>&quot;It&#x27;s not Apple&#x27;s job to protect the American people.&quot;<p>&quot;They sell phones, they don&#x27;t sell public safety. That&#x27;s our business to worry about.&quot;<p>He spent a minute or two saying things like that. This almost sounds like Comey sees this as some sort of turf war, with Apple infringing on his responsibilities. I&#x27;m not sure how to interpret that - isn&#x27;t it the job of <i>any</i> manufacturer to make sure their product is safe? Wouldn&#x27;t any kind of courier have a duty to protect what that which they carry?<p>[1] side note: I&#x27;m actually very impressed by most of Representatives understanding of the issue and the fairness of their questions.<p>[2] These may not be exact quotes! This is what I remember, I&#x27;ll see if I can find the spot in the video later.</text></item><item><author>sigmar</author><text>I watched most of the hearing (can be viewed here <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw</a>), this article seems like a pretty accurate characterization. Comey&#x27;s parsing of words in his response to the question of whether any gov&#x27;t agency can access the phone reminded me of Clapper&#x27;s &quot;least untruthful&quot; answer (ie his lie about NSA data collection).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Congress finally showed it's willing to fight the FBI on encryption</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/01/congress-showed-willing-fight-fbi-encryption-finally</url></story> |
2,862,205 | 2,861,859 | 1 | 3 | 2,861,825 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bumbledraven</author><text><i>A given Turing machine M either accepts, rejects,
or runs forever (when started on a blank tape)... [W]hich one it does is an objective fact, independent of our formal axiomatic theories, the laws of physics, the biology of the human brain, cultural conventions, etc.</i> (p. 43)<p>Nice way to put it. As Franzen points out in "Inexhaustibility", although non-logicians sometimes find it puzzling, the above is related to what mathematicians mean when they say that a statement is <i>true</i> without further qualification. For instance, take Gödel's first incompleteness theorem. It states that if <i>F</i> is any consistent formal system capable of proving statements about whether or not arbitrary Turing machines halt, then there are <i>true</i> statements which cannot be proved within <i>F</i>. (Here, <i>consistent</i> means that it's not possible within <i>F</i> to prove both a statement "<i>S</i>" and its negation "not <i>S</i>".)<p>In the same sense, its <i>true</i> (as Aaronson wrote in "Logicians on Safari") that "there’s a finite (and not unimaginably-large) set of boxes, such that if we knew how to pack those boxes into the trunk of your car, then we’d also know a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis."</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity</title><url>http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=735</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gnosis</author><text>This is basically aimed at analytic philosophers. Continental philosophers generally aren't interested in this sort of thing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity</title><url>http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=735</url></story> |
19,276,529 | 19,276,528 | 1 | 2 | 19,275,755 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gcbw2</author><text>Does it matter to the victim who is at fault?<p>...also, there&#x27;s a $1,200 delivery fee. Is this the new &quot;restock fee&quot;? it is conveniently left out of the marketing materials.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Dylan16807</author><text>This is very good advice to keep in mind, but it&#x27;s not Tesla&#x27;s fault if the credit reporting agencies are terrible.</text></item><item><author>BoorishBears</author><text>“Courageous”<p>If anyone has ever had to cancel a car sale you’ll realize how much of a hassle it truely is to “return a car”<p>Your credit report will show a loan even after it’s been cancelled for weeks.<p>I once cancelled financing for a car due to it not being as described. Started looking for a new car and found it.<p>Got denied for a loan because my score showed a 60k loan with 0 payments made. It took almost 2 months to fully remove it from my report and start with a clean state<p>In summary, Tesla is essentially saying “you can’t test drive it but if you don’t like it you can cancel your car search for a few months and ding your credit score for nothing”<p>This is like mattress stores that give you a “free trial”, they know the resistance to actually doing ending your “trial” is crazy high</text></item><item><author>BenoitEssiambre</author><text>&quot;To achieve these prices while remaining financially sustainable, Tesla is shifting sales worldwide to online only. You can now buy a Tesla in North America via your phone in about 1 minute, and that capability will soon be extended worldwide. We are also making it much easier to try out and return a Tesla, so that a test drive prior to purchase isn’t needed. You can now return a car within 7 days or 1,000 miles for a full refund. Quite literally, you could buy a Tesla, drive several hundred miles for a weekend road trip with friends and then return it for free. With the highest consumer satisfaction score of any car on the road, we are confident you will want to keep your Model 3.<p>Shifting all sales online, combined with other ongoing cost efficiencies, will enable us to lower all vehicle prices by about 6% on average, allowing us to achieve the $35,000 Model 3 price point earlier than we expected. Over the next few months, we will be winding down many of our stores,&quot;<p>Bold</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/35000-tesla-model-3-available-now</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BoorishBears</author><text>I think they both deserve credit, in reality returning a 30 thousand dollar object is never going to be smooth.<p>The finance has already written you a check, they’ve already done all this leg work.<p>You’ve already driven it, if you’re purchasing it in earnest you might have already invested in charging infrastructure for your home, a whole laundry list of friction.<p>Then there’s what happens to the car you returned.<p>I wouldn’t want to be the guy stuck with a car that went through multiple 1000 mile “test drives” with Tesla’s reconditioning track record of delivering cars with toe nail clippings in the seat rails<p>(traditional dealers do have offers like this from time to time, but it’s exceedingly rare they’ll actually let you keep the car for more than a few hours, and most importantly <i>they don’t require you to buy the car first, they’ll take a deposit or let you rent the car</i>)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Dylan16807</author><text>This is very good advice to keep in mind, but it&#x27;s not Tesla&#x27;s fault if the credit reporting agencies are terrible.</text></item><item><author>BoorishBears</author><text>“Courageous”<p>If anyone has ever had to cancel a car sale you’ll realize how much of a hassle it truely is to “return a car”<p>Your credit report will show a loan even after it’s been cancelled for weeks.<p>I once cancelled financing for a car due to it not being as described. Started looking for a new car and found it.<p>Got denied for a loan because my score showed a 60k loan with 0 payments made. It took almost 2 months to fully remove it from my report and start with a clean state<p>In summary, Tesla is essentially saying “you can’t test drive it but if you don’t like it you can cancel your car search for a few months and ding your credit score for nothing”<p>This is like mattress stores that give you a “free trial”, they know the resistance to actually doing ending your “trial” is crazy high</text></item><item><author>BenoitEssiambre</author><text>&quot;To achieve these prices while remaining financially sustainable, Tesla is shifting sales worldwide to online only. You can now buy a Tesla in North America via your phone in about 1 minute, and that capability will soon be extended worldwide. We are also making it much easier to try out and return a Tesla, so that a test drive prior to purchase isn’t needed. You can now return a car within 7 days or 1,000 miles for a full refund. Quite literally, you could buy a Tesla, drive several hundred miles for a weekend road trip with friends and then return it for free. With the highest consumer satisfaction score of any car on the road, we are confident you will want to keep your Model 3.<p>Shifting all sales online, combined with other ongoing cost efficiencies, will enable us to lower all vehicle prices by about 6% on average, allowing us to achieve the $35,000 Model 3 price point earlier than we expected. Over the next few months, we will be winding down many of our stores,&quot;<p>Bold</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/35000-tesla-model-3-available-now</url></story> |
17,524,021 | 17,523,877 | 1 | 2 | 17,523,056 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>everyone</author><text>People? This seems to be a cultural trend in the US in particular.
In many other countries the value of laws, social services, anti-trust and anti-corruption regulations, and so on, are rightly seen as necessary and desirable.<p>Unfortunately the US is very influential globally, in various ways. eg trade agreements, or just brutally implementing neo-liberal economics on weak countries they can coerce economically and&#x2F;or militarily.<p>The US has also (having effectively no anti-trust for decades) has let many corporations based or founded there grow to unprecedented sizes and power.<p>Theres also other countries &#x2F;areas (Jersey, Cayman Islands, etc.) that make a business of tailoring their laws to allow corporations to avoid paying taxes, pollute, hide data, censor journalists etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FussyZeus</author><text>People seem to be naturally anti-regulation, failing to see that those regulations don&#x27;t exist purely upon the whims of bureaucrats, but chiefly to address previous issues brought to the regulator&#x27;s attention.<p>Sometime in the last century, this idea was implanted by big businesses in the media and therefore the thoughts of the citizenry that regulation is more than anything, just people who couldn&#x27;t succeed in business bullying people who are, and that shit is so fucking dangerous that it makes me shake. Amazon, AirBNB, Google, Facebook, Apple, none of these companies give a FUCK about you any further than they are legally required to, not one iota further, and we constantly bemoan our politicians over having a &quot;too regulated&quot; business environment.</text></item><item><author>nugget</author><text>Imagine a world in which Experian or Equifax would only fix a mistake on your credit report if you had enough followers to embarrass them on social media. This is where appropriate consumer protection laws come into play. The whole idea feels intuitively like a silly overreach to me since I watched Twitter, Airbnb, and these other services grow from nothing and so I take them less seriously, whereas banks and credit bureaus have existed as giants since I was born. On the other hand, one could imagine GDPR adding a rule that users must be provided with a detailed explanation and an appeals process before accounts can be deleted, and it wouldn&#x27;t seem too burdensome when compared with the rest of the regulation.</text></item><item><author>decasia</author><text>I have no particular opinion about the facts of the specific case in question. But there is something weird about the way customer service is set up these days:<p>1) Company: Doesn&#x27;t like dealing with problem users&#x2F;clients.<p>2) Company institutes policy saying that they can do whatever they want with no explanation. This makes it more efficient to handle the problem users.<p>3) Sanctioned users are now more frustrated than before because they aren&#x27;t even given any explanation of what happened.<p>4) Users who are tech savvy take to social media or use personal networks to get special dispensations (see: every time someone posts on HN about a problem with their Google account and gets special intervention).<p>5) Company: Is happy because there is still an informal workaround for dealing with sufficiently motivated users or weird cases.<p>6) Users: Are left more powerless and potentially frustrated than when they had more sane tech support channels, but the company doesn&#x27;t have to care about this.<p>This seems really suboptimal and the OP&#x27;s comments on power imbalances seem on target. [edit: formatting, wording.]</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB</title><url>https://medium.com/@jacksoncunningham/digital-exile-how-i-got-banned-for-life-from-airbnb-615434c6eeba</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aeorgnoieang</author><text>But who regulates the regulators? As bad as this example is, have you never heard of the nightmares people fall into dealing with <i>government</i> bureaucracies? If anything, they&#x27;re much much <i>worse</i> than the worst that companies inflict.<p>Regulatory capture is a real thing too. Regulation isn&#x27;t <i>obviously</i> positive just because there are reasons people trot out to justify it.<p>You&#x27;re right, companies don&#x27;t generally care about me. But neither does the Social Security Administration, the Department of Justice, my local police department, my local school board, or any post office in which I&#x27;ve ever found myself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FussyZeus</author><text>People seem to be naturally anti-regulation, failing to see that those regulations don&#x27;t exist purely upon the whims of bureaucrats, but chiefly to address previous issues brought to the regulator&#x27;s attention.<p>Sometime in the last century, this idea was implanted by big businesses in the media and therefore the thoughts of the citizenry that regulation is more than anything, just people who couldn&#x27;t succeed in business bullying people who are, and that shit is so fucking dangerous that it makes me shake. Amazon, AirBNB, Google, Facebook, Apple, none of these companies give a FUCK about you any further than they are legally required to, not one iota further, and we constantly bemoan our politicians over having a &quot;too regulated&quot; business environment.</text></item><item><author>nugget</author><text>Imagine a world in which Experian or Equifax would only fix a mistake on your credit report if you had enough followers to embarrass them on social media. This is where appropriate consumer protection laws come into play. The whole idea feels intuitively like a silly overreach to me since I watched Twitter, Airbnb, and these other services grow from nothing and so I take them less seriously, whereas banks and credit bureaus have existed as giants since I was born. On the other hand, one could imagine GDPR adding a rule that users must be provided with a detailed explanation and an appeals process before accounts can be deleted, and it wouldn&#x27;t seem too burdensome when compared with the rest of the regulation.</text></item><item><author>decasia</author><text>I have no particular opinion about the facts of the specific case in question. But there is something weird about the way customer service is set up these days:<p>1) Company: Doesn&#x27;t like dealing with problem users&#x2F;clients.<p>2) Company institutes policy saying that they can do whatever they want with no explanation. This makes it more efficient to handle the problem users.<p>3) Sanctioned users are now more frustrated than before because they aren&#x27;t even given any explanation of what happened.<p>4) Users who are tech savvy take to social media or use personal networks to get special dispensations (see: every time someone posts on HN about a problem with their Google account and gets special intervention).<p>5) Company: Is happy because there is still an informal workaround for dealing with sufficiently motivated users or weird cases.<p>6) Users: Are left more powerless and potentially frustrated than when they had more sane tech support channels, but the company doesn&#x27;t have to care about this.<p>This seems really suboptimal and the OP&#x27;s comments on power imbalances seem on target. [edit: formatting, wording.]</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB</title><url>https://medium.com/@jacksoncunningham/digital-exile-how-i-got-banned-for-life-from-airbnb-615434c6eeba</url></story> |
22,827,417 | 22,826,820 | 1 | 2 | 22,825,344 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&gt; I think its better to just admit that freedoms &#x2F; tech will always be misused by criminal actors, and that&#x27;s just a price we agree to pay for privacy, security, and liberty.<p>It&#x27;s possible for both things to be true at the same time.<p>If Signal exists and is secure, will criminals use it? Sure they will, criminals are people and people want private communications.<p>But if you ban honest citizens from using Signal, will <i>criminals</i> stop using secure communications? No, they have an unusually strong incentive to use them and will seek out alternatives. The percentage of criminals who switch to insecure communications will be lower than the percentage of honest people who do.<p>Which <i>increases</i> the amount of crime, because the amount you&#x27;re helping law enforcement catch criminals is smaller than the amount you&#x27;re helping criminals exploit victims. This is also compounded by the fact that there are more honest people than criminals.<p>There is a theory of bureaucracy (&quot;an institution will attempt to preserve the problem to which it is a solution&quot;) that says law enforcement agencies will ask for this even when they know full well that it will increase the overall amount of crime, because more crime is good for them since it means more law enforcement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Thriptic</author><text>I think its better to just admit that freedoms &#x2F; tech will always be misused by criminal actors, and that&#x27;s just a price we agree to pay for privacy, security, and liberty. I don&#x27;t think think that&#x27;s a controversial statement, and we make such trade offs all the time unconsciously. The United States has largely agreed to accept a certain amount of criminal gun violence in the name of personal gun ownership. We agree that a certain amount of money laundering will occur due to shell corporations and foreign ownership of assets. We agree that police have to let a certain amount of crime go unpunished in order to protect against unreasonable search and seizure. The only difference between those things and this is that no one has the balls to stand up and admit that a certain amount of child abuse is an acceptable price given the stakes at hand, even though it is true.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes</title><url>https://uk.pcmag.com/security-5/125569/messaging-app-signal-threatens-to-dump-us-market-if-anti-encryption-bill-passes</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>faster</author><text>It sounds like you accept the bill&#x27;s authors&#x27; claim that EARN-IT is about protecting children.<p>I&#x27;d be very interested in hearing from child abuse investigators how the controls in the bill line up with how tech is used in abusing children. My expectation is that there is very little alignment, because &quot;for the children&quot; is most often the rallying cry of politicians who want something that is not in the best interests of the people they are supposed to represent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Thriptic</author><text>I think its better to just admit that freedoms &#x2F; tech will always be misused by criminal actors, and that&#x27;s just a price we agree to pay for privacy, security, and liberty. I don&#x27;t think think that&#x27;s a controversial statement, and we make such trade offs all the time unconsciously. The United States has largely agreed to accept a certain amount of criminal gun violence in the name of personal gun ownership. We agree that a certain amount of money laundering will occur due to shell corporations and foreign ownership of assets. We agree that police have to let a certain amount of crime go unpunished in order to protect against unreasonable search and seizure. The only difference between those things and this is that no one has the balls to stand up and admit that a certain amount of child abuse is an acceptable price given the stakes at hand, even though it is true.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes</title><url>https://uk.pcmag.com/security-5/125569/messaging-app-signal-threatens-to-dump-us-market-if-anti-encryption-bill-passes</url></story> |
19,045,880 | 19,045,251 | 1 | 3 | 19,042,850 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tivert</author><text>&gt; If your adversary actually pulls it off and copies it, they will have a 5 year old missile. Having an old missile on your warplane, while flying against the latest tech was a death sentence.<p>If they want to copy your 5 year old missile, their current missiles are probably <i>even worse</i>.<p>If you have the capability to clone an air-to-air missile, you have the capability to evaluate its performance to confirm that it&#x27;s an improvement over your current designs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>Yes. But put ON your tin foil hat for a second.<p>I think the West <i>wanted</i> the missile to be taken. Handing over old missile technology is pretty ingenious. If your adversary actually pulls it off and copies it, they will have a 5 year old missile. Having an old missile on your warplane, while flying against the latest tech was a <i>death</i> sentence. This was different than say, nuclear technology, where having a 5 year old model was still <i>extremely</i> dangerous.<p>Also, being handed old tech sucks up all your engineering resources. An analogy would be reading vs writing code. Reading code is x10 more difficult, fraught with misconceptions and inability to expand the tech.</text></item><item><author>ptero</author><text>This is indeed a great story, which gives again two different views on security.<p>East of the iron curtain everything, even marginally secret, was very carefully controlled, accounted for and losing a single not-too-secret page meant an automatic 10-year labor camp term. West of it, control was much looser and many more secrets leaked out. However, technology was also developed much faster -- you need serious encouragement to convince a good engineer to work under East&#x27;s penalties and restrictions on personal life if other interesting work is available. East put major resources of the state on stealing technology not by choice -- it had few other options to avoid military tech obsolescence.<p>So leakage and all, West&#x27;s system worked pretty well. My 2c.</text></item><item><author>jstanley</author><text>&gt; Although outnumbered, the Taiwanese pilots achieved a positive kill-to-loss ratio.<p>That&#x27;s not that impressive, even 1:1000 kills:losses is a <i>positive</i> ratio.<p>I assume they mean a ratio &gt; 1.<p>And: this is a pretty incredible story. If you don&#x27;t bother reading it all (it&#x27;s not that long), at least read this bit:<p>&gt; Exploiting thick fog and careless guards, Manfred Ramminger – a KGB-agent in West Germany – entered Neuburg air base during the evening of Oct. 22, 1967. Together with his Polish driver Josef Linowski and German F-104 Starfighter pilot Wolf-Diethard Knoppe, he stole an operational AIM-9 [sidewinder missile] from the local ammunition depot and transported it down the entire runway on a wheelbarrow to his Mercedes sedan, parked outside the base.<p>&gt; The 2.9-meter-long missile proved unwieldy. Ramminger broke the rear window and covered the protruding part with a carpet. In order not to attract attention of the police, he then marked the protrusion with a piece of red cloth, as required by law.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Moscow (2017)</title><url>https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/fact-the-kgb-shipped-sidewinder-missile-by-mail-moscow-21673</url></story> | <instructions>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>There is also something to be said for convincing your enemy to build obsolete weaponry that is <i>more expensive to build</i> than the obsolete weaponry they were already building.<p>If you have reasonable certainty there won&#x27;t be a hot war, winning a cold war is a matter of having a stronger economy and better logistics. You can leak older missile tech to the enemy, and they can work on reverse engineering it, while you install cutting-edge countermeasures on all mobile targets. They wasted a bunch of time and money catching up to where you were, and you&#x27;re already 50 miles down the road. Then maybe you have a proxy war to show off your new tech. You keep the war cold by convincing the enemy that if they start something for real, they will not only lose, but also suffer international humiliation and disdain.<p>It also keeps your rival in the game, so they don&#x27;t give up. A cold war is good for the military-industrial complexes on both sides. Peace and consumer trade cuts in to the profit margins. Can&#x27;t have people choosing butter over guns.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>Yes. But put ON your tin foil hat for a second.<p>I think the West <i>wanted</i> the missile to be taken. Handing over old missile technology is pretty ingenious. If your adversary actually pulls it off and copies it, they will have a 5 year old missile. Having an old missile on your warplane, while flying against the latest tech was a <i>death</i> sentence. This was different than say, nuclear technology, where having a 5 year old model was still <i>extremely</i> dangerous.<p>Also, being handed old tech sucks up all your engineering resources. An analogy would be reading vs writing code. Reading code is x10 more difficult, fraught with misconceptions and inability to expand the tech.</text></item><item><author>ptero</author><text>This is indeed a great story, which gives again two different views on security.<p>East of the iron curtain everything, even marginally secret, was very carefully controlled, accounted for and losing a single not-too-secret page meant an automatic 10-year labor camp term. West of it, control was much looser and many more secrets leaked out. However, technology was also developed much faster -- you need serious encouragement to convince a good engineer to work under East&#x27;s penalties and restrictions on personal life if other interesting work is available. East put major resources of the state on stealing technology not by choice -- it had few other options to avoid military tech obsolescence.<p>So leakage and all, West&#x27;s system worked pretty well. My 2c.</text></item><item><author>jstanley</author><text>&gt; Although outnumbered, the Taiwanese pilots achieved a positive kill-to-loss ratio.<p>That&#x27;s not that impressive, even 1:1000 kills:losses is a <i>positive</i> ratio.<p>I assume they mean a ratio &gt; 1.<p>And: this is a pretty incredible story. If you don&#x27;t bother reading it all (it&#x27;s not that long), at least read this bit:<p>&gt; Exploiting thick fog and careless guards, Manfred Ramminger – a KGB-agent in West Germany – entered Neuburg air base during the evening of Oct. 22, 1967. Together with his Polish driver Josef Linowski and German F-104 Starfighter pilot Wolf-Diethard Knoppe, he stole an operational AIM-9 [sidewinder missile] from the local ammunition depot and transported it down the entire runway on a wheelbarrow to his Mercedes sedan, parked outside the base.<p>&gt; The 2.9-meter-long missile proved unwieldy. Ramminger broke the rear window and covered the protruding part with a carpet. In order not to attract attention of the police, he then marked the protrusion with a piece of red cloth, as required by law.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Moscow (2017)</title><url>https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/fact-the-kgb-shipped-sidewinder-missile-by-mail-moscow-21673</url></story> |
28,464,393 | 28,464,395 | 1 | 3 | 28,462,151 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>worldvoyageur</author><text>Tritium is a natural byproduct of CANDU fusion reactors, of which there are some 25 or so in operation globally, mostly in Canada. CANDUs use heavy water as a neutron moderator (D20 instead of H2O), making T2O a natural byproduct.<p>Though most of the reactors do not harvest the tritium, a small number do.<p>CANDU operators have long been ready to make the capital investments in tritium harvesting, once demand materializes. ITER has long been seen as a potential major source of tritium demand.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anonuser123456</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s the catch this time?<p>This is D-T fusion. Which means you have to have T. Which currently comes from fission reactor and has a half life of 15 years.<p>So the plan is to use a molten salt blanket with Be to breed T. But Be isn’t scalable for consumption, so maybe lead eventually. That’s probably do-able, it just slows down the rate new reactors can come online since Pb is not as good a neutron multiplier.<p>Once they breed extra T, they have to capture and refine it. Hydrogen is very corrosive and hard to work with… and T is radioactive hydrogen. Again, probably doable. But guess what? Refining spent nuclear waste in fission reactors is also do-able. It’s also super expensive.<p>And they still need a containment vessel that will withstand the wear and tear from sitting next to a mini hydrogen bomb all day.<p>These challenges are likely all surmountable. But are they surmountable AND cheaper than existing nuclear or other energy sources? Meh?</text></item><item><author>shmageggy</author><text>These university press releases are always very positively framed. This one makes the new magnet seem incredibly promising and fusion seem like almost an inevitability now, but decades of failure have us conditioned for skepticism. What&#x27;s the catch this time?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcswell</author><text>&quot;Hydrogen is very corrosive and hard to work with&quot; Corrosive compared to what? You can put it in a rubber balloon and hand it to a kid.<p>&quot;T is radioactive hydrogen&quot;: True, it emits low energy beta radiation, which is an electron, and is stopped by a sheet of paper. I used to have a wrist watch with a tritium dial; I haven&#x27;t died of cancer yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anonuser123456</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s the catch this time?<p>This is D-T fusion. Which means you have to have T. Which currently comes from fission reactor and has a half life of 15 years.<p>So the plan is to use a molten salt blanket with Be to breed T. But Be isn’t scalable for consumption, so maybe lead eventually. That’s probably do-able, it just slows down the rate new reactors can come online since Pb is not as good a neutron multiplier.<p>Once they breed extra T, they have to capture and refine it. Hydrogen is very corrosive and hard to work with… and T is radioactive hydrogen. Again, probably doable. But guess what? Refining spent nuclear waste in fission reactors is also do-able. It’s also super expensive.<p>And they still need a containment vessel that will withstand the wear and tear from sitting next to a mini hydrogen bomb all day.<p>These challenges are likely all surmountable. But are they surmountable AND cheaper than existing nuclear or other energy sources? Meh?</text></item><item><author>shmageggy</author><text>These university press releases are always very positively framed. This one makes the new magnet seem incredibly promising and fusion seem like almost an inevitability now, but decades of failure have us conditioned for skepticism. What&#x27;s the catch this time?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908</url></story> |
30,227,749 | 30,227,875 | 1 | 2 | 30,227,013 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jurassic</author><text>I’m 34 and healthy. Each of my shots and the booster gave me severe flu-like side effects (chills, body aches, etc). I’ve lost 5-6 days over the last year to recovering from these side effects. Given my low risk from the actual virus, I don’t see myself getting another booster. I’m not anti-science, but there needs to be significant ROI for that level of discomfort and time lost to recovery.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than older people</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/health/covid-boosters-older-younger.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>tremon</author><text>In NL, the general recommendation [0] is that children shouldn&#x27;t be given a booster shot since the benefits are marginal. Children (or their parents) may still ask for one and they won&#x27;t be denied, but it&#x27;s not automatic. My attempt at translating the report conclusion:<p><i>The direct health benefit from the booster shot for 12-17-year olds is very limited, even for high-risk individuals. Break-through infections with the Omicron variant are very mild and the chance of hospitalization for vaccinated teens is minimal. Similarly, the risk of developing MIS-C due to infection is deemed very small. Moreover the booster shot also carries the (very rare) risk of developing myocarditis. The European Medical Agency also has not officially weighed the booster benefits against the risks for teens, making its use effectively off-label.</i><p>In the same publication they make the following claims regarding booster effectiveness (for all age groups, not specifically teens):<p>- full protection (only asymptomatic infection) drops to 50-75% within four weeks, drops further to 25-40% after three months.<p>- protection against hospitalization due to Omicron is around 90%, drops to 75% after three months.<p>- vaccinated but not-boostered people still have 70-80% protection against hospitalization due to Omicron in the first six months, drops to 60% efficacy after that.<p>- Against the Delta variant, non-boostered people still have above 80% protection against hospitalization even after more than six months.<p>The citations for these claims are from NL,UK,IS and US, but only two have a hyperlink. If someone wants to hunt them down, they&#x27;re cites 10,21,23,24,25,36,37 in the PDF linked from [0].<p>[0, in Dutch]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gezondheidsraad.nl&#x2F;organisatie&#x2F;vaccinaties&#x2F;documenten&#x2F;adviezen&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;04&#x2F;boostervaccinatie-van-adolescenten-tegen-covid-19" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gezondheidsraad.nl&#x2F;organisatie&#x2F;vaccinaties&#x2F;docum...</a><p>[25] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.ssrn.com&#x2F;sol3&#x2F;papers.cfm?abstract_id=4011905" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.ssrn.com&#x2F;sol3&#x2F;papers.cfm?abstract_id=4011905</a><p>[37] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;mmwr&#x2F;volumes&#x2F;71&#x2F;wr&#x2F;mm7104e3.htm?s_cid=mm7104e3_w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;mmwr&#x2F;volumes&#x2F;71&#x2F;wr&#x2F;mm7104e3.htm?s_cid=mm...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than older people</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/health/covid-boosters-older-younger.html</url></story> |
29,593,163 | 29,593,379 | 1 | 3 | 29,592,229 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>encryptluks2</author><text>From their ToS:<p>&quot;You provide User Data and Personal Data to Evervault with the understanding that any security measures we provide may not be appropriate or adequate for your business, and you agree to implement Security Controls (as defined below) and any additional controls that meet your specific requirements. In our sole discretion, we may take any action, including suspension of your Evervault Account, to maintain the integrity and security of the Services or Data, or to prevent harm to you, us, customers, or others. You waive any right to make a claim against us for losses you incur that may result from such actions. You are solely responsible for the security of any Data on your website, your servers, in your possession, or that you are otherwise authorised to access or handle.&quot;<p>Yeah, no. You either practice what you preach in your advertising or don&#x27;t advertise what you won&#x27;t commit to.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evervault</title><url>https://evervault.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>redwood</author><text>&quot;Never have a data breach&quot; is the kind of statement that can cause you to lose credibility with security pros</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evervault</title><url>https://evervault.com/</url></story> |
22,583,305 | 22,582,917 | 1 | 3 | 22,580,086 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>A more complicated profile here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;music&#x2F;2018&#x2F;dec&#x2F;10&#x2F;genesis-p-orridge-throbbing-gristle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;music&#x2F;2018&#x2F;dec&#x2F;10&#x2F;genesis-p-orri...</a><p>H&#x2F;er artistic and personal partner of many years, Cosey Fanny Tutti, has accused h&#x2F;er of physical and mental abuse over many years.<p>FWIW, I have always enjoyed her and Chris Carter&#x27;s work, but I have to admit never really getting into the Psychic TV output despite owning many records.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Genesis P-Orridge has died</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51893184</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>schmudde</author><text>I grew up with Throbbing Gristle. Genesis has a complicated legacy of control and manipulation that was part of their music and art. They lived their work, which is part of what made it so compelling. Industrial music for industrial people - more prophetic than insane.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Genesis P-Orridge has died</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51893184</url></story> |
7,939,989 | 7,939,966 | 1 | 3 | 7,939,892 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unreal37</author><text>This seems like the right decision to me. Being blocked from air travel is indeed a violation of liberty.<p>I think the U.S. government has a right to keep a list of suspicious persons, watch and monitor them, block them from visiting the United States, but there should be a way to appeal your inclusion on that list especially if you are a U.S. legal resident or citizen. You can&#x27;t just remain on that list forever, unable to travel, with no evidence or justifiable proof of criminal association with terrorists. That&#x27;s limbo.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Federal judge rules U.S. no-fly list violates Constitution</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/24/us-usa-noflylist-idUSKBN0EZ2EU20140624</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>&gt;&gt; individuals listed under the policy may ultimately petition a U.S. appeals court directly for relief<p>Why isn&#x27;t it the other way around? Shouldn&#x27;t they have to prove to a judge that there is reasonable suspicion you are or have been engaged in terrorism before they can interfere in your affairs?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Federal judge rules U.S. no-fly list violates Constitution</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/24/us-usa-noflylist-idUSKBN0EZ2EU20140624</url></story> |
29,024,576 | 29,024,260 | 1 | 3 | 29,022,906 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Asooka</author><text>Trying to do something smart is usually the wrong approach and leads to users tangling themselves in invisible state that they do not understand and can&#x27;t change. The best thing would have been for Unicode to not do Han unification. The second best would be to provide alternate glyphs now. The third best is to display the characters either in the language they&#x27;re written in, when you know that for sure (usually for text that you wrote yourself), or in the user&#x27;s most likely locale, when you don&#x27;t. For locale I would go down this list of traits and pick the first that matches:<p>1) The language setting on your website if you have one and have translated it to C&#x2F;J&#x2F;K. You may use different TLDs for the different languages and discern that way, too.<p>2) The list of preferred languages from the browser. This is usually unreliable, but if someone has gone to the trouble of inputting &quot;english=1;japanese=.9;chinese=.8&quot;, then it&#x27;s a fair bet they want Japanese Kanji usually and will be understanding if you use them in place of Chinese Han characters.<p>3) The country to which the user&#x27;s IP belongs. The least ideal option, but if you&#x27;re in Korea and reading a random string of Hanzi, you probably expect them to look like Hanzi.<p>You will show the wrong characters to some users, but the behaviour is understandable. &quot;Oh, the site is showing me Korean characters because I&#x27;m in Korea.&quot; is a lot easier to grasp than &quot;The site is showing me Chinese characters because I clicked a dropdown one time that I forgot about and now I have no idea why my name is written wrong!&quot;<p>You can argue about point 2) that some users might set their language preferences and forget about it, but so far I have never observed a user who doesn&#x27;t know about them messing with the setting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BoppreH</author><text>That&#x27;s extremely interesting, if not depressing.<p>So, if I have to display user-entered text (usernames, posts, comments, messages, form data, etc), and I want to do The Right Thing™:<p>- I cannot rely on user locale, because it might be set to something generic like English, or the user may be bi-lingual.<p>- I cannot rely on location, because the user may be traveling to a different CJK region, or somewhere else altogether.<p>- I cannot set a single lang: attribute for the whole page because it&#x27;ll be wrong for the other two languages.<p>- The string alone is not sufficient to identify the language because you can write valid sentences in different CJK languages with the same codepoints.<p>- I cannot have a per-user language setting, because users may be bi-lingual.<p>What does that leave me? A dropdown list &quot;C&#x2F;J&#x2F;K&#x2F;Other&quot; besides <i>every single text field</i>?<p>I&#x27;m chucking this on my pile of examples of software development being hopelessly broken by design, along with &quot;unix time is non-monotonic and discontinuous at random&quot; (hint: what&#x27;s the unix time exactly 1e8 seconds, ~3 years, from now? Answer: it&#x27;s up to the astronomers[1]!).<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unix_time#Leap_seconds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unix_time#Leap_seconds</a><p>Edit: actually, even the dropdown list is insufficient because it only allows one language per string! How is a Japanese user asking for help learning Chinese supposed to write?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your code displays Japanese wrong</title><url>https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>For what it&#x27;s worth, mainstream OSes will also have poor handling of these cases, which will eliminate the most tricky cases by the sheer inconvenience it causes.<p>As far as I know textfields only have one font applied, so entering both languages in a single field won&#x27;t be optimal. And if you&#x27;re not doing anything fancy with your fields, they will all take the same font as well.<p>So even at the input level, the user switching languages will already be mildly screwed, and the best solution would probably be to change pages for each language.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BoppreH</author><text>That&#x27;s extremely interesting, if not depressing.<p>So, if I have to display user-entered text (usernames, posts, comments, messages, form data, etc), and I want to do The Right Thing™:<p>- I cannot rely on user locale, because it might be set to something generic like English, or the user may be bi-lingual.<p>- I cannot rely on location, because the user may be traveling to a different CJK region, or somewhere else altogether.<p>- I cannot set a single lang: attribute for the whole page because it&#x27;ll be wrong for the other two languages.<p>- The string alone is not sufficient to identify the language because you can write valid sentences in different CJK languages with the same codepoints.<p>- I cannot have a per-user language setting, because users may be bi-lingual.<p>What does that leave me? A dropdown list &quot;C&#x2F;J&#x2F;K&#x2F;Other&quot; besides <i>every single text field</i>?<p>I&#x27;m chucking this on my pile of examples of software development being hopelessly broken by design, along with &quot;unix time is non-monotonic and discontinuous at random&quot; (hint: what&#x27;s the unix time exactly 1e8 seconds, ~3 years, from now? Answer: it&#x27;s up to the astronomers[1]!).<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unix_time#Leap_seconds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unix_time#Leap_seconds</a><p>Edit: actually, even the dropdown list is insufficient because it only allows one language per string! How is a Japanese user asking for help learning Chinese supposed to write?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your code displays Japanese wrong</title><url>https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/</url></story> |
22,346,069 | 22,345,854 | 1 | 3 | 22,343,796 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WnZ39p0Dgydaz1</author><text>Reminds me of academic papers. When I first started in academia I thought it was all about merit, results, and following a proper scientific process.<p>Turns out if you want to be successful, as measured by paper acceptances or citations, which is the standard metric used by universities and companies, it&#x27;s all about being able to tell a good story to convince reviewers.<p>A well-told and convincing story can hide all kind of faults in your experiments or results. It&#x27;s pretty much all you need.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mindfulhack</author><text>I&#x27;m a successful full-time professional grantwriter. There are about 100 tricks in the book for standing out from the pack, though not all apply to all categories or instances of grants.<p>But no matter what type of grant it is, the biggest point I tell people is this:<p>You need a <i>story</i>.<p>All other aspects flow from that. (E.g. how effectively you can communicate the flow of logic in the writing, and other technical aspects which include much more than just the text boxes and what this blog summarily describes.)<p>Find that story, then it will rise above the pack. Most people want grant money but have no idea what it takes to get it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing Grant Applications</title><url>https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/02/10/im-good-enough-im-smart-enough-and-dog-gone-it-people-like-me-writing-grant-applications</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>The most compelling pitch decks have a good story. I don&#x27;t know much about grant applications, but this advice does seem intuitive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mindfulhack</author><text>I&#x27;m a successful full-time professional grantwriter. There are about 100 tricks in the book for standing out from the pack, though not all apply to all categories or instances of grants.<p>But no matter what type of grant it is, the biggest point I tell people is this:<p>You need a <i>story</i>.<p>All other aspects flow from that. (E.g. how effectively you can communicate the flow of logic in the writing, and other technical aspects which include much more than just the text boxes and what this blog summarily describes.)<p>Find that story, then it will rise above the pack. Most people want grant money but have no idea what it takes to get it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing Grant Applications</title><url>https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/02/10/im-good-enough-im-smart-enough-and-dog-gone-it-people-like-me-writing-grant-applications</url></story> |
37,382,525 | 37,382,461 | 1 | 2 | 37,381,979 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amluto</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s mentioned in the article is that as caste is a primarily SE Asian phenomenon, this is a bill that targets SE Asians. People tend not to like being singled out on the basis of their race.<p>That seems weak.<p>One should not (and legally may not) discriminate on the basis of being Indian, which is a South Asian phenomenon. One should not discriminate on the basis of having Native Hawaiian ancestry, which is a Hawaiian phenomenon. And one should not discriminate on the basis of how many of someone’s ancestors happen to have been slaves in America, which is an American phenomenon (although there are surely analogues elsewhere).<p>edit: SE -&gt; South.</text><parent_chain><item><author>margalabargala</author><text>What&#x27;s mentioned in the article is that as caste is a primarily SE Asian phenomenon, this is a bill that targets SE Asians. People tend not to like being singled out on the basis of their race.<p>Mentioned in the article was one person who tried to address this by banning discrimination &quot;on the basis of ancestry, including caste&quot; which seems to me to be a completely reasonable adjustment.</text></item><item><author>whats_a_quasar</author><text>I&#x27;m legitimately confused about the strength of opposition to the measure. It seems like it should be a small, uncontroversial, update to protected categories. Are people opposing the term &quot;caste&quot; appearing in U.S. law? Is the concern that the law will cause other Americans to judge Indian&#x2F;Nepalese&#x2F;Sri Lankan communities?<p>If anyone here can explain the emotional significance of the bill to someone who is not South Asian, I&#x27;d appreciate it!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/04/ban-caste-discrimination-california-bill-00113817</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ghodith</author><text>&gt; Mentioned in the article was one person who tried to address this by banning discrimination &quot;on the basis of ancestry, including caste&quot; which seems to me to be a completely reasonable adjustment.<p>The bill has already been modified to use that verbiage.<p>&quot;Eventually, Wahab agreed to place caste under “ancestry” rather than list it as a standalone category&quot;<p>So it seems that those still opposed to the bill are not satisfied with that amendment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>margalabargala</author><text>What&#x27;s mentioned in the article is that as caste is a primarily SE Asian phenomenon, this is a bill that targets SE Asians. People tend not to like being singled out on the basis of their race.<p>Mentioned in the article was one person who tried to address this by banning discrimination &quot;on the basis of ancestry, including caste&quot; which seems to me to be a completely reasonable adjustment.</text></item><item><author>whats_a_quasar</author><text>I&#x27;m legitimately confused about the strength of opposition to the measure. It seems like it should be a small, uncontroversial, update to protected categories. Are people opposing the term &quot;caste&quot; appearing in U.S. law? Is the concern that the law will cause other Americans to judge Indian&#x2F;Nepalese&#x2F;Sri Lankan communities?<p>If anyone here can explain the emotional significance of the bill to someone who is not South Asian, I&#x27;d appreciate it!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/04/ban-caste-discrimination-california-bill-00113817</url></story> |
9,166,662 | 9,166,457 | 1 | 2 | 9,165,725 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ars</author><text>&gt; I had a client once who had something similar, although unintentionally.<p>I did that too. I was aware of the problem, but at the time (1996) I did not know how to fix it.<p>So I just documented it and warned that they should keep the site away from altavista.<p>This was back before cookies had wide support, so login state was in the URL. If you allowed a search spider to know that URL it would have deleted the entire site by spidering it.<p>I did eventually fix it by switching to forms, and strengthening the URL token to expire if unused for a while. And then eventually switching to cookies (at one point it supported both url tokens and cookies).<p>I have not thought about those days in such a long time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tonyarkles</author><text>I had a client once who had something similar, although unintentionally. She approached me because her website &quot;kept getting hacked&quot; and she didn&#x27;t trust the original developers to solve the security problems... And rightly so!<p>There were two factors that, together, made this happen: first, the admin login form was implemented in JS, and if you went to log in with it with JS disabled, it wouldn&#x27;t verify your credentials. And it submitted via a GET request. Second, once you were in the admin interface, you could delete content from the site by clicking on an X in the CMS. Which, as was the pattern, presented you with a JS alert() prompt before deleting the content... via a GET request.<p>Looking at the server logs around the time it got &quot;hacked&quot;, you could see GoogleBot happily following all the delete links in the admin interface.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A website that deletes itself once indexed by Google</title><url>https://github.com/mroth/unindexed/blob/master/README.md</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ikeboy</author><text>Are you this guy <a href="http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Spider_of_Doom" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thedailywtf.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;The_Spider_of_Doom</a>? Or <a href="http://craigandera.blogspot.com/2004/04/beware-googlebot_12.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;craigandera.blogspot.com&#x2F;2004&#x2F;04&#x2F;beware-googlebot_12....</a>? (They seem like the same story but have different names.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>tonyarkles</author><text>I had a client once who had something similar, although unintentionally. She approached me because her website &quot;kept getting hacked&quot; and she didn&#x27;t trust the original developers to solve the security problems... And rightly so!<p>There were two factors that, together, made this happen: first, the admin login form was implemented in JS, and if you went to log in with it with JS disabled, it wouldn&#x27;t verify your credentials. And it submitted via a GET request. Second, once you were in the admin interface, you could delete content from the site by clicking on an X in the CMS. Which, as was the pattern, presented you with a JS alert() prompt before deleting the content... via a GET request.<p>Looking at the server logs around the time it got &quot;hacked&quot;, you could see GoogleBot happily following all the delete links in the admin interface.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A website that deletes itself once indexed by Google</title><url>https://github.com/mroth/unindexed/blob/master/README.md</url></story> |
4,206,436 | 4,206,383 | 1 | 3 | 4,206,254 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qiqing</author><text>I'd like to set the record straight about the nature of Chez JJ, which I feel, was very strongly misrepresented in the NYT article. What sets Chez JJ (and other community houses) apart from hostels and dorms is our family-like atmosphere. By welcoming guests into our home we are welcoming them into our family. They have become our friends and our co-founders. Startup life is an emotional roller coaster. As a community, we support each other through the trials and tests of life in Silicon Valley.<p>More than half of Chez JJ residents who have applied to YC have been accepted. Maybe it helps that we grill each other. Or maybe it helps that we help each other relax in order to see the big picture. Or because our residents don't have to waste as much time on the minutiae of living because of what we provide. Maybe it's a form of self selection. It is a relevant point that living in group communities is more cost effective than living alone. When we all pitch in towards basic needs we are able to have a higher standard of living.<p>We have weekly professional cleaners and subscribe to Farm Fresh, an organic vegetable delivery service. We provide coffee, tea, pancake mix, cereal, soymilk, and all the fresh fruits and vegetables you can find in our garden. We have regular dinner parties, and breakfast brunches. We have movie nights and hackathons and play board games. And we work closely with the owners of each of our houses know exactly what we are doing and are completely supportive.<p><a href="http://chezjj.com" rel="nofollow">http://chezjj.com</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>At ‘Hacker Hostels,’ Living on the Cheap and Dreaming of Digital Glory</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/technology/at-hacker-hostels-living-on-the-cheap-and-dreaming-of-digital-glory.html?pagewanted=all</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kiwidrew</author><text>When are people going to learn that PayPal is never, ever, <i>ever</i> to be trusted?<p><i>&#62; When the site started in May, $12,000 in orders for a car diagnostics device poured in right away. PayPal, which the founders used to process payments, decided their account was “high risk” and suspended it, freezing their money for six months, Mr. Wu said. Mr. Wu and Mr. El-Hage maxed out their credit cards to fulfill the orders. Without investors backing them, they nearly went broke. MassDrop has recovered to “above-ramen status, but not that much higher,” Mr. El-Hage said.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>At ‘Hacker Hostels,’ Living on the Cheap and Dreaming of Digital Glory</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/technology/at-hacker-hostels-living-on-the-cheap-and-dreaming-of-digital-glory.html?pagewanted=all</url></story> |
27,501,552 | 27,498,993 | 1 | 3 | 27,496,679 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jpsamaroo</author><text>AMD has done great work in a very short amount of time, but let&#x27;s not forget that they&#x27;re still <i>very</i> new to the GPU compute game. The ROCm stack is overall still pretty buggy, and definitely hard to build in ways other than what AMD deems officially supported.<p>As AMDGPU.jl&#x27;s maintainer, I do certainly appreciate more users using AMDGPU.jl if they have the ability to, but I don&#x27;t want people to think that it&#x27;s anywhere close in terms of maturity, overall performance, and feature-richness compared to CUDA.jl. If you already have access to an NVIDIA GPU, it&#x27;s painless to setup and should work really well for basically anything you want to with it. I can&#x27;t say the same about AMDGPU.jl right now (although we are definitely getting there).</text><parent_chain><item><author>xvilka</author><text>I wish more attention would be towards open source alternatives for CUDA, such as AMD&#x27;s ROCm[1][2] and Julia framework using it - AMDGPU.jl[3]. It&#x27;s sad to see so many people praise NVIDIA which is the enemy of open source, openly hostile to anything except their oversized proprietary binary blobs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rocmdocs.amd.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rocmdocs.amd.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;index.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RadeonOpenCompute&#x2F;ROCm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RadeonOpenCompute&#x2F;ROCm</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JuliaGPU&#x2F;AMDGPU.jl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JuliaGPU&#x2F;AMDGPU.jl</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cuda.jl v3.3: union types, debug info, graph APIs</title><url>https://juliagpu.org/post/2021-06-10-cuda_3.3/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krapht</author><text>Most people hack on this stuff for work, and time is money. OpenCL is just a lot less productive than CUDA for most tasks. The NVidia price premium isn&#x27;t big enough to make people switch over.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xvilka</author><text>I wish more attention would be towards open source alternatives for CUDA, such as AMD&#x27;s ROCm[1][2] and Julia framework using it - AMDGPU.jl[3]. It&#x27;s sad to see so many people praise NVIDIA which is the enemy of open source, openly hostile to anything except their oversized proprietary binary blobs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rocmdocs.amd.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rocmdocs.amd.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;index.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RadeonOpenCompute&#x2F;ROCm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RadeonOpenCompute&#x2F;ROCm</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JuliaGPU&#x2F;AMDGPU.jl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JuliaGPU&#x2F;AMDGPU.jl</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cuda.jl v3.3: union types, debug info, graph APIs</title><url>https://juliagpu.org/post/2021-06-10-cuda_3.3/</url></story> |
9,149,169 | 9,149,016 | 1 | 3 | 9,147,943 | 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>pdknsk</author><text>I&#x27;m not really familiar with compostable plates, but unless they eat from large plant leaves, the plates are probably made somehow. And to make them, someone probably uses resources, like energy and raw material. And they have to be shipped to Etsy.<p>Compare this with porcelain plates which can be re-used and last a long time, but have to be washed, which uses water and some energy.<p>Taking all of this into account, I cannot say which is more environment friendly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ericglyman</author><text>&quot;We eat on compostable plates, and employees sign up to deliver our compost by bike to a local farm in Red Hook, Brooklyn&quot; - Page 93<p>Etsy&#x27;s hipster cred is off the charts right now</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Etsy IPO Form S-1</title><url>http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370637/000119312515077045/d806992ds1.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>smacktoward</author><text>That depends. Is the bike a fixie?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ericglyman</author><text>&quot;We eat on compostable plates, and employees sign up to deliver our compost by bike to a local farm in Red Hook, Brooklyn&quot; - Page 93<p>Etsy&#x27;s hipster cred is off the charts right now</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Etsy IPO Form S-1</title><url>http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370637/000119312515077045/d806992ds1.htm</url></story> |
34,258,332 | 34,257,427 | 1 | 2 | 34,246,136 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_dain_</author><text><i>&gt;It&#x27;s unfortunately normal for our biology to basically want to shove calories down our mouths all the time.</i><p>Not for me.<p><i>&gt;I consciously pace my food intake every single day. I just had a huge plate of nachos, some christmas cookies, and a pickle...and I could still eat more. The only reason I ate that much is because I feel a cold coming on so I relaxed my usual limits.</i><p>This is completely alien to my experience.<p>I eat until I get full, then I stop eating. I do not have any difficulty whatsoever maintaining a healthy weight. I don&#x27;t think about calories at all. I have no idea how many calories or nutrients are in anything I eat; I&#x27;ve never paid attention to the that part of the label. It does not enter my mind for even a moment.<p>Sometimes I exercise regularly, sometimes I slip and get lazy for a while. Sometimes I eat a lot of fast food, sometimes I pull myself together and make better stuff at home. Throughout all this, my weight <i>does not noticeably budge at all</i>. I&#x27;ve been 20-22 BMI for my whole adult life.<p><i>&gt;Almost all of us work for it. Truth be told, and please hold your downvotes for this, I get a little upset when the rest of you get to have insurance pay ridiculous sums of money for a medication that makes it easier for you than the rest of us, side effects aside, and you think it&#x27;s simply evening out the playing field.</i><p>I didn&#x27;t work for it. It doesn&#x27;t mean I&#x27;m a good and diligent person, it means I got lucky with my biochemistry and genetics. In another life, a different sperm would have met a different egg and I&#x27;d end up with different alleles and I&#x27;d end up fat.<p>It isn&#x27;t fair that I&#x27;m living my life on diet easy-mode. If semaglutide can replicate this for people who aren&#x27;t so genetically lucky, that&#x27;s a fucking miracle.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AuryGlenz</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry, but I&#x27;m a decently in shape person that tried semaglutide for reasons other than losing weight and I disagree.<p>While I&#x27;m sure we all are a bit different satiety wise (and I&#x27;ve found it greatly depends on how much I&#x27;ve been eating overall recently), your experience on the drug is not what the rest of us feel like all the time. It&#x27;s unfortunately normal for our biology to basically want to shove calories down our mouths all the time. I consciously pace my food intake every single day. I just had a huge plate of nachos, some christmas cookies, and a pickle...and I could still eat more. The only reason I ate that much is because I feel a cold coming on so I relaxed my usual limits.<p>The kind of &quot;fullness&quot; you get on semaglutide isn&#x27;t natural. I&#x27;ve never felt like that my entire life. The closest thing would be after something like a Thanksgiving meal, but that&#x27;s more of a &quot;my stomach hurts&quot; than &quot;I really don&#x27;t feel like I can put more in my stomach.&quot;<p>My sister in law is the skinniest, most in shape person I know. She&#x27;s 35, has had 3 kids, and has abs, an ass she clearly worked for, etc. My wife (unfortunately) regularly compares herself to her and in this case also thinks like you, that it just comes naturally. She gave me her old phone so I could test some stuff on it as I don&#x27;t have an Android phone handy. She didn&#x27;t wipe it. MyFitnessPal was on there, and she was limiting herself to 1400 calories a day.<p>Almost all of us work for it. Truth be told, and please hold your downvotes for this, I get a little upset when the rest of you get to have insurance pay ridiculous sums of money for a medication that makes it easier for you than the rest of us, side effects aside, and you think it&#x27;s simply evening out the playing field.<p>And it needs to be said in case my wife ever finds this: she&#x27;s also ridiculously hot and even though she can&#x27;t see it has, at times, been skinnier than her sister.</text></item><item><author>scarmig</author><text>&gt; It’s so hard to eat healthy, I honestly cannot fathom how people do it.<p>When I started taking semaglutide, I finally understood it. I&#x27;d eat a salad... and be full and more than satisfied! I&#x27;d look at a muffin right after lunch, and go &quot;eh, better things to do with my time&quot; instead of immediately having an overriding desire to eat eat eat. Before, I could eat half a pizza and still be hungry (way out of what my body needs); now, a slice is more than sufficient and satiety lasts well into the next morning.<p>GLP-1 agonists makes eating healthy trivial and automatic, instead of a dieting state where you&#x27;re thinking about food literally constantly throughout the day for months or years on end.<p>Too many people are convinced that everyone has the same subjective experiences of hunger and craving, but it&#x27;s simply not the case. Some people implicitly hold this idea because it&#x27;s a convenient ideology that allows people to morally congratulate themselves for having a functioning satiety circuit.</text></item><item><author>danielvaughn</author><text>I was just saying the exact same thing to my wife yesterday. We’re both trying to lose weight, for the millionth time in the 20 years we’ve been together. Exasperated, I just said “I don’t get it. I was an artist who had no technical background, and was able to teach myself computer science and now I’m a highly successful engineer. I did that. And yet I can’t lose 10 pounds to save my life.”<p>It’s so hard to eat healthy, I honestly cannot fathom how people do it.</text></item><item><author>windpower</author><text>I&#x27;m also on one of these drugs (Tirzepatide) and have been for a few months. The first time I remember knowing I was fat was when a babysitter made fun of me for it at age 6. I&#x27;ve been fat ever since and I&#x27;m in my late 30s now.<p>I&#x27;ve lost significant amounts of weight (60+ pounds) three times in my adult life, through simple calorie restriction (intermittent fasting, including before I&#x27;d ever heard the term). Every time, I&#x27;ve gained the weight back. At the beginning of 2022, I was the heaviest I&#x27;ve ever been.<p>I&#x27;ve accomplished very hard things in my life, including those that take sustained effort. Sufficient willpower isn&#x27;t a problem for me in general. I honestly only ever hear &quot;it&#x27;s easy, just eat less and move more&quot; from people that have never actually been fat. &quot;I did it and I lost 15 pounds, no big deal!&quot; and the like. 15 pounds is easy for me to temporarily lose too. I&#x27;ve done it enough times I should know ;)<p>I&#x27;ve heard people say that the solution is to eat (healthy food) when you&#x27;re hungry, and stop when you&#x27;re full. The thing is, I&#x27;m <i>never</i> full. I can eat until I physically can&#x27;t eat anymore (not something I do regularly, of course), and as soon as my stomach has emptied a bit, I feel fairly hungry again. &quot;Eat until you feel full&quot; is literally a human experience I had never really had.<p>On this drug, I finally know what people are talking about. I still like food, and I still get hungry. But it doesn&#x27;t dominate my thoughts. I eat, and don&#x27;t feel like eating again for hours. I eat something that I&#x27;d normally easily eat all of like a big burrito or whatever, and I feel quite full halfway through with no desire to finish. I&#x27;m steadily losing weight, with none of the usual preoccupation with hunger, ascetic adherence to a strict calorie plan, etc. But above all, I feel like I must be experiencing what most thin people experience all the time. I&#x27;ll be perfectly happy to take the drug for the rest of my life, though I do hope affordability improves.<p>As for side effects: I&#x27;ve had some heartburn, but none of the other commonly reported side effects.</text></item><item><author>0xB31B1B</author><text>I’m currently taking one of these drugs and it has been no less than a miracle in my life. I became obese when I was around 5, topping out around a 34 BMI. When I was 20 I lost a substantial amount of weight the old fashioned way (diet and exercise), and within 8 months I was BMI 23. Losing weight was extremely challenging and socially isolating.<p>7 years later, I had a bad ankle injury and regained weight to about 29 BMI. This time I lost weight by doing an “eat every other day” diet. This was also extremely challenging, but easier than just counting calories and working out. After Covid and a lack of exercise I was back to BMI 30. I started taking tirzeparide this summer and have gone from BMI 31 to BMI 26 and still dropping. This is by far the easiest way to lose weight. The side effects for the first 3 months are quite bad, and include off and on strong nausea, extreme fatigue, brain fog, and constipation. I was eating &lt;1k calories per day for a long time and feeling full. I expect to be on this drug long term. My blood work shows extreme improvements in cholesterol, BP, and other key health indicators. I believe that everyone, even the skinny folks, should be on GLP1 drugs for the longevity effects. They changed they induce in diet reduce the oxidative stress on the human body, even if the person is already thin.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04505-7</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scarmig</author><text>&gt; I consciously pace my food intake every single day. I just had a huge plate of nachos, some christmas cookies, and a pickle...and I could still eat more.<p>You give some thought to it every day, but do you think about it every minute? You could still eat more, but do you still have the same intrusive hunger to eat that you did before you started the nachos?<p>&gt; Almost all of us work for it.<p>Your claim here seems to be that you work for it harder than people who have less success. But do you have any actual evidence of that?<p>Like, can you truthfully say that to keep your presumably healthy BMI you overcome nearly constant thoughts about how hungry you are? Can you eat an entire pizza and <i>still</i> be hungry except it&#x27;s physically painful to eat?<p>People vary in their experiences of satiety. Many people do manage to be thin without constantly feeling hunger; that&#x27;s what being on semaglutide does.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AuryGlenz</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry, but I&#x27;m a decently in shape person that tried semaglutide for reasons other than losing weight and I disagree.<p>While I&#x27;m sure we all are a bit different satiety wise (and I&#x27;ve found it greatly depends on how much I&#x27;ve been eating overall recently), your experience on the drug is not what the rest of us feel like all the time. It&#x27;s unfortunately normal for our biology to basically want to shove calories down our mouths all the time. I consciously pace my food intake every single day. I just had a huge plate of nachos, some christmas cookies, and a pickle...and I could still eat more. The only reason I ate that much is because I feel a cold coming on so I relaxed my usual limits.<p>The kind of &quot;fullness&quot; you get on semaglutide isn&#x27;t natural. I&#x27;ve never felt like that my entire life. The closest thing would be after something like a Thanksgiving meal, but that&#x27;s more of a &quot;my stomach hurts&quot; than &quot;I really don&#x27;t feel like I can put more in my stomach.&quot;<p>My sister in law is the skinniest, most in shape person I know. She&#x27;s 35, has had 3 kids, and has abs, an ass she clearly worked for, etc. My wife (unfortunately) regularly compares herself to her and in this case also thinks like you, that it just comes naturally. She gave me her old phone so I could test some stuff on it as I don&#x27;t have an Android phone handy. She didn&#x27;t wipe it. MyFitnessPal was on there, and she was limiting herself to 1400 calories a day.<p>Almost all of us work for it. Truth be told, and please hold your downvotes for this, I get a little upset when the rest of you get to have insurance pay ridiculous sums of money for a medication that makes it easier for you than the rest of us, side effects aside, and you think it&#x27;s simply evening out the playing field.<p>And it needs to be said in case my wife ever finds this: she&#x27;s also ridiculously hot and even though she can&#x27;t see it has, at times, been skinnier than her sister.</text></item><item><author>scarmig</author><text>&gt; It’s so hard to eat healthy, I honestly cannot fathom how people do it.<p>When I started taking semaglutide, I finally understood it. I&#x27;d eat a salad... and be full and more than satisfied! I&#x27;d look at a muffin right after lunch, and go &quot;eh, better things to do with my time&quot; instead of immediately having an overriding desire to eat eat eat. Before, I could eat half a pizza and still be hungry (way out of what my body needs); now, a slice is more than sufficient and satiety lasts well into the next morning.<p>GLP-1 agonists makes eating healthy trivial and automatic, instead of a dieting state where you&#x27;re thinking about food literally constantly throughout the day for months or years on end.<p>Too many people are convinced that everyone has the same subjective experiences of hunger and craving, but it&#x27;s simply not the case. Some people implicitly hold this idea because it&#x27;s a convenient ideology that allows people to morally congratulate themselves for having a functioning satiety circuit.</text></item><item><author>danielvaughn</author><text>I was just saying the exact same thing to my wife yesterday. We’re both trying to lose weight, for the millionth time in the 20 years we’ve been together. Exasperated, I just said “I don’t get it. I was an artist who had no technical background, and was able to teach myself computer science and now I’m a highly successful engineer. I did that. And yet I can’t lose 10 pounds to save my life.”<p>It’s so hard to eat healthy, I honestly cannot fathom how people do it.</text></item><item><author>windpower</author><text>I&#x27;m also on one of these drugs (Tirzepatide) and have been for a few months. The first time I remember knowing I was fat was when a babysitter made fun of me for it at age 6. I&#x27;ve been fat ever since and I&#x27;m in my late 30s now.<p>I&#x27;ve lost significant amounts of weight (60+ pounds) three times in my adult life, through simple calorie restriction (intermittent fasting, including before I&#x27;d ever heard the term). Every time, I&#x27;ve gained the weight back. At the beginning of 2022, I was the heaviest I&#x27;ve ever been.<p>I&#x27;ve accomplished very hard things in my life, including those that take sustained effort. Sufficient willpower isn&#x27;t a problem for me in general. I honestly only ever hear &quot;it&#x27;s easy, just eat less and move more&quot; from people that have never actually been fat. &quot;I did it and I lost 15 pounds, no big deal!&quot; and the like. 15 pounds is easy for me to temporarily lose too. I&#x27;ve done it enough times I should know ;)<p>I&#x27;ve heard people say that the solution is to eat (healthy food) when you&#x27;re hungry, and stop when you&#x27;re full. The thing is, I&#x27;m <i>never</i> full. I can eat until I physically can&#x27;t eat anymore (not something I do regularly, of course), and as soon as my stomach has emptied a bit, I feel fairly hungry again. &quot;Eat until you feel full&quot; is literally a human experience I had never really had.<p>On this drug, I finally know what people are talking about. I still like food, and I still get hungry. But it doesn&#x27;t dominate my thoughts. I eat, and don&#x27;t feel like eating again for hours. I eat something that I&#x27;d normally easily eat all of like a big burrito or whatever, and I feel quite full halfway through with no desire to finish. I&#x27;m steadily losing weight, with none of the usual preoccupation with hunger, ascetic adherence to a strict calorie plan, etc. But above all, I feel like I must be experiencing what most thin people experience all the time. I&#x27;ll be perfectly happy to take the drug for the rest of my life, though I do hope affordability improves.<p>As for side effects: I&#x27;ve had some heartburn, but none of the other commonly reported side effects.</text></item><item><author>0xB31B1B</author><text>I’m currently taking one of these drugs and it has been no less than a miracle in my life. I became obese when I was around 5, topping out around a 34 BMI. When I was 20 I lost a substantial amount of weight the old fashioned way (diet and exercise), and within 8 months I was BMI 23. Losing weight was extremely challenging and socially isolating.<p>7 years later, I had a bad ankle injury and regained weight to about 29 BMI. This time I lost weight by doing an “eat every other day” diet. This was also extremely challenging, but easier than just counting calories and working out. After Covid and a lack of exercise I was back to BMI 30. I started taking tirzeparide this summer and have gone from BMI 31 to BMI 26 and still dropping. This is by far the easiest way to lose weight. The side effects for the first 3 months are quite bad, and include off and on strong nausea, extreme fatigue, brain fog, and constipation. I was eating &lt;1k calories per day for a long time and feeling full. I expect to be on this drug long term. My blood work shows extreme improvements in cholesterol, BP, and other key health indicators. I believe that everyone, even the skinny folks, should be on GLP1 drugs for the longevity effects. They changed they induce in diet reduce the oxidative stress on the human body, even if the person is already thin.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04505-7</url></story> |
10,555,255 | 10,554,921 | 1 | 3 | 10,553,646 | 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>holygoat</author><text>We use a totally separate WKWebView process pool and WKWebViewConfiguration for Private Browsing.<p>From the perspective of the underlying web engine, we&#x27;re two separate browsers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>biot</author><text>I&#x27;m going to have to try this to see if Firefox&#x27;s privacy is better. I currently use Chrome on iOS and was very disappointed to discover that it remembers Google searches that you do within incognito mode, completely breaking all expectations on what incognito is for.<p>Apparently this is a two year old bug: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;3&#x2F;4797968&#x2F;chrome-for-ios-incognito-mode-not-private-bug" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;3&#x2F;4797968&#x2F;chrome-for-ios-inc...</a><p>Long story short, Google saves all searches in HTML5 local storage and this is shared between regular and incognito windows. Perhaps DuckDuckGo is a configurable Firefox option. (EDIT: yes, it is. Goodbye, Chrome.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox for iOS now available</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2015/11/firefox-users-can-now-choose-their-favorite-browser-on-ios/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PMan74</author><text>That is amazing.<p>I was think about the same recently. You put a lot of faith in incognito mode working as you expect it to on the &#x27;edge&#x27; cases (e.g. third party plugins, cache, cookies) but this seems like it does not work even for a pretty straightforward case.<p>[I use edge there pretty liberally, even those cases are pretty far away from the edge]</text><parent_chain><item><author>biot</author><text>I&#x27;m going to have to try this to see if Firefox&#x27;s privacy is better. I currently use Chrome on iOS and was very disappointed to discover that it remembers Google searches that you do within incognito mode, completely breaking all expectations on what incognito is for.<p>Apparently this is a two year old bug: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;3&#x2F;4797968&#x2F;chrome-for-ios-incognito-mode-not-private-bug" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;3&#x2F;4797968&#x2F;chrome-for-ios-inc...</a><p>Long story short, Google saves all searches in HTML5 local storage and this is shared between regular and incognito windows. Perhaps DuckDuckGo is a configurable Firefox option. (EDIT: yes, it is. Goodbye, Chrome.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox for iOS now available</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2015/11/firefox-users-can-now-choose-their-favorite-browser-on-ios/</url></story> |
13,409,174 | 13,406,762 | 1 | 2 | 13,404,758 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nrjdhsbsid</author><text>Just checked your site. It&#x27;s well put together but the language is far too technical for AdWords. Engineers don&#x27;t usually make the kind of business decisions to buy these things at larger companies, it&#x27;s VP level people.<p>Find your kinds of customers and tailor a landing page with stuff that they want, instead of having the site explain everything like a users manual.<p>Ex: Calls centers do not care at all about the other uses for your product, so for ads for &quot;call center phone systems&quot; don&#x27;t show them any of that.<p>You can leave the existimg content there, it will help with SEO and people that want to look deeper. Just make sure the first few pages from ads are exactly what they&#x27;re looking for and nothing else. They will read more into it if they&#x27;re interested.<p>The big thing you&#x27;re running into is bounce rates because most visitors spend 30 seconds or less deciding if your product is what they want. If you can&#x27;t convince them &quot;yes, it&#x27;s perfect&quot; in three sentences most will leave. The easiest and surprisingly effective way to do this is to make the title of the page huge and make it match their search query exactly.<p>Your sales site should focus on uses, not features. Nobody cares about anything technical so take off the stuff about being built in Node etc... The people looking to buy this don&#x27;t even know what that is. Too many words they don&#x27;t know is scary, maybe this isn&#x27;t what they&#x27;re looking for.<p>Dumb down everything so that moronic managers will forward a link to your site to the guys that actually know wtf you&#x27;re talking about :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>abalashov</author><text>I really thought I was crazy when I thought that a 99% bounce rate is unreal, even for my highly specialised product sites which cater to a very niche audience. But I ultimately came to a similar conclusion; no matter what ads I come up with, it&#x27;s money down the drain, and I&#x27;ve never had a single conversion that came through the door that way. I&#x27;ve spent untold thousands on paid ads. I learned a great deal about which keywords to target, and mimicked the reputedly successful approaches of my competitors. Nada. Would have been better off shoveling cash into an open pit.<p>The only customers I&#x27;ve gained through web marketing have been organic, coming through bona fide referrals on other sites. The &quot;hit rate&quot; on that has been pretty good, suggesting that the blame can&#x27;t lie entirely with my crappy sites...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless</title><url>https://youexec.com/dev/2017/1/14/google-facebook-ads-traffic-is-useless</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>usaphp</author><text>Is your product specialized to technical users? I&#x27;ve noticed that businesses with more technical clients have harder time getting customers via ads, because most technical users don&#x27;t click on ads</text><parent_chain><item><author>abalashov</author><text>I really thought I was crazy when I thought that a 99% bounce rate is unreal, even for my highly specialised product sites which cater to a very niche audience. But I ultimately came to a similar conclusion; no matter what ads I come up with, it&#x27;s money down the drain, and I&#x27;ve never had a single conversion that came through the door that way. I&#x27;ve spent untold thousands on paid ads. I learned a great deal about which keywords to target, and mimicked the reputedly successful approaches of my competitors. Nada. Would have been better off shoveling cash into an open pit.<p>The only customers I&#x27;ve gained through web marketing have been organic, coming through bona fide referrals on other sites. The &quot;hit rate&quot; on that has been pretty good, suggesting that the blame can&#x27;t lie entirely with my crappy sites...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless</title><url>https://youexec.com/dev/2017/1/14/google-facebook-ads-traffic-is-useless</url></story> |
31,548,442 | 31,546,574 | 1 | 3 | 31,544,372 | train | <instructions>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>It is important to note that there is a hidden agenda in this essay: Sabine is a superdeterminist, and so her presentations have to be viewed through that lens. As a superdeterminist, she is committed to idea that classical reality is &quot;actually real&quot; (for some value of &quot;actually real&quot; -- see below). And so Hyperion&#x27;s chaotic behavior is actually real, and QM cannot account for that. All of which is true.<p>But there is an alternative view of classical reality which is that it is not &quot;actually real&quot; (the scare quotes are important here), that it is all just a sort of shared illusion among sentient beings. And QM <i>can</i> account for <i>that</i>, i.e. the math of QM can (and does) describe a set of mutually entangled observers all of which agree on an observation, notwithstanding that the observation has not actual referent in the model. And <i>that</i> is actually what we observe. We do not directly observe Hyperion. What we observe is our own subjective perception of seeing Hyperion, and having everyone around us report their own subjective perception of seeing Hyperion. The &quot;actual existence&quot; of a classical entity, i.e. an actual physical referent for &quot;Hyperion&quot; seems like a plausible explanation for this, but what QM tells us is that this explanation is wrong. But Sabine, as a committed superdeterminist, rejects this idea. But she&#x27;s not being up-front about that.<p>The problem with QM is not chaos, it is the fact that it is incompatible with classical intuition. The chaos thing just brings this incompatibility into very sharp focus.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chaos: The real problem with quantum mechanics</title><url>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/05/chaos-real-problem-with-quantum.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>armchairhacker</author><text>&gt; But the vast majority of physicists today think the collapse of the wave-function isn’t a physical process. Because if it was, then it would have to happen instantaneously everywhere.<p>Why can&#x27;t WFC be a physical process? Yes, when a photon on the Moon is measured it immediately changes the &quot;wave function&quot; of a photon on Earth from 50&#x2F;50 to 100&#x2F;0. But the wave function was always a probability, and probabilities always allow for hidden information. To the observer, entangled or not the calculation is still 50&#x2F;50. And you can&#x27;t e.g. &quot;force&quot; 1,000 entangled photons all to be positive to create an unlikely unusual scenario.<p>WFC collapse or no, both observers experience their own independent 50&#x2F;50 photon collapse. It doesn&#x27;t matter which observer measures first or if there is no &quot;first&quot; at all. The WFC may or may not be instantaneous because it doesn&#x27;t matter. The fact that the particles are entangled doesn&#x27;t affect observer A until he&#x27;s able to observe observer B and vice versa.<p>For all we know all of our particles could be entangled with other particles halfway across the universe, it can&#x27;t affect us until the speed of light reaches us so we can observer ourselves that the other particles are entangled.<p>Also why Hyperion isn&#x27;t blurred, despite the fact that all of the particles which affect it are too small to be measured, is because Hyperion isn&#x27;t too small to be measured. The particles aren&#x27;t too small to be &quot;measured&quot; by Hyperion when they affect Hyperion, and just because Hyperion is further away from us doesn&#x27;t mean it behaves and differently. And by seeing Hyperion&#x27;s chaotic orbit we still can&#x27;t predict those &quot;unmeasurable&quot; particles.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chaos: The real problem with quantum mechanics</title><url>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/05/chaos-real-problem-with-quantum.html</url></story> |
27,218,751 | 27,218,658 | 1 | 3 | 27,218,009 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hienyimba</author><text>&gt; &quot;The truth is, I lack some of the skills that make an ideal manager. I&#x27;m more interested in analysing organizational and market principles, and leveraging these theories to further reduce management work, rather than actually managing people,&quot; Mr Zhang wrote in a message on the company&#x27;s website. &quot;Similarly, I&#x27;m not very social, preferring solitary activities like being online, reading, listening to music, and contemplating what may be possible,&quot; he added.<p>This fits the description of a Fierce Nerd as defined by Paul Graham. Little wonder he navigated the company to such great success.<p>[0]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;fn.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;fn.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TikTok's co-founder to step down as chief executive</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57181225</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway4good</author><text>You gotta hand it to him. He navigated TikTok successfully through an absolutely crazy period.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TikTok's co-founder to step down as chief executive</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57181225</url></story> |
5,752,638 | 5,752,764 | 1 | 2 | 5,751,329 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>What if you sold it?<p>That would be ridiculous right you could be thinking, programming and improving the product to get a better bonus in the end rather than sell soda off of craigslist or ebay.<p>But you see that is how they think about it. You are stealing it and could be doing &#60;insert the worst possible thing&#62;. That is what management might come to conclusion about.<p>Another perspective + a story. (Warning: getting a bit prejudiced here). I have heard of foreign H-1B workers (won't name a country will stop at a vague level of prejudice) stuff their backpacks with soda. Stay late, look around, see if anyone is looking start shoving soda cans to fill the backpack up as much as they can carry.<p>It wasn't that management was upset, you see, it was other co-workers that were disturbed by that. Why? Because they realize they are working with "that" person. That would be disturbing to me. Is the company not paying them enough. Are they a kleptomaniac. Did they grow up poor and learned to steal food. What else are they stealing? Are they sabotaging our product? Do I want them around? Questions like that.<p>They complain. How does management react. Well they could lay off so and so. But heck he is chugging along programming and we got him on H-1B sponsorship. Laying him off because of a soda issue is worse than just making everyone pay for soda and, in return we get to save couple of thousand dollars a year.<p>That is how I heard about* (from another party, so this might have been made up, I don't know, take it for what it is worth).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jemfinch</author><text>Smuggling? Really? Why does Microsoft <i>care</i> where I drink my soda? My brain doesn't turn off at 5pm: last night I was up until 3am, at home, figuring out some bug my change introduced. Yes, I drank an employer-provided Diet Mountain Dew that I brought home. No, my employer doesn't care. Perks are for <i>people</i>, not <i>locations</i>: as long as <i>I'm</i> drinking the soda, Google doesn't care where I drink it.</text></item><item><author>ajross</author><text>Hm... more like: someone was smuggling sodas out of the building that were offered in good faith as an office perk. Frankly that would affect my morale more than even the removal would. What does it say about an office culture where that kind of petty thievery is tolerated? Honestly my feeling (and to be clear: like this whole subject this is subjective) would be that this response is not enough: better to name and shame the offenders.</text></item><item><author>jmduke</author><text>This reminds me of a great blog post, <i>Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Facebook</i> by Philip Su (<a href="http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/goodbye-microsoft-hello-facebook/" rel="nofollow">http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/goodbye-microsoft-hello-facebo...</a>):<p><i>We used to get Dove Bars and beers all the time. It felt like free food was on offer at least once a week, usually with a pretense of some small milestone to celebrate. Why did we cut stuff like this? (I know the boring fiscal reasons why. I’m asking the deeper why, as in, “Was it worth the savings? Is Microsoft better now that we’ve cut these costs?”)<p>One day, a sign appeared on a soda fridge in RedWest saying something to the effect of, “Did you know that drinks cost Microsoft [ed: millions of dollars] a year? Sodas are your perk at work. Don’t bring them home.” This depressed me on too many levels to enumerate, but I’ll toss out a few:<p>- Someone had enough time to get these signs professionally printed and affixed to our fridges.<p>- It was someone’s salaried, 40-hour-a-week job to do things like this.<p>- Someone thought soda smuggling was a big enough “problem” at Microsoft to draw attention to it.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)</title><url>http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-earth-%E2%80%93-soda%E2%80%99s-are-no-longer-free/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>It's generally not considered Googley to smuggle soda out of the office. Nobody will stop you because Google by-and-large trusts their employees, but I've heard coworkers complain about people who take home food from the microkitchens, and I've gotten friendly ribbing when I brought a microkitchen soda to an off-site where everyone else was drinking beer (which I don't drink).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jemfinch</author><text>Smuggling? Really? Why does Microsoft <i>care</i> where I drink my soda? My brain doesn't turn off at 5pm: last night I was up until 3am, at home, figuring out some bug my change introduced. Yes, I drank an employer-provided Diet Mountain Dew that I brought home. No, my employer doesn't care. Perks are for <i>people</i>, not <i>locations</i>: as long as <i>I'm</i> drinking the soda, Google doesn't care where I drink it.</text></item><item><author>ajross</author><text>Hm... more like: someone was smuggling sodas out of the building that were offered in good faith as an office perk. Frankly that would affect my morale more than even the removal would. What does it say about an office culture where that kind of petty thievery is tolerated? Honestly my feeling (and to be clear: like this whole subject this is subjective) would be that this response is not enough: better to name and shame the offenders.</text></item><item><author>jmduke</author><text>This reminds me of a great blog post, <i>Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Facebook</i> by Philip Su (<a href="http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/goodbye-microsoft-hello-facebook/" rel="nofollow">http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/goodbye-microsoft-hello-facebo...</a>):<p><i>We used to get Dove Bars and beers all the time. It felt like free food was on offer at least once a week, usually with a pretense of some small milestone to celebrate. Why did we cut stuff like this? (I know the boring fiscal reasons why. I’m asking the deeper why, as in, “Was it worth the savings? Is Microsoft better now that we’ve cut these costs?”)<p>One day, a sign appeared on a soda fridge in RedWest saying something to the effect of, “Did you know that drinks cost Microsoft [ed: millions of dollars] a year? Sodas are your perk at work. Don’t bring them home.” This depressed me on too many levels to enumerate, but I’ll toss out a few:<p>- Someone had enough time to get these signs professionally printed and affixed to our fridges.<p>- It was someone’s salaried, 40-hour-a-week job to do things like this.<p>- Someone thought soda smuggling was a big enough “problem” at Microsoft to draw attention to it.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)</title><url>http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-earth-%E2%80%93-soda%E2%80%99s-are-no-longer-free/</url></story> |
21,532,767 | 21,532,749 | 1 | 2 | 21,528,854 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alex504</author><text>Thanks for saying this. I am sick of software engineers thinking they are smarter and than other people because they make more money.<p>How much money you make does not equate to your worth as a human being.<p>Software engineering is not that difficult.<p>There are lots of things just as difficult if not more difficult than software engineering.<p>The majority of software engineers contribute very little to society if anything.<p>Just because you have a good software engineering job does not make you a successful person or better than other people who are pursuing other ways of living their lives.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nradov</author><text>This is a common HN fallacy. The reality is that most software engineers wildly overestimate their own intelligence and are barely even competent at their own jobs. The notion that they could quickly get up to speed on another complex job is ludicrous. For starters most engineers struggle with interviewing people and extracting accurate information from them; that&#x27;s one key reason why most new software fails to satisfy user requirements.</text></item><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>Sure, but journalism is a low ROI product, and some say that the news is just a loss leader for the media and the political establishment to have influence. The vast majority of news stories are read for a few hours and are forgotten about. Most news is junk that most people(rightfully) don&#x27;t want to pay very much for, even when it&#x27;s not junk.<p>Both the state of journalism as well as what journalists get paid is pretty sad, but they might as well be shouting at the clouds.<p>Here&#x27;s how I think of it: I have no doubt that anyone could take a room full of software engineers and start a functioning news organization the next day. I doubt that anyone could take a room full of journalists and have them writing production ready code in under a month. (I worked with journalists for over 3 years and only knew of 1 who knew how to code)</text></item><item><author>lacker</author><text>So with 15 years of experience as a New York Times editor, you make about 80% as much money as a newly hired software engineer at Google with zero experience. No wonder traditional media is bitter about the tech companies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What people get paid to work in journalism</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/cjr_outbox/google-doc-journalism-media-pay.php</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tidepod12</author><text>Seriously. It&#x27;s especially laughable to say that a room of software engineers could become journalists, of all things. The vast majority of the SWEs I know, even the rockstars at FAANG companies, can hardly write coherent emails or give a presentation during a 5-person standup meeting. To think they could write entire news articles is hilarious.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nradov</author><text>This is a common HN fallacy. The reality is that most software engineers wildly overestimate their own intelligence and are barely even competent at their own jobs. The notion that they could quickly get up to speed on another complex job is ludicrous. For starters most engineers struggle with interviewing people and extracting accurate information from them; that&#x27;s one key reason why most new software fails to satisfy user requirements.</text></item><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>Sure, but journalism is a low ROI product, and some say that the news is just a loss leader for the media and the political establishment to have influence. The vast majority of news stories are read for a few hours and are forgotten about. Most news is junk that most people(rightfully) don&#x27;t want to pay very much for, even when it&#x27;s not junk.<p>Both the state of journalism as well as what journalists get paid is pretty sad, but they might as well be shouting at the clouds.<p>Here&#x27;s how I think of it: I have no doubt that anyone could take a room full of software engineers and start a functioning news organization the next day. I doubt that anyone could take a room full of journalists and have them writing production ready code in under a month. (I worked with journalists for over 3 years and only knew of 1 who knew how to code)</text></item><item><author>lacker</author><text>So with 15 years of experience as a New York Times editor, you make about 80% as much money as a newly hired software engineer at Google with zero experience. No wonder traditional media is bitter about the tech companies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What people get paid to work in journalism</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/cjr_outbox/google-doc-journalism-media-pay.php</url></story> |
3,717,586 | 3,717,480 | 1 | 2 | 3,717,231 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ramanujam</author><text>It has now become a norm that everyone just drops in jQuery and bootstrap css for most of their projects while they might just be needing a DOM handler and a few utility functions. I have nothing against jQuery or Bootstrap. They are awesome to get things rolling but in most cases there is no necessity to load huge JS libraries with lots of utility functions which one might not be using. Not to leave aside the fact that a few third party analytics, tracking, help desk tools also load/include jQuery in their bloated script.<p>MicroJS is a good resource. I am wondering how many of the frameworks listed there are actively developed/maintained. Adding the last commit date information might be super useful.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microjs: an index of javascript micro frameworks</title><url>http://microjs.com/</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>latch</author><text>I started using zepto recently, it's at 7.4k min+gziped, not the 3.3 listed on this site. Still a super useful site, it might just be slightly out of date.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microjs: an index of javascript micro frameworks</title><url>http://microjs.com/</url><text></text></story> |
14,871,672 | 14,871,778 | 1 | 2 | 14,871,006 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ynniv</author><text>If we&#x27;re going to be anecdotal, I moved to Atlanta from Boston. I now have lower expenses, a higher salary, the weather is better, cars last twice as long, and people are less abrasive. Every time I check there are more startups, more new buildings, more people, more opportunities...<p>Just my experience after having moved here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fweespeech</author><text>I&#x27;d be very cautious about Atlanta. Outside of Google, many of the companies there are wanting to pay salaries I&#x27;d consider substantially below market (even including COLA) compared to the other hubs.<p>That includes those fortune 500 companies (a couple of whom had internal recruiters bail when I mentioned my current salary + the COLA number). Cutting your real estate costs by $12-15k goes a long way but it doesn&#x27;t magically cover $40k+ paycuts. It is good for employers (for instance, one guy was willing to disclose &quot;I got two guys with Master degrees for $20k less than what you wanted.&quot;) but not so good for employees on the upper end of the pay scale. (i.e. above 6 figures outside of SF&#x2F;NYC)<p>It is anecdotal, just my experience after looking to move there.</text></item><item><author>dzink</author><text>Atlanta is the center of tech ambitions for the southeast. It has a lot of Fortune 500 company headquarters - Turner Broadcasting with 18+ major online brands, Home Depot, Lowe&#x27;s, etc. Yahoo and Google had offices. There are also a lot of small satellite consulting firms. Cost of housing is much lower, though traffic is bad as well. It&#x27;s a nice green city, but Venture funding is low, so it depends on your ambitions.</text></item><item><author>ynniv</author><text>I get that you work with what you have (in this case, a corpus of job postings), but a ranking that places Baltimore in the top three tech hubs fails the sniff test. CBRE has a better list here (email registration wall): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbre.com&#x2F;research-and-reports&#x2F;Scoring-Tech-Talent-2017" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbre.com&#x2F;research-and-reports&#x2F;Scoring-Tech-Talen...</a><p>I&#x27;m biased in that it places Atlanta unusually high, but overall it is a better, less surprising ranking:<p><pre><code> Bay Area
Seattle
New York
Washington DC
Atlanta
Toronto
Raleigh
Austin
Boston</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs</title><url>http://www.hiringlab.org/2017/07/25/next-silicon-valley/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joseph</author><text>I just moved to Atlanta from Seattle and got a 25% raise in the process. In fact I had two similar offers to choose from.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fweespeech</author><text>I&#x27;d be very cautious about Atlanta. Outside of Google, many of the companies there are wanting to pay salaries I&#x27;d consider substantially below market (even including COLA) compared to the other hubs.<p>That includes those fortune 500 companies (a couple of whom had internal recruiters bail when I mentioned my current salary + the COLA number). Cutting your real estate costs by $12-15k goes a long way but it doesn&#x27;t magically cover $40k+ paycuts. It is good for employers (for instance, one guy was willing to disclose &quot;I got two guys with Master degrees for $20k less than what you wanted.&quot;) but not so good for employees on the upper end of the pay scale. (i.e. above 6 figures outside of SF&#x2F;NYC)<p>It is anecdotal, just my experience after looking to move there.</text></item><item><author>dzink</author><text>Atlanta is the center of tech ambitions for the southeast. It has a lot of Fortune 500 company headquarters - Turner Broadcasting with 18+ major online brands, Home Depot, Lowe&#x27;s, etc. Yahoo and Google had offices. There are also a lot of small satellite consulting firms. Cost of housing is much lower, though traffic is bad as well. It&#x27;s a nice green city, but Venture funding is low, so it depends on your ambitions.</text></item><item><author>ynniv</author><text>I get that you work with what you have (in this case, a corpus of job postings), but a ranking that places Baltimore in the top three tech hubs fails the sniff test. CBRE has a better list here (email registration wall): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbre.com&#x2F;research-and-reports&#x2F;Scoring-Tech-Talent-2017" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbre.com&#x2F;research-and-reports&#x2F;Scoring-Tech-Talen...</a><p>I&#x27;m biased in that it places Atlanta unusually high, but overall it is a better, less surprising ranking:<p><pre><code> Bay Area
Seattle
New York
Washington DC
Atlanta
Toronto
Raleigh
Austin
Boston</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs</title><url>http://www.hiringlab.org/2017/07/25/next-silicon-valley/</url></story> |
15,549,644 | 15,549,307 | 1 | 3 | 15,548,877 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nurbl</author><text>Scipy+numpy made it possible for me to mostly stop using the various weird, usually proprietary and often highly specialized data analysis applications that are entrenched in the scientific community, and work with a nice, general purpose programming language instead. It was wonderful!<p>This is close to a decade ago, it kind of blows my mind that only now scipy 1.0 is released. Not that it matters, I&#x27;m still a user, thanks team scipy!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scipy 1.0 released</title><url>https://mail.python.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2017-October/037357.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>cs702</author><text>Congratulations!<p>Among many others, AI researchers all over the planet owe a debt of gratitude to these guys. Python dominates in AI research, and deep learning in particular, in part because it has a wealth of libraries like Scipy.<p>So, THANK YOU!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scipy 1.0 released</title><url>https://mail.python.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2017-October/037357.html</url></story> |
18,609,400 | 18,606,606 | 1 | 3 | 18,605,550 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>UncleMeat</author><text>Would you ask somebody who had you in an A&#x2F;B test to destroy the feature?</text><parent_chain><item><author>polskibus</author><text>Would this unlearn the Google&#x27;s ML models from my data?</text></item><item><author>ChrisAntaki</author><text>I looked at the &quot;Google&quot; page (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thecreepyline.com&#x2F;programs&#x2F;google-v2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thecreepyline.com&#x2F;programs&#x2F;google-v2</a>) and noticed it doesn&#x27;t mention a few kind of important things.<p>(1) You can pause activity collection at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myaccount.google.com&#x2F;activitycontrols" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myaccount.google.com&#x2F;activitycontrols</a><p>(2) You can delete activity here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myactivity.google.com&#x2F;delete-activity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myactivity.google.com&#x2F;delete-activity</a><p>Also, does anyone know if Facebook offers interfaces like these?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation</title><url>https://www.thecreepyline.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>chii</author><text>I am going to guess no.</text><parent_chain><item><author>polskibus</author><text>Would this unlearn the Google&#x27;s ML models from my data?</text></item><item><author>ChrisAntaki</author><text>I looked at the &quot;Google&quot; page (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thecreepyline.com&#x2F;programs&#x2F;google-v2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thecreepyline.com&#x2F;programs&#x2F;google-v2</a>) and noticed it doesn&#x27;t mention a few kind of important things.<p>(1) You can pause activity collection at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myaccount.google.com&#x2F;activitycontrols" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myaccount.google.com&#x2F;activitycontrols</a><p>(2) You can delete activity here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myactivity.google.com&#x2F;delete-activity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myactivity.google.com&#x2F;delete-activity</a><p>Also, does anyone know if Facebook offers interfaces like these?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation</title><url>https://www.thecreepyline.com/</url></story> |
39,480,133 | 39,478,176 | 1 | 3 | 39,471,388 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fileyfood500</author><text>It&#x27;s very powerful, I can enter implementations for any algorithm by typing 5 words and clicking tab. If I want the AI to use a hashmap to solve my problem in O(n), I just say that. If I need to rewrite a bunch of poorly written code to get rid of dead code, add constants, etc I do that. If I need to convert files between languages or formats, I do that. I have to do a lot more code review than before, and a lot less writing. It saves a huge amount of time, it&#x27;s pretty easy to measure. Personally, the order of consultation is Github Copilot -&gt; GPT4 -&gt; Grimoire -&gt; Me. If it&#x27;s going to me, there is a high probability that I&#x27;m trying to do too many things at once in an over-complicated function. That or I&#x27;m using a relatively niche library and the AI doesn&#x27;t know the methods.</text><parent_chain><item><author>planb</author><text>I didn&#x27;t take a look at the code, but to me it sounds quite dangerous to take an implementation AND the unit tests straight from an LLM, commit and move on.<p>Is this the new normal now?</text></item><item><author>afiodorov</author><text>I don&#x27;t trust the code quality evalution. The other day at work I wanted to split my string by ; but only if it&#x27;s not within single quotes (think about splitting many SQL statements). I explicitly asked for stdlib python solution and preferrably avoid counting quotes since that&#x27;s a bit verbose.<p>GPT4 gave me a regex found on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2787979" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2787979</a> (without &quot;), explained it to me and then it successfully added all the necessary unit tests and they passed - I commited all of that to the repo and moved on.<p>I couldn&#x27;t get 70B to answer this question even with multiple nudges.<p>Every time I try something non GPT-4 I always go back - it&#x27;s feels like a waste of time otherwise. A bit sad that LLMs follow the typical winner-takes-it-all tech curve. However if you could ask the smartest guy in the room your question every time, why wouldn&#x27;t you?<p>---<p>Edit: <i>USE CODE MODE</i> and it&#x27;ll actually solve it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster</title><url>https://www.phind.com/blog/introducing-phind-70b</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Xenoamorphous</author><text>I guess most people would review the code as if it had been written by a colleague?</text><parent_chain><item><author>planb</author><text>I didn&#x27;t take a look at the code, but to me it sounds quite dangerous to take an implementation AND the unit tests straight from an LLM, commit and move on.<p>Is this the new normal now?</text></item><item><author>afiodorov</author><text>I don&#x27;t trust the code quality evalution. The other day at work I wanted to split my string by ; but only if it&#x27;s not within single quotes (think about splitting many SQL statements). I explicitly asked for stdlib python solution and preferrably avoid counting quotes since that&#x27;s a bit verbose.<p>GPT4 gave me a regex found on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2787979" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2787979</a> (without &quot;), explained it to me and then it successfully added all the necessary unit tests and they passed - I commited all of that to the repo and moved on.<p>I couldn&#x27;t get 70B to answer this question even with multiple nudges.<p>Every time I try something non GPT-4 I always go back - it&#x27;s feels like a waste of time otherwise. A bit sad that LLMs follow the typical winner-takes-it-all tech curve. However if you could ask the smartest guy in the room your question every time, why wouldn&#x27;t you?<p>---<p>Edit: <i>USE CODE MODE</i> and it&#x27;ll actually solve it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster</title><url>https://www.phind.com/blog/introducing-phind-70b</url></story> |
7,375,540 | 7,375,426 | 1 | 2 | 7,375,043 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edj</author><text>This is so apropos!<p>Three groups of my friends (6 people, total) are attempting to start breweries, brewpubs, or cideries.<p>I have a number of thoughts for these friends. (Advice not totally unsolicited -- I&#x27;ve been homebrewing for about 17 years.)<p>- Brewing a good batch of beer - better than most of the what&#x27;s sold in stores - is easy. Almost anyone can do it with their first batch.<p>- This tricks people into thinking that brewing is easy. But...<p>- Consistency is hard. That recipe that turned out so well the first time? It might be good the second time, or it might spoil, or it might be too hoppy, or it might be cloudy, or taste of yeast, and so on. At any rate, it&#x27;s unlikely that it will taste exactly the same as it did the first time.<p>- Brewing large batches is hard. Even transitioning from 5 gallon to 10 gallon batches requires different equipment. Recipes don&#x27;t scale in a simple way. And when you get into backwatering high gravity beers everything becomes even more complex.<p>- Making wine and cider is hard compared to brewing beer. The former two have fewer ingredients, which, being fruit instead of grain, tend to be less consistent. Conditioning takes MUCH longer which means feedback and learning take much longer.<p>- And yet, I bet actually making a consistent, high-quality beverage is the easy part compared to running a profitable brewing business.<p>- Brewing is expensive. Startup costs are high. Even an enthusiastic homebrewer can easily spend thousands. Think $10,000 for a bare-minimum commercial brewing setup built around e.g. a SABCO Brew Magic.<p>- The legal stuff is hard. Licenses, bonds, a legal location -- all that stuff takes time and money.<p>- The food industry is brutal. Combining a brewery and a restaurant seems like it must tremendously increase the probability of failure.<p>Anyway, brewing is a fun hobby. But one of those that sort of lulls people into making hasty business decisions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery</title><url>http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2014/03/challenges-of-opening-a-brewery-job-advice-beer-industry-collin-mcdonnell-henhouse.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>silencio</author><text>I could almost replace &quot;beer&quot; and &quot;brewery&quot; with &quot;food&quot; and &quot;restaurant&quot; and feel like it would be talking about the same thing.<p>My restaurant ends up focusing so much more on keeping up with cleaning, food safety, and local regulations than actual cooking food it feels almost silly. And most people only want to hear about food or money (lol, money) when they ask me about how the restaurant&#x27;s doing. I hope I don&#x27;t accidentally convince someone that they should look into running one.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery</title><url>http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2014/03/challenges-of-opening-a-brewery-job-advice-beer-industry-collin-mcdonnell-henhouse.html</url></story> |
30,819,854 | 30,818,761 | 1 | 2 | 30,817,795 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cwmma</author><text>There are plenty native English surnames that came about before spellings standardized leading to (in the case of my own) Metcalf, Metcalfe, Medcalfe, Medcalf, Midcalfe, Midcalf all being the same name.<p>So even immigrants coming from places that have surnames can have lots of variety before taking into account there isn&#x27;t always a single best way to write a name in the Latin script.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrjin</author><text>Oh well, if you take a closer look, you will find why: most if not all of those with surnames look weird in English are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from a non-English speaking background. When they&#x2F;their ancestors arrived, they most likely do not speak English at all or might be a couple of words, some of them might not even have a surname. When they arrived at the customs, they for sure needed something English on their papers. It would make sense to take what ever came to their mind at that moment as their surname.<p>Such things can be observed in every English speaking countries I would say. As those surnames were actually picked randomly, and when they&#x2F;their descendants moved again, they most likely carried that randomly chosen surname with them. And now it becomes quirks that lots of surnames of different spellings are actually exactly the same in their origin. Lots of descendants of immigrants no longer neither can read or write in their own language but English, some might be either able to read or write but hardly anyone can do both.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Surnames with No Vowels</title><url>https://blog.plover.com/2022/03/26/#vowelless-names</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>liversage</author><text>A famous case of this is the Danish man Victor Cornelins that was born in St. Croix but at the age of seven was brought to Denmark to become part of a human exhibition as a &quot;negro kid&quot; to attract visitors. His birth name was Cornelius which is not unusual in Danish so Cornelins must have been a simple writing mistake. However, this lapse is negligible compared to the racism he was subjected to.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Victor_Cornelins" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Victor_Cornelins</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mrjin</author><text>Oh well, if you take a closer look, you will find why: most if not all of those with surnames look weird in English are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from a non-English speaking background. When they&#x2F;their ancestors arrived, they most likely do not speak English at all or might be a couple of words, some of them might not even have a surname. When they arrived at the customs, they for sure needed something English on their papers. It would make sense to take what ever came to their mind at that moment as their surname.<p>Such things can be observed in every English speaking countries I would say. As those surnames were actually picked randomly, and when they&#x2F;their descendants moved again, they most likely carried that randomly chosen surname with them. And now it becomes quirks that lots of surnames of different spellings are actually exactly the same in their origin. Lots of descendants of immigrants no longer neither can read or write in their own language but English, some might be either able to read or write but hardly anyone can do both.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Surnames with No Vowels</title><url>https://blog.plover.com/2022/03/26/#vowelless-names</url></story> |
11,775,113 | 11,773,973 | 1 | 2 | 11,773,650 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>partiallypro</author><text>UTIs can cause symptoms exactly like Alzheimer&#x27;s, so I&#x27;m sure that sparked the idea. My grandmother actually developed Alzheimer&#x27;s, I can&#x27;t help but feel it might have been set on by a long standing UTI that the Dr never caught or treated (her Doctor was an old quack from everything I know.) Then again, her sister also has it, so it could also just be genetic. I do hope they figure it out, it&#x27;s too late for my grandmother, but it&#x27;s a big drain on everyone and when my grandmother does &quot;break through&quot; briefly, she is basically begging to die. Wouldn&#x27;t wish it on anyone.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Could Alzheimer’s Stem from Infections?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/health/alzheimers-disease-infection.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>moyix</author><text>Some previous discussion of an earlier paper that suggested a fungal infection may be to blame:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10401344" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10401344</a><p>Very interesting to see more suggestive evidence from another group!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Could Alzheimer’s Stem from Infections?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/health/alzheimers-disease-infection.html</url></story> |
18,020,738 | 18,019,517 | 1 | 2 | 18,017,442 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Osiris</author><text>Usability is a key issue.<p>My employer requires that emails with certain types of content be sent with a GPG signature. I spent a few hours today figuring out the best way to do it. First, I used the CLI to &lt; echo &quot;...&quot; | gpg --clear-sign &gt; and paste that into Gmail (web), but the receiver didn&#x27;t know how to verify the signature (Mac Mail with GPG Tools).<p>Eventually I settled on Thunderbird with an add-on. It took some googling because the add-on defaulted to &quot;Junior&quot; mode. Eventually, I was able to send emails both signed and encrypted.<p>So, the issue to me is that there needs to be a standard that can be easily integrated into commonly used communication tools, like Gmail, SMS, etc.<p>Private key portability is also a problem. I have a USB-C yubikey, and it works on my laptop and my phone. Once USB-C becomes common, maybe carrying your private keys around with you will be much easier.</text><parent_chain><item><author>badrabbit</author><text>PGP is an alright protocol but I cannot recommend gpg for daily use by non-technical users. They make it extremely difficult to use long-term and simple issues like gpg-agent running as a background process become controversies where they could have just made it optional.<p>Honestly,I think it&#x27;s an alright piece of software but the project became the way it is as a result of the massive gnupg adoption in the *nix world and lack of competition.<p>If it isn&#x27;t cross-platform and user friendly,it shouldn&#x27;t be used by the average citizen. As much as the cryptonerd in me likes this news,Gnupg as it is shouldn&#x27;t be used for official matters. Most lawyers and judges would struggle to use it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the State of Washington</title><url>https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-September/060987.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>incompatible</author><text>How is it not cross-platform? It does run on &quot;both Windows and macOS&quot; which seems to be the usual definition.</text><parent_chain><item><author>badrabbit</author><text>PGP is an alright protocol but I cannot recommend gpg for daily use by non-technical users. They make it extremely difficult to use long-term and simple issues like gpg-agent running as a background process become controversies where they could have just made it optional.<p>Honestly,I think it&#x27;s an alright piece of software but the project became the way it is as a result of the massive gnupg adoption in the *nix world and lack of competition.<p>If it isn&#x27;t cross-platform and user friendly,it shouldn&#x27;t be used by the average citizen. As much as the cryptonerd in me likes this news,Gnupg as it is shouldn&#x27;t be used for official matters. Most lawyers and judges would struggle to use it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the State of Washington</title><url>https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-September/060987.html</url></story> |
15,045,974 | 15,046,109 | 1 | 2 | 15,045,617 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; While I definitely don&#x27;t support the people they&#x27;re booting off...<p>A bit off topic but how many bytes are spent on prefaces like this on responses to this topic?<p>I assume that the <i>vast</i> majority of people on the planet don&#x27;t support Nazis or anything related. I find it interesting that any discussion of them has to include that line lest the speaker&#x2F;writer be labeled as one (which happens quite a bit anyway but that&#x27;s a different topic).</text><parent_chain><item><author>corobo</author><text>While I definitely don&#x27;t support the people they&#x27;re booting off I do have to agree with the EFF here.<p>For example, &quot;And music streaming services offered by Google, Deezer and Spotify have said they would remove music that incites violence, hatred or racism.&quot;<p>Now these services have put it out there as policy someone has to define what&#x27;s violent, hateful or racist in music. Racism? Ok nobody&#x27;s really going to bat an eye at that disappearing.<p>Violence and hatred though? As an off again on again heavy metal listener.. almost literally every track could be described as violent or hateful. That&#x27;s the genre. The same could be said for other genres and their sub-genres. Rap comes to mind. Is Eminem next on the chopping board?<p>Music was the easy example, there&#x27;s other examples available for the other services (registrar, DNS, hosting, CDN) as to why making this policy is a bad idea. Now anyone needs to do is convince someone at the corresponding target that a site is similar enough that it should be taken down.<p>South Park had a two-parter that addressed this exact problem [1][2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cartoon_Wars_Part_I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cartoon_Wars_Part_I</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cartoon_Wars_Part_II" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cartoon_Wars_Part_II</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40974069</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChrisBland</author><text>Exactly, so do we expect that Google &#x2F; Spotify will remove Chief Keef&#x27;s &quot;Bang Bang&quot;? Lyrics for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;genius.com&#x2F;Chief-keef-bang-bang-lyrics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;genius.com&#x2F;Chief-keef-bang-bang-lyrics</a> -- If we don&#x27;t remove that for &quot;music that incites violence&quot; then its a scary double standard we are building and we are now at the whim of the &quot;PC Thought Police&quot;
I couldn&#x27;t agree with you more about the Cartoon Wars episode; either it is all fair game or none of it is. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>corobo</author><text>While I definitely don&#x27;t support the people they&#x27;re booting off I do have to agree with the EFF here.<p>For example, &quot;And music streaming services offered by Google, Deezer and Spotify have said they would remove music that incites violence, hatred or racism.&quot;<p>Now these services have put it out there as policy someone has to define what&#x27;s violent, hateful or racist in music. Racism? Ok nobody&#x27;s really going to bat an eye at that disappearing.<p>Violence and hatred though? As an off again on again heavy metal listener.. almost literally every track could be described as violent or hateful. That&#x27;s the genre. The same could be said for other genres and their sub-genres. Rap comes to mind. Is Eminem next on the chopping board?<p>Music was the easy example, there&#x27;s other examples available for the other services (registrar, DNS, hosting, CDN) as to why making this policy is a bad idea. Now anyone needs to do is convince someone at the corresponding target that a site is similar enough that it should be taken down.<p>South Park had a two-parter that addressed this exact problem [1][2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cartoon_Wars_Part_I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cartoon_Wars_Part_I</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cartoon_Wars_Part_II" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cartoon_Wars_Part_II</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40974069</url></story> |
15,928,200 | 15,926,186 | 1 | 3 | 15,923,338 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SonOfLilit</author><text>My test for linear algebra books is how they first present matrices and matrix multiplication.<p>If they define a matrix as an NxM table of numbers with a multiplication operation defined as this complicated formula with a couple of nested sigmas, and then much later a lemma is mentioned that says every linear transformation can be represented as a matrix and then the composition of two transforms is the matrix multiplication of their matrix forms, I throw the book away in disgust. I throw most books away in disgust.<p>This is the second book I&#x27;ve seen that does it right, but unlike the other one [1] this one wraps the very correct presentation of matrices in so much technical language and such a boring cover story that I almost threw it away in disgust anyway.<p>My greatest wish in STEM education is that we teach linear algebra better. It&#x27;s such low hanging fruit and could change so much!<p>[1] which I saw linked in HN a year ago and don&#x27;t remember the name of, but it was something like &quot;linear algebra taught the correct way&quot; and was apparently well known in the States so ask your friends</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization [pdf]</title><url>http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis515/linalg.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>Folks looking for introductory books in this area may also enjoy this new in-progress book: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;~boyd&#x2F;vmls&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;~boyd&#x2F;vmls&#x2F;</a><p>As a follow-up I would recommend Trefethen &amp; Bau, <i>Numerical Linear Algebra</i>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization [pdf]</title><url>http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis515/linalg.pdf</url></story> |
25,700,833 | 25,699,550 | 1 | 3 | 25,698,990 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dotancohen</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; #20 A bad design with a good presentation is doomed
&gt; eventually. A good design with a bad presentation
&gt; is doomed immediately.
</code></pre>
This should be the Y Combinator motto. It is one of the axioms that is represented here again and again, both explicitly and implicitly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design</title><url>http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.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>teleforce</author><text>Awesome list of engineering wisdoms!<p>This one probably the best:<p>36:Any run-of-the-mill engineer can design something which is elegant. A good engineer designs systems to be efficient. A great engineer designs them to be effective.<p>This statement reminded me of the popular quote on teacher, “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design</title><url>http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html</url></story> |
25,533,936 | 25,533,313 | 1 | 2 | 25,532,050 | 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>RobertRoberts</author><text>I&#x27;ve been homeless, lonely and desperate in many ways over many years. I appreciate your comments here.<p>I would add that people who are desperate will drag you down like a drowning person. I have been on both sides of this, and I have had to overcome this &quot;total reliance&quot; on others that makes them go away.<p>But, the best advice I have ever gotten (paraphrasing) was &quot;face YOUR problems&quot;. It didn&#x27;t matter what or how they said it. If you don&#x27;t want things to be better, they never will get better.<p>The problem is that hopelessness _feels_ permanent. I have just gotten where I can be helpful to others after decades, and I am seeing that _extreme_ patience, caring and understanding allow that difficult discussion about change to happen.<p>Keep saying what you are saying. It was people like you that helped me start facing things on my own. Bravo and peace and love to you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>I&#x27;ve studied social&#x2F;psychological stuff, spent a lot of years suicidal and spent a number of years homeless which was incredibly socially isolating and even negatively impacted how people interacted with me online.<p>Some thoughts (intended as a buffet to choose from if it strikes your fancy, not a prescription for &quot;the right way&quot; to do anything at all):<p>1. It&#x27;s usually not actually helpful to signal that you are desperate and lonely and your life is in the toilet. Once in a great while, someone will be truly wonderful to you because you did that but it&#x27;s usually counterproductive.<p>2. It&#x27;s usually better to look for one of two things: A chat-friendly space where it&#x27;s okay to just talk to people or a discussion space on a topic that genuinely interests you.<p>3. Signaling desperation attracts predators far more often than it attracts real friends.<p>4. Support groups have a tendency to be all kinds of drama and not terribly helpful because it tends to be the case that you can&#x27;t suggest to people &quot;You could try doing things differently&quot; because that will be taken as blaming the victim and it&#x27;s just really hard to find good ways to help people solve their personal problems.<p>5. The best way to make friends is to connect with people you have something in common with. So joining discussions about things that interest you is more likely to help you connect socially.<p>6. Yes, you can have real friends via internet. I&#x27;ve had lots of real friends online over the years.<p>((germ-free internet hugs)) if you need&#x2F;want them and happy holidays and all that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I am lonely will anyone speak to me</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_lonely_will_anyone_speak_to_me</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nowherebeen</author><text>&gt; Signaling desperation attracts predators far more often than it attracts real friends.<p>This is something so obvious but has eluded me until you said it. I have seen this happen in work settings and have never been able to pinpoint it. Thanks!</text><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>I&#x27;ve studied social&#x2F;psychological stuff, spent a lot of years suicidal and spent a number of years homeless which was incredibly socially isolating and even negatively impacted how people interacted with me online.<p>Some thoughts (intended as a buffet to choose from if it strikes your fancy, not a prescription for &quot;the right way&quot; to do anything at all):<p>1. It&#x27;s usually not actually helpful to signal that you are desperate and lonely and your life is in the toilet. Once in a great while, someone will be truly wonderful to you because you did that but it&#x27;s usually counterproductive.<p>2. It&#x27;s usually better to look for one of two things: A chat-friendly space where it&#x27;s okay to just talk to people or a discussion space on a topic that genuinely interests you.<p>3. Signaling desperation attracts predators far more often than it attracts real friends.<p>4. Support groups have a tendency to be all kinds of drama and not terribly helpful because it tends to be the case that you can&#x27;t suggest to people &quot;You could try doing things differently&quot; because that will be taken as blaming the victim and it&#x27;s just really hard to find good ways to help people solve their personal problems.<p>5. The best way to make friends is to connect with people you have something in common with. So joining discussions about things that interest you is more likely to help you connect socially.<p>6. Yes, you can have real friends via internet. I&#x27;ve had lots of real friends online over the years.<p>((germ-free internet hugs)) if you need&#x2F;want them and happy holidays and all that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I am lonely will anyone speak to me</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_lonely_will_anyone_speak_to_me</url></story> |
21,694,273 | 21,694,271 | 1 | 3 | 21,692,679 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jartelt</author><text>Earlier this year Google e-mailed all employees and noted that accessing docs outside the scope of your job responsibility is forbidden and a fire-able offense. I think this policy change marked the end of the open culture you speak of.<p>Whether this was a legitimate policy change or a change simply made to find reasons to fire activists, I don&#x27;t know. But, it was made clear many months ago that digging around to access docs outside your spec could result in a firing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>As someone who worked at Google I&#x27;d like to clarify this corporate speak &amp; I&#x27;m really disappointed as I thought Google had higher standards.<p>Google has traditionally embraced an open culture so accessing documents outside the scope of your job has traditionally been totally fine &amp; is the stated reason why every full time employee is considered an insider for trading purposes, with legal restrictions imposed on when you can trade.<p>&#x27;m guessing from memory (&amp; this would be from before my time so ex-Googlers with a better memory please remind me), but the data policy was introduced to deal with SREs looking at customer data they weren&#x27;t supposed to, not about the work product of coworkers.<p>In terms of people&#x27;s calendars I&#x27;m totally confused - it&#x27;s super-easy to change sharing permissions even on a per event level. Sounds like it&#x27;s a pretext - the reasonable approach would be A) Improve training about the available privacy settings B) Improve Google Calendar to make it easier to manage those privacy settings since I&#x27;m sure other workplaces have a similar problem.<p>So the calendar stalking is the bigger problem I think on the part of the fired employees but the &quot;accessing documents outside the scope of their jobs&quot; is total BS. The leaking &quot;sensitive business or customer information&quot; seems like pure FUD - seems like a lawyer-approved way to slander about what happened.<p>I&#x27;m really curious whose calendars were accessed &quot;inappropriately&quot; and who reported feeling threatened. Moreover just accessing a calendar is not something you&#x27;re notified about so that would indicate this is either BS on Google&#x27;s part or these people were doing a bit of active stalking on the side. Could come out that everyone is the asshole in this story but given how bad management&#x2F;labor relations have gone under Sundar, I&#x27;d wager that Google is definitely engaging in really shady shit on their own here.</text></item><item><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>I figure others would be curious about Google&#x27;s side of it. Who is right or wrong doesn&#x27;t seem obvious to me. Apparently this is a memo about why these workers were fired[0]:<p>&gt; We’ve seen a recent increase in information being shared outside the company, including the names and details of our employees. Our teams are committed to investigating these issues, and today we’ve dismissed four employees for clear and repeated violations of our data security policies.<p>&gt; There’s been some misinformation circulating about this investigation, both internally and externally. We want to be clear that none of these individuals were fired for simply looking at documents or calendars during the ordinary course of their work.<p>&gt; To the contrary, our thorough investigation found the individuals were involved in systematic searches for other employees’ materials and work. This includes searching for, accessing, and distributing business information outside the scope of their jobs — repeating this conduct even after they were met with and reminded about our data security policies. This information, along with details of internal emails and inaccurate descriptions about Googlers’ work, was subsequently shared externally.<p>&gt; In one case, among other information they accessed and copied, an individual subscribed to the calendars of a wide range of employees outside of their work group. The individual set up notifications so that they received emails detailing the work and whereabouts of those employees, including personal matters such as 1:1s, medical appointments and family activities — all without those employees’ knowledge or consent. When the affected Googlers discovered this, many reported that they felt scared or unsafe, and requested to work from another location. Screenshots of some of their calendars, including their names and details, subsequently made their way outside the company.<p>&gt; We have always taken information security very seriously, and will not tolerate efforts to intimidate Googlers or undermine their work, nor actions that lead to the leak of sensitive business or customer information. This is not how Google’s open culture works or was ever intended to work. We expect every member of our community to abide by our data security policies.<p>&gt; Fortunately, these types of activities are rare. Thank you to everyone who does the right thing every day — doing amazing work, while inspiring and maintaining the trust of our users, partners, and each other.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-11-25&#x2F;google-fires-four-employees-citing-data-security-violations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-11-25&#x2F;google-fi...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Four fired workers file charges against Google</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/03/google-is-no-longer-listening-four-fired-workers-file-charges-against-tech-giant</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shadowgovt</author><text>The restriction on viewing and disseminating internal corporate information (not user PII, but design documents and plans) outside of one&#x27;s field of responsibility is new, and there was wide concern internally that it looked like setup for this type of &quot;you don&#x27;t agree with another team and are throwing same in the wheels by adding inconvenient questions; get fired&quot; arrangement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>As someone who worked at Google I&#x27;d like to clarify this corporate speak &amp; I&#x27;m really disappointed as I thought Google had higher standards.<p>Google has traditionally embraced an open culture so accessing documents outside the scope of your job has traditionally been totally fine &amp; is the stated reason why every full time employee is considered an insider for trading purposes, with legal restrictions imposed on when you can trade.<p>&#x27;m guessing from memory (&amp; this would be from before my time so ex-Googlers with a better memory please remind me), but the data policy was introduced to deal with SREs looking at customer data they weren&#x27;t supposed to, not about the work product of coworkers.<p>In terms of people&#x27;s calendars I&#x27;m totally confused - it&#x27;s super-easy to change sharing permissions even on a per event level. Sounds like it&#x27;s a pretext - the reasonable approach would be A) Improve training about the available privacy settings B) Improve Google Calendar to make it easier to manage those privacy settings since I&#x27;m sure other workplaces have a similar problem.<p>So the calendar stalking is the bigger problem I think on the part of the fired employees but the &quot;accessing documents outside the scope of their jobs&quot; is total BS. The leaking &quot;sensitive business or customer information&quot; seems like pure FUD - seems like a lawyer-approved way to slander about what happened.<p>I&#x27;m really curious whose calendars were accessed &quot;inappropriately&quot; and who reported feeling threatened. Moreover just accessing a calendar is not something you&#x27;re notified about so that would indicate this is either BS on Google&#x27;s part or these people were doing a bit of active stalking on the side. Could come out that everyone is the asshole in this story but given how bad management&#x2F;labor relations have gone under Sundar, I&#x27;d wager that Google is definitely engaging in really shady shit on their own here.</text></item><item><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>I figure others would be curious about Google&#x27;s side of it. Who is right or wrong doesn&#x27;t seem obvious to me. Apparently this is a memo about why these workers were fired[0]:<p>&gt; We’ve seen a recent increase in information being shared outside the company, including the names and details of our employees. Our teams are committed to investigating these issues, and today we’ve dismissed four employees for clear and repeated violations of our data security policies.<p>&gt; There’s been some misinformation circulating about this investigation, both internally and externally. We want to be clear that none of these individuals were fired for simply looking at documents or calendars during the ordinary course of their work.<p>&gt; To the contrary, our thorough investigation found the individuals were involved in systematic searches for other employees’ materials and work. This includes searching for, accessing, and distributing business information outside the scope of their jobs — repeating this conduct even after they were met with and reminded about our data security policies. This information, along with details of internal emails and inaccurate descriptions about Googlers’ work, was subsequently shared externally.<p>&gt; In one case, among other information they accessed and copied, an individual subscribed to the calendars of a wide range of employees outside of their work group. The individual set up notifications so that they received emails detailing the work and whereabouts of those employees, including personal matters such as 1:1s, medical appointments and family activities — all without those employees’ knowledge or consent. When the affected Googlers discovered this, many reported that they felt scared or unsafe, and requested to work from another location. Screenshots of some of their calendars, including their names and details, subsequently made their way outside the company.<p>&gt; We have always taken information security very seriously, and will not tolerate efforts to intimidate Googlers or undermine their work, nor actions that lead to the leak of sensitive business or customer information. This is not how Google’s open culture works or was ever intended to work. We expect every member of our community to abide by our data security policies.<p>&gt; Fortunately, these types of activities are rare. Thank you to everyone who does the right thing every day — doing amazing work, while inspiring and maintaining the trust of our users, partners, and each other.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-11-25&#x2F;google-fires-four-employees-citing-data-security-violations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-11-25&#x2F;google-fi...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Four fired workers file charges against Google</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/03/google-is-no-longer-listening-four-fired-workers-file-charges-against-tech-giant</url></story> |
20,680,653 | 20,680,847 | 1 | 3 | 20,680,291 | 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>ohazi</author><text>On a more serious note, I&#x27;m surprised there hasn&#x27;t been much discussion about potential malware in official Linux package repositories vs. developer-centric source repositories like npm, rubygems, crates.io, etc.<p>One would hope that the bar is higher with strict maintainership rules, but there are a zillion packages, and you can&#x27;t vet them all. Also, practically everyone installs binary packages, so until we have fully reproducible builds, hiding malware in some obscure but heavily depended on package could actually be relatively easy.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.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>liability</author><text>I&#x27;ve always sort of suspected there might be a <i>&#x27;don&#x27;t shit where you eat&#x27;</i> component to it. If you&#x27;re just being a dick by screwing with people for fun, not profit, then maybe you screw with the windows users instead of your fellow linux users. Maybe that&#x27;s giving them too much credit though.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html</url></story> |
9,083,183 | 9,083,184 | 1 | 2 | 9,082,784 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jrlocke</author><text><p><pre><code> &lt;!-- Interested in code, web design and web development? Check out our bestselling books on Web Programming: --&gt;
&lt;!-- HTML &amp; CSS by Jon Duckett : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;html-and-css&#x2F;jon-duckett&#x2F;9781118008188 --&gt;
&lt;!-- Python in Easy Steps by Mike McGrath : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;python-in-easy-steps&#x2F;mike-mcgrath&#x2F;9781840785968 --&gt;
&lt;!-- JavaScript &amp; JQuery by Jon Duckett : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;javascript-and-jquery&#x2F;jon-duckett&#x2F;9781118531648 --&gt;
&lt;!-- PHP &amp; MYSQL in Easy Steps by Mike McGrath : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;php-and-mysql-in-easy-steps&#x2F;mike-mcgrath&#x2F;9781840785371 --&gt;
&lt;!-- Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;javascript-the-good-parts&#x2F;douglas-crockford&#x2F;9780596517748 --&gt;
&lt;!-- Learning Python with Raspberry Pi by Alex Bradbury : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;learning-python-with-raspberry-pi&#x2F;alex-bradbury&#x2F;ben-everard&#x2F;9781118717059 --&gt;
&lt;!-- AngularJS: Up and Running by Shyam Seshadri : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;angularjs-up-and-running&#x2F;shyam-seshadri&#x2F;brad-green&#x2F;9781491901946--&gt;
&lt;!-- Transcending CSS by Andy Clarke : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;transcending-css&#x2F;andy-clarke&#x2F;molly-e-holzschlag&#x2F;9780321410979 --&gt;
&lt;!-- Jump Start Responsive Web Design by Craig Sharkie : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;jump-start-responsive-web-design&#x2F;craig-sharkie&#x2F;andrew-fisher&#x2F;9780987332165 --&gt;</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>British bookseller hides reading list for developers in its website source code</title><url>https://www.waterstones.com/</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>ChristianBundy</author><text>It&#x27;s in the &lt;head&gt; element.<p><pre><code> &lt;!-- Waterstones E-Commerce Platform Version : 1.0 --&gt;
&lt;!-- ServerID = 9--&gt;
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&lt;!-- Interested in code, web design and web development? Check out our bestselling books on Web Programming: --&gt;
&lt;!-- HTML &amp; CSS by Jon Duckett : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;html-and-css&#x2F;jon-duckett&#x2F;9781118008188 --&gt;
&lt;!-- Python in Easy Steps by Mike McGrath : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;python-in-easy-steps&#x2F;mike-mcgrath&#x2F;9781840785968 --&gt;
&lt;!-- JavaScript &amp; JQuery by Jon Duckett : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;javascript-and-jquery&#x2F;jon-duckett&#x2F;9781118531648 --&gt;
&lt;!-- PHP &amp; MYSQL in Easy Steps by Mike McGrath : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;php-and-mysql-in-easy-steps&#x2F;mike-mcgrath&#x2F;9781840785371 --&gt;
&lt;!-- Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;javascript-the-good-parts&#x2F;douglas-crockford&#x2F;9780596517748 --&gt;
&lt;!-- Learning Python with Raspberry Pi by Alex Bradbury : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;learning-python-with-raspberry-pi&#x2F;alex-bradbury&#x2F;ben-everard&#x2F;9781118717059 --&gt;
&lt;!-- AngularJS: Up and Running by Shyam Seshadri : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;angularjs-up-and-running&#x2F;shyam-seshadri&#x2F;brad-green&#x2F;9781491901946--&gt;
&lt;!-- Transcending CSS by Andy Clarke : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;transcending-css&#x2F;andy-clarke&#x2F;molly-e-holzschlag&#x2F;9780321410979 --&gt;
&lt;!-- Jump Start Responsive Web Design by Craig Sharkie : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterstones.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;jump-start-responsive-web-design&#x2F;craig-sharkie&#x2F;andrew-fisher&#x2F;9780987332165 --&gt;</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>British bookseller hides reading list for developers in its website source code</title><url>https://www.waterstones.com/</url><text></text></story> |
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