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15,909,371 | 15,908,142 | 1 | 2 | 15,906,742 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>The average &quot;unbanked&quot; person in a third world nation couldn&#x27;t afford a $20 transaction fee for their ordinary transactions. But bitcoin certainly looks like a way for some portion of this group to protect their capital since it&#x27;s not controlled by states want capital controls.<p>Of course, there&#x27;s a reason third world countries want capital controls - a lot of the people seeking to export capital are corrupt non-owning <i>possessors</i> of resources. Just as an example, whatever rank administrators within state oil companies and such who want to take things that actually belong to the nations - because such nations have rather weak administrative classes (not that the US isn&#x27;t moving closer to &quot;kleptocracy&quot; itself).<p>So everywhere, bitcoin certainly looks like a device for protecting value - except once all the money that wants to move in has moved, then bitcoin&#x27;s lack of actual practical use (see $20 fees) will make it not terribly valuable and all that money in it will be at a bit of risk.<p>Plus, phone-based money systems already are coming&#x2F;in Africa. They solve the ordinary transaction problem. The problem of &quot;how do you get money out of X currency or resource&quot; isn&#x27;t a logistics problem, it&#x27;s a power-struggle. The reason Y person is fighting to get money out of X currency is Z person wants to stop that happening. But overall, remember neither Y nor Z are likely to be less than fully corrupt.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zMiller</author><text>This thread&#x27;s audience is obviously a &#x27;developed nations&#x27; one.<p>From our perspective yes, Crytpo&#x27;s use case as currency make absolutely no sense
(yet), we tap our Visa card to pay instantly with no fees and no fraud liability, hard to beat.<p>As a store of value however there is a very strong use case in the western world. Of the top my head, it is estimated that 10% of our GDP is in off shore havens, think about that infamous 1% moving just half of that 10% into Bitcoin ..<p>I digress..<p>If you venture your mind a little outside the borders of our empire and think about the &#x27;unbanked&#x27; parts of our planet, entire populations whom live under poverty for the sole reason that they do not have access to the equity and efficient markets directly.
If you look there, people are DYING for something like Bitcoin and other crypto&#x27;s.
There is absolutely no reason an African farmer to have to sell his Oranges to Europe in Euro then buy it back from there (Sell Euro to local currency) for local use.<p>Currency is an abstraction, an expression of a market, just like language is.<p>Here we tap to pay and need everyone to protect us from fraudsters, pornographers, money laundry , &lt;insert your favorite horse man of the apolocyple here&gt;, in other parts of the world , that far out number the western world in population, they don&#x27;t care to be protected by the above because quite frankly the price they pay for that &#x27;protection&#x27; is insanely oppressive governments that use the above to legitimize the oppression.<p>It is exactly in those markets where you start to see a VERY stong use case as both store of value and currency for crypto and it is exactly that market that will drive the world&#x27;s demand for good UI for crypto that will eventually usher in mass adoption.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled</title><url>https://status.coinbase.com/incidents/5fj9rx0py3bq</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bllguo</author><text>Africa is actually more sophisticated than the US in many ways regarding fintech<p>Anyway, this is a straw man. Who is saying cryptos are useless? People are saying that they are a bubble, that the valuations are irrational.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zMiller</author><text>This thread&#x27;s audience is obviously a &#x27;developed nations&#x27; one.<p>From our perspective yes, Crytpo&#x27;s use case as currency make absolutely no sense
(yet), we tap our Visa card to pay instantly with no fees and no fraud liability, hard to beat.<p>As a store of value however there is a very strong use case in the western world. Of the top my head, it is estimated that 10% of our GDP is in off shore havens, think about that infamous 1% moving just half of that 10% into Bitcoin ..<p>I digress..<p>If you venture your mind a little outside the borders of our empire and think about the &#x27;unbanked&#x27; parts of our planet, entire populations whom live under poverty for the sole reason that they do not have access to the equity and efficient markets directly.
If you look there, people are DYING for something like Bitcoin and other crypto&#x27;s.
There is absolutely no reason an African farmer to have to sell his Oranges to Europe in Euro then buy it back from there (Sell Euro to local currency) for local use.<p>Currency is an abstraction, an expression of a market, just like language is.<p>Here we tap to pay and need everyone to protect us from fraudsters, pornographers, money laundry , &lt;insert your favorite horse man of the apolocyple here&gt;, in other parts of the world , that far out number the western world in population, they don&#x27;t care to be protected by the above because quite frankly the price they pay for that &#x27;protection&#x27; is insanely oppressive governments that use the above to legitimize the oppression.<p>It is exactly in those markets where you start to see a VERY stong use case as both store of value and currency for crypto and it is exactly that market that will drive the world&#x27;s demand for good UI for crypto that will eventually usher in mass adoption.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled</title><url>https://status.coinbase.com/incidents/5fj9rx0py3bq</url></story> |
34,455,791 | 34,455,609 | 1 | 2 | 34,451,051 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>int0x2e</author><text>I love your thinking, but sadly most large corporates seem to suffer from very slow and very bad deciding making processes.<p>Some examples from the tech giant I called home for 5+ years until I recently quit:
1. When the pandemic hit, mangement froze all hiring and emphatically urged us to optimize costs so we wouldn&#x27;t have to lose anyone.
2. When the pandemic concerned turned into the hype of 2021, we tried to hire at a crazy rate, often competing with insane offers.
3. When the war started, we again went into a hiring freeze, and now a round of layoffs.<p>In my experience - our management basically did what everyone else did, which meant we couldn&#x27;t leverage any of our unique advantages and beat the market in some way.<p>The reason I joined the company I did after the megacorp is that they had a very simple strategy for hiring - hire top talent in strategic areas when you can find it, but ignore anything else, don&#x27;t lower the quality bars, don&#x27;t make insane offers, etc.
It&#x27;s almost as if having common sense is such a rare thing now, that it&#x27;s become a winning strategy...</text><parent_chain><item><author>charles_f</author><text>&gt; I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here<p>When an incident occurs in prod and it affects the livelihood of 12.000 people (or more if you include family), you&#x27;d expect at the very least a post-mortem. I&#x27;ve never seen a company produce one after that.<p><i>What was the root cause?</i> crazy hiring, massive wage war<p><i>Could the current situation be anticipated?</i> hell yeah, out of a pandemic, war raging in Europe, petrol production going down, supply chain problems all over the world, resulting in inflation going massively up... Don&#x27;t need an MBA to anticipate the economy was par for a correction.<p><i>what could you have done to prevent this?</i> realize it was too good to be true. Don&#x27;t enter the rat race, be cautious about hiring. Focus business.<p><i>what steps will you take in the future to prevent this from happening again?</i> &quot;I take responsibility&quot; is a beautiful thing to say but it&#x27;s completely empty if you don&#x27;t take the consequences as well, and don&#x27;t learn anything in the process. I bet you that if&#x2F;when we recover from this dip, the same hiring practices as before will re-submerge so that resiliency doesn&#x27;t move and we see the same move in another 5&#x2F;10y. So I guess the answer to this question is &quot;none, loyalty goes only one way and trust me when I tell you that no-one is safe&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google to reduce workforce by 12k</title><url>https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/january-update/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>&gt; you&#x27;d expect at the very least a post-mortem.<p>&quot;Despite getting paid millions to be good at my job, I did what every other CEO was doing when the Federal Reserve set interest rates low and hired a bunch of staff. I didn&#x27;t think &quot;hmm... this might change in the next 6-12 months&quot;. It changed. I am now doing what every other CEO is doing and jumping on the bandwagon and correcting.&quot;<p>Now I don&#x27;t actually have proof that interest rates directly affect Google (who is probably flush with cash&#x2F;very profitable&#x2F;has high margins&#x2F;has lots of money coming in).<p>I don&#x27;t think they were financing 12,000 employee salaries with &quot;cheap debt&quot; and now they can&#x27;t. Not sure how inflation plays into it.<p>I just like to tell myself &quot;these people weren&#x27;t top performers and if you work for a company like Google (and get paid a lot), you are expected to do a lot&#x2F;be a top top top performer&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>charles_f</author><text>&gt; I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here<p>When an incident occurs in prod and it affects the livelihood of 12.000 people (or more if you include family), you&#x27;d expect at the very least a post-mortem. I&#x27;ve never seen a company produce one after that.<p><i>What was the root cause?</i> crazy hiring, massive wage war<p><i>Could the current situation be anticipated?</i> hell yeah, out of a pandemic, war raging in Europe, petrol production going down, supply chain problems all over the world, resulting in inflation going massively up... Don&#x27;t need an MBA to anticipate the economy was par for a correction.<p><i>what could you have done to prevent this?</i> realize it was too good to be true. Don&#x27;t enter the rat race, be cautious about hiring. Focus business.<p><i>what steps will you take in the future to prevent this from happening again?</i> &quot;I take responsibility&quot; is a beautiful thing to say but it&#x27;s completely empty if you don&#x27;t take the consequences as well, and don&#x27;t learn anything in the process. I bet you that if&#x2F;when we recover from this dip, the same hiring practices as before will re-submerge so that resiliency doesn&#x27;t move and we see the same move in another 5&#x2F;10y. So I guess the answer to this question is &quot;none, loyalty goes only one way and trust me when I tell you that no-one is safe&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google to reduce workforce by 12k</title><url>https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/january-update/</url></story> |
15,042,179 | 15,042,168 | 1 | 2 | 15,041,567 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CryoLogic</author><text>As a Google Fi user, who frequently gets relevant ads immediately after talking about a product on the phone (voice call) with my girlfriend - I do fear a world where Google controls the OS.<p>Once I also mentioned some tv&#x27;s I was interested in (not on the phone, but in the same room as the phone) and also got ads right afterwards. I do not know if it was related to an app open or the phone itself, but a scary invasion of privacy nonetheless.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Is Google Building a New Operating System from Scratch?</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/3063006/why-on-earth-is-google-building-a-new-operating-system-from-scratch?_utm_source=1-2-2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>6d6b73</author><text>Why? Here is why:<p>gOS#&gt; dmesg<p>Grow with Google ads - Get your ad on Google today
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21,219,673 | 21,219,833 | 1 | 3 | 21,218,707 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bdd</author><text>Excuse me while I shill for my employer but we&#x27;re indeed big fans of BPF at Facebook.<p>Our L4 load balancer is implemented entirely in BPF byte code emitting C++ and relies on XDP for &quot;blazing fast&quot; (comms approved totally scientific replacement for gbps and pps figures...) packet forwarding. It&#x27;s open source and was discussed here at HN before <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17199921" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17199921</a>.<p>We discussed how we use eBPF for traffic shaping in our internal networks at Linux Plumber&#x27;s Conference <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vger.kernel.org&#x2F;lpc-bpf2018.html#session-9" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vger.kernel.org&#x2F;lpc-bpf2018.html#session-9</a><p>We presented how we enforce network traffic encryption, catch and terminate cleartext communication, again, you guessed, with BPF at Networking@Scale <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atscaleconference.com&#x2F;events&#x2F;networking-scale-3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atscaleconference.com&#x2F;events&#x2F;networking-scale-3&#x2F;</a> (video coming soon, I think.)<p>Firewalls with BPF? Sure we have &#x27;em. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vger.kernel.org&#x2F;lpc_net2018_talks&#x2F;ebpf-firewall-LPC.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vger.kernel.org&#x2F;lpc_net2018_talks&#x2F;ebpf-firewall-LPC.p...</a><p>In addition to all these nice applications we heavily rely on fleet wide tooling constructed with eBPF to monitor:<p><pre><code> - performance (why is it slow? why does it allocate this much?)
- correctness (collect evidence it&#x27;s doing its job like counters and logs. this should never happen, catch if it does!)
</code></pre>
...in our systems.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BPF at Facebook and beyond</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/801871/c81eb8656543805f/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aey</author><text>BPF is awesome. We build a full rust toolchain that targets it <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;solana-labs&#x2F;rust" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;solana-labs&#x2F;rust</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BPF at Facebook and beyond</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/801871/c81eb8656543805f/</url></story> |
27,467,458 | 27,464,820 | 1 | 2 | 27,462,767 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>napkin</author><text>Yes!<p>I purchase music from Bandcamp, where everything can be downloaded DRM-free.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bandcamp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bandcamp.com&#x2F;</a><p>I have a VPS with Navidrome as a web streamer&#x2F;front-end.
Navidrome also provides an API compatible with Subsonic.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;navidrome&#x2F;navidrome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;navidrome&#x2F;navidrome</a><p>For iOS, play:Sub has a pretty nice UI, streams everything from the server, transcoded on-the-fly from FLAC to Opus.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;play-sub-music-streamer&#x2F;id955329386" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;play-sub-music-streamer&#x2F;id9553...</a><p>It&#x27;s quite a joy to use and it feels good that the artists (especially lesser known) get paid more than through spotify&#x2F;apple. I also throw a little bit of money at the Navidrome dev every month.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nrvn</author><text>I am frustrated with music streaming. Whenever an artist or label revokes the right your precious music turns “grey” and when clicked on the “fantastic with over 600 million tracks available” streaming service throws a popup in your face saying “this song is not currently available in your country or region” which I read as “you pay for access to our library, you don’t own anything mate, get lost!”<p>I want to purchase songs and access them in the “cloud” from around the globe and from Mars and I want to own them!<p>Haven’t researched the question. Are there any approaches to throw your library behind authed CDN or aws s3 with a frontend ios&#x2F;android&#x2F;desktop app to get rid of those fancy subscription models?!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and Infuse</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/moving-my-home-media-library-itunes-jellyfin-and-infuse</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wodenokoto</author><text>If you buy the songs on iTunes, you get to access them from the cloud and backup the actual audio files to whatever local or cloud storage you want.<p>All iTunes songs are DRM free and available from the cloud on all devices that can run apple music. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;guide&#x2F;music&#x2F;intro-to-the-itunes-store-mus3e2346c2&#x2F;mac#gloscb359cf0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;guide&#x2F;music&#x2F;intro-to-the-itunes-st...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nrvn</author><text>I am frustrated with music streaming. Whenever an artist or label revokes the right your precious music turns “grey” and when clicked on the “fantastic with over 600 million tracks available” streaming service throws a popup in your face saying “this song is not currently available in your country or region” which I read as “you pay for access to our library, you don’t own anything mate, get lost!”<p>I want to purchase songs and access them in the “cloud” from around the globe and from Mars and I want to own them!<p>Haven’t researched the question. Are there any approaches to throw your library behind authed CDN or aws s3 with a frontend ios&#x2F;android&#x2F;desktop app to get rid of those fancy subscription models?!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and Infuse</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/moving-my-home-media-library-itunes-jellyfin-and-infuse</url></story> |
18,364,176 | 18,363,836 | 1 | 2 | 18,363,538 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tluyben2</author><text>This is good news I think. The fragmentation is quite annoying and not needed I believe. We moved everything (15 years of code) to Core 2 and it was not a lot of work. I could not be happier; the experience for developers is so much nicer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ASP.NET Core 3.0 will only run on .NET Core</title><url>https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/issues/3753</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>So in other words Microsoft doesn&#x27;t think .net standard is a practical approach to prevent the fragmentation of the .net ecosystem and won&#x27;t use it themselves.<p>Also it probably means blazor (which runs on mono) won&#x27;t be able to share libraries with asp.net core...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ASP.NET Core 3.0 will only run on .NET Core</title><url>https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/issues/3753</url></story> |
14,174,019 | 14,174,110 | 1 | 2 | 14,173,656 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>allemagne</author><text>For those of us who live alone, the process definitely stops at taking off work clothes</text><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>I know it sounds nuts, but I always found changing clothes made a huge difference for me.<p>Get home and put on a pair of shorts, t-shirt and flip flops, or at least something you would never, ever wear to work. It always made some kind of mental shift in my head.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?</title></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samstave</author><text>Here is my crazy idea that I want YC to fund: a Sock Printer.<p>I want to come home and have a brand new pair of socks printed (woven) for me by a bot...<p>I looked around on the internet for &quot;sock machine&quot; and its derivatives - but the best I could find was one machine that was super industrial.<p>Nothing feels better than the first time you put on a brand new pair of socks.<p>SockPrinter.com!</text><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>I know it sounds nuts, but I always found changing clothes made a huge difference for me.<p>Get home and put on a pair of shorts, t-shirt and flip flops, or at least something you would never, ever wear to work. It always made some kind of mental shift in my head.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?</title></story> |
10,102,892 | 10,102,630 | 1 | 2 | 10,099,304 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tloewald</author><text>I suspect it was performance, cruft, and aesthetics that killed it more than price. After all, expensive things that get popular generally become cheaper (or have cheaper versions released).<p>My experience with SmallTalk was that by the time it had any chance of uptake it was already knee-deep in cruft (e.g. multiple overlapping visual class hierarchies that would be mixed and matched within projects to devastatingly awful effect).<p>In my experience (admittedly mostly dealing with IBM and IBM-sanctioned vendors) a typical Smalltalk demo was a program that ran 10x slower than VB on a computer with twice as much memory (and at least as good a CPU) as anyone other than a Smalltalk coder had.<p>And Smalltalk programs tended to look awful and not be easily fixed (because of the overlapping cruft issue).<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure that Rubyists are no more ignorant of Smalltalk than Smalltalkers are of Simula.</text><parent_chain><item><author>notdeadSTer</author><text>I generally like Uncle Bob, but he isn&#x27;t a Smalltalker and didn&#x27;t demonstrate any insight into Smalltalk&#x27;s unpopularity in that talk.<p>Worse, this is hardly the first or only time a prominent Rubyist ignorant of Smalltalk has publicly attacked it. Sarah Mei did so in a talk two years ago, mocking it for not having any conferences of its own (ESUG, Pharo Days, and Smalltalks apparently don&#x27;t count), and she and Steve Klabnik recently had fun tweeting anti-Smalltalk quips back-and-forth.<p>Given that most of the non-awful stuff (where &quot;awful&quot; means, for example, syntax too complicated to be described by a CF grammar or horrible performance) they like about Ruby was lifted directly from Smalltalk, you&#x27;d expect Rubyists to be extremely deferential and respectful towards Smalltalk and Smalltalkers, but they aren&#x27;t. Instead they&#x27;re arrogant and condescending despite being ignorant, validating all of the well-earned stereotypes of Rubyists.<p>As for why Smalltalk &quot;died&quot; (cf. pharo.org) I would say it was too expensive, both in licensing terms and hardware costs. You could outfit entire teams with Borland or MS tools for the price of a single seat license for Smalltalk. Some vendors would charge (and still charge) a percentage of your revenue forever, which is insane. Then Java came along, and it was free.<p>Smalltalk also missed out on the open source revolution, not having viable libre implementations (Pharo, GNU) until relatively recently.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Killed Smalltalk?</title><url>http://pointersgonewild.com/2015/08/20/what-killed-smalltalk/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>igouy</author><text>&gt;&gt;You could outfit entire teams with Borland or MS tools for the price of a single seat license for Smalltalk in the 80s or 90s.&lt;&lt;<p>Different Smalltalk implementations, different prices:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;books?id=wJswszKTwl4C&amp;pg=RA1-PA43&amp;lpg=RA1-PA43&amp;dq=digitalk+smalltalk&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=SugTPceBnI&amp;sig=zqNnQvhFkVy5_jufBts_MKtd9-Q&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=_lx5VJrUJcX4igLj-oHgAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=digitalk%20smalltalk&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;books?id=wJswszKTwl4C&amp;pg=RA1-PA43&amp;l...</a><p>&gt;&gt;Then Java came along, and it was free.&lt;&lt;<p>Free and The-Future-of-the-Internet TM.<p>----<p>There is an important technical &#x2F; licensing &#x2F; business problem with Smalltalk that has not been mentioned -- lack of library standardization.<p>Apart from a few core classes, each Smalltalk implementation had different class names and method names for things that once-upon-a-time were special but quickly became commonplace -- like windows and menus and …<p>So you could never hire a &quot;Smalltalk&quot; developer: you hired a VW developer or a Smalltalk&#x2F;V developer or a VA developer and waited for them to get up to speed with an unfamiliar environment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>notdeadSTer</author><text>I generally like Uncle Bob, but he isn&#x27;t a Smalltalker and didn&#x27;t demonstrate any insight into Smalltalk&#x27;s unpopularity in that talk.<p>Worse, this is hardly the first or only time a prominent Rubyist ignorant of Smalltalk has publicly attacked it. Sarah Mei did so in a talk two years ago, mocking it for not having any conferences of its own (ESUG, Pharo Days, and Smalltalks apparently don&#x27;t count), and she and Steve Klabnik recently had fun tweeting anti-Smalltalk quips back-and-forth.<p>Given that most of the non-awful stuff (where &quot;awful&quot; means, for example, syntax too complicated to be described by a CF grammar or horrible performance) they like about Ruby was lifted directly from Smalltalk, you&#x27;d expect Rubyists to be extremely deferential and respectful towards Smalltalk and Smalltalkers, but they aren&#x27;t. Instead they&#x27;re arrogant and condescending despite being ignorant, validating all of the well-earned stereotypes of Rubyists.<p>As for why Smalltalk &quot;died&quot; (cf. pharo.org) I would say it was too expensive, both in licensing terms and hardware costs. You could outfit entire teams with Borland or MS tools for the price of a single seat license for Smalltalk. Some vendors would charge (and still charge) a percentage of your revenue forever, which is insane. Then Java came along, and it was free.<p>Smalltalk also missed out on the open source revolution, not having viable libre implementations (Pharo, GNU) until relatively recently.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Killed Smalltalk?</title><url>http://pointersgonewild.com/2015/08/20/what-killed-smalltalk/</url></story> |
7,948,656 | 7,948,231 | 1 | 2 | 7,947,898 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dtech</author><text>StartSSL&#x2F;Startcom already does not charge for individual (wildcard) certificates, you can request unlimited numbers.<p>You do pay a $60 fee for identity validation, which is valid for 2 years. You can also have automated validation, but they don&#x27;t allow wildcard certificates (which I sort-of understand, they do need to make money some way right)<p>So you get unlimited free non-wildcard certificates or unlimited wildcard certificates for $30&#x2F;year. Not a bad deal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>I&#x27;ll say the same thing here that I said in a response to the survey: I&#x27;d be interested in taking part in a CA co-op that seeks membership&#x2F;sponsorship to cover its infrastructure costs (including the huge initial cost of becoming an accepted CA), but that does not charge to issue certificates, including wildcard certificates.<p>Certificates cost approximately nothing to issue, and most of the CA&#x27;s infrastructure would not need significant scaling with the issuance of more certificates.<p>Manual validation of human&#x2F;organization identities (the type that requires reading identity documents, such as for EV) costs money, and that could have associated fees, but it doesn&#x27;t need to occur on a per-certificate basis. And automatable validation costs nothing.<p>In particular, wildcard certificates don&#x27;t need to cost any more than standard certificates, and no-cost wildcard certificates would change the SSL landscape significantly. Today, any service that uses subdomains incurs significant fees to secure those subdomains.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The SSL Co-operative: A Member-Controlled Certification Authority</title><url>http://www.sslcoop.org/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raving-richard</author><text>Pretty much what I was thinking. Here&#x27;s what I almost sent as a response to the survey:
This is a brilliant idea. I would pay up to $50 a year for the pleasure of being able to get domain validated SSL certs that are trusted by the major browsers. I would assume that the validation would be via emailing webmaster@domain and making them either respond or click a link or something. That could all be automated couldn&#x27;t it.<p>Also, make wildcard certificates for domains available for the same low price, because it shouldn&#x27;t take any more work should it. If I control example.org, then I think it&#x27;s obvious that I control www.example.org and slighly-biased.example.org.<p>But then you have the issue of, if Org A controls com.au, that doesn&#x27;t mean they control mywebsite.com.au. I don&#x27;t know how you would automate that issue.<p>The non-automated stuff, make people pay for it. Seriously.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>I&#x27;ll say the same thing here that I said in a response to the survey: I&#x27;d be interested in taking part in a CA co-op that seeks membership&#x2F;sponsorship to cover its infrastructure costs (including the huge initial cost of becoming an accepted CA), but that does not charge to issue certificates, including wildcard certificates.<p>Certificates cost approximately nothing to issue, and most of the CA&#x27;s infrastructure would not need significant scaling with the issuance of more certificates.<p>Manual validation of human&#x2F;organization identities (the type that requires reading identity documents, such as for EV) costs money, and that could have associated fees, but it doesn&#x27;t need to occur on a per-certificate basis. And automatable validation costs nothing.<p>In particular, wildcard certificates don&#x27;t need to cost any more than standard certificates, and no-cost wildcard certificates would change the SSL landscape significantly. Today, any service that uses subdomains incurs significant fees to secure those subdomains.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The SSL Co-operative: A Member-Controlled Certification Authority</title><url>http://www.sslcoop.org/</url></story> |
21,872,497 | 21,871,237 | 1 | 3 | 21,870,695 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>delhanty</author><text>So I read this story and wondered whether there were any undisclosed links between the author (Kate Kelland) and Monsanto.<p>Google led me to sites alleging that this 2017 article and others were written to spec on the instructions of Monsanto. [0][1][2]<p>&gt;Not only did Kelland write a 2017 story that Monsanto asked her to write in exactly the way Monsanto executive Sam Murphey asked her to write it, (without disclosing to readers that Monsanto was the source,) but now we see evidence that a draft of a separate story Kelland did about glyphosate was delivered to Monsanto before it was published, a practice typically frowned on by news outlets.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usrtk.org&#x2F;monsanto-roundup-trial-tacker&#x2F;new-monsanto-documents-expose-cozy-connection-to-reuters-reporter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usrtk.org&#x2F;monsanto-roundup-trial-tacker&#x2F;new-monsanto...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gmwatch.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;latest-news&#x2F;18746-monsanto-fed-reuters-reporter-kate-kelland-with-info-to-discredit-iarc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gmwatch.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;latest-news&#x2F;18746-monsanto-fed-r...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;careygillam&#x2F;status&#x2F;1121417187531677696" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;careygillam&#x2F;status&#x2F;1121417187531677696</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In glyphosate review, WHO agency edited out “non-carcinogenic” findings (2017)</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/who-iarc-glyphosate/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ricardobeat</author><text>Seems to me that they edited out <i>opinions</i>, not findings, which is exactly how it should be done.<p>Ex: &quot;The authors firmly believe&quot; and &quot;the authors concluded&quot;; not exactly scientific facts.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In glyphosate review, WHO agency edited out “non-carcinogenic” findings (2017)</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/who-iarc-glyphosate/</url></story> |
39,247,312 | 39,245,454 | 1 | 2 | 39,242,797 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>KacharKhan</author><text>If a platform completely ignores Linux as the first-class target for its GUI library (MAUI) -- how can we trust it with anything else it does on Linux. We must never forget that MAUI is targeting Windows, MacOS, Android, and Ios --- but not Linux. It&#x27;s not like you can&#x27;t do Linux -- if humble FOSS projects like Avalonia and Uno can do it -- a tech giant can sure as hell do it. But no, they specifically not covered Linux in MAUI. Is cross platform client a big deal ? ... maybe , maybe not .. but that&#x27;s not the issue. The issue is discrimination and the terrible terrible message it sends to the developer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>.NET on Linux: What a Contrast</title><url>https://two-wrongs.com/dotnet-on-linux-update.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>asabla</author><text>It has taken .net and Microsoft a long time to get to this point. But I do feel we&#x27;re in a really good state for .net development.<p>I do agree what kqr mentions in the blog post, that the state of .net wasn&#x27;t really that great during the core era (especially during 1-3). But after hitting .net core 3.1 things really took a turn.<p>And now with .Net 8 (note that core is not part of the naming anymore), things are looking great.<p>The two things which lags behind in both experience and is still UX related.<p>MAUI was meant to be this super cool new UX tech, which would save us from electron. But it never happen, and may never do it in the future either.<p>The second one is Blazor. It&#x27;s such a mixed bag of what the experience is. Sometimes it&#x27;s so seamless and nice...and then you hit some weird LSP stuff and away goes type checking, hinting and syntax highlighting. But there is hope ig guess.<p>If you&#x27;re interested in writing C# and .Net code on a Linux machine. Then wait no further. VS Code (with .Net dev kit extension) works great.<p>And if you&#x27;re like (which prefers neovim), things are pretty good as well. Just don&#x27;t expect to have a good experience with razor pages and&#x2F;or blazor (when using Neovim instead of VS Code).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>.NET on Linux: What a Contrast</title><url>https://two-wrongs.com/dotnet-on-linux-update.html</url></story> |
16,845,415 | 16,845,497 | 1 | 2 | 16,844,174 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bilbo0s</author><text>Here&#x27;s the thing though, would we ever get privacy? Even if we were to pay?<p>I know that there are several defendants [drugs etc] even in my small area who have had deleted snapchat posts, deleted texts, deleted emails, &quot;anonymous&quot; forum posts etc etc etc show up as evidence in court. Now I&#x27;m obviously unfamiliar with the legal and technical means by which police investigators made things like that happen, but the fact that they happen means that we can assume that at LEAST the government has access to a record of most everything we do online. Free or otherwise.<p>Even ignoring the question of the government surveillance net, once your data is on that company&#x27;s server, how would you even be able to reliably validate what&#x27;s being done with it? By which I mean, they say they don&#x27;t share it, but how do you KNOW?<p>So maybe we would get some pretty compelling new features in a lot of our services if we were to pay for them, but I&#x27;m not at all certain that ironclad privacy would be one of them.<p>In fact, I&#x27;m fair certain that it wouldn&#x27;t be.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ajeet_dhaliwal</author><text>This is an honest answer that I think many people who are outraged about privacy and advertising would begrudgingly have to admit if forced to really answer. The only way to know whether the price of something is too high or not is to put up two options. A free version where privacy is lost, and a paid version where it&#x27;s not. See how many people opt for the paid version. Now unfortunately many services that go the advertising route do not offer a paid version. I happen to be in the camp that does pay for several services I use online, and I run a service that charges customers too. Where I can I like to pay and be free of advertising.</text></item><item><author>drchiu</author><text>I find whenever I consider the alternative to free, I need to examine deep within myself to ask if I’d be willing to pay for the half a dozen services or so that I use every day for free, subsidized currently by an advertising model. Although the idea would be great if companies existed solely to serve people like myself for free, it isn’t realistic. Weighing the cost of free vs the potential loss of privacy at some point in the future, I can’t help but choose free today and kick the proverbial privacy can down the road. Thus, I’m a bit hesitant to go find my pitch fork in this fight for privacy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Price of Free Is Actually Too High</title><url>https://www.feld.com/archives/2018/04/the-price-of-free-is-actually-too-high.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>wybiral</author><text>Websites were &quot;free&quot; from the start when people were hosting them on their own machines. At this point we have the internet access and cheap hardware that would allow us to take control and build distributed solutions that are &quot;free&quot; in the sense that they only cost our contribution of hosting power or something.<p>Look at the Tor network, for example, the next time you assume that nobody would run a service for free without collecting data or ads.<p>EDIT: I used Tor as an example because of the contrast with data collection companies like Facebook but there are a lot of people who run Tor relays for free that push quite a bit of traffic around. Things like IPFS, blockchains, Mastodon Project, SETI@Home, etc, are examples of free approaches given our modern hardware proliferation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ajeet_dhaliwal</author><text>This is an honest answer that I think many people who are outraged about privacy and advertising would begrudgingly have to admit if forced to really answer. The only way to know whether the price of something is too high or not is to put up two options. A free version where privacy is lost, and a paid version where it&#x27;s not. See how many people opt for the paid version. Now unfortunately many services that go the advertising route do not offer a paid version. I happen to be in the camp that does pay for several services I use online, and I run a service that charges customers too. Where I can I like to pay and be free of advertising.</text></item><item><author>drchiu</author><text>I find whenever I consider the alternative to free, I need to examine deep within myself to ask if I’d be willing to pay for the half a dozen services or so that I use every day for free, subsidized currently by an advertising model. Although the idea would be great if companies existed solely to serve people like myself for free, it isn’t realistic. Weighing the cost of free vs the potential loss of privacy at some point in the future, I can’t help but choose free today and kick the proverbial privacy can down the road. Thus, I’m a bit hesitant to go find my pitch fork in this fight for privacy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Price of Free Is Actually Too High</title><url>https://www.feld.com/archives/2018/04/the-price-of-free-is-actually-too-high.html</url></story> |
15,420,976 | 15,419,370 | 1 | 2 | 15,410,762 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wutbrodo</author><text>Huh, I wonder to what extent this is dependent on the therapist understanding that you&#x27;re on MDMA. I.e., would it be possible for a patient to take some MDMA (assuming you have experience with it) and then go to a therapist?<p>I&#x27;ve accidentally done as much myself with close friends instead of therapists: I started partying with Molly during a period in my life where I was already starting to recognize and work through some issues from my entire childhood: the wee hours of the morning after having an amazing night dancing is a pretty ideal setting to open up mental blocks and be honest with yourself and others. (It also made me almost instantly closer to those people, whom I consider some of the most important people in my life at this point).</text><parent_chain><item><author>cnp</author><text>When a patient sits with a therapist under the influence of MDMA, which typically consists of two doses (100-120mg initially, then 70mg a few hours later) spread over an 6-8 hour period. The patient is largely experiencing their own internal process, but at times the therapist is there to help guide and comfort. Before and after the session there is conventional psychotherapeutic follow-up.</text></item><item><author>parasight</author><text>What is an MDMA session?</text></item><item><author>cnp</author><text>Every time articles like this appear on Hacker News it fills me with joy. I have personally watched a much older person heal extensive personal trauma with just one MDMA session, and to this day I regard it as a miracle that seemed impossible prior to the treatment.<p>MAPS is just entering into their Stage III research process after being granted a &quot;breakthrough therapy&quot; by the FDA (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;fda-designates-mdma-as-breakthrough-therapy-for-ptsd&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;fda-designates-mdma-as-breakthr...</a>) and need all the funds they can muster. The tech community can really step up here. If you have it in you, donate what you can: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.maps.org&#x2F;np&#x2F;clients&#x2F;maps&#x2F;donation.jsp?campaign=11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.maps.org&#x2F;np&#x2F;clients&#x2F;maps&#x2F;donation.jsp?campaign...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I was in the MAPS MDMA for PTSD study</title><url>https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/maps-mdma-ptsd-study-freed-childhood-abuse/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anythingnonidin</author><text>The dosages used in the FDA Phase 3 research are 80mg or 120mg initial dose followed by either 40mg or 60mg 1.5-2 hrs later, respectively.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cnp</author><text>When a patient sits with a therapist under the influence of MDMA, which typically consists of two doses (100-120mg initially, then 70mg a few hours later) spread over an 6-8 hour period. The patient is largely experiencing their own internal process, but at times the therapist is there to help guide and comfort. Before and after the session there is conventional psychotherapeutic follow-up.</text></item><item><author>parasight</author><text>What is an MDMA session?</text></item><item><author>cnp</author><text>Every time articles like this appear on Hacker News it fills me with joy. I have personally watched a much older person heal extensive personal trauma with just one MDMA session, and to this day I regard it as a miracle that seemed impossible prior to the treatment.<p>MAPS is just entering into their Stage III research process after being granted a &quot;breakthrough therapy&quot; by the FDA (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;fda-designates-mdma-as-breakthrough-therapy-for-ptsd&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;fda-designates-mdma-as-breakthr...</a>) and need all the funds they can muster. The tech community can really step up here. If you have it in you, donate what you can: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.maps.org&#x2F;np&#x2F;clients&#x2F;maps&#x2F;donation.jsp?campaign=11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.maps.org&#x2F;np&#x2F;clients&#x2F;maps&#x2F;donation.jsp?campaign...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I was in the MAPS MDMA for PTSD study</title><url>https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/maps-mdma-ptsd-study-freed-childhood-abuse/</url></story> |
28,789,195 | 28,788,740 | 1 | 2 | 28,787,657 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cle</author><text>&gt; They pulled the lever on the trolley problem, therefore it is their fault, but not pulling is also a choice with damage.<p>Ruining institutional trust by patronizing and lying seems like much worse long-term damage than toughing out a TP shortage.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gopalv</author><text>&gt; need to discuss why major news outlets were parroting government propaganda that shortages and inflation were transitory<p>Because announcing there will be shortages is guaranteed to produce shortages.<p>I used to buy a sum total of six rolls of TP in 2019 (I use a bidet, so this is mainly for guests).<p>Right now I have a box of 24 in the house with two used all through 2020 + 2021 (no guests, that&#x27;s why).<p>So that&#x27;s 22+ rolls which I have taken off the market without utility, which is because the week I went looking for TP it wasn&#x27;t there and you could order in bulk instead.<p>They pulled the lever on the trolley problem, therefore it is their fault, but not pulling is also a choice with damage.</text></item><item><author>iammisc</author><text>More importantly than this, we need to discuss why major news outlets were parroting government propaganda that shortages and inflation were transitory, when they were obviously not. Major news outlets claimed that &#x27;new economics&#x27; would mean that the expected inflation and shortages would not come to pass. Instead of critically questioning government official&#x27;s proclamations of a new economics, outlets gladly parroted this position. This is a far cry from the critical reporting of the 2016-2020 years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It feels like America is running out of everything</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>godshatter</author><text>Companies are in love with JIT, so they don&#x27;t warehouse many products. When disruptions in the supply chain happen it&#x27;s then up to the customers to do their warehousing for them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gopalv</author><text>&gt; need to discuss why major news outlets were parroting government propaganda that shortages and inflation were transitory<p>Because announcing there will be shortages is guaranteed to produce shortages.<p>I used to buy a sum total of six rolls of TP in 2019 (I use a bidet, so this is mainly for guests).<p>Right now I have a box of 24 in the house with two used all through 2020 + 2021 (no guests, that&#x27;s why).<p>So that&#x27;s 22+ rolls which I have taken off the market without utility, which is because the week I went looking for TP it wasn&#x27;t there and you could order in bulk instead.<p>They pulled the lever on the trolley problem, therefore it is their fault, but not pulling is also a choice with damage.</text></item><item><author>iammisc</author><text>More importantly than this, we need to discuss why major news outlets were parroting government propaganda that shortages and inflation were transitory, when they were obviously not. Major news outlets claimed that &#x27;new economics&#x27; would mean that the expected inflation and shortages would not come to pass. Instead of critically questioning government official&#x27;s proclamations of a new economics, outlets gladly parroted this position. This is a far cry from the critical reporting of the 2016-2020 years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It feels like America is running out of everything</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/</url></story> |
28,834,161 | 28,834,281 | 1 | 2 | 28,829,547 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yardie</author><text>&gt; I told him that I would be very happy if he stay<p>But,<p>&gt; Honestly, I wasn&#x27;t really happy with the guy performance.<p>Honestly, I feel like this is the neuroses most companies operate under. They want you there, unless they find someone just slightly better. Then they&#x27;ll immediately show you the door. Kids, this is a prime example why you should show absolutely no loyalty. If there is a better offer on deck absolutely take it. The guilt washes away once you turn in your access card.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zaat</author><text>I had a few terrible bosses as an example of what not to do.<p>Honestly, I wasn&#x27;t really happy with the guy performance. I do need him now, but if he wouldn&#x27;t be quitting I probably would let him go, sooner or later, when I found someone with better attitude and skills. I would feel terrible with myself if I he would pass an opportunity being loyal to the company only to be shown the door few months after. I prefer to work with happy people who want to work where they do, and to achieve these you have to take care of your employees.</text></item><item><author>xupybd</author><text>You sound like a great boss.</text></item><item><author>zaat</author><text>Last week one of my employees quit. He got himself a job well over what I could afford paying. He was really not sure if he should go and was feeling very uncomfortable since we were so good with him and invested in him so much, which is all true. I told him that I would be very happy if he stay but I can&#x27;t ask him to, and that he lives his life for himself, not for me, and that as general rule he should never put his employer interest before his own.<p>He decided to leave, but felt very uncomfortable with it and felt he had to justify it to me and explain his move. I tried to ask him firmly never to do it, since there are people out there who would exploit innocent employees in similar position.<p>You should never justify leaving a company, if you feel like quitting will be better for you just do it. Employment should always be mutual benefit deal, and just like a company would let you go if employing you isn&#x27;t beneficial anymore you should leave without too much hesitation if its for your own benefit. I&#x27;m not saying you should be ungrateful ass, but you should put yourself first in your consideration, most probably nobody else would.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; the truth was I didn&#x27;t want to be there anymore but I didn&#x27;t know how to quit on my own.<p>This is what it comes down to. A lot of junior employees have a feeling that something is wrong, but they don&#x27;t quite know what to do about it.<p>One of the best things young engineers can do is keep in contact with their peers from college, prior education, or other jobs. Don&#x27;t be afraid to discuss your job and compare notes. If you&#x27;re consistently the only one in the conversation who&#x27;s miserable or even embarrassed to admit your job is bad, it&#x27;s time to start interviewing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My first industry job: lies, deceptions, and layoffs</title><url>https://jeremyaboyd.com/post/my-first-industry-job</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xupybd</author><text>Did you let him know his performance was not good?<p>I&#x27;m always paranoid that my bosses think that way and hate to think they might be unhappy but not saying anything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zaat</author><text>I had a few terrible bosses as an example of what not to do.<p>Honestly, I wasn&#x27;t really happy with the guy performance. I do need him now, but if he wouldn&#x27;t be quitting I probably would let him go, sooner or later, when I found someone with better attitude and skills. I would feel terrible with myself if I he would pass an opportunity being loyal to the company only to be shown the door few months after. I prefer to work with happy people who want to work where they do, and to achieve these you have to take care of your employees.</text></item><item><author>xupybd</author><text>You sound like a great boss.</text></item><item><author>zaat</author><text>Last week one of my employees quit. He got himself a job well over what I could afford paying. He was really not sure if he should go and was feeling very uncomfortable since we were so good with him and invested in him so much, which is all true. I told him that I would be very happy if he stay but I can&#x27;t ask him to, and that he lives his life for himself, not for me, and that as general rule he should never put his employer interest before his own.<p>He decided to leave, but felt very uncomfortable with it and felt he had to justify it to me and explain his move. I tried to ask him firmly never to do it, since there are people out there who would exploit innocent employees in similar position.<p>You should never justify leaving a company, if you feel like quitting will be better for you just do it. Employment should always be mutual benefit deal, and just like a company would let you go if employing you isn&#x27;t beneficial anymore you should leave without too much hesitation if its for your own benefit. I&#x27;m not saying you should be ungrateful ass, but you should put yourself first in your consideration, most probably nobody else would.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; the truth was I didn&#x27;t want to be there anymore but I didn&#x27;t know how to quit on my own.<p>This is what it comes down to. A lot of junior employees have a feeling that something is wrong, but they don&#x27;t quite know what to do about it.<p>One of the best things young engineers can do is keep in contact with their peers from college, prior education, or other jobs. Don&#x27;t be afraid to discuss your job and compare notes. If you&#x27;re consistently the only one in the conversation who&#x27;s miserable or even embarrassed to admit your job is bad, it&#x27;s time to start interviewing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My first industry job: lies, deceptions, and layoffs</title><url>https://jeremyaboyd.com/post/my-first-industry-job</url></story> |
26,376,266 | 26,376,118 | 1 | 3 | 26,375,857 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>benttoothpaste</author><text>If you are willing to pay then you are also a lot more valuable as a target for ads. There is no chance of ad reduction. Unfortunately, “post purchase monetization” is a new buzzword.</text><parent_chain><item><author>corty</author><text>What guarantee is there that this will reduce ads in any way?<p>If cable TV taught us anything it is that you can charge outrageous amounts of money and still force your customers to watch ads. Paper newspapers are also full of ads, even the ones the reader pays for. I can not think of any reason why the web should be different. Ads will stay, monetization will just be income on-top.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web</title><url>https://atodorov.me/2021/03/07/please-support-web-monetization-if-you-want-less-ads-on-the-web/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sofixa</author><text>&gt; What guarantee is there that this will reduce ads in any way?<p>None, of course. It&#x27;s possible to disable ads for users with Web Monetization, but it&#x27;s also possible to be greedy and use both at the same time. But remember, we&#x27;re not talking about big companies or anything of the sort, it&#x27;s more for small scale personal blogs, or, as i pointed out, institutions like the Internet Archive or Wikipedia, so greed is IMHO unlikely and will probably be rare.<p>In any case, if you use an ad blocker, which you absolutely should, the ads don&#x27;t impact you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>corty</author><text>What guarantee is there that this will reduce ads in any way?<p>If cable TV taught us anything it is that you can charge outrageous amounts of money and still force your customers to watch ads. Paper newspapers are also full of ads, even the ones the reader pays for. I can not think of any reason why the web should be different. Ads will stay, monetization will just be income on-top.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web</title><url>https://atodorov.me/2021/03/07/please-support-web-monetization-if-you-want-less-ads-on-the-web/</url></story> |
21,970,231 | 21,970,138 | 1 | 3 | 21,968,962 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>graedus</author><text>Adding to the chorus: this was superb and I&#x27;m looking forward to the book.<p>Here&#x27;s the HN post from April 2016:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11565691" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11565691</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>russler23</author><text>Essay from n+1 that led to the book:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nplusonemag.com&#x2F;issue-25&#x2F;on-the-fringe&#x2F;uncanny-valley&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nplusonemag.com&#x2F;issue-25&#x2F;on-the-fringe&#x2F;uncanny-valle...</a><p>(As literary magazine names go, “n+1” is pretty relatable haha)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anna Wiener on her book “Uncanny Valley”</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/06/anna-wiener-uncanny-valley-silicon-technology-political-surveillance</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Clubber</author><text>After reading the article, SV screams &quot;phony,&quot; al la Holden Caulfield.</text><parent_chain><item><author>russler23</author><text>Essay from n+1 that led to the book:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nplusonemag.com&#x2F;issue-25&#x2F;on-the-fringe&#x2F;uncanny-valley&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nplusonemag.com&#x2F;issue-25&#x2F;on-the-fringe&#x2F;uncanny-valle...</a><p>(As literary magazine names go, “n+1” is pretty relatable haha)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anna Wiener on her book “Uncanny Valley”</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/06/anna-wiener-uncanny-valley-silicon-technology-political-surveillance</url></story> |
24,143,129 | 24,143,025 | 1 | 2 | 24,141,541 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>&gt; A plain int carries no information about the validity of the object behind that handle because they are carried around as copies, not references.<p>A pointer is just an integer index to a byte in memory in most computing architectures.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anilakar</author><text>Moving away from pointers and using a shared pool of handles with integer indexes will introduce a whole new array of issues. A plain int carries no information about the validity of the object behind that handle because they are carried around as copies, not references.<p>I remember debugging a regression with UNIX network sockets where valid connections were being killed, and the bug was only triggered under heavy load. Deadlines were approaching and as a desperate measure I did the exact opposite the article suggests: I wrapped all the socket calls to only accept pointers to an opaque struct with a single integer and made sure the int was set to a guardian value to indicate invalidation after an error. The culprit was a double-close that normal debugging tools such as Valgrind could not find but my unorthodox refactoring did.<p>Later I&#x27;ve learnt to love UUID&#x27;s whenever performance allows. They&#x27;re not pointers so they don&#x27;t introduce memory handling issues and they can be easily tracked in e.g. distributed data pipelines and logging systems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Handles Are the Better Pointers (2018)</title><url>https://floooh.github.com/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.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>bluetomcat</author><text>&gt; A plain int carries no information about the validity of the object behind that handle because they are carried around as copies, not references.<p>The article suggests a handle containing a &quot;plain int&quot; plus a &quot;unique bit pattern&quot;, the latter acting like a watermark which is compared to the one in the private array of the corresponding module, preventing dangling accesses.<p>Apart from rare occasional collisions in the bit pattern causing a false negative on a dangling access, what other issues can be found with this approach?</text><parent_chain><item><author>anilakar</author><text>Moving away from pointers and using a shared pool of handles with integer indexes will introduce a whole new array of issues. A plain int carries no information about the validity of the object behind that handle because they are carried around as copies, not references.<p>I remember debugging a regression with UNIX network sockets where valid connections were being killed, and the bug was only triggered under heavy load. Deadlines were approaching and as a desperate measure I did the exact opposite the article suggests: I wrapped all the socket calls to only accept pointers to an opaque struct with a single integer and made sure the int was set to a guardian value to indicate invalidation after an error. The culprit was a double-close that normal debugging tools such as Valgrind could not find but my unorthodox refactoring did.<p>Later I&#x27;ve learnt to love UUID&#x27;s whenever performance allows. They&#x27;re not pointers so they don&#x27;t introduce memory handling issues and they can be easily tracked in e.g. distributed data pipelines and logging systems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Handles Are the Better Pointers (2018)</title><url>https://floooh.github.com/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html</url></story> |
8,079,000 | 8,078,846 | 1 | 2 | 8,078,747 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bithush</author><text>I feel this is also very relevant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Neil" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Christopher_Paul_Neil</a><p>Police took a photo with a &quot;swirl&quot; effect of a paedophiles face and reversed it to reveal a very usable picture. So good in fact he was found and arrested.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007)</title><url>http://dheera.net/projects/blur</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mxfh</author><text>So if something is 1337 days old it gets autoreposted? Could live with that.<p>Previous discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939607" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1939607</a><p>A bit more precise this post is even older, and was first discussed in 2007 prominently in these two places:
<a href="http://www.reddit.com/comments/xaae/how_to_extract_personal_information_and_account/cxbgy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;comments&#x2F;xaae&#x2F;how_to_extract_personal_...</a><p><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/how_to_recover.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2007&#x2F;01&#x2F;how_to_recove...</a><p>(please refrain from responding with XKCD references, I&#x27;m aware of that, just want to link to older discussions)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007)</title><url>http://dheera.net/projects/blur</url></story> |
18,274,793 | 18,274,530 | 1 | 3 | 18,271,787 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;... over a journalist most people haven&#x27;t heard of before. Something is unusual and I feel there is more to the story and more to the motivation to push the story at this point in time.&quot;<p>The victim was a reporter for the Washington Post and so it doesn&#x27;t surprise me that his peers in the press are driving the story more than other stories.<p>Not only do they have a personal connection to this individual but his death is a particular affront to their power and their role in the political process - and they have a weapon to wield in response.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>&gt; A feudal monarchy makes a fine ally. The next it isn&#x27;t, it doesn&#x27;t. The next day, one little murder in the journalist persecution capital of the world threatens to blow up the entire alliance, military, political &amp; economic.<p>Just like selective law enforcement is a tool used to oppress and exert power so is selective outrage used to drive public opinion.<p>There is something odd about this case. It is a terrible crime of course and should be condemned. But it seems we went from the head of Interpol disappearing in China and everyone not caring much, to let&#x27;s start a war with SA over a journalist most people haven&#x27;t heard of before. Something is unusual and I feel there is more to the story and more to the motivation to push the story at this point in time.</text></item><item><author>netcan</author><text>Whether this murder-scandal blows over or not, it makes the case for a random &quot;one-damned-thing-after-another&quot; version of history.<p>One day, the real-politic thing works. All money is green. A feudal monarchy makes a fine ally. The next it isn&#x27;t, it doesn&#x27;t. The next day, one little murder in the journalist persecution capital of the world threatens to blow up the entire alliance, military, political &amp; economic.<p>Saudi Arabia&#x27;s had an erm.. &quot;eventful&quot; power transition (MBS&#x27;) but it isn&#x27;t <i>fundamentally</i> different. It&#x27;s a monarchy in the real, undiluted sense. Laws and courts are mostly religious. There are no rights, on paper or in practice. No freedom of speech, affiliation, religion or concious. No pretense of these either. Religion &amp; Monarchy share power with eachother. Neither are bound by rule of law or by the people in any way.<p>Are these barriers to alliance, trade or investment? Whatever your answer, I don&#x27;t see what Khashoggi&#x27;s murder changes. Yet, this murder (or some other catalyst event, if this blows over) <i>can</i> change everything.<p>It really does seem like random chance.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pushback against Saudi funding endangers Silicon Valley valuations</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/funding-secured/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hobs</author><text>The connection is that they have grisly details to his murder, connected it to personal stories (did his wife get the recording he made with his apple watch? did who call whom before he died? Did it happen while he was still alive?) instead of generic humdrum disappearances among the elite.<p>How a story is told matters a lot to how people react to it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>&gt; A feudal monarchy makes a fine ally. The next it isn&#x27;t, it doesn&#x27;t. The next day, one little murder in the journalist persecution capital of the world threatens to blow up the entire alliance, military, political &amp; economic.<p>Just like selective law enforcement is a tool used to oppress and exert power so is selective outrage used to drive public opinion.<p>There is something odd about this case. It is a terrible crime of course and should be condemned. But it seems we went from the head of Interpol disappearing in China and everyone not caring much, to let&#x27;s start a war with SA over a journalist most people haven&#x27;t heard of before. Something is unusual and I feel there is more to the story and more to the motivation to push the story at this point in time.</text></item><item><author>netcan</author><text>Whether this murder-scandal blows over or not, it makes the case for a random &quot;one-damned-thing-after-another&quot; version of history.<p>One day, the real-politic thing works. All money is green. A feudal monarchy makes a fine ally. The next it isn&#x27;t, it doesn&#x27;t. The next day, one little murder in the journalist persecution capital of the world threatens to blow up the entire alliance, military, political &amp; economic.<p>Saudi Arabia&#x27;s had an erm.. &quot;eventful&quot; power transition (MBS&#x27;) but it isn&#x27;t <i>fundamentally</i> different. It&#x27;s a monarchy in the real, undiluted sense. Laws and courts are mostly religious. There are no rights, on paper or in practice. No freedom of speech, affiliation, religion or concious. No pretense of these either. Religion &amp; Monarchy share power with eachother. Neither are bound by rule of law or by the people in any way.<p>Are these barriers to alliance, trade or investment? Whatever your answer, I don&#x27;t see what Khashoggi&#x27;s murder changes. Yet, this murder (or some other catalyst event, if this blows over) <i>can</i> change everything.<p>It really does seem like random chance.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pushback against Saudi funding endangers Silicon Valley valuations</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/funding-secured/</url></story> |
24,629,240 | 24,628,863 | 1 | 2 | 24,627,363 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bonestamp2</author><text>Agreed. I think the audience matters too -- different messages appeal to different people.<p>My dad is one of those old school guys who thinks law enforcement can do no wrong and nobody needs to hide anything unless they&#x27;re doing something wrong. Even if that were true and I think it is true that many law enforcement personnel are trying to do good, that doesn&#x27;t always mean the results will always reflect their intentions. When the sample size of facts is too small, as is often the case with mass collection, it&#x27;s too easy for your sample to get mixed up with someone else&#x27;s. Maybe your phone is the only other phone in the area when a murder is committed. That doesn&#x27;t mean you did it, but it sure makes you look like the only suspect.<p>I was never able to gain an inch on his argument until I asked him why he has curtains on his living room window. I mean, it faces North, so there&#x27;s no need to block intense sunlight, yet he closes them every night when he&#x27;s sitting there reading a book or watching TV. Why? He&#x27;s not doing anything illegal, yet he still doesn&#x27;t want people watching him. He said he would not be ok with the Police standing at his window all night watching him. That&#x27;s when he finally understood that digital privacy is not just for criminals, but for everyone who wants to exist in a peaceful state and not a police state.</text><parent_chain><item><author>40four</author><text>I think this is a good example of how pro-privacy arguments should be framed. It is takes the varied aspects and complex implications of tracking users across the web (or even in the real world), and distills it down into an easy to understand concept.<p>When you think privacy of in in the terms of &#x27;social cooling&#x27;, or consider things like China&#x27;s &#x27;social credit&#x27; system, I can&#x27;t help be think we are much closer to the world depicted in the last season of Westworld than we might want to admit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Social Cooling (2017)</title><url>https://www.socialcooling.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>smolder</author><text>Right. Apart from the sci-fi tropes, the extreme drama, and aesthetics, it&#x27;s a spitting image. A great deal of effort is quietly spent on social control, keeping things as they are, and extracting value from people-as-cows, both here and there. Any technology in a position to add robustness to that system, to reduce its upkeep effort, or improve its efficiency at generating wealth for the privileged is likely to succeed, so it&#x27;s reasonable to think some of the not-yet-here but possible aspects their world will make it to ours in time.<p>Sometimes I think that authors who see patterns and make reasonable but dire predictions about where society is going actually end up providing a game plan to career oppressors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>40four</author><text>I think this is a good example of how pro-privacy arguments should be framed. It is takes the varied aspects and complex implications of tracking users across the web (or even in the real world), and distills it down into an easy to understand concept.<p>When you think privacy of in in the terms of &#x27;social cooling&#x27;, or consider things like China&#x27;s &#x27;social credit&#x27; system, I can&#x27;t help be think we are much closer to the world depicted in the last season of Westworld than we might want to admit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Social Cooling (2017)</title><url>https://www.socialcooling.com/</url></story> |
24,137,997 | 24,136,000 | 1 | 3 | 24,135,189 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vishnugupta</author><text>&gt; Show me your tables, and I won&#x27;t usually need your flowchart<p>A couple of years ago I spent quite some time trying to evaluate the tech stack (and general engineering culture) of merger&#x2F;acquisition targets of my employer. It was quite a fun exercise, all said and done. I encountered all sorts; from a small team start up who had their tech sorted out more or less to a largish organisation who relied on IBM&#x27;s ESB which exactly one person in their team knew how it worked!!<p>I discovered this exact method during the third tech evaluation exercise. When the team began explaining various modules top-down and user-flows etc., I politely interrupted them and asked for DB schema. It was just on a whim because I was bored of typical one way session interrupted by me asking minor questions. Once I had a hang of their schema rest of the session was literally me telling them what their control and user flows were and them validating it.<p>Since then it&#x27;s become my magic wand to understand a new company or team. Just go directly to the schema and work backwards.<p>Conversely, I&#x27;ve begun paying more attention to data modelling. Because once a data model is fixed it&#x27;s very hard to change and once enough data accumulates the inertia just increases and instead if changing the data model (for the fear of data migration etc.,) the tendency is to beat the use cases to fit the data model. It&#x27;s not your usual fail-fast-and-iterate thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewl</author><text>In <i>The Mythical Man Month</i> Fred Brooks said &quot;Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won&#x27;t usually need your flowchart; it&#x27;ll be obvious.&quot;<p>I first read that on Guy Steele&#x27;s site: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dreamsongs.com&#x2F;ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dreamsongs.com&#x2F;ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)</title><url>http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.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>rjsw</author><text>&gt;I first read that on Guy Steele&#x27;s site.<p>It isn&#x27;t Guy Steele&#x27;s website. That page was written by him but the website is owned by Richard P Gabriel.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewl</author><text>In <i>The Mythical Man Month</i> Fred Brooks said &quot;Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won&#x27;t usually need your flowchart; it&#x27;ll be obvious.&quot;<p>I first read that on Guy Steele&#x27;s site: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dreamsongs.com&#x2F;ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dreamsongs.com&#x2F;ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)</title><url>http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html</url></story> |
3,064,259 | 3,064,219 | 1 | 2 | 3,063,829 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yogsototh</author><text>Self segregate means less communication between people.<p>Thus communication problem directly impact the frustration of each party about others. Then more violence will occurs.<p>To be more precise. Yes, everybody want to live with people which share the same values. But this local optimization have a bad effect on the society viewed in its totality.<p>Taking my own example, I believe that not being segregated in school had made me lose some hours of good Math. But I believe this experience made me more tolerant. And it is also certainly true for the others.<p>There is no perfect society model, but my inclination is to believe that more communication is never a waste and that any lack of communication is potentially dangerous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LoveLinux</author><text>Is there something wrong with groups of people wanting to self segregate?</text></item><item><author>maxklein</author><text>America is still a deeply segregated society. And the segregation is built in such a way that it tends to keep people where they always where.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Latest Crime Wave: Sending Your Child to a Better School</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903285704576557610352019804.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>If by "wrong" you mean "leads to worse outcomes" - then very possibly yes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LoveLinux</author><text>Is there something wrong with groups of people wanting to self segregate?</text></item><item><author>maxklein</author><text>America is still a deeply segregated society. And the segregation is built in such a way that it tends to keep people where they always where.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Latest Crime Wave: Sending Your Child to a Better School</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903285704576557610352019804.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</url></story> |
11,074,045 | 11,073,711 | 1 | 3 | 11,073,401 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marknutter</author><text>&gt; No, just no. There is no point to any of all this search technology and this accumulated knowledge if no one uses it.<p>And here we have a prime example of why beginners find the programming community to be so abrasive, and worse, it&#x27;s sitting at the top of this comment thread.<p>Ask yourself, would this be the answer you give to a 12 year old girl who&#x27;s taken an early interest in programming? Or a single mother who&#x27;s trying to switch careers to improve her lot in life? Or your own mother, for that matter? Is it really constructive to be so abrasive?<p>I&#x27;m starting to understand why we have such a problem with diversity in our field. This type of response is, in no uncertain terms, the response of a bully.<p>Pause for a moment. Try to remember what it was like when you were first starting out with programming. When &quot;the fucking manual&quot; was actually really confusing and loaded with domain specific terms, acronyms, and syntax. Can&#x27;t remember a time when you didn&#x27;t learn something immediately? Fine, step outside your world of programming and try to recall any painful memories you might have about trying to learn something outside your area of expertise.<p>Ever go to a gym and ask someone how to do a basic lift only to be scoffed at? Ever been to a foreign country and have someone berate you for not understanding how to navigate through some strange process or not knowing how to speak their language well enough? Perhaps you have, and it hurt, but you brushed it off and continued on. That&#x27;s great for you, but not everybody is like that. A lot of people get discouraged and never continue with that sport, or with traveling, or with programming, and it&#x27;s tragic because they might have otherwise excelled at those endeavors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mhurron</author><text>&gt; Attempt to answer the question, or don’t comment at all.
Don’t tell them to RTFM, Google it,<p>No, just no. There is no point to any of all this search technology and this accumulated knowledge if no one uses it.<p>Someone asking a question that is answered in the documentation or has been asked and answered over and over should be pointed at those sources. One of the most important skills anyone is going to learn in a technical position is finding answers to questions you have that have already been answered. The next important skill they have to learn is doing a little bit of your own research in understanding your problem.<p>This goes especially for places like StackOverflow which is not a discussion forum. It&#x27;s value is diminished by asking and answering the same questions over and over.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;ll mention the last part of the statement I quoted too, it&#x27;s unfortunate the lumped the second half of the statement with the first.<p>&gt; correct their grammar, or give your opinions about their choice of technology<p>Correcting grammar is not helpful in any way in this context. If you can&#x27;t understand what they&#x27;re getting at, ask for clarification. Nitpicking grammar is just being a dick.<p>Opinions about what they&#x27;re using may have one very narrow use, if what they&#x27;re using to do what they&#x27;re trying to do is just so very wrong. And we&#x27;re talking &#x27;I&#x27;m trying to create a pure HTML page to run this Nuclear reactor&#x27; levels of wrong. Most of the time, you do need to keep it to yourself. Especially on sites like StackOverflow, which is not a discussion board.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Friction Between Programming Professionals and Beginners</title><url>http://www.programmingforbeginnersbook.com/blog/friction_between_programming_professionals_and_beginners/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hellofunk</author><text>I would say that the real help lies in between. You don&#x27;t go out of your way to explain something that is explained somewhere else already. But, you can go out of your way to show the person where it is explained or even what to search for. Researching a problem on the internet is a skill that needs to be learned; a meta-skill, if you will. Whenever a developer has told me in the past to RTFM, aside from the rudeness of this abbreviation, it really is no help. If they gently said, &quot;the API docs for the UIViewController class, which are located &lt;here&gt;, shows the function in question, and how it is used.&quot; etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mhurron</author><text>&gt; Attempt to answer the question, or don’t comment at all.
Don’t tell them to RTFM, Google it,<p>No, just no. There is no point to any of all this search technology and this accumulated knowledge if no one uses it.<p>Someone asking a question that is answered in the documentation or has been asked and answered over and over should be pointed at those sources. One of the most important skills anyone is going to learn in a technical position is finding answers to questions you have that have already been answered. The next important skill they have to learn is doing a little bit of your own research in understanding your problem.<p>This goes especially for places like StackOverflow which is not a discussion forum. It&#x27;s value is diminished by asking and answering the same questions over and over.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;ll mention the last part of the statement I quoted too, it&#x27;s unfortunate the lumped the second half of the statement with the first.<p>&gt; correct their grammar, or give your opinions about their choice of technology<p>Correcting grammar is not helpful in any way in this context. If you can&#x27;t understand what they&#x27;re getting at, ask for clarification. Nitpicking grammar is just being a dick.<p>Opinions about what they&#x27;re using may have one very narrow use, if what they&#x27;re using to do what they&#x27;re trying to do is just so very wrong. And we&#x27;re talking &#x27;I&#x27;m trying to create a pure HTML page to run this Nuclear reactor&#x27; levels of wrong. Most of the time, you do need to keep it to yourself. Especially on sites like StackOverflow, which is not a discussion board.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Friction Between Programming Professionals and Beginners</title><url>http://www.programmingforbeginnersbook.com/blog/friction_between_programming_professionals_and_beginners/</url></story> |
22,171,299 | 22,171,658 | 1 | 2 | 22,170,332 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hcknwscommenter</author><text>The literal definition of QE, AFAIK, is &quot;injecting money supply into the market.&quot; What the Fed is doing here is swapping one risk free asset for another. These are very different. There was a hiccup in the repo market, so the Fed is &quot;buying&quot; extremely short term (e.g., O&#x2F;N repo) instruments. There is no net injection into the market. In contrast, during actual QE, the Fed was buying across the curve so that actually available interest rates for economic actors were depressed (again across the curve), encouraging economic activity. The effect is VERY different. The effect was supercharged with operation twist but that is another story.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baronmunchausen</author><text>The Federal Reserve (the Fed), the central bank of the United States, prints money and buys the national debt (treasuries) in order to increase bank reserves and stimulate the economy. The Fed is doing this to such an extent that they are now monetizing (printing and buying national debt) 70% of all the debt issued since October, roughly when they started . They refuse to call it quantitative easing (QE) (despite it meeting the literal definition of QE). It&#x27;s why markets are going up despite zero increase in overall corporate profits and mediocre economic growth. Endless artificial stimulus like this, is why the economy shuffles from bubble to bust.</text></item><item><author>nickthemagicman</author><text>Can anyone explain what this means for a noob?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Fed Has Bought 70% of Net Treasury Issuance Since October</title><url>https://thesoundingline.com/the-fed-has-bought-70-of-net-treasury-issuance-since-october/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cconroy</author><text>These policies exacerbate inequality. In fact, I think economic inequality wouldn&#x27;t be an big issue without this crap.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baronmunchausen</author><text>The Federal Reserve (the Fed), the central bank of the United States, prints money and buys the national debt (treasuries) in order to increase bank reserves and stimulate the economy. The Fed is doing this to such an extent that they are now monetizing (printing and buying national debt) 70% of all the debt issued since October, roughly when they started . They refuse to call it quantitative easing (QE) (despite it meeting the literal definition of QE). It&#x27;s why markets are going up despite zero increase in overall corporate profits and mediocre economic growth. Endless artificial stimulus like this, is why the economy shuffles from bubble to bust.</text></item><item><author>nickthemagicman</author><text>Can anyone explain what this means for a noob?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Fed Has Bought 70% of Net Treasury Issuance Since October</title><url>https://thesoundingline.com/the-fed-has-bought-70-of-net-treasury-issuance-since-october/</url></story> |
13,511,854 | 13,510,811 | 1 | 3 | 13,510,376 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>meow_mix</author><text>Ruby is a fantastic language for writing command line tools. String interpolation and regex are great on it, easy to use OO principles as well as functional principals, etc. Definitely going to be writing wrappers over some of my favorite unix commands with this!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ruby terminal apps toolkit</title><url>http://piotrmurach.github.io/tty/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trishume</author><text>The progress bar gem looks pretty nice. I&#x27;ve been using the similar <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;toy&#x2F;progress" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;toy&#x2F;progress</a> for a long time and it&#x27;s super useful.<p>One thing I prefer about progress is that the default config includes an ETA, which is generally the thing I care most about. It&#x27;s interface is also a little nicer. It&#x27;s really nice to have an estimate on when a script might complete, so I know if I have to optimize it or if I can just leave it running for a while.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ruby terminal apps toolkit</title><url>http://piotrmurach.github.io/tty/</url></story> |
13,671,113 | 13,670,611 | 1 | 3 | 13,668,952 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwawayish</author><text>&gt; This is a good point. I think once developers learn Git (or as much as they need to use), then they forget how esoteric the the cli tool is.<p>This is more up to git being horribly leaky about <i>all</i> it&#x27;s internal implementation details. I&#x27;m not a git developer, and not even that great a user, but I know about trees and indices and refs and refspecs and packs and reachability and objects and merge drivers and smudge and clean and diamonds and countless other details that I feel should be encapsulated way better. git also has next to none documentation of these concepts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bananaoomarang</author><text>This is a good point. I think once developers learn Git (or as much as they need to use), then they forget how esoteric the the cli tool is.<p>I think a lot of devs have the attitude that a tool being more difficult to use makes it a powerful one (cf. Vim&#x2F;Emacs), whereas most people are happy when tool does the three things they need to get from a=&gt;b, b=&gt;c, a=&gt;c.<p>Maybe this is to do with our desire for everything to be as flexible as the programming languages we write in. Most people don&#x27;t view computers as blank slates ready to do their bidding, but as systems where the behaviour of a few facets is to be memorised without concerns for their mechanics or abstractions. This is probably one of the reasons that mobile software is seen as so easy to use, since it obscures&#x2F;abstracts elements like the filesystem from the user.<p>Glad to hear Fossil is friendlier.<p>EDIT: I should say that I am a heavy user of Vim, Emacs, Git and Arch Linux, I am just saying that these tools often require a large up front investment, and this can be detrimental as well as sensible.</text></item><item><author>bachmeier</author><text>Here&#x27;s my story. I wanted to use version control on my research projects, but asking my collaborators to use Git was too much. They were supposed to figure out a staging area and pushing and pulling and then they&#x27;d get a bizarre error about a merge conflict. They&#x27;d do a search and Stack Overflow told them to type in an incantation. The repo is messed up, the collaborator goes back to email, and I&#x27;m left sorting through the rubble formerly known as a repo.<p>I switched to Fossil a few months ago. Nice website that holds all the information. fossil commit -m &quot;Message&quot; is all they need to know. If they forgot to pull, it stops and tells them to do so. They type fossil update and go on with their lives. Zero problems so far and a more productive workflow overall.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fossil SCM</title><url>https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; I think once developers learn Git (or as much as they need to use), then they forget how esoteric the the cli tool is.<p>Some of us never forget. And &quot;esoteric&quot; is way to kind a word for that thing, it is abstraction leak made software.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bananaoomarang</author><text>This is a good point. I think once developers learn Git (or as much as they need to use), then they forget how esoteric the the cli tool is.<p>I think a lot of devs have the attitude that a tool being more difficult to use makes it a powerful one (cf. Vim&#x2F;Emacs), whereas most people are happy when tool does the three things they need to get from a=&gt;b, b=&gt;c, a=&gt;c.<p>Maybe this is to do with our desire for everything to be as flexible as the programming languages we write in. Most people don&#x27;t view computers as blank slates ready to do their bidding, but as systems where the behaviour of a few facets is to be memorised without concerns for their mechanics or abstractions. This is probably one of the reasons that mobile software is seen as so easy to use, since it obscures&#x2F;abstracts elements like the filesystem from the user.<p>Glad to hear Fossil is friendlier.<p>EDIT: I should say that I am a heavy user of Vim, Emacs, Git and Arch Linux, I am just saying that these tools often require a large up front investment, and this can be detrimental as well as sensible.</text></item><item><author>bachmeier</author><text>Here&#x27;s my story. I wanted to use version control on my research projects, but asking my collaborators to use Git was too much. They were supposed to figure out a staging area and pushing and pulling and then they&#x27;d get a bizarre error about a merge conflict. They&#x27;d do a search and Stack Overflow told them to type in an incantation. The repo is messed up, the collaborator goes back to email, and I&#x27;m left sorting through the rubble formerly known as a repo.<p>I switched to Fossil a few months ago. Nice website that holds all the information. fossil commit -m &quot;Message&quot; is all they need to know. If they forgot to pull, it stops and tells them to do so. They type fossil update and go on with their lives. Zero problems so far and a more productive workflow overall.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fossil SCM</title><url>https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki</url></story> |
25,899,089 | 25,899,233 | 1 | 2 | 25,898,447 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sebmellen</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry if it comes off as dismissing the plight of others, that certainly wasn&#x27;t my intention.<p>I think being sentenced so heavily in one&#x27;s youth is arguably more tragic because there&#x27;s an argument to be made that adolescence is a different developmental period [0]. Perhaps sentencing should take this into account (e.g. a different sentencing bracket until ~24?). Also, there&#x27;s another argument to be made that younger people have had less time to sort themselves out, and a longer time to redeem themselves or make something of themselves (which I think we see here, not to say an elderly person couldn&#x27;t do that).<p>With regards to less intelligent people who are imprisoned, I would even say their plight is maybe even <i>more</i> tragic. Less intelligent people probably have faced many more hardships in life and&#x2F;or had a harder time mounting a strong legal defence (though intelligent people are more likely to abuse drugs [1]).<p>I suppose this struck me in particular because it&#x27;s a strong condemnation of the stereotype that prisoners are &quot;certain kinds&quot; of people. The contrast is what made it stand out. Maybe it can serve as an example for those who believe you only end up in prison if you are one of those &quot;certain kinds&quot; of people.<p>Again, it wasn&#x27;t a calculated sentiment, it just struck me how absurd getting sentenced to up to 30 years of imprisonment is, especially as a 19 year-old who probably could&#x27;ve ended up at a top university if not for life circumstances.<p>I also think our justice and prison system is fundamentally flawed and should be reworked, especially for non-violent crimes (which this borders on the edge of).<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bigthink.com&#x2F;mind-brain&#x2F;adult-brain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bigthink.com&#x2F;mind-brain&#x2F;adult-brain</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psychologytoday.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-scientific-fundamentalist&#x2F;201010&#x2F;why-intelligent-people-drink-more-alcohol" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psychologytoday.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-scientific-funda...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>whiddershins</author><text>Think, for a moment.<p>Let’s all think.<p>Are we saying it is tragic for smart and young people to be in prison but not older or less intelligent people?<p>I’m not messing with you or being snarky. I felt your sentiment keenly and then wonder what exactly I’m agreeing with.</text></item><item><author>sebmellen</author><text>It&#x27;s tragic to see bright young people in prison like this. Travis (the son in this post) is 25. To be in prison since 19 years old, with the earliest release date in 2027 (latest in 2045)... Goodness. This sort of time in jail is what you get for murder in parts of Europe [1].<p>Anyway, sorry if it&#x27;s off-topic. Very inspiring what he&#x27;s up to.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Life_imprisonment_in_the_Netherlands" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Life_imprisonment_in_the_Nethe...</a><p>&gt; <i>Due to the strict nature of the sentence, most &quot;common&quot; murders result in a sentence of around 12 to 30 years.</i><p>EDIT: If you downvoted me I would appreciate knowing why. What is it that I wrote?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Need advice or assistance for son who is in prison</title><url>https://mathoverflow.net/questions/382003/need-advice-or-assistance-for-son-who-is-in-prison-his-interest-is-scattering-t</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cm2012</author><text>A good rule of thumb for how people categorize levels of tragedy is how much &quot;potential&quot; is being wasted.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whiddershins</author><text>Think, for a moment.<p>Let’s all think.<p>Are we saying it is tragic for smart and young people to be in prison but not older or less intelligent people?<p>I’m not messing with you or being snarky. I felt your sentiment keenly and then wonder what exactly I’m agreeing with.</text></item><item><author>sebmellen</author><text>It&#x27;s tragic to see bright young people in prison like this. Travis (the son in this post) is 25. To be in prison since 19 years old, with the earliest release date in 2027 (latest in 2045)... Goodness. This sort of time in jail is what you get for murder in parts of Europe [1].<p>Anyway, sorry if it&#x27;s off-topic. Very inspiring what he&#x27;s up to.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Life_imprisonment_in_the_Netherlands" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Life_imprisonment_in_the_Nethe...</a><p>&gt; <i>Due to the strict nature of the sentence, most &quot;common&quot; murders result in a sentence of around 12 to 30 years.</i><p>EDIT: If you downvoted me I would appreciate knowing why. What is it that I wrote?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Need advice or assistance for son who is in prison</title><url>https://mathoverflow.net/questions/382003/need-advice-or-assistance-for-son-who-is-in-prison-his-interest-is-scattering-t</url></story> |
26,135,327 | 26,134,290 | 1 | 2 | 26,131,138 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>runarberg</author><text>Precisely. The OP reaches the wrong conclusion from an excellent point.<p>The fact that they are benefiting as a consumer because of location based salaries is another point against them. Pitting <i>“closing down the ‘sweatshops’”</i> (i.e. unemployment) as the only alternative for the workers is disingenuous. Another alternative is worker control over the factories. Yes OP as a consumer will loose some luxury as the price of consumer products rises along with the workers’ pay, but what natural law states that the OP has the right to that luxury at the cost of foreign workers?<p>The original point, you deserve the value of your work in salaries regardless of your location still holds. Even more so when it is applied to the global scale. And the fact that it isn’t applied on the global scale is just another fact pointing to the fact that we live in an unequal economy that exploits workers. Instead of rejecting this, OP should have reached the conclusion that there are alternative worker arrangements which would benefits workers globally.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gamesbrainiac</author><text>As a Bangladeshi, I can tell you that the workers in my country don&#x27;t have proper unions. They can&#x27;t negotiate. Salary is the last thing on their minds, they can&#x27;t even negotiate safe working conditions. They are uneducated, so they don&#x27;t know what they deserve. See here -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2012_Dhaka_garment_factory_fire" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2012_Dhaka_garment_factory_fir...</a><p>So, the cheap stuff that you&#x27;re getting is because someone is getting a super bad deal, by exploiting the heck out of workers. Same in China.<p>The garments factory owners are walking away with tonnes of money, leaving the workers high and dry.<p>The more _subtle_ point that the author is making, is that, &quot;wait, if people realize that they can get awesome developers in developing nations for a lower price, I&#x27;m not going to get hired any more in my over-priced city&quot;.<p>Good, move to a place where your salary is worth more, and work to enrich that community. Why should SF and NY get all the benefits of economic growth?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?</title><url>https://blackshaw.substack.com/p/pay</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>I find the author&#x27;s point to be a very disturbing one: If we really pay people fairly, I won&#x27;t be able to afford all these cheap consumer goods any more.<p>The &quot;idea&quot; of location based pay for developers is that you an have the same standard of living in Boise on less salary than in London. Whether this is true or not is subject to debate.<p>But what&#x27;s not subject to debate is that, as you say, Bangladeshi garment workers do <i>not</i> have a standard of living that is okay. What do we do with the fact that our (in the USA or UK) cheap clothing comes at that &quot;price&quot;?</text><parent_chain><item><author>gamesbrainiac</author><text>As a Bangladeshi, I can tell you that the workers in my country don&#x27;t have proper unions. They can&#x27;t negotiate. Salary is the last thing on their minds, they can&#x27;t even negotiate safe working conditions. They are uneducated, so they don&#x27;t know what they deserve. See here -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2012_Dhaka_garment_factory_fire" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2012_Dhaka_garment_factory_fir...</a><p>So, the cheap stuff that you&#x27;re getting is because someone is getting a super bad deal, by exploiting the heck out of workers. Same in China.<p>The garments factory owners are walking away with tonnes of money, leaving the workers high and dry.<p>The more _subtle_ point that the author is making, is that, &quot;wait, if people realize that they can get awesome developers in developing nations for a lower price, I&#x27;m not going to get hired any more in my over-priced city&quot;.<p>Good, move to a place where your salary is worth more, and work to enrich that community. Why should SF and NY get all the benefits of economic growth?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?</title><url>https://blackshaw.substack.com/p/pay</url></story> |
21,654,198 | 21,653,798 | 1 | 2 | 21,651,610 | 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>jt2190</author><text>You say:<p>&gt; Each of [Bing’s search partners] have to show bing ads, forward the users&#x27; IPs as per Bing&#x27;s terms of service (to fight ad fraud etc).<p>But DuckDuckGo says:<p>&gt; [W]e never share any personal information with any of our partners. The way it works is when we call a partner for information, it is proxied through our servers so it stays completely anonymous. That is, any call to a partner looks to the partner as it is from us and not the user itself, and no user personal information is passed in that process (e.g. their IP address). That way we can build our search result pages using these 100s of partner sources, while still keeping them completely anonymous to you.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.duckduckgo.com&#x2F;results&#x2F;sources&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.duckduckgo.com&#x2F;results&#x2F;sources&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>__ka</author><text>I have mixed feelings about this. If you recommend DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Ecosia you&#x27;re essentially recommending Bing. Each of them have to show bing ads, forward the users&#x27; IPs as per Bing&#x27;s terms of service (to fight ad fraud etc). Similarly, if you recommend StartPage, you&#x27;re recommending Google. Same drill with ads.<p>I like DuckDuckGo. But unless they build their own search - I think the fundamental problem has not been tackled. There is no good, independent, private search alternative.<p>[Edit]
I am not trying to single out DDG. There are a few replies that either demand for proof (rightfully) or suggest Bing is used only sometimes. I do not have conclusive proof, but have worked on search. Here&#x27;s a couple of things for the curious:<p>1. Try to run this test: If you query &quot;what is my ip&quot; in duckduckgo (DDG), or any of the other ones I mentioned, you will notice in the description of one of the top results this IP: 207.46.13.147. It&#x27;s a BingBot IP [0]. It&#x27;s a good enough test to spot where results are coming from.<p>2. Open two browser windows side by side with DDG and Bing. Turn on results for the country you are in in DDG. Look attentively. Try image search.<p>It is clear that DDG does some re-ranking based on its own, but it&#x27;s very often the same results.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatismyipaddress.com&#x2F;ip&#x2F;207.46.13.147" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatismyipaddress.com&#x2F;ip&#x2F;207.46.13.147</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo</title><url>https://twitter.com/jack/status/1199783221162053633</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AdamSC1</author><text>&gt;Each of them have to show bing ads, forward the users&#x27; IPs as per Bing&#x27;s terms of service (to fight ad fraud etc)<p>The ToS you are referring to is for companies without custom deals in place.<p>You can read DuckDuckGo&#x27;s privacy policy here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;privacy</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>__ka</author><text>I have mixed feelings about this. If you recommend DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Ecosia you&#x27;re essentially recommending Bing. Each of them have to show bing ads, forward the users&#x27; IPs as per Bing&#x27;s terms of service (to fight ad fraud etc). Similarly, if you recommend StartPage, you&#x27;re recommending Google. Same drill with ads.<p>I like DuckDuckGo. But unless they build their own search - I think the fundamental problem has not been tackled. There is no good, independent, private search alternative.<p>[Edit]
I am not trying to single out DDG. There are a few replies that either demand for proof (rightfully) or suggest Bing is used only sometimes. I do not have conclusive proof, but have worked on search. Here&#x27;s a couple of things for the curious:<p>1. Try to run this test: If you query &quot;what is my ip&quot; in duckduckgo (DDG), or any of the other ones I mentioned, you will notice in the description of one of the top results this IP: 207.46.13.147. It&#x27;s a BingBot IP [0]. It&#x27;s a good enough test to spot where results are coming from.<p>2. Open two browser windows side by side with DDG and Bing. Turn on results for the country you are in in DDG. Look attentively. Try image search.<p>It is clear that DDG does some re-ranking based on its own, but it&#x27;s very often the same results.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatismyipaddress.com&#x2F;ip&#x2F;207.46.13.147" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatismyipaddress.com&#x2F;ip&#x2F;207.46.13.147</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo</title><url>https://twitter.com/jack/status/1199783221162053633</url></story> |
1,532,789 | 1,532,485 | 1 | 3 | 1,532,412 | 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>michael_nielsen</author><text>Here's an idea: try creating the compound Ba-La-Cu-O. It's a pretty simple idea. It can be explained in seconds. Any competent chemist can do it, and probably a lot of incompetent ones as well. But in 1986 that idea was the key step in a Nobel Prize. And it may yet turn out to be the foundation for a massive industry. Sometimes, the idea is nearly all that matters.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>They Will Steal Your Idea. They Cannot Steal What Really Matters.</title><url>http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/they-will-steal-your-idea-they-cannot-steal-what-really-matters/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gacba</author><text>I hear lots of people talk about how their idea is some competitive advantage. Ideas are cheap. Ideas can be stolen. It's how you <i>execute</i> that counts, and that's what Jason's post drives home. Nicely done.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>They Will Steal Your Idea. They Cannot Steal What Really Matters.</title><url>http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/they-will-steal-your-idea-they-cannot-steal-what-really-matters/</url></story> |
22,569,107 | 22,568,613 | 1 | 2 | 22,568,034 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notahacker</author><text>Africa generally being a poorer continent also means a lot less travel to spread the disease, especially international travel from Asia and Europe, and the potential for local outbreaks to pass unnoticed due to lack of medical care, especially if symptoms for most young people are benign, and elderly people dying at the first sign of infection is a common occurrence</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway_pdp09</author><text>&quot;it&#x27;s hot [in Qatar].&quot;<p>I used to live in that part of the world. Air conditioning and active cooling is pervasive there. In a sense, people&#x27;s exposure to the overwhelming heat of the day is perhaps much more limited than you might expect.<p>There are surprisingly few cases in Africa (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2236760-we-dont-know-why-so-few-covid-19-cases-have-been-reported-in-africa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2236760-we-dont-know-wh...</a>) and Africa is a poorer continent in general, and perhaps aircon is much more limited there than that area of Arabia. Maybe there&#x27;s a link.</text></item><item><author>leesec</author><text>1. Is it possible to get COVID-19 twice?<p>No, doesn&#x27;t seem to be, but you might still have &quot;viral shedding&quot; for a bit even after you are &quot;recovered&quot;. meaning you could still be contagious.<p>4. There&#x27;s evidence that there are multiple strains, can you get both strains?<p>You shouldn&#x27;t think about them as multiple strains, as of now it is 1 disease.<p>5. What&#x27;s the likelihood that a mutation will occur once treatment is more widespread?<p>Mutations occur all the time, there are already 10&#x27;s of known mutations of virus, it doesn&#x27;t mean there are 10 separate diseases.<p>6. Does the heat make it significantly less likely for you to get COVID-19?<p>There&#x27;s some evidence warm weather slows spread for viruses like this, but we can&#x27;t assume that about this virus yet. A good counterpoint is Qatar adding 258 cases in one day, it&#x27;s hot there.</text></item><item><author>newfeatureok</author><text>There are some questions I haven&#x27;t been able to find good answers to in addition to the one posed in the article:<p>1. Is it possible to get COVID-19 twice?<p>2. If (1) is true, are the symptoms the same (if applicable)?<p>3. If (1) is true are you still contagious?<p>4. There&#x27;s evidence that there are multiple strains, can you get both strains?<p>5. What&#x27;s the likelihood that a mutation will occur once treatment is more widespread?<p>6. Does the heat make it significantly less likely for you to get COVID-19?<p>My impression so far is that we&#x27;ll never get rid of this thing, and at <i>best</i> this will be something like the seasonal flu, where we&#x27;ll just have to live with it and great shots yearly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Surviving the coronavirus, then testing positive again</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-13/china-japan-korea-coronavirus-reinfection-test-positive</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>teruakohatu</author><text>There could be less testing in Africa, so less confirmed cases. Here in New Zealand we have had only 5 cases with no increase in days, yet very close links to China and Australia and cool fall weather, making me wonder if and how many undiagnosed cases there are.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway_pdp09</author><text>&quot;it&#x27;s hot [in Qatar].&quot;<p>I used to live in that part of the world. Air conditioning and active cooling is pervasive there. In a sense, people&#x27;s exposure to the overwhelming heat of the day is perhaps much more limited than you might expect.<p>There are surprisingly few cases in Africa (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2236760-we-dont-know-why-so-few-covid-19-cases-have-been-reported-in-africa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2236760-we-dont-know-wh...</a>) and Africa is a poorer continent in general, and perhaps aircon is much more limited there than that area of Arabia. Maybe there&#x27;s a link.</text></item><item><author>leesec</author><text>1. Is it possible to get COVID-19 twice?<p>No, doesn&#x27;t seem to be, but you might still have &quot;viral shedding&quot; for a bit even after you are &quot;recovered&quot;. meaning you could still be contagious.<p>4. There&#x27;s evidence that there are multiple strains, can you get both strains?<p>You shouldn&#x27;t think about them as multiple strains, as of now it is 1 disease.<p>5. What&#x27;s the likelihood that a mutation will occur once treatment is more widespread?<p>Mutations occur all the time, there are already 10&#x27;s of known mutations of virus, it doesn&#x27;t mean there are 10 separate diseases.<p>6. Does the heat make it significantly less likely for you to get COVID-19?<p>There&#x27;s some evidence warm weather slows spread for viruses like this, but we can&#x27;t assume that about this virus yet. A good counterpoint is Qatar adding 258 cases in one day, it&#x27;s hot there.</text></item><item><author>newfeatureok</author><text>There are some questions I haven&#x27;t been able to find good answers to in addition to the one posed in the article:<p>1. Is it possible to get COVID-19 twice?<p>2. If (1) is true, are the symptoms the same (if applicable)?<p>3. If (1) is true are you still contagious?<p>4. There&#x27;s evidence that there are multiple strains, can you get both strains?<p>5. What&#x27;s the likelihood that a mutation will occur once treatment is more widespread?<p>6. Does the heat make it significantly less likely for you to get COVID-19?<p>My impression so far is that we&#x27;ll never get rid of this thing, and at <i>best</i> this will be something like the seasonal flu, where we&#x27;ll just have to live with it and great shots yearly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Surviving the coronavirus, then testing positive again</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-13/china-japan-korea-coronavirus-reinfection-test-positive</url></story> |
18,528,294 | 18,528,210 | 1 | 2 | 18,527,917 | train | <instructions>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; have a mostly automated system detecting violations and such, and also a good human support system with power to override the decisions of the former; the two are not really incompatible.<p>While that&#x27;s true in the abstract, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s true in present society. Both private companies and government are under near-constant pressure to cut costs, and the people who are charged with implementing those cuts will be tempted to under-resource the human override team or cut it entirely. Quality of service isn&#x27;t the priority.</text><parent_chain><item><author>icebraining</author><text>On the other hand, a justice system which has most of the menial tasks automated might have more resources to do the important tasks well.<p>Similarly, Google could have a mostly automated system detecting violations and such, and also a good human support system with power to override the decisions of the former; the two are not really incompatible.</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>Add to that a justice system also mostly automated and you are quickly caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare you can&#x27;t get out if something goes wrong. Imagine the justice system run like google support. Even if something is clearly wrong you can&#x27;t clear it up if you are not a famous person with a big Twitter following.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking</title><url>https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-11-22/ai-mistakes-bus-side-ad-for-famous-ceo-charges-her-with-jaywalkingdo-101350772.html?cxg=web&Sfrom=twitter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maxxxxx</author><text>I know an Android dev who had his Play account shut down for an unjustified reason. It took him a very long time to reactivate it. Especially the little guy doesn&#x27;t get much attention from humans. That was a few years ago. Maybe it&#x27;s better now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>icebraining</author><text>On the other hand, a justice system which has most of the menial tasks automated might have more resources to do the important tasks well.<p>Similarly, Google could have a mostly automated system detecting violations and such, and also a good human support system with power to override the decisions of the former; the two are not really incompatible.</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>Add to that a justice system also mostly automated and you are quickly caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare you can&#x27;t get out if something goes wrong. Imagine the justice system run like google support. Even if something is clearly wrong you can&#x27;t clear it up if you are not a famous person with a big Twitter following.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking</title><url>https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-11-22/ai-mistakes-bus-side-ad-for-famous-ceo-charges-her-with-jaywalkingdo-101350772.html?cxg=web&Sfrom=twitter</url></story> |
35,271,599 | 35,271,057 | 1 | 3 | 35,266,054 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>piva00</author><text>The lack of worker solidarity in tech is really astounding.<p>I&#x27;ve been in this industry for almost 20 years and have been trying to instill some sense of it in every workplace I worked. Some decades ago it really seemed that tech workers felt like they were just tech moguls that hadn&#x27;t made it yet, any kind of labour protection was looked at as &quot;stifling innovation&quot;.<p>Only lately I&#x27;ve seen people listen to me when I bring up that if you depend on a salary you&#x27;re on the same side as 99% of other people, no matter you have a run away of 6 months saved, if you lose your job for 6-12 months and will be fucked by it you should have solidarity with others in the same spot or worse.<p>Trying to bring up class struggles used to be mocked in the tech scene, I feel that people are slowly waking up though, the latest layoffs definitely got me surprised about some folks I know finally understanding what that means.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>It&#x27;s incredible how many people here are against transparency and a better labor market providing more information to the supplier side.<p>Lord knows companies have probably 80% of the leverage in the job market.<p>Tech people are doomed not by AIs, but by lack of solidarity, raw greed and lack of long term vision.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Companies to publish salary ranges in job adverts under new EU rules</title><url>https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/companies-will-have-to-publish-salary-ranges-in-job-adverts-under-new-eu-transparency-rules/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anhner</author><text>I don&#x27;t even understand how they would be against something that benefits them personally. I wonder if it&#x27;s the mentality that &quot;one day&quot; they would become the IT moguls that own one of these companies, and wouldn&#x27;t want this to disadvantage them?</text><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>It&#x27;s incredible how many people here are against transparency and a better labor market providing more information to the supplier side.<p>Lord knows companies have probably 80% of the leverage in the job market.<p>Tech people are doomed not by AIs, but by lack of solidarity, raw greed and lack of long term vision.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Companies to publish salary ranges in job adverts under new EU rules</title><url>https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/companies-will-have-to-publish-salary-ranges-in-job-adverts-under-new-eu-transparency-rules/</url></story> |
12,290,408 | 12,288,448 | 1 | 2 | 12,288,118 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wtbob</author><text>&gt; Unable to continue finding work, and fearing for the safety of his fellow El Mundo workers, Prohías, unable to speak a word of English, headed for New York.<p>It&#x27;s important to note, for those whose only knowledge of the Cuban Revolution is the iconic Che Guevara portrait, that &#x27;fearing for their safety&#x27; didn&#x27;t mean Prohias thought his co-workers might be beaten up: it meant that he was worried that they (and possibly their families) might be shot.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cuban Cartoonist Fled from Castro and Created 'Spy vs. Spy'</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/meet-the-cuban-expatriate-who-created-spy-vs-spy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lettercarrier</author><text>Mad is wonderful..
Tom Richmond is one I learn to draw [0]
Jack Hamm has the best series, I think, to learn.
[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomrichmond.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomrichmond.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cuban Cartoonist Fled from Castro and Created 'Spy vs. Spy'</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/meet-the-cuban-expatriate-who-created-spy-vs-spy</url></story> |
36,293,244 | 36,293,128 | 1 | 3 | 36,292,384 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kiklion</author><text>Uh what?<p>Quick google shows that a Hyundai Ioniq gets around 4 miles per kWh. An average US household uses 886 kWh per month. You’d have to drive 3,500 miles a month to have the electric car use more energy than the entire household.<p>Yes, there is an energy cost in building the car, but there’s also an energy cost in building the refrigerator and dryer and washing machine etc in the house.<p>I’m sure some electric cars are worse than the Ioniq, but they’d have to be considerably worse to equal the energy used by a household.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_kulang</author><text>How about not driving a car absolutely everywhere? Even electric cars use many times more energy than an entire household. I already eat less meat than I used to but I cannot look past the obscenely high energy use of a car</text></item><item><author>myshpa</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2018&#x2F;may&#x2F;31&#x2F;avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2018&#x2F;may&#x2F;31&#x2F;avoiding...</a><p>Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;climate&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal.pclm.0000010" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;climate&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal...</a><p>Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.colorado.edu&#x2F;ecenter&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;it-may-be-uncomfortable-we-need-talk-about-it-animal-agriculture-industry-and-zero-waste" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.colorado.edu&#x2F;ecenter&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;it-may-be-uncomf...</a><p>The animal agriculture industry is the leading cause of most environmental degradation that is currently occurring.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plantbasednews.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;plant-based-lifestyles-imperative-survival-climate-expert&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plantbasednews.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;plant-based-lifestyles-imper...</a><p>Plant-Based Lifestyles Now ‘Imperative’ For Survival, IPCC Climate Expert Says<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;320356605_Agriculture_production_as_a_major_driver_of_the_Earth_system_exceeding_planetary_boundaries" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;320356605_Agricultu...</a><p>Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commondreams.org&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;abandon-industrial-agriculture" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commondreams.org&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;abandon-industrial-agri...</a><p>&quot;We are in the middle of the sixth extinction with as many as 274 species going extinct every day—we have lost an average of 68% of all bird, fish, mammal, amphibian, and reptile species in the past 50 years—and the decline is continuing at more than one percentage point per year. Agriculture is the largest cause of these declines—86% of those species threatened—with animal agriculture (60%) the salient perpetrator.&quot;</text></item><item><author>karles</author><text>It&#x27;s hard not to feel a little apathetic about news like this.<p>I love my children, but I&#x27;m not sure how I will be able to explain the world&#x2F;my involvement in the world to them once they grow old (both are below 2 years as of today).<p>As an individual, I feel like I have no way of leaving the &quot;rat race&quot; while still being able to sustain our lives financially...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>That’s a huge amount of energy being transferred to the atmosphere</title><url>https://twitter.com/drtels/status/1650562388377174020</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>OGWhales</author><text>Where I live currently, that’s simply infeasible. It’s a city, just very poor public transit and the city was designed without pedestrians or bikers in mind.<p>I hope to move soon, and being able to walk&#x2F;bike&#x2F;take public transit is a priority for where I choose, but it makes me think there are so many places in the US where going anywhere without a car is not a realistic option. Car dependency is a big issue in the US.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_kulang</author><text>How about not driving a car absolutely everywhere? Even electric cars use many times more energy than an entire household. I already eat less meat than I used to but I cannot look past the obscenely high energy use of a car</text></item><item><author>myshpa</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2018&#x2F;may&#x2F;31&#x2F;avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2018&#x2F;may&#x2F;31&#x2F;avoiding...</a><p>Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;climate&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal.pclm.0000010" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;climate&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal...</a><p>Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.colorado.edu&#x2F;ecenter&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;it-may-be-uncomfortable-we-need-talk-about-it-animal-agriculture-industry-and-zero-waste" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.colorado.edu&#x2F;ecenter&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;it-may-be-uncomf...</a><p>The animal agriculture industry is the leading cause of most environmental degradation that is currently occurring.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plantbasednews.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;plant-based-lifestyles-imperative-survival-climate-expert&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plantbasednews.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;plant-based-lifestyles-imper...</a><p>Plant-Based Lifestyles Now ‘Imperative’ For Survival, IPCC Climate Expert Says<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;320356605_Agriculture_production_as_a_major_driver_of_the_Earth_system_exceeding_planetary_boundaries" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;320356605_Agricultu...</a><p>Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commondreams.org&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;abandon-industrial-agriculture" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commondreams.org&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;abandon-industrial-agri...</a><p>&quot;We are in the middle of the sixth extinction with as many as 274 species going extinct every day—we have lost an average of 68% of all bird, fish, mammal, amphibian, and reptile species in the past 50 years—and the decline is continuing at more than one percentage point per year. Agriculture is the largest cause of these declines—86% of those species threatened—with animal agriculture (60%) the salient perpetrator.&quot;</text></item><item><author>karles</author><text>It&#x27;s hard not to feel a little apathetic about news like this.<p>I love my children, but I&#x27;m not sure how I will be able to explain the world&#x2F;my involvement in the world to them once they grow old (both are below 2 years as of today).<p>As an individual, I feel like I have no way of leaving the &quot;rat race&quot; while still being able to sustain our lives financially...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>That’s a huge amount of energy being transferred to the atmosphere</title><url>https://twitter.com/drtels/status/1650562388377174020</url></story> |
23,105,175 | 23,104,742 | 1 | 3 | 23,105,060 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tyre</author><text>You can but change is measured in decades and even then often doesn&#x27;t happen.<p>Starting &quot;fresh&quot; with a single leading implementer is really how it needs to be done.<p>Take San Francisco. There&#x27;s the planning board, the planning department, environmental lawsuits, HOAs, abusing &quot;historic landmarks&quot; designations, political showmanship, developers, affordable housing, community meetings, unions, community groups (the cycling people are borderline militant) etc. etc.<p>All of those can bring any change to its knees. And they have, repeatedly. There are good parts of this process and people shouldn&#x27;t not have input, but I might not oppose a dictator coming in for two years and just having at it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>You can still advocate for such urban redevelopment and community planning without Big Tech behind it.</text></item><item><author>owenwil</author><text>I know the average Torontonian wasn&#x27;t into this, but I live nearby and was really excited about what it could have been, even though it was fraught with missteps.<p>This area is a concrete wasteland–just car-parks and abandoned lots–that&#x27;s now going to be portioned off to more giant, glass condo buildings, and while Sidewalk&#x27;s proposal had problems, it was focused on building something very different, community-oriented, without prioritizing roads.<p>Sidewalk really pushed the technology angle way too hard, and it was a clear overstep– most of it wasn&#x27;t necessary for any sort of quality of life improvements, but many of the ideas like wooden &#x27;skyscrapers&#x27; and de-prioritizing roads were exciting, now lost.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52572362</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leoh</author><text>Sure, but it would have been really interesting to see what Sidewalk could have done here, especially given that it was a blighted area.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>You can still advocate for such urban redevelopment and community planning without Big Tech behind it.</text></item><item><author>owenwil</author><text>I know the average Torontonian wasn&#x27;t into this, but I live nearby and was really excited about what it could have been, even though it was fraught with missteps.<p>This area is a concrete wasteland–just car-parks and abandoned lots–that&#x27;s now going to be portioned off to more giant, glass condo buildings, and while Sidewalk&#x27;s proposal had problems, it was focused on building something very different, community-oriented, without prioritizing roads.<p>Sidewalk really pushed the technology angle way too hard, and it was a clear overstep– most of it wasn&#x27;t necessary for any sort of quality of life improvements, but many of the ideas like wooden &#x27;skyscrapers&#x27; and de-prioritizing roads were exciting, now lost.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52572362</url></story> |
27,578,635 | 27,566,100 | 1 | 2 | 27,559,748 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ohazi</author><text>This is not as suggestive as one might imagine given the title or the discussion here so far.<p>It&#x27;s not &quot;Turing machine but the tape is limited to 1024 cells&quot; - i.e. you don&#x27;t get 1024 units of memory and a conditional branch instruction. You can&#x27;t branch at all.<p>In order to simulate the Turing machine, you need to run the Rule 110 automation, which necessarily implies expanding linearly into that 1024 cell space - i.e. your simulated program <i>really</i> isn&#x27;t going to get very far.<p>Edit: see comments by dTal and Dylan16807</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JPEG XL would be Turing-complete without the 1024×1024 pixel limitation</title><url>https://dbohdan.com/wiki/jpeg-xl?</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yarg</author><text>I love it when my image formats suffer from the halting problem.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JPEG XL would be Turing-complete without the 1024×1024 pixel limitation</title><url>https://dbohdan.com/wiki/jpeg-xl?</url></story> |
40,642,707 | 40,638,186 | 1 | 3 | 40,636,292 | 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>troad</author><text>&gt; I have been fighting switching to the SaaS version<p>I felt that way on principle for a long time, but honestly, on reflection, 1P is probably subscription that is most justifiable. I <i>want</i> to outsource online security to people that know what they are doing. I want that to be a viable business for a long time into the future. And I want their funding model to be such that their interests are aligned with those of their paying users (me).<p>People can get so irrational when it comes to the cost of software. The same person who&#x27;d pay hundreds of dollars for a cleaner, or a gym membership, will swear up and down that 70 bucks a year for an online bodyguard is highway robbery.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I have been fighting switching to the SaaS version. Paying a monthly fee for access to my passwords is highway robbery. I do not want&#x2F;need any of these other &quot;services&quot; they forced upon me. I have trying Apples keychain, but that migration is slow and a total pain in the ass. And it&#x27;s not even a good replacement.<p>I&#x27;m sure 1Password doesn&#x27;t care one iota about loosing individual users with attitudes like this. Until the forced to a monthly rent seeking hand in my pocket policy was deployed, I had been a vocal advocate for 1Pass. Now, they&#x27;re about to loose me altogether</text></item><item><author>ipqk</author><text>I&#x27;ve been an avid 1Password user for over 10 years, but since they gone full-throttle targeting the enterprise market, I&#x27;m getting more and more annoyed. It&#x27;s increasingly buggy (right now, it thinks I haven&#x27;t migrated from 1p7 which causes annoying interstitials that I can&#x27;t close. Over a month and no fix yet.). They killed standalone vaults. Obvious feature requests (e.g archive an entire vault) sit there for years untouched. The value is increasingly not there anymore for me, and here&#x27;s hoping I can finally jump ship this fall.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/forget-lastpass-apple-unveils-passwords-manager-app-at-wwdc-2024/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buzzerbetrayed</author><text>1Password has the most reasonable pricing out of just about any SaaS company. $1&#x2F;user&#x2F;month if you&#x27;re on a family plan. $3&#x2F;month for individuals. And they provide a great service.<p>Strongly disagree that they&#x27;re part of the group of SaaS companies trying to price gouge their users.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I have been fighting switching to the SaaS version. Paying a monthly fee for access to my passwords is highway robbery. I do not want&#x2F;need any of these other &quot;services&quot; they forced upon me. I have trying Apples keychain, but that migration is slow and a total pain in the ass. And it&#x27;s not even a good replacement.<p>I&#x27;m sure 1Password doesn&#x27;t care one iota about loosing individual users with attitudes like this. Until the forced to a monthly rent seeking hand in my pocket policy was deployed, I had been a vocal advocate for 1Pass. Now, they&#x27;re about to loose me altogether</text></item><item><author>ipqk</author><text>I&#x27;ve been an avid 1Password user for over 10 years, but since they gone full-throttle targeting the enterprise market, I&#x27;m getting more and more annoyed. It&#x27;s increasingly buggy (right now, it thinks I haven&#x27;t migrated from 1p7 which causes annoying interstitials that I can&#x27;t close. Over a month and no fix yet.). They killed standalone vaults. Obvious feature requests (e.g archive an entire vault) sit there for years untouched. The value is increasingly not there anymore for me, and here&#x27;s hoping I can finally jump ship this fall.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/forget-lastpass-apple-unveils-passwords-manager-app-at-wwdc-2024/</url></story> |
2,550,542 | 2,550,524 | 1 | 2 | 2,550,355 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jeema3000</author><text>Let's take this speculative legislation down the slippery slope, shall we? Next stop: full-speed collision with the First Amendment!...<p>Putting the URL in question on a website... but it's not actually a hyperlink, just plain text? Felony or not?<p>Printing the URL on a t-shirt and selling them? Felony or not?<p>Passing out pamphlets that list the URL? Felony or not?<p>Mentioning the URL in a news publication? Felony or not?<p>Telling your friend the URL? Felony or not?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The senators who say linking to certain sites should be a felony</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110513/11210514265/senators-who-say-merely-linking-to-certain-sites-should-be-felony.shtml</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kgermino</author><text>Once again, these are not the senators who think linking to a website should be a felony, these are the senators who have no idea what they are doing and are supporting bills handed to them by the copyright lobby.<p>Not that that's any better.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The senators who say linking to certain sites should be a felony</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110513/11210514265/senators-who-say-merely-linking-to-certain-sites-should-be-felony.shtml</url></story> |
27,479,366 | 27,479,262 | 1 | 2 | 27,473,199 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akiselev</author><text>They&#x27;re largely subsistence farmers with high infant mortality and little to no automation which accounts for about 2 billion people. They need children to work the fields and it makes sense to have a lot of children when the labor turn around time is five years and up to a third of them will be dead by then.<p>The adults pay the &quot;fixed costs&quot; to keep the farm running so each additional child produces more in labor than they consume in resources. They&#x27;re too poor to hire other adults for labor because they have their own &quot;fixed costs&quot; that are much higher than a child in the family.</text><parent_chain><item><author>magicsmoke</author><text>&gt; Or if you have experienced income instability, and you do not feel comfortable bringing children into the world.<p>Yet poorer developing nations have higher birth rates than developed nations. Is it because they have lower expectations for what their children need to live a &quot;good&quot; life, that they just have more hope that things will work out somehow, or that they somehow don&#x27;t care about these concerns?</text></item><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>&gt; What are the things that motivates them, and what do they themselves want to do in life?<p>I suspect quite a few people are looking at the odds of achieving various goals, and simply changing the goals. Such as owning a home in desirable areas, or having kids if you cannot afford a food school district or a job that allows you to be home for dinner.<p>Or if you have experienced income instability, and you do not feel comfortable bringing children into the world. I probably would not have if I did not find a spouse with income in the top two quintiles. Not that there’s nothing wrong with the alternative, but different people have different risk tolerances and higher (perceived) volatility can be a cause for change in some population wide changed we are seeing.</text></item><item><author>belorn</author><text>What are the things that motivates them, and what do they themselves want to do in life?<p>I ask this because much of the undertone in the article and in this thread is about the failure of meeting the gender role expectations that are put on young men. Do they have a job and a car? Have they studied hard so they can get a good job in order to support a wife and kid?<p>Culture in the last several decades have hammered down on the negative aspects of stereotyping. A person who is 35 has gone through a life time of TV, movie and politics that on repeat has talked about the negative of gender roles for women, while the expectations on men has remained fairly unchanged. I do not find it strange at all if an increasing portion of men under this culture has rejected the role put on them.<p>Which goes back to the original question I started with. What motivates them and what do they want to do with their life? If we want to avoid the slow motion tragedy, maybe the way forward is to help them answer those question in the absent of imposed gender roles.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-11/fewer-young-men-are-in-the-labor-force-more-are-living-at-home</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>&gt; Is it because they have lower expectations for what their children need to live a &quot;good&quot; life<p>Yes, I think the minimally acceptable quality of life is certainly relative.<p>&gt; that they just have more hope that things will work out somehow<p>Possibly, if everyone around you is on an upward trajectory, I can see that changing people’s calculus.<p>&gt; or that they somehow don&#x27;t care about these concerns?<p>I think a big factor is how (financially) independent women are and what kind of access to birth control (especially IUDs) they have. I suspect many of the women who have or had 3+ children would not have if they had similar options to those in developed countries today.</text><parent_chain><item><author>magicsmoke</author><text>&gt; Or if you have experienced income instability, and you do not feel comfortable bringing children into the world.<p>Yet poorer developing nations have higher birth rates than developed nations. Is it because they have lower expectations for what their children need to live a &quot;good&quot; life, that they just have more hope that things will work out somehow, or that they somehow don&#x27;t care about these concerns?</text></item><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>&gt; What are the things that motivates them, and what do they themselves want to do in life?<p>I suspect quite a few people are looking at the odds of achieving various goals, and simply changing the goals. Such as owning a home in desirable areas, or having kids if you cannot afford a food school district or a job that allows you to be home for dinner.<p>Or if you have experienced income instability, and you do not feel comfortable bringing children into the world. I probably would not have if I did not find a spouse with income in the top two quintiles. Not that there’s nothing wrong with the alternative, but different people have different risk tolerances and higher (perceived) volatility can be a cause for change in some population wide changed we are seeing.</text></item><item><author>belorn</author><text>What are the things that motivates them, and what do they themselves want to do in life?<p>I ask this because much of the undertone in the article and in this thread is about the failure of meeting the gender role expectations that are put on young men. Do they have a job and a car? Have they studied hard so they can get a good job in order to support a wife and kid?<p>Culture in the last several decades have hammered down on the negative aspects of stereotyping. A person who is 35 has gone through a life time of TV, movie and politics that on repeat has talked about the negative of gender roles for women, while the expectations on men has remained fairly unchanged. I do not find it strange at all if an increasing portion of men under this culture has rejected the role put on them.<p>Which goes back to the original question I started with. What motivates them and what do they want to do with their life? If we want to avoid the slow motion tragedy, maybe the way forward is to help them answer those question in the absent of imposed gender roles.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-11/fewer-young-men-are-in-the-labor-force-more-are-living-at-home</url></story> |
25,584,116 | 25,584,078 | 1 | 3 | 25,579,236 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heisig</author><text>I use Common Lisp for most of my daily programming, and SBCL is a big reason why. Once you get over the initial hassle (getting used to the Emacs+SLIME tool chain and learning to read the compiler diagnostics) it really gives you the productivity of Python with the performance of C++. And a lot of that performance is thanks to the tireless effort of the SBCL developers, who have been churning out a new release every few months for the last decades.<p>Kudos to all SBCL contributors!</text><parent_chain><item><author>gautamcgoel</author><text>Anyone here use SBCL or Common Lisp? Curious what you guys think of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SBCL: New in Version 2.1.0</title><url>http://www.sbcl.org/all-news.html#2.1.0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lisper</author><text>Yes, I use it professionally, and have for over 30 years, since before it became Common Lisp. It is far and away my favorite programming language (hence my HN handle :-) for two reasons: macros allow me to capture any design pattern and seamlessly add it to the language as a programming construct, and the generic function model of OO built in to CL is vastly more powerful than the C-based single-dispatch object.method() model that is ubiquitous in the rest of the programming language world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gautamcgoel</author><text>Anyone here use SBCL or Common Lisp? Curious what you guys think of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SBCL: New in Version 2.1.0</title><url>http://www.sbcl.org/all-news.html#2.1.0</url></story> |
16,990,719 | 16,990,061 | 1 | 2 | 16,989,505 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>m_fayer</author><text>It&#x27;s that vanishing breed: designed well but not overdesigned, technically solid, no hidden agenda or ecosystem to push, all for a fair upfront price. Hope they don&#x27;t mess it up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eigen-vector</author><text>I&#x27;m so glad to see the team behind Pocket Casts find success. It&#x27;s one app I&#x27;ve never been disappointed with and supported right from the beginning.<p>The paramount quality of a good app is how easily it gets out of the way and lets you enjoy the content. Pocket Casts has done a spectacular job at that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pocket Casts acquired by NPR</title><url>https://www.npr.org/about-npr/607823388/pocket-cast-acquired</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simcop2387</author><text>Yea it&#x27;s been my favorite podcasting app since i found it. So glad it&#x27;s NPR and such that acquired it and not a company that&#x27;s going to fill it with ads (the main reason i stopped using any other apps).</text><parent_chain><item><author>eigen-vector</author><text>I&#x27;m so glad to see the team behind Pocket Casts find success. It&#x27;s one app I&#x27;ve never been disappointed with and supported right from the beginning.<p>The paramount quality of a good app is how easily it gets out of the way and lets you enjoy the content. Pocket Casts has done a spectacular job at that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pocket Casts acquired by NPR</title><url>https://www.npr.org/about-npr/607823388/pocket-cast-acquired</url></story> |
38,861,860 | 38,860,706 | 1 | 2 | 38,858,075 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>felon_in_texas</author><text>Very noisy, because I&#x27;m not concerned about HN. Not the first time I&#x27;ve used an alt, whether as a throwaway or logging in via my employer&#x27;s account. I have comfort in HN&#x27;s integrity when I&#x27;m not abusing the privilege.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>You can easily demonstrate to yourself that they do.<p>And the situation here is that felon_in_texas visits HN in his usual manner, views a topic he wants to comment on, creates an account on the spot, and leaves his comment. How noisy do you think the IP identification can be?</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>No, they don&#x27;t do this. It&#x27;s not even clear how they would; the closest thing would be merging based on IP or fingerprinting, but both are extremely noisy.</text></item><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; This is a &quot;throwaway&quot; account for obvious reasons.<p>You should know that if you also have a non-throwaway account, HN will unify your accounts in their backend records.</text></item><item><author>felon_in_texas</author><text>This is a &quot;throwaway&quot; account for obvious reasons.<p>I did some terrible things when I was 19 that I won&#x27;t go into details, but after working as a developer for a few years, served a six-year sentence from 2003-2009.<p>Upon release, I leveraged some old contacts to get a bit of contracting work. In time I found more contracting work, mostly working for smaller companies on a 1099 basis. (direct, not through a firm) In time a local contract turned into a job, and I&#x27;ve been with the company since. I&#x27;m the lead developer and own the entire stack, from the cloud to the front-end. I&#x27;ve made myself very valuable to them, and earn an income that&#x27;s well over market (early on they offered me a percentage of profits as compensation)<p>I still continue to do contracting on a small basis (small companies tend to not bind you with onerous terms keeping you from doing so). Some of them I&#x27;ve even found on HN.<p>Anything involving a background check is a no-go. Most traditional employment situations, especially with &quot;big&quot; companies is a no-go. Sometimes you have to hustle a bit more, but honestly, I feel like owning your career with an entrepreneurial mindset is something everyone can benefit from.<p>Most of my clients have no idea about my past. A few have learned, but it didn&#x27;t disqualify me. I was transparent when asked.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?</title><text>Hello HN,<p>Does anyone have experience getting back into tech&#x2F;startups post-felony?<p>I have been looking for work since I was released for an assault charge in November 2022.<p>Previously I worked in Information Security as a SecOps Eng, most recently at Tinder. Between lack of recent job experience, and my record, I have been through a series of offer reneges, recruiters ghosting me, or going into HR resume black holes.<p>I am eager to get back into tech and feel like my old self adding value to a great team&#x2F;org.<p>Anyone have leads on companies that are open to taking chances on good candidates with less than sparkling backgrounds?<p>NOTE: My offense was not computer&#x2F;finance&#x2F;fraud&#x2F;selling drugs&#x2F;physical violence&#x2F;based at all.<p>Here is my linkedin:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;saunderscaleb&#x2F;</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arp242</author><text>&gt; You can easily demonstrate to yourself that they do.<p>How?</text><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>You can easily demonstrate to yourself that they do.<p>And the situation here is that felon_in_texas visits HN in his usual manner, views a topic he wants to comment on, creates an account on the spot, and leaves his comment. How noisy do you think the IP identification can be?</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>No, they don&#x27;t do this. It&#x27;s not even clear how they would; the closest thing would be merging based on IP or fingerprinting, but both are extremely noisy.</text></item><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; This is a &quot;throwaway&quot; account for obvious reasons.<p>You should know that if you also have a non-throwaway account, HN will unify your accounts in their backend records.</text></item><item><author>felon_in_texas</author><text>This is a &quot;throwaway&quot; account for obvious reasons.<p>I did some terrible things when I was 19 that I won&#x27;t go into details, but after working as a developer for a few years, served a six-year sentence from 2003-2009.<p>Upon release, I leveraged some old contacts to get a bit of contracting work. In time I found more contracting work, mostly working for smaller companies on a 1099 basis. (direct, not through a firm) In time a local contract turned into a job, and I&#x27;ve been with the company since. I&#x27;m the lead developer and own the entire stack, from the cloud to the front-end. I&#x27;ve made myself very valuable to them, and earn an income that&#x27;s well over market (early on they offered me a percentage of profits as compensation)<p>I still continue to do contracting on a small basis (small companies tend to not bind you with onerous terms keeping you from doing so). Some of them I&#x27;ve even found on HN.<p>Anything involving a background check is a no-go. Most traditional employment situations, especially with &quot;big&quot; companies is a no-go. Sometimes you have to hustle a bit more, but honestly, I feel like owning your career with an entrepreneurial mindset is something everyone can benefit from.<p>Most of my clients have no idea about my past. A few have learned, but it didn&#x27;t disqualify me. I was transparent when asked.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?</title><text>Hello HN,<p>Does anyone have experience getting back into tech&#x2F;startups post-felony?<p>I have been looking for work since I was released for an assault charge in November 2022.<p>Previously I worked in Information Security as a SecOps Eng, most recently at Tinder. Between lack of recent job experience, and my record, I have been through a series of offer reneges, recruiters ghosting me, or going into HR resume black holes.<p>I am eager to get back into tech and feel like my old self adding value to a great team&#x2F;org.<p>Anyone have leads on companies that are open to taking chances on good candidates with less than sparkling backgrounds?<p>NOTE: My offense was not computer&#x2F;finance&#x2F;fraud&#x2F;selling drugs&#x2F;physical violence&#x2F;based at all.<p>Here is my linkedin:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;saunderscaleb&#x2F;</text></story> |
12,534,274 | 12,532,931 | 1 | 3 | 12,531,603 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tlb</author><text>My family&#x27;s business in the 1970s was cleaning windows on tall buildings in Saskatoon (there were dozens). The effects of acid rain on buildings was dramatic. Facades on buildings that had stood since the 1920s were crumbling. Acid rain damage control was a whole segment of our business. Presumably the pollution there was no worse than anywhere else.<p>Emissions controls for vehicles and coal power plants are important. Things would be much worse without them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Acidity in atmosphere minimised to preindustrial levels</title><url>http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2016/09/acidity-in-atmosphere-minimised-to-preindustrial-levels/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>I normally love HN comment sections because really knowledgable people put these articles into greater perspective. This has not been one such section. Can someone with domain specific knowledge speak to what this means? What are the scope of the benefits? What was the danger if this hadn&#x27;t been turned around?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Acidity in atmosphere minimised to preindustrial levels</title><url>http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2016/09/acidity-in-atmosphere-minimised-to-preindustrial-levels/</url></story> |
2,177,877 | 2,177,581 | 1 | 3 | 2,176,980 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>js2</author><text><p><pre><code> $ git show e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290 --stat
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:-)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What can you do in 2k LOC of C?</title><url>http://www.h4ck3r.net/2011/02/02/what-can-you-do-in-2k-of-c/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pygy_</author><text>Roberto Ierusalimschy's lpeg is around 2.4k loc of ansi C without any dependency beside libC and lua.h (needed to interface with Lua, since it's a Lua library).<p>It implements an efficient pattern matching system based on Parsing Expression Grammars (akin to CFGs, but without ambiguities). It consists of a Pattern/Grammar to bytecode compiler and a custom VM to interpret the result of the compiling phase.<p>Nice and clean.<p><a href="http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What can you do in 2k LOC of C?</title><url>http://www.h4ck3r.net/2011/02/02/what-can-you-do-in-2k-of-c/</url></story> |
21,805,465 | 21,804,936 | 1 | 3 | 21,804,383 | 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>gregmac</author><text>Also don&#x27;t use for anything real, because you should not be teaching users that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1234-5678-9adc-def0-1234-5678-9abc-def0.has-a.name" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1234-5678-9adc-def0-1234-5678-9abc-def0.has-a.name</a> is the proper, trusted domain for your service. Because it was supposed to be <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1234-5678-9abc-def0-1234-5678-9abc-def0.has-a.name" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1234-5678-9abc-def0-1234-5678-9abc-def0.has-a.name</a> and I just tricked <i>you</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robbya</author><text>This is cool, but keep in mind that the operator can also get SSL certs for your site (they just point the domain somewhere else and use Lets Encrypt or similar to get a certificate). So from a security perspective, you are putting a ton of trust if you use this for anything real.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Giving every IPv6 address a name</title><url>https://has-a.name</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anaphor</author><text>I don&#x27;t think they even need to point the A record somewhere else. They can just create a TXT record and some CAs will allow you to validate it that way, if I&#x27;m not mistaken.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robbya</author><text>This is cool, but keep in mind that the operator can also get SSL certs for your site (they just point the domain somewhere else and use Lets Encrypt or similar to get a certificate). So from a security perspective, you are putting a ton of trust if you use this for anything real.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Giving every IPv6 address a name</title><url>https://has-a.name</url></story> |
7,547,031 | 7,546,860 | 1 | 2 | 7,546,587 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anon1385</author><text>&gt;Why being insanely profitable is bad for Apple<p>Microsoft fans have been making this argument for 15 years or more. They said Apple should copy Dell and sell cheap enterprise desktops with low margins because that was where the money was. Then they said Apple should copy Asus and HP and sell cheap netbooks with low margins because that was the future. Then people said Apple should be making a really cheap ebook reader to compete with the Kindle.<p>People are constantly advising Apple that they should get into low margin markets and compete on price with companies that are barely breaking even. This advice seems to mostly be based on what they want the market to look like, more than how it actually is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Apple faces a severe <i>potential</i> financial crisis in coming years -- one that dwarfs Microsoft&#x27;s. They rely so heavily on the premium subsidy for their revenue that if the subsidy is merely brought down to normal levels they will see a huge drop in revenue -- and this assumes that they keep selling the same number of phones.<p>Now that there are viable alternatives in Android, and to a lesser extent Windows Phones, with much lower subsidies, I think you&#x27;ll see the carriers push these other devices.<p>And if we move to a model where consumers pay for the full price of the phone (which is what much of the world does today), then you&#x27;ll actually see iPhone sales fall. Sub $200 low-margin phones are the future. Apple can still do well with a premium phone -- especially if the camera is really good, but I think it&#x27;s a tougher niche than the high-end PC market.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Internal Apple document: FY'14 Planning Offsite</title><url>http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/216526160?access_key=key-1uv8ibrvnzr4dnx0fu5c&allow_share=true&escape=false&view_mode=scroll</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bdcravens</author><text><i>Sub $200 low-margin phones are the future.</i><p>Wouldn&#x27;t this be as problematic for Samsung (or any other vendor with high end offerings, but Samsung is the big dog) as Apple? While Samsung has some sub-$200 phones, doesn&#x27;t the massive profit from the latest and greatest make that possible?</text><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Apple faces a severe <i>potential</i> financial crisis in coming years -- one that dwarfs Microsoft&#x27;s. They rely so heavily on the premium subsidy for their revenue that if the subsidy is merely brought down to normal levels they will see a huge drop in revenue -- and this assumes that they keep selling the same number of phones.<p>Now that there are viable alternatives in Android, and to a lesser extent Windows Phones, with much lower subsidies, I think you&#x27;ll see the carriers push these other devices.<p>And if we move to a model where consumers pay for the full price of the phone (which is what much of the world does today), then you&#x27;ll actually see iPhone sales fall. Sub $200 low-margin phones are the future. Apple can still do well with a premium phone -- especially if the camera is really good, but I think it&#x27;s a tougher niche than the high-end PC market.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Internal Apple document: FY'14 Planning Offsite</title><url>http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/216526160?access_key=key-1uv8ibrvnzr4dnx0fu5c&allow_share=true&escape=false&view_mode=scroll</url></story> |
20,563,667 | 20,563,366 | 1 | 2 | 20,559,779 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codeulike</author><text>They&#x27;re not claiming to be the only or the biggest player in the field. They&#x27;re claiming to be cheaper and faster to build than the incumbents.<p><i>... to achieve significant cost and time savings compared to other battery systems and traditional fossil fuel power plants.</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>Iv</author><text>As much as I love what Tesla is doing there, I&#x27;d like to point out that they are not the only or even the biggest player ine the field:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battery_storage_power_station#Largest_grid_batteries" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battery_storage_power_station#...</a><p>There are other tech than lithium ion (namely, Sodium-sulphur) that seem more appropriate for applications where weight is not an issue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-megapack-utility-scale-energy-storage</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>The downside on those ones seems to be that they need to be heated (and kept at a heat) of 300-350 degrees and they are quite corrosive if there is an emergency. Not saying li-ion batteries are safe, but they and how Tesla has modularized them give me a lot more confidence to leave in an unattended location. Of course, it&#x27;s all situational so there&#x27;s a place and purpose for these things as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Iv</author><text>As much as I love what Tesla is doing there, I&#x27;d like to point out that they are not the only or even the biggest player ine the field:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battery_storage_power_station#Largest_grid_batteries" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battery_storage_power_station#...</a><p>There are other tech than lithium ion (namely, Sodium-sulphur) that seem more appropriate for applications where weight is not an issue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-megapack-utility-scale-energy-storage</url></story> |
17,392,592 | 17,392,106 | 1 | 3 | 17,391,646 | 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>ndarilek</author><text>I hope this means the developer tools <i>themselves</i> will actually become accessible. As a blind web developer running Linux and Orca, bunches of things have been broken for a very long time, to the point where I&#x27;m considering switching to ChromeOS and running Linux in chroots&#x2F;containers just to get a better set of web development tools. I&#x27;m glad that they&#x27;re empowering developers to create accessible websites, but if blind&#x2F;disabled developers were empowered to <i>develop</i> on equal footing, then that&#x27;d be another way to achieve the same goal.<p>As one example, I can&#x27;t navigate the network inspector via keyboard in any meaningful way. Firebug used to have this nailed, to the point where you could even enable an accessibility mode (though arguably accessibility mode should have just been the <i>only</i> mode.) And yes, I&#x27;d happily file issues for this and half a dozen other things, but at some point I actually have to do my job, and in this case that might mean jumping ship to a browser that seems more accessible.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox Developer Tools: Accessibility inspector</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility_inspector</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>have_faith</author><text>For every website a client has asked me to check SEO reports and the like, I get 0 requests to check accessibility or any mention of it. I do my best to make what I build accessible with the time I have, but clients (and many employers) seem blind to it. Has anyone had any success with getting accessibility taken more seriously in these contexts?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox Developer Tools: Accessibility inspector</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility_inspector</url></story> |
11,390,362 | 11,390,241 | 1 | 2 | 11,389,304 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>home_boi</author><text>I would like to see huffpo&#x2F;buzzfeed&#x2F;clickbait sites put on a &quot;banlist&quot; where their ranking is penalized heavily for being clickbait</text><parent_chain><item><author>ptaipale</author><text>An incredibly irritating click-bait headline. Why can&#x27;t they say what corporation has done corruption where? They could provide the essentials with fewer words.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>There’s a Huge New Corporate Corruption Scandal. Here’s Why Everyone Should Care</title><url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/unaoil-bribery-scandal-corruption_us_56fa2b06e4b014d3fe2408b9</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I agree that the headline is irritating, but your solution isn&#x27;t the right one. The firm is obscure, so the name doesn&#x27;t belong in the headline. It&#x27;s also not really industry- or country-specific, so they can&#x27;t mention that.<p>The interesting parts are the corporate corruption and its mechanisms, the government corruption that causes, and the political instability that flows from that. That in turn affects the world. But given the HuffPo&#x27;s audience, my guess is that &quot;corporate corruption&quot; is the hottest topic; it&#x27;s certainly the most obvious and most clearly illegal bit. So click-bait style aside, it&#x27;s not a bad headline.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ptaipale</author><text>An incredibly irritating click-bait headline. Why can&#x27;t they say what corporation has done corruption where? They could provide the essentials with fewer words.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>There’s a Huge New Corporate Corruption Scandal. Here’s Why Everyone Should Care</title><url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/unaoil-bribery-scandal-corruption_us_56fa2b06e4b014d3fe2408b9</url></story> |
3,625,563 | 3,625,561 | 1 | 2 | 3,625,229 | 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>zipdog</author><text>I've done some work for a research team dealing with air exposure to known and suspected carcinogens and (I think) I can appreciate both sides of this. In order to do the research my team signed various agreements related to data and any publication is dependent on approval from the data sources. Science is about free publication but we don't own the data so we have to play by their rules to access it. The primary reason in our case was an earlier publication of preliminary data that had been sent to media and caused a big stir with damning headlines. Unfortunately the legitimately scientific practice of publishing whatever you have and letting the scientific community build on it becomes quite problematic when the media broadcasts interim results as findings (and then land values plummet, or political pressure halts a multimillion dollar project). So there might be a legitimate reason for the legal threats (Though the article implies otherwise)<p>On the other hand, pinning down environmental causes of cancer is shockingly difficult and even partial results are very useful for the research because we simply can't put a test subject in a box and pump it full of a chemical to see if they get cancer. Most known carcinogens (by the IARC definition) are known through studies on workplace exposure.<p>It would be a serious blow if the study had concrete evidence but the legal threats managed to delay publication until after IARC finishes its review.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Journals Warned to Keep a Tight Lid on Diesel Exposure Data</title><url>http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/journals-warned-to-keep-a-tight.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>feralchimp</author><text>&#62; a coalition of mining industry groups are legally entitled to review data from the study before publication<p>You can't blame the lobbyists' lawyers for trying to enforce a provision that their clients successfully negotiated. You should be ripshit that they were able to negotiate the provision in the first place.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Journals Warned to Keep a Tight Lid on Diesel Exposure Data</title><url>http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/journals-warned-to-keep-a-tight.html</url><text></text></story> |
25,864,619 | 25,864,671 | 1 | 2 | 25,863,377 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aunlead</author><text>The pandemic has made me (re)evaluate how my family can get to my finances and online services. Such solutions can solve issues related to bank&#x2F;trading account access and key documents but what about subscription services? All my subscription services from Netflix&#x2F;Plex (less important) to VPN&#x2F;Blackblaze (more important) are tied to my credit cards, which upon my untimely demise will be deactivated. My family will surely get locked out if I don&#x27;t leave clear instructions on each of the services and how they can access them, etc. Then there is a technical aspect of taking over these service.<p>I&#x27;m curious on how others have planned around this?<p>edit: typo</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature</title><url>https://bitwarden.com/help/article/releasenotes/#2021-01-19</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>Bitwarden is just fantastic. It&#x27;s open source, the interface is clean, works fine on all platforms for me and pretty much everything is free. If the devs browse here, thanks for making it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature</title><url>https://bitwarden.com/help/article/releasenotes/#2021-01-19</url></story> |
21,650,170 | 21,649,866 | 1 | 2 | 21,649,397 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>garaetjjte</author><text>Unless something changed recently, it is weird to say that GNOME&#x2F;KDE is heavier&#x2F;lighter when they are both insane resource hogs. I use Xfce or MATE nowadays.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cheald</author><text>It&#x27;s worth it to try KDE Plasma rather than GNOME. It&#x27;s lighter and faster than GNOME by a fair margin, and it&#x27;s far more customizable. GNOME is great for your OS X convert who isn&#x27;t used to anything being customizable, but KDE is an utter delight for everyone else.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/?p=1623735</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>Personally I prefer to stick with KDE neon for a full KDE experience. It&#x27;s built on Ubuntu LTS but uses the latest KDE packages. I&#x27;ve found it to be a lot more stable than just using KDE on top of a Ubuntu release.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cheald</author><text>It&#x27;s worth it to try KDE Plasma rather than GNOME. It&#x27;s lighter and faster than GNOME by a fair margin, and it&#x27;s far more customizable. GNOME is great for your OS X convert who isn&#x27;t used to anything being customizable, but KDE is an utter delight for everyone else.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/?p=1623735</url></story> |
27,754,369 | 27,754,117 | 1 | 3 | 27,751,498 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qdog</author><text>Marfa is in the middle of nowhere, the jobs seem to be of the landscaper&#x2F;service industry type unless you are arriving with money from somewhere else.<p>Sounds more like a touristy set of rich estates at this point, I expect the laborers live in the surrounding area and drive into town just like a large city. I did some labor during HS and in the summer it was driving 20-40 miles from our small town in nowhere Texas for the jobs we did.<p>During the early 80&#x27;s oil boom there were several small towns in Texas that kinda looked like OP&#x27;s model, but once the boom went to bust they started dying and never recovered. Probably around the Austin area in the 60&#x27;s a lot of places looked more idyllic (there were no stoplights between downtown Austin and I think Lampasas at that point), but it&#x27;s all sprawled out and become a Metropolis at this point.<p>Not clear that any sufficiently attractive area would not end up being encompassed in suburbia or a high-end enclave (Westlake by Austin comes to mind).</text><parent_chain><item><author>thebradbain</author><text>I would argue that, for better or worse, Marfa, TX in West Texas is a real manifestation of this essay. It&#x27;s only a town of about 5000, completely walkable, and homes that were selling for $20k before news got out that it was a secret artist enclave just 10 years ago are now going for north of $1 million (even more eye popping when the median single family home price in the most expensive metro areas of the state, Austin and Dallas, are around $500k). Outside the town is farmland and oil fields. Inside the town is a collection of bars, restaurants, hotels, museums, and high art, all from a once-dying&#x2F;repurposed small town on a defunct train line.<p>&quot;A desirable place to live &#x2F; visit&quot; is its own economic engine. See (also mentioned in that article) Seaside, Florida.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.themanual.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;marfa-texas&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.themanual.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;marfa-texas&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;02&#x2F;156980469&#x2F;marfa-texas-an-unlikely-art-oasis-in-a-desert-town" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;02&#x2F;156980469&#x2F;marfa-texas-an-unli...</a></text></item><item><author>helen___keller</author><text>I&#x27;m very invested in urbanist discourse (which is to say, all things that lend themselves to less cars and more people doing more walking&#x2F;biking&#x2F;transit). That said, the fantasy of building a human-scale town from scratch is, unfortunately, a fantasy.<p>The author is half correct in saying that we&#x27;ve forgotten how to build towns. It&#x27;s better to say, the creation of new towns have become economically obsolete. Their niche is gone. Historically, towns formed organically around sources of value, such as farmland or rivers or mines or whatever, where many people making a living in the same region benefited from being in walking proximity, which enabled commerce. That concern just doesn&#x27;t exist today, due to cars.<p>You don&#x27;t need a town with an inn when the truckers stay at motels and rest stops. You don&#x27;t need a town square when people shop at the big box store on the highway and local producers are part of a complex global supply chain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to build a small town in Texas</title><url>https://wrathofgnon.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-small-town-in-texas</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pram</author><text>Marfa is hilarious to me. I&#x27;m from west Texas and I&#x27;ve driven highway 90 dozens of times, there is literally nothing out there. A complete wasteland. It&#x27;s painfully boring. I don&#x27;t believe anyone buying these properties are living there year round.<p>Alpine is a much more scenic town and it&#x27;s just up the road. I&#x27;d probably buy a house there instead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thebradbain</author><text>I would argue that, for better or worse, Marfa, TX in West Texas is a real manifestation of this essay. It&#x27;s only a town of about 5000, completely walkable, and homes that were selling for $20k before news got out that it was a secret artist enclave just 10 years ago are now going for north of $1 million (even more eye popping when the median single family home price in the most expensive metro areas of the state, Austin and Dallas, are around $500k). Outside the town is farmland and oil fields. Inside the town is a collection of bars, restaurants, hotels, museums, and high art, all from a once-dying&#x2F;repurposed small town on a defunct train line.<p>&quot;A desirable place to live &#x2F; visit&quot; is its own economic engine. See (also mentioned in that article) Seaside, Florida.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.themanual.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;marfa-texas&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.themanual.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;marfa-texas&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;02&#x2F;156980469&#x2F;marfa-texas-an-unlikely-art-oasis-in-a-desert-town" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;02&#x2F;156980469&#x2F;marfa-texas-an-unli...</a></text></item><item><author>helen___keller</author><text>I&#x27;m very invested in urbanist discourse (which is to say, all things that lend themselves to less cars and more people doing more walking&#x2F;biking&#x2F;transit). That said, the fantasy of building a human-scale town from scratch is, unfortunately, a fantasy.<p>The author is half correct in saying that we&#x27;ve forgotten how to build towns. It&#x27;s better to say, the creation of new towns have become economically obsolete. Their niche is gone. Historically, towns formed organically around sources of value, such as farmland or rivers or mines or whatever, where many people making a living in the same region benefited from being in walking proximity, which enabled commerce. That concern just doesn&#x27;t exist today, due to cars.<p>You don&#x27;t need a town with an inn when the truckers stay at motels and rest stops. You don&#x27;t need a town square when people shop at the big box store on the highway and local producers are part of a complex global supply chain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to build a small town in Texas</title><url>https://wrathofgnon.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-small-town-in-texas</url></story> |
23,189,313 | 23,182,566 | 1 | 3 | 23,181,898 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>8bitsrule</author><text>1978 was very early in the &#x27;personal computer&#x27; era. I&#x27;d guess that the use of a VCO was modeled after early synthesizers like the Moog. (It used a 1-volt per octave scheme ... changing the external voltage input from 2 to 3 volts moved pitch up an octave.)<p>The 76477 <i>could</i> take an external voltage (up to 5v) (Pin 16 via J2) for pitch - maybe the design&#x27;s intent was to be able, when needed, to inexpensively generate external voltages, e.g. through a pot. The much-more powerful General Instrument AY-3-8910 arriving in 1978 sank any hopes the 76477 had.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Instrument_AY-3-8910" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Instrument_AY-3-8910</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound chip from die photos (2017)</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2017/04/reverse-engineering-76477-space.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>jbverschoor</author><text>I love this kind of stuff. I’m always amazed about how small we can operate.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound chip from die photos (2017)</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2017/04/reverse-engineering-76477-space.html</url></story> |
19,921,321 | 19,920,808 | 1 | 2 | 19,905,865 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shuckles</author><text>Engineering is not organized by platform, but function. Apps that are cross-platform have engineers who move back and forth between macOS and iOS. Lots of code is also reused between the two. Both platforms use essentially the same tooling and languages (if anything, iOS development is more painful), though certainly iOS codebases tend to be better because they are newer.<p>A fight for attention by a specific, resource-starved macOS engineering team could not be more incorrect. That’s simply not how Apple works. You have to come up with a different explanation for these perceived quality problems.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacobsenscott</author><text>I doubt it is developer apathy. It smells like a management issue. iOS is where the money is. I don&#x27;t know anyone at apple, but here&#x27;s how I imagine it is there:<p>Every OSX engineer probably has more bugs on their plate than can be fixed in one career, in addition to feature development tasks. The OSX team is severely understaffed both because it is not a priority at Apple, and because it is getting harder and harder to find engineers that are able to&#x2F;willing to work on this kind of code - a Byzantine labyrinth of C flavors that&#x27;s been accreting lines for decades.<p>The OSX team is in a desperate fight for recognition and status against the iOS team. They believe (and are probably right) that the only way to gain executive mind share there is to build out new visible features, no matter how useless. Witness dark theme, stacks, dynamic desktop, siri on the desktop, a steady stream of useless iPhone integrations, etc. All the troops are ordered to march relentlessly toward feature development. Stability and bug fixes be damned.<p>It bet it takes at least three weeks of focused effort and red tape macheteing to fix this bug and it is way down on someone&#x27;s list. Even if you fix it the change won&#x27;t make the next OSX key note at the annual IOScon or whatever it is called, so it won&#x27;t help your career one iota.<p>Again - this is just how I imagine it is there. I don&#x27;t really know.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mac: Keyboard Shortcuts Killed by Bug</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2019/03/03/last-week-on-my-mac-keyboard-shortcuts-killed-by-bug/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomduncalf</author><text>The iPhone integrations (assuming you mean Handover) are one of my favourite parts of the MacOS&#x2F;iOS ecosystem and one of many reasons why I can&#x27;t see myself moving away from either OS for a long time.<p>I&#x27;ve also experienced very few bugs in MacOS which have affected me on a day to day basis. Not saying they aren&#x27;t there, but to me the MacOS team are doing a pretty great job.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacobsenscott</author><text>I doubt it is developer apathy. It smells like a management issue. iOS is where the money is. I don&#x27;t know anyone at apple, but here&#x27;s how I imagine it is there:<p>Every OSX engineer probably has more bugs on their plate than can be fixed in one career, in addition to feature development tasks. The OSX team is severely understaffed both because it is not a priority at Apple, and because it is getting harder and harder to find engineers that are able to&#x2F;willing to work on this kind of code - a Byzantine labyrinth of C flavors that&#x27;s been accreting lines for decades.<p>The OSX team is in a desperate fight for recognition and status against the iOS team. They believe (and are probably right) that the only way to gain executive mind share there is to build out new visible features, no matter how useless. Witness dark theme, stacks, dynamic desktop, siri on the desktop, a steady stream of useless iPhone integrations, etc. All the troops are ordered to march relentlessly toward feature development. Stability and bug fixes be damned.<p>It bet it takes at least three weeks of focused effort and red tape macheteing to fix this bug and it is way down on someone&#x27;s list. Even if you fix it the change won&#x27;t make the next OSX key note at the annual IOScon or whatever it is called, so it won&#x27;t help your career one iota.<p>Again - this is just how I imagine it is there. I don&#x27;t really know.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mac: Keyboard Shortcuts Killed by Bug</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2019/03/03/last-week-on-my-mac-keyboard-shortcuts-killed-by-bug/</url></story> |
3,160,926 | 3,159,492 | 1 | 3 | 3,159,382 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>Regardless of what you think about the 37 Signals folks one bit of their advice has always struck me as being particularly insightful and powerful:<p>Sell your byproducts.<p>There are two very strong reasons to do this. First, it can be an excellent business. You've created something to solve some problem or remove some pain that your company is feeling, it's extremely unlikely that your company is so unique that it's pain isn't shared by other companies. And it's unlikely your internal tools would be of no interest or utility to other companies.<p>Second, internal tools are typically of terrible quality. There are various reasons for this but it's a very common pattern due to fundamental pressures and incentives. By selling internal tools you force them to have owners and you force them to have a quality sufficient to be acceptable to the market. This generally vastly increases their quality, which provides a benefit to everyone who uses them, including you.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don’t look now, but AWS might be a billion-dollar biz</title><url>http://gigaom.com/cloud/dont-look-now-but-aws-might-be-a-billion-dollar-biz/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>treeform</author><text>Not surprising, they brought cloud computing to the masses and are doing a pretty good job at it too.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don’t look now, but AWS might be a billion-dollar biz</title><url>http://gigaom.com/cloud/dont-look-now-but-aws-might-be-a-billion-dollar-biz/</url></story> |
39,359,475 | 39,359,839 | 1 | 2 | 39,358,509 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>basisword</author><text>It should be illegal for them to call it full self drive. It&#x27;s 100% false advertising not to mention the &#x27;danger&#x27; that people will assume it is what it says it is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ra7</author><text>As I said in another comment, these two were idiots driving drunk. Let&#x27;s get that out of the way.<p>The bigger issue here is how this deniability is all too convenient for Tesla. The process goes like this:<p>1. Ship a clearly half baked system called &quot;Full Self Driving&quot;.<p>2. Require driver&#x27;s hands on the wheel at all times.<p>3. Be <i>extremely non-transparent</i> about your system&#x27;s safety. Tesla&#x27;s crash reports in the public NHTSA database contains absolutely no details. Everything is redacted, we can&#x27;t even know if the crash happened with FSD or with plain old Autopilot [1]. This is in stark contrast to the reports filed by driverless companies like Waymo and Cruise to the CA DMV [2], which Tesla refuses to do.<p>Also publish a &quot;safety report&quot; that&#x27;s entirely marketing BS, which doesn&#x27;t control for many factors (highway vs city streets, geography, time of day, age of cars, safety features, demographics) and hence is not apples-to-apples. Claim it&#x27;s &quot;safer than humans&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhtsa.gov&#x2F;laws-regulations&#x2F;standing-general-order-crash-reporting#data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhtsa.gov&#x2F;laws-regulations&#x2F;standing-general-orde...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&#x2F;autonomous-vehicles&#x2F;autonomous-vehicle-collision-reports&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&#x2F;auto...</a><p>4. When an accident happens, just say it&#x27;s the driver&#x27;s fault and that they should&#x27;ve known it&#x27;s just an L2 system.<p>5. Tweet about FSD vN+1 that&#x27;s going to totally bring Full Self Driving by end of the year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first 'Full Self-Driving' fatality</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/tesla-full-self-driving-fatal-crash/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xenadu02</author><text>Full disclosure: participated in Tesla&#x27;s IPO, own a Tesla.<p>Tesla should be doing two things that would greatly reduce their liability while also keeping customers happy. Overall I think it wouldn&#x27;t change the number of people buying into FSD anyway so there wouldn&#x27;t be much downside for them.<p>1. Offer refunds for those for paid for FSD. Full refund until FSD has been enabled for a year and used more than N times, prorated after that based on usage. That gives existing customers a window to try it out and get their money back if they don&#x27;t like it, with a full refund if they only tried it out or a partial refund even if they used the feature a lot.<p>2. Be clearer in their marketing and on the purchase page about the feature. Sell your vision of it but also be honest about the current state of it. IMHO it isn&#x27;t that hard of a sell to most customers but you&#x27;d be setting accurate expectations. Tech-aware people or those of us into EV tech are aware of FSD&#x27;s limits but you are only going to disappoint people if they think FSD really is capable of full unattended self driving right now. That only hurts your brand and erodes trust. You can&#x27;t hide the details in 6-point lawyerese and expect customers to be happy with you.<p>I was aware of the limits of FSD when we bought the car and considered it an investment in the future... but I don&#x27;t use it often and told my spouse not to either. It is a beta feature and must be used with care.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ra7</author><text>As I said in another comment, these two were idiots driving drunk. Let&#x27;s get that out of the way.<p>The bigger issue here is how this deniability is all too convenient for Tesla. The process goes like this:<p>1. Ship a clearly half baked system called &quot;Full Self Driving&quot;.<p>2. Require driver&#x27;s hands on the wheel at all times.<p>3. Be <i>extremely non-transparent</i> about your system&#x27;s safety. Tesla&#x27;s crash reports in the public NHTSA database contains absolutely no details. Everything is redacted, we can&#x27;t even know if the crash happened with FSD or with plain old Autopilot [1]. This is in stark contrast to the reports filed by driverless companies like Waymo and Cruise to the CA DMV [2], which Tesla refuses to do.<p>Also publish a &quot;safety report&quot; that&#x27;s entirely marketing BS, which doesn&#x27;t control for many factors (highway vs city streets, geography, time of day, age of cars, safety features, demographics) and hence is not apples-to-apples. Claim it&#x27;s &quot;safer than humans&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhtsa.gov&#x2F;laws-regulations&#x2F;standing-general-order-crash-reporting#data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhtsa.gov&#x2F;laws-regulations&#x2F;standing-general-orde...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&#x2F;autonomous-vehicles&#x2F;autonomous-vehicle-collision-reports&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&#x2F;auto...</a><p>4. When an accident happens, just say it&#x27;s the driver&#x27;s fault and that they should&#x27;ve known it&#x27;s just an L2 system.<p>5. Tweet about FSD vN+1 that&#x27;s going to totally bring Full Self Driving by end of the year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first 'Full Self-Driving' fatality</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/tesla-full-self-driving-fatal-crash/</url></story> |
33,027,377 | 33,026,053 | 1 | 2 | 33,024,748 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pron</author><text>&gt; How would I implement this logic in my own libraries?<p>There&#x27;s no need to if your code is in Java. We had to change low-level I&#x2F;O in the JDK because it drops down to native.<p>That&#x27;s not to say every Java library is virtual-thread-friendly. For one, there&#x27;s the issue of pinning (see the JEP) that might require small changes (right now the problem is most common in JDBC drivers, but they&#x27;re already working on addressing it). The bigger issue, mostly in low-level frameworks, is implicit assumptions about a small number of shared threads, whereas virtual threads are plentiful and are never pooled, so they&#x27;re never shared. An example of such an issue is in Netty, where they allocate very large <i>native</i> buffers and cache them in ThreadLocals, which assumes that the number of threads is low, and that they&#x27;re reused by lots of tasks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ccooffee</author><text>This is a great writeup, and reignites my interest in Java. (I&#x27;ve long considered &quot;Java Concurrency in Practice&quot; to be the _best_ Java book ever written.)<p>I haven&#x27;t been able to figure out how the &quot;unmount&quot; of a virtual thread works. As stated in this article:<p>&gt; Nearly all blocking points in the JDK have been adapted so that when encountering a blocking operation on a virtual thread, the virtual thread is unmounted from its carrier instead of blocking.<p>How would I implement this logic in my own libraries? The underlying JEP 425[0] doesn&#x27;t seem to list any explicit APIs for that, but it does give other details not in the OP writeup.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.org&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;425" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.org&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;425</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Virtual Threads: New Foundations for High-Scale Java Applications</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-virtual-threads/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ecshafer</author><text>Java Concurrency in Practice is a fantastic book. I had DL as a professor for about a half dozen courses in undergrad, including Concurrent and Parallel Programming. Absolutely fantastic professor, with a lot of insight into how parallel programming really works at the language level. One of the best courses I&#x27;ve taken.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ccooffee</author><text>This is a great writeup, and reignites my interest in Java. (I&#x27;ve long considered &quot;Java Concurrency in Practice&quot; to be the _best_ Java book ever written.)<p>I haven&#x27;t been able to figure out how the &quot;unmount&quot; of a virtual thread works. As stated in this article:<p>&gt; Nearly all blocking points in the JDK have been adapted so that when encountering a blocking operation on a virtual thread, the virtual thread is unmounted from its carrier instead of blocking.<p>How would I implement this logic in my own libraries? The underlying JEP 425[0] doesn&#x27;t seem to list any explicit APIs for that, but it does give other details not in the OP writeup.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.org&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;425" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.org&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;425</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Virtual Threads: New Foundations for High-Scale Java Applications</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-virtual-threads/</url></story> |
18,590,309 | 18,590,178 | 1 | 3 | 18,589,555 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>papayawhip</author><text>I feel the strong need to point out some of these settings will break Firefox in subtle and hard to understand ways. There’s a reason you “void the warranty” when tweaking the about:config preferences. No rule against it, but just watch out. (Mozilla employee)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox Profilemaker</title><url>https://ffprofile.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>nicoburns</author><text>I wish Firefox exposed a better UI for it&#x27;s profiles. It seems like a really powerful feature that is much less useful than it might be due to poor ergonomics...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox Profilemaker</title><url>https://ffprofile.com/</url></story> |
35,697,951 | 35,697,861 | 1 | 2 | 35,690,576 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sam_goody</author><text>Fun. But missing references to the other well known but never used variety - the heifer.<p>You know, as you drive through Montana and you say, &quot;wow, what a cute heifer there, next to that ox&quot;.<p>(And the driver forgets to steer)<p>OT: I was standing next a few freely roaming cows last week, and I was reminded just how awesomely huge and powerful these animals are.<p>I have never seen a `matador`, but it blows my mind that he doesn&#x27;t become `a door mat` instead, after a run in with the bull.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ox</title><url>https://sesquiotic.com/2023/04/20/ox/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pavlov</author><text>In the word &quot;aurochs&quot;, the &quot;aur&quot; prefix is the same as German &quot;ur&quot; indicating beginning or origin.<p>(To beer drinkers around the world it may be familiar in the name of Pilsner Urquell, the original pale lager. Quell means source.)<p>So aurochs is literally &quot;original ox&quot;. I don&#x27;t think there is any other English word that preserves this prefix.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ox</title><url>https://sesquiotic.com/2023/04/20/ox/</url></story> |
9,017,730 | 9,017,343 | 1 | 2 | 9,017,030 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>intopieces</author><text>You&#x27;re a technologically savvy person who keeps up with privacy news. At issue here is the precedent set: more and more devices by default transmit private information to third party servers without the knowledge of the users. Further, people who do not intend to be users (i.e., guests in a home with a SmartTV) suddenly are having their private information scooped up and stored without their consent. It requires a level of vigilance that not every person will have. Do I need to ask my host if they have a SmartTV with this function?</text><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>&gt; You may disable Voice Recognition data collection at any time by visiting the “settings” menu. However, this may prevent you from using all of the Voice Recognition features.<p>from here: <a href="https://www.samsung.com/uk/info/privacy-SmartTV.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samsung.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;info&#x2F;privacy-SmartTV.html</a><p>So, disable it. I don&#x27;t understand everybody&#x27;s fascination with voice recognition. I don&#x27;t find it more convenient at all. I&#x27;d much rather just push a button. It&#x27;s really not that complicated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung Global Privacy Policy - SmartTV Supplement</title><url>https://www.samsung.com/uk/info/privacy-SmartTV.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>learnstats2</author><text>It used to be the case that a service would politely ask you whether or not they could collect data about you, and would provide the same service in both cases.<p>This option (to minimise data collection&#x2F;retention) ought to be enshrined in law.<p>If you pay (or not) for a service, you should be able to get the service without the expectation of your personal and private data being harvested.</text><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>&gt; You may disable Voice Recognition data collection at any time by visiting the “settings” menu. However, this may prevent you from using all of the Voice Recognition features.<p>from here: <a href="https://www.samsung.com/uk/info/privacy-SmartTV.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samsung.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;info&#x2F;privacy-SmartTV.html</a><p>So, disable it. I don&#x27;t understand everybody&#x27;s fascination with voice recognition. I don&#x27;t find it more convenient at all. I&#x27;d much rather just push a button. It&#x27;s really not that complicated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung Global Privacy Policy - SmartTV Supplement</title><url>https://www.samsung.com/uk/info/privacy-SmartTV.html</url></story> |
22,714,581 | 22,714,586 | 1 | 2 | 22,713,800 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jiofih</author><text>From the linked paper:<p>&gt; the effect of chronic irradiation with a high dose of 222-nm UVC to mammalian cells has not been determined<p>Please be careful in announcing new truths based on your interpretation of a couple papers. That’s not how science is done.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ebg13</author><text>Yes AND, despite the mongering in this article, UVC wavelengths below 222nm have been found to be safe to mammalian skin.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5552051&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5552051&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosone&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal.pone.0201259" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosone&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Can you kill coronavirus with UV light?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200327-can-you-kill-coronavirus-with-uv-light</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boomboomsubban</author><text>The tests on the SARS virus used 254nm wavelengths, which deactivated the virus in fifteen minutes. Your sources both say that that length causes severe damage, and both only tested 222nm&#x27;s ability to kill bacteria. A conclusive &quot;yes&quot; would need testing done on a virus with the 222nm length.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ebg13</author><text>Yes AND, despite the mongering in this article, UVC wavelengths below 222nm have been found to be safe to mammalian skin.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5552051&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5552051&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosone&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal.pone.0201259" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosone&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Can you kill coronavirus with UV light?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200327-can-you-kill-coronavirus-with-uv-light</url></story> |
26,132,425 | 26,131,059 | 1 | 2 | 26,129,190 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>KajMagnus</author><text>&gt; <i>Someone (I think uncle bob) said that good code is self-documenting, which is bs in 95% of the cases</i><p>Agreed. For example, comments about Why-do-this, and Why-Not-do-that can be necessary, even if the code shows <i>what</i> happens.<p>Imagine you&#x27;re in a taxi, and it suddenly takes the wrong turn, now instead heading towards <i>Surprise-City</i>. Then — you know <i>what</i> is happening. You&#x27;re going to <i>Surprise-City</i>.<p>But would&#x27;t you also want to know <i>Why</i>?<p>So then it&#x27;s nice if the taxi driver explains Why: &quot;I buy milk to kitten.&quot;<p>I think the &#x27;Linux kernel coding style&#x27; explains comments pretty well:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kernel.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;v4.10&#x2F;process&#x2F;coding-style.html#commenting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kernel.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;v4.10&#x2F;process&#x2F;coding-style.h...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sydd</author><text>&gt; Code comments? Nah.<p>This is one of my biggest gripes. Someone (I think uncle bob) said that good code is self-documenting, which is bs in 95% of the cases. Yeah, you don&#x27;t need to document the convertMinsToSecs() method, but most real life codebases are full with edge cases, shortcuts, temporary solutions, half-complete reorganizations. So people use this for writing no comments at all, whereas a few words of comments would save hours of investigative work for future developers working on the codebase.</text></item><item><author>bluefirebrand</author><text>This is a great article. I felt like it was describing a job I recently left, especially this piece:<p>&gt; It’s fine to have less experienced people working on a large system as long as they have the elders overseeing their work. In the world where senior titles are handed left and right, that is often not the case and it’s how you end up with a very fragile system that is suitable for a replacement as soon as it was built<p>Then I got to the advice part of the article and had to laugh.<p>Read the documentation? What documentation. Not a single scrap existed.<p>Look at the tests? I&#x27;d love to, but they never wrote any.<p>Code comments? Nah.<p>Use the IDE for intellisense? Great idea except the database models are in a different project so the furthest you can get is the compiled definitions that were copied into this project.<p>The method that eventually kind of worked was &quot;use the debugger for absolutely everything.&quot;<p>It was honestly one of the most miserable experiences I have ever had.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On navigating a large codebase</title><url>https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/on-navigating-a-large-codebase/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spinningslate</author><text>my priority for comments is that they should answer &quot;why?&quot; and &quot;why not?&quot; questions. Why does the method&#x2F;function do it this way? Why didn&#x27;t it choose that other, perhaps more obvious route?<p>That&#x27;s not necessary in every case. But it&#x27;s true in a good number of them. The code alone can never tell you that - but it&#x27;s often invaluable during evolution&#x2F;refactoring.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sydd</author><text>&gt; Code comments? Nah.<p>This is one of my biggest gripes. Someone (I think uncle bob) said that good code is self-documenting, which is bs in 95% of the cases. Yeah, you don&#x27;t need to document the convertMinsToSecs() method, but most real life codebases are full with edge cases, shortcuts, temporary solutions, half-complete reorganizations. So people use this for writing no comments at all, whereas a few words of comments would save hours of investigative work for future developers working on the codebase.</text></item><item><author>bluefirebrand</author><text>This is a great article. I felt like it was describing a job I recently left, especially this piece:<p>&gt; It’s fine to have less experienced people working on a large system as long as they have the elders overseeing their work. In the world where senior titles are handed left and right, that is often not the case and it’s how you end up with a very fragile system that is suitable for a replacement as soon as it was built<p>Then I got to the advice part of the article and had to laugh.<p>Read the documentation? What documentation. Not a single scrap existed.<p>Look at the tests? I&#x27;d love to, but they never wrote any.<p>Code comments? Nah.<p>Use the IDE for intellisense? Great idea except the database models are in a different project so the furthest you can get is the compiled definitions that were copied into this project.<p>The method that eventually kind of worked was &quot;use the debugger for absolutely everything.&quot;<p>It was honestly one of the most miserable experiences I have ever had.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On navigating a large codebase</title><url>https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/on-navigating-a-large-codebase/</url></story> |
355,866 | 355,861 | 1 | 3 | 355,819 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shimon</author><text>I wonder how much of the company's secrecy is a reaction to the expected illegality of placing these lawn signs. I see them frequently on municipal or state property, and I'm sure they are frequently removed by public works crews. If cities could easily find the person responsible and bring littering/vandalism/whatever fines against the parent company, this business model would be nonviable. I suspect the system of sub-companies, satellite offices, and probably "subcontractors" that this organization uses is basically an elaborate legal ruse. Like how the mafia never has the top guys do anything illegal.<p>Perhaps some ambitious state attorney general will bring these guys up on RICO charges. :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape</title><url>http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2008/11/06/single-lawn-signs-conquer-the-american-landscape/</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>ksvs</author><text>These signs are basically physical spam. They're also popular with the kind of scammers who buy old people's houses for cash, and 1-800-GOT-JUNK. I yank them out whenever I find them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape</title><url>http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2008/11/06/single-lawn-signs-conquer-the-american-landscape/</url><text></text></story> |
2,947,808 | 2,947,413 | 1 | 3 | 2,947,203 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>A1kmm</author><text>The biggest problem with the patent system is it discourages people from using patented ideas - the more patented ideas you use in your product (even if you independently discover them), the more you pay.<p>A good patent system would have the following properties:
* Investment and risk taking in R&#38;D and sharing the results is rewarded above the costs of that R&#38;D, so there is no disincentive to share with competitors.
* There is no disincentive to using and building on ideas shared by others.<p>I think the best system is a 'tax'-like system - alongside the existing patent system, businesses can elect to pay 10% of their revenues to a pool for immunity from all patents. Businesses using / reselling patented manufactured products are still liable even if the manufacturer pays the 10%, unless they also pay the 10%. Patent filers tell the pool the actual costs of R&#38;D (and may be audited to prove it). The pool is distributed based to patent filers based on R&#38;D costs (and maybe a per-industry factor for risk) - it might be better to somehow collect some rough metric of value of the each patent to their business from patent users, although there are risks of the system being gamed then.<p>This system would achieve the desired properties at 10% of all industry-wide research being spent on R&#38;D - it would favour not disclosing R&#38;D worth more than 10%, and if less than 10% was spent, it would be stacked in favour of companies doing R&#38;D.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beagle3</author><text>I disagree that this will help, because the established companies the pledge would apply to are a secondary problem and mostly seem to fight each other (has Microsoft asserted patents against a startup? has IBM? has AT&#38;T? when they asserted patents it was against multi-million dollar businesses!). The primary problem is patent trolls (see e.g. lodsys / intellectual ventures) for whom this pledge could be considered self-harm.<p>I will quote myself from [ <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855835" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855835</a> ] here for another solution, one that actually can _easily_ go through government (except for the intense lobbying against it by whoever enjoys the current patent regime); you can read there for some discussion if it is interesting. Quoth myself (with minor editing):<p>Intellectual "Property Tax". Have everyone declare the value of their intellectual "property" (patents, copyrights, trademarks) - each and every item, for that year, on their tax return, and have them pay 1% of the value as "IP tax", per year.<p>Clarification: you can set a different value every year. The value may drop to zero because a competitor's patent solves the problem better; or it may go up because it becomes essential to something that becomes commonplace.<p>That amount is what one pays for a compulsory license or if successfully sued, and up to 3 times that for willful infringement, per year -- and no more. (But of course, a patent owner can always negotiate a lower payment, as is done with music recordings that have compulsory license agreements)<p>All of a sudden, everyone has an incentive to state a reasonable value for their patent. Copyright catalogs that are not being published (old music recordings, old books, old movies) would be assigned 0 value by copyright holder, to avoid tax - which means anyone can freely make a copy. If they believe -- at the end of the year -- that someone is making a profit at their expense, they can set the value as high as they want at the end of that year, pay the tax, and sue the profiteer.<p>Simple, elegant, and coffer filling.<p>edit: put missing link<p>edit: added clarification about setting value each year anew.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Patent Pledge</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/patentpledge.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>jessriedel</author><text>To clarify: they can't adjust the value retroactively, right? If you find out someone is profiting from your patent in 2011 which you valued at zero the beginning of that year, you have to wait until 2012 to re-value (and potentially sue them), correct?</text><parent_chain><item><author>beagle3</author><text>I disagree that this will help, because the established companies the pledge would apply to are a secondary problem and mostly seem to fight each other (has Microsoft asserted patents against a startup? has IBM? has AT&#38;T? when they asserted patents it was against multi-million dollar businesses!). The primary problem is patent trolls (see e.g. lodsys / intellectual ventures) for whom this pledge could be considered self-harm.<p>I will quote myself from [ <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855835" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855835</a> ] here for another solution, one that actually can _easily_ go through government (except for the intense lobbying against it by whoever enjoys the current patent regime); you can read there for some discussion if it is interesting. Quoth myself (with minor editing):<p>Intellectual "Property Tax". Have everyone declare the value of their intellectual "property" (patents, copyrights, trademarks) - each and every item, for that year, on their tax return, and have them pay 1% of the value as "IP tax", per year.<p>Clarification: you can set a different value every year. The value may drop to zero because a competitor's patent solves the problem better; or it may go up because it becomes essential to something that becomes commonplace.<p>That amount is what one pays for a compulsory license or if successfully sued, and up to 3 times that for willful infringement, per year -- and no more. (But of course, a patent owner can always negotiate a lower payment, as is done with music recordings that have compulsory license agreements)<p>All of a sudden, everyone has an incentive to state a reasonable value for their patent. Copyright catalogs that are not being published (old music recordings, old books, old movies) would be assigned 0 value by copyright holder, to avoid tax - which means anyone can freely make a copy. If they believe -- at the end of the year -- that someone is making a profit at their expense, they can set the value as high as they want at the end of that year, pay the tax, and sue the profiteer.<p>Simple, elegant, and coffer filling.<p>edit: put missing link<p>edit: added clarification about setting value each year anew.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Patent Pledge</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/patentpledge.html</url></story> |
3,081,299 | 3,081,318 | 1 | 2 | 3,080,470 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>steveb</author><text>NeXT sold maybe 50,000 systems in 5 years, less than the number of PCs that a typical large company has stuffed in cubicles.<p>And from that small install base, emerged the first Web browser, Doom, and Mathematica.<p>They were amazing, if flawed products. Every system came with Mathematica, a full dictionary and the complete works of Shakespeare.<p>I remember having to go use Windows NT after NeXT failed in the market. And I remember, ten years later, holding the first iPhone in my hand and knowing where it came from.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stephen Wolfram on Steve Jobs: A Few Memories</title><url>http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-few-memories/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>I think he really nails the reason that so many people love Jobs:<p><i>"In my life, I have had the good fortune to interact with all sorts of talented people. To me, Steve Jobs stands out most for his clarity of thought. Over and over again he took complex situations, understood their essence, and used that understanding to make a bold definitive move, often in a completely unexpected direction.<p>I myself have spent much of my life—in science and in technology—trying to work in somewhat similar ways. And trying to build the very best possible things I can.<p>Yet looking at the practical world of technology and business there are certainly times when it has not been obvious that any of this is a good strategy. Indeed, sometimes it looks as if all that clarity, understanding, quality and new ideas aren’t really the point—and that the winners are those with quite different interests.<p>So for me—and our company—it has been immensely inspiring to watch Steve Jobs’s—and Apple’s—amazing success in recent years. It validates so many of the principles that I have long believed in. And encourages me to pursue them with even greater vigor."</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stephen Wolfram on Steve Jobs: A Few Memories</title><url>http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-few-memories/</url></story> |
17,064,102 | 17,061,618 | 1 | 3 | 17,061,026 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>repolfx</author><text>If you can make it past 8 to 9 then 9 to 10 and 10 to 11 are much easier.<p>The reason the community is struggling with Java 8 to Java 9 is that 9 broke a TON of stuff. It&#x27;s not backwards compatible at all. Basically every non-trivial app broke. The breakages are mostly in things that were technically never guaranteed, even trivial things like the version number went from &quot;1.8&quot; to &quot;9&quot; which makes sense but broke loads of programs that tried to parse the version.<p>But some of it is also just bad processes and habits in the community. Some of the programs that broke due to the version number change from 8 to 9 broke <i>again</i> from 9 to 10 just months later because they had enums that listed every possible version.... their codebase literally encoded the assumption that new major java releases hardly ever happened!</text><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>The rapid release cycle is going to pose challenges downstream for all the people developing tooling and other aspects of the ecosystem which are not used to moving that fast (eg: Groovy still grappling with the module changes to Java9, let alone 10 or 11). While we all griped about it for many years, the slow pace of Java evolution was in some ways one of it&#x27;s biggest features. I am curious to see whether the community starts to move fast too, or if actually what happens is that people completely ignore the non-LTS versions and we actually get an effective release cadence of 2-3 years or so in practice.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Java 10 and beyond – a look at the potential language change</title><url>https://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/java-10-and-beyond-a-look-at-the-potential-language-change/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jldugger</author><text>Hopefully the faster release cycle is tied with smaller changesets per release.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>The rapid release cycle is going to pose challenges downstream for all the people developing tooling and other aspects of the ecosystem which are not used to moving that fast (eg: Groovy still grappling with the module changes to Java9, let alone 10 or 11). While we all griped about it for many years, the slow pace of Java evolution was in some ways one of it&#x27;s biggest features. I am curious to see whether the community starts to move fast too, or if actually what happens is that people completely ignore the non-LTS versions and we actually get an effective release cadence of 2-3 years or so in practice.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Java 10 and beyond – a look at the potential language change</title><url>https://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/java-10-and-beyond-a-look-at-the-potential-language-change/</url></story> |
23,541,662 | 23,540,996 | 1 | 3 | 23,539,541 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>llimllib</author><text>If you&#x27;re interested in this, you might be interested in Datasette: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasette.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasette.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;</a><p>Which seems to me to be farther along in providing advanced querying&#x2F;faceting&#x2F;visualization&#x2F;sharing capabilities on top of sqlite.<p>(I love jupyter, and this kernel seems neat; not trying to throw stones at anybody, just to link a project in a similar domain)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Jupyter Kernel for SQLite</title><url>https://blog.jupyter.org/a-jupyter-kernel-for-sqlite-9549c5dcf551</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seemslegit</author><text>Cool hack, but probably wouldn&#x27;t install a separate kernel or run an entire notebook just for sqlite work.<p>What would be useful is for the kernel of your language of choice to provide a magic for sqlite and return results of queries in language-native data structures.<p>Something like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;ipython-sql&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;ipython-sql&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Jupyter Kernel for SQLite</title><url>https://blog.jupyter.org/a-jupyter-kernel-for-sqlite-9549c5dcf551</url></story> |
7,621,940 | 7,621,826 | 1 | 2 | 7,621,804 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sharkweek</author><text>At first I kind of rolled my eyes when I heard this show was coming out -- I was pretty certain I could fully predict most of the jokes that would be used for a cheap laugh.<p>But I like the characters, and the plot is pretty fun - it&#x27;s a show that&#x27;s easy to watch and enjoy for those of us that don&#x27;t take much too seriously.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pied Piper</title><url>http://www.piedpiper.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>minimaxir</author><text>Context: this is the official in-universe website for the central startup in HBO&#x27;s &quot;Silicon Valley.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pied Piper</title><url>http://www.piedpiper.com/</url></story> |
27,451,227 | 27,451,002 | 1 | 3 | 27,450,670 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vinhboy</author><text>&gt; Say a corporation issues equity to the wealthy, but instead of spending the proceeds on research or equipment, puts that money into a time deposit at a bank, which in turn uses it to fund a mortgage for a less-affluent household.<p>Am I understanding this correctly? They are saying that because corporations are saving more, the savings become money that can be loaned to people, and because there is more money to loan, the price of everything goes up, therefore hurting the poor unintentionally? That&#x27;s pretty interesting.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Research suggests that when the rich bank, the rest borrow</title><url>https://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2021/article/how-1-percent-s-savings-buried-middle-class-debt</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pmoriarty</author><text><i>&quot;Ideally, all those savings would be channeled into productive investments such as research and development, or practical equipment, or new roads, or even new
yachts--investments that would promote growth in the economy.&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s important to keep in mind that even when that money is spent, there&#x27;s no guarantee it&#x27;ll be spent domestically.<p>Just as an example, Jeff Bezos bought his $500 million superyacht from Oceanco, a Dutch yachtmaker.<p>Increasingly, the ultra-rich are, like many of the companies they control, multinational.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Research suggests that when the rich bank, the rest borrow</title><url>https://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2021/article/how-1-percent-s-savings-buried-middle-class-debt</url></story> |
22,449,919 | 22,449,610 | 1 | 3 | 22,449,314 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcintyre1994</author><text>I used to think this every time I downloaded a free mobile game. Probably 90%+ of ads in mobile games were for other free mobile games that presumably also have the same ad-supported model and the same sort of advertisers. It feels like there&#x27;s a few games making heaps from IAPs and everyone else is just advertising in a pyramid toward them while also using IAPs in a way that makes their own game basically unplayable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>matsemann</author><text>Not exactly the same, but I have sometimes wondered how many startups are just burning other startups&#x27; money, and would collapse if VCs tightened the belt.<p>For instance, startup X seems profitable but all revenue is from other startups not making money yet. Like a big ponzi scheme of sorts. Most products mentioned in the article are now mainstream, but for lots of them a few years back they were small and only used by other small startups.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools</title><url>https://acrossapp.com/blog/how-a-2-person-startup-already-uses-28-other-tools</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fyfy18</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it adds up to that much, compared to the cost of developers. Where I live in Eastern Europe, a single mid-level developer would cost at least $5k&#x2F;mo once you take into account taxes, office space and benefits. In SV I guess you are talking well over $20k&#x2F;mo. $20k&#x2F;mo is a lot of software.</text><parent_chain><item><author>matsemann</author><text>Not exactly the same, but I have sometimes wondered how many startups are just burning other startups&#x27; money, and would collapse if VCs tightened the belt.<p>For instance, startup X seems profitable but all revenue is from other startups not making money yet. Like a big ponzi scheme of sorts. Most products mentioned in the article are now mainstream, but for lots of them a few years back they were small and only used by other small startups.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools</title><url>https://acrossapp.com/blog/how-a-2-person-startup-already-uses-28-other-tools</url></story> |
21,880,447 | 21,879,388 | 1 | 2 | 21,878,780 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>knzhou</author><text>&gt; For example, my assignments are now largely due at midnight, at a very particular second: submit a nanosecond late at your own penalty.<p>From the instructor&#x27;s point of view, there&#x27;s no winning here -- there will always be a cutoff, and <i>any</i> position of it will lead to complaints. Even for an informal system, there&#x27;s always a last person allowed in, and hence a cutoff.<p>If you have a good reason for an extension, you can still get it. But there&#x27;s no reason anybody needs, specifically, the extra second after a formal deadline. If the deadline were moved to a second after midnight, you would try to submit two seconds after midnight and complain, and so on. (I mean, why do you think deadlines are at midnight in the first place? Because in-person collection would stop working at 5 PM, leading to complaints, so deadlines were extended to midnight to let people work at night.)<p>This is pointless slippage, and the resolution from the student side is so easy. Just pretend every deadline is 5 minutes earlier than it actually is, and you&#x27;ll never have problems.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mod50ack</author><text>I&#x27;m a college student myself (my university, as far as I&#x27;m aware, has no system such as this). As far as I&#x27;m concerned, it&#x27;s both an insidious creep of social-credit policy and a gross invasion of student privacy. It treats us as children rather than as the adults we are, and seems to me to be a sign of the re-infantalization of colleges. Many generations ago, when the age of majority was for the most part higher, colleges acted in loco parentis for their minor undergraduates. It was during the twentieth century that college students came to be recognized as real adults. But now it seems that the coddling has in many ways increased, and some find it fit again, as one sees here, to surveil us like children.<p>Further, while there have been obvious benefits of technological advancement, they have in large part erased informal procedures and social understanding in favor of a rigid and unforgiving process. For example, my assignments are now largely due at midnight, at a very particular second: submit a nanosecond late at your own penalty. Whereas in the past the common practice of most professors would be along the lines of &quot;get it in my mailbox by 4 p.m.&quot;, or something like that, but with the informal understanding that at 4:00:00.0...1, the door of the mailbox would not close and chop off your hand. And exceptions to rules were easier to get before the arbiter of the rules became a severe and unfeeling one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/24/colleges-are-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-machines-tracking-locations-hundreds-thousands/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>threatofrain</author><text>I don&#x27;t think those informal understandings should stay so informal. If it&#x27;s the fact that having your paper due by 4:20 is fine, then let it be 4:20, although the midnight deadline is likely something most people wouldn&#x27;t do if they had to collect submissions in person, and so in this scenario we have automation possibly enabling more flexibility in student schedules. If students need extra room to pass the bar and it is a meaningful relaxation of rules, then let it be known so that the matter can be studied.<p>Why? Because empathy at scale works in ways which breeds hostility among groups and it creates an unhealthy incentive to compete over a teacher; it&#x27;s not really reasonable to expect people to be immune to race or class or sex. Further, if the rules are strict then people need to know rather than _some_ people getting the discretionary treatment and others not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mod50ack</author><text>I&#x27;m a college student myself (my university, as far as I&#x27;m aware, has no system such as this). As far as I&#x27;m concerned, it&#x27;s both an insidious creep of social-credit policy and a gross invasion of student privacy. It treats us as children rather than as the adults we are, and seems to me to be a sign of the re-infantalization of colleges. Many generations ago, when the age of majority was for the most part higher, colleges acted in loco parentis for their minor undergraduates. It was during the twentieth century that college students came to be recognized as real adults. But now it seems that the coddling has in many ways increased, and some find it fit again, as one sees here, to surveil us like children.<p>Further, while there have been obvious benefits of technological advancement, they have in large part erased informal procedures and social understanding in favor of a rigid and unforgiving process. For example, my assignments are now largely due at midnight, at a very particular second: submit a nanosecond late at your own penalty. Whereas in the past the common practice of most professors would be along the lines of &quot;get it in my mailbox by 4 p.m.&quot;, or something like that, but with the informal understanding that at 4:00:00.0...1, the door of the mailbox would not close and chop off your hand. And exceptions to rules were easier to get before the arbiter of the rules became a severe and unfeeling one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/24/colleges-are-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-machines-tracking-locations-hundreds-thousands/</url></story> |
28,796,389 | 28,795,540 | 1 | 3 | 28,794,352 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moksly</author><text>I think this is on point. We once had an issue with open street maps, that caused our routing system to not be capable of directing citizens and employees to the second biggest municipality in our country because a one way street had the wrong direction marked in OSM by mistake.<p>This had a huge impact on us. With thousands of employees and citizens calling our IT support staff of 5 people every day.<p>When I used our OSM official “City off X” account to fix it, I was an utter idiot and submitted both a real life picture I took myself as well as a Google maps and a krak maps (Danish map service) screenshots. I didn’t know this wasn’t legal, because I was an idiot, but it resulted in our fix getting reversed and a week long discussion with the OSM community members about fixing the damn street.<p>We made the street one way. But we couldn’t fix it in an OSS map service because the community wouldn’t let us because we made a stupid mistake.<p>We’ve now switched our services to Krak. But I can promise you that if we had, had the admin power to force our chance through during those days, we wouldn’t have given any regards to the OSS community.<p>If an popular tool wasn’t working within the .Net framework CLA I imagine the process would be somewhat similar inside Microsoft.<p>It’s just one of those things where the OSS community processes and Enterprise process of “get this fixed right now, at any cost by any means, ignoring every standard we may have, just get it fixed, now. Then make sure it never happens again.” that happens every now and then when the beast awakens, clashes. I’m not sure how you can avoid it, as Enterprise will never want to comply with OSS processes when it’s in a hurry.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Permit</author><text>Many projects joined the .NET Foundation after it was created. It didn&#x27;t really do anything for them (I think they basically sponsor meetups), but it wasn&#x27;t harming anyone either.<p>The .NET Foundation asked for owner access on the author&#x27;s repository (for a CLA bot). The author declined and a workaround was organized.<p>Years later the .NET Foundation asked for &quot;owner access&quot; on the author&#x27;s repository (to allow them enforce Code of Conduct across all repositories). The author declined.<p>The CLA bot stopped working. The author was told it would work if he gave it owner access. The author was annoyed because they previously had a workaround. They gave in and gave @dnfadmin owner access (temporarily, it was later revoked after the CLA bot was set up, thanks &#x2F;u&#x2F;ethbr0 for the correction).<p>Some time later the author realized that the project had now been silently moved to GitHub Enterprise (likely in the short window @dnfadmin had owner access). The author states that projects in GitHub Enterprise can be entirely controlled by the owner of the account (the .NET Foundation). This transfer happened silently.<p>Independently, this happened to another project (who had coincidentally had an issue with a Microsoft employee and former contributor force a pull-request into their project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactiveui&#x2F;splat&#x2F;pull&#x2F;778" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactiveui&#x2F;splat&#x2F;pull&#x2F;778</a>). The change itself seems innocuous, but the approach bothered people.<p>People are upset because of how tone-deaf all of this is. They would like the .NET Foundation to stop trying to gain complete control over the member projects. They would especially like for their projects not to have their ownership changed silently.<p>Edit: For the record, I do not believe this is part of some embrace, extend, extinguish plan on behalf of Microsoft. I think these accusations actually cheapen what has happened here. I suspect this was more of a &quot;can we make this process easier and more convenient for the .NET Foundation&quot;-type thing.<p>The people involved with this will have to do some soul searching. The .NET Foundation should operate in service of its member projects, not the other way around.</text></item><item><author>zippergz</author><text>I&#x27;m not trying to be lazy (ok maybe a little bit), but can someone please provide like a 3-4 sentence summary of what happened? Everything I&#x27;ve seen on this either assumes you already know, or is very long and rambly, or both.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha</title><url>https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2021/10/6/how-the-.net-foundation-kerfuffle-became-a-brouhaha/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ethbr0</author><text>&gt; <i>They gave in and gave @dnfadmin owner access</i><p><i>Temporarily</i> gave @dnfadmin access, is my read.<p>&gt; <i>&quot;The .NET Foundation had admin access to the WiX Toolset organization for a week, not more than a week ago&quot;</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>Permit</author><text>Many projects joined the .NET Foundation after it was created. It didn&#x27;t really do anything for them (I think they basically sponsor meetups), but it wasn&#x27;t harming anyone either.<p>The .NET Foundation asked for owner access on the author&#x27;s repository (for a CLA bot). The author declined and a workaround was organized.<p>Years later the .NET Foundation asked for &quot;owner access&quot; on the author&#x27;s repository (to allow them enforce Code of Conduct across all repositories). The author declined.<p>The CLA bot stopped working. The author was told it would work if he gave it owner access. The author was annoyed because they previously had a workaround. They gave in and gave @dnfadmin owner access (temporarily, it was later revoked after the CLA bot was set up, thanks &#x2F;u&#x2F;ethbr0 for the correction).<p>Some time later the author realized that the project had now been silently moved to GitHub Enterprise (likely in the short window @dnfadmin had owner access). The author states that projects in GitHub Enterprise can be entirely controlled by the owner of the account (the .NET Foundation). This transfer happened silently.<p>Independently, this happened to another project (who had coincidentally had an issue with a Microsoft employee and former contributor force a pull-request into their project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactiveui&#x2F;splat&#x2F;pull&#x2F;778" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactiveui&#x2F;splat&#x2F;pull&#x2F;778</a>). The change itself seems innocuous, but the approach bothered people.<p>People are upset because of how tone-deaf all of this is. They would like the .NET Foundation to stop trying to gain complete control over the member projects. They would especially like for their projects not to have their ownership changed silently.<p>Edit: For the record, I do not believe this is part of some embrace, extend, extinguish plan on behalf of Microsoft. I think these accusations actually cheapen what has happened here. I suspect this was more of a &quot;can we make this process easier and more convenient for the .NET Foundation&quot;-type thing.<p>The people involved with this will have to do some soul searching. The .NET Foundation should operate in service of its member projects, not the other way around.</text></item><item><author>zippergz</author><text>I&#x27;m not trying to be lazy (ok maybe a little bit), but can someone please provide like a 3-4 sentence summary of what happened? Everything I&#x27;ve seen on this either assumes you already know, or is very long and rambly, or both.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha</title><url>https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2021/10/6/how-the-.net-foundation-kerfuffle-became-a-brouhaha/</url></story> |
12,953,438 | 12,953,609 | 1 | 3 | 12,953,002 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>julienchastang</author><text>As a regular watcher of the PBS NewsHour and occasionally Washington Week, I&#x27;ll miss Gwen&#x27;s smile, sharp wit, and humor. RIP.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gwen Ifill has died</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/business/media/gwen-ifill-dies.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>anigbrowl</author><text>More than just a reporter, she has been the managing editor of PBS&#x27; two most prestigious news programs for many years. A dreadful loss.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gwen Ifill has died</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/business/media/gwen-ifill-dies.html</url></story> |
27,936,323 | 27,935,794 | 1 | 2 | 27,931,562 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>khazhoux</author><text>I can understand why the style may seem offputting, but the thing to understand is that it has been traditionally very hard to engage with the public on this topic of robotic advancement. In fact, I know a bit about this myself, having been in the robotics space for over a decade. But my own struggles in the field only reflect a longer trend, which I can even trace back to my grandfather.<p>Growing up in a strict Lutheran household in the southwest England town of Flenkelshire, Elias Nathaniel &quot;Kazoo&quot; Pendleton III did not immediately stand out among his peers. Born with dull red hair, one leg three inches shorter than the other, and shoulders that somehow resembled cornish hens, young Elias was a frequent target for the town bullies. A child at that time has only three options: fight harder, run faster, or invent some kind of device that would enable him to escape his tormentors. Luckily (by chance or by fate), Flenkelshire was home to a radio-electronics store, <i>Bundleron&#x27;s Radio and Horseshoe Supplies</i>, which gave young Elias just the right ingredients to hatch his escape plan. And hatch a plan he did, though it would take twenty years for the town to understand exactly what had happened.<p>The first trap was set in the Fall of 1951. Winston Churchill had returned to power. The Festival of Britain had just wrapped up and lit the imagination of attendees and non-attendees alike. And Elias Nathaniel &quot;Kazoo&quot; Pendleton III, now well-armed with a stock of electronics, metalwork, and several years of intense study, went into action...</text><parent_chain><item><author>okareaman</author><text>I really dislike this writing structure of &quot;before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life&quot;<p>Edit: I&#x27;m not alone, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;style.mla.org&#x2F;dont-bury-the-lede&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;style.mla.org&#x2F;dont-bury-the-lede&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company</title><url>https://blog.x.company/introducing-intrinsic-1cf35b87651</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lanewinfield</author><text>You will not be a fan of recipe blogs anywhere on the internet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>okareaman</author><text>I really dislike this writing structure of &quot;before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life&quot;<p>Edit: I&#x27;m not alone, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;style.mla.org&#x2F;dont-bury-the-lede&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;style.mla.org&#x2F;dont-bury-the-lede&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company</title><url>https://blog.x.company/introducing-intrinsic-1cf35b87651</url></story> |
22,327,732 | 22,327,646 | 1 | 3 | 22,327,414 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jws</author><text><i>Testing phones from 5 millimeters away from the body may seem close, but for anyone carrying their phone in a pocket, the distance is closer to 2 millimeters. Because wireless power falls off exponentially with distance, what might be a safe amount of RF exposure at 5 millimeters could be much higher at 2 millimeters.</i><p>They mean to say that you should expect a power about 6 times higher, (5^2 &#x2F; 2^2). This is rubbish.<p>The square of the distance model is for a pair of points. Phones in pockets at such closed distances are more closely modeled by a pair of infinite planes where the power falls off not at all. The real result will be in between, but very much closer to 1 than 6.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 Pro exceeds the FCC's limit</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/radio-frequency-exposure-test-iphone-11-pro-double-fcc-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>zitterbewegung</author><text>This an advertisement for their RF phone cases. In the article the premise is refuted.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 Pro exceeds the FCC's limit</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/radio-frequency-exposure-test-iphone-11-pro-double-fcc-limits</url></story> |
33,445,517 | 33,443,564 | 1 | 3 | 33,436,268 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ahepp</author><text>&gt; it siphons away a new gen of systems programmers over to another lang allowing me to sell my dark services for more coins<p>I&#x27;ve always been curious about whether it really works this way. First order, one would consider supply and demand leading to increased wages. But whenever I&#x27;ve looked into the reports of &quot;COBOL programmers are getting paid a fortune because there are so few of them alive!&quot;, the reality has been that wages are ... unimpressive.<p>My hypothesis is that as the talent pool shifts elsewhere, the market dries up. For instance, new projects aren&#x27;t started in COBOL any more (well, at least anywhere I&#x27;ve seen...). You&#x27;re left doing maintenance on ancient systems, where the calculus is always &quot;this needs to be cheaper than a new solution&quot;. Maybe it&#x27;s the &quot;liquidity&quot; of the job market for a given language?</text><parent_chain><item><author>intelVISA</author><text>As a C++ enjoyer I would 100% have learned Rust if it was around when I started... just for Cargo alone.<p>Problem is now I&#x27;ve already done my time in the Makefile trenches there&#x27;s little incentive in me re-learning another systems lang and having to compete with lots of smarter people, with more Rust exp, for jobs whilst giving up all my arcane knowledge of CMake and friends.<p>Rust being popular atm is great for C++ if I&#x27;m honest as it siphons away a new gen of systems programmers over to another lang allowing me to sell my dark services for more coins.</text></item><item><author>rychco</author><text>I’ll offer a perspective unrelated to pay: It’s a pain to start learning C++, and even after you do, older devs will roast the hell out of your code because your book&#x2F;tutorials of choice forgot to mention a crucial (in their opinion) feature that you absolutely should&#x2F;shouldn’t use! Not to mention you’ve only programmed on Mac&#x2F;Linux so far &amp; windows is totally different, has a different compiler, different ways to install libraries, different C++ standard features supported, etc.<p>I like C++, and tooling has come a long way, but it’s so much easier to download rust&#x2F;Python&#x2F;node and you’re basically set on every platform &amp; immediately ready to go. NOW consider pay, and even someone enthusiastic about programming C++ will reconsider.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry</title><url>https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/11/why-is-there-a-drought-in-the-talent-pool-for-c-developers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chaostheory</author><text>I wonder how the Cobol market is doing?</text><parent_chain><item><author>intelVISA</author><text>As a C++ enjoyer I would 100% have learned Rust if it was around when I started... just for Cargo alone.<p>Problem is now I&#x27;ve already done my time in the Makefile trenches there&#x27;s little incentive in me re-learning another systems lang and having to compete with lots of smarter people, with more Rust exp, for jobs whilst giving up all my arcane knowledge of CMake and friends.<p>Rust being popular atm is great for C++ if I&#x27;m honest as it siphons away a new gen of systems programmers over to another lang allowing me to sell my dark services for more coins.</text></item><item><author>rychco</author><text>I’ll offer a perspective unrelated to pay: It’s a pain to start learning C++, and even after you do, older devs will roast the hell out of your code because your book&#x2F;tutorials of choice forgot to mention a crucial (in their opinion) feature that you absolutely should&#x2F;shouldn’t use! Not to mention you’ve only programmed on Mac&#x2F;Linux so far &amp; windows is totally different, has a different compiler, different ways to install libraries, different C++ standard features supported, etc.<p>I like C++, and tooling has come a long way, but it’s so much easier to download rust&#x2F;Python&#x2F;node and you’re basically set on every platform &amp; immediately ready to go. NOW consider pay, and even someone enthusiastic about programming C++ will reconsider.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry</title><url>https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/11/why-is-there-a-drought-in-the-talent-pool-for-c-developers</url></story> |
18,383,705 | 18,381,921 | 1 | 2 | 18,378,332 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zgramana</author><text>Microsoft skeptics fail to realize that most of the mid- and upper-level executives increasingly spent their entire career using, creating, and contributing to F&#x2F;OSS software. Many of them were involved with early MSFT OSS efforts back in 2008-2010, and many came from deep Linux&#x2F;OSS community via acquisition (Nat Friedman). Hell, the creator of GNOME, Miguel de Icaza, someone who bears the scars of the Microsoft War on OSS, now resides happily at Microsoft now.<p>For whatever faults MSFT has today, any sort of antipathy or guile towards OSS or Linux is not one among them. Credit where credit is due. Too many are stuck reliving past glories.<p>If you want an <i>actual</i> OSS bogeyman, you need only direct your attention to Oracle. Too many transferred their goodwill towards Sun to a company has, among other things, tried to claim Java’s APIs as their own intellectual property. That’s a company that still merits this kind of hand-wringing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xtrapolate</author><text>This thread is yet another example of &quot;you can&#x27;t please all the people all of the time&quot;. This tool is a useful addition to the Linux toolbox, made freely available by Microsoft, in what would be yet another step towards embracing and supporting OSS - yet for many in this thread, that&#x27;s just not good enough.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/ProcDump-for-Linux</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simias</author><text>People who remember the Microsoft from the 90&#x27;s and early 00&#x27;s are justifiably wary of them &quot;embracing&quot; things they like. When we used that word it was generally followed by two others, none of which was &quot;supporting&quot;.<p>And it&#x27;s not like present day Microsoft is without issues. As a user as far as I&#x27;m concerned every new version of Windows is worst that the last for instance. Ads everywhere, dark patterns in the UI etc... There are reasons to be cautious when we see them setting foot in FLOSS world, there&#x27;s history here and it&#x27;s not like MS suddenly turned into a non-profit open-source advocacy organization.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xtrapolate</author><text>This thread is yet another example of &quot;you can&#x27;t please all the people all of the time&quot;. This tool is a useful addition to the Linux toolbox, made freely available by Microsoft, in what would be yet another step towards embracing and supporting OSS - yet for many in this thread, that&#x27;s just not good enough.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/ProcDump-for-Linux</url></story> |
10,340,759 | 10,340,922 | 1 | 3 | 10,339,388 | 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>Karunamon</author><text>At the risk of sounding overly snarky: Top-notch does not mean putting the Goddamned Metro UI, a thing for <i>users</i> on <i>touch screens</i>, on a Goddamned SERVER OS like they did with 2012.<p>It&#x27;s insanity. Every time I have to RDP into a 2012 machine, I cringe a bit. Whoever was responsible for that decision should be shot, and the corpse fired.<p>For all Microsoft has been doing to improve their standing lately, they still make some rather absurd missteps...</text><parent_chain><item><author>exelius</author><text>Microsoft&#x27;s server software is actually top-notch and has been for years. Server 2003 was rough, but after that MS really started improving the management tools and allowing a lot more command line via powershell, etc.<p>And in corporate America, Microsoft&#x27;s Server products are near-ubiquitous. Consider that most of the in-house workflow tools at any company are built in Sharepoint -- and Sharepoint is actually a great platform for business apps (and easy to hire developers for). Exchange&#x2F;Outlook&#x2F;Lync is a great corporate collaboration suite that mostly &quot;just works&quot;. And from what I&#x27;ve seen, Google Apps isn&#x27;t really a threat for Microsoft -- it&#x27;s largely just displacing Lotus Notes at the bottom end of the market.</text></item><item><author>pcunite</author><text>What Microsoft has done today is prove they&#x27;re very focused about providing a top of the line personal computing experience. You can argue about server, but when it comes to applications (which are floating windows), Microsoft Windows has proven they can keep that title for their operating system.<p>I&#x27;m glad to see them take ownership over the hardware. That has always been the black mark. I build my own PCs and always bought ThinkPad to keep the good experience. Now, Microsoft can help others who don&#x27;t or can&#x27;t do that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/10/06/a-new-era-of-windows-10-devices-from-microsoft/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lighthawk</author><text>&gt; Lync... &quot;just works&quot;<p>Those are two things that I would never say together. Lync is great if you are all on Windows within the same building or campus perhaps, but the video quality is horrible compared to Google Hangout or (consumer) Skype for cross country and international communication.<p>Also: Lync is now called &quot;Skype for Business&quot; and old Lync will be sunsetted per <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.gigaom.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;microsoft-announces-skype-for-business-will-retire-lync&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.gigaom.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;microsoft-announces-skype...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>exelius</author><text>Microsoft&#x27;s server software is actually top-notch and has been for years. Server 2003 was rough, but after that MS really started improving the management tools and allowing a lot more command line via powershell, etc.<p>And in corporate America, Microsoft&#x27;s Server products are near-ubiquitous. Consider that most of the in-house workflow tools at any company are built in Sharepoint -- and Sharepoint is actually a great platform for business apps (and easy to hire developers for). Exchange&#x2F;Outlook&#x2F;Lync is a great corporate collaboration suite that mostly &quot;just works&quot;. And from what I&#x27;ve seen, Google Apps isn&#x27;t really a threat for Microsoft -- it&#x27;s largely just displacing Lotus Notes at the bottom end of the market.</text></item><item><author>pcunite</author><text>What Microsoft has done today is prove they&#x27;re very focused about providing a top of the line personal computing experience. You can argue about server, but when it comes to applications (which are floating windows), Microsoft Windows has proven they can keep that title for their operating system.<p>I&#x27;m glad to see them take ownership over the hardware. That has always been the black mark. I build my own PCs and always bought ThinkPad to keep the good experience. Now, Microsoft can help others who don&#x27;t or can&#x27;t do that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/10/06/a-new-era-of-windows-10-devices-from-microsoft/</url></story> |
5,747,681 | 5,747,526 | 1 | 2 | 5,747,255 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bennyg</author><text>The biggest thing of all, I believe, is actually testing your design on a device. Text you think looks good when you're in Photoshop has a tendency to be too small or too large, or too gray or not enough saturation on a device. So, if you're designing - and can't get a build to your phone to actually play with - email yourself an exported PNG of correct resolution and open it up on your phone. You should be able to see and "play" with it as best as you can for absolutely no money.<p>It seems like this was written for the designer, not developer, so I would also like to add one more thing. If you're a designer and tasked on working with a developer to make an app happen (or vice versa really), then work side by side as much as you can with that person and have regular discussions. You'll both drive each other toward a better project than just piecewise doing things in a more waterfall-esque approach.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Starters Guide to iOS Design</title><url>http://taybenlor.com/2013/05/21/designing-for-ios.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>jcampbell1</author><text>This is a very good guide. The only part I found odd was the advice to design at 1x rather than 2x. My strategy, is design in 2x, but everything must have even dimensions. For the iPhone I just downsample the assets and don't even bother to check if they look good. For iPad, I will touchup 1x assets if needed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Starters Guide to iOS Design</title><url>http://taybenlor.com/2013/05/21/designing-for-ios.html</url></story> |
19,022,568 | 19,022,699 | 1 | 2 | 19,022,000 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crispyambulance</author><text>I find it disturbing he can&#x27;t find work as a project manager. If anything, that&#x27;s one role where the practitioners typically know fuck-all about nothing and where good ones are worth their weight in gold.<p>I LOVE to work with ADULT project managers who have a clue about how projects actually unfold and how things actually get done with a wide variety of personalities in the mix. Instead, more often than not, you get 20-30-something &quot;management fast-track&quot; wannabe&#x27;s who could not solve a problem to save their lives.</text><parent_chain><item><author>towaway1138</author><text>I&#x27;m only in my 50s, but this is very relateable. Did a couple dozen interviews a year or two ago before finally getting a bite. Somewhat amazingly, even passed the hiring committee at a FANG, only to get swatted down by a rare strike from the executive level.<p>In one interview, was asked to produce a class that could serialize and deserialize a list of numbers, to&#x2F;from a string of chars. Sure, it&#x27;s not that hard. Took maybe ten minutes? A few tests, it worked fine. They declined--&quot;your skills seem rusty&quot;. Huh?<p>I&#x27;m in good health and much better financial situation than the guy in the story. But without being too grim, I&#x27;ve accepted that someday I might run completely out of money. If I can&#x27;t get hired in tech, I&#x27;ll give McDonald&#x27;s a shot--it&#x27;s honest work. Failing that, I&#x27;ll make my graceful exit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken seriously as a job applicant</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-january-27-2019-1.4989313/64-and-unemployed-one-man-s-struggle-to-be-taken-seriously-as-a-job-applicant-1.4991626</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>burtonator</author><text>Link to your resume and I&#x27;ll take a look.<p>All this bullshit about inclusivity.<p>What we SHOULD be doing is blinding the candidate and interviewer.<p>No name. Just the last 2 years of job history. That&#x27;s it.<p>You don&#x27;t know their gender. Don&#x27;t know their age. Don&#x27;t know their race.<p>Just complete meritocracy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>towaway1138</author><text>I&#x27;m only in my 50s, but this is very relateable. Did a couple dozen interviews a year or two ago before finally getting a bite. Somewhat amazingly, even passed the hiring committee at a FANG, only to get swatted down by a rare strike from the executive level.<p>In one interview, was asked to produce a class that could serialize and deserialize a list of numbers, to&#x2F;from a string of chars. Sure, it&#x27;s not that hard. Took maybe ten minutes? A few tests, it worked fine. They declined--&quot;your skills seem rusty&quot;. Huh?<p>I&#x27;m in good health and much better financial situation than the guy in the story. But without being too grim, I&#x27;ve accepted that someday I might run completely out of money. If I can&#x27;t get hired in tech, I&#x27;ll give McDonald&#x27;s a shot--it&#x27;s honest work. Failing that, I&#x27;ll make my graceful exit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken seriously as a job applicant</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-january-27-2019-1.4989313/64-and-unemployed-one-man-s-struggle-to-be-taken-seriously-as-a-job-applicant-1.4991626</url></story> |
5,994,617 | 5,994,613 | 1 | 2 | 5,994,282 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alan_cx</author><text>Don&#x27;t know how separated the German judiciary is from its government, which seems contradictory on its position, but for Snowden to accept some sort of German judicial protection would be on hell of a gamble. Could be a great solution, but could also result in a one way ticket to the US. At least Germany has a reasonable and comparatively open political and legal system, which doesn&#x27;t rely on politics and cash in the bank.<p>On the face of it, if the Germans did go this way, in the way suggested, I think I&#x27;d take it. But Im willing to bet nothing is quite that simple, or likely.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Politician: Call Snowden to Germany as witness</title><url>http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130704-50697.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>temp5207</author><text>Sure, let&#x27;s grant him a safe passage to our jurisdiction so he could testify in a trial.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hus" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jan_Hus</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Politician: Call Snowden to Germany as witness</title><url>http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130704-50697.html</url><text></text></story> |
27,571,709 | 27,571,648 | 1 | 2 | 27,569,772 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peter422</author><text>The vaccines did not skip any safety tests, they just compressed the schedule because millions of people were dying of a preventable disease.<p>At this point hundreds of millions of people have taken the various vaccines. There clearly are no major short or medium term effects (other than the reported, rare side effects).<p>Also you can literally read all the documents provided to the FDA concerning the efficacy and safety of the vaccines. There isn&#x27;t a giant conspiracy, all the original studies and data are in the open.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwkeep</author><text>There are valid concerns and a difficult risk benefit analysis for some cohorts, I think. What are your thoughts on this? Put yourself in her shoes:<p>&quot;I held off on a COVID vaccine because I wanted to wait for data with positive signals for both pregnancy in the short term and long-run fertility. I’m trying to get pregnant, and those are the two things I care about most.<p>Vaccine data is so politicized that it’s actually somewhat difficult to find full studies, results discussions or data sets as a layman, because every search term redirects you to “yes, get vaccinated right now, your concerns are merely ignorance”<p>The other study that concerns me shows that the vaccine’s lipid nanoparticles— which carry the RNA instructions for the spike protein — move beyond the deltoid muscle they’re injected into and accumulate in other tissues, and seem to accumulate in ovarian tissue preferentially.<p>That study looked at a <i>very</i> small sample, but given what we <i>think</i> we know about the spike protein — it likely causes some degree of tissue damage on its own, independent of the virus — it’s something that definitely demands further study<p>Anyway, I feel like I need to come clean at this point. For a long time I was avoiding the vaccine because I wanted to hold out for more data. Now I’m actively choosing not to get it because what I’ve seen is providing the opposite of a positive safety signal for my purposes.<p>It’s <i>really</i> important that I clarify I’m not at a high risk of exposure. I generally don’t work or even socialize outside my home. Lockdown life frankly doesn’t look that different from my preferred lifestyle. If I were a high exposure risk I would think about this differently<p>I’m in the process of getting a prescription for prophylactic ivermectin, which has also become extremely politicized — to the point of becoming a censored topic on some platforms. I’m not giving advice, here. I’m not making broader efficacy claims. I’m just trying to be honest<p>COVID is no joke. You do not want to get COVID. “Long COVID” symptoms should concern you even if you don’t think an infection would kill you. But the vaccines are very new and skipped a great deal of otherwise required safety testing, and some of this data is really worrisome.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;webdevMason&#x2F;status&#x2F;1405649896212819975" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;webdevMason&#x2F;status&#x2F;14056498962128...</a></text></item><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>I wish I could get people that are avoiding the COVID vaccine “because we don’t know what the long term effects are” to realize that we have real data showing that there are long term effects from getting full blown COVID. You don’t want a tiny piece of mRNA but you want the whole organism reproducing in your body? The whole genome and all the proteins made?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank</title><url>https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xwolfi</author><text>You&#x27;re right in a way but I think these people are still a tad wrong. It&#x27;s not that everyone deny there can be side effects, on pregnancy or otherwise. It&#x27;s that if nobody does the sacrifice, and everybody has his little thing he wants to protect (you want to get pregnant, I want to keep on working, my wife wants to be there for our kid, our parents have diabetes, etc etc) then nobody gets the vaccine.<p>Get it, whatever it cost you, because it&#x27;s your duty.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwkeep</author><text>There are valid concerns and a difficult risk benefit analysis for some cohorts, I think. What are your thoughts on this? Put yourself in her shoes:<p>&quot;I held off on a COVID vaccine because I wanted to wait for data with positive signals for both pregnancy in the short term and long-run fertility. I’m trying to get pregnant, and those are the two things I care about most.<p>Vaccine data is so politicized that it’s actually somewhat difficult to find full studies, results discussions or data sets as a layman, because every search term redirects you to “yes, get vaccinated right now, your concerns are merely ignorance”<p>The other study that concerns me shows that the vaccine’s lipid nanoparticles— which carry the RNA instructions for the spike protein — move beyond the deltoid muscle they’re injected into and accumulate in other tissues, and seem to accumulate in ovarian tissue preferentially.<p>That study looked at a <i>very</i> small sample, but given what we <i>think</i> we know about the spike protein — it likely causes some degree of tissue damage on its own, independent of the virus — it’s something that definitely demands further study<p>Anyway, I feel like I need to come clean at this point. For a long time I was avoiding the vaccine because I wanted to hold out for more data. Now I’m actively choosing not to get it because what I’ve seen is providing the opposite of a positive safety signal for my purposes.<p>It’s <i>really</i> important that I clarify I’m not at a high risk of exposure. I generally don’t work or even socialize outside my home. Lockdown life frankly doesn’t look that different from my preferred lifestyle. If I were a high exposure risk I would think about this differently<p>I’m in the process of getting a prescription for prophylactic ivermectin, which has also become extremely politicized — to the point of becoming a censored topic on some platforms. I’m not giving advice, here. I’m not making broader efficacy claims. I’m just trying to be honest<p>COVID is no joke. You do not want to get COVID. “Long COVID” symptoms should concern you even if you don’t think an infection would kill you. But the vaccines are very new and skipped a great deal of otherwise required safety testing, and some of this data is really worrisome.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;webdevMason&#x2F;status&#x2F;1405649896212819975" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;webdevMason&#x2F;status&#x2F;14056498962128...</a></text></item><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>I wish I could get people that are avoiding the COVID vaccine “because we don’t know what the long term effects are” to realize that we have real data showing that there are long term effects from getting full blown COVID. You don’t want a tiny piece of mRNA but you want the whole organism reproducing in your body? The whole genome and all the proteins made?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank</title><url>https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v1</url></story> |
29,827,441 | 29,826,177 | 1 | 2 | 29,792,863 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Benjamin_Dobell</author><text>Whilst I don&#x27;t typically talk about myself in the third person. I do occasionally refer to my past and future self in the third person.<p>Basically, Future Ben is a top bloke. When I&#x27;m too busy, I just leave the housework for him. On the other hand, Past Ben is an enormous jerk. He&#x27;s always leaving me shit to do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>riemannzeta</author><text>A person who refers to themselves in the third-person is called, in English, an illeist.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;illeist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;illeist</a><p>Elmo, Julius Caesar, and Salvador Dali have been identified as illeists.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;27322&#x2F;11-famous-illeists" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;27322&#x2F;11-famous-illeists</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Many Girlfriends</title><url>https://thedailywtf.com/articles/my-many-girlfriends</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rmnclmnt</author><text>In France, the most famous illeist is the actor Alain Delon (still alive): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alain_Delon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alain_Delon</a><p>It has become a traditional joke in itself for a few generations!</text><parent_chain><item><author>riemannzeta</author><text>A person who refers to themselves in the third-person is called, in English, an illeist.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;illeist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;illeist</a><p>Elmo, Julius Caesar, and Salvador Dali have been identified as illeists.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;27322&#x2F;11-famous-illeists" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;27322&#x2F;11-famous-illeists</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Many Girlfriends</title><url>https://thedailywtf.com/articles/my-many-girlfriends</url></story> |
31,766,858 | 31,765,976 | 1 | 2 | 31,763,844 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>diob</author><text>I&#x27;m honestly more interested in studying the most ineffective founders.<p>We spend too much time focusing on survivors, when I feel like the best learning comes from looking at failure.<p>I&#x27;d be willing to be there&#x27;s a lot of failed &#x2F; failing companies out there doing the exact same thing as the &quot;most effective founders&quot;, so what makes them different? I&#x27;d be interested to know.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What we learned in studying the most effective founders</title><url>https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/entrepreneurs/effective-founders-project/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zcw100</author><text>Self help pablum for aspiring founders. I&#x27;ll just highlight a couple of the ridiculous things in there. &quot;Minimize unnecessary micromanagement&quot;. There&#x27;s just a ton in there. First, micromanagement already has a negative connotation so recommending to minimize it rather than eliminate it is just an obnoxious hedge. Then it doubles down on recommending minimizing only &quot;unnecessary&quot; micromanagement. You just go right ahead micromanaging those losers who deserve to be micromanaged. How else are you going to drive out the undesirables?<p>&quot;Invite disagreement&quot;. All hedge. &quot;some studies have shown&quot;, &quot;in tern it <i>could</i> mean more innovative and inclusive products&quot;. Not because you want to show respect for the opinions of others or that you listen to what people have to say but because it <i>could</i> lead to more innovative and inclusive products ie. &quot;I don&#x27;t really care what you have to say other than how it hits my bottom line but go on talking. I&#x27;ll let you know if I think you say something worthwhile&quot;<p>&quot;Keep pace with expertise&quot; This was nice until you get to the bottom of the actual report and find out that Josh has an undergraduate degree in Biology and an MBA. I&#x27;m not sure how that shows any expertise in what is being written about but please go on nor how that could possibly qualify you as Chief of Staff at Google Research but there it is.<p>I think what&#x27;s more interesting about stuff like this is not what they&#x27;re saying but what they&#x27;re selling. I can only guess that the real research Google did was that they needed more startups to get started using their products and that they would continue to use and expand their use of Google services as they grow.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What we learned in studying the most effective founders</title><url>https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/entrepreneurs/effective-founders-project/</url></story> |
41,754,577 | 41,754,592 | 1 | 3 | 41,748,125 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matco11</author><text>This is the best review I have ever read on the Apple Vision Pro.
Also, we should probably stop lying to ourselves, and finally admit what we have known in hour hearts for a little while now: Apple is not anymore what it used to be. Reading this makes it clear…<p>Apple Vision Pro is the modern equivalent of John Sculley’s Apple Newton</text><parent_chain><item><author>virgildotcodes</author><text>I feel like I would have been the ideal customer for it. I travel a lot and I&#x27;m a developer deep in the Apple ecosystem who is constantly wishing he had more screen real estate while bouncing between hotels and Airbnbs every few weeks.<p>I bought it and tried it for two weeks and ended up returning it. It&#x27;s really cool, but even aside from the issues with 1.0 like not being able to just pull up individual app windows from my mac or multiple desktops -- it&#x27;s just too impractical, it takes too much effort to get into this thing.<p>A phone, a tablet, a laptop, you can pick up, immediately use, put down, interact with the world around you, pick up again, zero friction, it&#x27;s not restrictive, it&#x27;s not an item of clothing, it doesn&#x27;t take over your whole world and sensory system and thus alienate you from everyone and everything around you.<p>Not only is it that whole extra thing, but it needs to be plugged into a special battery pack, so you have another usb cable dangling onto this bulky pack which is daisy chained to your laptop or another charging port unless you want it to die in 2 hours. So you pull out your laptop, plug it into a charger, pull out your headset, plug it into its battery pack, plug that battery pack into your laptop, put on the headset, untangle yourself from the wires and figure out where to set the battery pack to be out of the way...<p>It&#x27;s just so much faffing around. Plus it&#x27;s fucking huge and takes up the majority of my backpack and I like to travel with a single carry on backpack.<p>A pair of Raybans with a usb c cable sticking out, maybe I could see that being legitimately usable without having to make a giant effort just to use it. It seems like a few companies are getting close to that, but I have yet to try those alternatives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?</title><text>It&#x27;s been 8 months since the initial reviews, so I would love to know if anyone has managed to really become productive and comfortable working hours a day on the Apple Vision Pro.</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>Gigachad</author><text>I don’t understand why they didn’t make this a gaming device. All this hassle would be worth it to play immersive shooter games or VR chat with full hand and face tracking.<p>No one is going to go through all that to open up Apple notes and YouTube when your phone and MacBook does exactly the same thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>virgildotcodes</author><text>I feel like I would have been the ideal customer for it. I travel a lot and I&#x27;m a developer deep in the Apple ecosystem who is constantly wishing he had more screen real estate while bouncing between hotels and Airbnbs every few weeks.<p>I bought it and tried it for two weeks and ended up returning it. It&#x27;s really cool, but even aside from the issues with 1.0 like not being able to just pull up individual app windows from my mac or multiple desktops -- it&#x27;s just too impractical, it takes too much effort to get into this thing.<p>A phone, a tablet, a laptop, you can pick up, immediately use, put down, interact with the world around you, pick up again, zero friction, it&#x27;s not restrictive, it&#x27;s not an item of clothing, it doesn&#x27;t take over your whole world and sensory system and thus alienate you from everyone and everything around you.<p>Not only is it that whole extra thing, but it needs to be plugged into a special battery pack, so you have another usb cable dangling onto this bulky pack which is daisy chained to your laptop or another charging port unless you want it to die in 2 hours. So you pull out your laptop, plug it into a charger, pull out your headset, plug it into its battery pack, plug that battery pack into your laptop, put on the headset, untangle yourself from the wires and figure out where to set the battery pack to be out of the way...<p>It&#x27;s just so much faffing around. Plus it&#x27;s fucking huge and takes up the majority of my backpack and I like to travel with a single carry on backpack.<p>A pair of Raybans with a usb c cable sticking out, maybe I could see that being legitimately usable without having to make a giant effort just to use it. It seems like a few companies are getting close to that, but I have yet to try those alternatives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?</title><text>It&#x27;s been 8 months since the initial reviews, so I would love to know if anyone has managed to really become productive and comfortable working hours a day on the Apple Vision Pro.</text></story> |
35,298,658 | 35,298,870 | 1 | 3 | 35,294,111 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nstbayless</author><text>I may have misunderstood, but I believe step 1 (eliding loads) is simply a cache scheduling problem. The optimal solution is the greedy &quot;furthest in the future&quot; eviction policy.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Explaining my fast 6502 code generator</title><url>https://pubby.games/codegen.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>userbinator</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see this same technique applied to x86, and what the performance is like without the &quot;illegal instructions&quot; (omitting them from generation would probably be trivial). It&#x27;s relatively well known that one of the ways Asm programmers can beat compilers is on instruction selection, and that&#x27;s what this technique seems to excel at.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Explaining my fast 6502 code generator</title><url>https://pubby.games/codegen.html</url></story> |
38,059,565 | 38,059,860 | 1 | 2 | 38,058,979 | 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>alexose</author><text>The headline doesn&#x27;t really match the point of the article, which is that they&#x27;re using half the vehicles for rideshare, thus causing more wear and tear than a typical rental. Apparently they didn&#x27;t factor this into their math and had to fess up during their earnings call.<p>The bigger problem is that their Teslas are so expensive to fix. I suspect a lack of replacement parts and&#x2F;or qualified techs is to blame. Too bad, because if they had better repairability then Tesla would have a real claim to lowest cost-per-mile.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hertz is scaling back its EV ambitions because its Teslas keep getting damaged</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/27/23934691/hertz-tesla-uber-ev-plans-damage-repair-price-cuts</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>p1mrx</author><text>&gt; Uber drivers also tend to drive their vehicles into the ground. This higher rate of utilization can lead to a lot of damage<p>It&#x27;s not just the &quot;utilization rate&quot;, Ubers have to go everywhere. Imagine what your own car would look like if you spent a month driving to random addresses. The Uber heatmap of a city probably covers its worst-maintained roads, on days with the worst weather.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hertz is scaling back its EV ambitions because its Teslas keep getting damaged</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/27/23934691/hertz-tesla-uber-ev-plans-damage-repair-price-cuts</url></story> |
33,085,052 | 33,084,952 | 1 | 3 | 33,083,064 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>Judges should start instructing juries make an adverse inference against the police, if bodycam footage is missing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adverse_inference" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adverse_inference</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Arrath</author><text>Time to start prorating individual officer&#x27;s salary for the % of their shift time that has extant video footage?<p>These body cams are useless if the video can go conveniently missing whenever it needs to.</text></item><item><author>lawn</author><text>&gt; He added that the LAPD said no video footage of the training exercise exists, even though these sorts of trainings are often recorded.<p>That seems like standard procedure by now. When something happens, conveniently the video footage that should exist, magically doesn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Investigating Cops About Rape</title><url>https://reason.com/2022/10/04/lapd-officer-killed-during-training-exercise-was-reportedly-investigating-cops-accused-of-gang-rape/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noboostforyou</author><text>Get rid of Qualified Immunity for starters. Next should be some sort of malpractice insurance that police must carry themselves (none of this using our tax dollars to pay for their own crimes).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Arrath</author><text>Time to start prorating individual officer&#x27;s salary for the % of their shift time that has extant video footage?<p>These body cams are useless if the video can go conveniently missing whenever it needs to.</text></item><item><author>lawn</author><text>&gt; He added that the LAPD said no video footage of the training exercise exists, even though these sorts of trainings are often recorded.<p>That seems like standard procedure by now. When something happens, conveniently the video footage that should exist, magically doesn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Investigating Cops About Rape</title><url>https://reason.com/2022/10/04/lapd-officer-killed-during-training-exercise-was-reportedly-investigating-cops-accused-of-gang-rape/</url></story> |
26,469,041 | 26,465,703 | 1 | 2 | 26,464,111 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LorenPechtel</author><text>And they can even do it inadvertently. I&#x27;ve run into multiple examples recently due to the Android file system becoming ever more locked down.<p>Yes, the vast majority of apps have no business writing to any location other than their own storage, and in general even reading other areas should be subject to severe restrictions.<p>However, there are some apps that have a *legitimate* need to be able to wander freely through the file system. Specifically, apps whose purpose in life is dealing with files.<p>The latest run-in I&#x27;ve had with this: The Goodsync Android client, which now appears to be basically useless. It&#x27;s a file synchronization tool, what good is it if it can&#x27;t wander where the user wants it to? Now I have to plug my phone into the computer to do the same task (the file system lockdown doesn&#x27;t apply to access from the PC) that I used to be able to do simply by having the phone in the room.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tommilukkarinen</author><text>This is the other side of the Play-store problem. The other side is the tax.<p>Play store employee can ban your app = destroy your business at any time. The reason can be &#x27;new policy&#x27;, &#x27;misunderstanding&#x27; or something more problematic, such as influence from your competitor to the employee.<p>A &#x27;power to destroy business&#x27;, should not be a click away from some random employee.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”</title><url>https://twitter.com/hermaritz/status/1371383715381805061</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kjrose</author><text>On the plus side there are multiple app stores for the android and the ability to simply install your app directly to the device. So even if Google play store bans you outright you aren&#x27;t dead in the water.<p>Now that being said. If you are dependent on google for revenues...</text><parent_chain><item><author>tommilukkarinen</author><text>This is the other side of the Play-store problem. The other side is the tax.<p>Play store employee can ban your app = destroy your business at any time. The reason can be &#x27;new policy&#x27;, &#x27;misunderstanding&#x27; or something more problematic, such as influence from your competitor to the employee.<p>A &#x27;power to destroy business&#x27;, should not be a click away from some random employee.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”</title><url>https://twitter.com/hermaritz/status/1371383715381805061</url></story> |
14,559,967 | 14,559,118 | 1 | 3 | 14,558,031 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>verytrivial</author><text>I look forward to more &quot;Rust proved to be great to implement this real feature&#x2F;system&#x2F;OS, here it is!&quot; posts and fewer &quot;Why you&#x2F;someone else should use Rust for feature&#x2F;system&#x2F;OS instead of your awful and dangerous language, sneer!&quot; (The people at redox-os.org are doing great work here I think)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System programming in Rust: beyond safety</title><url>https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/06/14/system-programming-in-rust-beyond-safety/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>empath75</author><text>This is more interesting than the standard Rust article about borrowing and lifetimes, and is more about how linear types can be used to enable new safety features easily.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System programming in Rust: beyond safety</title><url>https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/06/14/system-programming-in-rust-beyond-safety/</url></story> |
41,475,064 | 41,473,792 | 1 | 2 | 41,471,510 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dudeinjapan</author><text>Startup idea #72831: Build &quot;Nostalgia&quot; browser which uses AI to convert every page to Web 1.0, complete with &quot;Under Construction&quot; banners and CGI visitor counters.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>Has anyone built the AI web browser yet? The one that redraws any image you might find offensive, rewords advertisements, and rephrases comments to be positive?<p>That would be cool?</text></item><item><author>lemme_tell_ya</author><text>&gt; It has been falsely claimed that the measure undertaken by MCMC is a draconian measure. We reiterate that Malaysia’s implementation is for the protection of vulnerable groups from harmful online content.<p>That&#x27;s how it _always_ starts out, the &quot;its for your own good, trust me&quot; excuse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers</title><url>https://thesun.my/local-news/mcmc-addresses-misinformation-on-dns-redirection-internet-access-restrictions-BN12972452</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>&gt; The one that redraws any image you might find offensive, rewords advertisements, and rephrases comments to be positive?<p>You&#x27;re kidding but I&#x27;ve already toyed with using AI models to analyze browsers&#x27; screenshots and determining if it&#x27;s likely phishing or not and it works very well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>Has anyone built the AI web browser yet? The one that redraws any image you might find offensive, rewords advertisements, and rephrases comments to be positive?<p>That would be cool?</text></item><item><author>lemme_tell_ya</author><text>&gt; It has been falsely claimed that the measure undertaken by MCMC is a draconian measure. We reiterate that Malaysia’s implementation is for the protection of vulnerable groups from harmful online content.<p>That&#x27;s how it _always_ starts out, the &quot;its for your own good, trust me&quot; excuse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers</title><url>https://thesun.my/local-news/mcmc-addresses-misinformation-on-dns-redirection-internet-access-restrictions-BN12972452</url></story> |
35,703,412 | 35,698,832 | 1 | 3 | 35,688,233 | train | <instructions>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><i>Whether a physical theory can be consistent without them is an interesting question</i><p>I agree, it is interesting, and the answer is yes, a physical theory can be completely consistent while never using complex numbers.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to use imaginary numbers, you can avoid them for almost anything by using matrices instead. Use 2x2 matrices instead of complex numbers, and instead of 1, use the identity matrix:<p>1 0<p>0 1<p>Instead of i, use a matrix that corresponds to a 90 degree rotation:<p>0 -1<p>1 0<p>This means that i * i = -1, and so pretty much everything else will just work the same way as it does with complex numbers. Adding, multiplying, calculus, all the same. No need for complex numbers if you don&#x27;t like them.<p>I do like complex numbers though. They are just a bit more concise and convenient than using matrices.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrew_eu</author><text>There is much more to the history of complex numbers, and that is also worth a read [0]. In particular, Gauss was very against the term &quot;imaginary numbers&quot; because it implies some mystery around them. I vaguely remember reading that he preferred the term &quot;lateral&quot; numbers, but that may be a mistake. Euler&#x27;s formula connects them very plainly with rotations in a complex number plane.<p>The intuition I developed with them while studying physics was that, unlike &quot;real&quot; numbers which interact by stacking, complex numbers interact by stacking and rotating. This is bizarre to think about with single numbers in a 1D world, but we don&#x27;t live in a 1D world. In higher dimensions they rotate and sheer rather than just scale.<p>And indeed, QM (at least as it was thought to me) would fall apart without complex numbers. Whether a physical theory can be consistent without them is an interesting question, but not because a physical theory with them creates some kind of metaphysical paradox.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Complex_number#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Complex_number#History</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quantum physics falls apart without imaginary numbers</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-physics-falls-apart-without-imaginary-numbers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TRiG_Ireland</author><text>Or, as someone I know (Gnomon on h2g2) remarked, they&#x27;re just as real as real numbers, which is to say, not real at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrew_eu</author><text>There is much more to the history of complex numbers, and that is also worth a read [0]. In particular, Gauss was very against the term &quot;imaginary numbers&quot; because it implies some mystery around them. I vaguely remember reading that he preferred the term &quot;lateral&quot; numbers, but that may be a mistake. Euler&#x27;s formula connects them very plainly with rotations in a complex number plane.<p>The intuition I developed with them while studying physics was that, unlike &quot;real&quot; numbers which interact by stacking, complex numbers interact by stacking and rotating. This is bizarre to think about with single numbers in a 1D world, but we don&#x27;t live in a 1D world. In higher dimensions they rotate and sheer rather than just scale.<p>And indeed, QM (at least as it was thought to me) would fall apart without complex numbers. Whether a physical theory can be consistent without them is an interesting question, but not because a physical theory with them creates some kind of metaphysical paradox.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Complex_number#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Complex_number#History</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quantum physics falls apart without imaginary numbers</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-physics-falls-apart-without-imaginary-numbers/</url></story> |
6,218,900 | 6,219,087 | 1 | 2 | 6,217,742 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmdeller</author><text>Presumably you are referring to the former Sun Microsystems. The amusing thing to me about this story is that it&#x27;s such a convoluted name that their own potential customers apparently can&#x27;t remember it. And so, attempting to locate the computer company, they type the closest approximation they can manage, &#x27;Sun Computer&#x27;, into Google, which likely didn&#x27;t rank as highly as yours precisely because that verbatim phrase, being technically incorrect, is unlikely to appear directly on their own web site or in anyone else&#x27;s links to their web site.<p>Names matter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lutusp</author><text>Nice article. It reminds me of a fight I had with Sun Computer (i.e. Sun Microsystems) some years ago, after I created a Web page that computed the sun&#x27;s position &#x2F; sunrise &#x2F; sunset times for a given location (<a href="http://arachnoid.com/lutusp/sunrise" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arachnoid.com&#x2F;lutusp&#x2F;sunrise</a>). Without thinking very deeply, I named my page &quot;Sun Computer&quot;.<p>Pretty soon, and without any nefarious intent on my part, my &quot;Sun Computer&quot; Web page ascended above the official &quot;Sun Computer&quot; corporate website in the search engine listings.<p>Shortly thereafter I received a registered letter from a team of corporate lawyers who threatened to sue me for disregarding Sun&#x27;s proprietary ownership of the word &quot;Sun&quot;. My explanation that there is an astronomical body with that same name, and that my page provided information about said astronomical entity, fell on deaf ears.<p>For some reason, the corporate lawyers couldn&#x27;t bring themselves to simply say that my Web page was above theirs in the search rankings and I needed to do something about it. Instead, the correspondence was phrased entirely in threatening legalese, in terms of proprietary trademarks and public deceit. I finally figured out what the problem was, and renamed my page &quot;Solar Computer&quot;. Problem solved.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It's the real thing</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013/07/its-real-thing.html?m=1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shabble</author><text>They got into an utterly pointless fight with Sparkfun Electronics[1] which took some minor Streislanding by The Internet to resolve.<p>I suspect even in-house legal depts think in terms of billable hours...<p>[1] <a href="https://www.sparkfun.com/news/300" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sparkfun.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;300</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lutusp</author><text>Nice article. It reminds me of a fight I had with Sun Computer (i.e. Sun Microsystems) some years ago, after I created a Web page that computed the sun&#x27;s position &#x2F; sunrise &#x2F; sunset times for a given location (<a href="http://arachnoid.com/lutusp/sunrise" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arachnoid.com&#x2F;lutusp&#x2F;sunrise</a>). Without thinking very deeply, I named my page &quot;Sun Computer&quot;.<p>Pretty soon, and without any nefarious intent on my part, my &quot;Sun Computer&quot; Web page ascended above the official &quot;Sun Computer&quot; corporate website in the search engine listings.<p>Shortly thereafter I received a registered letter from a team of corporate lawyers who threatened to sue me for disregarding Sun&#x27;s proprietary ownership of the word &quot;Sun&quot;. My explanation that there is an astronomical body with that same name, and that my page provided information about said astronomical entity, fell on deaf ears.<p>For some reason, the corporate lawyers couldn&#x27;t bring themselves to simply say that my Web page was above theirs in the search rankings and I needed to do something about it. Instead, the correspondence was phrased entirely in threatening legalese, in terms of proprietary trademarks and public deceit. I finally figured out what the problem was, and renamed my page &quot;Solar Computer&quot;. Problem solved.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It's the real thing</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013/07/its-real-thing.html?m=1</url></story> |
1,033,629 | 1,033,491 | 1 | 2 | 1,033,433 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>r11t</author><text>Seinfeld's Calendar + Github = <a href="http://calendaraboutnothing.com/" rel="nofollow">http://calendaraboutnothing.com/</a><p>"The Calendar About Nothing generates a "Seinfeld Calendar" from your public "Github" feed."</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret</title><url>http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gr366</author><text>This has been floating around the internet for a while, but it's good to come across again. I'm impressed by the level of simplicity to which the technique has been distilled. Notice that it wasn't necessary to write a book about the productivity system — it can be explained in a paragraph.<p>On a side note, I believe there are a number of iPhone apps that implement this system.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret</title><url>http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret</url></story> |
14,694,632 | 14,693,917 | 1 | 3 | 14,693,270 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>awjr</author><text>The reality is that cities are beginning to understand that the economic &#x27;lifeblood&#x27; of a city can be strangled by the private car.<p>Use of space is a huge issue within cities and a liveable approach based around the principle pedestrian first focusing on walkability, bikeability, public transport, and public spaces <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knightfoundation.org&#x2F;features&#x2F;livable-cities&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knightfoundation.org&#x2F;features&#x2F;livable-cities&#x2F;</a><p>The private car needs to become a &#x27;guest&#x27; and not the primary means of moving around a city. Neither should it become unwelcome, just easier to get around by any other mode of transport. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;awjre&#x2F;status&#x2F;879963479406411776" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;awjre&#x2F;status&#x2F;879963479406411776</a><p>Oslo tried to ban cars, but there has been a huge backlash, without the right sort of support some of the most vulnerable (i.e. people with physical disabilities) just cannot live successfully in cities. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;cities&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jun&#x2F;13&#x2F;oslo-ban-cars-backlash-parking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;cities&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jun&#x2F;13&#x2F;oslo-ban-cars...</a><p>The reality is that care share, car clubs, and strict city wide parking control are key. Ideas like the Workplace Parking Levy implemented by Nottingham are key to delivering real investment in public transport and cycle infrastructure while reducing unnecessary car journeys <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelondoneconomic.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;environment&#x2F;lets-clear-air-national-clean-air-day&#x2F;15&#x2F;06&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelondoneconomic.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;environment&#x2F;lets-clear...</a><p>On top of that, the cities are politically avoiding the inherent value in on-street parking. In Bath, the going rate for a city centre parking permit on the open market is £3,000 per year, but the permits are sold by the council for £150.<p>Cities need to recognise the huge discounts we give to car owners, while we cut funding for public transport because it is too expensive and people are not using it enough. It&#x27;s one hell of a viscous circle.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How People Use Bike-Share Spaces vs. Parking Spots</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/06/bike-share-dock-parking-space-citi-bike-new-york/531936/?utm_source=SFTwitter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>Somehow this doesn&#x27;t work in china where the bike share companies just dump them randomly all over the sidewalks. Ya, it sucks when a car parks on a sidewalk (and they totally do if they can get away with it), but a hundred bicycles in your way is not much better.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How People Use Bike-Share Spaces vs. Parking Spots</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/06/bike-share-dock-parking-space-citi-bike-new-york/531936/?utm_source=SFTwitter</url></story> |
38,730,688 | 38,728,930 | 1 | 2 | 38,722,246 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>m463</author><text>&gt; I am in the Apple ecosystem, so I had no need for it anyways<p>I would like apple to allow chats to be exported. They kind of let you export photos and videos, but not chats, which also include photos and videos.<p>I know people who have chats with their (dead) loved ones who have lost everything when they lost or broke their phone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LeafItAlone</author><text>&gt; “Each time that Beeper Mini goes ‘down’ or is made to be unreliable due to interference by Apple, Beeper’s credibility takes a hit. It’s unsustainable,” Beeper writes.<p>This was my feeling from the first time I saw it on HN. I am in the Apple ecosystem, so I had no need for it anyways, but I didn’t expect a product to last when it relies on Apple not restricting something they clearly want to restrict.<p>It clearly got them a lot of press, attention, and recognition. But also indicated, to me, that they are just not reliable.<p>The team seems very intelligent and capable. I truly hope they find something to do next that doesn’t rely on such a fragile bridge.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beeper – Moving Forward</title><url>https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-moving-forward</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Aloha</author><text>I still think Apple has a missed opportunity with iMessage - dual platform support 10 years ago would mean no WhatsApp, which is universal is much of the world. Hindsight is always 20&#x2F;20 I guess.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LeafItAlone</author><text>&gt; “Each time that Beeper Mini goes ‘down’ or is made to be unreliable due to interference by Apple, Beeper’s credibility takes a hit. It’s unsustainable,” Beeper writes.<p>This was my feeling from the first time I saw it on HN. I am in the Apple ecosystem, so I had no need for it anyways, but I didn’t expect a product to last when it relies on Apple not restricting something they clearly want to restrict.<p>It clearly got them a lot of press, attention, and recognition. But also indicated, to me, that they are just not reliable.<p>The team seems very intelligent and capable. I truly hope they find something to do next that doesn’t rely on such a fragile bridge.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beeper – Moving Forward</title><url>https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-moving-forward</url></story> |
20,360,678 | 20,359,157 | 1 | 2 | 20,358,231 | 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>Animats</author><text>Most of those are on the Internet Archive.[1] Often in better versions. The Private Snafu cartoons are from some commercial DVD with watermarks. The originals are online from the National Archives, and they&#x27;re better.<p>A useful project would be to take the MPEG 2 versions from the Internet Archive, apply modern cleanup, scratch removal, frame alignment, and exposure equalization techniques, and put those up. The MPEG 2 versions have no frame to frame compression, which is good for archival purposes. Cleanup technology has improved since most of those were scanned.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;feature_films" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;feature_films</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Public Domain Movies</title><url>http://publicdomainflix.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>blauekapelle</author><text>To add to this; all of the Soviet films are available on YouTube with good subtitles from an official channel. A really great one is &quot;Ivan vassilievich changes occupation&quot;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;mosfilm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;mosfilm</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Public Domain Movies</title><url>http://publicdomainflix.com</url></story> |
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