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28,016,112 | 28,015,810 | 1 | 2 | 28,012,969 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pkulak</author><text>My name here is my name on Reddit is my name on GitHub is my name in real life. I’ve never believed it was possible to be totally anonymous on someone else’s server, so it’s good to have the reminder that I’m absolutely not every time I post anything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>I remember seeing some machine learning algorithm posted here a while back that did an amazing job fingerprinting writing samples. It could use that fingerprint to match up accounts from multiple different sites. Some people here had it correctly find their Reddit profile based off nothing but their public HN data.<p>If you are writing extensively both anonymously and non-anonymously, you should probably assume that someone motivated enough could match the two together either presently or in the near future as such technology becomes more widespread.</text></item><item><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>1. I say so much exploratory shit on here, just to see where that line of thought goes. No effing way I&#x27;d want people to really know how stupid or childish I can be whilst trying different crazy thoughts or behaviors. I prefer freedom to explore ideas without consequences thank you! If that is anti-HN, then by all means, delete me and block my IP. I&#x27;ll just go back to lurking.<p>2. I don&#x27;t want my personal id&#x27;ing info ever floating around associated with lengthy diary. Seems like a gargantuan attack surface. Maybe I&#x27;m just paranoid.<p>EDIT: FYI: This is the ONLY social media website I post on. Period. Nothing else. No reddit. No linkedin. No FB. No tweeting. Nada.<p>EDIT#2: DanG&#x27;s reply messages directly to me have really changed my dynamic, I&#x27;ve become slightly less hot-headed and come to see why HN is a great place. No other social media site &quot;taught me&quot; this, even from a guy who spent plenty of time on CompuServe and usenet.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details</title><text>TL;DR: <i>Consider listing your contact details in your HN profile!</i><p>There are lots of interesting conversations happening here on HN. But sometimes people might want to continue the discussions even after threads fall of the front page.<p>Have you considered listing your contact details on HN so that people can get in touch with you more easily?<p>If you want to do that, please note that it’s <i>not</i> enough to fill in the email field on your profile. <i>Only</i> the HN admins can see that field.<p>If you want others to see your e-mail address etc, you need to explicitly put it in the <i>about</i> text area.<p>Some members want to keep a low profile and I certainly respect that. But please consider what you might be missing. There’s also no requirement to use your main e-mail address. One could also use an alternative e-mail in order to stay pseudonymous.<p>There are just so many interesting people here so I thought that one might not want to miss out on all interesting connections that could occur. For example, interesting job offers are not uncommon here.<p>Just my 2¢ though, do what thou wilt. Peace!</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>akomtu</author><text>This evidence is inadmissible in general public. You can&#x27;t go on Twitter, say that the writing style of that and this person is 98% similar per the state of the art SGERT model and convince the public with that. It&#x27;s also trivial to for a doxing target to dismiss this evidence as another flaky piece of software that&#x27;s confusing writing styles. This kind of software is useful, but for more specialized purposes: forensics, intelligence.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>I remember seeing some machine learning algorithm posted here a while back that did an amazing job fingerprinting writing samples. It could use that fingerprint to match up accounts from multiple different sites. Some people here had it correctly find their Reddit profile based off nothing but their public HN data.<p>If you are writing extensively both anonymously and non-anonymously, you should probably assume that someone motivated enough could match the two together either presently or in the near future as such technology becomes more widespread.</text></item><item><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>1. I say so much exploratory shit on here, just to see where that line of thought goes. No effing way I&#x27;d want people to really know how stupid or childish I can be whilst trying different crazy thoughts or behaviors. I prefer freedom to explore ideas without consequences thank you! If that is anti-HN, then by all means, delete me and block my IP. I&#x27;ll just go back to lurking.<p>2. I don&#x27;t want my personal id&#x27;ing info ever floating around associated with lengthy diary. Seems like a gargantuan attack surface. Maybe I&#x27;m just paranoid.<p>EDIT: FYI: This is the ONLY social media website I post on. Period. Nothing else. No reddit. No linkedin. No FB. No tweeting. Nada.<p>EDIT#2: DanG&#x27;s reply messages directly to me have really changed my dynamic, I&#x27;ve become slightly less hot-headed and come to see why HN is a great place. No other social media site &quot;taught me&quot; this, even from a guy who spent plenty of time on CompuServe and usenet.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details</title><text>TL;DR: <i>Consider listing your contact details in your HN profile!</i><p>There are lots of interesting conversations happening here on HN. But sometimes people might want to continue the discussions even after threads fall of the front page.<p>Have you considered listing your contact details on HN so that people can get in touch with you more easily?<p>If you want to do that, please note that it’s <i>not</i> enough to fill in the email field on your profile. <i>Only</i> the HN admins can see that field.<p>If you want others to see your e-mail address etc, you need to explicitly put it in the <i>about</i> text area.<p>Some members want to keep a low profile and I certainly respect that. But please consider what you might be missing. There’s also no requirement to use your main e-mail address. One could also use an alternative e-mail in order to stay pseudonymous.<p>There are just so many interesting people here so I thought that one might not want to miss out on all interesting connections that could occur. For example, interesting job offers are not uncommon here.<p>Just my 2¢ though, do what thou wilt. Peace!</text></story> |
16,684,010 | 16,683,449 | 1 | 3 | 16,682,841 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tzs</author><text>As others have noted, there has been another arrest. The operations director was merely the first. So, the question then becomes why him first?<p>According to the article:<p>&gt; As investigators were looking into the death of the boy, Caleb Schwab, in August 2016, Mr. Miles, then the operations director, hid or destroyed documents detailing injuries sustained by riders, the indictment said.<p>I&#x27;d guess that this might have something to do with it. Even if it turns out that no one did anything actually criminal in regards to the building and operation of the ride itself, destroying evidence to impede an investigation is criminal. The criminal charges for this are probably also easier to prove than the ones related to the ride itself.<p>Furthermore, even if it turns out there was nothing actually criminal in the operation of the ride, so that none of the owners or designers are guilty of anything, he can still go down for destroying evidence.<p>In short...he&#x27;s potentially double screwed. So indict him first, point out that even if he gets off on the ride-related charges (which is plausible...he can try to argue that he is not an engineer, so he trusted the judgment of the engineers who designed and built the thing), they&#x27;ve got him on the destroying evidence thing. His only realistic hope, therefore, is to accept a deal. Tell him you really want to nail the owners and designers, and offer him a deal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazypyro</author><text>edit: The owner was arrested just today, so I had missed that.<p>Can someone explain why they are charging the 29 year old director of operations who started as a lifeguard and had no formal training or connection to engineering&#x2F;design and not one of the designers or owners, both of which are mentioned in the indictment multiple times?<p>It doesn&#x27;t make a lot of sense to me other than they needed to charge someone.</text></item><item><author>teraflop</author><text>The full indictment [1] is well worth reading. The most relevant sections for HN, in my opinion:<p>&gt; 35. [Designer Jeffrey] HENRY compared the construction of Verrückt to an arms race against rival waterparks.<p>&gt; 37. HENRY admitted that he was ignoring established industry safety standards because he felt he could redefine those standards with his own achievements. While describing his vision of how Verrückt would change the industry, HENRY explained, &quot;[W]e&#x27;re going to set the standards up, and set the education up, and we&#x27;re gonna redefine many of the definables that have been defined in the industry that we couldn&#x27;t find good reasons for.&quot;<p>Also check out paragraphs 85-89 for some incredibly unethical behavior on the part of one of Schlitterbahn&#x27;s attorneys.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wycocourtks.org&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;4&#x2F;4&#x2F;1&#x2F;2&#x2F;4412070&#x2F;2018-03-21_indictment__miles_swkc__filed_redacted.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wycocourtks.org&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;4&#x2F;4&#x2F;1&#x2F;2&#x2F;4412070&#x2F;2018-03-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design Standards</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/us/waterslide-boy-decapitated-charges.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>Maybestring</author><text>&gt;Evidence suggests that the park planned to delay maintenance until the park closed for the season.<p>When a safety feature was out of service, they decided to keep running it. That sounds like a director of operations decison.<p>And much easier case to prove than design deficiency.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazypyro</author><text>edit: The owner was arrested just today, so I had missed that.<p>Can someone explain why they are charging the 29 year old director of operations who started as a lifeguard and had no formal training or connection to engineering&#x2F;design and not one of the designers or owners, both of which are mentioned in the indictment multiple times?<p>It doesn&#x27;t make a lot of sense to me other than they needed to charge someone.</text></item><item><author>teraflop</author><text>The full indictment [1] is well worth reading. The most relevant sections for HN, in my opinion:<p>&gt; 35. [Designer Jeffrey] HENRY compared the construction of Verrückt to an arms race against rival waterparks.<p>&gt; 37. HENRY admitted that he was ignoring established industry safety standards because he felt he could redefine those standards with his own achievements. While describing his vision of how Verrückt would change the industry, HENRY explained, &quot;[W]e&#x27;re going to set the standards up, and set the education up, and we&#x27;re gonna redefine many of the definables that have been defined in the industry that we couldn&#x27;t find good reasons for.&quot;<p>Also check out paragraphs 85-89 for some incredibly unethical behavior on the part of one of Schlitterbahn&#x27;s attorneys.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wycocourtks.org&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;4&#x2F;4&#x2F;1&#x2F;2&#x2F;4412070&#x2F;2018-03-21_indictment__miles_swkc__filed_redacted.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wycocourtks.org&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;4&#x2F;4&#x2F;1&#x2F;2&#x2F;4412070&#x2F;2018-03-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design Standards</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/us/waterslide-boy-decapitated-charges.html</url></story> |
24,483,357 | 24,482,903 | 1 | 2 | 24,481,616 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>60secz</author><text>Shame they don&#x27;t actually include templating inside of the string literal. Still have to append with a lot of tokenized replaces. Since they&#x27;ve committed to no formatting in the literal section, will be interesting to see if they eventually support a syntax like python&#x27;s f-strings: f&quot;&quot;&quot;${foo}&quot;&quot;&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>kentosi</author><text>I&#x27;m so happy that we finally have multiline text blocks in Java:<p><pre><code> String query = &quot;&quot;&quot;
SELECT &quot;EMP_ID&quot;, &quot;LAST_NAME&quot; FROM &quot;EMPLOYEE_TB&quot;
WHERE &quot;CITY&quot; = &#x27;INDIANAPOLIS&#x27;
ORDER BY &quot;EMP_ID&quot;, &quot;LAST_NAME&quot;;
&quot;&quot;&quot;;
</code></pre>
It&#x27;s one more step closer to scala&#x2F;kotlin&#x2F;etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JDK 15</title><url>https://jdk.java.net/15/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jen20</author><text>Does this result in a string with a hanging indent, or is the common prefix removed?<p>(Sorry, being somewhat lazy, I could pull up the spec).</text><parent_chain><item><author>kentosi</author><text>I&#x27;m so happy that we finally have multiline text blocks in Java:<p><pre><code> String query = &quot;&quot;&quot;
SELECT &quot;EMP_ID&quot;, &quot;LAST_NAME&quot; FROM &quot;EMPLOYEE_TB&quot;
WHERE &quot;CITY&quot; = &#x27;INDIANAPOLIS&#x27;
ORDER BY &quot;EMP_ID&quot;, &quot;LAST_NAME&quot;;
&quot;&quot;&quot;;
</code></pre>
It&#x27;s one more step closer to scala&#x2F;kotlin&#x2F;etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JDK 15</title><url>https://jdk.java.net/15/</url></story> |
16,146,496 | 16,146,632 | 1 | 3 | 16,145,776 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spookthesunset</author><text>Again. Circular logic of crypto shysters at work.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s real, measurable economic activity on a massive scale.<p>What economic activity? It is people speculating. Nobody is using bitcoin for buying coffee or sending micropayments to websites. Nobody is using it as a &quot;store of value&quot;, despite what the shysters say. It is just people buying and selling a meaningless ticker symbol hoping to get rich and buy some island in the south pacific (using fiat, I might add).<p>With bitcoin, you might as well just throw away the technology behind it and just trade on the BTC ticker instead. I mean, that is almost what is happening given all the trades on any given exchange are off-chain transactions happening in a centralized exchange-owned database. There is no rumbling of miners recording every trade. The only people doing cross-trade are people trying to arbitrage away the price difference between exchanges.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Meekro</author><text>Every day, $33 billion dollars worth of &quot;traditional&quot; currencies are traded for $33 billion dollars worth of cryptocurrencies[1]. Coinbase, the top bitcoin exchange, is the 5th largest personal finance site in the US[2] -- the only bigger ones are chase.com, paypal.com, wellsfargo.com, and bankofamerica.com -- and Coinbase is rapidly closing the gap and is on track to overtake all of them within 6 months [3].<p>This is nothing like the &quot;sand coin&quot; from your example. It&#x27;s real, measurable economic activity on a massive scale.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coinmarketcap.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coinmarketcap.com</a> (cryptocurrency 24 hour volume)<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexa.com&#x2F;topsites&#x2F;countries;1&#x2F;US" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexa.com&#x2F;topsites&#x2F;countries;1&#x2F;US</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexa.com&#x2F;siteinfo&#x2F;coinbase.com#?sites=coinbase.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexa.com&#x2F;siteinfo&#x2F;coinbase.com#?sites=coinbase.c...</a></text></item><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>&gt; However, given its tremendous market capitalization, it may yet turn out to be a viable way to store value.<p>The circular logic of bitcoin shysters never ceases to amaze.<p>I have created a new coin called &quot;sand coin&quot;. Each coin is a grain of sand from my backyard Yesterday my friend bought one grain of sand from me for $1. Therefore, given the fact that there is billions of sand grains in my backyard, their market cap is <i>giant</i>. Given its tremendous market cap, Sandcoin is a great store of value.</text></item><item><author>ryandvm</author><text>I dunno, I suppose one wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if a gold conference didn&#x27;t accept gold payments.<p>That is, in its current form, Bitcoin is _terrible_ for general transactions. However, given its tremendous market capitalization, it may yet turn out to be a viable way to store value.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin conf stopped taking Bitcoin payments because they don't work well enough</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/10/bitcoin-conference-stops-accepting-cryptocurrency-payments.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>throwaway5752</author><text>To bring it back around: a conference devoted to bitcoin stopped accepting payments in bitcoin. People are speculating on bitcoin, but some or most of the value is based on its future liquidity and value as a medium of commerce. That seems doubtful.<p>And are you basing the size of personal finance sites based on <i>Alexa</i> data?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Meekro</author><text>Every day, $33 billion dollars worth of &quot;traditional&quot; currencies are traded for $33 billion dollars worth of cryptocurrencies[1]. Coinbase, the top bitcoin exchange, is the 5th largest personal finance site in the US[2] -- the only bigger ones are chase.com, paypal.com, wellsfargo.com, and bankofamerica.com -- and Coinbase is rapidly closing the gap and is on track to overtake all of them within 6 months [3].<p>This is nothing like the &quot;sand coin&quot; from your example. It&#x27;s real, measurable economic activity on a massive scale.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coinmarketcap.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coinmarketcap.com</a> (cryptocurrency 24 hour volume)<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexa.com&#x2F;topsites&#x2F;countries;1&#x2F;US" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexa.com&#x2F;topsites&#x2F;countries;1&#x2F;US</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexa.com&#x2F;siteinfo&#x2F;coinbase.com#?sites=coinbase.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexa.com&#x2F;siteinfo&#x2F;coinbase.com#?sites=coinbase.c...</a></text></item><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>&gt; However, given its tremendous market capitalization, it may yet turn out to be a viable way to store value.<p>The circular logic of bitcoin shysters never ceases to amaze.<p>I have created a new coin called &quot;sand coin&quot;. Each coin is a grain of sand from my backyard Yesterday my friend bought one grain of sand from me for $1. Therefore, given the fact that there is billions of sand grains in my backyard, their market cap is <i>giant</i>. Given its tremendous market cap, Sandcoin is a great store of value.</text></item><item><author>ryandvm</author><text>I dunno, I suppose one wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if a gold conference didn&#x27;t accept gold payments.<p>That is, in its current form, Bitcoin is _terrible_ for general transactions. However, given its tremendous market capitalization, it may yet turn out to be a viable way to store value.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin conf stopped taking Bitcoin payments because they don't work well enough</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/10/bitcoin-conference-stops-accepting-cryptocurrency-payments.html</url></story> |
33,037,349 | 33,037,378 | 1 | 2 | 33,036,748 | 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>burnished</author><text>Just a guess, but I think they don&#x27;t want to serve as an oracle for the people whose malware they are trying to block.<p>Not saying that isn&#x27;t shit or frustrating.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lucb1e</author><text>Should they then not just reply with &quot;You&#x27;re on the list because of the malware payload at &lt;URL&gt;&quot;?</text></item><item><author>jcrawfordor</author><text>Very important that you develop complete confidence that there isn&#x27;t anything wrong with your product. It&#x27;s not uncommon, in fact it&#x27;s very common, for compromise kits for websites to take measures to avoid detection. A common one is only serving the malicious content when a specific referrer is present (I&#x27;ve seen this be Yahoo Search in the case of compromised Drupal installations multiple times, not really sure why). It might be wise to engage a security firm to conduct an investigation if you don&#x27;t have in-house expertise in this area. You should definitely review logs carefully for any unusual inbound traffic. Sometimes looking up your own domain on services like virustotal can reveal the problem, as it might turn up samples of malware retrieved from your website.<p>I say this because I have been involved in this exact situation multiple times: website flagged by some or other security service, website operator has no idea why and insists it is fine, website turns out to be serving the landing page of a major pharma scam campaign unnoticed by the website operator due to anti-detection measures.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Microsoft SmartScreen is destroying our business</title><text>About a month ago, Microsoft SmartScreen suddenly started flagging the login page of our SaaS dashboard as &#x27;unsafe&#x27;, scaring away our customers.<p>We understand false flags can happen. So we took to the official SmartScreen feedback site to report the false flag (as the website owner). Received an email that stated it would take up to 24hrs to analyse: &#x27;If the status of your site has not changed after 24 hours, please contact us with a reply to this message&#x27;.<p>Sep 8 - first ticket sent.
Sep 9 (24h later) - nothing. So we replied to the message as instructed.
Sep 12 - still nothing. One more reply sent. Asked some of our customers to report our site as safe.
Sep 15 - crickets. Tried calling phone support, impossible to get through; they just hang up on us. Reached out to MS support on Twitter, said they would look into the case.
Sep 22 - no changes - MS twitter support has been unable to find the correct person internally. We replied to the SmartScreen ticket once more. Opened two new tickets. Asked more customers to report the site as safe.
Sep 30 (Today) - now the warning has started to spread from our login page to our entire dashboard. Still no word from Microsoft.<p>We are totally baffed that MS allows a false flag to stay up this long, totally ignoring us for almost a full month, meanwhile destroying a business that did nothing wrong...<p>We suspect one of our competitors is responsible for falsely reported us. Is &#x27;weaponized SmartScreen&#x27; a thing?<p>Does anyone have a similar experience? Any advince on resolving this matter is greatly appreciated!</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>300bps</author><text>In this case, that sure would be helpful. Now imagine that you&#x27;re running a website that is intentionally trying to trick people into installing malware. You&#x27;ve successfully evaded tools like Smart Screen but now you&#x27;ve ended up on the list.<p>You&#x27;re not sure which one of your virus payloads set off their screen so you open a ticket. And Microsoft is supposed to tell you exactly how to get off their list again?</text><parent_chain><item><author>lucb1e</author><text>Should they then not just reply with &quot;You&#x27;re on the list because of the malware payload at &lt;URL&gt;&quot;?</text></item><item><author>jcrawfordor</author><text>Very important that you develop complete confidence that there isn&#x27;t anything wrong with your product. It&#x27;s not uncommon, in fact it&#x27;s very common, for compromise kits for websites to take measures to avoid detection. A common one is only serving the malicious content when a specific referrer is present (I&#x27;ve seen this be Yahoo Search in the case of compromised Drupal installations multiple times, not really sure why). It might be wise to engage a security firm to conduct an investigation if you don&#x27;t have in-house expertise in this area. You should definitely review logs carefully for any unusual inbound traffic. Sometimes looking up your own domain on services like virustotal can reveal the problem, as it might turn up samples of malware retrieved from your website.<p>I say this because I have been involved in this exact situation multiple times: website flagged by some or other security service, website operator has no idea why and insists it is fine, website turns out to be serving the landing page of a major pharma scam campaign unnoticed by the website operator due to anti-detection measures.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Microsoft SmartScreen is destroying our business</title><text>About a month ago, Microsoft SmartScreen suddenly started flagging the login page of our SaaS dashboard as &#x27;unsafe&#x27;, scaring away our customers.<p>We understand false flags can happen. So we took to the official SmartScreen feedback site to report the false flag (as the website owner). Received an email that stated it would take up to 24hrs to analyse: &#x27;If the status of your site has not changed after 24 hours, please contact us with a reply to this message&#x27;.<p>Sep 8 - first ticket sent.
Sep 9 (24h later) - nothing. So we replied to the message as instructed.
Sep 12 - still nothing. One more reply sent. Asked some of our customers to report our site as safe.
Sep 15 - crickets. Tried calling phone support, impossible to get through; they just hang up on us. Reached out to MS support on Twitter, said they would look into the case.
Sep 22 - no changes - MS twitter support has been unable to find the correct person internally. We replied to the SmartScreen ticket once more. Opened two new tickets. Asked more customers to report the site as safe.
Sep 30 (Today) - now the warning has started to spread from our login page to our entire dashboard. Still no word from Microsoft.<p>We are totally baffed that MS allows a false flag to stay up this long, totally ignoring us for almost a full month, meanwhile destroying a business that did nothing wrong...<p>We suspect one of our competitors is responsible for falsely reported us. Is &#x27;weaponized SmartScreen&#x27; a thing?<p>Does anyone have a similar experience? Any advince on resolving this matter is greatly appreciated!</text></story> |
21,758,962 | 21,756,296 | 1 | 3 | 21,753,182 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>616c</author><text>Spent a good amount of time over there. GCC states shitting on each other is real &quot;pot, meet kettle&quot; hypocrisy and nonsense. And yes, we have two massive bases in Qatar. We can play all of the GCC against each other, but I can say as bigoted as it sounds: all the GCC states are repulsive and US support of _any_ of them is yet another sign of the US government upholding the stability of its values at home by subverting access to those same values for others abroad.<p>It is like we are all in an ironic race to the bottom for who can be most ironic with &quot;do what I say, not what I do.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>BeetleB</author><text>&gt; recall that Qatar was kicked out of GCC recently for aligning with rival ideologies like Muslim Brotherhood<p>This is a very narrow view of what happened. It has more to do with the worry of Qatar&#x27;s growing influence and independence in the region, as well as their close ties with Iran and Turkey. And the success of Al-Jazeera. I mean, just take a look at the demands made of Qatar:<p>- Closing Al-Jazeera and its affiliate stations.<p>- Closing other news outlets that Qatar funds, directly and indirectly, including Arabi21, Rassd, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed and Middle East Eye.<p>- Closing the Turkish military base in Qatar, and terminate the Turkish military presence and any joint military cooperation with Turkey inside Qatar.<p>- Reducing diplomatic relations with Iran. Only trade and commerce with Iran that complies with US and international sanctions will be permitted.[228]<p>- Expelling any members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and cutting off military and intelligence cooperation with Iran.[229]<p>- &quot;Qatar must announce it is severing ties with terrorist, ideological and sectarian organizations including the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Jabhat Fateh al Sham, formerly al Qaeda&#x27;s branch in Syria&quot; according to one Arab official.<p>- Surrendering all designated terrorists in Qatar, and stopping all means of funding for individuals, groups or organisations that have been designated as terrorists.<p>- Ending interference in the four countries&#x27; domestic and foreign affairs and having contact with their political oppositions.<p>- Stopping granting citizenship to wanted nationals from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain.<p>- Revoking Qatari citizenship for existing nationals where such citizenship violates those countries&#x27; laws.[228]<p>- The payment of reparations for years of alleged wrongs.<p>- Monitoring for 10 years.[226]<p>- Aligning itself with the other Gulf and Arab countries militarily, politically, socially and economically, as well as on economic matters, in line with an agreement reached with Saudi Arabia in 2014.[228]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Qatar_diplomatic_crisis#Demands_on_Qatar_and_responses" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Qatar_diplomatic_crisis#Demand...</a></text></item><item><author>vowelless</author><text>Unfortunately, not a surprise at all. Recall that Clarke was one of the guys who OKed the return of the bin Laden family on 9&#x2F;11 [edit: 1]. Clarke had deep connections to royals and rich elites like the bin Ladens<p>See how they targeted Qatari individuals including Al Thani himself. They say the incentive was the fight against Al Qaeda. But I am skeptical. This is about the rivalry between the Qatari and other Khaleeji royals (recall that Qatar was kicked out of GCC recently for aligning with rival ideologies like Muslim Brotherhood).<p>Also interesting to note is that until very recently, America’s Mid East command was in Qatar; so America was playing both sides of that conflict (as usual). I am, of course, assuming that Good Harbor &#x2F; DREAD have deep federal ties. Not sure about DarkMatter — that seems Emirati.<p>———-<p>Edits:<p>[1] the commenter below corrected me. It was on 13th of September. But my understanding is that there was still an exception made for the Saudis (see the private aircraft ban extending beyond the time when Saudis were being shuttled around)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unit</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-raven-whitehouse/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cyph0n</author><text>You are spot on with the true reasons about the blockade of Qatar. I also heard that the blockading countries offered to end the blockade if Qatar transferred the 2022 World Cup hosting rights to them, though I&#x27;m not sure if that&#x27;s even possible.<p>Regarding the demands on Qatar with respect to terrorist organizations:<p>1) The list includes organizations that are only designated as terrorist organizations by a minority of countries.<p>2) Qatar has regularly organized meetings between US government officials and terrorist organizations like the Taliban.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BeetleB</author><text>&gt; recall that Qatar was kicked out of GCC recently for aligning with rival ideologies like Muslim Brotherhood<p>This is a very narrow view of what happened. It has more to do with the worry of Qatar&#x27;s growing influence and independence in the region, as well as their close ties with Iran and Turkey. And the success of Al-Jazeera. I mean, just take a look at the demands made of Qatar:<p>- Closing Al-Jazeera and its affiliate stations.<p>- Closing other news outlets that Qatar funds, directly and indirectly, including Arabi21, Rassd, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed and Middle East Eye.<p>- Closing the Turkish military base in Qatar, and terminate the Turkish military presence and any joint military cooperation with Turkey inside Qatar.<p>- Reducing diplomatic relations with Iran. Only trade and commerce with Iran that complies with US and international sanctions will be permitted.[228]<p>- Expelling any members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and cutting off military and intelligence cooperation with Iran.[229]<p>- &quot;Qatar must announce it is severing ties with terrorist, ideological and sectarian organizations including the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Jabhat Fateh al Sham, formerly al Qaeda&#x27;s branch in Syria&quot; according to one Arab official.<p>- Surrendering all designated terrorists in Qatar, and stopping all means of funding for individuals, groups or organisations that have been designated as terrorists.<p>- Ending interference in the four countries&#x27; domestic and foreign affairs and having contact with their political oppositions.<p>- Stopping granting citizenship to wanted nationals from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain.<p>- Revoking Qatari citizenship for existing nationals where such citizenship violates those countries&#x27; laws.[228]<p>- The payment of reparations for years of alleged wrongs.<p>- Monitoring for 10 years.[226]<p>- Aligning itself with the other Gulf and Arab countries militarily, politically, socially and economically, as well as on economic matters, in line with an agreement reached with Saudi Arabia in 2014.[228]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Qatar_diplomatic_crisis#Demands_on_Qatar_and_responses" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Qatar_diplomatic_crisis#Demand...</a></text></item><item><author>vowelless</author><text>Unfortunately, not a surprise at all. Recall that Clarke was one of the guys who OKed the return of the bin Laden family on 9&#x2F;11 [edit: 1]. Clarke had deep connections to royals and rich elites like the bin Ladens<p>See how they targeted Qatari individuals including Al Thani himself. They say the incentive was the fight against Al Qaeda. But I am skeptical. This is about the rivalry between the Qatari and other Khaleeji royals (recall that Qatar was kicked out of GCC recently for aligning with rival ideologies like Muslim Brotherhood).<p>Also interesting to note is that until very recently, America’s Mid East command was in Qatar; so America was playing both sides of that conflict (as usual). I am, of course, assuming that Good Harbor &#x2F; DREAD have deep federal ties. Not sure about DarkMatter — that seems Emirati.<p>———-<p>Edits:<p>[1] the commenter below corrected me. It was on 13th of September. But my understanding is that there was still an exception made for the Saudis (see the private aircraft ban extending beyond the time when Saudis were being shuttled around)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unit</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-raven-whitehouse/</url></story> |
13,886,068 | 13,886,296 | 1 | 2 | 13,882,297 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>btilly</author><text>First and second order corrections are a lot more reasonable to calculate than the whole theory!<p>Furthermore calculating the whole theory runs into interesting challenges where the coordinate system is twisted and and distorted but underlying space-time is not. For a well-known example, a black hole can be described with both Schwarzschild coordinates and Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates. The first coordinate system blows up at the event horizon, the second doesn&#x27;t. The fact that it blows up is due to a bad choice of coordinate system there, and not due to local space time being particularly bizarre at that spot.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BrendanD</author><text>Nope: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;universesandbox.com&#x2F;faq&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;universesandbox.com&#x2F;faq&#x2F;</a><p><pre><code> Does it account for relativity?
No, the physics in Universe Sandbox ² is currently only
Newtonian.
Why?
The short answer is that you need a supercomputer to
accurately simulate general relativity.
Jenn, astrophysicist and Universe Sandbox ² developer,
explains more in a blog post: &quot;General relativity
requires simulating the spacetime itself. That is,
taking your simulation space, discretizing it to a
hi-res 3-D grid and checking the effect that each and
every point in that grid has on all neighboring points
at every timestep. Instead of simulating N number of
bodies, you are simulating a huge number of points.
You start with some initial data of the shape of your
spacetime and then see how it evolves according to the
Einstein equations, which are 10 highly non-linear
partial differential equations.&quot;
We are, however, interested in adding in a few features
which would address some effects of relativity. One
example is setting gravity to travel at the speed of
light, instead of instantaneously taking effect as it
currently does. You can read more about these in
Jenn&#x27;s blog post: Gravitational Waves &amp; Universe
Sandbox ².</code></pre></text></item><item><author>ISL</author><text>I expect so -- at least one of the people on the team is a relativist. Sending her an email now...</text></item><item><author>yodon</author><text>I wonder if you could model this in Universe Sandbox [0]? (I live in Seattle so I&#x27;ve met the author Dan Dixon a few times at meetups but have no other relationship to it)<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;universesandbox.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;universesandbox.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Astronomers Have Found a Star Orbiting a Black Hole at 1% the Speed of Light</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-just-found-a-star-orbiting-a-black-hole-at-1-percent-the-speed-of-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>yodon</author><text>How cool - asking the question &quot;does gravity propagate at the speed of light and if so what impact does that have on orbital dynamics&quot; was the event that led me down the path to my PhD, so it&#x27;s awesome the answer to the question is now (or soon to be?) baked into a science toy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BrendanD</author><text>Nope: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;universesandbox.com&#x2F;faq&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;universesandbox.com&#x2F;faq&#x2F;</a><p><pre><code> Does it account for relativity?
No, the physics in Universe Sandbox ² is currently only
Newtonian.
Why?
The short answer is that you need a supercomputer to
accurately simulate general relativity.
Jenn, astrophysicist and Universe Sandbox ² developer,
explains more in a blog post: &quot;General relativity
requires simulating the spacetime itself. That is,
taking your simulation space, discretizing it to a
hi-res 3-D grid and checking the effect that each and
every point in that grid has on all neighboring points
at every timestep. Instead of simulating N number of
bodies, you are simulating a huge number of points.
You start with some initial data of the shape of your
spacetime and then see how it evolves according to the
Einstein equations, which are 10 highly non-linear
partial differential equations.&quot;
We are, however, interested in adding in a few features
which would address some effects of relativity. One
example is setting gravity to travel at the speed of
light, instead of instantaneously taking effect as it
currently does. You can read more about these in
Jenn&#x27;s blog post: Gravitational Waves &amp; Universe
Sandbox ².</code></pre></text></item><item><author>ISL</author><text>I expect so -- at least one of the people on the team is a relativist. Sending her an email now...</text></item><item><author>yodon</author><text>I wonder if you could model this in Universe Sandbox [0]? (I live in Seattle so I&#x27;ve met the author Dan Dixon a few times at meetups but have no other relationship to it)<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;universesandbox.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;universesandbox.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Astronomers Have Found a Star Orbiting a Black Hole at 1% the Speed of Light</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-just-found-a-star-orbiting-a-black-hole-at-1-percent-the-speed-of-light</url></story> |
16,981,480 | 16,980,754 | 1 | 2 | 16,978,901 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeena</author><text>And if we want to compare the syntax then this would be the QML equivalent:<p><pre><code> import QtQuick 2.9
import QtQuick.Controls 1.3
ApplicationWindow {
title: &quot;Example&quot;
visible: true
width: 300
height: 300
Button {
text: &quot;Button&quot;
anchors.centerIn: parent
onClicked: console.log(&#x27;Hello&#x27;)
}
}</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>WaltPurvis</author><text>&gt;You can create a GUI using something like Qt, but the code to make it is messy and unorganized.<p>It doesn&#x27;t serve the author well to make this comparison. Saying it&#x27;s less messy to manage Proton&#x2F;React source code files and the associated Node&#x2F;JS&#x2F;etc infrastructure is an extremely dubious claim. One of the things I like best about Qt is how non-messy Qt development is. Most everything (source files, resources, etc.) lives in a well-organized project that is easily managed using the Qt Creator IDE. The project structure is well-documented and standardized.<p>It&#x27;s also quite strange to compare React code to code using the Python binding for Qt. That&#x27;s not how most Qt apps are written. Most Qt apps these days use QML, which is based on regular old JavaScript. Besides being a more accurate representation of the way Qt development is normally done, it would also be more interesting to compare one JavaScript-based framework to another. (Although I recommend not making the comparison at all, since I don&#x27;t believe a fair comparison would favor Proton.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Proton Native – React Native for the desktop</title><url>https://proton-native.js.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>stuffedBelly</author><text>I&#x27;ve used Qt developing various data-heavy apps for financial research at work and agree that making this comparison is rather inappropriate. For people who are not familiar with JSX this is not any better than the Qt syntax. This would be an alternative to Qt, but before I see a full-fledging app developed with great performance&#x2F;memory metrics using this, I am not convinced enough to put it in my framework stack.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WaltPurvis</author><text>&gt;You can create a GUI using something like Qt, but the code to make it is messy and unorganized.<p>It doesn&#x27;t serve the author well to make this comparison. Saying it&#x27;s less messy to manage Proton&#x2F;React source code files and the associated Node&#x2F;JS&#x2F;etc infrastructure is an extremely dubious claim. One of the things I like best about Qt is how non-messy Qt development is. Most everything (source files, resources, etc.) lives in a well-organized project that is easily managed using the Qt Creator IDE. The project structure is well-documented and standardized.<p>It&#x27;s also quite strange to compare React code to code using the Python binding for Qt. That&#x27;s not how most Qt apps are written. Most Qt apps these days use QML, which is based on regular old JavaScript. Besides being a more accurate representation of the way Qt development is normally done, it would also be more interesting to compare one JavaScript-based framework to another. (Although I recommend not making the comparison at all, since I don&#x27;t believe a fair comparison would favor Proton.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Proton Native – React Native for the desktop</title><url>https://proton-native.js.org/</url></story> |
26,718,057 | 26,716,299 | 1 | 2 | 26,715,223 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26345937" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26345937</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It looks like Signal isn't as open source as you thought it was anymore</title><url>https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signal-isnt-as-open-source-as-you-thought-it-was-anymore/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bilal4hmed</author><text>It looks like they had been working on adding MobileCoin support server side <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;help-us-test-payments-in-signal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;help-us-test-payments-in-signal&#x2F;</a> .<p>Just a few minutes ago the server code was updated. Im honestly not happy about this. Feels yucky</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It looks like Signal isn't as open source as you thought it was anymore</title><url>https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signal-isnt-as-open-source-as-you-thought-it-was-anymore/</url></story> |
15,226,300 | 15,226,155 | 1 | 2 | 15,225,274 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>&quot;Safe&quot; languages make it harder to write some classes of bugs; this is good. I wonder, though, whether it&#x27;s not a better return on investment to focus on sandboxing wherever possible? I can run curl in firejail <i>right now</i> with no code changes whatsoever. On supported systems, pledge() and SELinux rules can mitigate attacks with minimal effort. And we get to keep existing programs without investing the man-years to rewrite something that works.</text><parent_chain><item><author>angrygoat</author><text>The sort of hypothetical security vulnerability here is likely to depend on undefined behaviour (buffer over-runs, subverting parsers, etc etc). Just another reason to continue moving over to safe languages, especially for the lower level bits of our stacks. HTTP is big and complicated, I&#x27;m much happier exposing Rust&#x2F;Go&#x2F;C#&#x2F;... to it than I am exposing C to it.<p>In safe languages, backdoors must be far more explicit, so we close off the likely scenario posited here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Curl’s backdoor threat</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/09/12/the-backdoor-threat/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moxious</author><text>There&#x27;s a good chance that if you were to rewrite some of today&#x27;s existing stack in new languages you&#x27;d end up with more bugs, not fewer.<p>C may be awful in some respects but for quality it&#x27;s going to be hard to beat 15 years of peer review with any new languages cool features.</text><parent_chain><item><author>angrygoat</author><text>The sort of hypothetical security vulnerability here is likely to depend on undefined behaviour (buffer over-runs, subverting parsers, etc etc). Just another reason to continue moving over to safe languages, especially for the lower level bits of our stacks. HTTP is big and complicated, I&#x27;m much happier exposing Rust&#x2F;Go&#x2F;C#&#x2F;... to it than I am exposing C to it.<p>In safe languages, backdoors must be far more explicit, so we close off the likely scenario posited here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Curl’s backdoor threat</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/09/12/the-backdoor-threat/</url></story> |
6,117,158 | 6,117,224 | 1 | 2 | 6,117,069 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hga</author><text>Errr, given how easy it appears to be to get a &quot;court order&quot; (note, that&#x27;s not as high a bar as a &quot;search warrant&quot;), I don&#x27;t have as much difficultly believing that&#x27;s the case.<p>The case today, that is; tomorrow....<p>(Technical note: right now I gather the NSA et. al. are making a distinction between Hoovering up &quot;everything&quot;, like all of Verizon Business&#x27;s call records in that blanket warrant we&#x27;ve seen, and actually looking at them. Infamously, &quot;collection&quot; only referrers to the latter act. Just like how inside a decrease from an automatically increased baseline, even an increase after inflation, is called a &quot;cut&quot;.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>northwest</author><text><i>“I was back out at NSA just last week, spent a couple hours out there with high and low level NSA officials,” Chambliss said. “And what I have been assured of is that there is no capability at NSA for anyone without a court order to listen to any telephone conversation or to monitor any e-mail.”</i><p>How _dumb_ must one be to continue to trust these agencies for just about anything, now? After they blatantly lie in Congress and then dare to &quot;apologize&quot; for lying in Congress, how much more do these &quot;politicians&quot; really need to start thinking for themselves?<p>Have they already been lobotomized? Are they lizards? Or what else exactly is going on?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]</title><url>http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/glenn-greenwald-low-level-nsa-analysts-have-powerful-and-invasive-search-tool/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drewcrawford</author><text>&gt; How _dumb_ must one be to continue to trust these agencies<p>Taking a deep breath for a moment, if you look at TFA it contains two contradicting allegations, from sources that appear to me to be roughly similarly credible.<p>On what evidentiary basis have you decided one source is more reliable than the other? And why are the people who believe the other source &quot;lobotomized&quot;?<p>I am not really sure what is going on here, but I do not feel that this article alone presents a sufficient basis for a reasonable person to form an opinion.</text><parent_chain><item><author>northwest</author><text><i>“I was back out at NSA just last week, spent a couple hours out there with high and low level NSA officials,” Chambliss said. “And what I have been assured of is that there is no capability at NSA for anyone without a court order to listen to any telephone conversation or to monitor any e-mail.”</i><p>How _dumb_ must one be to continue to trust these agencies for just about anything, now? After they blatantly lie in Congress and then dare to &quot;apologize&quot; for lying in Congress, how much more do these &quot;politicians&quot; really need to start thinking for themselves?<p>Have they already been lobotomized? Are they lizards? Or what else exactly is going on?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]</title><url>http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/glenn-greenwald-low-level-nsa-analysts-have-powerful-and-invasive-search-tool/</url></story> |
34,478,029 | 34,477,708 | 1 | 2 | 34,475,784 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atombender</author><text>Google beat their original competitors — Altavista, Excite, Yahoo!, and so on — with an incremental improvement, not a new model. At the time (2000-2003), their search was better and faster, certainly, but not several orders of magnitude better.<p>In fact, Google was something of a reactionary model at the time, by rejecting the push for bloated, captive &quot;web portals&quot; and going back to the simpler, stripped-down user experience that Altavista had succeeded with originally.<p>Given how bad Google&#x27;s results have become, I think you can certainly outdo it. Anecdotally, it&#x27;s amazing how often I find myself reaching for ChapGPT these days to find basic facts that Google can&#x27;t. I think Google is right to be afraid.</text><parent_chain><item><author>college_physics</author><text>&quot;In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.&quot;<p>Transcribing this profound insight of Buckminster Fuller to the current debate: You cannot out-do google by inventing &quot;smarter&quot; search. You need to create a new business model that makes the old one obsolete.<p>Is there any evidence that all this algorithmic magic is enabling new business models <i>that are not based on adtech</i> more likely? It would be a blessing (presumably, because things can always drift further into evil) but, so far at least, there is little to point to such an imminent disruption</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google calls in help from Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. fight</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/technology/google-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence.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>svantana</author><text>Exactly. Search ads are pretty much the perfect internet business model - if my biz is having a sale on lawnmowers, who better to target than people googling for &quot;buy lawnmower&quot;? If this is done right, everyone walks away happy and google makes a killing. ChatGPT is great, but it&#x27;s pretty far from providing good answers to &quot;where can I get a good deal on a lawnmower right now?&quot; They might take over a decent share of esoteric, &quot;school assignment&quot; type queries, but they&#x27;re not really a threat for the high-value searches.</text><parent_chain><item><author>college_physics</author><text>&quot;In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.&quot;<p>Transcribing this profound insight of Buckminster Fuller to the current debate: You cannot out-do google by inventing &quot;smarter&quot; search. You need to create a new business model that makes the old one obsolete.<p>Is there any evidence that all this algorithmic magic is enabling new business models <i>that are not based on adtech</i> more likely? It would be a blessing (presumably, because things can always drift further into evil) but, so far at least, there is little to point to such an imminent disruption</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google calls in help from Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. fight</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/technology/google-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence.html</url></story> |
37,111,694 | 37,111,811 | 1 | 2 | 37,111,256 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>teirce</author><text>Been looking since about February. I&#x27;ve probably sent out at least a hundred apps for positions I was interested in and met qualifications for.<p>I think I&#x27;ve made it to a recruiter screen around ~10 times, and I&#x27;ve had less than 5 actual interviews follow.<p>I have 6+ years in industry, 4 and some change of which were FAANG (which everyone believes is a golden ticket into any company). And I can&#x27;t even get an interview.<p>I&#x27;m with OP. The grind is straight up depressing, demoralizing, soul crushing. I&#x27;m close to moving in with family just to preserve my money at this point.</text><parent_chain><item><author>frfl</author><text>Bit of a tangent, but what has been everyone&#x27;s experience so far in 2023 trying to find a new job? I got really interested in this and have been passively researching it (HN, reddit posts).<p>My conclusion, so far, is unless you&#x27;ve got strong connections it&#x27;s hard right now to find a job. Most job posting, as OP mentions get hundreds if not thousands of applications. Other times, I&#x27;ve personally also notice, candidates with perfect skill&#x2F;experience matches get the same generic rejection (&quot;we respect your experience but we&#x27;re going to go with another candidate&quot;) or worse getting no response at all. There have been mentions of pseudo job posts (ie companies are just falsely advertising positions they are not actually look to fill). Ultimately, a really crappy situation for those looking for a job. Even experienced people, think 7,8,10+ years of experience, are seeing similar things unless they have a strong connection that get them to the final stage(s) of the internet process.<p>Happy to provide a links to relevant online discussions and articles about this situation if anyone is interested. Let me know.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?</title><text>I’m steadily looking for new opportunities, but am increasingly annoyed by the LinkedIn &#x2F; Indeed grind. I feel like half the jobs are recruiting firms or very bloated positions with &gt;500 applicants.<p>I love the monthly “Who is hiring?” thread — these positions almost always yield more responses and suffer less from false advertising.<p>Are there other sites I’m not considering? Methods I’m not using? How do you find <i>good</i> (defined as not bloated and optimized for LI) job opportunities in the current market?</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>its_a_random_ac</author><text>Yes, that&#x27;s mostly been my experience (6 years + masters, Bay Area&#x2F;remote positions.)<p>A few other things I&#x27;ve noticed:<p>1. Yes, I&#x27;ve had the &quot;candidates with perfect skill&#x2F;experience matches get the same generic rejection&quot; but I&#x27;ve also had times when I&#x27;d apply for something that I had only a little bit of a match for, and still get pretty far through the interview process.<p>2. Related to #1, I can&#x27;t get a good feeling of how qualified I am for these listings. Sometimes I&#x27;ll apply to something that is in the low 100ks with a customized resume that echos all of their reqs and get rejected, but other times I&#x27;ll just blind fire out my standard resume to something with a base in the mid 200s and get selected for a full interview loop.<p>3. It feels like some places still have the same &quot;standards&quot; for each part of the interview process, leading to a lot of candidates getting to the end, which then leads to some weird &quot;you did well but we chose someone else&quot; responses.<p>4. Sometimes I&#x27;d have an interview lined up, but then right before it I get a &quot;due to shifting requirements, we have to postpone this by a bit&quot; email. This has happened several times now (and they never have actually un-postponed it.) Same thing with spending a day or two interviewing at a place, not hearing back, and then reading of a large layoff at that company a few days later.</text><parent_chain><item><author>frfl</author><text>Bit of a tangent, but what has been everyone&#x27;s experience so far in 2023 trying to find a new job? I got really interested in this and have been passively researching it (HN, reddit posts).<p>My conclusion, so far, is unless you&#x27;ve got strong connections it&#x27;s hard right now to find a job. Most job posting, as OP mentions get hundreds if not thousands of applications. Other times, I&#x27;ve personally also notice, candidates with perfect skill&#x2F;experience matches get the same generic rejection (&quot;we respect your experience but we&#x27;re going to go with another candidate&quot;) or worse getting no response at all. There have been mentions of pseudo job posts (ie companies are just falsely advertising positions they are not actually look to fill). Ultimately, a really crappy situation for those looking for a job. Even experienced people, think 7,8,10+ years of experience, are seeing similar things unless they have a strong connection that get them to the final stage(s) of the internet process.<p>Happy to provide a links to relevant online discussions and articles about this situation if anyone is interested. Let me know.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?</title><text>I’m steadily looking for new opportunities, but am increasingly annoyed by the LinkedIn &#x2F; Indeed grind. I feel like half the jobs are recruiting firms or very bloated positions with &gt;500 applicants.<p>I love the monthly “Who is hiring?” thread — these positions almost always yield more responses and suffer less from false advertising.<p>Are there other sites I’m not considering? Methods I’m not using? How do you find <i>good</i> (defined as not bloated and optimized for LI) job opportunities in the current market?</text></story> |
7,362,087 | 7,362,071 | 1 | 2 | 7,360,996 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chavesn</author><text>I use Mac, not Windows, so I&#x27;m sure I see them rendered quite differently than you, but I prefer Source Code Pro.[1][2] They are extremely similar and I agree nothing else comes very close.<p>It&#x27;s the lower-case &#x27;i&#x27; that does it for me.[3]<p>Fewer serifs in general allow me to read more quickly, I feel. &#x27;i&#x27; has 1 to Consolas&#x27; 3, while lower case &#x27;l&#x27; (L) has 2 to Consolas&#x27; 3.<p>One negative is that I much prefer Consolas&#x27; 0-with-slant to Source Code Pro&#x27;s 0-with-dot.<p>By the way, the first link below is from a very cool resource I just found with votes and comparisons of many of the most popular choices: <a href="http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming-fonts" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slant.co&#x2F;topics&#x2F;67&#x2F;~what-are-the-best-programming...</a> (It seems the web has become more informative on this topic than the last time I surveyed all the font options.)<p>Finally, this is what the designer of Source Code Pro, Paul D. Hunt, had to say about the two[2]:<p>&gt; <i>Consolas is narrower than most monospaced fonts at 55% of the Em square, where I stuck with 60% for Source Code. If the narrowness is a top selling point for you, then Consolas is definitely king.</i><p>[1]: <a href="http://www.slant.co/topics/67/viewpoints/5/~what-are-the-best-programming-fonts~source-code-pro" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slant.co&#x2F;topics&#x2F;67&#x2F;viewpoints&#x2F;5&#x2F;~what-are-the-bes...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.adobe.com&#x2F;typblography&#x2F;2012&#x2F;09&#x2F;source-code-pro....</a><p>[3]: <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/files/2012/09/Confusable_Chars.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.adobe.com&#x2F;typblography&#x2F;files&#x2F;2012&#x2F;09&#x2F;Confusable...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nollidge</author><text>Still haven&#x27;t found anything that beats Consolas (at least on Windows machines). Inconsolata comes close, but the strokes are a bit thin and spacing is too crowded.<p>EDIT: OK actually I just tried the hinted TTF version of Inconsolata from Google Fonts [0] and the stroke width is way better. Still crowded - like each glyph takes up juuuuuust a little too much of its bounding rectangle (whatever you would call that).<p>[0] <a href="http://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Inconsolata" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;fonts#UsePlace:use&#x2F;Collection:Inconsol...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Luculent, a new code/terminal font</title><url>http://eastfarthing.com/luculent/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RussianCow</author><text>I like Source Code Pro as well, but I agree that nothing beats Consolas. It&#x27;s just such a well-designed font, and works so well on Windows.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nollidge</author><text>Still haven&#x27;t found anything that beats Consolas (at least on Windows machines). Inconsolata comes close, but the strokes are a bit thin and spacing is too crowded.<p>EDIT: OK actually I just tried the hinted TTF version of Inconsolata from Google Fonts [0] and the stroke width is way better. Still crowded - like each glyph takes up juuuuuust a little too much of its bounding rectangle (whatever you would call that).<p>[0] <a href="http://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Inconsolata" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;fonts#UsePlace:use&#x2F;Collection:Inconsol...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Luculent, a new code/terminal font</title><url>http://eastfarthing.com/luculent/</url></story> |
1,011,216 | 1,010,895 | 1 | 2 | 1,010,543 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dpatru</author><text>The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. --Abraham Lincoln</text><parent_chain><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>This is good. We need more of these things to happen so that we can get some power behind the anti-software-patent lobby. Software patents have to become too dangerous to keep around, and that happens by things like this; right now, Microsoft and others use patents to lord over Linux and make vague threats about litigation. This is an important part of Microsoft's strategy, so software patents are important to them. But if more awesome things like making it illegal to sell Word and therefore Office happen, it'll be too dangerous to keep software patents around, MS will call up their cronies in Congress, and software patents will be out of commission in a year or less.<p>I hope all the patent trolls of the world open the floodgates on Microsoft, Apple, and the other behemoths in the computer industry so that we can finally put the issue to rest.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Court: Microsoft violated patent; can't sell Word</title><url>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091222/ap_on_bi_ge/us_microsoft_patent</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cloudkj</author><text>I'd argue that, rather than banning software patents outright, the process by which these patents are approved should be put under high scrutiny and changed. For a lot of large companies, the approach really is similar to throwing everything against the wall and seeing what sticks. Having gone through the process recently, I'm amazed at how easy it is for an engineer to conceive an idea, pitch it to a few paralegals and lawyers, and get it written up to submit to the USPTO. IMHO, there's a big disconnect between the engineering minds that actually come up with legitimate patentable ideas and the IP attorneys that write and file the patents.<p>Getting rid of software patents altogether is quite extreme. You need a mechanism in place to protect the property rights of individuals and corporations. When there's absolutely no sense of preservation of property - whether it be tangible or intangible - innovation and risk taking are going to suffer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>This is good. We need more of these things to happen so that we can get some power behind the anti-software-patent lobby. Software patents have to become too dangerous to keep around, and that happens by things like this; right now, Microsoft and others use patents to lord over Linux and make vague threats about litigation. This is an important part of Microsoft's strategy, so software patents are important to them. But if more awesome things like making it illegal to sell Word and therefore Office happen, it'll be too dangerous to keep software patents around, MS will call up their cronies in Congress, and software patents will be out of commission in a year or less.<p>I hope all the patent trolls of the world open the floodgates on Microsoft, Apple, and the other behemoths in the computer industry so that we can finally put the issue to rest.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Court: Microsoft violated patent; can't sell Word</title><url>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091222/ap_on_bi_ge/us_microsoft_patent</url></story> |
15,211,778 | 15,210,718 | 1 | 2 | 15,209,452 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>endgame</author><text>Deleting offensive code was an &quot;accidental feature&quot; of ghc at one point:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bos31337&#x2F;status&#x2F;116372971509121025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bos31337&#x2F;status&#x2F;116372971509121025</a><p>&gt; The best ghc bug ever involved a dev version of the compiler deleting your source file if it contained a type error.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.haskell.org&#x2F;ghc.git&#x2F;commitdiff&#x2F;434ef2b14b37df405602a74838b8b38d0f5b4375" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.haskell.org&#x2F;ghc.git&#x2F;commitdiff&#x2F;434ef2b14b37df405...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming language</title><url>https://github.com/munificent/vigil</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mwkaufma</author><text>Vigil comes from Munificent, the principle developer of wren, an unironic language that fills lua&#x27;s niche (portable c, embeddable, no dependencies), with a nicer syntax: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;munificent&#x2F;wren" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;munificent&#x2F;wren</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming language</title><url>https://github.com/munificent/vigil</url></story> |
26,816,819 | 26,816,860 | 1 | 2 | 26,816,081 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Kliment</author><text>Not the person you&#x27;re asking but here&#x27;s my take anyway:<p>I use wx for my own stuff and also use a lot of wx-based applications. Wx is quirky and has some bugs but it&#x27;s not going to go away or have a massive breaking change without warning. Its biggest weakness is the slow release schedule which leaves users waiting for a long time to access things that are critical on changing platforms (macos is a massive pain to support as the underlying system changes all the damn time). My opinion of it can be summarized as &quot;the worst, except for all the others&quot; so I keep using it.<p>I keep considering Qt whenever I start a new project and I&#x27;m still scared to use it. It&#x27;s controlled by a company that is in really bad shape financially and has a history of attempting stupid things for short-term profit and screwing over customers. It&#x27;s reasonable if you can manage with either just the LGPL components or if your entire project is GPL, but if not their license terms are really terrible and get worse and worse over time. They keep making changes that fuck over their paying customers. I don&#x27;t feel good about using this at the moment. The KDE people have thankfully got that company by the balls with a watertight contract, and I totally trust the KDE people, but there&#x27;s still plenty of damage the company can do, and every sign they will. It&#x27;s really unfortunate because Qt is otherwise an excellent platform.<p>Multiplatform gtk is a pain. There are a few projects that successfully pull it off (Horizon EDA is a notable example) but I don&#x27;t think I could manage it myself.<p>If you&#x27;re doing a new thing you might want to consider one of the many imgui implementations (as you seem to be thinking in that direction already).</text><parent_chain><item><author>BruceEel</author><text>Genuine, non-trolling question: why wxWidgets instead of, say QT or GTK?<p>((Looking into GUI toolkits for a side project, I was thinking about one of the SDL-based ones but really unsure now))</text></item><item><author>billforsternz</author><text>I use wxWidgets for my chess GUI Tarrasch <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;triplehappy.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;triplehappy.com</a><p>I am not sure if the glacial release schedule these days is a strength (it&#x27;s stable, there&#x27;s not much left to do), or a weakness (the project is dying). The various V3.1.x releases all say please use this release for production, even though in theory it&#x27;s the even number releases that are supposed to be production worthy. Waiting for V3.2.0 (by some measure the right thing to do) would have meant waiting for many years at this point, not sure how many.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>wxWidgets 3.1.5</title><url>http://wxwidgets.org/news/2021/04/wxwidgets-3.1.5-released/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ZuLuuuuuu</author><text>One key difference between wxWidgets and Qt or GTK is that wxWidgets, as far as I know, uses native controls to create the UI, unlike Qt or GTK which draw everything themselves. Qt is really good at imitating a native feeling but wxWidgets provides a real native UX.<p>Having said that, for my Python projects, I am currently using Qt via PySide2 since that one worked without any problems with a simple pip installation while the other 2 gave some errors (I tried them about 2 years ago, maybe they work better now).<p>Another reason I currently use Qt is because I needed to do a lot of drawing and interact with these drawings on a canvas and Qt has QGraphicsView widget which is a really capable canvas widget where you can easily do transformations, interactivity with good performance and it also has a good documentation. GTK didn&#x27;t have such a widget out of the box, I didn&#x27;t look at wxWidgets, though, maybe that one has.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BruceEel</author><text>Genuine, non-trolling question: why wxWidgets instead of, say QT or GTK?<p>((Looking into GUI toolkits for a side project, I was thinking about one of the SDL-based ones but really unsure now))</text></item><item><author>billforsternz</author><text>I use wxWidgets for my chess GUI Tarrasch <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;triplehappy.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;triplehappy.com</a><p>I am not sure if the glacial release schedule these days is a strength (it&#x27;s stable, there&#x27;s not much left to do), or a weakness (the project is dying). The various V3.1.x releases all say please use this release for production, even though in theory it&#x27;s the even number releases that are supposed to be production worthy. Waiting for V3.2.0 (by some measure the right thing to do) would have meant waiting for many years at this point, not sure how many.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>wxWidgets 3.1.5</title><url>http://wxwidgets.org/news/2021/04/wxwidgets-3.1.5-released/</url></story> |
34,598,490 | 34,596,757 | 1 | 3 | 34,590,094 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_aavaa_</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s true. Capture One introduced HDR merging in one of their recent releases [0].<p>It does raw in &quot;raw&quot; out. You get a DNG out which is demosaiced. I have not yet looked to see what it&#x27;s doing under the hood, and how the result compares to EXR. (But in my experience, it seems to struggle with large exposure differences, even when on a tripod).<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.captureone.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;4410014730257-HDR-merging-overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.captureone.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;44100147302...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>astrange</author><text>There is no consumer software that can do what the iPhone does with its sensors.<p>iPhone HDR produces an HDR image file. Consumer HDR apps do the opposite - they take an HDR raw and tone map an sRGB JPEG out of it.<p>The only portable format that really supports HDR images is EXR, so if you&#x27;re not generating that you&#x27;re not getting it.<p>(I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s anything that can do deep fusion either, though obviously you need it a lot less.)</text></item><item><author>buildbot</author><text>There is no reason to do this. If you want to apply the algorithms and Iphone uses, simply take a burst and post process later for HDR or whatever. I remember being in middle school and messing around with Hugin and my Minolta bridge camera…<p>People value quick shots&#x2F;edits and don’t care about quality or editing things later don’t mind an iPhone doing all this behind the scene - but it is irreversible. The sort of error in the article would drive myself and other photographers up the wall.<p>Also, an Iphone has a CPU and ISP that outclass desktops from only a few years ago - camera manufacturers simply don’t have the same compute available.<p>On the other hand, some brands do provide interesting computational photography in their cameras at the very high end. Panasonic mirrorless full frame cameras have a pixel shift mode for super res&#x2F;no bayer interpolation, with some ability to fix motion between steps. Phase One has frame averaging and dual exposure in their IQ4 digital backs, for sequential capture into a single frame and super high dynamic range respectively.</text></item><item><author>delta_p_delta_x</author><text>I would like to see computational photography applied to raw images from DSLRs and MILCs with APS-C and larger sensors. Perhaps Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Fujifilm could have built-in options in their cameras for ‘social media mode’, with a modicum of noise reduction (honestly unnecessary at ISOs lower than about 1600 for modern cameras), but drastically improved HDR and white balance.<p>Many of these cameras are able to take bracketed[1] exposures, and the SNR in even just one image from such sensors is immense compared to the tiny sensors in phones. Surely with this much more data to work with, HDR is much nicer and without the edge brightening typically seen in phone HDR images.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nikonusa.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;learn-and-explore&#x2F;a&#x2F;tips-and-techniques&#x2F;exposure-bracketing-the-creative-insurance-policy.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nikonusa.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;learn-and-explore&#x2F;a&#x2F;tips-and-tec...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The limits of "computational photography"</title><url>https://yager.io/comp/comp.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>buildbot</author><text>Sure, there’s not a photoshop button, but does github count <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timothybrooks&#x2F;hdr-plus">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timothybrooks&#x2F;hdr-plus</a><p>It’s just an algorithm.</text><parent_chain><item><author>astrange</author><text>There is no consumer software that can do what the iPhone does with its sensors.<p>iPhone HDR produces an HDR image file. Consumer HDR apps do the opposite - they take an HDR raw and tone map an sRGB JPEG out of it.<p>The only portable format that really supports HDR images is EXR, so if you&#x27;re not generating that you&#x27;re not getting it.<p>(I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s anything that can do deep fusion either, though obviously you need it a lot less.)</text></item><item><author>buildbot</author><text>There is no reason to do this. If you want to apply the algorithms and Iphone uses, simply take a burst and post process later for HDR or whatever. I remember being in middle school and messing around with Hugin and my Minolta bridge camera…<p>People value quick shots&#x2F;edits and don’t care about quality or editing things later don’t mind an iPhone doing all this behind the scene - but it is irreversible. The sort of error in the article would drive myself and other photographers up the wall.<p>Also, an Iphone has a CPU and ISP that outclass desktops from only a few years ago - camera manufacturers simply don’t have the same compute available.<p>On the other hand, some brands do provide interesting computational photography in their cameras at the very high end. Panasonic mirrorless full frame cameras have a pixel shift mode for super res&#x2F;no bayer interpolation, with some ability to fix motion between steps. Phase One has frame averaging and dual exposure in their IQ4 digital backs, for sequential capture into a single frame and super high dynamic range respectively.</text></item><item><author>delta_p_delta_x</author><text>I would like to see computational photography applied to raw images from DSLRs and MILCs with APS-C and larger sensors. Perhaps Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Fujifilm could have built-in options in their cameras for ‘social media mode’, with a modicum of noise reduction (honestly unnecessary at ISOs lower than about 1600 for modern cameras), but drastically improved HDR and white balance.<p>Many of these cameras are able to take bracketed[1] exposures, and the SNR in even just one image from such sensors is immense compared to the tiny sensors in phones. Surely with this much more data to work with, HDR is much nicer and without the edge brightening typically seen in phone HDR images.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nikonusa.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;learn-and-explore&#x2F;a&#x2F;tips-and-techniques&#x2F;exposure-bracketing-the-creative-insurance-policy.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nikonusa.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;learn-and-explore&#x2F;a&#x2F;tips-and-tec...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The limits of "computational photography"</title><url>https://yager.io/comp/comp.html</url></story> |
34,409,543 | 34,408,305 | 1 | 2 | 34,406,760 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mattejade</author><text>I think many of the people who say that &quot;happiness must come from within&quot; are making a logical leap. It&#x27;s true, you could go out and make lots of life changes yet still be unhappy. But that doesn&#x27;t mean &#x2F;every&#x2F; life change is futile for our happiness. Perhaps you just didn&#x27;t change it in the right way!<p>From a more scientific perspective, there have been plenty of studies done on happiness, and it&#x27;s virtually undeniable that our external environment has at least &#x2F;some&#x2F; effect on our happiness.[1] I&#x27;d argue that one has to ignore or dismiss a massive wealth of studies in psychology to insist that happiness only comes from within.<p>[1] Since I&#x27;m talking broadly, this might act as a good summary - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hedonic_treadmill" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hedonic_treadmill</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>anonreeeeplor</author><text>Yes.<p>I quit and then asked: “what if I stayed and do I regret leaving” on my last 4 companies.<p>Universally the answer is no I don’t regret it. One imploded and laid off like 60% of people after turning into a nasty political hell hole. Another laid off massively and is now world renowned as a failed story. Another gave me zero opportunities and everyone was yelling at each other all the time.<p>Believe me, I tried to enter my internal universe and be happy not learning and not growing.<p>Being bored to death and underutilized if you feel highly talented and creative is a form of death.<p>Op needs to answer: What has he done in his life? Built a unicorn and IPOd it? Jet skiing with super models? Inventing cures for diseases? Or did he sort of sit in a cubicle typing and reading Reddit for the last five years.<p>A lot of those on here, I don’t listen to their input on what successs is.<p>I will never be happy until I am climbing to the highest potential I can get to. No one is going to talk me into being otherwise.</text></item><item><author>lapcat</author><text>&gt; I think I&#x27;m old enough now to confidently say that, yes: Happiness really does start from within.<p>What does age have to do with it? You&#x27;re one person. It&#x27;s anecdotal data.<p>I&#x27;m old enough now (5 years later) to confidently say that, yes: Quitting my last job really did make me happier.</text></item><item><author>BaseballPhysics</author><text>Bluntly, every person I know who&#x27;s expressed these kinds of sentiments is guilty of the same mistake: externalizing their happiness.<p>They inevitably move, only to find the new place they&#x27;re in sucks, just in different ways.<p>Or they find another job, but just discover more things they hate there.<p>Or they find a new partner, only to discover a new set of annoyances.<p>The same psychology leads people to think they&#x27;ll be happy if they finally get that new car, or that new house, or that new TV.<p>All of it comes from the same place: assuming that happiness is something you can find by simply changing your circumstances.<p>Now, don&#x27;t get me wrong, there are absolutely good reasons to want to change those circumstances! But it&#x27;s critical to understand that oftentimes there is no one change of circumstances, one decision, one thing that will result in happiness.<p>I know it&#x27;s a cliche, but I think I&#x27;m old enough now to confidently say that, yes: Happiness really does start from within.</text></item><item><author>BizarreByte</author><text>It’s a short piece, but it resonates with me, specifically this part:<p>&gt; I’m earning the most money I’ve ever made and yet I’m the least fulfilled I’ve ever been.<p>I’m making the most I’ve ever made and I’ve never been less happy and more depressed. I despise being a cog in a huge corporate machine, it’s like the job was designed to be as unappealing as possible.<p>At the same time I can’t get over the fact that I have it better than the vast majority of humanity. I feel guilty hating my job, I won’t complain to people IRL because how could I? I have it made by all accounts. This guilt completely consumes me and adds a special level of self hatred, if I’m not happy with this, maybe I never will be?<p>Unlike the author though I can’t just quit, so endure it I must.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quitting the rat race</title><url>https://seanbarry.dev/posts/quitting-the-rat-race/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bumby</author><text>“No one is going to talk me into…” is shorthand for “I’m not open to any other ideas that don’t align with my preconceived notions.” It’s not terribly productive on a site whose guidelines try to foster an open and curious conversation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anonreeeeplor</author><text>Yes.<p>I quit and then asked: “what if I stayed and do I regret leaving” on my last 4 companies.<p>Universally the answer is no I don’t regret it. One imploded and laid off like 60% of people after turning into a nasty political hell hole. Another laid off massively and is now world renowned as a failed story. Another gave me zero opportunities and everyone was yelling at each other all the time.<p>Believe me, I tried to enter my internal universe and be happy not learning and not growing.<p>Being bored to death and underutilized if you feel highly talented and creative is a form of death.<p>Op needs to answer: What has he done in his life? Built a unicorn and IPOd it? Jet skiing with super models? Inventing cures for diseases? Or did he sort of sit in a cubicle typing and reading Reddit for the last five years.<p>A lot of those on here, I don’t listen to their input on what successs is.<p>I will never be happy until I am climbing to the highest potential I can get to. No one is going to talk me into being otherwise.</text></item><item><author>lapcat</author><text>&gt; I think I&#x27;m old enough now to confidently say that, yes: Happiness really does start from within.<p>What does age have to do with it? You&#x27;re one person. It&#x27;s anecdotal data.<p>I&#x27;m old enough now (5 years later) to confidently say that, yes: Quitting my last job really did make me happier.</text></item><item><author>BaseballPhysics</author><text>Bluntly, every person I know who&#x27;s expressed these kinds of sentiments is guilty of the same mistake: externalizing their happiness.<p>They inevitably move, only to find the new place they&#x27;re in sucks, just in different ways.<p>Or they find another job, but just discover more things they hate there.<p>Or they find a new partner, only to discover a new set of annoyances.<p>The same psychology leads people to think they&#x27;ll be happy if they finally get that new car, or that new house, or that new TV.<p>All of it comes from the same place: assuming that happiness is something you can find by simply changing your circumstances.<p>Now, don&#x27;t get me wrong, there are absolutely good reasons to want to change those circumstances! But it&#x27;s critical to understand that oftentimes there is no one change of circumstances, one decision, one thing that will result in happiness.<p>I know it&#x27;s a cliche, but I think I&#x27;m old enough now to confidently say that, yes: Happiness really does start from within.</text></item><item><author>BizarreByte</author><text>It’s a short piece, but it resonates with me, specifically this part:<p>&gt; I’m earning the most money I’ve ever made and yet I’m the least fulfilled I’ve ever been.<p>I’m making the most I’ve ever made and I’ve never been less happy and more depressed. I despise being a cog in a huge corporate machine, it’s like the job was designed to be as unappealing as possible.<p>At the same time I can’t get over the fact that I have it better than the vast majority of humanity. I feel guilty hating my job, I won’t complain to people IRL because how could I? I have it made by all accounts. This guilt completely consumes me and adds a special level of self hatred, if I’m not happy with this, maybe I never will be?<p>Unlike the author though I can’t just quit, so endure it I must.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quitting the rat race</title><url>https://seanbarry.dev/posts/quitting-the-rat-race/</url></story> |
5,572,517 | 5,572,585 | 1 | 3 | 5,572,017 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajscherer</author><text>When politicians say "small government" they really mean "low taxes", and when they say "liberty" that is measured as 100% minus the top marginal tax rate. Restrictions on people's behavior or privacy aren't really part of the discussion. When they say "spending" you can safely suffix that with "on someone other than me".<p>Seriously though, the Republican party isn't a libertarian organization and never has been. They've been marketing themselves that way lately, since they are a bit closer to the libertarian ideal than the Democrats (I guess not in this case though!).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Lewisham</author><text>Nothing says "small government" like expanding government oversight, right? I really don't understand what the Republican party actually stands for. There's no consistency in their platform. I might not agree with the Libertarian Party either, but at least I understand why they say what they say.<p>Can someone help me out here?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call</title><url>http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll117.xml#</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enoch_r</author><text>Borrowing from Arnold Kling's "three axes", generally speaking:<p>- Libertarians evaluate things on a freedom/tyranny axis.<p>- Republicans evaluate things on a civilization/savagery axis.<p>- Democrats evaluate things on a fair/unfair axis.<p>I think that explains Republican voting behavior here fairly well. They're not for small government because they're libertarian; they're for small government because the US is historically connected with libertarian philosophies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Lewisham</author><text>Nothing says "small government" like expanding government oversight, right? I really don't understand what the Republican party actually stands for. There's no consistency in their platform. I might not agree with the Libertarian Party either, but at least I understand why they say what they say.<p>Can someone help me out here?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call</title><url>http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll117.xml#</url></story> |
41,443,045 | 41,442,836 | 1 | 2 | 41,442,490 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bootsmann</author><text>Its even worse if you have a bitlocker config that requires a pin.
It will reboot during the update but then fail the boot because noone entered the pin in time, leaving you to complete the update actively when you open it back up.
Ironically this happens even if you select &quot;update and shutdown&quot; because the restart happens during the update process.</text><parent_chain><item><author>haspok</author><text>&gt; receive Windows Updates during Sleep mode<p>That is just peak level stupidity. I sometimes boot into Windows, and every time Windows Update runs, the fans are on high, my system is taken hostage (&quot;Do not turn off your computer - updates ready 100%&quot; - showing for 15 minutes), and there is nothing I can do about it.<p>Compared to this, an `apt upgrade` is basically an instant action (only kernel updates take a bit longer). Too bad Ubuntu is trying to break that with snap, but it is still a minor inconvenience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a personal Rant</title><url>https://blog.jeujeus.de/blog/hardware/laptops-will-not-sleep-anymore/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>I wouldn‘t call the always–on feature stupid but deliberate. The purpose of modern Windows being an ad surface and capture device for learning everything the user knows from user interaction. Switching off Windows Updates, even on Windows Pro and Windows 10, is practically impossible, short of isolating it from net access.</text><parent_chain><item><author>haspok</author><text>&gt; receive Windows Updates during Sleep mode<p>That is just peak level stupidity. I sometimes boot into Windows, and every time Windows Update runs, the fans are on high, my system is taken hostage (&quot;Do not turn off your computer - updates ready 100%&quot; - showing for 15 minutes), and there is nothing I can do about it.<p>Compared to this, an `apt upgrade` is basically an instant action (only kernel updates take a bit longer). Too bad Ubuntu is trying to break that with snap, but it is still a minor inconvenience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a personal Rant</title><url>https://blog.jeujeus.de/blog/hardware/laptops-will-not-sleep-anymore/</url></story> |
35,103,594 | 35,103,143 | 1 | 2 | 35,098,830 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>knome</author><text>&gt;ChatGPT doesn&#x27;t do that<p>It can if you give it the option. My own openai chatbot prompts to either respond or to ponder by stating a question or considering a related idea. It infrequently will decide to ponder for one to about a dozen times as it restates an idea to itself in various forms, which gets recorded into the growing conversational prompt.<p>Elsewhere in the thread, someone mentions it always uses the same amount of time. In my estimation, it will spend longer on introspective or recursive prompts. Easier to get it ranting absurdities using those as well.<p>It&#x27;s always the craziest chatter when the request takes a couple minutes to get back to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jensson</author><text>&gt; nobody is stopping and thinking<p>To trivial questions no, but to more complex questions humans actually does go &quot;hmm, let me think&quot;. ChatGPT doesn&#x27;t do that, it just blurts out the first thing that gets into its head regardless if the question is trivial or extremely complex.</text></item><item><author>FrustratedMonky</author><text>Where are the jokes that most people aren&#x27;t much more than copy&#x2F;paste, or LLM. In most daily lives, a huge amount of what we do is habit, and just plain following a pattern. When someone says &quot;Good Morning&quot;, nobody is stopping and thinking &quot;HMMM, let me think about what word to say in response, what do I want to convey here, hmmmm, let me think&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01516-2</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>jmoss20</author><text>Which makes you wonder what would happen if you gave ChatGPT two streams of output: one for &quot;speech&quot; and one for inner-monologue-style &quot;thinking&quot;.<p>For most of our &quot;hmm, let me think&quot;&#x27;s I&#x27;m not sure what we do is significantly more complicated than that. We just get to hide the inner monologue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jensson</author><text>&gt; nobody is stopping and thinking<p>To trivial questions no, but to more complex questions humans actually does go &quot;hmm, let me think&quot;. ChatGPT doesn&#x27;t do that, it just blurts out the first thing that gets into its head regardless if the question is trivial or extremely complex.</text></item><item><author>FrustratedMonky</author><text>Where are the jokes that most people aren&#x27;t much more than copy&#x2F;paste, or LLM. In most daily lives, a huge amount of what we do is habit, and just plain following a pattern. When someone says &quot;Good Morning&quot;, nobody is stopping and thinking &quot;HMMM, let me think about what word to say in response, what do I want to convey here, hmmmm, let me think&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01516-2</url></story> |
18,240,376 | 18,240,525 | 1 | 3 | 18,238,108 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>forapurpose</author><text>&gt; terrible site redesign a few years back<p>Their 10-day weather graph is one of my favorite interfaces. There is no better way to grasp the weather, and it transformed my conception of daily weather patterns. Try it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wunderground.com&#x2F;forecast&#x2F;us&#x2F;ca&#x2F;san-francisco" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wunderground.com&#x2F;forecast&#x2F;us&#x2F;ca&#x2F;san-francisco</a><p>Don&#x27;t overlook the Customize button at the top right.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CommieBobDole</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what the internal situation is with WU, but I have to wonder if they&#x27;re not really a going concern within TWC anymore. Between their terrible site redesign a few years back that just sort of stopped once it got to about 75% functional, and the way they seem to disable features whenever they start requiring a little more effort to support, it feels like there&#x27;s maybe one or two people working on the site in their spare time trying to keep the lights on.<p>It&#x27;s a shame because their forecast graph is quite possibly the best weather visualization ever - at a glance, I can see what the whole day is likely to look like. I will miss it when they inevitably discontinue it.<p>Edit: In fairness, I just visited the site for the first time in a while and it looks like they finally fixed their weather map - for at least several years after the redesign was &quot;complete&quot;, the default view for the weather map would load so many weather stations it would grind pretty much any browser on any machine to a halt. Looks like that&#x27;s no longer the case, so maybe something is still going on over there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>End of Service for the Weather Underground API</title><url>https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/end-of-service-for-the-weather-underground-api</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikestew</author><text><i>I don&#x27;t know what the internal situation is with WU, but I have to wonder if they&#x27;re not really a going concern within TWC anymore.</i><p>You would be correct, they&#x27;re owned by IBM:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wunderground.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;JeffMasters&#x2F;weather-underground-bought-by-ibm.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wunderground.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;JeffMasters&#x2F;weather-underg...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>CommieBobDole</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what the internal situation is with WU, but I have to wonder if they&#x27;re not really a going concern within TWC anymore. Between their terrible site redesign a few years back that just sort of stopped once it got to about 75% functional, and the way they seem to disable features whenever they start requiring a little more effort to support, it feels like there&#x27;s maybe one or two people working on the site in their spare time trying to keep the lights on.<p>It&#x27;s a shame because their forecast graph is quite possibly the best weather visualization ever - at a glance, I can see what the whole day is likely to look like. I will miss it when they inevitably discontinue it.<p>Edit: In fairness, I just visited the site for the first time in a while and it looks like they finally fixed their weather map - for at least several years after the redesign was &quot;complete&quot;, the default view for the weather map would load so many weather stations it would grind pretty much any browser on any machine to a halt. Looks like that&#x27;s no longer the case, so maybe something is still going on over there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>End of Service for the Weather Underground API</title><url>https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/end-of-service-for-the-weather-underground-api</url></story> |
22,327,463 | 22,327,057 | 1 | 2 | 22,326,339 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bitexploder</author><text>My text files still work. I have MUD design documents from when I was in high school (mid to late 90s). Org mode and Markdown are kind of eternal formats. Even if all the tooling dies, they still look decent. Basic HTML still works well enough as well. You can write a parser for XML pretty easily. HTML can also be processed and rendered trivially. I think we could collectively find some other technologies that are likely to be around in another 20 years. The simpler the file format the more likely it is to be around :)<p>edit: A few more popped into my head. CSV. SQL schema + Data dumps (text format). The common theme to everything here is plain text. SQLite, although binary, is probably close to eternal. Git is eternal enough (recent HN post showed even POSIX shell is good enough to write a basic git client). JSON is easy to write a parser for as well. YAML.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danielbarla</author><text>&gt; If you want something to last, don&#x27;t base it on something that won&#x27;t last.<p>and<p>&gt; I guess what I&#x27;m saying is that if you want to build a site to last 25 years without numerous redesigns, build a static HTML page.<p>While simplicity is a great way to future proof things, I&#x27;m not convinced that this argument in general would work nearly as well without the benefit of hindsight. One could be forgiven for confusing it with &quot;guess the future correctly&quot;. Plenty of relatively safe bets from 10, 20, 30 years ago haven&#x27;t panned out that well. It&#x27;s an interesting line of thinking though: exactly what properties of HTML make it so long lived?</text></item><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>These simple sites show us something profound: If you want something to last, don&#x27;t base it on something that won&#x27;t last. There are a some technologies that will never allow somebody to build a site and leave it unchanged for 20 or 25 years. Cold Fusion comes to mind. Almost nobody hosts it anymore for one. Can you imagine running the same WordPress version for 25 years? The version of PHP it runs on will be EOL long before.<p>I guess what I&#x27;m saying is that if you want to build a site to last 25 years without numerous redesigns, build a static HTML page.<p>Looks like Web 1.0 got something right after all :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated</title><url>http://www.fmboschetto.it/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>untog</author><text>I think you can generalise the advice: remove as many processing steps as you can.<p>It&#x27;s not so much that you needed to guess that HTML was going to be as long-lived as it is, it&#x27;s that HTML is the final product that actually loads on the users computer, and those tend to stick around for a long time (or at least be emulated). The code that lives on a backend server somewhere, not so much.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, I don&#x27;t think this example is necessarily bulletproof: it requires a working copy of Frontpage. If Microsoft behaved more like Apple it might have been deprecated away long ago!</text><parent_chain><item><author>danielbarla</author><text>&gt; If you want something to last, don&#x27;t base it on something that won&#x27;t last.<p>and<p>&gt; I guess what I&#x27;m saying is that if you want to build a site to last 25 years without numerous redesigns, build a static HTML page.<p>While simplicity is a great way to future proof things, I&#x27;m not convinced that this argument in general would work nearly as well without the benefit of hindsight. One could be forgiven for confusing it with &quot;guess the future correctly&quot;. Plenty of relatively safe bets from 10, 20, 30 years ago haven&#x27;t panned out that well. It&#x27;s an interesting line of thinking though: exactly what properties of HTML make it so long lived?</text></item><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>These simple sites show us something profound: If you want something to last, don&#x27;t base it on something that won&#x27;t last. There are a some technologies that will never allow somebody to build a site and leave it unchanged for 20 or 25 years. Cold Fusion comes to mind. Almost nobody hosts it anymore for one. Can you imagine running the same WordPress version for 25 years? The version of PHP it runs on will be EOL long before.<p>I guess what I&#x27;m saying is that if you want to build a site to last 25 years without numerous redesigns, build a static HTML page.<p>Looks like Web 1.0 got something right after all :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated</title><url>http://www.fmboschetto.it/</url></story> |
39,099,158 | 39,097,411 | 1 | 3 | 39,081,876 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>doix</author><text>I totally agree. The worst thing is going directly from feedback -&gt; ticket. Not only because of what you describe, but also because you end up with a product that is just a list of features without a coherent &quot;idea&quot;. Especially when you&#x27;ve got eager developers that will see some slack in the schedule and just pick up a random ticket because it&#x27;s &quot;easy&quot;.<p>Usually when customers give feedback it&#x27;s to address an immediate need they have, so they&#x27;ll suggest adding a button&#x2F;option&#x2F;toggle&#x2F;whatever. And that&#x27;s fine, but if you do that for every piece of feedback, you&#x27;ll end up with an unusable mess. Especially because it&#x27;s usually very easy to add that one extra button&#x2F;option&#x2F;toggle.<p>You usually require someone to go through all the feedback and try to address the root cause of what they&#x27;re asking for. Sometimes the extra option is unavoidable, sometimes it leads to redesigning some system to be more generic to support what the customer wants + more.<p>I do think the feedback needs to be linked to the work somehow, not hidden away in a separate PM tool or whatever. Ideally retaining the raw feedback, because sometimes when summarizing it, things get lost.</text><parent_chain><item><author>idopmstuff</author><text>In my experience, this depends a lot on how you organize possible features&#x2F;improvements&#x2F;etc.<p>I hate the strategy of just taking every idea you hear and throwing it into a ticket. You just end up with this giant icebox of stuff you&#x27;ll never do. If a big new prospect demands one of the ideas that&#x27;s in the icebox be implemented immediately in order to close a deal, you&#x27;re probably still not going to pull it out of the icebox, because you don&#x27;t remember that it&#x27;s there. Instead, you&#x27;ll just create a new ticket for it, and eventually when going through the icebox, someone will go &quot;hey, I think we built this already&quot; and close as dupe.<p>Instead, I strongly prefer to have tickets that at least have some possibility of getting done in the short to medium term, and store other ideas elsewhere. Engineering keeps a list of tech debt that they&#x27;d like to address. PMs keep one list per project of possible improvements. For potential new features&#x2F;products, they write PRDs but don&#x27;t immediately turn them into a bunch of tickets.<p>Ultimately I think the giant backlog of stuff that mostly won&#x27;t get addressed is a sign of weak PMs who are afraid to say no and like to fall back to the comfortable answer that is, &quot;sounds interesting, I&#x27;ll write a ticket for it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers</title><url>https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/the-size-of-your-backlog-is-inversely</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>Although the approach seems fine, I don&#x27;t think it creates an advantage. The situation is there are tickets in progress that have engineering consequences and then there is the backlog. How the backlog then gets used is 100% a question of convenience and <i>any</i> approach that works for the decision makers is fine. If they want to use the backlog as a way to plan upcoming work (as you seem to do) that is fine. If they want to use the backlog as a diplomatic tool to say no gently, also cool.<p>JIRA + a tree of tickets is so bad for project planning I recommend using the backlog as a diplomatic tool and a polite way of letting things get lost. It is is better to use advanced scheduling tools, like a spiral-bound notebook or sticky notes, rather than a backlog. The backlog is for management and politics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>idopmstuff</author><text>In my experience, this depends a lot on how you organize possible features&#x2F;improvements&#x2F;etc.<p>I hate the strategy of just taking every idea you hear and throwing it into a ticket. You just end up with this giant icebox of stuff you&#x27;ll never do. If a big new prospect demands one of the ideas that&#x27;s in the icebox be implemented immediately in order to close a deal, you&#x27;re probably still not going to pull it out of the icebox, because you don&#x27;t remember that it&#x27;s there. Instead, you&#x27;ll just create a new ticket for it, and eventually when going through the icebox, someone will go &quot;hey, I think we built this already&quot; and close as dupe.<p>Instead, I strongly prefer to have tickets that at least have some possibility of getting done in the short to medium term, and store other ideas elsewhere. Engineering keeps a list of tech debt that they&#x27;d like to address. PMs keep one list per project of possible improvements. For potential new features&#x2F;products, they write PRDs but don&#x27;t immediately turn them into a bunch of tickets.<p>Ultimately I think the giant backlog of stuff that mostly won&#x27;t get addressed is a sign of weak PMs who are afraid to say no and like to fall back to the comfortable answer that is, &quot;sounds interesting, I&#x27;ll write a ticket for it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers</title><url>https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/the-size-of-your-backlog-is-inversely</url></story> |
35,761,088 | 35,761,188 | 1 | 2 | 35,759,449 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wdfx</author><text>Similarly, one should never state that something is &quot;obvious&quot;.<p>I catch myself sometimes starting a sentence with &quot;Obviously,&quot; and usually stop myself at that point and restart.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sametmax</author><text>It&#x27;s a more and more popular opinion:<p>- Why not tell people to &quot;simply&quot; use pyenv, poetry or anaconda (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitecode.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitecode.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;why-not-tell-people-to-simpl...</a>)<p>- Don’t use the word ‘simply’ (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jameshfisher.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;22&#x2F;dont-use-simply&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jameshfisher.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;22&#x2F;dont-use-simply&#x2F;</a>)<p>- Stop using ‘simply’ in tech instructions (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parkersoftware.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;stop-using-simply-in-tech-instructions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parkersoftware.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;stop-using-simply-in-tec...</a>)<p>- Don’t say “simply” in your documentation (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knowledgeowl.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dont-say-simply-jim-fisher&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knowledgeowl.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dont-say-simply-jim-...</a>)<p>And I strongly agree. It can be so discouraging to fail at something you should &quot;simply&quot; do.<p>But to be fair to the technical writers, it&#x27;s easy to write that way without noticing, even after proof reading. This should be automatized by writing tools.<p>Also, while it&#x27;s mildly irritating, there are worse things in life.<p>Yet as the first link about the python ecosystems notes, it usually hides a bigger problem: many devs are too good to be helpful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs</title><url>https://justsimply.dev/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WastingMyTime89</author><text>&quot;Simply&quot; when used in the sense of &quot;without addition, alone&quot; is perfectly fine. I find the issue people have is not really with the word <i>simply</i> but with bad documentation and badly designed tools. That’s not going to be fixed by avoiding one word.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sametmax</author><text>It&#x27;s a more and more popular opinion:<p>- Why not tell people to &quot;simply&quot; use pyenv, poetry or anaconda (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitecode.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitecode.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;why-not-tell-people-to-simpl...</a>)<p>- Don’t use the word ‘simply’ (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jameshfisher.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;22&#x2F;dont-use-simply&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jameshfisher.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;22&#x2F;dont-use-simply&#x2F;</a>)<p>- Stop using ‘simply’ in tech instructions (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parkersoftware.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;stop-using-simply-in-tech-instructions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parkersoftware.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;stop-using-simply-in-tec...</a>)<p>- Don’t say “simply” in your documentation (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knowledgeowl.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dont-say-simply-jim-fisher&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knowledgeowl.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dont-say-simply-jim-...</a>)<p>And I strongly agree. It can be so discouraging to fail at something you should &quot;simply&quot; do.<p>But to be fair to the technical writers, it&#x27;s easy to write that way without noticing, even after proof reading. This should be automatized by writing tools.<p>Also, while it&#x27;s mildly irritating, there are worse things in life.<p>Yet as the first link about the python ecosystems notes, it usually hides a bigger problem: many devs are too good to be helpful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs</title><url>https://justsimply.dev/</url></story> |
8,612,297 | 8,612,235 | 1 | 2 | 8,611,991 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jotm</author><text>This article is bullshit fluff. In Germany, I&#x27;ve witnessed excellent efficiency of course, but most of the workers are dicking around just as much as their counterparts from any other country. They&#x27;re not machines, after all.<p>I won&#x27;t get into details, but here&#x27;s some first hand observations: the health care is great, the pay is average, the taxes are high, the Internet is average, working hours are average and there is no minimum salary (also there are people who work 9-6 incl. Saturdays, mostly foreigners), people are great, crime is low, language is hard, opportunities through the roof, business is hard (esp. compared to the US and nearby UK), basic living prices are OK, but any &quot;luxuries&quot; are expensive.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in Culture</title><url>http://knote.com/2014/11/10/why-germans-work-fewer-hours-but-produce-more-a-study-in-culture/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trvz</author><text>Writing from Germany, this article is shallow and stereotypical due to not being well researched.<p>Please don&#x27;t read it, or forget what you read in it; not all work is good work, and you shouldn&#x27;t value bad work; this article is a bad article.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in Culture</title><url>http://knote.com/2014/11/10/why-germans-work-fewer-hours-but-produce-more-a-study-in-culture/</url></story> |
39,557,608 | 39,557,656 | 1 | 2 | 39,549,194 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>App A requires a version 2 of whatever which conflicts with version 3 of whatever required by app B, and uses same port as app C and doesn’t like the smell of app D. Meanwhile app Z has to be compiled from source with a specific version of python and only installs on Tuesdays, buts it’s Wednesday if mercury is retrograde</text><parent_chain><item><author>easyas124</author><text>Why would you use Docker at all? Just run the application behind a reverse proxy. Docker doesn&#x27;t get you anything except an extra management headache and an abstraction that happily punches holes in your firewall.</text></item><item><author>giobox</author><text>While not as easy as an appstore, the modern Docker ecosystem IMO has made self hosting web apps at home super cheap&#x2F;easy.<p>Use your old PC, a Raspberry Pi, an EC2 instance, whatever you like, a single small Docker Compose file with Watchtower for auto-updating the container image when new one published etc. I&#x27;ve got self-hosted services that have ran untouched for <i>years</i> this way at home from a handful of lines of YML. Docker Compose will also take care of restarting the service on reboot&#x2F;powercut if thats a concern.<p>Given the ubiquity of container images, you can run largely any web application this way and the container image likely already exists - this project also has a Dockerfile and would run fine this way too.</text></item><item><author>xnx</author><text>I love the minor movement toward self-hosted web apps. I wish they were easy enough to setup as installing an app on Android or iPhone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application</title><url>https://github.com/jovandeginste/workout-tracker</url><text>I tried some web tools to track my workouts (specifically, running); some (like FitTrackee) came close, but I always found annoyances. So I decided to build my own. Specifically geared towards distance-based workouts, such as walking, running or cycling.</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>QuinnyPig</author><text>It may help to view it primarily as a packaging system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>easyas124</author><text>Why would you use Docker at all? Just run the application behind a reverse proxy. Docker doesn&#x27;t get you anything except an extra management headache and an abstraction that happily punches holes in your firewall.</text></item><item><author>giobox</author><text>While not as easy as an appstore, the modern Docker ecosystem IMO has made self hosting web apps at home super cheap&#x2F;easy.<p>Use your old PC, a Raspberry Pi, an EC2 instance, whatever you like, a single small Docker Compose file with Watchtower for auto-updating the container image when new one published etc. I&#x27;ve got self-hosted services that have ran untouched for <i>years</i> this way at home from a handful of lines of YML. Docker Compose will also take care of restarting the service on reboot&#x2F;powercut if thats a concern.<p>Given the ubiquity of container images, you can run largely any web application this way and the container image likely already exists - this project also has a Dockerfile and would run fine this way too.</text></item><item><author>xnx</author><text>I love the minor movement toward self-hosted web apps. I wish they were easy enough to setup as installing an app on Android or iPhone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application</title><url>https://github.com/jovandeginste/workout-tracker</url><text>I tried some web tools to track my workouts (specifically, running); some (like FitTrackee) came close, but I always found annoyances. So I decided to build my own. Specifically geared towards distance-based workouts, such as walking, running or cycling.</text></story> |
21,205,745 | 21,205,332 | 1 | 2 | 21,205,083 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kangnkodos</author><text>Why have the League of Legends announcers stopped saying the words &quot;Hong Kong&quot; in phrases such as the team &quot;Honk Kong Attitude&quot;, and instead only say HKA?<p>Does Tencent control the broadcast&#x2F;streaming?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights</title><url>https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1181946357759844352</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>philliphaydon</author><text>Epic CEO says a lot of stuff he doesn’t mean or live up to.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights</title><url>https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1181946357759844352</url></story> |
33,173,954 | 33,174,125 | 1 | 2 | 33,173,450 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raxxorraxor</author><text>I would prefer to keep my compensation private.<p>I currently work for a smaller private company. It doesn&#x27;t pay me as much as a large corporation in the industry. Were my compensation public, I would forfeit the option to increase it significantly again.<p>I work here because I live next door, like the people and the work environment. It is worth it to me. Public registers would not reflect these choices. Otherwise I would need to keep up appearances and optimise my compensation. I like to keep these options.<p>Not relevant in Norway because everyone earns a lot. Sweden seems to be a country with significant social pressure, not really a role model for me.<p>That said, under no circumstances should it be illegal to talk about your compensation. Any company that forbids you to do so probably has some dark secrets here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tchalla</author><text>&gt; It wasn&#x27;t until it was being actively discussed on the Tech Nottingham Slack that I realised it could have been illegal to talk about<p>How can we move to a society where talking about compensation isn’t illegal?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly</title><url>https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/09/21/year-later-salary-history/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avianlyric</author><text>It isn’t illegal. The right to discuss your pay publicly, with anyone, is enshrined in British law.<p>Any contract terms to the contrary are invalid, and actions taken against you for sharing are illegal, and UK employment tribunals take a very dim view of employer misbehaviour.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tchalla</author><text>&gt; It wasn&#x27;t until it was being actively discussed on the Tech Nottingham Slack that I realised it could have been illegal to talk about<p>How can we move to a society where talking about compensation isn’t illegal?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly</title><url>https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/09/21/year-later-salary-history/</url></story> |
27,935,480 | 27,934,918 | 1 | 2 | 27,928,466 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Imnimo</author><text>Sometimes my work-issued Macbook decides that it no longer wants to display an escape key on the touch bar (and there is no physical escape key). People joke about not knowing how to exit vi, but it turns out the game is even harder when your machine takes away your escape key!</text><parent_chain><item><author>drcongo</author><text>Back around Vista time I went to watch a talk by one of MS&#x27;s UI designers about all the time and effort they&#x27;d put into designing the Vista interface. He gave a demo showing a walk-through of some set-up &quot;wizard&quot; and talked about all the details he thought were important. At no point did he mention the fact that depending on which screen you were on the &quot;next&quot; and &quot;previous&quot; buttons would swap places with the &quot;cancel&quot; button. If you tried to skip quickly through a setup wizard by clicking on the &quot;next&quot; button, you&#x27;d cancel everything on screen 4.<p>This perfectly summed up Microsoft&#x27;s understanding of UX to me. The things MS cares about in design are entirely unrelated to the things users care about. Users want to know where the next button is without having to hunt for it. Users want to not accidentally cancel something they&#x27;ve already spent time on. In many ways, this encapsulated Vista as a whole. None of that OS was made for the user, it was all territorial infighting inside MS.<p>Sadly, I think Apple has lost this focus now too. The Touch Bar is a load of accidents waiting to happen at any given time, and the new dialog boxes with a stack of buttons below remove the ability to use muscle memory to hit the right one and need to be scanned every time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)</title><url>https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1418248256937775105</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hangonhn</author><text>Does anyone else have this issue? On a Macbook Pro with Touchbar, when you bring up Quicktime to do a screen recording, there are no controls to stop the recording on the screen. All the controls are now in the Touchbar. OK, brilliant. Except when I have the laptop closed and connected to an external monitor. It took me 30 minutes to figure this out. So I HAD to do my screen recording with the laptop open. Not the end of the world but wish there was a warning, etc. Maybe my MBP preferences are setup incorrectly but Apple does have a tendency to hide those controls too. :-&#x2F;</text><parent_chain><item><author>drcongo</author><text>Back around Vista time I went to watch a talk by one of MS&#x27;s UI designers about all the time and effort they&#x27;d put into designing the Vista interface. He gave a demo showing a walk-through of some set-up &quot;wizard&quot; and talked about all the details he thought were important. At no point did he mention the fact that depending on which screen you were on the &quot;next&quot; and &quot;previous&quot; buttons would swap places with the &quot;cancel&quot; button. If you tried to skip quickly through a setup wizard by clicking on the &quot;next&quot; button, you&#x27;d cancel everything on screen 4.<p>This perfectly summed up Microsoft&#x27;s understanding of UX to me. The things MS cares about in design are entirely unrelated to the things users care about. Users want to know where the next button is without having to hunt for it. Users want to not accidentally cancel something they&#x27;ve already spent time on. In many ways, this encapsulated Vista as a whole. None of that OS was made for the user, it was all territorial infighting inside MS.<p>Sadly, I think Apple has lost this focus now too. The Touch Bar is a load of accidents waiting to happen at any given time, and the new dialog boxes with a stack of buttons below remove the ability to use muscle memory to hit the right one and need to be scanned every time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)</title><url>https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1418248256937775105</url></story> |
17,840,930 | 17,840,895 | 1 | 2 | 17,840,739 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noonespecial</author><text>It&#x27;s actually worse than just &quot;virtue signaling&quot;. It sends a political hat-trick of bad to the right side of the political spectrum: It curtails real freedom, lectures condescendingly, and proportionally <i>doesn&#x27;t actually help</i>.<p>The &quot;straw laws&quot; are tailor made for a backlash.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway76543</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s true that &quot;everything helps.&quot; I think many of these grandstanding initiatives are received with open mockery and I think they serve to undermine the credibility of the larger environmental effort.<p>Recently we have had some rather large political shifts which move the needle considerably further away from our ecological goals. If you look at what people are saying within these political circles you will see derisive phrases like &quot;virtue signaling,&quot; referring to exactly this sort of thing.<p>When you &quot;send a message&quot; you take work which might be perceived as mutually beneficial and you turn it into a fight. You should expect the response to be the inverse: People will begin to <i>intentionally destroy</i> the environment to send you a message in return. This has been part of Trump&#x27;s schtick over the last year. This is why there is a culture around &quot;rolling coal.&quot; This is actually happening.<p>This is extremely bad policy and it hurts the environment.</text></item><item><author>chewbacha</author><text>The plastic straw boycott is not meant to fix the problem, that’s been acknowledged [0]. It’s to help drive a message and teach awareness. The hope being that people shift behaviors that impact other areas.<p>Everything helps at this point. Because something helps less shouldn’t mean we bash it. Collectively we should do more.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;6&#x2F;25&#x2F;17488336&#x2F;starbucks-plastic-straw-ban-ocean-pollution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;6&#x2F;25&#x2F;17488336&#x2F;starbucks-plastic-str...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plastic Straws Aren’t the Problem</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-07/plastic-straws-aren-t-the-problem</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>I find myself sort of in that camp. I think rolling coal is stupid, but when I saw people wanting to ban straws, I just had to roll my eyes. I think the larger goals of environmental protection lose some credibility when obviously inconsequential stuff like that becomes the message of the day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway76543</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s true that &quot;everything helps.&quot; I think many of these grandstanding initiatives are received with open mockery and I think they serve to undermine the credibility of the larger environmental effort.<p>Recently we have had some rather large political shifts which move the needle considerably further away from our ecological goals. If you look at what people are saying within these political circles you will see derisive phrases like &quot;virtue signaling,&quot; referring to exactly this sort of thing.<p>When you &quot;send a message&quot; you take work which might be perceived as mutually beneficial and you turn it into a fight. You should expect the response to be the inverse: People will begin to <i>intentionally destroy</i> the environment to send you a message in return. This has been part of Trump&#x27;s schtick over the last year. This is why there is a culture around &quot;rolling coal.&quot; This is actually happening.<p>This is extremely bad policy and it hurts the environment.</text></item><item><author>chewbacha</author><text>The plastic straw boycott is not meant to fix the problem, that’s been acknowledged [0]. It’s to help drive a message and teach awareness. The hope being that people shift behaviors that impact other areas.<p>Everything helps at this point. Because something helps less shouldn’t mean we bash it. Collectively we should do more.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;6&#x2F;25&#x2F;17488336&#x2F;starbucks-plastic-straw-ban-ocean-pollution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;6&#x2F;25&#x2F;17488336&#x2F;starbucks-plastic-str...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plastic Straws Aren’t the Problem</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-07/plastic-straws-aren-t-the-problem</url></story> |
31,107,419 | 31,107,314 | 1 | 2 | 31,106,892 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Zandikar</author><text>Agreed, I&#x27;d love to see some data on that claim, and for it to be in context with the friction a new design has against an existing userbase when a design change occurs. I get that as time goes on, functionality, usecases, userbases, developers, frameworks, etc all evolve over time, and it&#x27;s wise to make changes to keep up with those shifts in paradigms (rise of mobile use vs desktop in the 2010&#x27;s for example).<p>Never once heard: &quot;Man, I sure wish this thing that I&#x27;ve gotten used to and enjoy using for the passed 10 years would suddenly reshuffle everything so I have to relearn where everything is just so it keeps up with whatever the new trend is&quot;. To be frank, sounds more like someone in search of some job security.<p>Changes are necessary over time yes, but without some studies backing it up, I can&#x27;t fathom that change for the sake of staying &quot;fresh&quot; belongs anywhere in software design and development. As an imperative from marketing&#x2F;management to attract a new userbase, sure, but that&#x27;s not a Design or Dev motive. If there&#x27;s an opportunity to unify the standard of design or consolidating&#x2F;eliminating technical debt while undergoing a significant overhaul, sure, understandable. But &quot;It seems a little stale, we should change it&quot;? From a User&#x27;s perspective? Please don&#x27;t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mark_and_sweep</author><text>&gt; People simply get bored with how their apps and websites look after six to seven years. They need a change.<p>Is there any research that supports this claim? If I use an app for 6 years, why would I suddenly need a change?<p>I&#x27;m still ocassionally using a 10 y&#x2F;o version of Photoshop. In fact, I&#x27;m very happy that it does not change. I wouldn&#x27;t want to spend time on re-learning the UI. The same is true for many apps that I use.<p>Please don&#x27;t overdo re-designs just for the sake of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Neubrutalism is taking over the web?</title><url>https://hype4.academy/articles/design/neubrutalism-is-taking-over-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>DoingIsLearning</author><text>&gt; People simply get bored with how their apps and websites look after six to seven years. They need a change.<p>I would argue that the quote generalizes to all people, just as you are generalizing your sentiment to all people.<p>I have a lot of 15 year old clothes in my wardrobe, I know many friends who feel the urge of buying a new outfit every few months. I am not passing judgement we are just not similar in our desire for novelty.<p>I value function others value form. Form valuing people will likely enjoy app redesigns, function valuing people will likely value knowing where everything is in an app rather than re-training on new designs.<p>Most importantly I would speculate that form valuing people are way more likely to spend money on apps and services, so these services will likely do better in catering to form over function.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mark_and_sweep</author><text>&gt; People simply get bored with how their apps and websites look after six to seven years. They need a change.<p>Is there any research that supports this claim? If I use an app for 6 years, why would I suddenly need a change?<p>I&#x27;m still ocassionally using a 10 y&#x2F;o version of Photoshop. In fact, I&#x27;m very happy that it does not change. I wouldn&#x27;t want to spend time on re-learning the UI. The same is true for many apps that I use.<p>Please don&#x27;t overdo re-designs just for the sake of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Neubrutalism is taking over the web?</title><url>https://hype4.academy/articles/design/neubrutalism-is-taking-over-web</url></story> |
11,574,734 | 11,574,845 | 1 | 2 | 11,574,215 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>It still wouldn&#x27;t help. It&#x27;s cheaper to manufacture electronics in China <i>even if the labor costs are the same</i>. The logistics are vastly better over there. If you need PCBs or components, you can have them direct from the factory on the same day. If you have a production problem, you can get a specialist engineer the same day. If you need a new production line with 200 extra staff, you can have it up and running in two weeks.<p>An established EMS company like Jabil has huge economies of scale and tremendous in-house resources. They have long relationships with suppliers and consultants. A startup can&#x27;t possibly compete with that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>talmand</author><text>I often wonder if costs could be lowered for many of these companies if they would stop locating in some of the country&#x27;s most expensive places to operate and for their employees to live. I know the arguments about workforce availability and all that, but I&#x27;ve never seen a proper look into it.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>A lot of people wonder why large companies can&#x27;t just stay in the US and compete on quality, and here is a great case for why. It doesn&#x27;t matter how great your workers are, you can&#x27;t sell a product for $3,000 when others are selling it for $600. Especially when it&#x27;s a technology still in development.<p>And I know we pay extra for the warm and fuzzies knowing that something is made in the states, but I&#x27;m sure the home tinkerer in Indianapolis doesn&#x27;t get super warm and fuzzy thinking of paying an extra $2000 just to support some exorbitant Brooklyn rent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MakerBot Is Outsourcing Its Brooklyn Manufacturing Jobs to China</title><url>http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2016/04/25/makerbot-partners-with-contract-manufacturer-to-increase-production-flexibility</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bardworx</author><text>Makerbot Studio is in Industry City, where rent isn&#x27;t exactly &quot;expensive&quot;.[0]<p>Rent (for employees) is also very accessible in the nearby area, nothing close to Manhattan or some swanky neighborhood in BK. (I live nearby)<p>In my opinion, especially in technology, its just hard to operate at scale and not produce products in China. Not only is their labor force less expensive but the parts that you require are manufactured there as well.<p>[0] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commercialobserver.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;brooklyns-sunset-park-is-about-much-more-than-just-industry-city&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commercialobserver.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;brooklyns-sunset-park...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>talmand</author><text>I often wonder if costs could be lowered for many of these companies if they would stop locating in some of the country&#x27;s most expensive places to operate and for their employees to live. I know the arguments about workforce availability and all that, but I&#x27;ve never seen a proper look into it.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>A lot of people wonder why large companies can&#x27;t just stay in the US and compete on quality, and here is a great case for why. It doesn&#x27;t matter how great your workers are, you can&#x27;t sell a product for $3,000 when others are selling it for $600. Especially when it&#x27;s a technology still in development.<p>And I know we pay extra for the warm and fuzzies knowing that something is made in the states, but I&#x27;m sure the home tinkerer in Indianapolis doesn&#x27;t get super warm and fuzzy thinking of paying an extra $2000 just to support some exorbitant Brooklyn rent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MakerBot Is Outsourcing Its Brooklyn Manufacturing Jobs to China</title><url>http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2016/04/25/makerbot-partners-with-contract-manufacturer-to-increase-production-flexibility</url></story> |
24,528,898 | 24,528,689 | 1 | 2 | 24,522,378 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lawnchair_larry</author><text>This is a pretty disgusting thing to advocate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pftf</author><text>Voting doesn&#x27;t work for the most important issues, where human rights are being severely violated.<p>It took a civil war for the end of slavery to begin in the US.<p>It took decades of terrorism for the Irish to stop being as subjugated by the British in Northern Ireland.<p>And so on.<p>History indicates that what you really need in the US right now is some violent, direct action against those committing human rights atrocities. Voting isn&#x27;t going to do shit.</text></item><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>Thats the problem with democracy: the people own the mistakes of those they elect. Dont like what they do? Vote them out of office. Arrest them. Jail them. If the system fails, fix the system.</text></item><item><author>yodsanklai</author><text>I totally agree. First, many Americans don&#x27;t support these acts, it&#x27;s just beyond their control. And others do support them but either minimize them or believe they are justified for a greater good.<p>And a lot are totally clueless and just have no idea of what&#x27;s going on.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of propaganda, poor education and lack of information in the US. Just watch a presidential debate, it&#x27;s a joke.</text></item><item><author>doublesCs</author><text>&gt; The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) confirmed nine years after that El Masri was “severely beaten, sodomized, shackled, and hooded, and subjected total sensory deprivation—carried out in the presence of state officials of Macedonia and within its jurisdiction.”<p>&gt; Macedonia’s “government was consequently responsible for those acts performed by foreign officials…Those measures had been used with premeditation, the aim being to cause Mr. Masri severe pain and suffering in order to obtain information,” the ECHR additionally found.<p>&gt; (...)<p>&gt; “The U.S. diplomatic cables revealed the extent of pressure brought upon the German authorities (and in parallel, relevant Spanish authorities) not to act upon the clear evidence of criminal acts by the USA even though by then exposed,” Goetz added.<p>Then some Americans are confused that many in the western world don&#x27;t like American influence. I find it outrageous that these things happen, and I wouldn&#x27;t want my government to consider such a country an ally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Survivor of CIA Torture and Rendition Supports Assange at Extradition Trial</title><url>https://dissenter.substack.com/p/khaled-el-masri-survivor-of-cia-torture</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pastage</author><text>No! Change is easy to get without violence. It&#x27;s a myth that violence is more effective, ok maybe if you want someones lunch money.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pftf</author><text>Voting doesn&#x27;t work for the most important issues, where human rights are being severely violated.<p>It took a civil war for the end of slavery to begin in the US.<p>It took decades of terrorism for the Irish to stop being as subjugated by the British in Northern Ireland.<p>And so on.<p>History indicates that what you really need in the US right now is some violent, direct action against those committing human rights atrocities. Voting isn&#x27;t going to do shit.</text></item><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>Thats the problem with democracy: the people own the mistakes of those they elect. Dont like what they do? Vote them out of office. Arrest them. Jail them. If the system fails, fix the system.</text></item><item><author>yodsanklai</author><text>I totally agree. First, many Americans don&#x27;t support these acts, it&#x27;s just beyond their control. And others do support them but either minimize them or believe they are justified for a greater good.<p>And a lot are totally clueless and just have no idea of what&#x27;s going on.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of propaganda, poor education and lack of information in the US. Just watch a presidential debate, it&#x27;s a joke.</text></item><item><author>doublesCs</author><text>&gt; The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) confirmed nine years after that El Masri was “severely beaten, sodomized, shackled, and hooded, and subjected total sensory deprivation—carried out in the presence of state officials of Macedonia and within its jurisdiction.”<p>&gt; Macedonia’s “government was consequently responsible for those acts performed by foreign officials…Those measures had been used with premeditation, the aim being to cause Mr. Masri severe pain and suffering in order to obtain information,” the ECHR additionally found.<p>&gt; (...)<p>&gt; “The U.S. diplomatic cables revealed the extent of pressure brought upon the German authorities (and in parallel, relevant Spanish authorities) not to act upon the clear evidence of criminal acts by the USA even though by then exposed,” Goetz added.<p>Then some Americans are confused that many in the western world don&#x27;t like American influence. I find it outrageous that these things happen, and I wouldn&#x27;t want my government to consider such a country an ally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Survivor of CIA Torture and Rendition Supports Assange at Extradition Trial</title><url>https://dissenter.substack.com/p/khaled-el-masri-survivor-of-cia-torture</url></story> |
36,935,489 | 36,933,841 | 1 | 3 | 36,933,209 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scrlk</author><text>From the provost&#x27;s introduction to Feynman:<p>&gt; The chairman suggested that an annual salary of $3,000 was a bit too low for a distinguished faculty member, and recommended that Professor Feynman’s salary be increased $900. The dean, in an act of unusual generosity and with complete disregard for the solvency of the university, crossed out the $900 and made it an even $1,000.<p>Using the BLS CPI inflation calculator to convert from 1945 to 2023 dollars gives an annual salary of ~$67.5k. Pretty good bargain for a &quot;distinguished faculty member&quot;.<p>However, considering that the USD was pegged to gold at $35&#x2F;troy ounce, $4k in 1945 was worth 114.29 troy ounces of gold. This is $224k at the time of writing. Much more fitting for a &quot;distinguished faculty member&quot;. :^)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Feynman's Messenger Lectures (1964)</title><url>https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/messenger.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>lighttower</author><text>there is a little boy inside me who wants to watch all six lectures right away. but now with two kids and constant demand from work, I have gotten used to consuming education as 2 minute physics shorts on YouTube.<p>the issue is much deeper than the format of media. it&#x27;s a sense inside me that I&#x27;m &quot;wasting time&quot; not &quot;productive&quot; (related but not the same as not remunerated). I feel I* don&#x27;t have permission* to just enjoy it ... I can give some reasons, like if I go for a bike ride with the kids it gets me and them exercise and my wife some respite, but sit and listen is just passive consumption that will never be productive... I wish I was free of this sense of guilt</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Feynman's Messenger Lectures (1964)</title><url>https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/messenger.html</url></story> |
10,656,919 | 10,657,089 | 1 | 3 | 10,655,853 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>to3m</author><text>I dread ever having to run the Mac App Store to get an upgrade. (Luckily, I only have to do it for Xcode and OS X.)<p>It asks for my password literally every 15-20 seconds. Once I tell it to upgrade everything, it selects only one upgrade, and keeps telling me there are upgrades. While the upgrades are going, it keeps asking me for my password.<p>At that point I go off and watch TV. When I come back, it&#x27;s actually downloaded all of the upgrades, and there&#x27;s a message about how there are more. After I&#x27;ve entered my password a few more times, it tells me I&#x27;m up to date.<p>Then it asks me whether I&#x27;d like to upgrade.<p>I guess once their work experience students get bored working on Xcode they put them on this instead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>relaxatorium</author><text>The thing that&#x27;s craziest about the MAS to me is how bad the actual application is.<p>It&#x27;s super slow, constantly hangs, and is just such a bad experience from the consumer side that it undermines the (very real) benefits of having a centralized store of applications you&#x27;ve purchased and installed.<p>It&#x27;d be one thing (and a fairly standard Apple move) if the customer experience was good and they didn&#x27;t care about trampling developers to get it that way, but the actual customer facing software that is the App Store is a shockingly bad piece of software.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Leaving the Mac App Store</title><url>http://blog.sketchapp.com/post/134322691555/leaving-the-mac-app-store</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>Great point. The &quot;updates&quot; tab is a complete mindf<i></i>k, you can&#x27;t filter by OS version (which the app presumably knows, yet chooses to ignore) so you can spend lots of time investigating an app, only to find out at the last moment that you can&#x27;t actually run it, and - a personal bugbear of mine - <i>none</i> of the text is proper selectable text, so it can&#x27;t be copied.<p>And tell me I&#x27;m not the only person in the world who has to manage several Apple IDs ...</text><parent_chain><item><author>relaxatorium</author><text>The thing that&#x27;s craziest about the MAS to me is how bad the actual application is.<p>It&#x27;s super slow, constantly hangs, and is just such a bad experience from the consumer side that it undermines the (very real) benefits of having a centralized store of applications you&#x27;ve purchased and installed.<p>It&#x27;d be one thing (and a fairly standard Apple move) if the customer experience was good and they didn&#x27;t care about trampling developers to get it that way, but the actual customer facing software that is the App Store is a shockingly bad piece of software.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Leaving the Mac App Store</title><url>http://blog.sketchapp.com/post/134322691555/leaving-the-mac-app-store</url></story> |
32,212,394 | 32,212,318 | 1 | 3 | 32,211,576 | 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>EnKopVand</author><text>I think the point here may be that when you’re dealing with an occupation in which the best engineers can pick and chose. Then you’re likely to lose your best engineers unless you’re exceptionally good at managing them. Especially if you introduce boundaries and restraints.<p>I’m not sure it’s naive to view the world like the author does. I’ve worked both sides of the fence, and while I’m now back in software development I do see the appreciation for my experience with creating the most business value out of your resources that managers come with. The thing is, though, if I don’t have to work in a place with too much bureaucracy or too many constraints then I’m not going to do so. I obviously try not to be an asshole about it. I don’t follow the company dress code in the basement troll factory where they placed IT, but I do have a suit at work that I can change into whenever I leave the “cave”. Those sort of things, so naturally I’ll play a long way in regards to what management want, but I’m never going to do estimates by the hour until the job market actively forces me to do so. Which likely won’t be in our lifetime. So when&#x2F;if management go down the route of treating Software Development like they treat any other department (which like you state also are under significant constraint) then the company is just very likely to lose their most talented developers very quickly. I suspect that it would be (and probably is) exactly like that in any department, it’s just easier to get away with in engineering because we’re privileged enough to be able to leave our jobs today and have another good job by tomorrow.</text><parent_chain><item><author>astura</author><text>This article could be a parody with how shockingly naive it is.<p>The purpose of work is to solve business problems, not personal amusement and self-actualization. Business problems exist in the real world and have significant constraints. Many people will be much happier if they understood this.</text></item><item><author>23B1</author><text>Like many engineers, the author of this article assumes all engineers are ethical, and perfectly suited to the assigned task. The author also assumes unlimited budgets, perfect control over a company&#x27;s hiring and resource management, and a perfect understanding of the software&#x27;s requirements.<p>These are the same complaints I hear from inexperienced engineers over and over and over again – and not just engineers, but anyone primarily responsible for &#x27;labor&#x27; vs. &#x27;management&#x27;.<p>The &#x27;best engineers&#x27; empathize with the perspective of &#x27;management,&#x27; that running a company is probabilistic, and that managers, co-workers, and other departments – like finance, recruiting, product, and marketing – are also duty bound by challenging constraints often beyond their control.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to drive away your best engineers</title><url>https://blog.hulacorn.com/2021/09/08/how-to-drive-away-your-best-engineers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>the_gipsy</author><text>There are so many actors and groups and dynamics and forces in effect in the relations that we commonly call &quot;work&quot;, that trying to reduce it to a single purpose is laughably naïve.</text><parent_chain><item><author>astura</author><text>This article could be a parody with how shockingly naive it is.<p>The purpose of work is to solve business problems, not personal amusement and self-actualization. Business problems exist in the real world and have significant constraints. Many people will be much happier if they understood this.</text></item><item><author>23B1</author><text>Like many engineers, the author of this article assumes all engineers are ethical, and perfectly suited to the assigned task. The author also assumes unlimited budgets, perfect control over a company&#x27;s hiring and resource management, and a perfect understanding of the software&#x27;s requirements.<p>These are the same complaints I hear from inexperienced engineers over and over and over again – and not just engineers, but anyone primarily responsible for &#x27;labor&#x27; vs. &#x27;management&#x27;.<p>The &#x27;best engineers&#x27; empathize with the perspective of &#x27;management,&#x27; that running a company is probabilistic, and that managers, co-workers, and other departments – like finance, recruiting, product, and marketing – are also duty bound by challenging constraints often beyond their control.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to drive away your best engineers</title><url>https://blog.hulacorn.com/2021/09/08/how-to-drive-away-your-best-engineers/</url></story> |
29,024,178 | 29,024,240 | 1 | 2 | 29,024,032 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>metafunctor</author><text>I think the karma from a story is more or less capped to the number of comments on the story. At the same time, a story which gets more comments than upvotes quickly vanishes from the front page.<p>Both modulo moderation, of course.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Do you mean on stories? I&#x27;ve noticed upvotes on stories don&#x27;t give you 1 karma each, it&#x27;s less. Not sure if it&#x27;s a linear 0.5. But upvotes on comments seem to be 1 each.</text></item><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>Many good points. I&#x27;d like to add a common open secret that I believe is wrong: 1 upvote = 1 karma point.<p>This might be true internally and initially, before any ant-spam, anti-upvote-ring detection takes place. Effectively, from a user point of view it is not - at least for me.<p>When I look at the points one of my submissions get and compare my increase in overall karma it is very roughly 50% most of the time. Needless to say that I never participated in things that would be considered unethically (voting-ring etc.). Also not a complaint at all, just an observation that goes against what is often written in &quot;about HN&quot; type posts (but not OP).<p>EDIT:<p>1. My observation is from more than a year ago, so things might well have changed.<p>2. As <i>lordnacho</i> points out below this seems to be true only for stories. Regardless why it happens, awarding stories with less points than comments makes a lot of sense to me. After all posting a suitable story is much less effort than writing a decent comment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Open secrets about Hacker News</title><url>https://bengtan.com/blog/open-secrets-hacker-news/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bryanrasmussen</author><text>my observation is that when you are starting out your stories generate more than .5 per comment, not sure if it is 1 per comment, but at a certain point you get capped to .5 per comment on story. Have not noticed any capping on favorites for comments though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Do you mean on stories? I&#x27;ve noticed upvotes on stories don&#x27;t give you 1 karma each, it&#x27;s less. Not sure if it&#x27;s a linear 0.5. But upvotes on comments seem to be 1 each.</text></item><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>Many good points. I&#x27;d like to add a common open secret that I believe is wrong: 1 upvote = 1 karma point.<p>This might be true internally and initially, before any ant-spam, anti-upvote-ring detection takes place. Effectively, from a user point of view it is not - at least for me.<p>When I look at the points one of my submissions get and compare my increase in overall karma it is very roughly 50% most of the time. Needless to say that I never participated in things that would be considered unethically (voting-ring etc.). Also not a complaint at all, just an observation that goes against what is often written in &quot;about HN&quot; type posts (but not OP).<p>EDIT:<p>1. My observation is from more than a year ago, so things might well have changed.<p>2. As <i>lordnacho</i> points out below this seems to be true only for stories. Regardless why it happens, awarding stories with less points than comments makes a lot of sense to me. After all posting a suitable story is much less effort than writing a decent comment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Open secrets about Hacker News</title><url>https://bengtan.com/blog/open-secrets-hacker-news/</url></story> |
25,315,082 | 25,315,154 | 1 | 2 | 25,311,662 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giovannibonetti</author><text>Journalism was a very coveted field 50 years ago. Lots of bright people wanted to work there. Nowadays there are many interesting and rewarding jobs for people with good education, and the news industry is losing resources to social networks and online classified sites.<p>A similar analysis can be applied to explain the decline in the quality of school teachers. Women used to have very few work opportunities in the past, and many of the brightest ones would end up teaching. That&#x27;s not the case anymore, there are many more rewarding paths nowadays, like getting a law degree.<p>So, please don&#x27;t assume the quality of journalism has dropped because the literacy level of society has fallen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>keiferski</author><text>The issue isn&#x27;t whether there are abundant &quot;literate&quot; resources (podcasts, in your example) but whether the average member of a democratic society is literate. More importantly, whether the elites are deeply literate.<p>I don&#x27;t know about you, but when I look at the popular media and at political leaders, they seem highly illiterate compared to those from just a century ago. Even the &quot;literate elite&quot; media, e.g. <i>The New Yorker</i>, has dropped in quality from a few decades ago. Just read some old issues to see what I mean.<p>Regardless, this article is hardly the first or only study of this problem. Allan Bloom wrote <i>The Closing of the American Mind</i> in 1987. Harold Bloom and John Simon wrote a few books on the topic.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Closing_of_the_American_Mi...</a></text></item><item><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>This article makes far reaching societal claims with essentially no evidence. The evidence presented is in the form of &quot;feelings&quot; of various writers concerned of their own decline in literaryfocus.<p>An unvoiced assumption that people were historically more literate pervades the entire article. As a former lit. major I used to buy into this kind of thing. But I now think this belief is the product of profound selection bias. Literature and history libraries are full of the very best diaries and letters of the very best diary and letter writers because those are enjoyable to read and being more detailed are more useful. History is not written by the victors but by the literate.<p>People of letters that write this kind of article are obviously inclined towards letters and therefore inclined to sample history through literate means and therefore greatly overestimate the literacy of the past.<p>But let us pair anecdote to anecdote. There is a podcast network called &quot;The New Books Network&quot;. It examines weekly the release of new academic works. It began as &quot;New Books in History&quot; covering one new history book each week. Now it features dozens of podcasts each covering a new book every week. Engage these podcasts for six months and at the end, tell where your biases lie. You will probably suddenly believe we live in the most literate age of all.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Erosion of Deep Literacy</title><url>https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-erosion-of-deep-literacy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paganel</author><text>&gt; The New Yorker, has dropped in quality from a few decades ago. Just read some old issues to see what I mean.<p>Heck, I remember reading a cycling news article from the sports newspaper L&#x27;Equipe citing Villon about 10 years ago (when that newspaper still was a proper one, i.e. big-format), judging by what most French people say on &#x2F;r&#x2F;soccer when it comes to L&#x27;Equipe that level of literacy has not been maintained.</text><parent_chain><item><author>keiferski</author><text>The issue isn&#x27;t whether there are abundant &quot;literate&quot; resources (podcasts, in your example) but whether the average member of a democratic society is literate. More importantly, whether the elites are deeply literate.<p>I don&#x27;t know about you, but when I look at the popular media and at political leaders, they seem highly illiterate compared to those from just a century ago. Even the &quot;literate elite&quot; media, e.g. <i>The New Yorker</i>, has dropped in quality from a few decades ago. Just read some old issues to see what I mean.<p>Regardless, this article is hardly the first or only study of this problem. Allan Bloom wrote <i>The Closing of the American Mind</i> in 1987. Harold Bloom and John Simon wrote a few books on the topic.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Closing_of_the_American_Mi...</a></text></item><item><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>This article makes far reaching societal claims with essentially no evidence. The evidence presented is in the form of &quot;feelings&quot; of various writers concerned of their own decline in literaryfocus.<p>An unvoiced assumption that people were historically more literate pervades the entire article. As a former lit. major I used to buy into this kind of thing. But I now think this belief is the product of profound selection bias. Literature and history libraries are full of the very best diaries and letters of the very best diary and letter writers because those are enjoyable to read and being more detailed are more useful. History is not written by the victors but by the literate.<p>People of letters that write this kind of article are obviously inclined towards letters and therefore inclined to sample history through literate means and therefore greatly overestimate the literacy of the past.<p>But let us pair anecdote to anecdote. There is a podcast network called &quot;The New Books Network&quot;. It examines weekly the release of new academic works. It began as &quot;New Books in History&quot; covering one new history book each week. Now it features dozens of podcasts each covering a new book every week. Engage these podcasts for six months and at the end, tell where your biases lie. You will probably suddenly believe we live in the most literate age of all.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Erosion of Deep Literacy</title><url>https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-erosion-of-deep-literacy</url></story> |
17,394,853 | 17,394,528 | 1 | 2 | 17,394,215 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>It&#x27;s worth nothing that the economics of the labor to remove &quot;old&quot; solar panels, transport them, recycle them, and install new panels may not make sense. Current technology monocrystalline silicon stuff can be guaranteed to have 80% of its original STC (standard test condition) power output after 25 years. Usually at which time the panels will be long since paid off and whatever power they are making for the roof owner is free money.<p>80% of original test-conditions rated power is still a lot - if you were to theoretically install a 40kW rated array composed of about 112, 360W panels, that would still be a 32kW array after 25 years.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Europe's first solar panel recycling plant opens in France</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-solar-recycling/europes-first-solar-panel-recycling-plant-opens-in-france-idUSKBN1JL28Z</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>the-pigeon</author><text>This seems odd to me. Solar panels should last at least 30 years but we&#x27;ve been finding most just keep working, potentially for decades longer.<p>While the power they produce degrades with time, it&#x27;s not enough to be worth junking the panel.<p>Basically no solar panels should be recycled unless they are completely non-functional or faulty.<p>My guess is this plant will be dealing almost entirely with damaged panels and not end of life panels. Or they hope to trick people into recycling perfectly good but old panels, which is not eco-friendly at all.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Europe's first solar panel recycling plant opens in France</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-solar-recycling/europes-first-solar-panel-recycling-plant-opens-in-france-idUSKBN1JL28Z</url></story> |
7,172,615 | 7,172,255 | 1 | 2 | 7,171,899 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>I object to parallel construction because it warps NSA&#x27;s incentives and encourages them to develop deeper domestic capabilities.<p>Having said that: it&#x27;s worth understanding what parallel construction actually is.<p>Parallel construction does NOT allow law enforcement to:<p>(a) Introduce evidence that is the product of NSA surveillance<p>(b) Literally manufacture probable cause to effect a search to generate introducible evidence<p>In order for an LEO to act on data from a surveillance source, they must not only be &quot;at the right place at the right time&quot; (which is what surveillance allows them to do), but, once there, discover probable cause to effect a search. That&#x27;s why you see slides in this deck about how long you can stop a car in a traffic stop; one of the pitfalls of trying to launch a search from a traffic stop is that if the stop exceeds the duration allowed for a detention without arrest, all the evidence generated after that time period elapses is excludable.<p>Obviously: (i) the probable cause mitigation is damaged by drug dogs (&quot;our search was authorized by this dog over here&quot;), and (ii) all search mitigations are damaged by the fact that they come into play only once someone is arrested and threatened with prosecution. Those are both very serious, important, valid objections. However, I contend that they are objections to the entire process of evidence collection with or without surveillance. Judges need to stop pretending that dogs can judge whether a search is reasonable. Prosecutors have too much unchecked power in our system.<p>Here&#x27;s an extremely detailed cartoon flowchart of how 4th Amendment protections come into play (or are thwarted) in the real world:<p><a href="http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2256" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lawcomic.net&#x2F;guide&#x2F;?p=2256</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DEA teaches agents to recreate evidence chains to hide methods</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/feb/03/dea-parallel-construction-guides/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gregholmberg</author><text>Parallel construction allows intelligence agencies to make criminal allegations that might turn out to be less than factually accurate, while facing no review and no repercussions.<p>The concept of allowing evidence from secret sources should offend anyone who believes in a just society.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DEA teaches agents to recreate evidence chains to hide methods</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/feb/03/dea-parallel-construction-guides/</url></story> |
17,623,620 | 17,622,646 | 1 | 2 | 17,620,543 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>karmelapple</author><text>I have never expected that the other party is sitting and staring at the screen in any Slack or chat I’ve used. An @mention will change the expectation of interrupting or not, but as someone who has used various chat programs for 24 years of my life, this ha never been an expectation I’ve had, nor one I’ve seen too frequently expressed.<p>What do you think has caused that expectation in your mind? Do you wish that for the people you’re chatting with? Have you worked with people who do expect that? Honestly curious.<p>I wonder how my growing up with it, and in chat rooms with mostly tech-savvy folks, has affected my use and expectations of it, too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text>I think you&#x27;re confusing communication throughput with latency.<p>I also don&#x27;t like using chat at work. It&#x27;s not because I want less <i>interaction</i>, it&#x27;s because I want less <i>interruption</i>. Email has a norm of asynchrony where I can respond to email when I reach a good point in my current task. With chat, the other party is presumed to be sitting staring at the screen waiting for my reply, so I have to drop what I&#x27;m doing to respond.<p>I don&#x27;t think the latter is good for my overall productivity.</text></item><item><author>eganist</author><text>You&#x27;re in the mute-everything-non-critical class, which is a good practice regardless of the client. If they really need you, they&#x27;ll ring&#x2F;call&#x2F;DM. Otherwise, you can check it whenever you&#x27;re ready.</text></item><item><author>emodendroket</author><text>It seems he is in a different camp, specifically the one where you aren&#x27;t on a chat application all day</text></item><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>There are two camps: the we-should-just-use-irc camp, and the we-need-every-feature camp. You fall in to the former, and I would bet that a lot of people here fall in to the former.<p>However, many people fall in to the latter, and Slack handily beats the competition there. There is also an element of having nice and polished features baked in that appeals to many people. Want it on your phone? There&#x27;s an app. Want to search? Baked in. Want convenient chat bots? Click a button.<p>To be sure, all these things are possible in IRC and other lo-fi chat protocols, but getting them set up is <i>easy</i> on Slack. I see this as similar to the argument of Linux vs. OSX. Linux can do practically anything OSX can, but it requires tweaking and setting up. It&#x27;s a battle of pick-and-choose vs having it all baked in.</text></item><item><author>ironjunkie</author><text>When is this overhype for Slack going to stop? It is a chat application with a slightly improved UI like it existed 30 years ago.<p>This is a step in corporate IT that I really cannot fully understand. It seems that every company&#x2F;&#x2F;startup has to use slack nowadays to pretend to be cool again.<p>Everytime I have a serious conversation about the productivity gains or losses of Slack though, it is pretty clear to me that it is more disruptive than helpful. It fosters a &quot;Always on&quot; culture, where irrelevant chats are exchanged publicly to advertise how much work is being done. If you shut down Slack and appear as Offline people assume you are not working.<p>It also seems to me that now that Slack became the norm for communication, I almost don&#x27;t receive well written emails with well-argued technical discussions anymore. Everything is now a &quot;Chat&quot; that dilutes the technical discussion because it needs to be responded &quot;directly&quot;.<p>I would expect 2018 to be the year where people start questioning the utility of &quot;Slack everywhere&quot; and not blindly jump on the Slack bandwagon because that&#x27;s what great startups do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/slack-and-atlassian-team-up-to-take-on-microsoft-in-chat-software</url></story> | <instructions>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>I find clients tend to call to ask &quot;a quick question&quot;, this is very disruptive. My experience is if they can&#x27;t be bothered putting it in writing, then it&#x27;s probably not very important.</text><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text>I think you&#x27;re confusing communication throughput with latency.<p>I also don&#x27;t like using chat at work. It&#x27;s not because I want less <i>interaction</i>, it&#x27;s because I want less <i>interruption</i>. Email has a norm of asynchrony where I can respond to email when I reach a good point in my current task. With chat, the other party is presumed to be sitting staring at the screen waiting for my reply, so I have to drop what I&#x27;m doing to respond.<p>I don&#x27;t think the latter is good for my overall productivity.</text></item><item><author>eganist</author><text>You&#x27;re in the mute-everything-non-critical class, which is a good practice regardless of the client. If they really need you, they&#x27;ll ring&#x2F;call&#x2F;DM. Otherwise, you can check it whenever you&#x27;re ready.</text></item><item><author>emodendroket</author><text>It seems he is in a different camp, specifically the one where you aren&#x27;t on a chat application all day</text></item><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>There are two camps: the we-should-just-use-irc camp, and the we-need-every-feature camp. You fall in to the former, and I would bet that a lot of people here fall in to the former.<p>However, many people fall in to the latter, and Slack handily beats the competition there. There is also an element of having nice and polished features baked in that appeals to many people. Want it on your phone? There&#x27;s an app. Want to search? Baked in. Want convenient chat bots? Click a button.<p>To be sure, all these things are possible in IRC and other lo-fi chat protocols, but getting them set up is <i>easy</i> on Slack. I see this as similar to the argument of Linux vs. OSX. Linux can do practically anything OSX can, but it requires tweaking and setting up. It&#x27;s a battle of pick-and-choose vs having it all baked in.</text></item><item><author>ironjunkie</author><text>When is this overhype for Slack going to stop? It is a chat application with a slightly improved UI like it existed 30 years ago.<p>This is a step in corporate IT that I really cannot fully understand. It seems that every company&#x2F;&#x2F;startup has to use slack nowadays to pretend to be cool again.<p>Everytime I have a serious conversation about the productivity gains or losses of Slack though, it is pretty clear to me that it is more disruptive than helpful. It fosters a &quot;Always on&quot; culture, where irrelevant chats are exchanged publicly to advertise how much work is being done. If you shut down Slack and appear as Offline people assume you are not working.<p>It also seems to me that now that Slack became the norm for communication, I almost don&#x27;t receive well written emails with well-argued technical discussions anymore. Everything is now a &quot;Chat&quot; that dilutes the technical discussion because it needs to be responded &quot;directly&quot;.<p>I would expect 2018 to be the year where people start questioning the utility of &quot;Slack everywhere&quot; and not blindly jump on the Slack bandwagon because that&#x27;s what great startups do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/slack-and-atlassian-team-up-to-take-on-microsoft-in-chat-software</url></story> |
40,107,415 | 40,107,580 | 1 | 2 | 40,106,639 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acdha</author><text>&gt; Partly this is due to the concentration of wealth, inaccessible to taxing.<p>This has nothing to do with it. Contractors cost notably more, so if the goal was economizing it’d be an obvious step to cut out the middlemen by hiring staff directly.<p>The problem is that there’s an entire political ideology holding that government is inherently wasteful and its adherents will oppose any attempt to track market salaries because that allows them both to say they’re saving money at the time and later to cite the struggling&#x2F;failed project as proof that they were right.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nobodyandproud</author><text>Partly this is due to the concentration of wealth, inaccessible to taxing.<p>Naturally government pay would lag behind even the more mediocre H1Bs.</text></item><item><author>qaq</author><text>Well you can&#x27;t not outsource your security because gov payscale limits do not match market reality. You have to realise that a ton of people who should be directly employed by NSA etc. are actually working for their contracts for this reason.</text></item><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>I&#x27;m not a fan of Microsoft, but this is some amazing blame shifting. The root cause of the problem is the government single-sourcing a vendor and being incapable of negotiating with said vendor. The US government is 10% of Microsoft&#x27;s annual revenue just on security services (if I read the article correctly) but is failing to negotiate. The right answer here is if the situation is that bad, make a very public long-term commitment to shift to something else &amp; up-level your IT department to be able to execute multi-year projects competently. Instead of meeting Microsoft on the business playing field, it&#x27;s trying to use scary &quot;national security threat&quot; verbiage to try to bully them in the court of public opinion.<p>Regarding security, at the end of the day, the US government is a huge target for adversaries. You can&#x27;t outsource your security practices &amp; if MS software is really that much worse they should be fixing their purchasing requirements. The reality though is that whatever software the US government would switch to would become the focus of adversarial research.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy director</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/21/microsoft_national_security_risk/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ripjaygn</author><text>&gt; Naturally government pay would lag behind even the more mediocre H1Bs.<p>Those &quot;mediocre H1Bs&quot; work their ass off compared to non-H1Bs because they get laid off&#x2F;fired and deported on short notice with barely enough or sometimes no time to sell their belongings if they don&#x27;t perform [1]. Meanwhile it&#x27;s next to impossible to fire a govt employee for bad performance.<p>Maybe the solution is to fill the govt with mediocre H1B employees, not pay govt employees even more without accountability if they don&#x27;t perform.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesnownews.com&#x2F;technology-science&#x2F;techie-on-h1b-visa-gets-fired-when-on-vacation-visa-revoked-unable-to-return-to-us-asks-friend-to-sell-his-car-and-belongings-article-97442201" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesnownews.com&#x2F;technology-science&#x2F;techie-on-h1...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nobodyandproud</author><text>Partly this is due to the concentration of wealth, inaccessible to taxing.<p>Naturally government pay would lag behind even the more mediocre H1Bs.</text></item><item><author>qaq</author><text>Well you can&#x27;t not outsource your security because gov payscale limits do not match market reality. You have to realise that a ton of people who should be directly employed by NSA etc. are actually working for their contracts for this reason.</text></item><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>I&#x27;m not a fan of Microsoft, but this is some amazing blame shifting. The root cause of the problem is the government single-sourcing a vendor and being incapable of negotiating with said vendor. The US government is 10% of Microsoft&#x27;s annual revenue just on security services (if I read the article correctly) but is failing to negotiate. The right answer here is if the situation is that bad, make a very public long-term commitment to shift to something else &amp; up-level your IT department to be able to execute multi-year projects competently. Instead of meeting Microsoft on the business playing field, it&#x27;s trying to use scary &quot;national security threat&quot; verbiage to try to bully them in the court of public opinion.<p>Regarding security, at the end of the day, the US government is a huge target for adversaries. You can&#x27;t outsource your security practices &amp; if MS software is really that much worse they should be fixing their purchasing requirements. The reality though is that whatever software the US government would switch to would become the focus of adversarial research.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy director</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/21/microsoft_national_security_risk/</url></story> |
37,921,769 | 37,921,940 | 1 | 2 | 37,920,682 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phamilton4</author><text>Having owned many raspberry pis, a handful of rock pis (4A, 4B, Zero and S), Mango Pis, Khadas VIM4 and other SBCs (I have a problem haha)... I can say without a doubt the two shining stars the Raspberry Pi has are their distro&#x2F;software and general ecosystem.<p>Just upgrading and dealing with downloading&#x2F;upgrading the Raspberry Pi is a dream compared to the Rock Pis. The Khadas is a little better, but still I have a hard time upgrading it and sometimes certain images just won&#x27;t even work from the company. Sometimes when trying to upgrade Rock Pis with eMMC you will find 2 or three different ways to install the freaking image on their own wikis.<p>There&#x27;s also the &quot;security&quot; aspect for me, I really don&#x27;t trust some of these distros (maybe I shouldn&#x27;t worry??). A random image someone put on their website with broken instructions and messed up repos&#x2F;kernels doesn&#x27;t exactly instill confidence to me.<p>I will say the one GREAT thing from Rock Pi is their rock pi x. But it has an x86 processor and I can just install any distro. I wish they were easier to purchase and had more memory!!!</text><parent_chain><item><author>jamesy0ung</author><text>They might be good performance wise, but if you watch the Jeff Geerling video he mentions in the post, it will show you how much trouble he has with it. Custom distros with broken repos, non mainlined outdated kernels.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Orange Pi 5 Plus vs. Rock 5 Model B</title><url>https://picockpit.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-5-vs-orange-pi-5-plus-vs-rock-5-model-b/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ThatPlayer</author><text>Yeah, I wouldn&#x27;t recommend one that doesn&#x27;t have mainline kernels. But Pine64 does good work on getting stuff upstreamed. The RK3399 used in the PinePhone Pro, the Orange Pi 4, Rock 4, and other boards has proper mainline support. I&#x27;m also a fan of the open sourced GPU drivers for that SoC done by the panfrost team that has desktop OpenGL support (not just the ES stuff).<p>Pine64&#x27;s QuartzPro64 board uses the same RK3588 in the Orange Pi 5 Plus and Rock 5B, and they&#x27;re working on upstreaming support for that: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.pine64.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;QuartzPro64_Development#Upstreaming_Status" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.pine64.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;QuartzPro64_Development#Upstrea...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jamesy0ung</author><text>They might be good performance wise, but if you watch the Jeff Geerling video he mentions in the post, it will show you how much trouble he has with it. Custom distros with broken repos, non mainlined outdated kernels.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Orange Pi 5 Plus vs. Rock 5 Model B</title><url>https://picockpit.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-5-vs-orange-pi-5-plus-vs-rock-5-model-b/</url></story> |
1,443,054 | 1,443,074 | 1 | 2 | 1,442,949 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xal</author><text>I think this is a brilliant idea. One of the most frustrating things for me when I travel is that my requirements are different from what the traditional Hotel industry caters to. All I need are a desk, chair and low latency / reasonable bandwidth internet. I tend to stay at the Marriott because they have their act better together then all the other chains, especially in SF. But that still means I pay up to $200 a night for the room ( with internet + car ) and pay for a lot of stuff that I absolutely don't need.<p>I'd much rather meet some nice people and stay in a cozy place with a single pillow and good internet.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nomadic: Zipcar for apartments, for people who only need the Internet to work.</title><url>http://www.livenomadic.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>hugh3</author><text>It took me a while to parse the title: consider "People who need nothing except the internet in order to work" vs "People who only need the internet in order to work" vs "People who need nothing except that the internet should work". I assume the second is intended.<p>Also, how is this different to a hotel? I guess it's cheaper. So how is this different to a really cheap hostel with shared rooms? I suppose you can only let trustworthy people in.<p>So yes, I can see it working if they (you?) can get the economics right. Keeping the apartments clean could also be a major challenge.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nomadic: Zipcar for apartments, for people who only need the Internet to work.</title><url>http://www.livenomadic.com/</url></story> |
20,435,939 | 20,435,852 | 1 | 3 | 20,435,054 | 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>archgoon</author><text>It depends on whether you generate using rustc 1.28 or rustc 1.36, and whether you&#x27;re compiling with or without optimzations. This does not crash in unoptimized rust (either 1.36 or 1.28) but it will crash in optimized rust 1.36.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;8Yxl2c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;8Yxl2c</a><p>I think though (as your question indicates); that the author misses the point of why people care about &quot;What the hardware does&quot;. At the end of the day, assembly code is going to execute, and that assembly code is going to (despite the authors protestations to the contrary) have well defined memory of one value or another. The moment you start saying &quot;Rust has a third value of uninitialized&quot; the question comes up &quot;How is that abstraction enforced by the hardware?&quot; This is valuable information for understanding how the language works.<p>From the authors discussion, I was expecting some sort of sentinel value being checked; however, instead, the uninitialized memory access is detected by the compiler and it panics uniformly regardless of the actual memory state.<p>The idea that one should only worry about the abstract virtual machine of rust seems like an encouragement of magical thinking. &quot;Don&#x27;t worry about how any of this works, the compiler will just make it happen&quot;. This will not go over well with many people who are curious about learning Rust.<p>However, if the author is arguing &quot;Don&#x27;t let the behavior of a naive enforcement of a Rust safety construct dictate how the optimized version should work&quot; this seems like a more interesting position; but it&#x27;s not clear that is the argument being made here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rkagerer</author><text>Would have liked to see the machine code generated by the example function, and a deeper dive mapping compiler choices to the unintuitive results.<p>The article (indeed the point of it) abstracts that all away behind &quot;undefined behavior&quot; and a mental model sitting between your code and its resulting executable. Which is fine, but it leaves a loose end which fails to sate my curiosity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“What the Hardware Does” Is Not What Your Program Does: Uninitialized Memory</title><url>https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2019/07/14/uninit.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>Arnavion</author><text>The dropdown next to the &quot;Run&quot; button in the playground link shows you the ASM. But here&#x27;s the relevant part:<p><pre><code> playground::main:
push rax
call std::panicking::begin_panic
ud2
</code></pre>
That is, it&#x27;s an unconditional panic.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rkagerer</author><text>Would have liked to see the machine code generated by the example function, and a deeper dive mapping compiler choices to the unintuitive results.<p>The article (indeed the point of it) abstracts that all away behind &quot;undefined behavior&quot; and a mental model sitting between your code and its resulting executable. Which is fine, but it leaves a loose end which fails to sate my curiosity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“What the Hardware Does” Is Not What Your Program Does: Uninitialized Memory</title><url>https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2019/07/14/uninit.html</url></story> |
26,913,648 | 26,911,093 | 1 | 2 | 26,909,488 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hooande</author><text>Every one of these potential attacks would require a lot of things to go very right. It&#x27;s easy to do X or Y under experimental conditions. The real world is far more chaotic and the odds of success are lower.<p>Further, none of these things would cause an enemy to capitulate. If an enemy shut off power or caused car crashes in several major cities at once, the US isn&#x27;t going to just surrender or even think about it. They&#x27;re going to strike back with the widest array of options for employing force that earth has ever seen. Every option you listed would be pin pricking a giant.<p>Cyber warfare is super cheap, but it&#x27;s also orders of magnitude less effective than sustained aerial bombardment or a complete naval blockade. Another tool in the tool chest, but not something I would base my national defense on</text><parent_chain><item><author>Veserv</author><text>Well of course, hacking is an activity that has by far the most leverage both criminally and militarily in the modern era.<p>For ~$1M you can successfully attack and completely compromise essentially any Fortune 500 company in the world.<p>For ~$1M you could target the current model year of any brand of car in the world and develop a remote attack to simultaneously target every car of that model year at rush-hour and engage the cruise control at maximum speed, engage the anti-lock braking to disable the brakes, and, if applicable, engage the autosteer to turn slightly into oncoming traffic as these researchers [1] demonstrated could be done 5 years ago on a budget of only $80k.<p>For ~$1M-10M you could likely target the most popular types of generators used in a power grid and at the very least deactivate if not disable their software governors and over-rev them to destroy them as demonstrated by the DoD 14 years ago [2] and as militarily deployed by Russia against Ukraine [3] which could result in the loss of power for months if sufficiently widespread.<p>At the very least our internet-connected stoves with remote turn-on [4] are safe since, as we all know, the software developers for stoves are the best minds of our generation so it would cost far more than the ~$1M to hack a Fortune 500 company to remotely turn on the gas at 2 AM in the morning and then the igniter at 3 AM with results like this: WARNING [5][6].<p>For less than the price of a tank any government can develop a weapons system that is comparable in power to a full scale nuclear first strike that you can deploy instantly in your enemy&#x27;s territory. Not just that it can be tuned to any scale of destruction you want from an individual all the way up to full scale nuclear strike, and it can be done untraceably or, even better, you can pin it on one of your other enemies as the CIA had the capability to do [7]. Frankly, any government not feverishly developing such weapons systems given that they only cost a few measly million to develop for the immense capabilities they provide is either ignorant or fighting the last war. This is <i>The Tool</i> that a small nation can use to achieve parity with superpowers given their miniscule cost and immense leverage.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;jeep-hackers-return-high-speed-steering-acceleration-hacks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;jeep-hackers-return-high-speed...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7GSEchbDuB8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7GSEchbDuB8</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;December_2015_Ukraine_power_grid_cyberattack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;December_2015_Ukraine_power_gr...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geappliances.com&#x2F;ge&#x2F;connected-appliances&#x2F;ranges-ovens-cooking.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geappliances.com&#x2F;ge&#x2F;connected-appliances&#x2F;ranges-...</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=a2JPLMzQjkk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=a2JPLMzQjkk</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZX9-puUjoDU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZX9-puUjoDU</a><p>[7] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vault_7#UMBRAGE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vault_7#UMBRAGE</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Rise of North Korea's Hacking Army</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/the-incredible-rise-of-north-koreas-hacking-army</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Der_Einzige</author><text>Like, in principle you&#x27;re right. In practice, cyber attacks at the level of terror that is equivilent to a &quot;full scale nuclear first strike&quot; simply have not happened (yet).<p>I do believe that you might be making a bit of hyperbole with the scale of possible terror potentially possible for such small amounts of money. Some crazy mofo should have done this by now. You&#x27;re telling me that ted kaczynski types don&#x27;t exist for hacking?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Veserv</author><text>Well of course, hacking is an activity that has by far the most leverage both criminally and militarily in the modern era.<p>For ~$1M you can successfully attack and completely compromise essentially any Fortune 500 company in the world.<p>For ~$1M you could target the current model year of any brand of car in the world and develop a remote attack to simultaneously target every car of that model year at rush-hour and engage the cruise control at maximum speed, engage the anti-lock braking to disable the brakes, and, if applicable, engage the autosteer to turn slightly into oncoming traffic as these researchers [1] demonstrated could be done 5 years ago on a budget of only $80k.<p>For ~$1M-10M you could likely target the most popular types of generators used in a power grid and at the very least deactivate if not disable their software governors and over-rev them to destroy them as demonstrated by the DoD 14 years ago [2] and as militarily deployed by Russia against Ukraine [3] which could result in the loss of power for months if sufficiently widespread.<p>At the very least our internet-connected stoves with remote turn-on [4] are safe since, as we all know, the software developers for stoves are the best minds of our generation so it would cost far more than the ~$1M to hack a Fortune 500 company to remotely turn on the gas at 2 AM in the morning and then the igniter at 3 AM with results like this: WARNING [5][6].<p>For less than the price of a tank any government can develop a weapons system that is comparable in power to a full scale nuclear first strike that you can deploy instantly in your enemy&#x27;s territory. Not just that it can be tuned to any scale of destruction you want from an individual all the way up to full scale nuclear strike, and it can be done untraceably or, even better, you can pin it on one of your other enemies as the CIA had the capability to do [7]. Frankly, any government not feverishly developing such weapons systems given that they only cost a few measly million to develop for the immense capabilities they provide is either ignorant or fighting the last war. This is <i>The Tool</i> that a small nation can use to achieve parity with superpowers given their miniscule cost and immense leverage.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;jeep-hackers-return-high-speed-steering-acceleration-hacks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;jeep-hackers-return-high-speed...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7GSEchbDuB8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7GSEchbDuB8</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;December_2015_Ukraine_power_grid_cyberattack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;December_2015_Ukraine_power_gr...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geappliances.com&#x2F;ge&#x2F;connected-appliances&#x2F;ranges-ovens-cooking.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geappliances.com&#x2F;ge&#x2F;connected-appliances&#x2F;ranges-...</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=a2JPLMzQjkk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=a2JPLMzQjkk</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZX9-puUjoDU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZX9-puUjoDU</a><p>[7] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vault_7#UMBRAGE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vault_7#UMBRAGE</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Rise of North Korea's Hacking Army</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/the-incredible-rise-of-north-koreas-hacking-army</url></story> |
5,631,844 | 5,631,895 | 1 | 2 | 5,631,635 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blowski</author><text>That ship has long sailed. Saying people are abusing DNS by using a country level domain is like saying people are abusing the word 'awful' when they use it to mean 'bad'.<p>People _are_ using TLDs in this way, and the relevant countries, registrars, and ICANN seem happy to let them. It has no impact on the internet, other than freeing up a whole bunch of domain names, thereby lowering the price for everybody.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fosap</author><text>In defense of the current status: You are all misusing (or absuing) the DNS. Do you live in (or target) the British Indian Ocean Territory? No? Then this domain is not meant for you. This is a hack, and I don't like it. (For the same reason i don't like the new gTLDs) This sound a bit like a complain that reading Shakespeare in hexspeak is not very pleasant.<p>/Edit: Sorry for beating a dead horse. I know TLDs are not used the way I think they should be used. But I think it was important to point out once again that this is a dirty hack. It works, but when working outside of the spec you should be aware of it a accept shortcomings. Not saying you should not ask google to route around it. But it has it limits. ".at" are meant for Austria and not for email providers, that's something they just should deal with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Appeal to Google: Make ".io" a gccTLD</title><url>http://clay.io/blog/an-appeal-to-google-make-io-a-gcctld/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mattmanser</author><text>It turns out that we've got massive domain squatting, America somehow snagged .com instead of .us, England decided to use .co.uk for no apparent reason, there's seemingly some sort of massive corruption going on in ICANN 'selling' tlds, etc., etc.<p>i.e. the whole thing turned into a complete and utter farce long ago.<p>In the end it's not a perfect world and it's a hack because the very tld domain system itself was woefully broken even in conception.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fosap</author><text>In defense of the current status: You are all misusing (or absuing) the DNS. Do you live in (or target) the British Indian Ocean Territory? No? Then this domain is not meant for you. This is a hack, and I don't like it. (For the same reason i don't like the new gTLDs) This sound a bit like a complain that reading Shakespeare in hexspeak is not very pleasant.<p>/Edit: Sorry for beating a dead horse. I know TLDs are not used the way I think they should be used. But I think it was important to point out once again that this is a dirty hack. It works, but when working outside of the spec you should be aware of it a accept shortcomings. Not saying you should not ask google to route around it. But it has it limits. ".at" are meant for Austria and not for email providers, that's something they just should deal with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Appeal to Google: Make ".io" a gccTLD</title><url>http://clay.io/blog/an-appeal-to-google-make-io-a-gcctld/</url></story> |
32,162,257 | 32,162,052 | 1 | 2 | 32,161,426 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>msbarnett</author><text>“There’s definitely a crisis of nobody wanting to work anymore, unlike the last hundred years of people saying this”<p>lol c’mon. The ol’ “$CURRENT_GENERATION is uniquely weak&#x2F;lazy&#x2F;bad, unlike $SPEAKER_OWN_GENERATION” chestnut is a nice touch, I’ll give you that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>noduerme</author><text>except for every generation in America other than the boomers and their kids, who all learned what Aristotle was referring to by the age of 12 or 13. Plus people in every third world country on earth, who would give their left nut to find work, make money and raise a family in America.<p>There&#x27;s definitely a crisis in America of people who&#x27;ve never worked not wanting to work. And it&#x27;s the ultimate first world problem. If you want to tackle privilege instead of getting a relatively shitty job in your 20s... you&#x27;re probably privileged as hell.</text></item><item><author>tschwimmer</author><text>People have been complaining about this since literally before Christ.<p>“[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life,
nor have they experienced the force of circumstances.
...
They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.”
-Aristotle</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wishfish</author><text>From what I can tell, people in America generally work and they work hard. American productivity is usually high. I&#x27;m not seeing any large waves of unproductive twentysomethings.<p>It&#x27;s always strange to me when critics look at this highly productive country, where many people work hard with fewer benefits &amp; protections than other nations, and then call those people lazy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>noduerme</author><text>except for every generation in America other than the boomers and their kids, who all learned what Aristotle was referring to by the age of 12 or 13. Plus people in every third world country on earth, who would give their left nut to find work, make money and raise a family in America.<p>There&#x27;s definitely a crisis in America of people who&#x27;ve never worked not wanting to work. And it&#x27;s the ultimate first world problem. If you want to tackle privilege instead of getting a relatively shitty job in your 20s... you&#x27;re probably privileged as hell.</text></item><item><author>tschwimmer</author><text>People have been complaining about this since literally before Christ.<p>“[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life,
nor have they experienced the force of circumstances.
...
They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.”
-Aristotle</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544</url></story> |
8,103,032 | 8,103,196 | 1 | 2 | 8,102,212 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>clarry</author><text>We discussed this before[1] but you failed to back up any claims about this re-licensing and re-assigning business you vent about here. You still haven&#x27;t explained how you can <i>take away someone else&#x27;s rights</i>. Copyright licenses are used to grant other people rights, not to take them away. You still haven&#x27;t read the Berne convention, have you? Can you point at a case in any country that suggests the license could be interpreted outside the context of copyright? I.e. that &quot;do what the fuck you want&quot; in a copyright license can be seen as granting someone rights beyond the ones (related to copying, modification, performance, etc.) that are normally exclusive to the author and therefore require him to use a license to grant others these same rights?<p>If you can&#x27;t back anything up, I don&#x27;t think you should be spreading your own interpretations in this manner, presenting them as truth. We already have far too many people confused over licenses, and passing that confusion on doesn&#x27;t help anyone.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8043969" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8043969</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>It&#x27;s ambiguous for several reasons.<p>There&#x27;s not much preventing me from re-assinging copyright to myself (in countries that allow it) and then suing the original creator.<p>There&#x27;s nothing to stop me from taking your code, re-licensing it under say a proprietary license, then suing the original creator.<p>There&#x27;s nothing that stops me from taking your project&#x27;s branding&#x2F;symbol&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;name and claiming it as my own and then suing you.<p>There&#x27;s nothing that stops me from taking your work and then not providing attribution back to the original creator.<p>By default there is nothing that absolves the license holder from warranty nor implied fitness for use. (If it destroys my computer running your code, I can sue you, and worse, you accept liability by default). That is, unless you include the optional snippet of text that absolves any warranty issues... but since it&#x27;s optional, and not on the main license page (it&#x27;s in the FAQ page), many authors forget to include this.<p>There are other things too... like, legally, what does &quot;DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT&quot; actually mean? The law is black and white (or at least we try to be), being in the grey opens the door for abuse. Has it been challenged before in a legal sense? Has a lawyer reviewed it?<p>While I certainly understand the intent and spirit of this license; this license appears to be nothing more than a bad (and somewhat distasteful) joke that serves more harm than good.<p>I agree, better off choosing a public domain license or one of the several vetted FOSS licensees.</text></item><item><author>yellowapple</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how &quot;You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO&quot; is ambiguous, legally or otherwise.<p>That said, this would probably be better served with an explicit public-domain declaration or equivalent (like the CC0 license).</text></item><item><author>Alupis</author><text>I&#x27;m glad Debian is putting their foot down on this issue. There are way too many careless and sometimes downright bad licenses floating around.<p>I&#x27;ve seen, and argued against, people using the WTFPL before: <a href="http://www.wtfpl.net/about/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wtfpl.net&#x2F;about&#x2F;</a><p>Some, even in projects that could be considered &quot;serious&quot; and reused in another project (I won&#x27;t touch a WTFPL licenses project because to me, it&#x27;s not a license and is way to legally ambiguous).<p>I&#x27;ve seen way to many developers think they can write up some text and call it a license and it&#x27;s &quot;good&quot;. Not the case.<p>Pick a real license that was written by lawyers and has well understood (and preferably previously challenged) legal ramifications.</text></item><item><author>ecaron</author><text>Another conversation along the similar vein of &quot;Debian putting its foot down about a license&quot; is Firefox (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mozilla_Corporation_software_re...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Debian and the PHP license</title><url>http://lwn.net/Articles/604630/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>daxelrod</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s not much preventing me from re-assinging copyright to myself (in countries that allow it) and then suing the original creator.<p>In what jurisdictions would that be interpreted as copyright reassignment? I can see how you might argue that &quot;re-assign copyright to myself&quot; is WTF you want to do, but the onus is on the <i>creator</i> to assign copyright to you.<p>&gt; There&#x27;s nothing to stop me from taking your code, re-licensing it under say a proprietary license, then suing the original creator.<p>Suing them for what? There&#x27;s nothing to prevent you from suing pretty much anyone, for any reason, including any of the other licenses. Second of all, if you&#x27;re saying there&#x27;s nothing preventing your suit from being successful, I still don&#x27;t understand on what grounds. It doesn&#x27;t matter what licence you&#x27;ve relicensed under if the original author holds copyright.<p>&gt; There&#x27;s nothing that stops me from taking your project&#x27;s branding&#x2F;symbol&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;name and claiming it as my own and then suing you.<p>You could do this no matter what the license. What about the WTFPL would make your lawsuit any more successful than any other licence?<p>&gt; There&#x27;s nothing that stops me from taking your work and then not providing attribution back to the original creator.<p>This is fully within the intent of the WTFPL.<p>&gt; By default there is nothing that absolves the license holder from warranty nor implied fitness for use.<p>You have a good point that this is something many people would want. Do you know in which jurisdictions this is actually needed? I wasn&#x27;t able to find any sources for this.<p>&gt; Has it been challenged before in a legal sense? Has a lawyer reviewed it?<p>Excellent points.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>It&#x27;s ambiguous for several reasons.<p>There&#x27;s not much preventing me from re-assinging copyright to myself (in countries that allow it) and then suing the original creator.<p>There&#x27;s nothing to stop me from taking your code, re-licensing it under say a proprietary license, then suing the original creator.<p>There&#x27;s nothing that stops me from taking your project&#x27;s branding&#x2F;symbol&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;name and claiming it as my own and then suing you.<p>There&#x27;s nothing that stops me from taking your work and then not providing attribution back to the original creator.<p>By default there is nothing that absolves the license holder from warranty nor implied fitness for use. (If it destroys my computer running your code, I can sue you, and worse, you accept liability by default). That is, unless you include the optional snippet of text that absolves any warranty issues... but since it&#x27;s optional, and not on the main license page (it&#x27;s in the FAQ page), many authors forget to include this.<p>There are other things too... like, legally, what does &quot;DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT&quot; actually mean? The law is black and white (or at least we try to be), being in the grey opens the door for abuse. Has it been challenged before in a legal sense? Has a lawyer reviewed it?<p>While I certainly understand the intent and spirit of this license; this license appears to be nothing more than a bad (and somewhat distasteful) joke that serves more harm than good.<p>I agree, better off choosing a public domain license or one of the several vetted FOSS licensees.</text></item><item><author>yellowapple</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how &quot;You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO&quot; is ambiguous, legally or otherwise.<p>That said, this would probably be better served with an explicit public-domain declaration or equivalent (like the CC0 license).</text></item><item><author>Alupis</author><text>I&#x27;m glad Debian is putting their foot down on this issue. There are way too many careless and sometimes downright bad licenses floating around.<p>I&#x27;ve seen, and argued against, people using the WTFPL before: <a href="http://www.wtfpl.net/about/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wtfpl.net&#x2F;about&#x2F;</a><p>Some, even in projects that could be considered &quot;serious&quot; and reused in another project (I won&#x27;t touch a WTFPL licenses project because to me, it&#x27;s not a license and is way to legally ambiguous).<p>I&#x27;ve seen way to many developers think they can write up some text and call it a license and it&#x27;s &quot;good&quot;. Not the case.<p>Pick a real license that was written by lawyers and has well understood (and preferably previously challenged) legal ramifications.</text></item><item><author>ecaron</author><text>Another conversation along the similar vein of &quot;Debian putting its foot down about a license&quot; is Firefox (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mozilla_Corporation_software_re...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Debian and the PHP license</title><url>http://lwn.net/Articles/604630/</url></story> |
9,293,550 | 9,293,489 | 1 | 3 | 9,292,831 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fsk</author><text>The offensive part is the people who say that open offices are MORE EFFICIENT than a traditional office. I have a hard time believing that one.<p>Given how high programmer salaries are, the productivity loss due to open offices is almost definitely more than the office space savings.<p>It seems like an introvert&#x2F;extrovert thing. The introverts would prefer a quiet working space (and they&#x27;re usually the best workers), but extroverts want the easy communication (and they&#x27;re usually the bosses).<p>Even small team rooms of 4-10 people get annoying when the other person has a smelly meal, has a cold, prefers a different temperature, or listens to music on his headphones so loudly I can hear it.<p>One of my favorite jokes is when a job ad says &quot;We provide headphones so you can concentrate!&quot; as a serious job perk. How about a quiet space?</text><parent_chain><item><author>moe</author><text><i>a single room that fits thousands of people.</i><p>What a nightmare.<p>These &quot;glass palace&quot; offices may work for bankers or marketing teams. For programmers you could just as well plant their desks into the middle of a mall.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Today we moved into our new Facebook building”</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101999874192881</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thearn4</author><text>Everything comes around full circle eventually.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;afflictor.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;openoffice.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;afflictor.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;openoffice.j...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.basexblog.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2011&#x2F;05&#x2F;office-workers-1950s.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.basexblog.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2011&#x2F;05&#x2F;office-w...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>moe</author><text><i>a single room that fits thousands of people.</i><p>What a nightmare.<p>These &quot;glass palace&quot; offices may work for bankers or marketing teams. For programmers you could just as well plant their desks into the middle of a mall.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Today we moved into our new Facebook building”</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101999874192881</url></story> |
8,650,206 | 8,648,613 | 1 | 2 | 8,648,462 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pierrec</author><text>I&#x27;ve long had this pet theory that soaring birds have a fine vision that allows them to see thermals (warm ascending currents) directly, through changes in the air&#x27;s refraction index. I&#x27;ve searched a bit, but no research seems to ever have considered the question. Just a wild theory, though.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Schlieren Optics – See small changes in the index of refraction in air</title><url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLp_rSBzteI</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nsajko</author><text>Invented 1864!
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieren_photography" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Schlieren_photography</a><p>And there&#x27;s a variant in color:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g4UBeaG5fs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0g4UBeaG5fs</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Schlieren Optics – See small changes in the index of refraction in air</title><url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLp_rSBzteI</url></story> |
29,496,569 | 29,495,550 | 1 | 3 | 29,495,327 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Fradow</author><text>The article states &quot;The authority said Amazon tied to the use of FBA access to a set of exclusive benefits, including the Prime label, that help increase visibility and boost sales on Amazon.it&quot;<p>That last part is the relevant part: either you use FBA or you loose visibility&#x2F;sales. That combined with the dominant position of Amazon seems, from a layman perspective, a textbook case of abuse of market dominance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>belval</author><text>I get that emotions are high when we discuss Amazon, but the article seems to imply that they were fined for not adding the &quot;Prime&quot; badge to items that were not fulfilled by Amazon (i.e. that didn&#x27;t use Amazon warehouses).<p>Frankly I don&#x27;t see why that&#x27;s a problem, the Prime badge is for one-day or two day shipping item. If the seller is not using Amazon for their logistics then they simply can&#x27;t guarantee the time window so they don&#x27;t add a prime badge?<p>From a customer point of view it would make for a worse shopping experience if Prime items weren&#x27;t fulfilled by Amazon</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/italys-antitrust-fines-amazon-113-bln-euros-alleged-abuse-market-dominance-2021-12-09/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hef19898</author><text>Amazon planned to enable Prime for Dropshippers working directly for Amazon (called Direct Fulfillment nowadays I think) and 3rd party sellers. It&#x27;s a bitch to qualify for, so. Because the same performance thresholds apply for those third parties as they do for Amazon&#x27;s own FCs and 3PLs, and those are <i>strict</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>belval</author><text>I get that emotions are high when we discuss Amazon, but the article seems to imply that they were fined for not adding the &quot;Prime&quot; badge to items that were not fulfilled by Amazon (i.e. that didn&#x27;t use Amazon warehouses).<p>Frankly I don&#x27;t see why that&#x27;s a problem, the Prime badge is for one-day or two day shipping item. If the seller is not using Amazon for their logistics then they simply can&#x27;t guarantee the time window so they don&#x27;t add a prime badge?<p>From a customer point of view it would make for a worse shopping experience if Prime items weren&#x27;t fulfilled by Amazon</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/italys-antitrust-fines-amazon-113-bln-euros-alleged-abuse-market-dominance-2021-12-09/</url></story> |
19,647,032 | 19,646,809 | 1 | 3 | 19,632,363 | 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>losvedir</author><text>&gt; <i>The clue is that MSWin running in a VM on Linux is faster than on hardware.</i><p>I&#x27;ll join the fray in expressing skepticism here. Source?<p>Anyway, I think this WSL distro is pretty cool. I&#x27;ve set up WSL on my Windows computer for kicks and while it was neat I never quite got it to work for the rust development and environment I wanted. I ended up just doing it in Windows.<p>But if this sets up rust and VS Code (the editor I wanted to use) painlessly, then I&#x27;ll have to give it another shot.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ncmncm</author><text>This is fundamentally the wrong direction to go.<p>The clue is that MSWin running in a VM on Linux is faster than on hardware. The way forward is to boot Linux, or even something else, to manage hardware, memory, and filesystems, and cut down MSWin to run in a container on it. That way MSWin relies on the underlying OS to do things MSWin has proven to be just not very good at. MSWin runs programs written for it, reliably the same as non-hosted MSW, but is not subject to randomizing effects of manufacturers&#x27; drivers and MS&#x27;s historically poor buffer and process management.<p>If you want MSWin to manage the screen, it can provide a way for an underlying OS program to work in a window it provides, and connect UI and clipboard events back to it. But MSWin is not really so great at display management, either, so it might be better for the underlying OS to manage that, too, as is done with VMs on X today.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pengwin – A Linux Distro Optimized for WSL Based on Debian</title><url>https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Pengwin</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andyonthewings</author><text>&gt; MSWin running in a VM on Linux is faster than on hardware.<p>That&#x27;s funny. I didn&#x27;t know that. Any data source you can share with me?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ncmncm</author><text>This is fundamentally the wrong direction to go.<p>The clue is that MSWin running in a VM on Linux is faster than on hardware. The way forward is to boot Linux, or even something else, to manage hardware, memory, and filesystems, and cut down MSWin to run in a container on it. That way MSWin relies on the underlying OS to do things MSWin has proven to be just not very good at. MSWin runs programs written for it, reliably the same as non-hosted MSW, but is not subject to randomizing effects of manufacturers&#x27; drivers and MS&#x27;s historically poor buffer and process management.<p>If you want MSWin to manage the screen, it can provide a way for an underlying OS program to work in a window it provides, and connect UI and clipboard events back to it. But MSWin is not really so great at display management, either, so it might be better for the underlying OS to manage that, too, as is done with VMs on X today.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pengwin – A Linux Distro Optimized for WSL Based on Debian</title><url>https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Pengwin</url></story> |
18,128,610 | 18,128,659 | 1 | 3 | 18,128,384 | 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>manfredo</author><text>Wow, GoG is a decade old - it&#x27;s hard to believe. GoG has always had the image in my mind of a scrappy new startup competing against the big likes of Steam, Microsoft Store, Origin, etc. I was probably a bit too young for the crowd that it&#x27;s games were initially aimed at. My earliest gaming memories stretch back to the N64 era, but really only start in earnest with the Xbox and I only really got into PC gaming in the mid-2000s. A of classics like the old Infinity Engine games (Baldur&#x27;s gate, Planescape Torment), Stronghold Crusaders, Heroes of Might and Magic, and others were largely unknown to me until I bought them through GoG. Despite their age I thoroughly enjoyed many of these games, and experiencing playing these games gave me a better appreciation and enjoyment of more modern games that draw on these older titles.<p>I think the tendency for the availability of games to quickly decay is one barrier that prevents video games from having the same prestige as a lot of other works of art, like film, books, or visual art. In movies or books it&#x27;s not uncommon for works to become recognized for excellence and remain widely explored decades after their release. With video games, it&#x27;s often becomes increasingly difficult to legally acquire old games and as time goes on eventually getting them to run in a modern machine becomes a challenge. It&#x27;s great to see that GoG has created a market for old games and created an incentive to maintain the ability to easily play them on modern machines - CD Projekt&#x27;s efforts go a long way of reducing the &quot;media decay&quot; of video games.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>10 years of gog.com</title><url>https://www.gog.com/10years</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tsubasachan</author><text>Love these guys. Gaming like it was when I was a kid in 1998. No community, no achievements, no always online license account DRM crap, no overlay.<p>My Adventurer Mart is the finest shopping in all Faerûn: widest selection, lowest prices, and nary a fancy illustration. Just the goods, bare and plain.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>10 years of gog.com</title><url>https://www.gog.com/10years</url></story> |
13,943,966 | 13,941,787 | 1 | 2 | 13,940,794 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>windexh8er</author><text>I will say here that the 5510 is a far cry from a perfect machine. Dell replaced mine 4 times over 6+ months where I went weeks to a month at a time with an unusable machine. First machine would shut off whenever the laptop was moved while running. They &quot;fixed&quot; that machine over 1 week, got it back and it did the exact same thing. First replacement machine was different specs than the unit I sent them and it also had a blemish on the display panel even though it was brand new. After arguing with Dell for over a month regarding this machine they replaced it with another that would crash randomly, but reliably over the course of the day. Machine was sent back, &quot;fixed&quot; and returned over multiple months 3 times. Finally replaced again after letting the machine sit and collect dust for months after buying a replacement.<p>Dell has horrible support and while the product is &quot;pretty&quot; and feels well built - it is, IMO no better than anything else on the market today. I would NOT recommend a 5510. In fact there are many horror stories in their forums around it. Which is probably why they dropped it so fast for the 5520.<p>It is a great machine when it works right, but YMMV on quality.</text><parent_chain><item><author>2bluesc</author><text>As a previous gen System 76 Galago and now a proud Dell Precision 5510 owner, I wish them luck!<p>I traded my previous gen System76 Galago Pro after 2-3 years of being disappointed with build quality, battery life also piss poor BIOS support for a company priding themselves on supporting the hardware (i.e. UEFI had to be hacked in from the identical Clevo, next to no options, no TPM, etc). We need more competitors in this area for the Linux fanbois (admittedly myself most of the time) who try to provide solutions to Macbook &quot;refugees&quot;.<p>The Dell XPS 15 &#x2F; Precision 15 are amazing machines and for the first time in years I have a laptop I can recommend without reservation since the Thinkpads fall from grace (the Carbon was close but doesn&#x27;t have a real processor processor last few times I checked, just the U series). I hope this new System76 Galago approaches the Dell level of quality and I welcome the competition. From what I&#x27;ve seen, they are aimed in the right direction.<p>For those interested in more details on the laptop, here&#x27;s an interview with a System76 person at SCaLE 15x by the Linux Action Show discussing the new Galago and hinting at more details:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dMbQoNz2GP8&amp;t=21m18s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dMbQoNz2GP8&amp;t=21m18s</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System76 Galago Pro [video]</title><url>https://system76.com/laptops/galago</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Freak_NL</author><text>Four year plus owner of a Gazelle here. The only thing that is &#x27;wrong&#x27; with it is the battery (dead). Since I use the laptop on power exclusively this doesn&#x27;t bother me. I could have replaced it though. All in all it is a very powerful and very nice laptop.<p>Every time I look at a future replacement for this one I get stuck with this dilemma:<p>System76.com:<p>+ I know that the laptop I buy will work with Linux; no painstaking research needed<p>+ configuring the laptop the way I want it is a breeze. 32GiB RAM? No problem<p>- Import tariffs and shipping costs (I live in the EU)<p>- So-so build quality<p>Dell:<p>+ Local representation, no tariffs<p>+ Easier to get support here in the EU<p>- Minimal configurability<p>- Actually finding an XPS with Ubuntu in their shop<p>This last point seems trivial, but I just can&#x27;t figure out why Dell&#x27;s website is so completely unusable and stuck in the nineties! Searching for the XPS with Ubuntu gives me a list of XPS laptops that differ in subtle ways. Some I can configure bits of, some are a fixed configuration. There is no simple way to filter their offerings, and on-line I find references to XPS configurations that mysteriously aren&#x27;t available in the Netherlands — what a mess.<p>Compare that with System76 to see the huge disparity there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>2bluesc</author><text>As a previous gen System 76 Galago and now a proud Dell Precision 5510 owner, I wish them luck!<p>I traded my previous gen System76 Galago Pro after 2-3 years of being disappointed with build quality, battery life also piss poor BIOS support for a company priding themselves on supporting the hardware (i.e. UEFI had to be hacked in from the identical Clevo, next to no options, no TPM, etc). We need more competitors in this area for the Linux fanbois (admittedly myself most of the time) who try to provide solutions to Macbook &quot;refugees&quot;.<p>The Dell XPS 15 &#x2F; Precision 15 are amazing machines and for the first time in years I have a laptop I can recommend without reservation since the Thinkpads fall from grace (the Carbon was close but doesn&#x27;t have a real processor processor last few times I checked, just the U series). I hope this new System76 Galago approaches the Dell level of quality and I welcome the competition. From what I&#x27;ve seen, they are aimed in the right direction.<p>For those interested in more details on the laptop, here&#x27;s an interview with a System76 person at SCaLE 15x by the Linux Action Show discussing the new Galago and hinting at more details:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dMbQoNz2GP8&amp;t=21m18s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dMbQoNz2GP8&amp;t=21m18s</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System76 Galago Pro [video]</title><url>https://system76.com/laptops/galago</url></story> |
18,412,061 | 18,410,059 | 1 | 2 | 18,407,784 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ativzzz</author><text>Looks like Spin used their resources on business development instead of tech and it appears their plan worked.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mjg59</author><text>Of the scooter companies that have launched in the Bay area, Spin were by far the least technically advanced - the scooters were basically unmodified Xiaomis, to the extent of still having power buttons. Rather than an integrated location and management system, location data came from a off-the-shelf GPS tracker spliced off the battery lines. Since the scooter control board had no cellular link, there was no mechanism for Spin to directly manage the scooters which meant that handshaking involved the app notifying Spin&#x27;s API that the user was going to hire a scooter and then sending an unlock code back to the scooter via Bluetooth. Locking was the inverse, which left plenty of opportunity for state to get out of sync (server thinks scooter is unlocked but the unlocking failed, or vice versa).<p>It&#x27;s possible that their launch was very much an MVP and they&#x27;ve been doing a lot of engineering work in the background, but they were <i>way</i> behind Lime and Bird at launch time.<p>(Edited to clarify that the unlock code is sent via Bluetooth)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ford Buying San Francisco-Area E-Scooter Startup Spin</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/11/08/business/08reuters-ford-scooter.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>rootsudo</author><text>Is the unlock code unique, or the same for that specific bluetooth serial number?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mjg59</author><text>Of the scooter companies that have launched in the Bay area, Spin were by far the least technically advanced - the scooters were basically unmodified Xiaomis, to the extent of still having power buttons. Rather than an integrated location and management system, location data came from a off-the-shelf GPS tracker spliced off the battery lines. Since the scooter control board had no cellular link, there was no mechanism for Spin to directly manage the scooters which meant that handshaking involved the app notifying Spin&#x27;s API that the user was going to hire a scooter and then sending an unlock code back to the scooter via Bluetooth. Locking was the inverse, which left plenty of opportunity for state to get out of sync (server thinks scooter is unlocked but the unlocking failed, or vice versa).<p>It&#x27;s possible that their launch was very much an MVP and they&#x27;ve been doing a lot of engineering work in the background, but they were <i>way</i> behind Lime and Bird at launch time.<p>(Edited to clarify that the unlock code is sent via Bluetooth)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ford Buying San Francisco-Area E-Scooter Startup Spin</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/11/08/business/08reuters-ford-scooter.html</url></story> |
6,100,175 | 6,099,862 | 1 | 2 | 6,099,373 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>KirinDave</author><text>&gt; Is there actually a legitimate performance or scalability need to incorporate a NoSQL database in this case?<p>Usually the most compelling reason not to use a traditional SQL database is that they&#x27;re expensive to field in distributed environments and require specialist engineers to support when you get out into the weeds.<p>But I submit it&#x27;s a category error to call Redis a &quot;NoSQL database.&quot; It was also a category error to put data that needs to be redundant and durable into a storage system that is really specialized for high volume but low-reliability cache work.<p>I mean, seriously. Minimum viable PostgresSQL deploy in EC2 is pretty damn expensive, but you may not have enough cash on hand to buy your own hardware and pay to put it in a &quot;real datacenter.&quot; If you can find something cheaper and you&#x27;re not even seed funded yet because no one funds your social product until you have 100k users, you&#x27;re probably more likely to actually make it to where you can afford a different database by just using Redis. It&#x27;s called &quot;technical debt&quot; and we accrue it both bitterly and often willingly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PommeDeTerre</author><text>Is there actually a legitimate performance or scalability need to incorporate a NoSQL database in this case?<p>Ever since NoSQL databases started receiving a lot of hype a few years back, I&#x27;ve witnessed a number of teams use them without any real justification. They&#x27;ll build unnecessarily complex systems using one or more NoSQL database systems, all while a relational database would be more than sufficient for their needs.<p>In several of these cases, some of the developers have been quite adamant that these NoSQL databases are essential. Then we rip them out, usually because they&#x27;ve been causing problems like described in this case. It quickly becomes obvious that they were never needed in the first place, and won&#x27;t be needed even in the face of significantly increased load.</text></item><item><author>RobSpectre</author><text>Totally agree. Need to clear up a developing misconception - Redis does not serve as the primary store for the account balance of Twilio&#x27;s customers. The billing system uses a double bookkeeping model common to many high volume designs with Redis as the in-flight data store (e.g. when a call or SMS message is created) with the transaction also stored independently to an RDBMS post-flight (e.g. when a call or SMS message is completed).<p>Clearly however our implementation failed dangerously and did not recover in a manner that meets our customers&#x27; expectations. Totally get how such a misconception would occur from a cursory read of the incident report - just need to be clear.</text></item><item><author>eblume</author><text>It&#x27;s good to see Twilio post this! That being said - yeah, I really am concerned that Twilio is using an ephemeral database to store such important data. Why not simply use Postgres? Is Twilio really making so many transactions per second that Postgres won&#x27;t scale?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twilio incident and Redis</title><url>http://antirez.com/news/60</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AYBABTME</author><text>Some problems are better solved with key-value stores than with relational databases. It depends on the data model you need to map.<p>Lot of people use relational databases as a big key value store, when really they should use a key value store. It&#x27;s not necessarily about scalability or performance. =)</text><parent_chain><item><author>PommeDeTerre</author><text>Is there actually a legitimate performance or scalability need to incorporate a NoSQL database in this case?<p>Ever since NoSQL databases started receiving a lot of hype a few years back, I&#x27;ve witnessed a number of teams use them without any real justification. They&#x27;ll build unnecessarily complex systems using one or more NoSQL database systems, all while a relational database would be more than sufficient for their needs.<p>In several of these cases, some of the developers have been quite adamant that these NoSQL databases are essential. Then we rip them out, usually because they&#x27;ve been causing problems like described in this case. It quickly becomes obvious that they were never needed in the first place, and won&#x27;t be needed even in the face of significantly increased load.</text></item><item><author>RobSpectre</author><text>Totally agree. Need to clear up a developing misconception - Redis does not serve as the primary store for the account balance of Twilio&#x27;s customers. The billing system uses a double bookkeeping model common to many high volume designs with Redis as the in-flight data store (e.g. when a call or SMS message is created) with the transaction also stored independently to an RDBMS post-flight (e.g. when a call or SMS message is completed).<p>Clearly however our implementation failed dangerously and did not recover in a manner that meets our customers&#x27; expectations. Totally get how such a misconception would occur from a cursory read of the incident report - just need to be clear.</text></item><item><author>eblume</author><text>It&#x27;s good to see Twilio post this! That being said - yeah, I really am concerned that Twilio is using an ephemeral database to store such important data. Why not simply use Postgres? Is Twilio really making so many transactions per second that Postgres won&#x27;t scale?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twilio incident and Redis</title><url>http://antirez.com/news/60</url></story> |
24,660,231 | 24,658,270 | 1 | 2 | 24,657,608 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>darawk</author><text>Points will work fine. The reason money works is partly the SKITG effect, but not entirely. In an iterated prediction market game, eventually reputation will accrue to those that make accurate forecasts. Much in the same way that money accrues to those skilled in business, or at forecasting in traditional financial markets. This iterated equilibrium should result in high quality predictions after a relatively short period of calibration.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tantalor</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t use real money? Just worthless &quot;points&quot;?<p>If it doesn&#x27;t use real money the predictions will be garbage.<p>&quot;Why do you have to use real money?&quot;<p><i>Prediction markets work best when players have some stake, however small, in the outcome. With play money, many players take risks they wouldn’t otherwise take or don’t attend to their holdings as carefully. Such markets may therefore have less research value than real money ones. Besides, we think real money is fun too.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.predictit.org&#x2F;support&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.predictit.org&#x2F;support&#x2F;faq</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Prediction Market Launches in US and Canada</title><url>https://npe.fb.com/2020/10/01/forecast-update-making-forecast-available-to-everyone/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chillacy</author><text>It seems to use reputation instead, which might do decently with those who take it seriously. For example, the Good Judgement Project forecasting competition uses points and scores to incentivize: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gjopen.com&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gjopen.com&#x2F;faq</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Good_Judgment_Project" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Good_Judgment_Project</a><p>&gt; Predictions are scored using Brier scores.[6] The top forecasters in GJP are &quot;reportedly 30% better than intelligence officers with access to actual classified information</text><parent_chain><item><author>tantalor</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t use real money? Just worthless &quot;points&quot;?<p>If it doesn&#x27;t use real money the predictions will be garbage.<p>&quot;Why do you have to use real money?&quot;<p><i>Prediction markets work best when players have some stake, however small, in the outcome. With play money, many players take risks they wouldn’t otherwise take or don’t attend to their holdings as carefully. Such markets may therefore have less research value than real money ones. Besides, we think real money is fun too.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.predictit.org&#x2F;support&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.predictit.org&#x2F;support&#x2F;faq</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Prediction Market Launches in US and Canada</title><url>https://npe.fb.com/2020/10/01/forecast-update-making-forecast-available-to-everyone/</url></story> |
32,600,458 | 32,600,316 | 1 | 2 | 32,594,915 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>015a</author><text>All code is fast to write. Decisions like this should be optimized for reading and comprehension, not writing.<p>IMO: Extreme opinions one way or the other don&#x27;t work, and thus (most of the time) code-complete automation also doesn&#x27;t work.<p><pre><code> import { User } from &quot;.&#x2F;User&quot;; # is probably the most readable and comprehensible way to write this.
import { User } from &quot;app&#x2F;domain&#x2F;users&#x2F;types&#x2F;User&quot;; # is probably less comprehensible
import { User } from &quot;..&#x2F;User&quot;; # may be ok, but it may also depend on how deep this directory is, because
import { User } from &quot;app&#x2F;users&quot;; # is actually pretty comprehensible
</code></pre>
The point should be to make it really quick for readers to understand where this code is coming from. Imagine a situation where you&#x27;ve got identically named imports; like a<p><pre><code> import { User } from &quot;foo&#x2F;db&#x2F;types&quot;; # used to schematize a user in the database
import { User } from &quot;foo&#x2F;api&#x2F;createUser&#x2F;types&quot;; # used to schematize a component of the request body for creating users
</code></pre>
Maybe the tokens themselves are named poorly, but look past that.<p>Many people find a specific file using, simply, CMD+P (or your editor&#x27;s equivalent). There&#x27;s no context for where they may be at; which inherently makes relative imports less comprehensible.<p><pre><code> import { User } from &quot;.&#x2F;User&quot;;
const u = new User(req.body.user); # but wait... what kind of user did I just create?
</code></pre>
There are many ways to help alleviate this low state of comprehension; and what should be deployed is difficult to create hard-and-fast rules around because its so domain specific.<p><pre><code> import { User } from &quot;foo&#x2F;api&#x2F;createUser&#x2F;types&quot;;
# having an import path like this can help, but maybe only in small files where the imports aren&#x27;t 500 lines above where they&#x27;re used.
import { User as CreateUserAPIUser } from &quot;.&#x2F;User&quot;;
# aliasing imports is a good solution
import * as createUserApiTypes from &quot;foo&#x2F;api&#x2F;createUser&#x2F;types&quot;;
const u = new createUserApiTypes.User(req.body.user);
# importing, then properly naming, the entire module is in my experience an underutilized tool to help with comprehension.</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>madeofpalk</author><text>&gt; Use Absolute Paths for Importing Code Blocks<p><pre><code> import { FormType } from &#x27;..&#x2F;..&#x2F;..&#x2F;..&#x2F;types&#x2F;form&#x27;;
import { DateType } from &#x27;..&#x2F;..&#x2F;..&#x2F;..&#x2F;types&#x2F;date&#x27;;
&#x2F;&#x2F; This is considered bad practice
</code></pre>
Disagree on this one. Beauty of typescript is giving you auto-import autocompletion in your editor, and not having to worry about relative paths any more. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve manually written an import statement in years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Best practices for TypeScript monorepo</title><url>https://blog.flycode.com/best-practices-for-typescript-monorepo</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bsimpson</author><text>Using relative imports that ..&#x2F; out of your package directory confuses TypeScript about which files are in-scope (and how to structure the resulting files). You can end up with weird shit like my-library&#x2F;dist&#x2F;my-library&#x2F;index.js. (I&#x27;m sure you can configure your way out of this. That&#x27;s a puzzle I haven&#x27;t solved and don&#x27;t intend to invest time into.)<p>Yarn Berry has a node_modules mode now, which makes it behave like Yarn Classic and NPM. It also allows you to import sibling projects in a monorepo:<p><pre><code> &quot;peerDependencies&quot;: {
&quot;my-library&quot;: &quot;workspace:*&quot;,
</code></pre>
which means you can<p><pre><code> import { thing } from &#x27;my-library&#x27;
</code></pre>
and have it work as expected, even when my-library is a sibling project in your monorepo.</text><parent_chain><item><author>madeofpalk</author><text>&gt; Use Absolute Paths for Importing Code Blocks<p><pre><code> import { FormType } from &#x27;..&#x2F;..&#x2F;..&#x2F;..&#x2F;types&#x2F;form&#x27;;
import { DateType } from &#x27;..&#x2F;..&#x2F;..&#x2F;..&#x2F;types&#x2F;date&#x27;;
&#x2F;&#x2F; This is considered bad practice
</code></pre>
Disagree on this one. Beauty of typescript is giving you auto-import autocompletion in your editor, and not having to worry about relative paths any more. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve manually written an import statement in years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Best practices for TypeScript monorepo</title><url>https://blog.flycode.com/best-practices-for-typescript-monorepo</url></story> |
8,808,224 | 8,807,639 | 1 | 2 | 8,807,309 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MarkMc</author><text>In 1720 an ounce of gold in London cost about £4.31 [1] and today it costs £768. So the effective interest rate for gold over that period has been about 1.8% per year, while the gilts paid 2.5 - 4% according to the NY times article.<p>So despite the huge depreciation of the UK pound over almost 300 years, buying UK bonds in 1720 was a much better investment than gold.<p>And yet buying a property in London probably would have been an even better investment - a &#x27;barrel store&#x27; in Picadilly cost about £2,500 [2]. Today it might be worth 10,000 times as much, giving a compound return of 3.2% per year plus a significant rental income.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.measuringworth.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.measuringworth.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/london-in-the-18th-century-by-jerry-white-8553732.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;arts-entertainment&#x2F;books&#x2F;review...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>That Debt from 1720? Britain’s Payment Is Coming</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/world/that-debt-from-1720-britains-payment-is-coming.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>Animats</author><text>&quot;Never sell consols.&quot; - <i>The Forsyte Saga</i><p>Britain still has some consols outstanding. They&#x27;re perpetual bonds, paying interest at a fixed rate, forever. (Or at least as long as the UK lasts.) Some date back to the 18th century. It takes an act of Parliament to call them in and pay them off. That&#x27;s finally happening, at least for the 4% consols.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>That Debt from 1720? Britain’s Payment Is Coming</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/world/that-debt-from-1720-britains-payment-is-coming.html</url></story> |
4,951,065 | 4,951,059 | 1 | 3 | 4,950,697 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>w1ntermute</author><text>&#62; Worse, there are no operating systems other than OS X that fulfill my needs of a pleasant-to-use Unix/Linux system--certainly no Linux distribution comes close on the "pleasant-to-use" part; I'd rather use Windows 7 and Cygwin than any Linux desktop I've been subjected to in the last five years.<p>Sounds to me like this is just a matter of what you're used to. From my experience, OS X's UI is the last thing anyone would <i>want</i> if they weren't used to it. The window management is pretty damn horrible. OTOH, Linux has a variety of window managers with many innovative paradigms.<p>&#62; I like Lenovo's build quality and aesthetic, for example, but their laptops are universally underspecced for what I want (if your only GPU is Intel, you are not getting my money) and I can't get a Retina display, which I now consider mandatory, anywhere else.<p>I don't know what you're doing with your machine that makes Lenovo machines underspecced, but for web and Android development, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon fits the bill. I wrote about it here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4848375" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4848375</a><p>If you want discrete graphics, that is available in other models, such as the T series, IIRC. However, for anything other than gaming or video editing, integrated graphics really is enough. I personally prefer not having discrete graphics, as it keeps me from playing games.<p>The only thing missing is retina support, but you have the advantage of a lighter and thinner laptop than the MBP. It's no different from the MBA in that respect, with the added advantage of a 14" screen in the same body size as the 13" Air.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eropple</author><text><i>This is why I don't understand why so many hackers these days like to use apple products.</i><p><i>Avoid if possible.</i><p>That's the thing. I can't. Because I want a computer I don't hate. There's nobody else who makes a machine I want to spend 8+ hours a day working and playing on.<p>There are some PC manufacturers where I can get some of what I want, but I've yet to see one where I can get all of it--I like Lenovo's build quality and aesthetic, for example, but their laptops are universally underspecced for what I want (if your only GPU is Intel, you are not getting my money) and I can't get a Retina display, which I now consider <i>mandatory</i>, anywhere else. And, while we're at it, if you're significantly heavier than my rMBP and don't provide at least competitive battery life, you're out too. I carry around enough crap as it is.<p>Worse, there are <i>no</i> operating systems other than OS X that fulfill my needs of a pleasant-to-use Unix/Linux system--certainly no Linux distribution comes close on the "pleasant-to-use" part; I'd rather use Windows 7 and Cygwin than any Linux desktop I've been subjected to in the last five years.<p>For me it's the same as it was with iOS--until Android 4.0 there was simply no worthy competition to iOS as far as I was concerned, but 4.x is fantastic and I switched over because it gave me the environment I don't hate <i>plus</i> the ability to mess around and customize it to my liking. But the first part is more important. If there was a Linux distribution with Apple levels of attention to detail and a modicum of taste--and that doesn't mean "looks like OS X", something different could be fine so long as it was designed for human beings instead of neckbeards and was uncompromising in its attention to detail--I'd probably be there. There isn't (and very well may never be), so I'm not.</text></item><item><author>readme</author><text>This is why I don't understand why so many hackers these days like to use apple products.<p>Apple is the antithesis of the hacker ideal. They're just as bad as Microsoft.<p>I mean, seriously. Have you ever been to a radioshack? Multi-charging devices are a common product. Yet apple will have none of it. It's clearly an anti-competitive measure aimed at making sure they're your only supplier.<p>Furthermore, apple's chargers suck. They deliberately have a weaker rubber sleeve around the end of laptop charger cables because it looks aesthetically nice. It's been proven that it's weaker than the conventional rubber joints on most laptop chargers, but they don't change it, because they value aesthetics over functionality.<p>Avoid if possible.<p>/me realizes he's using an ipod shuffle. oh well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple kills a Kickstarter project</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/20/apple-kills-a-kickstarter-project-portable-power-project-pop-refunding-139170-to-backers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jarcoal</author><text>"Stuck with Apple" has been the story of my computing life.<p>If another company can come along and provide a similar experience, I'll move over, but at this point no one is even close.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eropple</author><text><i>This is why I don't understand why so many hackers these days like to use apple products.</i><p><i>Avoid if possible.</i><p>That's the thing. I can't. Because I want a computer I don't hate. There's nobody else who makes a machine I want to spend 8+ hours a day working and playing on.<p>There are some PC manufacturers where I can get some of what I want, but I've yet to see one where I can get all of it--I like Lenovo's build quality and aesthetic, for example, but their laptops are universally underspecced for what I want (if your only GPU is Intel, you are not getting my money) and I can't get a Retina display, which I now consider <i>mandatory</i>, anywhere else. And, while we're at it, if you're significantly heavier than my rMBP and don't provide at least competitive battery life, you're out too. I carry around enough crap as it is.<p>Worse, there are <i>no</i> operating systems other than OS X that fulfill my needs of a pleasant-to-use Unix/Linux system--certainly no Linux distribution comes close on the "pleasant-to-use" part; I'd rather use Windows 7 and Cygwin than any Linux desktop I've been subjected to in the last five years.<p>For me it's the same as it was with iOS--until Android 4.0 there was simply no worthy competition to iOS as far as I was concerned, but 4.x is fantastic and I switched over because it gave me the environment I don't hate <i>plus</i> the ability to mess around and customize it to my liking. But the first part is more important. If there was a Linux distribution with Apple levels of attention to detail and a modicum of taste--and that doesn't mean "looks like OS X", something different could be fine so long as it was designed for human beings instead of neckbeards and was uncompromising in its attention to detail--I'd probably be there. There isn't (and very well may never be), so I'm not.</text></item><item><author>readme</author><text>This is why I don't understand why so many hackers these days like to use apple products.<p>Apple is the antithesis of the hacker ideal. They're just as bad as Microsoft.<p>I mean, seriously. Have you ever been to a radioshack? Multi-charging devices are a common product. Yet apple will have none of it. It's clearly an anti-competitive measure aimed at making sure they're your only supplier.<p>Furthermore, apple's chargers suck. They deliberately have a weaker rubber sleeve around the end of laptop charger cables because it looks aesthetically nice. It's been proven that it's weaker than the conventional rubber joints on most laptop chargers, but they don't change it, because they value aesthetics over functionality.<p>Avoid if possible.<p>/me realizes he's using an ipod shuffle. oh well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple kills a Kickstarter project</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/20/apple-kills-a-kickstarter-project-portable-power-project-pop-refunding-139170-to-backers</url></story> |
18,860,431 | 18,859,338 | 1 | 3 | 18,857,220 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kokokokoko</author><text>In the US it is actually a big deal because data is not a &quot;creative work&quot; so it is not covered by copyright protection.<p>Because of this, black market re-sellers can operate with relative impunity. Most data brokers have a TOS that prohibits the re-selling of their data, but there isn&#x27;t any copyright protection.<p>For example, if a company has location data, the only way for them to be held liable is for a particular company to prove they obtained that data directly from them. Once the data has reached a minimum of two parties, everyone now has plausible deniability. If this data was under copyright, the original copyright owner would always have a claim and it would be each parties responsibility to prove they had a right to hold and distribute it.<p>The lack of a copyright style concept of original owner allows data to flow freely even if that transfer is violating a specific TOS.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmickey</author><text>No need to invent new jurisprudence - if the location data can be used to identify an individual, it is personal data under the GDPR and enjoys all the rights and protections enabled by the regulation.</text></item><item><author>40acres</author><text>I think we need to reassess how we treat data generated by users via phones, devices and our digital activities. We had the concept of private and public property long before intellectual property became codified by law. I believe that we are entering a new phase which may require the development of a new type of jurisprudence around things like location data.<p>I&#x27;m definitely not a lawyer, but I&#x27;m starting to believe there is an argument that despite the fact that mobile phones and devices facilitate the generation of location data, that does not necessarily mean that the device manufacture &#x27;owns&#x27; that data and can transact with it as they please.<p>This may all be moot because most of us agree to Privacy Policy contacts, but maybe a mind shift in treating data you generate as a type of property that is covered by property law is required to change behavior.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunter-300-dollars-located-phone-microbilt-zumigo-tmobile</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crankylinuxuser</author><text>That&#x27;s fine for you Europeans under GDPR. (Sure, there&#x27;s careouts for weird exceptions.)<p>That doesn&#x27;t do diddly for us US citizens living in the US. Our data policy is &quot;we will sell your data, too bad so sad&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmickey</author><text>No need to invent new jurisprudence - if the location data can be used to identify an individual, it is personal data under the GDPR and enjoys all the rights and protections enabled by the regulation.</text></item><item><author>40acres</author><text>I think we need to reassess how we treat data generated by users via phones, devices and our digital activities. We had the concept of private and public property long before intellectual property became codified by law. I believe that we are entering a new phase which may require the development of a new type of jurisprudence around things like location data.<p>I&#x27;m definitely not a lawyer, but I&#x27;m starting to believe there is an argument that despite the fact that mobile phones and devices facilitate the generation of location data, that does not necessarily mean that the device manufacture &#x27;owns&#x27; that data and can transact with it as they please.<p>This may all be moot because most of us agree to Privacy Policy contacts, but maybe a mind shift in treating data you generate as a type of property that is covered by property law is required to change behavior.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunter-300-dollars-located-phone-microbilt-zumigo-tmobile</url></story> |
29,632,358 | 29,632,342 | 1 | 2 | 29,631,202 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kbd</author><text>Zig is <i>full</i> of good ideas and seems to be a truly serious attempt, by very talented developers, at improving the “C level” of the stack. I put my money where my mouth is and have a recurring donation to the Zig Software Foundation every month. Lots of people are excited about it. Dunno why you thought it was “ready for production” at a 0.x version though. They’re actively working on the self-hosted compiler and there are breaking changes every release still fyi.</text><parent_chain><item><author>refulgentis</author><text>I had no idea it wasn&#x27;t in production yet: is there a story for why it consumes so much space on HN? Is the story strong enough already that is a clear alternative to Rust for post-C++ projects?</text></item><item><author>zenlot</author><text>Is Zig going strong in community, or it&#x27;s likely to remain as a niche &#x2F; fans language? I like the idea, but anybody knows how community &#x2F; companies react to it in a more wider &quot;looking to use in production&quot; environment?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zig 0.9.0</title><url>https://ziglang.org/download/0.9.0/release-notes.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>Spex_guy</author><text>I can&#x27;t comment for all the other people who are posting and voting for those posts, but at least for me Zig has quickly become my language of choice for side projects. Its cross compilation features alone are enough for it to replace the system C&#x2F;C++ compiler toolchains I used to use, and the language itself is everything I&#x27;m looking for. Readable (IMO) syntax, proper namespaces, order independent declarations, powerful metaprogramming, and an unmatched level of internal consistency all make it stand out to me. It feels like a massively simplified C++, a native language that improves significantly on C without introducing a massive set of unrelated features.</text><parent_chain><item><author>refulgentis</author><text>I had no idea it wasn&#x27;t in production yet: is there a story for why it consumes so much space on HN? Is the story strong enough already that is a clear alternative to Rust for post-C++ projects?</text></item><item><author>zenlot</author><text>Is Zig going strong in community, or it&#x27;s likely to remain as a niche &#x2F; fans language? I like the idea, but anybody knows how community &#x2F; companies react to it in a more wider &quot;looking to use in production&quot; environment?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zig 0.9.0</title><url>https://ziglang.org/download/0.9.0/release-notes.html</url></story> |
7,882,414 | 7,882,431 | 1 | 2 | 7,881,925 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leorocky</author><text>&gt; | How did the scammer know about my order in the first place to social engineer the replacement request?
Via: either buying order requests<p>Looks like you can buy order requests from people who social engineered order numbers out of amazon reps via chat. A rep from amazon provided someone who didn&#x27;t authenticate themselves amazon order numbers [1].<p>&gt; using third-party honeypots to capture your info, using the domain registrar, or a combination of any of these.<p>But how does a &quot;third-party honeypot&quot; capture your activity on Amazon? What does a domain registrar have anything to do with placing orders on Amazon?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.htmlist.com/rants/two-for-one-amazon-coms-socially-engineered-replacement-order-scam/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.htmlist.com&#x2F;rants&#x2F;two-for-one-amazon-coms-sociall...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sdrinf</author><text>Here&#x27;s a working hypothesis:<p>| Why is Amazon&#x27;s security for replacement orders so lax?<p>Amazon values customer satisfiction above their fraud write-off.<p>| Why would they send a replacement to an address that has never been associated with me, and is in a wholly different state than the one the original item was sent to?<p>Because the time between ordering an item, and defect can be sufficiently large to cover moves: people shift around all the time. It&#x27;s entirely concievable you&#x27;d like to exercise replacement rights from Texas, even though you&#x27;ve ordered it from NY.<p>| How did the scammer know about my order in the first place to social engineer the replacement request?<p>Via: either buying order requests, using third-party honeypots to capture your info, using the domain registrar, or a combination of any of these.<p>| Why haven&#x27;t Amazon black-listed the 13820 NE Airport Way; Portland, Oregon address as a destination for replacements? This package drop address shows up again and again when you Google around for people who have been hit by Amazon scams.<p>I suspect this might be <a href="http://reship.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reship.com&#x2F;</a> (Alexa rank: 166K). This is entirely legit: if you&#x27;re a UK customer who&#x27;d like to buy stuff that are exclusively US-only, reshippers are the cheapest way to do so. Based on their Alexa rank, I suspect Amazon makes quite a money on these customer segments. Blacklisting them also wouldn&#x27;t help this case: reshipping companies can easily buy up a handful of different addresses in a range of cities, making this a game of whack-a-mole.<p>| Can I really trust this company to hold multiple credit card numbers of mine in their database, one click away from someone potentially ordering thousands of dollars of merchandise that they can apparently easily redirect to an address that should have been black-listed years ago, if there were any kind of sane security policy in place?<p>Note that no credit card, or password database has been compromised in executing this attack. This is social engineering corporate goodwill at it&#x27;s vilest.<p>I suspect the root cause of this issue to be the friction-less execution of this engineering. A proper solution for this problem might be as simple as sending out an email with clickthrough-link-confirmation before replacement shipping; this would raise the bar from &quot;knowing about an order&quot; to &quot;knowing about an order, and having an active compromise on the mark&#x27;s inbox&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon orders subject to replacement fraud (still)</title><url>http://www.gmcbay.com/post?postId=ef970926-b3d4-4390-b384-4c49c00359b3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>quackerhacker</author><text>I can&#x27;t even imagine the justification in a board meeting that allows for shrinkage on their scale for such an easy resolution.<p>To me, a simple resolution would be to escalate the &quot;item not received,&quot; issue to a state side department (not in India, from what I&#x27;m understanding), track recent orders and customer interaction (super simple algorithm), and lastly and MOST importantly do not allow customer orders to be given out so freely with a verification of address and name (at least require an account pin or last 4 digits for the order in question).<p>If Amazon implemented at least these barriers, then the security of an account would fall where it should...back on the owner...not so easily be phished through Whois data, or just knowing someone has an Amazon account.<p>It&#x27;s almost as if a black hat could use a phone book and tie names, with addresses and phone numbers and straight phish for data. This is just way too easy for fraud that the fact that it&#x27;s Amazon is appalling.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sdrinf</author><text>Here&#x27;s a working hypothesis:<p>| Why is Amazon&#x27;s security for replacement orders so lax?<p>Amazon values customer satisfiction above their fraud write-off.<p>| Why would they send a replacement to an address that has never been associated with me, and is in a wholly different state than the one the original item was sent to?<p>Because the time between ordering an item, and defect can be sufficiently large to cover moves: people shift around all the time. It&#x27;s entirely concievable you&#x27;d like to exercise replacement rights from Texas, even though you&#x27;ve ordered it from NY.<p>| How did the scammer know about my order in the first place to social engineer the replacement request?<p>Via: either buying order requests, using third-party honeypots to capture your info, using the domain registrar, or a combination of any of these.<p>| Why haven&#x27;t Amazon black-listed the 13820 NE Airport Way; Portland, Oregon address as a destination for replacements? This package drop address shows up again and again when you Google around for people who have been hit by Amazon scams.<p>I suspect this might be <a href="http://reship.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reship.com&#x2F;</a> (Alexa rank: 166K). This is entirely legit: if you&#x27;re a UK customer who&#x27;d like to buy stuff that are exclusively US-only, reshippers are the cheapest way to do so. Based on their Alexa rank, I suspect Amazon makes quite a money on these customer segments. Blacklisting them also wouldn&#x27;t help this case: reshipping companies can easily buy up a handful of different addresses in a range of cities, making this a game of whack-a-mole.<p>| Can I really trust this company to hold multiple credit card numbers of mine in their database, one click away from someone potentially ordering thousands of dollars of merchandise that they can apparently easily redirect to an address that should have been black-listed years ago, if there were any kind of sane security policy in place?<p>Note that no credit card, or password database has been compromised in executing this attack. This is social engineering corporate goodwill at it&#x27;s vilest.<p>I suspect the root cause of this issue to be the friction-less execution of this engineering. A proper solution for this problem might be as simple as sending out an email with clickthrough-link-confirmation before replacement shipping; this would raise the bar from &quot;knowing about an order&quot; to &quot;knowing about an order, and having an active compromise on the mark&#x27;s inbox&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon orders subject to replacement fraud (still)</title><url>http://www.gmcbay.com/post?postId=ef970926-b3d4-4390-b384-4c49c00359b3</url></story> |
21,846,019 | 21,844,830 | 1 | 2 | 21,843,988 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bufferoverflow</author><text>&gt; <i>Since the orbital dynamics are very well understood and there really isn&#x27;t anything that can affect the motion of the spacecraft other than engine burns</i><p>This is wrong.<p>1) Atmospheric drag (unless you&#x27;re in really high orbits)<p>2) Wind<p>3) Uneven gravitational field. Our planet is not a perfect sphere. The moon is even less so.<p>4) Solar pressure (though very minor and kinda evens out in orbit).</text><parent_chain><item><author>lokedhs</author><text>Running it on a timer actually works quite well. I don&#x27;t know how this particular system actually works, but for example the Saturn V launch vehicle handled the initial navigation for several minutes from takeoff by executing previously calculated commands based on launch time, weather conditions etc.<p>Also, if I have understood things correctly, the lunar lander used a timer based approach to keep the rotation of the vehicle aligned with the surface of the moon as it orbited.<p>Since the orbital dynamics are very well understood and there really isn&#x27;t anything that can affect the motion of the spacecraft other than engine burns, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be any good reason to make it more complicated.</text></item><item><author>themgt</author><text>Boeing&#x27;s explanation is that the flight automation software runs on some sort of &quot;timer&quot; and the timing apparently wasn&#x27;t configured correctly, so Starliner thought it was at a different part of the mission and did the wrong burns.<p>Astonishing to me they make it sound like it runs like an independent stopwatch and not kept in sync with the actual IRL mission parameters in a more direct&#x2F;continuous way. They&#x27;re talking about the automation handover between the launch vehicle to the spacecraft, and on Starliner &quot;clearly the time got messed up&quot; ... &quot;the spacecraft was not on the timer we expected it to be on&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boeing Starliner updates: Spacecraft flies into wrong orbit, jeopardizing test</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/20/boeings-starliner-flies-into-wrong-orbit-jeopardizing-trip-to-the-international-space-station.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>BurningFrog</author><text>When in stable orbit, I buy that argument.<p>But many things can go slightly wrong when firing all engines fighting your way up the atmosphere.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lokedhs</author><text>Running it on a timer actually works quite well. I don&#x27;t know how this particular system actually works, but for example the Saturn V launch vehicle handled the initial navigation for several minutes from takeoff by executing previously calculated commands based on launch time, weather conditions etc.<p>Also, if I have understood things correctly, the lunar lander used a timer based approach to keep the rotation of the vehicle aligned with the surface of the moon as it orbited.<p>Since the orbital dynamics are very well understood and there really isn&#x27;t anything that can affect the motion of the spacecraft other than engine burns, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be any good reason to make it more complicated.</text></item><item><author>themgt</author><text>Boeing&#x27;s explanation is that the flight automation software runs on some sort of &quot;timer&quot; and the timing apparently wasn&#x27;t configured correctly, so Starliner thought it was at a different part of the mission and did the wrong burns.<p>Astonishing to me they make it sound like it runs like an independent stopwatch and not kept in sync with the actual IRL mission parameters in a more direct&#x2F;continuous way. They&#x27;re talking about the automation handover between the launch vehicle to the spacecraft, and on Starliner &quot;clearly the time got messed up&quot; ... &quot;the spacecraft was not on the timer we expected it to be on&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boeing Starliner updates: Spacecraft flies into wrong orbit, jeopardizing test</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/20/boeings-starliner-flies-into-wrong-orbit-jeopardizing-trip-to-the-international-space-station.html</url></story> |
39,313,707 | 39,311,360 | 1 | 3 | 39,307,330 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>keriati1</author><text>I think it is even easier right now for companies to self host an inference server with basic rag support:<p>- get a Mac Mini or Mac Studio
- just run ollama serve,
- run ollama web-ui in docker
- add some coding assitant model from ollamahub with the web-ui
- upload your documents in the web-ui<p>No code needed, you have your self hosted LLM with basic RAG giving you answers with your documents in context.
For us the deepseek coder 33b model is fast enough on a Mac Studio with 64gb ram and can give pretty good suggestions based on our internal coding documentation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ultrasaurus</author><text>The improvements in ease of use for locally hosting LLMs over the last few months have been amazing. I was ranting about how easy <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Mozilla-Ocho&#x2F;llamafile">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Mozilla-Ocho&#x2F;llamafile</a> is just a few hours ago [1]. Now I&#x27;m torn as to which one to use :)<p>1: Quite literally hours ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;euri.ca&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024-llm-self-hosting-is-easy-now&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;euri.ca&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024-llm-self-hosting-is-easy-now&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI compatibility</title><url>https://ollama.ai/blog/openai-compatibility</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xyc</author><text>The pace of progress here is pretty amazing. I loved how easy it is to get llamafile up and running, but I missed feature complete chat interfaces, so I built one based off it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;recurse.chat&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;recurse.chat&#x2F;</a>.<p>I still need GPT-4 for some tasks, but in daily usage it&#x27;s replaced much of ChatGPT usage, especially since I can import all of my ChatGPT chat history. Also curious to learn about what people want to do with local AI.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ultrasaurus</author><text>The improvements in ease of use for locally hosting LLMs over the last few months have been amazing. I was ranting about how easy <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Mozilla-Ocho&#x2F;llamafile">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Mozilla-Ocho&#x2F;llamafile</a> is just a few hours ago [1]. Now I&#x27;m torn as to which one to use :)<p>1: Quite literally hours ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;euri.ca&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024-llm-self-hosting-is-easy-now&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;euri.ca&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024-llm-self-hosting-is-easy-now&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI compatibility</title><url>https://ollama.ai/blog/openai-compatibility</url></story> |
8,283,057 | 8,282,990 | 1 | 3 | 8,282,780 | 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>UnoriginalGuy</author><text>This article is very strange, on page 2 they spend tons of time lamenting the 360 for having a terrible CPU, then run tests they themselves created which don&#x27;t really support the level of disdain they&#x27;re showing.<p>They then almost completely ignore the results of their own tests but tack on a point about &quot;well floating point sucks, so that explains our criticisms.&quot; Except it doesn&#x27;t. A much more likely candidate (which they themselves hint at) is using poorly performing storage or having software glitches.<p>So I cannot tell if the author didn&#x27;t understand the results or just wanted to moan that the 360 had an old CPU and didn&#x27;t really care what the data actually said (they also provide no source for the power consumption claims).<p>I won&#x27;t be buying a 360 simply because it has terrible battery life and costs $250. But this article is a little off. The second page just isn&#x27;t consistent with itself.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moto 360 review – Beautiful outside, ugly inside</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/moto-360-review-beautiful-outside-ugly-inside/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>post_break</author><text>The battery life is crucial on a device like this. Moto screwed this device up big time. Old outdated processor that isn&#x27;t as power efficient as current gen processors. Battery that lasts 24h at most, for a watch, that is off unless you turn your wrist. I would have paid more for higher battery life and a modern processor. This processor is from 2010, I just don&#x27;t understand.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moto 360 review – Beautiful outside, ugly inside</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/moto-360-review-beautiful-outside-ugly-inside/</url></story> |
2,003,941 | 2,003,678 | 1 | 2 | 2,003,567 | 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>j4mie</author><text>I think you might be fighting an uphill battle here.<p>Some developers prefer Python, some prefer Ruby. An individual developer might be able to reel off a list of reasons why one is better than the other, but in the end it comes down to something intangible and subjective - "Ruby just <i>feels</i> better" or "Python <i>fits my brain</i> better".<p>The concept of "magic" is very similar. What feels magical and opaque to one developer might be plain and obvious to another. When you ask what "magic" means, you'll get different answers from different people.<p>From my point of view (as a Python/Django developer), even the basic <i>commands</i> that Rails uses feel strange. Compare the very first line of code that you run in a Django project vs a Rails project:<p><pre><code> django-admin.py startproject mysite
</code></pre>
with<p><pre><code> rails new blog
</code></pre>
The former says: "run the Python script called django-admin.py" (which immediately tells me that this is just a Python script that I could read, if I were so inclined) and pass the arguments "startproject" (which is a clear description of what is about to happen) and "mysite" (which is, fairly obviously, the name of the project to start). This reads like a sentence of the form 'use &#60;tool&#62; to perform &#60;action&#62; with arguments &#60;arguments&#62;'.<p>The latter says: "run the command rails" (what is this? A Ruby script? A bash script? A binary? Why is it called "rails" when the whole framework is called "Rails"?) and pass the arguments "new blog" (obviously this is creating <i>something</i>, but what? In most languages, "new" is a keyword that is usually used to create instances of classes - so is it creating an instance of something called "blog"? Does that mean that Rails knows what a "blog" is already?) To me - this is magic. Rails says "type this incantation and I'll do some stuff for you". Django says "here are some tools you can use to do stuff".<p>You might disagree with me entirely in this particular case - perhaps you find the Rails example clearer - which is fine. The point of this example is to say that framework and language preference is so intangible that the <i>very first line</i> of your documentation can sway someone's opinion either way. Instead of fighting against the "magic myth", you should just be trying to attract developers who <i>like</i> your particular brand of magic (or, alternatively, don't see your code as magic at all).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It's about time to start fighting against the Rails “magic” myth</title><url>http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2010/12/crafting-rails-applications-why-i-wrote-this-book/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aaronblohowiak</author><text>Convention over configuration: sane default values.<p>magic: changing the scope in which a block is eval'd so you can inject BlankSlates that have method_missing defined on them that then do some string manipulation in order to pick which code path to take.<p>Sometimes you need to lean pretty hard on the super-dynamic features to get the api you want. But is it worth it?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It's about time to start fighting against the Rails “magic” myth</title><url>http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2010/12/crafting-rails-applications-why-i-wrote-this-book/</url></story> |
16,844,815 | 16,844,927 | 1 | 2 | 16,840,237 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qznc</author><text>They use media coverage and conflate it with &quot;general public sentiment&quot; and how &quot;people think we die&quot;. While the wording seems to be carefully crafted that it avoids stating something outright wrong, it does suggest that they are the same.<p>Are there studies that compare media coverage with surveys on how people think we die?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How people die vs. media coverage of death</title><url>https://owenshen24.github.io/charting-death/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>owenshen24</author><text>Hey everyone,<p>I&#x27;m super stoked to see this project getting some more traction!<p>I was responsible for the visualizations &#x2F; the scraping, so I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions people might have about the whole process.<p>^_^</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How people die vs. media coverage of death</title><url>https://owenshen24.github.io/charting-death/</url></story> |
26,275,373 | 26,274,741 | 1 | 2 | 26,273,273 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>passtheglass</author><text>I agree with your point, but many Asian countrys&#x27; pouplaces&#x27; attitudes to drugs are deeply influenced by the damage caused by British opium trade. It is more deeply rooted than a problem of education I think, unlike in the West.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nvilcins</author><text>Make no mistake, drug suppression benefits many parties: governments to have a tight control over the people (their consciousness), and entities that profit from the situation and would be harmed by drug liberalization (both &quot;legal&quot; businesses and underground drug industry). And they will hold the regulation tight as long as they can, regardless of what&#x27;s actually best for people all things considered. Hence the absolutely disproportionate and draconic laws in many parts of the world (including the developed countries).<p>However, the biggest offenders in my view are the &quot;unthinking masses&quot; that dictate the overall view on drugs and drug use, hence, block reason and change. For some reason when it comes to drugs it&#x27;s allowed to have a really strong opinion and say on how _others_ should live based on either absolutely nothing, or fear-mongering fuelled by the aforementioned beneficiaries.<p>Yes, drugs do harm people, but not intrinsically. People die from over-doses because of mis-information and not knowing what they get (from the random guy on the street). People get hooked but mostly as an expression of underlying problems. Why is alcoholism and gambling more OK? And do we help people by taking their substances but leaving them in the same shitty life situation? That&#x27;s just patting yourself on the back for actually not doing anything.<p>At the same time people use responsibly as well, you just don&#x27;t hear from them because, well, why would they tell you about it if it means getting ostracized, thrown in jail, or killed?<p>If you don&#x27;t stay neutral if you haven&#x27;t at all educated yourself about this fairly complex topic (which it totally fine), you are on the wrong side of history, the witch-hunter of today, and will be frowned upon by the future generations.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bexx/dr-ganja-death-penalty-weed-medical-marijuana</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_fat_santa</author><text>I can&#x27;t help but imagine in 20-30 years the wold is going to on an &quot;Apology Tour&quot; over cannabis. The dam has broken on cannabis legalization, and the laws in some of these countries I feel is hanging on by a thread at this point.<p>At some point in the future everyone will come to their senses and were going to have days of remembrance for people that we harmed in the drug war, I hope.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nvilcins</author><text>Make no mistake, drug suppression benefits many parties: governments to have a tight control over the people (their consciousness), and entities that profit from the situation and would be harmed by drug liberalization (both &quot;legal&quot; businesses and underground drug industry). And they will hold the regulation tight as long as they can, regardless of what&#x27;s actually best for people all things considered. Hence the absolutely disproportionate and draconic laws in many parts of the world (including the developed countries).<p>However, the biggest offenders in my view are the &quot;unthinking masses&quot; that dictate the overall view on drugs and drug use, hence, block reason and change. For some reason when it comes to drugs it&#x27;s allowed to have a really strong opinion and say on how _others_ should live based on either absolutely nothing, or fear-mongering fuelled by the aforementioned beneficiaries.<p>Yes, drugs do harm people, but not intrinsically. People die from over-doses because of mis-information and not knowing what they get (from the random guy on the street). People get hooked but mostly as an expression of underlying problems. Why is alcoholism and gambling more OK? And do we help people by taking their substances but leaving them in the same shitty life situation? That&#x27;s just patting yourself on the back for actually not doing anything.<p>At the same time people use responsibly as well, you just don&#x27;t hear from them because, well, why would they tell you about it if it means getting ostracized, thrown in jail, or killed?<p>If you don&#x27;t stay neutral if you haven&#x27;t at all educated yourself about this fairly complex topic (which it totally fine), you are on the wrong side of history, the witch-hunter of today, and will be frowned upon by the future generations.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bexx/dr-ganja-death-penalty-weed-medical-marijuana</url></story> |
5,193,018 | 5,192,760 | 1 | 2 | 5,192,434 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kunai</author><text>Doesn't matter if it's signed code. I still turned off Secure Boot on my T430. It is rare that I have ever gotten malware, much less any that execute code at boot. Boot-sector virii died off in the late 90s.<p>Make no doubt about it; this is just another monopolistic implementation of restrictive technology by Microsoft.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux Foundation Secure Boot System Released</title><url>http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/linux-foundation-secure-boot-system-released/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sergiotapia</author><text>I'm not 100% sure what this means. I remember hearing a lot of rabble rabble a few months back about Microsoft placing some roadblocks on hardware that would make it more difficult to install Linux on machines.<p>Does this mean this is now a non-issue?<p>Thanks in advance.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux Foundation Secure Boot System Released</title><url>http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/linux-foundation-secure-boot-system-released/</url></story> |
41,616,018 | 41,615,915 | 1 | 3 | 41,615,102 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bravetraveler</author><text>One doesn&#x27;t <i>have</i> to expose it to malicious actors. It is most-useful that way, sure. Mine is at <i>10.27.0.68</i>. Have fun, hackers!<p>Also, I lol at most CVEs. Butterfly farted outside, oh uh.<p>Take the top one:
In Nextcloud Desktop Client 3.13.1 through 3.13.3 on Linux, synchronized files (between the server and client) may become world writable or world readable. This is fixed in 3.13.4.<p>You mean to tell me a few minor point releases imitated umask, making world-readable <i>[and possibly added writable]</i>? Oh no! The tragedy! Keep in mind most clients are single user systems anyway.<p>Judge them on their facts, there are vulns and then there are <i>vulns</i>. CVEs are a sign of attention on a project. No more or less.</text><parent_chain><item><author>obnauticus</author><text>I originally wanted to do this but the CVE history is a bit too colorful for something I’d want to trust as a “cloud replacement”:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cve.mitre.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvekey.cgi?keyword=nextcloud" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cve.mitre.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvekey.cgi?keyword=nextcloud</a><p>A common misconception IMO is that running and owning your own infrastructure is somehow more secure. To that I lol, and I’m confident that the thousands of AWS&#x2F;GCP&#x2F;Azure&#x2F;iCloud security engineers are all doing a more thorough job than you can. At the very very least they receive embargoed bugs which they often mitigate before the general public.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps</title><url>https://nextcloud.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>zigzag312</author><text>&gt; I’m confident that the thousands of AWS&#x2F;GCP&#x2F;Azure&#x2F;iCloud security engineers are all doing a more thorough job than you can<p>I&#x27;m not so confident about that:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cve.mitre.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvekey.cgi?keyword=azure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cve.mitre.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvekey.cgi?keyword=azure</a><p>It really depends on what you self-host.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cve.mitre.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvekey.cgi?keyword=syncthing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cve.mitre.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvekey.cgi?keyword=syncthing</a><p>&quot;Do everything&quot; solutions go against the principle of minimizing the attack surface.<p>EDIT: More is not always better in security. With more people doing more things, the statistical odds of miscommunication and misconfiguration increases.</text><parent_chain><item><author>obnauticus</author><text>I originally wanted to do this but the CVE history is a bit too colorful for something I’d want to trust as a “cloud replacement”:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cve.mitre.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvekey.cgi?keyword=nextcloud" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cve.mitre.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvekey.cgi?keyword=nextcloud</a><p>A common misconception IMO is that running and owning your own infrastructure is somehow more secure. To that I lol, and I’m confident that the thousands of AWS&#x2F;GCP&#x2F;Azure&#x2F;iCloud security engineers are all doing a more thorough job than you can. At the very very least they receive embargoed bugs which they often mitigate before the general public.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps</title><url>https://nextcloud.com/</url></story> |
38,432,855 | 38,431,528 | 1 | 2 | 38,429,460 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>koz1000</author><text>I was working on an 8-bit system back in this same time period. We couldn&#x27;t afford flash devices and the kit required to reprogram them. But we did a similar trick with an extra write pin located near the ROM socket, then used a special daughterboard filled with SRAM that replaced the ROM and also touched the write line. Now we could just use our cheap debugger and blow an image into the address space the ROM used.<p>Only downside was that you lost the image on power down, so I can see why EEPROM was more important to Apple in developing their systems.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Apple's developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the '90s</title><url>https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/11/how-apples-developers-reflashed-mac-roms-in-the-90s/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>&gt; I would love to see an example of what these PDS cards looked like, if anyone out there has some inside knowledge they would be willing to share!<p>The only thing that came to mind were these Newton development boards from about that era. I believe they were more or less Newtons shoved into one of the slots of a Quadra-like machine (perhaps the PDS slot?).<p>My memory of that era is fuzzy though.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Apple's developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the '90s</title><url>https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/11/how-apples-developers-reflashed-mac-roms-in-the-90s/</url></story> |
1,803,410 | 1,803,416 | 1 | 2 | 1,802,801 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matrix</author><text>Here's the thing though: when the bank made a mistake, you had recourse. You actually had someone to complain to - you could go to a branch or otherwise deal with a human. With paypal, you have no recourse, except to hope your case gets voted to the top of Reddit and some paypal insider takes pity on you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Vivtek</author><text>I've been using PayPal since 2001 when I signed up in order to send Sluggy Freelance a $5 donation. Since 2002 I've used it increasingly for payments from my freelancing customers - there was no other convenient way to get money from Europe to America, and PayPal revolutionized the translation industry (along with Moneybookers and similar services, but PayPal is the biggest).<p>Not once have I had any problem with them.<p>Jacques, I've had a bank - a real live regulated bank - deduct my paycheck instead of depositing it, and not notice until I complained. Granted, they fixed it immediately when I complained, and PayPal may not, but human error does occur. Certainly PayPal has never gratuitously deducted money from my account.</text></item><item><author>johnitsagal</author><text>How come nobody sues them? How come there hasn't been enough of an uproar to get congress involved in regulating PayPal?<p>Reading HN, these horror stories seem to be fairly common, or maybe I'm just hearing the same stories over and over again.</text></item><item><author>jellicle</author><text>The whole idea behind Paypal was:<p>-- we'll do everything a bank does, but without all those "laws" and "accountability for mistakes" that the other banks labor under<p>Go on, look it up.<p>And they achieved that goal. Paypal largely escaped regulation as a banking entity. Banks are trustworthy with your money (to the extent that they are) not because they're magically trustworthy, but because there is a regulatory state forcing them to be. Paypal has no regulatory apparatus overseeing it. Paypal will steal your money and your only recourse is to sue them.<p>PayPal has made the calculation that the vast majority of their customers will not sue them. Therefore, it is profitable for Paypal to steal from these customers. This is now common knowledge. If you use Paypal today, you have no excuse for not knowing that they will steal your money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PayPal robbed my bank account</title><url>http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/PayPal+robbed+my+bank+account</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>&#62; Certainly PayPal has never gratuitously deducted money from my account.<p>I'm happy for you and hope that you will never be in my shoes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Vivtek</author><text>I've been using PayPal since 2001 when I signed up in order to send Sluggy Freelance a $5 donation. Since 2002 I've used it increasingly for payments from my freelancing customers - there was no other convenient way to get money from Europe to America, and PayPal revolutionized the translation industry (along with Moneybookers and similar services, but PayPal is the biggest).<p>Not once have I had any problem with them.<p>Jacques, I've had a bank - a real live regulated bank - deduct my paycheck instead of depositing it, and not notice until I complained. Granted, they fixed it immediately when I complained, and PayPal may not, but human error does occur. Certainly PayPal has never gratuitously deducted money from my account.</text></item><item><author>johnitsagal</author><text>How come nobody sues them? How come there hasn't been enough of an uproar to get congress involved in regulating PayPal?<p>Reading HN, these horror stories seem to be fairly common, or maybe I'm just hearing the same stories over and over again.</text></item><item><author>jellicle</author><text>The whole idea behind Paypal was:<p>-- we'll do everything a bank does, but without all those "laws" and "accountability for mistakes" that the other banks labor under<p>Go on, look it up.<p>And they achieved that goal. Paypal largely escaped regulation as a banking entity. Banks are trustworthy with your money (to the extent that they are) not because they're magically trustworthy, but because there is a regulatory state forcing them to be. Paypal has no regulatory apparatus overseeing it. Paypal will steal your money and your only recourse is to sue them.<p>PayPal has made the calculation that the vast majority of their customers will not sue them. Therefore, it is profitable for Paypal to steal from these customers. This is now common knowledge. If you use Paypal today, you have no excuse for not knowing that they will steal your money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PayPal robbed my bank account</title><url>http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/PayPal+robbed+my+bank+account</url></story> |
17,562,632 | 17,562,554 | 1 | 2 | 17,560,871 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zx2c4</author><text>Qt Creator is a fantastic editor and IDE. If you&#x27;re doing cross-platform GUI development, Qt is a good choice (especially compared to something grotesque and unseemly like Electron), and for Qt development, Qt Creator is as good as it gets. But it turns out that it works really well for generic C and C++ development too, even with obscure C like the Linux kernel, thanks to the Clang code model. I use Qt Creator sometimes when working on WireGuard (in addition to the usual typical vim&#x2F;cli flow).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Qt Creator 4.7.0 released</title><url>http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/07/18/qt-creator-4-7-0-released/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>berti</author><text>These guys continue to do a great job. If you&#x27;re looking for a nice cross-platform C++ IDE that supports multiple build systems this is it. I&#x27;m looking forward to upcoming meson integration (GSoC project IIRC).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Qt Creator 4.7.0 released</title><url>http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/07/18/qt-creator-4-7-0-released/</url></story> |
17,508,740 | 17,508,547 | 1 | 2 | 17,507,511 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>exDM69</author><text>The material they show in the article is massive. Thick, long and heavy. Even if there are kilns big enough, the wood would no longer be straight after a fast kiln drying.<p>A 50&#x27; 3x3&quot; board would be twisted and bowed so much that the ladder would be a spiral staircase.<p>It doesn&#x27;t matter for 20&#x27; 2x4 destined for a construction site.<p>Even if the wood was kiln dried, it would still have to acclimatizate for months or years before it would be at a stable 13% humidity of San Francisco.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DannyBee</author><text>I can&#x27;t think of any reason to acclimatize them this way instead of kiln drying&#x2F;vaporizing them (depending) to roughly the right moisture content and waiting for 1% change (instead of kiln drying them to 0, or waiting forever for completely green wood)<p>There are studies going back to the 70&#x27;s by the forestry service (and others) showing there is no change in mechanical properties of pine&#x2F;fir from these drying schedules.<p>(This is <i>not</i> true of a lot of hardwoods, but is true of these softwoods)<p>Waiting years seems like a pointless waste of time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/inside-san-francisos-fire-department-where-ladders-are-1552279252</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeromenerf</author><text>&gt; Waiting years seems like a pointless waste of time.<p>They have a long running stock. They are not wasting time anymore, they may be wasting storage though.<p>Something could be said about the stock fire risk exposure, but hey, they are the firemen after all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DannyBee</author><text>I can&#x27;t think of any reason to acclimatize them this way instead of kiln drying&#x2F;vaporizing them (depending) to roughly the right moisture content and waiting for 1% change (instead of kiln drying them to 0, or waiting forever for completely green wood)<p>There are studies going back to the 70&#x27;s by the forestry service (and others) showing there is no change in mechanical properties of pine&#x2F;fir from these drying schedules.<p>(This is <i>not</i> true of a lot of hardwoods, but is true of these softwoods)<p>Waiting years seems like a pointless waste of time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/inside-san-francisos-fire-department-where-ladders-are-1552279252</url></story> |
12,977,934 | 12,977,177 | 1 | 2 | 12,972,219 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deno</author><text>Politifact is infamous for their bias. Here’s an example of them rating the same exact statement very differently, depending on who made it:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politifact.com&#x2F;truth-o-meter&#x2F;statements&#x2F;2015&#x2F;jul&#x2F;13&#x2F;bernie-s&#x2F;bernie-sanders-says-real-unemployment-rate-african&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politifact.com&#x2F;truth-o-meter&#x2F;statements&#x2F;2015&#x2F;jul&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politifact.com&#x2F;virginia&#x2F;statements&#x2F;2016&#x2F;jun&#x2F;20&#x2F;donald-trump&#x2F;trump-misleadingly-puts-black-youth-unemployment-r&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politifact.com&#x2F;virginia&#x2F;statements&#x2F;2016&#x2F;jun&#x2F;20&#x2F;do...</a><p>There are numerous studies that also show significant selection bias, that is they cherry-pick statements they fact-check.<p>Politifact itself makes no attempt to evaluate and correct for their own bias. The newspaper that runs it is liberal leaning, and has endorsed Hillary Clinton.<p>Because of the fact that Politifact tries to appear unbiased, their apparent bias is even more disappointing. Truly neutral fact-checking is something that would be very desirable. Perhaps the only way this will ever happen is by some sort of aggregation of left- and right-leaning “fact-checking.” Sort of like metacritic.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lake99</author><text>This extreme partisanship is one of the reasons I&#x27;m wary of John Oliver. For example, Politifact, despite its biases or subjectivity, has documented examples of practically every major politian making untrue statements. Including the current POTUS.<p>We need a systemic approach to dealing with lies and untruths of the people who weild power. If you make it partisan, the liar&#x2F;politican will just block you out, and so will their followers.</text></item><item><author>tempestn</author><text>Check out the most recent Last Week tonight. Features clips of President Elect Trump making almost identical comments. In March he claimed a man who rushed the stage at one of his rallies had ties to ISIS. When confronted with the fact that the source he&#x27;d linked to was a hoax, his response was, &quot;What do I know about it? All I know is it was on the internet.&quot; [1]<p>Then there was an interview with Bill O&#x27;Reilly:
Bill: &quot;You tweeted out that whites killed by blacks - these are statistics you picked up from somewhere - at a rate of 81%. That&#x27;s totally wrong; whites killed by blacks at a rate of 15%.&quot;<p>Trump: &quot;Hey Bill. Am I going to check every statistic? I&#x27;ve got millions of people... you know what? Fine. But this came out of radio shows and everything else.&quot;<p>Anyway, worth watching the whole show. It&#x27;s funny, in a painful way.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-rSDUsMwakI#t=14m45s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-rSDUsMwakI#t=14m45s</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-rSDUsMwakI#t=15m20s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-rSDUsMwakI#t=15m20s</a></text></item><item><author>JacobJans</author><text>I have interacted with several people on Facebook who rely on fake news sources.<p>I pointed out fake news articles several times on one person&#x27;s Facebook page. She agreed the articles were not true.<p>However, she added &quot;I don&#x27;t have time to figure out if they&#x27;re true. People can read your comments.&quot;<p>I asked her what she thought of the fact that this particular article, which was blatantly false, was shared 16,000 times.<p>Her response:<p>&quot;That&#x27;s comforting.&quot;<p>I was shocked.<p>And yet, that is the reality we now live in. Many, many people are acting, and thinking, exactly like her.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News</title><url>http://www.scribblrs.com/snowden-stop-relying-facebook-news/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nosequel</author><text>To be fair to John Oliver, in the episode he points out stuff from both sides, calling out how many fact news articles are left-leaning. He also points out his own show&#x27;s bias and mentions Politifact in his episode. To be fair also to John Oliver, Bill Oreilly calling out Trump for not checking facts <i>is</i> amazing, and Trump saying he has no time to check facts is even more amazingly scary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lake99</author><text>This extreme partisanship is one of the reasons I&#x27;m wary of John Oliver. For example, Politifact, despite its biases or subjectivity, has documented examples of practically every major politian making untrue statements. Including the current POTUS.<p>We need a systemic approach to dealing with lies and untruths of the people who weild power. If you make it partisan, the liar&#x2F;politican will just block you out, and so will their followers.</text></item><item><author>tempestn</author><text>Check out the most recent Last Week tonight. Features clips of President Elect Trump making almost identical comments. In March he claimed a man who rushed the stage at one of his rallies had ties to ISIS. When confronted with the fact that the source he&#x27;d linked to was a hoax, his response was, &quot;What do I know about it? All I know is it was on the internet.&quot; [1]<p>Then there was an interview with Bill O&#x27;Reilly:
Bill: &quot;You tweeted out that whites killed by blacks - these are statistics you picked up from somewhere - at a rate of 81%. That&#x27;s totally wrong; whites killed by blacks at a rate of 15%.&quot;<p>Trump: &quot;Hey Bill. Am I going to check every statistic? I&#x27;ve got millions of people... you know what? Fine. But this came out of radio shows and everything else.&quot;<p>Anyway, worth watching the whole show. It&#x27;s funny, in a painful way.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-rSDUsMwakI#t=14m45s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-rSDUsMwakI#t=14m45s</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-rSDUsMwakI#t=15m20s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-rSDUsMwakI#t=15m20s</a></text></item><item><author>JacobJans</author><text>I have interacted with several people on Facebook who rely on fake news sources.<p>I pointed out fake news articles several times on one person&#x27;s Facebook page. She agreed the articles were not true.<p>However, she added &quot;I don&#x27;t have time to figure out if they&#x27;re true. People can read your comments.&quot;<p>I asked her what she thought of the fact that this particular article, which was blatantly false, was shared 16,000 times.<p>Her response:<p>&quot;That&#x27;s comforting.&quot;<p>I was shocked.<p>And yet, that is the reality we now live in. Many, many people are acting, and thinking, exactly like her.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News</title><url>http://www.scribblrs.com/snowden-stop-relying-facebook-news/</url></story> |
16,273,745 | 16,273,313 | 1 | 2 | 16,272,553 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelmrose</author><text>How this would have looked in the US.<p>* Relationship with girlfriend breaks up and you move in with parents.<p>* Parents medical bills eat up everything they have and more when they pass away their creditors swoop in to take anything that&#x27;s left.<p>* You are kindly told you will be moved to the street so you get a job. Your part time job pays enough for you to crash on a couch or at best maybe rent a room somewhere if your lucky.<p>* When you get attacked you have no insurance so you now owe $5000 which you have no way to pay and a prescription for opoids.<p>* You apply for disability but get denied. No help is forthcoming. You quickly lose your place to live about 3 days after the rent is due. Nobody cares why you can&#x27;t pay. Your address is now the street corner where you stick your pile of dirty blankets.<p>* Due to your financial situation and eviction you will never be able to rent anything without substantial money up front and nobody wants to hire you.<p>* After the initial perscription(s) of opoids wear off you now have pain AND an addiction unlikely to be satisfied legally. You turn to panhandling and use the money to buy heroin.<p>* You get a dose that happened to be cut with something far too strong and nobody realizes your dead until someone complains about the smell.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t understand why”</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42789610</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dm319</author><text>I know most people here are fairly well-paid, intelligent and many are well-adjusted and stable. But it&#x27;d be mistake to assume this happens to other people. Sometimes a series of unfortunate events (lost job, lost child, lost marriage) trigger a series of events, helped by alcohol and poor-decision making and resulting in homelessness and poverty.<p>When I lived in Oxford I came across a book put together of mini-interviews of the homeless there - their stories. It really surprised me how many of the biographies started off with a well-paid professional job with a happy family and spiralled out of control.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t understand why”</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42789610</url></story> |
24,904,015 | 24,903,686 | 1 | 2 | 24,893,028 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thrwoe234343</author><text>Yes, but India&#x27;s nominal GDP is half that of California; in fact India&#x27;s GDP per-capita is lower than just about every country in ASEAN and East Asia. The entire country&#x27;s GDP is similar to that of the Tokyo metropolitan area. The socio-economic indicators are actually more aligned with impoverished African nations.<p>These are clear indicators of state failure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RhodoYolo</author><text>Holy crap - I forget sometimes how many people are in India. Compare those two numbers to LA&#x27;s 4M people and you start to remember how small America is population wise. With the way that tech is going AKA Eyeballs&#x2F;ads&#x2F;consumerism equals money, the tech scene in India is going to be much bigger than the US in the future.</text></item><item><author>Jedd</author><text>&gt; ... Bangalore having 8 unicorns vs Delhi&#x27;s 11.<p>How much of that is related to government influence (the effectiveness of pushing Bangalore &amp; Hydrabad to be tech centers)?<p>I note that Bangalore&#x27;s population is 8m, while Delhi is 21m. If it was &#x27;unicorns per population&#x27; then you&#x27;d naively expect a ratio of 8:21, not 8:11.</text></item><item><author>umeshunni</author><text>Something interesting about the startup scene in India is how the center of gravity has shifted over the last 10 years from Bangalore &#x2F; Hyderabad to New Delhi. Elad Gil&#x27;s recent post mentions this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.eladgil.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;unicorn-market-cap-industry-towns-2020.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.eladgil.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;unicorn-market-cap-industry-...</a> with Bangalore having 8 unicorns vs Delhi&#x27;s 11.<p>&quot;While Bangalore continues to thrive, some point to bad governance locally (traffic, high rents, passive government) as one of the reasons it is not the only center. There are undoubtedly other reasons, but it is worth thinking about relative to San Francisco longer term.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pay attention to the Indian startup scene</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/24/why-you-have-to-pay-attention-to-the-indian-startup-scene/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maneesh</author><text>Out of 190+ countries, America is in 3rd place for largest in the world by population with 330MM people. [0]<p>And if America, overnight, produced 1 billion more people?<p>It would still be in 3rd place.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;world-population&#x2F;population-by-country&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;world-population&#x2F;population-by...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>RhodoYolo</author><text>Holy crap - I forget sometimes how many people are in India. Compare those two numbers to LA&#x27;s 4M people and you start to remember how small America is population wise. With the way that tech is going AKA Eyeballs&#x2F;ads&#x2F;consumerism equals money, the tech scene in India is going to be much bigger than the US in the future.</text></item><item><author>Jedd</author><text>&gt; ... Bangalore having 8 unicorns vs Delhi&#x27;s 11.<p>How much of that is related to government influence (the effectiveness of pushing Bangalore &amp; Hydrabad to be tech centers)?<p>I note that Bangalore&#x27;s population is 8m, while Delhi is 21m. If it was &#x27;unicorns per population&#x27; then you&#x27;d naively expect a ratio of 8:21, not 8:11.</text></item><item><author>umeshunni</author><text>Something interesting about the startup scene in India is how the center of gravity has shifted over the last 10 years from Bangalore &#x2F; Hyderabad to New Delhi. Elad Gil&#x27;s recent post mentions this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.eladgil.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;unicorn-market-cap-industry-towns-2020.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.eladgil.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;unicorn-market-cap-industry-...</a> with Bangalore having 8 unicorns vs Delhi&#x27;s 11.<p>&quot;While Bangalore continues to thrive, some point to bad governance locally (traffic, high rents, passive government) as one of the reasons it is not the only center. There are undoubtedly other reasons, but it is worth thinking about relative to San Francisco longer term.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pay attention to the Indian startup scene</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/24/why-you-have-to-pay-attention-to-the-indian-startup-scene/</url></story> |
6,560,976 | 6,560,807 | 1 | 2 | 6,560,359 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kyro</author><text>With this government shutdown, the very real possibility of default, the incompetency of many in government finally reaching and affecting the American public, the NSA leaks, the company and journalist shakedowns in the name of security, and the lightning speed at which information of all this can now reach the literal hands of millions, we&#x27;re in an incredibly pivotal period in our society. I fully support Omidyar 150% for wanting to catalyze this change. Whether he may or may not be going about this the perfect way is irrelevant.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Pierre Omidyar decided to join forces with Glenn Greenwald</title><url>http://pressthink.org/2013/10/why-pierre-omidyar-decided-to-join-forces-with-glenn-greenwald-for-a-new-venture-in-news/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CamperBob2</author><text><p><pre><code> Omidyar believes that if independent, ferocious,
investigative journalism isn’t brought to the attention
of general audiences it can never have the effect that
actually creates a check on power. Therefore the new
entity — they have a name but they’re not releasing it,
so I will just call it NewCo — will have to serve the
interest of all kinds of news consumers. It cannot be a
niche product. It will have to cover sports, business,
entertainment, technology: everything that users demand.
</code></pre>
Can&#x27;t disagree more with this. The only reason news outlets currently have to cover all of that stuff is that they&#x27;re still trying to act like the newspapers and TV&#x2F;radio stations they replaced. When you had only one or two newspapers in town, and only two or three TV channels within range of your rabbit ears, the news business was necessarily a general one. There is no reason at all to impose this model on the Web, and there are a lot of reasons not to.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Pierre Omidyar decided to join forces with Glenn Greenwald</title><url>http://pressthink.org/2013/10/why-pierre-omidyar-decided-to-join-forces-with-glenn-greenwald-for-a-new-venture-in-news/</url></story> |
29,211,908 | 29,210,088 | 1 | 3 | 29,207,397 | 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>bilkow</author><text>I think there is a slight mistake in the article:<p>&gt; So how can a reference in a child assume the same lifetime? It can&#x27;t.<p>Well actually, it can, because the owned Struct itself (Node) can outlive any borrow. You won&#x27;t be able to mutate the parent though, as you can&#x27;t mutate any value that has an active immutable borrow. That&#x27;s the problem: you can&#x27;t add the child node as adding it would mutate the parent and the there&#x27;s an active immutable borrow (in the child node).<p>This reddit comment[0] has one possible solution[1] to this problem: not saving all of those parent references in the node itself, only adding when you&#x27;re retrieving it. It also seems a lot better since there&#x27;s less data in-tree to change if the structure itself changes.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qstlto&#x2F;rust_data_structures_with_circular_references&#x2F;hkg1omp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qstlto&#x2F;rust_data_stru...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.rust-lang.org&#x2F;?version=stable&amp;mode=debug&amp;edition=2018&amp;gist=731ab0fcad708964792f4b30e3aef2da" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.rust-lang.org&#x2F;?version=stable&amp;mode=debug&amp;editio...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust data structures with circular references</title><url>https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/rust-data-structures-with-circular-references/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Rusky</author><text>Another interesting variant is a cross between 1 and 2- centralize ownership of the nodes, but continue to use references rather than handles.<p>You can&#x27;t do this with a Vec&lt;Node&gt; (unless you can create all the nodes up front before initializing them) because resizing the Vec would invalidate references into it.<p>But if you use a different &quot;allocator&quot; that leaves its contents in-place, you can make all the links into references with a single lifetime.<p>The remaining tricky part is, still, deallocation- you can&#x27;t fully free a node in a structure like this because they all share a lifetime. But you can put it on a free list for future node allocations, with similar risks to the handle approach.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust data structures with circular references</title><url>https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/rust-data-structures-with-circular-references/</url></story> |
10,440,830 | 10,440,806 | 1 | 2 | 10,440,402 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jfaucett</author><text>&quot;It shows what Blackwell’s called “the exacting nature” of Tolkien’s creative vision: he corrects place names, provides extra ones, and gives Baynes a host of suggestions about the map’s various flora and fauna.&quot;<p>You&#x27;ve got to respect the man for his attention to detail. To the outsider it might seem as if it were near insanity levels (fully creating multiple language families for instance <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Languages_constructed_by_J._R._R._Tolkien" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Languages_constructed_by_J._R....</a>). But you feel the histories and mythology behind the languages in the works. There&#x27;s just an amazing vitality and realism in his universe that I&#x27;ve personally never felt in another work of fantasy as good as those other books might be.<p>I read a biography about him many years ago, and if I remember correctly he wrote the stories for the languages not the other way around, since he discovered that his languages needed a mythology and history in order to be realistic.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered in copy of Lord of the Rings</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/23/jrr-tolkien-middle-earth-annotated-map-blackwells-lord-of-the-rings</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nathancahill</author><text>A high resolution stitched map: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;lWAFuHe.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;lWAFuHe.jpg</a><p>Made with pictures from here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.citylab.com&#x2F;design&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;a-map-of-middle-earth-annotated-by-jrr-tolkien&#x2F;412105&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.citylab.com&#x2F;design&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;a-map-of-middle-earth-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered in copy of Lord of the Rings</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/23/jrr-tolkien-middle-earth-annotated-map-blackwells-lord-of-the-rings</url></story> |
4,469,563 | 4,468,940 | 1 | 3 | 4,468,731 | train | <instructions>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>Here's the core problem with next generation languages. Languages that come out of academia focus too much on syntax and computer science level functionality, and it's extremely rare for a language of that sort to make it in the real world. The languages we use today either come from big companies with the ability to promote anything long enough to get traction on any language that is at least "good" or they come from the "streets". From extremely small teams who create incredibly flawed languages that are immimently practical and go on to rule the world. Perl, Ruby, Javascript, PHP.<p>It's "worse is better" again in spades. Ivory tower language designers try to come up with perfection when what we really need is to improve on the basics.<p>The next big language is probably not going to be something like Haskell (as nice as all that functional purity is) it'll be something that builds profiling and unit testing and better source control support right into the language, compiler, and tools.<p>Edit: if you look at where the average developer is spending most of their time and especially where the majority of the pain is it's typically in things like testing, debugging, performance profiling and optimization, and deployments. And if you look out there in the field you'll see lots and lots of awesome tools and systems helping peoplee tackle those problems. But it's exceedingly rare to see a new language which approaches those problems or tries to codify those tools into first class language features.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Another go at the Next Big Language</title><url>http://dave.cheney.net/2012/09/03/another-go-at-the-next-big-language</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nyan_sandwich</author><text>I was really excited about Go. Designed by some gurus, seemed to get everything right, google app engine supported it.<p>Then I tried to build something.<p>Java-like verbosity. Meh, I can deal with it.<p>[]byte and string aren't the same. Whatever, a few extra lines and thot cycles here and there, no big deal.<p>Overly complex library functions. Let me explain this one. In Lua, markdown (discount) is a single function. In Go, there was a bunch of extra stuff that just seemed like noise. Likewise for cypto, Base64, stringwriters, bunch of other stuff.<p>A bunch of little annoying stuff like that adds up. Eventually I just said fuck it. Maybe I'm not hardcore enough or something, but now I'm back with LuaJIT.<p>Goroutines are cool, tho. Lua's synchronous threads aren't quite the same. Also google's app engine datastore is sweet. Nice and simple, no screwing around with SQL. If I had to do systems stuff, I'd reach for Go.<p>LuaJIT is faster anyways.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Another go at the Next Big Language</title><url>http://dave.cheney.net/2012/09/03/another-go-at-the-next-big-language</url></story> |
10,600,881 | 10,600,858 | 1 | 3 | 10,600,520 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Grue3</author><text>Python&#x27;s re has nothing on CL-PPCRE [1] though. The ability to build up a &quot;regular expression&quot; from S-expressions is just too useful.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;weitz.de&#x2F;cl-ppcre&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;weitz.de&#x2F;cl-ppcre&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python's Hidden Regular Expression Gems</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/11/18/pythons-hidden-re-gems/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andreasvc</author><text>I wonder what the reason is to include code in a release without documenting it. Maybe this article can form the basis for finally documenting this feature?<p>There&#x27;s also the reverse with Python: useful code in the documentation not included in the standard library.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python's Hidden Regular Expression Gems</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/11/18/pythons-hidden-re-gems/</url></story> |
31,920,748 | 31,920,918 | 1 | 2 | 31,915,937 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ep103</author><text>Completely agree. If she had released this in a different medium it would be a wonderfully fun achievement (which I think is what most of the comments are responding to), but what she actually did is quite literally a detriment to humanity. It goes against basic, fundamental principles of what it means to be a good person.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hansword</author><text>All the comments here are positive, the range is from slightly amused to comparing her to Borges (rofl).<p>I didn&#x27;t like it the moment I heard this, but now contrarian mode has kicked in:<p>Why isn&#x27;t this destruction of essential information infrastructure?
Why isn&#x27;t this a &#x27;fuck you&#x27; to the millions of volunteer hours W is based on?
Why isn&#x27;t this potentially infecting millions of minds with lies?<p>Why isn&#x27;t this absolutely deplorable?<p>(COI Statement: i am a wikipedia editor for 15+ years, I am a member of my local wikimedia chapter)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history</title><url>https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010653/she-spent-a-decade-writing-fake-russian-history.-wikipedia-just-noticed.-?source=channel_rising</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xiphias2</author><text>&gt; Why isn&#x27;t this destruction of essential information infrastructure?<p>Because it doesn&#x27;t scale. Unlike spam &#x2F; fake news, the effort to take down something like this is smaller than the effort of creating it.<p>Now sadly when people start using GPT-4 for the same thing, the balance changes, and we&#x27;re not far from that..I&#x27;m much more worried about that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hansword</author><text>All the comments here are positive, the range is from slightly amused to comparing her to Borges (rofl).<p>I didn&#x27;t like it the moment I heard this, but now contrarian mode has kicked in:<p>Why isn&#x27;t this destruction of essential information infrastructure?
Why isn&#x27;t this a &#x27;fuck you&#x27; to the millions of volunteer hours W is based on?
Why isn&#x27;t this potentially infecting millions of minds with lies?<p>Why isn&#x27;t this absolutely deplorable?<p>(COI Statement: i am a wikipedia editor for 15+ years, I am a member of my local wikimedia chapter)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history</title><url>https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010653/she-spent-a-decade-writing-fake-russian-history.-wikipedia-just-noticed.-?source=channel_rising</url></story> |
18,478,415 | 18,477,327 | 1 | 3 | 18,473,744 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>evmar</author><text>In Ninja I sorta stumbled through some of the same issues described here. I eventually realized that the interesting question is &quot;does this output file reflect the state of all the inputs&quot; and not anything in particular about mtimes, and that&quot;inputs&quot; includes not only the contents of the input files, but also the executables and command lines used to produce the output.<p>If you squint, mtime&#x2F;inode etc. behave like a weak content signature of the input. And once you have that perspective, you say &quot;if mtime != mtime I had last time, rebuild&quot;, without caring about their relative values, and that sidesteps a lot of clock skew related issues. It does &quot;the wrong thing&quot; if someone intentionally pushes timestamps to a point in the past (e.g. when switching branches to an older branch) as an attempt to game such a system, but playing games with mtime is not the right approach for such a thing, totally hermetic builds are.<p>One nice trick is that you can even capture all the &quot;inputs&quot; with a single checksum that combines all the files&#x2F;command lines&#x2F;etc., and that easily transitions between truly looking at file content or just file metadata. The one downside is that when the build system decides to rebuild something, it&#x27;s hard to tell the user why -- you end up just saying &quot;some input changed somewhere&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mtime comparison considered harmful</title><url>https://apenwarr.ca/log/20181113</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peff</author><text>&gt; the .git&#x2F;index file, which uses mmap, is synced incorrectly by file sync tools relying on mtime<p>This part implies that the index file is written via mmap, but that&#x27;s not true. It is fully rewritten to a new tempfile&#x2F;lockfile, and then atomically renamed into place.<p>Git does not ever mmap with anything but PROT_READ, because not all supported platforms can do writes (in particular, the compat fallback just pread()s into a heap buffer).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mtime comparison considered harmful</title><url>https://apenwarr.ca/log/20181113</url></story> |
35,230,773 | 35,229,583 | 1 | 3 | 35,227,209 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joshstrange</author><text>&gt; Phrasing the whole discussion in terms of &#x27;metrics&#x27; to justify the common-sense conclusion that junior people need more direct supervision is clearly sugarcoating it for junior recipients for whom the message is intended.<p>This line of reasoning will never not make my blood boil. &quot;Well of course it&#x27;s not data driven but we have to pretend it is for the juniors while the seniors know the truth&quot;, what absolute hogwash. Say what you mean or I&#x27;ll assume what you believe what you say. Yout don&#x27;t get to have it both ways. They said it&#x27;s based on data so you don&#x27;t get to pretend it was intuition (on top of which the people exercising the &quot;intuition&quot; have a vested interest in WFO).</text><parent_chain><item><author>rmk</author><text>Why does there need to be a metric? People with management experience can decide these things based on intuition. It&#x27;s practically impossible to quantify anything in this industry, but &#x27;data-driven decisionmaking&#x27; is fetishized to the extreme. Ultimately it just becomes another buzzword and method for people with little or no experience to override people with experience.<p>Phrasing the whole discussion in terms of &#x27;metrics&#x27; to justify the common-sense conclusion that junior people need more direct supervision is clearly sugarcoating it for junior recipients for whom the message is intended.</text></item><item><author>yellowapple</author><text>&gt; &gt; Our early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely. This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week. This requires further study, but our hypothesis is that it is still easier to build trust in person and that those relationships help us work more effectively.<p>This is meaningless without knowing how productivity is being measured. It&#x27;s very possible that said metric inherently favors in-person collaboration over remote collaboration - which would then skew the results of any further analysis of that metric.<p>This is also meaningless without knowing exactly what&#x27;s being compared. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if 3 in-person days a week was indeed more productive than 0, but what about 2? 1? 1&#x2F;2? 1&#x2F;30? 1&#x2F;365.24? There&#x27;s a <i>lot</i> of numbers between 0 and 3, and coming to any conclusions without understanding the actual shape of that graph is folly.<p>This is also meaningless without information on the wide range of in-person cultures or the wide range of remote cultures. These preliminary results could readily come about from having a remote culture that&#x27;s more dysfunctional than other remote cultures and&#x2F;or an in-person culture that&#x27;s less dysfunctional than other in-person cultures. I&#x27;ve personally experienced both ranges more-or-less in full over the course of my career - as well as varying combinations of the two in hybrid environments.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta Layoffs</title><url>https://brandur.org/fragments/meta-layoffs</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deelly</author><text>&gt; these things based on intuition<p>And these people never ever mentioned using of intuition during making decisions because...<p>because no one believe that using intuition is actually working?</text><parent_chain><item><author>rmk</author><text>Why does there need to be a metric? People with management experience can decide these things based on intuition. It&#x27;s practically impossible to quantify anything in this industry, but &#x27;data-driven decisionmaking&#x27; is fetishized to the extreme. Ultimately it just becomes another buzzword and method for people with little or no experience to override people with experience.<p>Phrasing the whole discussion in terms of &#x27;metrics&#x27; to justify the common-sense conclusion that junior people need more direct supervision is clearly sugarcoating it for junior recipients for whom the message is intended.</text></item><item><author>yellowapple</author><text>&gt; &gt; Our early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely. This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week. This requires further study, but our hypothesis is that it is still easier to build trust in person and that those relationships help us work more effectively.<p>This is meaningless without knowing how productivity is being measured. It&#x27;s very possible that said metric inherently favors in-person collaboration over remote collaboration - which would then skew the results of any further analysis of that metric.<p>This is also meaningless without knowing exactly what&#x27;s being compared. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if 3 in-person days a week was indeed more productive than 0, but what about 2? 1? 1&#x2F;2? 1&#x2F;30? 1&#x2F;365.24? There&#x27;s a <i>lot</i> of numbers between 0 and 3, and coming to any conclusions without understanding the actual shape of that graph is folly.<p>This is also meaningless without information on the wide range of in-person cultures or the wide range of remote cultures. These preliminary results could readily come about from having a remote culture that&#x27;s more dysfunctional than other remote cultures and&#x2F;or an in-person culture that&#x27;s less dysfunctional than other in-person cultures. I&#x27;ve personally experienced both ranges more-or-less in full over the course of my career - as well as varying combinations of the two in hybrid environments.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta Layoffs</title><url>https://brandur.org/fragments/meta-layoffs</url></story> |
19,692,099 | 19,691,699 | 1 | 3 | 19,691,000 | 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>motohagiography</author><text>A useful analogy is to think about social media in terms of steroid use in cycling.<p>An athlete on the Tour de France knows most winners cheat and the instance of cheaters in the standings clusters densely toward the top.<p>To even qualify for the game with cheaters, you need to either be a standard deviation better than they are without their cheat, or compromise and also cheat, which in turn legitimizes their tactics.<p>Social media exacerbates nascent mental illness by creating this same double bind for young people, where to &quot;succeed,&quot; in life by getting access to cliques and networks, school placements, job opportunities, and investment opportunities, you need to &quot;play the game,&quot; which today means to fabricate an image of performative conventional success and the perception you are a viable centre of attention.<p>They know it&#x27;s wrong, everyone else knows it&#x27;s probably wrong, but the whole exercise is a temporary suspension of disbelief in exchange for lottery style rewards, provided by sponsors.<p>Good news on both fronts is you can enjoy riding bicycles or any other sport, and indeed life, without the often horrific and spiritually hollow compromises of elite competition, which social media seems to approximate.<p>The greatest irony is that it is in more humble and private pursuits where most of the real stories of courage, dignity, and personal triumph that people only fake in performances on social media can truly be found.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Her Facebook life looked perfect. How social media masks mental illness (2015)</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/her-facebook-life-looked-perfect-madison-holleran-suicide-highlights-how-social-media-masks-mental-illness-1.3071302</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>strikelaserclaw</author><text>Social media is a slow acting poison. It&#x27;s extensive damaging effects will only be felt in 10-20 years. For the most part, it amplifies all the negative traits of humanity, twitter encourages ad hominem style debates and substanceless statements from all strata of soceity. Instagram&#x2F;FB takes the need for human validation and the need to keep pretenses among our peers to a global scale. The next generation will be much more comfortable behind a screen where they can maintain an illusory persona than in real life. This is not taking into accounts the addictive nature of social media in general and how they employ research scientists to work on making their products more addictive.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Her Facebook life looked perfect. How social media masks mental illness (2015)</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/her-facebook-life-looked-perfect-madison-holleran-suicide-highlights-how-social-media-masks-mental-illness-1.3071302</url></story> |
27,848,188 | 27,846,732 | 1 | 3 | 27,845,274 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>staticassertion</author><text>&gt; Wait, what? So many articles and journals I read on the topic just talk about prime fields, modular reduction and blah blah blah like it’s asking someone to buy milk and eggs at the grocery store.<p>No kidding, it&#x27;s so frustrating! I have to read some articles&#x2F; papers like 20x and open a bunch of wikipedia tabs to understand wtf they&#x27;re talking about. If they gave a simple, high level explanation it would save tons of time - while a wikipedia article is going to be very in depth, it&#x27;s not tailored to the context of what I&#x27;m reading, so I often have to look at a whole bunch of things to start to build a good model in my head for wtf they&#x27;re trying to convey.<p>This post, on the other hand, is perfect for me. Thank you so much for writing it I&#x27;m learning a ton.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building a Curve25519 Hardware Accelerator</title><url>https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6140</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>&gt; It’s a weird thing about academics — they like to write papers and “share ideas”, but it’s very hard to get source code from them.<p>I suppose at least part of the reason, especially for things like crypto and statistics, is that they don&#x27;t want to get bogged down in plausibly-correct claims of fatal flaws, and be perhaps repeatedly (over years hence) put in a defensive position of having to prove the criticism <i>in</i>correct or have everyone assume the work was wrong?<p>I can sort of understand that. The same&#x27;s true for the papers themselves of course, but I can see it being more annoying for code. (&#x27;But it&#x27;s never going to actually be in that state&#x27;, etc.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building a Curve25519 Hardware Accelerator</title><url>https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6140</url></story> |
15,806,437 | 15,806,028 | 1 | 3 | 15,786,780 | 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>jatsign</author><text>I&#x27;ve been programing my own Ethereum smart contract (virtual currency) for awhile now. Here&#x27;s some gotchas off the top of my head:<p>- You have about 500 lines of code to work with. This of course varies, but smart contracts have to be really small to fit in the max gas limit (6.7 million wei).<p>- You can&#x27;t pass strings between contracts (coming soon).<p>- There are no floating point numbers. Since you&#x27;re probably working with &quot;money&quot;, this can make things tricky.<p>- You can break up your code into multiple contracts, but the tradeoff is an increased attack area.<p>- Dumb code is more secure than smart code.<p>- The tooling is very immature. You&#x27;ll probably use truffle, which just released version 4. It makes some things easier, some harder. It&#x27;s version of web3 (1.0) may differ from what you were expecting (0.2).<p>- The Ethereum testnet (Ropsten) has a different gas limit than the main net (4.7 million vs 6.7 million).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts</title><url>http://www.gjermundbjaanes.com/understanding-ethereum-smart-contracts/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scandox</author><text>What I&#x27;d greatly appreciate is a walk through of a plausible real world use case. I find it hard to concentrate on the technology itself until I understand the application.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts</title><url>http://www.gjermundbjaanes.com/understanding-ethereum-smart-contracts/</url></story> |
32,843,187 | 32,842,515 | 1 | 2 | 32,822,352 | 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>smaddox</author><text>Another very small proof system: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moonad&#x2F;formcorejs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moonad&#x2F;formcorejs</a><p>The core implementation is under 700 lines of JS, including the parser: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moonad&#x2F;FormCoreJS&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;FormCore.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moonad&#x2F;FormCoreJS&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;FormCore.js</a><p>The author has since moved on to building a runtime with optimal evaluation (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kindelia&#x2F;hvm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kindelia&#x2F;hvm</a>) and a new proof language on top of that (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Kindelia&#x2F;Kind2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Kindelia&#x2F;Kind2</a>) with considerably better performance than existing proof systems.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Little Prover</title><url>https://the-little-prover.github.io/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Bilal_io</author><text>The MIT Press URL says &quot;Book not found...&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Little Prover</title><url>https://the-little-prover.github.io/</url></story> |
22,948,815 | 22,948,251 | 1 | 3 | 22,942,278 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wenc</author><text>There&#x27;s a middle way which is very powerful: SQL views (just SQL queries; no triggers or procedures)<p>Here&#x27;s a powerful mindset trick: think of <i>SQL views as an sort of a REST API</i>, but whose access language is SQL and not HTTP, and that returns data in a table rather than JSON (hierarchical).<p>I once tried to build a REST API to a database, and someone told me I already had a battle-tested and highly performant API that outperformed REST at scale -- it&#x27;s called SQL. A SQL view is a dynamic lens into the underlying tables, so even if the underlying tables&#x2F;schemas were to change, your consumers don&#x27;t care as long as they can access the SQL View.<p>SQL views are also composable: you can build SQL views on top of other SQL views, and any changes made in the base views are propagated throughout. Need to add&#x2F;transform a field? Do it in the view. Need pull in auxiliary data? Bring it in through a JOIN in the view. I&#x27;ve built many systems by composing SQL views and they&#x27;re very maintainable and very flexible. They&#x27;re kind of like function compositions but on tabular data.<p>The rule of thumb is: always access a database through a view, never the underlying raw tables. In computer science, a great many maintainability issues are alleviated through a layer of abstraction&#x2F;indirection, and SQL views provide exactly that.<p>This centralization of the core logic becomes especially powerful if the database is accessed from multiple consumers (webapps, analytics backends, Tableau, ML tools, etc.) The &quot;API&quot; remains consistent throughout.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TremendousJudge</author><text>&gt; The application language was a pass through later between the client and the database.<p>This style of doing things resulted in spaghetti style unmanageable databases, filled with an unknowable number of triggers and procedures, all written in PL&#x2F;SQL (which is much, much worse than either Java or PHP). The reason why ORMs started to become popular is that you can write your application without filling your DB with arcane and inscrutable logic</text></item><item><author>brightball</author><text>I firmly believe that every developer should spend 2-3 weeks early in their career working with nothing but SQL. It will pay huge dividends for the rest of it.<p>IMO a lot of the issue is that developers for many years using Java or PHP, were using SQL to handle everything. The application language was a pass through later between the client and the database.<p>Your goal was to accomplish as much as possible in a single query and then to simply return the results of that query to the interface. That meant formatting numbers or currency in your SQL. Optimizing inserts or updates to be handled in a single query. Grouping, counting, left&#x2F;inner joins, having statements to filter on aggregate results. More than 1 or 2 queries for the primary area of the screen was both a rare and foreign experience.<p>And then ORMs started to slowly integrate themselves into the flow of various frameworks to automate the repetitive things around CRUD tasks. Then to address scaling &amp; bloat problems we saw an uptick in REST APIs, microservices that further made those ORMs the norm...and then many developers started actively trying to stay within those API constraints to an almost religious degree which led to a nested payload becoming acceptable fueling the whole &quot;NoSQL&quot; situation, along with the idea that it was somehow better to repeat the same data thousands of times over.<p>A whole lot of people pushed back against this and eventually, it mostly ran its course. I&#x27;ve often seen resistance to SQL to be driven by <i>fear</i> of SQL more so than anything else. As soon as people get a basic comfort level with SQL, it become almost automatic.</text></item><item><author>wenc</author><text>I never realized this before but many excellent developers struggle with SQL beyond simple SELECT statements. I have a colleague who is by all accounts a deeply technical person but one day he confessed to me that he didn&#x27;t really grok SQL and that he&#x27;d rather work with a &quot;real&quot; procedural programming language to just store and retrieve data.<p>Part of it may be due to the fact SQL isn&#x27;t really a programming language but a declarative DSL for manipulating sets and tables. Things like GROUP BYs and PARTITION BYs (window functions) that come naturally to mathematical types&#x2F;functional programmers are less intuitive to procedural programmers.<p>I suspect this was what attracted developers to noSQL databases like Mongo in the first place -- it&#x27;s more attuned to a programmatic mindset.<p>(this is not universally true of course -- many programmers have no issues with SQL at all.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things I wished more developers knew about databases</title><url>https://medium.com/@rakyll/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>breischl</author><text>But now you&#x27;re filling your application with arcane and inscrutable logic, with an extra layer of abstraction via the ORM to make it even less scrutable.<p>I think one should view a SQL DB like a microservice. Instead of REST endpoints (or gRPC or whatever), create stored procedures. These define a strong contract with your DB, the capabilities that it provides to your app(s). Now you know what the query and insert patterns are, and can tweak the table layout under the covers without screwing up your application code.<p>Of course you <i>can</i> abuse this into a spaghetti monolith, just like you can evolve a microservice into a spaghetti monolith, but you shouldn&#x27;t. There&#x27;s no technology that will prevent you from making poor architectural decisions, you just have to not go down those dark paths.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TremendousJudge</author><text>&gt; The application language was a pass through later between the client and the database.<p>This style of doing things resulted in spaghetti style unmanageable databases, filled with an unknowable number of triggers and procedures, all written in PL&#x2F;SQL (which is much, much worse than either Java or PHP). The reason why ORMs started to become popular is that you can write your application without filling your DB with arcane and inscrutable logic</text></item><item><author>brightball</author><text>I firmly believe that every developer should spend 2-3 weeks early in their career working with nothing but SQL. It will pay huge dividends for the rest of it.<p>IMO a lot of the issue is that developers for many years using Java or PHP, were using SQL to handle everything. The application language was a pass through later between the client and the database.<p>Your goal was to accomplish as much as possible in a single query and then to simply return the results of that query to the interface. That meant formatting numbers or currency in your SQL. Optimizing inserts or updates to be handled in a single query. Grouping, counting, left&#x2F;inner joins, having statements to filter on aggregate results. More than 1 or 2 queries for the primary area of the screen was both a rare and foreign experience.<p>And then ORMs started to slowly integrate themselves into the flow of various frameworks to automate the repetitive things around CRUD tasks. Then to address scaling &amp; bloat problems we saw an uptick in REST APIs, microservices that further made those ORMs the norm...and then many developers started actively trying to stay within those API constraints to an almost religious degree which led to a nested payload becoming acceptable fueling the whole &quot;NoSQL&quot; situation, along with the idea that it was somehow better to repeat the same data thousands of times over.<p>A whole lot of people pushed back against this and eventually, it mostly ran its course. I&#x27;ve often seen resistance to SQL to be driven by <i>fear</i> of SQL more so than anything else. As soon as people get a basic comfort level with SQL, it become almost automatic.</text></item><item><author>wenc</author><text>I never realized this before but many excellent developers struggle with SQL beyond simple SELECT statements. I have a colleague who is by all accounts a deeply technical person but one day he confessed to me that he didn&#x27;t really grok SQL and that he&#x27;d rather work with a &quot;real&quot; procedural programming language to just store and retrieve data.<p>Part of it may be due to the fact SQL isn&#x27;t really a programming language but a declarative DSL for manipulating sets and tables. Things like GROUP BYs and PARTITION BYs (window functions) that come naturally to mathematical types&#x2F;functional programmers are less intuitive to procedural programmers.<p>I suspect this was what attracted developers to noSQL databases like Mongo in the first place -- it&#x27;s more attuned to a programmatic mindset.<p>(this is not universally true of course -- many programmers have no issues with SQL at all.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things I wished more developers knew about databases</title><url>https://medium.com/@rakyll/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78</url></story> |
17,946,317 | 17,946,132 | 1 | 2 | 17,940,943 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vpmpaul</author><text>You&#x27;re not wrong. A Princeton study found the average voters have almost no impact on policy anymore. However corporations have taken over that position of influence.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.princeton.edu&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;mgilens&#x2F;files&#x2F;gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.princeton.edu&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;mgilens&#x2F;fi...</a><p>I personally believe it is because politicians have to listen to voter blocks. Since American families and homeowners have fallen to record lows they have no consistent voter base from individuals anymore. Homeowners and Familiy&#x27;s used to be the two biggest voting blocks. They no longer are; businesses are the only voters that will be guaranteed to stick around until the next election.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>&quot;Write your representative&quot; is the standard response in the US too, and I&#x27;m honestly done with it. I&#x27;ve written many, many letters to senators. I&#x27;ve placed phone calls. I&#x27;ve donated to candidates I support. I&#x27;ve taken a day off work to attend what was supposed to be a town hall but that ended up just being propaganda and thinly veiled hints at donating to related election campaigns, with so little time for public comment that I never got a word in.<p>And yet I&#x27;ve only ever received token replies and seen zero change. No one I ever really wanted to vote in to a major seat has won. And Congress really can&#x27;t see what&#x27;s wrong with the Equifax breach on their own?<p>Fuck all of them. I&#x27;ve given up on our political system maintaining much more than panem et circenses.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>Did you write to your MP?<p>Did you meet with them?<p>These things only get fixed when people speak up.<p>I met with my MP over the weaponization of autonomous systems. I&#x27;ve put a ton of work into understanding where all this is headed. I spoke up[0] at the hearing on electoral reform about the cybersecurity risks of computerized elections, but I&#x27;m only one man. I&#x27;ve been able to get some things through, like pressuring the Liberal Government to put up more resources[1] but political will lags public outcry. If you want something changed you can&#x27;t just complain online in your little bubble.<p>[0] I was one of only two people that spoke up about it and it was added to the final report. The world is changeable. What it takes is showing up and pushing hard.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;budget-billion-cyber-security-1.4547685" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;budget-billion-cyber-securi...</a></text></item><item><author>the_unknown</author><text>I&#x27;m most disappointed in the Canadian gov&#x27;t and their lack of action. This would have been the perfect opportunity to mandate change - We don&#x27;t have to send data on all of our people and their credit history to this American company. Or at least without actual legislation and rules around governance, security, and actual penalties for breaches.<p>Instead we let them get away with - no more than a handful of Canadians were affected - followed by - oops, yup lots of Canadians - followed by - holy heck, how many Canadians are there way up there?<p>We don&#x27;t need to go along with this. Yet it never seems to get better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/08/equifax-one-year-later-unscathed/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>I deeply understand your frustration. It takes a lot of work even here in Canada to get political will to take proactive action.<p>It&#x27;s only harder in the US. You guys have ten times the people per representative which means political victory is governed by opinion polling and, unfortunately, monied advertising. Citizens United made it ten times worse.<p>From my vantage point in Toronto, it looks like action towards fixing the political system is the top priority right now. So many things are wrong that it&#x27;s hard to figure out where to even start.<p>There will be a breaking point though. As demographics continue to change if the GOP continues to win despite losing the popular vote I can see some sort of general protest or riot forming.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>&quot;Write your representative&quot; is the standard response in the US too, and I&#x27;m honestly done with it. I&#x27;ve written many, many letters to senators. I&#x27;ve placed phone calls. I&#x27;ve donated to candidates I support. I&#x27;ve taken a day off work to attend what was supposed to be a town hall but that ended up just being propaganda and thinly veiled hints at donating to related election campaigns, with so little time for public comment that I never got a word in.<p>And yet I&#x27;ve only ever received token replies and seen zero change. No one I ever really wanted to vote in to a major seat has won. And Congress really can&#x27;t see what&#x27;s wrong with the Equifax breach on their own?<p>Fuck all of them. I&#x27;ve given up on our political system maintaining much more than panem et circenses.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>Did you write to your MP?<p>Did you meet with them?<p>These things only get fixed when people speak up.<p>I met with my MP over the weaponization of autonomous systems. I&#x27;ve put a ton of work into understanding where all this is headed. I spoke up[0] at the hearing on electoral reform about the cybersecurity risks of computerized elections, but I&#x27;m only one man. I&#x27;ve been able to get some things through, like pressuring the Liberal Government to put up more resources[1] but political will lags public outcry. If you want something changed you can&#x27;t just complain online in your little bubble.<p>[0] I was one of only two people that spoke up about it and it was added to the final report. The world is changeable. What it takes is showing up and pushing hard.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;budget-billion-cyber-security-1.4547685" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;budget-billion-cyber-securi...</a></text></item><item><author>the_unknown</author><text>I&#x27;m most disappointed in the Canadian gov&#x27;t and their lack of action. This would have been the perfect opportunity to mandate change - We don&#x27;t have to send data on all of our people and their credit history to this American company. Or at least without actual legislation and rules around governance, security, and actual penalties for breaches.<p>Instead we let them get away with - no more than a handful of Canadians were affected - followed by - oops, yup lots of Canadians - followed by - holy heck, how many Canadians are there way up there?<p>We don&#x27;t need to go along with this. Yet it never seems to get better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/08/equifax-one-year-later-unscathed/</url></story> |
21,219,873 | 21,219,540 | 1 | 3 | 21,206,861 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rossdavidh</author><text>So, as in many cases when scientists (or science writers) discuss the motivations of mammals with big brains, they go to a lot of effort to avoid the obvious conclusion, which is that the humpback did it for a similar reason to why a human might make a coyote lay off an attack on a raccoon or possum. We wouldn&#x27;t always, but plenty of humans would, and it wouldn&#x27;t be for any particularly abstract or intellectual reason, it&#x27;s more like, &quot;the coyote is being mean, make it stop because I can.&quot;<p>Sometimes, scientists remind me of mid-20th century behaviorists trying to explain human behavior.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why did a humpback whale save a seal's life? (2016)</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/07/why-did-humpback-whale-just-save-seals-life</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>I know somebody who studied orcas in school and she said that humpbacks tend to give orcas a hard time whenever they meet them. It’s understandable since orcas often attack their young ones.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why did a humpback whale save a seal's life? (2016)</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/07/why-did-humpback-whale-just-save-seals-life</url></story> |
16,870,270 | 16,870,292 | 1 | 3 | 16,869,290 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>freehunter</author><text>&gt;We had one payment blocked by Radar due to it being from a &quot;high risk location&quot;<p>This, to me, represents the worst that banking fraud protection has to offer. Just yesterday I (from the USA) tried to purchase a software license for a tool I&#x27;ve been using the free version of for a long time. My card was declined, so I used my American Express. About two hours later, I got a call from my bank&#x27;s fraud department saying they had blocked a transaction to the UK for fraud prevention, and disabled my card to protect me. Apparently the bank (a small US-based bank) block any transaction in the UK as it&#x27;s a &quot;high risk country&quot;... I&#x27;m sorry, but this is the Internet. No one cares where the company is located, and I have no way of knowing beforehand that the payment is processed by Stripe US or Stripe UK. Blocking entire countries for fraud prevention is a really lazy way of doing fraud prevention.<p>But I&#x27;ve even seen worse at another bank. My area of the US doesn&#x27;t have Publix grocery stores. Apparently this bank considered shopping at Publix to be unacceptable risk when I was traveling for work, and disabled my debit card because of this. Stopping at Walgreens beforehand and getting dinner the night before wasn&#x27;t suspicious though.<p>Bank fraud is a hard problem, and taking lazy solutions doesn&#x27;t solve that problem. It just hurts customers and hurts businesses.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sixhobbits</author><text>I really hope that this improves the false-positive rate, as mentioned in another comment.<p>We&#x27;ve been hurt badly as a startup breaking into the US market and getting many of our genuine charges blocked by Radar (and at a &quot;highest risk&quot; level where it is not possible to disable rules).<p>As a developer, I had the best possible impression of Stripe, as they provide easily the cleanest API and best documentation of any payment provider I&#x27;ve used.<p>From a business side, it was highly frustrating losing so many of our early US sales. A lot of this was due to US banks blocking the payment, but Stripe did not handle these cases well in our case.<p>* Error messages presented to the customer are often ambiguous or misleading, and if you&#x27;re using checkout.js you cannot customize these easily. In some cases, the customer gets a client-side &quot;Card is declined&quot; error, with no communication passed through to the merchant at all, which makes telephone support very difficult.<p>* Stripe will not provide any kind of telephone or chat support to merchants. By the time a specific blocked payment can be escalated to a &quot;fraud specialist&quot; the customer is usually long gone.<p>* Stripe will not allow you disable certain Radar rules.<p>* If a user tries to pay several times (due to their bank blocking the payment as suspicious), and then phones their bank to clear the payment, Stripe will often then block the payment due to &quot;repeated attempted uses of the card&quot;. This is highly frustrating as even very determined customers who try several times and then contact their bank to resolve the issue there still get blocked by Stripe, and usually give up at that point.<p>* We had one payment blocked by Radar due to it being from a &quot;high risk location&quot; (Pakistan if I remember correctly). This represented unacceptable levels of discrimination for us. Machine learning and probability is useful, but ethically it&#x27;s hugely problematic to deny people service based on their country, race, gender, age, or other attributes that they do not have control over.<p>My early experiences with PayPal were nothing short of terrible, but BrainTree is looking like a more and more attractive alternative to Stripe, especially with the PayPal integration built in -- if people have issues with their Credit Card they can simply pay with PayPal credit instead.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Improved fraud prevention with Radar 2.0</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/radar-2018</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>globile</author><text>Agree. We have a non-US Stripe account, so we are heavily penalised when we try to charge the US market.<p>Large percentage of support calls start with &quot;my bank blocked the transaction because it was international &#x2F; fraud&quot;<p>Incorporating in the US is not a feasible option. This is where Stripe&#x27;s &quot;Global&quot; reach and 150 currencies loses a bit of power.<p>Would be great if there was a way non-US stripe merchants could bill us customers as if they were in the US. Sure it is more of a regulatory&#x2F;legal issue than a technical one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sixhobbits</author><text>I really hope that this improves the false-positive rate, as mentioned in another comment.<p>We&#x27;ve been hurt badly as a startup breaking into the US market and getting many of our genuine charges blocked by Radar (and at a &quot;highest risk&quot; level where it is not possible to disable rules).<p>As a developer, I had the best possible impression of Stripe, as they provide easily the cleanest API and best documentation of any payment provider I&#x27;ve used.<p>From a business side, it was highly frustrating losing so many of our early US sales. A lot of this was due to US banks blocking the payment, but Stripe did not handle these cases well in our case.<p>* Error messages presented to the customer are often ambiguous or misleading, and if you&#x27;re using checkout.js you cannot customize these easily. In some cases, the customer gets a client-side &quot;Card is declined&quot; error, with no communication passed through to the merchant at all, which makes telephone support very difficult.<p>* Stripe will not provide any kind of telephone or chat support to merchants. By the time a specific blocked payment can be escalated to a &quot;fraud specialist&quot; the customer is usually long gone.<p>* Stripe will not allow you disable certain Radar rules.<p>* If a user tries to pay several times (due to their bank blocking the payment as suspicious), and then phones their bank to clear the payment, Stripe will often then block the payment due to &quot;repeated attempted uses of the card&quot;. This is highly frustrating as even very determined customers who try several times and then contact their bank to resolve the issue there still get blocked by Stripe, and usually give up at that point.<p>* We had one payment blocked by Radar due to it being from a &quot;high risk location&quot; (Pakistan if I remember correctly). This represented unacceptable levels of discrimination for us. Machine learning and probability is useful, but ethically it&#x27;s hugely problematic to deny people service based on their country, race, gender, age, or other attributes that they do not have control over.<p>My early experiences with PayPal were nothing short of terrible, but BrainTree is looking like a more and more attractive alternative to Stripe, especially with the PayPal integration built in -- if people have issues with their Credit Card they can simply pay with PayPal credit instead.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Improved fraud prevention with Radar 2.0</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/radar-2018</url></story> |
21,692,738 | 21,692,065 | 1 | 3 | 21,669,587 | 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>dtwest</author><text>Both the article and the comments here are cringeworthy. I come to HN for the insightful comments, but for some reason, whenever finance is discussed, people do not look at data and start arguing about their feelings. This is a complex topic that requires careful analysis, unfortunately, the Washington Post has not spent the time to do this either.<p>I specifically want to point to this passage from the article:<p>&quot;Last month, in its twice-yearly financial stability report, the Fed warned about the potential consequences of the market’s failure to police the rapid increase in risky corporate debt.<p>During the 2009 crisis, “BBB-rated” companies — the lowest rung of investment-grade — faced borrowing costs almost 7 percentage points higher than higher-quality companies. Today, the difference, or “spread,” is just 1.4 percentage points.&quot;<p>The way this is being framed is very dishonest reporting, 1.4% is close to normal, 7% is the highest it has ever been. A balanced discussion on the matter wouldn&#x27;t get the same amount of clicks as fear mongering though.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;BAMLC0A4CBBB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;BAMLC0A4CBBB</a><p>If you think the financial system is evil or incompetent, please suggest a better way of doing things or go into the specifics about what is wrong. As an example, saying &quot;React is evil and everyone who uses it is stupid&quot; is instantly recognized around here as a nonconstructive comment. Rephrasing it as &quot;I like Vue better for reason a, b and c&quot; is much better. Yet when things are finance related, this standard is not upheld.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Corporate debt nears a record $10T, and borrowing binge poses new risks</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/corporate-debt-nears-a-record-10-trillion-and-borrowing-binge-poses-new-risks/2019/11/29/1f86ba3e-114b-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrfusion</author><text>Rather than this 10 trillion number I’d prefer to see how much corporate debt has some level of default risk. Presumably some fraction of this is issued by solid companies with Enough cash reserves or future Income to cover the debt.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Corporate debt nears a record $10T, and borrowing binge poses new risks</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/corporate-debt-nears-a-record-10-trillion-and-borrowing-binge-poses-new-risks/2019/11/29/1f86ba3e-114b-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html</url></story> |
13,618,615 | 13,617,975 | 1 | 3 | 13,616,123 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rythie</author><text>More than half of all the businesses have no employees (i.e. It&#x27;s just the founder) and most of the rest have less than 50 employees. For most companies is social one of many things that they need to do, setup a website, pay taxes, answer the phone, emails etc. because they&#x27;re is no one else. Whilst for big companies, they perhaps have full time social media or at least communications staff, most companies do not.<p>Ultimately this is a tool that saves time for, mostly, small companies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>erdojo</author><text>Disagree. The very best digital&#x2F;social marketers don&#x27;t use these tools at all. Each channel has its own platform strengths, weaknesses, peculiarities, not to mention audience differences, trends, breaking news etc.<p>If you&#x27;re scheduling social posts without doing your due diligence on each and every platform within 2-4 hours of a post going live (preferably within 30 minutes before), you&#x27;re doing it wrong.<p>If you&#x27;re using the same post across multiple channels, you&#x27;re doing it wrong.<p>If you&#x27;re re-using the same post multiple times within a few weeks, you&#x27;re doing it wrong.<p>The only people I give a free pass too are solo marketers who really just don&#x27;t have time to do things right and have to keep up a minimum level of noise on social.</text></item><item><author>Yabood</author><text>&gt; &quot;Oh, and Twitter launched scheduled tweets.&quot;<p>Tools like buffer would still exist even if every single social media network offered scheduling capabilities. The fact is, if you&#x27;re a digital marketer, you&#x27;re not going to waste your time jumping between networks and multiple accounts scheduling content manually.</text></item><item><author>jpeg_hero</author><text>My guess at what happened: the natural hyper growth engine ran out, they tried a bunch of things to jump start it, none of them worked, so now they are on the slow growth path.<p>If they were not remote-only maybe they could have pulled off the CTO&#x27;s plan of hiring a bunch of traditional managers and &quot;pushing&quot; the company forward (probably enterprise sales), but they&#x27;d have restructure the bones of the company at great expense. The great expense part probably doesn&#x27;t work, because since the sizzle is off the growth, the next VC round would be tough if not impossible to do. It would be very &quot;term-y&quot; and founders are already underwater enough on investor preference.<p>They probably made the right call of not shooting for the moon, and slowing down into a remote-only company that takes its time. Skype and boxer shorts.<p>But now the COO and CTO are faced with the decision of A) sitting around and riding it out at $185,000 and $182,089 per year respectively (healthy money no doubt but not DHH buy-a-racing-team like earn outs) or B) move on to the next thing while the market for vc funding is still hot and they can still get some juice from their association with buffer.<p>Rational decisions all around.<p>Oh, and Twitter launched scheduled tweets.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Change at Buffer: The Next Phase, and Why Our Co-Founder and CTO Are Moving On</title><url>https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Yabood</author><text>Right. I agree with most of what you said. However, that doesn&#x27;t mean you can&#x27;t build a platform that does what you described. In fact, and I&#x27;m not trying to self-promote here, but we&#x27;ve already done that. We&#x27;re currently in beta going live in a couple of months.<p>&gt; &quot;If you&#x27;re scheduling social posts without doing your due diligence on each and every platform within 2-4 hours of a post going live (preferably within 30 minutes before), you&#x27;re doing it wrong.&quot;<p>Can you elaborate on this? What type of due diligence do you need?<p>&gt; &quot;If you&#x27;re using the same post across multiple channels, you&#x27;re doing it wrong.&quot;<p>Some posts can be shared as they are across multiple networks, other posts need to be different. We address this by allowing the user to write the post once and customized it for each network before its published. This includes different images, different URLs, different OG tags, keywords, mentions, etc.<p>&gt; &quot;If you&#x27;re re-using the same post multiple times within a few weeks, you&#x27;re doing it wrong.&quot;<p>When you publish something, only a percentage of your audience sees it, which is why it is considered a good strategy to repost every now and then for higher exposure. Just don&#x27;t do it every few weeks. The way we solved this problem is by allowing the user to create category-based schedules. Basically, we have a content library that organizes posts by categories, and each category can have one or multiple publishing schedules. You can choose to recycle content from specific categories or not, up to you. The more content you have in each recyclable category the less frequent your content will be reposted.<p>There are many other hard problems that SMM platforms can help you solve including social listening, which if done manually can be very time consuming and silly.<p>EDIT: typo</text><parent_chain><item><author>erdojo</author><text>Disagree. The very best digital&#x2F;social marketers don&#x27;t use these tools at all. Each channel has its own platform strengths, weaknesses, peculiarities, not to mention audience differences, trends, breaking news etc.<p>If you&#x27;re scheduling social posts without doing your due diligence on each and every platform within 2-4 hours of a post going live (preferably within 30 minutes before), you&#x27;re doing it wrong.<p>If you&#x27;re using the same post across multiple channels, you&#x27;re doing it wrong.<p>If you&#x27;re re-using the same post multiple times within a few weeks, you&#x27;re doing it wrong.<p>The only people I give a free pass too are solo marketers who really just don&#x27;t have time to do things right and have to keep up a minimum level of noise on social.</text></item><item><author>Yabood</author><text>&gt; &quot;Oh, and Twitter launched scheduled tweets.&quot;<p>Tools like buffer would still exist even if every single social media network offered scheduling capabilities. The fact is, if you&#x27;re a digital marketer, you&#x27;re not going to waste your time jumping between networks and multiple accounts scheduling content manually.</text></item><item><author>jpeg_hero</author><text>My guess at what happened: the natural hyper growth engine ran out, they tried a bunch of things to jump start it, none of them worked, so now they are on the slow growth path.<p>If they were not remote-only maybe they could have pulled off the CTO&#x27;s plan of hiring a bunch of traditional managers and &quot;pushing&quot; the company forward (probably enterprise sales), but they&#x27;d have restructure the bones of the company at great expense. The great expense part probably doesn&#x27;t work, because since the sizzle is off the growth, the next VC round would be tough if not impossible to do. It would be very &quot;term-y&quot; and founders are already underwater enough on investor preference.<p>They probably made the right call of not shooting for the moon, and slowing down into a remote-only company that takes its time. Skype and boxer shorts.<p>But now the COO and CTO are faced with the decision of A) sitting around and riding it out at $185,000 and $182,089 per year respectively (healthy money no doubt but not DHH buy-a-racing-team like earn outs) or B) move on to the next thing while the market for vc funding is still hot and they can still get some juice from their association with buffer.<p>Rational decisions all around.<p>Oh, and Twitter launched scheduled tweets.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Change at Buffer: The Next Phase, and Why Our Co-Founder and CTO Are Moving On</title><url>https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/</url></story> |
36,139,932 | 36,140,161 | 1 | 3 | 36,139,349 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>webnrrd2k</author><text>Re: &quot;Science does not get worse when there are more bad papers&quot;...<p>I don&#x27;t think that this is true at all. Weeding through bad papers is, at a minimum, an opportunity cost, as is a good paper built on top of a bad one.<p>Also, there is a societal cost in that bad research can get picked up and believed by people, like the anti-vax crowd. Or, bad research can be used to push an agenda, like anti-climate change.</text><parent_chain><item><author>huijzer</author><text>Instead of fighting against &quot;paper mills&quot;, let’s fight against journals. There are strong arguments against the need for peer-review for example [1]. Science does not get worse when there are more bad papers, science gets better when there are more good papers. Most papers in AI aren’t even reviewed by peers or editor and guess what: we have lots of progress happening. I’m not saying that is because the lack of review, I’m saying that reviews are not necessary for progress. Furthermore, was the iPhone good because it was reviewed by a board of &quot;independent&quot; reviewers? No it wasn’t. Let’s just ignore Nature. Good papers are good because they have good arguments and if they are not good, then time will tell. Papers are not good simply because Nature (TM) put a stamp on it.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.experimental-history.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;science-is-a-strong-link-problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.experimental-history.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;science-is-a-strong-l...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01780-w</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eldaisfish</author><text>This line of thinking is dangerous and ignores very real problems as the other comments point out.<p>Instead of targeting peer-review, i recommend approaching this problem as one of incentives. Under the current system, what is the incentive for a reviewer to read and critique a paper? None. If they were paid in cash, there is a clear incentive. The publishers do not want this overheard and the associated legal requirements so they seek out &quot;volunteers&quot; and &quot;compensate&quot; them with rubbish like book copies and &quot;reputation&quot;. The fault is with publishers, not the peer-review process.<p>At the moment, the current model allows parasites like Elsevier to derive the maximum benefit while not paying most folks involved in creating the actual value - the reviewers, editors and authors.<p>Citizen journalism tried this, failed and is now hollowing out established journalism. We need proper funding and proper incentives for journalism just as we need proper incentives for academic research.</text><parent_chain><item><author>huijzer</author><text>Instead of fighting against &quot;paper mills&quot;, let’s fight against journals. There are strong arguments against the need for peer-review for example [1]. Science does not get worse when there are more bad papers, science gets better when there are more good papers. Most papers in AI aren’t even reviewed by peers or editor and guess what: we have lots of progress happening. I’m not saying that is because the lack of review, I’m saying that reviews are not necessary for progress. Furthermore, was the iPhone good because it was reviewed by a board of &quot;independent&quot; reviewers? No it wasn’t. Let’s just ignore Nature. Good papers are good because they have good arguments and if they are not good, then time will tell. Papers are not good simply because Nature (TM) put a stamp on it.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.experimental-history.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;science-is-a-strong-link-problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.experimental-history.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;science-is-a-strong-l...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01780-w</url></story> |
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