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31,150,027 | 31,149,500 | 1 | 3 | 31,148,839 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; I found the AWS vs GPU cost comparison to be fun. 10x the cost of the hardware to run the collisions in the same time window. Crazy.<p>The real benefit of the AWS solution is that you could rent a large number of AWS nodes and run the calculations to completion right now if you wanted to. As in, literally tonight. And you wouldn’t have to source the hardware, assemble machines, install software, power it all, cool it, figure out all of the power complexities and so on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>This was fun, but my gut reaction to the title was “it doesn’t have to be easy, just possible” and that holds. Unless, I guess, you want to collide a sha1 for some reason.<p>I found the AWS vs GPU cost comparison to be fun. 10x the cost of the hardware to run the collisions in the same time window. Crazy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How easy is it in 2022 to find a SHA1 collision?</title><url>https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/99767/how-easy-is-it-in-2022-to-find-a-sha1-collision</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rco8786</author><text>Collisions are possible in any hashing algo. You’re taking infinite inputs and mapping them to finite number of outputs. There are literal infinite collisions in any hashing function.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>This was fun, but my gut reaction to the title was “it doesn’t have to be easy, just possible” and that holds. Unless, I guess, you want to collide a sha1 for some reason.<p>I found the AWS vs GPU cost comparison to be fun. 10x the cost of the hardware to run the collisions in the same time window. Crazy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How easy is it in 2022 to find a SHA1 collision?</title><url>https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/99767/how-easy-is-it-in-2022-to-find-a-sha1-collision</url></story> |
14,913,807 | 14,913,622 | 1 | 2 | 14,910,822 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>modeless</author><text>Where do you draw the line though? Anyone can invent new tokens and grant them to bitcoin holders; should Coinbase be required to support every one?<p>This is not a hypothetical question. I particpated in two airdrops this year, Stellar and Byteball. I immediately sold the airdropped tokens and increased my bitcoin holdings by 3%. But I don&#x27;t think Coinbase should be required to support Stellar or Byteball just because they did airdrops to Bitcoin holders.<p>Byteball in particular seems like just some guy&#x27;s random project and only has value because of the current investment bubble in anything that looks like a cryptocurrency. I wouldn&#x27;t trust it to be secure or work properly. What if Byteball is just a huge scam, and the creator can secretly mint tokens at will? Now Coinbase is participating in a scam!</text><parent_chain><item><author>dsacco</author><text>Regardless of the price, an exchange cannot seize customer assets by giving them 10 days notice for withdrawal. It doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s a separate currency - we have things resembling this in public markets, like stock splits. It doesn&#x27;t matter if everyone can fork the cryptocurrency, that doesn&#x27;t change the principle of a customer&#x27;s asset.<p>What Coinbase should have done is this:<p>1. Stood their ground on not supporting trading for the cryptocurrency, because they are under no obligation to develop new features.<p>2. Implemented a system to disburse the forked currency to customers if needed.<p>3. Implemented an explicit trigger price for acknowledging the new currency, which would function for potential forks of currencies already supported on the platform. If the currency does not pass a specific (very low, far lower than $700) mark, they don&#x27;t disburse it, but if it does, they immediately support disbursal to anyone who requests it.<p>The organic state of a cryptocurrency fork is that all extant holders receive <i>a new asset</i>, which may or may not be worth anything. A company cannot seize that asset without consideration. If the price of the currency subsequently crashes, then it crashes; that does not change the rights of a customer to their assets, which cannot be signed away with an email sent out 10 days before the event.</text></item><item><author>bdcravens</author><text>Big point to remember: the current high price is artificial. There are only a few exchanges selling BCH, and they aren&#x27;t accepting deposits. The only sellers are those who had BTC there prior to August 1. So it&#x27;s a sellers market. There&#x27;s a ton of demand to sell. Once those deposits are enabled, you&#x27;ll see a flood of dumping, and the price will crash.<p>So let&#x27;s say Coinbase allows BCH withdrawals. Unless they enabled trading it (which they didn&#x27;t with ETC when ETH forked), all those Coinbasers wouldn&#x27;t be able to sell anyways. They&#x27;d be waiting like everyone else, so that $700 price wouldn&#x27;t matter.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin Cash Soars to $700, Coinbase Customers Threaten to Sue</title><url>http://fortune.com/2017/08/02/bitcoin-cash-lawsuit/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Regardless of the price, an exchange cannot seize customer assets by giving them 10 days notice for withdrawal.<p>Perhaps, but the <i>legal</i> question is whether a protocol fork <i>as a matter of law</i> creates a new asset owned by the customer, creates a new asset owned by whoever controls the wallet keys, or merely creates an opportunity which someone who controls wallet keys may exploit to generate a new asset by participating in the ecosystem on the new side of the fork.<p>(Fundamentally, this also lays near the question of legal ownership of Bitcoin or similar cryptocurrency in general and what specifically is “owned” when one owns them.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>dsacco</author><text>Regardless of the price, an exchange cannot seize customer assets by giving them 10 days notice for withdrawal. It doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s a separate currency - we have things resembling this in public markets, like stock splits. It doesn&#x27;t matter if everyone can fork the cryptocurrency, that doesn&#x27;t change the principle of a customer&#x27;s asset.<p>What Coinbase should have done is this:<p>1. Stood their ground on not supporting trading for the cryptocurrency, because they are under no obligation to develop new features.<p>2. Implemented a system to disburse the forked currency to customers if needed.<p>3. Implemented an explicit trigger price for acknowledging the new currency, which would function for potential forks of currencies already supported on the platform. If the currency does not pass a specific (very low, far lower than $700) mark, they don&#x27;t disburse it, but if it does, they immediately support disbursal to anyone who requests it.<p>The organic state of a cryptocurrency fork is that all extant holders receive <i>a new asset</i>, which may or may not be worth anything. A company cannot seize that asset without consideration. If the price of the currency subsequently crashes, then it crashes; that does not change the rights of a customer to their assets, which cannot be signed away with an email sent out 10 days before the event.</text></item><item><author>bdcravens</author><text>Big point to remember: the current high price is artificial. There are only a few exchanges selling BCH, and they aren&#x27;t accepting deposits. The only sellers are those who had BTC there prior to August 1. So it&#x27;s a sellers market. There&#x27;s a ton of demand to sell. Once those deposits are enabled, you&#x27;ll see a flood of dumping, and the price will crash.<p>So let&#x27;s say Coinbase allows BCH withdrawals. Unless they enabled trading it (which they didn&#x27;t with ETC when ETH forked), all those Coinbasers wouldn&#x27;t be able to sell anyways. They&#x27;d be waiting like everyone else, so that $700 price wouldn&#x27;t matter.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin Cash Soars to $700, Coinbase Customers Threaten to Sue</title><url>http://fortune.com/2017/08/02/bitcoin-cash-lawsuit/</url></story> |
26,940,751 | 26,938,941 | 1 | 3 | 26,938,515 | train | <instructions>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>This is very interesting stuff. Look at the images labelled &quot;velocity slice at ground plane&quot; and &quot;on the top side of the floor&quot;. You can clearly see the &quot;Y250 Vortex&quot; going between the front wheels and out around the barge boards.<p>This vortex structure exists because the front wing main plane needs to be flat for +&#x2F;- 250mm at on the Y axis from the center line. In order to get the outwash to the barge boards and around the rear wheels, the front wing needs to generate a huge vortex right where the wing starts.<p>You can see the Y250 Vortex structure in this old footage from Mark Webber driving the RB9 in humid conditions where it forms a condensation trail as the air pressure drops:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZlDnd3B1rhs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZlDnd3B1rhs</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2021 Williams F1 Computational Fluid Dynamics</title><url>https://maxtayloraero.wordpress.com/2021/04/21/2021-williams-f1-cfd/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cmsparks</author><text>One note about the aero research rules in F1 which makes this post particularly interesting: there are limitations on the amount of CFD simulation time teams can use.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2021 Williams F1 Computational Fluid Dynamics</title><url>https://maxtayloraero.wordpress.com/2021/04/21/2021-williams-f1-cfd/</url></story> |
20,272,179 | 20,271,968 | 1 | 2 | 20,268,974 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>I&#x27;m also in my 50s, and have been carrying A4 hardback notebooks around since 80s or 90s, that I use similarly. I add a margin, leave 5 pages at the front for indexing, and I&#x27;ve adopted a few highlighting habits to cross reference and link for easy reference later.<p>It&#x27;s my definitive memory, and has been worth it to answer the months later questions of why we did or didn&#x27;t include some feature, or designed something as we did. It&#x27;s also where I think by pencil, so there&#x27;s lots of plans, hierarchies, thoughts too. Those rough scribbles go at the back.<p>The few times I&#x27;ve tried to improve on this either by tech or organisers like filofax etc, it&#x27;s quickly proved much worse or slower. The old Psion 5 got closest! Simply happy to stay old world now. It works, it&#x27;s quick, and never needs charging.</text><parent_chain><item><author>linker3000</author><text>I&#x27;m 53 and work in IT for a &#x27;funky&#x27; learning&#x2F;media company, ranking among the seniors in both age and position.<p>I have a customised Cornell Notes* Word doc template, and I run off batches of 5-10 sheets to take to meetings and training sessions. My colleagues typically turn up with their tablets, surfaces, laptops, phones and &#x27;multitask&#x27;, however a few have started to adopt my method - it&#x27;s been particularly useful for client meetings where I have been able to later confirm sub-points or asides mentioned by customers - sometimes months later. It&#x27;s also very easy to drill down through Quarterly reviews and link chains of historic comments &#x27;on the fly&#x27; - for example, being able to confirm that so-and-so first mentioned something about a similar technical issue on a different system 12 months ago.<p>My &#x27;Cornell&#x27; style has developed an element of mindmapping on the pages, which makes it easy to track conversations or sections of meetings that break off into side discussions&#x2F;brainstorming.<p>The biggest benefit is that the structure of all notes is consistent, so not only can I find things very quickly, but others can interpret them too - this is a particularly powerful way to allow teams to share, compare and <i>understand</i> someone else&#x27;s notes, even months after the meeting or training took place.<p>Edit: I also believe it looks very professional in customer meetings when everyone from the same business is taking notes in a similar way, using identical stationery.<p>I&#x27;ve been working this way since the mid 1990s and find it beats all forms of tech.<p><i><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cornell_Notes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cornell_Notes</a><p></i><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lsc.cornell.edu&#x2F;notes.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lsc.cornell.edu&#x2F;notes.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014)</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>2rsf</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s also very easy to drill down through Quarterly reviews and link chains of historic comments &#x27;on the fly&#x27;<p>I have never heard about Cornell Notes, it seems like the missing piece I was looking for to convince myself to move back to pen and paper since I too feel that handwriting makes you remember and understand better.<p>But there are two things I am missing over OneNote<p>- Search capabilities, how do you drill down and find the one small items you don&#x27;t exactly remember which category it belongs to ?<p>- Non language items like URLs, code snippets or command line parameters- in one note I simply copy paste them, how do you write them ?</text><parent_chain><item><author>linker3000</author><text>I&#x27;m 53 and work in IT for a &#x27;funky&#x27; learning&#x2F;media company, ranking among the seniors in both age and position.<p>I have a customised Cornell Notes* Word doc template, and I run off batches of 5-10 sheets to take to meetings and training sessions. My colleagues typically turn up with their tablets, surfaces, laptops, phones and &#x27;multitask&#x27;, however a few have started to adopt my method - it&#x27;s been particularly useful for client meetings where I have been able to later confirm sub-points or asides mentioned by customers - sometimes months later. It&#x27;s also very easy to drill down through Quarterly reviews and link chains of historic comments &#x27;on the fly&#x27; - for example, being able to confirm that so-and-so first mentioned something about a similar technical issue on a different system 12 months ago.<p>My &#x27;Cornell&#x27; style has developed an element of mindmapping on the pages, which makes it easy to track conversations or sections of meetings that break off into side discussions&#x2F;brainstorming.<p>The biggest benefit is that the structure of all notes is consistent, so not only can I find things very quickly, but others can interpret them too - this is a particularly powerful way to allow teams to share, compare and <i>understand</i> someone else&#x27;s notes, even months after the meeting or training took place.<p>Edit: I also believe it looks very professional in customer meetings when everyone from the same business is taking notes in a similar way, using identical stationery.<p>I&#x27;ve been working this way since the mid 1990s and find it beats all forms of tech.<p><i><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cornell_Notes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cornell_Notes</a><p></i><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lsc.cornell.edu&#x2F;notes.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lsc.cornell.edu&#x2F;notes.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014)</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/</url></story> |
20,826,280 | 20,826,134 | 1 | 2 | 20,825,502 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sliken</author><text>Keep in mind that helmets are designed to absorb energy. In your accident it&#x27;s clear that neither you, the bike, or your helmet had much traction. So instead of tumbling (caused by rotational acceleration) you just slide. I&#x27;d expect any good helmet to absorb that energy.<p>The unique claim WaveCell&#x2F;MIPS is making is that they can absorb the energy that&#x27;s trying to rotate your head. I&#x27;ve seen no indications that this is a problem. Tires have great traction, pretty much anything else (you, skin, bike, backpack, helmet, bike gloves, etc) have very poor traction so accidents rarely impart large rotational forces. Even if they did the WaveCell is only going to absorb a minimal amount since the helmet is strapped to your head.<p>Mips and WaveCel are claiming &quot;Rotation causes injuries&quot;, engineering a solution to it, not proving it exists, and claiming they are safer because it.<p>Neither MIPS or WaveCel are claiming they absorb normal impacts better than normal helmets. Generally both ANSI and SNELL have picked an acceleration and penetration standard that&#x27;s a compromise between rider comfort and safety. Helmets are tested against those standards.<p>MIPS and WaveCel have failed to prove any additional safety and instead of working with the safety standard folks are appealing directly to consumers to justify their 3-6 times price increase over other ANSI and SNELL approved helmets.</text><parent_chain><item><author>steelframe</author><text>I got hit by a truck earlier this year while wearing a WaveCel helmet. The outer foam cracked in two places and the cell structure on the inside collapsed in several places. The CT scan of my head came out clean and the ER physician discharged me within the hour. I think my post-incident symptoms were more indicative of shock than concussion, since I did sustain several fractures in my hand.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;LdNQSRT" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;LdNQSRT</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;JL5ORlg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;JL5ORlg</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussions than MIPS</title><url>https://pelotonmagazine.com/gear/bontragers-new-wavecel-bests-mips-at-concussion-prevention/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leetbulb</author><text>That gif made my stomach sink. I&#x27;ve taken spills like that, but not in traffic. Super glad you walked away with only some hand fractures. Be safe, friend.</text><parent_chain><item><author>steelframe</author><text>I got hit by a truck earlier this year while wearing a WaveCel helmet. The outer foam cracked in two places and the cell structure on the inside collapsed in several places. The CT scan of my head came out clean and the ER physician discharged me within the hour. I think my post-incident symptoms were more indicative of shock than concussion, since I did sustain several fractures in my hand.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;LdNQSRT" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;LdNQSRT</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;JL5ORlg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;JL5ORlg</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussions than MIPS</title><url>https://pelotonmagazine.com/gear/bontragers-new-wavecel-bests-mips-at-concussion-prevention/</url></story> |
21,330,696 | 21,330,082 | 1 | 2 | 21,327,443 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jungletime</author><text>3 years ago, I made a simple calendar app in django, and I wanted to use Elasticsearch so users can search and find an event, and to use it to populate an upcoming events list. There&#x27;s only about 10,000 events in the database.<p>I quickly realized what a pain it is to use Elasticsearch, for a simple app like mine.<p>Pain points:<p>1) You have to setup and recreate part of your database in elastic search. So you essentially end up with two databases. Which now you have to keep in sync.<p>2) I was getting unpredictable query results from Elasticsearch, which after a few days, and much head scratching turned out to be that I was running out of memory.<p>3) When a user added a new event, it was not being added to elastcsearch index automatically. I could not figure out how to do this reliably. I could make it work reliably only after a sync of the entire Elasticsearch index. But this meant that it was next to useless, to use for the Upcoming Events List.
Since I only wanted to sync the index once a day. Confusing the users, as to why their event was not showing up. And I gave up, and just ended up implementing the Upcoming Events List directly from my database in python.<p>4) Elasticsearch came without some security settings not set by default, and after a few months it was hacked.
I had to download a new version and wasted more time.<p>I still use Elasticsearch, but only for search, and not the upcoming event list. And I don&#x27;t think it was worth the complexity that it added to my project.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Storing 50M events per second in Elasticsearch</title><url>https://datadome.co/store-50-million-event-per-second-in-elasticsearch/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mistrial9</author><text>it appears in this document:<p>* DataDome is a security company, and gets web traffic in near real-time for clients; a lot of traffic in some cases with very specific numbers given, like daily peak loads.<p>* DataDome only retains records for 30 days, and the most attention is given to the most recent traffic, to detect attacks<p>* an ElasticSearch deployment records all of the traffic records downstream from Apache Flink; a new feature added to ES this year, improves the management of ES indexing, and that solved problems that DataDome was having.. things are better! write an engineering blog post !<p>* re-indexing is done nightly, and implemented in a cloud environment that can handle the (heavy) work to rebuild the indexing.<p>These numbers are impressive. Earlier criticisms of ES are being addressed, and ES is stable and a cornerstone of the architecture. A company called DataDome is providing real services in near real-time. Congratulations to the team and an interesting read.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Storing 50M events per second in Elasticsearch</title><url>https://datadome.co/store-50-million-event-per-second-in-elasticsearch/</url></story> |
22,874,768 | 22,874,580 | 1 | 2 | 22,873,578 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>caseysoftware</author><text>That&#x27;s ugly, I&#x27;m sorry.<p>It&#x27;s also why I oppose using social authentication with anything. While we have access to our [Facebook, Twitter, Github, Google, LinkedIn] account today, what happens if they shut it down? We have no clue of the real consequences <i>and</i> no appeals process. It&#x27;s the worst of both worlds.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dreyfiz</author><text>GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself.<p>All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts.<p>My relationship with GitHub significantly predated my dalliance with this one employer years ago. I trusted GitHub. My GitHub account was a formative part of my identity. I still can’t believe it and I still can’t forgive them. I lost some of my sparkle that day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company</title><url>https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/Personal-gmail-account-claimed-by-SSO-can-t-login-anymore/qaq-p/1293750</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snack_man</author><text>The specter of this sort of violation hangs over the shoulder of every internet user now - the loss of an account on a service like Facebook, GitHub, or Trello could be life-altering. Our digital selves are all at risk of becoming The Trial&#x27;s protagonist.<p>Do we have any protection besides moving to a new platform that&#x27;s not big enough to betray its users yet?</text><parent_chain><item><author>dreyfiz</author><text>GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself.<p>All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts.<p>My relationship with GitHub significantly predated my dalliance with this one employer years ago. I trusted GitHub. My GitHub account was a formative part of my identity. I still can’t believe it and I still can’t forgive them. I lost some of my sparkle that day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company</title><url>https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/Personal-gmail-account-claimed-by-SSO-can-t-login-anymore/qaq-p/1293750</url></story> |
30,319,669 | 30,319,602 | 1 | 3 | 30,318,704 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BbzzbB</author><text>E-commerce (mostly for IG) and payments (mostly for WA, somewhat for Messenger) have been parts of the Facebook bull case for a long time. Why do people think companies of &gt;70k people can&#x27;t focus on more than one product&#x2F;service? Not you in particular, just generally, I spend more time than I&#x27;d like to admit on &quot;fin-Twit&quot; and people expect FB has suddenly buried every plan aside of VR since they rebranded. I would say however the spaghetti analogy is a bit dismissive considering that, when their projects do &quot;stick to the wall&quot;, they spawn business-lines with 10 digit users.<p>Not that I have any objection to the hive mind thinking Reels and VR is the end-all be-all, I want it to think it&#x27;s a dead business.</text><parent_chain><item><author>uncomputation</author><text>I can’t think of another company I’d want less to know my transaction and purchase history than FB&#x2F;Meta. What happened to Zuckerberg’s shift to “video” or are they truly throwing anything and everything at the wall now?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Pay</title><url>https://pay.facebook.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>ma2rten</author><text>Facebook doesn&#x27;t sell your information outright, Credit Card companies do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>uncomputation</author><text>I can’t think of another company I’d want less to know my transaction and purchase history than FB&#x2F;Meta. What happened to Zuckerberg’s shift to “video” or are they truly throwing anything and everything at the wall now?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Pay</title><url>https://pay.facebook.com/</url></story> |
10,618,005 | 10,617,213 | 1 | 2 | 10,616,235 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asuffield</author><text>&gt; your credit is pulled multiple times (making it harder to get a mortgage)<p>That&#x27;s a myth. All mortgage credit queries within a 14 day window count as a single query. Lenders have <i>not</i> biased the system to penalise you for shopping for a good deal - they want to make offers to people who show good financial sense by doing that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>millstone</author><text>Surprising they&#x27;re working with Lending Tree, which is very nearly a scam site. When you sign up with LT, your information is sold immediately, your credit is pulled multiple times (making it harder to get a mortgage), and you get an endless torrent of spammy calls. See CreditKarma reviews of LT: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.creditkarma.com&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;auto-loan&#x2F;single&#x2F;id&#x2F;Lending-Tree-Auto-Loan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.creditkarma.com&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;auto-loan&#x2F;single&#x2F;id&#x2F;Lend...</a><p>Edit: A question about the mathematics of mortgage brokers. From what I&#x27;ve read, mortgage leads are sold for ~$30 and have a conversion rate of ~1-3%. This means that the purchaser of the lead has to recover ~$1500 per closed loan to pay for buying the leads. Doesn&#x27;t this mean that loans from a broker site like this will cost you a lot more than working with lenders directly? My mortgage (from a direct lender) was a much better deal than I ever found on Bankrate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Launches Mortgage Shopping Tool in California</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/23/google-launches-mortgage-shopping-tool-in-california-more-states-coming-soon/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>In theory you should get a better deal working directly with lenders.<p>In practice? For me it was the opposite. I worked with a mortgage broker (a professional, not a website) and I got a much better deal.<p>For startup folks, this is even more common. My current mortgage holder originally denied me credit completely (they were scared of someone working at a startup). My broker knew exactly how to work around this issue, asked me to sign a few forms, made a few calls, and then the same bank came back with the best offer.<p>Your best bet is to get a few quotes directly, but then to work with a mortgage broker to see if they can beat your best offer -- quite often they can.</text><parent_chain><item><author>millstone</author><text>Surprising they&#x27;re working with Lending Tree, which is very nearly a scam site. When you sign up with LT, your information is sold immediately, your credit is pulled multiple times (making it harder to get a mortgage), and you get an endless torrent of spammy calls. See CreditKarma reviews of LT: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.creditkarma.com&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;auto-loan&#x2F;single&#x2F;id&#x2F;Lending-Tree-Auto-Loan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.creditkarma.com&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;auto-loan&#x2F;single&#x2F;id&#x2F;Lend...</a><p>Edit: A question about the mathematics of mortgage brokers. From what I&#x27;ve read, mortgage leads are sold for ~$30 and have a conversion rate of ~1-3%. This means that the purchaser of the lead has to recover ~$1500 per closed loan to pay for buying the leads. Doesn&#x27;t this mean that loans from a broker site like this will cost you a lot more than working with lenders directly? My mortgage (from a direct lender) was a much better deal than I ever found on Bankrate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Launches Mortgage Shopping Tool in California</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/23/google-launches-mortgage-shopping-tool-in-california-more-states-coming-soon/</url></story> |
33,477,042 | 33,477,128 | 1 | 2 | 33,471,314 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xwolfi</author><text>It is know since companies have existed that this is indeed bad corporate governance. The CEO should be firable at the leisure of the board, and the board at the leisure of the shareholders.<p>What seems to happen often is blurried lines: the ceo founder is majority shareholder, the board is his family, friends and paid lawyers, the shareholders are asleep at the wheel as long as some profits rain in, the regulator finds no law broken.<p>Tesla is a model of bad governance, to the point the harshest sanction a regulator could levy against their chairman&#x2F;ceo for manipulating the stock price, a capital sin, is to make him only CEO, while not removing his family members from the board... a systemic european bank is the model of good governance: you can see epic ceo vs board fights, shareholder revolutions etc etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bluefirebrand</author><text>I have to wonder if it should be considered a legal conflict of interest for a CEO to sit on the board at all, forget being chairman.<p>The powerful really love rigging stuff in their favor huh</text></item><item><author>DebtDeflation</author><text>Many corporate boards have an &quot;executive chairman&quot; which means the CEO is also the Chairman of the Board. Perhaps even more importantly a substantial number of board members are executives from other companies, meaning CEOs sit on each others boards and wash each others&#x27; backs.</text></item><item><author>goopthink</author><text>The company board’s sole job is to hire and fire the CEO when appropriate: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reactionwheel.net&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;your-boards-of-directors-is-probably-going-to-fire-you.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reactionwheel.net&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;your-boards-of-directors-i...</a><p>However, having been on a team that prepares board materials and also having presented to a company board, I can tell you that the information they receive is extremely carefully managed in a way that allows responsibility to seem to flow downwards rather than upwards. What you see as an IC or as a manager or ever director is extremely different from the cause and effects a board sees in a monthly or quarterly update. Hence they often come to different conclusions than the people in the trenches would. That said, I’m sure this is true for any large organizational unit (government, military, corporations, nonprofits, etc).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Many companies aren’t prepared to replace underperforming CEOs</title><url>https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/many-companies-arent-prepared-replace-underperforming-ceos</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>osigurdson</author><text>Unfortunately, no organizational structure exists which guarantees optimal outcomes. Everything depends on the actual individuals who occupy the roles.<p>Such structures should ultimately be up to the shareholders.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bluefirebrand</author><text>I have to wonder if it should be considered a legal conflict of interest for a CEO to sit on the board at all, forget being chairman.<p>The powerful really love rigging stuff in their favor huh</text></item><item><author>DebtDeflation</author><text>Many corporate boards have an &quot;executive chairman&quot; which means the CEO is also the Chairman of the Board. Perhaps even more importantly a substantial number of board members are executives from other companies, meaning CEOs sit on each others boards and wash each others&#x27; backs.</text></item><item><author>goopthink</author><text>The company board’s sole job is to hire and fire the CEO when appropriate: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reactionwheel.net&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;your-boards-of-directors-is-probably-going-to-fire-you.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reactionwheel.net&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;your-boards-of-directors-i...</a><p>However, having been on a team that prepares board materials and also having presented to a company board, I can tell you that the information they receive is extremely carefully managed in a way that allows responsibility to seem to flow downwards rather than upwards. What you see as an IC or as a manager or ever director is extremely different from the cause and effects a board sees in a monthly or quarterly update. Hence they often come to different conclusions than the people in the trenches would. That said, I’m sure this is true for any large organizational unit (government, military, corporations, nonprofits, etc).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Many companies aren’t prepared to replace underperforming CEOs</title><url>https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/many-companies-arent-prepared-replace-underperforming-ceos</url></story> |
11,364,604 | 11,364,571 | 1 | 3 | 11,364,437 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wycx</author><text>I do not think the US is unique, indeed I would say that all modern western countries suffer the same problem.<p>The elites were closet supporters of fascism until they weren&#x27;t. Then we had this anomalous period from the end of WW2 until the early 1970s when the Keyensians were dominant and governments pursued full employment economies via fiscal policy. The elites really can&#x27;t abide sharing with labour, and capitalised on the early 1970s inflation&#x2F;oil shock to promote their essentially neo-feudalist policies in the guise of neoliberalism&#x2F;monetarism. The narrative of how all this came to pass is largely forgotten by mainstream economics, but there is an excellent series of posts, if dense at Bill Mitchell&#x27;s blog[1] that cover this, and is much better than my crude paraphrasing.<p>The logical end-point for rentiers is feudalism. Without communism as a viable alternate force, I think they are seeing how low that floor can go.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bilbo.economicoutlook.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;?p=32776" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bilbo.economicoutlook.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;?p=32776</a> Part 10, 11 and 12 are particularly relevant</text><parent_chain><item><author>themgt</author><text>This is essentially what&#x27;s known as &quot;rentier capitalism&quot;, but the Brookings paper unsurprisingly limits its scope mainly to the medical and legal fields.<p>The much deeper problem is the degree to which much of &quot;the system&quot; itself is captured by these sorts of dynamics. Look at the amount many large companies and wealthy individuals spend on political lobbying of myriad forms. We&#x27;re talking countless billions of dollars.<p>Money, power and connections are used at every level of government, from local to state to federal to subtly and not-so-subtly tilt the pinball machine in far too many and complex ways to attempt to enumerate, but anyone who has been in or near the workings of power understands intimately how this works.<p>One salient point for me is witnessing similar phenomena in other countries to a varying degree, down to e.g. official government border guards, law enforcement and civil service officials in some countries who openly shake people down for bribes to perform their normal duties, either expeditiously or at all.<p>So my takeaway is, this sort of subtle corruption is endemic and impossible to completely end in any human society, but nonetheless the <i>degree</i> and <i>character</i> of the corruption vary hugely from country to country, and the US seems relatively unique in the &quot;first world&quot; in allowing this corruption to grossly undermine basic foundations of modern western democracy to the point people are getting ready to grab the pitchforks.<p>One of the main things elites and intellectuals took away from the rise of fascism and communism in the 1930s&#x2F;cold war period was the need for democracy, no matter how corrupt and sold out, to provide some sort of floor beneath which it would not allow its citizens to fall, and some sense of forward progress and shared success, even if not equally shared ... a sense of we&#x27;re-all-in-this-togetherness. This is the principle that both political parties in the US have now effectively abandoned, rhetoric aside, and the consequences are unfolding before our eyes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to do about it</title><url>http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2016/03/25-make-elites-compete-why-one-percent-earn-so-much-rothwell</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pron</author><text>You are assuming a government is needed for the rich to get so powerful, when it is not. The rich had even greater political power under feudalism, when government was far more symbolic than real, and under weak governments (e.g. the US in the second half of the 19th century). If now significant amounts of political power are mediated through politicians who need to be persuaded, weak or nonexistent governments allow this power to be exerted directly, in pure and unmediated form.<p>If anything, democratic governments are able to curtail this power somewhat, though obviously not keep it in check entirely. I think that the US is indeed unique in the levels of power it affords the rich precisely because its central government is weaker than in other Western democracies. The freedom companies like Google have in the US is getting closer to direct, pre-government political power, as opposes to modern, mediated political power.</text><parent_chain><item><author>themgt</author><text>This is essentially what&#x27;s known as &quot;rentier capitalism&quot;, but the Brookings paper unsurprisingly limits its scope mainly to the medical and legal fields.<p>The much deeper problem is the degree to which much of &quot;the system&quot; itself is captured by these sorts of dynamics. Look at the amount many large companies and wealthy individuals spend on political lobbying of myriad forms. We&#x27;re talking countless billions of dollars.<p>Money, power and connections are used at every level of government, from local to state to federal to subtly and not-so-subtly tilt the pinball machine in far too many and complex ways to attempt to enumerate, but anyone who has been in or near the workings of power understands intimately how this works.<p>One salient point for me is witnessing similar phenomena in other countries to a varying degree, down to e.g. official government border guards, law enforcement and civil service officials in some countries who openly shake people down for bribes to perform their normal duties, either expeditiously or at all.<p>So my takeaway is, this sort of subtle corruption is endemic and impossible to completely end in any human society, but nonetheless the <i>degree</i> and <i>character</i> of the corruption vary hugely from country to country, and the US seems relatively unique in the &quot;first world&quot; in allowing this corruption to grossly undermine basic foundations of modern western democracy to the point people are getting ready to grab the pitchforks.<p>One of the main things elites and intellectuals took away from the rise of fascism and communism in the 1930s&#x2F;cold war period was the need for democracy, no matter how corrupt and sold out, to provide some sort of floor beneath which it would not allow its citizens to fall, and some sense of forward progress and shared success, even if not equally shared ... a sense of we&#x27;re-all-in-this-togetherness. This is the principle that both political parties in the US have now effectively abandoned, rhetoric aside, and the consequences are unfolding before our eyes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to do about it</title><url>http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2016/03/25-make-elites-compete-why-one-percent-earn-so-much-rothwell</url></story> |
3,722,575 | 3,722,581 | 1 | 2 | 3,721,989 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enneff</author><text>It does, but for a good reason. Its so the parser can find the line endings without needing complicated rules and look-ahead.<p>Go style is enforced mechanically with gofmt (<a href="http://weekly.golang.org/cmd/gofmt/" rel="nofollow">http://weekly.golang.org/cmd/gofmt/</a>), anyway, so one typically drops the pretension of these kinds of style quibbles. It is more important to have one consistent style than to make everyone happy. The gofmt style forced me to change several of my own habits, but it was definitely worth it for my code to look like everyone else's. I've never encountered a Go programmer who hasn't become grateful for gofmt, in the end.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FreakLegion</author><text><p><pre><code> void func()
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Does Go really enforce the latter? That would be incredibly silly.</text></item><item><author>CamperBob</author><text><i>I'm historically a braces-on-their-own-line guy, so getting used to the strict enforcement of the other style was a pain for me</i><p>Wait, what?</text></item><item><author>georgemcbay</author><text>As someone who is 38, and has programmed in everything from 6510/68k/MIPS/ARM assembler to C/C++ to ActionScript/haxe/JavaScript to D to Python, et al, I also think Go is pretty great.<p>In addition to the cool things in the language, I really love what they are doing with the build system. The Go programming I've been doing has been on Windows but targeting an ARM CPU (the PXA168 in the Chumby 8 device) and cross-compiling Go code requires simply setting a couple of environmental variables. Sooo much nicer than having to set up a full-on GNU-style cross-compiling setup and using different toolchains for all your different targets.<p>eg:<p>set GOOS=windows<p>set GOARCH=386<p>go build<p>Just built my project for Windows x86.<p>---<p>set GOOS=windows<p>set GOARCH=amd64<p>go build<p>Just built my project for Windows x64<p>---<p>set GOOS=linux<p>set GOARCH=ARM<p>set GOARM=5<p>go build<p>Just built my project for the Chumby device.<p>---<p>I highly recommend checking Go out and looking past any of the superficial allergies you have to it (I'm historically a braces-on-their-own-line guy, so getting used to the strict enforcement of the other style was a pain for me) and giving it at least a few weeks to sink in. If it still isn't your cup of tea after that, then that's fine, but it is well worth a look, IMO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go is amazing, period.</title><url>http://poincare101.blogspot.com/2012/03/experiences-in-go-ing.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>amattn</author><text>Nothing in go is silly. There are multiple reasons why it's required.<p>The answer usually given is faster compile times and the removal of semicolons from the language. I don't know the details, but someone new complains about it on the mailing list fairly frequently.<p>Also having a tool enforced brace style is just plain practical. Less silly arguments/bikeshedding.<p>I was also a brace on its own line kinda guy, but between javascript and go, I've gotten over it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FreakLegion</author><text><p><pre><code> void func()
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Does Go really enforce the latter? That would be incredibly silly.</text></item><item><author>CamperBob</author><text><i>I'm historically a braces-on-their-own-line guy, so getting used to the strict enforcement of the other style was a pain for me</i><p>Wait, what?</text></item><item><author>georgemcbay</author><text>As someone who is 38, and has programmed in everything from 6510/68k/MIPS/ARM assembler to C/C++ to ActionScript/haxe/JavaScript to D to Python, et al, I also think Go is pretty great.<p>In addition to the cool things in the language, I really love what they are doing with the build system. The Go programming I've been doing has been on Windows but targeting an ARM CPU (the PXA168 in the Chumby 8 device) and cross-compiling Go code requires simply setting a couple of environmental variables. Sooo much nicer than having to set up a full-on GNU-style cross-compiling setup and using different toolchains for all your different targets.<p>eg:<p>set GOOS=windows<p>set GOARCH=386<p>go build<p>Just built my project for Windows x86.<p>---<p>set GOOS=windows<p>set GOARCH=amd64<p>go build<p>Just built my project for Windows x64<p>---<p>set GOOS=linux<p>set GOARCH=ARM<p>set GOARM=5<p>go build<p>Just built my project for the Chumby device.<p>---<p>I highly recommend checking Go out and looking past any of the superficial allergies you have to it (I'm historically a braces-on-their-own-line guy, so getting used to the strict enforcement of the other style was a pain for me) and giving it at least a few weeks to sink in. If it still isn't your cup of tea after that, then that's fine, but it is well worth a look, IMO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go is amazing, period.</title><url>http://poincare101.blogspot.com/2012/03/experiences-in-go-ing.html</url></story> |
29,321,929 | 29,322,334 | 1 | 3 | 29,320,700 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skrebbel</author><text>12 ounces is, apparently, 0.75 pounds. It&#x27;s about 340 grams.</text><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>Likely through shrinkflation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shrinkflation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shrinkflation</a><p>Next time you’re at the supermarket check if the bacon brands you remember are still a pound. I bet many of them are now 12 ounces.</text></item><item><author>kumarsw</author><text>They have been selling for a dollar for 35 years. I&#x27;m really curious how their inventory has changed over this period. One 2020 dollar is 40 cents in 1985 dollars, but the cost of consumer goods has decreased significantly since 1985. So I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised that their package sizes have not changed much.<p>Related trivia: Between 1886-1959, the price of a bottle of Coke was a nickel [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;165143816&#x2F;why-coke-cost-a-nickel-for-70-years" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;165143816&#x2F;why-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard</title><url>https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/dollar-tree-says-1-25-price-point-to-become-new-standard-1.1686022</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>handrous</author><text>My wife&#x27;s preferred brand of pre-made iced tea recently slightly changed the packaging for their large-sized bottles. Checked, and sure enough, they dropped from 64oz to about 59oz.<p>[EDIT] Oh, and in the case of Everything&#x27;s a Dollar (used to be better than Dollar Tree, dunno if it&#x27;s still around) and similar: as someone who got a lot of toys there as a kid and has been in a handful of times in the last few years for various things, I can vouch for their toy selection being <i>much</i> better in the &#x27;90s.</text><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>Likely through shrinkflation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shrinkflation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shrinkflation</a><p>Next time you’re at the supermarket check if the bacon brands you remember are still a pound. I bet many of them are now 12 ounces.</text></item><item><author>kumarsw</author><text>They have been selling for a dollar for 35 years. I&#x27;m really curious how their inventory has changed over this period. One 2020 dollar is 40 cents in 1985 dollars, but the cost of consumer goods has decreased significantly since 1985. So I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised that their package sizes have not changed much.<p>Related trivia: Between 1886-1959, the price of a bottle of Coke was a nickel [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;165143816&#x2F;why-coke-cost-a-nickel-for-70-years" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;165143816&#x2F;why-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard</title><url>https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/dollar-tree-says-1-25-price-point-to-become-new-standard-1.1686022</url></story> |
9,773,650 | 9,772,973 | 1 | 2 | 9,771,493 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CWuestefeld</author><text>It&#x27;s not just a question of how the model extrapolates from the input data itself. The actual input data may be in question as well, because there are always judgments involved in deciding how to measure, what &quot;unreasonable&quot; datapoints will be discarded, etc.<p>Read, for example, here:<p>&quot;It is indisputable that a theory that is inconsistent with empirical data is a poor theory. No theory should be accepted merely because of the beauty of its logic or because it leads to conclusions that are ideologically welcome or politically convenient. Yet it is naive in the extreme to suppose that facts – especially the facts of the social sciences – speak for themselves. Not only is it true that sound analysis is unavoidably a judgment-laden mix of rigorous reasoning (“theory”) with careful observation of the facts; it is also true that the facts themselves are in large part the product of theorizing. ...&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cafehayek.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;theorizing-about-the-facts-theres-no-escaping-theory.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cafehayek.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;theorizing-about-the-facts-ther...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>wnewman</author><text>&quot;The real trick is to see how well your model extrapolates from the data you have out into the future.&quot;<p>That is the most common way to show the modeller is not shamelessly overfitting.:-| Another way, though, is less common but not vanishingly uncommon: the model may be so much simpler than the data it fits that overfitting is not a plausible explanation. (Roughly there are too many bits of entropy in the match to the data to have been packed into the model no matter how careless or dishonest you might have been about overfitting.) E.g., quantum mechanics is fundamentally pretty simple --- I can&#x27;t quantify it exactly, but I think 5 pages of LaTeX output, in a sort of telegraphic elevator pitch cheat sheet style, would suffice to explain it to 1903 Einstein or Planck well enough that they could quickly figure out how to do calculations. Indeed, one page might suffice. And there are only a few adjustable parameters (particle&#x2F;nucleus masses, Planck&#x27;s constant, and less than a dozen others). And it matches sizable tables of spectroscopic data to more than six significant figures. (Though admittedly I dunno whether the non-hydrogen calculations would have been practical in 1903.) For the usual information-theoretical reasons, overfitting is not a real possibility: even if you don&#x27;t check QM with spectroscopic measurements on previously unstudied substances, you can be pretty sure that QM is a good model. (Of course you still have to worry about it potentially breaking down in areas you haven&#x27;t investigated yet, but at least it impressively captures regularities in the area you have investigated.)</text></item><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>Cool visualization.<p>It&#x27;s worth keeping in mind that the modeled data lines up with reality because it&#x27;s supposed to. That&#x27;s how you calibrate your model, by making sure it fits reality.<p>The real trick is to see how well your model extrapolates from the data you have out into the future. As in, if you feed it data up to, say, 1990, will it correctly spit out 2015 temperatures that fit the reality of 2015, or will it spit out crazy 2015 predictions like the models that were built in 1990 did. And, the bigger question: How will its predictions for 2040 (given 2015 data) match up to the reality over the next 25 years.<p>We seem to be getting a lot better at the modeling side. That&#x27;s a good thing, since the first couple decades of watching people panicking and fighting each other over whatever scary results came out of the first generation climate models wasn&#x27;t any fun to watch.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What's Really Warming the World?</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>darkmighty</author><text>While the general gist of your argument is right, I think there are some non-trivial ways to overfit. There are some 25 constants in the standard model apparently that describe the world around us to enormous precision. This is so little information that of course the trivial &#x27;overfitting by encoding observations directly&#x27; will fail, but we could still be overfitting by having an excess number of variables: perhaps there&#x27;s really some mechanism in neutrino physics that explains neutrino oscillation without needing some constants to describe how it really happens. This might in turn boost tremendously our predictive precision for neutrino oscillation to match the precision of the other more fundamental variables in the model, for example. But I think you&#x27;re right that it&#x27;s so little data that we have some strong information theoretic guarantees that at least the model will have predictive power matching the precision of previous measurements.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wnewman</author><text>&quot;The real trick is to see how well your model extrapolates from the data you have out into the future.&quot;<p>That is the most common way to show the modeller is not shamelessly overfitting.:-| Another way, though, is less common but not vanishingly uncommon: the model may be so much simpler than the data it fits that overfitting is not a plausible explanation. (Roughly there are too many bits of entropy in the match to the data to have been packed into the model no matter how careless or dishonest you might have been about overfitting.) E.g., quantum mechanics is fundamentally pretty simple --- I can&#x27;t quantify it exactly, but I think 5 pages of LaTeX output, in a sort of telegraphic elevator pitch cheat sheet style, would suffice to explain it to 1903 Einstein or Planck well enough that they could quickly figure out how to do calculations. Indeed, one page might suffice. And there are only a few adjustable parameters (particle&#x2F;nucleus masses, Planck&#x27;s constant, and less than a dozen others). And it matches sizable tables of spectroscopic data to more than six significant figures. (Though admittedly I dunno whether the non-hydrogen calculations would have been practical in 1903.) For the usual information-theoretical reasons, overfitting is not a real possibility: even if you don&#x27;t check QM with spectroscopic measurements on previously unstudied substances, you can be pretty sure that QM is a good model. (Of course you still have to worry about it potentially breaking down in areas you haven&#x27;t investigated yet, but at least it impressively captures regularities in the area you have investigated.)</text></item><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>Cool visualization.<p>It&#x27;s worth keeping in mind that the modeled data lines up with reality because it&#x27;s supposed to. That&#x27;s how you calibrate your model, by making sure it fits reality.<p>The real trick is to see how well your model extrapolates from the data you have out into the future. As in, if you feed it data up to, say, 1990, will it correctly spit out 2015 temperatures that fit the reality of 2015, or will it spit out crazy 2015 predictions like the models that were built in 1990 did. And, the bigger question: How will its predictions for 2040 (given 2015 data) match up to the reality over the next 25 years.<p>We seem to be getting a lot better at the modeling side. That&#x27;s a good thing, since the first couple decades of watching people panicking and fighting each other over whatever scary results came out of the first generation climate models wasn&#x27;t any fun to watch.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What's Really Warming the World?</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/</url></story> |
3,982,838 | 3,982,205 | 1 | 3 | 3,982,041 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>clarky07</author><text>Since so many asked for it I decided to knock it out. Here's my story - <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3982830" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3982830</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>clarky07</author><text>I did this about a year ago. It took me about 2 months to get self sustaining and 6 months to reach my previous salary. Been thinking about writing it up, maybe I should go ahead and do it.<p>Good luck, living off income from things you make is a great thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The 10k Bootstrap Challenge</title><url>http://bootstrapchallenge.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>masanqi</author><text>Please do. Sounds like it could be very helpful.</text><parent_chain><item><author>clarky07</author><text>I did this about a year ago. It took me about 2 months to get self sustaining and 6 months to reach my previous salary. Been thinking about writing it up, maybe I should go ahead and do it.<p>Good luck, living off income from things you make is a great thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The 10k Bootstrap Challenge</title><url>http://bootstrapchallenge.com/</url></story> |
20,276,873 | 20,274,551 | 1 | 2 | 20,273,125 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dalore</author><text>Kidzania in the UK has a donated giant plane for kids to pretend to be pilots and stewards. The parents sit inside as passengers and get served plastic food. It&#x27;s so cute.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnrlst</author><text>Story time: as a kid I would use FS to do intercontinental flights with my cousin. My (small) room would be divided in two: passenger seating, and cockpit.<p>We would sit down at my computer and take turns flying. I would convince my little sisters to sit down in the passenger area which were two chairs behind a curtain (they for some reason found it less entertaining than we did and often decided to leave early in the flight...).<p>We even had a little toy kitchen (borrowed from said sisters) to serve cheerios as inflight meals.<p>Fun times.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Flight Simulator</title><url>https://fsi.microsoftstudios.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>atonse</author><text>My brother did a real-time flight around the world (with something like 5-8 hops). Every time he&#x27;d reach a waypoint and get his next bearings, he&#x27;d set autopilot and watch another show on TV, because it was boring to just stare at the blue ocean. :)<p>Plus, he&#x27;d cheat by slewing if he messed up a landing (instead of just turning around). I gave him a lot of grief for that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnrlst</author><text>Story time: as a kid I would use FS to do intercontinental flights with my cousin. My (small) room would be divided in two: passenger seating, and cockpit.<p>We would sit down at my computer and take turns flying. I would convince my little sisters to sit down in the passenger area which were two chairs behind a curtain (they for some reason found it less entertaining than we did and often decided to leave early in the flight...).<p>We even had a little toy kitchen (borrowed from said sisters) to serve cheerios as inflight meals.<p>Fun times.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Flight Simulator</title><url>https://fsi.microsoftstudios.com/</url></story> |
15,210,764 | 15,210,808 | 1 | 2 | 15,210,418 | train | <instructions>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_evacuator</author><text>Article doesn&#x27;t really highlight the environmental hooliganism practiced by these guys. They rip up a meadow in a national forest, or on BLM land, and they irrigate like crazy people, eroding everything rapidly, and they drive up and down the mountainside in their giant pickups. When they are done they leave everything including their trash and their toilets. When ordinary people go motorcycling in these public lands the growers chase them, shoot at them, and set booby traps. The whole thing is a public menace.<p>I think with legalization should come some kind of harsh regime for these pirates. Ruining public lands should be a serious felony.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/09/us/california-marijuana-growers.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>gozur88</author><text>Legal weed is not &quot;almost here&quot;. It&#x27;s still a schedule 1 controlled substance at the federal level, and in theory you can spend a year in a federal penitentiary for possession of any amount.<p>That&#x27;s what I&#x27;d like to see changed. This legal twilight zone isn&#x27;t good for anybody.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/09/us/california-marijuana-growers.html</url></story> |
19,688,466 | 19,686,870 | 1 | 2 | 19,686,578 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scop</author><text>I am an adult living with a primary immune deficiency and this is quite surreal. Dr. Jennifer Puck, on the left in the photo, is my doctor at UCSF. Let me just say that she is an incredible doctor.<p>I’ve had a vague hope in gene therapy for many years, but have never really believed I would live to see it come to market as a real treatment.<p>I’ve told my family many times that “maybe gene therapy will be the fix”. Today is the first day I’ve actually believed those words.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Bubble Boys’ Cured in Medical Breakthrough Using Gene Therapy</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-17/-bubble-boys-cured-in-medical-breakthrough-using-gene-therapy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rgejman</author><text>The actual study is here. It&#x27;s a remarkable achievement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nejm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1056&#x2F;NEJMoa1815408" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nejm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1056&#x2F;NEJMoa1815408</a><p>No CRISPR&#x2F;Cas9 was used in this study.<p>We&#x27;ll have to wait and see if any of the patients develop hematologic malignancies (blood cancers).<p>I predict we&#x27;ll see dozens of papers like this in the next few years. Sickle cell and thalessemias are low hanging fruit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Bubble Boys’ Cured in Medical Breakthrough Using Gene Therapy</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-17/-bubble-boys-cured-in-medical-breakthrough-using-gene-therapy</url></story> |
19,495,554 | 19,495,428 | 1 | 2 | 19,494,684 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gvb</author><text>&quot;Qualcomm’s business model, which is either ingenious or diabolical depending on whom you talk to, is to allow any <i>chip company</i> to use its technology <i>royalty-free.</i> Phone manufacturers can choose to buy chips from Qualcomm or one of the other five companies that make modems using Qualcomm’s technology. Either way, they <i>(the phone manufacturers)</i> still have to pay Qualcomm its 5 percent.&quot;<p>Ref: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;features&#x2F;2017-10-04&#x2F;apple-and-qualcomm-s-billion-dollar-war-over-an-18-part" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;features&#x2F;2017-10-04&#x2F;apple-and...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rudedogg</author><text>Why is Qualcomm suing Apple instead of Intel? The article makes it sound like Apple switched to using Intel chips due to the license fees. If Intel is infringing, wouldn&#x27;t they be responsible? Or does the law allow you to go after &quot;customers&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Violated Qualcomm Patent, U.S. Trade Judge Rules</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-26/apple-infringes-qualcomm-patent-judge-recommends-iphone-ban</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>From a cursory reading, Apple was found guilty based on their importation of infringing devices, under section 337 of the Tariff Act.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rudedogg</author><text>Why is Qualcomm suing Apple instead of Intel? The article makes it sound like Apple switched to using Intel chips due to the license fees. If Intel is infringing, wouldn&#x27;t they be responsible? Or does the law allow you to go after &quot;customers&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Violated Qualcomm Patent, U.S. Trade Judge Rules</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-26/apple-infringes-qualcomm-patent-judge-recommends-iphone-ban</url></story> |
13,901,190 | 13,901,277 | 1 | 2 | 13,900,161 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>There aren&#x27;t many positive toplevel comments, and I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a reasonable situation for such a fine piece of writing. So:<p>Your story is wonderfully illustrative, in-depth, and inspirational. Thank you for taking the time to share it.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, I really like your writing style. I hope to see much more of it!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Y Combinator Made All the Difference</title><url>https://bold.co/public/why-y-combinator-made-all-the-zvgxjl?t=tihkgug</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>good_vibes</author><text>This is a life-changing read for me. I was debating if I should move to Seattle or Bay area to pursue my &#x27;science project&#x27; or not. My current job is going to give me 7 weeks of severance starting in late April and I think it will be enough to at least make the leap and cross my fingers. What I am working on will change the course of history if I even get close to succeeding.<p>I was wondering if YC or TechStars would be more ideal for me to start, I do not want to go to a major investment firm that will see $$$ instead of the value my invention has for science and human progress. I know it is possible to build a company and advance science but I have to be VERY careful about who is involved at the early stages. I think the only place for something as &#x27;crazy&#x27; as my project and as &#x27;crazy&#x27; as myself to be taken seriously is SF.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Y Combinator Made All the Difference</title><url>https://bold.co/public/why-y-combinator-made-all-the-zvgxjl?t=tihkgug</url></story> |
14,578,011 | 14,578,099 | 1 | 3 | 14,577,873 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>djrogers</author><text>All you have to do is ignore all current safety and road-worthiness regulations, eliminate even the most basic of comforts like A&#x2F;C and heat, and fill the vehicle with batteries of questionable safety and quality. When you’re finished you have a 2 seater with a longer range than a 5&#x2F;7 seater that didn’t skimp on anything.<p>Honestly, this is no different than the guys that stuff V8s into Miatas on the cheap and get performance rivaling 100k sports card. We’ve been doing this with cars for a century now, why would anyone expect electrics to be different?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Low-cost DIY electric car made from recycled parts</title><url>http://www.designboom.com/technology/low-cost-diy-electric-car-made-from-recycled-parts-380-mile-range-06-17-2017/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giardini</author><text>I still hope for a new version of the Baker Electric:<p>Jay Leno on electric cars:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CRwEXaHTwsY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CRwEXaHTwsY</a><p>Except for the &quot;steering wheel&quot;, the Baker seems the perfect suburban car for Texas cities, where you never know which streets will be flooded or when you&#x27;ll run into a pothole.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Low-cost DIY electric car made from recycled parts</title><url>http://www.designboom.com/technology/low-cost-diy-electric-car-made-from-recycled-parts-380-mile-range-06-17-2017/</url></story> |
11,834,002 | 11,834,084 | 1 | 2 | 11,832,266 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jean_claude</author><text>What&#x27;s your source on the claim that bicycling is 7x more dangerous than driving a car?<p>Most sources put it around 2.5x more dangerous than driving, and I&#x27;d wager most of those deaths come from inexperienced riders who don&#x27;t know the traffic laws as applied to bicyclists.<p>Fatalities Per Mile<p>Motor Vehicle Travel.................... Bicycle Travel<p>42,000 killed........................... 813 killed<p>2.56 trillion miles..................... 21 billion miles<p>0.016 fatalities per million miles...... 0.039 fatalities per million miles<p>Data from Traffic Safety Facts 1997
and The Environmental Benefits of Cycling and Walking<p>Pulled from <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bellboycott.com&#x2F;cached&#x2F;www.kenkifer.com&#x2F;bikepages&#x2F;health&#x2F;risks.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bellboycott.com&#x2F;cached&#x2F;www.kenkifer.com&#x2F;bikepages...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>doctorpangloss</author><text>eBikes are sincerely a great alternative to cars for me. I&#x27;ve been using an electric bike (Stromer ST1) for about 3 years now in LA and Boston. It makes perfect sense for these cities.<p>The total cost of ownership is way below a car, due to the low cost of Uber, other people with cars, insurance and gas. In high traffic and hard parking cities like LA and Boston, I get to my destination faster. And though a bicycle is almost 7x as dangerous per mile ridden, I travel much less—maybe 1,000 miles a year instead of the 15,000 I did by car. While the weather is a problem in Boston sometimes, some gloves and a warm coat tide it over well. Besides, who wants to drive in a snowstorm? Overall, the experience holds up to close scrutiny.<p>Conversely, I am pretty much subsidized by other people&#x27;s vehicles. And in LA, I nonetheless still owned a $1,000 Toyota with a $50&#x2F;mo insurance and low hundreds in parking tickets to keep it outside. While that ownership was only a small part of time, it was necessary.<p>eBikes I think can really effectively complement ride sharing and car sharing. It will save everyone money. And as more people adopt them, the danger of biking will decline through changes in infrastructure like bike lanes and lower speed limits.<p>Ironically, probably the least persuasive thing is pointing out how the Chinese adopt eBikes. Americans don&#x27;t want to emulate Chinese anything. It needs to seem cool, organic, high class. Besides, a $3,500 eBike won&#x27;t break when you come to a fast stop the way a $500 eBike conversion will. Better to keep it safe and expensive than mass manufactured and dangerous.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electric Bikes Won Over China. Is the U.S. Next?</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-02/electric-bike-makers-woo-americans</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kgermino</author><text><i>Conversely, I am pretty much subsidized by other people&#x27;s vehicles.</i><p>Where are you getting that from? Car specific taxes generally don&#x27;t even come close to paying for roads, especially the roads bicycles are likely to be using. In the US its actually far more likely that you&#x27;re subsidizing them than the other way around.</text><parent_chain><item><author>doctorpangloss</author><text>eBikes are sincerely a great alternative to cars for me. I&#x27;ve been using an electric bike (Stromer ST1) for about 3 years now in LA and Boston. It makes perfect sense for these cities.<p>The total cost of ownership is way below a car, due to the low cost of Uber, other people with cars, insurance and gas. In high traffic and hard parking cities like LA and Boston, I get to my destination faster. And though a bicycle is almost 7x as dangerous per mile ridden, I travel much less—maybe 1,000 miles a year instead of the 15,000 I did by car. While the weather is a problem in Boston sometimes, some gloves and a warm coat tide it over well. Besides, who wants to drive in a snowstorm? Overall, the experience holds up to close scrutiny.<p>Conversely, I am pretty much subsidized by other people&#x27;s vehicles. And in LA, I nonetheless still owned a $1,000 Toyota with a $50&#x2F;mo insurance and low hundreds in parking tickets to keep it outside. While that ownership was only a small part of time, it was necessary.<p>eBikes I think can really effectively complement ride sharing and car sharing. It will save everyone money. And as more people adopt them, the danger of biking will decline through changes in infrastructure like bike lanes and lower speed limits.<p>Ironically, probably the least persuasive thing is pointing out how the Chinese adopt eBikes. Americans don&#x27;t want to emulate Chinese anything. It needs to seem cool, organic, high class. Besides, a $3,500 eBike won&#x27;t break when you come to a fast stop the way a $500 eBike conversion will. Better to keep it safe and expensive than mass manufactured and dangerous.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electric Bikes Won Over China. Is the U.S. Next?</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-02/electric-bike-makers-woo-americans</url></story> |
21,348,700 | 21,348,564 | 1 | 2 | 21,346,307 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pacala</author><text>Do you have data? This is an interesting case-study where political expediency may brush over confounding variables:<p>* Own a gun and kill oneself with it. The primary risk factor being depression, not the gun.<p>* Own a gun and be part of a criminal organization. The primary risk factor being rival criminal organizations, not the gun.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lilyball</author><text>The best way to increase your odds of getting shot is to own a gun. Owning guns is dangerous. Occasionally for some people it will turn out to be a positive, but in general, owning a gun is a negative.</text></item><item><author>jboggan</author><text>A firearm, like a fire extinguisher, is one of those items which is completely pointless to have until it&#x27;s the only thing in the world that matters.<p>In my experience it wasn&#x27;t a horde - just one man - but I needed it all the same.</text></item><item><author>scarface74</author><text>Isn’t that the same scare tactics that gun manufacturers use? They act as if anyone is dumb if they don’t carry around an automatic weapon to protect themselves against the lawless hordes roaming the streets of suburban America.</text></item><item><author>maximente</author><text>of course they did! Ring&#x27;s PR strategy heavily involves law enforcement: they feed LE juicy surveillance in order to get softball quotes that play on people&#x27;s insecurity about how infrequent crime actually is, thus increasing their incentive to buy Ring stuff, increasing Ring&#x27;s market share, surveillance collection potential, and making law enforcement more and more supportive.<p>getting a permanently funded government agency as an advocate for your thing is a great startup play: you&#x27;ll easily crush competitors and roll your way into an enshrined monopoly because &quot;we cannot possibly lose this valuable tool against criminals everywhere&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/ring-gave-police-stats-about-users-who-said-no-to-law-e-1837713840</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vturner</author><text>Replace &quot;gun&quot; in your sentence with say &quot;power tool.&quot; Any powerful piece of technology in careless hands is dangerous. Goodness, even computers are dangerous in the hands of narcissistic hackers! That doesn&#x27;t mean they are not perfectly safe useful tools in the responsible hands.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lilyball</author><text>The best way to increase your odds of getting shot is to own a gun. Owning guns is dangerous. Occasionally for some people it will turn out to be a positive, but in general, owning a gun is a negative.</text></item><item><author>jboggan</author><text>A firearm, like a fire extinguisher, is one of those items which is completely pointless to have until it&#x27;s the only thing in the world that matters.<p>In my experience it wasn&#x27;t a horde - just one man - but I needed it all the same.</text></item><item><author>scarface74</author><text>Isn’t that the same scare tactics that gun manufacturers use? They act as if anyone is dumb if they don’t carry around an automatic weapon to protect themselves against the lawless hordes roaming the streets of suburban America.</text></item><item><author>maximente</author><text>of course they did! Ring&#x27;s PR strategy heavily involves law enforcement: they feed LE juicy surveillance in order to get softball quotes that play on people&#x27;s insecurity about how infrequent crime actually is, thus increasing their incentive to buy Ring stuff, increasing Ring&#x27;s market share, surveillance collection potential, and making law enforcement more and more supportive.<p>getting a permanently funded government agency as an advocate for your thing is a great startup play: you&#x27;ll easily crush competitors and roll your way into an enshrined monopoly because &quot;we cannot possibly lose this valuable tool against criminals everywhere&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/ring-gave-police-stats-about-users-who-said-no-to-law-e-1837713840</url></story> |
33,882,808 | 33,882,811 | 1 | 2 | 33,878,688 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text>A lot of people to resist to the <i>Universal</i> part is because of some moral judgement about a person &quot;deserving&quot; it or not.<p>&gt; No more fraud<p>Some people will find a way to take it away from someone else, or to appear to the government as multiple people.<p>&gt; what if you overspend you UBI and have nothing left to eat?<p>The same if you overspend your salary - you get another job. UBI does not prevent people from working or finding jobs - it just gives workers more flexibility and freedom to pursue better options. Let&#x27;s say you want to move to the middle of the country. You need to consider a lot of things, including leaving your current job and how long it&#x27;d take to find a new one at the destination.<p>With UBI the risk decreases and people will make such moves.<p>What UBI makes it harder is underemployment and labor exploitation - people won&#x27;t work in terrible jobs unless they need to and UBI removes that need.</text><parent_chain><item><author>GuB-42</author><text>Is it just me or no one seems to get the point of a <i>Universal</i> Basic Income.<p>Universal, everyone has it, same amount, no condition. Be a genius or an idiot, active or retired, poor or billionaire, hero or criminal, no exception, except maybe for minors.<p>Making it universal has the added bonus of simplifying welfare programs. Subsidized housing and transport, food stamps, unemployment benefits, etc... no need, it is all UBI now. No more fraud because there is no need to: you always qualify, and as a result, no need to fight it. No more rewarding optimization since there is nothing to optimize.<p>In my view, UBI is not generous, there will be losers, and a lot of jobs related to welfare will be made pointless. It may be a problem for those who have trouble managing a budget too: what if you overspend you UBI and have nothing left to eat? I think it won&#x27;t work not because people will stop working, but because it is too big a change and some people will find themselves literally starving, at least during the transition. It is like many solutions to complex problems: clear, simple and wrong.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Want Your Country to Thrive? Give Geniuses a Universal Basic Income</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-06/your-country-s-geniuses-deserve-a-universal-basic-income</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>&gt;&quot;Making it universal has the added bonus of simplifying welfare programs. Subsidized housing and transport, food stamps, unemployment benefits, etc... no need, it is all UBI now. No more fraud because there is no need to: you always qualify, and as a result, no need to fight it. No more rewarding optimization since there is nothing to optimize.&quot;<p>In theory, yes. But I do not believe specialized welfare will ever go away. There are people on Social Security &#x2F; Disability that absolutely require more than the most basic amount of money a typical non-handicapped citizen needs. I do not believe UBI supporters, and even society at large, would be so heartless as to tell a paraplegic to make-do because the UBI is <i>all</i> they are going to get. So, accommodating them would require some additional administration on top of the UBI to make sure the people with special needs get enough additional money and access to medical care. At which point we would still need to evaluate eligibility, make adjustments, and have a bureaucracy to administer it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>GuB-42</author><text>Is it just me or no one seems to get the point of a <i>Universal</i> Basic Income.<p>Universal, everyone has it, same amount, no condition. Be a genius or an idiot, active or retired, poor or billionaire, hero or criminal, no exception, except maybe for minors.<p>Making it universal has the added bonus of simplifying welfare programs. Subsidized housing and transport, food stamps, unemployment benefits, etc... no need, it is all UBI now. No more fraud because there is no need to: you always qualify, and as a result, no need to fight it. No more rewarding optimization since there is nothing to optimize.<p>In my view, UBI is not generous, there will be losers, and a lot of jobs related to welfare will be made pointless. It may be a problem for those who have trouble managing a budget too: what if you overspend you UBI and have nothing left to eat? I think it won&#x27;t work not because people will stop working, but because it is too big a change and some people will find themselves literally starving, at least during the transition. It is like many solutions to complex problems: clear, simple and wrong.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Want Your Country to Thrive? Give Geniuses a Universal Basic Income</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-06/your-country-s-geniuses-deserve-a-universal-basic-income</url></story> |
26,793,911 | 26,792,073 | 1 | 2 | 26,790,862 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jpm_sd</author><text>I2C is not a wired network standard! It&#x27;s designed to be used between chips on the same PCB, typically with the same power supply rail (although level shifters are available) and the same ground reference plane. Yes, ground planes matter for best performance.<p>Breakout boards are meant for a quick test. Then you&#x27;re supposed to design a PCB with the devices you need all in one place. SparkFun spaghetti will only end in tears.<p>The other thing that sucks about I2C is that you never know what hard-coded addresses you will be limited to, until you&#x27;ve selected all your parts, dug into the datasheets and then discovered the inevitable collisions.<p>In 20 years of PCB design I think the largest number of I2C devices I&#x27;ve had on one bus is maybe 30? And that was pushing it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How many Devices can you Connect to the I2C Bus?</title><url>https://www.bluedot.space/tutorials/how-many-devices-can-you-connect-on-i2c-bus/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeff_ciesielski</author><text>This is a nice breakdown, however it is leaving out one interesting piece: Active slew rate controllers.<p>In some cases where you need to exceed the typically allowed bus capacitance either due to a high number of attached devices, or over a long cable run (it happens...it sucks, but it happens), you can use a part like the LTC4311 which, rather than using resistors to passively pull the bus lines to a resting high state, detects the direction changes and actively assists in pulling the lines to their intended states.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.analog.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;en&#x2F;technical-documentation&#x2F;data-sheets&#x2F;4311fa.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.analog.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;en&#x2F;technical-documentation&#x2F;data...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How many Devices can you Connect to the I2C Bus?</title><url>https://www.bluedot.space/tutorials/how-many-devices-can-you-connect-on-i2c-bus/</url></story> |
34,694,180 | 34,694,144 | 1 | 2 | 34,693,175 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PascLeRasc</author><text>Twitter&#x27;s web app was at that conference doing a workshop on ways to disable right-click Open in new tab.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pancrufty</author><text>That’s laughable. Twitter is one of the best web apps I use both on desktop and in iOS while Reddit is pathetic. They’re not in the same galaxy.</text></item><item><author>CyberDildonics</author><text>Maybe there is a conference somewhere that includes instacart, the reddit redesigners, twitter, facebook messenger and instagram and they all share their tips for making their interfaces as slow as molasses.</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>Oh my God, <i>how</i> did they do this? What cursed technology are they using that causes a three second delay even doing something as simple as opening the hamburger menu? It&#x27;s infuriating.</text></item><item><author>bcardarella</author><text>It would be nice if DoorDash cared as much about their web app performance as they do their native app performance. Their web app perf is <i>abysmal</i>. Pathetically slow. Clicking takes <i>seconds</i> to see a response in the UI.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We reduced our iOS app launch time by 60%</title><url>https://doordash.engineering/2023/01/31/how-we-reduced-our-ios-app-launch-time-by-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>BillinghamJ</author><text>Twitter&#x27;s web version is actually using React Native for web - one of the types of technology people often expect will perform poorly</text><parent_chain><item><author>pancrufty</author><text>That’s laughable. Twitter is one of the best web apps I use both on desktop and in iOS while Reddit is pathetic. They’re not in the same galaxy.</text></item><item><author>CyberDildonics</author><text>Maybe there is a conference somewhere that includes instacart, the reddit redesigners, twitter, facebook messenger and instagram and they all share their tips for making their interfaces as slow as molasses.</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>Oh my God, <i>how</i> did they do this? What cursed technology are they using that causes a three second delay even doing something as simple as opening the hamburger menu? It&#x27;s infuriating.</text></item><item><author>bcardarella</author><text>It would be nice if DoorDash cared as much about their web app performance as they do their native app performance. Their web app perf is <i>abysmal</i>. Pathetically slow. Clicking takes <i>seconds</i> to see a response in the UI.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We reduced our iOS app launch time by 60%</title><url>https://doordash.engineering/2023/01/31/how-we-reduced-our-ios-app-launch-time-by-60/</url></story> |
18,419,535 | 18,415,732 | 1 | 2 | 18,405,014 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gjm11</author><text>There&#x27;s a bit of subtext in the title that may be worth drawing attention to. (I dunno, maybe it&#x27;s all obvious to everyone interested enough in this stuff to be reading the dissertation. But perhaps not, so here goes.)<p>In the 1970s, after their paper introducing Scheme, Sussman and Steele published a series of papers showing how to implement a bunch of things &quot;on top of&quot; a functional-programming substrate, many of them having titles or subtitles of the form &quot;Lambda: the ultimate X&quot;. (The first one was &quot;Lambda: the ultimate imperative&quot;, the second &quot;Lambda: the ultimate declarative&quot;, others &quot;Lambda: the ultimate GOTO&quot; and &quot;Lambda: the ultimate opcode&quot;.)<p>The idea of these papers wasn&#x27;t merely &quot;look, you can implement X in Lisp&quot;, but something more like &quot;You might be inclined to think of X as simple and primitive and cheap, and Lisp as sophisticated and complicated and expensive -- but that&#x27;s mostly prejudice, an accident of the particular hardware we happen to have built first, and using something like Lisp as your lower level and implementing these things on top is <i>better</i> than doing it the other way around&quot;.<p>So writing something -- especially something about a Lisp implementation -- with a subtitle of the form &quot;X: the ultimate Y&quot; where X is <i>not</i> lambda -- is pointedly one-upping that.<p>Especially as the thing that $vau is allegedly providing the new best way to do is ... function abstraction, which is exactly what lambda is for.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>$vau: the ultimate abstraction (2010) [pdf]</title><url>https://web.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-090110-124904/unrestricted/jshutt.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jhallenworld</author><text>I&#x27;ve implemented something like this in a non-LISP syntax language. See:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jhallen&#x2F;joes-sandbox&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;lang&#x2F;ivy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jhallen&#x2F;joes-sandbox&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;lang&#x2F;ivy</a><p>The idea is that in a function call, the arguments are normally evaluated before the call as usual. But if a formal argument in the function&#x27;s declaration is prefixed with ampersand then during a function call, that argument is not evaluated, but is instead packaged up as a zero-argument lambda function. The argument can be called later using the normal function call syntax, but also there is semantic sugar: the * operator calls a zero-argument function.<p>Further, when a variable is evaluated, you get both its value and a reference to it. This allows variables to be evaluated before being assigned to in assignments. This sounds weird, but it works with the above. You can make a &quot;set&quot; function which does the same thing as assignment:<p><pre><code> # Define set function
fn set(&amp;left, right) {
*left = right
}
# Set x to 10
set x 10
</code></pre>
Here is how you could define switch using primitives (if the last argument is prefixed with ampersand, then any extra arguments are treated the same, but can only be accessed via argv):<p><pre><code> fn switch(&amp;val) {
var rtn, x, v = *val
x = 1
while x &lt; len(argv) - 1 {
if *argv(x) == v {
return *argv(x + 1)
}
x += 2
}
if x &lt; len(argv) {
return *argv(x)
}
return void
}
</code></pre>
Example use (8 arguments passed to switch- each set of braces is an argument):<p><pre><code> switch 2 1 {
print &quot;one&quot;
} 2 {
print &quot;two&quot;
} 3 {
print &quot;three&quot;
} {
print &quot;default&quot;
}
</code></pre>
&quot;two&quot; is printed in this case.<p>Right now the delayed arguments are evaluated in the closure of the function call (so they are lexically scoped). The wrap&#x2F;unwrap concept from this paper gives me ideas on how to make this more versatile...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>$vau: the ultimate abstraction (2010) [pdf]</title><url>https://web.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-090110-124904/unrestricted/jshutt.pdf</url></story> |
29,180,929 | 29,181,166 | 1 | 2 | 29,179,320 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danans</author><text>&gt; EVs are a different beast than traditional ICE vehicles, so margins will initially be better on EVs for all EV manufacturers.<p>Please explain. This runs counter to the common understanding that unless a manufacturer scales up their battery production significantly, their profit margins on EVs are lower due to the high cost of the batteries. The California compliance EVs were sold at a per-unit loss. Tesla shook this up by targeting and marketing to the luxury market, where they could charge a premium.<p>Many smaller scale non-luxury manufacturers have pretty lackluster EV offerings (looking at you, Subaru).</text><parent_chain><item><author>runako</author><text>&gt; Tesla&#x27;s revenue growth is not much bigger than Alphabet&#x27;s or Apple&#x27;s - and these are companies with orders of magnitude more revenue and profit.<p>I&#x27;m not that big of a Tesla bull, but you have to remember that stocks trade on forward expectations. The trillion $+ market cap companies basically have saturated their primary markets. Microsoft is not likely to find another billion desktop PCs onto which to sell a US-priced Windows&#x2F;Office suite anytime soon. By contrast, if you buy the Tesla story, they are really just getting started.<p>&gt; Auto manufacturing is not suddenly going to become the most profitable business in the world.<p>I tend to agree with this. However, it&#x27;s worth noting that Tesla&#x27;s margin profile is significantly different than all legacy automakers. Their gross margin is ~30%, which is within striking distance of AMD&#x27;s. And Tesla is still sub-scale for the auto industry. EVs are a different beast than traditional ICE vehicles, so margins will initially be better on EVs for all EV manufacturers.</text></item><item><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>Since Tesla is now the elephant in the room - it&#x27;s possible Tesla is distorting the entire auto industry.<p>Tesla was one of the 5 largest companies in the world - something an auto manufacturer hasn&#x27;t been in almost 50 years.<p>Tesla had BY FAR the highest P&#x2F;E ratio for any company of that market cap (as a percentage of global wealth) in history.<p>Tesla&#x27;s revenue growth is not much bigger than Alphabet&#x27;s or Apple&#x27;s - and these are companies with orders of magnitude more revenue and profit.<p>For the last 50-ish years - outside of a few small companies (Ferrari, etc) - auto manufacturing has been a pretty terrible business.<p>Tesla people keep trying to say that Tesla is really an infrastructure play or an Internet company or a services companies or even a space company - but... currently it&#x27;s not. And even if it became any of those things - even at it&#x27;s current growth rate - its P&#x2F;E to growth rate is still unbelievably high.<p>I don&#x27;t really care if GM and Ford and Rivian are now overvalued - and compared to them Tesla is undervalued. Auto manufacturing is not suddenly going to become the most profitable business in the world. People aren&#x27;t going to suddenly start paying more for cars than housing. People aren&#x27;t going to suddenly own 30 cars a piece. Tesla is never going to grow enough to be worth it&#x27;s current market cap. But the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent - and I wouldn&#x27;t take a bet that Tesla crashes if my life depended on it.</text></item><item><author>qqtt</author><text>Lots of talk about balking at this valuation, and that is probably a reasonable reaction, but as others have said, I want to point out that companies are valued based on their future and projected growth, not how much they are worth today.<p>Much has been made about Tesla being worth more than all other automakers combined, but let&#x27;s look at the growth.<p>Tesla Q3 Revenue: 13.76B, Year over year growth: 56%<p>Tesla Q3 Net Income: 1.6B, Year over year growth: 388%<p>GM Q3 Revenue: 26.78B, Year over year growth: -24%<p>GM Q3 Net Income: 2.42B, Year over year growth: -40%<p>Tesla is growing like bonkers, wildly more profitable, and has a much brighter future than GM given these trajectories. It&#x27;s almost like either GM is severely overvalued at 90B market cap or Tesla is undervalued at 1T.<p>Tesla has also proven that traditional automakers really struggle to keep up with the electric car race - from software to supply chain. Rivian, like Tesla, is built top to bottom to play in this market, with the added backing of Amazon and products tailor made for enterprise scale needs that companies like Amazon need.<p>Of course Rivian is a risky investment today - their stock is priced for perfection. We saw what happened last quarter when stocks priced for perfection fall short (take a look at Snapchat). But plenty of these arguments &quot;Rivian is only selling 1000 cars!&quot; also applied to Tesla about 10 years ago.<p>A business is valued based on its future prospects. Growth companies are risky.<p>Edit to add Ford numbers:<p>Ford Q3 Revenue: 35.68B , Year over year growth: -4%<p>Ford Q3 Net income: 1.8B, Year over year growth: -23%<p>Also want to point out - all automakers are operating in the same pandemic - Ford, GM, and Tesla are all dealing with supply chain issues and chip shortages.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rivian valued at over $100B after biggest IPO of 2021</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ev-maker-rivian-set-high-profile-market-debut-after-mammoth-ipo-2021-11-10/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>long_time_gone</author><text>&gt; Microsoft is not likely to find another billion desktop PCs onto which to sell a US-priced Windows&#x2F;Office suite anytime soon.<p>Which is why Microsoft pivoted to additional revenue streams years ago. XBox, Azure, GitHub, SQL Server, LinkedIn, the Surface line, and more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>runako</author><text>&gt; Tesla&#x27;s revenue growth is not much bigger than Alphabet&#x27;s or Apple&#x27;s - and these are companies with orders of magnitude more revenue and profit.<p>I&#x27;m not that big of a Tesla bull, but you have to remember that stocks trade on forward expectations. The trillion $+ market cap companies basically have saturated their primary markets. Microsoft is not likely to find another billion desktop PCs onto which to sell a US-priced Windows&#x2F;Office suite anytime soon. By contrast, if you buy the Tesla story, they are really just getting started.<p>&gt; Auto manufacturing is not suddenly going to become the most profitable business in the world.<p>I tend to agree with this. However, it&#x27;s worth noting that Tesla&#x27;s margin profile is significantly different than all legacy automakers. Their gross margin is ~30%, which is within striking distance of AMD&#x27;s. And Tesla is still sub-scale for the auto industry. EVs are a different beast than traditional ICE vehicles, so margins will initially be better on EVs for all EV manufacturers.</text></item><item><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>Since Tesla is now the elephant in the room - it&#x27;s possible Tesla is distorting the entire auto industry.<p>Tesla was one of the 5 largest companies in the world - something an auto manufacturer hasn&#x27;t been in almost 50 years.<p>Tesla had BY FAR the highest P&#x2F;E ratio for any company of that market cap (as a percentage of global wealth) in history.<p>Tesla&#x27;s revenue growth is not much bigger than Alphabet&#x27;s or Apple&#x27;s - and these are companies with orders of magnitude more revenue and profit.<p>For the last 50-ish years - outside of a few small companies (Ferrari, etc) - auto manufacturing has been a pretty terrible business.<p>Tesla people keep trying to say that Tesla is really an infrastructure play or an Internet company or a services companies or even a space company - but... currently it&#x27;s not. And even if it became any of those things - even at it&#x27;s current growth rate - its P&#x2F;E to growth rate is still unbelievably high.<p>I don&#x27;t really care if GM and Ford and Rivian are now overvalued - and compared to them Tesla is undervalued. Auto manufacturing is not suddenly going to become the most profitable business in the world. People aren&#x27;t going to suddenly start paying more for cars than housing. People aren&#x27;t going to suddenly own 30 cars a piece. Tesla is never going to grow enough to be worth it&#x27;s current market cap. But the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent - and I wouldn&#x27;t take a bet that Tesla crashes if my life depended on it.</text></item><item><author>qqtt</author><text>Lots of talk about balking at this valuation, and that is probably a reasonable reaction, but as others have said, I want to point out that companies are valued based on their future and projected growth, not how much they are worth today.<p>Much has been made about Tesla being worth more than all other automakers combined, but let&#x27;s look at the growth.<p>Tesla Q3 Revenue: 13.76B, Year over year growth: 56%<p>Tesla Q3 Net Income: 1.6B, Year over year growth: 388%<p>GM Q3 Revenue: 26.78B, Year over year growth: -24%<p>GM Q3 Net Income: 2.42B, Year over year growth: -40%<p>Tesla is growing like bonkers, wildly more profitable, and has a much brighter future than GM given these trajectories. It&#x27;s almost like either GM is severely overvalued at 90B market cap or Tesla is undervalued at 1T.<p>Tesla has also proven that traditional automakers really struggle to keep up with the electric car race - from software to supply chain. Rivian, like Tesla, is built top to bottom to play in this market, with the added backing of Amazon and products tailor made for enterprise scale needs that companies like Amazon need.<p>Of course Rivian is a risky investment today - their stock is priced for perfection. We saw what happened last quarter when stocks priced for perfection fall short (take a look at Snapchat). But plenty of these arguments &quot;Rivian is only selling 1000 cars!&quot; also applied to Tesla about 10 years ago.<p>A business is valued based on its future prospects. Growth companies are risky.<p>Edit to add Ford numbers:<p>Ford Q3 Revenue: 35.68B , Year over year growth: -4%<p>Ford Q3 Net income: 1.8B, Year over year growth: -23%<p>Also want to point out - all automakers are operating in the same pandemic - Ford, GM, and Tesla are all dealing with supply chain issues and chip shortages.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rivian valued at over $100B after biggest IPO of 2021</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ev-maker-rivian-set-high-profile-market-debut-after-mammoth-ipo-2021-11-10/</url></story> |
35,391,238 | 35,390,984 | 1 | 3 | 35,389,797 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>Well they turned down a $6B offer and then went public with a $13B valuation. If those with a lot of stock were cashing it out during the high period, they still got life changing money.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ipnon</author><text>What’s the game theory of rejecting life-changing, never-work-again money?</text></item><item><author>MikeDelta</author><text>The market cap dropped from $17.8 billion to $104 million. They also rejected a $6 billion offer from Google (at one moment).<p>Probably a lot of regret among those who did not cash&#x2F;sell out, but that is hindsight.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Groupon, which has lost 99.4% of its value since its IPO, names a new CEO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/31/groupon-which-has-lost-99-4-of-its-value-since-its-ipo-names-a-new-ceo-based-in-czech-republic/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lisper</author><text>At least two possibilities:<p>1. You could be beholden to investors who bought in at a higher valuation than the offer.<p>2. Never-having-to-work-again can only be measured relative to a sustainable lifestyle, so this turns on what kind of lifestyle you want. If you are content to live in a one-bedroom apartment in Topeka you need a lot less money to never-have-to-work-again than if you want a ten acre horse property in the Hamptons and a private jet. To sustain that kind of lifestyle without working takes a hell of a lot of money.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ipnon</author><text>What’s the game theory of rejecting life-changing, never-work-again money?</text></item><item><author>MikeDelta</author><text>The market cap dropped from $17.8 billion to $104 million. They also rejected a $6 billion offer from Google (at one moment).<p>Probably a lot of regret among those who did not cash&#x2F;sell out, but that is hindsight.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Groupon, which has lost 99.4% of its value since its IPO, names a new CEO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/31/groupon-which-has-lost-99-4-of-its-value-since-its-ipo-names-a-new-ceo-based-in-czech-republic/</url></story> |
26,142,997 | 26,139,742 | 1 | 3 | 26,138,931 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heresie-dabord</author><text>The attacker in this case new the exact moves to insert a backdoor into .NET software. It wasn&#x27;t hard to do, requiring no science.<p>But Microsoft&#x27;s &quot;system of trust&quot; was undermined. The attacker was even inside Microsoft and Azure. No anti-virus, no &quot;defender&quot;, no amount of basic or advanced telemetry caught this.<p>FireEye alone caught it... By accident.<p>The real &quot;elephant in the room&quot; is that software security continues to be marketing theatre. Closed-source software should not be trusted and consumers should not believe that any due diligence has been done to protect them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>Absolutely agree. Solarwinds focuses a disproportionate amount of effort in ensuring it shows up favorably in Gartner magazine reviews and trade publications. As a monitoring platform its a monolithic, expensive, slow and rather dated monitoring solution. Agile does not come to mind, and you certainly wouldnt use it for anything approaching &quot;observability.&quot;<p>But the concerted marketing effort pays dividends. Solarwinds is almost the only choice for government. For potential attackers its a big red arrow. Exploit a rent-seeking company that writes mediocre software and exists mostly to cash in on &quot;best practice&quot; lock-in with government contracts.<p>as far as i know nobodys really addressed the elephant in the room. Solarwinds is <i>still</i> a preferred government purchase for monitoring. every company that was affected by it still uses it (or at least hasnt publically refuted it) and no government official has come forward to admit they will discontinue it. Solarwinds hasnt offered any remediation or major changes in their development, leadership or code. just patch, rinse, and repeat and try not to pay too much attention to the issue.</text></item><item><author>jjcm</author><text>Largest impact, sure. But architecturally it was a relatively simple formula - compromise a widely used package and sleep on it until it was pervasive enough to be a valuable hack. I disagree with this being the most sophisticated though. Unless I&#x27;m missing something about this hack, the Stuxnet[1] architecture, complexity, and long term planning feel far more sophisticated than the SolarWinds hack.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stuxnet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stuxnet</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-solarwinds-microsoft-idUSKBN2AF03R</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unixhero</author><text>Anectodally; I have been a one man army CTO for a period. I could not have managed my Windows servers without Solarwinds. It was an excellent product which did everything I could ever want.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>Absolutely agree. Solarwinds focuses a disproportionate amount of effort in ensuring it shows up favorably in Gartner magazine reviews and trade publications. As a monitoring platform its a monolithic, expensive, slow and rather dated monitoring solution. Agile does not come to mind, and you certainly wouldnt use it for anything approaching &quot;observability.&quot;<p>But the concerted marketing effort pays dividends. Solarwinds is almost the only choice for government. For potential attackers its a big red arrow. Exploit a rent-seeking company that writes mediocre software and exists mostly to cash in on &quot;best practice&quot; lock-in with government contracts.<p>as far as i know nobodys really addressed the elephant in the room. Solarwinds is <i>still</i> a preferred government purchase for monitoring. every company that was affected by it still uses it (or at least hasnt publically refuted it) and no government official has come forward to admit they will discontinue it. Solarwinds hasnt offered any remediation or major changes in their development, leadership or code. just patch, rinse, and repeat and try not to pay too much attention to the issue.</text></item><item><author>jjcm</author><text>Largest impact, sure. But architecturally it was a relatively simple formula - compromise a widely used package and sleep on it until it was pervasive enough to be a valuable hack. I disagree with this being the most sophisticated though. Unless I&#x27;m missing something about this hack, the Stuxnet[1] architecture, complexity, and long term planning feel far more sophisticated than the SolarWinds hack.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stuxnet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stuxnet</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-solarwinds-microsoft-idUSKBN2AF03R</url></story> |
17,799,084 | 17,798,177 | 1 | 2 | 17,797,374 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fiblye</author><text>When I was a kid, 10% was fairly normal.<p>Last time I went to a restaurant in the US, I got scolded because I refused to tip when the waitress brought my food out cold and never once gave me a refill. I&#x27;m apparently &quot;supposed&quot; to tip 25% these days.<p>When people do their job, I&#x27;m okay with tipping. But I&#x27;m not OK with tipping based on the price of the meal. A person who works at a $70&#x2F;plate restaurant and keeps filling my glass of water up with ice before I can finish it, making it unbearably cold, really isn&#x27;t doing anything better than an overworked waiter in a $7&#x2F;plate dirty hole in the wall shack. The skills don&#x27;t differ (and I&#x27;m honestly often impressed with how skill-less waiters are at high-end American restaurants--they&#x27;re worse than typical servers in any other country) and they&#x27;re not the ones making the meals.<p>Just bring me a drink that&#x27;s at least 90% drink and not 90% ice, bring my food out before it&#x27;s cold, and get me a refill within a few minutes of running out and I have no trouble dropping $10 or $20--the price of the meal doesn&#x27;t factor into that. Fail to do that, and you&#x27;re getting nothing--I don&#x27;t care how expensive the meal is that the chef prepared, but you had zero involvement so you&#x27;re not entitled to that cash.<p>But I&#x27;m glad I&#x27;m not living in a place with a toxic restaurant culture, so it&#x27;s not my problem anymore. :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>I am frustrated with articles like this that keep pushing a higher and higher &quot;acceptable&quot; tip percentage.<p>20% is not normal. 20% is very high for very good service.<p>15 years ago, 15% was normal. Now the minimum on these pos pos&#x27;s is 18.<p>I tip 15% and no more unless service was well above normal.<p>And I have no qualms about hitting 0 for anything that isn&#x27;t sit down service, including Uber and Lyft.<p>We have to fight this tip creep or we will live in a world where every service employee is paid with 100% tips by those that feel guilty enough to pay it while all the cheapskates freeload.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Coerced into tipping'? How apps are changing the culture of tipping in SF</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Coerced-into-tipping-How-apps-are-changing-the-13164536.php</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RickS</author><text>&quot;tip creep&quot; is a really great term for what&#x27;s going on.<p>Services that don&#x27;t have tips encoded in wage law (like restaurants [mostly]) are either passing along large scale pricing errors, or begging for arbitrary, subjective price increases beyond what&#x27;s needed to run the business. Neither of those should be met with a smile.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>I am frustrated with articles like this that keep pushing a higher and higher &quot;acceptable&quot; tip percentage.<p>20% is not normal. 20% is very high for very good service.<p>15 years ago, 15% was normal. Now the minimum on these pos pos&#x27;s is 18.<p>I tip 15% and no more unless service was well above normal.<p>And I have no qualms about hitting 0 for anything that isn&#x27;t sit down service, including Uber and Lyft.<p>We have to fight this tip creep or we will live in a world where every service employee is paid with 100% tips by those that feel guilty enough to pay it while all the cheapskates freeload.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Coerced into tipping'? How apps are changing the culture of tipping in SF</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Coerced-into-tipping-How-apps-are-changing-the-13164536.php</url></story> |
37,000,141 | 36,999,218 | 1 | 2 | 36,998,337 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adolph</author><text>They should probably just rebuild it in cor-ten and be done with it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Weathering_steel" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Weathering_steel</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tmountain</author><text>A painting campaign lasts between 18 months and 3 years, and the tower is repainted every 7 years. So, basically it’s being painted upwards of 35% of the time for longer campaigns. That’s a lot of maintenance!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Painting the Eiffel Tower</title><url>https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument/painting-eiffel-tower</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>p-e-w</author><text>A paint job takes up to 3 years today, yet the <i>entire tower</i> (including painting) was built in 2 years, 140 years ago?!?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tmountain</author><text>A painting campaign lasts between 18 months and 3 years, and the tower is repainted every 7 years. So, basically it’s being painted upwards of 35% of the time for longer campaigns. That’s a lot of maintenance!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Painting the Eiffel Tower</title><url>https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument/painting-eiffel-tower</url></story> |
22,258,501 | 22,258,084 | 1 | 2 | 22,257,337 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zaat</author><text>I have no idea why phoronix isn&#x27;t highlighting the reason for Clear Linux superior performance, it isn&#x27;t magic:<p>Clear Linux OS sets the CPU governor to performance which calls for the CPU to operate at maximum clock frequency. In other words, P-state P0. While this may sound wasteful at first, it is important to remember that power utilization does not increase significantly simply because of a locked clock frequency without a workload.<p>from:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.01.org&#x2F;clearlinux&#x2F;latest&#x2F;guides&#x2F;maintenance&#x2F;cpu-performance.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.01.org&#x2F;clearlinux&#x2F;latest&#x2F;guides&#x2F;maintenance&#x2F;cpu...</a><p>The only reference in the article for this is in the compiler details box, where you can see that all the distributions run the ondemand governor, and Clear runs with performance.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Even with a $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior Performance</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clear-199-laptop</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drewg123</author><text>This is their second recent article about linux laptops, and I have seen no mention of battery life. While its nice to have a 15% faster OS, I would also like to know how the battery life differs between various distros (and Windows).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Even with a $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior Performance</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clear-199-laptop</url></story> |
21,763,485 | 21,763,682 | 1 | 2 | 21,762,582 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrep</author><text>How are they not paying taxes? The people selling their stock to the company in the buyback have to pay taxes on any gains and the people holding onto the stock long term will eventually have to pay taxes on any gains when they finally do sell (they&#x27;re not going to hold onto a stock until the heat death of the universe so they are going to realize their gains and pay taxes on them at some point).</text><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>The point is both the companies in question and the ultra-wealthy that are the beneficiaries of the vast majority of these buybacks AREN&#x27;T paying taxes, so it&#x27;s another way for the government to at least attempt to capture the $$ that should already be going into the treasury instead of offshore accounts&#x2F;subsidiaries&#x2F;whatever double dutch triple lux tax evasion scheme of the month they&#x27;re using.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>That doesn&#x27;t make any sense. The market is the most efficient capital allocator because <i>shareholders</i> are the market, not companies.<p>Companies are giving their cash back to shareholders because <i>each individual company</i> thinks their shareholders can <i>better</i> allocate the cash, rather than the companies themselves. This is equally true for both buybacks and dividends.<p>This is because most companies have no wish to operate like broad VC firms or investment firms. While plenty of shareholders do.<p>The government has all the infinite &quot;dibs&quot; it wants, they&#x27;re called taxes. If the government wants to tax buybacks further it doesn&#x27;t need any particular logic of &quot;dibs&quot; to do so. And right now buybacks <i>are</i> taxed in exactly the same way as capital gains, which is the same way qualified dividends are taxed too. And corporate profits are already taxed too.</text></item><item><author>try-perforate</author><text>Read an idea in American Affairs in support of taxing buybacks. The logic goes that if all companies have a fiduciary duty to shareholders because the market is the most efficient capital allocator, AND all companies are giving their cash back to shareholders, THEN it must be true that the market can not figure out how to efficiently allocate this $1T of capital. Thus, the government should have “next dibs” for items on the agenda that it knows need capital, namely infrastructure and healthcare.<p>Thought that was an interesting take.<p>Edit: here is the link but it may be behind a paywall. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanaffairsjournal.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;share-buybacks-and-the-contradictions-of-shareholder-capitalism&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanaffairsjournal.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;share-buybacks-an...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US</title><url>https://thesoundingline.com/sp-500-buybacks-now-outpace-all-rd-spending-in-the-us/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Corporations are paying taxes. US corporate tax receipts as a percentage of GDP are a tick higher than the OECD average. Also, it’s not the “ultra wealthy” primarily benefitting from these buybacks. Most corporate equity is owned by the bottom 99% and pension funds.[1] (Someone with a $5 million retirement account may be very comfortable, but they’re not hiding their money in offshore accounts.)<p>[1] Most corporate equities are held by retirement plans or foreigners. Just 25% are held in taxable account. Of those, the bulk is owned by people outside the top 0.1%.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>The point is both the companies in question and the ultra-wealthy that are the beneficiaries of the vast majority of these buybacks AREN&#x27;T paying taxes, so it&#x27;s another way for the government to at least attempt to capture the $$ that should already be going into the treasury instead of offshore accounts&#x2F;subsidiaries&#x2F;whatever double dutch triple lux tax evasion scheme of the month they&#x27;re using.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>That doesn&#x27;t make any sense. The market is the most efficient capital allocator because <i>shareholders</i> are the market, not companies.<p>Companies are giving their cash back to shareholders because <i>each individual company</i> thinks their shareholders can <i>better</i> allocate the cash, rather than the companies themselves. This is equally true for both buybacks and dividends.<p>This is because most companies have no wish to operate like broad VC firms or investment firms. While plenty of shareholders do.<p>The government has all the infinite &quot;dibs&quot; it wants, they&#x27;re called taxes. If the government wants to tax buybacks further it doesn&#x27;t need any particular logic of &quot;dibs&quot; to do so. And right now buybacks <i>are</i> taxed in exactly the same way as capital gains, which is the same way qualified dividends are taxed too. And corporate profits are already taxed too.</text></item><item><author>try-perforate</author><text>Read an idea in American Affairs in support of taxing buybacks. The logic goes that if all companies have a fiduciary duty to shareholders because the market is the most efficient capital allocator, AND all companies are giving their cash back to shareholders, THEN it must be true that the market can not figure out how to efficiently allocate this $1T of capital. Thus, the government should have “next dibs” for items on the agenda that it knows need capital, namely infrastructure and healthcare.<p>Thought that was an interesting take.<p>Edit: here is the link but it may be behind a paywall. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanaffairsjournal.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;share-buybacks-and-the-contradictions-of-shareholder-capitalism&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanaffairsjournal.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;share-buybacks-an...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US</title><url>https://thesoundingline.com/sp-500-buybacks-now-outpace-all-rd-spending-in-the-us/</url></story> |
40,004,013 | 40,002,579 | 1 | 3 | 40,001,971 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throw_a_grenade</author><text>This is honeypot. The author, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;John_R._Levine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;John_R._Levine</a>, keeps it just to notice any new (significant) scraping operation launched that will invariably hit his little farm and let be seen in the logs. He&#x27;s well known anti-spam operative with his various efforts now dating back multiple decades.<p>Notice how he casually drops a link to the landing page in the NANOG message. That&#x27;s how the bots will get a bait.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Octokiddie</author><text>I&#x27;m more interested in what that content farm is for. It looks pointless, but I suspect there&#x27;s a bizarre economic incentive. There are affiliate links, but how much could that possibly bring in?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem</title><url>https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-April/225407.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>gtirloni</author><text>It&#x27;d say it&#x27;s more like a honeypot for bots. So pretty similar objectives.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Octokiddie</author><text>I&#x27;m more interested in what that content farm is for. It looks pointless, but I suspect there&#x27;s a bizarre economic incentive. There are affiliate links, but how much could that possibly bring in?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem</title><url>https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-April/225407.html</url></story> |
16,407,664 | 16,406,065 | 1 | 2 | 16,391,730 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Animats</author><text><i>Sure the West and China are both turning into biometric dystopias buuuuuuuut ours delivers fried chicken to your train seat.</i> - Naomi Wu, Shenzhen.<p>For some railroad lines in China, you can order food while on a train and have it delivered to you at a station. That requires finding the passenger quickly, so some combination of cell phone tracking and face recognition is used.[1] KFC is using this system.<p>China&#x27;s approach to Big Brother is more like a service function. The Government knows who you are and what you&#x27;re doing, but China has been like that for centuries. There&#x27;s no tradition of anonymity. The older paper-based systems worked when people didn&#x27;t move much. The newer technology is being used to provide routine services, such as convenience store checkout and finding purse snatchers.<p>London has a lot of cameras, but many of them are old, so they have poor resolution. Newer 4K surveillance cameras [2] finally have enough resolution to be useful for recognizing faces at 40 feet or so.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chinadaily.com.cn&#x2F;china&#x2F;2017-07&#x2F;13&#x2F;content_30092586.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chinadaily.com.cn&#x2F;china&#x2F;2017-07&#x2F;13&#x2F;content_300925...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lorextechnology.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;What-is-4k-Video&#x2F;R-sc16000060" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lorextechnology.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;What-is-4k-Video&#x2F;R-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/article/linkuk-bt-google-free-wifi-and-calls-london</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HenryBemis</author><text>Briton are 95% comfortable with massive surveillance. The &quot;average Joe&quot; has the &quot;I got nothing to hide&quot; and that &quot;go get them paedophiles&quot;, which are very true statements.<p>We are talking about a nation that has 4,200,000 [1] cameras surveilling them and nobody bats an eye about this. For some reason, Britons have decided (or was forced to them and they didn&#x27;t push back) that privacy is not necessary, so, let them have it.<p>What harm can 3 more cameras can do? :) (per kiosk, per street)<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_Kingdom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/article/linkuk-bt-google-free-wifi-and-calls-london</url></story> |
34,536,625 | 34,533,753 | 1 | 2 | 34,533,752 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PossiblyKyle</author><text>This gets brought up every time the topic shows up but <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nand2tetris.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nand2tetris.org</a> is a course that abstracts how a computer works, and is worth checking out</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How a CPU works: Bare metal C on my RISC-V toy CPU</title><url>https://florian.noeding.com/posts/risc-v-toy-cpu/cpu-from-scratch/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codepoet</author><text>I always wanted to understand how a CPU works, how it transitions from one instruction to the next and makes a computer work. So I thought: let&#x27;s implement one and run a C program on it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How a CPU works: Bare metal C on my RISC-V toy CPU</title><url>https://florian.noeding.com/posts/risc-v-toy-cpu/cpu-from-scratch/</url></story> |
23,637,419 | 23,637,499 | 1 | 2 | 23,624,551 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>virgilp</author><text>I think mine is still Black Cat, White Cat (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&#x2F;comedy&#x2F;black-cat-white-cat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&#x2F;comedy&#x2F;black-cat-white-cat</a>).<p>From the Romanian movies present there, I liked Aferim - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&#x2F;comedy&#x2F;aferim" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&#x2F;comedy&#x2F;aferim</a> - but only because it&#x27;s a sobering look at our history; for non-romanians, it might not be so good. Filantropica (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0314067&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0314067&#x2F;</a>) is also a great movie that illustrates well the post-revolution atmosphere in the country (and it&#x27;s more likely to be universally-enjoyed than Aferim), but they don&#x27;t have it on this site.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jagrsw</author><text>My favorite is &#x27;The Saragossa Manuscript&#x27; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&#x2F;comedy&#x2F;the-saragossa-manuscript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&#x2F;comedy&#x2F;the-saragossa-manus...</a> - a word of warning: it&#x27;s ~3h long (but well worth it) - a masterpiece of scenography and camera handling.<p>The second would be probably The Pharaoh - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&#x2F;drama&#x2F;pharaoh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&#x2F;drama&#x2F;pharaoh</a> - for its scenography + for the script which focuses on a quite interesting problem (politics + well.. astronomy;)<p>The vast majority of those movies will most likely seem quite atypical for a person who is mostly familiar with modern Hollywood&#x2F;world cinema, as they&#x27;re in most cases slow-paced, melancholic, and in many cases focusing on intellectually-interesting problems (e.g. The Pharaoh&#x27;s &#x27;dilemma&#x27;)<p>I can maybe compare them to video games from 80&#x27;s and 90&#x27;s. Today&#x27;s games are visually beautiful and movie-like, but it&#x27;s those games from 80&#x27;s&#x2F;90&#x27;s which have &#x27;soul&#x27; and ability to captivate players through well thought-out stories and hand-drawn art.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eastern European Movies</title><url>https://easterneuropeanmovies.com/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jhbadger</author><text>&quot;The Pharaoh&quot; is interesting in that it is based on the Polish novel by Prus which besides being (I&#x27;m sure) important to Polish literature, is also important to Esperanto culture, as Kabe&#x27;s 1907&#x27;s translation of it (&quot;La Faraono&quot;) is still considered a model of clean, non-idiomatic prose in Esperanto.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jagrsw</author><text>My favorite is &#x27;The Saragossa Manuscript&#x27; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&#x2F;comedy&#x2F;the-saragossa-manuscript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&#x2F;comedy&#x2F;the-saragossa-manus...</a> - a word of warning: it&#x27;s ~3h long (but well worth it) - a masterpiece of scenography and camera handling.<p>The second would be probably The Pharaoh - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&#x2F;drama&#x2F;pharaoh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&#x2F;drama&#x2F;pharaoh</a> - for its scenography + for the script which focuses on a quite interesting problem (politics + well.. astronomy;)<p>The vast majority of those movies will most likely seem quite atypical for a person who is mostly familiar with modern Hollywood&#x2F;world cinema, as they&#x27;re in most cases slow-paced, melancholic, and in many cases focusing on intellectually-interesting problems (e.g. The Pharaoh&#x27;s &#x27;dilemma&#x27;)<p>I can maybe compare them to video games from 80&#x27;s and 90&#x27;s. Today&#x27;s games are visually beautiful and movie-like, but it&#x27;s those games from 80&#x27;s&#x2F;90&#x27;s which have &#x27;soul&#x27; and ability to captivate players through well thought-out stories and hand-drawn art.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eastern European Movies</title><url>https://easterneuropeanmovies.com/</url></story> |
11,278,428 | 11,278,465 | 1 | 2 | 11,277,968 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brynet</author><text>Reyk Floeter&#x27;s paper explains more about the implementation of the userland side, vmd(8), including its privsep design and the use of pledge(2):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bhyvecon.org&#x2F;bhyvecon2016-Reyk.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bhyvecon.org&#x2F;bhyvecon2016-Reyk.pdf</a><p>OpenBSD&#x27;s vmm(4) isn&#x27;t related to FreeBSD bhyve, but Mike and Reyk were invited to talk about it in Tokyo. :-)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenBSD vmm/vmd Update [pdf]</title><url>http://bhyvecon.org/bhyvecon2016-Mike.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>medecau</author><text>vmctl(8) docs don&#x27;t mention send&#x2F;receive commands.<p>Curious what exactly those do.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;man.cgi&#x2F;OpenBSD-current&#x2F;man8&#x2F;vmctl.8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;man.cgi&#x2F;OpenBSD-current&#x2F;man8&#x2F;...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenBSD vmm/vmd Update [pdf]</title><url>http://bhyvecon.org/bhyvecon2016-Mike.pdf</url></story> |
6,563,688 | 6,563,233 | 1 | 3 | 6,562,160 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ianb</author><text>Speaking as the principal developer for TogetherJS:<p>In the past we have opted not to work on IE support because we had limited resources, and because we wanted to focus on what we thought were the hard problems: how should the tool act, how do we communicate changes between browsers, how do we integrate with apps, etc. Supporting Internet Explorer was always something we knew we <i>could</i> do, it wasn&#x27;t a hard problem, but it still required some effort. As such it didn&#x27;t feel like it was advancing the project. It was never meant as any slight towards IE, just an expedient way to save some time.<p>Also, while we do browser sniffing, we only use that to put up a warning for IE users to alert them that it&#x27;s not going to work well. This was pointed out on Twitter as though we were actively blocking browsers, in part I think a knee-jerk reaction to browser sniffing, but what we&#x27;ve done still seems to me like a reasonable and responsible thing to do – better to admit you don&#x27;t support a browser than just expose people to a crappy experience.<p>Of course times change, and as TogetherJS has become a more mature tool it&#x27;s probably time to revisit our Internet Explorer support. But on the other hand this isn&#x27;t a commercial tool, so I&#x27;m not entirely sure what resources we as a team will be able to invest in Internet Explorer support. But it&#x27;s also open source, and we would welcome contributions to fix this. We&#x27;ll be working on a slightly more structured plan soon. It might not even be much work, I really don&#x27;t know.<p>Here&#x27;s the bug to watch: <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/togetherjs/issues/867" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;togetherjs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;867</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mikegioia</author><text>This looks great but it seems they have no plans to support Internet Explorer (<a href="https://togetherjs.com/docs/#browser-support" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;togetherjs.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;#browser-support</a>). That&#x27;s a shame because most of our users who need this level of support all use IE :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing TogetherJS</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/introducing-togetherjs</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phowat</author><text>Mozilla has a considerable stake on WebRTC&#x27;s success, and a good way for them to push it&#x27;s adoption is to help make useful web apps which rely on it. It would be counter productive, and a huge amount of wasted work, for them to support non-webrtc enabled browsers. As someone who is also actively working with the technology and betting on it&#x27;s success, I&#x27;m actually happy they don&#x27;t support IE&#x2F;Safari.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikegioia</author><text>This looks great but it seems they have no plans to support Internet Explorer (<a href="https://togetherjs.com/docs/#browser-support" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;togetherjs.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;#browser-support</a>). That&#x27;s a shame because most of our users who need this level of support all use IE :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing TogetherJS</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/introducing-togetherjs</url></story> |
27,423,196 | 27,422,986 | 1 | 3 | 27,422,449 | 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>hellbannedguy</author><text>I worked as a state security guard while I was going to school.<p>It was a good gig because I could get all my homework done while working, and state law said my pay needed to be equal to full time employees.<p>My boss took his job very serious. He got the state to send us to security seminars.<p>This was the late 80&#x27;s and what suprised me the most is whom steals, or commits financial fraud.<p>At least back then most loss in retail was committed by management. The higher up the tree, the more they stole be it cash, or merchandise. The employees, and customers stole, but the big thefts were usually committed by long term trusted management types.<p>The instructor said, employees&#x2F;owners usually don&#x27;t question management, and they have more opportunities alone, with no one watching. He also said owners were notorious for stealing their stuff, and writing it off, or claiming it as a loss through their insurance company.<p>He said, this is a dirty secret, that most organizations don&#x27;t want leaked. It&#x27;s much easier to blame the homeless, or gangs on theft.<p>I imagine that has changed with the proliferation of cameras everywhere, but when I gear about large scale theft in a corporation, I automatically look at those in command of the employeees.<p>My local Goodwill had gone through three store managers in a row for embezzlement. This was years ago though. Goodwill never prosecutes employees because they don&#x27;t want to tarnish their image.</text><parent_chain><item><author>boleary-gl</author><text>I wonder how many times this has happened and they didn&#x27;t find out about it. Posting it to her own Facebook made it pretty obvious.<p>My father was an accountant for many years and he always said if you found evidence of fraud you shouldn&#x27;t be congratulatory because what you found is maybe 10% of what is actually there if you found it by chance.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs shared her personal images</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/07/apple-pays-out-millions-in-compensation-to-student-after-iphone-repair-facility-shared-her-explicit-personal-images-online/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smcl</author><text>This came up in Ozark too (good series) someone busts an employee stealing something and isn’t sure what to do, gets the advice “Fire her. It’s not the first time she stole from you. It’s the first time you caught her.”</text><parent_chain><item><author>boleary-gl</author><text>I wonder how many times this has happened and they didn&#x27;t find out about it. Posting it to her own Facebook made it pretty obvious.<p>My father was an accountant for many years and he always said if you found evidence of fraud you shouldn&#x27;t be congratulatory because what you found is maybe 10% of what is actually there if you found it by chance.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs shared her personal images</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/07/apple-pays-out-millions-in-compensation-to-student-after-iphone-repair-facility-shared-her-explicit-personal-images-online/</url></story> |
24,745,758 | 24,745,115 | 1 | 3 | 24,743,790 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>superkuh</author><text>If it ever becomes too popular Slack and Discord will just ban it. That is what they have done and will do. I&#x27;m surprised Discord hasn&#x27;t already.<p>If you have to use Slack for work that&#x27;s one thing. But people chosing to use Discord is just sad and unfortunate. It&#x27;s just another Facebook situation wherein they are the product and in a few years it&#x27;ll become unignorable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dicytea</author><text>There&#x27;s Ripcord[1], if you want something that is actually lightweight and webtech-free.<p>It can also function as a client for Discord. A shame that it is closed-source though.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cancel.fm&#x2F;ripcord&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cancel.fm&#x2F;ripcord&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources</title><url>https://kofi.sexy/blog/slack-app-fewer-resources</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dvfjsdhgfv</author><text>Ripcord will be great one day, but e.g. for Discord it doesn&#x27;t seem to support rate-limited channels (which means most in my case). Otherwise it seems a wonderful app and I wish the missing functionality is added soon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dicytea</author><text>There&#x27;s Ripcord[1], if you want something that is actually lightweight and webtech-free.<p>It can also function as a client for Discord. A shame that it is closed-source though.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cancel.fm&#x2F;ripcord&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cancel.fm&#x2F;ripcord&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources</title><url>https://kofi.sexy/blog/slack-app-fewer-resources</url></story> |
37,098,638 | 37,097,560 | 1 | 2 | 37,091,983 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zepolen</author><text>For 10 million users + telephones, this takes 1ms.<p><pre><code> create table users (
id serial primary key not null,
created_at timestamp not null default now()
);
create table users_telephones (
user_id int references users(id) not null,
is_primary boolean not null default true,
telephone varchar not null
);
insert into users
select i, NOW() + (random() * (interval &#x27;90 days&#x27;)) + &#x27;30 days&#x27; from generate_series(1, 10000000) i;
insert into users_telephones select id, true, random() :: text from users limit 10000000; -- all users have a primary telephone
insert into users_telephones select id, false, random() :: text from users limit 200000; -- some users have a non primary telephone
create index on users(created_at);
create index on users_telephones(user_id);
create index on users_telephones(user_id, is_primary) where is_primary;
select count(*) from users;
count
----------
10000000
(1 row)
Time: 160.911 ms
select count(*) from users_telephones;
count
----------
10200000
(1 row)
Time: 176.361 ms
select
*
from
users u
join users_telephones ut on u.id = ut.user_id
where
ut.is_primary
order by
created_at
limit
10;
id | created_at | user_id | is_primary | telephone
---------+----------------------------+---------+------------+--------------------
9017755 | 2023-09-11 11:45:37.65744 | 9017755 | t | 0.7182410419408853
6061687 | 2023-09-11 11:45:39.271054 | 6061687 | t | 0.3608686654204689
9823470 | 2023-09-11 11:45:39.284201 | 9823470 | t | 0.3026398665522869
2622527 | 2023-09-11 11:45:39.919549 | 2622527 | t | 0.1929579716250771
7585920 | 2023-09-11 11:45:40.256742 | 7585920 | t | 0.3830236472843005
5077138 | 2023-09-11 11:45:41.076164 | 5077138 | t | 0.9058939392225689
1496883 | 2023-09-11 11:45:42.459194 | 1496883 | t | 0.1519510558344308
9234364 | 2023-09-11 11:45:42.965896 | 9234364 | t | 0.8254433522266105
6988331 | 2023-09-11 11:45:43.130548 | 6988331 | t | 0.9577098184736457
7916398 | 2023-09-11 11:45:43.559425 | 7916398 | t | 0.9681218675498862
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But if they’re in separate tables, and you have to join, you can’t make it efficient, because you can’t create cross-table compound indeces.<p>This pattern of join, filter by something in table A, sort by something in table B, and query out one page of data, is something that comes up a lot. It’s why ppl thing joins are generally expensive, but it’s more like they’re expensive in specific cases.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>That <i>is</i> a hot take... ;)<p>But joins should never impact performance in a large way if they&#x27;re on the same server and properly indexed. &quot;It&#x27;s truly amazing how much faster everything is when you eliminate joins&quot; is just not true if you&#x27;re using joins correctly. Sadly, many developers simply never bother to learn.<p>On the other hand, having to write a piece of data to 20 different spots instead of 1 <i>is</i> going to be <i>dramatically</i> slower performance-wise, not to mention make your queries <i>tremendously</i> more complex and bug-prone, when you remember to update a value in 18 spots but forget about 2 of them.<p>You mention cheap storage as an advantage for denormalizing, but storage is the <i>least</i> problem here. It&#x27;s a vastly larger surface area for bugs, and terrible write performance (that can easily chew up read performance).</text></item><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>The bit on the database performance issues leads me to my hottest, flamiest take for new projects:<p>- Design your application&#x27;s hot path to never use joins. Storage is cheap, denormalize everything and update it all in a transaction. It&#x27;s truly amazing how much faster everything is when you eliminate joins. For your ad-hoc queries you can replicate to another database for analytical purposes.<p>On this note, I have mixed feelings about Amazon&#x27;s DynamoDB, but one things about it is to use it properly you need to plan your use first, and schema second. I think there&#x27;s something you can take from this even with a RDBMS.<p>In fact, I&#x27;d go as far to say as joins are unnecessary for nonanalytical purposes these days. Storage is so mind booglingly cheap and the major DBs have ACID properties. Just denormalize, forreal.<p>- Use something more akin to UUIDs to prevent hot partitions. They&#x27;re not a silver bullet and have their own downsides, but you&#x27;ll already be used to the consistently &quot;OK&quot; performance that can be horizontally scaled rather than the great performance of say integers that will fall apart eventually.<p>&#x2F;hottakes<p>my sun level take would be also to just index all columns. but that&#x27;ll have to wait for another day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Squeeze the hell out of the system you have</title><url>https://blog.danslimmon.com/2023/08/11/squeeze-the-hell-out-of-the-system-you-have/#like-2777</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>franckpachot</author><text>With an index on User (createdAt, id) and one on ContactMethod ( primary,ContactMethod,userId), it should be fast (check that the the execution plan starts with User). Except if lot of recent users have no phones, but that will not be better in a single table (except if columnar storage)</text><parent_chain><item><author>yashap</author><text>Joins are not inherently expensive, but they can lead to expensive queries. For example, say I want to find the 10 most recent users with a phone number as their primary contact method:<p>SELECT …<p>FROM User<p>JOIN ContactMethod on ContactMethod.userId = User.id<p>WHERE ContactMethod.priority = ‘primary’ AND ContactMethod.type = ‘phoneNumber’<p>ORDER BY User.createdAt DESC<p>LIMIT 10<p>If there are a very large number of users, and a very large number of phone number primary contacts, you cannot make this query fast&#x2F;efficient (on most RDBMSes). You CAN make this query fast&#x2F;efficient by denormalizing, ensuring the user creation date and primary contact method are on the same table, and then creating a compound index. But if they’re in separate tables, and you have to join, you can’t make it efficient, because you can’t create cross-table compound indeces.<p>This pattern of join, filter by something in table A, sort by something in table B, and query out one page of data, is something that comes up a lot. It’s why ppl thing joins are generally expensive, but it’s more like they’re expensive in specific cases.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>That <i>is</i> a hot take... ;)<p>But joins should never impact performance in a large way if they&#x27;re on the same server and properly indexed. &quot;It&#x27;s truly amazing how much faster everything is when you eliminate joins&quot; is just not true if you&#x27;re using joins correctly. Sadly, many developers simply never bother to learn.<p>On the other hand, having to write a piece of data to 20 different spots instead of 1 <i>is</i> going to be <i>dramatically</i> slower performance-wise, not to mention make your queries <i>tremendously</i> more complex and bug-prone, when you remember to update a value in 18 spots but forget about 2 of them.<p>You mention cheap storage as an advantage for denormalizing, but storage is the <i>least</i> problem here. It&#x27;s a vastly larger surface area for bugs, and terrible write performance (that can easily chew up read performance).</text></item><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>The bit on the database performance issues leads me to my hottest, flamiest take for new projects:<p>- Design your application&#x27;s hot path to never use joins. Storage is cheap, denormalize everything and update it all in a transaction. It&#x27;s truly amazing how much faster everything is when you eliminate joins. For your ad-hoc queries you can replicate to another database for analytical purposes.<p>On this note, I have mixed feelings about Amazon&#x27;s DynamoDB, but one things about it is to use it properly you need to plan your use first, and schema second. I think there&#x27;s something you can take from this even with a RDBMS.<p>In fact, I&#x27;d go as far to say as joins are unnecessary for nonanalytical purposes these days. Storage is so mind booglingly cheap and the major DBs have ACID properties. Just denormalize, forreal.<p>- Use something more akin to UUIDs to prevent hot partitions. They&#x27;re not a silver bullet and have their own downsides, but you&#x27;ll already be used to the consistently &quot;OK&quot; performance that can be horizontally scaled rather than the great performance of say integers that will fall apart eventually.<p>&#x2F;hottakes<p>my sun level take would be also to just index all columns. but that&#x27;ll have to wait for another day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Squeeze the hell out of the system you have</title><url>https://blog.danslimmon.com/2023/08/11/squeeze-the-hell-out-of-the-system-you-have/#like-2777</url></story> |
21,205,484 | 21,205,330 | 1 | 3 | 21,203,247 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tnolet</author><text>Not sure what Google you use, but Apple has about 123.000 employees in total.<p>Edit: according to Wiki, the US DoD is the largest employer in the world at 2.1M employees.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_largest_employers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_largest_employers</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sorenn111</author><text>So I googled and saw that there&#x27;s 4.8 Million apple employees in China? More than i expected when I started the Google search.<p>With that said, is that enough for China to care at all? a little? a lot? Meaning, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if China would forgo plenty of jobs from Western companies as their economy matures. Especially if China fully boycotted Apple, I doubt many other US Companies would respond at all<p>Many of those companies are showing themselves to be spineless right now</text></item><item><author>Despegar</author><text>Apple will most likely be fine because it&#x27;s unlike any other western company operating in China in that it employs a lot of people assembling their products. It&#x27;s not in the CCP&#x27;s interest for people to boycott Apple in a nationalist fervor only for unemployment to rise, which would be an existential threat to the CCP if they lost control of.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/china-attacks-apple-for-allowing-hong-kong-crowdsourced-police-activity-app/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Despegar</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to boycott companies that are only in China as another market to sell to. It&#x27;s not easy to boycott one of the largest private employers in an industry the CCP views as strategically important.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sorenn111</author><text>So I googled and saw that there&#x27;s 4.8 Million apple employees in China? More than i expected when I started the Google search.<p>With that said, is that enough for China to care at all? a little? a lot? Meaning, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if China would forgo plenty of jobs from Western companies as their economy matures. Especially if China fully boycotted Apple, I doubt many other US Companies would respond at all<p>Many of those companies are showing themselves to be spineless right now</text></item><item><author>Despegar</author><text>Apple will most likely be fine because it&#x27;s unlike any other western company operating in China in that it employs a lot of people assembling their products. It&#x27;s not in the CCP&#x27;s interest for people to boycott Apple in a nationalist fervor only for unemployment to rise, which would be an existential threat to the CCP if they lost control of.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/china-attacks-apple-for-allowing-hong-kong-crowdsourced-police-activity-app/</url></story> |
19,821,049 | 19,820,872 | 1 | 3 | 19,819,778 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>impendia</author><text>&gt; Driving everywhere in Houston results in a hell of a lot higher quality of life than riding public transit everywhere in Boston.<p>Having lived in both places, and currently living in metro Boston without a car, I&#x27;m of the opposite opinion. To each their own.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>The fact that this article does not break down the various transportation costs sets off massive red flags.<p>The $3k&#x2F;yr number mentioned for the cost of transportation via car in Houston is on the same order as an MBTA rail pass in the Boston area. Driving everywhere in Houston results in a hell of a lot higher quality of life than riding public transit everywhere in Boston.<p>Yes of course transit is not free but that&#x27;s true whether regardless of your mode of transit. The premise is solid. The analysis is lacking.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You can’t judge housing affordability without knowing transportation costs</title><url>http://cityobservatory.org/transportation_housing_affordability/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aqme28</author><text>The $3k&#x2F;yr number mentioned is not the cost of transportation via car in Houston, but the premium you pay for Houston&#x27;s sprawl. In other words, commuting in a low-sprawl city is $3k&#x2F;yr cheaper than it would be in Houston.<p>Car ownership is significantly more expensive than $3k&#x2F;year.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>The fact that this article does not break down the various transportation costs sets off massive red flags.<p>The $3k&#x2F;yr number mentioned for the cost of transportation via car in Houston is on the same order as an MBTA rail pass in the Boston area. Driving everywhere in Houston results in a hell of a lot higher quality of life than riding public transit everywhere in Boston.<p>Yes of course transit is not free but that&#x27;s true whether regardless of your mode of transit. The premise is solid. The analysis is lacking.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You can’t judge housing affordability without knowing transportation costs</title><url>http://cityobservatory.org/transportation_housing_affordability/</url></story> |
32,697,143 | 32,696,740 | 1 | 3 | 32,696,241 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AgentME</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting that the funding for this came from the Zcash Community Grants. There&#x27;s a lot of money involved with cryptocurrency and a lot of it gets invested into the software involved. It&#x27;s interesting that in this case, serious money got invested into some software that isn&#x27;t strictly cryptocurrency-related and is useful outside of cryptocurrency. It makes me wonder if there are other software projects that are generally useful, including but not exclusively to cryptocurrency projects, that could benefit similarly from seeking funding from cryptocurrency projects. Even if one disliked cryptocurrency, this could be seen as getting money redistributed to more useful endeavors to benefit everyone.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tor – Arti 1.0.0 is released: Rust Tor implementation ready for production use</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/arti_100_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>ReactiveJelly</author><text>&gt; For example, when we&#x27;ve had to get into the fine details of filesystem permissions, we&#x27;ve found that most everything we do takes different handling on Windows.<p>Amos was right<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fasterthanli.me&#x2F;articles&#x2F;i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride#simple-is-a-lie" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fasterthanli.me&#x2F;articles&#x2F;i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tor – Arti 1.0.0 is released: Rust Tor implementation ready for production use</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/arti_100_released/</url></story> |
24,259,596 | 24,259,421 | 1 | 2 | 24,259,016 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bpoyner</author><text>For Mazda, Linux is used in the infotainment system. There is an entire community built around tweaking that infotainment system, and somebody has bundled those into a package called Mazda All In One Tweaks. They&#x27;ve done some pretty impressive stuff, such as adding Android Auto support before Mazda officially did. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Trevelopment&#x2F;MZD-AIO&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Trevelopment&#x2F;MZD-AIO&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>&quot;Reference applications including media player, tuner, navigation, web browser, Bluetooth, WiFi, HVAC control, audio mixer and <i>vehicle controls</i>&quot;<p>It is nice to have a alternative to Google&#x27;s car spy software, but I am suspicious of any ECU containing <i>malloc</i>. If ECUs gets so complicated that they require Linux maybe there just is a fundamental design issue.<p>(EDIT: ECU as in Electric control unit, not only the Engine control unit.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Automotive Grade Linux</title><url>https://www.automotivelinux.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>salicideblock</author><text>From my time in the industry, AGL is not even close to considering targeting Engine Control Units. The primary target is infotainment systems.<p>At the time I never heard anyone - not infotainment guys, not ECU, not the Linux geeks - seriously proposing to put Linux there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>&quot;Reference applications including media player, tuner, navigation, web browser, Bluetooth, WiFi, HVAC control, audio mixer and <i>vehicle controls</i>&quot;<p>It is nice to have a alternative to Google&#x27;s car spy software, but I am suspicious of any ECU containing <i>malloc</i>. If ECUs gets so complicated that they require Linux maybe there just is a fundamental design issue.<p>(EDIT: ECU as in Electric control unit, not only the Engine control unit.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Automotive Grade Linux</title><url>https://www.automotivelinux.org/</url></story> |
10,992,528 | 10,990,929 | 1 | 2 | 10,989,210 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anthonybsd</author><text>&gt;Really, I&#x27;d love to come back to Clojure but the problems I run into in my day job often have me thinking, &quot;types would have made this so much easier.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve gone back and forth on this one during the course of my career. My first professional language was Borland Delphi (strongly typed), then C (weakly typed), then Perl (dynamic), then Java (mostly strongly typed), Scala (very strongly typed) and now I&#x27;m slowly trying to adopt Clojure at my place of work. Out of all those the worst kind of code I&#x27;ve ever come across was in Perl, so for awhile I&#x27;ve blamed the lack of typing as a contributing factor to this. However. Most of the Python code I&#x27;ve seen since around 2001 has been fairly clean looking so that can&#x27;t just be dynamic typing that was to blame. I suspect Perl&#x27;s woes had more to do with the &quot;there is more than one way to do it philosophy&quot; as opposed to types. There&#x27;s just no such thing as idiomatic Perl. In fact I&#x27;m seeing some of this in some Scala code. There are nearly-religious level wars around what constitutes idiomatic Scala way of doing things. I&#x27;ve seen completely insane spaghetti-style Scala classes, especially those that dealt with XML code and DSLs. So far, it seems that Clojure in Java ecosystem is more like Python than like Perl. I.e. only one way of doing things that is fairly clear from the onset.</text><parent_chain><item><author>muraiki</author><text>Clojure was one of the first languages I picked up when I started coding and I really enjoyed using it. The instarepl in Light Table was a huge boon for learning and helped to offset the infamous Clojure stack traces of doom. :) However, I&#x27;d be very much interested in hearing more from people who have gone from Java, C#, or another statically typed language to Clojure, particularly in regards to designing, maintaining, and refactoring large codebases.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to turn this into yet another static vs dynamic flamewar. I&#x27;m just very interested in the patterns that professional Clojure programmers use to help manage this complexity. I know that code in Clojure is normally structured very differently than one would find in a more imperative or OO language, whether dynamic or static. I also realize there are things available, such as Prismatic Schema and Typed Clojure, to assist with these problems.<p>Really, I&#x27;d love to come back to Clojure but the problems I run into in my day job often have me thinking, &quot;types would have made this so much easier.&quot; :( As a result, I haven&#x27;t given Clojure the time to really delve deeply into it. As someone with limited time to try out whole new languages, I&#x27;d love to be convinced to go further!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>State of Clojure 2015: Survey Results</title><url>http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2016/1/28/state-of-clojure-2015-survey-resultsv</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>evanspa</author><text>So I worked exclusively in the statically typed (and imperative &#x2F; OO) world for the first 10 years of my professional career. Several years ago I decided to learn functional programming. I started with Scheme and moved to Clojure. I really enjoy Clojure; it&#x27;s a real joy coding in it using Emacs with paredit (or smartparens).<p>I wrote a REST API using Clojure; the code also has to interact with a Postgres database. This is for a side project, but it&#x27;s not a trivial code base. I definitely miss Java&#x2F;Eclipse style refactoring (right-click, rename, and EVERYTHING is properly updated). Can&#x27;t do that in Clojure. Also, I find that I have to write more unit tests with Clojure in order to make up for the fact the compiler can&#x27;t help me. Not that I wouldn&#x27;t write tests in Java; but I find I have to write <i>more</i> in Clojure to keep the codebase manageable.<p>So again, for me, I use unit testing to make up for the fact I don&#x27;t have the compiler helping me as much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>muraiki</author><text>Clojure was one of the first languages I picked up when I started coding and I really enjoyed using it. The instarepl in Light Table was a huge boon for learning and helped to offset the infamous Clojure stack traces of doom. :) However, I&#x27;d be very much interested in hearing more from people who have gone from Java, C#, or another statically typed language to Clojure, particularly in regards to designing, maintaining, and refactoring large codebases.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to turn this into yet another static vs dynamic flamewar. I&#x27;m just very interested in the patterns that professional Clojure programmers use to help manage this complexity. I know that code in Clojure is normally structured very differently than one would find in a more imperative or OO language, whether dynamic or static. I also realize there are things available, such as Prismatic Schema and Typed Clojure, to assist with these problems.<p>Really, I&#x27;d love to come back to Clojure but the problems I run into in my day job often have me thinking, &quot;types would have made this so much easier.&quot; :( As a result, I haven&#x27;t given Clojure the time to really delve deeply into it. As someone with limited time to try out whole new languages, I&#x27;d love to be convinced to go further!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>State of Clojure 2015: Survey Results</title><url>http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2016/1/28/state-of-clojure-2015-survey-resultsv</url></story> |
7,013,223 | 7,012,881 | 1 | 2 | 7,012,648 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>miles</author><text><i>would Apple just steal his idea (NOT implementation) and bake it into the iPhone regardless? I think Microsoft did something like this</i><p>Apple has certainly done this before:<p>Apple Literally Stole My Thunder <a href="https://medium.com/wwdc-round-up/253aed27a455" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;wwdc-round-up&#x2F;253aed27a455</a><p>Apple rips off student&#x27;s rejected iPhone app - iOS 5 lifts idea, name, even logo
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/apple_copies_rejected_app/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2011&#x2F;06&#x2F;08&#x2F;apple_copies_rejecte...</a><p>Konfabulator, Dashboard controversy flows out of WWDC
<a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/1035200/konfabulator.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;1035200&#x2F;konfabulator.html</a><p>Apple stole Karelia Watson
<a href="http://forums.macworld.com/index.php?/topic/2477-apples-stole-karelia-watson/page__st__-13" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.macworld.com&#x2F;index.php?&#x2F;topic&#x2F;2477-apples-stol...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text><i>Major</i> congratulations to him! What an achievement!<p>I wonder though: in these situations if he were to refuse the acquisition would Apple just steal his idea (NOT implementation) and bake it into the iPhone regardless? I think Microsoft did something like this, no? Any thoughts?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/04/snappylabs/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jakobe</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that this is something he would need to worry about. Implementing complex algorithms is extremely difficult, even if you have detailed instructions (eg. from a published paper). I&#x27;ve read his website before and if I remember, he only published high level details. To steal his ideas, you&#x27;d need to have a similar background, and you&#x27;d need to know just as much about compression etc. as he does. And even if you found someone with the right expertise, it would still take a very long time to &quot;steal&quot; an idea like this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text><i>Major</i> congratulations to him! What an achievement!<p>I wonder though: in these situations if he were to refuse the acquisition would Apple just steal his idea (NOT implementation) and bake it into the iPhone regardless? I think Microsoft did something like this, no? Any thoughts?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/04/snappylabs/</url></story> |
24,974,888 | 24,974,597 | 1 | 2 | 24,971,726 | train | <instructions>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>Speaking as an American who has been to Europe, used their mass transit (and mostly liked it), but has skepticism about a lot of European political processes working here: yes, absolutely. All 3 of your points are spot on.<p>Healthcare does have an impact, in that the comparison of labor costs btw US and Europe often doesn&#x27;t account for the fact that the cost of labor in the US includes health insurance, generally, whereas the cost of labor in Europe does not. This is the flipside of comparing tax rates between US and Europe, where Europe&#x27;s rates look very high, but include healthcare generally, so the same cost is booked as labor in the US but as general government spending in Europe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Maarten88</author><text>&gt; After 16 months in July 2019, a report was produced but it did not provide the comparisons requested by Congress. Rather, the GAO in its report said making the comparisons was too difficult to obtain meaningful results [...]<p>As an outsider from Europe, let me try.<p>1. It always seemed to me that the litigious nature of doing business in the US must be costly to society. The thinking of &quot;If anything ever happens to you, someone owes you money&quot;. Lawyers are needed in anything of consequence, and it leads to lots of overhead, distraction and unnecessary work to avoid the possibility of being liable for anything.<p>2. Then there is corruption. The US ranks lower than most european countries on corruption (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Corruption_Perceptions_Index" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Corruption_Perceptions_Index</a>). The article hints at that, mentioning &quot;politicizing&quot; of infrastructure projects. That also costs money to society.<p>3. Then there is lack of competition. Because antitrust laws have not been enforced for decades in the US (not anywhere else too btw), I suspect that big infrastructure projects are getting distributed among a few large companies, who don&#x27;t actually compete; they&#x27;ll all make good money and pay their C-level execs well.<p>There may be other factors like healthcare costs, and unions adding to costs, etc, but those seem to be a result of the above, rather than a root cause.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else</title><url>https://tunnelingonline.com/why-tunnels-in-the-us-cost-much-more-than-anywhere-else-in-the-world/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>refurb</author><text>Your link for corruption is actually “corruption perceptions”, not actual corruption and the US is the same as France.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Maarten88</author><text>&gt; After 16 months in July 2019, a report was produced but it did not provide the comparisons requested by Congress. Rather, the GAO in its report said making the comparisons was too difficult to obtain meaningful results [...]<p>As an outsider from Europe, let me try.<p>1. It always seemed to me that the litigious nature of doing business in the US must be costly to society. The thinking of &quot;If anything ever happens to you, someone owes you money&quot;. Lawyers are needed in anything of consequence, and it leads to lots of overhead, distraction and unnecessary work to avoid the possibility of being liable for anything.<p>2. Then there is corruption. The US ranks lower than most european countries on corruption (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Corruption_Perceptions_Index" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Corruption_Perceptions_Index</a>). The article hints at that, mentioning &quot;politicizing&quot; of infrastructure projects. That also costs money to society.<p>3. Then there is lack of competition. Because antitrust laws have not been enforced for decades in the US (not anywhere else too btw), I suspect that big infrastructure projects are getting distributed among a few large companies, who don&#x27;t actually compete; they&#x27;ll all make good money and pay their C-level execs well.<p>There may be other factors like healthcare costs, and unions adding to costs, etc, but those seem to be a result of the above, rather than a root cause.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else</title><url>https://tunnelingonline.com/why-tunnels-in-the-us-cost-much-more-than-anywhere-else-in-the-world/</url></story> |
31,385,445 | 31,385,332 | 1 | 2 | 31,360,955 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JADev62096</author><text>I feel like YT is too quick to adapt and adapts too fully. If I pick up a new interest and watch videos on it for a bit, then that&#x27;s all I see in recommendations; it&#x27;s like my old interests don&#x27;t exist any more and I have to remember to search them again.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway290</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if anyone in this thread uses YouTube, but its algorithm is insanely quick to adapt and videos you see on home page and in recommendations entirely depend on what you have watched before. Watch a video, see your home page change; watch a ton and it will reflect your preferences. (It also makes an attempt to list the topics it thinks you prefer and offers additional separate home page for each, as well as one for videos not matching any topic but still possibly of interest to you.)<p>Everything about TikTok&#x27;s algorithmic malleability can be said about YouTube, so I am confused as to why this is news to anyone.<p>One difference is that YT also has longer videos. Unlike fixed-length blurbs of TT, this increases the challenge for recommendation algorithms, but I welcome this heterogeneity.</text></item><item><author>pbw</author><text>I agree TikTok is doing something different from the other guys. The amazing thing is that it&#x27;s been out for 5 years and no one has copied what it does. Although I&#x27;d guess the algorithm has gotten a lot better over time as well, so it might be a moving target for the others.</text></item><item><author>teej</author><text>TikTok is the only social platform where you can reliably train the algorithm and it sticks.<p>On Twitter, no amount of curation, mutes, or blocks will save you from screenshots of content you don’t want to see.<p>On Reddit, you rely entirely up to the mods of a subreddit. Once a subreddit gets too popular, the submission rate overwhelms volunteer resources.<p>Facebook is just garbage.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Trained My TikTok</title><url>https://metastable.org/2022/05/how-I-trained-my-tiktok.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>jazzyjackson</author><text>YouTube&#x27;s recommendation must be device dependent or something, because I only use it through AppleTV or as a Playstation App and the entire page is like 15 or 20 videos repeated over and over, like sometimes it will suggest the same video in two different places on the screen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway290</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if anyone in this thread uses YouTube, but its algorithm is insanely quick to adapt and videos you see on home page and in recommendations entirely depend on what you have watched before. Watch a video, see your home page change; watch a ton and it will reflect your preferences. (It also makes an attempt to list the topics it thinks you prefer and offers additional separate home page for each, as well as one for videos not matching any topic but still possibly of interest to you.)<p>Everything about TikTok&#x27;s algorithmic malleability can be said about YouTube, so I am confused as to why this is news to anyone.<p>One difference is that YT also has longer videos. Unlike fixed-length blurbs of TT, this increases the challenge for recommendation algorithms, but I welcome this heterogeneity.</text></item><item><author>pbw</author><text>I agree TikTok is doing something different from the other guys. The amazing thing is that it&#x27;s been out for 5 years and no one has copied what it does. Although I&#x27;d guess the algorithm has gotten a lot better over time as well, so it might be a moving target for the others.</text></item><item><author>teej</author><text>TikTok is the only social platform where you can reliably train the algorithm and it sticks.<p>On Twitter, no amount of curation, mutes, or blocks will save you from screenshots of content you don’t want to see.<p>On Reddit, you rely entirely up to the mods of a subreddit. Once a subreddit gets too popular, the submission rate overwhelms volunteer resources.<p>Facebook is just garbage.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Trained My TikTok</title><url>https://metastable.org/2022/05/how-I-trained-my-tiktok.html</url></story> |
21,862,492 | 21,861,960 | 1 | 3 | 21,858,567 | 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>neor</author><text>I fully agree, there is a steady decline in usability and its a bloody shame because for years the usability is what set Apple apart from the others.<p>A few things which hugely annoy me;<p>- Saving a photo from iMessage.... the option has disappeared. I get a popup to airdrop the file, interact with some apps and a huge copy button. In fact, I can scroll down in this menu but there is not a single visual indicator that I can scroll. No scroll bar, no icon... nothing. I&#x27;ve had to read somewhere online that I could scroll there, and I work in IT. How is this usable for people who don&#x27;t work in IT.<p>- After updates I&#x27;m frequently asked to provide my Apple ID password, and yet iOS doesn&#x27;t allow me to interact with Password Managers at this moment. I&#x27;ve got a 36 random character password, and it is a pain in the ass to enter this.<p>- 3D touch has been removed in newer iPhones. Fine, but why cripple older phones which still have the hardware to use 3D touch... Now it takes me an extra action to re-arrange my icons.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Razengan</author><text>The iPad was my gateway into the Apple orchard. I had never purchased an Apple product until about a decade ago, when I got the first Retina iPad as a gift for someone who didn’t use computers. I was so impressed by how intuitive the device and OS was for them, that I installed macOS in a VM on Windows to try iOS development. I fell in love with macOS (back during Lion) shortly before getting my first MacBook and leaving Windows forever behind, never to return.<p>Fast forward to a month ago. I purchased one of the newer low-end iPads as another gift for someone else who didn’t use computers.<p>It was depressing.<p>The setup process was kinda annoying. No, we don’t want Apple Pay, thank you. I had to enter the Apple&#x2F;iCloud account credentials multiple times at different points before it stopped asking me to sign in again.<p>There were a lot of bugs in the system UI and the preinstalled apps.<p>I had to disable the multitasking gestures because they would be confusing for a new user.<p>They have removed labels for the Dock icons with no way to restore them, so I had to keep apps with less obvious icons out of the Dock, so they could have labels. Because a flower for photos is not a connection that many people can intuitively make.<p>I had to explain that dragging down from the right corner of the top edge brings up the brightness control.<p>Dragging down from anywhere else on the top edge brings up the notifications.<p>Dragging down on a blank part of the home screen’s background, away from edges, brings up the search bar.<p>Fuck.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)</title><url>https://jnd.org/apples_products_are_getting_harder_to_use_because_they_ignore_principles_of_design/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hellomyguys</author><text>As someone who does product design for a living and has used an iPad for almost 10 years now, I still get so confused with the Slide Over multitasking. There&#x27;s no discoverability at all for this. You have to read the manual and memorize the gestures. Absolutely mind-blowing that they&#x27;ve made something this confusing.<p>I know when people say &quot;it&#x27;s like they don&#x27;t even use their products&quot; it is usually hyperbolic, but I don&#x27;t know how they can explain the seemingly random continual prompting of Apple&#x2F;iCloud login on OS X I see a few times a year.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Razengan</author><text>The iPad was my gateway into the Apple orchard. I had never purchased an Apple product until about a decade ago, when I got the first Retina iPad as a gift for someone who didn’t use computers. I was so impressed by how intuitive the device and OS was for them, that I installed macOS in a VM on Windows to try iOS development. I fell in love with macOS (back during Lion) shortly before getting my first MacBook and leaving Windows forever behind, never to return.<p>Fast forward to a month ago. I purchased one of the newer low-end iPads as another gift for someone else who didn’t use computers.<p>It was depressing.<p>The setup process was kinda annoying. No, we don’t want Apple Pay, thank you. I had to enter the Apple&#x2F;iCloud account credentials multiple times at different points before it stopped asking me to sign in again.<p>There were a lot of bugs in the system UI and the preinstalled apps.<p>I had to disable the multitasking gestures because they would be confusing for a new user.<p>They have removed labels for the Dock icons with no way to restore them, so I had to keep apps with less obvious icons out of the Dock, so they could have labels. Because a flower for photos is not a connection that many people can intuitively make.<p>I had to explain that dragging down from the right corner of the top edge brings up the brightness control.<p>Dragging down from anywhere else on the top edge brings up the notifications.<p>Dragging down on a blank part of the home screen’s background, away from edges, brings up the search bar.<p>Fuck.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)</title><url>https://jnd.org/apples_products_are_getting_harder_to_use_because_they_ignore_principles_of_design/</url></story> |
10,970,217 | 10,970,329 | 1 | 2 | 10,969,721 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidw</author><text>What is special about the number 65,000?<p>Absolutely nothing. It&#x27;s central planning for something that doesn&#x27;t require it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;johnhcochrane.blogspot.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;the-optimal-number-of-immigrants.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;johnhcochrane.blogspot.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;the-optimal-number...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>diogenescynic</author><text>In my opinion, the real fix is to make the H-1B &#x27;lottery&#x27; into an auction. Instead of accepting 65,000 H-1Bs at random--accept the 65,000 H-1Bs with the highest wages. That way we are getting the immigrants with the highest valued skills and stopping companies like Cognizant and Infosys that game the immigration system by applying for the cheapest H-1Bs possible.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>The real fix to this is to make sure that people brought over with an H1-B can <i>easily</i> change jobs. That way they&#x27;re not beholden to some low-wage job, and companies that bring people in merely for low wages will face high rates of churn.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers with Immigrants</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-claims-disney-colluded-to-replace-us-workers-with-immigrants.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>calvinbhai</author><text>Its super easy to game even your suggestion. Pay $100K, get $40k back in cash. your suggestion may end up making it worse for legit H1b employers, especially startups, that&#x27;ll get suffocated with such high costs.<p>Ability to switch jobs at will, can bring up the paid salary and it puts the onus on employer to ensure employee is treat equal to other other employees in US. If employee is not treated&#x2F;paid well enough, employee can move to another company in US.</text><parent_chain><item><author>diogenescynic</author><text>In my opinion, the real fix is to make the H-1B &#x27;lottery&#x27; into an auction. Instead of accepting 65,000 H-1Bs at random--accept the 65,000 H-1Bs with the highest wages. That way we are getting the immigrants with the highest valued skills and stopping companies like Cognizant and Infosys that game the immigration system by applying for the cheapest H-1Bs possible.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>The real fix to this is to make sure that people brought over with an H1-B can <i>easily</i> change jobs. That way they&#x27;re not beholden to some low-wage job, and companies that bring people in merely for low wages will face high rates of churn.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers with Immigrants</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-claims-disney-colluded-to-replace-us-workers-with-immigrants.html</url></story> |
33,232,118 | 33,232,140 | 1 | 2 | 33,226,568 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snovv_crash</author><text>Metamizol (Novalgin) is probably one of the biggest examples of this I know. It&#x27;s a non-NSAID, non-addictive painkiller that was discovered over 100 years ago and banned in the USA in the 60s. It has a similar danger profile to Diclofenac (Voltaren), which is now prescribed like candy. And it is still widely used in Germany and Switzerland, so there is lots of data on &#x27;modern&#x27; populations. But since nobody can patent it, there&#x27;s no motivation to get it reapproved in the US, so everyone get opioids instead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>This is because the only place for progress in America seemingly is within yet-nonexistent unregulated areas. As soon as something gets regulated in the US it mostly is doomed to lag decades behind the rest of the developed world (because American policymakers apparently are not fond of updating existing laws&#x2F;rules and the bureaucracy is not flexible enough, often prioritizing the letter of the law). Of course there are exceptions (let alone particular regulations which do much more good than harm) but this seems to be the rule.</text></item><item><author>prng2021</author><text>We allow companies like Tesla to jeopardize people&#x27;s lives while the company beta tests &quot;full self driving&quot; technology, but are scared of allowing proven safe technology like adaptive headlights.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The US will finally allow adaptive beam headlights on new cars</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/the-us-will-finally-allow-adaptive-beam-headlights-on-new-cars/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TomSwirly</author><text>I expected this to be a rant about bureaucracy and it turned out to be a nuanced and rational discussion of the failure of American government. Good stuff.<p>I would only add that this isn&#x27;t an accident - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Regulatory_capture" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Regulatory_capture</a><p>For a large company, draconian regulations can be to their distinct advantage, as them very size allows them to handle the cost and complexity, while smaller companies cannot - or they can simply cheat, and if caught, swallow penalties that would destroy a small company.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>This is because the only place for progress in America seemingly is within yet-nonexistent unregulated areas. As soon as something gets regulated in the US it mostly is doomed to lag decades behind the rest of the developed world (because American policymakers apparently are not fond of updating existing laws&#x2F;rules and the bureaucracy is not flexible enough, often prioritizing the letter of the law). Of course there are exceptions (let alone particular regulations which do much more good than harm) but this seems to be the rule.</text></item><item><author>prng2021</author><text>We allow companies like Tesla to jeopardize people&#x27;s lives while the company beta tests &quot;full self driving&quot; technology, but are scared of allowing proven safe technology like adaptive headlights.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The US will finally allow adaptive beam headlights on new cars</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/the-us-will-finally-allow-adaptive-beam-headlights-on-new-cars/</url></story> |
21,023,224 | 21,021,891 | 1 | 2 | 21,018,916 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>corey_moncure</author><text>&gt;say that some of them take a perverse pleasure in the idea of everyone else being worse off, going by the number of facially specious arguments and overtly sadistic rhetoric deployed by many self-styled &#x27;skeptics&#x27;.<p>We don&#x27;t even have to look at arguments and rhetoric. Simply go outside and observe. You can immediately see people driving conspicuously huge vehicles, and some of them have modified their vehicles to increase dangerous and undesirable emissions (noise emissions, combustion emissions e.g. coal rolling) for no other purpose but than to antagonize the people around them and intentionally degrade the natural environment.<p>Nearly every street you drive down in residential America is lined from one end to the other with lawns that have chemicals pumped in to increase growth unnaturally, and simultaneously chemicals pumped in to control undesired weeds and insects. None of this serves any practical purpose at all.<p>Look carefully at the ground and you&#x27;ll find it&#x27;s full of fragments of the discarded plastic and metal containers of quick junk food and the so-called &quot;energy drinks&quot;. Not only is it bad enough we have to produce these items to satisfy a temporary need at the cost of creating permanent* garbage, we have to go and toss them by the side of the road just to illustrate how utterly callous and thoughtless we are.<p>Hopeless. Sometimes it feels very hopeless.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Your approach will fail for the same reason than an ethical environmental appeal does.<p>Enough humans who feel and fear their impending mortality are selfish and vindictive enough to obstruct change because they want to conserve whatever material comforts they have now and <i>do not care</i> about what happens to other people after they&#x27;re dead. I would go so far as to say that some of them take a perverse pleasure in the idea of everyone else being worse off, going by the number of facially specious arguments and overtly sadistic rhetoric deployed by many self-styled &#x27;skeptics&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>ff317</author><text>+1 - I think the kind of marketing and messaging that makes environmentalism all about saving &quot;the planet&quot; and &quot;the animals&quot; and &quot;the natural environment&quot; really doesn&#x27;t serve us well. A better strategic approach would be to highlight (with the right crafty messaging) that a very tiny statistical slice of earth&#x27;s historical states and potential future states are any good at supporting large human populations comfortably like we do today, and our goal is preserving this state in our own self-interest. It&#x27;s not environmentalism at all, it&#x27;s human self-interest.</text></item><item><author>technothrasher</author><text>&gt; or we die out and the planet recovers on its own.<p>That makes it sound like there&#x27;s some kind of natural &#x27;ideal state&#x27; for the planet to recover to. Without us, the planet would just go on changing, without anything to judge the current environment at any point as good or bad to any particular standard.<p>Saving the environment is simply saving ourselves. Nothing more, nothing less.</text></item><item><author>bsmitty5000</author><text>This article doesn&#x27;t mention the declining insect population at all but I would think it&#x27;s clear that a quickly declining food source would be a major cause of population decline. I wonder if there&#x27;s a similar decline in other animals that rely on insects, eg bats. Although, interestingly, the article does mention neonicotinoids as a direct reason for the decline in population.<p>It&#x27;s hard to imagine humans taking the corrective solution here. My gut says we either continue on this road and completely destroy the natural world a la Trantor in Foundation, just one huge mega-city that fabricates all of its needs, or we die out and the planet recovers on its own.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Birds Are Vanishing from North America</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/science/bird-populations-america-canada.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>solotronics</author><text>I lean more towards ignorance than malice. The average Earth person (out of all 11 billion) probably doesn&#x27;t have as solid of a scientific or historical background to form an educated opinion on what affect we are having on the ecosystem in the long term.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Your approach will fail for the same reason than an ethical environmental appeal does.<p>Enough humans who feel and fear their impending mortality are selfish and vindictive enough to obstruct change because they want to conserve whatever material comforts they have now and <i>do not care</i> about what happens to other people after they&#x27;re dead. I would go so far as to say that some of them take a perverse pleasure in the idea of everyone else being worse off, going by the number of facially specious arguments and overtly sadistic rhetoric deployed by many self-styled &#x27;skeptics&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>ff317</author><text>+1 - I think the kind of marketing and messaging that makes environmentalism all about saving &quot;the planet&quot; and &quot;the animals&quot; and &quot;the natural environment&quot; really doesn&#x27;t serve us well. A better strategic approach would be to highlight (with the right crafty messaging) that a very tiny statistical slice of earth&#x27;s historical states and potential future states are any good at supporting large human populations comfortably like we do today, and our goal is preserving this state in our own self-interest. It&#x27;s not environmentalism at all, it&#x27;s human self-interest.</text></item><item><author>technothrasher</author><text>&gt; or we die out and the planet recovers on its own.<p>That makes it sound like there&#x27;s some kind of natural &#x27;ideal state&#x27; for the planet to recover to. Without us, the planet would just go on changing, without anything to judge the current environment at any point as good or bad to any particular standard.<p>Saving the environment is simply saving ourselves. Nothing more, nothing less.</text></item><item><author>bsmitty5000</author><text>This article doesn&#x27;t mention the declining insect population at all but I would think it&#x27;s clear that a quickly declining food source would be a major cause of population decline. I wonder if there&#x27;s a similar decline in other animals that rely on insects, eg bats. Although, interestingly, the article does mention neonicotinoids as a direct reason for the decline in population.<p>It&#x27;s hard to imagine humans taking the corrective solution here. My gut says we either continue on this road and completely destroy the natural world a la Trantor in Foundation, just one huge mega-city that fabricates all of its needs, or we die out and the planet recovers on its own.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Birds Are Vanishing from North America</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/science/bird-populations-america-canada.html</url></story> |
28,535,034 | 28,534,178 | 1 | 2 | 28,528,550 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; All that aside though- forcing fat people to get skinny isn&#x27;t a valid comparison to forcing people to take a vaccine. One takes a couple minutes and the other is something requiring an hour or more of dedicated time per day for potentially years<p>Well we could just tell the fat people they aren&#x27;t allowed to eat in restaurants and can&#x27;t keep their jobs. That way they won&#x27;t be able afford or get the food that keeps them fat! &lt;&#x2F;sarcasm&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>MSM</author><text>&gt;Should we tell people to get their BMI under 25 too?
&gt;What about drinking and smoking?<p>There&#x27;s a lot of investment in trying to fix these problems already, or at least offset the costs. For example, there are &quot;sin taxes&quot; for things like cigarettes and alcohol, which means smokers and drinkers are paying disproportionately more taxes than those that don&#x27;t.<p>You could argue that overweight folks are also paying disproportionately more simply by buying more food than someone who weighs 20% less.<p>All that aside though- forcing fat people to get skinny isn&#x27;t a valid comparison to forcing people to take a vaccine. One takes a couple minutes and the other is something requiring an hour or more of dedicated time per day for potentially years (or a whole lifetime!).<p>Let&#x27;s say, hypothetically, there existed a <i>free</i> shot which would immediately make its recipient a perfectly lean 20 BMI and grants all the benefits of health and exercise without the work. How many people would choose not to take it, and how would society view those that decided to walk around weighing 400lbs? That&#x27;s really the apples to apples comparison here, and I think you&#x27;d find there would be very few folks walking around at 400lbs in that scenario.</text></item><item><author>ixacto</author><text>To reply as the devils advocate to this comment, what is the tolerance to social costs that society is willing to bear? Also why would one segment of society have to do something that it doesn&#x27;t want e.g. not bear risk if they want to?<p>Should we tell people to get their BMI under 25 too? Overweight and obesity are going to cost much more in increased healthcare costs than COVID will in the coming decades (pls prove me wrong..).<p>What about drinking and smoking? Maybe we should also ban these because these people will probably go on government health insurance when they come down with chronic health issues from too much alcohol or tobacco.<p>I guess I don&#x27;t see where your argument about societal costs doesn&#x27;t become a slippery slope.<p>Also full disclosure I&#x27;m 100% vaccinated and will get the booster in Dec.</text></item><item><author>kristjansson</author><text>Because it&#x27;s a terrible policy prescription. If natural immunity is acceptable, what proportion of the unvaccinated-uninfected population will just take the risk? Half? More?<p>Millions of people will just (continue to) take the risk, get sick, go to hospital, and die (in decreasing proportions), incurring substantial personal and social costs along the way.<p>Accepting only vaccination as evidence of protection reduces the size of that risk-taking population, and the concomitant social costs.<p>Should there be a third policy option - accepting test-verified infection and recovery as of _now_ as evidence of protection, but discounting future recoveries? Based on the observational studies cited all over this thread , probably yes. Seems like associated costs would be higher though, and the only benefit would be less gnashing of teeth here and elsewhere, so its understandable the CDC isn&#x27;t rushing to implement it.<p>Should those people just be allowed to assume the risk? Not while the costs are predominantly social. Insurance (or tax-payers) pay the financial costs, healthcare workers bear the burden of treating a preventable illness, and we all assume the risk that healthcare resources will be stretched to the point of unavailability. While risk-takers do pay into the same system, their premiums don&#x27;t yet reflect the increased expected costs of their personal choice. While ICUs often run close to or at capacity in one hospital, rarely do they run close at every hospital in a region, as is happening in the south and will happen elsewhere. While it would be nice if there were more doctors, nurses and facilities able to treat patients, we&#x27;re at war with the army we&#x27;ve got.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?</title><url>https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2101</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dham</author><text>&gt; Let&#x27;s say, hypothetically, there existed a free shot which would immediately make its recipient a perfectly lean 20 BMI and grants all the benefits of health and exercise without the work<p>I would be very skeptical and wonder what the downside is</text><parent_chain><item><author>MSM</author><text>&gt;Should we tell people to get their BMI under 25 too?
&gt;What about drinking and smoking?<p>There&#x27;s a lot of investment in trying to fix these problems already, or at least offset the costs. For example, there are &quot;sin taxes&quot; for things like cigarettes and alcohol, which means smokers and drinkers are paying disproportionately more taxes than those that don&#x27;t.<p>You could argue that overweight folks are also paying disproportionately more simply by buying more food than someone who weighs 20% less.<p>All that aside though- forcing fat people to get skinny isn&#x27;t a valid comparison to forcing people to take a vaccine. One takes a couple minutes and the other is something requiring an hour or more of dedicated time per day for potentially years (or a whole lifetime!).<p>Let&#x27;s say, hypothetically, there existed a <i>free</i> shot which would immediately make its recipient a perfectly lean 20 BMI and grants all the benefits of health and exercise without the work. How many people would choose not to take it, and how would society view those that decided to walk around weighing 400lbs? That&#x27;s really the apples to apples comparison here, and I think you&#x27;d find there would be very few folks walking around at 400lbs in that scenario.</text></item><item><author>ixacto</author><text>To reply as the devils advocate to this comment, what is the tolerance to social costs that society is willing to bear? Also why would one segment of society have to do something that it doesn&#x27;t want e.g. not bear risk if they want to?<p>Should we tell people to get their BMI under 25 too? Overweight and obesity are going to cost much more in increased healthcare costs than COVID will in the coming decades (pls prove me wrong..).<p>What about drinking and smoking? Maybe we should also ban these because these people will probably go on government health insurance when they come down with chronic health issues from too much alcohol or tobacco.<p>I guess I don&#x27;t see where your argument about societal costs doesn&#x27;t become a slippery slope.<p>Also full disclosure I&#x27;m 100% vaccinated and will get the booster in Dec.</text></item><item><author>kristjansson</author><text>Because it&#x27;s a terrible policy prescription. If natural immunity is acceptable, what proportion of the unvaccinated-uninfected population will just take the risk? Half? More?<p>Millions of people will just (continue to) take the risk, get sick, go to hospital, and die (in decreasing proportions), incurring substantial personal and social costs along the way.<p>Accepting only vaccination as evidence of protection reduces the size of that risk-taking population, and the concomitant social costs.<p>Should there be a third policy option - accepting test-verified infection and recovery as of _now_ as evidence of protection, but discounting future recoveries? Based on the observational studies cited all over this thread , probably yes. Seems like associated costs would be higher though, and the only benefit would be less gnashing of teeth here and elsewhere, so its understandable the CDC isn&#x27;t rushing to implement it.<p>Should those people just be allowed to assume the risk? Not while the costs are predominantly social. Insurance (or tax-payers) pay the financial costs, healthcare workers bear the burden of treating a preventable illness, and we all assume the risk that healthcare resources will be stretched to the point of unavailability. While risk-takers do pay into the same system, their premiums don&#x27;t yet reflect the increased expected costs of their personal choice. While ICUs often run close to or at capacity in one hospital, rarely do they run close at every hospital in a region, as is happening in the south and will happen elsewhere. While it would be nice if there were more doctors, nurses and facilities able to treat patients, we&#x27;re at war with the army we&#x27;ve got.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?</title><url>https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2101</url></story> |
21,229,114 | 21,228,106 | 1 | 3 | 21,227,430 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Sharlin</author><text>There was something strangely familiar about the word &quot;raku&quot; but it took me a moment to make the connection. In Finnish, &quot;raakku&quot; is a common name for the mollusc species <i>Margaritifera margaritifera</i>, better known as the… <i>freshwater pearl mussel!</i> [1] I&#x27;m really not sure if this is an amazing coincidence or yet another layer of linguistic brilliance.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Freshwater_pearl_mussel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Freshwater_pearl_mussel</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>edflsafoiewq</author><text>From what I could tell, Raku appears to be from Rakudo, the Perl 6 compiler, which is a shortened form of rakuda-dou (=&quot;way of the camel&quot; in Japanese). Rakudo also means &quot;paradise&quot;. The &quot;raku&quot; from &quot;way of the camel&quot; means &quot;camel&quot;, while the &quot;raku&quot; from &quot;paradise&quot; means &quot;fun&quot; or &quot;enjoyable&quot; (or &quot;music&quot;).<p>Incidentally, it also happens to sound similar to &quot;roku&quot; (=&quot;six&quot;).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku</title><url>https://github.com/perl6/problem-solving/pull/89</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Grinnz</author><text>It is also a type of Japanese pottery. &quot;Raku pottery is &quot;imperfect but sophisticated&quot;, so that&#x27;s a fit :)&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;colabti.org&#x2F;irclogger&#x2F;irclogger_log&#x2F;perl6?date=2018-10-25#l584" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;colabti.org&#x2F;irclogger&#x2F;irclogger_log&#x2F;perl6?date=2018-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>edflsafoiewq</author><text>From what I could tell, Raku appears to be from Rakudo, the Perl 6 compiler, which is a shortened form of rakuda-dou (=&quot;way of the camel&quot; in Japanese). Rakudo also means &quot;paradise&quot;. The &quot;raku&quot; from &quot;way of the camel&quot; means &quot;camel&quot;, while the &quot;raku&quot; from &quot;paradise&quot; means &quot;fun&quot; or &quot;enjoyable&quot; (or &quot;music&quot;).<p>Incidentally, it also happens to sound similar to &quot;roku&quot; (=&quot;six&quot;).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku</title><url>https://github.com/perl6/problem-solving/pull/89</url></story> |
14,214,330 | 14,214,383 | 1 | 2 | 14,213,809 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ziszis</author><text>Waymo&#x27;s allegations now go much deeper and further back than just Otto:<p>* &quot;Levandowski was deceiving Google almost from the moment it hired him to work on the Street View maps project back in 2007.&quot;<p>* &quot;Levandowski controlled a company called Dogwood Leasing that hired ex-Google contractor and 510 Systems engineer Asheem Linaval to use Google’s secrets to develop self-driving car technology.&quot;<p>* &quot;Levandowski founded yet another startup, Odin Wave, feeding it confidential lidar technology ... renaming the company Tyto, to hide his involvement.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things learned from Anthony Levandowski's deposition in Waymo vs. Uber</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/waymo-vs-uber-8-things-i-learned-from-anthony-levandowski-taking-the-5th</url></story> | <instructions>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>The use of OMW Corp, which is just a contract CNC machine shop, indicates the LIDAR in dispute has moving parts. It&#x27;s probably just another rotating scanner. That approach is just for prototypes. Everybody serious is going with flash LIDAR or MEMS.<p>If he&#x27;d been talking to somebody about custom GaInAs photosensor ICs, that would indicate a more advanced technology.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things learned from Anthony Levandowski's deposition in Waymo vs. Uber</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/waymo-vs-uber-8-things-i-learned-from-anthony-levandowski-taking-the-5th</url></story> |
24,976,378 | 24,976,213 | 1 | 2 | 24,975,195 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tidepod12</author><text>This entire post is just unnecessary fear-mongering.<p>&gt;Also, &quot;500GB&#x2F;mo.&quot;, at launch. Let&#x27;s not forget those generous free limits can be slashed whenever it suits, and why they might be so generous for launch at all.<p>AWS has, to my knowledge, <i>never</i> increased the cost of <i>any</i> service after launch. They do, however, have a long history of reducing prices.<p>You also completely neglected to mention this part:<p>&gt;Simply authenticating with an AWS account increases free data bandwidth up to 5 TB each month when pulling images from the internet. And finally, workloads running in AWS will get unlimited data bandwidth from any region when pulling publicly shared images hosted on AWS.<p>So yes, AWS gives some incentive to create an AWS account, and an even further incentive to use AWS services. All I can say to that is... duh?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ralph87</author><text>500GB&#x2F;mo. presumably per IP address for anonymous pulls. Amazon have absolutely no problem revealing the true cost of egress when it suits them. Also, &quot;500GB&#x2F;mo.&quot;, at launch. Let&#x27;s not forget those generous free limits can be slashed whenever it suits, and why they might be so generous for launch at all.<p>Don&#x27;t be mistaken, actually using this for public images is falling for another &quot;data gravity&quot; marketing gimmick. So they attract enough public images that some folk find one or more of their services absolutely must pull from AWS, pushing their corporate NAT address over the 41GB&#x2F;day limit. Now your &quot;free&quot; hosting has become a reason for that company to start paying ~$45&#x2F;month to AWS in egress fees just to use your images, and perhaps with a new ticket in the backlog to consider simply moving the cluster to AWS.<p>&quot;But it&#x27;ll always be like that regardless of provider&quot;, not necessarily. The reason that Docker registry consumes a ridiculous amount of bandwidth is largely an architectural issue, both in the software and the design of the client&#x27;s network. Perhaps a better direction is addressing this immense waste of networking rather than turning it into another free marketing opportunity for a near-monopolistic cloud</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS pre-announces public container image registry</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/advice-for-customers-dealing-with-docker-hub-rate-limits-and-a-coming-soon-announcement/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>For commercial use, $45&#x2F;month is a low enough cost to be noise for many businesses (even though the bandwidth transfer markup is eye watering). If it’s breaking your budget, you can always pull and then push to another registry (it’s just tarballs after all) or build new images from scratch with your Dockerfiles. Open source projects and similar cost sensitive use cases might consider <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;miguelmota&#x2F;ipdr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;miguelmota&#x2F;ipdr</a><p>Docker Hub is similar to Youtube in the sense that it’s a whole lot of bandwidth and storage used and someone has to pay for it. Could you run your own? Time is expensive. Don’t unless you absolutely have to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ralph87</author><text>500GB&#x2F;mo. presumably per IP address for anonymous pulls. Amazon have absolutely no problem revealing the true cost of egress when it suits them. Also, &quot;500GB&#x2F;mo.&quot;, at launch. Let&#x27;s not forget those generous free limits can be slashed whenever it suits, and why they might be so generous for launch at all.<p>Don&#x27;t be mistaken, actually using this for public images is falling for another &quot;data gravity&quot; marketing gimmick. So they attract enough public images that some folk find one or more of their services absolutely must pull from AWS, pushing their corporate NAT address over the 41GB&#x2F;day limit. Now your &quot;free&quot; hosting has become a reason for that company to start paying ~$45&#x2F;month to AWS in egress fees just to use your images, and perhaps with a new ticket in the backlog to consider simply moving the cluster to AWS.<p>&quot;But it&#x27;ll always be like that regardless of provider&quot;, not necessarily. The reason that Docker registry consumes a ridiculous amount of bandwidth is largely an architectural issue, both in the software and the design of the client&#x27;s network. Perhaps a better direction is addressing this immense waste of networking rather than turning it into another free marketing opportunity for a near-monopolistic cloud</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS pre-announces public container image registry</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/advice-for-customers-dealing-with-docker-hub-rate-limits-and-a-coming-soon-announcement/</url></story> |
10,341,091 | 10,341,355 | 1 | 3 | 10,339,388 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>liquidise</author><text>Page on a full sized browser on a 13&quot; screen with ublock:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;gmyi3jjwq25w0d1&#x2F;surface_book.png?dl=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;gmyi3jjwq25w0d1&#x2F;surface_book.png?d...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>Wow, this page is a mess - here&#x27;s an element based breakdown of the switching elements in their presentation:<p>MSFT:<p>- nav 1<p>- nav 2<p>- header with what sounds like a call to action, but no button to buy?<p>- hero image with text overlaid that has terrible contrast nobody will read<p>- inter-page menus with some insane zooming function that scared my browser<p>- another hero image<p>- 3 columns - maybe buttons? no not clickable.<p>- another hero image<p>- 3 more columns - maybe buttons? no not clickable.<p>- another hero image<p>- 3 more columns - maybe buttons? no not clickable.<p>- 2 columns marketing other products? maybe buttons? yes - those little &quot;&gt;&quot; things mean they&#x27;re clickable i guess.<p>- 3 more columns - maybe buttons? ok now they&#x27;re buttons. but there&#x27;s no &quot;&gt;&quot;?<p>- another hero image with a price action, no button to click to follow the action! WTF!<p>VS vs the iPad Pro <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;ipad-pro&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;ipad-pro&#x2F;</a> which is single column and nav consistent throughout.<p>As the old quote goes &quot;If I&#x27;d had more time I would have written a shorter letter.&quot;<p>Feels rushed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/10/06/a-new-era-of-windows-10-devices-from-microsoft/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JacobDensly</author><text>So the Surface Book must be a fantastic device. Given that there&#x27;s seems nothing else to hate about ...</text><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>Wow, this page is a mess - here&#x27;s an element based breakdown of the switching elements in their presentation:<p>MSFT:<p>- nav 1<p>- nav 2<p>- header with what sounds like a call to action, but no button to buy?<p>- hero image with text overlaid that has terrible contrast nobody will read<p>- inter-page menus with some insane zooming function that scared my browser<p>- another hero image<p>- 3 columns - maybe buttons? no not clickable.<p>- another hero image<p>- 3 more columns - maybe buttons? no not clickable.<p>- another hero image<p>- 3 more columns - maybe buttons? no not clickable.<p>- 2 columns marketing other products? maybe buttons? yes - those little &quot;&gt;&quot; things mean they&#x27;re clickable i guess.<p>- 3 more columns - maybe buttons? ok now they&#x27;re buttons. but there&#x27;s no &quot;&gt;&quot;?<p>- another hero image with a price action, no button to click to follow the action! WTF!<p>VS vs the iPad Pro <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;ipad-pro&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;ipad-pro&#x2F;</a> which is single column and nav consistent throughout.<p>As the old quote goes &quot;If I&#x27;d had more time I would have written a shorter letter.&quot;<p>Feels rushed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/10/06/a-new-era-of-windows-10-devices-from-microsoft/</url></story> |
7,306,328 | 7,306,074 | 1 | 2 | 7,305,379 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lucian1900</author><text>There&#x27;s nothing in node.js that you can&#x27;t get with .NET&#x2F;Mono except for JavaScript, and even if you must run JS for some reason there are some solutions (like IronJS).</text><parent_chain><item><author>skrowl</author><text>.NET clone of node.js would be nice, because I like the idea of node.js but not enough to ditch all my .NET stuff (especially entity framework).</text></item><item><author>Yuioup</author><text>I had the same problem. I googled &quot;Mono Nancy&quot; and eventually found this:<p><a href="https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NancyFx&#x2F;Nancy</a><p>EDIT: It seems to be a .NET clone of node.js</text></item><item><author>skrowl</author><text>First time I&#x27;ve heard of Nancy. Anyone got a URL since it&#x27;s name is so terrible that you can&#x27;t google it?</text></item><item><author>romanovcode</author><text>MVC5 still not working tho. Good thing we have Nancy.<p>Edit: Seems like many do not know about Nancy, check it out, some even say it&#x27;s better than MVC. The good side is that it&#x27;s 100% compatible with Mono because they run tests against it too so you can host your C# websites on Linux.<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NancyFx&#x2F;Nancy</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mono 3.2.7 is out</title><url>http://news.mono-project.com/2014/02/25/mono-3-2-7-is-out/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chadzawistowski</author><text>Edge.js might interest you. It&#x27;s an interop library for .Net and node.js: <a href="http://tjanczuk.github.io/edge/#/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tjanczuk.github.io&#x2F;edge&#x2F;#&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>skrowl</author><text>.NET clone of node.js would be nice, because I like the idea of node.js but not enough to ditch all my .NET stuff (especially entity framework).</text></item><item><author>Yuioup</author><text>I had the same problem. I googled &quot;Mono Nancy&quot; and eventually found this:<p><a href="https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NancyFx&#x2F;Nancy</a><p>EDIT: It seems to be a .NET clone of node.js</text></item><item><author>skrowl</author><text>First time I&#x27;ve heard of Nancy. Anyone got a URL since it&#x27;s name is so terrible that you can&#x27;t google it?</text></item><item><author>romanovcode</author><text>MVC5 still not working tho. Good thing we have Nancy.<p>Edit: Seems like many do not know about Nancy, check it out, some even say it&#x27;s better than MVC. The good side is that it&#x27;s 100% compatible with Mono because they run tests against it too so you can host your C# websites on Linux.<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NancyFx&#x2F;Nancy</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mono 3.2.7 is out</title><url>http://news.mono-project.com/2014/02/25/mono-3-2-7-is-out/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</url></story> |
31,495,630 | 31,495,568 | 1 | 2 | 31,454,147 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kristjansson</author><text>It cannot be overstated that _none_ of the accompanying images on reports of this actually depict the location in question. AFAICT, only the CCTV&#x2F;CGTN state-media video[1] shows actual location, and the images are ... far less dramatic the the stock photos other outlets have chosen to run with.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C3QTq6tQfhY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C3QTq6tQfhY</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists discover an ancient forest inside a giant sinkhole in China</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2022/05/20/1100459262/giant-sinkhole-china-ancient-forest</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>clairity</author><text>these things are such a staple of chinese wuxia&#x2F;xianxia dramas. the hero(es) fall into the beautiful sinkhole full of ancient vegetation, get stuck there and meditate a lot, usually an ancestor&#x2F;spirit imparts their wisdom onto them, and then they emerge wiser and more powerful. it&#x27;s fun to imagine how those myths evolved through the various philosophy-religions like buddhism&#x2F;taoism&#x2F;confucionism.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists discover an ancient forest inside a giant sinkhole in China</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2022/05/20/1100459262/giant-sinkhole-china-ancient-forest</url></story> |
8,309,997 | 8,309,752 | 1 | 3 | 8,308,748 | 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>fivedogit</author><text>I built and ran a broadcast monitoring business for 5 years from 2003 to 2007, competing with services such as TVEyes and Critical Mention. It was called RooseveltMedia.com. At peak, it recorded and catalogued about 400+ shows per day in 15 media markets and had about 75 customers.<p>As we grew, I knew we needed to expand nationwide (which would require raising VC). My saying was &quot;We need Johnson and Johnson, not Congressman Johnson&#x27;s office.&quot; but this question of legality loomed very large. Legal or illegal? If illegal, no investor in his right mind would give us money. Unfortunately, the evidence I had at the time pointed towards &quot;illegal&quot; rather than &quot;legal&quot;:<p>1. There were lots of lawsuits. This Fox vs. TVEyes is not the first. We definitely tiptoed around TV groups so as not to draw attention.<p>2. The International Association of Broadcast Monitors (IABM, a group of regional services and some single-market self-employed folks) spent several hundred thousand dollars to try to get the law rewritten so that royalties would be set in stone, much like jukeboxes. Why would they do this if they didn&#x27;t all also believe it was illegal? In any case, the effort failed.<p>With this evidence in hand, I tried to grow the company organically, but it became untenable. We weren&#x27;t getting enough money from the single-market (or few-market) customers to fund the expansion. By contrast, Critical Mention was self-funded by a dot-commer, and completely ate our lunch. Even if we&#x27;d attempted to raise money, the fundraising sidetrack would have set us back by a few more miles and I had zero additional bandwidth. There really wasn&#x27;t a good answer to the question.<p>Ultimately, despite finding product-market fit almost immediately with this freshman business effort, I decided to pivot into a more &quot;legitimate&quot; business. I altered the tech to provide archiving systems for TV stations... and it went over like a lead balloon, cratering the businesses and leaving me with a pile of personal debt which took a couple of years of &quot;real world&quot; work to pay off.<p>Since then I&#x27;ve tried to start 2 more companies (huzon.tv and words4chrome.com) and while my execution and engineering skills have become vastly better, neither found product-market fit like the first. Beginner&#x27;s luck, I guess.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TV monitoring service is fair use, judge rules</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/tv-monitoring-service-is-fair-use-judge-rules/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toxican</author><text>&gt;The company has more than 2,200 subscribers, including the White House, 100 members of Congress, the Department of Defense, as well as big news organizations like Bloomberg, Reuters, ABC, and the Associated Press.<p>Yeah I don&#x27;t think they were ever in any real danger. This isn&#x27;t something average joe consumers like us use, this is something big corps, media companies, and politicians use.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TV monitoring service is fair use, judge rules</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/tv-monitoring-service-is-fair-use-judge-rules/</url></story> |
16,222,386 | 16,221,772 | 1 | 3 | 16,219,947 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sudhirj</author><text>There&#x27;s an interesting read by Taleb:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;incerto&#x2F;how-to-legally-own-another-person-4145a1802bf6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;incerto&#x2F;how-to-legally-own-another-person...</a><p>The argument made is that being a &quot;good employee&quot; and following the rules is a signal to your employer that you&#x27;re willing to make personal sacrifices to be dependable - the implication being that someone who follows the rules almost all the time is by necessity sacrificing some part of their personal interest.<p>It&#x27;s just that, though - managers want dependability as much as they want competence, sometimes more so. This may or may not be good for the company depending on the company. If the leverage of each employee (in terms of their ability to affect the bottom line) is small, then dependability is far more important. If the leverage is high, then the employee&#x27;s results dominate - the employee can come in whenever they want wearing whatever they want and say anything they want, as long as they make it rain.</text><parent_chain><item><author>subsubsub</author><text>Is turning up on time for your job a terrible metric?<p>To me being on time is just a very basic low level requirement of being a professional.<p>As the initial commenter said: trust goes both ways.
Turning up on time is a good way to show your manager that you can be trusted.<p><i>Edit:</i> Actually, turning up on time may not make your manager trust you more, but turning up late will definitely make them trust you less.</text></item><item><author>crdoconnor</author><text>IME this kind of experience comes when you have a manager who has no fundamental understanding of what it is that they are managing and has no particular reason to trust you.<p>A manager who can monitor your output by reading your pull requests simply won&#x27;t engage in this type of behavior whereas a manager who can&#x27;t will usually instinctively gravitate to terrible metrics like &quot;does he show dedication by being in at 9am rather than 9:05am&quot;?<p>Managers should form a very deep understanding of whom to trust and why or understand on a very deep level what it is that they are managing.<p>Managers who cannot do either of those things should be terminated with prejudice.<p>&gt;You have performance metrics for a reason!<p>As far as developing software goes, every single performance metric is terrible.</text></item><item><author>Greed</author><text>One of the issues I&#x27;ve had that isn&#x27;t mentioned here is the value of mutual trust. Communication and trust are the two cornerstones of a really solid manager &lt;-&gt; managee relationship in my experience. Whether that lack of trust manifests itself as micro-management, constant check-ins, or a constant threat of surveillance it can easily turn an above average performer into an apathetic and demoralized employee.<p>I used to work remotely for a company that spanned more than a few timezones, with a wonderful daily team manager and a not-so-great weekly department manager. Learning that my minutes and output were constantly monitored completely destroyed my trust with the latter, and had me searching within the week. My reaction to that was so strong I actually considered it a fortune when I was laid off for unrelated reasons rather than having to quit.<p>I would be reprimanded for signing on five minutes later than usual despite being on a team of individuals that spanned multiple countries, and would get a questioning ping if I was offline for more than 10 minutes (especially problematic if you&#x27;re the type of programmer to write or plan code on the whiteboard &#x2F; paper first). Extremely draining to deal with that sort of nonsense and mistrust.<p>Please, managers of the world, trust your employees! You have performance metrics for a reason!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>People leave managers, not companies</title><url>https://blog.intercom.com/people-leave-managers-not-companies/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelt</author><text>In software engineering, many companies prioritise &quot;getting your work done&quot; (which is admittedly a subjective, hard-to-quantify metric) and consider any metric that contradicts it to be suspect.<p>A person who believes this would say that if according to policy my best employee should work 9am-5pm, but he prefers to work from 7am-3pm and is my best employee, it is the policy not the employee that needs changing.<p>Personally, I always try to get to the bottom of this stuff during job interviews - nobody wins if the employee assumes there will be flex-time and the company doesn&#x27;t allow it!</text><parent_chain><item><author>subsubsub</author><text>Is turning up on time for your job a terrible metric?<p>To me being on time is just a very basic low level requirement of being a professional.<p>As the initial commenter said: trust goes both ways.
Turning up on time is a good way to show your manager that you can be trusted.<p><i>Edit:</i> Actually, turning up on time may not make your manager trust you more, but turning up late will definitely make them trust you less.</text></item><item><author>crdoconnor</author><text>IME this kind of experience comes when you have a manager who has no fundamental understanding of what it is that they are managing and has no particular reason to trust you.<p>A manager who can monitor your output by reading your pull requests simply won&#x27;t engage in this type of behavior whereas a manager who can&#x27;t will usually instinctively gravitate to terrible metrics like &quot;does he show dedication by being in at 9am rather than 9:05am&quot;?<p>Managers should form a very deep understanding of whom to trust and why or understand on a very deep level what it is that they are managing.<p>Managers who cannot do either of those things should be terminated with prejudice.<p>&gt;You have performance metrics for a reason!<p>As far as developing software goes, every single performance metric is terrible.</text></item><item><author>Greed</author><text>One of the issues I&#x27;ve had that isn&#x27;t mentioned here is the value of mutual trust. Communication and trust are the two cornerstones of a really solid manager &lt;-&gt; managee relationship in my experience. Whether that lack of trust manifests itself as micro-management, constant check-ins, or a constant threat of surveillance it can easily turn an above average performer into an apathetic and demoralized employee.<p>I used to work remotely for a company that spanned more than a few timezones, with a wonderful daily team manager and a not-so-great weekly department manager. Learning that my minutes and output were constantly monitored completely destroyed my trust with the latter, and had me searching within the week. My reaction to that was so strong I actually considered it a fortune when I was laid off for unrelated reasons rather than having to quit.<p>I would be reprimanded for signing on five minutes later than usual despite being on a team of individuals that spanned multiple countries, and would get a questioning ping if I was offline for more than 10 minutes (especially problematic if you&#x27;re the type of programmer to write or plan code on the whiteboard &#x2F; paper first). Extremely draining to deal with that sort of nonsense and mistrust.<p>Please, managers of the world, trust your employees! You have performance metrics for a reason!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>People leave managers, not companies</title><url>https://blog.intercom.com/people-leave-managers-not-companies/</url></story> |
3,225,613 | 3,225,570 | 1 | 3 | 3,225,055 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>old-gregg</author><text>Great comment. But allow me to disagree on comparing Gnome 2 to OSX. In my opinion old Gnome was exactly what you're talking about: "driving off the road". It wasn't like Windows or OSX, it was its own thing, the best desktop environment, in my opinion. The only element reminiscent of OSX (only visually, not functionally) perhaps was the menu at the top.<p>Unity, on the other hand, is the exact replica of Gnome 3, just not as polished graphically. They both have this weird "buaaa mode" where you're typing instead of clicking on a shortcut, they both destroy virtual desktop functionality and if anything, they're basically cloning OSX bad habits: instead of switching between windows on Alt+Tab they're now switching between apps (across virtual desktops!).<p>So I would suggest that the opposite is happening. Instead of staying in the "new place" Ubuntu is basically trying to get on the road and follow OSX.<p>Frankly, I'm not even sure it's possible to "drive off teh road to a new place" when it comes to desktop UX without a significant change in hardware: we're still using basically the same computers as we did in late 80s, even the screen real estate hasn't improved much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Personally I found it a bit snarky. By the same token I find that UI wars are the most vitriolic, after all they are the way you talk to the machine day in and day out. Screwing with that, screws with everything.<p>I have found Ubuntu's strategy interesting because it seemed clear that while KDE was following general guidelines around Microsoft OSes to be more accessible, and Gnome was following general guidelines around Apple OSes for similar reasons, Canonical sort of 'turned left' and drove off the road to a new place.<p>I remember distinctly when I left Sun and had to give up my Suntools interface for what became Windows98 at the time. And it was hokey and painful and it crashed a lot, except that over the weeks and months it crashed less and less, all without a software update :-). And I realized it was not so subtley training me not to use features that failed. Of course if you use something long enough you become reasonably facile with it. When I switched my desktop to Linux I was always more comfortable with KDE for that reason, the whole 'start' menu on the lower left, the control panel abstraction, the way things laid out on the screen.<p>When I went to Google I got a Macbook as my laptop choice, it was different, and I struggled at first, but once I became reasonably good at navigating around I found that I was also less annoyed with Gnome.<p>I think the Unity strategy at Canonical will pay them big dividends. Mostly because the Linux desktop market has been such a small part of the whole desktop market as to barely merit a full pixel width in a pie chart of desktop OSes. I believe that part of the reason for that is that the strategy of being 'kinda like' MacOS or Windows in the GUI has failed Linux badly when it comes to non-technical users. It failed them because there was neither the cohesion of implementation, nor the quality of testing, in either KDE or Gnome which would ever cause a non-technical user to think the GUI was 'better' than the one they left behind. Unity breaks that cycle because <i>it doesn't work like the GUI you used to use.</i> and so I think users cut it some slack, they realize they are in a 'new' place and learn how to do the things that they want to do in the way that this gui does them. And there isn't a mental comparison to their previous gui because it wasn't like this at all.<p>Assuming, and its a big assumption, that Canonical can execute on the Unity strategy well, it will continue to be the dominant Linux distro. Further it will increasingly leave behind every other distro, because while others may trade off market share amongst the technical users, where programmers slosh from one to the next, Unity will be gaining non-technical users who won't go anywhere else in the Linux space. Ever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu?</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/computing/104581-linux-mint-the-new-ubuntu</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Zephyr314</author><text>You can still use KDE with (K)ubuntu <a href="http://www.kubuntu.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kubuntu.org/</a><p>I find that it is a stable solution and allows you to sidestep the Gnome/Unity wars.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Personally I found it a bit snarky. By the same token I find that UI wars are the most vitriolic, after all they are the way you talk to the machine day in and day out. Screwing with that, screws with everything.<p>I have found Ubuntu's strategy interesting because it seemed clear that while KDE was following general guidelines around Microsoft OSes to be more accessible, and Gnome was following general guidelines around Apple OSes for similar reasons, Canonical sort of 'turned left' and drove off the road to a new place.<p>I remember distinctly when I left Sun and had to give up my Suntools interface for what became Windows98 at the time. And it was hokey and painful and it crashed a lot, except that over the weeks and months it crashed less and less, all without a software update :-). And I realized it was not so subtley training me not to use features that failed. Of course if you use something long enough you become reasonably facile with it. When I switched my desktop to Linux I was always more comfortable with KDE for that reason, the whole 'start' menu on the lower left, the control panel abstraction, the way things laid out on the screen.<p>When I went to Google I got a Macbook as my laptop choice, it was different, and I struggled at first, but once I became reasonably good at navigating around I found that I was also less annoyed with Gnome.<p>I think the Unity strategy at Canonical will pay them big dividends. Mostly because the Linux desktop market has been such a small part of the whole desktop market as to barely merit a full pixel width in a pie chart of desktop OSes. I believe that part of the reason for that is that the strategy of being 'kinda like' MacOS or Windows in the GUI has failed Linux badly when it comes to non-technical users. It failed them because there was neither the cohesion of implementation, nor the quality of testing, in either KDE or Gnome which would ever cause a non-technical user to think the GUI was 'better' than the one they left behind. Unity breaks that cycle because <i>it doesn't work like the GUI you used to use.</i> and so I think users cut it some slack, they realize they are in a 'new' place and learn how to do the things that they want to do in the way that this gui does them. And there isn't a mental comparison to their previous gui because it wasn't like this at all.<p>Assuming, and its a big assumption, that Canonical can execute on the Unity strategy well, it will continue to be the dominant Linux distro. Further it will increasingly leave behind every other distro, because while others may trade off market share amongst the technical users, where programmers slosh from one to the next, Unity will be gaining non-technical users who won't go anywhere else in the Linux space. Ever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu?</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/computing/104581-linux-mint-the-new-ubuntu</url></story> |
29,650,570 | 29,650,953 | 1 | 2 | 29,650,182 | 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>mikece</author><text>After watching Geerling&#x27;s video on YouTube about building an ARM NAS I almost went that direction -- but opted for a Synology DS918+ instead because my need for a NAS is not just experimental but something that needs to work reliably.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Raspberry Pi holds its own against low-cost ARM NAS</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-holds-its-own-against-low-cost-arm-nas</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lunfard000</author><text>Raspberry is not really cheap anymore. The start package (rp4 4gb + charger + sd + ethernet&#x2F;hdmi cables) is 100 euros in my country.<p>Meanwhile you can get a GK3V mini pc on Aliexpress with a j4125, 8gb LPDDR4 and 256GB SSD for 180 euros, which probably has 3x-4x the performance of the pi.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Raspberry Pi holds its own against low-cost ARM NAS</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-holds-its-own-against-low-cost-arm-nas</url></story> |
31,712,454 | 31,712,308 | 1 | 3 | 31,711,913 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coffinbirth</author><text>Synthetic mRNA based vaccine induces heart damage is not a binary concept (i.e. you either have it or not), but depends on the amount of cardiac cells attacked and destroyed by the immune system due to exposing the spike protein. People develop problems many weeks after vaccination, here are exemplary case reports (excluded from the FDA funded garbage study):<p>* &quot;18 days after his second dose&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;epdf&#x2F;10.1111&#x2F;pace.14486" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;epdf&#x2F;10.1111&#x2F;pace.14486</a><p>* &quot;chest pain one week after second dose&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstage.jst.go.jp&#x2F;article&#x2F;internalmedicine&#x2F;advpub&#x2F;0&#x2F;advpub_8711-21&#x2F;_pdf&#x2F;-char&#x2F;ja" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstage.jst.go.jp&#x2F;article&#x2F;internalmedicine&#x2F;advpub...</a><p>* &quot;chest pain 2 weeks after mRNA vaccination&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nejm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;10.1056&#x2F;NEJMc2109975" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nejm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;10.1056&#x2F;NEJMc2109975</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Risk of myocarditis after the Covid-19 mRNA vaccination in the USA cohort study</title><url>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00791-7/fulltext</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scotty79</author><text>It might be that any activation of immune system has an effect of additional risk of myocarditis.<p>If billion people caught a cold rougly at the same rate as covid vaccinations were rolled out we might probably easily see additional risk of myocarditits from that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.getwellue.com&#x2F;a-common-cold-may-cause-viral-myocarditis&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.getwellue.com&#x2F;a-common-cold-may-cause-viral-myo...</a><p>We are seeing now weird cases of hepatitis in children when 3 years worth of common colds and flus got compressed into one because of lockdowns in 2020, 2021.<p>This additional risks are so low that we can&#x27;t measure them when they are spread randomly over of period of time but noticeable if we pay close attention to relationship between the event (like cold or vaccination) and the severe rare symptoms.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Risk of myocarditis after the Covid-19 mRNA vaccination in the USA cohort study</title><url>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00791-7/fulltext</url></story> |
27,320,883 | 27,320,322 | 1 | 2 | 27,316,115 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>naikrovek</author><text>no no, that&#x27;s not the problem. reddit lets one person post in a particular place for a particular topic, and other places for other topics.<p>no one is complaining that a given person talks about multiple things.<p>people sometimes complain that there is only one topic on Twitter: the main stream, and therefore only one way to consume the things those individuals say. it&#x27;s all or none, and that&#x27;s what people are not happy about.<p>there&#x27;s an argument to be made that &quot;this is how Twitter is&quot; which is valid, I think.<p>there&#x27;s also an argument to be made that &quot;my interests are specific, and everything else wastes my time&quot; and I think there is just as much merit in that point of view.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dpeck</author><text>God forbid anyone be multifaceted.<p>It seems the the rise of influencer culture led to everyone else feeling like they had to only be in a specific niche, and only speak about it or they weren’t going to serve their “fanbase”.<p>And you know they’re probably right that they wouldn’t serve that fanbase, but good grief has it made the net a generally much more boring place with space only for near-deified experts &amp; influencers and perpetual newbs, leaving little room for anyone in the middle to have nuanced and varied conversations.</text></item><item><author>hk__2</author><text>My main issue with Twitter is that you follow people, but those people have different interests. So I may follow @JohnSmith because he’s a known dev in the JS community and tweets about JS, but he also tweets about his country’s politics, what he ate at lunch, and engage in heated debats about pineapple on pizza I don’t care about.<p>Twitter recently introduced topics, so that you can follow one topic that aggregates lots of tweets from various people.
This is not what I want: I’d like to follow @JohnSmith, but only for the JS content.<p>As someone who tweets, I’d like some sort of kafka-ish topic queues: I would post tweets about JS in the JS queue, and tweets about Italian food in that other queue, so that people could follow the queues they want. In the end I don’t tweet on either topic because I’m afraid I’ll deceive people who followed me for the other content.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter confirms Twitter Blue</title><url>https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1398022730553860102</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>obstacle1</author><text>&gt; God forbid anyone be multifaceted.<p>It&#x27;s fine (and necessary) for everyone to be multifaceted. But it&#x27;s not wrong to not care about some facets of a person you follow, in the context of social media.<p>Even two different people following the same person would care about different facets of that person, and not care about others.<p>The point is it&#x27;s easier to manage the stream of information available to you if you can filter signal from noise in a way that you want.<p>Does that create a filter bubble? Maybe. Would it be better for everyone to read everything from everyone to get a broader perspective? Maybe. Or, maybe that would be worse, since there would be so much noise to sift through that the signal would be impossible to find.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dpeck</author><text>God forbid anyone be multifaceted.<p>It seems the the rise of influencer culture led to everyone else feeling like they had to only be in a specific niche, and only speak about it or they weren’t going to serve their “fanbase”.<p>And you know they’re probably right that they wouldn’t serve that fanbase, but good grief has it made the net a generally much more boring place with space only for near-deified experts &amp; influencers and perpetual newbs, leaving little room for anyone in the middle to have nuanced and varied conversations.</text></item><item><author>hk__2</author><text>My main issue with Twitter is that you follow people, but those people have different interests. So I may follow @JohnSmith because he’s a known dev in the JS community and tweets about JS, but he also tweets about his country’s politics, what he ate at lunch, and engage in heated debats about pineapple on pizza I don’t care about.<p>Twitter recently introduced topics, so that you can follow one topic that aggregates lots of tweets from various people.
This is not what I want: I’d like to follow @JohnSmith, but only for the JS content.<p>As someone who tweets, I’d like some sort of kafka-ish topic queues: I would post tweets about JS in the JS queue, and tweets about Italian food in that other queue, so that people could follow the queues they want. In the end I don’t tweet on either topic because I’m afraid I’ll deceive people who followed me for the other content.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter confirms Twitter Blue</title><url>https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1398022730553860102</url></story> |
12,035,430 | 12,034,135 | 1 | 3 | 12,031,676 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deanCommie</author><text>Sorry I don&#x27;t understand your point about travel adapters.<p>1. I go to your link<p>2. &quot;Oh cool, there&#x27;s a lot of travel adapters&quot;<p>3. Filter by free shipping<p>4 (optional). See the top 2 are Sponsored, which makes me less likely to trust them, so ignore them. [NOTE: This is similar behaviour to using ANY search engine]<p>5. Open the top 3 links (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;MX-UC1-Protector-Universal-Charger-Adapter&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00E0FZSQC&#x2F;ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1467713126&amp;sr=8-4&amp;keywords=travel+adapter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;MX-UC1-Protector-Universal-Charger-Ad...</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Adapter-Worldwide-Universal-Converters-Charging&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B01DJ140LQ&#x2F;ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1467713126&amp;sr=8-5&amp;keywords=travel+adapter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Adapter-Worldwide-Universal-Converter...</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Grounded-Universal-Schuko-Adapter-Germany&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B004SY5O5K&#x2F;ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1467713126&amp;sr=8-6&amp;keywords=travel+adapter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Grounded-Universal-Schuko-Adapter-Ger...</a>)<p>6. Dismiss #2 because it&#x27;s twice the cost of the other ones and has lower reviews<p>7A. Pick #3 because it&#x27;s a &quot;best seller&quot; - which means it has been vetted by other customers<p>7B. Pick #1 because it looks the nicest<p>Both have mostly good reviews with some bad ones, but hey it&#x27;s a 7 dollar piece of plastic that tries to work in 150 different countries, it&#x27;s not going to be perfect.<p>What is so customer unfriendly about this process?<p>Oh and by the way, this is a POWER user process who really wants to get the best one. A layperson could have just as easily just went straight for the &quot;Best seller&quot; and been satisfied.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>It&#x27;s really an awful process buying a lot of items nowadays. It seems like the exact same item will be sold under 30 different brands with different star levels, with many reviews full of the &quot;free product&quot; in for honest (usually 5 star) reviews.<p>I wish Jeff Bezos would try buying a travel adapter (among many other items I&#x27;ve tried to buy recently) and tell me that it&#x27;s a customer friendly process: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ref=sr_pg_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Atravel+adapter&amp;keywords=travel+adapter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ref=sr_pg_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Atravel...</a><p>There are approximately 5 actually different adapters sold under maybe 50+ brands, and all the reviews are so padded with 5* free reviews, it&#x27;s tough to know which ones are crap and which are good.<p>Reviews aren&#x27;t as important for retailers like Wal-Mart that curate their products. But for a marketplace like Amazon, reviews are absolutely critical to prevent scams. I hope Amazon realizes the enormity of this issue and is working on it.<p>I believe Amazon should:<p>1. Fix the reviews. Disallow giving items for free or reduced prices in exchange for reviews. This may have worked originally for books, but any benefit received now is far out shadowed by the negatives. Alternatively, just limit it to 5 total free &#x2F; reduced reviews per product to limit the negative effect. Police this policy heavily.<p>2. For the duplicate products (where one identical product is sold under 10 different brands, like in the travel adapter example above): Group the products together, and choose the brand like you might choose the color or size on a t-shirt. I recognize that there isn&#x27;t a UPC numbering system that makes this easy - but there are probably only a few thousand items required to group together to make the buying process a lot easier for a large percentage of purchases.</text></item><item><author>uptown</author><text>The thing I don&#x27;t get about Amazon is they&#x27;ve allowed entire categories of products to become unbuyable from their site. Batteries? Every review seems to indicate what&#x27;s sold is some substandard knock-off. Medical products like thermometers? They&#x27;re all reviews from people who got the product for free in exchange for writing a review. Their brand is rapidly being tarnished in my view.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Is Quietly Eliminating List Prices</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/business/amazon-is-quietly-eliminating-list-prices.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>nommm-nommm</author><text>The brand thing - Amazon&#x2F;Alibaba combo makes it very trivial for the average Joe to sell their own private label product with only a few hundred dollar startup costs. That leads to a ton of market saturation and the paradox of choice when grown unchecked. I guess they really love saying that they have however million products or whatever.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>It&#x27;s really an awful process buying a lot of items nowadays. It seems like the exact same item will be sold under 30 different brands with different star levels, with many reviews full of the &quot;free product&quot; in for honest (usually 5 star) reviews.<p>I wish Jeff Bezos would try buying a travel adapter (among many other items I&#x27;ve tried to buy recently) and tell me that it&#x27;s a customer friendly process: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ref=sr_pg_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Atravel+adapter&amp;keywords=travel+adapter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ref=sr_pg_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Atravel...</a><p>There are approximately 5 actually different adapters sold under maybe 50+ brands, and all the reviews are so padded with 5* free reviews, it&#x27;s tough to know which ones are crap and which are good.<p>Reviews aren&#x27;t as important for retailers like Wal-Mart that curate their products. But for a marketplace like Amazon, reviews are absolutely critical to prevent scams. I hope Amazon realizes the enormity of this issue and is working on it.<p>I believe Amazon should:<p>1. Fix the reviews. Disallow giving items for free or reduced prices in exchange for reviews. This may have worked originally for books, but any benefit received now is far out shadowed by the negatives. Alternatively, just limit it to 5 total free &#x2F; reduced reviews per product to limit the negative effect. Police this policy heavily.<p>2. For the duplicate products (where one identical product is sold under 10 different brands, like in the travel adapter example above): Group the products together, and choose the brand like you might choose the color or size on a t-shirt. I recognize that there isn&#x27;t a UPC numbering system that makes this easy - but there are probably only a few thousand items required to group together to make the buying process a lot easier for a large percentage of purchases.</text></item><item><author>uptown</author><text>The thing I don&#x27;t get about Amazon is they&#x27;ve allowed entire categories of products to become unbuyable from their site. Batteries? Every review seems to indicate what&#x27;s sold is some substandard knock-off. Medical products like thermometers? They&#x27;re all reviews from people who got the product for free in exchange for writing a review. Their brand is rapidly being tarnished in my view.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Is Quietly Eliminating List Prices</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/business/amazon-is-quietly-eliminating-list-prices.html</url></story> |
34,390,956 | 34,390,734 | 1 | 2 | 34,388,990 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tetha</author><text>Yeah. I&#x27;ve been ranting about a similar thing in the context of jsonwebtoken to our security guy some days ago. The vulnerability pretty much goes &quot;Well if I can inject an object with a toString() method of my choosing into your running program, then you&#x27;re totally vulnerable&quot;. Yeah, if you can inject and execute code.. you have achieved RCE? Kind of the whole pickle-discussion from python.<p>And nontheless, the assumed precondition for the vulnerability allows you to poison the key used to verify web tokens, so if you can inject data there, very big things immediately explode, like the entire authentication of the system collapsing.<p>But anyway, it&#x27;s going round as a 7.6 with &quot;trivial exploitation&quot; in &quot;JWTs&quot; and OIDC uses those... and now I have scared developers, and POs and customers calling and so on.<p>This makes it quite challenging and honestly somewhat exhausting to attempt to define a somewhat straightforward security process which doesn&#x27;t cause alert fatigue very quickly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>I <i>really</i> dislike this dilution of “zero-day” and “supply chain attack”: these are typosquats, not package takeovers. There’s no evidence that they’re widely affecting companies or individual developers whatsoever.<p>In general, you can apply a “repetition” test to these sorts of 0day claims: if the attacker can create infinite “0days” using the exact same technique, it’s not an 0day.<p>Edit: More generally, otherwise serious security companies should be ashamed to publish dreck like this. It’s one thing to highlight a tool that automatically detects new typosquats (this would be a genuinely useful contribution to most packaging ecosystems!); it’s another thing entirely to breathlessly hype non-existent attacks. This kind of false vigilance breeds <i>exactly</i> the kind of complacency that it’s supposedly intended to prevent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Supply Chain Attack Using PyPI Packages “Colorslib”, “Httpslib”, and “Libhttps”</title><url>https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/supply-chain-attack-using-identical-pypi-packages-colorslib-httpslib-libhttps</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I know some folks in the security industry. There is a crazy wide gap between capable security people and services and downright frauds.<p>To some extent that exists everywhere but at least say a developer who is terrible and can’t ship anything gets filtered out at some point. Security land is absurd.<p>All the security people I know are very sensitive about it and have in many situations felt the need to &#x2F; have quit a job after a fraud was hired. They’re not dogmatic about security but they do care deeply about being productive and a sense that it’s their job to provide quality advice and actions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>I <i>really</i> dislike this dilution of “zero-day” and “supply chain attack”: these are typosquats, not package takeovers. There’s no evidence that they’re widely affecting companies or individual developers whatsoever.<p>In general, you can apply a “repetition” test to these sorts of 0day claims: if the attacker can create infinite “0days” using the exact same technique, it’s not an 0day.<p>Edit: More generally, otherwise serious security companies should be ashamed to publish dreck like this. It’s one thing to highlight a tool that automatically detects new typosquats (this would be a genuinely useful contribution to most packaging ecosystems!); it’s another thing entirely to breathlessly hype non-existent attacks. This kind of false vigilance breeds <i>exactly</i> the kind of complacency that it’s supposedly intended to prevent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Supply Chain Attack Using PyPI Packages “Colorslib”, “Httpslib”, and “Libhttps”</title><url>https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/supply-chain-attack-using-identical-pypi-packages-colorslib-httpslib-libhttps</url></story> |
6,722,023 | 6,720,739 | 1 | 3 | 6,719,487 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;but this would create a perverse incentive to ALWAYS default on loans.&quot;<p>Statically, yes. However I&#x27;m having a harder time mentally analyzing what this would do <i>dynamically</i>, which is a much more interesting problem, since the real world is not static.<p>My first approximation is that because &quot;everyone&quot; would know this is something they can do with their debt, that lending would consequently become much more rare, and lenders would be <i>much</i> more careful about securing their loans. The initial impact on the economy would probably be sharply negative; what happens after that is probably a &quot;your guess is as good as mine&quot; situation, even amongst economists. Attitudes about debt have varied widely throughout time and space. Some will say tightened lending will wreck the economy longterm, others would suggest that loose lending has <i>already</i> wrecked the economy and the initial shock would simply be paying down damage already done, after which the economy would be much healthier. Which side you fall down on probably has more to do with ideology than education; given how much trouble economists have explaining even our <i>current</i> economy I&#x27;m not willing to give even experts much credence for explaining how such a different one would work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dchmiel</author><text>It is better for yourself and the creditor to just bypass the horrible and at times abusive debt collectors, but this would create a perverse incentive to ALWAYS default on loans.<p>Creditors asses your potential for default and base the rate of lending on that risk. In your scenario the rate of default would always be high therefore the rate that you borrow at would be extremely high, think loan shark high. Or you would find that no one is willing to lend money and this would cripple an important part of the financial system. Think student loans never existing.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Random idea: If a creditor is about to sell your debt to a debt collector for pennies on the dollar, what if they were forced, by law, to give you right of first refusal?<p>For example: I owe a credit card company $20k, but I have defaulted on the loan. The credit card company is about to sell this debt to a collector for $1k, who will proceed to make my life miserable. If there were such a law, the credit card company would first have to offer the debt to me for $1k. In this scenario, I could indeed buy my own debt and we all could go on our merry way (except the debt collector).<p>Crazy?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/12/occupy-wall-street-activists-15m-personal-debt</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bwilliams18</author><text>Except defaulting on the loan still has a significant hit on your credit rating, and maybe buying your debt is another negative score on your credit rating.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dchmiel</author><text>It is better for yourself and the creditor to just bypass the horrible and at times abusive debt collectors, but this would create a perverse incentive to ALWAYS default on loans.<p>Creditors asses your potential for default and base the rate of lending on that risk. In your scenario the rate of default would always be high therefore the rate that you borrow at would be extremely high, think loan shark high. Or you would find that no one is willing to lend money and this would cripple an important part of the financial system. Think student loans never existing.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Random idea: If a creditor is about to sell your debt to a debt collector for pennies on the dollar, what if they were forced, by law, to give you right of first refusal?<p>For example: I owe a credit card company $20k, but I have defaulted on the loan. The credit card company is about to sell this debt to a collector for $1k, who will proceed to make my life miserable. If there were such a law, the credit card company would first have to offer the debt to me for $1k. In this scenario, I could indeed buy my own debt and we all could go on our merry way (except the debt collector).<p>Crazy?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/12/occupy-wall-street-activists-15m-personal-debt</url></story> |
16,688,371 | 16,687,884 | 1 | 2 | 16,687,521 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cptskippy</author><text>&gt; USPS benefited from national mail logistics only being available to government level endeavors.<p>What Kool-Aid are you drinking? The Post Office didn&#x27;t benefit from anything, it was mandated because no such service yet existed.<p>Prior to the Office of the Postmaster General being established, postal service was disjointed and limited at best in the colonies. In the 1600s you had 2 routes in the colonies, Boston to England and Boston to New York City. It was prohibitively expensive and limited largely to business and government communications. In the 1700s the Imperial Postal Service was extended to the colonies with fixed rates and taxes included, and it was incredibly unreliable.<p>The Post Office was born out of frustration, one of the founding fathers ran a news paper and the Imperial Post couldn&#x27;t even deliver papers reliably. The Post Office was mandated by the founding fathers under the principle that everyone has the right to secure, efficient, reliable, and affordable mail service.<p>With the advent of the Interstate Highway System and many other technological advances over the prevailing 200 years, the Post Office was actually able to reduce costs and turn a profit.<p>During the civil rights movements of the 50s and 60s, the postal workers began protesting and striking because work conditions and compensation. They eventually won the right to unionized. In response to unionization the Postal Reorganization Act (PRA) of 1970 abolished the Post Office Department and turned the Post Office into an independent agency that was excluded from the US Budget.<p>One could argue that the PRA was the start of union busting tactics employed by the conservative government in power to bankrupt the post office. It doesn&#x27;t help that every conservative government since then has enacted some sort of constraint upon the USPS that isn&#x27;t mandated on private services. The most recent being the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 which required the USPS to switch from a Pay-As-You-Go to a Pre-Funded model for it&#x27;s retirement plans. That&#x27;s akin to your mortgage company calling you up and saying you&#x27;ll need to pay off 100% of your principal next year.</text><parent_chain><item><author>huffmsa</author><text>Yes, it&#x27;s purely based on artificial scarcity. Which historical never lasts.<p>PanAm went bust because they banked on price fixed airline tickets.<p>USPS benefited from national mail logistics only being available to government level endeavors.<p>DeBeers is about to get crushed by artificial diamonds which are both cheaper and &quot;better diamonds&quot; than the massive stockpile they&#x27;ve accumulated.<p>The rocket industry has long labored under the delusion that massive government contracts underwriting their $100m launch prices keep them safe. But their bubble is popping one $60m Falcon 9 launch at a time.<p>And finally, the government will support whatever brings in the most taxes and f̶r̶e̶e̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶a̶l̶-̶i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶e̶s̶t̶ lobbyist dinners.</text></item><item><author>refurb</author><text>To be honest, I actually feel bad for medallion owners, even if the medallion system is a bad one.<p>The gov&#x27;t sets ups a system, tells you the rules and says &quot;if you buy an expensive medallion, you can drive a cab and make a living&quot;. The value of the medallion is purely based on the gov&#x27;t promise to maintain the system.<p>So you buy one (or many) and a few years later someone does a work around and the gov&#x27;t says &quot;oh well, I&#x27;m not going to try to enforce the medallion system any more.&quot;<p>That sucks.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I was mostly agreeing with the article until this part:<p>&quot;His medallion, once worth $1.1 million, had plummeted in value to $180,000. The dramatic drop in the value of the medallion, which he had hoped to lease for $3,000 a month or sell to finance his retirement, wiped out his economic security. He faced financial ruin and poverty. And he was not alone.&quot;<p>The medalions are stupid and shouldn&#x27;t exist. Relying on their &quot;value&quot; for retirement is crazy. And like another commenter has said - if it was worth 1.1 million, why not sell it and retire, perhaps doing a less stressful job than driving a taxi for 12 hours in turns with your wife? It sounds like he gambled - that he could keep working, keep the medallion, and retire while leasing the medallion for $3000&#x2F;month(!!!!!!!!!!) - and like all gambles, this one had a possibility of failing - and it did.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'The Gig Economy' Is the New Term for Serfdom</title><url>https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-gig-economy-is-the-new-term-for-serfdom/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rhino369</author><text>DeBeers already got crushed by Canadian mines. Their cartel fell apart 10+ years ago.</text><parent_chain><item><author>huffmsa</author><text>Yes, it&#x27;s purely based on artificial scarcity. Which historical never lasts.<p>PanAm went bust because they banked on price fixed airline tickets.<p>USPS benefited from national mail logistics only being available to government level endeavors.<p>DeBeers is about to get crushed by artificial diamonds which are both cheaper and &quot;better diamonds&quot; than the massive stockpile they&#x27;ve accumulated.<p>The rocket industry has long labored under the delusion that massive government contracts underwriting their $100m launch prices keep them safe. But their bubble is popping one $60m Falcon 9 launch at a time.<p>And finally, the government will support whatever brings in the most taxes and f̶r̶e̶e̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶a̶l̶-̶i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶e̶s̶t̶ lobbyist dinners.</text></item><item><author>refurb</author><text>To be honest, I actually feel bad for medallion owners, even if the medallion system is a bad one.<p>The gov&#x27;t sets ups a system, tells you the rules and says &quot;if you buy an expensive medallion, you can drive a cab and make a living&quot;. The value of the medallion is purely based on the gov&#x27;t promise to maintain the system.<p>So you buy one (or many) and a few years later someone does a work around and the gov&#x27;t says &quot;oh well, I&#x27;m not going to try to enforce the medallion system any more.&quot;<p>That sucks.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I was mostly agreeing with the article until this part:<p>&quot;His medallion, once worth $1.1 million, had plummeted in value to $180,000. The dramatic drop in the value of the medallion, which he had hoped to lease for $3,000 a month or sell to finance his retirement, wiped out his economic security. He faced financial ruin and poverty. And he was not alone.&quot;<p>The medalions are stupid and shouldn&#x27;t exist. Relying on their &quot;value&quot; for retirement is crazy. And like another commenter has said - if it was worth 1.1 million, why not sell it and retire, perhaps doing a less stressful job than driving a taxi for 12 hours in turns with your wife? It sounds like he gambled - that he could keep working, keep the medallion, and retire while leasing the medallion for $3000&#x2F;month(!!!!!!!!!!) - and like all gambles, this one had a possibility of failing - and it did.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'The Gig Economy' Is the New Term for Serfdom</title><url>https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-gig-economy-is-the-new-term-for-serfdom/</url></story> |
36,088,147 | 36,087,733 | 1 | 2 | 36,082,180 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>manicennui</author><text>Except, you know, the site you are using right now, and a large number of sites that use Clojure&#x2F;Clojurescript.</text><parent_chain><item><author>idlewords</author><text>Another reason you won&#x27;t find people using string templates to produce HTML in Lisp is that no one uses it for web development. This phenomenon where multiple language features conspire to prevent misuse is called defense in depth and is one of the great strengths of the language.</text></item><item><author>hajile</author><text>Yet another incident of Greenspun’s Tenth Rule.<p>Lisp macros make adding HTML syntax easy. You won’t find anyone using string templates in that language because a handful of macros means you can just program like it’s just lisp.<p>Strings such primarily because they don’t establish regularity. If you don’t understand everything fully and follow their patterns exactly, it’s easy to accidentally lose your pseudo-macro hygiene and output garbage.<p>JSX was a revelation simply because it was a “macro” (DSL) that ECMA had already designed an entire spec around (E4X) and thoroughly baked into the language. Like with Lisp, you could just use your normal coding patterns to interface.<p>A custom HTML macro baked into the syntax makes sense in a language where almost everyone using it is going to need HTML. It would make far less sense to dedicate all that syntax space in a more general purpose language.<p>And in JS, even with all that design time spent on E4X, you are still back to doing string interpolation the second you step away from that specific syntax (or you’re forced to express everything as HTML even if it’s not a good fit).<p>The world would be a better place if JS had been scheme and people had been forced to learn a lisp.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/OnHTMLViaStringTemplates</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AnonymousPlanet</author><text>Historically, web development is among the most noteworthy uses of Lisp in business. Reddit and PG&#x27;s work come to mind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>idlewords</author><text>Another reason you won&#x27;t find people using string templates to produce HTML in Lisp is that no one uses it for web development. This phenomenon where multiple language features conspire to prevent misuse is called defense in depth and is one of the great strengths of the language.</text></item><item><author>hajile</author><text>Yet another incident of Greenspun’s Tenth Rule.<p>Lisp macros make adding HTML syntax easy. You won’t find anyone using string templates in that language because a handful of macros means you can just program like it’s just lisp.<p>Strings such primarily because they don’t establish regularity. If you don’t understand everything fully and follow their patterns exactly, it’s easy to accidentally lose your pseudo-macro hygiene and output garbage.<p>JSX was a revelation simply because it was a “macro” (DSL) that ECMA had already designed an entire spec around (E4X) and thoroughly baked into the language. Like with Lisp, you could just use your normal coding patterns to interface.<p>A custom HTML macro baked into the syntax makes sense in a language where almost everyone using it is going to need HTML. It would make far less sense to dedicate all that syntax space in a more general purpose language.<p>And in JS, even with all that design time spent on E4X, you are still back to doing string interpolation the second you step away from that specific syntax (or you’re forced to express everything as HTML even if it’s not a good fit).<p>The world would be a better place if JS had been scheme and people had been forced to learn a lisp.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/OnHTMLViaStringTemplates</url></story> |
35,255,418 | 35,249,354 | 1 | 3 | 35,248,098 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>b3morales</author><text>You do have to remember to use it, but the thing to keep in mind is that you can pipe a list of <i>ANYTHING</i> into it. Any list of text items you can search through with a text query is fair game.<p><pre><code> git log --oneline | fzf
</code></pre>
for example is one of my favorite tricks. Instead of scanning by eye or repeatedly grepping to find something, it&#x27;s a live fuzzy filter. And depending on how deep you want to go you can then add key bindings to check out the selected commit, or preview the full message, or anything really.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Fantastic article.<p>I was exactly in the situation the article describes, I installed it, then, didn&#x27;t find a use case.<p>But that&#x27;s because Ubuntu doesn&#x27;t come with completion enabled by default.<p>You have to add in your bashrc:<p><pre><code> if [ -e &#x2F;usr&#x2F;share&#x2F;doc&#x2F;fzf&#x2F;examples&#x2F;key-bindings.bash ]; then
source &#x2F;usr&#x2F;share&#x2F;doc&#x2F;fzf&#x2F;examples&#x2F;key-bindings.bash
fi
</code></pre>
The fzf and ubuntu docs don&#x27;t mention you have to.<p>Couldn&#x27;t find easily how to do it with google, but chatgpt saved the day once again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>So you've installed `fzf` – now what?</title><url>https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>triyambakam</author><text>The default install script asks if you want to install key bindings and adds that to your bashrc. How did you install fzf?</text><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Fantastic article.<p>I was exactly in the situation the article describes, I installed it, then, didn&#x27;t find a use case.<p>But that&#x27;s because Ubuntu doesn&#x27;t come with completion enabled by default.<p>You have to add in your bashrc:<p><pre><code> if [ -e &#x2F;usr&#x2F;share&#x2F;doc&#x2F;fzf&#x2F;examples&#x2F;key-bindings.bash ]; then
source &#x2F;usr&#x2F;share&#x2F;doc&#x2F;fzf&#x2F;examples&#x2F;key-bindings.bash
fi
</code></pre>
The fzf and ubuntu docs don&#x27;t mention you have to.<p>Couldn&#x27;t find easily how to do it with google, but chatgpt saved the day once again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>So you've installed `fzf` – now what?</title><url>https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf/</url></story> |
30,909,968 | 30,909,600 | 1 | 2 | 30,908,084 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>For a while I held onto this archaic 1950 textbook on geology, solely because the introductory chapter included something like &quot;the now thoroughly discredited crackpot theory of plate tectonics, which we will not consider here.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>bee_rider</author><text>I also liked:<p>&quot;I still get the occasional joke from colleagues about my ‘crackpot consultant business’, but I’ve stopped thinking of our clients that way. They are driven by the same desire to understand nature and make a contribution to science as we are. They just weren’t lucky enough to get the required education early in life, and now they have a hard time figuring out where to even begin.&quot;<p>In some sense, labeling somebody a &quot;crackpot&quot; assigns a sort of malicious wrongness to them. It is interesting to see somebody who&#x27;s dealt with a significant subset of these people and discovered more actual, honest misunderstanding than we (or at least I) would have expected.</text></item><item><author>overthemoon</author><text>Wow, I love this. What a thoughtful, empathetic project. This passage really stuck out to me--<p>&quot;A typical problem is that, in the absence of equations, they project literal meanings onto words such as ‘grains’ of space-time or particles ‘popping’ in and out of existence. Science writers should be more careful to point out when we are using metaphors. My clients read way too much into pictures, measuring every angle, scrutinising every colour, counting every dash. Illustrators should be more careful to point out what is relevant information and what is artistic freedom. But the most important lesson I’ve learned is that journalists are so successful at making physics seem not so complicated that many readers come away with the impression that they can easily do it themselves. How can we blame them for not knowing what it takes if we never tell them?&quot;<p>Of course, this writing often isn&#x27;t for the layperson, it&#x27;s for an audience who can tell the difference between diagram, artistic license, and metaphor, but even so, it&#x27;s good to think about, especially when communicating science to the general public.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-for-autodidact-physicists</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure that &quot;crackpot&quot; implies malice. To me, it implies a totally wrong starting point. You can&#x27;t build astronomy on a foundation of astrology. Using Babylonian base-60 mathematics won&#x27;t help you create a unified field theory. The guy who showed me some random velocity that he had picked, and taken c^2 divided by that velocity, had not shown that faster-than-light travel was possible.<p>It&#x27;s like cargo-cult physics. They (try to) do all the things, but the starting point is wrong, so it can&#x27;t work.<p>So showing them &quot;where to even begin&quot; is in fact the solution... if they&#x27;ll listen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bee_rider</author><text>I also liked:<p>&quot;I still get the occasional joke from colleagues about my ‘crackpot consultant business’, but I’ve stopped thinking of our clients that way. They are driven by the same desire to understand nature and make a contribution to science as we are. They just weren’t lucky enough to get the required education early in life, and now they have a hard time figuring out where to even begin.&quot;<p>In some sense, labeling somebody a &quot;crackpot&quot; assigns a sort of malicious wrongness to them. It is interesting to see somebody who&#x27;s dealt with a significant subset of these people and discovered more actual, honest misunderstanding than we (or at least I) would have expected.</text></item><item><author>overthemoon</author><text>Wow, I love this. What a thoughtful, empathetic project. This passage really stuck out to me--<p>&quot;A typical problem is that, in the absence of equations, they project literal meanings onto words such as ‘grains’ of space-time or particles ‘popping’ in and out of existence. Science writers should be more careful to point out when we are using metaphors. My clients read way too much into pictures, measuring every angle, scrutinising every colour, counting every dash. Illustrators should be more careful to point out what is relevant information and what is artistic freedom. But the most important lesson I’ve learned is that journalists are so successful at making physics seem not so complicated that many readers come away with the impression that they can easily do it themselves. How can we blame them for not knowing what it takes if we never tell them?&quot;<p>Of course, this writing often isn&#x27;t for the layperson, it&#x27;s for an audience who can tell the difference between diagram, artistic license, and metaphor, but even so, it&#x27;s good to think about, especially when communicating science to the general public.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-for-autodidact-physicists</url></story> |
17,427,225 | 17,426,790 | 1 | 2 | 17,426,219 | 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>walrus01</author><text>Best current info is as follows:<p>There is a fiber cut somewhere between NYC and Chicago.<p>At the same time there is also a fiber cut between Ashburn, VA, and locations in South Carolina. The cut is somewhere in NC.<p>Copy and paste from Level3 notification system:<p>&quot;* CASCADED EXTERNAL NOTES 29-Jun-2018 15:13:37 GMT From CASE: 14815828 - Event Field Operations dispatched to the estimated failure location and upon arrival was advised by local law enforcement there was a truck that struck a utility pole, which then fell across the street and struck another pole, which then tore down the aerial fiber lines. In addition to the fiber lines being down, live power lines are down as well. OSP will be dispatching a fiber repair and construction crew to the site; however, until the local utility company has completed their repairs and deemed the area safe, fiber repairs cannot begin.<p>* CASCADED EXTERNAL NOTES 29-Jun-2018 19:21:05 GMT From CASE: 14815828 - Event The OSP has contacted the personnel transporting the replacement fiber, and they advised they remain en route, and on schedule for their ETA of 20:15 GMT. The next update will be provided upon their arrival, or as new information becomes available.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JonathonW</author><text>Comcast&#x27;s confirmed the fiber cut: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;comcastcares&#x2F;status&#x2F;1012767042158510080" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;comcastcares&#x2F;status&#x2F;1012767042158510080</a><p>&gt; One of Comcast’s large backbone network partners had a fiber cut that we believe is also impacting other providers. It is currently affecting our business and residential internet, video and voice customers. We apologize &amp; are working to get services restored as soon as possible<p>They seem to be at least starting to route around it now; I was having intermittent connectivity issues to various sites here all morning, but as of ~45 minutes ago, I&#x27;m not having any issues reaching the sites I couldn&#x27;t reach earlier.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/comcast-xfinity-down-outage-not-working-internet-my-area-1002278</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomatotomato37</author><text>For the infrastructure-level network admins out there, is there different lingo for an intentional and accidental fibre break, or is &quot;fibre cut&quot; used for both? I&#x27;m just thinking &#x27;cut&#x27; is a pretty intentional word to use here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JonathonW</author><text>Comcast&#x27;s confirmed the fiber cut: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;comcastcares&#x2F;status&#x2F;1012767042158510080" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;comcastcares&#x2F;status&#x2F;1012767042158510080</a><p>&gt; One of Comcast’s large backbone network partners had a fiber cut that we believe is also impacting other providers. It is currently affecting our business and residential internet, video and voice customers. We apologize &amp; are working to get services restored as soon as possible<p>They seem to be at least starting to route around it now; I was having intermittent connectivity issues to various sites here all morning, but as of ~45 minutes ago, I&#x27;m not having any issues reaching the sites I couldn&#x27;t reach earlier.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/comcast-xfinity-down-outage-not-working-internet-my-area-1002278</url></story> |
12,152,810 | 12,152,842 | 1 | 2 | 12,152,346 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>genmon</author><text>Uber is pretty formidable in building and growing a two-sided market. I suspect it&#x27;s tuned continuously, at high resolution (in space and time), with levers I mostly don&#x27;t know. And that&#x27;s got to be a big contribution to the complexity of the stack.<p>This of it this way. A standard e-commerce site, or SaaS with low-touch marketing... there are a crazy number of KPIs to monitor, loads of levers (e.g. what&#x27;s the right discount to fix basket abandonment). The instrumentation to track all these conversation funnels (and to do A&#x2F;B tests to see what works) is half the job.<p>But at least we have a common understanding of the metrics and the levers -- for SaaS, say, there are tons of similar services, and the knowledge is shared in the community.<p>Uber? How do you grow while maintaining market liquidity every evening of every week? If you artificially hike demand from passengers in a particular neighbourhood (say with coupons), does WOM amongst potential drivers work to increase the driver pool before the passengers get frustrated and move to Lyft?<p>All of this is new. So how do you create the tech to track not just all the data you need, but all the data you <i>might</i> need, plus the capabilities to do tests to figure out what levers to pull? Hard.<p>I have no particular insight into this. But my guess is that Uber isn&#x27;t flying blind - their growth has been no accident - and the complexity of their tech is due to instrumentation not operations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting that they don&#x27;t break the problem apart geographically. It&#x27;s inherent in Uber that you&#x27;re local. But their infrastructure isn&#x27;t organized that way. Facebook originally tried to do that, then discovered that, as they grew, friends weren&#x27;t local. Uber doesn&#x27;t need to have one giant worldwide system.<p>Most of their load is presumably positional updates. Uber wants both customers and drivers to keep their app open, reporting position to Master Control. There have to be a lot more of those pings than transactions. Of course, they don&#x27;t have to do much with the data, although they presumably log it and analyze it to death.<p>The complicated part of the system has to be matching of drivers and rides. Not much on that yet. Yet that&#x27;s what has to work well to beat the competition, which is taxi dispatchers with paper maps, phones, and radios.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/tech-stack-part-one/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matthewrudy</author><text>I work on an uber-like system, but with ~3 backend devs rather than 100s.<p>We made the opposite decision, cloning our full stack for each new market.<p>That&#x27;s great for scalability, but is a nightmare for devops.<p>If anything we want to find a way to move to one global system,
And then slice down the bits that can be local:<p>Eg. Create a local order matching service, but keep orders, payments, and user accounts global</text><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting that they don&#x27;t break the problem apart geographically. It&#x27;s inherent in Uber that you&#x27;re local. But their infrastructure isn&#x27;t organized that way. Facebook originally tried to do that, then discovered that, as they grew, friends weren&#x27;t local. Uber doesn&#x27;t need to have one giant worldwide system.<p>Most of their load is presumably positional updates. Uber wants both customers and drivers to keep their app open, reporting position to Master Control. There have to be a lot more of those pings than transactions. Of course, they don&#x27;t have to do much with the data, although they presumably log it and analyze it to death.<p>The complicated part of the system has to be matching of drivers and rides. Not much on that yet. Yet that&#x27;s what has to work well to beat the competition, which is taxi dispatchers with paper maps, phones, and radios.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/tech-stack-part-one/</url></story> |
17,762,770 | 17,761,218 | 1 | 3 | 17,760,835 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>subdane</author><text>Tinder was incubated at Hatch Labs at IAC (not Match, but IAC owned Match) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;exclusive-iac-hatches-hatch-a-technology-sandbox-to-incubate-mobile-startups&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;exclusive-iac-hatches-hatc...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>The suit alleges that IAC and Match Group manipulated financial data in order to create &#x27;a fake lowball valuation&#x27; (to quote the plaintiffs’ press release), then stripped Rad, Mateen, Badeen and others of their stock options</i><p>Wait, they didn&#x27;t exercise their options into the sale? Did the founders hire a team of squirrels as their bankers? This is M&amp;A 101 when switching to majority control.<p>EDIT: Ah, Tinder was launched as an internal project at Match. Taking options in a majority-owned entity is...odd. There is no proper way to value a majority-owned entity without discounting for the majority ownership. Issuing options for the parent would have been a better offer and better ask.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tinder founders sue parent companies Match and IAC for at least $2B</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/14/tinder-match-lawsuit/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jsnell</author><text>IIRC they were owned by Match from the start.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>The suit alleges that IAC and Match Group manipulated financial data in order to create &#x27;a fake lowball valuation&#x27; (to quote the plaintiffs’ press release), then stripped Rad, Mateen, Badeen and others of their stock options</i><p>Wait, they didn&#x27;t exercise their options into the sale? Did the founders hire a team of squirrels as their bankers? This is M&amp;A 101 when switching to majority control.<p>EDIT: Ah, Tinder was launched as an internal project at Match. Taking options in a majority-owned entity is...odd. There is no proper way to value a majority-owned entity without discounting for the majority ownership. Issuing options for the parent would have been a better offer and better ask.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tinder founders sue parent companies Match and IAC for at least $2B</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/14/tinder-match-lawsuit/</url></story> |
12,408,759 | 12,408,959 | 1 | 2 | 12,408,624 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>threepipeproblm</author><text>What immediately follows is rather sobering, too: &quot;No machines with self-sustaining long-term goals and intent have been developed, nor are they likely to be developed in the near future.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>skurilyak</author><text>&quot;Contrary to the more fantastic predictions for AI in the popular press, the Study Panel found no cause for concern that AI is an imminent threat to humankind&quot;
-- Stanford Study Panel, comprised of seventeen experts in AI from academia, corporate laboratories and industry, and AI-savvy scholars in law, political science, policy, and economics</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence: 2016 Report</title><url>https://ai100.stanford.edu/2016-report</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ThomPete</author><text>Understanding robotics does not mean you understand exponential growth, it&#x27;s very very hard to understand even for those who believe they do.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;assets.motherjones.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;LakeMichigan-Final3.gif" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;assets.motherjones.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;LakeMichigan-Fin...</a><p>5 years ago it was thought to take decades to beat a human in Go.<p>Just 10 years ago self driving cars was something you joked about.<p>We consistently overestimate progress in the short run and underestimate in the long.</text><parent_chain><item><author>skurilyak</author><text>&quot;Contrary to the more fantastic predictions for AI in the popular press, the Study Panel found no cause for concern that AI is an imminent threat to humankind&quot;
-- Stanford Study Panel, comprised of seventeen experts in AI from academia, corporate laboratories and industry, and AI-savvy scholars in law, political science, policy, and economics</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence: 2016 Report</title><url>https://ai100.stanford.edu/2016-report</url></story> |
8,983,673 | 8,983,124 | 1 | 3 | 8,982,830 | 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>zamalek</author><text>Here&#x27;s the response from the developer: <a href="https://github.com/iiordanov/remote-desktop-clients/issues/39#issuecomment-72410748" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;iiordanov&#x2F;remote-desktop-clients&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3...</a><p>&gt; I would like to say a great big thanks to all of you for finding this out, for following this issue, for spreading the word, and for making me aware of it. It is a great honor my project has won such a prestigious prise regardless of the circumstances.<p>&gt; I have written this software for the betterment of everyone and it gives me great joy that people all over the world are finding out about it and finding it useful. I am following this discussion with great interest and once again thank you all!<p>Everyone else is going nuts with memes and witch hunts, while the developer sits back and is just happy that his software is being used. Unbelievably admirable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This project won China 2014 State Science and Technology Prize</title><url>https://github.com/iiordanov/remote-desktop-clients/issues/39</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tb93</author><text>And a Chinese startup cracked NewRelic to raise over $10m <a href="http://www.v2ex.com/t/125736" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.v2ex.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;125736</a> It is in Chinese. Code diff is in the comments. It seems they cracks New Relic&#x27;s Node.js, Python and Java agents, and raised RMB 70m ($10m+) from Matrix and Chengwei (sounds like a Chinese fund): <a href="http://source.chinaventure.com.cn/show_2_0_19158.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.chinaventure.com.cn&#x2F;show_2_0_19158.html</a>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This project won China 2014 State Science and Technology Prize</title><url>https://github.com/iiordanov/remote-desktop-clients/issues/39</url></story> |
36,893,986 | 36,894,015 | 1 | 2 | 36,892,506 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PeterisP</author><text>It&#x27;s not as simple. For example, look at the distance sensors used for parking and the data coming from them over the CAN bus.<p>That bus needs to be able to (at least indirectly) reach the brakes so that automatic emergency braking can take their measurements as inputs. And that bus needs to be able to reach the audio system to provide audible feedback to the driver when parking, and also mute the radio. Ergo, you have a bus that reaches both brakes and radio. Now, you might want to prevent the radio firmware from sending data to the brakes over that bus, but physically you have to have a connection between them, as we don&#x27;t really want to make many separate buses for reasons of complexity, cost and maintenance; moving from a separate end-to-end wire for each specific purpose towards a shared bus was a great improvement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Loughla</author><text>Exactly. The infotainment bullshit should be in zero way connected to the actual operation of the vehicle. There is zero reason why the laggy, nonsensical software that controls my radio should control my engine. Someone correct me if I am wrong, please.</text></item><item><author>forgetfreeman</author><text>Here&#x27;s a hot take: legislate an airgap between operation control and infotainment&#x2F;convenience horseshit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Automakers try to scuttle Massachusetts ‘right to repair’ law</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/27/__trashed-4/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sonic45132</author><text>Without all that being connected how else would they use the built-in lte to send back all of the data about you from the car? Car companies cant be missing out on selling customer data too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Loughla</author><text>Exactly. The infotainment bullshit should be in zero way connected to the actual operation of the vehicle. There is zero reason why the laggy, nonsensical software that controls my radio should control my engine. Someone correct me if I am wrong, please.</text></item><item><author>forgetfreeman</author><text>Here&#x27;s a hot take: legislate an airgap between operation control and infotainment&#x2F;convenience horseshit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Automakers try to scuttle Massachusetts ‘right to repair’ law</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/27/__trashed-4/</url></story> |
25,778,535 | 25,778,868 | 1 | 2 | 25,776,590 | train | <instructions>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>Some people have claimed that it would be legal...</i><p>Over half a century of life might not have made me much of a programmer, but one thing it has taught me time and again is that if an amateur lawyer says something is “legal if...” and your gut said otherwise, go with your gut. It is as if they forget that the argument is not with me, but the hypothetical judge they’re going to stand before (as you point out).</text><parent_chain><item><author>nataz</author><text>I&#x27;m seeing adds for illegal pistol and rifle suppressors (aka &quot;silencers&quot;) only barely disguised as &quot;fuel filters&quot; and &quot;solvent traps&quot;.<p>The companies selling the suppressor kits claim they are legitimate auto parts. They clearly aren&#x27;t.<p>Some people have claimed that it would be legal to buy these if you applied for a license to manufacture a suppressor, but good luck arguing that in federal court, especially since these are manufactured in China. Both the import of these goods, and buying without the correct federal license are felonies....<p>And yet they are all over Facebook. And people are buying them.<p>Here is the crazy thing. I enjoy shooting as a hobby, and could understand if FB chose to show me adds for legitimate firearm accessory companies.<p>I am <i>not</i> a car guy.<p>Either FB add targeting is terrible, or they can connect the dots between these obviously illegal &quot;solvent traps&quot; and people who are interested in firearms.<p>This isn&#x27;t a post made by a random FB user, it&#x27;s an ad on their ad network on their platform. At what point does FB facebook become culpable?</text></item><item><author>rreichel03</author><text>As an anecdote, since July they&#x27;ve started showing me ads for body armor almost nonstop whenever I actually open the app. Just the other day it was a body armor ad then an ad for a tactical communication earpiece.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to “Insurrection” Posts</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-profits-military-gear-ads-capitol-riot</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SauciestGNU</author><text>I&#x27;m going to be pedantic, but in the US, those silencer kits can be legal. There are requirements for the provenance of the components used in them (can&#x27;t be imported) but until you drill out the bore they&#x27;re solvent traps or fuel filters. And if you pay for a tax stamp and file the correct paperwork with the ATF, it&#x27;s completely legal to transform those items into a firearm suppressor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nataz</author><text>I&#x27;m seeing adds for illegal pistol and rifle suppressors (aka &quot;silencers&quot;) only barely disguised as &quot;fuel filters&quot; and &quot;solvent traps&quot;.<p>The companies selling the suppressor kits claim they are legitimate auto parts. They clearly aren&#x27;t.<p>Some people have claimed that it would be legal to buy these if you applied for a license to manufacture a suppressor, but good luck arguing that in federal court, especially since these are manufactured in China. Both the import of these goods, and buying without the correct federal license are felonies....<p>And yet they are all over Facebook. And people are buying them.<p>Here is the crazy thing. I enjoy shooting as a hobby, and could understand if FB chose to show me adds for legitimate firearm accessory companies.<p>I am <i>not</i> a car guy.<p>Either FB add targeting is terrible, or they can connect the dots between these obviously illegal &quot;solvent traps&quot; and people who are interested in firearms.<p>This isn&#x27;t a post made by a random FB user, it&#x27;s an ad on their ad network on their platform. At what point does FB facebook become culpable?</text></item><item><author>rreichel03</author><text>As an anecdote, since July they&#x27;ve started showing me ads for body armor almost nonstop whenever I actually open the app. Just the other day it was a body armor ad then an ad for a tactical communication earpiece.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to “Insurrection” Posts</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-profits-military-gear-ads-capitol-riot</url></story> |
35,118,215 | 35,109,291 | 1 | 2 | 35,109,284 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>meindnoch</author><text>Now Samsung has to patch their Moon template.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Small Asteroid Impacts Moon</title><url>https://twitter.com/dfuji1/status/1629259622619176961</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>perihelions</author><text>AI translation:<p>- <i>&quot;I was able to catch the biggest lunar impact flash in my observation history! This is a picture of the lunar impact flash that appeared at 20:14:30.8 on February 23, 2023, taken from my home in Hiratsuka (replayed at actual speed). It was a huge flash that continued to shine for more than 1 second. Since the moon has no atmosphere, meteors and fireballs cannot be seen, and the moment a crater is formed, it glows.&quot;</i><p>- <i>&quot;This is a picture of the lunar impact flash at 20:14:30.8 on February 23, 2023, captured by another telescope (playback at actual speed). At that time, the altitude of the moon was only 7 degrees, and I was glad that I could stick to the limit. At the time of observation, there was no satellite passing over the lunar surface, and from the way it shines, it is highly likely that it is a lunar impact flash.&quot;</i><p>- <i>&quot;This is a still image of the lunar impact flash at 20:14:30.8 on February 23, 2023. It seems to have fallen near Ideler L crater, slightly northwest of Pitiscus crater. Because it is so bright, the generated crater is large, and the striations are clearly visible. It seems that the telephoto camera of NASA&#x27;s lunar probe LRO can detect the fall trace.&quot;</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Small Asteroid Impacts Moon</title><url>https://twitter.com/dfuji1/status/1629259622619176961</url></story> |
39,286,567 | 39,286,432 | 1 | 3 | 39,285,752 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zer00eyz</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; It&#x27;s that cloud providers are now often seen as the only responsible way to operate infrastructure<p>23 billion.<p>Thats the profit for AWS in 2023.<p>23 billon that AWS users pissed away.<p>AWS is NOT cheap. I have quite a few clients who, could save lots of money dumping their cloud provider and setting up their own racks, hiring SA&#x27;s. I have others who, if they optimized any of their stack could cut their AWS bills by half.<p>Having survived the 2000 bubble the lessons are going to have to be re-learned. Everything has cost and value and managing that is going to become an engineering task in the near future.</text><parent_chain><item><author>adamcharnock</author><text>&gt; Now, there are extensions out there that implement versioning – temporal_tables being the most popular I think – but none are supported for managed Postgres instances on e.g. Azure or AWS. This means that if we want system-versioned tables, we’re forced to make it ourselves.<p>This really provokes a wild geek rage inside me. Not that it is untrue, but that this is the state of things. It&#x27;s that cloud providers are now often seen as the only responsible way to operate infrastructure, and in the process we hand over so much control of our tooling. We let ourselves be convinced that simplicity was worth a 10x premium, and admitted we were not grown up enough to handle the tools we had made for ourselves.<p>Sure, I know it is more complex than that. But I also feel sad about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Implementing system-versioned tables in Postgres</title><url>https://hypirion.com/musings/implementing-system-versioned-tables-in-postgres</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>refset</author><text>It&#x27;s especially tragic knowing that Postgres did originally have system-time-like versioning built-in. Instead we get to enjoy being upsold on proprietary ETL-to-Redshift, AlloyDB, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>adamcharnock</author><text>&gt; Now, there are extensions out there that implement versioning – temporal_tables being the most popular I think – but none are supported for managed Postgres instances on e.g. Azure or AWS. This means that if we want system-versioned tables, we’re forced to make it ourselves.<p>This really provokes a wild geek rage inside me. Not that it is untrue, but that this is the state of things. It&#x27;s that cloud providers are now often seen as the only responsible way to operate infrastructure, and in the process we hand over so much control of our tooling. We let ourselves be convinced that simplicity was worth a 10x premium, and admitted we were not grown up enough to handle the tools we had made for ourselves.<p>Sure, I know it is more complex than that. But I also feel sad about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Implementing system-versioned tables in Postgres</title><url>https://hypirion.com/musings/implementing-system-versioned-tables-in-postgres</url></story> |
40,732,633 | 40,731,789 | 1 | 3 | 40,730,156 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roywiggins</author><text>Even without business incentives, the military advantages of AI would inventivize governments to develop it anyway, like they did with nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are <i>inherently</i> unsafe, there are some safeguards around them, but they are ultimately dangerous weapons.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crowcroft</author><text>As others have pointed out, it&#x27;s the business incentives that create unsafe AI, and this doesn&#x27;t solve that. Social media recommendation algorithms are already incredibly unsafe for society and young people (girls in particular [1]).<p>When negative externalities exist, government should create regulation that appropriately accounts for that cost.<p>I understand there&#x27;s a bit of a paradigm shift and new attack vectors with LLMs etc. but the premise is the same imo.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;preteen-instagram-influencers-followers-are-92-grown-men&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;preteen-instagram-infl...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Safe Superintelligence Inc.</title><url>https://ssi.inc</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akira2501</author><text>&gt; for society and young people (girls in particular [1]).<p>I don&#x27;t think the article with a single focused example bears that out at all.<p>From the article:<p>&gt; &quot;Even more troubling are the men who signed up for paid subscriptions after the girl launched a program for super-fans receive special photos and other content.&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Her mom conceded that those followers are “probably the scariest ones of all.”&quot;<p>I&#x27;m sorry.. but what is your daughter selling, exactly? And why is social media responsible for this outcome? And how is this &quot;unsafe for society?&quot;<p>This just sounds like horrific profit motivated parenting enabled by social media.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crowcroft</author><text>As others have pointed out, it&#x27;s the business incentives that create unsafe AI, and this doesn&#x27;t solve that. Social media recommendation algorithms are already incredibly unsafe for society and young people (girls in particular [1]).<p>When negative externalities exist, government should create regulation that appropriately accounts for that cost.<p>I understand there&#x27;s a bit of a paradigm shift and new attack vectors with LLMs etc. but the premise is the same imo.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;preteen-instagram-influencers-followers-are-92-grown-men&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;preteen-instagram-infl...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Safe Superintelligence Inc.</title><url>https://ssi.inc</url></story> |
25,513,053 | 25,512,412 | 1 | 3 | 25,512,273 | 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>ssgh</author><text>TBH, at this point we may as well start using whitelists: 1st party domains and known 3rd party CDNs for static content and maybe media, 1st party scripts for frequently visited sites and a special button hidden in a safe place to enable 3rd party scripts for those who want to live dangerously.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Quantum Ad-List contains domains used by ads, trackers, malware</title><url>https://gitlab.com/The_Quantum_Alpha/the-quantum-ad-list</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>OneFunFellow</author><text>Feedback: Perhaps add info about Pi-Hole usage.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Quantum Ad-List contains domains used by ads, trackers, malware</title><url>https://gitlab.com/The_Quantum_Alpha/the-quantum-ad-list</url></story> |
41,515,968 | 41,514,735 | 1 | 2 | 41,490,147 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikehearn</author><text>It&#x27;s extremely weird to see this site on HN! I built this site in 2014 -- and haven&#x27;t touched it since. I wasn&#x27;t a developer then, I was a product manager, and this was a &quot;look, hiring managers, I can build things&quot; side project (it worked, I&#x27;ve been a dev since 2016).<p>Despite being about 40% broken I keep the site up because it&#x27;s still reasonably functional and there are a surprising amount of sites that now depend on having hotlinked the patterns directly from this domain. If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I&#x27;ll shut it down. Until then, it&#x27;s a fun relic from the internet of a decade ago.<p>Just to answer a question upthread (and I 100% agree this should be on the website), the patterns are all CC-BY-3.0, meaning it just requires attribution and any pattern can be used for free.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Transparenttextures.com</title><url>https://www.transparenttextures.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>unsnap_biceps</author><text>I can&#x27;t seem to find licensing info on the textures. Where can I use them legally?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Transparenttextures.com</title><url>https://www.transparenttextures.com</url></story> |
10,047,033 | 10,046,628 | 1 | 3 | 10,045,156 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smoyer</author><text>What struck me most about this article is how much rationalization occurred. I&#x27;m amazed that a (presumably licensed) doctor can in one breath say they have a moral responsibility to safeguard the public, their workers and the environment, then in the next breath describe why the results of their own study didn&#x27;t apply.<p>But looking inward, I wonder if our industry doesn&#x27;t do the same thing in many cases - what about:<p>- Eye strain caused by lack of contrast due to our favorite color palette.<p>- Stress induced by unintelligible workflows.<p>- Failure to protect a user&#x27;s privacy.<p>- Programs that induce RSI.<p>I realize this is a far cry from polluting the environment with toxins, but shouldn&#x27;t we at least think about these factors more often?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Teflon Toxin</title><url>https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-deception/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>suprgeek</author><text>Take the number of vehicles in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of- court settlement, (C). A times B times C equals X...If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don&#x27;t do one.<p>What applies to the Car Industry (via Dialogue from Fight Club) applies to the Chemical Industry in Spades. DuPont Knew (or strongly suspected) that C8 &amp; (Teflon) were causing Cancers, Birth Defects etc. But the cost was going to be too high to move away so they all &quot;kicked the can down the road&quot;.<p>Time to sock them with a multi-billion dollar verdict after some of these people are locked up for long periods.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Teflon Toxin</title><url>https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-deception/</url></story> |
19,752,310 | 19,751,881 | 1 | 3 | 19,750,610 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimmaswell</author><text>I get the impression you&#x27;re generally better off sticking to (whole fat&#x2F;&quot;normal&quot;&#x2F;etc) versions of products and simply being aware of portion sizes than substituting or diluting things just because there&#x27;s some health fad going on against something in it like cholesterol or fat or sugar. Have a breakfast of eggs with real butter and a glass of whole milk, use full real mayonnaise instead of some sickly-tasting light version, have a burger, just watch out for daily calories. An exception of course if if you have a particular medical condition that requires a special diet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>&gt;What happened in Norway is that butter was rationed because of WWII and they introduced margarine (another product of hydrogenation) as a substitute, and after the war, it was promoted as a healthier alternative to butter.<p>Margarine was extremely popular in the US for a time (and there&#x27;s still plenty of it in grocery stores). Among health conscious people, butter was looked on with suspicion as recently as 20 years or so ago. (I ran&#x2F;run weekend hiking trips sometimes and 20 years ago, I would definitely have gotten dirty looks if I only bought butter. Today no one cares.)<p>Crisco was pretty popular at one point in the US but AFAIK it&#x27;s receded quite a bit. I don&#x27;t do a lot of baking but I don&#x27;t really see it in recipes these days. And lard is still not in mainstream use at all.</text></item><item><author>ThJ</author><text>This story doesn&#x27;t really explain what killed lard in Europe. They don&#x27;t sell Crisco or any other kind of shortening here in Norway, for example. Norwegian recipes often call for butter, but rarely for lard. Few things are ever deep fried and in pie crusts, we use butter, not lard. The closest thing you can find to shortening in a Norwegian supermarket is coco fat. The only thing I know of that was traditionally cooked in lard is donuts, which are literally named lardrings (smultringer) in Norwegian.<p>What happened in Norway is that butter was rationed because of WWII and they introduced margarine (another product of hydrogenation) as a substitute, and after the war, it was promoted as a healthier alternative to butter.<p>Lard must&#x27;ve been around, especially in other parts of Europe than Norway, but I doubt these domestic American events killed it.<p>I often see Americans attempting to explain why things happen in their country by pointing to domestic events, with said events failing to account for an identical thing happening all over the world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who Killed Lard? (2012)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/02/03/146356117/who-killed-lard</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>Crisco was pretty popular at one point in the US but AFAIK it&#x27;s receded quite a bit. I don&#x27;t do a lot of baking but I don&#x27;t really see it in recipes these days. And lard is still not in mainstream use at all.</i><p>I bought some lard at Safeway just last week. It can be had, but it&#x27;s usually in the dustiest, lowest, most-hidden shelf in the baking aisle.<p>It&#x27;s excellent for deep frying, and economical because it can be used over and over and the flavor only improves. (Unless you burn something.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>&gt;What happened in Norway is that butter was rationed because of WWII and they introduced margarine (another product of hydrogenation) as a substitute, and after the war, it was promoted as a healthier alternative to butter.<p>Margarine was extremely popular in the US for a time (and there&#x27;s still plenty of it in grocery stores). Among health conscious people, butter was looked on with suspicion as recently as 20 years or so ago. (I ran&#x2F;run weekend hiking trips sometimes and 20 years ago, I would definitely have gotten dirty looks if I only bought butter. Today no one cares.)<p>Crisco was pretty popular at one point in the US but AFAIK it&#x27;s receded quite a bit. I don&#x27;t do a lot of baking but I don&#x27;t really see it in recipes these days. And lard is still not in mainstream use at all.</text></item><item><author>ThJ</author><text>This story doesn&#x27;t really explain what killed lard in Europe. They don&#x27;t sell Crisco or any other kind of shortening here in Norway, for example. Norwegian recipes often call for butter, but rarely for lard. Few things are ever deep fried and in pie crusts, we use butter, not lard. The closest thing you can find to shortening in a Norwegian supermarket is coco fat. The only thing I know of that was traditionally cooked in lard is donuts, which are literally named lardrings (smultringer) in Norwegian.<p>What happened in Norway is that butter was rationed because of WWII and they introduced margarine (another product of hydrogenation) as a substitute, and after the war, it was promoted as a healthier alternative to butter.<p>Lard must&#x27;ve been around, especially in other parts of Europe than Norway, but I doubt these domestic American events killed it.<p>I often see Americans attempting to explain why things happen in their country by pointing to domestic events, with said events failing to account for an identical thing happening all over the world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who Killed Lard? (2012)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/02/03/146356117/who-killed-lard</url></story> |
22,095,724 | 22,095,561 | 1 | 2 | 22,095,240 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nucleardog</author><text>What scares me most about all these stories and personal experience, is it often seems the only way to get these actual issues resolved is to know someone that works at the company, or have enough of a platform on the internet that eventually the cost of the bad PR gets to be enough that someone notices and fixes it.<p>I don&#x27;t know anyone that works at Facebook&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Uber&#x2F;etc. When I have issues they just go unresolved. Uber Eats double-submitted my order after throwing up a bundle of internal server errors and literally my only recourse at this point is apparently to sue them to get my $26 back. (Which I&#x27;m seriously considering -- even if I don&#x27;t get my $26 back, it will certainly cost them more than $26 just to respond so at least the cosmic accounting will balance out.)<p>It would be really nice if there were companies to give my money to that <i>did</i> have some semblance of customer support that didn&#x27;t require making friends with the right people or curating a social media following.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Incarcerated and Facebook</title><url>https://medium.com/@callumprentice/incarcerated-facebook-ebfba8885ae3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NhanH</author><text>A few months ago, someone tried to create a fake account to impersonate my mom. And long story short, somehow we couldn&#x27;t get 2FA sms token to login again(which I suspect is a bug), then the account was disabled not given a reason.<p>We tried the process to verify it was her account, but after being asked to submit passport photo + her photo, the ticket stops progressing for the past 2 months and it has been very frustrating for us. The account has years of my mom&#x27;s photo that wasn&#x27;t backed up elsewhere. If there happens to be any engineer passing by that can escalate this internally, I would be much appreciated.<p>Facebook&#x27;s &quot;user support&quot; is getting to the point where Google&#x27;s support is looking like a sane one. At least the automated system works when it is supposed to. I got a couple of really weird behaviors trying to unlock the account: the system asked to select an item from an empty list to send 2FA code. The initial sms 2FA code that we received when the attacker tried to login somehow got wrong encoding data (utf8 vs utf16), which shows up as non sensical Chinese character.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Incarcerated and Facebook</title><url>https://medium.com/@callumprentice/incarcerated-facebook-ebfba8885ae3</url></story> |
3,460,795 | 3,460,946 | 1 | 2 | 3,460,443 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BSousa</author><text>I never worked for Codemasters myself, and left a studio just after it was bought by Codemasters (for other reasons). But I think everyone in the UK that worked in games knows their reputation. They are the UK equivalent of EA.<p>I know about 10 people that left the mentioned studio just because it was bought by Codemasters (they simply refused to work for them, preferring unemployment).<p>Hope you the best in this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Codemasters are on the scrounge</title><url>http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2012/01/codemasters-are-on-scrounge.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>robin_reala</author><text>A friend went for a job interview at Codemasters a couple of months before it all went tits up, and got privately warned away from joining by a couple of members of staff.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Codemasters are on the scrounge</title><url>http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2012/01/codemasters-are-on-scrounge.html</url></story> |
9,712,641 | 9,712,666 | 1 | 2 | 9,712,267 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>voidfunc</author><text>Someone should tell JetBrains the whole IDE market is dead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_ak</author><text>As a former Borland employee (not for very long, 2006-2009, and actually working in their Austrian offices, which originally became part of the company through the Segue acquisition), I certainly didn&#x27;t have the complete picture, but our managers, even going as far as those located in Cupertino, and later Austin, were quite open about what Borland&#x27;s issue was: even with the rise of Java, they thought they could continue in the IDE business like they did before. Apparently, JBuiler used to be their #1 cash cow. Well, until Eclipse came along: within 18 months, JBuilder license sales dropped to essentially zero. They eventually realized that the whole IDE market was dead, so that was spun off into CodeGear, JBuilder was relaunched as an Eclipse distribution with &quot;premium&quot; extensions, and CodeGear was ultimately sold to Embarcadero, while the rest of the company was trying to refocus on producing software for other parts of the development lifecycle, from requirements management to automated testing and test management (hence Segue) to SCM. Company performance was atrocious, and that really screwed over people that took part in the employee share program, but they somehow managed to make it over to get acquired by Micro Focus.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why did Borland fail?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Borland-fail/answer/Danny-Thorpe?share=1&</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ExpiredLink</author><text>IIRC, JBuilder cost almost $500 back then. Eclipse initially wasn&#x27;t better but open (for extensions) and gratis.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_ak</author><text>As a former Borland employee (not for very long, 2006-2009, and actually working in their Austrian offices, which originally became part of the company through the Segue acquisition), I certainly didn&#x27;t have the complete picture, but our managers, even going as far as those located in Cupertino, and later Austin, were quite open about what Borland&#x27;s issue was: even with the rise of Java, they thought they could continue in the IDE business like they did before. Apparently, JBuiler used to be their #1 cash cow. Well, until Eclipse came along: within 18 months, JBuilder license sales dropped to essentially zero. They eventually realized that the whole IDE market was dead, so that was spun off into CodeGear, JBuilder was relaunched as an Eclipse distribution with &quot;premium&quot; extensions, and CodeGear was ultimately sold to Embarcadero, while the rest of the company was trying to refocus on producing software for other parts of the development lifecycle, from requirements management to automated testing and test management (hence Segue) to SCM. Company performance was atrocious, and that really screwed over people that took part in the employee share program, but they somehow managed to make it over to get acquired by Micro Focus.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why did Borland fail?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Borland-fail/answer/Danny-Thorpe?share=1&</url></story> |
4,464,600 | 4,464,429 | 1 | 2 | 4,464,186 | train | <instructions>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>This application is very, very simple; it's a practically the starting skeleton of a modern Rails/Devise application.<p>One useful reason to bookmark it: it's a pretty good how-to for "any web application whose purpose is to spit out PDF files that need to follow a specific format". There are a LOT of business processes that work like that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform</title><url>http://democrats.github.com/voter-registration/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Hoff</author><text>The first part of the software license looks to be BSD/MIT-like with the <i>to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software,...</i> sentence, but then there's this paragraph:<p><i>This permission does not include: (a) any use of the Software other than for its intended purpose; or (b) any use of the Software in any manner that violates applicable law. Any use of the Software other than as specifically authorized herein is strictly prohibited and will terminate the license granted herein.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform</title><url>http://democrats.github.com/voter-registration/</url></story> |
18,654,863 | 18,654,870 | 1 | 2 | 18,654,025 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kiriakasis</author><text>&gt; which meant the browser never crashed if a single website misbehaved<p>I might have faulty memory, but this is not some minor detail. It is world changing.<p>For young teenager me, Chrome had a vastly better UX than both IE and Firefox when it debuted.<p>(now I prefer Firefox though)</text><parent_chain><item><author>toyg</author><text>I agree, and Chrome did that in one simple way: marketing and monopoly power. They leveraged their position in search and webmail to push people to switch, and hammered the message in mainstream advertising (on buses and newspapers, even in Europe). If they had pushed FF instead of building their own browser, now FF would be in that position - regardless of technical merits (which were minor, and basically boiled down to a single one: process-per-tab, which meant the browser never crashed if a single website misbehaved).<p>FF was not without responsibilities (they got bogged down in backend work on gecko that never really delivered, then got distracted by side bets like FFOS and friends), but without Google&#x27;s other properties and market share, this would never have happened.</text></item><item><author>dTal</author><text>&gt;I think about Chrome’s usurping of Internet Explorer (IE), and I wonder (antitrust and all aside) would Chrome have usurped IE if it wasn’t for IE stagnating? I remember when I was younger and jumped ship to Chrome - personally, it wasn’t about using Chrome because it wasn’t IE, it was about Chrome beating IE in a foot race and offering me a clean user experience.<p>Chrome ate Firefox&#x27;s lunch, not IE&#x27;s. Firefox was the first browser to take a chunk out of IE, in large part because of the stagnation of IE6. People were switching away from IE at a fairly consistent rate. When Chrome came along, the rate remained the same, but people started switching to Chrome instead of Firefox.<p>This graph shows it clearly (starts a little late to catch Firefox&#x27;s initial bump but you can see the trend): <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;7bP2pmj.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;7bP2pmj.png</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Firefox Dilemma</title><url>https://blog.tawhidhannan.co.uk/tech-zoomed-out/industry/firefox-dilemma/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcbrand</author><text>&gt; I agree, and Chrome did that in one simple way: marketing and monopoly power.<p>When Chrome came out, it was much faster than Firefox.<p>IIRC, it was also an evergreen browser from the start and you could install plugins without restarting.<p>It was in many ways a superior product.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toyg</author><text>I agree, and Chrome did that in one simple way: marketing and monopoly power. They leveraged their position in search and webmail to push people to switch, and hammered the message in mainstream advertising (on buses and newspapers, even in Europe). If they had pushed FF instead of building their own browser, now FF would be in that position - regardless of technical merits (which were minor, and basically boiled down to a single one: process-per-tab, which meant the browser never crashed if a single website misbehaved).<p>FF was not without responsibilities (they got bogged down in backend work on gecko that never really delivered, then got distracted by side bets like FFOS and friends), but without Google&#x27;s other properties and market share, this would never have happened.</text></item><item><author>dTal</author><text>&gt;I think about Chrome’s usurping of Internet Explorer (IE), and I wonder (antitrust and all aside) would Chrome have usurped IE if it wasn’t for IE stagnating? I remember when I was younger and jumped ship to Chrome - personally, it wasn’t about using Chrome because it wasn’t IE, it was about Chrome beating IE in a foot race and offering me a clean user experience.<p>Chrome ate Firefox&#x27;s lunch, not IE&#x27;s. Firefox was the first browser to take a chunk out of IE, in large part because of the stagnation of IE6. People were switching away from IE at a fairly consistent rate. When Chrome came along, the rate remained the same, but people started switching to Chrome instead of Firefox.<p>This graph shows it clearly (starts a little late to catch Firefox&#x27;s initial bump but you can see the trend): <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;7bP2pmj.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;7bP2pmj.png</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Firefox Dilemma</title><url>https://blog.tawhidhannan.co.uk/tech-zoomed-out/industry/firefox-dilemma/</url></story> |
23,126,854 | 23,126,767 | 1 | 2 | 23,126,517 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeffbee</author><text>The reason Tesla is in Fremont is not for proximity to Silicon Valley, which has not benefited Tesla in any way. They are in Fremont because they could move into an already-built Toyota assembly plant and hire abundant local autoworkers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>downerending</author><text>This is being couched as a spat over the lockdown versus Tesla production, but I wonder if it&#x27;s not part of a larger picture, which is that the Bay Area has become a harder and harder place to do business, because of economic realities.<p>It&#x27;d be nice to see technical work spread away from the hotspots and across America. Concentrating it in a few places makes for a surprisingly miserable existence.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately”</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259162367285317633</url></story> | <instructions>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>California is still the best place to start a startup, because the ecosystem and early adopters are so important.<p>But Tesla is not at that stage: it was able to create a new factory in China in half a year, and already has a strong brand recognition, so California has its pros and cons.</text><parent_chain><item><author>downerending</author><text>This is being couched as a spat over the lockdown versus Tesla production, but I wonder if it&#x27;s not part of a larger picture, which is that the Bay Area has become a harder and harder place to do business, because of economic realities.<p>It&#x27;d be nice to see technical work spread away from the hotspots and across America. Concentrating it in a few places makes for a surprisingly miserable existence.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately”</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259162367285317633</url></story> |
12,181,980 | 12,181,815 | 1 | 3 | 12,180,351 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arunpn123</author><text>Anecdotal evidence: I know some new grads who took this test when Amazon rolled out this automated form of hiring 2 years back. There were several crazy things with this process.. the questions in the test were changed only once a week and they did actually make offers to new grads after just the 3 hour online test. In dorm rooms where a bunch of students are applying for jobs at the same time, news travels fast. In short, there are a whole bunch of people working at Amazon who got their jobs by just typing out answers to questions they memorized.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sgk284</author><text>Bezos set a mandate to HR a few years ago that he wanted them to be able to hire a new grad without ever needing to speak to a human engineer. That is, he wants the entire interview process automated (specifically for new grads, at least for now).<p>What you experienced is part of their experiment in figuring out how to make this work. They&#x27;ve got a number of variations of interviews going on right now. I believe this is so that they can scale up as rapidly as they need to.<p>Apologies for the lack of citation but I don&#x27;t believe this is something Amazon has spoken publicly about.</text></item><item><author>Bartweiss</author><text>Interestingly, I opened the Amazon door as a new dev and found something very different than what this post describes.<p>The first step - before speaking to anyone about my background or interest - was going to be an intensive, one-hour coding session. It looked like it would be more &quot;independent proof of competence&quot; than &quot;friendly programming task to evaluate you&quot;. I was expected to be on webcam the entire time to verify identity and prevent cheating. No joke about the <i>entire time</i> part - there was a reminder to get any water or office supplies I would need before sitting down, because the interview would be terminated if I left the frame of the cam.<p>Between the blind hostility of that opener and the meat-grinder rep, I passed without interviewing (and passed with the next Amazon recruiter shortly after, who had no idea they&#x27;d pinged me before). I&#x27;m sure this routine is reserved for new grads, and the weird &quot;don&#x27;t lean out of frame&quot; stuff seemed to be from some interview-management third party, but it was still the most stilted process I&#x27;ve seen from an actual software company.</text></item><item><author>larrik</author><text>Interesting, I get pestered by them constantly, and never actually considered going for it. For one thing, the common sentiment on HN seems to be &#x27;friends don&#x27;t let friends work for Amazon&#x27;.<p>Amazon seems like a meat grinder, where getting hired isn&#x27;t as hard as it seems, and they just burn through young people who don&#x27;t know better. This is as someone completely on the outside who&#x27;s only heard stories, though. When I brought this up to one recruiter a few years ago, they basically acknowledged the reputation and their intent to improve.<p>Perhaps unlike HN, I&#x27;ve never seriously considered joining a mega-corporation like Google, Facebook, or Amazon. I just don&#x27;t see the appeal, nor do I want to work in a city (SV, Seattle, NYC, or otherwise).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Interviews with Amazon</title><url>https://thesocietea.org/2016/07/my-interviews-with-amazon/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hackcasual</author><text>Ex amazonian here. About 5 years ago I was invited to beta test an online automated coding system, the stated goal of which was that upon passing, you would be given an offer for an SDE1 position. No webcam stuff, just checking your coding solutions. I don&#x27;t believe that ever rolled out in that state.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sgk284</author><text>Bezos set a mandate to HR a few years ago that he wanted them to be able to hire a new grad without ever needing to speak to a human engineer. That is, he wants the entire interview process automated (specifically for new grads, at least for now).<p>What you experienced is part of their experiment in figuring out how to make this work. They&#x27;ve got a number of variations of interviews going on right now. I believe this is so that they can scale up as rapidly as they need to.<p>Apologies for the lack of citation but I don&#x27;t believe this is something Amazon has spoken publicly about.</text></item><item><author>Bartweiss</author><text>Interestingly, I opened the Amazon door as a new dev and found something very different than what this post describes.<p>The first step - before speaking to anyone about my background or interest - was going to be an intensive, one-hour coding session. It looked like it would be more &quot;independent proof of competence&quot; than &quot;friendly programming task to evaluate you&quot;. I was expected to be on webcam the entire time to verify identity and prevent cheating. No joke about the <i>entire time</i> part - there was a reminder to get any water or office supplies I would need before sitting down, because the interview would be terminated if I left the frame of the cam.<p>Between the blind hostility of that opener and the meat-grinder rep, I passed without interviewing (and passed with the next Amazon recruiter shortly after, who had no idea they&#x27;d pinged me before). I&#x27;m sure this routine is reserved for new grads, and the weird &quot;don&#x27;t lean out of frame&quot; stuff seemed to be from some interview-management third party, but it was still the most stilted process I&#x27;ve seen from an actual software company.</text></item><item><author>larrik</author><text>Interesting, I get pestered by them constantly, and never actually considered going for it. For one thing, the common sentiment on HN seems to be &#x27;friends don&#x27;t let friends work for Amazon&#x27;.<p>Amazon seems like a meat grinder, where getting hired isn&#x27;t as hard as it seems, and they just burn through young people who don&#x27;t know better. This is as someone completely on the outside who&#x27;s only heard stories, though. When I brought this up to one recruiter a few years ago, they basically acknowledged the reputation and their intent to improve.<p>Perhaps unlike HN, I&#x27;ve never seriously considered joining a mega-corporation like Google, Facebook, or Amazon. I just don&#x27;t see the appeal, nor do I want to work in a city (SV, Seattle, NYC, or otherwise).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Interviews with Amazon</title><url>https://thesocietea.org/2016/07/my-interviews-with-amazon/</url></story> |
32,243,721 | 32,243,040 | 1 | 2 | 32,241,820 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brightball</author><text>I filled out a ton of enterprise questionnaires on this stuff before and we just told people that it would be deleted when the backups expired after X days because we didn&#x27;t have the capability to delete specific rows from our backups. Nobody ever argued.<p>There&#x27;s not a single customer I&#x27;ve ever run across who&#x27;s going to halt a contract because you can&#x27;t purge their data from your backups fast enough. They&#x27;re signing up because of what you offer, not the termination clause.</text><parent_chain><item><author>e1g</author><text>Every B2B client who asked us how we handle multi-tenancy also asked how we ensure their data is erased at the end of the contract. Using a shared database with RLS means you have to go through all DB backups, delete individual rows for that tenant, then re-generate the backup. That’s a non-starter, so we opted for having one DB per tenant which also makes sharding, scaling, balancing, and handling data-residency challenges easier.</text></item><item><author>bearjaws</author><text>This is such a killer feature in PG, my new job uses it and it makes audits of our tenancy model dead simple.<p>Coming from a SaaS company that used MySQL, we would get asked by some customers how we guarantee we segmented their data, and it always ended at the app layer. One customer (A fortune 10 company) asked if we could switch to SQL Server to get this feature...<p>Our largest customers ask how we do database multi-tenant and we point to our SDLC + PG docs and they go &#x27;K&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shipping Multi-Tenant SaaS Using Postgres Row-Level Security</title><url>https://www.thenile.dev/blog/multi-tenant-rls</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bearjaws</author><text>We usually write a &quot;reasonable best effort&quot; clause into our deletion, that it will 100% be deleted from production within 30 days and automatically fall out of backups 60 days from there. This also helps since we can&#x27;t control our downstream vendors such as Twilio, AWS SES, etc, who all have their own legal obligations and time frames.<p>Even for large health systems they have been okay with it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>e1g</author><text>Every B2B client who asked us how we handle multi-tenancy also asked how we ensure their data is erased at the end of the contract. Using a shared database with RLS means you have to go through all DB backups, delete individual rows for that tenant, then re-generate the backup. That’s a non-starter, so we opted for having one DB per tenant which also makes sharding, scaling, balancing, and handling data-residency challenges easier.</text></item><item><author>bearjaws</author><text>This is such a killer feature in PG, my new job uses it and it makes audits of our tenancy model dead simple.<p>Coming from a SaaS company that used MySQL, we would get asked by some customers how we guarantee we segmented their data, and it always ended at the app layer. One customer (A fortune 10 company) asked if we could switch to SQL Server to get this feature...<p>Our largest customers ask how we do database multi-tenant and we point to our SDLC + PG docs and they go &#x27;K&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shipping Multi-Tenant SaaS Using Postgres Row-Level Security</title><url>https://www.thenile.dev/blog/multi-tenant-rls</url></story> |
17,166,265 | 17,166,177 | 1 | 2 | 17,165,845 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hedgew</author><text>The ISSpresso linked in the article was interesting. I like how clean and robust the controls look. Totally unlike most consumer products. I&#x27;d pay well to have more controls like that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ISSpresso" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ISSpresso</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;8&#x2F;87&#x2F;ISS-43_new_ISSpresso_machine.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;8&#x2F;87&#x2F;ISS-43_n...</a><p>Compare to a typical induction stove!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;3&#x2F;39&#x2F;Kookplaat_inductie.JPG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;3&#x2F;39&#x2F;Kookplaa...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Makita has made a sturdy coffee machine aimed at construction workers</title><url>http://www.alphr.com/technology/1008859/makita-coffee-maker-drill-batteries</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yaleman</author><text>AvE&#x27;s been messing with his for a long time... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7JyhWhgNXSc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7JyhWhgNXSc</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Makita has made a sturdy coffee machine aimed at construction workers</title><url>http://www.alphr.com/technology/1008859/makita-coffee-maker-drill-batteries</url></story> |
27,065,485 | 27,063,073 | 1 | 2 | 27,060,609 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>&gt; <i>Based on our investigation so far, we believe that Disqus could not rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis for tracking across websites, services or devices, profiling and disclosure of personal data for marketing purposes, and that this type of tracking would require consent</i><p>Good to see them taking this seriously. I get the impression a lot of sites&#x2F;services make expansive use of the <i>legitimate interest</i> provision.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches</title><url>https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/2021/intent-to-issue--25-million-fine-to-disqus-inc/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>surround</author><text>Try blocking Disqus with uBlock Origin, turns out you probably won&#x27;t miss it<p><pre><code> ||disqus.com^
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You could also try a dynamic filter and disable it on a per-site basis<p><pre><code> * disqus.com * block
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Or try &quot;medium mode&quot; to take care of Disqus and a whole host of other third party resources that track you<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBlock&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blocking-mode:-medium-mode" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBlock&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blocking-mode:-medium...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches</title><url>https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/2021/intent-to-issue--25-million-fine-to-disqus-inc/</url></story> |
27,781,357 | 27,779,288 | 1 | 2 | 27,776,184 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Abishek_Muthian</author><text>Thanks for sharing, Your fight is very inspiring.<p>&gt;My company was very supportive and our health insurance picked up most of the cost - over US $2million (so far?)<p>This is the first time I&#x27;m hearing something good about a insurer in a very long time, That too for a such a large amount. I presume it&#x27;s likely because you work for a large client and they&#x27;re very supportive. I&#x27;m glad this is happening.<p>Meanwhile, I have bone related issues(Achondroplasia) and the insurers here(tied up major international brands) outright deny me a health insurance policy[1] against the guidelines of regulatory body and numerous supreme court verdicts on related scenarios.<p>After COVID disaster, It seems like the health insurers don&#x27;t even try to wear their disingenuous masks anymore.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abishekmuthian.com&#x2F;insurers-are-putting-the-lives-of-sick-and-disabled-at-risk-during-covid-19-pandemic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abishekmuthian.com&#x2F;insurers-are-putting-the-lives-of...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cancerhacker</author><text>I created this account on July 28, 2014 [1] - I had(have?) stage IV Colon Cancer with liver metastases. I did a FOLFIRI regime with cetaximab, then a colon resection with a general surgeon.<p>My oncologist was great (ucsf medical center) - but the surgeon refused to address my liver mets - they were too large and distributed.<p>My wife found out about a specialist at Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan that uses something called a Hepatic Arterial Infusion Pump - a hockypuck that delivers 50x a chemo dose directly to the liver. That was implanted in my abdomen and I flew between SF and New York to get it refilled every 4 weeks for six months. Their surgeon then resected 75% of my liver. (Skipping a few steps here. I had another met that they couldn’t get surgically and they got it with 10 rounds of radiation.)<p>My company was very supportive and our health insurance picked up most of the cost - over US $2million (so far?)<p>I was hospitalized several times after the surgeries for post operative infections - in a way they seemed far more difficult for the doctors to address than the cancer itself.<p>Oh, while the Cetaximab shrank the tumors, the skin rash it caused was absolutely wretched - my cuticles would bleed and had to wear finger cots and gloves to protect them. And my eyelashes grew about 3x their normal length.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8095321" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8095321</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/08/cancer-death-rates-2021/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nradov</author><text>Thanks for sharing your story. It&#x27;s a good reminder about how oncology is still as much as art as a science, and outcomes vary widely depending on whether you have access to the right providers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cancerhacker</author><text>I created this account on July 28, 2014 [1] - I had(have?) stage IV Colon Cancer with liver metastases. I did a FOLFIRI regime with cetaximab, then a colon resection with a general surgeon.<p>My oncologist was great (ucsf medical center) - but the surgeon refused to address my liver mets - they were too large and distributed.<p>My wife found out about a specialist at Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan that uses something called a Hepatic Arterial Infusion Pump - a hockypuck that delivers 50x a chemo dose directly to the liver. That was implanted in my abdomen and I flew between SF and New York to get it refilled every 4 weeks for six months. Their surgeon then resected 75% of my liver. (Skipping a few steps here. I had another met that they couldn’t get surgically and they got it with 10 rounds of radiation.)<p>My company was very supportive and our health insurance picked up most of the cost - over US $2million (so far?)<p>I was hospitalized several times after the surgeries for post operative infections - in a way they seemed far more difficult for the doctors to address than the cancer itself.<p>Oh, while the Cetaximab shrank the tumors, the skin rash it caused was absolutely wretched - my cuticles would bleed and had to wear finger cots and gloves to protect them. And my eyelashes grew about 3x their normal length.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8095321" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8095321</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/08/cancer-death-rates-2021/</url></story> |
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