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9,586,734 | 9,586,193 | 1 | 2 | 9,585,631 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stefanha</author><text>&gt; it doesn&#x27;t really support the light IO solutions (like novm&#x27;s file, rather than block access)<p>That is incorrect. novm just implements the virtio-9p device that QEMU has supported for years.<p>Clear Linux does add something new: a pmem (NVDIMM) device that bypasses the guest kernel&#x27;s page cache. This involves host kernel, guest kernel, and kvmtool changes.<p>The advantage of pmem is that short-lived VMs can directly access data from the host instead of copying in. But this feature needs to be added to QEMU&#x2F;KVM anyway to support new persistent memory hardware (see <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmem.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmem.io&#x2F;</a>) so it won&#x27;t be unique for long.</text><parent_chain><item><author>viraptor</author><text>This is great, but lately I just can&#x27;t keep up with the virtualisation changes. I got really excited about google&#x27;s novm - that&#x27;s dead now. kvmtools never got included into kernel afaik. qboot will be great, but it looks like it doesn&#x27;t really support the light IO solutions (like novm&#x27;s file, rather than block access). Now there&#x27;s clear containers which is actually kvm, which looks like docker-meets-qboot. And many others in between.<p>This doesn&#x27;t seem right, honestly. Half of the projects have the same approach or goals. (quick boot time and no legacy supported) So why do they die and get reinvented every single time?<p>Something is wrong...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/645455/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wtallis</author><text>Look at what Xen has gone through: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.xen.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:XenModes.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.xen.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:XenModes.png</a><p>They started with HVM and PV, and have since evolved HVM toward PV by removing legacy support and software emulation and have now settled (for now?) on doing every the PV way except where hardware virtualization assistance is faster on modern hardware. Some of this shifting has been due to changes in hardware capabilities, and some of it has been due to earlier efforts being developed from an incomplete understanding of what techniques are faster.</text><parent_chain><item><author>viraptor</author><text>This is great, but lately I just can&#x27;t keep up with the virtualisation changes. I got really excited about google&#x27;s novm - that&#x27;s dead now. kvmtools never got included into kernel afaik. qboot will be great, but it looks like it doesn&#x27;t really support the light IO solutions (like novm&#x27;s file, rather than block access). Now there&#x27;s clear containers which is actually kvm, which looks like docker-meets-qboot. And many others in between.<p>This doesn&#x27;t seem right, honestly. Half of the projects have the same approach or goals. (quick boot time and no legacy supported) So why do they die and get reinvented every single time?<p>Something is wrong...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/645455/</url></story> |
21,444,972 | 21,444,881 | 1 | 2 | 21,438,318 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nomel</author><text>I think you’re trivializing the difficulty in categorizing the low quality, and extremely brief, comments of social media.<p>Go look at a political subreddit, or some controversial tweet. There’s little conversation or context. Most users could be bots.<p>Google often has the advantage of having hard (url) or soft (product&#x2F;key word mention) links that point to something extremely rare and “unimportant”. Everyone is bitching about politicians and policy in a way that’s not far from a Markov chain.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheRealDunkirk</author><text>Google has largely solved the spam problem for end users. What I can&#x27;t figure out is why platforms like Facebook and Twitter couldn&#x27;t mark these sort of posts as, essentially, spam, by the same sort of rules and heuristics as email spam. Why can&#x27;t they look at the metadata of verified troll-farm-generated clickbait&#x2F;junk&#x2F;spam&#x2F;fake news, and make their own filters, and demote that content?<p>Simple. Because they&#x27;re making money on the garbage. It&#x27;s a misalignment of incentives. Until that is fixed, through reorganization or regulation, the problem will persist. They will only do enough to fight this -- both in terms of technology and public image -- so that it doesn&#x27;t impact their bottom line(s).</text></item><item><author>nkozyra</author><text>This really is a critical juncture for the internet; the moment wherein the democratization of information has empowered those with the resources to overwhelm the signal with noise.<p>I wish I saw a way out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/undercover-reporter-reveals-life-in-a-polish-troll-farm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>exogeny</author><text>This is 100% correct. FB and TWTR are publicly traded companies; their executives and their board have convinced themselves in an extremely cowardly fashion that their only duty is to the shareholders. They absolutely know that the second they take this stuff seriously, they have to report both how bad it was&#x2F;is, and how much traffic&#x2F;revenue to their product was fraudulent at best.<p>It’s so gross.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheRealDunkirk</author><text>Google has largely solved the spam problem for end users. What I can&#x27;t figure out is why platforms like Facebook and Twitter couldn&#x27;t mark these sort of posts as, essentially, spam, by the same sort of rules and heuristics as email spam. Why can&#x27;t they look at the metadata of verified troll-farm-generated clickbait&#x2F;junk&#x2F;spam&#x2F;fake news, and make their own filters, and demote that content?<p>Simple. Because they&#x27;re making money on the garbage. It&#x27;s a misalignment of incentives. Until that is fixed, through reorganization or regulation, the problem will persist. They will only do enough to fight this -- both in terms of technology and public image -- so that it doesn&#x27;t impact their bottom line(s).</text></item><item><author>nkozyra</author><text>This really is a critical juncture for the internet; the moment wherein the democratization of information has empowered those with the resources to overwhelm the signal with noise.<p>I wish I saw a way out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/undercover-reporter-reveals-life-in-a-polish-troll-farm</url></story> |
40,384,452 | 40,383,963 | 1 | 2 | 40,379,488 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elliottkember</author><text>Does believing someone to be a god make them a god?</text><parent_chain><item><author>nkrisc</author><text>If they&#x27;re indulged by society as a whole, are they delusions?</text></item><item><author>bqmjjx0kac</author><text>I&#x27;m willing to entertain the idea that the god kings had some delusions</text></item><item><author>s1artibartfast</author><text>Megalomania is characterized by <i>delusion</i>.</text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text>“Cutting-edge psychological research suggests that pharaohs may have suffered from megalomania”</text></item><item><author>marshallward</author><text>&gt; “The pyramids seem like pretty monumental work”<p>You don&#x27;t say...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01449-y</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krapp</author><text>It&#x27;s the &quot;god&quot; part of &quot;god king&quot; that was the delusion, and all of the wasted effort that went into ensuring the Pharoah&#x27;s resurrection and immortality after death. And yes, it&#x27;s a delusion regardless of how many people believe in it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nkrisc</author><text>If they&#x27;re indulged by society as a whole, are they delusions?</text></item><item><author>bqmjjx0kac</author><text>I&#x27;m willing to entertain the idea that the god kings had some delusions</text></item><item><author>s1artibartfast</author><text>Megalomania is characterized by <i>delusion</i>.</text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text>“Cutting-edge psychological research suggests that pharaohs may have suffered from megalomania”</text></item><item><author>marshallward</author><text>&gt; “The pyramids seem like pretty monumental work”<p>You don&#x27;t say...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01449-y</url></story> |
11,954,144 | 11,951,712 | 1 | 3 | 11,951,628 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samaaron</author><text>Given that Emacs Live has received new interest over here - I&#x27;ve just pushed a new release - v1.0beta28. This has support for all the latest Clojure goodies as well as many other lib updates :-)<p>Simply do a git pull from ~&#x2F;.emacs.d to update</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Emacs Live (2013)</title><url>http://overtone.github.io/emacs-live/</url></story> | <instructions>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>See also: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spacemacs.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spacemacs.org</a>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Emacs Live (2013)</title><url>http://overtone.github.io/emacs-live/</url></story> |
22,069,382 | 22,069,105 | 1 | 3 | 22,068,223 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>Java finally gets what&#x27;s been available in Scala (case classes), C# (structs or maybe properties), Kotlin (data classes) and others for a very long time .. so long we already have tools like Immutables and Lombok to get past this really dumb limitation in Java.<p>I was really surprised to learn that the Java compiler&#x2F;VM, when it sees the patterns &quot;somevar&quot; and functions &quot;getSomeVar&quot; and &quot;setSomeVar&quot; doing purely getter&#x2F;setter stuff, removes the actual function calls and silently changes them in the background to field lookups for speed.<p>If you attach a debugger or memory profiler, is changes them back to functions and slows them down. I&#x27;m not sure if this is still true; saw an example of this at a meetup back in the Java 8 days.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Records Come to Java</title><url>https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/records-come-to-java</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bozoUser</author><text>This is akin to case classes of Scala such a welcoming change to the Java world.<p>Apart from being a functional language one of main draws to Scala is the ease with which one can get rid of the boilerplate code. So kudos to the Java team!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Records Come to Java</title><url>https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/records-come-to-java</url></story> |
32,411,507 | 32,409,199 | 1 | 3 | 32,408,393 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>idealmedtech</author><text>If you clean a figure 8 really well, it&#x27;s just as easy to untie after a whip as a bowline (okay, maybe not just as easy, but very close), and much much more universal for your partner to inspect.<p>The process I follow to ensure a clean knot every time:<p>1. Tie your figure 8, with the tail the same size every time (use your body as a ruler, testing a few lengths to get the perfect size)<p>2. Pass the tail up through your hard points so the knot is only a few inches from the bottom hard point.<p>3. Orient your knot so the tail is coming out of the bottom right side<p>4. This is the most important step! Instead of passing the tail through the inside of the knot when starting the followthrough, pass it <i>in between</i> the tail strand and the bottom right of the knot.<p>5. Follow through as normal. It should come out almost clean (eg no need to flip strands over each other)<p>6. For all 4 combos of top and bottom strand, yank them to make the knot very tight. The tighter and cleaner it is, the easier to untie after a whip.<p>7. If you do this all, the load strand will be on top, so no difficult flipped strands after a whip!<p>This is just my process, what&#x27;s most important is doing something that works for you and that you can get right every time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kyledrake</author><text>Random comment: Securing the trace eight with a second knot is really not necessary, as it is a self tightening knot. Most climbers don&#x27;t do it, my climbing safety book doesn&#x27;t show it and all gyms I&#x27;ve been too, sans one in Vancouver WA for some reason, don&#x27;t require it. Rough rule is two fists length for the tail and you&#x27;re good.<p>Another comment mentioned this too, it&#x27;s much easier to untie if tied in a specific way and if you do lead climbing they usually show you the technique. You can also do it with a Yosemite finish for a similar improvement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Essential Climbing Knots</title><url>https://www.climbing.com/skills/essential-climbing-knots-complete-guide/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wskish</author><text>I was taught that the 2nd knot just provides quick visual proof that the tail is long enough to not pull through under load.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kyledrake</author><text>Random comment: Securing the trace eight with a second knot is really not necessary, as it is a self tightening knot. Most climbers don&#x27;t do it, my climbing safety book doesn&#x27;t show it and all gyms I&#x27;ve been too, sans one in Vancouver WA for some reason, don&#x27;t require it. Rough rule is two fists length for the tail and you&#x27;re good.<p>Another comment mentioned this too, it&#x27;s much easier to untie if tied in a specific way and if you do lead climbing they usually show you the technique. You can also do it with a Yosemite finish for a similar improvement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Essential Climbing Knots</title><url>https://www.climbing.com/skills/essential-climbing-knots-complete-guide/</url></story> |
12,027,709 | 12,027,729 | 1 | 3 | 12,026,614 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>petra</author><text>The ideal dental treatment would be a dental vaccine(against the mouth bacteria that destroys teeth and harms gums), letting future people not even being aware to dental issues(or maybe just use a monthly&#x2F;weekly mouthwash). . there was even a startup aiming for that but it stopped due to fda and problems creating a trial.<p>Hopefully someone like Google finishes that up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kyriakos</author><text>I hope this process becomes part of mainstream dental medicine. Our current dental technology feels backward compared to other fields of medicine</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Researchers use light to coax stem cells to repair teeth (2014)</title><url>https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2014/05/researchers-use-light-to-coax-stem-cells-to-repair-teeth</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>angersock</author><text>Eh?<p>Dentistry is one of the few fields of medicine that seems to know exactly how to fix whatever is ailing you and can do so at a cost that can be reasonably borne out-of-pocket without the clowncar of the insurance industry showing up.<p>I&#x27;d say that it&#x27;s a huge success!</text><parent_chain><item><author>kyriakos</author><text>I hope this process becomes part of mainstream dental medicine. Our current dental technology feels backward compared to other fields of medicine</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Researchers use light to coax stem cells to repair teeth (2014)</title><url>https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2014/05/researchers-use-light-to-coax-stem-cells-to-repair-teeth</url></story> |
21,782,179 | 21,782,336 | 1 | 3 | 21,780,876 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>“So instead of moving on, lots of frustrated employees burn out trying to change the company from within.”<p>I think the mindset of changing of something from within is actually a good one. “Moving on” is probably easier and pragmatic but as a society it’s better to change things instead of just tossing them aside and going to the next thing. I hope the same people will also be active in politics and try to change things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fishnchips</author><text>I’m always surprised by the level of employee activism at Google. I mean, it’s a job. You don’t like it, or the company, then the default thing people do is leave. But based on my experience Google is different because they brainwash you into thinking that Google is the second coming of Christ and you don’t want to lose your front seat by just leaving. So instead of moving on, lots of frustrated employees burn out trying to change the company from within.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-13/google-culture-war-escalates-as-era-of-transparency-wanes</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>overthemoon</author><text>Not a googler myself, but if I had to guess I&#x27;d say they feel a sense of ownership in Google employees at other companies
might not. I think that sense of ownership is warranted, if not in a strictly legal sense. If a Google employee feels that, it seems natural to want to see it change for the better, and stick around to help influence it to do so.<p>Moreover, the sheer size and power of Google means that changing its culture changes how it interacts with the world, which could have far-reaching consequences. Seems natural to want to see that impact improve.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fishnchips</author><text>I’m always surprised by the level of employee activism at Google. I mean, it’s a job. You don’t like it, or the company, then the default thing people do is leave. But based on my experience Google is different because they brainwash you into thinking that Google is the second coming of Christ and you don’t want to lose your front seat by just leaving. So instead of moving on, lots of frustrated employees burn out trying to change the company from within.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-13/google-culture-war-escalates-as-era-of-transparency-wanes</url></story> |
21,467,685 | 21,467,447 | 1 | 3 | 21,465,446 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dre54673</author><text>I&#x27;ve noticed an increasing trend in people using phrases such as &quot;it is trivial&quot;, &quot;it is obvious&quot;, &quot;it is self evident&quot; to defend their arguments. I have yet to encounter a case where it made their argument better.<p>This might be off topic but it has become a pet peeve because I&#x27;ve even started to encounter it in real life. It is similar to starting a discussion with &quot;if you disagree with me, you are stupid&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Empact</author><text>It should be self-evident that the accelerating inequality we’re witnessing is not the natural inequality of competition and the power law, easily explained by simple arithmetic.<p>An <i>accelerating</i> and <i>historically high</i> broad societal effect is naturally a product of broad and unique properties of the current regime, rather than fundamentally consistent properties, which would naturally be seen across all time.<p>What is more broad and far-reaching than manipulation of the money supply itself? “We have found that inflation (1) worsens income distribution; (2) increases the income share of the rich; (3) has a negative but insignificant effect on the income shares of the poor and the middle class; and (4) reduces the rate of economic growth”
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.295.848&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.295...</a><p>It’s not difficult to see why - under an inflationary regime, those holding currency lose out relative to those holding assets, because the former’s wealth is not preserved; and low income wages are facing a constant headwind that their earners are less equipped to navigate.<p>We in the US have been engaging in an experiment since 1971, which has resulted in a marked discontinuity and a shift in to whom productivity growth accrued:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wtfhappenedin1971.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wtfhappenedin1971.com&#x2F;</a><p>This is not necessarily the true or only explanation of our accelerating and historically high inequality, but it has the properties of a realistic explanation, in that it identifies a broad, historically distinct cause.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Inequality Inevitable?</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>We have found that inflation (1) worsens income distribution</i><p>This is an interesting question, but that&#x27;s [1] a terrible study.<p>It compares &quot;data averaged over 5-year periods&quot; across different countries. It&#x27;s effectively a scatter plot of income inequality versus inflation.<p>The study&#x27;s findings are better stated as &quot;countries with high inflation have worse income distributions.&quot; Which makes sense. High-inflation countries tend to have low-quality institutions and low economic growth, factors which make being middle class difficult and poor miserable.<p>The right way to do this is longitudinally, studying populations over time. Even that&#x27;s hard, given the number of interceding factors. At a minimum, an input must be the distribution of credit and debt, given inflation transfers wealth from the former to the latter.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.295.848&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.295...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Empact</author><text>It should be self-evident that the accelerating inequality we’re witnessing is not the natural inequality of competition and the power law, easily explained by simple arithmetic.<p>An <i>accelerating</i> and <i>historically high</i> broad societal effect is naturally a product of broad and unique properties of the current regime, rather than fundamentally consistent properties, which would naturally be seen across all time.<p>What is more broad and far-reaching than manipulation of the money supply itself? “We have found that inflation (1) worsens income distribution; (2) increases the income share of the rich; (3) has a negative but insignificant effect on the income shares of the poor and the middle class; and (4) reduces the rate of economic growth”
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.295.848&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.295...</a><p>It’s not difficult to see why - under an inflationary regime, those holding currency lose out relative to those holding assets, because the former’s wealth is not preserved; and low income wages are facing a constant headwind that their earners are less equipped to navigate.<p>We in the US have been engaging in an experiment since 1971, which has resulted in a marked discontinuity and a shift in to whom productivity growth accrued:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wtfhappenedin1971.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wtfhappenedin1971.com&#x2F;</a><p>This is not necessarily the true or only explanation of our accelerating and historically high inequality, but it has the properties of a realistic explanation, in that it identifies a broad, historically distinct cause.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Inequality Inevitable?</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/</url></story> |
17,544,153 | 17,544,380 | 1 | 3 | 17,542,993 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sidlls</author><text>&quot;About to?&quot; It already is brutal for the bottom half. And the 90th percentile is too low: people in that range are paupers by comparison even to the top 5. I think the 95th to the 99th percentile is the region to look at. There are some seriously deluded individuals in that group who think they won&#x27;t be on the outside with the rest of us when the top pull the gates closed behind them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>Except we actually had a functioning federal government during the last gilded age, so we ended up with things like the Sherman Antitrust Act, and eventually the New Deal.<p>I doubt we&#x27;ll be so lucky this time around. Things are about to get absolutely brutal for the 90%.</text></item><item><author>Endama</author><text>I feel that America is in the midst of a new gilded age; instead of Standard Oil, we have Amazon.<p>Like the late 1920s, we saw losses in purchasing power of the average American, the collection of wealth among the top 1%, and disruption of our civic spaces as a result. I think the thing that many Americans aren&#x27;t aware of was just how violent that time in US history was[1].<p>The US economy isn&#x27;t just about how comfortable the average US citizen is, it is also a measure of how much cushion there is in our society between us being frustrated looking at a job board and being angry and armed in the streets. The teachers strikes in Oklahoma, Florida, and W. Virginia are showing the rise of Unions (much like in the gilded age as well). Protest and civic engagement must be our response, we should take signs like the wealth of Bezos as a cautionary tale, rather than something to simply marvel at.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ludlow_Massacre" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ludlow_Massacre</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Matewan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Matewan</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1920_Alabama_coal_strike" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1920_Alabama_coal_strike</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Blair_Mountain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Blair_Mountain</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-16/happy-prime-day-jeff-amazon-ceo-s-net-worth-tops-150-billion</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Synaesthesia</author><text>That came about due to pressure from mass civil action, just like every positive change in society.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>Except we actually had a functioning federal government during the last gilded age, so we ended up with things like the Sherman Antitrust Act, and eventually the New Deal.<p>I doubt we&#x27;ll be so lucky this time around. Things are about to get absolutely brutal for the 90%.</text></item><item><author>Endama</author><text>I feel that America is in the midst of a new gilded age; instead of Standard Oil, we have Amazon.<p>Like the late 1920s, we saw losses in purchasing power of the average American, the collection of wealth among the top 1%, and disruption of our civic spaces as a result. I think the thing that many Americans aren&#x27;t aware of was just how violent that time in US history was[1].<p>The US economy isn&#x27;t just about how comfortable the average US citizen is, it is also a measure of how much cushion there is in our society between us being frustrated looking at a job board and being angry and armed in the streets. The teachers strikes in Oklahoma, Florida, and W. Virginia are showing the rise of Unions (much like in the gilded age as well). Protest and civic engagement must be our response, we should take signs like the wealth of Bezos as a cautionary tale, rather than something to simply marvel at.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ludlow_Massacre" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ludlow_Massacre</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Matewan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Matewan</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1920_Alabama_coal_strike" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1920_Alabama_coal_strike</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Blair_Mountain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Blair_Mountain</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-16/happy-prime-day-jeff-amazon-ceo-s-net-worth-tops-150-billion</url></story> |
41,610,857 | 41,610,879 | 1 | 2 | 41,608,350 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jauntywundrkind</author><text>Kamal feels built around the premise that &quot;Kubernetes is too complicated&quot; (after Basecamp got burned by some hired help), and from that justification it goes out and recreates a sizable chunk of the things Kubernetes does.<p>Your list of things a reverse proxy might do is a good example to me of how I expect this to go: what starts out as an ambition to be simple inevitably has to grow &amp; grow more of complexity it sought to avoid.<p>Part of me strongly thinks we need competition &amp; need other things trying to create broad ideally extensible ways or running systems. But a huge part of me sees Kamal &amp; thinks, man, this is a lot of work being done only to have to keep walking backwards into the complexity they were trying to avoid. Usually second system syndrome is the first system being simple the second being overly complicated, and on the tin the case is inverse, but man, the competency of Kube &amp; it&#x27;s flexibility&#x2F;adaptability as being a framework for Desired State Management really shows through for me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ksajadi</author><text>This primarily exists to take care of a fundamental issue in Docker Swarm (Kamal&#x27;s orchestrator of choice) where replacing containers of a service disrupts traffic. We had the same problem (when building JAMStack servers at Cloud 66) and used Caddy instead of writing our own proxy and also looked at Traefik which would have been just as suitable.<p>I don&#x27;t know why Kamal chose Swarm over k8s or k3s (simplicity perhaps?) but then, complexity needs a home, you can push it around but cannot hide it, hence a home grown proxy.<p>I have not tried Kamal proxy to know, but I am highly skeptical of something like this, because I am pretty sure I will be chasing it for support for anything from WebSockets to SSE, to HTTP&#x2F;3 to various types of compression and encryption.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kamal Proxy – A minimal HTTP proxy for zero-downtime deployments</title><url>https://github.com/basecamp/kamal-proxy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hipadev23</author><text>I feel like you’re conflating the orchestration with proxying. There’s no reason they couldn’t be using caddy or traefik or envoy for the proxy (just like k8s ends up using them as an ingress controller), while still using docker.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ksajadi</author><text>This primarily exists to take care of a fundamental issue in Docker Swarm (Kamal&#x27;s orchestrator of choice) where replacing containers of a service disrupts traffic. We had the same problem (when building JAMStack servers at Cloud 66) and used Caddy instead of writing our own proxy and also looked at Traefik which would have been just as suitable.<p>I don&#x27;t know why Kamal chose Swarm over k8s or k3s (simplicity perhaps?) but then, complexity needs a home, you can push it around but cannot hide it, hence a home grown proxy.<p>I have not tried Kamal proxy to know, but I am highly skeptical of something like this, because I am pretty sure I will be chasing it for support for anything from WebSockets to SSE, to HTTP&#x2F;3 to various types of compression and encryption.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kamal Proxy – A minimal HTTP proxy for zero-downtime deployments</title><url>https://github.com/basecamp/kamal-proxy</url></story> |
28,421,973 | 28,422,006 | 1 | 3 | 28,421,512 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ehnto</author><text>I know it&#x27;s boring and in many places unlikely, but government is essentially the only tool that could ever be effective at quelling the continued expansion of corporate surveillance.<p>We can likely all come up with novel technology ideas to help ourselves, but it&#x27;s a blight on all of society not just those who are conscious of it. They are our governments after all, we should be using them as tools for good as best we can.</text><parent_chain><item><author>angelzen</author><text>&#x27;will chew&#x27;?? The use of future tense is somewhat strange. We already live in a tech panopticon.<p>Went the other day to an old friend&#x27;s house. At the door, a Ring eye unblinkingly stared at me. For a few moments I felt like crushing the metallic monstrosity under the heel of my boot: I never consented to have my face uploaded in the Cloud. Then realized how powerless we truly are: every other house, every other shop, every other car have such an eye, all connected to the AllSeeingCloudEntity. With vision tech cheap enough to match our faceprint every single step every single one of us takes in a public space. Heracles at least had a fighting chance against the Hydra. Where do we even begin reclaiming our right to not be continuously watched?</text></item><item><author>hypothesis</author><text>&gt; Privacy is a set of curtains drawn across the windows of our lives. And technology companies are moths that will chew through more of the fabric every year if we let them, and especially if we encourage them.<p>That bright future and empowering innovation that most of us expected from tech companies was really a mirage…</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your Phone Is Your Private Space</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/spyware-your-iphone-step-too-far-privacy/619987/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hypothesis</author><text>Ha, wait until you visit a house where there are surveilling devices blinking at your in <i>every</i> room.<p>Also, sometimes I expect a Tesla to go full “Assuming Control” mode and continue aggressive behavior of previously encountered one. Surely they record&#x2F;analyze everything encountered and pass it onto central server, so no issues “remembering” me…</text><parent_chain><item><author>angelzen</author><text>&#x27;will chew&#x27;?? The use of future tense is somewhat strange. We already live in a tech panopticon.<p>Went the other day to an old friend&#x27;s house. At the door, a Ring eye unblinkingly stared at me. For a few moments I felt like crushing the metallic monstrosity under the heel of my boot: I never consented to have my face uploaded in the Cloud. Then realized how powerless we truly are: every other house, every other shop, every other car have such an eye, all connected to the AllSeeingCloudEntity. With vision tech cheap enough to match our faceprint every single step every single one of us takes in a public space. Heracles at least had a fighting chance against the Hydra. Where do we even begin reclaiming our right to not be continuously watched?</text></item><item><author>hypothesis</author><text>&gt; Privacy is a set of curtains drawn across the windows of our lives. And technology companies are moths that will chew through more of the fabric every year if we let them, and especially if we encourage them.<p>That bright future and empowering innovation that most of us expected from tech companies was really a mirage…</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your Phone Is Your Private Space</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/spyware-your-iphone-step-too-far-privacy/619987/</url></story> |
23,127,498 | 23,127,488 | 1 | 2 | 23,127,167 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SpicyLemonZest</author><text>It should be noted that these reports weren&#x27;t a surprise - reduced lung capacity months after recovery is common for all kinds of pneumonia.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jobu</author><text><i>&quot;Many people think COVID-19 kills 1% of patients, and the rest get away with some flulike symptoms. But the story gets more complicated. Many people will be left with chronic kidney and heart problems. Even their neural system is disrupted. There will be hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, possibly more, who will need treatments such as renal dialysis for the rest of their lives.&quot;</i><p>There have also been reports of people in China with significantly reduced lung capacity even months after recovery. Still so many scary questions about the long-term effects of this virus, possibly the biggest ones being about the post-recovery immunity. How long does the immunity last and how encompassing is it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/finally-virus-got-me-scientist-who-fought-ebola-and-hiv-reflects-facing-death-covid-19#</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pl0x</author><text>There is so much we donot know about the long-term effects. It shocks me to Silicon Valley icons like Elon Musk, Paul Graham, and Justin Kan pushing to reopen and spreading conspiracy theories over building tools to understand the long term effects.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jobu</author><text><i>&quot;Many people think COVID-19 kills 1% of patients, and the rest get away with some flulike symptoms. But the story gets more complicated. Many people will be left with chronic kidney and heart problems. Even their neural system is disrupted. There will be hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, possibly more, who will need treatments such as renal dialysis for the rest of their lives.&quot;</i><p>There have also been reports of people in China with significantly reduced lung capacity even months after recovery. Still so many scary questions about the long-term effects of this virus, possibly the biggest ones being about the post-recovery immunity. How long does the immunity last and how encompassing is it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/finally-virus-got-me-scientist-who-fought-ebola-and-hiv-reflects-facing-death-covid-19#</url></story> |
6,417,104 | 6,417,043 | 1 | 2 | 6,416,161 | 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>patio11</author><text><i>Japanese students probably do not work less hard than US students, or to greater effect.</i><p>Wait wait, people really think American students do more work than Japanese kids?<p>HAH. HAH. HAH. HAH. That&#x27;s a good one.<p>Seriously: Japanese <i>schools</i> don&#x27;t assign 3 hours of homework because that would conflict with the 3 hours of &quot;not required but it will ruin your life if you don&#x27;t do it and then fail your next admissions exam&quot; cram school that the top 30% of Japanese kids&#x2F;parents assume is inevitable.<p>If you want I can run down to the train station and take a photo of one of our local cram schools. It&#x27;s 8:45 PM right now so the middle schoolers should be just about <i>halfway finished</i> for the evening.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Some quick thoughts, as the parent of a high school freshman:<p>* If you anticipate your child being assigned 3 hours of homework in a typical evening, it is negligent to allow them to start that work at 8:00PM. Instead of allowing his daughter to watch episodes of Portlandia on her computer all afternoon, he could consider a rule suggesting homework gets completed before electronic entertainment; that&#x27;s our rule this year (for the first time) and it&#x27;s working better than I thought it would. Another rule we have: complete or not, homework is done at 9:30PM.<p>* Japan (a) does not outperform the US (at least on PISA) when normalized for income, which normalization <i>also normalizes for homework load</i>, and (b) has the some of the longest school days in the world, with an abbreviated, homework-encumbered summer break to boot. Japanese students probably do not work less hard than US students, or to greater effect.<p>* If your daughter answers &quot;Texas City&quot; as the state capital of Texas, the discussion of how she&#x27;s struggling academically might range farther than homework load, eh? Neither my son in high school nor my daughter in middle school has ever to my knowledge had state capitals homework, and neither would give that answer.<p>* If your daughter has spent middle school staying up until 1:00AM completing homework†, so much so that you are in open conflict with the school over that load, why oh why would you go out of your way to enroll the kid in a highly selective public school that is virtually assured to maintain or increase that load? We had homework-intensive school options for the boy, too, and (sanely) decided not to avail ourselves of them. Is this a status obsession thing? Because if the end goal is a push to get your kid into an Ivy, stop bitching about workload. You&#x27;re choosing to make your kid compete.<p>Minus the cannabis (I substituted Unix exploit development), I had a similar high school experience to this author. I&#x27;m not generally in favor of homework and would if asked by any of my kid&#x27;s teachers --- who do actually coordinate to even out the workload --- vote for less of it. But I think the parent in this article is suffering from a couple problems of his own creation, and has probably not come up with an indictment of the US school system.<p>† <i>Never once has either of my kids had a middle school workload that kept them up late at night.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/my-daughters-homework-is-killing-me/309514/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jtheory</author><text>&gt; Instead of allowing his daughter to watch episodes of Portlandia on her computer all afternoon<p>That&#x27;s a bit unfair -- that was Friday afternoon only.<p>I don&#x27;t have any kids in school yet, and I&#x27;m not in the US anymore anyway; but I do remember from my HS experience it would have been unkind to force me to complete all homework before <i>any</i> entertainment. School ended at 2:15 (because it started at 7am... ugh), but that&#x27;s when after school activities started -- and who could have a decent college app without extracurriculars? I worked on the literary magazine, ran track&#x2F;cross-country, was in a few plays&#x2F;musicals, and got home either at 4:30 (early bus) or a bit before 6pm (late bus), usually the latter. In theory I could sometimes get some work done during the school day, but when would I hang out with friends, then?<p>I agree about limits on homework time, and entertainment time; but I think I&#x27;d be inclined to make sure they had both downtime and homework time, and if the homework couldn&#x27;t be completed, so be it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Some quick thoughts, as the parent of a high school freshman:<p>* If you anticipate your child being assigned 3 hours of homework in a typical evening, it is negligent to allow them to start that work at 8:00PM. Instead of allowing his daughter to watch episodes of Portlandia on her computer all afternoon, he could consider a rule suggesting homework gets completed before electronic entertainment; that&#x27;s our rule this year (for the first time) and it&#x27;s working better than I thought it would. Another rule we have: complete or not, homework is done at 9:30PM.<p>* Japan (a) does not outperform the US (at least on PISA) when normalized for income, which normalization <i>also normalizes for homework load</i>, and (b) has the some of the longest school days in the world, with an abbreviated, homework-encumbered summer break to boot. Japanese students probably do not work less hard than US students, or to greater effect.<p>* If your daughter answers &quot;Texas City&quot; as the state capital of Texas, the discussion of how she&#x27;s struggling academically might range farther than homework load, eh? Neither my son in high school nor my daughter in middle school has ever to my knowledge had state capitals homework, and neither would give that answer.<p>* If your daughter has spent middle school staying up until 1:00AM completing homework†, so much so that you are in open conflict with the school over that load, why oh why would you go out of your way to enroll the kid in a highly selective public school that is virtually assured to maintain or increase that load? We had homework-intensive school options for the boy, too, and (sanely) decided not to avail ourselves of them. Is this a status obsession thing? Because if the end goal is a push to get your kid into an Ivy, stop bitching about workload. You&#x27;re choosing to make your kid compete.<p>Minus the cannabis (I substituted Unix exploit development), I had a similar high school experience to this author. I&#x27;m not generally in favor of homework and would if asked by any of my kid&#x27;s teachers --- who do actually coordinate to even out the workload --- vote for less of it. But I think the parent in this article is suffering from a couple problems of his own creation, and has probably not come up with an indictment of the US school system.<p>† <i>Never once has either of my kids had a middle school workload that kept them up late at night.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/my-daughters-homework-is-killing-me/309514/</url></story> |
18,713,845 | 18,713,328 | 1 | 2 | 18,712,832 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TACIXAT</author><text>It is totally awesome that function similarity is seeing the light of day. Google bought Zynamics way back when and their work has evolved a lot since then.<p>This sort of work has big implications in signature generation for malware samples, for clustering families of samples as well as finding common functions to generate detections on. You couldn&#x27;t necessarily throw this into a detection engine, because we don&#x27;t have a fast (dedicated) function recovery tool for binaries, but you can absolutely use it to generate byte based detection from a seed of a few samples.<p>Rather than having hash based signatures you could generate signatures that cover many samples (and likely new ones) in bulk. Normally a good signature like that requires manual effort from an analyst, this is a step toward machines doing it. As well, a central authoritative name database that could say &quot;this is Petya&quot; could force some sane naming convention on the industry (every AV wouldn&#x27;t just be like &quot;it&#x27;s Zbot lol&quot;).<p>This stuff can even aid manual reverse engineering. You could build a function naming database that uses this. Maybe a new engine for Talos FIRST. [1] Then if you opened up a file without debug symbols this could match it to known functions and really speed up reverse engineering efforts.<p>I look forward to reading it in more detail tomorrow. Thanks to Halvar for putting this out.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.talosintelligence.com&#x2F;first" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.talosintelligence.com&#x2F;first</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Searching statically-linked vulnerable library functions in executable code</title><url>https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/12/searching-statically-linked-vulnerable.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>tomjakubowski</author><text>&gt; An efficient implementation of a hash function (based on SimHashing) which calculates a 128-bit hash from disassembled functions - and which preserves similarity (e.g. “distance” of two functions can be calculated by simply calculating the hamming distance between two hashes - which translates to two XOR and two POPCNT instructions on x64).<p>Huh! This obviously desirable property of a good hash function for this application is one of the classic <i>undesirable</i> properties of a good hash function for cryptography. I don&#x27;t think that I was previously familiar with this sort of hash function, very cool.<p>Are space-filling curves related to these hash functions?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Searching statically-linked vulnerable library functions in executable code</title><url>https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/12/searching-statically-linked-vulnerable.html</url></story> |
8,242,138 | 8,241,912 | 1 | 3 | 8,241,191 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>winterismute</author><text>I had the privilege of meeting Carlo Rovelli (who attended university in my hometown, many years before me) in a public event targeting people that, like me, were at the time finishing high school and had to choose what to do with their lives.
We showed up already bored, waiting for the usual adults who would explain us why to study this and not that, what are the many possible career paths achievable by that, which economic sectors were growing and how, and so on. In fact, some of the speakers did mostly that.
On the contrary, Rovelli started to explain how he did not know what to do after school, and that he went to university initially because his family would have forced him to work as a plumber with his uncle if he decided not to go. He then advised us to choose to do only what we feel passionate about, and to distrust whoever, truth in hand, will explain us that by studying X we will be able to enter sector Y and achieve great success in life. It can seem trivial stuff, but when you are 18 and are being told those things by a humble but successful person, it really empowers you. He is also fairly easy to &quot;approach&quot;, he himself came to speak to us after the event, joking about the fact we should not cut our hair &quot;just to get a job&quot; (I haven&#x27;t since then, and I am 28 and working), hence I am not surprised he answers to people&#x27;s comment on the interview, or that he is active on physics.stackexchange, for example.<p>I have studied computer science and got interested in physics and philosophy of science thanks to him, he kind of embodies my idea of science, and of civil responsibility, and I must say I have been a bit disappointed to see that also the academic world is full of &quot;scientists&quot; that underestimate the value of philosophy or other related subjects, or that teach students not to question &quot;too much&quot; what they are doing, preventing them to really see the &quot;big picture&quot; behind knowledge.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quantum Gravity Expert Says "Philosophical Superficiality" Has Harmed Physics</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2014/08/21/quantum-gravity-expert-says-philosophical-superficiality-has-harmed-physics/?-k</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Elrac</author><text>OK, &quot;Critical views of science in the news&quot; is probably a useful avenue of &quot;hard looking&quot; and quality control for science. But I think it behooves us to be a little more critical in our choice of critics.<p>This struck me when the author, in his introduction, mentioned a previous Q&amp;A with telepathy proponent Rupert Sheldrake. Sheldrake only gets a brief mention in this piece as a critic of science, and I hasten to add that I don&#x27;t have any beef with the article from that point on.<p>For anyone who doesn&#x27;t know, Sheldrake has for years been trying to convince people that telepathy is real. To this end, he&#x27;s done a series of experiments which had the kind of inconclusive results you&#x27;d expect, yet in spite of a dearth of convincing, published results, in spite of a global failure to replicate his results, he keeps badgering science to take him seriously. Having been met with apathy and mild derision, he now blames science on his failure to be taken seriously.<p>So yes, Sheldrake is a &quot;science critic.&quot; So are many of the purveyors of homeopathy, of miracle cancer cures, of coffee enemas, of dowsing and of Intelligent Design. Science is empirical, and people without evidence like to call this a shortcoming of science.<p>So my question is: how much debunking, how much finger pointing and pantsless emperors is required before we can in good conscience exclude certain groups of people from discussions about the philosophy of science? Those discussions are important, no doubt - and this is why I think we should be wary of allowing them to be bogged down by the contributions of frauds and crackpots.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quantum Gravity Expert Says "Philosophical Superficiality" Has Harmed Physics</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2014/08/21/quantum-gravity-expert-says-philosophical-superficiality-has-harmed-physics/?-k</url></story> |
16,426,565 | 16,426,067 | 1 | 3 | 16,424,813 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dbranes</author><text>I&#x27;m probably missing something obvious here, maybe someone can explain the following to me.<p>- Their approach is a composition of 2 steps, what they call &quot;stylization&quot; and &quot;smoothing&quot;.<p>- Top left of 2nd page they claim: &quot;Both of the steps have closed-form solutions&quot;<p>- Equations 5 is the closed form solution for the &quot;smoothing&quot; step.<p>My question: Where&#x27;s the closed-form solution for the stylization step that they&#x27;re claiming?<p>Are they calling equation 3 a closed-form expression? In this case the title and the claim in the introduction are rather misleadinng, because computing 3 requires you to train autoencoders.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FastPhotoStyle from Nvidia</title><url>https://github.com/NVIDIA/FastPhotoStyle/blob/master/README.md</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ttoinou</author><text>Thoses interested in that technology : I made two videos 18 months ago, No optical flow and youtube compression kills everything but still decent if watched in 4K on a big screen :)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2YRVt80g2Ek" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2YRVt80g2Ek</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=i69cBYI6f-w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=i69cBYI6f-w</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FastPhotoStyle from Nvidia</title><url>https://github.com/NVIDIA/FastPhotoStyle/blob/master/README.md</url></story> |
23,833,040 | 23,833,243 | 1 | 2 | 23,832,437 | 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>Hamcha</author><text>If you truly wish to avoid this kind of problems you should think about hosting your own platform rather than jumping to the next one. Just because the smaller players haven&#x27;t done anything bad doesn&#x27;t mean they wouldn&#x27;t.<p>Gitea&#x2F;Gitlab are crazy easy to set-up nowadays, especially with a fully working CI&#x2F;CD setup (I use Gitea+Drone and I love it, Gitlab comes with its own)</text><parent_chain><item><author>zomglings</author><text>It is ridiculous that GitHub has not even responded to your support ticket.<p>To anyone reading from GitHub, this is making me rethink my choice of GitHub as a platform, and I&#x27;m sure the same is true for other people reading this post. Your reputation is very much at stake.<p>To anyone reading this from Gitlab, how easy is it to migrate CI&#x2F;CD off of GitHub Actions to Gitlab?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice</title><text>Hello friends,<p>I&#x27;m a Full Stack Developer from India. I&#x27;m a maintainer at Gatsby, Open Sauced and Triager at ExpressJS, Nest.land, JSHttp etc. I use GitHub a lot, but recently my account got suspended midnight without any notice, From my knowledge I haven&#x27;t spammed GitHub, I review 3 - 6 PRs in Gatsby per day, It&#x27;s been a week without GitHub, I have three sponsors in GitHub, they are asking me tons of questions and one of my sponsor stopped sponsoring me (my payout balance got reduced). All of my office work got stopped, I&#x27;m the admin of the org that is used in our company. All employees now don&#x27;t have access to the repo because it is returning 404. I got support from lot of people in Twitter but GitHub is not responding to my ticket for a week. I also created a petition is change.org <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.change.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;github-inc-my-github-account-suspended-for-no-reason" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.change.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;github-inc-my-github-account-suspen...</a> some people supported me over there too. It would be great if GitHub unsuspends me.<p>My support ticket number: 763327<p>GitHub Profile: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yg</a><p>Save Open source developers!<p>Hope Nat Friedman and GitHub will see this!</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>finnthehuman</author><text>&gt;To anyone reading from GitHub, this is making me rethink my choice of GitHub as a platform<p>You should reconsider it no matter what; you&#x27;re putting your business in someone else&#x27;s hands and relying on their goodwill not to completely fuck you over.<p>Using Github can be a tolerable risk when your company has hundreds of more-likely reasons to fail in the next month and needs every little bit of saved time it can get. But once the business has it&#x27;s feet under itself, the github contract of adhesion is a pretty stupid risk to take.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zomglings</author><text>It is ridiculous that GitHub has not even responded to your support ticket.<p>To anyone reading from GitHub, this is making me rethink my choice of GitHub as a platform, and I&#x27;m sure the same is true for other people reading this post. Your reputation is very much at stake.<p>To anyone reading this from Gitlab, how easy is it to migrate CI&#x2F;CD off of GitHub Actions to Gitlab?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice</title><text>Hello friends,<p>I&#x27;m a Full Stack Developer from India. I&#x27;m a maintainer at Gatsby, Open Sauced and Triager at ExpressJS, Nest.land, JSHttp etc. I use GitHub a lot, but recently my account got suspended midnight without any notice, From my knowledge I haven&#x27;t spammed GitHub, I review 3 - 6 PRs in Gatsby per day, It&#x27;s been a week without GitHub, I have three sponsors in GitHub, they are asking me tons of questions and one of my sponsor stopped sponsoring me (my payout balance got reduced). All of my office work got stopped, I&#x27;m the admin of the org that is used in our company. All employees now don&#x27;t have access to the repo because it is returning 404. I got support from lot of people in Twitter but GitHub is not responding to my ticket for a week. I also created a petition is change.org <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.change.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;github-inc-my-github-account-suspended-for-no-reason" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.change.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;github-inc-my-github-account-suspen...</a> some people supported me over there too. It would be great if GitHub unsuspends me.<p>My support ticket number: 763327<p>GitHub Profile: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yg</a><p>Save Open source developers!<p>Hope Nat Friedman and GitHub will see this!</text></story> |
8,657,646 | 8,657,418 | 1 | 3 | 8,657,135 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>Anyone wants to work on real, used-in-production OCaml code, take a look at the various libguestfs virt tools:<p><a href="https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/v2v" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;v2v</a><p><a href="https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/builder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;builder</a><p><a href="https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/customize" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;customi...</a><p><a href="https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/resize" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;resize</a><p><a href="https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/sparsify" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;sparsif...</a><p><a href="https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/sysprep" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;sysprep</a><p>One great no-nonsense feature of OCaml is that you can just link programs directly to C code, include a tiny C wrapper, and call straight into C with virtually no overhead (literally no overhead for functions that don&#x27;t need to allocate on the OCaml heap).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OCamlEditor</title><url>http://ocamleditor.forge.ocamlcore.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>kev6168</author><text>OCaml and its ecosystem are becoming so enticing day by day I feel like I am running out of excuses not to dive in NOW :-)<p>Obviously it&#x27;s extremely powerful in many different domains. But one particular area I am interested in is mobile app development. Google search shows OCaml indeed has libs&#x2F;tools for writing and compiling apps. I am curious about what&#x27;s the current status and experience in using OCaml in Android&#x2F;iOS development.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OCamlEditor</title><url>http://ocamleditor.forge.ocamlcore.org/</url></story> |
32,782,285 | 32,781,842 | 1 | 2 | 32,777,737 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patcon</author><text>Yeah, the Red Cross can screw right off. And libraries. Things should not exist in this world if they can&#x27;t pay their own way...<p>Sorry, my words above feel gross. I don&#x27;t normally write sarcastic comments, and I don&#x27;t like to, but I was a little put off by the &quot;good riddance&quot; comment.<p>I just mean... aren&#x27;t some entities cost centres that pay dividends later, sometimes non-monetarily. Kinda like children. Not everything needs to compete is the market and be judged a failure if it doesn&#x27;t succeed through the single metric markets care about, right?<p>Anyhow, respect (despite my sarcastic start :) )</text><parent_chain><item><author>bogwog</author><text>&gt; The revenue-sharing deals that Google offers to browsers are essential to companies like Mozilla Corp., he said, because they offer their products to users for free.<p>&gt; “The reason they partner with Google isn’t because they had to; it’s because they want to,” Schmidtlein said.<p>Mozilla would disappear overnight if Google stopped paying them.<p>Good riddance IMO (even though I love FF and it&#x27;s the only browser I use). They haven&#x27;t been able to build a sustainable business despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars per year from Google. A flower shop on a street corner can get a better ROI. Mozilla&#x27;s management is incompetent and shady.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-08/google-pays-enormous-sums-to-maintain-its-dominance-doj-says</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>masterof0</author><text>I remember a comment from their CEO complaining that a 3 million USD comp was a &quot;sacrifice&quot; she was making because she believes on the mission. Totally insane.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bogwog</author><text>&gt; The revenue-sharing deals that Google offers to browsers are essential to companies like Mozilla Corp., he said, because they offer their products to users for free.<p>&gt; “The reason they partner with Google isn’t because they had to; it’s because they want to,” Schmidtlein said.<p>Mozilla would disappear overnight if Google stopped paying them.<p>Good riddance IMO (even though I love FF and it&#x27;s the only browser I use). They haven&#x27;t been able to build a sustainable business despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars per year from Google. A flower shop on a street corner can get a better ROI. Mozilla&#x27;s management is incompetent and shady.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-08/google-pays-enormous-sums-to-maintain-its-dominance-doj-says</url></story> |
14,580,850 | 14,579,383 | 1 | 2 | 14,578,077 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bartread</author><text>&gt; 2. There&#x27;s a universal tendency for people to reminisce fondly about the good old days and contrast them with the ostensibly bad present. It has nothing to do with the truth. It is simply a syndrome of getting old. People were doing it 3000 years ago.<p>I&#x27;m afraid that whilst there&#x27;s some truth in what you&#x27;ve said, I think you&#x27;re far wide of the mark here.<p>It&#x27;s not about getting old. It&#x27;s about the fact that, and I wouldn&#x27;t pretend to understand the mechanics here, for whatever reason when too many people get involved in something it changes. It might get better, or it might get worse, or it might get better and then get worse, or whatever.<p>In this case I think the point that twitter, or whatever, somehow gets &quot;spoiled&quot; is perhaps valid. I would argue I&#x27;ve seen a similar thing with facebook. It used to be people posting updates about themselves and was a good way to keep up with people; now it&#x27;s largely people sharing pre-created content - 10th rate jokes and memes, political petitions, news - real or otherwise - from a parasitic ecosystem of sites predicated upon social sharing.<p>That spoiling can manifest itself in a variety of ways, and can take either a short or a long time to happen. The point is that a large influx of newcomers into an existing community, business, special interest group, or whatever, can <i>radically</i> alter the dynamics of that group in a way that is unpredictable, and sometimes not good.<p>And I apologise for the slightly rambling nature of this comment - haven&#x27;t had time to edit it into shape.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Eerie</author><text>1. There is a 4chan meme that goes approximately like this:<p>Newbie: &quot;Remember the time when 4chan was good?&quot;<p>Veteran: &quot;4chan was never good.&quot;<p>&quot;4chan&quot; can be easily replaced with &quot;Twitter&quot; or &quot;The Internet&quot; here.<p>2. There&#x27;s a universal tendency for people to reminisce fondly about the good old days and contrast them with the ostensibly bad present. It has nothing to do with the truth. It is simply a syndrome of getting old. People were doing it 3000 years ago.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Too many people have peed in the pool (2016)</title><url>http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/02/peedinthepool/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wfunction</author><text>&gt; 2. There&#x27;s a universal tendency for people to reminisce fondly about the good old days and contrast them with the ostensibly bad present. It has nothing to do with the truth. It is simply a syndrome of getting old.<p>Nothing to do with the truth? Maybe in your cases, but in others it very much does. In the good ol&#x27; days Democrats and Republicans weren&#x27;t as hostile and unwilling to work together as they are now. In the good ol&#x27; days it used to snow <i>way</i> more in some places than it does now. In the good ol&#x27; days many places were less polluted than they are now. In the good ol&#x27; days people had to learn to actually ask each other out instead of swiping right on their phones. In the good ol&#x27; days businesses had longer-lasting relationships with their employees and didn&#x27;t view them as disposable goods. Yeah, totally nothing to do with the truth, just people imagining things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Eerie</author><text>1. There is a 4chan meme that goes approximately like this:<p>Newbie: &quot;Remember the time when 4chan was good?&quot;<p>Veteran: &quot;4chan was never good.&quot;<p>&quot;4chan&quot; can be easily replaced with &quot;Twitter&quot; or &quot;The Internet&quot; here.<p>2. There&#x27;s a universal tendency for people to reminisce fondly about the good old days and contrast them with the ostensibly bad present. It has nothing to do with the truth. It is simply a syndrome of getting old. People were doing it 3000 years ago.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Too many people have peed in the pool (2016)</title><url>http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/02/peedinthepool/</url></story> |
22,174,297 | 22,173,714 | 1 | 2 | 22,158,462 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atq2119</author><text>The article mentions debug build time as a legitimate pain point about the LLVM project. General good advice, which unfortunately isn&#x27;t enabled by default: use dynamic linking, make sure you&#x27;re using lld, enable split dwarfs (and -Wl,--gdb-index for faster gdb load times!), enable optimized tablegen[0]. ccache doesn&#x27;t hurt but isn&#x27;t actually such a big benefit unless you switch between branches a lot.<p>Oh, and buy a Threadripper. Seriously, you won&#x27;t regret it.<p>[0] TableGen is LLVM&#x27;s internal DSL swiss army knife. You can separately enable optimizations for TableGen independently of optimizations in the resulting LLVM builds, which you should basically always do unless you&#x27;re working on TableGen itself.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy</title><url>https://mort.coffee/home/clang-compiler-hacking/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pythux</author><text>Really cool read. One thing which I was curious about, but is not completely related to the article, is how the workflow of making changes to a big project like Clang looks like. Is there some « watch » mode to iterate faster without needing to rebuild? What kind of tooling&#x2F;editor is recommended, is there some linting support? Is it possible to quickly identify a subset of tests to run for the changes made? (In this case I assume there are tests for lambda parsing?).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy</title><url>https://mort.coffee/home/clang-compiler-hacking/</url></story> |
14,116,543 | 14,096,466 | 1 | 3 | 14,091,148 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jedimastert</author><text>I got a pack of five, and I pretty much wear them every day. They feel pretty soft, light, and more than serviceable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>intoverflow2</author><text>&gt; Hanes t-shirts are about $7 at target<p>How do they feel on your skin? I&#x27;ve been wearing AA triblend tshirts for I think over 10 years now. With their recent closure in my country I tried a few other high street brands that were a lot cheaper, looked the same but felt like sandpaper on my skin compared to what I was used to.</text></item><item><author>jressey</author><text>Protip: Hanes t-shirts are about $7 at target, boxers $12&#x2F;3 at T.J. Maxx. Get good, comfortable shoes, no matter the price.<p>This is insane, but a work of art if it&#x27;s parody.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LOT – A subscription-based service which distributes a basic set of clothing</title><url>https://www.lot2046.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>emodendroket</author><text>The main thing against my skin daily is undershirts I buy from Costco and they feel pretty good.</text><parent_chain><item><author>intoverflow2</author><text>&gt; Hanes t-shirts are about $7 at target<p>How do they feel on your skin? I&#x27;ve been wearing AA triblend tshirts for I think over 10 years now. With their recent closure in my country I tried a few other high street brands that were a lot cheaper, looked the same but felt like sandpaper on my skin compared to what I was used to.</text></item><item><author>jressey</author><text>Protip: Hanes t-shirts are about $7 at target, boxers $12&#x2F;3 at T.J. Maxx. Get good, comfortable shoes, no matter the price.<p>This is insane, but a work of art if it&#x27;s parody.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LOT – A subscription-based service which distributes a basic set of clothing</title><url>https://www.lot2046.com/</url></story> |
12,069,257 | 12,069,151 | 1 | 3 | 12,068,983 | 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>misja111</author><text>The problem with tomatoes and many other vegetables and fruits is, that they don&#x27;t grow in the UK so they have to be imported. If they would be imported only when they were as ripe and tasty as the ones you saw in Italy, they would be rotten by the time they arrived in your supermarket in the UK. So, they are harvested when they are not quite ripe. They will ripen a bit more during transport but they will never have the same quality and freshness as the food in Italy.<p>TL;DR; if you want to have really fresh vegetables, stick to local and seasonal products.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lucaspiller</author><text>Not quite the same, but earlier this year I was working in Italy for a few months. I went back to the UK last week and it really surprised me how poor the quality of food is there. I don&#x27;t mean in restaurants, but the actual ingredients you get in supermarkets.<p>In Italy you can go into even the cheapest supermarkets and get tomatoes that smell like actual tomatoes, where as in the UK they just have no smell. Even tomatoes supposedly grown in Italy were the same (I guess they keep the good ones for themselves).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we're scammed into eating phony food</title><url>http://nypost.com/2016/07/10/the-truth-behind-how-were-scammed-into-eating-phony-food/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevindeasis</author><text>I went to Italy once and it opened my eyes on how I should have higher standards on what I eat, when I come back home<p>Edit: english</text><parent_chain><item><author>lucaspiller</author><text>Not quite the same, but earlier this year I was working in Italy for a few months. I went back to the UK last week and it really surprised me how poor the quality of food is there. I don&#x27;t mean in restaurants, but the actual ingredients you get in supermarkets.<p>In Italy you can go into even the cheapest supermarkets and get tomatoes that smell like actual tomatoes, where as in the UK they just have no smell. Even tomatoes supposedly grown in Italy were the same (I guess they keep the good ones for themselves).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we're scammed into eating phony food</title><url>http://nypost.com/2016/07/10/the-truth-behind-how-were-scammed-into-eating-phony-food/</url></story> |
24,320,888 | 24,319,619 | 1 | 3 | 24,319,293 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kstrauser</author><text>I left one job to switch to another. A year later, my new job started using a cloud-based task management app. When I went to sign in, my 1Password auto-filled the credentials I&#x27;d used for the same app at my previous job, and there I was looking at all of my old employer&#x27;s current projects and other confidential info. I called my old boss (who I got along with just fine), told him what happened, and asked him to please cut off my access immediately.<p>When you leave a job, it&#x27;s in your own best interest to make sure that all of your access is removed. It&#x27;s a lot harder for them to blame unexpected happenings on you if you can&#x27;t even log into the thing. (Not that this happened here. I just wanted to point out a gotcha you might not have thought about.)<p>If you find out that they missed something, report it to them immediately <i>and keep that paper trail</i> demonstrating your good intentions toward them. Then hound them about it until they get around to fixing the situation. And for the love of God, <i>don&#x27;t ever, EVER</i> log in &quot;just to look around&quot;. Absolutely no good can come of that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/former_cisco_engineer_aws_webex_teams/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nixgeek</author><text>Biggest question for me would be why the employee still had access so long after terminating employment with Cisco.<p>A common piece of auditor evidence across many compliance frameworks is whether employees have access proportionate to their role (which is naturally highly subjective), but also proving that access is revoked when employees leave the company. This seems like an outright failure on Cisco’s part.<p>Hopefully they’ve learned from this and put effort into enhancing their identity governance situation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/former_cisco_engineer_aws_webex_teams/</url></story> |
27,385,442 | 27,385,478 | 1 | 3 | 27,382,752 | 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>WillPostForFood</author><text><i>That interpretation leads to such a massive broadening of felony criminal liability. It doesn&#x27;t gut-check for me</i><p>I agree with you, it totally fails the gut check, but it is because the law is poorly written. The Supreme Court bailed out the lawmakers by winging it here. The minority opinion is the worse, but more accurate plain reading of the law.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ncallaway</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree.<p>I think the other judges have the better reading of the specific language of the text. Thomas, Alito, and Roberts don&#x27;t even take their dissent on the interpretation offered by the Government, but have to craft their own—extremely broad—interpretation of &quot;entitled&quot;.<p>Since I think the opinion (at least, the little bit of it that I&#x27;ve skimmed) makes a fairly compelling case around the majority&#x27;s interpretation of the words &quot;so&quot; and &quot;entitled&quot; I won&#x27;t rehash that here. But, if we back up to the purpose and intent of the legislation, I think this outcome also better aligns with that.<p>The CFAA was designed to curtain the unauthorized use of computers. To make it illegal for people to deliberately circumventing the security measures built into computers to obtain information or cause other harm. If I hand you a computer, tell you the password, and ask you to login to my computer and respond to an email for me, but then ask you not to look in the `Taxes` folder on the desktop <i>should</i> it be a felony for you to open the `Taxes` folder? That conceptually feels wrong to me. I have violated your trust, sure, but I haven&#x27;t committed fraud, and I haven&#x27;t abused any access control mechanisms on the computer.<p>Or another scenario: your work gives you a work computer, and has a paragraph in the employee handbook that says you are never allowed to visit news.ycombinator.com on the work computer. At some point while working at the company, you visit news.ycombinator.com on the work computer. Have you just committed a felony? You&#x27;ve &quot;exceeded the authorized access&quot;, if you interpret &quot;entitled&quot; and &quot;authorized&quot; as broadly as Thomas, Alito, and Roberts seem to. Should that really be a felony?<p>That interpretation leads to such a massive broadening of felony criminal liability. It doesn&#x27;t gut-check for me. That, combined with what I perceive as the better textual reading of the phrases &quot;so&quot; and &quot;entitled&quot;, I have to disagree with you. I think the other 6 justices had the better argument at multiple levels.</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>I guess this is the part that matters most?<p>&quot;We must decide whether Van Buren also violated
the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), which
makes it illegal “to access a computer with authorization
and to use such access to obtain or alter information in the
computer that the accesser is not entitled so to obtain or
alter.”
He did not. This provision covers those who obtain information from particular areas in the computer—such as
files, folders, or databases—to which their computer access
does not extend. It does not cover those who, like Van Buren, have improper motives for obtaining information that
is otherwise available to them&quot;<p>Thomas, Alito and Roberts dissented, and I hate to say it, but I agree with them.<p>&quot;The question here is straightforward: Would an ordinary
reader of the English language understand Van Buren to
have “exceed[ed] authorized access” to the database when
he used it under circumstances that were expressly forbidden? In my view, the answer is yes. The necessary precondition that permitted him to obtain that data was absent.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s Thomas dissenting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [pdf]</title><url>https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-783_k53l.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>mywittyname</author><text>&gt; but then ask you not to look in the `Taxes` folder on the desktop should it be a felony for you to open the `Taxes` folder? That conceptually feels wrong to me. I have violated your trust, sure, but I haven&#x27;t committed fraud<p>You accessed privileged information that you were explicitly not allowed. To me, asking you not to look at certain information is effectively the same as putting a password on it, then having you break it. In both cases, the intent of the owner is clear: do not access these files. And in both cases, the actions of the perpetrator very clearly disregard the owners intent.<p>Your example about accessing a website is not the same. It&#x27;s pretty clear that the person going to new.ycombinator.com is not stealing or accessing privileged information. There have been separate rulings dealing with whether or not employees can use corporate equipment for personal reasons.<p>A more analogous example to the case at hand would be an employee at Google&#x2F;Humana&#x2F;Tinder selling your private details to a third party. This ruling means that such activity is perfectly legal, even if the terms of their employment state the opposite.<p>Unless, of course, the only reason the court ruled in favor of this person was that they are a police officer. But I guess we have to wait until the FBI attempts to press charges against someone at Google selling personal details to third parties to find out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ncallaway</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree.<p>I think the other judges have the better reading of the specific language of the text. Thomas, Alito, and Roberts don&#x27;t even take their dissent on the interpretation offered by the Government, but have to craft their own—extremely broad—interpretation of &quot;entitled&quot;.<p>Since I think the opinion (at least, the little bit of it that I&#x27;ve skimmed) makes a fairly compelling case around the majority&#x27;s interpretation of the words &quot;so&quot; and &quot;entitled&quot; I won&#x27;t rehash that here. But, if we back up to the purpose and intent of the legislation, I think this outcome also better aligns with that.<p>The CFAA was designed to curtain the unauthorized use of computers. To make it illegal for people to deliberately circumventing the security measures built into computers to obtain information or cause other harm. If I hand you a computer, tell you the password, and ask you to login to my computer and respond to an email for me, but then ask you not to look in the `Taxes` folder on the desktop <i>should</i> it be a felony for you to open the `Taxes` folder? That conceptually feels wrong to me. I have violated your trust, sure, but I haven&#x27;t committed fraud, and I haven&#x27;t abused any access control mechanisms on the computer.<p>Or another scenario: your work gives you a work computer, and has a paragraph in the employee handbook that says you are never allowed to visit news.ycombinator.com on the work computer. At some point while working at the company, you visit news.ycombinator.com on the work computer. Have you just committed a felony? You&#x27;ve &quot;exceeded the authorized access&quot;, if you interpret &quot;entitled&quot; and &quot;authorized&quot; as broadly as Thomas, Alito, and Roberts seem to. Should that really be a felony?<p>That interpretation leads to such a massive broadening of felony criminal liability. It doesn&#x27;t gut-check for me. That, combined with what I perceive as the better textual reading of the phrases &quot;so&quot; and &quot;entitled&quot;, I have to disagree with you. I think the other 6 justices had the better argument at multiple levels.</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>I guess this is the part that matters most?<p>&quot;We must decide whether Van Buren also violated
the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), which
makes it illegal “to access a computer with authorization
and to use such access to obtain or alter information in the
computer that the accesser is not entitled so to obtain or
alter.”
He did not. This provision covers those who obtain information from particular areas in the computer—such as
files, folders, or databases—to which their computer access
does not extend. It does not cover those who, like Van Buren, have improper motives for obtaining information that
is otherwise available to them&quot;<p>Thomas, Alito and Roberts dissented, and I hate to say it, but I agree with them.<p>&quot;The question here is straightforward: Would an ordinary
reader of the English language understand Van Buren to
have “exceed[ed] authorized access” to the database when
he used it under circumstances that were expressly forbidden? In my view, the answer is yes. The necessary precondition that permitted him to obtain that data was absent.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s Thomas dissenting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [pdf]</title><url>https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-783_k53l.pdf</url></story> |
15,796,157 | 15,793,799 | 1 | 2 | 15,793,045 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jstanley</author><text>Some of his closing remarks about the future of technology are hard to believe. I highly doubt passwords will entirely disappear in favour of &quot;Trusona&quot;. I personally will not be submitting to any authentication scheme that can &quot;100% identify the person remotely&quot;. It sounds like a bigger vulnerability than the one it solves.<p>I also find it hard to believe that the FBI can remotely disable a car&#x27;s engine in the general case. I drive a car which has no ECU. And even cars which do have ECUs don&#x27;t all have the ability for the ECU to receive radio signals. And even cars that do have the ability to control the ECU with radio signals probably aren&#x27;t <i>all</i> vulnerable.<p>Edit: but, aside from that, I thoroughly enjoyed the talk. I intend to watch the film.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” – Talks at Google [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydMDi3rI</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sharpercoder</author><text>A great story. What I do not understand (I am a European) is that he uses a credit card, but not a credit card. I just did an AirBnB and I was prohibited by the system to use my debit card. I was outraged. I still am. I had to buy a separate debit-credit-card to be able to use AirBnB services. AirBnB supports iDeal (Dutch payment system), but only for bookings &gt;6 days.<p>From my point of view, using a debit card is far superior to using a credit card. Why would I want to debt myself to pay stuff? I have enough on my account to pay for a mere AirBnB. I don&#x27;t want to indebt myself. yet, there is a system which <i>forces</i> me to.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” – Talks at Google [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydMDi3rI</url></story> |
32,023,127 | 32,023,157 | 1 | 2 | 32,022,506 | 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>chii</author><text>My take is that gun violence has several different categories, and gun control only helps some of them (such as accidental, or emotional, spur of the moment shootings), but doesn&#x27;t prevent any premeditated ones.<p>It will not stop people like the one at 4th july, nor those school shootings. Unless the gun control laws completely outlaw civilians owning guns - which i dont think will fly.<p>The root cause of gun violence is societal issues, not the guns themselves. Solve those societal issues (hard, and likely almost intractable unfortunately), or gun violence will persist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wirthjason</author><text>And after debating gun violence all week with my friends in the wake of the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park I made an example of Japan and it’s low gun violence. Now this happens.<p>Crazy stuff still happens in Japan but it’s usually a knife or ax. But guns and Abe are on another level.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-08/japan-s-ex-pm-abe-collapses-in-nara-shots-heard-nhk-says</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bigDinosaur</author><text>They&#x27;ve also had chemical weapon attacks which are scarier than gun attacks. Give me a person with a gun rather than some lethal chemical piped into the subway.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>wirthjason</author><text>And after debating gun violence all week with my friends in the wake of the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park I made an example of Japan and it’s low gun violence. Now this happens.<p>Crazy stuff still happens in Japan but it’s usually a knife or ax. But guns and Abe are on another level.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-08/japan-s-ex-pm-abe-collapses-in-nara-shots-heard-nhk-says</url></story> |
18,082,190 | 18,080,779 | 1 | 3 | 18,078,640 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snowmaker</author><text>The thing is that it is very hard to tell, early on, if you have a potential $10M or $10B company.<p>You&#x27;re right: if YC had a crystal ball where we could somehow only invest in the $10B kind of company and never in the $10M kind of company, we&#x27;d do that.<p>But I don&#x27;t think such a crystal ball is possible, because companies morph too much. Famously, Microsoft&#x27;s first product was an interpreter for Altair Basic, which had a total market size probably &lt; $10M.<p>So when we see a startup that has an idea that seems small, we ask ourselves, &quot;What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;altair.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;altair.html</a>). Most of the companies that today seem like moonshots started with mundane, even trivial ideas.<p>So if you don&#x27;t currently see how your idea can become a $100B company, that doesn&#x27;t mean that you won&#x27;t figure it out later.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chadash</author><text>And this is why Y Combinator may not be right for your startup. The 100 billion dollars of valuation listed on YC&#x27;s website may not be up to date, but it&#x27;s clear that the top 10% of companies make up the overwhelming majority of their portfolio. So they go for moonshots. And they also invest in multiple competitors in the same space in the hopes that one will pan out.<p>So if you&#x27;re building the kind of company that might be worth $100 <i>million</i> someday but won&#x27;t ever be worth $100 <i>billion</i>, VCs and startup incubators might not be right for you, but just remember that a rejection from them doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean you aren&#x27;t on to something great.</text></item><item><author>haaen</author><text>Stripe is the second most valuable YC company. Total valuation of all companies that YC funded (more than 1,900) now exceeds 100 billon dollars.<p>Airbnb has a private valuation of 31 billion.
Stripe has a private valuation of 20 billion.
Dropbox has a public valuation (DBX) of 11 billion.<p>So the two most valuable companies account for about half the total value of all the YC companies. This is what a power law looks like!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stripe Is Now a $20B Company</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-26/payment-startup-stripe-is-now-a-20-billion-company?srnd=technology-vp</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Liron</author><text>Even though the top 99.9th percentile companies account for half of YC&#x27;s return, it&#x27;s possible that the 90th percentile companies nevertheless all produce a great return, more than sufficient to subsidize the 1-89th percentile, and YC just aims for that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chadash</author><text>And this is why Y Combinator may not be right for your startup. The 100 billion dollars of valuation listed on YC&#x27;s website may not be up to date, but it&#x27;s clear that the top 10% of companies make up the overwhelming majority of their portfolio. So they go for moonshots. And they also invest in multiple competitors in the same space in the hopes that one will pan out.<p>So if you&#x27;re building the kind of company that might be worth $100 <i>million</i> someday but won&#x27;t ever be worth $100 <i>billion</i>, VCs and startup incubators might not be right for you, but just remember that a rejection from them doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean you aren&#x27;t on to something great.</text></item><item><author>haaen</author><text>Stripe is the second most valuable YC company. Total valuation of all companies that YC funded (more than 1,900) now exceeds 100 billon dollars.<p>Airbnb has a private valuation of 31 billion.
Stripe has a private valuation of 20 billion.
Dropbox has a public valuation (DBX) of 11 billion.<p>So the two most valuable companies account for about half the total value of all the YC companies. This is what a power law looks like!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stripe Is Now a $20B Company</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-26/payment-startup-stripe-is-now-a-20-billion-company?srnd=technology-vp</url></story> |
17,689,590 | 17,689,480 | 1 | 2 | 17,689,014 | 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>jolmg</author><text>What I like most about magit is browsing the history of a file via its git-blame mode. It shows you the file split into sections indicating what commit was responsible for that section&#x27;s lines. Doing `C-x g b` on one of those sections visits the file at that commit and does git blame again without needing to `checkout` that commit. I wish I knew how to be as effective doing that with `git blame` on the shell. Is there a way to provide the commit to `git blame` without needing to `checkout`?</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickbarnwell</author><text>If you&#x27;re an emacs user, I can&#x27;t recommend magit [1] enough. I was a diehard CLI user and had flags and aliases out the wazoo, and it was still a step change in usabilty and power for me. Staging hunks, rebasing, and stashing are all vastly easier. Amending or editing a commit is a breeze, and it&#x27;s tied in to all of the other emacs tools you already use, e.g. org-mode to boot!<p>It&#x27;s easier to see it in action than explain it. If you&#x27;ve two minutes to spare, check out this emacsrocks screencast [2], or Howard Abram&#x27;s longer presentation from the PDX Emacs Hackers meetup [3].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;magit.vc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;magit.vc&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rzQEIRRJ2T0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rzQEIRRJ2T0</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vQO7F2Q9DwA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vQO7F2Q9DwA</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git</title><url>https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>magit is lifechanging -- At this point I open emacs (assuming it isn&#x27;t already open) just to use magit to manage things.<p>If you use it daily don&#x27;t forget to donate to the developer at least once, sprinkle some of that full-time corporate cog money on them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickbarnwell</author><text>If you&#x27;re an emacs user, I can&#x27;t recommend magit [1] enough. I was a diehard CLI user and had flags and aliases out the wazoo, and it was still a step change in usabilty and power for me. Staging hunks, rebasing, and stashing are all vastly easier. Amending or editing a commit is a breeze, and it&#x27;s tied in to all of the other emacs tools you already use, e.g. org-mode to boot!<p>It&#x27;s easier to see it in action than explain it. If you&#x27;ve two minutes to spare, check out this emacsrocks screencast [2], or Howard Abram&#x27;s longer presentation from the PDX Emacs Hackers meetup [3].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;magit.vc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;magit.vc&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rzQEIRRJ2T0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rzQEIRRJ2T0</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vQO7F2Q9DwA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vQO7F2Q9DwA</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git</title><url>https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit</url></story> |
11,159,086 | 11,159,104 | 1 | 2 | 11,158,715 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tyho</author><text>Low frequancy PWM is annoying, it&#x27;s not just you:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.candlepowerforums.com&#x2F;vb&#x2F;showthread.php?104151-Irritating-trend-in-automotive-lighting-PWM-taillights" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.candlepowerforums.com&#x2F;vb&#x2F;showthread.php?104151-Ir...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sqlftw</author><text>Many years ago I tried LSD, and for whatever reason, I never seemed to experience visual hallucinations.
However, in recent years, cars have started having LED tail lights, which really bother my eyes.
Several times I have asked my friends, &quot;Aren&#x27;t those terrible!?&quot; to which they might reply, &quot;They are pretty bright.&quot;
Bright! They aren&#x27;t just too bright, they are intensely STROBING! Can normal people not see that? Is this the flashback I was promised?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Communicating with people on psychedelics</title><url>http://qualiacomputing.com/2015/05/22/how-to-secretly-communicate-with-people-on-lsd/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agentgt</author><text>I hate to continue your tangent but I do feel something that is relevant to the OP article are new vehicles that have blinking break lights.<p>Most people don&#x27;t notice these new break lights (I think its on Chevy cars) but when the driver breaks there is a very fast and subtle blinking of the red tail lights (opposed to just the red tail lights being on for older cars).<p>I only noticed this blinking while under... but now I see it often but my wife does not. ie its similar to the pong bar &quot;C&quot; letter in the article.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sqlftw</author><text>Many years ago I tried LSD, and for whatever reason, I never seemed to experience visual hallucinations.
However, in recent years, cars have started having LED tail lights, which really bother my eyes.
Several times I have asked my friends, &quot;Aren&#x27;t those terrible!?&quot; to which they might reply, &quot;They are pretty bright.&quot;
Bright! They aren&#x27;t just too bright, they are intensely STROBING! Can normal people not see that? Is this the flashback I was promised?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Communicating with people on psychedelics</title><url>http://qualiacomputing.com/2015/05/22/how-to-secretly-communicate-with-people-on-lsd/</url></story> |
29,775,033 | 29,775,095 | 1 | 3 | 29,772,136 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tablespoon</author><text>&gt;&gt; If you want to solve the problem of product research in an old-school way, Consumer Reports still exists. Their business model for almost a century has been to produce independent reviews of products, and charge for the reviews. It is also run as a non-profit.<p>&gt; Sorry I have to weigh in here and say that Consumer Reports is a pay-to-play service now, where often the worst products &amp; services are not the best, and often times criminally bad.<p>&gt; As an example, I used them for moving services for a state-to-state move. Turns out the top three or four moving services are merely dispatchers run by a single company, run by a convicted felon out of Florida under a rotating number of businesses and cutouts.<p>Honestly, &quot;moving companies&quot; is not a category that seems like it would be in Consumer Reports&#x27; wheelhouse, and I&#x27;m surprised they offered any recommendations in that area at all.<p>Also, your anecdote doesn&#x27;t really support the notion that they&#x27;re &quot;pay-to-play, just that they did a bad job in some category.<p>Are you actually thinking of the Better Business Bureau but got it mixed up with Consumer reports? I would expect the BBB to rate moving services and I&#x27;ve heard that they have some kind of membership program for businesses that seems to allow better control over complaints, which is pretty close to &quot;pay-to-play.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>23B1</author><text>Sorry I have to weigh in here and say that Consumer Reports is a pay-to-play service now, where often the worst products &amp; services are not the best, and often times criminally bad.<p>As an example, I used them for moving services for a state-to-state move. Turns out the top three or four moving services are merely dispatchers run by a single company, run by a convicted felon out of Florida under a rotating number of businesses and cutouts.<p>When I contacted Consumer Reports to let them know about the many tens of thousands of complaints about the companies they were ranking highest, they referred me to their attorney.</text></item><item><author>codingdave</author><text>If you want to solve the problem of product research in an old-school way, Consumer Reports still exists. Their business model for almost a century has been to produce independent reviews of products, and charge for the reviews. It is also run as a non-profit. I&#x27;m honestly surprised how little I hear about them. Not that any organization is perfect, but they have been the poster child of success via paid content since the 1930s.<p>It also makes me think that part of the problem is not only that Google&#x27;s results are getting worse, it is that much of the population goes to the internet for all problems. Whether it is googling or asking on social media... the &quot;front-line&quot; information on the internet is simply not reliable anymore.</text></item><item><author>littlecranky67</author><text>Just researched good&#x2F;quality crafting printers yesterday. Search results were mostly blogs and crappy websites that offered obviously no insights but were just SEO optimized to direct you to their Amazon affiliate links. Especially sad since those affiliate links to Amazon mostly resulted in &quot;This product is currently not available&quot; sites.<p>Repeated my search on Youtube to find reviews or unboxing. Most video search results were basically &quot;Youtube SEO&quot; again - the most viewed&#x2F;top-ranked videos did never show a single actual print run or even the printer available. It was mostly marketing websites turned into video (slowly scrolling&#x2F;moving over product description or pictures clearly taken from the web). And of course, affiliate links in the description.<p>The web has become a crappy place to research products as long as money can be made with those through affiliations. I wonder if outlawing affiliate marketing would make the world a better place.<p>P.S: Whats most ridiculous about my Youtube Printer research experience, the best and most helpful video was a sales video from a home shopping TV station [0], where they actually showed some printing action and handling of one of the models I was interested in.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ytMXgjCReO0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ytMXgjCReO0</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories</title><url>https://twitter.com/mwseibel/status/1477701120319361026</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>windexh8er</author><text>&gt; Sorry I have to weigh in here and say that Consumer Reports is a pay-to-play service now, where often the worst products &amp; services are not the best, and often times criminally bad.<p>Agreed. As a PSA do not use the True Car services that are &quot;included&quot; in a membership. It&#x27;s basically a free pass to sell all of the contact information CR has on you to any dealership that&#x27;s paying them for leads. You will be hounded for weeks if you try to use that service. I recently found out, through a family member, that the deceptive practice still exists when they were trying to get actual dealer invoices (which CR used to provide, but no longer does). I cannot <i>not recommend</i> CR enough.</text><parent_chain><item><author>23B1</author><text>Sorry I have to weigh in here and say that Consumer Reports is a pay-to-play service now, where often the worst products &amp; services are not the best, and often times criminally bad.<p>As an example, I used them for moving services for a state-to-state move. Turns out the top three or four moving services are merely dispatchers run by a single company, run by a convicted felon out of Florida under a rotating number of businesses and cutouts.<p>When I contacted Consumer Reports to let them know about the many tens of thousands of complaints about the companies they were ranking highest, they referred me to their attorney.</text></item><item><author>codingdave</author><text>If you want to solve the problem of product research in an old-school way, Consumer Reports still exists. Their business model for almost a century has been to produce independent reviews of products, and charge for the reviews. It is also run as a non-profit. I&#x27;m honestly surprised how little I hear about them. Not that any organization is perfect, but they have been the poster child of success via paid content since the 1930s.<p>It also makes me think that part of the problem is not only that Google&#x27;s results are getting worse, it is that much of the population goes to the internet for all problems. Whether it is googling or asking on social media... the &quot;front-line&quot; information on the internet is simply not reliable anymore.</text></item><item><author>littlecranky67</author><text>Just researched good&#x2F;quality crafting printers yesterday. Search results were mostly blogs and crappy websites that offered obviously no insights but were just SEO optimized to direct you to their Amazon affiliate links. Especially sad since those affiliate links to Amazon mostly resulted in &quot;This product is currently not available&quot; sites.<p>Repeated my search on Youtube to find reviews or unboxing. Most video search results were basically &quot;Youtube SEO&quot; again - the most viewed&#x2F;top-ranked videos did never show a single actual print run or even the printer available. It was mostly marketing websites turned into video (slowly scrolling&#x2F;moving over product description or pictures clearly taken from the web). And of course, affiliate links in the description.<p>The web has become a crappy place to research products as long as money can be made with those through affiliations. I wonder if outlawing affiliate marketing would make the world a better place.<p>P.S: Whats most ridiculous about my Youtube Printer research experience, the best and most helpful video was a sales video from a home shopping TV station [0], where they actually showed some printing action and handling of one of the models I was interested in.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ytMXgjCReO0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ytMXgjCReO0</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories</title><url>https://twitter.com/mwseibel/status/1477701120319361026</url></story> |
29,616,056 | 29,613,960 | 1 | 2 | 29,610,806 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MrFoof</author><text>Way back in the day I was a lone IT guy in a distributor&#x2F;wholesaler, and part of that was creating line of business apps to do some real heavy lifting, extending existing ones, and creating utilities to tie other apps together. In a tiny company of maybe 40 people, where even an underpaid IT guy was still an extravagance (but was adding huge value).<p>Periodically I&#x27;d ask to shadow someone for a day or two. At some points, even asking if I could do their task and have them watch me to confirm I was doing it correctly.<p>What you would learn from this was amazing. All sorts of inefficiencies that people would quietly accept, because it was still way better than the previous state.<p>Then a week or two later I&#x27;d roll out the update, and get huge thank yous from accounting, or sales, or the warehouse because I completely trivialized some previous common task. What used to take 45 seconds now takes 2 because all the work is done for them 99.9% of the time and they just need to confirm it&#x27;s correct (or correct the odd edge case). The computer became this increasingly magical tool they loved more and more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>telesilla</author><text>We apply this kind of thinking at work: early on we focused all our energy fixing user problems or adding features that were requested. We realised it is actually a small number of users who volunteer to report to us what&#x27;s wrong or missing (outside of regular crash&#x2F;feature tracking) - they are the ones that care enough to make an effort, and it&#x27;s a small percentage. So we started campaigning to engage users we never heard from, to understand what problems they had that we weren&#x27;t solving, to get them energised enough to report to us. It&#x27;s been very successful, engagement has gone up significantly.</text></item><item><author>animal_spirits</author><text>&gt; British soldiers in World War I were equipped with a Brodie helmet, a steel hat designed to protect its wearer from overhead blasts and shrapnel while conducting trench warfare. After its deployment, field hospitals saw an uptick in soldiers with severe head injuries.<p>&gt; Because of the rise in injuries, British command considered going back to the drawing board with the helmet’s design. Fortunately, a statistician pointed out that the dramatic rise in hospital cases was because people were surviving injuries that previously would have killed them—before the introduction of steel the British Army used felt or leather as headwear material.<p>I&#x27;ve seen this same story except with warplanes during the War. Story goes that an allied air force tried to improve the percentage of planes that would return from a bombing raid, so they inspected returning planes, found the places where they had holes in them and added extra layers of steel to those areas for the next bomb run; but this had no improvement on the percentage of planes that returned.<p>That is until a &quot;statistician&quot; realized that all of the places on the plane that they found holes in were actually parts of the plane that could get hit and survive and return. They then started adding extra steel to the parts of the planes they found no holes or damage assuming that if those parts were hit the plane would get shot down and not return. After this change they started seeing a dramatic increase in the amount of planes returning from a raid.<p>Does anyone know the true source of these stories?<p>Regardless, it really opened my eyes to how changing your perspective on the cause of the problem can help find the best solution, and to this day I still think of this story when solving a problem.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Test your product on a crappy laptop</title><url>https://css-tricks.com/test-your-product-on-a-crappy-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>vkk8</author><text>This makes sense. The sort of users that leave any kind of feedback or even hang around long enough for you to gather statistics are those who think the product is pretty good, but there are just these small issues that they hope will get fixed. The users who think your product is complete crap try it, stop using it very early and never leave feedback or statistics for you to analyze.</text><parent_chain><item><author>telesilla</author><text>We apply this kind of thinking at work: early on we focused all our energy fixing user problems or adding features that were requested. We realised it is actually a small number of users who volunteer to report to us what&#x27;s wrong or missing (outside of regular crash&#x2F;feature tracking) - they are the ones that care enough to make an effort, and it&#x27;s a small percentage. So we started campaigning to engage users we never heard from, to understand what problems they had that we weren&#x27;t solving, to get them energised enough to report to us. It&#x27;s been very successful, engagement has gone up significantly.</text></item><item><author>animal_spirits</author><text>&gt; British soldiers in World War I were equipped with a Brodie helmet, a steel hat designed to protect its wearer from overhead blasts and shrapnel while conducting trench warfare. After its deployment, field hospitals saw an uptick in soldiers with severe head injuries.<p>&gt; Because of the rise in injuries, British command considered going back to the drawing board with the helmet’s design. Fortunately, a statistician pointed out that the dramatic rise in hospital cases was because people were surviving injuries that previously would have killed them—before the introduction of steel the British Army used felt or leather as headwear material.<p>I&#x27;ve seen this same story except with warplanes during the War. Story goes that an allied air force tried to improve the percentage of planes that would return from a bombing raid, so they inspected returning planes, found the places where they had holes in them and added extra layers of steel to those areas for the next bomb run; but this had no improvement on the percentage of planes that returned.<p>That is until a &quot;statistician&quot; realized that all of the places on the plane that they found holes in were actually parts of the plane that could get hit and survive and return. They then started adding extra steel to the parts of the planes they found no holes or damage assuming that if those parts were hit the plane would get shot down and not return. After this change they started seeing a dramatic increase in the amount of planes returning from a raid.<p>Does anyone know the true source of these stories?<p>Regardless, it really opened my eyes to how changing your perspective on the cause of the problem can help find the best solution, and to this day I still think of this story when solving a problem.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Test your product on a crappy laptop</title><url>https://css-tricks.com/test-your-product-on-a-crappy-laptop/</url></story> |
17,338,250 | 17,337,233 | 1 | 3 | 17,335,509 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PaulKeeble</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t even have to be a war. There are plenty of people in the United Kingdom who own .EU domains and won&#x27;t be able to renew them after Britain leaves the union since buying and renewing them requires the owner to have an address inside of the union. IIRC the newspapers reported it impacted 10s of thousands of addresses.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happens to country specific TLD's in a war involving that country?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50821462/what-happens-to-country-specific-tlds-in-a-war-involving-that-country/50867495#50867495</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>olivermarks</author><text>Bit.ly is a good example: .ly was the Libyan dns until the political changes there.
Bit.ly is now bitly.com<p>.ly is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya. In 2011, the bit.ly address was set to redirect to bitly.com.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bitly" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bitly</a><p>Therefore relying on using convenient ccTLD suffixes from third word states as part of a western world url might not be a great idea longer term depending on political change and hostile actions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happens to country specific TLD's in a war involving that country?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50821462/what-happens-to-country-specific-tlds-in-a-war-involving-that-country/50867495#50867495</url></story> |
24,895,578 | 24,895,826 | 1 | 2 | 24,891,059 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcv</author><text>Pretty cool. To say it feels alive, well, compared to a city without any traffic, it does. But without pedestrians, and with cars never turning, it doesn&#x27;t feel very alive yet. Would be cool to expand on this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebGL procedural city that feels alive and is fun to watch</title><url>https://demos.littleworkshop.fr/infinitown</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bjconlan</author><text>Maybe update the title to include 2017, original HN post <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15795204" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15795204</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebGL procedural city that feels alive and is fun to watch</title><url>https://demos.littleworkshop.fr/infinitown</url></story> |
5,702,142 | 5,702,174 | 1 | 2 | 5,701,893 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IvyMike</author><text>I would like to see the bug report. "BUG12345: Shaking my computer results in a loss of available memory".</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Executable Archaeology: The Case Of The Stupid Thing Eating All My RAM</title><url>http://www.veracode.com/blog/2013/05/executable-archaeology-the-case-of-the-stupid-thing-eating-all-my-ram/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>0x0</author><text>I find it incredible that Microsoft would allow OEMs to preload software like this. The end user experience and impression of Windows 8 takes a brutal hit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Executable Archaeology: The Case Of The Stupid Thing Eating All My RAM</title><url>http://www.veracode.com/blog/2013/05/executable-archaeology-the-case-of-the-stupid-thing-eating-all-my-ram/</url></story> |
23,911,890 | 23,910,613 | 1 | 2 | 23,910,165 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>infogulch</author><text>Oh my god can we please kill the user agent string already? Every time any new combination of browser&#x2F;os&#x2F;platform is created it claims that it&#x27;s as some other user agent from an established browser because sites are lazy and abuse user agent string to determine capability. Meaning they have long lost all meaning and we should just dump them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>m45t3r</author><text>This makes sense since it should avoid two issues:<p>- Sites that try to detect mobile by looking at &quot;ARM&quot; in user-agent string<p>- Sites that try to parse the macOS minor version for some reason and would be confused to see something like &quot;11_0&quot;<p>BTW, user-agent is a hell anyway. Just looking at this user-agent that OP posted, macOS still identifies itself as &quot;Mac OS X&quot;, still is based on Mozilla&#x2F;5.0(!), still identifies itself as KHTML enginee (compatible with Gecko), and so on...</text></item><item><author>cpeterso</author><text>The User-Agent string for Big Sur&#x27;s Safari running on Apple Silicon (ARM) still says &quot;Mac OS X 10_16&quot; and, curiously, claims to be &quot;Intel&quot;:<p>&quot;Mozilla&#x2F;5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_16) AppleWebKit&#x2F;605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version&#x2F;14.0 Safari&#x2F;605.1.15&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Big Sur is both 10.16 and 11.0</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2020/07/21/big-sur-is-both-10-16-and-11-0-its-official/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>empyrical</author><text>Also, whether a system is ARM or Intel could be used as another bit of entropy for fingerprinting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>m45t3r</author><text>This makes sense since it should avoid two issues:<p>- Sites that try to detect mobile by looking at &quot;ARM&quot; in user-agent string<p>- Sites that try to parse the macOS minor version for some reason and would be confused to see something like &quot;11_0&quot;<p>BTW, user-agent is a hell anyway. Just looking at this user-agent that OP posted, macOS still identifies itself as &quot;Mac OS X&quot;, still is based on Mozilla&#x2F;5.0(!), still identifies itself as KHTML enginee (compatible with Gecko), and so on...</text></item><item><author>cpeterso</author><text>The User-Agent string for Big Sur&#x27;s Safari running on Apple Silicon (ARM) still says &quot;Mac OS X 10_16&quot; and, curiously, claims to be &quot;Intel&quot;:<p>&quot;Mozilla&#x2F;5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_16) AppleWebKit&#x2F;605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version&#x2F;14.0 Safari&#x2F;605.1.15&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Big Sur is both 10.16 and 11.0</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2020/07/21/big-sur-is-both-10-16-and-11-0-its-official/</url></story> |
10,828,918 | 10,827,354 | 1 | 2 | 10,826,344 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anotherevan</author><text>If Magnesium doesn&#x27;t work for you, you may also consider trying a Melatonin[1] supplement about an hour or so before bed.<p>I have also seen a big impact of turning off the electronics and reading a book[2] in bed for the last hour or so of the day before trying to go to sleep.<p>Lastly, if you are a loud snorer or carrying more than a bit too much weight, you might want to investigate any sleep apnoea[3] issues.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Melatonin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Melatonin</a><p>[2] Actually, I&#x27;m usually reading ebooks, but on an e-ink display, not a light-emitting display of any sort, which is the point.<p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sleep_apnea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sleep_apnea</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>petilon</author><text>I have had sleep issues for many years. I have seen sleep specialists regarding this issue. They basically tell you to reduce stress. But my daily life is not particularly stressful.<p>But my job as a software developer involves brain-intensive work, and when I come home after work, I work on hobby software development projects, which means my brain is working intensely whenever I am awake. That may be the stress leading to my sleep issues. But I can&#x27;t give up my hobby.<p>All doctors want to do is put me on prescription pills for the rest of my life, and all of these prescription sleeping pills are addictive. So I have been avoiding prescription meds.<p>Then I discovered that magnesium supplements largely solves my problem. I hope this helps someone: If you have sleep issues try Magnesium L-Threonate. Magnesium fixed two issues for me: sleep and muscle stiffness.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The brain functional connectome is robustly altered by lack of sleep</title><url>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26712339</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twentysix</author><text>I can second the opinion on Magnesium. Though, instead of magnesium L threonate, I used Magnesium malate. I have tried citrate and orotate forms and while they were both good, compared to malate the effect was mild. The malate form of magnesium had a better calming effect on the mind and muscles.
Will try L threonate next time and see how it works.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;examine.com&#x2F;supplements&#x2F;magnesium&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;examine.com&#x2F;supplements&#x2F;magnesium&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>petilon</author><text>I have had sleep issues for many years. I have seen sleep specialists regarding this issue. They basically tell you to reduce stress. But my daily life is not particularly stressful.<p>But my job as a software developer involves brain-intensive work, and when I come home after work, I work on hobby software development projects, which means my brain is working intensely whenever I am awake. That may be the stress leading to my sleep issues. But I can&#x27;t give up my hobby.<p>All doctors want to do is put me on prescription pills for the rest of my life, and all of these prescription sleeping pills are addictive. So I have been avoiding prescription meds.<p>Then I discovered that magnesium supplements largely solves my problem. I hope this helps someone: If you have sleep issues try Magnesium L-Threonate. Magnesium fixed two issues for me: sleep and muscle stiffness.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The brain functional connectome is robustly altered by lack of sleep</title><url>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26712339</url></story> |
7,661,177 | 7,661,260 | 1 | 2 | 7,660,828 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tloewald</author><text>It&#x27;s a tad harsh to hold up the letters of the famous and learned in comparison with today&#x27;s average missive. There are plenty of eloquent letters still being written, just not by the average Joe or Juanita:<p><a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/02/i-dont-enjoy-this-war-one-bit.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lettersofnote.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;02&#x2F;i-dont-enjoy-this-war-o...</a><p>I&#x27;m happy to discover that Tolkien, unlike so many of his respected contemporaries, and despite having become famous for writing a trilogy that seems -- at minimum -- naively racist, seems in no way an anti-semite.</text><parent_chain><item><author>leorocky</author><text>I wish people still wrote so eloquently in their everyday correspondence. It seems like the further you go back in time the more beautiful the language used to be. Some of the letters back and forth during the American Revolution were very nice, like between John and Abigail Adams. Going back further the letters between Erasmus and Thomas Moore were also very nicely written. Now it&#x27;s all emoticons and lol.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tolkien Snubs a German Publisher Asking for Proof of His “Aryan Descent” (1938)</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2014/04/j-r-r-tolkien-snubs-a-german-publisher.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>jmilkbal</author><text>Language was also less ambiguous because they didn&#x27;t leave out important punctuation or relative pronouns. I expected Tolkien to be a on Hitler&#x27;s side because I interpreted the title as &quot;Tolkien Snubs a German Publisher, Asking for Proof of His “Aryan Descent&quot;, but the author means &quot;Tolkien Snubs a German Publisher Who Asked for Proof of His “Aryan Descent&quot;. Writing ain&#x27;t what it used to be, even if only the clergy and royalty could do it!</text><parent_chain><item><author>leorocky</author><text>I wish people still wrote so eloquently in their everyday correspondence. It seems like the further you go back in time the more beautiful the language used to be. Some of the letters back and forth during the American Revolution were very nice, like between John and Abigail Adams. Going back further the letters between Erasmus and Thomas Moore were also very nicely written. Now it&#x27;s all emoticons and lol.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tolkien Snubs a German Publisher Asking for Proof of His “Aryan Descent” (1938)</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2014/04/j-r-r-tolkien-snubs-a-german-publisher.html</url></story> |
41,442,521 | 41,441,736 | 1 | 2 | 41,441,218 | train | <instructions>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>We did. We&#x27;ll probably post something tomorrow. Everyone we let go was doing great work. Everyone got 4 months of severance. The cuts were primarily to business units in a reconfiguration of the company (people working in devrel and growth were disproportionately affected; core engineering generally not). The idea is to double down on what&#x27;s working with the business and put out past 2026 the need to consider funding.<p>What we didn&#x27;t want to do was write a fluffy post about this and pull focus from the people we let go.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Layoffs at Fly.io</title><url>https://twitter.com/bradgessler/status/1831020600841875887</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alberth</author><text>&gt; Recently I was part of a full-stack lay-off of about 40 people, from <i>founders</i> to staff.<p>Founders got laid off?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Layoffs at Fly.io</title><url>https://twitter.com/bradgessler/status/1831020600841875887</url></story> |
18,258,838 | 18,258,596 | 1 | 2 | 18,257,327 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DoofusOfDeath</author><text>&gt; At the risk of coming off as some bleeding heart liberal, what&#x27;s to stop corporations from doing this kind of stuff all the time?<p>This doesn&#x27;t strike as being a conservative vs. liberal issue. Most of us can probably agree that it&#x27;s an unacceptable attack on the foundations of a representative democracy.<p>And as a social conservative with strong &quot;law and order&quot; leanings, the apparent fraud and identity theft make me very angry. The unwillingness of the federal government to investigate this only adds to my frustration and anger, because it smacks of (at least) passive corruption.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>At the risk of coming off as some bleeding heart liberal, what&#x27;s to stop corporations from doing this kind of stuff all the time? What percentage of it goes unnoticed?<p>Everyone knows about lobbying, but until very recently, I didn&#x27;t know about the whole &quot;astroturfing&quot; thing.<p>EDIT: Not sure why I&#x27;m being downvoted for this... I didn&#x27;t really intend to make my post partisan, though I realize that the self-deprecating &quot;bleeding-heard-liberal&quot; might appear that way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry into Net Neutrality Comments</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/technology/net-neutrality-inquiry-comments.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>dragonwriter</author><text>Because regulatory comments aren&#x27;t a vote or popularity contest, or even subject to much public attention, but are instead, in the normal case, subject to substantive review and response, ballot box stuffing in a way which makes them appear to come from less expert general public commenters doesn&#x27;t really help the corporation. It only really helps on an issue where the regulatory process has public attention where the substantive outcome is a foregone conclusion but wants additional public political cover. This is <i>quite</i> rare for federal rulemaking.<p>(A milder—in volume terms—version where you try to make substantive comments seem like they are coming from involved parties with a different interest than yours—say, on a healthcare reg, a payer presenting fraudulent provider comments, might be useful, except in that case there is a lot more risk that someone would follow up on the particular comment and turn up something fishy.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>At the risk of coming off as some bleeding heart liberal, what&#x27;s to stop corporations from doing this kind of stuff all the time? What percentage of it goes unnoticed?<p>Everyone knows about lobbying, but until very recently, I didn&#x27;t know about the whole &quot;astroturfing&quot; thing.<p>EDIT: Not sure why I&#x27;m being downvoted for this... I didn&#x27;t really intend to make my post partisan, though I realize that the self-deprecating &quot;bleeding-heard-liberal&quot; might appear that way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry into Net Neutrality Comments</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/technology/net-neutrality-inquiry-comments.html</url></story> |
9,294,179 | 9,294,141 | 1 | 3 | 9,293,849 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>j42</author><text>Actually, someone here (who I cannot remember) said quite eloquently yesterday that our biggest export--and &quot;influence&quot; on the world--is culture.<p>For the first time I realized that pissing people off may, in fact be the objective as the other reply stated.<p>China and Russia are both (quite unique) examples of countries with an unfathomable degree of control over their citizens. It can be hard to grasp occasionally, coming from a western mindset but for the vast majority within said countries, the <i>entire</i> reality they see and what they believe to be true is heavily distorted--in that, it is defined by the vision of the oligarchy and information is carefully controlled to produce a desired set of beliefs. North Korea is an extreme caricature of this pattern.<p>Technology is naturally subversive to this as it lets people interact directly with other cultures and ideologies which may provide contrasting philosophies and--terrifyingly--the opportunity for free thought.<p>Restrict access to technology and you&#x27;ll have a revolution. Instead, you become the &quot;troll,&quot; or the &quot;problem,&quot; and quietly become isolated from large areas of the network, all while reducing the amount of information you have to sift through before passing it along to the populace, in the name of security.<p>And while the effect on actual traffic may be minimal, it does make for a very cold perception which generally makes cross-cultural integration unlikely. How many western consumer-technology companies do you see integrating with Asia-based API&#x27;s&#x2F;demand, compared to other industry, let alone academics?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mraison</author><text>I still don&#x27;t really get it. What&#x27;s the actual goal behind the attack? When the Chinese government decides to block a website, I can at least understand their motivations, as bad as they may be. But DDOSing Github just seems to be pissing the whole world off for a few hours without any actual long term consequences.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub</title><url>http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&month=2015-03&post=China%27s-Man-on-the-Side-Attack-on-GitHub</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>igammarays</author><text>Who said this would only be for a few hours? DDOSing Github drives up their hosting costs massively, creating a financial incentive to comply with China&#x27;s demands.<p>Aside from that, it&#x27;s just Eastern politics, which works by a whole lot of bullying and childish tactics when they don&#x27;t get their way. Not to say that it doesn&#x27;t happen in Western politics, just much more subtly. And it doesn&#x27;t seem so bad since we&#x27;re the good guys.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mraison</author><text>I still don&#x27;t really get it. What&#x27;s the actual goal behind the attack? When the Chinese government decides to block a website, I can at least understand their motivations, as bad as they may be. But DDOSing Github just seems to be pissing the whole world off for a few hours without any actual long term consequences.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub</title><url>http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&month=2015-03&post=China%27s-Man-on-the-Side-Attack-on-GitHub</url></story> |
17,314,128 | 17,313,991 | 1 | 3 | 17,312,414 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ptaipale</author><text>In fact many claim that harsher punishments don&#x27;t work too well for <i>violent</i> offences. Violent people don&#x27;t think of consequences.<p>But for premeditated large-scale economic offences, they certainly work, because the punishment is part of the calculation that the criminal makes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>Unless I&#x27;m mistaken, the data suggests that harsher punishments do not work as a form of deterrent. It seems inappropriate to cage someone for a non-violent offence.</text></item><item><author>degenerate</author><text>Completely agree. These scum definitely need to go to jail, to send fair warning to would-be scammers that it&#x27;s simply not worth the risk.<p>&gt;The judgment was for $7.6 million, but it was partially suspended because of Brar&#x27;s inability to pay the full amount, according to the FTC.<p>Pushover justice system, weak.</text></item><item><author>ra1n85</author><text>This judgement has no teeth:<p>&gt;Under the settlement, Brar — who operated Genius Technologies and Avangatee Services and does not admit or deny the allegations, according to court documents — “is permanently restrained and enjoined from advertising, marketing, promoting, or offering for sale, or assisting in the advertising, marketing, promoting, or offering for sale of Technical Support Services.”<p>This guy is being made to pay 136,000 despite:<p>“The cost to consumers ranged between several hundred dollars to tens of thousands of dollars,” the FTC said of the scam, which appeared to begin in 2015.<p>This is not justice, and this judgement does not serve as a deterrent. This is grand larceny and needs to be accompanied with jail time for perpetrators.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bay Area man must pay $136,000 in tech-support scam against elderly</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/14/bay-area-businessman-must-pay-136000-in-tech-support-scam-against-elderly/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toss1</author><text>perhaps for a single non-violent offenses.<p>But for theft by deception practiced at scale? Absolutely should be jailed for a significant amount of time.<p>I&#x27;d argue for significant amount of jail time simply for the waste and violations of law involved in needlessly ringing so many phones and violating Do Not Call laws.<p>these people create a real cost for society, and the penalty needs to be bigger than &quot;oh, just give back some of your criminal gains&quot;. If you think that caging someone is inappropriate or doesn&#x27;t work, you can go for lashing, or something else. What would you actually suggest as a deterrent?</text><parent_chain><item><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>Unless I&#x27;m mistaken, the data suggests that harsher punishments do not work as a form of deterrent. It seems inappropriate to cage someone for a non-violent offence.</text></item><item><author>degenerate</author><text>Completely agree. These scum definitely need to go to jail, to send fair warning to would-be scammers that it&#x27;s simply not worth the risk.<p>&gt;The judgment was for $7.6 million, but it was partially suspended because of Brar&#x27;s inability to pay the full amount, according to the FTC.<p>Pushover justice system, weak.</text></item><item><author>ra1n85</author><text>This judgement has no teeth:<p>&gt;Under the settlement, Brar — who operated Genius Technologies and Avangatee Services and does not admit or deny the allegations, according to court documents — “is permanently restrained and enjoined from advertising, marketing, promoting, or offering for sale, or assisting in the advertising, marketing, promoting, or offering for sale of Technical Support Services.”<p>This guy is being made to pay 136,000 despite:<p>“The cost to consumers ranged between several hundred dollars to tens of thousands of dollars,” the FTC said of the scam, which appeared to begin in 2015.<p>This is not justice, and this judgement does not serve as a deterrent. This is grand larceny and needs to be accompanied with jail time for perpetrators.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bay Area man must pay $136,000 in tech-support scam against elderly</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/14/bay-area-businessman-must-pay-136000-in-tech-support-scam-against-elderly/</url></story> |
22,532,339 | 22,532,357 | 1 | 2 | 22,531,087 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jgacook</author><text>I have been mulling cancelling my Facebook account for a while now. Today as I was browsing I saw several Scientology ads. I know Facebook doesn&#x27;t have an agenda per se - you have the money, they have the adspace - but I was still struck by the brazenness of advertising something whose ethical dubiousness has been so thoroughly publicized.<p>Facebook will never change unless they are forced to. We have signed away perhaps one of the most important experiments ever in digital social networking to a behemoth that chips away at your humanity the longer you stay on it. People who think I&#x27;m being dramatic almost always underestimate exactly how much data Facebook, Google, et al. collect on you and the extent to which they use it to manipulate you emotionally or with your wallet. Every facet of Facebook is designed to coerce you into an addiction that results in you spending more and more time on the site while you consume ever more advertising content.<p>These enormous tech companies are kind of like the fast food of the Internet. They have erased individuality and served us an experience that is mass produced and shrink wrapped for our convenience. It&#x27;s delicious and addictive, but we keep being told lies about the quality and safety of what we are consuming. We&#x27;ve become so reliant on it we&#x27;ve forgotten how to cook, if you&#x27;ll extend the metaphor.<p>I increasingly hate a lot of the what the Internet is. I always feel watched and directed to the point where I have trouble trusting what I&#x27;m reading, like watching manufactured drama in a reality TV show. I&#x27;m planning on setting up my own website as an expressive space where I can go to be creative and try to consume thoughtful content and (hopefully) make thoughtful content for people in return. I&#x27;m hoping there&#x27;s a world of expressiveness and fun to be had in interacting with people on the Internet on one&#x27;s own terms.<p>Hope it turns out well!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy</title><url>https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-opt-out-illusion/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheOperator</author><text>&gt;But the pop-up won’t let us pass without clicking “agree”. Opting out is an illusion.<p>I mean this is a weird way to phrase it but you definitely cannot participate in modern society without hindering yourself in various meaningful ways if you do not &quot;opt-in&quot; to giving up your privacy. &quot;Opt-in&quot; requirements have consequently struck me as &quot;privacy theatre&quot; which mostly irritates.<p>I don&#x27;t see any solution for the current privacy situation other than regulation and enough liability attached to data breaches to make hoarding customer data a good way to go bankrupt.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy</title><url>https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-opt-out-illusion/</url></story> |
15,953,970 | 15,953,739 | 1 | 2 | 15,951,288 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dTal</author><text>&gt;How did IPv4 and NAT play any role in the dominance of Facebook, Airbnb et cetera?<p>Very directly, I would say, by making the barrier to running your own low-traffic website too high. Modern social media is all about hosting content - microblogs, photos, etc. Geocities was an early workaround to an inability to host things, and it&#x27;s worth remembering that MySpace was originally positioned as a kind of evolution of that with the social aspects bolted on - it (notoriously) allowed arbitrary HTML, so that you could make your own &quot;homepage&quot; on the internet. Facebook further evolved this, offering a much more restricted experience. Were it not for NAT, I would have expected an explosion in tiny self-hosted personal sites around the time that dialup was replaced by always-on cable connections, and before long we would probably have had various wordpress-like frameworks to do the social aspects. Which is not to say we wouldn&#x27;t have eventually had a Facebook-like entity, but it would have faced much stiffer competition than it did, and people would perhaps have been less forgiving of its restrictions if they&#x27;d had an easily-accessible wild-west to compare it to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dash2</author><text><p><pre><code> Here’s the problem with IP addresses: there aren’t enough of them....
As a consequence, the Internet has allowed intermediate
computers to rule. These are like parasites that have grown
too large to remove without killing the host. The technical
flaw that favored intermediate computers prefigured a world
where middlemen business models thrive.
</code></pre>
The handwave is the word &quot;prefigure&quot;. How did IPv4 and NAT play any role in the dominance of Facebook, Airbnb et cetera? This is an analogy masquerading as an argument.<p><pre><code> It is not fundamentally necessary to have any intermediate
company profiting whenever a person reads news from their
friends, rents an apartment from a stranger, or orders a
ride from a driver.
</code></pre>
The author provides no evidence that the services of Airbnb, Uber etc. have no value added. These companies carefully designed interfaces to help us find what we need. If they did not add value, we would still be using newsgroups.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet</title><url>https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.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>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; How did IPv4 and NAT play any role in the dominance of Facebook, Airbnb et cetera? This is an analogy masquerading as an argument.<p>Because it made peer-to-peer no longer an option. Keep in mind that NAT is a poor man&#x27;s firewall and once NAT&#x27;d systems were common peer-to-peer firewall transition became a real problem.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fourmilab.ch&#x2F;documents&#x2F;digital-imprimatur&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fourmilab.ch&#x2F;documents&#x2F;digital-imprimatur&#x2F;</a> (2003, still as relevant today as when it was written)</text><parent_chain><item><author>dash2</author><text><p><pre><code> Here’s the problem with IP addresses: there aren’t enough of them....
As a consequence, the Internet has allowed intermediate
computers to rule. These are like parasites that have grown
too large to remove without killing the host. The technical
flaw that favored intermediate computers prefigured a world
where middlemen business models thrive.
</code></pre>
The handwave is the word &quot;prefigure&quot;. How did IPv4 and NAT play any role in the dominance of Facebook, Airbnb et cetera? This is an analogy masquerading as an argument.<p><pre><code> It is not fundamentally necessary to have any intermediate
company profiting whenever a person reads news from their
friends, rents an apartment from a stranger, or orders a
ride from a driver.
</code></pre>
The author provides no evidence that the services of Airbnb, Uber etc. have no value added. These companies carefully designed interfaces to help us find what we need. If they did not add value, we would still be using newsgroups.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet</title><url>https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.html</url></story> |
18,446,235 | 18,446,196 | 1 | 3 | 18,445,685 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>This is really neat. I changed the quality value to 6: clang took ~20 minutes to compile and it used around 32GB of RAM. The resulting executable is 13KB, and it generates a 4KB image as output.<p>Here&#x27;s a link of the output image: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;cUdForu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;cUdForu</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Abusing C macros to render the Mandelbrot Set at compile-time</title><url>https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/b9230fe7d335a1caf90483dbb00a5375</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pantalaimon</author><text>Can we please have constexpr in C 2x to put an end to this madness?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Abusing C macros to render the Mandelbrot Set at compile-time</title><url>https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/b9230fe7d335a1caf90483dbb00a5375</url></story> |
29,322,456 | 29,322,540 | 1 | 3 | 29,320,523 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Fission</author><text>I wanted to link to an older comment (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24714286" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24714286</a>) I made on this topic, because I keep on seeing this article. It&#x27;s turned out to be one of my most upvoted comments on HN, to my genuine surprise.<p>Reproduction:<p><i>I keep on seeing this link pop up. Since no one is replying, I&#x27;d like to point out that I think the Wirecutter is actually in the right here. Another HN member did some investigation and found that Xdesk is stretching things: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22144078" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22144078</a></i><p><i>In general, having been able to talk with some of the people there, I&#x27;m convinced that WC was focused first and foremost on truth-seeking and quality at this point in their life (pre-acquisition) — however, the consensus seems to have been that after the NYT acquired them, they started becoming more incentivized to grow revenue, and started to jump the shark.</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>callmeal</author><text>Wirecutter is a pay-to-play operation. I stopped heeding their recommendations after I discovered that they were aggressively persuing kickbacks and refusing to review products that do not pay. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xdesk.com&#x2F;wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to-play-model" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xdesk.com&#x2F;wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to...</a> for example.<p>Also note that wirecutter in their response do not deny this but try to weasel out by claiming that the word &#x27;kickback&#x27; was misleading.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;wirecutter&#x2F;our-response-to-nextdesk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;wirecutter&#x2F;our-response-to-nextdesk&#x2F;</a><p><pre><code> One valid criticism NextDesk raised was our use of the word “kickback” in our business communications, which is a misleading description of the affiliate business model because it implies an illicit transaction. In our company’s early days, we misused the term to describe a straightforward affiliate relationship, but we have since changed how we talk about the affiliate business, which is one we continue to stand behind.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wirecutter strike and boycott Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday</title><url>https://twitter.com/wirecutterunion/status/1463175088325505035</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>filmgirlcw</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that this whole thing is from 2013&#x2F;2014. Since then, Wirecutter has been sold to the New York Times and has completely different management. I don&#x27;t personally think Brian Lam did what Nextdesk accused him of (disclosure: I&#x27;ve met Lam socially), but I also understand why it seems improper to have that kind of outreach.<p>Based on my personal knowledge of many people who have worked at Wirecutter past and present, I don&#x27;t believe they are a pay to play operation at all.<p>Regardless, that has no bearing on whether or not their employees are owed a fair labor contract or not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>callmeal</author><text>Wirecutter is a pay-to-play operation. I stopped heeding their recommendations after I discovered that they were aggressively persuing kickbacks and refusing to review products that do not pay. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xdesk.com&#x2F;wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to-play-model" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xdesk.com&#x2F;wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to...</a> for example.<p>Also note that wirecutter in their response do not deny this but try to weasel out by claiming that the word &#x27;kickback&#x27; was misleading.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;wirecutter&#x2F;our-response-to-nextdesk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;wirecutter&#x2F;our-response-to-nextdesk&#x2F;</a><p><pre><code> One valid criticism NextDesk raised was our use of the word “kickback” in our business communications, which is a misleading description of the affiliate business model because it implies an illicit transaction. In our company’s early days, we misused the term to describe a straightforward affiliate relationship, but we have since changed how we talk about the affiliate business, which is one we continue to stand behind.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wirecutter strike and boycott Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday</title><url>https://twitter.com/wirecutterunion/status/1463175088325505035</url></story> |
1,928,555 | 1,928,551 | 1 | 2 | 1,928,414 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yellowbkpk</author><text>For those thinking that a homebrew version of this may come in the future, you've got it backwards. This is a professional version of homebrew. Check out <a href="http://diydrones.com/" rel="nofollow">http://diydrones.com/</a> as a good starting point, but this design is quite popular for hobbyists and is relatively simple to build. Definitely less than $10k-worth of time and materials.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Personal Surveillance Drones are here.</title><url>http://www.sensefly.com/products/swinglet-cam/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>makmanalp</author><text>How about these, for $300?<p><a href="http://www.parrot.com/usa/" rel="nofollow">http://www.parrot.com/usa/</a><p>Or if you're more adventurous, you can chop 4 30 dollar helicopters from amazon, add in an arduino and IMU with xbees, and come up with your homebrew solution, like my friend who I've been helping:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvZKr47qt-A" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvZKr47qt-A</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_uS9clTDY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_uS9clTDY</a><p>(These are pre-arduino, pre-IMU. Now it's hung from the ceiling and is controlled through the computer with an xbox controller. It's on a PID control right now, but eventually it'll be swapped out with a kalman filter based system.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Personal Surveillance Drones are here.</title><url>http://www.sensefly.com/products/swinglet-cam/</url></story> |
9,797,031 | 9,796,528 | 1 | 3 | 9,795,266 | 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>xixixao</author><text>Someone else will be the consultant, perhaps spending $20k on more useless products. In that case, you doing the consulting is still net positive.<p>Perhaps a better suggestion than not earning that $20k is to earn it by working with companies which do not produce useless products. Certainly worth considering for someone who wants to spend $20k to do good. On the other hand, perhaps they are already doing that .).</text><parent_chain><item><author>shoo</author><text>Another important aspect might be to consider how the $20k was obtained in the first place. What resources were consumed to generate that wealth? What pollution was generated? Which parts of society benefited, and which did not?<p>Here is a contrived example:<p>Suppose you obtained $20k by applying your skills as a consultant where you helped some business make an additional $200k profit by more effectively advertising their products.<p>Suppose that business has a profit of 20% for each item they sell, so you&#x27;ve actually lifted their revenue by $1m.<p>Now, suppose these products are essentially useless consumer products that will go out of fashion within 1 year.<p>I claim without evidence that the environmental impact of producing, advertising, distributing and disposing of $1m of useless products may, in many cases, be well in excess of how much of that impact you could attempt to reverse with a $20k budget.<p>So, another option is to consider is that the world may be better off if you didn&#x27;t earn that $20k in the first place. It very much depends on the direct and indirect effects of how you did it.<p>edit: I am curious if I am copping the odd down-vote because this argument is complete nonsense (in which case please help me modify my beliefs!) or simply because I mention something that is perhaps uncomfortable to reflect upon. I claim no moral high ground here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What’s the best way to spend $20K to help the common good?</title><url>https://80000hours.org/2015/06/whats-the-best-way-to-spend-20000-to-help-the-common-good/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>newman8r</author><text>mind... blown... hah I&#x27;ve definitely read things like this before but.... damn it just sounds so much like people thinking electric cars will save the world without considering where the energy is actually (not hypothetically) coming from.... then that example starts to gets recursive because electric cars are expensive, HOW did you get that extra 40k to be able to afford it? hah</text><parent_chain><item><author>shoo</author><text>Another important aspect might be to consider how the $20k was obtained in the first place. What resources were consumed to generate that wealth? What pollution was generated? Which parts of society benefited, and which did not?<p>Here is a contrived example:<p>Suppose you obtained $20k by applying your skills as a consultant where you helped some business make an additional $200k profit by more effectively advertising their products.<p>Suppose that business has a profit of 20% for each item they sell, so you&#x27;ve actually lifted their revenue by $1m.<p>Now, suppose these products are essentially useless consumer products that will go out of fashion within 1 year.<p>I claim without evidence that the environmental impact of producing, advertising, distributing and disposing of $1m of useless products may, in many cases, be well in excess of how much of that impact you could attempt to reverse with a $20k budget.<p>So, another option is to consider is that the world may be better off if you didn&#x27;t earn that $20k in the first place. It very much depends on the direct and indirect effects of how you did it.<p>edit: I am curious if I am copping the odd down-vote because this argument is complete nonsense (in which case please help me modify my beliefs!) or simply because I mention something that is perhaps uncomfortable to reflect upon. I claim no moral high ground here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What’s the best way to spend $20K to help the common good?</title><url>https://80000hours.org/2015/06/whats-the-best-way-to-spend-20000-to-help-the-common-good/</url></story> |
15,741,950 | 15,742,026 | 1 | 3 | 15,741,750 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>weitzj</author><text>Another feature request:<p>Always show the absolute date instead of ... 14 days ago. That drives me crazy a little bit.<p>I know I can hover over the date, but that takes again a mouse and 2-3 seconds.<p>This is especially annoying when I need to track some dates in a timesheet.<p>Maybe somebody has made a Chrome extension&#x2F;JavaScript bookmark to circumvent this &quot;feature&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Team Discussions</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2471-introducing-team-discussions</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coffeemug</author><text>I created two test discussions, and both of them (along with all replies) are listed on a single page. You can pin discussions, but there is no discussion search bar, and no way (as far as I can tell) to see a list of discussions without also viewing all replies. Essentially it&#x27;s a giant threaded forum, with everything on a single page, and thread depth pinned to one.<p>I&#x27;m having trouble imagining how the ergonomics work out when you have more than just a couple of largish discussions. I&#x27;m excited about this feature in general, but I think there are some nuances they&#x27;ll have to work out (unless I&#x27;m missing something).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Team Discussions</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2471-introducing-team-discussions</url></story> |
28,531,562 | 28,531,886 | 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>isolli</author><text>While not wrong in itself, your comment epitomizes everything that has been wrong with our public health response. Trying to manipulate populations into a desired behavior by lying to them is, as you point out, counterproductive in the long run.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jowday</author><text>The answer is pretty simple - the moment authorities start saying &quot;well, natural immunity is probably just as good as vaccination, we&#x27;ll accept that as equal to vaccination for passport purposes&quot;, a huge segment of the population who&#x27;s on the fence about getting the vaccine might just opt to wait until they&#x27;re infected naturally, or, even worse, get infected purposefully (EG, chicken pox parties). Which leads to more deaths and outbreaks.<p>In a perfect world, everyone would understand that getting the vaccine is the appropriate choice of action and we could accept natural immunity from people who were infected before vaccines were available - but unfortunately we&#x27;re forced into playing these weird games where authorities have to try to incentivize people who aren&#x27;t behaving rationally - which in turn leads to further distrust from people on the fence.</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>throwawayfear</author><text>Past covid gives antibodies that are superior to two shots of Pfizer.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;article&#x2F;having-sars-cov-2-once-confers-much-greater-immunity-vaccine-vaccination-remains-vital" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;article&#x2F;having-sars-cov-2-on...</a><p>So yes, it IS just as good as the vaccination and should be treated as such. Vaccinating people for the sake of vaccinating them is illogical here.<p>And don&#x27;t even get me started on vaccine passports, which are completely unnecessary. If a place of employment absolutely needs proof of vaccination, like the NICU at the hospital or a nursing home or a college dorm, that information can be relayed via existing protocols. We don&#x27;t need a &quot;papers please&quot; society where paper shufflers and bureaucrats can arbitrarily gate access to society this way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jowday</author><text>The answer is pretty simple - the moment authorities start saying &quot;well, natural immunity is probably just as good as vaccination, we&#x27;ll accept that as equal to vaccination for passport purposes&quot;, a huge segment of the population who&#x27;s on the fence about getting the vaccine might just opt to wait until they&#x27;re infected naturally, or, even worse, get infected purposefully (EG, chicken pox parties). Which leads to more deaths and outbreaks.<p>In a perfect world, everyone would understand that getting the vaccine is the appropriate choice of action and we could accept natural immunity from people who were infected before vaccines were available - but unfortunately we&#x27;re forced into playing these weird games where authorities have to try to incentivize people who aren&#x27;t behaving rationally - which in turn leads to further distrust from people on the fence.</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> |
19,813,322 | 19,812,923 | 1 | 3 | 19,810,981 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cbhl</author><text>I highly recommend Episode #760 of Planet Money, which talks about what happened to ReadyReturn, which was a proposal to have the government send you a pre-filled tax return.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;709656642&#x2F;episode-760-tax-hero" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;709656642&#x2F;epis...</a><p>Transcript: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;templates&#x2F;transcript&#x2F;transcript.php?storyId=708195702" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;templates&#x2F;transcript&#x2F;transcript.php?stor...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>asdff</author><text>Is there even a reason we have to file? My understanding is that if you don&#x27;t file, the IRS knows about your W2 or 1099s anyway and will punish you, so what&#x27;s even the point of filing yourself? Just have the IRS send a check or bill in the mail in April and end this nonsense industry.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>FWIW, Turbotax&#x2F;H&amp;R&#x27;s hiding of their Free File site pages was discussed here about a week ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19758126" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19758126</a><p>They have since made their pages discoverable by search engines and have denied that it was intentional obfuscation. But the news in TFA is that apparently someone at (or formerly at) H&amp;R leaked internal documents with explicit guidance:<p>&gt; <i>“Do not send clients to this Web Site unless they are specifically calling about the Free File program,” the guidance states, referring to the site with the company’s free option. “We want to send users to our paid products before the free product, if at all possible.”</i><p>(there&#x27;s also interviews with former employees recalling meetings)<p>This is all &quot;news&quot; because Congress is considering a bipartisan tax reform bill that includes a law that would
<i>block the IRS from creating its own official Free File program. Senator Ron Wyden, the bill&#x27;s co-sponsor, is now having second thoughts [0] and yesterday, NY Gov. Cuomo ordered a state investigation into the tax prep companies [1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huffpost.com&#x2F;entry&#x2F;taxpayer-first-act-free-file_n_5cc9fb90e4b0d123954db6f4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huffpost.com&#x2F;entry&#x2F;taxpayer-first-act-free-file_...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.governor.ny.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;governor-cuomo-calls-department-financial-services-and-department-taxation-and-finance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.governor.ny.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;governor-cuomo-calls-depart...</a><p>edit: </i>changed &quot;permanently block&quot; to &quot;block&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/intuit-turbotax-h-r-block-gutted-free-tax-filing-internal-memo</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>javagram</author><text>The IRS does not actually have all the information placed on the tax return.<p>For instance, all interest is charged as income for tax purposes, but 1099-INT is only issued for $10 and above. Similar restrictions exist for 1099-MISC but at a higher threshold, if you are a freelancer who receives a lot of small 1099 income from multiple sources, the IRS has no way of knowing that.<p>Conversely, if you’re eligible to itemize deductions, the IRS has no way of knowing what you gave to charities over the year. That’s entirely self reported and they only even ask for the receipts if you get audited. Charities don’t send records of their donors to the IRS.</text><parent_chain><item><author>asdff</author><text>Is there even a reason we have to file? My understanding is that if you don&#x27;t file, the IRS knows about your W2 or 1099s anyway and will punish you, so what&#x27;s even the point of filing yourself? Just have the IRS send a check or bill in the mail in April and end this nonsense industry.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>FWIW, Turbotax&#x2F;H&amp;R&#x27;s hiding of their Free File site pages was discussed here about a week ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19758126" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19758126</a><p>They have since made their pages discoverable by search engines and have denied that it was intentional obfuscation. But the news in TFA is that apparently someone at (or formerly at) H&amp;R leaked internal documents with explicit guidance:<p>&gt; <i>“Do not send clients to this Web Site unless they are specifically calling about the Free File program,” the guidance states, referring to the site with the company’s free option. “We want to send users to our paid products before the free product, if at all possible.”</i><p>(there&#x27;s also interviews with former employees recalling meetings)<p>This is all &quot;news&quot; because Congress is considering a bipartisan tax reform bill that includes a law that would
<i>block the IRS from creating its own official Free File program. Senator Ron Wyden, the bill&#x27;s co-sponsor, is now having second thoughts [0] and yesterday, NY Gov. Cuomo ordered a state investigation into the tax prep companies [1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huffpost.com&#x2F;entry&#x2F;taxpayer-first-act-free-file_n_5cc9fb90e4b0d123954db6f4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huffpost.com&#x2F;entry&#x2F;taxpayer-first-act-free-file_...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.governor.ny.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;governor-cuomo-calls-department-financial-services-and-department-taxation-and-finance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.governor.ny.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;governor-cuomo-calls-depart...</a><p>edit: </i>changed &quot;permanently block&quot; to &quot;block&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/intuit-turbotax-h-r-block-gutted-free-tax-filing-internal-memo</url></story> |
20,740,248 | 20,740,546 | 1 | 3 | 20,739,907 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rococode</author><text>Twitter just posted this statement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitter.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;topics&#x2F;company&#x2F;2019&#x2F;information_operations_directed_at_Hong_Kong.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitter.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;topics&#x2F;company&#x2F;2019&#x2F;informati...</a><p>And a new policy banning all state-controlled media from advertising: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitter.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;topics&#x2F;company&#x2F;2019&#x2F;advertising_policies_on_state_media.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitter.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;topics&#x2F;company&#x2F;2019&#x2F;advertisi...</a><p>I think this is an interesting example of recent discussions about the disproportionate influence of social media companies on information. Obviously, it doesn&#x27;t seem right for a government to manipulate public conversation. But it&#x27;s also worrisome that a single company has the power to shut down an entire government trying to spread its ideas. In this instance it&#x27;s well justified, but it feels a little scary that the flow of information is policed by a couple private individuals with very little oversight. I don&#x27;t have any particular opinions here on what might need to change, if anything - just thinking out loud.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/twitter-is-blocked-in-china-but-its-state-news-agency-is-buying-promoted-tweets-to-portray-hong-kong-protestors-as-violent/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>29_29</author><text>I was recently in Beijing and noticed when posting on Instagram many bot accounts posting &quot;Shame on Hong Kong&quot; in Chinese.<p>This is a Facebook problem too.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/twitter-is-blocked-in-china-but-its-state-news-agency-is-buying-promoted-tweets-to-portray-hong-kong-protestors-as-violent/</url></story> |
40,037,651 | 40,037,018 | 1 | 3 | 40,034,140 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Taniwha</author><text>Back when I was flying High Power Rockets at Blackrock these guys used to come out and use our FAA waiver to do their testing, they&#x27;ve been doing incremental testing for more than 25 years - that they did just go off and build their big idea first (so many space companies do and most fail) but instead have worked on this bit by bit, they&#x27;re definitely in this for the long term</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Airship to Orbit Project</title><url>https://www.jpaerospace.com/ATO/ATO.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>amayne</author><text>Here&#x27;s his YouTube channel. I don&#x27;t know about the viability, but I loved the concept so much I started writing a sequel to my Station Breaker novels around the concept.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@johnmpowell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@johnmpowell</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Airship to Orbit Project</title><url>https://www.jpaerospace.com/ATO/ATO.html</url></story> |
3,945,225 | 3,943,421 | 1 | 3 | 3,943,056 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>revelation</author><text>You may giggle at Googles attempts to catch up with Facebook, but looking at this video.. boy, they are way ahead. Google isn't so much a search company, its an innovation company. They are already building the next trillion dollar industry while Facebook is optimizing sharing cat pictures.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Google's Self-Driving Car Works</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/how-google-self-driving-car-works/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ctdonath</author><text><i>Everything</i> Google does feeds back, somehow, to data mining.<p>How does self-driving cars fit in to Google's plans?<p>ETA: Downvoted for asking a serious question? WTH?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Google's Self-Driving Car Works</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/how-google-self-driving-car-works/</url></story> |
12,007,430 | 12,007,183 | 1 | 2 | 12,000,858 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brc</author><text>A monopoly is a specific thing, not just an insult to a company you don&#x27;t like.<p>Most monopolies can only be sustained through state intervention, which is why large government is more of a problem than large companies like Amazon.<p>This situation is fantastic for the consumer - companies competing to lower prices and increase service.<p>As the story says the market has responded quickly and the industry is growing, precisely how things are supposed to work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kuschku</author><text>And this is horrible for the market.<p>A company gaining a huge advantage by getting a total monopoly over another market, which they can enforce due to having patents.<p>That’s not what patents were supposed to create, and what Antitrust regulations were supposed to prevent.<p>If this is the future, it’s quite a dystopia: Monopolies everywhere.<p>Sure, I get that the Silicon Valley business model is to destroy regulation, get a monopoly (ideally in a new market niche, but destroying existing competition with illegal predatory pricing is also common), and then to abuse the monopoly, but is no one thinking that for the average consumer a free, competitive market might be better?</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>I&#x27;d wondered how Kiva&#x27;s old customers were doing. Now we know. There really isn&#x27;t a direct replacement for Kiva robots from another vendor.<p>The great thing about Kiva robots is that they&#x27;re quite simple and robust mechanically. They&#x27;re a battery, motors, wheels, and a lift mechanism. They&#x27;re completely interchangeable, and having one fail isn&#x27;t a big deal. Maintenance is replacing batteries, motors, wheels, and maybe the electronics module as necessary. The infrastructure they require is modest. The competing systems all seem to require more elaborate robots, special totes, and special shelf construction.<p>Amazon says that Kiva robots cut their order picking time from 90 minutes to 15. Other retailers, seeing that number, must be terrified. It&#x27;s a technological improvement like that which makes same-day delivery from a large inventory possible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Amazon Triggered a Robot Arms Race</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-29/how-amazon-triggered-a-robot-arms-race</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>forrestthewoods</author><text>Ehhh Kiva being the only company isn&#x27;t a healthy market. Even if they&#x27;re selling to everyone.<p>To be honest Amazon buying Kiva is probably the <i>best</i> thing that could happen. They broadcast to the world that such a company is worth almost a billion dollars. Now the market is filling with competitors and investment. That&#x27;s exactly what you want.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kuschku</author><text>And this is horrible for the market.<p>A company gaining a huge advantage by getting a total monopoly over another market, which they can enforce due to having patents.<p>That’s not what patents were supposed to create, and what Antitrust regulations were supposed to prevent.<p>If this is the future, it’s quite a dystopia: Monopolies everywhere.<p>Sure, I get that the Silicon Valley business model is to destroy regulation, get a monopoly (ideally in a new market niche, but destroying existing competition with illegal predatory pricing is also common), and then to abuse the monopoly, but is no one thinking that for the average consumer a free, competitive market might be better?</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>I&#x27;d wondered how Kiva&#x27;s old customers were doing. Now we know. There really isn&#x27;t a direct replacement for Kiva robots from another vendor.<p>The great thing about Kiva robots is that they&#x27;re quite simple and robust mechanically. They&#x27;re a battery, motors, wheels, and a lift mechanism. They&#x27;re completely interchangeable, and having one fail isn&#x27;t a big deal. Maintenance is replacing batteries, motors, wheels, and maybe the electronics module as necessary. The infrastructure they require is modest. The competing systems all seem to require more elaborate robots, special totes, and special shelf construction.<p>Amazon says that Kiva robots cut their order picking time from 90 minutes to 15. Other retailers, seeing that number, must be terrified. It&#x27;s a technological improvement like that which makes same-day delivery from a large inventory possible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Amazon Triggered a Robot Arms Race</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-29/how-amazon-triggered-a-robot-arms-race</url></story> |
10,881,989 | 10,881,765 | 1 | 2 | 10,881,563 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peregrine</author><text>For anyone who&#x27;s lived in areas that have regular snow storms you know that eventually mutli-lane highways turn into single lane tracks of clear road. Usually these tracks are somewhere in the middle of the road and everyone just sticks to them because a semi or snow plow cleared it for us.<p>The method described is a really great way for car&#x27;s to get stuck in snow drifts by trying to stay in lanes. Near term drivers will PROBABLY just take over in those situations but long term we&#x27;ll probably need a combination of Lidar and Cameras to do this type of work.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ford says it conducted successful tests of driverless cars in snowy conditions</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35280632</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>Let&#x27;s be honest, humans are pretty bad at driving in snow too.<p>Sadly, I feel like people won&#x27;t accept self driving cars until they can drive in the snow as well as in dry, clear conditions, which won&#x27;t happen for a long time, if ever.<p>Honestly it&#x27;s a bit silly that self driving cars have to do better than humans to be trusted -- as long as they are doing as well as us, mathematically, we should want them.<p>Maybe the insurance companies, which are mathematically inclined, will end up fixing this by providing lower rates for self driving cars, even in snowy climates.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ford says it conducted successful tests of driverless cars in snowy conditions</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35280632</url></story> |
20,863,202 | 20,863,068 | 1 | 2 | 20,862,359 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kccqzy</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t seem like the author knows C. The C example of codecs is riddled with syntax errors. When he writes<p><pre><code> struct Codec
{
*int (*encode)(*int);
*int (*decode)(*int);
};
</code></pre>
he probably meant to swap the int and the asterisk to mean a pointer to int. But no one would use a pointer to int to mean bytes; we have pointer to char or pointer to unsigned char for that:<p><pre><code> struct Codec {
uint8_t* (*encode)(uint8_t*);
uint8_t* (*decode)(uint8_t*);
};
</code></pre>
And that doesn&#x27;t exactly deal with ownership issues.<p>But besides those nitpicking, I struggle to see what his point is. His point is to extract common features of components and build interfaces for them? I mean isn&#x27;t that something we&#x27;ve been doing for a long time?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Good Code Design from Linux</title><url>https://leandromoreira.com.br/2019/08/02/linux-ffmpeg-source-internals-a-good-software-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>aloknnikhil</author><text>Is the only takeaway that polymorphic design is good for extensibility? I mean, isn&#x27;t that the whole point of polymorphism? But Linux&#x27;s everything&#x27;s a file design is great. Makes for a great user experience when you know all the knobs are under &#x2F;sys on sysfs</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Good Code Design from Linux</title><url>https://leandromoreira.com.br/2019/08/02/linux-ffmpeg-source-internals-a-good-software-design/</url></story> |
6,946,204 | 6,945,925 | 1 | 2 | 6,945,734 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mg74</author><text>Volume 1: <a href="http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu&#x2F;I_toc.html</a>
Volume 2: <a href="http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_toc.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu&#x2F;II_toc.html</a>
Volume 3: <a href="http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_toc.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu&#x2F;III_toc.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume II</title><url>http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_toc.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>ashray</author><text>How I WISH I had access to this kind of material when I was studying high school&#x2F;pre-engineering physics. These lectures are brilliant just so very easy to understand.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume II</title><url>http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_toc.html</url></story> |
6,311,783 | 6,310,638 | 1 | 3 | 6,309,878 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unlimitedbacon</author><text>Years ago, at my first internship, we were assigned to copy fields of information out of hundreds of PDF files and compile them into a single spreadsheet. While my coworker began dutifully trudging away, I started googling and found out about the COM API and the Python library. I spent the rest of my time writing a script to automate the task.<p>The silly and wonderful thing about the Office API is that it doesn&#x27;t work silently, but instead performs the operations on screen as if they were being done by a human being. The article explains this. There&#x27;s something very satisfying about seeing the reaction of your boss as he watches the computer do the work on its own, as if its being operated by a ghost. Now I know what it must have been like to see a player piano a hundred years ago.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Automating Microsoft Office with Python</title><url>http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/sanand0/ipython-notebooks/master/Office.ipynb</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bryogenic</author><text>I&#x27;d be really interested in this if there were a way to get Python to render a ppt into a pdf. Basically, the goal would be to programmatically add a unique watermark to each ppt, render the pdf, and save it. Doing this for 100+ things is not worth the time but if Python can script it up it might be worth investigating. Looks like I need to go read the COM api a bit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Automating Microsoft Office with Python</title><url>http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/sanand0/ipython-notebooks/master/Office.ipynb</url><text></text></story> |
21,701,935 | 21,701,290 | 1 | 3 | 21,698,619 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ben509</author><text>Suppose we had an index of snippets, meaning you&#x27;ve parsed them and are able to search isomorphically. So, e.g. variable names are not significant. Some techniques discussed[1].<p>Then we run that against source repos, we could get update notifications for copypasta&#x27;d code.<p>&quot;In file F at line L, it looks like you used some code from SO at revision R. In revision R&#x27;, it&#x27;s been corrected.&quot;<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.haskell.org&#x2F;Hoogle#Theoretical_Foundations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.haskell.org&#x2F;Hoogle#Theoretical_Foundations</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed</title><url>https://programming.guide/worlds-most-copied-so-snippet.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>billpg</author><text>Is using Math.pow and Math.log (twice) faster than a tight loop that won&#x27;t run more than six times?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed</title><url>https://programming.guide/worlds-most-copied-so-snippet.html</url></story> |
22,467,948 | 22,466,332 | 1 | 3 | 22,465,773 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>donquichotte</author><text>If anyone is interested, here is the source code for speeduino [1], megaSquirt [2] and rusEFI [3], two comparable open source ECUs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;noisymime&#x2F;speeduino&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;noisymime&#x2F;speeduino&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;onesk&#x2F;ms3-source" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;onesk&#x2F;ms3-source</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rusefi&#x2F;rusefi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rusefi&#x2F;rusefi</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Speeduino: Open-Source Engine Management</title><url>https://speeduino.com/home/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asguy</author><text>&gt; Ever wondered why black box, aftermarket engine management systems can cost thousands of dollars?<p>There’s actually a pretty good reason. I can’t imagine starting a new engine management project in 2020 without using an FPGA to interface with engine positioning sensors and outputs. Modern engines tend to be way too complicated to coordinate without paying close attention to your modeling of where all the fast moving mechanical bits are currently.<p>It’s cool they released this as open-source but the tech would have been novel circa 1992.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Speeduino: Open-Source Engine Management</title><url>https://speeduino.com/home/</url></story> |
11,397,747 | 11,397,275 | 1 | 2 | 11,396,045 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdmichal</author><text>Also in Java: Switching or if-else chains on an `enum`. It&#x27;s still a good practice to include a final `else` or `default` case, but it should really never happen. Actually, inclusion of the `default` case will be <i>enforced</i> by the compiler if it can detect a code path that doesn&#x27;t return. [0]<p><pre><code> enum Whatever { FOO, BAR }
if (whatever == FOO) {
} else if (whatever == BAR) {
} else {
&#x2F;&#x2F; Should never happen!
}
</code></pre>
[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;5013194&#x2F;why-is-default-required-for-a-switch-on-an-enum-in-this-code" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;5013194&#x2F;why-is-default-re...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Aaargh20318</author><text>It&#x27;s also for cases when you <i>know</i> it can&#x27;t happen. For example, Java&#x27;s String class has a method<p><pre><code> public byte[] getBytes(String charsetName) throws UnsupportedEncodingException
</code></pre>
Since it can throw a checked exception you have to catch it, which generally is fine, but consider this case:<p><pre><code> someString.getBytes(&quot;UTF-8&quot;);
</code></pre>
This call can never fail (support for UTF-8 encoding is required in Java) but in my case I have to do something with the exception in the catch statement or our static code analysis tool will start complaining (and rightfully so). So that&#x27;s where I&#x27;ll log a &#x27;can&#x27;t happen error&#x27;. It truly cannot happen.</text></item><item><author>ctdonath</author><text>It&#x27;s a sub-pattern of &quot;ain&#x27;t got time for dat&quot;. Developer <i>knows</i> that condition should never happen, but is not inclined to prove it (as represented by coding type checking or other handling) yet realizes it shouldn&#x27;t be ignored outright (if only to document the unproven condition in code, or to shut the compiler up about incompleteness warnings).</text></item><item><author>dzdt</author><text>&quot;This should never happen&quot; is a design pattern of defensive programming. This is the same pattern for assert.<p>The usual use is to catch errors caused by misuse of a method. There is some invariant that the method assumes but is not enforced by the type signature of the interface. So if something goes wrong in outside code, or someone tries to use the method incorrectly, the invariant is not satisfied. When you catch such a problem, the current code context is FUBAR. The question is how aggressively to bail out : spew errors to a log and proceed with some GIGO calculation? Throw an exception? Exit the program?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This should never happen</title><url>https://github.com/search?q=This+should+never+happen&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>FWIW getBytes(Charset) doesn&#x27;t throw, and there&#x27;s a base set of charsets in StandardCharsets (1.7+):<p><pre><code> someString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
</code></pre>
(Charset.forName doesn&#x27;t throw either, StandardCharsets avoid stringly-typed code but it&#x27;s not available on 1.6 so if you&#x27;re still stuck there Charset.forName works)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Aaargh20318</author><text>It&#x27;s also for cases when you <i>know</i> it can&#x27;t happen. For example, Java&#x27;s String class has a method<p><pre><code> public byte[] getBytes(String charsetName) throws UnsupportedEncodingException
</code></pre>
Since it can throw a checked exception you have to catch it, which generally is fine, but consider this case:<p><pre><code> someString.getBytes(&quot;UTF-8&quot;);
</code></pre>
This call can never fail (support for UTF-8 encoding is required in Java) but in my case I have to do something with the exception in the catch statement or our static code analysis tool will start complaining (and rightfully so). So that&#x27;s where I&#x27;ll log a &#x27;can&#x27;t happen error&#x27;. It truly cannot happen.</text></item><item><author>ctdonath</author><text>It&#x27;s a sub-pattern of &quot;ain&#x27;t got time for dat&quot;. Developer <i>knows</i> that condition should never happen, but is not inclined to prove it (as represented by coding type checking or other handling) yet realizes it shouldn&#x27;t be ignored outright (if only to document the unproven condition in code, or to shut the compiler up about incompleteness warnings).</text></item><item><author>dzdt</author><text>&quot;This should never happen&quot; is a design pattern of defensive programming. This is the same pattern for assert.<p>The usual use is to catch errors caused by misuse of a method. There is some invariant that the method assumes but is not enforced by the type signature of the interface. So if something goes wrong in outside code, or someone tries to use the method incorrectly, the invariant is not satisfied. When you catch such a problem, the current code context is FUBAR. The question is how aggressively to bail out : spew errors to a log and proceed with some GIGO calculation? Throw an exception? Exit the program?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This should never happen</title><url>https://github.com/search?q=This+should+never+happen&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93</url></story> |
40,221,964 | 40,220,545 | 1 | 2 | 40,205,714 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throw0101b</author><text>&gt; <i>And I&#x27;m kind of worried that when this breaks stuff, the systemd project is going to push forward with some plan to get rid of sudo, and not gracefully accept the feedback that this is breaking things.</i><p>See for example perhaps, &quot;systemd can&#x27;t handle the process previlege that belongs to user name starts with number, such as 0day&quot;:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;issues&#x2F;6237">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;issues&#x2F;6237</a><p>Never mind that POSIX allows it:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.opengroup.org&#x2F;onlinepubs&#x2F;009695399&#x2F;basedefs&#x2F;xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_426" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.opengroup.org&#x2F;onlinepubs&#x2F;009695399&#x2F;basedefs&#x2F;xbd...</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.opengroup.org&#x2F;onlinepubs&#x2F;009695399&#x2F;basedefs&#x2F;xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_276" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.opengroup.org&#x2F;onlinepubs&#x2F;009695399&#x2F;basedefs&#x2F;xbd...</a><p>&gt; <i>I&#x27;m particularly worried about this because of the whole saga of KillUsersProcesses breaking nohup and screen, which to my knowledge is still broken many years later.</i><p>For anyone curious, see &quot;Systemd v230 kills background processes after user logs out, breaks screen, tmux&quot; from 2016:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11782364">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11782364</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>&gt; Or in other words: the target command is invoked in an isolated exec context, freshly forked off PID 1, without inheriting any context from the client (well, admittedly, we <i>do</i> propagate $TERM, but that&#x27;s an explicit exception, i.e. allowlist rather than denylist).<p>I think in practice, this is going to be an endless source of problems, so much so that it won&#x27;t be adopted. The usual use case of sudo is that you have a normal shell command, making use of the environment for context in all the ways that shell commands do, but it doesn&#x27;t have all the permissions it needs, so you add &quot;sudo&quot; as an adverb.<p>Sometimes it makes use of environment variables. Sometimes stdin or stdout is redirected to a file, or to something more exotic than a file. Sometimes that means it runs inside of a chroot, or a Docker container. Sometimes you care about which process group it runs in.<p>And sometimes the thing you&#x27;re running is a complicated shell script or shell-script-like object, eg &quot;sudo make install&quot;. In this case, you don&#x27;t really know what its dependencies are. In fact this is a common enough case that, if run0 becomes widespread, I expect it&#x27;ll have a flag or a set of flags that make it act exactly like sudo, and I expect people to wind up learning that they should always give run0 those flags.<p>And I&#x27;m kind of worried that when this breaks stuff, the systemd project is going to push forward with some plan to get rid of sudo, and not gracefully accept the feedback that this is breaking things. I&#x27;m particularly worried about this because of the whole saga of KillUsersProcesses breaking nohup and screen, which to my knowledge is still broken many years later.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112353324518585654</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yorwba</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what your sudo does, but mine requires the --preserve-env flag if you want the new process to have access to all your environment variables.<p>The thing you&#x27;re saying is going to be an endless source of problems should already be an endless source of problems! (And I think I&#x27;ve been briefly confused by some missing environment variable once or twice so far.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>&gt; Or in other words: the target command is invoked in an isolated exec context, freshly forked off PID 1, without inheriting any context from the client (well, admittedly, we <i>do</i> propagate $TERM, but that&#x27;s an explicit exception, i.e. allowlist rather than denylist).<p>I think in practice, this is going to be an endless source of problems, so much so that it won&#x27;t be adopted. The usual use case of sudo is that you have a normal shell command, making use of the environment for context in all the ways that shell commands do, but it doesn&#x27;t have all the permissions it needs, so you add &quot;sudo&quot; as an adverb.<p>Sometimes it makes use of environment variables. Sometimes stdin or stdout is redirected to a file, or to something more exotic than a file. Sometimes that means it runs inside of a chroot, or a Docker container. Sometimes you care about which process group it runs in.<p>And sometimes the thing you&#x27;re running is a complicated shell script or shell-script-like object, eg &quot;sudo make install&quot;. In this case, you don&#x27;t really know what its dependencies are. In fact this is a common enough case that, if run0 becomes widespread, I expect it&#x27;ll have a flag or a set of flags that make it act exactly like sudo, and I expect people to wind up learning that they should always give run0 those flags.<p>And I&#x27;m kind of worried that when this breaks stuff, the systemd project is going to push forward with some plan to get rid of sudo, and not gracefully accept the feedback that this is breaking things. I&#x27;m particularly worried about this because of the whole saga of KillUsersProcesses breaking nohup and screen, which to my knowledge is still broken many years later.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112353324518585654</url></story> |
38,643,125 | 38,643,396 | 1 | 3 | 38,642,791 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nytesky</author><text>I was a huge proponent of urban planning and smart growth, loved trains.<p>But I feel the pandemic has upended any momentum for public transit for a generation. Less frequent commmutes make long drives more tolerable and parking more affordable and available, and transit now seems like a disease vector as well as rolling homeless shelter.<p>For me personally, I hate the smell of weed and it is EVERY where in many downtown areas and transit hubs.<p>Bikes? So weather dependent, little cargo space, hard to secure, and no way to carry a family readily.<p>It’s a sad state of affairs.<p>Autonomous cars will be a travesty as everyone starts sending them on non stop errands or run double commutes to save on parking…</text><parent_chain><item><author>ericmay</author><text>I&#x27;m not so sure. Slow and steady in this case might just be a failure to <i>fail fast</i>.<p>The future isn&#x27;t in cars or autonomous cars, it&#x27;s in sidewalks, trains, bike lanes, and other forms of transit. The best ride in a car isn&#x27;t one in which I&#x27;m driving or not driving, it&#x27;s one in which I don&#x27;t get in the car in the first place.</text></item><item><author>hiddencost</author><text>This whole saga has been really vindicating for Waymo&#x27;s theory of slow-and-steady.<p>Uber and Cruise both tried to cut corners and mistakes caused their operations massive set backs.<p>Tesla&#x27;s efforts have killed the most people, but seem relatively resilient.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/14/cruise-slashes-24-of-self-driving-car-workforce-in-sweeping-layoffs/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>poisonborz</author><text>I&#x27;m a car convert, and I&#x27;m someone who generally hates driving, and used only public transport for decades. It&#x27;s just no match. PT is only more effective in theory.<p>Car infra takes next to nothing to plan and build. Trains, trams, metro, anything big at all really, takes decades, riddled with corruption, environment destruction, landscape change. State actors, maybe society, is just plain bad at organising this. Maintaining and switching cars is easy, maintaining public infra, keeping timetables (!!!), organising upgrades and extensions, keeping workforce happy and not striking is the same as above. And I live in a fat rich western country.<p>I get that cars don&#x27;t scale, and ok, downtown of 1m+ cities should be park &amp; ride. But maybe we should just spread out our living area more, and outside of megapolises just admit defeat and improve car infra.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ericmay</author><text>I&#x27;m not so sure. Slow and steady in this case might just be a failure to <i>fail fast</i>.<p>The future isn&#x27;t in cars or autonomous cars, it&#x27;s in sidewalks, trains, bike lanes, and other forms of transit. The best ride in a car isn&#x27;t one in which I&#x27;m driving or not driving, it&#x27;s one in which I don&#x27;t get in the car in the first place.</text></item><item><author>hiddencost</author><text>This whole saga has been really vindicating for Waymo&#x27;s theory of slow-and-steady.<p>Uber and Cruise both tried to cut corners and mistakes caused their operations massive set backs.<p>Tesla&#x27;s efforts have killed the most people, but seem relatively resilient.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/14/cruise-slashes-24-of-self-driving-car-workforce-in-sweeping-layoffs/</url></story> |
23,043,693 | 23,043,978 | 1 | 2 | 23,042,993 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TylerE</author><text>That&#x27;s rather unfair to POV-Ray. These are hardly representative of what it&#x27;s capable of.<p>Look through the old IRTC archives, for instance: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftp.irtc.org&#x2F;stills&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftp.irtc.org&#x2F;stills&#x2F;index.html</a><p>People were doing stuff like this (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oz.irtc.org&#x2F;ftp&#x2F;pub&#x2F;stills&#x2F;1999-04-30&#x2F;13hystri.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oz.irtc.org&#x2F;ftp&#x2F;pub&#x2F;stills&#x2F;1999-04-30&#x2F;13hystri.jpg</a>) in 1999.</text><parent_chain><item><author>erjiang</author><text>Wow, the state of the art in 3D rendering has changed dramatically. The state of the art in <i>open source</i> 3D rendering has changed even more dramatically.<p>Compare these screenshots from 2013 (although I think POV-Ray was looking pretty dated by then) to renders that come out of Blender&#x27;s Cycle renderer now.<p>The big change is that everyone has moved to &quot;physically based rendering&quot; that do path-tracing for propagating light through a scene. Old-school raytracing cannot know how light indirectly bounces off a wall, for example, leading to artificial-looking shadows and flat lighting.<p>Anyways, anyone interested in making neat little 3D scenes like in this GitHub should try out Blender - it&#x27;s shockingly easy to make realistic renders compared to several years ago.<p>Edit: Blender&#x27;s Cycles rendering engine seems to have been included with Blender since 2011. POV-Ray probably represents 2000s-era tech, although I think it can do more than what&#x27;s demonstrated in this post.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013)</title><url>https://github.com/spcask/pov-ray-tracing</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>minxomat</author><text>That&#x27;s like saying Flatland (the movie) was representative of the animation tech at the time.<p>Remember that The Third and The Seventh was done by a single person in 2009, and is entirely modeled and rendered with tech available back then: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;7809605" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;7809605</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>erjiang</author><text>Wow, the state of the art in 3D rendering has changed dramatically. The state of the art in <i>open source</i> 3D rendering has changed even more dramatically.<p>Compare these screenshots from 2013 (although I think POV-Ray was looking pretty dated by then) to renders that come out of Blender&#x27;s Cycle renderer now.<p>The big change is that everyone has moved to &quot;physically based rendering&quot; that do path-tracing for propagating light through a scene. Old-school raytracing cannot know how light indirectly bounces off a wall, for example, leading to artificial-looking shadows and flat lighting.<p>Anyways, anyone interested in making neat little 3D scenes like in this GitHub should try out Blender - it&#x27;s shockingly easy to make realistic renders compared to several years ago.<p>Edit: Blender&#x27;s Cycles rendering engine seems to have been included with Blender since 2011. POV-Ray probably represents 2000s-era tech, although I think it can do more than what&#x27;s demonstrated in this post.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013)</title><url>https://github.com/spcask/pov-ray-tracing</url></story> |
12,987,292 | 12,986,968 | 1 | 3 | 12,985,963 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lispm</author><text>You have to understand that Volkswagen and Volkswagen is not the same.<p>Volkswagen Group is the mother. The big one with &gt;600k employees.<p>The Volkswagen Group has several brands&#x2F;divisions - I&#x27;ve added the profit margin for 1st half 2016:<p>* VW cars: margin 1.7%<p>* Audi: 8.8%<p>* Skoda: 9.6%<p>* Porsche: 16.7%<p>* Seat: 2.1%<p>Then there are VW trucks, Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducati, Scania and MAN. All those are brands of Volkswagen Group.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>The most interesting thing in that article for me is that the profit margin that VW has at the moment is just 2%. A relatively small drop in car sales (from, say, autonomous Ubers?) could eat their entire profit and then some. Is the entire car industry run like that?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Volkswagen plans 30K job cuts worldwide</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38023933</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>this_user</author><text>VW has long suffered from very low levels of productivity. According to Bloomberg, they employ as many people as Toyota and GM combined while making half as many cars as the combined entity.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;gadfly&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-11-18&#x2F;vw-job-cuts-sound-big-but-do-little-to-boost-efficiency" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;gadfly&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-11-18&#x2F;vw-job-...</a><p>Part of the problem are the unions and a large ownership stake by the state, which is naturally not very interested in having their constituent lose their jobs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>The most interesting thing in that article for me is that the profit margin that VW has at the moment is just 2%. A relatively small drop in car sales (from, say, autonomous Ubers?) could eat their entire profit and then some. Is the entire car industry run like that?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Volkswagen plans 30K job cuts worldwide</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38023933</url></story> |
32,925,328 | 32,924,164 | 1 | 3 | 32,923,098 | 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>crazygringo</author><text>Same here. I haven&#x27;t had Gmail let a single spam email through in years.<p>To the contrary, I find myself going through my spam folder to mark as NOT spam things like monthly newsletters from arts organizations. There are a bunch of concerts and plays I&#x27;ve sadly missed because of this. (Which I can only assume comes from people abusing the mark-as-spam button instead of properly unsubscribing, which sucks because it leads to other people missing the legitimate emails.)<p>Also things like invoices from Apple purchases (e.g. a paid app or AppleCare) show up in spam. Which isn&#x27;t a biggie, but it does seem like bizarre that Gmail could ever get that wrong.</text><parent_chain><item><author>enlyth</author><text>To offer a singular data point, contrary to other posters here, I am not seeing this at all, and I pretty actively use my two Gmail addresses which have been active since 2005. My spam inbox regularly gets correctly categorized spam, and important emails still correctly land in my inbox.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?</title><text>In the last 2 weeks my gmail inbox went from zero spam to at least 2&#x2F;3 spam&#x2F;phishing emails per day on the inbox. I&#x27;m marking them as spam but nonetheless it keeps happening. I&#x27;m wondering if because spam traffic increased and spammers found a new way to trick anti-spam or if gmail engineers changed something on their end. Is anyone experiencing the same?<p>Not a big deal as it&#x27;s been almost a year I&#x27;m migrating off gmail and I&#x27;m keeping it only for a few things, but still annoying</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mFixman</author><text>As a middle point between the main post and your comment, I have been getting 1 or 2 spam emails every week for the last couple of months.<p>Gmail&#x27;s spam filtering was perfect before, so something is going on on my account (although not as dramatic as OP&#x27;s).</text><parent_chain><item><author>enlyth</author><text>To offer a singular data point, contrary to other posters here, I am not seeing this at all, and I pretty actively use my two Gmail addresses which have been active since 2005. My spam inbox regularly gets correctly categorized spam, and important emails still correctly land in my inbox.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?</title><text>In the last 2 weeks my gmail inbox went from zero spam to at least 2&#x2F;3 spam&#x2F;phishing emails per day on the inbox. I&#x27;m marking them as spam but nonetheless it keeps happening. I&#x27;m wondering if because spam traffic increased and spammers found a new way to trick anti-spam or if gmail engineers changed something on their end. Is anyone experiencing the same?<p>Not a big deal as it&#x27;s been almost a year I&#x27;m migrating off gmail and I&#x27;m keeping it only for a few things, but still annoying</text></story> |
13,092,782 | 13,092,605 | 1 | 3 | 13,092,387 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dopamean</author><text>I&#x27;m going to use the word literally here and actually mean literally. I have literally never ordered any other combo meal at a Chinese restaurant than General Tso&#x27;s chicken. I had it once when I was a kid and never yearned to try anything else. I love that damn dish and I will eat some tonight in honor of this great, great man.<p>On a related noted: I once watched a TED talk given by a woman whose name I cannot recall that was about how all Chinese restaurants in the US serve basically the exact same menus. She pointed out that General Tso&#x27;s chicken is funny because General Tso, a real person, lived in a time where it was highly unlikely that he ever saw broccoli let alone had it cooked in a dish. And now today a dish that prominently features broccoli is named after him.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inventor of General Tso's Chicken dies in Taipei at age 98</title><url>http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3042881</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Namrog84</author><text>Chef Peng Chang-kuei (彭長貴) died at age 98 to pneumonia.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inventor of General Tso's Chicken dies in Taipei at age 98</title><url>http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3042881</url></story> |
20,433,143 | 20,432,346 | 1 | 2 | 20,430,802 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nirui</author><text>I played Freelancer <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Freelancer_(video_game)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Freelancer_(video_game)</a> long ago. It had about 30 &quot;star systems&quot;, each one is about 100KM~200KM in-game distance in diameter. It&#x27;s a fascinating game back in the day, and cost me years of free time.<p>When I jump from that game to EVE, it&#x27;s very obvious to me that EVE is not for explore. You can do that of course, but you will be bored fairly quickly even compare to games like Freelancer.<p>In Freelancer, every &quot;star system&quot; that I jump into gives me a feeling of mysterious, until I cruise through every inch of the map, and memorized every cruise path and hidden &quot;Wormhole&quot;s.<p>In EVE, every system <i>feel</i> like the same. Yes, they have different layout, NPC and background, but still, it feel like repeat.<p>I believe EVE is more of a game of politics. A game about ruling, conquer and team work. Explore? not so much.<p>I don&#x27;t know, maybe because the map of EVE is too big to provide saliency. In Freelancer, every map is manually made to service the background story, so each one is different in their own ways. Also, because the map is so small, you can make them vibrant easily.</text><parent_chain><item><author>murat124</author><text>&gt; The galaxy of New Eden is composed of nearly 8,000 star systems.<p>I loved Eve Online when I played it in the mid 2000s but its point and click mechanics as well as you&#x27;d have to wait days even weeks to acquire skills in some cases made me lose interest in the game. It has its addictive qualities too where you feel you could go on playing it forever while knowing you have got to stop playing it for your own good.<p>Years later I got introduced to Elite Dangerous and it&#x27;s been a lot more fun than Eve. Elite gives players the opportunity to fly by binary stars, fly through neutron star jet cones to overcharge fsd drives, combats close to stars, land on planets and even more simulated activities. If you have a VR the game becomes a unique experience. The game&#x27;s map is based on Milky Way galaxy and the systems are procedurally generated. I remember last year the devs announced approx 112000 individual systems were discovered and this is about 0.028% of the total. Anyway, a few months ago I solo traveled to Sag A* and returned later to the bubble (where Solar system and surrounding systems are). It took me 2 weeks to complete the trip and at times it was pretty boring. On the other hand it is the only game that let me experience the stress of flying near a black hole and I am grateful to the devs for making it possible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/2/18286977/eve-online-explorer-10-year-journey-katia-sae</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noir_lord</author><text>If you like ED and haven’t already you should check out No Mans Sky, the devs botched the launch but as of 2019 they’ve delivered nearly everything they did promise and some stuff they didn’t, next up is VR.<p>It feels like a living universe, planets are varied and wild, the creatures are inventive, as are the vehicles, you can build bases, Terra from areas, plant crops etc, it’s a really relaxing game.</text><parent_chain><item><author>murat124</author><text>&gt; The galaxy of New Eden is composed of nearly 8,000 star systems.<p>I loved Eve Online when I played it in the mid 2000s but its point and click mechanics as well as you&#x27;d have to wait days even weeks to acquire skills in some cases made me lose interest in the game. It has its addictive qualities too where you feel you could go on playing it forever while knowing you have got to stop playing it for your own good.<p>Years later I got introduced to Elite Dangerous and it&#x27;s been a lot more fun than Eve. Elite gives players the opportunity to fly by binary stars, fly through neutron star jet cones to overcharge fsd drives, combats close to stars, land on planets and even more simulated activities. If you have a VR the game becomes a unique experience. The game&#x27;s map is based on Milky Way galaxy and the systems are procedurally generated. I remember last year the devs announced approx 112000 individual systems were discovered and this is about 0.028% of the total. Anyway, a few months ago I solo traveled to Sag A* and returned later to the bubble (where Solar system and surrounding systems are). It took me 2 weeks to complete the trip and at times it was pretty boring. On the other hand it is the only game that let me experience the stress of flying near a black hole and I am grateful to the devs for making it possible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/2/18286977/eve-online-explorer-10-year-journey-katia-sae</url></story> |
38,066,476 | 38,065,509 | 1 | 2 | 38,063,536 | train | <instructions>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>This is also a part of why I am somewhat fascinated by the idea and the state of Lean4 and mathlib in Lean4. People put more and more formally verified proofs into mathlib, which in turn makes formally proving further theorems in mathlib easier.<p>If you start with nothing (like in the numbers game), simple proofs are a lot of ... just effort, because you have specify a lot of rewrites and overall work. In mathlib, however, systems like simp (the simplification system) or linarith (&quot;There is a solution by linear arithmetic&quot;) seem to do a lot of heavy, repetitive lifting by now.<p>It&#x27;s a really interesting snowball effect. Sadly, everything I understand is most likely already in there, so I doubt I could contribute meaningfully, haha.</text><parent_chain><item><author>IanCal</author><text>&gt; Mathematics can be seen as a logic game. You start with a set of assumptions and you come up with all the logical conclusions you can from that. Then, if someone else finds a situation that fits those assumptions, they can benefit from the pre-discovered logical conclusions. This means that if some conclusions require fewer assumptions, then those conclusions are more generally applicable<p>This is a really, <i>really</i> nice expression of something my mind&#x27;s been hovering around for a while.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>π in Other Universes</title><url>https://azeemba.com/posts/pi-in-other-universes.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>lachlan_gray</author><text>It blows my mind to think of mathematics&#x2F;logic almost like a huge cellular automaton. “axioms” don’t necessarily correspond to “truth”, to me they’re arbitrary constraints that can give rise to complexity. And sometimes the resulting systems can be useful</text><parent_chain><item><author>IanCal</author><text>&gt; Mathematics can be seen as a logic game. You start with a set of assumptions and you come up with all the logical conclusions you can from that. Then, if someone else finds a situation that fits those assumptions, they can benefit from the pre-discovered logical conclusions. This means that if some conclusions require fewer assumptions, then those conclusions are more generally applicable<p>This is a really, <i>really</i> nice expression of something my mind&#x27;s been hovering around for a while.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>π in Other Universes</title><url>https://azeemba.com/posts/pi-in-other-universes.html</url></story> |
36,762,842 | 36,762,803 | 1 | 2 | 36,762,284 | 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>rich_sasha</author><text>There are many vying for Python&#x27;s space but no clear winner. I think because actually Python is good at many very different areas, and improving one usually makes something else worse.<p>Attempting to list some &quot;better Pythons&quot; by area, and the catches:<p>- golang for web: seems good and simple but also less dynamic<p>- Julia for scientific programming: Julia users are convinced it&#x27;s better but converts are not queuing up. Also the story outside scientific programming is less convincing. Almost all ML&#x2F;AI research is written in Python<p>- glue language &#x2F; generic file wrangling... Not sure if there is a clear contestant!<p>- (shamelessly stolen from sibling comments) nim as a like for like faster&#x2F;better replacement: faster and seemingly quite (still less) dynamic, but smaller ecosystem and unclear governance - currently one man and his GitHub login.<p>Incidentally, I think this &quot;second best at everything&quot; meme-fact is part of its success. There is a huge pool of people using Python for one purpose, who, confronted with a new need, can also use Python, even if it&#x27;s not the best tool for the job. It integrates easily with whatever else is written in Python, and it&#x27;s one less language to learn. This is IMHO where complaints like &quot;why people use Python for X when it sucks&quot; miss the point.</text><parent_chain><item><author>unshavedyak</author><text>This is neat. Who is making the most interesting (and realistically viable, ie not just a research lang) language in this space? Eg, for <i>me (! no language wars intended.. oof)</i> there is:<p>1. Rust for if i want something C++-esque. Rich stdlib &amp; crates, i love it. My primary language for everything.<p>2. Zig for if i need C. Interesting language, but i can&#x27;t speak from personal experience. Seems to be gaining a lot of traction, makes nice choices, feature rich in the right places, etc.<p>3. ??? for when i want Python.<p>I&#x27;m asking about #3. Who (if anyone?) is making an attempt at &quot;new and better Python&quot;?<p>.. and yes i know, all these languages i mentioned, including Python, are not dead, are loved by millions, and are all very productive. My statements are not implying that they are anything but amazing. Please don&#x27;t yell at me :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Crystal 1.9.1</title><url>https://crystal-lang.org/2023/07/17/1.9.1-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>cassiogo</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org&#x2F;</a> for #3 probably</text><parent_chain><item><author>unshavedyak</author><text>This is neat. Who is making the most interesting (and realistically viable, ie not just a research lang) language in this space? Eg, for <i>me (! no language wars intended.. oof)</i> there is:<p>1. Rust for if i want something C++-esque. Rich stdlib &amp; crates, i love it. My primary language for everything.<p>2. Zig for if i need C. Interesting language, but i can&#x27;t speak from personal experience. Seems to be gaining a lot of traction, makes nice choices, feature rich in the right places, etc.<p>3. ??? for when i want Python.<p>I&#x27;m asking about #3. Who (if anyone?) is making an attempt at &quot;new and better Python&quot;?<p>.. and yes i know, all these languages i mentioned, including Python, are not dead, are loved by millions, and are all very productive. My statements are not implying that they are anything but amazing. Please don&#x27;t yell at me :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Crystal 1.9.1</title><url>https://crystal-lang.org/2023/07/17/1.9.1-released/</url></story> |
5,704,960 | 5,704,910 | 1 | 3 | 5,704,088 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>laumars</author><text><i>&#62; I'm sorry, but the world does not need another company-controlled, corporate programming language. .Net (Microsoft), Java (Oracle) and now Go (google).</i><p>.NET isn't a language and Java and Go are both open (but with the main contributers being employees from the aforementioned corporations).<p><i>&#62; All of these compilers or JIT interpreters are implemented in C or C++ (which are open languages with ISO standards).</i><p>Layers of abstraction are there for convenience otherwise we'd also shortcut C++, C and even assembly and would be writing everything in machine code.<p><i>&#62; Google already control your search, your browser, your phone, your email and in some cases your OS (Chrome) why would you want them to control you programming language as well? The idea boggles my mind.</i><p>I actually do get the Google paranoia. It's why I cut down on my dependence on them as well. But Go doesn't up-sell Google's services like Chome (which isn't an OS by the way - you must be thinking of ChromeOS), Android, Gmail and so on. And let's be honest, other popular languages have born out from businesses: C from AT&#38;T, Borland lead the charge with Pascal, Microsoft had their version of BASIC bundled with many of the most popular micro PC's of the 80's. Need I go on?<p><i>&#62; There is a reason go compilers are C and C++.</i><p>Yes, but it's not the reason you're thinking of. The problem was one of the chicken and the egg. It's all well and good writing Go's compiler in Go, but then how are you going to compile it? A language needs to reach a certain threshold before it becomes possible to write a compiler in it's own language. C had the same problem when it was young too.<p><i>&#62; I wish others felt as strongly about this as I do. If you want to control your future, then use C or C++ or some other ISO standardized language with lot's of free compilers available, do not use a corporate controlled programming language.</i><p>The reason people don't agree with you is because: a) C++ would be overkill for a web framework (which is one popular application) and b) half your points are based on misinformation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>16s</author><text>I'm sorry, but the world does not need another company-controlled, corporate programming language. .Net (Microsoft), Java (Oracle) and now Go (google).<p>All of these compilers or JIT interpreters are implemented in C or C++ (which are open languages with ISO standards).<p>It bothers me to no end to see corporations taking control of the fundamental building blocks (programming languages) of technology and then to see technologists and developers go on and on about how wonderful and better these corporate languages are.<p>With C and C++ and Python and Ruby and Perl we have freedom. With Go, .Net and Java, etc. we do not.<p>Google already control your search, your browser, your phone, your email and in some cases your OS (Chrome) why would you want them to control you programming language as well? The idea boggles my mind.<p>I wish others felt as strongly about this as I do. If you want to control your future, then use C or C++ or some other ISO standardized language with lot's of free compilers available, do not use a corporate controlled programming language.<p>There is a reason go compilers are C and C++.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Reliability of Go</title><url>http://andrewwdeane.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-reliability-of-go.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&#62;<i>I'm sorry, but the world does not need another company-controlled, corporate programming language. .Net (Microsoft), Java (Oracle) and now Go (google).</i><p>The world begs to differ.<p>For one, Java and the JVM have a huge ecosystem, and nobody's complaining. And .NET is huge on Windows, and nobody's complaining their either. Actually, they rather like it that MS is in charge. [For the conversational english challenged, "nobody" means "a few outliers don't count"].<p>Oh, and Go is open source with a large community.<p>&#62;<i>All of these compilers or JIT interpreters are implemented in C or C++ (which are open languages with ISO standards).</i><p>Which is beside the point. Almost all compilers and JITs are written in C/C++. So what?<p>&#62;<i>With C and C++ and Python and Ruby and Perl we have freedom. With Go, .Net and Java, etc. we do not.</i><p>With those you have SOME freedoms. With .NET and Java you have OTHER freedoms. E.g I have the freedom to take advantage of a huge collection of libraries, with top-notch commercial support for a lot of them, and use them in around 4-5 top notch languages like Clojure, Scala, JRuby etc, with the most performant JIT in town. All the other options you mention don't give me THAT freedom.<p>&#62;<i>There is a reason go compilers are C and C++.</i><p>Portability, familiarity and low-levelness?<p>Also, you DO know that C (and IIRC C++) were once created and controlled by a corporation (AT &#38; T) too, right?</text><parent_chain><item><author>16s</author><text>I'm sorry, but the world does not need another company-controlled, corporate programming language. .Net (Microsoft), Java (Oracle) and now Go (google).<p>All of these compilers or JIT interpreters are implemented in C or C++ (which are open languages with ISO standards).<p>It bothers me to no end to see corporations taking control of the fundamental building blocks (programming languages) of technology and then to see technologists and developers go on and on about how wonderful and better these corporate languages are.<p>With C and C++ and Python and Ruby and Perl we have freedom. With Go, .Net and Java, etc. we do not.<p>Google already control your search, your browser, your phone, your email and in some cases your OS (Chrome) why would you want them to control you programming language as well? The idea boggles my mind.<p>I wish others felt as strongly about this as I do. If you want to control your future, then use C or C++ or some other ISO standardized language with lot's of free compilers available, do not use a corporate controlled programming language.<p>There is a reason go compilers are C and C++.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Reliability of Go</title><url>http://andrewwdeane.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-reliability-of-go.html</url><text></text></story> |
34,767,198 | 34,765,606 | 1 | 3 | 34,764,318 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>loufe</author><text>Great point and you said it well. Darwin was much the same, many of the ideas he discusses were already out there, but he brought them together in a novel, united, coherent, and compelling way that really made the idea of evolution stand on its own feet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xgstation</author><text>Many great mathematicians and physicists had used time as 4th dimension, but none developed it out into special relativity, even Lorentz has his name on the Lorentz&#x27;s transformation, but he didn&#x27;t see a brand new space-time relationship. There is a huge gap between linking something together to writing it down with a mind boggling and fundamentally new theory to reshape how human beings see the universe. That said, all people&#x27;s work are built on top of predecessors. Without generations work on mathematics before 20 century, Einstein wouldn&#x27;t have developed GR as well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Leonardo noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/leonardo-noted-link-between-gravity-and-acceleration-centuries-before-einstein/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dandanua</author><text>To make such a significant breakthrough like relativity theory it&#x27;s not enough to see connections between seemingly unrelated things.<p>You have to have a sufficiently open and free mind to be able to discard beliefs of generations of scientists. Including your own, implanted through instincts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xgstation</author><text>Many great mathematicians and physicists had used time as 4th dimension, but none developed it out into special relativity, even Lorentz has his name on the Lorentz&#x27;s transformation, but he didn&#x27;t see a brand new space-time relationship. There is a huge gap between linking something together to writing it down with a mind boggling and fundamentally new theory to reshape how human beings see the universe. That said, all people&#x27;s work are built on top of predecessors. Without generations work on mathematics before 20 century, Einstein wouldn&#x27;t have developed GR as well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Leonardo noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/leonardo-noted-link-between-gravity-and-acceleration-centuries-before-einstein/</url></story> |
22,496,008 | 22,495,837 | 1 | 2 | 22,493,537 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>I agree. Letting workers leave abusive employment situations is a benefit of UBI. UBI might even totally reorient the idea of work in that now an employer has the incentive to keep workers happy that must be balanced with the profit incentive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>From my personal point of view, basic income SHOULD disincentivise work; it&#x27;s a boost for society, health, well-being, children, etc.<p>Because in the current economy, a lot of people have to work unreasonable hours, multiple jobs, and have all people in a family work to make ends meet, at the cost of personal health and well-being, personal time, having children at all or having more children, getting married and buying a house, etc.<p>Right now I&#x27;m stressed because I&#x27;m earning less than I spend, my girlfriend is stressed because she doesn&#x27;t have a job yet and due to personal reasons may find it hard to get, keep, and work enough hours at a job, etc. If she earned a basic income we&#x27;d be out of the woods already. If I then also earned one on top of my job we&#x27;d be VERY comfortable.<p>(And keep in mind I would already pay for both of our basic incomes through the income taxes I&#x27;m paying at the moment. I&#x27;m happily paying taxes because other people paying taxes put me through college and into my current job)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/basic-income-mcmaster-report-1.5485729</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>richardlblair</author><text>This is especially true where the trial was run. Those places are in a bad spot and three isn&#x27;t much to lift them up.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m happily paying taxes because other people paying taxes put me through college and into my current job<p>Me too. I came up very poor, but access to a good education allowed me to learn how to code at 16... We need to raise these people up. We are paying the taxes to support it, we just need a government who doesn&#x27;t misappropriate funds.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>From my personal point of view, basic income SHOULD disincentivise work; it&#x27;s a boost for society, health, well-being, children, etc.<p>Because in the current economy, a lot of people have to work unreasonable hours, multiple jobs, and have all people in a family work to make ends meet, at the cost of personal health and well-being, personal time, having children at all or having more children, getting married and buying a house, etc.<p>Right now I&#x27;m stressed because I&#x27;m earning less than I spend, my girlfriend is stressed because she doesn&#x27;t have a job yet and due to personal reasons may find it hard to get, keep, and work enough hours at a job, etc. If she earned a basic income we&#x27;d be out of the woods already. If I then also earned one on top of my job we&#x27;d be VERY comfortable.<p>(And keep in mind I would already pay for both of our basic incomes through the income taxes I&#x27;m paying at the moment. I&#x27;m happily paying taxes because other people paying taxes put me through college and into my current job)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/basic-income-mcmaster-report-1.5485729</url></story> |
7,879,989 | 7,880,026 | 1 | 2 | 7,878,679 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crististm</author><text>I&#x27;ve managed today to boot OpenGenera in a Linux VM. It took me a couple of weeks but it finally works. I intend to have a look myself at what the fuss is all about.<p>If you&#x27;re interested, here are some pointers to relevant resources (snap4.tar.gz image works as advertised):<p><a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/johnw/diary/12.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.advogato.org&#x2F;person&#x2F;johnw&#x2F;diary&#x2F;12.html</a><p><a href="http://www.cliki.net/VLM_on_Linux" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cliki.net&#x2F;VLM_on_Linux</a><p><a href="http://libarynth.org/vlm_on_linux" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;libarynth.org&#x2F;vlm_on_linux</a><p>The opengenera tar-ball can be found in the intertubes.<p>Tip: Use Ubuntu 7.04 x86-64 to save you some trouble. I don&#x27;t know what is the most recent distro that works but 10.10 doesn&#x27;t. You get a blank window because recent X servers are missing something.
Before proceeding with the installation, complete the Ubuntu image with relevant archive server URLs to be able to apt-get with ease.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine</title><url>http://lispm.de/symbolics-lisp-machine-ergonomics</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jf</author><text>I own a Symbolics Lisp Machine (a MacIvory). I&#x27;m in San Francisco and would be happy to show it to anybody who&#x27;s interested and in the San Francisco Bay Area.<p>Be warned, I&#x27;m still learning how to use Genera, so we&#x27;d be learning how to use the system together.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine</title><url>http://lispm.de/symbolics-lisp-machine-ergonomics</url></story> |
39,118,470 | 39,112,612 | 1 | 2 | 39,100,151 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Aromasin</author><text>I always find it incredible what just a few short years of rationing during WW2 did to British cuisine for decades after. It was as extravagant and flavourful for the middle and upper classes of the 19th century and prior as any other culture. Just looking at a few menus from the period, they were decadent to the extreme and could hold a candle to the cuisines world over.<p>The UK started rationing in 1939 and finished in 1954. In that time, the tastes of the nations changed to the extent that we still feel that impact today, with the fondness for beans on toast and other beige foods. Think about how many times we&#x27;ve all heard the running joke that Brits have poor taste and don&#x27;t season their food. It&#x27;s sad really.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdo...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nicholas Saunders and "Alternative London" changed British food</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/jan/23/nicholas-saunders-forgotten-genius-changed-british-food</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twoWhlsGud</author><text>Intriguing story of how one driven individual can have such impact. Reminded a bit of the story of Poilane - the Parisian baking family that has connections (e.g. founders having worked there) to most of the bread in the US I most enjoy eating:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;03&#x2F;bread-winner" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;03&#x2F;bread-winner</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nicholas Saunders and "Alternative London" changed British food</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/jan/23/nicholas-saunders-forgotten-genius-changed-british-food</url></story> |
5,938,501 | 5,938,421 | 1 | 3 | 5,937,495 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>laumars</author><text>I loved PHP at first too, but the more I started to do serious work in it, the more I grew to hate it. There&#x27;s so many better languages out there these days, but PHP seems to live off the hype it gained when it was basically a choice between CGI&#x2F;Perl, Classic ASP and PHP.<p>PHP ended up annoying me so much that I switched back to Perl (using mod_perl for performance critical stuff). However my latest project is being written in Golang (I know it&#x27;s all just personal preference, but everything that I hated about PHP, Go seems to get right)<p>I know many HN members will already be familiar with the following blog post, but it highlights up many of my frustrations: <a href="http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;me.veekun.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jmspring</author><text>There are problems with php? It&#x27;s not the prettiest language, but people have been building insanely successful businesses on top of it for years. Think Facebook.<p>It&#x27;s coyote ugly, but it works. At least most PHP devs don&#x27;t have the attitude associated with other popular web frameworks. They focus on getting things done.<p>As a disclaimer, PHP is not my go to language, but I&#x27;ve done some ugly scaling experiments with it. I&#x27;m just tired of the PHP isn&#x27;t cool, let&#x27;s mock it with no actual valid arguments that is common.</text></item><item><author>ninjac0der</author><text>I get the nature of your comment, but you have to acknowledge that this does nothing to address any of the actual issues that many devs have with PHP. It&#x27;s not just a problem of perception.</text></item><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>This is definitely a welcome change. Doesn&#x27;t really stray too far from the previous design really, it feels cleaner and a lot more modern. I think PHP&#x27;s lack of nicely designed site doesn&#x27;t do them any favours in the language wars though considering PHP is viewed as an old and inferior language to others.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The new php.net</title><url>http://www.php.net/?setbeta=1&beta=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>dspillett</author><text><i>&gt; There are problems with php? </i><p>I left PHP around the time that v5 was recently released and v4 was still common, as did a lot of people (moving over to Python and later Ruby+Rails). I think a lot of people put PHP <i>now</i> down using their experiences of PHP4 (awful &quot;object&quot; features, irritatingly inconsistent standard library, ...) and PHP4&#x2F;5 transition problems (which IRC were not really massive, but many libraries didn&#x27;t deal with the compatibility breaks quickly so there were for a while issues knowing which libs and example code outside the &quot;standard&quot; library were compatible with 4,.x, 5.x, or both) before migrating away.<p>I assume a lot of the above has change considerably in the intervening years, but I think a lot of people assume instead that it is just as bad as it was when they migrated elsewhere.<p>That and there is a <i>lot</i> of bad code written in PHP largely due to its perception of being a beginners language (any environment that is easy for a beginner to dive into tends to make writing bad code as easy as it makes writing good code).<p><i>&gt; It&#x27;s not the prettiest language, </i><p>That I take as understatement, though I&#x27;m still supporting some ancient &quot;classic&quot; ASP code (fingers crossed that legacy will finally be stomped out by the end of this year...) so I can conclusively state there is worse in use out there!<p><i>&gt; but people have been building insanely successful businesses on top of it for years. Think Facebook.</i><p>Remember though that Facebook don&#x27;t use stock PHP: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HipHop_for_PHP</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jmspring</author><text>There are problems with php? It&#x27;s not the prettiest language, but people have been building insanely successful businesses on top of it for years. Think Facebook.<p>It&#x27;s coyote ugly, but it works. At least most PHP devs don&#x27;t have the attitude associated with other popular web frameworks. They focus on getting things done.<p>As a disclaimer, PHP is not my go to language, but I&#x27;ve done some ugly scaling experiments with it. I&#x27;m just tired of the PHP isn&#x27;t cool, let&#x27;s mock it with no actual valid arguments that is common.</text></item><item><author>ninjac0der</author><text>I get the nature of your comment, but you have to acknowledge that this does nothing to address any of the actual issues that many devs have with PHP. It&#x27;s not just a problem of perception.</text></item><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>This is definitely a welcome change. Doesn&#x27;t really stray too far from the previous design really, it feels cleaner and a lot more modern. I think PHP&#x27;s lack of nicely designed site doesn&#x27;t do them any favours in the language wars though considering PHP is viewed as an old and inferior language to others.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The new php.net</title><url>http://www.php.net/?setbeta=1&beta=1</url></story> |
37,178,765 | 37,178,653 | 1 | 2 | 37,176,703 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>retrac</author><text>That may work relatively well with consumables like food. But it extends in many directions. I have fans and a space heater and extra blankets and etc. All of them are available for a houseguest to use. Many of them are stored in the guest room.<p>I&#x27;ve had &quot;guess culture&quot; people stay over. Really, in my mind they don&#x27;t even need to ask. They&#x27;re already welcome to take an extra blanket. But they won&#x27;t even ask, and they certainly wouldn&#x27;t presume. They are indeed waiting on me to say &quot;oh, if you&#x27;re warm the fan can be plugged in, and there&#x27;s some extra blankets in the closet if you want&quot;. Though in my mind, I don&#x27;t need to say that. And if I don&#x27;t say it they may go very uncomfortable.<p>I&#x27;m most used to giving such reassurances to children, and to give them to adults seems a little infantilizing. But that&#x27;s my relatively &quot;ask culture&quot; background in action, probably.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jzb</author><text>&quot;It’s rude to put someone in a position where they have to say no to you&quot;<p>I feel this in my bones. When I was a kid my dad <i>went off</i> on me after we visited someone&#x27;s house and I saw cake on the counter and asked for a slice. That was just unacceptable. (Context: He was raised by people who lived through the depression. Food scarcity was a real thing in living memory.)<p>Even though his reaction was way overboard, I still believe this. Let people offer things, don&#x27;t ask. (With a lot of caveats depending on context...)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask vs. Guess Culture</title><url>https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/ask-vs-guess-culture</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wccrawford</author><text>While I was studying Japanese, I learned that they go out of their way to make it so the other person doesn&#x27;t have to refuse with a &quot;no&quot;. For instance, they&#x27;ll ask, &quot;Do you not have X?&quot; instead of &quot;Do you have X?&quot; The person can answer &quot;Yes, we don&#x27;t have it&quot; or &quot;It&#x27;s over here&quot;.<p>I actually made this mistake, asking for a product directly instead of negatively, when I was in Tokyo. The clerk took me to the aisle and said, &quot;If we had it, it&#x27;d be here.&quot; And there was no space for it. Took me a couple times to realize what had happened.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jzb</author><text>&quot;It’s rude to put someone in a position where they have to say no to you&quot;<p>I feel this in my bones. When I was a kid my dad <i>went off</i> on me after we visited someone&#x27;s house and I saw cake on the counter and asked for a slice. That was just unacceptable. (Context: He was raised by people who lived through the depression. Food scarcity was a real thing in living memory.)<p>Even though his reaction was way overboard, I still believe this. Let people offer things, don&#x27;t ask. (With a lot of caveats depending on context...)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask vs. Guess Culture</title><url>https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/ask-vs-guess-culture</url></story> |
41,266,304 | 41,265,566 | 1 | 3 | 41,263,143 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jordanb</author><text>I&#x27;d go further and bet that those &quot;impact&quot; metrics likely came from a spreadsheet pusher like Schmidt.<p>Schmidt still takes the gold medal in my estimate for destroying a company he ran by not understanding how the business actually works (as CEO of Novell he decided to screw their channel partners not understanding that the channel relationships were the company&#x27;s entire moat against Microsoft).</text><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>&gt; Google was loosing on many fronts<p>i believe this trend is a result of management culture and performance metrics that attempt to measure &quot;impact&quot;, and correlate pay and promotions along those measures.<p>It&#x27;s the same reason why google products die when they don&#x27;t reach mega-success (thus products getting killed off in spades recently).<p>Nobody wants to be doing maintenance on projects started by somebody else - so as soon as the lead visionary leaves for better pastures, that project gets languished, and whoever takes over it cannot use it to generate promotion worthy impact.</text></item><item><author>pzo</author><text>Considering that in Meta I heard (from friends) it is&#x2F;was easier to work remotely and even easier to get into (they are less leetcode oriented) I would expect the problem with Google loosing is somewhere else. Google was loosing on many fronts for a while:<p>- dart lost to typescript on web<p>- angular lost to react<p>- tensorflow looks like currently loosing to pytorch - seems like google got bored and more development is for JAX, Keras wrapper [0]<p>- IMHO flutter will loose with react-native or kotlin compose multiplatform - compare github insights for details<p>Meta on the other hand kickstarted open source Llama community. In this situation it&#x27;s hard to bet on Gemmini or Gemma as 3rd party developer considering google projects kill records. The only project they were really to bet on and invest for the long run without getting tired early on was Chrome and Android.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=today%205-y&amp;q=&#x2F;g&#x2F;11bwp1s2k3,&#x2F;g&#x2F;11gd3905v1&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=today%205-y&amp;q=...</a></text></item><item><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>His explanation for Google losing to OpenAI on GenAI: &quot;Google decided that work life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.&quot;<p>What a tremendous lack of self-awareness. Let&#x27;s put aside all the leadership issues, all the politics, all the complacency, all the bureaucracy, and blame people for working from home.<p>(Not saying there aren&#x27;t folks at Google who are just cruising, etc... but that&#x27;s a fraction of the problem compared to the leadership issues)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk</title><url>https://github.com/ociubotaru/transcripts/blob/main/Stanford_ECON295%E2%A7%B8CS323_I_2024_I_The_Age_of_AI%2C_Eric_Schmidt.txt</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mFixman</author><text>&gt; I believe this trend is a result of management culture and performance metrics that attempt to measure &quot;impact&quot;, and correlate pay and promotions along those measures.<p>Meta&#x27;s performance reviews are also heavily weighted for measurable impact.<p>I think that the reason why it&#x27;s beating Alphabet in so many fronts is team culture. Most new product teams are small and have a reasonably flat hierarchy. It&#x27;s easy to make impact that&#x27;s both effective and measurable, and the amount of engineering time working in &quot;useless work&quot; is minimised.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>&gt; Google was loosing on many fronts<p>i believe this trend is a result of management culture and performance metrics that attempt to measure &quot;impact&quot;, and correlate pay and promotions along those measures.<p>It&#x27;s the same reason why google products die when they don&#x27;t reach mega-success (thus products getting killed off in spades recently).<p>Nobody wants to be doing maintenance on projects started by somebody else - so as soon as the lead visionary leaves for better pastures, that project gets languished, and whoever takes over it cannot use it to generate promotion worthy impact.</text></item><item><author>pzo</author><text>Considering that in Meta I heard (from friends) it is&#x2F;was easier to work remotely and even easier to get into (they are less leetcode oriented) I would expect the problem with Google loosing is somewhere else. Google was loosing on many fronts for a while:<p>- dart lost to typescript on web<p>- angular lost to react<p>- tensorflow looks like currently loosing to pytorch - seems like google got bored and more development is for JAX, Keras wrapper [0]<p>- IMHO flutter will loose with react-native or kotlin compose multiplatform - compare github insights for details<p>Meta on the other hand kickstarted open source Llama community. In this situation it&#x27;s hard to bet on Gemmini or Gemma as 3rd party developer considering google projects kill records. The only project they were really to bet on and invest for the long run without getting tired early on was Chrome and Android.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=today%205-y&amp;q=&#x2F;g&#x2F;11bwp1s2k3,&#x2F;g&#x2F;11gd3905v1&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=today%205-y&amp;q=...</a></text></item><item><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>His explanation for Google losing to OpenAI on GenAI: &quot;Google decided that work life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.&quot;<p>What a tremendous lack of self-awareness. Let&#x27;s put aside all the leadership issues, all the politics, all the complacency, all the bureaucracy, and blame people for working from home.<p>(Not saying there aren&#x27;t folks at Google who are just cruising, etc... but that&#x27;s a fraction of the problem compared to the leadership issues)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk</title><url>https://github.com/ociubotaru/transcripts/blob/main/Stanford_ECON295%E2%A7%B8CS323_I_2024_I_The_Age_of_AI%2C_Eric_Schmidt.txt</url></story> |
12,633,211 | 12,633,299 | 1 | 3 | 12,632,646 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coltonv</author><text>I see a lot of people working really hard to use the same language on client and server, but I&#x27;ve never had any difficulty working with multiple languages nor have my teammates. The biggest advantage for using different languages for me is that it lets you get to choose the best tool for the job on both sides without compromising. Would anyone who holds the alternate view, that they have reaped significant advantages from using the same language on server and client, care to chime in?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hyperloop – The Missing Ruby Front-end Library</title><url>http://ruby-hyperloop.io</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>colordrops</author><text>Is no one going to mention the Hyperloop name? The repo for this project was created Aug 2015, over two years after the SpaceX Hyperloop announcement. Seems like a really poor choice in naming both in creativity and in search keyword collision. I wonder what other poor decisions were made when building this library.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hyperloop – The Missing Ruby Front-end Library</title><url>http://ruby-hyperloop.io</url></story> |
29,087,154 | 29,087,365 | 1 | 2 | 29,085,970 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JeremyReimer</author><text>The publishing industry <i>was</i> disrupted by technology in 2007 when Amazon released the Kindle. It took a few years, but for a while, independent book authors were rivalling the &quot;Big Five&quot; publishers in terms of both sales volume and books sold.<p>Part of this was driven by the big publishers&#x27; response to indies: they raised the price of their own eBooks to protect their hardcover market. They even illegally colluded with each other, along with Apple, to force these higher prices across the industry.<p>But they were sued and lost, and the result was a lowering of big publisher eBook prices across the board. On the independent side, the problem was that too many people were publishing too many books. It was impossible to keep up, and there was no good system for finding the &quot;best&quot; independent authors, since tastes are so subjective and the vast majority of independent authors didn&#x27;t have any money to spend on marketing anyway.<p>So that leads us to today, where the &quot;Big Four&quot; (trying to become the Big Three) still have access to their promotional machinery, which includes retail bookstores. There are a very few insanely successful independent authors, and a veeeeeery long tail of folks that have no way of getting noticed in the crowd.<p>Still, the sales volume of traditional publishing and independent publishing remains about equivalent even today (it&#x27;s hard to get exact numbers because Amazon doesn&#x27;t like giving them out, but apps like KindleSpy offer a broad estimate) It&#x27;s just that the latter is spread out among many more authors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>999900000999</author><text>I&#x27;m still a bit lost as to why this and the music industry haven&#x27;t been more disrupted by technology. You don&#x27;t need a record label you don&#x27;t need a book publisher, you can, if people want to consume your content just write your book and have people just send you money via patreon or one time donations.<p>I&#x27;ve made music with friends for a long time, and the industry makes it very hard for any independent artist to get ahead. You have some of the worst deals ever imaginable given to these kids, who are often only 18 or 19 and the label just takes everything.<p>Why do we need any of that, I go out of my way to buy music exclusively from independent artist, while I might stream some popular hit. When it comes to actually buying merchandise, or music I only give it to the Indies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Justice sues to block Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon and Schuster</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-block-penguin-random-house-s-acquisition-rival-publisher-simon</url></story> | <instructions>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_m239339</author><text>&gt; You don&#x27;t need a record label you don&#x27;t need a book publisher, you can, if people want to consume your content just write your book and have people just send you money via patreon or one time donations.<p>Yes you do need the biggest possible label. All the big artists today (post 2000), they might have started building their audience on the internet organically , but at some point one absolutely needs a label that has all the connections, budget for advertising, touring, featuring, ...to grow as an artist, nothing has changed on that regard. What collapsed is the record industry, which virtually doesn&#x27;t exist anymore, save from vinyl records maybe.<p>The people that are useless on the other hand are the middlemen like Spotify and co, they serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Better distribute your music freely on Youtube instead and grow your audience there, or do live shows on Twitch.<p>This is a technologist forum, but people here needs to remember that just because you have a product to sell doesn&#x27;t mean it will sell, no matter how good that product is, you often need to hire people dedicated to selling that product to clients. Music is no different.</text><parent_chain><item><author>999900000999</author><text>I&#x27;m still a bit lost as to why this and the music industry haven&#x27;t been more disrupted by technology. You don&#x27;t need a record label you don&#x27;t need a book publisher, you can, if people want to consume your content just write your book and have people just send you money via patreon or one time donations.<p>I&#x27;ve made music with friends for a long time, and the industry makes it very hard for any independent artist to get ahead. You have some of the worst deals ever imaginable given to these kids, who are often only 18 or 19 and the label just takes everything.<p>Why do we need any of that, I go out of my way to buy music exclusively from independent artist, while I might stream some popular hit. When it comes to actually buying merchandise, or music I only give it to the Indies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Justice sues to block Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon and Schuster</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-block-penguin-random-house-s-acquisition-rival-publisher-simon</url></story> |
16,261,105 | 16,259,230 | 1 | 2 | 16,257,893 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cs702</author><text>I have no questions, but feel compelled to say <i>thank you</i>.<p>I&#x27;ve been a ML&#x2F;DL practitioner for the past five-plus years, and first watched one of your lectures a bit over a year ago. All I remember thinking is that a <i>wealth</i> of practical knowledge that had taken me <i>years</i> to acquire was there for the taking, for free, for anyone who cared to look.<p>Since then, I have been recommending these courses to anyone who asks me for advice for learning about deep learning. You -- and Rachel Thomas -- have created <i>by far the easiest and fastest path</i> for a wide range of people to gain deep learning expertise.<p>In fact, I&#x27;m so sure the new lectures will contain <i>valuable nuggets of know-how</i> that even though I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about deep learning (and an expert in my narrow domain of interest), I will make it a point to find time to watch all the updated lectures.<p>Kudos!</text><parent_chain><item><author>jph00</author><text>Jeremy from fast.ai here. Happy to answer any questions about the course, fastai, or anything else relevant!<p>BTW the 2018 version of the course is being discussed in this forum, for those interested: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.fast.ai&#x2F;c&#x2F;part1-v2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.fast.ai&#x2F;c&#x2F;part1-v2</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018</title><url>http://www.fast.ai/2018/01/26/v2-launch/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>testdeep</author><text>Hi jeremy,<p>I am a web dev, JS being my first lang of choice :-), and i have been trying to get into machine learning&#x2F;deep learning&#x2F;AI, but I am having a information overload.<p>I have 0 knowledge about this field, so my question is should i just start with machine learning, instead of jumping right into deep learning ? Or is it ok to jump right into deep learning and is it possible to do all the stuff done with machine learning with deep learning ?<p>Just like when a person who shows an interest on learning to code I refer them to Python instead of C++, what do you recommend ?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jph00</author><text>Jeremy from fast.ai here. Happy to answer any questions about the course, fastai, or anything else relevant!<p>BTW the 2018 version of the course is being discussed in this forum, for those interested: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.fast.ai&#x2F;c&#x2F;part1-v2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.fast.ai&#x2F;c&#x2F;part1-v2</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018</title><url>http://www.fast.ai/2018/01/26/v2-launch/</url></story> |
18,848,308 | 18,846,730 | 1 | 2 | 18,845,327 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snarf21</author><text>This reminds me of a quote from Stewart Brand during an interview with Tim Ferris.<p>&quot;.... and being proud is the most reliable source of happiness that I know.&quot;[<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tim.blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts-stewart-brand&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tim.blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts...</a>]<p>Teach yourself how to cook, get in shape, draw a picture, write a story, help someone less fortunate, teach someone something you know, learn how to juggle... In the end it doesn&#x27;t really matter what it is but you will have that proud feeling and be happy in that moment. Rinse and repeat.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vorpalhex</author><text>There is nothing which will make you happy. You must choose to be happy.<p>There is no job, no amount of money, no relationship, which will make you feel whole and happy and content and done. The opposite doesn&#x27;t hold - there are jobs and relationships and financial strains which will certainly keep you from being happy.<p>The goal isn&#x27;t for a job or a relationship to make you happy. It&#x27;s to enable other things which are your goals, which may or may not be happiness related.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/06/happiness-index-wellbeing-survey-uk-population-paul-dolan-happy-ever-after</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PakG1</author><text>Very true, but once you make the decision, all those other things are multipliers. Just unfortunately, if you make the negative decision, well the negative still multiplies too.... hence the divorces and all the drama at work....<p>If you took away my marriage and job, I would be markedly more unhappy. I imagine if I ever have a big wad of cash sitting around, I would be a bit less happy if that disappeared too (only because keeping it around certainly would only keep me at the status quo, if not make me more happy).<p>What&#x27;s that they say about coming into a lot of money, that it just reveals who your true self is?<p>And yes, some people get into crappy marriages or crappy jobs where they just get knocked down 24&#x2F;7. But I&#x27;ve observed that negative people easily self-prophesy into negative situations far more often than positive people.<p>edit: added points</text><parent_chain><item><author>vorpalhex</author><text>There is nothing which will make you happy. You must choose to be happy.<p>There is no job, no amount of money, no relationship, which will make you feel whole and happy and content and done. The opposite doesn&#x27;t hold - there are jobs and relationships and financial strains which will certainly keep you from being happy.<p>The goal isn&#x27;t for a job or a relationship to make you happy. It&#x27;s to enable other things which are your goals, which may or may not be happiness related.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/06/happiness-index-wellbeing-survey-uk-population-paul-dolan-happy-ever-after</url></story> |
11,605,508 | 11,605,541 | 1 | 3 | 11,604,387 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SiVal</author><text>It drives me crazy that I can&#x27;t find half of the labels I&#x27;m looking for, and when I do, I can&#x27;t increase the size of the labels enough to make them readable. Frequently I&#x27;ll have to fight with the map, zoom in and out and scroll around to get it to show me the name of a street at all, but when I finally do coax it into revealing a tiny name far downroad, the font is often too small to read. If I reflexively expand the map to get a closer look, everything expands except the label I&#x27;m trying to read.<p>And there&#x27;s no way to expand it. I do understand that they don&#x27;t want it to keep expanding beyond a certain point, especially as they add more details as they zoom. But they could let it expand within some constraints, such as the name of a street within the stripe of the street, and cap the size at 3x the normal size or some such thing.<p>If the algorithm for letting the labels grow a bit is just too hard for them, then just give me a little slider on the side to add a fixed, default label magnification factor. I could expand it a bit to make the labels easier to read in general, expand it more (but just temporarily) to get a better look at something, or shrink it a bit in cases where the labels were harder to read due to overcrowding.<p>As it is, they&#x27;ve removed too many useful labels without expanding the ones remaining to make them easier to read and prevented me from expanding them manually. Bother.</text><parent_chain><item><author>x0054</author><text>So I am not crazy after all! The other day I was driving in Palm Springs, and I was using Google Maps. I literally had to zoom in until the road I was on almost completely field the screen before it would show me the name of the road or the roads around it. They did something to their display algorithm where you now have to zoom almost entirely into an area to see anything about the area, very inconvenient.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happened to Google Maps?</title><url>http://www.justinobeirne.com/essay/what-happened-to-google-maps</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wtbob</author><text>Am I the only one who likes to know the road <i>before</i> my turn? That way I know when I need to change lanes&#x2F;pay closer attention&#x2F;whatever. New mapping apps really don&#x27;t seem to want to share that information with me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>x0054</author><text>So I am not crazy after all! The other day I was driving in Palm Springs, and I was using Google Maps. I literally had to zoom in until the road I was on almost completely field the screen before it would show me the name of the road or the roads around it. They did something to their display algorithm where you now have to zoom almost entirely into an area to see anything about the area, very inconvenient.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happened to Google Maps?</title><url>http://www.justinobeirne.com/essay/what-happened-to-google-maps</url></story> |
40,965,976 | 40,957,878 | 1 | 3 | 40,957,564 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Excepting Eisenhower and Johnson, every US president (or president-elect) has been subject to an assassination attempt dating back nearly a century to Herbert Hoover (1929--1933).<p>Shots have been fired at FDR, Truman, Kennedy(†), Ford, Reagan, Clinton, and yesterday.<p>Bombs or explosives have been placed or deployed against Hoover, Truman, Kennedy, GHW Bush, Clinton, GW Bush, and Obama.<p>&lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_United_States_presiden...</a>&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>daseiner1</author><text>This is a horrible thing, but sadly nothing new. Pardon the Wikipedia block quote:<p>&gt; Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon Czolgosz), and John F. Kennedy (1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald). Additionally, two presidents have been injured in attempted assassinations: former president Theodore Roosevelt (1912, by John Schrank) and Ronald Reagan (1981, by John Hinckley Jr.)<p>If anything we’ve been “overdue”.</text></item><item><author>jkic47</author><text>How the hell did we get here?<p>At a fundamental level, we seem to have lost our sense of what Democracy means.<p>The rules are &quot;I can think you are crass, wrong, bigoted, geriatric, etc., but if a majority of my countrymen think otherwise, we accept we are not successful in the battle of ideas, and fight another battle of ideas in 4 years&quot;. Unless this is a lone, unstable individual, it is more evidence that our system needs more balance.<p>Truly sad that we&#x27;ve descended to this level</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump injured but ‘fine’ after attempted assassination at rally</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-vance-rubio-7c7ba6b99b5f38d2d840ed95b2fdc3e5</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LarsDu88</author><text>6&#x2F;45 presidents have been shot today.<p>Today that number is 7&#x2F;45<p>So it went from 13% to 15%. Not only that, but firearms technology has advanced considerably. If anything, statistically speaking we&#x27;ve been incredibly lucky in the past 30 years</text><parent_chain><item><author>daseiner1</author><text>This is a horrible thing, but sadly nothing new. Pardon the Wikipedia block quote:<p>&gt; Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon Czolgosz), and John F. Kennedy (1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald). Additionally, two presidents have been injured in attempted assassinations: former president Theodore Roosevelt (1912, by John Schrank) and Ronald Reagan (1981, by John Hinckley Jr.)<p>If anything we’ve been “overdue”.</text></item><item><author>jkic47</author><text>How the hell did we get here?<p>At a fundamental level, we seem to have lost our sense of what Democracy means.<p>The rules are &quot;I can think you are crass, wrong, bigoted, geriatric, etc., but if a majority of my countrymen think otherwise, we accept we are not successful in the battle of ideas, and fight another battle of ideas in 4 years&quot;. Unless this is a lone, unstable individual, it is more evidence that our system needs more balance.<p>Truly sad that we&#x27;ve descended to this level</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump injured but ‘fine’ after attempted assassination at rally</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-vance-rubio-7c7ba6b99b5f38d2d840ed95b2fdc3e5</url></story> |
36,244,471 | 36,244,284 | 1 | 3 | 36,243,738 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>Having patented technology for see through AR display in 2016 that is cited by Apple [1] and knowing how crazy hard it is, it&#x27;s a little bit refreshing to know that Apple recognized pass-through HMD AR as too hard and decided to invest in compensatory technology instead of trying to solve the hard see through AR problems.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US10757400B2&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US10757400B2&#x2F;en</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TransparentHMD: Revealing the HMD User’s Face to Bystanders (2017) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/pubdb/publications/pub/mai2017mum/mai2017mum.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>CharlesW</author><text>Hey <i>@ramboldio</i>, as one of the authors of the paper, do you have insider knowledge that Apple got the idea from your paper vs. Facebook&#x27;s &quot;bizarre &#x27;reverse passthrough&#x27;&quot;¹ prototype from 2021? Is there a licensing arrangement? (Just curious, it&#x27;s a really interesting idea in any case!)<p>¹ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laptopmag.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;facebooks-bizarre-reverse-passthrough-vr-headset-wants-to-show-off-your-eyes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laptopmag.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;facebooks-bizarre-reverse-pas...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TransparentHMD: Revealing the HMD User’s Face to Bystanders (2017) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/pubdb/publications/pub/mai2017mum/mai2017mum.pdf</url></story> |
38,467,184 | 38,466,758 | 1 | 2 | 38,465,944 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roflyear</author><text>And you&#x27;ll pay a lot more in taxes to maintain the roads: &quot;an increase in axle weight from 18,000 pounds to 20,000 pounds causes 50 percent more damage to the pavement.&quot;<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;highways.dot.gov&#x2F;public-roads&#x2F;mayjun-2009&#x2F;exploring-vehicle-size-and-weight-solutions#:~:text=However%2C%20the%20amount%20of%20infrastructure,more%20damage%20to%20the%20pavement" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;highways.dot.gov&#x2F;public-roads&#x2F;mayjun-2009&#x2F;exploring-...</a>.<p>It&#x27;s massive!</text><parent_chain><item><author>owenpalmer</author><text>This is what we call vehicle weight inflation. As cars get heavier and heavier, the roads get increasingly more dangerous for smaller cars, which causes everyone to get bigger cars. And the loop continues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cybertruck Launch</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>owenpalmer</author><text>I wish the inverse was possible, eventually getting us to bikes (instead of bulldozers).</text><parent_chain><item><author>owenpalmer</author><text>This is what we call vehicle weight inflation. As cars get heavier and heavier, the roads get increasingly more dangerous for smaller cars, which causes everyone to get bigger cars. And the loop continues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cybertruck Launch</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck</url></story> |
9,855,053 | 9,855,186 | 1 | 2 | 9,854,160 | 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>talon88</author><text>&quot;Perhaps financial renumeration, while fair, isn&#x27;t entirely necessary&quot;<p>Is it that in your world, eating and paying the rent isn&#x27;t necessary either?<p>&#x27;Many&#x27; creative people sounds like some programmers, which is somewhat small subset of all creatives. I&#x27;d be surprised if the majority of creative people — artists, writers, actors, and more — would happily go about saying that financial renumeration doesn&#x27;t matter to them.<p>Destin, for example, puts a lot of effort into his videos and his work. Financial renumeration not being necessarily inevitably means Destin does something else for the majority of his time and does Smarter Ever Day less (if at all). This is almost certainly the same for every other artist out there. Sure — maybe all art isn&#x27;t necessary. Maybe some of it is crap. But saying that being paid to be creative isn&#x27;t necessarily means that you get very little art, if at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hackuser</author><text>A radical idea: Maybe our model of intellectual property is wrong, or outdated. When IP was tied to a physical object, it made some sense to restrict and explicitly license each reproducer.<p>Now we have incredible machines that can reproduce intellectual property almost infinitely, distribute it anywhere on Earth, and find it almost anywhere on Earth. Wow! Maybe we should embrace that innovation, and find a model that encourages the spread, use and re-use of IP, for the betterment of society. Yes, motivating creators is a problem, but there are many possible solutions.<p>Another radical thought: The notion of IP created from whole cloth obviously was always a fallacy; we all &quot;stand on the shoulders of giants&quot;, &quot;good artists borrow, great artists steal&quot;, etc. Now that our IP machines make finding, copying, and distributing IP so easy, we can expect even more of that wonderful, creative larceny. As IP creators are benefitting from these amazing IP finding&#x2F;copying&#x2F;distributing systems and so much of their own product is stolen, perhaps they have less claim on the profits from those things they put their names on.<p>A third: Many creative people are motivated to do great things withhout payment. Remember, all those FOSS creators, from RMS to Linus Torvalds to Tim Berners-Lee to every little FOSS project on Github. Remember also Van Gogh and millions of other starving artists you have and haven&#x27;t heard of (quick, name a poet who cashed in on their life&#x27;s work). Perhaps financial renumeration, while fair, isn&#x27;t entirely necessary (and perhaps we&#x27;d have less crap with less of it).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook’s Piracy Problem</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/07/freebooting_stolen_youtube_videos_going_viral_on_facebook.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>ggchappell</author><text>&gt; A radical idea: Maybe our model of intellectual property is wrong, or outdated.<p>Honestly, that&#x27;s not really radical. It seems to be pretty clear to anyone who knows anything about computers. There may be flaws your other thoughts, as other commenters have suggested, but not with the first one.<p>The big problem -- in the U.S. anyway -- is that there are huge companies with a vested interest in maintaining something like the late-ish 20th century copyright regime. These make campaign contributions to lawmakers, who pass laws in their favor, which allow them to continue making money, which they contribute to lawmakers, etc. It appears to me that little is going to change until that cycle is broken.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hackuser</author><text>A radical idea: Maybe our model of intellectual property is wrong, or outdated. When IP was tied to a physical object, it made some sense to restrict and explicitly license each reproducer.<p>Now we have incredible machines that can reproduce intellectual property almost infinitely, distribute it anywhere on Earth, and find it almost anywhere on Earth. Wow! Maybe we should embrace that innovation, and find a model that encourages the spread, use and re-use of IP, for the betterment of society. Yes, motivating creators is a problem, but there are many possible solutions.<p>Another radical thought: The notion of IP created from whole cloth obviously was always a fallacy; we all &quot;stand on the shoulders of giants&quot;, &quot;good artists borrow, great artists steal&quot;, etc. Now that our IP machines make finding, copying, and distributing IP so easy, we can expect even more of that wonderful, creative larceny. As IP creators are benefitting from these amazing IP finding&#x2F;copying&#x2F;distributing systems and so much of their own product is stolen, perhaps they have less claim on the profits from those things they put their names on.<p>A third: Many creative people are motivated to do great things withhout payment. Remember, all those FOSS creators, from RMS to Linus Torvalds to Tim Berners-Lee to every little FOSS project on Github. Remember also Van Gogh and millions of other starving artists you have and haven&#x27;t heard of (quick, name a poet who cashed in on their life&#x27;s work). Perhaps financial renumeration, while fair, isn&#x27;t entirely necessary (and perhaps we&#x27;d have less crap with less of it).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook’s Piracy Problem</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/07/freebooting_stolen_youtube_videos_going_viral_on_facebook.html</url></story> |
28,202,501 | 28,200,261 | 1 | 3 | 28,199,067 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>You know how to break it?<p>With modern tooling.<p>Instead of forcing devs to live in the pre-historic days of C dialects and printf debugging, provide polyglot IDEs with graphical debugging tools capable of single step GPU shaders and a rich libraries ecosystem.<p>Khronos got the message too late and now no one cares.</text><parent_chain><item><author>byefruit</author><text>I really hope this breaks Nvidia&#x27;s stranglehold on deep learning. Some competition would hopefully bring down prices at the compute high-end.<p>AMD don&#x27;t seem to even be trying on the software-side at the moment. ROCm is a mess.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/intels-arc-gpus-will-compete-with-geforce-and-radeon-in-early-2022/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjcon</author><text>I wholeheartedly agree. PyTorch did recently release AMD support which I was happy to see (though I have not tested it), I’m hoping there is more to come.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pytorch.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;pytorch-for-amd-rocm-platform-now-available-as-python-package&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pytorch.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;pytorch-for-amd-rocm-platform-now-a...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>byefruit</author><text>I really hope this breaks Nvidia&#x27;s stranglehold on deep learning. Some competition would hopefully bring down prices at the compute high-end.<p>AMD don&#x27;t seem to even be trying on the software-side at the moment. ROCm is a mess.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/intels-arc-gpus-will-compete-with-geforce-and-radeon-in-early-2022/</url></story> |
5,880,664 | 5,879,848 | 1 | 3 | 5,879,709 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>parasubvert</author><text>I grew up in the Bush v1- Clinton era with Operation Sundevil, the Steve Jackson Games raid, NSA clipper chip, DMCA, Communications Decency Act, PGP legal battles, etc. The movie Sneakers from 1992 was a great example of the NSA paranoia that existed at the time.<p>The result? Won some, lost some, and the world moved on.<p>What&#x27;s different now is that this surveillance is legal at scale because the majority of the populace <i>wants it to be</i>. They&#x27;re more afraid of terrorists than having privacy. Look at the polls: Hacker News (and techies in general) seem to be in quite a bubble in this regard.<p>We have more clout than we did in the 90s, but the difference now is that there&#x27;s a big Terrorism counter argument to anything we say. A majority of the USA prefers to have the electric eye of Sauron to watch over them, because the alternative -- more freedom that might lead to more terror attacks -- is too scary for them to accept. In that sense, the terrorists have won.<p>There are two viable paths going forward, in my view:
(a) Work to convince people they want privacy, and don&#x27;t want Brin&#x27;s transparent society - this slows what appears to be the inevitable; (b) Work to ensure accountable oversight of surveillance. No more FISA secret courts, but real public courts and judges and warrants.<p>What&#x27;s not likely viable is
(a) encouraging people to stop using social networks -- they won&#x27;t, we broadly LIKE being noticed by others, it gives meaning to our otherwise alienated capitalistic existence; (b) encouraging government to stop tracking people -- they&#x27;re just getting into the game that Google and Facebook is in.<p>If a company can track people, so will the government. The key is that government can and must be held accountable to a degree that companies don&#x27;t have to be. The US public has chosen not to exercise this power to date out of ignorance, laziness, and&#x2F;or lack of desire.<p>The likely outcome of all of this is a resurrection and growth in the &quot;darknet&quot;, where younger techies go to hide.</text><parent_chain><item><author>josh2600</author><text>Goddamn right.<p>Every now and then we have defining moments of global consciousness. This has the potential to be one of those moments and we should never let a good crisis go to waste.<p>The danger here is that if we do nothing, that will be seen as tacit acceptance of the world&#x27;s largest spying apparatus. While I acknowledge there&#x27;s some necessity globally, domestic spying through secret courts is more synonymous with the Gulag than the American dream.<p>Stand up for what you believe in; this is one time you can.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit co-founder on NSA snooping [video]</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2013/06/11/t-co-reddit-alexis-ohanian.cnnmoney</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ihsw</author><text>&gt; The danger here is that if we do nothing, that will be seen as tacit acceptance of the world&#x27;s largest spying apparatus.<p>Your acceptance is not required for the spying programs to continue operating. The sooner you realize that is the sooner you&#x27;ll realize that your choices are currently very limited.</text><parent_chain><item><author>josh2600</author><text>Goddamn right.<p>Every now and then we have defining moments of global consciousness. This has the potential to be one of those moments and we should never let a good crisis go to waste.<p>The danger here is that if we do nothing, that will be seen as tacit acceptance of the world&#x27;s largest spying apparatus. While I acknowledge there&#x27;s some necessity globally, domestic spying through secret courts is more synonymous with the Gulag than the American dream.<p>Stand up for what you believe in; this is one time you can.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit co-founder on NSA snooping [video]</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2013/06/11/t-co-reddit-alexis-ohanian.cnnmoney</url></story> |
36,468,324 | 36,467,402 | 1 | 3 | 36,461,224 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>The revenues in mobile gaming overwhelmingly come from predatory in-app item sales. They aren&#x27;t in the business of selling games to people who like playing games, they&#x27;re in the business of psychologically exploiting people who are vulnerable to compulsive behaviours. The industry isn&#x27;t shy about this - they openly brag about their pursuit of &quot;whales&quot; and their use of psychological manipulation. Frankly, everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blog.udonis.co&#x2F;mobile-marketing&#x2F;mobile-games&#x2F;mobile-games-whales" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blog.udonis.co&#x2F;mobile-marketing&#x2F;mobile-games&#x2F;mob...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>a13o</author><text>The console war argument is around such an outdated definition of the gaming industry. Self-identifying gamers have had their head in the sand for over a decade now.<p>Since 2010 mobile gaming has eclipsed revenue of both console and PC gaming _combined_.<p>Also since 2010, console revenue has stagnated while PC revenue has continued to grow.<p>This is the landscape to evaluate the different gaming brands. Xboxes are nothing more than a user-friendly gaming PC brand. The total addressable market for Microsoft is much larger than what Sony could hope for. Sony is in the worst bind long-term, trapped in consoles without any leg up in PC or mobile. They invested in VR instead which never became a strong category. In terms of revenue, VR is barely competing with Arcades.<p>If you had to stack rank gaming devices, iOS would be winning the console wars, followed by Android. In a distant third would be PlayStation, and then Microsoft and Nintendo neck in neck.<p>If you look at it by company, Tencent would be at the top, then Sony, then Microsoft and Nintendo.<p>Microsoft is definitely in -- at best -- third place no matter how you count it. The FTC trying to restrict the conversation to an era of console war that expired over 13 years ago shows they have no business trying to regulate this space.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Has Xbox lost the console wars?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/24/23772314/ftc-microsoft-day-two-hearing-summary-xbox-console-wars-sony-playstation-call-of-duty</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joenot443</author><text>I think it’s important to note the revenue coming from mobile gamers (generally) isn’t the same revenue that Sony&#x2F;MS are after here. Very different customer segments with very different demographics. You’re right though, it seems that the mobile sector is growing and the console one has stagnated.<p>I imagine contingent of people who spend big bucks on mobile games _probably_ wouldn’t be spending that money on AAA PS5 games otherwise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>a13o</author><text>The console war argument is around such an outdated definition of the gaming industry. Self-identifying gamers have had their head in the sand for over a decade now.<p>Since 2010 mobile gaming has eclipsed revenue of both console and PC gaming _combined_.<p>Also since 2010, console revenue has stagnated while PC revenue has continued to grow.<p>This is the landscape to evaluate the different gaming brands. Xboxes are nothing more than a user-friendly gaming PC brand. The total addressable market for Microsoft is much larger than what Sony could hope for. Sony is in the worst bind long-term, trapped in consoles without any leg up in PC or mobile. They invested in VR instead which never became a strong category. In terms of revenue, VR is barely competing with Arcades.<p>If you had to stack rank gaming devices, iOS would be winning the console wars, followed by Android. In a distant third would be PlayStation, and then Microsoft and Nintendo neck in neck.<p>If you look at it by company, Tencent would be at the top, then Sony, then Microsoft and Nintendo.<p>Microsoft is definitely in -- at best -- third place no matter how you count it. The FTC trying to restrict the conversation to an era of console war that expired over 13 years ago shows they have no business trying to regulate this space.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Has Xbox lost the console wars?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/24/23772314/ftc-microsoft-day-two-hearing-summary-xbox-console-wars-sony-playstation-call-of-duty</url></story> |
16,257,808 | 16,257,535 | 1 | 3 | 16,232,627 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>People misunderstand the dangers of AI. The danger isn&#x27;t (or isn&#x27;t yet anyway) that AI is going to develop will and agency and oppose us. The danger is that AI is a force multiplier in whatever you do because it allows the intelligent to automate formerly rote tasks.<p>For example, take self-driving cars. Formerly all you could do if you had a remote execution exploit was smash running cars into ditches or oncoming traffic. Bad, but not the end of the world. Now you can take 200k Teslas and <i>very easily</i> target every gas station or other soft target in the developed world. (I&#x27;m actually concerned about this, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachaysan.com&#x2F;cars" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachaysan.com&#x2F;cars</a> for an, admittedly long, take on the matter.)<p>The same is true with AI everywhere. Don&#x27;t read individual Twitter accounts, scan them all, build a data model to target the influenceable influencers. Iterate.<p>Don&#x27;t try to get your honeypot to date the head of Goldman Sachs, use data science to figure out which 1000 25 year olds have a good shot at heading it up in 10 years.<p>The cyber game &#x2F; international relations is about to get much more extreme. Offence is so much easier than defence and AI is turning every little touch of exhaust data or device into a tool of war or espionage.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI is going to supercharge surveillance</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16907238/artificial-intelligence-surveillance-cameras-security</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Puer</author><text>AI is further enabling oppression in China which is already arguably the world&#x27;s largest surveillance state. For example, using AI and the government&#x27;s ID database, crosswalk cameras are now able to facially identify &quot;chronic j-walkers.&quot; [1] The concerning part of this is the implication that these profiles don&#x27;t go away. In the status quo, watch lists already exist, but I&#x27;m afraid that as AI technology becomes more accessible it will only further increase abuse and discrimination against &quot;potential offenders&quot; identified by the system.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-all-seeing-surveillance-state-feared-in-the-west-is-a-reality-in-china-1498493020" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-all-seeing-surveillance-sta...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI is going to supercharge surveillance</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16907238/artificial-intelligence-surveillance-cameras-security</url></story> |
23,644,955 | 23,644,719 | 1 | 2 | 23,644,444 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danShumway</author><text>We already have incentivized them. They take the money, promise to build, and then just don&#x27;t. They know that neither the FCC nor any of the state&#x2F;local governments have any will right now to punish them for not following through on their commitments.<p>At this point, it would be more efficient to just give the money to municipalities directly and just tell them to build their own infrastructure.<p>Government incentives for commercial companies aren&#x27;t always bad, but in this case I think they&#x27;re really clearly not working, and we&#x27;re just shoveling more money into that hole.</text><parent_chain><item><author>darwinwhy</author><text>Like it or not, certain parts of the US are too rural&#x2F;poor to justify even monopolists expanding internet service there. This will incentivize them to build in those areas.</text></item><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>&gt; providing a $50 monthly discount on plans for low-income consumers<p>This only serves to support the inflated pricing of the monopolists.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dems pitch $100B broadband plan</title><url>https://www.majoritywhip.gov/?press=clyburn-rural-broadband-task-force-and-house-democrats-introduce-accessible-affordable-internet-for-all-act</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>Why doesn’t the government just build it? They do it with sewer lines, power lines, gas lines, water lines, but a little fiber is too much?</text><parent_chain><item><author>darwinwhy</author><text>Like it or not, certain parts of the US are too rural&#x2F;poor to justify even monopolists expanding internet service there. This will incentivize them to build in those areas.</text></item><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>&gt; providing a $50 monthly discount on plans for low-income consumers<p>This only serves to support the inflated pricing of the monopolists.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dems pitch $100B broadband plan</title><url>https://www.majoritywhip.gov/?press=clyburn-rural-broadband-task-force-and-house-democrats-introduce-accessible-affordable-internet-for-all-act</url></story> |
17,793,831 | 17,793,781 | 1 | 2 | 17,792,987 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maxxxxx</author><text>&quot;But history has judged him as one of the worst presidents.&quot;<p>I think he had a bit of bad luck with the economy of his time and also with the Iranian hostage situation. If freeing them had worked he would have been a superhero. Or he could have done it like Reagan with Iran-Contra: talk tough in public but secretly pay off the Iranians.</text><parent_chain><item><author>siberianbear</author><text>I decided to submit this because I have always been fascinated with Jimmy Carter. What a genuine, decent person. But history has judged him as one of the worst presidents.<p>I was in third grade when Carter was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan. Our teacher gave us an assignment to create a campaign poster for your favorite candidate. I chose Jimmy Carter, and added the campaign slogan, &quot;I will gladly trade peanuts for the American hostages&quot; (referring to to Carter&#x27;s history as a farmer and to the Iran hostage crisis [1]). I thought I was really clever at the time, but now I think I was just being a stupid smartass.<p>Whenever I have seen Carter in the press since his presidency, it always seems like he is going something unambiguously good, like building houses with Habitat for Humanity or trying to negotiate peace agreements between unfriendly countries as an unbiased mediator.<p>I think we won&#x27;t have this great man with us for much longer. The world will be a worse place when he departs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iran_hostage_crisis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iran_hostage_crisis</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tonyedgecombe</author><text><i>But history has judged him as one of the worst presidents.</i><p>I wonder if that is a fair judgement or whether he was just the victim of the economic cycle and external forces.</text><parent_chain><item><author>siberianbear</author><text>I decided to submit this because I have always been fascinated with Jimmy Carter. What a genuine, decent person. But history has judged him as one of the worst presidents.<p>I was in third grade when Carter was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan. Our teacher gave us an assignment to create a campaign poster for your favorite candidate. I chose Jimmy Carter, and added the campaign slogan, &quot;I will gladly trade peanuts for the American hostages&quot; (referring to to Carter&#x27;s history as a farmer and to the Iran hostage crisis [1]). I thought I was really clever at the time, but now I think I was just being a stupid smartass.<p>Whenever I have seen Carter in the press since his presidency, it always seems like he is going something unambiguously good, like building houses with Habitat for Humanity or trying to negotiate peace agreements between unfriendly countries as an unbiased mediator.<p>I think we won&#x27;t have this great man with us for much longer. The world will be a worse place when he departs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iran_hostage_crisis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iran_hostage_crisis</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/</url></story> |
26,194,408 | 26,194,623 | 1 | 3 | 26,192,792 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ethbr0</author><text>&gt; <i>In [country] (and [other country], too, if I understand correctly), [Skype] was a way to avoid [international call] charges</i><p>^ That&#x27;s why GP was saying they&#x27;re similar</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mediterraneo10</author><text>The niche that Whatsapp filled and which brought it to massive adoption was not the same as Skype&#x27;s. In South America (and Asia, too, if I understand correctly), Whatsapp was a way to avoid SMS charges on your mobile phone. Because now it is the only way many acquaintances and businesses can be contacted, it will remain entrenched even with this hostile new privacy policy.<p>Skype, on the other hand, was about audio- or videoconferencing from a computer, and so it wasn’t quite as much a part of the ordinary person&#x27;s life as Whatsapp.</text></item><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m so disappointed in this. Whatsapp is a functional tool. It was successful since it worked.<p>One decade ago:<p>s&#x2F;Whatapp&#x2F;Skype&#x2F;g<p>s&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;g</text></item><item><author>egwor</author><text>I&#x27;m so disappointed in this. Whatsapp is a functional tool. It was successful since it worked.<p>Facebook has entirely failed to utilise it - to allow external systems to connect in so that businesses can do business on there. The voice calls are also a disaster.<p>They&#x27;ve now come along to start messing with the privacy to start selling ads. It is insane that they&#x27;re able to make such a mess of this. Is there a word for anti-innovation?<p>Considering that they&#x27;re linking Facebook ad platform with the chats, and they&#x27;re forcing this upon everyone, why isn&#x27;t this covered by the monopoly laws? Most of us paid some money for the app.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-whatsapp-privacy-idUSL4N2KP0XY</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>&gt; In South America (and Asia, too, if I understand correctly), Whatsapp was a way to avoid SMS charges on your mobile phone.<p>It was the same in the US, especially for avoiding costly international SMS&#x2F;MMS charges. It basically allowed me to communicate with international family and friends, since they might not have been as technically inclined to deal with logins and spam on apps like Skype.<p>In addition, at that time, WhatsApp was the best way to share contacts. It’s still one of the best ways, I think, since you don’t have to worry if the other person is iOS or Android.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mediterraneo10</author><text>The niche that Whatsapp filled and which brought it to massive adoption was not the same as Skype&#x27;s. In South America (and Asia, too, if I understand correctly), Whatsapp was a way to avoid SMS charges on your mobile phone. Because now it is the only way many acquaintances and businesses can be contacted, it will remain entrenched even with this hostile new privacy policy.<p>Skype, on the other hand, was about audio- or videoconferencing from a computer, and so it wasn’t quite as much a part of the ordinary person&#x27;s life as Whatsapp.</text></item><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m so disappointed in this. Whatsapp is a functional tool. It was successful since it worked.<p>One decade ago:<p>s&#x2F;Whatapp&#x2F;Skype&#x2F;g<p>s&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;g</text></item><item><author>egwor</author><text>I&#x27;m so disappointed in this. Whatsapp is a functional tool. It was successful since it worked.<p>Facebook has entirely failed to utilise it - to allow external systems to connect in so that businesses can do business on there. The voice calls are also a disaster.<p>They&#x27;ve now come along to start messing with the privacy to start selling ads. It is insane that they&#x27;re able to make such a mess of this. Is there a word for anti-innovation?<p>Considering that they&#x27;re linking Facebook ad platform with the chats, and they&#x27;re forcing this upon everyone, why isn&#x27;t this covered by the monopoly laws? Most of us paid some money for the app.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-whatsapp-privacy-idUSL4N2KP0XY</url></story> |
19,352,925 | 19,351,743 | 1 | 2 | 19,351,236 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ex_amazon_sde</author><text>Former Amazon engineer here. Despite the downvotes, you are making an excellent point.<p>Amazon, among other FAANG companies, never needed containers shipping entire bundled OSes.<p>Deploying a &quot;base OS&quot; (using PXE or netboot) can be done very reliably both on a hypervisors and VMs.<p>A simple build system can then generate traditional packages and push them into VMs allocated for a specific product.<p>It provides better security isolation and the ability to receive security updates on OSes and also on dynamically linked libraries.<p>Building and deploying new versions of you product is also much faster, especially at large scale: only your application package is rebuilt and deployed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baybal2</author><text>&gt; What’s wrong with Docker?<p>What&#x27;s wrong with <i>not</i> using Docker? Outside of cloud&#x2F;SOA&#x2F;webscale sector, people having hard time to simply comprehend the drama.<p>I have not seen any justification for using containers on any scaleable system on real hardware for example.<p>In &quot;ad-farm&quot; world, running ad farms on pure hardware with netboot provisioning has been the &quot;gold standard&quot; since time immemorial.<p>Few points:<p>1. Netboot with root at tmpfs takes less time to boot, seconds over 10G (most of the time is spent on POST and DHCP actually.)<p>2. Netboot images can be stripped to the barest minimum of life-sustainance. Less software running — less problems.<p>3. Less attack surface for hackers.<p>4. Hard lockup proof - hardware watchdogs are more or less foolproof.<p>5. Linkup to the real network is as simple as it gets, you can use broadcasts for self-configuration and service discovery on the network.<p>6. If you deal with RDMA, well, you will be already spending most of your efforts on just getting software work as advertised on the bare system, and the additional troubles of containerisation will not worth dealing with.</text></item><item><author>zenexer</author><text>I’m failing to see the argument here. The author suggests that the advent of viable Docker competitors will inevitably bring about Docker’s death. Why would that be the case? Competition is great, but it’ll be a while before others can match Docker’s maturity and ubiquity. Even then, there’s no guarantee that any of them will be better than Docker, never mind good enough to warrant switching.<p>What’s wrong with Docker? Why would I want to switch to something else? Are these other solutions really so superior that they warrant the significant time investment that it would take for me to learn how to use them?<p>The author doesn’t actually answer any of these questions. No arguments against Docker are made, nor are any arguments made in favor of competitors.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish</title><url>https://technodrone.blogspot.com/2019/02/goodbye-docker-and-thanks-for-all-fish.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>1337shadow</author><text>Containerization is a cost effective alternative to building and running immutable VM images, which is a best practice in terms of CD. Another way to put it is: don&#x27;t build in production, instead build in CI, test your image and then just deploy it on your environments (you probably should have at least two: staging and production).</text><parent_chain><item><author>baybal2</author><text>&gt; What’s wrong with Docker?<p>What&#x27;s wrong with <i>not</i> using Docker? Outside of cloud&#x2F;SOA&#x2F;webscale sector, people having hard time to simply comprehend the drama.<p>I have not seen any justification for using containers on any scaleable system on real hardware for example.<p>In &quot;ad-farm&quot; world, running ad farms on pure hardware with netboot provisioning has been the &quot;gold standard&quot; since time immemorial.<p>Few points:<p>1. Netboot with root at tmpfs takes less time to boot, seconds over 10G (most of the time is spent on POST and DHCP actually.)<p>2. Netboot images can be stripped to the barest minimum of life-sustainance. Less software running — less problems.<p>3. Less attack surface for hackers.<p>4. Hard lockup proof - hardware watchdogs are more or less foolproof.<p>5. Linkup to the real network is as simple as it gets, you can use broadcasts for self-configuration and service discovery on the network.<p>6. If you deal with RDMA, well, you will be already spending most of your efforts on just getting software work as advertised on the bare system, and the additional troubles of containerisation will not worth dealing with.</text></item><item><author>zenexer</author><text>I’m failing to see the argument here. The author suggests that the advent of viable Docker competitors will inevitably bring about Docker’s death. Why would that be the case? Competition is great, but it’ll be a while before others can match Docker’s maturity and ubiquity. Even then, there’s no guarantee that any of them will be better than Docker, never mind good enough to warrant switching.<p>What’s wrong with Docker? Why would I want to switch to something else? Are these other solutions really so superior that they warrant the significant time investment that it would take for me to learn how to use them?<p>The author doesn’t actually answer any of these questions. No arguments against Docker are made, nor are any arguments made in favor of competitors.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish</title><url>https://technodrone.blogspot.com/2019/02/goodbye-docker-and-thanks-for-all-fish.html</url></story> |
27,688,382 | 27,688,645 | 1 | 3 | 27,687,617 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>onion2k</author><text>10% of people leaving during a time when hiring has gotten significantly harder sounds like a <i>serious</i> problem for any company.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>I can only speak from personal experience, but fwiw I&#x27;m currently consulting with 2 non-tech Fortune 500 companies. Both have implemented &quot;hybrid&quot; return to office policies where employees have to live within 100 miles of the office and be able to come in 1 day a week or 1 day a month depending on team.<p>I&#x27;ve talked with executives in charge of large teams at both companies about this issue and so far it looks like the actual resignation rate due to the policy is less than 10%. Hiring, on the other hand, has gotten significantly harder and candidates are citing need for wfh as a reason they&#x27;re not interested in open roles.<p>So, personally I think tech workers are overrepresented in the &quot;wfh or quit&quot; discussions, but there&#x27;s a longer-term shift of some kind that&#x27;s going to play out, especially in hiring.</text></item><item><author>null_object</author><text>I honestly don&#x27;t know whether these articles are over-stating their case, and neither do I know how typical my own experience is, but for some reason it bothers me that the tone of the HN discussion is so reflexively dismissive.<p>I understand that a lot of people will respond to a question of whether they <i>intend</i> to quit their job with a <i>&#x27;you bet!&#x27;</i> even at the best of times, but I&#x27;m seeing a lot of people quitting and switching right now, as different company plans are crystallized for the &#x27;new normal&#x27;.<p>In my current company (for another 2 months) I was interviewed to join a team of 12 tech developers, and a couple of months ago the first of the switchers quit to leave for another company specifically because they were guaranteeing remote-first work.<p>Then another <i>five</i> of us quit over the following few weeks. We met up last week for a goodbye lunch in the park: half the team that I joined a year ago leaving the company over the Spring and Summer.<p>Is a 50% quit-rate normal? Maybe each of us had slightly different priorities and plans for the future? But I do know for sure that people are reflecting more than I&#x27;ve ever experienced before, about their work environment, the balance in their lives, and prioritizing other things than 40-50 hours each week sitting in front of a screen, inside an office.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/more-people-plan-to-quit-as-return-to-work-plans-go-into-effect-.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>makeitdouble</author><text>For now tech workers are at the edge, but I think if a company lets its engineering team have it, the other roles will come for it as well.<p>We’ve already seen it before the pandemic: where engineers had one day or half a day a week of remote as an exception, it generally resulted in a push to have it applied to the other roles that could work from home (marketing etc.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>I can only speak from personal experience, but fwiw I&#x27;m currently consulting with 2 non-tech Fortune 500 companies. Both have implemented &quot;hybrid&quot; return to office policies where employees have to live within 100 miles of the office and be able to come in 1 day a week or 1 day a month depending on team.<p>I&#x27;ve talked with executives in charge of large teams at both companies about this issue and so far it looks like the actual resignation rate due to the policy is less than 10%. Hiring, on the other hand, has gotten significantly harder and candidates are citing need for wfh as a reason they&#x27;re not interested in open roles.<p>So, personally I think tech workers are overrepresented in the &quot;wfh or quit&quot; discussions, but there&#x27;s a longer-term shift of some kind that&#x27;s going to play out, especially in hiring.</text></item><item><author>null_object</author><text>I honestly don&#x27;t know whether these articles are over-stating their case, and neither do I know how typical my own experience is, but for some reason it bothers me that the tone of the HN discussion is so reflexively dismissive.<p>I understand that a lot of people will respond to a question of whether they <i>intend</i> to quit their job with a <i>&#x27;you bet!&#x27;</i> even at the best of times, but I&#x27;m seeing a lot of people quitting and switching right now, as different company plans are crystallized for the &#x27;new normal&#x27;.<p>In my current company (for another 2 months) I was interviewed to join a team of 12 tech developers, and a couple of months ago the first of the switchers quit to leave for another company specifically because they were guaranteeing remote-first work.<p>Then another <i>five</i> of us quit over the following few weeks. We met up last week for a goodbye lunch in the park: half the team that I joined a year ago leaving the company over the Spring and Summer.<p>Is a 50% quit-rate normal? Maybe each of us had slightly different priorities and plans for the future? But I do know for sure that people are reflecting more than I&#x27;ve ever experienced before, about their work environment, the balance in their lives, and prioritizing other things than 40-50 hours each week sitting in front of a screen, inside an office.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/more-people-plan-to-quit-as-return-to-work-plans-go-into-effect-.html</url></story> |
12,275,968 | 12,275,602 | 1 | 3 | 12,275,060 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ohstopitu</author><text>Dell sells a few &quot;developer editions&quot; of their XPS13 with Ubuntu preloaded [1].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dell.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;business&#x2F;p&#x2F;xps-13-9350-laptop-ubuntu&#x2F;pd" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dell.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;business&#x2F;p&#x2F;xps-13-9350-laptop-ubuntu&#x2F;...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>As much as I like Ubuntu, I have a significantly higher level of trust in Red Hat to get this right for some reason. Maybe it&#x27;s just confidence in the company&#x27;s core principles.<p>I&#x27;ve hit a point where I&#x27;m ready to move on from my Macbook Pro after about 10 years and I&#x27;ve been looking at Linux laptop options. It&#x27;s mind boggling that it&#x27;s so hard to find good options.<p>Everything seems to revolve around &quot;get a Windows laptop and wipe it&quot; or &quot;buy some flavor of old Thinkpad&quot; with warnings about EFI and compatibility. Then there are company&#x27;s like System76 who have what looks like a good offering on the surface but I keep seeing threads about bad experiences with them.<p>If I could order a laptop direct from Red Hat I&#x27;d do it without hesitation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RedHat is hiring to make Linux run better on laptops</title><url>https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2016/08/12/want-make-linux-run-better-on-laptops/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>You don&#x27;t need to buy an old ThinkPad; current-generation ThinkPads work fine, as long as you avoid nVidia GPUs. All the other hardware (including power management) Just Works.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>As much as I like Ubuntu, I have a significantly higher level of trust in Red Hat to get this right for some reason. Maybe it&#x27;s just confidence in the company&#x27;s core principles.<p>I&#x27;ve hit a point where I&#x27;m ready to move on from my Macbook Pro after about 10 years and I&#x27;ve been looking at Linux laptop options. It&#x27;s mind boggling that it&#x27;s so hard to find good options.<p>Everything seems to revolve around &quot;get a Windows laptop and wipe it&quot; or &quot;buy some flavor of old Thinkpad&quot; with warnings about EFI and compatibility. Then there are company&#x27;s like System76 who have what looks like a good offering on the surface but I keep seeing threads about bad experiences with them.<p>If I could order a laptop direct from Red Hat I&#x27;d do it without hesitation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RedHat is hiring to make Linux run better on laptops</title><url>https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2016/08/12/want-make-linux-run-better-on-laptops/</url></story> |
22,151,791 | 22,151,561 | 1 | 2 | 22,151,088 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cs702</author><text>Direct link to study: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ehjournal.biomedcentral.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;10.1186&#x2F;s12940-020-0565-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ehjournal.biomedcentral.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;10.1186&#x2F;s12940-...</a><p>The researchers found the link between living near highways and future neurological disorders to be independent of income, education, ethnicity, comorbidity, and coexisting medical conditions associated with future neurological disorders (traumatic brain injury, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, and arrhythmia).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UBC study links living near highways to risk of neurological disorders</title><url>https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/ubc-study-links-living-near-highways-to-risk-of-neurological-disorders</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Brakenshire</author><text>Anyone living near a busy road is swimming in particulate matter on the micrometre and nanometre scale, and particles on that scale bypass the normal defences, get into the blood stream and saturate the body. Small particles can even move down nerves, it’s really not surprising that long term exposure causes neurological problems.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UBC study links living near highways to risk of neurological disorders</title><url>https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/ubc-study-links-living-near-highways-to-risk-of-neurological-disorders</url></story> |
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