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20,787,805 | 20,787,988 | 1 | 3 | 20,787,237 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>at best it&#x27;s just... faster internet</i><p>Counterpoint: streaming audio and video were singularly enabled by faster internet. That is restructuring multibillion-dollar industries. The iPhone, one could argue, and through it real-time social media, are products of mobile internet.<p>There are legitimate new capabilities that will likely erupt from cheaper, faster mobile internet. If the playground is in Shenzhen versus Silicon Valley, that’s where resources should be allocated to explore that potential.<p>I’m not arguing for 5G. (I don’t know enough about it.) But “it’s just faster internet” is a facile counterargument.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>There&#x27;s such weird marketing zealotry behind 5G. They&#x27;re acting like it&#x27;s going to completely reshape society, but at best it&#x27;s just... faster internet. In places where the internet is already pretty fast.<p>I can only assume it&#x27;s a mixture of political and economic stakeholders that have their own reasons for really wanting it to succeed (looking competitive against China, selling new phones, etc.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, and FCC Bullying</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/cities-are-saying-no-to-5g-citing-health-aestheticsand-fcc-bullying-11566619391?mod=rsswn</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sambull</author><text>Provides more throughput for mass surveillance systems, that will totally reshape society. Think &#x27;social credit&#x27; systems. Servicing these customers will be the bread and butter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>There&#x27;s such weird marketing zealotry behind 5G. They&#x27;re acting like it&#x27;s going to completely reshape society, but at best it&#x27;s just... faster internet. In places where the internet is already pretty fast.<p>I can only assume it&#x27;s a mixture of political and economic stakeholders that have their own reasons for really wanting it to succeed (looking competitive against China, selling new phones, etc.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, and FCC Bullying</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/cities-are-saying-no-to-5g-citing-health-aestheticsand-fcc-bullying-11566619391?mod=rsswn</url></story> |
14,930,632 | 14,930,186 | 1 | 2 | 14,929,948 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>austenallred</author><text>It&#x27;s Bloomberg - they specialize in getting info out quickly and filling in the details as they hear about it. Not thorough, but being first is what, you know, gets you to the top of Hacker News and lets you sell ridiculously expensive stock trading terminals.<p>Now we see some of the future details coming in:<p>&gt; Blue Apron Holdings Inc. is closing a New Jersey facility and moving 1,270 jobs to a bigger site opening in the state later this year.<p>&gt; More than half of the employees at the Jersey City facility have decided to move to Linden, New Jersey, a company spokeswoman said. According to a public notice, the original Jersey City fulfillment center will close by October. Workers notified Friday of the changes will still have the opportunity to relocate to the new warehouse, the spokeswoman said. The move affects 24 percent of Blue Apron’s workforce.<p>&gt; Opening new site in Linden that will need 2,000 or more staff<p>They&#x27;re growing and relocating, this isn&#x27;t a massive downsizing as the headline would have you believe, unless it&#x27;s PR spin on something I don&#x27;t fully understand.<p>The stock is definitely down 5%, so if you figure it out feel free to let me know and I&#x27;ll buy some options :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Spivak</author><text>Look, I get that most people are just going to read the headline, hell most people who share this article will probably never open it, but that&#x27;s really no excuse for writing an &#x27;article&#x27; that has no more substance than the headline.<p>Questions I want answered in an article like this:<p>* What is Blue Apron&#x27;s reason for the job cuts?<p>* What are Blue Apron&#x27;s plans for the future? Focusing on core markets, expansions, grocery store partnerships, more product offerings?<p>* What do their finances look like? Things like customer acquisition, subscription length, service costs? How did the job cuts affect them?<p>* What is the author&#x27;s analysis of the situation?<p>* How&#x27;s the meal-prep market doing overall?<p>* Is there a downward trend in these kinds of convenience services?<p>* Was this going to happen anyway or was there increased pressure from the IPO?<p>* Is this typical for companies that IPO?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blue Apron Plans to Cut 24% of Staff Barely a Month After IPO</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-04/blue-apron-plans-to-cut-24-of-staff-barely-a-month-since-ipo</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tyrust</author><text>&gt;that&#x27;s really no excuse for writing an &#x27;article&#x27; that has no more substance than the headline<p>I don&#x27;t really agree. This is breaking news and it is unlikely that the distributor has any of the answers to the questions you&#x27;ve asked. Readers of a new distributor (here, Bloomberg) get the convenience of having to only follow one source to get a variety of breaking news.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Spivak</author><text>Look, I get that most people are just going to read the headline, hell most people who share this article will probably never open it, but that&#x27;s really no excuse for writing an &#x27;article&#x27; that has no more substance than the headline.<p>Questions I want answered in an article like this:<p>* What is Blue Apron&#x27;s reason for the job cuts?<p>* What are Blue Apron&#x27;s plans for the future? Focusing on core markets, expansions, grocery store partnerships, more product offerings?<p>* What do their finances look like? Things like customer acquisition, subscription length, service costs? How did the job cuts affect them?<p>* What is the author&#x27;s analysis of the situation?<p>* How&#x27;s the meal-prep market doing overall?<p>* Is there a downward trend in these kinds of convenience services?<p>* Was this going to happen anyway or was there increased pressure from the IPO?<p>* Is this typical for companies that IPO?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blue Apron Plans to Cut 24% of Staff Barely a Month After IPO</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-04/blue-apron-plans-to-cut-24-of-staff-barely-a-month-since-ipo</url></story> |
22,607,141 | 22,606,461 | 1 | 2 | 22,605,363 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>remmargorp64</author><text>How in the world does that patent not conflict with every single existing blood test glucose meter currently on the market already?</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheFiend7</author><text>Unbelievable. This was the patent they were able to get. It comes with graphs describing an &quot;architecture&quot; of their &quot;unique&quot; medical device.<p>Patent #8,283,155
&quot;Specifically, the present invention provides portable medical devices that allow real-time detection of analytes from a biological fluid.&quot;<p>and is described as by the article<p>&quot;This patent describes a generic architecture for a machine that automates testing for the presence of substances in bodily fluids. In the system described by the patent, an operator inserts a &quot;test device&quot; (which contains both the bodily fluid to be tested and the reactants required to perform the test) into a &quot;reader device.&quot; The reader device then triggers the necessary chemical reactions to perform the test and reports the results. Theranos&#x27; patent isn&#x27;t limited to any specific bodily fluid, reactants, or testing protocol.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/firm-uses-theranos-patents-to-sue-company-making-coronavirus-test/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>Be right back, going to file a patent for a warp drive. If anybody ever gets that working I&#x27;ll be rich!</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheFiend7</author><text>Unbelievable. This was the patent they were able to get. It comes with graphs describing an &quot;architecture&quot; of their &quot;unique&quot; medical device.<p>Patent #8,283,155
&quot;Specifically, the present invention provides portable medical devices that allow real-time detection of analytes from a biological fluid.&quot;<p>and is described as by the article<p>&quot;This patent describes a generic architecture for a machine that automates testing for the presence of substances in bodily fluids. In the system described by the patent, an operator inserts a &quot;test device&quot; (which contains both the bodily fluid to be tested and the reactants required to perform the test) into a &quot;reader device.&quot; The reader device then triggers the necessary chemical reactions to perform the test and reports the results. Theranos&#x27; patent isn&#x27;t limited to any specific bodily fluid, reactants, or testing protocol.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/firm-uses-theranos-patents-to-sue-company-making-coronavirus-test/</url></story> |
28,524,820 | 28,524,191 | 1 | 3 | 28,521,970 | 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>smurpy</author><text>It looks like one of the authors is on HN with us. Can you offer any insight into the cause of the confusing language in the &quot;Science News&quot; piece? It reads like it was written by a bot not a human.<p>In the sentence &quot;With the theory physicists Gregory Breit and John Wheeler were able to prove that when two high-energy photons collide, a positron and an electron arise, i.e. matter is formed&quot; shouldn&#x27;t the word be &quot;predict&quot; not &quot;prove&quot;?<p>A more flagrant example of a strange word choice for a human science writer to make is &quot;A direct conversion would require a laser that emits gamma-ray photons in a highly concentrated steel.&quot; Shouldn&#x27;t the word &quot;steel&quot; instead be &quot;beam&quot;? This seems like the sort of thing an uncomprehending bot might do, conflate those two words.<p>Are my the nits I&#x27;ve picked, above, unfounded? Does the author of the original paper have any information which might suggest that an actual human wrote the &quot;Science News&quot; piece?<p>If not I would suggest that we&#x27;ve got a bot on the loose! Eeek!<p>Further, I think I&#x27;m seeing rather a lot of &quot;content&quot; floating around recently which smacks of machine origins.<p>Also, to Daniel... Great paper. Amazing stuff!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists create matter from pure light, proving the Breit-Wheeler effect</title><url>https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=119023</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcims</author><text>I have had this mental question about &#x27;what time is it when photons collide&#x27;. Given that a photon could have been travelling for a million years colliding with one that has only been travelling for a microsecond, and from the photon perspective there is no passage of time and no distance.<p>I then kept reading things that tell me photons don&#x27;t interact, which saddened me because I like the question. This now appears to not be the case, is there a specific condition under which photons can interact like this?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists create matter from pure light, proving the Breit-Wheeler effect</title><url>https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=119023</url></story> |
31,048,080 | 31,048,216 | 1 | 3 | 31,047,409 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>88913527</author><text>I only once ever had an interview as you describe, and from a candidate perspective, it was my favorite! I had fun with it, and it was far more collaborative with my interviewer. I got to learn from them, instead of just regurgitating straight CS knowledge. It was all around a more human centered process. I got to learn that I would enjoy working with my interviewer, for example (this was a smaller company, so probably less applicable at scale-- unless you can continue to have the interviewers be candidate&#x27;s colleagues, at scale).</text><parent_chain><item><author>gaoshan</author><text>This is exactly what I started doing at my company a few years back. You are presented with a complete app written in the stack we use. This app has some bugs we will solve to get it working (nothing that&#x27;s a trick... actual, commonly encountered bugs that have all the error messaging you need to solve them). Once it is working you will walk me through a particular flow of the app, explaining what is going on and why we do it this way. There are optimization opportunities (purely optional, there for you to notice), areas we can dig into if we choose (or if I feel the need to). If you tear through it we can examine a different flow in the app. Perhaps we could discuss the database structure and how it might be improved or changed, maybe we dig into some CSS or into some GraphQL or any other aspect that we need to. I&#x27;ve had people stumped and unable to continue but the vast majority of devs can make a good stab at it, even if they are not familiar with the specific stack. The best devs are barely slowed down by such unfamiliarity and can still reason, logically, about the code.<p>So far I&#x27;ve had really positive feedback from job candidates. A couple even described it as their favorite interview ever! I feel like it has worked well, given the people we have ended up hiring.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code</title><url>https://freakingrectangle.wordpress.com/2022/04/15/how-to-freaking-hire-great-developers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewflnr</author><text>&quot;Bugs we will solve&quot; seems to imply there&#x27;s still a coding component. Is that correct? That&#x27;s a different thing from what OP describes (and FWIW I&#x27;m pretty sure I like yours better).</text><parent_chain><item><author>gaoshan</author><text>This is exactly what I started doing at my company a few years back. You are presented with a complete app written in the stack we use. This app has some bugs we will solve to get it working (nothing that&#x27;s a trick... actual, commonly encountered bugs that have all the error messaging you need to solve them). Once it is working you will walk me through a particular flow of the app, explaining what is going on and why we do it this way. There are optimization opportunities (purely optional, there for you to notice), areas we can dig into if we choose (or if I feel the need to). If you tear through it we can examine a different flow in the app. Perhaps we could discuss the database structure and how it might be improved or changed, maybe we dig into some CSS or into some GraphQL or any other aspect that we need to. I&#x27;ve had people stumped and unable to continue but the vast majority of devs can make a good stab at it, even if they are not familiar with the specific stack. The best devs are barely slowed down by such unfamiliarity and can still reason, logically, about the code.<p>So far I&#x27;ve had really positive feedback from job candidates. A couple even described it as their favorite interview ever! I feel like it has worked well, given the people we have ended up hiring.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code</title><url>https://freakingrectangle.wordpress.com/2022/04/15/how-to-freaking-hire-great-developers/</url></story> |
36,992,577 | 36,992,305 | 1 | 3 | 36,989,845 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wccrawford</author><text>Even before I had door cameras, I would just not answer the door if I wasn&#x27;t expecting someone. Everyone I know would know enough to call or text before coming over, and anyone in an emergency would keep knocking.<p>I&#x27;ve had plenty of obnoxious salespeople and other solicitors, especially religious ones. They even have the nerve to claim that they aren&#x27;t soliciting because they&#x27;re not selling anything for money. And none of them have the good sense to accept that they&#x27;re bothering someone that is obviously not happy that their door was knocked on.<p>Unless I&#x27;m already in a really bad mood, I generally start off nice, but I turn serious as soon as they refuse to take the first &#x27;no&#x27;. Except for the ones I argue with for a while to waste their time and energy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>&gt; my doorbell (which I answer if I&#x27;m expecting someone)<p>My would you not answer if you don&#x27;t expect someone? Pranks? Sellers? I have never experienced any door knockers that are obnoxious, except one seller once. Mostly it is friends, neighbours or missionaries who are unannounced.</text></item><item><author>MiddleEndian</author><text>&gt;Facebook and others keep that in mind as you relentlessly monetize without offering value to people.<p>Pretty much all of my communication on Facebook Messenger is with my friends, and the rest is with some groups I&#x27;m in to find local events, which I could leave hassle-free at any time with the click of a button. No communication with spammers or businesses, with the exception of someone with an obviously hacked account once every few years.<p>With the rare exception, my incoming calls on my phone are either my doorbell (which I answer if I&#x27;m expecting someone), or spammers (who I don&#x27;t answer).<p>So I would say Facebook keeps this in mind much better than the phone company.</text></item><item><author>phkahler</author><text>This kind of thing is why a lot of people dropped their land line. Sure it was made largely redundant with mobile, but it also became <i>primarily a nuisance</i>.<p>Facebook and others keep that in mind as you relentlessly monetize without offering value to people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FCC fines robocaller a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam calls</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/03/fcc-fines-robocaller-a-record-300m-after-blocking-billions-of-their-scam-calls/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>monetus</author><text>Not the OP, but, I once fought off a robbery with a fencing hammer, that started that way. Maybe look for balaclavas before you open the door.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>&gt; my doorbell (which I answer if I&#x27;m expecting someone)<p>My would you not answer if you don&#x27;t expect someone? Pranks? Sellers? I have never experienced any door knockers that are obnoxious, except one seller once. Mostly it is friends, neighbours or missionaries who are unannounced.</text></item><item><author>MiddleEndian</author><text>&gt;Facebook and others keep that in mind as you relentlessly monetize without offering value to people.<p>Pretty much all of my communication on Facebook Messenger is with my friends, and the rest is with some groups I&#x27;m in to find local events, which I could leave hassle-free at any time with the click of a button. No communication with spammers or businesses, with the exception of someone with an obviously hacked account once every few years.<p>With the rare exception, my incoming calls on my phone are either my doorbell (which I answer if I&#x27;m expecting someone), or spammers (who I don&#x27;t answer).<p>So I would say Facebook keeps this in mind much better than the phone company.</text></item><item><author>phkahler</author><text>This kind of thing is why a lot of people dropped their land line. Sure it was made largely redundant with mobile, but it also became <i>primarily a nuisance</i>.<p>Facebook and others keep that in mind as you relentlessly monetize without offering value to people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FCC fines robocaller a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam calls</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/03/fcc-fines-robocaller-a-record-300m-after-blocking-billions-of-their-scam-calls/</url></story> |
12,497,525 | 12,497,346 | 1 | 3 | 12,494,999 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>Laundry - we have an order of magnitude more clothes than in the 1900s, and wash them much more frequently - far beyond what&#x27;s needed to not be dirty or smelly. Kids have the same amount, and variety, as adults. Any time saved is far more than compensated for by sheer quantity and frequency compared to olden days.<p>Dishwashers help with the bulk, but you end up with more dishes in the household (not worth firing up the dishwasher til it&#x27;s full). With the things they can&#x27;t do, and the baked food they sometimes miss, the rinsing beforehand, the loading and unloading, the saving is marginal. But 20 mins a day with hands in soapy water isn&#x27;t fun, so...<p>Cooking -- we make more interesting things with far more ingredients, as the fridge is the size of a 60s house, rather than just keeping milk and cheese fresh. Or order takeout.<p>So track record says whatever future inventions bring us to save time, work (and chores) will expand to fill time available, and we&#x27;ll be even more fragmented, with <i>even more</i> stuff.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sapphireblue</author><text>I also wonder how we manage to stay busy given that most home tasks (dishwashing, laundry, cleaning (roombas) and even cooking - see multicooker devices) are already automated, with &quot;doing laundry&quot; meaning merely loading and unloading the washing machine.<p>I think you have a good point about idle time being gadgeted away.<p>Also I think there is a tremendous potential in automation of physical labor (including remaining daily tasks). I wonder how much more free time we would have, if only 10% of workforce that currently does web&#x2F;mobile&#x2F;game apps (including myself) would apply their skills to automating their daily life with simple robots.<p>Also, imagine relatively cheap mass-produced robots that have embedded computer vision and motion planning accessible via DOM-like API (with javascript, of course), and what would millions of web developers do with that, with their current javascript&#x2F;DOM skills directly applicable to manipulating the physical world. Does it sound too good to be true? I don&#x27;t know.</text></item><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>Well this is clearly written by someone without committments and children. Young adults <i>used</i> to be having children.<p>With young kids around, the laundry and responsibility for dependents figures become hours <i>daily,</i> not weekly. When they&#x27;re a bit older there&#x27;s less cleaning but now you&#x27;re running them around more and ensuring they meet their commitments.<p>With more gadgets, chemicals and domestic appliances we&#x27;ve just invented higher standards and hundreds of new things to do. The to do list is 20x longer, but each task takes less time.<p>Whilst we might not want to return to weekly bathing and keeping a room, only for visitors, &quot;for best&quot; of Victorian times, some rebalance might be a good idea. Might even turn out to be good for skin and gut bacteria and the rise of eczema etc.<p>What we don&#x27;t have, as it&#x27;s been gadgeted away, is downtime. Kids, and many adults, today can not cope with being bored (the normal state for kids in the 70s for perhaps an hour or two daily). I saw that very clearly with my own kids and all their friends over the years. What used to be a trigger for inventing a game, building a den, or making something new with lego is far more filled with minutes on YT. More and more we&#x27;ve filled every second with things to do - by &quot;necessity&quot; and by choice.<p>In trying to make life easier most of us no longer seem to have time (or often inclination) to just chill watching the world go by for an hour a day.<p>Seems it all got too fragmented.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why are Adults so busy?</title><url>http://debarghyadas.com/writes/why-are-adults-so-busy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wolfgke</author><text>&gt; I wonder how much more free time we would have, if only 10% of workforce that currently does web&#x2F;mobile&#x2F;game apps (including myself) would apply their skills to automating their daily life with simple robots.<p>The skills for building a robot are quite different from the skills for building &quot;classical&quot; software. For example for classical software one can do correctness proofs&#x2F;analysis, while for robots one can only do empirical tests or correctness proofs relative to a strongly abstracted world model. So in other words: Applying their (existing) skills into that direction would not have much value. On the other hand: If these people were investing years to develop the skills necessary for robot development, this would probably help; but who of this group is really willing (and can afford) to do so?</text><parent_chain><item><author>sapphireblue</author><text>I also wonder how we manage to stay busy given that most home tasks (dishwashing, laundry, cleaning (roombas) and even cooking - see multicooker devices) are already automated, with &quot;doing laundry&quot; meaning merely loading and unloading the washing machine.<p>I think you have a good point about idle time being gadgeted away.<p>Also I think there is a tremendous potential in automation of physical labor (including remaining daily tasks). I wonder how much more free time we would have, if only 10% of workforce that currently does web&#x2F;mobile&#x2F;game apps (including myself) would apply their skills to automating their daily life with simple robots.<p>Also, imagine relatively cheap mass-produced robots that have embedded computer vision and motion planning accessible via DOM-like API (with javascript, of course), and what would millions of web developers do with that, with their current javascript&#x2F;DOM skills directly applicable to manipulating the physical world. Does it sound too good to be true? I don&#x27;t know.</text></item><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>Well this is clearly written by someone without committments and children. Young adults <i>used</i> to be having children.<p>With young kids around, the laundry and responsibility for dependents figures become hours <i>daily,</i> not weekly. When they&#x27;re a bit older there&#x27;s less cleaning but now you&#x27;re running them around more and ensuring they meet their commitments.<p>With more gadgets, chemicals and domestic appliances we&#x27;ve just invented higher standards and hundreds of new things to do. The to do list is 20x longer, but each task takes less time.<p>Whilst we might not want to return to weekly bathing and keeping a room, only for visitors, &quot;for best&quot; of Victorian times, some rebalance might be a good idea. Might even turn out to be good for skin and gut bacteria and the rise of eczema etc.<p>What we don&#x27;t have, as it&#x27;s been gadgeted away, is downtime. Kids, and many adults, today can not cope with being bored (the normal state for kids in the 70s for perhaps an hour or two daily). I saw that very clearly with my own kids and all their friends over the years. What used to be a trigger for inventing a game, building a den, or making something new with lego is far more filled with minutes on YT. More and more we&#x27;ve filled every second with things to do - by &quot;necessity&quot; and by choice.<p>In trying to make life easier most of us no longer seem to have time (or often inclination) to just chill watching the world go by for an hour a day.<p>Seems it all got too fragmented.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why are Adults so busy?</title><url>http://debarghyadas.com/writes/why-are-adults-so-busy/</url></story> |
31,467,932 | 31,467,984 | 1 | 2 | 31,465,628 | 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>FooBarWidget</author><text>I&#x27;d love to open the windows in summer nights. Unfortunately anti-social people love to ride reaaaally loud motorbikes in the middle of the night.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eru</author><text>If you live in a place like London, where it gets hot in summer but many places still don&#x27;t have A&#x2F;C, a fan can work wonders.<p>Here&#x27;s the magic trick to cool your home down quickly:<p>During the day your house heats up. In the evening your home is likely warmer than the night air. Many people try to open the window and put the fan close to the window to blow cold air in.<p>What works much better is pointing the fan out of the window!</text></item><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>Just having a regular fan helps a lot. Very little energy usage, very cheap. I bought a new fan a few weeks ago, one that is nearly soundless in its lowest setting. Even the slight breeze made by the lowest setting already makes a huge difference compared to stale hot air. It also uses an order of magnitude less energy than an A&#x2F;C, and costs an order of magnitude less to purchase+install (100 EUR vs 3000 EUR).</text></item><item><author>dsq</author><text>I definitely sleep less well in the hot, humid, summer than in winter. When it&#x27;s cold you can add layers. When it&#x27;s hot you reach a limit of zero layers of clothing&#x2F;coverings and then have to move the heat and humidity elsewhere artificially via A&#x2F;C.
I also think (this is my subjective opinion, I have no proof) that cold reduces swelling and inflammation, thus making for easier breathing during sleep.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally</title><url>https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(22)00209-3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>r3trohack3r</author><text>This - create a negative pressure space inside the house. Then open other windows throughout the house to equalize that pressure. By pushing air out one window, you’re effectively creating a breeze from many windows. It’s also easier to push a large volume of air out of a window than to try and pull a large volume of air from outside a window.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eru</author><text>If you live in a place like London, where it gets hot in summer but many places still don&#x27;t have A&#x2F;C, a fan can work wonders.<p>Here&#x27;s the magic trick to cool your home down quickly:<p>During the day your house heats up. In the evening your home is likely warmer than the night air. Many people try to open the window and put the fan close to the window to blow cold air in.<p>What works much better is pointing the fan out of the window!</text></item><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>Just having a regular fan helps a lot. Very little energy usage, very cheap. I bought a new fan a few weeks ago, one that is nearly soundless in its lowest setting. Even the slight breeze made by the lowest setting already makes a huge difference compared to stale hot air. It also uses an order of magnitude less energy than an A&#x2F;C, and costs an order of magnitude less to purchase+install (100 EUR vs 3000 EUR).</text></item><item><author>dsq</author><text>I definitely sleep less well in the hot, humid, summer than in winter. When it&#x27;s cold you can add layers. When it&#x27;s hot you reach a limit of zero layers of clothing&#x2F;coverings and then have to move the heat and humidity elsewhere artificially via A&#x2F;C.
I also think (this is my subjective opinion, I have no proof) that cold reduces swelling and inflammation, thus making for easier breathing during sleep.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally</title><url>https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(22)00209-3</url></story> |
19,010,161 | 19,007,551 | 1 | 2 | 19,006,919 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arminiusreturns</author><text>The other angle, besides just personal abuse (Ala loversgate), that far too many people fail to consider is this:<p>If the executive branch has such ubiquitous surveillance powers, given their history of manual blackmail and compromise operations, they are highly likely to seek to expand those blackmail style ops to a level heretofor impossible, essentially removing some of the last vestiges of the already under attack principle of seperation of powers and the checks and balances system which is a foundational part of the intended American political structure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mirioron</author><text>The problem with the FBI&#x2F;NSA mining their communication &quot;for criminal activity&quot; is that they probably don&#x27;t do it exclusively for that. After Snowden we found out that sometimes NSA employees would use this snooping to stalk people they wanted to be in a relationship with, spy on their neighbors and other such unsavory things.</text></item><item><author>riazrizvi</author><text>Surveillance on the general public is bought by employers&#x2F;businesses not security services. Yet all these articles keep mentioning law enforcement. 90% of people don’t care if the NSA&#x2F;FBI are mining their communication for criminal activity. They would care if they realized it affected their job offers, they would care if they realized it means lower wages, less competition, less political freedom.
The USA has long aspired to be a place of outstanding liberty; to run your own business, to say what you want, to own what you want, and in a less corrupt landscape relative to the rest of the world. With its lead in citizen surveillance it is fast becoming the opposite.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata”</title><url>https://threader.app/thread/1088914192847917056</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>riazrizvi</author><text>This happens yes. When I send my tax returns in the mail directly to the IRS, even if months late, the same week I start getting scam calls. So someone in the IRS sells that data. Though I doubt it is on an industrial scale, more like bad actors within these organizations, so a small percentage.
So I find articles about privacy that raise concerns about the NSA&#x2F;FBI, have the effect of just deflecting and dampening where our concerns should be really focused.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mirioron</author><text>The problem with the FBI&#x2F;NSA mining their communication &quot;for criminal activity&quot; is that they probably don&#x27;t do it exclusively for that. After Snowden we found out that sometimes NSA employees would use this snooping to stalk people they wanted to be in a relationship with, spy on their neighbors and other such unsavory things.</text></item><item><author>riazrizvi</author><text>Surveillance on the general public is bought by employers&#x2F;businesses not security services. Yet all these articles keep mentioning law enforcement. 90% of people don’t care if the NSA&#x2F;FBI are mining their communication for criminal activity. They would care if they realized it affected their job offers, they would care if they realized it means lower wages, less competition, less political freedom.
The USA has long aspired to be a place of outstanding liberty; to run your own business, to say what you want, to own what you want, and in a less corrupt landscape relative to the rest of the world. With its lead in citizen surveillance it is fast becoming the opposite.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata”</title><url>https://threader.app/thread/1088914192847917056</url></story> |
41,750,176 | 41,750,219 | 1 | 2 | 41,749,742 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HPsquared</author><text>I use a similar nasal spray for allergies (Becodefence). Basically a physical barrier coating the nasal passages. For me and my allergies, it&#x27;s super effective.<p>Never thought about using it to block viral infections, but it makes sense: coating the nasal passages with artificial &quot;mucus-like substance&quot; so particles don&#x27;t reach the membranes. Makes total sense that approach also work for viruses.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Studies suggest a drug-free nasal spray could ward off respiratory infections</title><url>https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-preclinical-drug-free-nasal-spray.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>iandanforth</author><text>I will admit to following the swab-nose-with-neosporin protocol following a previous mouse study with similar results. I use this during travel and have had no short terms ill effects and caught no infections while following it. (Not a doctor, not well controlled, just a random internet guy).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;research&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;publication&#x2F;38648490" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;research&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;publicatio...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Studies suggest a drug-free nasal spray could ward off respiratory infections</title><url>https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-preclinical-drug-free-nasal-spray.html</url></story> |
37,129,503 | 37,129,489 | 1 | 3 | 37,128,281 | train | <instructions>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 won’t buy Dell gear again, at home or at work. I bought my kid a monitor for his gaming PC from Amazon. It was advertised as brand new. Dell shipped it in a brand new, undamaged, unopened box. Its HDMI port failed a couple of months later but with many months of warranty left. Then Dell denied a warranty claim because their inventory system had it listed as having been previously registered to someone else. I tried to escalate the claim but they refused it all the way to the top. Amazon was helpful: they let me swap for another brand and just pay the difference.<p>In before “how do we believe you?” I wrote this all up in a blog post, under my real name, with backing details. If I’m lying, Dell can sue me for defamation.<p>A Dell corporate sales person contacted me at work to talk about setting up a work account. It felt sooo good to send them a link to my blog post and explain that Dell was dead to me. I didn’t hear back.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/dell-fined-6-5m-after-admitting-it-made-overpriced-monitors-look-discounted/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mkoryak</author><text>&gt; A Dell spokesperson told Ars Technica today that Dell is also paying customers interest and &quot;taking steps to improve our pricing processes to ensure this sort of error does not happen again.&quot;<p>Sounds like my 9 year old &quot;It was an accident!!&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/dell-fined-6-5m-after-admitting-it-made-overpriced-monitors-look-discounted/</url></story> |
10,172,314 | 10,172,237 | 1 | 3 | 10,171,606 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spudlyo</author><text>Ms. Murphy&#x27;s bio page describes her as a &quot;guerilla marketing expert&quot;, and perhaps that is what this is. If leveling ridiculous accusations at your critics using obviously fake Twitter accounts is &quot;guerilla marketing&quot; than perhaps I should look into it, because it sounds fun, and I&#x27;ve always wanted to have a Director level title.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Secure Channels Attempted to Intimidate a Critic and Failed Spectacularly</title><url>http://popehat.com/2015/09/04/how-secure-channels-attempted-to-intimidate-a-critic-and-failed-spectacularly/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Popehat+%28Popehat%29</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mfoy_</author><text>That screenshot was so outstandingly bad I almost want to believe that someone elaborately staged the screenshot to make a Secure Channel exec look incompetent... but Occam&#x27;s Razor prevails.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Secure Channels Attempted to Intimidate a Critic and Failed Spectacularly</title><url>http://popehat.com/2015/09/04/how-secure-channels-attempted-to-intimidate-a-critic-and-failed-spectacularly/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Popehat+%28Popehat%29</url></story> |
18,037,383 | 18,037,312 | 1 | 2 | 18,035,548 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joatmon-snoo</author><text>A lot of your perspective seems to be the result of a <i>very</i> strange work situation. If you regularly need people on the other side of the world to review complex changes, then your team shouldn&#x27;t have an ocean between its halves.<p>That being said:<p>1. Given that OWNERS approval <i>must</i> come from your own team, yes, your team dictates many of the code expectations. I&#x27;m not sure how this was ever not the case, unless you&#x27;re arguing that teams should be exempt from readability, in which case my rebuttal is that although people gripe about it a lot, the vast majority agree on its utility after they go through the process. (Rereading your comment it sounds like you had difficulty getting Java approvals, and today there is a system where you can request a review from the pool of Java readability approvers at Google, and the turnaround tends to be pretty good, generally within a few hours.)<p>2. Absolutely not. If anything those need to be more careful to make sure nothing&#x27;s lost in communication.<p>3. See 1. This is also driven by general test coverage and design processes, as well as the ability to define custom presubmit checks on a path-by-path basis.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ridiculous_fish</author><text>Xoogler here, circa 2014. Noogler orientation impressed upon us that every change was code reviewed, period! However my experience was that code reviews were heavyweight and frustrating, often to the point of just being skipped: completely different from the article&#x27;s observation of latency in hours and &quot;fast-paced iterative development.&quot;<p>1. My initial team was a firmware engineer, and myself doing Android development. My peer felt unqualified to review Android code, so I spent a lot of energy begging code review time from tangentially related teams. Their feedback was not deep or useful for obvious reasons, and the days of latency posed a major problem because our project was tied to a hardware schedule.<p>I learned later my teammate was simply stamping his own changes, which the tool permits, and so I started doing the same. Bypassing code review resolved the problem.<p>2. My next team was mostly in East Asia, while I was in Mountain View. If they had a question on a change, it would add two days latency due to time zone differences. And because I was physically detached from my peers, I believe they felt more comfortable deferring my changes. Again we were tied to a hardware schedule, so this latency was very painful.<p>3. The last scenario was overseeing builds, on (say) a Foxconn factory floor. For every build, the hardware coming off the line would behave unexpectedly, and we would have to very quickly update some code to make things work. Code reviews in this situation would have been absurd: any changes only had to last as long as the build itself, and well, there wasn&#x27;t even network access. This is admittedly an exotic and specialized scenario (but recall orientation&#x27;s &quot;every change, period!&quot;)<p>As a Googler code reviews were either skipped or were a major burden. I made some mistakes: I ought to have escalated quicker, increased my visibility, been less cowed by the orientation. Google also could improve in some areas:<p>1. Code review expectations need to be adjusted for small heterogenous teams. Such teams are more likely as Google ramps up its hardware efforts.<p>2. The engineering culture ought to recognize the burden imposed by time zones. Code reviews must be more forgiving when the communication cost is high.<p>3. Shift orientation towards teams instead of company-wide. CR for self-driving cars must be fundamentally different than CR for matching selfies with famous artwork, or CRs for updating factory floor test fixtures.<p>Some of these may have changed since I left and if so I&#x27;d love to hear how.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google [pdf]</title><url>https://sback.it/publications/icse2018seip.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>cpeterso</author><text>Mozilla requires code review for all code changes, too. Time zones are a big challenge because many employees work remotely and few feature teams are collocated in the same office. Engineers have to accept some latency, like you describe. To keep their pipeline full, an engineer typically must multitask multiple bugs in different stages of the review process.<p>Reviewers try to prioritize requests from volunteer contributors so they don&#x27;t get discouraged. These reviews often require extra feedback on basics of patch creation or coding style. Over time, some experienced volunteer contributors become reviewers, too.<p>Instead of requesting review from a specific individual, some teams have experimented with assigning some review requests to a team alias. Anyone on the team who is available or has some free time can approve and land the patch. This works well for small patches that don&#x27;t depend on specific expertise. This process also depends on everyone sharing the review burden.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ridiculous_fish</author><text>Xoogler here, circa 2014. Noogler orientation impressed upon us that every change was code reviewed, period! However my experience was that code reviews were heavyweight and frustrating, often to the point of just being skipped: completely different from the article&#x27;s observation of latency in hours and &quot;fast-paced iterative development.&quot;<p>1. My initial team was a firmware engineer, and myself doing Android development. My peer felt unqualified to review Android code, so I spent a lot of energy begging code review time from tangentially related teams. Their feedback was not deep or useful for obvious reasons, and the days of latency posed a major problem because our project was tied to a hardware schedule.<p>I learned later my teammate was simply stamping his own changes, which the tool permits, and so I started doing the same. Bypassing code review resolved the problem.<p>2. My next team was mostly in East Asia, while I was in Mountain View. If they had a question on a change, it would add two days latency due to time zone differences. And because I was physically detached from my peers, I believe they felt more comfortable deferring my changes. Again we were tied to a hardware schedule, so this latency was very painful.<p>3. The last scenario was overseeing builds, on (say) a Foxconn factory floor. For every build, the hardware coming off the line would behave unexpectedly, and we would have to very quickly update some code to make things work. Code reviews in this situation would have been absurd: any changes only had to last as long as the build itself, and well, there wasn&#x27;t even network access. This is admittedly an exotic and specialized scenario (but recall orientation&#x27;s &quot;every change, period!&quot;)<p>As a Googler code reviews were either skipped or were a major burden. I made some mistakes: I ought to have escalated quicker, increased my visibility, been less cowed by the orientation. Google also could improve in some areas:<p>1. Code review expectations need to be adjusted for small heterogenous teams. Such teams are more likely as Google ramps up its hardware efforts.<p>2. The engineering culture ought to recognize the burden imposed by time zones. Code reviews must be more forgiving when the communication cost is high.<p>3. Shift orientation towards teams instead of company-wide. CR for self-driving cars must be fundamentally different than CR for matching selfies with famous artwork, or CRs for updating factory floor test fixtures.<p>Some of these may have changed since I left and if so I&#x27;d love to hear how.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google [pdf]</title><url>https://sback.it/publications/icse2018seip.pdf</url></story> |
16,818,863 | 16,817,989 | 1 | 2 | 16,813,823 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>corney91</author><text>If I was driving a car like that I think I&#x27;d feel safer if there was a &quot;confidence meter&quot; available, I have no idea about how these auto-drive systems work but I&#x27;m guessing there&#x27;s some metric for how confident the car is that it&#x27;s going in the correct direction. Exposing that information as a basic percentage meter on the dash somewhere would make me feel more confident about using the auto-drive.<p>I can understand why this wouldn&#x27;t happen from a business perspective, and it&#x27;s also presumably not as simple to implement as I&#x27;m implying, but I can&#x27;t think of a better way to get around the uncertainty of whether the car&#x27;s operating in an expected way or not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>&quot; Tesla&#x27;s system demands more from drivers than manual driving. The driver has to detect automation failures after they occur, but before a crash. This requires faster reaction time than merely avoiding obstacles.&quot;<p>I have been thinking that too. At what point do you decide that the autopilot is making a mistake and take over? That&#x27;s an almost impossible task to perform within the available time.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Tesla&#x27;s system demands <i>more</i> from drivers than manual driving. The driver has to detect automation failures after they occur, but before a crash. This requires faster reaction time than merely avoiding obstacles.<p>Here&#x27;s a good example - a Tesla on autopilot crashing into a temporary road barrier which required a lane change.[1] This is a view from the dashcam of the vehicle behind the Tesla. At 00:21, things look normal. At 00:22, the Tesla should just be starting to turn to follow the lane and avoid the barrier, but it isn&#x27;t. By 00:23, it&#x27;s hit the wall. By the time the driver could have detected that failure, it was too late.<p>Big, solid, obvious orange obstacle. Freeway on a clear day. Tesla&#x27;s system didn&#x27;t detect it. By the time it was clear that the driver needed to take over, it was too late. This is why, as the head of Google&#x27;s self driving effort once said, partial self driving &quot;assistance&quot; is inherently unsafe. Lane following assistance without good automatic braking kills.<p>This is the Tesla self-crashing car in action. Tesla fails at the basic task of self-driving - not hitting obstacles. If it doesn&#x27;t look like the rear end of a car or truck, it gets hit. So far, one street sweeper, one fire truck, one disabled car, one crossing tractor trailer, and two freeway barriers have been hit. Those are the ones that got press attention. There are probably more incidents.<p>Automatic driving the Waymo way seems to be working. Automatic driving the Tesla way leaves a trail of blood and death. That is not an accident. It follows directly from Musk&#x27;s decision to cut costs by trying to do the job with inadequate sensors and processing.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-2ml6sjk_8c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-2ml6sjk_8c</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash</title><url>http://abc7news.com/automotive/exclusive-tesla-issues-strongest-statement-yet-blaming-driver-for-deadly-crash/3325908/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>linkmotif</author><text>Also what is the point of such an auto pilot? Seems really dangerous. Telling people you don’t have to drive but you have to pay attention ignores fundamental psychology.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>&quot; Tesla&#x27;s system demands more from drivers than manual driving. The driver has to detect automation failures after they occur, but before a crash. This requires faster reaction time than merely avoiding obstacles.&quot;<p>I have been thinking that too. At what point do you decide that the autopilot is making a mistake and take over? That&#x27;s an almost impossible task to perform within the available time.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Tesla&#x27;s system demands <i>more</i> from drivers than manual driving. The driver has to detect automation failures after they occur, but before a crash. This requires faster reaction time than merely avoiding obstacles.<p>Here&#x27;s a good example - a Tesla on autopilot crashing into a temporary road barrier which required a lane change.[1] This is a view from the dashcam of the vehicle behind the Tesla. At 00:21, things look normal. At 00:22, the Tesla should just be starting to turn to follow the lane and avoid the barrier, but it isn&#x27;t. By 00:23, it&#x27;s hit the wall. By the time the driver could have detected that failure, it was too late.<p>Big, solid, obvious orange obstacle. Freeway on a clear day. Tesla&#x27;s system didn&#x27;t detect it. By the time it was clear that the driver needed to take over, it was too late. This is why, as the head of Google&#x27;s self driving effort once said, partial self driving &quot;assistance&quot; is inherently unsafe. Lane following assistance without good automatic braking kills.<p>This is the Tesla self-crashing car in action. Tesla fails at the basic task of self-driving - not hitting obstacles. If it doesn&#x27;t look like the rear end of a car or truck, it gets hit. So far, one street sweeper, one fire truck, one disabled car, one crossing tractor trailer, and two freeway barriers have been hit. Those are the ones that got press attention. There are probably more incidents.<p>Automatic driving the Waymo way seems to be working. Automatic driving the Tesla way leaves a trail of blood and death. That is not an accident. It follows directly from Musk&#x27;s decision to cut costs by trying to do the job with inadequate sensors and processing.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-2ml6sjk_8c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-2ml6sjk_8c</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash</title><url>http://abc7news.com/automotive/exclusive-tesla-issues-strongest-statement-yet-blaming-driver-for-deadly-crash/3325908/</url></story> |
8,012,349 | 8,010,358 | 1 | 2 | 8,009,663 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nessence</author><text>Hyperledger&#x27;s home page talks about a protocol, pools, consensus, security, and decentralization, however, none of those features exist in the codebase. Proof of work and distributed networks are why bitcoin and others are more complex than a list of node URLs and a simple database model.<p>After looking through code, a number of concerns are also raised:<p>- key pairs use RSA
- identities are based on MD5 of RSA public key
- no p2p protocol for nodes
- lack of proof of work (more on that below)<p>As-is, the project is a rails application which references accounts by MD5 of the public key, a postgresql database, and a REST client. In other words -- basic rails ledger app plus some PKI.<p>I see a significant issue with hyperledger, in that the pools are, by nature, private. The only verification a client can perform is the SSL certificate. A pool owner, if they wish, could change the account balance on all of their private nodes and there would be no public record of the change or the previous history. Yes this would require collusion of some kind, but even for 10k nodes, such data can be changed in seconds. Without a blockchain, how could anyone prove otherwise?<p>I see the potential for companies like quickbooks, paypal, or even banks, to create public REST interfaces for their account ledgers. This seems inexpensive for a bank to do (compared to a p2p network), and, we&#x27;d have the trust of the bank. This is money after all, so, I&#x27;d trust the bank over a psuedo-private network.<p>Looking forward to see how hyperledger will approach the problems described above. I would be surprised if the end-result isn&#x27;t similar to bitcoin.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Hyperledger – Open Payments Protocol</title><url>http://hyperledger.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>drcode</author><text>Haven&#x27;t looked into the product yet, but I have to say the web page itself is one of the most beautiful I&#x27;ve seen, from a pure aesthetic standpoint- No dumb animation, uncluttered, distinctive, consistent theming with appropriate use of color, full use of available viewport space, thumbs up to the designer!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Hyperledger – Open Payments Protocol</title><url>http://hyperledger.com/</url></story> |
21,270,901 | 21,264,997 | 1 | 3 | 21,260,888 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alistairSH</author><text>As noted, bus scheduling. Because the US doesn&#x27;t have a robust public transit system in most regions, it relies on dedicated school buses.<p>The really goofy thing is the schools are traditionally backwards. High school starts earliest (call it 7:30am), then middle school (call it 8:15am), and then elementary school (9am).<p>Physiologically, that should be reversed, as teenagers have a harder time getting enough sleep and functioning in the morning.<p>Timing-wise, starting ES earlier works out better for many parents, as a 9am school drop-off is too late for them to start their commute. So, one parent ends up time-shifting their work day in one direction (to drop off or walk to bus stop), and the other parent time shifts the other direction (to be home at the end of the school day). Failing that, the kid gets sent to in-school day-care before and&#x2F;or after school.<p>If ES started at 7:30am, both parents could start their day at the same time, and only worry about child care after school (if neither can be home mid-afternoon).<p>Or, we could just stop sprawling all over the darn place, build some transit, and start all the school at whatever time makes sense for those students.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ACow_Adonis</author><text>As someone who lives in a country where schools all uniformly started at 9:00 am (i&#x27;m probably wrong on that, but lets just go with it), what&#x27;s the social-background&#x2F;theoretical reason for starting the school day at 7:00am?<p>From the outside that just seems absolutely bonkers?</text></item><item><author>socalnate1</author><text>My high school started at 7am. I also took the bus; which picked up around 6:15am; so I usually woke up around 5:45am during the week. I would often nod off during my first or second period; and routinely took 2-3 hour naps when I got home from school; which screwed up my ability to fall asleep early at night or get much homework done. I sometimes wonder what my academics would have been like if I was actually awake during those first two periods.<p>(This was in the 90&#x27;s)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am</title><url>https://qz.com/1727790/californias-new-law-bans-schools-from-starting-before-8am/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asteli</author><text>Not knowing the real reason, I suspect it&#x27;s so that parents can drive their children to school before starting their commutes to work. What proportion of kids do you reckon walk&#x2F;bike&#x2F;transit to school in your country?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ACow_Adonis</author><text>As someone who lives in a country where schools all uniformly started at 9:00 am (i&#x27;m probably wrong on that, but lets just go with it), what&#x27;s the social-background&#x2F;theoretical reason for starting the school day at 7:00am?<p>From the outside that just seems absolutely bonkers?</text></item><item><author>socalnate1</author><text>My high school started at 7am. I also took the bus; which picked up around 6:15am; so I usually woke up around 5:45am during the week. I would often nod off during my first or second period; and routinely took 2-3 hour naps when I got home from school; which screwed up my ability to fall asleep early at night or get much homework done. I sometimes wonder what my academics would have been like if I was actually awake during those first two periods.<p>(This was in the 90&#x27;s)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am</title><url>https://qz.com/1727790/californias-new-law-bans-schools-from-starting-before-8am/</url></story> |
32,566,876 | 32,566,630 | 1 | 3 | 32,565,784 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>Pretty strong chance the “noticers” are on-prem, not remote, and may be (literally) prejudiced.*<p>Also, bit of indication in “hard numbers out of project mgmt system” and “all the little asides, ahas…” coupled with “unless they have their headsets on the whole time” that your company may have optimized for local ideas and local capture.<p>Consider (a) ensuring project and idea capture tools are “remote first” oriented (tools that work remotely work just fine in office, inverse is not true), such as dropping whiteboards and using digital collaborative tools for whiteboarding even locally, e.g. …<p><pre><code> - Excalidraw+
- Microsoft Whiteboard
- Samsung Flip2
- Microsoft Surface Hub
</code></pre>
… and (b) experimenting with elevated telepresence beyond just the green&#x2F;yellow&#x2F;red dot:<p><pre><code> - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.remotion.com&#x2F;
</code></pre>
You have to be radical about this: “If it didn’t happen in [remote-first tool], it didn’t happen.”<p>This was the single most important contributor to the culture change at firms I’ve helped go fully remote since the 90s. The nanosecond something elevates from chit chat into an action, everyone in the company needs to gate-keep: “Could you please share&#x2F;ask&#x2F;direct that in [the digital place]?”<p>The second most important was ensuring [the digital place] is frictionless, using social media habit apps as benchmarks, not, say, Jira.<p>In my experience, after initial chaos, then learning, then crossing a tipping point, productivity went through the roof, and following that, these firms absolutely <i>spanked</i> on-prem only firms at caliber of talent and pace of delivery of outcomes into client hands.<p>&gt; <i>I think a lot of people who want to work at home aren’t interested in their success</i><p>* There it is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>redleggedfrog</author><text>&quot;Your remote team is my company&#x27;s opportunity.&quot;<p>Purely anecdotal based on my own experience, but at my company we have some people who work in an office and lots more that work remotely. The in office staff contribute more ideas, work, fixes, and functional software than the remote teams by a factor of 4 or 5, or sometimes, depending on the in office worker, 10 times. Those are hard numbers right out of our project management system. It&#x27;s simply easier to hash out hard problems in person that it is on a remote team, and the context is key. You have all the little asides, ah ha&#x27;s! and comments collected up that provide a better picture than any remote team can get unless they have their headsets on the whole time.<p>Not that you couldn&#x27;t have a good remote team - I just think the methods of communication available are not best suited to our monkey brains. We&#x27;re social animal, and we work best socially.<p>What this has allowed us to do is beat out other development teams, both inside and outside the company. Hasn&#x27;t gone unnoticed - we also get the most important projects and are paid the most. When it matters, the in-house people get the work.<p>YMMV, of course, this is just one place, but I think a lot of people who want to work at home aren&#x27;t interested in their success as making their work life easier.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote startups will win the war for top talent</title><url>https://future.com/remote-startups-hire-top-talent/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I work a sort of hybrid model.<p>We&#x27;ve seen issues and topics that we decide &quot;Let&#x27;s work this one out when we&#x27;re in the office.&quot; We schedule it, and what might take several video conferences and endless chats ... suddenly takes one meeting and the solution solves a bunch of other things.<p>I agree everyone should find their best way, but for us sometimes there&#x27;s more of a free flow of information, everyone is engaged on that one issue more in person than when remote. When it comes to some topics it&#x27;s just much faster and the result is more complete in person.</text><parent_chain><item><author>redleggedfrog</author><text>&quot;Your remote team is my company&#x27;s opportunity.&quot;<p>Purely anecdotal based on my own experience, but at my company we have some people who work in an office and lots more that work remotely. The in office staff contribute more ideas, work, fixes, and functional software than the remote teams by a factor of 4 or 5, or sometimes, depending on the in office worker, 10 times. Those are hard numbers right out of our project management system. It&#x27;s simply easier to hash out hard problems in person that it is on a remote team, and the context is key. You have all the little asides, ah ha&#x27;s! and comments collected up that provide a better picture than any remote team can get unless they have their headsets on the whole time.<p>Not that you couldn&#x27;t have a good remote team - I just think the methods of communication available are not best suited to our monkey brains. We&#x27;re social animal, and we work best socially.<p>What this has allowed us to do is beat out other development teams, both inside and outside the company. Hasn&#x27;t gone unnoticed - we also get the most important projects and are paid the most. When it matters, the in-house people get the work.<p>YMMV, of course, this is just one place, but I think a lot of people who want to work at home aren&#x27;t interested in their success as making their work life easier.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote startups will win the war for top talent</title><url>https://future.com/remote-startups-hire-top-talent/</url></story> |
12,246,693 | 12,246,235 | 1 | 2 | 12,245,458 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brigade</author><text>For all the siblings describing various forms of register banking, you&#x27;re actually literally describing SMT in which one core executes two or more tasks at the same time, dividing the register set and other processor resources between the threads and effectively switching between the tasks every cycle. Modern x86, Power, and SPARC CPUs implement this, as do basically all GPUs for a while now, all for very good reasons.<p>Which is to say, it&#x27;s quite easy for low-level architectural knowledge to become obsolete :p</text><parent_chain><item><author>rwmj</author><text>I was &quot;enlightened&quot; many years ago when I asked a colleague (a great electronic engineer) why we didn&#x27;t do fast task switching by having two sets of registers. His reply was that this would require every regular access to a register to go through an extra gate (to decide which bank of registers you want to hit), making every access slightly slower.<p>Larger registers&#x2F;caches&#x2F;memories are slower because they need more address decoding, that time scaling approximately linearly as the storage doubles in size.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels?</title><url>https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/why-do-cpus-have-multiple-cache-levels/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pkroll</author><text>As cesarb points out the ARM did that, and so did the Z-80 IIRC: basically, your friend was either trolling you or had no idea what he was saying. Addressing is done in parallel. The address decoding isn&#x27;t the part that drinks time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rwmj</author><text>I was &quot;enlightened&quot; many years ago when I asked a colleague (a great electronic engineer) why we didn&#x27;t do fast task switching by having two sets of registers. His reply was that this would require every regular access to a register to go through an extra gate (to decide which bank of registers you want to hit), making every access slightly slower.<p>Larger registers&#x2F;caches&#x2F;memories are slower because they need more address decoding, that time scaling approximately linearly as the storage doubles in size.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels?</title><url>https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/why-do-cpus-have-multiple-cache-levels/</url></story> |
29,986,327 | 29,985,221 | 1 | 3 | 29,984,833 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kmeisthax</author><text>We&#x27;ve been automating away office jobs for a lot longer than we&#x27;ve been putting ML in robots to automate factory work, though.<p>For example, the way business mail used to work was that the bureaucrat in question would record their message onto a tape, and then send that tape off to a special department full of typists to actually turn that voice recording into a letter. That whole concept is not only gone, but it&#x27;s such a foreign idea that it sounds like something you&#x27;d write for a dieselpunk novel. The moment we started putting computers on people&#x27;s desks, we expected everyone to know how to type. Same thing goes for a lot of other office tasks, which are now comfortably managed by software suites we literally call &quot;Office&quot;.<p>That being said, the new wave of machine-learning powered automation scares me. Not because I&#x27;m worried that my job will be taken by software, but because said software will barely work. For factory jobs, the risks are obvious; that&#x27;s why we put these robots in cages[0]. However, these office jobs are still making critical decisions that will increasingly be handled by automation. We already know how much having to deal with Google sucks; and they are pretty much addicted to automating away all their support staff. In your manuscript example, it could be that the ML model just starts burying specific genres of book or books with specific types of characters in them, for stupid reasons.<p>[0] Or if you&#x27;re Amazon, you put the workers in cages, because Dread Pirate Bezos hates them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>msoad</author><text>It&#x27;s so fascinating that physical labor seems to be the main concern when it comes to robots doing it better&#x2F;cheaper than humans. If anything, we know that automation is coming after office desk jobs first. Those jobs are much easier to automate. Language models can read a manuscript and spit out a summary&#x2F;judgment with much better my friend that has read so many books and evaluate book projects. The &quot;robot&quot; has read more books, can memorize more of the manuscript as it reads it and does it much much much faster.<p>Maybe publishing houses are not comfortable replacing her with an AI but it will eventually happen.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Automation is reaching more companies</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/rent-robot-worker-less-paying-human/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>newhouseb</author><text>100%.<p>Even before you need language models, though, there&#x27;s an insane amount of &quot;digital manual labor&quot; that involved people shuttling files around and validating &#x2F; cross referencing data in ways that would be done far more correctly and efficiently by software. In my opinion, low code tooling threatens many more jobs than AI does in the short term.</text><parent_chain><item><author>msoad</author><text>It&#x27;s so fascinating that physical labor seems to be the main concern when it comes to robots doing it better&#x2F;cheaper than humans. If anything, we know that automation is coming after office desk jobs first. Those jobs are much easier to automate. Language models can read a manuscript and spit out a summary&#x2F;judgment with much better my friend that has read so many books and evaluate book projects. The &quot;robot&quot; has read more books, can memorize more of the manuscript as it reads it and does it much much much faster.<p>Maybe publishing houses are not comfortable replacing her with an AI but it will eventually happen.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Automation is reaching more companies</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/rent-robot-worker-less-paying-human/</url></story> |
25,987,694 | 25,987,638 | 1 | 3 | 25,987,314 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>myanmarthrow</author><text>Posting this throwaway because I don’t want my residency canceled. That should give you a hint that I might know way more than the armchair experts.<p>Any article that talks about Myanmar and doesn’t include the word “China” all over it, is probably propaganda of some sort. I won’t go more into this and I will allow people to do their homework and make up their own minds about the good and the bad of all of it, but Myanmar is perhaps the first country the modern-West has totally lost from the grasp of its sphere of influence.<p>Sanctions won’t work. They will just punish businesses that were stupid enough to work with Americans and Europeans. At the end of the day, Myanmar is going to come out of this period looking more like China than like the British colony it was before — guess what that’s meant to prepare us for, in terms of the way the world looks by the end of this century?<p>The military couldn’t have done any of this without China’s permission. This is a giant fuck-you to the West, and it’ll work, because the West has zero leverage. Also, every Western ambassador and diplomat ran away like a scared child at the beginning of coronavirus, so they’re not even in the country to state their case. Guess who IS around?<p>PS: If you work for Facebook please tell your deranged CEO to leave the mini State Department he’s set up in Menlo Park to sit down and stay out of this one. They’ve done nothing but cause Myanmar to endure more violence and instability than was ever necessary, and made a GREAT case for the country to embrace China’s Great Firewall.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Internet disrupted in Myanmar amid military coup</title><url>https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disrupted-in-myanmar-amid-apparent-military-uprising-JBZrmlB6</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>klunger</author><text>A journalist is live tweeting updates here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;the_ayeminthant&#x2F;status&#x2F;1356035189743308801" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;the_ayeminthant&#x2F;status&#x2F;13560351897433088...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Internet disrupted in Myanmar amid military coup</title><url>https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disrupted-in-myanmar-amid-apparent-military-uprising-JBZrmlB6</url></story> |
18,497,387 | 18,496,060 | 1 | 3 | 18,495,518 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danbruc</author><text>In case the author sees this, some comments about Rotator.cs.<p>1. This algorithm will break if the number of valid characters in the BMP becomes odd.<p>EDIT: As user platforms pointed out, there is an unit test for this.<p>2. There is an overflow in line 39 because of the check i &lt;= BMP_SIZE in line 37.<p>3. The web server at rot8000.com exposes at least some errors with stack traces, try rotating the string &lt;script&gt;.<p>4. In line 42 you are performing a linear search for every character you transform, that is very inefficient, especially with characters at the end of the BMP. At least use a hash map or even better just use an array mapping the input code point directly to the output code point.<p>5. rot8000.com does at the very least allow rather long inputs which paired with the inefficiency of the linear search makes a DoS attack pretty easy. I tried a 10,000 word lorem ipsum, it was not rejected and the request took a minute to complete.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rot8000</title><url>http://rot8000.com/Index</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ninjin</author><text>This certainly is what I would call a “neat hack”. Out of curiosity I had to check what it rotates Japanese into. Turns out, mostly Korean: “日本語はどうかな？” becomes “ື걅갿개갡걀等”.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rot8000</title><url>http://rot8000.com/Index</url></story> |
3,072,675 | 3,072,645 | 1 | 3 | 3,071,722 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brlewis</author><text>For purposes of keeping the discussion on topic, can we just assume dlikhten's comment is specifically about people whose belief in God is based on Pascal's wager, and not about believers in general?</text><parent_chain><item><author>timwiseman</author><text>After spending an entire semester in a course on the philosophy of religion and revieing things like the Scopes Monkey Trial during law school, I see arguments both for an against the existence of God.<p>I think there is no proof either way. I personally believe in God and am in fact Christian, but that is a personal choice based on faith and I have great respect for people who have chosen other faiths or who believe that there is no God.<p>This however is different. It can be shown that certain security measures actually are quite useful (sturdy, locked cockpit doors separating pilots and passengers for instance.) It can be shown that others are completely ineffective at their stated goals and seek only to avoid "donothingism" and fall into security theater</text></item><item><author>dlikhten</author><text>Forget terrorism. This is EXACTLY the same as God and Elevators. Think about it. Lets start easy:<p>I see people every day come into an elevator and press the door close button like it is the only way to get air. Nobody realizes that the button does nothing. Furthermore many do, but they do it any ways on the off chance that it saves them an extra millisecond here or there of waiting. It never gives any benefit. However "may as well do it just in case it works". Trivial to disprove but still.<p>God: People worship. Why? Do we know god does exist? no we don't. In fact all signs point to got not existing. Why worship though? On the off chance that god does exist and we won't go to hell. It does not matter that there is no god, people will still worship.<p>Both examples are ways for people to feel better about something they can't control and makes them feel that they can.<p>Now the TSA is exactly the same. It makes no difference, or it does, all signs point to the TSA being complete horsecrap, but people want it just in case there is a possibility they can prevent an act of terrorism and save 10 people at the price of insane expenses, time expenses, people unalbe to travel, personal rights violated, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Isaac Asimov on Security Theatre.</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/10/isaac_asimov_on.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>burgerbrain</author><text>What evidence is there that supports the existence of a supernatural being?<p>No, I think the TSA and religion are quite similar.</text><parent_chain><item><author>timwiseman</author><text>After spending an entire semester in a course on the philosophy of religion and revieing things like the Scopes Monkey Trial during law school, I see arguments both for an against the existence of God.<p>I think there is no proof either way. I personally believe in God and am in fact Christian, but that is a personal choice based on faith and I have great respect for people who have chosen other faiths or who believe that there is no God.<p>This however is different. It can be shown that certain security measures actually are quite useful (sturdy, locked cockpit doors separating pilots and passengers for instance.) It can be shown that others are completely ineffective at their stated goals and seek only to avoid "donothingism" and fall into security theater</text></item><item><author>dlikhten</author><text>Forget terrorism. This is EXACTLY the same as God and Elevators. Think about it. Lets start easy:<p>I see people every day come into an elevator and press the door close button like it is the only way to get air. Nobody realizes that the button does nothing. Furthermore many do, but they do it any ways on the off chance that it saves them an extra millisecond here or there of waiting. It never gives any benefit. However "may as well do it just in case it works". Trivial to disprove but still.<p>God: People worship. Why? Do we know god does exist? no we don't. In fact all signs point to got not existing. Why worship though? On the off chance that god does exist and we won't go to hell. It does not matter that there is no god, people will still worship.<p>Both examples are ways for people to feel better about something they can't control and makes them feel that they can.<p>Now the TSA is exactly the same. It makes no difference, or it does, all signs point to the TSA being complete horsecrap, but people want it just in case there is a possibility they can prevent an act of terrorism and save 10 people at the price of insane expenses, time expenses, people unalbe to travel, personal rights violated, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Isaac Asimov on Security Theatre.</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/10/isaac_asimov_on.html</url><text></text></story> |
24,305,806 | 24,305,795 | 1 | 3 | 24,304,275 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>core-questions</author><text>&gt; Just wait until you tell them to take down their own browser<p>Well, they&#x27;re taking the address bar away, bit by bit; they have SafeSearch; and they have AMP. It&#x27;s a very slow erosion, but there will come a point at which going outside of the list of officially acceptable sites will become more difficult - first with mandatory warnings, then maybe with mandatory reporting to law enforcement or whomever, and eventually not at all.<p>Yes, it sounds like a &quot;slippery slope&quot; argument, but we&#x27;re a few steps down the slope now, and any argument that encourages us to climb back up has to point out where things may go if we don&#x27;t resist.<p>It sucks that this requires us to defend the rights of people to speak whom we may intensely disagree with, but that&#x27;s the crux of the matter. Either we become mature enough to understand that people will have discourse we dislike, and avoid it or engage with it as we see fit, or we continue to hide behind authority figures who will purport to keep us safe by controlling what we can say and think.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rvz</author><text>Exactly. This is Google drawing the line on where this &quot;hate speech&quot; is from and they believe that such &quot;content&quot; can be accessed via the Fediverse.<p>To see how ridiculous this sounds, Google might as well completely take down the entire social media and internet browsing category on the Play Store since I keep seeing the same content from both extremes on all these platforms.<p>Just wait until you tell them to take down their own browser since you can find this &quot;content&quot; with a simple search. They will soon realise that &quot;drawing the line on hate speech&quot; is more tougher than solving leetcode CS questions.</text></item><item><author>humanistbot</author><text>The rationale they gave is that hate speech appears on these apps, because some of the microblogging sites that can be accessed via Fediverse have this kind of content. Based on this rationale, I look forward to Google Play removing Chrome, Firefox, and all other web browsers from the store as well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store</title><url>https://qoto.org/@freemo/104765288863293481</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noworriesnate</author><text>I get what you&#x27;re saying, but I don&#x27;t think this is because Google cares about hate speech. Google is simply using hate speech as an excuse to get rid of apps that it doesn&#x27;t like. Deciding which apps you like and which you don&#x27;t isn&#x27;t that hard of a line to draw.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rvz</author><text>Exactly. This is Google drawing the line on where this &quot;hate speech&quot; is from and they believe that such &quot;content&quot; can be accessed via the Fediverse.<p>To see how ridiculous this sounds, Google might as well completely take down the entire social media and internet browsing category on the Play Store since I keep seeing the same content from both extremes on all these platforms.<p>Just wait until you tell them to take down their own browser since you can find this &quot;content&quot; with a simple search. They will soon realise that &quot;drawing the line on hate speech&quot; is more tougher than solving leetcode CS questions.</text></item><item><author>humanistbot</author><text>The rationale they gave is that hate speech appears on these apps, because some of the microblogging sites that can be accessed via Fediverse have this kind of content. Based on this rationale, I look forward to Google Play removing Chrome, Firefox, and all other web browsers from the store as well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store</title><url>https://qoto.org/@freemo/104765288863293481</url></story> |
29,241,668 | 29,241,720 | 1 | 3 | 29,240,785 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; However some people interested in and working on blockchain and related technologies are pursuing ambitious goals that could reshape the economy and politics in ways that makes them more open to participation<p>I hear this all of the time, but the people and projects “reshaping the economy and politics” are rarely ever named. When it comes to blockchain and cryptocurrency, we’re supposed to believe the “good ones” are out there, somewhere, while ignoring the fact that the blockchain&#x2F;crypto space is absolutely drowning in meme tokens and obvious cash grabs.<p>The superiority of blockchain solutions seems to be assumed for many believers, so it’s natural to assume that superior solutions will eventually arise from this superior blockchain technology.<p>But the superiority of blockchain isn’t obvious for most problems. Moreover, if someone does build a superior solution on top of a blockchain, what’s stopping a centralized player from duplicating the benefits of that superior solution at a lower cost in a centralized platform?<p>This is the conundrum of blockchain and token projects: For them to be superior <i>to the consumer</i> they must eventually have lower fees and costs. Yet blockchain is inherently more expensive than equivalent centralized solutions and, even worse, the token investors expect astronomical (to the moon) returns on their investments, which necessitates extracting a lot of money from the users after the speculative frenzy has died off. At least currently, most blockchain&#x2F;crypto&#x2F;token schemes are built with the assumption that <i>the consumer</i> is the person they will sell the tokens to as a speculative investment, not the person who will actually use the service itself.<p>Decentralized solutions actually have a lot of problems that proponents avoid talking about. For example, DAOs are promoted as ways of decentralizing ownership, but we&#x27;re supposed to ignore the fact that a well-capitalized player could simply spend their way into controlling a DAO by purchasing up enough tokens. And unlike with real-world companies, the ownership can be purchased anonymously in a way that makes it appear to come from a lot of organic traction. A well-funded company could simply spend their way into controlling a DAO and neither regulators, users, nor consumers would even know. We&#x27;re supposed to believe this model is a boon for decentralization, but it&#x27;s a dream come true for surreptitious takeovers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>21eleven</author><text>I think this is a fair criticism to a limited extent, the crypto world is full of useless memecoins that don&#x27;t have value beyond serving as gambling games.<p>However some people interested in and working on blockchain and related technologies are pursuing ambitious goals that could reshape the economy and politics in ways that makes them more open to participation and &quot;strongly typed&quot;&#x2F;formalized. Achieving these goals is not the same as &quot;decentralization&quot; but more about a concept where you start from a decentralized and open base (blockchain) and build structures atop that base that are appropriately balanced between centralized and decentralized.<p>This is all very ambitious and may fail utterly and completely. But if it does succeed there will be a period where people have wild ambitious visions about what could be while the technology progresses to actualize those visions at what appears to be a slow pace.<p>To provide a specific ambitious vision: you could have a world where appropriate taxation of a transaction is built into a smart contract and everything from deciding on how to spend that tax money to the project management for the efforts those tax dollars fund is conducted in the open by people who have achieved various types of stakeholder status. Actually creating a system that allows for this and doesn&#x27;t have tons of other problems will take time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Decentralized Woo Hoo</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/decentralized-woo.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>CJefferson</author><text>Your last point (everything in smart contracts) I just can&#x27;t understand. I personally wouldn&#x27;t want to live in a world where the &quot;computer says no&quot;, and even if a court and Jury disagrees, it&#x27;s impossible to change.<p>Similarly (and it&#x27;s already happened several times), what happens when someone finds a loophole and drains the entire GDP of a country into their account? Do we say &quot;Oh, well that&#x27;s what the smart contract said, so bye bye country?&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>21eleven</author><text>I think this is a fair criticism to a limited extent, the crypto world is full of useless memecoins that don&#x27;t have value beyond serving as gambling games.<p>However some people interested in and working on blockchain and related technologies are pursuing ambitious goals that could reshape the economy and politics in ways that makes them more open to participation and &quot;strongly typed&quot;&#x2F;formalized. Achieving these goals is not the same as &quot;decentralization&quot; but more about a concept where you start from a decentralized and open base (blockchain) and build structures atop that base that are appropriately balanced between centralized and decentralized.<p>This is all very ambitious and may fail utterly and completely. But if it does succeed there will be a period where people have wild ambitious visions about what could be while the technology progresses to actualize those visions at what appears to be a slow pace.<p>To provide a specific ambitious vision: you could have a world where appropriate taxation of a transaction is built into a smart contract and everything from deciding on how to spend that tax money to the project management for the efforts those tax dollars fund is conducted in the open by people who have achieved various types of stakeholder status. Actually creating a system that allows for this and doesn&#x27;t have tons of other problems will take time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Decentralized Woo Hoo</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/decentralized-woo.html</url></story> |
12,256,483 | 12,256,238 | 1 | 2 | 12,254,960 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Retric</author><text>Until very recently 99.99% of conversations where completely private and society functioned just fine. Even with crypto everywhere the governments have far more access to what people say and do than they had for thousands of years.<p>People with power pretend if they just had more power everything would be better. But, reality is if everything on a computer where private not much would change.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rocqua</author><text>I think a very important point was raised though.<p>Before crypto, basically all guarantees where conditional on a judge&#x27;s say so. With crypto this changes. The issue also comes up, in a clearer way, with crypto currencies. There is no way to deal with fraud or mistaken tranfers in bitcoin.<p>That loss of intervention hurts, and we gotta think about it. Even though no government has given a satisfactory solution, that doesn&#x27;t mean there isn&#x27;t a problem in need of solving.</text></item><item><author>forgotpwtomain</author><text>I think this point of view isn&#x27;t just wrong it&#x27;s <i>actively harmful</i>.<p>It completely ignores what happened - which is that various government agencies skirted around constitutional law, subverted public discussion of the matter [0] and have still not been brought into adequate compliance (Since it&#x27;s incredibly hard to demonstrate standing and not have the case squashed [1]).<p>And after all this the author is saying the problem is that the users aren&#x27;t part of the political process? I would say until powers and programs employed by government agencies are brought into accountability (let&#x27;s not forget the CIA monitoring the computers of it&#x27;s own oversight committee [2]) and a transparent debate is allowed to take place, there is precisely nothing better to do and <i>encryption everywhere</i> is precisely the correct populist and democratic way to fight it.<p>&gt;Just this past week Kazakhstan announced that a &quot;state root certificate&quot; would have to be installed on all computers wanting to use SSL&#x2F;TLS&#x2F;HTTPS out of the country.<p>Yes backwards nations like Kazakhstan might be implementing &quot;state root certificates&quot; but this is just clearly demonstrative that the power is on the side of the users in this debate. Isn&#x27;t having these kinds of crazy measures on ballot in Western countries precisely forcing the political process the lack of which the author of this paper is criticizing?<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;andygreenberg&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;watch-top-u-s-intelligence-officials-repeatedly-deny-nsa-spying-on-americans-over-the-last-year-videos&#x2F;#521129b121d3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;andygreenberg&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;watch-t...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;cases&#x2F;jewel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;cases&#x2F;jewel</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;05&#x2F;congress-intelligence-community-whos-overseeing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;05&#x2F;congress-intelligence-co...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More encryption means less privacy</title><url>http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2904894</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cbsmith</author><text>&gt; Before crypto, basically all guarantees where conditional on a judge&#x27;s say so.<p>Sadly, they weren&#x27;t.<p>&gt; With crypto this changes.<p>Actually, with crypto it is much harder to claim that a judge&#x27;s authorization isn&#x27;t required to even try to subvert the privacy intent.<p>&gt; There is no way to deal with fraud or mistaken tranfers in bitcoin.<p>There&#x27;s no way because legally the system (for the most part) considers it outside the scope of fraud laws.<p>&gt; That loss of intervention hurts, and we gotta think about it.<p>TLS doesn&#x27;t create a real loss of intervention. It requires that the intervention be far more explicit and&#x2F;or targeted.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rocqua</author><text>I think a very important point was raised though.<p>Before crypto, basically all guarantees where conditional on a judge&#x27;s say so. With crypto this changes. The issue also comes up, in a clearer way, with crypto currencies. There is no way to deal with fraud or mistaken tranfers in bitcoin.<p>That loss of intervention hurts, and we gotta think about it. Even though no government has given a satisfactory solution, that doesn&#x27;t mean there isn&#x27;t a problem in need of solving.</text></item><item><author>forgotpwtomain</author><text>I think this point of view isn&#x27;t just wrong it&#x27;s <i>actively harmful</i>.<p>It completely ignores what happened - which is that various government agencies skirted around constitutional law, subverted public discussion of the matter [0] and have still not been brought into adequate compliance (Since it&#x27;s incredibly hard to demonstrate standing and not have the case squashed [1]).<p>And after all this the author is saying the problem is that the users aren&#x27;t part of the political process? I would say until powers and programs employed by government agencies are brought into accountability (let&#x27;s not forget the CIA monitoring the computers of it&#x27;s own oversight committee [2]) and a transparent debate is allowed to take place, there is precisely nothing better to do and <i>encryption everywhere</i> is precisely the correct populist and democratic way to fight it.<p>&gt;Just this past week Kazakhstan announced that a &quot;state root certificate&quot; would have to be installed on all computers wanting to use SSL&#x2F;TLS&#x2F;HTTPS out of the country.<p>Yes backwards nations like Kazakhstan might be implementing &quot;state root certificates&quot; but this is just clearly demonstrative that the power is on the side of the users in this debate. Isn&#x27;t having these kinds of crazy measures on ballot in Western countries precisely forcing the political process the lack of which the author of this paper is criticizing?<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;andygreenberg&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;watch-top-u-s-intelligence-officials-repeatedly-deny-nsa-spying-on-americans-over-the-last-year-videos&#x2F;#521129b121d3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;andygreenberg&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;watch-t...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;cases&#x2F;jewel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;cases&#x2F;jewel</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;05&#x2F;congress-intelligence-community-whos-overseeing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;05&#x2F;congress-intelligence-co...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More encryption means less privacy</title><url>http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2904894</url></story> |
14,704,402 | 14,703,689 | 1 | 2 | 14,700,784 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Someone</author><text>If there was a clear incentive, the EU parliament probably wouldn&#x27;t ask for one to be created (<i>&quot;Europe&#x27;s Parliament called on the Commission, Member States and producers Tuesday to take measures to ensure consumers can enjoy durable, high-quality products that can be repaired and upgraded.&quot;</i>)<p>If followed up, this could end up the same as with lead-free soldering. There weren&#x27;t good incentives for manufacturers to remove lead from soldering until the EU passed the RoHS directive (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Restriction_of_Hazardous_Substances_Directive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...</a>) and, subsequently, laws were introduced to implement it throughout the EU.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lumberjack</author><text>Wages have gone up and consumer goods have gone down in price and build quality. It&#x27;s not feasible to have a repair business any more. Growing up, there were still loads of repair businesses around. You could fix anything.<p>If build quality and price go up, you can revert to an economy where you would fix your broken appliance once or twice before you replacing it.<p>But what&#x27;s the incentive for the manufacturers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU Parliament calls for longer lifetime for products</title><url>http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/durable-products.47bf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FTA</author><text>&gt; But what&#x27;s the incentive for the manufacturers?<p>Possibly reducing the companies&#x27; environmental footprint on the world.<p>Instead of cheap devices being scrapped every two years and sent to the landfill, consumers could instead hold on to the companies&#x27; products for much much longer. If products have comparatively more time and quality parts, the cost will indeed go up--both for manufacturing and retail price.<p>My grandmother had the same bread mixer the whole time I was growing up. And I know she had it long before I was born. It was built to last and she took care of it. My mother, on the other hand, went through at least six different plastic, Made in China bread mixers over the course of my childhood.<p>Where&#x27;s the corporate responsibility for all the waste that is generated by crappy products?<p>If you were KitchenAid or another brand, wouldn&#x27;t you want to set yourself apart from the others as a company who cares about the environment by making products that will last for years to come and acknowledging that in advertising? Products that can also be repaired if there is an issue, as opposed to chucked aside for a new one because of their lack of value?<p>I&#x27;d consider such a company the &quot;Whole Foods&quot; of appliances. Citizens who share similar conservation values will likely pay more for that product, just as those who opt for solar&#x2F;wind energy over coal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lumberjack</author><text>Wages have gone up and consumer goods have gone down in price and build quality. It&#x27;s not feasible to have a repair business any more. Growing up, there were still loads of repair businesses around. You could fix anything.<p>If build quality and price go up, you can revert to an economy where you would fix your broken appliance once or twice before you replacing it.<p>But what&#x27;s the incentive for the manufacturers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU Parliament calls for longer lifetime for products</title><url>http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/durable-products.47bf</url></story> |
31,947,257 | 31,947,266 | 1 | 3 | 31,945,425 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krisoft</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s disappointing how most of the articles and videos criticizing the dangerous content don&#x27;t explain why exactly something is dangerous.<p>Which videos are you talking about in particular?<p>Both the Ann Reardon and the Big Clive video explains exactly what makes this experiment more dangerous than others people do.<p>The Big Clive one in particular goes into interesting details about how a ground fault circuit interrupter works, and why it doesn&#x27;t protect you in this case.<p>&gt; They just scream &quot;omg high voltage&quot; &quot;one mistake you&#x27;re dead&quot; and so on.<p>The ones I have seen don&#x27;t scream. They calmly explain that the voltage generated in this setup is much much higher than the voltage the average experimenter has experience with.<p>About the &quot;one mistake you&#x27;re dead&quot;. That is the crux of the matter. People should be aware of how thin the margins are, and how few guard rails protect them in any particular situation.<p>&gt; it reminds me of the medieval experimenters and alchemists being oppressed by the conformist public.<p>Who is oppressing anybody here?</text><parent_chain><item><author>foobarian</author><text>It&#x27;s disappointing how most of the articles and videos criticizing the dangerous content don&#x27;t explain why exactly something is dangerous. They just scream &quot;omg high voltage&quot; &quot;one mistake you&#x27;re dead&quot; and so on. I honestly think they are worse than the source; it reminds me of the medieval experimenters and alchemists being oppressed by the conformist public.</text></item><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>I like Big Clive (and Electroboom) because they know how to be safe, but do the stupid thing anyways (safely) to show how bad the ideas are.</text></item><item><author>dazzawazza</author><text>Big Clive has a good video on why this is dangerous and how to make it more safe. Note: not safe safe, just more safe.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FBeSKL9zVro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FBeSKL9zVro</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2022/07/01/youtube-removes-criticism-of-dangerous-fractal-wood-burning-instructions-but-leaves-up-the-lethal-tips.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>bentcorner</author><text>If you read the article, Reardon&#x27;s video goes over exactly why fractal wood burning is dangerous. She doesn&#x27;t go into extreme detail but I think it&#x27;s enough for the layman to understand (i.e., you can get electrocuted easily, and a gfci won&#x27;t save you). bigclivedotcom&#x27;s video above also goes into why fractal wood burning is dangerous.<p>&gt; <i>I honestly think they are worse than the source; it reminds me of the medieval experimenters and alchemists being oppressed by the conformist public.</i><p>I can kind of see where you&#x27;re coming from here but in this case I think the right thing has happened.</text><parent_chain><item><author>foobarian</author><text>It&#x27;s disappointing how most of the articles and videos criticizing the dangerous content don&#x27;t explain why exactly something is dangerous. They just scream &quot;omg high voltage&quot; &quot;one mistake you&#x27;re dead&quot; and so on. I honestly think they are worse than the source; it reminds me of the medieval experimenters and alchemists being oppressed by the conformist public.</text></item><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>I like Big Clive (and Electroboom) because they know how to be safe, but do the stupid thing anyways (safely) to show how bad the ideas are.</text></item><item><author>dazzawazza</author><text>Big Clive has a good video on why this is dangerous and how to make it more safe. Note: not safe safe, just more safe.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FBeSKL9zVro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FBeSKL9zVro</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2022/07/01/youtube-removes-criticism-of-dangerous-fractal-wood-burning-instructions-but-leaves-up-the-lethal-tips.html</url></story> |
10,768,298 | 10,767,233 | 1 | 2 | 10,766,672 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>untog</author><text>&gt; NYC&#x27;s fascination with inefficient window units is really quite strange. I suppose landlords enjoy not having to pay for installation and maintenance of permanent units.<p>Fascination is not the right word. As you correctly assert, landlords have no interest in installing permanent AC, so my window unit is my only option, and it isn&#x27;t particularly fascinating.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jzwinck</author><text>One of the culprits:<p>&gt; air-conditioning units (which are basically unrestricted openings to the street)<p>Window air conditioning units are virtually unknown in a large part of the warm weather world. We use &quot;split systems,&quot; where only a couple thin pipes and some wires connect the outdoors with the indoors. NYC&#x27;s fascination with inefficient window units is really quite strange. I suppose landlords enjoy not having to pay for installation and maintenance of permanent units.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Soundproofing for New York Noise</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/realestate/soundproofing-for-new-york-noise.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>tw04</author><text>Given that a window unit is on the order of hundreds to a thousand dollars (for a REALLY nice unit) and the permanent external&#x2F;internal systems are on the order of $5-10k, I think the fascination is pretty obvious.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jzwinck</author><text>One of the culprits:<p>&gt; air-conditioning units (which are basically unrestricted openings to the street)<p>Window air conditioning units are virtually unknown in a large part of the warm weather world. We use &quot;split systems,&quot; where only a couple thin pipes and some wires connect the outdoors with the indoors. NYC&#x27;s fascination with inefficient window units is really quite strange. I suppose landlords enjoy not having to pay for installation and maintenance of permanent units.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Soundproofing for New York Noise</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/realestate/soundproofing-for-new-york-noise.html</url></story> |
28,222,705 | 28,222,554 | 1 | 3 | 28,220,968 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scoopertrooper</author><text>&gt; Apple&#x27;s using my electricity and my silicon to call the cops on me.<p>Okay.<p>&gt; We have no idea what hashes they&#x27;re checking images against; we can&#x27;t see the raw data, and we can&#x27;t see the hashes, and we can&#x27;t see what they&#x27;re sending to their servers.<p>Apple is getting the entire image regardless, this happens as part of the iCloud upload process.<p>&gt; There is no technical reason why this needs to exist. If they want to scan iCloud photos for something, they can do that on their servers. iCloud is not end-to-end encrypted. Law enforcement can do whatever they want with the data you send there. Since they chose the client-side route, they have to be up to something, and it all smells very fishy.<p>It&#x27;s a hell of a lot cheaper to distribute the load onto the device than to do it on GCP. However, this whole line of thinking is ridiculous, iOS is your operating system, it can send what it likes where it likes without you knowing about it. Why does this particular thing cause concern?<p>&gt; Tomorrow, it will be for any discontent against whatever government wants to oppress its people this week -- and as time goes forward, that is not just third-world countries where you don&#x27;t live, it could be your own.<p>&gt; Do you really want to explain to the police at your door at 3:30 in the morning why you read a website called Hacker News? This is the first step towards that reality.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.txstate.edu&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;resources&#x2F;fallacy-definitions&#x2F;Slippery-Slope.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.txstate.edu&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;resources&#x2F;fallacy-definit...</a><p>&gt; Imagine I wrote a program that contained the phone numbers of people I don&#x27;t like. The database is encrypted, and the only way to see if you&#x27;re on that list is to install the app on your phone. The app does two things -- nothing if you&#x27;re not on my list, or it sends me your location (at your expense!) if you are. Would you install that app? Absolutely not, that would be crazy. But that is basically what is bundled into iOS now.<p>Again, your overlooking the fact that this app is already coming from Apple the company that made iOS. They already control your phone, why would they need some additional app?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>Apple&#x27;s using my electricity and my silicon to call the cops on me. We have no idea what hashes they&#x27;re checking images against; we can&#x27;t see the raw data, and we can&#x27;t see the hashes, and we can&#x27;t see what they&#x27;re sending to their servers.<p>There is no technical reason why this needs to exist. If they want to scan iCloud photos for something, they can do that on their servers. iCloud is not end-to-end encrypted. Law enforcement can do whatever they want with the data you send there. Since they chose the client-side route, they have to be up to something, and it all smells very fishy. Today, they say it&#x27;s for CSAM. Tomorrow, it will be for any discontent against whatever government wants to oppress its people this week -- and as time goes forward, that is not just third-world countries where you don&#x27;t live, it could be your own.<p>Do you really want to explain to the police at your door at 3:30 in the morning why you read a website called Hacker News? This is the first step towards that reality.<p>Imagine I wrote a program that contained the phone numbers of people I don&#x27;t like. The database is encrypted, and the only way to see if you&#x27;re on that list is to install the app on your phone. The app does two things -- nothing if you&#x27;re not on my list, or it sends me your location (at your expense!) if you are. Would you install that app? Absolutely not, that would be crazy. But that is basically what is bundled into iOS now.<p>I really like my iPhone and iPad Pro. I like how Apple handles privacy in general. But I can&#x27;t accept this. It&#x27;s a step too far. You don&#x27;t have to draw the line there, but I draw the line there.</text></item><item><author>scoopertrooper</author><text>Exactly, I think people are just getting a little too worked up over this whole thing. Apple computes a hash of each image you upload to iCloud then check it against a list of CP hashes.<p>Of all the things in the world to get worked up over, this is ridiculous.<p>I get it, the mechanism they&#x27;re using has apparent flaws, and maybe some whacko could somehow get access to your phone and start uploading things that trick the algorithm into thinking you have CP.<p>But, that alone is such a ridiculous phobia, if someone has that level of access to your phone, they could upload real CP and maybe even upload it to your Facebook for good measure.</text></item><item><author>gjsman-1000</author><text>To be honest... None.<p>It&#x27;s a choice. You might wholly disagree, but recent events aren&#x27;t enough to get me to switch yet, because I think the competition has too many tradeoffs.<p>I can get my photos scanned against a CSAM database... or I can have Google tracking my location constantly regardless of what they say (as they&#x27;ve been proven to be misleading in the past)... or I can use a Linux phone and say goodbye to battery life and useful apps I need. I&#x27;ll pick CSAM Scanning over my Location data being in the hands of Google, sorry.<p>And as for my laptop, macOS doesn&#x27;t scan, and the M1 is too impressive and has me spoiled. And I have too many horror stories with both Linux and Windows and can&#x27;t stand either of them. (Don&#x27;t tell me switch to Linux - I&#x27;ve tried over a dozen distributions over the last decade. It&#x27;s just not there yet.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?</title><text>Due to the controversy around Apple&#x27;s CSAM backdoor plans, it seems like quite a few people are wondering what kind of alternatives are available. Let&#x27;s share them!<p>My choices:<p>- Desktop: Manjaro Gnome, because it feels like macOS. It even does the 3 finger swipe up to see all your apps with Apple&#x27;s Touchpad. My wireless Apple Keyboard also works fine.<p>Screenshot: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;UYPfgkC<p>To install it on my older MacBook Pro from 2014, but I had to use Android internet tethering to install the WiFi driver.
To install it on my super new desktop, I had to use an ISO with a newer Kernel (5.13) due to the Radeon 6700 XT graphics card. I got that one from https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;manjaro&#x2F;release-review&#x2F;releases&#x2F; instead of the Manjaro main website.<p>- Phone: I considered a Pixel with CalyxOS, but ended up buying a OnePlus 8T with microG variant of LineageOS from https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lineage.microg.org<p>Alternatively a Pixel phone would also run this version of LineageOS. MicroG (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;microg.org&#x2F;) re-implements some parts of Google Play Services, while safeguarding your privacy, like push notifications. It also has some other Google-specific features re-implemented. I have over 40 apps and only found 1 that didn&#x27;t work so far (which is Uber Eats, because they seem to require Google Advertisement ID). I pushed a modified Google Camera app to it (from https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.celsoazevedo.com&#x2F;), so my camera is better supported. I think only 3 out of 4 cameras are working, but I don&#x27;t care.<p>- Watch: Amazfit GTR 2e with the official app. Alternatively it should work with Gadgetbridge if you don&#x27;t want to use the offical app (&quot;Zepp&quot;). Amazfit GTR 2 is a better option if you want it to have WiFi and want to store music on it. Alternatives I considered: OnePlus Watch and Fossil Hybrid.<p>Apple features that I gave up:<p>- Apple Carplay: Because I don&#x27;t want to use the Google ecosystem, Android Auto is not an alternative. I&#x27;ll use my car&#x27;s own GPS system, or I&#x27;ll end up using my phone&#x27;s offline maps.<p>- Apple Pay: My bank luckily has a contactless payment app for my phone, but I won&#x27;t be making payments with my watch anymore.</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>gjsman-1000</author><text>Apple could scan on the cloud. Rumor is that Apple wants to use E2E on iCloud, and this is a necessary step to shut up the government&#x27;s biggest critique of E2E and deploy it before the government can figure out a different excuse. We&#x27;ll see if that pans out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>Apple&#x27;s using my electricity and my silicon to call the cops on me. We have no idea what hashes they&#x27;re checking images against; we can&#x27;t see the raw data, and we can&#x27;t see the hashes, and we can&#x27;t see what they&#x27;re sending to their servers.<p>There is no technical reason why this needs to exist. If they want to scan iCloud photos for something, they can do that on their servers. iCloud is not end-to-end encrypted. Law enforcement can do whatever they want with the data you send there. Since they chose the client-side route, they have to be up to something, and it all smells very fishy. Today, they say it&#x27;s for CSAM. Tomorrow, it will be for any discontent against whatever government wants to oppress its people this week -- and as time goes forward, that is not just third-world countries where you don&#x27;t live, it could be your own.<p>Do you really want to explain to the police at your door at 3:30 in the morning why you read a website called Hacker News? This is the first step towards that reality.<p>Imagine I wrote a program that contained the phone numbers of people I don&#x27;t like. The database is encrypted, and the only way to see if you&#x27;re on that list is to install the app on your phone. The app does two things -- nothing if you&#x27;re not on my list, or it sends me your location (at your expense!) if you are. Would you install that app? Absolutely not, that would be crazy. But that is basically what is bundled into iOS now.<p>I really like my iPhone and iPad Pro. I like how Apple handles privacy in general. But I can&#x27;t accept this. It&#x27;s a step too far. You don&#x27;t have to draw the line there, but I draw the line there.</text></item><item><author>scoopertrooper</author><text>Exactly, I think people are just getting a little too worked up over this whole thing. Apple computes a hash of each image you upload to iCloud then check it against a list of CP hashes.<p>Of all the things in the world to get worked up over, this is ridiculous.<p>I get it, the mechanism they&#x27;re using has apparent flaws, and maybe some whacko could somehow get access to your phone and start uploading things that trick the algorithm into thinking you have CP.<p>But, that alone is such a ridiculous phobia, if someone has that level of access to your phone, they could upload real CP and maybe even upload it to your Facebook for good measure.</text></item><item><author>gjsman-1000</author><text>To be honest... None.<p>It&#x27;s a choice. You might wholly disagree, but recent events aren&#x27;t enough to get me to switch yet, because I think the competition has too many tradeoffs.<p>I can get my photos scanned against a CSAM database... or I can have Google tracking my location constantly regardless of what they say (as they&#x27;ve been proven to be misleading in the past)... or I can use a Linux phone and say goodbye to battery life and useful apps I need. I&#x27;ll pick CSAM Scanning over my Location data being in the hands of Google, sorry.<p>And as for my laptop, macOS doesn&#x27;t scan, and the M1 is too impressive and has me spoiled. And I have too many horror stories with both Linux and Windows and can&#x27;t stand either of them. (Don&#x27;t tell me switch to Linux - I&#x27;ve tried over a dozen distributions over the last decade. It&#x27;s just not there yet.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?</title><text>Due to the controversy around Apple&#x27;s CSAM backdoor plans, it seems like quite a few people are wondering what kind of alternatives are available. Let&#x27;s share them!<p>My choices:<p>- Desktop: Manjaro Gnome, because it feels like macOS. It even does the 3 finger swipe up to see all your apps with Apple&#x27;s Touchpad. My wireless Apple Keyboard also works fine.<p>Screenshot: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;UYPfgkC<p>To install it on my older MacBook Pro from 2014, but I had to use Android internet tethering to install the WiFi driver.
To install it on my super new desktop, I had to use an ISO with a newer Kernel (5.13) due to the Radeon 6700 XT graphics card. I got that one from https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;manjaro&#x2F;release-review&#x2F;releases&#x2F; instead of the Manjaro main website.<p>- Phone: I considered a Pixel with CalyxOS, but ended up buying a OnePlus 8T with microG variant of LineageOS from https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lineage.microg.org<p>Alternatively a Pixel phone would also run this version of LineageOS. MicroG (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;microg.org&#x2F;) re-implements some parts of Google Play Services, while safeguarding your privacy, like push notifications. It also has some other Google-specific features re-implemented. I have over 40 apps and only found 1 that didn&#x27;t work so far (which is Uber Eats, because they seem to require Google Advertisement ID). I pushed a modified Google Camera app to it (from https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.celsoazevedo.com&#x2F;), so my camera is better supported. I think only 3 out of 4 cameras are working, but I don&#x27;t care.<p>- Watch: Amazfit GTR 2e with the official app. Alternatively it should work with Gadgetbridge if you don&#x27;t want to use the offical app (&quot;Zepp&quot;). Amazfit GTR 2 is a better option if you want it to have WiFi and want to store music on it. Alternatives I considered: OnePlus Watch and Fossil Hybrid.<p>Apple features that I gave up:<p>- Apple Carplay: Because I don&#x27;t want to use the Google ecosystem, Android Auto is not an alternative. I&#x27;ll use my car&#x27;s own GPS system, or I&#x27;ll end up using my phone&#x27;s offline maps.<p>- Apple Pay: My bank luckily has a contactless payment app for my phone, but I won&#x27;t be making payments with my watch anymore.</text></story> |
24,250,827 | 24,248,932 | 1 | 2 | 24,247,561 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neya</author><text>This isn&#x27;t necessarily true in all cases - I can cite you an opposite example. Pre-covid, I was in Singapore. You pay $10 SGD for 1GB of data ONLY (no calls included). The top network operator in Singapore is state-backed Singtel.
Their network coverage is very poor in many areas within the city. Singapore is almost literally just one big city and yet, the 4G experience is extremely poor.
Also, customer support is very difficult to get hold of, if you&#x27;re on the prepaid plan. I almost found it a rip off to pay so much for 1GB of 4G data for such a crappy experience.<p>Now, after my trip, I went to India. I paid $10 for 1.5GB of data DAILY from Airtel (India&#x27;s top provider) which also includes free unlimited calls. The experience isn&#x27;t uniform (India is quite huge in comparison to Singapore) but within any tier A city, Airtel is MUCH better than Singtel. Also, the customer support is top notch for the peanuts you pay them and you can find an operator to talk to in usually a minute or less. For comparison, in Singtel, you would have to navigate the crazyily designed IVR and wait for atleast 5+ minutes before you can talk to a real person.<p>I&#x27;m just citing this example to prove that the most expensive 1GB isn&#x27;t necessarily the best.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amingilani</author><text>Not all Internet experiences are equal though. 1 GB of internet in Pakistan ($0.69) ≠ 1 GB of internet in Canada ($12.55). I would gladly trade my Pakistani internet plan for my Canadian internet plan.<p>Last month, when I was in Pakistan, my experience was:<p>+ highly censored to the point where even services like Cloudflare&#x27;s edge-node&#x27;s within the country were being MiTM-ed by the censors [0];<p>+ I couldn&#x27;t use &quot;any mode of communication such as VPN by means of which communication becomes hidden or encrypted is a violation of PTA regulations&quot; in the words of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authoruty (PTA) —Pakistan&#x27;s FCC-equivalent. I asked them if TLS&#x2F;SSL was included but they never tweeted back; and<p>+ I didn&#x27;t have access to services like Paypal, and when a service hadn&#x27;t rolled out &quot;globally&quot;, it wasn&#x27;t available to me.<p>Oh, and while I had &quot;unlimited&quot; internet, I was subject to my carrier&#x27;s &quot;Fair Use Policy&quot; which had an unspecified maximum download limit after which your internet would be cut off. This was reported by a lot of people during the initial work-from-home boost during the pandemic when home-data-usage spiked.<p>Now that I&#x27;m in Canada, my internet is nearly unrestricted.<p>Edit: previous said my ISP restricted IRC. Just rechecked, it no longer does.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;amingilani&#x2F;status&#x2F;1283448960666009601" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;amingilani&#x2F;status&#x2F;1283448960666009601</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)</title><url>https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Scapeghost</author><text>And let&#x27;s not forget being assumed to be a spammer by almost all sites, getting rate limited or shadowbanned, not to mention being buried with captchas and having to do unpaid labor to train Google&#x27;s AI just to access some sites! If you&#x27;re not outright blocked, that is.<p>All for having an IP address originating from such regions with cheap internet that you can&#x27;t do much with anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amingilani</author><text>Not all Internet experiences are equal though. 1 GB of internet in Pakistan ($0.69) ≠ 1 GB of internet in Canada ($12.55). I would gladly trade my Pakistani internet plan for my Canadian internet plan.<p>Last month, when I was in Pakistan, my experience was:<p>+ highly censored to the point where even services like Cloudflare&#x27;s edge-node&#x27;s within the country were being MiTM-ed by the censors [0];<p>+ I couldn&#x27;t use &quot;any mode of communication such as VPN by means of which communication becomes hidden or encrypted is a violation of PTA regulations&quot; in the words of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authoruty (PTA) —Pakistan&#x27;s FCC-equivalent. I asked them if TLS&#x2F;SSL was included but they never tweeted back; and<p>+ I didn&#x27;t have access to services like Paypal, and when a service hadn&#x27;t rolled out &quot;globally&quot;, it wasn&#x27;t available to me.<p>Oh, and while I had &quot;unlimited&quot; internet, I was subject to my carrier&#x27;s &quot;Fair Use Policy&quot; which had an unspecified maximum download limit after which your internet would be cut off. This was reported by a lot of people during the initial work-from-home boost during the pandemic when home-data-usage spiked.<p>Now that I&#x27;m in Canada, my internet is nearly unrestricted.<p>Edit: previous said my ISP restricted IRC. Just rechecked, it no longer does.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;amingilani&#x2F;status&#x2F;1283448960666009601" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;amingilani&#x2F;status&#x2F;1283448960666009601</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)</title><url>https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/</url></story> |
10,187,752 | 10,187,821 | 1 | 2 | 10,187,596 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dcwca</author><text>Instability is the very thing this merge and the foundation seek to address. Where there was once an uncertain future, there is now a Board of Directors and a Technical Steering Committee bound by a Open Governance Model.<p>The future has never looked more stable for Node, just take a peek at the names of the companies sitting on the board: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodejs.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcements&#x2F;foundation-elects-board&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodejs.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcements&#x2F;foundation-elects-b...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>blowski</author><text>As somebody who uses Node only at the periphery of my role (for things like the Zombie browser, and SASS parsing) the massive instability has put me off from relying on it for anything core.<p>Documentation is quickly out of date, libraries seem to have incompatibilities which only become obvious when they don&#x27;t work, there&#x27;s no &#x27;recommended&#x27; approach for even basic tasks.<p>I won&#x27;t pretend I&#x27;m speaking for everyone, as clearly there are lots of people doing great things with Node. However, it doesn&#x27;t seem to be a language like Ruby or Python where I would feel comfortable using it for a small but important project.<p>I&#x27;m always grateful to everyone who works on open source projects, but I wouldn&#x27;t hold Node up as a great example of the open source community.</text></item><item><author>dcwca</author><text>The io.js fork and subsequent merge back into Node.js, including the birth of the Node Foundation, has been one of the best examples of the power of open source I have ever seen in action.<p>The situation went from bad, to worse, to the best possible outcome, and that&#x27;s remarkable to say the least.<p>Congratulations to everyone involved and thank you for the hard work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Node v4.0.0</title><url>https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.0.0/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>untog</author><text>I mean, Ruby was created in 1995, Python in 1991. Node was first released in 2009. That&#x27;s not an entirely fair comparison since, of course, <i>JavaScript</i> was created long before Node, but Node introduced the language to a new environment, and a lot of complications needed (and in some cases, still need) to be sorted out.<p>As for no recommend approach - that&#x27;s deliberate. I don&#x27;t think most people working on Node <i>want</i> a Rails equivalent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blowski</author><text>As somebody who uses Node only at the periphery of my role (for things like the Zombie browser, and SASS parsing) the massive instability has put me off from relying on it for anything core.<p>Documentation is quickly out of date, libraries seem to have incompatibilities which only become obvious when they don&#x27;t work, there&#x27;s no &#x27;recommended&#x27; approach for even basic tasks.<p>I won&#x27;t pretend I&#x27;m speaking for everyone, as clearly there are lots of people doing great things with Node. However, it doesn&#x27;t seem to be a language like Ruby or Python where I would feel comfortable using it for a small but important project.<p>I&#x27;m always grateful to everyone who works on open source projects, but I wouldn&#x27;t hold Node up as a great example of the open source community.</text></item><item><author>dcwca</author><text>The io.js fork and subsequent merge back into Node.js, including the birth of the Node Foundation, has been one of the best examples of the power of open source I have ever seen in action.<p>The situation went from bad, to worse, to the best possible outcome, and that&#x27;s remarkable to say the least.<p>Congratulations to everyone involved and thank you for the hard work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Node v4.0.0</title><url>https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.0.0/</url></story> |
11,072,057 | 11,072,004 | 1 | 2 | 11,071,517 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pmontra</author><text>Yes, text reflow is essential and it&#x27;s the reason I&#x27;m using Opera on my phone and tablet. It&#x27;s much more important that pinch to zoom: zooming is useless if you clip out half of the text you&#x27;re reading and you have to start scrolling left and right.<p>I wonder if Opera added it to blink as a patch or if they&#x27;re working on an upper layer of the software. If it&#x27;s a patch it would be nice to contribute it to the main repository.<p>BTW, it&#x27;s at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;blink&#x2F;+&#x2F;master" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;blink&#x2F;+&#x2F;master</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>vardump</author><text>Sigh. Opera is the only (mobile) web browser that implements text reflow sensibly, limiting block level elements to screen width.<p>So when you zoom into text that&#x27;s wider than screen, it always reflows so that just vertical scrolling is required to read it.<p>Other mobile browsers force me to either zoom out making text illegibly small or to continuously scroll horizontally.<p>I so don&#x27;t want to lose such a useful browser. If Opera is gone, I might have to write my own to do the same. Or more likely to hack Chrome or Firefox to do more sensible layout.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese Tech Group Led by Qihoo 360 Bids $1.2B for Browser Maker Opera</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/09/chinese-tech-group-led-by-qihoo-360-bids-1-2b-for-browser-maker-opera/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vezycash</author><text>Text reflow is something that seems obvious. It&#x27;s beyond hilarious that other browsers don&#x27;t implement it.<p>Maybe Steve jobs needs to wake up from the grave to implement sensible browser features.<p>Simple font size option is absent in IE for WP. The contraption they put in its place requires changing the don&#x27;t size for the entire operating system - just because I want to increase the font size of a single article.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vardump</author><text>Sigh. Opera is the only (mobile) web browser that implements text reflow sensibly, limiting block level elements to screen width.<p>So when you zoom into text that&#x27;s wider than screen, it always reflows so that just vertical scrolling is required to read it.<p>Other mobile browsers force me to either zoom out making text illegibly small or to continuously scroll horizontally.<p>I so don&#x27;t want to lose such a useful browser. If Opera is gone, I might have to write my own to do the same. Or more likely to hack Chrome or Firefox to do more sensible layout.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese Tech Group Led by Qihoo 360 Bids $1.2B for Browser Maker Opera</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/09/chinese-tech-group-led-by-qihoo-360-bids-1-2b-for-browser-maker-opera/</url></story> |
872,601 | 872,579 | 1 | 2 | 872,283 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mojombo</author><text>Each box can handle plenty more than 16 workers, but we currently don't need that many, so it's pointless to run them. Our frontend machines generally sit about 60% idle. We wanted to have plenty of headroom on our new setup.<p>Also, our Ruby application code spends very little time blocking on external resources (compared to time spent in Ruby execution), so having async execution on these wouldn't give us that much more efficiency. It's true that running Ruby code is generally more expensive (dollar-wise) per given task than other languages, but we made a conscious decision to make that tradeoff for the productivity gains that Ruby affords us. We use Erlang and EventMachine in other pieces of the architecture where they make sense.<p>The simple fact is that Unicorn works better for us (and our specific use case) than anything else we've tried, and so we're using it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>antonovka</author><text>The argument encompassed two aspects of the model:<p>1) "Threads are out -- processes are better than threads."<p>2) Process-per-connection architectures.<p>The first is demonstrably false -- for instance, look at Erlang, which maps lightweight erlang processes to operating system threads, providing SMP scalability at a low cost without running into Github's issues with mongrel "thread-killing". More broadly used, look at Servlets and the Servlet 3.0 support for async comet-style event-based request handling. Each request is handled on a thread as necessary. Inter-thread communication (where necessary) is cheap, and this scales just fine.<p>If you use the fork() model and a long-running request blocks the entire process, comet is basically a non-starter. This is why people are interested (and implement) lightweight threads, coroutines, and restartable request implementations.<p>For a conceptual challenge, consider how you would implement a live web chat system that can scale up to a considerable number of clients, with extremely low resource usage, and instant message distribution (no polling). Locally, we implemented this with async servlet support and M:N scheduled scala actors -- a blocking HTTP request doesn't hold a thread or process hostage in the web server or the application, and we can scale up to enormous number of live clients on one machine.<p>The second was merely a lack of understanding of the model. In implementations where fork() is used as an alternative to threads and multiple connections are not handled per sub-process, you quickly run into scaling issues with subprocess memory utilization. In cases where subprocesses handle multiple connections via an event mechanism, you're just using fork() instead of threads.<p>I'm wondering how many servers github is using to keep up with load -- If each 8 core 16 gigabyte (!!!) server can actually only handle 16 concurrent requests via a pool of 16 workers, that's an incredibly poor (and expensive) scaling model.</text></item><item><author>aaronblohowiak</author><text>Right, but it is being handled by processes and not threads, which the argument was about the other day.</text></item><item><author>seiji</author><text>It's connection pooling, not a fork-per-accept web server. Each worker is select/epoll/kqueue'ing for individual requests.</text></item><item><author>dschobel</author><text><i>When the Unicorn master starts, it loads our app into memory. As soon as it’s ready to serve requests it forks 16 workers. Those workers then select() on the socket, only serving requests they’re capable of handling. In this way the kernel handles the load balancing for us.</i><p>Wasn't there a heated debate here just the other day about the prefork model?<p>Guess it's at least back en vogue @github.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub's Unicorn Setup</title><url>http://github.com/blog/517-unicorn</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrshoe</author><text>Where were all you people in this thread the other day when I seemed to be the only one who understood the other side of this debate?!? :-P<p>I'm also very curious about the 16 workers per box model. Frankly, that github would ditch haproxy in favor of a pre-fork Ruby web server is shocking.<p>I'm just glad we have CherryPy in the Python world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>antonovka</author><text>The argument encompassed two aspects of the model:<p>1) "Threads are out -- processes are better than threads."<p>2) Process-per-connection architectures.<p>The first is demonstrably false -- for instance, look at Erlang, which maps lightweight erlang processes to operating system threads, providing SMP scalability at a low cost without running into Github's issues with mongrel "thread-killing". More broadly used, look at Servlets and the Servlet 3.0 support for async comet-style event-based request handling. Each request is handled on a thread as necessary. Inter-thread communication (where necessary) is cheap, and this scales just fine.<p>If you use the fork() model and a long-running request blocks the entire process, comet is basically a non-starter. This is why people are interested (and implement) lightweight threads, coroutines, and restartable request implementations.<p>For a conceptual challenge, consider how you would implement a live web chat system that can scale up to a considerable number of clients, with extremely low resource usage, and instant message distribution (no polling). Locally, we implemented this with async servlet support and M:N scheduled scala actors -- a blocking HTTP request doesn't hold a thread or process hostage in the web server or the application, and we can scale up to enormous number of live clients on one machine.<p>The second was merely a lack of understanding of the model. In implementations where fork() is used as an alternative to threads and multiple connections are not handled per sub-process, you quickly run into scaling issues with subprocess memory utilization. In cases where subprocesses handle multiple connections via an event mechanism, you're just using fork() instead of threads.<p>I'm wondering how many servers github is using to keep up with load -- If each 8 core 16 gigabyte (!!!) server can actually only handle 16 concurrent requests via a pool of 16 workers, that's an incredibly poor (and expensive) scaling model.</text></item><item><author>aaronblohowiak</author><text>Right, but it is being handled by processes and not threads, which the argument was about the other day.</text></item><item><author>seiji</author><text>It's connection pooling, not a fork-per-accept web server. Each worker is select/epoll/kqueue'ing for individual requests.</text></item><item><author>dschobel</author><text><i>When the Unicorn master starts, it loads our app into memory. As soon as it’s ready to serve requests it forks 16 workers. Those workers then select() on the socket, only serving requests they’re capable of handling. In this way the kernel handles the load balancing for us.</i><p>Wasn't there a heated debate here just the other day about the prefork model?<p>Guess it's at least back en vogue @github.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub's Unicorn Setup</title><url>http://github.com/blog/517-unicorn</url></story> |
39,414,211 | 39,414,201 | 1 | 3 | 39,412,680 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>There&#x27;s a related ongoing thread on the frontpage right now:<p><i>Ollama is now available on Windows in preview</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39409650">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39409650</a> - Feb 2024 (78 comments)<p>Also, in case of interest:<p><i>Run Llama 2 uncensored locally</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36973584">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36973584</a> - Aug 2023 (212 comments)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Run Llama 2 uncensored locally</title><url>https://ollama.com/blog/run-llama2-uncensored-locally</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>btbuildem</author><text>This is sort of our only hope against &quot;Big AI&quot; -- their offerings are so neutered, and their big customers so paralyzed by internal bureaucracy, fear of security, and having to appear &quot;correct&quot;, that together they will render this effectively useless. OpenAI had an edge over _everyone_, but gave it up to appease all the Helen Lovejoys, and I see the same mindset internally at Big Corp, where they&#x27;d rather disable legitimate functionality than appear to seem to be looking in the general direction of something that could be considered controversial.<p>They have billions of dollars, endless computing power, oceans of RAM and the smartest PhDs, but in the end its the rag-tag open source tinkerers that will run circles around them. At least, one can hope :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Run Llama 2 uncensored locally</title><url>https://ollama.com/blog/run-llama2-uncensored-locally</url></story> |
33,949,787 | 33,949,947 | 1 | 3 | 33,948,535 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phphphphp</author><text>The good experience you had early on and the bad state of the company now are closely linked.<p>The story is always the same with this type of company: take a mature industry that is profitable on a unit basis <i>because</i> it’s boring and unpleasant, then build a narrative around some strategy to make it exciting (giant vending machines!) and get buy-in to spend huge amounts of money in pursuit of the narrative but eventually discover the only way to be profitable is to do what the mature industry players already discovered — but now you’ve got so much debt to service you have to cut even more corners and somehow manage to spend billions on becoming a worse version of what already existed and whatever goodwill you earned is burned.<p>There’s lots of room for businesses to improve on the boring legacy industries with low margins — like car buying and selling — but it requires careful iteration, it requires taking the established understanding and then building on it. Subsidising the cost of good-but-unprofitable service using investment dollars (Carvana was losing thousands per sale pre-pandemic) doesn’t build a sustainable business <i>unless</i> it’s part of a strategy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I bought a used car from Carvana before the pandemic, and this is pretty sad news to me because after that purchase I vowed that all my future cars would come from Carvana. The buying experience was simply excellent for me, and I couldn&#x27;t be happier with the car I bought. I figured I probably could have gotten a comparable deal slightly cheaper somewhere else, but I would have wasted a ton of time, and still would have crossed my fingers that I wasn&#x27;t buying a lemon - any slight premium I paid to Carvana I felt was totally worth it.<p>I hope they can fix their financial issues (sounds like they just &quot;bought high and are selling low&quot;) and their operational issues (in some places word got out that it was cheaper to just &quot;buy&quot; a Carvana car and then return it &lt; 7 days rather than getting a car rental), because, at least for me, their purchasing experience was great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As Carvana crashes, used car dealers, not buyers, stand to win big</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/used-vehicle-retailer-carvana-bankruptcy-car-buyers-inventory-2022-12</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GekkePrutser</author><text>I wonder if it&#x27;s possible for these concepts to really go big.<p>The problem is, there&#x27;s a lot more lemons on the market then there&#x27;s great deals. Nobody wants the car that doesn&#x27;t start twice a week or that&#x27;s been in an accident and has its chassis skewed.<p>These sites start out by promoting seller karma or something but even the best sellers have lemons to get rid of. At the start they probably just sell them elsewhere to keep their rating high. Eventually as these sites get so big you can&#x27;t avoid them, the quality will inevitably drop because they capture too big of a market which just includes a lot of crap.<p>At the same time investors will want to see that exponentially skyrocketing line continuing so they&#x27;ll be pushing to cut corners left right and center just as things get difficult.<p>I don&#x27;t know Carvana as I don&#x27;t drive much anymore but I assume the same story supplies here at least in some ways.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I bought a used car from Carvana before the pandemic, and this is pretty sad news to me because after that purchase I vowed that all my future cars would come from Carvana. The buying experience was simply excellent for me, and I couldn&#x27;t be happier with the car I bought. I figured I probably could have gotten a comparable deal slightly cheaper somewhere else, but I would have wasted a ton of time, and still would have crossed my fingers that I wasn&#x27;t buying a lemon - any slight premium I paid to Carvana I felt was totally worth it.<p>I hope they can fix their financial issues (sounds like they just &quot;bought high and are selling low&quot;) and their operational issues (in some places word got out that it was cheaper to just &quot;buy&quot; a Carvana car and then return it &lt; 7 days rather than getting a car rental), because, at least for me, their purchasing experience was great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As Carvana crashes, used car dealers, not buyers, stand to win big</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/used-vehicle-retailer-carvana-bankruptcy-car-buyers-inventory-2022-12</url></story> |
4,194,525 | 4,194,325 | 1 | 2 | 4,193,516 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amix</author><text>I think it's strange that people discuss "MVC" without specifying which MVC they talk about - - because most of MVC patterns are VERY different and used in very different contexts (e.g. Rails and Smalltalk). About a year ago I did a blog post about the history and usage of MVC* and for me it does not make sense to talk about MVC as a general pattern, because the implementations, contexts and ideas are very different from one MVC to another. If you want to discuss MVC please specify which MVC pattern you talk about.<p>Regarding this article I think it would be much better if the author provided some code for his "state machine" idea. Currently it's just a blurb of text and it's hard to imagine how his ideas would work in practice.<p>One framework I enjoy and use is Lamson - - Zed Shaw's mail server framework. It uses a state machine abstraction and it works quite well. This said, I think mail server processing is very suited for the state machine abstraction - - I am unsure how suited UI is, since it's a lot more complex than processing email.<p>* <a href="http://amix.dk/blog/post/19615" rel="nofollow">http://amix.dk/blog/post/19615</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MVC, MOVE - Or Simply A State Machine?</title><url>http://ingoschramm.tumblr.com/post/26409997578/mvc-move-or-simply-a-state-machine</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gruseom</author><text>Yes! State machines are a natural paradigm for complex UIs.<p>Event handlers are great as long as they remain independent little globs of code: this button turns that thing off, this click makes that color different, etc. But once they start affecting each other at a distance (e.g., the button starts some action that temporarily changes the meaning of the click), you need a method of controlling the effects systematically or you end up with spaghetti. Pretty much every complex UI I've ever seen is that spaghetti.<p>MVC is too simplistic to give this. M means "state" and V means "what the user sees" and C means "just make it all work, mkay?", which lets you down right where you need an organizing principle.<p>I struggled with UI spaghetti for years before finally realizing that state machines are a nice systematic way to manage this complexity. Now it seems kind of obvious that UIs <i>are</i> state machines. They're machines and they have state!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MVC, MOVE - Or Simply A State Machine?</title><url>http://ingoschramm.tumblr.com/post/26409997578/mvc-move-or-simply-a-state-machine</url></story> |
18,022,954 | 18,022,860 | 1 | 2 | 18,020,018 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>belorn</author><text>The parent post allude to the fact that many companies do already advertise exclusively to a single gender in the name of outreach. You can not just throw around the idea of &quot;protected classes&quot; to mean that discrimination is acceptable except when it benefit men.<p>If targeted job advertisement based on gender is illegal then let make that the new norm. The extreme end on both side of the so called gender war will be against it and hopefully the majority in the middle will be in favor of it. I strongly doubt however that the law can currently be used to push this since so much of out reach programs have been using targeted job advertisement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Endy</author><text>It has nothing to do with virtue, it&#x27;s a matter of Facebook and its advertisers violating the written law. EEOC exists due to law, and all employers are required to abide by it. If you violate equal opportunity employment by discriminating for any one of a number of protected classes, you are acting unlawfully. Facebook should not be so openly allowed to violate the law, and for doing so, the individuals in the corporation as well as the corp itself should be charged with their crimes and assessed fines.</text></item><item><author>King-Aaron</author><text>So the argument, as I see it here, is that companies should be forced to spend additional resources advertising to demographics that they have identified as not strong leads in their campaigns, so that overly virtuous people can feel happy about them spending money on something that likely won&#x27;t concern them in the slightest.<p>Righto.<p>If the article&#x27;s title was &quot;Facebook is letting job advertisers target only women&quot; or &quot;Facebook is letting job advertisers target only people in their ideal demographic&quot;, I wonder if the discussion would be any different here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-is-letting-job-advertisers-target-only-men</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t <i>necessarily</i> break the law though, as far as I can tell.<p>There are exceptions in the law for when the person&#x27;s sex genuinely matters. If you&#x27;re hiring male models&#x2F;dancers&#x2F;actors&#x2F;medical test subjects, for instance, then you&#x27;re exempted. As far as I could see in my skim-read of the article, it makes no mention of such cases.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Endy</author><text>It has nothing to do with virtue, it&#x27;s a matter of Facebook and its advertisers violating the written law. EEOC exists due to law, and all employers are required to abide by it. If you violate equal opportunity employment by discriminating for any one of a number of protected classes, you are acting unlawfully. Facebook should not be so openly allowed to violate the law, and for doing so, the individuals in the corporation as well as the corp itself should be charged with their crimes and assessed fines.</text></item><item><author>King-Aaron</author><text>So the argument, as I see it here, is that companies should be forced to spend additional resources advertising to demographics that they have identified as not strong leads in their campaigns, so that overly virtuous people can feel happy about them spending money on something that likely won&#x27;t concern them in the slightest.<p>Righto.<p>If the article&#x27;s title was &quot;Facebook is letting job advertisers target only women&quot; or &quot;Facebook is letting job advertisers target only people in their ideal demographic&quot;, I wonder if the discussion would be any different here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-is-letting-job-advertisers-target-only-men</url></story> |
17,937,138 | 17,935,245 | 1 | 2 | 17,933,908 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TipVFL</author><text>Quaternions recently made me look pretty smart.<p>I was consulting at a company that&#x27;s developing a VR real estate app, and the first thing I did was check to see whether they were calculating their rotations with quaternions.<p>It was easy to do, I just looked straight up and then turned my head to the right. My view rotated to the left, and I almost vomited. I immediately ripped the headset off and said, &quot;You&#x27;re using euler angles to calculate rotations, you need to use quaternions.&quot;<p>I felt pretty good about finding the biggest flaw in their system in 3 seconds.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quaternions: the Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra-20180906/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>calebh</author><text>I&#x27;ve found that the easiest way to understand quaternions is by visualizing them as scaled &quot;look&quot; or &quot;orientation&quot; vectors.<p>For example, if an airplane is oriented in the direction (x,y,z) at a rotation θ around that axis, then its rotation in quaternion form is cos(θ&#x2F;2)+x sin(θ&#x2F;2) i + y sin(θ&#x2F;2) j + z sin(θ&#x2F;2) k<p>Notice that the multiplications involving x, y, and z are just scaling the vector.<p>The other important thing to realize is that sin(θ&#x2F;2) is greater than or equal to zero in the interval [0, 2*pi]. So a quaternion is just a look vector where the magnitude of the vector is determined by the rotation around the look vector axis.<p>See this page for a useful picture: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chrobotics.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;understanding-quaternions" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chrobotics.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;understanding-quaternions</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quaternions: the Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra-20180906/</url></story> |
27,095,677 | 27,095,330 | 1 | 3 | 27,094,179 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomrod</author><text>So, this is a really cool concept and I look forward to the determination if it is true or testable.<p>I find the &quot;double copy of other forces&quot; verbiage to be difficult to follow. Walking through a formula example would be helpful, and formaluae exist to communicate exactly this kind of clumpy-wumpy-lumpy-timey-wimey awkwardness language clods through in its quest to communicate mathematical structures.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gravity is a double copy of other forces</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-gravity-is-a-double-copy-of-other-forces-20210504/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wyager</author><text>&gt; Most theorists assume that gravity actually pushes us around through particles<p>Is this true, and if so, why? The interpretation of gravity as something that warps spacetime very elegantly yields its “gravitational force” via its effect on the action integral, and is easily understood using a path integral style framework. It seems like a particle-based framework would necessarily be a lot more complicated, although maybe it’s necessary for some reason I don’t know.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gravity is a double copy of other forces</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-gravity-is-a-double-copy-of-other-forces-20210504/</url></story> |
17,004,922 | 17,003,414 | 1 | 3 | 17,002,648 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrec</author><text>&gt; <i>To save a note just store it on disk (cmd&#x2F;ctrl+s).</i><p>What&#x27;s this supposed to do? On Firefox&#x2F;Win it just saves the initial blank page as you&#x27;d expect, which is not very useful. Removing the `contenteditable` attribute before saving makes no difference.<p>I&#x27;m not aware that there is a simple portable way to save dynamically-modified webpages; projects like TiddlyWiki have been banging their collective heads against this problem since forever.</text><parent_chain><item><author>janneklouman</author><text>I wanted a place where I could write down my thoughts without them being stored in the cloud or connected to an account (notes, onenote, evernote, docs, paper, gist, etc). I don&#x27;t really like terminal text editors, notepad, or IDEs for writing, so I made this very simple notepad. It&#x27;s a &lt;body&gt; html tag with the contenteditable attribute making it editable, and some &lt;style&gt;.<p>To save a note just store it on disk (cmd&#x2F;ctrl+s). To add images, drag and drop them onto the text area. Remove the contenteditable attribute from &lt;body&gt;, save, and voila, you now have a static lightweight blog post ready to be published! Formatting can be a bit wonky but should work in some browsers (cmd&#x2F;ctrl+b&#x2F;i&#x2F;u). Copy+pasting formatted text can potentially break things a bit.<p>The two colors are from Solarized. Feel free to download the file and update style&#x2F;markup to your preference.<p>Some ideas&#x2F;variations:<p>Dark theme: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;dark.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;dark.html</a><p>Serif: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;serif.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;serif.html</a><p>HN theme: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;hn.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;hn.html</a><p>With heading: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;with-heading.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;with-heading...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: ~200 byte in-browser, no JS, private notepad</title><url>https://jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io/new-note/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>timvdalen</author><text>Really cool idea! In what browsers is dragging images to contenteditable supposed to be supported? I&#x27;m on Chrome 66 and it just opens the image in the current tab.</text><parent_chain><item><author>janneklouman</author><text>I wanted a place where I could write down my thoughts without them being stored in the cloud or connected to an account (notes, onenote, evernote, docs, paper, gist, etc). I don&#x27;t really like terminal text editors, notepad, or IDEs for writing, so I made this very simple notepad. It&#x27;s a &lt;body&gt; html tag with the contenteditable attribute making it editable, and some &lt;style&gt;.<p>To save a note just store it on disk (cmd&#x2F;ctrl+s). To add images, drag and drop them onto the text area. Remove the contenteditable attribute from &lt;body&gt;, save, and voila, you now have a static lightweight blog post ready to be published! Formatting can be a bit wonky but should work in some browsers (cmd&#x2F;ctrl+b&#x2F;i&#x2F;u). Copy+pasting formatted text can potentially break things a bit.<p>The two colors are from Solarized. Feel free to download the file and update style&#x2F;markup to your preference.<p>Some ideas&#x2F;variations:<p>Dark theme: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;dark.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;dark.html</a><p>Serif: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;serif.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;serif.html</a><p>HN theme: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;hn.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;hn.html</a><p>With heading: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;with-heading.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io&#x2F;new-note&#x2F;with-heading...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: ~200 byte in-browser, no JS, private notepad</title><url>https://jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.github.io/new-note/</url></story> |
41,360,914 | 41,360,988 | 1 | 3 | 41,347,635 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sonofhans</author><text>This is a great hack, but it makes bad sparklines. It’s probably about as good as you can get with unicode, so props to Jon.<p>Sparklines have a few important properties which these do not exhibit. They’re typically higher resolution, with more data per inch. Also the slopes from point to point, and the whitespace under the typical graph&#x2F;sparkline, help readability.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Tao of Unicode Sparklines (2021)</title><url>https://blog.jonudell.net/2021/08/05/the-tao-of-unicode-sparklines/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pphysch</author><text>Beyond Unicode, it should be possible to define a Web Component that generates SVG on-the-fly from a datasource.<p>Imagine:<p><pre><code> &lt;sparkline src=&quot;an image or csv&quot;\&gt;
</code></pre>
One cool thing about SVG is it can inherit styles from your application, so you can produce e.g. dark-mode aware graphics rather easily, also one of the perks of this Unicode approach.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Tao of Unicode Sparklines (2021)</title><url>https://blog.jonudell.net/2021/08/05/the-tao-of-unicode-sparklines/</url></story> |
5,149,246 | 5,148,141 | 1 | 2 | 5,146,508 | train | <instructions>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 HFT boys are creating vast amounts of liquidity and squeezing the spread down to unprecedented lows. The volatility created by their trading is essentially invisible to a retail investor who observes the markets day-to-day rather than minute-to-minute.<p>It seems to me that people are fixated on volume, which is essentially an irrelevant figure - holding a big position for a couple of milliseconds has no meaningful impact on anyone but other HFTs. If we smooth our data to a resolution of minutes rather than milliseconds, market behaviour looks no different today than a decade ago. Even a supposed disaster like the "flash crash" of 2010 corrected itself within five minutes.<p>I'd be curious to see if the same debates were happening when computerised trading was first introduced. The magnitude of change was far greater, but there's broad consensus that computerisation led to fairer and more efficient markets. I just don't understand how faster trades can be bad in and of themselves. If your objection is to speculation in principle, then by all means argue for a Tobin tax; I just don't see why it matters very much whether that speculation occurs over the course of days, hours, minutes or milliseconds.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>At what point will HFT drive out the proper functioning of a Market?<p>Have there been any studies on this? If human traders mostly reacted to "real" news (the Orange juice crop is bad this year) then human trading was mostly linked to actual changes that affect the price mechanism<p>But if large volumes of trades are speculative, or even worse, are directed at affecting the behaviour of other large Market players, is there not a point where the selling of actual OJ is just noise in the Market?<p>One can anticipate HFT bots acting like the strange Amazon pricing of obscure books in the millions of dollars, bots competing against bots to acquire more of the rent
redistribution. If we can imagine that we can imagine a failed crop with prices being driven down in a frenzy.<p>Surely some research exists on this? Where is the price signal tipping point?</text></item><item><author>apaprocki</author><text><a href="http://invezz.com/news/alternative-investments/625-uk-report-advises-against-more-hft-regulations" rel="nofollow">http://invezz.com/news/alternative-investments/625-uk-report...</a><p>"Veteran traders would usually wait in anticipation for the weekly report of gas-inventory figures by the U.S. Energy Information Administration released on Thursday at 10.30 AM and then dive into the busiest trading window of the week. This is no longer true as most traders are now staying out of the market due to the HFTs new strategy - sending floods of orders in an effort to trigger huge price swings just before the data gets released, also known as “banging the beehive”."<p>edit: Fast algo puts orders out on multiple equity exchanges and then hedges itself with a slow algo in the futures market.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early</title><url>http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4090.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>snowwrestler</author><text>It won't. High frequency trading slices the gap between offer and purchase into an enormous number of tiny slices, and HFT companies compete to see who can collect the most number of slices. But that does not affect the underlying factors that lead to most offers and purchases of stock.<p>For example you could offer OJ futures at improperly high prices a billion times per second, but that does not mean anyone will buy them. I'm not aware of any evidence that Amazon's weird million-dollar books have affected the price of popular new books.<p>In addition, I wonder by what criteria one would evaluate how "properly" the markets are functioning. Who decides what is proper? For example, based on the business fundamentals it seems ludicrous to me that Apple would have a lower P/E ratio than GM--but it currently does.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>At what point will HFT drive out the proper functioning of a Market?<p>Have there been any studies on this? If human traders mostly reacted to "real" news (the Orange juice crop is bad this year) then human trading was mostly linked to actual changes that affect the price mechanism<p>But if large volumes of trades are speculative, or even worse, are directed at affecting the behaviour of other large Market players, is there not a point where the selling of actual OJ is just noise in the Market?<p>One can anticipate HFT bots acting like the strange Amazon pricing of obscure books in the millions of dollars, bots competing against bots to acquire more of the rent
redistribution. If we can imagine that we can imagine a failed crop with prices being driven down in a frenzy.<p>Surely some research exists on this? Where is the price signal tipping point?</text></item><item><author>apaprocki</author><text><a href="http://invezz.com/news/alternative-investments/625-uk-report-advises-against-more-hft-regulations" rel="nofollow">http://invezz.com/news/alternative-investments/625-uk-report...</a><p>"Veteran traders would usually wait in anticipation for the weekly report of gas-inventory figures by the U.S. Energy Information Administration released on Thursday at 10.30 AM and then dive into the busiest trading window of the week. This is no longer true as most traders are now staying out of the market due to the HFTs new strategy - sending floods of orders in an effort to trigger huge price swings just before the data gets released, also known as “banging the beehive”."<p>edit: Fast algo puts orders out on multiple equity exchanges and then hedges itself with a slow algo in the futures market.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early</title><url>http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4090.html</url></story> |
33,256,573 | 33,256,105 | 1 | 3 | 33,248,391 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kixiQu</author><text>I went and got my laptop to type up a reply to this:<p>Instagram&#x27;s tagging system was and is atrocious <i>in combination with their discovery mechanisms</i> and the incentives they create.<p>A real example, this has been true for years: I want to look at pictures of Jennifer Lawrence&#x27;s makeup because she, like me, has hooded eyes and that makes useful reference. I go to instagram imagining that I will find fan accounts posting pictures. I search for #jenniferlawrence. 2.8 million posts. Nice.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;explore&#x2F;tags&#x2F;jenniferlawrence&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;explore&#x2F;tags&#x2F;jenniferlawrence&#x2F;</a><p>Only three of the top nine pictures present there today (same on mobile for me) are <i>of Jennifer Lawrence.</i><p>This is what happens when all the engagement is counted in one big engagement bucket, all eyeballs are equal eyeballs, and all likes are equal likes. There are two gorgeous pictures of Anne Hathaway here, and I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;ve gotten great engagement, but they are absolute shit <i>at being pictures of Jennifer Lawrence</i>. So now I have to scroll through a ton of absolutely irrelevant nonsense – with attendant ads, let&#x27;s not forget the ads – if I actually want to use this tag for its sole raison d&#x27;etre.<p>For contrast, consider what happens when a picture is cross-posted on Reddit. If I upvote it in one subreddit, I am giving an engagement signal <i>specific to that subreddit</i> – and I as one user may choose to downvote that same picture in another if I think it doesn&#x27;t fit there!<p>This isn&#x27;t limited to low-effort reposting of professional photographers&#x27; work. It happens in less egregious ways for many, many tags in many areas I&#x27;ve seen on IG for quite a few years now (though I can&#x27;t speak for the whole history of the app). Artists tagging media they&#x27;re not using, etc. etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>errantmind</author><text>Instagram&#x27;s tagging system was actually really effective at categorizing content and discovery because each hashtag was treated as a node in a (giant) graph, where each node has multiple properties, including post count (number of posts using a tag), &#x27;velocity&#x27; (number of posts using a particular tag per unit time), etc. I could write up a big post about it as I made a study of it in when I created a web app for finding the most relevant tags a few years ago.<p>All that to say there was a lot to their system and it worked because users became aware that they were rewarded for using the most relevant tags. Using irrelevant tags was punished. This guided users towards using a mix of relevant popular and niche tags to maximize their reach, which, in turn, further improved the tagging system.<p>Instagram&#x27;s tagging system isn&#x27;t as important anymore as their algorithm has deemphasized it, in favor of other methods for classification and discovery, but there were a couple of golden years where it worked very well. Most users still look back on those years as the &#x27;good times&#x27; even if they don&#x27;t know exactly why. I&#x27;d go so far as to say they ruined the app after they deemphasized tags (and added way too many ads)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems</title><url>https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1534301374166474752</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>I&#x27;d also be interested in reading about that - in particular are things like &#x27;post count&#x27; computed and stored (i.e. not normalised)? How do you cope with keeping such analytics current as the source changes?<p>(When oh when will postgres get automatic and incremental materialised views?)</text><parent_chain><item><author>errantmind</author><text>Instagram&#x27;s tagging system was actually really effective at categorizing content and discovery because each hashtag was treated as a node in a (giant) graph, where each node has multiple properties, including post count (number of posts using a tag), &#x27;velocity&#x27; (number of posts using a particular tag per unit time), etc. I could write up a big post about it as I made a study of it in when I created a web app for finding the most relevant tags a few years ago.<p>All that to say there was a lot to their system and it worked because users became aware that they were rewarded for using the most relevant tags. Using irrelevant tags was punished. This guided users towards using a mix of relevant popular and niche tags to maximize their reach, which, in turn, further improved the tagging system.<p>Instagram&#x27;s tagging system isn&#x27;t as important anymore as their algorithm has deemphasized it, in favor of other methods for classification and discovery, but there were a couple of golden years where it worked very well. Most users still look back on those years as the &#x27;good times&#x27; even if they don&#x27;t know exactly why. I&#x27;d go so far as to say they ruined the app after they deemphasized tags (and added way too many ads)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems</title><url>https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1534301374166474752</url></story> |
35,193,848 | 35,193,754 | 1 | 3 | 35,192,906 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ako</author><text>At the same time, having to subscribe to specific periodical keeps me from doing it all. I see the these subscribe pop-ups every time I visit a newspaper, at least 5 different newspapers per day. It is just not affordable to have 5 subscriptions, so I end up subscribing to none.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>Amazon doesn&#x27;t want you to have a subscription to the New York Times. Amazon wants you to have a subscription to Amazon Unlimited, which would include access to the New York Times. Amazon would then pay the New York Times and all other periodicals an amount that Amazon thinks is fair based on how many people are reading their articles, like Amazon Unlimited books.<p>This is very bad for big periodicals with many subscribers. Under the current model, they get a predictable amount of income and are motivated by keeping the bar high for their content, lest they lose subscribers. Under the new model, their income is entirely based on how many people pick up that issue and read it, which makes it very hard to budget. It also likely means an inevitable slide into &quot;politician SLAMMED other politican, and you&#x27;ll NEVER BELIEVE what happened next&quot; headlines, since extra clicks are very directly your periodical&#x27;s source of income.<p>This is very good news for Amazon because it gives them far more bargaining power against publishers. Right now, if The New York Times decides that Amazon&#x27;s terms favor Amazon too strongly, the Times walks, and Amazon doesn&#x27;t get any more money from Times subscribers. Under this system, if the Times walks because Amazon terms favor Amazon too strongly, Amazon keeps the subscribers.<p>This is moderately good news for customers who read a bunch of stuff on Amazon Unlimited. You now get to read whatever you like for probably around the same cost, and the stuff you naturally choose to read will end up getting a bit of money from it. Yay.<p>This is probably moderately good news for niche, popcorn periodicals. If you have a &quot;Werewolf Romance Weekly Short Fiction&quot; magazine or &quot;DIY Productivity Tip Of the Week&quot; newsletter, you&#x27;ll quite possibly make way more money by attracting idly browsing Amazon Unlimited customers than you would have been able to if you had needed to convince people to subscribe to your service.</text></item><item><author>mrwh</author><text>I had to read the email I got about this several times because it didn&#x27;t seem to make sense. Hang on, my New York Times subscription is going to end in September and then... that&#x27;s it? The Kindle is wonderful for reading newspapers on, and now - what? And why? I&#x27;m sure that someone has a very good reason for the change. I&#x27;m also sure that I&#x27;ve never seen a deprecation so poorly communicated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print</title><url>https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/goodbye-newspapers-on-kindle-amazon-stops-selling-newspaper-and-magazine-subscriptions/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Espressosaurus</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen how they&#x27;ve made it harder and harder to download your entire music collection, as well as how they&#x27;re pushing their music streaming.<p>At this point I&#x27;m just waiting for the same thing to happen to their ala cart music service, and it&#x27;s very disappointing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>Amazon doesn&#x27;t want you to have a subscription to the New York Times. Amazon wants you to have a subscription to Amazon Unlimited, which would include access to the New York Times. Amazon would then pay the New York Times and all other periodicals an amount that Amazon thinks is fair based on how many people are reading their articles, like Amazon Unlimited books.<p>This is very bad for big periodicals with many subscribers. Under the current model, they get a predictable amount of income and are motivated by keeping the bar high for their content, lest they lose subscribers. Under the new model, their income is entirely based on how many people pick up that issue and read it, which makes it very hard to budget. It also likely means an inevitable slide into &quot;politician SLAMMED other politican, and you&#x27;ll NEVER BELIEVE what happened next&quot; headlines, since extra clicks are very directly your periodical&#x27;s source of income.<p>This is very good news for Amazon because it gives them far more bargaining power against publishers. Right now, if The New York Times decides that Amazon&#x27;s terms favor Amazon too strongly, the Times walks, and Amazon doesn&#x27;t get any more money from Times subscribers. Under this system, if the Times walks because Amazon terms favor Amazon too strongly, Amazon keeps the subscribers.<p>This is moderately good news for customers who read a bunch of stuff on Amazon Unlimited. You now get to read whatever you like for probably around the same cost, and the stuff you naturally choose to read will end up getting a bit of money from it. Yay.<p>This is probably moderately good news for niche, popcorn periodicals. If you have a &quot;Werewolf Romance Weekly Short Fiction&quot; magazine or &quot;DIY Productivity Tip Of the Week&quot; newsletter, you&#x27;ll quite possibly make way more money by attracting idly browsing Amazon Unlimited customers than you would have been able to if you had needed to convince people to subscribe to your service.</text></item><item><author>mrwh</author><text>I had to read the email I got about this several times because it didn&#x27;t seem to make sense. Hang on, my New York Times subscription is going to end in September and then... that&#x27;s it? The Kindle is wonderful for reading newspapers on, and now - what? And why? I&#x27;m sure that someone has a very good reason for the change. I&#x27;m also sure that I&#x27;ve never seen a deprecation so poorly communicated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print</title><url>https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/goodbye-newspapers-on-kindle-amazon-stops-selling-newspaper-and-magazine-subscriptions/</url></story> |
20,340,666 | 20,339,951 | 1 | 3 | 20,339,190 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DevKoala</author><text>Before any VP left, the negativity train was on full steam. In fact, the delivery numbers are the focus because all estimates predicted Tesla was going to miss them.<p>Check this for example.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-tesla-deliveries&#x2F;tesla-faces-delivery-bottleneck-at-close-of-second-quarter-electrek-idUSKCN1TQ2NW" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-tesla-deliveries&#x2F;tesla-fa...</a><p>or this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;1590939&#x2F;teslas-first-quarter-auto-deliveries-miss-is-worrying-analysts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;1590939&#x2F;teslas-first-quarter-auto-deliveries-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>dralley</author><text>I&#x27;d hardly say 3 VPs leaving in a week says nothing of substance whatsoever.</text></item><item><author>DevKoala</author><text>What&#x27;s amazing is the power of their message. There is just too much money to gain by Tesla competitors and investors who bet against Tesla. All the negative headlines going into this quarter results had little to no substance, but were louder than ever.</text></item><item><author>omarforgotpwd</author><text>Amazing. The Tesla haters were going to town on them all quarter, claiming bankruptcy was imminent and there was &quot;no demand&quot;.<p>Now they&#x27;ve delivered more cars than any other quarter in their history.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Model 3 deliveries beat Wall Street targets, shares up 7%</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-model-3-deliveries-beat-201958136.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>sixQuarks</author><text>what&#x27;s new about this? They&#x27;v always had high levels of turnover. Their head of production left right as model 3 was in the midst of production hell.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dralley</author><text>I&#x27;d hardly say 3 VPs leaving in a week says nothing of substance whatsoever.</text></item><item><author>DevKoala</author><text>What&#x27;s amazing is the power of their message. There is just too much money to gain by Tesla competitors and investors who bet against Tesla. All the negative headlines going into this quarter results had little to no substance, but were louder than ever.</text></item><item><author>omarforgotpwd</author><text>Amazing. The Tesla haters were going to town on them all quarter, claiming bankruptcy was imminent and there was &quot;no demand&quot;.<p>Now they&#x27;ve delivered more cars than any other quarter in their history.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Model 3 deliveries beat Wall Street targets, shares up 7%</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-model-3-deliveries-beat-201958136.html</url></story> |
34,734,858 | 34,731,463 | 1 | 3 | 34,725,047 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_2uwr</author><text>A 1% wage with a 0.1% cost of living is still poor! Its all relative. Stocks dont mean nothing to me. Watch the stock price plummet when founders sell their stock.<p>There are jobs out there, I&#x27;ve turned down 3 (2xUS, 1xUK&#x2F;CH) last year I enquired about just to keep in touch with whats on offer and gain insight into projects underway or commencing. Paying 6 figures, US onsite, UK&#x2F;CH offered remote, working as many hours as I wanted. Turned them down. I think US&#x2F;Canada remote is rare because of the poor internet infrastructure once you get outside of the cities, Europe has better internet infrastructure so can offer more remote work. Management styles are generally different in the US compared to Europe, with the UK somewhere in between the two regions as usual.<p>I think people need to understand the different parts of a global economy and realise some sectors some countries wont be or will hardly be affected by the social media downturn especially if they are prepared to work abroad and broaden their horizons.<p>Plenty of money in China.....</text><parent_chain><item><author>hikawaii</author><text>Given that the average mid level developer makes a salary and stock grant putting them <i>well</i> into the 1% (in USA) I find it questionable that the majority of people are &quot;just&quot; trying to keep a roof over their heads.</text></item><item><author>paganel</author><text>The people going after &quot;wealth&quot; are a minority. The majority of us are salaried people who go to work in order to have a roof over our heads, to pay the bills and put food on the table and maybe to have enough money to have some kids.<p>The majority of us don&#x27;t actually know what we &quot;have&quot;, because it isn&#x27;t that much anyway. We do know though what we need to pay in the next 10 to 15 days(and if we somehow forget there&#x27;s where anxious dreams come into play to help us out with that).</text></item><item><author>georgeecollins</author><text>&gt;&gt; were hanging on to their jobs to save maybe 10% more or whatever<p>The amount of wealth all people need is constant. It is 1.5 x whatever they have today.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Furthermore, some <i>very</i> senior employees are in this boat: They kinda have enough savings to just retire, but were hanging on to their jobs to save maybe 10% more or whatever. Now that they&#x27;re out of a job they are simply saying &quot;Whelllp, I guess I&#x27;m now retired.&quot; and not really feeling the need to look anymore. I know someone who refused a forced return to office, and when his company tried to call his bluff, he just said &quot;I guess I&#x27;m retired now!&quot;</text></item><item><author>dixie_land</author><text>My observation is that recent layoffs affect engineers with different seniority very differently.<p>Senior devs I know who got laid off are just enjoying their time off (with pay! if you consider the severance) after the rocketing market in 2021 (and maybe even H1 22) made them whole and financially secure. And they won&#x27;t be entertaining a startup unless significant equity or big leveling up (eg Principal or Director).<p>On the other hand, fresh grads who got laid off are in such a panic mode (esp those on visa) they&#x27;d be willing to take anything.</text></item><item><author>jaxomlotus</author><text>Here&#x27;s the flip side: I was hiring (at a stealth vc-funded startup).<p>I reached out to every designer and coder laid off from Twitter and Amazon (one of my investors sent me a spreadsheet that those laid off folks added their contact info to).<p>I didn&#x27;t receive a single interested response to my reach outs. Now granted, I&#x27;m sure they were bombarded with lots of startup offers and being picky what company&#x2F;stage they were responding to, or were still in grief mode and not ready to start looking, or maybe (probably!) my reach-out finesse was lacking.<p>But I&#x27;m just pointing out that their are definitely companies like mine who are hiring and it&#x27;s not all doom and gloom for laid off folks.<p>I ended up hiring via ads on LinkedIn and job posts on eng message boards.<p>Being real for a minute: There is definitely a perspective among hiring companies that regular lay offs are sometimes packaged alongside bottom performers, but I think that is something they would just do diligence on during an interview process.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?</title><text>With the rampant layoffs, are you guys getting hired? How are you doing?</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>paganel</author><text>Looked to me like the OP was talking more generally, about all people.<p>And back to developers (I am one, but not living in the US), I don&#x27;t think most of them own their place of living. I know I don&#x27;t, so, yes, I have to work in order to have a roof over my head.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hikawaii</author><text>Given that the average mid level developer makes a salary and stock grant putting them <i>well</i> into the 1% (in USA) I find it questionable that the majority of people are &quot;just&quot; trying to keep a roof over their heads.</text></item><item><author>paganel</author><text>The people going after &quot;wealth&quot; are a minority. The majority of us are salaried people who go to work in order to have a roof over our heads, to pay the bills and put food on the table and maybe to have enough money to have some kids.<p>The majority of us don&#x27;t actually know what we &quot;have&quot;, because it isn&#x27;t that much anyway. We do know though what we need to pay in the next 10 to 15 days(and if we somehow forget there&#x27;s where anxious dreams come into play to help us out with that).</text></item><item><author>georgeecollins</author><text>&gt;&gt; were hanging on to their jobs to save maybe 10% more or whatever<p>The amount of wealth all people need is constant. It is 1.5 x whatever they have today.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Furthermore, some <i>very</i> senior employees are in this boat: They kinda have enough savings to just retire, but were hanging on to their jobs to save maybe 10% more or whatever. Now that they&#x27;re out of a job they are simply saying &quot;Whelllp, I guess I&#x27;m now retired.&quot; and not really feeling the need to look anymore. I know someone who refused a forced return to office, and when his company tried to call his bluff, he just said &quot;I guess I&#x27;m retired now!&quot;</text></item><item><author>dixie_land</author><text>My observation is that recent layoffs affect engineers with different seniority very differently.<p>Senior devs I know who got laid off are just enjoying their time off (with pay! if you consider the severance) after the rocketing market in 2021 (and maybe even H1 22) made them whole and financially secure. And they won&#x27;t be entertaining a startup unless significant equity or big leveling up (eg Principal or Director).<p>On the other hand, fresh grads who got laid off are in such a panic mode (esp those on visa) they&#x27;d be willing to take anything.</text></item><item><author>jaxomlotus</author><text>Here&#x27;s the flip side: I was hiring (at a stealth vc-funded startup).<p>I reached out to every designer and coder laid off from Twitter and Amazon (one of my investors sent me a spreadsheet that those laid off folks added their contact info to).<p>I didn&#x27;t receive a single interested response to my reach outs. Now granted, I&#x27;m sure they were bombarded with lots of startup offers and being picky what company&#x2F;stage they were responding to, or were still in grief mode and not ready to start looking, or maybe (probably!) my reach-out finesse was lacking.<p>But I&#x27;m just pointing out that their are definitely companies like mine who are hiring and it&#x27;s not all doom and gloom for laid off folks.<p>I ended up hiring via ads on LinkedIn and job posts on eng message boards.<p>Being real for a minute: There is definitely a perspective among hiring companies that regular lay offs are sometimes packaged alongside bottom performers, but I think that is something they would just do diligence on during an interview process.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?</title><text>With the rampant layoffs, are you guys getting hired? How are you doing?</text></story> |
27,224,270 | 27,222,463 | 1 | 2 | 27,219,759 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomtheelder</author><text>I would like to throw in a strong rec for carbon steel.<p>I was (and to a degree still am) a big cast iron guy, but I find that these days I use my carbon steel pans much, much more frequently. They share many of the benefits of cast iron in terms of durability, oven safety, high temp cooking, natural non-stick, etc. However they can be much, much lighter and their heating properties make them superior for many, and I would argue most (but not all!), applications.<p>These days if someone said they needed 1 quiver killer pan, I would unquestionably recommend a carbon steel skillet over a cast iron one.<p>If you&#x27;re someone who likes using cast iron, I think you are doing yourself a major disservice by not trying carbon steel.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shireboy</author><text>Second cast iron. We use ours daily - and it&#x27;s a handmedown from my grandmother who also used daily for 20+ years. Once seasoned properly, it is non-stick, cleans easy. We just be sure to put a little oil on it after each use. Really the only skillet you need.</text></item><item><author>Jakobeha</author><text>Material goods:<p>Ear plugs (silicone). Don&#x27;t waste your money on noise-cancelling headphones, I have $200 ones and they don&#x27;t compare to simple ear plugs. If you live in a moderately noisy area and you want peace and quiet, get them. They basically just make everything quiet. 24 from CVS = $10.<p>OpenMove by Aftershokz - Bone-conduction headphones. Perfect for running and just good for listening to music. They work, they&#x27;re way easier to wear and more comfortable than earpods, I haven&#x27;t had any issues since I got them about 8-months ago. Plus, you can wear them with earplugs for music + noise cancellation. $99<p>Cast iron skillet. This is more of a personal preference. I hate getting new kitchenware and then worrying about breaking it or getting it all stained. But these are super easy to clean and AFAIK practically never wear out. Also very cheap (iirc $15).<p>Software:<p>JetBrains tools. Basically the only software I can imagine spending $250 a year on, and it actually being worth it.<p>Patreon and Github sponsors. Not much (I think $15 a month total). It&#x27;s sad how few sponsors a lot of these projects have. I&#x27;m not rich, but I can afford donating $5&#x2F;month here and there. I really think the world would be a better place if more people donate to open source and content creators they like.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?</title><text>I&#x27;ve abandoned all faith in reviews online. But the HN crew can give good advice and are extremely unlikely to shill garbage. Consumer Reports is great for finding which manufacturer&#x2F;model to buy. But what product or service did you buy that you found really useful&#x2F;entertaining?<p>I&#x27;ll start: I caved and bought a robovac. Wow, unlike many techno-gadgets, this one really delivers. Real utility, not just taking up space. Low maintenance, runs while I sleep, and the floor is just cleaner.</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>mynameisash</author><text>I bought a cheapy Lodge skillet -- 12&quot;, I think? -- a while back because I succumbed to the cast iron craze and really wanted to try cooking on induction. I figured I&#x27;d just upgrade to a bigger skillet when necessary.<p>It&#x27;s now like 7 years later and my skillet shows no signs of giving up, and I don&#x27;t think buying yet another kitchen device would make my wife happy. Should have gone with a bigger skillet to begin with.<p>Also, induction cooktops are <i>amazing</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shireboy</author><text>Second cast iron. We use ours daily - and it&#x27;s a handmedown from my grandmother who also used daily for 20+ years. Once seasoned properly, it is non-stick, cleans easy. We just be sure to put a little oil on it after each use. Really the only skillet you need.</text></item><item><author>Jakobeha</author><text>Material goods:<p>Ear plugs (silicone). Don&#x27;t waste your money on noise-cancelling headphones, I have $200 ones and they don&#x27;t compare to simple ear plugs. If you live in a moderately noisy area and you want peace and quiet, get them. They basically just make everything quiet. 24 from CVS = $10.<p>OpenMove by Aftershokz - Bone-conduction headphones. Perfect for running and just good for listening to music. They work, they&#x27;re way easier to wear and more comfortable than earpods, I haven&#x27;t had any issues since I got them about 8-months ago. Plus, you can wear them with earplugs for music + noise cancellation. $99<p>Cast iron skillet. This is more of a personal preference. I hate getting new kitchenware and then worrying about breaking it or getting it all stained. But these are super easy to clean and AFAIK practically never wear out. Also very cheap (iirc $15).<p>Software:<p>JetBrains tools. Basically the only software I can imagine spending $250 a year on, and it actually being worth it.<p>Patreon and Github sponsors. Not much (I think $15 a month total). It&#x27;s sad how few sponsors a lot of these projects have. I&#x27;m not rich, but I can afford donating $5&#x2F;month here and there. I really think the world would be a better place if more people donate to open source and content creators they like.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?</title><text>I&#x27;ve abandoned all faith in reviews online. But the HN crew can give good advice and are extremely unlikely to shill garbage. Consumer Reports is great for finding which manufacturer&#x2F;model to buy. But what product or service did you buy that you found really useful&#x2F;entertaining?<p>I&#x27;ll start: I caved and bought a robovac. Wow, unlike many techno-gadgets, this one really delivers. Real utility, not just taking up space. Low maintenance, runs while I sleep, and the floor is just cleaner.</text></story> |
3,928,013 | 3,927,896 | 1 | 2 | 3,927,670 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>westiseast</author><text>it's good - Chinese has an extremely steep initial learning curve, and this would be a good start. I also think the methods are sound (ie. mixing the word in, substitution, the way the actual tool tests you).<p>&#60;pedantry&#62;
It does feel very limited. I think you'd outgrow this in a couple of weeks TBH.<p>For example, this article gives 子 as one of the first characters, and says it means "child". It does, but it also doesn't. On its own it is purely conceptual, and only has meaning combined with other characters. If you said "my 子 is 4" then that makes no sense. It can mean bullet (子弹), atom (原子), son (儿子), or a generic "thing" measure word (eg. 骗子, conman).<p>An early learner doesn't need to know the word for 'bullet' or 'atom', but it's not good either to tell them that "子" means child and then they think they can say "child" in Chinese. What's the parallel in English? It's like teaching you "pre-" and saying that means "early", and then you run around saying "He arrived pre-". Why not just teach the word for child (孩子) and then substitute that? Then you learn to recognise <i>meaningful words</i> and not <i>conceptual characters</i>, which is actually the key skill in reading Chinese.<p>You have to start somewhere, but I wish that more Chinese learning tools/books used modern learning methods like these, but with better linguistic accuracy.
&#60;/pedantry&#62;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes</title><url>http://blog.memrise.com/2011/11/learn-to-read-a-sentence-of-chinese-in-3-minutes.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>aidos</author><text>I've always wondered what would happen if you read a big book (like Lord of the Rings) that was translated progressively into another language. So it starts in, say, English and finishes in Spanish. At the start the sentence structure could even be in Spanish form (word ordering-wise) and words are progressively switched to Spanish as the book goes on.<p>Probably wouldn't work at all but it'd be an interesting experiment.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes</title><url>http://blog.memrise.com/2011/11/learn-to-read-a-sentence-of-chinese-in-3-minutes.html</url></story> |
20,160,638 | 20,160,687 | 1 | 2 | 20,159,926 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pkfrank</author><text>Bravo. In my view, this connection and upside was made appropriately-clear in the &quot;Who are you and why did you build this?&quot; section, and the context from the logo attached to the site.<p>Very clever marketing, good on you for managing this, and I hope you see a great return for your efforts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mjkornbl</author><text>Radvocate here:
We do have a vested interest. Over time, we want to be the place you come when you have a dispute against a big company because we&#x27;ll fight hard for you.<p>We&#x27;re excited to partner on this project partly because it is very &quot;on brand&quot; for us from that perspective — we can help people, get our name out there, and shine light on an issue that matters to us. We&#x27;re a business, but we&#x27;re also all in this business (instead of some other business) because we want to make the system fairer for consumers.<p>ETA: Also, to correct one misapprehension: we are not in the class action business. We actually help consumers pursue individual arbitrations. We think more people should know that even if their contract doesn&#x27;t let them sue, they actually do have a way to assert their power through arbitration. If anything, we&#x27;ll have more customers for our current business if no one opts out of their Chase clause.</text></item><item><author>rkhassen</author><text>For me the red flag is them willing to send this letter to Chase, via snail mail at no charge to you. Nobody gives something for nothing. So I thought, why would they do this? after reading through the form, at the bottom, it looks like one of the companies, who sponsors this site, &quot;Radvocate&quot; seems like they are in the &quot;class action&quot; lawsuit business. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myradvocate.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myradvocate.com&#x2F;</a><p>This site is about having enough potential clients are able to sue Chase at some point in the future, whenever a class action lawsuit comes up - and heck, they even will have a customer list and a relationship with you from sending this &quot;free&quot; letter for you in the past.<p>Usually in those kinds of cases, the end recipient gets very little - perhaps some subscription to a ID protection service or a few bucks but the firm who runs the class action makes a lot.<p>On the one hand, maybe it helps keep them honest (they cite Wells Fargo) so its good to be able to. But clearly there is some vested interest here on the part of Radvocate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chase did a bad thing, so we did a good thing</title><url>https://www.chaseoptout.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>rkhassen</author><text>Good points and I appreciate what you write here.<p>And an interesting business concept - to help consumers pursue individual arbitrations. That could be really cool especially against large corporations when they are abusive. What do you charge as people go through their individual arbitration process&#x2F; how does the profit model work?<p>I really have mixed feelings about the legal system - on<p>Also, Radvocate, wondering if you can address the PII concerns other&#x27;s have raised, as that is a very big deal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mjkornbl</author><text>Radvocate here:
We do have a vested interest. Over time, we want to be the place you come when you have a dispute against a big company because we&#x27;ll fight hard for you.<p>We&#x27;re excited to partner on this project partly because it is very &quot;on brand&quot; for us from that perspective — we can help people, get our name out there, and shine light on an issue that matters to us. We&#x27;re a business, but we&#x27;re also all in this business (instead of some other business) because we want to make the system fairer for consumers.<p>ETA: Also, to correct one misapprehension: we are not in the class action business. We actually help consumers pursue individual arbitrations. We think more people should know that even if their contract doesn&#x27;t let them sue, they actually do have a way to assert their power through arbitration. If anything, we&#x27;ll have more customers for our current business if no one opts out of their Chase clause.</text></item><item><author>rkhassen</author><text>For me the red flag is them willing to send this letter to Chase, via snail mail at no charge to you. Nobody gives something for nothing. So I thought, why would they do this? after reading through the form, at the bottom, it looks like one of the companies, who sponsors this site, &quot;Radvocate&quot; seems like they are in the &quot;class action&quot; lawsuit business. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myradvocate.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myradvocate.com&#x2F;</a><p>This site is about having enough potential clients are able to sue Chase at some point in the future, whenever a class action lawsuit comes up - and heck, they even will have a customer list and a relationship with you from sending this &quot;free&quot; letter for you in the past.<p>Usually in those kinds of cases, the end recipient gets very little - perhaps some subscription to a ID protection service or a few bucks but the firm who runs the class action makes a lot.<p>On the one hand, maybe it helps keep them honest (they cite Wells Fargo) so its good to be able to. But clearly there is some vested interest here on the part of Radvocate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chase did a bad thing, so we did a good thing</title><url>https://www.chaseoptout.com/</url></story> |
28,367,527 | 28,365,991 | 1 | 2 | 28,365,163 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sidibe</author><text>The reason Firefox is higher is probably because it&#x27;s the easiest one to block ads on mobile. Most people I know who use Firefox on mobile do so specifically to have ublock origin. I personally use chrome on desktop but Firefox on mobile.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>I expected these numbers to be higher. However, an even more interesting metric is the 88% block in Firefox.<p>Firefox may not have a great market share, but based on these numbers it&#x27;s market share may very well be eight times higher than your analytics report. This can change the argument of &quot;it&#x27;s only 3% of our users so we don&#x27;t need to test on FF&quot; to &quot;it&#x27;s a quarter of our user base, we should at least test it&quot;, depending on your target audience. I&#x27;ve seen tons of people claim general Firefox usage is negligible based on public data from websites such as statcounter, but these metrics prove that those statistics are unreliable and should not be used.<p>The best you can do is use server side UA inspection, though you can&#x27;t really distinguish bots from real users that way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics</title><url>https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-adblockers-missing-data</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DocTomoe</author><text>I feel this heavily depends on your goal.<p>IMHO, this points at Firefox being used mostly by ad-averse, tech-savvy users, while the less-adverse, less-savvy users prefer Safari and&#x2F;or Chrome.<p>If your objective is to maximize ad revenue, the most obvious approach would now be to ignore Firefox completely and focus on non-FF browsers.<p>Of course, following web standards would be the Golden Way, and more selfless actors follow that rule, but that song has been sung ever since the old Netscape&#x2F;MSIE wars.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>I expected these numbers to be higher. However, an even more interesting metric is the 88% block in Firefox.<p>Firefox may not have a great market share, but based on these numbers it&#x27;s market share may very well be eight times higher than your analytics report. This can change the argument of &quot;it&#x27;s only 3% of our users so we don&#x27;t need to test on FF&quot; to &quot;it&#x27;s a quarter of our user base, we should at least test it&quot;, depending on your target audience. I&#x27;ve seen tons of people claim general Firefox usage is negligible based on public data from websites such as statcounter, but these metrics prove that those statistics are unreliable and should not be used.<p>The best you can do is use server side UA inspection, though you can&#x27;t really distinguish bots from real users that way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics</title><url>https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-adblockers-missing-data</url></story> |
37,014,177 | 37,014,497 | 1 | 3 | 37,013,114 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>og_kalu</author><text>The problem is that today&#x27;s state of the art is far too good for low hanging fruit. There isn&#x27;t a testable definition of GI that GPT-4 fails that a significant chunk of humans wouldn&#x27;t also fail so you&#x27;re often left with weird ad-hominins (&quot;Forget what it can do and results you see. It&#x27;s &quot;just&quot; predicting the next token so it means nothing&quot;) or imaginary distinctions built on vague and ill defined assertions ( &quot;It sure looks like reasoning but i swear it isn&#x27;t <i>real</i> reasoning. What does &quot;real reasoning&quot; even mean ? Well idk but just trust me bro&quot;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>fergal_reid</author><text>&gt;Today&#x27;s AI models are missing the ability to reason abstractly, including asking and answering questions of &quot;Why?&quot; and &quot;How?&quot;<p>This claim seems over general, because you can ask gpt-4 &#x27;Why&#x27; and &#x27;How&#x27; questions and it seems to do a pretty good job.<p>The author doesn&#x27;t provide a lot of contrary evidence.<p>There&#x27;s so many articles saying &quot;LLMs can&#x27;t do X&quot; that leave me wondering whether the author has even tried. Maybe they&#x27;ve tried and have some more sophisticated argument, but I often don&#x27;t see it.<p>If I was going to knock LLMs for being unable to do basic science, in particular, I&#x27;d make sure to do some experiments first!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cargo Cult AI</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595860</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jmh117</author><text>Isn&#x27;t that you asking the Whys and How&#x27;s? If you asked an LLM &quot;What&#x27;s 5*4?&quot; and it responded with &quot;Why do you want to know that?&quot;, the LLM would be doing the abstract reasoning.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fergal_reid</author><text>&gt;Today&#x27;s AI models are missing the ability to reason abstractly, including asking and answering questions of &quot;Why?&quot; and &quot;How?&quot;<p>This claim seems over general, because you can ask gpt-4 &#x27;Why&#x27; and &#x27;How&#x27; questions and it seems to do a pretty good job.<p>The author doesn&#x27;t provide a lot of contrary evidence.<p>There&#x27;s so many articles saying &quot;LLMs can&#x27;t do X&quot; that leave me wondering whether the author has even tried. Maybe they&#x27;ve tried and have some more sophisticated argument, but I often don&#x27;t see it.<p>If I was going to knock LLMs for being unable to do basic science, in particular, I&#x27;d make sure to do some experiments first!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cargo Cult AI</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595860</url></story> |
37,989,233 | 37,986,518 | 1 | 3 | 37,983,386 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cj</author><text>My sister’s Etsy shop (which is her family’s sole source of income) was hit by this scam last Christmas during the holiday rush. DMCA takedowns from copycat vendors to wipe away competitors to (temporarily) steal business.<p>It’s not a problem Etsy or others take seriously, even when the attack hits stores with multi-million dollars per year in sales.<p>It’s yet another case of a tech company refusing to staff enough workers to manually review and verify things that computers shouldn’t be doing by themselves.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Lentor</author><text>The problem with Shopify is that literally anyone can open a fake account and submit a DMCA to take down any competitor.<p>Check how basic their form is &gt;&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.shopify.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;legal&#x2F;dmca#&#x2F;form" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.shopify.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;legal&#x2F;dmca#&#x2F;form</a><p>We&#x27;ve been harassed by the same scammer that placed 7 fake DMCA over the past 2 weeks and Shopify automatically removes you content with zero check. That dude just mentioned the product pages he wanted and used totally irrelevant links as a source for what he claims was the original content even a .xyz domain.<p>Shopify support does absolutely nothing even if you send them 20 emails.<p>Hundreds of legit businesses are affected by this loophole exploited by scammers.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hashtag&#x2F;FixShopifyDMCA?src=hashtag_click" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hashtag&#x2F;FixShopifyDMCA?src=hashtag_click</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shopify files lawsuit over DMCA abuse</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/shopify-files-lawsuit-over-illegal-dmca-takedown-abuse-231020/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qingcharles</author><text>I had a business a decade ago where our competitor hired someone to consistently email PayPal and tell them we were actually selling CSAM. PayPal had to act every time by immediately blocking our account and putting us out of business for a week while they checked and saw that we were not in fact selling anything untoward.<p>If you&#x27;re an asshole there are many methods online to really screw with your competitors :(</text><parent_chain><item><author>Lentor</author><text>The problem with Shopify is that literally anyone can open a fake account and submit a DMCA to take down any competitor.<p>Check how basic their form is &gt;&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.shopify.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;legal&#x2F;dmca#&#x2F;form" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.shopify.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;legal&#x2F;dmca#&#x2F;form</a><p>We&#x27;ve been harassed by the same scammer that placed 7 fake DMCA over the past 2 weeks and Shopify automatically removes you content with zero check. That dude just mentioned the product pages he wanted and used totally irrelevant links as a source for what he claims was the original content even a .xyz domain.<p>Shopify support does absolutely nothing even if you send them 20 emails.<p>Hundreds of legit businesses are affected by this loophole exploited by scammers.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hashtag&#x2F;FixShopifyDMCA?src=hashtag_click" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hashtag&#x2F;FixShopifyDMCA?src=hashtag_click</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shopify files lawsuit over DMCA abuse</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/shopify-files-lawsuit-over-illegal-dmca-takedown-abuse-231020/</url></story> |
41,370,929 | 41,369,679 | 1 | 2 | 41,365,868 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crystalmeph</author><text>A large part of the United States&#x27; economic leadership is specifically concentrated in the tech startup sector.<p>Whether or not you think any of the companies funded by YCombinator[0] are actually worth their valuation, you have to realize that there will be fewer such startups if a tax on unrealized capital gains is passed, and that VC activity, along with the future startups chasing their money, absolutely will move to countries without such a tax.<p>Again, maybe you actually believe the startup scene in the US is worthless, in which case, go ahead and advocate for an unrealized gains tax Just be honest with yourself that it will entirely shut down sectors that others view as critical to the country&#x27;s future dominance.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;companies">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;companies</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>I love your consideration for the financial problems of some of the most privileged people in all of human history. I just don’t really care that much if they get a big tax bill (I’m sure they’ll find a way to pay) and for a variety of reasons it will be good for society.</text></item><item><author>tracker1</author><text>I feel an exchange tax that included loans would probably be a much better approach. Taxing seated&#x2F;parked assets, especially on the very wealthy seems like a recipe for disaster. So you have to sell, or leverage the property to pay taxes. What would trying to sell billions in stock at once, or leverage hundreds of thousands of rental properties look like to the larger economy, and what would the effect be? Also, who is going to be able to even buy the stuff, if everyone with enough money&#x2F;credit is scrambling to make huge tax layouts. Will you be able to deduct the interest on loans taken out to pay these taxes?<p>It&#x27;s not like the money is just sitting, liquid in a vault like Scrooge McDuck.</text></item><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>I wonder if this is coming up just before the election because of the Harris campaign’s suggested policy of capital gains tax on unrealised gains for people who have over $100m in assets? I think this is a great idea personally given what these people are doing to avoid paying tax including taking out loans against their own share portfolios. Worth thinking about what people are willing to do to not pay billions of dollars worth of taxes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/zuckerberg-meta-white-house-pressure-00176399</url></story> | <instructions>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 it’s simpler than that. People here tend to enjoy, and have careers around, understanding complex systems. “Consideration” for rich people isn’t required for thinking about the possible impacts of this, especially when the government has a near perfect track record in eventually shifting policies down to the working class.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>I love your consideration for the financial problems of some of the most privileged people in all of human history. I just don’t really care that much if they get a big tax bill (I’m sure they’ll find a way to pay) and for a variety of reasons it will be good for society.</text></item><item><author>tracker1</author><text>I feel an exchange tax that included loans would probably be a much better approach. Taxing seated&#x2F;parked assets, especially on the very wealthy seems like a recipe for disaster. So you have to sell, or leverage the property to pay taxes. What would trying to sell billions in stock at once, or leverage hundreds of thousands of rental properties look like to the larger economy, and what would the effect be? Also, who is going to be able to even buy the stuff, if everyone with enough money&#x2F;credit is scrambling to make huge tax layouts. Will you be able to deduct the interest on loans taken out to pay these taxes?<p>It&#x27;s not like the money is just sitting, liquid in a vault like Scrooge McDuck.</text></item><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>I wonder if this is coming up just before the election because of the Harris campaign’s suggested policy of capital gains tax on unrealised gains for people who have over $100m in assets? I think this is a great idea personally given what these people are doing to avoid paying tax including taking out loans against their own share portfolios. Worth thinking about what people are willing to do to not pay billions of dollars worth of taxes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/zuckerberg-meta-white-house-pressure-00176399</url></story> |
32,429,057 | 32,428,558 | 1 | 2 | 32,427,308 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mock-possum</author><text>I could be wrong, but I think there&#x27;s a specific violent threat embedded in calling trans people nazis - nazis are still the simplest shorthand terminology for &quot;unambiguously evil oppressors whom it is acceptable to violently oppose.&quot; No one wrings their hands and bemoans the Allies&#x27; treatment of the nazis in WW2. To this very day it&#x27;s hard to answer &quot;is it okay to punch a nazi&quot; negatively- most people would probably agree that the nazi had it coming.<p>That kind of sentiment makes this whole &quot;trans nazis are infiltrating and controlling the cis lesbian and gay rights movement&quot; accusation a little scarier, in my opinion, due to context - portraying your ideological opponents as nazis as prelude to violence, and trans people are already the target of <i>plenty</i> of violent transphobic attacks.<p>(I still don&#x27;t think this arrest is warranted, absent some sort of other evidence that he intends to do more than call people names online... but there are very specific connotations to calling trans people nazis, that I feel like it&#x27;s fair to call out aside from mere &#x27;political beliefs&#x27;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>aydyn</author><text>&gt; Whether or not an arrest is warranted is another debate, but the it&#x27;s important to highlight the context of the group who made the image to understand their motivations behind creating the image, and what it implies about people who share the image.<p>No it&#x27;s not, it&#x27;s literally not relevant (or at least shouldn&#x27;t be). You are saying a person&#x27;s political beliefs are legally relevant to if they should be arrested or not.</text></item><item><author>elsonrodriguez</author><text>It is noteworthy that the &quot;meme&quot; being shared was pride flags arranged in a swastika pattern, and that the person who originally made the image runs the Bad Law Project, whose webpage(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.badlawproject.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.badlawproject.com</a>) contains statements such as this:<p><i>&gt;Bad law is political ideology disguised as law. When we see police officers marching with demonstrators and waving political flags and chanting activist slogans - that is bad law.</i><p><i>&gt;Our Equality Act 2010 is bad law, because it does not treat all people equally and can be interpreted in such a way as to discriminate against people with certain views or beliefs.</i><p>One of the people they feature on their website as oppressed by &quot;Bad Law&quot; is Calvin Robinson, who has this to say on twitter:<p><i>&gt;“No LGB without T” is a highly political statement. What does a mental health issue have to do with sexuality?</i><p><i>&gt;The trans movement is discriminatory towards women’s rights and female-only spaces.</i><p><i>&gt;Anime is degenerate. There’s a reason most trans activists use anime avatars.</i><p>As far as I can tell it&#x27;s an anti LGBT organization, and focuses on legal defense of people who engage in hate speech, and the repeal of anti discrimination laws.<p>Whether or not an arrest is warranted is another debate, but the it&#x27;s important to highlight the context of the group who made the image to understand their motivations behind creating the image, and what it implies about people who share the image.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Irishman arrested in UK for 'causing anxiety' by retweeting meme</title><url>https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/irishman-arrested-uk-causing-anxiety-27639423</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saghm</author><text>&gt; No it&#x27;s not, it&#x27;s literally not relevant (or at least shouldn&#x27;t be). You are saying a person&#x27;s political beliefs are legally relevant to if they should be arrested or not.<p>Isn&#x27;t the idea that the intent behind actions being legally relevant pretty well established? There&#x27;s a difference between different degrees of murder and between murder and manslaughter based not on whether the actions themselves differed, but whether the intent to kill was there (and not even that, but how _long_ it was held, e.g. &quot;spur of the moment&quot; versus premeditated). It seems like in any case where intent is relevant, looking at the context of the accused would be necessary to determine the scope of the crime.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aydyn</author><text>&gt; Whether or not an arrest is warranted is another debate, but the it&#x27;s important to highlight the context of the group who made the image to understand their motivations behind creating the image, and what it implies about people who share the image.<p>No it&#x27;s not, it&#x27;s literally not relevant (or at least shouldn&#x27;t be). You are saying a person&#x27;s political beliefs are legally relevant to if they should be arrested or not.</text></item><item><author>elsonrodriguez</author><text>It is noteworthy that the &quot;meme&quot; being shared was pride flags arranged in a swastika pattern, and that the person who originally made the image runs the Bad Law Project, whose webpage(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.badlawproject.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.badlawproject.com</a>) contains statements such as this:<p><i>&gt;Bad law is political ideology disguised as law. When we see police officers marching with demonstrators and waving political flags and chanting activist slogans - that is bad law.</i><p><i>&gt;Our Equality Act 2010 is bad law, because it does not treat all people equally and can be interpreted in such a way as to discriminate against people with certain views or beliefs.</i><p>One of the people they feature on their website as oppressed by &quot;Bad Law&quot; is Calvin Robinson, who has this to say on twitter:<p><i>&gt;“No LGB without T” is a highly political statement. What does a mental health issue have to do with sexuality?</i><p><i>&gt;The trans movement is discriminatory towards women’s rights and female-only spaces.</i><p><i>&gt;Anime is degenerate. There’s a reason most trans activists use anime avatars.</i><p>As far as I can tell it&#x27;s an anti LGBT organization, and focuses on legal defense of people who engage in hate speech, and the repeal of anti discrimination laws.<p>Whether or not an arrest is warranted is another debate, but the it&#x27;s important to highlight the context of the group who made the image to understand their motivations behind creating the image, and what it implies about people who share the image.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Irishman arrested in UK for 'causing anxiety' by retweeting meme</title><url>https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/irishman-arrested-uk-causing-anxiety-27639423</url></story> |
29,069,885 | 29,068,721 | 1 | 2 | 29,064,100 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WaltPurvis</author><text>I have a Fitbit Versa 3 that&#x27;s gone and bricked itself in less than seven months. But my Apple Watch&#x27;s battery life is &lt;18 hours, so, for example, it&#x27;s essentially impossible to wear it during the day <i>and</i> use it for sleep tracking overnight. I&#x27;d love it if Apple would come up with a fitness tracker that ties in with the rest of the Apple ecosystem and-- most importantly--has a multi-day battery life like Fitbit&#x27;s smart watches.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rcconf</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree. Apple is definitely a cool brand because what is the alternatives in the phone space for being cool? I can guarantee you that no one thinks Android devices are &quot;cool&quot; amongst the younger generation.<p>Apple is doing a fantastic job right now and I believe they&#x27;re going to do great in the next 10 years because of one really simple fact:<p>Apple makes great products that just work and look great. No other company has been able to do that. I was just gifted a Fitbit and it failed about 5 times to pair to my phone. I restarted both the device (5x) and phone and it finally worked. How easy do you think it was for my girlfriend to setup her Apple watch? That&#x27;s when I was reminded why Apple is #1.<p>I think Apple should continue what they&#x27;re doing, create great products that just work and look great. It doesn&#x27;t matter what the next 10 years looks like if they can continue doing that and I really think they can.</text></item><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>Apple is on the way to having the same problem as Facebook - becoming an uncool brand for older people.<p>The under-30s increasingly care about climate change and other more immediate threats. Unless they have Type 1 diabetes, blood glucose is not an issue for them.<p>Apple under Jobs did a solid job of making <i>cool</i> lifestyle accessories for all ages and genders.<p>Apple under Cook has drifted towards a kind of white picket Disneyfied techtopia, where the sun always shines, people always smile, everyone is very creative and colourful but also professional, fit, and focused. And it&#x27;s somehow very sterile and boring.<p>As a result Apple missed out on the user-generated content wave, which was owned by YouTube and then TikTok. Apple already had some of the basic infrastructure in place with podcasting, but a middle aged outlook meant it missed the (mildly but interestingly) anarchic possibilities.<p>And that&#x27;s going to be a problem for the future. Jobs was anarchic enough to want to shake things up but stable enough to make the shaking work (mostly).<p>Cook is small-c conservative, safe, and suburban in outlook. And now Apple is too.<p>Asking what The Next Big Consumer Thing will be is already missing the point because it assumes a model where there is a Next Big Consumer Thing and it&#x27;s important enough to matter.<p>Ten years from now that&#x27;s going to look like a weird and dated assumption. There will be much more chaos and uncertainty, and I suspect Big Consumer Things will be less important to everyone than they are now, and the people who are in their 10s-20s-30s now will be looking for something entirely different.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple: Ten Years Forward</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/apple-ten-years-forward-10dfabf00706?gi=665f5d3c344f</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>uuddlrlr</author><text>Do you have an Android phone? The bluetooth stack on Android is a an atrocity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rcconf</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree. Apple is definitely a cool brand because what is the alternatives in the phone space for being cool? I can guarantee you that no one thinks Android devices are &quot;cool&quot; amongst the younger generation.<p>Apple is doing a fantastic job right now and I believe they&#x27;re going to do great in the next 10 years because of one really simple fact:<p>Apple makes great products that just work and look great. No other company has been able to do that. I was just gifted a Fitbit and it failed about 5 times to pair to my phone. I restarted both the device (5x) and phone and it finally worked. How easy do you think it was for my girlfriend to setup her Apple watch? That&#x27;s when I was reminded why Apple is #1.<p>I think Apple should continue what they&#x27;re doing, create great products that just work and look great. It doesn&#x27;t matter what the next 10 years looks like if they can continue doing that and I really think they can.</text></item><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>Apple is on the way to having the same problem as Facebook - becoming an uncool brand for older people.<p>The under-30s increasingly care about climate change and other more immediate threats. Unless they have Type 1 diabetes, blood glucose is not an issue for them.<p>Apple under Jobs did a solid job of making <i>cool</i> lifestyle accessories for all ages and genders.<p>Apple under Cook has drifted towards a kind of white picket Disneyfied techtopia, where the sun always shines, people always smile, everyone is very creative and colourful but also professional, fit, and focused. And it&#x27;s somehow very sterile and boring.<p>As a result Apple missed out on the user-generated content wave, which was owned by YouTube and then TikTok. Apple already had some of the basic infrastructure in place with podcasting, but a middle aged outlook meant it missed the (mildly but interestingly) anarchic possibilities.<p>And that&#x27;s going to be a problem for the future. Jobs was anarchic enough to want to shake things up but stable enough to make the shaking work (mostly).<p>Cook is small-c conservative, safe, and suburban in outlook. And now Apple is too.<p>Asking what The Next Big Consumer Thing will be is already missing the point because it assumes a model where there is a Next Big Consumer Thing and it&#x27;s important enough to matter.<p>Ten years from now that&#x27;s going to look like a weird and dated assumption. There will be much more chaos and uncertainty, and I suspect Big Consumer Things will be less important to everyone than they are now, and the people who are in their 10s-20s-30s now will be looking for something entirely different.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple: Ten Years Forward</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/apple-ten-years-forward-10dfabf00706?gi=665f5d3c344f</url></story> |
19,020,913 | 19,020,562 | 1 | 3 | 19,017,495 | 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>wenc</author><text>Most of the commenters here get it.<p>Efficiency is an outcome of optimization, and optimization is a form of specialization with respect to the environment&#x2F;assumptions. With any kind of specialization there&#x27;s a trade off. If the environment or set of assumption changes, one can be worse off than if one did not optimize at all.<p>Also, optimization at the wrong level of detail&#x2F;abstraction can be costly. One example is in auto manufacturing.<p>U.S. car manufacturers have traditionally tended to spec tight tolerances at the component level, with the assumption that everything will fit when assembled. This can be very expensive to get right, and the assumption of perfect final fit is not always borne out.<p>Japanese auto manufacturers however, despite their reputation for perfectionism, have tended to be looser with component level tolerances, but paid more attention to assembly tolerances (functional build [1]). They understood what tolerances needed to be tight and those that mattered less in the final build. They embraced natural imperfections, and made sure the rest of the system accepted the lower part tolerances. It turns out this led to higher overall quality at lower cost. (Detroit has now embraced functional build)<p>(The Japanese approach is analogous to focusing on integration testing as opposed to exhaustive unit testing)<p>[1] Functional Build <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adandp.media&#x2F;articles&#x2F;building-better-vehicles-via-functional-build" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adandp.media&#x2F;articles&#x2F;building-better-vehicles-v...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Getting Ahead by Being Inefficient</title><url>https://fs.blog/2019/01/getting-ahead-inefficient/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>Efficiency is a sub-goal of getting things done. IF you cannot get the job done you are out of the running no matter how efficient you are at your failure.<p>Henry Ford got more and more efficient at making the model T. At first his customers appreciated the lower prices he was able to deliver for them. However as time went on his competitors who were not as efficient at building any one car were able to build a new car with features like electric start that were worth paying extra for. The model T could never get that as the assembly line was too efficient to allow the extra steps to add new parts, the jigs had been optimized to the point where they couldn&#x27;t be changed without a large set of other changes that his line&#x27;s couldn&#x27;t handle.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Getting Ahead by Being Inefficient</title><url>https://fs.blog/2019/01/getting-ahead-inefficient/</url></story> |
29,179,498 | 29,179,244 | 1 | 2 | 29,165,388 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bell-cot</author><text>Summary: The subject (of the article) was a very routine SIGINT sergeant in WWII. She worked in Canada, listening on the radio to (Imperial) Japanese military signals. She wrote those down on paper, then (in effect) mailed the paper to the next stage of the SIGINT pipeline. The signals were encrypted (by the Japanese) - so she had no way to tell whether one said &quot;Our big attack with force X against location Y will happen at time Z&quot;, or &quot;Our garrison on Useless Island is still bored.&quot;<p>While on paper this was all super-secret, and such dull work was very important to the war effort...the Japanese knew that the allies had loads of SIGINT radio operators like her, doing jobs just like hers. And nothing she knew would have been of much value to them.<p>For me, all the CBC article&#x27;s hype about super-duper secrecy just messes up what could have been a much better human interest story.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Canadian opens up about her secret wartime work, eavesdropping on Japan</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/second-world-war-marjorie-stetson-japan-1.6239427</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vmh1928</author><text>A good book that describes the information provided to allied leaders via the intercepts and decryption of the Japanese diplomatic Purple codes is given in the book &quot;Marching Orders&quot; by Bruce Lee. ISBN 0-517-57576-0 (c.1995)
Lee had access to 1000&#x27;s of the daily decryption and analysis summary reports (called Magic Summaries,) and provided to the president, Marshall and others. He provides an almost day-by-day chronology showing what the leaders knew and how that knowledge shaped their decisions about the conduct of the war. [edit: the axis decrypts were called Ultra. Allied leaders had access to reports on both.]</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Canadian opens up about her secret wartime work, eavesdropping on Japan</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/second-world-war-marjorie-stetson-japan-1.6239427</url></story> |
21,412,807 | 21,412,269 | 1 | 3 | 21,411,312 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>e12e</author><text>&gt; Allegedly WhatsApp uses Signal&#x27;s encryption (OpenWhisper<p>About the partnership:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;whatsapp-complete&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;whatsapp-complete&#x2F;</a><p>But of course, in this case the issue seems to be either compromise of the device(s) via zero days, whatsapp usage simply being the target matrix - and&#x2F;or a leveraging a zero day in whatsapp for full device compromise.<p>It&#x27;s unlikely signal would be immune - they didn&#x27;t Crack the encryption, they cracked the app&#x2F;os.<p>In olden times the vector might have been a font, or a gif.<p>The only advantage signal has is a conservative interface and small userbase. I&#x27;m not sure if they do some kind of hard-line whitelisting of attachments though - if you can pack an exploit as a file, I&#x27;m pretty sure you could send it via signal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vocatus_gate</author><text>A buddy of mine is Special Forces (U.S.). He said JSOC recently banned use of WhatsApp and encouraged everyone to switch to the open-source Signal (another encrypted messaging app). Allegedly WhatsApp uses Signal&#x27;s encryption (OpenWhisper) but I stopped trusting it the second Facebook bought them out.</text></item><item><author>milofeynman</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t really say what hackers had access to, but it sounds like they had full control over their phones. There is a lot bigger story here and I&#x27;d love to read a post-mortem in a few months.<p>Also, WhatsApp is such an obvious target for a state actor. I saw several articles of the last year that mentioned Jared Kushner using Whatsapp so I assume a lot of government folks use it for off the books &quot;encrypted&quot; communication.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/exclusive-whatsapp-hacked-to-spy-on-top-government-officials-at-u-s-allies-sources-idUSKBN1XA27H</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chriselles</author><text>Approx 20 months ago, numerous people I had contact with working in western military special operations units dropped WhatsApp in a fairly brief period of time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vocatus_gate</author><text>A buddy of mine is Special Forces (U.S.). He said JSOC recently banned use of WhatsApp and encouraged everyone to switch to the open-source Signal (another encrypted messaging app). Allegedly WhatsApp uses Signal&#x27;s encryption (OpenWhisper) but I stopped trusting it the second Facebook bought them out.</text></item><item><author>milofeynman</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t really say what hackers had access to, but it sounds like they had full control over their phones. There is a lot bigger story here and I&#x27;d love to read a post-mortem in a few months.<p>Also, WhatsApp is such an obvious target for a state actor. I saw several articles of the last year that mentioned Jared Kushner using Whatsapp so I assume a lot of government folks use it for off the books &quot;encrypted&quot; communication.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/exclusive-whatsapp-hacked-to-spy-on-top-government-officials-at-u-s-allies-sources-idUSKBN1XA27H</url></story> |
21,055,674 | 21,055,684 | 1 | 3 | 21,054,462 | 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>xapata</author><text>I have had the opposite experience. Pipenv chose to ignore the use case of developing a package. In the docs, they state they only care about projects that are directly deployed, not installed and used by some other project. Conda helps with both types of projects and handles non-Python dependencies.<p>It takes way too long to make a Pipenv.lock file, and I need to be in the project folder to activate the env?! Terrible user experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>orf</author><text>Not a fan of Conda, the cli is terrible, their unofficial builds are opaque and in my experience the very few packages that are not available on pypi are rarely worth installing (usually the worst kind of &quot;research code&quot;[1]).<p>Simply using pipenv and pyenv is enough for me (brew install pipenv pyenv). You don&#x27;t ever have to think about this, or worry you&#x27;re doing it wrong.<p>Every project has an isolated environment in any python version you want, installed on demand. You get a lockfile for reproducibility (but this can be skipped) and the scripts section of the pipfile is very useful for repetitive commands. It&#x27;s super simple to configure the environment to become active when you move into a project directory.<p>It&#x27;s not all roses, pipenv has some downsides which I hope the new release will fix.<p>When I need a temporary environment to mess around in, then I use virtualfish by running `vf tmp`: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;virtualfish.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;virtualfish.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a><p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;menpo&#x2F;menpo&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;setup.py#L17" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;menpo&#x2F;menpo&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;setup.py#L17</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How do you handle/maintain local Python environments?</title><text>I&#x27;m having some trouble figuring out how to handle my local Python. I&#x27;m not asking about 2 vs 3 - that ship has sailed - I&#x27;m confused on which binary to be using. From the way I see it, there&#x27;s at least 4 different Pythons I could be using:<p>1 - Python shipped with OS X&#x2F;Ubuntu<p>2 - brew&#x2F;apt install python<p>3 - Anaconda<p>4 - Getting Python from https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.python.org&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;<p>And that&#x27;s before getting into how you get numpy et al installed. What&#x27;s the general consensus on which to use? It seems like the OS X default is compiled with Clang while brew&#x27;s version is with GCC. I&#x27;ve been working through this book [1] and found this thread [2]. I really want to make sure I&#x27;m using fast&#x2F;optimized linear algebra libraries, is there an easy way to make sure? I use Python for learning data science&#x2F;bioinformatics, learning MicroPython for embedded, and general automation stuff - is it possible to have one environment that performs well for all of these?<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Python-Data-Analysis-Wrangling-IPython&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1449319793<p>[2] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Python&#x2F;comments&#x2F;46r8u0&#x2F;numpylinalgsolve_is_6x_faster_on_my_mac_than_on&#x2F;</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gchamonlive</author><text>+1 for pipenv<p>I develop using pipenv and then deploy installing the dependencies directly in the folder. It works for AWS lambda and containers, although lambda layers are a little more tricky to release:<p>`pipenv lock -r &gt; requirements.txt`<p>`pipenv run pip install -r requirements.txt -t .`</text><parent_chain><item><author>orf</author><text>Not a fan of Conda, the cli is terrible, their unofficial builds are opaque and in my experience the very few packages that are not available on pypi are rarely worth installing (usually the worst kind of &quot;research code&quot;[1]).<p>Simply using pipenv and pyenv is enough for me (brew install pipenv pyenv). You don&#x27;t ever have to think about this, or worry you&#x27;re doing it wrong.<p>Every project has an isolated environment in any python version you want, installed on demand. You get a lockfile for reproducibility (but this can be skipped) and the scripts section of the pipfile is very useful for repetitive commands. It&#x27;s super simple to configure the environment to become active when you move into a project directory.<p>It&#x27;s not all roses, pipenv has some downsides which I hope the new release will fix.<p>When I need a temporary environment to mess around in, then I use virtualfish by running `vf tmp`: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;virtualfish.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;virtualfish.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a><p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;menpo&#x2F;menpo&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;setup.py#L17" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;menpo&#x2F;menpo&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;setup.py#L17</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How do you handle/maintain local Python environments?</title><text>I&#x27;m having some trouble figuring out how to handle my local Python. I&#x27;m not asking about 2 vs 3 - that ship has sailed - I&#x27;m confused on which binary to be using. From the way I see it, there&#x27;s at least 4 different Pythons I could be using:<p>1 - Python shipped with OS X&#x2F;Ubuntu<p>2 - brew&#x2F;apt install python<p>3 - Anaconda<p>4 - Getting Python from https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.python.org&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;<p>And that&#x27;s before getting into how you get numpy et al installed. What&#x27;s the general consensus on which to use? It seems like the OS X default is compiled with Clang while brew&#x27;s version is with GCC. I&#x27;ve been working through this book [1] and found this thread [2]. I really want to make sure I&#x27;m using fast&#x2F;optimized linear algebra libraries, is there an easy way to make sure? I use Python for learning data science&#x2F;bioinformatics, learning MicroPython for embedded, and general automation stuff - is it possible to have one environment that performs well for all of these?<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Python-Data-Analysis-Wrangling-IPython&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1449319793<p>[2] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Python&#x2F;comments&#x2F;46r8u0&#x2F;numpylinalgsolve_is_6x_faster_on_my_mac_than_on&#x2F;</text></story> |
32,867,358 | 32,866,599 | 1 | 3 | 32,865,304 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boyband6666</author><text>It made me smile - I&#x27;m now using WACUP for my mp3s, but this was a great bit of nostalgia, thankyou :-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>captbaritone</author><text>Hey! Author of the project here (not op). Happy to answer any questions. The code, and instructions for using it on your own site, can be found here on GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;captbaritone&#x2F;webamp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;captbaritone&#x2F;webamp</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Webamp – Winamp 2 in the Browser</title><url>https://webamp.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>xwowsersx</author><text>So nostalgic. Incredible work!</text><parent_chain><item><author>captbaritone</author><text>Hey! Author of the project here (not op). Happy to answer any questions. The code, and instructions for using it on your own site, can be found here on GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;captbaritone&#x2F;webamp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;captbaritone&#x2F;webamp</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Webamp – Winamp 2 in the Browser</title><url>https://webamp.org/</url></story> |
16,791,545 | 16,791,517 | 1 | 2 | 16,791,029 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>narag</author><text>It was already scary as is. You know, <i>Hacker</i> News.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sathishmanohar</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;</a><p>is now<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.5z8.info&#x2F;horse-slaughter_o2z4pp_heroin-od.avi" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.5z8.info&#x2F;horse-slaughter_o2z4pp_heroin-od.avi</a><p>:D :D</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)</title><url>http://shadyurl.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>wwweston</author><text>This thread:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.5z8.info&#x2F;white-power-rides-upon-stallions-unstoppable_g4q3za_mercenary" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.5z8.info&#x2F;white-power-rides-upon-stallions-unstopp...</a><p>Update your bookmarks. ;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>sathishmanohar</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;</a><p>is now<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.5z8.info&#x2F;horse-slaughter_o2z4pp_heroin-od.avi" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.5z8.info&#x2F;horse-slaughter_o2z4pp_heroin-od.avi</a><p>:D :D</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)</title><url>http://shadyurl.com/</url></story> |
29,707,766 | 29,707,791 | 1 | 2 | 29,707,104 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fourfour3</author><text>If you&#x27;re on macOS, your choice for a 27&quot; 4K is realistically either the &#x27;looks like 1080p&#x27; high DPI mode, or the &#x27;looks like 1440p&#x27; high DPI mode. The &#x27;looks like 1080p&#x27; mode makes all of the UI elements huge. The &#x27;looks like 1440p&#x27; mode makes text slightly fuzzy as it&#x27;s being downscaled from 5120x2880 to 3840x2160.<p>It&#x27;s not <i>terrible</i>, but it&#x27;s nowhere near as nice as the 27&quot; 5K.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yrral</author><text>Why is &lt;220 ppi a dealbreaker? 27 inch 4k displays seem fine to me for retina and they are quite abundant. Though I&#x27;ve tried 32 inches 4k, and there the resolution is not enough for text work.<p>Dell has a 32 inch 8k display which is ~280 ppi in stock.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dell.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;work&#x2F;shop&#x2F;dell-ultrasharp-32-8k-monitor-up3218k&#x2F;apd&#x2F;210-alez&#x2F;monitors-monitor-accessories" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dell.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;work&#x2F;shop&#x2F;dell-ultrasharp-32-8k-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The state of external retina displays</title><url>https://www.caseyliss.com/2021/12/7/monitor-liss</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisseaton</author><text>&gt; Why is &lt;220 ppi a dealbreaker?<p>Because it&#x27;s very blocky and not pleasant to use.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yrral</author><text>Why is &lt;220 ppi a dealbreaker? 27 inch 4k displays seem fine to me for retina and they are quite abundant. Though I&#x27;ve tried 32 inches 4k, and there the resolution is not enough for text work.<p>Dell has a 32 inch 8k display which is ~280 ppi in stock.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dell.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;work&#x2F;shop&#x2F;dell-ultrasharp-32-8k-monitor-up3218k&#x2F;apd&#x2F;210-alez&#x2F;monitors-monitor-accessories" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dell.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;work&#x2F;shop&#x2F;dell-ultrasharp-32-8k-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The state of external retina displays</title><url>https://www.caseyliss.com/2021/12/7/monitor-liss</url></story> |
33,593,766 | 33,593,792 | 1 | 3 | 33,592,589 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mkathuri</author><text>There will never be any firings, government jobs in India are very different to those of the US. Best case, someone sues the government in supreme court, and they lay out some guidelines&#x2F;bounds for the concerned department&#x2F;ministry against doing such things in the future.<p>Even then, the government could pull such things off again easily in the name of national security. Just look at how we blocked Chinese apps in the wake of Galwan valley clashes of 2020.</text><parent_chain><item><author>instagraham</author><text>Some official decided that blocking the official source for a popular video player was the smart response to a malware-infected fake variant being in circulation.<p>No major firings have made the news, so we can only assume this official continues to direct policy, unburdened by sentience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>India unblocks VLC Player website videolan.org</title><url>https://twitter.com/internetfreedom/status/1592095634013949962</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SanjayMehta</author><text>Literally anyone can approach a state High Court and obtain a blocking order on any pretext.<p>They block first and ask questions later.<p>This has been a problem for years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>instagraham</author><text>Some official decided that blocking the official source for a popular video player was the smart response to a malware-infected fake variant being in circulation.<p>No major firings have made the news, so we can only assume this official continues to direct policy, unburdened by sentience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>India unblocks VLC Player website videolan.org</title><url>https://twitter.com/internetfreedom/status/1592095634013949962</url></story> |
14,301,593 | 14,300,999 | 1 | 3 | 14,300,246 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cwzwarich</author><text>A lot of the awkwardness that the author describes comes from destructors, which Rust has taken from C++. In fact, Rust has even inherited the incoherence between destructors and exceptions from C++, due to the lack of a solution to the double-throw problem and the need to write unsafe code that is correct in the face of unwinding.<p>The &#x27;dropck&#x27; pass is one of the corners of the language that has no precedent in a type system that has been proven sound (at least as far as I am aware, someone please correct me if i&#x27;m wrong), and it has had a lot of soundness issues in the past.<p>The fact that destructors have magical powers that the language refuses to bestow on ordinary functions is a bad sign. And destructors are terrible for predictable code: the order in which destructors run for temporary results in a single expression is not even specified by the language, and there are some surprises (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aochagavia.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;exploring-rusts-unspecified-drop-order&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aochagavia.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;exploring-rusts-unspecifie...</a>) that make it harder to write correct unsafe code.<p>If you were to design a language from the ground up with linear types and no destructors, it would be dramatically simpler than Rust.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Pain of Real Linear Types in Rust</title><url>https://gankro.github.io/blah/linear-rust/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lmm</author><text>As a Scala user: the further I&#x27;ve got into a functional&#x2F;MLey style the more linear my code has become. Options or collections are very naturally handled with &quot;fold&quot; (cata). Loops probably shouldn&#x27;t be infinite - if you&#x27;re looping it&#x27;s usually because you&#x27;re folding along a data structure, and those ought to be finite (one of the ideas I&#x27;m toying with is a type-level natural indexed recursion-schemes like library, to make it easy to construct recursive structures that are known-finite).<p>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s where Rust wants to be, but I want a practical-oriented ML-family language that does this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Pain of Real Linear Types in Rust</title><url>https://gankro.github.io/blah/linear-rust/</url></story> |
20,144,957 | 20,144,436 | 1 | 3 | 20,143,175 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Angostura</author><text>Actually, I&#x27;m in the middle of writing an e-mail to the Tim address at Apple, saying that if it takes the environment seriously (and I commend them on what they have done so far) they really need to take the next step, be truly &#x27;courageous&#x27; and prioritise repairability and expandability in their forthcoming products.<p>Apple in the last 20 pushed the boundaries in terms of sleek and slim, but I argue those are <i>last</i> century&#x27;s imperatives. Apple has the clout and profile, that if it took a stand and said &#x27;we are going to make our products a few milimeters thicker, we are going to make them so that they can be upgraded, we realise that this will hit sales and profits, but this is the planet we are talking about&#x27;, they could probably pull other members of the industry behind them&#x27;. Conspicuous non consumption might be the new fashion statement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>linguae</author><text>I’m glad that Apple is finally updating their Macs again, but at the same time Apple has doubled-down on its refusal to sell user-serviceable, upgradeable, and expandable hardware at prices that are within reach for most customers. The laptops have soldered RAM and soldered storage. The Mac Mini and iMac Pro thankfully have DIMMs, but in order to keep the warranty, you have to visit an Apple-approved repair center to have a specialist perform the upgrade, which costs more than doing it yourself. After over two years of waiting, the Mac Pro announcement was a huge letdown since the cost of the only user-serviceable Mac has doubled from $2999 to $5999, alienating Mac Pro users who can afford a $2999 computer but not a $5999 one.<p>It’s one thing for me to buy a “disposable computer” when it is priced very low. It’s another thing for me when you can’t upgrade or service computers with premium-priced parts in them. This is a trend I don’t support.<p>Unfortunately the only way to protest Apple’s business decisions is to leave the Mac, which means giving up macOS, which I find a more productive environment for me than Windows or any of the Linux desktops like KDE and GNOME. I started using macOS back when Macs were user-serviceable, upgradeable, and reasonably affordable. I continue using the Mac for macOS, but I’m finding myself alienated by Apple&#x27;s business decisions.<p>I wish the situation for personal computer operating systems were better. I want PC hardware with an operating system that has the same power, attention to detail, usability, and reliability that macOS has. At this point I am willing to spend my spare time on such a project.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Is Listening</title><url>https://marco.org/2019/06/09/apple-is-listening</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>newscracker</author><text>I feel the same way. Macs have become more expensive and less friendly for upgrading RAM and storage, the two most important things that need to be user upgradeable for longevity and reducing e-waste (I don’t care much about CPU&#x2F;GPU upgrades).<p>Even the new Mac mini is quite expensive compared to its predecessors. Mac mini used to be the cheap and beginner level entry into Macs&#x2F;macOS. The current hardware may be worth the price, but Apple has clearly missed making something that’s a lot more affordable (with cheaper parts, fewer ports, etc.).</text><parent_chain><item><author>linguae</author><text>I’m glad that Apple is finally updating their Macs again, but at the same time Apple has doubled-down on its refusal to sell user-serviceable, upgradeable, and expandable hardware at prices that are within reach for most customers. The laptops have soldered RAM and soldered storage. The Mac Mini and iMac Pro thankfully have DIMMs, but in order to keep the warranty, you have to visit an Apple-approved repair center to have a specialist perform the upgrade, which costs more than doing it yourself. After over two years of waiting, the Mac Pro announcement was a huge letdown since the cost of the only user-serviceable Mac has doubled from $2999 to $5999, alienating Mac Pro users who can afford a $2999 computer but not a $5999 one.<p>It’s one thing for me to buy a “disposable computer” when it is priced very low. It’s another thing for me when you can’t upgrade or service computers with premium-priced parts in them. This is a trend I don’t support.<p>Unfortunately the only way to protest Apple’s business decisions is to leave the Mac, which means giving up macOS, which I find a more productive environment for me than Windows or any of the Linux desktops like KDE and GNOME. I started using macOS back when Macs were user-serviceable, upgradeable, and reasonably affordable. I continue using the Mac for macOS, but I’m finding myself alienated by Apple&#x27;s business decisions.<p>I wish the situation for personal computer operating systems were better. I want PC hardware with an operating system that has the same power, attention to detail, usability, and reliability that macOS has. At this point I am willing to spend my spare time on such a project.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Is Listening</title><url>https://marco.org/2019/06/09/apple-is-listening</url></story> |
29,869,050 | 29,869,006 | 1 | 2 | 29,849,086 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NorwegianDude</author><text>Port 25 is blocked by default for many ISPs around the world, and it makes sense. Look at it this way: If it was open by default, a lot of IPs would be blacklisted, making them basically unusable for email anyway.<p>You can always rent a subnet or a server including network and host mail yourself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jaytaylor</author><text>Blocking port 25 is pretty annoying. I know there are explanations, but a month ago I really wanted to run a mail server for jaytaylor.com myself. Only to find out it&#x27;s basically impossible with mainstream ISPs. It&#x27;s not a realistic option, regardless of Comcast, AT&amp;T Fiber, no big boy ISP supports it at this point.<p>I don&#x27;t know if ATT even provides email with my service, much less for a custom domain.<p>How did the de-facto solution become &quot;Just use Gmail&quot; or pay a third party to do it? It&#x27;s a little sad for those of us who like running our own servers, total uphill battle. All that work in the early days of the internet to ensure such a feat was possible, only for it to become near impossible for most, regardless of technical prowess.<p>Just give all your data to a huge company, it&#x27;s fine. Pft.<p>Sorry for the rant. Am I really becoming those old hags I used to make fun of on slashdot? Shoot...<p>p.s. It&#x27;s easier than ever to do, too, because high-quality docker images are abundant. Tragic for nerds like us!</text></item><item><author>aftbit</author><text>&gt;Nowadays, running a website from home is just about impossible. You may not have a public IP, and if you do, it likely changes from time to time. And even then, your ISP probably blocks you from running servers on it.<p>I&#x27;m not sure about the author&#x27;s country &#x2F; ISP, but here in Midwest USA, our residential ISPs (cable or DSL, fiber if you are lucky) generally do not change IPs frequently (unless your router&#x2F;modem is restarted), and generally only block port 25 (SMTP). I&#x27;ve been running a web&#x2F;ssh server from home in some form or another since 2002, originally with DynDNS to paper over the IP changes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network</title><url>https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10319-make-the-internet-yours-again-with-an-instant-mesh-network</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>genewitch</author><text>Which docker images? I&#x27;ve been having trouble finding &quot;simple&quot; mail servers for incoming and outgoing. Stuff like postfix and dovecot make my eyes cross, I just want to point DNS at an IP and send and receive mail there, securely.<p>It&#x27;s not that I can&#x27;t set those other ones up, I just don&#x27;t want to, nor should I have to for a small service...</text><parent_chain><item><author>jaytaylor</author><text>Blocking port 25 is pretty annoying. I know there are explanations, but a month ago I really wanted to run a mail server for jaytaylor.com myself. Only to find out it&#x27;s basically impossible with mainstream ISPs. It&#x27;s not a realistic option, regardless of Comcast, AT&amp;T Fiber, no big boy ISP supports it at this point.<p>I don&#x27;t know if ATT even provides email with my service, much less for a custom domain.<p>How did the de-facto solution become &quot;Just use Gmail&quot; or pay a third party to do it? It&#x27;s a little sad for those of us who like running our own servers, total uphill battle. All that work in the early days of the internet to ensure such a feat was possible, only for it to become near impossible for most, regardless of technical prowess.<p>Just give all your data to a huge company, it&#x27;s fine. Pft.<p>Sorry for the rant. Am I really becoming those old hags I used to make fun of on slashdot? Shoot...<p>p.s. It&#x27;s easier than ever to do, too, because high-quality docker images are abundant. Tragic for nerds like us!</text></item><item><author>aftbit</author><text>&gt;Nowadays, running a website from home is just about impossible. You may not have a public IP, and if you do, it likely changes from time to time. And even then, your ISP probably blocks you from running servers on it.<p>I&#x27;m not sure about the author&#x27;s country &#x2F; ISP, but here in Midwest USA, our residential ISPs (cable or DSL, fiber if you are lucky) generally do not change IPs frequently (unless your router&#x2F;modem is restarted), and generally only block port 25 (SMTP). I&#x27;ve been running a web&#x2F;ssh server from home in some form or another since 2002, originally with DynDNS to paper over the IP changes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network</title><url>https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10319-make-the-internet-yours-again-with-an-instant-mesh-network</url></story> |
31,337,435 | 31,337,495 | 1 | 2 | 31,336,593 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kilian</author><text>Interesting. As someone using webviews extensively[1], the main issue is that the &quot;iframe&quot; model of security many operate on makes sense on the web, but not in native apps. When it comes to embedding third party content with iframes, you essentially want two-way security and privacy. The embedder can&#x27;t change things in the embedded and vice versa.<p>With webviews however, that model doesn&#x27;t make much sense: the embedder is controlling the webview and frequently needs to apply or enrich the embedded view. Browsers (which by and large maintain these webview APIs) have no incentive to stray from the web model of security though: they have no use for it themselves and it creates new vectors for security breaches in them. So I wonder how much a community group can affect.<p>[1] I build a browser for devs which uses webviews, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;polypane.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;polypane.app</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group</title><url>https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2022Mar/0004.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>tetch</author><text>Looks like this has already been created, back in March?<p>Here&#x27;s their charter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebView-CG&#x2F;charter&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;charter.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebView-CG&#x2F;charter&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;charter.md</a><p>This reminds me, back when I used to do app security, one of the issues with webviews was that some apps would hide much of the UI that users are used to seeing in browsers to make security decisions. So if an attacker could, via some vulnerability, redirect the site being viewed in the webview to one of their choosing, the user wouldn&#x27;t be any the wiser.<p>I think it would generally be better if webviews, by default, have restricted navigation, and the developer has to deliberately whitelist domains they wish to view in it. Rather than having to write a navigation delegate or similar to implement their own whitelist, which most developers won&#x27;t bother with.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group</title><url>https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2022Mar/0004.html</url></story> |
23,103,141 | 23,103,138 | 1 | 3 | 23,101,915 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ashtonkem</author><text>Ohio’s setting up a snitch website for employers to report on employees too scared to return to work, so that benefits can be stripped.<p>If I were reading this kind of stuff in a history book and the next paragraph said “and the revolution started in...” I wouldn’t be surprised. Punishing people for being afraid of a pandemic is not a smart move.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Loughla</author><text>The &#x27;Back to work movement&#x27; just seems like a way to push people off of unemployment.</text></item><item><author>spamizbad</author><text>This is part of why I am not confident about any economic upside of us opening up.<p>We&#x27;ve had numerous meat processing plants close down or run at reduced capacity due to workforce illness and people refusing to work due to the concentration of COVID-19 cases.<p>And I think about how in the restaurant business how a rumor of someone catching food poisoning can kill your business... what&#x27;s going to happen when a review lands on your Yelp&#x2F;Google page that a customer took grandma to eat at your restaurant and 2 weeks later she died from COVID-19? Your reputation will be absolutely trashed.<p>Just seems like everyone is getting set up to fail... except for those who are already able to work comfortably from home.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘We Are Not Essential. We Are Sacrificial.’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/opinion/coronavirus-nyc-subway.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>roenxi</author><text>There are two basic frames:<p>(1) Most jobs were make-work. Parking everyone up doesn&#x27;t really matter.<p>(2) Most jobs add a little bit to society. Shutting everything down substantially reduces the buffer between people and a 1,500AD standard of living.<p>Which frame a person accepts as more reasonable probably determines how they feel about the shutdowns.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Loughla</author><text>The &#x27;Back to work movement&#x27; just seems like a way to push people off of unemployment.</text></item><item><author>spamizbad</author><text>This is part of why I am not confident about any economic upside of us opening up.<p>We&#x27;ve had numerous meat processing plants close down or run at reduced capacity due to workforce illness and people refusing to work due to the concentration of COVID-19 cases.<p>And I think about how in the restaurant business how a rumor of someone catching food poisoning can kill your business... what&#x27;s going to happen when a review lands on your Yelp&#x2F;Google page that a customer took grandma to eat at your restaurant and 2 weeks later she died from COVID-19? Your reputation will be absolutely trashed.<p>Just seems like everyone is getting set up to fail... except for those who are already able to work comfortably from home.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘We Are Not Essential. We Are Sacrificial.’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/opinion/coronavirus-nyc-subway.html</url></story> |
1,979,358 | 1,979,350 | 1 | 3 | 1,978,955 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>Politicians overreacting hardly needs an ulterior motive of super-secret documents. Just try flying in an airplane if you want an example...</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Which makes me wonder what is in the leaks that we haven't seen yet. After all if highly placed officials are getting their panties in a twist based on what we've seen so far then they are over-reacting to put it mildly.<p>Time will tell. Some of the responses from politicians are beyond the pale and what bugs me more is that nobody even thinks of calling them to account over this, or so much as distancing themselves from these remarks.</text></item><item><author>ErrantX</author><text>I'm not Assange's biggest fan (r.e. how he controls Wikileaks) but some of the nonsense coming from the US establishment (and elsehwere) is appalling.<p>It probably even vindicates what Wikileaks stands for.<p>This is one of those cases where damage limitation is the sane and sensible response; they've lost those cables, we are going to see them. Deal with it. They need perspective; in the grand scheme of things it is highly unlikely to be "the end of the world". And if it uncovers corruption and naughtiness then all the better.<p>Hounding Assange and Wikileaks only ends up making them look guilty. Which is stupid, especially as there is nothing (so far) hugely corrupt or terrible in the leaks!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't shoot the messenger for telling the truth</title><url>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/dont-shoot-messenger-for-revealing-uncomfortable-truths/story-fn775xjq-1225967241332</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ErrantX</author><text>There is that. On the other hand it could be that they just can't see themselves reacting to it other way, and are just too short sighted.<p>I feel that if anything explosive was to come then Assange would have hinted at it by now - he has done in the past.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Which makes me wonder what is in the leaks that we haven't seen yet. After all if highly placed officials are getting their panties in a twist based on what we've seen so far then they are over-reacting to put it mildly.<p>Time will tell. Some of the responses from politicians are beyond the pale and what bugs me more is that nobody even thinks of calling them to account over this, or so much as distancing themselves from these remarks.</text></item><item><author>ErrantX</author><text>I'm not Assange's biggest fan (r.e. how he controls Wikileaks) but some of the nonsense coming from the US establishment (and elsehwere) is appalling.<p>It probably even vindicates what Wikileaks stands for.<p>This is one of those cases where damage limitation is the sane and sensible response; they've lost those cables, we are going to see them. Deal with it. They need perspective; in the grand scheme of things it is highly unlikely to be "the end of the world". And if it uncovers corruption and naughtiness then all the better.<p>Hounding Assange and Wikileaks only ends up making them look guilty. Which is stupid, especially as there is nothing (so far) hugely corrupt or terrible in the leaks!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't shoot the messenger for telling the truth</title><url>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/dont-shoot-messenger-for-revealing-uncomfortable-truths/story-fn775xjq-1225967241332</url></story> |
12,460,800 | 12,460,452 | 1 | 2 | 12,459,755 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>breatheoften</author><text>Its true -- and actually the well designed gui that accurately depicts the graphical state of your local repository makes it far easier to learn the concepts behind git than does the command line. Distributed vc is conceptually nuanced, but not overly complicated -- the complexity of git really is in the interface wherein you are asked to map command line syntax into abstract operations that manipulate a state that you actually can&#x27;t easily see from the command line. The value of having a graphical depiction of the state that&#x27;s changing as you invoke operations should not be underestimated.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitup.co" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitup.co</a><p>I love this tool -- it&#x27;s honestly one of the best graphical tools I&#x27;ve ever used -- rock solid reliable -- intuitive, not leaky in the abstractions it represents -- and not limited to only &quot;simple&quot; operations. And with the graphical reflog history rollback view -- it&#x27;s always really easy to back up however far you want if you mess up which gives great confidence as you explore the ui&#x27;s features. Ive taken designers from &quot;never used git&quot; to confidently pushing, pulling, rebasing, and resolving conflicts in less than a day (and most of it after the first 10 minutes without outside help).</text><parent_chain><item><author>eyelidlessness</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe no one has responded yet with &quot;use a GUI&quot;. After gaining a basic understanding of how branches and merges work, and I do mean <i>basic</i>, I&#x27;ve never been able to screw up a local repo with a GUI client enough that I haven&#x27;t been able to recover with the same GUI tools.<p>I understand that people need to know how to use their tools, but for git most people can get away with the very basic usage that GUIs provide. If you&#x27;ve made some unrecoverable mistake with an important set of changes, you can always review the history in the same GUI and reimplement the important changes in a new branch.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out of them</title><url>http://ohshitgit.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>K0nserv</author><text>I have to disagree, I&#x27;ve seen people paint themselves into really hard to get out of corners by using GUI tools and not understanding the underlying tool. git GUIs are leaky abstractions that sometimes even change the meaning of core git concepts. I always recommend people start by using git at the command line until the have a solid understanding of how the tool works before switching to a GUI.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eyelidlessness</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe no one has responded yet with &quot;use a GUI&quot;. After gaining a basic understanding of how branches and merges work, and I do mean <i>basic</i>, I&#x27;ve never been able to screw up a local repo with a GUI client enough that I haven&#x27;t been able to recover with the same GUI tools.<p>I understand that people need to know how to use their tools, but for git most people can get away with the very basic usage that GUIs provide. If you&#x27;ve made some unrecoverable mistake with an important set of changes, you can always review the history in the same GUI and reimplement the important changes in a new branch.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out of them</title><url>http://ohshitgit.com/</url></story> |
32,193,306 | 32,193,725 | 1 | 2 | 32,192,645 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frumper</author><text>Not that the population is doing great, but last years numbers rebounded to about a quarter million. A 100x increase from the previous year.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mercurynews.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;western-monarch-butterfly-numbers-rebound-in-santa-cruz-but-below-historic-levels&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mercurynews.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;western-monarch-butte...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>grapeskin</author><text>&gt; The western population is at greatest risk of extinction, having declined by an estimated 99.9%, from as many as 10 million to 1,914 butterflies between the 1980s and 2021.<p>Insane. I wonder if recovery is even possible without devoted breeding efforts. A population this small could easily be wiped out by birds or a single storm.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Migratory monarch butterfly now endangered</title><url>https://www.iucn.org/press-release/202207/migratory-monarch-butterfly-now-endangered-iucn-red-list</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>illwrks</author><text>My parents and their neighbours had plenty of flowers and suitable plants growing in their gardens. They live in a small tourist town in south west Ireland.<p>I have vivid memories as a child of what was likely thousands of monarch butterflies every summer, probably until I was 10 or so, in and around the flowers and plants.
Then then open pastures behind my parents house were bulldozed and a private housing estate was built and at the same time my parents also tarred their front drive. From then on the butterflies started to dwindle significantly.
Those two events were the only great change in the immediate surroundings until twelve-or-so years later when a brutal winter killed a lot of the trees and plants.<p>Never again have I see as many in a single place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grapeskin</author><text>&gt; The western population is at greatest risk of extinction, having declined by an estimated 99.9%, from as many as 10 million to 1,914 butterflies between the 1980s and 2021.<p>Insane. I wonder if recovery is even possible without devoted breeding efforts. A population this small could easily be wiped out by birds or a single storm.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Migratory monarch butterfly now endangered</title><url>https://www.iucn.org/press-release/202207/migratory-monarch-butterfly-now-endangered-iucn-red-list</url></story> |
4,745,059 | 4,745,068 | 1 | 2 | 4,743,954 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>steve8918</author><text>There are so many things wrong with this post, I would strongly advise you to delete this. Besides the libel, it doesn't really paint you in a good light either, especially if you're going to be looking for a job. I would suggest keeping your dirty laundry off the Internet, and delete this post.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shawnee_</author><text>The most unfortunate thing about this whole situation is that it was poor Chad himself who ended up discovering and shutting down the fraudsters. This should not have been the case, and I apologize on behalf of my former employer. I sincerely wish I would have been able to help catch this before it got out of hand. (Disclaimer: I am the former Operations / Support / Fraud Investigator for Balanced Payments).<p>As it turns out, the CEO of BalancedPayments is (there is just no nice way to put this) an unethical bag of scum. He recently went on some kind of insane power trip, completely disregarding the needs of his customers, putting me on unpaid leave for ... reporting an incident of fraud to a bank. I reported an incident exactly like the one Chad discusses here, but the dollar amount stolen was much higher, and the fraudster a repeat offender.<p>Anyway, after that last meeting where he was sneering and enjoying <i>way too much</i> the power trip of getting to "fire" somebody, I can confidently exhort that Balanced should not be trusted.<p>It's important that any company a marketplace entrusts its financial data with is an ethical one. So, yeah, looks like I'm on the job market; ping me : <a href="http://lnkd.in/NuBGDY" rel="nofollow">http://lnkd.in/NuBGDY</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stolen Money on Gittip, Part 1</title><url>http://blog.gittip.com/post/35057426257/money-laundering-on-gittip-part-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>shardling</author><text>I looked through some of this poster's other comments and... they generally seem a pretty reasonable person.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=shawnee_" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=shawnee_</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>shawnee_</author><text>The most unfortunate thing about this whole situation is that it was poor Chad himself who ended up discovering and shutting down the fraudsters. This should not have been the case, and I apologize on behalf of my former employer. I sincerely wish I would have been able to help catch this before it got out of hand. (Disclaimer: I am the former Operations / Support / Fraud Investigator for Balanced Payments).<p>As it turns out, the CEO of BalancedPayments is (there is just no nice way to put this) an unethical bag of scum. He recently went on some kind of insane power trip, completely disregarding the needs of his customers, putting me on unpaid leave for ... reporting an incident of fraud to a bank. I reported an incident exactly like the one Chad discusses here, but the dollar amount stolen was much higher, and the fraudster a repeat offender.<p>Anyway, after that last meeting where he was sneering and enjoying <i>way too much</i> the power trip of getting to "fire" somebody, I can confidently exhort that Balanced should not be trusted.<p>It's important that any company a marketplace entrusts its financial data with is an ethical one. So, yeah, looks like I'm on the job market; ping me : <a href="http://lnkd.in/NuBGDY" rel="nofollow">http://lnkd.in/NuBGDY</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stolen Money on Gittip, Part 1</title><url>http://blog.gittip.com/post/35057426257/money-laundering-on-gittip-part-1</url></story> |
27,249,200 | 27,248,002 | 1 | 3 | 27,245,680 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ItsMonkk</author><text>The author is mostly right, in this meta the best thing you can do is leverage as much as you can and pray that it doesn&#x27;t burst at the wrong time. But that takes luck.<p>Incentives drive behavior. If you perverse the incentives, the economy will follow.<p>Why is our productivity growth at all time lows? Because our best are figuring out how to get people to click ads. Our best are trying to work out exactly which financial product will go up the most safely.<p>When the increase of the money supply outpaces the increase in productivity, everyone mistakes leverage for genius.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nonameiguess</author><text>Discussions like these seem to miss the critical difference between individually and socially rational incentives and behaviors. Surely, given you at least live in a place that is sufficiently secure and stable with liberal markets and access to capital, <i>anyone</i> can get rich by following in the footsteps of the investor class. It is definitely not the case that <i>everyone</i> can get rich this way. If all 8 billion people on the planet did nothing but shuffle around paper ownership claims, there would be nothing to actually own. For an economy to produce anything at all, the vast majority of participants need to be on the ground making stuff, with only a tiny vanishing few shuffling paper at the top to decide who gets to own the inputs and outputs.<p>Maybe we&#x27;ll actually reach some future where all production and maintenance labor is fully automated and most participants in an economy won&#x27;t be human and we can just ethically enslave them for the benefit of human owners, but we&#x27;re nowhere near that point.<p>I&#x27;m living right now in a hotbed of construction, a rapid growth metro, and I&#x27;m in the middle of it. Three lots I can see from my bedroom window are being leveled and turned into townhouses. That work is being done by people. They certainly have machine work multipliers. Nobody is carrying lumber and stone by hand from quarries to job site. Nobody is leveling the earth with shovels and trowels. But the bobcats and trucks are still operated by humans. Pipe is laid by humans. Walls are erected by humans. If all those people tried to do my job instead and became coders, or worse, tried to become investors, I and all the investors would be left with nowhere to live because no one would be building houses. We&#x27;d have no water or electricity if no one was laying the pipes and lines.<p>At some point, we should realize this and attempt to have an economy that recognizes most people in the economy have to be doing basic labor for there to be an economy at all, and figure out a way to accomplish this without these people needing to live paycheck to paycheck with the looming threat of a medical emergency able to wipe them out permanently. We can&#x27;t just tell them to all change their focus from doing work to building wealth, because if they actually all do that, there will no longer be any wealth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to get rich without being lucky (2019)</title><url>https://nav.al/rich</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eloff</author><text>I feel like you didn&#x27;t read or listen to the content. Naval is not suggesting you have to be an investor to get rich.<p>But you do have to do something that gives you leverage, like starting a company. You&#x27;re not going to get rich renting your time to an employer (unless you get lucky with stock options, or investing your income, but that&#x27;s back to the point about leverage.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>nonameiguess</author><text>Discussions like these seem to miss the critical difference between individually and socially rational incentives and behaviors. Surely, given you at least live in a place that is sufficiently secure and stable with liberal markets and access to capital, <i>anyone</i> can get rich by following in the footsteps of the investor class. It is definitely not the case that <i>everyone</i> can get rich this way. If all 8 billion people on the planet did nothing but shuffle around paper ownership claims, there would be nothing to actually own. For an economy to produce anything at all, the vast majority of participants need to be on the ground making stuff, with only a tiny vanishing few shuffling paper at the top to decide who gets to own the inputs and outputs.<p>Maybe we&#x27;ll actually reach some future where all production and maintenance labor is fully automated and most participants in an economy won&#x27;t be human and we can just ethically enslave them for the benefit of human owners, but we&#x27;re nowhere near that point.<p>I&#x27;m living right now in a hotbed of construction, a rapid growth metro, and I&#x27;m in the middle of it. Three lots I can see from my bedroom window are being leveled and turned into townhouses. That work is being done by people. They certainly have machine work multipliers. Nobody is carrying lumber and stone by hand from quarries to job site. Nobody is leveling the earth with shovels and trowels. But the bobcats and trucks are still operated by humans. Pipe is laid by humans. Walls are erected by humans. If all those people tried to do my job instead and became coders, or worse, tried to become investors, I and all the investors would be left with nowhere to live because no one would be building houses. We&#x27;d have no water or electricity if no one was laying the pipes and lines.<p>At some point, we should realize this and attempt to have an economy that recognizes most people in the economy have to be doing basic labor for there to be an economy at all, and figure out a way to accomplish this without these people needing to live paycheck to paycheck with the looming threat of a medical emergency able to wipe them out permanently. We can&#x27;t just tell them to all change their focus from doing work to building wealth, because if they actually all do that, there will no longer be any wealth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to get rich without being lucky (2019)</title><url>https://nav.al/rich</url></story> |
19,777,612 | 19,777,573 | 1 | 2 | 19,763,555 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>petepete</author><text>Some of the markup is incredibly similar. The checkbox stuff[0] looks like a `s&#x2F;govuk&#x2F;usa&#x2F;g`.<p>I&#x27;ve been working on a GDS project for the last few months, it&#x27;s actually a nice change to have a set of established patterns to work to and a host of responsive people to discuss extending those patterns with.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v2.designsystem.digital.gov&#x2F;components&#x2F;form-controls&#x2F;#checkbox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v2.designsystem.digital.gov&#x2F;components&#x2F;form-controls...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lloydatkinson</author><text>Almost an exact copy of the UK governments version of this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;design-system.service.gov.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;design-system.service.gov.uk&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Web Design System 2.0</title><url>https://v2.designsystem.digital.gov/whats-new/updates/2019/04/08/introducing-uswds-2-0/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>honestly good for them, UK gov websites are always very very nice</text><parent_chain><item><author>lloydatkinson</author><text>Almost an exact copy of the UK governments version of this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;design-system.service.gov.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;design-system.service.gov.uk&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Web Design System 2.0</title><url>https://v2.designsystem.digital.gov/whats-new/updates/2019/04/08/introducing-uswds-2-0/</url></story> |
41,396,277 | 41,395,189 | 1 | 2 | 41,391,412 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>&gt; Regarding analytics, I believe browsers should take user&#x27;s side and do not cooperate with marketing companies<p>Browsers were supposed to act as agents working for the user. User-agents. These days it&#x27;s getting harder and harder to find a browser that doesn&#x27;t work for an ad company at the expense of the user.<p>Chrome&#x27;s entire reason for existing is data collection. Firefox can, for now at least, be hardened to work for the user (and prevent a lot of fingerprinting), but Mozilla is an ad-tech company too now. They&#x27;ve made their lack of respect for Firefox users clear by making Firefox spy on users by default so that Mozilla can sell that data to marketers.<p>Currently, you can disable that spying in about:config by setting dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled to false
(see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41311479">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41311479</a> and also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240827185708&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;make-firefox-private-again.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240827185708&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;make-fire...</a>). No idea how long that will continue to be an option or how often you&#x27;ll have to go back and reset that back to false following updates though.<p>We really need a new browser that actually works in the interest of the users.</text><parent_chain><item><author>codedokode</author><text>Have been using Firefox for a long time, no issues, though long ago when I had little memory, Chrome was using less of it. Firefox also has HTTPS-only mode, encrypted DNS without fallbacks, supports SOCKS and Encrypted Client Hello (although almost no website support it). However, it is better to just buy more memory (unless you are lucky to use Apple products).<p>Regarding analytics, I believe browsers should take user&#x27;s side and do not cooperate with marketing companies; even better, they should implement measures to make user tracking and fingerprinting more difficult. There is no need to track user&#x27;s browsing history; just make a product better than competitors (so that it gets first place in reviews and comparisons) and buy ads from influencers.<p>It would be great if browsers made fingerprinting more difficult, i.e.: not allowed to read canvas data, not allowed to read GPU name, enumerate audio cards, probe for installed extensions etc. Every new web API should guarantee that it doesn&#x27;t provide more fingerprinting data or hides the data behind a permission.<p>Regarding 3rd party cookies: instead of shady lists like RWS browsers should just add a button that allows 3rd party cookies as an exception on a legacy website relying on them (which is probably not very secure). Although, there is a risk that newspaper websites, blog websites and question-answers websites will force users to press the button to see the content.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users</title><url>https://brave.com/blog/related-website-sets/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lcnPylGDnU4H9OF</author><text>&gt; Every new web API should guarantee that it doesn&#x27;t provide more fingerprinting data or hides the data behind a permission.<p>FWIW, it&#x27;s practically impossible to provide that guarantee because the API necessarily provides at least the data point of, &quot;Did they select an option in the permission notification?&quot; (&quot;If yes, what option was selected?&quot; etc.)<p>It&#x27;s often said that the only solution to this is regulation and there seems to be a good case for that perspective.</text><parent_chain><item><author>codedokode</author><text>Have been using Firefox for a long time, no issues, though long ago when I had little memory, Chrome was using less of it. Firefox also has HTTPS-only mode, encrypted DNS without fallbacks, supports SOCKS and Encrypted Client Hello (although almost no website support it). However, it is better to just buy more memory (unless you are lucky to use Apple products).<p>Regarding analytics, I believe browsers should take user&#x27;s side and do not cooperate with marketing companies; even better, they should implement measures to make user tracking and fingerprinting more difficult. There is no need to track user&#x27;s browsing history; just make a product better than competitors (so that it gets first place in reviews and comparisons) and buy ads from influencers.<p>It would be great if browsers made fingerprinting more difficult, i.e.: not allowed to read canvas data, not allowed to read GPU name, enumerate audio cards, probe for installed extensions etc. Every new web API should guarantee that it doesn&#x27;t provide more fingerprinting data or hides the data behind a permission.<p>Regarding 3rd party cookies: instead of shady lists like RWS browsers should just add a button that allows 3rd party cookies as an exception on a legacy website relying on them (which is probably not very secure). Although, there is a risk that newspaper websites, blog websites and question-answers websites will force users to press the button to see the content.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users</title><url>https://brave.com/blog/related-website-sets/</url></story> |
11,399,689 | 11,399,707 | 1 | 3 | 11,399,072 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Palomides</author><text>you could add another level to get more technical people by saying it&#x27;s an artifact of their buffering system</text><parent_chain><item><author>pklausler</author><text>It&#x27;s that time of the year again, isn&#x27;t it.<p>This year, I&#x27;ve been telling people that it&#x27;s rude not to rewind YouTube videos when you&#x27;re done watching them, so that they&#x27;ll load faster for the next person.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Physical Flick Bluetooth Keyboard by Google</title><url>https://www.google.co.jp/ime/furikku/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Zikes</author><text>When I was younger and DVDs were new I did manage to convince my aunt that they needed rewinding.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pklausler</author><text>It&#x27;s that time of the year again, isn&#x27;t it.<p>This year, I&#x27;ve been telling people that it&#x27;s rude not to rewind YouTube videos when you&#x27;re done watching them, so that they&#x27;ll load faster for the next person.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Physical Flick Bluetooth Keyboard by Google</title><url>https://www.google.co.jp/ime/furikku/</url></story> |
23,965,641 | 23,965,523 | 1 | 3 | 23,964,964 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andyljones</author><text>&gt; are billion dollar industries<p>When speaking of billion dollar investments, a billion dollar industry is not substantial. Google and Facebook&#x27;s industries are advertising, at $600bn&#x2F;year. Amazon&#x27;s industry is retail, at $25tn&#x2F;year.<p>What&#x27;s opened up by the GPT-3 and its prompt-programming abilities is <i>services</i>, without qualification. That&#x27;s $50tn&#x2F;year, and capturing some tiny percentage of it is what&#x27;s needed to make a billion-dollar investment worthwhile.<p>That said, I admit this isn&#x27;t the mindset most people take when they read &#x27;substantial&#x27;.<p>e: I changed the wording from &#x27;substantial&#x27; to &#x27;transformative&#x27;, thanks!</text><parent_chain><item><author>gillesjacobs</author><text>I largely agree with the arguments made, but the following assertion is plain bogus<p>&gt; GPT-3 is the first NLP system that has obvious, immediate, substantial economic value.<p>Text mining (relation extraction, named entity recognition, terminology mining) and sentiment analysis are billion dollar industries and are being directly applied right now in marketing, finance, law, search, automotive, basically every industry.
Machine translation is another huge industry of its own. Chat bots were all the hype a few years ago.
Let&#x27;s not reduce the whole field of NLP to language generation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are we in an AI Overhang?</title><url>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N6vZEnCn6A95Xn39p/are-we-in-an-ai-overhang</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>Is sentiment analysis really that good already?<p>Every time I’ve looked at the start of the art in sentiment analysis, it seems to be suffering from the same issue that bag-of-words has with modifiers like “not”. Or is that more a theoretical problem than a practical one?<p>I appreciate this is a rapidly moving field, so my knowledge could easily be out of date.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gillesjacobs</author><text>I largely agree with the arguments made, but the following assertion is plain bogus<p>&gt; GPT-3 is the first NLP system that has obvious, immediate, substantial economic value.<p>Text mining (relation extraction, named entity recognition, terminology mining) and sentiment analysis are billion dollar industries and are being directly applied right now in marketing, finance, law, search, automotive, basically every industry.
Machine translation is another huge industry of its own. Chat bots were all the hype a few years ago.
Let&#x27;s not reduce the whole field of NLP to language generation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are we in an AI Overhang?</title><url>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N6vZEnCn6A95Xn39p/are-we-in-an-ai-overhang</url></story> |
38,543,314 | 38,539,348 | 1 | 3 | 38,538,886 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gcanyon</author><text>&gt; Researchers use a dimensionless quantity called ZT to describe the strength of the thermoelectric effect in any combination of materials. Two decades ago, combinations such as lead and tellurium yielded ZT values of around 1. After ten years, the search for new, more complex, and more effective materials had yielded ZT values of 2.<p>These sentences are useless. Going from 1 to 2 <i>probably</i> means doubling the efficiency, <i>if</i> the base value is 0. But even if that&#x27;s true (which it&#x27;s not guaranteed to be) is a real-world usable value 3? or 478?<p>Much later in the article: &quot;Vining predicted in 2009 that a ZT of 4 would be the required threshold for commercialization.&quot; There it is. But even with that, the information given tells us very little about the underlying property, or the technology.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thermoelectric heating stands at the brink of commercialization</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/thermoelectric-heating</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bilsbie</author><text>I’d pay a premium for a solid state AC or heat pump. It’s absurd how much they cost to install.<p>And I don’t get why replacing one is an all day job for three people. There should be standard connections they just plug into. Like a dishwasher.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thermoelectric heating stands at the brink of commercialization</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/thermoelectric-heating</url></story> |
38,859,412 | 38,859,438 | 1 | 3 | 38,859,147 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beaeglebeached</author><text>Or just legalize &#x27;neglect&#x27; (aka letting school age children be latchkey again without someone constantly lording over them).<p>This bizarre and historically unprecedented scenario where parents simultaneously must both work but be prosecuted for doing so will likely be a blip in history.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhpm</author><text>The primary function of state funded K-12 is childcare to enable two parents to work. Unless and until that is not the case, school will start earlier than parents need to be at work. If it started later, that time would be replaced with pre-school care&#x2F;activities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Most states start school too early in the morning</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/usa-school-start-times</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>macspoofing</author><text>&gt;The primary function of state funded K-12 is childcare to enable two parents to work.<p>That&#x27;s the PRIMARY function, eh?</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhpm</author><text>The primary function of state funded K-12 is childcare to enable two parents to work. Unless and until that is not the case, school will start earlier than parents need to be at work. If it started later, that time would be replaced with pre-school care&#x2F;activities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Most states start school too early in the morning</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/usa-school-start-times</url></story> |
13,394,153 | 13,391,294 | 1 | 2 | 13,390,846 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bhauer</author><text>Awesome changes.<p>One suggestion: In the Control Center™, I would recommend using the past-tense for the current state. E.g.,<p><pre><code> Receive Notifications Allowed X
Access Your Location Allowed X
Maintain Offline Storage Allowed X
</code></pre>
As it exists in the screenshots, the present tense is used, and the X button seems to be associated with the word &quot;Allow.&quot; Further clarification could be achieved by making the X button actually say &quot;Disallow&quot; and giving it a border separate from the word &quot;Allowed.&quot; E.g.,<p><pre><code> Receive Notifications Allowed [Disallow]</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Feeling safer online with Firefox</title><url>http://blog.astithas.com/2017/01/feeling-safer-online-with-firefox.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>pawadu</author><text>I am sure there are people who would love a browser that can control their car or pacemaker and report their bank balance on the welcome page.<p>But I personally would feel far more secure if there was a firefox-lite where no sensitive stuff (access camera, share screen) were included to start with. And I don&#x27;t mean turned off by default, I want it removed at compile time.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Feeling safer online with Firefox</title><url>http://blog.astithas.com/2017/01/feeling-safer-online-with-firefox.html</url></story> |
20,314,393 | 20,314,271 | 1 | 2 | 20,314,151 | 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>philshem</author><text>&gt; The following Monday, Ying conducted web searches on the impact of Experian&#x27;s 2015 data breach on its stock price.<p>This is the most embarrassing part. CIO’s gotta know better.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former Equifax CIO sentenced for insider trading</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/former-equifax-employee-sentenced-insider-trading</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blitmap</author><text>Dude &quot;earned&quot; ~1.5 million exercising his stock options and acting on insider knowledge. He gained $500k and sold before the stock fell. He has to pay back about $175k and go to jail for 4 months.<p>Am I reading this right?<p>Keep doing what you&#x27;re doing, Ying.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former Equifax CIO sentenced for insider trading</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/former-equifax-employee-sentenced-insider-trading</url></story> |
26,754,137 | 26,752,060 | 1 | 2 | 26,750,452 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Bukhmanizer</author><text>My personal feelings are that all 3 are possible, but approximately 0.0001% of people will actually consider the likelihood of each one, but rather, most will choose whichever one is most convenient and comfortable to believe in.<p>Of course as an Asian person, whatever people believe in will have a direct impact on me. I remember after 9&#x2F;11, the amount of awful things that were said and done to the Sikh population in my city. It didn’t matter they had literally nothing to do with the attacks. People were angry and wanted someone to blame.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eightysixfour</author><text>I feel like people are doing a poor job distinguishing between &quot;engineered&quot; and &quot;leaked.&quot;<p>There is, from my understanding, reasonable evidence to conclude the virus was not engineered from the perspective of &quot;we took genes from one virus and moved them to this virus,&quot; but there&#x27;s no evidence disproving the idea that it was the result of gain of function research.<p>My personal feeling is that these statements are true:<p>* The virus is unlikely to have been engineered (in the way I described above) and leaked.<p>* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was the result of gain of function research and it leaked.<p>* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was a natural research sample and it leaked.<p>* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was introduced by an animal&#x2F;person who traveled to the wet market.<p>Some of these are more likely than others, and an individual&#x27;s own calibration for what is likely or unlikely will probably come into play more than evidence in the short term and possibly long term as well. I can say the vast majority of us are not qualified to answer the question either way though.</text></item><item><author>loveistheanswer</author><text>Judging by the comments in this thread, it seems a lot of people are still unaware that:<p>1. Gain of function research primarily uses samples collected from nature, and seeks to stimulate their evolution in as natural a way as possible to learn how viruses evolve in nature. If such viruses were to escape the lab, they would appear &quot;natural&quot;<p>2. It&#x27;s not xenophobic for people from the US to suggest the possibility of a lab leak, because the US was itself funding gain of function research on novel coronaviruses in the Wuhan BSL4 lab<p>3. Lab leaks happen more often than most people realize[1]<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;future-perfect&#x2F;2019&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;18260669&#x2F;deadly-pathogens-escape-lab-smallpox-bird-flu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;future-perfect&#x2F;2019&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;18260669&#x2F;deadly...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/18/1021030/coronavirus-leak-wuhan-lab-scientists-conspiracy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>loveistheanswer</author><text>&gt;I can say the vast majority of us are not qualified to answer the question either way though.<p>It&#x27;s also worth noting that even the leading experts can get these things wrong, as was the case with the Sverdlovsk lab leak.<p>Soviet authorities covered it up by blaming local meat markets, and leading US experts concurred with them, only to reverse their conclusion 6 years later.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak#Accident" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak#Acci...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>eightysixfour</author><text>I feel like people are doing a poor job distinguishing between &quot;engineered&quot; and &quot;leaked.&quot;<p>There is, from my understanding, reasonable evidence to conclude the virus was not engineered from the perspective of &quot;we took genes from one virus and moved them to this virus,&quot; but there&#x27;s no evidence disproving the idea that it was the result of gain of function research.<p>My personal feeling is that these statements are true:<p>* The virus is unlikely to have been engineered (in the way I described above) and leaked.<p>* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was the result of gain of function research and it leaked.<p>* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was a natural research sample and it leaked.<p>* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was introduced by an animal&#x2F;person who traveled to the wet market.<p>Some of these are more likely than others, and an individual&#x27;s own calibration for what is likely or unlikely will probably come into play more than evidence in the short term and possibly long term as well. I can say the vast majority of us are not qualified to answer the question either way though.</text></item><item><author>loveistheanswer</author><text>Judging by the comments in this thread, it seems a lot of people are still unaware that:<p>1. Gain of function research primarily uses samples collected from nature, and seeks to stimulate their evolution in as natural a way as possible to learn how viruses evolve in nature. If such viruses were to escape the lab, they would appear &quot;natural&quot;<p>2. It&#x27;s not xenophobic for people from the US to suggest the possibility of a lab leak, because the US was itself funding gain of function research on novel coronaviruses in the Wuhan BSL4 lab<p>3. Lab leaks happen more often than most people realize[1]<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;future-perfect&#x2F;2019&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;18260669&#x2F;deadly-pathogens-escape-lab-smallpox-bird-flu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;future-perfect&#x2F;2019&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;18260669&#x2F;deadly...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/18/1021030/coronavirus-leak-wuhan-lab-scientists-conspiracy/</url></story> |
13,412,986 | 13,412,760 | 1 | 2 | 13,412,464 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tinco</author><text>The title is a bit misleading. Detail was lost, that is the law. Raisr makes up detail based on some learned likelihood of that detail being there.<p>You could add any image to Raisr and it will make up more detail, you could let it loop over the same picture over and over and it will probably add infinite detail, or up to some fixed point.<p>What&#x27;s cool is that for many pictures, it&#x27;s good enough at making up detail that the result is credible.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>With Google's RAISR, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing detail</title><url>http://www.pcmag.com/news/351027/google-raisr-intelligently-makes-low-res-images-high-quality</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jerf</author><text>This article and the linked blog post from Google [1] suggest that this has already been deployed. How does it work in the field? For instance, I can imagine it being a JS library that can be downloaded and cached for client-side use, or it could be deployed as an Android module that the Android browser can use. But I don&#x27;t know where to go looking for this because I don&#x27;t use Google+, have no photos on it, and wouldn&#x27;t be sure whether or not I was seeing it.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blog.google&#x2F;products&#x2F;google-plus&#x2F;saving-you-bandwidth-through-machine-learning&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blog.google&#x2F;products&#x2F;google-plus&#x2F;saving-you-band...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>With Google's RAISR, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing detail</title><url>http://www.pcmag.com/news/351027/google-raisr-intelligently-makes-low-res-images-high-quality</url></story> |
37,196,696 | 37,194,923 | 1 | 3 | 37,194,600 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wolverine876</author><text>Tolkien wrote the essential story - <i>for our time</i>: An evil force works not by open destruction, but through lies to cause despair and corruption. The good people of the world allow themselves to be influenced by it; they embrace despair and abandon goodness and all resistance; or they are corrupted and even help the enemy. The primary actor is a wise old man who travels around, not using great powers, but waking them up, reminding them of who they are and their strength rousing them to action (the scene with Theoden is a great example).<p>How could Tolkien, in the 1940s and 1950s, write a book for the post-2016 era? Remember what he saw as he wrote it: An evil force that heavily used propaganda to spread their horrible ideas, and masses of people not only in Germany or Italy, but the rest of Europe and the US, refusing to acknowledge or oppose the reality of the evil, the grim future; and many even supporting it.<p>Tolkien arguably turned it into a myth for future generations, like the real-life Trojan War was turned (eventually) into the Iliad and Odyssey.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring</title><url>https://lithub.com/read-w-h-audens-1954-review-of-the-fellowship-of-the-ring/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zabzonk</author><text>I had not read this review before, and I was surprised how positive it was. I can&#x27;t imagine Auden and Tolkein would have got on well. But they both loved countryside, and so maybe I am wrong.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring</title><url>https://lithub.com/read-w-h-audens-1954-review-of-the-fellowship-of-the-ring/</url></story> |
38,771,605 | 38,770,393 | 1 | 3 | 38,770,168 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cesarb</author><text>IMO, part of the issue is that something which used to be just a low-level optimization (don&#x27;t store large sequences of zeros) became visible to userspace (SEEK_HOLE and friends). Quoting from this article:<p>&quot;This is allowed; its always safe to say there’s data where there’s a hole, because reading a hole area will always find “zeroes”, which is valid data.&quot;<p>But I recall reading elsewhere a discussion about some userspace program which did depend on holes being present in the filesystem as actual holes (visible to SEEK_HOLE and so on) and not as runs of zeros.<p>Combined with the holes being restricted to specific alignments and sizes, this means that the underlying &quot;sequence of fixed-size blocks&quot; implementation is leaking too much over the abstract &quot;stream of bytes&quot; representation we&#x27;re more used to. Perhaps it might be time to rethink our filesystem abstractions?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A data corruption bug in OpenZFS?</title><url>https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2023-12-25-openzfs-data-corruption-bug/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dannyw</author><text>Fascinating write up. As someone with a ZFS system, how can I check if I’m affected?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A data corruption bug in OpenZFS?</title><url>https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2023-12-25-openzfs-data-corruption-bug/</url></story> |
11,693,124 | 11,692,782 | 1 | 3 | 11,691,962 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonaf</author><text>The FTC requires disclosure for reviews that were written by individuals who were given a product for the purpose of reviewing it. It is considered anticompetitive and illegal to forego disclosing this about a review.<p>As an engineer at perhaps the largest ratings and reviews company worldwide, I would love to hear your standard rant in long form. Please pm me if you feel up to that conversation. Ideally the result would be an improvement in the quality of the content of billions of reviews.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jonstokes</author><text>I actually know people whose job it is to write these things, and to create and maintain sock puppet personas on forums for the purpose of subtly promoting clients&#x27; products and disparaging those of competitors.<p>Then there are the professional reviews, which are all conflicted because most reviewers either get to keep the gear or the gear maker is a sponsor of the site&#x2F;publication and the reviewer knows it. I say this as a person who&#x27;s still involved in publishing reviews (of outdoor gear, mostly), and who most of the time gets to keep whatever some company sends me.<p>However rotten you think the adtech industry is, the state of product reviews online -- user generated, casual forum reviews, professional reviews, etc. -- is worse.<p>I have a standard rant about the current state of the web that I give all my family and friends, and it always ends with: &quot;if you didn&#x27;t pay to read it, you probably read an advertisement.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Reviews: How We Spot the Fakes</title><url>http://thewirecutter.com/2016/05/lets-talk-about-amazon-reviews/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>logicallee</author><text>&gt;if you didn&#x27;t pay to read it, you probably read an advertisement.<p>But your own comment (that I&#x27;m replying to) isn&#x27;t one, and we&#x27;re not paying for it - you&#x27;re speaking to us frankly and off the cuff (and if anything, <i>against</i> your own interests on those other sites) because of the informal club-like forum that this is. In the end I and any other readers here are giving you all due weight. in exchange everyone else speaks frankly about stuff they know about. You can read stuff here that probably posters are explicitly prohibited by their employers from posting. some guy from (insert whatever state agency here) can probably post from a throwaway but still waaaaaaaaaaay in contravention of whatever their policies are, and with only a little bit of indirection.<p>So it&#x27;s hardly as simple as you suggest. yeah you have to read through the bullshit, but this has always been true everywhere. caveat emptor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jonstokes</author><text>I actually know people whose job it is to write these things, and to create and maintain sock puppet personas on forums for the purpose of subtly promoting clients&#x27; products and disparaging those of competitors.<p>Then there are the professional reviews, which are all conflicted because most reviewers either get to keep the gear or the gear maker is a sponsor of the site&#x2F;publication and the reviewer knows it. I say this as a person who&#x27;s still involved in publishing reviews (of outdoor gear, mostly), and who most of the time gets to keep whatever some company sends me.<p>However rotten you think the adtech industry is, the state of product reviews online -- user generated, casual forum reviews, professional reviews, etc. -- is worse.<p>I have a standard rant about the current state of the web that I give all my family and friends, and it always ends with: &quot;if you didn&#x27;t pay to read it, you probably read an advertisement.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Reviews: How We Spot the Fakes</title><url>http://thewirecutter.com/2016/05/lets-talk-about-amazon-reviews/</url></story> |
20,033,534 | 20,033,051 | 1 | 2 | 20,031,730 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>A larger problem is that Docker is nearly inherently unreproducible.<p>Downloading and installing system packages lists, etc.<p>For this reason, Google doesn&#x27;t use Docker at all.<p>It writes the OCI images more or less directly. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bazelbuild&#x2F;rules_docker" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bazelbuild&#x2F;rules_docker</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>oconnor663</author><text>&gt; The first version is to lock down every dependency as tightly as you can to avoid accidentally breaking something...The second version is upgrade early, upgrade often...Google is an excellent example of a company that does this.<p>This is misleading. My understanding of Google&#x27;s internal build systems is that they <i>ruthlessly</i> lock down the version of every single dependency, up to and including the compiler binary itself. They then provide tooling on top of that to make it easier to upgrade those locked down versions regularly.<p>The core problem is that when your codebase gets to the kind of scale that Google&#x27;s has, if you can&#x27;t reproduce the entire universe of your dependencies, there is no way any historical commit of anything will ever build. That makes it difficult to do basic things like maintain release branches or bisect bugs.<p>&gt; if you want to lock down version numbers for a specific release, have an automated tool supply the right ones for you. And make it trivial to upgrade early, and upgrade often.<p>This part sounds like a more accurate description of what Google and others do, yes.</text></item><item><author>btilly</author><text>I have a mixed opinion about his first point.<p>There are two basic approaches to take with dependency management.<p>The first version is to lock down every dependency as tightly as you can to avoid accidentally breaking something. Which inevitably leads down the road to everything being locked to something archaic that can&#x27;t be upgraded easily, and is incompatible with everything else. But with no idea what will break, or how to upgrade. I currently work at a company that went down that path and is now suffering for it.<p>The second version is upgrade early, upgrade often. This will occasionally lead to problems, but they tend to be temporary and easily fixed. And in the long run, your system will age better. Google is an excellent example of a company that does this.<p>The post assumes that the first version should be your model. But having seen both up close and personal, my sympathies actually lie with the second.<p>This is not to say that I&#x27;m against reproducible builds. I&#x27;m not. But if you want to lock down version numbers for a specific release, have an automated tool supply the right ones for you. And make it trivial to upgrade early, and upgrade often.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default</title><url>https://pythonspeed.com/articles/dockerizing-python-is-hard/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dalore</author><text>Yes they have a huge mono repository and tooling to update projects in it to specific versions. You don&#x27;t get a choice really. You can go home one night with your project on say Java 7 and then wake up and find someone has migrated it to Java 8 because they&#x27;ve decided it&#x27;s Java 8 now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oconnor663</author><text>&gt; The first version is to lock down every dependency as tightly as you can to avoid accidentally breaking something...The second version is upgrade early, upgrade often...Google is an excellent example of a company that does this.<p>This is misleading. My understanding of Google&#x27;s internal build systems is that they <i>ruthlessly</i> lock down the version of every single dependency, up to and including the compiler binary itself. They then provide tooling on top of that to make it easier to upgrade those locked down versions regularly.<p>The core problem is that when your codebase gets to the kind of scale that Google&#x27;s has, if you can&#x27;t reproduce the entire universe of your dependencies, there is no way any historical commit of anything will ever build. That makes it difficult to do basic things like maintain release branches or bisect bugs.<p>&gt; if you want to lock down version numbers for a specific release, have an automated tool supply the right ones for you. And make it trivial to upgrade early, and upgrade often.<p>This part sounds like a more accurate description of what Google and others do, yes.</text></item><item><author>btilly</author><text>I have a mixed opinion about his first point.<p>There are two basic approaches to take with dependency management.<p>The first version is to lock down every dependency as tightly as you can to avoid accidentally breaking something. Which inevitably leads down the road to everything being locked to something archaic that can&#x27;t be upgraded easily, and is incompatible with everything else. But with no idea what will break, or how to upgrade. I currently work at a company that went down that path and is now suffering for it.<p>The second version is upgrade early, upgrade often. This will occasionally lead to problems, but they tend to be temporary and easily fixed. And in the long run, your system will age better. Google is an excellent example of a company that does this.<p>The post assumes that the first version should be your model. But having seen both up close and personal, my sympathies actually lie with the second.<p>This is not to say that I&#x27;m against reproducible builds. I&#x27;m not. But if you want to lock down version numbers for a specific release, have an automated tool supply the right ones for you. And make it trivial to upgrade early, and upgrade often.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default</title><url>https://pythonspeed.com/articles/dockerizing-python-is-hard/</url></story> |
36,103,922 | 36,103,798 | 1 | 2 | 36,103,559 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>On a purely technical level, importing enough food to feed all the people necessary to prevent 3 million deaths feels staggering. Imagine the convoys.<p>Every time I read about WWII maritime logistics, I’m blown away by the sheer scale of it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a story waiting to be retold</title><url>https://openthemagazine.com/columns/churchills-bengal-famine/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boynamedsue</author><text>I happen to be reading &quot;Churchill’s Secret War,&quot; the book mentioned in the article.<p>It&#x27;s amazing. Get it if you&#x27;re interested in this topic.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a story waiting to be retold</title><url>https://openthemagazine.com/columns/churchills-bengal-famine/</url></story> |
2,110,620 | 2,110,682 | 1 | 2 | 2,110,542 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pg</author><text>We added two new questions this year: Why did you pick this project to work on? and How will you get users? In retrospect it's surprising we didn't already ask these. (When reading applications we found we were trying to reconstruct answers to them from the answers people gave to other questions.)<p>We also stopped describing the video as optional. In practice it wasn't.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle</title><url>http://ycombinator.com/apply.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>bkrausz</author><text>Random question: what would you guys like to hear/know about applying (or YC in general) that's not already out there? I've been considering writing a blog post about GazeHawk's YC experience, but there are so many good ones already, and I don't want to just add redundancy. Anything unanswered from a startup perspective you'd like to know?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle</title><url>http://ycombinator.com/apply.html</url><text></text></story> |
25,399,624 | 25,399,782 | 1 | 2 | 25,398,444 | 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>permo-w</author><text>“[Edward Robert] Harrison argues that the first to set out a satisfactory resolution of the paradox was Lord Kelvin, in a little known 1901 paper, and that Edgar Allan Poe&#x27;s essay Eureka (1848) curiously anticipated some qualitative aspects of Kelvin&#x27;s argument:<p>Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us a uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy – since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.”</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Olbers' Paradox</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox#:~:text=In%20astrophysics%20and%20physical%20cosmology,infinite%20and%20eternal%20static%20universe.</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pontus</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this just an issue of comparing a countable and uncountable infinity? The number of points on the unit sphere is uncountable, but the number of stars is countable. As such there are in some sense more points on the sphere than there are stars, even though there are an infinite number of each.<p>Take this together with the fact that intensity falls off as the square of the distance and it seems like the sky should be dark.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Olbers' Paradox</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox#:~:text=In%20astrophysics%20and%20physical%20cosmology,infinite%20and%20eternal%20static%20universe.</url></story> |
7,450,731 | 7,450,686 | 1 | 3 | 7,450,341 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>It&#x27;s a nice dream, but even if you had that power to go back and time you&#x27;d probably just make other mistakes.<p>There isn&#x27;t an intelligence capable of designing big open standards like the web, rather they only move forward by natural selection, much like terrestrial life has.<p>In the end I think we&#x27;ve gotten some pretty remarkable things this way, remember before the web there was no such thing as cross-platform, instantly-available globally, and accessible to any person with any disability multimedia. Few people seem to recognize how much of an accomplishment this is: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>Sometimes I think back and ask myself if all of this progress in web standards has really got us anywhere. What can we do now that couldn&#x27;t be done 20 years ago (putting aside connection speed) and is all of this progress really worth the trouble.<p>It makes a person want to start over, from scratch while keeping it simple adding as little as possible. Of course something like that would have to be done extraordinarily well to be worth it at all to avoid <a href="https://xkcd.com/927/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;927&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Surfing the Modern Web with Ancient Browsers</title><url>http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=3866</url></story> | <instructions>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>It just made us lost the sense where to go, by re-inventing, <i>badly</i>, what was already possible on the desktop with Hypercard and similar systems.</text><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>Sometimes I think back and ask myself if all of this progress in web standards has really got us anywhere. What can we do now that couldn&#x27;t be done 20 years ago (putting aside connection speed) and is all of this progress really worth the trouble.<p>It makes a person want to start over, from scratch while keeping it simple adding as little as possible. Of course something like that would have to be done extraordinarily well to be worth it at all to avoid <a href="https://xkcd.com/927/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;927&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Surfing the Modern Web with Ancient Browsers</title><url>http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=3866</url></story> |
15,289,401 | 15,289,358 | 1 | 2 | 15,288,720 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snuxoll</author><text>That&#x27;s...pretty awesome. Have any guides&#x2F;blog posts&#x2F;whatever on your setup?</text><parent_chain><item><author>X86BSD</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using something similar for a while now. I use pam_jail on freebsd to drop the ankle biters using common ssh login attempts like test, ubuntu, oracle etc into a FreeBSD jail where I watch what the do and get a copy of all their tools. I rate limit the outgoing traffic from that jail to something painfully slow to prevent them from causing any major issues. But being able to fire up &#x27;watch&#x27; on freebsd and snoop the tty they are on in the jail is awesome for forensics.<p>It&#x27;s secure, they can&#x27;t break out of the jail.<p>It&#x27;s rate limited to prevent them causing much damage to anyone.<p>It&#x27;s easy to observe every thing they type and do in the jail from the host.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Learn from your attackers – SSH HoneyPot</title><url>https://www.robertputt.co.uk/learn-from-your-attackers-ssh-honeypot.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>corybrown</author><text>What have you seen them do?</text><parent_chain><item><author>X86BSD</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using something similar for a while now. I use pam_jail on freebsd to drop the ankle biters using common ssh login attempts like test, ubuntu, oracle etc into a FreeBSD jail where I watch what the do and get a copy of all their tools. I rate limit the outgoing traffic from that jail to something painfully slow to prevent them from causing any major issues. But being able to fire up &#x27;watch&#x27; on freebsd and snoop the tty they are on in the jail is awesome for forensics.<p>It&#x27;s secure, they can&#x27;t break out of the jail.<p>It&#x27;s rate limited to prevent them causing much damage to anyone.<p>It&#x27;s easy to observe every thing they type and do in the jail from the host.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Learn from your attackers – SSH HoneyPot</title><url>https://www.robertputt.co.uk/learn-from-your-attackers-ssh-honeypot.html</url></story> |
27,362,713 | 27,362,264 | 1 | 2 | 27,359,783 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MikusR</author><text>Exactly. They should have named them Air, Pro and iMac. That way you clearly can see which is fastest and which year they came out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>I will never understand why Intel stuck with the i3, i5, i7, and later i9 branding across so many generations.<p>I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve heard people wonder why their 10-year old computer is slow. “But I have an i7”</text></item><item><author>1_player</author><text>Note: 30% faster than a thermally challenged i9 on a MacBook Pro, not a desktop one. Given the comments on similar threads, I feel this needs to be mentioned.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/apple-m1-compiles-linux-30-faster-my-intel-i9</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lostgame</author><text><i>Thank you</i> for saying this.<p>Honestly - it&#x27;s not even the i3, i5, i7, i9 thing. It&#x27;s the fact that two i5s, etc; can be <i>ludicrously</i> different in terms of performance from one another because of the sub-generations within the named generations.<p>Yes - it&#x27;s ridiculous that I could buy an i7 ten years ago, buy an i7 today, and yet - of course - they are absolutely nothing close to each other in terms of performance.<p>IIRC the Pentium line did not make this mistake. (Though the Celeron line could be very confusing, if I recall correctly.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>I will never understand why Intel stuck with the i3, i5, i7, and later i9 branding across so many generations.<p>I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve heard people wonder why their 10-year old computer is slow. “But I have an i7”</text></item><item><author>1_player</author><text>Note: 30% faster than a thermally challenged i9 on a MacBook Pro, not a desktop one. Given the comments on similar threads, I feel this needs to be mentioned.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/apple-m1-compiles-linux-30-faster-my-intel-i9</url></story> |
18,576,917 | 18,576,985 | 1 | 2 | 18,576,680 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>betterunix2</author><text><i>Morally</i> bankrupt? Copyright is not a moral issue, it is just a several centuries old regulation created by people who could never have envisioned something like the Internet. The effort to turn copyright into a moral issue is nothing more than a tactic employed by copyright-based industries in their desperate bid to stay relevant without changing their business models.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>It&#x27;s perfectly fine to share links, the EU directive specifically states so. What you can&#x27;t do, is take content, and host it as your own without getting authorization to do so by the content creator.<p>You can probably imagine why that would be a problem from Reddit.<p>I don&#x27;t personally care if companies like reddit get to face the harshest possible fines from the EU, they are morally bankrupt after all. I mean, almost every image posed on reddit is a form of piracy, and very rarely does the original content creators actually benefit from having their works shared or altered on reddit, and that&#x27;s not even touching their shady political and commercial manipulation. On the other hand, I really doubt that EU legislation will ever be successful in stopping people from sharing dank memes.<p>Also, I&#x27;m guessing this only applies to the desktop version of reddit, because would be impossible to see anything on the mobile version anyway since everything is blocked by all those &quot;USE OUR APP&quot; banners.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need to Know</title><url>https://redditblog.com/2018/11/28/the-eu-copyright-directive-what-redditors-in-europe-need-to-know/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Zak</author><text>The sort of images most commonly posted to reddit are screengrabs from movies or games with text added for humorous effect. This sort of use has traditionally been classed as fair use under copyright law.<p>Penalizing reddit for doing so would not result in more revenue for the creators of the source material.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>It&#x27;s perfectly fine to share links, the EU directive specifically states so. What you can&#x27;t do, is take content, and host it as your own without getting authorization to do so by the content creator.<p>You can probably imagine why that would be a problem from Reddit.<p>I don&#x27;t personally care if companies like reddit get to face the harshest possible fines from the EU, they are morally bankrupt after all. I mean, almost every image posed on reddit is a form of piracy, and very rarely does the original content creators actually benefit from having their works shared or altered on reddit, and that&#x27;s not even touching their shady political and commercial manipulation. On the other hand, I really doubt that EU legislation will ever be successful in stopping people from sharing dank memes.<p>Also, I&#x27;m guessing this only applies to the desktop version of reddit, because would be impossible to see anything on the mobile version anyway since everything is blocked by all those &quot;USE OUR APP&quot; banners.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need to Know</title><url>https://redditblog.com/2018/11/28/the-eu-copyright-directive-what-redditors-in-europe-need-to-know/</url></story> |
1,263,718 | 1,263,522 | 1 | 3 | 1,263,083 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spolsky</author><text>Sounds like you have a great business plan. In the meantime, I think that the Stack Overflow model has proven itself among nerds, and I think that your assertion that nerds are weird in some way and need completely different software than the rest of the world is not backed up by any evidence.<p>I disagree that the software is irrelevant. Discussion groups that don't allow voting have no way to distinguish answers that the community thinks are good from answers that the community thinks are bad. Discussion groups that don't allow editing have no way to change answers as the world changes, so wrong answers stick around. Discussion groups without tags are forced to splinter communities into smaller and smaller fragments because they have no way of dealing with overlapping communities. Discussion groups without reputation systems are overrun with spam.<p>I can't think of anything I disagree with MORE than the concept that "the software is irrelevant." The software DEFINES how the community works with each other and is absolutely critical.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bonaldi</author><text>They realised that StackExchange was failing, but because they don't realise the reasons <i>why</i> their attempted correction is only making it worse.<p>Their software is a hideously complicated and over-engineered attempt to twist human relationships into math. It only works on StackOverflow because:
a) The tech community was <i>desperate</i> for an alternative to hidebound mailing lists on one hand and expertsexchange on the other
b) How to put this? A whole lot of nerds really would like to be able to reduce the complexity of human relationships to math, too, and willingly participated.<p>But without a userbase that's dying for a solution, any solution, and especially a userbase prepared to put up with convoluted ranking-rating-have-I-got-enough-points-to-change-my-profile-picture-yet point-scoring games the software is actually a millstone. You're not going to get a liberal arts Q&#38;A site that takes off with those restrictions. This is why StackExchange was such a dud.<p>By not realising this, their solution is more of the same! "Sure, you can start a site, you just need pi+4 users to seed your initial contract bounding, then that will need to be ranked to 6 by a quorum of level 3 users, and after an initial 26-day period of zzzzzzzzzz &#60;click&#62;".<p>You want to create a good Q&#38;A site, you need to have a community, and it needs to be well-tended by empathic people who know how and where to prune. The software is pretty much irrelevant. Look at <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ask.metafilter.com/</a> for a success story: totally flat, forum-esque, but answers are obvious, there's no chatter or bullshit, and it works on the most amorphous and wide-ranging types of questions.<p>There is no shortcut solution to this problem. There is no way to mathematically manage human connections like this that works in this space. The route to success is careful relationship management, not yet more programming.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stack Exchange 2.0</title><url>http://blog.stackexchange.com/post/518474918/stack-exchange-2-0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>I think it has more to do with not being able to leverage their personal blog audiences against other topic areas. It was easy for them to seed Stack Overflow just by talking about it on their blogs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bonaldi</author><text>They realised that StackExchange was failing, but because they don't realise the reasons <i>why</i> their attempted correction is only making it worse.<p>Their software is a hideously complicated and over-engineered attempt to twist human relationships into math. It only works on StackOverflow because:
a) The tech community was <i>desperate</i> for an alternative to hidebound mailing lists on one hand and expertsexchange on the other
b) How to put this? A whole lot of nerds really would like to be able to reduce the complexity of human relationships to math, too, and willingly participated.<p>But without a userbase that's dying for a solution, any solution, and especially a userbase prepared to put up with convoluted ranking-rating-have-I-got-enough-points-to-change-my-profile-picture-yet point-scoring games the software is actually a millstone. You're not going to get a liberal arts Q&#38;A site that takes off with those restrictions. This is why StackExchange was such a dud.<p>By not realising this, their solution is more of the same! "Sure, you can start a site, you just need pi+4 users to seed your initial contract bounding, then that will need to be ranked to 6 by a quorum of level 3 users, and after an initial 26-day period of zzzzzzzzzz &#60;click&#62;".<p>You want to create a good Q&#38;A site, you need to have a community, and it needs to be well-tended by empathic people who know how and where to prune. The software is pretty much irrelevant. Look at <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ask.metafilter.com/</a> for a success story: totally flat, forum-esque, but answers are obvious, there's no chatter or bullshit, and it works on the most amorphous and wide-ranging types of questions.<p>There is no shortcut solution to this problem. There is no way to mathematically manage human connections like this that works in this space. The route to success is careful relationship management, not yet more programming.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stack Exchange 2.0</title><url>http://blog.stackexchange.com/post/518474918/stack-exchange-2-0</url></story> |
27,771,098 | 27,771,160 | 1 | 2 | 27,770,414 | 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>necrotic_comp</author><text>What I don&#x27;t understand is what people who argue against climate change stand to gain.<p>The argument for climate change is: &quot;humans are polluting the planet and it&#x27;s causing a change in the environment and will have a disastrous effect on the climate.&quot; The arguments I hear against climate change always seem to concede that humans are polluting the planet, but argue in different ways (natural cycle&#x2F;not really happening&#x2F;etc.) that this pollution has no effect.<p>Even if this were true, why would it be a bad idea to reduce the level of pollution in the environment ? We know we&#x27;re screwing up, why don&#x27;t we do our best to clean it and make it usable for the next generations ?</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisco255</author><text>Not only is it possible but the worst heat waves on record were experienced in the 1930s:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.weather.gov&#x2F;arx&#x2F;heat_jul36" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.weather.gov&#x2F;arx&#x2F;heat_jul36</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57751918</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iso1631</author><text>&quot;Canada broke its temperature record for a third straight day on Tuesday - 49.6C (121.3F) in Lytton, British Columbia.&quot;<p>&quot;All across the region, in the US states of Oregon and Washington and in the west of Canada, multiple cities hit new records far above 40C.&quot;<p>Not sure how you can point to 1936&#x27;s records of 111F and say that was &quot;worse&quot; than 121F today.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisco255</author><text>Not only is it possible but the worst heat waves on record were experienced in the 1930s:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.weather.gov&#x2F;arx&#x2F;heat_jul36" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.weather.gov&#x2F;arx&#x2F;heat_jul36</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57751918</url></story> |
7,505,282 | 7,504,871 | 1 | 2 | 7,504,417 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marshray</author><text>If you (or anyone in the this thread) would be so kind as to write up a description of some specific functionality or interactions that we can improve and email them to me (m&#x2F;a&#x2F;r&#x2F;a&#x2F;y at microsoft dotcom) I would appreciate it. I can&#x27;t promise instant gratification results, but I will do my best to get your feedback to the right person.<p>Thanks :-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>iambateman</author><text>&lt;rant class=&quot;disgruntled&quot;&gt;
I&#x27;ve used Azure&#x27;s cloud hosting in production for a half dozen sites and I have to say it&#x27;s driving me nuts.<p>We tried to flip DNS to Azure and it wouldn&#x27;t resolve. It took our senior developer two days of talking to Azure support to solve. Ended up being their fault.<p>Today I ported some work using PHP&#x27;s mail() function, which evidently Azure doesn&#x27;t support?<p>This is probably our own fault for switching environments but we&#x27;ve moved sites from Media Temple and GoDaddy to Azure and consistently had problems.<p>Needless to say, a price drop isn&#x27;t making me any more excited about Azure. Their UI is convoluted (though beautiful, for sure) and I&#x27;ve had nothing but issues with it.
&lt;&#x2F;rant&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Azure: Cutting prices on compute and storage</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2014/03/31/microsoft-azure-innovation-quality-and-price.aspx</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>city41</author><text>I&#x27;ve had some issues with Azure too and have fought it a bit. My app is Node&#x2F;Postgres based. I&#x27;m pretty positive if I had developed a C#&#x2F;SQL Server app, then Azure would be almost entirely smooth sailing. I can&#x27;t really blame MS for targeting their own tech first. Node, PHP and the like are not quite as first class citizens in Azure yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iambateman</author><text>&lt;rant class=&quot;disgruntled&quot;&gt;
I&#x27;ve used Azure&#x27;s cloud hosting in production for a half dozen sites and I have to say it&#x27;s driving me nuts.<p>We tried to flip DNS to Azure and it wouldn&#x27;t resolve. It took our senior developer two days of talking to Azure support to solve. Ended up being their fault.<p>Today I ported some work using PHP&#x27;s mail() function, which evidently Azure doesn&#x27;t support?<p>This is probably our own fault for switching environments but we&#x27;ve moved sites from Media Temple and GoDaddy to Azure and consistently had problems.<p>Needless to say, a price drop isn&#x27;t making me any more excited about Azure. Their UI is convoluted (though beautiful, for sure) and I&#x27;ve had nothing but issues with it.
&lt;&#x2F;rant&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Azure: Cutting prices on compute and storage</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2014/03/31/microsoft-azure-innovation-quality-and-price.aspx</url></story> |
39,875,366 | 39,875,493 | 1 | 2 | 39,874,583 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samtho</author><text>This was so mind-boggling even at the time that SourceForge thought it could leverage its market position to force adware and other nonsense upon its users and get away with it, which itself the last straw in a string of other abuses they subjected users to on the website. It is also so arrogant and presumptive to think that the developers, who&#x27;s projects were hosted here, would put up with their distribution platform bundling junk with their software.<p>This was a mortal sin for them, and rightfully so, whereby it became impossible to recover the damage to their reputation. Like, what were they thinking? Did they know they were doomed and just wanted one final ad sale? It’s just an egregious abuse of whatever dwindling power they had which permanently destroyed what little trust that the developers had for them - the same group of people that provided the only real value (for free, even) that SourceForge held.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jenk</author><text>After skim reading I couldn&#x27;t see it mentioned, but when SourceForge started bundling malware[0][1] into the software they hosted, it was their death toll.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neverworkintheory.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;04&#x2F;21&#x2F;decline-of-sourceforge.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neverworkintheory.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;04&#x2F;21&#x2F;decline-of-sourcefo...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31110206">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31110206</a><p>As my memory recalls it, that triggered an exodus to Google Code, and whilst GH was gaining traction it was somewhat in their shadow. When Google announced they were going to kill Code that was the blessing for GH.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform</title><url>https://graphite.dev/blog/github-monopoly-on-code-hosting</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dotnet00</author><text>IIRC when Google Code was announced to be closing, the Microsoft equivalent (CodePlex) was the next location a lot of projects moved to. It had a decent UI and supported Mercurial in addition to Git.<p>When MS also announced they were closing that and offering a tool to migrate to GitHub, was when GitHub (and Git) truly became the biggest remaining option.<p>The other aspect of SourceForge&#x27;s decline was that they doubled down on the sketchy site feeling right as acceptance of such sites was on the decline, the likes of mediafire, zippyshare etc were being replaced with cloud storage providers and download aggregators were losing popularity (in part due to also becoming very sketchy and prone to pushing malware). They might&#x27;ve been able to get away with it a few years earlier. I remember that back then it wasn&#x27;t a huge deal to follow a mediafire download link from somewhere that seemed reliable enough, whereas nowadays it&#x27;d be an immediate red flag due to the abundance of more legitimate seeming file sharing options.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jenk</author><text>After skim reading I couldn&#x27;t see it mentioned, but when SourceForge started bundling malware[0][1] into the software they hosted, it was their death toll.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neverworkintheory.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;04&#x2F;21&#x2F;decline-of-sourceforge.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neverworkintheory.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;04&#x2F;21&#x2F;decline-of-sourcefo...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31110206">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31110206</a><p>As my memory recalls it, that triggered an exodus to Google Code, and whilst GH was gaining traction it was somewhat in their shadow. When Google announced they were going to kill Code that was the blessing for GH.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform</title><url>https://graphite.dev/blog/github-monopoly-on-code-hosting</url></story> |
23,143,264 | 23,142,988 | 1 | 3 | 23,142,355 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>k3oni</author><text>I&#x27;m really not expecting to see a significant drop in home prices at least until close to the end of the year. While some vacation rentals owners might have listed their properties for sale they are doing it pricing those close to the current market value based on other properties for sale in their respective area.
We&#x27;re looking for a vacation home and i&#x27;m monitoring the prices in a few areas pretty close, but i don&#x27;t think we&#x27;ll do anything until the start of 2021.<p>Remember you need surplus to drive price down.
Also keep in mind that the foreclosure process is currently on hold, once this opens again we&#x27;ll be able to get a closer look at the impact all the closures had&#x2F;have on the RE market.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redfin: Vacation real-estate ‘toast’ as Airbnb owners rush to offload homes</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/vacation-real-estate-markets-are-toast-because-of-the-pandemic-as-airbnb-owners-rush-to-offload-their-homes-redfin-ceo-says-2020-05-11?mod=home-page</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>The article buries the lede:<p>&gt; Employers that were really stuck on whether to let people work from home have gotten completely unstuck. And if you can work for Goldman Sachs, but not in New York, if you can work for Amazon, but not in Seattle, well, why would you pay the premium?<p>Vacation rentals impact prices, but are a mere slice of the total market. If tastes and preferences shift away from expensive cities due to remote-work friendly policies, that will have a profound shift on not only housing, but automobiles, gas, etc. People certainly enjoy living in cities, but how many people live in cities exclusively for the physically proximate job access they provide? Time will tell.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redfin: Vacation real-estate ‘toast’ as Airbnb owners rush to offload homes</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/vacation-real-estate-markets-are-toast-because-of-the-pandemic-as-airbnb-owners-rush-to-offload-their-homes-redfin-ceo-says-2020-05-11?mod=home-page</url></story> |
26,014,725 | 26,014,926 | 1 | 3 | 26,013,820 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>theorymeltfool</author><text>I&#x27;m curious if the HFs that shorted Gamestop, are also profiting off of the wild swings by Redditors who have now lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. They could easily swing-trade this stock all the way down, using massive buy&#x2F;sell orders to drive the price.<p>If Melvin Capital isn&#x27;t bankrupt after all of this, there might just be A LOT of broke redditors who cashed in their lifesavings on this gamble.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GameStop appoints chief technology officer and two additional executive hires</title><url>https://news.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gamestop-appoints-chief-technology-officer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ctvo</author><text>&gt; Mr. Francis brings more than two decades of experience in e-commerce and consumer technology to GameStop. Most recently, he was an Engineering Leader at Amazon Web Services.<p><i>Checking LinkedIn</i> Mr. Francis was at AWS for ~1 year working on DocumentDB, the MongoDB compatibility layer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GameStop appoints chief technology officer and two additional executive hires</title><url>https://news.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gamestop-appoints-chief-technology-officer</url></story> |
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