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38,466,630 | 38,466,031 | 1 | 2 | 38,465,736 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>&gt; Furthermore, these R8g instances provide up to three times more vCPUs and memory than Graviton 3-based R7g instances.<p>So, uh, 75% more bandwidth but 200% more cores is a net reduction in available bandwidth per core. If you rented 32 cores of a server before, you got a certain amount of bandwidth. If you now rent the same 32 cores, you&#x27;ll have about half the realized bandwidth?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Unveils Graviton4: A 96-Core ARM CPU with 536.7 GBps Memory Bandwidth</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/21172/amazon-unveils-graviton4-a-96core-cpu-with-5367-gbs-memory-bandwidth</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snird</author><text>One of the employees in the team developing Graviton4 is kidnapped by Hamas in Gaza: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-geektime-co-il.translate.goog&#x2F;amazon-aws-employees-for-sasha-trufanov&#x2F;?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-geektime-co-il.translate.goog&#x2F;amazon-aws-employe...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Unveils Graviton4: A 96-Core ARM CPU with 536.7 GBps Memory Bandwidth</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/21172/amazon-unveils-graviton4-a-96core-cpu-with-5367-gbs-memory-bandwidth</url></story> |
35,997,809 | 35,997,677 | 1 | 3 | 35,997,243 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akiselev</author><text>Key quotes:<p><i>&gt; I was living in LA, rent free.</i><p><i>&gt; I love flying and I have a lot of frequent flyer miles&#x2F;points from credit card sign up bonus&#x2F;flying over the past few years.</i><p><i>&gt; I booked all my tickets for Fall 2022 back in April and May 2022. Then I booked all my tickets for Spring 2023 back in Nov 2022. Most tickets were booked using Alaska miles or Southwest points</i><p><i>&gt; I have elite status with Alaska and Southwest, both offer a valuable perk called same-day change. I always book the cheapest flight of that day and call them when the check-in window opened to change to other flights of that day free of charge.</i><p><i>&gt; Spent 45972 minutes on my commute, equivalent to 31.93 24-hr days.</i><p>So basically, if you&#x27;re rich and have already spent several times the cost of rent on travel in your gap year(s), willing to spend over 20 hours a week commuting for 3 days of class, and have literally no concept of the value of your time, you too can afford the miserable commute from LA to Berkeley for university!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I lived in LA and commuted to Berkeley by plane to save on rent</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/berkeley/comments/13hv95y/i_survived_living_in_la_and_commuting_to_cal_by/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kpw94</author><text>&gt; Total Cost: $5592.66<p>For 10 months. Even if true story, only make sense if you can find rent $559 cheaper in LA (and don&#x27;t value your time &amp; the environment of course). It was extra special for the OP as he&#x27;d live rent free in LA.<p>&gt; Typically, the door-to-door commute time between my home in LA and my classroom in Berkeley is 4-5hrs EACH WAY<p>Waking up at 3:30am and wasting 9h every day doesn&#x27;t seem worth the $ savings. I feel a part time on-campus job or something would be less draining, more rewarding, and financially same...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I lived in LA and commuted to Berkeley by plane to save on rent</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/berkeley/comments/13hv95y/i_survived_living_in_la_and_commuting_to_cal_by/</url></story> |
31,619,771 | 31,618,745 | 1 | 2 | 31,617,921 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MattRix</author><text>There are two main categories of pixel art in games.<p>In one category it’s about retro authenticity and these games are defined by the fact that their final buffer is the same low resolution as their art. They also often feature limited palettes, especially ones that were actually used on retro consoles.<p>There’s also a second category of pixel art, where the style is more modern. The art is still low res, but the final screen buffer is high res. This is where you’re more likely to see stuff like smooth rotating sprites and lighting effects.<p>You may have a preference for one style or the other, but neither style is bad or “wrong”. Most people who use the modern style are doing it on purpose. There are fantastic looking games in both categories.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Paul_S</author><text>Bad pixel art is a pet peeve of mine. This is really advanced advice compared the problem most games have:<p>- pixels of different sizes<p>- rotating (!) pixels<p>- scaling pixels<p>- smooth gradients with millions of colours<p>- dynamic lighting overlayed on top<p>...
I could go on :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pixel Art: Common Mistakes (2020)</title><url>https://derekyu.com/makegames/pixelart2.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>Beltalowda</author><text>Why are any of these things &quot;bad&quot;? Back in the day pixel art was constrained by technical limitations, but now you can use the same style but with less technical constraints, and include these sort of things. It&#x27;s not &quot;true&quot; pixel art from 1990, but that doesn&#x27;t make it &quot;bad&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Paul_S</author><text>Bad pixel art is a pet peeve of mine. This is really advanced advice compared the problem most games have:<p>- pixels of different sizes<p>- rotating (!) pixels<p>- scaling pixels<p>- smooth gradients with millions of colours<p>- dynamic lighting overlayed on top<p>...
I could go on :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pixel Art: Common Mistakes (2020)</title><url>https://derekyu.com/makegames/pixelart2.html</url></story> |
21,428,670 | 21,428,136 | 1 | 2 | 21,426,315 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qwerty456127</author><text>That&#x27;s a pity the FB2 format is not nearly as popular as EPUB is. It&#x27;s a single-file pure tidy (I mean a simple, intuitive, bloat-free, well-documented schema) XML with purely semantic layout and no formatting. It&#x27;s a pleasure to write code processing it. The user&#x2F;app&#x2F;device is the only to decide how to view it (neither pages nor fonts are specified). Isn&#x27;t this lovely?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs</title><url>https://github.com/wasamasa/nov.el</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ashton314</author><text>Shameless plug for a personal project:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ashton314&#x2F;homebrew-mm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ashton314&#x2F;homebrew-mm</a><p>This is really just a one-liner I put in a shell script to pass things to Pandoc so I could read them like a man page in my terminal.<p>Love the Emacs lib though. The more emacs I my life the better. :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs</title><url>https://github.com/wasamasa/nov.el</url></story> |
21,502,655 | 21,502,436 | 1 | 3 | 21,492,049 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Legogris</author><text>One great example of that was how in some later Sims game (2 or 3), one of the actions possible on a bonsai tree in the Swedish version is &quot;Katrinplommon&quot;, translated from &quot;prune&quot; - unfortunately, prune as in a dried plum, not the pruning of plants.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tkgally</author><text>Translation is always difficult, but especially so when the translator does not know the overall context and intended use of the text. If one is translating a novel, most of the context necessary to understand, say, a line of dialogue is right on the page. According to a talk I heard about twenty years ago by a game translator working between Japanese and English, however, at that time all translators usually had to work with were isolated bits of text in Excel files. No wonder so many mistakes have crept into localized video games.<p>In her talk, she stressed the importance of actually playing through the game while translating, but said that the finished game often wasn&#x27;t available and that deadlines or low translation rates could make that unfeasible.<p>I was a freelance translator myself at the time, mostly doing business-related texts, and her talk did not make me want to go into video game translation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese</title><url>https://legendsoflocalization.com/games-with-famous-bad-translations-into-japanese/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PhasmaFelis</author><text>I recently played through a PC platformer called Rive. The voice actor was actually really good (and voiced both protagonist and the antagonist in <i>completely</i> different styles), but it was painfully obvious that (a) English wasn&#x27;t the dialogue writer&#x27;s first language, and (b) they&#x27;d given the the script to the voice actor as standalone strings, so his tone and emphasis didn&#x27;t always make sense in context.<p>Not quite the same thing, but another consequence of the person creating the final dialogue not having access to context, and there&#x27;s really no excuse for that. Even if the dialogue is only available as a spreadsheet, the writer should have included context cues and stage directions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tkgally</author><text>Translation is always difficult, but especially so when the translator does not know the overall context and intended use of the text. If one is translating a novel, most of the context necessary to understand, say, a line of dialogue is right on the page. According to a talk I heard about twenty years ago by a game translator working between Japanese and English, however, at that time all translators usually had to work with were isolated bits of text in Excel files. No wonder so many mistakes have crept into localized video games.<p>In her talk, she stressed the importance of actually playing through the game while translating, but said that the finished game often wasn&#x27;t available and that deadlines or low translation rates could make that unfeasible.<p>I was a freelance translator myself at the time, mostly doing business-related texts, and her talk did not make me want to go into video game translation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese</title><url>https://legendsoflocalization.com/games-with-famous-bad-translations-into-japanese/</url></story> |
9,602,850 | 9,600,861 | 1 | 2 | 9,600,427 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>copsarebastards</author><text>This is a joke. For those who didn&#x27;t get the joke:<p>1. ~ and - are separate operators. - negates, ~ does this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;7207406" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;7207406</a><p>2. Integers on computers are typically represented in two&#x27;s complement notation: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;~tomf&#x2F;notes&#x2F;cps104&#x2F;twoscomp.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;~tomf&#x2F;notes&#x2F;cps104&#x2F;twoscomp.html</a><p>3. Now that we know how all the parts work, we can put them together step by step:<p><pre><code> ~-0010 =&gt; ~1110 =&gt; 0001
-~0010 =&gt; -1101 =&gt; 0011</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New C++ experimental feature: The tadpole operators</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/05/25/10616865.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>jloughry</author><text>It&#x27;s a side effect of two&#x27;s complement representation of integers. There ought to be a repository somewhere for neat tricks like this (with a warning never to use them in production).<p><pre><code> FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New C++ experimental feature: The tadpole operators</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/05/25/10616865.aspx</url></story> |
32,380,682 | 32,380,407 | 1 | 3 | 32,379,764 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>A proper carbon tax would only increase flight costs by about 8%, since there&#x27;s lots of other costs than fuel.<p>People don&#x27;t seem to believe that though. Because a carbon tax high enough to make your flight cast 8% more, would totally destroy the fossil fuel industry, as everyone would suddenly have a financial incentive to burn less of it, and there&#x27;s alternatives for almost all uses. And so, a measure that would kill the fossil fuel industry, and not really bother any other industry, is portrayed as an impossible dream because the fossil fuel industry has a lot of money and power.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing</title><url>https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/04/offsetting-greenwashing-carbon-emissions</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RosanaAnaDana</author><text>I&#x27;ve been very careful to not wade into one of these threads too readily, as when I read them, I almost always find a huge range of variability around what people understand or don&#x27;t understand about forests, soils, or ecosystem scale biogeochemical cycling. There also seem to be some very assertive, and often very uninformed claims around voluntary versus compliance marketplaces, and what role nature based mitigation efforts play currently or might play in the future.<p>However, it&#x27;s becoming increasingly clear that most authors in the pop science journalism space have a limited capacity for understanding the nuance or uncertainties associated with remote sensing models and principles of biogeochemistry. As well, the armchair analysts make many wrong assumptions about forests, forestry, or how carbon cycling works.<p>Number one, is that forests work as long term carbon storage and sinks. There are often claims made around what forests can or cant do with regards to carbon cycling, and almost always they tend to fundementally misunderstand how carbon cycling, and nutrient cycling work in relationship to long term carbon stability. Not used taking advantage of forests and their ability to represent both (relatively, 10&#x27;s-100&#x27;s yr) short term stores of carbon, as well as less labile longer term storage pools (100&#x27;s-1000&#x27;s yr). We&#x27;ve been basically mining the world&#x27;s forests and haven&#x27;t even remotely attempted using natural ecosystems ability to not only sequester carbon, but to provide significant opportunities for climate resilience.<p>Granted, we have an extraordinary limited understanding of the upper and lower bounds of many of these systems, but that&#x27;s hardly any argument that we can&#x27;t engage with and begin learning about the potential of these systems.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing</title><url>https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/04/offsetting-greenwashing-carbon-emissions</url></story> |
29,802,785 | 29,797,116 | 1 | 2 | 29,796,314 | 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>commoner</author><text>Since Mozilla isn&#x27;t willing to allow more than 18 pre-selected add-ons on the release and beta channels of Firefox for Android, forks like Iceraven fulfill an unmet need for users who want access to more add-ons, but don&#x27;t want the occasional instability of the nightly channel.<p>One thing that is still missing from Iceraven, Mull, etc. is the ability to sideload add-ons that are not published on addons.mozilla.org. Currently, anyone who wants to use a private Firefox add-on that is not suitable to be published on AMO must install v68 of Firefox or v68 of a fork like Fennec F-Droid.<p>Edit: In one of the Iceraven issues on GitHub (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fork-maintainers&#x2F;iceraven-browser&#x2F;issues&#x2F;371#issuecomment-987666123" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fork-maintainers&#x2F;iceraven-browser&#x2F;issues&#x2F;...</a>), someone recommended a Firefox for Android fork called SmartCookieWeb-Preview for sideloading .xpi add-on files into Firefox from arbitrary URLs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CookieJarApps&#x2F;SmartCookieWeb-Preview&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CookieJarApps&#x2F;SmartCookieWeb-Preview&#x2F;</a>. The preview app is not available on F-Droid yet, but I&#x27;m going to try it out.<p>Edit 2: It worked in SmartCookieWeb-Preview. I had to go into about:config and set &quot;xpinstall.signatures.required&quot; to &quot;false&quot; before sideloading the add-on in the settings (Advanced settings &gt; Sideload XPI). I hope this app makes it into F-Droid soon.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Iceraven – Firefox for Android fork with more add-ons and configuration options</title><url>https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asimops</author><text>If you are rooted, you can also force your own add-ons into stable firefox like so:<p><pre><code> USER=16201230
COLLECTION=What-I-want-on-Fenix
cd &#x2F;data&#x2F;data&#x2F;org.mozilla.mozilla.firefox&#x2F;files
curl -o mozilla_components_addon_collection_*.json &quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;api&#x2F;v4&#x2F;accounts&#x2F;account&#x2F;$USER&#x2F;collections&#x2F;$COLLECTION&#x2F;addons&#x2F;?page_size=50&amp;sort=-added&quot;
touch -a -m -t 203012300130.00 mozilla_components_addon_collection_*.json
</code></pre>
edit: remove fennec fdroid because TIL that it already has the same add-on override that the FF nightly has. So there is no need for this hack if you have fennec.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Iceraven – Firefox for Android fork with more add-ons and configuration options</title><url>https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser</url></story> |
41,190,033 | 41,190,008 | 1 | 2 | 41,188,647 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danpalmer</author><text>I’m not sure I would agree. By the time you’ve written a full spec for it, you may as well have just written a high level programming language anyway. You can make assumptions that minimise the spec needed… but also programming APIs can have defaults so that’s no advantage.<p>I’d suggest that the Python code for your example prompt with reasonable defaults is not actually that far from the prompt itself in terms of the time necessary to write it.<p>However, add tricky details like how you want to handle connection pooling, differing retry strategies, short circuiting based on one of the results, business logic in the data combination step, and suddenly you’ve got a whole design doc in your prompt and you need a senior engineer with good written comms skills to get it to work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>Programming has a clear reward function when the problem being solving is well-specified, e.g., &quot;we need a program that grabs data from these three endpoints, combines their data in this manner, and returns it in this JSON format.&quot;<p>The same is true for math. There is a clear reward function when the goal is well-specified, e.g., &quot;we need a sequence of mathematical statements that prove this other important mathematical statement is true.&quot;</text></item><item><author>discreteevent</author><text>Does programming have a clear reward function? A vague description from a business person is not it. By the time someone (a programmer?) has written a reward function that is clear enough, how would that function look compared to a program?</text></item><item><author>gizmo</author><text>This is why AI coding assistance will leap ahead in the coming years. Chat AI has no clear reward function (basically impossible to judge the quality of responses to open-ended questions like historical causes for a war). Coding AI can write tests, write code, compile, examine failed test cases, search for different coding solutions that satisfy more test cases or rewrite the tests, all in an unsupervised loop. And then whole process can turn into training data for future AI coding models.<p>I expect language models to also get crazy good at mathematical theorem proving. The search space is huge but theorem verification software will provide 100% accurate feedback that makes real reinforcement learning possible. It&#x27;s the combination of vibes (how to approach the proof) and formal verification that works.<p>Formal verification of program correctness never got traction because it&#x27;s so tedious and most of the time approximately correct is good enough. But with LLMs in the mix the equation changes. Having LLMs generate annotations that an engine can use to prove correctness might be the missing puzzle piece.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RLHF is just barely RL</title><url>https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1821277264996352246</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seanthemon</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt;when the problem being solving is well-specified
</code></pre>
Phew! Sounds like i&#x27;ll be fine, thank god for product owners.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>Programming has a clear reward function when the problem being solving is well-specified, e.g., &quot;we need a program that grabs data from these three endpoints, combines their data in this manner, and returns it in this JSON format.&quot;<p>The same is true for math. There is a clear reward function when the goal is well-specified, e.g., &quot;we need a sequence of mathematical statements that prove this other important mathematical statement is true.&quot;</text></item><item><author>discreteevent</author><text>Does programming have a clear reward function? A vague description from a business person is not it. By the time someone (a programmer?) has written a reward function that is clear enough, how would that function look compared to a program?</text></item><item><author>gizmo</author><text>This is why AI coding assistance will leap ahead in the coming years. Chat AI has no clear reward function (basically impossible to judge the quality of responses to open-ended questions like historical causes for a war). Coding AI can write tests, write code, compile, examine failed test cases, search for different coding solutions that satisfy more test cases or rewrite the tests, all in an unsupervised loop. And then whole process can turn into training data for future AI coding models.<p>I expect language models to also get crazy good at mathematical theorem proving. The search space is huge but theorem verification software will provide 100% accurate feedback that makes real reinforcement learning possible. It&#x27;s the combination of vibes (how to approach the proof) and formal verification that works.<p>Formal verification of program correctness never got traction because it&#x27;s so tedious and most of the time approximately correct is good enough. But with LLMs in the mix the equation changes. Having LLMs generate annotations that an engine can use to prove correctness might be the missing puzzle piece.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RLHF is just barely RL</title><url>https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1821277264996352246</url></story> |
13,376,764 | 13,374,721 | 1 | 2 | 13,373,857 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smallnamespace</author><text>Marx and other classical economic thinkers speculatively connected the fall in the rate of profit to increases in inequality and long-run economic cycles [1].<p>Essentially, the idea is that since the rate of profit exceeds the rate of growth, rent seekers (capital holders) tend to get richer and richer and own more and more of the wealth. This impoverishes all other parts of the economy and starves it of resources, causing the rate of profit (return on capital) to start declining.<p>The end result is usually a prolonged crisis of some sort which causes the destruction of large amounts of capital, &#x27;resetting&#x27; the economy again so the cycle can repeat anew.<p>For some reason this idea has been rejected by the mainstream for the last 70 years or so, but I think some people are starting to take it up again.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to_fall" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>John23832</author><text>The title made me think that this was going to be about subprime auto loans, which are definitely in &quot;crisis&quot; territory.<p>This whole mess (subprime auto, renovation, and home loans) comes from the increasingly rent seeking nature of Wall Street. It used to be that fortunes were both made and <i>lost</i> on Wall Street. Now, for large investors (&quot;whales&quot;), it&#x27;s 3.5% or I take my money to another fund. If I don&#x27;t have a consistent positive return, then it&#x27;s something wrong with the fund&#x2F;firm, not the natural order of things. This behavior encourages siphoning from pensions, the retirement funds of average people and &quot;fudging the numbers&quot; on packaged securities in order to keep up with the expected returns of the &quot;whales&quot;.<p>The sad thing is, I don&#x27;t see a change. We&#x27;re going to keep going from crisis to crisis because banks can&#x27;t say no, and the government(s) deems them too big to fail. This shit is fucked.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>America’s Fastest-Growing Loan Category Has Eerie Echoes of Subprime Crisis</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-fastest-growing-loan-category-has-eerie-echoes-of-subprime-crisis-1484060984</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roymurdock</author><text>&gt; We&#x27;re going to keep going from crisis to crisis because banks can&#x27;t say no, and the government(s) deems them too big to fail<p>Consumers can say no, and if they had better financial education and&#x2F;or financial prospects, maybe they would.<p>The elderly woman in the article initially refused the $50k renovation to her 5 bedroom home, but then agreed because she thought the government was going to subsidize it for her.<p>The contractor was able to sell her the loan because she needed to reduce heating&#x2F;utilities&#x2F;energy costs in her massive (for one or two people living on SS presumably) home, and she thought the savings from the PACE program would pay for the solar panels, smart lightbulbs, etc.<p>I don&#x27;t know the exact details of her situation, but it seems like perhaps the correct decision would have been to sell the house and move to a smaller, more efficient house if the current house is too expensive to maintain given the number of occupants and their age&#x2F;level of income. I&#x27;m 24 and currently rent half a large house in the suburbs from a single guy in his 60s who needs the extra income to maintain the house which he bought when he had a larger family.<p>Unfortunately it seems like the loan was misrepresented to her by the contractor when she agreed to go into debt, and obviously many will do anything to avoid moving out of homes&#x2F;communities they&#x27;ve been in for a long time. Others have no family to rely on or go to even if they do want to move.<p>I&#x27;m not a huge fan of Wall St. and big bank loan &amp; derivative making and selling culture, but it&#x27;s not entirely to blame, nor was it entirely to blame during the financial crisis of 2007-08 as many consumers took on home loans they had no intention of ever making good on (maybe there was some fraud&#x2F;misrepresentation on the part of the contractor in this case, maybe not). People have always been greedy since the beginning of time - we are just struggling overall at the moment to raise financial literacy and strengthen altruism: family&#x2F;community&#x2F;country-wide ties (patriotism) due to poor economic conditions for the majority of Americans.</text><parent_chain><item><author>John23832</author><text>The title made me think that this was going to be about subprime auto loans, which are definitely in &quot;crisis&quot; territory.<p>This whole mess (subprime auto, renovation, and home loans) comes from the increasingly rent seeking nature of Wall Street. It used to be that fortunes were both made and <i>lost</i> on Wall Street. Now, for large investors (&quot;whales&quot;), it&#x27;s 3.5% or I take my money to another fund. If I don&#x27;t have a consistent positive return, then it&#x27;s something wrong with the fund&#x2F;firm, not the natural order of things. This behavior encourages siphoning from pensions, the retirement funds of average people and &quot;fudging the numbers&quot; on packaged securities in order to keep up with the expected returns of the &quot;whales&quot;.<p>The sad thing is, I don&#x27;t see a change. We&#x27;re going to keep going from crisis to crisis because banks can&#x27;t say no, and the government(s) deems them too big to fail. This shit is fucked.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>America’s Fastest-Growing Loan Category Has Eerie Echoes of Subprime Crisis</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-fastest-growing-loan-category-has-eerie-echoes-of-subprime-crisis-1484060984</url></story> |
8,423,897 | 8,423,608 | 1 | 3 | 8,422,087 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sondh</author><text>I have just redeemed the code in my DO account and it worked on the first attempt. I think they have fixed the issue. To any students out there: try first before reaching out to support, they are busy men&#x2F;women.</text><parent_chain><item><author>naiyt</author><text>So if you have an existing DigitalOcean account, it makes it seem like you can&#x27;t apply the promo code to it. But I shot off a ticket to DigitalOcean&#x27;s support, and they applied the $100 promo to my account within 5 minutes. So definitely send them a message if you have an existing account that you would like to have the credit applied to.<p>Awesome pack, and great service from DigitalOcean as well.<p>Also of interest is that my account is apparently already flagged as a &quot;student account&quot; since I&#x27;ve gotten the 5 free private repos in the past with it. Which means once I hit &quot;Get your pack&quot; it immediately gave me access.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub Student Developer Pack</title><url>https://education.github.com/pack</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>russum</author><text>Hm, that&#x27;s nice of them, although this page states you aren&#x27;t allowed to do that: &quot;Keep in mind that we only allow one promo code per account, so if you’ve redeemed one in the past you may not add another. To see your promo code history please visit your billing page.&quot;<p><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/help/pricing-and-billing/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitalocean.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;pricing-and-billing&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>naiyt</author><text>So if you have an existing DigitalOcean account, it makes it seem like you can&#x27;t apply the promo code to it. But I shot off a ticket to DigitalOcean&#x27;s support, and they applied the $100 promo to my account within 5 minutes. So definitely send them a message if you have an existing account that you would like to have the credit applied to.<p>Awesome pack, and great service from DigitalOcean as well.<p>Also of interest is that my account is apparently already flagged as a &quot;student account&quot; since I&#x27;ve gotten the 5 free private repos in the past with it. Which means once I hit &quot;Get your pack&quot; it immediately gave me access.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub Student Developer Pack</title><url>https://education.github.com/pack</url></story> |
11,765,260 | 11,765,106 | 1 | 2 | 11,762,747 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oulipo</author><text>Hey AgentME, I&#x27;m Mael the co-founder of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;snips.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;snips.ai</a>, we wrote the article on TechCrunch to explain why we are building an AI which respect people&#x27;s privacy.<p>You are entirely right in saying that people mostly wilfully accept to be tracked by companies, but we feel they do because they don&#x27;t have alternatives, so they can only assume that some services will only be available if they share their data.<p>We are building Snips because we want to prove that it is feasible to build an AI without storing the data of users on websites where it is exposed to hackers or governments, or to future decisions made by the company (or its next &quot;evil CEO&quot;) that users may not yet be aware of.<p>We believe it will one day be possible to build our AI alter-egos, capable of doing most grunt tasks at our place, if they can access our most intimate data. And this will be only possible through privacy-by-design<p>Building systems with privacy-by-design is the only workable way to minimize risks over time for users!</text><parent_chain><item><author>AgentME</author><text>I like the article, but a line in it triggers one of my pet peeves.<p>&gt;These companies are basically engaging in mass surveillance. Just as governments justify tracking us to prevent terrorist attacks, these companies are tracking us online, without our consent, ...<p>This equivalence that people often draw bugs me, because companies don&#x27;t coerce people into being tracked. I <i>can</i> choose to or withold my consent with regards to companies. I can pick and choose to do business with more privacy-respecting companies, and I can block my browser from talking to popular tracking domains. Companies can&#x27;t threaten me with legal trouble (jail, etc) if I want to run my own websites or programs that respect privacy or use cryptography.<p>It&#x27;s government surveillance that I don&#x27;t have a choice of avoiding, short of avoiding the internet. Sure, cryptography does a lot of good, but it&#x27;s a freedom that is repeatedly threatened, especially it seems like whenever anyone makes a too-convenient tool for it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why you should bet big on privacy</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/17/why-you-should-bet-big-on-privacy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>numlocked</author><text>That&#x27;s technically true, but not practically; tracking pixels, embedded &#x27;like&#x27; buttons, etc. You are being followed around the internet by large companies, even if you don&#x27;t directly use their services and avoid FB, Google, etc. entirely (which I think is a reasonable standard for an average user).<p>I agree the distinction is important in that you can e.g. elect to not be a customer of a company, but can&#x27;t exactly opt out of the government. But there are still plenty of underhanded privacy violations that companies can &#x27;coerce&#x27; you into unknowingly.<p>The best-practice security and privacy tools you cite, like Tor, end-to-end crypto, etc, are just as effective protecting against government privacy violations as they are coporate ones.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AgentME</author><text>I like the article, but a line in it triggers one of my pet peeves.<p>&gt;These companies are basically engaging in mass surveillance. Just as governments justify tracking us to prevent terrorist attacks, these companies are tracking us online, without our consent, ...<p>This equivalence that people often draw bugs me, because companies don&#x27;t coerce people into being tracked. I <i>can</i> choose to or withold my consent with regards to companies. I can pick and choose to do business with more privacy-respecting companies, and I can block my browser from talking to popular tracking domains. Companies can&#x27;t threaten me with legal trouble (jail, etc) if I want to run my own websites or programs that respect privacy or use cryptography.<p>It&#x27;s government surveillance that I don&#x27;t have a choice of avoiding, short of avoiding the internet. Sure, cryptography does a lot of good, but it&#x27;s a freedom that is repeatedly threatened, especially it seems like whenever anyone makes a too-convenient tool for it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why you should bet big on privacy</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/17/why-you-should-bet-big-on-privacy/</url></story> |
15,576,362 | 15,576,276 | 1 | 3 | 15,576,083 | 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>wpietri</author><text>One of the things I liked about Amazon early on is that they were on my side. They were very customer focused. For a while, though, they&#x27;ve been shifting to make me the product. Their site has become filled with sponsored products and ads. It&#x27;s definitely reducing my trust in them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon now has a billion-dollar ad business</title><url>https://digiday.com/marketing/amazon-now-1-billion-ad-business/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>umeshunni</author><text>If the business generated $1B last quarter, isn&#x27;t that a $4B business?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon now has a billion-dollar ad business</title><url>https://digiday.com/marketing/amazon-now-1-billion-ad-business/</url></story> |
27,922,950 | 27,923,040 | 1 | 2 | 27,922,097 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munk-a</author><text>I carried out a (quite ill-advised in retrospect) migration from MySQL to Postgres on a mature codebase with absolutely no automated test coverage and it went pretty smoothly. We had some bumpy performance directly after the production migration but we were able to reach parity after about two months of observing and adding targeted indices.<p>I absolutely adore Postgres&#x27;s tweaks to the SQL language, that dialect is amazing and has served us extremely well. And, since we passed pg10 a while back, the performance tuning you can do on it is pretty amazing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lucideer</author><text>That was the expectation but the Oracle camp surprised everyone by actually giving it some attention, and meanwhile MariaDB&#x27;s promise of being a &quot;100% compatible drop-in replacement&quot; came with more and more caveats with each release (as is to be entirely expected with any fork).<p>When you consider the network effect of all the stacks already heavily invested in MySQL, all Oracle really needed to do was put in a modicum of effort to MySQL to stave off the MariaDB migrations (and from my understanding they&#x27;ve put in quite a bit more than a modicum).<p>Lastly, Postgres is an interesting player. Migrating from MySQL to Postgres might be a scarier prospect than to MariaDB, but since the Oracle acquisition a lot of MySQL-veterans were looking for something non-MySQL for <i>new</i> projects and in that I get the sense Postgres beat out MariaDB.</text></item><item><author>takeda</author><text>Perhaps it&#x27;s due to me being in the PostgreSQL camp, but what happened to MariaDB? I was convinced that&#x27;s where MySQL developers went and that&#x27;s where development proceeded, while MySQL was just half dead, because Oracle did not care about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0</title><url>https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/data-infrastructure/mysql/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sltkr</author><text>I was curious so I looked up the differences here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mariadb.com&#x2F;kb&#x2F;en&#x2F;mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mariadb.com&#x2F;kb&#x2F;en&#x2F;mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility&#x2F;</a><p>It doesn&#x27;t sound too bad. The incompabilities seem to be mostly stuff like not being able to generally use replication from MySQL to MariaDB or vice versa. But I would guess that&#x27;s not a very common case anyway: most users are either developers that want their software to work with both MariaDB and MySQL (which can be achieved by sticking to the very large intersection of supported features), or they are users that want to switch from MySQL to MariaDB (which seems well-supported). Running a mix of MariaDB and MySQL servers and expecting to be able to replicate between them seems like a particularly uncommon setup (though maybe it&#x27;s useful during a migration).</text><parent_chain><item><author>lucideer</author><text>That was the expectation but the Oracle camp surprised everyone by actually giving it some attention, and meanwhile MariaDB&#x27;s promise of being a &quot;100% compatible drop-in replacement&quot; came with more and more caveats with each release (as is to be entirely expected with any fork).<p>When you consider the network effect of all the stacks already heavily invested in MySQL, all Oracle really needed to do was put in a modicum of effort to MySQL to stave off the MariaDB migrations (and from my understanding they&#x27;ve put in quite a bit more than a modicum).<p>Lastly, Postgres is an interesting player. Migrating from MySQL to Postgres might be a scarier prospect than to MariaDB, but since the Oracle acquisition a lot of MySQL-veterans were looking for something non-MySQL for <i>new</i> projects and in that I get the sense Postgres beat out MariaDB.</text></item><item><author>takeda</author><text>Perhaps it&#x27;s due to me being in the PostgreSQL camp, but what happened to MariaDB? I was convinced that&#x27;s where MySQL developers went and that&#x27;s where development proceeded, while MySQL was just half dead, because Oracle did not care about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0</title><url>https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/data-infrastructure/mysql/</url></story> |
27,363,616 | 27,359,288 | 1 | 3 | 27,355,789 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unyttigfjelltol</author><text>Missed a step in that opt-out how-to: 1. Install Alexa App on phone.<p>Why can&#x27;t I disable this &#x27;account setting&#x27; from the Amazon web portal. Plus, if I mistrust Amazon&#x27;s repurposing of devices, why would I want an Alexa app installed to potentially repurpose my phone? Funnily enough, Sidewalk was just one of 3 surprising anti-security&#x2F;anti-privacy settings available only in the app.</text><parent_chain><item><author>remarkEon</author><text>Article doesn&#x27;t mention it, but this is how you opt-out (there are others but this one has screenshots).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomsguide.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;what-is-amazon-sidewalk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomsguide.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;what-is-amazon-sidewalk</a><p>Added to my list for the next time I&#x27;m on the phone with my parents, for our (weekly at this point) how-to sessions on &quot;stopping the industry I work in from spying on you&quot;. I really, really wish product managers would understand the kind of ecosystem they&#x27;re building, and the kind of customer blow-back they will enable by optimizing for $$$ under the guise of &quot;making things easier&quot;.<p>Side question: what problem does Amazon thinks this solves? Bad connectivity experiences for Ring users?<p>Edit: changed the link to a better guide linked elsewhere in the thread</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon US customers given one week to opt out of mass wireless sharing</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/01/amazon-us-customers-given-one-week-to-opt-out-of-mass-wireless-sharing</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nanidin</author><text>Every time this Sidewalk concern style story crops up (which it has several times over the last 6-12 months), I have rechecked that Sidewalk is disabled. So far I have not found it set to anything except for disabled. I hope Amazon isn’t doing a gradual roll out to enable, as if I find it enabled at any point in the future, I am done with Amazon devices in my home.<p>As far as I’m concerned based on Amazon Logistics performance in my area and the impact to the quality of other delivery carriers in my area, Amazon is not afraid to engage in a race to the bottom in the name of market share and profits. Opting me in to Sidewalk will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and sends me to anyone else except for Amazon when shopping.</text><parent_chain><item><author>remarkEon</author><text>Article doesn&#x27;t mention it, but this is how you opt-out (there are others but this one has screenshots).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomsguide.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;what-is-amazon-sidewalk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomsguide.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;what-is-amazon-sidewalk</a><p>Added to my list for the next time I&#x27;m on the phone with my parents, for our (weekly at this point) how-to sessions on &quot;stopping the industry I work in from spying on you&quot;. I really, really wish product managers would understand the kind of ecosystem they&#x27;re building, and the kind of customer blow-back they will enable by optimizing for $$$ under the guise of &quot;making things easier&quot;.<p>Side question: what problem does Amazon thinks this solves? Bad connectivity experiences for Ring users?<p>Edit: changed the link to a better guide linked elsewhere in the thread</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon US customers given one week to opt out of mass wireless sharing</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/01/amazon-us-customers-given-one-week-to-opt-out-of-mass-wireless-sharing</url></story> |
35,402,899 | 35,403,052 | 1 | 2 | 35,402,698 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brucethemoose2</author><text>This seems to be a pattern among Google employees, as least as I&#x27;m seeing from the outside.<p>They have their own company reality bubble, and clashes or inconsistencies with the outside world are met with disbelief.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lewisjoe</author><text>Great news. One thing that I&#x27;m sure about V3 is that it isn&#x27;t well thought-out at all. For example, imagine your extension has to cache data for a browser session (across tabs but with a single cache), it&#x27;s impossible as of now.<p>The only workaround to do that has a 1MB storage limit, essentially forcing you to have a server-side cache mechanism (redis or whatever) for this trivial use-case.<p>And worse, Google developers essentially refuse to understand the problem - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=1185226&amp;q=chrome.storage&amp;can=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=118522...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E/m/HjaaCIG-BQAJ</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whstl</author><text>It is hubris. Google thinks it can get away with anything, since they&#x27;re the market leader. The reality is that a certain number of people will migrate to Firefox over AdBlockers not working well anymore, and will give FF a second life. And those are the people who helped get Chrome off the ground by installing on the computers of relatives and recommending to friends.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lewisjoe</author><text>Great news. One thing that I&#x27;m sure about V3 is that it isn&#x27;t well thought-out at all. For example, imagine your extension has to cache data for a browser session (across tabs but with a single cache), it&#x27;s impossible as of now.<p>The only workaround to do that has a 1MB storage limit, essentially forcing you to have a server-side cache mechanism (redis or whatever) for this trivial use-case.<p>And worse, Google developers essentially refuse to understand the problem - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=1185226&amp;q=chrome.storage&amp;can=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=118522...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E/m/HjaaCIG-BQAJ</url></story> |
13,651,062 | 13,649,134 | 1 | 2 | 13,647,910 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robert_tweed</author><text>This is true, but the problem I have with bundling is that it creates a distorted market. If I like, say, Firefly, I want to essentially vote with my wallet and encourage the creation of more like that. If I&#x27;m paying for a bundle, the networks get to churn out whatever garbage they want and I&#x27;m either locked in or locked out. While I can elect to just not watch what I don&#x27;t like, I can&#x27;t prevent my money being used to make more of it.<p>With the old networks, a lot of the decisions about what to make are based on advertising. For now, Netflix can decide what to make based on accurate viewing stats and their only motivation is to increase and retain subscriptions. As long as things stay that way, they are motivated to prioritise good content, which is a step in the right direction.<p>I do worry however, that they still need to serve a lowest common denominator mass market, so bundling leads us back to where we started, with a few high quality exclusives per channel (e.g., Stanger Things, Game of Thrones, Mr Robot), but ultimately we&#x27;re still paying for a lot of unwanted garbage.<p>With this model, the &quot;channels&quot; aren&#x27;t incentivised to do what IMO they should be: curating high quality content to specific demographics (anime fan, sci-fi fans, romcom fans, etc). Instead, they will just do the minimum needed to retain each of them, while not really doing a very good job for any of them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gydfi</author><text>Nobody ever looks at Netflix and complains &quot;I never watch most of these shows, I shouldn&#x27;t have to pay for them&quot; because Netflix doesn&#x27;t encourage people to think in those terms.<p>Cable companies caused the demand for de-bundling via a partial de-bundling. If you could get all channels for $50 then nobody would complain. But if they force you to buy half the channels for $25 and half the channels for $25, people start to wonder why they can&#x27;t just get a quarter of the channels for $12.50.</text></item><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>I think the really interesting point from this article is about why bundling is so attractive when marginal costs are close to zero, for both the consumer and the seller. In the digital world, almost all services have a near-zero marginal cost, so bundling has a clear advantage.<p>It is also interesting when thinking about WHY people get so attached to the idea of &#x27;unbundling&#x27;, even when it might not be in their best interest. I think most people look at some of the large cable bundles, for example, and think &quot;man, I am paying for so many things I don&#x27;t watch!&quot; What they don&#x27;t realize is that even if the channels they didn&#x27;t watch were removed, the cable company wouldn&#x27;t be able to charge them much less, since the marginal cost for additional channels is near zero.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don’t Look Now, but the Great Unbundling Has Spun into Reverse</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/business/dealbook/bundling-online-services.html?ref=dealbook&_r=0&referer=</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pmalynin</author><text>No the problem is why do I have to pay for cable and still get ads every 20 minutes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gydfi</author><text>Nobody ever looks at Netflix and complains &quot;I never watch most of these shows, I shouldn&#x27;t have to pay for them&quot; because Netflix doesn&#x27;t encourage people to think in those terms.<p>Cable companies caused the demand for de-bundling via a partial de-bundling. If you could get all channels for $50 then nobody would complain. But if they force you to buy half the channels for $25 and half the channels for $25, people start to wonder why they can&#x27;t just get a quarter of the channels for $12.50.</text></item><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>I think the really interesting point from this article is about why bundling is so attractive when marginal costs are close to zero, for both the consumer and the seller. In the digital world, almost all services have a near-zero marginal cost, so bundling has a clear advantage.<p>It is also interesting when thinking about WHY people get so attached to the idea of &#x27;unbundling&#x27;, even when it might not be in their best interest. I think most people look at some of the large cable bundles, for example, and think &quot;man, I am paying for so many things I don&#x27;t watch!&quot; What they don&#x27;t realize is that even if the channels they didn&#x27;t watch were removed, the cable company wouldn&#x27;t be able to charge them much less, since the marginal cost for additional channels is near zero.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don’t Look Now, but the Great Unbundling Has Spun into Reverse</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/business/dealbook/bundling-online-services.html?ref=dealbook&_r=0&referer=</url></story> |
16,007,320 | 16,006,704 | 1 | 3 | 16,001,776 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shmageggy</author><text>It is well known that while everyone has roughly the same capacity of visual working memory, expertise in an area drastically alters our efficiency in utilizing that memory. For example, chess masters are much better than novices at recalling chess positions when they look like typical middle-game positions, but they perform nearly the same as novices on random arrangements of pieces [1]. In the rubik&#x27;s cube case, the expert is not memorizing 54 individual squares, but rather they are taking advantage of learned patterns to store fewer, larger chunks.<p>For another example, consider memorizing strings of letters: Which one do you find easier? GKAMIFTBW or IBMFBICIA<p>[1] Chase, W. G., &amp; Simon, H. A. (1973). Perception in chess. Cognitive psychology, 4(1), 55-81.</text><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>I&#x27;d like to reconcile this with the fact that some people can solve a rubik&#x27;s cube blindfolded after having a good look at it. It seems like they have the ability to imagine the relative movements of 26 objects at once.</text></item><item><author>SubiculumCode</author><text>Very nice article. It is so refreshing when someone who really knows what they are talking about writes in the popular science writing style. As a post-doc in a related field of cog neuroscience, I give the article my thumbs up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our Visual Imagination Is Severely Limited</title><url>https://undark.org/article/visual-imagination-brain-implications/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thethirdone</author><text>Or perhaps just memorized the solution (that they figured out while still being able to see the cube).<p>I haven&#x27;t ever tried doing it blindfolded, but I would expect there is not too much visualization behind it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>I&#x27;d like to reconcile this with the fact that some people can solve a rubik&#x27;s cube blindfolded after having a good look at it. It seems like they have the ability to imagine the relative movements of 26 objects at once.</text></item><item><author>SubiculumCode</author><text>Very nice article. It is so refreshing when someone who really knows what they are talking about writes in the popular science writing style. As a post-doc in a related field of cog neuroscience, I give the article my thumbs up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our Visual Imagination Is Severely Limited</title><url>https://undark.org/article/visual-imagination-brain-implications/</url></story> |
32,543,321 | 32,542,370 | 1 | 2 | 32,539,424 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>draebek</author><text>The emphasis on &quot;classroom control&quot; personally doesn&#x27;t surprise me. If two or three students start refusing a teacher&#x27;s orders, that teacher is done for the year, and maybe forever at that school. In my middle school, discipline was all but lost in most of my classes. Play cards in class, tell the teacher to shut up. What&#x27;s she going to do? We stole her phone and keys in first period, locked the doors to the room, and we disconnected the intercom weeks ago.<p>You can send an administrator or a police officer to sit in the class, but are they going to sit there all day, every day, until the end of the year? Are they going to do that in all twenty classes that need the treatment? The second they get called away because someone set another fire in the woods, it&#x27;s game on in the classroom.<p>At least we almost never actually assaulted staff. Someone I grew up with became a teacher and quit after just a few years. She had a student actually beat her up.<p>I regret a lot about my behavior in school, and reflecting on that has led me wonder why so many students hate being in school so much, and how—if?—we could educate children without making them resent the activity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jschveibinz</author><text>I am an early-retired EE and I thought that I could have a second career in teaching HS physics. I got the MA Teaching in Maryland, and did my one year student teaching assignment. My thoughts:<p>1. The degree program was decent, although a certificate program would be better for prior professionals if the law allowed it (lower cost, too much wasted time in redundant classes).<p>2. Teachers are sad. Very sad. They are underpaid and overworked, even at the better suburban high schools. Parents treat them poorly, even when they are veteran teachers with lots of experience.<p>3. In general, the public resents that teachers get “3 months off” in the summer. I believe that this is the justification for lower pay. It is silly, because teachers work more in 9 months than most professionals and they also pay for things out of their own pockets. They also counsel and tutor students after school. It’s a difficult job.<p>4. In my job interviews, the first and most important qualification was “classroom control.” Math, science, engineering, life experience were all distant seconds. Teachers—-even in advanced math and science classes—-are first and foremost caretakers. Think about that for a second…<p>5. What is the current model for education based on? There are several competing historical arguments, but the salient factors like student-teacher ratio, subjects, grades, facilities, etc. are based on economics and legal requirements. The quality of either a student’s experience or a teacher’s experience is not very high on the list. Education is about checking a box on a list of requirements that was developed 150+ years ago.<p>Ultimately, I decided to tutor rather than to teach in a classroom. I consider this a personal disappointment, although I learned a lot from the educational experience. I wish there could be a “town hall” type of discussion to consider ways to improve the situation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nobody wants to teach anymore</title><url>https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/nobody-wants-to-teach-anymore-66f09b877b11</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prepend</author><text>&gt; teachers work more in 9 months than most professionals<p>I want to understand this more and think we need to measure this well.<p>As a software dev, I’ve always struggled with measuring the amount of work performed and usually disregard measures of intellectual output as misleading measures (eg, lines of code, story points completed, whatever).<p>What makes you think teachers work more in 9 months than a typical professional (engineer, attorney, healthcare worker) does in an entire year? Wouldn’t it then make sense for these teachers to change professions? Or other professionals to teach? Or is everyone just stupid? Or just really dedicated to teaching as a passion?<p>I only have my own experience but I’ve always had a stack of work after hours- training, mentoring, networking. And I assumed all professions have this kind of additional metawork that is unpaid. Is it harder to tutor a student than to mentor someone?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jschveibinz</author><text>I am an early-retired EE and I thought that I could have a second career in teaching HS physics. I got the MA Teaching in Maryland, and did my one year student teaching assignment. My thoughts:<p>1. The degree program was decent, although a certificate program would be better for prior professionals if the law allowed it (lower cost, too much wasted time in redundant classes).<p>2. Teachers are sad. Very sad. They are underpaid and overworked, even at the better suburban high schools. Parents treat them poorly, even when they are veteran teachers with lots of experience.<p>3. In general, the public resents that teachers get “3 months off” in the summer. I believe that this is the justification for lower pay. It is silly, because teachers work more in 9 months than most professionals and they also pay for things out of their own pockets. They also counsel and tutor students after school. It’s a difficult job.<p>4. In my job interviews, the first and most important qualification was “classroom control.” Math, science, engineering, life experience were all distant seconds. Teachers—-even in advanced math and science classes—-are first and foremost caretakers. Think about that for a second…<p>5. What is the current model for education based on? There are several competing historical arguments, but the salient factors like student-teacher ratio, subjects, grades, facilities, etc. are based on economics and legal requirements. The quality of either a student’s experience or a teacher’s experience is not very high on the list. Education is about checking a box on a list of requirements that was developed 150+ years ago.<p>Ultimately, I decided to tutor rather than to teach in a classroom. I consider this a personal disappointment, although I learned a lot from the educational experience. I wish there could be a “town hall” type of discussion to consider ways to improve the situation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nobody wants to teach anymore</title><url>https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/nobody-wants-to-teach-anymore-66f09b877b11</url></story> |
9,231,450 | 9,231,524 | 1 | 3 | 9,231,069 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>darkr</author><text>They only launched support for within-region read replicas back in November &gt; <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/rds-postgres-read-replicas/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;rds-postgres-read-replicas&#x2F;</a><p>Postgres is still comparatively new to AWS, whereas MySQL was one of the first (the first?) supported RDS engines way back in 2008&#x2F;9 or thereabouts. I guess this is due in part to the relative latecoming of built-in streaming replication support in Postgres, it&#x27;s only been since 9.0 that it&#x27;s been a thing, and 9.1 that it&#x27;s been production-ready, which coincides with it&#x27;s rise in popularity over recent years (well, that and Oracle buying Sun..).<p>My money is on support for x-region replication being announced late this year; it&#x27;s a feature I&#x27;m interested in for sure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dankohn1</author><text>I was very unhappy to find that RDS does not support cross-region read replication for Postgres, only for MySQL. We had made a significant investment to migrate from MySQL to Postgres but are now having to back out a lot of changes, because we need that redundancy.<p>Postgres is widely acknowledged as the leading open source database. It&#x27;s frustrating that it remains a second class citizen on AWS.<p><a href="https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=604244" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;message.jspa?messageID=604244</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.4.1</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/03/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-now-supports-94/</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>sciurus</author><text>Why not run your own Postgresql installations instead of relying on RDS?</text><parent_chain><item><author>dankohn1</author><text>I was very unhappy to find that RDS does not support cross-region read replication for Postgres, only for MySQL. We had made a significant investment to migrate from MySQL to Postgres but are now having to back out a lot of changes, because we need that redundancy.<p>Postgres is widely acknowledged as the leading open source database. It&#x27;s frustrating that it remains a second class citizen on AWS.<p><a href="https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=604244" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;message.jspa?messageID=604244</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.4.1</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/03/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-now-supports-94/</url><text></text></story> |
18,632,794 | 18,632,344 | 1 | 3 | 18,629,063 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kromem</author><text>Except with a warrant, it&#x27;s entirely legal (and has been for a long time) currently for a surveillance team to physically stalk you in areas with an expectation of privacy (TEMPEST, wiretaps, etc), and in public areas they don&#x27;t even need a warrant (actually, in public areas, it&#x27;s legal for anyone to stalk you - just ask celebrities about their paparazzi stalkers).<p>As best I can tell, from a surveillance standpoint what Microsoft is encouraging to become standardized is to apply the same level of legal rigor for wiretaps to facial recognition, which would be a significant step beyond matching legal standards for physical surveillance (which is as it should be, as there&#x27;s a scaling potential with automated surveillance that needs to be kept in check beyond simply the legal limits of physical surveillance).<p>Microsoft&#x27;s stance is a pretty good one &quot;in a perfect world.&quot; The problem is that it isn&#x27;t a perfect world, and we&#x27;ve already seen a good system of FISA courts established after the uncovered abuses from the 1975 Church committee turn into a revolving door for exponentially increased secret warrants for NSA surveillance, even to the point of that surveillance becoming available to local police forces.<p>What doesn&#x27;t help is that Hollywood has already normalized a lot of surveillance tech so that most of the public assumes things are already legal&#x2F;implemented in much broader ways than they are, so it&#x27;s normalized the very idea of the surveillance state that we are growing into.<p>If anything, private corporate abuses of the technology is the only thing that will generate enough public outrage to lead to a generalized reform. Self-governance at a corporate level may seem good, but I suspect it will simply mitigate the necessary outrage.<p>The necessary conversation starter would be the ACLU running a personalized erectile dysfunction out-of-home display advertising campaign in Washington, DC. As long as that level of abuse is against the terms of use of the intermediate providers, it protects the less visible abuses of the technology.<p>Ironically, a &quot;race to the bottom&quot; is precisely what will result in the appropriate level of regulation - corporate self-governance will always be a half-measure that seems good on paper but leaves a lot of procedural loopholes for systemic abuses that go unnoticed for a very long time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; This is a laudable first step in advocacy for real regulation of a technology...<p>Perhaps I&#x27;m jaded, but I don&#x27;t agree at all. They&#x27;re trying to get it regulated so they can be creepy without fear. One of the first &quot;good&quot; uses listed was finding 3000 children. &quot;Think of the children&quot; is a common rallying cry for evil. Nothing else mentioned was really relevant.<p>The line IMHO needs to be drawn at anything that you&#x27;d call stalking if it were done by a human. If a store wants to recognize me as a prior visitor, that&#x27;s fine because an actual employee might do the same. But when my presence (just my presence, not even my purchase history) is shared among more than one location, that&#x27;s like someone following me around. Stalking. This tracking of people and creating databases about them is at its essence a form of automated cyber stalking and should be illegal. The &quot;societal benefits&quot; of this are nothing more than claiming what&#x27;s good for corporations is good for society. It is not. Please stop pretending this shit is OK.</text></item><item><author>geephroh</author><text>This is a laudable first step in advocacy for real regulation of a technology that already has huge impacts on privacy and civil society. I was in the room for one of the meetings with Microsoft&#x27;s senior leadership as a representative of a Seattle-based civil liberties group. While our coalition would like to see MS go further, it was quite clear that they take their commitment to corporate responsibility and ethics around the AI issue very seriously. In particular, they seemed to understand our concerns about how facial recognition technologies can magnify existing biases in our criminal justice system.<p>This stands in stark contrast to the meeting I attended on Tuesday with Amazon&#x27;s general counsel regarding their Rekognition service. There was a near complete rejection of the idea that mass deployment of surveillance technologies in today&#x27;s largely unregulated environment posed any danger to civil society. He also denied that Amazon had any responsibility for the negative impacts of their AI&#x2F;ML technologies, or role to play in industry efforts to self-regulate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facial recognition: It’s time for action</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/12/06/facial-recognition-its-time-for-action/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ukulele</author><text>&gt; &quot;Think of the children&quot; is a common rallying cry for evil.<p>I&#x27;m not familiar with this line of reasoning -- can you elaborate, or are there any good examples?</text><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; This is a laudable first step in advocacy for real regulation of a technology...<p>Perhaps I&#x27;m jaded, but I don&#x27;t agree at all. They&#x27;re trying to get it regulated so they can be creepy without fear. One of the first &quot;good&quot; uses listed was finding 3000 children. &quot;Think of the children&quot; is a common rallying cry for evil. Nothing else mentioned was really relevant.<p>The line IMHO needs to be drawn at anything that you&#x27;d call stalking if it were done by a human. If a store wants to recognize me as a prior visitor, that&#x27;s fine because an actual employee might do the same. But when my presence (just my presence, not even my purchase history) is shared among more than one location, that&#x27;s like someone following me around. Stalking. This tracking of people and creating databases about them is at its essence a form of automated cyber stalking and should be illegal. The &quot;societal benefits&quot; of this are nothing more than claiming what&#x27;s good for corporations is good for society. It is not. Please stop pretending this shit is OK.</text></item><item><author>geephroh</author><text>This is a laudable first step in advocacy for real regulation of a technology that already has huge impacts on privacy and civil society. I was in the room for one of the meetings with Microsoft&#x27;s senior leadership as a representative of a Seattle-based civil liberties group. While our coalition would like to see MS go further, it was quite clear that they take their commitment to corporate responsibility and ethics around the AI issue very seriously. In particular, they seemed to understand our concerns about how facial recognition technologies can magnify existing biases in our criminal justice system.<p>This stands in stark contrast to the meeting I attended on Tuesday with Amazon&#x27;s general counsel regarding their Rekognition service. There was a near complete rejection of the idea that mass deployment of surveillance technologies in today&#x27;s largely unregulated environment posed any danger to civil society. He also denied that Amazon had any responsibility for the negative impacts of their AI&#x2F;ML technologies, or role to play in industry efforts to self-regulate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facial recognition: It’s time for action</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/12/06/facial-recognition-its-time-for-action/</url></story> |
26,716,495 | 26,716,483 | 1 | 2 | 26,714,478 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nindalf</author><text>The third paragraph says<p>&gt; Managed languages like Java and Kotlin are the best option for Android app development. These languages are designed for ease of use, portability, and safety.<p>You&#x27;re not going to write Android Activities in Rust. Nothing is stopping you from adding Rust code to your Java&#x2F;Kotlin app though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thesuperbigfrog</author><text>&gt;&gt; For the past 18 months we have been adding Rust support to the Android Open Source Project, and we have a few early adopter projects that we will be sharing in the coming months. Scaling this to more of the OS is a multi-year project. Stay tuned, we will be posting more updates on this blog.<p>Patiently waiting for the Rust APIs to arrive . . .<p>Java feels so heavy, so getting to use Rust would be a breath of fresh air.<p>(Kotlin has been better, but it also requires the JVM.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust in the Android Platform</title><url>https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-platform.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>steveklabnik</author><text>They say earlier<p>&gt; now supports the Rust programming language for developing the OS itself.<p>So, this seems to be about <i>in</i> Android, not building apps <i>for</i> Android.<p>Guess we&#x27;ll see with more posts!</text><parent_chain><item><author>thesuperbigfrog</author><text>&gt;&gt; For the past 18 months we have been adding Rust support to the Android Open Source Project, and we have a few early adopter projects that we will be sharing in the coming months. Scaling this to more of the OS is a multi-year project. Stay tuned, we will be posting more updates on this blog.<p>Patiently waiting for the Rust APIs to arrive . . .<p>Java feels so heavy, so getting to use Rust would be a breath of fresh air.<p>(Kotlin has been better, but it also requires the JVM.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust in the Android Platform</title><url>https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-platform.html</url></story> |
36,585,220 | 36,582,745 | 1 | 3 | 36,582,430 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nonethewiser</author><text>We really cant let OpenAI get away with calling “content moderation” ”safety”. Making sure it isnt offensive isnt a safety measure.<p>Everyone agrees safety from AI acting autonomously and maliciously is good. But thats not really a threat right now. Less think we need to make it “safe” by making it inoffensive. Its a tool. It should do what I want it to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>uLogMicheal</author><text>The constant quest for &quot;safety&quot; might actually be making our future much less safe. I&#x27;ve seen many instances of users needing to yell at, abuse, or manipulate ChatGPT to get the desired answers. This trains users to be hateful to &#x2F; frustrated with AI, and if the data is used, it teaches AI that rewards come from such patterns.<p>Wrote an article about this -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;ai-restrictions-reinforce-abusive-user-behavior" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;ai-restrictions-reinforce-abusive-use...</a></text></item><item><author>Shank</author><text>Probably an unpopular opinion, but it&#x27;s sucky to see these tools constantly getting nerfed. I get that there are large questions out there about things like &quot;browse with bing&quot; but that&#x27;s why I thought it was supposed to be a limited <i>alpha</i> preview. If OpenAI wants us to build workflows on their stack, they need to really crystalize and figure out what that stack is without changing the underlying stack every 5 minutes. From the constant prompt&#x2F;jailbreak-defeat tweaks to stuff like this, it really doesn&#x27;t feel like a stable platform at all.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI temporarily disables the Browse with Bing beta feature</title><url>https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8077698-how-do-i-use-chatgpt-browse-with-bing-to-search-the-web</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>weego</author><text>It&#x27;s just a digital mirror. You&#x27;re projecting a behavioural issue onto a technology.</text><parent_chain><item><author>uLogMicheal</author><text>The constant quest for &quot;safety&quot; might actually be making our future much less safe. I&#x27;ve seen many instances of users needing to yell at, abuse, or manipulate ChatGPT to get the desired answers. This trains users to be hateful to &#x2F; frustrated with AI, and if the data is used, it teaches AI that rewards come from such patterns.<p>Wrote an article about this -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;ai-restrictions-reinforce-abusive-user-behavior" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;ai-restrictions-reinforce-abusive-use...</a></text></item><item><author>Shank</author><text>Probably an unpopular opinion, but it&#x27;s sucky to see these tools constantly getting nerfed. I get that there are large questions out there about things like &quot;browse with bing&quot; but that&#x27;s why I thought it was supposed to be a limited <i>alpha</i> preview. If OpenAI wants us to build workflows on their stack, they need to really crystalize and figure out what that stack is without changing the underlying stack every 5 minutes. From the constant prompt&#x2F;jailbreak-defeat tweaks to stuff like this, it really doesn&#x27;t feel like a stable platform at all.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI temporarily disables the Browse with Bing beta feature</title><url>https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8077698-how-do-i-use-chatgpt-browse-with-bing-to-search-the-web</url></story> |
31,279,897 | 31,280,002 | 1 | 2 | 31,279,481 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>The_Amp_Walrus</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s extremely hard to build software teams and manage their performance in permanent government roles<p>this problem should be solved by making it not-hard to build the teams etc, not by throwing 10s of millions of dollars at vampiric consultants<p>it seems it is far less risky to bleed money than it is to make any kind of meaningful change to the way gov depts are run</text><parent_chain><item><author>jkahn</author><text>Really, this article is just a whinge. I&#x27;m an Australian. MyGov is fine, I interact with it as a citizen regularly. Government needs to outsource implementation of this kind of stuff because it&#x27;s extremely hard to build software teams and manage their performance in permanent government roles. And those costs are reasonable - particularly for anyone that builds teams of software engineers and knows what aggregate team costs are like in Australia.<p>The hard part of the MyGov platform is the inter-department stuff, and I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a software issue, that&#x27;s bureaucracy.<p>MyGov isn&#x27;t perfect, but it&#x27;s fine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mygov is a ‘huge disappointment,’ key architect despairs</title><url>https://www.innovationaus.com/mygov-is-a-huge-disappointment-key-architect-despairs/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yen223</author><text>I mostly second this. I use MyGov mainly for taxes, and it is fine in that regard.<p>To be honest, my interactions with the Australian government websites + apps has mostly been positive. There are some truly horrendous websites from other nations&#x27; governments out there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jkahn</author><text>Really, this article is just a whinge. I&#x27;m an Australian. MyGov is fine, I interact with it as a citizen regularly. Government needs to outsource implementation of this kind of stuff because it&#x27;s extremely hard to build software teams and manage their performance in permanent government roles. And those costs are reasonable - particularly for anyone that builds teams of software engineers and knows what aggregate team costs are like in Australia.<p>The hard part of the MyGov platform is the inter-department stuff, and I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a software issue, that&#x27;s bureaucracy.<p>MyGov isn&#x27;t perfect, but it&#x27;s fine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mygov is a ‘huge disappointment,’ key architect despairs</title><url>https://www.innovationaus.com/mygov-is-a-huge-disappointment-key-architect-despairs/</url></story> |
20,861,051 | 20,860,511 | 1 | 2 | 20,859,895 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen this research cited a few times (perhaps even here on HN) and every time the conversation is centered on whether this is practical or the naysayers moaning how this isn&#x27;t practical.<p>The research isn&#x27;t intended for commercial, practical use. There is no point in discussing it in such terms.<p>The interesting thing is that this behavior was predicted by models, and the experiment confirms the model. That is it. Perhaps with increased confidence in the models it will lead to improvements in practical superconductors in time, but not now.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evidence for superconductivity above 260 K at megabar pressures (2018)</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07695</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pitaj</author><text>The necessary pressure isn&#x27;t that important. Obviously using this material under those conditions in the real world won&#x27;t be realistic.<p>However, what this shows is that superconductivity is possible at those temperatures, and that pressure is a factor to further investigate when experimenting with other candidate materials.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evidence for superconductivity above 260 K at megabar pressures (2018)</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07695</url></story> |
2,199,889 | 2,199,874 | 1 | 3 | 2,199,645 | 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>jbrennan</author><text>An existing product of their own would constitute competition. So it's not inaccurate what he's said. But I agree, it could have been explained more clearly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pkulak</author><text>"Apple was willing to announce it months in advance because they had no competition..."<p>What? They announce the first version of a product early because, being the first, it can't stop people from buying the previous version. If they announced the new iPad now, iPad 1 sales would tank.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Next Six Months</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/02/the_next_six_months</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>endlessvoid94</author><text>It also gave developers a ton of time to adapt their apps to the new form factor. And obviously provided time for new apps. That's huge.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pkulak</author><text>"Apple was willing to announce it months in advance because they had no competition..."<p>What? They announce the first version of a product early because, being the first, it can't stop people from buying the previous version. If they announced the new iPad now, iPad 1 sales would tank.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Next Six Months</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/02/the_next_six_months</url></story> |
37,895,317 | 37,895,379 | 1 | 2 | 37,893,555 | 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>MenhirMike</author><text>The one truly important 8086-based machine I can think of is the Japanese NEC PC-9801, so it would make some sense for someone to clone a machine like that. Though I&#x27;m not sure if I&#x27;d clone the original 9801 that kicked off the entire line or rather go for the much improved NEC V30 chip instead. (Which also powered Irem&#x27;s M72 Arcade Board, which ran R-Type, and the latter M82&#x2F;M84 boards that gave us R-Type II - though arguably, arcade boards aren&#x27;t in the same category as home computers)</text><parent_chain><item><author>LukeShu</author><text>There wasn&#x27;t really an important 8086 box. The first IBM PC (1981) used the 8088. The first 8086 PCs were the discount models in the PS&#x2F;2 line (April 1987), 3 years after the 80286 in the PC&#x2F;AT (1984); so the 8086 was already obsolete by the time it was in a PC. And later that year (August 1987) it would be even more obsolete when an 80386DX PS&#x2F;2 came out.</text></item><item><author>mrlonglong</author><text>This chap has also built a 8088 PC clone. I&#x27;m just wondering why not a 8086?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers</title><url>https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pwg</author><text>&gt; The first 8086 PCs were the discount models in the PS&#x2F;2 line (April 1987)<p>You missed two earlier ones. The Olivetti M24 (also sold as the AT&amp;T 6300 in the US) was released in 1983 and used the 8086 CPU.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Olivetti_M24" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Olivetti_M24</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>LukeShu</author><text>There wasn&#x27;t really an important 8086 box. The first IBM PC (1981) used the 8088. The first 8086 PCs were the discount models in the PS&#x2F;2 line (April 1987), 3 years after the 80286 in the PC&#x2F;AT (1984); so the 8086 was already obsolete by the time it was in a PC. And later that year (August 1987) it would be even more obsolete when an 80386DX PS&#x2F;2 came out.</text></item><item><author>mrlonglong</author><text>This chap has also built a 8088 PC clone. I&#x27;m just wondering why not a 8086?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers</title><url>https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios</url></story> |
8,170,430 | 8,170,156 | 1 | 3 | 8,169,373 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rwg</author><text>The default partitioning of CAM space on Cisco gear is the obvious issue, but the root cause is the massive deaggregation of announced IPv4 routes on the Internet. You can see various statistics about this problem at <a href="http://www.cidr-report.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cidr-report.org&#x2F;</a>, but the short of it is that if the top 30 networks (based on announced route savings) completely aggregated their announcements as much as possible, ~41,000 routes (~8% of the routing table) would be eliminated.<p>And that&#x27;s just the top 30 networks — if every network cleaned up their announcements, it would eliminate ~232,000 routes (~45% of the table).<p>Adding to the deaggregation problem is the inability to easily filter out route announcements based on RIR minimum allocations without having to add tons of exceptions for CDNs that operate as islands of connectivity and carve out IP space for each island from a single address space allocation. (There&#x27;s no covering route for the islands of connectivity since these CDNs have no &quot;backbone&quot; connecting the islands, so if you filter out those smaller announcements, you lose connectivity to those islands.)<p>There are many people who think this problem will just magically go away as IPv6 adoption increases, but all increased IPv6 adoption will do is make limited CAM space even more limited as network engineers have to balance dividing precious CAM space between a ballooning-quickly IPv4 route table and a ballooning-slightly-less-quickly IPv6 route table.<p>(To be clear: I think ubiquitous, functioning, end-to-end native IPv6 connectivity needs to happen sooner than later, but it&#x27;s not a magic bullet for the Internet&#x27;s technical problems.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Something is amiss with the Interwebs: BGP is a flapping</title><url>https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Something+is+amiss+with+the+Interwebs+BGP+is+a+flapping+/18523</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>oasisbob</author><text>As discussed on NANOG from a few months ago:<p><a href="http://markmail.org/message/n32fmeb2dmtnbsff" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;markmail.org&#x2F;message&#x2F;n32fmeb2dmtnbsff</a><p>I find the economics of the routing table to be fascinating. When someone announces a route, it makes use of a constrained (and often expensive, TCAM-based) resource on routers all over the world. More discussion:<p><a href="http://markmail.org/message/6sunzqtffav5jmfb" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;markmail.org&#x2F;message&#x2F;6sunzqtffav5jmfb</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Something is amiss with the Interwebs: BGP is a flapping</title><url>https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Something+is+amiss+with+the+Interwebs+BGP+is+a+flapping+/18523</url><text></text></story> |
29,514,779 | 29,514,310 | 1 | 3 | 29,512,963 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>flyinghamster</author><text>&gt; 1. At peak popularity, Borland products where easily available. Borland decided to turn to enterprise and raised the price considerably, so individuals and small companies started looking elsewhere. By the time they realised the mistake it was too late. In my opinion this was the biggest mistake.<p>Exactly this. Turbo C was the first real C compiler for DOS that I could afford, where &quot;real&quot; means that it supported large memory model. Before then, the cheap compilers were always stripped down to only allow small model (64K instructions&#x2F;64K data). Turbo C was also downright fast, and it cost far less than what Microsoft wanted for their compiler. But once we actually started writing 32-bit applications, its day in the sun had already past.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fiedzia</author><text>Several things happened at the same time:<p>1. At peak popularity, Borland products where easily available. Borland decided to turn to enterprise and raised the price considerably, so individuals and small companies started looking elsewhere. By the time they realised the mistake it was too late. In my opinion this was the biggest mistake.<p>2. Internet and Linux came, and with them Perl, PHP, Python and others. Borland missed the boat, and again by the time they realised that, it was too late.<p>3. Sun came with Java and Microsoft with C#, both seen as the future of enterprise, and available for free or at very low cost. Java was extremely popular at education sector, pushing out Pascal and other competitors. Both made Object Pascal obsolete.<p>So bad decisions and being late to the party. Also it was hard to compete with Microsoft in the long term.<p>As an unrelated sidenote, at the time when world was turning towards agile, they were building and marketing software for managing waterfall project management.
That just shows how disconnected from reality of their customers they were.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?</title><text>I recall early in my software development career Borland have a strong hold in the developer tool space (and largely loved by developers). What happened to them? They were the “JetBrains” of their day.</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>thomascgalvin</author><text>&gt; At peak popularity, Borland products where easily available. Borland decided to turn to enterprise and raised the price considerably, so individuals and small companies started looking elsewhere<p>There is a <i>lot</i> to be said for being easy to get and affordable. I gladly give IntelliJ a couple of hundred dollars a year, because $10-$20 a month for a superior developer experience is worth it to me.<p>If I was paying their enterprise rate, though ... not a chance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fiedzia</author><text>Several things happened at the same time:<p>1. At peak popularity, Borland products where easily available. Borland decided to turn to enterprise and raised the price considerably, so individuals and small companies started looking elsewhere. By the time they realised the mistake it was too late. In my opinion this was the biggest mistake.<p>2. Internet and Linux came, and with them Perl, PHP, Python and others. Borland missed the boat, and again by the time they realised that, it was too late.<p>3. Sun came with Java and Microsoft with C#, both seen as the future of enterprise, and available for free or at very low cost. Java was extremely popular at education sector, pushing out Pascal and other competitors. Both made Object Pascal obsolete.<p>So bad decisions and being late to the party. Also it was hard to compete with Microsoft in the long term.<p>As an unrelated sidenote, at the time when world was turning towards agile, they were building and marketing software for managing waterfall project management.
That just shows how disconnected from reality of their customers they were.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?</title><text>I recall early in my software development career Borland have a strong hold in the developer tool space (and largely loved by developers). What happened to them? They were the “JetBrains” of their day.</text></story> |
22,699,787 | 22,698,712 | 1 | 3 | 22,697,212 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zamadatix</author><text>I haven&#x27;t heard &quot;slug&quot; before, is that your own phrase? It sounds like you&#x27;ve implemented what&#x27;s known as a stateless transparent firewall if I&#x27;m understanding what you&#x27;ve said correctly. Stateless because it&#x27;s just plain ACLs, transparent because it&#x27;s not a routed hop&#x2F;isn&#x27;t detectable by the client (outside traffic being dropped), and firewall because it&#x27;s filtering unauthorized traffic. Most people just call it &quot;ACLs&quot; for short though since &quot;stateless transparent firewall&quot; is a bit of a mouthful and &quot;firewall&quot; by itself often implies a routed mode stateful firewall.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>This is why I use a &quot;slug&quot; when I use a VPN.<p>A &quot;slug&quot; is a layer-2 bridge, with no IP address configured, that still enforces a TCP&#x2F;IP whitelist. So it does not &quot;use&quot; a hop on the network route, and you can&#x27;t see the device, but as it bridges traffic it enforces a (very simple) ruleset.<p>In my case, I use my own VPN hosts that transact over TCP22 ... and so my network &quot;slug&quot; allows <i>only tcp port 22 traffic</i>. Everything else is blocked.<p>This means that no matter how badly behaved (or buggy) my VPN software is (I use sshuttle[1]) the bad behavior is blocked by the slug.<p>The slug itself has almost zero attack surface as it is a BSD based system that <i>has no IP address configured</i> and runs no network services.<p>I keep meaning to write up a blog entry about this ...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sshuttle.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sshuttle.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unpatched iOS bug blocks VPNs from encrypting all traffic</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/unpatched-ios-bug-blocks-vpns-from-encrypting-all-traffic/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BeefySwain</author><text>This concept is often referred to as a &quot;VPN killswitch&quot; as well (though that is really a misnomer, IMO).<p>Popular with pirates because having torrent activity leaked to your ISP is not great.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>This is why I use a &quot;slug&quot; when I use a VPN.<p>A &quot;slug&quot; is a layer-2 bridge, with no IP address configured, that still enforces a TCP&#x2F;IP whitelist. So it does not &quot;use&quot; a hop on the network route, and you can&#x27;t see the device, but as it bridges traffic it enforces a (very simple) ruleset.<p>In my case, I use my own VPN hosts that transact over TCP22 ... and so my network &quot;slug&quot; allows <i>only tcp port 22 traffic</i>. Everything else is blocked.<p>This means that no matter how badly behaved (or buggy) my VPN software is (I use sshuttle[1]) the bad behavior is blocked by the slug.<p>The slug itself has almost zero attack surface as it is a BSD based system that <i>has no IP address configured</i> and runs no network services.<p>I keep meaning to write up a blog entry about this ...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sshuttle.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sshuttle.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unpatched iOS bug blocks VPNs from encrypting all traffic</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/unpatched-ios-bug-blocks-vpns-from-encrypting-all-traffic/</url></story> |
16,305,974 | 16,305,856 | 1 | 3 | 16,305,707 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lkrubner</author><text>Here on Hacker News there was some discussion of the article from the Economist, six weeks ago, titled &quot;The link between polygamy and war&quot;. This was in response to that essay:<p>&quot;<i>This suggests that political stability depends on young men being able to pursue their romantic dreams. This would apply in any country, not just African countries. In nations in the West, an important limiting factor is the ability to get one’s own apartment. That is, the ratio of average male wage to average rent. In the USA, the happiest year for this ratio was 1958, when people were spending 22% of their income on rent, on average. Not by coincidence, this was the peak year of the Baby Boom. In some sense, it was the best year in history to be a young white male in the USA. It was the year when it was easiest for an 18 year old male to get out of high school, get their own apartment, marry their high school sweetheart, and start a family. And of course, young people did this in huge numbers, which is why 1958 remains the peak year for teenage pregnancy in the USA.</i>&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smashcompany.com&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;do-men-become-warlike-if-they-do-not-have-women" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smashcompany.com&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;do-men-become-warlike...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fertility rates decrease as rents increase</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/40508725/people-arent-having-babies-because-the-rent-is-too-damn-high?utm_content=buffer3bae4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xupybd</author><text>I think there is more at play here. Some of the highest birth rates are still in the lowest economic groups. While high rents are a problem and a no doubt causing economic hardships preventing young families from having children I think this is an over simplification of a larger problem.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fertility rates decrease as rents increase</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/40508725/people-arent-having-babies-because-the-rent-is-too-damn-high?utm_content=buffer3bae4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story> |
33,242,588 | 33,242,543 | 1 | 3 | 33,239,443 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>assttoasstmgr</author><text>So you never install security updates? Because all Apple updates require a reboot due to their SIP &quot;update the frozen image offline&quot; nonsense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dcormier</author><text>I’m at 356 days of uptime on my MacBook Pro.
¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯</text></item><item><author>Aperocky</author><text>51 days seems to be approximately how often my mac dies in kernel panic or starting to be bugged by persistent software problems that go away with a restart.</text></item><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>Fascinating analysis. I know planes get used a lot, but I&#x27;m surprised that they go for such a long time without ever being powered down.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse Engineer’s Perspective on the Boeing 787 ‘51 days’ Directive</title><url>https://ioactive.com/reverse-engineers-perspective-on-the-boeing-787-51-days-airworthiness-directive/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rootusrootus</author><text>Sadly I&#x27;m at 2 days, 12:41 myself. I don&#x27;t get many kernel panics, but this most recent reboot was in fact a panic, coincidentally. Googled the error and it came up as something that happens with M1 Mac Minis while they&#x27;re sleeping. But while my machine has a M1, it is an MBP and not a Mini. And it was not sleeping. Ah well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dcormier</author><text>I’m at 356 days of uptime on my MacBook Pro.
¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯</text></item><item><author>Aperocky</author><text>51 days seems to be approximately how often my mac dies in kernel panic or starting to be bugged by persistent software problems that go away with a restart.</text></item><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>Fascinating analysis. I know planes get used a lot, but I&#x27;m surprised that they go for such a long time without ever being powered down.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse Engineer’s Perspective on the Boeing 787 ‘51 days’ Directive</title><url>https://ioactive.com/reverse-engineers-perspective-on-the-boeing-787-51-days-airworthiness-directive/</url></story> |
25,790,845 | 25,788,787 | 1 | 2 | 25,788,052 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rpaddock</author><text>If you want to understand the day to day issues of real people then please watch the documentary *Pain Warriors* that is about Chronic Pain.<p>It is five stories, four of people with Chronic Pain, two that ended in suicides. My late wife Karen being one of them. The other story is of a doctor that the Medical Establishment destroyed for helping those with Chronic Pain. It is *NOT* a warm and fuzzy movie to watch.<p>For full disclosure I am a member of the cast, have been intimately involved in Pain Warriors production for several years. I receive no remuneration of any type. It is my mission to raise awareness of those suffering from Chronic Pain and Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leaks.<p>Pain Warriors can be found on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play, Viemo (for international) and YouTube (sometimes, they are weird). The distributor set the pricing for the platforms and regions so check around for your best place to watch it.<p>We could really use your help. Our goal is to get Pain Warriors on Nexflix to reach a wider audience. For that to happen we need to have over a 100 positive reviews on The Internet Movie Database (the 100+ positive reviews on the other platforms don&#x27;t count to Netflix).<p>Our segment in Pain Warriors is based on what has become known as &quot;Karen&#x27;s Journal&quot;. One reviewer wrote:<p>&quot;Karen&#x27;s first-hand account of her illness gave an honest, heart-wrenching depiction of what it is like to live with debilitating pain day-to-day.&quot;<p>Thank You for your help and bring up this subject here.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Spoon Theory (2003)</title><url>https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>padolsey</author><text>Reflecting on how this applies to the tech industry, IME we&#x27;re still very behind in accommodating those with chronic illnesses and disabilities. The 40-hour work week is still, on the whole, the minimum expectation across many FAANG-like companies. If falling ill during tenure, such companies ~generally seem receptive and supportive. But if you try to join such companies when you are already chronically ill or disabled, and ask for part-time working arrangements or reactive flexibility (e.g. I only have X spoons today so I can&#x27;t work as much, but I can work a little [&quot;semi-sick day&quot;]), it&#x27;s much much harder. Nowadays I only have about 2-3 hours of cognitive time per day. After that I need to lie down and do nothing. It seems so unfair that entire swathes of competent individuals are implicitly sidelined because of their illnesses or disabilities.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Spoon Theory (2003)</title><url>https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/</url></story> |
31,328,500 | 31,327,498 | 1 | 3 | 31,326,672 | 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>fxtentacle</author><text>I believe there is not that much pressure on universities because most PhD groups have private Dropboxes with SciHub copies of Elsevier articles anyway.<p>Also, there&#x27;s always that one guy that everyone knows that you can just email obscure paper requests to and he&#x27;ll send you a PDF almost immediately. And of course you never ask how that works. But it works.<p>As such, there&#x27;s little to lose if a university cancels their official Elsevier subscriptions. Their student&#x27;s won&#x27;t mind. And I believe that is why universities haven&#x27;t banded together.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SamBam</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing to me that the big research universities haven&#x27;t banded together to make a competing open-access system of journals.<p>It would require no more work on the side of the academics -- they are already doing all the work for Elsevier -- and the administrative costs of hiring editors would almost certainly be equal to the fees they currently send to Elsevier.<p>The fact that they haven&#x27;t makes me think that, with the exception of independent universities such as MIT, Elsevier&#x27;s lobbyists are able to lean on the political people at the top of most large universities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: you can check-out any time you like – not</title><url>https://eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-hotel-elsevier-you-can-check-out-any-time-you-like-not/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gowld</author><text>Impact Factor metrics gaming for tenure.<p>Elsevier journals are &quot;prestigious&quot;.<p>Open journals exist. Some academics still choose to publish in closed journals.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SamBam</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing to me that the big research universities haven&#x27;t banded together to make a competing open-access system of journals.<p>It would require no more work on the side of the academics -- they are already doing all the work for Elsevier -- and the administrative costs of hiring editors would almost certainly be equal to the fees they currently send to Elsevier.<p>The fact that they haven&#x27;t makes me think that, with the exception of independent universities such as MIT, Elsevier&#x27;s lobbyists are able to lean on the political people at the top of most large universities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: you can check-out any time you like – not</title><url>https://eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-hotel-elsevier-you-can-check-out-any-time-you-like-not/</url></story> |
27,699,670 | 27,699,583 | 1 | 2 | 27,698,955 | 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>ted0</author><text>Only upvoting this for visibility.<p>This decision hurts the consumer&#x2F;registrant in the end, making future registrations and renewal costs less accessible to a lot of markets.<p>For clarity, this $8.39 amount will become the wholesale cost to the registrar — we of course need to markup on top of that to cover our processing costs, overhead to offer great support, mitigate abuse, etc. Registrars do the heavy lifting in delivering the core user experience — we see none of this margin and the consumer does not see any incremental value from this hike by the registry.<p>Namecheap stands against removing price caps and allowing these incremental price hikes that only hurt the consumer.<p>-Ted from Namecheap</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39</title><url>https://onlinedomain.com/2021/02/12/domain-name-news/verisign-will-increase-the-com-price-from-7-85-to-8-39/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tryptophan</author><text>Please note that Verisign has a profit margin of 50%. Ie, 50% of their revenue becomes pure profit.<p>This is an insane level. Apple is at 23%. Facebook at 35%. Profit margins that high only come from rent seeking backed by the full force of the law.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39</title><url>https://onlinedomain.com/2021/02/12/domain-name-news/verisign-will-increase-the-com-price-from-7-85-to-8-39/</url></story> |
18,454,799 | 18,454,639 | 1 | 3 | 18,454,215 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mancerayder</author><text>Long Island City was already rezoned, luxury housing built and gentrified. 20k workers in a city of 8.5m isn&#x27;t upending a small, vulnerable community. And we&#x27;re not the commuter suburbs, an office in Long Island City is not very much different from an office building in Manhattan.<p>Gentrification concerns are thus overblown, and our local pols are known for dramatizations like these for political gain (at least on camera&#x2F;Twitter, less so when it comes to campaign support and backroom lobbying deals).<p>The controversy is in the tax incentives primarily.</text><parent_chain><item><author>metildaa</author><text>Perhaps the citizens should object, I hear one of their congress critters is shitposting on twitter to that end. If the locals don&#x27;t want their lives upended by gentrification, Berlin has shown a good example of how to block uninvited expansion by tech giants: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-45971538" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-45971538</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job</title><url>http://www.fox5ny.com/news/48k-per-amazon-hq-job</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Krasnol</author><text>It&#x27;s not clear yet if the go elsewhere in Berlin. The last location I&#x27;ve read about was the former Stasi Headquarter (seriously) ;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>metildaa</author><text>Perhaps the citizens should object, I hear one of their congress critters is shitposting on twitter to that end. If the locals don&#x27;t want their lives upended by gentrification, Berlin has shown a good example of how to block uninvited expansion by tech giants: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-45971538" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-45971538</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job</title><url>http://www.fox5ny.com/news/48k-per-amazon-hq-job</url></story> |
38,218,894 | 38,218,935 | 1 | 2 | 38,218,346 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bigfudge</author><text>Or we could choose to prioritise humans over the meaningless growth figures the US values. When the median income has barely changed or even shrunk overall growth number is irrelevant. In fact it&#x27;s worse than irrelevant — it means your society is more uneven, which has many second order costs.<p>What we actually need to do is develop a political and economic language which values things people actually care about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>waihtis</author><text>The Nordic countries must adapt away from this pre-globalization mentality or have all of their assets slowly withered away by more flexible economies. The same exact problem applies to Finland where I&#x27;m from.<p>Euro-area economies are stagnant or shrinking whilst US economy is churning onwards like a madman. They will buy all of our assets away over time unless we start seriously competing.<p>Sad, but this is the only choice now that we&#x27;ve chosen to participate in the global economy.</text></item><item><author>anon23432343</author><text>Welcome to Sweden :)<p>Unions are strong here which in general is a good thing!<p>You can&#x27;t also fire people just for willing to join or create a union!<p>This is not the U S of A. Were you can get fired for stuff which you have the right to do.<p>I hope the unions will win soon!<p>I my self joined the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sverigesingenjorer.se&#x2F;in-english&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sverigesingenjorer.se&#x2F;in-english&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla brand cars</title><url>https://www.malarna.nu/om-oss/nyheter/20232/pressmeddelande-malarna-stoppar-lackering-av-tesla-bilar/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjulius</author><text>&gt;... whilst US economy is churning onwards like a madman.<p>Ask the average US citizen if it feels that way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>waihtis</author><text>The Nordic countries must adapt away from this pre-globalization mentality or have all of their assets slowly withered away by more flexible economies. The same exact problem applies to Finland where I&#x27;m from.<p>Euro-area economies are stagnant or shrinking whilst US economy is churning onwards like a madman. They will buy all of our assets away over time unless we start seriously competing.<p>Sad, but this is the only choice now that we&#x27;ve chosen to participate in the global economy.</text></item><item><author>anon23432343</author><text>Welcome to Sweden :)<p>Unions are strong here which in general is a good thing!<p>You can&#x27;t also fire people just for willing to join or create a union!<p>This is not the U S of A. Were you can get fired for stuff which you have the right to do.<p>I hope the unions will win soon!<p>I my self joined the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sverigesingenjorer.se&#x2F;in-english&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sverigesingenjorer.se&#x2F;in-english&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla brand cars</title><url>https://www.malarna.nu/om-oss/nyheter/20232/pressmeddelande-malarna-stoppar-lackering-av-tesla-bilar/</url></story> |
32,655,747 | 32,655,812 | 1 | 2 | 32,634,038 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jstanley</author><text>I like writing toy servers too, but I don&#x27;t get a lot of opportunities, so my latest project is a programming challenge that presents a new protocol spec every 2 weeks for people to implement, and automatically tests the implementations[0].<p>OP says:<p>&gt; Goal: write a basic server that can handle the WS handshake and parse an incoming WS frame to see the message sent from the client<p>&gt; Non-goals: writing a robust or real HTTP server, writing a fully compliant WS server, or handling all edge cases<p>This is a great way to get started with something that you don&#x27;t yet understand. I sometimes think of it as implementing &quot;just enough to trick people into thinking that it works&quot;.<p>FWIW, I think the implementation in this post has a bug whereby a client that sends half an HTTP request will block the entire server from accepting further connections, because handle_request() makes blocking calls to recv() until it has a full request, and the program can&#x27;t accept new connections until handle_request() returns. That&#x27;s the spirit!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protohackers.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protohackers.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing a toy WebSocket server from scratch</title><url>https://alexanderell.is/posts/websockets-from-scratch/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paxys</author><text>“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” – Carl Sagan<p>It&#x27;s interesting to see what different people mean when they say &quot;from scratch&quot;. In this case the lowest abstraction is (what seems to be) Python&#x27;s TCP library.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing a toy WebSocket server from scratch</title><url>https://alexanderell.is/posts/websockets-from-scratch/</url></story> |
23,974,275 | 23,974,280 | 1 | 2 | 23,973,604 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text><i>But the virus hadn’t wrecked Dowd’s lungs. In fact, she had only mild pneumonia. Instead, SARS-CoV-2 had ruptured her heart.</i><p>A lot of the early part of the article rehashes basics, like how viruses replicate. If you have basic knowledge of that sort, you can kind of skim until the mid point, where we find the above factoid.<p>I have been reading less about the virus of late, but this fits with everything I know. It causes blood clots. Ventilators aren&#x27;t really fixing it. The lack of oxygen is probably more about what it does to the blood (than what it does to the lungs).<p>Later in the article, it talks about impacts on the feet suspected to be a side effect. Feet issues are commonly associated with blood&#x2F;circulation issues. This is why diabetes can lead to feet being amputated.<p>The blood issues are well established and this has been known for some time. I&#x27;m somewhat aghast to see this article talking like we don&#x27;t already know that detail.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We thought it was just a respiratory virus</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/magazine/covid-body</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twic</author><text>Influenza does this stuff too, and we happily refer to influenza as a respiratory virus.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We thought it was just a respiratory virus</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/magazine/covid-body</url></story> |
13,563,214 | 13,558,669 | 1 | 2 | 13,558,118 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>omouse</author><text>Just wanted to leave a comment about the ChangeLog which is a list of commits. It would be nice if they sat down for a day (or two) to write down proper release notes that made reference to various commits and outlined exactly what is changing, like if there are backwards compatibility issues or if there are very important bugs solved.<p>The changelog here looks like a git log :&#x2F; I mean, I can do better on my own projects (and have been trying to do so with node-oauth-libre) but for a major project it would be nicer if it had nice release notes.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Node v7.5.0 Released</title><url>https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.5.0</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>SeanDav</author><text>There is a lot to like about Node. I had a look a couple of years ago but lack of a definitive library to handle callback hell put me off. How is the situation these days?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Node v7.5.0 Released</title><url>https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V7.md#7.5.0</url></story> |
41,483,157 | 41,482,832 | 1 | 2 | 41,481,852 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>J_Shelby_J</author><text>I’m running two 3090s on a 700w psu. You definitely can get more than that out of 2000w bus.<p>I wrote a blog on reducing the power limits of nvidia gpus. Definitely try it out. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shelbyjenkins.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;power-limit-nvidia-linux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shelbyjenkins.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;power-limit-nvidia-linu...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mattnewton</author><text>The main thing stopping me from going beyond 2x 4090’s in my home lab is power. Anything around ~2k watts on a single circuit breaker is likely to flip it, and that’s before you get to the costs involved of drawing that much power for multiple days of a training run. How did you navigate that in a (presumably) residential setting?</text></item><item><author>XMasterrrr</author><text>Hey guys, this is something I have been intending to share here for a while. This setup took me some time to plan and put together, and then some more time to explore the software part of things and the possibilities that came with it.<p>Part of the main reason I built this was data privacy, I do not want to hand over my private data to any company to further train their closed weight models; and given the recent drop in output quality on different platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, etc), I don&#x27;t regret spending the money on this setup.<p>I was also able to do a lot of cool things using this server by leveraging tensor parallelism and batch inference, generating synthetic data, and experimenting with finetuning models using my private data. I am currently building a model from scratch, mainly as a learning project, but I am also finding some cool things while doing so and if I can get around ironing out the kinks, I might release it and write a tutorial from my notes.<p>So I finally had the time this weekend to get my blog up and running, and I am planning on following up this blog post with a series of posts on my learnings and findings. I am also open to topics and ideas to experiment with on this server and write about, so feel free to shoot your shot if you have ideas you want to experiment with and don&#x27;t have the hardware, I am more than willing to do that on your behalf and sharing the findings<p>Please let me know if you have any questions, my PMs are open, and you can also reach me on any of the socials I have posted on my website.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Serving AI from the Basement – 192GB of VRAM Setup</title><url>https://ahmadosman.com/blog/serving-ai-from-basement/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tcdent</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe a group of engineers are so afraid of residential power.<p>It is not expensive, nor is it highly technical. It&#x27;s not like we&#x27;re factoring in latency and crosstalk...<p>Read a quick howto, cruise into Home Depot and grab some legos off the shelf. Far easier to figure out than executing &quot;hello world&quot; without domain expertise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattnewton</author><text>The main thing stopping me from going beyond 2x 4090’s in my home lab is power. Anything around ~2k watts on a single circuit breaker is likely to flip it, and that’s before you get to the costs involved of drawing that much power for multiple days of a training run. How did you navigate that in a (presumably) residential setting?</text></item><item><author>XMasterrrr</author><text>Hey guys, this is something I have been intending to share here for a while. This setup took me some time to plan and put together, and then some more time to explore the software part of things and the possibilities that came with it.<p>Part of the main reason I built this was data privacy, I do not want to hand over my private data to any company to further train their closed weight models; and given the recent drop in output quality on different platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, etc), I don&#x27;t regret spending the money on this setup.<p>I was also able to do a lot of cool things using this server by leveraging tensor parallelism and batch inference, generating synthetic data, and experimenting with finetuning models using my private data. I am currently building a model from scratch, mainly as a learning project, but I am also finding some cool things while doing so and if I can get around ironing out the kinks, I might release it and write a tutorial from my notes.<p>So I finally had the time this weekend to get my blog up and running, and I am planning on following up this blog post with a series of posts on my learnings and findings. I am also open to topics and ideas to experiment with on this server and write about, so feel free to shoot your shot if you have ideas you want to experiment with and don&#x27;t have the hardware, I am more than willing to do that on your behalf and sharing the findings<p>Please let me know if you have any questions, my PMs are open, and you can also reach me on any of the socials I have posted on my website.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Serving AI from the Basement – 192GB of VRAM Setup</title><url>https://ahmadosman.com/blog/serving-ai-from-basement/</url></story> |
9,801,318 | 9,800,944 | 1 | 2 | 9,800,549 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>donttrustatoms</author><text>I am one of the UPower founders. There are two big stories here that most people don&#x27;t know yet:
1) that a fast reactor can be waste-negative, I.e. transform existing waste to energy.
2) a fast reactor destroys the long lived waste- instead of trying to store waste for a hundred thousand years it&#x27;s on the order of a hundred.<p>Both of these are critically important for existing waste but also having an emission free energy source with a closed fuel cycle. No other energy source is better than a hundred thousandth as energy dense and no other energy source could produce clean energy for its own recycling.<p>It&#x27;s obviously just a cool technology but more than that it&#x27;s amazing what that could mean for the environment and remote communities. Even for solar and wind materials mining, these remote mines generally have to burn tons and tons of diesel. That&#x27;s what we are trying to fight.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>Isn&#x27;t decommissioning nuclear power plants still basically a huge bill underwritten by the tax payer? I&#x27;m not really sure about creating radioactive waste that has such huge half lives...<p>From Wikipedia:<p><pre><code> Of particular concern in nuclear waste management are two long-lived fission
products, Tc-99 (half-life 220,000 years) and I-129 (half-life 15.7 million
years), which dominate spent fuel radioactivity after a few thousand years.
The most troublesome transuranic elements in spent fuel are Np-237 (half-life
two million years) and Pu-239 (half-life 24,000 years).[39] Nuclear waste
requires sophisticated treatment and management to successfully isolate it
from interacting with the biosphere. This usually necessitates treatment,
followed by a long-term management strategy involving storage, disposal or
transformation of the waste into a non-toxic form.[40] Governments around the
world are considering a range of waste management and disposal options, though
there has been limited progress toward long-term waste management
solutions.[41]
</code></pre>
Here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radioactive_waste#Management_of_waste" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radioactive_waste#Management_o...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Energy</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/energy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rwcarlsen</author><text>Power plants fund their own decommissioning [1]. And they also (in a way) already pay for disposal - a 1 mill per kWh fee on all energy generated payed to the federal govermnent in exchange for the feds taking responsibility for disposal [2]. This fee has been paid for decades - the industry has no problem supporting that level of disposal cost (and could even afford a higher fee if necessary). There has been an enormous amount of research into ways for dealing with the waste all kinds of disposal, treatments, recycling, etc. The only real blocker has been a lack of political&#x2F;public will to make any decisions and move forward.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nrc.gov&#x2F;waste&#x2F;decommissioning&#x2F;finan-assur.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nrc.gov&#x2F;waste&#x2F;decommissioning&#x2F;finan-assur.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nuclear_Waste_Policy_Act" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nuclear_Waste_Policy_Act</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>Isn&#x27;t decommissioning nuclear power plants still basically a huge bill underwritten by the tax payer? I&#x27;m not really sure about creating radioactive waste that has such huge half lives...<p>From Wikipedia:<p><pre><code> Of particular concern in nuclear waste management are two long-lived fission
products, Tc-99 (half-life 220,000 years) and I-129 (half-life 15.7 million
years), which dominate spent fuel radioactivity after a few thousand years.
The most troublesome transuranic elements in spent fuel are Np-237 (half-life
two million years) and Pu-239 (half-life 24,000 years).[39] Nuclear waste
requires sophisticated treatment and management to successfully isolate it
from interacting with the biosphere. This usually necessitates treatment,
followed by a long-term management strategy involving storage, disposal or
transformation of the waste into a non-toxic form.[40] Governments around the
world are considering a range of waste management and disposal options, though
there has been limited progress toward long-term waste management
solutions.[41]
</code></pre>
Here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radioactive_waste#Management_of_waste" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radioactive_waste#Management_o...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Energy</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/energy</url></story> |
16,758,382 | 16,758,061 | 1 | 2 | 16,757,364 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Dunedan</author><text>My biggest criticism of Parameter Store is actually that it&#x27;s free. Let me explain:<p>Because it&#x27;s free they limit the requests per seconds you can make to the Parameter Store. That&#x27;s especially noticeable when doing requests for all parameters of a given path, as the limit is way lower there than for requesting (a bunch of) individual parameters. In the past that caused serious problems for us when using Parameter Store for AWS Lambda functions during a deploy of new versions of functions, as suddenly there was a spike in the number of requests to Parameter Store as all AWS Lambda containers got replaced.<p>They of course set such limits because it&#x27;s free, so I&#x27;d gladly pay for getting increased limits.</text><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>First reaction: Holy crap! They finally turned ParameterStore into a proper product!<p>Second reaction: Holy shit that&#x27;s expensive [for what it does].<p>ParameterStore is free (minus the KMS component). The only value-add is secret rotation and that&#x27;s not something that most of the time makes sense to use. [Edit: I&#x27;m not advocating for no rotation; see replies]<p>Edit: Had more time to think about it. Someone enlighten me: What&#x27;s the difference between writing a rotation lambda for this new product, vs. writing a rotation lambda for ParameterStore that you then cron? The pricing really doesn&#x27;t make sense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Secrets Manager – Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-secrets-manager-store-distribute-and-rotate-credentials-securely/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>&gt; The only value-add is secret rotation and that&#x27;s not something that most of the time makes sense to use.<p>From a security perspective, you should be rotating secrets somewhere between annually and every 90 days, depending on your business&#x2F;security&#x2F;compliance requirements and the nature of the data secured by the secret.</text><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>First reaction: Holy crap! They finally turned ParameterStore into a proper product!<p>Second reaction: Holy shit that&#x27;s expensive [for what it does].<p>ParameterStore is free (minus the KMS component). The only value-add is secret rotation and that&#x27;s not something that most of the time makes sense to use. [Edit: I&#x27;m not advocating for no rotation; see replies]<p>Edit: Had more time to think about it. Someone enlighten me: What&#x27;s the difference between writing a rotation lambda for this new product, vs. writing a rotation lambda for ParameterStore that you then cron? The pricing really doesn&#x27;t make sense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Secrets Manager – Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-secrets-manager-store-distribute-and-rotate-credentials-securely/</url></story> |
7,938,299 | 7,938,072 | 1 | 2 | 7,936,919 | 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>zanny</author><text>I think the real message is:<p>&quot;Hey, we&#x27;re a company. We have things. That doesn&#x27;t mean users use our things, or that developing for said things is going make you money or a userbase. That requires looking at the market and seeing where <i>users</i> are.&quot;<p>They create the supply side. If there is no demand, blindly working in their tools is just a silly mistake. I think it has been plainly demonstrated nothing Windows Phone offers entices the mobile market away from Android en masse at this point.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>What this says to me as a developer in the Microsoft ecosystem (admittedly, enterprise side and not mobile):<p>&quot;Four years ago we had you writing all your apps using Silverlight. Two years ago we chucked that out the window (ahahahaha) and told you to switch over to WinRT. Now we&#x27;re going Android. We hope you&#x27;ve got the message by now. But in case you haven&#x27;t, let us restate it in plain English: Dear developers, GO THE @$#!% AWAY.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27992439</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pling</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t say that to me. It says: &quot;Nokia baggage&quot;. That is all.<p>Either way, I&#x27;m not writing another damn mobile app or picking up another damn smartphone again. It&#x27;s all totally crazy bananas now. I&#x27;d rather write win32 again with a broken-ass compiler.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>What this says to me as a developer in the Microsoft ecosystem (admittedly, enterprise side and not mobile):<p>&quot;Four years ago we had you writing all your apps using Silverlight. Two years ago we chucked that out the window (ahahahaha) and told you to switch over to WinRT. Now we&#x27;re going Android. We hope you&#x27;ve got the message by now. But in case you haven&#x27;t, let us restate it in plain English: Dear developers, GO THE @$#!% AWAY.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27992439</url></story> |
31,379,768 | 31,379,406 | 1 | 2 | 31,378,415 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>&gt;Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior<p>In small town USA, the local culture usually is inferior. The local culture tends to be very monoculture. It&#x27;s the larger cities where the culture tends to be more diverse. Getting out of small town into the nearest larger town opened me up to a hell of a lot more than the people that never left. However, even in that larger town, it&#x27;s still limited. Yes, I eventually went to the west coast to have even more multi-cultural experience. Later, I even got to finally start travelling internationally to expand that multi-cultural experience further.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s a broad brush to paint with, but my local culture 100% was inferior, but I imagine it&#x27;s not unique</text><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text><i>Working in Canadian journalism, I’d often hear other editors reference the mythical former colleagues who had moved to New York—America, in this context, is always New York.</i><p>Lots of Americans dream of either LA or New York, depending on their industry. I imagine in Europe, it&#x27;s probably Paris and London that draws both French&#x2F;British and foreigners.<p>Frank Sinatra had a song called <i>New York, New York</i> and one of the lines is &quot;If I can make it there, I&#x27;ll make it anywhere.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s sort of inevitable that the largest city in the region draws talent and ambition and this gravity pool does not respect international borders. Though I wish we did a better job of fostering diversity of views from other places even within the US.<p>It&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve lamented before: Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that&#x27;s where so much of our popular media originates and is set.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Success in Canada means moving to America</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-success-in-canada-means-moving-to-america/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coastflow</author><text>&gt;” Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that&#x27;s where so much of our popular media originates and is set.”<p>For additional evidence, the setting of most of “Breaking Bad” (now continuing as “Better Call Saul”) in Albuquerque, New Mexico led to meaningful economic benefits for people living there, such as increased tourism (from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;entertainment&#x2F;envelope&#x2F;la-xpm-2013-aug-07-la-fi-ct-onlocation-breaking-bad20130807-story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;entertainment&#x2F;envelope&#x2F;la-xpm-2013-a...</a>).</text><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text><i>Working in Canadian journalism, I’d often hear other editors reference the mythical former colleagues who had moved to New York—America, in this context, is always New York.</i><p>Lots of Americans dream of either LA or New York, depending on their industry. I imagine in Europe, it&#x27;s probably Paris and London that draws both French&#x2F;British and foreigners.<p>Frank Sinatra had a song called <i>New York, New York</i> and one of the lines is &quot;If I can make it there, I&#x27;ll make it anywhere.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s sort of inevitable that the largest city in the region draws talent and ambition and this gravity pool does not respect international borders. Though I wish we did a better job of fostering diversity of views from other places even within the US.<p>It&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve lamented before: Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that&#x27;s where so much of our popular media originates and is set.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Success in Canada means moving to America</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-success-in-canada-means-moving-to-america/</url></story> |
31,612,804 | 31,612,999 | 1 | 3 | 31,610,005 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lights0123</author><text>You could reveal the hash letter-by-letter and stop as soon as a letter differs so there&#x27;s more possibilities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>garaetjjte</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t work, because you can reasonably brute-force possible gifts.</text></item><item><author>Liron</author><text>Last year my wife and I suspected we might have gotten each other the same Christmas gift, but didn’t want to spoil the surprise in case we didn’t. So we compared SHA256 hashes... and sure enough they both came out cb17007d (theragun)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Confess your love with zero-knowledge</title><url>https://www.zkcrush.xyz/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>10000truths</author><text>Sure, but the example is contrived, as it serves to illustrate the point in an easily digestible (heh) way. In real world applications, both the possible messages and the possible hashes would be way too large to brute force.</text><parent_chain><item><author>garaetjjte</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t work, because you can reasonably brute-force possible gifts.</text></item><item><author>Liron</author><text>Last year my wife and I suspected we might have gotten each other the same Christmas gift, but didn’t want to spoil the surprise in case we didn’t. So we compared SHA256 hashes... and sure enough they both came out cb17007d (theragun)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Confess your love with zero-knowledge</title><url>https://www.zkcrush.xyz/</url></story> |
34,293,850 | 34,293,344 | 1 | 2 | 34,293,010 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codethief</author><text>Thanks to both of you for maintaining i3(-gaps) all these years! I don&#x27;t remember exactly when I started using i3 but it&#x27;s been at least 9 or 10 years, if not more. I didn&#x27;t make the jump to i3-gaps until a couple years later but, boy, am I glad I did!<p>For me, i3 is one of those few pieces of software that is pretty much optimal – it is rock solid and stable, I wouldn&#x27;t know how to improve it any further and I also couldn&#x27;t imagine living without it. By now, my i3 keybindings are hard-wired into my brain and I despise having to work with any other window manager or desktop environment! Besides, for the few rare cases where you do forget to lock your screen, a tiling wm with custom key bindings is a great way to prevent your colleagues from messing with your machine, in particular: announcing free cake using your Slack account. :-)<p>Story time:<p>When I was still doing research in cosmology back in 2014&#x2F;2015, one day there was this new guy in our research group and, as it so happens, we ended up sharing an office. A couple weeks in, we were both at our desks and he looked over my shoulder and said:<p>&quot;Ahh, I see you&#x27;re using i3!&quot;<p>&quot;Yup, been using it for quite a while and I absolutely love it!&quot;<p>&quot;Do you know who the maintainer is?&quot;, he replied, with a big smile on his face.<p>Turns out, Michael was his brother! So that&#x27;s how I learned to remember the name &quot;Stapelberg&quot;. :-)<p>[@secure: Please say Hi to him for me!]<p>A few years after that episode, one night I told a good friend of mine about i3 &amp; i3-gaps and we both had a look at their Github repositories. My friend had recently started working at this IT consulting firm, and he went: &quot;Wait a second, Airblader &#x2F; Ingo Bürk? That&#x27;s my colleague!&quot;<p>Not long after that discovery, I started working for a startup in Munich and it just so happened that the startup had also hired that same consulting firm for their dev team. Aaaand Ingo was their consultant! I&#x27;m honored to say I learned a ton from Ingo during that time and I still look back fondly to pair-programming with him (i.e. mostly him telling me what to do or patiently explaining things to me). If I&#x27;ve ever seen one of those infamous unicorn rockstar 10x developers, it&#x27;s definitely him!<p>Four years later, I ended up at that consulting firm, too, in no small part thanks to Ingo convincing me to join them.<p>All this is to say: The world is small. And: You guys have changed my life! Thank you! :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Airblader</author><text>Hi. I&#x27;m the maintainer of i3-gaps and also a maintainer for i3.<p>The story of this merge is not only several years long, but a true success story in OSS in my eyes.<p>I took on i3-gaps by taking an existing patch and rebasing it to the latest i3 HEAD. From there it became popular and I took on the maintainership, eventually contributing to i3 itself and finally becoming a maintainer there as well.<p>Whilst originally gaps were considered an &quot;anti feature&quot; for i3, years ago we already decided that we&#x27;d accept adding gaps into i3. Clearly the fork was popular, and as someone else pointed out here as well, the Wayland &quot;port&quot; of i3, sway, added gaps from the beginning on with great success.<p>However, the original gaps patch was focused on being small and easy to maintain. It caused a few issues and had some drawbacks. We made it a condition that porting gaps into i3 would have to resolve these issues. Alas, this could&#x27;ve meant a lot of work that no one took on for the years to follow.<p>Recently, however, the maintainers of i3 got together (a chance to meet arose randomly). During that meeting we decided that it&#x27;d be better to just merge the fork and improve it later. And as it happened, Michael, the author and main maintainer of i3, did all that work during the port as well.<p>What resulted is the end of almost a decade of i3-gaps, and a much better implementation thereof. I&#x27;m incredibly happy to see this happen after all this time, and a big shoutout to Michael here for all that work.<p>Edit: Hadn&#x27;t realized Michael was commenting here already. I guess leaving the background and story from my side of things doesn&#x27;t hurt regardless.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3</title><url>https://github.com/Airblader/i3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>secure</author><text>Thanks for providing the background here, and thanks for maintaining i3-gaps over all the years! :)<p>I’m also happy we could complete this merge now!</text><parent_chain><item><author>Airblader</author><text>Hi. I&#x27;m the maintainer of i3-gaps and also a maintainer for i3.<p>The story of this merge is not only several years long, but a true success story in OSS in my eyes.<p>I took on i3-gaps by taking an existing patch and rebasing it to the latest i3 HEAD. From there it became popular and I took on the maintainership, eventually contributing to i3 itself and finally becoming a maintainer there as well.<p>Whilst originally gaps were considered an &quot;anti feature&quot; for i3, years ago we already decided that we&#x27;d accept adding gaps into i3. Clearly the fork was popular, and as someone else pointed out here as well, the Wayland &quot;port&quot; of i3, sway, added gaps from the beginning on with great success.<p>However, the original gaps patch was focused on being small and easy to maintain. It caused a few issues and had some drawbacks. We made it a condition that porting gaps into i3 would have to resolve these issues. Alas, this could&#x27;ve meant a lot of work that no one took on for the years to follow.<p>Recently, however, the maintainers of i3 got together (a chance to meet arose randomly). During that meeting we decided that it&#x27;d be better to just merge the fork and improve it later. And as it happened, Michael, the author and main maintainer of i3, did all that work during the port as well.<p>What resulted is the end of almost a decade of i3-gaps, and a much better implementation thereof. I&#x27;m incredibly happy to see this happen after all this time, and a big shoutout to Michael here for all that work.<p>Edit: Hadn&#x27;t realized Michael was commenting here already. I guess leaving the background and story from my side of things doesn&#x27;t hurt regardless.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3</title><url>https://github.com/Airblader/i3</url></story> |
37,768,576 | 37,767,439 | 1 | 3 | 37,765,663 | 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>ilaksh</author><text>One thing that is clouding this discussion is that most people are mixing up a lot of different characteristics that animals like humans have as if they were all the same thing.<p>So for many people they don&#x27;t really distinguish between things like &quot;reasoning&quot;, &quot;self-aware&quot;, &quot;conscious&quot;, &quot;alive&quot;, &quot;sentient&quot;, &quot;intelligent&quot;, &quot;has world model&quot;. They also don&#x27;t distinguish between different types or varying levels of cognitive abilities.<p>It seems clear that high functioning LLMs must have some type of world model. But that doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s necessarily exactly the same type of highly grounded model that a human would have, especially if it was trained on only text. It might be less rich or different but still quite useful.<p>Another example, LLMs clearly don&#x27;t have the same type of fast adaptation in a realtime 3d environment that animals have. (That&#x27;s not to say that they can&#x27;t mimic it in some rough ways).<p>But if you don&#x27;t really break all of this stuff down carefully in your head then it can be hard to accept that LLMs are doing anything interesting. Because in that worldview, it&#x27;s all the same thing, so they have to give the LLM all of the other characteristics at the same time.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Language Models Represent Space and Time</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207</url></story> | <instructions>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 Twitter thread is worth looking at. Very Fascinating<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;wesg52&#x2F;status&#x2F;1709551516577902782?t=3b2F1xtFSUc1Bp-NPFon2Q&amp;s=19" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;wesg52&#x2F;status&#x2F;1709551516577902782?t=3b2F...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Language Models Represent Space and Time</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207</url></story> |
5,441,196 | 5,441,206 | 1 | 3 | 5,441,086 | 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>jaysonelliot</author><text>It seems like we're seeing evidence that the class system is alive and well in the UK. Listen to his posh accent, and look at the easy way he casually hangs out with Stephen Fry: <a href="http://vimeo.com/52014691" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/52014691</a><p>I suspect the story behind this is simply "upper-class child with family connections finds success."</text><parent_chain><item><author>dinkumthinkum</author><text>I hear what you're saying but I think what you're describing is not the most notable part of the story, in fact, possibly the least interesting part of it. I don't know what his algorithm is; I have some doubts as to it's efficacy but apparently Yahoo! did not. I'm more interested in how this person got celebrities and billionaires interested in the product early on. Seems odd.</text></item><item><author>jaysonelliot</author><text>While stories like his are interesting novelties, I feel like they are distracting and counterproductive to the startup scene at large.<p>Instead of focusing on what Nick D’Aloisio has actually created, perhaps looking at this "algorithmic invention, which takes long-form stories and shortens them for readers using smartphones" and digging into what makes it special, the story is all about the jackpot of millions he's lucked into.<p>I'd love to know more about the technical details behind Summly, or what Nick went through to create it.<p>This kind of lottery mentality just gives the general public the impression that there's a gold rush going on, and causes the kind of magical thinking that's similar to teenagers all hoping to become the next rock star or sports legend, or in this case, startup founder, that will make millions, focusing on the money instead of asking themselves what they want to do with their lives.<p>For every teenage millionaire that hits the startup jackpot, there are thousands of hard-working entrepreneurs that build for the love of building. I'm not saying Nick D'Aloisio isn't doing what he does out of genuine passion - I don't know anything about him, I expect he's very driven and geniune - but I would rather focus on the work than the jackpot.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>He Has Millions and a New Job at Yahoo. Soon, He’ll Be 18</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/business/media/nick-daloisio-17-sells-summly-app-to-yahoo.html?hp&_r=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>Bamafan</author><text><i>"I'm more interested in how this person got celebrities and billionaires interested in the product early on. Seems odd."</i><p>Ding ding ding! That's my <i>real</i> issue with stories like this. They don't explain how these young geniuses got capitol to build their ideas or how they were able to market them to people with influence or how they are able to convince influencers like Marissa Meyer to fork over $30 million.<p>Not hating on the kid, but without proper explanation of those three aforementioned things, there's no real story here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dinkumthinkum</author><text>I hear what you're saying but I think what you're describing is not the most notable part of the story, in fact, possibly the least interesting part of it. I don't know what his algorithm is; I have some doubts as to it's efficacy but apparently Yahoo! did not. I'm more interested in how this person got celebrities and billionaires interested in the product early on. Seems odd.</text></item><item><author>jaysonelliot</author><text>While stories like his are interesting novelties, I feel like they are distracting and counterproductive to the startup scene at large.<p>Instead of focusing on what Nick D’Aloisio has actually created, perhaps looking at this "algorithmic invention, which takes long-form stories and shortens them for readers using smartphones" and digging into what makes it special, the story is all about the jackpot of millions he's lucked into.<p>I'd love to know more about the technical details behind Summly, or what Nick went through to create it.<p>This kind of lottery mentality just gives the general public the impression that there's a gold rush going on, and causes the kind of magical thinking that's similar to teenagers all hoping to become the next rock star or sports legend, or in this case, startup founder, that will make millions, focusing on the money instead of asking themselves what they want to do with their lives.<p>For every teenage millionaire that hits the startup jackpot, there are thousands of hard-working entrepreneurs that build for the love of building. I'm not saying Nick D'Aloisio isn't doing what he does out of genuine passion - I don't know anything about him, I expect he's very driven and geniune - but I would rather focus on the work than the jackpot.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>He Has Millions and a New Job at Yahoo. Soon, He’ll Be 18</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/business/media/nick-daloisio-17-sells-summly-app-to-yahoo.html?hp&_r=0</url></story> |
29,537,612 | 29,537,404 | 1 | 2 | 29,537,172 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>linguae</author><text>Since roughly 2004 (that&#x27;s when I first learned about Mac OS X, NeXT, and GNUstep as a high school student), I&#x27;ve been periodically keeping track of the state of GNUstep since I believe there&#x27;s value in having a FOSS alternative to macOS and its technology. GNUstep could have been the primary GUI development toolkit for the Linux desktop. Unfortunately, GNUstep never caught lightning in the way other FOSS desktop projects did, and I attribute this to bad timing.<p>My understanding is that when the KDE project started in 1996, GNUstep wasn&#x27;t ready yet (remember that the OpenStep specification that the original GNUstep was based on was released in 1994), and GTK+ was not separate from GIMP. My understanding is that options for FOSS GUI toolkits were sparse in 1996. What did not help GNUstep&#x27;s case in 1996 was the fact that NeXT appeared to be dying; nobody in early 1996 would have guessed the outcome of NeXT. Thus, the creator of KDE decided on Qt, which had licensing terms that were not-quite FOSS. This caused consternation among some people in the FOSS community, which lead to the founding of the GNOME desktop. GNOME ended up adopting the now-separated-from-GIMP GTK+ toolkit around 1998. Meanwhile work continued on GNUstep, but by the time 2000 rolled around much of the Linux desktop community rallied behind KDE and GNOME.<p>Ever since Mac OS X was released, every now and then somebody with Mac OS X and Cocoa experience would look at GNUstep and say, &quot;Wow! I saw what Apple could achieve with NeXT technology; what if we used GNUstep to build something similar for Linux?!&quot; and then get started on a project, only for that person or team to lose momentum and eventually give up. One such promising project that is now dead is Étoilé (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;etoileos.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;etoileos.com</a>), which was based on GNUstep and inspired by Mac OS X, yet had ideas of its own, such as versioned objects and support for a dialect of Smalltalk called Pragmatic Smalltalk that leveraged GNUstep&#x27;s Objective-C APIs. Étoilé would have been a fresh, new Linux desktop experience that would have brought us closer to the dream of a modern &quot;Smalltalk operating system,&quot; but unfortunately that project lost momentum, like so many open source projects that don&#x27;t have corporate backing or massive community support.<p>There is a really interesting project called helloSystem (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hellosystem.github.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hellosystem.github.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;</a>) that is a fork of FreeBSD that aims to re-create the Mac OS X Tiger user experience and conventions. However, this project is built on the Qt toolkit instead of GNUstep.<p>Will GNUstep ever gain momentum? I don&#x27;t know; on one hand there is a vocal minority of long-time macOS users who are disappointed with Apple&#x27;s software direction and would like to have an alternative to macOS that involves the least amount of friction as possible. However, different macOS users like macOS for different reasons. For those who like macOS due to its user interface guidelines and consistency, helloSystem may look promising to them, especially if it gains traction. For those who like macOS due to its object-oriented APIs, they may be interested in taking a look at the .NET ecosystem and the languages it supports.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m dreaming of a Common Lisp desktop heavily influenced by Smalltalk, the Mac, and OpenDoc (Apple&#x27;s commercially unsuccessful component-based software technology). I remember coming to the realization a few years ago that NEXTSTEP is essentially a pragmatic Smalltalk desktop environment, except instead of running a Smalltalk VM it ran Objective-C and Display PostScript on top of Unix. I&#x27;m thinking, why not go all the way with a programmable object-oriented environment and build a desktop environment from the Common Lisp Object System and its meta-programming facilities. It would have a standard set of UI guidelines for user-facing applications, but for power users, because everything is an object, it is possible to combine objects using scripts. If only I had more free time....this would be the ultimate realization of a desktop environment for power users based on taking Xerox PARC&#x27;s technology to its limits.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>It was nice endevour to port NeXTSTEP development stack.<p>Nowadays with it being several releases behind macOS tooling, and the whole issue of what from Objective-C v-latest is actually supported, it is more of a curiosity and nostalgic experience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNUstep: Open-source, Object-oriented, Cross-platform Development Environment</title><url>http://gnustep.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>inDigiNeous</author><text>Yeah this was a really interesting project when it got started, like in the late 90s ? Now, realistically, even though I like the idea, who is going to use this ?<p>Maybe like a compatibility setup for old NeXTStep applications ? Or porting some old macOS applications to Linux environments ?<p>Working on top of the X11 implementation also doesn&#x27;t really provoke trust to look into the project.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>It was nice endevour to port NeXTSTEP development stack.<p>Nowadays with it being several releases behind macOS tooling, and the whole issue of what from Objective-C v-latest is actually supported, it is more of a curiosity and nostalgic experience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNUstep: Open-source, Object-oriented, Cross-platform Development Environment</title><url>http://gnustep.org</url></story> |
7,341,749 | 7,341,875 | 1 | 3 | 7,339,092 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heartbreak</author><text>I could only think of one verse off the top of my head, but here are several. The Leviticus 15:19-30 reads a lot like what was described in the article. <a href="http://www.openbible.info/topics/menstruation" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbible.info&#x2F;topics&#x2F;menstruation</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nsxwolf</author><text>I&#x27;m not aware of an obsession with menstruation in any major variant of Christianity.</text></item><item><author>yawz</author><text>Religions (and consequently certain traditions) that have survived until today have an incredible obsession with mensturation. This is just another stick to beat and humiliate women with. It is unbelievable (for a questioning, inquisitive human being) that Bronze Age traditions and beliefs are still revered today.</text></item><item><author>nate_meurer</author><text>I want to hug this guy. Like, really. Buy me a airplane ticket.<p>Arunachalam Muruganantham is a hero. I use that word in its full magnitude. Since I am now an expert on the matter, having read the <i>entire</i> article, I&#x27;ll speculate on what motivates this man:<p>- Grit. Crazy amounts of grit. The article is full of good quotes, but my favorite is what he said after being abandoned by his mother:<p><i>&quot;It was a problem for me,&quot; he says. &quot;I had to cook my own food.&quot;</i><p>- Humility combined with hunger:<p><i>&quot;Luckily I&#x27;m not educated,&quot; he tells students. &quot;If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;Every time he comes to know something new, he wants to know everything about it,&quot; [his wife] says.</i><p>- Love of humanity, on some level at least:<p><i>&quot;Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood I know no human being died because of poverty - everything happens because of ignorance.&quot;</i><p>As an aside, I LOVE the picture of his wife and daughter toward the end. This one photograph lends better context to the story than all the others combined. I know a single picture means nothing, but the look in his daughter&#x27;s eyes makes me think she&#x27;ll inherit something of her dad&#x27;s baddassness.<p>And as another aside, bloody god-damn fucking hell, are the following bits really true?<p><i>There are still many taboos around menstruation in India. Women can&#x27;t visit temples or public places, they&#x27;re not allowed to cook or touch the water supply - essentially they are considered untouchable.</i><p><i>There are also myths and fears surrounding the use of sanitary pads - that women who use them will go blind, for example, or will never get married.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26260978</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yawz</author><text>Woman being unclean during menstrual cycle is part of Abrahamic religions. But I guess this comes from the bigger problem of &quot;sex&quot; being wrong unless it constitutes &quot;breeding&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nsxwolf</author><text>I&#x27;m not aware of an obsession with menstruation in any major variant of Christianity.</text></item><item><author>yawz</author><text>Religions (and consequently certain traditions) that have survived until today have an incredible obsession with mensturation. This is just another stick to beat and humiliate women with. It is unbelievable (for a questioning, inquisitive human being) that Bronze Age traditions and beliefs are still revered today.</text></item><item><author>nate_meurer</author><text>I want to hug this guy. Like, really. Buy me a airplane ticket.<p>Arunachalam Muruganantham is a hero. I use that word in its full magnitude. Since I am now an expert on the matter, having read the <i>entire</i> article, I&#x27;ll speculate on what motivates this man:<p>- Grit. Crazy amounts of grit. The article is full of good quotes, but my favorite is what he said after being abandoned by his mother:<p><i>&quot;It was a problem for me,&quot; he says. &quot;I had to cook my own food.&quot;</i><p>- Humility combined with hunger:<p><i>&quot;Luckily I&#x27;m not educated,&quot; he tells students. &quot;If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;Every time he comes to know something new, he wants to know everything about it,&quot; [his wife] says.</i><p>- Love of humanity, on some level at least:<p><i>&quot;Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood I know no human being died because of poverty - everything happens because of ignorance.&quot;</i><p>As an aside, I LOVE the picture of his wife and daughter toward the end. This one photograph lends better context to the story than all the others combined. I know a single picture means nothing, but the look in his daughter&#x27;s eyes makes me think she&#x27;ll inherit something of her dad&#x27;s baddassness.<p>And as another aside, bloody god-damn fucking hell, are the following bits really true?<p><i>There are still many taboos around menstruation in India. Women can&#x27;t visit temples or public places, they&#x27;re not allowed to cook or touch the water supply - essentially they are considered untouchable.</i><p><i>There are also myths and fears surrounding the use of sanitary pads - that women who use them will go blind, for example, or will never get married.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26260978</url></story> |
32,310,096 | 32,309,629 | 1 | 2 | 32,308,553 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>njarboe</author><text>The top ten automakers have huge amounts of debt and pension liabilities. Tesla has neither. None of them are making profitable EVs at scale. Tesla has been hitting their goal of growing at 50% per year for a decade and plans to continue until they are making 20 million cars a year in 2030. Their gross margin on cars is the highest in the industry.<p>The next 5 years are critical for the existing players and many will shrink dramatically or go bankrupt. People already know this and that is why there is a bill in Congress that is a stealth bailout of the domestic auto industry with a $7500 tax credit on cars that have just $750 worth of batteries in them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elromulous</author><text>So I&#x27;m very much in camp AMD. But, market cap has proven over and over again to be kind of bogus. E.g. do we really think Tesla is actually worth more than the rest of the top 10 or so automakers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD passes Intel in market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/29/amd-passes-intel-in-market-cap.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>mimikatz</author><text>Yes we do, that&#x27;s literally what a marketcap is. People who are sure it isn&#x27;t correct can beat against it and profit in the correction.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elromulous</author><text>So I&#x27;m very much in camp AMD. But, market cap has proven over and over again to be kind of bogus. E.g. do we really think Tesla is actually worth more than the rest of the top 10 or so automakers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD passes Intel in market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/29/amd-passes-intel-in-market-cap.html</url></story> |
11,395,854 | 11,391,625 | 1 | 3 | 11,391,218 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jnotarstefano</author><text>I had to use a similar approach when creating a cluster analysis of the amendments in the Italian Senate [0].<p>The Italian Senate offers a SPARQL endpoint [1], which unfortunately doesn&#x27;t offer access to the texts of the amendments. So I had to roll my own and create a small spider for them using Scrapy [2].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jacquerie&#x2F;senato.py&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;analysis.ipynb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jacquerie&#x2F;senato.py&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;analysis....</a><p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dati.senato.it&#x2F;23" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dati.senato.it&#x2F;23</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jacquerie&#x2F;senato.py&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;senato&#x2F;spiders&#x2F;senato_spider.py" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jacquerie&#x2F;senato.py&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;senato&#x2F;sp...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web Scraping to Create Open Data</title><url>https://blog.scrapinghub.com/2016/03/30/web-scraping-to-create-open-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>minimaxir</author><text>I&#x27;m not fond of the implication at the end that scraping is justifiable because old websites are dinosaurs without APIs, and those websites are <i>jerks</i> for not doing so, and therefore scraping is the <i>moral</i> thing to do.<p>I&#x27;ve scraped my share of BuzzFeed data and Foursquare data to make data visualizations (with the latter explicitly saying &quot;don&#x27;t scrape&quot; in their Terms). But if either one told me to stop and take down my results, I would not contest, since data is what drives the Internet ecosystem.<p>(For the record, neither service did; in fact, both tried to recruit me as a result of the visualizations. The difference is that I am not using the data to create a direct competitor that could cause them to lose business.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web Scraping to Create Open Data</title><url>https://blog.scrapinghub.com/2016/03/30/web-scraping-to-create-open-data/</url></story> |
37,848,984 | 37,842,238 | 1 | 2 | 37,841,013 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lelanthran</author><text>Firstly, I&#x27;m not really an expert on marketing, so take what I say as mere opinion not fact.<p>I think that you should be pitching it a little differently: many people are confused about what your soundbite is actually saying (I also thought it was a file explorer, like all other file explorers I have even used).<p>Maybe lean hard into a phrase like &quot;Unified file browser; see all files on all your devices, all at once, all the time&quot;.[1]<p>The other thing I would emphasise is that <i>this isn&#x27;t syncthing</i>. You don&#x27;t have to mention syncthing by name, but you could emphasise that &quot;Your files aren&#x27;t synced between devices, they&#x27;re visible to all your devices&quot;.<p><i>Too many people who would otherwise use this would dismiss it with &quot;I&#x27;m already using syncthing&quot;!</i> AIUI, you <i>aren&#x27;t</i> syncing files between devices, only syncing file-listings.[2]<p>PS. For my own use, unfortunately, I don&#x27;t need something like this. Sorry.<p>While it would be a nice to have in theory, it just doesn&#x27;t solve any pain-points I am currently experiencing.<p>For example, any important document I need to read on different devices is <i>already</i> either in my email, or on google drive. I view movies on Netflix+AMZ+Disney+, I only ever share photos with others, not with other devices that belong to me. It&#x27;s rare that I look at a file stored locally on my phone and say &quot;I need to see this on my PC&quot;, or vice versa. It just never happens.<p>[1] That came out sounding super-weird: I <i>did warn you</i> that I wasn&#x27;t any good at marketing :-)<p>[2] I expect you provide value on top of that, like transparently copy-n-paste between two different devices, even from a third device.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jamiepine</author><text>We&#x27;re early alpha, our product is free and open source<p>At the end of the day, it is an amazing experience simply just to search and organize files from not just devices, but disconnected drives. Search is lightning fast, the UI is clean and you own all the data, given its local first and peer-to-peer.<p>Hate it if you must, but we&#x27;re super passionate about it and are ruthlessly working to reach full stability across all platforms.</text></item><item><author>troupo</author><text>Honestly, you can&#x27;t call yourself a &quot;file explorer&quot; if you fail the basic task of exploring files without an additional step of &quot;adding a location&quot; (wat?)<p>Also, judging from the GitHub description, it&#x27;s not a file explorer. It&#x27;s a slightly extended Dropbox:<p>--- start quote ---<p>From cloud services to offline hard drives, Spacedrive combines the storage capacity and processing power of your devices into one personal distributed cloud, that is both secure and intuitive to use.<p>--- end quote ---</text></item><item><author>jamiepine</author><text>Hey thanks for trying Spacedrive! The bug you&#x27;re experiencing is known when browsing <i>before</i> adding a &quot;Location&quot;. We index Locations ahead of time to generate a cache that makes browsing super fast, Spacedrive is, contrary to some replies here, designed for big data, we cache and virtualize everything.<p>Next update we&#x27;ll fix the bug browsing non-locations, as those who open the app tend to try browsing first, before adding as a location it seems. It&#x27;s alpha software so I hope you give us time to iron it all out!</text></item><item><author>Klaster_1</author><text>Decided to try it out. After the installation, it asks to &quot;create the library&quot;, share the analytics and log in - not exactly what I expected compared to other file explorers. Next, I decided to navigate to a random directory on one of my drives. After double clicking, nothing happened. Opening a dir with a context menu action did nothing too. Turns out 15k files in a directory make it effectively non-navigable. Total Commander and Window Explorer have no such issues. Spacedrive still has to iron out the basic file explorer features, it seems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer</title><url>https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>&gt; Hate it if you must<p>I don&#x27;t think many people on here actually understand it.<p>Comparison table on your website showing what makes it different to Dropbox etc. would help.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jamiepine</author><text>We&#x27;re early alpha, our product is free and open source<p>At the end of the day, it is an amazing experience simply just to search and organize files from not just devices, but disconnected drives. Search is lightning fast, the UI is clean and you own all the data, given its local first and peer-to-peer.<p>Hate it if you must, but we&#x27;re super passionate about it and are ruthlessly working to reach full stability across all platforms.</text></item><item><author>troupo</author><text>Honestly, you can&#x27;t call yourself a &quot;file explorer&quot; if you fail the basic task of exploring files without an additional step of &quot;adding a location&quot; (wat?)<p>Also, judging from the GitHub description, it&#x27;s not a file explorer. It&#x27;s a slightly extended Dropbox:<p>--- start quote ---<p>From cloud services to offline hard drives, Spacedrive combines the storage capacity and processing power of your devices into one personal distributed cloud, that is both secure and intuitive to use.<p>--- end quote ---</text></item><item><author>jamiepine</author><text>Hey thanks for trying Spacedrive! The bug you&#x27;re experiencing is known when browsing <i>before</i> adding a &quot;Location&quot;. We index Locations ahead of time to generate a cache that makes browsing super fast, Spacedrive is, contrary to some replies here, designed for big data, we cache and virtualize everything.<p>Next update we&#x27;ll fix the bug browsing non-locations, as those who open the app tend to try browsing first, before adding as a location it seems. It&#x27;s alpha software so I hope you give us time to iron it all out!</text></item><item><author>Klaster_1</author><text>Decided to try it out. After the installation, it asks to &quot;create the library&quot;, share the analytics and log in - not exactly what I expected compared to other file explorers. Next, I decided to navigate to a random directory on one of my drives. After double clicking, nothing happened. Opening a dir with a context menu action did nothing too. Turns out 15k files in a directory make it effectively non-navigable. Total Commander and Window Explorer have no such issues. Spacedrive still has to iron out the basic file explorer features, it seems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer</title><url>https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive</url></story> |
18,699,655 | 18,699,538 | 1 | 2 | 18,698,651 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>todd8</author><text>I’ve posted this comment on HN before, but this is my best Knuth story:<p>In the 70&#x27;s I had a co-worker, perhaps the best programmer in the department, that had gone to school with Knuth. He told me that one day while in college Knuth was using one of the available key-punch machines to punch his program on cards. My friend was ready to punch his program so he stood nearby to wait for Knuth to finish. Knuth, working on a big program, offered to Keypunch my friends program before finishing his own because my friend&#x27;s program was shorter and Knuth could keypunch quite fast.<p>While watching over Knuth&#x27;s shoulder, my friend noticed Knuth speeding up and slowing down at irregular intervals. Later he asked him about that and Knuth replied that he was fixing the bugs in my friend&#x27;s Fortran as he punched it out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pjmorris</author><text>My favorite Knuth story, attributed to Alan Kay (if you&#x27;re around, would love confirmation):<p>When I was at Stanford with the AI project [in the late 1960s] one of the things we used to do every Thanksgiving is have a computer programming contest with people on research projects in the Bay area. The prize I think was a turkey.<p>[John] McCarthy used to make up the problems. The one year that Knuth entered this, he won both the fastest time getting the program running and he also won the fastest execution of the algorithm. He did it on the worst system with remote batch called the Wilbur system. And he basically beat the shit out of everyone.<p>And they asked him, &quot;How could you possibly do this?&quot; And he answered, &quot;When I learned to program, you were lucky if you got five minutes with the machine a day. If you wanted to get the program going, it just had to be written right. So people just learned to program like it was carving stone. You sort of have to sidle up to it. That&#x27;s how I learned to program.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softpanorama.org&#x2F;People&#x2F;Knuth&#x2F;index.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softpanorama.org&#x2F;People&#x2F;Knuth&#x2F;index.shtml</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Yoda of Silicon Valley</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.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>JackFr</author><text>&gt; He did it on the worst system with remote batch called the Wilbur system.<p>I think you mean WYLBUR.<p>I had the &quot;opportunity&quot; to work with WYLBUR once in 1993, and I remember it to this day. &quot;the worst system with remote batch&quot; dramatically understates how bad it was. Hearing this raises Knuth even higher in my estimation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ORVYL_and_WYLBUR" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ORVYL_and_WYLBUR</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pjmorris</author><text>My favorite Knuth story, attributed to Alan Kay (if you&#x27;re around, would love confirmation):<p>When I was at Stanford with the AI project [in the late 1960s] one of the things we used to do every Thanksgiving is have a computer programming contest with people on research projects in the Bay area. The prize I think was a turkey.<p>[John] McCarthy used to make up the problems. The one year that Knuth entered this, he won both the fastest time getting the program running and he also won the fastest execution of the algorithm. He did it on the worst system with remote batch called the Wilbur system. And he basically beat the shit out of everyone.<p>And they asked him, &quot;How could you possibly do this?&quot; And he answered, &quot;When I learned to program, you were lucky if you got five minutes with the machine a day. If you wanted to get the program going, it just had to be written right. So people just learned to program like it was carving stone. You sort of have to sidle up to it. That&#x27;s how I learned to program.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softpanorama.org&#x2F;People&#x2F;Knuth&#x2F;index.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softpanorama.org&#x2F;People&#x2F;Knuth&#x2F;index.shtml</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Yoda of Silicon Valley</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html</url></story> |
2,193,561 | 2,193,615 | 1 | 3 | 2,193,317 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text>A couple years back, I decided to pay a visit to the campus library during the FISL (international free-software forum) that happens every year in Porto Alegre, Brazil on the PUC (pontifical catholic university) campus. I needed to grab some articles from CACM and their library has full access to the ACM online library, as well as decent wireless, something no tech event quite manages to have.<p>Porto Alegre is notorious for having a disproportionate number of cute girls. I was on the Engineering floor and, even there, I got distracted several times by them.<p>So, no, it's not every library that's cute-girl-free.<p>Unfortunately, they don't serve coffee.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexophile</author><text>In my (biased, but well-founded) experience, it comes down to a question of whether I'd rather be distracted by a cute girl or an old man getting reprimanded for looking at dirty pictures.<p>[bg: I really like libraries - worked at one in the suburbs in high school and have since moved to the city, which exaggerated the weird bits]<p>One thing that's worth noting: if you're on a college campus, a great place to find some legit quiet time is in <i>departmental</i> libraries, especially the social sciences.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ditch Starbucks and work at the library</title><url>http://52tiger.net/ditch-starbucks-and-work-at-the-library/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+52Tiger+%2852+Tiger%29&utm_content=Google+Reader</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RickHull</author><text>&#62; <i>In my (biased, but well-founded) experience, it comes down to a question of whether I'd rather be distracted by a cute girl or an old man getting reprimanded for looking at dirty pictures.</i><p>Ha! Reminds me of my Brooklyn Public Library experience. The building looks fantastic on the outside, but on the inside it is a dreary, institutional wasteland. I had to pick my inspiration up off the floor when I walked in. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Public_Library_by_DS.JPG" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Public_Library_by...</a><p>After I located the one room with outlets, I crammed my way onto the folding table and connected to the flaky wifi, which needs to be reauthorized every hour. While answering emails, I could not help but notice the hardcore anime porn viewing session at the bank of workstations across from the table. I doubt I'll be back.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexophile</author><text>In my (biased, but well-founded) experience, it comes down to a question of whether I'd rather be distracted by a cute girl or an old man getting reprimanded for looking at dirty pictures.<p>[bg: I really like libraries - worked at one in the suburbs in high school and have since moved to the city, which exaggerated the weird bits]<p>One thing that's worth noting: if you're on a college campus, a great place to find some legit quiet time is in <i>departmental</i> libraries, especially the social sciences.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ditch Starbucks and work at the library</title><url>http://52tiger.net/ditch-starbucks-and-work-at-the-library/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+52Tiger+%2852+Tiger%29&utm_content=Google+Reader</url></story> |
19,709,092 | 19,708,896 | 1 | 2 | 19,707,543 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jldugger</author><text>&gt; I live in Eastern Europe<p>Well, a number of people use Eastern Europe location as a filter for &#x27;cheap labor&#x27;. And SV startups tend to have crap wages to begin with, but offer equity to compensate. I could imagine a few startups seeking to crimp further.<p>&gt; Meanwhile no developer in my country even responds to offers if the salary is not given ... before the interview<p>Posting salaries is rare in the US. It&#x27;s becoming the law in California, but this is hardly universal. There&#x27;s an expectation that you&#x27;ll negotiate, but they&#x27;re really hoping you won&#x27;t. And plenty of US engineers assume if you don&#x27;t post a salary, it&#x27;s because the budget for the position is low.</text><parent_chain><item><author>b212</author><text>Is this an American thing? I live in Eastern Europe and make decent buck here (close to 5000 EUR&#x2F;mo after taxes in a country where you can cover all expenses under 1000 EUR&#x2F;mo). I never had any trouble getting quality work in my country but a few times I got approached by companies from the US and oh boy, weeks of tiring recrutation process and the pay was ALWAYS worse than local. I feel like they do it on purpose maybe some people really fall for it after investing so much time? Once or twice an US SV startup asked if I’ll allow them to install some tracking software on my machine. Meanwhile no developer in my country even responds to offers if the salary is not given in the offer even before the interview kicks in. What’s wrong with the American market? Are there too many developers or what?
(sorry for the typos, fat fingers and small phone)</text></item><item><author>revvx</author><text>I had the same thing happen to me a couple times. Long and tiring process. Blackboard, make a project, lots of dirty laundry about &quot;long gone incompetent developers&quot; that made the current system a giant mess. Lots of red flags but lots of promises including a large maximum salary, including bonuses and stock options.<p>The final offer, however, was 60% of my current pay. Lower than the average for someone with my experience and position.<p>I had good rapport with the HR recruiter and flat out asked why they proceeded, even though she knew I was already getting more, at a better company, with more benefits.<p>The answer: they assumed I was lying about my current salary and I was just bluffing. Recommended me that I lie in my next interview.</text></item><item><author>burtonator</author><text>I had a recruiter call me a year ago with what sounded like a really amazing offer. Working for a well funded startup on a problem in which I happen to be a domain expert.<p>They&#x27;re aren&#x27;t many expects in my field with my background and skill set and they said the right things to get me to interview (compensation won&#x27;t be a concern).<p>Anyway... Went in for 4-5 interviews. Took me about 10 hours in total to interview with them.<p>Kept hearing that they have a difficult time filling the position. Reports directly to the CTO, etc, etc.<p>They came in at 1&#x2F;2 my current salary. It was about 30-40% of what you would pay a decent engineer with experience.<p>I told them my salary level BEFORE the interview...<p>Gave them a hard now. They came back and said they can offer more stock and remote work.<p>Why in the heck would I turn down a bird in the hand for 1x in the bush?<p>Part of the problem is that if you&#x27;re interviewing you need to know what you&#x27;re buying!<p>You can&#x27;t go to a ferrari dealership and offer to buy one or $20k.. that&#x27;s just not how it works.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage</title><url>https://resumeskills.us/talent/shortage</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrei_says_</author><text>I highly highly recommend Lab Rats by Dan Lyons. Dissects the forces behind the current state of the workforce in the US.<p>Very well written and exposes the brutality and destruction resulting from focusing on short term profit at any cost.</text><parent_chain><item><author>b212</author><text>Is this an American thing? I live in Eastern Europe and make decent buck here (close to 5000 EUR&#x2F;mo after taxes in a country where you can cover all expenses under 1000 EUR&#x2F;mo). I never had any trouble getting quality work in my country but a few times I got approached by companies from the US and oh boy, weeks of tiring recrutation process and the pay was ALWAYS worse than local. I feel like they do it on purpose maybe some people really fall for it after investing so much time? Once or twice an US SV startup asked if I’ll allow them to install some tracking software on my machine. Meanwhile no developer in my country even responds to offers if the salary is not given in the offer even before the interview kicks in. What’s wrong with the American market? Are there too many developers or what?
(sorry for the typos, fat fingers and small phone)</text></item><item><author>revvx</author><text>I had the same thing happen to me a couple times. Long and tiring process. Blackboard, make a project, lots of dirty laundry about &quot;long gone incompetent developers&quot; that made the current system a giant mess. Lots of red flags but lots of promises including a large maximum salary, including bonuses and stock options.<p>The final offer, however, was 60% of my current pay. Lower than the average for someone with my experience and position.<p>I had good rapport with the HR recruiter and flat out asked why they proceeded, even though she knew I was already getting more, at a better company, with more benefits.<p>The answer: they assumed I was lying about my current salary and I was just bluffing. Recommended me that I lie in my next interview.</text></item><item><author>burtonator</author><text>I had a recruiter call me a year ago with what sounded like a really amazing offer. Working for a well funded startup on a problem in which I happen to be a domain expert.<p>They&#x27;re aren&#x27;t many expects in my field with my background and skill set and they said the right things to get me to interview (compensation won&#x27;t be a concern).<p>Anyway... Went in for 4-5 interviews. Took me about 10 hours in total to interview with them.<p>Kept hearing that they have a difficult time filling the position. Reports directly to the CTO, etc, etc.<p>They came in at 1&#x2F;2 my current salary. It was about 30-40% of what you would pay a decent engineer with experience.<p>I told them my salary level BEFORE the interview...<p>Gave them a hard now. They came back and said they can offer more stock and remote work.<p>Why in the heck would I turn down a bird in the hand for 1x in the bush?<p>Part of the problem is that if you&#x27;re interviewing you need to know what you&#x27;re buying!<p>You can&#x27;t go to a ferrari dealership and offer to buy one or $20k.. that&#x27;s just not how it works.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage</title><url>https://resumeskills.us/talent/shortage</url></story> |
2,538,397 | 2,538,296 | 1 | 3 | 2,537,811 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mynegation</author><text>Very good demonstration of subsequent improvements of a naive algorithm. To me that was somewhat depreciated by the fact that you can actually calculate n-the Fibonacci number using Binet's closed form formula (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_expression" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_ex...</a>). You will need arbitrary precision arithmetic starting with certain 'n' though, as IEEE 754 will not give you correct result.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"The worst algorithm in the world?"</title><url>http://bosker.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/the-worst-algorithm-in-the-world/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>perlgeek</author><text>&#62; It’s not just bad in the way that Bubble sort is a bad sorting algorithm; it’s bad in the way that Bogosort is a bad sorting algorithm.<p>Nonono, Bogosort is way worse than naive recursive fibonacci - the former doesn't even guarantee termination, recursive fibonacci still does.<p>If you want to calculate fibonacci numbers not as a misguided exercise in algorithms but actually efficiently, use an algebraic form: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Computation_by_rounding" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Computation_by...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"The worst algorithm in the world?"</title><url>http://bosker.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/the-worst-algorithm-in-the-world/</url></story> |
10,075,437 | 10,075,574 | 1 | 2 | 10,075,191 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>willhinsa</author><text>That&#x27;s exactly what I plan on using mine for. It makes logging actions so much faster. I would love to just have a smartwatch with a set of about 12 or so buttons that correspond to a specific action, but that will take time to happen, if at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>haswell</author><text>I could see this being a useful tool when trying to form good habits. Brush teeth? push the button. Get a fresh glass of water from the fridge? push the button.<p>When analyzing other aspects of my life such as spending, I have tools to show me what I&#x27;ve done in the past, and those tools can help me improve (e.g. spending reports). This is admittedly reactionary, but I find it useful nonetheless. Track enough other &quot;stuff about stuff&quot;, and I think the data could become interesting over time, providing similar &quot;hindsight&quot; that in turn can be used to improve oneself.<p>Of course, this means it will be necessary to have button things all over the place...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button</title><url>https://medium.com/@edwardbenson/how-i-hacked-amazon-s-5-wifi-button-to-track-baby-data-794214b0bdd8</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wmeredith</author><text>Screw pressing the buttons. Can I train an Amazon Echo to listen for me brushing my teeth?</text><parent_chain><item><author>haswell</author><text>I could see this being a useful tool when trying to form good habits. Brush teeth? push the button. Get a fresh glass of water from the fridge? push the button.<p>When analyzing other aspects of my life such as spending, I have tools to show me what I&#x27;ve done in the past, and those tools can help me improve (e.g. spending reports). This is admittedly reactionary, but I find it useful nonetheless. Track enough other &quot;stuff about stuff&quot;, and I think the data could become interesting over time, providing similar &quot;hindsight&quot; that in turn can be used to improve oneself.<p>Of course, this means it will be necessary to have button things all over the place...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button</title><url>https://medium.com/@edwardbenson/how-i-hacked-amazon-s-5-wifi-button-to-track-baby-data-794214b0bdd8</url></story> |
11,319,264 | 11,317,828 | 1 | 2 | 11,314,210 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jmilum</author><text>vodka and votka do share trigrams: __v, _vo, and ka_, as the PG rules for generating them add two spaces at the beginning and one at the end.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mbenjaminsmith</author><text>Trigrams are a very straightforward solution to this but they have one major limitation: They break with misspellings &#x2F; alternative spellings. For example the words &quot;vodka&quot; and &quot;votka&quot; share no trigrams yet are obviously very similar.<p>I recently worked on this problem for a project and came up with a more robust solution using pre-computed Levenshtein indexes. You&#x27;ve probably heard of Levenshtein distance as a measure of word similarity. It counts the number of single-character edits that are required to transform one string into another. For example &quot;vodka&quot; and &quot;votka&quot; have a Levenshtein distance of 1.<p>Using a related approach (single character edits) it&#x27;s possible to build a so-called Levenshtein index.<p>The major issue with a vanilla Levenshtein index is that it&#x27;s impractically large. There is a way to make a space &#x2F; time trade-off however that makes it much smaller. The basic idea is that instead of generating all Levenshtein variations for a word you only use the set of variations created by deleting single characters for a word.<p>Since that doesn&#x27;t match all possible variations we have to compensate somehow. For example with a full index &quot;votka&quot; would be in the set of variations for &quot;vodka&quot; which means if we had misspelled vodka when searching for it we&#x27;d still get a match. With our deletions-only index, however, we&#x27;d get &quot;voka&quot; as our closest match. To work around this, we generate the deletion-only variations of our search term as well. In this case our search term &quot;vodka&quot; would become &quot;odka&quot;, &quot;vdka&quot;, &quot;voka&quot;, etc. and each of those terms would be matched against the index. That means our query is slower overall as it contains a number of sub-queries but in practice it&#x27;s more than fast enough.<p>I wrote a meandering blog post about it here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lattejed.com&#x2F;writing-an-embedded-full-text-search-engine" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lattejed.com&#x2F;writing-an-embedded-full-text-search-eng...</a><p>There are some additional ideas in there such as how to make a Levenshtein index handle prefix matches better (for e.g., incremental search) that may be helpful if you need to implement something like this.<p>If you do read that I&#x27;d like to point out that I no longer recommend LevelDB. That doesn&#x27;t change anything of importance in the post though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fast Search Using PostgreSQL Trigram Indexes</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2016/03/18/fast-search-using-postgresql-trigram-indexes/?</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oelmekki</author><text>Super interesting approach, thanks for contributing it.<p>From what I see in your article, you used this for searching through mails, so I guess it works on a pretty decent volume of data, but just to confirm it: do you think it&#x27;s viable on something like gitlab&#x27;s multi-resources full text search? For reference, what is the size of this index for your mailbox? (assuming it&#x27;s an usual contractor dev mailbox, with mainly lots of notification mails and discussions with daily customers)<p>PS: don&#x27;t worry about other reactions, users have invaded our dev world, nowadays, the sad thing with having attractive salaries</text><parent_chain><item><author>mbenjaminsmith</author><text>Trigrams are a very straightforward solution to this but they have one major limitation: They break with misspellings &#x2F; alternative spellings. For example the words &quot;vodka&quot; and &quot;votka&quot; share no trigrams yet are obviously very similar.<p>I recently worked on this problem for a project and came up with a more robust solution using pre-computed Levenshtein indexes. You&#x27;ve probably heard of Levenshtein distance as a measure of word similarity. It counts the number of single-character edits that are required to transform one string into another. For example &quot;vodka&quot; and &quot;votka&quot; have a Levenshtein distance of 1.<p>Using a related approach (single character edits) it&#x27;s possible to build a so-called Levenshtein index.<p>The major issue with a vanilla Levenshtein index is that it&#x27;s impractically large. There is a way to make a space &#x2F; time trade-off however that makes it much smaller. The basic idea is that instead of generating all Levenshtein variations for a word you only use the set of variations created by deleting single characters for a word.<p>Since that doesn&#x27;t match all possible variations we have to compensate somehow. For example with a full index &quot;votka&quot; would be in the set of variations for &quot;vodka&quot; which means if we had misspelled vodka when searching for it we&#x27;d still get a match. With our deletions-only index, however, we&#x27;d get &quot;voka&quot; as our closest match. To work around this, we generate the deletion-only variations of our search term as well. In this case our search term &quot;vodka&quot; would become &quot;odka&quot;, &quot;vdka&quot;, &quot;voka&quot;, etc. and each of those terms would be matched against the index. That means our query is slower overall as it contains a number of sub-queries but in practice it&#x27;s more than fast enough.<p>I wrote a meandering blog post about it here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lattejed.com&#x2F;writing-an-embedded-full-text-search-engine" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lattejed.com&#x2F;writing-an-embedded-full-text-search-eng...</a><p>There are some additional ideas in there such as how to make a Levenshtein index handle prefix matches better (for e.g., incremental search) that may be helpful if you need to implement something like this.<p>If you do read that I&#x27;d like to point out that I no longer recommend LevelDB. That doesn&#x27;t change anything of importance in the post though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fast Search Using PostgreSQL Trigram Indexes</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2016/03/18/fast-search-using-postgresql-trigram-indexes/?</url></story> |
32,855,512 | 32,853,869 | 1 | 2 | 32,850,274 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ouid</author><text>The main problem with technology in the past (~2) decades, aka modern technology, is that it has been virtually all developed under the business model of advertising. I don&#x27;t care how much of your income comes from advertising, you should be alarmed that so much of the world runs on the ability to <i>efficiently and effectively manipulate people for money</i>.<p>Advertising, and especially the technological improvements to advertising, are a threat. If you are of reasonable intelligence, trying to ignore this threat, or write it off as funding &quot;a lot of good things&quot;, will cause cognitive dissonance and you will find yourself feeling &quot;like a crotchety old man&quot; in the face of new technology, even if you are not honest with yourself as to why.<p>I think Doug was reasonably self-aware, and would probably write, today, about how his wisdom about technophobia did not age well.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Have I reached the Douglas Adams Inflection point?</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/09/have-i-reached-the-douglas-adams-inflection-point-or-is-modern-tech-just-a-bit-rubbish/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joshe</author><text>I think for all the tech he&#x27;s bored of, he&#x27;s reading cynical media accounts instead experiencing them himself. And this is how you age into old man shouts at cloud.<p>Why his boring stuff is actually cool:<p>Block chain is cool, I agree that we haven&#x27;t figured out what to do with it. In the papers you read about NFTs and using too much energy. But if you listen to interviews with Vitalik Buterin instead you can realize that there are smart people trying to figure out what to do with this cool new thing. (I hold no crypto btw).<p>I remember the first VR too. They&#x27;ve fixed a lot of the problems. I&#x27;ve had amazing artistic experiences just sitting in a little tiny apartment in Hong Kong. Beat Saber is fun, and different from other video games. Flight simulator is much better with it. I don&#x27;t get the Meta&#x2F;Zuckerberg media push, but if you avoid taking journalists seriously then it is a cool new thing. Also I&#x27;m more excited about AR than VR, will love to have the world annotated.<p>Self driving cars are amazing. After about 15 minutes using a Tesla on the Highway, you realize you don&#x27;t have to monitor it. You get to relax and be a passenger. It works pretty well in towns too, but you have to monitor it. Again don&#x27;t listen to journalists and it seems like a miracle.<p>I don&#x27;t like voice assistants either, but it&#x27;s cool that they kinda work. Five year old kids can play songs they like.<p>I don&#x27;t understand 5G in phones either. But! It turns out that it&#x27;s a great way to get internet service in your house. Now you have a competitor to your awful cable company. Even if you never use it, your price for high speed internet will go down. When sonic fiber optic came to my neighborhood in SF, I couldn&#x27;t get it. But my cable internet bill came down $25 per month and they upgraded the speed.<p>Anyway stop reading dumb cynical journalists, experience things for yourself and you will age gracefully.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Have I reached the Douglas Adams Inflection point?</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/09/have-i-reached-the-douglas-adams-inflection-point-or-is-modern-tech-just-a-bit-rubbish/</url></story> |
39,003,456 | 39,001,147 | 1 | 3 | 38,989,249 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Supermancho</author><text>DMSO is a common ingredient in pain medication from Mexico. I have seen it in salves, among other things. The DMSO4 theory is likely correct.<p>You can also get DMSO from various sources in the US. Usually from &quot;Health Food&quot; or &quot;Supplement&quot; stores. You can just buy it off Amazon now. It&#x27;s pretty good
(water diluted) for relief of nerve damage from a burn or peripheral neuropathy. caveat: I&#x27;m not a doctor, but I&#x27;ve both used it and know others who have.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What's the story on the "toxic lady"? (1996)</title><url>https://www.straightdope.com/21342164/what-s-the-story-on-the-toxic-lady</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tetris11</author><text>Cecil Adams is an internet treasure. Before Reddit, his site was the main GOTO for interesting in depth answers to inane questions.<p>One of my favourites is the cause of the &quot;piss shiver&quot; (the shiver you sometimes get when peeing):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.straightdope.com&#x2F;21342202&#x2F;what-causes-piss-shiver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.straightdope.com&#x2F;21342202&#x2F;what-causes-piss-shive...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What's the story on the "toxic lady"? (1996)</title><url>https://www.straightdope.com/21342164/what-s-the-story-on-the-toxic-lady</url></story> |
6,239,387 | 6,239,439 | 1 | 3 | 6,239,011 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alan_cx</author><text>Yep, hands up, took me a while too.<p>I wonder if the media and&#x2F;or government(s) were bending over backwards to make damn sure no one could be accused of homophobia. Dunno about the US, but in the UK, if there were the slightest smell of homophobia, a whole new can of worms would have been opened. The gay rights folk would have, rightly IMHO, exploded, with quite a lot of public support. Oddly, I reckon if this had been some how made a gay issue, the government would have been in a lot more trouble. Last thing this UK government in particular wants is any more controversy over gay rights issues. Lining it to the spying would be both explosive, and kinda 1960&#x27;s traditional!!!<p>Or perhaps some credit is due in that some parts of the media have simply grown up, and the gay part really is a non issue. Which would be a good thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mitchty</author><text>To be honest it was confusing as hell because they said partner and his name is Miranda, more commonly a girls name. Seriously, boyfriend or husband, partner just sounds like some live in person or like you said business related.<p>I&#x27;m also amused by just how hard these reporters seem to even avoid pronouns or other language that would indicate his gender. Strikes me as really really odd.</text></item><item><author>saraid216</author><text>...it took me this long to realize &quot;partner&quot; was a personal relation, not a professional relation.</text></item><item><author>mjolk</author><text>How would that notification go?<p>&quot;Hey guys, we&#x27;re going to bully the boyfriend of a reporter for you. High five?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/19/white-house-had-advance-notice-on-heathrow-detention/?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>David Miranda.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mitchty</author><text>To be honest it was confusing as hell because they said partner and his name is Miranda, more commonly a girls name. Seriously, boyfriend or husband, partner just sounds like some live in person or like you said business related.<p>I&#x27;m also amused by just how hard these reporters seem to even avoid pronouns or other language that would indicate his gender. Strikes me as really really odd.</text></item><item><author>saraid216</author><text>...it took me this long to realize &quot;partner&quot; was a personal relation, not a professional relation.</text></item><item><author>mjolk</author><text>How would that notification go?<p>&quot;Hey guys, we&#x27;re going to bully the boyfriend of a reporter for you. High five?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/19/white-house-had-advance-notice-on-heathrow-detention/?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories</url></story> |
32,668,060 | 32,667,596 | 1 | 3 | 32,664,507 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shafyy</author><text>Here&#x27;s one by Stability AI themselves: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.dreamstudio.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.dreamstudio.ai</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>codeulike</author><text>re: Stable Diffusion: is there a site similar to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.craiyon.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.craiyon.com&#x2F;</a> where I can experiment with Stable Diffusion?</text></item><item><author>woeirua</author><text>Meanwhile someone has already built a photoshop plugin for Stable Diffusion that you can use today to do basically the _exact_ same thing:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StableDiffusion&#x2F;comments&#x2F;wyduk1&#x2F;show_rstablediffusion_integrating_sd_in_photoshop&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StableDiffusion&#x2F;comments&#x2F;wyduk1&#x2F;sho...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/dall-e-introducing-outpainting/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spyder</author><text>A collection of sites using stable diffusion:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StableDiffusion&#x2F;comments&#x2F;wzj8kk&#x2F;a_collection_of_sites_using_stable_diffusion_and&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StableDiffusion&#x2F;comments&#x2F;wzj8kk&#x2F;a_c...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>codeulike</author><text>re: Stable Diffusion: is there a site similar to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.craiyon.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.craiyon.com&#x2F;</a> where I can experiment with Stable Diffusion?</text></item><item><author>woeirua</author><text>Meanwhile someone has already built a photoshop plugin for Stable Diffusion that you can use today to do basically the _exact_ same thing:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StableDiffusion&#x2F;comments&#x2F;wyduk1&#x2F;show_rstablediffusion_integrating_sd_in_photoshop&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StableDiffusion&#x2F;comments&#x2F;wyduk1&#x2F;sho...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/dall-e-introducing-outpainting/</url></story> |
25,128,008 | 25,126,069 | 1 | 3 | 25,124,211 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Arainach</author><text>I&#x27;ve had mine for 4-6 weeks now. I&#x27;m not returning it, but I can&#x27;t particularly recommend it - both the annotation and eReading experiences are significantly inferior to what you&#x27;d get with Onenote, Notability, or Drawboard on iPad&#x2F;Surface.<p>The reMarkable hardware is nice, but its stock software is frankly disappointing. The hackability is a &quot;plus&quot;, but I don&#x27;t want to have to resort to unsupported firmware tweaks to fix a $500 device.<p>Specific feedback:<p>* Zooming is incredibly coarse. There is no pinch zoom, only a button in the UI that jumps in intervals of 100% or more. On many of my documents it goes from slightly too small to WAY too big with no level in between<p>* Speaking of zooming, the pen controls overlay the document, often blocking parts of the text. There is no way to scale the document to fit in the remaining space. There&#x27;s not even a way to have the button backgrounds be transparent so you could still read most of the text.<p>* It doesn&#x27;t support in-document hyperlinks in PDF or ePub, so your table of contents and index are worthless.<p>* If you somehow know what page you want to jump to, that&#x27;s buried two menus deep and frustrating to get to<p>* Search is very slow in large (100+ page) documents, and results trickle in gradually so you can never be quite sure when you&#x27;re looking at the whole list. Given that one of my desired uses for the device is to carry around some PDF textbook-style references, this hurts.<p>* You can&#x27;t change the default writing utensil, so if you don&#x27;t like the grainy mid-width pencil you have to change it every single time you open a new document<p>* There&#x27;s no pressure sensitivity in the pen<p>* The eraser works like a pencil eraser, not a digital one. There is no way to erase a stroke, so you&#x27;ll inevitably erase more than you want to and have to redraw some of it</text><parent_chain><item><author>jason_slack</author><text>&gt; ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive,<p>I have been contemplating buying a ReMarkable 2 as I prefer to handwrite everything&#x2F;annotate&#x2F;. The price tag is a bit hefty given the cost of an iPad and pencil and the zillion other things it does.<p>I&#x27;m curious if you are indeed going to buy one?</text></item><item><author>myself248</author><text>I&#x27;ve been looking for an e-ink tablet that I can bend to my will, but the Kindle hacking scene seems to have peaked around 2012 and it&#x27;s a desolate wasteland of dead links now. That&#x27;s a shame, because the hardware is really cheap.<p>ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, but that would be justified if these &quot;hacks&quot; were officially supported or at least acknowledged enough that some future firmware update wouldn&#x27;t ruin any workflow I build with them.<p>Is there any hint of such acknowledgment, or would I be risking $448 on a device that might turn itself into a paperweight?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks</title><url>https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dheera</author><text>I ended up going with a Boox tablet, mainly because it can run arbitrary Android apps. This means that among other things, installing the Kindle app turns it into a Kindle, and I can also install Dropbox, Google Drive, and Slack on it to transfer PDF sheet music and papers, among other things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jason_slack</author><text>&gt; ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive,<p>I have been contemplating buying a ReMarkable 2 as I prefer to handwrite everything&#x2F;annotate&#x2F;. The price tag is a bit hefty given the cost of an iPad and pencil and the zillion other things it does.<p>I&#x27;m curious if you are indeed going to buy one?</text></item><item><author>myself248</author><text>I&#x27;ve been looking for an e-ink tablet that I can bend to my will, but the Kindle hacking scene seems to have peaked around 2012 and it&#x27;s a desolate wasteland of dead links now. That&#x27;s a shame, because the hardware is really cheap.<p>ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, but that would be justified if these &quot;hacks&quot; were officially supported or at least acknowledged enough that some future firmware update wouldn&#x27;t ruin any workflow I build with them.<p>Is there any hint of such acknowledgment, or would I be risking $448 on a device that might turn itself into a paperweight?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks</title><url>https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable</url></story> |
39,813,207 | 39,812,804 | 1 | 2 | 39,811,604 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chungy</author><text>Memory is a fickle thing, but the format dialog enforcing a FAT32 limit is probably Dave&#x27;s biggest failing when it comes to telling old stories.<p>I don&#x27;t know if FAT32 was in development in late 1994, it&#x27;s possible, but it sure didn&#x27;t ship in Windows NT 4, nor the original Windows 95. Even when it did land in Windows 95 OSR2, the format command happily accepted partitions up to 128GiB; but okay, Windows 95 isn&#x27;t NT.<p>Windows 2000&#x27;s internal formatting functions appear to be the real reason FAT32 is limited to 32GiB on new formats. The GUI, format command, and diskpart are all equally incapable of creating a &gt;32GiB file system. Why? Who knows, it&#x27;s not like drives of that size or larger didn&#x27;t already exist at the time. If you use, say, mkdosfs on Linux, the VFAT driver in Windows 2000+ will take volumes up to 2TiB, you can even install Windows 2000 on such large volumes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bc_programming</author><text>I was able to confirm in the Windows NT4 source code that he originally wrote some of the code for the format dialog on 2-13-95. That much is true. (late 1994, early 1995, close enough)<p>&gt;&quot;I also had to decide how much &#x27;cluster slack&#x27; would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB.&quot;<p>NT4 didn&#x27;t support FAT32, and NT4 actually was actually able to be 4GB rather than 2GB for a FAT volume because NT4 allowed 64K clusters, so actually exceeded what most systems were able to do at the time. Formatting as FAT in NT4 had no cluster check or option. The cluster size used was decided based on the size of the volume.<p>Furthermore, the The 32GB limitation for FAT32 volumes was originally in the internal format functions, not the dialog itself. On Windows 2000 (Which does support FAT32) you can try to format a drive bigger than 32GB as FAT32, but the formatting will fail, as it is hard-coded at the end of the format to fail trying to format FAT32 volumes larger than 32GB. The dialog itself isn&#x27;t what presents this limitation and it is shared by the command line format.com which uses the same functions.<p>Not sure why he seems to always exaggerate his own involvement. He&#x27;s got people believing that he wrote the Zip folder code that Microsoft literally licensed from Info-Zip because he had to touch it to get it integrated. I guess exaggeration is what &quot;influencers&quot; do, and that&#x27;s what he is at least trying to be now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Format Dialog in Windows NT</title><url>https://twitter.com/davepl1968/status/1772042158046146792</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rsweeney21</author><text>I owned zip folders for a while during the windows Vista days. I could have sworn the code was originally purchased, not written by someone at Microsoft. Honestly, it looked like it had been run through an obfuscator. I assumed that the original author had done that to ensure it was difficult for Microsoft to make changes&#x2F;improvements.<p>I still have nightmares about that code. :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>bc_programming</author><text>I was able to confirm in the Windows NT4 source code that he originally wrote some of the code for the format dialog on 2-13-95. That much is true. (late 1994, early 1995, close enough)<p>&gt;&quot;I also had to decide how much &#x27;cluster slack&#x27; would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB.&quot;<p>NT4 didn&#x27;t support FAT32, and NT4 actually was actually able to be 4GB rather than 2GB for a FAT volume because NT4 allowed 64K clusters, so actually exceeded what most systems were able to do at the time. Formatting as FAT in NT4 had no cluster check or option. The cluster size used was decided based on the size of the volume.<p>Furthermore, the The 32GB limitation for FAT32 volumes was originally in the internal format functions, not the dialog itself. On Windows 2000 (Which does support FAT32) you can try to format a drive bigger than 32GB as FAT32, but the formatting will fail, as it is hard-coded at the end of the format to fail trying to format FAT32 volumes larger than 32GB. The dialog itself isn&#x27;t what presents this limitation and it is shared by the command line format.com which uses the same functions.<p>Not sure why he seems to always exaggerate his own involvement. He&#x27;s got people believing that he wrote the Zip folder code that Microsoft literally licensed from Info-Zip because he had to touch it to get it integrated. I guess exaggeration is what &quot;influencers&quot; do, and that&#x27;s what he is at least trying to be now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Format Dialog in Windows NT</title><url>https://twitter.com/davepl1968/status/1772042158046146792</url></story> |
23,482,993 | 23,483,193 | 1 | 3 | 23,482,406 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gregsadetsky</author><text>In the ACLU&#x27;s posts, they say that they used the &quot;default match settings&quot;. In their response [0] to Amazon&#x27;s response, the ACLU links to a guide published by Amazon [1] intended to &quot;Identify Persons of Interest for Law Enforcement&quot; that does use `searchFaceRequest?.faceMatchThreshold = 0.85;` (this is still the case today).<p>Fast Company [2] writes about this as well: &quot;The ACLU in both tests used an 80% match confidence threshold, which is Amazon’s default setting, but Amazon says it encourages law enforcement to use a 99% threshold for spotting a match.&quot; That bit of the article links to the CompareFaces API documentation [3] which (still) states &quot;By default, only faces with a similarity score of greater than or equal to 80% are returned in the response&quot;.<p>Have you seen&#x2F;read something else about this?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;aclu-comment-new-amazon-statement-responding-face-recognition-technology-test" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;aclu-comment-new-amazon-...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;machine-learning&#x2F;using-amazon-rekognition-to-identify-persons-of-interest-for-law-enforcement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;machine-learning&#x2F;using-amazon-r...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;90389905&#x2F;aclu-amazon-face-recognition-falsely-matched-ca-lawmakers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;90389905&#x2F;aclu-amazon-face-recogn...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;rekognition&#x2F;latest&#x2F;dg&#x2F;API_CompareFaces.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;rekognition&#x2F;latest&#x2F;dg&#x2F;API_Compar...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>hnmullany</author><text>I&#x27;m a big ACLU supporter, but thought this was poorly done. They never released either the database or the code for this testing, and had configured the recognition level against Amazon&#x27;s recommendations.</text></item><item><author>chishaku</author><text>The ACLU is doing a lot of great work to hold government accountable when it comes to facial recognition tech.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;aclu-challenges-fbi-face-recognition-secrecy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;aclu-challenges-fbi-face...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;aclu-challenges-dhs-face-recognition-secrecy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;aclu-challenges-dhs-face...</a><p>Would be great to see Amazon&#x27;s support.<p>The ACLU ran an experiment with Rekognition and these are their findings:<p>&quot;Using Rekognition, we built a face database and search tool using 25,000 publicly available arrest photos. Then we searched that database against public photos of every current member of the House and Senate. We used the default match settings that Amazon sets for Rekognition.<p>... the software incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress, identifying them as other people who have been arrested for a crime.<p>... Academic research [0] has also already shown that face recognition is less accurate for darker-skinned faces and women. Our results validate this concern: Nearly 40 percent of Rekognition’s false matches in our test were of people of color, even though they make up only 20 percent of Congress.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;privacy-technology&#x2F;surveillance-technologies&#x2F;amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;privacy-technology&#x2F;surveillance-te...</a><p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;proceedings.mlr.press&#x2F;v81&#x2F;buolamwini18a&#x2F;buolamwini18a.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;proceedings.mlr.press&#x2F;v81&#x2F;buolamwini18a&#x2F;buolamwini18a...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition</title><url>https://blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/we-are-implementing-a-one-year-moratorium-on-police-use-of-rekognition</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HaloZero</author><text>I agree. I wish the ACLU would re-run the results at 99%. But Amazon&#x27;s example post about law enforcement has it set to 85%.<p>I don&#x27;t think this 99% thing is communicated properly at Amazon if it&#x27;s getting through blog posts like this.<p>So I think a valid criticism is that we need to make sure that it&#x27;s higher.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;machine-learning&#x2F;using-amazon-rekognition-to-identify-persons-of-interest-for-law-enforcement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;machine-learning&#x2F;using-amazon-r...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>hnmullany</author><text>I&#x27;m a big ACLU supporter, but thought this was poorly done. They never released either the database or the code for this testing, and had configured the recognition level against Amazon&#x27;s recommendations.</text></item><item><author>chishaku</author><text>The ACLU is doing a lot of great work to hold government accountable when it comes to facial recognition tech.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;aclu-challenges-fbi-face-recognition-secrecy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;aclu-challenges-fbi-face...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;aclu-challenges-dhs-face-recognition-secrecy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;aclu-challenges-dhs-face...</a><p>Would be great to see Amazon&#x27;s support.<p>The ACLU ran an experiment with Rekognition and these are their findings:<p>&quot;Using Rekognition, we built a face database and search tool using 25,000 publicly available arrest photos. Then we searched that database against public photos of every current member of the House and Senate. We used the default match settings that Amazon sets for Rekognition.<p>... the software incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress, identifying them as other people who have been arrested for a crime.<p>... Academic research [0] has also already shown that face recognition is less accurate for darker-skinned faces and women. Our results validate this concern: Nearly 40 percent of Rekognition’s false matches in our test were of people of color, even though they make up only 20 percent of Congress.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;privacy-technology&#x2F;surveillance-technologies&#x2F;amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;privacy-technology&#x2F;surveillance-te...</a><p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;proceedings.mlr.press&#x2F;v81&#x2F;buolamwini18a&#x2F;buolamwini18a.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;proceedings.mlr.press&#x2F;v81&#x2F;buolamwini18a&#x2F;buolamwini18a...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition</title><url>https://blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/we-are-implementing-a-one-year-moratorium-on-police-use-of-rekognition</url></story> |
40,764,696 | 40,764,510 | 1 | 3 | 40,754,471 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>radiojosh</author><text>I worked at &quot;The Only Sony Only&quot; store in St. Louis when this TV came out. I delivered and installed equipment among other responsibilities. I might have delivered two of these particular units. I believe it was actually like 305 pounds.<p>This television had a couple of interesting traits. Sony flat Trinitrons were apparently the only true flat CRT televisions where both the outside AND inside of the tube were flat. This is why they were so heavy - the flat glass had to be thicker to withstand the vacuum inside.<p>It was a high definition television, but it was 4:3 aspect ratio. They sold a 34 inch CRT that was the only 16:9 CRT they offered at the time.<p>Additionally, the size of the 40 inch tube apparently left it extra vulnerable to stray magnetic fields. CRT screens all respond to magnets by producing rainbow colored distortions, but the 40 inch was extra sensitive. We delivered one to a house and turned it on only to find that the screen colors were distorted. I&#x27;m not sure how we figured it out, but we realized it was the proximity to the metal floor beam, so we moved the TV to another spot in the room and the color distortion went away.<p>For context, you could get an HD 65 inch rear projection wide screen television at the time that only weighed 265 pounds. I delivered both the 40 inch and the 65 inch up a flight of stairs. Those moving straps that hang from your forearms were not yet popular.</text><parent_chain><item><author>esprehn</author><text>My parents had a Sony KV-40XBR700, the 40in 300lb CRT. I thought it was the largest you could buy until learning about the even larger one in TFA.<p>The picture quality on the KV-40XBR700 was amazing for the era (~2003). My Dad cleverly cut a hole into the wall up high and stuck the TV into it, then put a picture frame around it giving us one of the first &quot;high definition flat screens&quot; even if it was an illusion.<p>Of course these days our 43in TV weighs less than 20lbs and is mounted with a couple small wall anchors.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300</title><url>https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-biggest-crt-ever-made-sonys-pvm-4300/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikepurvis</author><text>And wild to think that nowadays 43” is on the smaller side even for a non home theatre “living room” TV— the standard is much more around 55”.</text><parent_chain><item><author>esprehn</author><text>My parents had a Sony KV-40XBR700, the 40in 300lb CRT. I thought it was the largest you could buy until learning about the even larger one in TFA.<p>The picture quality on the KV-40XBR700 was amazing for the era (~2003). My Dad cleverly cut a hole into the wall up high and stuck the TV into it, then put a picture frame around it giving us one of the first &quot;high definition flat screens&quot; even if it was an illusion.<p>Of course these days our 43in TV weighs less than 20lbs and is mounted with a couple small wall anchors.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300</title><url>https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-biggest-crt-ever-made-sonys-pvm-4300/</url></story> |
34,209,957 | 34,209,977 | 1 | 3 | 34,207,926 | 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>campchase</author><text>My name is Joe Morrison, and I’m ready to be roasted on here again. Please feel free to ask me anything or challenge any of what I’ve written!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry</title><url>https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/how-internet-in-space-will-transform</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>I figure the market for &quot;low&quot; resolution imagery will be destroyed when Starlink decides to add something like a fixed wide angle 100 megapixel cameras to every satellite. There are a lot of options for what to do from there, but getting continuous global imagery would suddenly be possible.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry</title><url>https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/how-internet-in-space-will-transform</url></story> |
18,221,690 | 18,220,841 | 1 | 2 | 18,219,444 | 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>perennate</author><text>MIT&#x27;s news article [1] has more concrete information. The NYT article is a bit misleading.<p>It is a College of Computing, not College of AI. Also note that MIT has Schools (School of Engineering, School of Science, etc.), not Colleges; so this will be something different.<p>For example, according to MIT&#x27;s FAQ [2], EECS Department will likely continue to be part of School of Engineering, even as it becomes part of College of Computing.<p>In particular:<p>&gt; The College will reorient MIT to bring the power of computing and AI to all fields of study at MIT, allowing the future of computing and AI to be shaped by insights from all other disciplines;<p>&gt; Q: Why is this a college, rather than a school? What is the difference?<p>&gt; A: The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing will work with and across all five of MIT’s existing schools. Its naming as a college differentiates it from the five schools, and signals that it is an Institute-wide entity: The College is designed with cross-cutting education and research as its primary missions.<p>&gt; Q: What kinds of new joint academic programs or degrees are envisioned?<p>&gt; A: MIT has been making progress in this direction for some time; for example, we already offer undergraduate majors that pair computer science with economics, biology, mathematics, and urban planning. The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing will allow MIT to respond to the student demand the Institute is seeing in course and major&#x2F;minor selection more effectively and creatively. It will enable MIT to pursue this vision with unprecedented depth and ambition, and will give MIT’s five schools a shared structure for collaborative education, research, and innovation in computing and AI.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mit.edu&#x2F;2018&#x2F;mit-reshapes-itself-stephen-schwarzman-college-of-computing-1015" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mit.edu&#x2F;2018&#x2F;mit-reshapes-itself-stephen-schwarz...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mit.edu&#x2F;2018&#x2F;faq-mit-stephen-schwarzman-college-of-computing-1015" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mit.edu&#x2F;2018&#x2F;faq-mit-stephen-schwarzman-college-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>randcraw</author><text>This sounds like a direct response to two things (mostly): 1) CMU establishing a &#x27;department&#x27; of AI (where MIT had merely an AI track within the CS program), and 2) Kai-Fu Lee&#x27;s recent book on the rise and inevitable domination by China of all things AI-related -- inviting a new &#x27;space race&#x27; between the superpowers. (A &#x27;brain race&#x27;?)<p>Yet I can&#x27;t imagine why an entire &#x27;college&#x27; of AI is needed. AI simply isn&#x27;t a field that&#x27;s deep or broad enough to warrant an entire college with a handful of distinct majors, like an engineering college or medical school. Each of this college&#x27;s AI degrees will span distinct problem or solution spaces? Not likely.<p>Maybe this was the only way to ensure the gift of all $350 million. Or to build <i>multiple</i> new buildings...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1B</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/mit-college-artificial-intelligence.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChrisRackauckas</author><text>AI isn&#x27;t a method, it&#x27;s a field of trying to solve problems through an almost pure computational mean. People tend to think of it as machine learning, but there&#x27;s a whole range of mathematics and computer science related to solving these kinds of problems. In this sense, PDE-constrained optimal control of power grids, parameter estimation of pharmacometric models, robotics and automation, and bioinformatic advances like automated cell detection for enhanced next-generation sequencing techniques can easily fit under an AI umbrella. That makes it a huge interdisciplinary effort that can easily span a whole college, and something MIT is very well primed to succeed in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>randcraw</author><text>This sounds like a direct response to two things (mostly): 1) CMU establishing a &#x27;department&#x27; of AI (where MIT had merely an AI track within the CS program), and 2) Kai-Fu Lee&#x27;s recent book on the rise and inevitable domination by China of all things AI-related -- inviting a new &#x27;space race&#x27; between the superpowers. (A &#x27;brain race&#x27;?)<p>Yet I can&#x27;t imagine why an entire &#x27;college&#x27; of AI is needed. AI simply isn&#x27;t a field that&#x27;s deep or broad enough to warrant an entire college with a handful of distinct majors, like an engineering college or medical school. Each of this college&#x27;s AI degrees will span distinct problem or solution spaces? Not likely.<p>Maybe this was the only way to ensure the gift of all $350 million. Or to build <i>multiple</i> new buildings...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1B</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/mit-college-artificial-intelligence.html</url></story> |
31,492,676 | 31,490,692 | 1 | 2 | 31,487,079 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JeremyNT</author><text>&gt; Microsoft may have a dominant position in developer tooling, but they don’t have a monopoly. A well-funded team could create a compelling competitor to VS Code.<p>I would argue that the best thing to come out of VS Code isn&#x27;t even &quot;VS Code&quot; the overall environment, it&#x27;s LSP [0], and MS has given that back to the community such that anybody can use it in a competing editor. I don&#x27;t really think &quot;VS Code&quot; the product has a &quot;moat&quot; here and (up to now, at least) MS hasn&#x27;t demonstrated much intent on creating one.<p>On a personal note I&#x27;ve tried using VS Code many times, but although the features look nice, I find the UI too alien. Luckily, vim has plugins to use LSP, so I can have all of the features I want in my existing editor.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;microsoft.github.io&#x2F;language-server-protocol&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;microsoft.github.io&#x2F;language-server-protocol&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>zarzavat</author><text>Microsoft may have a dominant position in developer tooling, but they don’t have a monopoly. A well-funded team could create a compelling competitor to VS Code.<p>The issue is that there’s no money to be made duplicating the effort that has gone into VS Code when VS Code is open source. Even Google doesn’t seem to care about entering that space.</text></item><item><author>crabmusket</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to me that GitLab is adopting a Microsoft product (VS Code) and Microsoft owns a significant competitor in GitHub. Nothing intelligent to say about that other than to wish I&#x27;d been a fly on the wall for the discussions about that.<p>&gt; Next, we asked ourselves the question: Do we want to continue to invest in implementing custom features for the Web IDE that ultimately deliver the same value as those already available in VS Code? Or do we embrace VS Code inside GitLab, and invest in extending the experience to more tightly integrate with GitLab and the DevOps workflow?<p>I feel like if asking myself those questions I&#x27;d have come to the same answer, but it&#x27;s certainly an interesting position. It&#x27;s not necessarily that I think Microsoft will leverage this open-source project against GitLab. Maybe it just says something about Microsoft&#x27;s increasingly-dominant position in developer tooling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/23/the-future-of-the-gitlab-web-ide/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codemusings</author><text>&gt; A well-funded team could create a compelling competitor to VS Code.<p>And yet they failed. Remember Atom[1] or Brackets[2]? I&#x27;m sure they are still used by a lot of people. But it was interesting to see Microsoft grow VS Code so fast in popularity. My vague notion is that addressing developer pain points early and providing first party plugins for popular ecosystems gave them an edge.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atom</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brackets.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brackets.io&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>zarzavat</author><text>Microsoft may have a dominant position in developer tooling, but they don’t have a monopoly. A well-funded team could create a compelling competitor to VS Code.<p>The issue is that there’s no money to be made duplicating the effort that has gone into VS Code when VS Code is open source. Even Google doesn’t seem to care about entering that space.</text></item><item><author>crabmusket</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to me that GitLab is adopting a Microsoft product (VS Code) and Microsoft owns a significant competitor in GitHub. Nothing intelligent to say about that other than to wish I&#x27;d been a fly on the wall for the discussions about that.<p>&gt; Next, we asked ourselves the question: Do we want to continue to invest in implementing custom features for the Web IDE that ultimately deliver the same value as those already available in VS Code? Or do we embrace VS Code inside GitLab, and invest in extending the experience to more tightly integrate with GitLab and the DevOps workflow?<p>I feel like if asking myself those questions I&#x27;d have come to the same answer, but it&#x27;s certainly an interesting position. It&#x27;s not necessarily that I think Microsoft will leverage this open-source project against GitLab. Maybe it just says something about Microsoft&#x27;s increasingly-dominant position in developer tooling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/23/the-future-of-the-gitlab-web-ide/</url></story> |
35,596,683 | 35,595,723 | 1 | 2 | 35,595,071 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>csdvrx</author><text>Constraint programming (and constraint propagation) is highly underrated.<p>For those not familiar with it yet, this is what&#x27;s used under the hood by things like systemd: you give a bunch of constraints (ex: service A before service B, service B before service D but after service C, etc) and you get a solution (or none, but that&#x27;s another story: when there are no solution, you can try to relax some constraints)<p>If you want to learn more, I suggest playing with Z3 from Microsoft Research: a nice tutorial is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericpony.github.io&#x2F;z3py-tutorial&#x2F;guide-examples.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericpony.github.io&#x2F;z3py-tutorial&#x2F;guide-examples.htm</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Constraint Programming (2020)</title><url>https://mareknarozniak.com/2020/06/22/constraint-programming/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>binkHN</author><text>I took a similar approach with a somewhat complicated scheduling requirement across dates and times. I originally brute forced the problem, but the solution was a bit inelegant and not ideal. When I used constraint programming to solve the same problem, it took me a little longer to devise the solution, but the result was superior. Also, the constraint programming solution is a little more memory intensive, but a necessary proper solution.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Constraint Programming (2020)</title><url>https://mareknarozniak.com/2020/06/22/constraint-programming/</url></story> |
30,229,055 | 30,225,474 | 1 | 2 | 30,224,838 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mickael-kerjean</author><text>Django admin is quite an awesome tool but very stack specific. If you don&#x27;t use Django, I have open source [1] a tool that takes another approach which is to query the DB schema directly so people can fill up form and follow along the different foreign keys of the db. An example of this approach can be seen there: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.filestash.app&#x2F;login?type=mysql&amp;host=88.99.185.55&amp;username=anonymous&amp;password=anonymous&amp;next=&#x2F;files&#x2F;classicmodels&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.filestash.app&#x2F;login?type=mysql&amp;host=88.99.185.5...</a> which is using a sample DB [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mickael-kerjean&#x2F;filestash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mickael-kerjean&#x2F;filestash</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mysqltutorial.org&#x2F;mysql-sample-database.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mysqltutorial.org&#x2F;mysql-sample-database.aspx</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jolie: A drop-in replacement of Django Admin</title><url>https://www.jolie.dev/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>While a better interface is welcome, relying too much on Django admin panel is a path best avoided.<p>Great for small stuff, but far too often one end up using it for too much. Extending it with more widgets, custom logic, fine grained access. Quick in the beginning, very hard to maintain in the end compared to a custom made view.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jolie: A drop-in replacement of Django Admin</title><url>https://www.jolie.dev/</url></story> |
38,750,680 | 38,750,618 | 1 | 2 | 38,750,079 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iaseiadit</author><text>&gt; However the neighborhoods are dreamy<p>I never got this. I lived in a “good” neighborhood, but still the TL issues (drug addicts, unhoused mentally ill people, dirty sidewalks, needles) still crept in. What neighborhoods are immune to this?</text><parent_chain><item><author>cleandreams</author><text>I live in SF and I think the doom loop narrative is true of downtown. So many job cuts (though I think the AI boom is already gaining traction).<p>However the neighborhoods are dreamy, as good as ever. The city lost population during the pandemic but it has been gaining and in 2023, it is the fastest growing in the state.<p>I&#x27;ve been in tech for years here and it is the best job market, most lucrative, and most advanced. It&#x27;s an opportunity to work here. Just don&#x27;t live in the tenderloin.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/sf-rent-prices-18534829.php</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pixelatedindex</author><text>I’m leaving SF to go to Seattle because they changed the job on me but are paying me more than I ever have. I’m relocating to improve my finances temporarily but I really hope I can come back to SF. I’ve been here for over a decade and this feels like home to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cleandreams</author><text>I live in SF and I think the doom loop narrative is true of downtown. So many job cuts (though I think the AI boom is already gaining traction).<p>However the neighborhoods are dreamy, as good as ever. The city lost population during the pandemic but it has been gaining and in 2023, it is the fastest growing in the state.<p>I&#x27;ve been in tech for years here and it is the best job market, most lucrative, and most advanced. It&#x27;s an opportunity to work here. Just don&#x27;t live in the tenderloin.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/sf-rent-prices-18534829.php</url></story> |
4,389,542 | 4,389,221 | 1 | 3 | 4,388,254 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shawndumas</author><text>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General\SuppressUppercaseConversion
REG_DWORD value: 1</text><parent_chain><item><author>aaronbrethorst</author><text>THE MENUS ARE STILL SCREAMING AT US, I REALLY WISH THEY'D CHANGED THAT BACK, SINCE IT MAKES IT A LOT HARDER TO READ.<p>Edit: there are actually studies on this. See, for example, this: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_caps#Readability" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_caps#Readability</a><p>Edit 2: Also considering that, once upon a time, I was the Program Manager who would've owned implementation of this misfeature, I feel entitled to complain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2012/08/15/visual-studio-2012-and-net-framework-4-5-released-to-the-web.aspx</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>wideroots</author><text>You can do the registry hack to turn off "ALL CAPS MENU"
<a href="http://www.richard-banks.org/2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-studio-2012-all.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.richard-banks.org/2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-s...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>aaronbrethorst</author><text>THE MENUS ARE STILL SCREAMING AT US, I REALLY WISH THEY'D CHANGED THAT BACK, SINCE IT MAKES IT A LOT HARDER TO READ.<p>Edit: there are actually studies on this. See, for example, this: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_caps#Readability" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_caps#Readability</a><p>Edit 2: Also considering that, once upon a time, I was the Program Manager who would've owned implementation of this misfeature, I feel entitled to complain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2012/08/15/visual-studio-2012-and-net-framework-4-5-released-to-the-web.aspx</url><text></text></story> |
23,311,732 | 23,311,473 | 1 | 2 | 23,310,889 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eggy</author><text>This is why I believe it is important to teach our children from first principles; we can no longer rely on media, left or right, to convey a large percentage of truth. I am old enough that the cliche &quot;believe only half of what you read&quot; is still good advice. Too many people glued to their devices, knee-jerk responses without much thought and propagate misinformation at almost the speed of electrons without consulting their slower-thinking, rational mind. I find relief in going back to first principles for many things now even if it is time consuming.
I lived in Macau for 7 years and Indonesia for 1 year. I used a VPN when I first arrived in Macau due to trips to the mainland. Hong Kongers are looking for VPNs like crazy this week, since the CCP announced new efforts to monitor &quot;trouble makers&quot; in HK. HK will never be the same.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube deleting Palmer Luckey’s comments about CCP’s Wumao division</title><url>https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1265077232176775168</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thoughtstheseus</author><text>I’m curious what google would not censor. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding this but it looks like google is supporting a political party here. The dollar value of this must be huge.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube deleting Palmer Luckey’s comments about CCP’s Wumao division</title><url>https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1265077232176775168</url></story> |
8,489,022 | 8,489,122 | 1 | 2 | 8,488,714 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikeyouse</author><text>The key results from the paper:<p><pre><code> After adjustment for sociodemographic and health-related
characteristics, sugar-sweetened soda consumption was
associated with shorter telomeres (b = –0.010; 95%
confidence interval [CI] = −0.020, −0.001; P = .04).
Consumption of 100% fruit juice was marginally associated
with longer telomeres (b = 0.016; 95% CI = −0.000, 0.033;
P = .05). No significant associations were observed between
consumption of diet sodas or noncarbonated SSBs and
telomere length.
</code></pre>
Shortened telomeres are one way to measure genetic &#x27;age&#x27;. So they saw &#x27;aging&#x27; with sugar-sweetened soda, the opposite with fruit juice, and no significant difference with diet sodas or non-carbonated sugary sodas.<p>The study was pretty substantial with ~5,300 participants with no history of cardiovascular disease or diabetes. It&#x27;s nice to have another datapoint against some of the bro-sciencey &quot;Fruit juice has as much sugar as soda&quot; arguments.<p><i>Late Edit:</i><p>Here&#x27;s a pretty good summary of telomere aging:<p><a href="http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/chromosomes/telomeres/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.genetics.utah.edu&#x2F;content&#x2F;chromosomes&#x2F;telomeres...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking</title><url>http://time.com/3513875/soda-may-age-you-as-much-as-smoking/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nilkn</author><text>Not to mention it can cause diabetes and it&#x27;s horrible for your teeth. For me, it also caused acne. Soda&#x27;s really, really bad for you, and I think at this point it would be viewed the same way that smoking is viewed if it weren&#x27;t for the fact that soda affects only the consumer whereas cigarettes produce second-hand smoke and a suffocating odor that fills the room.<p>Maybe 2050&#x27;s Mad Men will shock its viewers with how office workers in 2000 drank soda <i>in the office</i>.<p>(This is coming from someone who used to drink soda on a daily basis. I learned to stop when I had to get a crown on a molar in my early 20s.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking</title><url>http://time.com/3513875/soda-may-age-you-as-much-as-smoking/</url></story> |
32,396,342 | 32,392,875 | 1 | 2 | 32,392,161 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dagw</author><text><i>It&#x27;s not unusual to see C programs written in a &quot;typical&quot; C style become dramatically faster when rewritten in a more modern language.</i><p>This was equally true back when C vs Fortran was the big debate, and something not easily captured in benchmarks. C, as written by an expert in high performance C, was equally fast as Fortran written by an expert in high performance Fortran. C, as written by a domain expert with limited programming skills, was often very much slower than Fortran written by a domain expert with limited programming skills.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>Not to mention that both C++ and Rust can specialise algorithms and containers for specific types, whereas in C most developers resort to void* and function pointers. It&#x27;s not unusual to see C programs written in a &quot;typical&quot; C style become <i>dramatically</i> faster when rewritten in a more modern language.<p>For example, typical C programs also don&#x27;t use hashtables even when this makes the most sense, causing weird performance cliffs due to O(n^2) algorithms all over the place. Why not hashtables? Because they&#x27;re not generic, so they&#x27;re a pain to use. Not <i>impossible</i> of course, it&#x27;s just that C developers avoid them.<p>Similarly, &quot;strongly typed&quot; containers full of simple struct types enable compiler auto-vectorisation that&#x27;s often unavailable in C for the same kind of reason.<p>Last but not least, you would have to be a masochist to write heavily multi-threaded code in C... so hardly anybody does. These days, that&#x27;s throwing away over 90% of the computer power in a typical PC, let alone a server.</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>&gt; Any C alternative will be expected to be on par with C in performance. The problem is that C have practically no checks, so any safety checks put into the competing language will have a runtime cost, which often is unacceptable. This leads to a strategy of only having checks in &quot;safe&quot; mode. Where the &quot;fast&quot; mode is just as &quot;unsafe&quot; as C.<p>I don&#x27;t think this is true, in the general case: Rust has shown that languages can be safe in ways that <i>improve</i> runtime performance.<p>In particular, languages like Rust allow programmers to express stronger compile-time constraints on runtime behavior, meaning that the compiler can <i>safely</i> omit bounds and other checks that an ordinary C program would require for safety. Similarly, Rust&#x27;s (lack of) mutable aliasing opens up entire classes of optimizations that are extremely difficult on C programs (to the extent that Rust regularly exposes bugs in LLVM&#x27;s alias analysis, due to a lack of exercise on C&#x2F;C++ inputs).<p>Edit: Other examples include ergonomic static dispatch (Rust makes things like `foo: impl Trait` <i>look</i> dynamic, but they&#x27;re really static under the hood) and the entire notion of a &quot;zero-cost abstraction&quot; (Rust&#x27;s abstractions are no worse than their &quot;as if&quot; equivalent, meaning that the programmer is restricted in their ability to create suboptimal implementations).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The case against a C alternative</title><url>https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c_alternative</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>Precisely. This is perhaps the strangest part of the original post: C++ has the same performance advantages as Rust! It has them not because it&#x27;s more safe (although it is, in some regards), but because it allows programmers to express behaviors that the compiler can reason about statically.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>Not to mention that both C++ and Rust can specialise algorithms and containers for specific types, whereas in C most developers resort to void* and function pointers. It&#x27;s not unusual to see C programs written in a &quot;typical&quot; C style become <i>dramatically</i> faster when rewritten in a more modern language.<p>For example, typical C programs also don&#x27;t use hashtables even when this makes the most sense, causing weird performance cliffs due to O(n^2) algorithms all over the place. Why not hashtables? Because they&#x27;re not generic, so they&#x27;re a pain to use. Not <i>impossible</i> of course, it&#x27;s just that C developers avoid them.<p>Similarly, &quot;strongly typed&quot; containers full of simple struct types enable compiler auto-vectorisation that&#x27;s often unavailable in C for the same kind of reason.<p>Last but not least, you would have to be a masochist to write heavily multi-threaded code in C... so hardly anybody does. These days, that&#x27;s throwing away over 90% of the computer power in a typical PC, let alone a server.</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>&gt; Any C alternative will be expected to be on par with C in performance. The problem is that C have practically no checks, so any safety checks put into the competing language will have a runtime cost, which often is unacceptable. This leads to a strategy of only having checks in &quot;safe&quot; mode. Where the &quot;fast&quot; mode is just as &quot;unsafe&quot; as C.<p>I don&#x27;t think this is true, in the general case: Rust has shown that languages can be safe in ways that <i>improve</i> runtime performance.<p>In particular, languages like Rust allow programmers to express stronger compile-time constraints on runtime behavior, meaning that the compiler can <i>safely</i> omit bounds and other checks that an ordinary C program would require for safety. Similarly, Rust&#x27;s (lack of) mutable aliasing opens up entire classes of optimizations that are extremely difficult on C programs (to the extent that Rust regularly exposes bugs in LLVM&#x27;s alias analysis, due to a lack of exercise on C&#x2F;C++ inputs).<p>Edit: Other examples include ergonomic static dispatch (Rust makes things like `foo: impl Trait` <i>look</i> dynamic, but they&#x27;re really static under the hood) and the entire notion of a &quot;zero-cost abstraction&quot; (Rust&#x27;s abstractions are no worse than their &quot;as if&quot; equivalent, meaning that the programmer is restricted in their ability to create suboptimal implementations).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The case against a C alternative</title><url>https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c_alternative</url></story> |
13,837,864 | 13,837,680 | 1 | 2 | 13,837,046 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mtdewcmu</author><text>The real question is not why is dentistry kept separate from medicine. The real question is why dental insurance is treated like a luxury, compared to regular health insurance. The problem is that so many people are unable to afford dentistry, because of poor or no coverage.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Dentistry Is Separate from Medicine</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/why-dentistry-is-separated-from-medicine/518979/?single_page=true</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>feld</author><text>Dental&#x2F;oral health is crucial. You can die from dental problems. I will never understand why the entire dental industry is treated as if it is cosmetic or non-essential. Stress to your immune system and failure of major organs is not taken seriously, but it is a very real risk.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Dentistry Is Separate from Medicine</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/why-dentistry-is-separated-from-medicine/518979/?single_page=true</url></story> |
27,213,253 | 27,213,384 | 1 | 2 | 27,212,401 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anthony_r</author><text>&gt; Antifragile: what doesn&#x27;t kill you makes you stronger<p>No, you&#x27;ve missed the point of the book (or haven&#x27;t read it). It&#x27;s about that <i>some</i> things become better in the presence of error&#x2F;noise&#x2F;damage&#x2F;volatility. But not all things, some other, fragile things, become worse and worse as damage accumulates. And that there&#x27;s no word for such a property, so he calls it &quot;Antifragile&quot;. And then the book goes in great detail about lots and lots of examples (with the usual rambling).</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnarbarian</author><text>I love Taleb. he&#x27;s full of piss and vinegar. His books are pretty interesting but really most of them could be one sentence long. Two examples:<p>Antifragile: what doesn&#x27;t kill you makes you stronger.<p>Black Swan: Forecasting is really hard, perfect forecasting is impossible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nicholas Taleb's Amazon Reviews</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AHMHNR4MRTDLMBOOT6Q7LX2WP5YA/ref=cm_cr_dp_mb_gw_tr?ie=UTF8</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chubot</author><text>His books are definitely repetitive (and somewhat unorganized), but I find that saying the same thing a hundred times in slightly different ways helps drive home the message.<p>People may &quot;nod their head yes&quot; when you give the one sentence descriptions, and think they understand it. But then they ACT in a different way, especially when they have &quot;skin in the game&quot;.<p>Taleb actually has a name for that: &quot;domain dependence&quot;. That is, you can nod your head in agreement while reading a book, but then when confronted with the exact same situation in real life, you act as if you don&#x27;t have that knowledge, or you act contrary to it.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed this in programming vs. computer science. In a test or interview situation, someone might say they&#x27;ll do things one way. But then their production code they do it a different way, just because that&#x27;s the common way they&#x27;ve seen it done, in that particular situation.<p>This can be good or bad -- sometimes the textbook way is actually better; sometimes not. You can also flip it around -- it also applies to the person asking the question. They might expect a certain answer of the interviewee, but when they have skin in the game, they do something else.<p>----<p>I also don&#x27;t agree with the one sentence description of the Black Swan. I&#x27;d say the most important idea is that outliers are often ignored, but they&#x27;re precisely what drives history. [1] And also that they&#x27;re more likely than naive mathematics would suggest, i.e. &quot;fat tails&quot;.<p>To use an example that&#x27;s HN friendly, every successful company is an outlier. And we always seem to be talking about the biggest outliers of them all (e.g. FAANG, none of which existed when I started using computers.) Making statements about the average new company isn&#x27;t informative, because the average one fails and doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>[1] Thiel has a similar sentiment, something like &quot;every big moment in business happens exactly once. The next Google isn&#x27;t making a search engine, etc.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnarbarian</author><text>I love Taleb. he&#x27;s full of piss and vinegar. His books are pretty interesting but really most of them could be one sentence long. Two examples:<p>Antifragile: what doesn&#x27;t kill you makes you stronger.<p>Black Swan: Forecasting is really hard, perfect forecasting is impossible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nicholas Taleb's Amazon Reviews</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AHMHNR4MRTDLMBOOT6Q7LX2WP5YA/ref=cm_cr_dp_mb_gw_tr?ie=UTF8</url></story> |
20,123,620 | 20,123,768 | 1 | 2 | 20,123,259 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>A2017U1</author><text>Entirely this, many in the West have no idea how difficult crossborder banking actually is for the vast majority of human beings on Earth.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alehul</author><text>Across very cooperative borders in wealthy Europe, sure.<p>Do you think it&#x27;s as easy for those in India, China, or Kenya, for instance?</text></item><item><author>CaptainZapp</author><text><i>Have you transferred money across borders to an individual lately?</i><p>Actually yes.<p>From Switzerland to my brother in Belgium. It was transferred on the same business day at no expense to him or me. Look up SEPA[1] for details.<p>Just because the American banking system is the complete shits this does not necessarily apply to the rest of the world.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Single_Euro_Payments_Area" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Single_Euro_Payments_Area</a></text></item><item><author>A2017U1</author><text>Have you transferred money across borders to an individual lately?
As much as I want to criticize this FB is probably in an excellent position to navigate the kyc minefields.</text></item><item><author>wz1000</author><text>Can anyone explain what the point of a pegged cryptocurrency is? Since you are dependent on the issuing entity to honour the stated peg, why not just have your balance be an entry in a regular database maintained by that entity? What exactly does the blockchain gain you here?<p>One thing it does _not_ get you is censorship resistance. If the central authority wants to take away coins from a wallet, all it needs to do is to simply state that it will not honour the peg for coins originating from that wallet. This can be tracked by FIFO, dilution or any other stated accounting principle, and renders the balance in that wallet worthless.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook plans cryptocurrency debut</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/06/facebook-libra-launch/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>callmeal</author><text>&gt;Do you think it&#x27;s as easy for those in India, China, or Kenya, for instance?<p>Actually yes. Take a look at xoom.com and it&#x27;s competitors for example (flat rate money transfers at a fraction of swift fees). Only issue is getting money <i>out</i> of those countries. But that is a political and national issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alehul</author><text>Across very cooperative borders in wealthy Europe, sure.<p>Do you think it&#x27;s as easy for those in India, China, or Kenya, for instance?</text></item><item><author>CaptainZapp</author><text><i>Have you transferred money across borders to an individual lately?</i><p>Actually yes.<p>From Switzerland to my brother in Belgium. It was transferred on the same business day at no expense to him or me. Look up SEPA[1] for details.<p>Just because the American banking system is the complete shits this does not necessarily apply to the rest of the world.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Single_Euro_Payments_Area" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Single_Euro_Payments_Area</a></text></item><item><author>A2017U1</author><text>Have you transferred money across borders to an individual lately?
As much as I want to criticize this FB is probably in an excellent position to navigate the kyc minefields.</text></item><item><author>wz1000</author><text>Can anyone explain what the point of a pegged cryptocurrency is? Since you are dependent on the issuing entity to honour the stated peg, why not just have your balance be an entry in a regular database maintained by that entity? What exactly does the blockchain gain you here?<p>One thing it does _not_ get you is censorship resistance. If the central authority wants to take away coins from a wallet, all it needs to do is to simply state that it will not honour the peg for coins originating from that wallet. This can be tracked by FIFO, dilution or any other stated accounting principle, and renders the balance in that wallet worthless.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook plans cryptocurrency debut</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/06/facebook-libra-launch/</url></story> |
39,800,705 | 39,799,781 | 1 | 2 | 39,797,889 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thibaut_barrere</author><text>&gt; Mox is nothing more than a kludge to get around the limitations of the language and I think there are much less invasive kludges available. To be honest when I’m working with devs who are new to elixir I’m embarrassed when I have to explain how Mox works.<p>There are other ways, more similar to Ruby etc (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;edgurgel&#x2F;mimic">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;edgurgel&#x2F;mimic</a>, or with_mock etc).<p>And also there is the risk to &quot;over-mock&quot;, for sure.<p>But a good middle ground brings the right value here!</text><parent_chain><item><author>sarchertech</author><text>I hope you see the irony in using “you’re holding it wrong” here?<p>If real world use of a library tends to push towards a certain outcome that I dislike, I’m going to tend to dislike that library.<p>You’re also never going to convince me that creating an interface for a single implementation is the best way to facilitate unit testing.<p>Mox is nothing more than a kludge to get around the limitations of the language and I think there are much less invasive kludges available. To be honest when I’m working with devs who are new to elixir I’m embarrassed when I have to explain how Mox works.<p>&gt;but in practice it&#x27;s better to hardcode things rather than trying to make it generic and swappable the first time around. Junior devs have a tendency to over-engineer code &quot;because we might need to change it later.&quot; My motto is &quot;copy and paste it three times before adding a layer of abstraction&quot;<p>This I agree with 100%</text></item><item><author>sph</author><text>That just means you&#x27;re putting a boundary when it&#x27;s not necessary. Mox exists to make tests simpler to write and reason about, if you keep hitting extra layers of indirections then, &quot;you&#x27;re holding it wrong.&quot;<p>Most things are best used sparingly. That said, the vast majority of developers, even senior, have a very limited understanding of testing practices, and tend to create millions of separated, isolated modules, for no reason whatsoever. That&#x27;s not Mox&#x27;s fault.<p>A stupid example in practice: a naive blog app does not need Mox at all. If you add SSO sign up, you might want to put a boundary there to unit test without needing to set up a fake auth server, but 99% of your code won&#x27;t ever touch it, just the authentication tests. Tomorrow you add payments, you might want to put a boundary just before your <i>StripeRestAPI</i> module to test the entire payment flow without contacting Stripe in your unit tests. Again, only the payment module tests ever need to touch Mox, the rest of your code doesn&#x27;t. You place it before modules in the outer edge that have real-world side effects, not to isolate your functional and mostly pure core.<p>I recommend the DestroyAllSoftware talks, especially <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;boundaries" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;boundaries</a><p>&gt; And I just can’t justify it with “one day I might want to swap out the implementation”. YAGNI and if you do, deal with it then.<p>I agree with that. Using Mox to swap out implementations is a possible use case, but in practice it&#x27;s better to hardcode things rather than trying to make it generic and swappable the first time around. Junior devs have a tendency to over-engineer code &quot;because we might need to change it later.&quot; My motto is <i>&quot;copy and paste it three times before adding a layer of abstraction&quot;</i></text></item><item><author>sarchertech</author><text>I hate Mox with a passion. Because I hate separating out the interface and implementation of something that is only ever going to have one real implementation.<p>The extra layer of indirection just for testing bugs me so much. And I just can’t justify it with “one day I might want to swap out the implementation”. YAGNI and if you do, deal with it then.<p>So much legacy elixir code is an unreadable mess because of all the extra layers of interfaces that only get used for Mox. There’s nothing I dislike more than diving into an unfamiliar section of code and having to keep 15 files open to follow the logic for something that should have been in one module.</text></item><item><author>sph</author><text>Seconding the Mox recommendation, it&#x27;s pretty good and enforces good separation of concerns in your application. It was created by José himself, so you know it&#x27;s got a well-designed API. You just need to get used with using behaviours, and using the Application config to tell your code when to use the mock vs the real thing.<p>I use it to separate and test external API calls (i.e. to test the payment layer without making any request), to maintain separation between my code and an external library I might want to swap out at a later date, or even between various components of the application. Then writing unit tests becomes a breeze, and you don&#x27;t need many integration tests.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexdocs.pm&#x2F;mox&#x2F;Mox.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexdocs.pm&#x2F;mox&#x2F;Mox.html</a></text></item><item><author>thibaut_barrere</author><text>Good write-up!<p>I will add:<p>- make sure to “stream” your transfers in general, instead of keeping whole file blobs in RAM. This to avoid refactoring at the least comfortable moment when a file gets too big in production<p>- it is quite easy to use Mox for isolated testing in general, and it works nicely with ExAws, so make sure to integrate those tests early on</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fundamentals of Object Storage in Elixir</title><url>https://underjord.io/fundamentals-of-object-storage.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>sph</author><text>&gt; I hope you see the irony in using “you’re holding it wrong” here?<p>Not really. If you use a hammer on a screw, is it the hammer&#x27;s fault? Sounds like the code base you are working on is badly-organised, rather than Mox being the root of all evil. There are far too many stories of people picking up Elixir and coding in it as if it were Python or Ruby. You cannot base your experience with it on a codebase written by people new to functional languages.<p>And no one forces you to use Mox, anyway. It&#x27;s far from being a core Elixir component. It is just <i>one</i> implementation of the mock object pattern that comes on a standalone, optional library.<p>&gt; Mox is nothing more than a kludge to get around the limitations of the language<p>Mocks are not an Elixir invention, and exist in pretty much all languages.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mock_object" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mock_object</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sarchertech</author><text>I hope you see the irony in using “you’re holding it wrong” here?<p>If real world use of a library tends to push towards a certain outcome that I dislike, I’m going to tend to dislike that library.<p>You’re also never going to convince me that creating an interface for a single implementation is the best way to facilitate unit testing.<p>Mox is nothing more than a kludge to get around the limitations of the language and I think there are much less invasive kludges available. To be honest when I’m working with devs who are new to elixir I’m embarrassed when I have to explain how Mox works.<p>&gt;but in practice it&#x27;s better to hardcode things rather than trying to make it generic and swappable the first time around. Junior devs have a tendency to over-engineer code &quot;because we might need to change it later.&quot; My motto is &quot;copy and paste it three times before adding a layer of abstraction&quot;<p>This I agree with 100%</text></item><item><author>sph</author><text>That just means you&#x27;re putting a boundary when it&#x27;s not necessary. Mox exists to make tests simpler to write and reason about, if you keep hitting extra layers of indirections then, &quot;you&#x27;re holding it wrong.&quot;<p>Most things are best used sparingly. That said, the vast majority of developers, even senior, have a very limited understanding of testing practices, and tend to create millions of separated, isolated modules, for no reason whatsoever. That&#x27;s not Mox&#x27;s fault.<p>A stupid example in practice: a naive blog app does not need Mox at all. If you add SSO sign up, you might want to put a boundary there to unit test without needing to set up a fake auth server, but 99% of your code won&#x27;t ever touch it, just the authentication tests. Tomorrow you add payments, you might want to put a boundary just before your <i>StripeRestAPI</i> module to test the entire payment flow without contacting Stripe in your unit tests. Again, only the payment module tests ever need to touch Mox, the rest of your code doesn&#x27;t. You place it before modules in the outer edge that have real-world side effects, not to isolate your functional and mostly pure core.<p>I recommend the DestroyAllSoftware talks, especially <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;boundaries" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;boundaries</a><p>&gt; And I just can’t justify it with “one day I might want to swap out the implementation”. YAGNI and if you do, deal with it then.<p>I agree with that. Using Mox to swap out implementations is a possible use case, but in practice it&#x27;s better to hardcode things rather than trying to make it generic and swappable the first time around. Junior devs have a tendency to over-engineer code &quot;because we might need to change it later.&quot; My motto is <i>&quot;copy and paste it three times before adding a layer of abstraction&quot;</i></text></item><item><author>sarchertech</author><text>I hate Mox with a passion. Because I hate separating out the interface and implementation of something that is only ever going to have one real implementation.<p>The extra layer of indirection just for testing bugs me so much. And I just can’t justify it with “one day I might want to swap out the implementation”. YAGNI and if you do, deal with it then.<p>So much legacy elixir code is an unreadable mess because of all the extra layers of interfaces that only get used for Mox. There’s nothing I dislike more than diving into an unfamiliar section of code and having to keep 15 files open to follow the logic for something that should have been in one module.</text></item><item><author>sph</author><text>Seconding the Mox recommendation, it&#x27;s pretty good and enforces good separation of concerns in your application. It was created by José himself, so you know it&#x27;s got a well-designed API. You just need to get used with using behaviours, and using the Application config to tell your code when to use the mock vs the real thing.<p>I use it to separate and test external API calls (i.e. to test the payment layer without making any request), to maintain separation between my code and an external library I might want to swap out at a later date, or even between various components of the application. Then writing unit tests becomes a breeze, and you don&#x27;t need many integration tests.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexdocs.pm&#x2F;mox&#x2F;Mox.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexdocs.pm&#x2F;mox&#x2F;Mox.html</a></text></item><item><author>thibaut_barrere</author><text>Good write-up!<p>I will add:<p>- make sure to “stream” your transfers in general, instead of keeping whole file blobs in RAM. This to avoid refactoring at the least comfortable moment when a file gets too big in production<p>- it is quite easy to use Mox for isolated testing in general, and it works nicely with ExAws, so make sure to integrate those tests early on</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fundamentals of Object Storage in Elixir</title><url>https://underjord.io/fundamentals-of-object-storage.html</url></story> |
31,435,619 | 31,434,880 | 1 | 3 | 31,407,454 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>civilized</author><text>A lot of really good stuff here, for example reaffirming YAGNI and a focus on customer value. One part I think falls short:<p>&gt; Negativity begets negativity<p>I think this is coming from a very common and fundamentally misguided premise - the obsessive focus on emotional valence, on whether we&#x27;re being positive or negative. The real problem is not whether we are being positive or negative, it&#x27;s the rush to attach emotional valence to things we have not adequately understood or described. As C. S. Lewis said, &quot;the human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value.&quot; This rush to emotional endpoints is the root of both toxic negativity <i>and</i> toxic positivity.<p>Instead of taking positivity and negativity as endpoints, take them as prompts to better understand your surroundings. You are feeling bad about something - why? What about it makes you feel that way? Would improving it cost more than it would benefit? Is it the least bad of the alternatives?<p>A willingness to feel and acknowledge and investigate your negative emotions is a superpower. It gives you x-ray vision into things that very few other people have. They look away from problems and let them fester because they&#x27;ve been taught to be allergic to negativity. The ability to look at problems is inseparable from what the author points out is a very important trait, the ability to roll up your sleeves and get stuff done.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Professional Programming: The First 10 Years</title><url>https://thorstenball.com/blog/2022/05/17/professional-programming-the-first-10-years/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>derekstride</author><text>&gt; Look at that little program go, holding the internet together, despite the 17 TODOs in it.<p>This hit a little too close to home.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Professional Programming: The First 10 Years</title><url>https://thorstenball.com/blog/2022/05/17/professional-programming-the-first-10-years/</url></story> |
22,634,618 | 22,634,709 | 1 | 2 | 22,633,570 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>609venezia</author><text>I think Ioannidis included that very low number as an example of how ridiculous the statistics can look when using the Diamond Princess as a sample and factoring in the relevant sources of uncertainty.<p>&lt;&lt;Projecting the Diamond Princess mortality rate onto the age structure of the U.S. population, the death rate among people infected with Covid-19 would be 0.125%. But since this estimate is based on extremely thin data — there were just seven deaths among the 700 infected passengers and crew — the real death rate could stretch from five times lower (0.025%) to five times higher (0.625%). It is also possible that some of the passengers who were infected might die later, and that tourists may have different frequencies of chronic diseases — a risk factor for worse outcomes with SARS-CoV-2 infection — than the general population. Adding these extra sources of uncertainty, reasonable estimates for the case fatality ratio in the general U.S. population vary from 0.05% to 1%.&gt;&gt;<p>Mainly I think he wants more testing, but people are cherry picking his argument to try to downplay the risk.<p>His key point from the overall piece is something like &quot;we need more testing, including randomly sampled data. Let&#x27;s not give up on testing while we ratchet up the countermeasures.&quot;<p>Evidence:<p>Second graph- &lt;&lt;At a time when everyone needs better information, from disease modelers and governments to people quarantined or just social distancing, we lack reliable evidence on how many people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 or who continue to become infected. Better information is needed to guide decisions and actions of monumental significance and to monitor their impact.&gt;&gt;<p>in the middle- &lt;&lt;The most valuable piece of information for answering those questions would be to know the current prevalence of the infection in a random sample of a population and to repeat this exercise at regular time intervals to estimate the incidence of new infections. Sadly, that’s information we don’t have.&gt;&gt;<p>concluding graph- &lt;&lt;If we decide to jump off the cliff, we need some data to inform us about the rationale of such an action and the chances of landing somewhere safe.&gt;&gt;<p>---<p>Coming from a different angle, the latest estimate from Wuhan is 1.4% (.9-2.1)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41591-020-0822-7?mod=article_inline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41591-020-0822-7?mod=articl...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bugzz</author><text>0.05% is just ridiculous. That&#x27;s half the death rate of the flu, so the only way he can justify a number like that is if he believes we are missing the VAST majority of all cases (due to them being mild) and only seeing the severe ones &#x2F; deaths. But there&#x27;s a simple check to this - how many deaths does Italy have per day in a bad flu season vs how many Covid-19 deaths per day are they having now? Worst flu year on record I could find for Italy was 25,000 deaths (average year ~15,000 deaths). Spread those over 3 months for flu season, and that&#x27;s 277 deaths per day. Italy had 475 deaths yesterday from Covid-19. Even if you assumed EVERY Italian has contracted Covid-19, death rate would have to be at least 2x the flu. Now, think about how the majority (80%?) of deaths in Italy are in the Lombardy region, which has maybe 1&#x2F;4 the population, and thus 1&#x2F;4 the flu deaths per year. Now it&#x27;s clear Covid-19 must have fatality rate at least 5-6 times worse than the flu, even assuming every Italian has it...<p>Edit:<p>Flu mortality stats for Italy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S1201971219303285" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S120197121...</a><p>Covid-19 deaths per day in Italy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;country&#x2F;italy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;country&#x2F;italy&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>njarboe</author><text>This article[1] states that our best natural experiment for COVID-19 is the Diamond Princess cruise ship and its quarantine passengers. From that he estimates the the mortality rate is between 0.05% and 1%. That is, we don&#x27;t really know what the rate is. The WHO giving a number with two significant digits implying some reasonable certainty about the number, is very deceiving and very likely just plain wrong.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statnews.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;17&#x2F;a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statnews.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;17&#x2F;a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...</a><p>By:John P.A. Ioannidis professor of medicine, of epidemiology and population health, of biomedical data science, and of statistics at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford’s Meta-Research Innovation Center.</text></item><item><author>eganist</author><text>Swag maths on the business-as-usual scenario incoming, bound to be very wrong:<p>3.4% mortality rate among those presenting symptoms. (via WHO)<p>As low as 17.9% of cases asymptomatic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;brucelee&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;18&#x2F;what-percentage-have-covid-19-coronavirus-but-do-not-know-it&#x2F;#42991ddf7e90" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;brucelee&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;18&#x2F;what-percen...</a><p>Of the symptomatic cases, 80.9% are mild (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencealert.com&#x2F;large-chinese-study-finds-most-coronavirus-infections-are-mild" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencealert.com&#x2F;large-chinese-study-finds-most-...</a>) and we&#x27;re assuming only the ones that present risks are being tested.<p>So if the 25.5m figure stands correct, we&#x27;re looking at what, a range of 195,000 to 695,000 possibly passed on in california before June depending on whether you apply it to not-mild (19.1%) cases v. all symptomatic (82.1%) cases?<p>I can&#x27;t find any concrete sources on how anyone is calculating current mortality rates for the bug, but:<p>1. that swing is <i>unfathomable</i> to me<p>2. those numbers are <i>unfathomable</i> to me. Especially once extrapolated to the whole country assuming 56% of the nation contracts it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CA governor projecting 25.5M COVID19 cases in CA in 8 weeks [pdf]</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3.18.20-Letter-USNS-Mercy-Hospital-Ship.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>jMyles</author><text>&gt; we are missing the VAST majority of all cases (due to them being mild) and only seeing the severe ones &#x2F; deaths<p>This is entirely possible, and is the conclusion of a different, unrelated paper published today. [0]<p>&gt; But there&#x27;s a simple check to this - how many deaths does Italy have per day in a bad flu season vs how many Covid-19 deaths per day are they having now?<p>This is a good idea, and a reasonable metric, but it&#x27;s not a good way to compare the CFR, because there are too many confounding factors.<p>For example, it&#x27;s possible that the early lockdown in Northern Italy actually <i>increased</i> the number of deaths by expanding the window of exposure to elderly populations (whose younger relatives normally would have been out of the house all day). It&#x27;s possible that, for some reason, Italians are particularly susceptible to SARS-CoV-2. It&#x27;s possible that the weather pattern or air quality had some strange impact.<p>I&#x27;m not saying any of these things are true; I&#x27;m saying that it&#x27;s not a great way to compare CFRs or speculate about the number of mild or asymptomatic cases.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;PrepareInsteadOfPanic&#x2F;comments&#x2F;fljzvy&#x2F;a_study_shows_the_fatality_rate_for_covid19_may&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;PrepareInsteadOfPanic&#x2F;comments&#x2F;fljz...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bugzz</author><text>0.05% is just ridiculous. That&#x27;s half the death rate of the flu, so the only way he can justify a number like that is if he believes we are missing the VAST majority of all cases (due to them being mild) and only seeing the severe ones &#x2F; deaths. But there&#x27;s a simple check to this - how many deaths does Italy have per day in a bad flu season vs how many Covid-19 deaths per day are they having now? Worst flu year on record I could find for Italy was 25,000 deaths (average year ~15,000 deaths). Spread those over 3 months for flu season, and that&#x27;s 277 deaths per day. Italy had 475 deaths yesterday from Covid-19. Even if you assumed EVERY Italian has contracted Covid-19, death rate would have to be at least 2x the flu. Now, think about how the majority (80%?) of deaths in Italy are in the Lombardy region, which has maybe 1&#x2F;4 the population, and thus 1&#x2F;4 the flu deaths per year. Now it&#x27;s clear Covid-19 must have fatality rate at least 5-6 times worse than the flu, even assuming every Italian has it...<p>Edit:<p>Flu mortality stats for Italy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S1201971219303285" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S120197121...</a><p>Covid-19 deaths per day in Italy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;country&#x2F;italy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;country&#x2F;italy&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>njarboe</author><text>This article[1] states that our best natural experiment for COVID-19 is the Diamond Princess cruise ship and its quarantine passengers. From that he estimates the the mortality rate is between 0.05% and 1%. That is, we don&#x27;t really know what the rate is. The WHO giving a number with two significant digits implying some reasonable certainty about the number, is very deceiving and very likely just plain wrong.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statnews.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;17&#x2F;a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statnews.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;17&#x2F;a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...</a><p>By:John P.A. Ioannidis professor of medicine, of epidemiology and population health, of biomedical data science, and of statistics at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford’s Meta-Research Innovation Center.</text></item><item><author>eganist</author><text>Swag maths on the business-as-usual scenario incoming, bound to be very wrong:<p>3.4% mortality rate among those presenting symptoms. (via WHO)<p>As low as 17.9% of cases asymptomatic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;brucelee&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;18&#x2F;what-percentage-have-covid-19-coronavirus-but-do-not-know-it&#x2F;#42991ddf7e90" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;brucelee&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;18&#x2F;what-percen...</a><p>Of the symptomatic cases, 80.9% are mild (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencealert.com&#x2F;large-chinese-study-finds-most-coronavirus-infections-are-mild" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencealert.com&#x2F;large-chinese-study-finds-most-...</a>) and we&#x27;re assuming only the ones that present risks are being tested.<p>So if the 25.5m figure stands correct, we&#x27;re looking at what, a range of 195,000 to 695,000 possibly passed on in california before June depending on whether you apply it to not-mild (19.1%) cases v. all symptomatic (82.1%) cases?<p>I can&#x27;t find any concrete sources on how anyone is calculating current mortality rates for the bug, but:<p>1. that swing is <i>unfathomable</i> to me<p>2. those numbers are <i>unfathomable</i> to me. Especially once extrapolated to the whole country assuming 56% of the nation contracts it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CA governor projecting 25.5M COVID19 cases in CA in 8 weeks [pdf]</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3.18.20-Letter-USNS-Mercy-Hospital-Ship.pdf</url></story> |
18,765,768 | 18,765,778 | 1 | 2 | 18,765,529 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>foxfired</author><text>I started to notice that sugar content has increased in sodas.<p>I used to work in a grocery store 12&#x2F;13 years ago, and I remember stacking sodas on the shelves. The sugar content was 35g. I stacked them everyday so as far as I remember this was the norm at the time for a one serving in California.<p>Only a couple months ago, I started looking at the labels of sodas again. The content varies from 39g to 55g in California.<p>I was recently in Utah, and I took a picture of label of ginger ale. I compared it to the exact same can in California, the one in CA has less sugar content.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Industry pushes sugary products, while obfuscating the health hazards</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412916/sugars-sick-secrets-how-industry-forces-have-manipulated-science-downplay-harm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maxxxxx</author><text>It&#x27;s mind boggling how much sugar is in everything. Just looked at my girlfriend&#x27;s Starbucks Chai tea container. 100g sugar! She would be better off drinking a bottle of Coke. And Starbucks are supposed to be good guys .<p>On a related note: how do they get that much sugar into these drinks? If I made a liter of Chai tea and poured 100g sugar into it I don&#x27;t think it would be drinkable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Industry pushes sugary products, while obfuscating the health hazards</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412916/sugars-sick-secrets-how-industry-forces-have-manipulated-science-downplay-harm</url></story> |
32,042,694 | 32,024,158 | 1 | 3 | 32,023,881 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>garrypettet</author><text>This looks great - well done.<p>As a self taught pianist I’d like to give a shout out to Simply Piano (1). It’s an iPad app that can take you from absolute beginner to a fairly advanced level. Connects via midi or uses the microphone.<p>I went from not being able to play any instrument to sheet reading Fur Elise in about a year of playing 15&#x2F;20 minutes per day.<p>New music drops every week covering classical, pop, movies, jazz, etc.<p>A very happy customer.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joytunes.com&#x2F;simply-piano" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joytunes.com&#x2F;simply-piano</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI</title><url>https://github.com/ZaneH/piano-trainer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wexq</author><text>Man, this looks great!<p>A fortuitous thing for me as well, as I&#x27;ve been starting to look for a trainer like this just know?<p>Been playing the guitar for a long time for now and I know my basic theory... but give me a keyboard I takes me a while to figure out my scales, chords, progressions and so on. Now that I&#x27;ve some time to get back to music... and sitting in front of a DAW oftentimes a keyboard is what I got.<p>So it was an instabuy for me (via itch.io), thank you and I&#x27;ll follow the github repo as well to keep me up to date.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI</title><url>https://github.com/ZaneH/piano-trainer</url></story> |
29,351,886 | 29,351,901 | 1 | 2 | 29,350,271 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ravenstine</author><text>I think the cult-like following for Vitamin D is an inverse of some of the cult-like following for the vaccines. (VACCINES ARE GOOD, FOLKS, DON&#x27;T REPLY SAYING I&#x27;M AN ANTIVAXXER)<p>There are people who believe that the vaccines are much more capable than they are, and go as far as lionizing Pfizer in the form of things like tattoos, Fauci fan art, and so on. Yes, they are a very small segment of the population, but I&#x27;ve run into these people in real life. One of my best friends has a faith-like belief in the vaccines to such a point that he totally clams up if I show a shred of skepticism. This was a guy who practiced formal debate and we used to have many intellectual discussions despite our differences.<p>The people who believe Vitamin D is their Lord and Savior are reacting to the fact that the establishment has almost entirely abandoned the pretense of &quot;diet and exercise&quot; in favor of pharmaceuticals to the exclusion of almost anything else. Vitamin D isn&#x27;t a cure, but it is <i>very</i> underappreciated, and when the entire medical system not only fails for decades to solve obesity but then fails to tell people to take action in their own lives to get themselves fit and healthy, it&#x27;s cause to raise an eyebrow no matter what you think about Vitamin D.<p>Both are a result in a division caused by a system that fails to explain its own legitimacy. I think it&#x27;s great that we have the vaccines. I think Vitamin D is great. I think both are imperfect. But I can&#x27;t blame people for attaching themselves to either one as if they are separate churches to attend; what have the establishment done to establish our trust?<p>&gt; But that 5000 IU&#x2F;day put me near overdose territory when I got my serum levels checked. Even my doctor, who is very pro-Vitamin D supplementation, warned me to significantly cut my supplementation.<p>That&#x27;s interesting. It&#x27;s been a really long while since I looked at research papers around Vitamin D, but my conclusion was that what was thought to be a daily limit for Vitamin D wasn&#x27;t entirely justified for the average healthy person, but I&#x27;ll have to check that again. I&#x27;ve been either getting some sunlight every day or taking 5000 IU supplementally every day and haven&#x27;t suffered any obvious consequences.<p>Sunlight really is the best though, and you don&#x27;t need that much sunlight to get a sufficient dose. It also raises levels of nitric oxide which has its own benefits.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The association between Vitamin D deficiency (VDD as referred to in this article) and increased risk of respiratory infections is well-known. Mild to moderate Vitamin D supplementation, especially during winter or in those with subpar dietary habits, is a good idea.<p>However, I&#x27;ve noticed that Vitamin D has been garnered an almost cult-like following on parts of the internet in recent years. Some of the health claims around Vitamin D are getting out of control, and the recommendations for Vitamin D supplementation are far too high in certain circles.<p>I have to admit that I fell for this to some degree. I started supplementing 5000 IU&#x2F;day after reading all of the writings about Vitamin D deficiency, the health benefits of Vitamin D, and the arguments that current Vitamin D supplementation recommendations were far too low.<p>But that 5000 IU&#x2F;day put me near overdose territory when I got my serum levels checked. Even my doctor, who is very pro-Vitamin D supplementation, warned me to significantly cut my supplementation.<p>The scary part is that I see recommendations for significantly higher Vitamin D dosing all over Twitter and health forums lately. There&#x27;s a growing idea that more is better, amplified by health influencers trying to stand out from the crowd and the growing cult-like status of Vitamin D as a wonder vitamin.<p>I think encouraging mild vitamin d supplementation (or improved dietary patterns with more Vitamin D) is a good step in the right direction, but I&#x27;m also worried to see how much of this is being exaggerated and taken to unhealthy extremes.<p>When in doubt, get a blood test.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Impact of Vitamin D Level on Covid-19: Systematic Review Meta-Analysis</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7973108/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Strom</author><text>&gt; <i>But that 5000 IU&#x2F;day put me near overdose territory when I got my serum levels checked.</i><p>I need to consume 4000 IU&#x2F;day just to keep my serum levels acceptable. I do agree though that blood tests are necessary. When I started getting into the vitamin D supplements, I had my blood levels tested every 3 months for a few years. I started out dangerously deficient and even 8000 IU&#x2F;day was barely moving the needle in the beginning. However over a longer period 8000 IU&#x2F;day ended up being too much, so I cut it down to 4000 IU&#x2F;day where I&#x27;ve been for years now.<p>There are a lot of factors going into this and everyone&#x27;s circumstances are different. Frequent testing to verify assumptions is a must.<p>I spend a good amount of time outside, going running regularly, and am in decent shape. I also eat 250g of salmon weekly, which contains about 1000-2500 IU. However at the end of the day I live in the north (59 deg lat) and the sun here is of limited impact.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The association between Vitamin D deficiency (VDD as referred to in this article) and increased risk of respiratory infections is well-known. Mild to moderate Vitamin D supplementation, especially during winter or in those with subpar dietary habits, is a good idea.<p>However, I&#x27;ve noticed that Vitamin D has been garnered an almost cult-like following on parts of the internet in recent years. Some of the health claims around Vitamin D are getting out of control, and the recommendations for Vitamin D supplementation are far too high in certain circles.<p>I have to admit that I fell for this to some degree. I started supplementing 5000 IU&#x2F;day after reading all of the writings about Vitamin D deficiency, the health benefits of Vitamin D, and the arguments that current Vitamin D supplementation recommendations were far too low.<p>But that 5000 IU&#x2F;day put me near overdose territory when I got my serum levels checked. Even my doctor, who is very pro-Vitamin D supplementation, warned me to significantly cut my supplementation.<p>The scary part is that I see recommendations for significantly higher Vitamin D dosing all over Twitter and health forums lately. There&#x27;s a growing idea that more is better, amplified by health influencers trying to stand out from the crowd and the growing cult-like status of Vitamin D as a wonder vitamin.<p>I think encouraging mild vitamin d supplementation (or improved dietary patterns with more Vitamin D) is a good step in the right direction, but I&#x27;m also worried to see how much of this is being exaggerated and taken to unhealthy extremes.<p>When in doubt, get a blood test.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Impact of Vitamin D Level on Covid-19: Systematic Review Meta-Analysis</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7973108/</url></story> |
3,094,515 | 3,093,658 | 1 | 2 | 3,093,450 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>macrael</author><text>The most convincing explanation of their actions I read was essentially:<p>1. they made streaming a free add on to DVDs to get people using the service, which resulted in streaming becoming popular.<p>2. The media owners started to (or perhaps always had) cut their deals with Netflix on a <i>per subscriber</i> basis rather than per view. So Netflix was paying the networks for everyone who subscribed, including evyone who only watched DVDs. This became unsustainable.<p>3. So, they needed to separate these people, thus the split.<p>I honestly don't see how they could have handled this differently, they needed to tack the service on to DVDs to get people on board, and they needed the services to be separate to actually make money on streaming long term. It might have worked if they had been able to pay for videos on a per view basis, but I'm not sure they have the clout to make that happen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>uptown</author><text>While this rights the ship, Netflix made the colossal mistake of rocking the recurring-billing boat.<p>Smart businesses know that when you've got a customer setup for recurring monthly billing, there's a certain percentage of these customers who will continue to pay even though they're not actively using the service. Part of it is laziness of figuring out how to cancel. Another part is the thought that they may someday use the service more than they are. This has been the model for gyms forever.<p>What Netflix did was force people to re-evaluate whether they truly were getting what they paid for, and in the process they added complexity to their branding by spinning off part of the service into a hard-to-spell company that had nothing buy a landing page.<p>While this may be good for today's stock price, I suspect many of Netflix's customers that re-evaluated their needs may not come back for quite a while ... if ever. There's more options available for media than there likely were when they first signed up for Netflix ... and if those competitors are smart, they'll target those customers to ensure they're aware of the alternatives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix kills Qwikster</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20111010/qwikster-is-gonester-netflix-kills-its-dvd-only-business-before-launch/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>uptown</author><text>And if Netflix is smart, they'll figure out how to leverage their pervasive device-integration to offer one-off non-subscription-based rentals. Price it aggressively enough to compete with Amazon and Apple ... and after re-earning the trust of these customers, make the case to convert them to subscribers by showing them the financials. Simple emails with messages like: "For $2 more than you spent last month, you could have access to X million more movies" or "If you were a subscriber you could have saved $6 last month?".</text><parent_chain><item><author>uptown</author><text>While this rights the ship, Netflix made the colossal mistake of rocking the recurring-billing boat.<p>Smart businesses know that when you've got a customer setup for recurring monthly billing, there's a certain percentage of these customers who will continue to pay even though they're not actively using the service. Part of it is laziness of figuring out how to cancel. Another part is the thought that they may someday use the service more than they are. This has been the model for gyms forever.<p>What Netflix did was force people to re-evaluate whether they truly were getting what they paid for, and in the process they added complexity to their branding by spinning off part of the service into a hard-to-spell company that had nothing buy a landing page.<p>While this may be good for today's stock price, I suspect many of Netflix's customers that re-evaluated their needs may not come back for quite a while ... if ever. There's more options available for media than there likely were when they first signed up for Netflix ... and if those competitors are smart, they'll target those customers to ensure they're aware of the alternatives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix kills Qwikster</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20111010/qwikster-is-gonester-netflix-kills-its-dvd-only-business-before-launch/</url></story> |
40,671,228 | 40,670,091 | 1 | 3 | 40,668,088 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NortySpock</author><text>To steelman the argument, maybe they meant &quot;the monitoring system is good enough at catching defects that if none are reported, the engine will probably pass an all-up hotfire test of the engine&quot;.<p>Of course you could do a water or air-pressure leak test on the plumbing pretty easily, and you would likely do that on the first 30 engines...<p>But if you have confidence in your build process, maybe the juice isn&#x27;t worth the squeeze on (say) a direct contact ultrasound void check on every square millimeter of the part.<p>It&#x27;s all about &quot;how expensive is it to run the test&quot; vs &quot;what is the likelihood the test catches an issue&quot; vs &quot;what&#x27;s the cost of failing while everyone is watching?&quot;<p>Same reason SpaceX went from dry-dress-rehersals to wet-dress-rehearsals to separate-static-fire-before-launch to hold-down-for-three-seconds-before-launch... The hold-down -before-launch is an integration test that covers everything the previous tests do, so eventually you can start removing redundant tests.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Etheryte</author><text>&gt; The machine also automatically outputs a report that details any deviations during printing, removing the need for postfabrication qualification.<p>Anyone who&#x27;s previously worked with 3D printing knows that this simply does not pass any kind of a sniff test. Both preventing and detecting internal defects is one of the, if not the hardest problem in 3D printing. There are many large companies trying to find ways to reliably solve just this problem alone. Saying that this method doesn&#x27;t require any checks after production is simply false.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-printed-rocket</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>surfingdino</author><text>I too am doubtful. The market is littered with failed 3d printed products, all failed because the designers know nothing about real-life product design or because their deigns are too brittle or melt too easily in heat.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Etheryte</author><text>&gt; The machine also automatically outputs a report that details any deviations during printing, removing the need for postfabrication qualification.<p>Anyone who&#x27;s previously worked with 3D printing knows that this simply does not pass any kind of a sniff test. Both preventing and detecting internal defects is one of the, if not the hardest problem in 3D printing. There are many large companies trying to find ways to reliably solve just this problem alone. Saying that this method doesn&#x27;t require any checks after production is simply false.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-printed-rocket</url></story> |
27,722,372 | 27,722,208 | 1 | 3 | 27,721,432 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dvt</author><text>This article omits getting into try-catch-finally semantics, and it&#x27;s not really that mysterious when you think about it (although, yes, please don&#x27;t ask people about this in an interview):<p>- A catch block is only executed if an exception is thrown in the try block.<p>- A finally block is executed always after a try(-catch) block, if an exception is thrown or not.<p>&gt; As a side-effect, returning from finally clears a thrown error:<p>Exceptions aren&#x27;t &quot;cleared,&quot; they are &quot;finally-d.&quot; Because that&#x27;s how finally <i>works</i>[2]. The final block, if evaluated, always overrides the result of the previous blocks. A slightly more interesting example of try-catch weirdness is how catch blocks are one of the few constructs that create new scope (technically <i>augment</i> scope):<p><pre><code> function F() {
try {
throw &quot;error&quot;;
} catch (err) {
err = {
&quot;hello&quot;: &quot;world&quot;
}
var hoisted = &quot;foo&quot;
console.log(err)
} finally {
return hoisted; &#x2F;&#x2F; works, since this gets hoisted to the top of F
return err; &#x2F;&#x2F; breaks, since err is spooky and only &quot;scoped&quot; in the catch block
}
}
</code></pre>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tc39.es&#x2F;ecma262&#x2F;multipage&#x2F;ecmascript-language-statements-and-declarations.html#sec-try-statement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tc39.es&#x2F;ecma262&#x2F;multipage&#x2F;ecmascript-language-statem...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In JS functions, the ‘last’ return wins</title><url>https://jakearchibald.com/2021/last-return-wins/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lucideer</author><text>&gt; <i>The same happens in Java and Python too.</i><p>And yet, I expect this will soon appear in those &quot;JS is weird, wtf&quot; listicles.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In JS functions, the ‘last’ return wins</title><url>https://jakearchibald.com/2021/last-return-wins/</url></story> |
18,747,921 | 18,747,992 | 1 | 2 | 18,746,127 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>axel180</author><text>Hey guys! I&#x27;m the creator of the course and lead developer of brain.js and would love to answer any questions you may have.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course</title><url>https://scrimba.com/g/gneuralnetworks</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ultrasounder</author><text>Thanks Robert for putting this together. Coming from PyTorch ecosystem. What is the <i>actual</i> requirement for this course? Would a smattering knowledge of ES6 do? Been leching at browser based implementations since Karpathy demoed his CNNs a few years ago but just havent had enough motivation and courage to pickup JS. Perhaps my main reson for anxiety is the confusing JS ecosystem.Also what are some real world use cases for training and deploying NNs on the browser rather than training and deploying it on a <i>tradional</i> cloud backend environment?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course</title><url>https://scrimba.com/g/gneuralnetworks</url></story> |
23,243,642 | 23,243,568 | 1 | 3 | 23,243,330 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewfong</author><text>The political argument in favor of universal basic income stresses the importance of the universal.<p>That is, when the argument is &quot;the others are getting cash&quot;, some will oppose it. But if it&#x27;s &quot;we all get cash&quot;, the opposition is less.<p>In America, Social Security straight up gives up cash to ALL older Americans. Assuming you live long enough, you&#x27;ll get Social Security. It&#x27;s not immune but it remains popular. Indeed, efforts to cut back on Social Security are framed as attempts to &quot;save&quot; it and keep the program solvent.<p>In contrast, food stamps, welfare, and unemployment benefits are very much on the chopping block year after year, their recipients stereotyped as &quot;welfare queens&quot; trying to cheat the system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ponker</author><text>I think you also have to take into account the political sustainability of a policy though. It might be better for a poor person to get $2 cash than $2 of bread. But the $2 cash handout will be perennially opposed by some voters. The program eligibility will be slashed, the program will be a political football at election times, etc... while the bread program will be mostly noncontroversial and allowed to operate in peace.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor</title><url>http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/evidence-behind-putting-money-directly-pockets-poor</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marricks</author><text>There’s so many head games that goes into US politics that seems pointless. Democrats in particular compromise with themselves so much before even offering something to republicans before compromising even more.<p>Republicans pretty much never do that, it’s just boom, let’s give big tax cuts to the rich or stop all immigration.<p>Left side of the US needs to boldly actually fight for things rather than step my step planning out what “seems reasonable to republicans”, it’s just a bad losing idea, go boldly with what’s the moral and reasonable thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ponker</author><text>I think you also have to take into account the political sustainability of a policy though. It might be better for a poor person to get $2 cash than $2 of bread. But the $2 cash handout will be perennially opposed by some voters. The program eligibility will be slashed, the program will be a political football at election times, etc... while the bread program will be mostly noncontroversial and allowed to operate in peace.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor</title><url>http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/evidence-behind-putting-money-directly-pockets-poor</url></story> |
34,352,319 | 34,351,942 | 1 | 2 | 34,351,078 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>orra</author><text>Can&#x27;t believe you&#x27;ve been downvoted. HN isn&#x27;t homogonous, but too often has apologists for immoral and illegal behaviour, provided it&#x27;s done by a technology company.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WantonQuantum</author><text>I doubt they got consent from everybody in the house - so that&#x27;s not actually consent.<p>This whole thing is disgusting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/10/1066500/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuum-beta-product-testers-consent-agreement-misled/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>redeeman</author><text>if only we had something called &quot;the law&quot; that would have something to say about embedding spyware into consumer products that puts photos of people on the toilet onto facebook.<p>of course these kinds of things dont work for the regular guy</text><parent_chain><item><author>WantonQuantum</author><text>I doubt they got consent from everybody in the house - so that&#x27;s not actually consent.<p>This whole thing is disgusting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/10/1066500/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuum-beta-product-testers-consent-agreement-misled/</url></story> |
27,507,648 | 27,507,746 | 1 | 3 | 27,502,993 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agwa</author><text>Thanks for your reply.<p>&gt; <i>Fundamentally, Identity makes it possible to choose how much of this data traverses &#x2F; is stored on your servers, just as Stripe did with card numbers.</i><p>There&#x27;s a stark difference in how Stripe treats exports of card numbers versus exports of raw identity verification data. This makes it way easier, and more likely, for Stripe customers to choose to store raw identity verification information.<p>&gt; <i>With ID verification, however, many businesses have good reason to want more than just the verification result. For example, they may be subject to compliance requirements that mandate that they themselves possess or have access to the raw information. They may need or wish to perform additional checks on their side. Etc.</i><p>I acknowledge that some businesses have a need for this. But I see Discord and Clubhouse among your customer logos, and your product page talks about non-KYC use cases. Many of your customers will have access to identity documents without really needing it. That sucks for the end users of Stripe Identity, because it makes it more likely their data will be misused.<p>A concrete suggestion: make it possible for businesses to choose whether they have access the raw data, and expose the choice to the end user in the Stripe Identity flow. Ideally, businesses that want the raw data would be subject to security compliance requirements. This is an opportunity for Stripe to be a leader in setting high standards on how this type of data should be handled.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pc</author><text>(Stripe cofounder.)<p>&gt; <i>Considering that Stripe was originally known for letting websites accept credit card payments without seeing your credit card number, one might assume that Stripe Identity only allows websites to see the verification result, and not your selfies and scans of your identity documents.</i><p>A few points:<p>- Fundamentally, Identity makes it possible to choose how much of this data traverses &#x2F; is stored on your servers, just as Stripe did with card numbers.<p>- There&#x27;s a basic difference between card numbers and identity verification. With card numbers, you (generally) don&#x27;t really care about the number -- you just want the payment. With ID verification, however, many businesses have good reason to want more than just the verification result. For example, they are often subject to compliance requirements that mandate that they themselves possess or have access to the raw information. They may need or wish to perform additional checks on their side. Etc.<p>- The relevant UI in Identity is deliberately very clear on this points in order to avoid the assumption you&#x27;re stating. The flow explicitly says &quot;Stripe and [Business] may each use your data.&quot; Even though an end user might consider it suboptimal for the business to have their data, we still view it as an improvement to the usual status quo, where this data is frequently stored in very ad hoc fashion and without rigorous security protections.<p>- While many of the businesses initially building on Identity <i>wanted</i> access to the raw information, it may well make sense for us to enable them to restrict themselves in the future. In this world, Stripe could tell their customers that the business doesn&#x27;t have access to the raw details. (This might even make sense for Stripe payments in the future.) As a philosophical matter, we consider ourselves to serve <i>the business</i>, which means that limiting access to what we consider to be the business&#x27;s own information feels a bit strange. That said, it might sometimes be in the interests of the business to allow them to limit themselves in this fashion (especially as Stripe&#x27;s brand recognition among consumers grows).<p>- There&#x27;s a separate concern about compromise of the business&#x27;s credentials leading to inadvertent disclosure of this information (a situation analogous to an S3 bucket key getting leaked). This is of general concern to us in lots of situations, not just with Identity. We have some new functionality on the way here.</text></item><item><author>agwa</author><text>Considering that Stripe was originally known for letting websites accept credit card payments without seeing your credit card number, one might assume that Stripe Identity only allows websites to see the verification result, and not your selfies and scans of your identity documents.<p>That would be an incorrect assumption. Per <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.stripe.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;managing-your-id-verification-information#data-access" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.stripe.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;managing-your-id-verifi...</a> customers of Stripe Identity have API access to &quot;captured images of the ID document, selfies, extracted data from the ID document, keyed-in information, and the verification result&quot;.<p>Thus, when you use Stripe Identity to verify your identity, you have to trust that:<p>1. The website doesn&#x27;t download, retain, and later leak your selfie and identity information.<p>2. The website&#x27;s Stripe API token isn&#x27;t compromised and exploited by identity thieves to access your selfie and identity information.<p>Stripe appears to be leaning heavily on their claim that they don&#x27;t disclose &quot;biometric identifiers&quot; to websites and that these &quot;biometric identifiers&quot; are deleted from their systems within 48 hours. This is extremely deceptive considering that biometric identifiers can be reconstructed from the selfie.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stripe Identity</title><url>https://stripe.com/identity</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jart</author><text>Do you verify when a business downloads our identity documents from your servers that they&#x27;re only doing so to meet regulatory requirements? What promise do we have you&#x27;re not just making it as easy as possible to obtain drivers licenses, passports, birth certificates, etc. so that every little monster who has something we want will start making it a requirement? Have you considered how your service might impact trans people or undocumented citizens?</text><parent_chain><item><author>pc</author><text>(Stripe cofounder.)<p>&gt; <i>Considering that Stripe was originally known for letting websites accept credit card payments without seeing your credit card number, one might assume that Stripe Identity only allows websites to see the verification result, and not your selfies and scans of your identity documents.</i><p>A few points:<p>- Fundamentally, Identity makes it possible to choose how much of this data traverses &#x2F; is stored on your servers, just as Stripe did with card numbers.<p>- There&#x27;s a basic difference between card numbers and identity verification. With card numbers, you (generally) don&#x27;t really care about the number -- you just want the payment. With ID verification, however, many businesses have good reason to want more than just the verification result. For example, they are often subject to compliance requirements that mandate that they themselves possess or have access to the raw information. They may need or wish to perform additional checks on their side. Etc.<p>- The relevant UI in Identity is deliberately very clear on this points in order to avoid the assumption you&#x27;re stating. The flow explicitly says &quot;Stripe and [Business] may each use your data.&quot; Even though an end user might consider it suboptimal for the business to have their data, we still view it as an improvement to the usual status quo, where this data is frequently stored in very ad hoc fashion and without rigorous security protections.<p>- While many of the businesses initially building on Identity <i>wanted</i> access to the raw information, it may well make sense for us to enable them to restrict themselves in the future. In this world, Stripe could tell their customers that the business doesn&#x27;t have access to the raw details. (This might even make sense for Stripe payments in the future.) As a philosophical matter, we consider ourselves to serve <i>the business</i>, which means that limiting access to what we consider to be the business&#x27;s own information feels a bit strange. That said, it might sometimes be in the interests of the business to allow them to limit themselves in this fashion (especially as Stripe&#x27;s brand recognition among consumers grows).<p>- There&#x27;s a separate concern about compromise of the business&#x27;s credentials leading to inadvertent disclosure of this information (a situation analogous to an S3 bucket key getting leaked). This is of general concern to us in lots of situations, not just with Identity. We have some new functionality on the way here.</text></item><item><author>agwa</author><text>Considering that Stripe was originally known for letting websites accept credit card payments without seeing your credit card number, one might assume that Stripe Identity only allows websites to see the verification result, and not your selfies and scans of your identity documents.<p>That would be an incorrect assumption. Per <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.stripe.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;managing-your-id-verification-information#data-access" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.stripe.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;managing-your-id-verifi...</a> customers of Stripe Identity have API access to &quot;captured images of the ID document, selfies, extracted data from the ID document, keyed-in information, and the verification result&quot;.<p>Thus, when you use Stripe Identity to verify your identity, you have to trust that:<p>1. The website doesn&#x27;t download, retain, and later leak your selfie and identity information.<p>2. The website&#x27;s Stripe API token isn&#x27;t compromised and exploited by identity thieves to access your selfie and identity information.<p>Stripe appears to be leaning heavily on their claim that they don&#x27;t disclose &quot;biometric identifiers&quot; to websites and that these &quot;biometric identifiers&quot; are deleted from their systems within 48 hours. This is extremely deceptive considering that biometric identifiers can be reconstructed from the selfie.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stripe Identity</title><url>https://stripe.com/identity</url></story> |
29,342,532 | 29,342,504 | 1 | 3 | 29,341,055 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>butwhywhyoh</author><text>I&#x27;m thankful for oxygen because we can breathe it! And it can be found pretty much everywhere in the atmosphere of planet Earth. And I&#x27;m thankful for all the other elements that I&#x27;m composed of. They can even be used to do other miraculous things. Wonderful!</text><parent_chain><item><author>elil17</author><text>I’m thankful for yeast. It’s so, so convenient that we have a non-pathogenic bacteria which will eat pretty much any simple sugar, can be found on the surfaces of most fruits, and is essentially effortless to cultivate, which also does a bunch of useful things like leaven bread and make a bunch of delicious short chain fatty acids (both in bread and on their own, like in marmite) and make alcohol (although that one maybe does more harm than good)!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful</title><url>https://dynomight.net/thanks/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sombremesa</author><text>Alcohol definitely does more good, just consider the uses it has aside from being ingested.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elil17</author><text>I’m thankful for yeast. It’s so, so convenient that we have a non-pathogenic bacteria which will eat pretty much any simple sugar, can be found on the surfaces of most fruits, and is essentially effortless to cultivate, which also does a bunch of useful things like leaven bread and make a bunch of delicious short chain fatty acids (both in bread and on their own, like in marmite) and make alcohol (although that one maybe does more harm than good)!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful</title><url>https://dynomight.net/thanks/</url></story> |
20,334,964 | 20,334,626 | 1 | 3 | 20,320,049 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dgaudet</author><text>the article seems to suggest that this is a port of the original (not web) google earth app to webassembly ... but what i&#x27;m seeing is another version of the web app. the desktop app has a zillion more features which are not available in the web app... aside from the similarity of their name, and the shared imagery, the two are completely different things. i&#x27;m bummed, i was hoping the desktop app was being given a breath of fresh air. it&#x27;s one of the most important tools i use for planning hikes on infrequently climbed mountains.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Earth Ported to Browsers with WebAssembly</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/06/google-earth-web-assembly-port/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lmkg</author><text>I would be extremely interested to hear a report or post-mortem of the porting process. The fact that a decade-old, resource-intensive C++ program can be ported successfully speaks well to WebAssembly living up to its potential. Knowing what went well, what went pear-shaped, caveats, gotcha&#x27;s, etc with this project would start building up the &quot;community knowledge&quot; about whether, when, and how other code bases could be ported.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Earth Ported to Browsers with WebAssembly</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/06/google-earth-web-assembly-port/</url></story> |
24,333,248 | 24,331,921 | 1 | 2 | 24,331,635 | 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>elwell</author><text>In Clojure, for functions that will probably have more than a couple args, I like to pass a map, then destructure it by its keys in the function definition. Two benefits are: you don&#x27;t need to remember the order of args, and it makes refactoring easier in cases where you are simply adding a new optional arg (you don&#x27;t need to update all the old calls of that function if they aren&#x27;t using the new option).</text><parent_chain><item><author>enricozb</author><text>When giving an example on how infix notation reads better:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; This is obviously not too right
&quot;,&quot;.splitBy(&quot;1,2,3,4,5&quot;)
&#x2F;&#x2F; This should be right, because it reads out more naturally
&quot;1,2,3,4,5&quot;.splitBy(&quot;,&quot;)
</code></pre>
It&#x27;s funny that in Python split works this way but join doesn&#x27;t. This is because in the case of split both arguments are strings, but for join one of the arguments is a Sequence, which is a general protocol rather than a class.<p>The proposed solution by Keli is to be inspired by the Smalltalk-style message syntax:<p><pre><code> &#x27;Hello world&#x27; replace: &#x27;Hello&#x27; with: &#x27;Bye&#x27;
</code></pre>
I think, in general, requiring named arguments is a good thing. Swift does it, and in codebases with a decent amount of TLC, it looks great.<p>Function calls are one of the weird places were the syntax of the language rarely helps you figure out what is going on, and for the most part is just a sequence of human-written names one after another, and in languages with custom operators it could be even terser.<p>In comparison, if-statements, loops, pattern matching, etc. were (hopefully) designed to be expressive. I think by requiring named arguments, function calls will also be much more readable, relying less on an active human effort to do so.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Motivation – Keli Language</title><url>https://keli-language.gitbook.io/doc/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>laumars</author><text>I get this might just boil down to preference but I absolutely hate named parameters. They’re biased towards new users of a language and quickly become painful to write once you’re familiar with the function call.<p>Plus they don’t always improve writability outside of IDEs because you then have to memorise the parameter names and in some functions there’s several terms that could equally apply (if you’re using an IDE with hinting then the advantages become moot as the same IDE would hint the order of parameters).</text><parent_chain><item><author>enricozb</author><text>When giving an example on how infix notation reads better:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; This is obviously not too right
&quot;,&quot;.splitBy(&quot;1,2,3,4,5&quot;)
&#x2F;&#x2F; This should be right, because it reads out more naturally
&quot;1,2,3,4,5&quot;.splitBy(&quot;,&quot;)
</code></pre>
It&#x27;s funny that in Python split works this way but join doesn&#x27;t. This is because in the case of split both arguments are strings, but for join one of the arguments is a Sequence, which is a general protocol rather than a class.<p>The proposed solution by Keli is to be inspired by the Smalltalk-style message syntax:<p><pre><code> &#x27;Hello world&#x27; replace: &#x27;Hello&#x27; with: &#x27;Bye&#x27;
</code></pre>
I think, in general, requiring named arguments is a good thing. Swift does it, and in codebases with a decent amount of TLC, it looks great.<p>Function calls are one of the weird places were the syntax of the language rarely helps you figure out what is going on, and for the most part is just a sequence of human-written names one after another, and in languages with custom operators it could be even terser.<p>In comparison, if-statements, loops, pattern matching, etc. were (hopefully) designed to be expressive. I think by requiring named arguments, function calls will also be much more readable, relying less on an active human effort to do so.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Motivation – Keli Language</title><url>https://keli-language.gitbook.io/doc/</url></story> |
7,268,456 | 7,268,005 | 1 | 3 | 7,266,233 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>babs474</author><text>I have heard, and this article makes the case that reaction time for people is relatively constant, but that the pros are better at anticipating pitches. They read body and shoulder movements leading up to the ball release.<p><a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20130724/the-sports-gene-excerpt/#all" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sportsillustrated.cnn.com&#x2F;more&#x2F;news&#x2F;20130724&#x2F;the-spor...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cjensen</author><text>You would lose the bet :-)<p>Keep in mind that the ball is coming straight on, and the batter must discern trajectory (rising, falling) and spin (which affects how the ball curves) and velocity quickly enough that you still have time to move the bat.<p>For example, a fastball and a changeup both drop at the same rate and spin at the same rate. One is coming at 100mph, the other at 75. Since the ball is heading straight for you, you must perceive speed by measuring how quickly the ball is moving through your eye focus.<p>Worse, you are expected to bat in an intentional direction. Meaning that you have to hit the ball on an precise spot in the sphere with an intentional amount of force. It&#x27;s not enough to just swing hard. I&#x27;d guess the bat has to be in the right location with a time accuracy of less than a millisecond.<p>The good batters make good money for a reason.</text></item><item><author>staunch</author><text>&gt; &quot;<i>When a major league baseball pitcher throws a 95-mph fastball, only about 400 milliseconds—the duration of a blink—pass before the ball rockets over the plate. And a batter gets less than half that time to decide whether to swing, and where. Baseball&quot;</i><p>Bah! That&#x27;s not a knife. This is a knife: twitch FPS gaming. Quake Live at 250 FPS, refreshed at 144hz, with &lt; 5ms RTT latency. Reaction times can be compared in almost individual milliseconds. I&#x27;ll put the reaction times of the best Quake Live player (rapha&#x2F;cypher&#x2F;evil, whoever) against the best baseball player <i>any day</i>.<p>Interestingly, my vision is extremely good. I&#x27;ve often surprised people with how far I can see clearly. So screw this app: learn how to play a twitch FPS well: <a href="http://www.quakelive.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quakelive.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This App Trains You to See Farther</title><url>http://www.popularmechanics.com/_mobile/science/health/med-tech/this-app-trains-you-to-see-farther-16506910</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>rschmitty</author><text>A ball that is going to a predetermined area while you stand still...<p>Hitting a headshot of another player that can go in any direction &#x2F; velocity while you yourself are traveling in any direction velocity all _before_ that player kills you can be very challenging and depend on very high skill and reaction times<p>The amount of money a player makes compared to someone in another sport has no bearing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cjensen</author><text>You would lose the bet :-)<p>Keep in mind that the ball is coming straight on, and the batter must discern trajectory (rising, falling) and spin (which affects how the ball curves) and velocity quickly enough that you still have time to move the bat.<p>For example, a fastball and a changeup both drop at the same rate and spin at the same rate. One is coming at 100mph, the other at 75. Since the ball is heading straight for you, you must perceive speed by measuring how quickly the ball is moving through your eye focus.<p>Worse, you are expected to bat in an intentional direction. Meaning that you have to hit the ball on an precise spot in the sphere with an intentional amount of force. It&#x27;s not enough to just swing hard. I&#x27;d guess the bat has to be in the right location with a time accuracy of less than a millisecond.<p>The good batters make good money for a reason.</text></item><item><author>staunch</author><text>&gt; &quot;<i>When a major league baseball pitcher throws a 95-mph fastball, only about 400 milliseconds—the duration of a blink—pass before the ball rockets over the plate. And a batter gets less than half that time to decide whether to swing, and where. Baseball&quot;</i><p>Bah! That&#x27;s not a knife. This is a knife: twitch FPS gaming. Quake Live at 250 FPS, refreshed at 144hz, with &lt; 5ms RTT latency. Reaction times can be compared in almost individual milliseconds. I&#x27;ll put the reaction times of the best Quake Live player (rapha&#x2F;cypher&#x2F;evil, whoever) against the best baseball player <i>any day</i>.<p>Interestingly, my vision is extremely good. I&#x27;ve often surprised people with how far I can see clearly. So screw this app: learn how to play a twitch FPS well: <a href="http://www.quakelive.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quakelive.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This App Trains You to See Farther</title><url>http://www.popularmechanics.com/_mobile/science/health/med-tech/this-app-trains-you-to-see-farther-16506910</url><text></text></story> |
39,805,768 | 39,803,518 | 1 | 3 | 39,803,174 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chiubaca</author><text>I thought this was a three.js demo but it&#x27;s actually built with a language called haxe [1]. I&#x27;ve never heard of this language before and looks really cool. Makes me want to play with it!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;haxe.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;haxe.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Marimo: Interactive Fluffy Ball</title><url>https://oimo.io/works/marimo/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>imadr</author><text>I spent 10 minutes playing around with this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oimo.io&#x2F;works&#x2F;water3d&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oimo.io&#x2F;works&#x2F;water3d&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Marimo: Interactive Fluffy Ball</title><url>https://oimo.io/works/marimo/</url></story> |
4,625,221 | 4,624,909 | 1 | 2 | 4,624,761 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nkoren</author><text>One of the best things to happen during this launch is that an engine exploded. You can see engine 1 eat itself at 1:31 in this video:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRTYh71D9P0&#38;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRTYh71D9P0&#38;feature=youtu...</a><p>[Edit: First the video was public, then it was made private, now it seems to be "unlisted" but viewable. So no guarantee that it'll still be there in another minute...]<p>Why is this a good thing? Because it proves a point: the rocket automatically adjusted its trajectory, and continued on its course as if nothing had happened.<p>The Falcon 9 is the first American rocket since the Saturn 5 with an engine-out capability. Its multiple symmetrically-arrayed engines allow for it to compensate for a sudden loss of thrust from one side: the other side reduces thrust as well to stay balanced, and everything else just burns a little bit longer. That was the theory, anyways. Today they put it into practice.<p>For any other rocket that you've seen launched in the last 35 years, that would have ended the mission catastrophically -- but the Falcon shrugged it off like nothing had happened. They always said they could do that, and now they've done it. Congratulations, SpaceX! Creating a fault-tolerant rocket is <i>much</i> better than creating a faultless one (since that's impossible).<p>[Edit]: In the absence of the video, the engine anomaly is being widely reported on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/spaceteam/status/255128401927610368" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/spaceteam/status/255128401927610368</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/visionik/status/255128010653593600" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/visionik/status/255128010653593600</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpaceX's First Official Cargo Resupply Mission to the ISS - Launch Webcast</title><url>https://new.livestream.com/spacex/CRS1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mixmax</author><text>I have a favour to ask of HN.<p>I'm responsible for webcasting Copenhagen Suborbitals launches, and we're having a lot of great discussions about what works and what doesn't in a live webcast of a launch. We obviously want our webcasts to be as interesting as possible, and so I'd like to ask you a question:<p>What do you think could be done better in this Space X webcast? Is there something you're missing? Something you think would be cool? Something that's bothering you? Are the speakers good? Why?<p>I'm sure we can learn a lot by asking potential viewers what they think, and implement it for next summers launches.<p>And good luck to SpaceX!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpaceX's First Official Cargo Resupply Mission to the ISS - Launch Webcast</title><url>https://new.livestream.com/spacex/CRS1</url></story> |
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