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41,559,417 | 41,559,430 | 1 | 2 | 41,558,799 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aftbit</author><text>&gt;Clause 11.3.2. The developers must also delete all installed copies of commercial Qt tools and Qt libraries. Qt customer can keep some developer licenses to continue the support of their End Customers. Bug fixing is OK. Adding new features is not OK.<p>Jeez I&#x27;d hate to be the engineer who has to explain in court that my change was a bug fix and not a feature improvement.<p>Why do people even buy QT Commercial? LGPL is a very easy license to comply with. Are there better tools for commercial users or something?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do Not Sign the Qt License Agreement Unchanged</title><url>https://burkhardstubert.substack.com/p/do-not-sign-the-qt-license-agreement</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ghosty141</author><text>Tangential Qt rant:<p>After having worked with Qt (QML) on a daily basis (and quite in-depth, from using the scenegraph api to creating controls that with complex touch interfacing) I have to say I wouldn&#x27;t pay a dime for the stuff you get with Qt. And even what they sell is almost never even close to worth it.<p>The underlying technology is pretty good, so the Qv4 engine, the OS-abstractions (sockets, networking etc) and so on. But all the library code ontop can be <i>very</i> hit or miss.<p>For example, they introduced new ways of handling touch events (DragHandler, TapHanderl, PinchHandler etc. etc.) which work GREAT! But they lack any way to stop propagation of events leading to them becoming utterly unusable if you have any custom &quot;popup&quot; things. There are also a lot of bugs with them which haven&#x27;t gotten fixed in years even though they cannot be worked around. Paying for the product doesn&#x27;t seem to even get you any further in that regard.<p>Using the open source Qt is the best option in my opinion, worst case you buy support sessions to adress specific problems but that&#x27;s about it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do Not Sign the Qt License Agreement Unchanged</title><url>https://burkhardstubert.substack.com/p/do-not-sign-the-qt-license-agreement</url></story> |
27,159,249 | 27,159,045 | 1 | 3 | 27,153,254 | 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>robocat</author><text>I live in New Zealand, definitely a first world country with first world infrastructure. Ping times to US East or Europe are over 300ms right now from my home[1].<p>My old business had users in countries around the world, and the assets were <i>highly</i> optimised for speed. However adding CloudFlare (a) significantly sped up our service to clients, especially those in Asian countries, and (b) significantly improved reliability of connections because CloudFlare have their own dedicated network links between countries and&#x2F;or optimised for reliability.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudping.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudping.info&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>grishka</author><text>&gt; You&#x27;re missing a zero in that RTT for users in places like Asia if your server is anywhere in the west.<p>Well, it does say 130 ms in here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;How-long-would-it-take-for-light-to-fly-around-the-earth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;How-long-would-it-take-for-light-to-fl...</a><p>And that&#x27;s <i>around</i> the planet, to go around and end up at the same spot. In practice, with sanely-configured routes, your packets should never need to traverse more than half that distance. So, divide it by 2, then that cancels out because RTT is a measure of how long it takes for a signal to travel back and forth. You then add some time on top of that to account for buffering and processing in the various equipment along the way.<p>&gt; These are unavoidable and occur often in more than just websites, but anything that e.g. uses HTTP as an API (a very simple one is something like recursively downloading dependencies.)<p>If you mean REST API requests, the kind that trigger some code to dynamically generate a response, how would a CDN solution like cloudflare help? The request still needs to get to the server and the response still needs to come back, all the way, because that&#x27;s where that code runs. CDNs only really work for cacheable static content, don&#x27;t they? I mean it&#x27;s in the name.<p>A blog or a news website certainly doesn&#x27;t need a CDN.</text></item><item><author>aseipp</author><text>&gt; Yes, there will be 200 ms RTT in some cases. So what? Get over it.<p>You&#x27;re missing a zero in that RTT for users in places like Asia if your server is anywhere in the west. (It&#x27;s actually somewhat revealing when someone throws out a number like this without any qualification; what exactly made you conclude 200ms is the magic number?)<p>&gt; Optimize your website to load in fewer round-trips. TCP congestion control adapts well enough to any latency. RTT only really matters in gaming and VoIP.<p>You don&#x27;t need a very big imagination to think about cases where RTT will have significant impacts e.g. in the event you need to issue multiple sequential requests that are dependent on one another. These are unavoidable and occur often in more than just websites, but anything that e.g. uses HTTP as an API (a very simple one is something like recursively downloading dependencies.)<p>This comes across as a classic &quot;I don&#x27;t actually understand the problem domain very well at all, but get off my lawn&quot; answer to the problem.</text></item><item><author>grishka</author><text>As I user, I simply don&#x27;t care. I repeatedly get punished for doing nothing wrong. It&#x27;s almost like airport security.<p>&gt; What does your cdn solution look like?<p>&gt; Route optimization from your (single) endpoint to clients literally half a world away?<p>And as a developer, I don&#x27;t understand this newfangled obsession over CDNs either. Yes, there will be 200 ms RTT in some cases. So what? Get over it. Optimize your website to load in fewer round-trips. TCP congestion control adapts well enough to any latency. RTT only really matters in gaming and VoIP.</text></item><item><author>ehutch79</author><text>How do you mitigate ddos attacks and other bad actors hitting a page?<p>What does your cdn solution look like?<p>Route optimization from your (single) endpoint to clients literally half a world away?</text></item><item><author>grishka</author><text>Cloudflare captchas in particular, and any checks and roadblocks to <i>see something publicly available</i> in general, are terrible, period. It doesn&#x27;t matter which form they take. Every time you see one you feel like a second-class citizen and get reminded that the internet is no longer what it used to be.<p>I personally simply close the tab when I see a cloudflare &quot;one more step&quot; page.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a bad idea</title><url>https://herrjemand.medium.com/why-cloudflares-captcha-replacement-with-fido2-webauthn-is-a-really-bad-idea-d5487f6c7566</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bayindirh</author><text>&gt; Well, it does say 130 ms in here.<p>If you have a fiber backed, all-switched network with no routing, buffers, congestions, or detours, you may get that value, <i>if you&#x27;re lucky</i>.<p>Pinging tty.sdf.org which is a direct access shell service in USA from somewhere between Europe and Asia, from an <i>academic network backbone</i> roundtrips in ~190ms. I&#x27;m traversing a little less than half a globe with the whole journey. In your terms, it should be around ~60ms, but it&#x27;s not.<p>&gt; If you mean REST API requests, the kind that trigger some code to dynamically generate a response, how would a CDN solution like cloudflare help?<p>By using Cloudflare workers, so your code is also distributed around the globe?<p>&gt; CDNs only really work for cacheable static content, don&#x27;t they? I mean it&#x27;s in the name.<p>JS files are also static content. Unless you don&#x27;t use code distribution like Cloudflare workers, using a simple CDN can cache 90% of your site if not more. CSS, images, JS, HTML, you name it.<p>&gt; A blog or a news website certainly doesn&#x27;t need a CDN.<p>Actually, CDN is the most basic optimization for distributing heavy assets like videos and images, which news websites use way more than text. Why not use a CDN?</text><parent_chain><item><author>grishka</author><text>&gt; You&#x27;re missing a zero in that RTT for users in places like Asia if your server is anywhere in the west.<p>Well, it does say 130 ms in here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;How-long-would-it-take-for-light-to-fly-around-the-earth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;How-long-would-it-take-for-light-to-fl...</a><p>And that&#x27;s <i>around</i> the planet, to go around and end up at the same spot. In practice, with sanely-configured routes, your packets should never need to traverse more than half that distance. So, divide it by 2, then that cancels out because RTT is a measure of how long it takes for a signal to travel back and forth. You then add some time on top of that to account for buffering and processing in the various equipment along the way.<p>&gt; These are unavoidable and occur often in more than just websites, but anything that e.g. uses HTTP as an API (a very simple one is something like recursively downloading dependencies.)<p>If you mean REST API requests, the kind that trigger some code to dynamically generate a response, how would a CDN solution like cloudflare help? The request still needs to get to the server and the response still needs to come back, all the way, because that&#x27;s where that code runs. CDNs only really work for cacheable static content, don&#x27;t they? I mean it&#x27;s in the name.<p>A blog or a news website certainly doesn&#x27;t need a CDN.</text></item><item><author>aseipp</author><text>&gt; Yes, there will be 200 ms RTT in some cases. So what? Get over it.<p>You&#x27;re missing a zero in that RTT for users in places like Asia if your server is anywhere in the west. (It&#x27;s actually somewhat revealing when someone throws out a number like this without any qualification; what exactly made you conclude 200ms is the magic number?)<p>&gt; Optimize your website to load in fewer round-trips. TCP congestion control adapts well enough to any latency. RTT only really matters in gaming and VoIP.<p>You don&#x27;t need a very big imagination to think about cases where RTT will have significant impacts e.g. in the event you need to issue multiple sequential requests that are dependent on one another. These are unavoidable and occur often in more than just websites, but anything that e.g. uses HTTP as an API (a very simple one is something like recursively downloading dependencies.)<p>This comes across as a classic &quot;I don&#x27;t actually understand the problem domain very well at all, but get off my lawn&quot; answer to the problem.</text></item><item><author>grishka</author><text>As I user, I simply don&#x27;t care. I repeatedly get punished for doing nothing wrong. It&#x27;s almost like airport security.<p>&gt; What does your cdn solution look like?<p>&gt; Route optimization from your (single) endpoint to clients literally half a world away?<p>And as a developer, I don&#x27;t understand this newfangled obsession over CDNs either. Yes, there will be 200 ms RTT in some cases. So what? Get over it. Optimize your website to load in fewer round-trips. TCP congestion control adapts well enough to any latency. RTT only really matters in gaming and VoIP.</text></item><item><author>ehutch79</author><text>How do you mitigate ddos attacks and other bad actors hitting a page?<p>What does your cdn solution look like?<p>Route optimization from your (single) endpoint to clients literally half a world away?</text></item><item><author>grishka</author><text>Cloudflare captchas in particular, and any checks and roadblocks to <i>see something publicly available</i> in general, are terrible, period. It doesn&#x27;t matter which form they take. Every time you see one you feel like a second-class citizen and get reminded that the internet is no longer what it used to be.<p>I personally simply close the tab when I see a cloudflare &quot;one more step&quot; page.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a bad idea</title><url>https://herrjemand.medium.com/why-cloudflares-captcha-replacement-with-fido2-webauthn-is-a-really-bad-idea-d5487f6c7566</url></story> |
29,143,290 | 29,142,883 | 1 | 2 | 29,141,800 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tacticalmook</author><text>The downside of folders is trying to figure out where things belong in the hierarchy, or trying to update that hierarchy to a new standard.<p>The downside of tagging is you still need to establish conventions to ensure things can be found again, but enforcement of your conventions is harder.<p>Exploring, learning, and using an unfamiliar folder hierarchy is easier than exploring, learning, and using an unfamiliar tagging methodology.<p>But manually searching for something in somebody else&#x27;s tagged data is easier than manually searching for something in somebody else&#x27;s folders.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spicybright</author><text>I&#x27;ve been hearing this for years, but I&#x27;ve never had the mental model for it. Maybe I just have to try it out.<p>There&#x27;s a very neat project (can&#x27;t remember the name, and some details below may be wrong,) that mounts a FUSE filesystem that uses only tags.<p>Paths have identical syntax to hierarchical ones, only each segment of a path is a tag.<p>so `&#x2F;document&#x2F;taxes&#x2F;2020` would return a collection of files, but you could also write `&#x2F;taxes&#x2F;2020&#x2F;document` and it would mean the same thing.<p>The advantage is you can use standard unix tools like ls, mv, cp, etc. as well as R&#x2F;W using standard programs (like how you&#x27;d export an image.)<p>I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s edge cases to it, but I always found the idea very neat. Anyone remember what I&#x27;m talking about?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)</title><url>https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organization-around-tags-not-hierarchies</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>webmobdev</author><text>&gt; <i>I&#x27;ve never had the mental model for it.</i><p>This is one way to think about the hybrid model of folders + tags that is currently available:<p>1. Folders tell you <i>where</i> the file is stored.<p>2. Tags tell you <i>what</i> is the file.<p>So basically use the <i>Tags</i> to add more data (metadata) about your files, so that if you forget where the file is, you can still search for it by what is in it. This also slightly helps in easing the burden of trying to figure out where to store a file (e.g. <i>&quot;Do I put a home video in my &#x27;Videos&#x27; folder or my &#x27;Personal&#x27; folder?&quot;</i> - if you tag it properly, you can put it in either, as you can use the tags to figure out where the video is later).<p>Examples:<p>1. In Documents folder - <i>&quot;mom-2020.xls&quot;</i> (tags =&gt; docs, tax, finance, mom, unfiled).<p>2. In Videos folder - <i>&quot;newyear bash.mp4&quot;</i> (tags =&gt; video, family, 2021, home).</text><parent_chain><item><author>spicybright</author><text>I&#x27;ve been hearing this for years, but I&#x27;ve never had the mental model for it. Maybe I just have to try it out.<p>There&#x27;s a very neat project (can&#x27;t remember the name, and some details below may be wrong,) that mounts a FUSE filesystem that uses only tags.<p>Paths have identical syntax to hierarchical ones, only each segment of a path is a tag.<p>so `&#x2F;document&#x2F;taxes&#x2F;2020` would return a collection of files, but you could also write `&#x2F;taxes&#x2F;2020&#x2F;document` and it would mean the same thing.<p>The advantage is you can use standard unix tools like ls, mv, cp, etc. as well as R&#x2F;W using standard programs (like how you&#x27;d export an image.)<p>I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s edge cases to it, but I always found the idea very neat. Anyone remember what I&#x27;m talking about?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)</title><url>https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organization-around-tags-not-hierarchies</url></story> |
30,222,661 | 30,222,215 | 1 | 3 | 30,219,452 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway17_17</author><text>I have seen talks and&#x2F;or papers on all of these except Scopes and Gleam. Out of the list the only one that does not provide something I am interested in is Unison. Given that your feelings for interesting language features seems to be at least marginally close to mine I am going to check out Scopes and Gleam just to see what they have that interested you.<p>Personally, from a conceptual level, I find that Koka and Roc provide some of the more interesting developments in PL design. For anyone wondering, as to Roc (which I don’t think has an implementation or even a full description yet) I am particularly interested in their concept and implementation of the ‘platform’&#x2F;‘application’ layer idea. As to Koka, the papers the team has generated are almost all excellent. The paper describing Perseus, the GC&#x2F;resource tracking system, and the compiler implementation review are stunning.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yewenjie</author><text>So many new programming languages coming up with clever features that makes me wish I could mix and match their core features while using libraries from more popular languages.<p>Up and coming Languages I am excited about -<p>1. Roc - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vzfy4EKwG_Y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vzfy4EKwG_Y</a><p>2. Zig - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ziglang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ziglang.org&#x2F;</a><p>3. Scopes - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sr.ht&#x2F;~duangle&#x2F;scopes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sr.ht&#x2F;~duangle&#x2F;scopes&#x2F;</a><p>4. Gleam - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gleam.run&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gleam.run&#x2F;</a><p>5. Odin - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;odin-lang&#x2F;Odin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;odin-lang&#x2F;Odin</a><p>6. Koka - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;koka-lang&#x2F;koka" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;koka-lang&#x2F;koka</a><p>7. Unison - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unisonweb&#x2F;unison" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unisonweb&#x2F;unison</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>High-order Virtual Machine (HVM): Massively parallel, optimal functional runtime</title><url>https://github.com/Kindelia/HVM</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arc776</author><text>Nim - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org&#x2F;</a><p>Lets you mix and match other libraries with their native ABI as it compiles to C, C++, ObjC and JS + has excellent FFI.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yewenjie</author><text>So many new programming languages coming up with clever features that makes me wish I could mix and match their core features while using libraries from more popular languages.<p>Up and coming Languages I am excited about -<p>1. Roc - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vzfy4EKwG_Y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vzfy4EKwG_Y</a><p>2. Zig - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ziglang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ziglang.org&#x2F;</a><p>3. Scopes - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sr.ht&#x2F;~duangle&#x2F;scopes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sr.ht&#x2F;~duangle&#x2F;scopes&#x2F;</a><p>4. Gleam - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gleam.run&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gleam.run&#x2F;</a><p>5. Odin - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;odin-lang&#x2F;Odin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;odin-lang&#x2F;Odin</a><p>6. Koka - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;koka-lang&#x2F;koka" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;koka-lang&#x2F;koka</a><p>7. Unison - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unisonweb&#x2F;unison" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unisonweb&#x2F;unison</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>High-order Virtual Machine (HVM): Massively parallel, optimal functional runtime</title><url>https://github.com/Kindelia/HVM</url></story> |
17,672,603 | 17,672,300 | 1 | 2 | 17,670,433 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>newswriter99</author><text>&gt;Abstainers were mainly women, had lower education and physical activity, were obese, and had a higher prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors, all associated with an increased risk of dementia,11,12 which could explain the differences; however, adjustment for confounding factors did not alter the findings.<p>This is why interactive data visualization is so important. People need to be able to adjust the results of data to fit them, otherwise the margin of error and deviation from the &quot;average&quot; will be so great, findings are virtually useless to an individual.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Relation between alcohol consumption in midlife and dementia in late life</title><url>https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3164</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hyperpape</author><text>Can anyone tell if this study avoids the &quot;sick quitter&quot; problem? (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;4&#x2F;24&#x2F;17242720&#x2F;alcohol-health-risks-facts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;4&#x2F;24&#x2F;17242720&#x2F;alcohol-health-risks-...</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Relation between alcohol consumption in midlife and dementia in late life</title><url>https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3164</url></story> |
40,850,382 | 40,850,301 | 1 | 3 | 40,848,797 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gruez</author><text>You can probably dodge the taxes too by incorporating a company in a tax haven, &quot;working&quot; for that company, and then selling your services through that company. The company can pay you a minimal wage, which would be taxed, but everything else can be stashed in that company tax free.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ok_dad</author><text>I’m an American citizen, and no matter where I go, I owe the IRS taxes on what I make, even if the USA isn’t involved otherwise.<p>Question: why can’t we do the same for corporations in the USA? The equivalent action might be to only allow a company to expense money spent inside the USA and thus they can’t just license themselves all their own technology and patents which are held in a one person office in Ireland.<p>I’m sure I’m simplifying things too much, but I’m tired of the two tiered tax system where regular people pay for everything and corps reap the rewards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pharma firms stash profits in Europe's tax havens</title><url>https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/deadly-prices-pharma-firms-stash-profits-in-europes-tax-havens-as-patients-struggle-with-drug-prices</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gamblor956</author><text>A U.S. corporation that directly does business around the world is also subject to tax on its worldwide income.<p>Most companies big enough to be doing business around the world do so through separate companies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ok_dad</author><text>I’m an American citizen, and no matter where I go, I owe the IRS taxes on what I make, even if the USA isn’t involved otherwise.<p>Question: why can’t we do the same for corporations in the USA? The equivalent action might be to only allow a company to expense money spent inside the USA and thus they can’t just license themselves all their own technology and patents which are held in a one person office in Ireland.<p>I’m sure I’m simplifying things too much, but I’m tired of the two tiered tax system where regular people pay for everything and corps reap the rewards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pharma firms stash profits in Europe's tax havens</title><url>https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/deadly-prices-pharma-firms-stash-profits-in-europes-tax-havens-as-patients-struggle-with-drug-prices</url></story> |
28,047,912 | 28,047,145 | 1 | 2 | 28,045,227 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pembrook</author><text>&gt; <i>regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets</i><p>I fail to see how this is a &quot;privacy disaster.&quot; It looks like crypto brokers are going to be treated like all other brokerages.<p>Do you also call it a &quot;privacy disaster&quot; when your bank account requires your name and address so they can report interest payments to the government? Or when Robinhood&#x2F;Schwab&#x2F;Vanguard&#x2F;Etc send the IRS a list of all your stock transactions for the year in a form 1099?<p>Bitcoin is basically digital gold, and just like with gold, when you chose to buy or sell it the convenient way (eg. through an ETF instead of actual physical gold), it gets reported to everybody.<p>You can always custody your own bitcoin and find partners to transact with directly and choose not to report it (like with physical gold), but, similar to physical gold, it will be extremely cumbersome, risky, and not worth your time to do so.</text><parent_chain><item><author>1cvmask</author><text>This is more than a privacy disaster. It is so far so vaguely worded (maybe deliberately?) that the government can target everyone in the ecosystem with penalties:<p>While the language is still evolving, the proposal would seek to expand the definition of “broker” under section 6045(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include anyone who is “responsible for and regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets” on behalf of another person. These newly defined brokers would be required to comply with IRS reporting requirements for brokers, including filing form 1099s with the IRS. That means they would have to collect user data, including users’ names and addresses.<p>The broad, confusing language leaves open a door for almost any entity within the cryptocurrency ecosystem to be considered a “broker”—including software developers and cryptocurrency startups that aren’t custodying or controlling assets on behalf of their users. It could even potentially implicate miners, those who confirm and verify blockchain transactions. The mandate to collect names, addresses, and transactions of customers means almost every company even tangentially related to cryptocurrency may suddenly be forced to surveil their users.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/cryptocurrency-surveillance-provision-buried-infrastructure-bill-disaster-digital</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>This should be read along with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28042185" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28042185</a> &quot;Wealthy Americans Targeted by U.S. in Panama Tax-Fraud Probe&quot;. The fundamental question is &quot;should paying tax be optional for rich people?&quot; Large parts of the crypto ecosystem believe that the answer should be &quot;yes&quot;. The US government believes the answer should be &quot;no&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>1cvmask</author><text>This is more than a privacy disaster. It is so far so vaguely worded (maybe deliberately?) that the government can target everyone in the ecosystem with penalties:<p>While the language is still evolving, the proposal would seek to expand the definition of “broker” under section 6045(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include anyone who is “responsible for and regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets” on behalf of another person. These newly defined brokers would be required to comply with IRS reporting requirements for brokers, including filing form 1099s with the IRS. That means they would have to collect user data, including users’ names and addresses.<p>The broad, confusing language leaves open a door for almost any entity within the cryptocurrency ecosystem to be considered a “broker”—including software developers and cryptocurrency startups that aren’t custodying or controlling assets on behalf of their users. It could even potentially implicate miners, those who confirm and verify blockchain transactions. The mandate to collect names, addresses, and transactions of customers means almost every company even tangentially related to cryptocurrency may suddenly be forced to surveil their users.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/cryptocurrency-surveillance-provision-buried-infrastructure-bill-disaster-digital</url></story> |
16,337,414 | 16,335,616 | 1 | 3 | 16,333,445 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aorloff</author><text>Another greate option for training people during growth are the Harrison Metal classes, starting with General Management. If you are a first time manager (or even a seasoned one!) in a growing startup, its an invaluable crash course in business.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Y Combinator Is Launching a “Grad School” for Booming Startups</title><url>http://www.fastcompany.com/40524163/y-combinator-is-launching-a-grad-school-for-booming-startups</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oisino</author><text>Curious why Y Combinator doesn&#x27;t open this up to all startup companies just not the small % that went through YC already.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Y Combinator Is Launching a “Grad School” for Booming Startups</title><url>http://www.fastcompany.com/40524163/y-combinator-is-launching-a-grad-school-for-booming-startups</url></story> |
24,944,366 | 24,942,446 | 1 | 3 | 24,931,534 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sarah180</author><text>Something to know about RWhiteGoose:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;X7qLRXa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;X7qLRXa</a><p>And his response:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;RWhiteGoose&#x2F;status&#x2F;1067707564689776642" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;RWhiteGoose&#x2F;status&#x2F;10677075646897...</a><p>How these are weighed against one another in evaluating his character is left as an exercise to the reader.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nyjah</author><text>As a casual follower of speed running &#x2F; high score community and HN frequenter, I&#x27;d say everyone who doesn&#x27;t follow would be surprised how much detail goes into mastering some of these old games. These guys decipher everything, and find tricks that depend on &quot;subpixel&quot; perfect timing to shave off mere milliseconds. And they have thousands and thousands of attempts. The community at large thinks Billy Mitchell is a piece of shit, so tells me enough. Here&#x27;s some channels if you want to learn more.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;RWhiteGoose" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;RWhiteGoose</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UC3ltptWa0xfrDweghW94Acg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UC3ltptWa0xfrDweghW94Acg</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high-score case will move forward to trial</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/10/billy-mitchells-donkey-kong-high-score-case-will-move-forward-to-trial/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cainxinth</author><text>I don&#x27;t know anything about Mitchell beyond what I saw in &quot;The King of Kong,&quot; but he and his lackey come off as scheming, haughty jerks in that film.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nyjah</author><text>As a casual follower of speed running &#x2F; high score community and HN frequenter, I&#x27;d say everyone who doesn&#x27;t follow would be surprised how much detail goes into mastering some of these old games. These guys decipher everything, and find tricks that depend on &quot;subpixel&quot; perfect timing to shave off mere milliseconds. And they have thousands and thousands of attempts. The community at large thinks Billy Mitchell is a piece of shit, so tells me enough. Here&#x27;s some channels if you want to learn more.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;RWhiteGoose" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;RWhiteGoose</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UC3ltptWa0xfrDweghW94Acg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UC3ltptWa0xfrDweghW94Acg</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high-score case will move forward to trial</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/10/billy-mitchells-donkey-kong-high-score-case-will-move-forward-to-trial/</url></story> |
40,476,371 | 40,474,669 | 1 | 3 | 40,474,236 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raydev</author><text>&gt; Already now, a lot of users will associate Google AI Overviews with nonsense<p>A lot of tech-minded folks who actively follow this stuff on Twitter et al make this association, but the average person was already defaulting to reading the first (likely incorrect) hit on Google and moving on with their day. I&#x27;m not sure they&#x27;ll notice a dip in quality until it directly contradicts something they know about confidently.</text><parent_chain><item><author>skilled</author><text>The AI Overviews outrage is only the beginning. It has been 11 days since they made it public in the US, and it had been in experimentation for over a year before that.<p>Already now, a lot of users will associate Google AI Overviews with nonsense; eat rocks, cook spaghetti with gasoline. Google also showed how easily these AI Overviews can be manipulated, since they use RAG.<p>I think the <i>Slopception</i> is only going to get worse. Slop in. Slop out.<p>And also, Google Research just happened to be sitting on AGREE[0]:<p>&gt; a learning-based framework that enables LLMs to provide accurate citations in their responses, making them more reliable and increasing user trust<p>Which was published yesterday.<p>I tried to submit it[1] but it didn’t get much love.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;blog&#x2F;effective-large-language-model-adaptation-for-improved-grounding&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;blog&#x2F;effective-large-language-model-...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40469518">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40469518</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/24/publishing-ai-slop-is-a-choice</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>polski-g</author><text>Google AI was so much better when they used it to do useful things like create the best starcraft player in the world. Imagine if strategy game companies could license&#x2F;extend DeepMind game AI.</text><parent_chain><item><author>skilled</author><text>The AI Overviews outrage is only the beginning. It has been 11 days since they made it public in the US, and it had been in experimentation for over a year before that.<p>Already now, a lot of users will associate Google AI Overviews with nonsense; eat rocks, cook spaghetti with gasoline. Google also showed how easily these AI Overviews can be manipulated, since they use RAG.<p>I think the <i>Slopception</i> is only going to get worse. Slop in. Slop out.<p>And also, Google Research just happened to be sitting on AGREE[0]:<p>&gt; a learning-based framework that enables LLMs to provide accurate citations in their responses, making them more reliable and increasing user trust<p>Which was published yesterday.<p>I tried to submit it[1] but it didn’t get much love.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;blog&#x2F;effective-large-language-model-adaptation-for-improved-grounding&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;blog&#x2F;effective-large-language-model-...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40469518">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40469518</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/24/publishing-ai-slop-is-a-choice</url></story> |
15,986,725 | 15,986,312 | 1 | 3 | 15,982,584 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LV-426</author><text>&gt; When it comes to Bitcoin, I think of Linux as an analogy.<p>I&#x27;ve read Bitcoin is like email, Bitcoin is like TCP&#x2F;IP, Bitcoin is like the entire Internet. Now I&#x27;ve read Bitcoin is like Linux.<p>At one time few people had heard of (random thing from thin air) New Kids On The Block.<p>Some didn&#x27;t understand the new fangled (boy band) concept, some thought existing bands&#x2F;music were good enough, some thought they&#x27;ll take over the world, and some just thought they could get rich off it all before it collapsed.<p>Bitcoin is something that happened to catch on (<i>entirely</i>, by design, due to profit motive), which is why it&#x27;s superficially similar to other things that happened to catch on. (Even things that catch on because they&#x27;re actually useful, and not just a potential route to get rich quick without any effort.)<p>Once upon a time Denmark, like Bitcoin, didn&#x27;t exist.<p>Danes (like Bitcoiners) were a strange bunch, famed and feared for their involvement in crime to make money. Slowly their influence started to spread, however, despite - but in some ways because of - their criminal behaviour.<p>Many legends were created... Ragnar Lothbrok, Ivar the Boneless, Magical Tux and Free Ross.<p>Then along came Christianity[1] (Coinbase&#x2F;Winklevii) which provided more legitimacy with other, less beardy, groups. The true believers didn&#x27;t like this, of course, but most people recognised the social and economic benefits of selling out everything they were supposedly all about.<p>The similarities end there, sadly, because today Bitcoin consumes even more power than Denmark. A fact which is completely batshit insane, but since Bitcoin hype and hysteria is even more insane, and increasing with every $1000 price pump, nobody cares.<p>Serious question (which will go largely unanswered in favour of turning this text white) for people who seriously think Bitcoin ranks in importance&#x2F;significance with email&#x2F;Internet&#x2F;Linux&#x2F;Denmark:<p>Now in its <i>tenth year</i>[2], what has Bitcoin <i>actually achieved</i>, other than a sickening energy waste and crazy price fluctuations and speculation?<p>[1] Which is also Bitcoin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;larslfe&#x2F;status&#x2F;909192006362005506" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;larslfe&#x2F;status&#x2F;909192006362005506</a><p>[2] See creation dates for bitcoin.com&#x2F;net&#x2F;org.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mccoyspace</author><text>When it comes to Bitcoin, I think of Linux as an analogy. When it first emerged, many people questioned it&#x27;s basic premise: &quot;why is there a new operating system? Everyone uses Windows, or Mac&quot;. People didn&#x27;t know or understand the idea of open source: &quot;Doesn&#x27;t that just mean people will find bugs and ways to hack it?&quot; &quot;Without a company behind it, how do I know I can trust it in the long term?&quot;
At first it&#x27;s usability sucked. It took forever to get it up and running. It was confusing and hard to learn.
It had a small, rabid fan base who kept obsessing about desktop adoption rates and wondering when it would take over.
That is all kind of the same vibe as Bitcoin. But just as Linux showed, you don&#x27;t need a monolithic, centralized entity to back it, it can start slowly and improve over time.
&quot;linux on the desktop&quot; basically failed (cue all the linux desktop heads on HH....!) but it completely took over the whole back end of the Internet. Every server runs it. And it then morphed and took over almost all mobile&#x2F;tablet&#x2F;smartTV&#x2F;etc&#x2F;etc devices. I think something similar could easily happen with Bitcoin. It has securely held Billions of USD equivalents in value for years. The software continues to evolve. Its core technology has morphed into many other formats. And like Linux on the Desktop, maybe the early idea of digital cash will change into another idea, like a settlement layer. who knows?
But I remain pretty optimistic about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/goldman-is-setting-up-a-cryptocurrency-trading-desk</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>golergka</author><text>Survivor bias. It is also true about many, many things that turned out to be flops in the end.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mccoyspace</author><text>When it comes to Bitcoin, I think of Linux as an analogy. When it first emerged, many people questioned it&#x27;s basic premise: &quot;why is there a new operating system? Everyone uses Windows, or Mac&quot;. People didn&#x27;t know or understand the idea of open source: &quot;Doesn&#x27;t that just mean people will find bugs and ways to hack it?&quot; &quot;Without a company behind it, how do I know I can trust it in the long term?&quot;
At first it&#x27;s usability sucked. It took forever to get it up and running. It was confusing and hard to learn.
It had a small, rabid fan base who kept obsessing about desktop adoption rates and wondering when it would take over.
That is all kind of the same vibe as Bitcoin. But just as Linux showed, you don&#x27;t need a monolithic, centralized entity to back it, it can start slowly and improve over time.
&quot;linux on the desktop&quot; basically failed (cue all the linux desktop heads on HH....!) but it completely took over the whole back end of the Internet. Every server runs it. And it then morphed and took over almost all mobile&#x2F;tablet&#x2F;smartTV&#x2F;etc&#x2F;etc devices. I think something similar could easily happen with Bitcoin. It has securely held Billions of USD equivalents in value for years. The software continues to evolve. Its core technology has morphed into many other formats. And like Linux on the Desktop, maybe the early idea of digital cash will change into another idea, like a settlement layer. who knows?
But I remain pretty optimistic about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/goldman-is-setting-up-a-cryptocurrency-trading-desk</url></story> |
17,681,376 | 17,681,089 | 1 | 2 | 17,680,589 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hammock</author><text>For those interested, in the outdoors industry (where fluorinated compounds are pervasive in waterproof coatings), there are a couple companies doing good:<p>Patagonia has switched to shorter-chain PFCs for many of its coatings (C6 instead of C8). They are also actively investing in research for alternative chemicals with adequate performance.<p>Nikwax, which sells re-waterproofing products, never uses fluorinated compounds and is a good brand to look for at the store.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sbjs</author><text>The more established, bigger, unethical companies will crush the &quot;our products don&#x27;t poison you!&quot; competitors out of existence before they even get started. They will maintain their poison-happy monopolies. So without regulation protecting anti-poison competition, there will be no money in these alternatives, and the economy will remain unbalanced and literally deadly.</text></item><item><author>kungtotte</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a given that it hurts the economy. Someone has to research, develop, and manufacture the non-toxic alternatives. How is that money not part of the economy?<p>Also, it doesn&#x27;t make business that much harder <i>unless</i> you built your business on being shady. See: the recent GDPR kerfuffle. For some it was just business as usual on May 26th.</text></item><item><author>fhood</author><text>Sad, but hardly surprising. It sometimes seems like every company in this position did similar things. Tobacco, Oil, CFCs, Leaded gasoline etc... I&#x27;m sure I could come up with others if I looked.<p>This is why I don&#x27;t understand many of the arguments against federal regulation. I know regulation hurts the economy and makes doing business harder. I understand. But most corporations will not self-regulate even when people&#x27;s lives are at stake.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>3M Knew About the Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago, Internal Documents Show</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3m-pfas-minnesota-pfoa-pfos/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rootlocus</author><text>&gt; They will maintain their poison-happy monopolies.<p>They will because people will still buy their crap. There are plenty of lazy, misinformed, ignorant people who would do anything to keep happy-poisoning themselves, including fighting legislation meant to protect them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sbjs</author><text>The more established, bigger, unethical companies will crush the &quot;our products don&#x27;t poison you!&quot; competitors out of existence before they even get started. They will maintain their poison-happy monopolies. So without regulation protecting anti-poison competition, there will be no money in these alternatives, and the economy will remain unbalanced and literally deadly.</text></item><item><author>kungtotte</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a given that it hurts the economy. Someone has to research, develop, and manufacture the non-toxic alternatives. How is that money not part of the economy?<p>Also, it doesn&#x27;t make business that much harder <i>unless</i> you built your business on being shady. See: the recent GDPR kerfuffle. For some it was just business as usual on May 26th.</text></item><item><author>fhood</author><text>Sad, but hardly surprising. It sometimes seems like every company in this position did similar things. Tobacco, Oil, CFCs, Leaded gasoline etc... I&#x27;m sure I could come up with others if I looked.<p>This is why I don&#x27;t understand many of the arguments against federal regulation. I know regulation hurts the economy and makes doing business harder. I understand. But most corporations will not self-regulate even when people&#x27;s lives are at stake.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>3M Knew About the Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago, Internal Documents Show</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3m-pfas-minnesota-pfoa-pfos/</url></story> |
19,578,819 | 19,578,054 | 1 | 2 | 19,577,602 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cyberferret</author><text>&gt; The FAA also lost a lot of trust, for rubber-stamping this.<p>From documents I&#x27;ve seen (which I cannot find the links to now), it appears that the FAA let Boeing themselves do some of the certification work and sign offs.<p>Putting the foxes in charge of the hen house, so to speak.</text><parent_chain><item><author>781</author><text>Well, then I&#x27;m irrational too, because I won&#x27;t set foot in a 737 MAX after this shitfest. The FAA also lost a lot of trust, for rubber-stamping this.<p>The first accident was maybe understandable. We all know that shit happens. But Boeing has zero excuses for not immediately grounding the whole fleet after, and for putting out that useless recovery procedure which didn&#x27;t work in this case. They let a deadly plane fly for 5 months after they were aware of it, and after the second crash they were phoning Trump to keep it in the air.</text></item><item><author>xiphias2</author><text>,,We remain confident in the fundamental safety of the 737 MAX.&#x27;&#x27;<p>Am I irrational for not wanting to be on the first 1-2 years of flights on 737 MAX after it gets its software update?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report</title><url>https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2019-04-04-Boeing-CEO-Dennis-Muilenburg-Addresses-the-Ethiopian-Airlines-Flight-302-Preliminary-Report</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Stryder</author><text>The integrity of engineering excellence should never be sacrificed for profit and&#x2F;or conveniency in places where it involves human lives. Realistically and pragmatically speaking, you only ever get to have just one single shot at establishing and maintaining that kind of life&#x2F;death level of trust. Fuck it up, and you&#x27;re gone- quite literally, mind you.<p>This is some Challenger O-ring type of shitshow. Accidents are one thing; incompetency or, worse yet, callous indifference is absolutely unacceptable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>781</author><text>Well, then I&#x27;m irrational too, because I won&#x27;t set foot in a 737 MAX after this shitfest. The FAA also lost a lot of trust, for rubber-stamping this.<p>The first accident was maybe understandable. We all know that shit happens. But Boeing has zero excuses for not immediately grounding the whole fleet after, and for putting out that useless recovery procedure which didn&#x27;t work in this case. They let a deadly plane fly for 5 months after they were aware of it, and after the second crash they were phoning Trump to keep it in the air.</text></item><item><author>xiphias2</author><text>,,We remain confident in the fundamental safety of the 737 MAX.&#x27;&#x27;<p>Am I irrational for not wanting to be on the first 1-2 years of flights on 737 MAX after it gets its software update?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report</title><url>https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2019-04-04-Boeing-CEO-Dennis-Muilenburg-Addresses-the-Ethiopian-Airlines-Flight-302-Preliminary-Report</url></story> |
10,075,123 | 10,075,090 | 1 | 2 | 10,071,695 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>schoen</author><text>I&#x27;m happy to see this article, and it reminds me of things that others have been talking about for some time (for example, the &quot;Redecentralize&quot; community).<p>I&#x27;ve participated in some file-sharing litigation which has made it very clear to me that decentralized P2P systems are not inherently more anonymous than other technologies. In fact, there&#x27;s a cottage industry of P2P monitoring companies that participate as peers in the P2P networks and record detailed information about the IP addresses of peers that uploaded and downloaded particular files. There are often paradoxes where decentralization helps privacy and anonymity in some ways but harms it in others -- for example, if you run your own mail server instead of using Gmail, then you&#x27;ve prevented Google from knowing who communicates with whom, but allowed a network adversary to learn that information directly, where the network adversary might not know the messaging relationships if everyone on the network used Gmail.<p>I guess a related point is that information about who is doing what online exists <i>somewhere</i> by default, unless careful privacy engineering reduces the amount of information that&#x27;s out there. Making the simplest kinds of architectural changes could just shift the location where the information exists, for example from Google or Yahoo or Amazon to dozens of random strangers, some of whom might be working for an adversary.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Distributed Web</title><url>http://brewster.kahle.org/2015/08/11/locking-the-web-open-a-call-for-a-distributed-web-2/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Kahle&#x27;s approach works only for static content. It&#x27;s not hard to distribute static content; BitTorrent does it just fine. The Internet Archive stores static content. Kahle thinks in terms of static content, because that&#x27;s what the Internet Archive does. But it&#x27;s less of the Web today. Despite that, it&#x27;s good to have a way to distribute static content. Academic publishing, after all, is almost all static content. That should be widely distributed. It&#x27;s not like academic journals pay their authors.<p>There&#x27;s the problem that distributing content means someone else pays for storing and serving it. This is part of what killed USENET, once the binary groups (mostly pirated stuff and porn) became huge. There&#x27;s a scaling problem with replication.<p>Federated networks are interesting, and there are several federated social networks. A few even have a number of servers in two digits. You could have a federated Facebook replacement that costs each user under a dollar a month at current hosting prices. No ads. The concept is not getting any traction.<p>Kahle wants a system with <i>&quot;easy mechanisms for readers to pay writers.&quot;</i> That&#x27;s either micropayments or an app store, both of which are worse than the current Web.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Distributed Web</title><url>http://brewster.kahle.org/2015/08/11/locking-the-web-open-a-call-for-a-distributed-web-2/</url></story> |
10,297,024 | 10,296,826 | 1 | 3 | 10,296,606 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>I agree that this is a legitimate intelligence target. All of the allies spy one one another all of the time, that&#x27;s how we keep trust.<p>I think the biggest scandal that isn&#x27;t discussed often enough (in the US) is not spying on foreign government officials for legitimate security-related reasons (e.g. this), it is spying on foreign government officials to give the US an advantage in trade negotiations or worse passing on &quot;tips&quot; to US-based private companies so they can gain an advantage during negotiations&#x2F;bidding.<p>The US constantly beats the capitalism drum, and that&#x27;s fine. But it seem hypocritical to beat the capitalism drum with one hand, while with the other quietly subverting capitalism by giving certain favored entities tips and advantages.<p>Even people in the US should be asking why large US corporations are given these tips&#x2F;advantages&#x2F;etc while small-medium US businesses are not. Let alone the immorality of helping a US company win against a foreign one due to state supplied corporate espionage.<p>The justification &quot;well China does it!!1!&quot; while true, is just kind of pathetic. China does a lot of things, doesn&#x27;t make it right for a country that claims it is the beacon is capitalism and democracy to do the same.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Latest Snowden Doc Shows NSA Spied on German Intelligence</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-document-reveals-us-spied-on-german-intelligence-a-1055055.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>unreal37</author><text>Seems like a non-story. The NSA was in possession of a couple of documents created by German intelligence. There&#x27;s no evidence how they got them. Perhaps there was a leaker inside of the German intelligence service who posted a copy of these memos to a pastebin? They have no idea how the Americans got it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Latest Snowden Doc Shows NSA Spied on German Intelligence</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-document-reveals-us-spied-on-german-intelligence-a-1055055.html</url></story> |
34,042,948 | 34,042,838 | 1 | 2 | 34,038,582 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bbbbb5</author><text>&gt;Wow. That would be &quot;nearly every modern gas vehicle in north America&quot;.<p>&gt;Seriously. Running a cold petrol engine under low load in freezing conditions only for heating i just simply a bad idea. Never understood how this is even remotely OK in the US. This is illegal in most of Europe. And for good reason.<p>My German BMW 7 series definitely had remote start (and an auxiliary heater too). Maybach GLS has an auxiliary heater.<p>These are hardly uncommon features in <i>vastly</i> cheaper cars either. Various Webasto systems have been around for ages, often installed by OEMs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jonux</author><text>Wow. That would be &quot;nearly every modern gas vehicle in north America&quot;.<p>Seriously. Running a cold petrol engine under low load in freezing conditions only for heating i just simply a bad idea. Never understood how this is even remotely OK in the US. This is illegal in most of Europe. And for good reason.<p>If it is around Celcius -40 then you would never turn off the vehicle. And a bit over that - there is always the Russian option of having a large candle below the oil tray (bad english, but you get it... under the engine) for pre heating. The more mainstream option is plugged in electric heating of coolant water.<p>I remember from my days in the Swedish army that there was a pre heating scheme for the drivers where specific spots on trucks APC&#x27;s and such should be heated by gas light.<p>Usually it is sufficient to start the engine, clean the windows from ice, and then get going. A short engine running time without load for letting oils and fluids melt is only sane. Actually heating the cabin is nothing but wasteful.</text></item><item><author>zackkitzmiller</author><text>Nearly every modern gas vehicle has remote start, and has for years. This isn&#x27;t an EV feature.</text></item><item><author>Reason077</author><text>Plenty of people drive EVs in the arctic far north of Norway (Troms &amp; Finnmark). Not quite as cold as Canada, maybe, but close.<p>Of course EVs will have less range in cold conditions, but they also have some advantages in the cold: pre-heating from an app so the car is warm when you set out, for example. They may be more reliable than petrol and diesel vehicles in extreme cold conditions, and no need for engine block heaters, etc.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>As I’m sitting here reading this, it is -35 C after windchill. The reason we didn’t get an ev is because we are getting the sense that the companies that make them do not take Canadaian weather into account<p>It looks like some of those manufacturers only lose 3% of their range in weather like this, but that’s estimated. The verified numbers are far lower?</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I find it strange that the charts only go down to 20°F, when for example at the moment I write this comment, it&#x27;s -5°F (-21°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota.<p>And sub-zero Fahrenheit temperatures are pretty common in the winter across the Northeast, especially at night. &quot;Normal&quot; driving conditions extend way below just 20°F.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars</title><url>https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/winter-ev-range-loss</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcspiff</author><text>In Canada, electric block heaters for the engine are fairly common as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Block_heater" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Block_heater</a> . Similar concept to fire under the engine, but a bit more modern</text><parent_chain><item><author>jonux</author><text>Wow. That would be &quot;nearly every modern gas vehicle in north America&quot;.<p>Seriously. Running a cold petrol engine under low load in freezing conditions only for heating i just simply a bad idea. Never understood how this is even remotely OK in the US. This is illegal in most of Europe. And for good reason.<p>If it is around Celcius -40 then you would never turn off the vehicle. And a bit over that - there is always the Russian option of having a large candle below the oil tray (bad english, but you get it... under the engine) for pre heating. The more mainstream option is plugged in electric heating of coolant water.<p>I remember from my days in the Swedish army that there was a pre heating scheme for the drivers where specific spots on trucks APC&#x27;s and such should be heated by gas light.<p>Usually it is sufficient to start the engine, clean the windows from ice, and then get going. A short engine running time without load for letting oils and fluids melt is only sane. Actually heating the cabin is nothing but wasteful.</text></item><item><author>zackkitzmiller</author><text>Nearly every modern gas vehicle has remote start, and has for years. This isn&#x27;t an EV feature.</text></item><item><author>Reason077</author><text>Plenty of people drive EVs in the arctic far north of Norway (Troms &amp; Finnmark). Not quite as cold as Canada, maybe, but close.<p>Of course EVs will have less range in cold conditions, but they also have some advantages in the cold: pre-heating from an app so the car is warm when you set out, for example. They may be more reliable than petrol and diesel vehicles in extreme cold conditions, and no need for engine block heaters, etc.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>As I’m sitting here reading this, it is -35 C after windchill. The reason we didn’t get an ev is because we are getting the sense that the companies that make them do not take Canadaian weather into account<p>It looks like some of those manufacturers only lose 3% of their range in weather like this, but that’s estimated. The verified numbers are far lower?</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I find it strange that the charts only go down to 20°F, when for example at the moment I write this comment, it&#x27;s -5°F (-21°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota.<p>And sub-zero Fahrenheit temperatures are pretty common in the winter across the Northeast, especially at night. &quot;Normal&quot; driving conditions extend way below just 20°F.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars</title><url>https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/winter-ev-range-loss</url></story> |
32,807,282 | 32,807,037 | 1 | 3 | 32,804,633 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lb1lf</author><text>-SUVs aside, do keep in mind EVs are quite heavy compared to their ICE counterparts, too. (On the upside, I guess they, being newer, involve more passive safety for whatever they run into).<p>For instance, my 20 year old Land Cruiser (Which I, perhaps engaging in a bit of semantic pedantry would call a 4x4, not a SUV) has a dry weight of pretty much 2 tons &#x2F; 4,500lbs.<p>A Nissan Leaf? 1,600kg&#x2F;3,500lbs. (Tiny compared to the LC)<p>Tesla Model S? 1,950-2,300kg &#x2F; 4,300-5,000lbs (Still small compared to the LC)</text><parent_chain><item><author>musha68k</author><text>They even had to change a decade old standard crash test to account for increase in weight and count of current style SUVs. IMO they should be banned as the creeping normality will lead to all of us sitting in battle mechs eventually:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;detail&#x2F;small-suvs-struggle-in-new-tougher-side-test" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;detail&#x2F;small-suvs-struggle-in-new-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;3Lu-t5dJrxI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;3Lu-t5dJrxI</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/restud/article-abstract/81/2/535/1517632</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mike_d</author><text>&gt; creeping normality will lead to all of us sitting in battle mechs eventually<p>You say that like it is a bad thing? The future sounds awesome!</text><parent_chain><item><author>musha68k</author><text>They even had to change a decade old standard crash test to account for increase in weight and count of current style SUVs. IMO they should be banned as the creeping normality will lead to all of us sitting in battle mechs eventually:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;detail&#x2F;small-suvs-struggle-in-new-tougher-side-test" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;detail&#x2F;small-suvs-struggle-in-new-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;3Lu-t5dJrxI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;3Lu-t5dJrxI</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/restud/article-abstract/81/2/535/1517632</url></story> |
7,407,397 | 7,407,356 | 1 | 2 | 7,407,018 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raldi</author><text>I&#x27;m a Google SRE, and the first place I go when faced with a complicated problem is the whiteboard (if collaborating with others) or the legal pad (if I&#x27;m trying to figure it out myself).<p>If collaborating with others in a remote office, I begrudgingly make a Google doc and treat it like a whiteboard.<p>Most of what we do involves enormously complicated systems with lots of nodes and RPC flows between those nodes, different pathways depending on the flavor of the RPC, systems spread out in different metros around the world... it&#x27;s very difficult to visualize all that complexity in your head if you&#x27;ve never seen it on a cocktail napkin.<p>For example, just last week I sketched out a diagram inspired by the famous visualization of Napoleon&#x27;s campaign to Moscow (<a href="http://www.aviz.fr/wiki/uploads/Research/minard.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aviz.fr&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;Research&#x2F;minard.jpg</a>), primarily to help me wrap my head around a complicated RPC flow (at the first node, 32% of the RPCs are classified as XYZ. Each of those spawns 3 new RPCs that go here and 1 that goes over there...) When I got stuck, I called over a colleague, and he was able to immediately see, just by looking, where I was going wrong, and with a few strokes of the marker, set me straight.<p>I later turned it into a spreadsheet so I could use it to explain the model to others. Also, it was nice to be able to use worksheet functions to do the math. But I never would have been able to get that far that fast without starting at the whiteboard.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>This is ridiculous. I understand Google is a big company and thus needs to implement a concise recruitment process because understandable they get a lot of applicants, but the amount of tests and ways of which you were asked to solve problems is ridiculous.<p>When is the last time you heard of a system administrator writing down problems on a whiteboard as opposed to asking a colleague or Googling the answer? I think the real test after the initial phone call interviews and Google docs one is to sit you down in-front of a computer and make you solve real problems, not theoretical &amp; made-up problems in which they ask you to solve them in impracticable and unrealistic ways.<p>This is a flaw in the corporate hiring process almost everywhere in the software world. It&#x27;s not the 70&#x27;s any more, people rarely solve problems on whiteboards and paper. They solve them on the computer, sometimes through knowledge and their skill-set and other times through luck and Googling.<p>Don&#x27;t feel too bad for being rejected, it just means something else could come along that&#x27;s better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Recruitment Process for a Google Site Reliability Engineer</title><url>http://blog.lambda-startup.com/2014/03/recruitment-process-for-google-job-sre.html?m=1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fourspace</author><text>Former Google SRE here. Trust me, many of the problems we faced were solved on whiteboards, during chats at lunch, or via email. Most of issues we faced were of a class that simply isn&#x27;t covered on basic sites like Stack Overflow.<p>The interview described is pretty much exactly as I remember them. SRE is actually quite difficult to get into, precisely because you need to have fairly deep knowledge on a wide range of topics. The &quot;ways in which you were asked to solve problems&quot; are actually the best way to determine if an application actually knows about what they will need to know.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>This is ridiculous. I understand Google is a big company and thus needs to implement a concise recruitment process because understandable they get a lot of applicants, but the amount of tests and ways of which you were asked to solve problems is ridiculous.<p>When is the last time you heard of a system administrator writing down problems on a whiteboard as opposed to asking a colleague or Googling the answer? I think the real test after the initial phone call interviews and Google docs one is to sit you down in-front of a computer and make you solve real problems, not theoretical &amp; made-up problems in which they ask you to solve them in impracticable and unrealistic ways.<p>This is a flaw in the corporate hiring process almost everywhere in the software world. It&#x27;s not the 70&#x27;s any more, people rarely solve problems on whiteboards and paper. They solve them on the computer, sometimes through knowledge and their skill-set and other times through luck and Googling.<p>Don&#x27;t feel too bad for being rejected, it just means something else could come along that&#x27;s better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Recruitment Process for a Google Site Reliability Engineer</title><url>http://blog.lambda-startup.com/2014/03/recruitment-process-for-google-job-sre.html?m=1</url></story> |
1,618,611 | 1,618,370 | 1 | 2 | 1,618,203 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wtallis</author><text>Migrating to open standards is the right thing for Adobe to do, but that's not how Adobe likes to do business.<p>Adobe is lazy. If there's a problem with their software, they'll blame it on somebody else, because talk is cheap. If that doesn't work, they'll wait until the last possible moment to actually put in the time and effort to improve their code. It's a pattern that is most evident with their Mac software:<p>CS5 (released April 2010) was the first version of the suite that was fully Mac OS X native. (Mac OS X was released March 2001). Prior to CS5, they were still using the Mac OS 9 GUI APIs, which, though they weren't officially totally deprecated until June 2007, were obviously always just a transitional compatibility environment. Even prior to the official deprecation of the Carbon UI APIs, Adobe had plenty of reasons to port to Cocoa. Number one was to provide a truly OS X native look-and-feel, which is pretty much impossible to emulate via Carbon.<p>Adobe's approach to dealing with Flash performance on OS X has been similar. When people complained that video playback was unreasonably slow (ie eating up 5x the CPU time that a standalone player would use), they blamed Apple for not providing them with direct low-level access to the video decoding hardware. When Apple called their bluff and gave them exactly what they asked for, Adobe released a flash player that used those APIs but wasn't noticeably faster for anybody, and introduced several new glitches that made it a step backwards for everybody who's Mac predates the NVidia 9400M chipset.<p>On the Windows side of things, Adobe's PDF reader has been such a long-standing resource hog that third-party PDF readers have garnered significant market share in spite of their lack of support for most of the recent advanced features of PDF. If Adobe would take better care of their PDF implementation, it would be good for the progress of the format overall.<p>Further back, Adobe kept their font format (PostScript Type 1) proprietary and expensive so long that Apple had to create TrueType, and Apple ended up licensing it to Microsoft. Several years later, Adobe abandoned Type 1 in favor of co-developing a TrueType-based successor (OpenType) that is finally re-unifying the font market.<p>Adobe seems to think they're playing it safe by being the last rat off each sinking ship, but one of these days, they'll be too slow.</text><parent_chain><item><author>IdeaHamster</author><text>I would give anything for someone to explain to me why the right move for Adobe wasn't to simply accept HTML5, pivot from Flash to making killer HTML5 authoring tools, and maybe even provide a way for people to take their existing Flash projects and repurpose them to HTML5?<p>How would that have been worse then trying to wedge Flash where it doesn't belong?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right</title><url>http://blog.laptopmag.com/mobile-flash-fail-weak-android-player-proves-jobs-right</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cookiecaper</author><text>HTML5 is cool but it's not the end-all. You have a whole set of new issues to deal with when you use HTML5. You have to worry about cross-browser compatibility and specific rendering bugs, whereas Flash authors don't. You have to rely on the slow JavaScript VMs included in even the fastest browsers (even the "fast" JS VMs are still rather slow), and then you have IE, which is still used by &#62; 50% of internet users, of which much is IE 6 or 7, which are outdated and _extremely_ slow. You have audio synchronization issues. There is no ready-made IDE like Adobe's Flash IDE, meaning HTML5 development is much harder for many people. There are other issues too.<p>The fact is that HTML5 is not a reasonable general replacement for Flash. If you want your thing to work for most people, you are going to have to write in Flash anyway. Realistically, only a relative handful of people could run a HTML5/JavaScript program at Flash-equivalent speeds. And that assumes that you just want something in Flash that HTML5 could do; there's still RTMP and significant swaths of other stuff that Flash does and HTML5 doesn't.</text><parent_chain><item><author>IdeaHamster</author><text>I would give anything for someone to explain to me why the right move for Adobe wasn't to simply accept HTML5, pivot from Flash to making killer HTML5 authoring tools, and maybe even provide a way for people to take their existing Flash projects and repurpose them to HTML5?<p>How would that have been worse then trying to wedge Flash where it doesn't belong?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right</title><url>http://blog.laptopmag.com/mobile-flash-fail-weak-android-player-proves-jobs-right</url></story> |
16,760,002 | 16,759,899 | 1 | 2 | 16,759,138 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zeth___</author><text>Now imagine the same thing again, but this time in the interview where one candidate has a mid western accent, and the other a deep southern one.<p>People use race as a proxy for class. But it isn&#x27;t the only thing. And the more people pretend race is the deciding factor, and not class, the more shitty laws and rules we have in place trying to fix a symptom of a disease everyone wants to pretend isn&#x27;t there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nova22033</author><text>now imagine the same resume being sent out to a number of companies: one with a white sounding name and one with a black sounding name. And imagine finding out that the same resume with the white sounding name gets more call backs? I&#x27;m going to assume it&#x27;s the same thing if you replace white with east asian or south asian.</text></item><item><author>cdiddy2</author><text>Good, there shouldn&#x27;t be any systemic race based acceptance criteria. It only increases racism and skepticism.<p>Imagine you have a Hispanic doctor, but you know that the MCAT score for a Hispanic to get into med school is lower than the score an Asian would need. Now you question whether your doctor is as qualified as they should be because of their race, even if they did have an amazing MCAT score.<p>Affirmative action is blatantly racist from all angles.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show Discrimination</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/harvard-asian-admission.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>vowelless</author><text>Now imagine that you both may actually be talking about orthogonal issues....</text><parent_chain><item><author>nova22033</author><text>now imagine the same resume being sent out to a number of companies: one with a white sounding name and one with a black sounding name. And imagine finding out that the same resume with the white sounding name gets more call backs? I&#x27;m going to assume it&#x27;s the same thing if you replace white with east asian or south asian.</text></item><item><author>cdiddy2</author><text>Good, there shouldn&#x27;t be any systemic race based acceptance criteria. It only increases racism and skepticism.<p>Imagine you have a Hispanic doctor, but you know that the MCAT score for a Hispanic to get into med school is lower than the score an Asian would need. Now you question whether your doctor is as qualified as they should be because of their race, even if they did have an amazing MCAT score.<p>Affirmative action is blatantly racist from all angles.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show Discrimination</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/harvard-asian-admission.html</url></story> |
22,429,002 | 22,428,057 | 1 | 2 | 22,427,811 | 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>stouset</author><text>Realistically, it is exceedingly unlikely for this to happen in our lifetime. Based on the best estimates we have, it’s most likely ten thousand or more years too early in its red giant phase for this to happen.<p>Most of the possibility of it happening comes from the error bars in our assumptions about its progress through the red giant phase, and the error bars in our understanding of how red giants collapse. Put another way, it’s not that we think it might happen in our lifetimes, it’s that we’re relatively sure it <i>won’t</i> (but we could be wrong).</text><parent_chain><item><author>shadykiller</author><text>Does that mean it&#x27;s not exploding ?<p>Super disappointing. Is there still hope to see the supernova in our lifetime ?</text></item><item><author>Jun8</author><text>From the abstract:<p>&quot;This suggests that the recent dramatic fading observed at visual wavelengths is due mostly to local surface phenomena, such as changes in dust extinction or molecular opacity along the line of sight through the inner wind and complex atmosphere, and&#x2F;or surface temperature fluctuations.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Betelgeuse Remains Steadfast in the Infrared</title><url>http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13518</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jlmorton</author><text>&quot;Thus, while Betelgeuse may explode tomorrow or any time in the next few 1e5 yr, the unprecedented current visual faintness is unlikely to be a harbinger of its impending core collapse.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>shadykiller</author><text>Does that mean it&#x27;s not exploding ?<p>Super disappointing. Is there still hope to see the supernova in our lifetime ?</text></item><item><author>Jun8</author><text>From the abstract:<p>&quot;This suggests that the recent dramatic fading observed at visual wavelengths is due mostly to local surface phenomena, such as changes in dust extinction or molecular opacity along the line of sight through the inner wind and complex atmosphere, and&#x2F;or surface temperature fluctuations.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Betelgeuse Remains Steadfast in the Infrared</title><url>http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13518</url></story> |
6,721,947 | 6,721,324 | 1 | 3 | 6,719,487 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noonespecial</author><text>The biggest problem is that there are both elastic <i>and</i> inelastic sections of the healthcare market which we have been trying unsuccessfully to treat as if they were the same.<p>We need a payment conduit&#x2F;tax structure for the elastic portion and something that <i>actually behaves like insurance</i> for the inelastic. The system we have now does neither well at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iambateman</author><text>That sentence has tons of insight on the problem of health care. Thanks.<p>As an aside, is there not some elasticity to medical care? People demand more health care for small problems when the price is lower.</text></item><item><author>travem</author><text>Welcome to the joys of a market based approach to healthcare when there is inelastic demand.</text></item><item><author>noonespecial</author><text>This demonstrates an interesting thing about medical debt in particular. They seem to be operating it almost like a market segmentation tool. The richest people simply pay the stated rate, everyone else pays the maximum rate that they are able as it travels down the debt staircase.<p>A more cynical way to look at it? When you get (really) sick, the price for care is everything you have, whatever that happens to be.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/12/occupy-wall-street-activists-15m-personal-debt</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bowlofpetunias</author><text>And who can judge if those small problems aren&#x27;t symptoms of a much bigger problem? A problem that can only be effectively treated if it is caught early enough?</text><parent_chain><item><author>iambateman</author><text>That sentence has tons of insight on the problem of health care. Thanks.<p>As an aside, is there not some elasticity to medical care? People demand more health care for small problems when the price is lower.</text></item><item><author>travem</author><text>Welcome to the joys of a market based approach to healthcare when there is inelastic demand.</text></item><item><author>noonespecial</author><text>This demonstrates an interesting thing about medical debt in particular. They seem to be operating it almost like a market segmentation tool. The richest people simply pay the stated rate, everyone else pays the maximum rate that they are able as it travels down the debt staircase.<p>A more cynical way to look at it? When you get (really) sick, the price for care is everything you have, whatever that happens to be.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/12/occupy-wall-street-activists-15m-personal-debt</url></story> |
19,522,447 | 19,522,412 | 1 | 2 | 19,521,869 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>This has happened to me a few times before following a single boredom-induced chumbox click.<p>Advanced military toys are always good for nerd sniping, recommender algorithms know this, and they will eagerly amplify a small amount of demonstrated interest into a deluge of recommendations. I&#x27;m pretty sure that&#x27;s what&#x27;s happening here.<p>So yes, it&#x27;s certainly a bought and paid for PR effort, but I wouldn&#x27;t conclude that it&#x27;s localized in time, just that HN recently wandered into it. Now, if you&#x27;ll excuse me, I&#x27;ll take my leave to go read about the fabulous toys my tax dollars are paying for.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>After a lot of bad news about the F35 it seems the PR effort has started to make it look better. Lots of positive articles about it all of a sudden.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>F-35's Towed Decoys</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27185/f-35s-most-sinister-capability-are-towed-decoys-that-unreel-from-inside-its-stealthy-skin</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eatonphil</author><text>My impression is that there are two things at play:<p>1) Once you&#x27;ve noticed something, you tend to notice it more often.<p>2) Novel (or uncommon) articles on HN that get to the front page tend to attract other articles on the same topic. I can imagine this along the lines of:<p>Human 1: Hey apparently there&#x27;s an audience on HN for topic X that I enjoy! I wonder if HN is also interested in this related article on topic X.<p>Or Human 2: Hey here&#x27;s this interesting related article I discovered while looking at front-page article Y on topic X.<p>The summary of all of this is to say that my guess is that like attracts like and uncommon topics die down fairly quickly in time. I imagine that it is less of a concerted effort by stakeholders to push and direct topic X than just the effects of a curious and diverse group.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>After a lot of bad news about the F35 it seems the PR effort has started to make it look better. Lots of positive articles about it all of a sudden.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>F-35's Towed Decoys</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27185/f-35s-most-sinister-capability-are-towed-decoys-that-unreel-from-inside-its-stealthy-skin</url></story> |
13,356,527 | 13,356,728 | 1 | 2 | 13,356,318 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baldfat</author><text>Personally all my own projects are on bitbucket. They were the first to provide free unlimited private repos and just has a great set of tools. So my personal preference is bitbucket over github.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>JIRA + Bitbucket (and now + Trello) is a very effective competitor to Github among enterprise companies. Github&#x27;s issue tracker sort of sucks and this hurts it tremendously -- I know as I live with that shitty issue tracker in an enterprise situation.</text></item><item><author>hashkb</author><text>What does this have to do with h GitHub?</text></item><item><author>bhouston</author><text>This makes sense. Atlassian is good at making money from its services and it is increasing its overall ecosystem here.<p>Github moves really slow in comparison. I guess Github is more focused, but there are a lot of contrasts between Github and Atlassian, and in terms of making money I think Atlassian is doing a lot better.<p>Has Github acquired anything significant? Github should have acquired Zenhub (which is Trello integrated into Github for the most part) instead of slowing trying to recreate it -- although I guess Github has better code purity if they develop it themselves, but it means they move slower.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/09/atlassian-acquires-trello/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beat</author><text>Atlassian has cracked the enterprise sales nut completely. Github is still struggling with it some. Completeness is a big reason for that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>JIRA + Bitbucket (and now + Trello) is a very effective competitor to Github among enterprise companies. Github&#x27;s issue tracker sort of sucks and this hurts it tremendously -- I know as I live with that shitty issue tracker in an enterprise situation.</text></item><item><author>hashkb</author><text>What does this have to do with h GitHub?</text></item><item><author>bhouston</author><text>This makes sense. Atlassian is good at making money from its services and it is increasing its overall ecosystem here.<p>Github moves really slow in comparison. I guess Github is more focused, but there are a lot of contrasts between Github and Atlassian, and in terms of making money I think Atlassian is doing a lot better.<p>Has Github acquired anything significant? Github should have acquired Zenhub (which is Trello integrated into Github for the most part) instead of slowing trying to recreate it -- although I guess Github has better code purity if they develop it themselves, but it means they move slower.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/09/atlassian-acquires-trello/</url></story> |
35,195,641 | 35,187,032 | 1 | 2 | 35,180,832 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>getoffmyyawn</author><text>That&#x27;s a nice comprehensive approach. I&#x27;m actually pretty happy with my setup from a data loss prevention perspective. It is just that, as I approach 2 decades of saving digital photos, I question the utility of it.<p>My parents have photo albums going back a few generations. The family tradition is that they are passed to the cousin with the most children, to maintain for future generations. If I were handed 500K+ images in a drive or a cloud account from each family member, I doubt I would ever look at most of them. With a bound and curated album, I know they are full enjoyed by every family member with an interest in the past.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kylehotchkiss</author><text>Rough strategy:<p>1) use iCloud Photos<p>2) find a Mac with a very large system drive (1tb or above)<p>3) open the photos app on mac and ensure settings is configured to “download originals” not “save space”<p>4) make sure the computer is online on a regular basis. You should see ~&#x2F;Pictures&#x2F;Photos.app becoming massive over time.<p>5) setup Time Machine for that computer<p>6) success! You have a second copy of your photos library on Time Machine now.<p>7) Use Arq.app to backup your Time Machine drive to AWS glacier. Nice! Now you have 3 copies of your library.<p>An alternative path is making sure you have both a giant iPhone storage and giant Mac storage. Make sure photos on phone is set to “download originals”. Manually backup your iPhone to Mac monthly. These backups include photos library. I recommend encrypting your backup and keeping a key in safe and 1Password. Continue with Time Machine and Arq.</text></item><item><author>getoffmyyawn</author><text>I used to seriously stress out worrying about the huge amount of family photos I have saved in cloud storage and what it would mean to lose them. I&#x27;ve got a local backup as well of course. Even that has to be upgraded every so often to make sure the hardware will continue to run reliably.<p>A few years ago my (very non-technical) mother asked me to make and send her a photo album of recent pictures. My wife and I had so much fun doing it that we kept doing it. Choosing the best pictures, arranging them and making nice layouts and titles itself is a fun walk down memory lane.<p>Now we have a shelf with about a dozen volumes of memories and we found we are far more likely to look at these than we ever were with photos in cloud storage.<p>I like to think that if I lost all the digital copies, I would still be happy with what I have in these bound albums. I highly recommend this to everyone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos</title><url>https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D56Q0000BAmuYXSQZ/is-something-wrong-with-amazon-photos-i-lost-240364-photos</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coolspot</author><text>You don’t need large system drive, just any drive connected (like USB) or even on the network.<p>Hold Alt (Option) when starting the Photo app to invoke a dialog where you can select custom photo library location.<p>You can have multiple photo libraries in different locations and switch between them during Photo app start.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;guide&#x2F;photos&#x2F;create-additional-libraries-pht6d60b524&#x2F;mac" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;guide&#x2F;photos&#x2F;create-additional-lib...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kylehotchkiss</author><text>Rough strategy:<p>1) use iCloud Photos<p>2) find a Mac with a very large system drive (1tb or above)<p>3) open the photos app on mac and ensure settings is configured to “download originals” not “save space”<p>4) make sure the computer is online on a regular basis. You should see ~&#x2F;Pictures&#x2F;Photos.app becoming massive over time.<p>5) setup Time Machine for that computer<p>6) success! You have a second copy of your photos library on Time Machine now.<p>7) Use Arq.app to backup your Time Machine drive to AWS glacier. Nice! Now you have 3 copies of your library.<p>An alternative path is making sure you have both a giant iPhone storage and giant Mac storage. Make sure photos on phone is set to “download originals”. Manually backup your iPhone to Mac monthly. These backups include photos library. I recommend encrypting your backup and keeping a key in safe and 1Password. Continue with Time Machine and Arq.</text></item><item><author>getoffmyyawn</author><text>I used to seriously stress out worrying about the huge amount of family photos I have saved in cloud storage and what it would mean to lose them. I&#x27;ve got a local backup as well of course. Even that has to be upgraded every so often to make sure the hardware will continue to run reliably.<p>A few years ago my (very non-technical) mother asked me to make and send her a photo album of recent pictures. My wife and I had so much fun doing it that we kept doing it. Choosing the best pictures, arranging them and making nice layouts and titles itself is a fun walk down memory lane.<p>Now we have a shelf with about a dozen volumes of memories and we found we are far more likely to look at these than we ever were with photos in cloud storage.<p>I like to think that if I lost all the digital copies, I would still be happy with what I have in these bound albums. I highly recommend this to everyone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos</title><url>https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D56Q0000BAmuYXSQZ/is-something-wrong-with-amazon-photos-i-lost-240364-photos</url></story> |
18,158,892 | 18,158,632 | 1 | 2 | 18,153,984 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mwfunk</author><text>I wonder if copyright extensions are exhibit A for the negative impact of money on politics. Copyright holders have a motivation to lobby for extensions but no big players have a motivation to lobby against them. Hence, both US parties are weirdly on board with continually extending the reach of copyright and IP laws in general. If there were no invisible hand constantly guiding politicians toward extending copyright, surely at least some politicians would have different views on it. It doesn’t help that it’s an issue that is so opaque to the general population, so there’s no popular opposition to it either. I love the EFF but when it comes to money and lobbying power they are much less influential over elected officials than the combined powers of most of the entertainment industries plus much of the tech industry.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New North American Trade Deal Has Bad News for Canadian Copyright</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/new-north-american-trade-deal-has-bad-news-canadian-copyright</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mncharity</author><text>For those missing context, both copyright extension and FOSTA &#x27;reign in the internet&#x27; are Hollywood.<p>When the US dropped TPP, Canada took up leadership of the process as CPTPP. TPP was called two treaties in one, though not often in the US press. Canada kept the free trade part, and &quot;postponed&quot; the Hollywood copyright, pharma patents, and corporate ISDS. But what&#x27;s the point of being a hegemon if you can&#x27;t provide one-stop shopping for arm-twisted world-wide regulatory capture?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New North American Trade Deal Has Bad News for Canadian Copyright</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/new-north-american-trade-deal-has-bad-news-canadian-copyright</url></story> |
39,668,414 | 39,663,828 | 1 | 2 | 39,660,592 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>datavirtue</author><text>Swing underdeveloped? You have been misinformed. The entire JetBrains suite is built in Swing and is top of the line. Swing is under active development, has a strong third party ecosystem, and is rock solid. You can do anything you want to do in Swing, and it is a joy to develop with (unlike any&#x2F;all of the web front end nightmares).<p>What .NET GUI libraries are you referring to because anything other than WPF is tetering on &quot;not a good idea.&quot; Have you built anything in Swing, WPF, Winforms, Xamarin Forms, or MAUI? You should give them all a serious test drive and get back to us with some informed comments.</text><parent_chain><item><author>staticlibs</author><text>None of major Java&#x2F;OpenJDK contributors (Oracle, Red Hat, SAP etc) care about desktop GUI Java libs. Jet Brains do care, but they are not major. All Java progress is concentrated on backend cloud services for 10-15 years already. This can explain why Swing is so underdeveloped and JavaFX was thrown away. Basically much more effort is required to make Java GUI look and behave nicely, comparing to Delphi&#x2F;Lazarus or .NET GUI libs or Qt.</text></item><item><author>pachico</author><text>Ugliness is something I found to be quite common in Java based apps. I never understood why, though.</text></item><item><author>dfee</author><text>I don’t know why it matters to me, but I’ve always been put off by it being ugly and using non-native widgets. That may be the only reason I’ve paid for TablePlus.<p>I’d probably be fine with a great TUI interface, too. So it’s really this intermediate UI that irritates me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DBeaver – open-source database client</title><url>https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adra</author><text>I just had to pick up and build a UI product in java recently and picked up javafx for the first time. With Kotlin, I actually found it while using my the standard you builder to be quite intuitive and sorta dynamic enough to make development snappy. Definitely the best attempt at GUIs for java, but sad that only smaller shops are actually investing any real effort into the space. Oh and java native + javafx is a pain in the ass until I discovered Bellsoft NDK, which made building a binary from source 100% so much easier.</text><parent_chain><item><author>staticlibs</author><text>None of major Java&#x2F;OpenJDK contributors (Oracle, Red Hat, SAP etc) care about desktop GUI Java libs. Jet Brains do care, but they are not major. All Java progress is concentrated on backend cloud services for 10-15 years already. This can explain why Swing is so underdeveloped and JavaFX was thrown away. Basically much more effort is required to make Java GUI look and behave nicely, comparing to Delphi&#x2F;Lazarus or .NET GUI libs or Qt.</text></item><item><author>pachico</author><text>Ugliness is something I found to be quite common in Java based apps. I never understood why, though.</text></item><item><author>dfee</author><text>I don’t know why it matters to me, but I’ve always been put off by it being ugly and using non-native widgets. That may be the only reason I’ve paid for TablePlus.<p>I’d probably be fine with a great TUI interface, too. So it’s really this intermediate UI that irritates me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DBeaver – open-source database client</title><url>https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver</url></story> |
17,048,250 | 17,048,128 | 1 | 3 | 17,047,667 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>onion2k</author><text><i>Nobody needs a social network anymore</i><p>This sort of comment is why people in tech are very often seen as being incredibly bad at solving non-trivial social problems by people outside of our industry. Somewhere between a third and a half of <i>all the people on Earth</i> see enough value in social networks to use one regularly. There are plenty of problems with the way networks work, and what they do to our mental health, but the notion that no one should use them any more is plain stupid.</text><parent_chain><item><author>franzpeterstein</author><text>Nobody needs a social network anymore, whether it is decentralized (Mastodon, Diaspora) or centralized (Facebook, Twitter). I think the social media bubble burst a long time ago and we just didn&#x27;t realize it. I also have a Mastodon account, but used it only for a short time. I speak now only for myself personally, social networks bore me quite and I have no more interest to sign up somewhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>$1M to build decentralized social networks</title><url>https://www.requestforsocialnetworks.com/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notyourwork</author><text>I agree, for me it has become an advanced phone book more or less. I use it as a directory for those I don’t regularly talk to via phone, text or in person.</text><parent_chain><item><author>franzpeterstein</author><text>Nobody needs a social network anymore, whether it is decentralized (Mastodon, Diaspora) or centralized (Facebook, Twitter). I think the social media bubble burst a long time ago and we just didn&#x27;t realize it. I also have a Mastodon account, but used it only for a short time. I speak now only for myself personally, social networks bore me quite and I have no more interest to sign up somewhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>$1M to build decentralized social networks</title><url>https://www.requestforsocialnetworks.com/</url></story> |
37,165,531 | 37,165,126 | 1 | 2 | 37,164,155 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>manicennui</author><text>The dehumidifier I bought last year is not on either list, but it is a bit more expensive than most models.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.midea.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;air-conditioners&#x2F;dehumidifiers&#x2F;easydry-35-pint-dehumidifier-mad35c1aws" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.midea.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;air-conditioners&#x2F;dehumidifiers&#x2F;easy...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>h2odragon</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpsc.gov&#x2F;Recalls&#x2F;2023&#x2F;Gree-Recalls-1-56-Million-Dehumidifiers-Due-to-Fire-and-Burn-Hazards-Reports-of-At-Least-23-Fires" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpsc.gov&#x2F;Recalls&#x2F;2023&#x2F;Gree-Recalls-1-56-Million-...</a><p>&gt; Gree has received reports of at least 23 fires, 688 incidents of overheating, and $168,000 in property damage with the recalled dehumidifiers. Sold At:
Home Depot, Lowe&#x27;s, Menards, Sam&#x27;s Club, Sears, Walmart and other stores nationwide, starting in 2011 through 2014 for between $110 and $400.<p>It kinda looks to me like every dehumidifier sold in the USA+ for the last decade, then?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>1.56M dehumidifiers recalled due to fire and burn hazards</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23835116/have-you-seen-these-dehumidifiers-stop-using-them-or-you-might-die</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>That&#x27;s pretty scary, since the common wisdom these days is that appliances bought from brick-and-mortar stores should be safer&#x2F;more reliable than the random thing bought off Amazon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>h2odragon</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpsc.gov&#x2F;Recalls&#x2F;2023&#x2F;Gree-Recalls-1-56-Million-Dehumidifiers-Due-to-Fire-and-Burn-Hazards-Reports-of-At-Least-23-Fires" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpsc.gov&#x2F;Recalls&#x2F;2023&#x2F;Gree-Recalls-1-56-Million-...</a><p>&gt; Gree has received reports of at least 23 fires, 688 incidents of overheating, and $168,000 in property damage with the recalled dehumidifiers. Sold At:
Home Depot, Lowe&#x27;s, Menards, Sam&#x27;s Club, Sears, Walmart and other stores nationwide, starting in 2011 through 2014 for between $110 and $400.<p>It kinda looks to me like every dehumidifier sold in the USA+ for the last decade, then?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>1.56M dehumidifiers recalled due to fire and burn hazards</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23835116/have-you-seen-these-dehumidifiers-stop-using-them-or-you-might-die</url></story> |
15,117,053 | 15,116,825 | 1 | 2 | 15,114,934 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>torgoguys</author><text>You work your way up to it. Open up a podcast app and start listening at 1.5x. After a while (days to weeks), that becomes comfortable. Then work your way up to 2.0x. Once you&#x27;re at that point, listening to familiar shows (familiar people&#x2F;voices), at 1.0x makes them sound drunk. They seem. to. speak. so. slooow.<p>Some podcasts I listen at 3x which feels near my limit of comfort (comprehension drops off at speeds higher than that), but I suspect nearly any normal person can get used to 2x speed. When you are, you can absorb twice as much information in the same amount of time.<p>(The above applies to talk type podcasts. Music is best at 1x, and dramatizations and such are often best left at 1x to get correct pacing).</text><parent_chain><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>&gt; A screen reader intercepts what&#x27;s happening on the screen and presents that information via braille (through a separate braille display) or synthetic speech. And it&#x27;s not the kind of synthetic speech you hear in today&#x27;s smart assistants. I use a robotic-sounding voice which speaks at around 450 words per minute.<p>After listening to the English sample....maybe I&#x27;m being naive but is it typical to be able to understand computer speech at that rate? I could barely make out a handful of words and probably wouldn&#x27;t have believed there was a text to understand in there if the words weren&#x27;t above it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software development and screen readers at 450 words per minute</title><url>https://www.vincit.fi/en/blog/software-development-450-words-per-minute/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Isofarro</author><text>You are comparing your first time trying to digest rapid speech, compared to someone who has done it for years. Yes, it&#x27;s typical.<p>A new screen-reader user would start such an endeavour at normal speed, then gradually increase the speed. It&#x27;s not much more different to people listening to podcasts and audiobooks at 1.5x speed. The robotic voice is more of a help than a hinderance because of it&#x27;s consistency.</text><parent_chain><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>&gt; A screen reader intercepts what&#x27;s happening on the screen and presents that information via braille (through a separate braille display) or synthetic speech. And it&#x27;s not the kind of synthetic speech you hear in today&#x27;s smart assistants. I use a robotic-sounding voice which speaks at around 450 words per minute.<p>After listening to the English sample....maybe I&#x27;m being naive but is it typical to be able to understand computer speech at that rate? I could barely make out a handful of words and probably wouldn&#x27;t have believed there was a text to understand in there if the words weren&#x27;t above it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software development and screen readers at 450 words per minute</title><url>https://www.vincit.fi/en/blog/software-development-450-words-per-minute/</url></story> |
36,168,210 | 36,168,363 | 1 | 2 | 36,164,439 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Sohcahtoa82</author><text>At a previous job, software testers had to write reports every Mon&#x2F;Wed&#x2F;Fri on what they did and e-mail them to their supervisor.<p>One of them got pretty tired of writing the same shit, and was like 99% sure the supervisor wasn&#x27;t reading the reports, so started adding &quot;I don&#x27;t think anybody is reading these. This is a waste of my time.&quot; right above his e-mail signature.<p>It took over 3 months before it got noticed. Supervisor wasn&#x27;t pleased, but had to admit he was right. He still required reports, but only on Fridays.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Automating daily reports, because fuck it</title><url>https://gist.github.com/yzdbg/bee9031fcaa918abf6442c2691866dda</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JangoSteve</author><text>I did something similar to this a while back with a one-liner aliased in my Bash includes, called gitsum (short for git summary).<p><pre><code> alias gitsum=&#x27;git log --pretty=format:&quot;* %s&quot; --author `git config user.email`&#x27; #myself
</code></pre>
It gives my git commit messages as a Markdown bullet-point list. It only works per-branch unlike the linked gist, but one cool thing about it is that you can tack on additional git flags, such as --since. For example:<p><pre><code> gitsum --since 1.day
gitsum --since 1.week
gitsum --since 8.hours
</code></pre>
I usually pipe this into my clipboard (on Mac) to easily paste it into the time logging or reporting system:<p><pre><code> gitsum --since 1.day | pbcopy</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Automating daily reports, because fuck it</title><url>https://gist.github.com/yzdbg/bee9031fcaa918abf6442c2691866dda</url></story> |
5,980,349 | 5,980,113 | 1 | 2 | 5,979,786 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Permit</author><text>I cannot believe we are doing this again. Just because Palantir was asked by Aaron Barr to use their technology against Greenwald does not mean that they did. Palantir later confirmed that their technology didn&#x27;t even have the ability to do what Aaron Barr was asking.<p>This is the second smear against Palantir in three days that cites an email without even showing the email to give you some context. They also don&#x27;t link to Palantirs response to these claims.<p>Please approach this with some level of skepticism.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook and The Industrial Surveillance Complex</title><url>http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218189/-HBGary-Palantir-Prism-Facebook-The-Industrial-Surveillance-Complex</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ganeumann</author><text>Curious to know where the Ntrepid $2.8 million &quot;sock puppet&quot; tech is spreading propaganda. I have noticed many of the same irrational comments being made on articles about Snowden in the MSM and then being voted up more than they seem to deserve (See, for instance, the comments on any NYTimes article on Snowden. Not that the NYTimes comment sections are any model of rationality normally.)<p>I&#x27;m biased so maybe I&#x27;m seeing things where there isn&#x27;t anything, but if the tech was funded, then it&#x27;s being deployed somewhere. Where other than the MSM would it make sense to deploy it, and how would the MSM identify sock puppets if they were targeted?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook and The Industrial Surveillance Complex</title><url>http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218189/-HBGary-Palantir-Prism-Facebook-The-Industrial-Surveillance-Complex</url></story> |
39,364,329 | 39,362,128 | 1 | 2 | 39,359,545 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jamestimmins</author><text>According this 2022 piece from the University of Manchester, it seems there have been some notable updates on the research.<p><i>By using mass spectrometry, a technique that measures the weight of molecules, they have found that there are distinctive Parkinson’s markers in sebum – an oily substance secreted from the skin.</i><p><i>This breakthrough has led them to develop a non-invasive swab test that can, in conjunction with the onset of early Parkinson’s symptoms, identify Parkinson’s disease with around a 95% accuracy. What’s even more astounding is the speed with which the test can return a result; around 3 minutes under lab conditions.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manchester.ac.uk&#x2F;discover&#x2F;news&#x2F;a-nose-to-diagnose-improving-parkinsons-diagnosis&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manchester.ac.uk&#x2F;discover&#x2F;news&#x2F;a-nose-to-diagnos...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A woman who can smell Parkinson's is inspiring research into diagnosis (2020)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/820274501/her-incredible-sense-of-smell-is-helping-scientists-find-new-ways-to-diagnose-di</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbandela1</author><text>&gt; But Joy&#x27;s superpower is so unusual that researchers all over the world have started working with her and have discovered that she can identify several kinds of illnesses — tuberculosis, Alzheimer&#x27;s disease, cancer and diabetes.<p>The story for diagnosing Parkinson’s sounded plausible until this sentence. With Parkinson’s, you could imagine that she had some sort of sensitivity in her smell to a certain biomarker.<p>Now with a plethora of vastly different diseases (even cancer is really a myriad of diseases grouped together), the suspicion of a confounder goes way up.<p>Perhaps instead of diagnosing Parkinson’s, she is actually sensing some signal that indicates inflammation or some other distress signal.<p>Or else people, prior to the manifestations of these diseases tend to make subtle, unconscious changes to their hygiene.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A woman who can smell Parkinson's is inspiring research into diagnosis (2020)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/820274501/her-incredible-sense-of-smell-is-helping-scientists-find-new-ways-to-diagnose-di</url></story> |
22,697,823 | 22,697,315 | 1 | 3 | 22,695,990 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bisRepetita</author><text>I am reading Capital &amp; Idelogy currently. I find interesting how Piketty challenges the view of property rights. Many think it is something completely natural, sacred. But he shows it is actually ideology. It is not &quot;the nature of things&quot;.<p>As I understand it in the book, property is not, and should not be seen as, a 100% inalienable human right. If it was so, it would be completely fair that slave-owners in Haiti and Santo Domingo were paid to forego slavery, when slavery was abolished. It was seen as a compensation for this new law that reduced the value of their property: slaves. Of course, slaves themselves were not compensated. Since they were the main beneficiaries of this new law, they actually had to pay for it in some cases. This is actually what happened.<p>In the USA, there were discussions about a similar outcome, but the sheer enormity of the needed compensation made it impossible This was one big reason that lead to the civil war.<p>This is the kind of weird, morally unacceptable reasoning about property rights that you will run into if you accept property as a all-powerful, unconstestable principle.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A review of Thomas Piketty’s “Capital and Ideology”</title><url>http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-thomas-piketty-takes-ideology-inequality</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>Paul Krugman&#x27;s review:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;08&#x2F;books&#x2F;review&#x2F;capital-and-ideology-thomas-piketty.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;08&#x2F;books&#x2F;review&#x2F;capital-and-...</a><p>Krugman liked Piketty&#x27;s previous book (<i>Captail-21C</i>), but concluded this one needed some more editing:<p>&gt; <i>The bottom line: I really wanted to like “Capital and Ideology,” but have to acknowledge that it’s something of a letdown. There are interesting ideas and analyses scattered through the book, but they get lost in the sheer volume of dubiously related material. In the end, I’m not even sure what the book’s message is. That can’t be a good thing.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A review of Thomas Piketty’s “Capital and Ideology”</title><url>http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-thomas-piketty-takes-ideology-inequality</url></story> |
23,058,913 | 23,058,894 | 1 | 2 | 23,058,551 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lr4444lr</author><text>Can someone explain to me what Category theory actually contributes to mathematics beyond the contents of abstract algebra, graph theory, and set theory? Because every interesting result I&#x27;ve seen just looks like it comes from those other branches with some different terminology. Does it actually lead to any unique or synergistic results that the others fail to produce with their own axioma?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Computational Category Theory in Python III: Monoids, Groups, and Preorders</title><url>http://www.philipzucker.com/computational-category-theory-in-python-3-monoids-groups-and-preorders/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chestervonwinch</author><text>I suggest to the author that they rephrase the title to something like &quot;...Theory in Python Part 3...&quot; to make it clear that this is the third installment in a series, not specific to Python version 3.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Computational Category Theory in Python III: Monoids, Groups, and Preorders</title><url>http://www.philipzucker.com/computational-category-theory-in-python-3-monoids-groups-and-preorders/</url></story> |
22,480,107 | 22,478,810 | 1 | 2 | 22,472,779 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neverartful</author><text>&quot;All those extra furnishings&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know that there would be extra furnishings. It&#x27;s not unheard of for Orthodox churches to only have seating around the perimeter for the sick and elderly. It&#x27;s common for worshipers to stand during an Orthodox mass.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beloch</author><text>The next step (that will probably never happen) would be to refurnish the Hagia Sophia, as it would have been before it was plundered in the fourth crusade, and seat an audience in it, as if for a mass. Then pop another balloon. All those extra furnishings and bodies would have had a significant impact on how the space sounded. The plastered over mosaics might also create a noticeable effect that would need to be compensated for. Even with the impressive work of Abel and Pentcheva we still have something that would likely sound empty and strangely hollow to people familiar with the Hagia Sophia when it was serving as a church.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The sound of the Hagia Sophia, more than 500 years ago</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/808404928/listen-the-sound-of-the-hagia-sophia-more-than-500-years-ago</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shrubble</author><text>The last Orthodox church services were in 1453. So I doubt that there will be many critics who remember back that far :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>beloch</author><text>The next step (that will probably never happen) would be to refurnish the Hagia Sophia, as it would have been before it was plundered in the fourth crusade, and seat an audience in it, as if for a mass. Then pop another balloon. All those extra furnishings and bodies would have had a significant impact on how the space sounded. The plastered over mosaics might also create a noticeable effect that would need to be compensated for. Even with the impressive work of Abel and Pentcheva we still have something that would likely sound empty and strangely hollow to people familiar with the Hagia Sophia when it was serving as a church.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The sound of the Hagia Sophia, more than 500 years ago</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/808404928/listen-the-sound-of-the-hagia-sophia-more-than-500-years-ago</url></story> |
38,879,971 | 38,880,220 | 1 | 2 | 38,878,683 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>galdosdi</author><text>Indeed. Until then we hapless individuals trapped in the present will have to resort to heuristics.<p>The best one I can think of to start with is avoid processing. The more processed a food is the more opportunities it had to potentially be contaminated. Contamination can happen with raw ingredients too, but at least that&#x27;s fewer opportunities strictly speaking.<p>So, for example, in order from most dangerous to least:<p>French fries from a restaurant<p>French fries pre sliced in a bag but you bake them<p>Raw whole potatos you yourself slice up and fry in oil you purchased<p>Raw whole potatos of random origin, baked<p>Raw whole potatos of known origin, baked<p>It&#x27;s very similar idea to eating lower on the food chain to avoid bioaccumulated toxins.<p>Just a heuristic but can&#x27;t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Happens to coincidentally also be a good way to eat healthy in general even ignoring contamination.<p>PS: if anyone has any other ideas for heuristics I want to know them!</text><parent_chain><item><author>achrono</author><text>It&#x27;s time to come up with what I&#x27;d call a Plastic Chain Index. For any given edible item, a very low plastic chain index implies that it would only have plastic inadvertently absorbed from the environment, whereas a high one would be e.g. those super hot French fries rolling in plastic.<p>If you&#x27;re optimistic, this will usher in easy measurement, widespread awareness and consumer enlightenment.<p>But realistically, we will spend decades over confusion as to whether a high PCI <i>really</i> makes for poorer health or not, where are the double-blind trials, decade long cohort studies and meta-analyses etc. until enough human sacrifices have been conducted to appease the plausible deniability of these companies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/consumer-reports-finds-widespread-presence-plastics-food-2024-01-04/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>a very low plastic chain index implies that it would only have plastic inadvertently absorbed from the environment</i><p>Or just measure them and publish test results. Naming and shaming works in the consumer packaged goods market.</text><parent_chain><item><author>achrono</author><text>It&#x27;s time to come up with what I&#x27;d call a Plastic Chain Index. For any given edible item, a very low plastic chain index implies that it would only have plastic inadvertently absorbed from the environment, whereas a high one would be e.g. those super hot French fries rolling in plastic.<p>If you&#x27;re optimistic, this will usher in easy measurement, widespread awareness and consumer enlightenment.<p>But realistically, we will spend decades over confusion as to whether a high PCI <i>really</i> makes for poorer health or not, where are the double-blind trials, decade long cohort studies and meta-analyses etc. until enough human sacrifices have been conducted to appease the plausible deniability of these companies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/consumer-reports-finds-widespread-presence-plastics-food-2024-01-04/</url></story> |
39,999,413 | 39,999,406 | 1 | 3 | 39,998,849 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cedws</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I can endure much more AI slop seeping its way into my life.</text><parent_chain><item><author>epaga</author><text>I have to say, I completely lost it at the whisper &#x27;(The &quot;Software&quot;)&#x27; (0:18)... give this tech another year or two and it will be better quality than your average radio song.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License</title><url>https://suno.com/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrfinn</author><text>At the current rate of progress maybe it&#x27;ll be months. I did a song for my company just to have fun around an event and the quality of the song was astounding, better than this one I think also using v3. I didn&#x27;t even write the lyrics, I just described what I want in the prompt. Also I used one of poems I wrote as a teenager (not a lot of them) to create a song... the AI would notice the emphasis in the feelings of the lyrics, exactly in the same way I felt them, so it made pauses and chorus accordingly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>epaga</author><text>I have to say, I completely lost it at the whisper &#x27;(The &quot;Software&quot;)&#x27; (0:18)... give this tech another year or two and it will be better quality than your average radio song.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License</title><url>https://suno.com/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a/</url></story> |
32,898,988 | 32,898,908 | 1 | 2 | 32,898,165 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>milansuk</author><text>I downloaded .gpx of the run and it&#x27;s 6.7MB.
He started with 4min&#x2F;km pace, held it for 130km(9 hours) and then He &quot;slowed down&quot; almost linearly to 5min&#x2F;km when he finished.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ryannevius</author><text>Aleksandr&#x27;s training is public on his Strava: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strava.com&#x2F;athletes&#x2F;26934035" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strava.com&#x2F;athletes&#x2F;26934035</a><p>Something to remember is that this is his pace _after_ pit stops, so his actual running pace was faster. Also notable is that this course was kind of terrible, with four 90 degree turns and three 180 degree turns each lap for 209 laps. There&#x27;s little doubt that he could run &gt; 200 miles on a course with fewer turns.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run</title><url>https://www.irunfar.com/aleksandr-sorokin-smashes-24-hour-world-record-with-198-6-mile-319-6-kilometer-run</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>c-fe</author><text>Strava also shares the latitude&#x2F;elevation during the run. (Screenshot in case you dont have Strava <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;PuuKo5r" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;PuuKo5r</a>) What I find interesting and don&#x27;t really understand is why the elevation keeps going down during the run, even though he stayed on the same track. Anyone have an idea why that could be?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ryannevius</author><text>Aleksandr&#x27;s training is public on his Strava: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strava.com&#x2F;athletes&#x2F;26934035" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strava.com&#x2F;athletes&#x2F;26934035</a><p>Something to remember is that this is his pace _after_ pit stops, so his actual running pace was faster. Also notable is that this course was kind of terrible, with four 90 degree turns and three 180 degree turns each lap for 209 laps. There&#x27;s little doubt that he could run &gt; 200 miles on a course with fewer turns.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run</title><url>https://www.irunfar.com/aleksandr-sorokin-smashes-24-hour-world-record-with-198-6-mile-319-6-kilometer-run</url></story> |
12,464,306 | 12,462,881 | 1 | 2 | 12,460,831 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>astrodust</author><text>You have spent way too much time on Hacker News. Gross Domestic Happiness was coined in 1972 and the idea exists way beyond that. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gross_National_Happiness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gross_National_Happiness</a><p>For example, the US Constitution proudly proclaims that &quot;Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness&quot; are unalienable rights. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Life,_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_Happiness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Life,_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>dec0dedab0de</author><text><i>I sometimes think they reject the idea that the whole point of existence is human flourishing and happiness.</i><p>Yes, many people reject this idea. As a matter of fact, this is the first time I&#x27;ve ever heard anyone express this idea.</text></item><item><author>jfaucett</author><text>Notice this is because 80% of the energy obtained was from Hydroelectric power, which is a great energy source because it is reliable - unlike wind and solar which in this case provided 7% and 0.01% respectively and are not reliable. It frustrates me that so many environmentalists are still against hydro because it alters ecosystems when nature itself is inherently violent, dangerous and in a constant state of flux. I sometimes think they reject the idea that the whole point of existence is human flourishing and happiness. The biggest real problem with Hydro in the context of human flourishing is ensuring that the dams are well-constructed and nature proof i.e. hold up against natural disasters because if they don&#x27;t downstream settlements and human lives can be at risk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2016/9/8/12847160/costa-rica-renewable-electricity</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hguant</author><text>It&#x27;s actually a <i>really</i> old idea. Sadly, not one that gets a lot of press, as it&#x27;s not very sexy to talk about dead Greeks (except to reject them).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orwell1627.wordpress.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;aristotles-purpose-of-life&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orwell1627.wordpress.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;aristotles-purpo...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>dec0dedab0de</author><text><i>I sometimes think they reject the idea that the whole point of existence is human flourishing and happiness.</i><p>Yes, many people reject this idea. As a matter of fact, this is the first time I&#x27;ve ever heard anyone express this idea.</text></item><item><author>jfaucett</author><text>Notice this is because 80% of the energy obtained was from Hydroelectric power, which is a great energy source because it is reliable - unlike wind and solar which in this case provided 7% and 0.01% respectively and are not reliable. It frustrates me that so many environmentalists are still against hydro because it alters ecosystems when nature itself is inherently violent, dangerous and in a constant state of flux. I sometimes think they reject the idea that the whole point of existence is human flourishing and happiness. The biggest real problem with Hydro in the context of human flourishing is ensuring that the dams are well-constructed and nature proof i.e. hold up against natural disasters because if they don&#x27;t downstream settlements and human lives can be at risk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2016/9/8/12847160/costa-rica-renewable-electricity</url></story> |
22,496,924 | 22,495,964 | 1 | 3 | 22,492,698 | 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>joshuawright11</author><text>Been using SwiftUI pretty in depth for a side project. It&#x27;s been 80% awesome and 20% super frustrating. I can do so much more with SO much less code, but there are definitely a lot of gaps &amp; annoying issues (particularly around documentation and in depth customization).<p>Fortunately it&#x27;s easy to fill in the gaps with UIKit &amp; there are some amazing people out there doing documentation (shout out to the guy at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swiftui-lab.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swiftui-lab.com&#x2F;</a>, you&#x27;ve saved me so much time!)<p>Per usual with Apple its a fantastic product launched in a buggy, incomplete state. Still a great option if you&#x27;re willing to deal with the kinks.<p>Hopefully 2.0 will make it an even more solid (if not de facto) choice for all iOS devs!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Export SwiftUI code from Figma designs</title><url>https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/784879032180068427/SwiftUI-Inspector</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mkchoi212</author><text>This is insane. If the exported code is somewhat read-able, functions correctly, and the library gets updated as SwiftUI evolves, this is a game changer for iOS devs.<p>However, these are big IFs. Handling navigation, view hierarchy, and view category identification may be very hard to solve.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Export SwiftUI code from Figma designs</title><url>https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/784879032180068427/SwiftUI-Inspector</url></story> |
29,889,964 | 29,888,020 | 1 | 2 | 29,878,802 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kristopolous</author><text>It&#x27;s either going to go vertical or horizontal.<p>If people afraid of sprawl say no to vertical, then horizontal is going to happen just outside of wherever they care about.<p>Many people&#x27;s politics are wildly irrationally disconnected from their sentiments.<p>I used to live in Davis. If I was King, I&#x27;d steamroll everything between A&amp;B and 1st and Russell and replace it with ~30-40 story apartment buildings with multilevel bike parking like in Amsterdam (ex: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;originals&#x2F;1e&#x2F;c4&#x2F;d7&#x2F;1ec4d7a99c2151699afef34e3833c154.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;originals&#x2F;1e&#x2F;c4&#x2F;d7&#x2F;1ec4d7a99c2151699afe...</a>), and rooftop bars and cafes.<p>The walls would be a mix of vertical gardening (ex: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;__origami&#x2F;service&#x2F;image&#x2F;v2&#x2F;images&#x2F;raw&#x2F;http%3A%2F%2Fcom.ft.imagepublish.upp-prod-eu.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5f9bb246-b976-11e9-96bd-8e884d3ea203?fit=scale-down&amp;source=next&amp;width=700" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;__origami&#x2F;service&#x2F;image&#x2F;v2&#x2F;images&#x2F;raw&#x2F;htt...</a>) and photovoltaic windows. The bottom floors would have retail and dedicated community space.<p>The buildings would further have multi-level skywalks connecting them with small nook like terraces (ex: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.adsttc.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;images&#x2F;59f1&#x2F;27ba&#x2F;b22e&#x2F;38e2&#x2F;ab00&#x2F;01d6&#x2F;large_jpg&#x2F;204_Skygarden_Seoul_%C2%A9Ossip.jpg?1508976565" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.adsttc.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;images&#x2F;59f1&#x2F;27ba&#x2F;b22e&#x2F;38e2&#x2F;a...</a>)<p>There would intentionally, by design, be zero parking spaces except to accommodate the handicapped.<p>That&#x27;s as Davis as you&#x27;re going to get while actually solving the problem</text><parent_chain><item><author>vinhboy</author><text>I don&#x27;t live in Davis anymore, but I did live there for 10+ years and used to own a home there. I love Davis. As Sheldon Copper from Big Bang theory puts it, it&#x27;s my &quot;zero-zero-zero-zero&quot;.<p>While I don&#x27;t consider myself a NIMBY, because I wouldn&#x27;t go out of my way to stop a development project, I do appreciate how it has kept Davis a really nice place to live.<p>I now live in Elk Grove, there are 3 Walmart within 5 minutes of me. Urban sprawl here is ridiculous and can be measured by how many dead skunks, and homeless coyotes you find on the road because farm land and wild spaces are turning into giant air conditioned homes (which I am totally guilty of owning). Folsom, Rancho Cordova, Roseville are the same. If you want to see what happens when Davis grow into a giant city, move to one of these places.<p>I am not sure what my point is. I guess I am just saying that what Davis is, is not bad, it can be worse.<p>But for the sake of conversation, if we are going to raze small towns like Davis in the quest of more housing friendly cities, I recommend we model it after Bellevue, WA. They have skyscrapers, and it&#x27;s beautiful. But then again, that just speaks to the wealth disparity more than anything else... Which is also what keeps Davis so nice.</text></item><item><author>brucelidl</author><text>10 year Davis resident here, with generally quite Yimby tendencies. I would support something like this, as we do absolutely need more (and if possible) cheaper housing in town for students. The university is the whole reason the town exists and it&#x27;s just not healthy to make it prohibitive for students to live here, while at the same time force university staff to live in cheaper surrounding towns and then commute in and out, in my opinion.<p>But I do have to be realistic, the Nimby feelings in this town are VERY strong. Everybody who buys a house here seems to feel the town should stay exactly the way it was on the day after they arrived, without any recognition of how blinkered that is. The legal fight against something like this would be intense, to say the least. It would require a developer with great lawyers, very deep pockets and the thickest of skins.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You can build a skyscraper anywhere in Davis, California</title><url>https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/skyscrapers-davis-california/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevinburke</author><text>I guess that’s the idea behind trying to add infill housing, is to prevent ugly sprawl.<p>Davis has one of the highest bicycle mode shares of any city in the state. It’s an ideal place to add denser housing without the additional traffic or parking lots that blight a lot of bigger (and less dense) cities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vinhboy</author><text>I don&#x27;t live in Davis anymore, but I did live there for 10+ years and used to own a home there. I love Davis. As Sheldon Copper from Big Bang theory puts it, it&#x27;s my &quot;zero-zero-zero-zero&quot;.<p>While I don&#x27;t consider myself a NIMBY, because I wouldn&#x27;t go out of my way to stop a development project, I do appreciate how it has kept Davis a really nice place to live.<p>I now live in Elk Grove, there are 3 Walmart within 5 minutes of me. Urban sprawl here is ridiculous and can be measured by how many dead skunks, and homeless coyotes you find on the road because farm land and wild spaces are turning into giant air conditioned homes (which I am totally guilty of owning). Folsom, Rancho Cordova, Roseville are the same. If you want to see what happens when Davis grow into a giant city, move to one of these places.<p>I am not sure what my point is. I guess I am just saying that what Davis is, is not bad, it can be worse.<p>But for the sake of conversation, if we are going to raze small towns like Davis in the quest of more housing friendly cities, I recommend we model it after Bellevue, WA. They have skyscrapers, and it&#x27;s beautiful. But then again, that just speaks to the wealth disparity more than anything else... Which is also what keeps Davis so nice.</text></item><item><author>brucelidl</author><text>10 year Davis resident here, with generally quite Yimby tendencies. I would support something like this, as we do absolutely need more (and if possible) cheaper housing in town for students. The university is the whole reason the town exists and it&#x27;s just not healthy to make it prohibitive for students to live here, while at the same time force university staff to live in cheaper surrounding towns and then commute in and out, in my opinion.<p>But I do have to be realistic, the Nimby feelings in this town are VERY strong. Everybody who buys a house here seems to feel the town should stay exactly the way it was on the day after they arrived, without any recognition of how blinkered that is. The legal fight against something like this would be intense, to say the least. It would require a developer with great lawyers, very deep pockets and the thickest of skins.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You can build a skyscraper anywhere in Davis, California</title><url>https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/skyscrapers-davis-california/</url></story> |
26,920,617 | 26,920,217 | 1 | 2 | 26,919,510 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jchw</author><text>I don’t necessarily think AGPL is the best license, but I am very glad it’s AGPL catching on and not SSPL and friends. I’ve spoken my piece in recent threads already, but I just think this is more friendly to the FOSS community even if it’s not perfect.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Minio Changes License to AGPL</title><url>https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/069432566fcfac1f1053677cc925ddafd750730a</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marcinzm</author><text>No PR and no discussion and no announcement. This will be a fun time bomb for anyone using Minio at a company where legal dislikes AGPL licenses.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Minio Changes License to AGPL</title><url>https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/069432566fcfac1f1053677cc925ddafd750730a</url></story> |
33,901,026 | 33,900,908 | 1 | 2 | 33,897,793 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twhb</author><text>The abandoned plan was perceptual hashing, which should return the same hash for very similar photos, while the new one is a checksum, which should return the same hash only for identical photos. I don’t think that invalidates the point, but it does seem relevant. It certainly makes it much less useful for CSAM scanning or enforcing local dictator whims, since it’s now trivial to defeat if you actually try to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fitblipper</author><text>&quot;Some metadata and usage information stored in iCloud remains under standard data protection, even when Advanced Data Protection is enabled. For example, dates and times when a file or object was modified are used to sort your information, and checksums of file and photo data are used to help Apple de-duplicate and optimize your iCloud and device storage...&quot;<p>Photo checksums can&#x27;t be e2e encrypted huh? They reported today they abandoned their plans to do CSAM scanning on people&#x27;s devices[1] and connecting the dots it seems like they wont need to since they can just do it in the cloud.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;apple-photo-scanning-csam-communication-safety-messages&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;apple-photo-scanning-csam-commun...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303#advanced</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikehearn</author><text>The original implementation also involved sending a &quot;safety voucher&quot; with each photo uploaded to iCloud, which contained a thumbnail of the photo as well as some other metadata.<p>The vouchers were encrypted, and could only be decrypted if there were, I believe, 30 independent matches against their CSAM hash table in the cloud. At that point the vouchers could be decrypted and reviewed by a human as a check against false-positives.<p>It sounds like with a raw byte hash they might be able to match a photo against a list of CSAM hashes, but they wouldn&#x27;t be able to do the human review of the photo&#x27;s contents because of E2E.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fitblipper</author><text>&quot;Some metadata and usage information stored in iCloud remains under standard data protection, even when Advanced Data Protection is enabled. For example, dates and times when a file or object was modified are used to sort your information, and checksums of file and photo data are used to help Apple de-duplicate and optimize your iCloud and device storage...&quot;<p>Photo checksums can&#x27;t be e2e encrypted huh? They reported today they abandoned their plans to do CSAM scanning on people&#x27;s devices[1] and connecting the dots it seems like they wont need to since they can just do it in the cloud.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;apple-photo-scanning-csam-communication-safety-messages&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;apple-photo-scanning-csam-commun...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303#advanced</url></story> |
1,691,463 | 1,691,548 | 1 | 2 | 1,690,001 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blakeweb</author><text>It's mostly "direct deposit" -- electronically from the company's account into yours, appearing on the day it's supposed to in your account. But people still call it a paycheck.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eru</author><text>And you still get checks?</text></item><item><author>rdouble</author><text>Yes.</text></item><item><author>eru</author><text>Off-topic: Is it common to get paid every fortnight in America?</text></item><item><author>mcyger</author><text>Just to provide a balanced viewpoint: I've worked in corporate America (Fortune 5 company), dealt with banality and bureaucracy, banged my head against the wall over and over again, left, started my own company, grew it to millions, sold it, semi-retired. I love startups and the details of this blog, however, when you want to see your kids, sleep in the same bed as your wife, and have a paycheck deposited in your bank account every other Friday, there's nothing better than working for an established company.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Founding a startup with zero revenue is better than working for Goldman Sachs</title><url>http://adgrok.com/why-founding-a-three-person-startup-with-zero-revenue-is-better-than-working-for-goldman-sachs</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rdouble</author><text>I got actual paper checks when I was contracting, when I've worked for small startups that hadn't set up a direct deposit system for payroll, and when I worked at Dairy Queen in high school.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eru</author><text>And you still get checks?</text></item><item><author>rdouble</author><text>Yes.</text></item><item><author>eru</author><text>Off-topic: Is it common to get paid every fortnight in America?</text></item><item><author>mcyger</author><text>Just to provide a balanced viewpoint: I've worked in corporate America (Fortune 5 company), dealt with banality and bureaucracy, banged my head against the wall over and over again, left, started my own company, grew it to millions, sold it, semi-retired. I love startups and the details of this blog, however, when you want to see your kids, sleep in the same bed as your wife, and have a paycheck deposited in your bank account every other Friday, there's nothing better than working for an established company.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Founding a startup with zero revenue is better than working for Goldman Sachs</title><url>http://adgrok.com/why-founding-a-three-person-startup-with-zero-revenue-is-better-than-working-for-goldman-sachs</url></story> |
23,630,873 | 23,626,296 | 1 | 3 | 23,623,470 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heydabop</author><text>&gt; Hacker News attracts a lot of smart readers<p>Ahh, I see you&#x27;re also trying your hand at sarcasm!</text><parent_chain><item><author>colmvp</author><text>Hacker News attracts a lot of smart readers, so I&#x27;m kind of surprised that your comment actually &#x27;fooled&#x27; people. It was very obvious sarcasm.</text></item><item><author>cool-RR</author><text>The &quot;back to top&quot; functionality is so useful in web pages. I wish they would make a dedicated button on keyboards that just takes you to the top of the page. Better yet, it can work in other apps too! It could, for example, take you to the beginning of a line when you&#x27;re writing text.<p><i>Edit:</i> Wow, I thought I was going the extra mile to make the joke obvious by saying the key should also take you to the beginning of a text line, but I guess it wasn&#x27;t obvious enough for the first 3 commentators.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator</title><url>http://tholman.com/elevator.js/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ben509</author><text>When people don&#x27;t get humor, they&#x27;re still picking up on the incongruity in it, and this bothers them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>colmvp</author><text>Hacker News attracts a lot of smart readers, so I&#x27;m kind of surprised that your comment actually &#x27;fooled&#x27; people. It was very obvious sarcasm.</text></item><item><author>cool-RR</author><text>The &quot;back to top&quot; functionality is so useful in web pages. I wish they would make a dedicated button on keyboards that just takes you to the top of the page. Better yet, it can work in other apps too! It could, for example, take you to the beginning of a line when you&#x27;re writing text.<p><i>Edit:</i> Wow, I thought I was going the extra mile to make the joke obvious by saying the key should also take you to the beginning of a text line, but I guess it wasn&#x27;t obvious enough for the first 3 commentators.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator</title><url>http://tholman.com/elevator.js/</url></story> |
22,068,080 | 22,068,048 | 1 | 3 | 22,067,096 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nscalf</author><text>Should I be satisfied if you&#x27;re doing the right thing for the wrong reasons? I&#x27;m always unsure about this. If a politician is making all the right noises, but clearly doesn&#x27;t care about the topic, should I be satisfied? I really don&#x27;t know. That&#x27;s how I feel about this, it&#x27;s clearly a PR move, but I think I&#x27;m happy about that?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jknoepfler</author><text>Alright, I&#x27;ll drink the Kool-Aid. I think this is an excellent strategic investment for Microsoft that also aligns with timely ethical priorities. I didn&#x27;t read the post and think &quot;this is corporate glossy bullshit,&quot; I read it and thought &quot;this is an actual strategic initiative that is driving broad organizational alignment, which has measurable success criteria, and which makes sense.&quot;<p>I am genuinely surprised by the sincerity, cogency, and aspirational nature of this initiative and its associated PR glossies.<p>I am measurably more likely to work at and invest in Microsoft after reading this.<p>I guess they&#x27;ve hacked my demographic?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>derptron</author><text>&gt;Hacked my demographic<p>I hope you can hear my groan and perceive my eyes rolling over the internet</text><parent_chain><item><author>jknoepfler</author><text>Alright, I&#x27;ll drink the Kool-Aid. I think this is an excellent strategic investment for Microsoft that also aligns with timely ethical priorities. I didn&#x27;t read the post and think &quot;this is corporate glossy bullshit,&quot; I read it and thought &quot;this is an actual strategic initiative that is driving broad organizational alignment, which has measurable success criteria, and which makes sense.&quot;<p>I am genuinely surprised by the sincerity, cogency, and aspirational nature of this initiative and its associated PR glossies.<p>I am measurably more likely to work at and invest in Microsoft after reading this.<p>I guess they&#x27;ve hacked my demographic?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/</url></story> |
26,024,947 | 26,024,823 | 1 | 2 | 26,020,732 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PartiallyTyped</author><text>I am probably in the minority, but my experience is the complete opposite. I had more trouble trying to set up a gradle project in university than I ever had with Python.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Traubenfuchs</author><text>Could someone ELI7 why python is struggling so hard with dependencies and dependency management when in the Java world this is a solved problem and just works with maven, which is working so damn well it last got updated in November 2019, and the biggest fight going is whether you should use gradle as client instead of maven to access the same dependency ecosystem?<p>I had to set up Python projects for some machine learning classes in college and it was a complete mess.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You don't really need a virtualenv</title><url>https://frostming.com/2021/01-22/introducing-pdm/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mqus</author><text>I have the opinion that this is because &quot;Deployment&quot; is not a solved issue (or clearly defined and enforced) for Python.<p>C has shared libraries and static compilation (bundling of dependencies) Java has .jar files which probably contain all your dependencies, go and Rust statically compile to something that has minimal dependencies and python has... no clue. Some packages you have to install via your package manager (in linux), because they have to be compiled against your local libraries, some other dependencies are somewhat included... and if you then try to also develop on the same machine you can choose between your system python libraries or installing them via pip (which makes your system weirder to deploy).<p>Having said that, I&#x27;m no expert in python but I have done some work in it and the deployment question is something that always seemed weird and unexplained to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Traubenfuchs</author><text>Could someone ELI7 why python is struggling so hard with dependencies and dependency management when in the Java world this is a solved problem and just works with maven, which is working so damn well it last got updated in November 2019, and the biggest fight going is whether you should use gradle as client instead of maven to access the same dependency ecosystem?<p>I had to set up Python projects for some machine learning classes in college and it was a complete mess.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You don't really need a virtualenv</title><url>https://frostming.com/2021/01-22/introducing-pdm/</url></story> |
21,711,920 | 21,710,726 | 1 | 3 | 21,701,798 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>antihero</author><text>Because perhaps you see an OS not as a hobby, but as a tool, and you may swim across other streams in life such that you feel your time is spent in better ways.<p>For instance, I enjoyed being a janitor for my Arch Linux install for a while - it taught me a lot - but eventually I switched to MacOS because I actually wanted to ignore my OS and focus on the code I was writing and connecting to WiFi reliably.<p>If you are putting your time into something, it makes some sense for it to be something you value.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dangom</author><text>This is an insightful observation. What are your thoughts regarding why most choose to swim with the stream, instead of exploring other models?</text></item><item><author>ggm</author><text>I don&#x27;t have to use plan9 to value what the 9fans did.<p>I don&#x27;t have to use plan9 to secure the benefit of exploring models of software, systems, networks which plan9 explored.<p>I think that you have to swim very strongly across some currents, to decide to &quot;be&quot; in plan9, but its no different in that sense to choosing to live behind a Nokia brick phone, or only using pen and paper in meetings. Others may work effectively in their kanban on a laptop, but the decision to stop using the parts of your brain which type, and instead use the parts of your brain which shape semantic intent, by writing, is quite large.<p>And in that sense, deciding to use plan9, or even just a tiling window manager, or to disable image load in web by default, or to use Markdown or Org mode to do thing instead of reaching for some packaged electron app, or to focus on GO or Haskell or whatever the thing is, which forces you to think about what you are doing in code, That decision may be swimming against the stream, but its big.<p>Plan9 is big. Its not for everyone, and I decided not to invest because it had moving parts I didn&#x27;t feel confident I understood and at the time I looked at it, was wedded to multiple independent instances of boxes I didn&#x27;t own.<p>Now, it is probably entirely possible inside containers or VMs or something, but I am content to know I <i>could</i>.<p>(I am however, using pen and paper more in meetings)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I Switched to Plan 9</title><url>http://helpful.cat-v.org/Blog/2019/12/03/0/</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>jacquesm</author><text>Peer pressure. As one of those who consciously refused the smartphone there are people in my environment who won&#x27;t let any chance go by to tell me that &#x27;if I had a smartphone&#x27; and then followed by some inane reason that is probably one of the reasons why I don&#x27;t have one.<p>I can see people giving in just to get rid of that kind of continuous low key harassment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dangom</author><text>This is an insightful observation. What are your thoughts regarding why most choose to swim with the stream, instead of exploring other models?</text></item><item><author>ggm</author><text>I don&#x27;t have to use plan9 to value what the 9fans did.<p>I don&#x27;t have to use plan9 to secure the benefit of exploring models of software, systems, networks which plan9 explored.<p>I think that you have to swim very strongly across some currents, to decide to &quot;be&quot; in plan9, but its no different in that sense to choosing to live behind a Nokia brick phone, or only using pen and paper in meetings. Others may work effectively in their kanban on a laptop, but the decision to stop using the parts of your brain which type, and instead use the parts of your brain which shape semantic intent, by writing, is quite large.<p>And in that sense, deciding to use plan9, or even just a tiling window manager, or to disable image load in web by default, or to use Markdown or Org mode to do thing instead of reaching for some packaged electron app, or to focus on GO or Haskell or whatever the thing is, which forces you to think about what you are doing in code, That decision may be swimming against the stream, but its big.<p>Plan9 is big. Its not for everyone, and I decided not to invest because it had moving parts I didn&#x27;t feel confident I understood and at the time I looked at it, was wedded to multiple independent instances of boxes I didn&#x27;t own.<p>Now, it is probably entirely possible inside containers or VMs or something, but I am content to know I <i>could</i>.<p>(I am however, using pen and paper more in meetings)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I Switched to Plan 9</title><url>http://helpful.cat-v.org/Blog/2019/12/03/0/</url></story> |
34,424,242 | 34,424,369 | 1 | 2 | 34,423,395 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>transpute</author><text>IEEE 802.11bf aims to standardize through-wall motion sensing for Wi-Fi 7 in 2024, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.originwirelessai.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;what-is-the-802-11bf-wifi-sensing-project-a-peek-inside-setting-the-standard&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.originwirelessai.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;what-is-the-802-11...</a> &amp; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.originwirelessai.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;origins-next-chapter-qa-with-ray-liu-and-spencer-maid&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.originwirelessai.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;origins-next-chapt...</a>. It can be done today with custom firmware on low-cost WiFi devices. Over the past decade, hundreds of Wi-Fi sensing papers have been published, for different categories of motion.<p><i>&gt; capture tiny, vital movements of human breathing, even when people are not in the line-of-sight of a device ... whole home coverage to detect falls, breathing rates, abnormal behaviors ... Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Security, Health &amp; Wellness, Automotive, and IoT</i><p>The images in the DensePose paper are helpful: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aibreakfast&#x2F;status&#x2F;1613550599144091650" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aibreakfast&#x2F;status&#x2F;1613550599144091650</a><p>Prior HN threads on Wi-Fi 7 Sensing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33758434" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33758434</a><p>Counter-measures: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27121918#27133079" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27121918#27133079</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DensePose from WiFi</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00250</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>benob</author><text>From the abstract:
&quot;This paves the way for low-cost, broadly accessible, and privacy-preserving algorithms for human sensing.&quot;<p>How much do we have to wait for the follow up paper: &quot;Human identification through wifi signals&quot; and then the patent for &quot;Wifi as an identity tracking source for advertisement in public spaces&quot;<p>Technology advances make me sad those days...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DensePose from WiFi</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00250</url></story> |
34,588,473 | 34,588,159 | 1 | 3 | 34,586,917 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rsc</author><text>Thanks for the quick rollback.<p>I want to encourage you to think about locking in the current archive details, at least for archives that have already been served. Verifying that downloaded archives have the expected checksum is a critical best practice for software supply chain security. Training people to ignore checksum changes is training them to ignore attacks.<p>GitHub is a strong leader in other parts of supply chain security, and it can lead here too. Once GitHub has served an archive with a given checksum, it should guarantee that the archive has that checksum forever.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vtbassmatt</author><text>Hey folks. I&#x27;m the product manager for Git at GitHub. We&#x27;re sorry for the breakage, we&#x27;re reverting the change, and we&#x27;ll communicate better about such changes in the future (including timelines).<p>Also posted here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bazel-contrib&#x2F;SIG-rules-authors&#x2F;issues&#x2F;11#issuecomment-1409438954">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bazel-contrib&#x2F;SIG-rules-authors&#x2F;issues&#x2F;11...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Git archive checksums may change</title><url>https://github.blog/changelog/2023-01-30-git-archive-checksums-may-change/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mdouglass</author><text>We are seeing an npm install failure inside our docker builds pointing at a github URL with a SHA change. Is this possibly related?<p><pre><code> #15 [dev-builder 4&#x2F;7] RUN --mount=type=secret,id=npm,dst=&#x2F;root&#x2F;.npmrc npm ci
#0 4.743 npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.
#0 8.119 npm WARN tarball tarball data for http2@https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;node-apn&#x2F;node-http2&#x2F;archive&#x2F;apn-2.1.4.tar.gz (sha512-ad4u4I88X9AcUgxCRW3RLnbh7xHWQ1f5HbrXa7gEy2x4Xgq+rq+auGx5I+nUDE2YYuqteGIlbxrwQXkIaYTfnQ==) seems to be corrupted. Trying again.
#0 8.164 npm ERR! code EINTEGRITY
#0 8.169 npm ERR! sha512-ad4u4I88X9AcUgxCRW3RLnbh7xHWQ1f5HbrXa7gEy2x4Xgq+rq+auGx5I+nUDE2YYuqteGIlbxrwQXkIaYTfnQ== integrity checksum failed when using sha512: wanted sha512-ad4u4I88X9AcUgxCRW3RLnbh7xHWQ1f5HbrXa7gEy2x4Xgq+rq+auGx5I+nUDE2YYuqteGIlbxrwQXkIaYTfnQ== but got sha512-GWBlkDNYgpkQElS+zGyIe1CN&#x2F;XJxdEFuguLHOEGLZOIoDiH4cC9chggBwZsPK&#x2F;Ls9nPikTzMuRDWfLzoGlKiRw==. (72989 bytes)
#0 8.176
#0 8.177 npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
#0 8.177 npm ERR! &#x2F;root&#x2F;.npm&#x2F;_logs&#x2F;2023-01-30T23_19_36_986Z-debug-0.log
#15 ERROR: process &quot;&#x2F;bin&#x2F;sh -c npm ci&quot; did not complete successfully: exit code: 1
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This was working earlier today and the docker build&#x2F;package.json haven&#x27;t changed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vtbassmatt</author><text>Hey folks. I&#x27;m the product manager for Git at GitHub. We&#x27;re sorry for the breakage, we&#x27;re reverting the change, and we&#x27;ll communicate better about such changes in the future (including timelines).<p>Also posted here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bazel-contrib&#x2F;SIG-rules-authors&#x2F;issues&#x2F;11#issuecomment-1409438954">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bazel-contrib&#x2F;SIG-rules-authors&#x2F;issues&#x2F;11...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Git archive checksums may change</title><url>https://github.blog/changelog/2023-01-30-git-archive-checksums-may-change/</url></story> |
3,805,642 | 3,805,261 | 1 | 3 | 3,804,608 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>henryl</author><text>I am a co-founder at a startup that does advertising on WiFi networks. We only run advertising before you connect (when you are in a captive portal), without the use of proxying.<p>Before anyone overreacts to this article, it would be beneficial to understand the hospitality space. The hotel you stayed at is most likely owned by a franchise group and operated by a GM. GMs are responsible for contracting their own networking services with Hotel WiFi Operators such as the one mentioned here. As such, a major hotel brand such as Marriott may use <i>hundreds</i> of WiFi operators. WiFi operators range in size, managing anywhere between one property to tens of thousands. The vast majority of these operators do not leverage javascript injection.<p>The ones that resort to proxied ad injection do so because hotel IT is a thin-margin business. WiFi is considered a cost center but is tolerated because it is the number one amenity requested by guests. Operators will sometimes offer a discounted service fee to the hotel GM in exchange for mid-stream ads, although, in this case, it is just as likely that the hotel GM is unaware of this. It is almost absolutely certain that Marriott is unaware of this. Even if they were made aware, the power balance between the brand and the franchisee is not clearly defined with regards to WiFi.<p>As much as I dislike ad injection, it is important to note that public WiFi is <i>never safe</i> unless you are using a VPN. It is offered as an amenity, one that GMs would be more than happy to get rid of if they could. Unlike with your broadband ISP, you have logged into a privately operated network. You are probably not paying for it. You are subject to their rules. Furthermore, when you signed onto the WiFi network, you most likely had to check a checkbox indicating your agreement to the terms of their network (which no one ever reads). As such, caveat emptor, etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hotel Wifi JavaScript Injection</title><url>http://justinsomnia.org/2012/04/hotel-wifi-javascript-injection/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MiguelHudnandez</author><text>There is nothing related to WiFi in this system. The hotel is running the traffic through a <i>transparent proxy</i> which is performing MITM "attacks" to disable ads from providers and show their own ads.<p>It is icky for all sorts of reasons. I suppose an individual website could consider it theft of ad revenue, and an end-user could consider their privacy invaded.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hotel Wifi JavaScript Injection</title><url>http://justinsomnia.org/2012/04/hotel-wifi-javascript-injection/</url></story> |
5,816,606 | 5,815,326 | 1 | 2 | 5,814,755 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>terrymah</author><text>Current VS-compiler dev here, the backend codegen team to be more precise (I actually own PGO). I wish this comment had been written in few days/weeks/months so I answer directly and talk specifics about some of the work that went into VS2013, but for now I just want you to know we've aware of all of the issues you brought up, and have either worked on or plan to work on many of them.<p>RE: likely/unlikely, VS has __assume(0), which isn't exactly the same thing I know, but it is something and does help. I'm actually in favor of us doing more with static annotations to bring PGO style optimizations to non-PGO builds. If you feel the same way please be louder about it, but realize there is a vocal group of people who consider static annotations harmful (and they have a large body of evidence in __forceinline backing them up).<p>oprofile: There is ETW/xperf, and of course a variety of instrumented profilers (both shipping and internal)<p>Although I do wish my team was larger, and it doesn't get all the love that some of the more flashing UI stuff does, I wouldn't go as far as to say the toolchain is withering. Some of the smartest people I know are working on my team with me on these problems.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>I wish they would dedicate more time to improving cl.exe and link.exe in terms of performance and language support and less time with these hokey team visualization gimics.<p>Every release since 2008 has been getting slower and slower for C++, the C compiler is awful, PGO instrumentation in Win8 is less capable, and there's no equivalents in the Windows ecosystem to gcc's likely/unlikely, oprofile, or valgrind.<p>It's at the point now where developing on Windows vs Linux is a serious performance and security impediment due to their withering native toolchain. But I guess nobody over there gets promoted for fixing the hard stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visual Studio 2013</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/06/03/visual-studio-2013.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>sriramk</author><text>ex-VS person here (from 5 years ago though).<p>It is never an either-or. It is always a complex mix of what customers ask for, what the strategic priorities/market realities are.<p>Often the problem with these queries is that there are not enough devs complaining to MSFT. No PM/engg manager is going to ignore a bug/problem if it shows up high in customer requests.<p>On promotions - I think it's the reverse problem. People only get promoted for working on something that's perceived to be hard.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>I wish they would dedicate more time to improving cl.exe and link.exe in terms of performance and language support and less time with these hokey team visualization gimics.<p>Every release since 2008 has been getting slower and slower for C++, the C compiler is awful, PGO instrumentation in Win8 is less capable, and there's no equivalents in the Windows ecosystem to gcc's likely/unlikely, oprofile, or valgrind.<p>It's at the point now where developing on Windows vs Linux is a serious performance and security impediment due to their withering native toolchain. But I guess nobody over there gets promoted for fixing the hard stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visual Studio 2013</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/06/03/visual-studio-2013.aspx</url></story> |
27,619,495 | 27,617,356 | 1 | 2 | 27,617,051 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bobtail3</author><text>I think you make a good point, but your numbers seem way off. What countries are you aware of that even get close to 60-80% of completed college education? The list below shows the highest at 61% for Canada (between the ages of 35-44) [1]. But that list is also including things like community college, trade schools, and other forms of professional development. It seems to me that a much more accurate range is something like 25-40% for most developed countries.<p>I think what is really going on with degrees being a poor investment, is that most degrees don&#x27;t actually teach valuable skills or they do and the students just don&#x27;t actually put in the necessary work to achieve those skills. Instead treating it as a game of how to pass while putting in as little work as possible. That was at least my experience TAing computer science courses. Most students were just not mature enough to value the education that was being offered.<p>EDIT: A more generous interpretation to the students would be that they were simply jaded after a lack luster and uninspiring high school education plus a similar experience in probably many of the college classes they were taking.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_tertiary_education_attainment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_tertiary_...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cosmodisk</author><text>As in most countries in Europe, the value of a university degree is diminishing because the vast majority of population has it. If back in the day,it used to be 10-20% tops, now in some countries it&#x27;s as high as 60-80%, while at the same time competing for jobs that often don&#x27;t require such education to start with.<p>[Edit]
I still remember how not so long time ago it wasn&#x27;t uncommon to have masters as a bare minimum when hiring a secretary in my country...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Half of UK university students think degree is poor value for money</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jun/24/half-of-uk-university-students-think-degree-is-poor-value-for-money</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mschuster91</author><text>&gt; If back in the day,it used to be 10-20% tops, now in some countries it&#x27;s as high as 60-80%, while at the same time competing for jobs that often don&#x27;t require such education to start with.<p>The change is because employers love degrees... they prove that a job applicant can reliably get out of bed and do quality work in a timely fashion (and thus reduce the risk for the employer to hire someone who turns out to be a &quot;bad fit&quot;, have mental health issues etc.), and especially the IT degrees have a large part of knowledge transfer and training in them that the employer doesn&#x27;t have to pay for like in a classic apprenticeship.<p>Academia should be a place for science and those interested in advancing it, not for employers to save costs on vetting and training (by placing the burden on the government and&#x2F;or the students)!</text><parent_chain><item><author>cosmodisk</author><text>As in most countries in Europe, the value of a university degree is diminishing because the vast majority of population has it. If back in the day,it used to be 10-20% tops, now in some countries it&#x27;s as high as 60-80%, while at the same time competing for jobs that often don&#x27;t require such education to start with.<p>[Edit]
I still remember how not so long time ago it wasn&#x27;t uncommon to have masters as a bare minimum when hiring a secretary in my country...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Half of UK university students think degree is poor value for money</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jun/24/half-of-uk-university-students-think-degree-is-poor-value-for-money</url></story> |
18,839,859 | 18,839,519 | 1 | 3 | 18,837,699 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>Ok, we changed the URL above from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;edu4rdshl&#x2F;blog&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;why-telegram-is-insecure.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;edu4rdshl&#x2F;blog&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;why-telegram-i...</a> to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@thegrugq&#x2F;operational-telegram-cbbaadb9013a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@thegrugq&#x2F;operational-telegram-cbbaadb901...</a>.<p>At present the OP is nearly blank anyhow.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grugq</author><text>Not sure what the policy is on plagiarism, but this post plagiarized my write up.<p>The structure is the same and the section headings are the same. It is blatant plagiarism.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.medium.com&#x2F;cWfUtKQjgT" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.medium.com&#x2F;cWfUtKQjgT</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Telegram is insecure (2015)</title><url>https://medium.com/@thegrugq/operational-telegram-cbbaadb9013a</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>markbnj</author><text>I&#x27;ve had a couple of popular medium posts copied by a person looking to boost the visibility of his consulting company site. It&#x27;s frustrating, but I think ultimately it does the thief more harm than good.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grugq</author><text>Not sure what the policy is on plagiarism, but this post plagiarized my write up.<p>The structure is the same and the section headings are the same. It is blatant plagiarism.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.medium.com&#x2F;cWfUtKQjgT" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.medium.com&#x2F;cWfUtKQjgT</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Telegram is insecure (2015)</title><url>https://medium.com/@thegrugq/operational-telegram-cbbaadb9013a</url></story> |
13,916,649 | 13,916,691 | 1 | 2 | 13,916,037 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mej10</author><text>The problem with not exercising for HN-types is that your brain suffers because of it. Your cognition isn&#x27;t as good as it could be and will decline faster than if you exercised. Also more likely to develop neuronal disorders later in life, and those aren&#x27;t very fun.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Neurobiological_effects_of_physical_exercise" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Neurobiological_effects_of_phy...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nsxwolf</author><text>Count me amongst the unwilling! I can&#x27;t wait for a magic bullet or pill that gives me the results I want without trying. I&#x27;m supposed to feel guilty about that admission, but I do not.</text></item><item><author>woliveirajr</author><text>&gt; These activities – such as soaking in a hot tub or taking a sauna – may have health benefits for people who are unable to exercise regularly.<p>I would add not only &quot;unable&quot;, but &quot;unwilling&quot;. Some people don&#x27;t get any pleasure by exercising, and perhaps having 50% of the benefits of cycling is better than having none.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise</title><url>http://theconversation.com/a-hot-bath-has-benefits-similar-to-exercise-74600</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>magic_beans</author><text>Your body WANTS to move around. There has to be some sport or physical activity you enjoy! Soccer? Badmitton? A game of tag? Land Quidditch?</text><parent_chain><item><author>nsxwolf</author><text>Count me amongst the unwilling! I can&#x27;t wait for a magic bullet or pill that gives me the results I want without trying. I&#x27;m supposed to feel guilty about that admission, but I do not.</text></item><item><author>woliveirajr</author><text>&gt; These activities – such as soaking in a hot tub or taking a sauna – may have health benefits for people who are unable to exercise regularly.<p>I would add not only &quot;unable&quot;, but &quot;unwilling&quot;. Some people don&#x27;t get any pleasure by exercising, and perhaps having 50% of the benefits of cycling is better than having none.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise</title><url>http://theconversation.com/a-hot-bath-has-benefits-similar-to-exercise-74600</url></story> |
24,098,768 | 24,098,570 | 1 | 2 | 24,090,346 | 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>curryhoward</author><text>I love seeing new Haskell projects, though I personally would rather just stick with Haskell&#x27;s clean syntax:<p><pre><code> data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a
</code></pre>
...over this:<p><pre><code> data Maybe&lt;a&gt; {
Nothing,
Just(value: a)
}
</code></pre>
I understand that programmers coming from mainstream languages might feel uncomfortable without all those angle brackets, curly braces, and parentheses (why do C-like languages have so many ways to syntactically group things?), so if this project helps them ease their way into Haskell I totally support it. However, a small part of the joy of Haskell is freeing yourself from the arbitrary syntactic boilerplate that most languages have.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Haskell In New Clothes</title><url>https://github.com/serras/hinc</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nervous_north</author><text>I personally prefer Haskell&#x27;s syntax. I find myself using JavaScript transpilers like BuckleScript to take me into a typesafe land with ML syntax rather than using a language like TypeScript with Java like syntax.<p>That said, I really appreciate seeing work like this. Haskell is super powerful and it&#x27;s great to see transpilers like this that are lowering the bar of entry to Haskell to those more familiar with the traditional languages. Nice job!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Haskell In New Clothes</title><url>https://github.com/serras/hinc</url></story> |
38,522,982 | 38,522,300 | 1 | 3 | 38,514,537 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tracerbulletx</author><text>Every damned time this happens someone asks how it&#x27;s possible they have so many employees when it&#x27;s just an app... Spotify owns multiple large podcast studios, has sales people, negotiators, music industry people, lawyers, facility staff, lawyers, marketing, content curators. It is the business engine through which the vast majority of the world consumes music these days. You can quibble about if they have too many engineering employees, but at least get the real number first.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrbonner</author><text>I didn’t know they have that many people (9000) to work for a single product. I’ve been a subscriber for more than 5 years and the app on the iPhone just gets worse everyday. Why?<p>- daily updates is gone. This is where I can get a snapshot of all new releases from artists I love. I’m not sure if Release Calendar is the new one but I don’t bother to check.<p>- I listen to classical and the song title naming is just subpar. For example, “Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1, J.S Bach, Angela Hewitt, Prelude in C Major is too long to be in the title. Especially, the rat if the album is just a repeat alternate between prelude or fugue and the chord.<p>- recently play list stopped syncing between my phone and my desktop app after 2022 for some reason. Is it a bug or they just stop doing this since it costs more to sync?<p>I probably won’t switch to a different stream service for now as there is not much differences for me to migrate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%</title><url>https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-12-04/an-update-on-december-2023-organizational-changes/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jes5199</author><text>I think that beyond some relatively small number, engineering headcount functions as a demonstration of wealth - it doesn&#x27;t actually make the product better, it doesn&#x27;t make you ship faster (Brooks&#x27;s law). but it makes you look big and important and justifies your market cap</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrbonner</author><text>I didn’t know they have that many people (9000) to work for a single product. I’ve been a subscriber for more than 5 years and the app on the iPhone just gets worse everyday. Why?<p>- daily updates is gone. This is where I can get a snapshot of all new releases from artists I love. I’m not sure if Release Calendar is the new one but I don’t bother to check.<p>- I listen to classical and the song title naming is just subpar. For example, “Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1, J.S Bach, Angela Hewitt, Prelude in C Major is too long to be in the title. Especially, the rat if the album is just a repeat alternate between prelude or fugue and the chord.<p>- recently play list stopped syncing between my phone and my desktop app after 2022 for some reason. Is it a bug or they just stop doing this since it costs more to sync?<p>I probably won’t switch to a different stream service for now as there is not much differences for me to migrate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%</title><url>https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-12-04/an-update-on-december-2023-organizational-changes/</url></story> |
32,691,233 | 32,691,108 | 1 | 2 | 32,690,454 | 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>hwillis</author><text>You really should not. 60 beats per minute means that in ten years the leads of a pacemaker will be bent *315 million* times. That&#x27;s an order of magnitude higher than we typically test fatigue resistance, and even if we were that confident about being able to produce flawless materials, there are <i>millions</i> of different enzymes and acids and temperature fluctuations in the body. Any one of those could impact the fatigue resistance.<p>Additionally, any kind of implanted device is <i>significantly</i> prone to a wide range of problems that range from inconvenient to devastating. The human body is very hostile to foreign objects, often with few warning signs. Clots and fibrous capsules (and eventually, calcified capsules) form around ANY implant, and that&#x27;s the <i>best</i> case problem.<p>Titanium is extremely biocompatible. It forms a thinner capsule than most materials. It integrates with bones beautifully, due to surface treatments that allow bone to grow into microscopic surface cavities, with strong molecular bonds. But also sometimes, for no apparent reason, all the bone around a titanium implant will just start dying and resorbing. It&#x27;s rare, but if you get a hip replacement you absolutely need to check on it regularly because if you don&#x27;t you&#x27;ll lose use of the leg completely (and quickly, and permanently).<p>In and around the heart is one of the most challenging places to implant things, aside from maybe the brain. Any moving part of the body will constantly stress any mechanical part, and build up scar tissue around and rubbing spots. The only reason the brain is worse is because its fragile and changes size significantly when you sleep.<p>Recently we started using <i>leadless</i> pacemakers. Even before that pacemakers were continually getting smaller, and smaller pacemakers are less irritating and experience less stress and movement. Even if that weren&#x27;t true, it would <i>still</i> be worth checking in on pacemakers, because they&#x27;re doing incredibly hard jobs and if they fail people can die faster than they can get to a hospital.<p>EDIT: oh, and heart disease is the #1 cause of death in the US, while heart surgery is one of the most difficult specialties to get in to. They are absolutely never short on patients, lol.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mysterydip</author><text>&gt; allowing for doctors to check in on their patients and replace either the batteries or the pacemakers themselves<p>I cynically read this as &quot;we needed to get more money out of these patients&quot;</text></item><item><author>bhaak</author><text>Wonder how I slided into the world of Fallout?<p>WTF!?! We have plutonium powered pacemakers?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;large.stanford.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;2015&#x2F;ph241&#x2F;degraw2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;large.stanford.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;2015&#x2F;ph241&#x2F;degraw2&#x2F;</a><p>Ah, okay we <i>had</i>.<p>&gt; Despite the often longer life-expectancies, nuclear pacemakers quickly became a part of the past when lithium batteries were developed. Not only did the technology improve, allowing for lighter, smaller, and programmable pacemakers, but doctors began to realize that this excessive longevity of nuclear pacemakers was excessive. Lithium pacemakers often last 10-15 years allowing for doctors to check in on their patients and replace either the batteries or the pacemakers themselves with new and improved technology as it is develops in those 10-15 year spans.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers</title><url>https://osrp.lanl.gov/pacemakers.shtml</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>happyopossum</author><text>There’s not a single cardiac surgeon in the world who thinks he’s gonna get rich with once-every-10-years follow up appointments. We produce enough new patients to keep them all sufficiently busy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mysterydip</author><text>&gt; allowing for doctors to check in on their patients and replace either the batteries or the pacemakers themselves<p>I cynically read this as &quot;we needed to get more money out of these patients&quot;</text></item><item><author>bhaak</author><text>Wonder how I slided into the world of Fallout?<p>WTF!?! We have plutonium powered pacemakers?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;large.stanford.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;2015&#x2F;ph241&#x2F;degraw2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;large.stanford.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;2015&#x2F;ph241&#x2F;degraw2&#x2F;</a><p>Ah, okay we <i>had</i>.<p>&gt; Despite the often longer life-expectancies, nuclear pacemakers quickly became a part of the past when lithium batteries were developed. Not only did the technology improve, allowing for lighter, smaller, and programmable pacemakers, but doctors began to realize that this excessive longevity of nuclear pacemakers was excessive. Lithium pacemakers often last 10-15 years allowing for doctors to check in on their patients and replace either the batteries or the pacemakers themselves with new and improved technology as it is develops in those 10-15 year spans.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers</title><url>https://osrp.lanl.gov/pacemakers.shtml</url></story> |
14,949,352 | 14,948,450 | 1 | 3 | 14,947,449 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elsherbini</author><text>This looks like a perfect skeleton for bringing Minecraft redstone to an ascii game like Dwarf Fortress. Very cool! Especially if you could design &quot;sub-circuits&quot; by zooming in, sort of like the chips in Robot Oddysey[0] or in the super circuit maker mod for Minecraft[1].<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.formauri.es&#x2F;personal&#x2F;pgimeno&#x2F;temp&#x2F;RO&#x2F;stereorecorder.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.formauri.es&#x2F;personal&#x2F;pgimeno&#x2F;temp&#x2F;RO&#x2F;stereorecord...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;supercircuitmaker&#x2F;top&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;supercircuitmaker&#x2F;top&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: AsciiDots – a 2D esoteric language inspired by circuits</title><url>https://github.com/aaronduino/asciidots/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>minxomat</author><text>Felt instantly reminded of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14486482" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14486482</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: AsciiDots – a 2D esoteric language inspired by circuits</title><url>https://github.com/aaronduino/asciidots/</url></story> |
15,452,374 | 15,452,649 | 1 | 3 | 15,450,594 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eropple</author><text>You can run Ansible locally with `-c local`.<p>But, as far as serverless&#x2F;self-bootstrapping deploys go, it&#x27;s less common. Ansible has less of a &quot;culture of dependencies&quot;; the simpler, more approachable-looking nature of the Ansible playbook format seems to lend itself to people one-offing whatever they need rather than looking for best-practices solutions that already exist. Because of this, there&#x27;s no real Berkshelf equivalent for Ansible. The tooling doesn&#x27;t exist, outside of Tower (sorta), because nobody wants it, and nobody wants it because the tooling doesn&#x27;t exist. So the people who <i>are</i> doing with Ansible something similar to the Chef Zero stuff I mentioned above are mostly home-rolling it. (I just use a S3 bucket as a Minimart berkshelf endpoint and move on with my day.)<p>Last-mile configuration is also tricky. In my Chef Zero stuff, I use CloudFormation metadata to provide Chef attributes. You can do something similar with Ansible...but it&#x27;s duct-tapey. There are times when simple is better; IMO, Ansible&#x27;s core tooling errs too far on that side and the ecosystem has not caught up to make more rigorous approaches really viable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>Does anyone actually use Ansible server-less? Can it even be done?<p>(Edit: my bad, ignore this comment, I misphrased my question; the real question should have been: can you run Ansible locally on the target server, just like chef-solo&#x2F;chef-zero?)</text></item><item><author>eropple</author><text>Chef Server has a central server. Chef Zero doesn&#x27;t, especially when using tools like cfn-init&#x2F;cfn-hup and S3-backed minimart to self-bootstrap. This is the approach I take, and it&#x27;s the approach I see becoming more and more common. Letting nodes figure out how to deal with their own problems (better able to auto-scale, more fault tolerant) is, to me, much better than having Jenkins or whatever have to SSH into them in the first place.<p>You can do it with Ansible, if you&#x27;re going home-roll it, but I haven&#x27;t seen too many people do so.</text></item><item><author>pm90</author><text>This is a great point. Although...other CI systems already have that kind of privilege, right? e.g. Chef has a master node if I&#x27;m not mistaken.<p>In my experience, ansible playbooks are great when run from a more general purpose task runner like jenkins, which then has permissions to access&#x2F;modify one&#x27;s production environment. I don&#x27;t think I would personally use tower unless it provides something much much better than running ansible tasks in Jenkins... it would be just too much of a hassle to get the security&#x2F;compliance aspects right.</text></item><item><author>lima</author><text>If you&#x27;re considering using this (or any similar) tool, please keep in mind that you&#x27;re adding a lot of attack surface.<p>Your Ansible master is one of the most critical (if not <i>the</i> most critical) machine in your network. It has unrestricted access to everything, including a very detailed list of what and where everything is. If it&#x27;s compromised, it&#x27;s over.<p>Something like Ansible Tower adds a LOT of attack surface. Instead of a locked-down server exposing a public key-only SSH port, you suddenly have a whole web application stack in there. Your browser and every Chrome extension with full page access now has root access to your network (and don&#x27;t get me started on potential CSRF or XSS vulnerabilities...).<p>If you don&#x27;t need any of the enterprise-ey features, just might be better off with plain Ansible and Ara[1], with the latter running on a separate machine. A &quot;sudoers&quot; rule is much more secure than any ACL in a web application backend.<p>If you do want to use Tower, you need to think about these risks and how you mitigate them. Of course, this also applies to any similar tool like Jenkins, Rundeck, CircleCI or whatever if you give them production credentials.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ara.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ara.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ansible open-sources Ansible Tower with AWX</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2017/ansible-open-sources-ansible-tower-awx</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcx</author><text>On AWS, we bake our AMIs with packer and include the Ansible roles and playbooks.<p>We use CloudFormation to deploy, so in the instance metadata we have it run Ansible locally to bootstrap and return the exit status to cfn-signal.<p>We retrieve secrets via Parameter Store. For environment specific configs that are not secrets (ie passing in vars from CloudFormation), we have cloud-init write a json file that we include with our ansible-playbook command.<p>The command ends up looking something like:<p>ansible-playbook -v -i &#x27;localhost,&#x27; -c local &#x2F;some&#x2F;path&#x2F;playbook.yml --extra-vars &#x27;@&#x2F;some&#x2F;path&#x2F;vars.json&#x27; &amp;&amp; &#x2F;opt&#x2F;aws&#x2F;bin&#x2F;cfn-signal -e $? --stack ${AWS::StackName} --resource ${AsgName} --region ${AWS::Region}</text><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>Does anyone actually use Ansible server-less? Can it even be done?<p>(Edit: my bad, ignore this comment, I misphrased my question; the real question should have been: can you run Ansible locally on the target server, just like chef-solo&#x2F;chef-zero?)</text></item><item><author>eropple</author><text>Chef Server has a central server. Chef Zero doesn&#x27;t, especially when using tools like cfn-init&#x2F;cfn-hup and S3-backed minimart to self-bootstrap. This is the approach I take, and it&#x27;s the approach I see becoming more and more common. Letting nodes figure out how to deal with their own problems (better able to auto-scale, more fault tolerant) is, to me, much better than having Jenkins or whatever have to SSH into them in the first place.<p>You can do it with Ansible, if you&#x27;re going home-roll it, but I haven&#x27;t seen too many people do so.</text></item><item><author>pm90</author><text>This is a great point. Although...other CI systems already have that kind of privilege, right? e.g. Chef has a master node if I&#x27;m not mistaken.<p>In my experience, ansible playbooks are great when run from a more general purpose task runner like jenkins, which then has permissions to access&#x2F;modify one&#x27;s production environment. I don&#x27;t think I would personally use tower unless it provides something much much better than running ansible tasks in Jenkins... it would be just too much of a hassle to get the security&#x2F;compliance aspects right.</text></item><item><author>lima</author><text>If you&#x27;re considering using this (or any similar) tool, please keep in mind that you&#x27;re adding a lot of attack surface.<p>Your Ansible master is one of the most critical (if not <i>the</i> most critical) machine in your network. It has unrestricted access to everything, including a very detailed list of what and where everything is. If it&#x27;s compromised, it&#x27;s over.<p>Something like Ansible Tower adds a LOT of attack surface. Instead of a locked-down server exposing a public key-only SSH port, you suddenly have a whole web application stack in there. Your browser and every Chrome extension with full page access now has root access to your network (and don&#x27;t get me started on potential CSRF or XSS vulnerabilities...).<p>If you don&#x27;t need any of the enterprise-ey features, just might be better off with plain Ansible and Ara[1], with the latter running on a separate machine. A &quot;sudoers&quot; rule is much more secure than any ACL in a web application backend.<p>If you do want to use Tower, you need to think about these risks and how you mitigate them. Of course, this also applies to any similar tool like Jenkins, Rundeck, CircleCI or whatever if you give them production credentials.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ara.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ara.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ansible open-sources Ansible Tower with AWX</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2017/ansible-open-sources-ansible-tower-awx</url></story> |
11,245,956 | 11,245,756 | 1 | 2 | 11,245,587 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ethomson</author><text>Interesting. I was part of the original &quot;Team Explorer Everywhere&quot; team that built their Eclipse plug-in for TFS and had originally championed this as a good idea. But really, I&#x27;m not sure that I&#x27;m enthused about this news. Certainly this is good community building, but I&#x27;ve found the Eclipse Foundation to be so ineffective that I&#x27;m not sure what purpose this <i>actually</i> serves except to send out a press release.<p>My team was initially acquired; we were originally a small company in a cornfield in Illinois called Teamprise, where we built the original TFS plug-in for Eclipse. At the time, we were Eclipse Foundation members and reasonably happy about it. Certainly it was nice to give back (in terms of membership fees) to a project that we were a part of and took advantage of. And the Foundation has a few really solid employees and it was nice to talk to them about tech stuff.<p>But our larger goal in joining the Eclipse Foundation was largely unmet, which was to actually <i>partner</i>. For example: we hoped to bring in a contractor who could occasionally tackle some bugs in Eclipse on AIX which ultimately affected our customers. We were a tiny company and going deep on some weird problem that only affected the Motif AIX build was not particularly rewarding. So we hoped to engage the Foundation to help us out here: we would pay this contractor if they could help us find them. But we were rebuffed in a manner that I found rather off-putting.<p>Despite this, after we became part of Microsoft I still pushed for us to join the Eclipse Foundation. I stopped pushing when Microsoft had a booth at Eclipse Con one year and a member of the Foundation (apropos nothing) went on a nice, long rant about Microsoft. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s particularly classy to make fun of your competitors, nor do I really appreciate inculcating an &quot;us vs them&quot; mentality. But to do that after we had paid a big hunk of money to sponsor that conference seemed particularly poor form, and if the Foundation is going to make fun of the people who are paying to sponsor their Conference, what does membership buy you? A steaming pile on your doorstep once a year?<p>In any case, that was when I stopped advocating for Microsoft to join the Eclipse Foundation and instead advocated for us to ignore them wholesale. I hope that my old team has better luck working with them than I did.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Joins the Eclipse Foundation</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/03/08/microsoft-joins-the-eclipse-foundation/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>optforfon</author><text>I feel like I&#x27;m not seeing the forest for the trees.<p>I swear Microsoft&#x27;s business model was to bring people in to their ecosystem and then charge them for what is hopefully a superior development experience.<p>Is there a new business model? How do they lock people in and squeeze them for money? Is their cloud solution radically different from the competition that they can put all their eggs in that basket? What&#x27;s the big picture plan?
Or is the new CEO just going rambo and pandering to DIY geeks who want everything for free ? (myself included!)<p>I feel like there has to be some parallel universe blog where these press releases explain what they&#x27;re doing to investors beyond &quot;we&#x27;re going to take your money, and we&#x27;re going to make things with it. And then give it away for free! Please give us more money&quot;<p>Like awesome dude... but what the hell is going on?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Joins the Eclipse Foundation</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/03/08/microsoft-joins-the-eclipse-foundation/</url></story> |
23,817,185 | 23,816,025 | 1 | 3 | 23,815,839 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>I live outside the US.<p>Both Digikey and Mouser will charge me $20+ to ship anything (tried with a small capacitor). Farnell will let me put stuff in the shopping cart, then when I select &quot;individual&quot; as the customer type, tells me that they only ship to companies and redirects me to a &quot;partner site&quot; for individuals, which promptly fails to load (things like this have conditioned me to avoid official distributors). RS will gladly sell me 4000 of those capacitors.<p>For a hobbyist outside of the US, AliExpress is often the only realistic source aside from the local RadioShack equivalent which probably doesn&#x27;t have what you need.</text><parent_chain><item><author>as-j</author><text>This affects temperature sensors&#x2F;parts bought from un-official distributors like ebay or AliExpress, not digikey, farnel, etc. Perhaps I&#x27;ve been too lucky in my career and practiced EE for work, but who would you ever go to ebay instead of digikey?? &lt;mind blown&gt;<p>Digikey certainly has a premium, but their speciality is small numbers&#x2F;cut tape&#x2F;etc and they have a small order size which makes them ok for hobby work, and I&#x27;ve used them for small production runs when I didn&#x27;t want to end up with a ton of excess materials.<p>Makes you wonder what other junk is out there, and what purchasing guy figured he&#x27;d save $10 and get it from ebay...?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your DS18B20 temperature sensor is likely a fake, counterfeit, clone</title><url>https://github.com/cpetrich/counterfeit_DS18B20</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>exmadscientist</author><text>Another professional EE here.<p>I never expect random chips bought off AliExpress&#x2F;eBay&#x2F;Amazon&#x2F;etc to work, much less be genuine. I do expect breakout modules and the like to work, though I don&#x27;t expect them to contain genuine parts. (That implies I&#x27;d never source from these places when it&#x27;s a critical function.)<p>I&#x27;m always surprised when people expect grey-market crud to perform just as well as top-dollar stuff....</text><parent_chain><item><author>as-j</author><text>This affects temperature sensors&#x2F;parts bought from un-official distributors like ebay or AliExpress, not digikey, farnel, etc. Perhaps I&#x27;ve been too lucky in my career and practiced EE for work, but who would you ever go to ebay instead of digikey?? &lt;mind blown&gt;<p>Digikey certainly has a premium, but their speciality is small numbers&#x2F;cut tape&#x2F;etc and they have a small order size which makes them ok for hobby work, and I&#x27;ve used them for small production runs when I didn&#x27;t want to end up with a ton of excess materials.<p>Makes you wonder what other junk is out there, and what purchasing guy figured he&#x27;d save $10 and get it from ebay...?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your DS18B20 temperature sensor is likely a fake, counterfeit, clone</title><url>https://github.com/cpetrich/counterfeit_DS18B20</url></story> |
24,272,988 | 24,271,628 | 1 | 3 | 24,268,479 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>js2</author><text>&gt; No one is really surprised that anything is &quot;vulnerable&quot; on the gulf coast.<p>As someone who lived in Miami during Hurricane Andrew, and later watched Katrina and Harvey unfold, I beg to differ. I know that building codes have changed since Andrew. It will take another big hurricane to see if the changes were adequate and if they&#x27;ve been followed.<p>A personal picture from back then:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;TY4wMd0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;TY4wMd0</a><p>BTW, yesterday was the 23rd anniversary of Andrew and the 29th will be the 15th anniversary of Katrina&#x27;s landfall in Louisiana.</text><parent_chain><item><author>NoOneNew</author><text>The danger mentioned is realistic and should be taken seriously. However, for those who dont live in a hurricane danger zone (I&#x27;m in Florida), these doomsday articles are a normal, everyday thing. Every single year since I was 12 and paid attention&#x2F;tracked hurricanes (that&#x27;s 21 years ago), &quot;Experts predict ~3 major hurricanes will make landfall this year...&quot; killing everyone, washing away Florida, flattening civilization, ending life as we know it, yadda yadda. This is the Weather Channel as well.<p>It gets old.<p>What&#x27;s sad, the 2 or 3 honest concerned studies are drowned out by the millions of fear mongering, wolf criers. Do I think this article is honest? Other than the unneeded slow burn beginning, yea. But at the same time, hurricane zones have different building codes. This isn&#x27;t as big of a &quot;surprise&quot; problem as people imagine. No one is really surprised that anything is &quot;vulnerable&quot; on the gulf coast. The American Chernobyl is just clickbait.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be “America’s Chernobyl”</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/houston-hurricane-ship-channel-orourke/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WealthVsSurvive</author><text>You sound like all the people whom grew up in New Orleans that I spoke with when I lived there; I moved when Katrina hit. They heard the same thing. Turns out it was true, and the fact that it hadn&#x27;t happened was in fact: just luck.</text><parent_chain><item><author>NoOneNew</author><text>The danger mentioned is realistic and should be taken seriously. However, for those who dont live in a hurricane danger zone (I&#x27;m in Florida), these doomsday articles are a normal, everyday thing. Every single year since I was 12 and paid attention&#x2F;tracked hurricanes (that&#x27;s 21 years ago), &quot;Experts predict ~3 major hurricanes will make landfall this year...&quot; killing everyone, washing away Florida, flattening civilization, ending life as we know it, yadda yadda. This is the Weather Channel as well.<p>It gets old.<p>What&#x27;s sad, the 2 or 3 honest concerned studies are drowned out by the millions of fear mongering, wolf criers. Do I think this article is honest? Other than the unneeded slow burn beginning, yea. But at the same time, hurricane zones have different building codes. This isn&#x27;t as big of a &quot;surprise&quot; problem as people imagine. No one is really surprised that anything is &quot;vulnerable&quot; on the gulf coast. The American Chernobyl is just clickbait.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be “America’s Chernobyl”</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/houston-hurricane-ship-channel-orourke/</url></story> |
28,328,661 | 28,327,905 | 1 | 2 | 28,327,482 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pacbard</author><text>&gt;the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated, and the risk of hospitalization eight times higher<p>The denominator in those odds ratios seem to fishy to me. Comparing people who were previously infected with COVID and vaccine recipients does some weird conditioning on getting COVID, so it should hide risks of developing symptomatic COVID and hospitalization for people who got COVID previously. It seems to me that the risks should be &quot;cumulative&quot; for people who were previously infected (i.e., the denominator should include symptomatic infections and hospitalizations for previous COVID variants and not just delta) rather than &quot;zeroing&quot; those risks for this group and just focus on delta re-infection. The decision to only focus on delta infections will bias up the OR estimates for vaccine (in)effectiveness, so we should read the results of this paper as the possible upper bound of the ORs.<p>Also, the study compares the risk of delta infection, meaning that people cannot really just say &quot;I won&#x27;t get vaccinated because natural immunity is better&quot; as the variants that provided that natural immunity are not &quot;dominant&quot; anymore, meaning that the opportunity to acquire natural immunity against delta is probably close to zero at this time.<p>Also also, isn&#x27;t it something that is known that natural immunity is better than vaccine-acquired immunity? The trade-off is that natural immunity has the &quot;side effect&quot; of actually having to fight off and survive the illness?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tacomonstrous</author><text>&gt;the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated, and the risk of hospitalization eight times higher<p>This sounds convincing, but then in the next graf:<p>&gt;For instance, the higher hospitalization rate in the 32,000-person analysis was based on just eight hospitalizations in a vaccinated group and one in a previously infected group. And the 13-fold increased risk of infection in the same analysis was based on just 238 infections in the vaccinated population, less than 1.5% of the more than 16,000 people, versus 19 reinfections among a similar number of people who once had SARS-CoV-2.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/having-sars-cov-2-once-confers-much-greater-immunity-vaccine-no-infection-parties</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kiba</author><text>To develop natural immunity, you would need to get infected with the virus, no? That&#x27;s considerably more risky than getting the vaccine.<p>If you do get infected with the virus after vaccination, wouldn&#x27;t you also develop natural immunity?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tacomonstrous</author><text>&gt;the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated, and the risk of hospitalization eight times higher<p>This sounds convincing, but then in the next graf:<p>&gt;For instance, the higher hospitalization rate in the 32,000-person analysis was based on just eight hospitalizations in a vaccinated group and one in a previously infected group. And the 13-fold increased risk of infection in the same analysis was based on just 238 infections in the vaccinated population, less than 1.5% of the more than 16,000 people, versus 19 reinfections among a similar number of people who once had SARS-CoV-2.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/having-sars-cov-2-once-confers-much-greater-immunity-vaccine-no-infection-parties</url></story> |
7,635,506 | 7,634,902 | 1 | 2 | 7,634,565 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danford</author><text>What might be cool is to actually create a &#x27;simulator&#x27; that puts people through the process of &#x27;purchasing&#x27; a server, domain name, and through the actual server and DNS configuration up to the point where you can get a &#x27;success&#x27; page on a server, then have them add some code and show them how all the files interact with each other.<p>Then teach them how to code the files.<p>Maybe after that something like a whole MEAN&#x2F;LAMP stack development course. Personally I think the technologies used in MEAN are easier to understand and you can do a lot of neat things with angular in just a few lines of code. An interactive angular course would be really awesome. But people definitely need to know how to interact with a database. What would be nice would be to actually learn MEAN and LAMP side by side to actually understand the differences, but I guess that&#x27;s diverging from the &#x27;beginner friendly&#x27; approach.</text><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>Damnit, Codecademy, you&#x27;re so close. As someone who had to bang their head against the wall for years to learn how to program, you&#x27;re now doing a great job solving steps 2, 3, 4 and 5 (whereas before you did a great job solving steps 4 and 5). But for people starting out, the problem is that <i>this is all still theoretical.</i><p>Sure, you are now actually building a project, but still only in this cute little console. What is a text editor? What is hosting? What does DNS mean? How can I make what I typed into my text editor show up on mydomain.com? What do I actually do with all of this HTML, CSS and JavaScript you&#x27;re teaching me how to write?<p>&quot;Let&#x27;s build the airbnb website&quot; is infinitely better than &quot;this is a &#x27;for loop in JavaScript,&#x27;&quot; but it still doesn&#x27;t solve the main problem of understanding how I can build technology. Solve that problem, and the motivation to learn to program goes up 10x, because all of the sudden it&#x27;s real and it&#x27;s live. Stop teaching us how to dick around in apps you built and teach us how to make something <i>real</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A New Codecademy</title><url>http://www.codecademy.com/blog/136-we-re-learning-too-a-new-codecademy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zds</author><text>thanks for all of this feedback. we&#x27;re launching some stuff next week that will help you get even closer to realizing all of this -- it gets you out of the terminal (the main UX now for users) and explains a lot more about the concepts you&#x27;re learning.<p>would love to hear your feedback when this goes live!</text><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>Damnit, Codecademy, you&#x27;re so close. As someone who had to bang their head against the wall for years to learn how to program, you&#x27;re now doing a great job solving steps 2, 3, 4 and 5 (whereas before you did a great job solving steps 4 and 5). But for people starting out, the problem is that <i>this is all still theoretical.</i><p>Sure, you are now actually building a project, but still only in this cute little console. What is a text editor? What is hosting? What does DNS mean? How can I make what I typed into my text editor show up on mydomain.com? What do I actually do with all of this HTML, CSS and JavaScript you&#x27;re teaching me how to write?<p>&quot;Let&#x27;s build the airbnb website&quot; is infinitely better than &quot;this is a &#x27;for loop in JavaScript,&#x27;&quot; but it still doesn&#x27;t solve the main problem of understanding how I can build technology. Solve that problem, and the motivation to learn to program goes up 10x, because all of the sudden it&#x27;s real and it&#x27;s live. Stop teaching us how to dick around in apps you built and teach us how to make something <i>real</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A New Codecademy</title><url>http://www.codecademy.com/blog/136-we-re-learning-too-a-new-codecademy</url></story> |
22,179,201 | 22,175,004 | 1 | 2 | 22,174,333 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ksec</author><text>A lot of these were expected? Still good to see it now as fact. I have jokingly made the prediction on in 2016 that Apple will reach 1B iPhone User by 2020, turns out we are very close judging from the 1.5B Active Base.<p>iPhone in Japan - For those not aware iPhone has 80%+ Market Share in Japan ( Usage, not Sales ). And majority of iPhone user prefer smaller handset, that is the iPhone 4.7&quot; or smaller like the iPhone SE size. So Apple hasn&#x27;t really had any update for that market in 2019. Another point was Japan has passed a law that ban the subsidise phone selling with carriers. Making the cost of iPhone higher. Face ID is also not as well liked comparatively speaking, so replacement cycle are longer.<p>But Mac not so Good. I only posted this yesterday[1].
Basically more Mac users are leaving the platform. The Churn rate is possibly the highest in the past 10 years. I am not sure if this is because casual users are generally leaving the PC platform as a whole, or they are leaving to Windows or Linux.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22170080" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22170080</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Notes:<p>- for first time seeing analysts excited about other products, watch and airpods as being real drivers of bottom line revenue!!!<p>- interesting note from Bloomberg tech reporter
&quot;Apple’s new revenue strategy isn’t a bad one. It’s, basically, sell the customer an iPhone every three to five years, and make a bunch of money in the years between by selling them a new Apple Watch or AirPods (which only last about three years tops before you need a new pair -- batteries!) and services. If a user subscribes to all of Apple’s services for two years straight, that’s about equal to revenue from a new iPhone. So in those cases, if that user doesn’t buy a new iPhone for a couple years, it’s not a big deal.&quot;<p>- apples done so well lately that the average analysts has a target price 5% below what apple is currently trading at<p>- they manufacture iphones 400 km from the center of the coronavirus outbreak, see if this is mentioned, also about 18% of apple revenue so China matters<p>- want to see what their effective tax rate is<p>Numbers:<p>- stocks almost back to record highs before reporting, after reporting it shot way past!!<p>- 1Q Revenue is $91.8B vs estimates of $88.38B!!!!!!<p>- 1Q EPS is $4.99 vs estimates of$4.56!!!!!<p>- wearables was $10 vs $7.3 last year( apple just continues to create $10+ billion dollar business every 3-5 years.
Use to be that only MSFT could do that and GOOG spent heavily trying to do that<p>- iphone revenue for 1Q is $55.97<p>- service revenue for 1Q is $12.72<p>- declines in both mac($7.1 vs $7.4 last year) and iPad sales($6 vs %6.7 last year)<p>- iphone sales up everywhere except Japan<p>Numbers that really impress<p>- Cash&#x2F;Equivalents have doubled from last year,
that funds a lot of money loosing streaming shows<p>- keeping in mind they bought back $37B in stock this year<p>- almost $100B in term debt<p>Supply Chain:<p>- Qurvo up 1%<p>- Skyworks up 1%<p>- Cirrus up 3%</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/01/apple-reports-record-first-quarter-results/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pbreit</author><text>&quot;sell the customer an iPhone every three to five years&quot;<p>Aren&#x27;t lots of people on monthly plans now with &quot;free&quot; annual upgrades?</text><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Notes:<p>- for first time seeing analysts excited about other products, watch and airpods as being real drivers of bottom line revenue!!!<p>- interesting note from Bloomberg tech reporter
&quot;Apple’s new revenue strategy isn’t a bad one. It’s, basically, sell the customer an iPhone every three to five years, and make a bunch of money in the years between by selling them a new Apple Watch or AirPods (which only last about three years tops before you need a new pair -- batteries!) and services. If a user subscribes to all of Apple’s services for two years straight, that’s about equal to revenue from a new iPhone. So in those cases, if that user doesn’t buy a new iPhone for a couple years, it’s not a big deal.&quot;<p>- apples done so well lately that the average analysts has a target price 5% below what apple is currently trading at<p>- they manufacture iphones 400 km from the center of the coronavirus outbreak, see if this is mentioned, also about 18% of apple revenue so China matters<p>- want to see what their effective tax rate is<p>Numbers:<p>- stocks almost back to record highs before reporting, after reporting it shot way past!!<p>- 1Q Revenue is $91.8B vs estimates of $88.38B!!!!!!<p>- 1Q EPS is $4.99 vs estimates of$4.56!!!!!<p>- wearables was $10 vs $7.3 last year( apple just continues to create $10+ billion dollar business every 3-5 years.
Use to be that only MSFT could do that and GOOG spent heavily trying to do that<p>- iphone revenue for 1Q is $55.97<p>- service revenue for 1Q is $12.72<p>- declines in both mac($7.1 vs $7.4 last year) and iPad sales($6 vs %6.7 last year)<p>- iphone sales up everywhere except Japan<p>Numbers that really impress<p>- Cash&#x2F;Equivalents have doubled from last year,
that funds a lot of money loosing streaming shows<p>- keeping in mind they bought back $37B in stock this year<p>- almost $100B in term debt<p>Supply Chain:<p>- Qurvo up 1%<p>- Skyworks up 1%<p>- Cirrus up 3%</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/01/apple-reports-record-first-quarter-results/</url></story> |
3,014,457 | 3,013,192 | 1 | 3 | 3,012,214 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ctdonath</author><text>As a paying customer,<p>I don't want my experience dominated by picking between one medium and another.<p>I want to pick from a unified comprehensive content catalog, and get the content on whatever medium is available/convenient.<p>I want a single unified queue which I can append and rearrange with ease, not have to maintain 2+ queues of content separated only by medium.<p>I want to add title X with the intent of seeing it on pristine Blu-ray, and then on a whim watching it right now when streaming rights are negotiated - _without_ having to do a deliberate search on another site ("nope, not streaming yet").<p>FWIW: I was at Kodak when they decided that the distribution model was more important than the customer experience. You remember Kodak? used to make film for cameras? film? nevermind. Big name in the photography business, now bulldozing five miles of disused manufacturing buildings for tax reasons.<p>Splitting the delivery departments was smart, realizing streaming is the winning long-term move was smart, unifying the customer-facing content selection to cover all media would be smart. If I pick a title, I want the choice of media subordinate, not dominant.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arithmetic</author><text>If you had to pick between DVD and streaming service, and make one of them phenomenally better than what it is now, which one would you pick? DVD, because everyone knows and loves it? Or streaming, because it's growing rapidly? You get to pick one.<p>With the split, Netflix gets to focus entirely on streaming - make it better for the customer. Which means, more (and better) content, faster and better streaming service, Netflix on more devices, providing Netflix outside US and Canada etc.<p>And Qwikster gets to focus entirely on DVD service - which means expanding the DVD catalog, getting video game rentals for Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360.<p>As a customer, you get a much better Netflix and/or Qwikster experience. As a Netflix employee, I get to focus entirely on making streaming better, faster, available on more devices, and in more regions than we have today, without having to worry about compatibility with the DVD service.</text></item><item><author>alphakappa</author><text>While there may be some business sense behind it, as a customer, I don't see any benefit for me. It may make things easier for Netflix, but how does it make anything better for me as a customer? This is the second time Netflix has made an announcement about changes that were seemingly for some good reason, but left customers bewildered.</text></item><item><author>arithmetic</author><text>Disclaimer: Netflix employee here<p>The main reason for the split is the realization that streaming service and DVD service are two completely different businesses that need to grow in completely different ways. For example, in case of streaming service, we've just expanded to Latin America and the Caribbean (to 43 new countries). In case of the DVD service, we're adding a new video games catalog.<p>DVD service is still growing - it probably won't grow at the same rate for very long, but right now, it's growing. Streaming, on the other hand, is growing at a phenomenal rate. Therefore it makes sense to not hold up the growth of one service for the other to catch up.<p>In the time (about 6 months) I've been at Netflix, the one thing I'll have to call out is the absolute, undeterred focus that the company has. Simply put, Netflix fundamentally believes that it's best to do one thing really, really, really well, than to do many things reasonably well.<p>Splitting the streaming and DVD service isn't so much due to lack of ability to design the website to suit both options, but really as an indication that they are turning out to be different businesses altogether.</text></item><item><author>omarchowdhury</author><text>Another thing. Not all users have a device connected to their TV that works with Netflix (like an Xbox).<p>Nor do those same people want to watch a movie or a TV show on their computer.<p>Those people request DVDs.<p>I don't see the issue with keeping everything under one brand.<p>Netflix became popular because of their DVD-in-the-mail service. It's a shame to spin that off into a sub-par seeming brand. Just keep it all under one house but <i>emphasize</i> the streaming service.<p>It's not like they can't design their one site to give users an option on what they want (streaming or DVD-in-the-mail).<p>Keep it simple, stupid.<p>If they are doing this because of the economics of the DVD and streaming service, then nevermind.</text></item><item><author>Jun8</author><text>It seems I'm in the minority who thinks this is an over the top reaction to Wall Street pressure. It was clear for a number of years now that Netflix saw streaming as the future. But cutting off the DVD business like that... it's extreme. A <i>lot</i> of the movies are not available for streaming. Yes, their streaming portfolio is probably still the best (and has excellent children's content, my son watches it every night) but why force your users to decide?<p>The problems, as I see them:<p>1. The two parts (DVD &#38; streaming) had different characteristics (bigger collection vs. instant gratification) that balanced each other. This synergy is now gone.<p>2. The attack surface for other companies has just doubled. Netflix's DVD handling is super streamlined (they have special sorters in postal centers) but there are other strong players like Redbox here. The streaming biz is nothing unique, Amazon can easily get to that level of collection in a short time. Divide and conquer? They just did it to themselves!<p>3. As others have pointed out, the reviews, and user histories will be split. From a subscriber perspective this is most undesirable, now I have to deal with two sites.<p>4. The quality of recommendations will suffer with less data (they weren't great to start with) after the split.<p>5. How will this affect developers using the Netflix API?<p>6. What will happen to Netflix's original content creation efforts, this will be a <i>huge</i> distraction to those. And they are vital.<p>Overall, this has a heavy handedness to it that makes you wish for the comfort of the likes of Amazon.<p>EDIT: This also makes my suspicions that Amazon is gearing up to a massive upgrade of their offering soon. Netflix probably tried to focus on streaming and stay ahead in the game. How? I don't know.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix Splits DVD And Streaming Businesses</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/18/netflix-qwikster/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Triumvark</author><text>&#62; If you had to pick between DVD and streaming service, and make one of them phenomenally better than what it is now, which one would you pick? DVD, because everyone knows and loves it? Or streaming, because it's growing rapidly? You get to pick one.<p>Depth of catalog is the most important feature for me. I especially like watching HBO shows without paying tons of money for cable. I also sometimes like watching really obscure films. Films which were released on DVD at one time, but where it may be hard to track down anyone to authorize licensing for streaming.<p>Which should I pick?<p>Before Netflix, I satisfied my tastes at the independent video stores around town. Netflix killed those. Naturally, I'm sensitive to any changes that might undermine the DVD service.<p>The best solution, as I've mentioned before, is to just allow obligatory licensing. Let Netflix convert its entire DVD catalog to streaming. Make it pay a fair statutory fee whenever it streams anything. If a content owner cannot be found, allow the fee to be collected by a designated rightsholder organization (something like ASCAP) until claimed by a verified owner of the content.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arithmetic</author><text>If you had to pick between DVD and streaming service, and make one of them phenomenally better than what it is now, which one would you pick? DVD, because everyone knows and loves it? Or streaming, because it's growing rapidly? You get to pick one.<p>With the split, Netflix gets to focus entirely on streaming - make it better for the customer. Which means, more (and better) content, faster and better streaming service, Netflix on more devices, providing Netflix outside US and Canada etc.<p>And Qwikster gets to focus entirely on DVD service - which means expanding the DVD catalog, getting video game rentals for Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360.<p>As a customer, you get a much better Netflix and/or Qwikster experience. As a Netflix employee, I get to focus entirely on making streaming better, faster, available on more devices, and in more regions than we have today, without having to worry about compatibility with the DVD service.</text></item><item><author>alphakappa</author><text>While there may be some business sense behind it, as a customer, I don't see any benefit for me. It may make things easier for Netflix, but how does it make anything better for me as a customer? This is the second time Netflix has made an announcement about changes that were seemingly for some good reason, but left customers bewildered.</text></item><item><author>arithmetic</author><text>Disclaimer: Netflix employee here<p>The main reason for the split is the realization that streaming service and DVD service are two completely different businesses that need to grow in completely different ways. For example, in case of streaming service, we've just expanded to Latin America and the Caribbean (to 43 new countries). In case of the DVD service, we're adding a new video games catalog.<p>DVD service is still growing - it probably won't grow at the same rate for very long, but right now, it's growing. Streaming, on the other hand, is growing at a phenomenal rate. Therefore it makes sense to not hold up the growth of one service for the other to catch up.<p>In the time (about 6 months) I've been at Netflix, the one thing I'll have to call out is the absolute, undeterred focus that the company has. Simply put, Netflix fundamentally believes that it's best to do one thing really, really, really well, than to do many things reasonably well.<p>Splitting the streaming and DVD service isn't so much due to lack of ability to design the website to suit both options, but really as an indication that they are turning out to be different businesses altogether.</text></item><item><author>omarchowdhury</author><text>Another thing. Not all users have a device connected to their TV that works with Netflix (like an Xbox).<p>Nor do those same people want to watch a movie or a TV show on their computer.<p>Those people request DVDs.<p>I don't see the issue with keeping everything under one brand.<p>Netflix became popular because of their DVD-in-the-mail service. It's a shame to spin that off into a sub-par seeming brand. Just keep it all under one house but <i>emphasize</i> the streaming service.<p>It's not like they can't design their one site to give users an option on what they want (streaming or DVD-in-the-mail).<p>Keep it simple, stupid.<p>If they are doing this because of the economics of the DVD and streaming service, then nevermind.</text></item><item><author>Jun8</author><text>It seems I'm in the minority who thinks this is an over the top reaction to Wall Street pressure. It was clear for a number of years now that Netflix saw streaming as the future. But cutting off the DVD business like that... it's extreme. A <i>lot</i> of the movies are not available for streaming. Yes, their streaming portfolio is probably still the best (and has excellent children's content, my son watches it every night) but why force your users to decide?<p>The problems, as I see them:<p>1. The two parts (DVD &#38; streaming) had different characteristics (bigger collection vs. instant gratification) that balanced each other. This synergy is now gone.<p>2. The attack surface for other companies has just doubled. Netflix's DVD handling is super streamlined (they have special sorters in postal centers) but there are other strong players like Redbox here. The streaming biz is nothing unique, Amazon can easily get to that level of collection in a short time. Divide and conquer? They just did it to themselves!<p>3. As others have pointed out, the reviews, and user histories will be split. From a subscriber perspective this is most undesirable, now I have to deal with two sites.<p>4. The quality of recommendations will suffer with less data (they weren't great to start with) after the split.<p>5. How will this affect developers using the Netflix API?<p>6. What will happen to Netflix's original content creation efforts, this will be a <i>huge</i> distraction to those. And they are vital.<p>Overall, this has a heavy handedness to it that makes you wish for the comfort of the likes of Amazon.<p>EDIT: This also makes my suspicions that Amazon is gearing up to a massive upgrade of their offering soon. Netflix probably tried to focus on streaming and stay ahead in the game. How? I don't know.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix Splits DVD And Streaming Businesses</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/18/netflix-qwikster/</url></story> |
36,636,447 | 36,635,494 | 1 | 2 | 36,623,827 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>542354234235</author><text>Like others have said, this would make things so spread out as to be unusable for walking&#x2F;biking. You want more density, but with large, nearby swaths of mixed use spaces with lots of greenspace and walking paths, biking paths, shops and activities, and public transit. The higher density supports the local shops in walking&#x2F;biking distance, as opposed to suburbs where you drive to larger more central locations for shopping. This also means you need less space devoted to roadways and parking spaces, so you get even more space available for mixed use type greenspaces. You then have a city that is comprised of lively individual neighborhoods where people can go about their daily lives and activities within a half mile of green space filled walkable area, or they can hop on public transit (or ride bikes on protected paths) to go to one of the other lively individual neighborhoods.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jnurmine</author><text>If I could design zoning things and building regulations and generally Simcity&#x2F;Cities micromanage in real life, I would set a demand of reserving let&#x27;s say 500 m2 of green space for every occupant in a multistorey building. This aggregated space would have to be right next to or around the building.<p>As a concrete example: to build a building for 100 people, one must have 100*500 = 5 hectares of space around the building, reserved for a green space only, not parking lots or such.<p>Buildings would be more spaced apart and would not trap heat so much like traditional dense designs, so urban centers would be cooler. I dare to claim that people would be less crazy and generally happier and healthier when living like this. Over time, building less densely would see all kinds of positive effects compounding.<p>The green space could be used for many good things, e.g. growing hyperlocal food like vegetables, potatoes or whatever grows well in the climate, for having tree-shaded places during warm days, for just having a piece of nature to go to quickly and easily. Smaller batches of forest shading a path could connect multiple buildings built with the same ideas, and so on. It would be possible to use bicycles or walk along these paths.<p>In a nutshell, if one has to build high, then make all multi-storey buildings like a stacked nano-village surrounded by a larger green area&#x2F;forest. Based on my subjective understanding very few people actually like the ground floor so that&#x27;s a good place to put local small businesses like barber, shop, bakery, café, and so on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More green spaces linked to slower biological aging</title><url>https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/06/more-green-spaces-linked-to-slower-biological-aging/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PartyOperator</author><text>Towers in the park is not a new idea. Le Corbusier was a big fan. In practice it tends not to work well. Additionally mandating a very low population density almost guarantees failure.<p>Staying below 2000 people per square km will make it difficult to provide good public transport or other amenities, including shops. Anyone able to afford a car will want at least one per household, further reducing the population density and making it harder to get around on foot&#x2F;bike&#x2F;bus. Ultimately the only people who would choose this form of low-density living over conventional suburban homes would be those unable to afford their own house. Pleasant landscaping is expensive to maintain and almost guaranteed not to happen for a handful of poor people so you&#x27;d either end up with impenetrable forest or bare grass and concrete between buildings.<p>There are a few cases where something like this works quite well, but generally only the highest density versions when located in or near a large, prosperous city that already has excellent amenities. Otherwise it tends to be a disaster.<p>Optimizing for one thing alone rarely works in urban planing, even if the idea of ample green space for everyone seems uncontroversial.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jnurmine</author><text>If I could design zoning things and building regulations and generally Simcity&#x2F;Cities micromanage in real life, I would set a demand of reserving let&#x27;s say 500 m2 of green space for every occupant in a multistorey building. This aggregated space would have to be right next to or around the building.<p>As a concrete example: to build a building for 100 people, one must have 100*500 = 5 hectares of space around the building, reserved for a green space only, not parking lots or such.<p>Buildings would be more spaced apart and would not trap heat so much like traditional dense designs, so urban centers would be cooler. I dare to claim that people would be less crazy and generally happier and healthier when living like this. Over time, building less densely would see all kinds of positive effects compounding.<p>The green space could be used for many good things, e.g. growing hyperlocal food like vegetables, potatoes or whatever grows well in the climate, for having tree-shaded places during warm days, for just having a piece of nature to go to quickly and easily. Smaller batches of forest shading a path could connect multiple buildings built with the same ideas, and so on. It would be possible to use bicycles or walk along these paths.<p>In a nutshell, if one has to build high, then make all multi-storey buildings like a stacked nano-village surrounded by a larger green area&#x2F;forest. Based on my subjective understanding very few people actually like the ground floor so that&#x27;s a good place to put local small businesses like barber, shop, bakery, café, and so on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More green spaces linked to slower biological aging</title><url>https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/06/more-green-spaces-linked-to-slower-biological-aging/</url></story> |
21,274,426 | 21,273,858 | 1 | 2 | 21,270,515 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>doctoboggan</author><text>The included video stated that the comet is composed of similar materials to those that make up our solar system. I am assuming they discovered that using Hubble&#x27;s spectroscopy capabilities (STIS).</text><parent_chain><item><author>windsurfer</author><text>I hope we can get spectroscopy done on the tail! It would give us a really unprecedented look into the material composition of other solar systems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-observes-1st-confirmed-interstellar-comet</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>digitalsushi</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t we get the same composition from the spectral analysis of the suns they orbit?<p>Serious question, not a poke. I&#x27;m not an astronomy nerd and would love some education from a hn friend.</text><parent_chain><item><author>windsurfer</author><text>I hope we can get spectroscopy done on the tail! It would give us a really unprecedented look into the material composition of other solar systems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-observes-1st-confirmed-interstellar-comet</url></story> |
24,693,490 | 24,691,953 | 1 | 3 | 24,691,173 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spuddie</author><text>I guess I will remove my lurker hat as I am familiar with this situation. The article leaves out a lot of context.
The Western District of Texas includes Waco, Austin, and other areas. It&#x27;s worth understanding the history of patent cases in this district to understand what partially motivated Albright to &quot;advertise&quot; his court to patent litigants.<p>Prior to Albright&#x27;s appointment, none of the judges in the Western District wanted patent cases. They openly and repeatedly said so. Patent cases were unreasonably slow in the district, and the judges essentially said &quot;we don&#x27;t like or want these types of cases.&quot;<p>As a former patent litigator, Albright wanted to make clear that the Western District now has a judge who welcomes those cases, as opposed to shunning them. It&#x27;s also his area of expertise, and attorneys frequently complain that most judges are ill-equipped to conduct patent cases due to the specialization of that area the law.<p>The notion that Albright is a &quot;patent troll&quot; friend is incorrect. The clients he has represented are all there in public court filings. He has represented big tech (including Facebook). He has represented pharma companies. He has represented small companies. He has been on both the plaintiff and defendant side. I believe that most attorneys do not consider him to be pro &quot;patent troll.&quot;<p>Apple is the primary litigant that wants to transfer out of Texas courts. The judge is only part of the reason. They also really want California juries.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Patent Lawyer Turned Judge Advertises for Patent Trolls to Come to His Court</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200927/01044945391/former-patent-litigator-becomes-federal-judge-begins-advertising-patent-trolls-to-come-to-his-court-they-have-droves.shtml</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmurray</author><text>What&#x27;s in it for him?<p>It seems obvious that this guy is corrupt, but exactly how? Presumably the federal government doesnt pay per case. Does he have an interest in a local law firm? Does he get kickbacks in cash? Or is he planning on returning to practicing law in a few years through the revolving door and this will raise his profile?<p>I guess we shouldn&#x27;t rule out the possibility that he just feels passionately about patent law and shaping the American legal landscape to his own opinions. The late Justice Ginsberg was widely praised for the same. But somehow it&#x27;s harder to believe in this field.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Patent Lawyer Turned Judge Advertises for Patent Trolls to Come to His Court</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200927/01044945391/former-patent-litigator-becomes-federal-judge-begins-advertising-patent-trolls-to-come-to-his-court-they-have-droves.shtml</url></story> |
26,680,742 | 26,680,891 | 1 | 2 | 26,680,235 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>disgruntled101</author><text>Lootboxes were the beginning of the end for the gaming industry. All the visionaries have moved on from triple A games and now its just by the numbers cookie cutter formula games with different underhanded tactics to extract as much money as possible from victims.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Loot boxes linked to problem gambling in new research</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56614281</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>salamandersauce</author><text>While loot boxes are pretty scummy what is this going to mean for CCGs like Pokemon and Magic that essentially sell loot boxes only in physical form? Or baseball cards? Trading cards in random packs have been a thing sold to children for 40+ years now.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Loot boxes linked to problem gambling in new research</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56614281</url></story> |
12,772,785 | 12,772,361 | 1 | 3 | 12,769,385 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noir_lord</author><text>I&#x27;m white British, born here and I don&#x27;t drink - definitely get the stranger in a strange land feeling sometimes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drieddust</author><text>I am an Indian in UK. Culture of heavy drinking and partying even in age group well past 30 is a real hindrance for me. If you don&#x27;t drink or want to stop at a few, you are not really a sport.<p>Many Indian face similar predicament.</text></item><item><author>paradite</author><text>While I agree with your advice, there is one important point that you missed.<p>The fact that Chinese and Indian students tend to form cliques or enclaves, is a perfectly normal and natural behavior, because of the sheer large number of students in the same community.<p>Do not mistake this as &quot;Chinese and Indians are not good at mingling with the locals because of their mindset and culture.&quot; It is mostly just because their social circle is large enough to sustain itself in a typical overseas community. In fact, it requires much more effort for them to get out of the comfort zone than students from countries that do not have so many students studying overseas. Another easy way to see it is that, they literally have a &quot;larger comfort zone&quot; to jump out of.<p>To put it into perspective, consider a US college where there is only a few Chinese or Indian students, chances are they will naturally interact more with locals.<p>Then consider a group of exchange students in an Asia university, chances are they are going to be mingling around within themselves all day with minimal interactions with locals.<p>So my point is, do not judge them negatively because of this, and do put in some extra effort in reaching out to them if you are kind enough and want to change the status quo.</text></item><item><author>denzil_correa</author><text>One of my most important suggestions to Asian (Indian and Chinese in particular) students is to expand your horizons both professionally and personally. You are going to a new country - don&#x27;t ONLY mingle around with your kind. There is a far broader experience to gain that will only help you professionally and personally in the future. There are many ways you can do it<p>* Share an apartment with someone from a different country<p>* Make acquaintances and talk to people <i>outside work</i> with diverse professions - don&#x27;t stick to scientists ONLY<p>* Try to understand difference between cultures<p>Especially once you move to a new country, you have a great opportunity to understand difference between cultures. Don&#x27;t miss it!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When a Chinese PhD Student Meets a German Supervisor [pdf]</title><url>https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/35697/Zhang_0-349300.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>_glass</author><text>I feel you. I came back to Europe, but staying so long in an Asian country changed me already. Now it&#x27;s sometimes really hard to reintegrate. Also because of the cultural stigma that was attached. And I am already thinking in terms of that cultural stigma.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drieddust</author><text>I am an Indian in UK. Culture of heavy drinking and partying even in age group well past 30 is a real hindrance for me. If you don&#x27;t drink or want to stop at a few, you are not really a sport.<p>Many Indian face similar predicament.</text></item><item><author>paradite</author><text>While I agree with your advice, there is one important point that you missed.<p>The fact that Chinese and Indian students tend to form cliques or enclaves, is a perfectly normal and natural behavior, because of the sheer large number of students in the same community.<p>Do not mistake this as &quot;Chinese and Indians are not good at mingling with the locals because of their mindset and culture.&quot; It is mostly just because their social circle is large enough to sustain itself in a typical overseas community. In fact, it requires much more effort for them to get out of the comfort zone than students from countries that do not have so many students studying overseas. Another easy way to see it is that, they literally have a &quot;larger comfort zone&quot; to jump out of.<p>To put it into perspective, consider a US college where there is only a few Chinese or Indian students, chances are they will naturally interact more with locals.<p>Then consider a group of exchange students in an Asia university, chances are they are going to be mingling around within themselves all day with minimal interactions with locals.<p>So my point is, do not judge them negatively because of this, and do put in some extra effort in reaching out to them if you are kind enough and want to change the status quo.</text></item><item><author>denzil_correa</author><text>One of my most important suggestions to Asian (Indian and Chinese in particular) students is to expand your horizons both professionally and personally. You are going to a new country - don&#x27;t ONLY mingle around with your kind. There is a far broader experience to gain that will only help you professionally and personally in the future. There are many ways you can do it<p>* Share an apartment with someone from a different country<p>* Make acquaintances and talk to people <i>outside work</i> with diverse professions - don&#x27;t stick to scientists ONLY<p>* Try to understand difference between cultures<p>Especially once you move to a new country, you have a great opportunity to understand difference between cultures. Don&#x27;t miss it!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When a Chinese PhD Student Meets a German Supervisor [pdf]</title><url>https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/35697/Zhang_0-349300.pdf</url></story> |
2,204,318 | 2,203,981 | 1 | 2 | 2,203,540 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patio11</author><text>This solves one of my largest annoyances when using Github as a Rails developer, namely, "Oh yay, time to walk five levels up and four levels down to find the place in the code of this gem where the function caused in the line causing the problem is actually defined."<p>Previously if I had to do it more than once I would copy the gem to disk, import to Netbeans, and then use Netbean's equivalent function. (Which I use so frequently during development I should really map it to, I dunno, tab.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing the File Finder</title><url>https://github.com/blog/793-introducing-the-file-finder</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jhrobert</author><text>So, a lot of small files create inconvenience and then one need a tool to navigate the mess?<p>You don't need that if you put everything in OneBigFile. Mine is 24KLOC. <a href="http://simplijs.com/OneBigFileFormat" rel="nofollow">http://simplijs.com/OneBigFileFormat</a><p>Modern editors can handle big files.<p>BTW: I'm still looking for an editor that could open multiple files in a single buffer/window.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing the File Finder</title><url>https://github.com/blog/793-introducing-the-file-finder</url></story> |
20,714,526 | 20,714,640 | 1 | 2 | 20,684,764 | 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>ackbar03</author><text>I&#x27;m guessing some on the hacker news crowd already know this but the author neal Stephenson also wrote Crytonomicon which was the prerequisite reading book for the PayPal mafia back in the days. I&#x27;ve personally only read his book reamde but the accuracy in detail in the novels really reflect quite deep understanding of the tech world including the shadier parts</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In the beginning was the command line (1999) [pdf]</title><url>https://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Stephenson-CommandLine-1999.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>ubermonkey</author><text>I read this when it was current. I am now old.<p>Stephenson had a great sideline in really deep-dive nonfiction pieces there for a while (around the same time that Wired was experimenting with running them, <i>in print</i>). It was a pretty great combination.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In the beginning was the command line (1999) [pdf]</title><url>https://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Stephenson-CommandLine-1999.pdf</url></story> |
22,336,284 | 22,336,147 | 1 | 3 | 22,335,707 | 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>constexpr</author><text>Author here. I think the Rust vs. Go question is interesting. I actually originally wrote esbuild in Rust and Go, and Go was the clear winner.<p>The parser written in Go was both faster to compile and faster to execute than the parser in Rust. The Go version compiled something like 100x faster than Rust and ran at something around 10% faster (I forget the exact numbers, sorry). Based on a profile, it looked like the Go version was faster because GC happened on another thread while Rust had to run destructors on the same thread.<p>The Rust version also had other problems. Many places in my code had switch statements that branched over all AST nodes and in Rust that compiles to code which uses stack space proportional to the total stack space used by all branches instead of just the maximum stack space used by any one branch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;34283" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;34283</a>. I believe the issue still isn&#x27;t fixed. That meant that the Rust version quickly overflowed the stack if you had many nested JavaScript syntax constructs, which was easy to hit in large JavaScript files. There were also random other issues such as Rust&#x27;s floating-point number parser not actually working in all cases: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;31407" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;31407</a>. I also had to spend a lot of time getting multi-threading to work in Rust with all of the lifetime stuff. Go had none of these issues.<p>The Rust version probably could be made to work at an equivalent speed with enough effort. But at a high-level, Go was much more enjoyable to work with. This is a side project and it has to be fun for me to work on it. The Rust version was actively un-fun for me, both because of all of the workarounds that got in the way and because of the extremely slow compile times. Obviously you can tell from the nature of this project that I value fast build times :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>alipang</author><text>I believe <i>something</i> like this project is inevitable. You&#x27;re probably thinking &quot;Where&#x27;s the Rust version of this?&quot;. I&#x27;ll save you a roundtrip to Google that&#x27;ll find you SWC. [1]<p>SWC is already more mature, at least more so than this project. Using rust does also seem to have some advantages compared to Go.<p>Still, nothing wrong with some competition, just think it&#x27;ll be pretty hard to replace the <i>entire</i> ecosystem around Typescript&#x2F;Babel&#x2F;Webpack in one go. Not going to work for existing project - probably way too high of a risk for new ones, sadly.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swc-project&#x2F;swc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swc-project&#x2F;swc</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go</title><url>https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>Note that what Babel does and what Webpack does are orthogonal. They&#x27;re frequently used together and the challenges of converting them from JS to native are similar, but the OP isn&#x27;t really in &quot;competition&quot; with SWC.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alipang</author><text>I believe <i>something</i> like this project is inevitable. You&#x27;re probably thinking &quot;Where&#x27;s the Rust version of this?&quot;. I&#x27;ll save you a roundtrip to Google that&#x27;ll find you SWC. [1]<p>SWC is already more mature, at least more so than this project. Using rust does also seem to have some advantages compared to Go.<p>Still, nothing wrong with some competition, just think it&#x27;ll be pretty hard to replace the <i>entire</i> ecosystem around Typescript&#x2F;Babel&#x2F;Webpack in one go. Not going to work for existing project - probably way too high of a risk for new ones, sadly.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swc-project&#x2F;swc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swc-project&#x2F;swc</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go</title><url>https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/</url></story> |
27,496,898 | 27,495,937 | 1 | 2 | 27,493,994 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wwweston</author><text>&gt; What else should scientists do than challenging the status quo?<p>Sure, and I rather suspect there are all sorts of venues that scientists could use to communicate scientific reasons challenging the status quo, ones in which there&#x27;d be a process of discourse with other domain experts capable of independently evaluating claims.<p>YouTube is significant mass media. But the idea that it&#x27;s a crucial early stage link in the scientific process is one of the most ridiculous things about this conversation.<p>When you deal in mass distribution, the dynamics and responsibilities are different than when you&#x27;re in conversation&#x2F;process with other domain experts. If you can&#x27;t build up a decent threshold of support within circles of expertise first, it&#x27;s likely your counterclaim won&#x27;t have real value for a mass market. Or worse.<p>And if you want access to a mass market anyway without having to face those challenges first, it&#x27;s possible that what you&#x27;re about is more personal privilege than substantial contribution to the marketplace of ideas.<p>And given how ridiculously diverse and incredibly free the online marketplace for ideas is right now, considering how it has never been easier to get mass distribution of even pretty questionable ideas, it&#x27;s a pretty weird time to take the posture that we&#x27;re actually suffering under an oppressively censored discourse regime.</text><parent_chain><item><author>micouay</author><text>What else should scientists do than challenging the status quo?<p>Bret (Eric&#x27;s brother, biology PhD) had a 2h long conversation with Pierre Kory (MD) and it was taken down by YT. One of the things they talked was the recommendations of WHO and other organisations to focus on supportive care only (supporting the patient while their organism fights the disease by itself). They insist on <i>not</i> using other treatments outside clinical trials. The argument that running experiments would cost lives doesn&#x27;t seem coherent. It&#x27;s not like we have this 100+ yrs practice of dealing with SARS-CoV-2 epidemic with well established protocols. What if we&#x27;re clinging to a suboptimal strategy?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”</title><url>https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1403915244473253893</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yokaze</author><text>&gt; They insist on not using other treatments outside clinical trials. The argument that running experiments would cost lives doesn&#x27;t seem coherent.<p>Clinical trials are structured experiments which follow a certain protocol, ethical review, etc...<p>&gt; It&#x27;s not like we have this 100+ yrs practice of dealing with SARS-CoV-2 epidemic with well established protocols<p>We do have 100+ years of practice in dealing with various diseases, circumstances, including pandemics, etc... In that sense SARS-CoV-2 is nothing special.
Protocols have been developed to ensure that we actually gain knowledge, and not at the expense of the patients.<p>Should we skip on ethical review boards? Or patient confidentiality? Which part of a clinical study are you suggesting are superfluous?</text><parent_chain><item><author>micouay</author><text>What else should scientists do than challenging the status quo?<p>Bret (Eric&#x27;s brother, biology PhD) had a 2h long conversation with Pierre Kory (MD) and it was taken down by YT. One of the things they talked was the recommendations of WHO and other organisations to focus on supportive care only (supporting the patient while their organism fights the disease by itself). They insist on <i>not</i> using other treatments outside clinical trials. The argument that running experiments would cost lives doesn&#x27;t seem coherent. It&#x27;s not like we have this 100+ yrs practice of dealing with SARS-CoV-2 epidemic with well established protocols. What if we&#x27;re clinging to a suboptimal strategy?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”</title><url>https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1403915244473253893</url></story> |
39,038,420 | 39,038,456 | 1 | 2 | 39,036,563 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dogsgobork</author><text>The new locks do have water saving basins, which reduce the water waste by about 60%.</text><parent_chain><item><author>donor20</author><text>One note - they don’t pump water out and back into the locks from a neighboring storage. They flush the water. Each ship needs like 40 million gallons?<p>Maybe title should be insane wastes of water forces authorities…. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A drought has forced authorities to further slash traffic in Panama Canal</title><url>https://www.westerninvestor.com/national-business/a-drought-has-forced-authorities-to-further-slash-traffic-in-panama-canal-disrupting-global-trade-8126368</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stkdump</author><text>I had to check if that realistic. 40 million gallons at 85 feet is 11MWh of potential energy. At 70% efficiency it would take 16MWh to pump that. That has to be a small amount of energy compared to what ships take for traveling the detour.</text><parent_chain><item><author>donor20</author><text>One note - they don’t pump water out and back into the locks from a neighboring storage. They flush the water. Each ship needs like 40 million gallons?<p>Maybe title should be insane wastes of water forces authorities…. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A drought has forced authorities to further slash traffic in Panama Canal</title><url>https://www.westerninvestor.com/national-business/a-drought-has-forced-authorities-to-further-slash-traffic-in-panama-canal-disrupting-global-trade-8126368</url></story> |
5,232,004 | 5,231,500 | 1 | 3 | 5,231,435 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JohnHaugeland</author><text>I bought mine from lawyers. You guys are all welcome to it, provided you change the various names first.<p>Thing is, you really should get a lawyer to check yours. These things aren't cut and paste; your situation won't be the same as someone else's, and the details can matter, a lot.<p>So yes, use this as a starting point. But getting things like these checked by a lawyer is less than a hundred bucks.<p>Once you're underway, it's basic safety, like insurance is, like encrypting your laptop's hard drive is.<p>Get yourself protected, once a hundred bucks isn't a big deal.<p>I'm putting mine on a nopaste, with all the names removed, because I don't want to turn my comment into an advertisement.<p><a href="http://pastebin.com/MbZUb1Mi" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/MbZUb1Mi</a><p>I hope this helps, but seriously, I'm just some jerk on HN. Once you can afford it, get the real thing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Open Source Mobile Privacy Policy</title><url>https://www.docracy.com/mobileprivacy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thejosh</author><text>Nice idea.<p>For your ads button, having an id="ads" blocks it from people using Adblock.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Open Source Mobile Privacy Policy</title><url>https://www.docracy.com/mobileprivacy/</url></story> |
2,887,651 | 2,886,870 | 1 | 3 | 2,886,710 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kenjackson</author><text>I doubt they all believe it, but they all want it to be true. At this point going on record for something they hope Google will do costs them very little.<p>But it is a bit telling that they didn't have an actual statement to make. I suggest the CEO's office of these companies is trying to make sense of the deal still.<p>How they really feel will be more apparent in statements about Windows Phone. They'll still state the party line on Android for a while, but if Samsung and HTC start openly talking about positive reception of WP devices and excitement around Mango then there's been an internal change in tune.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cryptoz</author><text>That's awkward. Welcome, defend, Android, partners, ecosystem. It's all the same quote.<p>Edit: But assuming they all mean it, this is actually fantastic. It's good to see that they aren't afraid; they don't seem themselves in a weakened position and they do desperately need the legal force that Google can provide to be on their side.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quotes from Android partners</title><url>http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/</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>wgx</author><text>It reads like a hostage statement at gunpoint.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cryptoz</author><text>That's awkward. Welcome, defend, Android, partners, ecosystem. It's all the same quote.<p>Edit: But assuming they all mean it, this is actually fantastic. It's good to see that they aren't afraid; they don't seem themselves in a weakened position and they do desperately need the legal force that Google can provide to be on their side.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quotes from Android partners</title><url>http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/</url><text></text></story> |
37,161,395 | 37,159,511 | 1 | 2 | 37,158,827 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seanhunter</author><text>One of my favourites that I ever heard about was from a friend of mine who used to work on safety-critical systems in defense applications. He told me fighter jets have a safety system that disables the weapons systems if a (weight) load is detected on the landing gear so that if the plane is on the ground and the pilot bumps the wrong button they don&#x27;t accidentally blow up their own airbase[1]. So anyway when the Eurofighter Typhoon did its first live weapons test the weapons failed to launch. When they did the RCA they found something like[2]<p><pre><code> bool check_the_landing_gear_before_shootyshoot(double weight_from_sensor, double threshold) {
&#x2F;&#x2F;FIXME: Remember to implement this before we go live
return false
}
</code></pre>
So when the pilot pressed the button the function disabled the weapons as if the plane had been on the ground. Because the &quot;correctness&quot; checks were against the Z spec and this function didn&#x27;t have a unit test because it was deemed too trivial, the problem wasn&#x27;t found before launch, so this cost several millions to redeploy the (one-line) fix to actually check the weight from the sensor was less than the threshold.<p>[1] Yes this means that scene from the cheesy action movie (can&#x27;t remember which one) where Arnold Schwartzenegger finds himself on the ground in the cockpit of a russian plane and proceeds to blow up all the badguys while on the ground couldn&#x27;t happen in real life.<p>[2] Not the actual code which was in some weird version of ADA apparently.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software engineering lessons from RCAs of greatest disasters</title><url>https://anoopdixith.com/disasters/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rob74</author><text>Another train crash that holds a valuable lesson was <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eschede_train_disaster" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eschede_train_disaster</a><p>This demonstrates that sometimes &quot;if you see something, say something&quot; isn&#x27;t enough - if a large piece of metal penetrates into the passenger compartment of a train from underneath, it&#x27;s better to take the initiative and <i>pull the emergency brake yourself</i>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software engineering lessons from RCAs of greatest disasters</title><url>https://anoopdixith.com/disasters/</url></story> |
12,632,297 | 12,631,478 | 1 | 2 | 12,630,095 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tshtf</author><text>As kyledrake so eloquently said before: &quot;The bandwidth is the soda.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12270129" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12270129</a><p>AWS and Azure overcharge on bandwidth about 10 to 20 times the prevailing rate. Something to keep in mind for high bandwidth applications.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New lower Azure pricing</title><url>https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-lower-azure-pricing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Maarten88</author><text>What I don&#x27;t understand about Azure pricing is how much more expensive a Windows VM is compared to an equivalent Linux machine. A D1v2 costs $54 with Linux and $104 with Windows (per month). This extends to larger instances: Windows costs twice the price of Linux on the same instance. The only difference is the Windows licence, and $50 per month for the smallest machine (and hundreds for bigger instances) seems very unreasonable.<p>The only explanation I can think of for this is that they probably want to compete on price with AWS, while keeping profits from their traditional customers high.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New lower Azure pricing</title><url>https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-lower-azure-pricing/</url></story> |
21,665,809 | 21,664,746 | 1 | 2 | 21,663,765 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>withoutboats</author><text>(I was the primary designer of the Pin API.)<p>Since (to a first approximation) every individual who has the expertise and contextual knowledge to really evaluate this issue is a poster on internals.rust-lang.org, its pretty surprising to find this thread on the front page of Hacker News. I imagine some Hacker News users who upvoted this link did so out of technical interest, but I suspect a large portion of the attention comes from some combination of these misconceptions:<p>- The misconception that this could have a practical impact on users (the code being discussed on the thread is all obviously pathological &amp; contrived).<p>- The misconception that Rust&#x27;s type system and standard library never contain soundness issues and that this is an exceptional event (in fact we have a number of longstanding soundness issues).<p>We have a policy of fixing all soundness issues, so this issue will be fixed. In the meantime, while we decide the best solution, it will have no practical impact on Rust users. And none of the solutions we are considering would involve significant breakage to users, or invalidate any real code.<p>At a high level: the soundness issue occurs because the Pin API was designed based on certain reasoning about the behavior of pointers. This reasoning would be sound but for the fact that we have allowed certain exceptions in relationship to pointers to what are called the &quot;orphan rules&quot; (which usually enable local reasoning like this). These exceptions allow users to introduce code which, while contrived, allows them to violate the guarantees of the Pin API. Such is life.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unsoundness in Pin</title><url>https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/unsoundness-in-pin/11311</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mauricioc</author><text>Simon Peyton Jones initial intuition [0] was that Rust would be full of soundness holes due to not starting with a full formalization. Derek Dryer, Ralf Jung and others in the RustBelt project [1] did amazing work in formalizing Rust&#x27;s safety guarantees, showing that Peyton Jones&#x27; guess was not accurate.<p>There is nothing wrong about having bugs, of course, but the reaction to the bug in this thread shows that mathematical correctness is not as universally valued as I thought it would be. I agree with the sentiment that this is a bigger issue that shouldn&#x27;t be discussed in a technical thread about a specific bug. However, after reading this, it is unclear to me whether mathematical correctness is regarded in the Rust project as an explicit goal, an explicit non-goal or an unessential nice-to-have. (I do not mean to insinuate anything with the word &quot;unclear&quot;, as I believe all three options are valid and appeal to different use cases. Almost all of the popular languages don&#x27;t care about this, for instance.)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;t0mhvd3-60Y?t=130" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;t0mhvd3-60Y?t=130</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plv.mpi-sws.org&#x2F;rustbelt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plv.mpi-sws.org&#x2F;rustbelt&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unsoundness in Pin</title><url>https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/unsoundness-in-pin/11311</url></story> |
9,477,189 | 9,476,944 | 1 | 2 | 9,476,650 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jroseattle</author><text>Something I found <i>very</i> interesting was Peter&#x27;s comment: &quot;You try to hire people you could become friends with.&quot; I contrast this with Zuckerberg&#x27;s approach to only hiring people that he would work for (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;on-leadership&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;05&#x2F;mark-zuckerbergs-hiring-secret&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;on-leadership&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03...</a>).<p>It&#x27;s probably not fair to put these side-by-side due to context, but Peter&#x27;s approach resonates with me now. Here&#x27;s how I reconcile this: Peter&#x27;s &quot;friends&quot; concept is about the long-term effect on yourself (and your team around you). Mark&#x27;s &quot;work-for&quot; concept is about putting the very best people around you to build and operate a company. They could certainly co-exist, depending on your personality.<p>Mark&#x27;s approach (for me) makes great sense on paper, but Peter&#x27;s approach comes with the value of been-there-done-that. Both have their place, but over the long haul, I can really appreciate what Peter is talking about.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peter Thiel on what works at work (2014)</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2014/10/10/peter-thiel-on-what-works-at-work/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeffreyrogers</author><text>&gt; They’ve done studies at Harvard Business School where they’ve found that the largest cohort always went into the wrong field. So in 1989, they all went to work for Michael Milken, a year or two before he went to jail. They were never interested in Silicon Valley except for 1999, 2000.<p>They&#x27;re interested in Silicon Valley now. Here&#x27;s an actual conversation I had recently with a business school student (not verbatim obviously, but accurate as far as content):<p>Me: What are you doing after you graduate from HBS this spring?<p>MBA: I want to do startups.<p>Me: Oh cool, do you know which one you&#x27;re going to work for?<p>MBA: Oh no, I want to <i>start</i> a startup.<p>Me: Oh okay, what&#x27;s it going to do?<p>MBA: Don&#x27;t know yet!<p>Me: Oh...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peter Thiel on what works at work (2014)</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2014/10/10/peter-thiel-on-what-works-at-work/</url></story> |
33,228,050 | 33,228,036 | 1 | 3 | 33,226,352 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>c7b</author><text>It sounds like a cool idea if I get it right (organize links to wikipedia articles in a way that could correspond to a curriculum), but the quality of the curation at least for mathematics looks abysmal. Here are some of the top-level categories:<p>* Charles Sanders Peirce (the only (!) mathematician with a top-level category to himself, who&#x27;s arguably more of a philosopher actually) - 46 pages.<p>* Set theory - 3 pages<p>* Theory of summation of natural numbers - empty<p>This fails to be useful for students at so many levels. The entries are at completely inconsistent levels of granularity or concepts, it fails to make any meaningful selection or ranking by importance (another example, it has a top-level category for Chaos Theory but none for Dynamical Systems). And, most importantly, it doesn&#x27;t correspond to how university curriculums are structured and doesn&#x27;t work as a useful guide for self-study.<p>But yeah, it&#x27;s a wiki, so I guess I shouldn&#x27;t complain but instead just contribute to improving it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikiversity</title><url>https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>texaslonghorn5</author><text>If there was a &quot;sitemap&quot; in the form of a course catalog or sample degree plan, linking to each course, that would make this incredibly easy to follow.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikiversity</title><url>https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page</url></story> |
39,187,239 | 39,186,757 | 1 | 2 | 39,185,933 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hlandau</author><text>One of the most interesting things about IBM i&#x2F;AS&#x2F;400 is its use of hardware memory tagging. There is a secret set of extensions to the PowerPC ISA which allows you to associate a tag bit with every 16 bytes of memory. This is used to implement a capability-based model where valid pointers can&#x27;t be forged.<p>I write some more about it here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.devever.net&#x2F;~hl&#x2F;ppcas" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.devever.net&#x2F;~hl&#x2F;ppcas</a><p>Interestingly this functionality is actually unlocked on the Raptor Talos II&#x2F;Blackbird systems so you can play with it in full.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bitwize</author><text>Is IBM i the thing formerly known as AS&#x2F;400? IBM&#x27;s new shiny next-millennium single letter branding is more confusing than their old-school letters-virgule-numbers branding.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server</title><url>https://pub400.com/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skissane</author><text>Yes, but it also reflects the fact that it is no longer a separate hardware line.<p>In the beginning (1978) was the IBM System&#x2F;38, which had a custom CISC CPU architecture with 48-bit addressing (called IMPI), vaguely resembling the 360&#x2F;370 mainframe instruction set, but incompatible with it, and having some rather high-level abilities like task switching in microcode (similar to hardware task switching on the 386). The System&#x2F;38 had some very advanced features: single level storage, capabilities and programs compiled to byte code (which the OS then converted to the IMPI physical instruction set). However, IBM also had its System&#x2F;36 &quot;midrange&quot; line (basically minicomputers but IBM preferred to call their business-oriented minicomputers &quot;midrange&quot;), which was incompatible and more of a traditional system architecture. So in 1988 IBM &quot;unified&quot; them by releasing the AS&#x2F;400, which was basically a version 2.0 of the System&#x2F;38, keeping the same basic architecture but adding a System&#x2F;36 emulation subsystem so it could run most System&#x2F;36 applications.<p>Separately, IBM had its RISC Unix RS&#x2F;6000 line, which spawned POWER and PowerPC. And then in 1991, IBM came out with a new version of the AS&#x2F;400 based on PowerPC instead of proprietary IMPI CISC. The fact that applications compiled to bytecode meant most applications could be ported to RISC seamlessly, since the new OS version translated the bytecode to PowerPC instructions instead of IMPI instructions. At the same time, much of the core of the OS was rewritten in C++ (having previously been in a proprietary PL&#x2F;I dialect.)<p>But still, although RS&#x2F;6000 and AS&#x2F;400 now used the same CPU architecture, they were still physically different hardware. Originally, the AS&#x2F;400 used its own PowerPC chips with additional instructions the RS&#x2F;6000 ones lacked. Even after they unified the two lines on the same CPU models, they still had different firmware.<p>In 2000, there was a marketing-driven decision (&quot;eServer&quot;) to rebrand RS&#x2F;6000 to pSeries and AS&#x2F;400 to iSeries. This was part of an attempt to present IBM&#x27;s four distinct server platforms (mainframe, AS&#x2F;400, RS&#x2F;6000 and PC) as some kind of cohesive strategy (mainframe became zSeries and PC servers became xSeries).<p>Then, in 2006, the iSeries (formerly AS&#x2F;400) and pSeries (formerly RS&#x2F;6000) hardware lines were merged completely, to become IBM Power Systems. Now there was no physical difference between the hardware, it is just which OS you install on it. The IBM i (originally OS&#x2F;400 and later i5&#x2F;OS) operating system uses certain firmware features which AIX doesn&#x27;t use – but all IBM Power Systems have that code in their firmware, it is just AIX and Linux don&#x27;t call those functions. (There are now low-end Linux only machines which refuse to run AIX or IBM i, although possibly that&#x27;s just a flag in the firmware license as opposed to distinct code.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>bitwize</author><text>Is IBM i the thing formerly known as AS&#x2F;400? IBM&#x27;s new shiny next-millennium single letter branding is more confusing than their old-school letters-virgule-numbers branding.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server</title><url>https://pub400.com/</url></story> |
9,335,600 | 9,334,816 | 1 | 3 | 9,333,330 | 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>emodendroket</author><text>The famous Norvig piece &quot;Teach Yourself Programming In Ten Years&quot; touches on this:<p>&gt; In 24 hours you might be able to learn some of the syntax of C++ (if you already know another language), but you couldn&#x27;t learn much about how to use the language. In short, if you were, say, a Basic programmer, you could learn to write programs in the style of Basic using C++ syntax, but you couldn&#x27;t learn what C++ is actually good (and bad) for. So what&#x27;s the point? Alan Perlis once said: &quot;A language that doesn&#x27;t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing&quot;. One possible point is that you have to learn a tiny bit of C++ (or more likely, something like JavaScript or Processing) because you need to interface with an existing tool to accomplish a specific task. But then you&#x27;re not learning how to program; you&#x27;re learning to accomplish that task.</text><parent_chain><item><author>makeitsuckless</author><text>&gt; A good developer can pick up any language or platform in a few weeks<p>Yes and no. There&#x27;s a major difference between &quot;picking up&quot; and actually being good at something. If you have nobody on the team that is either already intimately familiar with the language&#x2F;platform, or has experience with various languages&#x2F;platforms, you&#x27;re going to be spending a lot of time figuring out how to do stuff properly instead of just building stuff. And if you are a startup with a limited runway, that difference is crucial.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years</title><url>http://www.talkingquickly.co.uk/2015/04/what-id-tell-myself-about-startups/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Interesting, I read this as being open to hiring good developers even if they don&#x27;t know your current platform&#x2F;language. You can train that, and if you have existing expertise then you can pair them with someone who is experienced to teach them the nuances.</text><parent_chain><item><author>makeitsuckless</author><text>&gt; A good developer can pick up any language or platform in a few weeks<p>Yes and no. There&#x27;s a major difference between &quot;picking up&quot; and actually being good at something. If you have nobody on the team that is either already intimately familiar with the language&#x2F;platform, or has experience with various languages&#x2F;platforms, you&#x27;re going to be spending a lot of time figuring out how to do stuff properly instead of just building stuff. And if you are a startup with a limited runway, that difference is crucial.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years</title><url>http://www.talkingquickly.co.uk/2015/04/what-id-tell-myself-about-startups/</url></story> |
10,278,119 | 10,277,799 | 1 | 2 | 10,276,780 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abakker</author><text>All we really need is a real passcode, and then a second special passcode that wipes the phone instantly if typed.<p>so, my normal code might be 123456, but if someone asks what my code is and I say 345678, then the phone does a data wipe that isn&#x27;t obvious from the outside, and just deletes all credentials, cookies, history, documents, etc.<p>Is this workable?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Forcing suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitutional, court says</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/forcing-suspects-to-reveal-phone-passwords-is-unconstitutional-court-says/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zipfle</author><text>The guy quoted at the end seems to think it&#x27;s the passcode itself that would be incriminating, rather than the contents of the phone. Weird. I&#x27;ve seen a theory that compelling someone to disclose a password can be incriminating because it is the same as asking them to admit that they stored the data in the first place, and obviously there&#x27;s a case to be made that compelling disclosure of the data on the phone could be self incriminating, but the idea that the password would be something like yesiinsidertraded4 is new to me.<p>Edit: I missed the part where he&#x27;s a former federal prosecutor. Mystery solved.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Forcing suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitutional, court says</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/forcing-suspects-to-reveal-phone-passwords-is-unconstitutional-court-says/</url></story> |
30,309,672 | 30,309,699 | 1 | 2 | 30,308,527 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mhh__</author><text>It really cruxes on their being a story to tell.<p>It&#x27;s like people asking if they&#x27;re going to do another film with K? (Which I think is symptom of cinema being saturated with feel good movies where there is no conflict or sacrifice, possibly in funny costumes...). He&#x27;s utterly finished at the end of 2049, there isn&#x27;t any more to say.<p>I don&#x27;t know what it would look like but I think a relatively obvious road to go down would probably the ethics of general AI in computers. If you do have your own Joi, is she a slave? Does she &quot;is&quot;, at all?<p>I really hope they land it if it gets made, although at worst it&#x27;ll probably be a really pretty if confusing mess, which is better than most TV shows.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>I loved 2049. Thought it was a great film. But it was a great film on its own. It didn&#x27;t really need the ties to the original. Does the blade runner world really need another piece? Well, idk. I guess I would say its probably going to be pretty good, but I&#x27;d suspect trying to embrace the existing canon is going to harm the potential of the movie more than it will help. The 50 year time jumps are good though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blade Runner 2099 Sequel Series Coming from Ridley Scott</title><url>https://consequence.net/2022/02/ridley-scott-blade-runner-2099/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thinkingkong</author><text>2049 was dennis Villeneuve though. The same person behind sicario, arrival, and dune. If anything the endorsement goes the other way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>I loved 2049. Thought it was a great film. But it was a great film on its own. It didn&#x27;t really need the ties to the original. Does the blade runner world really need another piece? Well, idk. I guess I would say its probably going to be pretty good, but I&#x27;d suspect trying to embrace the existing canon is going to harm the potential of the movie more than it will help. The 50 year time jumps are good though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blade Runner 2099 Sequel Series Coming from Ridley Scott</title><url>https://consequence.net/2022/02/ridley-scott-blade-runner-2099/</url></story> |
29,460,812 | 29,460,018 | 1 | 2 | 29,457,930 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toyg</author><text><i>&gt; No one ever stuck around by saying &quot;everything is good, [...] spend a bit of time in R&amp;D to make sure we have other bait&quot;</i><p>That&#x27;s more or less what FogCreek did with Trello and CoPilot. While FogBugz was &quot;good enough&quot; to more or less run on rails, they made other bets to expand or productize some of their internal toolkit. It worked so well that these side-bets eventually got much bigger than FogBugz.<p>I wish more people tried that, instead of messing with their cash-cows. Yes, sometimes you have to keep up with competition or &quot;innovate&quot; in your own space, but if you got big already, chances are that you&#x27;ve done your best work already - leave it as it is and move on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>llamataboot</author><text>I think there at least 3 things at play here:<p>#1) Software used to live on a disk you buy. That software doesn&#x27;t change, until buy a new disk. Then it lived in apps, where you can update or not. Now often, it lives in the mythical cloud where changes can happen all the time.<p>Now, even on the disk front, things were always changing. Often for the better, sometimes for the worse. In the OS world Dos-&gt;Windows-&gt;Windows 95 were big changes, and the OS9-&gt;OSX change also huge! But now the changes are always.<p>#2) The entire software world is built on VC money. VC money is not looking for slow and sustainable growth. Or a happy userbase of 10k people. The VC world doesn&#x27;t mind if 99 companies crash and burn trying to harvest the wind while building their sails if one takes off.<p>#3) Out of the VC&#x2F;startup world, large companies must justify their existence and every team and every programmer on that team must justify theirs. No one ever stuck around by saying &quot;everything is good, we literally don&#x27;t need to do anything or acquire another customer, let&#x27;s all cut out hours to 2 days a week, keep patching bugs and making security updates, be happy with our current level of subscriptions, and spend a bit of time in R&amp;D to make sure we have other bait in the water too if for some reason our users stop liking this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why is everything changing too fast?</title><text>I&#x27;m getting on (I&#x27;m nearly 50) - not a software dev (thank god) but more a project manager. I do a lot of the &quot;knitting together&quot; type work between developers, UX people, designers, content owners, etc.<p>Until recently, we used to do things like write cheatsheets and other help docs for our clients for tools like Google Analytics. This was all fine, and they were appreciated, as clients just don&#x27;t know how to use these tools.<p>But recently, the rate of change has just made this untenable. I&#x27;d log into a tool like GA and the whole thing would be different. Not just the upgrade to 4, but then incremental changes there, too. So cheatsheets, training workshops, anything around support - just becomes untenable.<p>Another example: I log into Teamwork (my project management tool of choice) - and they&#x27;re &quot;retiring&quot; the plan I&#x27;ve been on (and very happy with) for years. Instead I have to choose &quot;Growth&quot; and now my dashboard is littered with a whole bunch of stuff I neither want or need. Nothing is where I&#x27;m used to it being.<p>And: we do a bunch of work with Wordpress. The rate of change here is insane, too - every single update brings new features, none of which is documented, bedded in or understood. None of which can be written about, supported or workshopped.<p>And: Trello. It was fine. And then Atlassian bought it and it became this horrific behemoth of &quot;features&quot;, all of which just clutter everything up, none of which seems to actually do anything useful.<p>And on, and on.<p>Is this rate of change supportable? Am I just too old? Help me put this in context, HN!</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>Buttons840</author><text>Solo devs who want to make a few bucks should look into developing desktop applications. VC companies can&#x27;t compete in that space, it&#x27;s not profitable enough.<p>Only problem is we don&#x27;t have any good UI toolkits anymore, all are second rate compared to the browser. Qt might be the best, but their licensing scares solo devs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>llamataboot</author><text>I think there at least 3 things at play here:<p>#1) Software used to live on a disk you buy. That software doesn&#x27;t change, until buy a new disk. Then it lived in apps, where you can update or not. Now often, it lives in the mythical cloud where changes can happen all the time.<p>Now, even on the disk front, things were always changing. Often for the better, sometimes for the worse. In the OS world Dos-&gt;Windows-&gt;Windows 95 were big changes, and the OS9-&gt;OSX change also huge! But now the changes are always.<p>#2) The entire software world is built on VC money. VC money is not looking for slow and sustainable growth. Or a happy userbase of 10k people. The VC world doesn&#x27;t mind if 99 companies crash and burn trying to harvest the wind while building their sails if one takes off.<p>#3) Out of the VC&#x2F;startup world, large companies must justify their existence and every team and every programmer on that team must justify theirs. No one ever stuck around by saying &quot;everything is good, we literally don&#x27;t need to do anything or acquire another customer, let&#x27;s all cut out hours to 2 days a week, keep patching bugs and making security updates, be happy with our current level of subscriptions, and spend a bit of time in R&amp;D to make sure we have other bait in the water too if for some reason our users stop liking this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why is everything changing too fast?</title><text>I&#x27;m getting on (I&#x27;m nearly 50) - not a software dev (thank god) but more a project manager. I do a lot of the &quot;knitting together&quot; type work between developers, UX people, designers, content owners, etc.<p>Until recently, we used to do things like write cheatsheets and other help docs for our clients for tools like Google Analytics. This was all fine, and they were appreciated, as clients just don&#x27;t know how to use these tools.<p>But recently, the rate of change has just made this untenable. I&#x27;d log into a tool like GA and the whole thing would be different. Not just the upgrade to 4, but then incremental changes there, too. So cheatsheets, training workshops, anything around support - just becomes untenable.<p>Another example: I log into Teamwork (my project management tool of choice) - and they&#x27;re &quot;retiring&quot; the plan I&#x27;ve been on (and very happy with) for years. Instead I have to choose &quot;Growth&quot; and now my dashboard is littered with a whole bunch of stuff I neither want or need. Nothing is where I&#x27;m used to it being.<p>And: we do a bunch of work with Wordpress. The rate of change here is insane, too - every single update brings new features, none of which is documented, bedded in or understood. None of which can be written about, supported or workshopped.<p>And: Trello. It was fine. And then Atlassian bought it and it became this horrific behemoth of &quot;features&quot;, all of which just clutter everything up, none of which seems to actually do anything useful.<p>And on, and on.<p>Is this rate of change supportable? Am I just too old? Help me put this in context, HN!</text></story> |
30,297,804 | 30,297,781 | 1 | 2 | 30,291,135 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>However we do it, it looks like nuclear won&#x27;t be it, because we can&#x27;t build nuclear. Some of the more likely routes, with clearer cheaper cost curves than advanced nuclear or SMRs:<p>1) advanced geothermal (using drilling tech developed within the last decade, not the older ones)<p>2) flow batteries<p>3) chemical storage of electricity, whether as ammonia, hydrogen, methanol, or whatever tech path becomes cheapest.<p>4) for cold climates: district&#x2F;neighborhood heating with massive seasonal storage<p>All of these are being developed, and experiencing falling prices on the tech. In contrast, building the same nuclear reactor design gets more expensive successive time it is built. This is true even of France&#x27;s builds in 70s.<p>If we are betting on future tech, nuclear is not in the cards. It would have been great it nuclear had put coal out of business in the 1980s, rather than having a ton of build delays in the 1970s that jacked up nuclear&#x27;s price. But it&#x27;s ship has sailed, until nuclear can build.<p>If France completes a single reactor by their planned 2035 date, I will be seriously impressed. However, 1GW in 13 years is not a climate solution.</text><parent_chain><item><author>visarga</author><text>Once a few years, we get a few weeks without much wind and solar. What do we do then? Solar and wind can&#x27;t store enough energy to last for weeks.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>They will be serious if they actually build it, unlike Flamanville.<p>While you call non-nuclear options &quot;virtue signaling,&quot; the attempts at building it in France and the US have been virtue signaling. We don&#x27;t have the industrial capacity to build nuclear.<p>Meanwhile, we are deploying GW of solar, wind, and storage on time, on budget, ar ever decreasing costs.<p>Locking in the high costs of nuclear, for the 60 year lifetime of a nuclear reactor, after a 15 year delay for building, is not a serious solution for climate change.</text></item><item><author>ike0790</author><text>Looks like a G20 country is serious about the impending &quot;climate emergency&quot;. Regardless of the motives and timing behind this, I think its great to see a country is actually being serious and practical. Anyone going on about the climate and refuses to put nuclear energy at the forefront of the conversation is unserious and is only interested in virtual signaling in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/france-to-build-6-new-nuclear-reactors/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BurningPenguin</author><text>I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s very unlikely that there will be no wind or sun all over Europe. There is constant exchange of excess energy between the countries anyway. Regardless of that, there are other options too. Like water or geothermal depending on the country. Sometimes there even will be too much energy. I can imagine this being used to make some hydrogen for later use.</text><parent_chain><item><author>visarga</author><text>Once a few years, we get a few weeks without much wind and solar. What do we do then? Solar and wind can&#x27;t store enough energy to last for weeks.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>They will be serious if they actually build it, unlike Flamanville.<p>While you call non-nuclear options &quot;virtue signaling,&quot; the attempts at building it in France and the US have been virtue signaling. We don&#x27;t have the industrial capacity to build nuclear.<p>Meanwhile, we are deploying GW of solar, wind, and storage on time, on budget, ar ever decreasing costs.<p>Locking in the high costs of nuclear, for the 60 year lifetime of a nuclear reactor, after a 15 year delay for building, is not a serious solution for climate change.</text></item><item><author>ike0790</author><text>Looks like a G20 country is serious about the impending &quot;climate emergency&quot;. Regardless of the motives and timing behind this, I think its great to see a country is actually being serious and practical. Anyone going on about the climate and refuses to put nuclear energy at the forefront of the conversation is unserious and is only interested in virtual signaling in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/france-to-build-6-new-nuclear-reactors/</url></story> |
4,296,384 | 4,296,537 | 1 | 3 | 4,296,176 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>archgrove</author><text>Which would instantly kill the Mac as a development platform, and render all previously purchased software irrelevant. This just won't happen, though I can see a <i>version</i> of OS X that does this by default (perhaps on all "non-pro" models).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Bobby_Tables</author><text>The iOS App Store does the same thing with changing the rules in the middle of the game, but it is not subject to potential irrelevance because it is the only place to get software for iOS devices. So the obvious solution for Apple is to make the Mac App Store the only place to get software for MacOS.<p>I'm actually a little surprised this didn't happen in 10.8.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2012/07/26/mac-app-store-future</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tyrannosaurs</author><text>A few reasons why I think this will never happen:<p>* Taking something away from someone that they've always had (as would be the case with OS X) is very different to never giving them it (as has been the case with iOS).<p>* People are used to doing stuff that isn't possible with the current restrictions - with iOS they've only ever had those restrictions so they're not aware of what they might be missing out on.<p>* Developer goodwill would evaporate overnight. I'm not even sure it would be possible to develop on a Mac with this sort of restriction in place given the low level activity you often need to play around with.<p>* They'd need to develop a parallel mechanism for managing machines or lose what little they have of the Enterprise who are never going to use the app store.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Bobby_Tables</author><text>The iOS App Store does the same thing with changing the rules in the middle of the game, but it is not subject to potential irrelevance because it is the only place to get software for iOS devices. So the obvious solution for Apple is to make the Mac App Store the only place to get software for MacOS.<p>I'm actually a little surprised this didn't happen in 10.8.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2012/07/26/mac-app-store-future</url></story> |
25,364,727 | 25,363,024 | 1 | 2 | 25,359,144 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>woah</author><text>It&#x27;s been a massive windfall to people who have been homeowners for 40 years in California. High rents due to the fact that you&#x27;re not allowed to build new housing, high property taxes paid by new residents, while old residents pay nothing, high income and sales taxes to paper over the gap in the budget left by the lack of property tax paid by longtime residents.<p>The whole system has been optimized to milk as much money as possible from newcomers. The people in power in California even scapegoated the newcomers for a long time, and pretended that they were unwanted. Now that the system has finally become unsustainable, we get these ridiculous takes about how somebody &quot;extracted wealth&quot; from California.</text><parent_chain><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>My birth certificate says &quot;Texas&quot; across the top and people have been &quot;fleeing California&quot; to Texas for as long as I&#x27;ve been alive. There&#x27;s nothing special about Musk; he just happens to be high-profile about it and managed to extract more from California before decamping to a &quot;cheap&quot; state than several of those who came before him.<p>I disagree with your assessment that Texas has wide acceptance for opposing viewpoints, at least out in the suburbs where I grew up. If you were not religious and conservative (I have my own anecdotes), you did not fit in. Only when I went to college in a college town did people largely seem to want to live and let live. Sure, inside the larger cities it is more cosmopolitan, for lack of a better word, but lots of people live in the &#x27;burbs and around the smaller areas and do not get the benefit of this peaceful coexistence. For example, to this day I do not recommend being openly gay and living near Tyler.<p>If someone moved to Texas, they made a choice to accept it and I will not knock people for their individual choices. But my experience is not that the prevailing view is open acceptance of people of all stripes like found in other parts of the country.</text></item><item><author>S_A_P</author><text>Pretty interesting to see this move makes people so salty. There does seem to be a trend of people fleeing California, I dont know enough about the situation out there to comment on whether or not its valid. I suspect <i>something</i> must be going on for several high profile folks moving out. And before you bash Texas, its not perfect. But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here. I like that...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk moves to Texas</title><url>https://www.ktvu.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-critical-of-california-leaves-the-state-and-moves-to-texas</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrits</author><text>I grew up in Tyler but have lived in Austin for 15 years. I don&#x27;t mean to be argumentative but you seem to be comparing Small town Texas with &quot;Big City&quot; California. I&#x27;ve vacationed in smaller towns in California and the conservative nature of those areas remind me a lot of Tyler,Texas.</text><parent_chain><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>My birth certificate says &quot;Texas&quot; across the top and people have been &quot;fleeing California&quot; to Texas for as long as I&#x27;ve been alive. There&#x27;s nothing special about Musk; he just happens to be high-profile about it and managed to extract more from California before decamping to a &quot;cheap&quot; state than several of those who came before him.<p>I disagree with your assessment that Texas has wide acceptance for opposing viewpoints, at least out in the suburbs where I grew up. If you were not religious and conservative (I have my own anecdotes), you did not fit in. Only when I went to college in a college town did people largely seem to want to live and let live. Sure, inside the larger cities it is more cosmopolitan, for lack of a better word, but lots of people live in the &#x27;burbs and around the smaller areas and do not get the benefit of this peaceful coexistence. For example, to this day I do not recommend being openly gay and living near Tyler.<p>If someone moved to Texas, they made a choice to accept it and I will not knock people for their individual choices. But my experience is not that the prevailing view is open acceptance of people of all stripes like found in other parts of the country.</text></item><item><author>S_A_P</author><text>Pretty interesting to see this move makes people so salty. There does seem to be a trend of people fleeing California, I dont know enough about the situation out there to comment on whether or not its valid. I suspect <i>something</i> must be going on for several high profile folks moving out. And before you bash Texas, its not perfect. But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here. I like that...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk moves to Texas</title><url>https://www.ktvu.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-critical-of-california-leaves-the-state-and-moves-to-texas</url></story> |
35,304,299 | 35,304,365 | 1 | 3 | 35,303,670 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maccaw</author><text>I totally agree. In fact, that&#x27;s the entire reason we didn&#x27;t raise venture capital, because that would have forced an &#x27;exit&#x27; (which typically means an acquihire&#x2F;getting shut down). I&#x27;m sick of seeing otherwise good businesses ruined because they raised VC without a good reason to.<p>Our goals are modest, we&#x27;re just trying to create a sustainable business. We&#x27;re currently half-way towards profitability, and are on track to be profitable by the end of the year.<p>Regarding export formats, you can always export your notes into markdown or HTML so you shouldn&#x27;t feel too locked in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>karl_gluck</author><text>For years I’ve been pouring through all the apps&#x2F;platforms like this, but after being burned too many times I am (incredibly) reluctant to tie my second brain to a box that will lock itself unless I pay. Even if it’s just an interface, it’s too disruptive when my whole workflow is upended by a service getting bought&#x2F;shutting down&#x2F;“upgrading” to break old features&#x2F;increases fees.<p>I see a “free trial”. That plus the landing page not mentioning open source, a permanent license, or common&#x2F;interchangeable formats bounced me immediately, despite what I’m sure are some great capabilities that folks put a lot of time and work into. Maybe I’m missing something? Is that kind of app not sustainable so we don’t see them, or do I just not know where to look?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts</title><url>https://reflect.app/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidg109</author><text>Agreed. And tired of them being hacked into, deciding to change their pricing model, retiring the product, etc. no replacement for good old note taking and using your noggin’.</text><parent_chain><item><author>karl_gluck</author><text>For years I’ve been pouring through all the apps&#x2F;platforms like this, but after being burned too many times I am (incredibly) reluctant to tie my second brain to a box that will lock itself unless I pay. Even if it’s just an interface, it’s too disruptive when my whole workflow is upended by a service getting bought&#x2F;shutting down&#x2F;“upgrading” to break old features&#x2F;increases fees.<p>I see a “free trial”. That plus the landing page not mentioning open source, a permanent license, or common&#x2F;interchangeable formats bounced me immediately, despite what I’m sure are some great capabilities that folks put a lot of time and work into. Maybe I’m missing something? Is that kind of app not sustainable so we don’t see them, or do I just not know where to look?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts</title><url>https://reflect.app/</url></story> |
20,380,071 | 20,379,343 | 1 | 2 | 20,374,479 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yitchelle</author><text>While this is good, it goes into the mix with 100s of other similar or same apps (but with a different name). What I have yet to see is how to increase the motivation to actually close the things on the list. Anyone with hints?<p>I try to be mindful of the things on my list, especially when I add new items on to it, but closing it out is a different story.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Personal Kanban 101</title><url>http://personalkanban.com/pk/personal-kanban-101/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kitotik</author><text>This is just uh, Kanban. The ‘Personal’ part is irrelevant in practice.<p>That being said, for both personal and professional projects of any scale, I’ve found Kanban with elements of GTD mixed in extremely useful.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Personal Kanban 101</title><url>http://personalkanban.com/pk/personal-kanban-101/</url></story> |
33,207,611 | 33,206,594 | 1 | 3 | 33,184,040 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iancmceachern</author><text>I haven&#x27;t, my grandfather did. He was at Pearl Harbor, many battles in the Pacific (he was a submariner), in the end he was part of the occupation of Japan and earned many medals including the purple heart for almost dying in a sub accident.<p>Only as an adult have I come to realize the gift he gave me.<p>When I was a child, I spent a ton of time with him, he had a big hand in raising me. The picture he painted for the young me formed the foundation of my world view. He chose to share with us the Japanese cooking he learned while living there, he taught us how to use chop sticks, one of my most prized possessions is a silk he brought back and gave me in his will. He never once spoke negatively about any group of people, especially those who were &quot;enemies&quot;, he stood up for anyone who was being treated negatively and wouldn&#x27;t stand for it. He harbored no ill will, and therefore didn&#x27;t put it in me.<p>It&#x27;s only as an adult through research into his service that i have realized the full gravity of what he did during this service and the fact that he was a truly happy, blissful, and forgiving man after all that.<p>I can say to you, having been one of the recipients of the kindness and forgiveness you are showing in your own life now, and sharing in this comment - thank you. This is how the world moves on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ARandomerDude</author><text>I didn&#x27;t fight in WW2 obviously, but I did fight in a war. For me, the reticence to describe every detail to people who weren&#x27;t there boils down to this: I don&#x27;t want my wife, my children, or my neighbors to be burdened with thinking of something so horrible. I want them to be happy and safe, that&#x27;s why I went. No need to bring it to their doorstep if I don&#x27;t have to.<p>I suspect many during and after WW2 felt this way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Real War 1939-1945 (1989)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1989/08/the-real-war-1939-1945/306374/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pram</author><text>Alternate perspective: I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, I don&#x27;t talk about it because theres not much to say. I was either standing or sitting some place on guard duty, wired up on an insane amount of caffeine and nicotine, trying not to go insane for the 12 hour shifts. The only thing that punctuated the boredom was the daily mortar attack alarms lol</text><parent_chain><item><author>ARandomerDude</author><text>I didn&#x27;t fight in WW2 obviously, but I did fight in a war. For me, the reticence to describe every detail to people who weren&#x27;t there boils down to this: I don&#x27;t want my wife, my children, or my neighbors to be burdened with thinking of something so horrible. I want them to be happy and safe, that&#x27;s why I went. No need to bring it to their doorstep if I don&#x27;t have to.<p>I suspect many during and after WW2 felt this way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Real War 1939-1945 (1989)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1989/08/the-real-war-1939-1945/306374/</url></story> |
26,939,607 | 26,938,438 | 1 | 3 | 26,930,702 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ksec</author><text>Google released the paper [1] &quot;Warehouse-scale video acceleration: co-design and deployment in the wild &quot; a few days ago.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26925307" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26925307</a><p>&gt;It does reduce flexibility when new video formats get released though.<p>A new video codec is released and adopted once every ten years. So I dont think it would be a problem. Hardware encoding also trade compression quality for speed. And they are compensating it with slightly higher bitrate. It will also reduce their incentives for improving open source encoder.<p>Although I think even Netflix switched to BEAMR ( Cant really blame them though )<p>I think the next frontier, for both Audio and Video will be Codec designed with LiveStreaming &#x2F; Low Latency in mind.<p>( Or pretty much everything computing, I wish we could focus on latency, from Hardware Input, Display, Network, Disk, etc. Apple is certainly moving in that direction without talking about it. )</text><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised Facebook still uses software to do video encoding.<p>Most big companies with millions of hours of video uploaded each day have realised it&#x27;s cheaper to stick a bunch of hardware video encoding chips onto an accelerator board and be able to transcode 100 HD streams simultaneously into all the formats and resolutions you need to host.<p>The power savings on CPU&#x27;s pay for the custom hardware in a matter of months.<p>It does reduce flexibility when new video formats get released though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Facebook encodes videos</title><url>https://engineering.fb.com/2021/04/05/video-engineering/how-facebook-encodes-your-videos/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>astrange</author><text>Hardware encoders are not as good because they have worse algorithms in order to make them faster. I don’t think you could make an x265 ASIC.<p>Also, good video codec engineers can’t be hired for any predictable amount of money, and ones who speak Verilog barely exist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised Facebook still uses software to do video encoding.<p>Most big companies with millions of hours of video uploaded each day have realised it&#x27;s cheaper to stick a bunch of hardware video encoding chips onto an accelerator board and be able to transcode 100 HD streams simultaneously into all the formats and resolutions you need to host.<p>The power savings on CPU&#x27;s pay for the custom hardware in a matter of months.<p>It does reduce flexibility when new video formats get released though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Facebook encodes videos</title><url>https://engineering.fb.com/2021/04/05/video-engineering/how-facebook-encodes-your-videos/</url></story> |
23,692,579 | 23,692,151 | 1 | 2 | 23,691,190 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stronglikedan</author><text>&gt; Bit I wonder why everyone talking about one specific app?<p>In this particular case, I think it&#x27;s because the person who apparently discovered it claims that other apps &quot;don&#x27;t collect anywhere near the same amount of data that TikTok does&quot;. [0]<p>&gt; For what it&#x27;s worth I&#x27;ve reversed the Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter apps. They don&#x27;t collect anywhere near the same amount of data that TikTok does, and they sure as hell aren&#x27;t outright trying to hide exactly whats being sent like TikTok is. It&#x27;s like comparing a cup of water to the ocean - they just don&#x27;t compare.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;videos&#x2F;comments&#x2F;fxgi06&#x2F;not_new_news_but_tbh_if_you_have_tiktiok_just_get&#x2F;fmuko1m&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;videos&#x2F;comments&#x2F;fxgi06&#x2F;not_new_news...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>zkid18</author><text>Great to see another layer of transparency in ios14.<p>Bit I wonder why everyone talking about one specific app?
I see a huge bias towards TikTok in headlines<p>&quot;iOS 14 caught TikTok and other apps spying on the clipboard&quot; [0]<p>&quot;iOS 14 beta shows apps like TikTok still spy on your iPhone&quot; [1]<p>There a bunch of apps like VICE, Google News, WSJ that has been caught doing exactly the same. [2]<p>I may find the explanation why TikTok did that. In China WeChat blocks direct links to their competitors. So apps like Taobao or Douyin have to find a workaround for deeplinks.
When you want to share the video from Douyin with a friend in WeChat, Douyin generates the following message.<p>在东京刚毕业入职三个月的职场小白 搬家找房 坚持更新#日本vlog #东京 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v.douyin.com&#x2F;J8ceMYY&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v.douyin.com&#x2F;J8ceMYY&#x2F;</a> 复制此链接，打开【抖音短视频】，直接观看视频！<p>In WeChat the link is not clickbale. To see the content user has to copy full text and go to the Douyin. The app will read the clipboard and perform the transition to the video. On the link below you can find the video - explanation [3]<p>Probably they had re-use some code in TikTok. Definitely they need to be more accurate towards data safety but I don&#x27;t think they really made a pipeline for spying using clipboard.<p>There is a lot of buzz around TikTok these days, but I want to get an answer from other apps as well.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bgr.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;ios-14-beta-privacy-features-tiktok-spying-clipboard-data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bgr.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;ios-14-beta-privacy-features-tikt...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;iphone-ios-14-privacy-clipboard-apple-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;iphone-ios-14-privacy-clipboard...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kidrulit&#x2F;status&#x2F;1277629462721384448" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kidrulit&#x2F;status&#x2F;1277629462721384448</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being caught in the act</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/25/tiktok-clipboard-access-ios-14-caught/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thewindow</author><text>Just because other apps do that is no excuse for bad behaviour. Almost all apps get flack for bad behaviour. Tiktok is the newest popular thing on the block and it is expected to be widely covered.
Honestly it is okay to discuss the bar behaviours of an app without blaming other apps.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zkid18</author><text>Great to see another layer of transparency in ios14.<p>Bit I wonder why everyone talking about one specific app?
I see a huge bias towards TikTok in headlines<p>&quot;iOS 14 caught TikTok and other apps spying on the clipboard&quot; [0]<p>&quot;iOS 14 beta shows apps like TikTok still spy on your iPhone&quot; [1]<p>There a bunch of apps like VICE, Google News, WSJ that has been caught doing exactly the same. [2]<p>I may find the explanation why TikTok did that. In China WeChat blocks direct links to their competitors. So apps like Taobao or Douyin have to find a workaround for deeplinks.
When you want to share the video from Douyin with a friend in WeChat, Douyin generates the following message.<p>在东京刚毕业入职三个月的职场小白 搬家找房 坚持更新#日本vlog #东京 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v.douyin.com&#x2F;J8ceMYY&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v.douyin.com&#x2F;J8ceMYY&#x2F;</a> 复制此链接，打开【抖音短视频】，直接观看视频！<p>In WeChat the link is not clickbale. To see the content user has to copy full text and go to the Douyin. The app will read the clipboard and perform the transition to the video. On the link below you can find the video - explanation [3]<p>Probably they had re-use some code in TikTok. Definitely they need to be more accurate towards data safety but I don&#x27;t think they really made a pipeline for spying using clipboard.<p>There is a lot of buzz around TikTok these days, but I want to get an answer from other apps as well.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bgr.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;ios-14-beta-privacy-features-tiktok-spying-clipboard-data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bgr.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;ios-14-beta-privacy-features-tikt...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;iphone-ios-14-privacy-clipboard-apple-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;iphone-ios-14-privacy-clipboard...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kidrulit&#x2F;status&#x2F;1277629462721384448" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kidrulit&#x2F;status&#x2F;1277629462721384448</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being caught in the act</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/25/tiktok-clipboard-access-ios-14-caught/</url></story> |
31,907,657 | 31,907,481 | 1 | 3 | 31,903,480 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>horsawlarway</author><text>&gt; Sad thing is, that if someone would spend a ton of research and thinking on making something usable and comfortable, most people would completely poopoo it as a freaky unusable layout, just because it would look unfamiliar, lol.<p>Absolutely. 8-Pen was this for Android. (example video here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=q3OuCR0EpGo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=q3OuCR0EpGo</a>)<p>It was absolutely, hands down without question, the most accurate way to quickly enter text into a phone using only a screen. Seriously - I could type at about 25-35 wpm on my phone screen at 100% accuracy, one handed.<p>They&#x27;d done a ton of work to place letters based on frequency and likely combinations to make typing smooth and relatively fast.<p>No fucking disaster of auto-complete that I have to click to get the word I want, or when you actually have a vocabulary larger than 150 words, but auto-complete is fucking dumb and always picks the most basic option from the path, or when the word you want isn&#x27;t in the phone dictionary, no hiccups if you want to misssspell something for impact. It was genuinely just the best keyboard I have <i>EVER</i> used on a phone.<p>The downside? It takes about 3 weeks of practice to actually learn, and most people just refuse to try for longer than 10 seconds.<p>I still find it incredibly frustrating that qwerty, of all god-damned things, is the input formula we&#x27;ve picked for phones. It&#x27;s fucking dumb.</text><parent_chain><item><author>megous</author><text>As an author of pinephone keyboard firmware, I spent a bit of time thinking and trying to use keyboard like this. I can say that what hinders portability&#x2F;serious use of all of these layout designs that try to emulate regular big keyboard is that they try to emulate big keyboard layout. That layout is made with an asumption that you have many fingers available, and that they can easily reach anywhere if you like.<p>If you have only two thumbs available for typing, that can only reach about half the keyboard each (quite a hard limit!), you realize how asumptions this layout makes suddenly don&#x27;t hold, and normal things like ctrl+a or alt+shift+1, or alt+shift+any arrow are almost impossible.<p>Yes, you can modify the shortcuts in i3wm,screen,... (not Firefox, which is quite resistant to modifying keyboard shortcuts by design) specially for your &quot;PDA&quot;. But if you just want a portable device you can painlessly migrate your tasks to for a few days a year, spending a lot of time designing shortcuts for your DE, or terminal multiplexer, is not that appealing.<p>It would be probably more useful if key layout was designed from the start to allow various modifier combos to be invoked by dedicated keys, or layout designed so that more modifiers were symetricaly placed (or something even less traditional, and have all letter&#x2F;number keys on the right and all modifier&#x2F;modifier combos&#x2F;special keys on the left), instead of wasting space on big enter key, or big spacebar (for which you may spend several HW iterations just to make those right and reactive on their whole surface), etc. Due to size, it&#x27;s usually uncomfortable to press 3 key combos even with the keyboard laying on the table.<p>Also comfortable position for the most comonly used keys (usually modifiers) is not on the edge of the keyboard. That&#x27;s really pretty bad for your thumbs.<p>The layout of these things just needs a lot more thought.<p>Sad thing is, that if someone would spend a ton of research and thinking on making something usable and comfortable, most people would completely poopoo it as a freaky unusable layout, just because it would look unfamiliar, lol.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The PocketReform is a made-in-Berlin Linux handheld</title><url>https://tuxphones.com/mnt-pocketreform-open-hardware-linux-pda-keyboard-arm/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fer</author><text>For a portable device I&#x27;d love to see a layout&#x2F;controller like this [0]. I owned one for a while over 10 years ago, and while it took a while to get used to it, it was great for typing text. I gave up on it because I rely a lot on hjkl for movement everywhere and symbols for programming weren&#x27;t super accessible, so it wasn&#x27;t really all that convenient for my main use case, but I&#x27;d use it over any 7-inch physical keyboard (or virtual keyboard, of course).<p>Personally I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a good traditional (as in, flat and square mesh of keys) keyboard in those size ranges. For me it&#x27;s regular keyboard if there&#x27;s space, gamepad-like at around the 7 inch size, then BlackBerry style if any smaller.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alphagrips.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alphagrips.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>megous</author><text>As an author of pinephone keyboard firmware, I spent a bit of time thinking and trying to use keyboard like this. I can say that what hinders portability&#x2F;serious use of all of these layout designs that try to emulate regular big keyboard is that they try to emulate big keyboard layout. That layout is made with an asumption that you have many fingers available, and that they can easily reach anywhere if you like.<p>If you have only two thumbs available for typing, that can only reach about half the keyboard each (quite a hard limit!), you realize how asumptions this layout makes suddenly don&#x27;t hold, and normal things like ctrl+a or alt+shift+1, or alt+shift+any arrow are almost impossible.<p>Yes, you can modify the shortcuts in i3wm,screen,... (not Firefox, which is quite resistant to modifying keyboard shortcuts by design) specially for your &quot;PDA&quot;. But if you just want a portable device you can painlessly migrate your tasks to for a few days a year, spending a lot of time designing shortcuts for your DE, or terminal multiplexer, is not that appealing.<p>It would be probably more useful if key layout was designed from the start to allow various modifier combos to be invoked by dedicated keys, or layout designed so that more modifiers were symetricaly placed (or something even less traditional, and have all letter&#x2F;number keys on the right and all modifier&#x2F;modifier combos&#x2F;special keys on the left), instead of wasting space on big enter key, or big spacebar (for which you may spend several HW iterations just to make those right and reactive on their whole surface), etc. Due to size, it&#x27;s usually uncomfortable to press 3 key combos even with the keyboard laying on the table.<p>Also comfortable position for the most comonly used keys (usually modifiers) is not on the edge of the keyboard. That&#x27;s really pretty bad for your thumbs.<p>The layout of these things just needs a lot more thought.<p>Sad thing is, that if someone would spend a ton of research and thinking on making something usable and comfortable, most people would completely poopoo it as a freaky unusable layout, just because it would look unfamiliar, lol.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The PocketReform is a made-in-Berlin Linux handheld</title><url>https://tuxphones.com/mnt-pocketreform-open-hardware-linux-pda-keyboard-arm/</url></story> |
16,574,914 | 16,574,125 | 1 | 2 | 16,573,627 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rmc</author><text>The Free Software Foundation has some details on this[1]. This used to come up with the video player VLC, but they seem to have relicenced it, and it&#x27;s now possible.[2]<p>I&#x27;ve heard one reason is that the App Store requires users to agree to additional usage restrictions, which the GPL forbids distributors (in this case Apple) from applying.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fsf.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;licensing&#x2F;more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fsf.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;licensing&#x2F;more-about-the-app-store...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.videolan.org&#x2F;vlc&#x2F;download-ios.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.videolan.org&#x2F;vlc&#x2F;download-ios.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>Is this actually correct? If I distribute my app on the App Store, and provide a GitHub link in the description of the the full source code of the app, then it should comply with the GPL.</text></item><item><author>Arbalest</author><text>I like this part on the end<p>&gt; App Store terms and conditions forbid distribution of Free Software that grants users freedom to use the program any way they want. You&#x27;re not allowed to distribute this software with DRM applied to it.<p>Basically the essence of the GPL in one short paragraph.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lossy GIF compressor</title><url>https://kornel.ski/lossygif</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zbowling</author><text>If you own all the copyrights to the source of the app you are linking on Github, then you can release it on the Appstore effectively under a different license for that version. If you don&#x27;t own all the code, then are possibly violating someone else&#x27;s license.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>Is this actually correct? If I distribute my app on the App Store, and provide a GitHub link in the description of the the full source code of the app, then it should comply with the GPL.</text></item><item><author>Arbalest</author><text>I like this part on the end<p>&gt; App Store terms and conditions forbid distribution of Free Software that grants users freedom to use the program any way they want. You&#x27;re not allowed to distribute this software with DRM applied to it.<p>Basically the essence of the GPL in one short paragraph.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lossy GIF compressor</title><url>https://kornel.ski/lossygif</url></story> |
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