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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>niftich</author><text>Spring class names are the stuff of legend, but most of those classes you wouldn&amp;#x27;t deliberately use in your application. They&amp;#x27;re there so Spring can layer up its own functionality feature by feature. The &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; problematic part about this is when these class names leak into error messages, and the level of indirection becomes difficult to follow.&lt;p&gt;The way you use the core inversion-of-control framework people often just call &amp;quot;Spring&amp;quot; is you take your homegrown, doesn&amp;#x27;t-depend-on-Spring business logic, you make a config file, and if you&amp;#x27;re not executing it a servlet container, you make one entry-point class to start it all up [1].&lt;p&gt;There other projects under the Spring umbrella, and some of them are meant to be called from your code. Like Spring JDBC for database access, whose framework-like nature is apparent, yet in terms of its usage pattern, it resembles a library [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;spring-framework-reference&amp;#x2F;core.html#beans&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;spring-framework-...&lt;/a&gt; [2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;spring-framework-reference&amp;#x2F;data-access.html#jdbc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;spring-framework-...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>&lt;i&gt;A framework, usually, must predict ahead of time every kind of thing a user of it might need to do within its walls.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The one thing not mentioned in the article is that the above line of thinking is almost guaranteed to lead to an insane level of abstraction, which was parodied in this classic article from nearly 15 years ago:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20141018110445&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discuss.joelonsoftware.com&amp;#x2F;?joel.3.219431.12&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20141018110445&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discuss.joe...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Sadly, that site is gone, but the memories live on...)&lt;p&gt;Addendum: to see this in practice, one needs to look no farther than Spring, the famous Java framework:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring-framework&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;javadoc-api&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring-framework&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;javadoc...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring-framework&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;javadoc-api&amp;#x2F;org&amp;#x2F;springframework&amp;#x2F;aop&amp;#x2F;framework&amp;#x2F;AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring-framework&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;javadoc...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring-framework&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;javadoc-api&amp;#x2F;org&amp;#x2F;springframework&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;servlet&amp;#x2F;support&amp;#x2F;AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring-framework&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;javadoc...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Write Libraries, Not Frameworks</title><url>https://www.brandons.me/blog/libraries-not-frameworks</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sidpatil</author><text>&amp;quot;If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.&amp;quot; —Carl Sagan</text><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>&lt;i&gt;A framework, usually, must predict ahead of time every kind of thing a user of it might need to do within its walls.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The one thing not mentioned in the article is that the above line of thinking is almost guaranteed to lead to an insane level of abstraction, which was parodied in this classic article from nearly 15 years ago:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20141018110445&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discuss.joelonsoftware.com&amp;#x2F;?joel.3.219431.12&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20141018110445&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discuss.joe...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Sadly, that site is gone, but the memories live on...)&lt;p&gt;Addendum: to see this in practice, one needs to look no farther than Spring, the famous Java framework:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring-framework&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;javadoc-api&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring-framework&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;javadoc...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring-framework&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;javadoc-api&amp;#x2F;org&amp;#x2F;springframework&amp;#x2F;aop&amp;#x2F;framework&amp;#x2F;AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring-framework&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;javadoc...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring-framework&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;javadoc-api&amp;#x2F;org&amp;#x2F;springframework&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;servlet&amp;#x2F;support&amp;#x2F;AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.spring.io&amp;#x2F;spring-framework&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;current&amp;#x2F;javadoc...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Write Libraries, Not Frameworks</title><url>https://www.brandons.me/blog/libraries-not-frameworks</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ImageXav</author><text>If anyone is on the fence about reading this, or worried about their ability to comprehend the content, I would tell you to go ahead and give it a chance. Shannon&amp;#x27;s writing is remarkably lucid and transparent. The jargon is minimal, and his exposition is fantastic.&lt;p&gt;As many other commentators has mentioned, it is impressive that such an approachable paper would lay the foundations for a whole field. I actually find that many subsequent textbooks seem to obfuscate the simplicity of the idea of entropy.&lt;p&gt;Two examples from the paper really stuck with me. In one, he discusses the importance of spaces for encoding language, something which I had never really considered before. In the second, he discusses how it is the redundancy of language that allows for crosswords, and that a less redundant language would make it harder to design these (unless we started making them 3D!). It made me think more deeply about communication as a whole.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf]</title><url>https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.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>shalabhc</author><text>While well known for this paper and &amp;quot;information theory&amp;quot;, Shannon&amp;#x27;s master&amp;#x27;s thesis* is worth checking out as well. It demonstrated some equivalence between electrical circuits and boolean algebra, and was one of the key ideas that enabled digital computers.&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_and_Switching_Circuits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_a...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf]</title><url>https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bloopernova</author><text>That was really informative, but it raised a question for me:&lt;p&gt;It described the browser as single threaded, but then talked about multiple concurrent tasks. Aren&amp;#x27;t those threads?&lt;p&gt;One more question: are there any browsers that use multiple threads to lay out the various object models and render the page? If it&amp;#x27;s been found to be too difficult, what were the issues?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Populating the page: how browsers work (2020)</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/How_browsers_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>hkt</author><text>Neat. I&amp;#x27;m trying to write a browser, of a kind, which is focused on only presenting content, navigation, and an index of content where appropriate. I&amp;#x27;ll try to incorporate things like this into my thinking.&lt;p&gt;(Browser is here, very early stages, not appropriate for any kind of use really while I move to fltk: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jmthackett&amp;#x2F;freeflow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jmthackett&amp;#x2F;freeflow&lt;/a&gt; )</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Populating the page: how browsers work (2020)</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/How_browsers_work</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>The US of 1881 wasn’t in a position to bully France. That came after the two world wars.</text><parent_chain><item><author>4oh9do</author><text>This is the anecdote that is most egregious to me in this article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This is not the first time Bitche has been caught up in a censorship crossfire. In 1881, U.S. Ambassador to France Levi Parsons Morton took issue with the location of the American embassy on the Place de Bitche in Paris, named in honor of the town&amp;#x27;s wartime effort. Morton, embarrassed by the embassy&amp;#x27;s letterhead, asked Parisian authorities to rename the square — they obliged, changing it to Place des États-Unis.&lt;p&gt;As long as other countries continue to willingly comply and bend to the will of the US, the US will continue being the bully that it is.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for French town of Bitche</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/facebook-unpublishes-official-page-for-french-town-of-bitche/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>To me it sounds like the name was mocking the Americans, by renaming what the Americans considered &amp;quot;bitch&amp;quot; to United States, implying the US was the bitch.</text><parent_chain><item><author>4oh9do</author><text>This is the anecdote that is most egregious to me in this article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This is not the first time Bitche has been caught up in a censorship crossfire. In 1881, U.S. Ambassador to France Levi Parsons Morton took issue with the location of the American embassy on the Place de Bitche in Paris, named in honor of the town&amp;#x27;s wartime effort. Morton, embarrassed by the embassy&amp;#x27;s letterhead, asked Parisian authorities to rename the square — they obliged, changing it to Place des États-Unis.&lt;p&gt;As long as other countries continue to willingly comply and bend to the will of the US, the US will continue being the bully that it is.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for French town of Bitche</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/facebook-unpublishes-official-page-for-french-town-of-bitche/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>Google is just shit.&lt;p&gt;As my company briefly decided to look into using them for a cloud provider it quickly became apparent that they are just awful stewards of any software that isn’t related to advertisements.&lt;p&gt;It’s beyond shocking how amateurish GCP is being operated.&lt;p&gt;My assumption is it comes down to really awful leadership. They only care about making and selling new things. You simply can’t trust that any piece of software or hardware will receive ongoing support, including their cloud offerings.</text><parent_chain><item><author>largepeepee</author><text>I feel like it&amp;#x27;s not only products that get left behind once Google gets bored.&lt;p&gt;Many of Google&amp;#x27;s software eventually get worse too. YouTube for example has killed most of their social features by removing dislikes, limited searchability of videos by channel, allowed bots to fill the comments. And Google search has so much malware in their ads that pop up first, that even govts are recommending ad blockers by default.&lt;p&gt;Such a pity, Google used to be the most respected of the SV big tech.</text></item><item><author>Corrado</author><text>I feel like this is just one more thing that Google leadership is failing at. I have some similar examples to the ones in the article. I recommended that my brother-in-law get a Google wifi AP some years ago. Recently, I got an email from Google saying that they are no longer supporting it and after a certain date you will no longer be able to make changes to it. WTF?!? My Apple Airport Extreme is older than the Google AP and it still gets updates and I&amp;#x27;m free to change the settings at any time.&lt;p&gt;Another example was my old Nest thermostat. I was so excited to up-my-game and replace the old, crappy thermostat with something that could change the temperature based on the weather forecast. My happiness was short lived; Google purchased Nest and forced everyone to change over to their Google account. Then features stopped working. I finally had to remove the Nest and replace it with something else, mostly because Google just seemed to not care anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I&apos;m never investing in Google&apos;s smart home ecosystem again</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/google-smart-home-3319869/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hackernewds</author><text>I had to delete the YouTube app simply because there was no way to disable Shorts. Those things are hopelessly addictive and unavoidable. If I wanted shorts, I&amp;#x27;d install TikTok.</text><parent_chain><item><author>largepeepee</author><text>I feel like it&amp;#x27;s not only products that get left behind once Google gets bored.&lt;p&gt;Many of Google&amp;#x27;s software eventually get worse too. YouTube for example has killed most of their social features by removing dislikes, limited searchability of videos by channel, allowed bots to fill the comments. And Google search has so much malware in their ads that pop up first, that even govts are recommending ad blockers by default.&lt;p&gt;Such a pity, Google used to be the most respected of the SV big tech.</text></item><item><author>Corrado</author><text>I feel like this is just one more thing that Google leadership is failing at. I have some similar examples to the ones in the article. I recommended that my brother-in-law get a Google wifi AP some years ago. Recently, I got an email from Google saying that they are no longer supporting it and after a certain date you will no longer be able to make changes to it. WTF?!? My Apple Airport Extreme is older than the Google AP and it still gets updates and I&amp;#x27;m free to change the settings at any time.&lt;p&gt;Another example was my old Nest thermostat. I was so excited to up-my-game and replace the old, crappy thermostat with something that could change the temperature based on the weather forecast. My happiness was short lived; Google purchased Nest and forced everyone to change over to their Google account. Then features stopped working. I finally had to remove the Nest and replace it with something else, mostly because Google just seemed to not care anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I&apos;m never investing in Google&apos;s smart home ecosystem again</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/google-smart-home-3319869/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pengaru</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not like you don&amp;#x27;t have the option of burning $duration_of_commute on personal time when you&amp;#x27;re already at home. &lt;i&gt;You&lt;/i&gt; set the boundaries, enforce them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a very personal decision though. For example, if I may offer up some counterarguments:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I step outside my home office to see my family and start unwinding for the evening. No wasted time on commute&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find the commute (by train, I&amp;#x27;m lucky enough to get a seat) far more effective for unwinding to be honest. And once I&amp;#x27;m home, I&amp;#x27;m far more engaged with the family due to having that buffer time between work and home.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;the options for places to live are endless.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That never actually stopped me before. Hence the commute&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Not to mention I eat my own food on my lunch break.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;the biggest thing I miss about not commuting into London is the food. The variety, the quality, and above all, not having to cook it myself. Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I don&amp;#x27;t mind cooking. But a lot of eateries do a lot better job of their signature meal than I could.&lt;p&gt;That all said, I&amp;#x27;m in no rush to go back. And when I do, it&amp;#x27;ll be a hybrid approach. Some days in and some days from home.&lt;p&gt;edit: why am I getting &lt;i&gt;heavily&lt;/i&gt; down voted for discussing personal reasons why I enjoyed working in the office? It&amp;#x27;s not like I&amp;#x27;m telling you your opinions are wrong or that you should go back to the office. All I&amp;#x27;m doing is voicing that there are some who do enjoy travelling into the city most days. Is it really that offensive a view point to read? Some people on here don&amp;#x27;t deserve to have moderation privileges.</text></item><item><author>lancemurdock</author><text>you can&amp;#x27;t put a price on the feeling I get when 5-530 hits, and I step outside my home office to see my family and start unwinding for the evening. No wasted time on commute and the options for places to live are endless. Not to mention I eat my own food on my lunch break.&lt;p&gt;I miss some interaction&amp;#x2F;bonding with coworkers and certainly acknowledge that &amp;quot;hallway talk&amp;quot; helped clear up requirements but the pros of work from home life are incomparable to the cons. I will never go back to an office</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turmoil at Bezos&apos; Blue Origin: Talent exodus after CEO push for return to office</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-talent-exodus-ceo-pushed-return-to-office.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>bboylen</author><text>So this shows why flexibility is important, so you can satisfy the different preferences of employees.&lt;p&gt;From the article, it sounds like the CEO wanted to get rid of remote work all together.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a very personal decision though. For example, if I may offer up some counterarguments:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I step outside my home office to see my family and start unwinding for the evening. No wasted time on commute&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find the commute (by train, I&amp;#x27;m lucky enough to get a seat) far more effective for unwinding to be honest. And once I&amp;#x27;m home, I&amp;#x27;m far more engaged with the family due to having that buffer time between work and home.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;the options for places to live are endless.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That never actually stopped me before. Hence the commute&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Not to mention I eat my own food on my lunch break.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;the biggest thing I miss about not commuting into London is the food. The variety, the quality, and above all, not having to cook it myself. Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I don&amp;#x27;t mind cooking. But a lot of eateries do a lot better job of their signature meal than I could.&lt;p&gt;That all said, I&amp;#x27;m in no rush to go back. And when I do, it&amp;#x27;ll be a hybrid approach. Some days in and some days from home.&lt;p&gt;edit: why am I getting &lt;i&gt;heavily&lt;/i&gt; down voted for discussing personal reasons why I enjoyed working in the office? It&amp;#x27;s not like I&amp;#x27;m telling you your opinions are wrong or that you should go back to the office. All I&amp;#x27;m doing is voicing that there are some who do enjoy travelling into the city most days. Is it really that offensive a view point to read? Some people on here don&amp;#x27;t deserve to have moderation privileges.</text></item><item><author>lancemurdock</author><text>you can&amp;#x27;t put a price on the feeling I get when 5-530 hits, and I step outside my home office to see my family and start unwinding for the evening. No wasted time on commute and the options for places to live are endless. Not to mention I eat my own food on my lunch break.&lt;p&gt;I miss some interaction&amp;#x2F;bonding with coworkers and certainly acknowledge that &amp;quot;hallway talk&amp;quot; helped clear up requirements but the pros of work from home life are incomparable to the cons. I will never go back to an office</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turmoil at Bezos&apos; Blue Origin: Talent exodus after CEO push for return to office</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-talent-exodus-ceo-pushed-return-to-office.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjeaff</author><text>And just in case anyone thinks the idea that an elite school won&amp;#x27;t help a rich kid, there have been studies indicating that is the case.&lt;p&gt;The one that comes to mind was the study that compared long term outcomes of students who were accepted to Harvard and attended to those who were accepted but did not attend.&lt;p&gt;Average future incomes were not statistically different.&lt;p&gt;But the study did note that the starkest improvents in future incomes were found in poor and minority students.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>In this day and age, with all the fierce competition, it&amp;#x27;s a real problem that elite universities are admitting rich kids on such unfair and uneven grounds.&lt;p&gt;Going to the &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; school can transform the life of some people, essentially pulling them up from the lower working classes, and opening up the doors to middle, or even upper-middle classes.&lt;p&gt;And what&amp;#x27;s even worse, a lot of these rich kids could go pretty much &lt;i&gt;anywhere&lt;/i&gt;, without it affecting their future finances or lifestyle - if anything, it almost seems like a vanity project from their parents side, where they get the bragging rights that their kids are studying at HYPS or whatever.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s not that the kids of richer parents are necessarily worse, academically speaking - many of them get private tutors, go to private &amp;#x2F; prep schools, etc. from young age, but still the parents are so risk averse, that they feel the need to pour even more money, just to eliminate the stress of uncertainty. Even if it&amp;#x27;s illegal.&lt;p&gt;I know these cases encompass a broad range of controversy (for example that top-tier Asian-American students can&amp;#x27;t get into certain schools, because of some nonsensical &amp;quot;personality&amp;quot; assessments) - but in the end, it&amp;#x27;s just plain old classism. Doesn&amp;#x27;t mater what skin color you have, where you come from; As long as you have the cash, the odds are increasing in your favor.&lt;p&gt;Then you have rich folks like David E. Shaw. The guy spent literally &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;tens&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; of millions in donations, to all the top schools, just to increase the chance of his kids getting accepted (or rather - minimize the chances of their kids getting rejected)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors to donors</title><url>https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2019-113/sections.html#section1</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mellowdream</author><text>Private schools can be and are as unfair as they want, only it&amp;#x27;s upsetting when they still maintain pretenses suggesting they are not.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s nice that this sort of due diligence and review is even possible with public institutions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>In this day and age, with all the fierce competition, it&amp;#x27;s a real problem that elite universities are admitting rich kids on such unfair and uneven grounds.&lt;p&gt;Going to the &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; school can transform the life of some people, essentially pulling them up from the lower working classes, and opening up the doors to middle, or even upper-middle classes.&lt;p&gt;And what&amp;#x27;s even worse, a lot of these rich kids could go pretty much &lt;i&gt;anywhere&lt;/i&gt;, without it affecting their future finances or lifestyle - if anything, it almost seems like a vanity project from their parents side, where they get the bragging rights that their kids are studying at HYPS or whatever.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s not that the kids of richer parents are necessarily worse, academically speaking - many of them get private tutors, go to private &amp;#x2F; prep schools, etc. from young age, but still the parents are so risk averse, that they feel the need to pour even more money, just to eliminate the stress of uncertainty. Even if it&amp;#x27;s illegal.&lt;p&gt;I know these cases encompass a broad range of controversy (for example that top-tier Asian-American students can&amp;#x27;t get into certain schools, because of some nonsensical &amp;quot;personality&amp;quot; assessments) - but in the end, it&amp;#x27;s just plain old classism. Doesn&amp;#x27;t mater what skin color you have, where you come from; As long as you have the cash, the odds are increasing in your favor.&lt;p&gt;Then you have rich folks like David E. Shaw. The guy spent literally &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;tens&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; of millions in donations, to all the top schools, just to increase the chance of his kids getting accepted (or rather - minimize the chances of their kids getting rejected)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors to donors</title><url>https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2019-113/sections.html#section1</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Turing_Machine</author><text>The headline, while accurate, doesn&amp;#x27;t really describe the breakthrough here.&lt;p&gt;In itself, it&amp;#x27;s not surprising that sunlight, hydrogen from water and CO2 could be put together to make biomass. That&amp;#x27;s pretty much what plants (and many natural bacteria) do already.&lt;p&gt;The novel aspect of these bacteria is that they apparently do the job 10x more efficiently than natural organisms.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientist Engineers Bacterium That Inhales CO2, Produces Energy</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2016/05/29/harvard-scientist-engineers-a-superbug-that-inhales-co2-produces-energy/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fabian2k</author><text>The headline is seriously misleading, the energy comes from sunlight which is used to split water into hydrogen. And the bacteria use the hydrogen as an energy source to create biomass from CO2. That biomass is mostly in burnable fuel.&lt;p&gt;The article is very interesting, but the headline makes it sound like a fundamental misunderstanding of thermodynamics.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientist Engineers Bacterium That Inhales CO2, Produces Energy</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2016/05/29/harvard-scientist-engineers-a-superbug-that-inhales-co2-produces-energy/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bluejekyll</author><text>&amp;gt; an avid Rust user puts their money where their mouth is&lt;p&gt;There are lots of people doing this. Look at crates.io. I decided to write a new fully compliant DNS server and client, trust-dns. I work on it in my spare time (it&amp;#x27;s time not money), which is hard with two kids.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve learned a few things. It&amp;#x27;s hard to get it done. There&amp;#x27;s a lot to learn from the rfc&amp;#x27;s. Just because it&amp;#x27;s Rust, doesn&amp;#x27;t mean it&amp;#x27;s easy. There are all the same borrow rules, and I know I have a bunch of TODOs in the code to go fix things like extra clones. The IDEs, while good, are not on par with other languages yet.&lt;p&gt;Basically it&amp;#x27;s a lot of work. And I commend the individuals who&amp;#x27;ve paved the way for me with the std library in Rust, but we still have so much more work to do until there is a full OS env like GNU.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rubiquity</author><text>I think what GP is saying that you&amp;#x27;ll have problems in logic or other typical programming problems and that it isn&amp;#x27;t a lack of language features&amp;#x2F;safety but rather time&amp;#x2F;money being thrown at these libraries&lt;p&gt;I imagine the top two reasons unsafe memory access happen is:&lt;p&gt;1) other complicated logic seeped into the memory sensitive area or causes programmer fatigue&lt;p&gt;2) memory management is hard&lt;p&gt;Rust helps with #2 but let&amp;#x27;s not kid ourselves, what percentage of a library like glibc would be spent in unsafe blocks? Drawing attention to an unsafe area can help though.&lt;p&gt;As you can see, I&amp;#x27;m running around in circles. Just like every discussion about this does. Until an avid Rust user puts their money where their mouth is, we&amp;#x27;re all just playing Armchair Programmer.</text></item><item><author>pcwalton</author><text>&amp;gt; A rewrite would clean up the code, sure, but then you&amp;#x27;re left in the same situation, only with brand new bugs that nobody has time to fix.&lt;p&gt;The entire point is that you&amp;#x27;re &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; in the same situation regarding memory safety problems&amp;#x2F;vulnerabilities.</text></item><item><author>panic</author><text>I think this misses the real problem. So many pieces of foundational software like glibc and OpenSSL are understaffed, underfunded, and plagued by terrible code. Go read glibc getaddrinfo: it&amp;#x27;s a mess!&lt;p&gt;Rewriting the software in Rust would not solve these problems any more than rewriting it in C++ would. A rewrite would clean up the code, sure, but then you&amp;#x27;re left in the same situation, only with brand new bugs that nobody has time to fix.&lt;p&gt;We need to have incentives for maintaining this foundational software.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rewrite Everything in Rust</title><url>http://robert.ocallahan.org/2016/02/rewrite-everything-in-rust.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>pcwalton</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand the difference between #1 and #2, or why Rust helps with one and not the other. If memory safety is enforced, it&amp;#x27;s enforced.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Rust helps with #2 but let&amp;#x27;s not kid ourselves, what percentage of a library like glibc would be spent in unsafe blocks?&lt;p&gt;string.h is not as interesting as, say, the DNS resolver. Nothing about the DNS resolver needs to be unsafe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rubiquity</author><text>I think what GP is saying that you&amp;#x27;ll have problems in logic or other typical programming problems and that it isn&amp;#x27;t a lack of language features&amp;#x2F;safety but rather time&amp;#x2F;money being thrown at these libraries&lt;p&gt;I imagine the top two reasons unsafe memory access happen is:&lt;p&gt;1) other complicated logic seeped into the memory sensitive area or causes programmer fatigue&lt;p&gt;2) memory management is hard&lt;p&gt;Rust helps with #2 but let&amp;#x27;s not kid ourselves, what percentage of a library like glibc would be spent in unsafe blocks? Drawing attention to an unsafe area can help though.&lt;p&gt;As you can see, I&amp;#x27;m running around in circles. Just like every discussion about this does. Until an avid Rust user puts their money where their mouth is, we&amp;#x27;re all just playing Armchair Programmer.</text></item><item><author>pcwalton</author><text>&amp;gt; A rewrite would clean up the code, sure, but then you&amp;#x27;re left in the same situation, only with brand new bugs that nobody has time to fix.&lt;p&gt;The entire point is that you&amp;#x27;re &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; in the same situation regarding memory safety problems&amp;#x2F;vulnerabilities.</text></item><item><author>panic</author><text>I think this misses the real problem. So many pieces of foundational software like glibc and OpenSSL are understaffed, underfunded, and plagued by terrible code. Go read glibc getaddrinfo: it&amp;#x27;s a mess!&lt;p&gt;Rewriting the software in Rust would not solve these problems any more than rewriting it in C++ would. A rewrite would clean up the code, sure, but then you&amp;#x27;re left in the same situation, only with brand new bugs that nobody has time to fix.&lt;p&gt;We need to have incentives for maintaining this foundational software.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rewrite Everything in Rust</title><url>http://robert.ocallahan.org/2016/02/rewrite-everything-in-rust.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dctoedt</author><text>A few points to help put this in context:&lt;p&gt;1. Technically, the USPTO hasn&apos;t yet &quot;invalidated&quot; the patent; it issued a first &quot;Office action&quot; in which it stated that all of the patents claims were unpatentable in view of varying combinations of prior-art references.&lt;p&gt;2. Institutionally the USPTO is very much aware of the significance of reexamination for a patent in litigation.&lt;p&gt;3. The Office action was signed by a &quot;primary&quot; examiner, i.e., someone who has been around the block a few times. Another primary examiner and a supervisory primary examiner are listed as &quot;conferees.&quot; You would be right to read this as a signal that the USPTO takes these matters very seriously; the detailed written analysis (which I haven&apos;t studied) seems to bear this out.&lt;p&gt;4. The primary reference cited is a patent [1] filed in November 2005 whose lead inventor was Danny Hillis --- dare I say, &lt;i&gt;the legendary&lt;/i&gt; Danny Hillis [2].&lt;p&gt;Another main reference is a Japanese patent publication from 2000, referred to as the Nomura reference.&lt;p&gt;5. In responding to the rejection, Apple can try to establish that their inventors predated Hillis&apos;s November 2005 filing date. This is referred to as &quot;swearing behind&quot; the Hillis patent&apos;s filing date [3]. But the Apple inventors&apos; filing date is January 2007; swearing behind that far would be a real challenge. (I won&apos;t go into the details of the statute and regulation unless people are interested.)&lt;p&gt;Apple can&apos;t swear behind the 2000 Nomura publication because it was published more than one year before Apple&apos;s January 2007 filing date --- see 35 USC 102(b).&lt;p&gt;6. Paragraph 14 on page 34 is pretty typical: It says, in effect, &quot;you&apos;d better take your best shot at contesting this rejection &lt;i&gt;now&lt;/i&gt;, Apple, because the next time around it will be a final rejection.&quot;&lt;p&gt;7. If, as seems likely, the USPTO does issue a final rejection, Apple can appeal, first to an administrative appellate body in the USPTO, and if necessary to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The Federal Circuit is required by Supreme Court precedent to be fairly deferential to the USPTO&apos;s findings in some respects, but it&apos;s not entirely clear to me how that would play out here.&lt;p&gt;[EDITED FOR STYLE]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/patents/US7724242&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/patents/US7724242&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Daniel_Hillis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Daniel_Hillis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swear_back_of_a_reference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swear_back_of_a_reference&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title></title></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>It&apos;s curious that Samsung&apos;s lawyers didn&apos;t manage to bring about the invalidation during trial, if its lack of validity was evident enough that the patent office is now retracting it. I&apos;m curious if&lt;p&gt;a) Samsung did present the evidence that the patent office relied on to invalidate but it was rejected by the jury&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; or &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; b) Samsung wasn&apos;t allowed to present it for some reason&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; or &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; c) Samsung didn&apos;t try to present it&lt;p&gt;Option a) or b) would provide yet another indication of a miscarriage of justice in the trial. Option c) would be be an indictment of Samsung&apos;s lawyers who seem to have performed quite poorly in many respects.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title></title></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MichaelGG</author><text>I know multiple customers with significant free Azure credit that prefer to pay for Google Cloud or AWS over using Azure for anything critical.&lt;p&gt;The management system is a mess - the new portal is nutty and slow. The old one lacks key features and operations are still slow. I can&amp;#x27;t understate how frustrating and time consuming this is. Maybe I&amp;#x27;m using it wrong, but whatever. Using GCP is a blast of fresh air - light, fast, straightforward.&lt;p&gt;VMs are way overpriced and have poor performance. Windows boxes not-so-infrequently get stuck during reboot, and we were told to resize them to get them going again. &amp;quot;Premium&amp;quot; storage aka SSDs have a terrible design. The temp disk system is nonsensical. It just goes on and on.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s obvious Azure is a great play for MS. They need to convert their enterprise customers that were spending tons on MS before to spending tons on MS online. And I&amp;#x27;m sure they&amp;#x27;ll do fine there (recent earnings confirm?).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Errors from Microsoft&apos;s Cloud</title><url>https://errorsazurethrows.tumblr.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>jsingleton</author><text>There &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; a few issues, but to be fair I&amp;#x27;ve encountered similar things in all the cloud and VPS hosting services I&amp;#x27;ve used. However, I do remember that I was once trying to push Azure as a solution and they promptly had an outage. We went with AWS instead. It&amp;#x27;s not that AWS don&amp;#x27;t have outages, they do, just that the timing was really bad.&lt;p&gt;Also, don&amp;#x27;t use the preview services in Azure apart from to try them out. They really are previews.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve recently written a three part series of blog posts on AWS vs Azure. The third part, on pricing, is out today.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;unop.uk&amp;#x2F;on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-confusion-part-3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;unop.uk&amp;#x2F;on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-c...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: One plus of Azure (at least for me) is that it runs on renewable energy. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;csr&amp;#x2F;environment&amp;#x2F;renewable_energy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;csr&amp;#x2F;environment&amp;#x2F;renewable_en...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Errors from Microsoft&apos;s Cloud</title><url>https://errorsazurethrows.tumblr.com/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gecko</author><text>I think you&apos;re looking at it wrong. Let me walk you through what I see/saw as someone who&apos;s been an active Linux, Windows, and Mac user since about 1996.&lt;p&gt;In 1993, I&apos;d write a Windows 3.1 app with Win16, a Mac app with the Mac Toolbox, and a Linux app with one of Athena, Xlib, or (I don&apos;t remember if this was around at the time) Motif.&lt;p&gt;In 1996, I would have made some trivial modifications to my Win16 app to make a Win32 app for Windows NT or 95 (and Microsoft made this a lot easier with things like message crackers and typedefs); my Mac app would need a recompile to target PowerPC, but otherwise be fine; and my Linux app still requires no changes either. So far, so good.&lt;p&gt;By 2001, my Windows app still works perfectly. It&apos;ll look dated unless I make some changes to the manifest to indicate that I&apos;m ready for the new common controls, but this is pretty straightforward to do; it&apos;s not a big rewrite. I can start heavily using COM without rewriting my whole code-base. My Mac app will have required a port to Carbon--significantly more work than the Win16 to Win32 migration, but not horrible, and my app&apos;s now native for the upcoming OS X.&lt;p&gt;But Linux? Wow. I mean, I guess I can keep running my app--it executes--but no one uses Athena, no use uses raw Xlib. I really need to port to Gtk+ 1.2 or Qt 2.0 if I want to look anything vaguely close to acceptable. And this is a &lt;i&gt;major&lt;/i&gt; rewrite for me to undertake; they look very little like their predecessors. Yes, the toolkits are open-source, and yes, they still &lt;i&gt;work&lt;/i&gt;, but let&apos;s be real here: I need to rewrite.&lt;p&gt;Let&apos;s move forward to 2005. My Win32 app &lt;i&gt;still works&lt;/i&gt;, without changes. Granted, I might want to start using the nascent .NET, but Managed C++ and COM interop makes that pretty easy to accomplish piecemeal. On the Mac side, the writing&apos;s getting on the wall that Carbon&apos;s going to die, so I&apos;m going to want to start porting to Cocoa, and that amounts to basically a full rewrite. I&apos;m also going to want to start porting my app to Intel.&lt;p&gt;And on the Linux side, I&apos;ve got to move to Gtk+ 2.0 or Qt 4.0. And that&apos;s again a &lt;i&gt;big deal&lt;/i&gt;. If you weren&apos;t using Gtk+ or Qt back then, you should know that it was (at least in my opinion) a relatively large amount of work to upgrade. Not a full rewrite, mind you, but Qt redid piles of classes, methods, and hierarchy, and Gtk+ introduced glib, reworked signalling, themes, and tons else I&apos;m forgetting. It was a lot of work.&lt;p&gt;Jump to 2010. My Win32 app fucking &lt;i&gt;still works&lt;/i&gt;. Managed C++ is really mature right now. And if I wrote C# or VB or anything in WinForms, it&apos;ll also still work, and it can use COM objects I export from my old C++ app, and expose COM objects to my old C++ app. My Mac app, rewritten in Cocoa, still works fine, as long as I ported it to Intel, too; otherwise, users can&apos;t easily run it without installing Rosetta, an automated, if separate, install. I&apos;m also going to be seriously thinking about trying to get it also running on Cocoa Touch for the i* devices, which have a radically different GUI toolkit. On the Linux side, the GUI of my app should still be in fairly good shape, although G-d help me if I did anything involving sound or 3D effects, since that API&apos;s gone through many wholesale changes in the last few years. And if I didn&apos;t write plain Qt and Gtk, but instead using GNOME and KDE, then...wow. I&apos;ve had a lot of pain. I went through to KDE 4, which was a &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; deal.&lt;p&gt;Now, we&apos;re leaving out that, in the 2005-2010 timeframe, Microsoft introduced WPF and Silverlight. So let&apos;s assume, in addition to my old C++ app that still works, I&apos;ve now also got a few Silverlight and WPF apps I&apos;ve written.&lt;p&gt;Now it&apos;s 2011. What happens on these three platforms?&lt;p&gt;On the Mac side, I&apos;m in the same place: I need to be &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; thinking about Cocoa Touch, but my existing Cocoa app still works fine. If I didn&apos;t port to Intel, my app is dead, but that wasn&apos;t hard, so let&apos;s assume I did it.&lt;p&gt;On the Linux side, having gone through the KDE 4 transition, I&apos;m now dealing with the GNOME 3 and/or Ubuntu-being-a-weirdo transition.&lt;p&gt;On the Windows side, in Windows 8, &lt;i&gt;my old app still runs.&lt;/i&gt; My Silverlight apps and my WinForms apps and my WPF apps &lt;i&gt;still run&lt;/i&gt;. The bad news is that they run in the legacy Windows desktop. So now, what has to happen to fix that?&lt;p&gt;My C++ app&apos;s GUI is fucked. Total rewrite. Really total, even worse than the Gtk+ 1.2 to 2.0 transition. WinForms, too. They&apos;re not coming to Metro.&lt;p&gt;But my Silverlight and WPF apps? Are you serious? It&apos;s &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; little work to get these running on Metro. Metro uses XAML really heavily, and has a very Silverlight-like view of the .NET libraries, actually. Most of the changes I&apos;m going to make are mechanical and look-and-feel. This isn&apos;t &lt;i&gt;trivial&lt;/i&gt;, but it&apos;s at worst a lot easier (IMHO) than the movement from Gtk 1.2 to 2.0 or Qt 3 to 4.&lt;p&gt;So you know what? At the end of the day, Microsoft looks &lt;i&gt;really good&lt;/i&gt; to me. Great binary backwards compatibility, and really good toolkit compatibility. They&apos;ve given me a really clean migration path from Silverlight/WPF to Metro that does most definitively not require a full rewrite. This is better than both other platforms listed above.&lt;p&gt;Me? I&apos;ll take it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>neilk</author><text>A question for those of you who work with Microsoft frameworks. Why do you believe in &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; technology that MS gives you? How is it these people have any credibility left?&lt;p&gt;Their technologies are invariably doomed to obsolesence within about 2-3 years of their introduction. Those that the web doesn&apos;t make obsolete are eventually thrown under the bus by Microsoft themselves in about the same time frame.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins</title><url>http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/Metro-Plug-ins</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>statictype</author><text>Their developer tools are really good. They have a reasonably language-neutral platform in .NET (which, contrary to what you say, has been healthy for - what - a decade now?).&lt;p&gt;Our company&apos;s codebase is written in C#. Some domain specific language parsers were implemented using F# (with Fparsec) and the framework can be extended using IronPython. At some points, we have IronPython code being called from F# code built on a framework written in C#. And it works without specifically having to handle it.&lt;p&gt;Visual Studio&apos;s debugger can seamless step between code written in C# and F#.&lt;p&gt;There are lots of things I miss about Unix dev tools but the Microsoft technology stack is not an unreasonable choice to make.</text><parent_chain><item><author>neilk</author><text>A question for those of you who work with Microsoft frameworks. Why do you believe in &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; technology that MS gives you? How is it these people have any credibility left?&lt;p&gt;Their technologies are invariably doomed to obsolesence within about 2-3 years of their introduction. Those that the web doesn&apos;t make obsolete are eventually thrown under the bus by Microsoft themselves in about the same time frame.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins</title><url>http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/Metro-Plug-ins</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lordnacho</author><text>As a former fund manager, I have some things to explain and some things to ask.&lt;p&gt;First, the thing to explain:&lt;p&gt;Basically CS was one of several Prime Brokers. This basically means the guy who lends money to the speculators. Same as buying a house, you have a down payment that&amp;#x27;s your money, and then a bank lends you between 115% (boom times) and 30% (safe as houses) of the value of the house. If the house falls in value and you can&amp;#x27;t pay the mortgage, the bank can sell your house, and hopefully that will mean they recover their entire loan. Note that they only lose once the value has declined by your down payment amount.&lt;p&gt;I actually knew the boss of a PB who got fired because a rich guy came in and wanted a lot of leverage, the risk managers said no, and he overruled them. And then the customer proceeded to lose hundreds of millions speculating, and it ate the bank&amp;#x27;s capital. So it&amp;#x27;s not the first time that risk gets overruled.&lt;p&gt;So somehow, CS has lost $4.7B on this Archegos financing, after Archegos lost whatver they put up. From what I gather, Archegos had $10B of equity in total? Typically (sensibly) you don&amp;#x27;t put all your eggs in one basket as a fund, even a quite concentrated fund.&lt;p&gt;How big was the position?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Credit Suisse Takes $4.7B Hit on Archegos Meltdown</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisse-takes-4-7-billion-hit-on-archegos-meltdown-11617687483</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>herodoturtle</author><text>&amp;quot;Archegos was a fund run by and managing the personal fortune of Bill Hwang, an investor who had built up large positions in companies worth billions of pounds, despite a previous insider trading conviction.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Credit Suisse’s investment bank under Chin acted as prime broker to Archegos funds, lending it large sums of money to allow it to build up bigger positions in the shareholdings of quoted companies. Hwang had placed big bets that certain stocks, including Chinese technology company Baidu and US media group ViacomCBS, would see their share prices rise. When the stocks fell, both Hwang and his lending banks suffered heavy losses.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This reads as if Credit Suisse was bankrolling a maverick fund manager&amp;#x27;s speculative investments.&lt;p&gt;Strikes me as a rather unhealthy disregard for risk, and completely goes against the spirit of capital preservation.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s four thousand seven hundred million dollars down the drain - by one of the world&amp;#x27;s most prestigious banks.&lt;p&gt;Leaves a bitter taste in my working class mouth.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Credit Suisse Takes $4.7B Hit on Archegos Meltdown</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisse-takes-4-7-billion-hit-on-archegos-meltdown-11617687483</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yk</author><text>Yes, in the case of splines you have this by definition.[1] If you want a algorithm for generating formulas from pixel graphics ( with nice properties), then you can&lt;p&gt;1. Separate the graphics into distinct line segments. 2. Take from each line segments a few points and do a (cubic) interpolation of the line segment. 3. Cut the line segment into two half, and redo 2. if you are not satisfied by the lines.&lt;p&gt;If you look at the formula, then you will see that something quite similar happens. The formula is always a sum of several sines, times two Heavyside step functions. [2] The trick here is, that the product of two Heavyside functions will give you a function that is one for some interval and zero otherwise. Effectively switching off the part of the sum outside of the interval. And the sum of sines is essentially a Fourier transform of the line drawn.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spline_%28mathematics%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spline_%28mathematics%29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>damian2000</author><text>Wonder how this was generated - surely not by hand? Is there a way of taking a set of splines or similar and creating equations from them, like this?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Psy Curve</title><url>http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=PSY+curve</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>ntumlin</author><text>And is there a way to create other stuff like this? It would be neat to be able to draw some simple thing with your mouse on a canvas and then have it generate an equation that makes it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>damian2000</author><text>Wonder how this was generated - surely not by hand? Is there a way of taking a set of splines or similar and creating equations from them, like this?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Psy Curve</title><url>http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=PSY+curve</url><text></text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>didibus</author><text>&amp;gt; Now I want to understand in a similar fashion why the incompleteness theorem makes type systems incapable of preventing all bugs&lt;p&gt;I think the article has this a little wrong.&lt;p&gt;The theorem in programming terms I think simply means that there are some programs for which another program can&amp;#x27;t prove certain properties.&lt;p&gt;But in theory you can restrict yourself to writing programs that can be proven completely.&lt;p&gt;Even then though, you won&amp;#x27;t eliminate all bugs, and I think that&amp;#x27;s the part the article gets wrong.&lt;p&gt;Type system don&amp;#x27;t prevent bugs, they help you prove properties, but the programmer still needs to come up with all properties and edge cases themselves and set things up for the type system to prove those, and there&amp;#x27;s a lot of opportunity for the programmer to forget about a lot of properties or to have a bug in how they&amp;#x27;re trying to prove it.&lt;p&gt;Finally, there are only so much you can prove in a general way, in that there are only so many properties you can try to prove.&lt;p&gt;Just think about it, you can&amp;#x27;t go listing all possible inputs and asserting all possible outputs because as a programmer that would take way too long. So you try to come up with shortcuts, which will be properties, maybe you say alright so for even inputs I&amp;#x27;d expect even outputs. Now maybe you use a type system to prove that. But you can still see how you&amp;#x27;ve not proven that it returns the right output for every single input, just the property that even should return even. And that still leaves gaps for bugs.&lt;p&gt;But none of those have anything to do with Godel&amp;#x27;s incompleteness theorem, those exist even if you restrict yourself to programming only in a language for which type systems can fully operate in.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I&amp;#x27;m no expert in this though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yuchi</author><text>Awesome read! But throwing the Gödel incompleteness theorem at your face at the end of the article without any specific explanation is rude!&lt;p&gt;Now I want to understand in a similar fashion &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; the incompleteness theorem makes type systems incapable of preventing all bugs!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Where do type systems come from? (2017)</title><url>http://blog.felipe.rs/2017/07/07/where-do-type-systems-come-from</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reuben364</author><text>Not qualified to answer, but my thought is that if you have a statement that is true that cannot be proven, you could write a program whose correctness implies the statement, then proving the program correct amounts to proving something that can not be proven.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yuchi</author><text>Awesome read! But throwing the Gödel incompleteness theorem at your face at the end of the article without any specific explanation is rude!&lt;p&gt;Now I want to understand in a similar fashion &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; the incompleteness theorem makes type systems incapable of preventing all bugs!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Where do type systems come from? (2017)</title><url>http://blog.felipe.rs/2017/07/07/where-do-type-systems-come-from</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nkurz</author><text>&lt;i&gt;(The Vive Pro will also support a tracking-area boost of up to 10 square meters [&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;gaming&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;valve-announces-the-first-big-steamvr-2-0-feature-waaay-more-space&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;gaming&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;valve-announces-the-f...&lt;/a&gt;], which requires four 2.0 base stations.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I read this and thought &amp;quot;Hmm, 10 sq meters sounds small. That about 3.1m x 3.1m (10 ft x 10 ft), which is about the same maximum as the current Vive&amp;quot;. Not impossible, but an odd boast to make about make about the new Pro unit, and funny that it requires more base stations to be able to match the old one.&lt;p&gt;Then I read the link:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The new base station protocol will only support two tracking boxes at first (just like the HTC Vive), but Valve promises that they&amp;#x27;ll receive an update in &amp;quot;early 2018&amp;quot; to support two more tracking boxes to grow the total tracking range to 10 meters squared, or 32.8 feet squared (1,075 square feet). That&amp;#x27;s quite the jump from SteamVR&amp;#x27;s current max of 11.5 feet squared&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh, I see now what&amp;#x27;s happening! Instead of 10 square meters, they mean that you that the new version will support a 10m x 10m room (30 ft x 30 ft), which indeed is much greater than the current 3.5m x 3.5m (11.5 ft x 11.5 ft) max. But their own earlier writeup was so confusing and innumerate that they couldn&amp;#x27;t figure out what it meant!&lt;p&gt;Maybe &amp;quot;innumerate&amp;quot; is too harsh, but how does a technical site like Ars muck things like this up? Am I being too optimistic when I still hope that both the author and editor should have caught this? Hurried author and no editor? Or is someone teaching that &amp;quot;X units squared&amp;quot; is a valid way of specifying a square room of X units per side?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HTC’s Vive Pro will add more pixels to an otherwise familiar-looking VR system</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/01/htcs-vive-pro-will-add-more-pixels-to-an-otherwise-familiar-looking-vr-system/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>modeless</author><text>Higher resolution screens are great, but I find that the screens are often not the limiting factor for image quality in my current setup. The optics blur everything outside the central region and introduce light smearing artifacts. The head mount makes it difficult to keep my eyes in the sweet spot of the lenses. My GPU isn&amp;#x27;t powerful enough to drive the supersampling required to reduce aliasing to an acceptable level in many games, because devs aren&amp;#x27;t paying enough attention to aliasing.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll be interested to see people&amp;#x27;s impressions of the new optics and head mount, but I probably won&amp;#x27;t be buying one until the next generation of GPUs is out, along with the new lighthouses and controllers and wireless support. Maybe a year from now or so.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HTC’s Vive Pro will add more pixels to an otherwise familiar-looking VR system</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/01/htcs-vive-pro-will-add-more-pixels-to-an-otherwise-familiar-looking-vr-system/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>morgtheborg</author><text>Yes. You didn&amp;#x27;t really negotiate. Ideally you interview broadly, then use the higher offers at companies that aren&amp;#x27;t you top choice to boost the offers from companies that aren&amp;#x27;t your top choice that offered less---and then use those offers to boost your actual top choice.&lt;p&gt;For example, company A offered 100k, B offered 120k, and C offered 130k. You want company A. You say to company B that company C offered 130k and you&amp;#x27;re interested but not sure with that diff. They up to 135. You say to company C, hey, company B offered 135, can you help me lower the diff? They up to 140. Then you go to company A, say you&amp;#x27;d love to, but you have offers for 135 and 140, so if they could do anything to lower the diff, great. They offer 130. At this point, you have three offers, all higher than you began with and can make a choice.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_throwawayyyyy1</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m in Boston &amp;amp; went through an intensive FT job search here about 18 months ago. I&amp;#x27;m a mobile developer with 20+ years total experience in desktop, backend, web+mobile, product management, started my own company, etc.&lt;p&gt;Worked with lots of recruiters, personal network etc., felt like I really got a sense of what the salary landscape is here. Some facts:&lt;p&gt;- I was leaving a job at a hot unicorn startup that paid $125K base and I was told I was one of the highest paid engineers on staff (20+ engineers)&lt;p&gt;- I received 2 offers during this job search (was very selective else could have gotten many, many more)&lt;p&gt;- First offer: IOS developer at very large consulting firm for $120K base (with possibility of small bonus).&lt;p&gt;- Second offer: IOS developer position that was comparable in interest to first. Decided to &amp;quot;shoot for the moon&amp;quot; and ask for $145K. They agreed, and that&amp;#x27;s where I&amp;#x27;m (happily) working now.&lt;p&gt;According to this study, SW engineers with my level of experience in these cities are making $181K on &lt;i&gt;average&lt;/i&gt;! From what I could see that&amp;#x27;s just not available here to the rank and file, &amp;quot;average&amp;quot; experienced sw engineer. That salary would be more like top-of-range here.&lt;p&gt;Am I doing something wrong? Is Boston really that different than Seattle&amp;#x2F;NYC&amp;#x2F;SF?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, and Seattle</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/software-engineer-salary</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kwindla</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;t hired in Boston in a few years, so my perspective may be out of date, but it definitely was the case up until 2014 or so (my most recent concrete experience making job offers to candidates in Boston) that Boston salaries for engineers were lower than SF and NYC.&lt;p&gt;That seems mostly to be a supply&amp;#x2F;demand thing (which is tangled up with local culture norms, too, in complicated ways). There is much, much less VC funding in Boston than in SF and NYC. But a great supply of engineers because of the universities. And there&amp;#x27;s no equivalent to Microsoft+Amazon (Seattle) and Wall Street (NYC) pushing up both demand and top-end base salaries for experienced engineers.&lt;p&gt;Also, you mention that your search was 18 months ago. In SF (and I think Seattle and NYC, too) the job market is crazily engineer-favorable right now. I&amp;#x27;d bet there&amp;#x27;s been 10% inflation in average base senior engineer salaries in SF in the last 18 months. That would match your $145k against ~$165k (rather than $181k).</text><parent_chain><item><author>_throwawayyyyy1</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m in Boston &amp;amp; went through an intensive FT job search here about 18 months ago. I&amp;#x27;m a mobile developer with 20+ years total experience in desktop, backend, web+mobile, product management, started my own company, etc.&lt;p&gt;Worked with lots of recruiters, personal network etc., felt like I really got a sense of what the salary landscape is here. Some facts:&lt;p&gt;- I was leaving a job at a hot unicorn startup that paid $125K base and I was told I was one of the highest paid engineers on staff (20+ engineers)&lt;p&gt;- I received 2 offers during this job search (was very selective else could have gotten many, many more)&lt;p&gt;- First offer: IOS developer at very large consulting firm for $120K base (with possibility of small bonus).&lt;p&gt;- Second offer: IOS developer position that was comparable in interest to first. Decided to &amp;quot;shoot for the moon&amp;quot; and ask for $145K. They agreed, and that&amp;#x27;s where I&amp;#x27;m (happily) working now.&lt;p&gt;According to this study, SW engineers with my level of experience in these cities are making $181K on &lt;i&gt;average&lt;/i&gt;! From what I could see that&amp;#x27;s just not available here to the rank and file, &amp;quot;average&amp;quot; experienced sw engineer. That salary would be more like top-of-range here.&lt;p&gt;Am I doing something wrong? Is Boston really that different than Seattle&amp;#x2F;NYC&amp;#x2F;SF?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, and Seattle</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/software-engineer-salary</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mthiim</author><text>That algorithm was never chosen as a final candidate, unlike Dilithium and Kyber. Nevertheless, it remains intriguing because it advanced significantly in the competition until this vulnerability was identified, which allows for it to be cracked in just a few minutes on a standard computer. This underscores the inherent risk of rapidly introducing new algorithms, whether quantum or not. While RSA might become vulnerable to future quantum computers, its resilience since its public introduction in 1977 (aside from the need to increase key sizes) is quite an achievement. This is why new algorithms should always be paired with trusted classical algorithms to get the best of both worlds: if the new post-quantum component is flawed, at least you&amp;#x27;re not worse off than if you had used classical algorithms. On the other hand, if quantum computers capable of breaking practical sizes of RSA or ECC emerge, there&amp;#x27;s still the hope that the post-quantum element remains intact.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cbeach</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve probably missed an important detail here, but if the post-quantum algo can be broken on classical computers, what use is it, vs. a combination of classical and quantum computers?</text></item><item><author>timenova</author><text>It seems that&amp;#x27;s exactly what the community is doing.&lt;p&gt;Cloudflare recently enabled post-quantum cryptography, in which they&amp;#x27;re using X25519+Kyber [0]. Similarly, Signal&amp;#x27;s post-quantum cryptography also uses the same [1].&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing this spawned from the fact that a post-quantum algorithm was broken on classical computers a few years ago [2].&lt;p&gt;So now any attacker would have to break both the classical algorithm and the post-quantum algorithm.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;post-quantum-to-origins&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;post-quantum-to-origins&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;signal.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;pqxdh&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;signal.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;pqxdh&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&amp;#x2F;post-quantum-cryptography-scheme-is-cracked-on-a-laptop-20220824&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&amp;#x2F;post-quantum-cryptography-sch...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>rany_</author><text>Is it a good idea to use quantum resistant crypto algorithm on-top of more established&amp;#x2F;widespread algorithms like RSA&amp;#x2F;ECDSA? I don&amp;#x27;t feel comfortable using quantum resistant crypto due to how cutting edge it all is.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Java implementation of a quantum computing resistant cryptographic algorithm</title><url>https://github.com/mthiim/dilithium-java</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>insanitybit</author><text>At this point quantum computers aren&amp;#x27;t breaking anything. Adding protections against them is nice because we&amp;#x27;re theoretically safe in the future. We don&amp;#x27;t want to compromise our safety &lt;i&gt;now&lt;/i&gt; by choosing algorithms that are less battle tested though, so it&amp;#x27;s best to layer them.&lt;p&gt;If it turns out that both the classical and quantum hard algorithms are weak we&amp;#x27;re just screwed, yes. That said, at this point it&amp;#x27;s not even clear, as far as I know, that many classical algorithms are event going to be broken under QC.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cbeach</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve probably missed an important detail here, but if the post-quantum algo can be broken on classical computers, what use is it, vs. a combination of classical and quantum computers?</text></item><item><author>timenova</author><text>It seems that&amp;#x27;s exactly what the community is doing.&lt;p&gt;Cloudflare recently enabled post-quantum cryptography, in which they&amp;#x27;re using X25519+Kyber [0]. Similarly, Signal&amp;#x27;s post-quantum cryptography also uses the same [1].&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing this spawned from the fact that a post-quantum algorithm was broken on classical computers a few years ago [2].&lt;p&gt;So now any attacker would have to break both the classical algorithm and the post-quantum algorithm.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;post-quantum-to-origins&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;post-quantum-to-origins&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;signal.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;pqxdh&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;signal.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;pqxdh&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&amp;#x2F;post-quantum-cryptography-scheme-is-cracked-on-a-laptop-20220824&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&amp;#x2F;post-quantum-cryptography-sch...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>rany_</author><text>Is it a good idea to use quantum resistant crypto algorithm on-top of more established&amp;#x2F;widespread algorithms like RSA&amp;#x2F;ECDSA? I don&amp;#x27;t feel comfortable using quantum resistant crypto due to how cutting edge it all is.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Java implementation of a quantum computing resistant cryptographic algorithm</title><url>https://github.com/mthiim/dilithium-java</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leejoramo</author><text>SOLUTION to high CPU!&lt;p&gt;Well, I kept digging and ultimately found a very long running issue thread[1] that mentioned having a &lt;i&gt;.git&lt;/i&gt; directory in your home directory can cause high CPU.&lt;p&gt;Removing the three year old and accidentally created ~&amp;#x2F;.git directory and restarting Atom fixed the problem.&lt;p&gt;So now I will give Atom a deep new look.&lt;p&gt;Still, I am a bit perplexed, this is an issue that has been reported for nearly two years, and has not been fixed. I am not sure about the technical nature of the problem, but I think Atom, is trying to digest my entire 340GB home directory. Assuming that this is desired behavior, there should be at least a warning at launch about the issue. I am sure that MANY people have accidental ~&amp;#x2F;.git folders, and have a bad experience with Atom. At the vary least, it should not have taken me a couple hours of digging to find a solution buried in a GitHub issue.&lt;p&gt;While this fixes the issue on my MacBook, I am not sure about the Mac Mini, which I don&amp;#x27;t think will have a .git directory, but I will check later tonight.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;atom&amp;#x2F;atom&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;3426#issuecomment-119780457&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;atom&amp;#x2F;atom&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;3426#issuecomment-119780...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>leejoramo</author><text>I continue to want to like Atom, and I try it out several times a year. Just updated, and see that it still has big performance problems on my system. I currently have BBEdit and SublimeText open for real work, and these are apps the have been running for days.&lt;p&gt;Here 100% would represent full usage of a CPU core:&lt;p&gt;BBEdit:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 15 files open (various types&amp;#x2F;sizes) 76MB RAM &amp;lt; 2% CPU 1 process 25MB app disk space &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; SublimeText:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 10 files open (various types&amp;#x2F;sizes) 169 RAM &amp;lt; 2% CPU 1 process 27MB app disk space &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Atom&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 1 small Markdown file open &amp;gt; 1.2GB RAM !!!!!! &amp;gt; 85% CPU 7 processes 205MB app disk space &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Just sitting in the background I am seeing Atom&amp;#x27;s CPU and RAM usages fluctuate wildly. The numbers above are the LOWEST I observed.&lt;p&gt;I will spend a little time looking into why this is happening. I certainly could be related to some add-on package that I have installed, but I don&amp;#x27;t every recall seeing BBEdit or SublimeText behave so poorly with all of the customizations I have thrown at them.&lt;p&gt;Update: added disk space for base app. Even with a 500GB SSD, Atom would make me think about its value vs space usage.&lt;p&gt;Update 2: the system specs. 2011 MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2.3GHz i5, 500GB SSD, 16GB RAM, OS X 10.11.2&lt;p&gt;Update 3: performed a clean reinstall of Atom, removed all third party packages, removed preference files, disabled Markdown preview. Atom is still using over 80% cpu and greater than 1GB RAM with one short markdown file open</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Atom text editor 1.4 released</title><url>https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/tag/v1.4.0</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>stymaar</author><text>Of course Atom is not the lightest editor out there but your figures are really strange: I&amp;#x27;m using atom for one year now with dozens of installed plugin, currently working with more than 10 files opened at the same time with an up-time of 17days and I&amp;#x27;ve never seen anything like you&lt;i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;except one notorious bug when trying to open minified javascript files of hundred kB.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s weird to have such a difference performance-wise between users, because it&amp;#x27;s based on chromium which does not suffer plateform specific performance drops I think.&lt;p&gt;Do you have issues with Google Chrome also ?</text><parent_chain><item><author>leejoramo</author><text>I continue to want to like Atom, and I try it out several times a year. Just updated, and see that it still has big performance problems on my system. I currently have BBEdit and SublimeText open for real work, and these are apps the have been running for days.&lt;p&gt;Here 100% would represent full usage of a CPU core:&lt;p&gt;BBEdit:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 15 files open (various types&amp;#x2F;sizes) 76MB RAM &amp;lt; 2% CPU 1 process 25MB app disk space &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; SublimeText:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 10 files open (various types&amp;#x2F;sizes) 169 RAM &amp;lt; 2% CPU 1 process 27MB app disk space &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Atom&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 1 small Markdown file open &amp;gt; 1.2GB RAM !!!!!! &amp;gt; 85% CPU 7 processes 205MB app disk space &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Just sitting in the background I am seeing Atom&amp;#x27;s CPU and RAM usages fluctuate wildly. The numbers above are the LOWEST I observed.&lt;p&gt;I will spend a little time looking into why this is happening. I certainly could be related to some add-on package that I have installed, but I don&amp;#x27;t every recall seeing BBEdit or SublimeText behave so poorly with all of the customizations I have thrown at them.&lt;p&gt;Update: added disk space for base app. Even with a 500GB SSD, Atom would make me think about its value vs space usage.&lt;p&gt;Update 2: the system specs. 2011 MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2.3GHz i5, 500GB SSD, 16GB RAM, OS X 10.11.2&lt;p&gt;Update 3: performed a clean reinstall of Atom, removed all third party packages, removed preference files, disabled Markdown preview. Atom is still using over 80% cpu and greater than 1GB RAM with one short markdown file open</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Atom text editor 1.4 released</title><url>https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/tag/v1.4.0</url></story>
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<instructions>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>I have found that notebooks like Jupyter (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jupyter.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jupyter.org&lt;/a&gt;) and especially JupyterHub (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jupyterhub.readthedocs.io&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;latest&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jupyterhub.readthedocs.io&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;latest&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) are made to teach languages with a REPL from the browser.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;With JupyterHub you can create a multi-user Hub which spawns, manages, and proxies multiple instances of the single-user Jupyter notebook server. Due to its flexibility and customization options, JupyterHub can be used to serve notebooks to a class of students, a corporate data science group, or a scientific research group.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I have grown less and less fond of Python but I still use Jupyter with other languages and I have it running on my personal server.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Adaptive</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m running a coding class right now that is almost entirely run over ssh on chromebooks to a linux server. Works beautifully.&lt;p&gt;No fancy IDE, but lots of actual learning to code.</text></item><item><author>dpark</author><text>Thanks for clarifying.&lt;p&gt;I agree that Chromebooks are not the ideal learning device for coding. I was thinking general schooling and glossed over your earlier comment about teaching coding. I think they can probably work there, but you&amp;#x27;re right that a &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; computer is a better choice for that.</text></item><item><author>ux-app</author><text>&amp;gt; Also, where do you live&amp;#x2F;teach? &amp;quot;Year 7&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in Australia. Nationally we are transitioning to a R-6 = Primary School, 7-12 = High School model.&lt;p&gt;My school is a little unorthodox. We&amp;#x27;re a private school with a 6-12 shared campus which is why I had experience teaching younger students even though I am HS trained.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; What to your mind would not be rubbish?&lt;p&gt;Either Mac or PC is fine in my books. Anything that allows them to install native software is fine. I recently did a small unit on binary data. It was really handy for students to install a hex editor, inspect a flat text file in binary mode and map out the ascii table for themselves. I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s possible on a Chromebook.&lt;p&gt;I also teach Web dev. We use MAMP which is cross platform. We install VSCode, interact with the FS, create a local DB, file uploads, programmatic image resizing etc. My understanding is that this is not possible without jailbreaking (is that the right term?) a Chromebook.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m also opposed to any device that hides away the file system from the user. It relegates a computer to the dumb appliance category which I think is unhelpful.</text></item><item><author>dpark</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Chromebooks are rubbish too, so I don&amp;#x27;t really see the move to them as a positive either.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What to your mind would not be rubbish? I&amp;#x27;m a Microsoft employee, so I have a vested interest in Windows devices being the dominant choice for schools, but I don&amp;#x27;t see anything realistic students at the high school or below level couldn&amp;#x27;t do on Chromebooks.&lt;p&gt;Also, where do you live&amp;#x2F;teach? &amp;quot;Year 7&amp;quot; is not high school in the US. That is distinctly junior&amp;#x2F;middle school.</text></item><item><author>ux-app</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a HS teacher. I was so happy when my school finally phased out iPads as the designated device for our year 7 students. It&amp;#x27;s such a rubbish device for content creation. The touchscreen is a POS for anything other than web browsing and casual games. Teaching coding, image manipulation, file manipulation was utterly painful or impossible.&lt;p&gt;Typing on them is beyond painful and of the hundreds of students I taught, fewer than a dozen actually bought a physical keyboard. This meant that every task took 3x longer than necessary.&lt;p&gt;On top of this they are expensive. To anyone even remotely IT savvy it was clear from the get-go that this was going to be a failed experiment. Unfortunately education, like most other things follows the fashion of the time and everyone had to learn the hard way that a traditional computer is superior in every conceivable way.&lt;p&gt;Chromebooks are rubbish too, so I don&amp;#x27;t really see the move to them as a positive either.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/technology/apple-products-schools-education.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>kaspiCZ</author><text>Have you considered online tools such as Cloud9, replit etc.? If so, is the problem missing features, workflow or pricing?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Adaptive</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m running a coding class right now that is almost entirely run over ssh on chromebooks to a linux server. Works beautifully.&lt;p&gt;No fancy IDE, but lots of actual learning to code.</text></item><item><author>dpark</author><text>Thanks for clarifying.&lt;p&gt;I agree that Chromebooks are not the ideal learning device for coding. I was thinking general schooling and glossed over your earlier comment about teaching coding. I think they can probably work there, but you&amp;#x27;re right that a &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; computer is a better choice for that.</text></item><item><author>ux-app</author><text>&amp;gt; Also, where do you live&amp;#x2F;teach? &amp;quot;Year 7&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in Australia. Nationally we are transitioning to a R-6 = Primary School, 7-12 = High School model.&lt;p&gt;My school is a little unorthodox. We&amp;#x27;re a private school with a 6-12 shared campus which is why I had experience teaching younger students even though I am HS trained.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; What to your mind would not be rubbish?&lt;p&gt;Either Mac or PC is fine in my books. Anything that allows them to install native software is fine. I recently did a small unit on binary data. It was really handy for students to install a hex editor, inspect a flat text file in binary mode and map out the ascii table for themselves. I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s possible on a Chromebook.&lt;p&gt;I also teach Web dev. We use MAMP which is cross platform. We install VSCode, interact with the FS, create a local DB, file uploads, programmatic image resizing etc. My understanding is that this is not possible without jailbreaking (is that the right term?) a Chromebook.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m also opposed to any device that hides away the file system from the user. It relegates a computer to the dumb appliance category which I think is unhelpful.</text></item><item><author>dpark</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Chromebooks are rubbish too, so I don&amp;#x27;t really see the move to them as a positive either.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What to your mind would not be rubbish? I&amp;#x27;m a Microsoft employee, so I have a vested interest in Windows devices being the dominant choice for schools, but I don&amp;#x27;t see anything realistic students at the high school or below level couldn&amp;#x27;t do on Chromebooks.&lt;p&gt;Also, where do you live&amp;#x2F;teach? &amp;quot;Year 7&amp;quot; is not high school in the US. That is distinctly junior&amp;#x2F;middle school.</text></item><item><author>ux-app</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a HS teacher. I was so happy when my school finally phased out iPads as the designated device for our year 7 students. It&amp;#x27;s such a rubbish device for content creation. The touchscreen is a POS for anything other than web browsing and casual games. Teaching coding, image manipulation, file manipulation was utterly painful or impossible.&lt;p&gt;Typing on them is beyond painful and of the hundreds of students I taught, fewer than a dozen actually bought a physical keyboard. This meant that every task took 3x longer than necessary.&lt;p&gt;On top of this they are expensive. To anyone even remotely IT savvy it was clear from the get-go that this was going to be a failed experiment. Unfortunately education, like most other things follows the fashion of the time and everyone had to learn the hard way that a traditional computer is superior in every conceivable way.&lt;p&gt;Chromebooks are rubbish too, so I don&amp;#x27;t really see the move to them as a positive either.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/technology/apple-products-schools-education.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leereeves</author><text>Snopes doesn&amp;#x27;t know the objective truth. All they do is check other sources: other media, press releases, and such, and decide whether they trust those sources.&lt;p&gt;How well do they choose sources to trust? When &amp;quot;fact checking&amp;quot; claims that Obama paid for the release of hostages from Iran, they used Vox as a primary source.[1] Surely we all agree Vox is biased.&lt;p&gt;The story originated in claims by Iranian officials, and lacking direct evidence to support either claim, any objective observer would admit there was no way to know whether Iran or Obama was telling the truth. Snopes, not being objective, confidently rated the story &amp;quot;FALSE&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Snopes is most useful when they&amp;#x27;re able to trace a story back to an admitted satirical source. When they attempt to judge the truth of disputed claims, they don&amp;#x27;t know more than anyone else. They shouldn&amp;#x27;t attempt to rate those disputes at all, but the temptation to use the platform to promote opinions is the Shakespearean flaw in fact checking.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.snopes.com&amp;#x2F;obama-bribed-iran-400-million-to-release-u-s-prisoners&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.snopes.com&amp;#x2F;obama-bribed-iran-400-million-to-relea...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>comex</author><text>&amp;gt; And the whole idea of publishing &amp;quot;Fact Checks&amp;quot; like this sounds and feels Orwellian.&lt;p&gt;You think it’s Orwellian for there to be an objective truth separable from political spin? Because I’m pretty sure it’s the other way around: a big part of &amp;#x2F;1984&amp;#x2F; was how the government ignored truth altogether in favor of whatever ‘facts’ best fit the political agenda of the moment. “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia,” etc.&lt;p&gt;I know, I know, you’re claiming that Snopes is acting like the government in that analogy… you’d say they’re establishing what purports to be objective truth, and what Google and others are now promoting as such, but in fact may be tainted by political bias…&lt;p&gt;But I don’t buy it. You say yourself that you consider fact checkers valuable: then it shouldn’t be seen as Orwellian to promote them, even if they’re not 100% infallible. If anything, what’s Orwellian is the actual government, as currently headed by a president who has (as president) made assertions as blatantly false and disprovable as anything about Eurasia and Eastasia.</text></item><item><author>oblib</author><text>Personally, I think using &amp;quot;Snopes&amp;quot; as a fact checking source gives it much more credibility than it deserves.&lt;p&gt;And the whole idea of publishing &amp;quot;Fact Checks&amp;quot; like this sounds and feels Orwellian.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t mean to say that I don&amp;#x27;t trust those media fact checkers who dig into claims made by competing media sources, but I don&amp;#x27;t trust them 100% and I&amp;#x27;ve seen blatant spin in too many &amp;quot;Fact Check&amp;quot; claims to not have to fact check them too.&lt;p&gt;Hell, I don&amp;#x27;t even trust Google search results anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redesigning Google News</title><url>https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/redesigning-google-news-everyone/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mustacheemperor</author><text>&amp;gt;an objective truth separable from political spin&lt;p&gt;I agree fact checkers are valuable, but it&amp;#x27;s important to consider them critically because I&amp;#x27;ve yet to find one truly &amp;quot;separate from political spin.&amp;quot; Politifact specifically I find is usually right as a general barometer, but sometimes they reaaally stretch what makes a statement a lie&amp;#x2F;truth. Ultimately they&amp;#x27;re still a media news site and that includes some bias. I first knew Snopes as an urban legend verifier, and at least in my experience their political fact checks retain a more objective voice and tend to be less editorialized. Politifact seems to abuse their &amp;quot;scale of truth&amp;quot; to regard some politicians more critically than others. &amp;quot;Politician X lied, but it&amp;#x27;s only a SORT OF lie, but politician Y from the other side is ON FIRE with lies.&amp;quot; Regardless, Snopes still uses completely biased sources at times and requires canny evaluation itself.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no getting around it - to have an informed opinion, you need to really understand what&amp;#x27;s happening in the news, educate yourself, and be able to critically evaluate the advice you get from sources like fact checkers. Unfortunately, it seems like that&amp;#x27;s becoming an impossible task in 2017. I think that&amp;#x27;s an opportunity for something better, maybe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>comex</author><text>&amp;gt; And the whole idea of publishing &amp;quot;Fact Checks&amp;quot; like this sounds and feels Orwellian.&lt;p&gt;You think it’s Orwellian for there to be an objective truth separable from political spin? Because I’m pretty sure it’s the other way around: a big part of &amp;#x2F;1984&amp;#x2F; was how the government ignored truth altogether in favor of whatever ‘facts’ best fit the political agenda of the moment. “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia,” etc.&lt;p&gt;I know, I know, you’re claiming that Snopes is acting like the government in that analogy… you’d say they’re establishing what purports to be objective truth, and what Google and others are now promoting as such, but in fact may be tainted by political bias…&lt;p&gt;But I don’t buy it. You say yourself that you consider fact checkers valuable: then it shouldn’t be seen as Orwellian to promote them, even if they’re not 100% infallible. If anything, what’s Orwellian is the actual government, as currently headed by a president who has (as president) made assertions as blatantly false and disprovable as anything about Eurasia and Eastasia.</text></item><item><author>oblib</author><text>Personally, I think using &amp;quot;Snopes&amp;quot; as a fact checking source gives it much more credibility than it deserves.&lt;p&gt;And the whole idea of publishing &amp;quot;Fact Checks&amp;quot; like this sounds and feels Orwellian.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t mean to say that I don&amp;#x27;t trust those media fact checkers who dig into claims made by competing media sources, but I don&amp;#x27;t trust them 100% and I&amp;#x27;ve seen blatant spin in too many &amp;quot;Fact Check&amp;quot; claims to not have to fact check them too.&lt;p&gt;Hell, I don&amp;#x27;t even trust Google search results anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redesigning Google News</title><url>https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/redesigning-google-news-everyone/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hudibras</author><text>Finally, a HN thread that I can contribute to and I&apos;m 9 hours late to the party.&lt;p&gt;I was serving in the engineering department on a USN aircraft carrier (non-nuclear) when a cascading casualty led to all boilers going off line. The ship had an emergency diesel generator aligned to automatically power up, but it failed to start due to a previously-unknown problem. So an 80,000 ton warship with 5,000 people on board slowly drifted to a stop, completely dark except for emergency 60&apos;s-era-battle lanterns that were already starting to dim.&lt;p&gt;No steam = no electricity (the normal ship&apos;s generators were steam-powered) and no electricity = no steam (because the start-up feedwater pumps and air blowers for the boilers were electric). One of the other two EDGs was already down with a casualty which left a single diesel generator that had to be started with compressed air stored in two huge bottles--so basically had two chances to get the ship moving again. (No electricity = no air compressors to refill the bottles.) After a few hours of double- and triple-checking the alignment of the diesels, electrical systems, and boilers (the original steam plant casualty had to be diagnosed) using flashlights in temperatures well into the triple digits (no electricity = no air condi...you get the idea) we successfully started the one remaining diesel which provided AC to the boilers to start up.&lt;p&gt;By far the scariest day I ever had in the navy. Only saving grace was that we weren&apos;t flying planes at the time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mpyne</author><text>For fun, consider the question of how you&apos;d &quot;black start&quot; from a loss of all AC power on a submerged nuclear submarine? :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Black Start</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brk</author><text>&quot;Carefully&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mpyne</author><text>For fun, consider the question of how you&apos;d &quot;black start&quot; from a loss of all AC power on a submerged nuclear submarine? :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Black Start</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adrr</author><text>I purchased FSD in 2019 on the promise of self driving. 5 years later and still no self driving. There was also the promise of the car being able to self park. I would be happy if I got my money back for a feature that was never delivered.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>This is about defrauding people who bought a tesla, not investors.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In 2020, Musk told a crowd in Shanghai that he remains “confident” that Tesla will achieve “basic functionality for level five autonomy this year,” referring to the SAE’s rankings of autonomy. Tesla’s technology, in 2024, is still at level 2.&lt;p&gt;This reminds me alot of the Thernos case where she tried to make the case not about fraud but about an overly optimistic CEO promising something and being wrong about that. here Musk has clearly said that full self driving would be available many years ago.&lt;p&gt;So I guess we&amp;#x27;re trying to figure out how much lying is ok by a CEO before it becomes fraud to the buyer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla is being investigated for securities and wire fraud for self-driving claim</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24151881/tesla-justice-investigation-securities-wire-fraud-self-driving</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bunderbunder</author><text>As the article explains, wire fraud is about defrauding consumers, and securities fraud is about deceiving investors. Tesla is under investigation for both.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>This is about defrauding people who bought a tesla, not investors.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In 2020, Musk told a crowd in Shanghai that he remains “confident” that Tesla will achieve “basic functionality for level five autonomy this year,” referring to the SAE’s rankings of autonomy. Tesla’s technology, in 2024, is still at level 2.&lt;p&gt;This reminds me alot of the Thernos case where she tried to make the case not about fraud but about an overly optimistic CEO promising something and being wrong about that. here Musk has clearly said that full self driving would be available many years ago.&lt;p&gt;So I guess we&amp;#x27;re trying to figure out how much lying is ok by a CEO before it becomes fraud to the buyer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla is being investigated for securities and wire fraud for self-driving claim</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24151881/tesla-justice-investigation-securities-wire-fraud-self-driving</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>IMHO Patrick is the smartest guy in software at the moment. I can think of any number of bigger, more profitable and more exciting software businesses, but none that make the owner quite as radiantly happy as BCC makes Patrick. I feel slightly uncomfortable talking in such a hippyish manner, but there&apos;s a certain Zen quality to the way Patrick does business; Like a rock garden, BCC is at once a metaphor for life and something purely abstract. His way of doing things seems as much about being a better person as it is about running a better business.&lt;p&gt;If you desperately want a squillion dollars, read PG. If your idea of fun is running a big office, read Spolsky. If you have other priorities, I can&apos;t think of a wiser voice than patio11.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software Businesses In 5 Hours A Week</title><url>http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/06/17/software-businesses-in-5-hours-a-week-microconf-2010-presentation-1-hour/</url></story>
<instructions>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>Although it shares most of a title with an old blog post of mine, this is actually a new hour-long presentation that I did at Microconf this year, with slides and textual accompaniment. Comments are appreciated as always.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software Businesses In 5 Hours A Week</title><url>http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/06/17/software-businesses-in-5-hours-a-week-microconf-2010-presentation-1-hour/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vortico</author><text>The reason for pretty much any bug found in software driven by a huge company is that there is a large disconnect between fixing bugs and profit. Fixing a bug almost never excites users, and even if it did in this case, they won&amp;#x27;t see a measurable increase of users of their software, so you can&amp;#x27;t prove a profit increase.&lt;p&gt;Even if a bug is fixed, the effort might be wasted when a large overhaul of the system happens because they want to add a huge feature, like a new searching system or some internal backend refactor. Fixing the bug might be much more difficult than you think due to the scale and complexity of their database or some other reason. Then the change needs to flow through the review and testing pipeline.&lt;p&gt;My point is to explain that software gets harder with scale, which might cause a bug like this to cost tens of thousands of company dollars to fix, while the benefit to each user (and therefore the company) would be a tiny fraction of a cent, so both managers and financially-aware engineers would easily brush this off as &amp;quot;not worth it.&amp;quot; Any argument of the form &amp;quot;why not just fix it?&amp;quot; would be countered with &amp;quot;you could say that for any of the 40k open bugs.&amp;quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software sucks</title><url>https://shitpost.plover.com/s/software-sucks-4.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>omalleyt</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s showing him Wawas he&amp;#x27;s been to before. That&amp;#x27;s what the clocks mean.&lt;p&gt;For the search &amp;quot;wawa&amp;quot; it doesn&amp;#x27;t make a lot of sense to prioritize history over distance, because Wawas are nearly identical. But for &amp;quot;farmer&amp;#x27;s markets&amp;quot; this would probably be a useful feature.&lt;p&gt;Figuring out how to differentiate between those two examples algorithmically is super non-trivial though</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software sucks</title><url>https://shitpost.plover.com/s/software-sucks-4.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ASinclair</author><text>If only we&amp;#x27;d band together to kill open office plans.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tsunamifury</author><text>Good. If only tech workers had the spine to do the same after finding out their CEOs had conspired to suppress their wages and targeted those who wanted to leave...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Verizon Workers Strike on East Coast After Deadline Passes</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/business/verizon-workers-strike.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryao</author><text>Technology workers tend to value interesting problems more than money. In my case, my motivation has always been trying to make a positive impact on the world rather than money. I have turned down plenty of job offers, including ones that pay better than I am paid now. I even spent two years unemployed because I felt that that being an independent OSS that worked for free allowed me to have a greater impact on people&amp;#x27;s lives than I could have at any of the jobs that had been offered to me during that time.&lt;p&gt;That gamble paid off because it enabled me to help lay the groundwork for adoption of ZFS by major Linux distributions at a time when the amount of development to make ZFS production ready on Linux was more than employers were willing to stomach. The integrity of the world&amp;#x27;s data is better off because of it and in hindsight, nothing else that I could have done would have had such an impact. My OSS development had started as a hobby, but at some point, I began to realize that it could make a positive impact on the world and focused entirely on it, with ZFS taking the bulk of my time. That serendipitously resulted in job offers where everything I do would be OSS and I could continue working on the ZFSOnLinux code as part of it, which I had not anticipated.&lt;p&gt;I was lucky enough to have supporting parents that I could fall back on for me to pursue that. Not everyone does and a certain amount of money is definitely important, especially for those with dependents. If people who need it find they are not compensated well, they can find an employer that does compensate them well. Trying to force an employer that does not value you like they should to behave otherwise instead of finding one that does is masochistic.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tsunamifury</author><text>Good. If only tech workers had the spine to do the same after finding out their CEOs had conspired to suppress their wages and targeted those who wanted to leave...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Verizon Workers Strike on East Coast After Deadline Passes</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/business/verizon-workers-strike.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bcheung</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s a neat party trick for you.&lt;p&gt;I had a MacGyver moment in the past where I made a phone call with only are pair of old earbuds and a phone cord (no switches, no dial pad).&lt;p&gt;A speaker is basically the same thing as a microphone in reverse. Normally it takes an electrical signal to move a physical element that creates the sound waves. But you can also move the element and it will generate an electrical signal.&lt;p&gt;To dial you can use the old rotary trick. The old phones dialed by pulses of quickly disconnecting and reconnecting. You can do that by hand if you want but it might require a little bit of practice and dexterity. Basically if you want to dial a 5, just disconnect the wire from the headphone to the phone cord and then reconnect it 5 times in a row.&lt;p&gt;You have to both listen and speak through the ear bud. Not the best quality or easiest to do but it works.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Headphones can be hijacked to surreptitiously record audio</title><url>https://www.wired.com/2016/11/great-now-even-headphones-can-spy/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elcapitan</author><text>Interesting research, but with people already plugging those headphones into a portable surveillance set, and plus them using headsets (which are already microphones as well), this seems a bit chasing the wrong target?&lt;p&gt;(Assuming that the connected computer is compromised also already implies that the attacker has a microphone at their disposal, with most modern devices like smartphones, tablets and mobile computers)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Headphones can be hijacked to surreptitiously record audio</title><url>https://www.wired.com/2016/11/great-now-even-headphones-can-spy/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nextaccountic</author><text>&amp;gt; The classic case would be if mathematicians wanted to assign a value to division by zero. It turns out that if you do allow that to take a value, then it becomes possible to &amp;quot;prove&amp;quot; that any number is equal to any other number. Quite simply, it makes maths less interesting to allow that, but instead having division by zero be undefined appears far more useful&amp;#x2F;interesting.&lt;p&gt;There are multiple extensions to the real numbers that allow division by zero. One is a real projective line, which has only one infinity so that 1 &amp;#x2F; 0 = -1 &amp;#x2F; 0 = infinity&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Real_projective_line&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Real_projective_line&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another is the extended real number line which has positive infinity and negative infinity, so 1 &amp;#x2F; 0 = +infinity and -1 &amp;#x2F; 0 = -infinity and they are different from each other&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Extended_real_number_line&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Extended_real_number_line&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those are all perfectly fine but they still can&amp;#x27;t define 0 &amp;#x2F; 0, which is a harder problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ndsipa_pomu</author><text>Well, we can define mathematical objects for every gap (impossibility), but most of them will turn out to be inconsistent with our existing mathematical objects, and thus not very useful or interesting. I&amp;#x27;d consider that mathematics is the study of consistency and what can be discovered using the simplest possible starting points (axioms).&lt;p&gt;The classic case would be if mathematicians wanted to assign a value to division by zero. It turns out that if you do allow that to take a value, then it becomes possible to &amp;quot;prove&amp;quot; that any number is equal to any other number. Quite simply, it makes maths less interesting to allow that, but instead having division by zero be undefined appears far more useful&amp;#x2F;interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why don&apos;t we define “imaginary” numbers for every “impossibility”? (2012)</title><url>https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/259584/why-dont-we-define-imaginary-numbers-for-every-impossibility</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iamerroragent</author><text>Riemann Sphere:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Riemann_sphere&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Riemann_sphere&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>ndsipa_pomu</author><text>Well, we can define mathematical objects for every gap (impossibility), but most of them will turn out to be inconsistent with our existing mathematical objects, and thus not very useful or interesting. I&amp;#x27;d consider that mathematics is the study of consistency and what can be discovered using the simplest possible starting points (axioms).&lt;p&gt;The classic case would be if mathematicians wanted to assign a value to division by zero. It turns out that if you do allow that to take a value, then it becomes possible to &amp;quot;prove&amp;quot; that any number is equal to any other number. Quite simply, it makes maths less interesting to allow that, but instead having division by zero be undefined appears far more useful&amp;#x2F;interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why don&apos;t we define “imaginary” numbers for every “impossibility”? (2012)</title><url>https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/259584/why-dont-we-define-imaginary-numbers-for-every-impossibility</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmos62</author><text>This queries the tracker websites, but I was hoping this would be a distributed hash table (DHT) search engine, like bitcq. Bitcq is indispensible for obscure torrents, but its interface could be better.&lt;p&gt;Edit: wait, looking at the source, this doesn&amp;#x27;t search torrents on the mentioned trackers, it keeps an eye on feeds of newest or most popular (in case of tpb) torrents and caches the tracker metadata. This doesn&amp;#x27;t seem very useful to me. Over a long time you&amp;#x27;ll have a big view of the tracker&amp;#x27;s database, but not older content than you started tracking, and, in the case of tpb, you&amp;#x27;ll just have a view of torrents that have been in the top 100 since you started crawling. Weird. Also, peer counts don&amp;#x27;t seem to get updated, I think.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine</title><url>https://github.com/sergiotapia/torrentinim</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reilly3000</author><text>This looks nice! Is there a way to configure it to exclude certain categories of content (such as nsfw)? Do you tend to run this behind a proxy?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine</title><url>https://github.com/sergiotapia/torrentinim</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amorousf00p</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s sad truth. But it&amp;#x27;s convenience like anything else.&lt;p&gt;In my business I can put a hardware site online with&lt;p&gt;---6X--- 2 x intel gold 5115 10 core + 64 GB RAM 1 nvme @512G + soft raid1 @4TB magnetic 1 10G, 2 1G ether ~= 42K.&lt;p&gt;---2X--- storage or NAS with 60TB @RAID5 + 2x quad core low end xeon + 32 GB RAM = 16k&lt;p&gt;---2X--- 1G edge&amp;#x2F;core mngd switches + 10G SAN&amp;#x2F;LAN mngd switches = 5K&lt;p&gt;---2X--- Endian firewalls + threat appliances = 5K&lt;p&gt;---1X--- Colo with 2 year lease and 25 amps @208v 1g port speed and committed throughput &amp;gt; 100&amp;#x2F;mbps = 16K yearly&lt;p&gt;68K one time cost for depreciating assets we maintain, provision and secure + 16K yearly recurring cost.&lt;p&gt;Or I can go AWS and modify my processing model, security expectations and service infra and spend 25K a year + 15K 1x migration cost.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rb808</author><text>lol, meanwhile everyone else is trusting aws.</text></item><item><author>camtarn</author><text>Worked for Amazon a few years back.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t see Amazon ever using external cloud hosting for anything except the most trivial of tasks. They&amp;#x27;re absolutely, utterly paranoid about any sort of confidential information, and I think even with encryption the perceived risk would be too high.</text></item><item><author>coryfklein</author><text>Serious question: I&amp;#x27;ve heard that Bezos&amp;#x27;s approach with building out commercial units is to break down each part of the vertical into separate commercially-viable components. Idea being if AWS doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense for 3rd parties to use then it may not be economical to use it internally.&lt;p&gt;Now the question part: would Amazon ever secretly run Amazon.com in a multi-cloud setup, balancing between AWS, GCE, Azure, etc?</text></item><item><author>rpeden</author><text>If only they had access to some kind of scalable cloud hosting service, they could&amp;#x27;ve completely avoided this sort of outage. :)&lt;p&gt;Jokes aside, I admire the work of the team(s) responsible for Amazon&amp;#x27;s web site. I use it so often and encounter glitches so rarely that it really stands out when something &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; go wrong.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/prime-down-amazons-sale-day-turns-into-fail-day/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stone-monkey</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see their comment as paranoid because cloud providers generally aee incompetent&amp;#x2F;steal your data, but because other cloud providers are direct competitors.&lt;p&gt;Even if they&amp;#x27;re not sifting through your server data, they can possibly try to get a competitive advantage by analyzing things like usage data as someone above pointed out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rb808</author><text>lol, meanwhile everyone else is trusting aws.</text></item><item><author>camtarn</author><text>Worked for Amazon a few years back.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t see Amazon ever using external cloud hosting for anything except the most trivial of tasks. They&amp;#x27;re absolutely, utterly paranoid about any sort of confidential information, and I think even with encryption the perceived risk would be too high.</text></item><item><author>coryfklein</author><text>Serious question: I&amp;#x27;ve heard that Bezos&amp;#x27;s approach with building out commercial units is to break down each part of the vertical into separate commercially-viable components. Idea being if AWS doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense for 3rd parties to use then it may not be economical to use it internally.&lt;p&gt;Now the question part: would Amazon ever secretly run Amazon.com in a multi-cloud setup, balancing between AWS, GCE, Azure, etc?</text></item><item><author>rpeden</author><text>If only they had access to some kind of scalable cloud hosting service, they could&amp;#x27;ve completely avoided this sort of outage. :)&lt;p&gt;Jokes aside, I admire the work of the team(s) responsible for Amazon&amp;#x27;s web site. I use it so often and encounter glitches so rarely that it really stands out when something &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; go wrong.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/prime-down-amazons-sale-day-turns-into-fail-day/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>I agree that gdb&amp;#x27;s syntax is ridiculous, having come from a background of DOS DEBUG and WinDbg, but what irritates me more are the implementations of certain functionality:&lt;p&gt;- No way to get a 16-column (bytes+ASCII) standard hexdump. This is functionality that even the most basic debugger should have, yet it&amp;#x27;s missing from gdb.&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;disassemble&amp;quot; command is next to useless.&lt;p&gt;- If you write &amp;quot;b 0x12345&amp;quot; intending to set a breakpoint at address 0x12345, it doesn&amp;#x27;t work. An unnecessary and nonsensical extra asterisk is needed (which makes it look like it&amp;#x27;s retrieving 4&amp;#x2F;8 bytes from 0x12345, and using &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; as the address of the breakpoint.)&lt;p&gt;- Starting gdb with a binary and passing arguments to it --- you&amp;#x27;d expect it to be smart enough to realise that anything after the executable name should be the arguments to the debuggee and not the debugger, but it isnt.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t use gdb often, but when I do, it&amp;#x27;s usually the option of last resort.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yen223</author><text>I used to think GDB was a tool with the most broken interface I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen, and which requires arcane commands to do the most trivial of debugging things.&lt;p&gt;I still do, but I used to too.&lt;p&gt;That early dig against Windows was particularly funny. There&amp;#x27;s no way I would pick that over Visual Studio&amp;#x27;s debugging tools.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Give me 15 minutes and I&apos;ll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PorfLSr3DDI</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fest</author><text>I could agree with you on gdb&amp;#x27;s user interface. However, working on embedded hardware, plain gdb and it&amp;#x27;s architecture-specific forks|variants have been the least fiddly things to use.&lt;p&gt;The most recent examples I&amp;#x27;ve stumbled upon were System Workbench for STM32 and Atollic Studio debugging relatively recent STM32F7 series. When the debugging from IDE doesn&amp;#x27;t work, it&amp;#x27;s very hard to see where the problem is (is the hardware interface service started? with the correct parameters? does it have access to hardware USB device? did it even succeed flashing the firmware?)</text><parent_chain><item><author>yen223</author><text>I used to think GDB was a tool with the most broken interface I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen, and which requires arcane commands to do the most trivial of debugging things.&lt;p&gt;I still do, but I used to too.&lt;p&gt;That early dig against Windows was particularly funny. There&amp;#x27;s no way I would pick that over Visual Studio&amp;#x27;s debugging tools.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Give me 15 minutes and I&apos;ll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PorfLSr3DDI</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pc86</author><text>Until I took a senior developer role at a radiology practice I had no idea what DICOM was. The idea that a physician should know is kind of fanciful, isn&amp;#x27;t it? In 99.99% of cases, they load images by clicking a button that says &amp;quot;Display images&amp;quot; in a PACS, or RIS, or the images are loaded automatically by workflow. It&amp;#x27;s like expecting someone who has only ever viewed webpages, and never even viewed the source let alone made a webpage, to know the difference between JPEG, GIF, and PNG.</text><parent_chain><item><author>juliansark</author><text>My amazing experience with DICOM, an open standard with viewer software on SourceForge, is that I once took pictures in the format to a locally renowned neurologist.&lt;p&gt;She plugged my USB stick into her Windows XP workstation, ca. 2019, without the slightest hesitation, then proceeded to claim not to know what DICOM is, and to ask me why I didn&amp;#x27;t bring her either the proprietary viewer program, or JPEGs.&lt;p&gt;Had I brought the viewer, she would have probably launched the .exe with equally no hesitation.&lt;p&gt;At least in these parts of the woods, this once again confirmed to me that medicine and IT usually exist at opposite ends of a spectrum.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dicom File Format Basics</title><url>https://www.vladsiv.com/dicom-file-format-basics/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VikingCoder</author><text>This is like a restaurant that has a QR code on the table instead of a menu.&lt;p&gt;Yes, it&amp;#x27;s absolutely possible for someone to use the QR code to fetch the menu from a website using their phone. But unless you do it often, you just don&amp;#x27;t even know how to do it.&lt;p&gt;Doctors are insulated from DICOM the same way that most humans don&amp;#x27;t normally type &amp;quot;h t t p : &amp;#x2F; &amp;#x2F;&amp;quot; They just click on links and things show up for them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>juliansark</author><text>My amazing experience with DICOM, an open standard with viewer software on SourceForge, is that I once took pictures in the format to a locally renowned neurologist.&lt;p&gt;She plugged my USB stick into her Windows XP workstation, ca. 2019, without the slightest hesitation, then proceeded to claim not to know what DICOM is, and to ask me why I didn&amp;#x27;t bring her either the proprietary viewer program, or JPEGs.&lt;p&gt;Had I brought the viewer, she would have probably launched the .exe with equally no hesitation.&lt;p&gt;At least in these parts of the woods, this once again confirmed to me that medicine and IT usually exist at opposite ends of a spectrum.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dicom File Format Basics</title><url>https://www.vladsiv.com/dicom-file-format-basics/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neilv</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;What you don&amp;#x27;t know is that when you have a pile of money, you turn into a dragon. The goal becomes to sit on the pile of money and make sure it doesn&amp;#x27;t get smaller, and ideally grows on its own.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this universal?&lt;p&gt;If I had at least a several-million post-tax windfall, I think I&amp;#x27;d buy a nice home and maybe a little beach house, put the rest in index funds, and spend my time being healthy, and building particular open source software and hardware.&lt;p&gt;(Building things without résumé keywords being a consideration; it&amp;#x27;s almost unimaginable, now.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I regret selling my startup</title><url>https://www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com/i-regret-selling-my-startup/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gnicholas</author><text>When I see or hear advice, I try to understand what the person&amp;#x27;s context was. Here, I feel like I don&amp;#x27;t know enough about the founder&amp;#x27;s situation to know whether any of this would be relevant to me. For example, does he have a family? How old is he? Roughly how much money did he sell for? How much profit was the business generating beforehand, and what was its trajectory?&lt;p&gt;Without knowing things like this, I can&amp;#x27;t really tell if his advice would be relevant at all for me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I regret selling my startup</title><url>https://www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com/i-regret-selling-my-startup/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sunir</author><text>There are a couple important biases where just changing something results in a positive result.&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_effect&lt;/a&gt; (everyone loves seeing something new!) * &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect&lt;/a&gt; (being a subject of an experiment is motivational)&lt;p&gt;There are a couple ways to deal with these biases. One is to try a large number of different designs, so the bias is spread across a large number of options. Thus the comparative winner is more likely to itself be intrinsically better, at least amongst the new designs. Note that this still negatively punishes the control.&lt;p&gt;The other way is to wait longer until the new design is no longer &apos;new&apos;. In practice, that is impractical! Really, all you can do is pick the winner and keep monitoring it after the fact to see if there is a regression in the result.&lt;p&gt;I know others have said this, but you can harness these biases. Simply change the design frequently for no reason other than to stay &apos;fresh&apos;. It keeps people interested and it shows you&apos;re alive and kicking.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>I would love to see the data sets that support the lifts - those little &quot;up 3.49 / down 3.38&quot; can get notoriously tricky in terms of statistical relevancy using GWO or otherwise.&lt;p&gt;Also to note, I often find that radical new variant designs for well established clients have rapidly diminishing returns.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the sheer &quot;newness&quot; can skew the data as folks sitting on the fence (returning visitors) push the convo data up.&lt;p&gt;All that said, I&apos;m a fan of the new look and feel, fun to watch 37signals influence turn the market - expect to see lots of similar looking stuff in the future.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>37signals: A/B testing part 3: Finalé</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2991-behind-the-scenes-ab-testing-part-3-final</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chc</author><text>The article actually notes that those up/down 2% results are statistically insignificant (&quot;a specific person didn’t quite matter among the set of people we tested&quot;). But the lift from no-person to big-smiling-face was very significant: more than 100%.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>I would love to see the data sets that support the lifts - those little &quot;up 3.49 / down 3.38&quot; can get notoriously tricky in terms of statistical relevancy using GWO or otherwise.&lt;p&gt;Also to note, I often find that radical new variant designs for well established clients have rapidly diminishing returns.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the sheer &quot;newness&quot; can skew the data as folks sitting on the fence (returning visitors) push the convo data up.&lt;p&gt;All that said, I&apos;m a fan of the new look and feel, fun to watch 37signals influence turn the market - expect to see lots of similar looking stuff in the future.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>37signals: A/B testing part 3: Finalé</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2991-behind-the-scenes-ab-testing-part-3-final</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oldmanjay</author><text>When you feel like you can sum up a few million opinions as the result of a stupidity that you personally do not suffer, the odds that you are correct in your assessment approach zero.</text><parent_chain><item><author>parfe</author><text>&amp;gt;Until the tech industry wakes up to the reality that they _are_ labor&lt;p&gt;Never going to happen. The great conceit of the tech world peons is believing they&amp;#x27;re above the simple garbage man or postal worker. After all they create such &lt;i&gt;value&lt;/i&gt;. Admitting a union would help acknowledges they&amp;#x27;re not special.</text></item><item><author>thenewwazoo</author><text>IBM has literally no disincentive to do this, either de jure or de facto. The threat of H1-B applications being denied is either laughable or [there aren&amp;#x27;t enough of them anyway] depending on who you ask. And IBM employees, like most tech workers, don&amp;#x27;t think they need to act (read: bargain) collectively and thus have no recourse. Until the tech industry wakes up to the reality that they _are_ labor, companies will continue to treat their employees as fungible, on an increasingly global scale.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What the IBM Layoffs Look Like</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/is-this-months-ibm-layoff-for-rebalancing-or-is-it-really-for-offshoring#.VuHU1fevtY4.hackernews</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>levemi</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve never met anyone nor worked with anyone who thought they were better than someone else because of their job. Maybe that&amp;#x27;s something you want to believe, but it isn&amp;#x27;t true. A great deal of the engineers I work with in the bay area are socially conscious to the tech sector&amp;#x27;s impact on the community. And really they&amp;#x27;re harmed by it too, a software engineer can&amp;#x27;t afford to buy a house either.&lt;p&gt;If what you really believed was true there&amp;#x27;s no way that someone like Barbara Lee could be in office with such huge wins every two years when so many of her constituents are the same people that work in the area you think is so terrible. Why are you even posting on HN? This is a technical news site.</text><parent_chain><item><author>parfe</author><text>&amp;gt;Until the tech industry wakes up to the reality that they _are_ labor&lt;p&gt;Never going to happen. The great conceit of the tech world peons is believing they&amp;#x27;re above the simple garbage man or postal worker. After all they create such &lt;i&gt;value&lt;/i&gt;. Admitting a union would help acknowledges they&amp;#x27;re not special.</text></item><item><author>thenewwazoo</author><text>IBM has literally no disincentive to do this, either de jure or de facto. The threat of H1-B applications being denied is either laughable or [there aren&amp;#x27;t enough of them anyway] depending on who you ask. And IBM employees, like most tech workers, don&amp;#x27;t think they need to act (read: bargain) collectively and thus have no recourse. Until the tech industry wakes up to the reality that they _are_ labor, companies will continue to treat their employees as fungible, on an increasingly global scale.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What the IBM Layoffs Look Like</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/is-this-months-ibm-layoff-for-rebalancing-or-is-it-really-for-offshoring#.VuHU1fevtY4.hackernews</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fake-name</author><text>I love the idea of almost every ZachTronics game.&lt;p&gt;My issue with them is that they get close enough to actual programming that I invariably quit, and go actually work on a hobby programming project, rather then play. As a result, I generally buy the game, play the first few levels, and then go make some commits on a programming puzzle that has an actual end-result that I benefit from.&lt;p&gt;I really wish the games used an actual language or assembly opcode set. If I could play TIS-100 &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; practice ARM or AVR assembly, &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; would be amazing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Exapunks</title><url>http://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DivisionSol</author><text>I would highly recommend any Zachtronics game to anyone who enjoys programming as a hobby.&lt;p&gt;Exapunks this time around was lovely, along the same vein as TIS-100 and Shenzen I&amp;#x2F;O, less like Spacechem&amp;#x2F;Opus Magnum&amp;#x2F;Infinifactory (which I would still highly recommend.) Going back further, I&amp;#x27;ll add &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&amp;#x2F;ruckingenur-ii&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&amp;#x2F;ruckingenur-ii&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&amp;#x2F;kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-people&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&amp;#x2F;kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl...&lt;/a&gt; as notable Zachtronics games to enjoy.&lt;p&gt;Write code for swarm-like processes to hack networks and perform tasks before exiting the network without a trace.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Exapunks</title><url>http://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TrainedMonkey</author><text>Lunar gateway is a first space station that will not be orbiting Earth. While current approach is inefficient, I assure you the challenge of building, launching, and operating such a craft will definitely push overall space capabilities further.</text><parent_chain><item><author>superkuh</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a shame that the lunar gateway is useless and itself a jobs program like SLS. Since NASA decided not to fund the version of the asteroid retrieval mission (ARM) that included de-spin there are no near earth asteroids that can be brought back to the proposed space station. All it can do is uselessly orbit the Moon, getting full cosmic radiation dose instead of less than half in Earth orbit in the magnetosphere.&lt;p&gt;In terms of resources the moon itself only has water. But it&amp;#x27;s down in a difficult to access gravity well. There&amp;#x27;s no nitrogen. Far, far, better would be fully funding ARM and starting to despin and drag asteroids to the lunar gateway for study, resources, and eventually living space in space protected from radiation and, if you build sub-surface tracks, enough acceleration to live normally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Falcon Heavy</title><url>https://www.universetoday.com/150124/nasa-has-decided-to-start-building-the-lunar-gateway-using-the-falcon-heavy/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>generalizations</author><text>A simple first step done sooner is better than a complex first step done later. Also, seems like there&amp;#x27;s a lot to learn about space habitats just by building another one - we haven&amp;#x27;t made that many yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>superkuh</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a shame that the lunar gateway is useless and itself a jobs program like SLS. Since NASA decided not to fund the version of the asteroid retrieval mission (ARM) that included de-spin there are no near earth asteroids that can be brought back to the proposed space station. All it can do is uselessly orbit the Moon, getting full cosmic radiation dose instead of less than half in Earth orbit in the magnetosphere.&lt;p&gt;In terms of resources the moon itself only has water. But it&amp;#x27;s down in a difficult to access gravity well. There&amp;#x27;s no nitrogen. Far, far, better would be fully funding ARM and starting to despin and drag asteroids to the lunar gateway for study, resources, and eventually living space in space protected from radiation and, if you build sub-surface tracks, enough acceleration to live normally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Falcon Heavy</title><url>https://www.universetoday.com/150124/nasa-has-decided-to-start-building-the-lunar-gateway-using-the-falcon-heavy/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Patent advocates are outnumbered by practitioners who are virulently anti-patent by at least 100-1 on HN. Who would be flagging an article like that off in bad faith?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jxcole</author><text>There is absolutely no justification for flagging this. I am disheartened that hacker news has become a place where people flag stuff they dislike rather than posting a rebuttal. I feel this is a systemic error, it is currently too easy for a few people to kill articles they don&apos;t like.</text></item><item><author>bane</author><text>Interesting to note that this is currently #1 with &amp;#62;100 points, while my link to the &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; petition was flagged and is now marked dead.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3032320&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3032320&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to the guidlines&lt;p&gt;&quot;Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.&quot;&lt;p&gt;bizarre.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27194/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rwl</author><text>If the flagging is intentional, I agree. But it is also ridiculously easy to accidentally flag an article in a mobile browser on a touchscreen device. I have to wonder how many illegitimate flags come in that way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jxcole</author><text>There is absolutely no justification for flagging this. I am disheartened that hacker news has become a place where people flag stuff they dislike rather than posting a rebuttal. I feel this is a systemic error, it is currently too easy for a few people to kill articles they don&apos;t like.</text></item><item><author>bane</author><text>Interesting to note that this is currently #1 with &amp;#62;100 points, while my link to the &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; petition was flagged and is now marked dead.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3032320&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3032320&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to the guidlines&lt;p&gt;&quot;Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.&quot;&lt;p&gt;bizarre.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27194/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jakebasile</author><text>I agree. I am dismayed when I see open source projects using Slack in lieu of IRC or a mailing list. It means I&amp;#x27;d be forced to use their awful client (which is slow, buggy, and far too resource intensive for a chat application) or use their awful IRC integration. This is all in addition to the issue you raise of Slack being a black hole beholden to a profit motivated entity.&lt;p&gt;Just use IRC. It&amp;#x27;s practically impossible to avoid Slack at any startup now, but I&amp;#x27;d love to be able to avoid it in FOSS.</text><parent_chain><item><author>subpixel</author><text>Slack is great, but it&amp;#x27;s adoption by popular opensource communities is problematic.&lt;p&gt;Why? Because opensource communities are on the free plan, which limits search once you have 10k messages. I&amp;#x27;ve had experiences where I wanted to revisit a question I had asked in a Slack channel the previous week, and been unable to find it.&lt;p&gt;As a result, everyone burns out faster b&amp;#x2F;c the same questions get asked and answered over, and over.&lt;p&gt;Couple this with the fact that channels are not indexed by Google and you get a black box where valuable Q&amp;amp;A content and discussion goes to die.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Search at Slack</title><url>https://slack.engineering/search-at-slack-431f8c80619e#.cqkhzbv5d</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>accountface</author><text> Why are people using a chat app like a wiki to begin with</text><parent_chain><item><author>subpixel</author><text>Slack is great, but it&amp;#x27;s adoption by popular opensource communities is problematic.&lt;p&gt;Why? Because opensource communities are on the free plan, which limits search once you have 10k messages. I&amp;#x27;ve had experiences where I wanted to revisit a question I had asked in a Slack channel the previous week, and been unable to find it.&lt;p&gt;As a result, everyone burns out faster b&amp;#x2F;c the same questions get asked and answered over, and over.&lt;p&gt;Couple this with the fact that channels are not indexed by Google and you get a black box where valuable Q&amp;amp;A content and discussion goes to die.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Search at Slack</title><url>https://slack.engineering/search-at-slack-431f8c80619e#.cqkhzbv5d</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>philipswood</author><text>We used Oberon (the system and the language) in our 3rd year CS OS course in Stellenbosch in the mid 90&amp;#x27;s&lt;p&gt;Interesting system, it&amp;#x27;s worth looking at since it has a few unexplored ideas.&lt;p&gt;(I was less impressed the the language).&lt;p&gt;I experienced it at about the same time as win3 &amp;#x2F; Win95 and X-Windows (before KDE&amp;#x2F;Gnome) and it compared favourably.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m glad this post is calling attention to it, but I don&amp;#x27;t think the post does it much justice.&lt;p&gt;The Zooming-UI and desktops happened later as a reaction to (today) more mainstream approaches.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t call the interface a CLI - it wasn&amp;#x27;t REPL. It needed a 3 button mouse and was very point and click.&lt;p&gt;TUI is more accurate.&lt;p&gt;It was graphical, with no desktop and non-overlapping panels (although in certain cases one panel could obscure a lower panel). Think tiling window manager.&lt;p&gt;The mouse button use was chorded, so there were a lot of combinations, this meant one could highlight, select, copy, paste and execute commands without using the keyboard.&lt;p&gt;Any text could be selected and executed. Selecting &amp;#x27;Module.Function&amp;#x27; would execute that function in that module.&lt;p&gt;It used a &amp;quot;Document Object Model&amp;quot;, the base text class was expandable to handle more widgets than just native text.&lt;p&gt;Single user, single process with no real distinction between the system code and your own. You could view and edit system modules and add your own.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oberon OS Walkthrough (2009)</title><url>http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SoSoRoCoCo</author><text>&amp;gt; Everything is a Command Line&lt;p&gt;This is a really controversial pattern for GUIs. In one camp, the GUI is really a skin over the CLI that acts like a virtual user, translating GUI inputs into underlying CLI. In the other camp, the GUI is all there is (e.g., Windows) and there is no underlying OS that can be accessed via CLI: in fact, the CLI is a &amp;quot;fake GUI&amp;quot; (win32 apps written without a Window). I can&amp;#x27;t say which is better, but it is fascinating to see that this was an &amp;quot;original pattern&amp;quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oberon OS Walkthrough (2009)</title><url>http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gerbilly</author><text>He may not have been a literal historical prince, but to make the distinction may be to miss the point a bit.&lt;p&gt;For example if you compare the Mesopotamian creation myth, the Enuma Elish to the book of genesis you will find many correspondences at the formal level.&lt;p&gt;What I mean by that is that the overall structure of the Enuma Elish is preserved in Genesis, but with some changes. In the Mesopotamian myth, there were seven generations of gods, but in Genesis this was transmuted into seven days for one god.&lt;p&gt;You could say that Genesis is a parody of the Enuma Elish. I don&amp;#x27;t believe for an instant that the people who wrote genesis believed in the seven days and what was created on each day, it&amp;#x27;s probably allegorical.&lt;p&gt;The most important point being made in genesis is to be found not in the sequence of events, but in the differences against the backdrop of the Mesopotamian myth, the main one being that there is only one god.&lt;p&gt;Likewise, the embellished life story of the Buddha, the bit with the white elephant, and the birth in a palace, and the journey on the cart through the town with the charioteer &amp;#x27;Channa&amp;#x27; all borrow elements from well known Indian motifs. The most important parts of the story are probably to be found in the &amp;#x27;diffs&amp;#x27; and are not to be taken literally.&lt;p&gt;They probably weren&amp;#x27;t even taken literally at the time.&lt;p&gt;In summary, I think we are reading too much into ancient texts that were probably written in the allegorical mode.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who Was the Buddha?</title><url>https://aeon.co/essays/was-the-buddha-an-awakened-prince-or-a-humble-itinerant</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acqq</author><text>The religious events in India at the time of Buddha were much more complex and nuanced than most of those who concentrate on Buddha alone are aware, for example, there was also Charvaka school, apparently even less willing to accept any direct influence of gods on humans:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Charvaka&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Charvaka&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Charvaka holds direct perception, empiricism, and conditional inference as proper sources of knowledge, embraces philosophical skepticism and rejects ritualism, and supernaturalism.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Also Jainism&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Jainism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Jainism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;even today with &amp;quot;four to five million followers worldwide.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mahavira&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mahavira&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Mahavira and Gautama Buddha are generally accepted as contemporaries (circa 5th century BCE).&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Beyond the times of the Mahāvīra and the Buddha, the two ascetic sramana (seeker) religions competed for followers as well as the merchant trade networks that sustained them.[128][414] Their mutual interaction, along with those of Hindu traditions, have been significant.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Buddhism_and_Jainism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Buddhism_and_Jainism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Jainism and Buddhism share many features, terminology and ethical principles, but emphasize them differently.[2] Both are śramaṇa ascetic traditions that believe it is possible to attain liberation from the cycle of rebirths and deaths (samsara) through spiritual and ethical disciplines.[3] They differ in some core doctrines such as those on asceticism, Middle Way versus Anekantavada, and self versus no-self (jiva, atta, anatta).&amp;quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who Was the Buddha?</title><url>https://aeon.co/essays/was-the-buddha-an-awakened-prince-or-a-humble-itinerant</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asymptotic</author><text>I&apos;m surprised noone&apos;s pointed out the obvious - the US have obligations under stategic nuclear arms reduction treaties such as START I that compel the US to chop up B-52s, put the parts in the desert, and leave them there long enough to allow the Russians time to use satellite imagery to confirm they&apos;ve been chopped up.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/START_I&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/START_I&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;365 B-52Gs were flown to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The bombers were stripped of all usable parts, then chopped into five pieces by a 13,000-pound steel blade dropped from a crane. The guillotine sliced four times on each plane, severing the wings and leaving the fuselage in three pieces. The ruined B-52s remained in place for three months so that Russian satellites could confirm that the bombers had been destroyed, after which they were sold for scrap.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Retired Aircraft are Stored in the Desert</title><url>http://murderousmusings.blogspot.com/2010/05/bone-yard.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>davidw</author><text>Because dry, warm climates preserve many things well, including airplanes, evidently. Next...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Retired Aircraft are Stored in the Desert</title><url>http://murderousmusings.blogspot.com/2010/05/bone-yard.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krisoft</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s disappointing how most of the articles and videos criticizing the dangerous content don&amp;#x27;t explain why exactly something is dangerous.&lt;p&gt;Which videos are you talking about in particular?&lt;p&gt;Both the Ann Reardon and the Big Clive video explains exactly what makes this experiment more dangerous than others people do.&lt;p&gt;The Big Clive one in particular goes into interesting details about how a ground fault circuit interrupter works, and why it doesn&amp;#x27;t protect you in this case.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; They just scream &amp;quot;omg high voltage&amp;quot; &amp;quot;one mistake you&amp;#x27;re dead&amp;quot; and so on.&lt;p&gt;The ones I have seen don&amp;#x27;t scream. They calmly explain that the voltage generated in this setup is much much higher than the voltage the average experimenter has experience with.&lt;p&gt;About the &amp;quot;one mistake you&amp;#x27;re dead&amp;quot;. That is the crux of the matter. People should be aware of how thin the margins are, and how few guard rails protect them in any particular situation.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; it reminds me of the medieval experimenters and alchemists being oppressed by the conformist public.&lt;p&gt;Who is oppressing anybody here?</text><parent_chain><item><author>foobarian</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s disappointing how most of the articles and videos criticizing the dangerous content don&amp;#x27;t explain why exactly something is dangerous. They just scream &amp;quot;omg high voltage&amp;quot; &amp;quot;one mistake you&amp;#x27;re dead&amp;quot; and so on. I honestly think they are worse than the source; it reminds me of the medieval experimenters and alchemists being oppressed by the conformist public.</text></item><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>I like Big Clive (and Electroboom) because they know how to be safe, but do the stupid thing anyways (safely) to show how bad the ideas are.</text></item><item><author>dazzawazza</author><text>Big Clive has a good video on why this is dangerous and how to make it more safe. Note: not safe safe, just more safe.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=FBeSKL9zVro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=FBeSKL9zVro&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2022/07/01/youtube-removes-criticism-of-dangerous-fractal-wood-burning-instructions-but-leaves-up-the-lethal-tips.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rcxdude</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not hard to figure out: microwave oven transformers are generally considered one of the most dangerous things you can find in a household appliance when misused because they put out enough voltage to reliably punch through even dry skin (which is usually a fairly good insulator which mitigates a lot of the severity of most mains voltage shocks), while still able to generate enough current that when it does form a circuit through you it will not only hurt because cause your muscles to tense up rigidly, burn you badly, and depending on how (un)lucky you are, cause cardiac arrest. It also (as explained in the Big Clive video) bypasses the safety equipment in most houses designed to mitigate shocks from mains-powered devices. Fractal wood burning also involves a bunch of salt-water which only increases the risk. &amp;quot;Only one mistake needed to kill you&amp;quot; is not hyperbole (it&amp;#x27;s possible to survive shocks from MOTs, but it&amp;#x27;s not the norm).</text><parent_chain><item><author>foobarian</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s disappointing how most of the articles and videos criticizing the dangerous content don&amp;#x27;t explain why exactly something is dangerous. They just scream &amp;quot;omg high voltage&amp;quot; &amp;quot;one mistake you&amp;#x27;re dead&amp;quot; and so on. I honestly think they are worse than the source; it reminds me of the medieval experimenters and alchemists being oppressed by the conformist public.</text></item><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>I like Big Clive (and Electroboom) because they know how to be safe, but do the stupid thing anyways (safely) to show how bad the ideas are.</text></item><item><author>dazzawazza</author><text>Big Clive has a good video on why this is dangerous and how to make it more safe. Note: not safe safe, just more safe.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=FBeSKL9zVro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=FBeSKL9zVro&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2022/07/01/youtube-removes-criticism-of-dangerous-fractal-wood-burning-instructions-but-leaves-up-the-lethal-tips.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VancouverMan</author><text>Maybe it&amp;#x27;d be better to just not have any blocking&amp;#x2F;muting built into such a system at all.&lt;p&gt;If User A doesn&amp;#x27;t want to see posts from User B, that&amp;#x27;s fine. User A can have his client filter them out locally, prior to when they&amp;#x27;d otherwise be displayed. Nobody else has to know this is happening.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think that User A should be permitted to prevent User B from replying to User A&amp;#x27;s posts, which in turn prevents User C (or all other users) from discovering what User B thinks about whatever User A posted.&lt;p&gt;User A trying to prevent his otherwise-public posts from being visible to User B seems pointless to me, as User B could log out, or use another account that hasn&amp;#x27;t been blocked, or ask somebody else who hasn&amp;#x27;t been blocked to screenshot it, or use some other way around it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>btown</author><text>Given that Bluesky makes it this easy to download data, it&amp;#x27;s quite alarming that the graph of who blocks &amp;amp; mutes who is fully public and easy to extract into a database: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atproto.com&amp;#x2F;lexicons&amp;#x2F;app-bsky-graph#appbskygraphgetblocks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atproto.com&amp;#x2F;lexicons&amp;#x2F;app-bsky-graph#appbskygraphgetb...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;On Twitter, blocking a toxic user does not notify them - while they can query the block status of one profile at a time, they can never get a full list of people who block them. But it would be trivial to create a Bluesky app view that provides this inverted index. And some people would be inclined to use the list of people who block them as a &amp;quot;target list&amp;quot; of people whose views differ from them, to share with their networks as prospects for targeted harassment that may even cross into real-life violence. (The fact that critics of the infamous Ki*f*ms forum have been swatted - and that I am even now reticent to type the full name - is just the tip of the iceberg of potential dangers here.)&lt;p&gt;I hope that Bluesky comes up with a better mechanism here - it&amp;#x27;s tough to do in a federated system, but research like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;1577.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;1577.pdf&lt;/a&gt; may be helpful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky</title><url>https://worthdoingbadly.com/bsky/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>(Saying this as an excited bluesky user and someone who really really hopes all of this succeeds long-term)&lt;p&gt;I think possibly their biggest challenge ahead will be making parts of it &lt;i&gt;non&lt;/i&gt;-public. Private mutes&amp;#x2F;blocks, having some analogue of Circles for whitelisting post viewers, etc.&lt;p&gt;Having a &lt;i&gt;truly&lt;/i&gt; open and public database - especially once signups no longer require invite codes - is going to mean a cambrian explosion of tools and clients the likes of which we&amp;#x27;ve never seen before in social media (which is already sorta happening even with closed signups). But that might include malicious apps that take advantage of that same openness to stalk, spam, and harass (especially given it&amp;#x27;s coinciding with a huge leap in AI technology). It might be AT Protocol&amp;#x27;s biggest test.</text><parent_chain><item><author>btown</author><text>Given that Bluesky makes it this easy to download data, it&amp;#x27;s quite alarming that the graph of who blocks &amp;amp; mutes who is fully public and easy to extract into a database: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atproto.com&amp;#x2F;lexicons&amp;#x2F;app-bsky-graph#appbskygraphgetblocks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atproto.com&amp;#x2F;lexicons&amp;#x2F;app-bsky-graph#appbskygraphgetb...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;On Twitter, blocking a toxic user does not notify them - while they can query the block status of one profile at a time, they can never get a full list of people who block them. But it would be trivial to create a Bluesky app view that provides this inverted index. And some people would be inclined to use the list of people who block them as a &amp;quot;target list&amp;quot; of people whose views differ from them, to share with their networks as prospects for targeted harassment that may even cross into real-life violence. (The fact that critics of the infamous Ki*f*ms forum have been swatted - and that I am even now reticent to type the full name - is just the tip of the iceberg of potential dangers here.)&lt;p&gt;I hope that Bluesky comes up with a better mechanism here - it&amp;#x27;s tough to do in a federated system, but research like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;1577.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;1577.pdf&lt;/a&gt; may be helpful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky</title><url>https://worthdoingbadly.com/bsky/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trynewideas</author><text>&amp;gt; Also, props to the narrator. She was to the point and well informed.&lt;p&gt;For context, in addition to her career as a fighter pilot and squadron commander, Col. Themely was commander of the 80th Flying Training Wing in 2017 and 2018, which encompassed the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program (ENJJPT),[1] &amp;quot;the world&amp;#x27;s only multi-nationally manned and managed flying training program chartered to produce combat pilots for NATO&amp;quot;.[2] She retired in October 2018.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sheppard.af.mil&amp;#x2F;News&amp;#x2F;Article-Display&amp;#x2F;Article&amp;#x2F;1566640&amp;#x2F;themely-takes-final-flight-with-80th-ftw&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sheppard.af.mil&amp;#x2F;News&amp;#x2F;Article-Display&amp;#x2F;Article&amp;#x2F;156...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sheppard.af.mil&amp;#x2F;Library&amp;#x2F;Fact-Sheets&amp;#x2F;Display&amp;#x2F;Article&amp;#x2F;367537&amp;#x2F;euro-nato-joint-jet-pilot-training-program-enjjpt&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sheppard.af.mil&amp;#x2F;Library&amp;#x2F;Fact-Sheets&amp;#x2F;Display&amp;#x2F;Arti...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>What a masterpiece of UX&amp;#x2F;UI. Holyshit.&lt;p&gt;So many amazing details. Notice how the texture of the trim knob is different than other controls. When cost is no barrier, you can have mechanical switches, toggles, flip-off guards, various shapes and sizes of knobs, levers, color coding, hazard markings, etc. - all made from top notch materials and you bet, the haptics were totally engineered for best possible way to reduce ambiguity. Aesthetics take a back seat.&lt;p&gt;Also, props to the narrator. She was to the point and well informed.&lt;p&gt;I hope UI&amp;#x2F;UX designers (even for web design), industrial designers, architects, ergonomicists, HMI designers be inspired from this with one major take away - stop putting personal taste, aesthetics, decoration, marketing, etc. before functionality and pragmatism. Especially those working in vehicle interior design - people need to realize we drive a deadly 2-ton machine on our roads. Make no mistake, modern regression of UI in cars is because of bean counters - touchscreens are vastly cheaper than physical encoders&amp;#x2F;switches&amp;#x2F;toggles, especially automotive grade ones. [1]&lt;p&gt;Can you imagine if you had to flip a toggle switch to turn bluetooth on in your car? I know you&amp;#x27;re smiling from just the thought of it. People make the case that UI needs to be simple for people to use at the expense of density, but remember - we already look at the world which is very messy and navigate it without a problem. Millions navigate through airports. People knew how to use Yellow Pages (extreme density) and telephone books. Making UI more understandable is orthogonal to information density.&lt;p&gt;Unrelated: It is a shame that SpaceX&amp;#x27;s dragon crew cockpit design ditched all this in favor of a more sexier (arguable) looking sci-fi aesthetics. IMO it looks like a cheap movie set including the space suits.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mouser.com&amp;#x2F;ALPS&amp;#x2F;Electromechanical&amp;#x2F;Encoders&amp;#x2F;_&amp;#x2F;N-39xfc?P=1z13wb5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mouser.com&amp;#x2F;ALPS&amp;#x2F;Electromechanical&amp;#x2F;Encoders&amp;#x2F;_&amp;#x2F;N-3...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fighter pilot breaks down every button in an F-15 cockpit [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zikI2fazPLo</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avalys</author><text>&amp;gt; Especially those working in vehicle interior design - people need to realize we drive a deadly 2-ton machine on our roads.&lt;p&gt;This sounds very smart and serious, which must be why someone makes the same point in literally every discussion of a control interface for some kind of vehicle - but I challenge you to provide evidence that fixable UX problems in modern automobiles have led to an increase in accident rates.&lt;p&gt;In fact, most modern vehicles use touchscreens to solve the very problem that you are supposedly concerned about. Rather than a complicated cockpit full of individual buttons and switches to control every single function, most modern cars have a few easy-to-find buttons and switches for functions you might want to access while driving (i.e. radio volume, climate temperature, fan speed), and use the touchscreen to hide all the more complicated and lesser-used settings out of the way!&lt;p&gt;Do you really think that putting your grandmother into a car that resembled that F-15 cockpit would be a safer option? What happens if she forgets where the button is to, say, turn on the A&amp;#x2F;C compressor? Is she going to read every single label while cruising down the highway at 75 mph?</text><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>What a masterpiece of UX&amp;#x2F;UI. Holyshit.&lt;p&gt;So many amazing details. Notice how the texture of the trim knob is different than other controls. When cost is no barrier, you can have mechanical switches, toggles, flip-off guards, various shapes and sizes of knobs, levers, color coding, hazard markings, etc. - all made from top notch materials and you bet, the haptics were totally engineered for best possible way to reduce ambiguity. Aesthetics take a back seat.&lt;p&gt;Also, props to the narrator. She was to the point and well informed.&lt;p&gt;I hope UI&amp;#x2F;UX designers (even for web design), industrial designers, architects, ergonomicists, HMI designers be inspired from this with one major take away - stop putting personal taste, aesthetics, decoration, marketing, etc. before functionality and pragmatism. Especially those working in vehicle interior design - people need to realize we drive a deadly 2-ton machine on our roads. Make no mistake, modern regression of UI in cars is because of bean counters - touchscreens are vastly cheaper than physical encoders&amp;#x2F;switches&amp;#x2F;toggles, especially automotive grade ones. [1]&lt;p&gt;Can you imagine if you had to flip a toggle switch to turn bluetooth on in your car? I know you&amp;#x27;re smiling from just the thought of it. People make the case that UI needs to be simple for people to use at the expense of density, but remember - we already look at the world which is very messy and navigate it without a problem. Millions navigate through airports. People knew how to use Yellow Pages (extreme density) and telephone books. Making UI more understandable is orthogonal to information density.&lt;p&gt;Unrelated: It is a shame that SpaceX&amp;#x27;s dragon crew cockpit design ditched all this in favor of a more sexier (arguable) looking sci-fi aesthetics. IMO it looks like a cheap movie set including the space suits.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mouser.com&amp;#x2F;ALPS&amp;#x2F;Electromechanical&amp;#x2F;Encoders&amp;#x2F;_&amp;#x2F;N-39xfc?P=1z13wb5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mouser.com&amp;#x2F;ALPS&amp;#x2F;Electromechanical&amp;#x2F;Encoders&amp;#x2F;_&amp;#x2F;N-3...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fighter pilot breaks down every button in an F-15 cockpit [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zikI2fazPLo</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vyrotek</author><text>Is this sort of sharing big enough to warrant dedicated and open-source devices just to do this? A sort-of glorified USB Drive with a sharing protocol and nothing else. You walk around and it just syncs up with things around you. Something that looks like an original iPod with a screen and folders of files.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know anything about the AirDrop or NearbyShare protocols, but I wonder if they can be implemented in such a device?&lt;p&gt;All the recently announced dedicated AI devices make me think people might be into it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fma</author><text>As far as I know, dissidents would hang around major population area (i.e, subway station) and allow for anonymous users to connect to them to transfer files. This security issue would allow the Chinese government to track them.&lt;p&gt;However, also as far as I know...although VPNs are banned in China, there are ways to get them. I&amp;#x27;d wonder how much do dissidents use Airdrop in this manner if they can access the global Internet anonymously. Given mass surveillance in China, I&amp;#x27;m sure the Chinese government can track &amp;quot;oh this airdrop sender appears every time this person is in this station&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I also hope that Apple adopts an open source protocol for AirDrop not just for cross platform compatibility, but auditable security. Android has its own &amp;quot;Nearby Share&amp;quot;. If Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t want to get in trouble for &amp;quot;fixing&amp;quot; this, they can easily adopt a cross platform compatible protocol that just happens to also fix this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Attack of the Week: Airdrop Tracing</title><url>https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/01/11/attack-of-the-week-airdrop-tracing/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lxgr</author><text>This would be great, and I&amp;#x27;d be really happy to see it.&lt;p&gt;One (definitely not insurmountable) problem that would exist in such a federated and open system is credential authentication:&lt;p&gt;Currently, Apple signs your email address and phone number (hash) so that you can&amp;#x27;t impersonate somebody&amp;#x27;s trusted contacts and send unwanted material to them without their consent, which has been a problem for Apple in the past. That&amp;#x27;s supposedly also why they have removed the &amp;quot;allow all AirDrop senders&amp;quot; option in favor of one that times out after 10 minutes.&lt;p&gt;There would either have to be a federated alternative to that, or the open source system would have to drop sender authentication; then you could only receive AirDrops while your device is in &amp;quot;allow all senders&amp;quot; mode.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fma</author><text>As far as I know, dissidents would hang around major population area (i.e, subway station) and allow for anonymous users to connect to them to transfer files. This security issue would allow the Chinese government to track them.&lt;p&gt;However, also as far as I know...although VPNs are banned in China, there are ways to get them. I&amp;#x27;d wonder how much do dissidents use Airdrop in this manner if they can access the global Internet anonymously. Given mass surveillance in China, I&amp;#x27;m sure the Chinese government can track &amp;quot;oh this airdrop sender appears every time this person is in this station&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I also hope that Apple adopts an open source protocol for AirDrop not just for cross platform compatibility, but auditable security. Android has its own &amp;quot;Nearby Share&amp;quot;. If Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t want to get in trouble for &amp;quot;fixing&amp;quot; this, they can easily adopt a cross platform compatible protocol that just happens to also fix this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Attack of the Week: Airdrop Tracing</title><url>https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/01/11/attack-of-the-week-airdrop-tracing/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MiddleEndian</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just Windows 10 Home. I have Windows 10 Pro. The other day after rebooting my laptop, I was prompted yet again with that setup page that tries to enable useless shit like Office 365 and change my default browser to Edge. Honestly not sure how this can be legal after they got busted for something relatively mundane like setting the default to IE in the past.</text><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>Microsoft doing exactly the same thing they were, twenty plus years ago, with the IE vs Netscape browser wars. At least they&amp;#x27;re consistent about being hostile. And now, of course, their main competition is Chrome and Google.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;amp;q=netscape+microsoft+lawsuit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;amp;q=netscap...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would encourage anyone who doesn&amp;#x27;t use Windows 10 on a regular basis to take a look at what the &amp;#x27;defaults&amp;#x27; are that Microsoft steers people towards on a brand new Win10 Home installation. Including the creation of a Microsoft account, bing, edge, all the telemetry turned on, etc. Just... Yuck.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge</title><url>https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/anti-competitive-browser-edges.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>wpietri</author><text>Monopolies don&amp;#x27;t see themselves like a normal business, one that has to compete for customers by serving them well. Instead, their thinking is more like a cattle rancher: the users are their property, to pen and milk as they see fit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>Microsoft doing exactly the same thing they were, twenty plus years ago, with the IE vs Netscape browser wars. At least they&amp;#x27;re consistent about being hostile. And now, of course, their main competition is Chrome and Google.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;amp;q=netscape+microsoft+lawsuit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;amp;q=netscap...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would encourage anyone who doesn&amp;#x27;t use Windows 10 on a regular basis to take a look at what the &amp;#x27;defaults&amp;#x27; are that Microsoft steers people towards on a brand new Win10 Home installation. Including the creation of a Microsoft account, bing, edge, all the telemetry turned on, etc. Just... Yuck.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge</title><url>https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/anti-competitive-browser-edges.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LukasRos</author><text>I love this because it&amp;#x27;s a great example of a hybrid world where customizable open source solutions and commercial hosted SaaS APIs go together hand in hand.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls</title><url>https://anyroom.io</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ap46</author><text>Appear.in or even something simple built with WebRTC on a heroku dyno or Firebase for signalling would get the work done for free.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls</title><url>https://anyroom.io</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lxgr</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s exactly why FIDO [1] and WebAuthN [2] are moving towards a concept of backup-able&amp;#x2F;cross-device-sync-able authenticators.&lt;p&gt;That is arguably less secure in some contexts, but there are workarounds, and I do see the point that for most services, availability&amp;#x2F;key loss recovery is as much of a concern as is security.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fidoalliance.org&amp;#x2F;multi-device-fido-credentials&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fidoalliance.org&amp;#x2F;multi-device-fido-credentials&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;w3c&amp;#x2F;webauthn&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1714&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;w3c&amp;#x2F;webauthn&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1714&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>michaelt</author><text>Eh, retrieving a key from off-site storage every time you open a new account is a pretty big inconvenience, even for a security enthusiast.</text></item><item><author>vngzs</author><text>You just register 2-3 keys. It&amp;#x27;s not so bad.</text></item><item><author>throwaway52022</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve resisted switching to a hardware key because I know that I&amp;#x27;m going to break it, and that seems like a huge pain in the ass. I really want to be able to make a couple of backup keys, or maybe put another way, I want to be able to put the private key on the device myself, I don&amp;#x27;t necessarily care that the key is generated on the device and never leaves the device. I don&amp;#x27;t care if that slightly reduces my security - I&amp;#x27;m not protecting nuclear weapons, my threat model is not state actors trying to attack me, my threat model is me leaving my key in my pants pocket before putting it in the washing machine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard</title><url>https://fidoalliance.org/apple-google-and-microsoft-commit-to-expanded-support-for-fido-standard-to-accelerate-availability-of-passwordless-sign-ins/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vngzs</author><text>Right. Some core services get this treatment, like email and important online accounts. For others I rely on reset mechanisms tied to those email accounts if I lose the primary key and haven&amp;#x27;t had the chance to register the secondary. Every few months I&amp;#x27;ll sync up anything that has been missed.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not perfect, but it&amp;#x27;s a hell of a lot better than TOTP.</text><parent_chain><item><author>michaelt</author><text>Eh, retrieving a key from off-site storage every time you open a new account is a pretty big inconvenience, even for a security enthusiast.</text></item><item><author>vngzs</author><text>You just register 2-3 keys. It&amp;#x27;s not so bad.</text></item><item><author>throwaway52022</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve resisted switching to a hardware key because I know that I&amp;#x27;m going to break it, and that seems like a huge pain in the ass. I really want to be able to make a couple of backup keys, or maybe put another way, I want to be able to put the private key on the device myself, I don&amp;#x27;t necessarily care that the key is generated on the device and never leaves the device. I don&amp;#x27;t care if that slightly reduces my security - I&amp;#x27;m not protecting nuclear weapons, my threat model is not state actors trying to attack me, my threat model is me leaving my key in my pants pocket before putting it in the washing machine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard</title><url>https://fidoalliance.org/apple-google-and-microsoft-commit-to-expanded-support-for-fido-standard-to-accelerate-availability-of-passwordless-sign-ins/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bill-nordwall</author><text>Be careful with these robots.txt suggestions.&lt;p&gt;Disallowing your css/js files in your robots.txt is probably not a good idea - Matt Cutts said as much himself: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNEipHjsEPU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNEipHjsEPU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;re running Wordpress, disallowing your /uploads/ directory will nuke your Google Image Search prospects, as Googlebot won&apos;t be able to crawl any of your images to begin with.&lt;p&gt;Also, submitting to a paid directory such as Best of the Web or the Yahoo! Directory would be a much better use of your time. DMOZ is still a valuable directory (for a lot of reasons), but the likelihood is small that they will review, let alone add your site to the directory in a timely manner (if ever).&lt;p&gt;A few other things worth doing: - Create a Twitter account for your site. - Create a Facebook page for your site.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things You Should Do Immediately After Launching a Website</title><url>http://sixrevisions.com/website-management/things-you-should-do-immediately-after-launching-a-website/</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>ary</author><text>&lt;i&gt;After&lt;/i&gt; launching? Not to nit pick, but I&apos;m pretty sure nearly all of these should be done &lt;i&gt;before&lt;/i&gt; you launch.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things You Should Do Immediately After Launching a Website</title><url>http://sixrevisions.com/website-management/things-you-should-do-immediately-after-launching-a-website/</url><text></text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dijit</author><text>It looks almost exactly like dark-ages castle layouts, with 4 bastion towers to cover the corners. Example of Malmo fortification from 1700: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;malmo.se&amp;#x2F;Uppleva-och-gora&amp;#x2F;Arkitektur-och-kulturarv&amp;#x2F;Malmos-historia&amp;#x2F;Stadens-historia&amp;#x2F;Fredlig-utveckling-pa-1700-talet.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;malmo.se&amp;#x2F;Uppleva-och-gora&amp;#x2F;Arkitektur-och-kulturarv&amp;#x2F;M...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can see the Castle and its surrounding moat to the west.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arketyp</author><text>As the article says it&amp;#x27;s used for cultural locations here in the North. I asked my family members what they associate it with and got a variety of answers, including Viking ornamentation, a citadell layout, house foundation, reminiscence of the infinity symbol (persistence through time). As a kid seeing it on the keyboard next to the Apple logo I thought it looked like a leaves or maybe vines. It&amp;#x27;s a funny thing the potency of such abstract symbols, adaptable to different contexts via multiple interpretations, but whose shapes are also not completely separated from what they represent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Looped Square Or ⌘</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Svip</author><text>In Danish, the key is sometimes jokingly referred to as »seværdighedstasten«. »Seværdighed« being a location of interest (and »tasten« key).</text><parent_chain><item><author>arketyp</author><text>As the article says it&amp;#x27;s used for cultural locations here in the North. I asked my family members what they associate it with and got a variety of answers, including Viking ornamentation, a citadell layout, house foundation, reminiscence of the infinity symbol (persistence through time). As a kid seeing it on the keyboard next to the Apple logo I thought it looked like a leaves or maybe vines. It&amp;#x27;s a funny thing the potency of such abstract symbols, adaptable to different contexts via multiple interpretations, but whose shapes are also not completely separated from what they represent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Looped Square Or ⌘</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>untog</author><text>I&apos;m trying to lay out what I think are the reasonable expectations from this AMA, and how they differ from what a lot of people will want. I&apos;m sorry if this somehow offends you. In the future I&apos;ll try my best to be unrelentingly positive about everything, despite the evidence presented to me.&lt;p&gt;Don&apos;t get me wrong, it&apos;s a bold and somewhat brave move by the Obama team to do this- there are myriad ways it can blow up in their faces (Rampart, anyone?). But as a consequence of that, they&apos;re going to be playing it very safe, I&apos;m sure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>revorad</author><text>The President of United States is doing a Reddit AMA and all you can do is &lt;i&gt;predict disappointment&lt;/i&gt;? Really?&lt;p&gt;Why bother?&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;re wrong, your comment will seem too negative and cynical (which it is).&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;re right, well, that&apos;d be disappointing, right?&lt;p&gt;Comments like yours make me want to rename this site Hater News.</text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>Can&apos;t wait for the top post to be another asinine &quot;comment phrased as a question&quot; about legalising marijuana!&lt;p&gt;Joking aside, I predict disappointment. Reddit users will want hard-hitting answers, Obama will definitely not give them (already the internet freedom question has been fluffy-answered). In all honestly, no-one should expect anything else- the POTUS is not going to unveil new thoughts and strategies through Reddit.&lt;p&gt;That said, it shows how far they&apos;ve come from the &quot;jailbait&quot; scandal a few months ago, but I strongly suspect Republicans will refer back to it in good time.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Hey, at least PresidentObama bought Reddit Gold. Somehow I doubt it&apos;ll be enough to cover the bandwidth, though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMA with Barack Obama</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FlukeATX</author><text>Just want to chime in, it looks like Obama is heading out[1] after answering only ten questions. I think it&apos;s fair to call that disappointing when the thread had more than 12,000 comments.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/c60nmtc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>revorad</author><text>The President of United States is doing a Reddit AMA and all you can do is &lt;i&gt;predict disappointment&lt;/i&gt;? Really?&lt;p&gt;Why bother?&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;re wrong, your comment will seem too negative and cynical (which it is).&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;re right, well, that&apos;d be disappointing, right?&lt;p&gt;Comments like yours make me want to rename this site Hater News.</text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>Can&apos;t wait for the top post to be another asinine &quot;comment phrased as a question&quot; about legalising marijuana!&lt;p&gt;Joking aside, I predict disappointment. Reddit users will want hard-hitting answers, Obama will definitely not give them (already the internet freedom question has been fluffy-answered). In all honestly, no-one should expect anything else- the POTUS is not going to unveil new thoughts and strategies through Reddit.&lt;p&gt;That said, it shows how far they&apos;ve come from the &quot;jailbait&quot; scandal a few months ago, but I strongly suspect Republicans will refer back to it in good time.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Hey, at least PresidentObama bought Reddit Gold. Somehow I doubt it&apos;ll be enough to cover the bandwidth, though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMA with Barack Obama</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zanny</author><text>People flock to huge public trackers and reputable private ones for the accuracy of finding what you are looking for. On fully distributed systems, anyone can call anything whatever they want, and you need an authorship or rating system for users to give support to reputable sources.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t believe any decentralized network, including ipfs, has come up with a way for consensus accreditation of a source as being legitimate. If you look for a movie on piratebay, you have the ratings users give the torrents, the comments they write on it, and the number of active swarmers on that torrent all as credence to the legitimacy of it. If you lose any of that information you lose accuracy in finding what you actually want.</text><parent_chain><item><author>unicornporn</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s 2017 and I&amp;#x27;m so surprised that BT is still the dominant way to share copyrighted works illegally. Why hasn&amp;#x27;t a fully decentralized and E2E encrypted alternative replaced it? Who wants to actually run trackers these days?&lt;p&gt;F2F software like &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retroshare.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retroshare.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; exists, but nobody is using it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/extratorrent-shuts-down-for-good-170517/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sp332</author><text>Bittorrent doesn&amp;#x27;t need trackers anymore. Use DHT to find a node with part of the file you want, and peer exchange to query that node for the other nodes that have the rest of the file.</text><parent_chain><item><author>unicornporn</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s 2017 and I&amp;#x27;m so surprised that BT is still the dominant way to share copyrighted works illegally. Why hasn&amp;#x27;t a fully decentralized and E2E encrypted alternative replaced it? Who wants to actually run trackers these days?&lt;p&gt;F2F software like &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retroshare.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retroshare.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; exists, but nobody is using it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/extratorrent-shuts-down-for-good-170517/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arsome</author><text>Everything is now a bloated Electron app where all the features have been deleted. Try comparing Spotify to Amarok&amp;#x2F;Foobar&amp;#x2F;Clementine.&lt;p&gt;Even Firefox seems to just keep stripping out useful functionality for power users for some bizarre reason, no more full themes, limited extension APIs, poor UI customization and less advanced features like &amp;quot;view image&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s like they&amp;#x27;re trying to alienate their most dedicated fanbase in an attempt to steal some marketshare back from Chrome.&lt;p&gt;Microsoft Teams runs so poorly on my work laptop that it&amp;#x27;s barely usable and lacks simple features like Push-to-Talk.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zuhsetaqi</author><text>Can you give a few examples? I’m not using computers that long and don’t know in which way modern software is so frustrating.</text></item><item><author>radmuzom</author><text>I wish we move back to the days when most software was like utorrent, notepad++, etc. The standard response to this statement is &amp;quot;but today&amp;#x27;s software does so much more&amp;quot; - to which I don&amp;#x27;t agree. As someone who has been using computers since 1994 - including machines which did not have a hard drive - modern software is very very frustrating to use in every way I can think of.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Notepad++ v8 release</title><url>https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pulse7</author><text>Back in 90s there was a well defined menubar with all functions. Today you don&amp;#x27;t know where the functions are hidden - they may be everywhere on the screen, hidden behind visible or even unvisible graphical elements... This may be frustrating...</text><parent_chain><item><author>zuhsetaqi</author><text>Can you give a few examples? I’m not using computers that long and don’t know in which way modern software is so frustrating.</text></item><item><author>radmuzom</author><text>I wish we move back to the days when most software was like utorrent, notepad++, etc. The standard response to this statement is &amp;quot;but today&amp;#x27;s software does so much more&amp;quot; - to which I don&amp;#x27;t agree. As someone who has been using computers since 1994 - including machines which did not have a hard drive - modern software is very very frustrating to use in every way I can think of.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Notepad++ v8 release</title><url>https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>transfire</author><text>The idea has a lot of merit. So for that two thumbs up. But I would much rather see a separate website for it. Using Github feels very strained. Perhaps Github would be willing to help set you up with your own instance of their platform which you could modify to better suit the purpose. Maybe even Project Gutenberg would be interested in participating in that.&lt;p&gt;BTW, I recently learned the Gutenberg was &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; his name and is really a significant historical inaccuracy. His name was Hannes Gensfleisch. &amp;quot;Gutenberg&amp;quot; was just one of the places his family resided.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Project Gitenberg</title><url>http://gitenberg.github.io/</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>prosody</author><text>What advantage does this offer over Project Gutenberg&amp;#x27;s own Distributed Proofreaders[1]?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://pgdp.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pgdp.net&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Project Gitenberg</title><url>http://gitenberg.github.io/</url><text></text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>winter_blue</author><text>Well, there are two groups of companies. Companies that can&amp;#x27;t find the talent that they need in this country, and companies trying to save money.&lt;p&gt;There definitely is a STEM shortage, and you are being really dishonest if you say there isn&amp;#x27;t. Ask any hiring manager at a tech company. Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and many, many other companies &lt;i&gt;do not&lt;/i&gt; underpay or maltreat their visa-holding employees in any way. It is primarily this class of companies that are asking for an expansion in the number of visas.&lt;p&gt;Several bills have been introduced in Congress that would have (further) restricted the ability of the less-nice companies to underpay immigrants or displace native-born workers. For example, S.744 from the 113th Congress.&lt;p&gt;It is wrong to paint all companies with the same brush.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmspring</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m jaded. But stories like this are planned to divert to things like what IBM are doing or job shops like Tata,etc.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oh look at what immigrants are contributing in entrepreneurial sense, but ignore how big companies are moving jobs overseas.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;IBM and Disney, iconic US brands are at the for front of outsourcing local jobs using H1B scabs as the route.</text></item><item><author>dalke</author><text>In a slightly older thread concerning this topic, at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11306290&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11306290&lt;/a&gt; I made some objections to this analysis.&lt;p&gt;I think there&amp;#x27;s a fundamental problem in how to interpret this analysis. It says that a company is founded by an immigrant if there is at least one immigrant founder. This means that if 1 of 10 founders is foreign born, then it classified as immigrant founded. An aggregate calculation like this is very likely to give a number which is higher than the more important number, the over- or under- representation of immigrant founders relative to the immigrant population.&lt;p&gt;For example, if every company has 10 founders, and every company has 1 immigrant founder, then by the given definition, 100% of the companies would be founded by an immigrant. However, only 10% of the founder population would be an immigrant. As immigrants make up about 13% of the US population, this would mean that immigrants would be proportionally &lt;i&gt;less likely&lt;/i&gt; to be founders of $1B valuated startups than non-immigrants.&lt;p&gt;Curiously, and I believe significantly, the study does not give this population information, and it makes it difficult to determine that ratio.&lt;p&gt;I did not find an explicit count of the number of immigrant founders. Table 4 has a list of all of the name, and Table 3 has a count of immigrants from a given country, so it&amp;#x27;s possible to figure this out. I am perturbed that the first contains 60 people and the second 61. Perhaps I have miscounted, but I believe there is an error in the report. (I double checked the report by searching for &amp;quot;60&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;61&amp;quot;, but found no explicit total of the number of immigrant founders.)&lt;p&gt;I did not find an explicit count of the total number of founders, which means I have to compute that myself from the list of companies. I did not find an explicit list of companies, which means I have to go to the original WSJ data source.&lt;p&gt;Which I did, though my count was off by one from the report&amp;#x27;s count. It would have been much better if the report included the explicit list of companies &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; founder counts.&lt;p&gt;I took the current WSJ list of 106 companies and picked a few in the top, middle, and bottom range. (Statistical sampling would have been better, I know.) I found founder counts of 65 of them before tedium kicked in. I found 161 founders.&lt;p&gt;This gives an estimated total founder size of 161&amp;#x2F;65x87 = 215.5, and implies that about 60&amp;#x2F;215.5 = 28% of founders are immigrants.&lt;p&gt;This number, while twice as large as expected from the general immigrant population of the US, is also around half of the eye-catching 51%.&lt;p&gt;The next step would be to do a sensitivity analysis to give an idea of error bars. I do not know anything beyond basic statistics, but will point out that 60 is a very small number compared to the number of foreign visa, and hardly representative.&lt;p&gt;Speaking of statistics, while 28% is twice as large as 13%, there&amp;#x27;s likely also a form of p-hacking, or &amp;quot;garden of forking paths&amp;quot; going on. With enough sampling, you will be able to find very unrepresentative subgroups in your data. Why was this population of $1B startups chosen? Do the results change with $2B? Do they change for companies that go public?&lt;p&gt;For a more specific example, last year there was an analysis going around which pointed out that &amp;quot;Most high tech companies are founded by founded by First&amp;#x2F;2nd gen immigrants&amp;quot;. This is definitely in the same vein, though with different measures. See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=9085970&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=9085970&lt;/a&gt; for my observation that this is almost exactly what you would expect given the immigrant population in the US.&lt;p&gt;Since I can point to two reports related to the topic, how many more negative and thus unpublished correlations are there?&lt;p&gt;Finally, the report includes the suggestion that diversity among the founders helps improve the success of the company. If that were the case, then should we not exclude companies where the all founders are from the same foreign country, as in Nutanix where all three founders are from India?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-VCDB-18760</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dalke</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s no reason to feel jaded. What you say is absolutely true. That&amp;#x27;s why these reports always come from think tanks, without peer review, and half-assed analyses, but dressed in the clothing of rigorous, critical scholarship.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmspring</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m jaded. But stories like this are planned to divert to things like what IBM are doing or job shops like Tata,etc.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oh look at what immigrants are contributing in entrepreneurial sense, but ignore how big companies are moving jobs overseas.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;IBM and Disney, iconic US brands are at the for front of outsourcing local jobs using H1B scabs as the route.</text></item><item><author>dalke</author><text>In a slightly older thread concerning this topic, at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11306290&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11306290&lt;/a&gt; I made some objections to this analysis.&lt;p&gt;I think there&amp;#x27;s a fundamental problem in how to interpret this analysis. It says that a company is founded by an immigrant if there is at least one immigrant founder. This means that if 1 of 10 founders is foreign born, then it classified as immigrant founded. An aggregate calculation like this is very likely to give a number which is higher than the more important number, the over- or under- representation of immigrant founders relative to the immigrant population.&lt;p&gt;For example, if every company has 10 founders, and every company has 1 immigrant founder, then by the given definition, 100% of the companies would be founded by an immigrant. However, only 10% of the founder population would be an immigrant. As immigrants make up about 13% of the US population, this would mean that immigrants would be proportionally &lt;i&gt;less likely&lt;/i&gt; to be founders of $1B valuated startups than non-immigrants.&lt;p&gt;Curiously, and I believe significantly, the study does not give this population information, and it makes it difficult to determine that ratio.&lt;p&gt;I did not find an explicit count of the number of immigrant founders. Table 4 has a list of all of the name, and Table 3 has a count of immigrants from a given country, so it&amp;#x27;s possible to figure this out. I am perturbed that the first contains 60 people and the second 61. Perhaps I have miscounted, but I believe there is an error in the report. (I double checked the report by searching for &amp;quot;60&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;61&amp;quot;, but found no explicit total of the number of immigrant founders.)&lt;p&gt;I did not find an explicit count of the total number of founders, which means I have to compute that myself from the list of companies. I did not find an explicit list of companies, which means I have to go to the original WSJ data source.&lt;p&gt;Which I did, though my count was off by one from the report&amp;#x27;s count. It would have been much better if the report included the explicit list of companies &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; founder counts.&lt;p&gt;I took the current WSJ list of 106 companies and picked a few in the top, middle, and bottom range. (Statistical sampling would have been better, I know.) I found founder counts of 65 of them before tedium kicked in. I found 161 founders.&lt;p&gt;This gives an estimated total founder size of 161&amp;#x2F;65x87 = 215.5, and implies that about 60&amp;#x2F;215.5 = 28% of founders are immigrants.&lt;p&gt;This number, while twice as large as expected from the general immigrant population of the US, is also around half of the eye-catching 51%.&lt;p&gt;The next step would be to do a sensitivity analysis to give an idea of error bars. I do not know anything beyond basic statistics, but will point out that 60 is a very small number compared to the number of foreign visa, and hardly representative.&lt;p&gt;Speaking of statistics, while 28% is twice as large as 13%, there&amp;#x27;s likely also a form of p-hacking, or &amp;quot;garden of forking paths&amp;quot; going on. With enough sampling, you will be able to find very unrepresentative subgroups in your data. Why was this population of $1B startups chosen? Do the results change with $2B? Do they change for companies that go public?&lt;p&gt;For a more specific example, last year there was an analysis going around which pointed out that &amp;quot;Most high tech companies are founded by founded by First&amp;#x2F;2nd gen immigrants&amp;quot;. This is definitely in the same vein, though with different measures. See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=9085970&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=9085970&lt;/a&gt; for my observation that this is almost exactly what you would expect given the immigrant population in the US.&lt;p&gt;Since I can point to two reports related to the topic, how many more negative and thus unpublished correlations are there?&lt;p&gt;Finally, the report includes the suggestion that diversity among the founders helps improve the success of the company. If that were the case, then should we not exclude companies where the all founders are from the same foreign country, as in Nutanix where all three founders are from India?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-VCDB-18760</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>einr</author><text>Not only that, but they also apparently recompiled Linpack with the Intel compiler -- which is notorious for favoring Intel chips -- before running the benchmarks. Some really shady stuff going on here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SantiagoElf</author><text>Desperate move by Intel. They are stuck with Cascade Lake until 2021, when their &amp;#x27;new&amp;#x27; architecture will be available. In order this Xeon to be under 300W TDP, they disabled the Hyper Threading and when they benchmark vs AMD Epyc they disabled AMD&amp;#x27;s SMT. Just wow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel announces Cascade Lake Xeons: 48 cores and 12-channel memory per socket</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/intel-announces-cascade-lake-xeons-48-cores-and-12-channel-memory-per-socket/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>c2h5oh</author><text>One theory is that the new xeon comes with no HT to keep the power draw under 300W, which is why the footnotes mention no HT&amp;#x2F;SMT in test configuration...&lt;p&gt;This would also &amp;quot;fix&amp;quot; a lot of side channel attacks without new silicon being ready and Intel claims this CPU includes some hardware mitigations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SantiagoElf</author><text>Desperate move by Intel. They are stuck with Cascade Lake until 2021, when their &amp;#x27;new&amp;#x27; architecture will be available. In order this Xeon to be under 300W TDP, they disabled the Hyper Threading and when they benchmark vs AMD Epyc they disabled AMD&amp;#x27;s SMT. Just wow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel announces Cascade Lake Xeons: 48 cores and 12-channel memory per socket</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/intel-announces-cascade-lake-xeons-48-cores-and-12-channel-memory-per-socket/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonw</author><text>&quot;This seems like a real security threat and I haven&apos;t found a foolproof way of detecting it. Is there a way of protecting against this kind of attack?&quot;&lt;p&gt;No. If you&apos;re going to provide clickable widgets that can be embedded in other people&apos;s sites, there is no technical method for preventing clickjacking.&lt;p&gt;Even if it was impossible to hide the element (pointer-events: none is one method, another is to place the Like button itself on a div with an opacity of 0.001) it could still be attacked by tricking people to click repeatedly in a certain area and then displaying the button. &quot;Click here five times as fast as you can to win a prize&quot; kind of thing.&lt;p&gt;The developers of the Facebook Like / Twitter Follow buttons know this, but they decided that the trade-off was worth the risk. There are also statistical counter-measures they can take behind the scenes (machine learning algorithms for identifying large numbers of potentially fraudulent Likes for example).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CSS-Only Clickjacking</title><url>http://jsfiddle.net/gcollazo/UMyEm/embedded/result/</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>franciscoapinto</author><text>This again?&lt;p&gt;Ah. Good old noscript.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/Cb17T.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://i.imgur.com/Cb17T.png&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CSS-Only Clickjacking</title><url>http://jsfiddle.net/gcollazo/UMyEm/embedded/result/</url><text></text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rtkwe</author><text>I find people have wildly differing opinions on what normal wear and tear on phone is so it&amp;#x27;s hard to judge from anecdotes if it&amp;#x27;s a build quality issue or if they&amp;#x27;re rough on their phones or on the other side if I&amp;#x27;m personally very delicate with my phones.&lt;p&gt;For my contribution to this anecdata the only Pixel phone I&amp;#x27;ve had die is my Pixel 3 XL that started having weird charging issues and refuses to turn on and charge unless I let it completely passively drain then recharge it after that it only works for a bit, that happened after about 2 years maybe. Tried having it looked at by uBreakIFix and they had nothing. Other than that my Pixel 6 is doing great but I keep it in a case 99% of the time and don&amp;#x27;t abuse it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>Would you still be with it, though? Someone upthread claims the phones just don&amp;#x27;t last. Maybe if you hadn&amp;#x27;t broken your phones, they still wouldn&amp;#x27;t&amp;#x27;ve lasted much longer anyway.&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I&amp;#x27;m still using my 4-year-old Pixel 4, and it&amp;#x27;s in great shape. I&amp;#x27;ll probably get a new phone this year since it&amp;#x27;s no longer receiving security updates. Which is stupid, because I&amp;#x27;m otherwise perfectly happy with the phone. And hate that they get physically larger every year.</text></item><item><author>thefz</author><text>&amp;gt; Don&amp;#x27;t you think that three phones in six years is the issue?&lt;p&gt;One (P3) ended with me having it in the back pocket of my jeans and literally jumping in the backseat... yeah, not smart.&lt;p&gt;Another (P4a), I tried to open to swap a new battery in and it did not end well. I&amp;#x27;d still happily be with the 4a if it was not for my dumb self. It&amp;#x27;s perfectly working and I use it to listen to some music while biking or at the gym. I just did not reattach the speaker cable.</text></item><item><author>vetinari</author><text>&amp;gt; I am at my third Pixel phone in six years and I never had an issue.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t you think that three phones in six years &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; the issue?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m still on 2019 Galaxy S10, i.e. fourth year, single phone. The hardware is still in great condition, no malfunction of anything.</text></item><item><author>thefz</author><text>&amp;gt; My experience with my own pixel 7 pro and a pixel 5 has been that these devices are an order of magnitude lower in build quality than Samsung or iPhones.&lt;p&gt;Subjective, I am at my third Pixel phone in six years and I never had an issue.</text></item><item><author>Alacart</author><text>My experience with my own pixel 7 pro and a pixel 5 has been that these devices are an order of magnitude lower in build quality than Samsung or iPhones. I really, really wanted to be happy with them but they&amp;#x27;ve been a never ending source of frustration.&lt;p&gt;My pixel 5 just stopped turning on one day about 2 years in, and my pixel 7 pro had the volume and power buttons fall out about 3 weeks in (not due to a drop, after googling it&amp;#x27;s apparently a very widely seen issue).&lt;p&gt;The service with iFixit was unhelpful, they told me &amp;quot;We keep seeing this and Google says this is wear and tear. We can&amp;#x27;t submit it for a warranty repair, and if we try we end up eating the cost&amp;quot;. After finally complaining on twitter I was contacted by some support person who said to give iFixit this email and they would fix it. They still refused, and after a few more rounds of interactions like that I eventually bought some replacement buttons on Amazon, popped them in, and put a case that covers them on it. I&amp;#x27;m fully expecting this to randomly die some time before 2 years is up.&lt;p&gt;Combine that with Google&amp;#x27;s extremely strong tendency to abandon everything, promises like these seem well, worthless.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile my daughter is using my wife&amp;#x27;s old iPhone from 8 years ago. My Samsung note 3 and my s8 still boot up and work just fine (though I cracked the screen on one about 5 years ago). It&amp;#x27;s just so obvious that these phones are very low priority to Google, while other companies base their business around their phones.</text></item><item><author>andrewstuart2</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m really glad to see both the partnership with iFixit and the 7 years of support. Because everything else seems mostly meh to me, and while I&amp;#x27;m upgrading this year from a Pixel 6 Pro, the continued diminished returns make it seem likely that 2-3 years from now I won&amp;#x27;t have as much reason to.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pixel 8 Pro</title><url>https://store.google.com/product/pixel_8_pro?hl=en-US</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rezonant</author><text>For fun today I booted up my Pixel 3 XL and it works just fine. It was slow at first, probably as it synced a bunch of stuff, but after that it was about as snappy and useful as I remember it. Everything still works. I used that for 3 years before the Pixel 6 Pro. Before that I had a Pixel XL for 3 years. I still have that phone too in my device collection.&lt;p&gt;But the lack of security updates makes the XL and the 3XL, though still functioning as expected, not acceptable. This thing has far too much access to my life to actively use it on the Internet every day.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m getting the Pixel 8 not because the 6 Pro has any problems (personally I&amp;#x27;ve had none), but rather because I have a bit more disposable income to spend on my tech enthusiasm and I&amp;#x27;m excited about a phone with a 7 year software support window (with incidental coverage to support 5 years of accidental damage). If all goes well, I hope to take advantage of more than 3 years of that, assuming some insane new development doesn&amp;#x27;t happen in the interim.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>Would you still be with it, though? Someone upthread claims the phones just don&amp;#x27;t last. Maybe if you hadn&amp;#x27;t broken your phones, they still wouldn&amp;#x27;t&amp;#x27;ve lasted much longer anyway.&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I&amp;#x27;m still using my 4-year-old Pixel 4, and it&amp;#x27;s in great shape. I&amp;#x27;ll probably get a new phone this year since it&amp;#x27;s no longer receiving security updates. Which is stupid, because I&amp;#x27;m otherwise perfectly happy with the phone. And hate that they get physically larger every year.</text></item><item><author>thefz</author><text>&amp;gt; Don&amp;#x27;t you think that three phones in six years is the issue?&lt;p&gt;One (P3) ended with me having it in the back pocket of my jeans and literally jumping in the backseat... yeah, not smart.&lt;p&gt;Another (P4a), I tried to open to swap a new battery in and it did not end well. I&amp;#x27;d still happily be with the 4a if it was not for my dumb self. It&amp;#x27;s perfectly working and I use it to listen to some music while biking or at the gym. I just did not reattach the speaker cable.</text></item><item><author>vetinari</author><text>&amp;gt; I am at my third Pixel phone in six years and I never had an issue.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t you think that three phones in six years &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; the issue?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m still on 2019 Galaxy S10, i.e. fourth year, single phone. The hardware is still in great condition, no malfunction of anything.</text></item><item><author>thefz</author><text>&amp;gt; My experience with my own pixel 7 pro and a pixel 5 has been that these devices are an order of magnitude lower in build quality than Samsung or iPhones.&lt;p&gt;Subjective, I am at my third Pixel phone in six years and I never had an issue.</text></item><item><author>Alacart</author><text>My experience with my own pixel 7 pro and a pixel 5 has been that these devices are an order of magnitude lower in build quality than Samsung or iPhones. I really, really wanted to be happy with them but they&amp;#x27;ve been a never ending source of frustration.&lt;p&gt;My pixel 5 just stopped turning on one day about 2 years in, and my pixel 7 pro had the volume and power buttons fall out about 3 weeks in (not due to a drop, after googling it&amp;#x27;s apparently a very widely seen issue).&lt;p&gt;The service with iFixit was unhelpful, they told me &amp;quot;We keep seeing this and Google says this is wear and tear. We can&amp;#x27;t submit it for a warranty repair, and if we try we end up eating the cost&amp;quot;. After finally complaining on twitter I was contacted by some support person who said to give iFixit this email and they would fix it. They still refused, and after a few more rounds of interactions like that I eventually bought some replacement buttons on Amazon, popped them in, and put a case that covers them on it. I&amp;#x27;m fully expecting this to randomly die some time before 2 years is up.&lt;p&gt;Combine that with Google&amp;#x27;s extremely strong tendency to abandon everything, promises like these seem well, worthless.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile my daughter is using my wife&amp;#x27;s old iPhone from 8 years ago. My Samsung note 3 and my s8 still boot up and work just fine (though I cracked the screen on one about 5 years ago). It&amp;#x27;s just so obvious that these phones are very low priority to Google, while other companies base their business around their phones.</text></item><item><author>andrewstuart2</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m really glad to see both the partnership with iFixit and the 7 years of support. Because everything else seems mostly meh to me, and while I&amp;#x27;m upgrading this year from a Pixel 6 Pro, the continued diminished returns make it seem likely that 2-3 years from now I won&amp;#x27;t have as much reason to.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pixel 8 Pro</title><url>https://store.google.com/product/pixel_8_pro?hl=en-US</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mannykannot</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s more of an appeal to emotion than a rational reason.&lt;p&gt;It sounds more respectable if you call it an &amp;#x27;intuition pump&amp;#x27;. Whether or not it is rational to want to defecate privately, this point may lead some fraction of those whose mind was previously made up to reconsider their position. In those cases, it can be the beginning of a conversation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nearbuy</author><text>I never found this type of argument satisfying. It&amp;#x27;s more of an appeal to emotion than a rational reason.&lt;p&gt;In our culture we feel deep embarrassment if someone sees us using the toilet, but this is not universal across people and cultures, and honestly, it shouldn&amp;#x27;t be embarrassing. There&amp;#x27;s nothing inherently wrong with pooping. We irrationally feel embarrassment when we shouldn&amp;#x27;t have to.&lt;p&gt;This argument doesn&amp;#x27;t show any negative consequences of invasion of privacy. It&amp;#x27;s also not clear how it extrapolates to situations that don&amp;#x27;t involve toilets or nudity. If the problem is embarrassment, and people don&amp;#x27;t feel embarrassed that Facebook collects data, does that make it okay?&lt;p&gt;Obviously there are other arguments for privacy that do show potential harm. I find these more compelling.</text></item><item><author>542354234235</author><text>&amp;gt; I was never able to gain an inch on his argument until I asked him why he has curtains on his living room window.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not doing anything wrong, but I still close the door when I take a dump. The idea that someone wanting privacy means it is nefarious or wrong is ridiculous.</text></item><item><author>bonestamp2</author><text>Agreed. I think the audience matters too -- different messages appeal to different people.&lt;p&gt;My dad is one of those old school guys who thinks law enforcement can do no wrong and nobody needs to hide anything unless they&amp;#x27;re doing something wrong. Even if that were true and I think it is true that many law enforcement personnel are trying to do good, that doesn&amp;#x27;t always mean the results will always reflect their intentions. When the sample size of facts is too small, as is often the case with mass collection, it&amp;#x27;s too easy for your sample to get mixed up with someone else&amp;#x27;s. Maybe your phone is the only other phone in the area when a murder is committed. That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you did it, but it sure makes you look like the only suspect.&lt;p&gt;I was never able to gain an inch on his argument until I asked him why he has curtains on his living room window. I mean, it faces North, so there&amp;#x27;s no need to block intense sunlight, yet he closes them every night when he&amp;#x27;s sitting there reading a book or watching TV. Why? He&amp;#x27;s not doing anything illegal, yet he still doesn&amp;#x27;t want people watching him. He said he would not be ok with the Police standing at his window all night watching him. That&amp;#x27;s when he finally understood that digital privacy is not just for criminals, but for everyone who wants to exist in a peaceful state and not a police state.</text></item><item><author>40four</author><text>I think this is a good example of how pro-privacy arguments should be framed. It is takes the varied aspects and complex implications of tracking users across the web (or even in the real world), and distills it down into an easy to understand concept.&lt;p&gt;When you think privacy of in in the terms of &amp;#x27;social cooling&amp;#x27;, or consider things like China&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;social credit&amp;#x27; system, I can&amp;#x27;t help be think we are much closer to the world depicted in the last season of Westworld than we might want to admit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Social Cooling (2017)</title><url>https://www.socialcooling.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>n4r9</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just embarrassment. It&amp;#x27;s the loss of dignity that comes from having no control over who is allowed in your own personal space.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nearbuy</author><text>I never found this type of argument satisfying. It&amp;#x27;s more of an appeal to emotion than a rational reason.&lt;p&gt;In our culture we feel deep embarrassment if someone sees us using the toilet, but this is not universal across people and cultures, and honestly, it shouldn&amp;#x27;t be embarrassing. There&amp;#x27;s nothing inherently wrong with pooping. We irrationally feel embarrassment when we shouldn&amp;#x27;t have to.&lt;p&gt;This argument doesn&amp;#x27;t show any negative consequences of invasion of privacy. It&amp;#x27;s also not clear how it extrapolates to situations that don&amp;#x27;t involve toilets or nudity. If the problem is embarrassment, and people don&amp;#x27;t feel embarrassed that Facebook collects data, does that make it okay?&lt;p&gt;Obviously there are other arguments for privacy that do show potential harm. I find these more compelling.</text></item><item><author>542354234235</author><text>&amp;gt; I was never able to gain an inch on his argument until I asked him why he has curtains on his living room window.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not doing anything wrong, but I still close the door when I take a dump. The idea that someone wanting privacy means it is nefarious or wrong is ridiculous.</text></item><item><author>bonestamp2</author><text>Agreed. I think the audience matters too -- different messages appeal to different people.&lt;p&gt;My dad is one of those old school guys who thinks law enforcement can do no wrong and nobody needs to hide anything unless they&amp;#x27;re doing something wrong. Even if that were true and I think it is true that many law enforcement personnel are trying to do good, that doesn&amp;#x27;t always mean the results will always reflect their intentions. When the sample size of facts is too small, as is often the case with mass collection, it&amp;#x27;s too easy for your sample to get mixed up with someone else&amp;#x27;s. Maybe your phone is the only other phone in the area when a murder is committed. That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you did it, but it sure makes you look like the only suspect.&lt;p&gt;I was never able to gain an inch on his argument until I asked him why he has curtains on his living room window. I mean, it faces North, so there&amp;#x27;s no need to block intense sunlight, yet he closes them every night when he&amp;#x27;s sitting there reading a book or watching TV. Why? He&amp;#x27;s not doing anything illegal, yet he still doesn&amp;#x27;t want people watching him. He said he would not be ok with the Police standing at his window all night watching him. That&amp;#x27;s when he finally understood that digital privacy is not just for criminals, but for everyone who wants to exist in a peaceful state and not a police state.</text></item><item><author>40four</author><text>I think this is a good example of how pro-privacy arguments should be framed. It is takes the varied aspects and complex implications of tracking users across the web (or even in the real world), and distills it down into an easy to understand concept.&lt;p&gt;When you think privacy of in in the terms of &amp;#x27;social cooling&amp;#x27;, or consider things like China&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;social credit&amp;#x27; system, I can&amp;#x27;t help be think we are much closer to the world depicted in the last season of Westworld than we might want to admit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Social Cooling (2017)</title><url>https://www.socialcooling.com/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acjohnson55</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see why this is ridiculous. I don&amp;#x27;t think that physical playability&amp;#x2F;unplayability is the key feature here. What does it really mean to be &amp;quot;unplayable&amp;quot; anyway? When you play piano, is it your body that generates the sound, or are you manipulating a machine that generates it for you? There&amp;#x27;s a delay between notating a MIDI file and hearing the resulting sound, but the same goes for the time between your finger hitting the key and the hammers hitting the string. I&amp;#x27;m not saying there isn&amp;#x27;t a distinction between live performance and pre-production, but I think we&amp;#x27;re better off looking at playability as a spectrum than a binary value.&lt;p&gt;We could critique the medium, but people have abused instruments and sound makers for generations. Look up prepared piano [1], glitch music [2], and the wide world of guitar effects. This is just another way exploring the possibilities of a given medium (MIDI, in this case).&lt;p&gt;Theoretically, we could generate all possible music just by adding together sine waves, but realistically, most music is only accessible by using far more limited mechanisms, like instruments, gadgets, and paradigmatic software, which in turn influence the creative process. A person is definitely free to critique the artistic merits of a given piece, but I think it&amp;#x27;s rather close-minded to critique an entire medium. Most of the styles of music we listen to were (or still are) considered cheating by adherents to some other style.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepared_piano&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Prepared_piano&lt;/a&gt; [2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_%28music%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Glitch_%28music%29&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>blackhole</author><text>As a pianist and an electronic musician, I never have any qualms about making music I can&amp;#x27;t play.&lt;p&gt;This, however, is just ridiculous.&lt;p&gt;The thing is, it&amp;#x27;s not at all hard to write a piano piece that&amp;#x27;s unplayable. Simply add a third note group far enough above or below the existing two note groups and it will be physically impossible to play (unless someone else helps you). It doesn&amp;#x27;t need to be a grotesque fountain of millions of notes to be unplayable. This is better examined not as impossible music, but as an experiment that asks the question &amp;quot;how many notes can you use at the same time and still make a coherent song?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The debate between music that&amp;#x27;s playable and music that&amp;#x27;s impossible would be better served by more realistic examples, instead of a small sub-culture.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Impossible Music of Black MIDI</title><url>http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/23/impossible-music-black-midi/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jerf</author><text>I found the result to be a rather monotonous sameyness. The sound of &amp;quot;all the piano keys being smashed&amp;quot; overwhelms everything else about the piece, and the end result is that for all the apparent energy, the end result is really quite boring.&lt;p&gt;Contrasted to its acoustic opposite, chip-tune minimalism, and I&amp;#x27;ll take chip-tune anyday, even in its &amp;quot;pure&amp;quot; form (limited polyphony, no postprocessing, etc, just as you would have found it back in the day).</text><parent_chain><item><author>blackhole</author><text>As a pianist and an electronic musician, I never have any qualms about making music I can&amp;#x27;t play.&lt;p&gt;This, however, is just ridiculous.&lt;p&gt;The thing is, it&amp;#x27;s not at all hard to write a piano piece that&amp;#x27;s unplayable. Simply add a third note group far enough above or below the existing two note groups and it will be physically impossible to play (unless someone else helps you). It doesn&amp;#x27;t need to be a grotesque fountain of millions of notes to be unplayable. This is better examined not as impossible music, but as an experiment that asks the question &amp;quot;how many notes can you use at the same time and still make a coherent song?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The debate between music that&amp;#x27;s playable and music that&amp;#x27;s impossible would be better served by more realistic examples, instead of a small sub-culture.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Impossible Music of Black MIDI</title><url>http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/23/impossible-music-black-midi/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wefarrell</author><text>Imagine that you asked someone the question &amp;quot;How do you make a cake?&amp;quot; Which response would be clearer?&lt;p&gt;1. Gather the ingredients, mix them in a bowl, pour into a pan, bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, let it cool off and then separate it from the pan.&lt;p&gt;2. Get ingredients by gathering the ingredients. Make batter by mixing the ingredients. Make batter in a pan by pouring the batter in a pan. Make a baked cake by baking the batter in the pan at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Make a cooled cake by cooling the baked cake. Separate it from the pan.&lt;p&gt;For me personally #1 is more readable because #2 is unnecessarily bloated with redundantly described subjects.</text><parent_chain><item><author>notdonspaulding</author><text>I struggle to think of real-world examples where I&amp;#x27;ve just needed to chain and chain and chain values of different types more than a handful of times. The claimed need for the pipe operator is this construction:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; function bakeCake() { return separateFromPan(coolOff(bake(pour(mix(gatherIngredients(), bowl), pan), 350, 45), 30)); } &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; The piped code looks like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; function bakeCake() { return gatherIngredients() |&amp;gt; mix(%, bowl) |&amp;gt; pour(%, pan) |&amp;gt; bake(%, 350, 45) |&amp;gt; coolOff(%) |&amp;gt; separateFromPan(%) ; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Which is... fine? It certainly looks better than the mess we started with, but adding names here only helps clarify each step.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; function bakeCake() { const ingredients = gatherIngredients(); const batter = mix(ingredients); const batterInPan = pour(batter, pan); const bakedCake = bake(batterInPan, 350, 45); const cooledCake = coolOff(bakedInPan); return separateFromPan(cooledCake); } &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Even if you consider the `const` to be visual noise, the names are useful. At any point you can understand the goal of the code on the right-hand side by looking at the name of the variable on the left-hand side. You can also visually scan the right-hand side and see the processing steps. You can also introduce new steps to the control flow at any point and understand what the data should look like both before and after your new step.&lt;p&gt;I agree that the the control flow is more clearly elucidated in the pipe operator example, but it tosses away useful information about the state that the named variables contain. It also introduces two new syntactical concepts for your brain to interpret (the pipe operator and the value placeholder). I contend the cognitive load is no greater in the example with names, and the maintainability is greatly improved.&lt;p&gt;If you have an example where there are dozens of steps to the control flow with no break, I&amp;#x27;d be really curious to see it.</text></item><item><author>scotty79</author><text>When there are a few they can be really great. But if you need to accurately name every single intermediate thing they can become visual noise that hides what happens.</text></item><item><author>kriz9</author><text>Temporary variables are often tedious? I have found that well named temporary variables are the only clear way to comment code without actually writing the comment. The version with temporary variables is much easier to understand without having to read the rest of the code.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pipe Operator (|&gt;) For JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scotty79</author><text>Sometimes intermediate values either don&amp;#x27;t have domain specific meanings or the meaning is obvious from the function name that returns this temporary value.&lt;p&gt;Then naming it is just noise.&lt;p&gt;If your bake() function was rather named createBakedCake() than naming returned value bakedCake just increses reader fatigue through repetition.&lt;p&gt;Same way&lt;p&gt;Random random = new Random();&lt;p&gt;in C# is worse than&lt;p&gt;var random = Random();</text><parent_chain><item><author>notdonspaulding</author><text>I struggle to think of real-world examples where I&amp;#x27;ve just needed to chain and chain and chain values of different types more than a handful of times. The claimed need for the pipe operator is this construction:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; function bakeCake() { return separateFromPan(coolOff(bake(pour(mix(gatherIngredients(), bowl), pan), 350, 45), 30)); } &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; The piped code looks like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; function bakeCake() { return gatherIngredients() |&amp;gt; mix(%, bowl) |&amp;gt; pour(%, pan) |&amp;gt; bake(%, 350, 45) |&amp;gt; coolOff(%) |&amp;gt; separateFromPan(%) ; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Which is... fine? It certainly looks better than the mess we started with, but adding names here only helps clarify each step.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; function bakeCake() { const ingredients = gatherIngredients(); const batter = mix(ingredients); const batterInPan = pour(batter, pan); const bakedCake = bake(batterInPan, 350, 45); const cooledCake = coolOff(bakedInPan); return separateFromPan(cooledCake); } &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Even if you consider the `const` to be visual noise, the names are useful. At any point you can understand the goal of the code on the right-hand side by looking at the name of the variable on the left-hand side. You can also visually scan the right-hand side and see the processing steps. You can also introduce new steps to the control flow at any point and understand what the data should look like both before and after your new step.&lt;p&gt;I agree that the the control flow is more clearly elucidated in the pipe operator example, but it tosses away useful information about the state that the named variables contain. It also introduces two new syntactical concepts for your brain to interpret (the pipe operator and the value placeholder). I contend the cognitive load is no greater in the example with names, and the maintainability is greatly improved.&lt;p&gt;If you have an example where there are dozens of steps to the control flow with no break, I&amp;#x27;d be really curious to see it.</text></item><item><author>scotty79</author><text>When there are a few they can be really great. But if you need to accurately name every single intermediate thing they can become visual noise that hides what happens.</text></item><item><author>kriz9</author><text>Temporary variables are often tedious? I have found that well named temporary variables are the only clear way to comment code without actually writing the comment. The version with temporary variables is much easier to understand without having to read the rest of the code.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pipe Operator (|&gt;) For JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>felistoria</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it has to do with defunding the police at all. I do think is has to do with removing the ability of the police to make arrests or when they do the person is just released. In Portland, when they arrest someone, the DA just releases them. About a month ago the female owner of a coffee shop was blasted out of no where with an uppercut by a homeless guy. The dude was arrested and let out in less than 24 hours. How do you let someone violent like that just roam the streets? The only way the actually put someone away anymore is for murder. Stuff like this is definitely one factor as to why murder rates are up.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Murder rate rose by almost 30% in 2020 in the US</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/upshot/murder-rise-2020.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>mywittyname</author><text>&amp;gt; Murder rose over 35 percent in cities with populations over 250,000 that reported full data. It also rose over 40 percent in cities 100,000 to 250,000, and around 25 percent in cities under 25,000.&lt;p&gt;The difference has been noticeable in my city. Murders within the city used to be kind of common, maybe two or so a month, but such crimes were non-existent in the suburbs. Lots of overdoses, but never murders. Now though, there are multiple murders per week within the city, and a few a month in some of the suburbs.&lt;p&gt;Scrolling through the local news is just painful. City or suburbs, kids or adults, the news is full of people killed. Stats back up that this is already the second deadliest year in the region, after last year.&lt;p&gt;And since this will come up. It&amp;#x27;s a mildly blue city in a very, very red state. We definitely did not defund the police, if anything, we upfunded them in response.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Murder rate rose by almost 30% in 2020 in the US</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/upshot/murder-rise-2020.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>attendant3446</author><text>&amp;gt; look for a job &amp;gt; it’s really good&lt;p&gt;It definitely is not. It probably has the most job listings for most markets, but the experience of looking for a job on LinkedIn is appalling. They recently killed the resume builder, which makes me think that job searching&amp;#x2F;hiring is a side feature of LinkedIn.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AmericanChopper</author><text>I absolutely cannot understand this perspective. I open LinkedIn to add somebody to my network, contact somebody, or look for a job&amp;#x2F;hire somebody, and for those things it’s really good. I don’t make any LinkedIn content, I don’t consume any of it, I don&amp;#x27;t struggle to ignore it entirely, and I don’t miss out on anything by doing so. Where exactly does it need to improve?</text></item><item><author>bitcharmer</author><text>But LinkedIn wasn&amp;#x27;t like that 10 years ago. It was what it was meant to be. To me it feels like TikTok culture infesting all types of social media.&lt;p&gt;At this point LI is beyond saving but a serious competitor would have to be heavily moderated to stay clean which we all know won&amp;#x27;t happen.</text></item><item><author>lvncelot</author><text>I won&amp;#x27;t disagree about the state of LinkedIn, but doesn&amp;#x27;t the content just come with the territory? In my experience, people who &amp;quot;network&amp;quot; for networking&amp;#x27;s sake the most are exactly the type of people who self-congratulate and humble brag, so you&amp;#x27;re bound to get exactly this type of content on a platform that&amp;#x27;s entirely networking-focused.</text></item><item><author>rnts08</author><text>We absolutely need a better platform for professional networking. A platform that&amp;#x27;s not filled with people who dislocate their shoulders trying to pat themselves on the back for some &amp;quot;inspirational&amp;quot; social media babble about the last time they managed to send an email.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat</title><url>https://github.com/resiliencetheatre/rpi4edgemapdisplay/discussions/4</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giamma</author><text>Same as you, but I cannot find a good configuration for the linkedin App to prevent it from sending me too many notifications. I get 5+ notifications per day related to &amp;quot;this message is trending...&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;your contact posted this...&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;you are invited to do that....&amp;quot; and buried between them, from time to time, contact invitations that are worth considering.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AmericanChopper</author><text>I absolutely cannot understand this perspective. I open LinkedIn to add somebody to my network, contact somebody, or look for a job&amp;#x2F;hire somebody, and for those things it’s really good. I don’t make any LinkedIn content, I don’t consume any of it, I don&amp;#x27;t struggle to ignore it entirely, and I don’t miss out on anything by doing so. Where exactly does it need to improve?</text></item><item><author>bitcharmer</author><text>But LinkedIn wasn&amp;#x27;t like that 10 years ago. It was what it was meant to be. To me it feels like TikTok culture infesting all types of social media.&lt;p&gt;At this point LI is beyond saving but a serious competitor would have to be heavily moderated to stay clean which we all know won&amp;#x27;t happen.</text></item><item><author>lvncelot</author><text>I won&amp;#x27;t disagree about the state of LinkedIn, but doesn&amp;#x27;t the content just come with the territory? In my experience, people who &amp;quot;network&amp;quot; for networking&amp;#x27;s sake the most are exactly the type of people who self-congratulate and humble brag, so you&amp;#x27;re bound to get exactly this type of content on a platform that&amp;#x27;s entirely networking-focused.</text></item><item><author>rnts08</author><text>We absolutely need a better platform for professional networking. A platform that&amp;#x27;s not filled with people who dislocate their shoulders trying to pat themselves on the back for some &amp;quot;inspirational&amp;quot; social media babble about the last time they managed to send an email.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat</title><url>https://github.com/resiliencetheatre/rpi4edgemapdisplay/discussions/4</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>namdnay</author><text>The crime was when he was deeply addicted and drugged out of his mind 22 years earlier. I don&amp;#x27;t find it shocking that he&amp;#x27;s had another life since. Killing him in 2021 just seems so... pointless</text><parent_chain><item><author>dionidium</author><text>Hard to reconcile some of these last words with the reality of their crimes:&lt;p&gt;Juxtapose:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I was so glad to leave this world a better, more positive place. It’s not an easy life with all the negativities. ... I hope I left everyone a plate of food full of happy memories, happiness and no sadness.&lt;/i&gt; [0]&lt;p&gt;With this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;On September 11, 1999, Jones murdered his great aunt, 83-year-old Berthena Bryant, bludgeoning her to death with a baseball bat. Afterwards, he stole her money in order to purchase some cocaine. [1]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tdcj.texas.gov&amp;#x2F;death_row&amp;#x2F;dr_info&amp;#x2F;jonesquintinlast.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tdcj.texas.gov&amp;#x2F;death_row&amp;#x2F;dr_info&amp;#x2F;jonesquintinlas...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Execution_of_Quintin_Jones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Execution_of_Quintin_Jones&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Texas Records All Inmates Last Words Before Execution And Puts Them All Online</title><url>https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.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>hayksaakian</author><text>is it so hard to believe that someone who spends 20 years in prison might have recognized their mistakes, and set out to do as much good as they can within their constraints?</text><parent_chain><item><author>dionidium</author><text>Hard to reconcile some of these last words with the reality of their crimes:&lt;p&gt;Juxtapose:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I was so glad to leave this world a better, more positive place. It’s not an easy life with all the negativities. ... I hope I left everyone a plate of food full of happy memories, happiness and no sadness.&lt;/i&gt; [0]&lt;p&gt;With this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;On September 11, 1999, Jones murdered his great aunt, 83-year-old Berthena Bryant, bludgeoning her to death with a baseball bat. Afterwards, he stole her money in order to purchase some cocaine. [1]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tdcj.texas.gov&amp;#x2F;death_row&amp;#x2F;dr_info&amp;#x2F;jonesquintinlast.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tdcj.texas.gov&amp;#x2F;death_row&amp;#x2F;dr_info&amp;#x2F;jonesquintinlas...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Execution_of_Quintin_Jones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Execution_of_Quintin_Jones&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Texas Records All Inmates Last Words Before Execution And Puts Them All Online</title><url>https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dcolkitt</author><text>On the surface it sounds pretty outrageous. My question would be though, what &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; Facebook do instead?&lt;p&gt;A recommendation engine is just an algorithm to maximize an objective function. That objective function being matching users with content that they enjoy and engage with. The algorithm has no in-built notion of political extremism. It almost assuredly seems to be the case that people with radical opinions prefer to consume media that matches their views. If Bob is a three-percenters, it&amp;#x27;s highly unlikely he&amp;#x27;d prefer to read the latest center-left think piece from The Atlantic.&lt;p&gt;Unless you&amp;#x27;re willing to ban recommend engines entirely, the only possible alternative I can see is for Facebook to intentionally tip the scales. Extremist political opinions would have to be explicitly penalized in the objective function.&lt;p&gt;But now you&amp;#x27;ve turned Facebook from a neutral platform into an explicit arbiter of political opinion. It means some humans at Facebook are intentionally deciding what people should and should not read, watch and listen to. Remember Facebook as an organization is not terribly representative of the country as a whole. Fewer than 5% of Facebook employees vote Republican, compared to 50% of the country. Virtually no one is over 50. Males are over-represented relative to females. Blacks and hispanics are heavily under-represented. And that doesn&amp;#x27;t even get into international markets, where the Facebook org is even less representative.&lt;p&gt;The cure sounds worse than the disease. I really think it&amp;#x27;s a bad idea to pressure Facebook into the game of explicitly picking political winners and losers. A social media platform powerful enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to destroy everything you value.</text><parent_chain><item><author>save_ferris</author><text>&amp;gt; In 2016, internal analysis at Facebook found 64% of all extremist group joins were due to their own recommendation tools. Yet repeated attempts to counteract this problem were ignored or shut down.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s pretty damning. Facebook execs knew that extremist groups were using their platform and Facebook&amp;#x27;s own tooling catalyzed their growth, and yet they did nothing about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive Tim Kendall</title><url>https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/09.24.20%20CPC%20Witness%20Testimony_Kendall.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>rsynnott</author><text>But doing so would hurt engagement, and hence the bottom line!&lt;p&gt;Facebook have, perhaps accidentally, created a monster of perverse incentives. Not sure what the solution is, besides regulation (which would be extremely difficult).</text><parent_chain><item><author>save_ferris</author><text>&amp;gt; In 2016, internal analysis at Facebook found 64% of all extremist group joins were due to their own recommendation tools. Yet repeated attempts to counteract this problem were ignored or shut down.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s pretty damning. Facebook execs knew that extremist groups were using their platform and Facebook&amp;#x27;s own tooling catalyzed their growth, and yet they did nothing about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive Tim Kendall</title><url>https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/09.24.20%20CPC%20Witness%20Testimony_Kendall.pdf</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CodesInChaos</author><text>The overhead isn&amp;#x27;t always 8 bytes. When the type uses the naive representation, the overhead will generally match the alignment. For example an Option&amp;lt;u8&amp;gt; occupies 2 bytes, 1 of which is for the tag.&lt;p&gt;And if the type has some illegal values, these can sometimes be used to discriminate the type. When that&amp;#x27;s possible, the union will have the same size as the largest underlying type with no overhead for a tag. For example Option&amp;lt;&amp;amp;T&amp;gt; matches the size of &amp;amp;T, since it uses the illegal null value to represent None.</text><parent_chain><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>IMHO the one downside with sum types in a performance-oriented systems programming language (or as I prefer to call them &amp;#x27;tagged unions&amp;#x27; because that makes it clearer how they actually look like in memory) is that they are inherently cache-unfriendly, because they always take up as much space as the largest wrapped type (plus 8 bytes for the tag). When you have an array of those you need to be aware of the potential &amp;#x27;waste&amp;#x27; between array items.&lt;p&gt;(now of course an automatic transformation into a structure-of-arrays would be pretty cool, I actually wonder what Zig&amp;#x27;s MultiArrayList does with tagged unions).&lt;p&gt;PS: in general I agree though, for instance in Typescript they are fantastic, but there I usually don&amp;#x27;t care much about memory layout and performance.</text></item><item><author>tines</author><text>This is a huge deal, I find it so difficult to choose a language that doesn&amp;#x27;t have sum types and destructuring via pattern matching for the kinds of projects I like to work on (compiler&amp;#x2F;interpreter implementation).</text></item><item><author>fnfjfk</author><text>This article could be 1 sentence: “it has sum types” :)&lt;p&gt;I find programming in a language without sum types is like rock climbing in ankle weights. I just can’t model many types of data correctly, and I hate using product types for something that is clearly a sum type.&lt;p&gt;Even if Rust didn’t make any safety guarantees over other languages (although sum types &lt;i&gt;provide&lt;/i&gt; safety guarantees through exhaustiveness!) I would still think Rust helps a lot because of that.&lt;p&gt;I guess Swift and Kotlin are basically “it has sum types” languages too, although they both come with baggage (Apple-only in practice, JVM).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Rust helps even if you have to use a lot of `unsafe`</title><url>https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/unsafe/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jackmott42</author><text>Rust sum types do not take up that much extra space, in fact often the overhead is completely compiled away. Lots of hard work to keep the wasted memory to a minimum, and they are not pointers, so there isn&amp;#x27;t an extra memory hop or anything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>IMHO the one downside with sum types in a performance-oriented systems programming language (or as I prefer to call them &amp;#x27;tagged unions&amp;#x27; because that makes it clearer how they actually look like in memory) is that they are inherently cache-unfriendly, because they always take up as much space as the largest wrapped type (plus 8 bytes for the tag). When you have an array of those you need to be aware of the potential &amp;#x27;waste&amp;#x27; between array items.&lt;p&gt;(now of course an automatic transformation into a structure-of-arrays would be pretty cool, I actually wonder what Zig&amp;#x27;s MultiArrayList does with tagged unions).&lt;p&gt;PS: in general I agree though, for instance in Typescript they are fantastic, but there I usually don&amp;#x27;t care much about memory layout and performance.</text></item><item><author>tines</author><text>This is a huge deal, I find it so difficult to choose a language that doesn&amp;#x27;t have sum types and destructuring via pattern matching for the kinds of projects I like to work on (compiler&amp;#x2F;interpreter implementation).</text></item><item><author>fnfjfk</author><text>This article could be 1 sentence: “it has sum types” :)&lt;p&gt;I find programming in a language without sum types is like rock climbing in ankle weights. I just can’t model many types of data correctly, and I hate using product types for something that is clearly a sum type.&lt;p&gt;Even if Rust didn’t make any safety guarantees over other languages (although sum types &lt;i&gt;provide&lt;/i&gt; safety guarantees through exhaustiveness!) I would still think Rust helps a lot because of that.&lt;p&gt;I guess Swift and Kotlin are basically “it has sum types” languages too, although they both come with baggage (Apple-only in practice, JVM).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Rust helps even if you have to use a lot of `unsafe`</title><url>https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/unsafe/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>isoprophlex</author><text>Not having done much in terms of GIS work, I never had to deal with ESRI until last week.&lt;p&gt;I was on a call to ask some ESRI rep to add some labeled points to my client&amp;#x27;s existing map tool. It was a somewhat surreal, weird experience where I got the feeling they were making the work seem much more difficult than it was. Their estimate turned out to insanely off the (my) mark, at eye-watering hourly rates.&lt;p&gt;At first I thought they had enough business and didn&amp;#x27;t really care about us. But reading this thread, it seems I was wrong. They are the Oracle of the GIS industry.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whoopdeepoo</author><text>ESRI is a scourge on the GIS industry. One of the creators of postgis can say it much better than I can.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cleverelephant.ca&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;esri-dominates.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cleverelephant.ca&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;esri-dominates.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>nobleach</author><text>QGIS and PostGIS were my jam when I worked in that space. We were an ESRI shop so Oracle&amp;#x2F;SQL Server with SDE (topped with ArcGIS) were the official tools. Some of us were always looking for ways to subvert the culture by building tools based on open source stacks.&lt;p&gt;One of my favorite experiences from that era: We were meeting with a few ESRI reps for some integration stuff. The lead hot-shot was on his phone playing around during the meeting. He was basically on autopilot. The other two folks were working with GeoJSON response convertors. I said, &amp;quot;I built one of those with TopoJSON&amp;quot;. One guy said, &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ve never heard of it&amp;quot;. I showed them how it was much more efficient and used splines instead of points. The lead dropped his phone and said, &amp;quot;I need you to tell me MORE about that&amp;quot;. I showed them the service. They invited me to lunch, I politely declined and said, &amp;quot;today&amp;#x27;s my last day so I have a ton of things to wrap up&amp;quot;. I do miss that realm sometimes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>QGIS is the mapping software you didn&apos;t know you needed</title><url>https://chollinger.com/blog/2023/01/qgis-is-the-mapping-software-you-didnt-know-you-needed/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RosanaAnaDana</author><text>The educational world needs to stop supporting them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whoopdeepoo</author><text>ESRI is a scourge on the GIS industry. One of the creators of postgis can say it much better than I can.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cleverelephant.ca&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;esri-dominates.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.cleverelephant.ca&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;esri-dominates.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>nobleach</author><text>QGIS and PostGIS were my jam when I worked in that space. We were an ESRI shop so Oracle&amp;#x2F;SQL Server with SDE (topped with ArcGIS) were the official tools. Some of us were always looking for ways to subvert the culture by building tools based on open source stacks.&lt;p&gt;One of my favorite experiences from that era: We were meeting with a few ESRI reps for some integration stuff. The lead hot-shot was on his phone playing around during the meeting. He was basically on autopilot. The other two folks were working with GeoJSON response convertors. I said, &amp;quot;I built one of those with TopoJSON&amp;quot;. One guy said, &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ve never heard of it&amp;quot;. I showed them how it was much more efficient and used splines instead of points. The lead dropped his phone and said, &amp;quot;I need you to tell me MORE about that&amp;quot;. I showed them the service. They invited me to lunch, I politely declined and said, &amp;quot;today&amp;#x27;s my last day so I have a ton of things to wrap up&amp;quot;. I do miss that realm sometimes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>QGIS is the mapping software you didn&apos;t know you needed</title><url>https://chollinger.com/blog/2023/01/qgis-is-the-mapping-software-you-didnt-know-you-needed/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rjzzleep</author><text> I keep trying to use Wayland, but it never fully works. Everyone keeps saying how well the highdpi stuff works, but then it really only works for a subset of things. For the rest it&amp;#x27;s actually worse than Xorg.&lt;p&gt;Multiscreen is Xorg is kinda mushy so I thought maybe Wayland fixes it, but no it doesn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;Wayland is now 12 years old and everything is still half-baked.&lt;p&gt;It quotes an intel developer saying they don&amp;#x27;t want to do any more stuff on Xorg. But the reality is that as much as I admire intels open source contributions. I don&amp;#x27;t remember a time where all the features in the Intel driver actually fully worked. But sure, maybe it&amp;#x27;s an Xorg issue, or they don&amp;#x27;t know how to do release management.&lt;p&gt;Either way, Wayland doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to solve the problems it promised to fix.</text><parent_chain><item><author>znpy</author><text>I am not necessarily against Wayland or new things in general.&lt;p&gt;But it bothers me when no clear upgrade path is defined (&amp;quot;drop your stuff&amp;quot; is not acceptable) and a half-hassed incomplete solution is proposed instead, and backwards compatibility is pretty much disregarded.&lt;p&gt;For what concerns my personal computing, I&amp;#x27;ll stay on Xorg until XFCE supports Wayland. Then I&amp;#x27;ll update.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=XServer-Abandonware</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrob</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m against Wayland because it forces compositing on all windowed applications. I&amp;#x27;ll stay on Xorg as long as possible because I&amp;#x27;m not willing to sacrifice latency for no tearing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>znpy</author><text>I am not necessarily against Wayland or new things in general.&lt;p&gt;But it bothers me when no clear upgrade path is defined (&amp;quot;drop your stuff&amp;quot; is not acceptable) and a half-hassed incomplete solution is proposed instead, and backwards compatibility is pretty much disregarded.&lt;p&gt;For what concerns my personal computing, I&amp;#x27;ll stay on Xorg until XFCE supports Wayland. Then I&amp;#x27;ll update.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=XServer-Abandonware</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>timr</author><text>All of the things you mentioned (save maybe layer lists) are why I fell in love with Keynote, and wish I could use it for all presentations.&lt;p&gt;Sadly, 99% of my time is spent in Google slides, which is like banging rocks together. Keynote&amp;#x27;s ability to do things like introspect into postscript&amp;#x2F;vector objects and align on lines &lt;i&gt;within the object&lt;/i&gt; is one of those things that makes you re-evaluate how software should work.&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to praise Keynote, since it gets so little love.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yoz</author><text>At my previous job we used Google Slides, and I rapidly came to hate it. Here&amp;#x27;s why Figma Slides has me excited:&lt;p&gt;- I use animation a lot, for many reasons, such as keeping audience focus on parts of the slide and visually explaining information changes and multi-step processes. It&amp;#x27;s particularly helpful for video. Figma already has much better tools for this; Google&amp;#x27;s are not particularly powerful and buggy as hell.&lt;p&gt;- Consistency. Google Slides will sometimes render the same text object with wrapping at different points on different machines. I shouldn&amp;#x27;t have to manually add line breaks to deal with this.&lt;p&gt;- Precision and flexibility. Google Slides just isn&amp;#x27;t anywhere near as smooth at design work as Figma. I don&amp;#x27;t even consider myself a designer and yet I regularly hit Google Slides&amp;#x27;s limitations.&lt;p&gt;- Layer&amp;#x2F;object lists. (Note: I don&amp;#x27;t see this in the Figma Slides demos, but I assume it&amp;#x27;s available in design mode?) Once you have a bunch of shapes on a slide, especially grouped, it makes selection so much easier. I don&amp;#x27;t want to play click roulette when trying to select one object from a pile.&lt;p&gt;(If you&amp;#x27;re wondering why I&amp;#x27;m focused on Google Slides: Apple Keynote is great but can&amp;#x27;t collaborate through Google Workspace. I haven&amp;#x27;t used PowerPoint much, it&amp;#x27;s okay.)&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: I&amp;#x27;ve now done a little playing with Figma Slides.&lt;p&gt;The good news is that it has an object list. But it&amp;#x27;s only in Design Mode. (So it won&amp;#x27;t be available to free or non-designer accounts - that&amp;#x27;s a Figma thing.)&lt;p&gt;The bad news is that &lt;i&gt;in this beta&lt;/i&gt; the animation tools are even less flexible than Google Slides: you can only choose from a limited set of transitions; those transitions apply to the entire slide, not to individual objects; and there&amp;#x27;s no way to change the timing or easing. However, &amp;quot;smart animate&amp;quot; is one of the transitions, which does a Magic-Move-like &amp;quot;move the objects in slide 1 to their positions in slide 2&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;(Note the emphasis on &lt;i&gt;this beta&lt;/i&gt;. Figma Slides won&amp;#x27;t be considered GA until next year, so I&amp;#x27;m hoping that all the animation tools from regular Figma will be available by then.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Figma Slides</title><url>https://www.figma.com/slides/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Andrew_nenakhov</author><text>&amp;gt; I use animation a lot,&lt;p&gt;My personal preference is the opposite: I came to hate presentations that use animations. Any presentation that can&amp;#x27;t be presented in static pdf is a presentation I&amp;#x27;d rather miss.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yoz</author><text>At my previous job we used Google Slides, and I rapidly came to hate it. Here&amp;#x27;s why Figma Slides has me excited:&lt;p&gt;- I use animation a lot, for many reasons, such as keeping audience focus on parts of the slide and visually explaining information changes and multi-step processes. It&amp;#x27;s particularly helpful for video. Figma already has much better tools for this; Google&amp;#x27;s are not particularly powerful and buggy as hell.&lt;p&gt;- Consistency. Google Slides will sometimes render the same text object with wrapping at different points on different machines. I shouldn&amp;#x27;t have to manually add line breaks to deal with this.&lt;p&gt;- Precision and flexibility. Google Slides just isn&amp;#x27;t anywhere near as smooth at design work as Figma. I don&amp;#x27;t even consider myself a designer and yet I regularly hit Google Slides&amp;#x27;s limitations.&lt;p&gt;- Layer&amp;#x2F;object lists. (Note: I don&amp;#x27;t see this in the Figma Slides demos, but I assume it&amp;#x27;s available in design mode?) Once you have a bunch of shapes on a slide, especially grouped, it makes selection so much easier. I don&amp;#x27;t want to play click roulette when trying to select one object from a pile.&lt;p&gt;(If you&amp;#x27;re wondering why I&amp;#x27;m focused on Google Slides: Apple Keynote is great but can&amp;#x27;t collaborate through Google Workspace. I haven&amp;#x27;t used PowerPoint much, it&amp;#x27;s okay.)&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: I&amp;#x27;ve now done a little playing with Figma Slides.&lt;p&gt;The good news is that it has an object list. But it&amp;#x27;s only in Design Mode. (So it won&amp;#x27;t be available to free or non-designer accounts - that&amp;#x27;s a Figma thing.)&lt;p&gt;The bad news is that &lt;i&gt;in this beta&lt;/i&gt; the animation tools are even less flexible than Google Slides: you can only choose from a limited set of transitions; those transitions apply to the entire slide, not to individual objects; and there&amp;#x27;s no way to change the timing or easing. However, &amp;quot;smart animate&amp;quot; is one of the transitions, which does a Magic-Move-like &amp;quot;move the objects in slide 1 to their positions in slide 2&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;(Note the emphasis on &lt;i&gt;this beta&lt;/i&gt;. Figma Slides won&amp;#x27;t be considered GA until next year, so I&amp;#x27;m hoping that all the animation tools from regular Figma will be available by then.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Figma Slides</title><url>https://www.figma.com/slides/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>haroldp</author><text>Exactly right. You don&apos;t have a license to the CD.&lt;p&gt;If a work has been given a copyright, the government has granted the holder a temporary, limited monopoly on reproduction of that work. When you buy a CD, you will almost always see, stamped somewhere on it, (c) Copyright $year, $holder, All Rights Reserved. This is not strictly necessary, but they just want to make it clear: No Rights Granted.&lt;p&gt;The copyright holder has all the rights to the work, and you are granted none beyond &quot;fair use&quot; rights (quoting small portions for critique, backup, resale, etc) defined in copyright law. You &lt;i&gt;specifically&lt;/i&gt; don&apos;t have a license.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I bought a CD, not a licensing agreement</title><url>http://gcn1.posterous.com/i-bought-a-cd-not-a-licensing-agreement</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>phsr</author><text>When will recording companies realize the issues with the current system?&lt;p&gt;I really wish iTunes operated like Steam. You buy a song, and can download it as often as you need to. You dont have to worry about deleting/losing your MP3, because you could just go download it again, no charge.&lt;p&gt;I commend bands like NIN and Radiohead, where they offered an album for digital consumption at no cost. In reality, bands make most of their money from touring anyway</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I bought a CD, not a licensing agreement</title><url>http://gcn1.posterous.com/i-bought-a-cd-not-a-licensing-agreement</url><text></text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tshadwell</author><text>&amp;gt; How to make it reusable? `&amp;lt;-chan interface{}`? Welcome to the land of types casting and runtime panics. If you want to implement high level fan-in (merge) you’re losing type safety. The same (unfortunately) goes for all other patterns.&lt;p&gt;I can understand arguments for generics, but they&amp;#x27;re complaining about trying to warm a whole pizza with a toaster. You need to put individual slices in, it doesn&amp;#x27;t work like an oven. Cook it with an oven if you want, but don&amp;#x27;t try to make it out like the toaster is offensive and useless.&lt;p&gt;Yes, you might need to re-implement these patterns each time with separate types (slice up the pizza), but it&amp;#x27;s not really a lot of work for the extra speed and crunchy pizza it gives you.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty tired of the frequency of these articles where someone takes a concept from a language, tries to force it into a different language with little care for its idioms and then complains that it doesn&amp;#x27;t work.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I like digging holes with a trowel, maybe I like the precision it gives me, maybe I&amp;#x27;ve worked out a way to with a little extra effort accomplish the same work. If you work with a spade and a bucket all the time don&amp;#x27;t complain that you can&amp;#x27;t throw a trowel around like a spade.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Golang: channels are not enough</title><url>https://gist.github.com/kachayev/21e7fe149bc5ae0bd878</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avitzurel</author><text>Beyond Go and channels, this article&amp;#x2F;post touches on a subject that is personally a real pain to me.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It’s so cool to find yourself writing tutorial for beginners! And it&amp;#x27;s a bit painful when you are trying to implement big and sophisticated system(s). Channels are primitives. They are low-level building blocks and I highly doubt you want to work with them on daily basis.&lt;p&gt;Posts&amp;#x2F;talks that relate to beginners.&lt;p&gt;You know the drill, you only have a limited time to talk about something in a conference and you only have limited time to write a blog post. It&amp;#x27;s easy and tempting to cover the basics without diving in too much into the details.&lt;p&gt;What you are left with as a professional is very thin data on how to accomplish complex stuff.&lt;p&gt;If you look at Docker and all the talks&amp;#x2F;posts around docker, they cover the absolute basic. Where&amp;#x27;s deployment to production? where&amp;#x27;s alerting&amp;#x2F;monitoring?&lt;p&gt;One of the few people I see solve this problem is: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;patshaughnessy.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;patshaughnessy.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been trying myself to do more in depth posts that cover more than just the basics, it&amp;#x27;s really hard work.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Golang: channels are not enough</title><url>https://gist.github.com/kachayev/21e7fe149bc5ae0bd878</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rfd4sgmk8u</author><text>&amp;quot;Blame the Money&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;No, money will always be used for crime as long as money and crime exists. People invent new crimes, People invent new money. Crime is the problem, not the money.&lt;p&gt;I would argue that money that can be used in this context is extremely valuable, as it is beyond the state. This is a very awful situation, and I feel for the victims, but the existence of cryptocurrency is not the problem, any more than cryptography is the problem wrt ransomware.&lt;p&gt;Tech can be used in many forms. Use it properly. Find and bring those to justice that do not. Don&amp;#x27;t blame the tools.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blululu</author><text>Please correct me on this but from what I can gather ransomware is a direct consequence of cryptocurrency. US Federal law enforcement has quite a lot of control over traditional banking and trying to extort the amount of money from a public agency would traditionally call for Federal Intervention. If so it seems like there is a good case to be made for a direct fine placed on the ledger used for payment in order to compensate for the damages.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid</title><url>https://therecord.media/ransomware-gang-threatens-to-expose-police-informants-if-ransom-is-not-paid/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greggturkington</author><text>Prepaid cash services enabled ransomware before they were asking for cryptocurrency</text><parent_chain><item><author>blululu</author><text>Please correct me on this but from what I can gather ransomware is a direct consequence of cryptocurrency. US Federal law enforcement has quite a lot of control over traditional banking and trying to extort the amount of money from a public agency would traditionally call for Federal Intervention. If so it seems like there is a good case to be made for a direct fine placed on the ledger used for payment in order to compensate for the damages.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid</title><url>https://therecord.media/ransomware-gang-threatens-to-expose-police-informants-if-ransom-is-not-paid/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mapgrep</author><text>I really hope users and developers can embrace the amazing technology that is present in illumos and its derivatives, much of which came out of Sun Solaris.&lt;p&gt;Things like ZFS, Zones, DTrace, SMF, and Crossbow were locked up inside Sun Solaris for many years because it was proprietary. The effort to open source it took a long time and because of how Solaris was built (with various third party things) Sun essentially had to release under a slightly odd license, the CDDL.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile Linux, which had ascended to dominance post dot com bubble, solidified its lead as the defacto default server operating system, a fairly well earned dominance built on being the first truly free Unix available for x86&amp;#x2F;PC hardware, and at a time when that was a truly lesser tier of hardware (unlike today).&lt;p&gt;But today I worry we&amp;#x27;ve settled into a mindset of &amp;quot;the linux way is best because it is dominant&amp;quot; - if you use linux you can google your stack traces, you know that even if the tech is inferior (&lt;i&gt;cough&lt;/i&gt;btrfs&lt;i&gt;cough&lt;/i&gt;systemtap&lt;i&gt;cough&lt;/i&gt;systemd&lt;i&gt;cough&lt;/i&gt;epoll*cough) many other people are in the same boat and in theory hordes of developers will -- might? -- make patches to fix the problem. No one ever got fired for choosing linux, basically.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve migrated a bunch of personal projects to a server I own running SmartOS, an Illumos derivative. One thing I&amp;#x27;ve learned is that it&amp;#x27;s actually really viable and nice these days to use an alternative operating system. I imagine it&amp;#x27;s similar with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, vanilla Illumos, etc. These systems run on a pretty impressive array of hardware and are able to leverage the near total standardization of the hardware&amp;#x2F;bios stack and the inroads made by other projects to bootstrap to viability. E.g. SmartOS uses pkgsrc from the netbsd project for packaging, took some boot technology from FreeBSD, and in general is able to tap into the universe of &amp;quot;unix like&amp;quot; tools, even if many of those tools are most often used on linux.&lt;p&gt;Anyway if you get a chance give this stuff a spin, it&amp;#x27;s pretty eye opening what you can accomplish. Zones, to me in particular, feel like a game changer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Illumos is a Unix operating system which provides next-generation features</title><url>https://www.illumos.org/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cies</author><text>Why not state that it is a fork of OpenSolaris on the homepage? Also the &amp;quot;next gen FS&amp;quot; is just ZFS, first released in 2005 (and they say software moves fast).&lt;p&gt;I think the homepage is mostly tageting techies, why not put a little more jargon in there and be transparent about the origins?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Illumos is a Unix operating system which provides next-generation features</title><url>https://www.illumos.org/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vijucat</author><text>I still use Firefox ScrapBook for this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;scrapbook&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;scrapbook&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just for articles, mind you, not entire websites.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Pocket Stream Archive – A personal Way-Back Machine</title><url>https://github.com/pirate/pocket-archive-stream</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jl6</author><text>Screenshotting or PDFing of a website is an increasingly important archiving tool, to supplement wget. I&amp;#x27;ve come across a lot of websites that won&amp;#x27;t render any content if not connected to a live server.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Pocket Stream Archive – A personal Way-Back Machine</title><url>https://github.com/pirate/pocket-archive-stream</url></story>
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<instructions>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>Big fan of rust-analyzer and have been using it since early alpha. Much better than RLS and approaching all the features in the Rust plugin for Clion&amp;#x2F;JetBrains. Got me off Clion during WFH because of the massive memory&amp;#x2F;CPU requirements of using a big IDE on a laptop when developing.&lt;p&gt;Rust being a terse language with generics and macros, sometimes figuring out what type an object is is hard and can easily get lost. Rust analyzer + vscode instantly gives context visually in all my code and even names types better than when the compiler errors at you when you get it wrong. This is especially true when dealing with a lot of async rust and you need to know the exact fully declared type of an object so you can fully decl it&amp;#x27;s type for a pin&amp;#x2F;box to pass around. Game changer. Being able to use to jump to definition is a huge win. I can walk code so much easier now and understand issues without a lot of mental energy or digging. It also updates in realtime as I code.&lt;p&gt;Big productivity boost I know for a lot of devs on Fuchsia. It would take me at least twice as long to get up with a new crate and be productive with it. The same is true as my own code base grows and I can&amp;#x27;t keep it all in my memory and remember. Impossible to stay as productive as code grows in rust without something like this anymore.&lt;p&gt;Also a huge win for the fact that it works remotely with vscode&amp;#x27;s remote features so I can have my code + rust-analyzer on my big linux machine remotely but still edit that code and get the context locally on my dinky&amp;#x2F;slower&amp;#x2F;older macbook.&lt;p&gt;My only wish is that it eventually gains some of the deeper refactoring features in vscode you can still get in Rust + Clion&amp;#x2F;JetBrains. Almost there.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust-Analyzer Architecture</title><url>https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/blob/master/docs/dev/architecture.md</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nindalf</author><text>For those who don&amp;#x27;t know, rust-analyzer is an implementation of the Language Server Protocol for the Rust programming language, written in Rust. It assists you while you program, for example finding usages of a piece of code or going to the definition of a function. Basically a Rust IDE that you can plug into any text editor (in theory).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust-Analyzer Architecture</title><url>https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/blob/master/docs/dev/architecture.md</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Doubly tragic, because the ōʻōʻāʻā was the last member of the Mohoidae species family. Its extinction marks the termination of an entire family of species.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mohoidae&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mohoidae&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>Scientists have a recording of the mating call of the last known Kauaʻi ʻōʻō that could never be answered.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;5THqAY3u5oY?t=44&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;5THqAY3u5oY?t=44&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;That&amp;#x27;s the last male of a species... singing for a female, who will never come.... he is totally alone.... and now his voice is gone.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I find that to be very sad</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. declares more than 20 species extinct after exhaustive searches</title><url>https://www.axios.com/us-23-extinct-species-endangered-species-list-0555df01-b298-4df0-bc24-466d79530f2d.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>evanb</author><text>There’s a beautiful episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed in which John Green explores this recording.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wnycstudios.org&amp;#x2F;podcasts&amp;#x2F;anthropocene-reviewed&amp;#x2F;episodes&amp;#x2F;anthropocene-reviewed-qwerty-keyboard-and-kauai-o-o&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wnycstudios.org&amp;#x2F;podcasts&amp;#x2F;anthropocene-reviewed&amp;#x2F;e...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>Scientists have a recording of the mating call of the last known Kauaʻi ʻōʻō that could never be answered.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;5THqAY3u5oY?t=44&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;5THqAY3u5oY?t=44&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;That&amp;#x27;s the last male of a species... singing for a female, who will never come.... he is totally alone.... and now his voice is gone.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I find that to be very sad</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. declares more than 20 species extinct after exhaustive searches</title><url>https://www.axios.com/us-23-extinct-species-endangered-species-list-0555df01-b298-4df0-bc24-466d79530f2d.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grogenaut</author><text>I just accidentally got a hackerman like you expelled from my daughter&amp;#x27;s uni. They sent a peer review for a doc but sent it 3 minutes before deadline and was corrupt. Being helpful programmer and teaching daughter I opened it with a hex editor. Top of file referenced &amp;#x2F;var&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;corruptmyfilecom. Which seems suspicious. It&amp;#x27;s a also a website for exactly what you suspect. This was for 5% of grade on assignment and meant to boost your grade by rewarding engagement and peer review.&lt;p&gt;Daughter dug further and found the doc text (so proud) and it was a outline with loren ipsum in it. Dated 3 minutes before the corruption.&lt;p&gt;This started the chain of events where one student was no longer in class, teacher was flabbergasted at stupidity for zero gain, and then kid not being in school anymore (I guess was not first issue). Uni it department also checked and verified and added to autoscans in monopoly software. Daughter got full credit for assignment since she had noting to peer review.&lt;p&gt;I should of been suspicious, I haven&amp;#x27;t seen a corrupted small file in years.&lt;p&gt;Hackerman is there but so is overly qualified accidental white hat</text><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so tired of articles like this that never enumerate solutions. &lt;i&gt;Anyone&lt;/i&gt; can enumerate the bad things about something. You don&amp;#x27;t need to know anything about the situation to do that, so why leave the analysis at the minimally-developed step?&lt;p&gt;Analyzing the situation before schools ever used cloud platforms and why these platforms are alluring to begin with should be a big part of this discussion, because you must understand how you got here to ever understand where to go.&lt;p&gt;For example, when I was high school in the early 2000s, the most advanced setup my high school had was for students to use USB sticks or email the teachers assignments, and it sucked for everyone. The teachers each came up with their own effort to track files. And there was a lot of work for teachers, e.g. students forgetting to attach the file. Or, a clever hackerman such as myself, deleting a couple bytes in the file before attaching it to buy myself an extra day.&lt;p&gt;In university, the school used Blackboard which is apparently very expensive and definitely very underwhelming.&lt;p&gt;After those two experiences, I&amp;#x27;m not surprised that Google suite is a true breath of fresh air for schools and students alike. I know nothing about the education system beyond this post, so I would love to hear something more informative about the situation than &amp;quot;capitalism bad&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education</title><url>https://instituteforpubliceducation.org/monopoly-technology-platforms-are-colonizing-education/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dreen</author><text>Blackboard is terrible software. I have a feeling it&amp;#x27;s the most classic example of &amp;quot;design by committee&amp;quot; where all decisions lie with admin staff who never ever have to use the software. They just approve whatever has the biggest list of features. They earn so much money from tuition fees and care so little for usability of basic tools its astounding.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not in education software myself but it seems to me a solution of sorts would be to push for standardization:&lt;p&gt;- open data exchange formats&lt;p&gt;- open communication protocols&lt;p&gt;- open social identity platforms&lt;p&gt;This doesn&amp;#x27;t fix the problem but at least it gives power to the people to do so. However, it won&amp;#x27;t happen on its own because it&amp;#x27;s not in the best interest of anyone currently in position to do anything about it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so tired of articles like this that never enumerate solutions. &lt;i&gt;Anyone&lt;/i&gt; can enumerate the bad things about something. You don&amp;#x27;t need to know anything about the situation to do that, so why leave the analysis at the minimally-developed step?&lt;p&gt;Analyzing the situation before schools ever used cloud platforms and why these platforms are alluring to begin with should be a big part of this discussion, because you must understand how you got here to ever understand where to go.&lt;p&gt;For example, when I was high school in the early 2000s, the most advanced setup my high school had was for students to use USB sticks or email the teachers assignments, and it sucked for everyone. The teachers each came up with their own effort to track files. And there was a lot of work for teachers, e.g. students forgetting to attach the file. Or, a clever hackerman such as myself, deleting a couple bytes in the file before attaching it to buy myself an extra day.&lt;p&gt;In university, the school used Blackboard which is apparently very expensive and definitely very underwhelming.&lt;p&gt;After those two experiences, I&amp;#x27;m not surprised that Google suite is a true breath of fresh air for schools and students alike. I know nothing about the education system beyond this post, so I would love to hear something more informative about the situation than &amp;quot;capitalism bad&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education</title><url>https://instituteforpubliceducation.org/monopoly-technology-platforms-are-colonizing-education/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>howmayiannoyyou</author><text>Advocate now. This is arguably the most important regulation review the USGOV will conduct in the next few years, here&amp;#x27;s why:&lt;p&gt;- It is a national security issue. Foreign actors can exploit this data to perform highly targeted attacks on individuals at scale.&lt;p&gt;- It will be an issue for you as a senior. We will all get old, and our ability to detect, ignore and counter misuses of this data declines with age.&lt;p&gt;- Its an anti-monopoly issue. Much of this data is concentrated and sequestered in large companies. Small businesses, responsible for most employment in the US, cannot afford and is not aware of the availability of this data.&lt;p&gt;- Privacy should be a human right. I know there is push-back to this argument, but seniors aside, many young adults (and some plain old adults) simply are not aware and not capable of understanding the data they are giving up, how it is (mis)used, and what that means for them.&lt;p&gt;I hope all of us will engage with this form and provide comments.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-notices/commercial-surveillance-data-security-rulemaking</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mooreds</author><text>There is also a public forum on Sep 8: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ftc.gov&amp;#x2F;news-events&amp;#x2F;events&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;commercial-surveillance-data-security-anpr-public-forum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ftc.gov&amp;#x2F;news-events&amp;#x2F;events&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;commercial-su...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-notices/commercial-surveillance-data-security-rulemaking</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>npteljes</author><text>&amp;gt;ostracizing sex work is almost entirely normalized&lt;p&gt;100%. One of the universal curses people throw at each other is implying that someone&amp;#x27;s mother is a prostitute, or that they are a product of extramarital sex, implying the promiscuity of the mother. This all is hand-in-hand with the implied comtempt towards women of course.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_ktx2</author><text>The most troubling thing, that is somewhat observable in today&amp;#x27;s threads, is that ostracizing sex work is almost entirely normalized. People favor legal structures analogous to Don&amp;#x27;t Ask Don&amp;#x27;t Tell. This tees up a system of cascading effects:&lt;p&gt;- Sex workers must now navigate a very fluid monetary system. Sex workers must be paid in cash, Bitcoin, etc. Then they have to somehow represent this money to the federal government to pay their taxes.&lt;p&gt;- Everyone around sex workers are considered criminals. Unknowingly rent a property to a sex worker? You&amp;#x27;re a criminal. Date a sex worker? Suspected to be a criminal. Lend money to a sex worker? Criminal. Use sex work services? Definitely a criminal.&lt;p&gt;This system shoves sex workers into an intentional class system that prohibits them from owning property, prohibits their use of public services, prohibits their utilization of our monetary system. All of these things, when used, don&amp;#x27;t just benefit the sex workers - they benefit &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;One of the uncomfortable conversations that many people don&amp;#x27;t want to have is that sex work is heavily used by society and yet neglected constantly, thereby making it dangerous for both sex workers &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; the users, even making it &lt;i&gt;more dangerous&lt;/i&gt; at times.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial scarlet letter?</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-are-sex-workers-forced-to-wear-a-financial-scarlet-letter/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tablespoon</author><text>The OP appears to be mostly talking about porn, but your points seem to be mostly addressing prostitution.&lt;p&gt;Prostitution has long considered an disreputable and undesirable activity, and it along with other types of sex work are often tightly coupled with involuntary exploitation. A lot of the stuff that you&amp;#x27;re criticizing derives from attempts to continue to legally discourage prostitution while preventing the legal system from further punishing women who are being exploited.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_ktx2</author><text>The most troubling thing, that is somewhat observable in today&amp;#x27;s threads, is that ostracizing sex work is almost entirely normalized. People favor legal structures analogous to Don&amp;#x27;t Ask Don&amp;#x27;t Tell. This tees up a system of cascading effects:&lt;p&gt;- Sex workers must now navigate a very fluid monetary system. Sex workers must be paid in cash, Bitcoin, etc. Then they have to somehow represent this money to the federal government to pay their taxes.&lt;p&gt;- Everyone around sex workers are considered criminals. Unknowingly rent a property to a sex worker? You&amp;#x27;re a criminal. Date a sex worker? Suspected to be a criminal. Lend money to a sex worker? Criminal. Use sex work services? Definitely a criminal.&lt;p&gt;This system shoves sex workers into an intentional class system that prohibits them from owning property, prohibits their use of public services, prohibits their utilization of our monetary system. All of these things, when used, don&amp;#x27;t just benefit the sex workers - they benefit &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;One of the uncomfortable conversations that many people don&amp;#x27;t want to have is that sex work is heavily used by society and yet neglected constantly, thereby making it dangerous for both sex workers &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; the users, even making it &lt;i&gt;more dangerous&lt;/i&gt; at times.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial scarlet letter?</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-are-sex-workers-forced-to-wear-a-financial-scarlet-letter/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bz2</author><text>Kornel is also behind the DSSIM library (in Rust), which I&amp;#x27;ve found useful for comparing images before and after compression.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;kornelski&amp;#x2F;dssim&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;kornelski&amp;#x2F;dssim&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rewriting Libimagequant in Rust for Portability</title><url>https://pngquant.org/rust.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>roblabla</author><text>&amp;gt; Trying to make the library more object-oriented exposed a &amp;quot;drum-stick&amp;quot; design issue: does play(drum, stick) translate to drum.play(stick) or stick.hit(drum)?&lt;p&gt;In cases where OO doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense, the solution is to simply provide a functional API instead. Rust stdlib has plenty of such APIs, it&amp;#x27;s fine to have free-standing functions!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rewriting Libimagequant in Rust for Portability</title><url>https://pngquant.org/rust.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swang</author><text>&amp;gt; Incorporation papers filed with the California secretary of state&amp;#x27;s office links Faraday to a Chinese media company operated by Jia Yueting, an entrepreneur who founded Leshi Internet Information &amp;amp; Technology.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&amp;#x2F;sciencetech&amp;#x2F;article-3307660&amp;#x2F;Mysterious-firm-backed-one-China-s-richest-men-set-build-billion-dollar-factory-Tesla-Apple-electric-car.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&amp;#x2F;sciencetech&amp;#x2F;article-3307660&amp;#x2F;Myste...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mysterious billion-dollar car company is taking on Tesla</title><url>http://nypost.com/2015/11/06/mysterious-billion-dollar-car-company-is-taking-on-tesla/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anotheryou</author><text>lets try to snoop around!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;justcapital.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;justcapital.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; uses the same privacy policy (word for word)&lt;p&gt;edit: Their webmail is chinese, makes Apple quite unlikely &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;webmail.faradayfuture.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;webmail.faradayfuture.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;edit2: faradayfuture.net was also registered at the same time and has a different whois (still cloaked, but more chinese)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mysterious billion-dollar car company is taking on Tesla</title><url>http://nypost.com/2015/11/06/mysterious-billion-dollar-car-company-is-taking-on-tesla/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codegeek</author><text>This. Exactly This. I am sick of hearing &amp;quot;oh you just pay $20 co-pay&amp;quot;. No we don&amp;#x27;t. The real cost is much more and these pharmas and insurance companies know it. I know because I paid it for a family of 4. It costs $1500&amp;#x2F;Month for a decent plan that does not have high &amp;quot;out of pocket&amp;quot; costs (Read capped at $5000). So you pay $1500 per month and in worst case scenario, you can still pay $5000 out of pocket for a year IF the insurance company does not deny a claim.&lt;p&gt;I usually don&amp;#x27;t make political comments but one thing that was disappointing with Obamacare was the fact that it did not address this root cause and instead touted that now anyone can get insurance. Sure, someone with pre-existing condition is now probably a little better off but overall, obamacare did not address the main issue: getting rid of middlemen (insurance companies) and let doctors&amp;#x2F;hospitals work on fair and transparent pricing. Isn&amp;#x27;t that what America is all about ? Free Market, eh.&lt;p&gt;If I may steal the legendary MLK&amp;#x27;s words, I have a dream. A dream where I can call any doctor&amp;#x2F;hospital and ask what will it exactly cost to get a simple X-Ray done without saying &amp;quot;Oh no, I ain&amp;#x27;t got no insurance&amp;quot;. Just a dream.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>This whole drug company argument -- that the only thing that really matters is what end users pay as a co-pay or co-insurance and that no one should care what insurance companies (including governments) pay -- is so breathtakingly bad I can only imagine it is in bad faith. Where do they expect us to believe the institutional payments are coming from, out of thin air?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EpiPen Maker Quietly Steers Effort That Could Protect Its Price</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/business/epipen-maker-mylan-preventative-drug-campaign.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>gizmodo59</author><text>One of the things I do not understand is, the explanation given is that Obamacare fixes the donut hole where people who are not enrolled in company sponsored&amp;#x2F;medicare could get insurance.&lt;p&gt;This has just let the drug companies to raise the price without any backslash because the end user is &amp;quot;not&amp;quot; paying the price. However, the rising premiums and plans with high deductibles meant that the drugs are still not affordable even if you are covered by some insurance.&lt;p&gt;What is the solution to this? Single-payer health care?</text><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>This whole drug company argument -- that the only thing that really matters is what end users pay as a co-pay or co-insurance and that no one should care what insurance companies (including governments) pay -- is so breathtakingly bad I can only imagine it is in bad faith. Where do they expect us to believe the institutional payments are coming from, out of thin air?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EpiPen Maker Quietly Steers Effort That Could Protect Its Price</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/business/epipen-maker-mylan-preventative-drug-campaign.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hnburnsy</author><text>Here are the budget details on this...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;esd.dof.ca.gov&amp;#x2F;Documents&amp;#x2F;bcp&amp;#x2F;2223&amp;#x2F;FY2223_ORG4140_BCP5779.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;esd.dof.ca.gov&amp;#x2F;Documents&amp;#x2F;bcp&amp;#x2F;2223&amp;#x2F;FY2223_ORG4140_BCP...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;This proposal will use $50 million in funding to enter into a partnership with a contract manufacturer to develop and bring to market interchangeable biosimilar insulin products in both vial and pen form.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;This proposal also includes an additional $50 million for the construction of an insulin manufacturing facility based in California. CalHHS will partner with the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), leveraging its expertise in business investment services such as site review, permit assistance, and other related activities. CalHHS will lean on GO-Biz’s expertise to mitigate risk and properly execute the proposed manufacturing facility, if CalRx proceeds with this component of the project.&amp;quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Governor Newsom announces California will make its own insulin</title><url>https://kion546.com/news/2022/07/07/governor-gavin-newsom-announces-california-will-make-its-own-insulin/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enahs-sf</author><text>Sometimes I feel like this is the endgame where the US overall kind of declines but California starts managing itself better and operates almost like an independent country.&lt;p&gt;Probably wishful thinking but would be great.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Governor Newsom announces California will make its own insulin</title><url>https://kion546.com/news/2022/07/07/governor-gavin-newsom-announces-california-will-make-its-own-insulin/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frettchen</author><text>I think what really hurts, for me, is that this has become the general tone from Mozilla - whether the changes are ones I&amp;#x27;d agree with or not.&lt;p&gt;I remember back when the Spread Firefox campaign was still around - at the time, Firefox and Mozilla in general felt grassroots, fun, and human. Like a club anyone could join and that anyone would want their friends, family, coworkers, and even strangers or people they didn&amp;#x27;t like to get in on: an all-in-this-together effort for a better internet.&lt;p&gt;Anymore, Mozilla feels more and more corporate, more like a company - even as Google Chrome (and the many browsers built from Chromium) eats away more and of their market share and they move toward being &amp;quot;the little guy&amp;quot; again - and less and less like a group of people.&lt;p&gt;I think what I really miss is having a browser that made me care about it beyond just wanting alternatives.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Nicksil</author><text>&amp;gt;If you are a Firefox user, you don’t have to do anything to benefit from this security advancement.&lt;p&gt;The epitome of corporate speak: &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;re taking away a feature of this software. You&amp;#x27;re welcome.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I expect that kind of talk from Google; hearing it from Mozilla makes me a little sad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/07/20/stopping-ftp-support-in-firefox-90/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hnarn</author><text>While I agree with removing FTP support, I also agree that phrasing is pretty disgusting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Nicksil</author><text>&amp;gt;If you are a Firefox user, you don’t have to do anything to benefit from this security advancement.&lt;p&gt;The epitome of corporate speak: &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;re taking away a feature of this software. You&amp;#x27;re welcome.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I expect that kind of talk from Google; hearing it from Mozilla makes me a little sad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/07/20/stopping-ftp-support-in-firefox-90/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FridgeSeal</author><text>Nim is everything Python and Go should be&amp;#x2F;want to be, as far as language features and semantics go (haha).&lt;p&gt;It has their easy-to-learn properties, but has a better type system, the generics system and macros are arguably more useful, and more usable than what is offered in either language.&lt;p&gt;It deserves far more attention than it currently gets.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nim 1.6.2</title><url>https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/12/17/version-162-released.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>michaelsbradley</author><text>Something I&amp;#x27;m excited about: v1.6.2 integrates support for (not yet released) Nimble[1] v0.14, which will introduce project lockfiles. I&amp;#x27;ve had terrible experiences with lockfiles in JS land, but they &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; sorely needed for Nim projects as (fingers crossed) they&amp;#x27;ll allow for reproducible builds without having to resort to the nimbus-build-system[2]. The latter isn&amp;#x27;t completely horrible — a lot of much appreciated hard work has gone into it, and it&amp;#x27;s been a real workhorse — but some days it feels like a big ball and chain.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll be much happier when I can cruise along with choosenim[3] and lockfiles and not have to worry about Makefile + submodules shenanigans.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nim-lang&amp;#x2F;nimble#readme&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nim-lang&amp;#x2F;nimble#readme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;status-im&amp;#x2F;nimbus-build-system#readme&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;status-im&amp;#x2F;nimbus-build-system#readme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dom96&amp;#x2F;choosenim#readme&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dom96&amp;#x2F;choosenim#readme&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nim 1.6.2</title><url>https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/12/17/version-162-released.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>It’s obvious that people will interpret “Amazon’s Choice” in this way. Surely Amazon knew this too. This should be considered false advertising if not outright fraud. Instead it’ll just turn into another episode of “haha those wacky tech companies and their algorithms.”</text><parent_chain><item><author>YokoZar</author><text>I was actually surprised when I learned this. The biggest complaint about Amazon had been a lack of curation and all that entails -- foot long brooms that photograph well, brands you&amp;#x27;ve never heard of, cheap things that break quickly, counterfeits, etc. It feels like an online dollar store, even when you&amp;#x27;re spending thousands.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t take that much effort to have a human in the loop to pick something for the top thousand or so product categories, and naively that&amp;#x27;s what I expected when I saw the &amp;quot;Amazon&amp;#x27;s Choice&amp;quot; seal of approval on these things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Amazon’s Choice” is determined by an algorithm and not always reliable</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/amazons-choice-bad-products</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oftenwrong</author><text>As mentioned in the article, Amazon does have &amp;quot;Editorial recommendations&amp;quot; that appear for certain queries, which are basically buying guides written by third parties. They can apply titles to products, like &amp;quot;Editors&amp;#x27; Choice&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Best Value&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Our Pick&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Top Choice&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Upgrade Pick&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Splurge-worthy&amp;quot;, et cetera.</text><parent_chain><item><author>YokoZar</author><text>I was actually surprised when I learned this. The biggest complaint about Amazon had been a lack of curation and all that entails -- foot long brooms that photograph well, brands you&amp;#x27;ve never heard of, cheap things that break quickly, counterfeits, etc. It feels like an online dollar store, even when you&amp;#x27;re spending thousands.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t take that much effort to have a human in the loop to pick something for the top thousand or so product categories, and naively that&amp;#x27;s what I expected when I saw the &amp;quot;Amazon&amp;#x27;s Choice&amp;quot; seal of approval on these things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Amazon’s Choice” is determined by an algorithm and not always reliable</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/amazons-choice-bad-products</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>On reddit, we created a bellwether award. It was basically for the person who was most accurate at upvoting things that got popular and downvoting the things that did not.&lt;p&gt;The people who won the award the most were the ones that upvoted all the memes and blogspam.&lt;p&gt;My point of this is not to discourage you, but to warn you that the way you&amp;#x27;ve described your platform, the most &amp;quot;profitable&amp;quot; thing to do is not upvote good content but upvote the content you&amp;#x27;ll think the most people will upvote. So you&amp;#x27;ll need to adjust for that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>enjeyw</author><text>An aggregator ala reddit&amp;#x2F;hackernews&amp;#x2F;twitter that uses a market mechanism to better incentivise content discovery.&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest issues with existing aggregators is that:&lt;p&gt;- how well content performs is dependant on the attention it gets immediately after posting.&lt;p&gt;- However, readers aren’t incentivised to sift carefully through new content, which is generally of lower quality than &amp;quot;frontpage&amp;quot; content&lt;p&gt;- This means that how content performs is a lottery. Great content is often missed just by chance&lt;p&gt;- This in turn means that there’s no platform that encourages unknown authors to create high-effort, thoughtful pieces. Instead it’s far more effective to blogspam.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m working on a platform that uses something similar to a prediction&amp;#x2F;stock market to incentivise people to search for high-quality content. Instead of upvoting, you effectively buy shares in new content, which you can then sell at a later point for a profit if the content proves popular. Equally you can buy &amp;quot;downvote shares&amp;quot;, which act like a short and help dampen rampant speculation.&lt;p&gt;It’s early days still, but I’m hoping this could be a great way to encourage higher quality content creation.&lt;p&gt;Draft paper here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;drive.google.com&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;d&amp;#x2F;15Hc6wAXlfl8x5C0w11m7ZOEpbjjncxS2&amp;#x2F;view?usp=sharing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;drive.google.com&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;d&amp;#x2F;15Hc6wAXlfl8x5C0w11m7ZOEpbjj...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;p&gt;Since this is a getting a bit of traction, if you&amp;#x27;re interested in testing it out when I&amp;#x27;ve got a prototype, I&amp;#x27;ve created a mailing list here&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forms.gle&amp;#x2F;EEMhkJRSUUAbwDgX6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forms.gle&amp;#x2F;EEMhkJRSUUAbwDgX6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think initial community is critical for getting these sorts of things right, so would definitely appreciate having some HN folks to test with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What are you working on?</title><text>Hi HN, I&amp;#x27;m curious to see what cool things everyone&amp;#x27;s building. What side projects are you developing? What are you applying to HN with?</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>nickysielicki</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve had a recurring thought where you supplant upvotes with something like an ELO system.&lt;p&gt;Basically, my thought is that I know &lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt; can follow something like the reddiquette, or the HN rules. I&amp;#x27;m certainly not perfect, but I don&amp;#x27;t downvote when I disagree, and I don&amp;#x27;t upvote when I agree, and I try to not make unsubstantive comments. Reddit and HN maybe used to follow this when they were very small, but as sites grow the rules always fall to the wayside.&lt;p&gt;The fix would be that you as the founder, and the X amount of friends that you know and trust, serve as a baseline for the ranking system. If someone downvotes a post that the trusted group upvotes, their influence on the site goes down as a result. Likewise, if someone upvotes the posts that you vote, their influence goes up.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t actually use &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; E-L-O system for this, as far as I&amp;#x27;m aware, because it&amp;#x27;s not a zero-sum game. But the basic idea is that you take a known group of good actors and give users voting influence based on how similar they are to the good actors, and if you can&amp;#x27;t follow the rules (by acting similarly), you basically lose all influence on the site.</text><parent_chain><item><author>enjeyw</author><text>An aggregator ala reddit&amp;#x2F;hackernews&amp;#x2F;twitter that uses a market mechanism to better incentivise content discovery.&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest issues with existing aggregators is that:&lt;p&gt;- how well content performs is dependant on the attention it gets immediately after posting.&lt;p&gt;- However, readers aren’t incentivised to sift carefully through new content, which is generally of lower quality than &amp;quot;frontpage&amp;quot; content&lt;p&gt;- This means that how content performs is a lottery. Great content is often missed just by chance&lt;p&gt;- This in turn means that there’s no platform that encourages unknown authors to create high-effort, thoughtful pieces. Instead it’s far more effective to blogspam.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m working on a platform that uses something similar to a prediction&amp;#x2F;stock market to incentivise people to search for high-quality content. Instead of upvoting, you effectively buy shares in new content, which you can then sell at a later point for a profit if the content proves popular. Equally you can buy &amp;quot;downvote shares&amp;quot;, which act like a short and help dampen rampant speculation.&lt;p&gt;It’s early days still, but I’m hoping this could be a great way to encourage higher quality content creation.&lt;p&gt;Draft paper here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;drive.google.com&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;d&amp;#x2F;15Hc6wAXlfl8x5C0w11m7ZOEpbjjncxS2&amp;#x2F;view?usp=sharing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;drive.google.com&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;d&amp;#x2F;15Hc6wAXlfl8x5C0w11m7ZOEpbjj...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;p&gt;Since this is a getting a bit of traction, if you&amp;#x27;re interested in testing it out when I&amp;#x27;ve got a prototype, I&amp;#x27;ve created a mailing list here&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forms.gle&amp;#x2F;EEMhkJRSUUAbwDgX6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forms.gle&amp;#x2F;EEMhkJRSUUAbwDgX6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think initial community is critical for getting these sorts of things right, so would definitely appreciate having some HN folks to test with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What are you working on?</title><text>Hi HN, I&amp;#x27;m curious to see what cool things everyone&amp;#x27;s building. What side projects are you developing? What are you applying to HN with?</text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>If we manage to reproduce from digitally stored DNA, endlessly.&lt;p&gt;Where it gets interesting is what happens when we start manipulating and improving DNA digitally before we implant it. Basically things like Crispr are stepping stones towards getting there. But we could be digitally creating and evaluating combinations of genes and genomes from very large databases of historical archives of individuals.&lt;p&gt;The philosophical and ethical questions around this are largely centered on boys of brazil type scenarios. Most of that stuff is driven by popular fiction rather than reality. Another factor is religion and religious objections against stuff like this happening or even acknowledging that this is possible.&lt;p&gt;But the reality is we already have celebrities ordering clones of their deceased pets. From there to designer babies is not such a huge technical leap. Some religious people might find this offensive but biologically cloning a human and a chihuahua is ballpark the same level of complexity. Never mind things like souls, nativity myths, etc. Now imagine dog breeders going digital and creating new dog breeds digitally before planting an embryo. Not possible today but also not that far off probably. If that bothers you ethically, think designer grains or rice from digitally crafted DNA. GMO foods have been a thing for decades. That stuff going digital would be about as controversial. When that happens it won&amp;#x27;t stop there.&lt;p&gt;Mostly the technical issues that make stuff like this unethical have to do with short term technical challenges such as the low success rate of implanting embryos, the high error rates of dna modifications, the correspondingly high number of abortions needed because of failures, availability of stem cell material (until recently this required embryos), etc. This is not a problem for chihuahuas but kind of a show stopper when it concerns our own genetic offspring. Abortions are illegal in a lot of places that euthanize pets and cattle routinely. We&amp;#x27;re kind of ethically flexible.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a good chance that this already is happening and that we simply don&amp;#x27;t get to learn about it for a while because it is kind of illegal and the people involved are not likely to want to be exposed. But the combination of billionaires, fertility issues, and technical capability makes this more a question of when than if, I would say. Supply and demand are not going to be the issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anonytrary</author><text>I thought it was relatively easy to keep zygotes dormant for arbitrary lengths of time, but embryos are more developed and this definitely raises philosophical questions regarding cryogenics. &amp;quot;How big can we go beyond the embryo, and for how long?&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55164607</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>est31</author><text>In the very first stage of embryonic development, during cleavage, all cells of the clump are totipotent, meaning that if you took out a single cell, you could create a human from it. The article doesn&amp;#x27;t say at which stage the embryo implanted was, but likely it was in that early stage.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anonytrary</author><text>I thought it was relatively easy to keep zygotes dormant for arbitrary lengths of time, but embryos are more developed and this definitely raises philosophical questions regarding cryogenics. &amp;quot;How big can we go beyond the embryo, and for how long?&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55164607</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_jal</author><text>Seriously. The CTO in question is the incompetent one. S&amp;#x2F;he failed:&lt;p&gt;- Access control 101. Seriously, this is pure incompetence. It is the equivalent of having the power cord to the Big Important Money Making Machine snaking across the office and under desks. If you can&amp;#x27;t be arsed to ensure that even basic measures are taken to avoid accidents, acting surprised when they happen is even more stupid.&lt;p&gt;- Sensible onboarding documentation. Why would prod access information be stuck in the &amp;quot;read this first&amp;quot; doc?&lt;p&gt;- Management 101. You just hired a green dev just out of college who has no idea how things are supposed to work. You just fired him in an incredibly nasty way for making an entirely predictable mistake that came about because of your lack of diligence at your job (see above).&lt;p&gt;Also, I have no idea what your culture looks like, but you just told all your reports that honest mistakes can be fatal and their manager&amp;#x27;s judgement resembles that of a petulant 14 year-old.&lt;p&gt;- Corporate Communications 101. Hindsight and all that, but it seems inevitable that this would lead to a social media trash fire. Congrats on embarrassing yourself and your company in an impressive way. On the bright side, this will last for about 15 minutes and then maybe three people will remember. Hopefully the folks at your next gig won&amp;#x27;t be among them.&lt;p&gt;My take away is that anyone involved in this might want to start polishing their resumes. The poor kid and the CTO for obvious reasons, and the rest of the devs, because good lord, that company sounds doomed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Rezo</author><text>Sorry, but if a junior dev can blow away your prod database by running a script on his _local_ dev environment while following your documentation, you have no one to blame but yourself. Why is your prod database even reachable from his local env? What does the rest of your security look like? Swiss cheese I bet.&lt;p&gt;The CTO further demonstrates his ineptitude by firing the junior dev. Apparently he never heard the famous IBM story, and will surely live to repeat his mistakes:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;After an employee made a mistake that cost the company $10 million, he walked into the office of Tom Watson, the C.E.O., expecting to get fired. “Fire you?” Mr. Watson asked. “I just spent $10 million educating you.”&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job</title><url>https://np.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/accidentally_destroyed_production_database_on/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>champagnepapi</author><text>I agree, it&amp;#x27;s the fault of the CTO. To me, the CTO sounds pretty incompetent. The junior engineer did them a favor. This company seems like it is an amateur hour operation, since data was deleted so easily by an junior engineer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Rezo</author><text>Sorry, but if a junior dev can blow away your prod database by running a script on his _local_ dev environment while following your documentation, you have no one to blame but yourself. Why is your prod database even reachable from his local env? What does the rest of your security look like? Swiss cheese I bet.&lt;p&gt;The CTO further demonstrates his ineptitude by firing the junior dev. Apparently he never heard the famous IBM story, and will surely live to repeat his mistakes:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;After an employee made a mistake that cost the company $10 million, he walked into the office of Tom Watson, the C.E.O., expecting to get fired. “Fire you?” Mr. Watson asked. “I just spent $10 million educating you.”&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job</title><url>https://np.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/accidentally_destroyed_production_database_on/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>This was posted in (2016), where it was flagged to death due to drama. HN discussion around that time: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12682944&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12682944&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My comment from back then:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Although I genuinely miss Valleywag and all the absurdity that it covered (e.g. Clinkle), I&amp;#x27;m not sure if this is a fair critique of startup culture outside of having the excuse to say the F word a lot. As someone living in San Francisco, I can say that there are more to startups and startup culture than the stereotypes seen in Medium thought pieces and the Hacker News front page, although given the end of this particular Medium thought piece, that may be the point.&lt;p&gt;Given that the OP now works at WeWork, I suppose the startup world can&amp;#x27;t be f&amp;#x27;ed forever.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fuck You Startup World (2016)</title><url>https://medium.com/startup-grind/fuck-you-startup-world-ab6cc72fad0e</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jrowley</author><text>I understand and empathize with the sentiment but the rhetorical style really takes away from this piece for me. Peak medium right here. Comes off sounding like a pissed off child more than real critique.&lt;p&gt;Not worth reading in my opinion.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fuck You Startup World (2016)</title><url>https://medium.com/startup-grind/fuck-you-startup-world-ab6cc72fad0e</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;It&amp;#x27;s absolutely ridiculous that Macs don&amp;#x27;t come with a 3 year warranty by default.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Government should mandate that, as in does in other countries.&lt;p&gt;But many american consumers don&amp;#x27;t believe in government rules about consumer protection, lest some of this &amp;quot;innovation&amp;quot; we&amp;#x27;ve witnessed is discouraged...</text><parent_chain><item><author>pier25</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s absolutely ridiculous that Macs don&amp;#x27;t come with a 3 year warranty by default.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve bought maybe a dozen macs in the last 15 years (for myself and the family) and while some have lasted many years without issues, some have died on me on the second or third year.&lt;p&gt;Because the initial investment is so high you&amp;#x27;re practically forced to add extra Apple Care to protect it because there&amp;#x27;s a 20-30% chance you will have problems during those first years.&lt;p&gt;And don&amp;#x27;t get me started on design issues and recalls which take years. When my 2011 MBP died because of Radeongate it took Apple 2 years to start a recall and replace the GPU. The honest thing to do would have been to take the machine and offer 60% of its value in credit towards a new Mac. Instead, Apple replaced the GPU on a machine that was already a couple of gens behind and I couldn&amp;#x27;t sell without practically giving it away because (rightfully) nobody wanted the 15&amp;#x27;&amp;#x27; 2011 models. That MBP was probably the worst investment of my life.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs</title><url>https://pqvst.com/2021/08/24/my-macbook-pro/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Macha</author><text>In the EU, there&amp;#x27;s a _seller_ obligation for 2 years for items in the same class as laptop to ensure they are free from defects and fit for purpose. It won&amp;#x27;t help you if _you_ break your laptop, and after 6 months the burden of proof in the event of a dispute switches from the seller to the buyer, but I feel like pretty much all the issues the OP encountered would be covered under this.&lt;p&gt;A lot of add on warranties don&amp;#x27;t cover much more than this anyway, which makes them much harder to justify here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pier25</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s absolutely ridiculous that Macs don&amp;#x27;t come with a 3 year warranty by default.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve bought maybe a dozen macs in the last 15 years (for myself and the family) and while some have lasted many years without issues, some have died on me on the second or third year.&lt;p&gt;Because the initial investment is so high you&amp;#x27;re practically forced to add extra Apple Care to protect it because there&amp;#x27;s a 20-30% chance you will have problems during those first years.&lt;p&gt;And don&amp;#x27;t get me started on design issues and recalls which take years. When my 2011 MBP died because of Radeongate it took Apple 2 years to start a recall and replace the GPU. The honest thing to do would have been to take the machine and offer 60% of its value in credit towards a new Mac. Instead, Apple replaced the GPU on a machine that was already a couple of gens behind and I couldn&amp;#x27;t sell without practically giving it away because (rightfully) nobody wanted the 15&amp;#x27;&amp;#x27; 2011 models. That MBP was probably the worst investment of my life.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs</title><url>https://pqvst.com/2021/08/24/my-macbook-pro/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>netcan</author><text>&lt;i&gt;a great time for Amazon or Google to buy Lyft&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;...What would they do with it? The business model (also uber) as-is makes a loss.&lt;p&gt;Uber&amp;#x2F;Lyft&amp;#x27;s initial proposition was that once ride sharing incumbents were established, they&amp;#x27;d have a software-ish monopoly and margins. This did not work out. Now the proposition is &amp;quot;When driverless cars get invented...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If google had a car that can drive itself, they can figure out an app. They can get to a customer base. The driverless car is the important part.&lt;p&gt;Amazon otoh... deliveries maybe? If they could figure out a way to do deliveries in a lyft&amp;#x2F;uber model... that&amp;#x27;s valuable to amazon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stephencoyner</author><text>This seems like a great time for Amazon or Google to buy Lyft.&lt;p&gt;Amazon could bundle rides with package deliveries and get the pre-existing driver and passenger network from Lyft. Lyft was actually telling drivers to work with Amazon when the pandemic started (1).&lt;p&gt;Waymo could take Lyft’s aggregated rider demand. They already have a partnership to transfer autonomous rides from Waymo to Lyft during bad weather situations and refer Lyft riders to Waymo vehicles (2).&lt;p&gt;Edit - links below.&lt;p&gt;(1) Amazon - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;21197699&amp;#x2F;lyft-amazon-coronavirus-ridership-decline-job-referral-warehouse-grocery-delivery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;21197699&amp;#x2F;lyft-amazon-coro...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(2) Waymo - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fool.com&amp;#x2F;investing&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;waymo-lyft-partner-self-driving-vehicles-phoenix.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fool.com&amp;#x2F;investing&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;waymo-lyft-partner...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/29/lyft-lays-off-17percent-of-workforce-furloughs-hundreds-more.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>jlei523</author><text>I really don&amp;#x27;t think Waymo needs Lyft or Uber to dominate the ride hailing market in the future.&lt;p&gt;If they can make a better self-driving car than anyone else, they will win the ride-hailing market. People have no loyalty to Lyft or Uber. They will use whatever is the cheapest&amp;#x2F;most convenient.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stephencoyner</author><text>This seems like a great time for Amazon or Google to buy Lyft.&lt;p&gt;Amazon could bundle rides with package deliveries and get the pre-existing driver and passenger network from Lyft. Lyft was actually telling drivers to work with Amazon when the pandemic started (1).&lt;p&gt;Waymo could take Lyft’s aggregated rider demand. They already have a partnership to transfer autonomous rides from Waymo to Lyft during bad weather situations and refer Lyft riders to Waymo vehicles (2).&lt;p&gt;Edit - links below.&lt;p&gt;(1) Amazon - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;21197699&amp;#x2F;lyft-amazon-coronavirus-ridership-decline-job-referral-warehouse-grocery-delivery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;21197699&amp;#x2F;lyft-amazon-coro...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(2) Waymo - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fool.com&amp;#x2F;investing&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;waymo-lyft-partner-self-driving-vehicles-phoenix.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fool.com&amp;#x2F;investing&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;waymo-lyft-partner...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/29/lyft-lays-off-17percent-of-workforce-furloughs-hundreds-more.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nlh</author><text>An remarkably odd bit of timing: I saw your initial announcement 6 weeks ago, bookmarked your site for a project I&apos;ve been working on, and just tonight finally got to the stage where I&apos;m ready to use Docverter. I went to the site and was puzzled, because I&apos;d remembered that this was a paid service, and I couldn&apos;t figure out whether I&apos;d bookmarked the wrong link or had gone crazy. Then I checked the github repo and say everything committed ~10 hours ago, and lastly, checked HN only to see the #1 story is your announcement. It usually goes in reverse order! :)&lt;p&gt;So anyway, a slightly longwinded way of saying sorry that it didn&apos;t work out as a business (though I was about to sign up!) and many many thanks for open-sourcing it. I&apos;ll be installing in the AM and am deeply grateful.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Docverter, the hosted document conversion service, is now open source</title><url>http://bugsplat.info/2012-11-23-docverter-is-now-open-source.html</url><text></text></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>latchkey</author><text>Too bad you couldn&apos;t make it work as a business.&lt;p&gt;I have something similar, but a slightly different focus (image-&amp;#62;image and pdf-&amp;#62;image using Ghostscript/Imagemagick) here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/lookfirst/convert&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://github.com/lookfirst/convert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would be good to combine it all into a single service.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Docverter, the hosted document conversion service, is now open source</title><url>http://bugsplat.info/2012-11-23-docverter-is-now-open-source.html</url><text></text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonw</author><text>This is really neat. It looks like it&amp;#x27;s using a similar trick to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;phiresky.github.io&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;phiresky.github.io&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;hosting-sqlite-database...&lt;/a&gt; from last year - querying SQLite databases hosted as static files using the HTTP range header to fetch back just the pages from the database file that are needed by a specific query.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Query SQLite files stored in S3</title><url>https://github.com/litements/s3sqlite</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>psanford</author><text>I made a similar sqlite vfs in Go[1]. I really love the VFS api. HTTP range queries is about the most mild thing you can do with it. The VFS implementations that use non-traditional backing stores are more fun. Like say, using DynamoDB as a read&amp;#x2F;write backing store for your sqlite database[2].&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;psanford&amp;#x2F;sqlite3vfshttp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;psanford&amp;#x2F;sqlite3vfshttp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;psanford&amp;#x2F;donutdb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;psanford&amp;#x2F;donutdb&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Query SQLite files stored in S3</title><url>https://github.com/litements/s3sqlite</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>groovypuppy</author><text>This is the hack I use: once I’m ready to stop for the day, I figure out a solution (usually to a small bug) but I stop myself from coding it. The next day, the code just flows from my fingers to the keyboard the second I sit down. Works like a charm and I’m right back into it. Just delaying the gratification of seeing another bug crushed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to return to the flow faster</title><url>https://codejamming.org/2019/how-to-return-to-flow</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jeff_Brown</author><text>In a nutshell: Know your goal, know what just happened, know what to do next. Maybe obvious, but I agree, critical, and a good thing to make explicit to oneself.&lt;p&gt;The author presents a lot of seemingly complex tools for this. Mine are, I believe, simpler -- a TODO list in .org mode (goal and next), and git log (for what just happened, always with --name-status to show what files were affected how, and maybe with -p to show the diff).&lt;p&gt;But you could use anything.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to return to the flow faster</title><url>https://codejamming.org/2019/how-to-return-to-flow</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CogitoCogito</author><text>I also kind of wonder how effective it would be. Put yourself in their shoes. What if you received a random phone call from someone claiming that all the media coverage of the war in Ukraine is actually fake and that there is no war at all and it’s all a peace keeping in response to Ukrainian atrocities. Would you believe it? Given what I’ve seen in the news, I’d just write the person off as crazy personally. I’d expect a Russian’s reaction to be similar.</text><parent_chain><item><author>josephwegner</author><text>I would probably advise against doing this. There have been rumors of Russian police looking through citizen&amp;#x27;s phones for indications that they are engaging with western viewpoints on the &amp;quot;special operation&amp;quot;. And the penalty for such activities is quite high right now.&lt;p&gt;A random phone call from a U.S. citizen might look suspicious, and I don&amp;#x27;t imagine Russian police are giving much benefit of the doubt right now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If you speak Russian, call Russia and tell them what is happening in Ukraine</title><url>https://callrussia.org/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>This is an awfully dangerous game, but if Russians started getting phone calls from Americans en mass, could that actually provide cover for everyone?</text><parent_chain><item><author>josephwegner</author><text>I would probably advise against doing this. There have been rumors of Russian police looking through citizen&amp;#x27;s phones for indications that they are engaging with western viewpoints on the &amp;quot;special operation&amp;quot;. And the penalty for such activities is quite high right now.&lt;p&gt;A random phone call from a U.S. citizen might look suspicious, and I don&amp;#x27;t imagine Russian police are giving much benefit of the doubt right now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If you speak Russian, call Russia and tell them what is happening in Ukraine</title><url>https://callrussia.org/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Maro</author><text>Disclaimer: I&apos;m the competition.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s pretty easy to demonstrate data loss with MongoDB if you&apos;re doing replication, but it&apos;s the &quot;normal&quot; behaviour because MongoDB uses asynchronous replication and W=1 writes by default.&lt;p&gt;Set up a n=3 cluster and a client that writes data continously, like:&lt;p&gt;i = 0; while (true) { write(_id:i, data:i); getlastresult(); /* to make sure the client sends it */ printf(i); i++; }&lt;p&gt;Now kill the master. Another node will become the new master. Issue some more writes to make sure the logs of the new and the old master diverge. Now bring back the old master, which will become a secondary, and it will say something along the lines of &quot;finding common oplog point&quot;, and it will discard the writes that it had that were not copied to the other nodes before it was killed.&lt;p&gt;You can verify all this by looking at the i&apos;s that were acknowledged by the old master and printed by the client. The last couple of them will be gone for good.&lt;p&gt;If this is unacceptable to you, then you can run MongoDB with W=majority mode, but with MongoDB W&amp;#62;=2 modes (so-called consistent replication modes) are very slow.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dabeeeenster</author><text>&quot;Shortly before JSConf, I had personally spent some time finding out ways to demonstrate that MongoDB will lose writes in the face of failure, to be used in a competitive comparison. Let’s just say that I was successful in doing so, despite recent improvements that 10gen has made. Unfortunately, I am not at liberty to share the results, nor do I think it would be constructive to this discussion. &quot;&lt;p&gt;Why not? Did the author at least contact 10gen with the test case?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MongoDB and Riak, In Context (and an apology)</title><url>http://seancribbs.com/tech/2011/11/07/mongodb-and-riak-in-context-and-an-apology/</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>moonboots</author><text>I appreciated the tone and contents of the article until this paragraph. Revealing the details of the flaw would allow MongoDB supporters to continue the discussion. I would like to know if it&apos;s related to a design choice or if it&apos;s a trivial bug.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dabeeeenster</author><text>&quot;Shortly before JSConf, I had personally spent some time finding out ways to demonstrate that MongoDB will lose writes in the face of failure, to be used in a competitive comparison. Let’s just say that I was successful in doing so, despite recent improvements that 10gen has made. Unfortunately, I am not at liberty to share the results, nor do I think it would be constructive to this discussion. &quot;&lt;p&gt;Why not? Did the author at least contact 10gen with the test case?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MongoDB and Riak, In Context (and an apology)</title><url>http://seancribbs.com/tech/2011/11/07/mongodb-and-riak-in-context-and-an-apology/</url><text></text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cjf4</author><text>To me this leads to a question about the Bay Area centric techno-spehere: at what point do the prices become so high that companies&amp;#x2F;ecosystems in other parts of the country become relatively attractive?&lt;p&gt;I understand that the SV network is a real and powerful thing, but holding all else equal (indulge me), wouldn&amp;#x27;t it make the cost of startups more attractive for all stakeholders if an alternative, viable network were in Buffalo or Nashville or Boise or wherever? Is it just a matter of lack of coalescence?</text><parent_chain><item><author>TuringNYC</author><text>If the artificially-created real estate &amp;quot;shortage&amp;quot; problem in the Bay Area was solved, lots of other problems would be solved.&lt;p&gt;- Companies raising money just to pay inflated (yet still insufficient) labour costs&lt;p&gt;- People who would love to work for startups but realize that most startup salaries barely gets you a studio apt, pretty cool until you have a family&lt;p&gt;- Companies who &amp;quot;cant find&amp;quot; talent&lt;p&gt;Is it any surprise companies need to raise so much funding, esp when operating out of the Bay Area?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sam Altman: ‘Too many’ Y Combinator companies raise money</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/21/sam-altman-too-many-y-combinator-companies-raise-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>killjoywashere</author><text>San Diego&amp;#x27;s real estate is quite reasonable. So, kindly, stay in the Bay area. Please.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TuringNYC</author><text>If the artificially-created real estate &amp;quot;shortage&amp;quot; problem in the Bay Area was solved, lots of other problems would be solved.&lt;p&gt;- Companies raising money just to pay inflated (yet still insufficient) labour costs&lt;p&gt;- People who would love to work for startups but realize that most startup salaries barely gets you a studio apt, pretty cool until you have a family&lt;p&gt;- Companies who &amp;quot;cant find&amp;quot; talent&lt;p&gt;Is it any surprise companies need to raise so much funding, esp when operating out of the Bay Area?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sam Altman: ‘Too many’ Y Combinator companies raise money</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/21/sam-altman-too-many-y-combinator-companies-raise-money/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iscrewyou</author><text>They lost me as a customer this year because of this exact reason.&lt;p&gt;I started doing my taxes in turbo tax this year. After a few screens I got the upgrade option for extra deductions and saving money. I clicked ok and got upgraded. I followed through the entire taxes and my return didn’t change. NO WAY to downgrade. Clearly, they got theirs.&lt;p&gt;I opened up Taxact and filled up their forms and my returns were the same without upgrading (to their equivalent option). I filed with TaxAct and removed my info from TurboTax. I will definitely use them to compare my taxes if I ever have to but I will not file using TurboTax. POS.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alehul</author><text>In my experience this year, TurboTax prompted me that I could save money by upgrading to a paid plan via taking advantage of some extra deduction. I thought, &amp;quot;if it&amp;#x27;s going to save me more than I pay for it, why not?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I clicked through and found that this deduction wouldn&amp;#x27;t actually save me any money. I then couldn&amp;#x27;t find a way to get back to the free plan (they only charge you after you file, so this should be possible).&lt;p&gt;After struggling for a while, I called Turbotax support, which had me download screen-sharing software and kept telling me to press some button to cancel the paid plan, and it wouldn&amp;#x27;t work, telling me that it wasn&amp;#x27;t possible to switch back. He couldn&amp;#x27;t figure it out, couldn&amp;#x27;t switch it off on his end, and eventually told me I would have to create a new Turbotax account and start over.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and for the icing on the cake, he never stopped the screen-sharing session, and saw me input my SSN when I recreated my account. (Yes, I&amp;#x27;m aware that I&amp;#x27;m a fool for not closing it out myself, but I was really stressed, and it would&amp;#x27;ve been professional to end the screen-sharing after we ended the call.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you-into-paying-to-file-your-taxes</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>liminal</author><text>To downgrade you need to delete all the info you entered and start over. That&amp;#x27;s definitely a dark pattern</text><parent_chain><item><author>alehul</author><text>In my experience this year, TurboTax prompted me that I could save money by upgrading to a paid plan via taking advantage of some extra deduction. I thought, &amp;quot;if it&amp;#x27;s going to save me more than I pay for it, why not?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I clicked through and found that this deduction wouldn&amp;#x27;t actually save me any money. I then couldn&amp;#x27;t find a way to get back to the free plan (they only charge you after you file, so this should be possible).&lt;p&gt;After struggling for a while, I called Turbotax support, which had me download screen-sharing software and kept telling me to press some button to cancel the paid plan, and it wouldn&amp;#x27;t work, telling me that it wasn&amp;#x27;t possible to switch back. He couldn&amp;#x27;t figure it out, couldn&amp;#x27;t switch it off on his end, and eventually told me I would have to create a new Turbotax account and start over.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and for the icing on the cake, he never stopped the screen-sharing session, and saw me input my SSN when I recreated my account. (Yes, I&amp;#x27;m aware that I&amp;#x27;m a fool for not closing it out myself, but I was really stressed, and it would&amp;#x27;ve been professional to end the screen-sharing after we ended the call.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you-into-paying-to-file-your-taxes</url></story>