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31,730,961 | 31,725,398 | 1 | 2 | 31,724,838 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zomglings</author><text>This is something we need very desperately right now - DESPERATELY.<p>And despite that, this was the feedback from some of my colleagues (referring to this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karatelabs&#x2F;karate&#x2F;raw&#x2F;master&#x2F;karate-demo&#x2F;src&#x2F;test&#x2F;resources&#x2F;karate-hello-world.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karatelabs&#x2F;karate&#x2F;raw&#x2F;master&#x2F;karate-demo&#x2F;...</a>) :<p>&quot;I not like syntax but docs looks like good_)&quot;<p>&quot;I also don&#x27;t like the syntax. In the past, Ive ended up writing a lot of code that amounts to syntax configuration without a ton of benefit. Arguably, it&#x27;s so that non-developers can read the tests, but in practice they still don&#x27;t.&quot;<p>Most of our complexity comes from having to test against two independent systems - deployed smart contracts and a database. Anyway, let us see if they try it out.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: Karate Labs (YC W22) – Open-Source API and UI Test Automation</title><text>Hi HN, Peter here, founder of Karate Labs (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;karatelabs.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;karatelabs.io</a>) joined by my co-founder Kapil. Karate is an open-source solution unifying API and UI test automation, including mock servers and performance testing (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karatelabs&#x2F;karate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karatelabs&#x2F;karate</a>).<p>Back in 2016, I was part of the API platform team at Intuit. An issue had been slowing down the team: a particular test for a set of key services would randomly fail, and it was not clear if this was a problem with the test or if there was a genuine defect. The deeper I looked, the more the complexity around the test-suite freaked me out. It was using an in-house framework, which had evolved over years and the test depended on code in multiple files scattered across the workspace. It was clear that many programmers had attempted to fix it over the years. It was next to impossible to understand what the test was doing. There had to be a better way to express web-service functional tests, and I started thinking hard about it.<p>This gave birth to Karate, a scriptable framework combining API and UI test automation. It has seen world wide adoption as an open-source project, including 37 of the Fortune 500 companies (so far!). Companies that have written about how they use Karate include Walmart [1], Expedia [2], Adobe [3], Trivago [4], and Oktana [5].<p>Karate has its own Domain Specific Language, focused on writing tests with less code and in less time. This results in easy-to-read, maintainable tests, which are often simple enough for product owners to be able to contribute to. Karate also has powerful assertions (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;getkarate&#x2F;status&#x2F;1515657727913377798" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;getkarate&#x2F;status&#x2F;1515657727913377798</a> ), runs tests in parallel, and can reuse API tests as performance tests, which saves time compared to rewriting performance tests using a second tool. The UI automation space is crowded, but there are very few tools that do all three: API, UI and performance testing.<p>Last year, we decided to leave our day-jobs and work full-time on Karate. We incorporated Karate Labs as a for-profit company with an open-core business model in mind. In recent weeks, we&#x27;ve released our first two open-core products.<p>Karate Studio can import Postman collections, Swagger, OpenAPI, HAR and cURL. Once imported, you can preview an API sequence and edit it using an intuitive no-code interface. You can then export it as a ready-to-run Karate feature file that you can integrate into your existing CI&#x2F;CD or DevOps pipeline. If you already have a set of Postman collections, you can migrate them to Karate and get the benefits of parallel execution, powerful assertions and performance testing. If team members prefer Postman for exploratory testing, they can use Studio to convert their draft collections into full-fledged API automation suites, complete with assertions for complex business logic, and then use them in regression test suites. Studio can also export back to Postman if needed. It is available for a 7-day free trial at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;studio.karatelabs.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;studio.karatelabs.io</a>, and you can see a demo video here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aJCgtnhektA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aJCgtnhektA</a>.<p>Our second new product is an IntelliJ plugin (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.karatelabs.io&#x2F;intellij-plugin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.karatelabs.io&#x2F;intellij-plugin</a>) that integrates the auto-complete experience and syntax hints that developers love. Until now, Karate support in IntelliJ was via the built-in Cucumber and Gherkin support, which was very basic. Teams have wished for a better option that would take advantage of all the Karate capabilities such as embedded JSON, JS and data assertions. Now you can write, debug, and maintain Karate tests even faster than before. The plugin is available from the JetBrains Marketplace with a 30-day free trial: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plugins.jetbrains.com&#x2F;plugin&#x2F;19232-karate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plugins.jetbrains.com&#x2F;plugin&#x2F;19232-karate</a>.<p>When it comes to &quot;build vs buy&quot;, many teams tend to build test automation frameworks. The fact that maintenance of an in-house framework eventually becomes prohibitive in terms of effort and cost, tends to be overlooked. We are trying to increase awareness that choosing a mature open-source framework like Karate is the right move for any team wanting to improve developer velocity.<p>We thank the community, developers and enterprise users of Karate for having helped us achieve broad adoption and earn credibility in the test-automation domain. We look forward to your support, feedback and suggestions.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;walmartglobaltech&#x2F;kafka-automation-using-karate-6a129cfdc210" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;walmartglobaltech&#x2F;kafka-automation-using-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;expedia-group-tech&#x2F;karate-5-reasons-why-you-should-try-it-87539e003840" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;expedia-group-tech&#x2F;karate-5-reasons-why-y...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adapt.to&#x2F;2018&#x2F;en&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;karate-the-black-belt-of-http-api-testing.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adapt.to&#x2F;2018&#x2F;en&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;karate-the-black-belt-of-h...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tech.trivago.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;2019-11-14-apitestautomationusingkarate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tech.trivago.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;2019-11-14-apitestautomationus...</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oktana.com&#x2F;api-testing-using-karate-framework&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oktana.com&#x2F;api-testing-using-karate-framework&#x2F;</a></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>uday_nandam</author><text>Amazing work Peter, congrats on all the success that you&#x27;ve had so far and future success!<p>I&#x27;ve watched this project from my time at Intuit (PCG), and the impact that it had there</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: Karate Labs (YC W22) – Open-Source API and UI Test Automation</title><text>Hi HN, Peter here, founder of Karate Labs (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;karatelabs.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;karatelabs.io</a>) joined by my co-founder Kapil. Karate is an open-source solution unifying API and UI test automation, including mock servers and performance testing (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karatelabs&#x2F;karate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karatelabs&#x2F;karate</a>).<p>Back in 2016, I was part of the API platform team at Intuit. An issue had been slowing down the team: a particular test for a set of key services would randomly fail, and it was not clear if this was a problem with the test or if there was a genuine defect. The deeper I looked, the more the complexity around the test-suite freaked me out. It was using an in-house framework, which had evolved over years and the test depended on code in multiple files scattered across the workspace. It was clear that many programmers had attempted to fix it over the years. It was next to impossible to understand what the test was doing. There had to be a better way to express web-service functional tests, and I started thinking hard about it.<p>This gave birth to Karate, a scriptable framework combining API and UI test automation. It has seen world wide adoption as an open-source project, including 37 of the Fortune 500 companies (so far!). Companies that have written about how they use Karate include Walmart [1], Expedia [2], Adobe [3], Trivago [4], and Oktana [5].<p>Karate has its own Domain Specific Language, focused on writing tests with less code and in less time. This results in easy-to-read, maintainable tests, which are often simple enough for product owners to be able to contribute to. Karate also has powerful assertions (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;getkarate&#x2F;status&#x2F;1515657727913377798" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;getkarate&#x2F;status&#x2F;1515657727913377798</a> ), runs tests in parallel, and can reuse API tests as performance tests, which saves time compared to rewriting performance tests using a second tool. The UI automation space is crowded, but there are very few tools that do all three: API, UI and performance testing.<p>Last year, we decided to leave our day-jobs and work full-time on Karate. We incorporated Karate Labs as a for-profit company with an open-core business model in mind. In recent weeks, we&#x27;ve released our first two open-core products.<p>Karate Studio can import Postman collections, Swagger, OpenAPI, HAR and cURL. Once imported, you can preview an API sequence and edit it using an intuitive no-code interface. You can then export it as a ready-to-run Karate feature file that you can integrate into your existing CI&#x2F;CD or DevOps pipeline. If you already have a set of Postman collections, you can migrate them to Karate and get the benefits of parallel execution, powerful assertions and performance testing. If team members prefer Postman for exploratory testing, they can use Studio to convert their draft collections into full-fledged API automation suites, complete with assertions for complex business logic, and then use them in regression test suites. Studio can also export back to Postman if needed. It is available for a 7-day free trial at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;studio.karatelabs.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;studio.karatelabs.io</a>, and you can see a demo video here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aJCgtnhektA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aJCgtnhektA</a>.<p>Our second new product is an IntelliJ plugin (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.karatelabs.io&#x2F;intellij-plugin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.karatelabs.io&#x2F;intellij-plugin</a>) that integrates the auto-complete experience and syntax hints that developers love. Until now, Karate support in IntelliJ was via the built-in Cucumber and Gherkin support, which was very basic. Teams have wished for a better option that would take advantage of all the Karate capabilities such as embedded JSON, JS and data assertions. Now you can write, debug, and maintain Karate tests even faster than before. The plugin is available from the JetBrains Marketplace with a 30-day free trial: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plugins.jetbrains.com&#x2F;plugin&#x2F;19232-karate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plugins.jetbrains.com&#x2F;plugin&#x2F;19232-karate</a>.<p>When it comes to &quot;build vs buy&quot;, many teams tend to build test automation frameworks. The fact that maintenance of an in-house framework eventually becomes prohibitive in terms of effort and cost, tends to be overlooked. We are trying to increase awareness that choosing a mature open-source framework like Karate is the right move for any team wanting to improve developer velocity.<p>We thank the community, developers and enterprise users of Karate for having helped us achieve broad adoption and earn credibility in the test-automation domain. We look forward to your support, feedback and suggestions.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;walmartglobaltech&#x2F;kafka-automation-using-karate-6a129cfdc210" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;walmartglobaltech&#x2F;kafka-automation-using-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;expedia-group-tech&#x2F;karate-5-reasons-why-you-should-try-it-87539e003840" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;expedia-group-tech&#x2F;karate-5-reasons-why-y...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adapt.to&#x2F;2018&#x2F;en&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;karate-the-black-belt-of-http-api-testing.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adapt.to&#x2F;2018&#x2F;en&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;karate-the-black-belt-of-h...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tech.trivago.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;2019-11-14-apitestautomationusingkarate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tech.trivago.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;2019-11-14-apitestautomationus...</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oktana.com&#x2F;api-testing-using-karate-framework&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oktana.com&#x2F;api-testing-using-karate-framework&#x2F;</a></text></story> |
18,523,983 | 18,523,940 | 1 | 3 | 18,523,737 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>forkerenok</author><text>I think I do it terribly when I pair with someone. It doesn&#x27;t feel natural, far from it, sometimes even feels tortured. But it still works wonders..<p>1. You stay focused<p>2. Often it turns out that me and my pairing partner are out of sync on either what should be done or how it should be done. And in those cases, often, the truth (for the lack of better term) is in the middle.<p>3. Doing quality peer code reviews is hard and takes discipline. If you lack it, pair programming is a good shortcut.<p>4. You get immediately two people owning (or, rather, invested into) the thing. So the effort is less likely to lose steam.<p>I&#x27;m not denying though that there probably are other ways of interaction (async or not) that may still bring these benefits.<p>EDIT: more things.<p>5. Having someone in peer code review question what you have been busy with in the last couple of days hits harder, compared to when someone filtering out what you put in the code as you explain your ideas.<p>6. Bonding.</text><parent_chain><item><author>__s</author><text>So I&#x27;ll start the HN let&#x27;s-ignore-the-headline-and-discuss-the-topic-thread<p>For some reason my boss was mentioning that we should do pair programming (they don&#x27;t program). There&#x27;s only a handful of devs. Nothing really happening. Personally I prefer asynchronous interaction, so I&#x27;ve been pushing for code review. But two of my coworkers started pair programming &amp; both seemed to think it helped work through their issues. I&#x27;ve personally fallen into what might be called &quot;pair programming&quot; when pairing with a coworker who doesn&#x27;t know how to program but knows all the business logic for a task<p>How are people pair programming? Does it work better when it happens organically? Does it change how much time you spend printf debugging?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A funny rap song about the pains of pair programming</title><text>Song URL: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac</a><p>Quick background on the project: I&#x27;m a full time programmer and I love making rap music. I see a lot of humor in the profession&#x2F;industry, and thought it would be fun to combine the two.<p>Here is what I&#x27;m planning on for next steps. I&#x27;m always open to feedback!<p>1. Get something for Patrons (ordered stickers, will probably order mugs as well)<p>2. Paid ad on a popular Twitter account(s)<p>3. Rent a GoPro and shoot a music video for one of the existing songs (if you have any tips on recording, please let me know - I have done some music video editing but don&#x27;t know much about video cameras)</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>BurningFrog</author><text>Pair programming is great, but it&#x27;s <i>a skill you need to learn</i>, so it&#x27;s best to pick it up from pairing with experienced pair programmers.<p>If you just put two normal programmers in front of a computer with a programming task, you&#x27;re more likely to end up with two annoyed people than great teamwork and code. At least at first.</text><parent_chain><item><author>__s</author><text>So I&#x27;ll start the HN let&#x27;s-ignore-the-headline-and-discuss-the-topic-thread<p>For some reason my boss was mentioning that we should do pair programming (they don&#x27;t program). There&#x27;s only a handful of devs. Nothing really happening. Personally I prefer asynchronous interaction, so I&#x27;ve been pushing for code review. But two of my coworkers started pair programming &amp; both seemed to think it helped work through their issues. I&#x27;ve personally fallen into what might be called &quot;pair programming&quot; when pairing with a coworker who doesn&#x27;t know how to program but knows all the business logic for a task<p>How are people pair programming? Does it work better when it happens organically? Does it change how much time you spend printf debugging?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A funny rap song about the pains of pair programming</title><text>Song URL: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac</a><p>Quick background on the project: I&#x27;m a full time programmer and I love making rap music. I see a lot of humor in the profession&#x2F;industry, and thought it would be fun to combine the two.<p>Here is what I&#x27;m planning on for next steps. I&#x27;m always open to feedback!<p>1. Get something for Patrons (ordered stickers, will probably order mugs as well)<p>2. Paid ad on a popular Twitter account(s)<p>3. Rent a GoPro and shoot a music video for one of the existing songs (if you have any tips on recording, please let me know - I have done some music video editing but don&#x27;t know much about video cameras)</text></story> |
34,496,901 | 34,496,519 | 1 | 3 | 34,495,723 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>nothing would have come of it had they not traced the guy</i><p>Notify the cops. Track the guy down. Go to the station and request someone come out with you. This takes cops off the desk, which they’re rarely against unless you’re a nutter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kanyethegreat</author><text>I thought this too. But you can feel incredibly powerless if all you do is “let the police handle it.” Even in this instance, nothing would have come of it had they not traced the guy. Prosecution of crime happens after a crime is committed. Cops can’t do much if you’re worried someone <i>will</i> harm you or a loved one. Even if stalking is illegal, cops won’t &#x2F; can’t feasibly spend the resources investigating and punishing stalkers. Even prosecuting sexual assault (ie. after a serious crime has been committed) is extremely difficult.<p>What actually effective steps can you take if someone is harassing a female in your life? Speaking from personal experience, the lip service of “cops are there to protect you” is inadequate. It didn’t provide any safety, and I can’t see how, structurally, it even could.</text></item><item><author>ketzo</author><text>Maybe obvious, but uh: don’t fucking do this!<p>I get it, I&#x27;m an older brother, I would wanna go ballistic too. But the fact that these guys skipped over &quot;notify the police&quot; and went straight to &quot;seek out in-person confrontation&quot; is insane!<p>Stalkers are not people in their right mind. Staking out and planning to “citizen’s arrest”(???) someone who has repeatedly visited late at night to threaten and harass is NOT SAFE FOR ANYONE INVOLVED.<p>Do not ever physically escalate with a stalker! Collect evidence and get the authorities involved!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we turned the tables to catch my sister’s Bumble stalker</title><url>https://major-grooves.medium.com/how-we-turned-the-tables-to-catch-my-sisters-bumble-stalker-e1979d39670d</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ketzo</author><text>Yeah, but like... they didn&#x27;t even &quot;let the police handle it.&quot; They just went straight to &quot;late-night stakeout.&quot;<p>&gt; Cops can’t do much if you’re worried someone will harm you or a loved one.<p>You&#x27;re right, and that would be a scary situation... if they didn&#x27;t have more than enough evidence for the police to get involved. Repeated, late-night visits to leave threatening messages would be plenty for a restraining order in the U.S., or at the very least to spur further police investigation.<p>&gt; What actually effective steps can you take if someone is harassing a female in your life?<p>In this case, her brothers could have taken turns driving home from work with her, walking her to her car, sleeping over at her place, while they waited for police to proceed with investigation. They could have helped her get connected with a self-defense course, or bought her mace (depending on legality).<p>Stalkers&#x2F;harassers can make people feel extremely helpless, and yes, there are a lot of really horrible situations where cops are useless despite an obvious threat.<p>This... is not one of those situations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kanyethegreat</author><text>I thought this too. But you can feel incredibly powerless if all you do is “let the police handle it.” Even in this instance, nothing would have come of it had they not traced the guy. Prosecution of crime happens after a crime is committed. Cops can’t do much if you’re worried someone <i>will</i> harm you or a loved one. Even if stalking is illegal, cops won’t &#x2F; can’t feasibly spend the resources investigating and punishing stalkers. Even prosecuting sexual assault (ie. after a serious crime has been committed) is extremely difficult.<p>What actually effective steps can you take if someone is harassing a female in your life? Speaking from personal experience, the lip service of “cops are there to protect you” is inadequate. It didn’t provide any safety, and I can’t see how, structurally, it even could.</text></item><item><author>ketzo</author><text>Maybe obvious, but uh: don’t fucking do this!<p>I get it, I&#x27;m an older brother, I would wanna go ballistic too. But the fact that these guys skipped over &quot;notify the police&quot; and went straight to &quot;seek out in-person confrontation&quot; is insane!<p>Stalkers are not people in their right mind. Staking out and planning to “citizen’s arrest”(???) someone who has repeatedly visited late at night to threaten and harass is NOT SAFE FOR ANYONE INVOLVED.<p>Do not ever physically escalate with a stalker! Collect evidence and get the authorities involved!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we turned the tables to catch my sister’s Bumble stalker</title><url>https://major-grooves.medium.com/how-we-turned-the-tables-to-catch-my-sisters-bumble-stalker-e1979d39670d</url></story> |
2,630,676 | 2,630,479 | 1 | 2 | 2,630,388 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckFrank</author><text>Why is Bezo able to take risks into new territories? Because "we can analyze quantitatively rather than to have to make intuitive judgments." What's so great about this type of business model is that it does not rely on luck throughout the process. It only relies on luck at the front end of the risks, minimizing the risk throughout the enterprise. Bezo is the current king of data driven decisions, and I think that over time it's enabled Amazon to not only pass it's many competitors (buy.com / half.com / yahoo.com / google products etc.) but also quickly overcome dis-advantages. Compared to the amazing roll of luck, insight, cunning, and high risks / high rewards culture of Apple, Amazon is really the company to emulate. Without Jobs, can Apply keep it's streak alive? No one is certain. It sometimes feels that with each not product Apple is betting the company. That's certainly what people were saying about the ipad. And that's what makes watching Apple so thrilling. Without Bezos, Amazon appears to be poised to continue it's great leadership. Watching Amazon might not be as thrilling, but the details are simply spectacular. While Jobs may get the accolades, I think think that Bezos deserves the crown.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for very long periods of time’</title><url>http://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazons-bezos-innovation</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrschwabe</author><text>You have to admire Bezo's approach to new ideas...<p>"On the day you decide to give up on it (hypothetical idea), what happens? Your operating margins go up because you stopped investing in something that wasn’t working. Is that really such a bad day?"</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for very long periods of time’</title><url>http://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazons-bezos-innovation</url></story> |
35,047,903 | 35,046,862 | 1 | 2 | 35,043,478 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krferriter</author><text>A lot of jobs are in high cost of living areas. The reason they&#x27;re high cost of living is because there are jobs there, the demand to live there is high, and they haven&#x27;t built nearly enough housing. Some bay area municipalities have essentially not added any housing in the last 50 years. They made it illegal, because incumbent property owners don&#x27;t want more people to be allowed to live there.<p>And it&#x27;s not just the bay area. The populations of Cambridge and Boston have gone <i>down</i> since 1950, because a series of laws were passed that put tight restrictions on residential construction that reduced the allowed density and effectively made almost all of the existing housing stock illegal (but it was grandfathered in) and anything more dense than that, like even building a 5 story residential building in a lot zoned for 4 stories, when that lot is surrounded by 4 and 5 story buildings, is an expensive, long process of arguing with the zoning board and going through arbitrarily subjective design review processes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bityard</author><text>I don&#x27;t mean to be blunt, but if modest homes in your area are $1m, then you are in a VERY high-cost-of-living area and what you see here is not at all typical of the rest of the country. Where I live, a charming 1200sqft starter home in a blue collar neighborhood goes for $150-$200k.</text></item><item><author>angarg12</author><text>I&#x27;m a new immigrant to the US, and housing is my single biggest worry together with my work visa.<p>Our household income is north of 300k, but housing still seems unaffordable. It might sound like whining, but we only achieve this level of income recently, so our lifelong savings are in the low 6 figures. We got no assets or property abroad, and no family that can help us to get in the property ladder.<p>Even old, basic houses in our suburbs outside town go for ~$1M. I spend an inordinate amount of mental energy calculating how we can jump into the property ladder as quickly and safely as possible. My current plan involves saving for a few years and dump a good chunk of cash into a down payment; it doesn&#x27;t seem we could ever afford a property otherwise.<p>I wonder how property prices affect &quot;the american dream&quot;. It&#x27;s baffling to me that I&#x27;m so worried about housing while making a top ~5% income.</text></item><item><author>photon12</author><text>&gt; Meanwhile, renters are desperate. They’re begging for housing prices not just to slow, but to fall.<p>I have a friend who is a head chef at a decently popular bar and restaurant on Broadway in Capitol Hill, Seattle (very trendy part of town if you aren&#x27;t familiar, steep commercial rent). He lives in a 400 sq ft studio and is barely, barely making it from one paycheck to the next. I am sitting on a 2.6% interest rate mortgage and my prices are set for the next 30 years. I probably work half as hard as he does, if not even less than half. I have a lot of cognitive dissonance associated with that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake</title><url>https://goodreason.substack.com/p/maybe-treating-housing-as-an-investment</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>petsfed</author><text>Great, if only there were adequate jobs in those places, so we could all own homes without needing $300K annual family income.<p>The dissonance comes from the fact that a lot of hackernews readers make apparently high incomes, but the cost of living in their areas keeps them squarely working class.<p>The best example I can give is in the Bay Area. I lucked out with $2850&#x2F;month to rent a 1400 square foot house in San Leandro. Except that I worked in South San Francisco, and my commute was 45 minutes to 90 minutes each way, every day. I looked into it, even did the math with average commute times and Health and Human Services housing cost data, and found that if I wanted to cut 15 minutes off of that commute would cost me an extra $1000 a month, or I&#x27;d lose the yard and the other bedroom. With a kid, a stay-at-home spouse (a lot cheaper than child care given wages for my wife&#x27;s field in the bay area) and a dog, that was just a non-starter. I knew people who drove in from Vacaville or Tracey, every day, just to keep the housing prices within their means.<p>Prior to that experience, I honestly thought $140K a year was the best I could ever hope for. I was top 15% of individual wage earners in the country but I was considerably more stressed out than when I was making minimum wage at an office supply store in suburban Oregon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bityard</author><text>I don&#x27;t mean to be blunt, but if modest homes in your area are $1m, then you are in a VERY high-cost-of-living area and what you see here is not at all typical of the rest of the country. Where I live, a charming 1200sqft starter home in a blue collar neighborhood goes for $150-$200k.</text></item><item><author>angarg12</author><text>I&#x27;m a new immigrant to the US, and housing is my single biggest worry together with my work visa.<p>Our household income is north of 300k, but housing still seems unaffordable. It might sound like whining, but we only achieve this level of income recently, so our lifelong savings are in the low 6 figures. We got no assets or property abroad, and no family that can help us to get in the property ladder.<p>Even old, basic houses in our suburbs outside town go for ~$1M. I spend an inordinate amount of mental energy calculating how we can jump into the property ladder as quickly and safely as possible. My current plan involves saving for a few years and dump a good chunk of cash into a down payment; it doesn&#x27;t seem we could ever afford a property otherwise.<p>I wonder how property prices affect &quot;the american dream&quot;. It&#x27;s baffling to me that I&#x27;m so worried about housing while making a top ~5% income.</text></item><item><author>photon12</author><text>&gt; Meanwhile, renters are desperate. They’re begging for housing prices not just to slow, but to fall.<p>I have a friend who is a head chef at a decently popular bar and restaurant on Broadway in Capitol Hill, Seattle (very trendy part of town if you aren&#x27;t familiar, steep commercial rent). He lives in a 400 sq ft studio and is barely, barely making it from one paycheck to the next. I am sitting on a 2.6% interest rate mortgage and my prices are set for the next 30 years. I probably work half as hard as he does, if not even less than half. I have a lot of cognitive dissonance associated with that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake</title><url>https://goodreason.substack.com/p/maybe-treating-housing-as-an-investment</url></story> |
22,185,096 | 22,182,116 | 1 | 3 | 22,181,166 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cgiles</author><text>I work in medical research and mostly agree with this, but there are two major problems I see preventing this from becoming a reality:<p>1) Academic medical research is simply not well tooled, right now, to do the later stages of drug development. What pharma does well and academia does not, is basically optimization of candidates. They do it through high-throughput screens and medicinal chemistry. Those things are very expensive and not publishable, so...academics don&#x27;t do them. And everyone with the expertise works in pharma.<p>2) Clinical trials are freaking expensive. My institute has developed several drug candidates and the same process necessarily applies every time. The public-funded researcher basically HAS to either sell the patent to pharma or start a company and raise the many millions required to do a trial. The amount of money required is way out of range of current grant funding. If they want to see their drug get to patients, and of course they do, there is literally no other way right now except partnering with pharma.<p>When I get a chance to talk to politicians about how to fix this, I always make the same pitch. Step #1 should be to give a huge wad of money to the FDA. Say $1B&#x2F;yr. Then you tell the FDA: every year, pick the 50 most promising drug candidates. Publicly fund the clinical trials, and the public will own the patent. Give some cash to the inventor and the institute to incentivize them to do this scheme and not sell to pharma.<p>Politicians, both left and right, look at me like I&#x27;m from Mars when I propose this. Those on the left think high drug costs are all about greed and not our broken system, and those on the right have unwavering faith that &quot;free&quot; markets will always solve everything.<p>And with insulin specifically, there is another problem: diabetics won&#x27;t take the generic insulin that has been off-patent for years now. They must have the fancy and more convenient version. Mark my words, the fact that Americans must always have the absolute best thing, cost be damned, will become a major issue if we ever get single-payer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>I&#x27;m really past the whole &quot;pharma need to charge high prices to fund research&quot; line of argument. Aside from being factually untrue (research funding is dwarfed by marketing for example[0]), it is also arguing for a continued unhealthy relationship with pharmaceutical care.<p>A large amount of research is currently publicly funded. Either via public academic research or directly. When that research bears fruit it is often given away almost at-cost (or below cost when you take into account the larger research landscape) to pharma companies who then privately profit off of it.<p>Pharma companies are profiting off of your tax dollars and then turning around and profiting off of you too. Sure, the benefit exists, but this whole model is broken as all heck.<p>We should just scarp for-profit pharma development as an industry, increase public funding of research, and drug production factories should be a modest profit venture (e.g. 20% of the wholesale cost). Looking more like the generics industry today, where they produce, they don&#x27;t develop.<p>Why do we need a private business to develop drugs at a 40%-1000%+[1] margin when the taxpayer could do it at nearly 0% margin? We&#x27;ve chosen to make it this way, other countries haven&#x27;t, and we see plenty of drugs developed via public institutions around the world.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-28212223" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-28212223</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;industry&#x2F;healthcare&#x2F;biotech&#x2F;pharmaceuticals&#x2F;retail-margin-on-generic-drugs-may-be-as-high-as-1000-claims-study&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;58252850.cms?from=mdr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;industry&#x2F;healthcare&#x2F;bio...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100 per month</title><url>https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Illinois-governor-signs-law-capping-insulin-costs-at-100-per-month-567282431.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>ikeboy</author><text>You&#x27;re looking at the wrong data.<p>You need to look at return on capital. Right now the return on capital in pharma is below the cost of capital and it&#x27;s trending towards zero. The inevitable result is significantly lower funding for research. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;endpts.com&#x2F;pharmas-broken-business-model-an-industry-on-the-brink-of-terminal-decline&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;endpts.com&#x2F;pharmas-broken-business-model-an-industry...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>I&#x27;m really past the whole &quot;pharma need to charge high prices to fund research&quot; line of argument. Aside from being factually untrue (research funding is dwarfed by marketing for example[0]), it is also arguing for a continued unhealthy relationship with pharmaceutical care.<p>A large amount of research is currently publicly funded. Either via public academic research or directly. When that research bears fruit it is often given away almost at-cost (or below cost when you take into account the larger research landscape) to pharma companies who then privately profit off of it.<p>Pharma companies are profiting off of your tax dollars and then turning around and profiting off of you too. Sure, the benefit exists, but this whole model is broken as all heck.<p>We should just scarp for-profit pharma development as an industry, increase public funding of research, and drug production factories should be a modest profit venture (e.g. 20% of the wholesale cost). Looking more like the generics industry today, where they produce, they don&#x27;t develop.<p>Why do we need a private business to develop drugs at a 40%-1000%+[1] margin when the taxpayer could do it at nearly 0% margin? We&#x27;ve chosen to make it this way, other countries haven&#x27;t, and we see plenty of drugs developed via public institutions around the world.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-28212223" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-28212223</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;industry&#x2F;healthcare&#x2F;biotech&#x2F;pharmaceuticals&#x2F;retail-margin-on-generic-drugs-may-be-as-high-as-1000-claims-study&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;58252850.cms?from=mdr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;industry&#x2F;healthcare&#x2F;bio...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100 per month</title><url>https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Illinois-governor-signs-law-capping-insulin-costs-at-100-per-month-567282431.html</url></story> |
16,075,760 | 16,075,583 | 1 | 3 | 16,075,348 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drdrey</author><text>I must say I am pleasantly surprised by the straightforward, no BS language</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>About speculative execution vulnerabilities in ARM-based and Intel CPUs</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nnx</author><text>Interesting that this seems to say that A-series processors are vulnerable to Meltdown (or a variant of it).<p>Could this “check later” speculative approach similar to Intel’s explain Apple’s great performance advantage over other ARM CPUs?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>About speculative execution vulnerabilities in ARM-based and Intel CPUs</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394</url></story> |
10,245,623 | 10,245,451 | 1 | 3 | 10,244,950 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>texthompson</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that the title or the content claimed that &quot;presenting mathematics in an understandable way&quot; is a hack. &quot;Statistics for Hackers&quot; sounds to me like hackers are the intended audience.<p>This method of presentation makes sense to me. Most statistics classes that I&#x27;ve experienced were taught from the point of view of abstract math. That&#x27;s certainly one way to do it, but I knew a lot of people for whom that wasn&#x27;t the optimal presentation strategy. Now that computing is cheap and there is a large audience of people with programming knowledge, I think that teaching statistics through examples of simulation, bootstrapping shuffling and cross validation is a great way to learn things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>analognoise</author><text>Can we please stop putting &quot;hack&quot; on EVERYTHING?<p>It isn&#x27;t a hack to present mathematics in an understandable way - it&#x27;s a pedagogical improvement for introductory works, not a &quot;hack&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Statistics for Hackers</title><url>https://speakerdeck.com/jakevdp/statistics-for-hackers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anewhnaccount</author><text>The hacking here refers to the approach of &quot;just compute it&quot; rather than using an analytical approach.</text><parent_chain><item><author>analognoise</author><text>Can we please stop putting &quot;hack&quot; on EVERYTHING?<p>It isn&#x27;t a hack to present mathematics in an understandable way - it&#x27;s a pedagogical improvement for introductory works, not a &quot;hack&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Statistics for Hackers</title><url>https://speakerdeck.com/jakevdp/statistics-for-hackers</url></story> |
31,099,290 | 31,097,914 | 1 | 3 | 31,094,361 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neogodless</author><text>Yes.<p>I think the way this conversation played out was &quot;given how I use my device, is there an optimal device to buy?&quot; A lot of the answers are, in turn, &quot;why don&#x27;t you use your device differently? having ignored your use cases and preferences, this is the device I&#x27;d recommend.&quot;<p>It might be a valid <i>opinion</i> to say &quot;I don&#x27;t use Linux and I enjoy using MacOS on Apple Silicon&quot; but... it doesn&#x27;t actually help the original poster, does it? So why post that at all?<p>I guess I could point out to the poster that I use Windows 10, and I built a desktop PC. It doesn&#x27;t really meet any of their criteria (except #3 computing power), but... it works for me. So maybe they should change and be more like me!</text><parent_chain><item><author>c0mptonFP</author><text>Dude, operating system is one of the most fundamental things to consider when getting a dev machine.<p>MacOS is literally useless for me, because I depend on the Linux kernel.</text></item><item><author>JabavuAdams</author><text>** &quot;I don&#x27;t want to use a Mac&quot; **<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve had these problems with Mac&quot;<p>Reasonable response: Cool, use what works for you. EDIT&gt; Here are some suggestions that match your constraints.<p>Annoying response 1: You should reconsider because Mac works great for me.<p>Annoying response 2: Your problems aren&#x27;t real problems.<p>Annoying response 3: Let&#x27;s live debug your problems in this thread to see if they&#x27;re real problems.<p>Guys. I mean. Seriously.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?</title><text>Hi HN!<p>I am looking to buy a laptop for software development in the 0 to $2000 (USD) range.<p>What I am looking for:
1. Durability: battery life is important to me as well as general longevity of the hardware i.e. I would like it to last a long time.<p>2. Linux support: I use Linux as my OS of choice and I have <i>no</i> intention of using Windows&#x2F;MacOS<p>3. Optimized for intensive computing usage.<p>Other things of note:<p>I looked into the Framework laptops and so far it looks like they are still a bit beta.<p>However, I <i>am</i> curious about users&#x27; experiences with:<p>* the KDE Slimbook 15: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slimbook.es&#x2F;en&#x2F;store&#x2F;slimbook-kde&#x2F;kde-slimbook-15-comprar<p>* the Purism Librem 14: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm&#x2F;products&#x2F;librem-14&#x2F;<p>* Kubuntu Focus: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kfocus.org&#x2F;order&#x2F;order-m2.html<p>* the StarBook 14-inch – Star Labs®: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;starlabs.systems&#x2F;pages&#x2F;starbook<p>Also tips about maintaining battery life would be appreciated. I&#x27;ve read too much conflicting advice about that lately :) Thanks.</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>uuyi</author><text>Maybe, maybe not. I&#x27;m a Linux person. I run Debian in a UTM VM on my MacBook Pro and do all the work in that.<p>Why? Because the host machine sucks less at all the desktop stuff that Linux is horrible at and the VM wins at all the server and dev stuff the Mac sucks at.</text><parent_chain><item><author>c0mptonFP</author><text>Dude, operating system is one of the most fundamental things to consider when getting a dev machine.<p>MacOS is literally useless for me, because I depend on the Linux kernel.</text></item><item><author>JabavuAdams</author><text>** &quot;I don&#x27;t want to use a Mac&quot; **<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve had these problems with Mac&quot;<p>Reasonable response: Cool, use what works for you. EDIT&gt; Here are some suggestions that match your constraints.<p>Annoying response 1: You should reconsider because Mac works great for me.<p>Annoying response 2: Your problems aren&#x27;t real problems.<p>Annoying response 3: Let&#x27;s live debug your problems in this thread to see if they&#x27;re real problems.<p>Guys. I mean. Seriously.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?</title><text>Hi HN!<p>I am looking to buy a laptop for software development in the 0 to $2000 (USD) range.<p>What I am looking for:
1. Durability: battery life is important to me as well as general longevity of the hardware i.e. I would like it to last a long time.<p>2. Linux support: I use Linux as my OS of choice and I have <i>no</i> intention of using Windows&#x2F;MacOS<p>3. Optimized for intensive computing usage.<p>Other things of note:<p>I looked into the Framework laptops and so far it looks like they are still a bit beta.<p>However, I <i>am</i> curious about users&#x27; experiences with:<p>* the KDE Slimbook 15: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slimbook.es&#x2F;en&#x2F;store&#x2F;slimbook-kde&#x2F;kde-slimbook-15-comprar<p>* the Purism Librem 14: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm&#x2F;products&#x2F;librem-14&#x2F;<p>* Kubuntu Focus: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kfocus.org&#x2F;order&#x2F;order-m2.html<p>* the StarBook 14-inch – Star Labs®: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;starlabs.systems&#x2F;pages&#x2F;starbook<p>Also tips about maintaining battery life would be appreciated. I&#x27;ve read too much conflicting advice about that lately :) Thanks.</text></story> |
9,670,951 | 9,670,940 | 1 | 3 | 9,670,325 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MarcusVorenus</author><text>Sound like sour grapes and No True Scotsman to me. The president, who is leading negotiations, was elected democratically, and Congress, who decides whether this treaty becomes law or not, was also elected democratically. If the people dislike how the government is doing things they have only themselves to blame for electing these representatives.<p>To be honest I don&#x27;t believe anybody really cares about the ideals of democracy. If the same secrecy was being used to push legislation you supported you wouldn&#x27;t be whining at all, you would probably be defending it instead because you would rationalize that passing the law is more important than the method used to pass it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cies</author><text>&gt; undermines democracy<p>Sorry which democracy? If these talks and their outcomes are already a secret (without discussing matters of national security), then this is one more reason for me not to consider the EU nor the US a democracy. The people have just a tiny fraction of power compared to the corps.<p>Let&#x27;s just be fair and teach the next generations that our countries have been hijacked by corps+lobbyists, and that democracy is just a word used to make people accept their totalitarian power.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TTIP explained: The secretive US-EU treaty that undermines democracy</title><url>http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/05/ttip-explained-the-secretive-us-eu-treaty-that-undermines-democracy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joeyspn</author><text>Exactly, we live in a de facto Corporatocracy, and this treaty is the biggest proof that <i>democracy</i> was pushed into the background long time ago.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Corporatocracy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Corporatocracy</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cies</author><text>&gt; undermines democracy<p>Sorry which democracy? If these talks and their outcomes are already a secret (without discussing matters of national security), then this is one more reason for me not to consider the EU nor the US a democracy. The people have just a tiny fraction of power compared to the corps.<p>Let&#x27;s just be fair and teach the next generations that our countries have been hijacked by corps+lobbyists, and that democracy is just a word used to make people accept their totalitarian power.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TTIP explained: The secretive US-EU treaty that undermines democracy</title><url>http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/05/ttip-explained-the-secretive-us-eu-treaty-that-undermines-democracy/</url></story> |
10,922,140 | 10,922,111 | 1 | 2 | 10,917,818 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonnathanson</author><text><i>&quot;The solution to this of course, is to simply make a high quality product. Ensure the content is top-notch, kill anything that isn&#x27;t. Make sure page performance is excellent. Hand-curate ads such that they&#x27;re non-invasive, fast, and not killed by ad-blockers.&quot;</i><p>I agree with this strategic sentiment, but I&#x27;m not sure the solution is as simple as you think it is. Higher quality content generally requires much more expensive production costs, and it&#x27;s far from clear that the revenue side of the equation will support these costs at anything more than hobby-level scale.<p><i>&quot;Admittedly the last point is difficult, but it can be done. If the publication is sufficiently niche, a subscription model could actually be appropriate in lieu of ads; nautil.us is a fantastic example of this.&quot;</i><p>I love Nautilus, as I imagine a lot of HN readers do. But how is it doing as a business? Is it thriving? Is it crushing it? Is it barely scraping by? I&#x27;m not posing these questions Socratically; I&#x27;m genuinely curious to know the answer. Extremely curious, in fact, as someone who&#x27;s spent a lifetime in the content business and desperate for any glimmer of hope along these lines.<p>My instincts lead me to a similar hypothesis as yours: find a niche, overservice it, and invest in quality as a differentiating factor. But historically, these sorts of publications have rarely been goldmines. Many of them, especially in the old days of print, were borderline nonprofits -- heavily subsidized by charitable publishers or donors.<p>I suspect there is a niche out there for the specialty publications of the world: your web equivalents of Road &amp; Track, Field &amp; Stream, Wine Spectator, Robb Report, Foreign Affairs, and so forth. I am not as sure there is a lucrative niche in general-interest categories, such as news. Even still, I&#x27;d love if any of the niche publications in today&#x27;s brave new world -- Nautilus, for example -- would let us in on their business data. Even just a slice of it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rl3</author><text>This trend has parallels with the games industry. Many publishers and developers decided long ago that monetization above all else was the goal, and it didn&#x27;t matter if that meant pumping out title after title with terrible production values and sleazy monetization strategies.<p>Zynga pioneered this approach to such a degree that they were essentially the BuzzFeed of interactive entertainment. Later, many AAA games would follow suit embracing the Free-to-Play model. Higher production values with the same sleazy monetization strategies. The end result was games of all types selling their soul in the name of making a quick buck.<p>Web content has the same problem. In the face of content becoming a commodity, the reaction thus far has been to produce more content. More content means lower quality content. Lower quality content results in monetization becoming more difficult, and thus prevalent. More prevalent monetization leads to ads. Ads kill page performance, thus driving anyone away who doesn&#x27;t have an ad blocker. That in turn leads to idiotic things such as paywalls and traditional media being turned into a glorified blogging platform (<i>cough</i> Forbes). It&#x27;s a race to the bottom.<p>The solution to this of course, is to simply make a high quality product. Ensure the content is top-notch, kill anything that isn&#x27;t. Make sure page performance is excellent. Hand-curate ads such that they&#x27;re non-invasive, fast, and not killed by ad-blockers. Admittedly the last point is difficult, but it can be done. If the publication is sufficiently niche, a subscription model could actually be appropriate in lieu of ads; nautil.us is a fantastic example of this.<p>In the end, it boils down to the classic error of the suits screaming &quot;monetize!&quot;, ruining their product and shooting themselves in the foot in the process. This same dynamic applies to games, print media, and even startups alike. There&#x27;s a reason YC constantly reiterates that monetization efforts are foolish in the face of a product that isn&#x27;t great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peak content: The collapse of the attention economy</title><url>http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/peak-content-the-collapse-of-the-attention-economy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sanderjd</author><text>&gt; idiotic things such as paywalls<p>&gt; a subscription model could actually be appropriate in lieu of ads<p>Doesn&#x27;t a subscription model imply a paywall?</text><parent_chain><item><author>rl3</author><text>This trend has parallels with the games industry. Many publishers and developers decided long ago that monetization above all else was the goal, and it didn&#x27;t matter if that meant pumping out title after title with terrible production values and sleazy monetization strategies.<p>Zynga pioneered this approach to such a degree that they were essentially the BuzzFeed of interactive entertainment. Later, many AAA games would follow suit embracing the Free-to-Play model. Higher production values with the same sleazy monetization strategies. The end result was games of all types selling their soul in the name of making a quick buck.<p>Web content has the same problem. In the face of content becoming a commodity, the reaction thus far has been to produce more content. More content means lower quality content. Lower quality content results in monetization becoming more difficult, and thus prevalent. More prevalent monetization leads to ads. Ads kill page performance, thus driving anyone away who doesn&#x27;t have an ad blocker. That in turn leads to idiotic things such as paywalls and traditional media being turned into a glorified blogging platform (<i>cough</i> Forbes). It&#x27;s a race to the bottom.<p>The solution to this of course, is to simply make a high quality product. Ensure the content is top-notch, kill anything that isn&#x27;t. Make sure page performance is excellent. Hand-curate ads such that they&#x27;re non-invasive, fast, and not killed by ad-blockers. Admittedly the last point is difficult, but it can be done. If the publication is sufficiently niche, a subscription model could actually be appropriate in lieu of ads; nautil.us is a fantastic example of this.<p>In the end, it boils down to the classic error of the suits screaming &quot;monetize!&quot;, ruining their product and shooting themselves in the foot in the process. This same dynamic applies to games, print media, and even startups alike. There&#x27;s a reason YC constantly reiterates that monetization efforts are foolish in the face of a product that isn&#x27;t great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peak content: The collapse of the attention economy</title><url>http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/peak-content-the-collapse-of-the-attention-economy</url></story> |
8,660,598 | 8,660,555 | 1 | 2 | 8,659,441 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whiddershins</author><text>I love any and all attempts to develop, improve, explore, the interface between humans and computers. I think it is one of the areas where not nearly enough is being done ... as a player of the continuum fingerboard, I quickly realized that a transformation of interface can have a more dramatic and meaningful impact on sound than the actual synthesis engine.<p>Roger Linn used to have a great demo on his page showing him playing a prototype Linnstrument using only a sawtooth wave with a lowpass filter, and it sounded more expressive than many top of the line physical modeling synths, because the dimensions of control were so impactful.<p>That said, the Photoshop example you give seems a little bit of a stretch. The Wacom tablet is a wonderful piece of human interface for Photoshop that addresses many of your concerns, and many other concerns, and has existed for years. For example, some Wacom pens have a ring on them that you can use to change brush sizes.<p>Wacom Tablet:
<a href="http://blog.phaseone.com/work-faster-by-customizing-your-wacom-tablet-in-capture-one-pro-7/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.phaseone.com&#x2F;work-faster-by-customizing-your-wac...</a><p>Continuum Fingerboard:
<a href="http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hakenaudio.com&#x2F;Continuum&#x2F;</a><p>Linnstrument:
<a href="http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rogerlinndesign.com&#x2F;linnstrument.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we built Flow</title><url>https://medium.com/@senic/how-we-built-flow-c83dea6ca377</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munificent</author><text>If you want programmable high-resolution knobs, this is an area that the music industry has had covered quite well for a long time. A quick Googling for &quot;midi controller knob&quot; brings up:<p>Livid Alias 8<p>Livid DS 1<p>Nektar Panorama P1<p>MIDI Fighter Twister<p>Behringer B-Control Rotary BCR2000<p>Akai LPD8<p>The last one is about seventy bucks and gives you eight independent knobs and eight pads.<p>Of course, there&#x27;s value in minimalism and a good UX for configuring&#x2F;programming the knob(s), but there&#x27;s also something to be said for just trying to solve the problem yourself based on what&#x27;s currently available. If a $70 MIDI controller makes your Photoshop experience noticeably better, great. If not, a single knob might not end up being worth it either, regardless of how well-made it is.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we built Flow</title><url>https://medium.com/@senic/how-we-built-flow-c83dea6ca377</url></story> |
9,792,346 | 9,791,768 | 1 | 3 | 9,791,198 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>potatolicious</author><text>I&#x27;m in that boat right now so maybe I can shed some light.<p>Bad hiring practices represents a lot of organizational dysfunction, some of which impact your every day work, and since the hiring process is your first contact with the company it&#x27;s often the first thing to come to mind.<p>Bad hiring practices also cause you to be interviewing candidates. A lot. &quot;Google-style&quot; tech hiring is characterized by generally meaningless interviews with very, very low acceptance rates. This is not just frustrating for candidates who fail, but also the people who get to interview them.<p>When I was at Amazon I was in this situation - a combination of poor hiring practices and organizational dysfunction meant that all of a sudden I was literally spending 5+ hours every single day interviewing people. It was brutal and demoralizing - doubly so when a candidate everyone liked is rejected for seemingly arbitrary&#x2F;bureaucratic reasons. The sheer gauntlet of back-to-back interviews candidates are subject to also means that for every one candidate, <i>many</i> engineer-hours are spent interviewing them. The impact of diverting this much time towards interviewing candidates instead of actual work is easily felt.</text><parent_chain><item><author>methyl</author><text>What I&#x27;m wondering about is that they mention long hiring process as a reason for quitting the job. They finally made it to the end and they quit because of that?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Google Employees Quit (2009)</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>learnstats2</author><text>It shows disrespect for the employee&#x27;s time.<p>That might not cause you to quit immediately, but it might be an indicator for other problems and you might become more acutely aware of those when you start.<p>Also, now you have &quot;I passed the Google hiring process&quot; on your CV.</text><parent_chain><item><author>methyl</author><text>What I&#x27;m wondering about is that they mention long hiring process as a reason for quitting the job. They finally made it to the end and they quit because of that?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Google Employees Quit (2009)</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/</url></story> |
36,085,757 | 36,085,544 | 1 | 2 | 36,068,682 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jmillikin</author><text>Whenever an article about FreeBSD&#x27;s jails gets posted here, the comments tend to drift toward an argument about jails vs Docker containers. People call them &quot;Linux containers&quot;, but really they&#x27;re talking about Docker (or its clones like Podman).<p>This may be me shouting into the void, but I wish there were an article directly comparing jails with <i>namespaces</i>, which is the Linux functionality that Docker uses. I can totally believe that FreeBSD jails provide a better &#x2F; more unified &#x2F; more secure experience than Docker, but to extend that into saying &quot;FreeBSD jails are better than Linux namespaces&quot; feels like a category error.<p>Questions I would like to see answered in that article:<p>* Can jails be used to run subprocesses in the normal filesystem, but with a different network environment (for example making a given command run its net traffic through TAP)?<p>* Can jails be used to limit memory&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;IO&#x2F;network for subprocesses? For threads within a process?<p>* Can live processes be moved into or out of a jail?<p>* Can jails be used to make a process think it&#x27;s running as a different user?<p>I feel like the answer to these questions is generally &quot;no, that&#x27;s not what jails are for&quot;, which is (1) a fine answer given the apparent goal of being a better chroot(), and (2) reinforces that jails and namespaces are addressing different problem domains.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jails on FreeBSD</title><url>https://ogris.de/howtos/freebsd-jails.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>codetrotter</author><text>Let me chime in and say, Michael W Lucas has an awesome book about FreeBSD Jails. I bought it recently and I read the whole thing and it helped me a lot. I still had to figure some things out by myself because the book is for a slightly older version of FreeBSD. But it is an awesome book.<p>I use only the tools included in base system for setting up my jails. No “ezjail” or anything.<p>If you read his whole book you will see how it might be the correct choice to just do it yourself. Depending on what you want to do etc.<p>For me I am definitely much better off having set it up myself with the help of mwl’s book.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freebsdmall.com&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;fm&#x2F;bsdmjails" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freebsdmall.com&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;fm&#x2F;bsdmjails</a><p>Buy the physical copy of the book.<p>PS: Use vnet interfaces for most of your jails.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jails on FreeBSD</title><url>https://ogris.de/howtos/freebsd-jails.html</url></story> |
4,005,327 | 4,002,731 | 1 | 2 | 4,001,727 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dimitar</author><text>Works really well if you are a kid. You get really solid foundations then and you gradually improve.<p>This is why its important for your kids to watch Cartoon Network in English. I think this is how I and a whole lot of other 20-somethings learned the language.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tocomment</author><text>So you learned English from TV? I thought I've always heard that didn't work.</text></item><item><author>devolve</author><text>As a person who was raised with two different household languages at different times, I can offer anecdotal evidence that this holds true. My refugee parents decided that their native language (Romanian) would be an obstacle for me in their new country (Thailand) and went for English instead. Then we got asylum in Sweden and I learned Swedish in kindergarten and so on.<p>In Sweden my parents started speaking Romanian at home, which I also picked up. It became a coherent triangle of languages, where home we spoke Romanian, outside of home Swedish, and English on TV and in school.</text></item><item><author>bad_user</author><text><p><pre><code> One thing that does happen is that hearing kids
of deaf parents become fluent in both ASL and a
spoken language
</code></pre>
This also happens inside families that migrated to another country. The parents do not speak the foreign language withing the walls of their own house (the foreign language being an inconvenience for them), but that doesn't stop the children from being very fluent in both languages from a very young age.</text></item><item><author>mechanical_fish</author><text><i>I could try to find a deaf girl. However, I don’t want my kids to have an increased chance of deafness.</i><p>This sounds like a classic case of premature optimisation. Cross that bridge when you get there. Thousands of other deaf parents have done so. Their kids were fine.<p><i>Even if they come out hearing, we’d need to make sure they’re raised right — who will teach them how to talk?</i><p>Let me respectfully suggest that this is just untrue, a persistent myth about language learning. Hearing kids learn spoken language just fine, even if their parents don't use it. (Parents have a natural tendency to overemphasise the percentage of the time that their kids spend listening only to them. ;) But kids listen to <i>everyone</i>.)<p>One thing that does happen is that hearing kids of deaf parents become fluent in both ASL and a spoken language. Which is not a problem. It is in fact kind of awesome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Being deaf</title><url>http://davidpeter.me/stories/being-deaf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>warp</author><text>I learned most of my early english from TV. I grew up in the Netherlands, speaking Frisian at home and Dutch at school. At the time dutch tv did not offer much programming aimed at children, the more interesting cartoons to be found on cable tv were on english language channels. I would tape Transformers episodes and watch them over and over.<p>Later on I started consuming other media (video games + video game magazines, american comics), so that by the time they started teaching english to me at school I was already relatively fluent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tocomment</author><text>So you learned English from TV? I thought I've always heard that didn't work.</text></item><item><author>devolve</author><text>As a person who was raised with two different household languages at different times, I can offer anecdotal evidence that this holds true. My refugee parents decided that their native language (Romanian) would be an obstacle for me in their new country (Thailand) and went for English instead. Then we got asylum in Sweden and I learned Swedish in kindergarten and so on.<p>In Sweden my parents started speaking Romanian at home, which I also picked up. It became a coherent triangle of languages, where home we spoke Romanian, outside of home Swedish, and English on TV and in school.</text></item><item><author>bad_user</author><text><p><pre><code> One thing that does happen is that hearing kids
of deaf parents become fluent in both ASL and a
spoken language
</code></pre>
This also happens inside families that migrated to another country. The parents do not speak the foreign language withing the walls of their own house (the foreign language being an inconvenience for them), but that doesn't stop the children from being very fluent in both languages from a very young age.</text></item><item><author>mechanical_fish</author><text><i>I could try to find a deaf girl. However, I don’t want my kids to have an increased chance of deafness.</i><p>This sounds like a classic case of premature optimisation. Cross that bridge when you get there. Thousands of other deaf parents have done so. Their kids were fine.<p><i>Even if they come out hearing, we’d need to make sure they’re raised right — who will teach them how to talk?</i><p>Let me respectfully suggest that this is just untrue, a persistent myth about language learning. Hearing kids learn spoken language just fine, even if their parents don't use it. (Parents have a natural tendency to overemphasise the percentage of the time that their kids spend listening only to them. ;) But kids listen to <i>everyone</i>.)<p>One thing that does happen is that hearing kids of deaf parents become fluent in both ASL and a spoken language. Which is not a problem. It is in fact kind of awesome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Being deaf</title><url>http://davidpeter.me/stories/being-deaf</url></story> |
15,560,117 | 15,559,872 | 1 | 3 | 15,557,621 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>foobaw</author><text>This is a side note, but most members of the Android team at Google used to have 256 GB of RAM on their computers to compile Android (the entire build). When we used Android Studio, it was blazing fast so most devs that didn&#x27;t work with users were not aware there was a problem.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Android Studio 3.0 Release Notes</title><url>https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/index.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>maxpert</author><text>Kotlin to rescue! Shameless plug <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;in-pursuit-of-better-jvm-futures-kotlin-coroutines-281a79211b09" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;in-pursuit-of-better-jvm-futures-kotl...</a> I have seen&#x2F;followed Kotlin since it&#x27;s early days and I was so sure it&#x27;s going to be next big thing for Android. After failure of Scala we had no other options :P</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Android Studio 3.0 Release Notes</title><url>https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/index.html</url></story> |
19,352,861 | 19,352,616 | 1 | 2 | 19,352,330 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PeterZhizhin</author><text>Russian here. I live in Moscow. I&#x27;ve just came back from the rally.
Interned at an IT company in Switzerland and US.
My Digital Ocean VPS IP address was blocked in Russia due to this crazy thing going on with the Internet here. Even though it was a private service that is not exposed to the global network.
AMA.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thousands of Russians protest against internet restrictions</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-internet-protests/thousands-of-russians-protest-against-internet-restrictions-idUSKBN1QR0HI</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>The unfortunate part about this is that there&#x27;s a lot of really talented network engineers who are from Russia (or Ukraine, or Belarus, or other former soviet states). The high quality of math education is part of it, totally subjective personal theory of course...<p>A lot of the most talented Russian network engineers don&#x27;t want to work for an autocratic regime. I&#x27;ve met at least a half dozen that now work for international ISPs you would see on a top-30 list for CAIDA ASRank, none of which are Russian ISPs. They&#x27;re living outside Russia, enjoying actual free speech and human rights, and making a better salary.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thousands of Russians protest against internet restrictions</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-internet-protests/thousands-of-russians-protest-against-internet-restrictions-idUSKBN1QR0HI</url></story> |
33,200,824 | 33,200,892 | 1 | 3 | 33,200,261 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cyrusshepard</author><text>Your comment seems to assume that 1) employment levels for software engineers is the same in India 2) that the OP has overstated the social stigma of layoffs in India, and finally 3) the current employment landscape that you find yourself in will last indefinitely.<p>Based on this, I suspect it&#x27;s highly likely the hubris in this comment will not age well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Test0129</author><text>&gt; We have normalised firing of people. I don&#x27;t know about the &quot;developed&quot; countries where people have social security, but for countries like India where there is no social security and stigma is associated with being laid off, it is a very difficult situation.<p>Not to sound crass here but it seems like you&#x27;re fishing for virtue. Hiring and firing are normal. A company of 20,000 firing 20% of it&#x27;s workforce sounds major but that&#x27;s the industry. It&#x27;s normalized because <i>it is</i> normal. The field of software engineering is so fungible 20% of employees losing their job is <i>nearly</i> meaningless in the current job market because you can throw and rock and find another seat to warm <i>the next day</i>. It&#x27;s not like Ford closing a factory.<p>In other words, you need to relax and get out of your head a little. This industry is nothing like the factories. When 20% of factory workers lose their jobs everyone rightfully panics because it&#x27;s not as easy to get another factory job (at least anymore...here in the west). 20% of tech employees getting laid off from a company is a nothingburger. 99% of these people will be able to take two weeks of free time and find another job for the same (or often better) pay. This is the definition of trivial.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Normalising Layoffs/Firing</title><text>I am seeing lots of posts on HN about layoffs. So and so company fired 1000 people, so and so company reduced it&#x27;s workforce by 20%, etc.<p>We have normalised firing of people. I don&#x27;t know about the &quot;developed&quot; countries where people have social security, but for countries like India where there is no social security and stigma is associated with being laid off, it is a very difficult situation.<p>I remember asking few years ago to my sister&#x27;s husband, who runs our family business, what keeps him awake at night with regards to business. His answer, &quot;Not messing up&quot;. I was expecting something like &quot;Funding&quot;, &quot;Losing sales&quot; etc. But hearing his answer surprised me. Because it sounded personal. So I asked him what does he mean? And he said, &quot;The company has about 100 employees, but I am not just responsible for 100 employees. I am responsible for about 400 to 600 people. Each employee has a family. They make their future plans because they have an income from this company. They have to fund their kids education, they have to look after their aging parents, they might have taken a loan for daughter&#x27;s marriage or for a house. They are relying on me. If I mess up, I affect lives of 400 to 600 people. That keeps me awake.&quot;<p>Some how firing&#x2F;laying-off has been trivialised.</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>listenallyall</author><text>I was with you for a while, as I do believe that no job ought to be considered permanent nor anyone in tech should ever be completely caught off-guard by large layoffs or even more personal firing&#x2F;replacement&#x2F;course change&#x2F;etc.<p>But &gt; you can throw and rock and find another seat to warm the next day<p>Ummm, nope, not everyone&#x27;s resume is pristine or has a portfolio to share. Lots of immensely talented people are at companies far outside Silicon Valley, both the place and the spirit. Not everyone can point to some app or site for public consumption, lots of work is on internal tools or programs or DevOps that no outsider sees or knows about, or is protected by all kinds of non-disclosure and IP restrictions. Some great people have an awful boss who would never provide a recommendation. There&#x27;s a million reasons why getting a new job can be hard, be grateful that it appears easy from your perspective but recognize many, many extremely capable and talented people aren&#x27;t in the same situation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Test0129</author><text>&gt; We have normalised firing of people. I don&#x27;t know about the &quot;developed&quot; countries where people have social security, but for countries like India where there is no social security and stigma is associated with being laid off, it is a very difficult situation.<p>Not to sound crass here but it seems like you&#x27;re fishing for virtue. Hiring and firing are normal. A company of 20,000 firing 20% of it&#x27;s workforce sounds major but that&#x27;s the industry. It&#x27;s normalized because <i>it is</i> normal. The field of software engineering is so fungible 20% of employees losing their job is <i>nearly</i> meaningless in the current job market because you can throw and rock and find another seat to warm <i>the next day</i>. It&#x27;s not like Ford closing a factory.<p>In other words, you need to relax and get out of your head a little. This industry is nothing like the factories. When 20% of factory workers lose their jobs everyone rightfully panics because it&#x27;s not as easy to get another factory job (at least anymore...here in the west). 20% of tech employees getting laid off from a company is a nothingburger. 99% of these people will be able to take two weeks of free time and find another job for the same (or often better) pay. This is the definition of trivial.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Normalising Layoffs/Firing</title><text>I am seeing lots of posts on HN about layoffs. So and so company fired 1000 people, so and so company reduced it&#x27;s workforce by 20%, etc.<p>We have normalised firing of people. I don&#x27;t know about the &quot;developed&quot; countries where people have social security, but for countries like India where there is no social security and stigma is associated with being laid off, it is a very difficult situation.<p>I remember asking few years ago to my sister&#x27;s husband, who runs our family business, what keeps him awake at night with regards to business. His answer, &quot;Not messing up&quot;. I was expecting something like &quot;Funding&quot;, &quot;Losing sales&quot; etc. But hearing his answer surprised me. Because it sounded personal. So I asked him what does he mean? And he said, &quot;The company has about 100 employees, but I am not just responsible for 100 employees. I am responsible for about 400 to 600 people. Each employee has a family. They make their future plans because they have an income from this company. They have to fund their kids education, they have to look after their aging parents, they might have taken a loan for daughter&#x27;s marriage or for a house. They are relying on me. If I mess up, I affect lives of 400 to 600 people. That keeps me awake.&quot;<p>Some how firing&#x2F;laying-off has been trivialised.</text></story> |
7,687,805 | 7,687,268 | 1 | 2 | 7,687,174 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>k1w1</author><text>The update that describes why 4KB of RAM was necessary was interesting to me. In 1998 I wrote a Java Virtual Machine in assembly language for a PIC-like microcontroller that only had 4k of ROM (actually it was 4k instructions, but they were 12-bit words giving 6kB). I managed to get all of the important features of the language to fit, including exception handling and an interactive debugger. However by the end, each time I wanted to add a new instruction to my code I had to find something else to optimize first so it would still fit in 4k.<p>By the end I convinced myself that 4k was the minimum possible code size for implementing a JVM.<p>The JVM was used in the Parallax Javelin Stamp - a Java version of the BASIC Stamp (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Stamp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;BASIC_Stamp</a>).<p>As an aside, the SX microcontroller only had 256 bytes (yes bytes!) of RAM internally so I used an external 32kB SRAM for the Java heap and stack. The 256 bytes of internal RAM held the internal state of the interpreter and memory manager.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-original-apple-fr-1570573636/all</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matthewmcg</author><text>&quot;In 1967 or 1968, as a senior in high school, our electronics teacher ... arranged for me to go to a company in Sunnyvale (Sylvania) to program a computer because I already knew all the electronics in class at school. Mr. McCollum did this for students with electronics abilities every year, finding local companies with engineers and projects that would let high school students come and and get some experience.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s amazing that his high school had electronics classes and vocational externships. Is that something that was common at the time or just another amazing aspect of Silicon Valley?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-original-apple-fr-1570573636/all</url></story> |
5,184,396 | 5,183,882 | 1 | 3 | 5,183,197 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geoffschmidt</author><text>Meteor dev here.. We actually think this is more secure, or at least does more to raise awareness about security! We want people to BE AWARE that they're running arbitrary code, secured only by the certificate authorities in their local curl install.<p>Just about every other way of installing software ends up letting the remote run arbitrary code on your machine. The disadvantage of the other approaches is that you don't think about it, so you feel safer than you are, and you are more likely to make security-compromising mistakes.<p>- When you download an OS X installer package and run it, it can run arbitrary code during the install. Is that how you installed Postgres or Rails? Hope you downloaded that disk image over http. (The last time you downloaded a disk image, did you check the link to make sure it was https? ... Are you sure you never forget to do that?)<p>- OK, so let's say you download a tarball instead, and untar it into /usr/local, and put meteor in your path. Then the next thing you do is.. you type 'meteor', letting the tarball run arbitrary code. There's not much security difference between letting the remote code run at install time, and letting it run two seconds later when you actually start the program fo the first time.<p>- OK, let's say you downloaded a Meteor tarball, checked its SHA1-- wait, how did you get the correct SHA1? Did you get it off our website? (Best case, over https, bringing us back where we started?) Or did you call me on the phone.. using the phone number you got off of Facebook.. secured by https? (Best case, and only if you manually added https to your Facebook URL. Did you remember to do that?)<p>- No problem, I'll get it out of macports, fink, or homebrew, and hopefully they'll have the correct authoritative hash and validate the download. Well, how do you know you have the real macports? The chain of trust still goes through https and the CA. Arguably this is a little better because presumably many people will notice if the macports download site is hacked, but just as arguably, it's less secure because there's one more potential compromise point (volunteer macport maintainers -- how are they vetted? do they use two factor auth? what if their email account is compromised?)<p>There's really two separate issues here:<p>- Do you trust Meteor enough to run our code? If so, you shouldn't care whether you run curl | sh or whether you download a tarball and unpack it, and then run the program in it. If not, you shouldn't do either. They're equally bad.<p>- Do you trust https and the certificate authorities to protect you from MITM attacks, so that you get the authentic bits from meteor.com and not an imitation? If so, then curl <a href="https://foo" rel="nofollow">https://foo</a> solves your problem. If not, you are going to have to find something better than the CA's to serve as your root of trust.<p>Maybe there is an argument for "defense in depth" -- maybe you should fetch the tarball from one server with one CA, and the SHA1 from a second server with a different CA -- sure, in practice that could make a compromise less likely. But that's a bit much to ask of the random OS X user that just wants to come to meteor.com and install the tools.<p>Your best option is clearly to come to the monthly DevShop events at Meteor HQ in SF. If you come to DevShop to install Meteor, I will personally confirm the SHA1 for you :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>kisielk</author><text>$ curl <a href="https://install.meteor.com" rel="nofollow">https://install.meteor.com</a> | sh<p>I really wish people would stop giving instructions like this. Despite all the focus on web security and sandboxing, we continue to instruct people to run arbitrary code on their user account.<p>People should at least give any shell script they download from the internet a cursory look to see if it's doing what it should be doing instead of blindly executing the response from an HTTP request.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Create a web app from scratch in under 5 minutes with Meteor and Mailgun</title><url>http://blog.mailgun.net/post/41958103075/create-a-web-app-from-scratch-in-under-5-minutes-with</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bretthoerner</author><text>I don't understand this argument, unless you include things like gem, pip, npm, etc.<p>`pip install foobar-py` runs a Python setup script, which can do anything bash can. Do you inspect all of those, and comment about their insecurities on HN?</text><parent_chain><item><author>kisielk</author><text>$ curl <a href="https://install.meteor.com" rel="nofollow">https://install.meteor.com</a> | sh<p>I really wish people would stop giving instructions like this. Despite all the focus on web security and sandboxing, we continue to instruct people to run arbitrary code on their user account.<p>People should at least give any shell script they download from the internet a cursory look to see if it's doing what it should be doing instead of blindly executing the response from an HTTP request.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Create a web app from scratch in under 5 minutes with Meteor and Mailgun</title><url>http://blog.mailgun.net/post/41958103075/create-a-web-app-from-scratch-in-under-5-minutes-with</url></story> |
27,462,059 | 27,462,386 | 1 | 3 | 27,461,272 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>derbOac</author><text>There&#x27;s a discussion of it here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americanantiquarian.org&#x2F;proceedings&#x2F;44517778.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americanantiquarian.org&#x2F;proceedings&#x2F;44517778.pdf</a><p>Not sure if it&#x27;s the same method, but there they say these kinds of analyses are produced by using known exchange rates for different currencies, and then sort of back-estimating the value of the dollar based on those exchange rates.<p>So if you know the value of the USD in 1792, you can use different exchange rates with existing currencies to retroactively estimate the value of the USD if it had existed.<p>Ideally it seems you&#x27;d somehow aggregate over different currency exchange rates; maybe they all produce a unique solution, or maybe that aggregate is done some other way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lolinder</author><text>&gt; When converted to the value of one US dollar in 2020, goods and services that cost one dollar in 1700 would cost just over 63 dollars in 2020, this means that one dollar in 1700 was worth approximately 63 times more than it is today.<p>Does anyone know what they mean by saying that the U.S. Dollar was worth X in 1700 (much less 1635) when it didn&#x27;t even exist until 1792? Are they implicitly converting to the Spanish Dollar, or are they just saying that this is what the dollar <i>would </i> be worth if it were around back then? If the latter, how would you go about calculating this?<p>They attribute the data before 1913 to Dr. Robert Sahr of Oregon State, but I can only find him going back to 1774 [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liberalarts.oregonstate.edu&#x2F;spp&#x2F;polisci&#x2F;research&#x2F;inflation-conversion-factors-convert-dollars-1774-estimated-2024-dollars-recent-year" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liberalarts.oregonstate.edu&#x2F;spp&#x2F;polisci&#x2F;research&#x2F;inf...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Purchasing power of one US dollar in every year from 1635 to 2020</title><url>https://www.statista.com/statistics/1032048/value-us-dollar-since-1640/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>The dollar was based on silver content (~25g iirc), and I think you can reasonably accurately compare values and inflation based on comparable coins.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lolinder</author><text>&gt; When converted to the value of one US dollar in 2020, goods and services that cost one dollar in 1700 would cost just over 63 dollars in 2020, this means that one dollar in 1700 was worth approximately 63 times more than it is today.<p>Does anyone know what they mean by saying that the U.S. Dollar was worth X in 1700 (much less 1635) when it didn&#x27;t even exist until 1792? Are they implicitly converting to the Spanish Dollar, or are they just saying that this is what the dollar <i>would </i> be worth if it were around back then? If the latter, how would you go about calculating this?<p>They attribute the data before 1913 to Dr. Robert Sahr of Oregon State, but I can only find him going back to 1774 [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liberalarts.oregonstate.edu&#x2F;spp&#x2F;polisci&#x2F;research&#x2F;inflation-conversion-factors-convert-dollars-1774-estimated-2024-dollars-recent-year" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liberalarts.oregonstate.edu&#x2F;spp&#x2F;polisci&#x2F;research&#x2F;inf...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Purchasing power of one US dollar in every year from 1635 to 2020</title><url>https://www.statista.com/statistics/1032048/value-us-dollar-since-1640/</url></story> |
1,451,223 | 1,450,995 | 1 | 2 | 1,450,683 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qq66</author><text>This is clearly a man who doesn't do anything at ordinary scale. He eats bigger than we do, travels bigger than we do, and starts companies bigger than we do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brianobush</author><text>monthly expenses of 200k? Wow, that is quite a lavish lifestyle. Just wondering what costs so much... that is more than 6k per day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk, PayPal Pioneer, Is Paper-Rich, Cash-Poor</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/business/22sorkin.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>houseabsolute</author><text>Hard to believe he consumes twice in a month what my wife and I do in a year.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brianobush</author><text>monthly expenses of 200k? Wow, that is quite a lavish lifestyle. Just wondering what costs so much... that is more than 6k per day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk, PayPal Pioneer, Is Paper-Rich, Cash-Poor</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/business/22sorkin.html</url></story> |
31,743,072 | 31,740,430 | 1 | 2 | 31,738,975 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>Probably you were downvoted because your comment took the thread on a generic tangent - indeed into one of the most-trodden areas on HN. Generic tangents are easy to fall into (of course) but make threads less interesting, which is why the site guidelines ask people to avoid them. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a><p>Unpredictable&#x2F;whimsical&#x2F;curious tangents are still ok. Just not the predictable ones.<p>More explanations here if anyone wants them:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;query=by%3Adang%20black%20hole%20-pigment&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=story&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;que...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;query=generic%20discussion%20by%3Adang%20-flamewars%20-flamewar&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;que...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rkk3</author><text>Surprised it&#x27;s even that high, I tried to switch to Firefox the other month for privacy but gave up because it crashed on me it-least once a day.<p>Edit: thanks for the downvotes, I would have preferred if it worked but it didn&#x27;t. I tried basic troubleshooting, disabling extensions etc. but didn&#x27;t find it usable on macOs Monterey, think it doesn&#x27;t play well with youtube.</text></item><item><author>unicornporn</author><text>Firefox has a sub 8% market share, so I doubt this will make a drastic change to how they operate.</text></item><item><author>madmax108</author><text>I wonder if there&#x27;s anyone from any advertising&#x2F;ad-targeting companies on HN who can shed some light on if&#x2F;how much this change may affect their &quot;product&quot;.<p>Asking this since I know friends working at companies that were DRASTICALLY affected by the Apple advertising changes in terms of user targetability (and hence revenue) and I&#x27;m wondering if this change will be similar.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tristan957</author><text>I have used Firefox for 7 years and never had it crash once.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rkk3</author><text>Surprised it&#x27;s even that high, I tried to switch to Firefox the other month for privacy but gave up because it crashed on me it-least once a day.<p>Edit: thanks for the downvotes, I would have preferred if it worked but it didn&#x27;t. I tried basic troubleshooting, disabling extensions etc. but didn&#x27;t find it usable on macOs Monterey, think it doesn&#x27;t play well with youtube.</text></item><item><author>unicornporn</author><text>Firefox has a sub 8% market share, so I doubt this will make a drastic change to how they operate.</text></item><item><author>madmax108</author><text>I wonder if there&#x27;s anyone from any advertising&#x2F;ad-targeting companies on HN who can shed some light on if&#x2F;how much this change may affect their &quot;product&quot;.<p>Asking this since I know friends working at companies that were DRASTICALLY affected by the Apple advertising changes in terms of user targetability (and hence revenue) and I&#x27;m wondering if this change will be similar.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/</url></story> |
6,873,617 | 6,873,604 | 1 | 2 | 6,873,523 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DanielRibeiro</author><text>Grace Hopper on Nanoseconds: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Today's Google Doodle: Grace Hopper</title><url>https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2013/grace-hoppers-107th-birthday-5447077240766464.3-hp.gif</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JonnieCache</author><text>Hands up who was expecting some kind of univac emulator in javascript?<p>Still, a nice bit of pixel art.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Today's Google Doodle: Grace Hopper</title><url>https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2013/grace-hoppers-107th-birthday-5447077240766464.3-hp.gif</url></story> |
31,449,157 | 31,449,110 | 1 | 2 | 31,446,215 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alistairSH</author><text><i>The right of the people to be secure in their ... effects, against unreasonable ... seizures, shall not be violated</i><p>The building was part of the person&#x27;s effects. I don&#x27;t understand how your argument is legal (not that I don&#x27;t believe you - civil forfeiture has been going on long enough that I assume SCOTUS has heard a sampling of cases).<p>It beggars belief that this practice has stood for decades.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mysterydip</author><text>People have constitutional rights, objects do not</text></item><item><author>Buttons840</author><text>So the defense of violating people&#x27;s right to be secure from seizurs is some mumbo jumbo about charging objects with a crime? How does charging anyone or anything relate to the 6th amendment?</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>The workaround under which civil asset forfeiture operates is that they&#x27;re not charging the property owner - or the property holder - with anything. They&#x27;re bringing a civil case against the property itself (jurisdiction <i>in rem</i>). The property itself is the defendant. [1, 2]<p>Which leads to some pretty hilarious case titles:<p>&quot;United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls&quot;<p>[edit] &quot;South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats&quot;<p>[edit] &quot;United States v. One Solid Gold Object in Form of a Rooster&quot;<p>In my opinion this tactic should be illegal.<p>[edit] As far as I know this only really exists in the US, and in Canadian admiralty law (so, only in the US).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.treasury.gov&#x2F;policy-issues&#x2F;terrorism-and-illicit-finance&#x2F;asset-forfeiture&#x2F;forfeiture-overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.treasury.gov&#x2F;policy-issues&#x2F;terrorism-and-illici...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In_rem_jurisdiction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In_rem_jurisdiction</a></text></item><item><author>esics6A</author><text>Civil forfeiture is a direct and obvious violation of the US Constitution and shouldn&#x27;t even exist under the USA legal system and is dangerous to the US legal system:<p>&quot;Article the sixth... The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.&quot;<p>Police under the US Constitution have to go before a judge and court and make an Oath under perjury of law describing the items to be seized. There has to be a justification and supported by affirmation meaning evidence and supporting facts. In the case of the building that was seized it was operating a perfectly legal business under state law. It had the necessary licenses and permits. There needs to be a direct challenge against this type of extra-judicial seizure in the US Supreme Court as it&#x27;s a clear challenge to the entire operation of the rule of law and legal system.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Town Seized Building, Offered to Return It If Owners Bought Two Cars for Police</title><url>https://reason.com/2022/05/19/michigan-couple-says-town-seized-their-building-and-offered-to-return-it-if-they-bought-two-cars-for-police/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>Seizing objects violates the owners rights, not the objects rights.<p>Another angle of defense might be to ask if it&#x27;s even possible to violate the 6th amendment. What would violating the 6th amendment look like? I suspect the answer will closely resemble civil forfeitures.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mysterydip</author><text>People have constitutional rights, objects do not</text></item><item><author>Buttons840</author><text>So the defense of violating people&#x27;s right to be secure from seizurs is some mumbo jumbo about charging objects with a crime? How does charging anyone or anything relate to the 6th amendment?</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>The workaround under which civil asset forfeiture operates is that they&#x27;re not charging the property owner - or the property holder - with anything. They&#x27;re bringing a civil case against the property itself (jurisdiction <i>in rem</i>). The property itself is the defendant. [1, 2]<p>Which leads to some pretty hilarious case titles:<p>&quot;United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls&quot;<p>[edit] &quot;South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats&quot;<p>[edit] &quot;United States v. One Solid Gold Object in Form of a Rooster&quot;<p>In my opinion this tactic should be illegal.<p>[edit] As far as I know this only really exists in the US, and in Canadian admiralty law (so, only in the US).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.treasury.gov&#x2F;policy-issues&#x2F;terrorism-and-illicit-finance&#x2F;asset-forfeiture&#x2F;forfeiture-overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.treasury.gov&#x2F;policy-issues&#x2F;terrorism-and-illici...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In_rem_jurisdiction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In_rem_jurisdiction</a></text></item><item><author>esics6A</author><text>Civil forfeiture is a direct and obvious violation of the US Constitution and shouldn&#x27;t even exist under the USA legal system and is dangerous to the US legal system:<p>&quot;Article the sixth... The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.&quot;<p>Police under the US Constitution have to go before a judge and court and make an Oath under perjury of law describing the items to be seized. There has to be a justification and supported by affirmation meaning evidence and supporting facts. In the case of the building that was seized it was operating a perfectly legal business under state law. It had the necessary licenses and permits. There needs to be a direct challenge against this type of extra-judicial seizure in the US Supreme Court as it&#x27;s a clear challenge to the entire operation of the rule of law and legal system.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Town Seized Building, Offered to Return It If Owners Bought Two Cars for Police</title><url>https://reason.com/2022/05/19/michigan-couple-says-town-seized-their-building-and-offered-to-return-it-if-they-bought-two-cars-for-police/</url></story> |
13,963,207 | 13,963,018 | 1 | 3 | 13,962,482 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>Depends on the house. It&#x27;s not always so simple as snipping the big yellow &quot;cut me&quot; wire.</text><parent_chain><item><author>caleblloyd</author><text>Guess what the burglar could also cut the cable line coming into the house to completely disable the internet. Works on every DIY camera with no local storage that only uses home networking.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Triple Flaw in Nest's Dropcam</title><url>https://www.bitdefender.com/box/blog/iot-news/triple-flaw-nests-dropcam-opens-door-burglars/?cid=soc%7Cbox%7Cfb%7CBlog</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>izacus</author><text>Huh? What do you mean? If you only use home networking, then cutting the public internet line doesn&#x27;t break it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>caleblloyd</author><text>Guess what the burglar could also cut the cable line coming into the house to completely disable the internet. Works on every DIY camera with no local storage that only uses home networking.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Triple Flaw in Nest's Dropcam</title><url>https://www.bitdefender.com/box/blog/iot-news/triple-flaw-nests-dropcam-opens-door-burglars/?cid=soc%7Cbox%7Cfb%7CBlog</url></story> |
23,555,320 | 23,555,424 | 1 | 3 | 23,553,794 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>My broker (Scottrade and now TD Ameritrade) called me, asking for a verbal agreement that I knew that options were high risk and yadda-yadda that can lose more value than they are worth after I signed some forms.<p>These instruments are very high risk and not really meant for average investors. Their primary goal is for hedging and leverage.<p>----------<p>One of the reasons for the &quot;Black Friday&quot; (kicking off the Great Depression) was the proliferation of leverage among people who didn&#x27;t really understand it. That&#x27;s why most other companies make you sign forms and ask for verbal agreements before allowing you to have access to things this dangerous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>et2o</author><text>How would you suggest to limit option trading?</text></item><item><author>superfrank</author><text>&gt; Am I reading this correctly and he really wasn&#x27;t in the hole badly, but a crappy presentation of information broke him?<p>Yes, but I think it&#x27;s important to note that every other broker I&#x27;ve used presents the information in the same way and the way they are displaying the info is an accurate representation of the state of the account at that moment.<p>Blaming bad UI is the easy way out here. Robinhood should take the blame for this, but not because of bad UI. Robinhood should be at fault because the knowingly allow tons of &quot;investors&quot; to have options trading access with little or no screening and verification.<p>Blaming the UI here would be like blaming a single specific gun maker for a mass shooting, when the real question you should be asking is how did this person get a gun at all?</text></item><item><author>protomyth</author><text><i>Kearns may not have realized that his negative cash balance displaying on his Robinhood homescreen was only temporary and would be corrected once the underlying stock was credited to his account. Indeed it’s not uncommon for cash and buying power to display negative after the first half of options are processed but before the second options are exercised—even if the portfolio remains positive.</i><p><i>“Tragically, I don’t even think he made that big of a mistake. This is an interface issue, they have slick interfaces. Confetti popping everywhere,” says Brewster referring to the shower of colorful confetti Robinhood routinely deploys after customers make trades. “They try to gamify trading and couch it as investment.”</i><p>Am I reading this correctly and he really wasn&#x27;t in the hole badly, but a crappy presentation of information broke him?<p>Firstly, if someone reading this is in the same situation, take a breath and know this is not Student Loans, you are young and bankruptcy is about as bad as its going to get.<p>If you are the interface designer, well, I don&#x27;t know what to say to you other that sort your damn self out. Its your job not only to convey the truth, but show what the final result is approximately going to be. Conveying just the current facts is as misleading as outright lying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>20yo Robinhood Customer Commits Suicide After Seeing $730K Negative Balance</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/06/17/20-year-old-robinhood-customer-commits-suicide-after-seeing-a-730000-negative-balance/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>superfrank</author><text>Options are already broken into levels 1-4 (this is an industry thing, not just RH). Levels 1 and 2 don&#x27;t run the risk of this happening since you can only sell to close. On other platforms that I&#x27;ve used, going from levels 2 to 3 took a while and required some verification steps to try to confirm that I knew what I was doing.<p>Robinhood already asks for information about your net-worth, income, etc. The problem is that they verify nothing (at least in my experience). I read &#x2F;r&#x2F;wallstreetbets all the time, and plenty of 18 year olds say they are making 100k+ and RH just approves them. They need to improve that process.</text><parent_chain><item><author>et2o</author><text>How would you suggest to limit option trading?</text></item><item><author>superfrank</author><text>&gt; Am I reading this correctly and he really wasn&#x27;t in the hole badly, but a crappy presentation of information broke him?<p>Yes, but I think it&#x27;s important to note that every other broker I&#x27;ve used presents the information in the same way and the way they are displaying the info is an accurate representation of the state of the account at that moment.<p>Blaming bad UI is the easy way out here. Robinhood should take the blame for this, but not because of bad UI. Robinhood should be at fault because the knowingly allow tons of &quot;investors&quot; to have options trading access with little or no screening and verification.<p>Blaming the UI here would be like blaming a single specific gun maker for a mass shooting, when the real question you should be asking is how did this person get a gun at all?</text></item><item><author>protomyth</author><text><i>Kearns may not have realized that his negative cash balance displaying on his Robinhood homescreen was only temporary and would be corrected once the underlying stock was credited to his account. Indeed it’s not uncommon for cash and buying power to display negative after the first half of options are processed but before the second options are exercised—even if the portfolio remains positive.</i><p><i>“Tragically, I don’t even think he made that big of a mistake. This is an interface issue, they have slick interfaces. Confetti popping everywhere,” says Brewster referring to the shower of colorful confetti Robinhood routinely deploys after customers make trades. “They try to gamify trading and couch it as investment.”</i><p>Am I reading this correctly and he really wasn&#x27;t in the hole badly, but a crappy presentation of information broke him?<p>Firstly, if someone reading this is in the same situation, take a breath and know this is not Student Loans, you are young and bankruptcy is about as bad as its going to get.<p>If you are the interface designer, well, I don&#x27;t know what to say to you other that sort your damn self out. Its your job not only to convey the truth, but show what the final result is approximately going to be. Conveying just the current facts is as misleading as outright lying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>20yo Robinhood Customer Commits Suicide After Seeing $730K Negative Balance</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/06/17/20-year-old-robinhood-customer-commits-suicide-after-seeing-a-730000-negative-balance/</url></story> |
22,663,644 | 22,663,889 | 1 | 3 | 22,663,318 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CyanLite4</author><text>It stops the stock market slide. Which is more valuable than political talking points. Eventually these bankers are going to start doing some math and see that with 0% interest rates and unlimited firepower on Treasuries, there’s going to be massive pent up demand after this medical crisis is solved. Money will be lent to everyone, including airlines and leisure companies because there’s simply no where else to put their money. Inflation be damned. Market is always looking 6+ months ahead. And the moment bankers see a light at the end of the tunnel, this thing is going to take off like a rocket ship.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexmingoia</author><text>How does injecting money solve a problem that’s not caused by lack of money? This market downturn isn’t a lack of liquidity, or a lack of money, or toxic assets like the mortgage backed securities.<p>People aren’t going to stores, restaurants, and airlines because of SARS-CoV-2, not a lack of credit or money.<p>Printing money isn’t going to create customers for businesses effected by this pandemic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to support markets</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/fed-announces-a-slew-of-new-programs-to-help-markets-including-open-ended-asset-purchases.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>tonyhb</author><text>Current problem is that money right now will be <i>evaporating</i> when loans default.<p>The financial system is built on itself so that loans <i>create</i> money. It does not expect to come to a grinding halt. If it does, loans aren&#x27;t repaid, and money literally disappears. Deleveraging occurs. Wealth disappears.<p>I think the aim is that we don&#x27;t lose money from defaults over the short term.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexmingoia</author><text>How does injecting money solve a problem that’s not caused by lack of money? This market downturn isn’t a lack of liquidity, or a lack of money, or toxic assets like the mortgage backed securities.<p>People aren’t going to stores, restaurants, and airlines because of SARS-CoV-2, not a lack of credit or money.<p>Printing money isn’t going to create customers for businesses effected by this pandemic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to support markets</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/fed-announces-a-slew-of-new-programs-to-help-markets-including-open-ended-asset-purchases.html</url></story> |
7,592,488 | 7,591,139 | 1 | 3 | 7,590,644 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmix</author><text>One important and often overlooked feature of Tails is when you shut it down it wipes your system memory&#x2F;RAM using sdmem.<p>Your encrypted data and sensitive files are often accessible via memory forensics even if you shut your computer down. Including the websites you visited. Your encryption keys can be in your computers memory for weeks and is easily accessible via a memory dump.<p>This is why people say that with physical access your computer can always be owned. Even if it&#x27;s encrypted. Tails is the only one I know that handles this attack vector by default.<p><a href="https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/memory_erasure/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tails.boum.org&#x2F;contribute&#x2F;design&#x2F;memory_erasure&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/04/tails</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jebus989</author><text>Impressive how much thought and work has gone into Tails development, e.g. it has a surprisingly-convincing XP skin that hides the fact you&#x27;re even using Linux to the casual observer. Kudos to the devs.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/04/tails</url></story> |
23,302,147 | 23,301,641 | 1 | 2 | 23,299,993 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>karlicoss</author><text>For 3 -- I&#x27;ve always been a vim user, and I know maybe 3-4 native Emacs hotkeys, thanks to evil-mode. Also Spacemacs&#x2F;Doom emacs provides a reasonable layer of bindings outside org-mode</text><parent_chain><item><author>CJefferson</author><text>Here were my &quot;sunk costs&quot; of org-mode.<p>1) org-mode makes a bad spreadsheet<p>2) No good Android interface, Orgzly is OK, but doesn&#x27;t do advanced features and often crashed for me.<p>3) Despite lots of trying, I couldn&#x27;t get &quot;into&quot; using the Emacs shortcut keys, which are different to every other application on Windows.<p>4) I like variable width fonts, and variable width fonts don&#x27;t seem to work with various bits of org mode (for example tables)<p>I&#x27;m sure you love org-mode, and that&#x27;s great, but plenty of people over the years have tried and failed to love emacs, and lost a whole lot of time in the process.</text></item><item><author>madballster</author><text>I see a lot of comments arguing that it&#x27;s not &quot;worth it&quot; to spend dozens of hours to &quot;get into org-mode&quot; when there are &quot;intuitive tools&quot; such as Evernote or Trello or Todoist etc.<p>What some are missing is the fact that low barriers to entry sometimes turn into barriers to growth at a later stage. After (!) one has sunk thousands of hours into them. I used to keep my academic notes in Evernote and it turned into hell after about 2,000 notes and a few years of work. I couldn&#x27;t find things when I needed them, it didn&#x27;t support a non-linear mode of work. It became my personal black hole that swallowed up information but never gave it back.<p>With org-mode I have created my very own filing and research system. After years of using it and thousands of articles I find things. Quickly. Now, with org-roam, I create hubs of knowledge and ideas that I can come back to at a later point without worrying about linearity or chronology. No longer do I need to know where things are. I know what ideas are in there. If I don&#x27;t like a certain workflow, I can grow, develop or change my filing and note-taking system as I see fit.<p>In my opinion, org-mode eliminates the risk of hitting any sort of barrier after years of sunk costs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text</title><url>http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.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>bcrosby95</author><text>1) Is there any note taking application that makes a good spreadsheet? Just use a dedicated spreadsheet program.<p>2) I&#x27;m using Orgzly and yeah, it&#x27;s OK. For me, OK is all I really need here since I mostly need org-mode when I&#x27;m infront of a computer. When I&#x27;m away all I really need it for is quickly adding things to do.<p>3) Definitely takes getting used to. I started using org-mode a couple years ago as a vim user.<p>I&#x27;ve also lost a lot of time trying different apps such as Evernote, OneNote, and Trello. And setting everything up to integrate between them. Eventually I decided on markdown files for notes, but the TODO and tag integration of org-mode is what made me switch.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CJefferson</author><text>Here were my &quot;sunk costs&quot; of org-mode.<p>1) org-mode makes a bad spreadsheet<p>2) No good Android interface, Orgzly is OK, but doesn&#x27;t do advanced features and often crashed for me.<p>3) Despite lots of trying, I couldn&#x27;t get &quot;into&quot; using the Emacs shortcut keys, which are different to every other application on Windows.<p>4) I like variable width fonts, and variable width fonts don&#x27;t seem to work with various bits of org mode (for example tables)<p>I&#x27;m sure you love org-mode, and that&#x27;s great, but plenty of people over the years have tried and failed to love emacs, and lost a whole lot of time in the process.</text></item><item><author>madballster</author><text>I see a lot of comments arguing that it&#x27;s not &quot;worth it&quot; to spend dozens of hours to &quot;get into org-mode&quot; when there are &quot;intuitive tools&quot; such as Evernote or Trello or Todoist etc.<p>What some are missing is the fact that low barriers to entry sometimes turn into barriers to growth at a later stage. After (!) one has sunk thousands of hours into them. I used to keep my academic notes in Evernote and it turned into hell after about 2,000 notes and a few years of work. I couldn&#x27;t find things when I needed them, it didn&#x27;t support a non-linear mode of work. It became my personal black hole that swallowed up information but never gave it back.<p>With org-mode I have created my very own filing and research system. After years of using it and thousands of articles I find things. Quickly. Now, with org-roam, I create hubs of knowledge and ideas that I can come back to at a later point without worrying about linearity or chronology. No longer do I need to know where things are. I know what ideas are in there. If I don&#x27;t like a certain workflow, I can grow, develop or change my filing and note-taking system as I see fit.<p>In my opinion, org-mode eliminates the risk of hitting any sort of barrier after years of sunk costs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text</title><url>http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html</url></story> |
20,057,752 | 20,056,724 | 1 | 3 | 20,052,623 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JohnBooty</author><text><p><pre><code> On my machine, I can’t even launch Firefox in
headless mode without the fans turning on, which
never happened on Chrome. While I haven’t benchmarked
it, for normal browsing it does feel slower than Crome.
</code></pre>
I believe you, but I&#x27;m always so confused by hearing this. I use my Mac (2015 MBP) 10+ hours a day, evenly split between FF and Chrome.<p>Truly is close to an even 50&#x2F;50 split -- FF is my personal browser and I use Chrome for all work-related tasks.<p>And they are subjectively indistinguishable in terms of performance. The <i>only</i> exceptions to that statement are, well, Google properties where Google has clearly invested time and money into optimizing things for FF.<p>One other possible sorta-exception is when I&#x27;m using a scaled resolution mode on an external 4K monitor. MacOS warns me, straight up, that these modes will cause performance issues for me and my modest Intel Iris graphics. The whole system&#x27;s a little sluggish in those modes, and I think FF fares worse than Chrome, but I won&#x27;t hold that against FF.<p>FWIW, Safari does feel subjectively more responsive to me when it comes to scrolling and navigating. And I recently spent a few bucks upgrading my PC gaming rig to a 120hz monitor, which makes a massive difference. And I&#x27;m one of those weirdos who keeps CRTs around for his old consoles because he enjoys that true zero lag experience. So I am not exactly insensitive to latency. I don&#x27;t have magic professional gamer golden magic eyes or anything, but it is an area of interest for me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>latexr</author><text>&gt; Doesn&#x27;t hurt that Firefox is actually a great product.<p>Arguably.<p>On these threads there is always a handful of complaints about the state of Firefox, mostly on macOS. On my machine, I can’t even launch Firefox in headless mode without the fans turning on, which never happened on Chrome. While I haven’t benchmarked it, for normal browsing it does <i>feel</i> slower than Crome.<p>But what kills it for me is their crippled AppleScript support. Firefox is the worst major browser (even worse than smaller browsers) for an automator on macOS. I rely on browser control every day, so Firefox is useless to me.<p>I’d sooner switch to Safari, which despite laughable controls (can’t even disable JavaScript on a per-website basis) I can do something with.</text></item><item><author>dror</author><text>It is so clear to me that we need to support and promote mozilla and Firefox. They&#x27;re not perfect, but they, wikipedia, eff, archive.org (who else?) are such an important part of the Internet guardianship in the face of the monopolies, that it&#x27;s our duty to support them.
Doesn&#x27;t hurt that Firefox is actually a great product.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Switch from Chrome to Firefox</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/switch/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sovnade</author><text>Headless mode maybe, but for regular users I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s many issues.<p>I&#x27;m running firefox as my daily driver on Mojave with no issues whatsoever. Without seeing this thread, I didn&#x27;t even know there were issues with the mac version.</text><parent_chain><item><author>latexr</author><text>&gt; Doesn&#x27;t hurt that Firefox is actually a great product.<p>Arguably.<p>On these threads there is always a handful of complaints about the state of Firefox, mostly on macOS. On my machine, I can’t even launch Firefox in headless mode without the fans turning on, which never happened on Chrome. While I haven’t benchmarked it, for normal browsing it does <i>feel</i> slower than Crome.<p>But what kills it for me is their crippled AppleScript support. Firefox is the worst major browser (even worse than smaller browsers) for an automator on macOS. I rely on browser control every day, so Firefox is useless to me.<p>I’d sooner switch to Safari, which despite laughable controls (can’t even disable JavaScript on a per-website basis) I can do something with.</text></item><item><author>dror</author><text>It is so clear to me that we need to support and promote mozilla and Firefox. They&#x27;re not perfect, but they, wikipedia, eff, archive.org (who else?) are such an important part of the Internet guardianship in the face of the monopolies, that it&#x27;s our duty to support them.
Doesn&#x27;t hurt that Firefox is actually a great product.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Switch from Chrome to Firefox</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/switch/</url></story> |
5,378,646 | 5,378,555 | 1 | 2 | 5,378,008 | train | <instructions>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><i>When people think about plant patents, they're usually thinking of the Monsanto suits.</i><p>Most people might, but those posting patent questions to a gardening forum are a special breed. The patent question comes up often for those interested in propagating fruit trees. Groups that exchange varieties of plants and desire to obey the law often have complicated self-policing policies. For example, here are guidelines for a local chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers association: <a href="http://www.crfg-redwood.org/patented-fruits-list-2013.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.crfg-redwood.org/patented-fruits-list-2013.pdf</a><p><i>I'm just saying, the likelihood of accidentally become a lawsuit target appears like it might be overblown in some ways.</i><p>Perhaps, but for many the question of risk is distinct from the question of legality. The questioner wasn't asking whether he was likely to be caught, but how to determine ahead of time if one is behaving legally. It's not clear if this is even possible. Does intent matter? One of the major breeders of new fruit varieties in the US asserts that it does not:<p>"Asexual propagation of patented plants (including any of its parts such as leaves, buds, cuttings, seed, fruit or pollen) is strictly prohibited without the written authorization of the patent holder or the patent holder’s agent. Possession of improperly propagated trees of patented varieties (such as the receipt of trees, budwood or graftwood from unauthorized sources) constitutes infringement, even if an illegal propagation was inadvertent."<p><a href="http://www.dwnbeta.com/plant-patents-and-trademarks" rel="nofollow">http://www.dwnbeta.com/plant-patents-and-trademarks</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>For what it's worth:<p>When people think about plant patents, they're usually thinking of the Monsanto suits. I don't know that there aren't crazy patent trolls out there suing gardeners, but as far as Monsanto is concerned, I don't think gardeners have much to worry about.<p>If you read the Monsanto suits that have been published, the behavior Monsanto pursues is planting unlicensed Roundup-Ready seeds and then spraying them with glyphosphate-based ("Roundup") herbicides. You can spray Roundup without a patent license. You can probably plant RR crops without a license. But if you do both (commercially, at least), Monsanto sues.<p>The point of RR seeds is that they resist Roundup, which is a broad-spectrum herbicide that will kill non-RR crops. In the commercial suits, it becomes tricky to argue that you planted RR crops unwittingly when you are later shown to have sprayed them with an herbicide that would have certainly ruined your harvest but for inbred RR resistance.<p>The patent they have on the whole RR system may be totally invalid; I'm hoping to have the presence of mind not to end up litigating that point. I'm just saying, the likelihood of accidentally become a lawsuit target appears like it might be overblown in some ways.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How can I tell if a plant given to me is patented?</title><url>http://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/3808/how-can-i-tell-if-a-plant-given-to-me-is-patented</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jfim</author><text>Interesting, I hadn't thought about the fact that there's only an advantage to RR crops if you're actually spraying Roundup and that spraying Roundup on a crop would somewhat imply that you're aware that you're planting a RR crop.<p>You seem to be aware of plant patents; are those frequent and commonly litigated in the US? I have only heard about the Monsanto stuff and was curious about how patents affect that industry.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>For what it's worth:<p>When people think about plant patents, they're usually thinking of the Monsanto suits. I don't know that there aren't crazy patent trolls out there suing gardeners, but as far as Monsanto is concerned, I don't think gardeners have much to worry about.<p>If you read the Monsanto suits that have been published, the behavior Monsanto pursues is planting unlicensed Roundup-Ready seeds and then spraying them with glyphosphate-based ("Roundup") herbicides. You can spray Roundup without a patent license. You can probably plant RR crops without a license. But if you do both (commercially, at least), Monsanto sues.<p>The point of RR seeds is that they resist Roundup, which is a broad-spectrum herbicide that will kill non-RR crops. In the commercial suits, it becomes tricky to argue that you planted RR crops unwittingly when you are later shown to have sprayed them with an herbicide that would have certainly ruined your harvest but for inbred RR resistance.<p>The patent they have on the whole RR system may be totally invalid; I'm hoping to have the presence of mind not to end up litigating that point. I'm just saying, the likelihood of accidentally become a lawsuit target appears like it might be overblown in some ways.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How can I tell if a plant given to me is patented?</title><url>http://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/3808/how-can-i-tell-if-a-plant-given-to-me-is-patented</url></story> |
13,580,262 | 13,579,991 | 1 | 3 | 13,579,793 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adekok</author><text>&gt; that economically developed countries (capitalist - but in this case even something like China can qualify) don&#x27;t fight with one another.<p>France and Germany? WW1 &#x2F; WW2?<p>Japan and the US in WW2? IIRC, at the time, Japan and the US were trade partners, and Japan imported the bulk of it&#x27;s oil from the US.<p>Yet in both cases, they still went to war.<p>I think the lesson is that ideology trumps economics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WhiteSource1</author><text>He wasn&#x27;t the first. It&#x27;s the whole &quot;Capitalist Peace&quot; theory: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Capitalist_peace" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Capitalist_peace</a> proposed by Professor Erik Gartzke, that economically developed countries (capitalist - but in this case even something like China can qualify) don&#x27;t fight with one another.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jack Ma: 'If trade stops, war starts'</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com.au/jack-ma-if-trade-stops-war-starts-2017-2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>John23832</author><text>That&#x27;s pretty interesting. That also reminds me of what people have called &quot;Pax Americana&quot;[0] which is probably due to America&#x27;s large influence on modern Capitalism.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pax_Americana" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pax_Americana</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>WhiteSource1</author><text>He wasn&#x27;t the first. It&#x27;s the whole &quot;Capitalist Peace&quot; theory: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Capitalist_peace" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Capitalist_peace</a> proposed by Professor Erik Gartzke, that economically developed countries (capitalist - but in this case even something like China can qualify) don&#x27;t fight with one another.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jack Ma: 'If trade stops, war starts'</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com.au/jack-ma-if-trade-stops-war-starts-2017-2</url></story> |
24,863,035 | 24,863,121 | 1 | 2 | 24,862,619 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nabaraz</author><text>I have been using KeePass for years. Why should I go to KeePassX or KeePassXC?<p>Their FAQs isn&#x27;t too convicing!<p>&gt; KeePass is a very proven and feature-rich password manager and there is nothing fundamentally wrong with it. However, it is written in C# and therefore requires Microsoft&#x27;s .NET platform. On systems other than Windows, you can run KeePass using the Mono runtime libraries, but you won&#x27;t get the native look and feel which you are used to.
KeePassXC, on the other hand, is developed in C++ and runs natively on all platforms giving you the best-possible platform integration.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>KeePassXC 2.6.2 Released</title><url>https://keepassxc.org/blog/2020-10-21-2.6.2-released/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ronnier</author><text>I&#x27;ve fully switched to a bitwarden. There&#x27;s a good selfhosted solution too <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dani-garcia&#x2F;bitwarden_rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dani-garcia&#x2F;bitwarden_rs</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>KeePassXC 2.6.2 Released</title><url>https://keepassxc.org/blog/2020-10-21-2.6.2-released/</url></story> |
16,861,274 | 16,860,941 | 1 | 3 | 16,857,275 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s about insecurity. I think it&#x27;s that YT is usually consumed alone, and having someone with whom to share a reaction enhances the experience. For me, it&#x27;s about emotional contagion: if others are laughing, you&#x27;re going to laugh more, too. So, pile on top of this a charismatic personality that attracts people, and its entirely sensible you have commentators&#x2F;reactors to video game streams or live streams, rather than just the base content which is devoid of social experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thisisit</author><text>There is a growing culture of reaction videos on YT. People watch other people watching and reacting to stuff. That never sat well with me. And I always wondered - are people so alone or insecure that they need to watch other people&#x27;s &quot;reaction&quot; to feel better? Given the rise of reaction channels on YT, I guess the answer is resounding - Yes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Blindness of Social Wealth</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/opinion/facebook-social-wealth.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>tdb7893</author><text>People are naturally social and people&#x27;s reactions can be interesting and fun. I don&#x27;t watch reaction videos but I know at least that my friends are really funny when reacting to things in person so it&#x27;s unsurprising that an Internet personality can be also.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thisisit</author><text>There is a growing culture of reaction videos on YT. People watch other people watching and reacting to stuff. That never sat well with me. And I always wondered - are people so alone or insecure that they need to watch other people&#x27;s &quot;reaction&quot; to feel better? Given the rise of reaction channels on YT, I guess the answer is resounding - Yes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Blindness of Social Wealth</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/opinion/facebook-social-wealth.html</url></story> |
11,802,961 | 11,802,861 | 1 | 3 | 11,802,629 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aw3c2</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scihub22266oqcxt.onion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scihub22266oqcxt.onion&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>The one thing I&#x27;ve not seen mentioned yet in the Sci-Hub discussions is that the national level academic ISPs seem to have put a very effective domain and IP address block on SciHub. I&#x27;ve tested this both from UK and Scandinavian university networks I have access to, and none of the SciHub domains nor the direct IPs are accessible.<p>Can anyone in the US or rest of Europe with university access test this?<p>It&#x27;s certainly ironic when you need an ssh tunnel from your university to your home to be able to read academic papers at work.<p>Edit: I have not tried eduroam, just uni ethernets. All Norwegian universities have the block both on DNS and on IPs. Imperial College only has the block on DNS, not on the IP.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry</title><url>http://www.jasonshen.com/2016/new-napster-sci-hub-academic-publishing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cloudjacker</author><text>My university hasn&#x27;t blocked them either.. JK sci-hub is my university</text><parent_chain><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>The one thing I&#x27;ve not seen mentioned yet in the Sci-Hub discussions is that the national level academic ISPs seem to have put a very effective domain and IP address block on SciHub. I&#x27;ve tested this both from UK and Scandinavian university networks I have access to, and none of the SciHub domains nor the direct IPs are accessible.<p>Can anyone in the US or rest of Europe with university access test this?<p>It&#x27;s certainly ironic when you need an ssh tunnel from your university to your home to be able to read academic papers at work.<p>Edit: I have not tried eduroam, just uni ethernets. All Norwegian universities have the block both on DNS and on IPs. Imperial College only has the block on DNS, not on the IP.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry</title><url>http://www.jasonshen.com/2016/new-napster-sci-hub-academic-publishing/</url></story> |
36,960,808 | 36,961,180 | 1 | 2 | 36,960,185 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mattzito</author><text>I&#x27;m not from the UK, so I don&#x27;t have a deep understanding of the dynamics of politics there, but it seems like avoiding all situations where even the suggestion of impropriety is impractical for just about everybody who might be in a position to be PM.<p>If you&#x27;re in a position of power, you&#x27;re going to have relationships where there might be the appearance of impropriety for anything - and you may not even know there would be the suggestion of impropriety until after the fact.<p>Infosys has 40 clients w&#x2F; greater than $100m&#x2F;year contracts, which they don&#x27;t enumerate individually, but from skimming the internet, it looks like oil and gas, banking, manufacturing, and tech companies all potentially fit into that bucket - so should he recuse himself from everything that is related to any of those industries?<p>Before he was married into Infosys, he was a banker and presumably has lots of relationships with these large companies regardless - should he recuse himself from anything that might touch any of those large companies? Not a rhetorical question, I&#x27;m trying to understand what the criteria is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toyg</author><text>But that&#x27;s the structural problem with the likes of Sunak being in government: maybe it&#x27;s all legitimate business, but because of his role it looks bad, and there is no real way to prove it one way or the other.<p>An honourable person would recuse himself from situations where even <i>the suggestion</i> of impropriety is possible. Sunak should not have been PM to start with.</text></item><item><author>mattzito</author><text>This feels like a nothingburger:<p>- Infosys already had a $100m&#x2F;year contract with BP<p>- the new contract is 1.5b over 10 years, so a significant increase, but as part of the contract infosys becomes the primary IT partner for BP, therefore not an unimaginable increase<p>- Infosys&#x27;s customers include Shell, Aramco, Chevron, and others. They&#x27;re one of the top IT services company for the energy industry, so this isn&#x27;t an outlandish customer for them to have<p>- Infosys&#x27;s revenue in 2021 was $12b, making this contract
~1% of their annual revenue. The net increase over their previous contract is .4%<p>In short, this looks like a fairly standard contract from a provider that was already heavily represented in the industry and has an existing substantial investment with the customer - and one that doesn&#x27;t materially impact the trajectory of the company. Other than the timing of the events, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be anything to suggest inappropriate actions on anyone&#x27;s part.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sunak’s family firm signed deal with BP before opening new North Sea licences</title><url>https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sunaks-family-firm-signed-a-billion-dollar-deal-with-bp-before-pm-opened-new-north-sea-licences-353690/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>penguin_booze</author><text>&gt; Sunak should not have been PM to start with<p>Care you expand more? I thought (granted, without any evidence) he&#x27;s poised better compared to his predecessors. Better in what way? Well, not a clown; lasted more than 45 days -- neither of which, I admit, is not high praise.<p>So, I thought he was maybe a decent chap. I&#x27;d be interested in any pointers au contraire.<p>Regardless, I agree on the recusal part: Caesar&#x27;s wife must be above all suspicion.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toyg</author><text>But that&#x27;s the structural problem with the likes of Sunak being in government: maybe it&#x27;s all legitimate business, but because of his role it looks bad, and there is no real way to prove it one way or the other.<p>An honourable person would recuse himself from situations where even <i>the suggestion</i> of impropriety is possible. Sunak should not have been PM to start with.</text></item><item><author>mattzito</author><text>This feels like a nothingburger:<p>- Infosys already had a $100m&#x2F;year contract with BP<p>- the new contract is 1.5b over 10 years, so a significant increase, but as part of the contract infosys becomes the primary IT partner for BP, therefore not an unimaginable increase<p>- Infosys&#x27;s customers include Shell, Aramco, Chevron, and others. They&#x27;re one of the top IT services company for the energy industry, so this isn&#x27;t an outlandish customer for them to have<p>- Infosys&#x27;s revenue in 2021 was $12b, making this contract
~1% of their annual revenue. The net increase over their previous contract is .4%<p>In short, this looks like a fairly standard contract from a provider that was already heavily represented in the industry and has an existing substantial investment with the customer - and one that doesn&#x27;t materially impact the trajectory of the company. Other than the timing of the events, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be anything to suggest inappropriate actions on anyone&#x27;s part.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sunak’s family firm signed deal with BP before opening new North Sea licences</title><url>https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sunaks-family-firm-signed-a-billion-dollar-deal-with-bp-before-pm-opened-new-north-sea-licences-353690/</url></story> |
11,652,347 | 11,652,373 | 1 | 2 | 11,649,195 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roywiggins</author><text>You can almost certainly restrict it on public broadcast TV, which would be a good start. The FCC has pretty broad powers to regulate broadcast TV and radio compared to other kinds of speech. For example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fairness_Doctrine#Decisions_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fairness_Doctrine#Decisions_of...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ctingom</author><text>What about the first amendment?</text></item><item><author>Cakez0r</author><text>* Make it illegal to advertise or market any drug that requires a prescription.</text></item><item><author>siliconc0w</author><text>Armchair Policy Wonk:<p>* Make FDA approval double blind. Can&#x27;t bribe who you can&#x27;t see.<p>* Before starting a study, if you want to include it with a future application you need to register it. All registered studies need to be included with an application. Can&#x27;t cherry pick studies.<p>* You may only use approved claims stated in the application in marketing or product descriptions. (which I thought was already the case)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OxyContin's 12-hour problem</title><url>http://static.latimes.com/oxycontin-part1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrepd</author><text>What about it? I can&#x27;t show pornography on TV or slander someone on a newspaper and call freedom of speech.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ctingom</author><text>What about the first amendment?</text></item><item><author>Cakez0r</author><text>* Make it illegal to advertise or market any drug that requires a prescription.</text></item><item><author>siliconc0w</author><text>Armchair Policy Wonk:<p>* Make FDA approval double blind. Can&#x27;t bribe who you can&#x27;t see.<p>* Before starting a study, if you want to include it with a future application you need to register it. All registered studies need to be included with an application. Can&#x27;t cherry pick studies.<p>* You may only use approved claims stated in the application in marketing or product descriptions. (which I thought was already the case)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OxyContin's 12-hour problem</title><url>http://static.latimes.com/oxycontin-part1</url></story> |
18,498,566 | 18,498,385 | 1 | 3 | 18,497,218 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>__jal</author><text>That&#x27;s lovely sounding, but false for a couple of reasons.<p>1) There&#x27;s a capability gap. Charities can&#x27;t do a number of things that are needed that local government can. Simple things like permission to operate portable toilets, or working alongside cops for redirection away from jail it possible, are somewhere between multi-month activities outside their core-competencies to impossible for private actors.<p>2) The vast bulk of private charities segment their &#x27;market&#x27; in various ways that leaves gaps. That&#x27;s fine, but it isn&#x27;t going to &quot;mostly solve&quot; the issues caused by society-wide economic failures.<p>3) Because the problems are so varied, coordination reaps substantial benefits. Social workers talking to cleanup crews talking to mental health talking to cops is a dynamic that your local churches are not equipped to take part in.<p>Kneejerk antigovernment bias is a national pastime, I know. I&#x27;ll even play along when it is valid. But the idea that the Salvation Army is going to spring to the rescue is fantasy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m perfectly happy to give back more<p>If you really feel that way, charitable organizations can effectively distribute donations far more efficiently and effectively than any government organization has ever been able to. I suspect that if all of the people who say they feel the same way did just voluntarily donate what they considered their own fair share to charity, the homeless crisis would be mostly solved.</text></item><item><author>exogeny</author><text>Sure, makes sense. Thank you for the reply.<p>Where it&#x27;s personally frustrating for me: I&#x27;ve sold two companies in my life, and saw my tax rate jump from the lowest to the highest. I&#x27;m fine with that. I did well and despite all the work I put in, I recognize the amount of good fortune that was involved - and I&#x27;m perfectly happy to give back more because it affects me less, and because it&#x27;s my fair share.<p>I recognize that a lot of others don&#x27;t feel that way, and certainly recognize the influence that money has on politics. That&#x27;s sad and frustrating to me.</text></item><item><author>DanHulton</author><text>I mean, I think you&#x27;re missing a key factor here: politicians require money to be elected. The poor (the folks most affected by these issues) don&#x27;t have the money to donate. The rich (the ones you propose taxing) do. Thus, the only ones who can get elected are catering to an audience that does not want this problems solved in this way (and indeed, one could argue, does not care to have it solved at all).<p>Until the problem of money in politics gets fixed, your &quot;simple&quot; problem is largely unfixable.</text></item><item><author>exogeny</author><text>I will go to my grave not understanding why this is so complex and difficult for people to understand and politicians to fix.<p>Wages are stagnant, save for a handful of sectors, in which they&#x27;re growing quickly. Housing prices are rising due to limited supply and backward policies towards new construction. Inequality therefore expands exponentially, creating a city of haves-and-have nots.<p>Either reduce inequality through taxes and social re-distribution programs, or build more housing supply. Preferably both.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-20/the-homeless-crisis-is-getting-worse-in-america-s-richest-cities</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>javagram</author><text>When it comes to stuff like housing, government regulations like zoning can stand in the way.<p>If we had an unfettered market perhaps cheap apartments could be built and given to the homeless by charity. In practice new housing that complies with all zoning codes, labor regulations, etc ends up costing quite a lot.<p>Government certainly has a role to play here even if it is just changing policies to stop driving up costs. Of course governments also have eminent domain power and other powers that private organizations can’t access.</text><parent_chain><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m perfectly happy to give back more<p>If you really feel that way, charitable organizations can effectively distribute donations far more efficiently and effectively than any government organization has ever been able to. I suspect that if all of the people who say they feel the same way did just voluntarily donate what they considered their own fair share to charity, the homeless crisis would be mostly solved.</text></item><item><author>exogeny</author><text>Sure, makes sense. Thank you for the reply.<p>Where it&#x27;s personally frustrating for me: I&#x27;ve sold two companies in my life, and saw my tax rate jump from the lowest to the highest. I&#x27;m fine with that. I did well and despite all the work I put in, I recognize the amount of good fortune that was involved - and I&#x27;m perfectly happy to give back more because it affects me less, and because it&#x27;s my fair share.<p>I recognize that a lot of others don&#x27;t feel that way, and certainly recognize the influence that money has on politics. That&#x27;s sad and frustrating to me.</text></item><item><author>DanHulton</author><text>I mean, I think you&#x27;re missing a key factor here: politicians require money to be elected. The poor (the folks most affected by these issues) don&#x27;t have the money to donate. The rich (the ones you propose taxing) do. Thus, the only ones who can get elected are catering to an audience that does not want this problems solved in this way (and indeed, one could argue, does not care to have it solved at all).<p>Until the problem of money in politics gets fixed, your &quot;simple&quot; problem is largely unfixable.</text></item><item><author>exogeny</author><text>I will go to my grave not understanding why this is so complex and difficult for people to understand and politicians to fix.<p>Wages are stagnant, save for a handful of sectors, in which they&#x27;re growing quickly. Housing prices are rising due to limited supply and backward policies towards new construction. Inequality therefore expands exponentially, creating a city of haves-and-have nots.<p>Either reduce inequality through taxes and social re-distribution programs, or build more housing supply. Preferably both.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-20/the-homeless-crisis-is-getting-worse-in-america-s-richest-cities</url></story> |
30,683,847 | 30,683,000 | 1 | 3 | 30,682,036 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dspillett</author><text><i>&gt; Binding to 0.0.0.0 is unfortunately the default for Docker.</i><p>That isn&#x27;t just a docker thing, though a few notable accidents with docker have shone a light on the issue in recent times, and is one of the reasons I much prefer to keep my firewall away from where things are running, between them and the unwashed masses on the public network.<p>Even at home I have a separate small firewall box between the server that hosts things (and the rest of my network) instead of trusting that host to manage its own security in that way. If I run a service via docker or anything else on there, the outside world doesn&#x27;t see it unless I open a way in elsewhere. For extra paranoia, the network leg that others can connect to (wireless AP &amp; wired network ports in the guest room) is also separate and only sees parts of the server(s) I explicitly want it to (you can do this with vlans and such depending on your kit, I&#x27;ve actually just got an extra NIC on the router).<p>Never assume a process&#x2F;service&#x2F;container&#x2F;etc is at all locked down, unless you have checked it out yourself or have it sufficiently wrapped in things you have locked off.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rmetzler</author><text>&gt; DevOps, Developers, and IT practitioners often misconfigure some of the following:
Binding the socket on the wrong network interfaces.
For example, listening to connections from 0.0.0.0&#x2F;* — So it is visible to all network interfaces, instead of only the inner-network interface IP address (172.x.x.x)<p>Binding to 0.0.0.0 is unfortunately the default for Docker. I wish it would have been different.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS</title><url>https://infosecwriteups.com/how-i-discovered-thousands-of-open-databases-on-aws-764729aa7f32?gi=af55b7c4e39f</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>It&#x27;s the kind of example that would make me uncomfortable to work with Docker &#x2F; cloud things; I&#x27;m sure I could set up stuff within a day, but there&#x27;s a lot of Things That You Should Happen To Know like this example that are easily missed - especially when you&#x27;re in an environment where there&#x27;s pressure on you to deliver, instead of a focus on doing things right.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rmetzler</author><text>&gt; DevOps, Developers, and IT practitioners often misconfigure some of the following:
Binding the socket on the wrong network interfaces.
For example, listening to connections from 0.0.0.0&#x2F;* — So it is visible to all network interfaces, instead of only the inner-network interface IP address (172.x.x.x)<p>Binding to 0.0.0.0 is unfortunately the default for Docker. I wish it would have been different.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS</title><url>https://infosecwriteups.com/how-i-discovered-thousands-of-open-databases-on-aws-764729aa7f32?gi=af55b7c4e39f</url></story> |
5,355,299 | 5,355,348 | 1 | 2 | 5,355,022 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexhaefner</author><text>Thanks again for writing this. You're writing about a feeling that I've experienced and can relate to, and I thought the piece was excellent. Great job.</text><parent_chain><item><author>daemonl</author><text>You totally got it. Apparently not many others did, my bad. Thanks for your comment.</text></item><item><author>alexhaefner</author><text>Maybe I misunderstood this because of what books I have been reading lately, but I really enjoyed reading this piece as a piece of irony. Apparently the word irony, pre-14th century had more to do with an author writing an opinion he or she did not hold, as if he or she did hold it.<p>When I read this as if the author doesn't believe that life is wasting his time, but is being ironic, because the inherent flaw resides within himself, and not within life, then I find the piece to be a really, really interesting and an exposing and humble read.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Life is wasting my time</title><url>http://blog.daemonl.com/2013/03/life-is-wasting-my-time.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>dpatrick86</author><text>Blame it on a verbose minority <i>not</i> getting it... I think your opening title was a pretty strong hint of the direction you were taking it. Well done</text><parent_chain><item><author>daemonl</author><text>You totally got it. Apparently not many others did, my bad. Thanks for your comment.</text></item><item><author>alexhaefner</author><text>Maybe I misunderstood this because of what books I have been reading lately, but I really enjoyed reading this piece as a piece of irony. Apparently the word irony, pre-14th century had more to do with an author writing an opinion he or she did not hold, as if he or she did hold it.<p>When I read this as if the author doesn't believe that life is wasting his time, but is being ironic, because the inherent flaw resides within himself, and not within life, then I find the piece to be a really, really interesting and an exposing and humble read.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Life is wasting my time</title><url>http://blog.daemonl.com/2013/03/life-is-wasting-my-time.html</url></story> |
30,536,955 | 30,535,976 | 1 | 3 | 30,523,955 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>friedturkey</author><text>I’ve come to prefer Japanese web design over western design in general. It can be messy at times, but you don’t have endless pop ups asking you to sign up for their “newsletter” ad spam that is sold off to third parties(nobody reads those—your stats are fraudulent and people only register because they think it’ll end the pop ups), endless cookie pop ups, random bot support chats for things that would never need it, “Take me to the new design!” pop ups that lead away from a functional page to absolute garbage, h u g e white space for zero reason, random “login with Google!” pop ups for a basic-ass text page, social media buttons, and so on.<p>Japanese web design feels like walking into a casino, but western design feels like having a dump truck emptied on you.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different (2013)</title><url>https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-different/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>Comparing apples to apples, Rakuten pages don&#x27;t seem much different to me than Amazon or eBay, or AliExpress for instance:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;event.rakuten.co.jp&#x2F;campaign&#x2F;supersale&#x2F;?l-id=search_browse_pc_header_top" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;event.rakuten.co.jp&#x2F;campaign&#x2F;supersale&#x2F;?l-id=search_...</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;goldbox?ref_=nav_cs_gb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;goldbox?ref_=nav_cs_gb</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;e&#x2F;row&#x2F;shotime-ohtani" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;e&#x2F;row&#x2F;shotime-ohtani</a><p>Japanese design can be wild and very different, but for anything with a very clear purpose, it will usually end up looking a lot like any other European or US page serving the same purpose.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different (2013)</title><url>https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-different/</url></story> |
26,694,499 | 26,694,507 | 1 | 2 | 26,693,052 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vitus</author><text>These points look cherry-picked to support your argument.<p>To cherry-pick a few more points: Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Pakistan. All of these were British colonies prior to Hong Kong (which was a British territory from 1841 to 1997). All of these have populations &gt;150M (significantly greater than the UK itself!). All of these are in the bottom third of countries in terms of GDP per capita (and in fact worse off than Vietnam).<p>(Well, okay, India hovers right around that 33%ile depending on your choice of measure.)<p>Next on the list of Commonwealth of Nations by population are UK itself (wealthy, but wasn&#x27;t a colony...), Tanzania (poor), South Africa (wealthy!), Kenya (poor), Uganda (very poor).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jariel</author><text>This is interesting because Max Roser makes his case that he&#x27;s implicitly not supporting colonialism because most economic expansion happened after colonialism.<p>Except that the established colonies of Canada, Australia, NZ did exceedingly well, as did the long standing colony Hong Kong.<p>Japan and South Korea (to some extent Taiwan), rebuilt after the war(s) under Anglo-American protection and reformation, also did very well, far better than most.<p>Singapore? Continued it&#x27;s colonial style operations.<p>Vietnam? No so good.<p>The more colonialism there &#x27;was&#x27; the better they&#x27;ve done in recent years, unconditionally. Colonialism for the most part, was an early form of economic globalization, however unfair it was is a different issue.<p>It&#x27;s only be controversial to ideologues.</text></item><item><author>_Microft</author><text>You might also want to read this thread by Max Roser, the one behind „Our World in Data“ about why he is done with Mr. Hickel:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitter.com&#x2F;MaxCRoser&#x2F;status&#x2F;1378730932308471809" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitter.com&#x2F;MaxCRoser&#x2F;status&#x2F;1378730932308471809</a><p>If you prefer blog-style formatted text over the Twitter UI, look here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;threadreaderapp.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;1378730932308471809.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;threadreaderapp.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;1378730932308471809.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Against Hickelism</title><url>https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/against-hickelism</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zozbot234</author><text>Talking about &quot;colonialism&quot; in general terms obscures the very real variation in outcomes. Colonies that were mainly influenced by English-like institutions did better than average because they tended to be more trade-oriented and inclusive, whilst other colonies were more extractive and those countries ended up with bad institutional arrangements that affect them to this day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jariel</author><text>This is interesting because Max Roser makes his case that he&#x27;s implicitly not supporting colonialism because most economic expansion happened after colonialism.<p>Except that the established colonies of Canada, Australia, NZ did exceedingly well, as did the long standing colony Hong Kong.<p>Japan and South Korea (to some extent Taiwan), rebuilt after the war(s) under Anglo-American protection and reformation, also did very well, far better than most.<p>Singapore? Continued it&#x27;s colonial style operations.<p>Vietnam? No so good.<p>The more colonialism there &#x27;was&#x27; the better they&#x27;ve done in recent years, unconditionally. Colonialism for the most part, was an early form of economic globalization, however unfair it was is a different issue.<p>It&#x27;s only be controversial to ideologues.</text></item><item><author>_Microft</author><text>You might also want to read this thread by Max Roser, the one behind „Our World in Data“ about why he is done with Mr. Hickel:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitter.com&#x2F;MaxCRoser&#x2F;status&#x2F;1378730932308471809" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitter.com&#x2F;MaxCRoser&#x2F;status&#x2F;1378730932308471809</a><p>If you prefer blog-style formatted text over the Twitter UI, look here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;threadreaderapp.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;1378730932308471809.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;threadreaderapp.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;1378730932308471809.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Against Hickelism</title><url>https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/against-hickelism</url></story> |
18,975,907 | 18,975,694 | 1 | 2 | 18,975,373 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peterkelly</author><text>Discriminated unions [1] are what you&#x27;re looking for here. Contrary to what the article claims, the functions shown are <i>not</i> 100% type safe, because if you define the following:<p><pre><code> interface NotActuallyWizard extends Person {
type: PersonType.Wizard;
otherStuff: string;
}
</code></pre>
and then write:<p><pre><code> const JohnSmith: NotActuallyWizard = {
type: PersonType.Wizard,
name: &#x27;John Smith&#x27;,
otherStuff: &#x27;whatever&#x27;,
};
getSpellsForPerson(JohnSmith);
</code></pre>
it will pass the type checker (isWizard returns true because it doesn&#x27;t take into account the possibility that <i>another</i> interface may have a &#x27;type&#x27; property of PersonType.Wizard) but the code will fail at runtime.<p>Instead, you should define the interfaces as follows:<p><pre><code> interface PersonBase {
name: string;
}
interface Wizard extends PersonBase {
type: &#x27;Wizard&#x27;;
spells: string[];
}
interface Muggle extends PersonBase {
type: &#x27;Muggle&#x27;;
dursley: boolean;
}
type Person = Wizard | Muggle;
</code></pre>
then replace the type guards with:<p><pre><code> if (person.type !== &#x27;Wizard&#x27;) {
</code></pre>
and<p><pre><code> if (person.type !== &#x27;Muggle&#x27;) {
</code></pre>
This will report an error for getSpellsForPerson(JohnSmith) because the compiler knows that (1) the only possibilities for Person are Wizard and Muggle, (2) both have type properties (3) the type properties have distinct literal values, and therefore (4) a Person with a type property of &#x27;Wizard&#x27; has must have a spells property and a Person with a type property of &#x27;Muggle&#x27; must have a dursley property.<p>As explained in [1], you can also take advantage of these with switch statements, and the compiler will do an exhaustiveness check so you catch any cases where you add a new type but forget to update one of your switches.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;basarat.gitbooks.io&#x2F;typescript&#x2F;docs&#x2F;types&#x2F;discriminated-unions.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;basarat.gitbooks.io&#x2F;typescript&#x2F;docs&#x2F;types&#x2F;discrimina...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TypeScript Tricks: Type Guards</title><url>https://www.matthewgerstman.com/ts-tricks-type-guards/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>city41</author><text>Be careful though, as they are not type safe in the sense the compiler completely trusts the type guard is implemented correctly.<p>In other words, TypeScript has no problem with this:<p><pre><code> function isNumber(a: any): a is number {
return typeof a === &#x27;string&#x27;;
}
</code></pre>
Type guards are usually simple functions, but I&#x27;ve gotten them wrong before and only found out with a runtime exception.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TypeScript Tricks: Type Guards</title><url>https://www.matthewgerstman.com/ts-tricks-type-guards/</url></story> |
30,814,325 | 30,814,491 | 1 | 2 | 30,788,218 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>perihelions</author><text>Thinkpad is starting an ARM line in May,<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30497616" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30497616</a> (<i>&quot;Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad&quot;</i>, 248 comments)</text><parent_chain><item><author>fb03</author><text>How far are we from just having very nice and power efficient arm computers and laptops? I don&#x27;t care about the X86 legacy, if I want something there I can simply buy a machine with that processor.<p>I just want a beefy ATX form factor PC or even a laptop with &quot;standard components&quot; that can run Linux and maybe some light office work or gaming.<p>Is this asking too much? Why are we still using X86 on the !OSX stuff?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia Unveils 144-Core Grace CPU Superchip</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-unveils-144-core-grace-cpu-superchip-claims-arm-chip-15x-faster-than-amds-epyc-rome</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rnantes</author><text>The 2023 Nuvia based Qualcomm Laptop SOCs are coming in 2023 and could bring M1-Like performance to windows. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;17075&#x2F;qualcomm-x-nuvia-silicon-sampling-in-late-2022-products-in-2023" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;17075&#x2F;qualcomm-x-nuvia-silico...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>fb03</author><text>How far are we from just having very nice and power efficient arm computers and laptops? I don&#x27;t care about the X86 legacy, if I want something there I can simply buy a machine with that processor.<p>I just want a beefy ATX form factor PC or even a laptop with &quot;standard components&quot; that can run Linux and maybe some light office work or gaming.<p>Is this asking too much? Why are we still using X86 on the !OSX stuff?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia Unveils 144-Core Grace CPU Superchip</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-unveils-144-core-grace-cpu-superchip-claims-arm-chip-15x-faster-than-amds-epyc-rome</url></story> |
30,186,618 | 30,186,394 | 1 | 3 | 30,185,214 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; game development companies are much better positioned to make compelling social VR experiences like this.</i><p>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s true. Game developer company culture is heavily oriented towards making and selling products to consumers. They know how to make games people will pay for, and the entire business and culture revolves around that.<p>With Meta and other ad-driven companies, the people aren&#x27;t the consumers, they&#x27;re the product. The whole incentive structure and architecture of the company is fundamentally different. Think about how a company like Facebook or Google has an entire army of sales people and enormous apps like AdWords and Facebook Ads Manager that are how the company <i>actually</i> makes money. Game companies don&#x27;t have that kind of stuff.<p>What they have is a bunch of programmers who know 3D rendering and networking. But Meta can simply hire those people—and game devs are used to bouncing around every couple of years—and they are. Several of my old EA coworkers are at Meta know working on it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>p1necone</author><text>I don&#x27;t get metaverse - they seem to be throwing lots of money and people at it, and hyping it up like it&#x27;s the future. But from what I&#x27;ve seen so far they&#x27;ve just built VRChat, but worse. It&#x27;s been done before by other people, it&#x27;s not a new thing at all (Second Life released almost 20 years ago).<p>This isn&#x27;t a project that benefits from any of Facebooks strengths - game development companies are much better positioned to make compelling social VR experiences like this.<p>&quot;Metaverses&quot; in general are a cool 80s sci-fi novel concept. But they&#x27;re just video game environments with better-than-typical communication features - hyping them up with piles of marketing and betting the farm on your specific one being successful seems like an incredibly poor business move.</text></item><item><author>JCM9</author><text>Facebook’s core business model appears to be in decline. They don’t have a very diversified revenue stream despite trying various side businesses. This is the market worried that Facebook’s best days are behind it.<p>Facebook is betting the farm on the metaverse stuff but without meaningful financial results that’s not going to placate market concerns over what looks like a downhill future for the core businesses. Facebook’s less than fantastic record at making money on its other businesses doesn’t have the market terribly optimistic about about the future prospects metaverse stuff either. Net net stock down 20%.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook</title><url>https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/facebook-parent-meta-platforms-shares-tank-20-on-q4-earnings-miss-weak-outlook</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zepto</author><text>You are wrong - it’s clear that you <i>do</i> get the metaverse.</text><parent_chain><item><author>p1necone</author><text>I don&#x27;t get metaverse - they seem to be throwing lots of money and people at it, and hyping it up like it&#x27;s the future. But from what I&#x27;ve seen so far they&#x27;ve just built VRChat, but worse. It&#x27;s been done before by other people, it&#x27;s not a new thing at all (Second Life released almost 20 years ago).<p>This isn&#x27;t a project that benefits from any of Facebooks strengths - game development companies are much better positioned to make compelling social VR experiences like this.<p>&quot;Metaverses&quot; in general are a cool 80s sci-fi novel concept. But they&#x27;re just video game environments with better-than-typical communication features - hyping them up with piles of marketing and betting the farm on your specific one being successful seems like an incredibly poor business move.</text></item><item><author>JCM9</author><text>Facebook’s core business model appears to be in decline. They don’t have a very diversified revenue stream despite trying various side businesses. This is the market worried that Facebook’s best days are behind it.<p>Facebook is betting the farm on the metaverse stuff but without meaningful financial results that’s not going to placate market concerns over what looks like a downhill future for the core businesses. Facebook’s less than fantastic record at making money on its other businesses doesn’t have the market terribly optimistic about about the future prospects metaverse stuff either. Net net stock down 20%.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook</title><url>https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/facebook-parent-meta-platforms-shares-tank-20-on-q4-earnings-miss-weak-outlook</url></story> |
11,411,622 | 11,411,641 | 1 | 2 | 11,408,567 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bobajeff</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t count on media preserving democracy. Especially in its current form.</text><parent_chain><item><author>frandroid</author><text>Are you invested in democracy though? Without media, you don&#x27;t have democracy.</text></item><item><author>bobajeff</author><text>I think we need to seriously rethink how news is done. So I&#x27;m not too invested in the news media industry staying alive.</text></item><item><author>frandroid</author><text>Great work. Next up, you can resolve how to save the news media industry in the absence of ad revenue for the publishers.</text></item><item><author>scotty79</author><text>I think advertisers should pay me directly to show me some ads. That would incentivise them to show me just ads that have non-zero probability of succeeding.<p>Every user could decide, how much information about himself he shares with advertiser (even up to eyetracking with webcam if user wants) and how high he prices adspace before his eyes. Advertisers could filter out whom they would like to serve their ads based on the price and information user was willing to disclose and past success of the ads that were presented to him.<p>If we agree that ads are good then most targeted ads that us as much information each user is willing to share are the best ones. If we agree that ads are bad, why not just ban them altogether and replace them with one single directory of stuff and stuff providers where customer would go to when he needs some stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mozilla founder unveils Bitcoin-based micropayments system for users, publishers</title><url>https://brave.com/blogpost_3.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>Afforess</author><text>Enough of the motte-and-bailey tactics. Saying &#x27;No Media&#x27; therefore &#x27;No Democracy&#x27; is incredibly disingenuous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>frandroid</author><text>Are you invested in democracy though? Without media, you don&#x27;t have democracy.</text></item><item><author>bobajeff</author><text>I think we need to seriously rethink how news is done. So I&#x27;m not too invested in the news media industry staying alive.</text></item><item><author>frandroid</author><text>Great work. Next up, you can resolve how to save the news media industry in the absence of ad revenue for the publishers.</text></item><item><author>scotty79</author><text>I think advertisers should pay me directly to show me some ads. That would incentivise them to show me just ads that have non-zero probability of succeeding.<p>Every user could decide, how much information about himself he shares with advertiser (even up to eyetracking with webcam if user wants) and how high he prices adspace before his eyes. Advertisers could filter out whom they would like to serve their ads based on the price and information user was willing to disclose and past success of the ads that were presented to him.<p>If we agree that ads are good then most targeted ads that us as much information each user is willing to share are the best ones. If we agree that ads are bad, why not just ban them altogether and replace them with one single directory of stuff and stuff providers where customer would go to when he needs some stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mozilla founder unveils Bitcoin-based micropayments system for users, publishers</title><url>https://brave.com/blogpost_3.html</url></story> |
25,768,205 | 25,767,976 | 1 | 3 | 25,767,030 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>I&#x27;ve found that in general the longer someone has been on a project, the worse their documentation is.<p>People who have both deep practical knowledge of a domain and can explain it clearly are so rare that we tend to remember them by name. Experts can bitch all they want about how Neil deGrasse Tyson isn&#x27;t a &#x27;real astrophysicist&#x27;, but lets see you try to talk to the general public, or for that matter, college students starting their senior year as undergrads in your field. Then lets have them frankly rate you on your lack of accessibility, tendency to circular reasoning, overuse of jargon, and complete lack of patience... We&#x27;ll call it the head-up-own-ass quotient.<p>Erlang is a very, very old project, with a historically high degree of echo chamber going on. Without active pushback from a dedicated member of the core team, such things usually end in utter chaos. It is less likely that you will achieve understanding by reading documentation of that sort, than that you will accidentally summon an eldritch horror by reading it aloud and not being very precise with your pronunciation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mmcclure</author><text>From the perspective of someone coming the other direction (a developer working almost entirely with Elixir that needed to jump to Erlang docs occasionally), it&#x27;s interesting to see the note on docs, and honestly the vibe I get from this blog post feels related to my personal overall gripe with the Erlang community.<p>To be blunt, I really dreaded needing to jump to the Erlang documentation, largely because of a perceived gap in developer empathy. Elixir documentation feels like it&#x27;s written in a way that wants you to be successful and enjoy the process, while Erlang documentation feels very perfunctory. Where Elixir documentation is rife with examples and hints, Erlang documentation almost makes you feel like an idiot for wanting to see similar examples.<p>I wonder how much of that vibe is more due to priming because of community perception more than anything else. There&#x27;s a distinct stereotype of Erlangers having a strong &quot;I am very smart&quot; vibe. That&#x27;s not fair to a lot of the wonderful Erlang fans I&#x27;ve met that are extremely welcoming, but the wider Erlang community has a strong perception of gatekeeping where they almost don&#x27;t seem like they <i>want</i> the language to be more accessible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ten years without Elixir</title><url>http://blog.cretaria.com/posts/ten-years-without-elixir.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>eterm</author><text>It&#x27;s like 2000&#x27;s MSDN vs current MSDN.<p>The erlang documentation tells you what you need to know and is accurate but it isn&#x27;t helpful in the way it should be.<p>If you already know what you&#x27;re doing, it can be a useful reference, but it doesn&#x27;t aid understanding.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mmcclure</author><text>From the perspective of someone coming the other direction (a developer working almost entirely with Elixir that needed to jump to Erlang docs occasionally), it&#x27;s interesting to see the note on docs, and honestly the vibe I get from this blog post feels related to my personal overall gripe with the Erlang community.<p>To be blunt, I really dreaded needing to jump to the Erlang documentation, largely because of a perceived gap in developer empathy. Elixir documentation feels like it&#x27;s written in a way that wants you to be successful and enjoy the process, while Erlang documentation feels very perfunctory. Where Elixir documentation is rife with examples and hints, Erlang documentation almost makes you feel like an idiot for wanting to see similar examples.<p>I wonder how much of that vibe is more due to priming because of community perception more than anything else. There&#x27;s a distinct stereotype of Erlangers having a strong &quot;I am very smart&quot; vibe. That&#x27;s not fair to a lot of the wonderful Erlang fans I&#x27;ve met that are extremely welcoming, but the wider Erlang community has a strong perception of gatekeeping where they almost don&#x27;t seem like they <i>want</i> the language to be more accessible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ten years without Elixir</title><url>http://blog.cretaria.com/posts/ten-years-without-elixir.html</url></story> |
13,415,049 | 13,415,011 | 1 | 2 | 13,414,570 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tehlike</author><text>I am really curious if an ordinary user gets frustrated with AMP as much as an HN reader does.<p>PS: Not intending to be sarcastic.
PS2: I work for google, but not on something amp related.</text><parent_chain><item><author>freyir</author><text>AMP is one of the most frustrating experiences I&#x27;ve had with Google. the fact that it&#x27;s foisted on users, with no option to disable it, makes it borderline infuriating.<p>If you&#x27;re stuck on an AMP page in your mobile browser, you can click on the browser&#x27;s &quot;Request desktop site&quot; option to load the full page.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Problem with AMP</title><url>https://80x24.net/post/the-problem-with-amp/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>flukus</author><text>&gt; If you&#x27;re stuck on an AMP page in your mobile browser, you can click on the browser&#x27;s &quot;Request desktop site&quot; option to load the full page.<p>So you have to load the AMP page and then a potentially bloated normal page. That&#x27;s AMP doing the exact opposite of it&#x27;s intended (or at least stated) purpose. Noscript, flashblock and adblock have done far more for page speeds than than AMP ever will.</text><parent_chain><item><author>freyir</author><text>AMP is one of the most frustrating experiences I&#x27;ve had with Google. the fact that it&#x27;s foisted on users, with no option to disable it, makes it borderline infuriating.<p>If you&#x27;re stuck on an AMP page in your mobile browser, you can click on the browser&#x27;s &quot;Request desktop site&quot; option to load the full page.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Problem with AMP</title><url>https://80x24.net/post/the-problem-with-amp/</url></story> |
16,668,964 | 16,666,490 | 1 | 3 | 16,665,876 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rabboRubble</author><text>I have a young relative who was tracked into special education from early years. Finally, his educators gave him a standardized intelligence test. To their shock (and perhaps) horror, he came in in the top 1% for his age bracket. He is really, really intelligent.<p>After this test, his guidance counselor sat him down and asked him how smart he thought he was. Answer, a morose and defeated &quot;I&#x27;m stupid.&quot; Mind you, this answer came out of an 8-9 year old.<p>After being told repeatedly that he was not good at school and that classes were too hard for him, he fully believed he was stupid.<p>Once the adults around him stopped seeing a redneck country kid, once the adults recognized his poor school track record as a reflection of <i>their biases and their poor performance</i> he excelled.<p>He is now captain of his high school robotics team. The team just won a position to compete in an international robotics competition in the next couple of weeks. Assuming they can raise the $30k to travel to Kentucky, ship their robots, find lodging, etc. It&#x27;s a large fund raising amount for a non-Texas, non-football red state.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New research suggests new ways to nurture gifted children</title><url>https://www.economist.com/news/international/21739144-new-research-suggests-new-ways-nurture-gifted-children-how-and-why-search-young</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scientician</author><text>As someone who has been through many forms of &#x27;gifted&#x27; and &#x27;enriched&#x27; and &#x27;special&#x27; education, these articles always sadden me. Does anyone truly believe that optimizing <i>children</i> for their <i>economic output</i> really leads to a good life for their country?<p>Here&#x27;s a radical idea: let them have childhoods!<p>I strongly support letting kids be free to develop and think for themselves. If a &#x27;gifted&#x27; child can succeed despite being imprisoned in a school for many years, imagine how much they could grow and contribute if they were free?<p>For anyone with children, or who cares about the future of western democracy, please look into <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sudbury_school" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sudbury_school</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New research suggests new ways to nurture gifted children</title><url>https://www.economist.com/news/international/21739144-new-research-suggests-new-ways-nurture-gifted-children-how-and-why-search-young</url></story> |
9,002,145 | 9,001,166 | 1 | 2 | 8,998,160 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JonathonW</author><text>At least one team at Google has used libGDX (on top of RoboVM): Ingress uses libGDX for their iOS and Android clients.<p>RoboVM is a very cool project. We ended up on Xamarin for the cross-platform project we were working on here internally, but, had RoboVM been a little more mature when we were evaluating cross-platform projects (this was around April of last year), it would&#x27;ve most likely been our first choice instead (we have a lot more in-house Java expertise than C#).</text><parent_chain><item><author>badlogic</author><text>We&#x27;ve been using a similar approach for libGDX [1] with great success for the past 3 years. HotSpot on Windows&#x2F;Linux&#x2F;Mac OS X, Dalvik on Android, RoboVM [2] on iOS and GWT on the web. We had to add quite a bit of functionality to GWT to make things work, like (very hacky) reflection. You can now share 100% of your code across all these platforms with minor restrictions due to GWT (threads, missing JRE classes&#x2F;packages). Without the web, all platforms work pretty much the same. Many smaller and bigger studios have used this approach quite successfully.<p>I wonder if the Google folks ever looked into RoboVM as a replacement for j2objc. It&#x27;s a full AOT compiler, sharing the class library with Android with access to all iOS APIs (think Xamarin for Java&#x2F;JVM languages). I tested j2objc when itmwas published as a potential way to get our libGDX stuff working on iOS, but it was extremely limited in its capabilities. Kinda reminded me of Oracle&#x27;s terrible ADF.<p>[1] <a href="http://github.com/libgdx/libgdx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libgdx&#x2F;libgdx</a>
[2] <a href="http://www.robovm.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.robovm.com</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/how-google-inbox-shares-70-of-its-code-across-android-ios-and-the-web/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edwinnathaniel</author><text>It seems to me that RoboVM+libgdx is utilized heavily for the game industry. Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, most games don&#x27;t use UI components (most of the time it&#x27;s a full-screen game) the way regular apps do so I&#x27;m wondering if RoboVM is a good fit for Rich-UI mobile apps?</text><parent_chain><item><author>badlogic</author><text>We&#x27;ve been using a similar approach for libGDX [1] with great success for the past 3 years. HotSpot on Windows&#x2F;Linux&#x2F;Mac OS X, Dalvik on Android, RoboVM [2] on iOS and GWT on the web. We had to add quite a bit of functionality to GWT to make things work, like (very hacky) reflection. You can now share 100% of your code across all these platforms with minor restrictions due to GWT (threads, missing JRE classes&#x2F;packages). Without the web, all platforms work pretty much the same. Many smaller and bigger studios have used this approach quite successfully.<p>I wonder if the Google folks ever looked into RoboVM as a replacement for j2objc. It&#x27;s a full AOT compiler, sharing the class library with Android with access to all iOS APIs (think Xamarin for Java&#x2F;JVM languages). I tested j2objc when itmwas published as a potential way to get our libGDX stuff working on iOS, but it was extremely limited in its capabilities. Kinda reminded me of Oracle&#x27;s terrible ADF.<p>[1] <a href="http://github.com/libgdx/libgdx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libgdx&#x2F;libgdx</a>
[2] <a href="http://www.robovm.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.robovm.com</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/how-google-inbox-shares-70-of-its-code-across-android-ios-and-the-web/</url></story> |
15,543,820 | 15,543,659 | 1 | 3 | 15,543,206 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pm90</author><text>There is a reason why the Western powers (especially France) supported the White Russians. The Bolsheviks had indicated the possibility of not paying back foreign loans that were taken out by the Russian Empire (they followed through on that promise and defaulted on all foreign loans; USSR was basically cutoff from the Western Financial system until WW2). France had provided most of these, but the other powers were involved as well. This was probably the most important reason for their opposition: if they let the Bolsheviks get away with not paying loans, not only would their bankers lose a shit ton of money, but what was to stop other foreign powers (possibly communist ones) from doing the same?<p>Most foreign wars have surprisingly banal reasons for taking place...</text><parent_chain><item><author>vkou</author><text>The involvement of Western powers in the Russian Civil war (Temporary occupation of the Far East, aid to the Whites in the West) was a large contributing factor to the USSR&#x27;s wretched relationship with the West - long after &#x27;Communism in all countries&#x27; was forgotten.<p>As it turns out, backing the losing side in a civil war does not ingratiate you with the winner.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Britain's 'concentration camp' in Russia</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41271418</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>opo</author><text>Relations between the west and the Soviet Union were more complex than that:<p>&gt;...The United States government was initially hostile to the Soviet leaders for taking Russia out of World War I and was opposed to a state ideologically based on communism. Although the United States embarked on a famine relief program in the Soviet Union in the early 1920s and American businessmen established commercial ties there during the period of the New Economic Policy (1921–29), the two countries did not establish diplomatic relations until 1933. By that time, the totalitarian nature of Joseph Stalin&#x27;s regime presented an insurmountable obstacle to friendly relations with the West.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.loc.gov&#x2F;exhibits&#x2F;archives&#x2F;sovi.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.loc.gov&#x2F;exhibits&#x2F;archives&#x2F;sovi.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>vkou</author><text>The involvement of Western powers in the Russian Civil war (Temporary occupation of the Far East, aid to the Whites in the West) was a large contributing factor to the USSR&#x27;s wretched relationship with the West - long after &#x27;Communism in all countries&#x27; was forgotten.<p>As it turns out, backing the losing side in a civil war does not ingratiate you with the winner.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Britain's 'concentration camp' in Russia</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41271418</url></story> |
23,025,237 | 23,023,874 | 1 | 2 | 23,019,816 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonas21</author><text>&gt; Microsoft threw billions at it with Bing and still never became more than an also-ran. The only place that seems to have a real chance is DuckDuckGo, and I&#x27;d be very interested to see how their story has played out up to this point.<p>That&#x27;s an interesting perspective when you consider that:<p>1. Bing has at least 5x the market share of DuckDuckGo in the US (and even higher worldwide)<p>2. DuckDuckGo uses Bing as its main source of search results.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ascendantlogic</author><text>There&#x27;s always two things that these armchair quarterback software devs seem to miss: Scale and Money.<p>Sure you can hack together a small Google clone using Elasticsearch in a weekend. Can you index all the worlds information and serve the worlds search needs with your little MVP? 99.99% chance no, even if you were given a few hundred engineers to scale it.<p>Even if you could do it technically, where are you coming up with the money to do so? That&#x27;s not seed-round or even series A round money to do that. That&#x27;s series D, hundred+ million dollar swipes of a VC&#x27;s credit card just to get off the ground. Microsoft threw billions at it with Bing and still never became more than an also-ran. The only place that seems to have a real chance is DuckDuckGo, and I&#x27;d be very interested to see how their story has played out up to this point.<p>Google benefited greatly from growing as the web was growing. Trying to index the world&#x27;s information in 2020 is an astronomical task compared to indexing the world&#x27;s information in 98, 99 era.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I could do that in a weekend (2016)</title><url>https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>Bing was my secret weapon when doing data science contracts that were MVPs or side features.<p>Take a couple million preselected strings they needed to match to and then run them through Bing, page through the results, and build up the corpus I needed out of something like mechanize &#x2F; nokogiri &#x2F; headless browser.[0] Then clean up the data the normal data science way then do whatever mathy stuff I needed to layer on for whatever app they needed. There you go mister client something that has billions of dollars of R&amp;D behind it and cleaned up for your specific use-case. You want something better? Go off and hire a team of Phds and spend a couple years and 50x the money I charged you to get your RoC curves (or whatever) looking 10% or 15% better.<p>Haven&#x27;t done this in a couple years due to a startup and then after that randomly finding a client I liked working with so much I haven&#x27;t needed to take on random jobs again, but I&#x27;m sure it would still work.<p>[0] I had also written custom tools to make this easier &#x2F; saner. Also inspector gadget + CSS selectors goes a long way too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ascendantlogic</author><text>There&#x27;s always two things that these armchair quarterback software devs seem to miss: Scale and Money.<p>Sure you can hack together a small Google clone using Elasticsearch in a weekend. Can you index all the worlds information and serve the worlds search needs with your little MVP? 99.99% chance no, even if you were given a few hundred engineers to scale it.<p>Even if you could do it technically, where are you coming up with the money to do so? That&#x27;s not seed-round or even series A round money to do that. That&#x27;s series D, hundred+ million dollar swipes of a VC&#x27;s credit card just to get off the ground. Microsoft threw billions at it with Bing and still never became more than an also-ran. The only place that seems to have a real chance is DuckDuckGo, and I&#x27;d be very interested to see how their story has played out up to this point.<p>Google benefited greatly from growing as the web was growing. Trying to index the world&#x27;s information in 2020 is an astronomical task compared to indexing the world&#x27;s information in 98, 99 era.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I could do that in a weekend (2016)</title><url>https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/</url></story> |
29,988,104 | 29,988,106 | 1 | 3 | 29,983,959 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tharkun__</author><text>That&#x27;s exactly why I personally try to stay away from as many of these things&#x2F;devices as I can reasonably do.<p>TV: just don&#x27;t buy an actual TV. Buy a monitor and hook it up to a Linux box with something like Kodi. You can hook up your cable box if you have that or stream from Netflix and such. Sure, even Netflix makes it hard as you can&#x27;t get 5.1 surround but I&#x27;ll take that and 2.0 -&gt; 5.1 upmix over buying a Smart TV any day!<p>Games: Kerbal Space program sounds fun. Lots of mentions on HN. Apparently after some company bought them up changes of this sort have been made. So I decided against getting it even though I would probably very much enjoy playing it. Don&#x27;t buy games like that. Buy games like Factorio or some GoG stuff (the ones that actually do work on your current Windows OS if that&#x27;s what you use ... ;)) and do <i>not</i> buy into the GoG Galaxy thing. Get the installers. Otherwise that&#x27;s like falling for Steam or Xbox Live or whatever the &quot;Windows Live&quot; BS is called nowadays.<p>Tablets and Phones: Use them for what they&#x27;re good for: Making phone calls and browsing the web on the go.
Apps are a curse, I avoid installing them as much as possible. Some exceptions prove the rule, like a free GPS tracker app for hiking created by a single guy. UI looks like it&#x27;s out of the 90s but works for my use case. Found it because the other app I used started requiring a login even for the free part of the app. I refuse to bow to such things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brokenmachine</author><text>Definitely.<p>TV updates are another thing. They change things with abandon and you can&#x27;t revoke the updates.<p>Sometimes they break stuff and then you have to pray and wait until they hopefully fix them at their leisure.<p>IMO, it should be illegal to issue unrevokable updates so you can&#x27;t get a product to have identical features as it did at the time of purchase. You should always be able to wipe it back to stock. Same with phones.<p>And the people who might crow about &quot;security&quot; - my device, my rules. I can block it on the network if I want.</text></item><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>Government should mandate the ability to downgrade the software to versions that were previously available on said hardware.<p>I’ve had so many issues with Apple devices losing compatibility with obscure features on apps after updating iOS, I wish I could go back occasionally to accomplish some task, and then upgrade again when finished.<p>The flexibility is valuable.<p>For example, on the newest iPad Pro, iMovie is unusable after iOS 15, completely jittery and unable to handle smooth user experiences for some reason.</text></item><item><author>CoastalCoder</author><text>I agree. Perhaps the U.S.&#x27;s legal framework reasonably allows this kind of behavior, but IMHO it&#x27;s a sign that the framework needs legislative correction.<p>The first time I encountered this was when Sony advertised Linux-compatibility for the PS3, which I bought expressly for that purpose. I was shocked when a judge upheld Sony&#x27;s post-sale removal of that capability.</text></item><item><author>gorjusborg</author><text>This type of &#x27;update&#x27; is one reason I tend to stay away from so-called &#x27;smart&#x27; devices.<p>If part of the product I&#x27;ve paid for is software, and the company can update it without customer consent at any time, then I can&#x27;t rely on the product&#x27;s features. Period.<p>I experienced this myself on the PS4 version of Terraria. I bought a hard-copy of the game. I mastered the controls, and loved them. Terraria was updated one day, and the controls were all changed, completely. Total rip-off. I liked the game I bought, but it was replaced without my consent.<p>My feeling is that this behavior should be illegal for purchased products.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/nordictrack-ifit-treadmill-privilege-mode/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rurp</author><text>&gt; my device, my rules<p>Exactly. Companies that actually care about security don&#x27;t bundle those updates with major breaking UX changes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brokenmachine</author><text>Definitely.<p>TV updates are another thing. They change things with abandon and you can&#x27;t revoke the updates.<p>Sometimes they break stuff and then you have to pray and wait until they hopefully fix them at their leisure.<p>IMO, it should be illegal to issue unrevokable updates so you can&#x27;t get a product to have identical features as it did at the time of purchase. You should always be able to wipe it back to stock. Same with phones.<p>And the people who might crow about &quot;security&quot; - my device, my rules. I can block it on the network if I want.</text></item><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>Government should mandate the ability to downgrade the software to versions that were previously available on said hardware.<p>I’ve had so many issues with Apple devices losing compatibility with obscure features on apps after updating iOS, I wish I could go back occasionally to accomplish some task, and then upgrade again when finished.<p>The flexibility is valuable.<p>For example, on the newest iPad Pro, iMovie is unusable after iOS 15, completely jittery and unable to handle smooth user experiences for some reason.</text></item><item><author>CoastalCoder</author><text>I agree. Perhaps the U.S.&#x27;s legal framework reasonably allows this kind of behavior, but IMHO it&#x27;s a sign that the framework needs legislative correction.<p>The first time I encountered this was when Sony advertised Linux-compatibility for the PS3, which I bought expressly for that purpose. I was shocked when a judge upheld Sony&#x27;s post-sale removal of that capability.</text></item><item><author>gorjusborg</author><text>This type of &#x27;update&#x27; is one reason I tend to stay away from so-called &#x27;smart&#x27; devices.<p>If part of the product I&#x27;ve paid for is software, and the company can update it without customer consent at any time, then I can&#x27;t rely on the product&#x27;s features. Period.<p>I experienced this myself on the PS4 version of Terraria. I bought a hard-copy of the game. I mastered the controls, and loved them. Terraria was updated one day, and the controls were all changed, completely. Total rip-off. I liked the game I bought, but it was replaced without my consent.<p>My feeling is that this behavior should be illegal for purchased products.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/nordictrack-ifit-treadmill-privilege-mode/</url></story> |
24,987,491 | 24,987,430 | 1 | 2 | 24,986,132 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>np_tedious</author><text>Every isolated Go piece is pretty readable. The problem is that getting most things done requires enough code that it&#x27;s a lot of work to take it all in. Run all the for loops in your head. Etc. Higher level (and esp FP) languages like Haskell or Scala will be the opposite. That bunch of function compositions may take a little bit of work to digest, but once you understand it you understand a lot.<p>When people disagree on readability its often bc they mean two different things. We would benefit from different terms for readable-in-the-small and readable-in-the-large.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>Go is incredibly readable I find. Yes, you tend to find yourself writing a lot of code because of the lack of generics, but that is being fixed as we speak. Generics has a draft and it looks nice from a Go developers perspective.<p>And Go let&#x27;s you communicate by copying. That&#x27;s what a Channel is. Pass a struct and that is copied. Pass a pointer and the pointer is copied. The thing it points to isn&#x27;t copied for glaringly obvious reasons.<p>And what would you suggest is a good alternative for returning multiple parameters. Currently this basically forces you to handle any possible errors and results in software you can very easily reason about.<p>Not sure what you mean about human reviewers needing to check errors.</text></item><item><author>eru</author><text>Go impedes its own readability by encourage or even requiring such huge volumes of code.<p>(And Go ain&#x27;t very good at concurrency. At least they should have let you mark values as immutable, or communicated entirely via copying like Erlang.)<p>Yes, tuples are a really weird thing with Go. If they had completely left them, that would be bad but sort of defendable. But instead they give you a half-baked implementation of some of what tuples do with their &#x27;multiple return types&#x27;.<p>(And multiple return types aren&#x27;t even a good fit for signaling errors. For error-handling you want to return _either_ the result _or_ the error, in a way that the compiler can check that you handled the error.<p>Instead as far as the types are concerned they are always returning both the result and an error, and human reviewers have to make sure that they are checked properly.)</text></item><item><author>TeeWEE</author><text>Go is a programming language for teams, not primarily designed to impress individual programmers...<p>I agree with all points with the author. But working in teams, or even mutiple teams on the same software, then go solves a lot of problems for you..<p>Yeah its a dumb language, missing a lot of features. But there is only 1 way to program, dependency management is sane (no circular dependencies), and the language is build for readability, not for writing code fast and elegantly...<p>Often short dense code with complex types is just really hard to read for your overage joe programmer.<p>We&#x27;re not all computer scientists here.<p>Go is designed to write maintainable server side programs that can utilize concurrency in computer these days. Therefore they left out generics... I hope its coming.
I do wish error handling and generics where part of the language... And a tuple type indeed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)</title><url>https://memo.barrucadu.co.uk/three-months-of-go.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>LandR</author><text>&gt; Go is incredibly readable I find.<p>I&#x27;m the opposite, I don&#x27;t find it readable at all.<p>I find Go too verbose to be readable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>Go is incredibly readable I find. Yes, you tend to find yourself writing a lot of code because of the lack of generics, but that is being fixed as we speak. Generics has a draft and it looks nice from a Go developers perspective.<p>And Go let&#x27;s you communicate by copying. That&#x27;s what a Channel is. Pass a struct and that is copied. Pass a pointer and the pointer is copied. The thing it points to isn&#x27;t copied for glaringly obvious reasons.<p>And what would you suggest is a good alternative for returning multiple parameters. Currently this basically forces you to handle any possible errors and results in software you can very easily reason about.<p>Not sure what you mean about human reviewers needing to check errors.</text></item><item><author>eru</author><text>Go impedes its own readability by encourage or even requiring such huge volumes of code.<p>(And Go ain&#x27;t very good at concurrency. At least they should have let you mark values as immutable, or communicated entirely via copying like Erlang.)<p>Yes, tuples are a really weird thing with Go. If they had completely left them, that would be bad but sort of defendable. But instead they give you a half-baked implementation of some of what tuples do with their &#x27;multiple return types&#x27;.<p>(And multiple return types aren&#x27;t even a good fit for signaling errors. For error-handling you want to return _either_ the result _or_ the error, in a way that the compiler can check that you handled the error.<p>Instead as far as the types are concerned they are always returning both the result and an error, and human reviewers have to make sure that they are checked properly.)</text></item><item><author>TeeWEE</author><text>Go is a programming language for teams, not primarily designed to impress individual programmers...<p>I agree with all points with the author. But working in teams, or even mutiple teams on the same software, then go solves a lot of problems for you..<p>Yeah its a dumb language, missing a lot of features. But there is only 1 way to program, dependency management is sane (no circular dependencies), and the language is build for readability, not for writing code fast and elegantly...<p>Often short dense code with complex types is just really hard to read for your overage joe programmer.<p>We&#x27;re not all computer scientists here.<p>Go is designed to write maintainable server side programs that can utilize concurrency in computer these days. Therefore they left out generics... I hope its coming.
I do wish error handling and generics where part of the language... And a tuple type indeed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)</title><url>https://memo.barrucadu.co.uk/three-months-of-go.html</url></story> |
16,899,280 | 16,898,725 | 1 | 3 | 16,896,275 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jernfrost</author><text>Yeah I also read about how American car factories used super sophisticated and expensive computer system back in the 80-90s only to realize that the Japanese accomplished the same with just people and some cleverly placed sticker symbols.<p>I think underlying a lot of this is a disdain in America for blue collar workers. People at the top thing of them as dumb monkeys and that there is nothing to what they do. Hence the falsely assume a computer or robot can do the job just as well.<p>The Japanese showed that by utilizing what humans are actually got at you get better productivity. Using humans the same way as robots is a very bad way of utilizing the flexibility inherent in a human.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>It&#x27;s also shocking to anybody who had studied Toyota&#x27;s history. Toyota spent decades honing their processes, but are notoriously automation-averse [1], as automation locks in a (hoped-for) short-term productivity gain but prevents the human-driven continuous improvement that has made them highly productive. [2]<p>In some ways, I think the long software-is-eating-the-world boom has been bad for us as an industry. We have been so successful with &quot;throw tech at it&quot; solutions that we don&#x27;t know when that isn&#x27;t a good idea. E.g., the Silicon-Valley-reinvents-grilled-cheese flop The Melt [3], or the $120m clown show that was Juicero [4].<p>American car companies spent decades trying and failing to learn Toyota&#x27;s approach. They even had enthusiastic help from Toyota, who even went so far as to take GM&#x27;s worst plant and redo it as a joint venture. (Interestingly, it&#x27;s the same plant that Tesla now uses. [5]) For those unfamiliar with the story, I strongly recommend This American Life&#x27;s episode on it. [6] But my takeaway was that executive arrogance kept GM from learning that there was a much better way to make cars. That sounds more and more familiar these days.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;40461624&#x2F;how-toyota-is-putting-humans-first-in-an-era-of-increasing-automation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;40461624&#x2F;how-toyota-is-putting-h...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;18960044&#x2F;ns&#x2F;business-autos&#x2F;t&#x2F;study-toyota-most-productive-automaker&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;18960044&#x2F;ns&#x2F;business-autos&#x2F;t&#x2F;study...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;how-the-trendiest-grilled-cheese-venture-got-burnt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;how-the-trendiest-grilled-cheese...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bolt.io&#x2F;heres-why-juicero-s-press-is-so-expensive-6add74594e50" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bolt.io&#x2F;heres-why-juicero-s-press-is-so-expensi...</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NUMMI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NUMMI</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thisamericanlife.org&#x2F;561&#x2F;nummi-2015" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thisamericanlife.org&#x2F;561&#x2F;nummi-2015</a></text></item><item><author>blattimwind</author><text>Anyone who has had to do with the manufacturing side of car makers (German ones anyway) knows how highly optimized from end-to-end their processes are. It seems doubtful that anyone could leapfrog this amount of accumulated process knowledge and optimization simply by way of being new.<p>Automation is not a black-and-white thing, either, as it is often portrayed. Sure, some things are fully automated (e.g. assembling the car body), but many things are partially automated. For example, there is a tool which is essentially 5&#x2F;6&#x2F;7 torque wrenches coupled to a lifting arm. This tool allows a line worker to mount a tire with little physical exertion in seconds. You see this sort of thing all the time at car assembly lines; offloading mechanical power to the machine, while having a human line up and steer things. (This also avoids a whole bunch of safety concerns you normally have when operating autonomous equipment in the same physical space occupied by humans)<p>Another example: The body of virtually any car is self-supporting (there is no frame), so getting it right is rather critical. To achieve both the high strength and low weight of a modern car body the steel is deformed very closely to the maximum deformation it can withstand. This needs very good matching of the process to the steel. So, the manufacturer of the steel coil tests each coil individually for its exact properties. For mass production lines only coils meeting very tight tolerances are used. For low volume lines the process is adjusted individually for each coil based on the manufacturers testing and some in-house testing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/experts-say-tesla-has-repeated-car-industry-mistakes-from-the-1980s/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pfarnsworth</author><text>I have a friend who worked at Juicero, so unlike 99% of the people here on HN, I have a lot of info on it, and didn&#x27;t just read the headlines. In fact, I had more than a few glasses of Juicero drinks whenever I visited her place (generally hated it, but I&#x27;m not their target demo).<p>Overall, I never liked the idea, and I told her that. I said it was way too expensive and they would have to decrease the price by 80% for it to be viable. But for the people who got it, mainly celebrities and millionaires, they loved it. I think I remember that Beyonce or Katy Perry or Britney got it for all of her dancers, etc.<p>The entire &quot;green juice&quot; industry is large, and the founder made his first millions by selling chains of these types of juices. The target was to make a glass of green juice less expensive than what you would find at a high-end gym or juice shop. The plan was to build it out with the people who were willing to pay for them, like celebrities and influencers, and then make them mass-market. The biggest expense was getting the food chain up and running, trying to get enough local farmers, etc, and getting the freshest ingredients possible. The internet connection, while ridiculous on the surface, was necessary to ensure that the ingredients were still fresh, because they literally had no preservatives. They wanted to avoid having people drinking a glass of mold or worse especially if they weren&#x27;t mindful of expiration dates. This could also help if they sold these presses to juice shops (a later business strategy) and the person selling the juice might have old expired stock.<p>But once it was set up, the plan was to scale out and lower prices through higher volume. Unfortunately, the bad press hit just as they were doing a round of funding and went bankrupt soon after because funding dried up.<p>Do I think it would have been a hit? Probably not. But the idea wasn&#x27;t absolutely stupid. It&#x27;s about the same as any other Silicon Valley idea I&#x27;ve heard. Cater to a very select market of influencers first, and then scale out and create a new market based on green juices. The company absolutely believed that green juices would help the world, because it&#x27;s a lot healthier, etc, so if you buy into that mindset that they could create a new industry, then it made sense.<p>Did they make pure business strategy mistake? Yes, just like other companies. Did the founder have too much of a Steve-Jobs-Deity complex by trying to over-design the press? Yes. But it&#x27;s not nearly as bad as people believe from the headlines. The goal was to create a new market, like how Uber created a market by lowering prices for ridesharing. If you could lower the price of green juice to the price of a Starbucks latte from $15, then they really felt like this company would be a tremendous success.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>It&#x27;s also shocking to anybody who had studied Toyota&#x27;s history. Toyota spent decades honing their processes, but are notoriously automation-averse [1], as automation locks in a (hoped-for) short-term productivity gain but prevents the human-driven continuous improvement that has made them highly productive. [2]<p>In some ways, I think the long software-is-eating-the-world boom has been bad for us as an industry. We have been so successful with &quot;throw tech at it&quot; solutions that we don&#x27;t know when that isn&#x27;t a good idea. E.g., the Silicon-Valley-reinvents-grilled-cheese flop The Melt [3], or the $120m clown show that was Juicero [4].<p>American car companies spent decades trying and failing to learn Toyota&#x27;s approach. They even had enthusiastic help from Toyota, who even went so far as to take GM&#x27;s worst plant and redo it as a joint venture. (Interestingly, it&#x27;s the same plant that Tesla now uses. [5]) For those unfamiliar with the story, I strongly recommend This American Life&#x27;s episode on it. [6] But my takeaway was that executive arrogance kept GM from learning that there was a much better way to make cars. That sounds more and more familiar these days.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;40461624&#x2F;how-toyota-is-putting-humans-first-in-an-era-of-increasing-automation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;40461624&#x2F;how-toyota-is-putting-h...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;18960044&#x2F;ns&#x2F;business-autos&#x2F;t&#x2F;study-toyota-most-productive-automaker&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;18960044&#x2F;ns&#x2F;business-autos&#x2F;t&#x2F;study...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;how-the-trendiest-grilled-cheese-venture-got-burnt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;how-the-trendiest-grilled-cheese...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bolt.io&#x2F;heres-why-juicero-s-press-is-so-expensive-6add74594e50" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bolt.io&#x2F;heres-why-juicero-s-press-is-so-expensi...</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NUMMI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NUMMI</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thisamericanlife.org&#x2F;561&#x2F;nummi-2015" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thisamericanlife.org&#x2F;561&#x2F;nummi-2015</a></text></item><item><author>blattimwind</author><text>Anyone who has had to do with the manufacturing side of car makers (German ones anyway) knows how highly optimized from end-to-end their processes are. It seems doubtful that anyone could leapfrog this amount of accumulated process knowledge and optimization simply by way of being new.<p>Automation is not a black-and-white thing, either, as it is often portrayed. Sure, some things are fully automated (e.g. assembling the car body), but many things are partially automated. For example, there is a tool which is essentially 5&#x2F;6&#x2F;7 torque wrenches coupled to a lifting arm. This tool allows a line worker to mount a tire with little physical exertion in seconds. You see this sort of thing all the time at car assembly lines; offloading mechanical power to the machine, while having a human line up and steer things. (This also avoids a whole bunch of safety concerns you normally have when operating autonomous equipment in the same physical space occupied by humans)<p>Another example: The body of virtually any car is self-supporting (there is no frame), so getting it right is rather critical. To achieve both the high strength and low weight of a modern car body the steel is deformed very closely to the maximum deformation it can withstand. This needs very good matching of the process to the steel. So, the manufacturer of the steel coil tests each coil individually for its exact properties. For mass production lines only coils meeting very tight tolerances are used. For low volume lines the process is adjusted individually for each coil based on the manufacturers testing and some in-house testing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/experts-say-tesla-has-repeated-car-industry-mistakes-from-the-1980s/</url></story> |
27,422,619 | 27,421,990 | 1 | 2 | 27,419,072 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notacoward</author><text>Had a similar experience at a previous job. I&#x27;d debugged a problem with one system down to a flaky drive, which I extracted and took to our sysadmin. Without hesitation, he <i>slammed</i> it down on the floor.<p>&quot;It&#x27;s not flaky now.&quot;<p>The thing is, I knew a lot more than he did about how hard drives work, but he knew a lot more about how <i>vendors</i> work. A flaky drive might be hard to replace. A dead one wouldn&#x27;t. Lesson learned.</text><parent_chain><item><author>myrandomcomment</author><text>Back in the mid 90s I was working in IT at a midsized company. We used Compaq desktops (this is the Pentium Pro timeframe). The HD in the system where quantum fireball (IIRC). They failed at an amazing rate all in the first 3 months (30%). We called Compaq at one point and said, look we want replacement drives for all of our remaining systems. After much back and forth (stupid on their part as we had 1000+ machines over their complete line, including servers, so good customer) they refused to help saying “we will only replace them as they fail.” Fine, as you wish. A week later we called into support and reported the failure of 50 HD. They did not believe us. Sent 3 technicians. After they tested the 20th HD the look on their face was priceless. At some point one of the techs noticed the taser on the one of the other work benches in IT. An hour later we received a call from the sale rep telling us that they would replace all the current drives in every system with this model as long as there are no more “mass failures.”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ST3000DM001</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>htek</author><text>I recall a similar experience with a particularly poor-performing $10k+ 3D graphics card for CAD&#x2F;CAM back in the 90s. It had gone back and forth multiple times for crashing the system, locking up and just plain chugging along relative to the other cards we purchased. The problem was definitely the card, but the vendor claimed there was nothing wrong. Every time it was sent back to us there were more wire traces added to the card and other rework done with no explanation.<p>After running a pair of probes hooked up to 110vac along the fingers of the VESA bus connection on the video card (and a few microprocessor chips exploded), the scorch marks were cleaned up and it was sent back one more time. We finally did get a new card that worked perfectly along with a long, vaguely threatening letter.<p>Sometimes the clearest path is through the mud.</text><parent_chain><item><author>myrandomcomment</author><text>Back in the mid 90s I was working in IT at a midsized company. We used Compaq desktops (this is the Pentium Pro timeframe). The HD in the system where quantum fireball (IIRC). They failed at an amazing rate all in the first 3 months (30%). We called Compaq at one point and said, look we want replacement drives for all of our remaining systems. After much back and forth (stupid on their part as we had 1000+ machines over their complete line, including servers, so good customer) they refused to help saying “we will only replace them as they fail.” Fine, as you wish. A week later we called into support and reported the failure of 50 HD. They did not believe us. Sent 3 technicians. After they tested the 20th HD the look on their face was priceless. At some point one of the techs noticed the taser on the one of the other work benches in IT. An hour later we received a call from the sale rep telling us that they would replace all the current drives in every system with this model as long as there are no more “mass failures.”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ST3000DM001</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001</url></story> |
33,440,235 | 33,439,809 | 1 | 3 | 33,439,561 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>The EU has done tons of studies on what methods of food packaging are the most environmentally friendly when you consider a large number of secondary and tertiary environmental impact scenarios.<p>Plastic composites still win until renewable energy is extremely abundant and transport costs go to zero.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coca-Cola increased plastic use ahead of COP27 summit it is sponsoring</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/662d4a0d-e8f5-4cd4-b03f-05b97e13e771</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LatteLazy</author><text>COP summits are where the world get&#x27;s together to pretend it cares or will do something about emissions while secretly following the opposite policy. Coke&#x27;s actions are exactly in line with this mission. They&#x27;re to be congratualted.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coca-Cola increased plastic use ahead of COP27 summit it is sponsoring</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/662d4a0d-e8f5-4cd4-b03f-05b97e13e771</url></story> |
6,921,633 | 6,920,693 | 1 | 2 | 6,920,453 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>logfromblammo</author><text>As I see it, the authors must retain all their copyrights, because any valid transfer of copyright would entail valuable consideration from Elsevier to the author. The authors pay Elsevier to coordinate peer review and publish using their brand names. This necessarily includes granting a license to Elsevier to copy and distribute the author&#x27;s work.<p>Now, there may be other contract terms that are not obvious. One such term may be that the author not publish the work himself. The worst that could happen here is breach of contract. Since the only up-front consideration was from the author, this just means that Elsevier doesn&#x27;t need to do what the author paid them to do, while still keeping the consideration of cash plus copyright license. It&#x27;s sole remedy is to not coordinate peer review and not publish. Since it ALSO charges fees on that end, it has no reason to do that.<p>There must be a quid pro quo in a lawful contract. You can&#x27;t bind someone to its terms unless you give them some valuable thing in return. Elsevier gives NOTHING to the author except the promise of publication and distribution. You can never prevent the author from making his own copies, ever. Your sole remedy is to write a penalty for doing so into the contract, but then you would have to PAY the author something to enforce it.<p>Elsevier does not give the authors anything, therefore they cannot demand performance under the contract. The only thing they can do is use one of those restrictive terms to weasel out of their own obligations under the contract while still keeping what the author gave them. They are absolutely in the wrong by demanding people take down their own work.<p>(I am not a lawyer.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elsevier steps up its War On Access </title><url>http://svpow.com/2013/12/17/elsevier-steps-up-its-war-on-access/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zvrba</author><text>When you agree to publish with Elsevier, you sign a contract where you agree not to publish the final version of the article on-line. Many (most?) Elsevier journals DO permit you to post the so-called &quot;author&#x27;s manuscript&quot; if you also include the appropriate disclaimer. (Whether this is permitted is also written in the contract you sign.)<p>For example: <a href="http://zvrba.net/writings/fusion.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zvrba.net&#x2F;writings&#x2F;fusion.pdf</a><p>In that light, I don&#x27;t think Elsevier is the worst among bad guys. For example, you&#x27;re also permitted to upload the unreviewed version to arxiv before submitting it to journal. Some other journals will outright reject the article because of its &quot;prior publication&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elsevier steps up its War On Access </title><url>http://svpow.com/2013/12/17/elsevier-steps-up-its-war-on-access/</url></story> |
23,905,593 | 23,905,337 | 1 | 3 | 23,903,789 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmitriid</author><text>&gt; Adyen only goes after large businesses and has something many others, including Stripe cannot compete with efficiently: (far) lower pricing, higher market coverage.<p>The reason is: larger businesses will require more payment options than Stripe offers.<p>India? Adyen got you covered: [1] Philippines? Yup, everything [2], including offline payments in stores [3]. Mobile payments in Africa? No worries [4] And so on and so forth. On their payment site they don&#x27;t even list all payment methods, there are so many. You search for a country or a payment method, and they show what&#x27;s available.<p>Stripe has a very long way to go to realistically compete with Adyen.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=india" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=india</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=the-philippines" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=the-philippines</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=convenience-stores-Philippines" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=convenience-stores...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=mobile-network-operator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=mobile-network-ope...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>gregdoesit</author><text>If we are taking about Stripe, we should mention the silent competitor barely anyone talks or knows about outside the payments industry: Adyen.<p>Stripe’s current, (private) valuation is $36B. Developers love them. Adyen’s current, public valuation is $43B (they IPO’d amongst little press coverage). Most developers don’t know about them.<p>So what is the difference? Market strategy. Adyen only goes after large businesses and has something many others, including Stripe cannot compete with efficiently: (far) lower pricing, higher market coverage.<p>The developer experience for Adyen is decent - no complaints, perhaps a bit less “magical”. They will definitely have a fraction of the customers, but those customers are huge. They get and seek little to no publicity compared to Stripe, yet have built a similarly sized business from the Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which is remarkable.<p>It’s a completely different market strategy, and company strategy. Read the Adyen values to see how different the two companies are[1] - Adyen putting “merchants” first, with a mention of support, while Stripe prioritizing developers and small businesses. And company culture could not be more different either - saying this as someone who knows both Adyen and Stripe employees. Both are companies to admire, and show that there is no “one” good way to build immense value.<p>It will be fascinating to see what happens as these two companies expand to compete with each other (meaning Adyen starting to go after small businesses, and Stripe after the largest merchants, with a differentiated pricing model).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;about</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building a Developer Cult</title><url>https://subvert.substack.com/p/stripe-building-a-developer-cult</url></story> | <instructions>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>Some realities manifest at different scales. Once you&#x27;re in the largest tier, the &quot;where is the money&quot; reality affects things.<p>Large corporations are the larger, wealthier segment.<p>A big chunk of &quot;startup business strategies&quot; ignore this market. This makes a lot of sense for a startup. You don&#x27;t really care what the bigger market is as a startup, you care what market is easier to access. Assuming the market is big (eg online payments), the size of the market isn&#x27;t a limiting factor.<p>That works in-context. I&#x27;f you&#x27;re trying to build a startup, landing a multi-year contract with a big company is a bad angle for multiple reasons. Not always, but mostly in the generic case. Long sales cycles. Checklist feature demands. Custom features. Besides being hard for most founders, it pushes in the wrong directions. Meanwhile, who cares if you&#x27;re addressing a $3bn market or a $800bn market. Both of those are big enough for a startup aiming for $8m in revenue. Your problem is sucking and failure, not pyrrhic victories.<p>Also, if you are successful enough, small markets become big markets. When Google IPO-ed, they competed with yellow pages for mom-n-pop business &amp; such.<p>OTOH, most of the market <i>is</i> large companies, governments, etc. That&#x27;s reality, and it means something. Now that VCs fund startups so generously, a common pattern is bootstrapping in a shallow pond... then jumping into the main pond once you have momentum.<p>EG, Having a &quot;developer cult&quot; mentality, like stripe, at your base <i>will</i> serve you in the long term. Enterprise developers do have influence. It&#x27;s never what makes a decision, but it <i>can</i> be a favourable wind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregdoesit</author><text>If we are taking about Stripe, we should mention the silent competitor barely anyone talks or knows about outside the payments industry: Adyen.<p>Stripe’s current, (private) valuation is $36B. Developers love them. Adyen’s current, public valuation is $43B (they IPO’d amongst little press coverage). Most developers don’t know about them.<p>So what is the difference? Market strategy. Adyen only goes after large businesses and has something many others, including Stripe cannot compete with efficiently: (far) lower pricing, higher market coverage.<p>The developer experience for Adyen is decent - no complaints, perhaps a bit less “magical”. They will definitely have a fraction of the customers, but those customers are huge. They get and seek little to no publicity compared to Stripe, yet have built a similarly sized business from the Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which is remarkable.<p>It’s a completely different market strategy, and company strategy. Read the Adyen values to see how different the two companies are[1] - Adyen putting “merchants” first, with a mention of support, while Stripe prioritizing developers and small businesses. And company culture could not be more different either - saying this as someone who knows both Adyen and Stripe employees. Both are companies to admire, and show that there is no “one” good way to build immense value.<p>It will be fascinating to see what happens as these two companies expand to compete with each other (meaning Adyen starting to go after small businesses, and Stripe after the largest merchants, with a differentiated pricing model).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;about</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building a Developer Cult</title><url>https://subvert.substack.com/p/stripe-building-a-developer-cult</url></story> |
16,824,173 | 16,824,105 | 1 | 2 | 16,822,888 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>Agreed. I speak Portuguese fluently as a second language, and wanted to see what the Duolingo material was like. First warning sign: I couldn&#x27;t pass the test to study intermediate content, because a significant proportion of the multiple-choice answers were just <i>wrong</i>. Then, looking at the beginner content, a shocking number of answers were wrong as well. It was kind of funny, since each piece of material had user comments associated, you&#x27;d see 70+ comments from people all complaining about wrong answers.<p>That immediately destroyed any trust with them. When you put out educational material, it has to be correct. That <i>has</i> to be the foundation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>firefoxd</author><text>I did Duolingo seriously for more than 370 days in a row.<p>Spanish: I speak french and English so Spanish is relatively easy to complete. After completing the course, I tried having conversations with people (with friends but mostly uber drivers) and I was surprised how many times i learned it all wrong. I had to read a lot or children book to remedy that.<p>French: As a french speaker, I went through it as a meta course just to see. It was very awkward. The correct answers are always cringe worthy. Some of them even wrong.<p>Japanese: This is very different from the languages I speak. But after completing the entire suite, I still can&#x27;t look at a japanese text and read it. I can&#x27;t form a sentence on my own because it never teaches you how. I can&#x27;t count to ten because it only gives you numbers randomly. I know a few colors. I know words, but those words make no sense on their own. I also had to follow youtube lessons to make any sense of what I learned.<p>Duolingo is cool at making it look fun to learn. I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;ll learn to speak any languages with it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/40555712/duolingo-suddenly-has-over-twice-as-much-language-learning-material</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rando444</author><text>I&#x27;ve been on duolingo since the beginning and am sure that I&#x27;ve spent more time with the site and app than 95% of the userbase.<p>I&#x27;ve learned languages with duolingo.. and by that I don&#x27;t mean duolingo will teach you a language.<p>There&#x27;s two things that I feel that almost everyone misses.<p>#1: Using duolingo alone will get you to about an A2-B1 level in comprehension and an A1-A2 level in writing and speaking.<p>This is just the basics of a language.. enough to understand basic expressions. You&#x27;re never going to learn a language without further practice and tools. Spending time in books, trying to form your own thoughts. Duolingo is a great start, but if you never progress beyond it, of course you&#x27;re not going to learn a language.<p>#2: and most important. When you complete a course you&#x27;re not done.<p>I see this all of the time, people just get to the last exercise and stop.<p>You&#x27;re not going to learn a language this way because most people can&#x27;t retain a 2000+ word vocabulary by only seeing a word a couple of times.<p>There&#x27;s a reason why your &quot;strength&quot; in categories decreases as time passes.. because it&#x27;s unlikely that you&#x27;ve actually remembered every single word you were taught.<p>I&#x27;ve participated in a large number of duolingo related discussion over the years and one thing stands out is that there is a strong correlation between people that think you can&#x27;t use it to learn a language and people that go straight through the course, reach the end, and stop.<p>Anyway, it has its flaws, and is far from perfect, but I can&#x27;t imagine having a better product that does not come with a fee.</text><parent_chain><item><author>firefoxd</author><text>I did Duolingo seriously for more than 370 days in a row.<p>Spanish: I speak french and English so Spanish is relatively easy to complete. After completing the course, I tried having conversations with people (with friends but mostly uber drivers) and I was surprised how many times i learned it all wrong. I had to read a lot or children book to remedy that.<p>French: As a french speaker, I went through it as a meta course just to see. It was very awkward. The correct answers are always cringe worthy. Some of them even wrong.<p>Japanese: This is very different from the languages I speak. But after completing the entire suite, I still can&#x27;t look at a japanese text and read it. I can&#x27;t form a sentence on my own because it never teaches you how. I can&#x27;t count to ten because it only gives you numbers randomly. I know a few colors. I know words, but those words make no sense on their own. I also had to follow youtube lessons to make any sense of what I learned.<p>Duolingo is cool at making it look fun to learn. I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;ll learn to speak any languages with it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/40555712/duolingo-suddenly-has-over-twice-as-much-language-learning-material</url></story> |
30,058,898 | 30,058,828 | 1 | 3 | 30,058,443 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samhw</author><text>This is why I think we need a &#x27;simple cloud&#x27; where people can spin up a single server nearly instantly, with sane defaults which are configurable if needed, and a super simple flow to connect it to GitHub (maybe even &quot;Go to your repo and `curl foo.sh&#x2F;setup?id=ZnVjayB0ZXJyYWZvcm0K | sh`, then commit the result&quot;).<p>There&#x27;s <i>so much</i> you could do from a UX point of view. Nobody wants to be fiddling around with IAM roles, trying to add the right ingress rules so their server can actually connect to the internet, configuring TCP_NODELAY, etc - and then constantly wondering if their server is secure. Just to run some CRUD React app whose requirements are the same as the other 99.99% of developers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Actually, rapidly developing a startup (as is the context of this website) is one of the best use cases of cloud services.<p>It’s true: You can set up and maintain all of your own services, create a backup system for them, test it all, and handle your own redundancy. If you have an engineering background, this probably feels natural and will feel like a lot of progress and accomplishment. But in the time it takes to do all of that (usually distributed and interwoven into other activities) you could have been prototyping out your startup. That’s the value of cloud.<p>You can always invest the effort into setting up your own services later as a cost reduction move. Doing the cost-reduction activities before you’ve even prototyped a business isn’t a great use of precious time in a startup’s early days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You Don't Need the Cloud</title><url>https://80daystartup.com/day-10/you-dont-need-the-cloud/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdvh</author><text>That&#x27;s fair, and I&#x27;m not dogmatically opposed to the cloud. But when you have underpowered cloud machines you end up having different machines for email, for web workers, for caching, and so on. The complexity you introduce by making your app scalable in that way you just don&#x27;t have when you stick everything on 1 dedicated server. With dedicated machines I don&#x27;t need to create a distributed architecture prematurely.<p>It takes us some time to set up dedicated machines, but less than a day. Ansible helps a bunch.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Actually, rapidly developing a startup (as is the context of this website) is one of the best use cases of cloud services.<p>It’s true: You can set up and maintain all of your own services, create a backup system for them, test it all, and handle your own redundancy. If you have an engineering background, this probably feels natural and will feel like a lot of progress and accomplishment. But in the time it takes to do all of that (usually distributed and interwoven into other activities) you could have been prototyping out your startup. That’s the value of cloud.<p>You can always invest the effort into setting up your own services later as a cost reduction move. Doing the cost-reduction activities before you’ve even prototyped a business isn’t a great use of precious time in a startup’s early days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You Don't Need the Cloud</title><url>https://80daystartup.com/day-10/you-dont-need-the-cloud/</url></story> |
15,104,297 | 15,104,273 | 1 | 2 | 15,103,743 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shostack</author><text>I played D&amp;D with the Gygax family almost every weekend as a teenager. They were fundamental to shaping my teenage years and beyond.<p>I will never forget randomly stumbling into The Game Guild in Lake Geneva on a school trip, meeting the group of people playing D&amp;D in the back room filled with soda and pizza boxes, and then finding out that the DM and another player were actually Gary&#x27;s sons, Ernie and Luke. I drove up every weekend to play for 2 years from that point, and every weekend when back from college.<p>It helped me come out of my shell and become more social, and caused me to start my own local D&amp;D group. This eventually turned into me growing my own group of friends after having moved and not knowing anyone. I created another group in college with the same result. I also of course jumped at the chance to join one at work when a colleague started one up which has brought me closer to my co-workers.<p>It also taught me physics and math, because our entire party almost got incinerated due to a miscalculation of fireball volume. I&#x27;ll also never forget casually mentioning a Mordenkainen spell, only to have one of the players make some joke indicating that he had created the spell. Turns out the original Mordenkainen was one of his characters. And someone else there was Bigby, and Tenser.<p>No real point to this point other than to thank the Gygax family for making my teenage years more memorable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Destroy All Monsters: A Journey into the Caverns of Dungeons and Dragons (2006)</title><url>http://www.believermag.com/issues/200609/?read=article_lafarge</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Endy</author><text>In all honesty, I just got home from my (rather large) gaming group. At one end of the room they were playing Nobilis; I was teaching FATE Core to a group of new players. The worlds in the games are different, the rules are different... and yet I can&#x27;t help but agree completely that there&#x27;s a grand culture of cooperation, friendship, and acceptance among hardcore gamers.<p>If that&#x27;s some kind of &quot;fantasy world&quot;, where everyone works together, believes in each other, and where the arguments are resolved with a roll of the dice? Then I&#x27;m more than content to live in that fantasy; and work every day to make it closer to reality.<p>The author got in before I did (I started with the computer games based on 2E and moved up and down from there), but I can relate to everything he said. I can even relate to Gygax himself as the author says it:<p>&quot;From which you could conclude, I guess, that games are everything for Gygax, or that everything is a game; but I don’t think that would be quite right. I think that he has found a way to live.&quot;<p>I want to keep fighting to find that way to live. Where someday, I might have a home with an open-door policy, where we can sit down and for those few hours reclaim something essential about the human existence, regardless of that world outside.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Destroy All Monsters: A Journey into the Caverns of Dungeons and Dragons (2006)</title><url>http://www.believermag.com/issues/200609/?read=article_lafarge</url></story> |
35,403,315 | 35,398,584 | 1 | 2 | 35,380,742 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bmitc</author><text>I strongly suspect that the impact of LLMs is overblown. Unless they suddenly are able to synthesize complex and ill-defined requirements that change over time, I don&#x27;t expect their impact will be beyond novelty.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nextaccountic</author><text>This is an amazing explanation, but I sense that it will become dated in some years, like, it will describe how computing worked in the old times, when people actually coded by hand.<p>Because,<p>&gt; Flexibility and the ability to make inferences are skills that children learn as they grow up. But computers are like Peter Pan: they never grow up.<p>LLMs will change all of this. Maybe in some decades we will see programming environments that don&#x27;t require people to understand the solution in order to create a program. For example, it may be possible for people to create spellcheckers without understanding the rules of spelling.<p>Unfortunately this will create a whole new class of bugs due to AIs hallucinating code, and I&#x27;m afraid that the average software quality will take a hit.</text></item><item><author>divan</author><text>The best explanation I&#x27;ve seen is in the book &quot;The Secret Life of Programs&quot; by Jonathan E. Steinhart. I&#x27;ll quote that paragraph verbatim:<p>---<p>Computer programming is a two-step process:<p>1. Understand the universe.<p>2. Explain it to a three-year-old.<p>What does this mean? Well, you can&#x27;t write computer programs to do things that you yourself don&#x27;t understand. For example, you can&#x27;t write a spellchecker if you don&#x27;t know the rules for spelling, and you can&#x27;t write a good action video game if you don&#x27;t know physics. So, the first step in becoming a good computer programmer is to learn as much as you can about everything else. Solutions to problems often come from unexpected places, so don&#x27;t ignore something just because it doesn&#x27;t seem immediately relevant.<p>The second step of the process requires explaining what you know to a machine that has a very rigid view of the world, like young children do. This rigidity in children is really obvious when they&#x27;re about three years old. Let&#x27;s say you&#x27;re trying to get out the door. You ask your child, &quot;Where are your shoes?&quot; The response: &quot;There.&quot; She did answer your question. The problem is, she doesn&#x27;t understand that you&#x27;re really asking her to put her shoes on so that you both can go somewhere. Flexibility and the ability to make inferences are skills that children learn as they grow up. But computers are like Peter Pan: they never grow up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Programming isn’t coding (2020)</title><url>https://occasionallycogent.com/programming_isnt_coding/index.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>benj111</author><text>The programmer has to understand the problem. If the person behind the keyboard offloads that to AI, the AI is the programmer. The person behind the keyboard is basically just a manager.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nextaccountic</author><text>This is an amazing explanation, but I sense that it will become dated in some years, like, it will describe how computing worked in the old times, when people actually coded by hand.<p>Because,<p>&gt; Flexibility and the ability to make inferences are skills that children learn as they grow up. But computers are like Peter Pan: they never grow up.<p>LLMs will change all of this. Maybe in some decades we will see programming environments that don&#x27;t require people to understand the solution in order to create a program. For example, it may be possible for people to create spellcheckers without understanding the rules of spelling.<p>Unfortunately this will create a whole new class of bugs due to AIs hallucinating code, and I&#x27;m afraid that the average software quality will take a hit.</text></item><item><author>divan</author><text>The best explanation I&#x27;ve seen is in the book &quot;The Secret Life of Programs&quot; by Jonathan E. Steinhart. I&#x27;ll quote that paragraph verbatim:<p>---<p>Computer programming is a two-step process:<p>1. Understand the universe.<p>2. Explain it to a three-year-old.<p>What does this mean? Well, you can&#x27;t write computer programs to do things that you yourself don&#x27;t understand. For example, you can&#x27;t write a spellchecker if you don&#x27;t know the rules for spelling, and you can&#x27;t write a good action video game if you don&#x27;t know physics. So, the first step in becoming a good computer programmer is to learn as much as you can about everything else. Solutions to problems often come from unexpected places, so don&#x27;t ignore something just because it doesn&#x27;t seem immediately relevant.<p>The second step of the process requires explaining what you know to a machine that has a very rigid view of the world, like young children do. This rigidity in children is really obvious when they&#x27;re about three years old. Let&#x27;s say you&#x27;re trying to get out the door. You ask your child, &quot;Where are your shoes?&quot; The response: &quot;There.&quot; She did answer your question. The problem is, she doesn&#x27;t understand that you&#x27;re really asking her to put her shoes on so that you both can go somewhere. Flexibility and the ability to make inferences are skills that children learn as they grow up. But computers are like Peter Pan: they never grow up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Programming isn’t coding (2020)</title><url>https://occasionallycogent.com/programming_isnt_coding/index.html</url></story> |
27,789,388 | 27,788,963 | 1 | 2 | 27,784,115 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codetrotter</author><text>&gt; This article of course presents automatic programming as if it&#x27;s a brand new thing that is only now possible to do thanks to &quot;AI&quot;, but that is only how companies that sell the technology find it convenient to present things to market their products.<p>Reminds me of this essay that pg wrote in 2005, titled The Submarine. Someone linked it in another thread here on HN recently.<p>&gt; One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren&#x27;t about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;submarine.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;submarine.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>YeGoblynQueenne</author><text>This article of course presents automatic programming as if it&#x27;s a brand new
thing that is only now possible to do thanks to &quot;AI&quot;, but that is only how
companies that sell the technology find it convenient to present things to
market their products. The thing to keep in mind is that program synthesis is an
old field and a lot of progress has been made that is completely ignored by the
article. Of course most people haven&#x27;t even heard of &quot;program synthesis&quot; in the
first place, simply because it is not as much hyped as GPT-3 and friends.<p>From my point of view (my field of study is basically program synthesis for
logic programs) code generation with large language models is not really
comparable to what can be achieved with traditional program synthesis
approaches.<p>The main advance seems to be in the extent to which a natural language (i.e.
English) specification can be used, but natural language specifications are
inherently limited because of the ambiguity of natural language. Additionally,
trying to generate new code by modelling old code has the obvious limitation
that no genuinely new code can be generated. If you ask a language model to
generate code it doesn&#x27;t know how to generate - you&#x27;ll only get back garbage.
Because it has no way to <i>discover</i> code it doesn&#x27;t already know how to write.<p>So Copilot, for example, looks like it will make a fine boilerplate generator -
and I&#x27;m less skeptical about its utility than most posters here (maybe partly
because I&#x27;m not worried <i>my</i> work will be automated) but that&#x27;s all that should
be expected of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Automating programming: AI is transforming the coding of computer programs</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/07/07/ai-is-transforming-the-coding-of-computer-programs</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>montenegrohugo</author><text>Hmmm. A few points.<p>First, I&#x27;ve never heard of program synthesis, and it seems like an interesting topic. Could you point me to some resources so I can learn more about it?<p>Second. I take issue with this statement:<p>&gt; &quot;trying to generate new code by modelling old code has the obvious limitation that no genuinely new code can be generated&quot;<p>I disagree. We&#x27;ve seen GAN&#x27;s generate genuinely new artwork, we&#x27;ve seen music synthesizers do the same. We&#x27;ve also seen GPT-3 and other generative text engines create genuinely interesting and innovative content. AI dungeon comes to mind. Sure, it&#x27;s in one way or another based on it&#x27;s training data. But that&#x27;s what humans do too.<p>Our level of abstraction is just higher, and we&#x27;re able to generate more &quot;distinct&quot; music&#x2F;code&#x2F;songs based on our own training data. But that may not hold in the long term, and it also doesn&#x27;t mean that current AI models can do nothing but regurgitate. They <i>can</i> generate new, genuinely interesting content and connections.</text><parent_chain><item><author>YeGoblynQueenne</author><text>This article of course presents automatic programming as if it&#x27;s a brand new
thing that is only now possible to do thanks to &quot;AI&quot;, but that is only how
companies that sell the technology find it convenient to present things to
market their products. The thing to keep in mind is that program synthesis is an
old field and a lot of progress has been made that is completely ignored by the
article. Of course most people haven&#x27;t even heard of &quot;program synthesis&quot; in the
first place, simply because it is not as much hyped as GPT-3 and friends.<p>From my point of view (my field of study is basically program synthesis for
logic programs) code generation with large language models is not really
comparable to what can be achieved with traditional program synthesis
approaches.<p>The main advance seems to be in the extent to which a natural language (i.e.
English) specification can be used, but natural language specifications are
inherently limited because of the ambiguity of natural language. Additionally,
trying to generate new code by modelling old code has the obvious limitation
that no genuinely new code can be generated. If you ask a language model to
generate code it doesn&#x27;t know how to generate - you&#x27;ll only get back garbage.
Because it has no way to <i>discover</i> code it doesn&#x27;t already know how to write.<p>So Copilot, for example, looks like it will make a fine boilerplate generator -
and I&#x27;m less skeptical about its utility than most posters here (maybe partly
because I&#x27;m not worried <i>my</i> work will be automated) but that&#x27;s all that should
be expected of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Automating programming: AI is transforming the coding of computer programs</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/07/07/ai-is-transforming-the-coding-of-computer-programs</url></story> |
23,742,242 | 23,738,632 | 1 | 2 | 23,738,292 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>camillomiller</author><text>You’re applying the wrong Western categories to Chinese people.
People think Chinese don’t have a religion, but they actually do and the God is China itself.
First, they all believe China needs to step up to its role in the World stage.
Second, the social pact in China is quite straightforward: you give up some useless rights that only weak westerners seem to be overly attached to, and you get in exchange growth, stability, safety, work and riches.
Chinese people that live by this social pact are genuinely happy people. They know about the data collection, they know about the limitations to the information but they don’t care as long as they feel safer, richer and on a prosperous path. Which, sadly, has been true for a while now, if you consider how many trillions of dollars the country has invested in R&amp;D in the last 35 years.
All this while America has been gradually renouncing to their international role, or while even allies have come to reckon the instability America has been unleashing on so many regions of the world just by pretending to operate by the failed credo of “exporting democracy”.
Mix this and what the Chinese believe about their country’s place in the world and you’ll understand their perspective better.
The US and the US way of life are not the center of the free world anymore and haven’t been for a long time.
As a European, living in Germany, my only hope is in a third European way. Quite sad that Angela Merkel will be stepping down, she would have been the right leader to manage this for the entire EU.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chadcmulligan</author><text>How is it that many Chinese students are schooled in the west, and have access to all these books and thoughts, but then they don&#x27;t exist when they go back home. There must be some significant cognitive dissonance between the two situations. I don&#x27;t see how they can keep a lid on this long term.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/05/hong-kong-books-by-pro-democracy-activists-disappear-from-library-shelves</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arkades</author><text>As a Russian, seeing how Russians perceive things, which I imagine is something of an analogue:<p>They don&#x27;t believe our internal propaganda. That&#x27;s why Russia and the like spend so much time hyping up where we don&#x27;t live up to our ideals - it lets them sell the line that we&#x27;re just as bad, just as corrupt, just as etc. but we either mouth the propaganda trying to get by, or we&#x27;re dumb&#x2F;gullible enough to fall for the propaganda.<p>My understanding of Chinese culture suggests there&#x27;s also a strand of &quot;they&#x27;d love us to be hamstrung by falling for their bullshit, so we don&#x27;t seize our place in the world.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>chadcmulligan</author><text>How is it that many Chinese students are schooled in the west, and have access to all these books and thoughts, but then they don&#x27;t exist when they go back home. There must be some significant cognitive dissonance between the two situations. I don&#x27;t see how they can keep a lid on this long term.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/05/hong-kong-books-by-pro-democracy-activists-disappear-from-library-shelves</url></story> |
10,403,849 | 10,402,994 | 1 | 2 | 10,400,550 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aianus</author><text>You&#x27;re missing the whole point of 23andme.<p>It&#x27;s not a consumer product to analyze your own DNA, that&#x27;s just a disguise. With machine learning and a large enough population size they will eventually be able to determine the genetic markers that promote every disease. Personalized medicine will be the next breakthrough in medicine and human longevity.<p>This requires them to have everyone&#x27;s DNA, trait, and medical history on file.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mahyarm</author><text>This is why I didn&#x27;t use 23andMe&#x27;s service. Because it&#x27;s in their database, forever.<p>I want a genetic sequencing service where they sequence everything, put it on multiple encrypted USB sticks and send it to you. Once you confirm you received your copy, they destroy the backup USB sticks.<p>They never will store it on some centralized server. It will never end up on some tape backup. They will never have a copy after you get yours.<p>Then you need DNA analysis software that runs offline.<p>Most of them won&#x27;t want to do that although, because it makes them a commodity service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA</title><url>http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-asking-ancestry-com-and-23andme-for-their-customers-dna/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Camillo</author><text>Indeed! I have always been curious about trying 23andMe, but I was concerned about my DNA being forever stored in a database somewhere. Now my decision is final, I&#x27;m never going to use that kind of service.<p>I think this is going to impact their growth as more people realize the implications. I doubt their recent new investors[0] are happy.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;matthewherper&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;14&#x2F;23andme-prepares-a-comeback-raising-115-million-at-a-1-1-billion-valuation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;matthewherper&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;14&#x2F;23andme...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mahyarm</author><text>This is why I didn&#x27;t use 23andMe&#x27;s service. Because it&#x27;s in their database, forever.<p>I want a genetic sequencing service where they sequence everything, put it on multiple encrypted USB sticks and send it to you. Once you confirm you received your copy, they destroy the backup USB sticks.<p>They never will store it on some centralized server. It will never end up on some tape backup. They will never have a copy after you get yours.<p>Then you need DNA analysis software that runs offline.<p>Most of them won&#x27;t want to do that although, because it makes them a commodity service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA</title><url>http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-asking-ancestry-com-and-23andme-for-their-customers-dna/</url></story> |
11,178,663 | 11,178,368 | 1 | 3 | 11,173,889 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>We&#x27;re closer to my nirvana: I go on vacation and take NO pictures, just enjoy myself, but photobomb other people constantly. When I get home, Google makes a vacation album for me, by identifying my face in all those other pictures! With knowledge of my itinerary it should be easy now!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Unveils Neural Network to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600889/google-unveils-neural-network-with-superhuman-ability-to-determine-the-location-of-almost/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joshfraser</author><text>You could improve the accuracy by using the timestamp of when the photo was taken &amp; looking at the amount of daylight in the photo.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Unveils Neural Network to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600889/google-unveils-neural-network-with-superhuman-ability-to-determine-the-location-of-almost/</url></story> |
15,903,886 | 15,900,981 | 1 | 2 | 15,898,478 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikemcquaid</author><text>&gt; Wow, the maintainer on that PR is a real jerk. He refused to answer a legitimate question (and locked the PR at the same time) because he thought the original (since edited) complaint of &quot;The error message for this patch is terrible&quot; was &quot;rude&quot;.<p>The commenting user in this case immediately opened another issue where they were rude to another maintainer too, had to be warned about their behaviour and (unlike most people who are warned) did not apologise. This issue was not locked.<p>My work on Homebrew over the last 9 years has been almost entirely in my free time. That&#x27;s time I&#x27;m not spending with my wife, friends, dog or (now) new baby. As my Twitter and GitHub bios point out: &quot;I block rude people&quot;. I&#x27;m not interested in giving my free time to people who cannot be polite.<p>The GitHub UI indicates whether someone is a first-time contributor, contributor or maintainer. You get cut proportionally more slack for having a bad day and being rude if you&#x27;ve contributed to Homebrew already. I try to be over-the-top positive for new contributors and I will immediately and genuinely gratefully accept apologies that are given.<p>&gt; MikeMcQuaid, if you ever read this, this sort of behavior on your part is a great argument for ditching HomeBrew.<p>If you&#x27;d like to ditch Homebrew: please go ahead. There&#x27;s things that MacPorts do better than we do and the MacPorts maintainers I know are good people. If you use Homebrew: you are the one who benefits, we do not. I want to build something that&#x27;s useful but primarily maintaining Homebrew needs to be an enjoyable experience for me and others for it to be a sustainable project.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eridius</author><text>&gt; <i>Homebrew requires the CLT on all but the latest version of macOS (to avoid copious workarounds in formulae)</i><p>Why? What are these workarounds? The linked PR didn&#x27;t explain, and as someone who&#x27;s still got one machine on 10.12 I&#x27;d really rather not have to keep CLT installed as well.<p>Edit: Wow, the maintainer on that PR is a real jerk. He refused to answer a legitimate question (and locked the PR at the same time) because he thought the original (since edited) complaint of &quot;The error message for this patch is terrible&quot; was &quot;rude&quot;.<p>MikeMcQuaid, if you ever read this, this sort of behavior on your part is a great argument for ditching HomeBrew.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Homebrew 1.4.0</title><url>https://brew.sh/2017/12/11/homebrew-1.4.0/</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>woodruffw</author><text>I&#x27;m the guy who originally made Homebrew independent of the CLT (GSoC 2015).<p>macOS is a constantly moving target, and it&#x27;s hard enough to get consistent behavior across multiple versions <i>with</i> the CLT installed. It&#x27;s a losing battle that I&#x27;ve been fighting for the last 3 years, and it&#x27;s one with diminishing returns (only a minority of Homebrew users don&#x27;t want&#x2F;need the CLT for other purposes anyways).<p>Edit: As for PR, we get a lot of issues and PRs that amount to handling a 1% case at the cost of the 99% case. When we get those, we have to consider both to time cost to ourselves <i>and</i> the future maintenance cost. We could probably be a little less brusque about it, but the reality is that we don&#x27;t have the kind of labor or resources necessary to support maintenance-heavy features like CLT-free installs on older macOS versions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eridius</author><text>&gt; <i>Homebrew requires the CLT on all but the latest version of macOS (to avoid copious workarounds in formulae)</i><p>Why? What are these workarounds? The linked PR didn&#x27;t explain, and as someone who&#x27;s still got one machine on 10.12 I&#x27;d really rather not have to keep CLT installed as well.<p>Edit: Wow, the maintainer on that PR is a real jerk. He refused to answer a legitimate question (and locked the PR at the same time) because he thought the original (since edited) complaint of &quot;The error message for this patch is terrible&quot; was &quot;rude&quot;.<p>MikeMcQuaid, if you ever read this, this sort of behavior on your part is a great argument for ditching HomeBrew.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Homebrew 1.4.0</title><url>https://brew.sh/2017/12/11/homebrew-1.4.0/</url></story> |
8,048,121 | 8,048,161 | 1 | 2 | 8,046,860 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JshWright</author><text>&gt; Cops deserve respect and deference, if only because they stand for public order and that deserves it.<p>I&#x27;m a firefighter&#x2F;paramedic, and am very familiar with many of the scenarios you described. Many of my drinking buddies are cops, and I&#x27;m very grateful that they have my back night after night.<p>That being said, I disagree completely with your statement that cops deserve respect simply because they &#x27;stand for public order&#x27;. There have been more than enough examples in recent history where cops have very clearly _not_ been acting in the public&#x27;s interest, and I think it&#x27;s prudent for average citizens to be wary of cops. It&#x27;s an unfortunate reality, but it&#x27;s the culture that law enforcement has chosen to create.<p>Having had a handful of interactions with LEOs while &#x27;off the clock&#x27;, it really amazes me how different their attitude is from when I&#x27;m in uniform.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Oh for pity&#x27;s sake, follow a cop around some Saturday night downtown, before lecturing us on what a soft life a cop&#x27;s job is. Deal with the belligerent drunks, entitled rich boys, teenagers with too much car and no sense. Enter a store that gave off a silent alarm, in the dark, all by yourself and tell me what a walk in the park it is.<p>&quot;Stand up against them&quot;? See how lovely a world it is without them - what comes next is very much worse than what you&#x27;re complaining about.<p>Cops deserve respect and deference, if only because they stand for public order and that deserves it.</text></item><item><author>omgtehblackbloc</author><text><i>Being a cop is legitimately dangerous</i><p>Not really, no. It&#x27;s just not that dangerous. We imagine it must be dangerous, and so do cops themselves. But you&#x27;re a lot more likely to be killed as a garbage collector or airline pilot, or a construction worker, or plenty of other jobs.<p>It&#x27;s like with the &quot;war on terror&quot;. The fear of danger is much more powerful than the danger itself. And like with terrorism, the fear is actively promoted for political reasons.<p><i>They do what everyone does, what has to be done for policing to be viable.</i><p>That seems like an argument against the department as a whole, not a justification for an individual&#x27;s abuse.<p><i>Most of the people they deal with are lowlifes, lyres, cheaters.</i><p>Most of the people they deal with are ordinary innocent civilians whom they assume are &quot;lowlifes&quot; because they have been trained and conditioned to.<p><i>That said, this following cops around only plays to the problem paradigm. It&#x27;s harassment, like what paparazzi do. It&#x27;s belligerent. Maybe it&#x27;s valuable as a protest, but it isn&#x27;t as solution.</i><p>It is belligerent, and it is harassment, and it is protest. And that&#x27;s the point. People with power do not voluntarily stop abusing it. They continue until met with resistance - until they are forced to stop.<p>Unfortunately it&#x27;s effectively suicide to physically force the cops to stop, but we should do everything we can short of that to stand up against them. Standing up against the cops sets an example for others that we don&#x27;t need to fear them, that they don&#x27;t deserve respect and deference, and that we can do something directly to stop their abuse.</text></item><item><author>netcan</author><text>I don&#x27;t think reality is as clear cut as that. There is genuine complexity. Being a cop is legitimately dangerous, gun or no gun. A gun isn&#x27;t an off switch. People can confront an armed cop and shooting doesn&#x27;t always stop them.<p>There are also all sorts of rules that are learned on the job and aren&#x27;t not in any manual. Ways for maintaining control and authority mostly. Many of these practices are unsanctioned and unofficial, but still essential for being able to do the job. Some things are both crucial and illegal.<p>Cops usually feel like when they get busted for being arrogant, bullying or outright violence that they are are victims of these situations. They do what everyone does, what has to be done for policing to be viable. Those pencil pushers with their removed perspective are making judgments about their irrelevant rules being broken.<p>They are under stress. Violence is a part of their days. Most of the people they deal with are lowlifes, lyres, cheaters. There is real stress. Real danger<p>That said, a lot of these practices aren&#x27;t benign and they aren&#x27;t inevitable. The police does genuinely attract many problematic people and it makes other. They get used to defending their authority and meet challenges to it with extreme responses. They develop a cops &amp; robbers, us &amp; them worldview that becomes their reality. More specifically cops, criminals and naive spectators, citizens &amp; bureaucrats.<p>They develop a bullying mannerism.<p>Police manage to do their jobs without guns at all in many places. They deal with violent crime just like cops in the states. I&#x27;m not saying this should be adopted by US department, but is proof that there are other ways of doing things.<p>I think lights good for the paradigm. But, whatever that light reveals needs to be dealt with. Maybe police modus operandi needs to changed. But, maybe the rulebook needs to change too. It can be dangerous trying to enforce the official rulebook after long periods where it has only been enforced selectively. Maybe the official way of doing things doesn&#x27;t work.<p>That said, this following cops around only plays to the problem paradigm. It&#x27;s harassment, like what paparazzi do. It&#x27;s belligerent. Maybe it&#x27;s valuable as a protest, but it isn&#x27;t as solution.<p>What I think should happen in law enforcement is that everything should be recorded. Every interrogation. Every arrest. Every time a cop pulls you over. This is all evidence and it should be part of every booking.<p>Hopefully that will make the need for this sort of thing go away.</text></item><item><author>ndarilek</author><text>I have a hard time swallowing police department rhetoric in these situations. The officer has a gun, and the unfortunate power to make &quot;extra-legal&quot; killings with it. They&#x27;re safe. If they irresponsibly use that gun in an unsafe manner, like all the drunken NYPD officers who shoot people[0], then it absolutely is our or someone&#x27;s responsibility to take matters into our own hands and monitor ourselves until we see that accountability. Relying on internal affairs&#x2F;review commissions to provide that is a broken model.<p>Also, I know folks doing this locally, and have watched officers request that filmers stand at a safe distance. It&#x27;s interesting to me how often &quot;safe distance&quot; corresponds with a) somewhere with a shitty view far away and b) a position where the filmer is significantly further away than a number of pedestrians or gawkers whose &quot;safety&quot; presumably isn&#x27;t in dispute. I have good friends who were arrested for nothing more than filming, and they were often given confusing and contradictory orders by an officer who obviously felt he had the immediate situation well enough in hand to direct most of his attention ordering the filmer around. It happened almost 2 years ago, no charges were filed, and if this was a legitimate concern then I&#x27;d really like to see some obstruction charges brought in the several local cases I&#x27;ve seen of citizens arrested for filming.<p>I do agree that some of these groups&#x27; strategies are a bit busted. I&#x27;m familiar with the Peaceful Streets Project here in Austin, and sometimes the ragey&#x2F;personal rhetoric got a bit overpowering. Then again, cops kill people, often under suspicious circumstances, and get away with it. Perhaps it is time for a bit of rage, and to make it personal.<p>0. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/brendan-conin-nypd-shooting-pelham-drunk_n_5247504.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;01&#x2F;brendan-conin-nypd-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>North Texas citizens organize to monitor police with video cameras</title><url>http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Arlington-Residents-Police-the-Police-267423681.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>parfe</author><text>Pizza delivery guys have a far more dangerous job than police. Drive to a location chosen by a stranger who knows you will show up with cash, food, and a car which you will willingly exit. And all in 30 minutes or less. And they deal with the same types of obnoxious people as police, who you think deserve automatic respect for it.<p>Policing doesn&#x27;t crack the top 10 BLS list of most dangerous jobs. <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2013/08/22/americas-10-deadliest-jobs-2/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;jacquelynsmith&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;22&#x2F;americ...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Oh for pity&#x27;s sake, follow a cop around some Saturday night downtown, before lecturing us on what a soft life a cop&#x27;s job is. Deal with the belligerent drunks, entitled rich boys, teenagers with too much car and no sense. Enter a store that gave off a silent alarm, in the dark, all by yourself and tell me what a walk in the park it is.<p>&quot;Stand up against them&quot;? See how lovely a world it is without them - what comes next is very much worse than what you&#x27;re complaining about.<p>Cops deserve respect and deference, if only because they stand for public order and that deserves it.</text></item><item><author>omgtehblackbloc</author><text><i>Being a cop is legitimately dangerous</i><p>Not really, no. It&#x27;s just not that dangerous. We imagine it must be dangerous, and so do cops themselves. But you&#x27;re a lot more likely to be killed as a garbage collector or airline pilot, or a construction worker, or plenty of other jobs.<p>It&#x27;s like with the &quot;war on terror&quot;. The fear of danger is much more powerful than the danger itself. And like with terrorism, the fear is actively promoted for political reasons.<p><i>They do what everyone does, what has to be done for policing to be viable.</i><p>That seems like an argument against the department as a whole, not a justification for an individual&#x27;s abuse.<p><i>Most of the people they deal with are lowlifes, lyres, cheaters.</i><p>Most of the people they deal with are ordinary innocent civilians whom they assume are &quot;lowlifes&quot; because they have been trained and conditioned to.<p><i>That said, this following cops around only plays to the problem paradigm. It&#x27;s harassment, like what paparazzi do. It&#x27;s belligerent. Maybe it&#x27;s valuable as a protest, but it isn&#x27;t as solution.</i><p>It is belligerent, and it is harassment, and it is protest. And that&#x27;s the point. People with power do not voluntarily stop abusing it. They continue until met with resistance - until they are forced to stop.<p>Unfortunately it&#x27;s effectively suicide to physically force the cops to stop, but we should do everything we can short of that to stand up against them. Standing up against the cops sets an example for others that we don&#x27;t need to fear them, that they don&#x27;t deserve respect and deference, and that we can do something directly to stop their abuse.</text></item><item><author>netcan</author><text>I don&#x27;t think reality is as clear cut as that. There is genuine complexity. Being a cop is legitimately dangerous, gun or no gun. A gun isn&#x27;t an off switch. People can confront an armed cop and shooting doesn&#x27;t always stop them.<p>There are also all sorts of rules that are learned on the job and aren&#x27;t not in any manual. Ways for maintaining control and authority mostly. Many of these practices are unsanctioned and unofficial, but still essential for being able to do the job. Some things are both crucial and illegal.<p>Cops usually feel like when they get busted for being arrogant, bullying or outright violence that they are are victims of these situations. They do what everyone does, what has to be done for policing to be viable. Those pencil pushers with their removed perspective are making judgments about their irrelevant rules being broken.<p>They are under stress. Violence is a part of their days. Most of the people they deal with are lowlifes, lyres, cheaters. There is real stress. Real danger<p>That said, a lot of these practices aren&#x27;t benign and they aren&#x27;t inevitable. The police does genuinely attract many problematic people and it makes other. They get used to defending their authority and meet challenges to it with extreme responses. They develop a cops &amp; robbers, us &amp; them worldview that becomes their reality. More specifically cops, criminals and naive spectators, citizens &amp; bureaucrats.<p>They develop a bullying mannerism.<p>Police manage to do their jobs without guns at all in many places. They deal with violent crime just like cops in the states. I&#x27;m not saying this should be adopted by US department, but is proof that there are other ways of doing things.<p>I think lights good for the paradigm. But, whatever that light reveals needs to be dealt with. Maybe police modus operandi needs to changed. But, maybe the rulebook needs to change too. It can be dangerous trying to enforce the official rulebook after long periods where it has only been enforced selectively. Maybe the official way of doing things doesn&#x27;t work.<p>That said, this following cops around only plays to the problem paradigm. It&#x27;s harassment, like what paparazzi do. It&#x27;s belligerent. Maybe it&#x27;s valuable as a protest, but it isn&#x27;t as solution.<p>What I think should happen in law enforcement is that everything should be recorded. Every interrogation. Every arrest. Every time a cop pulls you over. This is all evidence and it should be part of every booking.<p>Hopefully that will make the need for this sort of thing go away.</text></item><item><author>ndarilek</author><text>I have a hard time swallowing police department rhetoric in these situations. The officer has a gun, and the unfortunate power to make &quot;extra-legal&quot; killings with it. They&#x27;re safe. If they irresponsibly use that gun in an unsafe manner, like all the drunken NYPD officers who shoot people[0], then it absolutely is our or someone&#x27;s responsibility to take matters into our own hands and monitor ourselves until we see that accountability. Relying on internal affairs&#x2F;review commissions to provide that is a broken model.<p>Also, I know folks doing this locally, and have watched officers request that filmers stand at a safe distance. It&#x27;s interesting to me how often &quot;safe distance&quot; corresponds with a) somewhere with a shitty view far away and b) a position where the filmer is significantly further away than a number of pedestrians or gawkers whose &quot;safety&quot; presumably isn&#x27;t in dispute. I have good friends who were arrested for nothing more than filming, and they were often given confusing and contradictory orders by an officer who obviously felt he had the immediate situation well enough in hand to direct most of his attention ordering the filmer around. It happened almost 2 years ago, no charges were filed, and if this was a legitimate concern then I&#x27;d really like to see some obstruction charges brought in the several local cases I&#x27;ve seen of citizens arrested for filming.<p>I do agree that some of these groups&#x27; strategies are a bit busted. I&#x27;m familiar with the Peaceful Streets Project here in Austin, and sometimes the ragey&#x2F;personal rhetoric got a bit overpowering. Then again, cops kill people, often under suspicious circumstances, and get away with it. Perhaps it is time for a bit of rage, and to make it personal.<p>0. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/brendan-conin-nypd-shooting-pelham-drunk_n_5247504.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;01&#x2F;brendan-conin-nypd-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>North Texas citizens organize to monitor police with video cameras</title><url>http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Arlington-Residents-Police-the-Police-267423681.html</url></story> |
27,687,881 | 27,687,943 | 1 | 2 | 27,687,297 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gruez</author><text>The effectiveness of this technique depends on the humidity being low. If you tried this when it&#x27;s 80+% humidity it probably wouldn&#x27;t do much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hetspookjee</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve noticed when coping with severe heat, and often get laughed at, is to wear a wet t-shirt. It&#x27;s incredible how instantaneous the relief is. I just take an ordinary cotton shirt, fold it neatly into a small packet and run it under the tap. Press it a few times so the water runs through the folded package and then unfold. Don&#x27;t wring it as it will stretch the cloth beyond repair, and put it on. Initially it will feel weird and uncomfortable, but once it&#x27;s on I feel my head getting more relaxed by the instant. You can even take a comfortable jog outside in 35C in the blasting sun for up to 10 minutes. The shirt will be near dry by than and it will get uncomfortable very quickly, but think of the possibilities! On extreme days I just wetten the shirt for 4-5 times a day and put a fan on me. No sweat when facing &gt;35 degrees inside.<p>I tried it with pants as well but if you do so, don&#x27;t wetten it above the pockets as the multi-layer will make it damp without much of the adiabatic cooling perks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Canada weather: Dozens dead as heatwave shatters records</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57654133</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HumblyTossed</author><text>If you&#x27;re in Florida, you don&#x27;t even have to use the tap. Just put on a dry t-shirt and stand outside for a short while.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hetspookjee</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve noticed when coping with severe heat, and often get laughed at, is to wear a wet t-shirt. It&#x27;s incredible how instantaneous the relief is. I just take an ordinary cotton shirt, fold it neatly into a small packet and run it under the tap. Press it a few times so the water runs through the folded package and then unfold. Don&#x27;t wring it as it will stretch the cloth beyond repair, and put it on. Initially it will feel weird and uncomfortable, but once it&#x27;s on I feel my head getting more relaxed by the instant. You can even take a comfortable jog outside in 35C in the blasting sun for up to 10 minutes. The shirt will be near dry by than and it will get uncomfortable very quickly, but think of the possibilities! On extreme days I just wetten the shirt for 4-5 times a day and put a fan on me. No sweat when facing &gt;35 degrees inside.<p>I tried it with pants as well but if you do so, don&#x27;t wetten it above the pockets as the multi-layer will make it damp without much of the adiabatic cooling perks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Canada weather: Dozens dead as heatwave shatters records</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57654133</url></story> |
24,394,333 | 24,393,217 | 1 | 2 | 24,392,905 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jakozaur</author><text>Emigrating from Belarus to Poland is easy. Even if one of your grandparents has Polish origins you can get easily equivalent of USA green card. Polish governament is working on new law to make it even easier and available more broadly. Given Poland borders before World War II were covering huge part of today Belarus a lot of people can take of the advantage.<p>Regular work permit for IT proffesional is also rubber stamp. Nothing compared to cruel H1B.<p>I guess same as after Ukraine revolution, a lot of Belarusians will end up in Poland.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/belarus-protests-tech-workers-flee-as-country-takes-authoritarian-turn</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ozim</author><text>“There’s no borders at all for IT engineers. They can find a job anywhere.”<p>Uhm yeah, but they also have parents, siblings, girlfriends. Probably they might have some properties bought already. So as it may seem really advantageous to be in IT, one might not be able to move to another country just like that...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/belarus-protests-tech-workers-flee-as-country-takes-authoritarian-turn</url></story> |
20,761,110 | 20,761,057 | 1 | 3 | 20,759,301 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toast0</author><text>Holding cash usually means putting it in a bank account. The banks are going to put a significant portion in their country&#x27;s central bank; the European central bank and member central banks are currently charging banks to store money; at large balances, those banks will charge customers.<p>Now, you could put cash into a USD account at a US bank, where interest is still currently positive, but if you were storing Euros, you now have currency risk and jurisdiction risk. Negative rate German bonds have less risk than that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>logicallee</author><text>&gt;- Many financial institutions are required to hold a certain percent of portfolio in safe assets. German bunds are among the safest in the world.<p>Can you explain how this can possibly beat cash? If I say to you &quot;I&#x27;ll let you pay me ten cents to hold onto your $100 bill for a while, and give you a paper showing the obligation to repay your $100&quot; (the meaning of a negative yield bond), how can the offer to let you pay ten cents to let me hold your $100 possibly be less risky than just holding the $100?<p>Why would a bond with a negative yield ever be a safer asset than just holding the cash?</text></item><item><author>apo</author><text>For those wondering why anyone would buy such a thing, consider:<p>- Many financial institutions are required to hold a certain percent of portfolio in safe assets. German bunds are among the safest in the world.<p>- A holder of a bond earns a capital gain (bond goes up in price) when interest rates fall. In that sense, zero is no limit at all because there can always be a buyer willing to accept an even lower (more negative) yield.<p>- Bond investors are well-aware of the two points above. When they sense that interest rates and&#x2F;or inflation are headed lower, they know they can profit by buying, regardless of yield.<p>- Anticipated rate of inflation matters a lot because investors seeking return through yield focus on real interest rates (nominal rate - inflation). Inflation can be negative as well (deflation). If inflation is lower (more negative) than the bond&#x27;s nominal return, that&#x27;s a real <i>positive yield</i>. And that positive yield is locked in for the term of the bond, which in the case of the story is 30 years.<p>- The European Central Bank has repeatedly signaled its belief that zero is no barrier and that negative yields will be tolerated indefinitely. The ECB stands ready for quantitative easing (QE), in which the central bank buys bonds with money it creates from thin air. Investors know this and this compounds the incentive to pile on and buy bonds to enjoy the capital gains (and real returns if the investor believes that deflation is inevitable).<p>It&#x27;s likely that all these factors combine to create the current environment. How long all of this can continue is anybody&#x27;s guess because the situation is without precedent.<p>It&#x27;s as if the financial crisis of 2008 was never resolved - just papered over through massive central bank purchases of treasuries and stocks (Japan&#x27;s central bank owns a major fraction of the value of the Japanese stock market at this point).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negative Yields</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-for-first-time-sells-30-year-bonds-offering-negative-yields-11566385847?mod=rsswn</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>auntienomen</author><text>The world is different when you&#x27;re dealing with really large amounts of cash. You can&#x27;t just store it yourself; your mattress isn&#x27;t big enough. And if you ask a bank to store it for you, the bank will charge you for the service. (Banks that work in this line of business are known as &#x27;custodian banks&#x27;.) Consequently, the effective interest rate on cash for large amounts of cash can be negative.</text><parent_chain><item><author>logicallee</author><text>&gt;- Many financial institutions are required to hold a certain percent of portfolio in safe assets. German bunds are among the safest in the world.<p>Can you explain how this can possibly beat cash? If I say to you &quot;I&#x27;ll let you pay me ten cents to hold onto your $100 bill for a while, and give you a paper showing the obligation to repay your $100&quot; (the meaning of a negative yield bond), how can the offer to let you pay ten cents to let me hold your $100 possibly be less risky than just holding the $100?<p>Why would a bond with a negative yield ever be a safer asset than just holding the cash?</text></item><item><author>apo</author><text>For those wondering why anyone would buy such a thing, consider:<p>- Many financial institutions are required to hold a certain percent of portfolio in safe assets. German bunds are among the safest in the world.<p>- A holder of a bond earns a capital gain (bond goes up in price) when interest rates fall. In that sense, zero is no limit at all because there can always be a buyer willing to accept an even lower (more negative) yield.<p>- Bond investors are well-aware of the two points above. When they sense that interest rates and&#x2F;or inflation are headed lower, they know they can profit by buying, regardless of yield.<p>- Anticipated rate of inflation matters a lot because investors seeking return through yield focus on real interest rates (nominal rate - inflation). Inflation can be negative as well (deflation). If inflation is lower (more negative) than the bond&#x27;s nominal return, that&#x27;s a real <i>positive yield</i>. And that positive yield is locked in for the term of the bond, which in the case of the story is 30 years.<p>- The European Central Bank has repeatedly signaled its belief that zero is no barrier and that negative yields will be tolerated indefinitely. The ECB stands ready for quantitative easing (QE), in which the central bank buys bonds with money it creates from thin air. Investors know this and this compounds the incentive to pile on and buy bonds to enjoy the capital gains (and real returns if the investor believes that deflation is inevitable).<p>It&#x27;s likely that all these factors combine to create the current environment. How long all of this can continue is anybody&#x27;s guess because the situation is without precedent.<p>It&#x27;s as if the financial crisis of 2008 was never resolved - just papered over through massive central bank purchases of treasuries and stocks (Japan&#x27;s central bank owns a major fraction of the value of the Japanese stock market at this point).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negative Yields</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-for-first-time-sells-30-year-bonds-offering-negative-yields-11566385847?mod=rsswn</url></story> |
28,191,612 | 28,191,461 | 1 | 2 | 28,190,608 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>electricshampo1</author><text>Seems 400M is aggregated qps worldwide. Wonder what avg qps looks like per iam server (and size of server).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Identity service handles 400M API calls every second</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/happy-10th-birthday-aws-identity-and-access-management/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jstx1</author><text>Say what you want about Amazon and how they treat their developers, from the outside this looks like something really cool to work on.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Identity service handles 400M API calls every second</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/happy-10th-birthday-aws-identity-and-access-management/</url></story> |
41,339,386 | 41,339,119 | 1 | 2 | 41,307,529 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pathless</author><text>Unity has become an unfocused, poorly optimized, half-baked mess. This WAS bad for the independent and small developer market that actually uses their engine for final builds, but they&#x27;ve begun a mass exodus to Godot, which happened to go from &quot;ok&quot; to &quot;great&quot; JUST as Unity ruined their platform with their short lived &quot;20 cents per install&quot; policy.<p>Someday soon, we will see Godot eclipse Unity in the same fashion that so many other proprietary juggernauts were slowly cannibalized by laser-focused open source projects over the years:<p>In 2022, the split among GMTK participants was 16% Godot to 61% Unity. In 2023, it was 22% Godot to 49% Unity. This year, it was a whopping 37% Godot to 43% Unity: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;GVfo5-0WQAAIMAQ?format=jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;GVfo5-0WQAAIMAQ?format=jpg</a><p>This is major, because Godot has just had another round of home run improvements that brought in even more developers. I think 2025 is the year that Godot effectively replaces Unity for new developers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Random Thoughts about Unity</title><url>https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/08/11/Random-thoughts-about-Unity/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raytopia</author><text>Unity is still a pretty good tool overall but just like the author states they are going in too many directions at once and it&#x27;s hurting usability. And of course there&#x27;s the problem with Unity Technologies not making enough income to be sustainable long term and trying to capture more value from its users.<p>I know a lot of people are very excited about Godot replacing Unity but I honestly hope that the 3D engine market becomes more diverse. I&#x27;d argue a lot of engine tech and ways of creating games hasn&#x27;t innovated as much as it could have if there was more competition in the space.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of awesome 3D frameworks and engines out there and they should get some attention too.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Random Thoughts about Unity</title><url>https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/08/11/Random-thoughts-about-Unity/</url></story> |
27,680,649 | 27,680,519 | 1 | 2 | 27,680,251 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taurath</author><text>Here&#x27;s the problem - we use the Consumer Price Index to measure inflation, of which &quot;housing&quot; is only 33% - much of which is actually rent, which is quite a bit more inelastic than home prices. If someone buys an 8 unit condo building in 1980 and rents out each unit for a 20% profit, 20 years later they&#x27;re still making a 20% annualized profit and maybe rent hasn&#x27;t increased.<p>Asset inflation is inflation. That &quot;real&quot; inflation, also known as the consumer price index, hasn&#x27;t been going up is a factor of both automation&#x2F;economies of scale and an extremely bifurcated economy in which low end workers are making pennies, toilet paper is cheap, but a house in an area with a working economy costs triple what it did 10 years ago.<p>Here&#x27;s the case shiller national home pricing index:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;CSUSHPINSA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;CSUSHPINSA</a><p>Compare that to any inflation chart. Its not supposed to be the same, but I posit the &quot;housing&quot; part of the CSI is almost completely inelastic and only reflects what people pay in rent&#x2F;mortgage, not the cost of entry. Housing prices can go up by 20% a year for 5 years and there&#x27;s still no &quot;inflation&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. inflation likely to remain elevated for up to four years – BofA</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/global-markets-bofa-urgent-2021-06-25/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notional</author><text>Anyone else get a &quot;2% inflation raise&quot; this year? Have you brought up rising inflation and pointed out that raise doesn&#x27;t match reality? Did your employer agree to give you an extra couple percent?<p>I like my job and my employer but after getting that pittance after last years bs and now high inflation I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s worth arguing for a bigger bump retroactively (showing my hand when I don&#x27;t get it) and instead I think it might be easier to just find a new job.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. inflation likely to remain elevated for up to four years – BofA</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/global-markets-bofa-urgent-2021-06-25/</url></story> |
26,486,642 | 26,486,613 | 1 | 2 | 26,486,375 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akamaka</author><text>It seems inevitable that much of the practical knowledge is lost. Look at how few old sailing ships survive, despite that being the most advanced transportation technology for centuries. The schematics of the engines will survive, but future generations who study them will struggle to understand the design choices that went into them.<p>I’m happy that might change in the world of software, since so much collaboration is done online, and future historians will have troves of JIRA tickets to dig through.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kashprime</author><text>ICE’s have over a century of development behind them now. I’m not going to miss them, but I wonder if there’s a way to ‘archive’ this kind of specialist mechanical engineering knowledge. It may come in handy one day.<p>It’s depressing to read about engineers having to go to the Smithsonian to study the lunar lander to relearn some of the innovations and improvisations made at the time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Audi abandons combustion engine development</title><url>https://www.electrive.com/2021/03/16/audi-abandons-combustion-engine-development/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>devoutsalsa</author><text>I don’t remember the lunar lander, but I do recall reading how each rocket engine on the Saturn V was one of a kind, because the engineers had to assemble each one by hand, and each acted slightly differently. So there’s no way to reproduce a specific Saturn V engine now, but there also never was back when the Saturn V was still flying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kashprime</author><text>ICE’s have over a century of development behind them now. I’m not going to miss them, but I wonder if there’s a way to ‘archive’ this kind of specialist mechanical engineering knowledge. It may come in handy one day.<p>It’s depressing to read about engineers having to go to the Smithsonian to study the lunar lander to relearn some of the innovations and improvisations made at the time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Audi abandons combustion engine development</title><url>https://www.electrive.com/2021/03/16/audi-abandons-combustion-engine-development/</url></story> |
18,894,531 | 18,894,429 | 1 | 2 | 18,893,859 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ilikehurdles</author><text>If the average person has nothing to worry about then why do all average people have to sign non-competes if they want the job? The fact is that companies see a benefit in threatening all new hires with non-competes, and like I said elsewhere, the only people with enough pull to negotiate out of a non-compete are those highly specialized non-average people who are the least likely to sign the boilerplate contract, who the company will still want to hire when they push back with specific demands.<p>So who are the non-competes really for then?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tranchms</author><text>If you’re the “average person”, you have nothing to worry about. Trust me.<p>Non-competes really only matter for people with exceptional knowledge of something.<p>From a business standpoint, the legal resources to build a case against a single “average person” who signs a generic non-compete are not a good investment.<p>But like I said, it’s a judgement call. Anyone in the possession of that exceptional knowledge should be able to determine the risk.</text></item><item><author>sbjustin</author><text>The problem is the average person doesn&#x27;t have the money to pay a lawyer to fight off a company - especially the ones with teams of lawyers who need something to do.</text></item><item><author>tranchms</author><text>I’ve found these non-competes often have no teeth. Unless you possess exceptional knowledge or secrets, companies will not waste the resources going after you.<p>And often when they do, they lose. But it’s a judgement call. I’d say the fear of non-competes has more power than the non-competes themselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Too Many Workers Are Trapped by Non-Competes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-12/non-compete-clauses-trap-too-many-american-workers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maxxxxx</author><text>I have heard of hiring companies dropping new hires because they had a non-compete. They didn&#x27;t want to take the risk so the company that has the non-compete doesn&#x27;t even have to do anything for it to have an effect.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tranchms</author><text>If you’re the “average person”, you have nothing to worry about. Trust me.<p>Non-competes really only matter for people with exceptional knowledge of something.<p>From a business standpoint, the legal resources to build a case against a single “average person” who signs a generic non-compete are not a good investment.<p>But like I said, it’s a judgement call. Anyone in the possession of that exceptional knowledge should be able to determine the risk.</text></item><item><author>sbjustin</author><text>The problem is the average person doesn&#x27;t have the money to pay a lawyer to fight off a company - especially the ones with teams of lawyers who need something to do.</text></item><item><author>tranchms</author><text>I’ve found these non-competes often have no teeth. Unless you possess exceptional knowledge or secrets, companies will not waste the resources going after you.<p>And often when they do, they lose. But it’s a judgement call. I’d say the fear of non-competes has more power than the non-competes themselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Too Many Workers Are Trapped by Non-Competes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-12/non-compete-clauses-trap-too-many-american-workers</url></story> |
41,365,234 | 41,365,296 | 1 | 3 | 41,364,637 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zevv</author><text>It actually still scares the hell out of me that this is the way even the experts &#x27;program&#x27; this technology, with all the ambiguities rising from the use of natural language.</text><parent_chain><item><author>atorodius</author><text>Personally still amazed that we live in a time where we can tell a computer system in pure text how it should behave and it _kinda_ works</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/26/anthropic-publishes-the-system-prompt-that-makes-claude-tick/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amanzi</author><text>I was just thinking the same thing. Usually programming is a very binary thing - you tell the computer exactly what to do, and it will do exactly what you asked for whether it&#x27;s right or wrong. These system prompts feel like us humans are trying really hard to influence how the LLM behaves, but we have no idea if it&#x27;s going to work or not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>atorodius</author><text>Personally still amazed that we live in a time where we can tell a computer system in pure text how it should behave and it _kinda_ works</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/26/anthropic-publishes-the-system-prompt-that-makes-claude-tick/</url></story> |
27,486,673 | 27,485,854 | 1 | 2 | 27,484,288 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>Continents are overrated; they are a big source of armies in the early game, but the primary goal of the early game is mere survival, and a skilled player can win without ever owning a continent until the last couple turns. After the early game, cards are where the real threat is in Risk – in particular, the way someone can eliminate an opponent and capture their cards (and when they end up with &gt;5 cards, immediately turn some in in for armies) makes risk a very unstable game when played aggressively.<p>The best aggressive players wait for the right moment when they can go from minor threat to unquestionably dominant in the span of 1–2 turns, by toppling one opponent after another. The tricky part is the timing (and there is some luck involved with dice rolls and card matches). If you get it wrong and don’t <i>quite</i> take out one of the card-rich opponents along the chain, then (a) that extremely weakened player will be open to easy attack from the other players, and (b) you’ll be completely exposed having used all of your armies on at least one side of your territory in the attempt.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paulluuk</author><text>This article suggests that you should not play too aggressive and not take continents too early (maximizing Reinforcing Feedback), because other players will then unite against you (Balancing Feedback).<p>However, this article fails to understand that in Risk, most players are not willing to unite. In fact, if player A and player B decide to unite against me and player A had his turn and stopped me, player B is highly likely to backstab player A and then emerge as the winner.<p>I&#x27;ve found that playing very aggressively, and really get as many continents as possible within the first few turns, is the best way to win the game. I always win if I can get 2-3 continents in the first few turns, and if I fail then the game is usually won by whomever did manage to do just that.<p>Being a turtle or &quot;mongolian horde&quot; as we call it can be interesting, but your only viable strategy is to wait for an opening while everyone else stockpiles their continental forces. If you wait too long, you&#x27;re just an annoyance to the other players, but you don&#x27;t actually have a good chance to win.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Win at Risk by using systems thinking</title><url>https://thesystemisdown.substack.com/p/how-to-win-at-risk-every-time-by</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>the_lonely_road</author><text>Might just be a friend group thing but I will also add on that very few games of risk I ever played didn’t involve some level of ‘meta’ strategy like a husband&#x2F;wife not attacking each other or that guy that doesn’t like you refusing an obviously mutually beneficial alliance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paulluuk</author><text>This article suggests that you should not play too aggressive and not take continents too early (maximizing Reinforcing Feedback), because other players will then unite against you (Balancing Feedback).<p>However, this article fails to understand that in Risk, most players are not willing to unite. In fact, if player A and player B decide to unite against me and player A had his turn and stopped me, player B is highly likely to backstab player A and then emerge as the winner.<p>I&#x27;ve found that playing very aggressively, and really get as many continents as possible within the first few turns, is the best way to win the game. I always win if I can get 2-3 continents in the first few turns, and if I fail then the game is usually won by whomever did manage to do just that.<p>Being a turtle or &quot;mongolian horde&quot; as we call it can be interesting, but your only viable strategy is to wait for an opening while everyone else stockpiles their continental forces. If you wait too long, you&#x27;re just an annoyance to the other players, but you don&#x27;t actually have a good chance to win.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Win at Risk by using systems thinking</title><url>https://thesystemisdown.substack.com/p/how-to-win-at-risk-every-time-by</url></story> |
7,754,650 | 7,754,671 | 1 | 2 | 7,754,334 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arrrg</author><text>You know, I just read this again. I first read it in a ridiculing context (“Parrots? Really?”) and didn’t think much to put it out of that context, but looking at it now I have to say my view on it has changed.<p>I think it’s pretty alright, actually.<p>Some of his demands have to do with his strong ethical views on software, and while I don’t agree completely with him on this, I certainly can respect him for being uncompromising on that.<p>He frequently emphasises the need to communicate. Decisions that affect both him and the host have to be decided together. He also shows quite some willingness to find alternate solutions if his preferred solution is somehow not possible, but emphasises the need to communicate about those changes.<p>All the rest may be slightly quirky, but it’s all not especially hard to do with some care and attention. Hey, he doesn’t even want super-accomodating hospitality.<p>(Also, hotel internet is the worst. Good on him for insisting that be properly checked. He needs it to work, after all.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>netcan</author><text>This is a fantastic read!<p><i>If you have previously done streaming using some streaming service and you can&#x27;t immediately name the format it uses, chances are it is unacceptable and I won&#x27;t let you use it for my speech.</i><p><i>..This might seem unfair--if a ticket is lost, it could be my fault. But my income is not large, and I cannot afford to assume this risk myself if the event offers me no income. The frustration I feel when I suffer such a loss is excruciating. It is better for me to decline to travel to a certain place than to take such a risk.</i><p><i>..DON&#x27;T make a hotel reservation until we have fully explored other options. If there is anyone who wants to offer a spare couch, I would much rather stay there than in a hotel (provided I have a door I can close, in order to have some privacy)... ... If you have found a person for me to stay with, please forward this section and the two following sections to that person.</i><p><i>..find out what temperature it can actually lower a room to, during the relevant
dates ..I like cats if they are friendly. ..Dogs that bark angrily and&#x2F;or jump up on me frighten me .. .. find a host for me that has a friendly parrot.. ..DON&#x27;T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don&#x27;t know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling..</i><p><i>I do NOT use browsers, I use the SSH protocol.. .. If a hotel says &quot;We have internet access.. .. What parameters does the user need to specify in order to talk with it?… … Don&#x27;t rely on information from such a person--talk to someone who knows! .. their phone switchboard may not recognize the tones produced by modems..</i><p><i>When you need to tell me about a problem in a plan, please do not start with a long apology. That is unbearably boring. …If I am typing on my computer and it is time to do something else, please tell me. Don&#x27;t wait for me to &quot;finish working&quot; first, because you would wait forever. I have to squeeze in answering mail at every possible opportunity, which includes whenever I have to wait. I wait by working. If instead of telling me there is no more need for me to wait, you wait for me to stop waiting for you, we will both wait forever -- or until I figure out what&#x27;s happening. … Please don&#x27;t try to pressure me to &quot;relax&quot; instead, and fall behind on
my work</i><p><i>I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about ..what I will do breakfast. ..Please just do not bring it up .. If there is a chance to see folk dancing… … If you want to give me data about airplane tickets, please send that info as plain ASCII text</i><p>What a beautiful crazy person RMS is.</text></item><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>This seems like a good opportunity to post RMS&#x27; rider again:<p><a href="https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public/2011-October/007647.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secure.mysociety.org&#x2F;admin&#x2F;lists&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;developer...</a><p>Fabulous stuff. I wonder how often he has&#x2F;gets to hang out with random parrots since this document became widely known. In my mind he is surrounded constantly by sandal-wearing acolytes wielding exotic birds of every variety.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause</title><url>http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp</url></story> | <instructions>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>I just realized what this is. He wrote a manual for operating himself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>netcan</author><text>This is a fantastic read!<p><i>If you have previously done streaming using some streaming service and you can&#x27;t immediately name the format it uses, chances are it is unacceptable and I won&#x27;t let you use it for my speech.</i><p><i>..This might seem unfair--if a ticket is lost, it could be my fault. But my income is not large, and I cannot afford to assume this risk myself if the event offers me no income. The frustration I feel when I suffer such a loss is excruciating. It is better for me to decline to travel to a certain place than to take such a risk.</i><p><i>..DON&#x27;T make a hotel reservation until we have fully explored other options. If there is anyone who wants to offer a spare couch, I would much rather stay there than in a hotel (provided I have a door I can close, in order to have some privacy)... ... If you have found a person for me to stay with, please forward this section and the two following sections to that person.</i><p><i>..find out what temperature it can actually lower a room to, during the relevant
dates ..I like cats if they are friendly. ..Dogs that bark angrily and&#x2F;or jump up on me frighten me .. .. find a host for me that has a friendly parrot.. ..DON&#x27;T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don&#x27;t know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling..</i><p><i>I do NOT use browsers, I use the SSH protocol.. .. If a hotel says &quot;We have internet access.. .. What parameters does the user need to specify in order to talk with it?… … Don&#x27;t rely on information from such a person--talk to someone who knows! .. their phone switchboard may not recognize the tones produced by modems..</i><p><i>When you need to tell me about a problem in a plan, please do not start with a long apology. That is unbearably boring. …If I am typing on my computer and it is time to do something else, please tell me. Don&#x27;t wait for me to &quot;finish working&quot; first, because you would wait forever. I have to squeeze in answering mail at every possible opportunity, which includes whenever I have to wait. I wait by working. If instead of telling me there is no more need for me to wait, you wait for me to stop waiting for you, we will both wait forever -- or until I figure out what&#x27;s happening. … Please don&#x27;t try to pressure me to &quot;relax&quot; instead, and fall behind on
my work</i><p><i>I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about ..what I will do breakfast. ..Please just do not bring it up .. If there is a chance to see folk dancing… … If you want to give me data about airplane tickets, please send that info as plain ASCII text</i><p>What a beautiful crazy person RMS is.</text></item><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>This seems like a good opportunity to post RMS&#x27; rider again:<p><a href="https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public/2011-October/007647.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secure.mysociety.org&#x2F;admin&#x2F;lists&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;developer...</a><p>Fabulous stuff. I wonder how often he has&#x2F;gets to hang out with random parrots since this document became widely known. In my mind he is surrounded constantly by sandal-wearing acolytes wielding exotic birds of every variety.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause</title><url>http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp</url></story> |
18,845,844 | 18,846,095 | 1 | 2 | 18,845,476 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>C++ is commonly used for large complex projects. The problem with opinions is eventually you come across something that the opinion will not allow. For a small project an opinionated build system makes things easier and you essentially never run across something that can&#x27;t work. For very large projects that is not true and so you end up fighting opinions in some place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anuragsoni</author><text>&quot;To round up, C++ does not dictate about its tooling, which basically gives lot of choices and flexibility. But at the same time it is making it complex for beginners to come in to projects and start projects with it.&quot;<p>This was a big problem for me when I first started using C++. I don&#x27;t remember it being too bad when I was just working on small projects and things I wanted to do at school. The problems started when moving past the &quot;1-person&quot; projects. Want to contribute to other projects? Chances are they all have very different build setups and configurations when it comes to building, testing, dependency management. That adds some friction even before you start taking a look at the actual code-base.<p>I understand that a lot of these problems can occur for languages as old as C++, but I wish the tooling was a little more opinionated and worked a little better at guiding newcomers into doing things in a nicer manner.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets</title><url>https://vishnubharathi.codes/blog/learning-cpp-2018/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sl1ck731</author><text>I ran into this trying to get into it about 3 weeks ago. I&#x27;m so used to things like npm, ruby gems, go packages, pip that it felt like a huge task just to get something built or settle on a way for me to build mine.<p>Even grabbing libraries from github, I was unsure if I should grab just the headers and DLLs, or import the entire tree and mashup my build scripts with theirs.<p>I wish I had stayed with it since college but now I feel I have to reach for something like Go or Rust just to get something shareable in reasonable time purely because of the tooling, whereas I would really like to use the C++ language itself specifically for working with win32.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anuragsoni</author><text>&quot;To round up, C++ does not dictate about its tooling, which basically gives lot of choices and flexibility. But at the same time it is making it complex for beginners to come in to projects and start projects with it.&quot;<p>This was a big problem for me when I first started using C++. I don&#x27;t remember it being too bad when I was just working on small projects and things I wanted to do at school. The problems started when moving past the &quot;1-person&quot; projects. Want to contribute to other projects? Chances are they all have very different build setups and configurations when it comes to building, testing, dependency management. That adds some friction even before you start taking a look at the actual code-base.<p>I understand that a lot of these problems can occur for languages as old as C++, but I wish the tooling was a little more opinionated and worked a little better at guiding newcomers into doing things in a nicer manner.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets</title><url>https://vishnubharathi.codes/blog/learning-cpp-2018/</url></story> |
12,617,863 | 12,617,954 | 1 | 3 | 12,617,443 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oldmanhorton</author><text>I have updated three computers -- a Lenovo laptop, a surface book, and a custom desktop -- all without any issues.<p>Its important to remember that everyone with a problem will make sure to say something, but everyone without a problem usually moves on and doesn&#x27;t talk about it. Its extraordinarily easy to assume that everything is broken just because only people whom it broke for are talking about it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Delivers Another Broken Windows 10 Update</title><url>https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/81659/microsoft-delivers-yet-another-broken-windows-10-update</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AmVess</author><text>MS has really gone downhill over the past few years with badly designed software and shockingly broken patches. The anniversary update set all the permissions in my registry so it couldn&#x27;t be written to, and there was no way to fix it.<p>On another machine, all the network interfaces vanished with no way of restoring them.<p>These are complete show stoppers on machines I use to make money. I loaded Win8.1 on all machines and will never touch W10.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Delivers Another Broken Windows 10 Update</title><url>https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/81659/microsoft-delivers-yet-another-broken-windows-10-update</url></story> |
28,939,413 | 28,939,518 | 1 | 2 | 28,938,911 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>perihelions</author><text>&gt;<i>&quot;Today I learned that a standard, four octet IPv4 address can be subject to a DMCA takedown notice. Imagine what would happen if someone did this to 192.168.0.1&#x2F;16 !&quot;</i><p>hehe, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;transparencyreport.google.com&#x2F;copyright&#x2F;domains&#x2F;localhost" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;transparencyreport.google.com&#x2F;copyright&#x2F;domains&#x2F;loca...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple sends DMCA takedown for IP address</title><url>https://twitter.com/RayRedacted/status/1450712865552412675</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nbzso</author><text>Apple changed my life twice.<p>First they introduced me to structured and functional way of thinking about designing UI (with old MacOS X HIG). Practically gave start of my career with this.<p>And in the last several years in series of decisions they forced me to completely revision my view of what hardware and software I use for my personal and professional computing.<p>The power of industrial design is still with them (almost tempted me to fall again in the rabbit hole with the new MacBook Pro), happily for me they are run by marketing and never ending expansion, not by product people, and as a result regularly they produce utter crap - mouse with charging port under the body, faulty laptop keyboards, the thrash can, and now the notch. So I dodged &quot;the bullet&quot;.:)<p>On a more different level of thought, we as consumers rarely take a moment to think about the implications of creating a monopolistic monsters and how this relates to our future as a professionals or individuals.<p>DMCA will never be reformed with balance in mind.
More likely will be transformed towards version 2 with more power for the corporations.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple sends DMCA takedown for IP address</title><url>https://twitter.com/RayRedacted/status/1450712865552412675</url></story> |
39,455,686 | 39,456,045 | 1 | 2 | 39,455,131 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BugsJustFindMe</author><text>Forget about digital experiences for a moment. Forget entirely about chatbots.<p>&gt; <i>Air Canada argues it cannot be held liable for information provided by one of its agents, servants, or representatives</i><p>That includes EMPLOYEES. So they tried to argue that their employees can lie to your face to get you to buy a ticket under false pretense and then refuse to honor the promised terms? That&#x27;s absolutely fucked.</text><parent_chain><item><author>quartz</author><text>&gt; &quot;Air Canada argues it cannot be held liable for information provided by one of its agents, servants, or representatives—including a chatbot,&quot; Rivers wrote. &quot;It does not explain why it believes that is the case&quot; or &quot;why the webpage titled &#x27;Bereavement travel&#x27; was inherently more trustworthy than its chatbot.&quot;<p>This is very reasonable-- AI or not, companies can&#x27;t expect consumers to know which parts of their digital experience are accurate and which aren&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/air-canada-chatbot-refund-policy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>I once ordered a gift for my father for christmass. The order page indicated that it would arrive on time. When it didn&#x27;t arrive, I requested a refund. They then pointed to their FAQ page where they said that orders during the holidays would incur extra processing time, and refused the refund.<p>I wrote back that unless they issused a refund, I would issue a charge back. You don&#x27;t get to present the customer with one thing and then do otherwise because you say so on a page the customer has never read when ordering.<p>They eventually caved, but man, the nerve.</text><parent_chain><item><author>quartz</author><text>&gt; &quot;Air Canada argues it cannot be held liable for information provided by one of its agents, servants, or representatives—including a chatbot,&quot; Rivers wrote. &quot;It does not explain why it believes that is the case&quot; or &quot;why the webpage titled &#x27;Bereavement travel&#x27; was inherently more trustworthy than its chatbot.&quot;<p>This is very reasonable-- AI or not, companies can&#x27;t expect consumers to know which parts of their digital experience are accurate and which aren&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/air-canada-chatbot-refund-policy</url></story> |
25,741,634 | 25,741,075 | 1 | 2 | 25,737,611 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>l2p</author><text>Just as a FYI&#x2F;aside, it is fairly trivial to root AT&amp;T home gateways, pull the certs and use your own hardware to authenticate to the network, removing their hardware off your stack entirely except for the ONT. (goodbye internet downtime due to random uncontrolled gateway &quot;upgrades&quot;). You just need a router capable of 802.1x client auth.<p>Throughput both ways actually gets really close to what I am paying for with this configuration, where as before with the default gateway (regardless of configuration), I was lucky to see 1&#x2F;2 of the gigabit speeds I have been paying for.</text><parent_chain><item><author>inetknght</author><text>AT&amp;T&#x27;s home gateways have a maximum NAT translation table of 1024^H^H^H^H8192 connections. Some websites will go past that. A torrent client almost certainly will. And, now that people are working from home, there&#x27;s a good chance that having multiple computers will only make that 1024 table limit even more laughable.<p>EDIT: okay I&#x27;m wrong. It&#x27;s 8192 connections, not 1024 connections. But still ridiculously low</text></item><item><author>petethepig</author><text>This happens because there&#x27;s NAT (network address translation) happening somewhere.<p>Without NAT the only 2 parties that need to know anything about a TCP connection are client and server.<p>With NAT you have this problem where the router now also has to keep track of opened TCP connections.<p>E.g if you have a router with local IP 10.0.0.1 and external IP 30.0.0.1 and you are 10.0.0.2:55000 connecting to 230.0.0.1:443 router will have to allocate a port on it&#x27;s external interface (let&#x27;s say 56000) and remember it (this is the key part). So the connection will look like this:<p>10.0.0.2:55000 &lt;-&gt; NATing router 10.0.0.1 - 30.0.0.1:56000 &lt;-&gt; 230.0.0.1:443<p>When router receives packets on 30.0.0.1:56000 it has to remember to redirect them to 10.0.0.2:55000.<p>Memory is a limited resource so you can&#x27;t just have an unlimited number of these opened connections floating around. This also makes your router vulnerable to an attack where an attacker can just open a bunch of connections and never close them, making your router eventually run out of memory.<p>So the classic solution to this problem is to use an LRU cache. So when your router is close to running out of space you just drop the connection that has been idling the longest.<p>Unfortunately, a) some routers are less sophisticated and will still drop your connections even if you do keep-alives and such, b) no matter what you do, memory is a finite resource and if the router doesn&#x27;t have a lot of RAM, connections will be dropped.<p>¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions</title><url>https://anderstrier.dk/2021/01/11/my-isp-is-killing-my-idle-ssh-sessions-yours-might-be-too/</url></story> | <instructions>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>1k certainly seems absurdly small considering how much RAM routers likely have, the fact that they can use most of it, and the amount of data needed for a single connection table entry (2 bytes external port, 2 bytes internal port, 4 bytes internal IP adds up to 8 bytes per entry, even being very generous at 16 bytes including overhead, that&#x27;s still only 16K --- on a device that likely has several MB if not more, and whose primary function is likely NAT.</text><parent_chain><item><author>inetknght</author><text>AT&amp;T&#x27;s home gateways have a maximum NAT translation table of 1024^H^H^H^H8192 connections. Some websites will go past that. A torrent client almost certainly will. And, now that people are working from home, there&#x27;s a good chance that having multiple computers will only make that 1024 table limit even more laughable.<p>EDIT: okay I&#x27;m wrong. It&#x27;s 8192 connections, not 1024 connections. But still ridiculously low</text></item><item><author>petethepig</author><text>This happens because there&#x27;s NAT (network address translation) happening somewhere.<p>Without NAT the only 2 parties that need to know anything about a TCP connection are client and server.<p>With NAT you have this problem where the router now also has to keep track of opened TCP connections.<p>E.g if you have a router with local IP 10.0.0.1 and external IP 30.0.0.1 and you are 10.0.0.2:55000 connecting to 230.0.0.1:443 router will have to allocate a port on it&#x27;s external interface (let&#x27;s say 56000) and remember it (this is the key part). So the connection will look like this:<p>10.0.0.2:55000 &lt;-&gt; NATing router 10.0.0.1 - 30.0.0.1:56000 &lt;-&gt; 230.0.0.1:443<p>When router receives packets on 30.0.0.1:56000 it has to remember to redirect them to 10.0.0.2:55000.<p>Memory is a limited resource so you can&#x27;t just have an unlimited number of these opened connections floating around. This also makes your router vulnerable to an attack where an attacker can just open a bunch of connections and never close them, making your router eventually run out of memory.<p>So the classic solution to this problem is to use an LRU cache. So when your router is close to running out of space you just drop the connection that has been idling the longest.<p>Unfortunately, a) some routers are less sophisticated and will still drop your connections even if you do keep-alives and such, b) no matter what you do, memory is a finite resource and if the router doesn&#x27;t have a lot of RAM, connections will be dropped.<p>¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions</title><url>https://anderstrier.dk/2021/01/11/my-isp-is-killing-my-idle-ssh-sessions-yours-might-be-too/</url></story> |
31,246,075 | 31,245,807 | 1 | 2 | 31,218,737 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>So I actually had one of these. I kept it for about a year.<p>The theory was good, but the screen was hard to read, required a stylus (a tiny one was hidden in the strap), and there&#x27;s only so much you can do without a data connection. I used to HotSync news stories to it every morning but realistically a better source of up to date news was still a radio.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The PalmOS powered wristwatch from Fossil</title><url>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-palmos-powered-wristwatch-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>blenderdt</author><text>When I read articles like this one I always have to think about companies like Apple and Tesla.<p>Apple didn&#x27;t invent smartphones or touchscreens but they started the revolution. Tesla didn&#x27;t invent EVs but started the revolution.<p>What they have in common is that they pick the best of existing technologies and combine that into a product that is ahead of the competition. They don&#x27;t invent new things but invent better things.<p>For me that means you can create better products than the competition by even using old (but good) tech. What matters most is how you apply the tech.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The PalmOS powered wristwatch from Fossil</title><url>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-palmos-powered-wristwatch-from</url></story> |
711,091 | 710,560 | 1 | 3 | 710,506 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>potatolicious</author><text>This has turned out to be overblown, as usual. More info here:<p><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/drm/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218501227" rel="nofollow">http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/drm/showAr...</a><p>Somebody (third-party) decided to sell 1984 and Animal Farm on the Kindle Store without owning the copyright to it. Amazon is of course forced to take down said illegal posting. The only questionable part here is whether or not they should be allowed to delete purchased copies (with refund).</text><parent_chain><item><author>frossie</author><text>I actually had to check it wasn't April 1st. Oh the irony indeed. On the plus side:<p>1. This might focus people's attentions on the problems of buying DRM books - I am still astonished how little it bothers people.<p>2. For the love of all your deities, can we <i>please</i> revisit copyright laws. The man has been dead for 59 years. Surely we can all agree those books should be public domain by now. Death+70 is just too long.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle</title><url>http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>olefoo</author><text>Death plus 70 is just one instance of laws being purchased by special interests; and that is a tough problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>frossie</author><text>I actually had to check it wasn't April 1st. Oh the irony indeed. On the plus side:<p>1. This might focus people's attentions on the problems of buying DRM books - I am still astonished how little it bothers people.<p>2. For the love of all your deities, can we <i>please</i> revisit copyright laws. The man has been dead for 59 years. Surely we can all agree those books should be public domain by now. Death+70 is just too long.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle</title><url>http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/</url></story> |
36,802,624 | 36,801,519 | 1 | 2 | 36,800,297 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>I&#x27;ll play Devil&#x27;s Advocate (because I enjoy throwing myself into the fray — especially when arguing against a point I actually agree with).<p>No one is mass-sharing their safe of child-porn worldwide with thousands of other child-porn voyeurs.<p>The internet and its ubiquitous accessibility combined with digital image file formats has changed the landscape for those that would fight these heinous crimes.<p>It is indeed a new and special case where a locked safe is not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mihaaly</author><text>I wonder why the UK legislators not preparing a new regulation mandating every keys to every door and safe having a bypass mechanism for government officials.<p>Behind every door and every locked place there could be child pornography and illicit materials hidden!! Every house, every hotel safe are suspects!<p>Criminal oversight, criminal oversight!<p>(and if they think their reasoning for backdoors into online chat and conversation is mandated by this supid reasoning of theirs then it must be valid for all entrance doors of every home and buidlding and every locked spaces as well! Getting easy access to material without assistance or knowledge of the people involved.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/20/apple-imessage-facetime-remove-security-law/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Eighth</author><text>Anecdotally, I&#x27;ve heard the argument made that police can knock in doors for raids, and they should have the same power over technology.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mihaaly</author><text>I wonder why the UK legislators not preparing a new regulation mandating every keys to every door and safe having a bypass mechanism for government officials.<p>Behind every door and every locked place there could be child pornography and illicit materials hidden!! Every house, every hotel safe are suspects!<p>Criminal oversight, criminal oversight!<p>(and if they think their reasoning for backdoors into online chat and conversation is mandated by this supid reasoning of theirs then it must be valid for all entrance doors of every home and buidlding and every locked spaces as well! Getting easy access to material without assistance or knowledge of the people involved.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/20/apple-imessage-facetime-remove-security-law/</url></story> |
37,794,702 | 37,794,727 | 1 | 2 | 37,792,690 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>S04dKHzrKT</author><text>Jetbrains IDEs also have builtin support for HTTP files.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jetbrains.com&#x2F;idea&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;intellij-idea-2023-3-eap-3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jetbrains.com&#x2F;idea&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;intellij-idea-2023-3...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;idea&#x2F;exploring-http-syntax.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;idea&#x2F;exploring-http-syntax.ht...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pests</author><text>There are some extensions for VSCode that let you define your requests in a text file and has ways to run the file and show the data.<p>Here&#x27;s one I just found:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=humao.rest-client" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=humao.re...</a><p>Syntax looks like:<p><pre><code> GET https:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1 HTTP&#x2F;1.1
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GET https:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;1 HTTP&#x2F;1.1
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POST https:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com&#x2F;comments HTTP&#x2F;1.1
content-type: application&#x2F;json
{
&quot;name&quot;: &quot;sample&quot;,
&quot;time&quot;: &quot;Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:27:50 GMT&quot;
}</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account</title><text>I have been using postman offline without an account for a long time. Today when I opened the program it asked me to create an account. When I declined, it wiped all my collections and everything else.<p>All I have is a &#x27;history&#x27; to work with and try to piece back together all the variables and collections that I had setup.<p>I relented and created an account, but it did not recover anything. Beware!<p>Update: I was able to manually import&#x2F;restore using a backup I found in ~&#x2F;.config&#x2F;Postman but I have no trust for continued use of this tool. Any alternatives that I can migrate to?</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>e-master</author><text>I use it too - it’s excellent, I’d think most developers don’t need more than this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pests</author><text>There are some extensions for VSCode that let you define your requests in a text file and has ways to run the file and show the data.<p>Here&#x27;s one I just found:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=humao.rest-client" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=humao.re...</a><p>Syntax looks like:<p><pre><code> GET https:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1 HTTP&#x2F;1.1
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GET https:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;1 HTTP&#x2F;1.1
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POST https:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com&#x2F;comments HTTP&#x2F;1.1
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14,121,466 | 14,121,230 | 1 | 2 | 14,121,053 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matwood</author><text>What you&#x27;re really pointing out is that people are different. Some need more structure than others. For whatever reason, I&#x27;m a pretty motivated person. Remote work is great for me because any time I can save is more time I have to do the list of things I want to get done that day.<p>My wife OTOH, requires structure. She&#x27;s smart and works hard, but if she was left to work at home she would procrastinate until the 11th hour. She needed a brick and mortar college, and in that structure managed to get her 4 year degree is 2.5 years.<p>One thing not discussed is that quality online degree programs can significantly lower the cost bar for students. I was lucky enough to have a decent school near my parents, so I lived at home for my entire undergrad degree. We simply did not have the money to do anything different, and I refused to take out loans unless absolutely necessary (I worked instead). It would have been amazing if there had been self paced online degrees offered by big name colleges at the time I was in undergrad.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pen2l</author><text>I think the author of this post is making the same mistake that a lot of other people (particularly smart folks) make whenever they are thinking about the ills of modern education system and what can be done to improve it. Like Peter Thiel and others, I don&#x27;t think they understand how and why students are failing in classrooms today.<p>Take for example the author&#x27;s suggestions on how school systems can be improved:<p><i>Create a set of free, online high school and college degree programs that any American could enroll in, and pursue at their own pace.</i><p>Can you really expect high school students to perform well in online classes? The most elite companies in the valley have correctly found out that remote doesn&#x27;t work (in most cases)... and yet we&#x27;re going to do remote with our students? I took online classes when I went back to complete college at an older age... it was the worst mistake of my life. As a human, I needed the social imposition of a disappointed teacher telling me that I performed poorly on my test, I needed the camaraderie of students with whom I could study somewhere. Online classes, <i>especially</i> at high school stage are very bad (perhaps with the exception of &quot;gifted&quot; students who probably would benefit from being in a fast-tracked line).<p><i>At age 13, give everyone a $100k education voucher.</i><p>You&#x27;re giving too much credit to students, they don&#x27;t know what is best for them. This $100k will be exploited in some way by profit-seeking companies before you have a second to glance back at the money.<p><i>Legalize and normalize apprenticeship contracts.</i><p>I agree with this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How many jobs really require college?</title><url>https://devinhelton.com/how-many-jobs-require-college</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JDiculous</author><text>&gt; The most elite companies in the valley have correctly found out that remote doesn&#x27;t work<p>There are enough companies out there with remote employees and even remotely distributed teams to disprove the assertion that &quot;remote doesn&#x27;t work&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pen2l</author><text>I think the author of this post is making the same mistake that a lot of other people (particularly smart folks) make whenever they are thinking about the ills of modern education system and what can be done to improve it. Like Peter Thiel and others, I don&#x27;t think they understand how and why students are failing in classrooms today.<p>Take for example the author&#x27;s suggestions on how school systems can be improved:<p><i>Create a set of free, online high school and college degree programs that any American could enroll in, and pursue at their own pace.</i><p>Can you really expect high school students to perform well in online classes? The most elite companies in the valley have correctly found out that remote doesn&#x27;t work (in most cases)... and yet we&#x27;re going to do remote with our students? I took online classes when I went back to complete college at an older age... it was the worst mistake of my life. As a human, I needed the social imposition of a disappointed teacher telling me that I performed poorly on my test, I needed the camaraderie of students with whom I could study somewhere. Online classes, <i>especially</i> at high school stage are very bad (perhaps with the exception of &quot;gifted&quot; students who probably would benefit from being in a fast-tracked line).<p><i>At age 13, give everyone a $100k education voucher.</i><p>You&#x27;re giving too much credit to students, they don&#x27;t know what is best for them. This $100k will be exploited in some way by profit-seeking companies before you have a second to glance back at the money.<p><i>Legalize and normalize apprenticeship contracts.</i><p>I agree with this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How many jobs really require college?</title><url>https://devinhelton.com/how-many-jobs-require-college</url></story> |
18,560,811 | 18,560,651 | 1 | 3 | 18,559,449 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fao_</author><text>It&#x27;s actually easier on the hands than using `_`. As on a standard (us, uk, chinese, etc.) keyboard underscore requires a shift-press whereas minus&#x2F;hyphen requires a single press. It&#x27;s a small change but you&#x27;d be surprised how much of a difference it makes, given that tokens are a significant amount of all writing when programming.<p>Not to mention, in my opinion it&#x27;s more aesthetically pleasing, but that&#x27;s just me :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>mratsim</author><text>kebab-case? Is that even a thing?</text></item><item><author>weavie</author><text>Forgot to add.. in common lisp everything is kebab-cased which makes case a lot less significant. Not sure what happens in Nim?</text></item><item><author>weavie</author><text>Common lisp also ignores case (sort of..it&#x27;s a little bit more complicated). I&#x27;ve never found it to be a problem - apart from the compiler always uppercases my symbols when it reports to me, it feels a bit like being shouted at.</text></item><item><author>narimiran</author><text>&gt; <i>I personally found it to be a turn-off.</i><p>I feel like this is mentioned (by the people who just glance over Nim) every time there is some discussion about Nim, and IMO it is blown way out of proportion.<p>In my cca year and half of using Nim, I not even <i>once</i> had a problem with the style insensitivity.<p>IMO, you (general you) shouldn&#x27;t use `my_foo` and `myFoo` for different things, regardless if a language allows for it or not.</text></item><item><author>aepiepaey</author><text>Last time I was going to try it, I got sidetracked reading up on rules for identifier equality, prompted by noticing that the nim package bundled its own grep (nimgrep).<p>Basically, Nim ignores case (except for the first character) and underscores in identifier names, so the following is a valid Nim program and all those names refer to the same variable:<p><pre><code> var myVar = 1
my_var = 2
mYVAR = 3
echo(myVAR)
</code></pre>
Most people wouldn&#x27;t actually write code like that, but I personally found it to be a turn-off.<p>More on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;manual.html#lexical-analysis-identifier-equality" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;manual.html#lexical-analysis-ident...</a></text></item><item><author>rijoja</author><text>Even though I haven&#x27;t taken it out for a spin just yet, I&#x27;ve gotten a good impression of nim. Anybody out there who has tested that can say if my hunch is right or not?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Advent of Nim</title><url>https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/11/26/advent-of-nim.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>mhd</author><text>Not as common, as it clashes with using &#x27;-&#x27; for subtraction, but as that&#x27;s never been a problem for Lisp, it&#x27;s quite common there. Perl6 went that way, too, despite having infix syntax. But hey, it&#x27;s Perl, we&#x27;re used to syntactical warts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mratsim</author><text>kebab-case? Is that even a thing?</text></item><item><author>weavie</author><text>Forgot to add.. in common lisp everything is kebab-cased which makes case a lot less significant. Not sure what happens in Nim?</text></item><item><author>weavie</author><text>Common lisp also ignores case (sort of..it&#x27;s a little bit more complicated). I&#x27;ve never found it to be a problem - apart from the compiler always uppercases my symbols when it reports to me, it feels a bit like being shouted at.</text></item><item><author>narimiran</author><text>&gt; <i>I personally found it to be a turn-off.</i><p>I feel like this is mentioned (by the people who just glance over Nim) every time there is some discussion about Nim, and IMO it is blown way out of proportion.<p>In my cca year and half of using Nim, I not even <i>once</i> had a problem with the style insensitivity.<p>IMO, you (general you) shouldn&#x27;t use `my_foo` and `myFoo` for different things, regardless if a language allows for it or not.</text></item><item><author>aepiepaey</author><text>Last time I was going to try it, I got sidetracked reading up on rules for identifier equality, prompted by noticing that the nim package bundled its own grep (nimgrep).<p>Basically, Nim ignores case (except for the first character) and underscores in identifier names, so the following is a valid Nim program and all those names refer to the same variable:<p><pre><code> var myVar = 1
my_var = 2
mYVAR = 3
echo(myVAR)
</code></pre>
Most people wouldn&#x27;t actually write code like that, but I personally found it to be a turn-off.<p>More on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;manual.html#lexical-analysis-identifier-equality" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;manual.html#lexical-analysis-ident...</a></text></item><item><author>rijoja</author><text>Even though I haven&#x27;t taken it out for a spin just yet, I&#x27;ve gotten a good impression of nim. Anybody out there who has tested that can say if my hunch is right or not?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Advent of Nim</title><url>https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/11/26/advent-of-nim.html</url></story> |
13,101,482 | 13,100,585 | 1 | 3 | 13,099,966 | train | <instructions>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>If I want to know how a classic trick is done I&#x27;ll look at the Wikipedia page. It often won&#x27;t reveal the secret directly, but if you check the page history you&#x27;ll find an edit war between magicians which exposes exactly how it works.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magicians fought over an ultra-secret tracker dedicated to stealing magic tricks</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.de/inside-art-of-misdirection-ultra-exclusive-private-torrent-tracker-magical-pirates-invites-2016-11</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>loup-vaillant</author><text>This hints at a more general problem: how does one gather a high-quality repository of knowledge on any given subject? How do you get enough stuff? How do you keep the noise down?<p>I believe some subjects make the problem harder than others. Programming for instance is full of hard to check claims. Even established techniques are hard to assess. Say you need to parse stuff. Will you go recursive descent? LALR? Earley? PEG? Might depend on what you want to parse, which environment you&#x27;re working in, how much time you may invest… Or say you write a compiler. Will you use OCaml&#x2F;F#&#x2F;Haskell for the ease of handling recursive data structures? Or do you want C&#x2F;C++ because of the speed, and you know tricks to avoid recursive data structures anyway?<p>One tempting solution is to start a secret society dedicated to hoard knowledge on the chosen subject. It would be hard to get in, but once there you&#x27;d only get quality stuff. (Or you might have gotten into a self-delusional sect…) The idea is, maybe if knowledge was visibly scarce and hard to obtain, instead of merely buried under a mountain of noise, we would treat it with the respect it deserves.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magicians fought over an ultra-secret tracker dedicated to stealing magic tricks</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.de/inside-art-of-misdirection-ultra-exclusive-private-torrent-tracker-magical-pirates-invites-2016-11</url></story> |
22,589,879 | 22,588,983 | 1 | 3 | 22,588,707 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>It&#x27;s probably not worth having a big thread about one use of the word &quot;may&quot;, especially since there is a flood of this kind of story right now. On HN, there&#x27;s no harm in waiting until a thing actually happens, and an announcement of the possibility of a future announcement is off topic.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=%22no%20harm%20in%20waiting%22&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=%22announcement%20of%20an%20announcement%22&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a><p>(I don&#x27;t have any information about this, having just read about it here like everyone else.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Y Combinator may go fully remote for its next cohort</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/15/y-combinator-may-go-fully-remote-for-its-next-cohort/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arkad</author><text>As a current Startup School, Europe-based participant [1], this raises an interesting question: if the whole program can be run virtually in a remote-only fashion, then perhaps it can be open for startups from anywhere in the world?<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startupschool.org&#x2F;companies&#x2F;scanrepeat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startupschool.org&#x2F;companies&#x2F;scanrepeat</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Y Combinator may go fully remote for its next cohort</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/15/y-combinator-may-go-fully-remote-for-its-next-cohort/</url></story> |
14,252,087 | 14,251,657 | 1 | 2 | 14,245,250 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trevor-e</author><text>My team tried using RxJava for our Android app with mixed results. While it&#x27;s easier to model some UI problems with reactive streams, and certainly more fun to write, we found it&#x27;s really easy to introduce subtle bugs and performance problems due to the high learning curve. Debugging is also worse.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kmicklas</author><text>At first I was amazed there is no mention of Functional Reactive Programming. Then again this is from 2006 when there were no fast, powerful, and practical FRP frameworks.<p>I suspect we will see somewhat of a revolution in terms of client side development in the coming years - with a vast reduction in complexity and huge increase of programmer productivity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GUI Architectures (2006)</title><url>https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/uiArchs.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>uranian</author><text>&gt; with a vast reduction in complexity<p>That is very optimistic looking at the current state of client side development with it&#x27;s ever changing Javascript, Babel, Typescript, whatever script, Webpack, with HMR?, React or Vue? Angular? Flux? Redux? Isomorphic? Linters? Testing? CI? CSS&#x2F;???SS or inline?, some NPM modules maybe?, and so on.. Sorry for me being a bit more pessimistic here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kmicklas</author><text>At first I was amazed there is no mention of Functional Reactive Programming. Then again this is from 2006 when there were no fast, powerful, and practical FRP frameworks.<p>I suspect we will see somewhat of a revolution in terms of client side development in the coming years - with a vast reduction in complexity and huge increase of programmer productivity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GUI Architectures (2006)</title><url>https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/uiArchs.html</url></story> |
38,632,771 | 38,630,569 | 1 | 2 | 38,629,763 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>franga2000</author><text>We have something similar and it was a terrible deal. The city still had to pay a boatload of money to set up the system, but it&#x27;s proprietary so we can only &quot;buy&quot; more stations and bikes from the same company. They, of course, refuse to sell at a reasonable price, so for every new station, more ad space is created and given to them. The term of the contract, which is 25 years, is also insanely long and far longer than the maximum we allow for such contracts normally (5 or 10 years).<p>And I won&#x27;t even go into the corruption that got them the tender in the first place... Fuck JCDecaux!</text><parent_chain><item><author>docdeek</author><text>The award of the contract for the outdoor advertising space (bus shelters, roadside space) in my city was tied to providing and maintaining a cheap metro-area wide bike sharing scheme. For 30ish euros a year I get unlimited 45 minute trips on bikes that are widely available, well maintained, and easy to use. In 2022 there were more than 10 million trips taken on these hire bikes and nearly 84,000 annual subscribers.<p>This bike share scheme is only possible because the city traded away its outdoor ad space. There&#x27;s not more ads, just a monopoly on who sells the space to advertisers. The city might be prettier without the advertisements but it seems a good trade off to be removing vehicles from the road and promoting healthy transport via the bike scheme.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adfree Cities</title><url>https://adfreecities.org.uk/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amadeuspagel</author><text>It&#x27;s not a good trade, there shouldn&#x27;t be a monopoly on public ads, local businesses should be able to reach consumers without having to go through a monopolist that captures all of the value.</text><parent_chain><item><author>docdeek</author><text>The award of the contract for the outdoor advertising space (bus shelters, roadside space) in my city was tied to providing and maintaining a cheap metro-area wide bike sharing scheme. For 30ish euros a year I get unlimited 45 minute trips on bikes that are widely available, well maintained, and easy to use. In 2022 there were more than 10 million trips taken on these hire bikes and nearly 84,000 annual subscribers.<p>This bike share scheme is only possible because the city traded away its outdoor ad space. There&#x27;s not more ads, just a monopoly on who sells the space to advertisers. The city might be prettier without the advertisements but it seems a good trade off to be removing vehicles from the road and promoting healthy transport via the bike scheme.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adfree Cities</title><url>https://adfreecities.org.uk/</url></story> |
29,647,570 | 29,647,729 | 1 | 2 | 29,645,762 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edgyquant</author><text>I think the title is fine but they are right I will be seeing this article shared on Facebook in a day or so and people will assume they mean it was preserved as an organism not turned into a rock. I knew what they meant from the title and I’m sure so will most intellectually inclined individuals but there is a huge market of people who eat up pop sci (or their titles at least) articles and it perpetuates fake science even if the article isn’t actually doing that.<p>It’s basically like those articles that say “scientist proves existence of higher dimensions” where everyone who tends to read scientific literature figures they mean “has solved some physics equation using 4 dimensions instead of 3” but the majority who see it only through popsci articles and groups think the scientist has found physical evidence of another universe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>It sounds like you have an objection with the term “perfectly preserved”?<p>Words can have different meanings in different contexts.<p>In the context of dinosaurs “perfectly preserved” means that even fine details can be discerned in the fossils. And yes fossils are rocks. Someone who knows the minimal amount about dinos will know this, and even if it’s the first time you encounter the concept the article explains it nicely.<p>Titles are titles. They are short and thus they can’t provide a treatrise on the sum of all human knowledge. You need common sense to parse them.</text></item><item><author>konart</author><text>The title sound like they have found an embryo in some sort of permafrost with DNA and everything else.</text></item><item><author>krisoft</author><text>I don’t understand what you find clickbaity about the title. For reference now when I’m reading the article the title is: “Scientists find perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird”.<p>It is a clear and concise description of what the article is about.</text></item><item><author>fvold</author><text>This &quot;perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo&quot; is a rock.<p>It&#x27;s in the perfectly preserved <i>shape</i> of a dinosaur embryo, but chemically, it&#x27;s a rock. Generally speaking, that&#x27;s what fossils are.<p>I bet Young Earth Creationists will be quoting this article for decades now. Thanks, Guardian, for the clickbait-y headline. Cheeses.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/21/scientists-find-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-embryo-preparing-to-hatch-like-a-bird</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>konart</author><text>&gt;Words can have different meanings in different contexts.<p>Sure. It would be much better to put it as &quot;perfectly preserved fossil&quot; or something like that.<p>I understand that for people who read articles about “perfectly preserved” dinosaurs often this instantly means &quot;fine details can be discerned in the fossils&quot;, but for the majority of people who saw the title while scrolling the news feed - this means much more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>It sounds like you have an objection with the term “perfectly preserved”?<p>Words can have different meanings in different contexts.<p>In the context of dinosaurs “perfectly preserved” means that even fine details can be discerned in the fossils. And yes fossils are rocks. Someone who knows the minimal amount about dinos will know this, and even if it’s the first time you encounter the concept the article explains it nicely.<p>Titles are titles. They are short and thus they can’t provide a treatrise on the sum of all human knowledge. You need common sense to parse them.</text></item><item><author>konart</author><text>The title sound like they have found an embryo in some sort of permafrost with DNA and everything else.</text></item><item><author>krisoft</author><text>I don’t understand what you find clickbaity about the title. For reference now when I’m reading the article the title is: “Scientists find perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird”.<p>It is a clear and concise description of what the article is about.</text></item><item><author>fvold</author><text>This &quot;perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo&quot; is a rock.<p>It&#x27;s in the perfectly preserved <i>shape</i> of a dinosaur embryo, but chemically, it&#x27;s a rock. Generally speaking, that&#x27;s what fossils are.<p>I bet Young Earth Creationists will be quoting this article for decades now. Thanks, Guardian, for the clickbait-y headline. Cheeses.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/21/scientists-find-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-embryo-preparing-to-hatch-like-a-bird</url></story> |
9,098,344 | 9,098,300 | 1 | 2 | 9,098,175 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smoyer</author><text>Gasp! I knew girls with hair like that ... and I hung out with girls that skated (and did BMX and gymnastics). Judged by the timing, I must be about the same age as Ms. Siera and it&#x27;s kind of an amazing parallel universe in some ways (I had an injury I never recovered from enough to return to the so-called &quot;extreme sports&quot;).<p>In any case, I&#x27;m old (yeah ... I said it) now and definitely agree that we need more diversity in our tech work-places. We have an additional problem as our applicant pool is extremely homogeneous. How do we fix that?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot From Skater Culture, Just Not Meritocracy</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-thinks-can-learn-skater-culture-terrible-idea</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chapel</author><text>Having read the post, I feel the title here doesn&#x27;t do it justice. It is also missing half of the title.<p>Title on HN at time of comment: &quot;Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot from Skater Culture&quot;<p>As far as the article, I wasn&#x27;t aware of the schism in the 80s around skateboarding culture. I was too young, but even looking back through documentaries and other media about the history, it seems to have been revised to ignore it.<p>I think the article is overall positive, in that there are things to learn so long as we don&#x27;t ignore the context and the bad side of what has happened in the past.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot From Skater Culture, Just Not Meritocracy</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-thinks-can-learn-skater-culture-terrible-idea</url></story> |
13,197,678 | 13,197,321 | 1 | 3 | 13,196,488 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lisper</author><text>Motl is notorious for this sort of thing. He once called me a &quot;category 5 loon&quot; because something I said in a talk was wrong. But the reason it was wrong is because I was advancing it as a straw-man precisely to show it was wrong.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;motls.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;evading-quantum-mechanics-again.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;motls.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;evading-quantum-mechanics-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>beambot</author><text>&gt; String theorist Lubos Motl savaged Verlinde’s ideas in a recent blog post: “I wouldn’t okay this wrong piece of work as an undergraduate term paper.”<p>I find this rudeness and pedantry in academia infuriating. There&#x27;s no justification for this level of nastiness -- not in private, public, peer review, or science as a whole. Seeking out the unknown and creative explanations thereof is the hallmark of good science; check your ego at the door. I know nothing about him... but in my book, Lubos Motl can go pound sand.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter</title><url>https://www.newscientist.com/article/2116446-first-test-of-rival-to-einsteins-gravity-kills-off-dark-matter/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bsder</author><text>&gt; I find this rudeness and pedantry in academia infuriating.<p>So you&#x27;d rather people quietly knife you in review? Because that&#x27;s what happens if you penalize people for public rudeness. Personally, I&#x27;d rather have a loud critique to my face than a polite one behind my back or, even worse, no engagement at all.<p>I don&#x27;t need your politeness or friendship when I&#x27;m putting forth some new theory. I need accurate, engaged criticism and the number of people who will do that is vanishingly small. And a lot of the ones who will do that have social issues almost by definition.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beambot</author><text>&gt; String theorist Lubos Motl savaged Verlinde’s ideas in a recent blog post: “I wouldn’t okay this wrong piece of work as an undergraduate term paper.”<p>I find this rudeness and pedantry in academia infuriating. There&#x27;s no justification for this level of nastiness -- not in private, public, peer review, or science as a whole. Seeking out the unknown and creative explanations thereof is the hallmark of good science; check your ego at the door. I know nothing about him... but in my book, Lubos Motl can go pound sand.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter</title><url>https://www.newscientist.com/article/2116446-first-test-of-rival-to-einsteins-gravity-kills-off-dark-matter/</url></story> |
28,662,269 | 28,661,772 | 1 | 2 | 28,660,964 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>Unless you&#x27;re doing something mathematical, where you can exhaustively test every input and output and ship something that&#x27;s essentially close to the platonic ideal of the thing, you&#x27;re going to need to update.<p>Protocols change, programming languages change, human languages change, boarders change, definitions of time change, laws change, sensors change, and on and on.<p>It&#x27;s like asking why a person can&#x27;t be just done learning so they can live their life. Well, they can, but pretty soon the world is inaccessible to them. They can&#x27;t use a computer or a phone because they stopped learning in 1995 and they&#x27;re utterly dependant on others to do things for them.<p>But I will say this, I&#x27;ve long been thinking that there should at least be a programming language and OS that does its best to not change. A sort of whole environment where every single piece that&#x27;s out of beta commits to minimal interface changes over time. Fixing security bugs and supporting new emojis, fine. We have to do stuff like that. But everything else is just as frozen as can be. It would be useful for super long term software. If we have buildings still around from 100 years ago we should be able to build for 100 years from now without a team around for constant maintenance. Though I do not think it can ever be maintenance free.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hsn915</author><text>People think if a project on github hasn&#x27;t been updated since 3 months then it has been abandoned!!<p>Like, why don&#x27;t we just let projects be &quot;done&quot;? Things don&#x27;t need to be maintained and updated for eternity.<p>In my mind, the best software engineering is where you solve a problem once and your solution just works and needs no configuration or maintenance or updates.<p>This of course has a very low chance of happening if your system has to exist as a part of &quot;ecosystem&quot; where you expect&#x2F;assume the presence of some external service that can change its API on a whim (or just disappear).<p>Yes, to a certain degree it&#x27;s impossible to design software that does not exist as a part of an ecosystem, which is why I put it in quotes.<p>Some APIs are stable and are guaranteed to continue to exist for a very long time: CPU instruction sets, networking protocols (IP&#x2F;UDP&#x2F;TCP), operating systems (AFAICT: Linux (the kernel) works hard to not break user programs, and Windows is kind of known for bending over backwards to maintain compatibility with old programs), file systems, etc.<p>What I&#x27;m advocating for here requires that your program be compiled into a native executable binary file, and it must embed all its library dependencies (aka static linking).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Designing Low Upkeep Software</title><url>https://www.jefftk.com/p/designing-low-upkeep-software</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bArray</author><text>&gt; Like, why don&#x27;t we just let projects be &quot;done&quot;? Things don&#x27;t need to be maintained and updated for eternity.<p>This is generally why I opt for &quot;single-file&quot; libraries that do one simple task well. The smaller the library, the more likely it is &quot;done&quot;. For example, do I want some insanely complex image library that handles every file format under the sun, or do I just want some basic one that allows me to output a simple JPEG?<p>I often find myself referring to &quot;single_file_libs&quot; repository: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nothings&#x2F;single_file_libs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nothings&#x2F;single_file_libs</a><p>Looking at the open issues, it doesn&#x27;t appear to be actively maintained but it&#x27;s still an incredibly good resource for &quot;completed&quot; projects.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hsn915</author><text>People think if a project on github hasn&#x27;t been updated since 3 months then it has been abandoned!!<p>Like, why don&#x27;t we just let projects be &quot;done&quot;? Things don&#x27;t need to be maintained and updated for eternity.<p>In my mind, the best software engineering is where you solve a problem once and your solution just works and needs no configuration or maintenance or updates.<p>This of course has a very low chance of happening if your system has to exist as a part of &quot;ecosystem&quot; where you expect&#x2F;assume the presence of some external service that can change its API on a whim (or just disappear).<p>Yes, to a certain degree it&#x27;s impossible to design software that does not exist as a part of an ecosystem, which is why I put it in quotes.<p>Some APIs are stable and are guaranteed to continue to exist for a very long time: CPU instruction sets, networking protocols (IP&#x2F;UDP&#x2F;TCP), operating systems (AFAICT: Linux (the kernel) works hard to not break user programs, and Windows is kind of known for bending over backwards to maintain compatibility with old programs), file systems, etc.<p>What I&#x27;m advocating for here requires that your program be compiled into a native executable binary file, and it must embed all its library dependencies (aka static linking).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Designing Low Upkeep Software</title><url>https://www.jefftk.com/p/designing-low-upkeep-software</url></story> |
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