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32,444,288 | 32,442,946 | 1 | 3 | 32,434,606 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>no-dr-onboard</author><text>DEF CON goon here. Sometimes our presenters provide the link to a private GitHub repo to the press in advance of their presentation. After the presentation they make the repo public.</text><parent_chain><item><author>roastedpeacock</author><text>This WIRED article[1] references a release of tools and information about the research on GitHub[2] however it 404s. Hope that is not being censored.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;starlink-internet-dish-hack&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;starlink-internet-dish-hack&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KULeuven-COSIC&#x2F;Starlink-FI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KULeuven-COSIC&#x2F;Starlink-FI</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/starlink-internet-dish-hack/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>colinsane</author><text>archive.org only ever captured 404s for that page. i wonder if it was a typo in the article. does Starlink use TI’s SimpleLink? because there’s a very similarly-named repo doing similar fault injection here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KULeuven-COSIC&#x2F;SimpleLink-FI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KULeuven-COSIC&#x2F;SimpleLink-FI</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>roastedpeacock</author><text>This WIRED article[1] references a release of tools and information about the research on GitHub[2] however it 404s. Hope that is not being censored.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;starlink-internet-dish-hack&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;starlink-internet-dish-hack&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KULeuven-COSIC&#x2F;Starlink-FI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KULeuven-COSIC&#x2F;Starlink-FI</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/starlink-internet-dish-hack/</url></story> |
15,742,505 | 15,742,159 | 1 | 2 | 15,741,565 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zamalek</author><text>Attention as well as free will is a scarce resource on a personal level. I used to seriously question why anyone would buy almost identical Apple devices year-after-year; where-as I&#x27;d spend at least a day researching which Android devices were available. The truth is that it&#x27;s a bloody <i>phone.</i> I was expending all my free will on trivialities and wasn&#x27;t making choices that actually matter.<p>I think this problem is more complex than just the media. In general, people are spending their attention and free will on broad spectrum of useless junk. Media, especially Netflix (&quot;what do I do with my free time?&quot;), is definitely a major offender - my point is that it&#x27;s not the only one.<p>The modern world has wound up being an attack on free will, malevolent or not. It&#x27;s exponentially easier to make a choice from a menu of 5 items vs. a menu of 50. There seems to be a biological limit on our ability to choose and the modern world has <i>far</i> exceeded that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yosito</author><text>As someone who works in tech, I like the analogy of a DoS attack. The root of the issue is attention capitalism. Our attention is essentially a resource being exploited for profit. In that scenario, we&#x27;re effectivley no longer in control of our own free will as long as someone else can profit by controlling it. On an individual scale, we can give it relatively benign labels like &quot;distraction&quot;. But when you look at it from macro scale it&#x27;s effectively a DDoS attack on our free will perpetrated by all of the companies trying to get a slice of the pie of our attention.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will</title><url>http://m.nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/modern-media-is-a-dos-attack-on-your-free-will</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wffurr</author><text>&quot;The root of the issue is ... capitalism&quot;<p>FTFY. The structural issues mentioned in the original article are inherent in a free market economy. Democratic deployment of capital and technology would change the dynamic substantially.<p>An alternate approach would be to have substantial regulation on speech by companies (aka advertising and propaganda), but even this would require major changes driven by the democratic process, e.g a U.S. constitutional amendment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yosito</author><text>As someone who works in tech, I like the analogy of a DoS attack. The root of the issue is attention capitalism. Our attention is essentially a resource being exploited for profit. In that scenario, we&#x27;re effectivley no longer in control of our own free will as long as someone else can profit by controlling it. On an individual scale, we can give it relatively benign labels like &quot;distraction&quot;. But when you look at it from macro scale it&#x27;s effectively a DDoS attack on our free will perpetrated by all of the companies trying to get a slice of the pie of our attention.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will</title><url>http://m.nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/modern-media-is-a-dos-attack-on-your-free-will</url></story> |
30,100,106 | 30,098,791 | 1 | 2 | 30,095,366 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rPlayer6554</author><text>You expect him to do work to prepare for the interview? I thought it was clear he was anti-work! He wanted to clean up his room....then realized laziness is a virtue!</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexb_</author><text>The entire thing was a disaster, start to finish. If you&#x27;re going on Fox News, at least clean your room, put on something other than a sweatshirt, and come PREPARED. You have to know that Fox is going to ask you horribly loaded questions that aim to make you seem like the biggest fool on earth.<p>But the funny part is, they didn&#x27;t even do that. The questions asked pretty much amounted to &quot;What are your aspirations?&quot; and &quot;What do you do for a living?&quot; And when the answers to that are &quot;I want to teach Philosophy&quot; and &quot;I sleep on the job that I work 20 hours a week while I punish dogs by refusing them water&quot;[1] then maybe you shouldn&#x27;t be speaking like what you are doing is too much work.<p>She could have mentioned the growing wealth inequality, the need for unions, the causes behind the &quot;great resignation&quot;, the shifting attitudes of not taking bullshit, but instead she had to say how &quot;Laziness is a virtue!&quot; as if anybody ever is going to agree with that. I would say it&#x27;s a strawman of the typical reddit moderator (who does it for free, by the way), but if a strawman is made of flesh and blood, is it really a strawman anymore?<p>Who were the mods at &#x2F;r&#x2F;antiwork kidding. I guess this is the egotistical delusion that happens when your head mod is a self admitted rapist.[2]<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;XsHDFFN.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;XsHDFFN.jpg</a>
[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;9zbv77ga04e81.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;9zbv77ga04e81.png</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/antiwork-subreddit-fox-news-interview</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xg15</author><text>I didn&#x27;t really follow the whole affair, but I found it interesting that Fox apparently <i>specifically requested</i> this particular mod for the interview - and that the mod had already given interviews in the past.<p>I haven&#x27;t seen those past interviews, but if she behaved like that in the past, could it be that requesting her <i>was</i> the brunt of Fox&#x27; strategy?<p>Like, they might have known she would make a fool of herself (and the movement) without them even needing to trip her up with loaded questions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexb_</author><text>The entire thing was a disaster, start to finish. If you&#x27;re going on Fox News, at least clean your room, put on something other than a sweatshirt, and come PREPARED. You have to know that Fox is going to ask you horribly loaded questions that aim to make you seem like the biggest fool on earth.<p>But the funny part is, they didn&#x27;t even do that. The questions asked pretty much amounted to &quot;What are your aspirations?&quot; and &quot;What do you do for a living?&quot; And when the answers to that are &quot;I want to teach Philosophy&quot; and &quot;I sleep on the job that I work 20 hours a week while I punish dogs by refusing them water&quot;[1] then maybe you shouldn&#x27;t be speaking like what you are doing is too much work.<p>She could have mentioned the growing wealth inequality, the need for unions, the causes behind the &quot;great resignation&quot;, the shifting attitudes of not taking bullshit, but instead she had to say how &quot;Laziness is a virtue!&quot; as if anybody ever is going to agree with that. I would say it&#x27;s a strawman of the typical reddit moderator (who does it for free, by the way), but if a strawman is made of flesh and blood, is it really a strawman anymore?<p>Who were the mods at &#x2F;r&#x2F;antiwork kidding. I guess this is the egotistical delusion that happens when your head mod is a self admitted rapist.[2]<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;XsHDFFN.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;XsHDFFN.jpg</a>
[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;9zbv77ga04e81.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;9zbv77ga04e81.png</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/antiwork-subreddit-fox-news-interview</url></story> |
18,071,687 | 18,071,596 | 1 | 2 | 18,071,323 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pg_bot</author><text>While this is a great step forward for U2F adoption, AWS made the same mistake several other online services have made by only allowing a single key per account. The typical U2F user carries at least two keys. (one on their person and one stored securely for backup) I hope they decide to change this because it will cause a ton of customer support problems in their future.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/use-yubikey-security-key-sign-into-aws-management-console/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robbiet480</author><text>Key note: U2F isn&#x27;t currently supported in the API, CLI or mobile apps. Docs are unclear as to what the fallback 2FA is, if there is one. Also, as before, you can only have one 2FA method configured at a time, so say goodbye to your hardware tokens or TOTP configurations for AWS if you switch to U2F.<p>EDIT: &quot;Fallback&quot; is to have root account remove your IAM user 2FA. If root account 2FA is lost they have a few alternative verification options like email or phone call. [1]<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;IAM&#x2F;latest&#x2F;UserGuide&#x2F;id_credentials_mfa_lost-or-broken.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;IAM&#x2F;latest&#x2F;UserGuide&#x2F;id_credenti...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/use-yubikey-security-key-sign-into-aws-management-console/</url></story> |
28,170,751 | 28,169,803 | 1 | 2 | 28,168,460 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>auslegung</author><text>&gt; One of the biggest health problems in America is...<p>&gt; I disagree. The biggest health problem is...<p>You aren&#x27;t disagreeing, you&#x27;re making a claim about _the biggest health problem_, while I&#x27;m making a claim about _one of the biggest health problems_.</text><parent_chain><item><author>asciimov</author><text>Even the dumbest among us are clever, particularly when it comes to reducing work loads. It&#x27;s not gonna be long before somebody figures out an alternative way to power that washer.<p>&gt; One of the biggest health problems in America is lack of physical exercise.<p>I disagree. The biggest health problem is the abundance of high calorie foods that are designed to taste so good that it confuses are dumb monkey brains into eat more than we should. Limiting or eliminating the amounts of sugars and simple carbohydrates in our foods would go a long way at improving our overall health.</text></item><item><author>auslegung</author><text>I read Wendell Berry quite a lot, and in one essay (I forget which) he posed a question, &quot;where would our technology be if we had continued improving on simple things like the plow, without using combustion engines&quot;, or something like that. I think this washing machine is an answer to that question.<p>What if many of our machines used human power like they did 100 years ago, but were made far more efficient and effective than they were 100 years ago? One of the biggest health problems in America is lack of physical exercise. Biking for transportation, having a manual washing machine, etc would go a long way towards fixing that problem, while also reducing our use of electricity, gasoline, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-58083385</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>Lack of exercise is also a problem, regardless of overall weight. There are heart, lung, and joint health improvements.<p>Lots of skinny people in terrible shape out there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>asciimov</author><text>Even the dumbest among us are clever, particularly when it comes to reducing work loads. It&#x27;s not gonna be long before somebody figures out an alternative way to power that washer.<p>&gt; One of the biggest health problems in America is lack of physical exercise.<p>I disagree. The biggest health problem is the abundance of high calorie foods that are designed to taste so good that it confuses are dumb monkey brains into eat more than we should. Limiting or eliminating the amounts of sugars and simple carbohydrates in our foods would go a long way at improving our overall health.</text></item><item><author>auslegung</author><text>I read Wendell Berry quite a lot, and in one essay (I forget which) he posed a question, &quot;where would our technology be if we had continued improving on simple things like the plow, without using combustion engines&quot;, or something like that. I think this washing machine is an answer to that question.<p>What if many of our machines used human power like they did 100 years ago, but were made far more efficient and effective than they were 100 years ago? One of the biggest health problems in America is lack of physical exercise. Biking for transportation, having a manual washing machine, etc would go a long way towards fixing that problem, while also reducing our use of electricity, gasoline, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-58083385</url></story> |
4,605,113 | 4,604,877 | 1 | 2 | 4,603,611 | 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>vacri</author><text>A significant part of what you're missing is that the function of the actions of the racist manager is to rob the author of political power. Racism works in some pretty subtle subtle ways - by painting the author as 'that aggressive black guy', the manager has already clipped his wings.<p>You may have also missed this line: <i>After years of arguments with white men (and white women), watching white men (and white women) move away from me when I start to talk about oppression (i.e. what life as a poor black queer is like), I know when to pick and chose my battles</i><p>Can you not see just how exhausting it would be to have to constantly explain and justify yourself?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Lukeas14</author><text>Regardless of how pissed off he may have been, you don't fight racism with more racism. All that does is exacerbate the situation and hurt your credibility. Calling someone a dumbwhite<i></i><i></i><i></i>* might feel good but does nothing for your cause.<p>I've always believed the correct response to racism is to educate. Educate his coworkers on the origin and significance of his necklace and why they shouldn't equate the way he dresses with being a thug. And in this case, where it is systemic and tolerated, appeal to a higher authority such as HR and the court system.</text></item><item><author>to_jon</author><text>"I agree, but some of his content will be a barrier for some people. I'm sure if the tone of the post was milder, most of the comments here would be supportive."<p>-- too typical a response<p>"Peppered throughout the post are cultural signs and signifiers that mark the author as an advocate for a fairly specific set of political and social beliefs."<p>-- completely irrelevant to assessing the facts of the case<p>As a white male, I'm very disappointed by how many in the HN community have responded to this story. The victim- and let me emphasize, this individual is a victim- has every right to feel and express any number of hostile feelings toward the perps involved and, furthermore, has the right to express his frustration at how racist behavior was openly exhibited in front of so many employees, with no consequences whatsoever. In fact, you have to wonder why none of his white colleagues stood up and objected to some of the more colorful remarks made in the presence of others. Is it really that difficult to understand why he might perceive all the whites in his office as a$$holes? His story isn't merely an indictment of a few managers, but of a culture (and yes, a white culture) that absolutely tolerated racism both at an individual and collective level. These incidents didn't only occur behind a closed door. Is or was this culture present in only one SF company?
After what this individual was subjected to, you have to be incredibly small minded to feel offended by the fact that his language reveals frustration or antagonism toward whites.<p>By the way, I've also seen racism exhibited toward Asian immigrants- not the rockstar programmers matriculated in the US- but recent immigrants holding lower level positions. Let's not pretend that racism doesn't exist in SF by brushing off depictions of racism as a consequence of intrinsic racism on the part of the accuser.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Decoder ring for nerds who are unable to read past words like "neoliberal colonizer" without racing to the nearest TEXTAREA:<p>* A black coworker is singled out by another (non-black) coworker with "watch out for that guy, he’s trouble, he talks a lot of shit"<p>* Referring to a latino coworker, that same coworker suggests jokes: "Like ‘you’re a mexican whore’ or like ‘your mother’s a Mexican whore?"<p>* The black coworker is given a dictionary and told "I got this for you cause I know you speak ebonics."<p>* The latino coworker is then told "I would have gotten you one too but they didn’t have wetback to english"<p>* The author, who is black, is then told "Hey he’s dressed like Run DMC, does he know how to rap?" (The author is wearing a Pitchfork Media-compatible outfit including skinny jeans and a long-sleeved print t-shirt)<p>* The black coworker later informs the author that "Steve wanted me to let you know that we’re dressing too thuggish in the office and we need to dress in a way that reflects the company better". "Steve" is the previously-mentioned white guy, and also apparently a manager.<p>* After telling that coworker that he is considering telling HR about racism in his group, "Steve" takes him aside for a 1-1 meeting. The author is informed that any attire is acceptable except for baggy jeans. After hearing the author's complaints, "Steve" says, "Whoa whoa whoa, those comments you’re hearing aren’t racist; they’re jokes", and then "The problem is that you’re too sensitive. You need to check all that at the door before you come here to work", and finally "We don’t even tolerate people brining up concerns of racism here.".<p>* Later, a women asks whether the pendant the author is wearing, which is from Nairobi, is "a calculator".<p>* "Steve" later informs the author, "it’s ok to make jokes about slavery because that’s over". Then, "Also, you should be grateful that your ancestors went through slavery."<p>Peppered throughout the post are cultural signs and signifiers that mark the author as an advocate for a fairly specific set of political and social beliefs. A reader could be excused for having concerns that the author was not an objective witness. On the other hand, those signifiers are so obvious that you could also question whether someone who had set out to unfairly tar the company would put them into the post.<p>Apart from the comment about the pendant, any one of the comments listed above would be a firing offense here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Racism at a gaming company</title><url>http://qu33riousity.tumblr.com/post/32659337104/racist-moments-of-2012-pt-1-the-workplace</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sadface</author><text>It's not his responsibility to "fight racism", it's the responsibility of his employers to provide a non-racist workplace. Your "correct response" is of course ideal, but imagine how draining it would be for someone to attempt to change an corporate culture 200+ people. It's unfair to expect that from an someone whose only wants to not have to endure severe racism at their 9-5.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Lukeas14</author><text>Regardless of how pissed off he may have been, you don't fight racism with more racism. All that does is exacerbate the situation and hurt your credibility. Calling someone a dumbwhite<i></i><i></i><i></i>* might feel good but does nothing for your cause.<p>I've always believed the correct response to racism is to educate. Educate his coworkers on the origin and significance of his necklace and why they shouldn't equate the way he dresses with being a thug. And in this case, where it is systemic and tolerated, appeal to a higher authority such as HR and the court system.</text></item><item><author>to_jon</author><text>"I agree, but some of his content will be a barrier for some people. I'm sure if the tone of the post was milder, most of the comments here would be supportive."<p>-- too typical a response<p>"Peppered throughout the post are cultural signs and signifiers that mark the author as an advocate for a fairly specific set of political and social beliefs."<p>-- completely irrelevant to assessing the facts of the case<p>As a white male, I'm very disappointed by how many in the HN community have responded to this story. The victim- and let me emphasize, this individual is a victim- has every right to feel and express any number of hostile feelings toward the perps involved and, furthermore, has the right to express his frustration at how racist behavior was openly exhibited in front of so many employees, with no consequences whatsoever. In fact, you have to wonder why none of his white colleagues stood up and objected to some of the more colorful remarks made in the presence of others. Is it really that difficult to understand why he might perceive all the whites in his office as a$$holes? His story isn't merely an indictment of a few managers, but of a culture (and yes, a white culture) that absolutely tolerated racism both at an individual and collective level. These incidents didn't only occur behind a closed door. Is or was this culture present in only one SF company?
After what this individual was subjected to, you have to be incredibly small minded to feel offended by the fact that his language reveals frustration or antagonism toward whites.<p>By the way, I've also seen racism exhibited toward Asian immigrants- not the rockstar programmers matriculated in the US- but recent immigrants holding lower level positions. Let's not pretend that racism doesn't exist in SF by brushing off depictions of racism as a consequence of intrinsic racism on the part of the accuser.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Decoder ring for nerds who are unable to read past words like "neoliberal colonizer" without racing to the nearest TEXTAREA:<p>* A black coworker is singled out by another (non-black) coworker with "watch out for that guy, he’s trouble, he talks a lot of shit"<p>* Referring to a latino coworker, that same coworker suggests jokes: "Like ‘you’re a mexican whore’ or like ‘your mother’s a Mexican whore?"<p>* The black coworker is given a dictionary and told "I got this for you cause I know you speak ebonics."<p>* The latino coworker is then told "I would have gotten you one too but they didn’t have wetback to english"<p>* The author, who is black, is then told "Hey he’s dressed like Run DMC, does he know how to rap?" (The author is wearing a Pitchfork Media-compatible outfit including skinny jeans and a long-sleeved print t-shirt)<p>* The black coworker later informs the author that "Steve wanted me to let you know that we’re dressing too thuggish in the office and we need to dress in a way that reflects the company better". "Steve" is the previously-mentioned white guy, and also apparently a manager.<p>* After telling that coworker that he is considering telling HR about racism in his group, "Steve" takes him aside for a 1-1 meeting. The author is informed that any attire is acceptable except for baggy jeans. After hearing the author's complaints, "Steve" says, "Whoa whoa whoa, those comments you’re hearing aren’t racist; they’re jokes", and then "The problem is that you’re too sensitive. You need to check all that at the door before you come here to work", and finally "We don’t even tolerate people brining up concerns of racism here.".<p>* Later, a women asks whether the pendant the author is wearing, which is from Nairobi, is "a calculator".<p>* "Steve" later informs the author, "it’s ok to make jokes about slavery because that’s over". Then, "Also, you should be grateful that your ancestors went through slavery."<p>Peppered throughout the post are cultural signs and signifiers that mark the author as an advocate for a fairly specific set of political and social beliefs. A reader could be excused for having concerns that the author was not an objective witness. On the other hand, those signifiers are so obvious that you could also question whether someone who had set out to unfairly tar the company would put them into the post.<p>Apart from the comment about the pendant, any one of the comments listed above would be a firing offense here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Racism at a gaming company</title><url>http://qu33riousity.tumblr.com/post/32659337104/racist-moments-of-2012-pt-1-the-workplace</url></story> |
31,835,367 | 31,835,270 | 1 | 3 | 31,833,632 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pmoriarty</author><text><i>&quot;Corporations should not have many opinions and should operate within the law.&quot;</i><p>That would almost be ok if corporations weren&#x27;t allowed to lobby the government, have their employees, owners or board members go work in politics or have other types of influence on politicians.<p>But they have <i>tremendous</i> influence on the laws that they themselves ostensibly have to follow.<p>Not to mention that:<p>- even when they break laws they tend to get just a slap on the wrist<p>- the corporate execs responsible for the lawbreaking rarely go to jail<p>- even if they&#x27;re unlucky enough to go to jail the jails tend to be cushy country clubs<p>- execs have golden parachutes that let them cash out even if they screw the company, and can easily get jobs elsewhere (not that the people at the top who bear ultimate responsibility for the company even have to work another day in their life)<p>- corporations manipulate voters&#x27; opinions through (perfectly legal) advertising, PR, media ownership&#x2F;influence, sponsorship, greenwashing, astroturfing, etc</text><parent_chain><item><author>nemo44x</author><text>&gt; the only color they care about is green.<p>As it should be. Corporations should not have many opinions and should operate within the law. If corporate leaders or employees don’t like it then they can spend their free time lobbying or campaigning for politicians that want to change things. Only after the law is changed should the company make a change. Until then, business as usual.</text></item><item><author>moomoo11</author><text>Lol it’s also every single company ever. Look at the US&#x2F;Western twitter accounts of major corporations and they’re all rainbows. Then look at their Middle East or other regions twitter accounts.. the only color they care about is green. Everything else is marketing backed by legal.<p>I was selected for a project in a Gulf country and we had a preliminary session where I got an eye opener. Basically, no women or gays, no non Islam religious paraphernalia, no atheists, no Jews and if you have Israeli stamp the company would help you get a new passport, no drinking, cover up tattoos. Never noped the fuck outta something as fast as declining that project. No money is worth working for these savage nations.<p>It’s gross how much these corporations act woke in the west and then basically bend to these kinds of countries. Disgusting, and yet everyone in the west eats up the marketing propaganda.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>What I love is that institutions like universities will happily link arms with Qatar for the $$$, despite the neo-slavery: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qatar.northwestern.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qatar.northwestern.edu</a>. Really puts their woke messaging at home in context.</text></item><item><author>sshine</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gctpnews.org&#x2F;qatar-2022-world-cup-death-toll&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gctpnews.org&#x2F;qatar-2022-world-cup-death-toll&#x2F;</a><p>&quot;The name of the current [migrant worker employment] system is kafala, a system forcing all migrants to be sponsored and subsequently tied to an employer. The kafala system has been frequently described as modern day slavery due to its exploitative nature. This employer controls housing, wages, travel, and the well being of each employee.&quot;<p>&quot;[...] an estimated 4,000 migrant workers will die, making this event the deadliest in sporting history.&quot;<p>90% of Qatar&#x27;s population and 94% of its workforce are foreign workers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar</title><url>https://www.marca.com/en/world-cup/2022/06/21/62b1b8e446163f7e7a8b45af.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>lancesells</author><text>IMO this is a terrible take on what companies should be doing. &quot;Unless there&#x27;s a law against it we should be doing it&quot; is not how people who make up a corporation should be thinking.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nemo44x</author><text>&gt; the only color they care about is green.<p>As it should be. Corporations should not have many opinions and should operate within the law. If corporate leaders or employees don’t like it then they can spend their free time lobbying or campaigning for politicians that want to change things. Only after the law is changed should the company make a change. Until then, business as usual.</text></item><item><author>moomoo11</author><text>Lol it’s also every single company ever. Look at the US&#x2F;Western twitter accounts of major corporations and they’re all rainbows. Then look at their Middle East or other regions twitter accounts.. the only color they care about is green. Everything else is marketing backed by legal.<p>I was selected for a project in a Gulf country and we had a preliminary session where I got an eye opener. Basically, no women or gays, no non Islam religious paraphernalia, no atheists, no Jews and if you have Israeli stamp the company would help you get a new passport, no drinking, cover up tattoos. Never noped the fuck outta something as fast as declining that project. No money is worth working for these savage nations.<p>It’s gross how much these corporations act woke in the west and then basically bend to these kinds of countries. Disgusting, and yet everyone in the west eats up the marketing propaganda.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>What I love is that institutions like universities will happily link arms with Qatar for the $$$, despite the neo-slavery: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qatar.northwestern.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qatar.northwestern.edu</a>. Really puts their woke messaging at home in context.</text></item><item><author>sshine</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gctpnews.org&#x2F;qatar-2022-world-cup-death-toll&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gctpnews.org&#x2F;qatar-2022-world-cup-death-toll&#x2F;</a><p>&quot;The name of the current [migrant worker employment] system is kafala, a system forcing all migrants to be sponsored and subsequently tied to an employer. The kafala system has been frequently described as modern day slavery due to its exploitative nature. This employer controls housing, wages, travel, and the well being of each employee.&quot;<p>&quot;[...] an estimated 4,000 migrant workers will die, making this event the deadliest in sporting history.&quot;<p>90% of Qatar&#x27;s population and 94% of its workforce are foreign workers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar</title><url>https://www.marca.com/en/world-cup/2022/06/21/62b1b8e446163f7e7a8b45af.html</url></story> |
13,632,713 | 13,632,700 | 1 | 2 | 13,632,404 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>That was a pretty good interview. I read about Binney before Snowden and I think Snowden knew about him as well. That&#x27;s why he had to get all that data out otherwise he would not be believed.<p>I remember Binney sort being painted as a crazy conspiracy lunatic.<p>It is interesting how he stood up to them but was afraid for his life for a bit there. Wonder if he knew of any cases of people being suicided on US soil by the US govt or just a general precaution. Wonder if anyone from that dept. would leak anything...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bill Binney: “Things won't change until we put these people in jail”</title><url>http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2017/02/11/news/usa_nsa_bill_binney_integrale_eng-158062766</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>equalarrow</author><text>Sadly, this will never happen and like so many gov documentaries that bring to light abuses by groups, people will be outraged and then life will happen.<p>I wish the FBI or relevant body could get their shit together and say &quot;hey, we really should look into this and do something about it.&quot;<p>:-&#x2F;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bill Binney: “Things won't change until we put these people in jail”</title><url>http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2017/02/11/news/usa_nsa_bill_binney_integrale_eng-158062766</url></story> |
7,287,794 | 7,287,862 | 1 | 2 | 7,287,639 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>darklajid</author><text>I want to like OpenBSD. I&#x27;m so happy about openssh and like the whole mindset, philosophy. Or so I thought.<p>Recently (like, weeks ago) I investigated the big three BSDs for a small mail server project. OpenBSD was the first thing I looked at, I was especially interested in opensmtpd. Looking for documentation I stumbled upon [1] (note: Same aggregator, same domain. I consider that &#x27;The canonical source for OpenBSD&#x27;).<p>So that article praises the features of opensmtpd and then shows how to implement a filter. With this:<p>&#x2F;* block idiots *&#x2F;
if (! strcmp(p-&gt;domain, &quot;0pointer.net&quot;)) {
filter_api_reject(id, 530, &quot;You&#x27;re not welcome, go away !&quot;);
return;
}<p>At that point I shook my head in disbelief, labeled the author as person I don&#x27;t want to read from again and moved on to NetBSD (and FreeBSD, still not sure with which one I&#x27;ll go). OpenBSD&#x27;s obviously for more elite persons and ad hominem attacks in random samples are .. I don&#x27;t know. Funny? Cool with the users&#x2F;the project? The Right Way™?<p>That project has lots of attitude problems.<p>1: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20130130081741" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;undeadly.org&#x2F;cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20130130081741</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xorg can now run without privilege on OpenBSD</title><url>http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140223112426</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hiphopyo</author><text>Choose OpenBSD for your Unix needs. OpenBSD -- the world&#x27;s simplest and most secure Unix-like OS. Creator of the world&#x27;s most used SSH implementation OpenSSH, the world&#x27;s most elegant firewall PF, and the world&#x27;s most elegant mail server OpenSMTPD. OpenBSD -- the cleanest kernel, the cleanest userland and the cleanest configuration syntax.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xorg can now run without privilege on OpenBSD</title><url>http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140223112426</url></story> |
39,022,042 | 39,022,224 | 1 | 2 | 39,020,600 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>felipeerias</author><text>Ruins of ancient cities have been found on different sites in the Amazon. For example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kuhikugu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kuhikugu</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Marajoara_culture" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Marajoara_culture</a><p>We often assume that the Amazon tribes have remained unchanged since the dawn of time, but at least some of them are likely to be survivors of urban collapse.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"Amazonian dark earth" was the work of ancient humans</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240116-the-dark-earth-revealing-the-amazons-secrets</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jedd</author><text>Phrasing like &#x27;Now businesses are attempting to capitalise on this ancient method ...&#x27; is true, but as others here have noted, this is not a new area of research, or a new area of business.<p>Can recommend &quot;Burn - Using Fire to Cool the Earth&quot; (2019) by Albert Bates &amp; Kathleen Draper- which looks at various, often surprising, uses for biochar.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;book&#x2F;show&#x2F;43866589" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;book&#x2F;show&#x2F;43866589</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"Amazonian dark earth" was the work of ancient humans</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240116-the-dark-earth-revealing-the-amazons-secrets</url></story> |
2,762,825 | 2,762,720 | 1 | 2 | 2,762,325 | 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>mechanical_fish</author><text>I haven't read the paper, just the abstract. But the literal answer to your question is: You don't observe the cat. Ergo, it's like the "box" was never even opened.<p>Now that I've answered that, let's caution you about your deployment of Mr. Cat. First of all, I don't believe you'll need an uncertain quantum object to observe in this particular thought experiment. Life is complicated enough without bringing in more quantum mechanics than you need. Just imagine a brick. It's red. Light is shining on the brick and it looks red. Now, I install my time-bending lenses around the brick, and then at one particular instant the brick changes to be yellow, and then goes back to being red. But you don't see that, you just see a continuously red brick, <i>even though the light was "shining on" the brick the whole time</i>, because our lenses made a "time hole" in the stream of light and the color change happened during the hole.<p>I should also warn you that our friend Mr. Cat is a bad metaphor in many ways. (He was originally an in-joke, after all, used by people who were debating the apparent absurdity of a new theory.) The problem with the cat is that he's a completely unrealistic creature, and he primes your intuition in all sorts of incorrect ways. In real life you will never stumble across a coherent superposition of two quantum states as dramatically large (trillions of cells!) and dramatically different (alive vs dead!) as this imaginary cat. Real cats interact with their surroundings. A lot. They breathe and meow, they emit organic molecules that smell like cat, they charge up with static electricity (electric fields) and then run around in circles (magnetic fields), and above all they gravitate (which is difficult to cloak). So to make the thought experiment work the cat's imaginary box has to <i>be</i> a cloaking device, a box that permits no interaction with the outside world until it is "opened". And that doesn't exist in real life.<p>And, therefore, importing the cat into <i>this</i> thought experiment is a <i>particularly</i> bad move, because it's redundant. If you have Shroedinger's imaginary box you don't need an additional set of imaginary time-cloaking lenses. The box is already cloaking the cat, for a fairly long period of time.<p>Always be careful: Thinking about completely impossible things is fun for a while, but don't make a habit of it, or you'll become the sort of insufferable spaced-out quantum-mechanics groupie who says things like <i>gosh, maybe when I turn around and stop believing in this tree it will cease to exist</i>. Of course not. Tree-sized objects do not physically disappear from your universe, not without the sound of a chainsaw.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I'm still trying to get my head around this. To the layman, it sounds almost like something trivial (properties of metamaterials) extrapolated into a bit of a sensationalist headline.<p>So I go grab my good friend Schrödinger. We take his cat, subject of numerous cruel and unusual experiments, and stick it in a box. We tie the health of the cat to a quantum state which could condense either way. If it goes one way, the cat lives. If it goes the other way, the cat dies. Then we wrap the quantum state in these time-cloaking lenses.<p>We look at the cat, and what? Does the lack of ability to observe the quantum state mean that the condensation of probabilities never happened? Perhaps the cat disappears?<p>EDIT: Link for those who don't get the reference. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dingers_cat" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dingers_cat</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First Demonstration Of Time Cloaking</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mshron</author><text>Put an LED behind the temporal cloak. Look at it from the outside. You see an LED. Look at it through the temporal cloak. You see an LED. Now turn the cloak on and blink the LED (very fast). If you're looking through the cloak, you won't see the blink happen. If you're looking from the outside, you will.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I'm still trying to get my head around this. To the layman, it sounds almost like something trivial (properties of metamaterials) extrapolated into a bit of a sensationalist headline.<p>So I go grab my good friend Schrödinger. We take his cat, subject of numerous cruel and unusual experiments, and stick it in a box. We tie the health of the cat to a quantum state which could condense either way. If it goes one way, the cat lives. If it goes the other way, the cat dies. Then we wrap the quantum state in these time-cloaking lenses.<p>We look at the cat, and what? Does the lack of ability to observe the quantum state mean that the condensation of probabilities never happened? Perhaps the cat disappears?<p>EDIT: Link for those who don't get the reference. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dingers_cat" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dingers_cat</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First Demonstration Of Time Cloaking</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/</url></story> |
17,536,392 | 17,536,128 | 1 | 2 | 17,535,752 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>btown</author><text>This is really, really cool. It&#x27;s on github at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marcoeilers&#x2F;nagini" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marcoeilers&#x2F;nagini</a> and you can see examples of the syntax here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;viper.ethz.ch&#x2F;nagini-examples&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;viper.ethz.ch&#x2F;nagini-examples&#x2F;</a><p>In the same way that Python&#x27;s (and Flow&#x2F;Typescript&#x27;s) typing lets you describe argument and return types with no more effort&#x2F;characters than typing a comment, this lets you describe invariants and assertions exactly where you normally would with comments, including invariants on each element of a sequence... and instantly get static typing. I believe there&#x27;s a custom meta_path importer so it will strip out at module load time, making it zero-cost at runtime. It&#x27;s the type of thing that there&#x27;s no reason <i>not</i> to use.<p>It&#x27;s powered by Viper, and you can see pseudocode of the internal representation it gets transpiled to in Figure 4 here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.inf.ethz.ch&#x2F;summersa&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;lib&#x2F;exe&#x2F;fetch.php?media=papers:viper-vmcai16.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.inf.ethz.ch&#x2F;summersa&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;lib&#x2F;exe&#x2F;fetch.php?me...</a> . Very smart stuff around tracking read&#x2F;write dependencies on variables in a programmer-friendly way.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nagini: A Static Verifier for Python [pdf]</title><url>http://pm.inf.ethz.ch/publications/getpdf.php?bibname=Own&id=EilersMueller18.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Classic, and nicely done.<p>They did something right that&#x27;s rarely done - their verification extensions to Python are Pythonic. They don&#x27;t use a separate language for invariants and assertions, and they don&#x27;t put the assertions in comments. The assertions are thus part of the program.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nagini: A Static Verifier for Python [pdf]</title><url>http://pm.inf.ethz.ch/publications/getpdf.php?bibname=Own&id=EilersMueller18.pdf</url></story> |
15,108,486 | 15,108,482 | 1 | 2 | 15,108,289 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>askvictor</author><text>If they&#x27;re from laptops the cells should be safe (as opposed to unknown new cells from AliExpress which may or may not be to spec); albeit not necessarily at maximum capacity. As long as appropriate protection circuitry is used, I don&#x27;t see how using then hard would make any difference (laptops use batteries hard too).</text><parent_chain><item><author>ficklepickle</author><text>This sounds like it could be rather dangerous, no? Connecting up a bunch of old lithium cells of unknown origin and using them hard.<p>I&#x27;d also worry about an insurance claim being denied if it burned my house down.<p>However, I very much approve of the DIY ingenuity and repurposing of old stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DIY Powerwall Builders Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries to Power Their Homes</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzz7zm/diy-powerwall-builders-are-using-recycled-laptop-batteries-to-power-their-homes</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Baeocystin</author><text>Kind of dangerous seems like quite the understatement, considering the nature of lithium batteries!<p>It&#x27;d be fun to play with something like this for the learning, but I wouldn&#x27;t actually run one unless it was in its own shed, many dozens of yards from the nearest anything else. Lithium fires are no joke.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ficklepickle</author><text>This sounds like it could be rather dangerous, no? Connecting up a bunch of old lithium cells of unknown origin and using them hard.<p>I&#x27;d also worry about an insurance claim being denied if it burned my house down.<p>However, I very much approve of the DIY ingenuity and repurposing of old stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DIY Powerwall Builders Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries to Power Their Homes</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzz7zm/diy-powerwall-builders-are-using-recycled-laptop-batteries-to-power-their-homes</url></story> |
19,493,833 | 19,492,484 | 1 | 2 | 19,491,880 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>6a68</author><text>Hi, Lockbox desktop dev here. Some thoughts:<p>&gt; if there isn&#x27;t a Chrome plugin, it&#x27;s not going to be of much use to me<p>Working on it! We have to get the webextension working in Firefox first, then we&#x27;ll branch out to other browsers. (Contributors welcome, btw: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla-lockbox&#x2F;lockbox-addon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla-lockbox&#x2F;lockbox-addon</a>)<p>&gt; I still use Chrome on my laptop (for a multitude of reasons) and if Lockbox doesn&#x27;t interoperate with it, it&#x27;s not a useful tool.<p>Well, you can import Chrome passwords into Firefox pretty easily, and set up Firefox Sync, and then you&#x27;ve got all your (Chrome) desktop logins on mobile. Not ideal, but works.<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t want to switch to a product that&#x27;s only going to be retired in a year<p>Sure, I <i>definitely</i> understand. I&#x27;ve personally worked on Persona, FxOS, Test Pilot, and Screenshots (and now Lockbox). IMO Mozilla has gotten steadily better at shipping new products, and once we get Lockbox integrated into desktop, it&#x27;ll have really good chances of long-term survival.<p>Besides, any new startup might go away; at least with Mozilla products, you can be sure we aren&#x27;t going to do anything sketchy with your data.<p>Finally, I&#x27;ll point out that, if you try Lockbox, it&#x27;ll give Mozilla&#x27;s management good signals that they should keep investing in Lockbox :-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>bastawhiz</author><text>I think this is wonderful, but I have two concerns.<p>First, if there isn&#x27;t a Chrome plugin, it&#x27;s not going to be of much use to me. I still use Chrome on my laptop (for a multitude of reasons) and if Lockbox doesn&#x27;t interoperate with it, it&#x27;s not a useful tool.<p>Second, I worry about the longetivity of the project. Other than Firefox, Mozilla is not known for their long-term support of consumer products. Persona? Firefox OS? Thunderbird? I don&#x27;t want to switch to a product that&#x27;s only going to be retired in a year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox Lockbox – Take your passwords everywhere</title><url>https://lockbox.firefox.com/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>callahad</author><text>Longevity shouldn&#x27;t be too much of a concern: Lockbox is effectively a client for Firefox Sync, and Sync is a core Firefox product offering.<p>As for Chrome, since Lockbox is an explicit move to extend Firefox Sync&#x27;s utility beyond just Firefox, I wouldn&#x27;t at all be surprised to see a browser extension at some point in the future. However, I have no actual knowledge of the Lockbox team&#x27;s roadmap. Just seems reasonable. :-)<p>Heck, all the APIs (and repos) are open, so someone sufficiently motivated could build that right now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bastawhiz</author><text>I think this is wonderful, but I have two concerns.<p>First, if there isn&#x27;t a Chrome plugin, it&#x27;s not going to be of much use to me. I still use Chrome on my laptop (for a multitude of reasons) and if Lockbox doesn&#x27;t interoperate with it, it&#x27;s not a useful tool.<p>Second, I worry about the longetivity of the project. Other than Firefox, Mozilla is not known for their long-term support of consumer products. Persona? Firefox OS? Thunderbird? I don&#x27;t want to switch to a product that&#x27;s only going to be retired in a year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox Lockbox – Take your passwords everywhere</title><url>https://lockbox.firefox.com/</url></story> |
12,885,611 | 12,883,516 | 1 | 2 | 12,883,047 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>72deluxe</author><text>I thought this whilst watching Apple&#x27;s event. All of the functionality they demonstrated on the TouchBar basically duplicated functionality already in each app via a shortcut. Eg. safari - you can open a new tab! (cmd-T). There&#x27;s an address bar! (cmd-L). You can go to each tab! (cmd-number, eg. cmd-1).<p>And all of the gestures were what the excellent touchpad was built to do anyway. Scrubbing? Gestures will do that.<p>It&#x27;s like they put two giant touch interfaces on the device so that they could fight for attention, and the poor developer has to write two handlers for the two event sources, whilst it does the same thing at the end of it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>monkmartinez</author><text>You mean like the ginormous trackpad directly beneath the keyboard? Wouldn&#x27;t it be cool if they built scrubbing&#x2F;scrolling right into that?<p>Also, dynamic shortcuts! Like the kind you get with BetterTouchTool[1]?<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boastr.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boastr.net&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>hanief</author><text>Apple&#x27;s HIG[1] on the Touch bar is actually great. You can sort of understand the reason Apple put it on the Macbook. You can at least envision two interesting things:<p>- Touch UI for scrubbing&#x2F;scrolling contents faster.<p>- Dynamic shortcuts for most used commands that previously only accessible by using the keyboard.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;content&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;UserExperience&#x2F;Conceptual&#x2F;OSXHIGuidelines&#x2F;AbouttheTouchBar.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;content&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;Us...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nyancat on the touchbar</title><url>https://github.com/avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hanief</author><text>I haven&#x27;t actually tried it yet, but by watching the launch demo and several screenshots of touch bar on app like Photos or Final Cut Pro I can see that:<p>- Touch Bar is probably better on scrubbing&#x2F;scrolling because you can actually see the zoomed out content, like the entire timeline of the movie on FCP.<p>- I haven&#x27;t tried Boastr. I am sure it&#x27;s useful and faster for pro. But on first look it&#x27;s pretty complicated. It&#x27;s not built in to the Mac and not easily accessible, especially for new user.</text><parent_chain><item><author>monkmartinez</author><text>You mean like the ginormous trackpad directly beneath the keyboard? Wouldn&#x27;t it be cool if they built scrubbing&#x2F;scrolling right into that?<p>Also, dynamic shortcuts! Like the kind you get with BetterTouchTool[1]?<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boastr.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boastr.net&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>hanief</author><text>Apple&#x27;s HIG[1] on the Touch bar is actually great. You can sort of understand the reason Apple put it on the Macbook. You can at least envision two interesting things:<p>- Touch UI for scrubbing&#x2F;scrolling contents faster.<p>- Dynamic shortcuts for most used commands that previously only accessible by using the keyboard.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;content&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;UserExperience&#x2F;Conceptual&#x2F;OSXHIGuidelines&#x2F;AbouttheTouchBar.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;content&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;Us...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nyancat on the touchbar</title><url>https://github.com/avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat</url></story> |
30,387,217 | 30,386,824 | 1 | 2 | 30,382,331 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cindarin</author><text>I am speaking for myself.<p>My concern is that when I read these articles, the authors often seem to be speaking for more than themselves. It seems as though they are projecting an unhealthy addiction on all members of society. I see that as likely incorrect and potentially harmful.<p>I&#x27;m not certain what&#x27;s unhealthy about what you listed other than the self-imposed exhaustion. Humans have been exhausting themselves unhealthily long before the internet came about. If you feel you&#x27;re doing so, by all means, find the way to give yourself the rest you need.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jdpigeon</author><text>Speak for yourself, man, cause it can get bad. During the work week I can sometimes go from unconsciousness to TikTok to podcasts to web development to Zoom to Twitter to Spotify to YouTube and back to TikTok and then to sleep without any real breaks in between. One can get into this habit of exhausted yet nervous information seeking -- &quot;doing without doing&quot;.<p>I think three days off might be just what I need.</text></item><item><author>cindarin</author><text>I feel like I have read this same article two dozen times, each by a different author.<p>The internet and I grew up together; it&#x27;s nearly always been a part of my life. I use the internet every day for several hours. My career involves constant use and access to the internet. I also get my news and communicate with friends via the internet.<p>All that said, I spend time away from the internet every day and not as some forced action to distance myself from it. I don&#x27;t see the internet as some perverse addiction that I need to break. If I&#x27;m not working for a stretch of days, there&#x27;s a good chance that I will not use the internet simply because no situation comes up that calls for it.<p>The idea that 3 days away is life and mind altering is deeply concerning to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What I learned during my three days offline</title><url>https://www.raptitude.com/2022/02/what-i-learned-during-my-three-days-offline/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mgkimsal</author><text>There&#x27;s some distinction between &#x27;using the internet&#x27; and &#x27;social media&#x27; (which is a somewhat nebulous term, possibly).<p>Could I go 3 days without &#x27;social media&#x27; or &#x27;socializing online&#x27;? Yeah - it might be a bit tough as it&#x27;s definitely a habit, but... it&#x27;s not &#x27;vital&#x27;. I went to the beach last year and ... just sat and read a book. Got a phone call from my wife, which ... perhaps that&#x27;s &#x27;social media&#x27; in some sense? But I had a bit of time away from the standard online social places (including HN) and it was definitely doable.<p>Three days without &#x27;internet access&#x27;... including driving navigation, banking, access to my health information, etc? That would be harder. Doable, but would definitely be a lot more noticeable. Would ideally plan for it a bit in advance :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>jdpigeon</author><text>Speak for yourself, man, cause it can get bad. During the work week I can sometimes go from unconsciousness to TikTok to podcasts to web development to Zoom to Twitter to Spotify to YouTube and back to TikTok and then to sleep without any real breaks in between. One can get into this habit of exhausted yet nervous information seeking -- &quot;doing without doing&quot;.<p>I think three days off might be just what I need.</text></item><item><author>cindarin</author><text>I feel like I have read this same article two dozen times, each by a different author.<p>The internet and I grew up together; it&#x27;s nearly always been a part of my life. I use the internet every day for several hours. My career involves constant use and access to the internet. I also get my news and communicate with friends via the internet.<p>All that said, I spend time away from the internet every day and not as some forced action to distance myself from it. I don&#x27;t see the internet as some perverse addiction that I need to break. If I&#x27;m not working for a stretch of days, there&#x27;s a good chance that I will not use the internet simply because no situation comes up that calls for it.<p>The idea that 3 days away is life and mind altering is deeply concerning to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What I learned during my three days offline</title><url>https://www.raptitude.com/2022/02/what-i-learned-during-my-three-days-offline/</url></story> |
5,206,957 | 5,206,880 | 1 | 3 | 5,206,555 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vannevar</author><text>We're not talking about criminalizing the behavior, so freedom of speech doesn't enter into the matter. The author is trying to change the market response to the behavior, by pointing out that it has a destructive aspect that many people (particularly men, who dominate the tech industry) may not be conscious of. One reason that we have freedom of speech is that it permits challenges to orthodoxy, and in this case the orthodox position being challenged is that sexist jokes are OK at professional conferences.</text><parent_chain><item><author>coldtea</author><text>&#62;<i>"Political correctness" is often a buzzword used to dismiss people who want to discuss this. Other, better, words exist. "Politeness" is one.</i><p>"Freedom of expression" is another, though.</text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>&#62; Maybe gender related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places<p>&#62; I mean, where does this political correctness stop<p>It seems really obvious to me. At work, at a conference, you don't tell racist, sexist, ableist etc jokes. What you do outside work is up to you. (But, if you do it outside work and in public it may complicate things if you have a work related discrimination problem.)<p>&#62; political correctness<p>"Political correctness" is often a buzzword used to dismiss people who want to discuss this. Other, better, words exist. "Politeness" is one.</text></item><item><author>flexie</author><text>People laugh when they hear a "sexist" joke because it's funny.<p>Maybe gender related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right? I mean, where does this political correctness stop?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sexism is not funny, let's stop laughing</title><url>http://johannakoll.posterous.com/sexism-is-not-funny-lets-stop-laughing</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rmrfrmrf</author><text>I'm sorry you feel that the rules of basic human decency are trampling on your first amendment rights.</text><parent_chain><item><author>coldtea</author><text>&#62;<i>"Political correctness" is often a buzzword used to dismiss people who want to discuss this. Other, better, words exist. "Politeness" is one.</i><p>"Freedom of expression" is another, though.</text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>&#62; Maybe gender related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places<p>&#62; I mean, where does this political correctness stop<p>It seems really obvious to me. At work, at a conference, you don't tell racist, sexist, ableist etc jokes. What you do outside work is up to you. (But, if you do it outside work and in public it may complicate things if you have a work related discrimination problem.)<p>&#62; political correctness<p>"Political correctness" is often a buzzword used to dismiss people who want to discuss this. Other, better, words exist. "Politeness" is one.</text></item><item><author>flexie</author><text>People laugh when they hear a "sexist" joke because it's funny.<p>Maybe gender related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right? I mean, where does this political correctness stop?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sexism is not funny, let's stop laughing</title><url>http://johannakoll.posterous.com/sexism-is-not-funny-lets-stop-laughing</url></story> |
37,916,835 | 37,917,025 | 1 | 2 | 37,915,241 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tryk</author><text>There is a concept called Solidarity, which Swedes take very seriously. If one employer chooses to not play fair by the rules of the labor market (which include negotiating with unions in Sweden) then other unions will show Solidarity with the one striking. The unions act with the mandate from the workers. They are not dictatorships.<p>Historically solidarity between workers is the reason why you only work 8 (instead of 16) hour days. Why workers have vacation days, sick pay, pensions and maternity leave etc.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Solidarity" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Solidarity</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>josephcsible</author><text>Isn&#x27;t that cartel-like behavior and basically extortion? How is that legal?</text></item><item><author>Hikikomori</author><text>Other unions will deny services to Tesla in Sweden, strikers at one company are not alone. If they can operate without relying on another unionized company for anything they can still do it, and likely pay the same or more anyway as it will be in the media so many people will not take jobs there.</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>Let&#x27;s say they didn&#x27;t sign.<p>Would enough people in Sweeden just not buy Teslas?<p>I don&#x27;t doubt it is &quot;tone-deaf&quot; but I see that mentioned a lot and PR spats seem to result in very little.<p>I find it hard to gauge these kinds of things, lots of PR disasters are declared but I&#x27;m not sure many matter, even highly publicized gaffs don&#x27;t seem to change much.</text></item><item><author>Tryk</author><text>If Tesla refuses to sign a collective agreement with the labor unions I hope they leave the Swedish labor market. Refusing to sign a collective agreement is a completely tone-deaf approach to conducting a business in Sweden.<p>For instance, Sweden does not have a legal minimum wage - this is all done by collective agreements. Nine out of ten employees work under a collective agreement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish union declares strike for Tesla employees</title><url>https://www.ifmetall.se/aktuellt/tesla/background-information-on-if-metalls-conflict-at-tesla/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Gareth321</author><text>I upvoted you because you’re technically right. It’s permitted because it generally leads to good social outcomes at the expense of business profit. This isn’t cost-free, of course. Nothing is. It’s just that Sweden believes the costs are worth it. By the numbers, outcomes for citizens are very good, so I think they’re correct.</text><parent_chain><item><author>josephcsible</author><text>Isn&#x27;t that cartel-like behavior and basically extortion? How is that legal?</text></item><item><author>Hikikomori</author><text>Other unions will deny services to Tesla in Sweden, strikers at one company are not alone. If they can operate without relying on another unionized company for anything they can still do it, and likely pay the same or more anyway as it will be in the media so many people will not take jobs there.</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>Let&#x27;s say they didn&#x27;t sign.<p>Would enough people in Sweeden just not buy Teslas?<p>I don&#x27;t doubt it is &quot;tone-deaf&quot; but I see that mentioned a lot and PR spats seem to result in very little.<p>I find it hard to gauge these kinds of things, lots of PR disasters are declared but I&#x27;m not sure many matter, even highly publicized gaffs don&#x27;t seem to change much.</text></item><item><author>Tryk</author><text>If Tesla refuses to sign a collective agreement with the labor unions I hope they leave the Swedish labor market. Refusing to sign a collective agreement is a completely tone-deaf approach to conducting a business in Sweden.<p>For instance, Sweden does not have a legal minimum wage - this is all done by collective agreements. Nine out of ten employees work under a collective agreement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish union declares strike for Tesla employees</title><url>https://www.ifmetall.se/aktuellt/tesla/background-information-on-if-metalls-conflict-at-tesla/</url></story> |
26,351,027 | 26,350,847 | 1 | 2 | 26,349,857 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fireattack</author><text>I want to try these DNS-based blockers (AGH or Pi-hole) but am always wondering: is it easy to temporarily disable, or &quot;debug&quot; them?<p>I have encountered multiple times (not common, but not trivial) that a filter blocks something wrong. With traditional ad-blocker as extension, I can quickly find it out by using build-in logger, and then simply either temporarily disable them or add the site to whitelist with a single click (if I feel like it, I can write my own rule too.)<p>If I have to change my DNS setting everytime this happens with these DNS-based blockers, I feel like to stick with extensions since I don&#x27;t really use my phone to browse Internet too much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gramakri</author><text>This is also part of AdGuard Home . I think this was the PR that fixed it - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AdguardTeam&#x2F;AdGuardHome&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1185" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AdguardTeam&#x2F;AdGuardHome&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1185</a> .<p>If you haven&#x27;t tried out AdGuard Home, I can highly recommend it. Has same feature set as Pi-Hole and support DoT as well. It&#x27;s also super trivial to install since it&#x27;s just a Go binary. Have been using it for ages now and love it!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique</title><url>https://github.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dvcrn</author><text>Another AdGuard home user here!<p>I actually discovered it when I wanted to install pi-hole on my mac server and it just wouldn&#x27;t work besides with the Docker container, which had other issues like not being able to see the client IP that made the request.<p>Been running AdGuard Home for a couple months now and it&#x27;s really nice!</text><parent_chain><item><author>gramakri</author><text>This is also part of AdGuard Home . I think this was the PR that fixed it - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AdguardTeam&#x2F;AdGuardHome&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1185" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AdguardTeam&#x2F;AdGuardHome&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1185</a> .<p>If you haven&#x27;t tried out AdGuard Home, I can highly recommend it. Has same feature set as Pi-Hole and support DoT as well. It&#x27;s also super trivial to install since it&#x27;s just a Go binary. Have been using it for ages now and love it!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique</title><url>https://github.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers</url></story> |
15,267,407 | 15,267,108 | 1 | 3 | 15,265,356 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kristopolous</author><text>Bad practitioners in any field crudely invoke and naively apply a trite toolbox of mantras. Detached from reality and driven by insecure ego, they become the problem by using magical thinking from authoritarian logic and delude themselves of the reality of what they are actually doing.<p>In any skill, people can fall prey to cults of myth and mysticism as they merit based on adherence to orthodoxy rather than suitability. Programming is no different and sometimes it&#x27;s hard to hear anybody think over the mooing of all the sacred cows.</text><parent_chain><item><author>winterlight</author><text>Ironically, in that situation, using a list might end up being more efficient due to cache locality. Or not. That&#x27;s why measuring is so important, since performance can be a very counterintuitive subject. Hard-data should always prevail over theory and guesswork.</text></item><item><author>whack</author><text>Rule 6: Every well-intentioned rule will be bastardized and used to justify horrible code.<p>Foo: <i>&quot;Hey, this 10000-element collection, which we do repeated lookups on... why are we using a list and not a HashSet?&quot;</i><p>Bar: <i>&quot;Because lists are so much simpler than a HashSet. Let&#x27;s just KISS&quot;</i><p>Foo: <i>&quot;But... doing repeated lookups on a 10k sized list is so much slower than just using a HashSet!&quot;</i><p>Bar: <i>&quot;Oh really? Have you profiled the entire application, and measured the latency impact caused by this decision? Come back to me once you&#x27;ve done so, and until then, we&#x27;re not going to tune for speed.&quot;</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)</title><url>http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.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>anarazel</author><text>&quot;Lists&quot;, presumably referencing a linked list, have horrible cache locality. You were thinking of an array?</text><parent_chain><item><author>winterlight</author><text>Ironically, in that situation, using a list might end up being more efficient due to cache locality. Or not. That&#x27;s why measuring is so important, since performance can be a very counterintuitive subject. Hard-data should always prevail over theory and guesswork.</text></item><item><author>whack</author><text>Rule 6: Every well-intentioned rule will be bastardized and used to justify horrible code.<p>Foo: <i>&quot;Hey, this 10000-element collection, which we do repeated lookups on... why are we using a list and not a HashSet?&quot;</i><p>Bar: <i>&quot;Because lists are so much simpler than a HashSet. Let&#x27;s just KISS&quot;</i><p>Foo: <i>&quot;But... doing repeated lookups on a 10k sized list is so much slower than just using a HashSet!&quot;</i><p>Bar: <i>&quot;Oh really? Have you profiled the entire application, and measured the latency impact caused by this decision? Come back to me once you&#x27;ve done so, and until then, we&#x27;re not going to tune for speed.&quot;</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)</title><url>http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html</url></story> |
28,989,106 | 28,988,685 | 1 | 2 | 28,983,859 | 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>dont__panic</author><text>In all fairness, I just spent a couple of weeks looking into webcams, and I ended up getting a Logitech StreamCam as well -- I almost got a Brio, but from what I can tell, really nice 60fps 1080p on the StreamCam looks better than 4K 30fps on the Brio.<p>I really like the StreamCam so far, and I would say it&#x27;s probably the best camera on the market right now for all-purpose video usage (not quite as expensive as the top tier, but 95% of the way there in quality; better looking than the C920&#x2F;30 webcams you see around a lot of offices).<p>Ditto on lighting though. I don&#x27;t use any kind of video-specific lighting, but just putting more lamps on my desk has made a world of difference. And I think the backlighting effect also makes my monitors less stressful on my eyes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sundvor</author><text>I&#x27;ve put some effort into my setup in the past 24 months; multiple Elgato and Hue lights, a Streamdeck for macros and scene control, condenser microphone on an arm with an audio interface, OBS studio etc.<p>I am not a streamer, but I&#x27;m likely set up like one; I&#x27;ve studied their methods of light and composition, and learned a lot.<p>I have some serious scarring from facial surgery decades past, and being able to control the light and setup has made a big difference in overcoming issues related to this; it has really helped put myself forward in the best light (pun intended). In this area of exclusively working from home, it was one worth spending effort on. I&#x27;m happy to put my (ugly) face in there, and really don&#x27;t mind the virtual office.<p>(Fun fact my camera is &quot;only&quot; a Logitech StreamCam, but the lighting makes such a difference. The ability to bring up and down the meetings with a single macro button on the Streamdeck is also invaluable.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings</title><url>https://doi.apa.org/fulltext/2021-77825-003.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>aantix</author><text>Where do you position your camera so it both looks like you&#x27;re making eye contact yet you can see your screen&#x2F;audience?</text><parent_chain><item><author>sundvor</author><text>I&#x27;ve put some effort into my setup in the past 24 months; multiple Elgato and Hue lights, a Streamdeck for macros and scene control, condenser microphone on an arm with an audio interface, OBS studio etc.<p>I am not a streamer, but I&#x27;m likely set up like one; I&#x27;ve studied their methods of light and composition, and learned a lot.<p>I have some serious scarring from facial surgery decades past, and being able to control the light and setup has made a big difference in overcoming issues related to this; it has really helped put myself forward in the best light (pun intended). In this area of exclusively working from home, it was one worth spending effort on. I&#x27;m happy to put my (ugly) face in there, and really don&#x27;t mind the virtual office.<p>(Fun fact my camera is &quot;only&quot; a Logitech StreamCam, but the lighting makes such a difference. The ability to bring up and down the meetings with a single macro button on the Streamdeck is also invaluable.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings</title><url>https://doi.apa.org/fulltext/2021-77825-003.html</url></story> |
27,292,476 | 27,292,170 | 1 | 3 | 27,291,302 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mjlbach</author><text>Have you checked it out recently? I overhauled the documentation twice since January. Most recently, I dramatically simplified the documentation based on user feedback, expanded the wiki pages, and created an &quot;advanced&quot; readme for power users.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rajin444</author><text>I tried out the native LSP support few months ago and the docs + features for it seemed poor. I went back to coc.vim</text></item><item><author>varbhat</author><text>Neovim 0.5 is awesome. It has native LSP support, Lua configuration support that it feels like true revolution over past versions.<p>But, getting into optimal setup in neovim&#x2F;vim involves lot of configuration. Here is mine if you want to refer:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;varbhat&#x2F;dotfiles&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;dot_config&#x2F;nvim" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;varbhat&#x2F;dotfiles&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;dot_config&#x2F;nvi...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Neovim 0.5 is overpowering</title><url>https://crispgm.com/page/neovim-is-overpowering.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>ibraheemdev</author><text>The features are all there, and I found the documentation was pretty good. There were cases where I had to dig through help pages and github issues to configure things a certain way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rajin444</author><text>I tried out the native LSP support few months ago and the docs + features for it seemed poor. I went back to coc.vim</text></item><item><author>varbhat</author><text>Neovim 0.5 is awesome. It has native LSP support, Lua configuration support that it feels like true revolution over past versions.<p>But, getting into optimal setup in neovim&#x2F;vim involves lot of configuration. Here is mine if you want to refer:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;varbhat&#x2F;dotfiles&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;dot_config&#x2F;nvim" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;varbhat&#x2F;dotfiles&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;dot_config&#x2F;nvi...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Neovim 0.5 is overpowering</title><url>https://crispgm.com/page/neovim-is-overpowering.html</url></story> |
2,239,153 | 2,239,067 | 1 | 3 | 2,238,661 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>Wow. Where to start.<p>The first thing that caught me about your comment was this: <i>as Chomsky says, "If you don't behave in a dictatorship, they'll just bludgeon you over the head."</i><p>Ignoring the appeal to authority (which always is a red alarm for me) the problem is that dictatorships are completely different entities than are commonly thought. Most people think that in a dictatorship there's one guy in charge and he directly controls the lives and actions of all the people. But that's not true: simple span-of-control theory says that one person, at most, can observe and coordinate the work of 5 to 10 other people. The more control, the fewer number of people. So there are dozens of levels between Kim and his people, each level interpreting things their own way and each level impacting how things are run to a great degree.<p>Nope, dictatorships are actually oligarchies, with a symbiotic relationship between the dictator and the "middle management" so to speak. Even if the dictator took all the middle level management out and had them shot, there would just be a new structure put in place with all the same old problems (and symbiotic relationships)<p>My perception of your comment kind of went downhill from there. Some highlights were comparing "news shows" across several different channels, 1 of which was a news show, 1 was a quasi news show, and 1 was an entertainment show. I seriously doubt such comparisons are going to lead to much value for the reader.<p>Then we had the whole problem of definitions. As I understand it, propaganda is the dissemination of information in order to effect change in public opinion. It doesn't have to be false, involve logical fallacies, or any of that. Some of the best propaganda, as the Pentagon says itself, is simply telling people the truth about stuff they haven't heard before.<p>Then there was the over-reaching narrative of "everything is propaganda" -- joining up marketing, entertainment, sales, etc. It's a sign of a poor definition when it fails to distinguish things. And of course we had to trot out a good dollop of American-bashing with the Creel commission and such. Sometimes I think America-bashing has become the salt and pepper of faux intellectual discourse. Discussion getting a bit tired? Throw in a few jabs at the Yanks. "Easily manipulated into warlike frenzy" and "more controlled by propaganda than North Koreans" (I paraphrase) are serious assertions. Assertions that you began with, then failed to offer any proof, aside from a Chomsky quote.<p>So apologies if I am being a bit harsh. I just didn't get much value from your comment at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>espeed</author><text>Be careful not to assume from this video that propaganda primarily only happens in far-off dictatorships like North Korea. Propaganda is more useful in a democratic society because as Chomsky says, "If you don't behave in a dictatorship, they'll just bludgeon you over the head." To control the population in democratic societies, governments and lobbyists use propaganda to control the masses through an "artificially created public sentiment" (<a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F07E5D8143FE633A25755C0A9609C946296D6CF" rel="nofollow">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F07E5D8143FE...</a>).<p>Modern propaganda originated during World War I under Woodrow Wilson. Americans were isolationists and didn't want any part of the war; however, the US government wanted to enter the war so it created the Creel Commission (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Information" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Information</a>) to influence public opinion towards entering the war.<p>The Creel Commission was so effective that it was able to turn Americans from isolationists into German-hating warmongers in only 6 months. The Creel Commission operated for 2 years, and it is where the modern PR industry emerged from.<p>But this was almost 100 years ago, and the government, lobbyists, and PR agencies have been perfecting it ever since. We are the propaganda experts, not North Korea.<p>A few weeks ago, I formed an open-source project called "The Propaganda Project" (<a href="http://www.propagandaproject.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.propagandaproject.org/</a>) to build a Web service that will enable people to identify and catalog instances of propaganda techniques (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques</a>) used in mass media to effectively pull back the curtain so that it loses its persuasive effect.<p>For example, let's take the three 60-minute cable news programs competing at 5 PM -- Glenn Beck (Fox News), Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer (CNN), and Hardball with Chris Matthews Hardball (MSNBC).<p>The Web service will make it easy for people to identify and catalog instances of propaganda techniques used during each episode. Someone might see and tag in online video that Glenn Beck used a "glittering generality" at 1 min and 12 seconds into the show and an "appeal to fear" at 1 min 33 seconds. Someone else might see that Chris Matthews used a "red herring" at 1 min 20 seconds and Wolf Blitzer used a "quote out of context" at 1 min 40 seconds.<p>My premise is that there is a finite number of shows and an abundance of politically-passionate people that love pointing out the other-side's propaganda. Over the course of an hour-long program, people might be able to identify 30 or more instances of propaganda techniques used in each program.<p>If the service becomes popular, and people use it to check to see if their favorite shows are using propaganda or if the other-side is, the networks won't want to be known as the networks with the most propagandist shows so they will force the shows' producers to reduce the ratio of propaganda per episode.<p>This is a brand new project that's just getting off the ground so please give me your feedback, and let me know if you want to help.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A rare look into North Korea's famed Propaganda School</title><url>http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/02/2011217113256267999.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>kia</author><text>There is one big difference. In North Korea you have only one point of view presented to the people - the point of view of the party. In democratic society you can have and freely express an opposing point of view.</text><parent_chain><item><author>espeed</author><text>Be careful not to assume from this video that propaganda primarily only happens in far-off dictatorships like North Korea. Propaganda is more useful in a democratic society because as Chomsky says, "If you don't behave in a dictatorship, they'll just bludgeon you over the head." To control the population in democratic societies, governments and lobbyists use propaganda to control the masses through an "artificially created public sentiment" (<a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F07E5D8143FE633A25755C0A9609C946296D6CF" rel="nofollow">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F07E5D8143FE...</a>).<p>Modern propaganda originated during World War I under Woodrow Wilson. Americans were isolationists and didn't want any part of the war; however, the US government wanted to enter the war so it created the Creel Commission (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Information" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Information</a>) to influence public opinion towards entering the war.<p>The Creel Commission was so effective that it was able to turn Americans from isolationists into German-hating warmongers in only 6 months. The Creel Commission operated for 2 years, and it is where the modern PR industry emerged from.<p>But this was almost 100 years ago, and the government, lobbyists, and PR agencies have been perfecting it ever since. We are the propaganda experts, not North Korea.<p>A few weeks ago, I formed an open-source project called "The Propaganda Project" (<a href="http://www.propagandaproject.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.propagandaproject.org/</a>) to build a Web service that will enable people to identify and catalog instances of propaganda techniques (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques</a>) used in mass media to effectively pull back the curtain so that it loses its persuasive effect.<p>For example, let's take the three 60-minute cable news programs competing at 5 PM -- Glenn Beck (Fox News), Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer (CNN), and Hardball with Chris Matthews Hardball (MSNBC).<p>The Web service will make it easy for people to identify and catalog instances of propaganda techniques used during each episode. Someone might see and tag in online video that Glenn Beck used a "glittering generality" at 1 min and 12 seconds into the show and an "appeal to fear" at 1 min 33 seconds. Someone else might see that Chris Matthews used a "red herring" at 1 min 20 seconds and Wolf Blitzer used a "quote out of context" at 1 min 40 seconds.<p>My premise is that there is a finite number of shows and an abundance of politically-passionate people that love pointing out the other-side's propaganda. Over the course of an hour-long program, people might be able to identify 30 or more instances of propaganda techniques used in each program.<p>If the service becomes popular, and people use it to check to see if their favorite shows are using propaganda or if the other-side is, the networks won't want to be known as the networks with the most propagandist shows so they will force the shows' producers to reduce the ratio of propaganda per episode.<p>This is a brand new project that's just getting off the ground so please give me your feedback, and let me know if you want to help.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A rare look into North Korea's famed Propaganda School</title><url>http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/02/2011217113256267999.html</url></story> |
8,966,103 | 8,966,169 | 1 | 2 | 8,965,935 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ceeK</author><text>I somewhat assumed that the 500 error was evidence of the post&#x27;s title, heh.</text><parent_chain><item><author>colund</author><text>The page is not loading properly for me (on a Windows laptop with Chrome). When I use the given link I get &quot;500 - InternalServerError Something went horribly, horribly wrong while servicing your request. We&#x27;re sorry :-(&quot; and when I go via javascriptkicks.com it keeps loading and never completes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why junior developers are learning bad habits from Angular</title><url>https://javascriptkicks.com/stories/3718</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tragic</author><text>After I turned off µBlock, it loaded alright(Chrome&#x2F;OSX 10.8). I know a lot of people here love them an adblocker, so that might be the problem. It seems to be blocking a JSONP call somewhere, and thus the loader spins forever...</text><parent_chain><item><author>colund</author><text>The page is not loading properly for me (on a Windows laptop with Chrome). When I use the given link I get &quot;500 - InternalServerError Something went horribly, horribly wrong while servicing your request. We&#x27;re sorry :-(&quot; and when I go via javascriptkicks.com it keeps loading and never completes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why junior developers are learning bad habits from Angular</title><url>https://javascriptkicks.com/stories/3718</url></story> |
20,244,175 | 20,240,894 | 1 | 2 | 20,240,243 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>It&#x27;s not a &quot;throwaway culture&quot; that&#x27;s the problem, that&#x27;s blaming the victim. It&#x27;s governments who shield business from dealing with externalities, and the fact that if you&#x27;re not going to be responsible for the ultimate disposition of those plastics as a business, your only concern is for margin.<p>We don&#x27;t have a nuclear waste problem because we have some cultural nuclear addiction, or chrome in the soil because we have a chrome addiction. What we have are weak governments where if their regulatory agencies weren&#x27;t captured, they wouldn&#x27;t exist at all; the only regulations that get passed are ones that force small operators out of the market, or allow massive companies to offload liability to subcontractors.<p>edit: How about stopping all of the sin taxes (which are done because they simultaneously bring in revenue and theoretically cut government health care costs), and introduce some environmental taxes. They&#x27;ll get passed down to the consumer anyway, and they can make the choice with their wallet. Cutting sin taxes in proportion to environmental taxes would make it revenue neutral, but it certainly wouldn&#x27;t be environmentally neutral.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A historian unpacks the origins of our plastic addiction</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/history-of-america-love-affair-with-plastic</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kuu</author><text>Cheap, lightweight, resistant... The plastic has really good properties, it&#x27;s normal that we like it. The environmental impact was not that easy to foresee...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A historian unpacks the origins of our plastic addiction</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/history-of-america-love-affair-with-plastic</url></story> |
22,037,946 | 22,038,012 | 1 | 3 | 22,036,964 | 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>commandlinefan</author><text>As far as I can tell, men have always been treated this way, in all societies: accomplish or disappear. The difference now is that automation is rendering the hill insurmountable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tmux314</author><text>There&#x27;s a very weird &quot;let them eat cake&quot; attitude in this thread which I find distressing. The study reports on the millions of working age men in the US who are essentially too depressed and face too many obstacles to search for work. Instead, they&#x27;re spending their days staying inside, getting high, and playing video games. They essentially have little to no chance to pursue romantic relationships. Many of them eventually take their own lives.<p>Perhaps some are enjoying their &quot;hedonistic&quot; lifestyles, but likely most have totally given up on life, much like the Japanese hikikomori. It&#x27;s not healthy mentally or physically. But it seems like as long as people treat these men as &quot;losers&quot; who deserve their fate, the more this problem will grow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Education and Men without Work</title><url>https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/education-and-men-without-work</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Mirioron</author><text>I don&#x27;t think people will care until the issue has become large enough that it will start impacting others in society indirectly. Eg not enough tax revenue being generated or not enough men willing to fight in a war.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tmux314</author><text>There&#x27;s a very weird &quot;let them eat cake&quot; attitude in this thread which I find distressing. The study reports on the millions of working age men in the US who are essentially too depressed and face too many obstacles to search for work. Instead, they&#x27;re spending their days staying inside, getting high, and playing video games. They essentially have little to no chance to pursue romantic relationships. Many of them eventually take their own lives.<p>Perhaps some are enjoying their &quot;hedonistic&quot; lifestyles, but likely most have totally given up on life, much like the Japanese hikikomori. It&#x27;s not healthy mentally or physically. But it seems like as long as people treat these men as &quot;losers&quot; who deserve their fate, the more this problem will grow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Education and Men without Work</title><url>https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/education-and-men-without-work</url></story> |
33,509,192 | 33,508,571 | 1 | 2 | 33,504,206 | 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>adgjlsfhk1</author><text>ditching C doesn&#x27;t solve memory leaks but it does solve use after free. A memory leak is a performance problem that isn&#x27;t generally exploitable. A use after free is almost always a security vulnerability.</text><parent_chain><item><author>P5fRxh5kUvp2th</author><text>Our industry went through this with the move to Java (and later .Net).<p>&quot;It will solve memory leaks!&quot;<p>...<p>&quot;whoops, you can still leak memory in garbage collected languages, my bad everyone!&quot;.</text></item><item><author>zamalek</author><text>&gt; Believing that all software security problems would be solved if we got rid of C is a bigger disease than C itself.<p>Getting rid of a class of errors (correctness) allows you to focus more on other errors (logical). It could be argued that it could slightly reduce the likelihood of the latter.</text></item><item><author>delusional</author><text>Believing that all software security problems would be solved if we got rid of C is a bigger disease than C itself. I work in a fairly large (for my country) financial institution and the problems we deal with on a day to day basis are so far removed from buffer overflows that it&#x27;s not even funny.<p>We still have software running in excel macros that control web browsers via COM. C is nothing compared to the attack surface of that.</text></item><item><author>docandrew</author><text>C is like asbestos. It was fine at what it did, good performance, but the safety problems outweigh them. The difference is that we _stopped using asbestos_ because it was unsafe. It’s still around but being replaced during renovations, and no new installations use it.<p>For whatever reason with C there’s this huge emotional component to it. Safer alternatives exist. You’d rightfully laugh at a contractor who suggested asbestos is fine, if you make sure to use only highly-skilled installers who patch up the drywall so that no fibers can escape. But with C we say that all the time, and the CVEs keep piling up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?”</title><url>https://blog.adacore.com/nvidia-security-team-what-if-we-just-stopped-using-c</url></story> | <instructions>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>Both a paper cut and a gunshot wound bleed. It doesn&#x27;t make them equal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>P5fRxh5kUvp2th</author><text>Our industry went through this with the move to Java (and later .Net).<p>&quot;It will solve memory leaks!&quot;<p>...<p>&quot;whoops, you can still leak memory in garbage collected languages, my bad everyone!&quot;.</text></item><item><author>zamalek</author><text>&gt; Believing that all software security problems would be solved if we got rid of C is a bigger disease than C itself.<p>Getting rid of a class of errors (correctness) allows you to focus more on other errors (logical). It could be argued that it could slightly reduce the likelihood of the latter.</text></item><item><author>delusional</author><text>Believing that all software security problems would be solved if we got rid of C is a bigger disease than C itself. I work in a fairly large (for my country) financial institution and the problems we deal with on a day to day basis are so far removed from buffer overflows that it&#x27;s not even funny.<p>We still have software running in excel macros that control web browsers via COM. C is nothing compared to the attack surface of that.</text></item><item><author>docandrew</author><text>C is like asbestos. It was fine at what it did, good performance, but the safety problems outweigh them. The difference is that we _stopped using asbestos_ because it was unsafe. It’s still around but being replaced during renovations, and no new installations use it.<p>For whatever reason with C there’s this huge emotional component to it. Safer alternatives exist. You’d rightfully laugh at a contractor who suggested asbestos is fine, if you make sure to use only highly-skilled installers who patch up the drywall so that no fibers can escape. But with C we say that all the time, and the CVEs keep piling up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?”</title><url>https://blog.adacore.com/nvidia-security-team-what-if-we-just-stopped-using-c</url></story> |
33,503,024 | 33,502,892 | 1 | 2 | 33,502,299 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alias_neo</author><text>Your parents deserve credit here for that great response.<p>My parents mostly encouraged me mostly by providing the tools and leaving me to it; I spent some of my early years (pre-teen) reverse engineering&#x2F;cracking (education only, never released), then an inordinate amount of time playing the Discworld MUD.<p>Once I got bored of BASIC my dad bought me some books on C++ and took me to a college course on PC building with him; though initially the college were reluctant to let a child take the course (I was 12). He&#x27;d often take me to work and answer all of my questions about what he was doing; PLC&#x2F;panel-building at the time, with some very cool fibre optic tech and DIN rail mounted devices of all kinds; I&#x27;d help make wiring looms and labelling.<p>He and I would build a new (&quot;family&quot;) PC every year until I got my first job after uni and could pay for my own damn computer;<p>He just uses laptops now and hasn&#x27;t built or used a desktop since the last one we built together with my first pay-packet over a decade ago.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Teknoman117</author><text>&gt; I tell them to make something that they would find useful and put it out there. Can you imagine if one of these new open sourcerers took my advice and got this response, without the support I had. Can you imagine?<p>That brought forward a repressed&#x2F;unref&#x27;d memory...<p>Way back in the late 00&#x27;s, a teenage me was dipping his toes into contributing to open source projects. I don&#x27;t recall the specific project and won&#x27;t try to guess, but I can vividly recall this horrible response I got after posting some code for review.<p>Some presumably older person on the mailing list discovered I was, in fact, a teenager. Went on a tirade about how &quot;children&quot; need to stay out of programming - on the project&#x27;s mailing list. Nothing about the code, just an attack on me because of my age.<p>I remember asking my parents what they thought. They told me I could be interested in whatever I damn well please to be, and that if I could avoid internalizing the response, reach out to this person and see whatever they had to say. Needless to say, this person didn&#x27;t have anything friendly or actionable to say in a direct email either.<p>I think that&#x27;s the first time I ever bumped into an asshat online.<p>Oh well, joke&#x27;s on him. I only became more interested in computing and started a career in it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013)</title><url>https://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PostOnce</author><text>We were all teenagers once, newbies, neophytes; we all wrote our first function at some point.<p>It&#x27;s odd how some of us forget that once we become competent -- once upon a time, we weren&#x27;t. We needed a helping hand, a tip, some advice on a problem, and we went to people and asked for help and got it.<p>I never ever fault anyone for being a newbie; I only fault them if they don&#x27;t try. If anyone tries to do something, they should be commended for the attempt. A lot of people never bother to try anything at all!</text><parent_chain><item><author>Teknoman117</author><text>&gt; I tell them to make something that they would find useful and put it out there. Can you imagine if one of these new open sourcerers took my advice and got this response, without the support I had. Can you imagine?<p>That brought forward a repressed&#x2F;unref&#x27;d memory...<p>Way back in the late 00&#x27;s, a teenage me was dipping his toes into contributing to open source projects. I don&#x27;t recall the specific project and won&#x27;t try to guess, but I can vividly recall this horrible response I got after posting some code for review.<p>Some presumably older person on the mailing list discovered I was, in fact, a teenager. Went on a tirade about how &quot;children&quot; need to stay out of programming - on the project&#x27;s mailing list. Nothing about the code, just an attack on me because of my age.<p>I remember asking my parents what they thought. They told me I could be interested in whatever I damn well please to be, and that if I could avoid internalizing the response, reach out to this person and see whatever they had to say. Needless to say, this person didn&#x27;t have anything friendly or actionable to say in a direct email either.<p>I think that&#x27;s the first time I ever bumped into an asshat online.<p>Oh well, joke&#x27;s on him. I only became more interested in computing and started a career in it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013)</title><url>https://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/</url></story> |
15,411,538 | 15,411,485 | 1 | 2 | 15,410,953 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Osmium</author><text>There have been a few cases like this. Presumably the original was created&#x2F;maintained by just one person, they move on, and then when the next person comes along they decide it&#x27;s easier to re-write than modify the old code. But they don&#x27;t have sufficient time and the new version is inferior to the old.<p>Bear in mind the old version <i>did</i> need to be updated (new CoreStorage features, has to handle Fusion drives, now APFS).<p>I get the sense there&#x27;s a lot of shuffling between teams in Apple, and teams are a lot smaller than you&#x27;d expect, and this is the inevitable result. The advantage (I&#x27;m guessing) is that they get to move quickly, and it reduces bureaucracy&#x2F;politics, but ... yeah, this isn&#x27;t great.<p>At least diskutil is still there, and is as powerful as ever.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thought_alarm</author><text>How did Disk Utility.app go from being one of the great built-in OS X utilities to the embarrassing amateurish shit show that it is today?<p>Perhaps the same people responsible for the file system engineering are also responsible for developing this user-facing application. They might excel at low level system engineering, but they are utterly unqualified to develop a high level GUI application.<p>Spend 5 minutes with the app and you&#x27;ll find a half dozen bugs and amateurish mistakes. It&#x27;s baffling, and it&#x27;s been a problem for two years now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208168</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BRAlNlAC</author><text>I really don&#x27;t get why they have allowed this crippled GUI for so long. I understand that they want to make it simple for low level users, but that seems like a bad excuse in this case as low level users aren&#x27;t even going to use Disk Utility, just like they aren&#x27;t going to use Automater. It shows a blindness to their market, i think. Anybody who is on my &quot;free IT&quot; list for the last few years has been receiving a Mac when it&#x27;s time to upgrade. The tech support is night and day, and problems are easy to fix thanks to built in, easy to use screen sharing, a robust OS, and well rounded modern hardware. At the same time I&#x27;m not a unix guru, I don&#x27;t know Bash that well and when I&#x27;m forced to use it I spend a lot of time reading. I hate that they keep hiding more and more commands behind Bash precisely because it makes it significantly more difficult to do what I&#x27;ll call &quot;prosumer IT&quot;. One of the things that really sold me on Macs was when Disk Utility managed to repair a USB that was completely bricked on my windows machine. As of MacOS Sierra, I now have use bash to fix corrupted drives as they aren&#x27;t displayed in the GUI. Such a pain and such a step backwards.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thought_alarm</author><text>How did Disk Utility.app go from being one of the great built-in OS X utilities to the embarrassing amateurish shit show that it is today?<p>Perhaps the same people responsible for the file system engineering are also responsible for developing this user-facing application. They might excel at low level system engineering, but they are utterly unqualified to develop a high level GUI application.<p>Spend 5 minutes with the app and you&#x27;ll find a half dozen bugs and amateurish mistakes. It&#x27;s baffling, and it&#x27;s been a problem for two years now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208168</url></story> |
27,313,679 | 27,313,760 | 1 | 2 | 27,313,284 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>airza</author><text>The nuance here is that brain-damaged appsec pentesters reported this as a vulnerability for years, and so tons of websites followed that advice and dutifully disabled the functionality.
But autocomplete has advantages: it lets users easily specify long, random, per-site passwords without ever having to worry about that. And when they can&#x27;t do that, a pretty large percentage of them just give up and write the password down somewhere.<p>In the end, i find a lot of chrome&#x27;s decision to implement spec-breaking behavior awful in the context of having a website that works forever (Looking at you, samesite). But this behavior rarely breaks functionality and on the whole makes the web a <i>lot</i> more secure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WayToDoor</author><text>Related, there is a &quot;bug&quot; in chrome that disabled autocomplete=&quot;off&quot; on input elements, marked as won&#x27;t fix<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=587466" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=587466</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Safari tries to fill username</title><url>https://github.com/livewire-ui/spotlight/issues/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>heinrichhartman</author><text>I tend to side with Chrome here.<p>IMHO, the decision of whether to show auto-complete should be with the user and not with the website. When I install an auto-complete add-on or activate a browser feature, I expect the AC to be available on ALL input fields, whether the site owner thought that would be a good idea or not.<p>Now, there is a valid question on how the user should be able to configure the AC behavior, and how the website may help inform this configuration, but the decision should be with the user. The website should not have the final say.<p>So I would see this as more of a shortcoming of the HTML Spec.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WayToDoor</author><text>Related, there is a &quot;bug&quot; in chrome that disabled autocomplete=&quot;off&quot; on input elements, marked as won&#x27;t fix<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=587466" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=587466</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Safari tries to fill username</title><url>https://github.com/livewire-ui/spotlight/issues/25</url></story> |
13,754,933 | 13,754,329 | 1 | 3 | 13,753,703 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>Productivity is nonlinear in hours worked.<p>First 20 hours: read a bunch of math papers about some obscure part of stochastic programming.<p>Second 20 hours: figure out how to apply it to problems useful for the company.<p>The first 20 hours are worth $0, not $100k. If I spend an additional 10 hours&#x2F;week improving my skills, that effect is multiplicative rather than additive.<p>Claudia Goldin has a great paper on this effect, focused on using this phenomenon to explain gender gaps in pay. (Specifically, the fields with the lowest gender gaps are the most linear fields, e.g. Pharmacists.)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aeaweb.org&#x2F;aea&#x2F;2014conference&#x2F;program&#x2F;retrieve.php?pdfid=1103" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aeaweb.org&#x2F;aea&#x2F;2014conference&#x2F;program&#x2F;retrieve.ph...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>MiddleEndian</author><text>What about not working so much? You can get a programming job that pays you $200k&#x2F;year for 40 hours, plenty of which you spend blocked anyway, but for whatever reason no one will pay you $100k&#x2F;year for 20 hours.</text></item><item><author>helthanatos</author><text>What about a 40 hour week working just 4 days?</text></item><item><author>pcmonk</author><text>&gt; Give yourself one day with no work<p>If killing the 40-hour work week means I&#x27;m now working six days a week instead of five, then long live the 40-hour work week.<p>Some people (myself included) need two days per week off work, except in special circumstances. We also need to be able to clock out of work and not feel bad about doing so just because we still have work. The worst thing about university to me was the feeling of always having more work to do. I understand avoiding the &quot;I&#x27;m just working until the clock hand turns a little further&quot; state, but often the cumulative effects of the proposed alternative are worse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We should kill the 40-hour work week</title><url>https://crew.co/blog/why-you-shouldnt-work-set-hours/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>Part time work, in my experience, is never paid out on a linear scale. The exception is when you&#x27;re working for yourself as a consultant. However, with consulting, for every billable hour, there&#x27;s typically another unbillable hour of work which still needs to be done.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MiddleEndian</author><text>What about not working so much? You can get a programming job that pays you $200k&#x2F;year for 40 hours, plenty of which you spend blocked anyway, but for whatever reason no one will pay you $100k&#x2F;year for 20 hours.</text></item><item><author>helthanatos</author><text>What about a 40 hour week working just 4 days?</text></item><item><author>pcmonk</author><text>&gt; Give yourself one day with no work<p>If killing the 40-hour work week means I&#x27;m now working six days a week instead of five, then long live the 40-hour work week.<p>Some people (myself included) need two days per week off work, except in special circumstances. We also need to be able to clock out of work and not feel bad about doing so just because we still have work. The worst thing about university to me was the feeling of always having more work to do. I understand avoiding the &quot;I&#x27;m just working until the clock hand turns a little further&quot; state, but often the cumulative effects of the proposed alternative are worse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We should kill the 40-hour work week</title><url>https://crew.co/blog/why-you-shouldnt-work-set-hours/</url></story> |
20,482,222 | 20,482,095 | 1 | 3 | 20,480,261 | 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>ipython</author><text>One absolutely diabolical mechanism that was used (at least 5 years ago when this scourge of ransomware started to rear its ugly head) goes something like this:<p>1. Gain access to change the code on the front-end web servers (usually PHP)<p>2. Change the database access layer to transparently encrypt data being written to the database, and decrypt data being read from the database. The key would be loaded into memory by curl&#x27;ing an attacker-controlled website at startup.<p>3. Wait 30 days<p>4. Notify the company that they&#x27;re compromised, turn off the attacker-controlled key service, and restart the web front end<p>Now step (3) ensures that most data in the database has been re-written, and if your backups are dumps of the production database, you now have a month of encrypted backups that you can&#x27;t read... If you&#x27;re lucky, you may have a month-old backup to restore from; if you&#x27;re unlucky, you rotate every 30 days.</text><parent_chain><item><author>johngalt</author><text>A generally safe backup process looks like this:<p>Production has no access to backup.<p>Backup has read only access to production.<p>Backup writes are append and not overwrites.<p>Deletes&#x2F;archival are governed by a retention process.</text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>This is a question I&#x27;ve thought alot about, so many some Sys Admins can give a good idea about how to approach it:<p>How do you create a backup server that is reachable by production servers (so that they can back up to it) <i>without</i> then being vulnerable to the same kind of ransomware attacks that infect the production servers? You can&#x27;t exactly make them read-only, or else they can&#x27;t accept the &quot;legitimate&quot; writes that might occur during the normal backup process.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/quickbooks-cloud-hosting-firm-insynq-hit-in-ransomware-attack/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gowld</author><text>Also, backups must include a physical process of moving a copy of backups to an airgapped secondary system (a human ejecting disks&#x2F;CDs&#x2F;tapes and carrying them to another storage container), so that it&#x27;s impossible for an attacker to compromise the backups via the same software exploit that corrupts the primary data.</text><parent_chain><item><author>johngalt</author><text>A generally safe backup process looks like this:<p>Production has no access to backup.<p>Backup has read only access to production.<p>Backup writes are append and not overwrites.<p>Deletes&#x2F;archival are governed by a retention process.</text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>This is a question I&#x27;ve thought alot about, so many some Sys Admins can give a good idea about how to approach it:<p>How do you create a backup server that is reachable by production servers (so that they can back up to it) <i>without</i> then being vulnerable to the same kind of ransomware attacks that infect the production servers? You can&#x27;t exactly make them read-only, or else they can&#x27;t accept the &quot;legitimate&quot; writes that might occur during the normal backup process.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/quickbooks-cloud-hosting-firm-insynq-hit-in-ransomware-attack/</url></story> |
32,350,309 | 32,348,405 | 1 | 2 | 32,347,337 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Archelaos</author><text>&gt; This summer is what a 1.2°C-heated planet looks like. But in the future this won’t seem so bad — compared to the 1.5°C-heated planet. If we get to 2°C …<p>A friend said something to me a while ago that I cannot get out of my head when people are complaining about a heat wave again: Think not so much that this summer is one of the hottest in the last, but one of the coolest in the next hundred years.<p>I am tempted to replace 100 by 650 to match the article, or just talk about &quot;the past&quot; and &quot;the future&quot;. But a hundred years makes it more tangible for me. My late grandparents were born just a little over 100 years ago, and my youngest niece and nephew may live to see the next 100 years.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using grape harvest dates to estimate summer temperature over 650 years</title><url>https://tamino.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/french-heat/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>Neat. The thing is that people selected for different things in grape harvests over different eras. The style of wine for Bordeaux &quot;Claret&quot; back in the 17th century for example was a very light ruby coloured wine. Now the typical Bordeaux is a very dark and extracted product. And consumers in general are often seeking out higher alcohol &quot;hotter&quot; wines, partially out of the influence of new world wines.<p>So there could be more compounding factors in grape picking dates. Though in general seeking out a darker and higher Brix product would mean <i>later</i> picking dates, not earlier.<p>But grape varieties planted have also changed somewhat overtime, too. Not so much in Burgundy where this article is talking about, though, so TFA&#x27;s Beaune is actually a good choice as a point to compare.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using grape harvest dates to estimate summer temperature over 650 years</title><url>https://tamino.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/french-heat/</url></story> |
28,629,754 | 28,629,780 | 1 | 3 | 28,629,184 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lastofthemojito</author><text>Headline: Norway bans gas cars in 2025<p>Quotes from the article:
&quot;This has led Norway to have the earliest target for the phaseout of new gas vehicle sales in the world – 2025&quot;
...
&quot;(which, to be clear, is not a legal requirement yet, more of a soft target agreed upon by Norway’s government)&quot;
...
&quot;Norway might even allow limited numbers of gas car sales to continue past 2025&quot;<p>So Norway isn&#x27;t banning gas cars in 2025. Norway also likely isn&#x27;t banning sales of new gas cars in 2025, they&#x27;re incentivizing people to buy electric. But Electrek&#x27;s gotta get those clicks.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Norway bans gas cars in 2025 but trends point toward 100%EV sales as early April</title><url>https://electrek.co/2021/09/23/norway-bans-gas-cars-in-2025-but-trends-point-toward-100-ev-sales-as-early-as-april/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fallingknife</author><text>Typical with these gas car future bans. The politicians set a date at which they assume EV&#x27;s will be technically and economically superior and have already won in the market. Then they will credit their ban for the transition, even though they have done nothing. If they are wrong and gas cars are still being sold near the deadline, they will quietly extend it, because they are never going to actually force a sizeable population to give up their cars and lose an election.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Norway bans gas cars in 2025 but trends point toward 100%EV sales as early April</title><url>https://electrek.co/2021/09/23/norway-bans-gas-cars-in-2025-but-trends-point-toward-100-ev-sales-as-early-as-april/</url></story> |
34,370,677 | 34,370,572 | 1 | 3 | 34,369,110 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pdonis</author><text><i>&gt; Trading quality for price</i><p>Means that many, many more people can have something of passable quality. For example:<p><i>&gt; not that long ago all clothes you wore were custom made by a tailor</i><p>If you could afford a tailor; otherwise you had to make do with homemade rags that constantly needed mending and looked terrible.<p><i>&gt; all the music you listened to was played live by musicians</i><p>If you could afford to go to concerts.<p><i>&gt; all stories were brought to life in front of you by theatre actors</i><p>If you could afford to go to the theatre.<p><i>&gt; now all of those while still available are significantly more expensive and niche than the mechanized (production or reproduction) equivalents</i><p>Which the vast majority of people can afford, and which significantly improves their quality of life. Now they can buy clothes at Walmart or Target instead of having to wear homemade; sure, not the same as a custom tailored suit, but good enough. Now they can buy digital recordings of world class musicians and theatre actors for much, much less than it would cost to see them live.<p><i>&gt; ChatGPT, stable diffusion and I am sure upcoming music models will enable this mechanization in the arts</i><p>That already happened decades ago, as soon as mass produced recordings became widely available. It&#x27;s already next to impossible for any artist who isn&#x27;t world class (or, more precisely, is not publicized so that people <i>think</i> they&#x27;re world class) to make a living at their art. ChatGPT and the equivalent in other arts aren&#x27;t going to affect that much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tetraodonpuffer</author><text>Trading quality for price has been happening everywhere for long enough that it is easy to see how unfortunately it will now play out in the arts as well. I mean, not that long ago all clothes you wore were custom made by a tailor, all the music you listened to was played live by musicians, all stories were brought to life in front of you by theatre actors: now all of those while still available are significantly more expensive and niche than the mechanized (production or reproduction) equivalents.<p>ChatGPT, stable diffusion and I am sure upcoming music models will enable this mechanization in the arts, where great artists will be unaffected but making it nearly impossible for “good enough” artists to compete while also pushing up the floor of what is an acceptable competency level that merits being paid for making it more difficult for people to support themselves while improving their skills.</text></item><item><author>_petronius</author><text>I&#x27;m less worried about stuff like ChatGPT killing things off, but more about just making everything noticeably a bit worse.<p>To take an analogy: bad voice recognition software abounds everywhere, not because it is better than what it replaced in terms of UX, but because it works <i>just enough</i> and allows massive cost-savings on hiring people to do customer service jobs.<p>A world where most marketing copy is written by mediocre AI, and more and more written and visual content are generated by big models that are technically impressive but intellectually hollow is going to be one where the quality of everything sucks just a bit more, but it&#x27;s so cheap that it becomes pervasive.<p>(This trend is already apparent and not created by, or limited to, ChatGPT.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving</title><url>https://biblioracle.substack.com/p/chatgpt-cant-kill-anything-worth</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jerf</author><text>Also have to consider the kicking of the ladder away. Nobody gets to excellent without passing through the lower stages. Hard to stay motivated if it&#x27;ll be 5 years just to see if maybe you have something a computer can&#x27;t offer.<p>Not impossible, but definitely a raising of the bar.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tetraodonpuffer</author><text>Trading quality for price has been happening everywhere for long enough that it is easy to see how unfortunately it will now play out in the arts as well. I mean, not that long ago all clothes you wore were custom made by a tailor, all the music you listened to was played live by musicians, all stories were brought to life in front of you by theatre actors: now all of those while still available are significantly more expensive and niche than the mechanized (production or reproduction) equivalents.<p>ChatGPT, stable diffusion and I am sure upcoming music models will enable this mechanization in the arts, where great artists will be unaffected but making it nearly impossible for “good enough” artists to compete while also pushing up the floor of what is an acceptable competency level that merits being paid for making it more difficult for people to support themselves while improving their skills.</text></item><item><author>_petronius</author><text>I&#x27;m less worried about stuff like ChatGPT killing things off, but more about just making everything noticeably a bit worse.<p>To take an analogy: bad voice recognition software abounds everywhere, not because it is better than what it replaced in terms of UX, but because it works <i>just enough</i> and allows massive cost-savings on hiring people to do customer service jobs.<p>A world where most marketing copy is written by mediocre AI, and more and more written and visual content are generated by big models that are technically impressive but intellectually hollow is going to be one where the quality of everything sucks just a bit more, but it&#x27;s so cheap that it becomes pervasive.<p>(This trend is already apparent and not created by, or limited to, ChatGPT.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving</title><url>https://biblioracle.substack.com/p/chatgpt-cant-kill-anything-worth</url></story> |
37,283,521 | 37,283,826 | 1 | 2 | 37,282,341 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anonzzzies</author><text>Almost all ‘lifetime subs’ are scams; a company has to be massive to support it and if it doesn’t work out for smaller companies, the consequences don’t matter anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>It’s just a money grab for anyone who will fall for it.<p>100 years is long enough that the consequences of failure are nil. Nobody who is pushing this program will be alive to deal with any fallout.<p>It reminds me of the subtle attitude of people making poor engineering decisions because they’ll be long gone by the time payment comes due.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations</title><url>https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/08/25/introducing-the-100-year-plan/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rhn_mk1</author><text>Does failing after 10 years count as a failure? Cause living for the next 10 years is not really that difficult, and the relevant people will still likely be around.<p>Sure, the offer might as well be for 90 years, or even 50 years without much practical difference, but if it was a bit more honest and said &quot;50 years&quot;, would you still call it a money grab?<p>The fact remains that this will be honored for as long as there are people interested in honoring it. This surely has some value, right?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>It’s just a money grab for anyone who will fall for it.<p>100 years is long enough that the consequences of failure are nil. Nobody who is pushing this program will be alive to deal with any fallout.<p>It reminds me of the subtle attitude of people making poor engineering decisions because they’ll be long gone by the time payment comes due.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations</title><url>https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/08/25/introducing-the-100-year-plan/</url></story> |
25,963,324 | 25,962,781 | 1 | 2 | 25,961,053 | 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>mrtksn</author><text>So to break Amazon monopoly, the users must be tracked all day long, have complete profile of every living person and these people should not be asked first?<p>Why not break Amazon through regulatory power instead of total population tracking?<p>I also don&#x27;t buy the small local business argument. If a local bakery wants to reach me, they can put a sign or do a promotion like giving a free cookie with the coffee on my way to work. It will also benefit the local community instead of a soulless corporation in SV.<p>When there&#x27;s no Facebook, there&#x27;s no FB for all of these bakeries. I don&#x27;t die out of hunger because I failed to see targeted ad, instead I look at the maps or walk around and find the shops or ask a friend for a recommendation. The bakeries can excel in quality, have amazing prices etc. to reach me, like the old days.<p>An optimised version of FB&#x27;s business is one where all the 3 bakeries in my neighbourhood give all their margin to FB in attempt to sell me cookies. Even better for FB if they optimize their cookies for lowest possible quality, just enough that the ads can drive me to buy one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fossuser</author><text>The best analysis of this is from Stratechery: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stratechery.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;privacy-labels-and-lookalike-audiences&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stratechery.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;privacy-labels-and-lookalike-au...</a><p>--<p>&quot;Amazon, meanwhile, is increasingly where shopping searches start, particularly for Prime customers, and the company’s ad business is exploding. Needless to say, Amazon doesn’t need to request special permission for IDFAs or to share emails with 3rd parties to finely target its ads: everything is self-contained, and to the extent the company advertises on platforms like Google, it can still keep information about customer interests and conversions to itself. That means that in the long run, independent merchants who wish to actually find their customers will have no choice but to be an Amazon third-party merchant instead of setting up an independent shop on a platform like Shopify.<p>This decision, to be clear, will not be because Amazon was acting anticompetitively; the biggest driver — which, by the way, will also benefit Facebook’s on-platform commerce efforts — will be Apple, which, in the pursuit of privacy, is systematically destroying the ability of platform-driven small businesses to compete with the Internet giants.&quot;<p>--<p>FB has a point here, but I&#x27;m still hoping Apple wins - I&#x27;d rather the tracking model not be viable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook reportedly prepping antitrust lawsuit against Apple on App Store rules</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-apple-antitrust-lawsuit-app-store-2021-1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>&gt; FB has a point here, but I&#x27;m still hoping Apple wins - I&#x27;d rather than tracking model not be viable.<p>I think it&#x27;s possible for two things to be true simultaneously:<p>a) it&#x27;s bad and wrong for apple to demand 30%, or whatever it is, as a cut of any payment made inside an app distributed through their app store<p>b) apple blocking tracking and advertising networks at the operating system level (API calls between the app running on a phone or tablet, and the underlying OS) is a net benefit for the consumer end user. obviously apple has a very different perspective on this since they are not facebook, or google, and not dependent upon advertising revenue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fossuser</author><text>The best analysis of this is from Stratechery: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stratechery.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;privacy-labels-and-lookalike-audiences&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stratechery.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;privacy-labels-and-lookalike-au...</a><p>--<p>&quot;Amazon, meanwhile, is increasingly where shopping searches start, particularly for Prime customers, and the company’s ad business is exploding. Needless to say, Amazon doesn’t need to request special permission for IDFAs or to share emails with 3rd parties to finely target its ads: everything is self-contained, and to the extent the company advertises on platforms like Google, it can still keep information about customer interests and conversions to itself. That means that in the long run, independent merchants who wish to actually find their customers will have no choice but to be an Amazon third-party merchant instead of setting up an independent shop on a platform like Shopify.<p>This decision, to be clear, will not be because Amazon was acting anticompetitively; the biggest driver — which, by the way, will also benefit Facebook’s on-platform commerce efforts — will be Apple, which, in the pursuit of privacy, is systematically destroying the ability of platform-driven small businesses to compete with the Internet giants.&quot;<p>--<p>FB has a point here, but I&#x27;m still hoping Apple wins - I&#x27;d rather the tracking model not be viable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook reportedly prepping antitrust lawsuit against Apple on App Store rules</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-apple-antitrust-lawsuit-app-store-2021-1</url></story> |
23,463,507 | 23,463,088 | 1 | 3 | 23,449,285 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fyfy18</author><text>I&#x27;ve found this period has had an overall positive effect on my mental health. At first I was rather depressed, religiously following the news and subreddits about what was happening, but after a couple of weeks of that I realised I couldn&#x27;t continue living like that forever. I started introspecting and tried to figure out what was causing the stress and low level anxiety I&#x27;ve been experiencing for a few years.<p>During this period I feel like I have figured a lot of things out, and overall feel more relaxed now than I did before quarantine. I realised that I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to achieve things, and I don&#x27;t need to - at first I used the pandemic situation as an excuse to myself to not have to do these things, but now I just feel naturally relaxed.<p>Also as a newish (1 year old) father I found talks by Gabor Maté resonated a lot with me.<p>(And I&#x27;ve somehow lost 6kg - even though I&#x27;ve been cooking whatever tasty deserts I&#x27;ve found on YouTube - probably from not eating out)</text><parent_chain><item><author>esotericn</author><text>Er, yeah, I&#x27;ve been saying this for months.<p>We are social animals. Literally just existing is stressful at the moment for most of us, because there&#x27;s a constant urge that is not being satisfied.<p>Not only for socialisation but simply the low-level stress of constantly having to &#x27;check yourself&#x27; when you realise literally everything you&#x27;d normally be doing is either disabled or handicapped in some way.<p>To me, lockdowns feel like some sort of irrational loss aversion strategy. If you gave me the option in, say, 2017, of halving my mortality rate for a year, but the cost was that I had to endure relatively strong anxiety for that year, there&#x27;s no way I&#x27;d take that bet regardless of my age.<p>Mucking around with your mental health is not wise. Add on top of that all of the economic effects, the political effects of dividing populations, domestic abuse, &quot;non-essential&quot; healthcare like dentistry, and so on and so forth, and honestly I reckon it&#x27;s been a net negative.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Forced social isolation causes neural craving similar to hunger</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/forced-social-isolation-causes-neural-craving-similar-to-hunger/</url></story> | <instructions>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>The problem with your analysis is that you&#x27;re not considering just how much &quot;loss&quot; we were averting via lockdowns. Do you think those negative effects of our partial lockdowns outweigh 5X more COVID casualties, including many from preventable deaths that have nothing to do with COVID? We need a functional healthcare system, we could not allow it to become overwhelmed and collapse. There&#x27;s also the ethical issue of allowing a disease to run rampant and ravage our elderly population - could we recover morally and ethically if we allowed 100&#x27;s of thousands of older folks to die long, painful deaths so our economy was a tad stronger?</text><parent_chain><item><author>esotericn</author><text>Er, yeah, I&#x27;ve been saying this for months.<p>We are social animals. Literally just existing is stressful at the moment for most of us, because there&#x27;s a constant urge that is not being satisfied.<p>Not only for socialisation but simply the low-level stress of constantly having to &#x27;check yourself&#x27; when you realise literally everything you&#x27;d normally be doing is either disabled or handicapped in some way.<p>To me, lockdowns feel like some sort of irrational loss aversion strategy. If you gave me the option in, say, 2017, of halving my mortality rate for a year, but the cost was that I had to endure relatively strong anxiety for that year, there&#x27;s no way I&#x27;d take that bet regardless of my age.<p>Mucking around with your mental health is not wise. Add on top of that all of the economic effects, the political effects of dividing populations, domestic abuse, &quot;non-essential&quot; healthcare like dentistry, and so on and so forth, and honestly I reckon it&#x27;s been a net negative.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Forced social isolation causes neural craving similar to hunger</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/forced-social-isolation-causes-neural-craving-similar-to-hunger/</url></story> |
27,170,465 | 27,170,109 | 1 | 2 | 27,167,762 | 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>teleforce</author><text>After C and DasBetterC (safer C) have officially become the subsets of D language [1], it will be very interesting what languages will be the de-facto superset of D. With excellent support for metaprogramming and CTFE in D (amongst other features), these supersets language can be very flexible and fast at the same time.<p>Kudos to the TIL&#x27;s author for trailblazing this idea based on TCL. It will be very beneficial and handy for scripting commands and shell like behaviors. Just wondering is this type based TCL like language similar to Little? [2] Will it eventually support compilation similar to Emacs Lisp? [3]<p>Personally I&#x27;d love to have superset language in D for data science. It should be also easily embeddable and support prototyping like Lua. On top of that it should have excellent support for array, ndarray and dataframe like R [4]. Since it is based on D, then it can fulfil the the requirements for both type A and B data scientists [5].<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27102584" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27102584</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.tcl-lang.org&#x2F;page&#x2F;Little" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.tcl-lang.org&#x2F;page&#x2F;Little</a><p>[3]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2004.02504" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2004.02504</a><p>[4]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;adv-r.had.co.nz&#x2F;Data-structures.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;adv-r.had.co.nz&#x2F;Data-structures.html</a><p>[5]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;What-is-data-science&#x2F;answer&#x2F;Michael-Hochster" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;What-is-data-science&#x2F;answer&#x2F;Michael-Ho...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TIL: Tcl-inspired command language on top of D</title><url>https://til-lang.github.io/til/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tangus</author><text>TIL is opinionated, all right, but this<p>&gt;The number of spaces does count. Not counting indentation, it should always be one.<p>is the silliest &quot;opinion&quot; I&#x27;ve ever seen.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TIL: Tcl-inspired command language on top of D</title><url>https://til-lang.github.io/til/</url></story> |
29,626,114 | 29,623,287 | 1 | 3 | 29,612,492 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>If you want to see this sort of brilliant hacking on a modern system, I recommend taking a closer look at Unreal Nanite. It isn&#x27;t just auto-LOD. Oh no. That&#x27;s the core, but they had to do this same sort of &quot;work around the tools they are given&quot; to make it actually happen. Tiny triangles chug in modern GPU hardware raster pipelines -- so they wrote a GPGPU software rasterizer. They needed more bandwidth, so they wrote a compression engine. Their shaders needed better scheduling, so they abused the Z-test to do it. It&#x27;s nuts!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eviSykqSUUw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eviSykqSUUw</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>War stories: how Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020)</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/war-stories-how-crash-bandicoot-hacked-the-original-playstation/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mulmboy</author><text>The GameHut channel does a lot of similar videos on how old video games squeezed the hardware. Super interesting<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JK1aV_mzH3A" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JK1aV_mzH3A</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gRzKAe9UtoU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gRzKAe9UtoU</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>War stories: how Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020)</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/war-stories-how-crash-bandicoot-hacked-the-original-playstation/</url></story> |
11,631,810 | 11,631,551 | 1 | 2 | 11,631,292 | 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>Cpoll</author><text>For anyone that wants to see this in action:<p>- Open a website, let&#x27;s say google.com<p>- Open a console and type in
`window.open(&quot;<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&quot;)`" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&quot;)`</a><p>- Disable your popup blocker and do it again.<p>- Open a console in the new xkcd window and type in
`window.opener.location = &quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=Cpoll&quot;`" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=Cpoll&quot;`</a><p>Note that Google quietly turned into my profile page. Now, imagine that it instead turned into maliciousgoogle.com, which looks just like Google, and you can see the attack vector.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Target=”_blank” is an underestimated vulnerability</title><url>https://medium.com/@jitbit/target-blank-the-most-underestimated-vulnerability-ever-96e328301f4c#.disn238f9</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwawaybookst</author><text><i>&gt; PS. Interestingly, Google doesn’t seem to care.</i><p>That&#x27;s not fair. They state it&#x27;s a problem that is inherent to browsers, not that they don&#x27;t care about the issue.<p>Also be mindful of Google&#x27;s warning regarding the author&#x27;s workaround:<p><i>&gt; in particular, clobbering the window.opener property limits one of the vectors, but still makes it easy to exploit the remaining ones.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Target=”_blank” is an underestimated vulnerability</title><url>https://medium.com/@jitbit/target-blank-the-most-underestimated-vulnerability-ever-96e328301f4c#.disn238f9</url></story> |
5,218,086 | 5,218,032 | 1 | 3 | 5,217,245 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>erichocean</author><text>One problem I've run into is not being able to submit bugs because my own codebase is relatively huge.[0]<p>For whatever reason, the bugs I see manifest as edge cases in Chrome's new compositing system, but only under "load". I've tried to get small examples that show the bugs, and failed.<p>But since the developers will only accept tiny programs that demonstrate the problem, I'm SOL.<p>UPDATE: Also, there's no such thing as "WebKit", as though rendering issues, once fixed in "WebKit" are suddenly fixed as long as everyone updates to the last release. It doesn't work like that, because there are numerous rendering implementations built-on top of WebKit -- the ones I run into have to do with Chrome's compositor vs. Apple's compositor. They behave quite a bit differently, and those aren't the only two in use. The same is true of WebKit JavaScript engines and the APIs supported.<p>There's just no way, as a developer, to treat "WebKit" as a platform. You have to deal with every browser using WebKit separately.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/erichocean/blossom" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/erichocean/blossom</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tragedy of the WebKit Commons</title><url>http://blog.methvin.com/2013/02/tragedy-of-webkit-commons.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>dclowd9901</author><text>&#62; Even when they have been fixed in the latest Chrome or Safari, older WebKit implementations like PhantomJS and UIWebView still don't have the fix. We've had to put back several of these as users reported problems with the beta. It's starting to feel like oldIE all over again, but with a different set of excuses for why nothing can be fixed.<p>I am fairly new to web development, but this consistent droning (whining) about having to develop for a myriad of inconsistent platforms seems like braying from rather entitled web developers. I don't understand when in the history of software development developers weren't forced to dick with platform and legacy problems. Can someone explain what, if anything makes web dev different? And if they can't, can we please just stop bringing it up like it's ever been a new problem?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tragedy of the WebKit Commons</title><url>http://blog.methvin.com/2013/02/tragedy-of-webkit-commons.html</url></story> |
22,498,688 | 22,498,096 | 1 | 2 | 22,494,170 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sjtindell</author><text>Personally being a tech worker in Silicon Valley, I’ve found the big barrier to this now to be cultural and personal. All my companies (large and small) have had incredibly relaxed policies around when to arrive, leave, remote work, time off, bereavement. Even in what have been SRE or Software Eng roles with on-call. I get the sense that if I’m doing my work, I could do whatever I want. But I still feel some pressure, some voice in the back of my head that thinks other people will look down on me or I won’t be deserving my high salary. Like anytime I have downtime I feel guilty, and I see others behave the same way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thisisnico</author><text>Our society is so focused on productivity that we forget that the foundation for improved productivity is sleep, exercise and diet. Mind &amp; Body, one system.</text></item><item><author>tazedsoul</author><text>If I could pick one of the things to optimize all of society around, it would be sleep. I believe that many of society&#x27;s ills can be traced back to people being sleep deprived on average. Modern society both ignorantly and through sheer foolishness undervalues sleep. I understand the emotional motivation for a statement like, &quot;you can sleep when you&#x27;re dead,&quot; but I do despise this prevelant sentiment which has become a culutre.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle”</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/03/05/discovering-the-brains-nightly-rinse-cycle/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fortpoint</author><text>It&#x27;s difficult for some managers to measure the productivity of knowledge workers and unfortunately they resort to tracking the number of hours there are &quot;butts in seats&quot;. If your organization is like this you&#x27;ll see people who are at work to be seen being at work, even if they&#x27;re not being productive.<p>Japanese salarymen are the pathological example of this but I&#x27;m sure it manifests everywhere.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thisisnico</author><text>Our society is so focused on productivity that we forget that the foundation for improved productivity is sleep, exercise and diet. Mind &amp; Body, one system.</text></item><item><author>tazedsoul</author><text>If I could pick one of the things to optimize all of society around, it would be sleep. I believe that many of society&#x27;s ills can be traced back to people being sleep deprived on average. Modern society both ignorantly and through sheer foolishness undervalues sleep. I understand the emotional motivation for a statement like, &quot;you can sleep when you&#x27;re dead,&quot; but I do despise this prevelant sentiment which has become a culutre.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle”</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/03/05/discovering-the-brains-nightly-rinse-cycle/</url></story> |
25,605,222 | 25,604,426 | 1 | 2 | 25,600,338 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tobestobestobes</author><text>It&#x27;s a huge leap forward in browser management. Not exactly a replacement for headless browsing&#x2F;scraping etc, but for personal use, nothing compares. A big contribution to the &quot;personal data management&quot; toolbox.<p>In the realm of tab management, I use this one liner in console of chrome:&#x2F;&#x2F;inspect every once in a while, then just close all of my tabs:<p><pre><code> collection = document.getElementById(&quot;pages&quot;).getElementsByClassName(&quot;subrow&quot;); final_output_tsv = &quot;title\turl\n&quot;; for (let item of collection) {final_output_tsv += `${item.children[0].innerHTML}\t${item.children[1] ? item.children[1].innerHTML : &quot;N&#x2F;A&quot;}\n`}; copy(final_output_tsv)
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Substitute &quot;devices&quot; for &quot;pages&quot; to get android chrome tabs<p>This way I can backup all my tabs in simple, non-bookmark format and search them using python etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cocktailpeanuts</author><text>This is a brilliant piece of work. As someone who has thousands of tabs open, I&#x27;ve always wanted to &quot;close all tabs with a single command&quot;, or view all the open tabs and mass select them and close, for years. Otherwise, going through them one by one and deleting takes forever. Now somebody make a vim pluggin so I can delete tabs by visual selecting a bunch of them and typing &quot;d&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem</title><url>https://omar.website/tabfs/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>m463</author><text>I keep a few tabs open, and close the browser regularly.<p>A friend of mine keeps basically infinity tabs open. I sort of rolled my eyes, but accepted his rare behavior.<p>However as time has gone on, I&#x27;ve been surprised to find I may have the rare behavior and it is common for people to work this way.<p>So.. maybe this is a way he can backup his &quot;filesystem&quot; and not suffer a nervous breakdown when his machine reboots or some othe browser failure where he loses his world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cocktailpeanuts</author><text>This is a brilliant piece of work. As someone who has thousands of tabs open, I&#x27;ve always wanted to &quot;close all tabs with a single command&quot;, or view all the open tabs and mass select them and close, for years. Otherwise, going through them one by one and deleting takes forever. Now somebody make a vim pluggin so I can delete tabs by visual selecting a bunch of them and typing &quot;d&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem</title><url>https://omar.website/tabfs/</url></story> |
9,297,024 | 9,297,116 | 1 | 2 | 9,296,431 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bazillion</author><text>The pot question won&#x27;t immediately disqualify you -- you&#x27;d just have to sign a waiver saying your employment means you&#x27;re not allowed to use illegal substances. They&#x27;d also ask you and confirm this in the lifestyle polygraph.<p>The foreign nationals question is a matter of seeing how deep your clearance process is going to go. If you&#x27;re in Kansas and the only people you know are from Kansas and all of your Facebook friends live in Kansas, it&#x27;s going to make it easy for the FBI agents (who conduct the clearance work) to do the required interviews. If you start listing foreign national contacts, each one of them has to be investigated individually (the ones who are close relatives), and that&#x27;s a lot of work. It&#x27;s basically easier to fail someone on that and hire the person in Kansas.</text><parent_chain><item><author>strictnein</author><text>Had an interview with them about three months after I applied. Well, had a phone interview with them at least. It lasted about three questions because, unfortunately, I had smoked pot in the last year (the one time I had done it in my life actually).<p>I&#x27;m actually not sure if I should have failed it after the second question, which was whether or not I work closely with any foreign nationals. Doesn&#x27;t everyone in the tech sector? I work closely with a Romanian, a Filipino, and a guy from Sierra Leone. They may all be US citizens now, but i have no idea, so I said &quot;no&quot;, after trying to get some guidance from the interviewer (she offered none).<p>Strangely, after my failed three question phone interview I still got an in person interview request and it took two calls to straighten that out.<p>If I lived in the Denver or DC area, I&#x27;d probably apply again in six months or so (once my one year has lapsed), but I just don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s worth moving across the country for a job there.</text></item><item><author>bazillion</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t truly address such a large claim -- it basically could be titled &quot;After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge from 3 College Students&quot;.<p>The NSA has nearly unlimited hiring potential with just the pool of military folks alone that work there. There are constant hiring freezes for a year at a time, because a lot of buildings are over capacity.<p>If one of these college students were to apply to the NSA through NSA.gov (mandated as the only way someone is allowed into the agency), they would have to apply a minimum of 2-4 times, because the application stays good for about 90 days, and the average applicant waits 6 months to a year to get accepted. This is assuming they&#x27;re applying straight through without having someone with hiring power pull their application from the queue. After that, the process to get a clearance could take anywhere from another 6 months to 2 years (possibly more in some exceptional cases) and costs the agency about 250k.<p>So, it goes without saying that bringing onboard a fresh college student who isn&#x27;t going to even get to walk through the door at least a year after applying, can pale in comparison to bringing on someone who already has a clearance and training. The article assumes that the NSA relies heavily on its external recruitment, but the vast majority of folks working there just change out of a uniform into jeans and a shirt.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2015/03/31/395829446/after-snowden-the-nsa-faces-recruitment-challenge</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>locokoko</author><text>Is asking such questions (smoking pot, questions about your social life) in a job interview legal in the US? From what I know, this would be illegal in most European countries.</text><parent_chain><item><author>strictnein</author><text>Had an interview with them about three months after I applied. Well, had a phone interview with them at least. It lasted about three questions because, unfortunately, I had smoked pot in the last year (the one time I had done it in my life actually).<p>I&#x27;m actually not sure if I should have failed it after the second question, which was whether or not I work closely with any foreign nationals. Doesn&#x27;t everyone in the tech sector? I work closely with a Romanian, a Filipino, and a guy from Sierra Leone. They may all be US citizens now, but i have no idea, so I said &quot;no&quot;, after trying to get some guidance from the interviewer (she offered none).<p>Strangely, after my failed three question phone interview I still got an in person interview request and it took two calls to straighten that out.<p>If I lived in the Denver or DC area, I&#x27;d probably apply again in six months or so (once my one year has lapsed), but I just don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s worth moving across the country for a job there.</text></item><item><author>bazillion</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t truly address such a large claim -- it basically could be titled &quot;After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge from 3 College Students&quot;.<p>The NSA has nearly unlimited hiring potential with just the pool of military folks alone that work there. There are constant hiring freezes for a year at a time, because a lot of buildings are over capacity.<p>If one of these college students were to apply to the NSA through NSA.gov (mandated as the only way someone is allowed into the agency), they would have to apply a minimum of 2-4 times, because the application stays good for about 90 days, and the average applicant waits 6 months to a year to get accepted. This is assuming they&#x27;re applying straight through without having someone with hiring power pull their application from the queue. After that, the process to get a clearance could take anywhere from another 6 months to 2 years (possibly more in some exceptional cases) and costs the agency about 250k.<p>So, it goes without saying that bringing onboard a fresh college student who isn&#x27;t going to even get to walk through the door at least a year after applying, can pale in comparison to bringing on someone who already has a clearance and training. The article assumes that the NSA relies heavily on its external recruitment, but the vast majority of folks working there just change out of a uniform into jeans and a shirt.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2015/03/31/395829446/after-snowden-the-nsa-faces-recruitment-challenge</url></story> |
29,959,019 | 29,958,969 | 1 | 2 | 29,958,247 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alerighi</author><text>The problem is the AMD PSB functionality in itself. It should be considered malware like the Intel managament engine and thus refused by users. It&#x27;s a second processor that runs a proprietary firmware signed by the vendor (that the user cannot modify or substitute entirely with a FLOSS alternative) that vendors can use do harm to the user.<p>The AMD PSB can also be used to lock down a processor to enforce secure boot and thus don&#x27;t let you run an unsigned operating system, i.e. no longer allowing you to run Linux on your machine that comes out of the factory with Windows preinstalled. That would be a very very bad thing.<p>Unfortunately both for Intel and AMD you don&#x27;t have choices these days. I&#x27;m hoping someone develops a processor based on the RISCV architecture (a free architecture that doesn&#x27;t include that shit) to be used in a computer entirely under the control of the user (hardware and software) and not the corporation that makes it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB</title><url>https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-vendor-locking-ryzen-cpus-with-amd-psb-the-video/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NablaSquaredG</author><text>There are a couple of issues I see with this.<p>First, the security argument is nonsense in my opinion.
This &quot;feature&quot; only prevents an attacker from flashing a modified, malicious BIOS on to the server.<p>But: If an attacker manages to flash a new BIOS to your server, you&#x27;re already lost. That either requires physical access (which is bad), or access to the OOB &#x2F; BMC &#x2F; IPMI (which is equally bad, because those usually have a remote KVM feature, so you could e.g. boot the OS into recovery mode)<p>It does not prevent any other attacks, because you could still swap out the CPU. The servers usually just quietly burn the CPUs, so you wouldn&#x27;t notice if the CPUs were replaced by an attacker.<p>Second, this produces a lot of unnecessary e-waste. About 99% of all hardware (except HDDS) from datacenters is sold on the second hand market.
Locked CPUs are essentially worthlese, especially if buyers or sellers don&#x27;t know and throw the CPU away because they think it&#x27;s defective.<p>Third, this opens up a MASSIVE attack surface.
Imagine if somebody finds a bug im the PSP (Platform Security Processor, a CPU inside the CPU that handles the locking thing amon g other things) and is able to burn arbitrary keys into the CPU.
The attacker would randomly generate a key and burn them into the CPU.
You could permanently kill an entire datacenter with that within seconds.<p>Or if somebody manages to write a malicious BIOS version and flash it to servers which usually don&#x27;t have a locked BIOS. This BIOS version would also burn a random key into the CPU with the same result:
You can easily permanently destroy an entire datacenter.<p>I think this is just AMD&#x27;s greediness again in the cloak of &quot;improving security&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB</title><url>https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-vendor-locking-ryzen-cpus-with-amd-psb-the-video/</url></story> |
10,836,378 | 10,836,554 | 1 | 3 | 10,835,978 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hellofunk</author><text>&gt; Swift is widely marketed as a functional language<p>If that&#x27;s true, those sources reporting that are wrong. Apple itself refers to it instead as a &quot;protocol-oriented language&quot; when it&#x27;s not just saying &quot;object-oriented&quot;.<p>Swift is definitely not a functional language in the way that it usually means, and Apple knows this, and any legit survey of languages wouldn&#x27;t clump it together with much more functional languages. For example, this guy[0] knows what he is talking about.<p>&gt; Where Swift shines it is in the integratiion with the underlying Objective C frameworks on the Mac.<p>&gt;Swift is a good replacement for contexts in which Objective-C would be used.<p>Except when you try to do anything with OpenGL or a C-based API, like Core Audio. Swift is really lagging for &quot;power programming&quot; with these low-level APIs. It&#x27;s great for beginners who use all the high-level frameworks (though &quot;great&quot; is a subjective term I don&#x27;t really agree with for Swift), but a lot of people who really need to get stuff done on Apple&#x27;s platform are not going whole-hog Swift.<p>&gt;If you’re coming form Erlang&#x2F;Haskell world you’ll think Swift is verbose and a bit of a mess but if you’re coming from Objective-C you’ll think “Swift is concise and elegant”<p>I got to be honest, I still find I prefer Objective-C, because, it&#x27;s essentially C. I can use my C structs and interfaces with zero problem. But in Swift, all C primitives are translated into Swift-only stuff, even integers!<p>And don&#x27;t get me started with trying to use a C++ library with Swift, something that&#x27;s smooth with Objective-C. Which is ironic since Swift itself is written in C++.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;robnapier.net&#x2F;swift-is-not-functional" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;robnapier.net&#x2F;swift-is-not-functional</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fun with Swift</title><url>http://joearms.github.io/2016/01/04/fun-with-swift.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>MCRed</author><text>FWIW - This is Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of Erlang. Definitely an old-school REPL&#x2F;functional guy, and I love seeing him playing around with swift.<p>Regarding GUIs and IDEs: I think interface builder is the best ever way to build UIs, far more fun and comprehensible than web development. I totally understand why Joe wants to control every line of code and do nothing in Xcode-- when things go wrong in the IDE they can be a pain to deal with.<p>For me, I think there&#x27;s several common stages of Mac&#x2F;iOS developer:
1. Newbie- needs Interface builder because GUIs are all so confusing and he doesn&#x27;t yet know the API.
2. Control Freak -- knows enough (and spent enough time struggling with Interface Builder, because IB isn&#x27;t a magic box and you do have to know how things are working under the hood, and the Newbie often struggles because of this).. and so he wants to avoid IB and do everything in code so he has absolute control.
3. Starting to see the light-- tired of tiresome pointless repetitive GUI code, back to Interface builder, but this time understanding the underlying parts of it, and having a lot more fun with IB
4. Enlightened-- uses Interface builder for most stuff, but knows when and where to drop down to GUI code and generally only does that in a highly leveraged way.<p>One of the things I find frustrating about web development is there is no interface builder (though some people have attempted to create them in the past, they always seem to abandon them, unfortunately.) So you&#x27;re always stuck wit the frustration of constantly defining everything by hand-- when the reality is there&#x27;s nothing that should stop web browsers from being able to handle auto-layout the way that iOS does.<p>Anyway, if you&#x27;ve rejected IB and are finding GUI code a PITA, try using IB in balance.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fun with Swift</title><url>http://joearms.github.io/2016/01/04/fun-with-swift.html</url></story> |
24,652,433 | 24,652,382 | 1 | 2 | 24,650,515 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zbrozek</author><text>I believe that all data will be used for not-the-original purpose. The moment that a bit hits nonvolatile memory it&#x27;s only a matter of when-and-how, not if.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>What? Government agencies did <i>exactly</i> the thing privacy advocates warned they would do if such information were allowed to be collected? I am <i>shocked</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ontario police used Covid-19 database illegally, civil rights groups find</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-police-database-1.5745481</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>II2II</author><text>Even though I appreciate the work of privacy advocates and strongly believe that privacy should be protected, the article only discusses the number of times the database by various police forces and why a couple of police forces decided not to use it. It suggests there <i>may</i> have been inappropriate use, without offering any actual evidence of inappropriate use.<p>If the word of privacy advocates is going to be taken seriously, they really need to back their claims with evidence. Without evidence, those who don&#x27;t care about privacy won&#x27;t be swayed. Worse yet, they run the risk of being seen as paranoid and ignored altogether.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>What? Government agencies did <i>exactly</i> the thing privacy advocates warned they would do if such information were allowed to be collected? I am <i>shocked</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ontario police used Covid-19 database illegally, civil rights groups find</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-police-database-1.5745481</url></story> |
39,505,312 | 39,505,452 | 1 | 3 | 39,504,703 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>timetopay</author><text>It&#x27;s wild how <i>annoying</i> Windows UX can be when it&#x27;s something that microsoft wants you to use, to help improve their services revenue.<p>TBH, I&#x27;m on board with some of the negatives you listed, but I feel like the entire enthusiast community has been screaming about edge, telemetry, and start menu search for years. Microsoft seems determined not to listen, it&#x27;s astonishing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>datagrimx</author><text>For full Disclosure, I once upon was a software engineer at Microsoft. I witnessed first hand the evil decisions around Windows. I left Microsoft in 2006 but I am still part of the Alumni Network.<p>IMO Microsoft can gain users back by:<p>* Not requiring a Microsoft Account
* Ending all data&#x2F;telemetry collection
* Not forcing Edge on its users
* Stop releasing improved UI updates every week
* Make bash, zsh, ... native for Windows
* Taking the AI out and making it an optional extension
* Making the Microsoft Store optional<p>A *plus* would be to open source Windows.<p>I would be interested in hearing your pet peeves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft is driving users away</title><url>https://christitus.com/microsoft-is-driving-users-away/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>layer8</author><text>Microsoft needs to realize that the UI revamps made since Windows 8 have been a degradation for usability, and return to the old values of the WIMP interface, interface consistency, and keyboard-ability, and get their UI framework story back on track for good.</text><parent_chain><item><author>datagrimx</author><text>For full Disclosure, I once upon was a software engineer at Microsoft. I witnessed first hand the evil decisions around Windows. I left Microsoft in 2006 but I am still part of the Alumni Network.<p>IMO Microsoft can gain users back by:<p>* Not requiring a Microsoft Account
* Ending all data&#x2F;telemetry collection
* Not forcing Edge on its users
* Stop releasing improved UI updates every week
* Make bash, zsh, ... native for Windows
* Taking the AI out and making it an optional extension
* Making the Microsoft Store optional<p>A *plus* would be to open source Windows.<p>I would be interested in hearing your pet peeves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft is driving users away</title><url>https://christitus.com/microsoft-is-driving-users-away/</url></story> |
18,603,595 | 18,599,953 | 1 | 3 | 18,595,069 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>daveheq</author><text>Do you mean uBlock Origin, or the scam extension uBlock?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;ublock&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;ublock&#x2F;review...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sametmax</author><text>&gt; This will be especially true when Firefox inevitably shutters it&#x27;s in-house efforts in a couple of years due to the amount of sites that won&#x27;t work with it, and starts using Chromium too.<p>It seems very unlikely:<p>- Mozilla has been in a far worse uderdog position before during the IE6 era, with way more incompatible sites and less funding.<p>- Mozilla is not for profit. Fighting for the open Web is one of their goal. It always has been. They are not perfect, but their track record is damn good compared to almost any player of their size and impact in the tech world.<p>- Mozilla strongly invested in their own tech, including rewritting the browser rendering engine and taking huge risks such as create a bloody hole new language, rust, in the process. To my knowledge, the &quot;oxydation&quot; project has been a success so far, and rust is proving everyday that it&#x27;s a positive force in the world as well.<p>- Firefox is the only decent mobile browser. I can&#x27;t navigate the web without the ublock extension. I just can&#x27;t.<p>- Mozilla keeps innovating. Their last brillant idea, the tab container, is worth switching on it&#x27;s own.<p>- Mozilla has the hardcore geeks on their side. Even during the V30 to v50 transition period where Firefox was, at the time, clearly an inferior product, we kept using it to support it for the sheer ideal of it. We hoped it would come back from it, and it happened: Firefox is now a fast, lean and fantastic browser again.<p>- Privacy concerns are (FINALLY !) being taken in consideration from the crowd. And Chrome is terrible at this, so moving to a chromium core, while technically not related at all because you can set it up the way you like, would carry the stigma.<p>All in all, I&#x27;m incredibly optimistic about Mozilla et Firefox&#x27;s future despite the market share taking a serious hit.</text></item><item><author>headmelted</author><text>It&#x27;s not really better though - having only two real browsers is not good for open standards or the open web.<p>This will be especially true when Firefox inevitably shutters it&#x27;s in-house efforts in a couple of years due to the amount of sites that won&#x27;t work with it<i>, and starts using Chromium too.<p></i> Staring into my crystal ball tells me Firefox will become &quot;janky&quot; in the eyes of users on account of how many sites don&#x27;t load on it like they do Chromium (because developers will only test on the most popular browser, because THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS LITERALLY EVERY TIME).</text></item><item><author>swalladge</author><text>No, I tell my friends and family to use Firefox. There is more than one decent browser out there.
I don&#x27;t like the idea of everything using the Chromium engine; monoculture _is_ bad and we shouldn&#x27;t put our eggs in the one basket. That said, IE and Edge have historically been terrible both compatibility and performance-wise. It&#x27;s not just websites that aren&#x27;t tested in Edge - my experience with Edge is that all aspects of performance (initial load time, ui responsiveness, web site responsiveness) are terribly slow.<p>I applaud the death of IE and Edge. One thing I&#x27;m worried about though is that Chromium may take over the market and we end up with websites working only in Chromium based browsers and other important browsers like Firefox and Safari get left in the dirt.</text></item><item><author>TanakaTarou</author><text>What other options do they have? Even on HN you hear &quot;I use Egde to download Chrome&quot;. Many of you here don&#x27;t test your own work in Edge. At the same time Microsoft is getting the heat that Windows 10 is unstable and the last major update shows that it is. Very urgently, I imagine, Microsoft is trying to change the perception of Windows 10 by doing everything they can to make it more stable. Changing the browser engine is a big step in that direction. It is a step they have to do because.. and now comes the down votes... YOU don&#x27;t test your work in Egde and because YOU tell all friends and family to use Chrome instead of edge. I bet many of you even helps friends and family in downloading it. So stop complaining about monoculture. Many of you helped create it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10</title><url>https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-building-chromium-powered-web-browser-windows-10</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tssva</author><text>&gt;Firefox is now a fast, lean and fantastic browser again.<p>This is not my experience. On my MacBook Pro it is slow and tends to cause system lockups on a regular basis. Everytime there is a new announcement about how the new Firefox has improved performance and stability I give it a try and each time am disappointed.<p>On my phone the Firefox browser is almost unusably slow and slow enough that it can&#x27;t replace Chrome. Mozilla has released other mobile browsers which perform faster but they lack the features I need in my browser.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sametmax</author><text>&gt; This will be especially true when Firefox inevitably shutters it&#x27;s in-house efforts in a couple of years due to the amount of sites that won&#x27;t work with it, and starts using Chromium too.<p>It seems very unlikely:<p>- Mozilla has been in a far worse uderdog position before during the IE6 era, with way more incompatible sites and less funding.<p>- Mozilla is not for profit. Fighting for the open Web is one of their goal. It always has been. They are not perfect, but their track record is damn good compared to almost any player of their size and impact in the tech world.<p>- Mozilla strongly invested in their own tech, including rewritting the browser rendering engine and taking huge risks such as create a bloody hole new language, rust, in the process. To my knowledge, the &quot;oxydation&quot; project has been a success so far, and rust is proving everyday that it&#x27;s a positive force in the world as well.<p>- Firefox is the only decent mobile browser. I can&#x27;t navigate the web without the ublock extension. I just can&#x27;t.<p>- Mozilla keeps innovating. Their last brillant idea, the tab container, is worth switching on it&#x27;s own.<p>- Mozilla has the hardcore geeks on their side. Even during the V30 to v50 transition period where Firefox was, at the time, clearly an inferior product, we kept using it to support it for the sheer ideal of it. We hoped it would come back from it, and it happened: Firefox is now a fast, lean and fantastic browser again.<p>- Privacy concerns are (FINALLY !) being taken in consideration from the crowd. And Chrome is terrible at this, so moving to a chromium core, while technically not related at all because you can set it up the way you like, would carry the stigma.<p>All in all, I&#x27;m incredibly optimistic about Mozilla et Firefox&#x27;s future despite the market share taking a serious hit.</text></item><item><author>headmelted</author><text>It&#x27;s not really better though - having only two real browsers is not good for open standards or the open web.<p>This will be especially true when Firefox inevitably shutters it&#x27;s in-house efforts in a couple of years due to the amount of sites that won&#x27;t work with it<i>, and starts using Chromium too.<p></i> Staring into my crystal ball tells me Firefox will become &quot;janky&quot; in the eyes of users on account of how many sites don&#x27;t load on it like they do Chromium (because developers will only test on the most popular browser, because THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS LITERALLY EVERY TIME).</text></item><item><author>swalladge</author><text>No, I tell my friends and family to use Firefox. There is more than one decent browser out there.
I don&#x27;t like the idea of everything using the Chromium engine; monoculture _is_ bad and we shouldn&#x27;t put our eggs in the one basket. That said, IE and Edge have historically been terrible both compatibility and performance-wise. It&#x27;s not just websites that aren&#x27;t tested in Edge - my experience with Edge is that all aspects of performance (initial load time, ui responsiveness, web site responsiveness) are terribly slow.<p>I applaud the death of IE and Edge. One thing I&#x27;m worried about though is that Chromium may take over the market and we end up with websites working only in Chromium based browsers and other important browsers like Firefox and Safari get left in the dirt.</text></item><item><author>TanakaTarou</author><text>What other options do they have? Even on HN you hear &quot;I use Egde to download Chrome&quot;. Many of you here don&#x27;t test your own work in Edge. At the same time Microsoft is getting the heat that Windows 10 is unstable and the last major update shows that it is. Very urgently, I imagine, Microsoft is trying to change the perception of Windows 10 by doing everything they can to make it more stable. Changing the browser engine is a big step in that direction. It is a step they have to do because.. and now comes the down votes... YOU don&#x27;t test your work in Egde and because YOU tell all friends and family to use Chrome instead of edge. I bet many of you even helps friends and family in downloading it. So stop complaining about monoculture. Many of you helped create it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10</title><url>https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-building-chromium-powered-web-browser-windows-10</url></story> |
8,451,816 | 8,451,835 | 1 | 2 | 8,451,249 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rustyconover</author><text>Whenever I read about new renderers I think I&#x27;m completely intellectually inept even with what I think is a reasonably well-rounded computer science education. It is like reading about string theory in a way. Sure, I can grasp the concepts, but the details and minutia are fascinating and admittedly a little beyond my immediate comprehension. I remember when POV-RAY was amazing when it ran all night to produce just one image with some reflection on a 486.<p>How time and Moore&#x27;s law flies...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Disney’s New Production Renderer ‘Hyperion’</title><url>http://www.fxguide.com/featured/disneys-new-production-renderer-hyperion-yes-disney/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boulos</author><text>Brent and the team at Disney Feature Animation have always pushed complexity like crazy. Most people keep telling them to just think procedurally or reuse elements, but Brent prefers to let the artists do whatever they want and the system should handle it. Since cores are cheaper than humans this is a good long-term tradeoff, but YMMV since very few studios would bother doing so much explicit detail (as opposed to procedurally tweaked variations).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Disney’s New Production Renderer ‘Hyperion’</title><url>http://www.fxguide.com/featured/disneys-new-production-renderer-hyperion-yes-disney/</url></story> |
39,840,738 | 39,841,083 | 1 | 2 | 39,838,351 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>not2b</author><text>Read it again. He didn&#x27;t hear a &quot;rumor&quot;. He got it direct from a manager involved in the acquisition. Nothing in business is certain, but he knew that the acquisition was highly likely. Then he used the account of a relative (doesn&#x27;t say he tipped off the relative, says he used the account), to hide his involvement most likely. If the SEC didn&#x27;t have a strong case he wouldn&#x27;t have settled so quickly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zokier</author><text>I&#x27;m sure SEC has done their homework and knows what they are doing, but to me this is not that clear-cut case. Bechtolsheim heard a rumour that Acacia had gotten offer and traded based on that. But my reading is that to him it was just a rumour, he didn&#x27;t know for certain that the deal was happening or what the terms of the deal were. Of course as a senior executive he should have known better, but still to me this is not the most heinous crime and closer to just a lapse of judgement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Andy Bechtolsheim charged with insider trading</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/sun_microsystems_insider_trading/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wk_end</author><text>For someone as wealthy as he is (&quot;Forbes lists Bechtolsheim&#x27;s net worth at somewhere north of $16 billion&quot;), a (less than) $1M fine seems more than gentle enough for &quot;a lapse of judgement&quot; and &quot;not the most heinous crime&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zokier</author><text>I&#x27;m sure SEC has done their homework and knows what they are doing, but to me this is not that clear-cut case. Bechtolsheim heard a rumour that Acacia had gotten offer and traded based on that. But my reading is that to him it was just a rumour, he didn&#x27;t know for certain that the deal was happening or what the terms of the deal were. Of course as a senior executive he should have known better, but still to me this is not the most heinous crime and closer to just a lapse of judgement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Andy Bechtolsheim charged with insider trading</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/sun_microsystems_insider_trading/</url></story> |
33,532,683 | 33,532,618 | 1 | 2 | 33,530,240 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whoknew1122</author><text>The founders were also deathly afraid of a standing army. This is why a defense authorization bill is passed every two years. People might debate how much money should be put toward defense spending, but few people would argue that we should dissolve the military and call up citizens only when conflict happens.<p>They also explicitly dismissed the idea of one person, one vote.<p>And this all ignores the fact that there wasn&#x27;t a singular, cohesive founding vision. Alexander Hamilton, for example, argued for a strong federal government.<p>With all that said, we shouldn&#x27;t be hamstrung by what a deeply flawed group of people decided in the late 1700s.</text><parent_chain><item><author>somenameforme</author><text>The founding vision of the US was one where the further away government was from the people, the less impact it would have on their lives. The Federal government was to have an extremely limited role in society, largely tasked with things such as international relations. Your day to day would primarily be affect by your state, and ideally on downward with a further delegation of responsibilities getting closer and closer to you.<p>This also helps curtail corruption. It is ostensibly easier to coerce&#x2F;bribe&#x2F;etc a state than a nation, but you have to do this for every single state and then try to keep them all under your thumb. A federal government may ostensibly be harder to corrupt, but once corrupted they can affect your whims on a national level and be relatively easier to maintain control of.<p>This decentralization of power seems to be the easiest way to have a functioning political system. It&#x27;s always the same decision. Centralization paired with selflessness, benevolence, and competence will trend towards utopia. Centralization paired with selfishness, greed, or incompetence will trend towards dystopia. Decentralization will always just trend towards mediocrity as a mish mash of the averages of society.</text></item><item><author>vegetablepotpie</author><text>That doesn’t happen because most people can’t or won’t participate in government. This is because many government meetings are held during the day, during working hours, usually in places far from the individuals affected.<p>The people who do show up are independently wealthy, retirees, and people being paid to represent an organization. Representitive government doesn’t, and cannot represent the people.</text></item><item><author>boxed</author><text>What is needed is a strong government for the people, by the people. Without that, it really doesn&#x27;t matter what tech you can cobble together.</text></item><item><author>psychphysic</author><text>It would have been a godsend when I was still academic. This and sci-hub.<p>The way they eviscerated the service makes clear that in general we need more robust web services. Tor is not ideal for this, onions are excellent and fill their niche really well.<p>But we need something simpler here.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>I&#x27;ve personally used sites like this as a sort of protest to what universities and authors did to the textbook market. You used to be able to buy used physical textbooks for classes at reasonable prices. They took advantage of the shift to digital by forcing arbitrary changes in edition numbers, solely to sell more books, or by requiring obscure, low-volume books, often written by the professor leading the class. With prices often exceeding $100.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Z-Library Aftermath Reveals the Feds Seized Dozens of Domain Names</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/z-library-aftermath-reveals-that-the-feds-seized-dozens-of-domain-names-221107/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>starkd</author><text>If given a choice, I think I would opt for the &quot;decentralization with a mishmash of the averages of society&quot; over a dystopia. The &quot;centralization with selflessness, benevolence, and competence&quot; path toward utopia seems like wishful thinking to me. You can never legislate morality, and without a non-secular religion as a guide, a default moral people is not a reasonable expectation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>somenameforme</author><text>The founding vision of the US was one where the further away government was from the people, the less impact it would have on their lives. The Federal government was to have an extremely limited role in society, largely tasked with things such as international relations. Your day to day would primarily be affect by your state, and ideally on downward with a further delegation of responsibilities getting closer and closer to you.<p>This also helps curtail corruption. It is ostensibly easier to coerce&#x2F;bribe&#x2F;etc a state than a nation, but you have to do this for every single state and then try to keep them all under your thumb. A federal government may ostensibly be harder to corrupt, but once corrupted they can affect your whims on a national level and be relatively easier to maintain control of.<p>This decentralization of power seems to be the easiest way to have a functioning political system. It&#x27;s always the same decision. Centralization paired with selflessness, benevolence, and competence will trend towards utopia. Centralization paired with selfishness, greed, or incompetence will trend towards dystopia. Decentralization will always just trend towards mediocrity as a mish mash of the averages of society.</text></item><item><author>vegetablepotpie</author><text>That doesn’t happen because most people can’t or won’t participate in government. This is because many government meetings are held during the day, during working hours, usually in places far from the individuals affected.<p>The people who do show up are independently wealthy, retirees, and people being paid to represent an organization. Representitive government doesn’t, and cannot represent the people.</text></item><item><author>boxed</author><text>What is needed is a strong government for the people, by the people. Without that, it really doesn&#x27;t matter what tech you can cobble together.</text></item><item><author>psychphysic</author><text>It would have been a godsend when I was still academic. This and sci-hub.<p>The way they eviscerated the service makes clear that in general we need more robust web services. Tor is not ideal for this, onions are excellent and fill their niche really well.<p>But we need something simpler here.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>I&#x27;ve personally used sites like this as a sort of protest to what universities and authors did to the textbook market. You used to be able to buy used physical textbooks for classes at reasonable prices. They took advantage of the shift to digital by forcing arbitrary changes in edition numbers, solely to sell more books, or by requiring obscure, low-volume books, often written by the professor leading the class. With prices often exceeding $100.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Z-Library Aftermath Reveals the Feds Seized Dozens of Domain Names</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/z-library-aftermath-reveals-that-the-feds-seized-dozens-of-domain-names-221107/</url></story> |
22,936,592 | 22,933,485 | 1 | 2 | 22,925,091 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mapgrep</author><text>I&#x27;ve read a couple of books about Sun (maybe I should say, &quot;both books about Sun&quot;) and my memory is that NeWS was considered significantly more elegant than X11 by many people who understood the problem space, and Sun was set on trying to make it an open standard as they did for NFS.<p>However, Sun (and again this is just my memory) had left many in the industry feeling burned on its last big standards push, I believe this was around NFS, and I don&#x27;t recall the details of why. But there was so much bad blood that NeWS had an uphill battle. And I recall clearly (from these books) that there was a conscious effort when Java came along to help it avoid the fate of NeWS. Also as Wikipedia notes the actual Sun implementation of NeWS carried a licensing fee; mind you, they had a fairly open posture toward licensing the source but they did charge, whereas MIT gave away X11 code.<p>Anyway maybe someone can tell me how wrong I am here!</text><parent_chain><item><author>russellbeattie</author><text>I had to look up NeWS because I was bewildered at how Sun was writing PostScript by hand to create a whole GUI. Wikipedia has a nice summary comparing it to Display PostScript used in the NeXT:<p>&quot;Sun Microsystems took another approach, creating NeWS. Instead of DPS&#x27;s concept of allowing PS to interact with C programs, NeWS instead extended PS into a language suitable for running the entire GUI of a computer. Sun added a number of new commands for timers, mouse control, interrupts and other systems needed for interactivity, and added data structures and language elements to allow it to be completely object oriented internally. A complete GUI, three in fact, were written in NeWS and provided for a time on their workstations. However, the ongoing efforts to standardize the X11 system led to its introduction and widespread use on Sun systems, and NeWS never became widely used.&quot;<p>I miss Sun. They were fun.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sun Microsystems PizzaTool (2018)</title><url>https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-pizzatool-2a7992b4c797</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>I would argue that the best NeWS interface toolkit wasn&#x27;t even built by Sun - HyperNeWS|HyperLook:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20182294" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20182294</a><p>Edit: Writing PostScript by hand was actually rather good fun - it&#x27;s actually quite a nice language.</text><parent_chain><item><author>russellbeattie</author><text>I had to look up NeWS because I was bewildered at how Sun was writing PostScript by hand to create a whole GUI. Wikipedia has a nice summary comparing it to Display PostScript used in the NeXT:<p>&quot;Sun Microsystems took another approach, creating NeWS. Instead of DPS&#x27;s concept of allowing PS to interact with C programs, NeWS instead extended PS into a language suitable for running the entire GUI of a computer. Sun added a number of new commands for timers, mouse control, interrupts and other systems needed for interactivity, and added data structures and language elements to allow it to be completely object oriented internally. A complete GUI, three in fact, were written in NeWS and provided for a time on their workstations. However, the ongoing efforts to standardize the X11 system led to its introduction and widespread use on Sun systems, and NeWS never became widely used.&quot;<p>I miss Sun. They were fun.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sun Microsystems PizzaTool (2018)</title><url>https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-pizzatool-2a7992b4c797</url></story> |
31,642,113 | 31,637,722 | 1 | 2 | 31,636,246 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bpodgursky</author><text>If the young were very well-compensated for the inconvenience I don&#x27;t actually have a huge problem with this kind of reverse wealth transfer. Try to balance the scales of the social security and housing market wealth extraction which is (in a metaphorical but more meaningful sense) bleeding the young dry.<p>Giving blood isn&#x27;t really a big deal for a healthy person.</text><parent_chain><item><author>swader999</author><text>It&#x27;s so much easier just to harvest the blood from young children.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists Discover Ways of Making Old Blood New Again</title><url>https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/scientists-discover-ways-of-making-old-blood-new-again</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jaygray0919</author><text>A modest proposal</text><parent_chain><item><author>swader999</author><text>It&#x27;s so much easier just to harvest the blood from young children.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists Discover Ways of Making Old Blood New Again</title><url>https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/scientists-discover-ways-of-making-old-blood-new-again</url></story> |
2,760,092 | 2,759,983 | 1 | 3 | 2,759,648 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matwood</author><text><i>Your water and electricity utilities most likely also have caps on how much water or electricity you can use before they cut you off.</i><p>Most utilities cannot just shut you off. Many states have laws that determine when and how. The biggest thing about a utility though is that you pay for usage. If you want to leave your lights on all day, they really don't care as long as you continue to pay your bill.<p>Personally, I don't see a problem with metered broadband, and only have a problem with the current pricing structures. Look at the mobile space to see how messed up it can be. Companies set prices at a usage level that is just below what a person really needs so they force people into the next tier with the hopes the person will not actually use it. Instead, I would support a flat rate per GB. I've seen numbers like $6/GB thrown around for mobile (it would obviously be a lot lower for line connected broadband, but you get the idea).<p><i>If</i> we do end up with broadband treated as a utility in the US, I would bet that it will be metered and charged for usage. It's the most fair way to support the system and will naturally prevent people from doing something similar to leaving their lights on all day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>megaman821</author><text>Your water and electricity utilities most likely also have caps on how much water or electricity you can use before they cut you off. Except if you go over a few times they won't ban you from their service for a year. They just want you to curb your use, which is exactly what this guy was willing to do.</text></item><item><author>bradleyland</author><text>The author had me up until the moment he claimed that internet access is a "right". Ok, so let's say internet access is a "right". Rights often come within a framework. You have many rights that are yours for the losing. Your freedom to come and go freely, for example. If you break a law, you lose your freedom by being put in jail.<p>To say something is a "right" is to say that it ought to be available, or that the government should not infringe upon your ability to seek that right unduly. In this case, the author broke the rules of the framework, and thus his right was suspended.<p>What a right to broadband is <i>not</i>: an irrevocable license to use as much of a shared resource as possible for a fixed price you deem appropriate.<p>Author, if you're reading, this is why people are saying you sound entitled. You're conflating "rights" with your own viewpoint that you should have unlimited internet access at a fixed price.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Comcast cuts off customer for going over 250GB of legitimate use</title><url>http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/the-day-comcasts-data-cap</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>At least in Canada, there are rules governing when the electricity company can cut you off. To oversimplify, you cannot be cut off during winter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>megaman821</author><text>Your water and electricity utilities most likely also have caps on how much water or electricity you can use before they cut you off. Except if you go over a few times they won't ban you from their service for a year. They just want you to curb your use, which is exactly what this guy was willing to do.</text></item><item><author>bradleyland</author><text>The author had me up until the moment he claimed that internet access is a "right". Ok, so let's say internet access is a "right". Rights often come within a framework. You have many rights that are yours for the losing. Your freedom to come and go freely, for example. If you break a law, you lose your freedom by being put in jail.<p>To say something is a "right" is to say that it ought to be available, or that the government should not infringe upon your ability to seek that right unduly. In this case, the author broke the rules of the framework, and thus his right was suspended.<p>What a right to broadband is <i>not</i>: an irrevocable license to use as much of a shared resource as possible for a fixed price you deem appropriate.<p>Author, if you're reading, this is why people are saying you sound entitled. You're conflating "rights" with your own viewpoint that you should have unlimited internet access at a fixed price.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Comcast cuts off customer for going over 250GB of legitimate use</title><url>http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/the-day-comcasts-data-cap</url></story> |
38,202,382 | 38,201,878 | 1 | 2 | 38,201,646 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hasoleju</author><text>I recently moved with my family to an appartment in the city. My wife and I have three children under the age of ten. One big benefit that we did not see in advance is that the public library is now in walking distance to our new home. It already has become a habit to go there with the kids and join the regular reading time.<p>The reading time is performed by a volunteer who usually reads out one book to the attending children. Often this is even done in two languages.<p>The kids meet their friends there and enjoy the stories read. We parents enjoy the silence and opportunity to stroll through all the bookshelves.<p>A public library really is a special place. Its atmosphere is hard to describe.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A door at a Swedish library was accidentally left open</title><url>https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/a-door-at-a-swedish-library-was-accidentally-left-open-446-people-came-in-borrowed-245-books-every-single-one-was-returned/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geff82</author><text>Recently, we were at a resort in Switzerland. Arguably one of the safest countries on earth. But: as we exited the swimming pool house, our umbrella was gone. I said „what an irony, the first time we have something stolen is in Switzerland“.<p>Two hours later, the umbrella was again where we had left it: someone must have borrowed it to protect themselves&#x2F;their children from heavy rain. We understood why there were no cctvs anywhere: they were not needed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A door at a Swedish library was accidentally left open</title><url>https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/a-door-at-a-swedish-library-was-accidentally-left-open-446-people-came-in-borrowed-245-books-every-single-one-was-returned/</url></story> |
10,471,672 | 10,471,791 | 1 | 2 | 10,470,117 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moistgorilla</author><text>&gt; Just to make it clear, these types of enforcement are not norms<p>Back up your statement with a citation please. Considering that they explicitly made forced abortions of these kinds illegal (although this is hardly enforced) implies that it was a big enough problem the government needed to step in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kailuowang</author><text>Just to make it clear, these types of enforcement are not norms. The law never suggested such enforcement. The law is that you get a financial fine if you have more than one child, that&#x27;s it. It&#x27;s actually against the law to force any kind of abortion. That being said, in some rural area, some officials maybe so greedy to make achievement for their &quot;career&quot; that they &quot;enforce&quot; this policy by breaking the law.<p>Some of the examples you listed have only one report. And it&#x27;s policy that lasted almost 40 years in a country with a billion people.</text></item><item><author>zero_iq</author><text>The policy itself isn&#x27;t cruel or brutal, but the enforcement can be terrible.<p>Brutal and cruel acts include:<p>* Killing of child immediately after birth<p>* Killing of child whilst being born, e.g. in birth canal during birth<p>* Termination of pregnancy as late as 8.5 months<p>* Forced abortions (incorporating kidnapping and assault)<p>All of these things have happened routinely as part of enforcement of the &quot;one child&quot; policy in China and have been widely reported on by human rights organisations. See for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;One-child_policy#Human_rights_violations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;One-child_policy#Human_rights_...</a><p>The policy has also encouraged infanticide&#x2F;gendercide, corruption, child abandonment, neglect, and abuse.</text></item><item><author>vincentkriek</author><text>Brutal and cruel? I agree it&#x27;s a severe limit on the personal freedom but China doesn&#x27;t value personal freedom as highly as the west does. Brutal and cruel is not the right terms for this in my opinion, you can have a beautiful, rich and fullfilling life with 2 children or less. You can plan to have just two children (up to some point).<p>Also, I think it could benefit the earth if more countries would limit children.</text></item><item><author>sethbannon</author><text>From the article &quot;All couples will now be allowed to have two children&quot;.<p>So it seems China isn&#x27;t so much ending its one-child policy, as augmenting it by one to a two-child policy. This means the brutal and cruel enforcement will continue, only it will kick in at the third child instead of at the second.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China to begin two-child policy</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34665539</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjungwir</author><text>&gt; in some rural area<p>I spent a summer in Beijing in 1998 and knew a young lady whose unborn baby was forcibly killed. So I don&#x27;t buy &quot;in some rural area&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kailuowang</author><text>Just to make it clear, these types of enforcement are not norms. The law never suggested such enforcement. The law is that you get a financial fine if you have more than one child, that&#x27;s it. It&#x27;s actually against the law to force any kind of abortion. That being said, in some rural area, some officials maybe so greedy to make achievement for their &quot;career&quot; that they &quot;enforce&quot; this policy by breaking the law.<p>Some of the examples you listed have only one report. And it&#x27;s policy that lasted almost 40 years in a country with a billion people.</text></item><item><author>zero_iq</author><text>The policy itself isn&#x27;t cruel or brutal, but the enforcement can be terrible.<p>Brutal and cruel acts include:<p>* Killing of child immediately after birth<p>* Killing of child whilst being born, e.g. in birth canal during birth<p>* Termination of pregnancy as late as 8.5 months<p>* Forced abortions (incorporating kidnapping and assault)<p>All of these things have happened routinely as part of enforcement of the &quot;one child&quot; policy in China and have been widely reported on by human rights organisations. See for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;One-child_policy#Human_rights_violations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;One-child_policy#Human_rights_...</a><p>The policy has also encouraged infanticide&#x2F;gendercide, corruption, child abandonment, neglect, and abuse.</text></item><item><author>vincentkriek</author><text>Brutal and cruel? I agree it&#x27;s a severe limit on the personal freedom but China doesn&#x27;t value personal freedom as highly as the west does. Brutal and cruel is not the right terms for this in my opinion, you can have a beautiful, rich and fullfilling life with 2 children or less. You can plan to have just two children (up to some point).<p>Also, I think it could benefit the earth if more countries would limit children.</text></item><item><author>sethbannon</author><text>From the article &quot;All couples will now be allowed to have two children&quot;.<p>So it seems China isn&#x27;t so much ending its one-child policy, as augmenting it by one to a two-child policy. This means the brutal and cruel enforcement will continue, only it will kick in at the third child instead of at the second.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China to begin two-child policy</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34665539</url></story> |
30,140,072 | 30,140,004 | 1 | 2 | 30,139,764 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HideousKojima</author><text>The study sounds like a crock of horseshit:<p>&quot;In this model, we assume that a large population of individuals comprises two distinct identity groups. These identities are assumed fixed, and thus correspond to a fixed feature of identity such as race, religious heritage, or socioeconomic background. Although such identities are fixed in the model, the salience of the identity, and therefore its impact on behavior, varies.&quot;<p>The model assumes only two distinct and unchangeable identity groups, and assumes that these identity groups are solely based on a few specific unchangeable traits. And that&#x27;s before you get into some of the wacky assumptions in their actual math model.<p>Also of note, they mention Charlottesville and the capitol riot as examples of political polarization, but make no mention of comparable events on the left like the BLM riots, the GOP baseball shooting, etc. Gives you a good idea of where the politics of the authors sit and suggests there may be motivated reasoning behind their arguments. &quot;Solve political polarization by doing more of what the left has wanted to do for over a century!&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: study</title><url>https://www.thesaint.scot/post/university-study-finds-reducing-inequality-can-reverse-political-polarisation</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>umvi</author><text>&gt; The study says, “We see that sufficient redistribution can reduce both inequality and polarisation, although a high degree of redistribution is required to prevent
polarisation.”<p>Have they factored in the act of wealth redistribution itself being polarizing? From a statistical&#x2F;theoretical perspective it checks out, but I bet practically speaking if you actually tried &quot;a high degree of [wealth] distribution&quot;, the middle and upper classes would start screaming and it would cause even more polarization. If the key thing needed to reduce polarization is &quot;reducing inequality&quot;, it would probably be good to investigate alternative methods of reducing inequality as well.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: study</title><url>https://www.thesaint.scot/post/university-study-finds-reducing-inequality-can-reverse-political-polarisation</url></story> |
5,523,372 | 5,521,586 | 1 | 3 | 5,519,814 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iloveyouocean</author><text>Totally agree. When I first joined HN (2100+ days ago) there were posts nearly every day of the 'Show HN: My new startup/website/app/etc' type and the thoughtful feedback and comments were genuinely helpful and insightful. It wasn't uncommon for multiple people to actually take screenshots and rework design elements, provide thorough user interaction impressions and potential improvements, offer assistance in numerous ways (debugging, introductions, alpha/beta testing, etc.), and be generally supportive. HN truly seemed like a community of semi-collaborative or at least fully helpful hackers.<p>It saddens me that the most common response these days seems to be some version of 'Let me list all the reasons why this is crap.'<p>What happened?</text><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Are you sure you wouldn't say the same thing if it was 1975 and they'd made a Basic interpreter for a toy computer used by a few hobbyists?<p>Big things often start small. In fact, <i>usually</i> start small.<p>And in any case it's just mean of you to piss all over these guys' efforts. It makes me embarrassed for HN when people launch something new, and this is the sort of response they get.</text></item><item><author>frisco</author><text>This is the quintessential first world problem. Out of the range of problems facing society that you could solve, of all the ways you could create value by making peoples' lives better, you settled on "making airport pickup easy".<p>Now, this is probably a completely rational move from the company's perspective. Silicon Valley over the last few years has been backstopped by acquihires and other such soft landings, and big companies desperate to hire outstanding talent are often very willing to pay high prices for a great team. From the landing page at least, it certainly doesn't look like the Just Landed guys are amateurs. They're probably a very talented, capable team.<p>If they're successful, I won't begrudge them their success. However, I do lament the idea that the best minds of a generation are being focused on getting people to click on ads and minimizing the number of loop-arounds you have to do at the airport. I don't buy the idea that these guys wouldn't be focused on "harder" problems if consumer web didn't exist; of course they would. This kind of talent rises to the challenge. The idea that these are the problems whose solution drives us forwards is just a monumental lapse of creativity. Technology is an amazing thing, and we can do so much with it. I really think it's just an exposure issue -- people are used to web, and fields like the life sciences or hardware seem mysterious and complex. How do those become opened up?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Just Landed</title><url>http://www.getjustlanded.com/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jgrall</author><text>When pg comes to your defense, it's a good day ;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Are you sure you wouldn't say the same thing if it was 1975 and they'd made a Basic interpreter for a toy computer used by a few hobbyists?<p>Big things often start small. In fact, <i>usually</i> start small.<p>And in any case it's just mean of you to piss all over these guys' efforts. It makes me embarrassed for HN when people launch something new, and this is the sort of response they get.</text></item><item><author>frisco</author><text>This is the quintessential first world problem. Out of the range of problems facing society that you could solve, of all the ways you could create value by making peoples' lives better, you settled on "making airport pickup easy".<p>Now, this is probably a completely rational move from the company's perspective. Silicon Valley over the last few years has been backstopped by acquihires and other such soft landings, and big companies desperate to hire outstanding talent are often very willing to pay high prices for a great team. From the landing page at least, it certainly doesn't look like the Just Landed guys are amateurs. They're probably a very talented, capable team.<p>If they're successful, I won't begrudge them their success. However, I do lament the idea that the best minds of a generation are being focused on getting people to click on ads and minimizing the number of loop-arounds you have to do at the airport. I don't buy the idea that these guys wouldn't be focused on "harder" problems if consumer web didn't exist; of course they would. This kind of talent rises to the challenge. The idea that these are the problems whose solution drives us forwards is just a monumental lapse of creativity. Technology is an amazing thing, and we can do so much with it. I really think it's just an exposure issue -- people are used to web, and fields like the life sciences or hardware seem mysterious and complex. How do those become opened up?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Just Landed</title><url>http://www.getjustlanded.com/</url></story> |
13,180,720 | 13,180,441 | 1 | 3 | 13,179,525 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wwalser</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why there are so many non-answers or flat out incorrect answers to your question.<p>Yes, js devs use debuggers and have for years. Firebug was created and popularized for browser js 10 years ago[1]. Node.js was released 7 years ago, got a debug option one year later using <i>node debugger</i>. It was CLI based and a bit shit. Tools which leveraged Node&#x27;s debug protocol and Chrome&#x27;s developer tools (node-inspector) for example were started 5 years ago[2]. Most recently some group associated (maybe on?) the Chrome team started creating a cleaner debug protocol and integrating directly with the Chromium project[3]. That&#x27;s become the gold standard and is the standard way of debugging for Node 7+[4]. VSCode uses that protocol to offer debugging directly from the editor.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Firebug_(software)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Firebug_(software)</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;node-inspector&#x2F;node-inspector" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;node-inspector&#x2F;node-inspector</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nodejs&#x2F;node&#x2F;pull&#x2F;9028" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nodejs&#x2F;node&#x2F;pull&#x2F;9028</a><p>4. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodejs.org&#x2F;api&#x2F;debugger.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodejs.org&#x2F;api&#x2F;debugger.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>miguelrochefort</author><text>I&#x27;m confused. Did javascript people not use a debugger before VS Code?</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>The debugger changed how I code. So much better than any other node debug solutions.</text></item><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>VS Code is, along with Typescript and Vue, one of my favorite things to have entered my world in the past 6 months. They have been rapidly improving VSC and I am exceptionally happy with it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visual Studio Code 1.8</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_8</url></story> | <instructions>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 am pretty to the javascript&#x2F;node world. The debugging situation is pretty pathetic in my view. Most people I know use a ton of logging like we did with C&#x2F;printf 25 years ago.</text><parent_chain><item><author>miguelrochefort</author><text>I&#x27;m confused. Did javascript people not use a debugger before VS Code?</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>The debugger changed how I code. So much better than any other node debug solutions.</text></item><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>VS Code is, along with Typescript and Vue, one of my favorite things to have entered my world in the past 6 months. They have been rapidly improving VSC and I am exceptionally happy with it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visual Studio Code 1.8</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_8</url></story> |
41,368,918 | 41,369,040 | 1 | 2 | 41,365,868 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sirspacey</author><text>This is the proof that the religion of “I believe in science” is not a friend to creating a culture of science appreciation<p>It’s been the struggle for scientific progress, the breakthroughs are the exception not the rule and the reason is the culture of belief around the science of the time<p>The lesson I’ve most learned from science is that the questions are more interesting than the answer and the answers we have are a way to ask new questions</text><parent_chain><item><author>hintymad</author><text>I still remember that so many people cheered when legitimate doctors and scientists were banned from Twitter or Facebook, just for questioning either the lockdown or the effectiveness or risks of the vaccines. The doctors may not be correct, but shouldn&#x27;t we allow people to question science? Our government can do what it does because the people embolden them.</text></item><item><author>chasd00</author><text>When the platforms starting censoring during the pandemic and last election cycle I remember saying they better get it right 100% of the time because the moment they get it wrong their credibility is shot. Hear we are.<p>Censorship, beyond what’s required by law, is doomed to fail.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/zuckerberg-meta-white-house-pressure-00176399</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iamacyborg</author><text>The challenge is trying to determine who’s legitimately trying to question the science vs who’s a crank.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hintymad</author><text>I still remember that so many people cheered when legitimate doctors and scientists were banned from Twitter or Facebook, just for questioning either the lockdown or the effectiveness or risks of the vaccines. The doctors may not be correct, but shouldn&#x27;t we allow people to question science? Our government can do what it does because the people embolden them.</text></item><item><author>chasd00</author><text>When the platforms starting censoring during the pandemic and last election cycle I remember saying they better get it right 100% of the time because the moment they get it wrong their credibility is shot. Hear we are.<p>Censorship, beyond what’s required by law, is doomed to fail.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/zuckerberg-meta-white-house-pressure-00176399</url></story> |
3,733,553 | 3,733,221 | 1 | 2 | 3,733,090 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>antirez</author><text>In order to perform such a comparison you can't write three small trow-away programs, you need to optimize each version at your best for weeks to start to be meaningful, and you need an expert in the three systems.<p>Otherwise the test is still interesting but is: "what is the best language to write a memcached clone without being an expert in a given language, using a few hours", that still says something about how different the three languages are, but does not say much about what is the <i>best</i> language to implement the system.<p>Btw in a more serious test another parameter that you did not considered much is very important, that is, memory usage per-key in the three versions, and in general, memory behavior.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In-memory key-value store in C, Go and Python </title><url>http://www.darkcoding.net/software/in-memory-key-value-store-in-c-go-and-python/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>timtadh</author><text>Looking at the go version[1] I am not sure if will work as expected. Maps in go are not thread safe.[2] So it could be the go version is out performing the others do to the lack of synchronisation. There are several ways to fix this in go, the easiest might just be to use a mutex around the accesses to the cache. But it would probably be better to use a readers writers lock.<p>edit: (that said I am not sure if the C version is thread safe either I haven't read the docs for the hash table he is using.)<p>edit 2: (looks like the C version is not thread safe either).<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/grahamking/Key-Value-Polyglot/blob/master/memg.go" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/grahamking/Key-Value-Polyglot/blob/master...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#atomic_maps" rel="nofollow">http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#atomic_maps</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In-memory key-value store in C, Go and Python </title><url>http://www.darkcoding.net/software/in-memory-key-value-store-in-c-go-and-python/</url></story> |
35,691,864 | 35,691,811 | 1 | 3 | 35,690,398 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justeleblanc</author><text>&gt; Do you and people you know have a safe?<p>Yes. I&#x27;m not taking about a safe like you can see in the movies. Just a locked box.<p>&gt; Where I&#x27;m from, we generally don&#x27;t use safes.<p>That&#x27;s on you.<p>&gt; Do you consider your safe to be... safe? I&#x27;d imagine it to be relatively easy to get into, by picking the lock or sawing through the safe.<p>That&#x27;s not the point. 2FA is about thwarting password leaks. If someone has physical access to my house <i>and</i> knows my passwords, I&#x27;m screwed, yes.<p>But since I don&#x27;t live in a Jason Bourne movie, my threat model isn&#x27;t a ninja who steals my passwords then comes into my house to hack my tiktok account. My threat model is breaking my phone and knowing that my backup passwords are in a minimally safe place where I expect them to be and weren&#x27;t carelessly thrown away with old documents; and deter casual &quot;attackers&quot; like a niece who could be inclined to plunder my papers for coloring material.<p>And if I did live in a Jason Bourne movie, I&#x27;d expect the ninja to just beat me up when I get home and unlock my safe for him, assuming I had bought an unbreakable safe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tasuki</author><text>Do you and people you know have a safe? Where I&#x27;m from, we generally don&#x27;t use safes.<p>Do you consider your safe to be... safe? I&#x27;d imagine it to be relatively easy to get into, by picking the lock or sawing through the safe.</text></item><item><author>justeleblanc</author><text>&gt; And how are you supposed to handle the 2FA for your Google account? I mean I have U2F tokens which remove that concern, but that is far from the typical case. If you have the 2FA for your Google account in the Google Authenticator, which is probably a very common case, how does this entire thing work then when you need it, which is when you lose your phone?<p>You open your safe and you use one of the recovery codes that you wrote down when you setup 2FA.</text></item><item><author>fabian2k</author><text>Ahem, I think making it much easier to transfer and backup 2FA codes is extremely important to make this area more useable. But I&#x27;m missing some parts here in this announcement how the data is protected? Is the security the same as for the Google Account itself, or are there additional checks or protection for the case where you need to restore 2FA to another phone?<p>And how are you supposed to handle the 2FA for your Google account? I mean I have U2F tokens which remove that concern, but that is far from the typical case. If you have the 2FA for your Google account in the Google Authenticator, which is probably a very common case, how does this entire thing work then when you need it, which is when you lose your phone?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization</title><url>https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/google-authenticator-now-supports.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>maxfurman</author><text>A safe is extremely safe against hackers on the other side of the world. Quite safe against more local threats without special equipment and time on their hands.<p>Security is relative to your threat model!</text><parent_chain><item><author>tasuki</author><text>Do you and people you know have a safe? Where I&#x27;m from, we generally don&#x27;t use safes.<p>Do you consider your safe to be... safe? I&#x27;d imagine it to be relatively easy to get into, by picking the lock or sawing through the safe.</text></item><item><author>justeleblanc</author><text>&gt; And how are you supposed to handle the 2FA for your Google account? I mean I have U2F tokens which remove that concern, but that is far from the typical case. If you have the 2FA for your Google account in the Google Authenticator, which is probably a very common case, how does this entire thing work then when you need it, which is when you lose your phone?<p>You open your safe and you use one of the recovery codes that you wrote down when you setup 2FA.</text></item><item><author>fabian2k</author><text>Ahem, I think making it much easier to transfer and backup 2FA codes is extremely important to make this area more useable. But I&#x27;m missing some parts here in this announcement how the data is protected? Is the security the same as for the Google Account itself, or are there additional checks or protection for the case where you need to restore 2FA to another phone?<p>And how are you supposed to handle the 2FA for your Google account? I mean I have U2F tokens which remove that concern, but that is far from the typical case. If you have the 2FA for your Google account in the Google Authenticator, which is probably a very common case, how does this entire thing work then when you need it, which is when you lose your phone?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization</title><url>https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/google-authenticator-now-supports.html</url></story> |
30,701,807 | 30,701,567 | 1 | 3 | 30,698,803 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stickfigure</author><text>&gt; despite these being a fairly-obvious &quot;dominant strategy&quot; for warfare<p>I don&#x27;t think these are quite as viable as you think. ICBMs are <i>expensive</i>. Probably tens of millions of dollars each, for a single-use item. Cruise missiles cost $1-$2 million to deliver the same payload and have a better chance of surprising the enemy.<p>ICBMs have longer range, but how often do you need to strike targets more than 1000km past the front line? They&#x27;re inherently strategic weapons.</text><parent_chain><item><author>derefr</author><text>On a tangent: it occurred to me recently that we also don&#x27;t see much use of ICBMs with non-nuclear payloads, despite these being a fairly-obvious &quot;dominant strategy&quot; for warfare — and one that <i>isn&#x27;t</i> banned by any global treaties.<p>I&#x27;m guessing the problem with these is that, in practice, a country can&#x27;t use any weapons system that could <i>potentially</i> be used to &quot;safely&quot; deliver a nuclear payload (i.e. to deliver one far-enough away that the attacking country would not, itself, be affected by the fallout) without other countries&#x27; anti-nuke defenses activating. After all, you could always <i>say</i> you&#x27;re shooting ICBMs full of regular explosive payloads, but then slip a nuke in. There is no honor in realpolitik.<p>So, because of this game-theoretic equilibrium, any use of the stratosphere for ballistic weapons delivery is <i>effectively</i> forbidden — even though nobody&#x27;s explicitly <i>asking</i> for it to be.<p>It&#x27;s interesting to consider how much scarier war could be right now, if we <i>hadn&#x27;t</i> invented nuclear weapons... random missiles just dropping down from the sky for precision strikes, in countries whose borders have never even been penetrated.</text></item><item><author>openasocket</author><text>Fortunately we don&#x27;t see any real work in the chemical and biological weapons space anymore. While it would still be pretty handy for terrorist groups, in actual warfare chemical weapons aren&#x27;t super useful. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acoup.blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;20&#x2F;collections-why-dont-we-use-chemical-weapons-anymore&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acoup.blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;20&#x2F;collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...</a> .</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deliberately optimizing for harm</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/deliberately-optimizing-harm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>importantbrian</author><text>To tie this in with current events this is exactly what makes the no-fly zone idea in Ukraine so dangerous. All of the things you have to do to establish a no-fly zone and take away the enemy&#x27;s ability to fire into and effect your no-fly zone look the same as a prelude to an invasion or nuclear first strike. This is made worse by the fact that many of the weapons systems you would be using are dual use. Meaning they were designed to deliver conventional or nuclear weapons. It&#x27;s a massive gamble that the actions won&#x27;t be misinterpreted or used to justify moving up the escalation ladder.</text><parent_chain><item><author>derefr</author><text>On a tangent: it occurred to me recently that we also don&#x27;t see much use of ICBMs with non-nuclear payloads, despite these being a fairly-obvious &quot;dominant strategy&quot; for warfare — and one that <i>isn&#x27;t</i> banned by any global treaties.<p>I&#x27;m guessing the problem with these is that, in practice, a country can&#x27;t use any weapons system that could <i>potentially</i> be used to &quot;safely&quot; deliver a nuclear payload (i.e. to deliver one far-enough away that the attacking country would not, itself, be affected by the fallout) without other countries&#x27; anti-nuke defenses activating. After all, you could always <i>say</i> you&#x27;re shooting ICBMs full of regular explosive payloads, but then slip a nuke in. There is no honor in realpolitik.<p>So, because of this game-theoretic equilibrium, any use of the stratosphere for ballistic weapons delivery is <i>effectively</i> forbidden — even though nobody&#x27;s explicitly <i>asking</i> for it to be.<p>It&#x27;s interesting to consider how much scarier war could be right now, if we <i>hadn&#x27;t</i> invented nuclear weapons... random missiles just dropping down from the sky for precision strikes, in countries whose borders have never even been penetrated.</text></item><item><author>openasocket</author><text>Fortunately we don&#x27;t see any real work in the chemical and biological weapons space anymore. While it would still be pretty handy for terrorist groups, in actual warfare chemical weapons aren&#x27;t super useful. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acoup.blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;20&#x2F;collections-why-dont-we-use-chemical-weapons-anymore&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acoup.blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;20&#x2F;collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...</a> .</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deliberately optimizing for harm</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/deliberately-optimizing-harm</url></story> |
38,970,689 | 38,970,187 | 1 | 2 | 38,968,619 | 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>spencerchubb</author><text>As a junior dev, sometimes I&#x27;ve been blocked for hours because I want to show that I can solve problems independently. But I&#x27;ve definitely had cases where I should&#x27;ve asked questions early. A question that takes 1 minute to answer could have saved hours.<p>For instance, I was stuck on figuring out how to send an email through AWS. Turns out we have a lambda function that handles all the authentication and security things that are specific to our company. Once I asked my coworker and found out about this function, it was trivial.</text><parent_chain><item><author>philip1209</author><text>This article talks about learned helplessness in a learning context. I talked about it in a work context, and the two could be linked. I think social media is training people for everything to be quick, but learning + work aren&#x27;t necessarily quick.<p>&gt; This insistence on constant availability disrupts the essence of focused work. Rather than encouraging employees to tackle complex problems independently, there’s a trend, especially among junior staff, to quickly seek help upon encountering any obstacle. The fear is that being “blocked” under-utilizes an expensive team member. However, the nature of knowledge work is solving ambiguous, complicated problems - so the expectation of constant availability can lead to a culture of learned helplessness, which shunts professional development.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contraption.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;digital-quiet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contraption.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;digital-quiet&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)</title><url>https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learned-helplessness/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Swizec</author><text>As a tech lead I would rather see a team member ask me questions early than never. Nudging them in the right direction before they waste 3 days going down a path that’s never going to work is at least half my job.<p>But it’s important that they’ve done enough research to formulate the question. A little struggle helps the learning stick.</text><parent_chain><item><author>philip1209</author><text>This article talks about learned helplessness in a learning context. I talked about it in a work context, and the two could be linked. I think social media is training people for everything to be quick, but learning + work aren&#x27;t necessarily quick.<p>&gt; This insistence on constant availability disrupts the essence of focused work. Rather than encouraging employees to tackle complex problems independently, there’s a trend, especially among junior staff, to quickly seek help upon encountering any obstacle. The fear is that being “blocked” under-utilizes an expensive team member. However, the nature of knowledge work is solving ambiguous, complicated problems - so the expectation of constant availability can lead to a culture of learned helplessness, which shunts professional development.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contraption.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;digital-quiet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contraption.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;digital-quiet&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)</title><url>https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learned-helplessness/</url></story> |
19,388,023 | 19,386,468 | 1 | 2 | 19,377,501 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomohawk</author><text>Big fan of land value taxes. They apply pressure to make the best use of the land rather than sitting on it. However, I&#x27;m not sure it will help cities like Baltimore, where they were unable to turn things around even by giving away houses for $1 and no taxes for a few years.<p>In a city, you&#x27;re more dependent on the government to take care of things, and in most US cities, with single party control, it does not happen. They don&#x27;t take care of crime. They let infrastructure decay. The schools are crap (despite high per-pupil spending). They make crony deals with the unions on pensions and benefits that are not possible to fund.<p>Not feeling safe and with a bleak future for their kids, people move out. I&#x27;ve seen this happen over and over again with coworkers who initially were big on city living, but eventually moved out when they got mugged or had kids.<p>The result is insane taxes as population leaves, and subsidies from the surrounding areas to try to keep the failed city afloat.<p>The high taxes and obvious government incompetence then act as a moat to keep people out.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rewarding Neglect and Punishing Investment in Struggling Neighborhoods</title><url>https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/7/rewarding-neglect-and-punishing-investment-in-struggling-neighborhoods</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patio11</author><text>&quot;At the same time, the city&#x27;s infrastructure is aging and requires more maintenance than it once did.&quot;<p>The thing which is aging is more likely the base of city employees and retirees who were promised defined benefit pensions which were underreserved for and routinely looted, over a period of decades.<p>Erie, for example, has an unfunded liability of about $90 million against a total annual budget of ~$115 million. (As is typical, the lion&#x27;s share is police&#x2F;firefighters.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rewarding Neglect and Punishing Investment in Struggling Neighborhoods</title><url>https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/7/rewarding-neglect-and-punishing-investment-in-struggling-neighborhoods</url></story> |
3,042,526 | 3,042,127 | 1 | 3 | 3,041,308 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jorangreef</author><text>If you're looking for verses to explore for yourself, start at chapter 45 verse 1 on the scroll of Isaiah, <a href="http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah?id=45:1" rel="nofollow">http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah?id=45:1</a><p>Here, Isaiah names Cyrus the Great, 150 years before his birth, and goes on to describe how the Lord ("HaShem" on the scroll) would use him as a foreigner to demolish the empire of Babylonia and restore the Jewish people out of exile (<a href="http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah?id=45:13" rel="nofollow">http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah?id=45:13</a>).<p>Josephus, the Jewish historian, in his Antiquities, records that the Jews in Babylonian captivity showed Cyrus the prophecies of the Old Testament Scriptures which contained his name and described his role in the scheme of God. The historian says that it was this circumstance that motivated the ruler to fulfill what was written, and to issue his edict permitting Israel's return to her homeland (<a href="http://books.google.co.za/books?id=kyaoIb6k2ccC&#38;pg=PA359" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.co.za/books?id=kyaoIb6k2ccC&#38;pg=PA359</a>).<p>Shortly after chapter 45, Isaiah writes in chapter 46:8, "Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose...'" (<a href="http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah?id=46:10" rel="nofollow">http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah?id=46:10</a>)<p>Then from chapter 49 to chapter 53, Isaiah foretells the servant of the Lord, Israel and its embodiment in the person of the Messiah, and his suffering and rejection by his own people, how "he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed" (<a href="http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah?id=53:5" rel="nofollow">http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah?id=53:5</a>) and how "like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth" (<a href="http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah?id=53:7" rel="nofollow">http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah?id=53:7</a>) and how "they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death" (<a href="http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah?id=53:9" rel="nofollow">http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah?id=53:9</a>).<p>It is often said that the words of the OT have a remarkable weightiness to them. I recall reading that Ernest Hemingway at one time used to read the OT to absorb this quality in his own writings.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After 24 centuries, Google puts the Dead Sea Scrolls online for the world to see</title><url>http://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/09/from-desert-to-web-bringing-dead-sea.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RK</author><text>I am pretty ignorant of the Dead Sea Scrolls and related documents, but why is the translation not into modern English?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After 24 centuries, Google puts the Dead Sea Scrolls online for the world to see</title><url>http://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/09/from-desert-to-web-bringing-dead-sea.html</url><text></text></story> |
27,099,549 | 27,099,128 | 1 | 3 | 27,097,069 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heipei</author><text>I am a German living in Germany and worked remotely for a US company for a few years before they set up a German subsidiary. I was employed by the US corporation (so no employer of record), had a bi-lingual work contract which included all the necessary clauses for Germany (minimum vacation time, minimum termination period, &quot;Probezeit&quot;). My employer paid all social security contributions but did not automatically withhold income tax as a German company would have done, so I had to pay those taxes myself after filing my tax return.<p>The employer worked with a big-ish professional services company who did all the necessary payroll and paperwork for them.<p>Overall it was super smooth and except the taxes nothing was different than working for a Germany company. But I know that the ease of hiring really depends on each country, and I know that the company was only considering opening up remote positions in countries where there was an ample talent pool, basically where they could except to hire enough people to be worth it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>periheli0n</author><text>I wonder how this works tax- and social security-wise. Normally, the employer must pay social security in the country where the employee is physically located. Also the employer must adhere to any employment laws for that country.<p>At least that’s what HR tells me in my current job, as a reason why they won’t let me go full remote.<p>Are they right? How are full-remote companies handling this?<p>Edit: Context is EU&#x2F;UK.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote-first companies that actively hire</title><url>https://www.remotecompany.com/blog/remote-first-companies-list</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jobvandervoort</author><text>If you hire someone in another country, you (employer) must fully comply with local labor laws, tax requirements, run payroll and pay any local dues in local currency.<p>This is only solved by either setting up a local office and hire local experts yourself, or working with an employer of record.<p>Source: I&#x27;m the CEO of Remote.com and we do this for other companies across the world, and run all our own entities and compliance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>periheli0n</author><text>I wonder how this works tax- and social security-wise. Normally, the employer must pay social security in the country where the employee is physically located. Also the employer must adhere to any employment laws for that country.<p>At least that’s what HR tells me in my current job, as a reason why they won’t let me go full remote.<p>Are they right? How are full-remote companies handling this?<p>Edit: Context is EU&#x2F;UK.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote-first companies that actively hire</title><url>https://www.remotecompany.com/blog/remote-first-companies-list</url></story> |
31,487,421 | 31,487,435 | 1 | 2 | 31,486,885 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notRobot</author><text>For those without context, there&#x27;s a nice explainer on Monkeypox linked in the first paragraph: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;monkeypox-what-to-know-d62250e909202943247552815dadb1de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;monkeypox-what-to-know-d62250e909...</a><p>Explains what Monkeypox is, what the seriousness is, and how long it takes to recover. Most people recover in around a month without needed hospitalisation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Expert: Monkeypox likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/health-world-organization-united-nations-animals-72a9efaaf5b55ace396398b839847505</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomatowurst</author><text>What is really curious is this:<p><pre><code> The name monkeypox originates from the initial discovery of the virus in monkeys in a Danish laboratory in 1958. The first human case was identified in a child in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1970
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Are there known interactions with locals and monkeys? Are they consumed?<p>edit: so there is consumption<p><pre><code> monkey meat is common in bush meat stalls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Central Africa in general, with red-tailed and crowned guenons, baboons and agile mangabeys being the most common</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Expert: Monkeypox likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/health-world-organization-united-nations-animals-72a9efaaf5b55ace396398b839847505</url></story> |
34,448,833 | 34,444,214 | 1 | 2 | 34,439,588 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text><i>Plastics have very LONG carbon chains, usually with many double bonds, and very little hydrogen.</i><p>Which plastics? The most common ones, polyethylene and polypropylene, which this method is designed to process, are entirely hydrogen and carbon, with no double bonds. I don&#x27;t dispute that additional hydrogen is necessary to crack the polymers into shorter ones, but your description of plastics does not seem to be completely correct.</text><parent_chain><item><author>HackOfAllTrades</author><text>Why do people keep falling for this? This same fraud used to pop up only every 10 years. Now it&#x27;s 5 or less.<p>I&#x27;m a PhD chemist. Please consider this: While plastics and oil are both hydrocarbons they have this important difference. Liquid hydrocarbons have short carbon chains and lots of hydrogen. Plastics have very LONG carbon chains, usually with many double bonds, and very little hydrogen.<p>That is why, when you heat plastic it decomposes into char -- as in charcoal. It is IMPOSSIBLE to produce oil, even theoretically, without adding a source of hydrogen.<p>A few centuries ago these same fraudsters would be selling you a way to change Iron into Gold.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil</title><url>https://blest.co.jp/eng/service/be-h/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cal85</author><text>Interesting, thanks. As someone with little understanding of chemistry, can you clarify why &quot;adding a source of hydrogen&quot; is not possible&#x2F;practical?</text><parent_chain><item><author>HackOfAllTrades</author><text>Why do people keep falling for this? This same fraud used to pop up only every 10 years. Now it&#x27;s 5 or less.<p>I&#x27;m a PhD chemist. Please consider this: While plastics and oil are both hydrocarbons they have this important difference. Liquid hydrocarbons have short carbon chains and lots of hydrogen. Plastics have very LONG carbon chains, usually with many double bonds, and very little hydrogen.<p>That is why, when you heat plastic it decomposes into char -- as in charcoal. It is IMPOSSIBLE to produce oil, even theoretically, without adding a source of hydrogen.<p>A few centuries ago these same fraudsters would be selling you a way to change Iron into Gold.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil</title><url>https://blest.co.jp/eng/service/be-h/</url></story> |
19,751,322 | 19,749,847 | 1 | 3 | 19,747,493 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bartbutler</author><text>We are aware of the the issues brought up in [0] and [1]. As suggested in [2], we are already considering to switch to an implementation in WebAssembly to mitigate the possibility of timing attacks on the web platform.<p>In our mobile and desktop apps, where timing attack resistance is easier to achieve, the X25519 implementation is already constant-time.<p>Once they are generated, keys are controlled by our users and not easily updated, so we wanted to make our choice of default curve as future-proof as we could while balancing speed and interoperability.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;indutny&#x2F;elliptic&#x2F;issues&#x2F;128" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;indutny&#x2F;elliptic&#x2F;issues&#x2F;128</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.debian.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;bugreport.cgi?bug=861639#10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.debian.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;bugreport.cgi?bug=861639#10</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openpgpjs&#x2F;openpgpjs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;720" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openpgpjs&#x2F;openpgpjs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;720</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>This announcement is an example of why I am not using ProtonMail anymore. There are a lot of things they do that sound very good on marketing materials, but upon examination are security theater.<p>For example, they claim, &quot;We have chosen a particular elliptic curve system known as X25519, which is fast, secure, and particularly resistant to timing attacks. It’s simple to implement&quot;.<p>However, previously they&#x27;ve said that they use Indutny&#x27;s library [0]. This library is somewhat infamous because its leadership deciding to discard any pretense of defending against timing attacks on the grounds that would make the library &quot;too slow.&quot; [1]<p>There are other options. They could have used something with good timing attack resistance from WebCrypto. Those options exist. Folks with more skill than I have recommended P-256 as an option.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protonmail.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;openpgpjs-3-release&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protonmail.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;openpgpjs-3-release&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;indutny&#x2F;elliptic&#x2F;issues&#x2F;128#issuecomment-302593662" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;indutny&#x2F;elliptic&#x2F;issues&#x2F;128#issuecomment-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography</title><url>https://protonmail.com/blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bogomipz</author><text>&gt;&quot;There are a lot of things they do that sound very good on marketing materials, but upon examination are security theater.&quot;<p>Indeed like still pushing the trope that since their datacenters are located in Switzerland they are able to provide more privacy protections. This is even mentioned on their homepage, and of course this hasn&#x27;t been true in a few years now.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-37465853" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-37465853</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>This announcement is an example of why I am not using ProtonMail anymore. There are a lot of things they do that sound very good on marketing materials, but upon examination are security theater.<p>For example, they claim, &quot;We have chosen a particular elliptic curve system known as X25519, which is fast, secure, and particularly resistant to timing attacks. It’s simple to implement&quot;.<p>However, previously they&#x27;ve said that they use Indutny&#x27;s library [0]. This library is somewhat infamous because its leadership deciding to discard any pretense of defending against timing attacks on the grounds that would make the library &quot;too slow.&quot; [1]<p>There are other options. They could have used something with good timing attack resistance from WebCrypto. Those options exist. Folks with more skill than I have recommended P-256 as an option.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protonmail.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;openpgpjs-3-release&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protonmail.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;openpgpjs-3-release&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;indutny&#x2F;elliptic&#x2F;issues&#x2F;128#issuecomment-302593662" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;indutny&#x2F;elliptic&#x2F;issues&#x2F;128#issuecomment-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography</title><url>https://protonmail.com/blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography/</url></story> |
34,045,181 | 34,043,022 | 1 | 3 | 34,038,601 | train | <instructions>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_sleaze_</author><text>My own father passed roughly a year ago as well, also at a particularly advanced age. I had a similar experience, where I became frustrated with the lack of what I perceived to be care. As in &quot;give a shit&quot;, or even a desire to find an actual diagnosis. One doctor told me, as my father lay intubated a foot away, that [the Dr&#x27;s] best gift he gave his own parents was to DNR them so they never spent a day in a nursing home.<p>A year later I&#x27;ve realized that my father was 80 years old. We all have to die at some point. Your father was 87. I understand you&#x27;re upset. It may be that there was more for the medical system to do, there may not have been.<p>At what point does spending possibly millions of dollars to extend some one&#x27;s life 1 year, 2 years stop becoming good and turns into actual harm?<p>They have to go at some point. Even if it is someone else&#x27;s fault.</text><parent_chain><item><author>burritas</author><text>I&#x27;d rather not go into personal detail but I share a similar experience. The thing that really drove it home for me was when I got back home and was telling my own doctor about my experience dealing with family in the medical system and she said I was mistaken or there was a misunderstanding because that kind of thing doesn&#x27;t happen. I asked why she was siding with a doctor she&#x27;d never met before instead of listening to her patient, which got her pretty flustered. I don&#x27;t see her anymore.</text></item><item><author>bane</author><text>Almost exactly 18 months ago, my then 87 year old father, after feeling unwell and having some fluid problems with his lungs was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer. He turned down treatment and died at home a couple days before Christmas last year.<p>I&#x27;ve come away from the experience very unhappy with the medical system. There&#x27;s a long list, things that in any other industry would be prosecuted. The medical and hospice systems are as near to worthless as any amount of money can buy -- at most times an absolute farce.<p>These <i>were</i> people who went out of their way to make things a little less worse, but they all worked on the periphery of the system: drivers, suppliers, and so on.<p>Fuck cancer, but also fuck the American medical system, and anybody who&#x27;s gotten in the way of making it more sane and compassionate.<p>I miss my Dad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I’ve been battling cancer last 2 years, but now only have a few days left</title><url>https://twitter.com/stokesneuro/status/1604369158883491841</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>inamberclad</author><text>It&#x27;s a common theme - doctors just don&#x27;t listen to their patients at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>burritas</author><text>I&#x27;d rather not go into personal detail but I share a similar experience. The thing that really drove it home for me was when I got back home and was telling my own doctor about my experience dealing with family in the medical system and she said I was mistaken or there was a misunderstanding because that kind of thing doesn&#x27;t happen. I asked why she was siding with a doctor she&#x27;d never met before instead of listening to her patient, which got her pretty flustered. I don&#x27;t see her anymore.</text></item><item><author>bane</author><text>Almost exactly 18 months ago, my then 87 year old father, after feeling unwell and having some fluid problems with his lungs was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer. He turned down treatment and died at home a couple days before Christmas last year.<p>I&#x27;ve come away from the experience very unhappy with the medical system. There&#x27;s a long list, things that in any other industry would be prosecuted. The medical and hospice systems are as near to worthless as any amount of money can buy -- at most times an absolute farce.<p>These <i>were</i> people who went out of their way to make things a little less worse, but they all worked on the periphery of the system: drivers, suppliers, and so on.<p>Fuck cancer, but also fuck the American medical system, and anybody who&#x27;s gotten in the way of making it more sane and compassionate.<p>I miss my Dad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I’ve been battling cancer last 2 years, but now only have a few days left</title><url>https://twitter.com/stokesneuro/status/1604369158883491841</url></story> |
21,403,783 | 21,402,973 | 1 | 3 | 21,402,563 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>p4bl0</author><text>He is already an elected representative in the French parliament, being part of the current government&#x27;s majority. His political party and the government have already passed several laws that are very damaging to research and higher education (among other things, but these two topics Villani actually knows something about, and he should care a bit given his background). He has never said anything publicly about it, or only to support the government. I see this behavior as proof that he doesn&#x27;t care at all about being a mathematician (well, except when it gives him credit he doesn&#x27;t deserve), so he should just be considered another random politician, and he&#x27;s not even a good one.<p>Edit: fixed &quot;dommageable&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cédric Villani: mathematician challenging to be Paris mayor</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/73c7a6a6-ee57-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prideout</author><text>Not just a mathematician but a Fields medal winner.<p>The current mayor of Paris is also an interesting person, being a Spanish-born woman from a working class family. She has made huge strides in the greenification of Paris:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;05&#x2F;world&#x2F;europe&#x2F;paris-anne-hildago-green-city-climate-change.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;05&#x2F;world&#x2F;europe&#x2F;paris-anne-h...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cédric Villani: mathematician challenging to be Paris mayor</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/73c7a6a6-ee57-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195</url></story> |
8,677,481 | 8,677,547 | 1 | 2 | 8,676,964 | 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>ivraatiems</author><text>From what I have seen, that is not at all an unpopular opinion. Minecraft is widely considered, even by its own player base, to be a resource-hogging, poorly-built mess.<p>It is really fun, though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Kequc</author><text>I&#x27;m certain this is an unpopular opinion I see Minecraft as an incredibly buggy mess. Not for it being unfun, because it is, a lot of fun but for years this game has been plagued with a litany of problems.<p>[Edit: Maybe it isn&#x27;t an incredibly unpopular opinion I&#x27;m just used to people who play games try to cut you when you critique.]<p>Shortly before horses were added I thought something was going to be done to help the finer OCD-minded fans in the community like me. After horses were added I realised that was not going to happen.<p>For example a bug cropped up that would lose a &#x27;tick&#x27; of redstone power once per transfer down a circuit. Only if the pulse was shorter than three &#x27;ticks&#x27; long. Making anything requiring use of a precision circuit impossible. That as far as I know was never actually fixed.<p>Microsoft own the property I&#x27;d like to see them have a go at remaking it. I&#x27;m absolutely positive there will always be holdouts over the original. But Minecraft by itself doesn&#x27;t seem like it would be all that complicated a game to remake.<p>I&#x27;d play it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In Soviet Minecraft, server op you</title><url>http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2066</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TillE</author><text>Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft are both incredible, complex games made by one mediocre programmer (not commenting on the Mojang team, just Notch himself). It&#x27;s frustrating, but it should also serve as an inspiration to any small, talented team that wants to go even further.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Kequc</author><text>I&#x27;m certain this is an unpopular opinion I see Minecraft as an incredibly buggy mess. Not for it being unfun, because it is, a lot of fun but for years this game has been plagued with a litany of problems.<p>[Edit: Maybe it isn&#x27;t an incredibly unpopular opinion I&#x27;m just used to people who play games try to cut you when you critique.]<p>Shortly before horses were added I thought something was going to be done to help the finer OCD-minded fans in the community like me. After horses were added I realised that was not going to happen.<p>For example a bug cropped up that would lose a &#x27;tick&#x27; of redstone power once per transfer down a circuit. Only if the pulse was shorter than three &#x27;ticks&#x27; long. Making anything requiring use of a precision circuit impossible. That as far as I know was never actually fixed.<p>Microsoft own the property I&#x27;d like to see them have a go at remaking it. I&#x27;m absolutely positive there will always be holdouts over the original. But Minecraft by itself doesn&#x27;t seem like it would be all that complicated a game to remake.<p>I&#x27;d play it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In Soviet Minecraft, server op you</title><url>http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2066</url></story> |
17,774,879 | 17,774,886 | 1 | 2 | 17,774,608 | 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>subway</author><text>If the way the Kernel is used in China acts as any indicator, it&#x27;ll be a hard fork that gets discarded every few years for a new hard fork.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>I&#x27;m sure the marketers made a big deal about it being &quot;fully homegrown&quot;, but the engineers were like &quot;that&#x27;s a ton of duplicated effort, lets start with an open source browser and work from there.&quot;<p>It will be interesting to see if they keep merging in changes from the head of the open source browser or if they continue to diverge over time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone</title><url>https://shanghai.ist/2018/08/16/chinas-first-fully-homegrown-web-browser-found-to-be-google-chrome-clone/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Not just a ton of work, but inevitably full of security holes that existing browsers have spent decades fixing</text><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>I&#x27;m sure the marketers made a big deal about it being &quot;fully homegrown&quot;, but the engineers were like &quot;that&#x27;s a ton of duplicated effort, lets start with an open source browser and work from there.&quot;<p>It will be interesting to see if they keep merging in changes from the head of the open source browser or if they continue to diverge over time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone</title><url>https://shanghai.ist/2018/08/16/chinas-first-fully-homegrown-web-browser-found-to-be-google-chrome-clone/</url></story> |
34,021,286 | 34,020,677 | 1 | 2 | 34,019,693 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>icedchai</author><text>They&#x27;re not very kind because someone actually told the truth. Many of us roll our eyes when asked to fill out these ridiculous forms. One previous company had everyone rate themselves on a scale of 1 to 5 for various aspects of the corporate culture. How did <i>you</i> drive innovation to achieve corporate synergies over the past 6 months?<p>Most reviews are finely crafted BS. And it generally takes much more than an hour annually. If you have to do a full blown &quot;360 peer review&quot; process (which is very common) it can take at least a day+.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SpeedilyDamage</author><text>This is not universally true, and if you&#x27;re somewhere like this, you can and probably should move if you value being valued.<p>As someone who&#x27;s in the room when we go over these, if you write &quot;stop doing performance reviews&quot; the whole room rolls their eyes, and is not very kind.<p>Maybe stop shooting yourself in the foot? Give it a shot, for like 5 years, see how it goes. It&#x27;s about an hour of your time annually, so if even at a 20% chance of success that feels like a wise investment.</text></item><item><author>eppp</author><text>As near as I can tell, I could write literally anything on a self review and it would make no difference to anyone in any way. My first item has been &#x27;stop doing performance reviews&#x27; on the &#x27;what can we do to help you&#x27; section for years.<p>This is a useless exercise, raises come or not regardless of what is said or done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing good performance self reviews</title><url>https://andrewhuth.substack.com/p/writing-good-performance-self-reviews</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brazzledazzle</author><text>It’s never only been an hour of my time anywhere I’ve worked. At minimum one day but if you are provided feedback with back and forth (and most of my managers have done that) and you meet about it at least twice a year you’re looking at 2+ days worth of your time.<p>Are sure it only takes your subordinates an hour?</text><parent_chain><item><author>SpeedilyDamage</author><text>This is not universally true, and if you&#x27;re somewhere like this, you can and probably should move if you value being valued.<p>As someone who&#x27;s in the room when we go over these, if you write &quot;stop doing performance reviews&quot; the whole room rolls their eyes, and is not very kind.<p>Maybe stop shooting yourself in the foot? Give it a shot, for like 5 years, see how it goes. It&#x27;s about an hour of your time annually, so if even at a 20% chance of success that feels like a wise investment.</text></item><item><author>eppp</author><text>As near as I can tell, I could write literally anything on a self review and it would make no difference to anyone in any way. My first item has been &#x27;stop doing performance reviews&#x27; on the &#x27;what can we do to help you&#x27; section for years.<p>This is a useless exercise, raises come or not regardless of what is said or done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing good performance self reviews</title><url>https://andrewhuth.substack.com/p/writing-good-performance-self-reviews</url></story> |
24,839,670 | 24,836,510 | 1 | 3 | 24,834,336 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>&gt; &quot;a CD ROM can contain a whole library shelf worth of data&quot; hype<p>CD-ROMs were pretty incredible for their time. Remember that when they became mainstream around 1994, hard drives were only 200 MB and floppies were 1.44 MB, so they really were game changing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Aardwolf</author><text>Hmm, to me the term &quot;multimedia PC&quot; already sounded outdated from the start, similar to the &quot;a CD ROM can contain a whole library shelf worth of data&quot; hype.<p>I just thought like, this 386 PC could make sound and graphics and games. This Pentium can do it too, granted with more colors and a CD ROM drive and a fancy &quot;where do you want to go today&quot; movie, but does that warrant all this hype of being called &quot;multimedia&quot;?<p>Oh well, that was the 90s, things moved so fast then so of course things would sound outdated and cheesy very fast.</text></item><item><author>kar1181</author><text>That whole period of the PC industry where &#x27;multimedia&#x27; became mainstream was pretty magical. I know the Amiga was well ahead of the PC ecosystem for a long time in capability but it never hit schools (at least where I grew up in South Australia) like PCs did. So with the emergence of VGA and Super VGA, widespread availability (and relative affordability) of 486 DX class PCs, Soundblasters and Optical Drives, the PC overran the other home computers.<p>Games and applications were evolving at break-neck speed and the pace of change really made you feel anything was possible. Encarta was really a product of that time.<p>If you were doing primary &#x2F; secondary school during the 90s, you&#x27;d have had to do projects where paper encyclopaedias were your primary resource. For me in a rural school it wasn&#x27;t until the mid 90s we had 486PCs with CDROM drives and going from Britannica to the searchable rich media database that was Encarta was a massive force multiplier. It was a remarkable demonstration of how positive an effect technology could have on the learning experience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)</title><url>https://www.hanselman.com/blog/i-miss-microsoft-encarta/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>I see your multimedia PC, and raise you an &quot;information superhighway&quot;. That sounded cringey from the start.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Aardwolf</author><text>Hmm, to me the term &quot;multimedia PC&quot; already sounded outdated from the start, similar to the &quot;a CD ROM can contain a whole library shelf worth of data&quot; hype.<p>I just thought like, this 386 PC could make sound and graphics and games. This Pentium can do it too, granted with more colors and a CD ROM drive and a fancy &quot;where do you want to go today&quot; movie, but does that warrant all this hype of being called &quot;multimedia&quot;?<p>Oh well, that was the 90s, things moved so fast then so of course things would sound outdated and cheesy very fast.</text></item><item><author>kar1181</author><text>That whole period of the PC industry where &#x27;multimedia&#x27; became mainstream was pretty magical. I know the Amiga was well ahead of the PC ecosystem for a long time in capability but it never hit schools (at least where I grew up in South Australia) like PCs did. So with the emergence of VGA and Super VGA, widespread availability (and relative affordability) of 486 DX class PCs, Soundblasters and Optical Drives, the PC overran the other home computers.<p>Games and applications were evolving at break-neck speed and the pace of change really made you feel anything was possible. Encarta was really a product of that time.<p>If you were doing primary &#x2F; secondary school during the 90s, you&#x27;d have had to do projects where paper encyclopaedias were your primary resource. For me in a rural school it wasn&#x27;t until the mid 90s we had 486PCs with CDROM drives and going from Britannica to the searchable rich media database that was Encarta was a massive force multiplier. It was a remarkable demonstration of how positive an effect technology could have on the learning experience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)</title><url>https://www.hanselman.com/blog/i-miss-microsoft-encarta/</url></story> |
21,802,074 | 21,798,586 | 1 | 3 | 21,796,199 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nudgeee</author><text>Back in 2006 I was contracted to design a power amplifier prototype for the civil engineering department of a university.<p>We built an adjustable 500W h-bridge based amplifier (operating between 50kHz to 300kHz+) which was used to drive transducers to create standing waves for waste water treatment, and it seemed to work alright in a bunch of our tests, but at fairly low flow rates.<p>We passed the prototype on to the client (I think it was for a joint project between Monash University and Melbourne Water), not sure where it ended up. Great to see the technique being applied in consumer applications :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sound waves used to separate microplastics from laundry wastewater</title><url>https://newatlas.com/environment/sound-waves-microplastics-laundry-wastewater/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aSplash0fDerp</author><text>If this works like non-newtonian fluids, I imagine &quot;finding the right shape&quot; or series of tones&#x2F;patterns works well in bulk.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SYMvOxIsES4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SYMvOxIsES4</a><p>I don&#x27;t have any hard numbers, but it almost seems like we could easily spend a trillion dollars fixing a problem caused by a 100 billion dollar industries by-products.<p>What would a carbon credit scheme look like if it were for microplastics?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sound waves used to separate microplastics from laundry wastewater</title><url>https://newatlas.com/environment/sound-waves-microplastics-laundry-wastewater/</url></story> |
28,481,560 | 28,481,405 | 1 | 3 | 28,478,438 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>horsawlarway</author><text>I agree that this is both invasive and a huge violation.<p>My wife had pretty severe sleep apnea in the third trimester of her pregnancy, two experiences that make me think this practice needs to be nuked from orbit.<p>1. We properly read the manual for the device and adjusted the pressure so that it didn&#x27;t cause problems with burping&#x2F;ingesting air during sleep. Tissue gets softer in women as they near birth and the body releases a whole host of different hormones - one that gets softer is the pharynx which keeps air out of the stomach as you breathe.<p>After three days - They had the gall to call and inform us that they had noted the change and reset our settings. We had been tracking sleep events on the device ourselves and they hadn&#x27;t changed (still ~1 per hour while using, the same as the original pressure setting) so there was zero reason for them to do this.<p>2. After she gave birth, her sleep apnea essentially disappeared (at it&#x27;s worst it was ~40 events an hour, 3 weeks after birth it was essentially just light snoring again). Did not matter at all - They insisted she use the machine still. Called repeatedly and harassed us.<p>---<p>It took written revocation of their rights to treat us, and then the threat of a lawsuit before the calls stopped.<p>This needs to be illegal - NOW.</text><parent_chain><item><author>caymanjim</author><text>I have a semi-related anecdote about surprises from devices.<p>I use a CPAP. After a year, I went back to the doctor for a followup, and was asked to bring the SD card so they could review the data it collects. The device records the times and duration of use, various settings, and some metrics on breathing (apnea events, etc). I knew it recorded this stuff on an SD card.<p>I brought the card to the appointment, but the doctor said &quot;I don&#x27;t need that, I have your data here.&quot; It turns out that the CPAP contains a cellular modem, and it phones home and reports in real-time. I had no idea this thing was recording any data at all. It wasn&#x27;t verbally disclosed to me by either the doctor or the equipment technicians. I imagine there&#x27;s something buried in the fine print of the (long lost) documentation, possibly even in the fine print of some form I signed, but I was caught off guard and none too pleased.<p>I&#x27;ve since done some research on this and discussed it with my new doctor when it came time to get a new CPAP. The doctor acted surprised by me having a problem with it. She immediately jumped to the defense of the manufacturer and insurance company, claiming that they &quot;needed&quot; that data. She said that if I disabled it, insurance would refuse coverage.<p>This is insanely invasive, even with disclosure, and ought to be illegal without explicit, obvious verbal and written disclosure. The insurance defense is complete bullshit. For one, I paid cash for the CPAP because I had a high-deductible insurance plan and would have had to pay out-of-pocket anyway (and never claimed it even for the deductible offset).<p>I realize a CPAP isn&#x27;t a fridge, and there&#x27;s at least a case to be made for insurance enforcing compliance (at least when insurance claims are involved). I don&#x27;t agree with the undisclosed enforcement mechanism, nor do I agree that treatment should be contingent on monitoring (it is for some other treatments, but not for most; no one is monitoring diet, exercise, drug use, cigarette consumption, or other risky behaviors, and threatening to withhold treatment for non-compliance).<p>Anyway, I&#x27;ve ranted enough, but there&#x27;s a serious problem with the normalization of surveillance technology.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times</title><url>https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1436027395115393024</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ggsp</author><text>&gt; no one is monitoring diet, exercise, drug use, cigarette consumption, or other risky behaviors, and threatening to withhold treatment for non-compliance<p>... yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>caymanjim</author><text>I have a semi-related anecdote about surprises from devices.<p>I use a CPAP. After a year, I went back to the doctor for a followup, and was asked to bring the SD card so they could review the data it collects. The device records the times and duration of use, various settings, and some metrics on breathing (apnea events, etc). I knew it recorded this stuff on an SD card.<p>I brought the card to the appointment, but the doctor said &quot;I don&#x27;t need that, I have your data here.&quot; It turns out that the CPAP contains a cellular modem, and it phones home and reports in real-time. I had no idea this thing was recording any data at all. It wasn&#x27;t verbally disclosed to me by either the doctor or the equipment technicians. I imagine there&#x27;s something buried in the fine print of the (long lost) documentation, possibly even in the fine print of some form I signed, but I was caught off guard and none too pleased.<p>I&#x27;ve since done some research on this and discussed it with my new doctor when it came time to get a new CPAP. The doctor acted surprised by me having a problem with it. She immediately jumped to the defense of the manufacturer and insurance company, claiming that they &quot;needed&quot; that data. She said that if I disabled it, insurance would refuse coverage.<p>This is insanely invasive, even with disclosure, and ought to be illegal without explicit, obvious verbal and written disclosure. The insurance defense is complete bullshit. For one, I paid cash for the CPAP because I had a high-deductible insurance plan and would have had to pay out-of-pocket anyway (and never claimed it even for the deductible offset).<p>I realize a CPAP isn&#x27;t a fridge, and there&#x27;s at least a case to be made for insurance enforcing compliance (at least when insurance claims are involved). I don&#x27;t agree with the undisclosed enforcement mechanism, nor do I agree that treatment should be contingent on monitoring (it is for some other treatments, but not for most; no one is monitoring diet, exercise, drug use, cigarette consumption, or other risky behaviors, and threatening to withhold treatment for non-compliance).<p>Anyway, I&#x27;ve ranted enough, but there&#x27;s a serious problem with the normalization of surveillance technology.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times</title><url>https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1436027395115393024</url></story> |
3,900,917 | 3,900,960 | 1 | 2 | 3,899,627 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider</a><p>The United States planned one with a collision energy almost three times that of CERN.<p><i>...By 1993, the cost projection exceeded $12 billion. Congress officially canceled the project October 21, 1993 after $2 billion had been spent.</i><p><i>The SSC cost was due largely to the massive civil engineering project of digging a huge tunnel underground. The LHC in contrast took over the pre-existing engineering infrastructure and 27 km long underground cavern of the Large Electron-Positron Collider, and used innovative magnet designs to bend the higher energy particles into the available tunnel.</i><p><i>The LHC eventually cost the equivalent of about 5 billion US dollars to build.</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>muhfuhkuh</author><text>I know that the world is essentially flat and that we shouldn't be so jingoistic anymore, but does it trouble anyone besides me that CERN is under the Swiss Alps near Geneva instead of under the scorching sun in the New Mexico desert? Shouldn't the "greatest Superpower in World History" be the one crashing atoms together like NASCAR autos and seeing all the mess that comes out of it? Now that I think about it, maybe if we market it that way...<p>I fear that the only advocate we have left for a strong scientific America is Neil deGrasse Tyson.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Particle Discovered at CERN</title><url>http://www.mediadesk.uzh.ch/articles/2012/uzh-forschende-entdecken-neues-teilchen-am-cern_en.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajdecon</author><text>As a (ex-)physicist, I don't particularly care where the experiments are taking place: cool science is being done, and the people at CERN are a pretty international bunch. They're also scattered around the world: I know a few people at the University of Michigan involved in the project, albeit mostly on the data analysis side of things.<p>As an American... well, we've demonstrated that we don't plan to do any big particle physics locally anytime soon.<p><a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-30/news/ct-met-fermilab-tevatron-closing-20110930_1_fermilab-director-pier-oddone-tevatron-particle-physics" rel="nofollow">http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-30/news/ct-met-fe...</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider</a><p><i>sigh</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>muhfuhkuh</author><text>I know that the world is essentially flat and that we shouldn't be so jingoistic anymore, but does it trouble anyone besides me that CERN is under the Swiss Alps near Geneva instead of under the scorching sun in the New Mexico desert? Shouldn't the "greatest Superpower in World History" be the one crashing atoms together like NASCAR autos and seeing all the mess that comes out of it? Now that I think about it, maybe if we market it that way...<p>I fear that the only advocate we have left for a strong scientific America is Neil deGrasse Tyson.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Particle Discovered at CERN</title><url>http://www.mediadesk.uzh.ch/articles/2012/uzh-forschende-entdecken-neues-teilchen-am-cern_en.html</url><text></text></story> |
20,241,945 | 20,240,955 | 1 | 2 | 20,239,521 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>benmorris</author><text>I removed all registration and login components during checkout. Most people have an auto complete setup on their browser now and most of my sales are first time customers. Granted I have a small subset of return customers that ask for it, but I know from years past introducing registration opens up a whole set of barriers to the checkout process. Order confirmation pages are essentially a page they can return to at any point in the future without logging in.<p>I also removed the coupon code box completely from checkout. I used to get bombarded with requests for discount codes and people not getting their codes to work. In reality the way I used codes were in email promotions. I switched to instant redeeming clickable codes in emails and removed it all the boxes on the site. I also know it was a significant factor in checkout flow because I could google &quot;mybrand.com &quot; into google and google instantly starting adding in &quot;mybrand.com coupon codes&quot; &quot;mybrand.com promo codes&quot;. People see the coupon code box and immediately head to Google to search for codes.<p>PayPal Express checkout is still a huge choice for customers. They can choose express checkout or standard checkout flow. Many people use it (30-40%). It removes the need to enter their address as well.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Which has more sales: a single long checkout form or a multi-step one?</title><url>https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/2055/which-has-a-higher-conversion-rate-a-single-long-e.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>mikekchar</author><text>Interesting for me is the amount of abandonment on for the &quot;unexpected shipping costs&quot; issue. I actually have this issue right now. I&#x27;m trying to buy cheesemaking cultures and because I&#x27;m half way around the world form most of the places that sell this stuff shipping can be more expensive than the thing I&#x27;m buying. It really bugs me that shipping calculation is usually <i>last</i> in the multi-page cart layouts. I definitely abandon because I&#x27;m not willing to enter all of that detail before I know how much I&#x27;m going to be spending.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Which has more sales: a single long checkout form or a multi-step one?</title><url>https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/2055/which-has-a-higher-conversion-rate-a-single-long-e.html</url></story> |
5,815,463 | 5,815,428 | 1 | 3 | 5,814,755 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kvb</author><text>Note that the blog author is part of the Team Foundation Server organization, so it's natural that he's talking about those features and not the programming language and runtime features.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jblow</author><text>Yet another Visual Studio, yet another truckload of "features" that do nothing to help day-to-day, heavy-lifting programmers. (And which probably help by adding bugs or just bloating the system). Sigh.<p>I am hoping they have made substantial improvements that are not mentioned in this blog post.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visual Studio 2013</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/06/03/visual-studio-2013.aspx</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Permit</author><text>Out of curiosity, what kind of improvements would you like to see in Visual Studio?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jblow</author><text>Yet another Visual Studio, yet another truckload of "features" that do nothing to help day-to-day, heavy-lifting programmers. (And which probably help by adding bugs or just bloating the system). Sigh.<p>I am hoping they have made substantial improvements that are not mentioned in this blog post.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visual Studio 2013</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/06/03/visual-studio-2013.aspx</url></story> |
15,386,199 | 15,386,011 | 1 | 2 | 15,385,585 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text>Best to judge someone by their actions. The actions of the corporate person Apple are far less developer friendly of late than Apple ca. 2010. It&#x27;s like Apple is turning into the Microsoft of the early 2000&#x27;s. (Stylus tablet computers? Check! Foisting their own development environments on everyone? Check!)</text><parent_chain><item><author>r00fus</author><text>I still have a copy of the old AirPort utility as well so I can make adjustments that the new utility can&#x27;t.<p>I thought they were going to slowly improve the new one to have feature key coverage, but so far nada.</text></item><item><author>stefco_</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why we had to lose the old disk utility GUI. The new one is so underpowered and buggy that you need to use shell commands to get anything done. Things like this erode the benefits of MacOS as a lovely GUI environment over a strong UNIX backbone and make me tempted to just switch to some Linux distro.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted disks</title><url>https://tinyapps.org/blog/mac/201710010700_high_sierra_disk_utility.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>rconti</author><text>The original airport express cannot be managed by newer airport utility, and you cannot run the older airport utility on newer versions of macos. <i>facepalm</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>r00fus</author><text>I still have a copy of the old AirPort utility as well so I can make adjustments that the new utility can&#x27;t.<p>I thought they were going to slowly improve the new one to have feature key coverage, but so far nada.</text></item><item><author>stefco_</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why we had to lose the old disk utility GUI. The new one is so underpowered and buggy that you need to use shell commands to get anything done. Things like this erode the benefits of MacOS as a lovely GUI environment over a strong UNIX backbone and make me tempted to just switch to some Linux distro.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted disks</title><url>https://tinyapps.org/blog/mac/201710010700_high_sierra_disk_utility.html</url></story> |
25,804,786 | 25,805,016 | 1 | 2 | 25,803,568 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tchalla</author><text>In the end, HOW you deliver feedback matters. Personally, I have three important characteristics for a feedback.<p>Point 1 : &quot;Be Specific&quot;. I can not stress this enough. Please point out specific observable behaviour.<p>Point 2 : Frame feedback in terms of team&#x2F;organisational goals. Every team has a purpose within the organisation. It&#x27;s a team game and every team member should know the feedback in context of the team game. Individual feedback, team context.<p>Point 3 : Cite the past but look for future changes in behaviour. You can not change the past but you can influence the future.<p>For example, &quot;Hey John! When you do X, it helps the team achieve Y. Please continue doing so!&quot; or &quot;Hey John! When you do Z, it lets the team down. What can you do differently?&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>A lot of insight in the parent comment here. Most importantly this: <i>&quot;...there seems to be two camps of people: those who want constant positive reinforcement and those who it completely has the opposite effect ...&quot;</i><p>If you are leading and or managing a team, one of the most important things you need to know are how do people want their feedback. My experience is that it varies from person to person (I suspect that there are many more than two camps :-)) and as such it is unlikely that you can meet that need in group feedback.<p>Because of that, my choice these days is to split feedback into two fora, the group status meeting and 1:1s. In the group, feedback is modulated by progress against plan. So &quot;we need to work harder&quot; for behind plan, &quot;neutral&quot; for on plan, and &quot;this team is killing it&quot; for ahead of plan. In 1:1s the feedback is based on the expectations that have been set for that team member, do they know what is expected of them? Do they know how it is being measured? And where are they with respect to measurement vs expectation.<p>1:1 feedback often times (for me) takes on more of a mentor&#x2F;mentee tone rather than a how are we doing on the schedule tone. Doing that well also requires a certain amount of trust which, as a manager, you have to earn by being honest with your team members.</text></item><item><author>halfmatthalfcat</author><text>I&#x27;ve felt a lot of &quot;false&quot; positivity espoused by project managers, especially those in charge of agile ceremonies.<p>Examples: &quot;I&#x27;m really {proud,impressed} of all of you for your output this sprint&quot;, &quot;You guys are {killing,crushing,owning} it&quot;, &quot;You all should be very proud of what you guys did&quot;, etc.<p>These aren&#x27;t given after periods of crunch time, they&#x27;re literally every week to the point where it feels so contrived and artificial. They&#x27;re given when we&#x27;re just doing normal, expected work.<p>I&#x27;ve mentioned this to colleagues and friends and there seems to be two camps of people: those who want constant positive reenforcement and those who it completely has the opposite effect, an annoyance. I guess I fall into the latter.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toxic positivity does more harm than good</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-14/what-is-fono-toxic-positivity-is-doing-more-harm-than-good</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CuriousSkeptic</author><text>&gt; So &quot;we need to work harder&quot; for behind plan<p>That will just get me angry. If you screw up your commitments that’s on you. Own up to it and talk to your stakeholders. Don’t make me work harder for your mistakes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>A lot of insight in the parent comment here. Most importantly this: <i>&quot;...there seems to be two camps of people: those who want constant positive reinforcement and those who it completely has the opposite effect ...&quot;</i><p>If you are leading and or managing a team, one of the most important things you need to know are how do people want their feedback. My experience is that it varies from person to person (I suspect that there are many more than two camps :-)) and as such it is unlikely that you can meet that need in group feedback.<p>Because of that, my choice these days is to split feedback into two fora, the group status meeting and 1:1s. In the group, feedback is modulated by progress against plan. So &quot;we need to work harder&quot; for behind plan, &quot;neutral&quot; for on plan, and &quot;this team is killing it&quot; for ahead of plan. In 1:1s the feedback is based on the expectations that have been set for that team member, do they know what is expected of them? Do they know how it is being measured? And where are they with respect to measurement vs expectation.<p>1:1 feedback often times (for me) takes on more of a mentor&#x2F;mentee tone rather than a how are we doing on the schedule tone. Doing that well also requires a certain amount of trust which, as a manager, you have to earn by being honest with your team members.</text></item><item><author>halfmatthalfcat</author><text>I&#x27;ve felt a lot of &quot;false&quot; positivity espoused by project managers, especially those in charge of agile ceremonies.<p>Examples: &quot;I&#x27;m really {proud,impressed} of all of you for your output this sprint&quot;, &quot;You guys are {killing,crushing,owning} it&quot;, &quot;You all should be very proud of what you guys did&quot;, etc.<p>These aren&#x27;t given after periods of crunch time, they&#x27;re literally every week to the point where it feels so contrived and artificial. They&#x27;re given when we&#x27;re just doing normal, expected work.<p>I&#x27;ve mentioned this to colleagues and friends and there seems to be two camps of people: those who want constant positive reenforcement and those who it completely has the opposite effect, an annoyance. I guess I fall into the latter.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toxic positivity does more harm than good</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-14/what-is-fono-toxic-positivity-is-doing-more-harm-than-good</url></story> |
5,896,422 | 5,896,449 | 1 | 2 | 5,895,672 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amirhirsch</author><text>here&#x27;s a few good reasons why it&#x27;s hard to make easy-to-use vendor-neutral FPGA tools:<p>- all the devices&#x2F;bitstream formats are proprietary with little or no documentation of the logic blocks or programmable interconnect structures. it is probably technically easier to build a new FPGA from scratch and design tools for that, than to reverse engineer existing chips [1]<p>- there is very little cross-compatibility between vendor products (a 4-lut here, a 6-lut there, some carry-chain logic here, a DSP block there)<p>- all the optimizations (synthesis, place-and-route) are NP-hard problems<p>- sequential imperative (C-like) thinking is not the correct way to make parallel systems<p>- the FPGA vendors compete on tools and offer their software for free to push hardware. hard for an independent vendor to compete.<p>[1] some reverse engineering efforts exist. see &quot;From the bitstream to the netlist&quot; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.117.6043&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.117...</a> &#x2F; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;debit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;debit&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>_yosefk</author><text>It&#x27;s genuinely complicated; if Xilinx could disrupt Altera by making easier-to-use tools, it would. (In fact it tries with AutoESL.)<p>I hope to explain why FPGA tooling is intrinsically hard in my next write-up.</text></item><item><author>alok-g</author><text>I seriously want someone to disrupt FPGA tooling.<p>In my understanding the tooling for FPGAs has been made purposefully complicated to achieve a lock-in. The issue is that adoption of new tooling practically requires compatibility with the existing tools from the two key market holders, and I do not think even they themselves could do that anymore.</text></item><item><author>schabernakk</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m continually surprised by how few software engineers in industry spend the time to pick up HDL and FPGA programming in general.<p>unsufficient tooling? I did some programming with FPGAs once and it seemed the best option I had for programming was proprietary software by altera (quartus). I never got debugging to work or perhaps I did and I didnt understand the stuff it was showing me (I am no hardware guy)<p>My impression was that an eclipse-like ide, perhaps with a built in HW simulator would make things A LOT easier, especially for beginners like me. Of course this could be completely unrealistic and impractical for hardware design in which case I will show myself out.</text></item><item><author>bhb916</author><text>This is a solid article. I&#x27;m continually surprised by how few software engineers in industry spend the time to pick up HDL and FPGA programming in general. In my mind, it is an easy way to expand your breadth of knowledge and make you a touch more valuable to future employers. They say that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail and I&#x27;m certainly inflicted with that same disease as I see the utility of FPGAs everywhere I look. Prices have plummeted while densities have skyrocketed. A simple $25 part gets you quite a bit of fabric and some $90 eval hardware will give you a sweet little platform. [1]<p>With that said, since I began working with them there have been two &quot;Holy Grails&quot; of FPGA design: (1) Partial Reconfiguration and (2) High Level Synthesis.<p>The first, Partial Reconfiguration, has been more-or-less solved although the tools have a long way to go. One current design I&#x27;m working on loads it&#x27;s PCIe endpoint and DDR3 controller first, establishes communication with the application running on the host PC, then based on user input loads the rest of the FPGA.<p>The second, High Level Synthesis, isn&#x27;t here yet. The goal is to turn a company&#x27;s vast army of software engineers into FPGA programmers overnight. A worthy cause. Every foray into this field has failed (although the jury is still out on Xilinx&#x27;s purchase of autoESL) Honestly, I&#x27;m not sure it will ever get there. The point of optimized, custom hardware is to make use of it. Abstracting it all away seems counterproductive, not to mention very hard.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xilinx.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;boards-and-kits&#x2F;AES-S6MB-LX9.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xilinx.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;boards-and-kits&#x2F;AES-S6MB-LX9....</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one</title><url>http://www.yosefk.com/blog/how-fpgas-work-and-why-youll-buy-one.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>bhb916</author><text>It being &quot;hard&quot; shouldn&#x27;t give them a pass on quality control. From the early Project Navigator to ISE to Vivado, Xilinx tools are buggy, poorly documented, and completely unintuitive. Yet, they&#x27;re still better than Altera&#x27;s.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_yosefk</author><text>It&#x27;s genuinely complicated; if Xilinx could disrupt Altera by making easier-to-use tools, it would. (In fact it tries with AutoESL.)<p>I hope to explain why FPGA tooling is intrinsically hard in my next write-up.</text></item><item><author>alok-g</author><text>I seriously want someone to disrupt FPGA tooling.<p>In my understanding the tooling for FPGAs has been made purposefully complicated to achieve a lock-in. The issue is that adoption of new tooling practically requires compatibility with the existing tools from the two key market holders, and I do not think even they themselves could do that anymore.</text></item><item><author>schabernakk</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m continually surprised by how few software engineers in industry spend the time to pick up HDL and FPGA programming in general.<p>unsufficient tooling? I did some programming with FPGAs once and it seemed the best option I had for programming was proprietary software by altera (quartus). I never got debugging to work or perhaps I did and I didnt understand the stuff it was showing me (I am no hardware guy)<p>My impression was that an eclipse-like ide, perhaps with a built in HW simulator would make things A LOT easier, especially for beginners like me. Of course this could be completely unrealistic and impractical for hardware design in which case I will show myself out.</text></item><item><author>bhb916</author><text>This is a solid article. I&#x27;m continually surprised by how few software engineers in industry spend the time to pick up HDL and FPGA programming in general. In my mind, it is an easy way to expand your breadth of knowledge and make you a touch more valuable to future employers. They say that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail and I&#x27;m certainly inflicted with that same disease as I see the utility of FPGAs everywhere I look. Prices have plummeted while densities have skyrocketed. A simple $25 part gets you quite a bit of fabric and some $90 eval hardware will give you a sweet little platform. [1]<p>With that said, since I began working with them there have been two &quot;Holy Grails&quot; of FPGA design: (1) Partial Reconfiguration and (2) High Level Synthesis.<p>The first, Partial Reconfiguration, has been more-or-less solved although the tools have a long way to go. One current design I&#x27;m working on loads it&#x27;s PCIe endpoint and DDR3 controller first, establishes communication with the application running on the host PC, then based on user input loads the rest of the FPGA.<p>The second, High Level Synthesis, isn&#x27;t here yet. The goal is to turn a company&#x27;s vast army of software engineers into FPGA programmers overnight. A worthy cause. Every foray into this field has failed (although the jury is still out on Xilinx&#x27;s purchase of autoESL) Honestly, I&#x27;m not sure it will ever get there. The point of optimized, custom hardware is to make use of it. Abstracting it all away seems counterproductive, not to mention very hard.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xilinx.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;boards-and-kits&#x2F;AES-S6MB-LX9.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xilinx.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;boards-and-kits&#x2F;AES-S6MB-LX9....</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one</title><url>http://www.yosefk.com/blog/how-fpgas-work-and-why-youll-buy-one.html</url></story> |
27,876,275 | 27,875,771 | 1 | 3 | 27,875,356 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimmar</author><text>I have an old OnePlus phone that still works fine, but it won&#x27;t work with AT&amp;T&#x27;s network changes. I called and AT&amp;T said I could get an iPhone SE for free, but when the contracts came for me to confirm, there was no mention of getting a free phone, and instead I was committing to paying $400 over three years. The AT&amp;T reps assured me I&#x27;d get be credited at some point in the future and that the phone would end up being free, but I just don&#x27;t trust them. It&#x27;s crazy to me that something that happens as frequently as upgrading a phone requires so much manual intervention from human support representatives and it still doesn&#x27;t work.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“We're Shutting Down Our 3G Network”</title><url>https://benergize.com/2021/07/16/were-shutting-down-our-3g-network/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>miked85</author><text>BMW recently sent out an email of impending loss of 3G connectivity.<p>&gt; <i>The decision to phase out 3G network technology was made at the discretion of the respective cellular carriers and lies beyond the control of BMW. As a result of the sunset of 3G service by wireless carrier partners, by February 2022 your vehicle will no longer be able to receive any ConnectedDrive&#x2F;BMW Assist services, such as BMW Assist eCall, Advanced Real‑Time Traffic Information, Remote Services and BMW Online, depending on your BMW model.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“We're Shutting Down Our 3G Network”</title><url>https://benergize.com/2021/07/16/were-shutting-down-our-3g-network/</url></story> |
16,304,349 | 16,303,623 | 1 | 2 | 16,300,498 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lcc</author><text>As another washed-up former athlete (one of my old teammates will be playing in PyeongChang any day now), what resonated most with me was how the author grappled with her self-identity after quitting. It is easy to define yourself when you have a concrete goal and can pour all your time, energy, heart and soul into it. And it is devastating when you lose it.<p>It&#x27;s even harder to redefine yourself when you used to be <i>good</i> at whatever it was you lost, because you know just how much time and effort it took to get there. It can seem impossible to achieve the same level of mastery of anything else.<p>It&#x27;s been almost 5 years since I quit and, while I&#x27;ve picked up new hobbies that I enjoy, I still haven&#x27;t found anything that inspires the passion I used to have for my sport.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In a society obsessed with success, how do we come to terms with failure?</title><url>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/michelle-kaeser-failure-is-golden-too/article37828663/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Intrepidy</author><text>Achilles willingly left Greece, knowing he would die in Troy, so that he could be known as the greatest warrior in history. Alexander the Great supposedly broke down and cried when he felt he had nobody left to overcome. Julius Caesar in turn, after subduing all of Gaul, wept at the feet of Alexander&#x27;s statue some 200 years later, lamenting that at the age of 38, he had accomplished nothing compared to Alexander. And there are plenty of such examples in non-Western societies where the losers didn&#x27;t just get a silver medal; but were killed. This story is as old as humanity itself and just as ubiquitous. I think the fashionable, progressive approach to blaming society is wrong in this case. Seeking greatness over peaceful mediocrity may simply be a character &#x27;flaw&#x27; in mankind. As such, failure has become one of our signature moves.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In a society obsessed with success, how do we come to terms with failure?</title><url>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/michelle-kaeser-failure-is-golden-too/article37828663/</url></story> |
19,639,427 | 19,637,708 | 1 | 3 | 19,636,847 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ddoran</author><text>I happen to be staying at a b&amp;b at a organic French vineyard right now. We stayed here because the owner has written three books about the experience [1] and it was in an area we wanted to visit (between Bordeaux and Bergerac) rather than because it was organic. As we have walked around this area, I&#x27;ve been horrified by the contrast between organic vineyards and those which are not. The non-organic vineyards have scorched dead brown grass a foot either side of every row of vines, from insecticide which is applied every 6 weeks. The organic vines are surrounded by green grass and wildflowers. 94% of Bordeaux wine is not organic. There is a lot of scorched dead grass.<p>Before this &quot;organic&quot; to me meant: expensive, nice idea, faddish and definitely not something I sought out.<p>This trip has been life-changing. I&#x27;ve become an organic convert overnight. I do not want to eat fruit or plant byproducts from roots which are constantly exposed to weedkiller or insecticide so strong that it kills all around it (except the root itself).<p>[1]- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s?k=caro+feely&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss_2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s?k=caro+feely&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss_2</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>French court finds Monsanto guilty of poisoning farmer</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/11/french-court-finds-monsanto-guilty-of-poisoning-farmer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>exodus_de</author><text>This is one of those examples on why healthcare&#x2F;insurance in the US is so much more expensive.<p>When a <i>French</i> court awards you damages, it&#x27;s peanuts: One million euros plus 50,000€ in legal fees. In the US, one million probably wouldn&#x27;t even cover the legal fees.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>French court finds Monsanto guilty of poisoning farmer</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/11/french-court-finds-monsanto-guilty-of-poisoning-farmer</url></story> |
30,811,356 | 30,811,235 | 1 | 3 | 30,809,293 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>strainer</author><text>Everything is totally fine until it bites hard enough to beat the marketing and legal campaigns run to promote and protect it. &quot;Totally fine&quot; is simply the orthodox professional position towards new potentially lucrative practices. Because it is a burden on the career opportunities to those who think otherwise.<p>Putting cattle remains in cattle feed was fine until CJD was discovered, mass producing CFCs was fine until the chemisty of the ozone damage was understood. More chemists assured leaded petrol was fine and the few who complained were attacked... this list is huge. Its totally fine to mass produce plastics still. So to assure the generally well informed about the safety and wisdom of a technological proposition - you would need to be able to carry more detail than just adding &#x27;I am a related professional - this is fine&#x27;</text><parent_chain><item><author>epgui</author><text>I’m a biochemist, and I’d feed GMOs to my kids all day if I had any. Or to my mom. They’re totally fine.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>From the 12+ Years on HN I know this is an unpopular opinion.<p>I dont like GMO &#x2F; Genome-edited cattle &#x2F; food or crops. Even if it could theoretically occur through a natural breeding process. You can cross breed all you want. GMO is not cross breed as many on HN somehow believes last time we had this discussions. You can do Data Science and other controlled environment in providing better yield as in EUR ( Or specifically the Dutch ). And we may soon have Cattle labeled as GMO &#x2F; Genome-Edit Free as selling point, as US likes to do with Antibiotic Free and Growth Hormones free labels. Part of the reason why EU has never been keen on US Beef import.<p>To add some other context, US Beef export rank third in export volume and first or second in export revenue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FDA Approves First CRISPR Cows for Beef</title><url>https://modernfarmer.com/2022/03/fda-crispr-cows-for-beef/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codingdave</author><text>The problem with GMOs isn&#x27;t the GMO itself - it is the practices that surround them. Patents, pesticides, and the resulting monoculture in large agricultural operations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>epgui</author><text>I’m a biochemist, and I’d feed GMOs to my kids all day if I had any. Or to my mom. They’re totally fine.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>From the 12+ Years on HN I know this is an unpopular opinion.<p>I dont like GMO &#x2F; Genome-edited cattle &#x2F; food or crops. Even if it could theoretically occur through a natural breeding process. You can cross breed all you want. GMO is not cross breed as many on HN somehow believes last time we had this discussions. You can do Data Science and other controlled environment in providing better yield as in EUR ( Or specifically the Dutch ). And we may soon have Cattle labeled as GMO &#x2F; Genome-Edit Free as selling point, as US likes to do with Antibiotic Free and Growth Hormones free labels. Part of the reason why EU has never been keen on US Beef import.<p>To add some other context, US Beef export rank third in export volume and first or second in export revenue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FDA Approves First CRISPR Cows for Beef</title><url>https://modernfarmer.com/2022/03/fda-crispr-cows-for-beef/</url></story> |
25,840,669 | 25,839,978 | 1 | 3 | 25,836,886 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rmm</author><text>For me, somewhat embarrassingly, the one killer feature is the &quot;Send to Device&quot; feature from firefox on iOS. Being able to send links to browser for later reviewing is super useful. Not sure why Edge or other browsers don&#x27;t implement</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikece</author><text>Does Brave have an implementation of Multi-Account Containers? This is the ONE killer feature in Firefox that makes it impossible for me to leave for Brave completely:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;multi-account-containers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;multi-account...</a></text></item><item><author>agilob</author><text>Mozilla promised us Tor integration, IPFS integration and more private browsing by default. Brave delivered it all.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IPFS Support in Brave</title><url>https://brave.com/ipfs-support/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>max_</author><text>The first time I actually leant how to use this I was like wow.<p>It was the only reason why I left chrome for firefox</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikece</author><text>Does Brave have an implementation of Multi-Account Containers? This is the ONE killer feature in Firefox that makes it impossible for me to leave for Brave completely:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;multi-account-containers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;multi-account...</a></text></item><item><author>agilob</author><text>Mozilla promised us Tor integration, IPFS integration and more private browsing by default. Brave delivered it all.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IPFS Support in Brave</title><url>https://brave.com/ipfs-support/</url></story> |
24,049,853 | 24,049,686 | 1 | 3 | 24,049,152 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CubsFan1060</author><text>Perhaps we should wait to get the whole story to discuss. Didn&#x27;t we just go through this with the &quot;Apple doesn&#x27;t return 30% on refund&quot; fiasco last week?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple revoked longtime Mac developer's code signing certificate with no warning</title><url>https://twitter.com/charlieMonroe/status/1290509083288764428</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lqet</author><text>I suspect this is why:<p>&gt; Ever wished you could save a video from the Internet? Search no more, Downie is what you&#x27;re looking for. Easily download videos from thousands of different sites.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple revoked longtime Mac developer's code signing certificate with no warning</title><url>https://twitter.com/charlieMonroe/status/1290509083288764428</url></story> |
30,043,048 | 30,042,752 | 1 | 2 | 30,041,573 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ricardobeat</author><text>Which part of the example go code looks synchronous? It’s using a callback function. That’s a hallmark of async code, nothing invisible.<p>I also can’t quite grasp the comparison with Java. It’s passing a class instance to the server handler, and that could be doing <i>anything</i>. Nothing there tells you how async or not the server implementation is, and that `os.write()` call might be using a thread pool underneath.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Golang’s most important feature is invisible</title><url>https://blog.devgenius.io/golangs-most-important-feature-is-invisible-6be9c1e7249b?gi=21e47786496b</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>travisd</author><text>My impression of the article is just that the author is a fan of green threads (goroutines). Green threads don’t really make sense without an integration into some kind of IO runtime, so calling out how Go <i>does</i> do this seems moot. Other languages with green threads also with this way (Julia comes to mind).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Golang’s most important feature is invisible</title><url>https://blog.devgenius.io/golangs-most-important-feature-is-invisible-6be9c1e7249b?gi=21e47786496b</url></story> |
4,447,554 | 4,445,802 | 1 | 3 | 4,444,793 | 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>saurik</author><text>Watching this talk has so far (I'm halfway through, and now giving up) been very disappointing, primarily because many of the features and implementation details ascribed to "traditional databases" are not true of the common modern SQL databases, and almost none of them are true of PostgreSQL. As an initial trivial example, many database systems allow you to store arrays. In the case of PostgreSQL, you can have quite complex data types, from dictionaries and trees to JSON, or even whatever else you want to come up with, as it is a runtime extensible system.<p>However, it really gets much deeper than these kinds of surface details. As a much more bothersome example that is quite fundamental to the point he seems to be taking with this talk, at about 15:30 he seriously says "in general, that is an update-in-place model", and then has multiple slides about the problems of this data storage model. Yet, <i>modern databases don't do this.</i> Even <i>MySQL</i> doesn't do this (anymore). Instead, modern databases use MVCC, which involves storing all historical versions of the data for at least some time; in PostgreSQL, this could be a very long time (when a manual VACUUM occurs; if you want to store things forever, this can be arranged ;P).<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_control" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_contro...</a><p>This MVCC model thereby directly solves one of the key problems he spends quite a bit of time at the beginning of his talk attempting to motivate: that multiple round-trips to the server are unable to get cohesive state; in actuality, you can easily get consistent state from these multiple queries, as within a single transaction (which, for the record, is very cheap under MVCC if you are just reading things) almost all modern databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL...) will give you an immutable snapshot of what the database looked like when you started your transaction. The situation is actually only getting better and more efficient (I recommend looking at PostgreSQL 9.2's serializable snapshot isolation).<p>At ~20:00, he then describes the storage model he is proposing, and keys in on how important storing time is in a database; the point is also made that storing a timestamp isn't enough: that the goal should be to store a transaction identifier... but again, this is how PostgreSQL already stores its data: every version (as again: it doesn't delete data the way Rich believes it does) stores the transaction range that it is valid for. The only difference between existing SQL solutions and Rich's ideal is that it happens per row instead of per individual field (which could easily be modeled, and is simply less efficient).<p>Now, the point he makes at ~24:00 actually has some merit: that you can't easily look up this information using the presented interfaces of databases. However, if I wanted to hack that feature into PostgreSQL, it would be quite simple, as the fundamental data model is already what he wants: so much so that the indexes are still indexing the dead data, so I could not only provide a hacked up feature to query the past but I could actually do so efficiently. Talking about transactions is even already simple: you can get the identifier of a transaction using txid_current() (and look up other running transactions if you must using info tables; the aforementioned per-row transaction visibility range is even already accessible as magic xmin and xmax columns on every table).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cym4TZwTCNU</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>Fascinating stuff. Some things that came up for me while watching this and the other videos on their site[1]:<p>It's not Open Source, for anyone who cares about that. It's interesting how strange it feels to me for infrastructure code to be anything other then Open Source.<p>I'm sort of shocked that the query language is still passing strings, when Hickey made a big deal of how the old database do it that way. I guess for me a query is a data structure that we build programmatically, so why force the developer to collapse it into a string? Maybe because they want to support languages that aren't expressive enough to do that concisely?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.datomic.com/videos.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.datomic.com/videos.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cym4TZwTCNU</url></story> |
15,765,420 | 15,765,551 | 1 | 2 | 15,765,016 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ntrails</author><text>That&#x27;s not entirely true. The strike was over the fact that if not enough drivers _volunteered_ to do the night shifts, TFL could assign non volunteers. They would still be compensated for the work hours being particularly antisocial.<p>It is also true that Tube drivers are well paid and yes that does impact the levels of sympathy available to them. The change was absolutely funded - just not as well as the union would like.<p>In essence, however, tube drivers having veto rights over being scheduled to work nights presents an opportunity to cause shortages and disruption without any ramifications or declaration of strike etc. It was a giant liability for TFL to accept.</text><parent_chain><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>Strikers in US media are often belittled. Think back to the Occupy Movement.<p>The banks were bailed out, none of those people who caused so much misery were ever put in jail, and the media belittled Occupy as being directionless and pointless. The protest was huge, stretching across cities and countries, but there was never any accountability for the banksters. It shows again as the Equifax execs were cleared of insider trading, when they were obviously insider trading.<p>When I was in London a few years ago, there was a massive tube strike. The train drivers were belittled in the media with reports claiming they made over 55k GBP a year, more than many nurses. They neglected to mention the new night train program would have meant long 7 to 14 week night shifts for every tube driver. The city was voted in on night trains, but had no money to fund them. So the blame gets passed all the way down to the tube drivers.</text></item><item><author>oblio</author><text>Now that&#x27;s something I haven&#x27;t heard about in the US for a few decades: strikes.<p>I&#x27;m partly kidding, but have there been any major strikes in the US lately?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Workers at Amazon's main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-italy-strike/workers-at-amazons-main-italian-site-to-hold-first-strike-on-black-friday-idUSKBN1DN1DS</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PakG1</author><text>I think the Occupy Movement is a poor comparison because that was a protest, not a strike. And I don&#x27;t recall protesters in the Occupy Movement being belittled.<p>I agree that labourers may often get unfairly blamed when things go wrong. Corporate overlords can be also very harsh and unfair.<p>But it is difficult to differentiate between unions that have valid claims and unions that are just riding the gravy train with an iron grip and not adding value. These are very muddy waters, and truth is often hard to find.</text><parent_chain><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>Strikers in US media are often belittled. Think back to the Occupy Movement.<p>The banks were bailed out, none of those people who caused so much misery were ever put in jail, and the media belittled Occupy as being directionless and pointless. The protest was huge, stretching across cities and countries, but there was never any accountability for the banksters. It shows again as the Equifax execs were cleared of insider trading, when they were obviously insider trading.<p>When I was in London a few years ago, there was a massive tube strike. The train drivers were belittled in the media with reports claiming they made over 55k GBP a year, more than many nurses. They neglected to mention the new night train program would have meant long 7 to 14 week night shifts for every tube driver. The city was voted in on night trains, but had no money to fund them. So the blame gets passed all the way down to the tube drivers.</text></item><item><author>oblio</author><text>Now that&#x27;s something I haven&#x27;t heard about in the US for a few decades: strikes.<p>I&#x27;m partly kidding, but have there been any major strikes in the US lately?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Workers at Amazon's main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-italy-strike/workers-at-amazons-main-italian-site-to-hold-first-strike-on-black-friday-idUSKBN1DN1DS</url></story> |
5,665,131 | 5,664,732 | 1 | 2 | 5,664,532 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pauldelany</author><text>"Q: Why can't citizens of Cuba, Iran, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Brazil, Italy, Quebec, and Saudi Arabia participate?
A: Lisp In Summer Projects is similar to Google's Code-It, which is where the requirement originated. Lisp In Summer Projects does not have access to Google's cadre of lawyers and cannot invite legal risk to ourselves, our associates or our sponsors."<p>-- what's up with Brazil, Italy and Quebec that they're on this list, can anyone tell me?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition</title><url>http://lispinsummerprojects.org/</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>duggieawesome</author><text>This sounds fantastic. I've been going through SICP, and this is a great outlet to try my hand a real project in Scheme.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition</title><url>http://lispinsummerprojects.org/</url><text></text></story> |
16,448,474 | 16,448,469 | 1 | 3 | 16,448,318 | 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>whalesalad</author><text>&quot;Only assholes get patents.&quot;<p>Marco rubs me the wrong way. Blanket statements like this are not meaningful.<p>What the post is saying is: there is nothing you can do. At the end of the day it doesn&#x27;t matter who does it first, it matters who does it best. Do it best and you&#x27;ll win.<p>Very clickbaity title. This could have been a tweet (and it was: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sandofsky&#x2F;status&#x2F;966721199052013568" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sandofsky&#x2F;status&#x2F;966721199052013568</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Defending your app from copies and clones</title><url>https://marco.org/2018/02/22/your-app-was-copied</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>magnetic</author><text>I was a bit disappointed with the content of the article.<p>On the style, the generalization &quot;Only assholes get patents&quot; turned me off quickly.<p>But on the content itself, there wasn&#x27;t much in there that related to the title of the article &quot;Defending your app from copies and clones&quot;: the author talks about copyrights, and trademarks (not patents, because apparently it&#x27;s only for assholes), but explains how little use it is: am I supposed to be encouraged or discouraged to follow those paths?<p>Then the rest seems to be an exercise in despair, convincing you that there&#x27;s nothing you can do anyways and you&#x27;re screwed.<p>I ended the read a bit perplexed, as I wasn&#x27;t able to squeeze any substantific marrow.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Defending your app from copies and clones</title><url>https://marco.org/2018/02/22/your-app-was-copied</url></story> |
11,079,590 | 11,079,646 | 1 | 2 | 11,079,462 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kbart</author><text>Oh come on, can&#x27;t you wait few more hours for an official announcement? It&#x27;s the third (to my count) &quot;announcement of announcement&quot; today.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gravitational waves detected by LIGO</title><url>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/12150944/Gravitational-waves-Einstein-was-right-and-this-announcement-is-the-scientific-highlight-of-the-decade.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>madaxe_again</author><text>I&#x27;m am really confused as to how Martin Rees has written such a poor article. He&#x27;s bloody Astronomer Royal. I suspect a ghostwriter.<p>a) Gravitational waves do NOT &quot;shake the mirrors&quot;. They make spacetime contract in orthogonal directions around and within the beam tube (and of course elsewhere) thus causing the light to travel a tiny bit further in the tube, thus causing interference by moving the two beams out of phase.<p>b) As I posted the other day - what about Virgo? What about GEO600? I feel really sorry for the scientists who&#x27;ve spent decades working on this as part of a global collaboration to now have LIGO take <i>all</i> of the credit for this discovery.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gravitational waves detected by LIGO</title><url>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/12150944/Gravitational-waves-Einstein-was-right-and-this-announcement-is-the-scientific-highlight-of-the-decade.html</url></story> |
15,295,493 | 15,295,262 | 1 | 2 | 15,294,929 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leggomylibro</author><text>Yeah, that is what turned me off of Golang. It was kind of a &quot;straw that broke the camel&#x27;s back&quot; thing, though. Go is just an EXTREMELY opinionated language, and if you don&#x27;t like that then you won&#x27;t like it. The Best Way to do everything is decided for you ahead of time, which irks me because it isn&#x27;t always true. But I can see the frustration it grew from when I use a language like Ruby, which has a half-dozen nearly-identical ways to accomplish most simple tasks.<p>Anyways, you could muck around with symlinks and crap, but come on. If I can&#x27;t simply mkdir&#x2F;vim&#x2F;compile&#x2F;run a &#x27;hello world&#x27; program, there&#x27;s probably something wrong with the language.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rgbrenner</author><text>There&#x27;s another good use for Makefiles with go.<p>Gopath is one of the dumbest ideas I&#x27;ve seen. Multiple large projects under the same directory? Who thought that was a good idea. (and yes, I know you can create subdirectories, and mix all your packages together to create a giant mess.)<p>So I separate the projects into their own directories.. and use a Makefile to set gopath and run the go commands.<p>Still trying to figure out why golang tried to be innovative here.. What couldn&#x27;t they use cwd like every other compiler I&#x27;ve ever seen?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Golang: Don't be afraid of makefiles</title><url>https://sohlich.github.io/post/go_makefile/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iainmerrick</author><text>I seem to recall hearing that was finally being fixed, but a quick search of the docs suggests not. I think it&#x27;s just GOROOT (another bizarre idea) rather than GOPATH that&#x27;s no longer strictly required in the latest version of Go.<p>I agree with you, I don&#x27;t understand why GOROOT couldn&#x27;t just be the directory containing the compiler, and GOPATH couldn&#x27;t just be the current directory. Maybe make me put some kind of workspace file there to identify it as the project root, that&#x27;d be fine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rgbrenner</author><text>There&#x27;s another good use for Makefiles with go.<p>Gopath is one of the dumbest ideas I&#x27;ve seen. Multiple large projects under the same directory? Who thought that was a good idea. (and yes, I know you can create subdirectories, and mix all your packages together to create a giant mess.)<p>So I separate the projects into their own directories.. and use a Makefile to set gopath and run the go commands.<p>Still trying to figure out why golang tried to be innovative here.. What couldn&#x27;t they use cwd like every other compiler I&#x27;ve ever seen?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Golang: Don't be afraid of makefiles</title><url>https://sohlich.github.io/post/go_makefile/</url></story> |
31,014,430 | 31,012,028 | 1 | 2 | 31,011,083 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>indymike</author><text>&gt; Yet the whole thing just does not make sense imo. It&#x27;s one thing to be against crypto, but refusing it when you are a charity for the most asinine moral purity tests is absurd.<p>Charities generally have the luxury of having core values superior to delivering a return to investors. To not accept crypto for moral reasons makes much more sense to a not for profit that a for profit business.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mardifoufs</author><text>Honestly the reasoning is weird. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I think crypto currencies are for the most part a scam, a ponzi scheme or a platform for pump and dumps.<p>Yet the whole thing just does not make sense imo. It&#x27;s one thing to be against crypto, but refusing it when you are a charity for the most asinine moral purity tests is absurd. This 100% reminds me of the almost cultist like extremely negative reaction to anything related to crypto on some parts of twitter. Now I have been active in crypto mocking groups for years , but this feels more like some people have incorporated &quot;anticrypto&quot; to their daily culture war routine. So it must be purged from everywhere.<p>Also, I&#x27;m semi active in the wiki community and I have never heard anyone talk about the climate impact of their wiki mania meetups and the hundreds of flights that it requires. Or jimbo going to davos in private planes... etc. Well maybe this is signaling that climate change will actually be taken in consideration by the foundation and the wiki editors for their future policy decisions and RFCs , but I somehow doubt it.<p>The other reasons are even less relevant to wikimedia&#x27;s mission.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes by majority vote</title><url>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bb88</author><text>&gt; Honestly the reasoning is weird. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I think crypto currencies are for the most part a scam, a ponzi scheme or a a platform for pump and dumps.<p>and<p>&gt; Yet the whole thing just does not make sense imo. It&#x27;s one thing to be against crypto, but refusing it when you are a charity for the most asinine moral purity tests is absurd.<p>It seems like the first paragraph you said would be enough of a reason to not accept it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mardifoufs</author><text>Honestly the reasoning is weird. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I think crypto currencies are for the most part a scam, a ponzi scheme or a platform for pump and dumps.<p>Yet the whole thing just does not make sense imo. It&#x27;s one thing to be against crypto, but refusing it when you are a charity for the most asinine moral purity tests is absurd. This 100% reminds me of the almost cultist like extremely negative reaction to anything related to crypto on some parts of twitter. Now I have been active in crypto mocking groups for years , but this feels more like some people have incorporated &quot;anticrypto&quot; to their daily culture war routine. So it must be purged from everywhere.<p>Also, I&#x27;m semi active in the wiki community and I have never heard anyone talk about the climate impact of their wiki mania meetups and the hundreds of flights that it requires. Or jimbo going to davos in private planes... etc. Well maybe this is signaling that climate change will actually be taken in consideration by the foundation and the wiki editors for their future policy decisions and RFCs , but I somehow doubt it.<p>The other reasons are even less relevant to wikimedia&#x27;s mission.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes by majority vote</title><url>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations</url></story> |
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