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16,671,682 | 16,671,103 | 1 | 2 | 16,670,141 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>weinzierl</author><text>In Germany we had the case of Dr. Andreas Shell who spent five years fighting Shell oil company.
He had registered shell.de and used it primarily as a family website but also offered a translation service [1].<p>The case went to the Federal Court of Justice (German: Bundesgerichtshof, BGH), the hightest court in the system of ordinary jurisdiction in Germany. Andres Shell lost and the reasoning was that the &quot;First Come, First Served Principle&quot; can be overruled by the &quot;Priority Principle&quot;, which says that the better known party has priority.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19980204065557&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shell.de:80&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19980204065557&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shell....</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uzi Nissan Spent 8 Years Fighting Nissan Motor Company to Keep Nissan.com</title><url>https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-spent-8-years-fighting-the-car-company-with-1822815832</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>solidsnack9000</author><text><i>The nissan.com website is, at a glance, a funny curiosity of the 1990s internet, something that seems silly at first. But it was a much more personal fight for Uzi Nissan, and a worrying reminder of how much a big company or anyone with a lot of power and money has over someone who doesn’t—right or wrong.</i><p>Yeah, something is wrong with the US legal system. The case could have been dismissed at the outset. He owned the name; his was a computer company, theirs a car company.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uzi Nissan Spent 8 Years Fighting Nissan Motor Company to Keep Nissan.com</title><url>https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-spent-8-years-fighting-the-car-company-with-1822815832</url></story> |
36,528,781 | 36,528,731 | 1 | 3 | 36,528,077 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eddythompson80</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;significant quantities&quot;, &quot;many different brands&quot;, &quot;appear to have been served&quot;, &quot;many ads were served&quot;, &quot;Often&quot;...you can keep reading as long as you like, and will not find a single objective number or percentage</i><p>I’m a bit confused. The Adalytics report definitely defines numbers and percentages of the samples they looked at. Obviously only Google will have the authoritative final numbers, but they are also the ones most incentivized to keep them as opaque as possible. I admit I’m not very familiar with the ad business, and know that a fraud is rampant, but there is a difference between a rampant 5-10% fraud to 50–60%. The first few paragraph list a lot of percentages from that report<p>Original report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adalytics.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;invalid-google-video-partner-trueview-ads" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adalytics.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;invalid-google-video-partner-truev...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Meh. I read the original report when it was released, and it was a whole lot of nothing.<p>Their claim was basically – &quot;we found some Google video ad fraud!&quot;. Well guess what, Google knows and agrees that there is fraud. So do all the advertisers who pay them. The question is really about <i>how much</i> fraud there is. Google says that it actively keeps it under a certain %, and advertisers are generally okay with that number.<p>Now the report makes the usual claims – ads run on shady sites, ads viewed by bots, ads muted or obscured, ads unskippable and against policy etc. When you read through and try to find actual numbers for the severity of these issues, they just skip over it with weasel words. Just read their opening statement:<p>&gt; However, this research report finds that for years, significant quantities of TrueView skippable in-stream ads, purchased by many different brands and media agencies, appear to have been served on hundreds of thousands of websites and apps in which the consumer experience did not meet Google’s stated quality standards. For example, many TrueView in-stream ads were served muted and auto-playing as out-stream video or as obscured video players on independent sites. Often, there was little to no organic video media content between ads, the video units simply played ads only.<p>&quot;significant quantities&quot;, &quot;many different brands&quot;, &quot;appear to have been served&quot;, &quot;many ads were served&quot;, &quot;Often&quot;...you can keep reading as long as you like, and will not find a single objective number or percentage. Unless someone can conclusively find that, no one is going to take them seriously.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse-engineering Google’s "Skip Button Guarantee"</title><url>https://checkmyads.org/branded/googles-epic-multi-billion-dollar-ad-scam-makes-sense-to-us/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>At the same time, Google is the only entity that could provide the numbers you want to see.<p>Who else could get actual numbers of scams they run vs legit ads ? There&#x27;s no other entity that sees every single of the ads they serve, so we&#x27;d need a trustworthy insider leak to meet your standard.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Meh. I read the original report when it was released, and it was a whole lot of nothing.<p>Their claim was basically – &quot;we found some Google video ad fraud!&quot;. Well guess what, Google knows and agrees that there is fraud. So do all the advertisers who pay them. The question is really about <i>how much</i> fraud there is. Google says that it actively keeps it under a certain %, and advertisers are generally okay with that number.<p>Now the report makes the usual claims – ads run on shady sites, ads viewed by bots, ads muted or obscured, ads unskippable and against policy etc. When you read through and try to find actual numbers for the severity of these issues, they just skip over it with weasel words. Just read their opening statement:<p>&gt; However, this research report finds that for years, significant quantities of TrueView skippable in-stream ads, purchased by many different brands and media agencies, appear to have been served on hundreds of thousands of websites and apps in which the consumer experience did not meet Google’s stated quality standards. For example, many TrueView in-stream ads were served muted and auto-playing as out-stream video or as obscured video players on independent sites. Often, there was little to no organic video media content between ads, the video units simply played ads only.<p>&quot;significant quantities&quot;, &quot;many different brands&quot;, &quot;appear to have been served&quot;, &quot;many ads were served&quot;, &quot;Often&quot;...you can keep reading as long as you like, and will not find a single objective number or percentage. Unless someone can conclusively find that, no one is going to take them seriously.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse-engineering Google’s "Skip Button Guarantee"</title><url>https://checkmyads.org/branded/googles-epic-multi-billion-dollar-ad-scam-makes-sense-to-us/</url></story> |
4,305,326 | 4,305,250 | 1 | 3 | 4,304,832 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>djhworld</author><text>It made me very, very happy to see Tim there.<p>A lot of the media in the UK is very populist and anti-intellectual, celebrating questionable people (pop stars et al.) for their less than desirable achievements.<p>So it was good to see Tim being given such a platform celebrating his input into the world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Posibyte</author><text>This absolutely had my inner geek exploding in giddiness. It was one thing for the London Olympics to recognize him as a key part of the modern era, but to also place the (same model?) NeXT Cube next to him just topped it off. This made it memorable for me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony </title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/uk/sir-tim-berners-lee-stars-in-olympics-opening-ceremony-7000001744/</url></story> | <instructions>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 realised that the whole event was probably going to be interesting when they had an <i>engineer</i> reading Shakespeare at the start.<p>NB My personal favourite was the NHS/GOSH/kids-fiction section.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Posibyte</author><text>This absolutely had my inner geek exploding in giddiness. It was one thing for the London Olympics to recognize him as a key part of the modern era, but to also place the (same model?) NeXT Cube next to him just topped it off. This made it memorable for me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony </title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/uk/sir-tim-berners-lee-stars-in-olympics-opening-ceremony-7000001744/</url></story> |
24,873,134 | 24,873,253 | 1 | 2 | 24,872,911 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>romwell</author><text>Browsers?<p>We need to ban radios with tape decks and TVs with VCRs! The audio cassette and the VHS are bringing the downfall of the music industry with how easily they <i>can</i> be used to create unauthorized copies!<p>Oh wait.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Andrew_nenakhov</author><text>Why stop with torrent clients? They should ban all browsers, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted materials!</text></item><item><author>molmalo</author><text>I was thinking the same thing:
The next step following this line of thinking would be trying to ban all torrent clients, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted material.<p>This is crazy.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Note that RIAA is making this takedown because the software CAN be used to download copyrighted music and videos, and it uses examples in the ~~README~~(unit tests, see correction[1]) as an example of that:<p>&gt; We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses of the source code the downloading of copies of our members’ copyrighted sound recordings and music videos, as noted in Exhibit A hereto. For example, as shown on Exhibit A, the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and&#x2F;or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies:<p>They could, of course, have asked for the code to have been changed. Instead, they attacked the project itself. IANAL, but this seems outrageous the same way DMCA&#x27;ing a Bittorrent client would be. This doesn&#x27;t circumvent DRM like Widevine. I don&#x27;t understand what leg they have to stand on here.<p>This feels like DeCSS all over again.<p>P.S.: They also took down youtube-dlc, even though it&#x27;s not listed.<p>[1]: It turns out I am wrong. It wasn&#x27;t in the readme, but in the <i>test cases</i>. See extractor&#x2F;youtube.py. To me this seems even more tenuous, but IANAL.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ferdek</author><text>Well, following their logic behind DMCA compliant, I guess fiddling long enough with developer&#x27;s console on Chrome or Firefox would allow you to download potentially copyrighted material from youtube the same way youtube-dl does.<p>sed s&#x2F;youtube-dl&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;g and voilà, DMCA for Firefox ready to submit...<p>Let&#x27;s go further! Let&#x27;s DMCA the Linux kernel because it runs Firefox&#x2F;youtube-dl&#x2F;curl&#x2F;wget!</text><parent_chain><item><author>Andrew_nenakhov</author><text>Why stop with torrent clients? They should ban all browsers, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted materials!</text></item><item><author>molmalo</author><text>I was thinking the same thing:
The next step following this line of thinking would be trying to ban all torrent clients, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted material.<p>This is crazy.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Note that RIAA is making this takedown because the software CAN be used to download copyrighted music and videos, and it uses examples in the ~~README~~(unit tests, see correction[1]) as an example of that:<p>&gt; We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses of the source code the downloading of copies of our members’ copyrighted sound recordings and music videos, as noted in Exhibit A hereto. For example, as shown on Exhibit A, the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and&#x2F;or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies:<p>They could, of course, have asked for the code to have been changed. Instead, they attacked the project itself. IANAL, but this seems outrageous the same way DMCA&#x27;ing a Bittorrent client would be. This doesn&#x27;t circumvent DRM like Widevine. I don&#x27;t understand what leg they have to stand on here.<p>This feels like DeCSS all over again.<p>P.S.: They also took down youtube-dlc, even though it&#x27;s not listed.<p>[1]: It turns out I am wrong. It wasn&#x27;t in the readme, but in the <i>test cases</i>. See extractor&#x2F;youtube.py. To me this seems even more tenuous, but IANAL.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md</url></story> |
26,891,791 | 26,892,138 | 1 | 3 | 26,888,093 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NoOneNew</author><text>I think that&#x27;s why the golden era of Man Utd (last 15ish years with Fergie at the helm) wasn&#x27;t that good for American fans. Yea, it brought in some (me)... but after a while, I found myself not caring about seeing a game if it wasn&#x27;t against Chelsea or Liverpool. Even then... After 2 years of that... whoopie... Man Utd got another win against, oh look an ant is struggling to carry a cookie crumb.<p>That and diving. Seriously, fuck FIFA and all the EU leagues. They cant figure out how to deal with diving and playing for time, I cant figure out why I should care. It&#x27;s painful to watch any sport where grown men fake getting hurt. The cringe is far more damaging than the love taps they whine about. Rugby and hockey have that shit figured out, why cant they?</text><parent_chain><item><author>rkangel</author><text>This article presents a simplistic &quot;UK football good, American football bad&quot; viewpoint, but there some aspects to how the NFL is run that are desirable. Primarily here I&#x27;m talking about negative feedback.<p>In the Premier League (as well as Formula 1, for example) there is positive feedback that keeps the top teams at the top. Being successful means that you make more money (whether directly through prize money, or indirectly through sponsors), and you can use that money to keep yourself on the top. Seven clubs have won the Premier League in the last 30 years (of which two have only won it once). If you support one of those top five or six clubs - good for you. If you don&#x27;t, then you don&#x27;t have a realistic chance of seeing a league win in your lifetime.<p>Whereas in the NFL the playing field is much more even. The player salary cap means that teams are limited in the ways that they can outspend each other, and there are various mechanisms that advantage the worst performing teams compared to the best (draft position and schedule). This means that with the right moves (usually the result of new leadership) your team can go from bottom of the pile to Superbowl contender in a short span of years. If you are a Jaguars fan and your team is picking #1 in the draft next week after getting one win last season, you can realistically hope that you might be supporting a good team in a couple of years. In the last TEN years, there have been EIGHT Superbowl winners despite what is considered to be an unprecedented period of dominance by the Patriots.<p>This makes the sport more interesting to watch as a fan - it&#x27;s not the same few contenders year in year out. Even Formula 1 is moving in that direction for the good of the sport - bringing in spending limits and evening up some of the prize money distribution.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer</title><url>https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2021/04/20/european-super-league-us-owners-find-greed-doesnt-work-europe/7310165002/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ssivark</author><text>I think most of that comes from the fact that American sports have playoff systems to determine eventual champions (and the uncertainty that entails) whereas leagues favor consistent performers (strongly correlated with the money a club can invest). If you see playoff-like national tournaments in European soccer (which happen in parallel with the leagues) those too tend to have a wider spread of winners.<p>At least in England, clubs are an integral part of local culture (see the emotions involved in a derby!), and the thought of “moving” a club to a different location would be heresy. I presume that it’s very similar in many other European countries too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rkangel</author><text>This article presents a simplistic &quot;UK football good, American football bad&quot; viewpoint, but there some aspects to how the NFL is run that are desirable. Primarily here I&#x27;m talking about negative feedback.<p>In the Premier League (as well as Formula 1, for example) there is positive feedback that keeps the top teams at the top. Being successful means that you make more money (whether directly through prize money, or indirectly through sponsors), and you can use that money to keep yourself on the top. Seven clubs have won the Premier League in the last 30 years (of which two have only won it once). If you support one of those top five or six clubs - good for you. If you don&#x27;t, then you don&#x27;t have a realistic chance of seeing a league win in your lifetime.<p>Whereas in the NFL the playing field is much more even. The player salary cap means that teams are limited in the ways that they can outspend each other, and there are various mechanisms that advantage the worst performing teams compared to the best (draft position and schedule). This means that with the right moves (usually the result of new leadership) your team can go from bottom of the pile to Superbowl contender in a short span of years. If you are a Jaguars fan and your team is picking #1 in the draft next week after getting one win last season, you can realistically hope that you might be supporting a good team in a couple of years. In the last TEN years, there have been EIGHT Superbowl winners despite what is considered to be an unprecedented period of dominance by the Patriots.<p>This makes the sport more interesting to watch as a fan - it&#x27;s not the same few contenders year in year out. Even Formula 1 is moving in that direction for the good of the sport - bringing in spending limits and evening up some of the prize money distribution.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer</title><url>https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2021/04/20/european-super-league-us-owners-find-greed-doesnt-work-europe/7310165002/</url></story> |
25,841,770 | 25,840,912 | 1 | 2 | 25,837,208 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bpicolo</author><text>&gt; no other competitor has the ability to replicate<p>Except Amazon, and Microsoft, and Nintendo, and Sony, and Vale, and Epic, and ...<p>What am I missing? What&#x27;s interesting about their purchaser data?</text><parent_chain><item><author>floren</author><text>&gt; &quot;GameStop’s most valuable asset is their database of tens of millions of PowerUp Rewards members that no other competitor has the ability to replicate. GameStop will be able to leverage this data to become a fierce e-commerce competitor over time and has many unexplored avenues to monetize the data.&quot;<p>Yeah, fuck selling products to customers, you&#x27;ve got a bunch of <i>consumer data</i> you can <i>monetize</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gaming the system: How GameStop stock surged</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/gaming-the-system-how-gamestop-stock-surged-1500-in-nine-months/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>colpabar</author><text>The silver lining that I pretend to see is maybe now that consumer data &quot;e-commerce&quot; is so common, we&#x27;ll get some sort of government interaction. Taxes, new laws, something worse, who knows. But _hopefully_ now that it&#x27;s so prevalent, the general public will become more aware and take it into account when voting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>floren</author><text>&gt; &quot;GameStop’s most valuable asset is their database of tens of millions of PowerUp Rewards members that no other competitor has the ability to replicate. GameStop will be able to leverage this data to become a fierce e-commerce competitor over time and has many unexplored avenues to monetize the data.&quot;<p>Yeah, fuck selling products to customers, you&#x27;ve got a bunch of <i>consumer data</i> you can <i>monetize</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gaming the system: How GameStop stock surged</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/gaming-the-system-how-gamestop-stock-surged-1500-in-nine-months/</url></story> |
31,150,783 | 31,149,470 | 1 | 2 | 31,149,038 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_hl_</author><text>I spent some (too many) months looking into this domain so I can maybe give some context.<p>The astonishing improvement here is that we can compute <i>exact</i> flows in almost-linear time. Previous algorithms for computing almost-optimal flows in almost-linear time have been known for some time, and hence it was expected that someone would eventually find an algorithm that finds optimal flows in almost-linear time. Well, looks like it&#x27;s finally here!<p>I&#x27;ve only skimmed the paper but it seems to me that the authors draw on a set of techniques established for the almost-optimal case. These come with rather enormous constants, so it is unlikely that there will be a practical implementation of this algorithm any time soon.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00671</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thomasahle</author><text>Another very cool recent result is &quot;Negative weight single source shortest path in near linear time:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;danupon&#x2F;status&#x2F;1511639912008888322?t=47eXAvMgEfBjCoL8AR4hgA&amp;s=19" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;danupon&#x2F;status&#x2F;1511639912008888322?t=47e...</a><p>Surprisingly this result is (in contrast to the max flow result) entirely combinatoric!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00671</url></story> |
29,139,040 | 29,138,269 | 1 | 3 | 29,137,180 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bubblethink</author><text>This is excellent news for the simple reason that the business goals are aligned for desktop linux. Nobody makes money on desktop linux and it&#x27;s in a terrible state. Canonical gave up on this and is chasing snaps for servers, IoT, etc. RH also makes money only on servers. Other players are too small and won&#x27;t have consistent revenue to invest any resources. If S76 becomes a successful h&#x2F;w vendor, at least it is in their interest to make desktop suck less.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Pop-OS-New-Rust-Desktop</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulgb</author><text>As far as I can tell, this is the extent of what’s been discussed in public (mmstick is a System76 engineer)<p>&gt; mmstick: It will be its own desktop.<p>&gt; SevenSidedSube: Will the DE be forked from GNOME?<p>&gt; mmstick: No it is its own thing written in Rust.<p>If nothing else, it’s encouraging to see a large GUI project in Rust as it will surely lift the (nascent) state of the art there in that area. In the best case, maybe this will get me back on Linux for the desktop.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Pop-OS-New-Rust-Desktop</url></story> |
40,646,170 | 40,637,954 | 1 | 3 | 40,636,292 | 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>rootusrootus</author><text>My biggest worry about passwords by Apple is that I have <i>even less</i> pull when they screw it up. Not that I have a lot of input in 1Password, of course, but I bet if I get loud enough on HN for long enough, I could get the attention of the CEO. Try that with Apple. As a long time user (sufferer) of Screen Time, I am acutely aware of how badly Apple can screw up software, and how long they can let it go unfixed. Tim Cook ain&#x27;t ever going to hear my pleas.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ipqk</author><text>I&#x27;ve been an avid 1Password user for over 10 years, but since they gone full-throttle targeting the enterprise market, I&#x27;m getting more and more annoyed. It&#x27;s increasingly buggy (right now, it thinks I haven&#x27;t migrated from 1p7 which causes annoying interstitials that I can&#x27;t close. Over a month and no fix yet.). They killed standalone vaults. Obvious feature requests (e.g archive an entire vault) sit there for years untouched. The value is increasingly not there anymore for me, and here&#x27;s hoping I can finally jump ship this fall.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/forget-lastpass-apple-unveils-passwords-manager-app-at-wwdc-2024/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>I have been fighting switching to the SaaS version. Paying a monthly fee for access to my passwords is highway robbery. I do not want&#x2F;need any of these other &quot;services&quot; they forced upon me. I have trying Apples keychain, but that migration is slow and a total pain in the ass. And it&#x27;s not even a good replacement.<p>I&#x27;m sure 1Password doesn&#x27;t care one iota about loosing individual users with attitudes like this. Until the forced to a monthly rent seeking hand in my pocket policy was deployed, I had been a vocal advocate for 1Pass. Now, they&#x27;re about to loose me altogether</text><parent_chain><item><author>ipqk</author><text>I&#x27;ve been an avid 1Password user for over 10 years, but since they gone full-throttle targeting the enterprise market, I&#x27;m getting more and more annoyed. It&#x27;s increasingly buggy (right now, it thinks I haven&#x27;t migrated from 1p7 which causes annoying interstitials that I can&#x27;t close. Over a month and no fix yet.). They killed standalone vaults. Obvious feature requests (e.g archive an entire vault) sit there for years untouched. The value is increasingly not there anymore for me, and here&#x27;s hoping I can finally jump ship this fall.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/forget-lastpass-apple-unveils-passwords-manager-app-at-wwdc-2024/</url></story> |
37,994,912 | 37,994,616 | 1 | 2 | 37,988,638 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rob74</author><text>&gt; <i>After all, pilots and passengers generally want, other things equal, to be safe, so an unfettered free market will deliver cost-effective safety-improving innovations over time.</i><p>Ah, such optimistic belief in the &quot;unfettered free market&quot;! That might be true, but aircraft <i>operators</i> mostly want to make as much money as possible, so if the choice is between a cost-effective safety-improving innovation and an even more cost-effective non-innovation (i.e. not doing anything), they will choose the latter.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Personal aviation is about to get interesting</title><url>https://www.elidourado.com/p/personal-aviation</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>happyjack</author><text>I&#x27;m a pilot, own aircraft and maintain them.<p>Everything the faa does boils down to limiting liability, and liability is asses occupying seats in aircraft. Want to fly without a medical? Great, you can do basic med but can&#x27;t fly over 6 people. You want to import a foreign war bird? Awesome, you&#x27;re going to have to register that restricted and or experimental and you can&#x27;t do aerial tours or turn a profit. You own a vintage aircraft and are the owner &#x2F; operator? You legally can fabricate your own parts if you follow certain guidelines.<p>I hate to burst the &quot;hope&quot; and optimism bubble, but we won&#x27;t be seeing flying cars or anything crazy from the MOSAIC rules. While I think there will be a lot of positives that come from it, the faa more or less is laying out a set of rules and guidelines for new aircraft and tightening up definitions. LSA was a major failure, and the Feds are realizing that they can actually limit liability and increase safety by making a set of standards and guidelines for small aircraft.<p>Also, I don&#x27;t see any &quot;emerging markets&quot; coming out of GA. Flying is expensive, takes a lot of time, and is hard. Real wages also haven&#x27;t risen since the 80s, and the younger folks have other interests.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Personal aviation is about to get interesting</title><url>https://www.elidourado.com/p/personal-aviation</url></story> |
8,901,898 | 8,901,382 | 1 | 3 | 8,900,779 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>apsec112</author><text>This quote is not originally from 1852; it&#x27;s from Boston in 1769, where the colonists were complaining about the abuses of George III. It has nothing to do with the modern American legal system; the US does not have separate admiralty courts and all maritime cases fall under the jurisdiction of federal district courts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ingler</author><text>&gt; &quot;Forfeiture has its basis in British admiralty law&quot;<p>British admiralty law is the bane of the American legal system:<p>&quot;Next to revenue (taxes) itself, the late extensions of the jurisdiction of the admiralty are our greatest grievance. The American Courts of Admiralty seem to be forming by degrees into a system that is to overturn our Constitution and to deprive us of our best inheritance, the laws of the land. It would be thought in England a dangerous innovation if the trial, of any matter on land was given to the admiralty.&quot;<p>-- Jackson v. Magnolia, 20 How. 296 315, 342 (U.S. 1852)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with police</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/holder-ends-seized-asset-sharing-process-that-split-billions-with-local-state-police/2015/01/16/0e7ca058-99d4-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.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>vinceguidry</author><text>&gt; to deprive us of our best inheritance, the laws of the land<p>&quot;Laws of the land&quot; refers to English Common Law, and if that&#x27;s what the battle was to save, it&#x27;s already lost. We&#x27;ve already wrecked our own common law system pretty thoroughly with the proliferation of bodies of civil law. Legislators can&#x27;t leave our court systems well-enough alone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ingler</author><text>&gt; &quot;Forfeiture has its basis in British admiralty law&quot;<p>British admiralty law is the bane of the American legal system:<p>&quot;Next to revenue (taxes) itself, the late extensions of the jurisdiction of the admiralty are our greatest grievance. The American Courts of Admiralty seem to be forming by degrees into a system that is to overturn our Constitution and to deprive us of our best inheritance, the laws of the land. It would be thought in England a dangerous innovation if the trial, of any matter on land was given to the admiralty.&quot;<p>-- Jackson v. Magnolia, 20 How. 296 315, 342 (U.S. 1852)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with police</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/holder-ends-seized-asset-sharing-process-that-split-billions-with-local-state-police/2015/01/16/0e7ca058-99d4-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html</url></story> |
19,488,424 | 19,488,370 | 1 | 2 | 19,487,506 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>btown</author><text>It is absolutely possible to do this without making people mad. The solution is simple: educated, intelligent customer service for developers. Heck, make them pay a developer subscription fee to make the customer service cost-neutral. Or make them pay a refundable deposit to escalate a situation for manual review by a trained developer, at the cost of a market salary for however long that developer would take to review the situation.<p>But this cuts into the gatekeepers&#x27; profit. Why have a cost-neutral program when you can not worry about having that program at all, and (in Apple&#x27;s case) <i>still</i> charge people for access to the store and documentation?</text><parent_chain><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>&gt; No single entity should wield this much power. And we should rewrite the laws to make this so.<p>I think in fact a lot of people do want them to do this. Folks complain the Play store is full of malware and spam, and that there are data leaks and deceptive ads.<p>Then Google or Apple goes and removes them, and then folks are mad if that process has errors.<p>It seems like a business where you make everyone mad no matter what you do.<p>[edit: Just to be clear, I&#x27;m not a fan of the practice. But an awful lot of folks seem to think Apple and Google SHOULD wield editorial power, if only to stop outright malware. And of course, certain politicians want to make sure that the internet refuses to show content unflattering to people in power]</text></item><item><author>echelon</author><text>Can we sue Google when they do things like this? No single entity should wield this much power. And we should rewrite the laws to make this so.<p>Google and Apple <i>wanted</i> to be in the role of gatekeeper, so they should be beholden to the apps on their platform. We had a web where developers were in control of their own deployment. Everything was decentralized and required responsibility and diligence.<p>Now the power is out of our hands and its unfair. It isn&#x27;t our choice.<p>One might argue this is better for consumers, but I honestly don&#x27;t think so. Technology could have fixed discoverability and provided sandboxing, networks could provide curation. And there would probably be better privacy in the world where Mozilla won instead of Google.<p>Edit: I am so happy that GDPR and CDPA have arrived to protect consumers. We need similar laws to protect startups, small businesses, and sole proprietors that rely on these platforms to treat us fairly. They owe us that after haven taken away the nice open web we once had. Maybe laws are how we get back the web we lost.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”</title><url>http://www.purpleleafsoftware.com/2019/03/google-removed-mommy-saver-plus-for.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>echelon</author><text>&gt; I think in fact a lot of people do want them to do this.<p><i>I, the engineer,</i> do not want them to do this. Before Google and Apple, I didn&#x27;t have this problem. I didn&#x27;t have to pay their tax or march to their beat.<p>You might argue that it&#x27;s their platform and that&#x27;s the cost for us to pay. But it wasn&#x27;t always this way! These companies leveraged their advantages to steal eyeballs away from an open web and lock them in their own platform.<p>They could have spent money making the open web work better on mobile. Or designing a portable app framework and runtime for all devices. But we know why they didn&#x27;t and what the outcome has been.<p>I want them to pay back the negative externalities they&#x27;ve leveraged onto us.</text><parent_chain><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>&gt; No single entity should wield this much power. And we should rewrite the laws to make this so.<p>I think in fact a lot of people do want them to do this. Folks complain the Play store is full of malware and spam, and that there are data leaks and deceptive ads.<p>Then Google or Apple goes and removes them, and then folks are mad if that process has errors.<p>It seems like a business where you make everyone mad no matter what you do.<p>[edit: Just to be clear, I&#x27;m not a fan of the practice. But an awful lot of folks seem to think Apple and Google SHOULD wield editorial power, if only to stop outright malware. And of course, certain politicians want to make sure that the internet refuses to show content unflattering to people in power]</text></item><item><author>echelon</author><text>Can we sue Google when they do things like this? No single entity should wield this much power. And we should rewrite the laws to make this so.<p>Google and Apple <i>wanted</i> to be in the role of gatekeeper, so they should be beholden to the apps on their platform. We had a web where developers were in control of their own deployment. Everything was decentralized and required responsibility and diligence.<p>Now the power is out of our hands and its unfair. It isn&#x27;t our choice.<p>One might argue this is better for consumers, but I honestly don&#x27;t think so. Technology could have fixed discoverability and provided sandboxing, networks could provide curation. And there would probably be better privacy in the world where Mozilla won instead of Google.<p>Edit: I am so happy that GDPR and CDPA have arrived to protect consumers. We need similar laws to protect startups, small businesses, and sole proprietors that rely on these platforms to treat us fairly. They owe us that after haven taken away the nice open web we once had. Maybe laws are how we get back the web we lost.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”</title><url>http://www.purpleleafsoftware.com/2019/03/google-removed-mommy-saver-plus-for.html</url></story> |
21,952,075 | 21,950,026 | 1 | 3 | 21,934,087 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjwiseman</author><text>Back in 2006 I wanted to learn more about how search engines worked, so I started porting Lucene to Common Lisp. Actually, I wrote a Common Lisp port of Ferret. Ferret is a Ruby port of Lucene. Lucene is sort of Doug Cutting&#x27;s Java version of Text Database (TDB), which he and Jan Pedersen developed at Xerox PARC, and which, to complete the circle, was written in Common Lisp.<p>I didn&#x27;t know Ruby, and I didn&#x27;t know search engines, but I did know Common Lisp. It took me 7 months to create a binary-compatible, pretty dang functional port of Lucene. I called it Montezuma[1], and it&#x27;s still actually used by people.<p>About half the time was spent implementing the text analyzer, document store, and indices. The remaining 50% was spent implementing search (and parsing the query language). It was a very rewarding experience--It was one of the largest projects I&#x27;d worked on, mostly solo (I got some help near the end), in an area I knew nothing about, working in an extremely test-driven fashion (over 2000 unit tests when I was done).<p>I did not, however, learn as much about indexing and search as I expected. I learned a lot, yes, but quite a bit of the Ruby code was so easy to translate to Common Lisp that I didn&#x27;t have to understand everything in order to make it work.<p>I still recommend writing a small search engine as an interesting exercise, though.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sharplispers&#x2F;montezuma" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sharplispers&#x2F;montezuma</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013)</title><url>https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-elasticsearch-from-the-bottom-up</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bratao</author><text>Shameless plug from someone who want this project to flourish.
Check <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vespa.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vespa.ai</a> as an alternative to Elasticsearch. Migrating from a ES to it, I got a faster search, never had to face a unhealthy node and native tensor support (And Native ANN is coming soon <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vespa-engine&#x2F;vespa&#x2F;issues&#x2F;9747" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vespa-engine&#x2F;vespa&#x2F;issues&#x2F;9747</a>).<p>Very mature, and still progressing at a neck-break rate (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.vespa.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.vespa.ai</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013)</title><url>https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-elasticsearch-from-the-bottom-up</url></story> |
14,144,009 | 14,143,622 | 1 | 2 | 14,139,186 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hwillis</author><text>&gt;In practice; we currently have a very UN-progressive system. Where the very wealthy get excessive tax breaks, and pay even less than the middle and upper-middle class (who are getting fucking murdered: at least that&#x27;s my experience).<p>That&#x27;s not really true. 99.9% of the tax system is progressive[1] and the middle (14% effective tax rate on 59k annual) and upper middle (17.5% on 95k) classes pay less than the highest quintile (27% on 260k). Even the top 1% (35% on 1,570k) pays fairly reasonably, although capital gains eats into that- it would be closer to 45% if it was taxed at the same rate.<p>The real problem is the .1%, the people who&#x27;s annual income is in the hundreds of millions. These are athletes&#x2F;actors and &quot;businessmen&quot; who are really just investors in their own company, and they form two distinct taxpayers. The athletes&#x2F;actors pay rates ranging from 20% to 35%. The ultrarich businessmen are heavily clustered around 10-20%. So heavily that both groups together paid an average rate of 16.62%[2] in 2007. That&#x27;s just... incredibly insane.<p>I think part of the opposition to fixing this problem comes from framing it as a middle class issue. It&#x27;s not even a middle class + rich issue, it&#x27;s an issue for even the extremely rich. It&#x27;s not an &quot;us vs. CEOs&quot; issue. It&#x27;s &quot;everybody vs a subset of the richest thousand people&quot;. There isn&#x27;t an income level above which you are the enemy, the enemy is all of the people who skirt by paying taxes. Long term capital gains taxes are too low and ultrarich tax loopholes are abused liberally.<p>[1]: see page 35 of this CBO report- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbo.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;114th-congress-2015-2016&#x2F;reports&#x2F;51361-HouseholdIncomeFedTaxes_OneCol.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbo.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;114th-congress-2015-...</a><p>[2]: page 10 of this IRS report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;pub&#x2F;irs-soi&#x2F;07intop400.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;pub&#x2F;irs-soi&#x2F;07intop400.pdf</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Pokepokalypse</author><text>In practice; we currently have a very UN-progressive system. Where the very wealthy get excessive tax breaks, and pay even less than the middle and upper-middle class (who are getting fucking murdered: at least that&#x27;s my experience).<p>Would a flat-tax fix this? In theory: but if we set that &quot;flat tax&quot; to 15-17%; (and simply pocket the cost savings from simplification of tax code) - that seems like a win. But the very poorest quintile can&#x27;t pay that. (and are equipped to dodge that, by simply not working and collecting aid or taking black-market work - cash-basis labor, or selling drugs, etc.) - the top quintile will also have the means to avoid paying their fair share. As always.<p>It&#x27;s those in the middle, who have to work REAL jobs, and can&#x27;t hide their income though either black-market means, or tax-shelters: which still work in a flat-tax system.<p>The government will need to raise overall rates to compensate for this, and the middle gets screwed even more.<p>That&#x27;s an IDEAL system.<p>In the REAL world: the wealthy will still lobby for special deductions.<p>Personally, I&#x27;d like to see the mortgage deduction go away for non-primary residences.<p>Stuff like &quot;dancing-horses&quot; deductions and the absolute murder &quot;small businesses&quot; get away with, (like; taking their personal Truck as a deduction, by calling it a &quot;work truck&quot;) - that can be horse-traded around. But I think there is the most to be gained from the mortgage deduction on non-primary residences. This is probably America&#x27;s most sacred cow. And therefore, is most likely politically impossible. This is why we&#x27;ve been at a stalemate over tax-reform since 1980.</text></item><item><author>shmageggy</author><text>&gt; <i>Lastly, it seems that Government revenue for Federal and State&#x2F;Local has actually increased pretty linearly with the population. Despite all the different changes in the income tax rate&#x2F;other progressive taxes. This supports an overhaul to the tax code to a more simple, flat tax system. From another data source outside this report, I&#x27;d have to find it, but historically, no matter the top bracket tax rate, the Federal government collects about 15-17 % income tax. Including when the top rate was 90%+.</i><p>This seems like a pretty poor argument for a flat tax and in fact could be seen as an argument against it. If raising top end bracket taxes didn&#x27;t increase overall income, then it must be the case that it reduced the tax burden on lower incomes -- which is the entire point of progressive taxes. So progressive taxes work, let&#x27;s keep them!<p>I view this as mostly orthogonal to the issue of tax simplification, however, which I think is probably a good idea.</text></item><item><author>Cshelton</author><text>I&#x27;m seeing many things (if this data is accurate, which assuming it is as it&#x27;s from all government sources) and trends that go against a large percentage of what the media on both sides are perpetuating. That is my first takeaway at a glance.<p>My second takeaway at a glance is the giant problem that is Social Security. It&#x27;s been said over and over, and the aggregation of more data into charts comes to the same conclusion. The way Social Security works is not sustainable. Period. Something has to give. A $405 B shortfall on SS in 2015. If that was at least half, we would actually not be running a deficit. We would have a budget surplus if we actually made Social Security&#x2F;other Gov. retirement program replacement actually sustain itself perpetually. What. A. Concept.<p>A quick third take away seems to be the unprecedented rise in non-cash government aid (food stamps) during the Obama administration. The data is there, needs more analyzing of course.<p>Lastly, it seems that Government revenue for Federal and State&#x2F;Local has actually increased pretty linearly with the population. Despite all the different changes in the income tax rate&#x2F;other progressive taxes. This supports an overhaul to the tax code to a more simple, flat tax system. From another data source outside this report, I&#x27;d have to find it, but historically, no matter the top bracket tax rate, the Federal government collects about 15-17 % income tax. Including when the top rate was 90%+.<p>As far as the presentation, my favorite part is each piece of government data is tied to 4 distinct duties of government outlined in the Constitution. That&#x27;s pretty brilliant.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources</title><url>http://usafacts.org/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tbihl</author><text>While most of what you said is spot on, people often misunderstand what constitutes the super rich group with big tax breaks. It&#x27;s way less than one percent, because it&#x27;s the big investment money that&#x27;s getting out of so much taxation. People who earn high salaries are actually paying quite substantial taxes.<p>For some perspective, &quot;the 1%&quot; starts at about $350k annual salary (think middle-of-the-pack surgeon.) At that level, you&#x27;re paying a lot of taxes.<p>There&#x27;s an excellent recent Econtalk on taxation in the US.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Pokepokalypse</author><text>In practice; we currently have a very UN-progressive system. Where the very wealthy get excessive tax breaks, and pay even less than the middle and upper-middle class (who are getting fucking murdered: at least that&#x27;s my experience).<p>Would a flat-tax fix this? In theory: but if we set that &quot;flat tax&quot; to 15-17%; (and simply pocket the cost savings from simplification of tax code) - that seems like a win. But the very poorest quintile can&#x27;t pay that. (and are equipped to dodge that, by simply not working and collecting aid or taking black-market work - cash-basis labor, or selling drugs, etc.) - the top quintile will also have the means to avoid paying their fair share. As always.<p>It&#x27;s those in the middle, who have to work REAL jobs, and can&#x27;t hide their income though either black-market means, or tax-shelters: which still work in a flat-tax system.<p>The government will need to raise overall rates to compensate for this, and the middle gets screwed even more.<p>That&#x27;s an IDEAL system.<p>In the REAL world: the wealthy will still lobby for special deductions.<p>Personally, I&#x27;d like to see the mortgage deduction go away for non-primary residences.<p>Stuff like &quot;dancing-horses&quot; deductions and the absolute murder &quot;small businesses&quot; get away with, (like; taking their personal Truck as a deduction, by calling it a &quot;work truck&quot;) - that can be horse-traded around. But I think there is the most to be gained from the mortgage deduction on non-primary residences. This is probably America&#x27;s most sacred cow. And therefore, is most likely politically impossible. This is why we&#x27;ve been at a stalemate over tax-reform since 1980.</text></item><item><author>shmageggy</author><text>&gt; <i>Lastly, it seems that Government revenue for Federal and State&#x2F;Local has actually increased pretty linearly with the population. Despite all the different changes in the income tax rate&#x2F;other progressive taxes. This supports an overhaul to the tax code to a more simple, flat tax system. From another data source outside this report, I&#x27;d have to find it, but historically, no matter the top bracket tax rate, the Federal government collects about 15-17 % income tax. Including when the top rate was 90%+.</i><p>This seems like a pretty poor argument for a flat tax and in fact could be seen as an argument against it. If raising top end bracket taxes didn&#x27;t increase overall income, then it must be the case that it reduced the tax burden on lower incomes -- which is the entire point of progressive taxes. So progressive taxes work, let&#x27;s keep them!<p>I view this as mostly orthogonal to the issue of tax simplification, however, which I think is probably a good idea.</text></item><item><author>Cshelton</author><text>I&#x27;m seeing many things (if this data is accurate, which assuming it is as it&#x27;s from all government sources) and trends that go against a large percentage of what the media on both sides are perpetuating. That is my first takeaway at a glance.<p>My second takeaway at a glance is the giant problem that is Social Security. It&#x27;s been said over and over, and the aggregation of more data into charts comes to the same conclusion. The way Social Security works is not sustainable. Period. Something has to give. A $405 B shortfall on SS in 2015. If that was at least half, we would actually not be running a deficit. We would have a budget surplus if we actually made Social Security&#x2F;other Gov. retirement program replacement actually sustain itself perpetually. What. A. Concept.<p>A quick third take away seems to be the unprecedented rise in non-cash government aid (food stamps) during the Obama administration. The data is there, needs more analyzing of course.<p>Lastly, it seems that Government revenue for Federal and State&#x2F;Local has actually increased pretty linearly with the population. Despite all the different changes in the income tax rate&#x2F;other progressive taxes. This supports an overhaul to the tax code to a more simple, flat tax system. From another data source outside this report, I&#x27;d have to find it, but historically, no matter the top bracket tax rate, the Federal government collects about 15-17 % income tax. Including when the top rate was 90%+.<p>As far as the presentation, my favorite part is each piece of government data is tied to 4 distinct duties of government outlined in the Constitution. That&#x27;s pretty brilliant.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources</title><url>http://usafacts.org/</url></story> |
20,715,580 | 20,715,723 | 1 | 2 | 20,694,360 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>Someone should go through the comments and collect together all the &quot;perfect&quot; solutions.<p>If we let the &quot;ban cars&quot; and the &quot;ban children&quot; folk fight it out then that frees up time for the &quot;pragmatically improve things along many different dimensions, many of which would be beneficial even if we totally ignored climate change&quot; folk to get on with things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>irq11</author><text>Do you know what the #1, most significant thing any of us can do to reduce climate change? <i>Have one fewer child.</i><p>Nothing else even comes close.
It’s a simple fact. It’s easy to do. But nobody wants to do that.<p>It’s far less painful to pretend that we can keep the Titanic from sinking by making sure we sip our boat drinks from metal straws.<p>The point of the post is that we’re trying to consume our way out of a consumption problem, but predictably, a group of technology people want desperately to believe that if we just make the stuff we’re consuming better — with technology! — we’re helping.<p>To this end, it’s worth pointing out that the only item on that list that relates to family size is midway down, where it talks about family planning for the third world...something <i>other</i> people can do, so that you don’t have to change your life.</text></item><item><author>theworld572</author><text>So, while you sit there waiting for the perfect solution (which is completely unrealistic) people actively working on real solutions.<p>&gt; spending billions on something that gets you from 100 to 99.9 you&#x27;re wasting time and energy that you don&#x27;t have.<p>Of course those numbers are just made up but they are also very far from reality. Solutions to climate change have actually been ranked in terms of total cost and total amount of CO2 reductions and electric cars come in at the 26th most cost-effective solution to climate change:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drawdown.org&#x2F;solutions&#x2F;transport&#x2F;electric-vehicles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drawdown.org&#x2F;solutions&#x2F;transport&#x2F;electric-vehicl...</a><p>I really don&#x27;t know why climate change seems to inspire so many people&#x27;s inner contrarian where they just want to deride any attempt at preventing it because they haven&#x27;t solved the whole thing in one go. There is no perfect solution, we are not going to fundamentally transform the world to a car-less society, or eliminate meat consumption.<p>Its like if you buy an electric car, somebody tells you &quot;BUT you still fly!&quot;.<p>If you stop flying, somebody tells you &quot;BUT you still eat meat!&quot;.<p>If you stop eating meat somebody tells you &quot;BUT you still heat your home with gas!&quot;<p>If you switch to electric heating based of clean energy sources somebody tells you &quot;BUT you still buy avacados imported from across the world!&quot;<p>It never ends.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>No, the alternative is to figure out how to change the very fundamental levers of the system in a way that enables change on a scale that matters. The individual consumption lens is going to accomplish nothing.<p>If you could move an entire country from being car dependent to being largely car free, by pushing rapid urbanisation and transit and you put 20 car drivers onto a train or a bus, then we&#x27;re starting to talk about measures that actually have some effect.<p>Or if we eliminate meat consumption altogether rather than promising people magic lab meat every five years, that would have an effect. Or if we put some significant money into a manhattan project for carbon capture, that at least gives us a statistical shot.<p>But buying a tesla or a linen bag at the supermarket or paying 50 cents for a biodegradable cup at starbucks isn&#x27;t saving the planet, it&#x27;s the modern version of paying the catholic church for absolution.<p>And in the long and infamous history of bad references to fallacies, this isn&#x27;t one either. If you need to go from 100 to 10 and you&#x27;re spending billions on something that gets you from 100 to 99.9 you&#x27;re wasting time and energy that you don&#x27;t have.</text></item><item><author>theworld572</author><text>So whats the alternative? Do nothing at all?<p>If you have $100k left to pay on your mortgage, and somebody offers you $5k towards the mortgage are you going to tell them they&#x27;re offering you a &quot;false hope because you&#x27;d still have $95k left to pay&quot;?<p>EDIT: This is also known as the &quot;nirvana fallacy&quot;: because the solution is not perfect - that means it is worthless.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nirvana_fallacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nirvana_fallacy</a></text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>They don&#x27;t make a real difference, and the author is correct about it. If you drive towards a wall and you&#x27;re accelerating and all you&#x27;re doing is slowing the rate of acceleration you&#x27;re still going to run into the wall at terminal velocity.<p>The author correctly points out that the total increase in car usage, mostly conventional engines is going to offset the small dent that electric cars make, and that cars themselves are only a small fraction of the transportation industry to begin with.<p>And not to mention that there&#x27;s global shipping, construction, meat consumption all of which is by itself faster increasing than any environemntal solution in the respective domains which all only marginally change the equation to begin with.<p>Our ecosystem doesn&#x27;t care whether we tried really hard and if we were really good citizens or whether we did nothing, all that matters at the end is if our efforts were significant enough to not degrade our environment. And we&#x27;re off by a magnitude or two and that&#x27;s not going to change until we make radical changes to how we manage our societies.</text></item><item><author>Denzel</author><text>His argument distills to: solve it all-at-once, or don’t solve it at all.<p>This is an uninteresting and uninspiring line of thinking that ignores the nature of socially dynamic systems which don’t exist in a world of instantaneous cause-and-effect.<p>His conclusion states that electric cars make a difference, but they don’t make a <i>real</i> difference: “I do think they can slightly reduce unsustainability” but “by switching from a regular car to electric I might think that I am making a real difference”.<p>I’m sorry that the author doesn’t consider a <i>real</i> reduction in emissions a <i>real</i> difference.<p>Look, it’s simple, climate change will require a concerted effort to change in multiple markets across multiple arenas. And the solutions are not mutually exclusive. People that buy electric cars to help the environment or become vegetarian, are probably <i>more</i> likely to make additional changes in their life, and persuade others to make changes as well, to reduce emissions.<p>Most people arrive at the decision to purchase an electric vehicle exactly because they are questioning their way of life. Electric vehicles are not a talisman of false hope, they’re a singular step in the right direction.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The electric car as a talisman of false hope</title><url>https://www.jussipasanen.com/electric-cars-promise-change-without-changing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>magduf</author><text>&gt;Do you know what the #1, most significant thing any of us can do to reduce climate change? Have one fewer child.
Nothing else even comes close. But nobody wants to do that.<p>What the heck are you talking about? Every industrialized nation now has negative population growth if you ignore immigration. People <i>are</i> having fewer children, and frequently, none.</text><parent_chain><item><author>irq11</author><text>Do you know what the #1, most significant thing any of us can do to reduce climate change? <i>Have one fewer child.</i><p>Nothing else even comes close.
It’s a simple fact. It’s easy to do. But nobody wants to do that.<p>It’s far less painful to pretend that we can keep the Titanic from sinking by making sure we sip our boat drinks from metal straws.<p>The point of the post is that we’re trying to consume our way out of a consumption problem, but predictably, a group of technology people want desperately to believe that if we just make the stuff we’re consuming better — with technology! — we’re helping.<p>To this end, it’s worth pointing out that the only item on that list that relates to family size is midway down, where it talks about family planning for the third world...something <i>other</i> people can do, so that you don’t have to change your life.</text></item><item><author>theworld572</author><text>So, while you sit there waiting for the perfect solution (which is completely unrealistic) people actively working on real solutions.<p>&gt; spending billions on something that gets you from 100 to 99.9 you&#x27;re wasting time and energy that you don&#x27;t have.<p>Of course those numbers are just made up but they are also very far from reality. Solutions to climate change have actually been ranked in terms of total cost and total amount of CO2 reductions and electric cars come in at the 26th most cost-effective solution to climate change:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drawdown.org&#x2F;solutions&#x2F;transport&#x2F;electric-vehicles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drawdown.org&#x2F;solutions&#x2F;transport&#x2F;electric-vehicl...</a><p>I really don&#x27;t know why climate change seems to inspire so many people&#x27;s inner contrarian where they just want to deride any attempt at preventing it because they haven&#x27;t solved the whole thing in one go. There is no perfect solution, we are not going to fundamentally transform the world to a car-less society, or eliminate meat consumption.<p>Its like if you buy an electric car, somebody tells you &quot;BUT you still fly!&quot;.<p>If you stop flying, somebody tells you &quot;BUT you still eat meat!&quot;.<p>If you stop eating meat somebody tells you &quot;BUT you still heat your home with gas!&quot;<p>If you switch to electric heating based of clean energy sources somebody tells you &quot;BUT you still buy avacados imported from across the world!&quot;<p>It never ends.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>No, the alternative is to figure out how to change the very fundamental levers of the system in a way that enables change on a scale that matters. The individual consumption lens is going to accomplish nothing.<p>If you could move an entire country from being car dependent to being largely car free, by pushing rapid urbanisation and transit and you put 20 car drivers onto a train or a bus, then we&#x27;re starting to talk about measures that actually have some effect.<p>Or if we eliminate meat consumption altogether rather than promising people magic lab meat every five years, that would have an effect. Or if we put some significant money into a manhattan project for carbon capture, that at least gives us a statistical shot.<p>But buying a tesla or a linen bag at the supermarket or paying 50 cents for a biodegradable cup at starbucks isn&#x27;t saving the planet, it&#x27;s the modern version of paying the catholic church for absolution.<p>And in the long and infamous history of bad references to fallacies, this isn&#x27;t one either. If you need to go from 100 to 10 and you&#x27;re spending billions on something that gets you from 100 to 99.9 you&#x27;re wasting time and energy that you don&#x27;t have.</text></item><item><author>theworld572</author><text>So whats the alternative? Do nothing at all?<p>If you have $100k left to pay on your mortgage, and somebody offers you $5k towards the mortgage are you going to tell them they&#x27;re offering you a &quot;false hope because you&#x27;d still have $95k left to pay&quot;?<p>EDIT: This is also known as the &quot;nirvana fallacy&quot;: because the solution is not perfect - that means it is worthless.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nirvana_fallacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nirvana_fallacy</a></text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>They don&#x27;t make a real difference, and the author is correct about it. If you drive towards a wall and you&#x27;re accelerating and all you&#x27;re doing is slowing the rate of acceleration you&#x27;re still going to run into the wall at terminal velocity.<p>The author correctly points out that the total increase in car usage, mostly conventional engines is going to offset the small dent that electric cars make, and that cars themselves are only a small fraction of the transportation industry to begin with.<p>And not to mention that there&#x27;s global shipping, construction, meat consumption all of which is by itself faster increasing than any environemntal solution in the respective domains which all only marginally change the equation to begin with.<p>Our ecosystem doesn&#x27;t care whether we tried really hard and if we were really good citizens or whether we did nothing, all that matters at the end is if our efforts were significant enough to not degrade our environment. And we&#x27;re off by a magnitude or two and that&#x27;s not going to change until we make radical changes to how we manage our societies.</text></item><item><author>Denzel</author><text>His argument distills to: solve it all-at-once, or don’t solve it at all.<p>This is an uninteresting and uninspiring line of thinking that ignores the nature of socially dynamic systems which don’t exist in a world of instantaneous cause-and-effect.<p>His conclusion states that electric cars make a difference, but they don’t make a <i>real</i> difference: “I do think they can slightly reduce unsustainability” but “by switching from a regular car to electric I might think that I am making a real difference”.<p>I’m sorry that the author doesn’t consider a <i>real</i> reduction in emissions a <i>real</i> difference.<p>Look, it’s simple, climate change will require a concerted effort to change in multiple markets across multiple arenas. And the solutions are not mutually exclusive. People that buy electric cars to help the environment or become vegetarian, are probably <i>more</i> likely to make additional changes in their life, and persuade others to make changes as well, to reduce emissions.<p>Most people arrive at the decision to purchase an electric vehicle exactly because they are questioning their way of life. Electric vehicles are not a talisman of false hope, they’re a singular step in the right direction.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The electric car as a talisman of false hope</title><url>https://www.jussipasanen.com/electric-cars-promise-change-without-changing/</url></story> |
7,046,322 | 7,046,237 | 1 | 3 | 7,046,052 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbapple</author><text>Here&#x27;s a transcript of the NPR interview referenced in the article:<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/261282601/transcript-nsa-deputy-director-john-inglis" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;10&#x2F;261282601&#x2F;transcript-nsa-deput...</a><p>Regarding the subject of the HN headline, &quot;at most one terrorist attack might have been foiled&quot;, Inglis said:<p>&quot;There&#x27;s a candidate for that, which is the plot that was exposed in San Diego. I think we were able to essentially tell the FBI that an individual was materially involved in terrorism that they had, three years prior, investigated based on a tip and kind of laid that case to rest.<p>And but for the 215 Program, which we essentially tied that individual to some foreign terrorist activity overseas, the FBI would have let that case lain fallow for quite sometime. Now I cannot tell you that that wouldn&#x27;t have turned up some other way. There wouldn&#x27;t have been some other tool in the tool kit.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NSA makes final push to retain most mass surveillance powers</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/10/nsa-mass-surveillance-powers-john-inglis-npr</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>f_salmon</author><text>&gt; But security officials are arguing strongly against curtailing the substance of domestic surveillance activities.<p>Right. How about just having a sane and humane foreign policy instead of blowing up people all over the World? How about NOT creating hostility against the US in the first place? Did that ever cross your simple minds?<p>Oh sorry, I forgot - this would make the NSA&#x2F;military less important, so that&#x27;s no option, I suppose.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NSA makes final push to retain most mass surveillance powers</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/10/nsa-mass-surveillance-powers-john-inglis-npr</url></story> |
17,128,683 | 17,128,172 | 1 | 3 | 17,126,150 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>confounded</author><text>&gt; <i>Everyone is a criminal. You commit multiple crimes a day if you&#x27;re like most people.</i><p>More importantly, pretty much everyone has a driver’s license or other government issued ID, and in most states, the police have access to your mugshot from that.<p>The criminality can be figured out later. The problem is real time surveillance of the entire population.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alex_young</author><text>&gt; It is not inappropriate for police to be able to determine who they are interacting with if that person is a known criminal.<p>Everyone is a criminal. You commit multiple crimes a day if you&#x27;re like most people.<p>There absolutely should be a clear delineation between what is possible and what is allowed when considering state surveillance.<p>The 4th amendment: &quot;The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s right there. You have a right to be secure as a person from unreasonable searches. Massive face recognition of &#x27;criminals&#x27; is a violation of exactly that, and should be prevented without question.</text></item><item><author>chisleu</author><text>They are NOT selling a service that identifies people from data sets other than the police&#x27;s supplied data sets. It is not inappropriate for police to be able to determine who they are interacting with if that person is a known criminal.<p>The cat is out of the bag and is already something the police could do themselves. The real fear is when they are able to source commercially available information from linked in, facebook, etc to identify everyone&#x27;s whereabouts.<p>Pushing back this early will not have mass appeal and will not help to prevent the future, broader concerns IMHO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See Surveillance Risk</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/technology/amazon-facial-recognition.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>kolbe</author><text>I honestly do not see how the 4th amendment&#x27;s text obviously applies to surveillance, especially as it pertains to being identified in public. I don&#x27;t even think it matters whether or not someone is a suspected criminal. It&#x27;s not a search or seizure. And only in case law are there examples of the text being interpreted in favor of things like audio recordings needing a warrant. But this isn&#x27;t one of those amendments whose text is clear on an issue like public facial recognition.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alex_young</author><text>&gt; It is not inappropriate for police to be able to determine who they are interacting with if that person is a known criminal.<p>Everyone is a criminal. You commit multiple crimes a day if you&#x27;re like most people.<p>There absolutely should be a clear delineation between what is possible and what is allowed when considering state surveillance.<p>The 4th amendment: &quot;The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s right there. You have a right to be secure as a person from unreasonable searches. Massive face recognition of &#x27;criminals&#x27; is a violation of exactly that, and should be prevented without question.</text></item><item><author>chisleu</author><text>They are NOT selling a service that identifies people from data sets other than the police&#x27;s supplied data sets. It is not inappropriate for police to be able to determine who they are interacting with if that person is a known criminal.<p>The cat is out of the bag and is already something the police could do themselves. The real fear is when they are able to source commercially available information from linked in, facebook, etc to identify everyone&#x27;s whereabouts.<p>Pushing back this early will not have mass appeal and will not help to prevent the future, broader concerns IMHO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See Surveillance Risk</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/technology/amazon-facial-recognition.html</url></story> |
19,211,724 | 19,211,369 | 1 | 2 | 19,209,998 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sametmax</author><text>&gt; to the creator: Good on you for creating a successful business. I hope you take these resources and do something positive for the world.<p>Not good on him. It&#x27;s an immoral business. I don&#x27;t see why the hn community would endorse this just because it makes money.<p>If the emails were also a tool for privacy, decentralisation or some good objective behind it, i could see the pros and cons. But here it&#x27;s all pros for him, and all cons for the rest of the world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gk1</author><text>This product lets people send up to 10,000 emails[1] at once to a cold list of contacts (ie, not opted in). Let&#x27;s not kid ourselves: The use case is spamming.<p>The reason it&#x27;s making $115k&#x2F;month is because most other ESPs (Mailchimp, etc) don&#x27;t allow spamming, so spammers flock to (and pay for!) products that look the other way.<p>To the creator: Good on you for creating a successful business. I hope you take these resources and do something positive for the world.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gmass.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;you-can-now-send-10000-emails-with-gmass-and-gmail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gmass.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;you-can-now-send-10000-emails-with...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-i-hit-115k-mo-with-a-status-quo-improvement-c45d11ad17</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajaygoel</author><text>You&#x27;re confusing a couple of issues. It&#x27;s not that we&#x27;re looking the other way. It&#x27;s that I wanted to design a system where we don&#x27;t have to look at all. GMass doesn&#x27;t actually send any emails through its own servers. Emails are sent either through users&#x27; own Gmail accounts or through a third party SMTP service like SendGrid. Those actual email server operators (Gmail or SendGrid) have pretty sophisticated systems to detect spammers. THEY will shut down a user&#x27;s account before I could ever even notice it. I don&#x27;t have to look, because the owner of the email server will do the monitoring.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gk1</author><text>This product lets people send up to 10,000 emails[1] at once to a cold list of contacts (ie, not opted in). Let&#x27;s not kid ourselves: The use case is spamming.<p>The reason it&#x27;s making $115k&#x2F;month is because most other ESPs (Mailchimp, etc) don&#x27;t allow spamming, so spammers flock to (and pay for!) products that look the other way.<p>To the creator: Good on you for creating a successful business. I hope you take these resources and do something positive for the world.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gmass.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;you-can-now-send-10000-emails-with-gmass-and-gmail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gmass.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;you-can-now-send-10000-emails-with...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-i-hit-115k-mo-with-a-status-quo-improvement-c45d11ad17</url></story> |
8,971,748 | 8,971,107 | 1 | 3 | 8,969,699 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joemaller1</author><text>I&#x27;m very excited about this, but can someone <i>please</i> write something down? The videos are nice an all, but information-wise they&#x27;re incredibly low-density. If I have an hour to spend on React Native, I&#x27;d rather read for 10 minutes and experiment for the remaining 50...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Deep Dive on React Native [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rDsRXj9-cU</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>pavlov</author><text>React Native is a cool project, but the deafening hype is slightly puzzling.<p>Creating and calling native UI components from JavaScript is nothing special in itself. It&#x27;s obviously possible to do it from JS just as well as from any other language -- you just need to provide the API. There you have two choices: either a bridge that translates the native API directly, or a wrapper class hierarchy.<p>Examples of bridges include Xamarin&#x27;s Mono that lets you build iOS user interfaces in C# code, and RubyMotion that lets you build Mac UIs in Ruby. Because these are bridges, the entire Cocoa API is exposed. The downside is that the bridge does nothing to smooth over platform differences: you can write in C# on all platforms, but you still have to learn Cocoa.<p>A prominent example of a wrapper API is Titanium Appcelerator that lets you build cross-platform mobile apps. Another good example is GTK+ for desktop apps: it&#x27;s smart enough to leverage native Windows components where possible, but the GTK+ API is higher level than that of native Win32.<p>React Native is primarily in the latter category. Based on jordwalke&#x27;s comment in another HN thread, they currently have cross-platform wrappers for View and Image:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8965044" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8965044</a><p>But it appears you can also create platform-specific views, and for that they presumably have some kind of bridge. (It could also be that they provide manually written wrappers for platform-specific views, e.g. UIMapView becomes a &lt;Map&gt; and so on.)<p>In sum: React Native doesn&#x27;t magically translate your JS+HTML app into a cross-platform native app. They&#x27;re a long way off from having a full cross-platform API (unless your app is so simple that it can be described in terms of &lt;View&gt; and &lt;Image&gt;). And, like all wrapper APIs, there is a degree of impedance mismatch between the underlying platform implementation and the cross-platform interface on top.<p>There&#x27;s a lot to like about React Native, though. The layout model and binding logic seems cool. The React team&#x27;s accomplishments in the browser environment are impressive. With time, React Native could become for mobile what Qt is on the desktop -- and that&#x27;s high praise in my books.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Deep Dive on React Native [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rDsRXj9-cU</url><text></text></story> |
2,538,884 | 2,538,793 | 1 | 2 | 2,537,811 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ot</author><text>&#62; Z ring enriched (if this is right word) with sqrt(5)<p>I think "extended" is the right word (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_extension" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_extension</a>)<p>It is commonly denoted as Z[sqrt(5)]</text><parent_chain><item><author>stralep</author><text>Actually, you need just Z ring enriched (if this is right word) with sqrt(5). So instead of one float, you use pair of integers of arbitrary precision. So<p>(a,b)+(c,d) = (a+c,b+d)<p>(a,b)/sqrt(5) = (b,a/5)<p>(a,b)<i></i>(c,d) = (a<i></i>c+5<i></i>b<i></i>d,a<i></i>d+b<i></i>c)<p>2phi = (1,1)<p>F(n) = (2phi^n - (2-2phi)^n)/(2^n*sqrt(5))<p>[edit] As ot said, the right word is "extended"</text></item><item><author>mynegation</author><text>Very good demonstration of subsequent improvements of a naive algorithm. To me that was somewhat depreciated by the fact that you can actually calculate n-the Fibonacci number using Binet's closed form formula (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_expression" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_ex...</a>). You will need arbitrary precision arithmetic starting with certain 'n' though, as IEEE 754 will not give you correct result.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"The worst algorithm in the world?"</title><url>http://bosker.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/the-worst-algorithm-in-the-world/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vog</author><text>This is a great method! It avoids arbitrary floating point arithmetics[1] and thus makes it more comparable with the method presented in the article.<p>As far as I can see, this algorithm is very similar to the matrix operations of the article, at least in terms of complexity.<p>[1] Only the very last step might involve fp arithmetics, because you'll have to convert the result pair (x,y) back to x+y*sqrt(5). However, we already know that the result has to be an integer, so the its second part will always be 0, no fp arithmetics required.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stralep</author><text>Actually, you need just Z ring enriched (if this is right word) with sqrt(5). So instead of one float, you use pair of integers of arbitrary precision. So<p>(a,b)+(c,d) = (a+c,b+d)<p>(a,b)/sqrt(5) = (b,a/5)<p>(a,b)<i></i>(c,d) = (a<i></i>c+5<i></i>b<i></i>d,a<i></i>d+b<i></i>c)<p>2phi = (1,1)<p>F(n) = (2phi^n - (2-2phi)^n)/(2^n*sqrt(5))<p>[edit] As ot said, the right word is "extended"</text></item><item><author>mynegation</author><text>Very good demonstration of subsequent improvements of a naive algorithm. To me that was somewhat depreciated by the fact that you can actually calculate n-the Fibonacci number using Binet's closed form formula (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_expression" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_ex...</a>). You will need arbitrary precision arithmetic starting with certain 'n' though, as IEEE 754 will not give you correct result.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"The worst algorithm in the world?"</title><url>http://bosker.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/the-worst-algorithm-in-the-world/</url></story> |
4,304,858 | 4,304,833 | 1 | 2 | 4,304,743 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>IMO, when the director of the NSA goes on-stage at DEFCON and the result is anything other than tomatoes being thrown and him being booed off the stage, something is wrong.<p>While it is true that hackers are not a single minded collective, and some hackers may have sympathy for the NSA, I'd hope that most hackers would see the NSA as what it is: just one more head of the Medusa that is the US government, in all it's civil liberty infringing, experimenting on it's own citizens program, illegal wiretapping, constitution ignoring glory. The NSA are <i>not</i> - so far as I'm concerned - the "good guys." Some individuals in the NSA may be "good guys" but the agency is just a tool of a government that is out of control.<p>"We don't keep files on every American citizen" Yeah, right... this guy would have had more credibility if he'd just said<p>"Yeah, of course we do. You know it, we know it, so why beat around the bush."</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NSA director finally greets Defcon hackers</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57481689-83/nsa-director-finally-greets-defcon-hackers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mettle</author><text>I saw the talk. Much of the talk made the assumption that the hacker community has the same goals and values of the NSA. This NEEDS to be justified.<p>This is a hacker community and while not a single minded collective I believe there are many popular views that are diametrically opposed to some of the goals of the NSA. He mentioned that he wished the internet would be perfectly secure and then went on to mention how this would protect American IP laws. His definition of secure internet does not include values such as censorship resistance or freedom of expression/information.<p>He also tried to tell everything how great it would be if we all had IDS's that reported back to the NSA in realtime.<p>We were not allowed to ask questions. They brought up a paper with questions that must have been determined BEFORE the talk happened which isn't fair to the attendees.<p>I wish there was a DEFCON panel to discuss this. Everyone just clapped and seemed cool with him from my perspective. I'm not against the director talking at DEFCON, but I don't think we shouldn't be accepting his ideas without more public criticism and discourse.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NSA director finally greets Defcon hackers</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57481689-83/nsa-director-finally-greets-defcon-hackers/</url></story> |
39,643,080 | 39,642,699 | 1 | 2 | 39,642,135 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>levocardia</author><text>&gt;Students say that Dias gave them an ultimatum: remove their names, or let him send the draft. Despite their worries, the students say they had no choice but to acquiesce. “I just remember being very intimidated,” one student says. The student says they regret not speaking up more to Dias. “But it’s scary at the time. What if I do and he makes the rest of my life miserable?”<p>Indeed it <i>is</i> scary, because as a student your PI <i>can</i> in fact ruin your life and ruin your career, without much recourse in most cases. This behind-the-scenes is a good insight into the bad incentives and lack of accountability for PIs in academic research. I suspect this kind of thing happens all the time in smaller fields, and never gets discovered because it&#x27;s not a headline-grabbing topic like room-temp superconductivity.<p>I had a bioengineering PhD friend who said she spotted obviously fraudulent papers all the time in her field--publications claiming they grew such-and-such bacteria in so-and-so medium, when she knew damn well that said bacteria <i>cannot</i> grow in said medium.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Superconductivity scandal: the story of deception in a physics lab</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00716-2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dotnet00</author><text>In case others are coming into this thinking about LK-99, the article isn&#x27;t about that.<p>I had figured the LK-99 team might actually have something interesting considering that they were promising a proper presentation of their work at the American Physical Society. I had heard it had been withdrawn and wrote it off as another case of academic fraud, but looking it up right now, apparently it&#x27;s weirder than that.<p>Someone pretended to be the corresponding author and submitted a withdrawal, but this was fixed and the conference the presentation is at should be happening around these days.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Superconductivity scandal: the story of deception in a physics lab</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00716-2</url></story> |
15,965,780 | 15,965,425 | 1 | 3 | 15,964,011 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moduspol</author><text>&gt; Gold is far more unlikely to be made illegal by governments.<p>Empirically this has not been the case, particularly in the US [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Executive_Order_6102" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Executive_Order_6102</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>That&#x27;s quite a balony.<p>- Both are in fixed quantity so none is more rare than other.<p>- Gold has practical use in industry which puts lower bound on its value. BTC has no lower bound.<p>- Gold is exchangeable virtually in any country and any culture regardless of how technologically advanced that society is.<p>- Thousands of years of history has proven that humans have almost natural lust for this shiny metal and it gets displayed as jewelry uses. This again further sets the lower bound for gold prices.<p>- Gold is not only rare but is virtually rust proof and can be stowed away without any advanced tech for 100s of years. BTC will be pointless if there was a natural or human made disaster and few people had electricity.<p>- Gold is far more unlikely to be made illegal by governments.<p>- There are no new rare metals popping up every day like whole slew of new cryptocurrencies which might fragment and trump each other. No one knows which cryptocurrency will end up dominating 10 years down the line.<p>- BTC has huge risk of getting stolen and hacked because someone exploiting zero day vulnerabilities in your system even if you did everything you possibly could to keep your system safe.<p>- Governments can start their secret operations to control the crypto market behind the scene, hack in to exchanges, find vulnerabilities or do dirty trades.<p>- Crypto exchanges are wild west without regulations which means clever deep pocketed traders would be exploiting them by techniques like frontrunning, wash trades, willybot, spoofing etc. This enables big investors to profit at the expense of small investors.<p>Above arguments should make it clear that btc has very real upper bound that it can rationally reach and its most definitely less than gold market cap. Of course, big investors can juice up things in the short term but it would be impossible to sustain irrational highs on long term.</text></item><item><author>TheBiv</author><text>&gt;&gt; They said they might look at selling when the value of all the Bitcoin in circulation approaches the value of all gold in the world — some $7 trillion or $8 trillion compared with the $310 billion value of all Bitcoin on Tuesday — given that they think Bitcoin is set to replace gold as a rare commodity. But then Tyler Winklevoss questioned even that, pointing out the ways that he believes Bitcoin is better than gold.<p>I found this to be the most fascinating part of the article.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/technology/bitcoin-winklevoss-twins.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dcosson</author><text>&gt; Gold has practical use in industry which puts lower bound on its value.<p>How did that work out for oil a couple years ago?<p>Yes there&#x27;s some lower bound on gold, but if it turns out it&#x27;s lower than you thought, or if the supply can be altered to manipulate the price and drive it even lower, it&#x27;s not very useful.<p>Given that gold prices 20 years ago were somewhere around 1&#x2F;6 the maximum price in that period ($300 vs $1800), it&#x27;s reasonable to assert that this lower bound on gold lower than even that. Meaning if I invest in gold and people completely lose faith in it, I could lose 85%+ of my investment. Not a very helpful safety net.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>That&#x27;s quite a balony.<p>- Both are in fixed quantity so none is more rare than other.<p>- Gold has practical use in industry which puts lower bound on its value. BTC has no lower bound.<p>- Gold is exchangeable virtually in any country and any culture regardless of how technologically advanced that society is.<p>- Thousands of years of history has proven that humans have almost natural lust for this shiny metal and it gets displayed as jewelry uses. This again further sets the lower bound for gold prices.<p>- Gold is not only rare but is virtually rust proof and can be stowed away without any advanced tech for 100s of years. BTC will be pointless if there was a natural or human made disaster and few people had electricity.<p>- Gold is far more unlikely to be made illegal by governments.<p>- There are no new rare metals popping up every day like whole slew of new cryptocurrencies which might fragment and trump each other. No one knows which cryptocurrency will end up dominating 10 years down the line.<p>- BTC has huge risk of getting stolen and hacked because someone exploiting zero day vulnerabilities in your system even if you did everything you possibly could to keep your system safe.<p>- Governments can start their secret operations to control the crypto market behind the scene, hack in to exchanges, find vulnerabilities or do dirty trades.<p>- Crypto exchanges are wild west without regulations which means clever deep pocketed traders would be exploiting them by techniques like frontrunning, wash trades, willybot, spoofing etc. This enables big investors to profit at the expense of small investors.<p>Above arguments should make it clear that btc has very real upper bound that it can rationally reach and its most definitely less than gold market cap. Of course, big investors can juice up things in the short term but it would be impossible to sustain irrational highs on long term.</text></item><item><author>TheBiv</author><text>&gt;&gt; They said they might look at selling when the value of all the Bitcoin in circulation approaches the value of all gold in the world — some $7 trillion or $8 trillion compared with the $310 billion value of all Bitcoin on Tuesday — given that they think Bitcoin is set to replace gold as a rare commodity. But then Tyler Winklevoss questioned even that, pointing out the ways that he believes Bitcoin is better than gold.<p>I found this to be the most fascinating part of the article.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/technology/bitcoin-winklevoss-twins.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</url></story> |
36,380,412 | 36,379,466 | 1 | 2 | 36,379,094 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rchaud</author><text>Not to defend Reddit (there&#x27;s no way I&#x27;m using that godforsaken official app), but: who cares?<p>There is very little in the way of genuinely sensitive data I can imagine them having. So little commerce is done on Reddit that the risk of there being hundreds of thousands of CC numbers and home addresses is almost nil. User passwords? Half of Reddit is creating burner accounts every 3 months to dodge suspensions and bans.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data</title><url>https://www.databreaches.net/blackcat-claims-they-hacked-reddit-and-will-leak-the-data/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lr4444lr</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s at stake, but I hope Reddit refuses to negotiate with these extortionists, which will only embolden future ones. If and when the criminals are found, may they be punished to the fullest extent of the law!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data</title><url>https://www.databreaches.net/blackcat-claims-they-hacked-reddit-and-will-leak-the-data/</url></story> |
21,305,497 | 21,305,107 | 1 | 3 | 21,304,612 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>darkmoney007</author><text>That&#x27;s BS about being capable of navigating Interstate highways autonomously.<p>Whoever does the research needs go actually go along an Over The Road truck driver and actually see what challenges technology face.<p>Different highways with crumpling road markers.
Severe weather.
Unpredictable human drivers.
Fueling.
Construction sites and their differences between displaying markers.<p>I do not see autonomous technology taking over long haul truckers anytime soon, especially if the state and federal government doesn&#x27;t maintain the highways and keeps cutting budget.<p>The few scenarios where the present technology can handle is a local route that has greatly maintained roads and stable weather. Even in this case, it&#x27;s foolish to think human drivers will not be as careless as before. In fact, I predict they will think its so safe that they will cut the truck off ever closer, thus creating more disasters.<p>Source: I&#x27;m a trucker and know the challenges computer vision and its sensors could possibly face.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kadoban</author><text>&quot;[...] Long-haul truckers, who tend to make middle-class wages, will be replaced by poorly paid drivers tasked with steering autonomous vehicles through tricky city streets, which onboard navigation systems handle less well than highways. That’s not all jobs disappearing. It’s jobs changing.&quot;<p>Uhm, that&#x27;s halfway decent careers turning into far fewer and shittier jobs. That&#x27;s jobs disappearing. And it ignores that eventually someone will automate even that part away, it&#x27;ll just take a bit longer.<p>The article just seems to just be a series of quibbles that don&#x27;t show Yang to be wrong in any meaningful sense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Andrew Yang's ideas on automation and mass unemployment are not based in reality</title><url>https://slate.com/business/2019/10/andrew-yang-automation-unemployment-freedom-dividend.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>Barrin92</author><text>Yes, I disagree with some of Yang&#x27;s views (and his proposed solution) and the general idea that we&#x27;re living in the fastest age of technological process (I&#x27;m generally quite pessimistic if one tallies up the resources we keep using, the education we have and how little change there is), but many of the criticisms of Yang seem to be worse than the caution he brings to the table.<p>Even if Yang is only slightly right, and I do agree on some sectors like Amazon replacing brick and mortar stores and the erosion of mid-skilled work and good jobs, that can already be back-breaking for many developed economies, and in particular the UK and the US with their strong focus on deindustrialisation have <i>already felt the effects</i>.<p>One only needs to leave London for a few hours and travel the country and go to the poor places that were former hubs of industrial production. Many of the places are in astonishingly bad shape.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kadoban</author><text>&quot;[...] Long-haul truckers, who tend to make middle-class wages, will be replaced by poorly paid drivers tasked with steering autonomous vehicles through tricky city streets, which onboard navigation systems handle less well than highways. That’s not all jobs disappearing. It’s jobs changing.&quot;<p>Uhm, that&#x27;s halfway decent careers turning into far fewer and shittier jobs. That&#x27;s jobs disappearing. And it ignores that eventually someone will automate even that part away, it&#x27;ll just take a bit longer.<p>The article just seems to just be a series of quibbles that don&#x27;t show Yang to be wrong in any meaningful sense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Andrew Yang's ideas on automation and mass unemployment are not based in reality</title><url>https://slate.com/business/2019/10/andrew-yang-automation-unemployment-freedom-dividend.html</url></story> |
10,470,654 | 10,470,729 | 1 | 2 | 10,469,824 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ant6n</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure about the &#x27;huge strides&#x27;. I feel nowadays with &#x27;flat design&#x27; (is that the right term?) I don&#x27;t know where I can click and what actions will be performed. It&#x27;s like the UI is a bunch of text labels, but they may actually be links, but they may actually perform an action. Although there&#x27;s no way to know, since the label doesn&#x27;t say what action is performed, and since we don&#x27;t have mice anymore, we don&#x27;t have hover-hints.<p>Take as an example the calling apps in Android. It&#x27;ll show contacts, with name, an avatar, maybe a phone number. Which of these are clickable? Which of these will result in the phone making a call, and which will result into going into looking at the contact? How do I send an SMS rather than call? How do I edit it? How do I get a call history? Every time I use it I click on things without being sure what will happen and I am always surprised at what happens.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mangecoeur</author><text>&gt; clean and neat<p>Really? You miss that special &quot;concrete gray and primary blue&quot; feel?<p>I think I used every MS operating system starting with DOS, and I miss exactly none of the &quot;historic&quot; interfaces. To the extent I get annoyed when institutional IT departments force you to use the &quot;classic&quot; theme on modern windows boxes (&quot;It&#x27;s faster!&quot; - no, it isn&#x27;t to any human perceptible degree, and I appreciate not having to stare at beige rectangles all day).<p>I think engineers have a lot of nostalgia for this old stuff, but it&#x27;s misplaced - interface design has moved foward in huge strides in the last decades, learning from mistakes. We&#x27;ve given up excessive skeumorphism, but we&#x27;ve kept improvements in design, layout, graphics, and perhaps most importantly we&#x27;ve learned that you need someone with serious visual and UX design skills to make an interface.</text></item><item><author>72deluxe</author><text>I really liked these.<p>This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware.<p>After ditching my BBC B (I was poor), I remember using Win 3.1 on a 386SX with 4MB RAM that someone had thrown out and installing software to take over program manager and make it look like Win95 because my machine wasn&#x27;t powerful enough to run Windows 95... How a second-hand 486DX was a revelation. 16MB of RAM! Unfathomable! What could use so MUCH RAM????<p>I also remember faffing with config.sys etc. to unload mouse drivers so I could run games that moaned about himem.sys in DOS. And telling every game that I really did have an Adlib sound card and a SoundBlaster 16. I really didn&#x27;t. It was a £7.50 soundcard I bought from a boy at school (who now works at Amazon and has software patents, well done to him! He was really clever, wrote games, played piano like a pro too. Nice guy).<p>Then the upgrades to Win95, 98 (oooh Web desktop!), installing RedHat 5.2 (no, not RHEL 5.2), reading PC Plus and any magazine that mentioned Linux in an effort to learn more (dialup was expensive), and to make my abysmal VESA graphics card run X, then running FVWM, KDE1 (looked like CDE, how reassuring), GNOME1 (it&#x27;s squishy), KDE2, 3.5 (perfection, everything was configurable) then going back to GNOME2 (it was simple), then abandoning it all after GNOME3 and KDE4 (hmmm a cashew) and going to OSX. All the Linux desktops I used in tandem with Windows XP and 7 to &quot;keep my hand in&quot; both markets.<p>I also dabbled with BeOS; it was really really fast. Upon examination in recent years, the development API for it was really simple too. Pity the wxWidgets wrapper for it was shut down.<p>It&#x27;s amazing what having rubbish hardware will make you investigate.<p>How I miss Netscape, the feeling of discovering something new in computers that made you go &quot;wow&quot; (IE4 and DHTML), or the feeling of &quot;this is really great and USEFUL&quot; instead of &quot;this is really pretty&quot;, the joy of getting X to run, or learning a new Linux command whilst stuck in the CLI, getting VNC to work, doing X-window forwarding. I miss the lack of Internet, the fact that knowledge of systems came through hard work and patience, through reading and waiting for the next month&#x27;s magazine that I bought with my paper-round money. I truly am an old fart.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002</title><url>https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rcamera</author><text>I have used pretty much all MS operating systems as well, except windows 10, and I remember how windows XP felt &quot;too colourful and distracting&quot; when it first came out (with those very bright green grassy hills wallpaper, along with green and blue taskbar), how Vista&#x27;s start menu was so slow when compared to XP, how windows 7 grouping of programs in the task bar, showing only the program&#x27;s icon, was painful, or how terrible windows 8 entire user experience was.<p>While many engineers have a lot of nostalgia for old stuff, much of it is not displaced. Interfaces got a lot better, for those people who are not completely acquainted with computers. But power users, such as many engineers, still use terminals and other tools that while less intuitive, are much more powerful.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mangecoeur</author><text>&gt; clean and neat<p>Really? You miss that special &quot;concrete gray and primary blue&quot; feel?<p>I think I used every MS operating system starting with DOS, and I miss exactly none of the &quot;historic&quot; interfaces. To the extent I get annoyed when institutional IT departments force you to use the &quot;classic&quot; theme on modern windows boxes (&quot;It&#x27;s faster!&quot; - no, it isn&#x27;t to any human perceptible degree, and I appreciate not having to stare at beige rectangles all day).<p>I think engineers have a lot of nostalgia for this old stuff, but it&#x27;s misplaced - interface design has moved foward in huge strides in the last decades, learning from mistakes. We&#x27;ve given up excessive skeumorphism, but we&#x27;ve kept improvements in design, layout, graphics, and perhaps most importantly we&#x27;ve learned that you need someone with serious visual and UX design skills to make an interface.</text></item><item><author>72deluxe</author><text>I really liked these.<p>This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware.<p>After ditching my BBC B (I was poor), I remember using Win 3.1 on a 386SX with 4MB RAM that someone had thrown out and installing software to take over program manager and make it look like Win95 because my machine wasn&#x27;t powerful enough to run Windows 95... How a second-hand 486DX was a revelation. 16MB of RAM! Unfathomable! What could use so MUCH RAM????<p>I also remember faffing with config.sys etc. to unload mouse drivers so I could run games that moaned about himem.sys in DOS. And telling every game that I really did have an Adlib sound card and a SoundBlaster 16. I really didn&#x27;t. It was a £7.50 soundcard I bought from a boy at school (who now works at Amazon and has software patents, well done to him! He was really clever, wrote games, played piano like a pro too. Nice guy).<p>Then the upgrades to Win95, 98 (oooh Web desktop!), installing RedHat 5.2 (no, not RHEL 5.2), reading PC Plus and any magazine that mentioned Linux in an effort to learn more (dialup was expensive), and to make my abysmal VESA graphics card run X, then running FVWM, KDE1 (looked like CDE, how reassuring), GNOME1 (it&#x27;s squishy), KDE2, 3.5 (perfection, everything was configurable) then going back to GNOME2 (it was simple), then abandoning it all after GNOME3 and KDE4 (hmmm a cashew) and going to OSX. All the Linux desktops I used in tandem with Windows XP and 7 to &quot;keep my hand in&quot; both markets.<p>I also dabbled with BeOS; it was really really fast. Upon examination in recent years, the development API for it was really simple too. Pity the wxWidgets wrapper for it was shut down.<p>It&#x27;s amazing what having rubbish hardware will make you investigate.<p>How I miss Netscape, the feeling of discovering something new in computers that made you go &quot;wow&quot; (IE4 and DHTML), or the feeling of &quot;this is really great and USEFUL&quot; instead of &quot;this is really pretty&quot;, the joy of getting X to run, or learning a new Linux command whilst stuck in the CLI, getting VNC to work, doing X-window forwarding. I miss the lack of Internet, the fact that knowledge of systems came through hard work and patience, through reading and waiting for the next month&#x27;s magazine that I bought with my paper-round money. I truly am an old fart.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002</title><url>https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/</url></story> |
20,460,795 | 20,460,045 | 1 | 2 | 20,458,772 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baggachipz</author><text>&gt; Tesla which is run by a delusional snake oil salesman who had a single hit with the Model S<p>Being that dismissive and willfully ignorant discredits your entire argument. A snake oil salesman produces nothing and hoodwinks people. I drive my &quot;snake oil&quot; every day and not only is it the best car I&#x27;ve ever driven, it&#x27;s the coolest thing I&#x27;ve ever owned. I routinely watch his &quot;snake oil&quot; launch huge payloads to orbit and land the booster(s) autonomously for cheap re-use. Hate the guy personally if you want, but slander like yours is simply holding back progress.</text><parent_chain><item><author>skywhopper</author><text>This has been obvious all along to anyone who has ever driven or used a computer before and thought about the reality for more than a couple of minutes. But the press and VCs bought into the hype from the likes of Uber who needed to keep generating huge new investment to stay afloat and Tesla which is run by a delusional snake oil salesman who had a single hit with the Model S.<p>The shocking examples of crazy unexpected behavior in the article like street sweepers that do exactly what they are supposed to be doing and cyclists who don’t follow traffic rules blow my mind. Next we’ll learn that some streets have poorly painted lines or that road construction exists or that most human drivers exceed posted speed limits or that there is weather other than sunny and clear.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/business/self-driving-autonomous-cars.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>treespace8</author><text>I know this is far out there. But I believe the problem of fully autonomous anything via software is fundamentally impossible. The divide between analog and digital is just too big.<p>Humans are underrated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>skywhopper</author><text>This has been obvious all along to anyone who has ever driven or used a computer before and thought about the reality for more than a couple of minutes. But the press and VCs bought into the hype from the likes of Uber who needed to keep generating huge new investment to stay afloat and Tesla which is run by a delusional snake oil salesman who had a single hit with the Model S.<p>The shocking examples of crazy unexpected behavior in the article like street sweepers that do exactly what they are supposed to be doing and cyclists who don’t follow traffic rules blow my mind. Next we’ll learn that some streets have poorly painted lines or that road construction exists or that most human drivers exceed posted speed limits or that there is weather other than sunny and clear.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/business/self-driving-autonomous-cars.html</url></story> |
41,387,969 | 41,386,837 | 1 | 2 | 41,381,569 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>refactor_master</author><text>No, only the teacher’s book had colors. The rest of us were looking at the monochrome photocopies ;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>IAmGraydon</author><text>How could a monochrome screen work for a student? They typically have to look at assignments which often include color-coded graphs, data legends, etc.</text></item><item><author>pontifk8r</author><text>After my daughter went through two laptops in high school (1st: &quot;I closed a pen in it and broke the hinge&quot; 2nd: &quot;Dad! Someone ELSE knocked it off my desk&quot;) I found an ex-state-police toughbook, it even had a carrying handle. Plasma monochrome screen. Slow. But it ran all of the applications necessary for school.<p>Turns out it had a cool factor all it&#x27;s own, and she really liked that laptop. She figured out she could neglect and abuse it. I even left the &quot;property of &quot; stickers from the state police on the thing, which gave it extra... something. It was still working when she gave it back to me before she went to college. I think I sold it for $100.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Panasonic Toughbook 40</title><url>https://connect.na.panasonic.com/toughbook/rugged-computers/toughbook-40</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DiggyJohnson</author><text>Turns out that this isn’t the critical ability required to do well in school. I take your point, I’m sure the monochrome screen would be a challenge sometimes, but literally never the difference between success and failure at the high school level.</text><parent_chain><item><author>IAmGraydon</author><text>How could a monochrome screen work for a student? They typically have to look at assignments which often include color-coded graphs, data legends, etc.</text></item><item><author>pontifk8r</author><text>After my daughter went through two laptops in high school (1st: &quot;I closed a pen in it and broke the hinge&quot; 2nd: &quot;Dad! Someone ELSE knocked it off my desk&quot;) I found an ex-state-police toughbook, it even had a carrying handle. Plasma monochrome screen. Slow. But it ran all of the applications necessary for school.<p>Turns out it had a cool factor all it&#x27;s own, and she really liked that laptop. She figured out she could neglect and abuse it. I even left the &quot;property of &quot; stickers from the state police on the thing, which gave it extra... something. It was still working when she gave it back to me before she went to college. I think I sold it for $100.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Panasonic Toughbook 40</title><url>https://connect.na.panasonic.com/toughbook/rugged-computers/toughbook-40</url></story> |
24,373,150 | 24,372,438 | 1 | 2 | 24,371,349 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>I suspect none of your examples are factually correct, or even particularly relevant. I&#x27;m not aware of any significant trend of suing security camera owners for copyright infractions, for example.<p>Copyright on images and audio is actually how artists make most of their money.<p><i>Some</i> musicians can play live, but what options do professional photographers have if they want to create work of lasting value?<p>Perhaps artists should move towards the software developer model and produce products that are never actually finished and never really work correctly, so they can spend their professional lives never quite fixing the problems they&#x27;ve created.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway189262</author><text>Copyright law needs major reform. Technology has hit the point where you have to make a concerted effort to avoid infringing by accident. Every time a security camera picks up music, it&#x27;s copyright infringement. When your camera records virtually anything man-made, copyright infringement. Probably 90% of photos are infringing copyright.<p>It&#x27;s totally nuts now that recording devices are everywhere.<p>Copyright on images and audio are just unrealistic. Abolish them, the artists make most of their money in other ways anyway</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on Live</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/legal/music_guidelines</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kjakm</author><text>&gt;&gt; Abolish them, the artists make most of their money in other ways anyway<p>And look how great that&#x27;s working out for them now that an entire year, potentially more of touring has been cancelled. Why don&#x27;t software companies start giving away their product and instead make their money through t-shirt sales and speaking tours? Music has already been made exponentially less expensive for the consumer (at a massive cost to artists). It seems cruel to take even more away so that someone can use music in their vlog or travel video for free.<p>&gt;&gt; It&#x27;s totally nuts now that recording devices are everywhere.<p>Maybe instead we should reconsider why we have recording devices everywhere. Music and musicians getting paid is beneficial to society, people recording who&#x27;s ringing their doorbell and who&#x27;s walking past their home is detrimental.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway189262</author><text>Copyright law needs major reform. Technology has hit the point where you have to make a concerted effort to avoid infringing by accident. Every time a security camera picks up music, it&#x27;s copyright infringement. When your camera records virtually anything man-made, copyright infringement. Probably 90% of photos are infringing copyright.<p>It&#x27;s totally nuts now that recording devices are everywhere.<p>Copyright on images and audio are just unrealistic. Abolish them, the artists make most of their money in other ways anyway</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on Live</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/legal/music_guidelines</url></story> |
19,962,746 | 19,960,883 | 1 | 2 | 19,959,804 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>radcon</author><text>On that note, does it make a difference that they&#x27;re collectively <i>refusing work</i> rather than collectively <i>setting prices</i>? Uber and Lyft are still the ones actually setting the price.<p>In the end I don&#x27;t think it will matter, Uber and Lyft could probably code around this pretty easily if it started to affect their bottom line. When they see 100+ drivers in the same place go offline within X seconds of each other, it&#x27;s a pretty clear indication that there&#x27;s coordinated action taking place. They probably have enough data from drivers&#x27; phones to see that they&#x27;re sitting still waiting to go back online.<p>I just hope they don&#x27;t decide to make an example out of these drivers by banning them...</text><parent_chain><item><author>leereeves</author><text>Under the theory that Uber&#x2F;Lyft employees are contractors and allowed to set prices, wouldn&#x27;t coordinating (&quot;conspiring&quot;) to do so en masse be considered price fixing?<p>Personally I think they should be considered employees, but a pro-management federal prosecutor could make some trouble for them.</text></item><item><author>radcon</author><text>This seems like it could also torpedo their Contractor vs. Employee argument.<p>Contractors get to set rates, employees don&#x27;t. So you can&#x27;t say they&#x27;re contractors AND accuse them of committing fraud when they try to set their own rates.<p>Now if only someone would develop an app that does this for entire cities. The app could be their version of a union.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber, Lyft drivers manipulate fares at DCA causing artificial price surges</title><url>https://wjla.com/news/local/uber-and-lyft-drivers-fares-at-reagan-national</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eropple</author><text>That&#x27;s an interesting question. I&#x27;m not a lawyer, but I&#x27;d be interested in the answer. From a technical perspective it seems that they&#x27;d need significantly more control over product liquidity <i>generally</i>, rather than <i>locally</i>, for it to apply; from a moral perspective it doesn&#x27;t seem like a reasonable appellation at all and that the closest equivalent is labor organization--and it&#x27;s worth noting that companies are not obligated to negotiate with labor organizations on behalf of contractors in the same way they are employees, but contractors <i>are</i> allowed to organize. Contractor labor, such as SAG, IATSE, etc. do it regularly.<p>Practically, the impact of a hundred airport drivers deciding to &quot;strike&quot; is so small that a non-mendacious prosecutor probably wouldn&#x27;t even look at it. But there&#x27;s a lot of mendacity around Washington, so who knows.</text><parent_chain><item><author>leereeves</author><text>Under the theory that Uber&#x2F;Lyft employees are contractors and allowed to set prices, wouldn&#x27;t coordinating (&quot;conspiring&quot;) to do so en masse be considered price fixing?<p>Personally I think they should be considered employees, but a pro-management federal prosecutor could make some trouble for them.</text></item><item><author>radcon</author><text>This seems like it could also torpedo their Contractor vs. Employee argument.<p>Contractors get to set rates, employees don&#x27;t. So you can&#x27;t say they&#x27;re contractors AND accuse them of committing fraud when they try to set their own rates.<p>Now if only someone would develop an app that does this for entire cities. The app could be their version of a union.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber, Lyft drivers manipulate fares at DCA causing artificial price surges</title><url>https://wjla.com/news/local/uber-and-lyft-drivers-fares-at-reagan-national</url></story> |
16,358,728 | 16,358,854 | 1 | 3 | 16,358,337 | 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>Bucephalus355</author><text>China has a long history of doing this.<p>During Mao’s reign, agriculture numbers were padded constantly. They were only padded by a few percent at each level, but as each reporting hierarchy added its own padding, eventually you got massive overestimates.<p>This is why 50 million people died in the famine under Map, more than the Holocaust and “gulag archipelago” combined. I don’t think people
realize just how bad it was, it was a time of absolutely insanity and deprivation.<p>40% of all building structures were torn down between between 1958-1963 if that gives you any idea of how detached from reality society under Mao was.<p>Also, China is lying about their pollution numbers, and just simply moving the factories farther west. Western China is one of the most rural parts of the world and its very hard to measure &#x2F; prove who is using what &#x2F; polluting what. No matter what the US does regarding global warming, it’s very likely any gains will be “eaten” by a growing, data faking, Chinese government.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese local governments rush to admit fake data</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Chinese-local-governments-rush-to-admit-fake-data</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anthonyleecook</author><text>&quot;In Liaoning Province tax receipts and income from various fees were padded by 20-30% according to counties and cities during the period of 2011-2014. Inner Mongolia has said that 25% of the fiscal revenue stated for 2016 were actually fake.&quot;<p>That actually validates some of the slowdown that I saw while I was in China. Business felt slow, and it seems that there wasn&#x27;t the fast feel anymore compared to 2007. Very little small company activities, and alot of economic activities seem to involve state-owned companies (and we all know how slow they are).<p>If we assume 20-30% fake data across most of its local provinces the last couple of years, this would probably place China&#x27;s GDP growth at around 1% a year (maybe even negative), way below 7% consistently claimed by the government. However, the 1% would be consistent with the drop in exports in recent year.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese local governments rush to admit fake data</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Chinese-local-governments-rush-to-admit-fake-data</url></story> |
38,018,400 | 38,018,031 | 1 | 2 | 38,017,239 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>After this talk [0] I had several most interesting conversations with
media folks about the real cost and advantages of &quot;cloud&quot;.<p>One thing that came up is development. Modern devops culture is quite
a good thing, and what&#x27;s lovely about &quot;cloud&quot; - as in the ability to
quickly buy compute and storage capability - is that ideas you would
have tinkered with in on-prem labs (or across private sites) for
months can be imagined and prototyped in hours.<p>I&#x27;m a big advocate of rapid prototyping as a _huge_ business lever,
because the ability to try out ideas quickly, to easily reconfigure
things, is the key for time to market. You can quickly see if
something is going to fly or not.<p>And that&#x27;s where the advantage ends.<p>After that, it&#x27;s all downhill. Asymmetry. Lock-in and portability.
Trust and privacy issues. Security perimeters. Unpredictable costs....<p>So the way forward is to render unto Caesar only the things that are
Caesar&#x27;s.... in other words, take the advantages of &quot;cloud&quot; when it
suits you, and then get the hell out of Dodge.<p>What is ongoing from that conversation is media companies being
interested in strategic planning to build, and even share, their own
distributed computing resources to pull back to once a technology is
off the ground.<p>Someone even mentioned that it&#x27;s time for a European Cloud initiative,<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6OL2XmlgpdA">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6OL2XmlgpdA</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bamazizi</author><text>Interesting to see this article again since it was the trigger of starting a homelab for me. After realizing cloud services are putting a major dent in my pocket to get a lousy startup idea off the ground, I started to wonder if there&#x27;s &quot;The Cheapest&quot; way? (I&#x27;m not cheap but I&#x27;m very frugal)<p>Nowadays internet speed is great to do self hosting. I have a business line internet at home with ~1gb up&amp;down! Bought couple of 6-7 year old enterprise Dell servers (2x12core xeon, 128gb ram each) and no longer pay any cloud provider ... i&#x27;m also hosting 2 backend solutions for mobile apps with decent traffic for friends&#x27; startups!<p>The learning experience has been tremendous! It has actually gotten a lot better and easier with new solutions coming out for homelabs. Get started with Proxmox clusters and go from there...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox (2021)</title><url>https://a16z.com/the-cost-of-cloud-a-trillion-dollar-paradox/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>p1necone</author><text>Yeah the delta in cost&#x2F;CPU&#x2F;memory&#x2F;storage between self hosting on second hand stuff and paying cloud services is <i>insane</i>. It&#x27;s a no brainer if your use case needs beefier hardware than the typical $5&#x2F;month VPS host and you don&#x27;t have enterprise level liability&#x2F;uptime expectations.<p>With stuff like proxmox you get a pretty similar level of ease of use to managed VM services too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bamazizi</author><text>Interesting to see this article again since it was the trigger of starting a homelab for me. After realizing cloud services are putting a major dent in my pocket to get a lousy startup idea off the ground, I started to wonder if there&#x27;s &quot;The Cheapest&quot; way? (I&#x27;m not cheap but I&#x27;m very frugal)<p>Nowadays internet speed is great to do self hosting. I have a business line internet at home with ~1gb up&amp;down! Bought couple of 6-7 year old enterprise Dell servers (2x12core xeon, 128gb ram each) and no longer pay any cloud provider ... i&#x27;m also hosting 2 backend solutions for mobile apps with decent traffic for friends&#x27; startups!<p>The learning experience has been tremendous! It has actually gotten a lot better and easier with new solutions coming out for homelabs. Get started with Proxmox clusters and go from there...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox (2021)</title><url>https://a16z.com/the-cost-of-cloud-a-trillion-dollar-paradox/</url></story> |
33,395,978 | 33,395,586 | 1 | 2 | 33,393,540 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>latchkey</author><text>I&#x27;m currently in the process of literally tearing down walls in my old house (built in the 40&#x27;s). I used to fear smashing into walls. Once you do a bit of drywall and mud yourself, you realize it isn&#x27;t that big of a deal. Everything I&#x27;ve learned has been off YT videos and there are some excellent channels with all of the professional tips and tricks. It isn&#x27;t rocket science by a long shot.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mr_sturd</author><text>I always end up green with envy that people seem to have pre-existing conduits in their walls for running new cables. There&#x27;s no way, in my old house, of doing this without some invasive smashing in to walls.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wiring my home with fiber</title><url>https://sschueller.github.io/posts/wiring-a-home-with-fiber/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pooper</author><text>&gt; I always end up green with envy that people seem to have pre-existing conduits in their walls for running new cables. There&#x27;s no way, in my old house, of doing this without some invasive smashing in to walls.<p>I don&#x27;t own a house and have never owned a house. This will probably sound stupid and I am sorry if this is something obvious.<p>Is it that my spouse will leave me or my parents will disown me if I run a conduit just hanging on a wall? What is this obsession with hiding all wiring within the drywall? What am I missing here?<p>It could be something as simple as a conduit like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;6X5of8Y.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;6X5of8Y.png</a><p>Not that I have a leg to stand on because I still can&#x27;t afford to buy a home outright (and at current rate, never will). I live in an apartment and I don&#x27;t make any changes to it. I cannot even imagine doing something simple like drill a hole on the door for a doorbell. So, I am definitely hypocritical when I say this. Maybe I am just being salty as a non-home owner. I feel like all of this comes from treating our homes as some kind of liquid asset that we must keep in pristine condition at all times so we can stage it and sell it at a moment&#x27;s notice.<p>If you own your own home, why not live in your home like you own your home? Run that conduit across all the walls (and through inside door frames or something like that if you must). If not, do you really own your own home? Why not just live with housing insecurity like I do?<p>Edit: spelling</text><parent_chain><item><author>mr_sturd</author><text>I always end up green with envy that people seem to have pre-existing conduits in their walls for running new cables. There&#x27;s no way, in my old house, of doing this without some invasive smashing in to walls.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wiring my home with fiber</title><url>https://sschueller.github.io/posts/wiring-a-home-with-fiber/</url></story> |
35,489,013 | 35,487,530 | 1 | 2 | 35,486,923 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kortex</author><text>&gt; Thus, opium alkaloids were detected in Late Bronze Age containers<p>&gt; different hallucinogenic compounds, mainly nicotine, tryptamines and tropane alkaloids have been chemically documented in Prehispanic artefacts from the Americas, and psychoactive compounds of Cannabis in archaeological wooden braziers from China.<p>&gt; The alkaloids ephedrine, atropine and scopolamine were detected, and their concentrations estimated [in human hair]<p>&gt; The results furnish direct evidence of the consumption of plant drugs and, more interestingly, they reveal the use of multiple psychoactive species.<p>Basically, we have long discovered &quot;drug paraphernalia&quot; and other adjacent materials, suggesting drug use (namely cannabis, tobacco, various psychoactive mushrooms, opium, various stimulants like areca and ephedra, deliriants like Datura, and of course alcohol). But we haven&#x27;t known for sure that these meant the drugs were consumed recreationally&#x2F;medicinally. This gives direct evidence the drugs were in fact consumed deliberately.<p>tl;dr - <i>Homo sapiens</i> got high.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age from human hair test</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31064-2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>I always wonder why nobody has made an argument that drug laws are unconstitutional since the 9th amendment states clearly that rights don&#x27;t need to be enumerated, and there&#x27;s abundant evidence of people making their own drug decisions prior to the existence of the USA.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age from human hair test</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31064-2</url></story> |
25,005,088 | 25,003,712 | 1 | 3 | 25,001,173 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>Housing is literally exclusively a supply and demand problem. If you want rent to go down, allow more building. End of story. There&#x27;s actually nothing else to it. Lower property values caused by an increase in supply will yield lower rents because rents are generally indexed to mortgage rates which are indexed to property values.<p>The problem is twofold.<p>1. Americans view property as an investment while also wanting it to be affordable. These are mutually exclusive. If you want something to be a good investment you want it to become less affordable over time.<p>2. Renters tend to be younger, transient, non-voters with weaker ties to the community. Landowners tend to be older, established voters with strong ties to the community. This means the city council panders to landowners, and they pass policies which prevent development.<p>SF is the worst for this, the city is basically unchanged since the 1970s to the absolute and sole benefit of landowners.<p>There are wonderful examples of cities which pretty much default-allow building housing, like Tokyo. Tokyo is <i>incredibly affordable</i>, downtown starter-home&#x2F;condos cost $200K USD, and people in Japan do not view property as an investment but rather as somewhere to live. More like a car.<p>Yes, prop 13 sucks, yes a land value tax is pointing in the right direction, yes rent control isn&#x27;t helping, but none of these things are a substitute for the simple unit economics of supply and demand. Anything other than permitting tons of new building is at best a band-aid over a hole in the dam.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rcpt</author><text>Luckily a San Franciscan figured it all out over one hundred years ago so we don&#x27;t have to wonder about this:<p>&gt; THE GREAT PROBLEM IS SOLVED. We are able to explain social phenomena that have appalled philanthropists and perplexed statesmen all over the civilized world. We have found the reason why wages constantly tend to a minimum, giving but a bare living, despite increase in productive power:<p>&gt; As productive power increases, rent tends to increase even more — constantly forcing down wages.<p>&gt; Advancing civilization tends to increase the power of human labor to satisfy human desires. We should be able to eliminate poverty. But workers cannot reap these benefits because they are intercepted. Land is necessary to labor. When it has been reduced to private ownership, the increased productivity of labor only increases rent. Thus, all the advantages of progress go to those who own land. Wages do not increase — wages cannot increase. The more labor produces, the more it must pay for the opportunity to make anything at all.<p>A land value tax fixes our problems but Californians went and voted in Prop 13 which is about as far from that as you can get. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.henrygeorge.org&#x2F;pchp23.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.henrygeorge.org&#x2F;pchp23.htm</a></text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>San Francisco&#x27;s solution to everything seems to be to just keep raising taxes, and throwing money at things which don&#x27;t work. At some point you have to realize that more money isn&#x27;t always the solution, you actually have to fix your beurocracy. It&#x27;s insane to me that the city with so many rich people and incredibly valuable companies is such a mess, your telling me that a small city with an incredibly wealthy population can&#x27;t figure out how to keep the tenderloin from being full of tents and open drug use? Or get some form of functioning public transit? Pretty pathetic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-05/san-francisco-voters-approve-taxes-on-ceos-big-businesses</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bhupy</author><text>A pet crusade of mine: California can pass a 100% (or close to that) land <i>appreciation</i> tax (capital gains tax on land), and that wouldn&#x27;t violate Prop 13. High land appreciation taxes are essentially indistinguishable from Georgist LVT. China taxes land appreciation between 30-60%.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rcpt</author><text>Luckily a San Franciscan figured it all out over one hundred years ago so we don&#x27;t have to wonder about this:<p>&gt; THE GREAT PROBLEM IS SOLVED. We are able to explain social phenomena that have appalled philanthropists and perplexed statesmen all over the civilized world. We have found the reason why wages constantly tend to a minimum, giving but a bare living, despite increase in productive power:<p>&gt; As productive power increases, rent tends to increase even more — constantly forcing down wages.<p>&gt; Advancing civilization tends to increase the power of human labor to satisfy human desires. We should be able to eliminate poverty. But workers cannot reap these benefits because they are intercepted. Land is necessary to labor. When it has been reduced to private ownership, the increased productivity of labor only increases rent. Thus, all the advantages of progress go to those who own land. Wages do not increase — wages cannot increase. The more labor produces, the more it must pay for the opportunity to make anything at all.<p>A land value tax fixes our problems but Californians went and voted in Prop 13 which is about as far from that as you can get. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.henrygeorge.org&#x2F;pchp23.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.henrygeorge.org&#x2F;pchp23.htm</a></text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>San Francisco&#x27;s solution to everything seems to be to just keep raising taxes, and throwing money at things which don&#x27;t work. At some point you have to realize that more money isn&#x27;t always the solution, you actually have to fix your beurocracy. It&#x27;s insane to me that the city with so many rich people and incredibly valuable companies is such a mess, your telling me that a small city with an incredibly wealthy population can&#x27;t figure out how to keep the tenderloin from being full of tents and open drug use? Or get some form of functioning public transit? Pretty pathetic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-05/san-francisco-voters-approve-taxes-on-ceos-big-businesses</url></story> |
11,858,251 | 11,857,941 | 1 | 2 | 11,857,674 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sotojuan</author><text>Even if you want NoSQL I&#x27;d use RethinkDB over Mongo any day. Way better query language, real-time support, and relational&#x2F;regular SQL-like stuff.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rethinkdb.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;comparison-tables&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rethinkdb.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;comparison-tables&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lossolo</author><text>I&#x27;ve just migrated one project from mongo to postgresql and i advise you to do the same. It was my mistake to use mongo, after I&#x27;ve found memory leak in cursors first day I&#x27;ve used the db which I&#x27;ve reported and they fixed it. It was 2015.. If you have a lot of relations in your data don&#x27;t use mongo, it&#x27;s just hype. You will end up with collections without relations and then do joins in your code instead of having db do it for you.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MongoDB queries don’t always return all matching documents</title><url>https://engineering.meteor.com/mongodb-queries-dont-always-return-all-matching-documents-654b6594a827#.s3ko3vfnx</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Joeboy</author><text>&gt; don&#x27;t use mongo, it&#x27;s just hype<p>I&#x27;m kind of curious as to where this hype is. I&#x27;ve almost never heard anybody say anything positive about mongodb. All I ever see is people saying it&#x27;s terrible &#x2F; hilarious for various reasons.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lossolo</author><text>I&#x27;ve just migrated one project from mongo to postgresql and i advise you to do the same. It was my mistake to use mongo, after I&#x27;ve found memory leak in cursors first day I&#x27;ve used the db which I&#x27;ve reported and they fixed it. It was 2015.. If you have a lot of relations in your data don&#x27;t use mongo, it&#x27;s just hype. You will end up with collections without relations and then do joins in your code instead of having db do it for you.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MongoDB queries don’t always return all matching documents</title><url>https://engineering.meteor.com/mongodb-queries-dont-always-return-all-matching-documents-654b6594a827#.s3ko3vfnx</url></story> |
2,548,496 | 2,548,253 | 1 | 2 | 2,547,986 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wazoox</author><text>I propose an enhancement (stolen from Roland MRC operating system of yore): instead of a x to mark a note, use numbers from 0 to 9, to allow for varying velocity (0 sending a note-off, useful for many drum effects)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beats Drum Machine</title><url>http://beatsdrummachine.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>orls</author><text>Can't wait till people are composing full songs as a series of YAML files and samples, then publishing them on Github.<p>After all, there's not a huge amount of difference, conceptually, between remixing and forking!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beats Drum Machine</title><url>http://beatsdrummachine.com/</url></story> |
18,158,845 | 18,157,724 | 1 | 3 | 18,157,090 | 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>mook</author><text>As an occasional driver (I take the transit more), yes please take up the whole lane; is safer for both sides. If I find you too slow I can overtake you when safe (either in a different lane or in the opposing lane when safe). Essentially, treat you like a slow moving farm vehicle.<p>However, please do not lane split even when it&#x27;s legal to do so. I can&#x27;t see out the far side of the vehicle, so you&#x27;re basically somewhere I have less control over. Further, if you take a whole lane _then_ lane split at the red light, it will anger me and I will end up driving more aggressively, which is rather terrible for safety. If I can tolerate you being slow in front of me, you can tolerate me being slow to accelerate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gpm</author><text>As a cyclist - just don&#x27;t ride in reach of car doors. If that means taking the lane and blocking cars, do so.<p>At any speed trying to figure out whether or not someone is in it in time to slow down is impossible. Even if you slow down to a crawl as you pass someone sitting in the car you are still relying on them not opening it into your side. If you are right beside the cars you have no space whatsoever to swerve, because swerving towards faster traffic is suicidal.</text></item><item><author>emptybits</author><text>The Dutch Reach is a reach to ask for, IMO. I write this as a cyclist living in Vancouver (one city named in the article) who has been doored and nearly doored. IME, shoulder checks <i>while actually driving</i> seem to be a dying art form. So asking for a while-parked check like the Dutch Reach ... seems optimistic. But no harm in trying. The illustration is great. I applaud all efforts to make this technique more known.<p>Fellow cyclists, you already know this, but please watch sideview mirrors of parked vehicles and all other signs of people and passengers and assume the worst.<p>Infrastructure should, IMO, allow an extra foot or two in lane designs especially when they are adjacent to different users (i.e. motorist, cyclist, pedestrian). This allows for swervy cyclists, swervy motorists, bad parkers, and people &quot;not from here&quot; a safety buffer. The latter group is one you&#x27;re just not going to ever reach with urban education like the article, yet they are a significant vehicular presence in a many popular cities, whether they&#x27;re driving their own vehicles, an unfamiliar rental, or getting out of a taxi cab.<p>I&#x27;ll give an example. All infrastructure design decisions have pros and cons. Here&#x27;s a style of bike lane on the &quot;passenger&quot; side that catches motorists off guard (when they park too far to the right, near the lane) and passengers off guard because neither expect to find a cyclist on their right.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.ca&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@49.2790648,-123.1195244,3a,75y,214.64h,71.34t&#x2F;data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7rZLbmXvAV0-H9ApXRwRcg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.ca&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@49.2790648,-123.1195244,3a,75y,2...</a><p>How about some opening-door-tech that alerts you quickly and loudly when an object approaches your door as you begin to swing it open? Good for passing traffic, bicycles, etc.<p>BTW, I appreciate that cycling news shows up on HN from time to time. It&#x27;s truly a civilized activity and IMO has an important role in the future of cities. Keep pedalling. :-)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Dutch Reach: A No-Tech Way to Save Bicyclists’ Lives</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/smarter-living/the-dutch-reach-save-bicyclists-lives-bicycle-safety-drivers.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>everyone</author><text>This. On a bike you are a road user. Take as much space as is safe.. Also be as visible as possible.<p>A motorist is many many times more likely to kill you unintentionally through negligence, rather than intentionally through psychopathic rage induced by having to slow down behind you.<p>Also. You payed for those roads via taxes, use them (no, road vehicle tax does not cover a fraction of road building and maintenance in any country)</text><parent_chain><item><author>gpm</author><text>As a cyclist - just don&#x27;t ride in reach of car doors. If that means taking the lane and blocking cars, do so.<p>At any speed trying to figure out whether or not someone is in it in time to slow down is impossible. Even if you slow down to a crawl as you pass someone sitting in the car you are still relying on them not opening it into your side. If you are right beside the cars you have no space whatsoever to swerve, because swerving towards faster traffic is suicidal.</text></item><item><author>emptybits</author><text>The Dutch Reach is a reach to ask for, IMO. I write this as a cyclist living in Vancouver (one city named in the article) who has been doored and nearly doored. IME, shoulder checks <i>while actually driving</i> seem to be a dying art form. So asking for a while-parked check like the Dutch Reach ... seems optimistic. But no harm in trying. The illustration is great. I applaud all efforts to make this technique more known.<p>Fellow cyclists, you already know this, but please watch sideview mirrors of parked vehicles and all other signs of people and passengers and assume the worst.<p>Infrastructure should, IMO, allow an extra foot or two in lane designs especially when they are adjacent to different users (i.e. motorist, cyclist, pedestrian). This allows for swervy cyclists, swervy motorists, bad parkers, and people &quot;not from here&quot; a safety buffer. The latter group is one you&#x27;re just not going to ever reach with urban education like the article, yet they are a significant vehicular presence in a many popular cities, whether they&#x27;re driving their own vehicles, an unfamiliar rental, or getting out of a taxi cab.<p>I&#x27;ll give an example. All infrastructure design decisions have pros and cons. Here&#x27;s a style of bike lane on the &quot;passenger&quot; side that catches motorists off guard (when they park too far to the right, near the lane) and passengers off guard because neither expect to find a cyclist on their right.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.ca&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@49.2790648,-123.1195244,3a,75y,214.64h,71.34t&#x2F;data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7rZLbmXvAV0-H9ApXRwRcg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.ca&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@49.2790648,-123.1195244,3a,75y,2...</a><p>How about some opening-door-tech that alerts you quickly and loudly when an object approaches your door as you begin to swing it open? Good for passing traffic, bicycles, etc.<p>BTW, I appreciate that cycling news shows up on HN from time to time. It&#x27;s truly a civilized activity and IMO has an important role in the future of cities. Keep pedalling. :-)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Dutch Reach: A No-Tech Way to Save Bicyclists’ Lives</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/smarter-living/the-dutch-reach-save-bicyclists-lives-bicycle-safety-drivers.html</url></story> |
25,012,151 | 25,011,827 | 1 | 3 | 25,008,159 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dweekly</author><text>Pay at Intel is about half of FAANG, can confirm. They seem weirdly proud of this and then weirdly confused and disappointed when great people leave.</text><parent_chain><item><author>graton</author><text>I think they have lost a lot of their best employees because their pay is not that great. They aimed for paying at the 50th percentile in wages and the top companies come in and can offer double or more their current pay.<p>Doesn&#x27;t help they switched from large cubes with five-foot high cubicle walls which did a good job on minimizing noise and visual distractions to having cubicle walls with a height of about 3-4 feet high and much smaller. Plus they installed sit-stand desks and you have people stand and make phone calls that can be heard 30 feet away. Doesn&#x27;t help for concentrating on problems.</text></item><item><author>nxc18</author><text>Is there good coverage of how Intel became so uncompetitive? My instinct is to say this is just the natural result of the presence of MBAs who are trained to focus _exclusively_ on this quarter&#x27;s results so ignore R&amp;D investment and also shit on employees by doing gimmicks like hotdesking to pinch pennies.<p>I&#x27;m willing to bet my intuition is wrong, especially given my extremely deep bias against MBAs and &#x27;this quarter&#x27; thinking. Any great sources on the full story?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake</title><url>https://semiaccurate.com/2020/10/29/intels-palpable-desperation-on-display-with-rocket-lake/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jp42</author><text>This is so true. I have friends whose managers told them - &quot;the only way to get more pay is to leave intel&quot;, &quot;our hands are tied, we cant give more pay or promo&quot;, &quot; to get more pay and promotion, one option is to leave intel and then come back&quot;...all of these folks are in FAANG now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>graton</author><text>I think they have lost a lot of their best employees because their pay is not that great. They aimed for paying at the 50th percentile in wages and the top companies come in and can offer double or more their current pay.<p>Doesn&#x27;t help they switched from large cubes with five-foot high cubicle walls which did a good job on minimizing noise and visual distractions to having cubicle walls with a height of about 3-4 feet high and much smaller. Plus they installed sit-stand desks and you have people stand and make phone calls that can be heard 30 feet away. Doesn&#x27;t help for concentrating on problems.</text></item><item><author>nxc18</author><text>Is there good coverage of how Intel became so uncompetitive? My instinct is to say this is just the natural result of the presence of MBAs who are trained to focus _exclusively_ on this quarter&#x27;s results so ignore R&amp;D investment and also shit on employees by doing gimmicks like hotdesking to pinch pennies.<p>I&#x27;m willing to bet my intuition is wrong, especially given my extremely deep bias against MBAs and &#x27;this quarter&#x27; thinking. Any great sources on the full story?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake</title><url>https://semiaccurate.com/2020/10/29/intels-palpable-desperation-on-display-with-rocket-lake/</url></story> |
20,630,164 | 20,630,307 | 1 | 2 | 20,629,464 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Rattled</author><text>I was told of Algebra coming from Al-Jabr meaning &quot;number games&quot;. I was surprised I didn&#x27;t see this mentioned in the article, until I found the book mentioned in Al-Khwarizmi&#x27;s biography [1]. The book&#x27;s title is &quot;Hisab al-jabr w&#x27;al-muqabala&quot; but no translation is given and Google&#x27;s translation &quot;Al Jaber account and interview&quot; is not helpful. Can anyone confirm or deny the explanation I was given?<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk&#x2F;Mathematicians&#x2F;Al-Khwarizmi.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk&#x2F;Mathematicians&#x2F;Al-Kh...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>thepete2</author><text>The word Algorithm comes from a mathematician named al-Khwarizmi. Many words that begin with Al (Arabic definite article) are of Arabic origin. Alcohol is another one :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)</title><url>http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Arabic_mathematics.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>marzell</author><text>Alhambra is another example.<p>This is also the origin of some definite articles in romance languages - el in Spanish and l&#x27; in French. So Alhambra in Spain might have been called Al Hambra or similar instead.<p>Interestingly, in Persian (which uses Arabic script and shares some loanwords) which is a totally different language, the definite article is assumed, and it instead has an explicit indefinite article (-i or -yi) added to a noun&#x2F;adjective.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thepete2</author><text>The word Algorithm comes from a mathematician named al-Khwarizmi. Many words that begin with Al (Arabic definite article) are of Arabic origin. Alcohol is another one :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)</title><url>http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Arabic_mathematics.html</url></story> |
24,816,363 | 24,816,473 | 1 | 3 | 24,815,099 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>goodcanadian</author><text><i>You see this in the way we celebrated &quot;liberating&quot; Grenada.</i><p>A nitpick, but Grenada celebrates the US liberation with a Thanksgiving Day holiday, on October 25:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thanksgiving_Day#Grenada" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thanksgiving_Day#Grenada</a><p>Appearances at the time were misleading. It is one of the few interventions that I think the US got right.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Zafira</author><text>You can see the failure of American leadership and an inability to engage in global crises in a decisive manner since Vietnam due to our inability to get over our incompetence and total misunderstanding of the political situation during the war there.<p>I have a strong suspicion that American foreign policy wonks still don&#x27;t understand why we failed in Vietnam; why applying the lens of containment and the same policy everywhere was an asinine idea cloaked in arrogance that has haunted us for decades because of our inability to accept our mistakes. I think this refusal manifests itself as a steady refusal to engage in well-reasoned policy engagements and wasted opportunities to exert US influence in a positive direction.<p>You see this in the way we celebrated &quot;liberating&quot; Grenada. You see it with the weak humanitarian effort in Somalia. You see it with the increasing reliance on air power and a failure to have firm policy objectives when we do commit land troops.</text></item><item><author>roenxi</author><text>This has been a consistent theme to responses to major crisis in US has faced in my lifetime - every time, after the crisis the situation is worse than it was before the crisis. Not because of the crisis, but because of the response. 9&#x2F;11, the 2008 recession (QE is still with us) and now COVID.<p>The scars from the first two really should have healed a long time ago. It&#x27;ll be a pretty dire future if the COVID response isn&#x27;t completely unwound, some serious compromises to freedom were made through this.</text></item><item><author>econol0dge</author><text>From the article, it sounds like <i>our response to</i> the pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights.<p>The virus is not agentic, and what they describe are intentional acts by human beings.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights</title><url>https://www.economist.com/international/2020/10/17/the-pandemic-has-eroded-democracy-and-respect-for-human-rights</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>Domestic policy is the real problem. US foreign policy is always an extension of domestic policy anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Zafira</author><text>You can see the failure of American leadership and an inability to engage in global crises in a decisive manner since Vietnam due to our inability to get over our incompetence and total misunderstanding of the political situation during the war there.<p>I have a strong suspicion that American foreign policy wonks still don&#x27;t understand why we failed in Vietnam; why applying the lens of containment and the same policy everywhere was an asinine idea cloaked in arrogance that has haunted us for decades because of our inability to accept our mistakes. I think this refusal manifests itself as a steady refusal to engage in well-reasoned policy engagements and wasted opportunities to exert US influence in a positive direction.<p>You see this in the way we celebrated &quot;liberating&quot; Grenada. You see it with the weak humanitarian effort in Somalia. You see it with the increasing reliance on air power and a failure to have firm policy objectives when we do commit land troops.</text></item><item><author>roenxi</author><text>This has been a consistent theme to responses to major crisis in US has faced in my lifetime - every time, after the crisis the situation is worse than it was before the crisis. Not because of the crisis, but because of the response. 9&#x2F;11, the 2008 recession (QE is still with us) and now COVID.<p>The scars from the first two really should have healed a long time ago. It&#x27;ll be a pretty dire future if the COVID response isn&#x27;t completely unwound, some serious compromises to freedom were made through this.</text></item><item><author>econol0dge</author><text>From the article, it sounds like <i>our response to</i> the pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights.<p>The virus is not agentic, and what they describe are intentional acts by human beings.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights</title><url>https://www.economist.com/international/2020/10/17/the-pandemic-has-eroded-democracy-and-respect-for-human-rights</url></story> |
23,865,746 | 23,864,479 | 1 | 2 | 23,858,590 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reidjs</author><text>I vaguely remember a post from you on reddit or HN or somewhere a long time ago when you were first getting ready for this trip and the responses were like &quot;You&#x27;re going to get robbed&#x2F;break down in the middle of nowhere&#x2F;You won&#x27;t find jeep parts in Africa&#x2F;Why not drive a land cruiser&#x2F;you will die in the Sahara.&quot; Glad to see you proved the naysayers wrong.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>Playing dumb works extremely well to get out of extortion attempts too.<p>I&#x27;ve driven through a stack of countries notorious for extortion by Police and Military - Congo, Nigeria, Honduras, Kenya, Guinea - just to name a few.<p>One of my tactics to avoid paying a cent is playing dumb. It&#x27;s super easy when they don&#x27;t speak English. I do my best to understand their (French&#x2F;Spanish&#x2F;Portuguese&#x2F;Whatever), all the while remaining very polite and friendly. It&#x27;s a real shame when I don&#x27;t understand they want money, and virtually always they wave me through in disgust.<p>On a two year drive from Alaska to Argentina I paid one $5 bribe.<p>In three years around Africa through 35 countries I paid once in Ivory Coast, because I was too big for my boots and let on that I speak French.<p>Playing dumb has a lot of advantages.<p>For anyone interested, here&#x27;s me dealing with a real-life extortion attempt in Nigeria [1]. This was in Nigeria, so it&#x27;s all in English, but the script is identical in any corrupt country.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7RTlDa2cg0o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7RTlDa2cg0o</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Incredibly Stupid One</title><url>https://www.pownetwork.org/bios/h/h135.htm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>siegfried-en</author><text>That was an incredible fun ride! Thanks for sharing</text><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>Playing dumb works extremely well to get out of extortion attempts too.<p>I&#x27;ve driven through a stack of countries notorious for extortion by Police and Military - Congo, Nigeria, Honduras, Kenya, Guinea - just to name a few.<p>One of my tactics to avoid paying a cent is playing dumb. It&#x27;s super easy when they don&#x27;t speak English. I do my best to understand their (French&#x2F;Spanish&#x2F;Portuguese&#x2F;Whatever), all the while remaining very polite and friendly. It&#x27;s a real shame when I don&#x27;t understand they want money, and virtually always they wave me through in disgust.<p>On a two year drive from Alaska to Argentina I paid one $5 bribe.<p>In three years around Africa through 35 countries I paid once in Ivory Coast, because I was too big for my boots and let on that I speak French.<p>Playing dumb has a lot of advantages.<p>For anyone interested, here&#x27;s me dealing with a real-life extortion attempt in Nigeria [1]. This was in Nigeria, so it&#x27;s all in English, but the script is identical in any corrupt country.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7RTlDa2cg0o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7RTlDa2cg0o</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Incredibly Stupid One</title><url>https://www.pownetwork.org/bios/h/h135.htm</url></story> |
13,611,374 | 13,610,549 | 1 | 2 | 13,609,633 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Epenthesis</author><text>I mean, this is the fundamental crux of these CoL discussions: How much does the quality of your residence matter to you?<p>People try and mechanically translate equivalent lifestyles from place to place, but that&#x27;s probably not the best way of analyzing things. Yes, if you choose to have a midwestern lifestyle in SF, it will be ludicrously expensive. However, you don&#x27;t have to. If instead, you&#x27;re able to replace the utility you&#x27;d get for a nice place with the activities&#x2F;amenities SF has and a small town doesn&#x27;t, the cost differential is not nearly as stark.<p>Obviously, some people do value a nice home much more than anything they could get from living in SF, and that&#x27;s fine. But that&#x27;s not everyone, which is important to keep in mind when understanding why people move to the bay (or big cities in general).</text><parent_chain><item><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>&gt; We live in a 680 sq ft one-bedroom apartment in an older development ($2200&#x2F;mo).<p>Whoa, that&#x27;s almost double the estimated mortgage for the 5 bedroom houses with an acre of land my family has been looking at purchasing.<p>I&#x27;ll never move to the SF Bay Area. I encourage others not to, either. Get the companies there to open up to remote employees instead.</text></item><item><author>kcorbitt</author><text>My commute is a 15-minute walk, or 5-minute bike ride. :) I chose the apartment based on proximity to work -- could have saved $100-200&#x2F;mo with a longer commute, but the savings would have been more than eaten up by the gas&#x2F;car maintenance costs and I hate commuting. I still own a car, but don&#x27;t use it to get to work.<p>We live in a 680 sq ft one-bedroom apartment in an older development ($2200&#x2F;mo). We&#x27;ll have to upgrade when my baby outgrows his large walk-in closet, but it fits our needs fine for now.</text></item><item><author>segmondy</author><text>What&#x27;s your commute like? My friend that moved there who tries to convince me to move out there, has a 2hr one way commute. How many sq feet is your living space for you and your family?</text></item><item><author>kcorbitt</author><text>This analysis may be reasonable as far as it goes, but it can still make financial sense for someone to live and work in the Bay Area. I recently took a new job near San Francisco paying ~$160k. Living cheaply, our actual consumption for my family of 3 is about ~50k a year. (Yes, this is possible -- and life can still be enjoyable if you like spending time in nature&#x2F;other inexpensive activities.) After taxes, that leaves me $50-60k a year to invest&#x2F;save for retirement.<p>Compare that with a salary of $105k in inexpensive Salt Lake City, which is where my second-choice offer was. After taxes and consumption for a similar lifestyle, I&#x27;d be saving somewhere around $30-40k&#x2F;year, a substantial decrease. Not to mention the fact that if the startup that made that offer went under, it would be much harder to find another interesting job with similar compensation in Salt Lake than San Francisco.<p>I don&#x27;t plan on living in the Bay Area long-term, but in the early stages of my career I can accumulate a lot more savings and also grow my skills faster by living here than probably anywhere else in the world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2017 State of Global Tech Salaries</title><url>https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017</url></story> | <instructions>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_gastropod</author><text>Yes. Urban areas are typically more expensive than rural areas. Maybe if urban residents stopped subsidizing unsustainable rural living, this price gap would shrink.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>&gt; We live in a 680 sq ft one-bedroom apartment in an older development ($2200&#x2F;mo).<p>Whoa, that&#x27;s almost double the estimated mortgage for the 5 bedroom houses with an acre of land my family has been looking at purchasing.<p>I&#x27;ll never move to the SF Bay Area. I encourage others not to, either. Get the companies there to open up to remote employees instead.</text></item><item><author>kcorbitt</author><text>My commute is a 15-minute walk, or 5-minute bike ride. :) I chose the apartment based on proximity to work -- could have saved $100-200&#x2F;mo with a longer commute, but the savings would have been more than eaten up by the gas&#x2F;car maintenance costs and I hate commuting. I still own a car, but don&#x27;t use it to get to work.<p>We live in a 680 sq ft one-bedroom apartment in an older development ($2200&#x2F;mo). We&#x27;ll have to upgrade when my baby outgrows his large walk-in closet, but it fits our needs fine for now.</text></item><item><author>segmondy</author><text>What&#x27;s your commute like? My friend that moved there who tries to convince me to move out there, has a 2hr one way commute. How many sq feet is your living space for you and your family?</text></item><item><author>kcorbitt</author><text>This analysis may be reasonable as far as it goes, but it can still make financial sense for someone to live and work in the Bay Area. I recently took a new job near San Francisco paying ~$160k. Living cheaply, our actual consumption for my family of 3 is about ~50k a year. (Yes, this is possible -- and life can still be enjoyable if you like spending time in nature&#x2F;other inexpensive activities.) After taxes, that leaves me $50-60k a year to invest&#x2F;save for retirement.<p>Compare that with a salary of $105k in inexpensive Salt Lake City, which is where my second-choice offer was. After taxes and consumption for a similar lifestyle, I&#x27;d be saving somewhere around $30-40k&#x2F;year, a substantial decrease. Not to mention the fact that if the startup that made that offer went under, it would be much harder to find another interesting job with similar compensation in Salt Lake than San Francisco.<p>I don&#x27;t plan on living in the Bay Area long-term, but in the early stages of my career I can accumulate a lot more savings and also grow my skills faster by living here than probably anywhere else in the world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2017 State of Global Tech Salaries</title><url>https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017</url></story> |
14,304,657 | 14,303,043 | 1 | 2 | 14,299,679 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alasdair_</author><text>Imagine ten years from now you decide to run for some kind of important political office.<p>Imagine your opponent had access to every single search query, email and message you had ever sent.<p>Imagine they had access to all of the GPS data from your smartphone so that they could tell exactly where you went each day, how long you spent there and (importantly) which other people were nearby.<p>Correlate all that with all of the things you&#x27;ve ever bought because your credit card company sold that info years ago.<p>Add in all the data from your spouse, your children and your closes family and friends.<p>Now hand it to the people that are trying to smear your reputation in the worst possible way.<p>You can see how easy it would be to sway elections this way. Even if right now it wasn&#x27;t something you cared much about - this data is collected <i>forever</i> and I doubt you know exactly how your life is likely to be ten, twenty, thirty or more years from now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>apetresc</author><text>Okay, I&#x27;ll bite - what kinds of things do I not &quot;understand is actually happening&quot; in terms of what companies like Google and Facebook do with my data? I&#x27;m a reasonably technical person and I honestly believe the &quot;tradeoffs&quot; I&#x27;m making with companies like that are firmly in my favor.<p>It&#x27;s not the first time I&#x27;ve asked people who seemed convinced that I was in some sort of abusive Stockholm-syndrome relationship with Google&#x2F;FB&#x2F;etc to explain what exactly is so bad about the metadata packages they&#x27;re selling. The only convincing arguments I&#x27;ve ever heard have centered around insurance companies denying me coverage based on risk factors I&#x27;m revealing, but I&#x27;m pretty sure nobody is actually doing that. Everything else basically just boils down to &quot;they get to show you better ads&quot; which honestly seems like a win-win to me.</text></item><item><author>_jal</author><text>As Bruce Schneier used to say, give people the option between security and .gifs of dancing pigs, they will take the pigs every time.<p>As abused as they are, internet users need to build up some healthy &quot;buyer beware&quot; instincts around the tradeoffs. They&#x27;ll tell Facebook things they&#x27;d never physically say in front of strangers due to the bait-and-switch feeling of talking to friends, forgetting the panopticon around them.<p>I think part of this is the mystery surrounding data practices - people fall for come-ons they wouldn&#x27;t accept if they understood what was actually happening. So more and louder talk about things like unroll.me is good - if people hear more about others feeling burned by the bait-and-switch, they&#x27;ll hopefully be more careful, because they see the results of accepting that anodyne &quot;may share with trusted partners&quot; language.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>I think the article touches upon a key problem: even if some people are in principle willing to sacrifice some privacy in order to get a product for free, it should be required to state what data is shared with whom in clear human language (and not in a 20 page wall of legalese).<p>The relation between the user and a service is now completely asymmetrical: it is hard to know what your data is used for. It does not help that the legalese often boils down to &#x27;you will sell your soul&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/magazine/how-privacy-became-a-commodity-for-the-rich-and-powerful.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>aqsalose</author><text>&gt;Everything else basically just boils down to &quot;they get to show you better ads&quot; which honestly seems like a win-win to me.<p>I am not really sure if targeted ads, targeted news, targeted posts, targeted <i>everything</i> in social media is a good thing for a society in the long run. The physical reality is still the same for us; it would be great if we all lived in the same mental reality, too.<p>On a personal level, while some of the advertising is good (it&#x27;s useful knowledge to know which online bookstores ship to my country and what are their prices), I&#x27;ve always found the idea of advertising bit scary. A certain kind of optimized stimuli will make me some percentage point more like likely to want to buy a some kind thing I did not want before? Brr. I want more control of what I want.<p>And some tradeoffs are not about the data. I&#x27;ve also noticed that an infinitely long feed that you can scroll and scroll ... is slightly addictive. I&#x27;ve read that it is so on purpose: all social media platforms popular today make money by advertising, or in other words, by having their users spend their time procrastinating on Twitter&#x2F;FB&#x2F;etc (so that they see the ads). I don&#x27;t think this is a net benefit to individual users or the society as a whole, either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>apetresc</author><text>Okay, I&#x27;ll bite - what kinds of things do I not &quot;understand is actually happening&quot; in terms of what companies like Google and Facebook do with my data? I&#x27;m a reasonably technical person and I honestly believe the &quot;tradeoffs&quot; I&#x27;m making with companies like that are firmly in my favor.<p>It&#x27;s not the first time I&#x27;ve asked people who seemed convinced that I was in some sort of abusive Stockholm-syndrome relationship with Google&#x2F;FB&#x2F;etc to explain what exactly is so bad about the metadata packages they&#x27;re selling. The only convincing arguments I&#x27;ve ever heard have centered around insurance companies denying me coverage based on risk factors I&#x27;m revealing, but I&#x27;m pretty sure nobody is actually doing that. Everything else basically just boils down to &quot;they get to show you better ads&quot; which honestly seems like a win-win to me.</text></item><item><author>_jal</author><text>As Bruce Schneier used to say, give people the option between security and .gifs of dancing pigs, they will take the pigs every time.<p>As abused as they are, internet users need to build up some healthy &quot;buyer beware&quot; instincts around the tradeoffs. They&#x27;ll tell Facebook things they&#x27;d never physically say in front of strangers due to the bait-and-switch feeling of talking to friends, forgetting the panopticon around them.<p>I think part of this is the mystery surrounding data practices - people fall for come-ons they wouldn&#x27;t accept if they understood what was actually happening. So more and louder talk about things like unroll.me is good - if people hear more about others feeling burned by the bait-and-switch, they&#x27;ll hopefully be more careful, because they see the results of accepting that anodyne &quot;may share with trusted partners&quot; language.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>I think the article touches upon a key problem: even if some people are in principle willing to sacrifice some privacy in order to get a product for free, it should be required to state what data is shared with whom in clear human language (and not in a 20 page wall of legalese).<p>The relation between the user and a service is now completely asymmetrical: it is hard to know what your data is used for. It does not help that the legalese often boils down to &#x27;you will sell your soul&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/magazine/how-privacy-became-a-commodity-for-the-rich-and-powerful.html</url></story> |
40,529,550 | 40,529,127 | 1 | 3 | 40,528,766 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimt1234</author><text>After my little sister had her first child and realized how expensive baby stuff is, she started a lucrative side-hustle and ran with it for years. Basically, she bought baby stuff from a warehouse that got their inventory from returns at large retailers like Target and Walmart. She focused almost entirely on baby strollers, but also backyard swing sets for kids, and got it all for pennies-on-the-dollar. She became friendly with the customer service repos at the stroller manufacturers and could usually get replacement parts for free (it&#x27;s a warranty replacement if the service rep says it is). She knew all the stroller model numbers and their associated various part numbers. She got really good at repairing the strollers in her garage, and then flipping them on Craigslist. Her garage looked like a baby stroller showroom. She made decent money doing it, but the best part is her &quot;customers&quot; (other new mothers, most of them poor) were always so happy and appreciative because of the deal they were getting. Everyone was happy.<p>The real secret sauce to her side-hustle was the relationship she had with the lady who managed the warehouse where she bought the baby stuff. The warehouses usually have auctions on large lots or pallets of stuff; you bid on whatever&#x27;s on the pallet, you&#x27;ve got no choice. The lady used to let my sister come to the warehouse periodically (usually just before a big auction) and cherrypick what she wanted, which was always the baby strollers and swing sets. The side-hustle wouldn&#x27;t have worked without that. (My sister (and her husband) used to flip houses, too, and I think she sold the warehouse lady a house.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Target selling its excess inventory on eBay and Poshmark?</title><url>https://www.modernretail.co/technology/is-target-selling-its-excess-inventory-on-ebay-poshmark/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>daveguy</author><text>&gt; A Target spokesperson confirmed to Modern Retail that the company that runs the Bullseye Deals account does buy salvage merchandise from Target and sells it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Target selling its excess inventory on eBay and Poshmark?</title><url>https://www.modernretail.co/technology/is-target-selling-its-excess-inventory-on-ebay-poshmark/</url></story> |
27,316,173 | 27,316,112 | 1 | 2 | 27,314,922 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wincy</author><text>Hey it did turn out the giant squids were totally real though! So that’s pretty neat. When I was born less than 40 years ago it wasn’t known if they were an actual species.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>That&#x27;s the main thing I found funny.<p>Back in the day of only a handful of newspapers and of 1 camera per 1 million people (at least on the average day, the average person wouldn&#x27;t lug their camera around with them), we had sightings of Yeti, Bigfoot, Nessie, El Chupacabra, etc.<p>Now we have the internet, an unstoppable torrent of crappy news and the mother of all tabloids, everyone has a high resolution camera in their pockets at all times, and cryptoids are all but gone.<p>I would have expected 16k HDR resolution photos of Yeti by now.<p>I feel betrayed! :-p</text></item><item><author>bob33212</author><text>So there are really two options here. Either the instruments used to detect #1 and #2 are reporting inaccurate data, OR technology far beyond what the public knows about exists and has only been seen under circumstances where no one had a high resolution camera to get a detailed picture. #2 seems unlikely because the availably of high resolution cameras has gone up a ton in the past 10 years ( cell phones &#x2F; satelites ), but a clear picture of a UFO has not shown up.</text></item><item><author>tristanj</author><text>That article completely ignores the eyewitness testimony from the navy pilots of the Tic Tac incident where they visually identify that the Tic Tac:<p>1) can hover a few meters above the ocean without generating rotor downwash<p>2) can accelerate away at 100+g<p>Both of those rule out any known drone or helicopter. David Fravor, one of the pilots, explains this in an interview here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E</a></text></item><item><author>NoGravitas</author><text>Looks like the dominant explanation is that some adversary is using (relatively) cheap drones to get data on the sensitivity of US Naval radar systems: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedrive.com&#x2F;the-war-zone&#x2F;40054&#x2F;adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedrive.com&#x2F;the-war-zone&#x2F;40054&#x2F;adversary-drones...</a><p>They don&#x27;t even have to be all that high-tech; the US was doing similar things in the 1960s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Radar data confirms: USS Omaha was surrounded by swarm of UFOs</title><url>https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/ufos-swarm-uss-omaha/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>__abc</author><text>my kids ask me if I <i>believe</i> and I tell them I used to. However, given the HDR phone in everyones pocket for a decade+ and no photos of a ghost, alien, saucer, cryptid ????? I am now a non believer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>That&#x27;s the main thing I found funny.<p>Back in the day of only a handful of newspapers and of 1 camera per 1 million people (at least on the average day, the average person wouldn&#x27;t lug their camera around with them), we had sightings of Yeti, Bigfoot, Nessie, El Chupacabra, etc.<p>Now we have the internet, an unstoppable torrent of crappy news and the mother of all tabloids, everyone has a high resolution camera in their pockets at all times, and cryptoids are all but gone.<p>I would have expected 16k HDR resolution photos of Yeti by now.<p>I feel betrayed! :-p</text></item><item><author>bob33212</author><text>So there are really two options here. Either the instruments used to detect #1 and #2 are reporting inaccurate data, OR technology far beyond what the public knows about exists and has only been seen under circumstances where no one had a high resolution camera to get a detailed picture. #2 seems unlikely because the availably of high resolution cameras has gone up a ton in the past 10 years ( cell phones &#x2F; satelites ), but a clear picture of a UFO has not shown up.</text></item><item><author>tristanj</author><text>That article completely ignores the eyewitness testimony from the navy pilots of the Tic Tac incident where they visually identify that the Tic Tac:<p>1) can hover a few meters above the ocean without generating rotor downwash<p>2) can accelerate away at 100+g<p>Both of those rule out any known drone or helicopter. David Fravor, one of the pilots, explains this in an interview here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E</a></text></item><item><author>NoGravitas</author><text>Looks like the dominant explanation is that some adversary is using (relatively) cheap drones to get data on the sensitivity of US Naval radar systems: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedrive.com&#x2F;the-war-zone&#x2F;40054&#x2F;adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedrive.com&#x2F;the-war-zone&#x2F;40054&#x2F;adversary-drones...</a><p>They don&#x27;t even have to be all that high-tech; the US was doing similar things in the 1960s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Radar data confirms: USS Omaha was surrounded by swarm of UFOs</title><url>https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/ufos-swarm-uss-omaha/</url></story> |
12,645,070 | 12,644,184 | 1 | 2 | 12,642,901 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DashRattlesnake</author><text>&gt; On my Nexus 4, this is no longer the case as you cannot remove Google&#x27;s apps and they frequently require updates<p>While I don&#x27;t think you can properly &quot;uninstall&quot; Google+ and Hangouts, you can &quot;disable&quot; them, which makes them inaccessible. I don&#x27;t think you get updates pushed for disabled apps, either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arkitaip</author><text>Software is key and one of the selling point of Google made phones, like the Nexus 4, was the promise of a lightweight android installation with minimal apps. On my Nexus 4, this is no longer the case as you cannot remove Google&#x27;s apps and they frequently require updates [1]. Add the fact that the really cool new Android features, e.g. Google Now, are poorly supported outside the US, and I&#x27;m not sure my next phone will be a Google phone.<p>[1] Current list of these unremovable apps on my Nexus 4: Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Spreadsheets, Google Presentations, Cloud Print, E-mail, Google Now, Google Drive, Google Earth, Google Indic Keyboard, Google Keep, Google News &amp; Weather, Google Play Books, Google Play Movies, Google Play Music, Google Play Games, Google Play News kiosk, Google street view, Google talkback, Google text to speech, Google+, Hangouts, Google Wifi connectivity, Youtube.</text></item><item><author>Ambroos</author><text>I just can&#x27;t help but notice all phone cameras right now are incredibly close in quality, and the differences don&#x27;t really matter anymore. The software experience has become the only important thing.<p>There&#x27;s an easy explanation for it too. Pretty much every single high-end phone released in the last two years uses a Sony sensor. They completely dominate the smartphone sensor market right now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pixel smartphone camera review: At the top</title><url>https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Pixel-smartphone-camera-review-At-the-top</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reactor</author><text>May be for Nexus 4, but I can uninstall those Google apps from my Nexus 5x, just tested.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arkitaip</author><text>Software is key and one of the selling point of Google made phones, like the Nexus 4, was the promise of a lightweight android installation with minimal apps. On my Nexus 4, this is no longer the case as you cannot remove Google&#x27;s apps and they frequently require updates [1]. Add the fact that the really cool new Android features, e.g. Google Now, are poorly supported outside the US, and I&#x27;m not sure my next phone will be a Google phone.<p>[1] Current list of these unremovable apps on my Nexus 4: Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Spreadsheets, Google Presentations, Cloud Print, E-mail, Google Now, Google Drive, Google Earth, Google Indic Keyboard, Google Keep, Google News &amp; Weather, Google Play Books, Google Play Movies, Google Play Music, Google Play Games, Google Play News kiosk, Google street view, Google talkback, Google text to speech, Google+, Hangouts, Google Wifi connectivity, Youtube.</text></item><item><author>Ambroos</author><text>I just can&#x27;t help but notice all phone cameras right now are incredibly close in quality, and the differences don&#x27;t really matter anymore. The software experience has become the only important thing.<p>There&#x27;s an easy explanation for it too. Pretty much every single high-end phone released in the last two years uses a Sony sensor. They completely dominate the smartphone sensor market right now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pixel smartphone camera review: At the top</title><url>https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Pixel-smartphone-camera-review-At-the-top</url></story> |
30,104,818 | 30,104,918 | 1 | 3 | 30,087,783 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tintor</author><text>You must be joking!
Have you tried exercising with surgical mask or N95 respirator?
I train regularly with N95 since Omicron started and they definitely negatively affect airflow and aerobic exercise performance. N95 respirator even more than surgical mask. I am used to them and don&#x27;t have anxiety, but they aren&#x27;t comfortable at all. They also affect temperature of air that you are inhaling as it mixes inside the mask with the hot air that you exhale, increasing your rest and cooldown time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>[ EDIT: other commenters response to this comment made me go look up some original research on the topic. As a result, I fully retract what I&#x27;ve said below. I found several papers that report substantial restrictions of airflow from wearing a correctly fitted N95 mask.<p>I was wrong, and I apologize for the misinformation. I did try to explicitly say that I was not doubting someone&#x27;s experiences, but I apologize for appearing to do that too. I&#x27;ve left the text up because that seems more honest. ]<p>I do not want to seek to diminish your very real anxiety and panic issues.<p>But you should be aware that there is no actual reduced inflow of air due to mask wearing, certainly not one that you would detect physiologically. In 2020, there were numerous demonstrations of this, both with actual measurements (lung volume, blood oxygen etc.) and with more anecdotal illustrations such as vigorous exercise even while wearing multiple masks.<p>Your mental conditions matter, and I hope you are able find ways to live reasonably happily without too much anxiety.</text></item><item><author>hydrok9</author><text>How about if you have anxiety issues and the reduced inflow of air from masks gives you panic attacks? This has been my life for this pandemic. I take medication but it does not stop them 100% from happening, and I have to use anti-anxiety techniques most times I put one on to stop from being overwhelmed by anticipation. Does anyone care about people like me? It sure feels like they don&#x27;t. And I have seen my physical and mental condition degrade largely due to this (I was never personally panicked by the virus itself). There are others like me and it is deeply upsetting that we have to suffer like this.</text></item><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>For two years we’ve been asked to park our problems and to act like literally all that matters is the spread of Covid. Nothing else matters. Just a myopic fixation on the spread of one highly infectious respiratory virus.<p>Even a year after vaccines we are still being asked to treat Covid like it is the #1 priority in our lives. More important than our well being, our mental health, our communities, our children, or anything else.<p>Heaven help you if your value system is incompatible with such an idea. Be prepared to be yelled at, called names, lose your career, and become marginalized.</text></item><item><author>throwaway22032</author><text>This is the fundamental issue with coronavirus mitigation measures. There are circumstances in which &quot;drop everything&quot; makes sense - if coronavirus were ten times more fatal, we&#x27;d do it naturally.<p>But in general, looking at life from a perspective of &quot;what is the minimum possible quality of life we can have&quot; is depressing and fundamentally incompatible with the human spirit.<p>I tend to think that people who operate in this way are subhuman, in the genuine sense of the word - they seem more like bureaucratic automatons than living beings with spirits and hopes and dreams.<p>Like, yeah, I will take the risk of contracting coronavirus to play the piano, because I want the piano in my life. The piano is what life is, life is not simply breathing and eating.</text></item><item><author>criddell</author><text>My kids attend a university in Canada and live in residence on campus. They have had incredibly strict rules around masking and gatherings. It&#x27;s clear that they are only considering one variable - number of infections - and it seems like they aren&#x27;t considering any other factors.<p>For example, in the dorm there is a common area with a piano. Because of COVID, playing that piano is banned. Even if there was a reasonable danger of contracting COVID from a piano, there are also mental health benefits to playing music. It doesn&#x27;t feel like the piano ban is in the best interests of the people who live there and I don&#x27;t think the people who set the rules care because they can&#x27;t measure that. They can only measure infections.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The case against masks at school</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/kids-masks-schools-weak-science/621133/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>subsubzero</author><text>What are you talking about with masks not restricting airflow, totally not correct and absolute misinformation. Here is what happens when you wear a mask while exercising hard:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ktvz.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;summit-hs-runner-collapses-at-finish-line-coach-calls-for-revised-mask-mandate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ktvz.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;summit-hs-runne...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>[ EDIT: other commenters response to this comment made me go look up some original research on the topic. As a result, I fully retract what I&#x27;ve said below. I found several papers that report substantial restrictions of airflow from wearing a correctly fitted N95 mask.<p>I was wrong, and I apologize for the misinformation. I did try to explicitly say that I was not doubting someone&#x27;s experiences, but I apologize for appearing to do that too. I&#x27;ve left the text up because that seems more honest. ]<p>I do not want to seek to diminish your very real anxiety and panic issues.<p>But you should be aware that there is no actual reduced inflow of air due to mask wearing, certainly not one that you would detect physiologically. In 2020, there were numerous demonstrations of this, both with actual measurements (lung volume, blood oxygen etc.) and with more anecdotal illustrations such as vigorous exercise even while wearing multiple masks.<p>Your mental conditions matter, and I hope you are able find ways to live reasonably happily without too much anxiety.</text></item><item><author>hydrok9</author><text>How about if you have anxiety issues and the reduced inflow of air from masks gives you panic attacks? This has been my life for this pandemic. I take medication but it does not stop them 100% from happening, and I have to use anti-anxiety techniques most times I put one on to stop from being overwhelmed by anticipation. Does anyone care about people like me? It sure feels like they don&#x27;t. And I have seen my physical and mental condition degrade largely due to this (I was never personally panicked by the virus itself). There are others like me and it is deeply upsetting that we have to suffer like this.</text></item><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>For two years we’ve been asked to park our problems and to act like literally all that matters is the spread of Covid. Nothing else matters. Just a myopic fixation on the spread of one highly infectious respiratory virus.<p>Even a year after vaccines we are still being asked to treat Covid like it is the #1 priority in our lives. More important than our well being, our mental health, our communities, our children, or anything else.<p>Heaven help you if your value system is incompatible with such an idea. Be prepared to be yelled at, called names, lose your career, and become marginalized.</text></item><item><author>throwaway22032</author><text>This is the fundamental issue with coronavirus mitigation measures. There are circumstances in which &quot;drop everything&quot; makes sense - if coronavirus were ten times more fatal, we&#x27;d do it naturally.<p>But in general, looking at life from a perspective of &quot;what is the minimum possible quality of life we can have&quot; is depressing and fundamentally incompatible with the human spirit.<p>I tend to think that people who operate in this way are subhuman, in the genuine sense of the word - they seem more like bureaucratic automatons than living beings with spirits and hopes and dreams.<p>Like, yeah, I will take the risk of contracting coronavirus to play the piano, because I want the piano in my life. The piano is what life is, life is not simply breathing and eating.</text></item><item><author>criddell</author><text>My kids attend a university in Canada and live in residence on campus. They have had incredibly strict rules around masking and gatherings. It&#x27;s clear that they are only considering one variable - number of infections - and it seems like they aren&#x27;t considering any other factors.<p>For example, in the dorm there is a common area with a piano. Because of COVID, playing that piano is banned. Even if there was a reasonable danger of contracting COVID from a piano, there are also mental health benefits to playing music. It doesn&#x27;t feel like the piano ban is in the best interests of the people who live there and I don&#x27;t think the people who set the rules care because they can&#x27;t measure that. They can only measure infections.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The case against masks at school</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/kids-masks-schools-weak-science/621133/</url></story> |
9,326,026 | 9,325,984 | 1 | 2 | 9,325,667 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>clamprecht</author><text>When I was doing my time in the Fed (1995-2000), my friends &amp; mom had set up a web page for me.[1] Sometime around &#x27;96 or &#x27;97, the prison Captain (responsible for security) found out and had me fired from my &quot;good&quot; job. (Good job meant I was working at the Unicor factory, where I could have eventually made $200&#x2F;month). I was transferred to be an &quot;orderly&quot; (which means janitor), earning $5&#x2F;month at the Captain&#x27;s office, so he could keep an eye on me.<p>Eventually I found out the reason he had me fired was because the prison officials didn&#x27;t like the attention that my web page brought, and they also though I was somehow accessing the Internet from the Unicor factory (they had terminals there, which I wasn&#x27;t allowed to be near). My case started getting attention, media interviews, etc. At one point, I was told directly by the prison staff attorney to stop all the attention. I scaled it back enough to where they stopped harassing me. It&#x27;s definitely a tradeoff - the more attention you get, the more they will fuck with you in there.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19990222022940&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paranoia.com&#x2F;~mthreat&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19990222022940&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parano...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison</title><url>https://twitter.com/xychelsea</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rtkwe</author><text>&gt; Also for those of you asking: @fitzgibbonmedia is handling my account for the time being<p>So it sounds like Manning doesn&#x27;t have Twitter access but instead is probably giving whatever tweets she wants to send out to the Fitz Gibbon Media. Not much different from the old statements and letters from prison other than where it ends up.<p>PS: For anyone else who was confused like me since it&#x27;s been a while: Chelsea Manning == Bradley Manning.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison</title><url>https://twitter.com/xychelsea</url></story> |
25,882,695 | 25,882,687 | 1 | 2 | 25,881,911 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; Therefore the database should handle its own I&#x2F;O caching using O_DIRECT on Linux or the equivalent on Windows or other Unixes.<p>That&#x27;s not wrong, but at the same time it adds complexity and requires effort which can&#x27;t be spent elsewhere unless you&#x27;ve got someone who really only wants to DIO and wouldn&#x27;t work on anything else anyway.<p>Postgres has never used DIO, and while there have been rumbling about moving to DIO (especially following the fsync mess) as Andres Freund noted:<p>&gt; efficient DIO usage is a metric ton of work, and you need a
large amount of differing logic for different platforms. It&#x27;s just not realistic to do so for every platform. Postgres is developed by a small number of people, isn&#x27;t VC backed etc. The amount of resources we can throw at something is fairly limited. I&#x27;m hoping to work on adding linux DIO support to pg, but I&#x27;m sure as hell not going to do be able to do the same on windows (solaris, hpux, aix, ...) etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bonzini</author><text>The right answer is that they shouldn&#x27;t. A database has much more information than the operating system about what, how and when to cache information. Therefore the database should handle its own I&#x2F;O caching using O_DIRECT on Linux or the equivalent on Windows or other Unixes.<p>The article at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scylladb.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;05&#x2F;io-access-methods-scylla&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scylladb.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;05&#x2F;io-access-methods-scylla...</a> is a bit old (2017) but it explains the trade-offs</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>But how, exactly, do databases use mmap?</title><url>https://brunocalza.me/but-how-exactly-databases-use-mmap/</url></story> | <instructions>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>Yes, and it&#x27;s not only about performance, but also safety because O_DIRECT is the only safe way to recover from the journal after fsync failure (when the page cache can no longer be trusted by the database to be coherent with the disk): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;atc20-rebello.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;atc20-rebello.pdf</a><p>From a safety perspective, O_DIRECT is now table stakes. There&#x27;s simply no control over the granularity of read&#x2F;write EIO errors when your syscalls only touch memory and where you have no visibility into background flush errors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bonzini</author><text>The right answer is that they shouldn&#x27;t. A database has much more information than the operating system about what, how and when to cache information. Therefore the database should handle its own I&#x2F;O caching using O_DIRECT on Linux or the equivalent on Windows or other Unixes.<p>The article at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scylladb.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;05&#x2F;io-access-methods-scylla&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scylladb.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;05&#x2F;io-access-methods-scylla...</a> is a bit old (2017) but it explains the trade-offs</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>But how, exactly, do databases use mmap?</title><url>https://brunocalza.me/but-how-exactly-databases-use-mmap/</url></story> |
34,624,681 | 34,623,918 | 1 | 2 | 34,622,097 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cerved</author><text>The rest of the episode continues with Kramer getting a wild streaming setup, Elaine setting up Teams for Peterman and George quite quitting by mounting a picture in front of his webcam</text><parent_chain><item><author>robga</author><text>Writing the script for a Seinfeld scene was one of the first use cases I tried on chatgpt last year. I kept a copy.<p>There is some sort of intersection between A Show About Nothing and an AI that creates empty responses from everything.<p>INT. MONK&#x27;S CAFE - DAY<p>Jerry, George, and Elaine are sitting at a table. Kramer enters and sits down.<p>Kramer: Hey, guys.<p>Jerry: Hey, what&#x27;s up, Kramer?<p>Kramer: I&#x27;ve been having some trouble with this new Microsoft Teams thing at work. I need to use it for a video conference but I don&#x27;t know how.<p>George: (sarcastically) Oh no, not Microsoft Teams. That&#x27;s the end of the world.<p>Elaine: (laughing) Come on, George. It&#x27;s not that bad.<p>Jerry: Yeah, it&#x27;s not rocket science, Kramer. Just click on the icon, join the meeting, and turn on your webcam.<p>Kramer: (frustrated) I&#x27;ve tried that, Jerry. But then all these different tabs and options pop up and I don&#x27;t know what to do.<p>Elaine: (sympathetically) It can be overwhelming at first. But just take it one step at a time and you&#x27;ll figure it out.<p>Kramer: (sighing) I guess you&#x27;re right.<p>Jerry: (joking) And if all else fails, just hold up a piece of paper with your face on it to the webcam.<p>(audience laughs)<p>George: (serious) Actually, that&#x27;s not a bad idea.<p>(audience laughs)<p>Kramer: (smiling) Thanks for the advice, guys. I&#x27;ll give it another try.<p>(Kramer exits the cafe)<p>Jerry: (to George and Elaine) I think Kramer is going to have a tough time with Microsoft Teams.<p>Elaine: (laughing) Oh, I have no doubt.<p>(audience laughs)<p>(end scene)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch</title><url>https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bryanrasmussen</author><text>I know it&#x27;s only ChatGPT but I&#x27;m offended at how badly the characters are written.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robga</author><text>Writing the script for a Seinfeld scene was one of the first use cases I tried on chatgpt last year. I kept a copy.<p>There is some sort of intersection between A Show About Nothing and an AI that creates empty responses from everything.<p>INT. MONK&#x27;S CAFE - DAY<p>Jerry, George, and Elaine are sitting at a table. Kramer enters and sits down.<p>Kramer: Hey, guys.<p>Jerry: Hey, what&#x27;s up, Kramer?<p>Kramer: I&#x27;ve been having some trouble with this new Microsoft Teams thing at work. I need to use it for a video conference but I don&#x27;t know how.<p>George: (sarcastically) Oh no, not Microsoft Teams. That&#x27;s the end of the world.<p>Elaine: (laughing) Come on, George. It&#x27;s not that bad.<p>Jerry: Yeah, it&#x27;s not rocket science, Kramer. Just click on the icon, join the meeting, and turn on your webcam.<p>Kramer: (frustrated) I&#x27;ve tried that, Jerry. But then all these different tabs and options pop up and I don&#x27;t know what to do.<p>Elaine: (sympathetically) It can be overwhelming at first. But just take it one step at a time and you&#x27;ll figure it out.<p>Kramer: (sighing) I guess you&#x27;re right.<p>Jerry: (joking) And if all else fails, just hold up a piece of paper with your face on it to the webcam.<p>(audience laughs)<p>George: (serious) Actually, that&#x27;s not a bad idea.<p>(audience laughs)<p>Kramer: (smiling) Thanks for the advice, guys. I&#x27;ll give it another try.<p>(Kramer exits the cafe)<p>Jerry: (to George and Elaine) I think Kramer is going to have a tough time with Microsoft Teams.<p>Elaine: (laughing) Oh, I have no doubt.<p>(audience laughs)<p>(end scene)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch</title><url>https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever</url></story> |
22,296,827 | 22,296,800 | 1 | 3 | 22,295,102 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>otabdeveloper4</author><text>As a person that uses Nix to build Docker images in production, let me explain.<p>Docker is a tool that lets you package a Linux distribution and roll it out on any random server cleanly and safely. But the stuff inside that distribution is still very much bespoke and unmaintainable.<p>Nix is a tool that lets you create a custom Linux distribution with absolutely minimal effort. (Basically, just list your packages in a file and hit &#x27;go&#x27;.) But the packaging story for Nix is pretty bad.<p>To bridge that gap, Nix has code that puts a Nix package with all dependencies into a Docker container. It works, but of course kind of icky; something more integrated and smart would be preferred.</text><parent_chain><item><author>acqq</author><text>&gt; Today: Install Nix<p>I&#x27;m missing something here. (Disclaimer: I&#x27;ve just tried to understand the OP, I don&#x27;t know all the details about what is going on there).<p>The text starts with &quot;In my last post about Nix, I didn’t see the light yet.&quot; ... Then it continues with &quot;A popular way to model this is with a Dockerfile.&quot; So I have expected that the post will demonstrate how Nix can be used <i>without</i> docker... But then later:<p>&quot;so let’s make docker.nix:&quot;<p>and continues in that way. So there is some dockering involved? To this casual reader, it doesn&#x27;t seem that using Nix allows one to avoid docker, as a technology, but just that some additional goal is achieved by using Nix over that.<p>I just missed what was actually achieved, other than that the text mentions a few megabytes less here or there, of 100 MB, and that I also miss the information if the megabytes were traded in the build time or, if I understand correctly, in some way even more dependencies (more places from which something has to download something). Can anybody explain?<p>I&#x27;m sure that these tradeoffs were obvious to the author, but I as a reader hoped to somehow get the idea of those, and I missed that (yes, it&#x27;s hard to &quot;see the light&quot; especially indirectly).</text></item><item><author>solatic</author><text>&gt; Seriously, are we optimizing for the right stuff here? I know Nix is doing package isolation with a programmable environment defined by text files, it&#x27;s immutable and all. I get it. But we have alternatives for these problems. They do a pretty good job overall and we understand them.<p>Setting up a development environment five years ago: here&#x27;s a Word document that tells you which tools to install. Forget about updating the tools - good luck trying to get everyone to update their systems.<p>Setting up a development environment two years ago: here&#x27;s a README that tells you which commands to run to build Docker images locally which will build and test your code. OS X users have fun burning RAM to the unnecessary VM gods when they have little to spare to begin with because MacBook Pros. No reproduceability between Dev and CI despite using container images because Dev will have debugging tools made available in the image that will be removed from the final image. Be limited while debugging locally because all debugging must happen over a network connection.<p>Today: Install Nix. Run build.sh. Run test.sh. Run nix-shell if you want more freedom.</text></item><item><author>nitrix</author><text>As much as I admire the people involved with Nix, taking the initiative to solve what they believe can be improved and the other developers like her, toying with new things and successfully managing to figure all this stuff out... I&#x27;m actually disappointed.<p>The thing is, Nix is an absurdly complex piece of software, perhaps on a similar order of magnitude as maybe Kubernetes or other gizmos, requiring a very large time commitment to understand and to use properly.<p>Just for fun, have any of you tried to keep up during the Docker bigbang, with all these technologies popping up left and right, switching names, dying abruptly, getting super-seeded or hacked with vulnerabilities? That was one of my most mentally draining year for me and I&#x27;ve been in the field for a while now.<p>See... along the way, I&#x27;ve learned that Computer Science is always about tradeoffs. Now when I&#x27;m being asked to trade away my sanity learning this nonsense for in return a couple of megabyte of disk space that could&#x27;ve been wasted, I just don&#x27;t see the value.<p>Seriously, are we optimizing for the right stuff here? I know Nix is doing package isolation with a programmable environment defined by text files, it&#x27;s immutable and all. I get it. But we have alternatives for these problems. They do a pretty good job overall and we understand them.<p>Ironically, even those solutions I&#x27;m comfortable with are still struggling to get good adoption! How the heck is our field going to avoid fragmentation when it keep growing exponentially like this.<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s just me aging and getting groggy; though there must be an explanation for this phenomenon. Please, it definitely gnaws at me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Was Wrong about Nix</title><url>https://christine.website/blog/i-was-wrong-about-nix-2020-02-10</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>Nullabillity</author><text>Nix itself doesn&#x27;t use Docker, and you can deploy it like that just fine (with NixOS, and NixOps if you have multiple machines).<p>But sometimes your ops team has standardized on Docker, maybe because you&#x27;re using Kubernetes. In that case, Nix will happily build those images for you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>acqq</author><text>&gt; Today: Install Nix<p>I&#x27;m missing something here. (Disclaimer: I&#x27;ve just tried to understand the OP, I don&#x27;t know all the details about what is going on there).<p>The text starts with &quot;In my last post about Nix, I didn’t see the light yet.&quot; ... Then it continues with &quot;A popular way to model this is with a Dockerfile.&quot; So I have expected that the post will demonstrate how Nix can be used <i>without</i> docker... But then later:<p>&quot;so let’s make docker.nix:&quot;<p>and continues in that way. So there is some dockering involved? To this casual reader, it doesn&#x27;t seem that using Nix allows one to avoid docker, as a technology, but just that some additional goal is achieved by using Nix over that.<p>I just missed what was actually achieved, other than that the text mentions a few megabytes less here or there, of 100 MB, and that I also miss the information if the megabytes were traded in the build time or, if I understand correctly, in some way even more dependencies (more places from which something has to download something). Can anybody explain?<p>I&#x27;m sure that these tradeoffs were obvious to the author, but I as a reader hoped to somehow get the idea of those, and I missed that (yes, it&#x27;s hard to &quot;see the light&quot; especially indirectly).</text></item><item><author>solatic</author><text>&gt; Seriously, are we optimizing for the right stuff here? I know Nix is doing package isolation with a programmable environment defined by text files, it&#x27;s immutable and all. I get it. But we have alternatives for these problems. They do a pretty good job overall and we understand them.<p>Setting up a development environment five years ago: here&#x27;s a Word document that tells you which tools to install. Forget about updating the tools - good luck trying to get everyone to update their systems.<p>Setting up a development environment two years ago: here&#x27;s a README that tells you which commands to run to build Docker images locally which will build and test your code. OS X users have fun burning RAM to the unnecessary VM gods when they have little to spare to begin with because MacBook Pros. No reproduceability between Dev and CI despite using container images because Dev will have debugging tools made available in the image that will be removed from the final image. Be limited while debugging locally because all debugging must happen over a network connection.<p>Today: Install Nix. Run build.sh. Run test.sh. Run nix-shell if you want more freedom.</text></item><item><author>nitrix</author><text>As much as I admire the people involved with Nix, taking the initiative to solve what they believe can be improved and the other developers like her, toying with new things and successfully managing to figure all this stuff out... I&#x27;m actually disappointed.<p>The thing is, Nix is an absurdly complex piece of software, perhaps on a similar order of magnitude as maybe Kubernetes or other gizmos, requiring a very large time commitment to understand and to use properly.<p>Just for fun, have any of you tried to keep up during the Docker bigbang, with all these technologies popping up left and right, switching names, dying abruptly, getting super-seeded or hacked with vulnerabilities? That was one of my most mentally draining year for me and I&#x27;ve been in the field for a while now.<p>See... along the way, I&#x27;ve learned that Computer Science is always about tradeoffs. Now when I&#x27;m being asked to trade away my sanity learning this nonsense for in return a couple of megabyte of disk space that could&#x27;ve been wasted, I just don&#x27;t see the value.<p>Seriously, are we optimizing for the right stuff here? I know Nix is doing package isolation with a programmable environment defined by text files, it&#x27;s immutable and all. I get it. But we have alternatives for these problems. They do a pretty good job overall and we understand them.<p>Ironically, even those solutions I&#x27;m comfortable with are still struggling to get good adoption! How the heck is our field going to avoid fragmentation when it keep growing exponentially like this.<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s just me aging and getting groggy; though there must be an explanation for this phenomenon. Please, it definitely gnaws at me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Was Wrong about Nix</title><url>https://christine.website/blog/i-was-wrong-about-nix-2020-02-10</url></story> |
7,382,465 | 7,382,127 | 1 | 2 | 7,381,777 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>w1ntermute</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing how so many people refuse to accept that out-of-control housing prices are due to artificial scarcity, and that the solution is deregulation, rather than even more idiotic rent control and eviction regulations. David Campos is now trying to enact legislation to penalize Ellis Act evictions.<p>More than two decades after the USSR collapsed, and people are still clinging to socialist ideologies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jseliger</author><text><i>Nonetheless, it’s a good time to be a Bornstein in San Francisco: in the past year alone, Ellis Act evictions have risen 170%; since 1997, there have been 3,811, and that number is constantly rising.</i><p>The obvious solution to rapidly rising prices is to increase supply, as described here (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XGJXO" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B0078XGJXO</a>) or here (<a href="http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francisco-exodus/7205/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlanticcities.com&#x2F;housing&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;san-francis...</a>). I&#x27;ve posted both links before but we keep seeing stories like these and the solutions remain the same.<p>The technology necessary to increase housing supply (steel frames, elevators) is a century old (<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/03/silicon_valley_housing_boom_there_s_no_such_thing.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;moneybox&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;03&#x2F;silicon_valle...</a>) and well-understood. The problem is almost entirely political.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evicted in San Francisco</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/evicted-in-san-francisco/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raldi</author><text><i>&gt; that number is constantly rising</i><p>That&#x27;s a lie: <a href="http://infogr.am/ellis-act-evictions" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;infogr.am&#x2F;ellis-act-evictions</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jseliger</author><text><i>Nonetheless, it’s a good time to be a Bornstein in San Francisco: in the past year alone, Ellis Act evictions have risen 170%; since 1997, there have been 3,811, and that number is constantly rising.</i><p>The obvious solution to rapidly rising prices is to increase supply, as described here (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XGJXO" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B0078XGJXO</a>) or here (<a href="http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francisco-exodus/7205/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlanticcities.com&#x2F;housing&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;san-francis...</a>). I&#x27;ve posted both links before but we keep seeing stories like these and the solutions remain the same.<p>The technology necessary to increase housing supply (steel frames, elevators) is a century old (<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/03/silicon_valley_housing_boom_there_s_no_such_thing.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;moneybox&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;03&#x2F;silicon_valle...</a>) and well-understood. The problem is almost entirely political.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evicted in San Francisco</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/evicted-in-san-francisco/</url></story> |
29,030,744 | 29,030,821 | 1 | 3 | 29,030,009 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stetrain</author><text>Having people on the street not know or care about who owns WhatsApp and Instagram seems like it might be the point.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rexreed</author><text>Will this work, or will this just be like Google&#x27;s Alphabet, which the general person-on-the-street doesn&#x27;t know or care about?</text></item><item><author>canniballectern</author><text>I bet this will be generally effective at shielding their other properties from bad news about Facebook.<p>For ordinary people, &quot;WhatsApp is owned by Meta&quot; is going to feel really different from &quot;WhatsApp is owned by Facebook&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta: A Social Technology Company</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2021/10/facebook-company-is-now-meta/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dfabulich</author><text>The reason the person-on-the-street doesn&#x27;t care about Alphabet is that people don&#x27;t interact with any Alphabet company except Google. Waymo? Calico? Loon? Wing? Hardly any ordinary people think about those. (Maybe some day, but not today.)<p>By contrast, lots of ordinary people interact with WhatsApp and Instagram. It will be&#x2F;feel different when they&#x27;re &quot;owned by Meta&quot; vs. &quot;owned by Facebook.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>rexreed</author><text>Will this work, or will this just be like Google&#x27;s Alphabet, which the general person-on-the-street doesn&#x27;t know or care about?</text></item><item><author>canniballectern</author><text>I bet this will be generally effective at shielding their other properties from bad news about Facebook.<p>For ordinary people, &quot;WhatsApp is owned by Meta&quot; is going to feel really different from &quot;WhatsApp is owned by Facebook&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta: A Social Technology Company</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2021/10/facebook-company-is-now-meta/</url></story> |
7,254,049 | 7,253,745 | 1 | 2 | 7,253,288 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_puk</author><text>I&#x27;ve also been playing around with gulp, and whilst still in the &#x27;trying to use it like grunt&#x27; kind of mindset, I have seen some merit in using these stream based build tools.<p>Have to wonder why this all requires new build tools to achieve though.<p>It&#x27;s obviously technically possible (npm shows grunt-gulp which does exactly what you&#x27;d think), so is the grunt architecture so firmly rooted in files that streams could not be leveraged, or is it something that will come in time?<p>Personally managed to get a nigh on perfect build process using grunt-watch, so no rush to move away.<p>Nice to see build tools still moving forward though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Nemcue</author><text>Not often I see tools announced with such a thoroughly researched article. Great stuff!<p>I guess the problem these build tools are facing is the amount that people have invested in Grunt. There are just &#x2F;so&#x2F; many grunt tasks at this point.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No more `grunt watch` – faster builds with the Broccoli asset pipeline</title><url>http://www.solitr.com/blog/2014/02/broccoli-first-release/index.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>imjared</author><text>Yep- a search on npmjs shows not quite a dozen tasks for Broccoli while Grunt has hundreds of results. Not that quantity necessarily == quality but when it comes to a task runner, I need to, you know, run tasks.<p>Definitely awesome that people are trying to optimize in the devops space but just not sure I could be convinced to switch to something that isn&#x27;t at least somewhat mature.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Nemcue</author><text>Not often I see tools announced with such a thoroughly researched article. Great stuff!<p>I guess the problem these build tools are facing is the amount that people have invested in Grunt. There are just &#x2F;so&#x2F; many grunt tasks at this point.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No more `grunt watch` – faster builds with the Broccoli asset pipeline</title><url>http://www.solitr.com/blog/2014/02/broccoli-first-release/index.html</url><text></text></story> |
37,433,373 | 37,433,116 | 1 | 2 | 37,432,399 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>makestuff</author><text>I often wonder is AWS success due to paying top dollar to staff where as IBM seems to have gone down the cost cutting route and low salaries. I&#x27;m sure that isn&#x27;t the only reason, but IBM&#x27;s fall from the top has been pretty drastic over the last 30 years.<p>I guess it also could just be due to companies eventually get too big and bloated which causes them to innovate slower.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RamshackleJ</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;investor&#x2F;att&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;IBM-2Q23-Earnings-Press-Release.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;investor&#x2F;att&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;IBM-2Q23-Earnings-Press...</a> IBM is getting killed in infrastructure, their margins look to be growing but losing ~15% of their revenue y&#x2F;y. This seems like them just gouging the last of the customers who are either unwilling or unable to leave.<p>for context during the same period AWS grew 12% y&#x2F;y.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IBM to increase cloud costs in 2024</title><url>https://www.cio.com/article/651215/price-shock-ibm-to-increase-cloud-costs-by-up-to-26-from-2024.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>sokoloff</author><text>If every dollar of IBM&#x27;s $617M&#x2F;Q loss of infrastructure revenue went to AWS, that would only be around 27% of AWS&#x27;s growth.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RamshackleJ</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;investor&#x2F;att&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;IBM-2Q23-Earnings-Press-Release.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;investor&#x2F;att&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;IBM-2Q23-Earnings-Press...</a> IBM is getting killed in infrastructure, their margins look to be growing but losing ~15% of their revenue y&#x2F;y. This seems like them just gouging the last of the customers who are either unwilling or unable to leave.<p>for context during the same period AWS grew 12% y&#x2F;y.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IBM to increase cloud costs in 2024</title><url>https://www.cio.com/article/651215/price-shock-ibm-to-increase-cloud-costs-by-up-to-26-from-2024.html</url></story> |
21,333,852 | 21,333,270 | 1 | 3 | 21,332,768 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>photon-torpedo</author><text>As far as I understand, the 2.5 days classical simulation gives you the total wavefunction, from which you can read the probability distribution. You only need to run it once. It&#x27;s not clear to me whether the 200 seconds quantum computation is for getting (or rather sampling) the probability distribution, or for just one measurement. My point is, the classical simulation actually gives you much more data than the quantum computation -- you get the actual full probabilty distribution, not just an approximated sample of it (guess that&#x27;s why IBM claims &quot;higher fidelity&quot;).</text><parent_chain><item><author>hamilyon2</author><text>The margin between 200 seconds and 2.5 days still exists</text></item><item><author>oliveremberton</author><text>Interesting refutation by IBM here:<p><i>In the preprint, it is argued that their device reached “quantum supremacy” and that “a state-of-the-art supercomputer would require approximately 10,000 years to perform the equivalent task.” We argue that an ideal simulation of the same task can be performed on a classical system in 2.5 days and with far greater fidelity.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;research&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;on-quantum-supremacy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;research&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;on-quantum-suprem...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-programmable.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>ewalk153</author><text>I think that’s where the<p>&gt; and with far greater fidelity<p>comes into play.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hamilyon2</author><text>The margin between 200 seconds and 2.5 days still exists</text></item><item><author>oliveremberton</author><text>Interesting refutation by IBM here:<p><i>In the preprint, it is argued that their device reached “quantum supremacy” and that “a state-of-the-art supercomputer would require approximately 10,000 years to perform the equivalent task.” We argue that an ideal simulation of the same task can be performed on a classical system in 2.5 days and with far greater fidelity.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;research&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;on-quantum-supremacy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;research&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;on-quantum-suprem...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-programmable.html</url></story> |
29,139,040 | 29,138,062 | 1 | 2 | 29,137,180 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bubblethink</author><text>This is excellent news for the simple reason that the business goals are aligned for desktop linux. Nobody makes money on desktop linux and it&#x27;s in a terrible state. Canonical gave up on this and is chasing snaps for servers, IoT, etc. RH also makes money only on servers. Other players are too small and won&#x27;t have consistent revenue to invest any resources. If S76 becomes a successful h&#x2F;w vendor, at least it is in their interest to make desktop suck less.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Pop-OS-New-Rust-Desktop</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>Does the Linux ecosystem really need yet another desktop environment? I get that sometimes a group of volunteers and enthusiasts get together to start such a project, but how does it make sense for a business like System76 to write their own instead of forking a different DE with decent support already?<p>There are so many desktop environments already, all causing grief for anyone trying to switch to Linux with their own stupid choices and incompatibilities. It&#x27;s probably too early to say anything about System76&#x27;s project, but I fear it&#x27;ll only complicate Linux adoption more, hurting their own sales in the long term.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Pop-OS-New-Rust-Desktop</url></story> |
16,393,317 | 16,391,731 | 1 | 3 | 16,389,666 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sctb</author><text>&gt; <i>How much will it take to convince the average HN reader that sexism actually is everywhere?</i><p>Many comments in this thread are lamenting these dismissals, which happen to be languishing at the bottom while this comment as well as the original article are massively upvoted. If I were to draw a conclusion about how the community generally feels about this issue, it would be opposite to yours.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jakobegger</author><text>Amazing. The author spends a lot of time to tell us a very convincing story how sexism affects people in our industry, and the Hacker News thread is full of people rationalizing it.<p>- it&#x27;s only because people think you&#x27;re a bot<p>- it&#x27;s because of your target audience<p>- it&#x27;s because chat widgets are annoying<p>- you don&#x27;t really have enough data to make any conclusions<p>How much will it take to convince the average HN reader that sexism actually is everywhere?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website</title><url>https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-i-dont-use-my-real-photo/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fsloth</author><text>&quot;How much will it take to convince the average HN reader that sexism actually is everywhere?&quot;<p>I presume those that think this way either have no female friends or have not asked them about it.<p>Men generally don&#x27;t get catcalls or get their body fondled by strangers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jakobegger</author><text>Amazing. The author spends a lot of time to tell us a very convincing story how sexism affects people in our industry, and the Hacker News thread is full of people rationalizing it.<p>- it&#x27;s only because people think you&#x27;re a bot<p>- it&#x27;s because of your target audience<p>- it&#x27;s because chat widgets are annoying<p>- you don&#x27;t really have enough data to make any conclusions<p>How much will it take to convince the average HN reader that sexism actually is everywhere?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website</title><url>https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-i-dont-use-my-real-photo/</url></story> |
20,031,345 | 20,021,178 | 1 | 2 | 20,020,329 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>harperlee</author><text>I’m from Spain, and it is surprising to hear someone say we will do that.<p>We have a huge inferiority complex, and our own cainistic version of the black legend, that makes us revere anything foreign as better than the local version. We have petty fights re. official languages about whether traffic signs should read “A coruña” or “La coruña”; or whether the national news anchor should say “Gerona” or “Girona” when speaking in spanish. We have regional governments that push spanish out of their regions. We as a nation obsess over english; we dream of speaking it better, we make it sound cool in the ads. We mock our leaders for not speaking it properly.<p>No one seriously pushes in a coordinated manner for spanish being used in the EU as seriously as the french or german do. At most, we aspire to be the proxy for latin america relationships.<p>As soon as anyone proposes to use english, we will see it as the opportunity to not have half of europe speak in french.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tluyben2</author><text>Spain will fight tooth and nail as well. And Germany too. So no it really won&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>peteretep</author><text>&gt; It will rid the French or the Germans of the temptation try to make their language the dominant one in the post-Brexit EU<p>It really won&#x27;t, especially the French.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU must adopt ‘EU English’ as its official working language after Brexit (2017)</title><url>https://www.european-views.com/2018/07/eu-must-adopt-eu-english-as-its-official-working-language-after-brexit-heres-why/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>inawarminister</author><text>I&#x27;m curious about Spanish objection to English <i>language</i>. Sure, they do have the issue with Gibraltar and British &quot;tourists&quot; perenially, but is there any effect for the language itself?<p>At least Spanish is spoken by an order of magnitude more people than German, though (Latin America, and nowadays a third of USA as well)</text><parent_chain><item><author>tluyben2</author><text>Spain will fight tooth and nail as well. And Germany too. So no it really won&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>peteretep</author><text>&gt; It will rid the French or the Germans of the temptation try to make their language the dominant one in the post-Brexit EU<p>It really won&#x27;t, especially the French.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU must adopt ‘EU English’ as its official working language after Brexit (2017)</title><url>https://www.european-views.com/2018/07/eu-must-adopt-eu-english-as-its-official-working-language-after-brexit-heres-why/</url></story> |
18,514,159 | 18,514,036 | 1 | 2 | 18,511,184 | 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>baroffoos</author><text>I got a dell XPS 13 this week for work and its absolutely insane. Best laptop I have ever had and I have had macbooks. I&#x27;m running Fedora 29 on it and it works perfect. The battery life is amazing, I&#x27;m seeing about 10+ hours while running Gnome and a bunch of dev tools. Made sure to pick one without a nvidia GPU. The only thing I can fault it for is you can&#x27;t open the hinge with one hand.</text><parent_chain><item><author>forgot-my-pw</author><text>I&#x27;m considering getting a Dell XPS or Lenovo Ideapad instead and install macos (hackintosh laptop).</text></item><item><author>brian-armstrong</author><text>Well, there&#x27;s no way that&#x27;s going to happen. I&#x27;d put more money on them replacing all the mechanical keys with capactive touch and removing the headphone jack.</text></item><item><author>nicolashahn</author><text>My faith in Apple would be completely redeemed if they took the 2015 Macbook Pro, put current gen hardware in it, maybe add a couple USB-C ports, and call it the 2019 Macbook Pro. My personal computer is a 2015 and my work is a 2017, and there are zero features from the 2017 that I prefer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/ditching-the-macbook-pro-for-a-macbook-air/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bacon_waffle</author><text>I made the MacBook Pro (mid-2011) to XPS (15&quot; i7 9570 4K) switch a few months ago, after putting off an upgrade about as long as possible. I&#x27;m still not liking the XPS with Kubuntu 18.04 - to the extent that I&#x27;m seriously considering switching back to Apple. At this point, I&#x27;ve got all the major issues sorted (like, not going to sleep when closed, docking station weirdness, etc), but there are constant smaller issues with the sort of things that &quot;just work&quot; with Apple hardware and MacOS.<p>Hardware wise - it&#x27;s most of the way to being a great laptop, but has a few aspects that seem &quot;designed by committee&quot;. The 4K screen looks really nice, keyboard is pretty good, it&#x27;s quite fast, battery life is good. But, the trackpad is massively irritating - it&#x27;s constantly picking up the heel of my hands while typing and causing the cursor to jump and click. The webcam is terribly located, the TB16 dock is a piece of junk, speakers only sound OK if you&#x27;re working on a hard surface. They still use a barrel connector for power - would&#x27;ve preferred to get power over USB-C (which the dock uses to provide power), and have a second USB-C port on the laptop.<p>There are several issues with Linux support - if you&#x27;re successful making an XPS Hackintosh, then those won&#x27;t be a problem, but I&#x27;d encourage getting the lower resolution screen if you&#x27;re considering the Linux route.</text><parent_chain><item><author>forgot-my-pw</author><text>I&#x27;m considering getting a Dell XPS or Lenovo Ideapad instead and install macos (hackintosh laptop).</text></item><item><author>brian-armstrong</author><text>Well, there&#x27;s no way that&#x27;s going to happen. I&#x27;d put more money on them replacing all the mechanical keys with capactive touch and removing the headphone jack.</text></item><item><author>nicolashahn</author><text>My faith in Apple would be completely redeemed if they took the 2015 Macbook Pro, put current gen hardware in it, maybe add a couple USB-C ports, and call it the 2019 Macbook Pro. My personal computer is a 2015 and my work is a 2017, and there are zero features from the 2017 that I prefer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/ditching-the-macbook-pro-for-a-macbook-air/</url></story> |
19,846,657 | 19,846,722 | 1 | 2 | 19,845,321 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>legohead</author><text>Reminds me of when I worked at a smaller telecom company who had a crazy VP. He would approach random employees, ask them who their long distance carrier was, and if it wasn&#x27;t the company, he&#x27;d fire them on the spot. &quot;Why are you working for us if you don&#x27;t believe in us?&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>stephenr</author><text>I spent a week or so on site as a contractor (well technically a contractor for a company with a contract).. I certainly didn&#x27;t leave thinking &quot;hey these guys have it great&quot;.<p>I still keep thinking about their company policy: employees were <i>expected</i> to play their game every day. Can you imagine if McDonalds said they expected staff to eat at least one meal every day in-store?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Riot Games workers walk out to protest forced arbitration</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-riot-games-walkout-protest-forced-arbitration-20190506-story.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>stevenwoo</author><text>I have worked at a McDonald&#x27;s and at least when I worked there, workers got something like $5 credit per eight hour shift back in the 1980&#x27;s. Most people used it to eat a meal but sometimes we would trade credit with KFC or Pizza Hut workers for variety.<p>I have also worked in games on smaller teams and considered it a responsibility to play the game to make sure that everything I could influence worked well (or I changed it so that it did) or that I could evaluate other parts of the game versus user expectation&#x2F;current state of the art. Maybe things are different on larger teams&#x2F;projects.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stephenr</author><text>I spent a week or so on site as a contractor (well technically a contractor for a company with a contract).. I certainly didn&#x27;t leave thinking &quot;hey these guys have it great&quot;.<p>I still keep thinking about their company policy: employees were <i>expected</i> to play their game every day. Can you imagine if McDonalds said they expected staff to eat at least one meal every day in-store?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Riot Games workers walk out to protest forced arbitration</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-riot-games-walkout-protest-forced-arbitration-20190506-story.html</url></story> |
25,934,103 | 25,933,677 | 1 | 2 | 25,933,016 | 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>josephg</author><text>Huh? Webtransport isn’t trying to compete with webrtc. It’s a server&#x2F;client protocol not a p2p protocol. And it’s not designed with video conferencing in mind like webrtc is. Webtransport is trying to be a better alternative for websockets with support for h2&#x2F;h3 and unreliable delivery.<p>&gt; WebTransport assume a 100% browser world.<p>Webtransport should work anywhere that http is available. There’s nothing browser specific about it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Sean-Der</author><text>This is so exciting. WebRTC is our best hope to have video interop between platforms. I love that it works outside web browsers, compeitors like WebTransport assume a 100% browser world. Or you have protocols like RTMP&#x2F;SRT... that will never make it into the browser.<p>WebRTC might be our best bet to establish P2P connectivity between all languages&#x2F;platforms. Would love to get rid of the single point of falure in Pub&#x2F;Sub systems. WebRTC also feels like a great path towards easy cloud-agnostic code. You can use lots of different languages, and not dependent on SDKs&#x2F;Servers.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aiortc&#x2F;aiortc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aiortc&#x2F;aiortc</a> (Python)<p>* GStreamer’s webrtcbin (C)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shinyoshiaki&#x2F;werift-webrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shinyoshiaki&#x2F;werift-webrtc</a> (Typescript)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pion&#x2F;webrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pion&#x2F;webrtc</a> (Golang)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webrtc-rs&#x2F;webrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webrtc-rs&#x2F;webrtc</a> (Rust)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awslabs&#x2F;amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awslabs&#x2F;amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webr...</a> (C&#x2F;Embedded)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtc.googlesource.com&#x2F;src&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtc.googlesource.com&#x2F;src&#x2F;</a> (C++)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rawrtc&#x2F;rawrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rawrtc&#x2F;rawrtc</a> (C++)<p>----<p>Then you have a couple that aren&#x27;t Open Source. But proves it is possible for these platforms also.<p>* Shiguredo (Erlang)<p>* |pipe| (Java)<p>----<p>If you are new to WebRTC I have been working on making it more accessible <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtcforthecurious.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtcforthecurious.com</a>. I am currently pretty tied up with Pion so haven&#x27;t been able to make much progress lately.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard</title><url>https://web.dev/webrtc-standard-announcement/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ignoramous</author><text>If you are looking for cross-platform FOSS P2P, ProtocolLabs&#x27; (makers of IPFS) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libp2p.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libp2p.io</a> (P2P conns over TCP, UDP, QUIC, WebSockets, WebRTC) with implementations in various languages (Go, Rust, JavaScript) with varying degrees of features is great to have in the toolbox, as well. Unless of course you&#x27;re sold into a solution like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailscale.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailscale.com</a>, who I believe are readying a userspace embeddable implementation of their P2P mesh wireguard overlay network, which then would be a compelling alternative, too, in the not so distant future, especially because of its security posture (though only the clients are FOSS).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Sean-Der</author><text>This is so exciting. WebRTC is our best hope to have video interop between platforms. I love that it works outside web browsers, compeitors like WebTransport assume a 100% browser world. Or you have protocols like RTMP&#x2F;SRT... that will never make it into the browser.<p>WebRTC might be our best bet to establish P2P connectivity between all languages&#x2F;platforms. Would love to get rid of the single point of falure in Pub&#x2F;Sub systems. WebRTC also feels like a great path towards easy cloud-agnostic code. You can use lots of different languages, and not dependent on SDKs&#x2F;Servers.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aiortc&#x2F;aiortc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aiortc&#x2F;aiortc</a> (Python)<p>* GStreamer’s webrtcbin (C)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shinyoshiaki&#x2F;werift-webrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shinyoshiaki&#x2F;werift-webrtc</a> (Typescript)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pion&#x2F;webrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pion&#x2F;webrtc</a> (Golang)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webrtc-rs&#x2F;webrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webrtc-rs&#x2F;webrtc</a> (Rust)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awslabs&#x2F;amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awslabs&#x2F;amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webr...</a> (C&#x2F;Embedded)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtc.googlesource.com&#x2F;src&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtc.googlesource.com&#x2F;src&#x2F;</a> (C++)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rawrtc&#x2F;rawrtc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rawrtc&#x2F;rawrtc</a> (C++)<p>----<p>Then you have a couple that aren&#x27;t Open Source. But proves it is possible for these platforms also.<p>* Shiguredo (Erlang)<p>* |pipe| (Java)<p>----<p>If you are new to WebRTC I have been working on making it more accessible <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtcforthecurious.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrtcforthecurious.com</a>. I am currently pretty tied up with Pion so haven&#x27;t been able to make much progress lately.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard</title><url>https://web.dev/webrtc-standard-announcement/</url></story> |
38,611,049 | 38,609,228 | 1 | 2 | 38,606,804 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pelagicAustral</author><text>&gt; The thriving beaver population of Tierra del Fuego (another place Thie has studied) is descended from beavers brought to Argentina from Canada’s Saskatchewan River.<p>They&#x27;ve been trying for years to get rid of them, since they are destroying the native forests. [0][1][2][3]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;es.mongabay.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;castor-invasor-plaga-que-arrasa-bosques-de-tierra-del-fuego-argentina-chile&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;es.mongabay.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;castor-invasor-plaga-que-arr...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infobae.com&#x2F;tendencias&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;castores-invasores-el-desafio-de-erradicar-una-plaga-que-destruye-los-bosques-fueguinos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infobae.com&#x2F;tendencias&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;castores-invas...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telam.com.ar&#x2F;notas&#x2F;202011&#x2F;536780-castores-tierra-del-fuego-invasion-conejos-plagas.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telam.com.ar&#x2F;notas&#x2F;202011&#x2F;536780-castores-tierra...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scidev.net&#x2F;america-latina&#x2F;news&#x2F;con-trampas-erradicaran-castores-de-tierra-del-fuego&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scidev.net&#x2F;america-latina&#x2F;news&#x2F;con-trampas-errad...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deep in the wilderness, the largest beaver dam endures</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/features/worlds-largest-beaver-dam</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oatmeal1</author><text>Beavers do absolutely everything humans could possibly want. Drought resistance, flood prevention, water filtration, wildfire refuge and firebreaks, riparian habitat for fish and songbirds. I&#x27;m always happy to see a story about them coming back.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deep in the wilderness, the largest beaver dam endures</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/features/worlds-largest-beaver-dam</url></story> |
35,272,907 | 35,272,519 | 1 | 2 | 35,272,215 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dsego</author><text>Warning, rant ahead:<p>File chooser grid view (ie thumbnails) - that&#x27;s nice, but I&#x27;m so jaded at this point to care anymore. I&#x27;ve been using ubuntu on and off as my personal system for the past 15 years, it sure beats windows in many respects (typing this on MacOS). But I&#x27;m just too old to be excited by UI features that should&#x27;ve been here long ago and that were the standard in the software of the late 90s and early 2000s. There has also been a vocal part of the community defending the lack of thumbnails in the file picker, so this whole story has a bitter taste to it.
One more thing, it feels like open source systems and UIs are developing at a glacial pace these days, either the tools used to develop open source software are sub-par or maybe there is a lack of people working on it and effort put into it. So glacial that in the age of AI, a grid view is somehow a notable feature. There seems to be less to be excited about these days and I have given up expecting great things.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNOME 44</title><url>https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/03/22/introducing-gnome-44/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text>To me, GNOME is what makes Linux a desktop OS as pleasing to use, if not more, than macOS. The apps are neat and focused, do one thing and do it well, and everything “just works”.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNOME 44</title><url>https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/03/22/introducing-gnome-44/</url></story> |
17,038,852 | 17,038,817 | 1 | 2 | 17,038,596 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stochastic_monk</author><text>This is a feature, not a bug.<p>In fact, many jurisdictions have requirements that, above a breathalyzer-reported BAC threshold, different minimum mandatory punishments are levied. Sure, a sober person won&#x27;t get a result that&#x27;s above the legal limit most of the time, but someone who&#x27;s done some drinking and is within appropriate parameters is often labeled as DUI, and could potentially register as above this higher, mandatory-jailtime, mandatory-felony situation.<p>I&#x27;ve known of cases where the breathalyzer in question has been shown to be broken and decommissioned, yet the people whose numbers were so wildly inflated that they couldn&#x27;t possibly be accurate have still been convicted using these numbers.<p>In one case in particular, the judge ruled that the evidence on the unreliability of the machines in general (and <i>this</i> machine in particular) was not admissible for court.<p>It&#x27;s about punishment, not deterrence.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Researchers say a breathalyzer has flaws, casting doubt on countless convictions</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/draeger-breathalyzer-breath-test-convictions/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t look like this is an error that will cause a totally sober person to fail a breathalyzer test. If you&#x27;re worried about the accuracy of the machine, you can also submit to a blood test: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duilawyerlosangeles.com&#x2F;dui-lawyer-advice-breathalyzer-vs-blood-test&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duilawyerlosangeles.com&#x2F;dui-lawyer-advice-breathalyz...</a><p>This is one issue where I&#x27;m firmly on the side of the police until there&#x27;s evidence that faulty breathalyzers are putting totally innocent people in jail. If you choose to get into the driver&#x27;s seat of a car, you should not be anywhere near the legal BAC limit. By the time an officer asks you to submit to a BAC test, they&#x27;ve already observed enough behavior to make them believe that you may be a danger to others.<p>Plan ahead so that you don&#x27;t have to worry about leaving your car somewhere. Call an Uber or a Lyft. Get a friend to drive you home. Moderate your drinking. Take some time, go for a long walk. On popular holidays in many places, you can even call AAA for a free ride home, even if you&#x27;re not a member.<p>Just please don&#x27;t drive home on the hope that a defense lawyer can argue on your behalf that breathalyzers aren&#x27;t reliable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Researchers say a breathalyzer has flaws, casting doubt on countless convictions</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/draeger-breathalyzer-breath-test-convictions/</url></story> |
3,085,065 | 3,083,981 | 1 | 2 | 3,083,319 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blahedo</author><text>This is a bizarre post that is wrong in almost every detail.<p>o <i>"In America, you don't ever see them."</i> This is just screamingly false. There are satellite dishes all over the place in both urban and rural areas all over the country. (Suburban too, but there they're often in backyards and harder to see.) They may be sparser than in Europe, I don't know, but they exist in America and are not rare.<p>o American cities have <i>lots</i> of churches. A much higher percentage than in Europe are low-church Protestant (and thus without the eastern alignment) or constructed in the last half-century or so (and thus without the eastern alignment), but I think the overall percentage of buildings that are churches is actually higher. It's certainly not radically lower.<p>o The idea that nothing in the US is older than 20 years is clearly meant to be an exaggeration, but it goes beyond mere hyperbole; in any city there are a few buildings that are almost as old as the city itself and plenty others that are a lot older than 20 years. New stuff too, but there are old buildings.<p>o Semi-true, but in the parking-garage cities the crowds would be moving in no clear single direction, right? Anyway, there are many cities with at least some subway/tram/commuter rail system, not just NY.<p>o Even in the grid cities, the expressways tend to be radial, and they do point toward a heavier "downtown" area. If you want "decentralized", try Paris.<p>o The vast majority of US cities have weather that includes clouds, not "only in a few cities".<p>As far as I can tell, your point really was "these don't apply very well in LA", but that's not because the points mostly don't apply to the US, it's because LA is an outlier.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>Interesting that of these six methods, only one or two would actually work in the United States, and then only in a few cities.<p>- England doesn't really do Cable TV like America does, so you actually do see these dishes everywhere. In America, you don't ever see them. You'd probably violate your lease for installing one.<p>- American cities have hardly any churches compared to Europe, where 5 out of every 7 buildings you pass will be a Church of some form.<p>- America is 20 years old. Anything older than that is due for replacement. Hence no weathering.<p>+ (1/2) People. Cool. American cities do in fact have crowds, so you can follow them. But unless you're in NYC, you're probably going to end up at a parking garage.<p>- American cities tend to follow a grid, and are much more decentralized. Everything you need to get to is in every direction. Every road is six lanes wide, even the dead ends and alleys.<p>+ (1/2) New York might have clouds, but I've never seen one in LA.<p>So yeah, if you're lost in a US city, you might as well just ask somebody.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Six ways to never get lost in a city without GPS or Sat Nav</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15125287</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>riffic</author><text>&#62;You'd probably violate your lease for installing one<p>And your landlord would be violating FCC Over-the-Air Reception Devices Rule: <a href="http://www.fcc.gov/guides/over-air-reception-devices-rule" rel="nofollow">http://www.fcc.gov/guides/over-air-reception-devices-rule</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>Interesting that of these six methods, only one or two would actually work in the United States, and then only in a few cities.<p>- England doesn't really do Cable TV like America does, so you actually do see these dishes everywhere. In America, you don't ever see them. You'd probably violate your lease for installing one.<p>- American cities have hardly any churches compared to Europe, where 5 out of every 7 buildings you pass will be a Church of some form.<p>- America is 20 years old. Anything older than that is due for replacement. Hence no weathering.<p>+ (1/2) People. Cool. American cities do in fact have crowds, so you can follow them. But unless you're in NYC, you're probably going to end up at a parking garage.<p>- American cities tend to follow a grid, and are much more decentralized. Everything you need to get to is in every direction. Every road is six lanes wide, even the dead ends and alleys.<p>+ (1/2) New York might have clouds, but I've never seen one in LA.<p>So yeah, if you're lost in a US city, you might as well just ask somebody.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Six ways to never get lost in a city without GPS or Sat Nav</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15125287</url></story> |
29,785,449 | 29,785,714 | 1 | 2 | 29,782,186 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>salt-thrower</author><text>It&#x27;s been really sad to grow up and watch the cool techie optimism of the 2000&#x27;s internet get sucked dry by profit motives and left to rot. The change has occurred pretty much entirely within my adult lifetime (I&#x27;m only 27 and I still remember when Google was the cool new thing on the internet).<p>It went from &quot;search engines and the web will usher in a new era of wisdom and democracy&quot; to &quot;useful content is dying at the hands of monetization schemes, and also the internet will be the death of liberal democracy, woe unto us all&quot; in about 15 years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Veen</author><text>&gt; Why not try writing a search engine specifically for some category dominated by SEO spam?<p>Back in the olden days, there were lots of organizations that collated high quality content from the best writers. They nurtured expert writers and paid them well. They fact-checked the content and employed diligent editors and proofreaders so it was accurate and well-written. Over the years, they&#x27;d build a reputation for reliability and trustworthiness that kept people coming back for more. If you wanted to learn about fitness, or cars, or cooking, or science, you&#x27;d find a reputable author and publisher and buy their magazines or books.<p>But then, in the early 2000s, the geniuses from SV &quot;disrupted&quot; the publishing industry and its financial model. They brought us a much better way to find content, the search engine. Because they were so much better than the old-fashioned publishers, search engines gobbled up the advertising money and became the dominant gateway to content. Publishers had to abandon expensive high-quality writing because rankings and eyeballs now mattered more than quality and trustworthiness. Instead of investing in writers, they invested in marketers and SEO specialists.<p>The result: worthless content, writers banging out garbage for peanuts, and useless search engines.<p>Two decades later, looking at the barren wasteland they had created, the SV geniuses thought: I know what we need, more search engines, but smaller ones that collate high-quality content from the best writers. There must be money in that, right?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Search engines and SEO spam</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1477760548787920901</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GarlicToum</author><text>I tried creating a search engine for recipes. It works well and people like it, but the struggle is no one remembers that it exists and Google is just their default for search.<p>So from an individual developer perspective, it&#x27;s very hard to get people to change their habits. And Google&#x2F;duck&#x2F;Bing is the one stop shop.<p>It&#x27;s still out there, but I haven&#x27;t worked on it much lately. I always think that if I had some good advertisers, a better UI, and a salary coming in, maybe it could take over some of Google&#x27;s usage!</text><parent_chain><item><author>Veen</author><text>&gt; Why not try writing a search engine specifically for some category dominated by SEO spam?<p>Back in the olden days, there were lots of organizations that collated high quality content from the best writers. They nurtured expert writers and paid them well. They fact-checked the content and employed diligent editors and proofreaders so it was accurate and well-written. Over the years, they&#x27;d build a reputation for reliability and trustworthiness that kept people coming back for more. If you wanted to learn about fitness, or cars, or cooking, or science, you&#x27;d find a reputable author and publisher and buy their magazines or books.<p>But then, in the early 2000s, the geniuses from SV &quot;disrupted&quot; the publishing industry and its financial model. They brought us a much better way to find content, the search engine. Because they were so much better than the old-fashioned publishers, search engines gobbled up the advertising money and became the dominant gateway to content. Publishers had to abandon expensive high-quality writing because rankings and eyeballs now mattered more than quality and trustworthiness. Instead of investing in writers, they invested in marketers and SEO specialists.<p>The result: worthless content, writers banging out garbage for peanuts, and useless search engines.<p>Two decades later, looking at the barren wasteland they had created, the SV geniuses thought: I know what we need, more search engines, but smaller ones that collate high-quality content from the best writers. There must be money in that, right?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Search engines and SEO spam</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1477760548787920901</url></story> |
26,462,809 | 26,462,418 | 1 | 2 | 26,460,238 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Well, I was a big evangelist for the idea back int he 1990s, as well as for anonymous posting. With hindsight, this was a big mistake, predicated on an overly rosy view of democracy-as-civic-participation. I thought that people who really wanted to comment (such as myself) were doing so in good faith and wanted ideas to succeed or fail on their merits.<p>On the one hand, I formed these overly rosy views prior to Eternal September, but on the other it should have occurred to me that the reason trash tabloids sold in large quantities was not that people were tricked into buying them but because a lot of people are in fact awful.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>I&#x27;d be curious to compare early rationales arguing news sites <i>should</i> run comments sections wth the reality that&#x27;s transpired.<p>There <i>are</i> numerous articles from the past decade arguing <i>against</i>. (These turned up searching fror the &quot;pro&quot; argument.)<p>Why comments sections must die (2018)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;17&#x2F;why-comments-sections-must-die&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;17&#x2F;why-comments-sections-must-...</a><p>Is it really wise for news websites to stop people from commenting? (2015)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;greenslade&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;is-it-really-a-good-idea-to-turn-for-news-websites-to-turn-off-comments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;greenslade&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;is-...</a><p>Comment sections are poison: handle with care or remove them (2014) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;brain-flapping&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;12&#x2F;comment-sections-toxic-moderation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;brain-flapping&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;...</a><p>No Comment! Why More News Sites Are Dumping Their Comment Sections (2018) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kqed.org&#x2F;lowdown&#x2F;29720&#x2F;no-comment-why-a-growing-number-of-news-sites-are-dumping-their-comment-sections" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kqed.org&#x2F;lowdown&#x2F;29720&#x2F;no-comment-why-a-growing-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com</title><url>https://www.inquirer.com/about/philadelphia-inquirer-comments-section-changes-20210201.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>rgoulter</author><text>I&#x27;d guess the rationale for comments would be implicit before then. e.g. it&#x27;s not strange to see that there&#x27;s a chat alongside livestreams on Twitch, or a comment section beneath YouTube videos. There&#x27;s a natural community of people interested in the content enough to comment. - I&#x27;d guess the difference here is that newspapers get significantly more traffic from social media.<p>I&#x27;d also think it comes from a positive vision of technology. The internet as a means of &quot;making the world more connected&quot;. Empower people to communicate in ways which weren&#x27;t possible before. - Turns out this wasn&#x27;t as positive as expected.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>I&#x27;d be curious to compare early rationales arguing news sites <i>should</i> run comments sections wth the reality that&#x27;s transpired.<p>There <i>are</i> numerous articles from the past decade arguing <i>against</i>. (These turned up searching fror the &quot;pro&quot; argument.)<p>Why comments sections must die (2018)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;17&#x2F;why-comments-sections-must-die&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;17&#x2F;why-comments-sections-must-...</a><p>Is it really wise for news websites to stop people from commenting? (2015)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;greenslade&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;is-it-really-a-good-idea-to-turn-for-news-websites-to-turn-off-comments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;greenslade&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;is-...</a><p>Comment sections are poison: handle with care or remove them (2014) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;brain-flapping&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;12&#x2F;comment-sections-toxic-moderation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;brain-flapping&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;...</a><p>No Comment! Why More News Sites Are Dumping Their Comment Sections (2018) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kqed.org&#x2F;lowdown&#x2F;29720&#x2F;no-comment-why-a-growing-number-of-news-sites-are-dumping-their-comment-sections" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kqed.org&#x2F;lowdown&#x2F;29720&#x2F;no-comment-why-a-growing-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com</title><url>https://www.inquirer.com/about/philadelphia-inquirer-comments-section-changes-20210201.html</url></story> |
11,256,399 | 11,256,262 | 1 | 3 | 11,255,633 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickff</author><text>Money always buys speech; whether it is by allowing a columnist to write full time, affording the puchase of a computer to post on the internet, or giving someone the ability to travel to a public square.<p>Using money to purchase a magazine, newspaper, television, radio, or online advertisement is just another way that money helps people express their views.<p>In any case, I wouldn&#x27;t be too worried about money changing people&#x27;s minds, as it rarely does that.[1] Advertisements and the like usually serve to give voice to the views people already hold, and inform them of things they were not aware of. An advertisement will never convince people to buy things they don&#x27;t want and don&#x27;t need; if you disagree, please go and try to sell a bad product, and we will see how well your &#x27;mind control&#x27; works.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Righteous_Mind" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Righteous_Mind</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>md224</author><text>I&#x27;m just saying I wish we could have only organic results. Why should people with more money have more of a presence online? Money shouldn&#x27;t be able to buy speech.<p>The Internet should not be a place where those with more money get to cut the line in front of those with less. Let PageRank sort it out.<p>Also, what&#x27;s this about my example not holding weight because &quot;information purity&quot; doesn&#x27;t exist? It&#x27;s not about the information itself being pure, it&#x27;s about purity of ranking. Let&#x27;s just spell this out:<p>money !== relevance, therefore any influence of money on search engine rankings is, by definition, noise.</text></item><item><author>pcmaffey</author><text>The library is a catalog of books produced by publishers for the sake of making money. Your example doesn&#x27;t hold weight, as there is no &quot;purity of information&quot;. Even your own insights are filtered through the perspective of your personal influence, your wants, your desires, your history, etc.<p>Google is no different. The organic search results are largely from commercial, or at a minimum, self-interested sources.<p>That doesn&#x27;t make it wrong. There&#x27;s huge value there. Just the same, money is not evil. It&#x27;s a mechanism for storing value. It&#x27;s imperfect, and abused, and certainly not the only measurement of value. Keeping those value systems in balance is the key.</text></item><item><author>md224</author><text>I have made this case before, but I will make it again.<p>The Internet is the largest information system in the world, and Google is the primary portal into that information system. Google&#x27;s &quot;organic&quot; results are accompanied by AdWords results, which are based on a mixture of bid price and relevance. These ads are marked with a small &quot;Ad&quot; label that many people miss, and even those who know they&#x27;re ads can&#x27;t really &quot;unsee&quot; those results.<p>So, searching the world&#x27;s largest information system provides results which have been biased by money. How does anyone consider this ethical? Why are we letting money influence the salience of information?<p>What if your local library (you know, those old things) had a card catalog with &quot;sponsored&quot; results? If this already exists, then maybe we&#x27;re already lost. But it seems to me that as a basic rule of information ethics, the salience of information in a given information system should not be biased by monetary influence. Full stop, the end, no exceptions. If anyone has a counterargument, I would honestly love to hear it, because this has nagged at me for a long time. I simply can&#x27;t understand how AdWords is ethical.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence</title><url>https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-alters-our-thoughts</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pcmaffey</author><text>Money is absolutely part of the formulation of relevance. It&#x27;s just not the whole equation. Nor is word-matching (altavista), nor is popularity (google). But each is relevant.<p>Someone (advertiser) is paying money because they believe they have information relevant to you. How is that categorically different than the blogger&#x2F;webmaster who&#x27;s paying money (time&#x2F;hosting) because they believe they have information relevant to you?<p>All information has a cost associated with it. And that cost bears some significance on the value of the information. Measuring and weighing that significance relative to other inputs is the beauty of an effective system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>md224</author><text>I&#x27;m just saying I wish we could have only organic results. Why should people with more money have more of a presence online? Money shouldn&#x27;t be able to buy speech.<p>The Internet should not be a place where those with more money get to cut the line in front of those with less. Let PageRank sort it out.<p>Also, what&#x27;s this about my example not holding weight because &quot;information purity&quot; doesn&#x27;t exist? It&#x27;s not about the information itself being pure, it&#x27;s about purity of ranking. Let&#x27;s just spell this out:<p>money !== relevance, therefore any influence of money on search engine rankings is, by definition, noise.</text></item><item><author>pcmaffey</author><text>The library is a catalog of books produced by publishers for the sake of making money. Your example doesn&#x27;t hold weight, as there is no &quot;purity of information&quot;. Even your own insights are filtered through the perspective of your personal influence, your wants, your desires, your history, etc.<p>Google is no different. The organic search results are largely from commercial, or at a minimum, self-interested sources.<p>That doesn&#x27;t make it wrong. There&#x27;s huge value there. Just the same, money is not evil. It&#x27;s a mechanism for storing value. It&#x27;s imperfect, and abused, and certainly not the only measurement of value. Keeping those value systems in balance is the key.</text></item><item><author>md224</author><text>I have made this case before, but I will make it again.<p>The Internet is the largest information system in the world, and Google is the primary portal into that information system. Google&#x27;s &quot;organic&quot; results are accompanied by AdWords results, which are based on a mixture of bid price and relevance. These ads are marked with a small &quot;Ad&quot; label that many people miss, and even those who know they&#x27;re ads can&#x27;t really &quot;unsee&quot; those results.<p>So, searching the world&#x27;s largest information system provides results which have been biased by money. How does anyone consider this ethical? Why are we letting money influence the salience of information?<p>What if your local library (you know, those old things) had a card catalog with &quot;sponsored&quot; results? If this already exists, then maybe we&#x27;re already lost. But it seems to me that as a basic rule of information ethics, the salience of information in a given information system should not be biased by monetary influence. Full stop, the end, no exceptions. If anyone has a counterargument, I would honestly love to hear it, because this has nagged at me for a long time. I simply can&#x27;t understand how AdWords is ethical.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence</title><url>https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-alters-our-thoughts</url></story> |
41,029,636 | 41,029,528 | 1 | 3 | 41,028,887 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sameoldtune</author><text>The concepts in Seeing Like A State are very relevant to programmers and to anyone trying to “change the world” with technology. One of the main points is that for a state to manage many people it tends to use power (hard and soft) to homogenize the populace. My belief is that tech necessarily does the same thing. Everyone in your app has permissions defined by some enum, a limited number of actions available, content moderation machinery.<p>This has effects that are inescapable, especially in the fields of medicine, mental health, education, social engagement. Tech makes our levers to move the Earth more efficient, but at the cost of a lack of diversity of thought, lifestyle, and value.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State, has died</title><url>https://nitter.poast.org/GerardoMunck/status/1815059432382067053</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beedeebeedee</author><text>I met him once but never took a class. I wish I had because I enjoyed listening to
him. Deeply knowledgeable and great intellect. We spoke mostly about the Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson, which is worth reading by everyone in the US and UK (and elsewhere). The other great book by James C. Scott is Weapons of the Weak.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State, has died</title><url>https://nitter.poast.org/GerardoMunck/status/1815059432382067053</url></story> |
8,136,411 | 8,136,450 | 1 | 2 | 8,136,225 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>This is Europe&#x27;s current &quot;moonshot&quot; class mission. It may not look crazy interesting yet, but it will be. They&#x27;ll send a lander down to rest on the surface of the comet. Then the orbiter and the lander will survey and study the comet while it gets closer and closer to the sun, transitioning from more or less a dead rock to a fully active comet with gas jets and a cometary tail. With any luck they&#x27;ll find out several new things nobody has even speculated about comets and collect a couple astoundingly awesome photos in the process.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Watch the Rosetta rendezvous</title><url>http://rosetta.esa.int/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gokhan</author><text>Make sure you watch &quot;where is Rosetta&quot; animation. Amazing.<p><a href="http://sci.esa.int/where_is_rosetta/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci.esa.int&#x2F;where_is_rosetta&#x2F;</a><p>Tip: Use your mouse to change the view.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Watch the Rosetta rendezvous</title><url>http://rosetta.esa.int/</url></story> |
465,851 | 465,631 | 1 | 3 | 465,567 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anatoli</author><text>I'll jump in, because I spent six months developing a web app using Sass. It's a nightmare to maintain on any sort of complicated, big project. For various reasons... I previously blogged about it here: <a href="http://fecklessmind.com/2009/01/28/fuck-sass/" rel="nofollow">http://fecklessmind.com/2009/01/28/fuck-sass/</a><p>Ultimately, yes, you can use whatever the hell you want. But if you're a front-end developer, if you care about your webiste scaling to millions of users, if you care about providing best experience even to dial-up users or users of old PCs / Macs, then you're going to spend the time optimizing everything you can. Sass goes against that and creates bloat. Fine for back-end developers who just want the pain of working with CSS to be over, maybe, but not for front-end developers.<p>Haml on the other hand is great.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't use css or table layout, use Sass and Compass instead</title><url>http://gom-jabbar.org/articles/2009/02/04/don-t-use-css-or-table-layout-use-sass-ad-compass</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jhancock</author><text>I am in process of redoing my webapp (merb based) with compass. I think the approach is right on. I hope it gains enough momentum to be a great "programmer oriented" CSS framework.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't use css or table layout, use Sass and Compass instead</title><url>http://gom-jabbar.org/articles/2009/02/04/don-t-use-css-or-table-layout-use-sass-ad-compass</url></story> |
36,199,597 | 36,199,887 | 1 | 3 | 36,199,483 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>It&#x27;s bizarre to me they&#x27;re still bragging about performance relative to Intel macs. I guess there&#x27;s been diminishing returns after the ARM transition, or else they&#x27;d be comparing to M1?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Announces New MacBook Air with 15.3-Inch Display and M2 Chip</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/05/apple-new-15-inch-macbook-air/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>msmith</author><text>Does it support more than one external display? The lack of that feature was the primary thing that drove me to choose a 13&quot; MacBook Pro instead.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Announces New MacBook Air with 15.3-Inch Display and M2 Chip</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/05/apple-new-15-inch-macbook-air/</url></story> |
9,560,763 | 9,559,910 | 1 | 3 | 9,559,691 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chestnut-tree</author><text>In case anyone hasn&#x27;t seen this image on Twitter already:<p><i>&quot;What David Cameron said actually seems perfectly reasonable if you&#x27;re a comic book supervillain.&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BrigonChomhgail&#x2F;status&#x2F;598828273452326912" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BrigonChomhgail&#x2F;status&#x2F;59882827345232691...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>anon1385</author><text>“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens &#x27;as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone&#x27;. This government will conclusively turn the page on this failed approach.” -- David Cameron<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;13&#x2F;uk-britain-militants-idUKKBN0NX2OW20150513" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;13&#x2F;uk-britain-militant...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK government quietly rewrites hacking laws to give GCHQ immunity</title><url>http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/05/uk-government-quietly-rewrites-hacking-laws-to-grant-gchq-immunity/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>s_kilk</author><text>Oh how I wish we (Scotland) had decided to part from these lunatics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anon1385</author><text>“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens &#x27;as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone&#x27;. This government will conclusively turn the page on this failed approach.” -- David Cameron<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;13&#x2F;uk-britain-militants-idUKKBN0NX2OW20150513" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;13&#x2F;uk-britain-militant...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK government quietly rewrites hacking laws to give GCHQ immunity</title><url>http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/05/uk-government-quietly-rewrites-hacking-laws-to-grant-gchq-immunity/</url></story> |
32,974,939 | 32,973,314 | 1 | 2 | 32,969,692 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>derefr</author><text>&gt; raw math of cpu &amp; io performance &amp; costs on an Excel spreadsheet<p>But that&#x27;s not the raw math; the raw math is &quot;total OpEx&quot;, and OpEx for these large systems is increasingly dominated not by the systems themselves, but rather by development-talent acquisition costs, and operational-maintenance talent labor costs.<p>Even Sabre&#x27;s choice wasn&#x27;t &quot;upgrade to z16 vs. move to IaaS&quot;; it was &quot;hire people to replace churned devs+ops to write the next feature of the system: people with z&#x2F;OS experience, or people with IaaS experience?&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;I read this wonderful article on mainframe OSes.</i><p>As irony, the url link points to an article mentioning the Unisys mainframe. Unisys later switched to running on commodity x86 servers with a Unisys emulation on top: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=unisys+clearpath+shift+xeon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=unisys+clearpath+shift+xeon</a><p><i>&gt;, and that you don’t need all the fancy scaling infrastructure because one modern box [mainframe] can support a million concurrent users no problem, and a few such boxes can support tens of hundreds of millions of them, all in something in the corner of one room, with an uptime of decades and no need for any cloud. But it’s hard to do it that way, </i><p>The author proposes that &quot;mainframes-are-superior&quot; by vague generalizations and no performance data.<p>As a case study, consider that the Sabre travel reservations was the <i>first IBM mainframe commercial customer</i> since 1960. With 6 decades of experience with IBM 360 and Z upgrades, they&#x27;d know more about running mission-critical performance workloads on mainframes than just about anyone.<p>And yet, they&#x27;ve been <i>migrating off of mainframes</i> to AWS + Azure + Google cloud : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=sabre+migration+multi-cloud+google" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=sabre+migration+multi-cloud+...</a><p>To think of the opposite case from Sabre, let&#x27;s consider a new YC startup today with no legacy IT systems. Thinking from first principles (i.e. raw math of cpu &amp; io performance &amp; costs on an Excel spreadsheet), what situation makes sense to build the solution on an a new IBM z16 mainframe instead of cloud?<p>If one is an old bank already running an older IBM z14 or z15 mainframe and wants the next iteration of performance improvements, a z16 upgrade is the simplest so probably makes the most financial sense. But without a &quot;legacy IT&quot; constraint, what&#x27;s the compelling spreadsheet model for a YC company to choose a mainframe?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On the strange joys of mainframe OSes that have survived into modern times</title><url>https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/86995.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>neverartful</author><text>&quot;But without a &quot;legacy IT&quot; constraint, what&#x27;s the compelling spreadsheet model for a YC company to choose a mainframe?&quot;<p>The most compelling reasons for the mainframe, based on its intrinsic values, are &#x27;RAS&#x27; (reliability, availability, serviceability). However, those virtues come with a very high price tag. So far the most part, I cannot imagine any startup business choosing one (UNLESS system downtime will kill the business).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;I read this wonderful article on mainframe OSes.</i><p>As irony, the url link points to an article mentioning the Unisys mainframe. Unisys later switched to running on commodity x86 servers with a Unisys emulation on top: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=unisys+clearpath+shift+xeon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=unisys+clearpath+shift+xeon</a><p><i>&gt;, and that you don’t need all the fancy scaling infrastructure because one modern box [mainframe] can support a million concurrent users no problem, and a few such boxes can support tens of hundreds of millions of them, all in something in the corner of one room, with an uptime of decades and no need for any cloud. But it’s hard to do it that way, </i><p>The author proposes that &quot;mainframes-are-superior&quot; by vague generalizations and no performance data.<p>As a case study, consider that the Sabre travel reservations was the <i>first IBM mainframe commercial customer</i> since 1960. With 6 decades of experience with IBM 360 and Z upgrades, they&#x27;d know more about running mission-critical performance workloads on mainframes than just about anyone.<p>And yet, they&#x27;ve been <i>migrating off of mainframes</i> to AWS + Azure + Google cloud : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=sabre+migration+multi-cloud+google" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=sabre+migration+multi-cloud+...</a><p>To think of the opposite case from Sabre, let&#x27;s consider a new YC startup today with no legacy IT systems. Thinking from first principles (i.e. raw math of cpu &amp; io performance &amp; costs on an Excel spreadsheet), what situation makes sense to build the solution on an a new IBM z16 mainframe instead of cloud?<p>If one is an old bank already running an older IBM z14 or z15 mainframe and wants the next iteration of performance improvements, a z16 upgrade is the simplest so probably makes the most financial sense. But without a &quot;legacy IT&quot; constraint, what&#x27;s the compelling spreadsheet model for a YC company to choose a mainframe?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On the strange joys of mainframe OSes that have survived into modern times</title><url>https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/86995.html</url></story> |
14,643,949 | 14,643,821 | 1 | 2 | 14,643,467 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phicoh</author><text>You can&#x27;t blame this on Trump alone.<p>8 years of Obama gave increased spying, kept the insane TSA, blocked people born in Iran from entering the country (independent of what nationality they currently have). Gave the ESTA Visa Waiver program, where you have to pay for getting exactly no rights what-so-ever. And as final insult, you are allowed to list the social media you use.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickserv</author><text>&gt; Almost all Americans think this sort of thing is nonsense. But the average American has little standing to hold the American bureaucracy accountable for its nonsense.<p>Sorry but they don&#x27;t get off that easy when almost half of them voted Trump into office.<p>&gt; Americans, especially outside overcrowded urban areas, are courteous, helpful, hospitable people that are very tolerant of other people and ideas.<p>I&#x27;ve found quite the opposite, out in the boonies you&#x27;re more likely to get harassed when you&#x27;re not the &quot;right&quot; color or religion. I&#x27;ve had some really nice, helpful people turn nasty as soon as I mentioned my atheism, for example.</text></item><item><author>humanrebar</author><text>&gt; This may be unpopular on an US-centric site like HN, but the US looks more and more like they want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world: very strict immigration policy, travelers molested by TSA on airports, ...<p>Almost all Americans think this sort of thing is nonsense. But the average American has little standing to hold the American bureaucracy accountable for its nonsense.<p>Americans, especially outside overcrowded urban areas, are courteous, helpful, hospitable people that are very tolerant of other people and ideas.</text></item><item><author>y0ghur7_xxx</author><text>This may be unpopular on an US-centric site like HN, but the US looks more and more like they want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world: very strict immigration policy, travelers molested by TSA on airports, ...<p>These conferences where people around the world meet should start to be hosted somewhere else. Not in the USA anymore. Somewhere in a country that welcomes people instead of treating all of them like possible threats.<p>Just organize All Hands in Berlin next year. Or Barcelona, or Munich, or Stockholm, or Amsterdam, or whatever. Just not the US anymore. Americans don&#x27;t want foreigners on their soil. Or at least everything looks that way from the outside. Let them be that way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Author of cURL denied entry to the USA</title><url>https://twitter.com/bagder/status/879198063998513152</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>humanrebar</author><text>Half didn&#x27;t vote for Trump. Look again at the turnout rates. Also keep in mind that most &quot;Trump voters&quot; voted against Clinton more than they voted for Trump. I think that is kind of silly but that&#x27;s the thought process of the Trump voters I talk to.<p>I can&#x27;t comment about your personal experiences in small town America other than to say that my experience is very different and that referring to areas epithetically (1) undermines your point. America is a very broad and diverse place, though, so there are idiots and bigots in places. But I would just like to point out that kind and welcoming people are easy to find. They don&#x27;t make headlines. And good impressions don&#x27;t last as long as bad ones, I guess.<p>(1) Boonies or boondocks implies a judgemental attitude that people are backwards or unsophisticated. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Boondocks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Boondocks</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nickserv</author><text>&gt; Almost all Americans think this sort of thing is nonsense. But the average American has little standing to hold the American bureaucracy accountable for its nonsense.<p>Sorry but they don&#x27;t get off that easy when almost half of them voted Trump into office.<p>&gt; Americans, especially outside overcrowded urban areas, are courteous, helpful, hospitable people that are very tolerant of other people and ideas.<p>I&#x27;ve found quite the opposite, out in the boonies you&#x27;re more likely to get harassed when you&#x27;re not the &quot;right&quot; color or religion. I&#x27;ve had some really nice, helpful people turn nasty as soon as I mentioned my atheism, for example.</text></item><item><author>humanrebar</author><text>&gt; This may be unpopular on an US-centric site like HN, but the US looks more and more like they want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world: very strict immigration policy, travelers molested by TSA on airports, ...<p>Almost all Americans think this sort of thing is nonsense. But the average American has little standing to hold the American bureaucracy accountable for its nonsense.<p>Americans, especially outside overcrowded urban areas, are courteous, helpful, hospitable people that are very tolerant of other people and ideas.</text></item><item><author>y0ghur7_xxx</author><text>This may be unpopular on an US-centric site like HN, but the US looks more and more like they want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world: very strict immigration policy, travelers molested by TSA on airports, ...<p>These conferences where people around the world meet should start to be hosted somewhere else. Not in the USA anymore. Somewhere in a country that welcomes people instead of treating all of them like possible threats.<p>Just organize All Hands in Berlin next year. Or Barcelona, or Munich, or Stockholm, or Amsterdam, or whatever. Just not the US anymore. Americans don&#x27;t want foreigners on their soil. Or at least everything looks that way from the outside. Let them be that way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Author of cURL denied entry to the USA</title><url>https://twitter.com/bagder/status/879198063998513152</url></story> |
39,166,878 | 39,163,432 | 1 | 2 | 39,162,856 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nayuki</author><text>I built AES and DES in Excel almost about a decade ago. Note that these are combinational circuits, not sequential - so no feedback or clock are required. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nayuki.io&#x2F;page&#x2F;aes-cipher-internals-in-excel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nayuki.io&#x2F;page&#x2F;aes-cipher-internals-in-excel</a> , <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nayuki.io&#x2F;page&#x2F;des-cipher-internals-in-excel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nayuki.io&#x2F;page&#x2F;des-cipher-internals-in-excel</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>b33j0r</author><text>I am super disappointed in the lack of evolution of dataflow, but am encouraged to see things like airtable, and I guess blender and etc using node-based interfaces for functional logic.<p>I did my senior thesis&#x2F;project in CS (we had to do several, it was anticlimactic) about visual programming, and basic paradigms that might be the future.<p>I ended up writing a missive about labview holding people back, because 2D planes suck at communicating information to people who otherwise read books and blogs and C# code.<p>My conclusion 15 years later is that we’ll talk to LLMs and their successors rather than invent a great graphical user interface that works like a desktop or a &lt;table&gt; or even a repl.<p>Star Trek may have inspired the ipad and terrible polygon capacitive touchscreens… but we all know that “Computer, search for M-class planets without fans of Nickelback’s second album living there as of stardate 2024” is already basically a reality.<p>EDIT: I like this CPU experiment too! It is a great example of the thing I’m talking about. Realized after the fact that I failed to plant my context in my comment, before doing my graybeard routine.<p>So. Food for thought, our LLM overlords are just unfathomable spreadsheets.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU</url></story> |
3,595,661 | 3,594,934 | 1 | 2 | 3,594,098 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tyrmored</author><text>This actually occurred to me as I was writing it; I tried to decide whether it was better to call it more accurately what it was, or refer to it as something with which people were more familiar and hence have a concept to which to relate it. So for reference I actually agree with your comment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>scott_s</author><text>I agree with his sentiment - it's something I have said here on HN several times - but I disagree with his word choice. Unix is not an <i>integrated</i> development environment. To me, an IDE implies a monolithic program. Unix is not that. To differentiate it, I'm tempted to say that Unix is a <i>distributed</i> development environment to get across that the tools you use for development do not exist in one monolithic program. But I don't like that phrasing, either. Rather, I prefer this:<p>Unix <i>is</i> a development environment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unix as IDE</title><url>http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mhd</author><text>Yes, one might say that the "I" part of IDE is there to differentiate it from the typical Unix style.<p>Kernighan and Pike called their book "The Unix Programming Environment" (sooo highly recommended), so I' go with "PE" instead of the high-falutin' "DE".</text><parent_chain><item><author>scott_s</author><text>I agree with his sentiment - it's something I have said here on HN several times - but I disagree with his word choice. Unix is not an <i>integrated</i> development environment. To me, an IDE implies a monolithic program. Unix is not that. To differentiate it, I'm tempted to say that Unix is a <i>distributed</i> development environment to get across that the tools you use for development do not exist in one monolithic program. But I don't like that phrasing, either. Rather, I prefer this:<p>Unix <i>is</i> a development environment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unix as IDE</title><url>http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/</url></story> |
10,370,339 | 10,370,022 | 1 | 3 | 10,369,742 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vitd</author><text>This sound about as useful as a man page. For me it often goes like this:<p>&quot;What&#x27;s the command that shows me file system usage again?&quot;<p>&gt; man -k file system usage<p>result = 5 pages of matching commands, often poorly formatted, word wrapping oddly, sometimes without even carriage returns between the commands, so it&#x27;s all one long list. And this is in Unix which has had something like 45 years to clean up this mess.<p>I don&#x27;t hold out hope that this sort of interface will ever be presented usefully, and we already have a better system in a GUI.</text><parent_chain><item><author>miguelrochefort</author><text>This simply is an artifact of the original design of CLI. You start by writing the command or function, and then you provide parameters or arguments. The order in which these things are provided leads to poor discoverability.<p>Instead of starting with the command, we should start with an argument. Given a &quot;thing&quot; (that likely exists in your UI), such as a file, a song, a person, a chunk of text, show me the list of commands that accept it as a parameter. You&#x27;ll quickly discover that a chunk of text can be passed to functions such as &quot;tweet&quot;, &quot;copy to clipboard&quot;, &quot;create memo&quot;, &quot;search on Google&quot;, &quot;translate&quot;. Congratulations, you just invented the contextual menu, which people have been using for decades.<p>&quot;Things&quot; are easy to discover; you can see them. Commands that interact with them, are not as easy to discover; you can&#x27;t see them. Let people touch or name things (with or without a query language), and once they grabbed the instance they care about, show them what can be done with it. It&#x27;s that simple.<p>Before:<p>&gt; &#x2F;tweet &quot;some random thoughts&quot; &#x2F;&#x2F; where you had to know &#x27;tweet&#x27; existed as a command<p>After:<p>&gt; &quot;some random thoughts&quot; -&gt; tweet &#x2F;&#x2F; where &#x27;tweet&#x27; was auto-suggested, along with &#x27;search&#x27;, &#x27;translate&#x27;, &#x27;copy&#x27;, etc.</text></item><item><author>wmeredith</author><text>No way. I&#x27;ve been designing and coding interfaces for 10 years, and time after time one of the biggest constraints for what is on&#x2F;off the screen is the user&#x27;s memory.<p>Want to know why the command line is hard for plebs? It&#x27;s because they don&#x27;t know what the options are. They don&#x27;t even know what they don&#x27;t know.<p>The whole point of a GUI is to convey the possibilities. Show users a menu and they get to pick something. This isn&#x27;t going to change anytime soon. At least not until terminal commands are taught in school alongside the alphabet and multiplication tables.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The future of UI is text</title><url>http://partyline.rocks/blog/futureofui/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seagreen</author><text>This is brilliant. Do you have suggestions for where I can go to read more about this idea?</text><parent_chain><item><author>miguelrochefort</author><text>This simply is an artifact of the original design of CLI. You start by writing the command or function, and then you provide parameters or arguments. The order in which these things are provided leads to poor discoverability.<p>Instead of starting with the command, we should start with an argument. Given a &quot;thing&quot; (that likely exists in your UI), such as a file, a song, a person, a chunk of text, show me the list of commands that accept it as a parameter. You&#x27;ll quickly discover that a chunk of text can be passed to functions such as &quot;tweet&quot;, &quot;copy to clipboard&quot;, &quot;create memo&quot;, &quot;search on Google&quot;, &quot;translate&quot;. Congratulations, you just invented the contextual menu, which people have been using for decades.<p>&quot;Things&quot; are easy to discover; you can see them. Commands that interact with them, are not as easy to discover; you can&#x27;t see them. Let people touch or name things (with or without a query language), and once they grabbed the instance they care about, show them what can be done with it. It&#x27;s that simple.<p>Before:<p>&gt; &#x2F;tweet &quot;some random thoughts&quot; &#x2F;&#x2F; where you had to know &#x27;tweet&#x27; existed as a command<p>After:<p>&gt; &quot;some random thoughts&quot; -&gt; tweet &#x2F;&#x2F; where &#x27;tweet&#x27; was auto-suggested, along with &#x27;search&#x27;, &#x27;translate&#x27;, &#x27;copy&#x27;, etc.</text></item><item><author>wmeredith</author><text>No way. I&#x27;ve been designing and coding interfaces for 10 years, and time after time one of the biggest constraints for what is on&#x2F;off the screen is the user&#x27;s memory.<p>Want to know why the command line is hard for plebs? It&#x27;s because they don&#x27;t know what the options are. They don&#x27;t even know what they don&#x27;t know.<p>The whole point of a GUI is to convey the possibilities. Show users a menu and they get to pick something. This isn&#x27;t going to change anytime soon. At least not until terminal commands are taught in school alongside the alphabet and multiplication tables.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The future of UI is text</title><url>http://partyline.rocks/blog/futureofui/</url></story> |
34,898,601 | 34,898,833 | 1 | 2 | 34,898,258 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>texaslonghorn5</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-022-05434-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-022-05434-1</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-022-04532-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-022-04532-4</a><p>The FT article is a bit fluffy. here are links to the paper and briefing in Nature.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google claims breakthrough in quantum computer error correction</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/9e04ff7d-f56a-4d5f-a4fa-849336abf659</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sebzim4500</author><text>Like all claimed QC breakthroughs, best to wait for Scott Aaronson&#x27;s response on his blog.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google claims breakthrough in quantum computer error correction</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/9e04ff7d-f56a-4d5f-a4fa-849336abf659</url></story> |
33,159,291 | 33,158,296 | 1 | 3 | 33,156,918 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>culi</author><text>I think a very interesting field of inquiry into oral microbiota is a broad evolutionary approach. There was a study published in Nature Genetics[0] showing big changes in oral microbiota corresponding with Neolithic and Industrial dietary change. Modern oral microbiota are markedly less diverse than historic populations and the, much more developed, study of the gut microbiome shows us that very microbial diversity very often corresponds with usually-commensal microbes becoming pathogenic. It seems that cariogenic bacteria became dominant, apparently during the Industrial Revolution.[0] But we know that pre-Neolithic hominins very rarely had caries.[1] Despite affecting anywhere between 60-90% of schoolchildren in industrialized nations, less than 3% of P. robustus specimens examined had dental caries.[1]<p>What&#x27;s MOST fascinating to me is that this dance isn&#x27;t just our mouths vs the microbiomes. There&#x27;s now considerable evidence that it is more likely to be the host response to the bacteria that leads to the tissue changes noted in gingivitis and periodontitis[2]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3996550&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3996550&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;abs&#x2F;pii&#x2F;000399699090185D?via%3Dihub" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;abs&#x2F;pii&#x2F;000399...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3692012&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3692012&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bmau5</author><text>The evolutionary adaptations oral bacteria have developed to coexist are fascinating. Another example is the known gum disease-causing species, P. gingivalis, can suppress our adaptive immunity [1].<p>This finding underscores the importance of taking preventative approaches to prevent attachment of biofilm producers (and why daily hygiene is so important), and finding more approaches to biofilm destabilization, like incorporating arginine into diets and possibly oral care products [2].<p>Source: founder of an oral microbiome testing company [3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5122233" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5122233</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosone&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal.pone.0121835" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosone&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bristlehealth.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bristlehealth.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microbes that cause cavities can form superorganisms able to ‘crawl’</title><url>https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/microbes-cause-cavities-can-form-superorganisms-able-crawl-and-spread-teeth</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thelittleone</author><text>A fascinating field of inquiry. Digestive systems and their inhabitants have evolved over millions of years.<p>I recently shifted my mindset to feed not just for me, but also for the ~2kg of microbiota [1] inhabiting my digestive system. Has been great for my health.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.racgp.org.au&#x2F;afp&#x2F;2017&#x2F;april&#x2F;the-gut-microbiome&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.racgp.org.au&#x2F;afp&#x2F;2017&#x2F;april&#x2F;the-gut-microbiome&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bmau5</author><text>The evolutionary adaptations oral bacteria have developed to coexist are fascinating. Another example is the known gum disease-causing species, P. gingivalis, can suppress our adaptive immunity [1].<p>This finding underscores the importance of taking preventative approaches to prevent attachment of biofilm producers (and why daily hygiene is so important), and finding more approaches to biofilm destabilization, like incorporating arginine into diets and possibly oral care products [2].<p>Source: founder of an oral microbiome testing company [3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5122233" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5122233</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosone&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal.pone.0121835" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosone&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bristlehealth.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bristlehealth.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microbes that cause cavities can form superorganisms able to ‘crawl’</title><url>https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/microbes-cause-cavities-can-form-superorganisms-able-crawl-and-spread-teeth</url></story> |
26,225,126 | 26,225,467 | 1 | 2 | 26,222,386 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alkonaut</author><text>Which stock? P&amp;W? Airlines? Boeing?<p>Boeing doesn&#x27;t seem to be at fault here. The particular engine is from P&amp;W and they make engines for Airbus and others as well. I can&#x27;t see how any of this should be extremely negative long term for neither boeing or P&amp;W.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>Checks stock. Only down 2.0%. The current nutty index fund driven stock market, folks.</text></item><item><author>jfk13</author><text>According to the BBC article at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-56149894" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-56149894</a>,
&quot;Boeing has recommended grounding all 777 aircraft with the same type of engine&quot;. So this isn&#x27;t just a few airlines or an individual country.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Korean Air, Asiana to ground Boeing 777 after engine incident</title><url>http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210222001051</url></story> | <instructions>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>This sort of thing isn&#x27;t <i>good</i> news, certainly, but it&#x27;s not <i>that</i> exceptionally bad, either. This sort of thing is happening on a low level all the time, it just doesn&#x27;t always make the non-aviation news.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>Checks stock. Only down 2.0%. The current nutty index fund driven stock market, folks.</text></item><item><author>jfk13</author><text>According to the BBC article at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-56149894" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-56149894</a>,
&quot;Boeing has recommended grounding all 777 aircraft with the same type of engine&quot;. So this isn&#x27;t just a few airlines or an individual country.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Korean Air, Asiana to ground Boeing 777 after engine incident</title><url>http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210222001051</url></story> |
3,084,101 | 3,083,807 | 1 | 3 | 3,083,410 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>T-hawk</author><text>Another solution is a custom style sheet. Opera has had that capability forever, since about 2001. I use Opera for most browsing, with a custom style sheet to force all text to a certain font and style. This varies by device: Calibri 12pt is the most readable at work where I sit close to the screen on a smallish monitor, while Verdana 12pt works better on my home desktop and laptop screens. My stylesheet also forces text color to black-on-white, very useful for some forum sites that seem to like the scary gothic gray-on-dark look.<p>There won't be any magic bullet solution. Specifying text size in terms of pixels gives you tiny words on super high resolution iDevices or even modern laptop screens. Specifying size as an absolute via points or inches/cm doesn't work for users lacking the visual acuity to see that size. Specifying size relative to a user-settable device default only works for users savvy enough to find that setting. What we've got now is a mixmash of the above, where devices treat an absolutely-specified size as a baseline to scale from via zoom controls.<p>But hey, web font scaling is still twelve parsecs better than the original option of going out to buy the large print edition of whatever you want to read.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Corrado</author><text>I agree completely with this article. As I've gotten older (now 43) I have had more and more trouble reading web sites. In fact, I've noticed lately that I don't even try on some sites that have "small" fonts, I just close the tab. There are some sites that I really like and I generally depend on my browser to help me out. Chrome has a good habit of remembering my page zoom on a particular site so I don't even notice the font problem on subsequent visits.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>16 pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake</title><url>http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/16-pixels-body-copy-anything-less-costly-mistake/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leif</author><text>I'm 23 and I zoom in on plenty of sites.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Corrado</author><text>I agree completely with this article. As I've gotten older (now 43) I have had more and more trouble reading web sites. In fact, I've noticed lately that I don't even try on some sites that have "small" fonts, I just close the tab. There are some sites that I really like and I generally depend on my browser to help me out. Chrome has a good habit of remembering my page zoom on a particular site so I don't even notice the font problem on subsequent visits.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>16 pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake</title><url>http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/16-pixels-body-copy-anything-less-costly-mistake/</url></story> |
26,017,681 | 26,016,449 | 1 | 3 | 26,014,228 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>modeless</author><text>&gt; even if a billionaire does get caught and pays all their back-taxes with penalties, they will still most likely be a billionaire and be able to sustain a pretty posh lifestyle<p>By that logic, if they just pay their taxes it won&#x27;t affect their lifestyle either, so their incentive to cheat is also lower.<p>&gt; the payoff for a billionaire successfully cheating on their taxes is much higher than for a non-billionaire<p>In absolute terms, sure. And in absolute terms the penalties are much bigger too.<p>&gt; the IRS prosecutes a lot more low-income people than high-income people (by percentage as well as by absolute numbers) so a billionaire has much better odds of not getting caught<p>Your conclusion doesn&#x27;t follow from your evidence. It&#x27;s possible that low income people are cheating taxes at a higher rate than billionaires. I really don&#x27;t have a lot of trouble believing this; small tax fraud is widespread, even accepted by a lot of people.<p>&gt; billionaires have access to better layers, accountants, publicists and politicians to give them negotiating leverage if they do get caught<p>I don&#x27;t see any evidence that this guy got a better deal than he should have.<p>The point of tax enforcement is not to punish billionaires for being billionaires. The point of tax enforcement is to ensure taxes are collected. If you think taxes are too low, or just want to punish billionaires more harshly because they&#x27;re billionaires, then Congress is the place that has to be changed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>There are four differences. First, the IRS prosecutes a lot more low-income people than high-income people (by percentage as well as by absolute numbers) so a billionaire has much better odds of not getting caught. Second, billionaires have access to better layers, accountants, publicists and politicians to give them negotiating leverage if they do get caught. Third, the payoff for a billionaire successfully cheating on their taxes is much higher than for a non-billionaire. And finally, even if a billionaire does get caught and pays all their back-taxes with penalties, they will still most likely be a billionaire and be able to sustain a pretty posh lifestyle. So the expected value of the tax-cheating lottery is much higher for a billionaire than a normal person.</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>My understanding is that if a little guy evades taxes, but then cooperates with the IRS when caught, and agrees to pay all taxes and interest and penalties, then they generally don&#x27;t get thrown in jail and have all their other money and possessions and responsibilities taken away, as this article seems to imply they should do with billionaires.<p>I don&#x27;t see how this is evidence of special treatment for billionaires. The guy paid way more in penalties than he saved on taxes and also had to help prosecute his friend, who evaded way more tax than he did. It doesn&#x27;t seem to me like he came out on top.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Billionaire Robert Smith Avoided Indictment in Multimillion-Dollar Tax Case</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-02-03/how-billionaire-robert-smith-avoided-indictment-in-multimillion-dollar-tax-case</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buzzerbetrayed</author><text>&gt; the IRS prosecutes a lot more low-income people than high-income people (by percentage as well as by absolute numbers)<p>I&#x27;m not sure how this is relevant. As of October 2020, there were 614 billionaires in the US[1]. Of those 614 people, only a few of them are likely breaking any sort of tax law (billionaires have a lot of money to make sure they take advantage of loopholes, without breaking the law). So there isn&#x27;t some big list of billionaires that the IRS could be going after but is choosing not to.<p>So the question is, are there known billionaire tax evaders that aren&#x27;t getting prosecuted? That should be the only question that matters. Using statistics in this case would likely lead to more injustice than less, as the only way you could get billionaire vs non-billionaire prosecutions rates to align is by prosecuting billionaires that aren&#x27;t breaking the law. (edit: unless there are many billionaire tax evaders that are just getting away with it, of course. I don&#x27;t know if that&#x27;s the case or not)<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_Americans_by_net_worth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_Americans_by_net_worth</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>There are four differences. First, the IRS prosecutes a lot more low-income people than high-income people (by percentage as well as by absolute numbers) so a billionaire has much better odds of not getting caught. Second, billionaires have access to better layers, accountants, publicists and politicians to give them negotiating leverage if they do get caught. Third, the payoff for a billionaire successfully cheating on their taxes is much higher than for a non-billionaire. And finally, even if a billionaire does get caught and pays all their back-taxes with penalties, they will still most likely be a billionaire and be able to sustain a pretty posh lifestyle. So the expected value of the tax-cheating lottery is much higher for a billionaire than a normal person.</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>My understanding is that if a little guy evades taxes, but then cooperates with the IRS when caught, and agrees to pay all taxes and interest and penalties, then they generally don&#x27;t get thrown in jail and have all their other money and possessions and responsibilities taken away, as this article seems to imply they should do with billionaires.<p>I don&#x27;t see how this is evidence of special treatment for billionaires. The guy paid way more in penalties than he saved on taxes and also had to help prosecute his friend, who evaded way more tax than he did. It doesn&#x27;t seem to me like he came out on top.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Billionaire Robert Smith Avoided Indictment in Multimillion-Dollar Tax Case</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-02-03/how-billionaire-robert-smith-avoided-indictment-in-multimillion-dollar-tax-case</url></story> |
25,910,213 | 25,906,209 | 1 | 3 | 25,903,576 | train | <instructions>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>One thing I took away from the beginning of Matt Ridley&#x27;s book Rational Optimism is that with trust, commerce is unlimited.<p>And here we are stuck in this world where the computer in your pocket is untrustworthy, and you can&#x27;t tell a useful benign app from an app trying to upload your life.<p>and it&#x27;s a shame.</text><parent_chain><item><author>i_am_proteus</author><text>I appreciate the author&#x27;s framing of &quot;transaction costs.&quot; These costs are often hidden.<p>It seems that as systems scale (in size) they tend to become inherently lower-trust. Consider a physician who makes house calls (not uncommon as recently as a few generations ago, and certainly not incompatible with modern medicine) and a large medical system such as Kaiser Permanente or NHS.<p>The economic benefits of the larger-scale system are obvious, and are directly measured, but the economic detriment due to increased transaction costs (derived from decreased trust) are neither obvious nor readily measurable.<p>Upsides of systems at scale can still outweigh downsides, and often do, but I suspect many industrial systems have a maximum scale above which efficiency gains lose out to, in this author&#x27;s framing, transaction costs.<p>This abuts certain natural &quot;borders&quot; for system growth, such as national (or in the case of EU, common market) boundaries.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The high price of mistrust</title><url>https://fs.blog/2021/01/mistrust/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jrumbut</author><text>This is why I&#x27;ve never much loved blockchain on a conceptual level.<p>Even if you can make existing transactions trustless, you need more and more new transactions to negotiate the boundary between the physical world and the data on the blockchain.</text><parent_chain><item><author>i_am_proteus</author><text>I appreciate the author&#x27;s framing of &quot;transaction costs.&quot; These costs are often hidden.<p>It seems that as systems scale (in size) they tend to become inherently lower-trust. Consider a physician who makes house calls (not uncommon as recently as a few generations ago, and certainly not incompatible with modern medicine) and a large medical system such as Kaiser Permanente or NHS.<p>The economic benefits of the larger-scale system are obvious, and are directly measured, but the economic detriment due to increased transaction costs (derived from decreased trust) are neither obvious nor readily measurable.<p>Upsides of systems at scale can still outweigh downsides, and often do, but I suspect many industrial systems have a maximum scale above which efficiency gains lose out to, in this author&#x27;s framing, transaction costs.<p>This abuts certain natural &quot;borders&quot; for system growth, such as national (or in the case of EU, common market) boundaries.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The high price of mistrust</title><url>https://fs.blog/2021/01/mistrust/</url></story> |
37,024,840 | 37,024,238 | 1 | 3 | 37,022,911 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>meindnoch</author><text>Oh, first I thought &quot;measuring your pocket&quot; meant that they somehow gauged your financial status.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kentonv</author><text>A couple years ago my dentist sold her practice to a new dentist.<p>Before I had an appointment with the new dentist, my wife had an appointment, and he told her she had gum disease with bone loss and needed a deep cleaning and to go on a &quot;periodontal schedule&quot; where she would have to come in every three months instead of six. (Note: My wife and I have different last names and separate insurance, so he wouldn&#x27;t have known we&#x27;re related.)<p>When I went in, the hygenist measured my pocket depths, and I noticed she seemed to be adding 1-3mm to what I remembered the measurements being every time I had that done in the past. The dentist then came in and gave me what sounded like a rehearsed speech concluding in the same diagnosis he had given my wife.<p>I told him I&#x27;d like to think about it and could he please send me the records they based this on. They proceeded to rush me out of the office, outright refusing to do the regular cleaning.<p>I went to another dentist and only told her I left my previous dentist because he gave me bad vibes. She started off with the pocket measurements which were magically back to normal! She said my teeth looked great. Then she asked about my previous dentist and I told her what happened. She said: &quot;I suspected it was something like that.&quot;<p>So... yeah... what an industry...<p>ETA: Although now in my paranoia I wonder if the new dentist somehow knew the previous dentist&#x27;s diagnosis and realized the way to keep me as a customer would be to tell me they were wrong. But they shouldn&#x27;t be able to get my past records unless I authorize it, right?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)</title><url>https://www.rd.com/article/how-honest-are-dentists/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kvmet</author><text>Many dentists ago for me but they got a new contraption that could measure enamel thickness. They waved this wand around in my mouth and told me that I was in need of (4) fillings. Now I have always had thin enamel so it&#x27;s not unusual to need some fillings but I didn&#x27;t trust this process at all so I told them I&#x27;d mull it over and call back. Waited 6 months for next cleaning and mysteriously I didn&#x27;t need any fillings at all despite having no work done.<p>I don&#x27;t think it is necessarily done intentionally, but it&#x27;s good to be a tiny bit skeptical especially when new factors are involved.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kentonv</author><text>A couple years ago my dentist sold her practice to a new dentist.<p>Before I had an appointment with the new dentist, my wife had an appointment, and he told her she had gum disease with bone loss and needed a deep cleaning and to go on a &quot;periodontal schedule&quot; where she would have to come in every three months instead of six. (Note: My wife and I have different last names and separate insurance, so he wouldn&#x27;t have known we&#x27;re related.)<p>When I went in, the hygenist measured my pocket depths, and I noticed she seemed to be adding 1-3mm to what I remembered the measurements being every time I had that done in the past. The dentist then came in and gave me what sounded like a rehearsed speech concluding in the same diagnosis he had given my wife.<p>I told him I&#x27;d like to think about it and could he please send me the records they based this on. They proceeded to rush me out of the office, outright refusing to do the regular cleaning.<p>I went to another dentist and only told her I left my previous dentist because he gave me bad vibes. She started off with the pocket measurements which were magically back to normal! She said my teeth looked great. Then she asked about my previous dentist and I told her what happened. She said: &quot;I suspected it was something like that.&quot;<p>So... yeah... what an industry...<p>ETA: Although now in my paranoia I wonder if the new dentist somehow knew the previous dentist&#x27;s diagnosis and realized the way to keep me as a customer would be to tell me they were wrong. But they shouldn&#x27;t be able to get my past records unless I authorize it, right?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)</title><url>https://www.rd.com/article/how-honest-are-dentists/</url></story> |
12,744,486 | 12,744,213 | 1 | 3 | 12,743,654 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomashertus</author><text>Czech Republic, is supposedly a base of Russia espionage for European Union[1]. There are very close connections between our high-profile politics to people around Putin.[2] My guess is that he will be returned to Russia.<p>I recommend to read the profile published by Guardian last year on Czech president Milos Zeman.[3]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;worldnews&#x2F;europe&#x2F;czechrepublic&#x2F;11190596&#x2F;Extremely-high-number-of-Russian-spies-in-Czech-Republic.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;worldnews&#x2F;europe&#x2F;czechrepubl...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;praguemonitor.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;10&#x2F;zeman-attend-conference-held-putins-friend-again" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;praguemonitor.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;10&#x2F;zeman-attend-conference-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2016&#x2F;sep&#x2F;15&#x2F;milos-zeman-czech-republic-president-populists-post-communist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2016&#x2F;sep&#x2F;15&#x2F;milos-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Czech Republic a member of European Union: Check!<p>Czech Republic a NATO Ally: Check!<p>Computer Crime Illegal In Czech Republic by Czech Law: Check!<p>Computer Crime Illegal In European Union: Check!<p>Bilateral Extradition Treaty Present Between US and Czech Republic: Check!<p>European Union Recognizes Validity Of Bilateral Extradition Treaties With The US: Check!<p>I am not clear on the basis of Russia&#x27;s expectation that they&#x27;re going to get their hacker back soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russian Hacker, Wanted by F.B.I., Is Arrested in Prague, Czechs Say</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/world/europe/prague-russian-hacker.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>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>&gt; I am not clear on the basis of Russia&#x27;s expectation that they&#x27;re going to get their hacker back soon.<p>That expectation probably has nothing to do with the law or legal means.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Czech Republic a member of European Union: Check!<p>Czech Republic a NATO Ally: Check!<p>Computer Crime Illegal In Czech Republic by Czech Law: Check!<p>Computer Crime Illegal In European Union: Check!<p>Bilateral Extradition Treaty Present Between US and Czech Republic: Check!<p>European Union Recognizes Validity Of Bilateral Extradition Treaties With The US: Check!<p>I am not clear on the basis of Russia&#x27;s expectation that they&#x27;re going to get their hacker back soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russian Hacker, Wanted by F.B.I., Is Arrested in Prague, Czechs Say</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/world/europe/prague-russian-hacker.html</url></story> |
14,405,047 | 14,403,944 | 1 | 3 | 14,402,697 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pfooti</author><text>I wear duluth trading jeans. The model I buy [0] is made in the usa, although there is also a less-expensive model. It&#x27;s nice especially because I&#x27;m pretty short, and it&#x27;s nice to find 30&quot; inseam pants without having to dig and dig. They even have 28&quot; in some models.<p>I also typically buy about three pairs of shorts from them every so often, since I know they fit and that way I don&#x27;t have to decide about which shorts to wear. They tend to run a bit small (or other pants run a little big), so I add 2&quot; to the waist size when I order from them.<p>I just counted: 7 belt loops. Also a nice crotch gusset.<p>EDITed to add: I&#x27;ve been informed that these are &quot;dad jeans&quot; and in no way fashionable.<p>0: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.duluthtrading.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;mens&#x2F;mens-pants&#x2F;mens-denim-jeans&#x2F;84011.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.duluthtrading.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;mens&#x2F;mens-pants&#x2F;mens-deni...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>syphilis2</author><text>It&#x27;s surprisingly difficult to find a pair of jeans that I really like, and I&#x27;ve taken to altering my own to make up for the shortcomings.<p>Nearly all have reduced the number of belt loops to 5, so I always add 2 more in the back on either side.<p>I&#x27;ve started seeing really short zippers, which is unfixable and best to avoid.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed a lot of ill fitting jeans bunch around the crotch or suffer from being a &quot;cheap hotel&quot;. Also unfixable.<p>Most are not lined inside around the waist and pockets.<p>Sometimes the pocket hole is cut too high, making it awkward to put your hand in the pocket. Or worse, theres not enough give on the pocket to fit your hand in.<p>Buttons and buttonholes don&#x27;t always match well, especially on a button fly. I think it&#x27;s easier to enlarge the holes, but sometimes the buttons can be oddly small.<p>And of course measurements are unreliable, but that&#x27;s true of all clothes.<p>These are nitpicky things, but I notice them all the time at all price ranges. I expect they&#x27;re decisions made out of carelessness, or to save costs, or because that was the intend result. Cynically, I believe carelessness is the most common cause.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How jeans conquered the world (2012)</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17101768</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blhack</author><text>Have you seen: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.makeyourownjeans.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.makeyourownjeans.com&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;ve been meaning to order from them for a while, and have heard really good things about them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>syphilis2</author><text>It&#x27;s surprisingly difficult to find a pair of jeans that I really like, and I&#x27;ve taken to altering my own to make up for the shortcomings.<p>Nearly all have reduced the number of belt loops to 5, so I always add 2 more in the back on either side.<p>I&#x27;ve started seeing really short zippers, which is unfixable and best to avoid.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed a lot of ill fitting jeans bunch around the crotch or suffer from being a &quot;cheap hotel&quot;. Also unfixable.<p>Most are not lined inside around the waist and pockets.<p>Sometimes the pocket hole is cut too high, making it awkward to put your hand in the pocket. Or worse, theres not enough give on the pocket to fit your hand in.<p>Buttons and buttonholes don&#x27;t always match well, especially on a button fly. I think it&#x27;s easier to enlarge the holes, but sometimes the buttons can be oddly small.<p>And of course measurements are unreliable, but that&#x27;s true of all clothes.<p>These are nitpicky things, but I notice them all the time at all price ranges. I expect they&#x27;re decisions made out of carelessness, or to save costs, or because that was the intend result. Cynically, I believe carelessness is the most common cause.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How jeans conquered the world (2012)</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17101768</url></story> |
19,379,971 | 19,379,355 | 1 | 2 | 19,377,986 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dataduck</author><text>While there may be evidence that diversity leads to better decision making, this isn&#x27;t it. It&#x27;s a marketing piece for a company that sells a decision making co-working platform. Direct from the white paper:<p>&quot;The study was able to measure when teams made better
decisions by tracking how often the decision maker changed
their mind based on the input of the team. This is presumed to
be a better decision since the Cloverpop process ensures that
decisions are well framed with clear goals, adequate
information and multiple alternatives to avoid groupthink.&quot;<p>In other words, this study defines better decisions as ones which make their product relevant, which unless you&#x27;re a Cloverpop marketing exec, probably isn&#x27;t a good metric.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text><i>Unfortunately we have some people who put their beliefs and politics above science and will actively act against investigation only because a line of inquiry could result in evidence against their view.</i><p>You say that&#x27;s people putting beliefs and politics above science, but while that&#x27;s a rational thing to suggest there are two problems with it.<p>Firstly, <i>a lot</i> of issues don&#x27;t <i>and can&#x27;t</i> have any scientific rationale behind them. They&#x27;re moral judgements. For example, if you want to go looking for scientific evidence for why the death penalty is a terrible idea you won&#x27;t find any. You&#x27;ll only find ethical and moral rhetoric about why killing innocent people by mistake is bad, or why the economics of keeping people in prison for decades when you could just kill them is irrational. Science has nothing to say. Science doesn&#x27;t judge.<p>Secondly, people don&#x27;t always believe evidence even if it&#x27;s there. For example, if you take a random sample of teams and find the ones that make the best decisions are more diverse[1], some people will demand &quot;positive discrimination&quot; is a terrible idea and a meritocratic system must be better <i>even in the face of the evidence</i> or they&#x27;ll just argue that the evidence is plain wrong. How do you persuade those people to change their minds?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;eriklarson&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;21&#x2F;new-research-diversity-inclusion-better-decision-making-at-work&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;eriklarson&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;21&#x2F;new-resea...</a></text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>This is sad. Unfortunately we have some people who put their beliefs and politics above science and will actively act against investigation only because a line of inquiry could result in evidence against their view.<p>It comes from both the left and right depending on the topic. It’s not simply dissent it also is about pressuring institutions to not fund certain areas of investigation which is a very detrimental consequence.<p>I sure hope we grow out of this phase, or another society like China or Japan avoid this fate so studies can go on without interference [obviously they’ll have their own blinders but we can at least be complementary]</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Online activists are silencing us, scientists say</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/science-socialmedia/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dTal</author><text>You know, I think science is a lot more capable of converting &quot;is&quot; into &quot;ought&quot; than it is commonly given credit for. I think there&#x27;s room for a kind of &quot;moral pragmatism&quot;. After all, our morals all came from <i>somewhere</i> - some type of reasoning drove their creation, be it conscious or evolutionary. There&#x27;s a rock bottom, and science can expose contradictions between our core axiomatic beliefs, and our more shallow cached beliefs.<p>As an example, I&#x27;ll run through a sample &quot;scientifically pragmatic&quot; argument against the death penalty: The death penalty is a terrible idea because it fails a cost benefit analysis. The benefit is a deterence to commit certain types crime, and a cost savings compared to life imprisonment. These are measurably small (research has shown that severity of a penalty has a nonlinear relationship with deterrent effect). The cost is the violation of a moral imperative not to kill. A society with the death penalty has made a conscious decision to compromise a moral imperative. This weakens the authority of moral imperatives, particularly the one against killing. The purpose of such moral imperatives is to promote a more civil, less violent society, because such societies enjoy an evolutionary advantage, hence their evolution in the first place.<p>How the argument proceeds from this point depends on core axioms - whether one values happiness or survival more, for instance. But the point is that it&#x27;s possible to logically break down what appear to be moral questions into purely pragmatic ones, in service of deeper axioms.<p>The problem with this isn&#x27;t that it&#x27;s ineffective - it&#x27;s that it&#x27;s complicated, error prone, and relies heavily on a correct accounting of second-order effects and beyond. Science is hard - you need research and facts. Moral judgement is easy - you just say what pops into your head. As such, people mistrust the very idea that morals <i>could</i> be calculable, because it removes their agency. If someone has a strong, irrational feeling that Billy Murderer has it coming and should fry for what he did to those kids, my above argument (fleshed out properly to appeal to their core values, provided that&#x27;s possible) will not convince them that it&#x27;s a bad idea in the long run, no matter how scientific or testable it is. So they say things like &quot;science has nothing to say&quot;. In fact, it does - we just don&#x27;t want to listen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text><i>Unfortunately we have some people who put their beliefs and politics above science and will actively act against investigation only because a line of inquiry could result in evidence against their view.</i><p>You say that&#x27;s people putting beliefs and politics above science, but while that&#x27;s a rational thing to suggest there are two problems with it.<p>Firstly, <i>a lot</i> of issues don&#x27;t <i>and can&#x27;t</i> have any scientific rationale behind them. They&#x27;re moral judgements. For example, if you want to go looking for scientific evidence for why the death penalty is a terrible idea you won&#x27;t find any. You&#x27;ll only find ethical and moral rhetoric about why killing innocent people by mistake is bad, or why the economics of keeping people in prison for decades when you could just kill them is irrational. Science has nothing to say. Science doesn&#x27;t judge.<p>Secondly, people don&#x27;t always believe evidence even if it&#x27;s there. For example, if you take a random sample of teams and find the ones that make the best decisions are more diverse[1], some people will demand &quot;positive discrimination&quot; is a terrible idea and a meritocratic system must be better <i>even in the face of the evidence</i> or they&#x27;ll just argue that the evidence is plain wrong. How do you persuade those people to change their minds?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;eriklarson&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;21&#x2F;new-research-diversity-inclusion-better-decision-making-at-work&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;eriklarson&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;21&#x2F;new-resea...</a></text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>This is sad. Unfortunately we have some people who put their beliefs and politics above science and will actively act against investigation only because a line of inquiry could result in evidence against their view.<p>It comes from both the left and right depending on the topic. It’s not simply dissent it also is about pressuring institutions to not fund certain areas of investigation which is a very detrimental consequence.<p>I sure hope we grow out of this phase, or another society like China or Japan avoid this fate so studies can go on without interference [obviously they’ll have their own blinders but we can at least be complementary]</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Online activists are silencing us, scientists say</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/science-socialmedia/</url></story> |
26,571,785 | 26,570,161 | 1 | 2 | 26,568,598 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davedx</author><text>I don&#x27;t think a keynote is bad for Taiwan geopolitically. Intel have a ton of cash on their balance sheet, but they still need to <i>execute</i> on this strategy. It astounds me what people take at face value here, considering the incredible momentum Intel needs to turn its ship around. It reminds me of Elon promising coast to coast FSD.<p>I also think China&#x2F;TSMC is more of an economic than an existential risk. The US military doesn&#x27;t need 2nm semiconductors. US manufacturers are more than capable of supplying essential US supply chains. They&#x27;re just not cutting edge like the East Asian fabs are.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kcorbitt</author><text>Seems like the biggest news here is Intel committing strongly to its fab business. Walling that division off from Intel&#x27;s own chip design business is critical to giving it a chance to succeed. Having a third fab with competitive tech (along with TSMC and Samsung) is great for the world!<p>This is pretty bad for Taiwan geopolitically though... once US chipmakers have a plausible local manufacturing alternative, the US is less likely to risk WW3 by standing up to China if&#x2F;when it tries to annex Taiwan.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Unleashed, Gelsinger on Intel, IDM 2.0</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2021/intel-unleashed-gelsinger-on-intel-idm-2-0/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greggyb</author><text>It is unlikely that Nvidia and AMD will want to use Intel as their foundry. It is unlikely that Intel would be willing to offer pricing compelling enough to entice those two to use their foundries.<p>So long as TSMC and Samsung remain competitive (note, this doesn&#x27;t mean better, just close enough -- better is also fine), I expect the vast majority of AMD and Nvidia chips to be manufactured by those two.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kcorbitt</author><text>Seems like the biggest news here is Intel committing strongly to its fab business. Walling that division off from Intel&#x27;s own chip design business is critical to giving it a chance to succeed. Having a third fab with competitive tech (along with TSMC and Samsung) is great for the world!<p>This is pretty bad for Taiwan geopolitically though... once US chipmakers have a plausible local manufacturing alternative, the US is less likely to risk WW3 by standing up to China if&#x2F;when it tries to annex Taiwan.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Unleashed, Gelsinger on Intel, IDM 2.0</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2021/intel-unleashed-gelsinger-on-intel-idm-2-0/</url></story> |
19,247,647 | 19,247,846 | 1 | 2 | 19,246,668 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tistel</author><text>I have worked at a startup that was paying &gt; 20k <i>per month</i> for AWS. I am certain the whole system could run on one dedicated blade. There was just this culture (made easy with docker containers) of &quot;spin up another box&quot; for every silly little tool. I have met self taught dev ops people who did not understand that you could create more than one user on a aws ubuntu machine. I was like: &quot;if cost is a big issue, then lets spin up one beefy machine and create users for each dev&quot;, because thats what everyone using unix did back in the day (it works fine). The reply was &quot;thats not possible&quot; so every dev got their own dedicated instance that was 99% idle. We are paying &gt;3k per month to aws and the business team is complaining about waste. <i>sigh</i>. old guy rant over.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jdblair</author><text>When I joined a particular startup 4 years ago I was surprised that they owned their own servers mounted in racks in a rented colo. I was all, how retro! But then the head of IT showed me the cost savings over AWS and how he orchestrated it all using VMWare images, and I saw he had a point. He saved more than enough money to pay for his full time salary to keep it all going, even dealing with hardware maintenance. What was unique was that the company had a predictable load that didn&#x27;t change much. If we had needed to change capacity level drastically over a regular cycle then AWS would have started to make sense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As AWS Use Soars, Companies Surprised by Cloud Bills</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/as-aws-use-soars-companies-surprised-by-cloud-bills</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drieddust</author><text>I agree completely.<p>I consult with multiple customers and they all want cloud. It&#x27;s &quot;Cloud First&quot; and any discussion to the contrary results in lost business. If you do that you are considered a Dinosaur.<p>On the issue of predictable load, most businesses not only have predictable load but a lot of capacity is just allocated and never used. VMware serves such scenarios even better by going for heavy over allocation. Everyone will demand 10 servers with 8vCPU, 64 GB of RAM without actually using even 10% of the allocated capacity.<p>But hey Cloud is cool so I have to be on it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jdblair</author><text>When I joined a particular startup 4 years ago I was surprised that they owned their own servers mounted in racks in a rented colo. I was all, how retro! But then the head of IT showed me the cost savings over AWS and how he orchestrated it all using VMWare images, and I saw he had a point. He saved more than enough money to pay for his full time salary to keep it all going, even dealing with hardware maintenance. What was unique was that the company had a predictable load that didn&#x27;t change much. If we had needed to change capacity level drastically over a regular cycle then AWS would have started to make sense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As AWS Use Soars, Companies Surprised by Cloud Bills</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/as-aws-use-soars-companies-surprised-by-cloud-bills</url></story> |
11,105,835 | 11,105,903 | 1 | 3 | 11,105,198 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greggyb</author><text>I agree with the article in broad strokes, but I think it focuses a bit too much on the data science portion. I work for a BI consultancy. There are so many enterprises where the measure of success in data analysis projects is being able to perform arithmetic accurately and in a timely manner.<p>Data science is a pipe dream for many companies currently. Having up-to-date sales figures that can be sliced by dimensions as simple as product hierarchy, customer, and region is a realistic goal for many of our clients.<p>I am not trying to discount data science. We have a data science practice that does some cool things, but it&#x27;s so much smaller than the BI practice, because there&#x27;s currently so much more opportunity for doing basic ETL correctly and simple reporting and dashboarding.<p>There are multiple clients who were looking for &quot;real-time access to data&quot;, which was actually synonymous with &quot;automatic weekly refresh would make our lives so much easier. Right now we have to wait on $overworked_analyst to get this out monthly, and depending on workload that can lag by a week or two after the end of the month.&quot; These are not exact quotes, but entirely accurate paraphrases.<p>This is the reality for so many organizations that I think sometimes falls out of context in an HN-like environment.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Too many tools not enough carpenters</title><url>https://ckmadvisors.com/b/160212.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>Eridrus</author><text>Heh, I thought this was going to be another post about JS frameworks, where the title could be just as applicable.<p>Or just as applicable to cybersecurity, where hiring is a total disaster and not even well known&#x2F;liked multi-billion dollar companies can&#x27;t find enough good people.<p>Everyone agrees that you want good people, but you just can&#x27;t find them because there are so few of them.<p>The ones who are really feeling the pain are hiring more junior people and trying to train them on the job, but you don&#x27;t manage to successfully train them all, so you either need to fire them or find them something else to do, or you buy tools that let them leverage the skills they do have to provide something useful, and maybe they get better over time.<p>Reminds me of when I was an application security consultant and I thought Web Application Firewalls were really dumb since I knew several generic ways to bypass all the firewalls on the market, but 7 years later WAFs have gotten better, and consultants still haven&#x27;t gotten any cheaper.<p>So while I&#x27;m sure there is immaturity in the big data tools space, there is probably an 80&#x2F;20 solution there that lifts much of the load off your skilled data science professionals.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Too many tools not enough carpenters</title><url>https://ckmadvisors.com/b/160212.html</url></story> |
26,793,583 | 26,793,608 | 1 | 2 | 26,792,876 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>freedomben</author><text>I don&#x27;t disagree, but have you never worked with a person whose personality was a clash? It&#x27;s a nightmare. I&#x27;ve quit jobs just to get away from people before.<p>One of my top criteria for accepting a job is whether I like the interviewers.<p>I&#x27;m not hardcore in the &quot;asshole geniuses should die&quot; crowd, but if you are a miserable person to be around, go find a job where you work solo. Don&#x27;t drag your whole team down.</text><parent_chain><item><author>everdrive</author><text>&gt;Hmmmm. The article drips with anger and cynicism, and hints at a few bitter opinions like &quot;...companies I had ideological issues around...&quot; It&#x27;s hard to judge someone from an article, but if 5% of this sentiment bled through in an interview, I&#x27;d take a hard pass too. I just don&#x27;t want to work with difficult, unhappy people.<p>I find a sentiment like this pretty scary. Being competent at a job is not relevant, but just whether or not the interviewer subjectively likes you.</text></item><item><author>stickfigure</author><text>Hmmmm. The article drips with anger and cynicism, and hints at a few bitter opinions like &quot;...companies I had ideological issues around...&quot; It&#x27;s hard to judge someone from an article, but if 5% of this sentiment bled through in an interview, I&#x27;d take a hard pass too. I just don&#x27;t want to work with difficult, unhappy people.<p>It&#x27;s a strange tone to take? The buried lede is: &quot;[I] travel around and work as a digital nomad. I&#x27;ve been doing that for a couple of years now and I work an average of 2.5 days per week on machine learning or web projects and have rebuilt my savings and my whole life.&quot;<p>That sounds incredible! Like, the article should be titled &quot;I&#x27;m winning at life&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable</title><url>https://davesullivan.is/my_startup_failed_then_i_found_out_i_was_unemployable.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>striking</author><text>What, so we should all tolerate disagreeable people just because they can lay down a few lines of code?<p>It&#x27;s not &quot;whether the interviewer likes you&quot;, it&#x27;s whether you can work with other people without taking an emotional toll on them. And it is as important, if not more so, than their ability to program. It&#x27;s certainly a harder thing to teach.<p>(as for this specific quote, I think it&#x27;s fine to have issues with what companies are working on... But the rest of the article really does just come off as bitter and angry, and for what?)</text><parent_chain><item><author>everdrive</author><text>&gt;Hmmmm. The article drips with anger and cynicism, and hints at a few bitter opinions like &quot;...companies I had ideological issues around...&quot; It&#x27;s hard to judge someone from an article, but if 5% of this sentiment bled through in an interview, I&#x27;d take a hard pass too. I just don&#x27;t want to work with difficult, unhappy people.<p>I find a sentiment like this pretty scary. Being competent at a job is not relevant, but just whether or not the interviewer subjectively likes you.</text></item><item><author>stickfigure</author><text>Hmmmm. The article drips with anger and cynicism, and hints at a few bitter opinions like &quot;...companies I had ideological issues around...&quot; It&#x27;s hard to judge someone from an article, but if 5% of this sentiment bled through in an interview, I&#x27;d take a hard pass too. I just don&#x27;t want to work with difficult, unhappy people.<p>It&#x27;s a strange tone to take? The buried lede is: &quot;[I] travel around and work as a digital nomad. I&#x27;ve been doing that for a couple of years now and I work an average of 2.5 days per week on machine learning or web projects and have rebuilt my savings and my whole life.&quot;<p>That sounds incredible! Like, the article should be titled &quot;I&#x27;m winning at life&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable</title><url>https://davesullivan.is/my_startup_failed_then_i_found_out_i_was_unemployable.html</url></story> |
27,363,527 | 27,360,282 | 1 | 2 | 27,353,917 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xg15</author><text>&gt; <i>But I don&#x27;t want to use the cookies, I used youtube-dl exactly to watch age-restricted videos without signing-in.</i><p>Yes, and I want a pony. We can absolutely discuss how useful or harmful age verification on the internet is, (and your points about tracking are certainly valid) - but fact is that Google implemented it.<p>It is not youtube-dl&#x27;s job to circumvent that. Their responsibility is letting me download the videos to my hard drive that I can already view in my browser. They never advertised themselves as a tool to circumvent access restrictions.<p>If the new age verification broke youtube-dl in such a way that you couldn&#x27;t download the video at all, I think the outrage would be justified - but that isn&#x27;t the case.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>But I don&#x27;t want to use the cookies, I used youtube-dl exactly to watch age-restricted videos without signing-in. I don&#x27;t want YouTube to track which videos I watch and make history-based suggestions so I never sign-in and reset cookies often. I occasionally stumble upon age-restricted videos and feel curious what&#x27;s there but I don&#x27;t want any of them to influence what does YouTube believe my interests are so I just use youtube-dl INSTEAD of signing-in.<p>And by the way, I always mostly used random birth dates whenever registering anywhere because I consider that personal information and don&#x27;t want to share it. I don&#x27;t even know what birth date did I set when I got my GMail back in the days it required invitations.<p>I don&#x27;t feel like watching an age-restricted video ever again if this actually requires identification and leaves no workaround.<p>UPDATE: I&#x27;m actually surprised this gets down-voted.</text></item><item><author>alphabet9000</author><text>As someone else mentioned in the comments, the &quot;get cookies.txt&quot; [0] extension works to circumvent the age restricted measure and i have been using it with success for weeks now.<p>get the extension, export the cookies.txt file to a folder, then run youtube-dl in that folder with:<p>youtube-dl --cookies cookies.txt <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;id" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;id</a><p>it works as of right this minute [1] and in my experience that cookie continues to work even if you log out of your account in the browser and log back in etc<p>i&#x27;m trying to imagine a way to have a more permanent solution, maybe if youtube-dl provided some kind of login prompt type thing to enter some your credentials to virtually log in, although i imagine that would start to be another cat and mouse game of it working and then not working.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;get-cookiestxt&#x2F;bgaddhkoddajcdgocldbbfleckgcbcid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;get-cookiestxt&#x2F;bga...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.jollo.org&#x2F;ytdl.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.jollo.org&#x2F;ytdl.gif</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos</title><url>https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>63</author><text>This feels a bit overdramatic. You can remove videos from your watch history and, in my experience, YouTube will cease to give you recommendations based on them. You could also create a separate account used solely for watching videos with YouTube-dl instead of using your main one if you&#x27;re worried about recommendations. I agree that it sucks that a workaround is necessary, but I don&#x27;t think this particular one is worth getting too worked up about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>But I don&#x27;t want to use the cookies, I used youtube-dl exactly to watch age-restricted videos without signing-in. I don&#x27;t want YouTube to track which videos I watch and make history-based suggestions so I never sign-in and reset cookies often. I occasionally stumble upon age-restricted videos and feel curious what&#x27;s there but I don&#x27;t want any of them to influence what does YouTube believe my interests are so I just use youtube-dl INSTEAD of signing-in.<p>And by the way, I always mostly used random birth dates whenever registering anywhere because I consider that personal information and don&#x27;t want to share it. I don&#x27;t even know what birth date did I set when I got my GMail back in the days it required invitations.<p>I don&#x27;t feel like watching an age-restricted video ever again if this actually requires identification and leaves no workaround.<p>UPDATE: I&#x27;m actually surprised this gets down-voted.</text></item><item><author>alphabet9000</author><text>As someone else mentioned in the comments, the &quot;get cookies.txt&quot; [0] extension works to circumvent the age restricted measure and i have been using it with success for weeks now.<p>get the extension, export the cookies.txt file to a folder, then run youtube-dl in that folder with:<p>youtube-dl --cookies cookies.txt <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;id" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;id</a><p>it works as of right this minute [1] and in my experience that cookie continues to work even if you log out of your account in the browser and log back in etc<p>i&#x27;m trying to imagine a way to have a more permanent solution, maybe if youtube-dl provided some kind of login prompt type thing to enter some your credentials to virtually log in, although i imagine that would start to be another cat and mouse game of it working and then not working.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;get-cookiestxt&#x2F;bgaddhkoddajcdgocldbbfleckgcbcid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;get-cookiestxt&#x2F;bga...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.jollo.org&#x2F;ytdl.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.jollo.org&#x2F;ytdl.gif</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos</title><url>https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578</url></story> |
12,499,738 | 12,497,374 | 1 | 3 | 12,494,998 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heimatau</author><text>Morality is difficult to stand up for. Civil rights was tough to fight for (still is). The right to privacy and govt transparency in the face of tyranny is another of those difficult battles.<p>Let&#x27;s be like the founders and stand up to our government [1].<p>[1] List of quotes:<p>- The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.&quot; --Patrick Henry<p>- &quot;Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.&quot; --George Washington<p>- &quot;Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.&quot; --William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783</text><parent_chain><item><author>RRRA</author><text>If you fear signing this, _and don&#x27;t_, you really don&#x27;t understand long risk mitigation and are just preparing yourself to be scared even more in the long run.<p>Just like privacy doesn&#x27;t exist without others, signing this will at least help by giving strength, and privacy, in numbers.<p>Leaving this resistance alone, as if they were some heroes you respect but won&#x27;t stand by, is really a cowardly way of being anti society and skipping your citizen duty.<p>First they came for them, etc... You know how it ends.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pardon Snowden</title><url>https://www.pardonsnowden.org/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pmarreck</author><text>Good point. At some point in life you won&#x27;t be able to run away from standing up for what you believe in (at perhaps small or medium risk to self) or else direr consequences may result.<p>If you believe he acted ethically, then sign the thing with me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RRRA</author><text>If you fear signing this, _and don&#x27;t_, you really don&#x27;t understand long risk mitigation and are just preparing yourself to be scared even more in the long run.<p>Just like privacy doesn&#x27;t exist without others, signing this will at least help by giving strength, and privacy, in numbers.<p>Leaving this resistance alone, as if they were some heroes you respect but won&#x27;t stand by, is really a cowardly way of being anti society and skipping your citizen duty.<p>First they came for them, etc... You know how it ends.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pardon Snowden</title><url>https://www.pardonsnowden.org/</url></story> |
2,282,853 | 2,282,914 | 1 | 3 | 2,282,466 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>d_r</author><text>This is neat. For example:<p>Shanghai skyscrapers: <a href="http://j.map.baidu.com/-FNB" rel="nofollow">http://j.map.baidu.com/-FNB</a>
Beijing Olympic stadium: <a href="http://j.map.baidu.com/TjNB" rel="nofollow">http://j.map.baidu.com/TjNB</a><p>Edit: for some reason, the links don't work in Chrome. Firefox works though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>quant18</author><text>There's quite a lot of map companies offering similar "SimCity-style" maps:<p>Edushi (<a href="http://edushi.com/" rel="nofollow">http://edushi.com/</a>), as others have mentioned --- IIRC they were one of the first to market<p>Baidu rolled out their own offering in 2010 (go to <a href="http://maps.baidu.com/" rel="nofollow">http://maps.baidu.com/</a>, pick a city from the menu on the right, and then click the "三维" button)<p>City8 (<a href="http://city8.com/" rel="nofollow">http://city8.com/</a>) don't have 3D maps, but they have a Streetview equivalent which they've been working on since 2008 in Shanghai, Beijing, and other cities: <a href="http://en.city8.com/search/search.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://en.city8.com/search/search.aspx</a><p>Couple of articles which may be interesting reading (in Chinese) --- touching on China-specific privacy, legal/data licensing issues, etc. surrounding these maps:<p><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/internet/2008-03/14/content_7787457.htm" rel="nofollow">http://news.xinhuanet.com/internet/2008-03/14/content_778745...</a><p><a href="http://finance.jrj.com.cn/2010/09/0315448095546.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://finance.jrj.com.cn/2010/09/0315448095546.shtml</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pixel Perfect map of china</title><url>http://gz.o.cn/</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>thijsterlouw</author><text>Or for example chachaba.com (in Shenzhen):<p><a href="http://sz.chachaba.com/location.action?placeId=221a75f1-bcfc-44a1-94f5-022529f90691" rel="nofollow">http://sz.chachaba.com/location.action?placeId=221a75f1-bcfc...</a><p>They had problems with providing a mapping service in China without a license though. They were forced to shutdown for a very long time + redesigned their website to survive. Make sure you get the right license first in China!</text><parent_chain><item><author>quant18</author><text>There's quite a lot of map companies offering similar "SimCity-style" maps:<p>Edushi (<a href="http://edushi.com/" rel="nofollow">http://edushi.com/</a>), as others have mentioned --- IIRC they were one of the first to market<p>Baidu rolled out their own offering in 2010 (go to <a href="http://maps.baidu.com/" rel="nofollow">http://maps.baidu.com/</a>, pick a city from the menu on the right, and then click the "三维" button)<p>City8 (<a href="http://city8.com/" rel="nofollow">http://city8.com/</a>) don't have 3D maps, but they have a Streetview equivalent which they've been working on since 2008 in Shanghai, Beijing, and other cities: <a href="http://en.city8.com/search/search.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://en.city8.com/search/search.aspx</a><p>Couple of articles which may be interesting reading (in Chinese) --- touching on China-specific privacy, legal/data licensing issues, etc. surrounding these maps:<p><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/internet/2008-03/14/content_7787457.htm" rel="nofollow">http://news.xinhuanet.com/internet/2008-03/14/content_778745...</a><p><a href="http://finance.jrj.com.cn/2010/09/0315448095546.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://finance.jrj.com.cn/2010/09/0315448095546.shtml</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pixel Perfect map of china</title><url>http://gz.o.cn/</url><text></text></story> |
33,004,687 | 33,004,729 | 1 | 2 | 33,003,929 | 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>minhazm</author><text>Sets are unordered. It doesn&#x27;t even make logical sense when you think about it, it would make set insertion O(logn) which would absolutely wreck the performance. Your example just happens to accidentally work. Here&#x27;s an example where it doesn&#x27;t:<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; [i for i in {9,40,49}]
[40, 9, 49]</text><parent_chain><item><author>dosisod</author><text>Because tuples cannot change over time, they are (slightly) faster to create compared to lists. Like you mentioned, they are being created just to be iterated over. It is a small enough of a performance improvement that it more of a style choice then anything.<p>Bonus fact: You can use set iteration in for loops as well! This has the added benefit of sorting the values as well:<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; for x in {2, 1, 3}:
... print(x)
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3<p>You didn&#x27;t ask for that, but I felt like sharing it, to there you go</text></item><item><author>asplake</author><text>To the example, why recommend replacing a list with a tuple when it is about to be iterated through? I’d choose a tuple if it was to be destructured, but not for this. I know it works either way, but this one feels off.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Refurb – A tool for refurbishing and modernizing Python codebases</title><url>https://github.com/dosisod/refurb</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>evil-olive</author><text>that only works for small numbers. I suspect it&#x27;s a side effect of the small integer cache CPython maintains [0]<p><pre><code> &gt;&gt;&gt; for x in {2, 1, 3}: print(x)
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0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;15171695&#x2F;whats-with-the-integer-cache-maintained-by-the-interpreter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;15171695&#x2F;whats-with-the-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>dosisod</author><text>Because tuples cannot change over time, they are (slightly) faster to create compared to lists. Like you mentioned, they are being created just to be iterated over. It is a small enough of a performance improvement that it more of a style choice then anything.<p>Bonus fact: You can use set iteration in for loops as well! This has the added benefit of sorting the values as well:<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; for x in {2, 1, 3}:
... print(x)
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21,909,966 | 21,910,094 | 1 | 2 | 21,907,517 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>riyadparvez</author><text>One thing to keep in mind that their work-load is very ready-heavy which eases things a lot when scaling the system. The same is true for Wikipedia. Scaling a write-heavy workload is way more complex than scaling a read-heavy workload.</text><parent_chain><item><author>IndrekR</author><text>A site for proof. It keeps amusing me on what hardware&#x2F;software Stack Overflow&#x2F;Stack Exchange is running on:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackexchange.com&#x2F;performance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackexchange.com&#x2F;performance</a><p>This is way less in HW than most people in the trade (from web devs to devops) seem to think when asked about it.<p>SO ranks #36 in Alexa right now:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexa.com&#x2F;siteinfo&#x2F;stackoverflow.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexa.com&#x2F;siteinfo&#x2F;stackoverflow.com</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1210997702152069120</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fnord77</author><text>&gt; That means we transfer 55 TB data &#x2F; month<p>this isn&#x27;t a lot. Helps that site is mostly text data.<p>I know of a relatively small cloud security system that transfers petabytes&#x2F;month to&#x2F;from a handful of customers.<p>4 ingest pods, 8 pipeline pods, 7 time-series db servers, 2 sql servers</text><parent_chain><item><author>IndrekR</author><text>A site for proof. It keeps amusing me on what hardware&#x2F;software Stack Overflow&#x2F;Stack Exchange is running on:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackexchange.com&#x2F;performance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackexchange.com&#x2F;performance</a><p>This is way less in HW than most people in the trade (from web devs to devops) seem to think when asked about it.<p>SO ranks #36 in Alexa right now:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexa.com&#x2F;siteinfo&#x2F;stackoverflow.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexa.com&#x2F;siteinfo&#x2F;stackoverflow.com</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1210997702152069120</url></story> |
35,941,310 | 35,941,214 | 1 | 2 | 35,900,369 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fgeiger</author><text>I work at Fairphone but am not at all involved with the headphones. Still, I know that this is an issue that we thought about and address.<p>Headphones should keep working even if the manufacturer goes bust and stops providing software support. And even if your battery dies and spare parts are unavailable. That is precisely the reason why we also sell a cable with a 3.5mm jack for these cans. That way, this product is long-lasting and sustainable even in the (hopefully hypothetical) case that we are not able to support them anymore.<p>That is the best out of both worlds: you get wireless connectivity and ANC now. And you will be able to use them for as long as you would with wired ones.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gizmo</author><text>The &quot;sustainable&quot; and &quot;environment friendly&quot; choice for headphones are wired headphones that are built like a brick. A good pair will last basically forever.<p>Of course that isn&#x27;t the market these headphones are in, but that&#x27;s also the problem. New bluetooth standard? New advances in noise-cancellation? You won&#x27;t get them. Even if these headphones are great (which I doubt) they&#x27;re still destined for the garbage heap.<p>Wireless headphones last a couple of years, where wired headphones last decades. These products won&#x27;t be the exception, and the marketing angle (fair! environmentally friendly! repairable!) annoys me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fairbuds XL review: noise-cancelling headphones you can fix</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/11/fairbuds-xl-review-noise-cancelling-headphones-fix-yourself-bluetooth</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ip26</author><text>Planned obsolescence can be a good thing. Cans from the fifties and sixties still work. Nobody wants to use them; they are heavy, uncomfortable, have poor performance, need an amp to drive, and use huge old school connectors. They are from a time when music was enjoyed seated in one place.<p>Products that fail prematurely or wear out while the owner still wants them are poorly designed. The pinnacle of design is a product that works flawlessly until the day you are through with it, at which point every part fails simultaneously. Such a product wasted no excess material in being over-engineered, nor consumed exotic high performance materials when they were unwarranted, nor repair visits, nor extra fuel in transport.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gizmo</author><text>The &quot;sustainable&quot; and &quot;environment friendly&quot; choice for headphones are wired headphones that are built like a brick. A good pair will last basically forever.<p>Of course that isn&#x27;t the market these headphones are in, but that&#x27;s also the problem. New bluetooth standard? New advances in noise-cancellation? You won&#x27;t get them. Even if these headphones are great (which I doubt) they&#x27;re still destined for the garbage heap.<p>Wireless headphones last a couple of years, where wired headphones last decades. These products won&#x27;t be the exception, and the marketing angle (fair! environmentally friendly! repairable!) annoys me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fairbuds XL review: noise-cancelling headphones you can fix</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/11/fairbuds-xl-review-noise-cancelling-headphones-fix-yourself-bluetooth</url></story> |
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