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28,037,839 | 28,037,980 | 1 | 2 | 28,036,947 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>The research around shorter work weeks and productivity indicates &quot;units of work&quot; don&#x27;t work that way.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;06&#x2F;1013348626&#x2F;iceland-finds-major-success-moving-to-shorter-work-week" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;06&#x2F;1013348626&#x2F;iceland-finds-majo...</a><p>&gt; Now, research out of Iceland has found that working fewer hours for the same pay led to improved well-being among workers, with no loss in productivity. In fact, in some places, workers were more productive after cutting back their hours.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sokoloff</author><text>It’s slightly worse than that.<p>If you have 90 units of work to be done you might hire 9 workers at 10 units each. If the standard work goes down by 10%, you now need 10 workers at 9 units each. Your workers have increased by 11.1% (given by 1-1&#x2F;(1-0.1))<p>A reduction from 40 to 32 would reduce hours per worker by 20% but increase workers and total health care costs by 25%.</text></item><item><author>supportlocal4h</author><text>Decades ago the U.S. tied healthcare to employment. It had some big positives at the time. I think it has proven to have more negatives as time has unfolded. Here is one of them.<p>If you reduce hours per worker by, say, 10% you just pay each worker 10% less and hire 10% more workers, right? It&#x27;s not so simple. If you try to cut the health insurance premium of each worker by 10% the policy becomes unattractive. If you keep the same policy, you increase your health insurance costs by 10%.<p>For this and other reasons, it&#x27;s time to separate health insurance from employer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rep. Takano Introduces Legislation to Reduce the Standard Workweek to 32 Hours</title><url>https://takano.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rep-takano-introduces-legislation-to-reduce-the-standard-workweek-to-32-hours</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sam0x17</author><text>Not all companies are going to decrease wages in response to this legislation. In fact I&#x27;d be willing to bet it&#x27;s less than 50% of companies. Right now we are already in a huge labor shortage because employers aren&#x27;t paying enough to attract the workers they need. Companies that don&#x27;t decrease wages in this situation will out-compete companies that do decrease wages if the primary scarce resource right now is workers.<p>This is similar to what&#x27;s happening right now with companies that try to do locality adjustments for remote workers -- they get out-competed by companies willing to pay full price regardless of location. Eventually this will cause locality adjustments to vanish completely imo.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sokoloff</author><text>It’s slightly worse than that.<p>If you have 90 units of work to be done you might hire 9 workers at 10 units each. If the standard work goes down by 10%, you now need 10 workers at 9 units each. Your workers have increased by 11.1% (given by 1-1&#x2F;(1-0.1))<p>A reduction from 40 to 32 would reduce hours per worker by 20% but increase workers and total health care costs by 25%.</text></item><item><author>supportlocal4h</author><text>Decades ago the U.S. tied healthcare to employment. It had some big positives at the time. I think it has proven to have more negatives as time has unfolded. Here is one of them.<p>If you reduce hours per worker by, say, 10% you just pay each worker 10% less and hire 10% more workers, right? It&#x27;s not so simple. If you try to cut the health insurance premium of each worker by 10% the policy becomes unattractive. If you keep the same policy, you increase your health insurance costs by 10%.<p>For this and other reasons, it&#x27;s time to separate health insurance from employer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rep. Takano Introduces Legislation to Reduce the Standard Workweek to 32 Hours</title><url>https://takano.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rep-takano-introduces-legislation-to-reduce-the-standard-workweek-to-32-hours</url></story> |
4,477,582 | 4,475,781 | 1 | 2 | 4,475,237 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cperciva</author><text><i>I'm not sure if the reasoning holds beyond, "For the way we designed tarsnap it doesn't make sense."</i><p>I agree -- that's exactly what I was saying. The title of the blog post was "Why Tarsnap doesn't use Glacier", not "Why you shouldn't use Glacier".<p>I think Glacier is a great service, just not a particularly good fit to Tarsnap.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>While I think this is a completely reasonable thing (not storing tarsnap data in Glacier), I'm not sure if the reasoning holds beyond, "For the way we designed tarsnap it doesn't make sense."<p>When you look at how GFS is implemented or Bigtable, or Blekko's NoSQL data store, there are layers, with the meta data as a pretty separable layer from the data. In all of the cases for these large stores that separation was put in to facilitate putting the meta data into lower latency storage than the 'bulk' data which facilitates fast access.<p>As cperciva relates, tarsnap spends a lot of time de-duplicating data (or writing only one copy of a block with identical contents) which is great for reducing your overall storage footprint which lowers your costs. But if the cost of storage is much much smaller than the retrieval cost, then your design methodology would be different.<p>So I would not be surprised if there was a way to build a function equivalent product to tarsnap that had lower storage costs if the bulk data was in glacier and the index data was in S3, or if the index data was designed such that a document recovery was exactly two retrievals (a catalog, and then the data). And of course such a system would not de-duplicate as that would result in potentially more retrievals.<p>It seems that if the price delta ratio between Glacier and S3 was higher than the de-dupe ratio, then Glacier would 'win' with no de-dupe. Else de-dupe would still win. Thoughts?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Tarsnap doesn't use Glacier</title><url>http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-09-04-why-tarsnap-doesnt-use-glacier.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>jerf</author><text>"But if the cost of storage is much much smaller than the retrieval cost, then your design methodology would be different."<p>If you read between the lines a bit on how the second-to-last paragraph would manifest in code, I think that's what he's already getting at. A Glaiciated machine would probably not get global de-duping, but merely a machine-level de-duping, if even that. (The retrieval cost structure is quite bizarre.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>While I think this is a completely reasonable thing (not storing tarsnap data in Glacier), I'm not sure if the reasoning holds beyond, "For the way we designed tarsnap it doesn't make sense."<p>When you look at how GFS is implemented or Bigtable, or Blekko's NoSQL data store, there are layers, with the meta data as a pretty separable layer from the data. In all of the cases for these large stores that separation was put in to facilitate putting the meta data into lower latency storage than the 'bulk' data which facilitates fast access.<p>As cperciva relates, tarsnap spends a lot of time de-duplicating data (or writing only one copy of a block with identical contents) which is great for reducing your overall storage footprint which lowers your costs. But if the cost of storage is much much smaller than the retrieval cost, then your design methodology would be different.<p>So I would not be surprised if there was a way to build a function equivalent product to tarsnap that had lower storage costs if the bulk data was in glacier and the index data was in S3, or if the index data was designed such that a document recovery was exactly two retrievals (a catalog, and then the data). And of course such a system would not de-duplicate as that would result in potentially more retrievals.<p>It seems that if the price delta ratio between Glacier and S3 was higher than the de-dupe ratio, then Glacier would 'win' with no de-dupe. Else de-dupe would still win. Thoughts?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Tarsnap doesn't use Glacier</title><url>http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-09-04-why-tarsnap-doesnt-use-glacier.html</url><text></text></story> |
37,140,562 | 37,139,999 | 1 | 3 | 37,138,102 | 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>pdabbadabba</author><text>What should we make of the fact that this tweet has since been deleted?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Leary</author><text>Found this tweet with an impact probability map that is around northern US&#x2F;Asia&#x2F;Europe :
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JoelSercel&#x2F;status&#x2F;1691549821629526219" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JoelSercel&#x2F;status&#x2F;1691549821629526219</a><p>&quot;If it is real this IS the worst asteroid threat ever discovered and the impact location and times are ugly (will post pics shortly). Note that the impact is in the next couple days!
However, an Italian colleague of one of our astronomers suspects there is an error in the reported observations and there has been no chatter about this object and no followup. This probably means that it is not real.
&quot; - Joel C. Sercel, PhD<p>I&#x27;m guessing the impact death area will be around 3600 km2 (I have no idea, please correct), so ultimately the chance of it falling on me is 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 100,000 provided the asteroid hits. Which means 1 in 1,000,000 to 1 in 10,000,000 in total? (assuming 1% hit probability)</text></item><item><author>killthebuddha</author><text>I&#x27;m having a weirdly difficult time finding some basic ELI5 answers.<p><pre><code> - What is the probability that this asteroid will hit us?
- What is the time interval where that probability applies?
- Do we have a probability distribution for where it might hit? I don&#x27;t know anything about anything, but I assume we know what *general direction* it&#x27;s coming from?
- Do we have a probability distribution for the potential blast radius?
</code></pre>
In general, I am very confused by this news because &quot;400m diameter asteroid 3% chance of impact&quot; is something I would expect <i>literally everybody</i> to be talking about all the time. It&#x27;s also something where if I learned that everything north of Kansas has a 5% chance of getting hit but everything south of Houston has a 1% chance, I&#x27;d seriously consider taking an impromptu vacation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Asteroid ZTm0038 with a >3% impact probability</title><url>https://newton.spacedys.com/neodys2/NEOScan/risk_page/ZTm0038/index_summary_ZTm0038.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>noduerme</author><text>If I&#x27;m looking at the time chart correctly, that basically corresponds to &quot;daylight hours&quot;, when you&#x27;re facing the sun, tomorrow within the northern hemisphere...</text><parent_chain><item><author>Leary</author><text>Found this tweet with an impact probability map that is around northern US&#x2F;Asia&#x2F;Europe :
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JoelSercel&#x2F;status&#x2F;1691549821629526219" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JoelSercel&#x2F;status&#x2F;1691549821629526219</a><p>&quot;If it is real this IS the worst asteroid threat ever discovered and the impact location and times are ugly (will post pics shortly). Note that the impact is in the next couple days!
However, an Italian colleague of one of our astronomers suspects there is an error in the reported observations and there has been no chatter about this object and no followup. This probably means that it is not real.
&quot; - Joel C. Sercel, PhD<p>I&#x27;m guessing the impact death area will be around 3600 km2 (I have no idea, please correct), so ultimately the chance of it falling on me is 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 100,000 provided the asteroid hits. Which means 1 in 1,000,000 to 1 in 10,000,000 in total? (assuming 1% hit probability)</text></item><item><author>killthebuddha</author><text>I&#x27;m having a weirdly difficult time finding some basic ELI5 answers.<p><pre><code> - What is the probability that this asteroid will hit us?
- What is the time interval where that probability applies?
- Do we have a probability distribution for where it might hit? I don&#x27;t know anything about anything, but I assume we know what *general direction* it&#x27;s coming from?
- Do we have a probability distribution for the potential blast radius?
</code></pre>
In general, I am very confused by this news because &quot;400m diameter asteroid 3% chance of impact&quot; is something I would expect <i>literally everybody</i> to be talking about all the time. It&#x27;s also something where if I learned that everything north of Kansas has a 5% chance of getting hit but everything south of Houston has a 1% chance, I&#x27;d seriously consider taking an impromptu vacation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Asteroid ZTm0038 with a >3% impact probability</title><url>https://newton.spacedys.com/neodys2/NEOScan/risk_page/ZTm0038/index_summary_ZTm0038.html</url></story> |
26,328,492 | 26,328,212 | 1 | 2 | 26,327,815 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aabhay</author><text>Yup, exactly. This is also the stance taken in the book Lingua Franca:<p>&gt; Ethics in AI should not be so convoluted as to require a separate profession; ethics should be distributed across an organization, flowing through and between individuals so that conversations of design naturally arrive at ethical questions. More crucially, everyone should have the tools to speak up and suggest improvements, so that no one person or set of people hold the keys to building ethical technology.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linguafranca.polytopal.ai&#x2F;handbook&#x2F;agency" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linguafranca.polytopal.ai&#x2F;handbook&#x2F;agency</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>turbinerneiter</author><text>Google should have never started hiring ethical AI researchers. They should have hired AI researchers and made their stuff available to independent ethics researchers.<p>These independent researchers should be employed by i.e. a university and funded by government funds, maybe even additionally with an AI regulation fee (i.e. like car makers have to pay to certify their cars).<p>It makes no sense for them to hire their critics and then think they can stay independent. You are basically paying people to shit on your own products. Makes no sense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/02/ai-ethics-research-conference-suspends-google-sponsorship/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>madeofpalk</author><text>&gt; You are basically paying people to shit on your own products. Makes no sense.<p>It&#x27;s good to be critical of your own products to make them better. But you have to actually be willing to do that for it all to work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>turbinerneiter</author><text>Google should have never started hiring ethical AI researchers. They should have hired AI researchers and made their stuff available to independent ethics researchers.<p>These independent researchers should be employed by i.e. a university and funded by government funds, maybe even additionally with an AI regulation fee (i.e. like car makers have to pay to certify their cars).<p>It makes no sense for them to hire their critics and then think they can stay independent. You are basically paying people to shit on your own products. Makes no sense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/02/ai-ethics-research-conference-suspends-google-sponsorship/</url></story> |
8,705,932 | 8,704,833 | 1 | 3 | 8,703,853 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>organsnyder</author><text>I sat and watched the countdown (the video cut out at T-00:15) with my 3.5-year-old son this morning. He was extremely excited, to the point that he was able to sit still for a half-hour just listening to the announcements of various system checks. Even without being able to watch the actual launch live (we watched a taped version a few minutes later), he still seemed to be catching quite a bit of excitement, and asked a myriad of questions (&quot;How does the rocket return to earth?&quot; &quot;What&#x27;s that flame?&quot;).<p>When I was in grade-school in the early-mid 90&#x27;s, I brought a news clipping of a Shuttle launch in for a &quot;current events&quot; classroom segment. Many of my classmates responded with disinterest: &quot;Why do you care? There are Shuttle launches all the time.&quot; We were young enough not to remember Challenger, so space-flight seemed routine and boring. As tragic and disappointing as the Columbia disaster and end of the Shuttle program were, I think they actually reminded us not to take manned spaceflight for granted.<p>I work with an astronomer and physicist with a PhD from MIT. She was actually less excited about today&#x27;s launch than I expected, mainly because she&#x27;s more interested in the science being done by robotic missions. I&#x27;m sure she&#x27;s right that they&#x27;re much more cost-effective and able to deliver almost as many results, but I&#x27;d place a small wager that manned spaceflight was at least partially responsible for her interests and career path.<p>Also, I realized this morning (while looking at diagrams comparing the sizes of various launch configurations) that just seeing a picture of a Space Shuttle with its rockets still makes me a bit emotional. I can&#x27;t say for sure what effect it had on me growing up, but I&#x27;m sure that it played a part in my development as a civic- and tech-minded individual.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Arjuna</author><text>This is <i>awesome</i>. Two thoughts spring to mind:<p>1. This is the equivalent of the Apollo 4 mission in that it also flew without a crew, and was used to prove, validate and verify that Saturn V and associated systems were fully mission-capable.<p>2. Events like this represent our future. Events like this are the catalysts for our future generation. The children around the world (perhaps one or more of your own) that are viewing this event are the ones that will be galvanized to dream, to explore, to go into astrophysics, computer science, mathematics, etc. Just imagine the seeds that are being planted with every event, be it brought to us by ESA, ISRO, NASA, SpaceX, etc. Our 5 year old is asking questions: what makes a rocket launch? Why is the explosion so big? I mean, we&#x27;re already having conversations that start to tear me up a little, partly because that connection brings me back in touch with my own passion for technology, and partly because it is a small glimpse that represents <i>Our</i> collective future.<p><i>I&#x27;m stoked.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Orion Flight Test Live Launch</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#.VIGQsGTF9d0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robbiep</author><text>I only wish that this had of been able to attract more publicity. New capsules are always cool and NASA is the king of them all... But as a government body in a tech 2.0 world it doesn&#x27;t attract the attention or respect that is worthy of its (occasionally bloated, cost-overrun, but nonetheless amazing and awe-inspiring) achievements<p><i></i> edit: my apologies, incorrectly thought this was a first flight of the Orion launch system and not capsule</text><parent_chain><item><author>Arjuna</author><text>This is <i>awesome</i>. Two thoughts spring to mind:<p>1. This is the equivalent of the Apollo 4 mission in that it also flew without a crew, and was used to prove, validate and verify that Saturn V and associated systems were fully mission-capable.<p>2. Events like this represent our future. Events like this are the catalysts for our future generation. The children around the world (perhaps one or more of your own) that are viewing this event are the ones that will be galvanized to dream, to explore, to go into astrophysics, computer science, mathematics, etc. Just imagine the seeds that are being planted with every event, be it brought to us by ESA, ISRO, NASA, SpaceX, etc. Our 5 year old is asking questions: what makes a rocket launch? Why is the explosion so big? I mean, we&#x27;re already having conversations that start to tear me up a little, partly because that connection brings me back in touch with my own passion for technology, and partly because it is a small glimpse that represents <i>Our</i> collective future.<p><i>I&#x27;m stoked.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Orion Flight Test Live Launch</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#.VIGQsGTF9d0</url></story> |
4,272,765 | 4,272,632 | 1 | 3 | 4,272,423 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>I didn't get that from Marco's post <i>at all</i>. I heard a developer saying "stop blaming indie developers for accepting generous offers from companies and start supporting their products instead".</text><parent_chain><item><author>jazzychad</author><text>Well, congrats to Marco for having a successful and sustainable business where he has the option and leverage to decide what he wants to do when these offers come knocking.<p><i>Most</i> startup/bootstrapped companies are not in that position. Most end up failing and winding up with nothing, but there are some that will end up with these talent acquisition situations.<p>Remember, both sides (the acquirers and the acquirees) have to agree to the deal. Google doesn't just come along and say "we want to acquire you for your talent" and the other side has no say in the matter.<p>In this situation you are faced with a choice. Talent acqs happen because a) the acquire target is not really doing that well, and b) they have a group of people that work well together that the acquiring company wants to keep together to do great things under their umbrella.<p>Given the choice between: keep working on your low-to-modest traction product which isn't producing a lot of revenue and wonder how you might pay rent next month OR a multi-million dollar check/stock offer at a large, successful company... which would you choose? I would take the check in that situation. Sometimes you can't achieve your world-changing vision before your investor and personal money are gone.<p>The goal of a company should be to succeed and be self-sustaining, of course. But sometimes that doesn't happen, and these talent acqs happen for a reason.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Talent Acquisitions</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2012/07/20/talent-acquisitions</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tyrannosaurs</author><text>I read this slightly differently.<p>I don't think this was a plea to developers to not sell up, I think it was a plea to people to support small companies to make not selling up a more appealing option.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jazzychad</author><text>Well, congrats to Marco for having a successful and sustainable business where he has the option and leverage to decide what he wants to do when these offers come knocking.<p><i>Most</i> startup/bootstrapped companies are not in that position. Most end up failing and winding up with nothing, but there are some that will end up with these talent acquisition situations.<p>Remember, both sides (the acquirers and the acquirees) have to agree to the deal. Google doesn't just come along and say "we want to acquire you for your talent" and the other side has no say in the matter.<p>In this situation you are faced with a choice. Talent acqs happen because a) the acquire target is not really doing that well, and b) they have a group of people that work well together that the acquiring company wants to keep together to do great things under their umbrella.<p>Given the choice between: keep working on your low-to-modest traction product which isn't producing a lot of revenue and wonder how you might pay rent next month OR a multi-million dollar check/stock offer at a large, successful company... which would you choose? I would take the check in that situation. Sometimes you can't achieve your world-changing vision before your investor and personal money are gone.<p>The goal of a company should be to succeed and be self-sustaining, of course. But sometimes that doesn't happen, and these talent acqs happen for a reason.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Talent Acquisitions</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2012/07/20/talent-acquisitions</url></story> |
22,154,594 | 22,154,229 | 1 | 3 | 22,151,130 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sedachv</author><text>ICANN selling corporate TLDs is something akin to the Library of Congress trying to sell Subject Headings. Not content with spamming everything else on the Internet, some people now want to spam root name servers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saalweachter</author><text>I personally blame ICANN more than the corporations here.<p>No individual entity -- person, place or corporation -- needs a TLD. They&#x27;re TLDs, they&#x27;re for giant collections of people, places and things.<p>But once ICANN says, &quot;Hey, would you like to buy &lt;.YOURCOMPANY&gt;? It&#x27;d be a shame if someone else did.&quot;, most any company is going to say, &quot;Goddammit, fine&quot;, and then once you&#x27;ve spent the money on it, you might as well start using it, with store.YOURCOMPANY and about.YOURCOMPANY and mail.YOURCOMPANY, and now the conventions of hierarchical domains and the very notion of URLs is meaningless.<p>I do blame all of us webdevs for getting cutesy with with making the TLD part of your company&#x2F;domain name.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/21/amazonb_icann_spat/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gist</author><text>&gt; No individual entity -- person, place or corporation -- needs a TLD.<p>The &#x27;nobody needs&#x27; standard? That is what and how we think of things? Does anyone &#x27;need&#x27; beer or football or 100,000 other things?<p>In a market system if you have money and if you have made money you can use that money to do things and buy things. It&#x27;s not up to someone else (you, me or comments on HN) to determine that what we want to buy that we can legitimately buy is &#x27;needed&#x27; or not.<p>Football is of ZERO interest or need to me. But I do recognize that others get pleasure from watching it.<p>&gt; They&#x27;re TLDs, they&#x27;re for giant collections of people, places and things.<p>According to who exactly?</text><parent_chain><item><author>saalweachter</author><text>I personally blame ICANN more than the corporations here.<p>No individual entity -- person, place or corporation -- needs a TLD. They&#x27;re TLDs, they&#x27;re for giant collections of people, places and things.<p>But once ICANN says, &quot;Hey, would you like to buy &lt;.YOURCOMPANY&gt;? It&#x27;d be a shame if someone else did.&quot;, most any company is going to say, &quot;Goddammit, fine&quot;, and then once you&#x27;ve spent the money on it, you might as well start using it, with store.YOURCOMPANY and about.YOURCOMPANY and mail.YOURCOMPANY, and now the conventions of hierarchical domains and the very notion of URLs is meaningless.<p>I do blame all of us webdevs for getting cutesy with with making the TLD part of your company&#x2F;domain name.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/21/amazonb_icann_spat/</url></story> |
21,882,050 | 21,881,016 | 1 | 2 | 21,879,921 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>EdwardDiego</author><text>What surprises me as a primarily JVM developer now supporting Go apps and dabbling in Go development is that the logging libraries (like klog) I&#x27;ve encountered don&#x27;t support the level of configuration I&#x27;m used to in JVM apps. I miss being able to configure individual loggers at desired levels with a logback.xml in the JAR, but especially the ability to change logging levels at runtime.<p>I guess it&#x27;s part of the Go philosophy - more dynamic logging would most likely incur relatively higher performance costs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>awinter-py</author><text>Have spent a while in the py&#x2F;js world but have switched to rust&#x2F;go for part of this year -- biggest change is boilerplate relating to error handling.<p>Automatic stack capture for exceptions is something my language could conceivably do on my behalf.<p>Writing even 3 lines of code per function to propogate up the error is a huge pain, especially because it pollutes the return type -- MustWhatever() in go is <i>much</i> easier to use than Whatever() returning (type, err)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eris – A better way to handle, trace, and log errors in Go</title><url>https://github.com/rotisserie/eris/tree/v0.1.0</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>sagichmal</author><text>You&#x27;re fighting the language. Unless you&#x27;re writing prototypes where crashing doesn&#x27;t matter, you should be writing error handling code first, and your business logic second -- so-called &quot;sad path first&quot; programming, c.f. &quot;happy-path first&quot; programming that you usually do in languages with exceptions like Python.</text><parent_chain><item><author>awinter-py</author><text>Have spent a while in the py&#x2F;js world but have switched to rust&#x2F;go for part of this year -- biggest change is boilerplate relating to error handling.<p>Automatic stack capture for exceptions is something my language could conceivably do on my behalf.<p>Writing even 3 lines of code per function to propogate up the error is a huge pain, especially because it pollutes the return type -- MustWhatever() in go is <i>much</i> easier to use than Whatever() returning (type, err)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eris – A better way to handle, trace, and log errors in Go</title><url>https://github.com/rotisserie/eris/tree/v0.1.0</url></story> |
41,474,794 | 41,471,509 | 1 | 2 | 41,470,074 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chatmasta</author><text>I&#x27;m a layman on this topic, so I&#x27;m definitely about to say something wrong. But I recall an intriguing idea about a sort of &quot;reversion to analog,&quot; whereby we use the full range of voltage crossing a resistor. Instead of cutting it in half to produce binary (high voltage is 1, low voltage is 0), we could treat the voltage as a scalar weight within a network of resistors.<p>Has anyone else heard of this idea or have any insight on it?</text><parent_chain><item><author>bilsbie</author><text>Thanks for the background. Whatever happened to memristors and the promise of memory living alongside cpu?</text></item><item><author>refibrillator</author><text>This paper is light on background so I’ll offer some additional context:<p>As early as the 90s it was observed that CPU speed (FLOPs) was improving faster than memory bandwidth. In 1995 William Wulf and Sally Mckee predicted this divergence would lead to a “memory wall”, where most computations would be bottlenecked by data access rather than arithmetic operations.<p>Over the past 20 years peak server hardware FLOPS has been scaling at 3x every 2 years, outpacing the growth of DRAM and interconnect bandwidth, which have only scaled at 1.6 and 1.4 times every 2 years, respectively.<p>Thus for training and inference of LLMs, the performance bottleneck is increasingly shifting toward memory bandwidth. Particularly for autoregressive Transformer decoder models, it can be the <i>dominant</i> bottleneck.<p>This is driving the need for new tech like Compute-in-memory (CIM), also known as processing-in-memory (PIM). Hardware in which operations are performed directly on the data in memory, rather than transferring data to CPU registers first. Thereby improving latency and power consumption, and possibly sidestepping the great “memory wall”.<p>Notably to compare ASIC and FPGA hardware across varying semiconductor process sizes, the paper uses a fitted polynomial to extrapolate to a common denominator of 16nm:<p><i>&gt; Based on the article by Aaron Stillmaker and B.Baas titled ”Scaling equations for the accurate prediction of CMOS device performance from 180 nm to 7nm,” we extrapolated the performance and the energy efficiency on a 16nm technology to make a fair comparison</i><p>But extrapolation for CIM&#x2F;PIM is not done because they claim:<p><i>&gt; As the in-memory accelerators the performance is not based only on the process technology, the extrapolation is performed only on the FPGA and ASIC accelerators where the process technology affects significantly the performance of the systems.</i><p>Which strikes me as an odd claim at face value, but perhaps others here could offer further insight on that decision.<p>Links below for further reading.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2403.14123" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2403.14123</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In-memory_processing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In-memory_processing</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2017.02.VLSIintegration.TechScale&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2017.02.VLSIintegration.Tech...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hardware Acceleration of LLMs: A comprehensive survey and comparison</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03384</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tonetegeatinst</author><text>I believe asianometry did a YouTube video on memristors....might be worth watching.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bilsbie</author><text>Thanks for the background. Whatever happened to memristors and the promise of memory living alongside cpu?</text></item><item><author>refibrillator</author><text>This paper is light on background so I’ll offer some additional context:<p>As early as the 90s it was observed that CPU speed (FLOPs) was improving faster than memory bandwidth. In 1995 William Wulf and Sally Mckee predicted this divergence would lead to a “memory wall”, where most computations would be bottlenecked by data access rather than arithmetic operations.<p>Over the past 20 years peak server hardware FLOPS has been scaling at 3x every 2 years, outpacing the growth of DRAM and interconnect bandwidth, which have only scaled at 1.6 and 1.4 times every 2 years, respectively.<p>Thus for training and inference of LLMs, the performance bottleneck is increasingly shifting toward memory bandwidth. Particularly for autoregressive Transformer decoder models, it can be the <i>dominant</i> bottleneck.<p>This is driving the need for new tech like Compute-in-memory (CIM), also known as processing-in-memory (PIM). Hardware in which operations are performed directly on the data in memory, rather than transferring data to CPU registers first. Thereby improving latency and power consumption, and possibly sidestepping the great “memory wall”.<p>Notably to compare ASIC and FPGA hardware across varying semiconductor process sizes, the paper uses a fitted polynomial to extrapolate to a common denominator of 16nm:<p><i>&gt; Based on the article by Aaron Stillmaker and B.Baas titled ”Scaling equations for the accurate prediction of CMOS device performance from 180 nm to 7nm,” we extrapolated the performance and the energy efficiency on a 16nm technology to make a fair comparison</i><p>But extrapolation for CIM&#x2F;PIM is not done because they claim:<p><i>&gt; As the in-memory accelerators the performance is not based only on the process technology, the extrapolation is performed only on the FPGA and ASIC accelerators where the process technology affects significantly the performance of the systems.</i><p>Which strikes me as an odd claim at face value, but perhaps others here could offer further insight on that decision.<p>Links below for further reading.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2403.14123" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2403.14123</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In-memory_processing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In-memory_processing</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2017.02.VLSIintegration.TechScale&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2017.02.VLSIintegration.Tech...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hardware Acceleration of LLMs: A comprehensive survey and comparison</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03384</url></story> |
31,561,296 | 31,561,412 | 1 | 2 | 31,560,307 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justin66</author><text>Earlier this morning for some reason Youtube recommended a video that was funny and relevant, called <i>Charlie Munger: &#x27;Every time you hear &#x27;EBITDA&#x27; substitute it with &#x27;bull** earnings&#x27;&#x27;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=l82kIjqBtqw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=l82kIjqBtqw</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jrvarela56</author><text>I agree with these examples, but to avoid taking the principle too far: EBIDTA was once a made up metric. Sometimes new views of a system do enrich our understanding.<p>Check the &quot;John Malone and the Invention of EBITDA&quot; section in this post for the story of how it was created: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commoncog.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cash-flow-games&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commoncog.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cash-flow-games&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“When systems require novel accounting methods the reason is usually fraud”</title><url>https://twitter.com/br4s1d4s/status/1531135288428199936</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oh_my_goodness</author><text>I&#x27;d go even further. EBITDA is still a made-up metric.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jrvarela56</author><text>I agree with these examples, but to avoid taking the principle too far: EBIDTA was once a made up metric. Sometimes new views of a system do enrich our understanding.<p>Check the &quot;John Malone and the Invention of EBITDA&quot; section in this post for the story of how it was created: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commoncog.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cash-flow-games&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commoncog.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cash-flow-games&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“When systems require novel accounting methods the reason is usually fraud”</title><url>https://twitter.com/br4s1d4s/status/1531135288428199936</url></story> |
7,479,883 | 7,479,903 | 1 | 2 | 7,479,588 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sjwright</author><text><i>&quot;It&#x27;s a miracle! Take physics and bin it! Water has memory! And whilst its memory of a long lost drop of onion juice is infinite, it somehow forgets all the poo it&#x27;s had in it.&quot;</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisbennet</author><text>Whenever I hear about homeopathy I think of this wonder rant (&quot;Storm&quot;) by Tim Minchin :
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Homeopathic remedies recalled for containing real medicine</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-03/25/homeopathy-contains-medicine</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrcsparker</author><text>Along the same line, I always think about this Mitchell and Webb bit:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisbennet</author><text>Whenever I hear about homeopathy I think of this wonder rant (&quot;Storm&quot;) by Tim Minchin :
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Homeopathic remedies recalled for containing real medicine</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-03/25/homeopathy-contains-medicine</url></story> |
33,960,413 | 33,960,245 | 1 | 3 | 33,954,176 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>puffoflogic</author><text>I developed windows during the Windows 10 timeframe. Although I left before windows 11 was conceived, it&#x27;s painfully obvious that it is just a UI reskin on top of 10. This was preordained by certain organizational choices made during my time there; namely, that the &quot;Shell&quot; team responsible for the start menu, desktop, and other UI tidbits[0] was completely divorced from the rest of windows development, with their own business priorities and so on. This was the team responsible for Windows 8&#x2F;.1, so as you can imagine they were somewhat sidelined during Windows 10 development. It appears they have their revenge, first and foremost from the promised-never-to-happen rebranding (whereby they jettisoned the Windows 10 brand which was an embarrassment for that team and that team only). That the result is only a reskinned 10 is the natural result because that is the only part of the product they have the authority or ability to change.<p>The Shell team was trying to push this same new UI during my whole time at Msft, with at least three cancelled attempts that I was aware of even from an IC perspective. By the end the embarrassment was contagious.<p>[0] Plus Edge, as part of the same vestigial business unit. This explains the central position of advertising in the reskin, because Edge in all of its forms was always meant to drive ad revenue. <i>That</i> is the distinct business priority I mentioned earlier, which sets this organization apart from Windows (NT,win32,etc.) development proper, which was shifted to Azure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hbn</author><text>That&#x27;s interesting that it started reverting into Windows 10.<p>It makes you wonder how the thing is built. Like rather than modifying the code, Windows 11 is like a service that run on top of 10 and modifies a few UI things near the end of the startup process. Was that just some kind of hack due to time constraints? Or is the Windows codebase really that much of a delicate ecosystem when it comes to not breaking legacy software so they couldn&#x27;t even modify the taskbar or file explorer without wrecking something?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What if you delete the “Program Files” folder in Windows? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVIN_PJu2rs</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TrevorJ</author><text>That kind of comports with how the UI in windows has behaved from 98&gt;XP&gt;7&gt;8&gt;10. In 10, you get the windows 10 UI on most of your top-level interfaces, but once you dive into a sub-menu you get some legacy UI and if you dig down deep enough you get UI from what feels like windows 98.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hbn</author><text>That&#x27;s interesting that it started reverting into Windows 10.<p>It makes you wonder how the thing is built. Like rather than modifying the code, Windows 11 is like a service that run on top of 10 and modifies a few UI things near the end of the startup process. Was that just some kind of hack due to time constraints? Or is the Windows codebase really that much of a delicate ecosystem when it comes to not breaking legacy software so they couldn&#x27;t even modify the taskbar or file explorer without wrecking something?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What if you delete the “Program Files” folder in Windows? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVIN_PJu2rs</url></story> |
10,962,073 | 10,961,976 | 1 | 3 | 10,951,951 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vlasev</author><text>The purpose is completely different! Here&#x27;s one of several important reasons.<p>You wouldn&#x27;t survive doing math with longer variable names. Imagine yourself writing &quot;time&quot; every time you need to write it in a formula in the course of a working on a problem. Just expand the following expression (time + 2)(2time - 3)(4time + 5) by hand, writing &quot;time&quot; every time. Or imagine studying vector calculus and writing out the formulas with the long names like &quot;grad&quot;, &quot;curl&quot;, etc. That kind of notation was replaces with the nabla symbol and overloaded notation for a very good reason.<p>Also, most derivations, for simple formulas even, go through larger complexities before they converge to something slick. Take a look at the derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations [1] and see if you could have done the same thing with longer variable, function and operator names.<p>So yea, it all boils down to repetition and quantity.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Derivation_of_the_Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Derivation_of_the_Navier%E2%80...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>moultano</author><text>Seriously! Any programmer would get pilloried for working solely in single letter variable names. It&#x27;s so tedious that this is the norm in math.</text></item><item><author>mrfusion</author><text>I&#x27;d love if all the formulas on Wikipedia were written as pseudo code with meaningful variable names. I&#x27;d understand them so much faster.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understood ideas (1967)</title><url>http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Why%20programming%20is--.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>bitwize</author><text>And then they run out of Latin letters so they switch to Greek. Then they run out of Greek letters so they switch to Hebrew...<p>You have to remember that math is written for the sake of mathematicians&#x27; brains, not for the sake of dumb machines which accept only linear strings of a limited character set through a teletype. A mathematician can look at a formula and subconsciously break it down into constituent parts based on its <i>shape</i>. Multi-letter (word? phrase?) variable names would only serve to add unnecessary clutter and obscure the shape of the formula. Meaningfulness of names is a secondary concern, if it is a concern at all; meaning can be established in the text surrounding the formulas or equations; and if things indeed get too complex for a set of a few formulas, the option is always there to switch representations -- to computer code or pseudocode.</text><parent_chain><item><author>moultano</author><text>Seriously! Any programmer would get pilloried for working solely in single letter variable names. It&#x27;s so tedious that this is the norm in math.</text></item><item><author>mrfusion</author><text>I&#x27;d love if all the formulas on Wikipedia were written as pseudo code with meaningful variable names. I&#x27;d understand them so much faster.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understood ideas (1967)</title><url>http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Why%20programming%20is--.html</url></story> |
31,243,030 | 31,235,605 | 1 | 2 | 31,235,109 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Brian_K_White</author><text>I do not recommend this. Use Kicad.<p>It&#x27;s not an on-ramp, it&#x27;s a time-wasting distraction detour from your actual on-ramp.<p>Every minute you spend figuring out how to do something in fritzing is a minute you could have spent figuring out the same thing in kicad, which you will end up doing eventually <i>anyway</i>, I promise you, garanteed. All this gets you is some badly designed boards and wasted time.<p>There are gobs of youtube videos for the absolute beginner which takes care of taking you from zero to simple pcb in a few minutes. Then you figure out a lot of other details as you encounter needs for them over time.<p>It doesn&#x27;t have to be kicad either. If you don&#x27;t mind a commercial proprietary product, Eagle is fine too. It&#x27;s workflow is a little different but not bad. In fact it&#x27;s an industry standard at a low level.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool</title><url>https://fritzing.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>halotrope</author><text>If fritzing gets #1 spot on HN I would like to wholeheartedly recommend <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kicad.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kicad.org&#x2F;</a> as well.
IMHO much saner workflow and good UX in the latest version.I did a simple PCB and got it manufactured on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jlcpcb.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jlcpcb.com&#x2F;</a>
for a couple bucks. Quite a rewarding experience.<p>I would also suggest that anyone who cares about computers gets to know basic electronics. How do transistors work, what is a bus (e.g I2C or SPI) and how is it all connected? (Drumroll ... a PCB of course). There is a ton of tutorials on youtube that do it end to end. E.g Phils Lab <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rLDqQ2L_mUQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rLDqQ2L_mUQ</a> for a PCB design. Or Ben Eaters excellent beginner tutorial &quot;Hello World from Scratch&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LnzuMJLZRdU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LnzuMJLZRdU</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool</title><url>https://fritzing.org/</url></story> |
15,351,600 | 15,351,131 | 1 | 2 | 15,350,137 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jessriedel</author><text>Scott Aaronson estimated the strain if you were 1 AU away from one of the previous BH mergers detected by LIGO and found you would only be stretched by about 50 nm (about a thousandth the width of a human hair). So you&#x27;d need to be very close indeed to feel something.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;what-gravitational-wave-feels-like-2016-2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;what-gravitational-wave-feels...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottaaronson.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;?p=2651" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottaaronson.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;?p=2651</a><p>The alternative take is that LIGO&#x27;s detectors are <i>unfathomably</i> sensitive, detecting when its ~4km arms stretch by just 10^-19 meters. That&#x27;s a 10,000th the width of a proton, where the proton is just a 100,000th the width of an atom, and the atom is about a 1,000,000th the width of a hair.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Pretty awesome, nice to see they confirmation with Virgo.<p>I realize that I&#x27;ve never really considered what it would be like to be &#x27;near&#x27; (say a few 10&#x27;s of thousands of light years away) from an event like this. With all that energy, at what level would it pulverize a planetary body?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger observed by LIGO and Virgo</title><url>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20170927</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>contravariant</author><text>This event was 1.8 billion (10^9) light years away. The so called &quot;strain&quot; (i.e. the extent to which the wave stretches &#x2F; compresses things) is around 10^-20 or somewhere around that order of magnitude.<p>To make things dangerous I reckon you&#x27;ll need to have a strain on the order of 1, and since strain is inversely proportional to distance that would give a distance of 10^-11 ly, or around 100 km. Which is not a &#x27;safe&#x27; distance to a black hole in any scenario.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Pretty awesome, nice to see they confirmation with Virgo.<p>I realize that I&#x27;ve never really considered what it would be like to be &#x27;near&#x27; (say a few 10&#x27;s of thousands of light years away) from an event like this. With all that energy, at what level would it pulverize a planetary body?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger observed by LIGO and Virgo</title><url>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20170927</url></story> |
36,321,390 | 36,321,135 | 1 | 2 | 36,319,652 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nradov</author><text>Mark Zuckerberg at least doesn&#x27;t seem particularly arrogant, nor is he playing the victim. During his last interview with Lex Fridman he openly acknowledged past errors and stated that he wasn&#x27;t sure whether current plans would work. I&#x27;m not here to defend him and I disagree with many of his positions but it&#x27;s worth listening to the interview to gain a more nuanced understanding than the snarky hot takes which dominate here.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.spotify.com&#x2F;episode&#x2F;0vYx9yPEIpJaoh2I4keEjA?si=aVnlUfsBSY6MG-eyf_TdWw" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.spotify.com&#x2F;episode&#x2F;0vYx9yPEIpJaoh2I4keEjA?si=a...</a><p>(Of course, it&#x27;s also possible that the whole interview was just an act.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>wolverine876</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s as if the CEO is purposefully being as belligerent as possible to rile people up.<p>The CEO is following the new leadership playbook, which you should recognize by now, as it&#x27;s used by Musk, crypto leaders, Zuckerberg, and many more inside and outside of tech.<p>* Fundamentally it&#x27;s just following the social (media) trend: Demonstrate brazen, over-the-top arrogance, disregard for consequences, and no empathy. I&#x27;m sure people recognize that pattern.<p>* Applied to CEO roles, it means publicly demonstrating contempt toward groups of people who are (individually) weaker than you, including employees, customers, protestors, etc. And it means disregard for consequences, such as Musk&#x27;s actions when bidding $40 billion for Twitter, and afterward; or much of what has happened in crypto. It demonstrates your power, demonstrates their powerlessness (if they capitulate), and makes you look like you have extreme confidence and little empathy - which is very trendy now, of course. Disregard for consequences works until they occur. It&#x27;s basic con-person tactics, the most obvious bad sales techniques.<p>* When challenged, act more aggressively or with more contempt. Double down.<p>* Play the victim and characterize those who oppose you as violent threats - which again shows disinterest and contempt for them and their arguments. One remarkable place you can see it is some US Supreme Court justices - it&#x27;s such a powerful trend in &#x27;leadership&#x27; that these people with untouchable lifetime positions even do it. (In case you missed it, Reddit&#x27;s CEO used this technique.)<p>These &#x27;leaders&#x27; protray themselves as brilliant, innovative, and highly capable, and people assume they must be - after all, they run these big companies. They are just corrupt and swept up in the latest fashion. Power corrupts, no surprise.<p>The sad part is that I see many on the other side of these issues actually believe this crap - they believe they are powerless and unilaterally disarm, as if the leaders are using the Force when they say, &#x27;you have no power&#x27; - &#x27;Oh, I guess I have no power&#x27; and they despair. (And then they tell everyone else the same.)<p>At the cost of a little faith in demoracy (write large - the power of individuals working together), they hold all the power. Our ancestors who in the same way built much of the freedom and society we have now, must be amazed. We just give it all away. The worst of our society haven&#x27;t given it away - look at Bud Light. Reddit should be toast, or at least the CEO. People just wake up and act.</text></item><item><author>extr</author><text>I don&#x27;t really understand why it had to be this way. It&#x27;s so easy to think of other ways this could have been handled. Even just announcing the same change with 6 months of lead time rather than 1 month would have gone over better. Or boil the frog and gradually introduce API restrictions. It&#x27;s as if the CEO is purposefully being as belligerent as possible to rile people up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit Doubles Down</title><url>https://www.platformer.news/p/reddit-doubles-down</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sdwr</author><text>Sure... but if you look at recent history, this is a counter-movement to the plastic-y, corpo-speaky, flowery language and stab you in the back (or allow you to rot in the background) type of leadership.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of people who prefer, or at least respect, an openly arrogant or dishonest leader. At least you know where you stand then, and are visible. The alternative, a lot of the time, is a leader who pays lipservice to equality, but has the same underlying disrespect.<p>The dream is being treated as a capable individual, but if a leader isn&#x27;t willing to see you like that, it&#x27;s pick your poison.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wolverine876</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s as if the CEO is purposefully being as belligerent as possible to rile people up.<p>The CEO is following the new leadership playbook, which you should recognize by now, as it&#x27;s used by Musk, crypto leaders, Zuckerberg, and many more inside and outside of tech.<p>* Fundamentally it&#x27;s just following the social (media) trend: Demonstrate brazen, over-the-top arrogance, disregard for consequences, and no empathy. I&#x27;m sure people recognize that pattern.<p>* Applied to CEO roles, it means publicly demonstrating contempt toward groups of people who are (individually) weaker than you, including employees, customers, protestors, etc. And it means disregard for consequences, such as Musk&#x27;s actions when bidding $40 billion for Twitter, and afterward; or much of what has happened in crypto. It demonstrates your power, demonstrates their powerlessness (if they capitulate), and makes you look like you have extreme confidence and little empathy - which is very trendy now, of course. Disregard for consequences works until they occur. It&#x27;s basic con-person tactics, the most obvious bad sales techniques.<p>* When challenged, act more aggressively or with more contempt. Double down.<p>* Play the victim and characterize those who oppose you as violent threats - which again shows disinterest and contempt for them and their arguments. One remarkable place you can see it is some US Supreme Court justices - it&#x27;s such a powerful trend in &#x27;leadership&#x27; that these people with untouchable lifetime positions even do it. (In case you missed it, Reddit&#x27;s CEO used this technique.)<p>These &#x27;leaders&#x27; protray themselves as brilliant, innovative, and highly capable, and people assume they must be - after all, they run these big companies. They are just corrupt and swept up in the latest fashion. Power corrupts, no surprise.<p>The sad part is that I see many on the other side of these issues actually believe this crap - they believe they are powerless and unilaterally disarm, as if the leaders are using the Force when they say, &#x27;you have no power&#x27; - &#x27;Oh, I guess I have no power&#x27; and they despair. (And then they tell everyone else the same.)<p>At the cost of a little faith in demoracy (write large - the power of individuals working together), they hold all the power. Our ancestors who in the same way built much of the freedom and society we have now, must be amazed. We just give it all away. The worst of our society haven&#x27;t given it away - look at Bud Light. Reddit should be toast, or at least the CEO. People just wake up and act.</text></item><item><author>extr</author><text>I don&#x27;t really understand why it had to be this way. It&#x27;s so easy to think of other ways this could have been handled. Even just announcing the same change with 6 months of lead time rather than 1 month would have gone over better. Or boil the frog and gradually introduce API restrictions. It&#x27;s as if the CEO is purposefully being as belligerent as possible to rile people up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit Doubles Down</title><url>https://www.platformer.news/p/reddit-doubles-down</url></story> |
8,173,879 | 8,173,838 | 1 | 3 | 8,173,707 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danielsiders</author><text>Ops is what you do after you write an application. Deploying it to one or more servers, connecting to databases, detecting, diagnosing, and fixing problems.<p>Flynn is a layer of software that sits between your application code and the servers it runs on to make all of that a lot easier, especially at scale.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dccarmo</author><text>I tried reading most of the site and didn&#x27;t understand what exactly it is. Am I the only one who doesn&#x27;t have a clue on what &quot;ops&quot; is&#x2F;are?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flynn Beta (YC S14)</title><url>https://flynn.io/blog/flynn-beta</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>a2kadet</author><text>This was my take away. I just figured the people who need this product would understand. I&#x27;m still really confused.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dccarmo</author><text>I tried reading most of the site and didn&#x27;t understand what exactly it is. Am I the only one who doesn&#x27;t have a clue on what &quot;ops&quot; is&#x2F;are?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flynn Beta (YC S14)</title><url>https://flynn.io/blog/flynn-beta</url><text></text></story> |
29,389,031 | 29,389,033 | 1 | 2 | 29,387,264 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>temp7536</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry but no. Patrick, we met with you once, Gaybrick and Claire multiple times and opened up a data room to you all. I then emailed you (and the others) three followups over a couple weeks only to see them opened but never replied. Your team then sent targeted cold emails to multiple people on our team. I&#x27;ve validated this experience with multiple founders.<p>You also had Moritz and Sequoia renege on Finix&#x27;s term sheet after they already had it signed and wired (I guess props to Sequoia for branding it as &quot;giving it away&quot;)[1]. You&#x27;ve also had your team get diligence materials from Sequoia and nuke deals.<p>You&#x27;ve clearly crushed it in the business and developer brand space, hats off to you. You want feedback - I (and the broader founder community) just wish you stop the dance of pretending and just admit you all are sharks, and it works for you! Just own it.<p>But I will admit, the HN comment was a bit trolly and written in frustration. But you have to admit - you are documented as proofreading every one of PGs posts, are a huge LP in YC and are friends with a lot of people there. You can&#x27;t believe that the conspiracy theories are purely in &quot;bad faith&quot;....<p>And yes - this is out of place in HN comments, I&#x27;m sorry. But sadly there aren&#x27;t very many other options.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;09&#x2F;sequoia-is-giving-away-21-million-to-a-payments-startup-it-funded-as-it-walks-away-from-deal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;09&#x2F;sequoia-is-giving-away-21-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pc</author><text>I don’t think some of the claims in this comment are true or in good faith. (We obviously don’t control HN or YC or journalists. If or when my comments on HN are ever ranked highly, it’s because they’re upvoted. The internal claims about Stripe are also inconsistent with the data around things like retention. Etc.)<p>All of that said, I’d appreciate hearing from any founders who feel mistreated as part of an acquisition process. We make a fairly significant number of acquisitions and have never heard this directly before.</text></item><item><author>temp7536</author><text>For those who have worked around and at Stripe for the past decade, this is not a surprise. Stripe, and especially the founders, have a quite a poor reputation for screwing over people in and around their orbit.<p>Almost every fintech startup has the story of Patrick reaching out about an acquisition, mining them for information playing along and then ghosting - same thing for candidates. They leadership team, specifically Patrick and Will Gaybrick are extremely smart but have screwed over a ton of people - be very careful about trusting.<p>You don&#x27;t hear anything about this online, they&#x27;re incredibly effective at squashing hit pieces and have a huge amount of reporters and power brokers under their control. On HN and silicon valley Stripe and Patrick are a PR machine. Patrick has almost direct control over YC and HN, you&#x27;ll notice that every single Stripe post automatically has pc as the first comment, regardless of anything else. Everything negative gets buried.<p>With Patrick now living in Woodside, Will on permanent vacation in Malibu and John permanently in Ireland the company is definitely a bit in chaos mode internally. Their entire people team has turned over and they&#x27;re having major retention issues - so I&#x27;m not super surprised that stuff like this is starting to leak out.<p>I run a $XB fintech, and am afraid to use my name given the backlash.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe</title><text>Recently I interviewed with Stripe for an engineering MoM (Manager of Managers) for one of their teams. I interview regularly, so I am used to many types of processes, feedback mechanisms, and so on. I won&#x27;t go into details about the questions because there&#x27;s nothing special about them, but I wanted to share some details of my experience for people thinking of interviewing there.<p>1) About 35-40% of the interviewers started their questioning by saying &quot;I will only need 20 minutes for this&quot;, while emphasizing it is an important leadership position that they are hiring for. So 20 minutes is all needed to identify &quot;important, critical leaders&quot;? What a strange thing to say - also a GREAT way to make candidates feel important and wanted!<p>2) There is significant shuffling of interviewers and schedules. One almost has to be on-call to be able to react quickly.<p>3) For an engineering manager position, I only interviewed with only technical person. To me it hints that Engineering MoM is not a very technical position.<p>4) Of all the people I spoke to, the hiring manager was the one I spoke the least with. The phone screen was one of the &quot;I only need 20 minutes for this&quot; calls. The other one was quite amusing, and is described below.<p>5) After the loop was done, the recruiter called me to congratulate me on passing, and started discussing details of the offer, including sending me a document described the equity program. Recruiter mentioned that the hiring manager would be calling me to discuss the position next.<p>6) SURPRISE INTERVIEW! I get a call from the hiring manager, he congratulates me on passing the loop, then as I prepare to ask questions about the role, he again says &quot;I need to ask you two questions and need 20 minutes for this&quot;. Then proceeds to ask two random questions about platforms and process enforcement, then hangs up the call after I answer. Tells me he&#x27;d be calling in a week to discuss the position.<p>7) I get asked for references.<p>8) After passing the loop, have the recruiter discuss some details of the offer, have the hiring manager tell me they&#x27;d be calling me after a week, I get ghosted for about 3.5 weeks. References are contacted and feedback is confirmed positive.<p>9) I ping the recruiter to see when the offer is coming - it&#x27;s not coming. They chose another candidate. I am fine with it, even after being offered verbally, but the ghosting part after wasting so much of my time seems almost intentional.<p>10) I call up a senior leader in the office I applied to, an acquaintance of mine. His answer: &quot;don&#x27;t come. It&#x27;s a mess and a revolving door of people&quot;. I was shocked with the response.<p>11) I get called by the recruiter saying that another director saw my feedback and is very interested in talking to me and do an interview loop.<p>Guess I&#x27;m not joining, then.<p>I am ok with passing loops, being rejected, I&#x27;ve seen it all. But being ghosted after acceptance is a first. What a bizarre place this is.</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>donkleberry</author><text>When you’re in top position on a Stripe-related post, that has nothing to do with your karma score. It’s because dang has a pin button that he usually uses for himself, but very often is used for exactly the situation you describe when it comes to YC portfolio or celebrities showing up or something (without visual feedback of such a pin, as every single other website with the capability provides). It’s pretty obvious if you keep an eye out for it<p>This can undoubtedly be spun as “HN just trying to bring the right voice to the top of the discussion” but the alternative take is just as valid. It’s not bad faith feedback, it’s HN UX and practices confusing readers as usual</text><parent_chain><item><author>pc</author><text>I don’t think some of the claims in this comment are true or in good faith. (We obviously don’t control HN or YC or journalists. If or when my comments on HN are ever ranked highly, it’s because they’re upvoted. The internal claims about Stripe are also inconsistent with the data around things like retention. Etc.)<p>All of that said, I’d appreciate hearing from any founders who feel mistreated as part of an acquisition process. We make a fairly significant number of acquisitions and have never heard this directly before.</text></item><item><author>temp7536</author><text>For those who have worked around and at Stripe for the past decade, this is not a surprise. Stripe, and especially the founders, have a quite a poor reputation for screwing over people in and around their orbit.<p>Almost every fintech startup has the story of Patrick reaching out about an acquisition, mining them for information playing along and then ghosting - same thing for candidates. They leadership team, specifically Patrick and Will Gaybrick are extremely smart but have screwed over a ton of people - be very careful about trusting.<p>You don&#x27;t hear anything about this online, they&#x27;re incredibly effective at squashing hit pieces and have a huge amount of reporters and power brokers under their control. On HN and silicon valley Stripe and Patrick are a PR machine. Patrick has almost direct control over YC and HN, you&#x27;ll notice that every single Stripe post automatically has pc as the first comment, regardless of anything else. Everything negative gets buried.<p>With Patrick now living in Woodside, Will on permanent vacation in Malibu and John permanently in Ireland the company is definitely a bit in chaos mode internally. Their entire people team has turned over and they&#x27;re having major retention issues - so I&#x27;m not super surprised that stuff like this is starting to leak out.<p>I run a $XB fintech, and am afraid to use my name given the backlash.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe</title><text>Recently I interviewed with Stripe for an engineering MoM (Manager of Managers) for one of their teams. I interview regularly, so I am used to many types of processes, feedback mechanisms, and so on. I won&#x27;t go into details about the questions because there&#x27;s nothing special about them, but I wanted to share some details of my experience for people thinking of interviewing there.<p>1) About 35-40% of the interviewers started their questioning by saying &quot;I will only need 20 minutes for this&quot;, while emphasizing it is an important leadership position that they are hiring for. So 20 minutes is all needed to identify &quot;important, critical leaders&quot;? What a strange thing to say - also a GREAT way to make candidates feel important and wanted!<p>2) There is significant shuffling of interviewers and schedules. One almost has to be on-call to be able to react quickly.<p>3) For an engineering manager position, I only interviewed with only technical person. To me it hints that Engineering MoM is not a very technical position.<p>4) Of all the people I spoke to, the hiring manager was the one I spoke the least with. The phone screen was one of the &quot;I only need 20 minutes for this&quot; calls. The other one was quite amusing, and is described below.<p>5) After the loop was done, the recruiter called me to congratulate me on passing, and started discussing details of the offer, including sending me a document described the equity program. Recruiter mentioned that the hiring manager would be calling me to discuss the position next.<p>6) SURPRISE INTERVIEW! I get a call from the hiring manager, he congratulates me on passing the loop, then as I prepare to ask questions about the role, he again says &quot;I need to ask you two questions and need 20 minutes for this&quot;. Then proceeds to ask two random questions about platforms and process enforcement, then hangs up the call after I answer. Tells me he&#x27;d be calling in a week to discuss the position.<p>7) I get asked for references.<p>8) After passing the loop, have the recruiter discuss some details of the offer, have the hiring manager tell me they&#x27;d be calling me after a week, I get ghosted for about 3.5 weeks. References are contacted and feedback is confirmed positive.<p>9) I ping the recruiter to see when the offer is coming - it&#x27;s not coming. They chose another candidate. I am fine with it, even after being offered verbally, but the ghosting part after wasting so much of my time seems almost intentional.<p>10) I call up a senior leader in the office I applied to, an acquaintance of mine. His answer: &quot;don&#x27;t come. It&#x27;s a mess and a revolving door of people&quot;. I was shocked with the response.<p>11) I get called by the recruiter saying that another director saw my feedback and is very interested in talking to me and do an interview loop.<p>Guess I&#x27;m not joining, then.<p>I am ok with passing loops, being rejected, I&#x27;ve seen it all. But being ghosted after acceptance is a first. What a bizarre place this is.</text></story> |
30,481,667 | 30,479,917 | 1 | 2 | 30,465,120 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davesque</author><text>I remember working at an organization that essentially made the results of performance reviews open across the team. The rational was that it would help people make sense out of salary figures (which were also open). It did not improve team function and led to a lot of paranoia, fear, and resentment.<p>People keep secrets on some level because they need privacy. If a person is struggling, they often react by withdrawing and don&#x27;t always appreciate their struggles being brought to attention. Especially when their livelihood is on the line. Everyone&#x27;s different, but increased openness is not always going to help. Everyone should have the right to privacy in both personal and professional settings.<p><i>Update:</i> Actually, I think the author of the article must understand all of this because they do call out privacy as necessary and try to distinguish it from what they&#x27;re calling secrecy. And secrecy seems to basically mean willingly withholding information necessary to properly complete a job. They say this could happen if teams have an antagonistic working relationship. I think it&#x27;s a useful distinction as I&#x27;ve also seen this happen at a company, more recently than the previous counter example that I gave.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Effective teams don’t keep secrets</title><url>https://www.theadamthomas.com/effective-teams-dont-keep-secrets/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bob1029</author><text>Sometimes letting someone know about a piece of information too early can cause problems.<p>I have some very anxious team members who will get on edge when the development team starts to use key words like &quot;refactor&quot; and &quot;iterate&quot;. Our organization has a historical track record of certain technical efforts being a complete dumpster fire and the PTSD of that has stuck around with many of us.<p>In order to make everyone&#x27;s lives easier, I will sometimes work in secret on prototypes of more &quot;controversial&quot; ideas to bring before the team. I find starting the conversation with &quot;Here&#x27;s a new thing you can actually see and play with&quot; eliminates 99% of the annoying bullshit you get out of non-technical folks.<p>It takes some discipline to do this correctly (i.e. don&#x27;t ferret away on a secret prototype for more than ~1 week). That said, I can&#x27;t imagine how you would scale an organization if everyone had to know everything always.<p>Also, none of this stuff is actually secret. It&#x27;s more of a need-to-know basis. If someone explicitly asked me about one of these efforts, I would tell them everything they wanted to know and then some.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Effective teams don’t keep secrets</title><url>https://www.theadamthomas.com/effective-teams-dont-keep-secrets/</url></story> |
12,928,615 | 12,927,902 | 1 | 2 | 12,926,395 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>youarefired</author><text>That interesting. I run a silly little website website that invited people to vote against one of the two candidates [1]. I watched our analytics like a hawk during the couple of weeks before the elections in order to adjust messaging, content and ads.<p>This, of course, wasn&#x27;t scientific at all except for the fact that we were running ads to attract both sides of the discussion equally. They were geographically limited to the US. About a week before the elections the trend was unmistakable. The support for Trump in the form of CTR, engagement and votes to the hundreds of different ads out there told a story.<p>We actually tried to get this story out and attempted to publish a press release. It was rejected by all of the top press release agencies we used for other business. Not one of them wanted to publish that things were not looking good from Clinton, even from a silly little entertainment site.<p>To confirm the bias a few days later we issued a press release indicating that Clinton was catching-up and Trump was predicted to lose. Everyone published the release.<p>We can&#x27;t have the media operate with such bias in this country. Freedom of the press is important, but when the press become political activists we should all yell foul and reign them in. The first thing totalitarian regimes do is take control of the press. We can&#x27;t have a press that is so far to the left that they won&#x27;t report the truth, or worst, distort it.<p>I know this is just one data point. There are plenty more from other sources. The bias and manipulation are very real.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;youarefired.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;youarefired.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mrlatinos</author><text>Just thought I&#x27;d share a tidbit that I haven&#x27;t been able to elsewhere. I work for a large market research firm that does polls for a large news network. On Sunday, we ran a poll for them that put Trump at 8 points ahead. They decided against publishing it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The forces that drove this election’s media failure are likely to get worse</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/the-forces-that-drove-this-elections-media-failure-are-likely-to-get-worse</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pcunite</author><text>Thank you for sharing. From my two months of non-professional research, it looked like Trump was going to win by a big margin. The major media outlets were looking outright deceptive from my perspective.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrlatinos</author><text>Just thought I&#x27;d share a tidbit that I haven&#x27;t been able to elsewhere. I work for a large market research firm that does polls for a large news network. On Sunday, we ran a poll for them that put Trump at 8 points ahead. They decided against publishing it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The forces that drove this election’s media failure are likely to get worse</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/the-forces-that-drove-this-elections-media-failure-are-likely-to-get-worse</url></story> |
38,352,344 | 38,352,756 | 1 | 2 | 38,352,028 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>founderspend</author><text>Very few are talking about Adam D&#x27;Angelo&#x27;s insane conflicts of interest. Beyond ChatGPT being a killshot for Quora, the recently launched ChatGPT store puts Adam&#x27;s recent effort, Poe, under existential threat. OpenAI Dev Day has been cited as the final straw, but is it mere coincidence that the event and subsequent fallout occurred less than a week after Poe announced their AI creator economy?<p>Adam had no incentive to kill OpenAI, but he had every incentive to get the org to reign in their commercialization efforts and to instead focus on research and safety initiatives, taking the heat off Poe while still providing it with the necessary API access to power the product.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s crazy to speculate that Adam might have drummed up concern amongst the board over Sam&#x27;s &quot;dangerous&quot; shipping velocity, sweeping up Ilya in the hysteria who now seems to regret taking part. Sam and Greg have both signaled positive sentiment towards Ilya, which points to them possibly believing he was misguided.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend</title><url>https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/openai-facts-from-a-weekend/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alephnerd</author><text>Because everyone else is speculating, I&#x27;m gunna join the bandwagon too.
I think this is a conflict between Dustin Moskovitz and Sam Altman.<p>Dustin Moskovitz was an early employee at FB, and the founder of Asana. He also created (along with plenty of MSFT bigwigs) a non-profit called Open Philanthropy, which was a early proponent of a form of Effective Altruism and also gave OpenAI their $30M grant. He is also one of the early investors in Anthropic.<p>Most of the OpenAI board members are related to Dustin Moskovitz this way.<p>- Adam D&#x27;Angelo is on the board of Asana and is a good friend to both Moskovitz and Altman<p>- Helen Toner worked for Dustin Moskovitz at Open Philanthropy and managed their grant to OpenAI. She was also a member of the Centre for the Governance of AI when McCauley was a board member there. Shortly after Toner left, the Centre for the Governance of AI got a $1M grant from Open Philanthropy<p>- Tasha McCauley represents the Centre for the Governance of AI, which Dustin Moskovitz gave a $1M grant to via Open Philanthropy<p>Over the past few months, Dustin Moskovitz has also been increasingly warning about AI Safety.<p>In essense, it looks like a split between Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend</title><url>https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/openai-facts-from-a-weekend/</url></story> |
32,206,765 | 32,206,179 | 1 | 2 | 32,204,256 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>itronitron</author><text>I&#x27;ve ridden Amtrak a few times on different routes, TX to CA as a child, midwest to DC as a student, and northeast to southeast (NE corridor +) with a pregnant wife.<p>The main issue with train travel in the US is that many passengers are going to need a car when they reach their destination.<p>If I could pick one major rail investment for the US it would be to follow I-95 from Florida to New England. There is a lot of commute and vacation traffic along that interstate (I-95) that can be stressful and people would probably happily move over to Amtrak if the service guarantees are good.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stormbrew</author><text>&gt; If Amtrak went that direction and made its transportation close to free, I wonder if we&#x27;d see more people try it out<p>My understanding is that in north America the big problem with passenger rail is less cost and more the fact that there&#x27;s a bias towards freight in track right of ways. Even if you&#x27;re willing and happy to pay a lot to travel by train, scheduling is still likely to be screwed up somewhere by a big ass freight train in the way and there&#x27;s nothing you can do about it.<p>Edit to add after a double check: I guess in the US it&#x27;s technically the law that passengers be given priority but it&#x27;s poorly (or just not) enforced[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amtrak.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;projects&#x2F;dotcom&#x2F;english&#x2F;public&#x2F;documents&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;HostRailroadReports&#x2F;mythbusters-enforcing-amtraks-legal-right-to-preference.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amtrak.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;projects&#x2F;dotcom&#x2F;english&#x2F;p...</a></text></item><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>Free or extremely cheap transportation is a fascinating development. I always found it odd that the rhetoric around transportation was that it should make money. We don&#x27;t expect other parts of the government to turn a profit. Why transportation?<p>If Amtrak went that direction and made its transportation close to free, I wonder if we&#x27;d see more people try it out. Maybe it&#x27;d gain some popularity and we could finally see a shift away from cars. Public transportation is a difficult process because until the money is spent and the line is there, people are not sold. Whereas with cars, even if a highway is not built, people still have a car by default. Therefore the government needs to float money, either in infrastructure or in subsidized fares. At least subsidized fares is a little less binary than infrastructure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spain will introduce free train travel</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-15/spain-will-introduce-free-train-travel-to-help-ease-the-cost-of-living</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bogomipz</author><text>That bias is correct, at least outside of the North East corridor. Amtrak owns most of the track in the North East Corridor which incidentally is the only place it is profitable. Outside of this corridor the tracks are mostly owned by 5 railroads [1]. Passenger rail is supposed to have priority as Amtrak was the entity created in order to relieve railroads from being required to provide passenger service. This however is an area of a lot of friction. For a recent example of this mess see&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;transportation&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;06&#x2F;amtrak-expansion-freight-rails&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;transportation&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;06&#x2F;amt...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soundingmaps.com&#x2F;the-largest-railroads-in-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soundingmaps.com&#x2F;the-largest-railroads-in-us&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>stormbrew</author><text>&gt; If Amtrak went that direction and made its transportation close to free, I wonder if we&#x27;d see more people try it out<p>My understanding is that in north America the big problem with passenger rail is less cost and more the fact that there&#x27;s a bias towards freight in track right of ways. Even if you&#x27;re willing and happy to pay a lot to travel by train, scheduling is still likely to be screwed up somewhere by a big ass freight train in the way and there&#x27;s nothing you can do about it.<p>Edit to add after a double check: I guess in the US it&#x27;s technically the law that passengers be given priority but it&#x27;s poorly (or just not) enforced[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amtrak.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;projects&#x2F;dotcom&#x2F;english&#x2F;public&#x2F;documents&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;HostRailroadReports&#x2F;mythbusters-enforcing-amtraks-legal-right-to-preference.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amtrak.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;projects&#x2F;dotcom&#x2F;english&#x2F;p...</a></text></item><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>Free or extremely cheap transportation is a fascinating development. I always found it odd that the rhetoric around transportation was that it should make money. We don&#x27;t expect other parts of the government to turn a profit. Why transportation?<p>If Amtrak went that direction and made its transportation close to free, I wonder if we&#x27;d see more people try it out. Maybe it&#x27;d gain some popularity and we could finally see a shift away from cars. Public transportation is a difficult process because until the money is spent and the line is there, people are not sold. Whereas with cars, even if a highway is not built, people still have a car by default. Therefore the government needs to float money, either in infrastructure or in subsidized fares. At least subsidized fares is a little less binary than infrastructure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spain will introduce free train travel</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-15/spain-will-introduce-free-train-travel-to-help-ease-the-cost-of-living</url></story> |
33,784,786 | 33,784,127 | 1 | 2 | 33,783,504 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alias_neo</author><text>Personal requirements aside (I have the same requirements); just using this would constitute misconduct at the very least at my place of work.<p>Yes it&#x27;s a cool looking tool, but there are certslain requirements that ignorance doesn&#x27;t exempt us from.<p>My pet gripe is all of the seemingly local (open source) tools that phone home with opt-out metrics, not mentioned in the &quot;getting started&quot; and take some obscure flag to disable and it&#x27;s just that little bit more complex to do when running the defacto (containerised) build.</text><parent_chain><item><author>einichi</author><text>My number one requirement for a tool like this is that the JSON content never leaves the machine it&#x27;s on.<p>I can only imagine the kind of personal information or proprietary internal data that has been unwittingly transmitted due to tools like this.<p>If my objective was to gain the secrets of various worldwide entities, one of the first things I would do is set up seemingly innocent Pastebins, JSON checkers, online file format convertors and permanently retain all submitted data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization</title><url>https://jsonhero.io/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Mogzol</author><text>Completely agree. I could actually get a lot of use out of a tool like this, but the fact that even the VSCode extension sends the JSON to their servers and opens it at a publicly accessible URL makes this a no-go for me. I wouldn&#x27;t recommend anyone use this for any remotely sensitive data.</text><parent_chain><item><author>einichi</author><text>My number one requirement for a tool like this is that the JSON content never leaves the machine it&#x27;s on.<p>I can only imagine the kind of personal information or proprietary internal data that has been unwittingly transmitted due to tools like this.<p>If my objective was to gain the secrets of various worldwide entities, one of the first things I would do is set up seemingly innocent Pastebins, JSON checkers, online file format convertors and permanently retain all submitted data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization</title><url>https://jsonhero.io/</url></story> |
16,334,502 | 16,334,244 | 1 | 3 | 16,334,209 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>linsomniac</author><text>A previous HN discussion, possibly on Equifax now that I think about it, had a comment recommending the book &quot;The Chickenshit Club&quot;, about why the justice department doesn&#x27;t prosecute.<p>I just finished in it a discussion of Enron and their auditors, Arthur Andersen. The justice department prosecuted Andersen (one of the &quot;big 5&quot; accounting firms at the time), and there was a lot of backlash about the Justice Dept &quot;killing Andersen&quot;.<p>The details of it are that Enron was way crooked, lying to investors and the public saying everything was great, when it wasn&#x27;t. Andersen audits didn&#x27;t reveal this, and also was responsible for increasing document shredding from 80lbs&#x2F;day to &gt;2,000lbs&#x2F;day in the few days before the SEC subpoena. And this was after Andersen had been shown to be negligent in the auditing of Worldcom, QWest, and Globalcom.<p>Basically, they recommended fraudulent practices with WorldCom, got caught and said &quot;We promise we will never do that again&quot; and did it again with Enron.<p>Justice Dept prosecuted, and then there was all this backlash about the prosecution.<p>So, is prosecution of Equifax likely? Seems like we as a country have trained the government not to.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. senators ask consumer watchdog head for details on Equifax probe</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-equifax-cfpb-lawmakers/u-s-senators-ask-consumer-watchdog-head-for-details-on-equifax-probe-idUSKBN1FS2R1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rectang</author><text>Was it inevitable that the Equifax situation became partisan?<p>I&#x27;m a market constructivist, and I&#x27;d prefer the simplest possible solution which regulates Equifax and its immense externalities out of existence.<p>But isn&#x27;t there also a libertarian case to be made that the credit authorities are a cartel and should be deregulated out of existence? And if that&#x27;s the case, can&#x27;t at least some of us find common ground?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. senators ask consumer watchdog head for details on Equifax probe</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-equifax-cfpb-lawmakers/u-s-senators-ask-consumer-watchdog-head-for-details-on-equifax-probe-idUSKBN1FS2R1</url></story> |
12,407,139 | 12,406,668 | 1 | 2 | 12,406,036 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tyleo</author><text>This playlist is amazing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLZlv_N0_O1gaCL2XjKluO7N2Pmmw9pvhE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLZlv_N0_O1gaCL2XjKluO...</a><p>I watched it before starting my last semester in college with 0 Unreal Engine experience. I was able to create a game which got an award for our senior capstone showcase: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2z1RVBELKAU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2z1RVBELKAU</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pizzacowboy</author><text>Anyone have some recommended tutorials on how to get started working with Unreal Engine? I&#x27;ve done some googling, but curious what the HN community has done&#x2F;suggests.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unreal Engine 4.13 Released</title><url>https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-13-released</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stonith</author><text>I taught myself the basics by picking apart the sample projects in the learn tab of the launcher. Specifically I started with a top down template (c++) for my own project and then looked at how the strategygame sample worked, gradually porting features across to my own project and adjusting as needed. I think a lot of people do something similar with ShooterGame, since that&#x27;s a really simple multiplayer shooter and also gives you an idea of how to structure things for network replication. I had even heard that the Ark: Survival Evolved binary was actually still called ShooterGame, but I don&#x27;t know how accurate that is.<p>The UnrealEngine youtube channel is also fantastic, and their training streams are very good. The documentation is OK, but you&#x27;re better off reading the source most of the time for anything lower level - the headers are generally pretty well commented.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pizzacowboy</author><text>Anyone have some recommended tutorials on how to get started working with Unreal Engine? I&#x27;ve done some googling, but curious what the HN community has done&#x2F;suggests.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unreal Engine 4.13 Released</title><url>https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-13-released</url></story> |
29,142,123 | 29,142,253 | 1 | 3 | 29,141,301 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>onion2k</author><text>Very often you won&#x27;t get that upfront research because juniors don&#x27;t have the knowledge necessary to even start looking for themselves. Because you expect them to come to you with evidence before they ask you, your devs will just avoid asking you and spend hours wasting time instead. Any minimum requirements are a barrier. Barriers are bad for learning.<p>You need to welcome questions even from people who have apparently done no research at all, or juniors will always worry that you&#x27;ll accuse them of not doing the &quot;necessary&quot; work up front. If you&#x27;re kind and approachable, and you don&#x27;t tell people off for failing to meet your minimum requirements, you can guide them to finding it themselves.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mceachen</author><text>Please ask me any question, regardless of how dumb you think it will make you look, after you&#x27;ve spent at least 5 minutes trying to answer it yourself.<p>Bonus Points if you summarize your quick research efforts.<p>Extra Bonus Points if this leads to more questions.<p>(Caveat emptor: _many_ engineers are decidedly antisocial, but if you show that you did prior research before asking, you&#x27;re showing to them that you value their time as much as your own, and there&#x27;s a better chance that they will be receptive to collaboration.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask stupid questions as a new software developer</title><url>https://www.nikitakazakov.com/ask-stupid-questions-as-software-developer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moffkalast</author><text>This is a problem during lectures. If you ask immediately you may end up looking entirely stupid, but if you spend a few minutes thinking about it the topic already moves from it so you can no longer ask lol.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mceachen</author><text>Please ask me any question, regardless of how dumb you think it will make you look, after you&#x27;ve spent at least 5 minutes trying to answer it yourself.<p>Bonus Points if you summarize your quick research efforts.<p>Extra Bonus Points if this leads to more questions.<p>(Caveat emptor: _many_ engineers are decidedly antisocial, but if you show that you did prior research before asking, you&#x27;re showing to them that you value their time as much as your own, and there&#x27;s a better chance that they will be receptive to collaboration.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask stupid questions as a new software developer</title><url>https://www.nikitakazakov.com/ask-stupid-questions-as-software-developer</url></story> |
38,385,697 | 38,382,156 | 1 | 2 | 38,377,072 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smcleod</author><text>With a couple of other folks I&#x27;m currently working on an Ollama GUI, it&#x27;s in early stages of development - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ai-qol-things&#x2F;rusty-ollama">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ai-qol-things&#x2F;rusty-ollama</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>reustle</author><text>This looks great!<p>If you&#x27;re looking to do the same with open source code, you could likely run Ollama and a UI.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jmorganca&#x2F;ollama">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jmorganca&#x2F;ollama</a>
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<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ollama-webui&#x2F;ollama-webui">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ollama-webui&#x2F;ollama-webui</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs</title><url>https://lmstudio.ai/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nigma</author><text>I&#x27;m having a lot of fun chatting with characters using Faraday and koboldcpp. Faraday has a great UI that lets you adjust character profiles, generate alternative model responses, undo, or edit dialogue, and experiment with how models react to your input. There&#x27;s also SillyTavern that I have yet to try out.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;faraday.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;faraday.dev&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LostRuins&#x2F;koboldcpp">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LostRuins&#x2F;koboldcpp</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SillyTavern&#x2F;SillyTavern">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SillyTavern&#x2F;SillyTavern</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>reustle</author><text>This looks great!<p>If you&#x27;re looking to do the same with open source code, you could likely run Ollama and a UI.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jmorganca&#x2F;ollama">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jmorganca&#x2F;ollama</a>
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<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ollama-webui&#x2F;ollama-webui">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ollama-webui&#x2F;ollama-webui</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs</title><url>https://lmstudio.ai/</url></story> |
22,093,149 | 22,092,450 | 1 | 3 | 22,092,163 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rubidium</author><text>In the atomic research world, diode lasers are great because they’re cheap and fairly tunable.<p>Many of atomic cooling studies done 20 years ago were done using rubidium because it had a primary absorption wavelength that matched what commercial CD players used. This made the 780nm diodes dirt cheap.<p>Having new wavelengths of diode lasers makes certain basic research more accessible. I’ve been out of the field too long to know where this one may help but it’s exciting to see progress.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World’s Shortest Wavelength Laser Diode Emits Deep UV Light at Room Temperature</title><url>https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.7567/1882-0786/ab50e0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>howardD</author><text>Normally, in LEDs and solid state lasers, there is a direct relation between wavelength(energy quantum) (electron-Volts) and operating voltage (Volts).<p>For example Red = 660 nanometers = 1.8 electron-Volts = 1.8 Volts, which is the typical operating voltage for a Red LED.<p>Blue = 470 nm = 3.3 eV = 3.3 Volts operating voltage.<p>So: Deep UV (270 nm) is supposed to operate on ~4.6 Volts.<p>But article mentions 13.8 Volts. I wonder why there is such a huge gap?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World’s Shortest Wavelength Laser Diode Emits Deep UV Light at Room Temperature</title><url>https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.7567/1882-0786/ab50e0</url></story> |
5,073,745 | 5,073,676 | 1 | 2 | 5,073,487 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sirclueless</author><text>How do goroutines get cleaned up? For example, in many of these examples they create a goroutine that is supposed to send a message over a blocking channel eventually. What if I use their "select + time.After()" pattern and the timeout hits and I return. Does the goroutine hang forever? Does it constitute a memory leak? We both hold the channel, so it can't get garbage collected, is Go smart enough to know there aren't any more readers and the goroutine + channel can get cleaned up?<p>Maybe to solve this I use a "quit" channel as they do. Do I need to worry about what happens if a quit message is never sent, or if two routines send one, or if the receiver is multiplexed and only one of many readers gets the message and cleans up correctly. It sounds like the whole malloc() and free() dance all over again, except this time I don't have any nice invariants to reason about such as "Everything that gets malloc()ed needs to be free()d, exactly once". Instead I need to worry that everyone is playing nice and will terminate when asked, <i>and</i> I need to remember to ask exactly once.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go concurrency patterns</title><url>http://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide#1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ezra</author><text>Video of rob giving the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs<p>Also, this makes use of the excellent "Golang Present Tool", which makes most of the code on the slides executable.[1]<p>[1]: <a href="http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.talks/present" rel="nofollow">http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.talks/present</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go concurrency patterns</title><url>http://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide#1</url></story> |
26,166,494 | 26,166,021 | 1 | 2 | 26,165,357 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tholman</author><text>If I&#x27;m understanding L958+ [1] There&#x27;s a hyper specific css class browser quirk because the login button for gizmodo&#x2F;kotaku&#x2F;etc&#x27;s CMS&#x27;s svg icon click event wasn&#x27;t firing... and here I am fixing my day-to-day browser bugs like a chump<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;Source&#x2F;WebCore&#x2F;page&#x2F;Quirks.cpp#L958" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;Source&#x2F;WebCore&#x2F;pa...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebKit Quirks</title><url>https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matsemann</author><text><p><pre><code> shouldBypassBackForwardCache()
&#x2F;&#x2F; Google Docs used to bypass the back&#x2F;forward cache by serving &quot;Cache-Control: no-store&quot; over HTTPS.
&#x2F;&#x2F; We started caching such content in r250437 but the Google Docs index page unfortunately is not currently compatible
&#x2F;&#x2F; because it puts an overlay (with class &quot;docs-homescreen-freeze-el-full&quot;) over the page when navigating away and fails
&#x2F;&#x2F; to remove it when coming back from the back&#x2F;forward cache
</code></pre>
Millions of pages have this bug, because of Safari&#x27;s broken navigation. Nice that the big players get the browser to fix it for them. For instance, a common issue is you click a button that becomes disabled and shows a spinner while working, before forwarding to a new page. If you click back from the new page, Safari will render the previous page <i>exactly</i> as it was when leaving, so in a broken loading state (instead of starting it from scratch).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebKit Quirks</title><url>https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp</url></story> |
14,112,852 | 14,112,784 | 1 | 3 | 14,108,382 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samcheng</author><text>Do you drive 200 miles a day? I don&#x27;t. You rarely need to charge an electric car from empty.<p>I agree that solar is significantly less attractive in high-latitude, cloudy locations, though. All of those panels that Germany installed would have been much more useful in Arizona.<p>Hydrogen, of course, is a boondoggle: it&#x27;s primarily a fossil fuel, needs a whole new distribution system, is less efficient than pure electric, and requires very expensive vehicles.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt; they would most likely even out 24-hour usage patterns rather than overstressing the grid.<p>Take a look at exactly how much power goes into an electric vehicle. I once worked out how many solar panels one would need to charge a tesla once per day in my local. The math pointed to something like a solid acre of land dedicated to sustaining a single car. (not an acre of panels, at my latitude you need proportionally more land on which to mount panels). A shift to all-electric transport would produce a demand for which LEDs could never compensate. Only the very wealthy would ever own enough land to actually self-sustain through renewables. Cities will need power grids for a long while.<p>Take electric transport out of the equation and things start looking much better. Hydrogen-powered vehicles would imho at least allow the possibility of &quot;de-electrification&quot; in north america.</text></item><item><author>flyinghamster</author><text>The first thing I noticed about the article was the complete non-mention of energy efficiency. In the span of a decade (maybe less?) LED lighting has made huge advances.<p>Electric vehicles would certainly provide some growth potential, though overall they would most likely even out 24-hour usage patterns rather than overstressing the grid.</text></item><item><author>sxates</author><text>LED and CFL lights, SEER ratings, LEED certifications, Energy Stars all are having an impact.<p>Just in computers there have been huge advances. My MacBook Pro requires about 1&#x2F;6 the electricity of my 2007 Desktop, and my LCD monitor is about 1&#x2F;6 a CRT.<p>Transition to EVs may start to soak up all the gains we&#x27;re making in efficiency so the usage may start to tick back up. But we&#x27;re building Solar and Wind sources at an increasing rate that will effectively start trading oil for renewable electricity.<p>These are all positive trends.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The De-Electrification of the U.S. Economy</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-12/the-de-electrification-of-the-u-s-economy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>llukas</author><text>How often you need to load Tesla from 0% to 100%? Everyday?<p>Current gas infrastructure would also be overwhelmed if everybody filled up from 0% everyday.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt; they would most likely even out 24-hour usage patterns rather than overstressing the grid.<p>Take a look at exactly how much power goes into an electric vehicle. I once worked out how many solar panels one would need to charge a tesla once per day in my local. The math pointed to something like a solid acre of land dedicated to sustaining a single car. (not an acre of panels, at my latitude you need proportionally more land on which to mount panels). A shift to all-electric transport would produce a demand for which LEDs could never compensate. Only the very wealthy would ever own enough land to actually self-sustain through renewables. Cities will need power grids for a long while.<p>Take electric transport out of the equation and things start looking much better. Hydrogen-powered vehicles would imho at least allow the possibility of &quot;de-electrification&quot; in north america.</text></item><item><author>flyinghamster</author><text>The first thing I noticed about the article was the complete non-mention of energy efficiency. In the span of a decade (maybe less?) LED lighting has made huge advances.<p>Electric vehicles would certainly provide some growth potential, though overall they would most likely even out 24-hour usage patterns rather than overstressing the grid.</text></item><item><author>sxates</author><text>LED and CFL lights, SEER ratings, LEED certifications, Energy Stars all are having an impact.<p>Just in computers there have been huge advances. My MacBook Pro requires about 1&#x2F;6 the electricity of my 2007 Desktop, and my LCD monitor is about 1&#x2F;6 a CRT.<p>Transition to EVs may start to soak up all the gains we&#x27;re making in efficiency so the usage may start to tick back up. But we&#x27;re building Solar and Wind sources at an increasing rate that will effectively start trading oil for renewable electricity.<p>These are all positive trends.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The De-Electrification of the U.S. Economy</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-12/the-de-electrification-of-the-u-s-economy</url></story> |
3,427,945 | 3,427,870 | 1 | 3 | 3,427,380 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>knowtheory</author><text>(Apologies to non-US hackers, the following reply is couched entirely in the context of the Constitution, however I think the thrust is relevant in general)<p>So, all the other replies so far note the explicit mention of "the press".<p>I'll first note that we certainly no longer talk about "the press" in reference to physical presses, and I'd naïvely hazard that the framers of the constitution didn't mean it that way either. In that regard I think it's a bit of a red-herring to talk about.<p>The critical point really is whether we as free people have the freedom to communicate and associate.<p>The reason why the internet is interesting is because it's the confluence of two of our existing rights. Sure the internet can be used for the purpose of mass media publishing, in a manner that would be analogous/familiar to the framers. But i would argue that the internet's facility for real time communications has done something unique. The internet as a communications technology has enabled communities to form that, while not without precedent[1], would not otherwise exist.<p>So, to me, access to the internet is relevant both to the freedom of the press and the freedom to associate mentioned in the constitution. It becomes problematic to say that government or corporations can stand in the way of my intent or desire to communicate with whom i wish.<p>I'd like to flip this on it's head. The United States Postal Service is explicitly established in the Constitution (see: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause</a> and note particularly that infrastructure was an important point of discussion/controversy that is essentially a footnote/non-issue now).<p>So, Why <i>isn't</i> internet access guaranteed by the US government in a similar fashion?<p>[1] Organizations which communicate primarily on the basis of correspondance have existed for centuries, but i'd argue the majority of them have been niche and primarily affluent, e.g. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society</a> or more recently science fiction fan zines.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sgentle</author><text>I began this piece raring to disagree, but I find it hard to fault his logic. A human right to unimpeded use of carriages would seem hilarious today, and a right to the use of landline phones will likely become so in the next decade.<p>We don't want to regulate specific rights as reactions to the particular issues of the day, we want to distill those issues to their essence so that we can meaningfully protect freedoms that are fundamental to meaningful human existence.<p>However, as others have noted here, this article leaves a couple of important points unaddressed.<p>Firstly, how can we be sure that the internet isn't fundamental? I can imagine arguing (in an earlier time) that legal counsel shouldn't be a human right, because we'll have something better than the legal system at some point. Yet thousands of years of human development have led only to a more complex legal system with the same fundamental ideas. Maybe the internet isn't horse-riding, maybe it's the invention of law. How do we know?<p>Secondly, if internet access isn't fundamental, then what is its more essential formulation? Being banned from the internet today makes you deaf, dumb and blind; much like being banned from electricity would cripple you. The difference is, nobody's trying to make three strikes laws for the power grid. We need to protect something. So what is it? The idea of free access to information? Ability to form and join networks? It's clearly not anything that's currently protected.<p>Unfortunately, there is more than just an academic interest at stake here. It's well and good to say "ha ha, you see, I have a new and interesting perspective", but this is a situation where there are actual losses being made in terms of real people's access to the internet. Unless Vint Cerf is trying to say that's not important, perhaps it's a little counterproductive to make an article that shoots down a core idea for internet freedom without providing anything else of substance to fill its place.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vint Cerf: Internet Access Is Not a Human Right</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/opinion/internet-access-is-not-a-human-right.html?_r=1&hpw</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drewcrawford</author><text>&#62; A human right to unimpeded use of carriages would seem hilarious today,<p>In an alternate universe, the author could have used "freedom of the press" as the anecdote. In 2012, where are you going to keep your printing press? <i>But for the fact</i> that the Constitution mentions a free "press", the word would seem hilariously backwards to us today.<p>It is a fine thing to be paralyzed about writing legislation that <i>restricts</i> freedom that could have unintended consequences a hundred years hence. But I do not think that we face the same problem when recognizing a <i>right</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sgentle</author><text>I began this piece raring to disagree, but I find it hard to fault his logic. A human right to unimpeded use of carriages would seem hilarious today, and a right to the use of landline phones will likely become so in the next decade.<p>We don't want to regulate specific rights as reactions to the particular issues of the day, we want to distill those issues to their essence so that we can meaningfully protect freedoms that are fundamental to meaningful human existence.<p>However, as others have noted here, this article leaves a couple of important points unaddressed.<p>Firstly, how can we be sure that the internet isn't fundamental? I can imagine arguing (in an earlier time) that legal counsel shouldn't be a human right, because we'll have something better than the legal system at some point. Yet thousands of years of human development have led only to a more complex legal system with the same fundamental ideas. Maybe the internet isn't horse-riding, maybe it's the invention of law. How do we know?<p>Secondly, if internet access isn't fundamental, then what is its more essential formulation? Being banned from the internet today makes you deaf, dumb and blind; much like being banned from electricity would cripple you. The difference is, nobody's trying to make three strikes laws for the power grid. We need to protect something. So what is it? The idea of free access to information? Ability to form and join networks? It's clearly not anything that's currently protected.<p>Unfortunately, there is more than just an academic interest at stake here. It's well and good to say "ha ha, you see, I have a new and interesting perspective", but this is a situation where there are actual losses being made in terms of real people's access to the internet. Unless Vint Cerf is trying to say that's not important, perhaps it's a little counterproductive to make an article that shoots down a core idea for internet freedom without providing anything else of substance to fill its place.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vint Cerf: Internet Access Is Not a Human Right</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/opinion/internet-access-is-not-a-human-right.html?_r=1&hpw</url></story> |
22,301,388 | 22,300,832 | 1 | 2 | 22,299,258 | 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>m0xte</author><text>Their intent is still entirely market share. We need to be vigilant on how they get there. History has taught us a lot of lessons we seem to have forgotten because shiny and new layer of marketing. There is still a massive cultural and technical impedance mismatch.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nudpiedo</author><text>I find amusing how microsoft moved from the closed source referent in the industry into such an open source player. Right now even allows to hook some of their tools and platforms to its competing platforms and tools.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)</title><url>https://medium.com/microsoft-open-source-stories/how-microsoft-rewrote-its-c-compiler-in-c-and-made-it-open-source-4ebed5646f98</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexlesuper</author><text>I think they are really repositioning the company as powering general computing through their cloud platform as opposed to powering general computing through their OS.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nudpiedo</author><text>I find amusing how microsoft moved from the closed source referent in the industry into such an open source player. Right now even allows to hook some of their tools and platforms to its competing platforms and tools.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)</title><url>https://medium.com/microsoft-open-source-stories/how-microsoft-rewrote-its-c-compiler-in-c-and-made-it-open-source-4ebed5646f98</url></story> |
20,389,971 | 20,389,354 | 1 | 2 | 20,383,432 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krageon</author><text>Who cares how accidental it was? If you don&#x27;t vet what happens in your application and why, you have no right to put it on someone else&#x27;s computer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>It seems like at least some of these apps might be using these vulnerabilities without even being aware of it, as the offending code is in third party libraries. Game devs grabbing mac addresses via Unity&#x27;s API, for example, may not know that that information is supposed to be restricted on Android.</text></item><item><author>Avamander</author><text>Ban. These. Apps. And. Devs. Permanently.<p>It&#x27;s hypocricy if they let these malicious devs keep publishing but keep harassing non-malicious developers with things like &quot;How dare you have a Donate button in your app&quot;.</text></item><item><author>alvern</author><text>[0] from the researchers pdf:<p>• We designed a pipeline for automatically discovering vulnerabilities in the Android permissions system through
a combination of dynamic and static analysis, in effect
creating a scalable honeypot environment.<p>• We tested our pipeline on more than 88,000 apps and
discovered a number of vulnerabilities, which we responsibly disclosed. These apps were downloaded from the
U.S. Google Play Store and include popular apps from
all categories. We further describe the vulnerabilities in
detail, and measure the degree to which they are in active use, and thus pose a threat to users. We discovered
covert and side channels used in the wild that compromise both users’ location data and persistent identifers.<p>• We discovered companies getting the MAC addresses of
the connected WiFi base stations from the ARP cache.
This can be used as a surrogate for location data. We
found 5 apps exploiting this vulnerability and 5 with the
pertinent code to do so.<p>• We discovered Unity obtaining the device MAC address
using ioctl system calls. The MAC address can be
used to uniquely identify the device. We found 42 apps
exploiting this vulnerability and 12,408 apps with the
pertinent code to do so.<p>• We also discovered that third-party libraries provided
by two Chinese companies—Baidu and Salmonads—
independently make use of the SD card as a covert channel, so that when an app can read the phone’s IMEI, it
stores it for other apps that cannot. We found 159 apps
with the potential to exploit this covert channel and empirically found 13 apps doing so.<p>• We found one app that used picture metadata as a side
channel to access precise location information despite
not holding location permissions.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;documents&#x2F;public_events&#x2F;1415032&#x2F;privacycon2019_serge_egelman.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;documents&#x2F;public_events&#x2F;141...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More than 1k Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/more-than-1000-android-apps-harvest-your-data-even-after-you-deny-permissions/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>droithomme</author><text>&gt; some of these apps might be using these vulnerabilities without even being aware of it, as the offending code is in third party libraries<p>I&#x27;ll assume by vulnerabilities you meant to say exploits. Given that: True but so what. This is criminal behavior. Using criminal libraries makes you complicit and a co-conspirator.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>It seems like at least some of these apps might be using these vulnerabilities without even being aware of it, as the offending code is in third party libraries. Game devs grabbing mac addresses via Unity&#x27;s API, for example, may not know that that information is supposed to be restricted on Android.</text></item><item><author>Avamander</author><text>Ban. These. Apps. And. Devs. Permanently.<p>It&#x27;s hypocricy if they let these malicious devs keep publishing but keep harassing non-malicious developers with things like &quot;How dare you have a Donate button in your app&quot;.</text></item><item><author>alvern</author><text>[0] from the researchers pdf:<p>• We designed a pipeline for automatically discovering vulnerabilities in the Android permissions system through
a combination of dynamic and static analysis, in effect
creating a scalable honeypot environment.<p>• We tested our pipeline on more than 88,000 apps and
discovered a number of vulnerabilities, which we responsibly disclosed. These apps were downloaded from the
U.S. Google Play Store and include popular apps from
all categories. We further describe the vulnerabilities in
detail, and measure the degree to which they are in active use, and thus pose a threat to users. We discovered
covert and side channels used in the wild that compromise both users’ location data and persistent identifers.<p>• We discovered companies getting the MAC addresses of
the connected WiFi base stations from the ARP cache.
This can be used as a surrogate for location data. We
found 5 apps exploiting this vulnerability and 5 with the
pertinent code to do so.<p>• We discovered Unity obtaining the device MAC address
using ioctl system calls. The MAC address can be
used to uniquely identify the device. We found 42 apps
exploiting this vulnerability and 12,408 apps with the
pertinent code to do so.<p>• We also discovered that third-party libraries provided
by two Chinese companies—Baidu and Salmonads—
independently make use of the SD card as a covert channel, so that when an app can read the phone’s IMEI, it
stores it for other apps that cannot. We found 159 apps
with the potential to exploit this covert channel and empirically found 13 apps doing so.<p>• We found one app that used picture metadata as a side
channel to access precise location information despite
not holding location permissions.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;documents&#x2F;public_events&#x2F;1415032&#x2F;privacycon2019_serge_egelman.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;documents&#x2F;public_events&#x2F;141...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More than 1k Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/more-than-1000-android-apps-harvest-your-data-even-after-you-deny-permissions/</url></story> |
12,200,731 | 12,200,786 | 1 | 2 | 12,200,084 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>camkego</author><text> Thank you for pointing out DAFT, that is pretty interesting. One question about starting a foreign corporation, Do the penalties and fees of the IRS regulations relating to US citizens owning a foreign corp. concern or worry you?
For example, a $10,000 a month penalty for failing to report ownership interest in a foreign corporation. (Form 5471)
This is the one thing that really stops me from considering owning a foreign corp.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bgroins</author><text>Amsterdam. As an American (or Japanese) citizen you can get a residency card easily here if you start a business under the DAFT. You can also get a 30% tax break for up to 8 years as a highly skilled migrant, which is good because the highest effective tax rate here is 52%. Aside from those things, the city is very clean, extremely safe, cheap groceries, tons of green space, and extremely easy to navigate by bike or public transport. My wife and I came from LA where none of those things are true. Going out to eat is also about half as much as LA, and there is a lot of restaurant variety due to the multicultural nature of the city. Cheap insurance for individuals with a highly rated health care system. Downsides are the weather can be unpredictable, and definitely cold and gloomy in the winter. Also high rents in some popular areas, but that&#x27;s probably true for most places. Overall though, we&#x27;re extremely happy with our choice and considering staying long term. Also speaking only English is no problem.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Location-independent entrepreneurs, where do you live and why?</title><text>If you&#x27;re a location-independent entrepreneur, please share where you choose to live and why.</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>janpieterz</author><text>Just an FYI, if you want to go through the effort of setting up a BV instead of a ZZP one, you get effective tax brackets of 40% after your first 44,000. Your BV will be profit-taxed 20% (I think) and then another 25% dividends (or the other way around). Set it up beginning this year with an accountant, if you&#x27;re in the effective 52% bracket you might want to check (no idea how it works with the 30% break though!)</text><parent_chain><item><author>bgroins</author><text>Amsterdam. As an American (or Japanese) citizen you can get a residency card easily here if you start a business under the DAFT. You can also get a 30% tax break for up to 8 years as a highly skilled migrant, which is good because the highest effective tax rate here is 52%. Aside from those things, the city is very clean, extremely safe, cheap groceries, tons of green space, and extremely easy to navigate by bike or public transport. My wife and I came from LA where none of those things are true. Going out to eat is also about half as much as LA, and there is a lot of restaurant variety due to the multicultural nature of the city. Cheap insurance for individuals with a highly rated health care system. Downsides are the weather can be unpredictable, and definitely cold and gloomy in the winter. Also high rents in some popular areas, but that&#x27;s probably true for most places. Overall though, we&#x27;re extremely happy with our choice and considering staying long term. Also speaking only English is no problem.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Location-independent entrepreneurs, where do you live and why?</title><text>If you&#x27;re a location-independent entrepreneur, please share where you choose to live and why.</text></story> |
28,906,813 | 28,906,940 | 1 | 2 | 28,906,285 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>&gt; Why specify what specific tax it is?<p>Because the majority (50%) of the money spent by the US Federal government is mainly from federal income tax.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxpolicycenter.org&#x2F;briefing-book&#x2F;what-are-sources-revenue-federal-government" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxpolicycenter.org&#x2F;briefing-book&#x2F;what-are-sourc...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>skinnymuch</author><text>Key word “federal”. Why specify what specific tax it is? Does it not muddy the waters vs talking about taxes overall?<p>I did an anecdotal test with a few people near me. They read this as those people pay no taxes. Most people aren’t thinking about the specifics of state, federal, FICA (SS + Medicare), sales, property, and more.<p>I can’t think of any good faith reason this is done.</text></item><item><author>pwned1</author><text>Related: 61% of Americans paid no federal income taxes in 2020<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;61percent-of-americans-paid-no-federal-income-taxes-in-2020-tax-policy-center-says.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;61percent-of-americans-paid-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.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>Berobero</author><text>Also, &quot;federal&quot; here does not include not include payroll taxes, which are, nonetheless, considered &quot;federal taxes&quot; in any colloquial conception of the term.<p>Of course, in addition to the lying by omission, the true irony here is that the &quot;lack&quot; of &quot;federal&quot; taxes paid by the masses is more so a symptom of a deeply inequitable economic system than the counterbalancing endorsement of the status quo the OP likely envisions it to be.</text><parent_chain><item><author>skinnymuch</author><text>Key word “federal”. Why specify what specific tax it is? Does it not muddy the waters vs talking about taxes overall?<p>I did an anecdotal test with a few people near me. They read this as those people pay no taxes. Most people aren’t thinking about the specifics of state, federal, FICA (SS + Medicare), sales, property, and more.<p>I can’t think of any good faith reason this is done.</text></item><item><author>pwned1</author><text>Related: 61% of Americans paid no federal income taxes in 2020<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;61percent-of-americans-paid-no-federal-income-taxes-in-2020-tax-policy-center-says.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;61percent-of-americans-paid-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html</url></story> |
1,813,349 | 1,812,953 | 1 | 3 | 1,812,165 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Someone</author><text>There also is a huge difference between the two groups with respect to what they think math actually is. Many lay persons do not know that logic and discrete mathematics are math.<p>The moment you reason about the control flow in your program, or even when you figure out that a for i=1 to 10 loop will terminate, you are doing math.<p>If the problems aren't hard, the math isn't hard, and you can even get away with some trial and error math (aka debugging). However, for harder problems such as a file system's source code, an encryption library, or a multi-threaded program, tweaking the code until it 'seems to be robust' is not the way to go. For those, you need good maths skills.</text><parent_chain><item><author>raganwald</author><text>For some odd reason, whenever you ask whether math is important to programming, there is a strong correlation between the depth of a programmer's mathematical training and his belief in its importance.<p>There can be many explanations for this, but the simplest is that when you have a tool in your tool chest, you tend to use it, and when you use a tool, you see opportunities to use it everywhere. Whereas if you don't have a tool, you don't see the opportunities it affords, so you don't know what you're missing.<p>Even if my conjecture is true, this doesn't mean that mathematics is more important than some other experience a programmer might bring to their career, so I am not suggesting that the author is wrong when suggesting it isn't important. Perhaps it's useful but less important than some other skills.<p>I'm not a mathematician, so I don't know, it's all blub to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Programming is hard</title><url>http://writing.bryanwoods4e.com/1-poor-poor-child</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cynicalkane</author><text>Math--the fun kind, at least--consists entirely of thinking about abstract logical objects. A lot of programming is also this. They usually don't line up, except in cases like Haskell's type system, but the brainpower you develop in one is useful for the other.</text><parent_chain><item><author>raganwald</author><text>For some odd reason, whenever you ask whether math is important to programming, there is a strong correlation between the depth of a programmer's mathematical training and his belief in its importance.<p>There can be many explanations for this, but the simplest is that when you have a tool in your tool chest, you tend to use it, and when you use a tool, you see opportunities to use it everywhere. Whereas if you don't have a tool, you don't see the opportunities it affords, so you don't know what you're missing.<p>Even if my conjecture is true, this doesn't mean that mathematics is more important than some other experience a programmer might bring to their career, so I am not suggesting that the author is wrong when suggesting it isn't important. Perhaps it's useful but less important than some other skills.<p>I'm not a mathematician, so I don't know, it's all blub to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Programming is hard</title><url>http://writing.bryanwoods4e.com/1-poor-poor-child</url></story> |
10,428,600 | 10,428,577 | 1 | 2 | 10,428,008 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CaptSpify</author><text>I would like to interject: This heavily depends on the boss. I&#x27;ve seen great bosses who will make stuff like this happen, and I&#x27;ve seen terrible bosses who don&#x27;t give a shit. Make sure you work for the right-kind of boss if you are going to take this approach!</text><parent_chain><item><author>burp3141</author><text>My manager and I had a 10 year relationship going. I had just transitioned to a new role, had a new born and taken on too much. I was feeling it for 6 months but finally broke at around 9 months. I told him I couldn&#x27;t do it anymore and that I wanted a sabbatical. I told them that my backup plan was to just quit.<p>He talked me off the ledge and within a day had transitioned my troublesome projects to others and moved me to a four day work week to recover. He had to run this by manager&#x27;s three levels up, do an insane amount of HR paperwork (fulltime -&gt; not fulltime, pro-rated salary adjustment, etc.). All this happened in a space of two days.<p>I stayed on a four day week for a couple of months. It was magical. He retained my reduced workload when I came back full time.<p>His first comment when I initially cracked - &quot;you should have come to me sooner&quot;.<p>The quick reaction, sympathy and support I got cemented my loyalty to an outstanding manager.I&#x27;m still here a couple of years later.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Discuss burnout with boss?</title><text>I am burnt out at work and not sure how to start the discussion with my boss. I&#x27;ve tried addressing the problem myself over the past year by means of exercise, diet, getting more sleep, more time spent on hobbies, socializing more, and pacing myself at work. It&#x27;s not helping, it&#x27;s just getting worse. I know quitting and finding a new job is an option but I would prefer not to. How can I have a productive discussion with my boss about burnout? How did you handle it?</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>marricks</author><text>Any manager which cares about their employees would say that, &quot;you should have come to me sooner.&quot; Only issue is how many managers are actually empathetic?</text><parent_chain><item><author>burp3141</author><text>My manager and I had a 10 year relationship going. I had just transitioned to a new role, had a new born and taken on too much. I was feeling it for 6 months but finally broke at around 9 months. I told him I couldn&#x27;t do it anymore and that I wanted a sabbatical. I told them that my backup plan was to just quit.<p>He talked me off the ledge and within a day had transitioned my troublesome projects to others and moved me to a four day work week to recover. He had to run this by manager&#x27;s three levels up, do an insane amount of HR paperwork (fulltime -&gt; not fulltime, pro-rated salary adjustment, etc.). All this happened in a space of two days.<p>I stayed on a four day week for a couple of months. It was magical. He retained my reduced workload when I came back full time.<p>His first comment when I initially cracked - &quot;you should have come to me sooner&quot;.<p>The quick reaction, sympathy and support I got cemented my loyalty to an outstanding manager.I&#x27;m still here a couple of years later.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Discuss burnout with boss?</title><text>I am burnt out at work and not sure how to start the discussion with my boss. I&#x27;ve tried addressing the problem myself over the past year by means of exercise, diet, getting more sleep, more time spent on hobbies, socializing more, and pacing myself at work. It&#x27;s not helping, it&#x27;s just getting worse. I know quitting and finding a new job is an option but I would prefer not to. How can I have a productive discussion with my boss about burnout? How did you handle it?</text></story> |
27,556,920 | 27,556,884 | 1 | 2 | 27,526,074 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>The put a non-automotive grade LCD in the original Model S because it was that LCD or nothing.<p>The automotive screens didn’t exist in the size they needed and they weren’t at a stage in their company where they could design their own.<p>They took a risk to achieve the product vision that they were determined to bring into the world given the technical constraints of the age. I’d say overall it paid off.<p>IMO it wasn’t arrogance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>They put a non-automotive grade LCD in Teslas. I assume because they thought they knew better. I suspect hubris is at play more than full-on incompetence.</text></item><item><author>aaomidi</author><text>If your engineering team had to wait for a product failure to realize an item that&#x27;s going to be outdoors in the sun is going to get hot, what on earth else are they missing?</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Starlink is in beta. The entire purpose of the beta is to find stuff like this. They found something, and I&#x27;m sure that the next iteration of this before it goes to mass market will account for it.<p>You&#x27;re just seeing the system work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/06/starlink-dish-overheats-in-arizona-sun-knocking-user-offline-for-7-hours/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>driverdan</author><text>SpaceX and Tesla are separate companies with different employees. &quot;They&quot; did not put anything in Teslas.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>They put a non-automotive grade LCD in Teslas. I assume because they thought they knew better. I suspect hubris is at play more than full-on incompetence.</text></item><item><author>aaomidi</author><text>If your engineering team had to wait for a product failure to realize an item that&#x27;s going to be outdoors in the sun is going to get hot, what on earth else are they missing?</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Starlink is in beta. The entire purpose of the beta is to find stuff like this. They found something, and I&#x27;m sure that the next iteration of this before it goes to mass market will account for it.<p>You&#x27;re just seeing the system work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/06/starlink-dish-overheats-in-arizona-sun-knocking-user-offline-for-7-hours/</url></story> |
18,552,770 | 18,552,697 | 1 | 2 | 18,552,442 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>criddell</author><text>What carrier can you trust? All of them are also in the ad business. IIRC, it&#x27;s why Verizon bought Yahoo last year.<p>I think I trust Google more than any of traditional telecom carriers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_underflow_</author><text>Anyone looked into potential privacy implications?
I understand my current carrier can potentially deduce things about my habits in the unlikely event that they were so inclined, but Alphabet et al seem to make a not insignificant portion of their profit from data gathering - that is, they don&#x27;t need to be interesting in me particularly to sell data about me to those that are (whether for benign ad targeting or something more nefarious)<p>I don&#x27;t mean to seem paranoid, but with the current hype around Google&#x27;s tumultuous relationship with &quot;Don&#x27;t be evil&quot;, I&#x27;m not sure I want them having <i>that</i> data on me too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Project Fi Is Now Google Fi</title><url>https://fi.google.com/about/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jchw</author><text>There is a support document with information about some of the privacy and data collection.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;fi&#x2F;answer&#x2F;6181037" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;fi&#x2F;answer&#x2F;6181037</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>_underflow_</author><text>Anyone looked into potential privacy implications?
I understand my current carrier can potentially deduce things about my habits in the unlikely event that they were so inclined, but Alphabet et al seem to make a not insignificant portion of their profit from data gathering - that is, they don&#x27;t need to be interesting in me particularly to sell data about me to those that are (whether for benign ad targeting or something more nefarious)<p>I don&#x27;t mean to seem paranoid, but with the current hype around Google&#x27;s tumultuous relationship with &quot;Don&#x27;t be evil&quot;, I&#x27;m not sure I want them having <i>that</i> data on me too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Project Fi Is Now Google Fi</title><url>https://fi.google.com/about/</url></story> |
25,172,641 | 25,172,536 | 1 | 2 | 25,171,707 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>Are you ok? I’ve never heard any anyone this thrilled about an ad experience in my life.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I was recently met with a new popup in the Instagram app, asking me to allow it to track me across applications. I actually said yes, because I get great targeted ads in Instagram and Facebook. I&#x27;ve clicked on multiple ads and actually even made purchases of things that I didn&#x27;t know about that looked interesting.<p>But the important part is that I do it willingly. I&#x27;m glad they were forced to ask -- not everyone is ok with that kind of tracking, and that&#x27;s the whole point. I&#x27;m totally with Apple on this one. Give people choice.<p>I made my choice, and everyone else should get to make theirs too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FTC commissioner met with Apple regarding Facebook’s iOS 14 complaints</title><url>https://www.myhealthyapple.com/etc-apple-facebook-ios14/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>OneTwoPetitFour</author><text>Thanks for the perspective. I was an early Instagram user, but deleted my account not so long after they introduced stories.<p>Recently, I registered a new account, and after a grace period without ads, I was surprised by just how drenched it has become in advertising. I used it to follow professional athletes. First of, many of the organic posts are themselves sponsored advertising, then the athletes share brand posts from their sponsors, and then between every story you get an actual ad.<p>Of course, with more personal connections the trade of might be different, but for my use case described above Instagram seemed unsustainable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I was recently met with a new popup in the Instagram app, asking me to allow it to track me across applications. I actually said yes, because I get great targeted ads in Instagram and Facebook. I&#x27;ve clicked on multiple ads and actually even made purchases of things that I didn&#x27;t know about that looked interesting.<p>But the important part is that I do it willingly. I&#x27;m glad they were forced to ask -- not everyone is ok with that kind of tracking, and that&#x27;s the whole point. I&#x27;m totally with Apple on this one. Give people choice.<p>I made my choice, and everyone else should get to make theirs too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FTC commissioner met with Apple regarding Facebook’s iOS 14 complaints</title><url>https://www.myhealthyapple.com/etc-apple-facebook-ios14/</url></story> |
33,026,140 | 33,024,142 | 1 | 2 | 33,022,919 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SeanLuke</author><text>Meta paying $175M would produce much needed schadenfreude.<p>However it&#x27;s worth mentioning that this case appeared before the notoriously patent-troll-friendly Judge Alan D. Albright. The man actually openly encouraged patent owners to appear before him, and senators have asked the Supreme Court to reprimand him (the Chief Justice has since criticized him). The Albright situation is so bad that the Western District recently had to introduce a forced case randomization in order to keep plaintiffs from shopping for him. I&#x27;d say the chance this was overturned on appeal would be high.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;law.justia.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;federal&#x2F;district-courts&#x2F;texas&#x2F;txwdce&#x2F;1:2020cv00655&#x2F;1099537&#x2F;54&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;law.justia.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;federal&#x2F;district-courts&#x2F;texas&#x2F;t...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta ordered to pay $175M for infringing on two patents held by Voxer Inc</title><url>https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2022/09/28/meta-ordered-to-pay-175m-after-copying-green-beret-veterans-tech/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whimsicalism</author><text>Seems unlikely to me that Facebook Live based their development on this Walkie Talkie app and reading the complaint [0] many of the patents seem excessively broad. Both streaming and storing a live video transmission can be patented?<p>I suspect that military veterans get extra deference by Texas juries.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ia801906.us.archive.org&#x2F;16&#x2F;items&#x2F;gov.uscourts.txwd.1099537&#x2F;gov.uscourts.txwd.1099537.1.0.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ia801906.us.archive.org&#x2F;16&#x2F;items&#x2F;gov.uscourts.txwd.1...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta ordered to pay $175M for infringing on two patents held by Voxer Inc</title><url>https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2022/09/28/meta-ordered-to-pay-175m-after-copying-green-beret-veterans-tech/</url></story> |
27,211,779 | 27,211,754 | 1 | 2 | 27,210,604 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>foobarian</author><text>They used to work like that. You would come up to comrade cashier, and tell her what you wanted one by one, and pay. I still remember the shock when I went into a supermarket for the first time. Felt like going to a &quot;authorized personnel only&quot; place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nexuist</author><text>It&#x27;s not a hard problem, it&#x27;s an impossible problem, because it violates the first law of cybersecurity: physical access means game over. When you start allowing untrained and un-punishable customers to mess with your meatspace database, of course it will lose all semblance of usefulness.<p>This problem is not hard to solve when you limit physical access, i.e. in a warehouse, pharmacy, or locked room where multiple employees are responsible for checking in and out items. These solutions arose directly out of your conundrum in retail, and investigations are launched when someone discovers a mismatch between inventory and real life (think toxic chemicals, drugs, etc).<p>Of course it just so happens that nobody wants to go to a grocery store where they&#x27;re not allowed to touch the items.</text></item><item><author>ahelwer</author><text>This has always been obvious to anyone who spent the smallest amount of time working in consumer retail. Customer comes in and wants to buy a patio set they saw in the catalog. You check the database - says there are two in the back. You go to the back. You look for like ten minutes. Patio set is nowhere to be found. Customer has left in frustration by the time you return.<p>The hard problem has never been the specific form of database used to store info about the real world. The hard problem has always - and will always - be enforcing the correspondence between what&#x27;s in the database and what&#x27;s in the real world. This problem couldn&#x27;t be solved at a single store in a single fairly small city. It&#x27;s not gonna be solved worldwide.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain</title><url>https://schlockchain.substack.com/p/no-real-world-ownership-is-not-a</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>problem is not hard to solve when you limit physical access, i.e. in a warehouse, pharmacy, or locked room where multiple employees are responsible for checking in and out items</i><p>Do you know anyone who works in retail, a warehouse or a pharmacy? Nothing is ever where it should be in the quantities the computer thinks it’s in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nexuist</author><text>It&#x27;s not a hard problem, it&#x27;s an impossible problem, because it violates the first law of cybersecurity: physical access means game over. When you start allowing untrained and un-punishable customers to mess with your meatspace database, of course it will lose all semblance of usefulness.<p>This problem is not hard to solve when you limit physical access, i.e. in a warehouse, pharmacy, or locked room where multiple employees are responsible for checking in and out items. These solutions arose directly out of your conundrum in retail, and investigations are launched when someone discovers a mismatch between inventory and real life (think toxic chemicals, drugs, etc).<p>Of course it just so happens that nobody wants to go to a grocery store where they&#x27;re not allowed to touch the items.</text></item><item><author>ahelwer</author><text>This has always been obvious to anyone who spent the smallest amount of time working in consumer retail. Customer comes in and wants to buy a patio set they saw in the catalog. You check the database - says there are two in the back. You go to the back. You look for like ten minutes. Patio set is nowhere to be found. Customer has left in frustration by the time you return.<p>The hard problem has never been the specific form of database used to store info about the real world. The hard problem has always - and will always - be enforcing the correspondence between what&#x27;s in the database and what&#x27;s in the real world. This problem couldn&#x27;t be solved at a single store in a single fairly small city. It&#x27;s not gonna be solved worldwide.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain</title><url>https://schlockchain.substack.com/p/no-real-world-ownership-is-not-a</url></story> |
3,308,174 | 3,308,236 | 1 | 3 | 3,307,948 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joelrunyon</author><text>Why is it okay to break the rules in the tech world but if you do it in the NYC subway, it's cheating.<p>Entrepreneurship is all about breaking the rules, making your own way and making things happen.<p>The guy probably didn't have a lot set up for him in life, so instead of feeling sorry for himself, he put on his shoes, grabbed his box of candy and made it happen.<p>Just because he's exercising his entrepreneurial spirit by doing something that's not as sexy as programming the next facebook/twitter/social "disruption" doesn't mean his attitude shouldn't be applauded.<p>Give the guy some credit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gerggerg</author><text>Selling shit on the subway is illegal. The reason this man is capable of making a profit is because he has almost no competition. It has nothing to do with entrepreneurship, being a good salesman, having a good idea, or really anything positive other than the giving spirit of some New Yorkers. He's milking a system in which he exists illegally and if it were actually legal to sell shit on the subway, the subway would be significantly less tolerable and he wouldn't be able to come close to making a good living.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NYC Man Earns $55,000 A Year Peddling Candy On Subway</title><url>http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/12/02/nyc-man-earns-55-000-a-year-peddling-candy-on-the-subway/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arnoldwh</author><text>Don't knock the hustle. I remember hearing about how GrubWithUs started by inserting flyers inside the free morning daily newsletters in subways (illegally) - people applauded at how "scrappy" this great startup was. Setting up lemonade stands is also illegal unless you have a permit, but nobody complains. I guess sometimes the law just isn't in your favor, and you have to actually think for yourself whether something is right or wrong.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gerggerg</author><text>Selling shit on the subway is illegal. The reason this man is capable of making a profit is because he has almost no competition. It has nothing to do with entrepreneurship, being a good salesman, having a good idea, or really anything positive other than the giving spirit of some New Yorkers. He's milking a system in which he exists illegally and if it were actually legal to sell shit on the subway, the subway would be significantly less tolerable and he wouldn't be able to come close to making a good living.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NYC Man Earns $55,000 A Year Peddling Candy On Subway</title><url>http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/12/02/nyc-man-earns-55-000-a-year-peddling-candy-on-the-subway/</url></story> |
25,864,417 | 25,864,448 | 1 | 2 | 25,862,281 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>Those didn&#x27;t come till they started pumping the site with banners. From there, malware assholes figured out they could advertise with a duplicate &quot;download&quot; button and get a healthy number of clicks (certainly got me more than once).<p>They went to shit, but didn&#x27;t start out that way until they started to try and fund their site through a shit ton of ads.<p>That was a dark day for the internet. Thank goodness for ad blockers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>renewiltord</author><text>They were such shit though, with the fake download buttons and everything.</text></item><item><author>soheil</author><text>tucows and download.com were the &quot;app stores&quot; of the web before the walled gardens of the big companies today. You could distribute your app to one of these sites and have it be automatically syndicated to thousands of other download sites. This is how distributed web worked. We&#x27;re making the web more centralized and it&#x27;s not just social media and youtube.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Retiring Tucows Downloads</title><url>https://tucows.com/retired/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yosito</author><text>I remember a Tucows before the fake download button. But as a kid I definitely downloaded a virus or two on my parent&#x27;s computer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>renewiltord</author><text>They were such shit though, with the fake download buttons and everything.</text></item><item><author>soheil</author><text>tucows and download.com were the &quot;app stores&quot; of the web before the walled gardens of the big companies today. You could distribute your app to one of these sites and have it be automatically syndicated to thousands of other download sites. This is how distributed web worked. We&#x27;re making the web more centralized and it&#x27;s not just social media and youtube.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Retiring Tucows Downloads</title><url>https://tucows.com/retired/</url></story> |
6,213,503 | 6,213,265 | 1 | 2 | 6,212,559 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dobbsbob</author><text>The name Dread Pirate Roberts should&#x27;ve given away the fact the site is supposed to be handed down to different operators if you read&#x2F;watched Princess Bride.<p>This guy is making a fatal mistake of talking to the press. History shows all blackmarket admins like Max Vision go down shortly after press articles come out with interviews. Now he went from guy running a drug site to &quot;subverting the US with propaganda&quot; so the NSA can get involved. Note to future outlaws: resist the temptation to make yourself famous by giving interviews. Just look how they amped the Swartz case after he went to the media<p>Can also now make a pretty good profile of this guy because he talks too much on his own forum and to forbes.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/meet-the-dread-pirate-roberts-the-man-behind-booming-black-market-drug-website-silk-road/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmix</author><text>For those not aware, the Forbes author of this article wrote a book on the history of cypherpunks (including the mailing list) which Dread Pirate Roberts was most likely a part of, or the very least inspired by it&#x27;s members in some way: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/This-Machine-Kills-Secrets-WikiLeakers/dp/0525953205/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;This-Machine-Kills-Secrets-WikiLeakers...</a><p>Having interviewed Timothy May, Cryptome founder and Phil Zimmermann is probably how he earned enough reputation to have this interview set up.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/meet-the-dread-pirate-roberts-the-man-behind-booming-black-market-drug-website-silk-road/</url></story> |
4,899,485 | 4,899,438 | 1 | 3 | 4,899,236 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nikcub</author><text>Google pay taxes on all US income (not to mention payroll taxes, consumption taxes, etc.). There is a massive miscomprehension of these tax stories as they portray Google, Apple etc. avoiding all taxes when this is not the case. The income housed in Bermuda is from non-USA receipts, each of which have already passed through a local tax jurisdiction from wherever they were generated. They <i>are not</i> avoiding any taxes.<p>The reason they are kept offshore is because if the funds were naturalized back in the USA they would be double-taxed. It is difficult to argue that Google should pay local taxes once where a product is sold and then pay taxes again on that same money when it is transferred back to the USA.<p>Many large corporations that hold large cash balances keep them offshore. Around 75% of Apple's large cash holdings are held offshore. They have already paid tax on that money. It is the US naturalization laws that are broken, and the perception that Google, Apple et al aren't paying taxes or somehow avoiding them.<p>The best thing the US Government could do would be to institute another repatriation tax holiday. There is precedent for it as happen in 2004. As much as a trillion dollars could make its way back into the US economy if a deal could be worked out - a private mini-stimulus that the economy of 2 years ago really needed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cryptoz</author><text>Maybe it's because I'm young and don't have experience with large-scale tax problems, but I have struggled for years and still cannot understand why companies do this. Is it <i>truly</i> in Google's interest to work towards the minimization of government capability wherever it is? To ensure that California roads are less taken care of? To ensure that any local public debt is increased rather than decreased? It doesn't make sense to me. Wouldn't a company <i>want</i> to contribute its share of taxes to the government of where it is located, so that the quality of life is better for everyone there including the employees?<p>It seems to me that Google, especially being in California, is being...well, something close to evil by making sure they help out their local governments and people <i>as little as legally possible</i>.<p>I understand that their profits are higher each quarter because of this. I understand that's what shareholders demand. But <i>why</i>?! Can this attitude lead to anything except terrible news? I just don't get it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Revenues Sheltered in No-Tax Bermuda Soar to $10 Billion</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-10/google-revenues-sheltered-in-no-tax-bermuda-soar-to-10-billion.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>rlpb</author><text>This strikes me as a tragedy of the commons. It's in everyone's individual interest (including corporations) to pay as little tax as possible.<p>Assuming that this is entirely legal, I don't see how this is a problem in Google's behaviour. If there is a problem, it is in the tax code, and the Government has sole responsibility for that.<p>Making tax codes simpler would make it easier to not leave loopholes, but politics always seems to drive it in the other direction. Perhaps the need to avoid this kind of situation can be a good force in keeping tax codes simpler.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cryptoz</author><text>Maybe it's because I'm young and don't have experience with large-scale tax problems, but I have struggled for years and still cannot understand why companies do this. Is it <i>truly</i> in Google's interest to work towards the minimization of government capability wherever it is? To ensure that California roads are less taken care of? To ensure that any local public debt is increased rather than decreased? It doesn't make sense to me. Wouldn't a company <i>want</i> to contribute its share of taxes to the government of where it is located, so that the quality of life is better for everyone there including the employees?<p>It seems to me that Google, especially being in California, is being...well, something close to evil by making sure they help out their local governments and people <i>as little as legally possible</i>.<p>I understand that their profits are higher each quarter because of this. I understand that's what shareholders demand. But <i>why</i>?! Can this attitude lead to anything except terrible news? I just don't get it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Revenues Sheltered in No-Tax Bermuda Soar to $10 Billion</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-10/google-revenues-sheltered-in-no-tax-bermuda-soar-to-10-billion.html</url><text></text></story> |
15,309,442 | 15,309,341 | 1 | 2 | 15,309,190 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Chathamization</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s a worrying number of people in the world living in places with perfectly potable water, but who insist on drinking only environmentally-damaging bottled water through some superstitious belief that it&#x27;s better for them.<p>It always seems odd that bottled water gets trashed a lot more than bottled soda, when soda is both worse for the consumer&#x27;s health, and probably has a higher environmental footprint (since it&#x27;s not just the water, but the water plus whatever sweeteners and chemicals get added).<p>True, soda doesn&#x27;t taste the same as tap water, but bottled water doesn&#x27;t taste the same as tap water a lot of the time, either. Some people also prefer the convenience of buying a bottle of water, and it would seem strange to say: &quot;Hey, it&#x27;s fine to buy something in the bottle if you&#x27;re doing so for the flavor, but if you&#x27;re doing so for the sake of convenience, that&#x27;s terrible.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>aurelium</author><text>The plant locations should probably tighten up their water laws so that they&#x27;re getting at least something back from Nestle, but the real wrongdoers in this scheme might be the consumers ...<p>There&#x27;s a worrying number of people in the world living in places with perfectly potable water, but who insist on drinking only environmentally-damaging bottled water through some superstitious belief that it&#x27;s better for them.<p>If Nestle didn&#x27;t have such a lucrative market to fleece, Nestle&#x27;s profits would be far less impressive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/nestl-makes-billions-bottling-water-it-pays-nearly-nothing-for%20%20https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/nestl-makes-billions-bottling-water-it-pays-nearly-nothing-for</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prostoalex</author><text>They do mention consumers &quot;worry about the safety of tap water after the high-profile contamination in Flint&quot;, so I am guessing people are a bit unwilling to take someone&#x27;s word on &quot;perfectly potable water&quot; without seeing the proof. Or rather, it&#x27;s &quot;perfectly potable&quot; until oops, the past few years.<p>When I was in Stockholm I remember seeing some sort of artsy indicator of water&#x2F;air quality that runs 24&#x2F;7 right on the public boardwalk. We need something similar in every town - a constant feed of water quality and ppm measurements, perhaps with a bit of crowdsourcing thrown in, similar to what Wunderground does with weather.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aurelium</author><text>The plant locations should probably tighten up their water laws so that they&#x27;re getting at least something back from Nestle, but the real wrongdoers in this scheme might be the consumers ...<p>There&#x27;s a worrying number of people in the world living in places with perfectly potable water, but who insist on drinking only environmentally-damaging bottled water through some superstitious belief that it&#x27;s better for them.<p>If Nestle didn&#x27;t have such a lucrative market to fleece, Nestle&#x27;s profits would be far less impressive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/nestl-makes-billions-bottling-water-it-pays-nearly-nothing-for%20%20https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/nestl-makes-billions-bottling-water-it-pays-nearly-nothing-for</url></story> |
7,722,176 | 7,722,254 | 1 | 2 | 7,721,096 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agentultra</author><text>It bothers me too.<p>Dynamically typed does not imply <i>no types</i>. A good CL implementation takes that to heart and produces really nice code out of the box. And the language spec provides for an API to allow program developers to specify types and hints to the compiler to optimize certain functions and code paths where it&#x27;s needed.<p>The benefit from this is that you can rapidly prototype your application and harden it to the platform you deploy on when performance becomes an issue... and with built-in conditional compilation you can do that in a cross-platform way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pnathan</author><text>One thing that bothers me - and has for a long time - is why Python (Perl, Ruby, etc), never have really leveraged the work Common Lisp systems have done (CMUCL, SBCL, etc), which provide very good performance without sacrificing dynamic typing or the REPL.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood</title><url>http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Languages like Python and Ruby have generally looked to the SmallTalk and Self literature (inline caches, dynamic deoptimization, hidden classes etc) rather than Common Lisp, so people aren&#x27;t ignorant of the research, they&#x27;re just looking in a different area. If you think there&#x27;s something in Common Lisp we&#x27;re missing, point it out!</text><parent_chain><item><author>pnathan</author><text>One thing that bothers me - and has for a long time - is why Python (Perl, Ruby, etc), never have really leveraged the work Common Lisp systems have done (CMUCL, SBCL, etc), which provide very good performance without sacrificing dynamic typing or the REPL.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood</title><url>http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/</url></story> |
35,874,463 | 35,871,832 | 1 | 3 | 35,860,119 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmreedy</author><text>&#x27;With grave joy we, the cosmical explorers, who were already gathered up into the communal mind of our own galaxy, now found ourselves in intimate union with a score of other galactic minds, We, or rather I, now experienced the slow drift of the galaxies much as a man feels the swing of his own limbs. From my score of viewpoints I observed the great snow-storm of many millions of galaxies, streaming and circling, and ever withdrawing farther apart from one another with the relentless &quot;expansion&quot; of space. But though the vastness of space was increasing in relation to the size of galaxies and stars and worlds, to me, with my composite, scattered body, space seemed no bigger than a great vaulted hall.&#x27;<p>- Olaf Stapledon, <i>Star Maker</i><p>Not much inspires a sense of meaning in me these days like the sheer scope and scale and depth of creation.<p>Beautiful work.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ultra Deep look at Messier 81 and 82</title><url>https://theuberger.ch/post/astrophotography/20230507-m81m82-collab/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mnw21cam</author><text>See also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.astrobin.com&#x2F;7ez0pl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.astrobin.com&#x2F;7ez0pl&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.astrobin.com&#x2F;hhegwl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.astrobin.com&#x2F;hhegwl&#x2F;</a>
They were also taken by a group of amateurs across the world collaborating.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ultra Deep look at Messier 81 and 82</title><url>https://theuberger.ch/post/astrophotography/20230507-m81m82-collab/</url></story> |
33,095,197 | 33,095,278 | 1 | 2 | 33,093,941 | train | <instructions>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_af</author><text>What would be the alternative without sprints?<p>What specifically about not using sprints would help the team if they lack good planners and people capable of seeing the big picture?<p>Isn&#x27;t such a team screwed regardless of how they allot work?</text><parent_chain><item><author>rob74</author><text>And because you have sprints, you create lots and lots of small tasks, then focus on them, and then team members forget the &quot;big picture&quot; of how everything should fit together in the end (if they were ever aware of it). And when all of those small tasks are done, you notice that the sum of all those parts is not what you set out to build initially, and you need more time to shape it into something that resembles what you wanted to have.<p>To avoid this scenario, it takes really dedicated project managers, product owners and lead developers, and not everyone has those...</text></item><item><author>hurril</author><text>This is nothing but a bad strawman from start to finish.<p>Sprints are not made to help organize things, they&#x27;re a tool to get more predictable deliveries. Their very short nature forces participants to construct tasks that are easier to estimate and therefore complete on time with a higher probability.<p>This certainly adds overhead to an idealised scenario where people take the shortest reasonble route often enough and that is the tradeoff. Plus: people actually seldomly take the optimum routes in the first place.<p>Nobody has to like it, this is probably not the best method and maybe it&#x27;s not even good. But the author misses the point completely.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I don’t believe in sprints</title><url>https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/i-don’t-believe-in-sprints/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>specialp</author><text>Well yes it does require some dedicated PMs, owners and leads. If you are a smaller operation that does not have this, sprints might not be as beneficial. But if you are working for anything at scale as a developer, sprints aren&#x27;t necessarily to track every hour of your day, it is to give you a structured path of things to do without having to know every detail about the bigger picture&#x2F;compromises with product&#x2F;prioritization. Also as a developer it gives you leverage because you were given certain tasks for the week so when someone comes along and tries to inject &quot;high&quot; priority item X, something else has to give.<p>I found before I was on the planning&#x2F;lead side, it was hard when you did not have this structure. People would still shove in &quot;small&quot; tasks without a sprint structure and then months later it is hard to explain why a big project did not ship on time. So if done right and not abusively by oversubscribing devs, it is a great too for both sides.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rob74</author><text>And because you have sprints, you create lots and lots of small tasks, then focus on them, and then team members forget the &quot;big picture&quot; of how everything should fit together in the end (if they were ever aware of it). And when all of those small tasks are done, you notice that the sum of all those parts is not what you set out to build initially, and you need more time to shape it into something that resembles what you wanted to have.<p>To avoid this scenario, it takes really dedicated project managers, product owners and lead developers, and not everyone has those...</text></item><item><author>hurril</author><text>This is nothing but a bad strawman from start to finish.<p>Sprints are not made to help organize things, they&#x27;re a tool to get more predictable deliveries. Their very short nature forces participants to construct tasks that are easier to estimate and therefore complete on time with a higher probability.<p>This certainly adds overhead to an idealised scenario where people take the shortest reasonble route often enough and that is the tradeoff. Plus: people actually seldomly take the optimum routes in the first place.<p>Nobody has to like it, this is probably not the best method and maybe it&#x27;s not even good. But the author misses the point completely.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I don’t believe in sprints</title><url>https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/i-don’t-believe-in-sprints/</url></story> |
23,622,133 | 23,621,798 | 1 | 2 | 23,617,229 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>natfriedman</author><text>Thanks for the feedback about the latest commit status. This is something we should definitely fix.<p>Also – I don&#x27;t think there is a principle of lowering information density at work here. I think it&#x27;s just a design that we will keep iterating. We are pro information density at GitHub.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ljm</author><text>I submitted feedback over it but, aside from the over-reliance on rounded corners, and making pills and buttons hard to separate, the single worst change is that you can&#x27;t see the latest commit status from the repo screen. Instead, you get the commit hash, and have to click a tiny ellipsis button to get the commit message and the status indicator.<p>When I&#x27;m browsing on github and not using git directly, the commit short-hash is the last thing I care about. You cannot see if your default branch has passed CI&#x2F;status checks now. Those things should be first class citizens, that&#x27;s why we put status badges all at the top of our readmes to make that info more visible with what we have.<p>It follows the trend of designing with lower information density. This trend IMO is not appropriate for developer tools.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?</title><text>I think it feels like Jira and I&#x27;m really sad. Seems more like a MS move than a GH move...<p>Migrating to gitlab...</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>fxtentacle</author><text>I find it much more difficult now to line up filename and last modified time in the file browser.<p>And I agree on the low density. Plus it now looks like a children&#x27;s toy, not like a work tool. A while ago, there was an article on HN about kawaii cuteness culture sneaking into everything. It appears that has happened here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ljm</author><text>I submitted feedback over it but, aside from the over-reliance on rounded corners, and making pills and buttons hard to separate, the single worst change is that you can&#x27;t see the latest commit status from the repo screen. Instead, you get the commit hash, and have to click a tiny ellipsis button to get the commit message and the status indicator.<p>When I&#x27;m browsing on github and not using git directly, the commit short-hash is the last thing I care about. You cannot see if your default branch has passed CI&#x2F;status checks now. Those things should be first class citizens, that&#x27;s why we put status badges all at the top of our readmes to make that info more visible with what we have.<p>It follows the trend of designing with lower information density. This trend IMO is not appropriate for developer tools.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?</title><text>I think it feels like Jira and I&#x27;m really sad. Seems more like a MS move than a GH move...<p>Migrating to gitlab...</text></story> |
37,116,348 | 37,115,368 | 1 | 3 | 37,112,625 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jedimastert</author><text>If you click the timestamp (it&#x27;s a link) you should be able to &quot;favorite&quot; the comment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hackernewds</author><text>I&#x27;d like to save this quote. However Hackernews provides not much functionality in-platform to do so.<p>Although I will contend the quote needs to be amended, since this doesn&#x27;t apply to agents whose actions and intentions <i>are</i> questionable, and I would prefer they are not able to hide them.</text></item><item><author>anotherevan</author><text>&quot;I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;infosec.exchange&#x2F;@itisiboller&#x2F;109472911587284824" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;infosec.exchange&#x2F;@itisiboller&#x2F;109472911587284824</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘I've got nothing to hide’ and other misunderstandings of privacy (2007)</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bondant</author><text>Well, you can add it to your favorite comments. Click the on the date on the post and then click on favorite.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hackernewds</author><text>I&#x27;d like to save this quote. However Hackernews provides not much functionality in-platform to do so.<p>Although I will contend the quote needs to be amended, since this doesn&#x27;t apply to agents whose actions and intentions <i>are</i> questionable, and I would prefer they are not able to hide them.</text></item><item><author>anotherevan</author><text>&quot;I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;infosec.exchange&#x2F;@itisiboller&#x2F;109472911587284824" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;infosec.exchange&#x2F;@itisiboller&#x2F;109472911587284824</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘I've got nothing to hide’ and other misunderstandings of privacy (2007)</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565</url></story> |
10,946,523 | 10,946,562 | 1 | 3 | 10,944,795 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lassejansen</author><text>One great application of this would be to hide the unsubscribe link if the email is forwarded.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shimon</author><text>TL;DR: A series of markup and styling hacks that exploit HTML interpretation quirks of various web email services can be hacked to intentionally vary message appearance between services. Coupled with forwarding, which further transforms the email using service-specific quirks, you can make a game where different paths of forwarding across services trigger different appearances.<p>Fun hack! I feel like there should be some clever practical applications but I&#x27;m drawing a blank.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Super Mail Forward, an HTML email that evolves as you forward it</title><url>https://medium.com/@hteumeuleu/super-mail-forward-an-email-that-evolves-as-you-forward-it-84466596f30d</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hk__2</author><text>&gt; I feel like there should be some clever practical applications but I&#x27;m drawing a blank.<p>You could maybe make some sort of email analytics where you could guess the email client of the readers. Use a different background 1x1 gif image for each one then check your logs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shimon</author><text>TL;DR: A series of markup and styling hacks that exploit HTML interpretation quirks of various web email services can be hacked to intentionally vary message appearance between services. Coupled with forwarding, which further transforms the email using service-specific quirks, you can make a game where different paths of forwarding across services trigger different appearances.<p>Fun hack! I feel like there should be some clever practical applications but I&#x27;m drawing a blank.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Super Mail Forward, an HTML email that evolves as you forward it</title><url>https://medium.com/@hteumeuleu/super-mail-forward-an-email-that-evolves-as-you-forward-it-84466596f30d</url></story> |
3,793,223 | 3,793,347 | 1 | 2 | 3,792,627 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NathanRice</author><text>I don't think you have to resort to any overly complex machinery to achieve similar behavior. The simplest approach is to just use a non uniform prior. His pessimistic bound could be emulated by having an initial alpha that places more weight on low star ratings. The intuitive interpretation of that being "things are probably bad unless proven good" roughly. Another option would be to generate the prior based on the posterior distributions of other items. Just take the distribution of ratings observations for all products of a given type (perhaps only items produced by that company?) to get a sensible prior on a new item in that category.<p>The strength of priors here is that it is very easy to take intuitions and encode them statistically, in an understandable way. Taking the lower bound of a test statistic doesn't admit much in the way of intuition.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_delirium</author><text>Here's a paper proposing a solution in that space, and which also compares itself to the article linked here (kind of nice to see... papers sometimes fail to cite stuff that's "only" posted online rather than properly published, even if the authors know about it and it's quite relevant): <a href="http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~dell/publications/dellzhang_ictir2011.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~dell/publications/dellzhang_ictir2...</a><p>I emailed Miller a while ago to see what he thought of this reply, and he thought it also seemed like a reasonable approach. But, in his view, the criticisms of his method within their framework include things that in practice he sees as features. In particular, they view the bias caused by using the <i>lower</i> bound as a bug, but he prefers rankings to be be "risk-averse" in recommending, avoiding false positives more than false negatives. Of course, that biased preference could also be encoded explicitly in a more complex Bayesian setup, which would also be a bit more principled, since you could directly choose the degree of bias, instead of indirectly choosing it via your choice of confidence level on the Wilson score interval.</text></item><item><author>NathanRice</author><text>While I agree with the spirit of the article, this is one of those cases where a Bayesian treatment is conceptually much clearer.<p>Assume that ratings are being generated by a stable stochastic process where the underlying distribution is multinomial (ignoring the ordinal character of ratings, for the time being) and use a dirichlet conjugate prior. This gives you a posterior distribution over new ratings for an item. The benefit of a posterior here is that it lets you rank items by thinking in terms of the probability that the viewer would rank one item higher than another at random. By adjusting the magnitude of the alpha parameter to the dirichlet prior, you adjust your sensitivity to small numbers of observations. A small initial alpha will lead to rapid changes in the posterior upon observing ratings, whereas a large alpha requires a significant body of evidence.<p>The best part of the multinomial model with conjugate dirichlet prior is that the math is REALLY simple. The normalizing constant for the dirichlet distribution looks scary when stated in terms of the gamma function, but given this is the discrete case, just pretend everywhere you see the gamma(x), it is replaced with (x - 1)! and you will be ok.<p>Let me know if you would like to learn more, I would be happy to help.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Not To Sort By Average Rating</title><url>http://evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.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>jules</author><text>Can anybody replicate their results at Proposition 5? My tests contradict their conclusion, namely that the total score is not monotonic (i.e. when I test I do get that the total score is monotonic).</text><parent_chain><item><author>_delirium</author><text>Here's a paper proposing a solution in that space, and which also compares itself to the article linked here (kind of nice to see... papers sometimes fail to cite stuff that's "only" posted online rather than properly published, even if the authors know about it and it's quite relevant): <a href="http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~dell/publications/dellzhang_ictir2011.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~dell/publications/dellzhang_ictir2...</a><p>I emailed Miller a while ago to see what he thought of this reply, and he thought it also seemed like a reasonable approach. But, in his view, the criticisms of his method within their framework include things that in practice he sees as features. In particular, they view the bias caused by using the <i>lower</i> bound as a bug, but he prefers rankings to be be "risk-averse" in recommending, avoiding false positives more than false negatives. Of course, that biased preference could also be encoded explicitly in a more complex Bayesian setup, which would also be a bit more principled, since you could directly choose the degree of bias, instead of indirectly choosing it via your choice of confidence level on the Wilson score interval.</text></item><item><author>NathanRice</author><text>While I agree with the spirit of the article, this is one of those cases where a Bayesian treatment is conceptually much clearer.<p>Assume that ratings are being generated by a stable stochastic process where the underlying distribution is multinomial (ignoring the ordinal character of ratings, for the time being) and use a dirichlet conjugate prior. This gives you a posterior distribution over new ratings for an item. The benefit of a posterior here is that it lets you rank items by thinking in terms of the probability that the viewer would rank one item higher than another at random. By adjusting the magnitude of the alpha parameter to the dirichlet prior, you adjust your sensitivity to small numbers of observations. A small initial alpha will lead to rapid changes in the posterior upon observing ratings, whereas a large alpha requires a significant body of evidence.<p>The best part of the multinomial model with conjugate dirichlet prior is that the math is REALLY simple. The normalizing constant for the dirichlet distribution looks scary when stated in terms of the gamma function, but given this is the discrete case, just pretend everywhere you see the gamma(x), it is replaced with (x - 1)! and you will be ok.<p>Let me know if you would like to learn more, I would be happy to help.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Not To Sort By Average Rating</title><url>http://evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html</url></story> |
19,808,784 | 19,806,284 | 1 | 2 | 19,805,938 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>diminish</author><text>A Very good SEO move, to stir some of the &#x27;lab&#x27; traffic away from gitlab.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub Learning Lab</title><url>https://lab.github.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>tomovo</author><text>Not trying to weaken the GitLab brand at all... &#x2F;s</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub Learning Lab</title><url>https://lab.github.com/</url></story> |
23,268,055 | 23,263,075 | 1 | 2 | 23,261,815 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gentleman11</author><text>Headline is strange. The article itself says something similar but not the same:<p>&gt; But in a new study, the researchers have found that bots may account for between 45 and 60% of Twitter accounts discussing covid-19.“<p>Edit: this was more interesting:<p>&gt; not only were bots gaining traction and accumulating followers, but they accounted for 82% of the top 50 and 62% of the top 1,000 influential retweeters</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/21/1002105/covid-bot-twitter-accounts-push-to-reopen-america/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kgin</author><text>Again, it follows the same pattern of observing American culture, looking for the pre-existing conflicts and just pouring gasoline into whatever side needs it to catch fire.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/21/1002105/covid-bot-twitter-accounts-push-to-reopen-america/</url></story> |
34,093,674 | 34,093,311 | 1 | 2 | 34,091,271 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>galangalalgol</author><text>People have picked stranger things than julia for safety critical control systems. I know people have generated it from simulink and have used labview, and it wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if somewhere someone is using an excel macro to control the pressure system on a boiler... The world is a scary place.<p>Reading theough the spark tutorials and examples seems fairly similar to the rustlings excercise. I find the ways spark prevents problems, like forbidding side effects, is more onerous than the borrow checker making me specify a lifetime every so often. I&#x27;m not saying you are wrong to prefer spark, just that people with different backgrounds will find the learning curves different. You have been programming longer than I&#x27;ve been alive, so you certainly have a different perspective. I started with c64 basic then c on the amiga 500, then x86 assembler on 386, them turbo pascal, then turbo c++ on the 386.<p>I can&#x27;t argue that spark isn&#x27;t more mature for formal verification, but it feels like formal verification relies heavily on correct contract specifications with no way to measure when your contracts are correct. Unit tests and coverage at least give me a little feel good that I wrote enough tests for my rust.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eggy</author><text>I still play with Rust (and Zig), but I have decided to put my work efforts into SPARK[1], the subset of Ada, for high-integrity software and formal verification. I know AdaCore and Ferrous Systems are collaborating in trying to bring a lot of Ada&#x2F;Spark&#x27;s capabilities to Rust, but this is still going to be some time. Ada has a longer legacy in this game.<p>I am working on safety critical control systems and there is a lot to prune from existing work in this area in SPARK and Ada.<p>This book[2], &quot;Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK&quot; really sold me on the benefits. It is a great intro of how SPARK was used for the CubeSat program at Vermont Technical College (VTC). A CubeSat was successfully launched in 2013. I could not find any critical mission software written in Rust yet especially that far back.<p>I found Julia&#x27;s selection for a flight collision avoidance system perplexing[3], but it proves a PLs syntax and evangelism (maybe not in this case), can bias a selection of a PL for such tasks.
People find Ada&#x2F;SPARK&#x27;s syntax and methods verbose and similar to Pascal or other PLs, however, I was up and running quickly in it as opposed to Rust.<p>You can program to bare metal in SPARK, and the tools are already there to provide high-integrity software. The tools for SPARK automate most of the verification. Most of Rust&#x27;s wishlist is already in SPARK (and Ada). I hope the Ferrous Systems and AdaCore collab bears fruit for Rust, but I have been programming since 1978, and I play with many PLs, but I found Rust&#x27;s initial learning curve very off putting and I don&#x27;t have the time to wait for it to mature to SPARK&#x27;s level. And this is from someone who loves J&#x2F;APL&#x2F;BQN and Lisp, so I have no issue with different programming paradigms. I found Zig much easier to get things done from the start, although it does not strive to be a SPARK or Rust.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adacore.com&#x2F;sparkpro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adacore.com&#x2F;sparkpro</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Building-High-Integrity-Applications-SPARK&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1107040736" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Building-High-Integrity-Applications-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;juliahub.com&#x2F;case-studies&#x2F;lincoln-labs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;juliahub.com&#x2F;case-studies&#x2F;lincoln-labs&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Welcome to Comprehensive Rust</title><url>https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brianzelip</author><text>Here’s a recent podcast episode that looks at Rust and Ada with some folks who work on Ada Core, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rustacean-station.org&#x2F;episode&#x2F;067-quentin-ochem-florian-gilcher&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rustacean-station.org&#x2F;episode&#x2F;067-quentin-ochem-flor...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>eggy</author><text>I still play with Rust (and Zig), but I have decided to put my work efforts into SPARK[1], the subset of Ada, for high-integrity software and formal verification. I know AdaCore and Ferrous Systems are collaborating in trying to bring a lot of Ada&#x2F;Spark&#x27;s capabilities to Rust, but this is still going to be some time. Ada has a longer legacy in this game.<p>I am working on safety critical control systems and there is a lot to prune from existing work in this area in SPARK and Ada.<p>This book[2], &quot;Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK&quot; really sold me on the benefits. It is a great intro of how SPARK was used for the CubeSat program at Vermont Technical College (VTC). A CubeSat was successfully launched in 2013. I could not find any critical mission software written in Rust yet especially that far back.<p>I found Julia&#x27;s selection for a flight collision avoidance system perplexing[3], but it proves a PLs syntax and evangelism (maybe not in this case), can bias a selection of a PL for such tasks.
People find Ada&#x2F;SPARK&#x27;s syntax and methods verbose and similar to Pascal or other PLs, however, I was up and running quickly in it as opposed to Rust.<p>You can program to bare metal in SPARK, and the tools are already there to provide high-integrity software. The tools for SPARK automate most of the verification. Most of Rust&#x27;s wishlist is already in SPARK (and Ada). I hope the Ferrous Systems and AdaCore collab bears fruit for Rust, but I have been programming since 1978, and I play with many PLs, but I found Rust&#x27;s initial learning curve very off putting and I don&#x27;t have the time to wait for it to mature to SPARK&#x27;s level. And this is from someone who loves J&#x2F;APL&#x2F;BQN and Lisp, so I have no issue with different programming paradigms. I found Zig much easier to get things done from the start, although it does not strive to be a SPARK or Rust.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adacore.com&#x2F;sparkpro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adacore.com&#x2F;sparkpro</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Building-High-Integrity-Applications-SPARK&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1107040736" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Building-High-Integrity-Applications-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;juliahub.com&#x2F;case-studies&#x2F;lincoln-labs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;juliahub.com&#x2F;case-studies&#x2F;lincoln-labs&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Welcome to Comprehensive Rust</title><url>https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/</url></story> |
41,689,622 | 41,689,037 | 1 | 3 | 41,661,512 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>everforward</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s not possible, using just torrents, to have the swarm cooperatively assign who stores which chunks.<p>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s strictly desirable to have the swarm cooperatively assign who stores which chunks, because that provides an avenue for bad actors to attack that assignment (e.g. by e.g. claiming to have a block to drive peers away, but never actually serving it).<p>It would be possible to have the swarm behave cooperatively based on heuristics, though. Your client gets a copy of what peers have what chunks, so it has enough information to make its own decision on what chunks need to be mirrored the most. A sufficiently clever algorithm would get pretty close to a centralized cooperation server.<p>Iirc, some extant torrent clients have similar features where they download the &quot;hot&quot; chunks first (the chunks with the most leechers, for private tracker ratios). I suspect the only reason an &quot;archive&#x2F;sparse&quot; variant of that where it only downloads poorly mirroed chunks doesn&#x27;t exist is because it&#x27;s useless for the normal &quot;download a file&quot; use case. Sparse chunks of a file are basically useless outside of archival.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pradn</author><text>The critical thing here is that regular people can help. The archive is already split into many O(GB)-sized chunks. We need to ensure each chunk has many, many copies.<p>Torrents are a widely-understood, robust way to mirror large files. But there&#x27;s no &quot;meta-coordination&quot; built in to the protocol. It&#x27;s not possible, using just torrents, to have the swarm cooperatively assign who stores which chunks. The optimization function here is maximal chunk availability, subject to individual storage limits and reliability (ie: how often they&#x27;re online).<p>It should be easy to just press a button to join a shadow library, allocated 100GB, and be part of the mission.<p>The best effort I&#x27;ve seen in this space is some guy running a script that crawls the number of seeders for a list of SciHub torrents. Users manually pick the ones with the lowest seeds. All very cumbersome, and prone to staleness.<p>Of course, this is all a technical problem, separate from infringing copyright or whatever. In the same way as torrents being a technical solution for sharing files, in a general way.</text></item><item><author>internetter</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;annas-archive.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;critical-window.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;annas-archive.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;critical-window.html</a><p>Years of this whack-a-mole, yet no clear use case found for banning shadow libraries. Books are highly information dense, making them an ideal target for archival. Shadow libraries are unique in their ability to search over all knowledge known to man, something that publishers refuse. They democratize access, resist censorship (some of which is happening in the land of the free), and provide better chance at preservation. There’s not even much evidence that shadow libraries detract from authors, who are already robbed by publishers (and most of the publisher’s funding comes from institutions, not individuals)<p>To hell with it. Viva la revolución. Let knowledge be free.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-orders-libgen-to-pay-30m-to-publishers-issues-broad-injunction-240925/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bhaney</author><text>&gt; regular people can help<p>Can we? I have tens of terabytes of unused storage space that I would be happy to contribute to library archival, but my understanding is that if I seed these torrents I&#x27;m going to get spammed with DMCA letters from publishers until my ISP gives up and cuts my service. If we need to seed exclusively through tor or VPNs in copyright-notice-ignoring countries, then that&#x27;s not all that accessible to &quot;regular people&quot; anymore.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pradn</author><text>The critical thing here is that regular people can help. The archive is already split into many O(GB)-sized chunks. We need to ensure each chunk has many, many copies.<p>Torrents are a widely-understood, robust way to mirror large files. But there&#x27;s no &quot;meta-coordination&quot; built in to the protocol. It&#x27;s not possible, using just torrents, to have the swarm cooperatively assign who stores which chunks. The optimization function here is maximal chunk availability, subject to individual storage limits and reliability (ie: how often they&#x27;re online).<p>It should be easy to just press a button to join a shadow library, allocated 100GB, and be part of the mission.<p>The best effort I&#x27;ve seen in this space is some guy running a script that crawls the number of seeders for a list of SciHub torrents. Users manually pick the ones with the lowest seeds. All very cumbersome, and prone to staleness.<p>Of course, this is all a technical problem, separate from infringing copyright or whatever. In the same way as torrents being a technical solution for sharing files, in a general way.</text></item><item><author>internetter</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;annas-archive.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;critical-window.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;annas-archive.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;critical-window.html</a><p>Years of this whack-a-mole, yet no clear use case found for banning shadow libraries. Books are highly information dense, making them an ideal target for archival. Shadow libraries are unique in their ability to search over all knowledge known to man, something that publishers refuse. They democratize access, resist censorship (some of which is happening in the land of the free), and provide better chance at preservation. There’s not even much evidence that shadow libraries detract from authors, who are already robbed by publishers (and most of the publisher’s funding comes from institutions, not individuals)<p>To hell with it. Viva la revolución. Let knowledge be free.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-orders-libgen-to-pay-30m-to-publishers-issues-broad-injunction-240925/</url></story> |
14,668,411 | 14,657,980 | 1 | 3 | 14,653,817 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Bartweiss</author><text>One subtle question: how much of that is GDP change is growth, and how much is risk redistribution?<p>Obviously communication efficiency has real advantages. Some of what has been gained is lasting improvement. But humans have a nasty tendency to enforce order on chaotic systems and mistake legibility for growth. Everywhere from forest fires to housing prices, we create systems that delay, but <i>concentrate</i>, risk. Annual brushfires are extinguished, leading to decadal infernos. Credit default swaps enable high default lending at low risk, right up until they don&#x27;t.<p>I&#x27;m darkly suspicious that many of the gains from communications technology, particularly in stock trading, fall into this category. They&#x27;ve allowed us to push concentrate and defer everyday risks, getting us growth over most time windows when the reality is that we&#x27;ve redistributed risk.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jpttsn</author><text>Our expectations have since increased. I wouldn&#x27;t want to go back to the GDP I thought was fine ten years ago.</text></item><item><author>jff</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t want to go back to a world where financial transactions are conducted based on hand-scratched notes and shouting on trading floors.<p>Seemed to work pretty well for a long time.</text></item><item><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>&gt; The Internet ... started out by only connecting computer networks. But today it connects networks of vastly different sorts: computers, yes, but also financial networks, distribution networks, road networks, water networks, power networks, communication networks, social networks.<p>Those are all computer networks. It just happens that some of them involve computers running financial software, or computers running electrical control software, or computers running social software. Or computers running phone software, or light-bulb software, or toaster software.<p>Perhaps we don&#x27;t need networked toasters, but I don&#x27;t want to go back to a world where financial transactions are conducted based on hand-scratched notes and shouting on trading floors.<p>Computers are just too powerful to ignore. The problem is not that they are computers, but that some are locked down for user control of networking, but simultaneously designed insecurely as, say, &quot;smart web cams&quot; without the necessary incentives to keep them secure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The internet as existential threat</title><url>https://www.raphkoster.com/2017/06/27/the-internet-as-existential-threat/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimktrains2</author><text>Adjusted for inflation, has it changed that much in 10years? Ditto for median wages.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jpttsn</author><text>Our expectations have since increased. I wouldn&#x27;t want to go back to the GDP I thought was fine ten years ago.</text></item><item><author>jff</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t want to go back to a world where financial transactions are conducted based on hand-scratched notes and shouting on trading floors.<p>Seemed to work pretty well for a long time.</text></item><item><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>&gt; The Internet ... started out by only connecting computer networks. But today it connects networks of vastly different sorts: computers, yes, but also financial networks, distribution networks, road networks, water networks, power networks, communication networks, social networks.<p>Those are all computer networks. It just happens that some of them involve computers running financial software, or computers running electrical control software, or computers running social software. Or computers running phone software, or light-bulb software, or toaster software.<p>Perhaps we don&#x27;t need networked toasters, but I don&#x27;t want to go back to a world where financial transactions are conducted based on hand-scratched notes and shouting on trading floors.<p>Computers are just too powerful to ignore. The problem is not that they are computers, but that some are locked down for user control of networking, but simultaneously designed insecurely as, say, &quot;smart web cams&quot; without the necessary incentives to keep them secure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The internet as existential threat</title><url>https://www.raphkoster.com/2017/06/27/the-internet-as-existential-threat/</url></story> |
27,604,936 | 27,604,801 | 1 | 2 | 27,602,383 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>irrational</author><text>People move is a big one. Since smartphones became popular, I’ve noticed that people tend to keep the same phone number from where they got their first phone number. So I will receive calls from all over the place, except they really are all local calls from people that now live in my town. So when I see that a call is from Wisconsin, that is meaningless since it could be from someone living down the street.</text><parent_chain><item><author>geoduck14</author><text>Oh hey! I have experience with this! I used to analyze data for a call center. We had a law that prevented us from calling people at night.<p>This is hard because of the following reasons:
Zip codes and time zones don&#x27;t align well (looking at you, West Florida!)<p>Area codes and zip codes don&#x27;t align well<p>Area codes and time zones don&#x27;t align well<p>People move!</text></item><item><author>therealcamino</author><text>The author says that lots of measures were taken not to wake people up in the middle of the night, but that despite those efforts 3 people were. Wouldn&#x27;t the most obvious method have been not to dial numbers at night local time?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I made 50k calls to explore the telephone network</title><url>https://shufflingbytes.com/posts/wardialing-finnish-freephones/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nonameiguess</author><text>Area codes mean little in the mobile phone era. Just tells you where a person lived when they were a teenager or otherwise first got their own phone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>geoduck14</author><text>Oh hey! I have experience with this! I used to analyze data for a call center. We had a law that prevented us from calling people at night.<p>This is hard because of the following reasons:
Zip codes and time zones don&#x27;t align well (looking at you, West Florida!)<p>Area codes and zip codes don&#x27;t align well<p>Area codes and time zones don&#x27;t align well<p>People move!</text></item><item><author>therealcamino</author><text>The author says that lots of measures were taken not to wake people up in the middle of the night, but that despite those efforts 3 people were. Wouldn&#x27;t the most obvious method have been not to dial numbers at night local time?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I made 50k calls to explore the telephone network</title><url>https://shufflingbytes.com/posts/wardialing-finnish-freephones/</url></story> |
35,271,992 | 35,268,924 | 1 | 3 | 35,268,050 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nicbou</author><text>This reminds me of what Dan Carlin called &quot;rolling the monarchy dice&quot; in his Hardcore History podcast.<p>If you get a good dictator, things get done with little friction, because the power rests on a single person&#x27;s shoulders. But if you get a bad one, you&#x27;re stuck with it.<p>Democracy might be slower and less inefficient, but it&#x27;s reliably slower and less efficient.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Arainach</author><text>Speed is affected by process, and process evolves in reaction to abuse. In the beginning, it&#x27;s quick to do everything, but as people take advantage - routing contracts to friends, taking safety shortcuts - rules get put into place and those rules affect the time to complete.<p>For New York specifically there&#x27;s another factor that it&#x27;s strange the article omitted: Robert Moses.<p>Prior to the mid-1960s, it was fairly simple: if Robert Moses wanted something built, it was built. If he wanted it blocked, it was blocked. This made the process of getting approvals a known factor. Moses chaired a wide variety of authorities including NYC Planning Commission, the Parks Department, and more. He was the sole authority to negotiate with the Federal government for NYC projects.<p>This kind of central oversight allows certain projects to be completed much faster than it would be in other setups, but it also allows for a number of bad outcomes - corruption, ignoring the public good, environmental destruction, and more. As such, over time more process gets added. It&#x27;s easy to criticize process, but many of the rules were written in blood with the best of intentions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When did New York start building slowly?</title><url>https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/when-did-new-york-start-building</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Hikikomori</author><text>Behind the bastards has an episode about Robert Moses.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iheart.com&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;105-behind-the-bastards-29236323&#x2F;episode&#x2F;part-one-the-man-who-ruined-99056594&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iheart.com&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;105-behind-the-bastards-29236...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Arainach</author><text>Speed is affected by process, and process evolves in reaction to abuse. In the beginning, it&#x27;s quick to do everything, but as people take advantage - routing contracts to friends, taking safety shortcuts - rules get put into place and those rules affect the time to complete.<p>For New York specifically there&#x27;s another factor that it&#x27;s strange the article omitted: Robert Moses.<p>Prior to the mid-1960s, it was fairly simple: if Robert Moses wanted something built, it was built. If he wanted it blocked, it was blocked. This made the process of getting approvals a known factor. Moses chaired a wide variety of authorities including NYC Planning Commission, the Parks Department, and more. He was the sole authority to negotiate with the Federal government for NYC projects.<p>This kind of central oversight allows certain projects to be completed much faster than it would be in other setups, but it also allows for a number of bad outcomes - corruption, ignoring the public good, environmental destruction, and more. As such, over time more process gets added. It&#x27;s easy to criticize process, but many of the rules were written in blood with the best of intentions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When did New York start building slowly?</title><url>https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/when-did-new-york-start-building</url></story> |
27,158,370 | 27,157,550 | 1 | 2 | 27,156,106 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>josefresco</author><text>Below is a link I generated for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;home" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;home</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.5z8.info&#x2F;winamp-cracked.exe_x8c5se_how2pipebomb" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.5z8.info&#x2F;winamp-cracked.exe_x8c5se_how2pipebomb</a><p>Thank you for this, I laughed hard.</text><parent_chain><item><author>strict9</author><text>Love it.<p>This is going in the toolbox along with <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shadyurl.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shadyurl.com</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A URL Lengthener</title><url>https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.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>scubbo</author><text>Lol. I clicked this on my (managed) work laptop, and immediately got a Compliance warning popup. I don&#x27;t know what I expected...</text><parent_chain><item><author>strict9</author><text>Love it.<p>This is going in the toolbox along with <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shadyurl.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shadyurl.com</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A URL Lengthener</title><url>https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com/</url></story> |
38,937,149 | 38,936,086 | 1 | 2 | 38,935,048 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pests</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a perverse dark pattern on one click unsubscribe. The page you land at has a button that lets you resubscribe! It looks non-obvious you&#x27;ve already unsubscribed and it looks like the regular two-click flow needing to enter your email address to confirm. Very sneaky.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheCycoONE</author><text>DKIM, SPF, and DMARC are old hat and implemented by anyone serious for years. What&#x27;s buried in this article is the required <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8058" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8058</a> support for one-click unsubscribe posts. I don&#x27;t see many messages in my inbox yet with that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs</title><url>https://www.mailgun.com/blog/deliverability/gmail-and-yahoo-inbox-updates-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>jasonjayr</author><text>I understand that the request happens in the background by the MUA at the user&#x27;s express consent, and the unsubscribe is not allowed to send back any ui&#x2F;html&#x2F;whatever to present to the user, but the RFC is missing any information about how a response ought to be handled, HTTP Status code wise? Retry if 400&#x2F;500? Give user any affirmative or negative response that it succeeded or failed?</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheCycoONE</author><text>DKIM, SPF, and DMARC are old hat and implemented by anyone serious for years. What&#x27;s buried in this article is the required <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8058" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8058</a> support for one-click unsubscribe posts. I don&#x27;t see many messages in my inbox yet with that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs</title><url>https://www.mailgun.com/blog/deliverability/gmail-and-yahoo-inbox-updates-2024/</url></story> |
24,949,957 | 24,949,706 | 1 | 2 | 24,937,169 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dougabug</author><text>Actually, many Asian American communities are being hit pretty hard by Covid-19 in the Bay Area. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;in-depth&#x2F;news&#x2F;nation&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;18&#x2F;coronavirus-asian-americans-racism-death-rates-san-francisco&#x2F;5799617002&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;in-depth&#x2F;news&#x2F;nation&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;18&#x2F;cor...</a><p>In addition, racially motivated against Asian Americans are up throughout the country, blaming us for “Kung Flu.”</text><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The problem with articles like this—apart from the politically constructed racial category of “Asian”—is that there is no support for anything apart from a lot of narrative and a few anecdotes. Asians have by a good margin the lowest covid death rate of any race, despite being much more likely to live in hard hit urban areas: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apmresearchlab.org&#x2F;covid&#x2F;deaths-by-race" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apmresearchlab.org&#x2F;covid&#x2F;deaths-by-race</a><p>The article’s discussion of the “model minority” stereotype is also a clumsy attempt at racialization. The article points to low-income Asian groups like Burmese. But those groups aren’t poor because they’re Asian, they’re poor because they’re economic immigrants and often refugees. Burmese, in particular, are the most recent major Asian immigrant group. 85% of Burmese Americans are first-generation immigrants, while 80% of Japanese Americans are native born. Less than half of Burmese Americans speak English fluently.<p>But Japanese Americans were also predominantly economic migrants at one point. The important question the article overlooks is income mobility. Asian kids raised in the bottom quantile of income have by far the highest income mobility of any group. 27% will end up in the top quantile by adult hood—almost double the rate for white kids. There is no reason to believe that the Burmese will be any different than say the Vietnamese. Large scale Vietnamese refugee immigration mainly occurred from 1975-2000. As a result, most Vietnamese Americans have been here 20+ years. In that time, Vietnamese Americans have achieved economic parity with whites: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...</a>. So have Laotians and Cambodians, who immigrated, mostly as refugees, around that same time period.<p>I can’t help but feel like articles like this are an attempt to racialize Asians and make them identify as a marginalized minority group, instead of as individuals who are in the process of achieving upward mobility. Calling the long-standing economic trends a “myth” is borderline deceptive and risky. Clearly <i>something is working.</i> But if you make people think that it isn’t working, you might inadvertently break it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The invisible struggle of the Asian American small-business owner</title><url>https://www.vox.com/21536943/asian-american-restuarant-racism-coronavirus</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oefrha</author><text>TFA isn’t a big revelation, or a great angle.<p>But “Economic parity with whites” doesn’t mean sh﹡t when a racial group (edit: not even a racial group) is discriminated in college admissions, corporate leadership roles, etc., which are some of the most vital external decisions for upward mobility. (These are very widely documented so don’t ask me for citations. You can easily find hundred-comment-strong threads on these topics within this very site.) If anything it means the group has managed to “succeed” <i>despite</i> all the racial&#x2F;cultural roadblocks, and the efforts they put in are not proportionally repaid.<p>“Individuals who are in the process of achieving upward mobility” — that’s the actual myth. More like work as hard as you can, we’ll randomly select three out of ten to put into the pool of potential upward mobility with all fifty of that other group.<p>I know some people prefer equality of outcome and don’t feel the slightest shame about pushing down hardworking folks based on their ancestries if that’s what it takes to achieve a semblance of equality and diversity. I can’t have a productive conversation with those people. Actually, you know what, I’ve hardly ever seen anyone convincing anyone on this or any other divisive topic, so here’s my opinion, I don’t care what anyone thinks about it, and I’m not gonna further comment on this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The problem with articles like this—apart from the politically constructed racial category of “Asian”—is that there is no support for anything apart from a lot of narrative and a few anecdotes. Asians have by a good margin the lowest covid death rate of any race, despite being much more likely to live in hard hit urban areas: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apmresearchlab.org&#x2F;covid&#x2F;deaths-by-race" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apmresearchlab.org&#x2F;covid&#x2F;deaths-by-race</a><p>The article’s discussion of the “model minority” stereotype is also a clumsy attempt at racialization. The article points to low-income Asian groups like Burmese. But those groups aren’t poor because they’re Asian, they’re poor because they’re economic immigrants and often refugees. Burmese, in particular, are the most recent major Asian immigrant group. 85% of Burmese Americans are first-generation immigrants, while 80% of Japanese Americans are native born. Less than half of Burmese Americans speak English fluently.<p>But Japanese Americans were also predominantly economic migrants at one point. The important question the article overlooks is income mobility. Asian kids raised in the bottom quantile of income have by far the highest income mobility of any group. 27% will end up in the top quantile by adult hood—almost double the rate for white kids. There is no reason to believe that the Burmese will be any different than say the Vietnamese. Large scale Vietnamese refugee immigration mainly occurred from 1975-2000. As a result, most Vietnamese Americans have been here 20+ years. In that time, Vietnamese Americans have achieved economic parity with whites: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...</a>. So have Laotians and Cambodians, who immigrated, mostly as refugees, around that same time period.<p>I can’t help but feel like articles like this are an attempt to racialize Asians and make them identify as a marginalized minority group, instead of as individuals who are in the process of achieving upward mobility. Calling the long-standing economic trends a “myth” is borderline deceptive and risky. Clearly <i>something is working.</i> But if you make people think that it isn’t working, you might inadvertently break it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The invisible struggle of the Asian American small-business owner</title><url>https://www.vox.com/21536943/asian-american-restuarant-racism-coronavirus</url></story> |
10,053,681 | 10,053,695 | 1 | 2 | 10,053,420 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>czechdeveloper</author><text>About information source: Aeronet.cz is known Russian propaganda website in Czech. Nothing close to credible source. I don&#x27;t judge content, but this should be noted.<p>Just try<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;translate.google.com&#x2F;translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Faeronet.cz%2Fnews%2F%3Fs%3DMH17&amp;edit-text=&amp;act=url" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;translate.google.com&#x2F;translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;pr...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Every 30 minutes Windows 10 sends all typed text to Microsoft</title><url>https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=cs&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Faeronet.cz%2Fnews%2Fanalyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-jde-o-pouhy-terminal-na-sber-informaci-o-uzivateli-jeho-prstech-ocich-a-hlasu%2F</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Beltiras</author><text>It&#x27;s in the privacy policy. I didn&#x27;t believe what I was reading. Windows 10 is unusable for anyone handling any sensitive data. Think doctors, psychologists, anyone under an NDA.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;privacystatement&#x2F;default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;privacystatement&#x2F;default.asp...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Every 30 minutes Windows 10 sends all typed text to Microsoft</title><url>https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=cs&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Faeronet.cz%2Fnews%2Fanalyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-jde-o-pouhy-terminal-na-sber-informaci-o-uzivateli-jeho-prstech-ocich-a-hlasu%2F</url></story> |
38,657,391 | 38,656,199 | 1 | 3 | 38,654,388 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>basscomm</author><text>It&#x27;s this kind of casual dismissal that makes the aphantasia so frustrating to talk about. The people who are able to visualize find it so fundamental and easy that they literally cannot conceive that someone else might be lacking this ability. They tell aphantasiacs that what they&#x27;ve experienced their whole lives isn&#x27;t real, they just misunderstand what visualization actually is.<p>No, I understand what visualization of something in your head is. Sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I can still see part of my dream in my mind&#x27;s eye, but it fades quickly. I can&#x27;t do it consciously. Never have been able to.<p>If you tell me to visualize a dog and describe it to you, I can&#x27;t do it. I can describe what a dog looks like in general, but I won&#x27;t be able to tell you what the specific dog that I&#x27;ve conjured up looks like because it doesn&#x27;t look like anything. I&#x27;m not looking at an image in my mind&#x27;s eye of a dog.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>I wouldn’t be surprised if 99% of the discourse here is just miscommunication on what “picturing something in your head” means and 99% of people who think they are different are not.<p>Picture a dog in your head. It’s such an fuzzy, imprecise action that you can skew the definition of “seeing it” from nothing (you are mostly reasoning about what this dog looks like) all the way up to a visual mental concept of it that does everything but actually block your field of vision.<p>Depending on what they think &quot;seeing it&quot; means, 100 different people can have 100 different explanations for the same phenomenon.</text></item><item><author>Forricide</author><text>Conversations around this kind of thing are so fascinating to me, because they seem to present this fundamental breakdown in human communication - how impossible it is to convey what &#x27;really is going on&#x27; inside your mind.<p>The idea (to me) that people can just see full-fledged lifelike photos in their mind is crazy, especially with low effort. I can&#x27;t really draw things in my mind very well but I can &#x27;pretend&#x27; I see them, blurring the line between &#x27;knowing I&#x27;m seeing something&#x27; and &#x27;actually seeing that thing&#x27;.<p>But, is that the same thing as actually visualizing that object? It feels like it for most use cases, but then there&#x27;s some task that actually would be way easier if I could legitimately &#x27;see&#x27; that thing, and suddenly everything becomes more complicated.</text></item><item><author>robluxus</author><text>Are there tests for aphantasia?<p>It&#x27;s fascinating to me that (as far as I&#x27;m concerned) we mostly learn about it by self-reporting but then those reports vary pretty wildly.<p>I myself don&#x27;t have aphantasia I think but I feel like I really have to work on &quot;drawing things up&quot; when I try to picture something with my eyes closed.
Or maybe that&#x27;s just the normal amount of effort for the complexity and detail I&#x27;m trying to capture?
Actually it&#x27;s easier to &quot;imagine&quot; things with my eyes open which I always thought was weird before I read this comment about daydreaming blocking out vision.
Which still sounds extreme to me, but maybe not more extreme than all those other reports that claim they can procure fully detailed houses &#x2F; places &#x2F; system architectures &#x2F; electrical diagrams &#x2F; etc on a whim.</text></item><item><author>jermaustin1</author><text>As a person with aphantasia, the only time I&#x27;m able to &quot;see&quot; pictures is while dreaming (including day dreaming), but daydreaming has a weird effect of completely blocking out my vision. My mind is still actively processing cues from my vision, but I am unable to see anything but the daydream.<p>I didn&#x27;t even realize that aphantasia was a thing until a couple of years ago when a YouTube video popped up on my feed about it.<p>When people ask what I &quot;see&quot; in my mind when told to &quot;picture&quot; something, is basically auditory database of descriptions in my inner voice.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happens in the brain while daydreaming?</title><url>https://hms.harvard.edu/news/what-happens-brain-while-daydreaming</url></story> | <instructions>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_af</author><text>It can also vary depending on the subject to be imagined.<p>For some people faces, especially familiar ones, I can see their faces in high detail (flaps of their noses, even pockmarks and other texture). The &quot;picture&quot; doesn’t stay still and it sometimes requires effort; though some imagery comes unbidden and effortlessly.<p>Other topics I have a harder time with and are more abstracted.<p>The problem with discourse at this level, however, is how subjective it is: when I say I can picture in my head the beautiful outdoors scenery of my last vacation, how accurate is it? If you could download a hardcopy from my brain, would you tell me &quot;this doesn&#x27;t look like a photo at all&quot;? But what if I&#x27;m actually there, watching with my eyes -- is the image that forms in my brain accurate? Maybe someone would also scoff at it if they could download it, &quot;this isn&#x27;t what the scenery looks at all!&quot;.<p>I fear we will never be able to solve this riddle.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>I wouldn’t be surprised if 99% of the discourse here is just miscommunication on what “picturing something in your head” means and 99% of people who think they are different are not.<p>Picture a dog in your head. It’s such an fuzzy, imprecise action that you can skew the definition of “seeing it” from nothing (you are mostly reasoning about what this dog looks like) all the way up to a visual mental concept of it that does everything but actually block your field of vision.<p>Depending on what they think &quot;seeing it&quot; means, 100 different people can have 100 different explanations for the same phenomenon.</text></item><item><author>Forricide</author><text>Conversations around this kind of thing are so fascinating to me, because they seem to present this fundamental breakdown in human communication - how impossible it is to convey what &#x27;really is going on&#x27; inside your mind.<p>The idea (to me) that people can just see full-fledged lifelike photos in their mind is crazy, especially with low effort. I can&#x27;t really draw things in my mind very well but I can &#x27;pretend&#x27; I see them, blurring the line between &#x27;knowing I&#x27;m seeing something&#x27; and &#x27;actually seeing that thing&#x27;.<p>But, is that the same thing as actually visualizing that object? It feels like it for most use cases, but then there&#x27;s some task that actually would be way easier if I could legitimately &#x27;see&#x27; that thing, and suddenly everything becomes more complicated.</text></item><item><author>robluxus</author><text>Are there tests for aphantasia?<p>It&#x27;s fascinating to me that (as far as I&#x27;m concerned) we mostly learn about it by self-reporting but then those reports vary pretty wildly.<p>I myself don&#x27;t have aphantasia I think but I feel like I really have to work on &quot;drawing things up&quot; when I try to picture something with my eyes closed.
Or maybe that&#x27;s just the normal amount of effort for the complexity and detail I&#x27;m trying to capture?
Actually it&#x27;s easier to &quot;imagine&quot; things with my eyes open which I always thought was weird before I read this comment about daydreaming blocking out vision.
Which still sounds extreme to me, but maybe not more extreme than all those other reports that claim they can procure fully detailed houses &#x2F; places &#x2F; system architectures &#x2F; electrical diagrams &#x2F; etc on a whim.</text></item><item><author>jermaustin1</author><text>As a person with aphantasia, the only time I&#x27;m able to &quot;see&quot; pictures is while dreaming (including day dreaming), but daydreaming has a weird effect of completely blocking out my vision. My mind is still actively processing cues from my vision, but I am unable to see anything but the daydream.<p>I didn&#x27;t even realize that aphantasia was a thing until a couple of years ago when a YouTube video popped up on my feed about it.<p>When people ask what I &quot;see&quot; in my mind when told to &quot;picture&quot; something, is basically auditory database of descriptions in my inner voice.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happens in the brain while daydreaming?</title><url>https://hms.harvard.edu/news/what-happens-brain-while-daydreaming</url></story> |
37,756,120 | 37,755,861 | 1 | 2 | 37,754,489 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>terrelln</author><text>In parts (1) and (2) comparing the default setting of Zstd (level 3) against the default setting of Brotli (level 11) is a bit misleading. It shows Brotli compressing ~30% better than Zstd, but Brotli&#x27;s default level is &gt;100x slower than Zstd&#x27;s default level. Zstd level 3 is expected to run at hundreds of MB&#x2F;s, and Brotli level 11 is expected to run at ~2 MB&#x2F;s. The compression speed is only 30% slower because that benchmark includes the time to tar the directory, which is likely more expensive than the compression itself. As @sfink already suggested, just running lzbench on the npm-9.7.1.tar would be a better benchmark.<p>In part (3), because its running only on lib&#x2F;npm.js which is 13KB, you are getting skewed results which aren&#x27;t directly applicable to the compression of npm-9.7.1.tar. Brotli excels at compressing small Javascript files, as this is where its dictionary provides the most benefit. The benefits of the dictionary for a large tar file will be negligible.<p>However, in the npm-9.7.1.tar scenario we still expect Brotli level 11 to produce slightly smaller files than Zstd level 19. Likely ~5% smaller. But we do expect Zstd to provide significantly faster decompression speed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Honey, I shrunk the NPM package</title><url>https://jamiemagee.co.uk/blog/honey-i-shrunk-the-npm-package/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sfink</author><text>&gt; The first [caveat] is that lzbench isn’t able to compress an entire directory like tar , so I opted to use lib&#x2F;npm.js for this test.<p>As opposed to... just using the npm-9.7.1.tar file that the other tests were just using (sorta barely internally to tar, but I don&#x27;t think tar does any fancy streaming or anything if you&#x27;re passing something via --use-compress-program, certainly nothing that would skew the results more than replacing all of npm.tar with just npm.js.)<p>In my local install, npm.tar is 25MB. npm.js is 16KB. It may not change the final outcome, but the data in the article do not support the conclusion. I would strongly suggest tarring up the npm directory and rerunning lzbench.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Honey, I shrunk the NPM package</title><url>https://jamiemagee.co.uk/blog/honey-i-shrunk-the-npm-package/</url></story> |
15,596,262 | 15,596,400 | 1 | 2 | 15,591,441 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kafkaesq</author><text><i>I&#x27;m confused about employers&#x27; desire to cast a wide net, only to filter through applicants thoughtlessly.</i><p>What&#x27;s to be confused about?<p>They don&#x27;t give a fuck - about you, or your time.<p>Why? Because they perceive (rightly or wrongly) that there&#x27;s no business incentive for them to do so.<p>Either way... if they leave you dangling, or make you answer just a few silly questions too many, and&#x2F;or sign up for (nearly) unlimited numbers of whiteboarding or hacker ranks sessions, or &quot;take-home projects&quot; they never (or at best only barely) look at, it&#x27;s because... look, do you think these people have time to <i>think</i> about what they&#x27;re doing, let alone how it affects the time and patience of those candidates they don&#x27;t necessarily want to hire... or even, in some abstract sense, their long-term reputation as a company that makes at least some kind of effort to create a not entirely-unpleasant interview process?<p>Of course not. It&#x27;s much easier to just throw shit at the wall -- or as it were, at the whiteboard -- and see what sticks.<p>So that&#x27;s what they do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lynnetye</author><text>I&#x27;m a web developer who has been thinking about engineering hiring and culture a LOT over the last 6 months. I&#x27;m confused about employers&#x27; desire to cast a wide net, only to filter through applicants thoughtlessly. Instead, why don&#x27;t engineering teams save time and energy by articulating their specific engineering values, and sharing that information up front? Be honest. Say divisive things. This will allow job-seekers to self-filter. Your goal is not to attract every software engineer. Your goal is to attract the people you are most likely to hire. (Career pages can be fluff, and job descriptions are dry and uninformative beyond a list of technologies.)<p>I&#x27;ve been working on Key Values (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keyvalues.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keyvalues.io</a>) for many months now trying to do just this: surface details about actual team members, day-to-day processes, and a team&#x27;s engineering culture. At least this way, we as engineers can be more informed when deciding where to apply, where we&#x27;ll devote hours&#x2F;energy interviewing. Of course engineers might be skeptical or have questions, but at least we have <i>something</i> to respond to.<p>Ultimately, neither job-seekers nor employers want to waste time and energy interviewing people they aren&#x27;t culturally aligned w&#x2F;. Maybe the lesson here is that engineers should seek out the teams that care about what they care about, whether it&#x27;s mentorship, high quality code, or work&#x2F;life balance. I know it&#x27;s controversial (especially here in HN), but is salary really more important than doing work that is exciting&#x2F;challenging&#x2F;energizing&#x2F;stimulating or feeling valued&#x2F;appreciated&#x2F;respected&#x2F;passionate?</text></item><item><author>beat</author><text>So here&#x27;s the thing... hiring at larger, growing companies often means weeding through a stack of a hundred resumes, for one or two or five roles. Most of those resumes need to go away. The interview process, for competent candidates, is going to cost you at bare minimum a half hour of one person&#x27;s time for initial screening. A quality interview is going to take a couple of hours each for a few important people - managers and senior&#x2F;lead tech staff, for engineering jobs. Considering pg&#x27;s maximum about maker schedules, the hiring process is <i>very</i> disruptive for the productivity of some of your most valuable tech staff.<p>So you want to get rid of 19 resumes out of 20, without ever interviewing them. And for that, you need heuristics. And those heuristics are, in all likelihood, going to be biased and stupid in some ways.<p>For example, I will automatically reject any resume that has more than two typos. I consider it evidence of carelessness - I don&#x27;t care if you can&#x27;t spell, but I do care if you don&#x27;t bother to run it past someone else who can for editing.<p>The danger is that a heuristic - any heuristic - for filtering out resumes will inevitably lead to missing some candidates who would excel in the role. Oh well. I&#x27;m not going to waste time interviewing every possible candidate, just hoping to catch that magic person. It&#x27;s irresponsible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)</title><url>http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cwyers</author><text>Applicants do not self-filter. If you&#x27;ve ever read resumes for a job listing that haven&#x27;t been prescreened, you&#x27;ll be blown away by how many people refuse to self-filter even for basic fitness for the job. Put out a job listing asking for a college degree, and you&#x27;ll get applicants who are still in school with their graduation date two years in the future looking for an internship. That&#x27;s an extreme, but people will apply for jobs they are very much not fit for. Frustrated job seekers will often submit things under the assumption that &quot;the worst they can do is tell me no&quot; (they&#x27;re not wrong). If someone is receiving unemployment benefits, they may have to apply to X number of jobs every week&#x2F;month in order to qualify. The incentive of the applicant is to apply to as many jobs as possible and get one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lynnetye</author><text>I&#x27;m a web developer who has been thinking about engineering hiring and culture a LOT over the last 6 months. I&#x27;m confused about employers&#x27; desire to cast a wide net, only to filter through applicants thoughtlessly. Instead, why don&#x27;t engineering teams save time and energy by articulating their specific engineering values, and sharing that information up front? Be honest. Say divisive things. This will allow job-seekers to self-filter. Your goal is not to attract every software engineer. Your goal is to attract the people you are most likely to hire. (Career pages can be fluff, and job descriptions are dry and uninformative beyond a list of technologies.)<p>I&#x27;ve been working on Key Values (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keyvalues.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keyvalues.io</a>) for many months now trying to do just this: surface details about actual team members, day-to-day processes, and a team&#x27;s engineering culture. At least this way, we as engineers can be more informed when deciding where to apply, where we&#x27;ll devote hours&#x2F;energy interviewing. Of course engineers might be skeptical or have questions, but at least we have <i>something</i> to respond to.<p>Ultimately, neither job-seekers nor employers want to waste time and energy interviewing people they aren&#x27;t culturally aligned w&#x2F;. Maybe the lesson here is that engineers should seek out the teams that care about what they care about, whether it&#x27;s mentorship, high quality code, or work&#x2F;life balance. I know it&#x27;s controversial (especially here in HN), but is salary really more important than doing work that is exciting&#x2F;challenging&#x2F;energizing&#x2F;stimulating or feeling valued&#x2F;appreciated&#x2F;respected&#x2F;passionate?</text></item><item><author>beat</author><text>So here&#x27;s the thing... hiring at larger, growing companies often means weeding through a stack of a hundred resumes, for one or two or five roles. Most of those resumes need to go away. The interview process, for competent candidates, is going to cost you at bare minimum a half hour of one person&#x27;s time for initial screening. A quality interview is going to take a couple of hours each for a few important people - managers and senior&#x2F;lead tech staff, for engineering jobs. Considering pg&#x27;s maximum about maker schedules, the hiring process is <i>very</i> disruptive for the productivity of some of your most valuable tech staff.<p>So you want to get rid of 19 resumes out of 20, without ever interviewing them. And for that, you need heuristics. And those heuristics are, in all likelihood, going to be biased and stupid in some ways.<p>For example, I will automatically reject any resume that has more than two typos. I consider it evidence of carelessness - I don&#x27;t care if you can&#x27;t spell, but I do care if you don&#x27;t bother to run it past someone else who can for editing.<p>The danger is that a heuristic - any heuristic - for filtering out resumes will inevitably lead to missing some candidates who would excel in the role. Oh well. I&#x27;m not going to waste time interviewing every possible candidate, just hoping to catch that magic person. It&#x27;s irresponsible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)</title><url>http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/</url></story> |
21,324,894 | 21,324,813 | 1 | 2 | 21,323,748 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jb775</author><text>I wonder how the Starlink latency compares to the current microwave technologies used by high frequency trading firms. Any slight latency improvement is a game-changer in the HFT industry.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tpmx</author><text>I saw something interesting the other day that I had previously missed:<p>Starlink has the potential to provide lower latency around the globe than terrestrial fiber because light travels faster in vacuum than in optical silica fiber.<p>&quot;Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discovery.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;id&#x2F;eprint&#x2F;10062262&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discovery.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;id&#x2F;eprint&#x2F;10062262&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;mjh&#x2F;starlink-draft.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;mjh&#x2F;starlink-draft.pdf</a><p>&quot;We conclude that a network built in this manner can provide lower latency communications than any possible terrestrial optical fiber network for communications over distances greater than about 3000 km.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/elon-musk-tweets-using-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ortusdux</author><text>I expect some early customers to be trading houses that want a faster connection for HFT.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tpmx</author><text>I saw something interesting the other day that I had previously missed:<p>Starlink has the potential to provide lower latency around the globe than terrestrial fiber because light travels faster in vacuum than in optical silica fiber.<p>&quot;Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discovery.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;id&#x2F;eprint&#x2F;10062262&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discovery.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;id&#x2F;eprint&#x2F;10062262&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;mjh&#x2F;starlink-draft.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;mjh&#x2F;starlink-draft.pdf</a><p>&quot;We conclude that a network built in this manner can provide lower latency communications than any possible terrestrial optical fiber network for communications over distances greater than about 3000 km.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/elon-musk-tweets-using-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet/</url></story> |
17,446,831 | 17,444,870 | 1 | 2 | 17,443,307 | train | <instructions>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>I agree. It&#x27;s on the biometric passports but not the previous generation, on p28 (and is abbreviated from the full quote printed in the article):<p>&quot;Every generation has the obligation to free men&#x27;s minds for a look at new worlds ... to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.&quot; --Ellison S. Onizuka<p>The background on that page is a palm tree and a silhouette that might be Diamond Head, but the facing page is a space scene (not to scale) with an earthrise over the moon and a satellite.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>&gt; You may not know it, but you carry some of his words with you in your own earthly exploration, printed in every U.S. passport.<p>This whole article was fantastic, but this was the coolest part for me. To learn that his quote is on every passport. I&#x27;ve never read the quotes on my passport before, but now I have.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion</title><url>http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/23902766/nasa-astronaut-ellison-onizuka-soccer-ball-survived-challenger-explosion</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rconti</author><text>As much as I hate the ESPN sports complex, everything I&#x27;ve seen from the ESPN documentaries has been fantastic.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>&gt; You may not know it, but you carry some of his words with you in your own earthly exploration, printed in every U.S. passport.<p>This whole article was fantastic, but this was the coolest part for me. To learn that his quote is on every passport. I&#x27;ve never read the quotes on my passport before, but now I have.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion</title><url>http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/23902766/nasa-astronaut-ellison-onizuka-soccer-ball-survived-challenger-explosion</url></story> |
11,078,164 | 11,076,091 | 1 | 2 | 11,074,638 | 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>beloch</author><text>While at university, you just take having free access to journals for granted. When you leave academia the withdrawal hits you. A lot of journals will make an article free <i>if</i> the author pays extra. (For those unfamiliar with how journals work, you submit your work, they get other scientists to review it for them for free, and then they charge you to publish it if the reviewers are all happy enough). The result of this practice is that you don&#x27;t automatically know if an article will be possible to view or not. You can&#x27;t just say, &quot;Oh that&#x27;s in Journal X, there&#x27;s no point in looking it up because it won&#x27;t be free&quot;. You have to check and be randomly denied!<p>The effect of this is that you can no longer freely follow the rabbit hole of an interesting chain of references, nor will you read articles outside your bailiwick for fun because they popped up on a blog somewhere. Even if you carefully restrict the journals you&#x27;re interested in reading, subscriptions will total several thousand per year. Single articles will be priced at $40-50, which is just nuts when you&#x27;re reading for curiosity. Even if it pertains to your job, it&#x27;s a chore to jump through the bureaucratic hoops to make your company pay for it. The end result is that, once you leave university, you&#x27;re cut off from legally obtaining access to a lot of interesting stuff. How does restricting knowledge in this manner serve science or industry?<p>In physics, arxiv is pretty freakin&#x27; awesome... for <i>recent</i> stuff. If you&#x27;re following a reference chain, you go off the reservation pretty darned quick. I admit, I&#x27;ve been guilty of using some slightly more labor intensive means of obtaining articles without paying for them, but it&#x27;s a pain. I honestly hope somebody succeeds in making all of history&#x27;s scientific publications freely and easily available online in a very permanent way. Hell, that research was practically all funded with public money anyways! Why should private companies like Elsevier be collecting money for research Schrödinger conducted on the public dime before anyone alive was born?<p>Sci-Hub is new to me, but it looks promising. This is something the world needs.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Robin Hood of Science</title><url>http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/a-pirate-bay-for-science</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>entee</author><text>No question scientific publishers are effectively a racket. The problem is that as a researcher you&#x27;re stuck. If you want tenure, you need a publication in a big journal. There are a few that are open access in some domains, notably biology, but even there Plos Biology et. al. doesn&#x27;t quite have the cachet of Nature&#x2F;Science&#x2F;Cell.<p>In other fields, it can be even harder to find a good open access solution. In chemistry for example, I can&#x27;t think of one. You can pay to have ACS or other publishers make something open access, but that&#x27;s more money out a researcher&#x27;s pocket that&#x27;s not going toward better science.<p>Sure, publishing has costs, but nowhere near what gets charged. Also, much of the labor of reviewing papers is also provided to publishers free of charge, scientists review each other&#x27;s work for no fee before acceptance in a journal that will charge dearly for it.<p>We as tax payers pay for this work, the people we pay to do it are caught in a catch-22 situation where they can either hand over their work to someone who will charge an arm and a leg, or be pushed out of science.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Robin Hood of Science</title><url>http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/a-pirate-bay-for-science</url></story> |
40,406,065 | 40,405,831 | 1 | 2 | 40,405,578 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kasabali</author><text>You don&#x27;t need to go through all that trouble to use most cheap DRAMless SSDs in pSLC mode. You can simply under-provision them by using only 25-33% capacity.<p>Most low end DRAMless controllers run in full disk caching mode. In other words, they first write *everything* in pSLC mode until all cells are written, only after there are no cells left they go back and rewrite&#x2F;group some cells as TLC&#x2F;QLC to free up some space. And they do it <i>only</i> when necessary, they don&#x27;t go and do that in background to free up more space.<p>So, if you simply create a partition 1&#x2F;3 (for TLC) or 1&#x2F;4 (for QLC) the size of the disk, make sure the remaining empty space is TRIMMED and never used, it&#x27;ll be <i>always</i> writing in pSLC mode.<p>You can verify the SSD you&#x27;re interested in is running in this mode by searching for a &quot;HD Tune&quot; <i>full drive</i> write benchmark results for it. If The write speed is fast for the first 1&#x2F;3-1&#x2F;4 of the drive, then it dips to abysmal speeds for the rest, you can be sure the drive is using the full drive caching mode. As I said, most of these low-end DRAMless Silicon Motion&#x2F;Phison&#x2F;Maxion controllers are, but of course the manufacturer might&#x27;ve modified the firmware to use a smaller sized cache (like Crucial did for the test subject BX500).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD</title><url>https://theoverclockingpage.com/2024/05/13/tutorial-transforming-a-qlc-ssd-into-an-slc-ssd-dramatically-increasing-the-drives-endurance/?lang=en</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickcw</author><text>This hack seems to take a 480GB SSD and transform it into a 120GB SSD<p>However the write endurance (the amount of data you can write to the SSD before expecting failures) increases from 120TB to 4000TB which could be a very useful tradeoff, for example if you were using the disk to store logs.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen this offered by the manufacturers though (maybe I haven&#x27;t looked on the right place), I wonder why not?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD</title><url>https://theoverclockingpage.com/2024/05/13/tutorial-transforming-a-qlc-ssd-into-an-slc-ssd-dramatically-increasing-the-drives-endurance/?lang=en</url></story> |
29,315,747 | 29,315,525 | 1 | 3 | 29,305,867 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dustintrex</author><text>Is this <i>really</i> a risk in practice though? I can&#x27;t find any cases of this actually happening on the CDC&#x27;s botulism site: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;botulism&#x2F;surveillance.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;botulism&#x2F;surveillance.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Stratoscope</author><text>Pop quiz!<p>Do you ever buy frozen vacuum-sealed fish? The kind where each piece is sealed in its own plastic pouch? It is convenient and delicious. To me it can taste fresher than some &quot;fresh&quot; fish. One reason is that the sealed pouch keeps oxygen out.<p>Have you wondered why it says &quot;remove all packaging before defrosting&quot;? And ignored that advice like I did for many years?<p>After all, the fish seems to defrost just fine in its original vacuum-sealed packaging, whether you defrost it in the refrigerator or in a cold water bath. And it is so convenient to leave it in the pouch while defrosting.<p>Well, there is a reason to take those instructions seriously. The vacuum-sealed package is an anerobic environment, just right for botulinum and listeria.<p>So unwrap the fish, let it have that little kiss of oxygen, and then rewrap it for defrosting.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=remove+frozen+fish+from+packaging" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=remove+frozen+fish+from+pack...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The World's Deadliest Thing</title><url>https://www.the-angry-chef.com/blog/the-worlds-deadliest-thing</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gibolt</author><text>This is similar for red meat. Vacuum sealed at the source will keep it fresh longer.<p>Here is a great video on what color meat should be to be considered &#x27;fresh&#x27; and how to handle it from there: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;82KT_nb26-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;82KT_nb26-4</a><p>The rest of the channel is great if you are at all into cooking.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Stratoscope</author><text>Pop quiz!<p>Do you ever buy frozen vacuum-sealed fish? The kind where each piece is sealed in its own plastic pouch? It is convenient and delicious. To me it can taste fresher than some &quot;fresh&quot; fish. One reason is that the sealed pouch keeps oxygen out.<p>Have you wondered why it says &quot;remove all packaging before defrosting&quot;? And ignored that advice like I did for many years?<p>After all, the fish seems to defrost just fine in its original vacuum-sealed packaging, whether you defrost it in the refrigerator or in a cold water bath. And it is so convenient to leave it in the pouch while defrosting.<p>Well, there is a reason to take those instructions seriously. The vacuum-sealed package is an anerobic environment, just right for botulinum and listeria.<p>So unwrap the fish, let it have that little kiss of oxygen, and then rewrap it for defrosting.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=remove+frozen+fish+from+packaging" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=remove+frozen+fish+from+pack...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The World's Deadliest Thing</title><url>https://www.the-angry-chef.com/blog/the-worlds-deadliest-thing</url></story> |
41,030,593 | 41,029,648 | 1 | 3 | 41,027,320 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xp84</author><text>One nitpick with this: “Ordinary” people mostly don’t own any IP that earns them any income.<p>Most who earn their income from IP are society’s elites. Perhaps the lowest-paid least elite IP profession I can think of is journalists, and I’m pretty sure they are doing works for hire and not owning the copyright.<p>Arguably when it comes to the IP questions, ordinary people are far more likely to be benefiting from AI (for instance getting it to make art they couldn’t express because of lack of talent) than they are to be be robbed of their IP in a way that matters.<p>Obviously the question of AI harming ordinary people in terms of automating mundane jobs is a very real one, but interestingly it’s totally irrelevant to the IP issues.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oldkinglog</author><text>&gt; I think the worst possible outcome is a licensing regime that means that Disney or Paramount or Elsevier or whoever all get to have a monopoly on training large models within their niche.<p>Why is this the worst possible outcome? Companies using AI would be training with properties they own or have licensed appropriately, rather than the existing scheme of ignoring copyright law to extract $$$ from the creative works of ordinary people.</text></item><item><author>hedora</author><text>I think the worst possible outcome is a licensing regime that means that Disney or Paramount or Elsevier or whoever all get to have a monopoly on training large models within their niche. My guess is that any successful calls for regulation will have this outcome, which means that individuals won&#x27;t be able to legally use AI-based tools except when creating works for hire, etc.<p>Currently, I think most of the training use cases can be covered by the existing &quot;you can&#x27;t copyright a fact&quot; carve out in the law. That&#x27;s probably better for society and creators than my licensing regime scenario.<p>Anyway, I&#x27;m rooting for &quot;no regulation&quot; for now. The whole industry is still being screwed over by market distortions created by the DMCA, and this could easily be 10x worse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The data that powers AI is disappearing fast</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/technology/ai-data-restrictions.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rcxdude</author><text>Because it would simply perpetuate the current copyright system which primarily rewards the large distribution companies disproportionately to the creators, especially smaller ones, while doing little to alleviate the effects on the job market for said creatives, in fact enhancing this effect by effectively feeding even more of the value into existing license holders as opposed to those creating new works (now instead of new works with existing franchises primarily rewarding those who own the franchises, this would effectively apply to all new works, if generative AI were to become mandatory to compete).</text><parent_chain><item><author>oldkinglog</author><text>&gt; I think the worst possible outcome is a licensing regime that means that Disney or Paramount or Elsevier or whoever all get to have a monopoly on training large models within their niche.<p>Why is this the worst possible outcome? Companies using AI would be training with properties they own or have licensed appropriately, rather than the existing scheme of ignoring copyright law to extract $$$ from the creative works of ordinary people.</text></item><item><author>hedora</author><text>I think the worst possible outcome is a licensing regime that means that Disney or Paramount or Elsevier or whoever all get to have a monopoly on training large models within their niche. My guess is that any successful calls for regulation will have this outcome, which means that individuals won&#x27;t be able to legally use AI-based tools except when creating works for hire, etc.<p>Currently, I think most of the training use cases can be covered by the existing &quot;you can&#x27;t copyright a fact&quot; carve out in the law. That&#x27;s probably better for society and creators than my licensing regime scenario.<p>Anyway, I&#x27;m rooting for &quot;no regulation&quot; for now. The whole industry is still being screwed over by market distortions created by the DMCA, and this could easily be 10x worse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The data that powers AI is disappearing fast</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/technology/ai-data-restrictions.html</url></story> |
21,058,060 | 21,057,693 | 1 | 2 | 21,041,216 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hos234</author><text>&gt; the well-to-do educated class have simply stopped looking at the country as a whole<p>There is lot of misguided guilt-tripping that goes on in India. Misguided because it doesn&#x27;t produce any outcomes.<p>I feel India is massive and most people including Indians don&#x27;t realize how massive.<p>I worked on project a few years back, which required traveling around&#x2F;studying just one district. That district alone had a population larger than Norway. And India has 700+ districts. Just think about that for a moment.<p>We might as well be talking about 700 countries when we talk about India. There are many districts doing really well and healthy and many on the other end of the spectrum. Whenever people talk about &quot;India&quot; as a whole they don&#x27;t know what they are talking about. Get them to be specific about a district and the conversation gets much more productive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brainless</author><text>I am an Indian, in India. To be honest I think our current situation is not just a slowdown. I feel the country has become largely divided when it comes to day-to-day economics.<p>I am sitting in a co-working space in Bangalore, I do that in Kolkata often and will head to Mumbai soon. I hardly see people talking about slowdown in these spaces. The cities seemingly are powered more by funds from outside and are alienated to the issues in agriculture or manufacturing.<p>Not just the government, but the well-to-do educated class have simply stopped looking at the country as a whole - that is my feeling and I am guilty of the same.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>From Underwear to Cars, India’s Economy Is Fraying</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/business/economy/india-economy-trade.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>justforfunhere</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; that is my feeling and I am guilty of the same.<p>To acknowledge the problem is the first step towards its solution.<p>Your observation is very similar to what I have felt as well. There is a wide urban-rural gap.<p>India is primarily an agricultural country. A fairly large part of Indian population resides in villages and is directly or indirectly dependent upon agriculture sector.<p>The current state of economy also stems from the agrarian crisis that has been brewing for a long time now.<p>I don&#x27;t think this government is exclusively to be blamed for the plight of farmers, but given the mandate they got in 2014, they had the means to enable farmer friendly policies - unfortunately they did not.<p>I was actually traveling in different parts of India when the demonetization move happened. I saw firsthand the immediate aftermath in both the urban and rural India. There were diverse opinions, but given how simple, credulous and sheep-like most of the Indian population is, most people I talked to were ready to bear the brunt because our leader told us it was overall a good move for the country. These people didn&#x27;t realize how it would come back to haunt them when they start loosing their livelihood in the coming times.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine anywhere else in the world, where people wouldn&#x27;t have protested on a mass scale, if such a sudden, disastrous move would have been made on their lives without consulting them.<p>If you read about the history of Independent India, we still haven&#x27;t settled down as a nation yet. Each decade has brought it&#x27;s fair share of challenges and the churn is always on. I hope the current situation is just one of those and the idea of India, as what our forefathers deemed it to be, shall survive to fight another fight.<p>Edit: Grammar, Typos</text><parent_chain><item><author>brainless</author><text>I am an Indian, in India. To be honest I think our current situation is not just a slowdown. I feel the country has become largely divided when it comes to day-to-day economics.<p>I am sitting in a co-working space in Bangalore, I do that in Kolkata often and will head to Mumbai soon. I hardly see people talking about slowdown in these spaces. The cities seemingly are powered more by funds from outside and are alienated to the issues in agriculture or manufacturing.<p>Not just the government, but the well-to-do educated class have simply stopped looking at the country as a whole - that is my feeling and I am guilty of the same.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>From Underwear to Cars, India’s Economy Is Fraying</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/business/economy/india-economy-trade.html</url></story> |
32,348,902 | 32,346,070 | 1 | 2 | 32,343,370 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>markmiro</author><text>If these proofs really are like codebases, wouldn&#x27;t we eventually expect these proofs to be written as software?<p>You&#x27;d install lemmas using a package manager and then import them into your proof.<p>You can then install updates to proofs. Maybe someone has found the proof to be wrong, in which case you either find a different proof or invalidate the lemma so all the dependents can be invalidated automatically.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jstogin</author><text>I see a number of people commenting on the size of the proof (roughly 900 pages) which is not uncommon in this particular sub-field of PDEs. For context, I had the distinct privilege of studying under Sergiu Klainerman for my PhD on this topic. My own dissertation was about 600 pages. From my personal experience, I have come to understand a few factors that contribute to large proof sizes.
1. A lot of work is on inequalities involving integrals with many terms. These are difficult to express without taking up substantial space on the page. Some inequality derivations themselves might take multiple pages if you want to go step-by-step to illustrate how they are done.
2. Writing a proof of this size is not unlike building a medium-to-large size codebase. You have a lot of Theorems&#x2F;Classes that need to fit together, and by employing some form of separation of concerns you can end up with something quite large and complex.
3. Verifying this kind of proof isn&#x27;t usually done all at once. A lot of verification happens on the individual lemmas before they&#x27;re pieced together. Once the entire paper is written, verification is more of a process where you rely on intuition for what the &quot;hard parts&quot; of the proof are and drilling down on those. But when writing the paper, you must of course account for all the details regardless of whether they are &quot;easy&quot; or &quot;hard&quot;, and there can be many.<p>Having said all this, I have not read their paper and it has been 5 years since I was in this space. This is a truly remarkable accomplishment and the result of decades of hard work!<p>I&#x27;ll end with an amusing anecdote. A fellow grad student, when deciding between U of Chicago and Princeton for his PhD program was pitched by a U of Chicago professor who once said something like &quot;Of course you could go to Princeton and write 700 page papers that nobody reads.&quot; When this story was shared during a conversation over tea at Princeton, another professor retorted, &quot;Or you could have gone to U Chicago to work with him and write 70 page papers that nobody reads!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Black holes finally proven mathematically stable</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-holes-finally-proven-mathematically-stable-20220804/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whatshisface</author><text>Can anyone build on results that are so hard-won and complex that understanding them is as much effort as learning the basics of some entire fields of study?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jstogin</author><text>I see a number of people commenting on the size of the proof (roughly 900 pages) which is not uncommon in this particular sub-field of PDEs. For context, I had the distinct privilege of studying under Sergiu Klainerman for my PhD on this topic. My own dissertation was about 600 pages. From my personal experience, I have come to understand a few factors that contribute to large proof sizes.
1. A lot of work is on inequalities involving integrals with many terms. These are difficult to express without taking up substantial space on the page. Some inequality derivations themselves might take multiple pages if you want to go step-by-step to illustrate how they are done.
2. Writing a proof of this size is not unlike building a medium-to-large size codebase. You have a lot of Theorems&#x2F;Classes that need to fit together, and by employing some form of separation of concerns you can end up with something quite large and complex.
3. Verifying this kind of proof isn&#x27;t usually done all at once. A lot of verification happens on the individual lemmas before they&#x27;re pieced together. Once the entire paper is written, verification is more of a process where you rely on intuition for what the &quot;hard parts&quot; of the proof are and drilling down on those. But when writing the paper, you must of course account for all the details regardless of whether they are &quot;easy&quot; or &quot;hard&quot;, and there can be many.<p>Having said all this, I have not read their paper and it has been 5 years since I was in this space. This is a truly remarkable accomplishment and the result of decades of hard work!<p>I&#x27;ll end with an amusing anecdote. A fellow grad student, when deciding between U of Chicago and Princeton for his PhD program was pitched by a U of Chicago professor who once said something like &quot;Of course you could go to Princeton and write 700 page papers that nobody reads.&quot; When this story was shared during a conversation over tea at Princeton, another professor retorted, &quot;Or you could have gone to U Chicago to work with him and write 70 page papers that nobody reads!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Black holes finally proven mathematically stable</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-holes-finally-proven-mathematically-stable-20220804/</url></story> |
22,954,439 | 22,954,257 | 1 | 2 | 22,953,484 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stephenr</author><text>Please investigate &#x27;safe&#x27; php file upload handling, specifically: the `is_uploaded_file` and `move_uploaded_file` functions.<p>Also perhaps consider the `mkdir` function, and perhaps &#x27;file_put_contents&#x27;. Your reliance on shell functions via `exec` is quite concerning, given what you&#x27;re doing.<p>Lastly, I&#x27;d suggest either `random_int` or `random_bytes` (combined with e.g. bin2hex, or a hashing function to get an ascii string) instead of uniqid.<p>I&#x27;m not quite sure why there&#x27;s a check on user agent, to carry out the same logic regardless?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Host your own minimal file sharing site (now with expiring files)</title><url>https://github.com/nikosch86/file-upload</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oefrha</author><text>There are already transfer.sh [1] and other established projects (which I can’t recall right now) that serve this purpose. With more fine-grained control too. A golang compiled executable is also arguably more lightweight than a php app, whether the feature set&#x2F;code is simpler or not.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dutchcoders&#x2F;transfer.sh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dutchcoders&#x2F;transfer.sh&#x2F;</a><p>Edit: Since more than one person has replied with non-self-hosted solutions, I should note that <i>transfer.sh can be self-hosted</i>, although you can also use the website itself.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Host your own minimal file sharing site (now with expiring files)</title><url>https://github.com/nikosch86/file-upload</url></story> |
5,062,953 | 5,062,838 | 1 | 2 | 5,060,076 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>summerdown2</author><text>We know what the weather is.<p>The word 'April' tells us it's a time and place similar to today.<p>Clocks striking thirteen tells us it's somewhere different.<p>Thirteen is a traditionally unlucky number.<p>It's a classic science fiction method of establishing setting. We're someplace similar to today but a little different, all transmitted in very few words. The effect is a tiny bit unsettling... if they changed the clocks to chime on thirteen, what else is wrong?<p>It's similar to Heinlein's famous way of indicating we're in the future in a single line: "The door dilated."<p>More here:<p><a href="http://fritzfreiheit.com/wiki/About_Five_Thousand_Seven_Hundred_Fifty_Words" rel="nofollow">http://fritzfreiheit.com/wiki/About_Five_Thousand_Seven_Hund...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>philh</author><text>&#62; "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." --George Orwell, 1984<p>I think I've frequently heard this called a great opening line, and I've never worked out why. It doesn't tell me anything that I care about, it doesn't seem especially clever, and I don't notice myself having any other discernible emotional reaction to it.<p>Can someone explain?</text></item><item><author>jonnathanson</author><text>Most people stop reading something after the first few sentences. In that crucial 10 to 15 seconds, a book (or essay, or article, or blog post) has to make, and win, a subconscious appeal to your attention. Your reader's attention span is like a snotty doorman at a hot club. Your opening sentence needs to grab his interest and sneak the rest of the piece into the door.<p>Consider the following examples from fiction:<p>"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." --George Orwell, <i>1984</i><p>"It was a pleasure to burn." --Ray Bradbury, <i>Fahrenheit 451</i><p>"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." --Franz Kafka, <i>The Metamorphosis</i><p>Or these examples from nonfiction:<p>"Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing flourescent tubes, the American market doesn't present itself as having very much to do with Nature." --Michael Pollan, <i>The Omnivore's Dilemma</i><p>"I like to take my time when I pronounce someone dead." --Jane Churchon, "The Dead Book"<p>"Out of nowhere I developed this lump." --David Sedaris, "Old Faithful"<p>This is not to suggest that opening lines should be pure gimmickry, or that they should be conceived entirely apart from the rest of the piece itself. Provocation for provocation's sake is a game of diminishing returns. Rather, the opening line should immediately intrigue the reader by establishing a compelling tone -- one that the rest of the work will follow.<p>Compelling does not necessarily mean brief, though in modern practice, the two are frequently corelated. That being said, some of the best opening lines in literary history are long and winding. The key is setting up intrigue, however many words that may take.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Write an Opening Sentence</title><url>http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-write-opening-sentence.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>nagrom</author><text>It sets the scene really well: "A bright, cold day in April" is evocative of exactly that. It's not pretentious and it immediately puts a setting in the readers mind.<p>"and the clocks were striking thirteen." is an immediate juxtaposition of something non-intuitive. The first reaction is "Clocks don't strike thirteen! They strike a maximum of twelve!". It's just nonintuitive enough without necessarily being obviously nonsense. And so the reader is engaged to read the next sentence to find out what he means by thirteen. Get the reader to read the next sentence enough, and you've tricked them into reading the book ;-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>philh</author><text>&#62; "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." --George Orwell, 1984<p>I think I've frequently heard this called a great opening line, and I've never worked out why. It doesn't tell me anything that I care about, it doesn't seem especially clever, and I don't notice myself having any other discernible emotional reaction to it.<p>Can someone explain?</text></item><item><author>jonnathanson</author><text>Most people stop reading something after the first few sentences. In that crucial 10 to 15 seconds, a book (or essay, or article, or blog post) has to make, and win, a subconscious appeal to your attention. Your reader's attention span is like a snotty doorman at a hot club. Your opening sentence needs to grab his interest and sneak the rest of the piece into the door.<p>Consider the following examples from fiction:<p>"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." --George Orwell, <i>1984</i><p>"It was a pleasure to burn." --Ray Bradbury, <i>Fahrenheit 451</i><p>"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." --Franz Kafka, <i>The Metamorphosis</i><p>Or these examples from nonfiction:<p>"Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing flourescent tubes, the American market doesn't present itself as having very much to do with Nature." --Michael Pollan, <i>The Omnivore's Dilemma</i><p>"I like to take my time when I pronounce someone dead." --Jane Churchon, "The Dead Book"<p>"Out of nowhere I developed this lump." --David Sedaris, "Old Faithful"<p>This is not to suggest that opening lines should be pure gimmickry, or that they should be conceived entirely apart from the rest of the piece itself. Provocation for provocation's sake is a game of diminishing returns. Rather, the opening line should immediately intrigue the reader by establishing a compelling tone -- one that the rest of the work will follow.<p>Compelling does not necessarily mean brief, though in modern practice, the two are frequently corelated. That being said, some of the best opening lines in literary history are long and winding. The key is setting up intrigue, however many words that may take.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Write an Opening Sentence</title><url>http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-write-opening-sentence.html</url></story> |
31,022,755 | 31,021,380 | 1 | 2 | 31,000,658 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>Here is one strategy that I enjoy:<p>Start a notes checklist on your phone of what you could have done to prevent the situation in the first place.<p>It will grow to probably over 40-50 things over the course of two months. And you will start to realize as you read the list the types of themes that are upsetting and stressful to her.<p>This has helped but your mileage may vary, it is illuminating though…</text><parent_chain><item><author>dre85</author><text>I&#x27;m in a marriage and I struggle with this same question. I sometimes feel like the things my wife cares about are essentially endless. Like if I bend to &quot;her way&quot; and put effort into consistently placing the dirty cup in the dishwasher, next week something new comes up. Then it&#x27;s the clothes on the floor of my side of the bed or not hanging my jacket or not putting my shoes away perfectly in the closet. At times I get the sensation that it just becomes like waking on eggshells to constantly mitigate somebody&#x27;s upsetness of irrelevant (to me) things.<p>I found the article really well written and I think a lot of people will be able to relate to it. Consideration for our partners and compromise is a tricky and interesting domain. I&#x27;m realizing more and more that there can be a lot of complexity behind benign everyday situations like a dirty cup beside the sink. Like how can a dirty dish even perturb somebody so much in the first place? Is it related to some trauma or childhood conditioning? Can it be addressed somehow?</text></item><item><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>Thanks for writing this. I have a question for you, since my marriage ended for reasons similar to this author&#x27;s. Why is the wife&#x27;s desire more important than his? In other words, why must the husband live the way the wife wants and compromise is not acceptable (especially if they share cleaning responsibilities) -- compromise could look like &quot;sometimes I do it her way, sometimes I do it my way.&quot; Why can&#x27;t a partner let go of the little things and accept that living with another person (spouse or roommate) means you don&#x27;t get to set all the rules on how both of you live?<p>We are always told &quot;Accept your significant other rather than trying to change them.&quot; Why does not that apply here?</text></item><item><author>js2</author><text>A lot of folks are misinterpreting this article, or just using it as a jumping off point to get something off their chest.<p>This article is not literally about the dirty dish. It&#x27;s not even about compromise. Rather, the article is really about having healthy communication with your partner.<p>The author&#x27;s wife was trying to communicate to him: &quot;when you do X, I feel like Y, and it hurts me.&quot;<p>But he wasn&#x27;t <i>hearing</i> it. Not really. Now maybe his wife wasn&#x27;t communicating as effectively as she could. But the author seems to indicate that she was and that he could have done more to recognize what she was saying and to empathize with her. He didn&#x27;t get it, and now he clearly regrets it. It&#x27;s too bad a healthy relationship didn&#x27;t come out of that, but sometimes there&#x27;s just too much damage.<p>My wife and I have been together for 33 years, married for 26 of those (we met in HS). I&#x27;m extremely fortunate that she&#x27;s empathetic, compassionate, and has the patience of Job. Because it turns out that for a large portion of our marriage, I behaved like an asshole. She&#x27;s not confrontational, while I thrive on it. We had a rule never to let a day end angry at each other, but mostly due to faults on my side she wasn&#x27;t always heard because I wasn&#x27;t open to listening to her. This built a lot of resentment. It came to a head years ago, but we worked through it and our relationship is healthier than it&#x27;s ever been.<p>&quot;You&#x27;re not wrong Walter; you&#x27;re just an asshole.&quot;<p>The hard work in a relationship isn&#x27;t compromise. That&#x27;s table stakes. The hard work is communication.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/04/marriage-problems-fight-dishes/629526/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>webmobdev</author><text>&gt; <i>At times I get the sensation that it just becomes like waking on eggshells to constantly mitigate somebody&#x27;s upsetness of irrelevant (to me) things.</i><p>If you are not the one with the issues, then it sounds like your wife may be an <i>Obsessive Compulsive Personality Type</i> - this type of personality has a need for orderliness, neatness, perfectionism and mental and interpersonal control. Basically, their thinking is that they have &quot;figured out&quot; a process for doing something, and if that process is not followed to the dot, it will not result in the desired optimal &#x2F; perfect result (this causes them anxiety, which makes them feel that they are losing control over their life &#x2F; relationship, and they become even more obsessed and compulsive to &quot;regain&quot; control).<p>They are a bit difficult to live with, even if they can be really wonderful, caring and loving human beings. Often some counselling for anxiety (consider cognitive behaviour therapy), and insights into how their unrealistic expectation and actions can be troubling in a relationship can often make them more empathetic to the other person in a relationship, and smooth things over.<p>(Be wary, as my assumptions about your wife could be quite wrong. Best to consult a therapist).</text><parent_chain><item><author>dre85</author><text>I&#x27;m in a marriage and I struggle with this same question. I sometimes feel like the things my wife cares about are essentially endless. Like if I bend to &quot;her way&quot; and put effort into consistently placing the dirty cup in the dishwasher, next week something new comes up. Then it&#x27;s the clothes on the floor of my side of the bed or not hanging my jacket or not putting my shoes away perfectly in the closet. At times I get the sensation that it just becomes like waking on eggshells to constantly mitigate somebody&#x27;s upsetness of irrelevant (to me) things.<p>I found the article really well written and I think a lot of people will be able to relate to it. Consideration for our partners and compromise is a tricky and interesting domain. I&#x27;m realizing more and more that there can be a lot of complexity behind benign everyday situations like a dirty cup beside the sink. Like how can a dirty dish even perturb somebody so much in the first place? Is it related to some trauma or childhood conditioning? Can it be addressed somehow?</text></item><item><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>Thanks for writing this. I have a question for you, since my marriage ended for reasons similar to this author&#x27;s. Why is the wife&#x27;s desire more important than his? In other words, why must the husband live the way the wife wants and compromise is not acceptable (especially if they share cleaning responsibilities) -- compromise could look like &quot;sometimes I do it her way, sometimes I do it my way.&quot; Why can&#x27;t a partner let go of the little things and accept that living with another person (spouse or roommate) means you don&#x27;t get to set all the rules on how both of you live?<p>We are always told &quot;Accept your significant other rather than trying to change them.&quot; Why does not that apply here?</text></item><item><author>js2</author><text>A lot of folks are misinterpreting this article, or just using it as a jumping off point to get something off their chest.<p>This article is not literally about the dirty dish. It&#x27;s not even about compromise. Rather, the article is really about having healthy communication with your partner.<p>The author&#x27;s wife was trying to communicate to him: &quot;when you do X, I feel like Y, and it hurts me.&quot;<p>But he wasn&#x27;t <i>hearing</i> it. Not really. Now maybe his wife wasn&#x27;t communicating as effectively as she could. But the author seems to indicate that she was and that he could have done more to recognize what she was saying and to empathize with her. He didn&#x27;t get it, and now he clearly regrets it. It&#x27;s too bad a healthy relationship didn&#x27;t come out of that, but sometimes there&#x27;s just too much damage.<p>My wife and I have been together for 33 years, married for 26 of those (we met in HS). I&#x27;m extremely fortunate that she&#x27;s empathetic, compassionate, and has the patience of Job. Because it turns out that for a large portion of our marriage, I behaved like an asshole. She&#x27;s not confrontational, while I thrive on it. We had a rule never to let a day end angry at each other, but mostly due to faults on my side she wasn&#x27;t always heard because I wasn&#x27;t open to listening to her. This built a lot of resentment. It came to a head years ago, but we worked through it and our relationship is healthier than it&#x27;s ever been.<p>&quot;You&#x27;re not wrong Walter; you&#x27;re just an asshole.&quot;<p>The hard work in a relationship isn&#x27;t compromise. That&#x27;s table stakes. The hard work is communication.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/04/marriage-problems-fight-dishes/629526/</url></story> |
35,076,525 | 35,076,408 | 1 | 3 | 35,069,740 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kccqzy</author><text>Someone should sell a complete solution to make it easy for non-techies to use. Sell a small computer (perhaps a Raspberry Pi) with the right software installed, the Coral accelerator, and several cameras bundled in a package. Make it clear that this is just a sale of hardware, not cloud data storage. It should be as easy as buying a Ring or a Nest, otherwise it will forever just be tech people&#x27;s toys.</text><parent_chain><item><author>l72</author><text>I have several cameras hooked up to an NVR that has 2TB drives for constant recording (when space runs out older recordings are deleted. I usually have a few weeks available).<p>I then have frigate[1] set up on a small fitlet (with a usb CORAL TPU), which gives me excellent control over detection (Humans vs dogs vs cars vs ...). Frigate grabs the streams from my NVR over rstp.<p>This is then hooked up to my Home Assistant where I have various rules to send alerts to my mobile devices based upon object detected, location of camera, and time of day.<p>Everything is internal. I have an always on wireguard on my family&#x27;s mobile devices allowing them to access the cameras and home assistant alerts from anywhere.<p>It works great, but I have refused to set this up for my extended family (even though they have the same NVR and _really_ want my system), just because there are a lot of moving pieces that need to be maintained (not to mention having a server + vpn)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frigate.video&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frigate.video&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>hot_gril</author><text>&gt; stop using third party vendors for data storage<p>No. I need a system that detects motion during scheduled times (ideally only humans) and buzzes my phone instantly, giving me a live view and saving a recording around that time. And most of all, it has to be reliable enough that I don&#x27;t question whether it&#x27;s working. Anyone who says this is easy is underestimating it.<p>Something on-prem could do all that, but nobody sells it, and most DIY systems don&#x27;t have those features (does yours?). So here I am with the Ring.</text></item><item><author>giantg2</author><text>&quot;Who owns private home security footage&quot;<p>I do. DIY on-site only system.<p>Pretty simple really - stop using third party vendors for data storage. They&#x27;re cheap and easy because <i>your data</i> is usually the product. Sure, you would still be forced to comply with warrants&#x2F;subpoenas if they think you have data, but that&#x27;s basically unescapable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who owns private home security footage, and who can get access to it?</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/privacy-loophole-ring-doorbell-00084979</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_rs</author><text>Could you share which model cameras and NVR you&#x27;re using? I&#x27;ve been wanting to put something together like this for a while, but all of the solutions I&#x27;ve seen require a Windows box (usually running Blue Iris) for the NVR which I want to avoid</text><parent_chain><item><author>l72</author><text>I have several cameras hooked up to an NVR that has 2TB drives for constant recording (when space runs out older recordings are deleted. I usually have a few weeks available).<p>I then have frigate[1] set up on a small fitlet (with a usb CORAL TPU), which gives me excellent control over detection (Humans vs dogs vs cars vs ...). Frigate grabs the streams from my NVR over rstp.<p>This is then hooked up to my Home Assistant where I have various rules to send alerts to my mobile devices based upon object detected, location of camera, and time of day.<p>Everything is internal. I have an always on wireguard on my family&#x27;s mobile devices allowing them to access the cameras and home assistant alerts from anywhere.<p>It works great, but I have refused to set this up for my extended family (even though they have the same NVR and _really_ want my system), just because there are a lot of moving pieces that need to be maintained (not to mention having a server + vpn)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frigate.video&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frigate.video&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>hot_gril</author><text>&gt; stop using third party vendors for data storage<p>No. I need a system that detects motion during scheduled times (ideally only humans) and buzzes my phone instantly, giving me a live view and saving a recording around that time. And most of all, it has to be reliable enough that I don&#x27;t question whether it&#x27;s working. Anyone who says this is easy is underestimating it.<p>Something on-prem could do all that, but nobody sells it, and most DIY systems don&#x27;t have those features (does yours?). So here I am with the Ring.</text></item><item><author>giantg2</author><text>&quot;Who owns private home security footage&quot;<p>I do. DIY on-site only system.<p>Pretty simple really - stop using third party vendors for data storage. They&#x27;re cheap and easy because <i>your data</i> is usually the product. Sure, you would still be forced to comply with warrants&#x2F;subpoenas if they think you have data, but that&#x27;s basically unescapable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who owns private home security footage, and who can get access to it?</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/privacy-loophole-ring-doorbell-00084979</url></story> |
3,903,348 | 3,903,416 | 1 | 2 | 3,903,170 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kjleftin2</author><text>"I figured getting a job at Stack Exchange is at least as difficult at getting a job at Google (to which I did not apply, because I thought I wasn't smart enough)"<p>As a Google engineer who has spent lots of time interviewing and recruiting, this is an attitude that potential candidates need to get over. Google's a software company that will ask you software questions during the interview. There's no magic aptitude test. There are no riddles. Just read Steve Yegge's great blog post on interview preparation and apply! (<a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-google.html" rel="nofollow">http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...</a>). If you can code and solve problems, you might get hired.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I got a job at Stack Overflow</title><url>http://blog.mattjibson.com/2012/04/How-I-got-a-job-at-Stack-Overflow-8</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lazerwalker</author><text>"Let's compare: the first three declined offers took two weeks to respond to me. Stack Exchange took two minutes."<p>I was job-hunting recently (also looking to move to NYC, no less), and experienced a similar phenomenon: a few of the places I interviewed seemed like they were good matches (smart people working on cool things, my interviews went fairly well), but they took weeks to respond to anything. The team I ended up joining made me an offer less than a day after my on-site interview.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I got a job at Stack Overflow</title><url>http://blog.mattjibson.com/2012/04/How-I-got-a-job-at-Stack-Overflow-8</url></story> |
40,573,009 | 40,572,875 | 1 | 2 | 40,572,289 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Brian_K_White</author><text>They can charge a recurring and increasing subscription fee for on-line accounts and services. And of course data.<p>Before they can do that, they first have to get everyone dependant on the on-line account and services, because most would not voluntarily knowingly agree to be charged a subscription just to use their own computer, not intentionally using any external services.<p>So step 1 is do not charge for the basic account combined with force everyone to use it.<p>Most <i>will</i> go along with this because it&#x27;s free this exact minute and most people follow strictly the path of least immediate resistance. You can make most people do anything you want by just making anything else 0.0001% more difficult. This is not cynical, this is studied.<p>In the olde dayes, if you wanted to sell a subscription service, you created a service and then convinced people to become paying customers.<p>MS is tricking everyone into becoming customers first, and then when the deed is done, inform them they are now paying customers.<p>And of course also data.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>Other than being able to gobble up user data and being able to associate it with a person (or at least an email address) and later sell that information, what is Microsoft reasoning for refusing local accounts?<p>This whole obsession with forcing users to create a Microsoft account is really weird. It may provides some features for certain types of users, but I really don&#x27;t see any reason for forcing a Microsoft account. Apple also REALLY want you to have an Apple ID, but you don&#x27;t have to.<p>I still fail to see why Microsoft doesn&#x27;t go all in on privacy, do they really need the extra profit from advertising?<p>Microsoft doesn&#x27;t give a shit about the desktop anymore and at this point they&#x27;re also stopping to care about the business customers, unless they can move them to subscription based services in the cloud.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/2354686/microsoft-blocks-windows-11-workaround-local-accounts.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>andyferris</author><text>The reasoning is Microsoft is now in the services (as well as advertising) business, with traditionally-licensed desktop software revenue becoming less and less important. Which you kinda stated in the last sentence.<p>The reasoning for not going all in on privacy is because they want to maximise services and advertising revenue, and they also sell to government and enterprise who actually like the ability to spy on their employees. There&#x27;s not much financial incentive or government regulation to make them focus on consumer&#x2F;end-user privacy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>Other than being able to gobble up user data and being able to associate it with a person (or at least an email address) and later sell that information, what is Microsoft reasoning for refusing local accounts?<p>This whole obsession with forcing users to create a Microsoft account is really weird. It may provides some features for certain types of users, but I really don&#x27;t see any reason for forcing a Microsoft account. Apple also REALLY want you to have an Apple ID, but you don&#x27;t have to.<p>I still fail to see why Microsoft doesn&#x27;t go all in on privacy, do they really need the extra profit from advertising?<p>Microsoft doesn&#x27;t give a shit about the desktop anymore and at this point they&#x27;re also stopping to care about the business customers, unless they can move them to subscription based services in the cloud.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/2354686/microsoft-blocks-windows-11-workaround-local-accounts.html</url></story> |
23,234,930 | 23,234,480 | 1 | 3 | 23,234,135 | 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>nekbroadband</author><text>Hi there, I&#x27;m a part of this effort and we did learn from the Burlington Telecom fiasco. Legislation was passed in 2014 that provided for the forming of Communications Union Districts which can build municipally controlled broadband infrastructure, but can&#x27;t access the municipal bond market, meaning taxpayers are never at risk. The downside of this is we have to rely on federal funding in most cases since private capital wants to make sure they have the option to take it out on the taxpayer if the debt load becomes unserviceable. Right now this is not an issue at all for us with hundreds of millions of stimulus money specifically for broadband floating around, the challenge is beating Comcast et al to the money bin. Comcast in particular is pure evil in Vermont, they signed a contract to build out a paltry 550 miles of new cable to unserved addresses over 10 years (55 miles a year) and then sued the state afterwards for infringing on their 1st amendment rights.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;comcast-sues-vermont-to-avoid-building-550-miles-of-new-cable-lines&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;comcast-sues-ver...</a><p>I&#x27;m with one of the largest CUDs in VT, NEK Community Broadband, which represents 27 towns in the northeast of the state. We&#x27;re talking to our state government as we speak to make sure incumbent providers are held accountable if they are provided with federal money, and preferably, build our own infrastructure. The timeline for this has shrunk from 3-5 years, to 8 MONTHS by restrictions imposed on spending CARES act and other federal dollars by Jan 1. It&#x27;s an exciting time!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vermont proposes providing broadband internet service to all state residents</title><url>https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2020/05/06/vermont-proposes-providing-broadband-all-state-residents/5177598002/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geocrasher</author><text>I wish more states viewed it this way. I think that COVID19 has proven that Internet isn&#x27;t a luxury, it&#x27;s a utility that we all need. In a world with online meetings being the way to simply hang out with your friends, those with bad Internet connections are suffering more. It shouldn&#x27;t be that way.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vermont proposes providing broadband internet service to all state residents</title><url>https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2020/05/06/vermont-proposes-providing-broadband-all-state-residents/5177598002/</url></story> |
19,447,126 | 19,447,138 | 1 | 3 | 19,446,211 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I used to use YouTube Kids for a bit with my kids. I always kept an eye on what they chose, but I&#x27;d let them choose (even if just to see how it would play out). After a while I watched my kids choose merch focused videos and a lot of very low quality sort of inane stuff that shows up on there. I&#x27;d block them but the app really doesn&#x27;t let you block them, there are always more.<p>You also can&#x27;t just white list things in the Youtube Kids app. There&#x27;s straight up no option to be able to affirmatively choose what your kids get to pick from.<p>So now YouTube is just straight forbidden unless I&#x27;m picking the videos and that effectively means my kids don&#x27;t see it at all outside of when I have a fun video to share... and even then I&#x27;m wary of what YouTube might suggest what to watch next...<p>With YouTube it feels like no matter what you do you&#x27;re in a very sketchy neighborhood where there might be a good house here, but maybe some hell hole next door that Youtube is more than happy to send you to... It occurs to me that while I loved the promise of an internet that offered all aspects of humanity, on a site to site basis, I don&#x27;t think I want that, even for just me.<p>So now we&#x27;re back to the PBS Kids Videos app as the only route my kids get to independently pick what they watch. I&#x27;m pretty much done with YouTube for now as far as my kids go just due to the rabbit holes of terrible things on there, and the one time they take a shot at kid friendly stuff, it&#x27;s really doesn&#x27;t empower me as a parent.<p>I&#x27;m really enjoying Odd Squad.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kidfluencers' Rampant YouTube Marketing Creates Minefield for Google</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-20/kidfluencers-rampant-youtube-marketing-creates-minefield-for-google</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; On TV, the ground rules are clearer: Ads come when the show takes a break.</i><p>Oh, you sweet summer child. TV and film would love you to believe that, but today product placement omnipresent. Michael Bay&#x27;s Transformers movie is basically an ad for General Motors occasionally interrupted by robots. It&#x27;s not enough to jam product placement into every inch of cinema being produced today. They now also go back retroactively insert product placement into older productions[1].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rollingstone.com&#x2F;music&#x2F;music-news&#x2F;old-videos-new-ads-advertisings-shocking-next-frontier-200619&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rollingstone.com&#x2F;music&#x2F;music-news&#x2F;old-videos-new...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kidfluencers' Rampant YouTube Marketing Creates Minefield for Google</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-20/kidfluencers-rampant-youtube-marketing-creates-minefield-for-google</url></story> |
24,028,675 | 24,028,182 | 1 | 2 | 24,026,270 | train | <instructions>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>Rant ahead : the color PocketBook looks nice, but I&#x27;ll be harsh: their website is atrocious. There is a loading animation that takes seconds to run every time you click anywhere. You can&#x27;t easily find any relevant information. The &quot;where to buy&quot; page simply doesn&#x27;t work at all and display no stores, even in Switzerland, their home country. It seems impossible to discover the price of the products, too.<p>This is one of the worst site I&#x27;ve visited in years, really. It&#x27;s plain terrible, obviously the nice look and animations were used to sell the website to clueless executive that never browsed the website, it&#x27;s painful to watch such a train wreck. This site is a sure way to lose potential customers forever.<p>Regarding ebooks, I have a strict policy of buying only ebooks without DRM. That strictly limits what I can buy, but I&#x27;m adamant (some SF, and that&#x27;s about it). DRM is evil and must die. So I can&#x27;t use either Kindle hardware nor app. Plus I religiously use only opensource&#x2F;free software whenever possible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>soapdog</author><text>I&#x27;ve spent 16 years working for major niche publisher and am a bit addicted to eReaders. Every time threads like this appear here I see lots of people that have no idea that there is a whole world of devices outside Kindle and Amazon. Here are some of the more interesting devices current out there in the market:<p>Pocketbook Color: yes, a color e-ink device for about $200: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pocketbook.ch&#x2F;en-ch&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;color&#x2F;color-ch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pocketbook.ch&#x2F;en-ch&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;color&#x2F;color-ch</a>
You can see the Pocketbook color reading comics here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pkufktAQC_E&amp;t=0s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pkufktAQC_E&amp;t=0s</a> which beautifully demonstrates its colour capabilities.<p>Onyx Boox Note 2: 10&#x27;&#x27; e-ink screen, Android 9.0, touch and wacom digitizer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onyxboox.com&#x2F;boox_note2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onyxboox.com&#x2F;boox_note2</a>
It can be used for school&#x2F;uni&#x2F;research. Its large screen and notetaking features pair well with annotating fixed-layout formats such as PDFs.<p>I have some strong opinions about Amazon and its eBook business. I really like their tech but their business practices are not aligned with what I want for myself as an author. I have moved to Kobo for my personal eReader and am using a Kobo Forma which is their answer to the Kindle Oasis. Even though the Oasis hardware with its metal usage feels much more premium than the Forma with its flexy plastic shell, the device is much more open than the Oasis and it is easier for me to use it both as a reader and as an author. I live in the UK and Kobo through its partner Overdrive -- which it owned up until not long ago but I am not sure they still do -- allows me to borrow books from local libraries. I have a couple library cards from different library consortiums and that gives me a lot of catalogs to search and borrow from. Synchronizing with Pocket is also a godsend, every time I see a nice article here on HN that I think deserves more attention and care, I just send it to Pocket and read it from the Kobo in a nice park.<p>Anyway, this is just some pointers to those here that never experienced ebooks and ereaders outside Amazon. Yes, Amazon brings a lot of value to the table, especially for the readers, books tend to be cheaper in Amazon but that is due to its monopolistic practices and thug tactics. Kindle is not where the innovation is happening, other devices have better hardware and better software, other companies have healthier ecosystems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stories and lessons from working with Jeff Bezos on the original Kindle</title><url>https://twitter.com/drose_999/status/1287944667414196225</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chewxy</author><text>As much as the Boox is great, they have a lot of GPL issues. Plus the kernel they are using is very very closed sourced. Sounds like FUD, but I am generally quite wary of companies in China that do this</text><parent_chain><item><author>soapdog</author><text>I&#x27;ve spent 16 years working for major niche publisher and am a bit addicted to eReaders. Every time threads like this appear here I see lots of people that have no idea that there is a whole world of devices outside Kindle and Amazon. Here are some of the more interesting devices current out there in the market:<p>Pocketbook Color: yes, a color e-ink device for about $200: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pocketbook.ch&#x2F;en-ch&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;color&#x2F;color-ch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pocketbook.ch&#x2F;en-ch&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;color&#x2F;color-ch</a>
You can see the Pocketbook color reading comics here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pkufktAQC_E&amp;t=0s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pkufktAQC_E&amp;t=0s</a> which beautifully demonstrates its colour capabilities.<p>Onyx Boox Note 2: 10&#x27;&#x27; e-ink screen, Android 9.0, touch and wacom digitizer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onyxboox.com&#x2F;boox_note2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onyxboox.com&#x2F;boox_note2</a>
It can be used for school&#x2F;uni&#x2F;research. Its large screen and notetaking features pair well with annotating fixed-layout formats such as PDFs.<p>I have some strong opinions about Amazon and its eBook business. I really like their tech but their business practices are not aligned with what I want for myself as an author. I have moved to Kobo for my personal eReader and am using a Kobo Forma which is their answer to the Kindle Oasis. Even though the Oasis hardware with its metal usage feels much more premium than the Forma with its flexy plastic shell, the device is much more open than the Oasis and it is easier for me to use it both as a reader and as an author. I live in the UK and Kobo through its partner Overdrive -- which it owned up until not long ago but I am not sure they still do -- allows me to borrow books from local libraries. I have a couple library cards from different library consortiums and that gives me a lot of catalogs to search and borrow from. Synchronizing with Pocket is also a godsend, every time I see a nice article here on HN that I think deserves more attention and care, I just send it to Pocket and read it from the Kobo in a nice park.<p>Anyway, this is just some pointers to those here that never experienced ebooks and ereaders outside Amazon. Yes, Amazon brings a lot of value to the table, especially for the readers, books tend to be cheaper in Amazon but that is due to its monopolistic practices and thug tactics. Kindle is not where the innovation is happening, other devices have better hardware and better software, other companies have healthier ecosystems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stories and lessons from working with Jeff Bezos on the original Kindle</title><url>https://twitter.com/drose_999/status/1287944667414196225</url></story> |
7,267,572 | 7,267,575 | 1 | 3 | 7,266,546 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>&gt; we&#x27;d better figure THAT out before building AI.<p>Why don&#x27;t we just give that task to the AI? It&#x27;ll be smarter than us...<p>Maybe the problem is that people are too easy to understand: We want &quot;Brave New World&quot;, but we don&#x27;t want to know about it, or that we want it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>edanm</author><text>If anyone is interested in AI, I highly recommend joining Less Wrong, a community started by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. He started the community to convince people to focus on the &quot;friendly AI problem&quot;. [1] I actually recommend that everyone read LW, but <i>especially</i> if you&#x27;re interested in AI.<p>[1] In a nutshell, the friendly AI problem is: assume we create an AI. It may rapidly become more intelligent than us, if we program it right. As soon as it becomes significanlty more intelligent, we will no longer be the most intelligent beings around, so the AI&#x27;s goals will matter more than ours.<p>Therefore, we should really give it good goals that are compatible with what we want to happen. And since no one right now knows how to define &quot;what humans want&quot; good enough for writing it in <i>code</i>, then we&#x27;d better figure THAT out <i>before</i> building AI.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/ai</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Houshalter</author><text>Defining human values completely and absolutely is an <i>extremely</i> difficult problem that might not even have a solution. AI on the other hand is probably inevitable sometime within the next century.</text><parent_chain><item><author>edanm</author><text>If anyone is interested in AI, I highly recommend joining Less Wrong, a community started by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. He started the community to convince people to focus on the &quot;friendly AI problem&quot;. [1] I actually recommend that everyone read LW, but <i>especially</i> if you&#x27;re interested in AI.<p>[1] In a nutshell, the friendly AI problem is: assume we create an AI. It may rapidly become more intelligent than us, if we program it right. As soon as it becomes significanlty more intelligent, we will no longer be the most intelligent beings around, so the AI&#x27;s goals will matter more than ours.<p>Therefore, we should really give it good goals that are compatible with what we want to happen. And since no one right now knows how to define &quot;what humans want&quot; good enough for writing it in <i>code</i>, then we&#x27;d better figure THAT out <i>before</i> building AI.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/ai</url></story> |
14,971,420 | 14,969,316 | 1 | 3 | 14,967,320 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SmellTheGlove</author><text>&gt; This doesn&#x27;t sound very compassionate to engineers leaving big, dysfunctional companies (which by the way preach the exact same ethos of personal responsibility). Basically, they are damaged goods who aren&#x27;t expected to thrive in a better environment?<p>Compassion aside, it also isn&#x27;t the least bit accurate. If our process sucked that bad in large companies, then I shouldn&#x27;t have the numbers to show for it. Somehow, though, we manage to be really profitable despite being lazy idiots.<p>I&#x27;ve posted this elsewhere on HN, but if you find an engineer or manager with a history of accomplishment at large companies, you&#x27;re lucky to have them. Not only can they get shit done, but they can get shit done even with the distractions and roadblocks from big company politics. Those folks would probably be very effective in a remote position given their ability to filter noise. But yeah, if someone sucked in a big company, they might suck in a startup, too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dgreensp</author><text><i>We’ve found that people from big companies with a slower work pace and unclear project owners often find it difficult to adjust to a culture that expects them to personally drive their own deliverables.</i><p>This doesn&#x27;t sound very compassionate to engineers leaving big, dysfunctional companies (which by the way preach the exact same ethos of personal responsibility). Basically, they are damaged goods who aren&#x27;t expected to thrive in a better environment?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Determine If Candidates Will Thrive in a Remote Work Environment</title><url>https://hackernoon.com/how-to-determine-if-candidates-will-thrive-in-a-remote-work-environment-d538d1e8f831</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>albertgoeswoof</author><text>More likely that people who are succesful at big companies don&#x27;t leave as much, because there&#x27;s a higher upside sticking where they are than joining a small startup that allows remote working. So the people they are hiring from big companies are usually the rubbish ones.<p>Btw, if you&#x27;re really good you can work remotely even in the largest companies. Just work your way up to your own P&amp;L, hire a global team and away you go. Probably will have to check in a few times a year in person, but that&#x27;s no big deal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dgreensp</author><text><i>We’ve found that people from big companies with a slower work pace and unclear project owners often find it difficult to adjust to a culture that expects them to personally drive their own deliverables.</i><p>This doesn&#x27;t sound very compassionate to engineers leaving big, dysfunctional companies (which by the way preach the exact same ethos of personal responsibility). Basically, they are damaged goods who aren&#x27;t expected to thrive in a better environment?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Determine If Candidates Will Thrive in a Remote Work Environment</title><url>https://hackernoon.com/how-to-determine-if-candidates-will-thrive-in-a-remote-work-environment-d538d1e8f831</url></story> |
6,565,008 | 6,564,646 | 1 | 3 | 6,564,558 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buro9</author><text>My visa takes a long while.<p>Not quite as long as it took Adi Shamir, but long.<p>On average it takes about 14 weeks to get a visa, but on occasion it has taken many many months.<p>I&#x27;ve done the calculations, the worst-case scenario for the full process is 32 weeks. It&#x27;s never actually taken that long, but it&#x27;s not been far off.<p>I remember having to explain to Microsoft that they needed to write a sponsor&#x2F;supporting letter (for the US embassy) more than half a year in advance of any potential visit to Redmond that I&#x27;d be working at. As this was for DAC (Developer Advisory Council) meetings that Microsoft only scheduled a month in advance they found themselves in a dilemma over this. Thankfully they agreed, and their legal department would author letters that a meeting would likely occur requiring my attendance, but it was always a slog of a process.<p>For those wondering, I was shortly married to a US citizen and I speculate that this triggers some flag or signal that makes them think I want to stay there (I don&#x27;t). I also have an interesting past, having been homeless for a while. Who knows though, the system doesn&#x27;t supply answers. It&#x27;s a black box process.<p>It&#x27;s a nightmare process that doesn&#x27;t end when you have a visa. On arrival I experience the joys of &quot;secondary&quot;, and being sat in a waiting room for many hours before a 10-second interview in which they let me go my way.<p>Every part of the experience is a miserable one, always with the threat of an axe over the visit.<p>The vast majority of the time I have been invited, or had opportunities to visit, I just do not choose to visit the USA.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending Crypto and Cryptology Conferences</title><url>http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/27.54.html#subj1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anon1385</author><text>This was also submitted yesterday but didn&#x27;t get much interest for some reason: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6560355" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6560355</a><p>Similar recent story: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6499744" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6499744</a> &#x27;US scientists boycott Nasa conference over China ban&#x27;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending Crypto and Cryptology Conferences</title><url>http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/27.54.html#subj1</url></story> |
40,032,447 | 40,032,529 | 1 | 2 | 40,031,305 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adolph</author><text>Previously: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40011438">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40011438</a><p>The source paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1126&#x2F;science.adk1075" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1126&#x2F;science.adk1075</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algae that can fix nitrogen – thanks to a tiny cell structure</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01046-z</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bugbuddy</author><text>Can anyone say whether it is possible to have an accident where this becomes a runaway process like the Great Oxidation Event?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algae that can fix nitrogen – thanks to a tiny cell structure</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01046-z</url></story> |
19,005,300 | 19,005,286 | 1 | 2 | 19,003,974 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ericson2314</author><text>Yes there&#x27;s nativism, but that&#x27;s not the only thing here. In purely economic terms h1bn visa holders are potential employess that are extra attractive because they have less power; power they cannot get back and power other classes of residents cannot give up.<p>This is classic artificially divide the market and race to the bottom.<p>&gt; You would price out people like me and make it virtually impossible for me to become a citizen eventually.<p>&gt; Historically, america has attracted the best minds. Historically.<p>You are making the classic mistake of holding the macroeconomics constant. If we had sane immigration policies as proposed in this thread, the going rate might have been different.<p>Maybe you have been payed more, matching the coasts. Maybe we all would have been paid less, matching you. Maybe the incumbents wouldn&#x27;t have had a competitive advantage such that you all had to be underpaid to be even ramen profitable.<p>The big point is given a skill set (projection of the labor market), residency status shouldn&#x27;t be economically observable. Policy should be constrained to affecting the residency status distribution accross slices.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vowelless</author><text>When I was on an h1b, I was making around 60k in the middle of the country, working for an amazing startup where we were ramen profitable. My skill set was highly specialized for the job. However, I couldn’t be a founder due to my visa status and we couldn’t pay each other even basic salaries. But we did some pretty amazing stuff for DARPA, DOD, and eventually some commercial enterprises.<p>You would price out people like me and make it virtually impossible for me to become a citizen eventually. But maybe that is by design and I don’t mind that opinion. All countries have nativist subsets of society so it is just a normal, natural stance.<p>Historically, america has attracted the best minds. Historically. But maybe now the populace believes the natives need to be protected from outside competition so that they can improve. Fair enough.</text></item><item><author>yholio</author><text>Seems like such a simple issue to fix: the only condition for getting a specialist visa should be to find an employer willing to pay a specialist salary, say above 150K. Doctors included, I see no reason to protect them from competition. Hop jobs at will but need to maintain within 85% of that level.<p>If a company can&#x27;t find workers, it should pay more up until a level that puts the competitiveness of the economy under question. Below that level, it&#x27;s the citizen&#x27;s right to a fair salary without labour dumping from a poor country. Above that level, it&#x27;s everybody&#x27;s right to fairly priced services without professional rents.</text></item><item><author>mykowebhn</author><text>Granted that H-1B visas should ostensibly be filled only for positions where it is difficult to find qualified American citizens or permanent residents, but in all honesty are the Department of Labor&#x27;s allegations really that surprising?<p>In the Bay Area, qualified job candidates are so scarce that it&#x27;s quite common for citizens&#x2F;permanent-residents to change jobs frequently. H1-B candidates are attractive for companies because it is harder for them to switch jobs. Companies can lock these employees for longer, and they can pay them less.<p>Rather than going after the companies, shouldn&#x27;t we be focusing on fixing the H-1B visa process instead? It almost seems like the government has set up a broken process for companies to take advantage of, and instead of fixing things, they blame the companies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/25/h-1b-oracle-favored-hiring-foreign-graduates-of-u-s-colleges-over-american-grads-feds-allege</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vinay427</author><text>&gt; ramen profitable<p>Off topic, but I hadn&#x27;t heard this expression before so I looked it up and stumbled upon an interesting Paul Graham blog post derived from it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;ramenprofitable.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;ramenprofitable.html</a><p>Thanks for introducing me to a new phrase!</text><parent_chain><item><author>vowelless</author><text>When I was on an h1b, I was making around 60k in the middle of the country, working for an amazing startup where we were ramen profitable. My skill set was highly specialized for the job. However, I couldn’t be a founder due to my visa status and we couldn’t pay each other even basic salaries. But we did some pretty amazing stuff for DARPA, DOD, and eventually some commercial enterprises.<p>You would price out people like me and make it virtually impossible for me to become a citizen eventually. But maybe that is by design and I don’t mind that opinion. All countries have nativist subsets of society so it is just a normal, natural stance.<p>Historically, america has attracted the best minds. Historically. But maybe now the populace believes the natives need to be protected from outside competition so that they can improve. Fair enough.</text></item><item><author>yholio</author><text>Seems like such a simple issue to fix: the only condition for getting a specialist visa should be to find an employer willing to pay a specialist salary, say above 150K. Doctors included, I see no reason to protect them from competition. Hop jobs at will but need to maintain within 85% of that level.<p>If a company can&#x27;t find workers, it should pay more up until a level that puts the competitiveness of the economy under question. Below that level, it&#x27;s the citizen&#x27;s right to a fair salary without labour dumping from a poor country. Above that level, it&#x27;s everybody&#x27;s right to fairly priced services without professional rents.</text></item><item><author>mykowebhn</author><text>Granted that H-1B visas should ostensibly be filled only for positions where it is difficult to find qualified American citizens or permanent residents, but in all honesty are the Department of Labor&#x27;s allegations really that surprising?<p>In the Bay Area, qualified job candidates are so scarce that it&#x27;s quite common for citizens&#x2F;permanent-residents to change jobs frequently. H1-B candidates are attractive for companies because it is harder for them to switch jobs. Companies can lock these employees for longer, and they can pay them less.<p>Rather than going after the companies, shouldn&#x27;t we be focusing on fixing the H-1B visa process instead? It almost seems like the government has set up a broken process for companies to take advantage of, and instead of fixing things, they blame the companies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/25/h-1b-oracle-favored-hiring-foreign-graduates-of-u-s-colleges-over-american-grads-feds-allege</url></story> |
27,776,290 | 27,775,518 | 1 | 3 | 27,774,218 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>Energy is the biggest problem, but it’s far from the only one.<p>Consider the ISM: at 0.086 c, ionised helium is the same thing as 14 MeV alpha radiation. Low density regions within the galaxy are 0.2–0.5 particles&#x2F;cm^3; 0.2&#x2F;cm^3 * 0.086 c is ~5e12 particles&#x2F;m^2&#x2F;second, or about 9.9 watts&#x2F;m^2 if it was all He4 and therefore 14MeV&#x2F;particle or about 2.5 W&#x2F;m^2 for Hydrogen at the same speeds, which is bad enough given what keeping that up for years will do to any solid hull, but molecular clouds can be 10^2-10^6 particles&#x2F;cm^3 and the upper bounds of that is ~10 MW&#x2F;m^2.<p>Even without Relativity (which makes it worse), if you double the speed the kinetic energy per particle quadruples <i>and</i> you also double the number of particles per unit time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>If we could solve the energy problem, humans could go pretty much anywhere in the galaxy on a 1G ship. (ok there are other issues like actually building the ship, supplies (or a biosphere that can support life for decades), shielding, but that&#x27;s all easier with unlimited energy).<p>For example, a ship could travel 1,000 light years to the Orion Nebula in only 15 years (as perceived by those on the ship). And since they are living in 1G, a lot of the detrimental effects of long-term space travel are eliminated.<p>Of course, to an observer on earth the trip would take over 1000 years, so don&#x27;t expect to hear how the trip went.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight (2016)</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01356</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nerpderp82</author><text>If you take your whole civilization with you, it doesn&#x27;t matter how fast or slow you go, you are already where you need to be.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>If we could solve the energy problem, humans could go pretty much anywhere in the galaxy on a 1G ship. (ok there are other issues like actually building the ship, supplies (or a biosphere that can support life for decades), shielding, but that&#x27;s all easier with unlimited energy).<p>For example, a ship could travel 1,000 light years to the Orion Nebula in only 15 years (as perceived by those on the ship). And since they are living in 1G, a lot of the detrimental effects of long-term space travel are eliminated.<p>Of course, to an observer on earth the trip would take over 1000 years, so don&#x27;t expect to hear how the trip went.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight (2016)</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01356</url></story> |
37,725,406 | 37,725,479 | 1 | 2 | 37,724,861 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thawab</author><text>The same author Tri Dao, released FlashAttention 2 in July.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;together.ai&#x2F;blog&#x2F;tri-dao-flash-attention" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;together.ai&#x2F;blog&#x2F;tri-dao-flash-attention</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FlashAttention: Fast Transformer training with long sequences</title><url>https://www.adept.ai/blog/flashier-attention</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kken</author><text>Here is a recent interview with the author of FlashAttention, Tri Dao:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=J4-qZ6KBalk">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=J4-qZ6KBalk</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FlashAttention: Fast Transformer training with long sequences</title><url>https://www.adept.ai/blog/flashier-attention</url></story> |
35,343,466 | 35,340,472 | 1 | 2 | 35,336,113 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>entaloneralie</author><text>I&#x27;ve been following the work you&#x27;ve been doing for a while now, and the culmination of all your progress for the past few years toward HVM, has been very inspirational. Keep up the good work, and best of luck with HighOrderCo. If anyone, reading HVM&#x27;s and Inpla&#x27;s gentle introductions to Interaction Nets, is looking for an overview of Lafont&#x27;s papers and Sato&#x27;s implementation designs, you might enjoy:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.xxiivv.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;interaction_nets.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.xxiivv.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;interaction_nets.html</a><p>If someone is looking for a graphical playground to experiment with interaction nets, here&#x27;s Sylvain Lippi&#x27;s InTwo(gtk):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;max22-&#x2F;intwo">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;max22-&#x2F;intwo</a><p>Anyone looking to better understand linear logic in the context of IN ought to have a look at Victor&#x27;s Absal:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;VictorTaelin&#x2F;abstract-algorithm">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;VictorTaelin&#x2F;abstract-algorithm</a><p>Someone below linked to Baker&#x27;s excellent linear lisp paper(psi-lisp), I&#x27;d like to augment this recommendation with Linear Completeness theory of combinators:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tunes.org&#x2F;~iepos&#x2F;joy.html#linear" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tunes.org&#x2F;~iepos&#x2F;joy.html#linear</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Higher-Order Virtual Machine (HVM)</title><url>https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LightMachine</author><text>Author here! Thanks for posting :) Just want to make a brief note here that we raised a 4.5m seed round to found a tech startup, the Higher Order Company, to work on the HVM. Our goal is to improve the runtime, the Kind language, and eventually build our own hardware. There are already several cool ideas on the pipeline, so expect exciting news and massive improvements soon!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Higher-Order Virtual Machine (HVM)</title><url>https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM</url></story> |
31,811,353 | 31,811,228 | 1 | 3 | 31,810,687 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Closi</author><text>&gt; As a society, we may need a platform where educational&#x2F;government institutions can upload content (with content warnings, if necessary) because Youtube is a terrible fit for content like this.<p>These institutions are big enough to host their own videos - we don&#x27;t need a new platform, they just need to spin up a server and to pay for their own bandwidth.<p>If you trust Google to provide your video hosting at a pricetag of £0 this is what you get... You are on their platform, with their rules, where their algorithm is judge, jury and executioner.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>Looks like the account got restored. Seemingly, nothing got erased, the account was just temporarily unavailable.<p>&gt; Needless to say, the OOB lecturers were fully clothed and rather obsessed with our historical narrative. Anyone not interested in feminist politics would have probably fallen asleep.<p>The lecturers perhaps, but the streamed lecture contains full-screen examples from pornographic magazines that obviously should be flagged for verification by any porn detecting algorithm.<p>Youtube does state that explicit materials are allowed for educational content, but if their copyright machines can&#x27;t even distinguish white noise from copyrighted music then I have very little hope that context like &quot;educational discussion&quot; will ever be recognised automatically.<p>As a society, we may need a platform where educational&#x2F;government institutions can upload content (with content warnings, if necessary) because Youtube is a terrible fit for content like this. Youtube&#x27;s scope is too large to be managed by humans who can understand context and their advertiser seeking behaviour provides an incentive to &quot;punish&quot; videos containing even allowed nudity in their self-learning algorithms. Requiring every institution to set up their own video hosting infrastructure is unnecessary and even wasteful of public funds.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Terminated</title><url>https://susiebright.substack.com/p/terminated</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tedivm</author><text>They could just flag the accounts of educational institutions as educational. I sincerely doubt the Cornell University Library is going to pivot to pornography.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>Looks like the account got restored. Seemingly, nothing got erased, the account was just temporarily unavailable.<p>&gt; Needless to say, the OOB lecturers were fully clothed and rather obsessed with our historical narrative. Anyone not interested in feminist politics would have probably fallen asleep.<p>The lecturers perhaps, but the streamed lecture contains full-screen examples from pornographic magazines that obviously should be flagged for verification by any porn detecting algorithm.<p>Youtube does state that explicit materials are allowed for educational content, but if their copyright machines can&#x27;t even distinguish white noise from copyrighted music then I have very little hope that context like &quot;educational discussion&quot; will ever be recognised automatically.<p>As a society, we may need a platform where educational&#x2F;government institutions can upload content (with content warnings, if necessary) because Youtube is a terrible fit for content like this. Youtube&#x27;s scope is too large to be managed by humans who can understand context and their advertiser seeking behaviour provides an incentive to &quot;punish&quot; videos containing even allowed nudity in their self-learning algorithms. Requiring every institution to set up their own video hosting infrastructure is unnecessary and even wasteful of public funds.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Terminated</title><url>https://susiebright.substack.com/p/terminated</url></story> |
20,196,162 | 20,196,165 | 1 | 3 | 20,195,927 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjcm</author><text>I&#x27;ve experienced a lot of these things since leaving the bay area and moving to Australia. The thing that surprised me most was similar to point #3 - in Australia the less fortunate are taken care of. One big mental drain I had in America was when my friends were sick but could do nothing about it. I had a roommate in Seattle who had severe dental problems and chronic tooth pain, but could do nothing about it because he simply couldn&#x27;t afford it. I had another friend who had an oblique fracture in their arm, but <i>set it themselves and never went to the doctor</i>. All because healthcare was not only expensive, but <i>randomly expensive</i>. You never knew if you&#x27;d be leaving the hospital with a $100 medical bill or a $10,000 medical bill. I had great healthcare for all of my working career, but my friends often didn&#x27;t, and it ate at me mentally. In Australia that&#x27;s never been a point of stress. If you have a cold, you go to the doctor, and you always knew it&#x27;d be less than $200ish. There were no orders of magnitude more expensive surprises.<p>The rest of the points resonated highly with me as well, as aside from the maternity leave I&#x27;ve experienced them all. I have to move back to the Bay soon and I&#x27;m not looking forward to it. Every time I visit there&#x27;s more homeless who&#x27;ve been pushed to the streets because the system in place simply doesn&#x27;t work - Nordic countries, Switzerland, and Australia are simply better in so many aspects. There&#x27;s a reason why the USA has fallen to #13 in HDI[1] and continues to fall.<p>The people of the USA have too much pride to change - we&#x27;ve been on top for so long that we often think we can&#x27;t learn from other countries, and that we have everything figured out. The intro speech Jeff Daniels did in Newsroom [2] resonates here. It&#x27;s time we looked at what policies actually work for the best of the populous.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RyzDRc34l2g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RyzDRc34l2g</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2015/7/21/8974435/switzerland-work-life-balance</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>falsedan</author><text>I recently moved from working for a US company to working for a CH one. There’s some disadvantages, like people not giving their all at work slowing things down. Compared to the previous role, it’s glacial. But no on call, 6 weeks vacation, and 8% pension contribution from the company that I don’t even have to match is a good trade-off. Work is always going to be frustrating, but I’m at a point in my life that I’d rather be frustrated at being forced to work a maximum of 37.5 hours per week (tracked with timesheets) than frustrated at unrealistic deadlines and the cult of appearing to get things done.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2015/7/21/8974435/switzerland-work-life-balance</url></story> |
30,395,715 | 30,394,753 | 1 | 2 | 30,394,456 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AussieWog93</author><text>More in-depth article on The Guardian here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;australia-news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;feb&#x2F;18&#x2F;amazon-flex-drivers-in-nsw-win-minimum-hourly-pay-rate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;australia-news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;feb&#x2F;18&#x2F;amazo...</a><p>Most importantly, they only need to pay ~$27&#x2F;hr immediately.<p>This seems OK at first, as it is above the ~$25&#x2F;hr minimum wage for casuals (note to non-Aussies: this figure includes a 25% &quot;casual loading&quot; to account for the fact that there is no sick leave, annual leave or guaranteed minimum hours).<p>However, this doesn&#x27;t consider the fact that the drivers supply their own vehicle as well as out-of-pocket expenses for fuel, maintenance and general depreciation on the vehicle itself. When you take these additional costs into consideration, that initial ~$27 looks closer to an illegally low ~$20&#x2F;hr.<p>The fact that they were both unpunished for finding loopholes in employment law as well as given a free pass to continue for another 3 years (despite literally being Amazon and therefore having the working capital to pay their drivers properly immediately) looks like it&#x27;s a win for them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australian state sets minimum pay for Amazon contractors</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/australian-state-sets-minimum-pay-amazon-contractors-landmark-step-2022-02-18/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>The &quot;independent contractor&quot; thing has always been a fairly transparent ploy at not calling workers &quot;workers&quot;. The ruling sounds fairly logical. This is presumably the primary source [0] from a reliable location.<p>Although not reliable enough to get the title character encoding right.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.austlii.edu.au&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;au&#x2F;cases&#x2F;nsw&#x2F;NSWIRComm&#x2F;&#x2F;2022&#x2F;1003.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.austlii.edu.au&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;au&#x2F;cases&#x2F;nsw&#x2F;NSWI...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australian state sets minimum pay for Amazon contractors</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/australian-state-sets-minimum-pay-amazon-contractors-landmark-step-2022-02-18/</url></story> |
3,099,879 | 3,099,382 | 1 | 2 | 3,098,332 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>temphn</author><text>Hmmm. You only think they should make a living?<p>I would hope most of us would want Igor Sysoev to at least put $10-$100m in the bank. He has easily created that much value over the past few years for hundreds if not thousands of companies.<p>If it turns out that nginx becomes less usable, or the free version becomes too expensive, a competitor will crop up. But we should want people who are gods of open source to figure out business models that enable them to become richly rewarded, and not just make a living. Maybe that's open-core, maybe it's a talent/showcase acquisition by Google or Facebook (as opposed to Oracle), but we should want these guys to become quite wealthy to inspire people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pilif</author><text>I'm really happy for nginx to get the recognition that it deserves and I'd love nothing more than see the people behind it being able to make a living doing nothing but nginx.<p>But when I read about funding, about founding a real corporation and everything else that's going on, I'm afraid that at one point, nginx will do a MySQL and become open-core.<p>It's not that I'm not willing to pay for software in general, but I would love to have flexibility when I'm chosing my infrastructure. If the need for an additional server arises, I want to just start it and not matter about buying licenses and entering keys.<p>This is one of the main reasons, I prefer my infrastructure to be open source.<p>"But, open-core is also open source", you might say, but none of these projects ever end up getting a good community behind them. Many talented people would not sign a CLA and they would not want to invest their time into something that's "tainted" by a "better" enterprise edition.<p>Also, often times, submitted patches would not get accepted because the submitted feature is conflicting with an enterprise-feature - maybe even just one that's planned for somewhere in the future.<p>So in the end most of these open-core projects are exclusively developed by the same people who do the enterprise version and have a vested interest in selling enterprise licenses, degrading the "open" edition to nothing more than a trial version.<p>I would hate to see this happen to nginx. Not because there are no open alternatives (there are), but because nginx is elegant, fun to work with, fast and, above all, stable.<p>Let's hope that a pure support-based revenue model is going to work out for them.<p>(edit: nginx is released under a very liberal license, so it's entirely thinkable that, nginx would be OpenSSH'd: OpenSSH AFAIR started as a fork of the last Free version of ssh. And now just look where OpenSSH stands compared to non-free ssh)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nginx, Inc. announces its Series A funding</title><url>http://nginx.net/nginx-venture-funding.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>For_Iconoclasm</author><text>I feel the same way. Nginx has been the little ngin that could, supported by a bunch of talented hackers dedicated to bringing something to the table that the big-time servers, even the open source ones, couldn't. Nginx's history of being the lightweight, faster competitor to Apache (a shining example of success in the open source world) practically defines its identity.<p>I just hope that nginx doesn't sell out. I don't think it will, because I can't see what it has to gain for becoming exactly like its competitors when it already has a substantial user base. Of course, as you stated, dividing the userbase between enterprise edition users and free edition users could cause some software development political issues that could stifle progress.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pilif</author><text>I'm really happy for nginx to get the recognition that it deserves and I'd love nothing more than see the people behind it being able to make a living doing nothing but nginx.<p>But when I read about funding, about founding a real corporation and everything else that's going on, I'm afraid that at one point, nginx will do a MySQL and become open-core.<p>It's not that I'm not willing to pay for software in general, but I would love to have flexibility when I'm chosing my infrastructure. If the need for an additional server arises, I want to just start it and not matter about buying licenses and entering keys.<p>This is one of the main reasons, I prefer my infrastructure to be open source.<p>"But, open-core is also open source", you might say, but none of these projects ever end up getting a good community behind them. Many talented people would not sign a CLA and they would not want to invest their time into something that's "tainted" by a "better" enterprise edition.<p>Also, often times, submitted patches would not get accepted because the submitted feature is conflicting with an enterprise-feature - maybe even just one that's planned for somewhere in the future.<p>So in the end most of these open-core projects are exclusively developed by the same people who do the enterprise version and have a vested interest in selling enterprise licenses, degrading the "open" edition to nothing more than a trial version.<p>I would hate to see this happen to nginx. Not because there are no open alternatives (there are), but because nginx is elegant, fun to work with, fast and, above all, stable.<p>Let's hope that a pure support-based revenue model is going to work out for them.<p>(edit: nginx is released under a very liberal license, so it's entirely thinkable that, nginx would be OpenSSH'd: OpenSSH AFAIR started as a fork of the last Free version of ssh. And now just look where OpenSSH stands compared to non-free ssh)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nginx, Inc. announces its Series A funding</title><url>http://nginx.net/nginx-venture-funding.html</url></story> |
33,605,748 | 33,598,443 | 1 | 3 | 33,596,546 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>YZF</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure everyone here is talking about the same thing when they talk about caching but if you took caching out of the modern Internet it would collapse immediately. There&#x27;s caches in your CPU, there&#x27;s caches in your disk drives, there&#x27;s caches in Linux, there&#x27;s caches in every layer of every major cloud service, there&#x27;s caches in your network (CDN).<p>If your CPU had to fetch every instruction and every bit of data from main memory it would run x100 slower. If your disks didn&#x27;t have caching they&#x27;d generally run slower. If Linux didn&#x27;t cache your filesystem it&#x27;d need a lot more disk accesses. etc. etc.<p>Ofcourse a properly designed cache has to consider things like what are the access patterns, how to figure out what to keep in the cache and what to toss away, how large is the dataset we&#x27;re caching, invalidation etc. But there&#x27;s no performance optimization that&#x27;s going to get that NetFlix movie to 100M subscribers directly from the disk it&#x27;s stored on, through the network.<p>Feels like some of the discussion is about something like storing f(x) in a map instead of computing f(x). I wouldn&#x27;t use this terminology (caching) in this case. This is more like your standard space to time algorithmic tradeoffs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>Caching is a weapon of last resort. In most cases it is the last major performance improvement you will see from your code, even if other options were available, and any information architecture problems you have are set in stone or will get worse.<p>Because of the locality aspect, people will assume that it&#x27;s &#x27;free&#x27; to look up a value multiple times instead of passing these data dependencies between the relevant methods. This turns your cache into global shared state, and once that happens you can&#x27;t turn the cache off again. There are other problems with this arrangement as well.<p>The easiest to understand (and yet I&#x27;ve failed on at least one project) is that if the working set for a problem ever becomes proportional to the size of the cache (&gt;1 for single task systems, &gt; 1&#x2F;n for systems with n concurrent tasks), then you can end up evicting data in the middle of a transaction. The obvious consequence is that it causes performance to jump off a cliff. Particularly bad behavior with LRUs but switching to a different statistical model simply reduces the height of the cliff. There is still a cliff. The less obvious consequence is now you have concurrency bugs, because the code assumes that decisions made about the data will go the same way on each call, but due to eviction, two halves of the transaction may make conflicting decisions with undefined behavior.<p>But speaking as the guy who fixes the perf issues other people gave up on: Once you introduce caching you poison the performance well. Flame charts lie when cache is used, and after people rely on the cache it is lying in the other direction when the cache is off, because you&#x27;re calling that path 5 times now and it&#x27;s swamping other bottlenecks. This is what I really mean when I say it&#x27;s a weapon of last resort. Because once you use it, it attempts to take any other options off the table. Caching will be most of the last order of magnitude in scalability that your system ever sees. Every &#x27;win&#x27; from there on will take more time and energy than most people are willing to invest.</text></item><item><author>mjb</author><text>I really love this point.<p>For most applications the optimal size of a (time-based) cache is around the point that keeping an item around in the cache is equal to the cost of accessing it again. This is a point that Jim Gray made in the classic &quot;The 5 Minute Rule for Trading Memory for Disc Accesses&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hpl.hp.com&#x2F;techreports&#x2F;tandem&#x2F;TR-86.1.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hpl.hp.com&#x2F;techreports&#x2F;tandem&#x2F;TR-86.1.pdf</a>) back in 1986.<p>A side effect of that is that systems that run faster, and therefore access each cached it more often, get more benefit out of a cache by pushing that set point out further. Whether that happens in any given system depends a lot on the access patterns, and especially temporal locality within those access patterns, but the effect is real in a lot of different kinds of systems.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s common wisdom that systems with caches can fail badly when the caches are cold. When every request misses the cache, the system is overloaded, and never recovers. What I observed was the mirror image.<p>The bottom line is that both locality and memoization are huge contributor to the performance of systems, both positive and negative. When folks (including me) point out the risks of caches, we&#x27;re not implying that caches are always bad. Instead, it&#x27;s pointing out a risk that sometimes they are too <i>good</i>, leading to a system that can&#x27;t function when the normal level of locality and memoization are not available.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Optimizations can have unexpectedly large effects when combined with caches</title><url>https://justinblank.com/notebooks/performanceoptimizationscanhaveunexpectedlylargeeffectswhencombinedwithcaches.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>zasdffaa</author><text>In my <i>extensive</i> experience of optimising stuff...<p>&gt; Caching is a weapon of last resort. In most cases it is the last major performance improvement<p>...is wrong. It is one of the very first things I reach for because it is the most effective and simplest, once you&#x27;ve eliminated O(n^2) behaviour etc. It&#x27;s not a magic wand but nothing is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>Caching is a weapon of last resort. In most cases it is the last major performance improvement you will see from your code, even if other options were available, and any information architecture problems you have are set in stone or will get worse.<p>Because of the locality aspect, people will assume that it&#x27;s &#x27;free&#x27; to look up a value multiple times instead of passing these data dependencies between the relevant methods. This turns your cache into global shared state, and once that happens you can&#x27;t turn the cache off again. There are other problems with this arrangement as well.<p>The easiest to understand (and yet I&#x27;ve failed on at least one project) is that if the working set for a problem ever becomes proportional to the size of the cache (&gt;1 for single task systems, &gt; 1&#x2F;n for systems with n concurrent tasks), then you can end up evicting data in the middle of a transaction. The obvious consequence is that it causes performance to jump off a cliff. Particularly bad behavior with LRUs but switching to a different statistical model simply reduces the height of the cliff. There is still a cliff. The less obvious consequence is now you have concurrency bugs, because the code assumes that decisions made about the data will go the same way on each call, but due to eviction, two halves of the transaction may make conflicting decisions with undefined behavior.<p>But speaking as the guy who fixes the perf issues other people gave up on: Once you introduce caching you poison the performance well. Flame charts lie when cache is used, and after people rely on the cache it is lying in the other direction when the cache is off, because you&#x27;re calling that path 5 times now and it&#x27;s swamping other bottlenecks. This is what I really mean when I say it&#x27;s a weapon of last resort. Because once you use it, it attempts to take any other options off the table. Caching will be most of the last order of magnitude in scalability that your system ever sees. Every &#x27;win&#x27; from there on will take more time and energy than most people are willing to invest.</text></item><item><author>mjb</author><text>I really love this point.<p>For most applications the optimal size of a (time-based) cache is around the point that keeping an item around in the cache is equal to the cost of accessing it again. This is a point that Jim Gray made in the classic &quot;The 5 Minute Rule for Trading Memory for Disc Accesses&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hpl.hp.com&#x2F;techreports&#x2F;tandem&#x2F;TR-86.1.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hpl.hp.com&#x2F;techreports&#x2F;tandem&#x2F;TR-86.1.pdf</a>) back in 1986.<p>A side effect of that is that systems that run faster, and therefore access each cached it more often, get more benefit out of a cache by pushing that set point out further. Whether that happens in any given system depends a lot on the access patterns, and especially temporal locality within those access patterns, but the effect is real in a lot of different kinds of systems.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s common wisdom that systems with caches can fail badly when the caches are cold. When every request misses the cache, the system is overloaded, and never recovers. What I observed was the mirror image.<p>The bottom line is that both locality and memoization are huge contributor to the performance of systems, both positive and negative. When folks (including me) point out the risks of caches, we&#x27;re not implying that caches are always bad. Instead, it&#x27;s pointing out a risk that sometimes they are too <i>good</i>, leading to a system that can&#x27;t function when the normal level of locality and memoization are not available.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Optimizations can have unexpectedly large effects when combined with caches</title><url>https://justinblank.com/notebooks/performanceoptimizationscanhaveunexpectedlylargeeffectswhencombinedwithcaches.html</url></story> |
3,880,044 | 3,879,816 | 1 | 3 | 3,879,591 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>epoxyhockey</author><text>My last web scraping activity consisted of using PhantomJS to drive and injecting my own javascript that submitted the pertinent data to my own web service. <a href="http://phantomjs.org/" rel="nofollow">http://phantomjs.org/</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web scraping: Reliably and efficiently pull data from pages that don't expect it</title><url>http://pyvideo.org/video/609/web-scraping-reliably-and-efficiently-pull-data</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>AdrianRossouw</author><text>i found node.js is a phenomenal scraping tool. There's also a pretty simple / easy framework for these tasks called node.io (<a href="http://node.io/" rel="nofollow">http://node.io/</a>).<p>Being able to pop up a jsdom, and extract data from the page using jquery is a lot of fun.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web scraping: Reliably and efficiently pull data from pages that don't expect it</title><url>http://pyvideo.org/video/609/web-scraping-reliably-and-efficiently-pull-data</url><text></text></story> |
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