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19,652,845 | 19,652,507 | 1 | 3 | 19,632,412 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bonniemuffin</author><text>Even though my 2019 Subaru is covered in screens, it also has physical knobs and buttons for the volume, air conditioning, and changing between radio station presets. I usually find that I don&#x27;t have to touch the touchscreen on an average car trip.</text><parent_chain><item><author>froindt</author><text>&gt;Do cars even come without &#x27;smart&#x27; options nowadays?<p>This will be much harder to find on new cars in the US. As our May 2018, all new cars are required to have backup cameras (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Backup_camera#Mandates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Backup_camera#Mandates</a>). Now that a screen is required, it&#x27;s harder to financially justify putting in a head unit that includes physical dials. Instead we&#x27;re stuck with crap like &quot;find the button for volume on the screen, then tap it 15 times to adequately adjust it&quot;. I&#x27;m hanging on to my 2011 Honda Civic for the foreseeable future, and pray the UI won&#x27;t suck on newer vehicles or find a basic trim 2016-2018 that doesn&#x27;t do everything on the screen.<p>I appreciate the safety aspect, but hate the UI of every car I&#x27;ve interacted with.<p>Any recommendations for cars whose UI doesn&#x27;t suck?</text></item><item><author>dugditches</author><text>Do cars even come without &#x27;smart&#x27; options nowadays? As in, is it possible to buy a new basic trim car with a traditional radio&#x2F;without a screen? That can be removed or replaced?<p>I just wonder if this &#x27;smart tech&#x27; will become like when you find a CD changer in the trunk of a car. Except these smart dashes won&#x27;t be easily removable&#x2F;swappable like an old cassette deck.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jailbreaking Subaru StarLink</title><url>https://github.com/sgayou/subaru-starlink-research/blob/master/doc/README.md</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RandomBacon</author><text>My 2015 Toyota Corolla has a screen for the backup camera, but it also has physical buttons. The digital and physical interfaces are pretty good. Because it&#x27;s a Toyota, it will probably be reliable for a very long time, and because it&#x27;s a Corolla, there will probably always be parts available.<p>If for some reason you get a trim level that does not have cruise control, it&#x27;s easy to add: drill a hole in the steering console, mount the lever, and plug it in. The car is already programmed with the feature.</text><parent_chain><item><author>froindt</author><text>&gt;Do cars even come without &#x27;smart&#x27; options nowadays?<p>This will be much harder to find on new cars in the US. As our May 2018, all new cars are required to have backup cameras (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Backup_camera#Mandates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Backup_camera#Mandates</a>). Now that a screen is required, it&#x27;s harder to financially justify putting in a head unit that includes physical dials. Instead we&#x27;re stuck with crap like &quot;find the button for volume on the screen, then tap it 15 times to adequately adjust it&quot;. I&#x27;m hanging on to my 2011 Honda Civic for the foreseeable future, and pray the UI won&#x27;t suck on newer vehicles or find a basic trim 2016-2018 that doesn&#x27;t do everything on the screen.<p>I appreciate the safety aspect, but hate the UI of every car I&#x27;ve interacted with.<p>Any recommendations for cars whose UI doesn&#x27;t suck?</text></item><item><author>dugditches</author><text>Do cars even come without &#x27;smart&#x27; options nowadays? As in, is it possible to buy a new basic trim car with a traditional radio&#x2F;without a screen? That can be removed or replaced?<p>I just wonder if this &#x27;smart tech&#x27; will become like when you find a CD changer in the trunk of a car. Except these smart dashes won&#x27;t be easily removable&#x2F;swappable like an old cassette deck.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jailbreaking Subaru StarLink</title><url>https://github.com/sgayou/subaru-starlink-research/blob/master/doc/README.md</url></story> |
34,108,205 | 34,107,739 | 1 | 2 | 34,105,063 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>M2Ys4U</author><text>&gt;Sure, but the closed captioning is still extremely good. The typists use chorded keyboards for speed and yes they occasionally make mistakes but everything is generally quite clear and accurate.<p>Live subtitling (on the BBC at least) is mainly done using re-speaking and voice recognition, rather than typing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Sure, but the closed captioning is still extremely good. The typists use chorded keyboards for speed and yes they occasionally make mistakes but everything is generally quite clear and accurate.<p>On the other hand, signing involves actual <i>translation</i>, not just transcription, which is much more likely to drop meaning or introduce confusion. Translation is already hard enough, and live translation is a whole other level of difficulty.</text></item><item><author>rwmj</author><text>Since I live with someone whose first language isn&#x27;t English I basically watch everything with subtitles. And live subtitling - while it&#x27;s a thing - isn&#x27;t that good. Try turning on subtitles for something like a news programme or live broadcast and it&#x27;ll usually be quite delayed, with lots of misspellings and even outright wrong text. (This is true for premier public broadcasters in the UK such as the BBC, I don&#x27;t know if this is solved better in other countries).<p>Anyway my theory is that sign language interpreters may be much better at this because sign language uses the same areas of the brain as speaking[1] so they&#x27;re able to listen and sign much more intuitively than typing. Think if you were able to listen and speak at the same time without your &quot;speech&quot; drowning out what you are listening to.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maxplanckneuroscience.org&#x2F;language-is-more-than-speaking-how-the-brain-processes-sign-language&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maxplanckneuroscience.org&#x2F;language-is-more-than-spea...</a></text></item><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve wondered... when politicians give speeches they often have some hand gesturing from a sign language interpreter standing next to them. But I&#x27;ve never understood why this is better than subtitles. If you&#x27;re deaf then wouldn&#x27;t you rather read text than follow sign language?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BBC Subtitle Guidelines</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/forproducts/guides/subtitles/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blowski</author><text>I&#x27;m not deaf, don&#x27;t know any sign language, am not close friends with anyone who does.<p>However, I understand that it&#x27;s much easier to be expressive in sign language. Non-verbal language used by the speaker - sarcasm, tone, inflection - either translate badly, or get lost entirely when transliterating into subtitles. A talented sign-language translator is able to carry this over much better.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Sure, but the closed captioning is still extremely good. The typists use chorded keyboards for speed and yes they occasionally make mistakes but everything is generally quite clear and accurate.<p>On the other hand, signing involves actual <i>translation</i>, not just transcription, which is much more likely to drop meaning or introduce confusion. Translation is already hard enough, and live translation is a whole other level of difficulty.</text></item><item><author>rwmj</author><text>Since I live with someone whose first language isn&#x27;t English I basically watch everything with subtitles. And live subtitling - while it&#x27;s a thing - isn&#x27;t that good. Try turning on subtitles for something like a news programme or live broadcast and it&#x27;ll usually be quite delayed, with lots of misspellings and even outright wrong text. (This is true for premier public broadcasters in the UK such as the BBC, I don&#x27;t know if this is solved better in other countries).<p>Anyway my theory is that sign language interpreters may be much better at this because sign language uses the same areas of the brain as speaking[1] so they&#x27;re able to listen and sign much more intuitively than typing. Think if you were able to listen and speak at the same time without your &quot;speech&quot; drowning out what you are listening to.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maxplanckneuroscience.org&#x2F;language-is-more-than-speaking-how-the-brain-processes-sign-language&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maxplanckneuroscience.org&#x2F;language-is-more-than-spea...</a></text></item><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve wondered... when politicians give speeches they often have some hand gesturing from a sign language interpreter standing next to them. But I&#x27;ve never understood why this is better than subtitles. If you&#x27;re deaf then wouldn&#x27;t you rather read text than follow sign language?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BBC Subtitle Guidelines</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/forproducts/guides/subtitles/</url></story> |
23,300,539 | 23,299,617 | 1 | 2 | 23,292,161 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>radarsat1</author><text>If only CMake weren&#x27;t just as awful. It seems to have become an industry standard yet I can&#x27;t begin to tell you how much time I&#x27;ve wasted wrestling with it lately. In an ideal world all projects would use CMake &quot;correctly&quot; but it&#x27;s just not the case; problems are really hard to debug, no one really seems to know the current &quot;right way&quot; to do things, and the &quot;right way&quot; keeps changing anyway.<p>Coupled with an awful language, I just can&#x27;t say that CMake is better, or much better, than autotools. But at least it handles Visual Studio and ninja. So yeah, we use it for the support it provides which is second-to-none, but it&#x27;s a mostly terrible user experience, frankly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simfoo</author><text><i>My unusual application of Docker here is no exception. Most software builds are needlessly complicated and fragile, especially Autoconf-based builds. Ironically, the worst configure scripts I’ve dealt with come from GNU projects. They waste time doing useless checks (“Does your compiler define size_t?”) then produce a build that doesn’t work anyway because you’re doing something slightly unusual. Worst of all, despite my best efforts, the build will be contaminated by the state of the system doing the build.</i><p>Completely agree, Autoconf needs to die. C++ builds don&#x27;t <i>need</i> to be complex and fragile, even if many environments are supported. Just use a minimal CMake build and resist the urge to implement &quot;clever&quot; things in it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>W64devkit: A Portable C and C++ Development Kit for Windows</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/05/15/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pornel</author><text>If you do only minimal things, you will have fragile builds. The hacks are there not because people like adding complex code for no reason, but they&#x27;re scars from broken builds.<p>For example, requirements for what has to be static and what dynamic are different on Linux (distros want unbundling) and macOS and Windows (you can link to handful of things that ship with the OS). macOS is especially annoying, because if you&#x27;re not careful, you&#x27;ll link dynamically to homebrew&#x27;s non-permanent locations. `find_package` doesn&#x27;t do the right thing without clever non-minimal things around it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simfoo</author><text><i>My unusual application of Docker here is no exception. Most software builds are needlessly complicated and fragile, especially Autoconf-based builds. Ironically, the worst configure scripts I’ve dealt with come from GNU projects. They waste time doing useless checks (“Does your compiler define size_t?”) then produce a build that doesn’t work anyway because you’re doing something slightly unusual. Worst of all, despite my best efforts, the build will be contaminated by the state of the system doing the build.</i><p>Completely agree, Autoconf needs to die. C++ builds don&#x27;t <i>need</i> to be complex and fragile, even if many environments are supported. Just use a minimal CMake build and resist the urge to implement &quot;clever&quot; things in it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>W64devkit: A Portable C and C++ Development Kit for Windows</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/05/15/</url></story> |
15,461,901 | 15,461,932 | 1 | 2 | 15,458,824 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vortico</author><text>Version 1.0.0 was released today, check it out! This is definitely the best hackable browser out there. It combines QtWebEngine and Python, which are incredibly stable yet fast to develop in.<p>It&#x27;s a great alternative to what&#x27;s left of the Firefox genocide of extensions, where only VimFX and Saka Key exist.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI</title><url>https://qutebrowser.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>raamdev</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Vimium [1] for years now to browse the web (almost) entirely via the keyboard and couldn&#x27;t live without it. It&#x27;s incredibly easy to use once you become familiar with the shortcuts. You can even change the bindings to more closely match Emacs [2] if that&#x27;s your editor of choice.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimium.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimium.github.io&#x2F;</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;dmgerman&#x2F;6f0e5f9ffc6484dfaf53" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;dmgerman&#x2F;6f0e5f9ffc6484dfaf53</a><p>Edit: formatting.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI</title><url>https://qutebrowser.org</url></story> |
40,864,217 | 40,864,213 | 1 | 2 | 40,861,327 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ralferoo</author><text>It&#x27;s a pretty good way of explaining it.<p>I&#x27;ve seen (1+1&#x2F;n)^n before, but never seen an explanation of why I might ever want to use something of that form. I&#x27;ve used the e^ix notation extensively, but again I&#x27;ve never really cared, because to me it was just a compact representation of sin and cos together. Likewise, all the proofs in that article are still a bit &quot;so at this point on this carefully chosen graph, the gradient is e&quot; and I think &quot;Who cares? You carefully chose the graph to prove a point, I&#x27;ll never see it in the real world.&quot;<p>And then the example with compounding interest - immediately I can see the application. It&#x27;s definitely a good way of explaining it, although maybe it&#x27;d be even more grounded if it had n=12 and n=365 as examples. When you notice that the actual values seem to be converging, then you can try plugging in ever bigger and bigger numbers. This way you can discover the value of e for yourself and that process of discovery leads to a better understanding than rote learning of an abstract thing you haven&#x27;t mentally visualised yet. All the other explanations are useful later, and they allow you to see it in different situations, but having at least one &quot;this is why it&#x27;s tangibly useful&quot; hook at the start is definitely a massive help in understanding something.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>That may be how it was arrived at historically, but it is not the best way to explain it.<p>e arises when you ask the question: is there a function that is its own derivative? And it turns out the answer is yes. It is this infinite series:<p>1 + x + x^2&#x2F;2 + x^3&#x2F;6 + ... x^n&#x2F;n! ...<p>which you can easily verify is its own derivative simply by differentiating it term-by-term. When you evaluate this function at x=1, the result is e. In general, when you evaluate this function at any real value of x, the result is e^x.<p>But the Euler equation e^iπ = -1 has nothing to do with exponentiating e, it&#x27;s just a <i>notational convention</i> that is <i>defined</i> to be the series above. When you evaluate that series at x=iπ, the result is -1. In general, the value of the series for any x=iy is cos(y) + i*sin(y).<p>It&#x27;s that simple.</text></item><item><author>mihaic</author><text>Exactly the same for me and I&#x27;m pretty sure this is how Jakob Bernoulli came to define the number as well, trying to see what the upper bound for infinitesimal compounding was.</text></item><item><author>munchler</author><text>This is a frustrating article because it never explains why e is the natural logarithm base. To me, the easiest way to understand it is via continuous compound interest:<p>* If you invest $1 at 100% interest for 1 year, you get $2 at the end<p>* Compounded 2 times in a year, you get 100&#x2F;2 = 50% interest every 1&#x2F;2 year, which amounts to $2.25<p>* Compounded 4 times in a year, you get 100&#x2F;4 = 25% interest every 1&#x2F;4 year, which amounts to $2.44<p>* Compounded n times in a year, you get 100&#x2F;n percent interest every 1&#x2F;n year, which amounts to (1+1&#x2F;n)^n dollars<p>* So continuous compound interest is the limit as n approaches infinity, which amounts to $2.71828 at the end of the year<p>(This is a great problem to give to pre-calc students to see if they can figure out the calculation for themselves.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What makes e natural? (2004)</title><url>https://www.komal.hu/cikkek/2004-ang/e.e.shtml</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moefh</author><text>&gt; But the Euler equation e^iπ = -1 has nothing to do with exponentiating e, it&#x27;s just a notational convention that is <i>defined</i> to be the series above.<p>Can&#x27;t the same thing be said about using fractions on the exponent? Exponentiation is <i>actually</i> just repeated multiplication (a^n=a*a*...*a, repeated n times), but you can&#x27;t do that when n is a fraction or irrational anymore than you can do it when it&#x27;s imaginary.<p>We have to define what it means for an exponent to be non-integer: for fractions we might define a^(b&#x2F;c) as the root of the equation x^c=a^b, and to allow irrationals I think you need some real analysis (it&#x27;s been a while, but I think the usual way is to first define exp and log, and then say that a^b=exp(b*log(a)), which is kind of cheating because we have to define exp first!).<p>There&#x27;s a very intuitive way to &quot;see&quot; that e^ix=cos(x)+i*sin(x): all you have to do is to treat complex numbers like you would any other number, and &quot;believe&quot; the derivative rule for complex numbers (so (e^(ix))&#x27;=ie^(ix)). Then you can just graph f(x)=e^(ix) for real x by starting at x=0 (when clearly f(x)=1) and from there take small steps in the x axis and use the derivative to find the value of the next step with the usual formula f(x+dx)=f(x)+f&#x27;(x)*dx.<p>Doing that you realize the image of e^(ix) just traces a circle in the complex plane because every small step in the x direction makes e^(ix0) walk a small step perpendicular to the line going from 0 to e^(ix0), simply because multiplying by i means rotating 90 degrees.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>That may be how it was arrived at historically, but it is not the best way to explain it.<p>e arises when you ask the question: is there a function that is its own derivative? And it turns out the answer is yes. It is this infinite series:<p>1 + x + x^2&#x2F;2 + x^3&#x2F;6 + ... x^n&#x2F;n! ...<p>which you can easily verify is its own derivative simply by differentiating it term-by-term. When you evaluate this function at x=1, the result is e. In general, when you evaluate this function at any real value of x, the result is e^x.<p>But the Euler equation e^iπ = -1 has nothing to do with exponentiating e, it&#x27;s just a <i>notational convention</i> that is <i>defined</i> to be the series above. When you evaluate that series at x=iπ, the result is -1. In general, the value of the series for any x=iy is cos(y) + i*sin(y).<p>It&#x27;s that simple.</text></item><item><author>mihaic</author><text>Exactly the same for me and I&#x27;m pretty sure this is how Jakob Bernoulli came to define the number as well, trying to see what the upper bound for infinitesimal compounding was.</text></item><item><author>munchler</author><text>This is a frustrating article because it never explains why e is the natural logarithm base. To me, the easiest way to understand it is via continuous compound interest:<p>* If you invest $1 at 100% interest for 1 year, you get $2 at the end<p>* Compounded 2 times in a year, you get 100&#x2F;2 = 50% interest every 1&#x2F;2 year, which amounts to $2.25<p>* Compounded 4 times in a year, you get 100&#x2F;4 = 25% interest every 1&#x2F;4 year, which amounts to $2.44<p>* Compounded n times in a year, you get 100&#x2F;n percent interest every 1&#x2F;n year, which amounts to (1+1&#x2F;n)^n dollars<p>* So continuous compound interest is the limit as n approaches infinity, which amounts to $2.71828 at the end of the year<p>(This is a great problem to give to pre-calc students to see if they can figure out the calculation for themselves.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What makes e natural? (2004)</title><url>https://www.komal.hu/cikkek/2004-ang/e.e.shtml</url></story> |
16,142,936 | 16,142,961 | 1 | 2 | 16,142,723 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>labster</author><text>Actually, the best board game of 2017 was Kingdomino.[0] It&#x27;s a good lightweight euro, easy to learn but decent strategy for those who want it.<p>Arranging dominos in a 5x5 grid is harder than it should be, when you&#x27;re trying to maximize points one domino at a time. I start off with a great plan, but by the end: d&#x27;oh, last one won&#x27;t fit!<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Spiel_des_Jahres#2017_awards" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Spiel_des_Jahres#2017_awards</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The best board game of 2017 is a wildly entertaining romantic comedy generator</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2017-in-review/2017/12/17/16764344/best-board-game-2017-fog-of-love</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cthalupa</author><text>Also for consideration: Gloomhaven - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boardgamegeek.com&#x2F;browse&#x2F;boardgame" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boardgamegeek.com&#x2F;browse&#x2F;boardgame</a><p>Now the top ranked board game on BGG.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The best board game of 2017 is a wildly entertaining romantic comedy generator</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2017-in-review/2017/12/17/16764344/best-board-game-2017-fog-of-love</url></story> |
14,620,935 | 14,620,962 | 1 | 2 | 14,620,608 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dingaling</author><text>It&#x27;s like my accountant reading my receipts to create my tax return versus a sleazy salesman sneaking a peek at them to find new ways to sell me stuff.</text><parent_chain><item><author>skrause</author><text>I never understood the argument that some automatic scanning for keywords is like &quot;reading&quot; your mail. By that same logic isn&#x27;t Gmail&#x27;s spam filter still &quot;reading&quot; your mail? It is classifying your mail based on content after all...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/google-will-stop-reading-your-emails-for-gmail-ads</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roywiggins</author><text>The spam filter is for my benefit, but scanning for ad keywords is designed to benefit someone else, not me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>skrause</author><text>I never understood the argument that some automatic scanning for keywords is like &quot;reading&quot; your mail. By that same logic isn&#x27;t Gmail&#x27;s spam filter still &quot;reading&quot; your mail? It is classifying your mail based on content after all...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/google-will-stop-reading-your-emails-for-gmail-ads</url></story> |
26,331,170 | 26,330,931 | 1 | 2 | 26,329,297 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ahelwer</author><text>I think it&#x27;s an interesting example of people being too close to something, technically, to really see its totality. I&#x27;m a distributed systems person so I basically blew off Bitcoin two bubble-cycles ago because of the 3 tx&#x2F;sec issue and the obvious deficiencies of the proposed lightning network workaround. I also took an in-depth look at a cryptocurrency with a supposed better protocol (Nano) and was very unimpressed - they didn&#x27;t have a real solution to the network partition double-spend issue (a coin with a similar protocol, IOTA, solves this with a centralized &quot;coordinator&quot; node that they swear will be removed any time now... it won&#x27;t). So I found myself in the interesting situation of knowing more about these things than 99% of people with money in them, but missing out on the large gains in value. There is a probabilistic protocol I legitimately find very interesting (Avalanche) that might succeed on a technical level, but analyzing these things at the technical level hasn&#x27;t really meant much so far.<p>It&#x27;s possible this is an enormous bubble that will all go to zero. Of note is that the entirety of Bitcoin&#x27;s history fits within this larger bull market we&#x27;ve been in since 2008. It will be interesting to see how cryptocurrencies fare in the inevitable wider market downturn, whenever that happens. Regardless it&#x27;s probably a good idea to hedge against your own ignorance by putting 1% of your money in or something like that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ceilingcorner</author><text>I have no interest in cryptocurrencies and I don’t own a single cent in any of them. But the continual barrage of hostile comments in every single HN article looks mostly like groupthink to me.<p>Clearly cryptocurrency will continue to play a growing role in the future. Denying this seems simply delusional.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PayPal Bids $500M to Acquire Crypto Startup Curv</title><url>https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/paypal-bids-500-million-to-acquire-crypto-startup-curv-report/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Cryptocurrency isn’t going away, but it’s dishonest to pretend that it’s not without major problems such as the energy consumption issues. The popular narrative has also become almost indistinguishable from a pump scheme, where we’re all supposed to buy and home (never sell) until we’re all rich.<p>If cryptocurrency becomes commonplace, it likely won’t look anything like our current crypto infrastructure. The problem is that this isn’t what all of the current holders want to hear, because they only want people to buy into whatever crypto they personally hold. This makes it difficult to have honest conversations because so many of the participants are biased toward convincing others to buy into their investment while ignoring anything else.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ceilingcorner</author><text>I have no interest in cryptocurrencies and I don’t own a single cent in any of them. But the continual barrage of hostile comments in every single HN article looks mostly like groupthink to me.<p>Clearly cryptocurrency will continue to play a growing role in the future. Denying this seems simply delusional.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PayPal Bids $500M to Acquire Crypto Startup Curv</title><url>https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/paypal-bids-500-million-to-acquire-crypto-startup-curv-report/</url></story> |
19,681,922 | 19,681,563 | 1 | 2 | 19,671,615 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noego</author><text>Sure, people should be able to poke fun at Mohammed, freedom of speech etc etc. But why would you? Life of Brian was a movie about Christianity, made by those born into Christianity, meant to be watched by fellow Christians. Hence why it provided an opportunity for introspection and self-reflection.<p>A movie lampooning Mohammed, made by Christians and for the amusement of other Christians, offers no such opportunity for self-reflection or growth. It would be nothing more than 21st century blackface.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nintendo95</author><text>&#x2F;cynical&#x2F; So sad that nowadays Swedes can&#x27;t have a say about radical immams. &#x2F;cynical&#x2F; How cool it is to have fun of Jesus but to have fun of Mahommed? How &quot;far&quot; we have &quot;progressed&quot; ;-) In 40 years from having fun about religious leaders to burning heretics like witches.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t it be fun to watch movie having fun about Mohammed in Sweden? Or we became some kind of cultural caliphat in the mean time? Joking about Jesus respecting Mohammed? There is a reason for which our era is referred to as &quot;new middle-ages&quot; by some philosophers.<p>Sad.<p>By the way there is much more comedy material in Mohammed case too.<p>As we know since Freud hypocrisy is this what makes the best jokes. I.e. saint God messiah who is a war lord and peadophile in the meantime. Try making movie about that.</text></item><item><author>lb1lf</author><text>This film was initially banned in Norway due to alleged blasphemy (!).<p>The Swedes loved it; their movie posters dubbed it &#x27;The movie which is so funny, it is banned in Norway!&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates</title><url>https://theconversation.com/life-of-brian-at-40-an-assertion-of-individual-freedom-that-still-resonates-114743</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ddeokbokki</author><text>The prophet Mohammed in Islam is seen with more reverence than Jesus in Christianity, invoking his name is also very delicate in Islam (you are supposed to say a blessing anytime you do and avoid invoking it lightly, there&#x27;s a lot of rules around it).<p>With these religious&#x2F;cultural differences I can understand how Muslim take greater offence to people making fun of their most prominent prophet as opposed to Christians, but also you have to take into account that because of that, people usually are more provocative with their humour when it comes to Mohammed.<p>I can&#x27;t remember having seen any sexually depraved depiction of Jesus in mainstream media whereas I can clearly remember many that depicted Mohammed.<p>IMO it&#x27;s not as easy to make fun of Islam&#x2F;Mohammed because people tend to go for the extreme in term of dark humour but also it&#x27;s not perceived the same way by the religious communities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nintendo95</author><text>&#x2F;cynical&#x2F; So sad that nowadays Swedes can&#x27;t have a say about radical immams. &#x2F;cynical&#x2F; How cool it is to have fun of Jesus but to have fun of Mahommed? How &quot;far&quot; we have &quot;progressed&quot; ;-) In 40 years from having fun about religious leaders to burning heretics like witches.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t it be fun to watch movie having fun about Mohammed in Sweden? Or we became some kind of cultural caliphat in the mean time? Joking about Jesus respecting Mohammed? There is a reason for which our era is referred to as &quot;new middle-ages&quot; by some philosophers.<p>Sad.<p>By the way there is much more comedy material in Mohammed case too.<p>As we know since Freud hypocrisy is this what makes the best jokes. I.e. saint God messiah who is a war lord and peadophile in the meantime. Try making movie about that.</text></item><item><author>lb1lf</author><text>This film was initially banned in Norway due to alleged blasphemy (!).<p>The Swedes loved it; their movie posters dubbed it &#x27;The movie which is so funny, it is banned in Norway!&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates</title><url>https://theconversation.com/life-of-brian-at-40-an-assertion-of-individual-freedom-that-still-resonates-114743</url></story> |
19,093,978 | 19,093,781 | 1 | 2 | 19,093,555 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BilalBudhani</author><text>Hooks seem to be a drastic change in how we&#x27;re going to write React components in the future. I&#x27;m quite satisfied with the current way of writing components which is to me is very explicit (with no magic). With Hooks React is taking a different direction from their original motto of explicit design patterns. From the looks of it, Hooks seems like a counter-intuitive design pattern but traditionally that&#x27;s how most of the JS concepts were before they went mainstream.<p>I&#x27;m going to wait and see for some production success stories become giving it serious thought.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release</title><url>https://reactjs.org/blog/2019/02/06/react-v16.8.0.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>devit</author><text>Are hooks being accepted as a good design by the community?<p>It seems to me that the lack of a parameter explicitly indicating the component and the reliance on hook ordering to match them across calls of the component function make them a bad design, but I might very well wrong and would be happy to be convinced otherwise.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release</title><url>https://reactjs.org/blog/2019/02/06/react-v16.8.0.html</url></story> |
12,030,052 | 12,028,280 | 1 | 2 | 12,027,008 | 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>samuell</author><text>I was tasked with building a small utility for copying out a few GB of files from a super-complicated folder structure, and convert it into a different structure, with the requirement that it should have an interactive GUI (to do various selections interactively), and run natively on Windows and Mac.<p>Couldn&#x27;t have found an easier route than to build this in FPC with Lazarus.<p>Even though I had hardly coded a line in the language before, it was built from scratch to &quot;happy end-user&quot; in 80 hours, including learning the language.<p>I built it on Xubuntu, then imported it on my Windows VM and compiled, WITHOUT A SINGLE CHANGE! On Mac, I needed to add a missing import statement or so.<p>Simply an outstandingly productive tool for open source, cross-platform GUI development.<p>(The tool: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NBISweden&#x2F;mdc-file-export" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NBISweden&#x2F;mdc-file-export</a> )</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Guide to modern Object Pascal for programmers</title><url>http://michalis.ii.uni.wroc.pl/%7Emichalis/modern_pascal_introduction/modern_pascal_introduction.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>boznz</author><text>Nice little intro, everything there would compile fine with Free Pascal on Linux, Windows or OSX<p>BTW Shoutout to the FreePascal&#x2F;Lazarus team, the improvements over the past 12 months have been great and finally convinced me to make the move from Delphi. I even created my first Real Linux desktop program two months ago to replace an XP status display screen in a factory.. A real big step for me :-)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Guide to modern Object Pascal for programmers</title><url>http://michalis.ii.uni.wroc.pl/%7Emichalis/modern_pascal_introduction/modern_pascal_introduction.html</url></story> |
18,982,910 | 18,982,716 | 1 | 3 | 18,981,492 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>This is getting a lot of play today on Twitter but it&#x27;s not all that consequential in the normal setting of a ZIP file.<p>The flaw they&#x27;re pointing out is that 7z&#x27;s AES encryptor has a 64-bit IV (half the block size) --- not itself a vulnerability <i>in block ciphers</i> --- and uses a predictable RNG to generate the IV (for simplicity, just call it &quot;time and pid&quot;). 7z uses AES in CBC mode.<p>In CBC, you want IVs to be unpredictable; if you can predict an IV <i>and</i> you control some of the plaintext, you can in some cases make predictions about secret data that follows your controlled plaintext (this is an &quot;adaptive chosen plaintext&quot; attack).<p>This doesn&#x27;t really come up in 7z&#x27;s usage model; you&#x27;re supposing someone integrates 7z with their own application, which, on-demand, encrypts attacker-controlled data with a secret suffix and puts it somewhere the same attacker can see the resulting ciphertext. Don&#x27;t do this. In fact, if you&#x27;re using ZIP archives in your application, don&#x27;t use ZIP&#x27;s AES at all; encrypt yourself with a modern mode. ZIP AES isn&#x27;t meaningfully authenticated.<p>Having said all that: for the normal usage of an encrypted ZIP, this doesn&#x27;t really matter at all.<p>It&#x27;s a good finding, though! Cheers to anyone who takes the time to look at the underlying code for any popular cryptography. I hope they keep it up.<p>A more important PSA: unless you&#x27;re absolutely sure otherwise, you should always assume any ZIP program you&#x27;re using doesn&#x27;t actually encrypt password-protected ZIPs. It&#x27;s just as likely that it&#x27;s using the old, broken PKWARE cipher, which is dispiritingly common due to backwards-compat concerns. It would be nice if there was a mainstream, built-in way to password-protect a file that you could share with someone else (or just stick on a thumb drive), but ZIP encryption isn&#x27;t it.<p>Pentesters sometimes go out of their way to use 7z because it actually does encrypt with a real cipher. And, I guess for what we&#x27;re doing with it, 7z is fine. But it&#x27;s sad that it&#x27;s the best common denominator we have.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>7-zip broken password random number generator</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1087848040583626753.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>deckar01</author><text>It is not clear if anything is actually wrong here. It would be nice if someone who has spent more than &quot;30 minutes&quot; looking at this code could verify these claims and publish an article explaining the implications of these design choices.<p>The twitter thread that this is aggregated from has replies that seem to indicate that there is no practical exploit here.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;3lbios&#x2F;status&#x2F;1087848040583626753" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;3lbios&#x2F;status&#x2F;1087848040583626753</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>7-zip broken password random number generator</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1087848040583626753.html</url></story> |
17,409,400 | 17,409,486 | 1 | 2 | 17,408,792 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>a3n</author><text>&gt; I wonder, can someone tell me why there are so many obese people in these video clips, if food is so hard to come by?<p>If those people are alive (as they observably are), then logically they are getting food.<p>When you&#x27;re poor, you generally can only afford low quality food. Low quality food is bad for your health, resulting in many problems including obesity and diabetes.<p>Low quality food is generally processed grain. It&#x27;s cheap to make and cheap to keep &quot;fresh,&quot; which is why we have so much of it in the US. Think high fructose corn syrup, and almost anything that comes in a box, and do the thought experiment across the food chain from the farm, through manufacturing and distribution, to consumption and the doctor&#x27;s office.<p>When you see a population of obese people, don&#x27;t think that their food problem is solved; realize that the food they have practical access to is a problem. (And yes, many rich people in rich countries are obese and have a choice, but many of <i>those</i> obese people are poor and do not, and we&#x27;re not talking about a rich country at the moment.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>WrathOfJay</author><text>I actually found this to be worth the time. I haven&#x27;t paid much attention to the situation down there, and seeing it was enlightening.<p>Onto the content...<p>I wonder, can someone tell me why there are so many obese people in these video clips, if food is so hard to come by?<p>Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around? Surely with so much manpower available, there are way to make them productive on a large scale?</text></item><item><author>QasimK</author><text>For all the negative comments about the presentation, which I might normally agree with, I liked this format this time. It took a while to load (thank you multi-threading).<p>I got through it because I treated it like an interactive video with subtitles, which is better than a video. I liked the sound - which, in my iPhone, was muted at the started as my phone was muted, so I didn&#x27;t even realise there was audio. I liked that I could go forwards and backwards. I liked that I could just read. It fit well on my phone, I don’t know what it looks like on desktop.<p>Now, getting to the content itself, I found it to be very sad, especially at how the spirit to protest was killed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Survive When Money Is Worthless [video]</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/27/world/americas/venezuela-money-how-to-survive.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>peterlk</author><text>&gt; Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around?<p>The fundamental problem with corruption, and the reason that corrupt dictatorships do not work in practice is that people need to be able to keep the things they produce. If, say, you are hungry, you might start a community garden to feed yourself and your neighbors. However, you can only feed yourself if men with guns don&#x27;t decide that the garden is actually theirs. If you expand this system out to every facet of society, then there&#x27;s no point in anyone helping anyone else because any public good is sucked up by corrupt people who claim it for themselves. Everyone must get by on less than is worth stealing, or they have to do it in secret.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WrathOfJay</author><text>I actually found this to be worth the time. I haven&#x27;t paid much attention to the situation down there, and seeing it was enlightening.<p>Onto the content...<p>I wonder, can someone tell me why there are so many obese people in these video clips, if food is so hard to come by?<p>Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around? Surely with so much manpower available, there are way to make them productive on a large scale?</text></item><item><author>QasimK</author><text>For all the negative comments about the presentation, which I might normally agree with, I liked this format this time. It took a while to load (thank you multi-threading).<p>I got through it because I treated it like an interactive video with subtitles, which is better than a video. I liked the sound - which, in my iPhone, was muted at the started as my phone was muted, so I didn&#x27;t even realise there was audio. I liked that I could go forwards and backwards. I liked that I could just read. It fit well on my phone, I don’t know what it looks like on desktop.<p>Now, getting to the content itself, I found it to be very sad, especially at how the spirit to protest was killed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Survive When Money Is Worthless [video]</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/27/world/americas/venezuela-money-how-to-survive.html</url></story> |
1,310,434 | 1,310,368 | 1 | 2 | 1,310,091 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rufo</author><text>As far as I know, the way Gmail handles conversations and archiving is unreplicated by any desktop client, and single-handedly the most powerful thing about Gmail. I now have a regular habit of archiving any message that doesn't have an actionable item, decluttering my inbox. If another message should arrive in a thread, I have the entire conversation history right there. A good desktop app could replicate it, but I could see this behavior being difficult to map on top of a standard IMAP server.<p>In addition, there are a ton of innovative small features (especially in Labs - Don't forget Bob!/Got the wrong Bob? have saved my ass multiple times with new clients) that I just don't see other e-mail clients implementing, and they're constantly rolling out new ones. The fact I can get the exact same functionality on any computer I happen to be on is just icing on the cake.<p>Ultimately: it feels like desktop clients have largely stagnated, while Gmail has an incredibly effective way of thinking about e-mail.</text><parent_chain><item><author>btmorex</author><text>"You couldn't pay me to use an existing desktop mail client over Gmail."<p>So, I understand having your email everywhere. That <i>is</i> a killer feature. But you can also provide that feature by simply having a web gateway to your IMAP mail.<p>What exactly is the killer feature of gmail? The tagging is nice, but other programs have similar features. Teh spam filtering is nice, but actually there are better spam filters. The only thing I can think of is the integration with google docs and I actually hate that feature. I don't know how they managed it, but opening a pdf with google docs is about 5x slower than downloading the pdf and opening with evince. So, it's pretty much a non-feature unless you can't be bothered installing a pdf reader.<p>I guess I find gmail useful, but I'd still rather use a normal email client if for no other reason than interruptions in my network connection don't affect working really.</text></item><item><author>blehn</author><text>As mentioned by others in previous threads -- even with the web's shortcomings vs. desktop (or native OS) applications, the web still has <i>major</i> advantages for both the developer and the consumer.<p>for the developer:<p>- distribution is easy. buy a domain name.<p>- agile, iterative development is possible. you can ship a MVP, and push updates frequently and easily.<p>- greater reach. developing one web app (possibly with a mobile web version) is more efficient than creating a windows, mac, linux, iphone, ipad, android, etc<p>for the consumer:<p>- no installation necessary.<p>- updates are invisible. I'm pretty good at keeping my software up to date, but I just looked at my iPhone and I have 22(!) app updates waiting for me. It's a chore to keep up with that.<p>- accessible from any computer.<p>As new browser technologies (HTML5) allow developers to utilize more of the computer's powerful hardware (local storage, GPU acceleration, etc), I think native desktop/mobile applications will become even less necessary. You couldn't pay me to use an existing desktop mail client over Gmail.<p>While some applications will be slow to move to the web for obvious reasons (intensive audio and video production), I don't see any reason why ChromeOS (or the browser-based OS) won't be a huge success.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Web Doesn't Suck. Browsers are Innovating.</title><url>http://yehudakatz.com/2010/04/30/the-web-doesnt-suck-browsers-are-innovating/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tjogin</author><text>You couldn't pay me to use an existing desktop mail client over Gmail, either.<p>Other than reasons you already iterated, the killer feature for me, the one I truly cannot be without, is the threaded conversation view. I know some desktop clients have threaded views, but unlike Gmail's implementation, they suck.</text><parent_chain><item><author>btmorex</author><text>"You couldn't pay me to use an existing desktop mail client over Gmail."<p>So, I understand having your email everywhere. That <i>is</i> a killer feature. But you can also provide that feature by simply having a web gateway to your IMAP mail.<p>What exactly is the killer feature of gmail? The tagging is nice, but other programs have similar features. Teh spam filtering is nice, but actually there are better spam filters. The only thing I can think of is the integration with google docs and I actually hate that feature. I don't know how they managed it, but opening a pdf with google docs is about 5x slower than downloading the pdf and opening with evince. So, it's pretty much a non-feature unless you can't be bothered installing a pdf reader.<p>I guess I find gmail useful, but I'd still rather use a normal email client if for no other reason than interruptions in my network connection don't affect working really.</text></item><item><author>blehn</author><text>As mentioned by others in previous threads -- even with the web's shortcomings vs. desktop (or native OS) applications, the web still has <i>major</i> advantages for both the developer and the consumer.<p>for the developer:<p>- distribution is easy. buy a domain name.<p>- agile, iterative development is possible. you can ship a MVP, and push updates frequently and easily.<p>- greater reach. developing one web app (possibly with a mobile web version) is more efficient than creating a windows, mac, linux, iphone, ipad, android, etc<p>for the consumer:<p>- no installation necessary.<p>- updates are invisible. I'm pretty good at keeping my software up to date, but I just looked at my iPhone and I have 22(!) app updates waiting for me. It's a chore to keep up with that.<p>- accessible from any computer.<p>As new browser technologies (HTML5) allow developers to utilize more of the computer's powerful hardware (local storage, GPU acceleration, etc), I think native desktop/mobile applications will become even less necessary. You couldn't pay me to use an existing desktop mail client over Gmail.<p>While some applications will be slow to move to the web for obvious reasons (intensive audio and video production), I don't see any reason why ChromeOS (or the browser-based OS) won't be a huge success.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Web Doesn't Suck. Browsers are Innovating.</title><url>http://yehudakatz.com/2010/04/30/the-web-doesnt-suck-browsers-are-innovating/</url></story> |
12,998,782 | 12,998,758 | 1 | 3 | 12,998,395 | 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>kristopolous</author><text>The worst move the environmental movement did is let the environmentally sensitive product be associated with consumption by a rich liberal urban elite.<p>Until someone can fix this and disassociate ecological efficiency from the limousine liberal, these programs are unfortunately going to only be marginal. Minimizing environmental externalities can&#x27;t be seen as optional.<p>Lots of reasonable things increase cost - such as refrigerated storage and inspection. We don&#x27;t tier the product market like this though, &quot;oh you want your meat to be free of disease? Well then mr fancy pants... Here&#x27;s the luxury product.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>chillydawg</author><text>The biggest producers are and will always be the mass market stuff, though. Who cares if 1% of beef is produced carbon neutral? It&#x27;s nice, but it makes no tangible difference. Sadly this method of encouraging better behaviour won&#x27;t work unless a costco or a mcdonalds, for some insane reason, wants to cut their profit margin and buy more expensive beef.</text></item><item><author>jdavis703</author><text>No, and that&#x27;s not going to happen soon. But companies can start marketing their products as carbon neutral and selling them at a premium at retailers like Whole Foods.</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>There probably isn&#x27;t an incentive to reduce methane emissions for farmers right now though, right? We&#x27;d have to pass regulations mandating a reduction, or an emissions tax or something.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientist discovers particular seaweed nearly eliminates cow methane emissions</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-cow-farting-1.3856202</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdavis703</author><text>I agree with you. I&#x27;d rather see faster, broader action. But it&#x27;s not happening soon. But instead of waiting around ask your butcher if they can purchase a &quot;zero carbon&quot; cow (or better yet go vegan&#x2F;vegetarian :)), don&#x27;t buy mass market stuff with huge carbon footprints (this Christmas I&#x27;m mostly giving food or other things). I used to think the &quot;your wallet can change corporate behavior&quot; line of reasoning at the end of Big Corp exposé-style documentaries (e.g. Fast Food Nation) was a little naïve. But look at how many smaller ethical businesses are out there. Yeah people might make fun of the &quot;small batch artisanal&quot; shops out there, but we&#x27;re making progress because it is popular enough to be a common punch line.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chillydawg</author><text>The biggest producers are and will always be the mass market stuff, though. Who cares if 1% of beef is produced carbon neutral? It&#x27;s nice, but it makes no tangible difference. Sadly this method of encouraging better behaviour won&#x27;t work unless a costco or a mcdonalds, for some insane reason, wants to cut their profit margin and buy more expensive beef.</text></item><item><author>jdavis703</author><text>No, and that&#x27;s not going to happen soon. But companies can start marketing their products as carbon neutral and selling them at a premium at retailers like Whole Foods.</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>There probably isn&#x27;t an incentive to reduce methane emissions for farmers right now though, right? We&#x27;d have to pass regulations mandating a reduction, or an emissions tax or something.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientist discovers particular seaweed nearly eliminates cow methane emissions</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-cow-farting-1.3856202</url></story> |
21,939,225 | 21,938,361 | 1 | 2 | 21,933,817 | 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>BryantD</author><text>Head over here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outgress.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outgress.com&#x2F;</a><p>See the activity heat map about halfway down the front page? That is (or could be) a single person&#x27;s play pattern. It is ludicrously easy to figure out where the average player works, if they play at work. It&#x27;s often easy to figure out where they live. There are enough points of interest in any urban area so that game activity tracks where you typically go, not just where the game wants you to go.<p>And that site is using a fairly crude, incomplete method for scraping. It doesn&#x27;t capture everything by any means.</text><parent_chain><item><author>parliament32</author><text>&gt;Who&#x27;s to say that intelligence orgs or other interested parties wouldn&#x27;t create or piggyback on things like this for a source of high granularity location data?<p>How is this sort of location data useful? Sure, my day to day walking around is useful, but like parent said above, data is only recorded when you&#x27;re actively playing the game. So you&#x27;d get a bunch of location data of... people going to the places the game wants them to go. You can&#x27;t really do anything with that.</text></item><item><author>core-questions</author><text>Gotta tell you, this whole thing reads as seriously creepy. Who&#x27;s to say that intelligence orgs or other interested parties wouldn&#x27;t create or piggyback on things like this for a source of high granularity location data? Even just to resell?<p>In the case of games where you use the camera, wouldn&#x27;t someone maybe also want to use (at least snapshots of) the video feed? Like, on the benign side you could use it to update Google Street View, but on the more malicious side it&#x27;s easy to imagine putting some rare Pokemon down somewhere and baiting someone off in order to get them to take pictures of specific things for you without needing an agent on the ground to go and do it.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine running a game like this on my hardware or allowing my kids to do so. You&#x27;ve gotta be a bit naive to just assume it&#x27;s completely innocent.</text></item><item><author>andybak</author><text>Ex-Ingress player here (Pokemon Go precursor).<p>I could you tell some stories... There&#x27;s several recorded deaths (the one I can recall without looking it up involved drowning trying to reach a lighthouse). Players play whilst driving regularly. Several local disagreements almost progressed to physical fights.<p>There&#x27;s a global network of data-scrapers on both teams that log all player activity for strategic reasons. Or maybe &quot;just because they can&quot;. That&#x27;s timestamped location data for every interaction with the game. (as far as I know this isn&#x27;t possible with Pokemon Go. Being aimed at kids it&#x27;s much more locked down and safe-guarding aware)<p>On the plus side - many healthy friendships were formed and even a couple of long-term relationships. I still occasionally meet up with my old chums.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/pokemon-canada-military-bases-1.5393774</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jackpirate</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty easy to do something with that info. Let&#x27;s say there&#x27;s a pokestop on a military installation, then most visitors are likely to be military personnel, and now we have a list of phones of military personnel. What&#x27;s more, we can learn which troops are deployed to which bases, and patterns about how troops get redeployed to different bases.<p>How is this useful? Well, it&#x27;s well known that Ft. Meade in the US is an NSA outpost. If troops from Ft. Meade regularly get transferred to Camp Pendleton (chosen arbitrarily), then we can infer that there&#x27;s likely to be a lot of SIGINT (electronic spying) activity at Camp Pendelton. For a smaller installation (say a covert safe house abroad), these sorts of clues may be the first signs that foreign intelligence agencies can use to detect that these bases even exist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>parliament32</author><text>&gt;Who&#x27;s to say that intelligence orgs or other interested parties wouldn&#x27;t create or piggyback on things like this for a source of high granularity location data?<p>How is this sort of location data useful? Sure, my day to day walking around is useful, but like parent said above, data is only recorded when you&#x27;re actively playing the game. So you&#x27;d get a bunch of location data of... people going to the places the game wants them to go. You can&#x27;t really do anything with that.</text></item><item><author>core-questions</author><text>Gotta tell you, this whole thing reads as seriously creepy. Who&#x27;s to say that intelligence orgs or other interested parties wouldn&#x27;t create or piggyback on things like this for a source of high granularity location data? Even just to resell?<p>In the case of games where you use the camera, wouldn&#x27;t someone maybe also want to use (at least snapshots of) the video feed? Like, on the benign side you could use it to update Google Street View, but on the more malicious side it&#x27;s easy to imagine putting some rare Pokemon down somewhere and baiting someone off in order to get them to take pictures of specific things for you without needing an agent on the ground to go and do it.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine running a game like this on my hardware or allowing my kids to do so. You&#x27;ve gotta be a bit naive to just assume it&#x27;s completely innocent.</text></item><item><author>andybak</author><text>Ex-Ingress player here (Pokemon Go precursor).<p>I could you tell some stories... There&#x27;s several recorded deaths (the one I can recall without looking it up involved drowning trying to reach a lighthouse). Players play whilst driving regularly. Several local disagreements almost progressed to physical fights.<p>There&#x27;s a global network of data-scrapers on both teams that log all player activity for strategic reasons. Or maybe &quot;just because they can&quot;. That&#x27;s timestamped location data for every interaction with the game. (as far as I know this isn&#x27;t possible with Pokemon Go. Being aimed at kids it&#x27;s much more locked down and safe-guarding aware)<p>On the plus side - many healthy friendships were formed and even a couple of long-term relationships. I still occasionally meet up with my old chums.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/pokemon-canada-military-bases-1.5393774</url></story> |
12,547,229 | 12,547,104 | 1 | 2 | 12,546,802 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Broken_Hippo</author><text>It can also be used to clean battery terminals among other things.<p>But then again, vinegar is a fairly common cleaning agent: Baking soda and salt are fairly effective as well. I&#x27;ve used salt and lemon juice to clean tarnish off of copper: Toothpaste to clean the tarnish off of silver jewelry or shine up gold. None of these are viewed as bad or unhealthy in the doses we tend to consume them in. Vegetable oils and waxes are used in industrial applications: Soy can be used as a base for ink and lipstick.<p>Stomach acid itself is about as strong as battery acid, actually. And this is something your body produces and is necessary.<p>Basically: There are a great many chemicals that have multiple uses, and are only dangerous when used in sufficient amounts or on specific surfaces.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pheonikai</author><text>Coke is used to clean a toilet and not flush it. To clean a toilet, generally some acid or detergent is needed. Effectiveness of Coke being used for this purpose shows its acidic nature and its ability to dissolve the material on which it is applied.</text></item><item><author>teekert</author><text>&quot;To illustrate that, the email points out that Coke can be used to clean a toilet, help remove a rusty bolt, or remove blood from a highway accident.&quot;<p>Yeah well why would anybody believe that if a soda can be used in such ways that it is also bad for you? I mean I flush the toilet with water! With WATER! And it removes most traces of excrement... Arg, it must be bad for you!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (2003)</title><url>https://joshmadison.com/will-coke-dissolve-a-nail-experiment/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>teekert</author><text>Still does not mean it is bad for you. Same holds for vinegar (it&#x27;s acidic). Vinegar is not bad for you, at least when pored over your salad. In fact, only the dose determines the toxicity, it makes no sense to talk about toxicity with out discussing dose (or LD50 value or something.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_dose_makes_the_poison" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_dose_makes_the_poison</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pheonikai</author><text>Coke is used to clean a toilet and not flush it. To clean a toilet, generally some acid or detergent is needed. Effectiveness of Coke being used for this purpose shows its acidic nature and its ability to dissolve the material on which it is applied.</text></item><item><author>teekert</author><text>&quot;To illustrate that, the email points out that Coke can be used to clean a toilet, help remove a rusty bolt, or remove blood from a highway accident.&quot;<p>Yeah well why would anybody believe that if a soda can be used in such ways that it is also bad for you? I mean I flush the toilet with water! With WATER! And it removes most traces of excrement... Arg, it must be bad for you!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (2003)</title><url>https://joshmadison.com/will-coke-dissolve-a-nail-experiment/</url></story> |
2,400,491 | 2,400,442 | 1 | 2 | 2,400,184 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seancron</author><text>I also recommend using a program like Self Control[1] to blacklist distracting websites for really bad cases where you're not consciously opening a distracting website because it has become muscle memory.<p>In addition to using Self Control, I also like to run a small local web server to display a page like <a href="http://phylab.mtu.edu/~nckelley/Focus/" rel="nofollow">http://phylab.mtu.edu/~nckelley/Focus/</a> whenever I try to visit a distracting website.<p>I plan on experimenting with some negative reinforcement by building an Arduino device that shocks me whenever I visit a distracting website when I should be working :D.<p>[1]<p>Mac: <a href="http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/" rel="nofollow">http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/</a><p>Linux: <a href="http://svn.jklmnop.net/projects/SelfControl.html" rel="nofollow">http://svn.jklmnop.net/projects/SelfControl.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jarin</author><text>I know the feeling, you're browsing around aimlessly, checking feeds, checking forums, etc. At some point you start getting that overwhelming feeling where you know you should be doing something productive, but it's just so easy to click one more link.<p>Here is the sequence I follow when I realize I've been up for 4 hours and still haven't gotten anything done yet:<p>- Eat something quick to prepare, if I haven't eaten yet. Watch Mixergy or something while I'm cooking/eating. This is the wind-down from "procrastination mode", and watching Mixergy reminds me that there are people out there busting their asses right now and taking all of my future customers or client dollars.<p>- Put on some good coding music. This puts my brain into "serious business" mode. I prefer energetic hip-hop or dubstep, something I can bop my head to and feel like a boss.<p>- Go through all my tabs, Pinboard and tag the ones I want to keep for later, and close all of the tabs that don't apply to what I <i>should</i> be working on.<p>- Take a post-it note and write down the 3 tasks I am going to accomplish today, come hell or high water.<p>- Get a coffee or energy drink, have a smoke (not recommended), and use the bathroom. Get my mental game plan together.<p>- Open Terminal and MacVim. This sets the stage.<p>- Pick a task that isn't on the post-it note (but needs to be done) that takes 10 minutes or less to bust out. Could be anything from a quick design fix to a wireframe or writing up a quick estimate. This is the warm-up.<p>- By this point, my brain is in full-on work mode. Jump in and tackle the work.<p>- Feel good. Eat dinner.<p>- Play Starcraft.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much</title><text>The internet is my industry and takes care of me well. It is also the biggest hinderance to my productivity.
I lose a very large amount of time reading / watching stuff that seems interesting. While I have learnt a lot with my unquenchable thirst for things knowledgy, I am not able to meet my time goals.
How do you at HN avoid this trap?</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>r0s</author><text>Setting the stage seems like an important step, I'd like a way to load up a web development environment with all the trimmings on my win7 machine.<p>A browser profile with it's own bookmarks/extensions, a separate virtual desktop workspace, and perhaps launch a set of other apps with windows arranged to suit my multi-screen setup.<p>I'm sure it can be done, but it's not simple or intuitive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jarin</author><text>I know the feeling, you're browsing around aimlessly, checking feeds, checking forums, etc. At some point you start getting that overwhelming feeling where you know you should be doing something productive, but it's just so easy to click one more link.<p>Here is the sequence I follow when I realize I've been up for 4 hours and still haven't gotten anything done yet:<p>- Eat something quick to prepare, if I haven't eaten yet. Watch Mixergy or something while I'm cooking/eating. This is the wind-down from "procrastination mode", and watching Mixergy reminds me that there are people out there busting their asses right now and taking all of my future customers or client dollars.<p>- Put on some good coding music. This puts my brain into "serious business" mode. I prefer energetic hip-hop or dubstep, something I can bop my head to and feel like a boss.<p>- Go through all my tabs, Pinboard and tag the ones I want to keep for later, and close all of the tabs that don't apply to what I <i>should</i> be working on.<p>- Take a post-it note and write down the 3 tasks I am going to accomplish today, come hell or high water.<p>- Get a coffee or energy drink, have a smoke (not recommended), and use the bathroom. Get my mental game plan together.<p>- Open Terminal and MacVim. This sets the stage.<p>- Pick a task that isn't on the post-it note (but needs to be done) that takes 10 minutes or less to bust out. Could be anything from a quick design fix to a wireframe or writing up a quick estimate. This is the warm-up.<p>- By this point, my brain is in full-on work mode. Jump in and tackle the work.<p>- Feel good. Eat dinner.<p>- Play Starcraft.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much</title><text>The internet is my industry and takes care of me well. It is also the biggest hinderance to my productivity.
I lose a very large amount of time reading / watching stuff that seems interesting. While I have learnt a lot with my unquenchable thirst for things knowledgy, I am not able to meet my time goals.
How do you at HN avoid this trap?</text></story> |
11,860,194 | 11,859,623 | 1 | 2 | 11,856,476 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Timothee</author><text>That infographic and the text that goes with it could be made <i>much</i> clearer but your interpretation is not how it should be read. (as far as I can tell)<p>For one thing, as ASpring mentioned, the text about white kids were shortened, with the implication that the same sentence structure as for the black kids should be used. I&#x27;m assuming it was done to make the drawing easier to read (i.e. less text) but it certainly added confusion.<p>I.e. it reads &quot;25% of black kids had parents who grew up in the bottom two levels and moved up at least one&quot; and it should read &quot;59% of white kids had parents who grew up in the bottom two levels and moved up at least one&quot; instead of just &quot;59% of white kids moved up&quot;.<p>As for &quot;Those two groups should sum to less than 100%, certainly not 103%.&quot;, this is incorrect: the 25% refers to the kids who had parents in the bottom two levels, while the 78% refers to kids who had parents in the top three levels. Those are separate groups. (same for the number with white kids)<p>So, if you look at kids coming from the 40% poorest (unclear if it&#x27;s overall or amongst white&#x2F;black people), from 1955 to 1970, only 25% of the black kids moved up while 59% of the white kids moved up.<p>And if you look at kids coming from the 60% wealthiest, 78% of black kids moved down while 43% of white kids moved down.<p>In other words, poor black kids are more likely to grow up and stay poor than poor white kids. Rich black kids are more likely to grow up and become poorer than their parents than rich white kids.<p>To simplify a bit (not 100% accurate with the available data but close): regardless of poverty level when growing up, only 22 to 25% of black kids moved up (or stayed the same), while 57 to 59% of white kids did.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lacker</author><text>Hmm, wait a moment.<p><i>59% of white kids moved up.</i><p><i>43% of white kids moved down.</i><p>Even accounting for rounding, there&#x27;s no way to get those numbers. It&#x27;s even worse in other places:<p><i>25% of black kids had parents who grew up in the bottom two levels and moved up at least one.</i><p><i>78% of black kids had parents who grew up in the top three levels and moved down at least one.</i><p>Those two groups should sum to <i>less</i> than 100%, certainly not 103%.<p>Also, except for the &quot;Moving to Opportunity&quot; experiment, most of this seems to ignore the distinction between correlation and causation.<p>This reminds me of the recent finding that 50% of papers in reputable psych journals reported mathematically impossible data. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@jamesheathers&#x2F;the-grim-test-a-method-for-evaluating-published-research-9a4e5f05e870#.61n0pjt6s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@jamesheathers&#x2F;the-grim-test-a-method-for...</a> The more people start to dig in, the more the &quot;social sciences&quot; look unscientific.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The effects of living in a poor neighborhood</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2016/6/6/11852640/cartoon-poor-neighborhoods</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cgriswald</author><text>It really isn&#x27;t clear to me whether it is the children moving up or down relative to their parents, or the parents moving up and down within their own lifetime.<p>Either way, children have two parents, so could be represented in both groups. Likewise, parents can have multiple children, and one sibling could move up while another moved down.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lacker</author><text>Hmm, wait a moment.<p><i>59% of white kids moved up.</i><p><i>43% of white kids moved down.</i><p>Even accounting for rounding, there&#x27;s no way to get those numbers. It&#x27;s even worse in other places:<p><i>25% of black kids had parents who grew up in the bottom two levels and moved up at least one.</i><p><i>78% of black kids had parents who grew up in the top three levels and moved down at least one.</i><p>Those two groups should sum to <i>less</i> than 100%, certainly not 103%.<p>Also, except for the &quot;Moving to Opportunity&quot; experiment, most of this seems to ignore the distinction between correlation and causation.<p>This reminds me of the recent finding that 50% of papers in reputable psych journals reported mathematically impossible data. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@jamesheathers&#x2F;the-grim-test-a-method-for-evaluating-published-research-9a4e5f05e870#.61n0pjt6s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@jamesheathers&#x2F;the-grim-test-a-method-for...</a> The more people start to dig in, the more the &quot;social sciences&quot; look unscientific.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The effects of living in a poor neighborhood</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2016/6/6/11852640/cartoon-poor-neighborhoods</url></story> |
16,518,426 | 16,517,710 | 1 | 3 | 16,516,837 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smoyer</author><text>I&#x27;ve usually left Las Vegas with more money than I started with. I don&#x27;t try to beat the odds, I try to find a $5 table that&#x27;s full of drunk and&#x2F;or newbie poker players. These players won&#x27;t play the expensive tables but are also reasonably good losers when the stakes are lower. Don&#x27;t try to game the house&#x27;s portion ... if you do something against the rules they&#x27;ll spot you. They won&#x27;t bat an eye if you&#x27;re taking money from the other guests though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>notacoward</author><text>If they had a convention of HN commenters in Vegas, it would probably be their <i>best</i> week ever. So many people sure they&#x27;ve found some secret way to beat the odds. It&#x27;s a casino boss&#x27;s dream come true.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How 4000 Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino Its Worst Week (2015)</title><url>http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2015/09/one-winning-move.html?m=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>erikb</author><text>I think these &quot;I found the magic trick to beat the casino&quot; websites and movies are funded by casinos.</text><parent_chain><item><author>notacoward</author><text>If they had a convention of HN commenters in Vegas, it would probably be their <i>best</i> week ever. So many people sure they&#x27;ve found some secret way to beat the odds. It&#x27;s a casino boss&#x27;s dream come true.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How 4000 Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino Its Worst Week (2015)</title><url>http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2015/09/one-winning-move.html?m=1</url></story> |
28,200,171 | 28,199,869 | 1 | 2 | 28,197,103 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>j2kun</author><text>For those who liked my book, or want a different angle, or if you&#x27;re looking for inspiration into why math is interesting and useful, I&#x27;m in the (slow) process of writing another book, called &quot;Practical Math for Programmers.&quot; It&#x27;s more of a broad sample of interesting, short programs that use math, with lots of references. Sort of like &quot;Programming Gems&quot; books<p>Sign up for the mailing list here if you&#x27;re interested in getting updates: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jeremykun.us11.list-manage.com&#x2F;subscribe?u=99aa071e97df95d3a140b1a3f&amp;id=fbe11f6b59" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jeremykun.us11.list-manage.com&#x2F;subscribe?u=99aa071e9...</a><p>And some more notes on the process and ideas behind this book: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buttondown.email&#x2F;j2kun&#x2F;archive&#x2F;a-week-of-book-writing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buttondown.email&#x2F;j2kun&#x2F;archive&#x2F;a-week-of-book-writin...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>j2kun</author><text>Oh hey that&#x27;s my book. Feels great to see someone getting a lot of value from it :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics</title><url>https://www.bit-101.com/blog/2021/08/a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jmfldn</author><text>I just read the first chapter and wanted to say well done, this is great! This seems to exemplify the maxim that if you really understand something you can explain it clearly to a layman. I am that layman and I learnt a few things today! I look forward to taking a deep dive. :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>j2kun</author><text>Oh hey that&#x27;s my book. Feels great to see someone getting a lot of value from it :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics</title><url>https://www.bit-101.com/blog/2021/08/a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics/</url></story> |
24,950,446 | 24,950,583 | 1 | 3 | 24,948,910 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yholio</author><text>The Android ecosystem is great for low cost devices. I have a 5 year old Samsung that still serves me great for what I need it: quick web searches, mapping and Waze, communication etc. The screen is cracked in 200 pieces, I literally stepped on it on multiple occasions, the power button has fallen off but I figured I don&#x27;t really need it anyway except the rare cases where I leave it to discharge completely. Otherwise the phone is still going strong and has acceptable battery life.<p>Best 150$ I ever spent, I was going to replace it this year for sheer embarrassment of using such a piece of junk, and then the coronavirus happened and I don&#x27;t need to physically meet any of my tech-judgmental peers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maccard</author><text>I moved from apple to android a few years ago, hoping the grass would be greener. I hoped I was leaving behind a locked in ecosystem with hard to repair devices for a more open ecosystem where competition would improve quality.<p>Android is a fat mess, with flagship phones from premium manufacturers being incompatible with various OS features, and devices from different manufacturers being incompatible in ways that never happened in the iOS ecosystem.<p>If you want a full blown &quot;Android&quot; experience, you end up buying all google devices, and in my experience google support are as bad if not worse than Apple. I have a pixel 3 phone from Google that is still under manufacturers warranty. The power button seems to have gotten stuck, and maybe once or twice a day it gets stuck in a reboot loop, and in that process the phone gets _hot_ and ends up running the battery to 0. It&#x27;s happened when I&#x27;m driving too.<p>Google&#x27;s advice has been a factory reset, or a replacement device for $300. They claim I must have dropped it, or otherwise mistreated it and as far as they&#x27;re concerned that&#x27;s that.<p>So here I am, 2 years later with a $700 android phone, contemplating an iPhone 12 because the situation is no different on the other side...</text></item><item><author>whytaka</author><text>Not too long ago, I went to the Apple store to get my MacBook Pro looked at for a faulty key and degraded trackpad. As I had a Genius diagnose the issue, the screen brightness of my iPhone 7 had dropped nearly completely.<p>While it was true that the glass of the screen had cracked due to a fall, the phone had operated just fine for many months since. The Genius told me it was likely a display issue while I told him it&#x27;s much more likely a software issue. The Genius gave me the unfortunate advice of restarting the phone by holding down the power button and the lower volume button. The phone restarted, with the Apple logo in full brightness but would turn black when it came to logging in. Pity, since my password is too long to type it in without visual aide.<p>The Genius told me that to repair the display was $200+. I scoffed at the price and told him it&#x27;s not the display, and it was unacceptable as I planned on buying the iPhone 12 next month. The manager came by and made it clear there&#x27;s no room to budge on the price. I resigned and left the device with them.<p>When I was called in to pick up my phone, they told me that replacing the display did not work, so now my option was either to upgrade or to buy another iPhone 7 for $400+. I told them that&#x27;s unacceptable and that it&#x27;s clear it&#x27;s not the hardware. I told them I am immersed in their ecosystem and I would easily spent another $2000 this year and to cut me a break. They told me, take it or leave it.<p>I took the phone back and started making my way home. Descending into the metro, I walked past an ill-lit part of the platform. I looked at my phone again and realized I could faintly make out the log in screen. I typed in my password, logged in, went to control center and raised the brightness back up. Perfect. Now, even if I lower the brightness to its lowest setting, it works as normal.<p>Not only is Apple&#x27;s moves to cut out 3rd party repairs egregious, their own solutions and staff are rife with incompetence and their offer to you once you&#x27;ve immersed yourself into their ecosystem is, &quot;Money now or go away&quot;.<p>I am not buying the iPhone 12 and my next machine will run Linux.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone?</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/News/45921/is-this-the-end-of-the-repairable-iphone</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidy123</author><text>Not sure what is going on with your power button, but if it&#x27;s outside warranty repair $300 for a replacement device is pretty good.<p>On my fifth Android handset, I have really not found the incompatibility you point out to be an issue. Sure, some companies, like Samsung, try to offer some exclusive features. Just avoid them.<p>I have to use an iPhone for work, there are a lot of critical annoyances, like how poorly cursor selection works, and then some apps don&#x27;t support the space bar cursor. Everyday things like changing settings are so much nicer in Android.<p>My 3 year old Pixel 2 has been a fantastic daily handset, absolutely no complaints, before that my Note 2 was also excellent, though I was glad to get away from Samsung&#x27;s attempts at exclusive features (the Pixel is &quot;pure Android&quot;, albeit with some self-contained on-device &quot;AI&quot; features that are actually useful).<p>Although there are a lot of cheap Android devices to choose from that can drag down the brand reputation, I would really push back against the suggestion Androids are exclusively &quot;cheap&quot; in the pejorative sense. Most are Just Fine at least. Apple is generally much more conservative in rolling out features, and offers less configuration options, so I guess it&#x27;s a safer choice, but if Apple weren&#x27;t such a status symbol I think most people would be more than happy with the lower cost (3a, 4a) Pixel line.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maccard</author><text>I moved from apple to android a few years ago, hoping the grass would be greener. I hoped I was leaving behind a locked in ecosystem with hard to repair devices for a more open ecosystem where competition would improve quality.<p>Android is a fat mess, with flagship phones from premium manufacturers being incompatible with various OS features, and devices from different manufacturers being incompatible in ways that never happened in the iOS ecosystem.<p>If you want a full blown &quot;Android&quot; experience, you end up buying all google devices, and in my experience google support are as bad if not worse than Apple. I have a pixel 3 phone from Google that is still under manufacturers warranty. The power button seems to have gotten stuck, and maybe once or twice a day it gets stuck in a reboot loop, and in that process the phone gets _hot_ and ends up running the battery to 0. It&#x27;s happened when I&#x27;m driving too.<p>Google&#x27;s advice has been a factory reset, or a replacement device for $300. They claim I must have dropped it, or otherwise mistreated it and as far as they&#x27;re concerned that&#x27;s that.<p>So here I am, 2 years later with a $700 android phone, contemplating an iPhone 12 because the situation is no different on the other side...</text></item><item><author>whytaka</author><text>Not too long ago, I went to the Apple store to get my MacBook Pro looked at for a faulty key and degraded trackpad. As I had a Genius diagnose the issue, the screen brightness of my iPhone 7 had dropped nearly completely.<p>While it was true that the glass of the screen had cracked due to a fall, the phone had operated just fine for many months since. The Genius told me it was likely a display issue while I told him it&#x27;s much more likely a software issue. The Genius gave me the unfortunate advice of restarting the phone by holding down the power button and the lower volume button. The phone restarted, with the Apple logo in full brightness but would turn black when it came to logging in. Pity, since my password is too long to type it in without visual aide.<p>The Genius told me that to repair the display was $200+. I scoffed at the price and told him it&#x27;s not the display, and it was unacceptable as I planned on buying the iPhone 12 next month. The manager came by and made it clear there&#x27;s no room to budge on the price. I resigned and left the device with them.<p>When I was called in to pick up my phone, they told me that replacing the display did not work, so now my option was either to upgrade or to buy another iPhone 7 for $400+. I told them that&#x27;s unacceptable and that it&#x27;s clear it&#x27;s not the hardware. I told them I am immersed in their ecosystem and I would easily spent another $2000 this year and to cut me a break. They told me, take it or leave it.<p>I took the phone back and started making my way home. Descending into the metro, I walked past an ill-lit part of the platform. I looked at my phone again and realized I could faintly make out the log in screen. I typed in my password, logged in, went to control center and raised the brightness back up. Perfect. Now, even if I lower the brightness to its lowest setting, it works as normal.<p>Not only is Apple&#x27;s moves to cut out 3rd party repairs egregious, their own solutions and staff are rife with incompetence and their offer to you once you&#x27;ve immersed yourself into their ecosystem is, &quot;Money now or go away&quot;.<p>I am not buying the iPhone 12 and my next machine will run Linux.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone?</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/News/45921/is-this-the-end-of-the-repairable-iphone</url></story> |
7,157,737 | 7,157,711 | 1 | 3 | 7,156,969 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ForHackernews</author><text>I think you&#x27;re probably overstating the difference in software quality&#x2F;challenge&#x2F;interest factor between Flashy New Startup and Boring Megacorp.<p>Many of the really &quot;hot&quot; startups we see are actually quite boring from a technology standpoint. Snapchat? Uber? Airbnb? They&#x27;re all variations on a dull web app that sends messages to [mobile] clients. Even at someplace like Square, I&#x27;d bet most of the code is cumbersome kludges connecting legacy banking infrastructure with their slick API.<p>Conversely, someplace like Enterprise is probably trying to solve more interesting problems than you might think: How do you balance supply and demand for your fleet across hundreds of locations? How do you optimize maintenance costs? Can you use GPS and in-car diagnostics to monitor cars in the field?<p>I know everyone here likes to imagine that startups are filled with super-genius Stanford CS grads implementing cutting-edge algorithms, but I think that&#x27;s pretty far from reality. Whether it&#x27;s a startup or a BigCorp, most of the work is going to be boring LOB applications.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nilkn</author><text>A friend recently started a job programming for Enterprise Rent A Car. Did you know they even regularly hired programmers? I didn&#x27;t, but he seems to like it. The company I&#x27;m at once interviewed a programmer who was working for Home Depot.<p>The reality is there are actually plenty of programming positions that are perfectly suited for a career programmer who doesn&#x27;t particularly love it and just wants a steady paycheck and a decent home life. But these positions aren&#x27;t at Google or Facebook or the hottest Silicon Valley startup, and they&#x27;re not going to ever pay $150k+ or even $100k+ (they might start at half that). You don&#x27;t need to know what a suffix tree is. You don&#x27;t need to have ever heard of bloom filters. These positions probably aren&#x27;t at many of the companies posting in the 37signals job board, because that board is naturally going to attract job seekers who are more enthusiastic about programming as both a craft and a means to a paycheck.<p>I think a lot of posters here seem to be wanting too much in exchange for too little. In every industry, it&#x27;s always been the case that the top companies have tried to hire the most &quot;passionate&quot; employees--and yes, that means employees who might work overtime while smiling about it. I don&#x27;t think this is so evil when there are plenty of other choices.<p>I do think it&#x27;s a bit disingenuous, though, to want to be part of the next explosively successful company while still putting in the minimum effort to get a steady paycheck. This forum is disproportionately full of people wanting to get at least somewhat wealthy off of software development, people who want the same compensation as big firm attorneys and doctors. Those lawyers probably work more than the average over-worked programmer at a top company, and the doctors almost certainly do. The attorneys and doctors also all necessarily went to graduate school and probably took on a lot of debt that the average programmer doesn&#x27;t have. The fact is that, across <i>all industries</i>, jobs with this level of compensation are rarely 30-40 hour a week lifestyle jobs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer</title><url>http://devblog.avdi.org/2014/01/31/the-moderately-enthusiastic-programmer/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>It&#x27;s kind of funny that you mention ERAC. Now I don&#x27;t know anything at all about thier programming department, maybe it is a laid back punch the clock kind of place. But in terms of the bulk of thier operations they are one of those HR driven companies that recruiting, through promotion, evaluation, and compensation cultivates a cult-like atmosphere of total dedication to the job and the company.<p>They recruit right out of college, targeting especially athletes and fraternity&#x2F;sorority members. They almost exclusively promote from within. They tie compensation very strongly to unit performance, in a competitive zero sum way. From trainees through regional vice presidents everyone works long hours with no extra compensation. They use an up or out system for promotions. Then if you thrive and preserve in the system you might make six figures after a decade or so -- at least when and if your numbers are good.<p>While I certainly wouldn&#x27;t tell anyone not to point out problematic employer actions in the development industries, but it can be instructive to see what it&#x27;s like out there for some of your peers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nilkn</author><text>A friend recently started a job programming for Enterprise Rent A Car. Did you know they even regularly hired programmers? I didn&#x27;t, but he seems to like it. The company I&#x27;m at once interviewed a programmer who was working for Home Depot.<p>The reality is there are actually plenty of programming positions that are perfectly suited for a career programmer who doesn&#x27;t particularly love it and just wants a steady paycheck and a decent home life. But these positions aren&#x27;t at Google or Facebook or the hottest Silicon Valley startup, and they&#x27;re not going to ever pay $150k+ or even $100k+ (they might start at half that). You don&#x27;t need to know what a suffix tree is. You don&#x27;t need to have ever heard of bloom filters. These positions probably aren&#x27;t at many of the companies posting in the 37signals job board, because that board is naturally going to attract job seekers who are more enthusiastic about programming as both a craft and a means to a paycheck.<p>I think a lot of posters here seem to be wanting too much in exchange for too little. In every industry, it&#x27;s always been the case that the top companies have tried to hire the most &quot;passionate&quot; employees--and yes, that means employees who might work overtime while smiling about it. I don&#x27;t think this is so evil when there are plenty of other choices.<p>I do think it&#x27;s a bit disingenuous, though, to want to be part of the next explosively successful company while still putting in the minimum effort to get a steady paycheck. This forum is disproportionately full of people wanting to get at least somewhat wealthy off of software development, people who want the same compensation as big firm attorneys and doctors. Those lawyers probably work more than the average over-worked programmer at a top company, and the doctors almost certainly do. The attorneys and doctors also all necessarily went to graduate school and probably took on a lot of debt that the average programmer doesn&#x27;t have. The fact is that, across <i>all industries</i>, jobs with this level of compensation are rarely 30-40 hour a week lifestyle jobs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer</title><url>http://devblog.avdi.org/2014/01/31/the-moderately-enthusiastic-programmer/</url></story> |
41,557,242 | 41,556,523 | 1 | 3 | 41,550,017 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toolslive</author><text>Obviously, this all follows from Putt&#x27;s Law [0].<p>&quot;Technology is dominated by two types of people, those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Putt&#x27;s_Law_and_the_Successful_Technocrat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Putt&#x27;s_Law_and_the_Successful_...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>codeduck</author><text>This entire blog post assumes agency that you, the EM or Team lead, rarely have in an organisation that is on a &quot;wartime&quot; footing. It&#x27;s cosplay.<p>Real wartime footing:<p>1. Direction and technical decisions are driven by priorities of board-level members and often arrive in email form late on Friday evening. The entire organisation is expected to pivot immediately. A new senior leadership team member starts scheduling daily read-outs on project progress, and half the organisation spends the weekend frantically hallucinating project plans into Google Sheets.<p>2. Engineering staff react with dull-eyed disbelief on Monday; they knew this was coming, because the same thing happened a month ago, and six weeks before that.<p>3. Emails come from HR that there are are new, even-more-labyrinthine approval processes for expenses, and shrinking budgets for anything not directly related to whatever the <i>projet du jour</i>, which will be fed enough to make it look like it&#x27;s succeeding until the next Friday evening email kills it.<p>4. There is wide-spread burn-out across Engineering teams, and people are reduced to reactive, sarcastic automatons.<p>5. A creeping understanding seizes the better engineers that things cannot improve; they sign articles of Armistice, pretend to comply, and start interviewing elsewhere.<p>6. An email arrives on Friday night...<p>&gt; Focus on the positive aspects of the job that can be taken for granted, like the opportunity to work on cutting-edge challenges, the company&#x27;s still existing perks and benefits, the amazing team you have, the chance to work with a modern tech stack, or how your product is helping its users. Showing your team how you appreciate what&#x27;s still good can help with morale.<p>If HN supported gifs, there&#x27;d be several in this spot.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire</title><url>https://peterszasz.com/how-to-lead-your-team-when-the-house-is-on-fire/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>engrmgr2024</author><text>What is worse, once you get promoted enough, you learn that throughout your career when these things happened, senior management often had some juicy completion bonus or other perk tied to delivery. Yet when you are doing this you are expected to just comply because the company is in trouble.</text><parent_chain><item><author>codeduck</author><text>This entire blog post assumes agency that you, the EM or Team lead, rarely have in an organisation that is on a &quot;wartime&quot; footing. It&#x27;s cosplay.<p>Real wartime footing:<p>1. Direction and technical decisions are driven by priorities of board-level members and often arrive in email form late on Friday evening. The entire organisation is expected to pivot immediately. A new senior leadership team member starts scheduling daily read-outs on project progress, and half the organisation spends the weekend frantically hallucinating project plans into Google Sheets.<p>2. Engineering staff react with dull-eyed disbelief on Monday; they knew this was coming, because the same thing happened a month ago, and six weeks before that.<p>3. Emails come from HR that there are are new, even-more-labyrinthine approval processes for expenses, and shrinking budgets for anything not directly related to whatever the <i>projet du jour</i>, which will be fed enough to make it look like it&#x27;s succeeding until the next Friday evening email kills it.<p>4. There is wide-spread burn-out across Engineering teams, and people are reduced to reactive, sarcastic automatons.<p>5. A creeping understanding seizes the better engineers that things cannot improve; they sign articles of Armistice, pretend to comply, and start interviewing elsewhere.<p>6. An email arrives on Friday night...<p>&gt; Focus on the positive aspects of the job that can be taken for granted, like the opportunity to work on cutting-edge challenges, the company&#x27;s still existing perks and benefits, the amazing team you have, the chance to work with a modern tech stack, or how your product is helping its users. Showing your team how you appreciate what&#x27;s still good can help with morale.<p>If HN supported gifs, there&#x27;d be several in this spot.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire</title><url>https://peterszasz.com/how-to-lead-your-team-when-the-house-is-on-fire/</url></story> |
7,439,401 | 7,439,142 | 1 | 3 | 7,437,940 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sanoli</author><text>&quot;doing something like colonizing mars could do more good for humanity than giving people enough money to eat for a day or a week.&quot;<p>The people who say stuff like this are always far, far away from the experience of not having anything to eat. It could be true that Musk&#x27;s projects in the long run could have do more good for humanity in the long run, but also in a different sense. How is colonizing Mars, or having electric cars does more good for a whole continent that hasn&#x27;t solved dozens of problems well below any technological&#x2F;energetic one? What I&#x27;m saying is, it might do more good for the developed world, but not for Africa. Bill Gates was right when he criticized Google&#x27;s balloon internet project. What the african population really needs is different. To say otherwise is to be too removed from the real, basic, almost elementary problems that are still present in the continent.<p>(edit: I meant no offense to the parent with my first sentence. But I&#x27;ve been to Africa, and I live in a 3rd world country with some very, very poor regions. Space programs have very little effect on life there.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>hooande</author><text>I think this could be rephrased as &quot;Charitable organizations aren&#x27;t interesting enough to deserve my money.&quot;<p>People, especially highly successful people, view charity as giving money away. Musk&#x27;s inspirational projects seems much more appealing by comparison. There is a lot of truth in the idea that doing something like colonizing mars could do more good for humanity than giving people enough money to eat for a day or a week. Even what Bill Gates is doing has little impact on people&#x27;s daily lives here. Eradicating polio is the most noble of goals, but it takes place far away and the benefits are difficult to see.<p>I think the best solution is to make charity cool again. FDR turned giving money away into something that was literally awesome, using the Tennessee Valley Authority to reshape the landscape with bridges and dams. 21st century technology allows us to have a much larger impact on the lives of many more people, regardless of where they live. Elon Mush doesn&#x27;t have a monopoly on big ideas. As a technology community it&#x27;s up to us to come up with projects that help people in need while still capturing our imaginations.<p>It doesn&#x27;t matter if big problems are solved for profit or solved for charity. What matters is that they get solved. The danger is that fiduciary responsibilities will get in the way of doing good, working families will take a backseat to boards of directors and the rich will get richer [1] while everyone else struggles to keep even. This is why it would be better to make charity more interesting as opposed to giving money to dynamic and inspirational profiteers. It&#x27;s always been difficult to combine making money with being of benefit to the world, but we need to raise the entrepreneurial and creative bar now more than ever. When one of the authors of &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot; decides that his money is better off in the hands of private corporations it should be a warning to all of us.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Matthew_effect</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/03/20/google_ceo_larry_page_elon_musk_would_get_my_inheritance_over_charity.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>dsuth</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that gives Page enough credit. I&#x27;d phrase it as &quot;Charitable organisations aren&#x27;t <i>effective</i> enough to deserve my money&quot;. Elon Musk is, above all, a do-er. He has shown the capability to not only think big about very relevant problems, but implement solutions. I suspect it&#x27;s those qualities that give Page confidence that his money would make more of a difference in Musk&#x27;s pockets.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hooande</author><text>I think this could be rephrased as &quot;Charitable organizations aren&#x27;t interesting enough to deserve my money.&quot;<p>People, especially highly successful people, view charity as giving money away. Musk&#x27;s inspirational projects seems much more appealing by comparison. There is a lot of truth in the idea that doing something like colonizing mars could do more good for humanity than giving people enough money to eat for a day or a week. Even what Bill Gates is doing has little impact on people&#x27;s daily lives here. Eradicating polio is the most noble of goals, but it takes place far away and the benefits are difficult to see.<p>I think the best solution is to make charity cool again. FDR turned giving money away into something that was literally awesome, using the Tennessee Valley Authority to reshape the landscape with bridges and dams. 21st century technology allows us to have a much larger impact on the lives of many more people, regardless of where they live. Elon Mush doesn&#x27;t have a monopoly on big ideas. As a technology community it&#x27;s up to us to come up with projects that help people in need while still capturing our imaginations.<p>It doesn&#x27;t matter if big problems are solved for profit or solved for charity. What matters is that they get solved. The danger is that fiduciary responsibilities will get in the way of doing good, working families will take a backseat to boards of directors and the rich will get richer [1] while everyone else struggles to keep even. This is why it would be better to make charity more interesting as opposed to giving money to dynamic and inspirational profiteers. It&#x27;s always been difficult to combine making money with being of benefit to the world, but we need to raise the entrepreneurial and creative bar now more than ever. When one of the authors of &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot; decides that his money is better off in the hands of private corporations it should be a warning to all of us.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Matthew_effect</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/03/20/google_ceo_larry_page_elon_musk_would_get_my_inheritance_over_charity.html</url></story> |
41,226,786 | 41,225,433 | 1 | 2 | 41,181,036 | 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>simonw</author><text>Yes, that’s pretty easy. I did it for Half Moon Bay, California here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonw.github.io&#x2F;hmb-map&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonw.github.io&#x2F;hmb-map&#x2F;</a><p>Code here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;hmb-map">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;hmb-map</a><p>TIL here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&#x2F;gis&#x2F;pmtiles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&#x2F;gis&#x2F;pmtiles</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>xrd</author><text>Does anyone know if there is a way to host just a few of the tiles in a static way? For example, if I wanted to build a web page which just shows a map at zoom level 6 for a lat&#x2F;lng point, and then go to zoom level 13. That would require a tiny subset of tiles; is there a simple way to add the tiles plus the JS code in a static way so no external downloads were necessary?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps</title><url>https://github.com/markuman/sms</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>l72</author><text>I&#x27;ve used maptiler to do this. You can give it a boundary and zoom levels, along with a theme, and generate prerendered tiles that you can then server just using http. This has worked well with leaflet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xrd</author><text>Does anyone know if there is a way to host just a few of the tiles in a static way? For example, if I wanted to build a web page which just shows a map at zoom level 6 for a lat&#x2F;lng point, and then go to zoom level 13. That would require a tiny subset of tiles; is there a simple way to add the tiles plus the JS code in a static way so no external downloads were necessary?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps</title><url>https://github.com/markuman/sms</url></story> |
32,666,981 | 32,666,010 | 1 | 3 | 32,663,195 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SpaceManNabs</author><text>&gt; in a movie, that wouldn’t feel real no matter how good the special effects are, it’s too out there<p>This entire thing just reminds me of Day After Tomorrow (2004). Although the movie had a lot of bad science, way too many people called the premise and social outcomes of the movie ridiculous. Hell, the South Park criticism of it alone significantly pushed this current batch of climate deniers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hertzrat</author><text>This is apocalyptic. Imagine something 100km from where you live, and that whole span between you and there being under water tomorrow. in a movie, that wouldn’t feel real no matter how good the special effects are, it’s too out there</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pakistan's floods have created 100km-wide inland lake, satellite images</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/asia/pakistan-floods-forms-inland-lake-satellite-intl-hnk/index.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hotpotamus</author><text>It&#x27;s the kind of story that gets passed down across generations and even makes it into holy books.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hertzrat</author><text>This is apocalyptic. Imagine something 100km from where you live, and that whole span between you and there being under water tomorrow. in a movie, that wouldn’t feel real no matter how good the special effects are, it’s too out there</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pakistan's floods have created 100km-wide inland lake, satellite images</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/asia/pakistan-floods-forms-inland-lake-satellite-intl-hnk/index.html</url></story> |
39,177,148 | 39,176,675 | 1 | 2 | 39,175,873 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gullywhumper</author><text>For R users, the httr2 package (a recent rewrite of httr) has a function that translates the copy as curl command to a request:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;httr2.r-lib.org&#x2F;reference&#x2F;curl_translate.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;httr2.r-lib.org&#x2F;reference&#x2F;curl_translate.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nindalf</author><text>One pattern I really like is opening the networks tab of the browser, finding the request I&#x27;m interested in and &quot;copying as curl&quot; - the browser generates the equivalent command in curl.<p>Then I&#x27;d use something like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curlconverter.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curlconverter.com&#x2F;</a> to convert it into request code of the language I&#x27;m using.<p>In a way curl is like the &quot;intermediate representation&quot; that we can use to translate into anything.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>--libcurl</title><url>https://everything.curl.dev/libcurl/libcurl</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elaus</author><text>curlconverter.com looks amazing, instant bookmark – thanks!<p>I also use the browser&#x27;s &#x27;copy as curl&#x27; function quite frequently as it&#x27;s so convenient, having all auth and encoding headers set to _definitely_ work (instead of messing around with handmade, multi-line curl command lines)</text><parent_chain><item><author>nindalf</author><text>One pattern I really like is opening the networks tab of the browser, finding the request I&#x27;m interested in and &quot;copying as curl&quot; - the browser generates the equivalent command in curl.<p>Then I&#x27;d use something like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curlconverter.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curlconverter.com&#x2F;</a> to convert it into request code of the language I&#x27;m using.<p>In a way curl is like the &quot;intermediate representation&quot; that we can use to translate into anything.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>--libcurl</title><url>https://everything.curl.dev/libcurl/libcurl</url></story> |
39,896,013 | 39,894,427 | 1 | 2 | 39,891,456 | 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>spondylosaurus</author><text>Untreated bowel inflammation also increases your risk of cancer significantly. If cancer risk is on the table either way, might as well take the drugs that increase your quality of life in the meantime :)<p>Plus—you have a chance of beating cancer. But a colectomy is a one-way trip!<p>(Prednisone will absolutely fuck you up long-term though. No cancer risk afaik, but osteoporosis risk is through the roof. I&#x27;ve heard of UC patients who needed joint replacements in their 30s from long-term steroid use...)</text><parent_chain><item><author>6177c40f</author><text>All of them increase risk of cancer (EDIT: upon further review, maybe not all of them? Or maybe just with combination therapy?) and severe infection. Many of the biologics are also quite new, and the long term effects of taking them are not well understood. Plus, in some cases they don&#x27;t work well enough alone and so multiple drugs are required (a biologic in combination with something like methotrexate or azathioprine is typical), which further increases risks. Anecdotally, I know of a couple people who had bizarre and severe immune reactions to biologics that left doctors baffled, so that&#x27;s something that can also occur, apparently.<p>Also some people are just prescribed steroids like prednisone for whatever reason, which has some pretty negative long term effects.</text></item><item><author>epgui</author><text>Which drugs are you talking about? Pretty much all the biologics for CD have amazingly positive safety profiles…</text></item><item><author>rgmerk</author><text>I have Crohn’s but am one of the lucky 20% who is in long-term remission without surgery and without the more problematic drug therapies - thus far!<p>But if this works as well as hoped it will bring a lot of peace of mind that if I do ever need surgery, I won’t be going back in for more every few years.<p>Medical research is awesome, for all its inefficiencies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)</title><url>https://florey.edu.au/news/2023/12/first-in-human-implantation-of-bionic-device-to-halt-crohns-disease/</url></story> | <instructions>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>At least for Ulcerative Colitis, there are safe drugs that are much less effective (mesalamine) but the strong effective drugs all come with long-term cancer risks (prednisone, remicaid, entyvio, etc), as you say. The newer drugs like entyvio are generally less risky than the older ones, mostly on account of being more targeted, but the risk is still significant. I imagine the situation is similar for CD.</text><parent_chain><item><author>6177c40f</author><text>All of them increase risk of cancer (EDIT: upon further review, maybe not all of them? Or maybe just with combination therapy?) and severe infection. Many of the biologics are also quite new, and the long term effects of taking them are not well understood. Plus, in some cases they don&#x27;t work well enough alone and so multiple drugs are required (a biologic in combination with something like methotrexate or azathioprine is typical), which further increases risks. Anecdotally, I know of a couple people who had bizarre and severe immune reactions to biologics that left doctors baffled, so that&#x27;s something that can also occur, apparently.<p>Also some people are just prescribed steroids like prednisone for whatever reason, which has some pretty negative long term effects.</text></item><item><author>epgui</author><text>Which drugs are you talking about? Pretty much all the biologics for CD have amazingly positive safety profiles…</text></item><item><author>rgmerk</author><text>I have Crohn’s but am one of the lucky 20% who is in long-term remission without surgery and without the more problematic drug therapies - thus far!<p>But if this works as well as hoped it will bring a lot of peace of mind that if I do ever need surgery, I won’t be going back in for more every few years.<p>Medical research is awesome, for all its inefficiencies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)</title><url>https://florey.edu.au/news/2023/12/first-in-human-implantation-of-bionic-device-to-halt-crohns-disease/</url></story> |
12,636,812 | 12,636,693 | 1 | 3 | 12,634,590 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>escot</author><text>There is an immense amount of software work to be done in biotech. Molecular biology research is in need of better automation, analysis, visualization techniques, and on and on. We need folks at all levels. I entered biotech as a web developer and have been able to pick more challenging problems to approach on a monthly basis. We know next to nothing about the human body. Im optimistic that tech will help out us on a stable path towards more robust research practices.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>This keeps me up at night. I hope the collective advancement in science makes it possible to defeat cancer some day. I believe&#x2F;hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc.<p>I am really convinced that every advancement is connected somehow and the collective improvement in efficiency and livings standards makes it possible to commit more resources and train even more students to work on hard problems.<p>Even the work on something unrelated like React might somehow help if you observe humanity as a whole.<p>Also f*ck cancer (i read the guidelines and i found no statue against insulting cancer, if there is a user named cancer its a misunderstanding and you should really consider changing your username)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.</title><url>https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acomjean</author><text>&gt;I believe&#x2F;hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc.<p>I somehow ended up in a academic Genetics lab, writing software. We use a lot of languages here (Php, python, perl, java, R, javascript and even some C) and various web frameworks to let people use our tools to do science. I don&#x27;t know if the creators of these tools imagined they&#x27;d be used for science, but they put the tools out there in the public and they were used.<p>You contribute, because its the right thing todo, that makes you significant. You never know how significant what you put out there will end up being, but it helps you grow too. The open source community inspires and you by contributing are part of that. Every little bit helps.<p>&quot;Bioinformatics&quot; is a general term of the use of computing in Biology. Its an interesting field.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>This keeps me up at night. I hope the collective advancement in science makes it possible to defeat cancer some day. I believe&#x2F;hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc.<p>I am really convinced that every advancement is connected somehow and the collective improvement in efficiency and livings standards makes it possible to commit more resources and train even more students to work on hard problems.<p>Even the work on something unrelated like React might somehow help if you observe humanity as a whole.<p>Also f*ck cancer (i read the guidelines and i found no statue against insulting cancer, if there is a user named cancer its a misunderstanding and you should really consider changing your username)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.</title><url>https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592</url></story> |
23,399,022 | 23,399,111 | 1 | 2 | 23,398,696 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>h2odragon</author><text>&gt; the team exposed nitrogen to extreme heat and pressure. It was pressed together between two diamonds to 1.4 million atmospheres of pressure, and over 4,000 °C (7,232 °F).<p>&gt; The temperature at the inner core&#x27;s surface is estimated to be approximately 5700 K (5430 °C or 9806 °F) ... The pressure in the Earth&#x27;s inner core is slightly higher than it is at the boundary between the outer and inner cores: it ranges from about 330 to 360 gigapascals (3,300,000 to 3,600,000 atm)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Earth%27s_inner_core" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Earth%27s_inner_core</a><p>There&#x27;s probably even weirder states of nitrogen and other elements not that far away from us. Whole chemistries and semiconductor-ish effects we&#x27;re guessing at. Fun!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Never-before-seen “black nitrogen” plugs puzzle in periodic table</title><url>https://newatlas.com/materials/black-nitrogen-allotrope-periodic-table/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>colanderman</author><text>Dumb question, how does one convince nitrogen, a gas, to sit still between the heads of those two diamonds to be compressed?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Never-before-seen “black nitrogen” plugs puzzle in periodic table</title><url>https://newatlas.com/materials/black-nitrogen-allotrope-periodic-table/</url></story> |
7,279,866 | 7,279,038 | 1 | 2 | 7,278,198 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>T-hawk</author><text>This actually hit my previous company in a software context.<p>We would number our hotfixes sequentially. Many would be items demanded by a single client, so would get deployed as hotfixes only to that customer&#x27;s site, and just rolled into the main trunk for the next quarterly release for everyone else. Clients would always be notified about hotfixes going onto their live sites.<p>One savvy client noticed the hotfix numbering sequence. Naturally, that ensued quite a number of extremely awkward discussions as they would regularly ask why our software needed so many hotfixes (tens per week) and why they weren&#x27;t entitled to all of them right away.<p>Solution: a new policy to randomly generate hotfix numbers. Which of course led to the next problem, that now the sequence was not obvious from the names, so dependent hotfixes would sometimes get deployed in the wrong order. Why can&#x27;t anything be easy...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German tank problem</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sparkman55</author><text>There is some practical relevance to software development here. One shouldn&#x27;t expose sequential IDs (a.k.a. serial numbers) to the public for anything non-public.<p>I see this Hacker News post has a numerical ID in the URL, for example; I can estimate the size of Hacker News given enough of these numbers... More directly, I can modify that numerical ID to crawl Hacker News.<p>Many sites do this; it&#x27;s generally better to generate a (random or hashed or generated from a natural key) &#x27;slug&#x27; to use as the key instead. For example, Amazon generates a unique, non-sequential, 10-digit alphanumeric string for each item in their catalog.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German tank problem</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem</url></story> |
34,566,699 | 34,566,582 | 1 | 2 | 34,565,909 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>Here&#x27;s how I imagine it was introduced:<p>Engineer A: Hey how would we know whether loading this image as a .webp vs a .jpg would perform? Our lab testing is one thing but the different hardware out there vastly differs from phone to phone -- we need some data on the whether the average phone has enough optimizations for one versus the other.<p>Engineer B: Oh, what if we just run a background task on some of the phones that tries loading an image that we don&#x27;t show, just to get the metrics?<p>Engineer A: Hmnn, that could work, we could load just one image across some small % of the user base to get a representative sample and report that data to system X so we can get some statistics and make heuristics based off of that.<p>Ethics is not a strong suit&#x2F;required reading for software engineers, so not every engineer will read the above and detect something wrong. Hell, running experiments on wide swaths of users without consent isn&#x27;t quite above board ethically either, but we&#x27;ve got a whole technological trees and industry dedicated to it.<p>Most of the time the person with enough ethics knowledge to realize there&#x27;s a problem here is more incentivized to alert legal (so they can add it to the EULA&#x2F;ToS that users don&#x27;t read) rather than stop the behavior.<p>I suspect many engineers could read the conversation above and not think there was anything wrong there to begin with. And of course, once X teams across Y companies start using this, we&#x27;ve got a problem.<p>Note that I use engineers for all the roles on purpose -- the idea that it&#x27;s only non-engineers doing all the sketchy shit is a deflection of responsibility, I for one am pretty proud of George here -- he&#x27;s turned down what is very likely a <i>lot</i> of money to do the right thing. We can only guess at how many do not take this route.<p>[EDIT] I want to note that I do not put myself above this conversation -- being able to recognize that this is wrong immediately is not some innate skill that everyone has, it has to be reasoned about, and often where to draw the line comes down to widely-enough-held social mores&#x2F;morality.<p>For example, I run ethical ads on my personal blog -- I know that ads incur unnecessary load on user machines that visit, and in-turn burning unnecessary battery on visitors&#x27; machines. Am I the same as Facebooks&#x27; engineers that work on this system? Probably not, but explaining that completely (and convincing yourself or anyone else) is more complicated -- maybe it&#x27;s only a matter of degree.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mkl95</author><text>What I can&#x27;t believe: Facebook shipped a feature to drain users&#x27; batteries.<p>What I can believe: Engineers at Facebook were micromanaged into dismissing issues such as users&#x27; batteries being drained.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook drains users' cellphone batteries intentionally says ex-employee</title><url>https://www.phonearena.com/news/facebook-drains-phone-batteries-intentionally_id145227</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hamasho</author><text>Yeah, the boss didn&#x27;t care about user&#x27;s battery.<p>From the article:<p><pre><code> I said to the manager, &#x27;This can harm somebody,&#x27; and she said by harming a few we can help the greater masses. Any data scientist worth his or her salt will know, Don’t hurt people,</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>mkl95</author><text>What I can&#x27;t believe: Facebook shipped a feature to drain users&#x27; batteries.<p>What I can believe: Engineers at Facebook were micromanaged into dismissing issues such as users&#x27; batteries being drained.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook drains users' cellphone batteries intentionally says ex-employee</title><url>https://www.phonearena.com/news/facebook-drains-phone-batteries-intentionally_id145227</url></story> |
27,385,073 | 27,385,299 | 1 | 3 | 27,383,847 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boublepop</author><text>Brilliant! So what you are saying is that NFT’s are a good documentation of ownership… if we assume some other system takes care of documenting that the NFT was in fact created by the owner. So you know if we have some other system to track ownership.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tshaddox</author><text>I think it&#x27;s pretty clear from the proposal that the only relevant NFT for some piece of digital media would be the NFT created by the original copyright holder of that piece of digital media. For example, Getty could issue NFTs for a particular stock photograph.<p>Obviously any random person could create an NFT and <i>claim</i> that it represents ownership of a particular stock photograph, but that&#x27;s not really relevant or problematic. You could also create a traditional paper certificate of title for your neighbor&#x27;s car too, but obviously no one would respect it (unless they were tricked, but that&#x27;s against the law and the legal system would tend to respect that genuine certificate of title).</text></item><item><author>lottin</author><text>&gt; But I still think NFTs have a future as digitally signed proof of ownership of media assets.<p>NFTs are not proof of ownership, because anyone can create an NFT of anything. I can create an NFT of my neighbour&#x27;s car.</text></item><item><author>chime</author><text>As someone who doesn&#x27;t collect anything, NFT for collectibles doesn&#x27;t interest me personally. But I still think NFTs have a future as digitally signed proof of ownership of media assets.<p>Long ago, back in my web designer days, I bought a CD from CompUSA full of clip arts and stock photos and used them on my clients&#x27; websites. I moved on to web development and out of nowhere 5 years later I got a panicked call from an old client who said Getty is threatening to sue them for using copyrighted images on the website I made for them. Try as I might, I could not convince either my ex-client or Getty reps that I legally (and most likely naively) bought a stock photo CD but did not have that in my possession any longer. Cost me a month&#x27;s rent out of pocket to get the matter resolved as I did not have the resources to fight either of them.<p>I can imagine a (non-physical-media) future where all commercial stock media is signed upon download, with the NFT signature embedded in the file itself like EXIF data. Editors can be made to respect the source file NFTs and include them in the exported files. YouTube could easily identify the NFT for the audio track you used in your video and if you had licensed it legally, it would not even run the fingerprint algo on it. Now it doesn&#x27;t matter if the original seller or vendor goes out of business. The history is in the blockchain forever (or as long as the license permits).<p>I&#x27;m not saying I support going all NFT for ownership&#x2F;copyright. I&#x27;m saying I can imagine it happening as a valid use-case for NFT&#x2F;blockchain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NFT sales plummet nearly 90% from their peak as collectibles market cools</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/nft-sales-plummet-nearly-90-25-from-their-peak-as-collectibles-market-cools/ar-AAKFw68</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lottin</author><text>Of course it&#x27;s problematic. That&#x27;s why most countries have land and vehicle registries managed by a trusted authority. If people had to rely on titles of ownership issued by random strangers it&#x27;d be chaos.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tshaddox</author><text>I think it&#x27;s pretty clear from the proposal that the only relevant NFT for some piece of digital media would be the NFT created by the original copyright holder of that piece of digital media. For example, Getty could issue NFTs for a particular stock photograph.<p>Obviously any random person could create an NFT and <i>claim</i> that it represents ownership of a particular stock photograph, but that&#x27;s not really relevant or problematic. You could also create a traditional paper certificate of title for your neighbor&#x27;s car too, but obviously no one would respect it (unless they were tricked, but that&#x27;s against the law and the legal system would tend to respect that genuine certificate of title).</text></item><item><author>lottin</author><text>&gt; But I still think NFTs have a future as digitally signed proof of ownership of media assets.<p>NFTs are not proof of ownership, because anyone can create an NFT of anything. I can create an NFT of my neighbour&#x27;s car.</text></item><item><author>chime</author><text>As someone who doesn&#x27;t collect anything, NFT for collectibles doesn&#x27;t interest me personally. But I still think NFTs have a future as digitally signed proof of ownership of media assets.<p>Long ago, back in my web designer days, I bought a CD from CompUSA full of clip arts and stock photos and used them on my clients&#x27; websites. I moved on to web development and out of nowhere 5 years later I got a panicked call from an old client who said Getty is threatening to sue them for using copyrighted images on the website I made for them. Try as I might, I could not convince either my ex-client or Getty reps that I legally (and most likely naively) bought a stock photo CD but did not have that in my possession any longer. Cost me a month&#x27;s rent out of pocket to get the matter resolved as I did not have the resources to fight either of them.<p>I can imagine a (non-physical-media) future where all commercial stock media is signed upon download, with the NFT signature embedded in the file itself like EXIF data. Editors can be made to respect the source file NFTs and include them in the exported files. YouTube could easily identify the NFT for the audio track you used in your video and if you had licensed it legally, it would not even run the fingerprint algo on it. Now it doesn&#x27;t matter if the original seller or vendor goes out of business. The history is in the blockchain forever (or as long as the license permits).<p>I&#x27;m not saying I support going all NFT for ownership&#x2F;copyright. I&#x27;m saying I can imagine it happening as a valid use-case for NFT&#x2F;blockchain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NFT sales plummet nearly 90% from their peak as collectibles market cools</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/nft-sales-plummet-nearly-90-25-from-their-peak-as-collectibles-market-cools/ar-AAKFw68</url></story> |
22,326,911 | 22,324,572 | 1 | 2 | 22,321,756 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tainnor</author><text>I&#x27;ve long been intrigued by pure FP, advanced type systems and proof assistants from an academic point of view but haven&#x27;t yet been convinced that the effort involved in learning such systems&#x2F;methods pays off in most cases (without taking into consideration the costs you still have when you already know the methods well). I will still try to learn more about this, but without any strong conviction that this needs to be immediately useful.<p>By contrast, I&#x27;ve only more recently started hearing more and more about model checkers such as TLA+. The case studies in this blog post serve to give a good motivation for why such systems might be useful (as well as honestly presenting drawbacks; something that advocates of e.g. PFP rarely do). I would love to use something like that one day.<p>As an aside, I still think it&#x27;s a disgrace how irrelevant empirical research is to most aspects of today&#x27;s software development. Another blog post by the author cites a paper claiming that very simple testing, especially of error conditions, would be able to prevent a huge chunk of production bugs, but things like that are rarely talked about. The whole profession is unfortunately amateurish and always obsessed with fads and trends instead of taking a more analytic and empirical approach which makes me sad.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Business Case for Formal Methods</title><url>https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/business-case-formal-methods/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kats</author><text>Might want to show some examples in the &quot;Why Not To Use Formal Methods&quot; section too.<p>Somewhat old numbers from seL4: [1]<p>- 2,500 lines of C code<p>- 100,000 lines of proofs<p>- ~7.6 person-years of full time work (with a lot of involvement from PhDs)<p>Interactive theorem proving definitely will not scale to significantly-sized C codebases anytime soon.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5597727&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5597727&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Business Case for Formal Methods</title><url>https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/business-case-formal-methods/</url></story> |
36,298,316 | 36,296,614 | 1 | 3 | 36,294,750 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bamfly</author><text>&gt; I used to report it to the site admins, but among the few that responded, almost none knew how to fix it. I no longer bother, so I suspect that the less clueless admins have no idea how many visitors Cloudflare has driven away.<p>It&#x27;s an acceptable cost, versus other ways of dealing with abusive traffic.<p>Hell, we (sysadmins, back when that was a term people used) used to just blackhole all the IP blocks associated with certain countries—made the logs <i>so very much</i> quieter, and this was back when the <i>whole Internet</i> was a lot quieter to begin with. At least CloudFlare&#x27;s less blunt than that.<p>Failing to block abusive traffic can be really expensive. Detecting it is always going to cause false positives. Admins are OK with those as long as they don&#x27;t cost more than implementing a system with fewer false positives would. A half-percent tax on revenue (to pick a number out of a hat) in the form of lost customers is a reasonable trade-off for a lot of companies. You&#x27;ve got to have pretty serious scale before it&#x27;s worth investing real money to try to shave that down by a couple tenths of a percent (you&#x27;ll never get it to zero, and only places like Amazon have the kind of scale that make it worth attempting to closely approach zero)</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomwheeler</author><text>You left out this one:<p>- They want their vendor to arbitrarily deny access to customers and prospects<p>Maybe they have a 100% success rate at blocking actual threats but they sure do have a lot of false positives. I get blocked or forced into captchas at least three times per week.<p>I used to report it to the site admins, but among the few that responded, almost none knew how to fix it. I no longer bother, so I suspect that the less clueless admins have no idea how many visitors Cloudflare has driven away.</text></item><item><author>judge2020</author><text>Sites don&#x27;t need cloudflare, unless:<p>- They want to save on bandwidth costs<p>- They have to deal with some level of DDOS or site scrapers hitting every page at once<p>- They want to block IPs, geographies, ASNs, etc. without editing a server config<p>- They want speed &amp; server-sided visitor analytics, email routing, security settings, redirect configuration, and DNS all in one dashboard</text></item><item><author>lagniappe</author><text>Off topic: Cloudflare, like Google, is bad for the internet- not just for the way they centralize the internet but for the way they begin to conflate themselves <i>with</i> The Internet. Very few sites need Cloudflare, and of those with it equipped, an even fewer number configure it or use it correctly for their application.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloudflare Is Having Issues</title><url>https://www.cloudflarestatus.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>RoyGBivCap</author><text>&gt;<i>I get blocked or forced into captchas at least three times per week.</i><p>Same.<p>I get blocked on websites I have accounts on if I use a VPN. I&#x27;m not just a visitor, I&#x27;m a member, and still get blocked by cloudflare. Other times it&#x27;s a small or local business and to me the website just looks <i>down</i>. Then, if I bother to think about <i>and</i> willing to drop my VPN, suddenly the website works fine.<p>Treating VPN users as hostile is getting really fuckin old.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomwheeler</author><text>You left out this one:<p>- They want their vendor to arbitrarily deny access to customers and prospects<p>Maybe they have a 100% success rate at blocking actual threats but they sure do have a lot of false positives. I get blocked or forced into captchas at least three times per week.<p>I used to report it to the site admins, but among the few that responded, almost none knew how to fix it. I no longer bother, so I suspect that the less clueless admins have no idea how many visitors Cloudflare has driven away.</text></item><item><author>judge2020</author><text>Sites don&#x27;t need cloudflare, unless:<p>- They want to save on bandwidth costs<p>- They have to deal with some level of DDOS or site scrapers hitting every page at once<p>- They want to block IPs, geographies, ASNs, etc. without editing a server config<p>- They want speed &amp; server-sided visitor analytics, email routing, security settings, redirect configuration, and DNS all in one dashboard</text></item><item><author>lagniappe</author><text>Off topic: Cloudflare, like Google, is bad for the internet- not just for the way they centralize the internet but for the way they begin to conflate themselves <i>with</i> The Internet. Very few sites need Cloudflare, and of those with it equipped, an even fewer number configure it or use it correctly for their application.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloudflare Is Having Issues</title><url>https://www.cloudflarestatus.com</url></story> |
20,657,495 | 20,657,322 | 1 | 2 | 20,656,992 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notafraudster</author><text>The study appears to have a valid design, subject to some questions not answered in the Bloomberg coverage. I think the more reasonable question is what exactly the design is measuring.<p>Using the Ashley Madison data is basically what we would call a &quot;reduced form estimate&quot;. The idea is that someone in the Ashley Madison data is more likely (or at least not less likely) than a comparable individual not in the Ashley Madison data to cheat on their spouse. They would like to measure whether or not people actually cheat, but they can&#x27;t, so they measure this instead. This kind of reduced form estimate is a fairly common thing when you can&#x27;t measure actual treatment compliance, but you can measure an &quot;invitation to treat&quot;. We, in fact, know that Ashley Madison wasn&#x27;t actually used for cheating because there were no (zero) real women on the site. Extensive analyses of the data leak suggest basically that men signed up and were faced with phony bots. But the idea should still be that the choice to sign up on Ashley Madison reveals an attempt to cheat.<p>The other major challenge for the design is that the control group of CEOs need to have what we would think are baseline similar propensity to commit fraud etc in all respects except for the choice to cheat. So, at the very least I would want to do a matching, weighting, or propensity score design that accounts for differential company characteristics (sector, size, age, any characteristics we would a priori affect propensity to engage in financial malfeasance.) If what we learn is that people who run shady payday loan companies also cheat on their spouses, then this is maybe not interesting. But if what we learn is that among F2000 blue chip companies in similar sectors, cheating spouses are more likely to be cheating CEOs, this is more interesting, right?<p>I agree with you that it&#x27;s possible that the degree of difficulty &#x2F; competence factor might be a confounder. Probably they could compensate for this by looking at something other that rate of conviction for malfeasance, rather by modelling types &#x2F; degrees of malfeasance and degree of difficulty for getting caught.<p>Finally, the casual inference here is impossible. So it&#x27;s possible that they have a good design to answer a question they&#x27;re not asking. I would assume the default assumption is not that cheating on one&#x27;s spouse causes one to cheat on financial things, but rather that both are outcomes which flow from an underlying propensity for deceit. In this case, the main takeaway is that early indicators of deceit may allow us to head off or catch financial malfeasance. That&#x27;s interesting, but maybe not the exact question they&#x27;re asking.<p>I&#x27;d be really interested in reading the final thing because I could see it going either way. I think it&#x27;s an interesting proposal for a design. Would love to see a pre-print</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Or to put it another way: people who were dumb enough to use an app to cheat on their spouse were also dumb enough to get caught cheating in other aspects of their life.<p>They got their data from the Ashley Maddison hack and then cross referenced that with police records of people who got caught. I&#x27;m not sure this is a very valid study.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-09/ceos-who-cheat-on-spouse-twice-as-likely-to-cheat-at-work-study</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>not_a_cop75</author><text>Dumb enough. Just call it what it is - bad character.<p>There is no person that is so intelligent that he&#x2F;she can cheat for long and not eventually get caught. If people want to know the truth about a person badly enough, they will.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Or to put it another way: people who were dumb enough to use an app to cheat on their spouse were also dumb enough to get caught cheating in other aspects of their life.<p>They got their data from the Ashley Maddison hack and then cross referenced that with police records of people who got caught. I&#x27;m not sure this is a very valid study.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-09/ceos-who-cheat-on-spouse-twice-as-likely-to-cheat-at-work-study</url></story> |
24,092,560 | 24,092,349 | 1 | 2 | 24,091,257 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimbobimbo</author><text>My team approaches this problem by using separate identities with different access policies for doing different things. The identity can be an alternative user account (disconnected from the primary corp domain) or a service principal that does only limited set of things.<p>For example, an alternative user account with restricted time window for access is used to even get to performing infrastructure management tasks. Then each cluster has unique service principal attached to it for pulling containers and retrieving infra-related secrets, but cannot access application-related secrets. Applications that run on clusters use completely different managed identity which doesn&#x27;t have access to infra-related secrets, but has access to application-related secrets. On top of that, wherever possible, we restrict access to secrets only to GET operations, so you need to know the name of the secret beforehand in order to access it. The latter is not always possible, but if it is possible, we use it.<p>We use a bunch of scripts that go on and create all necessary identities and set up security policies, which helps a lot with ensuring the process is fully repeatable and risks of user mistakes are mitigated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>john-shaffer</author><text>Those problems seem to come from the separation of the IAM admin from the developer. I&#x27;m coding a server now. My IAM roles are defined in a template, and I just add new permissions to the template as I need them. My code has the bare minimum permissions that it needs, and it doesn&#x27;t seem at all onerous for the benefit it provides. So I think the problem is less &quot;IAM is hard&quot;, and more &quot;coordination is hard&quot;.<p>The one big exception I&#x27;ve run into is that to launch a CloudFormation template, the role practically needs admin access. I&#x27;m considering offloading the launch to a minimal Lambda function with the requisite (very broad) permissions. Does anyone have a better approach?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IAM is hard – Thoughts on $80M fine from the Capital One Breach</title><url>https://twitter.com/kmcquade3/status/1291801858676228098</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lovehashbrowns</author><text>I agree that &quot;coordination is hard&quot; is the root issue here. For things I develop, it&#x27;s easier for me to specifically say what permissions the IAM roles need, and I can get them down to least privilege.<p>Then sometimes I need to onboard an application written in a language I don&#x27;t know, and it&#x27;s a beast of an application. I ask the developer what permissions it needs, and they say &quot;I don&#x27;t know&quot; but give me a full admin role they know works. I&#x27;d love to go through the whole process of determining what permissions it needs, except that I have deadlines, and they have deadlines, and our deadlines are visible to management, and I have additional projects that I need to finish, and my team is already too small. It&#x27;s like the universe is just telling me to give the application full admin.</text><parent_chain><item><author>john-shaffer</author><text>Those problems seem to come from the separation of the IAM admin from the developer. I&#x27;m coding a server now. My IAM roles are defined in a template, and I just add new permissions to the template as I need them. My code has the bare minimum permissions that it needs, and it doesn&#x27;t seem at all onerous for the benefit it provides. So I think the problem is less &quot;IAM is hard&quot;, and more &quot;coordination is hard&quot;.<p>The one big exception I&#x27;ve run into is that to launch a CloudFormation template, the role practically needs admin access. I&#x27;m considering offloading the launch to a minimal Lambda function with the requisite (very broad) permissions. Does anyone have a better approach?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IAM is hard – Thoughts on $80M fine from the Capital One Breach</title><url>https://twitter.com/kmcquade3/status/1291801858676228098</url></story> |
16,060,624 | 16,060,379 | 1 | 3 | 16,059,257 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raducu</author><text>The original post was about empathy not &quot;being generous&quot;.
I was raised in a very religious family and in my experience most religious people are not empathic at all.
Yes, there are exceptions, especially amongst the more mystical types, but most religious people are &quot;generous&quot; because they are trying to score points for the afterlife. It&#x27;s fascinating to see how people act in church (where they feel God is watching) versus how they treat eachother the rest of the week.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cdoxsey</author><text>Your comment about religion is incorrect. Americans are very generous: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;givingusa.org&#x2F;giving-usa-2017-total-charitable-donations-rise-to-new-high-of-390-05-billion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;givingusa.org&#x2F;giving-usa-2017-total-charitable-donat...</a>. Conservative Evangelical Churches spend an enormous amount of time and money helping people. For example: The Southern Baptist Convention runs the third largest disaster relief organization in the country behind the Salvation Army (also religious...) and the Red Cross.<p>I could give lots of other examples. I&#x27;m not sure where this perception about religion is coming from. Maybe in Europe the church is largely dead, but that&#x27;s not true in the US.</text></item><item><author>spiderfarmer</author><text>I think the US could easily solve this if they wanted to, but from my (Dutch) point of view:<p>- The US is philosophically much more egotistic than other developed countries<p>- Politically the US is the most divided western country with its two party system<p>- Money in politics means it&#x27;s one of the most corrupt, preventing solutions that could serve its citizens<p>- Conservative media does a very good job at keeping at least 50% of the country comically uninformed<p>- The &quot;American Dream&quot; gives people the impression that working hard solves everything and that their country is the best in the world period<p>- Religion is not focussed on empathy at all anymore, if it ever was<p>The billionare .0001% will probably do their utmost to keep the status quo, as evidently, they are the ones that are profiting from the current situation and they are the ones calling the shots for the next 3 years.<p>The US is doing very good in a lot of areas, but I think collective egotism is preventing it from reaching its true potential.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/upshot/us-health-care-expensive-country-comparison.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>spiderfarmer</author><text>My perception about religion is coming from the fact that evangelicals supported Trump and recently Roy Moore. Without that support, the ACA wouldn&#x27;t be dismantled and a lot of minorities would be better off. It&#x27;s like evangelicals in America invented their own form of Christianity that is far different than what Jesus preached.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cdoxsey</author><text>Your comment about religion is incorrect. Americans are very generous: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;givingusa.org&#x2F;giving-usa-2017-total-charitable-donations-rise-to-new-high-of-390-05-billion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;givingusa.org&#x2F;giving-usa-2017-total-charitable-donat...</a>. Conservative Evangelical Churches spend an enormous amount of time and money helping people. For example: The Southern Baptist Convention runs the third largest disaster relief organization in the country behind the Salvation Army (also religious...) and the Red Cross.<p>I could give lots of other examples. I&#x27;m not sure where this perception about religion is coming from. Maybe in Europe the church is largely dead, but that&#x27;s not true in the US.</text></item><item><author>spiderfarmer</author><text>I think the US could easily solve this if they wanted to, but from my (Dutch) point of view:<p>- The US is philosophically much more egotistic than other developed countries<p>- Politically the US is the most divided western country with its two party system<p>- Money in politics means it&#x27;s one of the most corrupt, preventing solutions that could serve its citizens<p>- Conservative media does a very good job at keeping at least 50% of the country comically uninformed<p>- The &quot;American Dream&quot; gives people the impression that working hard solves everything and that their country is the best in the world period<p>- Religion is not focussed on empathy at all anymore, if it ever was<p>The billionare .0001% will probably do their utmost to keep the status quo, as evidently, they are the ones that are profiting from the current situation and they are the ones calling the shots for the next 3 years.<p>The US is doing very good in a lot of areas, but I think collective egotism is preventing it from reaching its true potential.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/upshot/us-health-care-expensive-country-comparison.html</url></story> |
36,255,553 | 36,249,329 | 1 | 2 | 36,247,549 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>I just tried feeding GPT-4 some assembler as well, and while I did get it to make some optimisations, I also had to point out several mistakes it made (e.g. it moved one instruction to the other side of a label that&#x27;d cause a register to have the wrong value if a preceding branch was taken). It made mistakes that I&#x27;ve seen people new to assembler make, but happened to get some things right. When I pointed out an obvious optimisation it had missed, it applied it &quot;half right&quot; (I suggested it might look at collapsing multiple stack allocations because they didn&#x27;t overlap, but while it collapsed them into a single allocation, it applied the sum of the allocations instead of just the largest one, which was a pointless increase in stack use). Also the kind of misunderstanding I could see with a junior dev with little assembly experience fall for if they recognise what you point to but don&#x27;t <i>quite</i> understand the implications.<p>It&#x27;s &quot;close enough&quot; to be worth trying to see if it hits on something useful, but also bad enough that you really need to carefully scrutinise what it comes up with, and probably need to write a much more comprehensive prompt about strategies it should and shouldn&#x27;t try to apply to make it more generally usable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>The paper shows several distinct improvements to a sorting algorithm, and presents evidence that the process is generally applicable. This tweet points GPT-4 at 20 instructions and asks if any can be removed, and it finds one optimisation.<p>That&#x27;s good to see from GPT-4, but the comparison seems disingenuous, and I&#x27;d expect more from someone in academia.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GPT-4 “discovered” the same sorting algorithm as AlphaDev by removing “mov S P”</title><url>https://twitter.com/DimitrisPapail/status/1666843952824168465</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deelowe</author><text>Agreed. They pointed GPT-4 at the solution and GPT-4 found it. Still somewhat impressive, but not exactly the same.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>The paper shows several distinct improvements to a sorting algorithm, and presents evidence that the process is generally applicable. This tweet points GPT-4 at 20 instructions and asks if any can be removed, and it finds one optimisation.<p>That&#x27;s good to see from GPT-4, but the comparison seems disingenuous, and I&#x27;d expect more from someone in academia.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GPT-4 “discovered” the same sorting algorithm as AlphaDev by removing “mov S P”</title><url>https://twitter.com/DimitrisPapail/status/1666843952824168465</url></story> |
31,898,451 | 31,895,700 | 1 | 2 | 31,894,690 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GrabbinD33ze69</author><text>Pretending that just cause chrome doesn&#x27;t come installed with the android open src project, means it isn&#x27;t a &quot;default&quot; for android is silly; yes, google play services isn&#x27;t required for android, but an overwhelming majority of android users will see chrome as the default for the OS. You claim they are making a choice, but for the average user it doesn&#x27;t seem like much of a choice. It&#x27;s easier for most android apps just to use chrome as an &quot;in app browser&quot;, while the users have the option to use a different browser, most won&#x27;t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jpgvm</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the IE comparison is apt.<p>IE shipped on (almost) every machine, had a ton of lock in features like ActiveX, etc. MS actively abused their monopoly position to make it so preventing default installation of Netscape by OEMs, incentivising ISVs to ensure web based enterprise products shipped with &quot;Works best in Internet Explorer&quot; etc.
Netscape lost market share to IE not because it lost users but because while the userbase was massively expanding they were buying Wintel boxes that shipped with IE on them so they never learnt that Netscape existed.<p>Chrome is something users install because it&#x27;s their preferred choice. We can argue as to why it&#x27;s their preferred choice but the point remains that users actively download and install Chrome - usually as one of the first things they do when they purchase a new computer.<p>That to me puts things on an entirely different level. To compete reasonably with Chrome you need to compete for users directly. You could argue that Google abuses it&#x27;s monopoly position to market Chrome and that would probably be a valid argument but again, it doesn&#x27;t change the active decision users are making.<p>If anything Safari (especially on iOS) is more like IE. In that it serves Apple more than it serves users. Apple wants PWAs to remain gimped, by simply dragging their feet or refusing to implement certain web standards&#x2F;proposals they effectively gimp PWAs. This forces apps to be written for their platform which in turn is where they generate the vast majority of their scalable growth&#x2F;profit.</text></item><item><author>MBCook</author><text>I’m going to ignore the security angle and post my big fear.<p>Chrome has dominance similar to IE at the height of its popularity.<p>Whatever you think of their decisions, Apple is the only thing stopping a 90%+ Chrome web. (Note: not why they’re doing it, just a side effect)<p>People keep arguing Apple is being anti-competitive. But no one seems to recon with the possible consequences of what they’re asking for. And I fear we may get a pyrrhic victory if these groups&#x2F;governments keep pushing.<p>No, I don’t know a good solution. But I don’t think letting Chrome totally own the web is a good outcome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security</title><url>https://twitter.com/OpenWebAdvocacy/status/1541318055636369409</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cute_boi</author><text>Chrome is installed by default in android. The choice won&#x27;t be preferred choice if website starts to put message like &quot;Works best with Google Chrome&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jpgvm</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the IE comparison is apt.<p>IE shipped on (almost) every machine, had a ton of lock in features like ActiveX, etc. MS actively abused their monopoly position to make it so preventing default installation of Netscape by OEMs, incentivising ISVs to ensure web based enterprise products shipped with &quot;Works best in Internet Explorer&quot; etc.
Netscape lost market share to IE not because it lost users but because while the userbase was massively expanding they were buying Wintel boxes that shipped with IE on them so they never learnt that Netscape existed.<p>Chrome is something users install because it&#x27;s their preferred choice. We can argue as to why it&#x27;s their preferred choice but the point remains that users actively download and install Chrome - usually as one of the first things they do when they purchase a new computer.<p>That to me puts things on an entirely different level. To compete reasonably with Chrome you need to compete for users directly. You could argue that Google abuses it&#x27;s monopoly position to market Chrome and that would probably be a valid argument but again, it doesn&#x27;t change the active decision users are making.<p>If anything Safari (especially on iOS) is more like IE. In that it serves Apple more than it serves users. Apple wants PWAs to remain gimped, by simply dragging their feet or refusing to implement certain web standards&#x2F;proposals they effectively gimp PWAs. This forces apps to be written for their platform which in turn is where they generate the vast majority of their scalable growth&#x2F;profit.</text></item><item><author>MBCook</author><text>I’m going to ignore the security angle and post my big fear.<p>Chrome has dominance similar to IE at the height of its popularity.<p>Whatever you think of their decisions, Apple is the only thing stopping a 90%+ Chrome web. (Note: not why they’re doing it, just a side effect)<p>People keep arguing Apple is being anti-competitive. But no one seems to recon with the possible consequences of what they’re asking for. And I fear we may get a pyrrhic victory if these groups&#x2F;governments keep pushing.<p>No, I don’t know a good solution. But I don’t think letting Chrome totally own the web is a good outcome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security</title><url>https://twitter.com/OpenWebAdvocacy/status/1541318055636369409</url></story> |
12,565,901 | 12,565,606 | 1 | 2 | 12,563,904 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>legitster</author><text>Not even close. GIMP was actually the first editor I learned on. But the minute you start using Photoshop it&#x27;s pretty apparent that you can never go back.<p>On paper they may look similar, but GIMP in no way touches the amount of options and features available to a designer out of the box in a pro software. Even just manipulating a single asset seems to take twice the work in GIMP. Imagine a PS file that is hundreds of layers deep.<p>And last I used it, support for anything print related was abysmal in GIMP. I don&#x27;t even have to think about color profiles in Photoshop, but GIMP gave me the sense I had to build everything myself.<p>GIMP is kind of in this ugly duckling space where I feel the feature set is not acceptable for a professional designer, but the UI is too overwhelming for a non-designer. And you can tell by the quality of work that the average user is either pretty amateurish, or who design is the second thought.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomtomtom777</author><text>For professional use, how <i>does</i> modern GIMP compare to modern PS?</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>People whining about GIMP not being as good as PS don&#x27;t appreciate what life was like on Linux before GIMP existed, or how primitive GIMP was when it first came out.<p>GIMP has advanced leaps and bound over what it once was.<p>I remember for ages PS fans were complaining about how GIMP had a multiple window layout, and how unnecessarily complex that was, and they wanted a single window layout. So the <i>volunteers</i> who work on GIMP eventually came out with a single window layout.<p>I&#x27;m not a PS user, but I heard that around that time PS changed to a multi-window layout. Whether that&#x27;s true or not, now I hear complaints from some users that GIMP is not any good because it doesn&#x27;t have a multi-window layout (not realizing that changing it to multi-window layout is as simple as unchecking &quot;Single-window mode&quot; under the &quot;Windows&quot; menu). Give me a break!<p>Some people will never be satisfied and will never appreciate the hundreds or thousands of man hours of <i>free</i> work that GIMP developers have poured in to this product.<p>Could it be improved? Of course! Anything can. Should they strive to make it better? Yes. Feature requests and help are great. But indignant insults coming from people who didn&#x27;t pay for the development of the product, who don&#x27;t contribute any of their own time to make it better, and who clearly don&#x27;t appreciate the massive achievement that GIMP is just take the cake. GIMP developers must have skins of steel to put up with this crap year in and year out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GIMP development - What’s the point?</title><url>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2016-September/msg00019.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>PeCaN</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t. GIMP&#x27;s support for nondestructive editing is very primitive, which might be the biggest issue. In terms of tools PS is far more comprehensive and flexible.<p>GIMP is more like Paint.NET than Photoshop.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomtomtom777</author><text>For professional use, how <i>does</i> modern GIMP compare to modern PS?</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>People whining about GIMP not being as good as PS don&#x27;t appreciate what life was like on Linux before GIMP existed, or how primitive GIMP was when it first came out.<p>GIMP has advanced leaps and bound over what it once was.<p>I remember for ages PS fans were complaining about how GIMP had a multiple window layout, and how unnecessarily complex that was, and they wanted a single window layout. So the <i>volunteers</i> who work on GIMP eventually came out with a single window layout.<p>I&#x27;m not a PS user, but I heard that around that time PS changed to a multi-window layout. Whether that&#x27;s true or not, now I hear complaints from some users that GIMP is not any good because it doesn&#x27;t have a multi-window layout (not realizing that changing it to multi-window layout is as simple as unchecking &quot;Single-window mode&quot; under the &quot;Windows&quot; menu). Give me a break!<p>Some people will never be satisfied and will never appreciate the hundreds or thousands of man hours of <i>free</i> work that GIMP developers have poured in to this product.<p>Could it be improved? Of course! Anything can. Should they strive to make it better? Yes. Feature requests and help are great. But indignant insults coming from people who didn&#x27;t pay for the development of the product, who don&#x27;t contribute any of their own time to make it better, and who clearly don&#x27;t appreciate the massive achievement that GIMP is just take the cake. GIMP developers must have skins of steel to put up with this crap year in and year out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GIMP development - What’s the point?</title><url>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2016-September/msg00019.html</url></story> |
32,648,802 | 32,641,905 | 1 | 3 | 32,639,681 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hyperman1</author><text>I really can&#x27;t call this stealing. Avlot of countrys bootstrapped their economies by &#x27;stealing&#x27; tech from someone else. In the target country, the person is a hero, in the source he is a thief.<p>My own Flanders has hero Lieven Bouwens. There are huge lists of the USA &#x27;importing&#x27; european knowhow before the world wars. Japan was a falous tech thief in the 1960&#x27;s.<p>In most cases, the importer got better than the country of origin. Beware.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lieven_Bauwens" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lieven_Bauwens</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment and technologies</title><url>https://www.techinsights.com/blog/smic-7nm-truly-7nm-technology-how-it-compares-tsmc-7nm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bjourne</author><text>This Register article has some more meat: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;08&#x2F;01&#x2F;column_7nm_chips_china&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;08&#x2F;01&#x2F;column_7nm_chips_chin...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment and technologies</title><url>https://www.techinsights.com/blog/smic-7nm-truly-7nm-technology-how-it-compares-tsmc-7nm</url></story> |
14,277,456 | 14,274,581 | 1 | 2 | 14,272,414 | train | <instructions>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>Don&#x27;t bill deep geothermal as any sort of green. There are usually emissions that have health consequences for the population around the power plant. The corrosion of the pipes bringing steam from the drill site to the turbines is massive. Drilling that deep and pumping water into the hole ups the risk of earthquakes.<p>(source: I live in Reykjavík and have witnessed first-hand the increased stench from the Hellisheiði geothermal plant)</text><parent_chain><item><author>chris_va</author><text>I&#x27;d be careful about getting too optimistic.<p>Conventional geothermal is about 4-5 cents&#x2F;kWh, on par with natural gas in the US. The dominant capital cost is drilling a large well (you need volume), and so geothermal plants are generally only built in areas that require shallow (1km) wells.<p>Well costs are ~quadratic in depth. Given how much money has already been spent optimizing drilling for the oil&amp;gas industry, along with how cutthroat that market is, I don&#x27;t see the cost coming down significantly. As a result, deep geothermal will likely be limited to niche regions like Iceland. And you need deep geothermal to scale it past the existing locations.<p>I would love to be wrong, since geothermal checks all the boxes for renewables and is also suitable for base load power, but I don&#x27;t see an obvious path forward short of a drilling tech miracle.<p>(source: Climate and Energy R&amp;D group)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Iceland drills 4.7 km down into volcano to tap clean energy</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2017-05-iceland-drills-km-volcano-energy.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>lumost</author><text>Has the lifetime of deep GeoThermal wells been studied at all? Unlike oil&#x2F;natural gas drilling, a deep geothermal well should provide energy indefinitely barring collapse or obstruction of the well. I&#x27;d venture the cost of shutdown and clearing obstructions is fairly low relative to the initial CapEx of the well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chris_va</author><text>I&#x27;d be careful about getting too optimistic.<p>Conventional geothermal is about 4-5 cents&#x2F;kWh, on par with natural gas in the US. The dominant capital cost is drilling a large well (you need volume), and so geothermal plants are generally only built in areas that require shallow (1km) wells.<p>Well costs are ~quadratic in depth. Given how much money has already been spent optimizing drilling for the oil&amp;gas industry, along with how cutthroat that market is, I don&#x27;t see the cost coming down significantly. As a result, deep geothermal will likely be limited to niche regions like Iceland. And you need deep geothermal to scale it past the existing locations.<p>I would love to be wrong, since geothermal checks all the boxes for renewables and is also suitable for base load power, but I don&#x27;t see an obvious path forward short of a drilling tech miracle.<p>(source: Climate and Energy R&amp;D group)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Iceland drills 4.7 km down into volcano to tap clean energy</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2017-05-iceland-drills-km-volcano-energy.html</url></story> |
21,541,849 | 21,538,692 | 1 | 3 | 21,538,236 | 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>stared</author><text>When I was a Ph.D. student I was surprised that in academia (my field was: quantum information theory) the majority of researchers put zero effort, and thought, in presenting data in a clean and clear way. (As a reaction I devoted a section in my thesis to say what is data vis.)
One my day &quot;but it is for other specialists&quot;. Nope, it is not the problem. Of course, every data vis should be tailored for a specific audience. But there is typically zero though put their either. See section 3.1.2 from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1412.6796" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1412.6796</a>.<p>From a more recent one (&quot;Simple diagrams of convoluted neural networks&quot;, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;inbrowserai&#x2F;simple-diagrams-of-convoluted-neural-networks-39c097d2925b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;inbrowserai&#x2F;simple-diagrams-of-convoluted...</a>):<p>&quot;[In academic] research, visualization is a mere afterthought (with a few notable exceptions, including the Distill journal, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;distill.pub&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;distill.pub&#x2F;</a>).
One may argue that developing new algorithms and tuning hyperparameters are Real Science&#x2F;Engineering™, while the visual presentation is the domain of art and has no value. I couldn’t disagree more!
Sure, for computers running a program it does not matter if your code is without indentations and has obscurely named variables. But for people — it does. Academic papers are not a means of discovery — they are a means of communication.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why scientists need to be better at data visualization</title><url>https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2019/science-data-visualization</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rflrob</author><text>While I absolutely agree that scientists need more formal training in data visualization, the claim that &quot;few scientists take the same amount of care with visuals as they do with generating data or writing about it&quot; doesn&#x27;t ring true to me about the scientists in my field (genetics&#x2F;genomics). There is a widespread recognition that effective figures are the strongest way to communicate your message, the question is what is the the best way to create those effective figures. Part of the problem is that as datasets get bigger, it&#x27;s rarely sustainable to put a lot of care into each and every version of a plot, but automating creation of figures is really hard.<p>If I were going to start designing a course in creating scientific figures, I think I&#x27;d have a roughly even split between the psychophysics of visual perception (e.g. distinguishing between similar quantities of lengths&#x2F;angles&#x2F;colors&#x2F;etc; designing for color-blind readers; ) and hands-on work in a real programming environment turning data to figures.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why scientists need to be better at data visualization</title><url>https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2019/science-data-visualization</url></story> |
6,673,012 | 6,672,929 | 1 | 2 | 6,672,029 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lagged2Death</author><text><i>I&#x27;m pretty sure a .doc file created fifteen years ago also still renders in Word.</i><p>Check this out:
<a href="http://timtyson.us/archives/2008/01/theft-by-taking/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;timtyson.us&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2008&#x2F;01&#x2F;theft-by-taking&#x2F;</a><p>Old MS Office file formats were never engineered to be future proof in any way, and they&#x27;re a huge headache for Microsoft, and they do indeed behave oddly in new software, and Microsoft cannot wait to get rid of them, and nobody in their right mind can blame them, honestly.<p>Open standards <i>rock</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thetrb</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure a .doc file created fifteen years ago also still renders in Word.<p>Same for a PDF file created 15 years ago or most other formats. So I don&#x27;t really see your point about open standards in this case.</text></item><item><author>Arubis</author><text>An HTML file virtually unchanged in fifteen years still renders cleanly in a modern browser. Backwards compatibility across open standards is a wonderful thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998</title><url>http://www.microsoft.com/games/monster/default.htm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>broodbucket</author><text>Yeah, you point out the winners, think back 15 years ago. How many competitors were there just in the realm of word processing? Every format but the eventual winner (which couldn&#x27;t be determined at the time) is now completely useless, whereas an abundance of old dud open image formats can still be opened (which is nice because some are really easy to programmatically generate)</text><parent_chain><item><author>thetrb</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure a .doc file created fifteen years ago also still renders in Word.<p>Same for a PDF file created 15 years ago or most other formats. So I don&#x27;t really see your point about open standards in this case.</text></item><item><author>Arubis</author><text>An HTML file virtually unchanged in fifteen years still renders cleanly in a modern browser. Backwards compatibility across open standards is a wonderful thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998</title><url>http://www.microsoft.com/games/monster/default.htm</url></story> |
33,154,597 | 33,152,280 | 1 | 3 | 33,151,402 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chunkyks</author><text>Every time I see someone&#x27;s off-piste raytracer project, I feel compelled to link my own silly contribution to that diaspora: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chunky&#x2F;sqlraytracer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chunky&#x2F;sqlraytracer</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ray Tracing in Notepad.exe at 30 FPS (2020)</title><url>http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notepad.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>anaisbetts</author><text>Love this though I have to ask, wouldn&#x27;t getting the HWND of the Edit Control via WindowFromPoint and sending WM_SETTEXT be easier than digging through memory?<p>I guess the point may be to learn how Cheat Engine can be used in a practical way to hook things which is definitely more along the lines of some of the author&#x27;s other posts!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ray Tracing in Notepad.exe at 30 FPS (2020)</title><url>http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notepad.html</url></story> |
28,964,659 | 28,962,917 | 1 | 2 | 28,933,857 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dgemm</author><text>That is actually partly the point, interdependent economies have stronger incentives to get along and not go to war with each other. It&#x27;s one of the reasons the EU exists, for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eeas.europa.eu&#x2F;archives&#x2F;delegations&#x2F;iceland&#x2F;evropustofa&#x2F;en&#x2F;what-would-you-like-to-know&#x2F;what-would-you-like-to-know&#x2F;article&#x2F;why-was-the-eu-created.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eeas.europa.eu&#x2F;archives&#x2F;delegations&#x2F;iceland&#x2F;evropust...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>azinman2</author><text>My hope is that supply chain issues will make clear the downsides to execs (not just the workers) and governments of externalizing all manufacturing abroad and out of reach. Look at the chaos caused by a pandemic, now imagine war or purposefully using supply chain as leverage.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paintmakers are running out of the color blue</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/the-color-blue-has-joined-the-growing-list-of-material-shortages</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coliveira</author><text>This is all momentary situation caused by the pandemic. In one year, people will not even remember this. Companies will not spend billions of dollars unless they have no other option.</text><parent_chain><item><author>azinman2</author><text>My hope is that supply chain issues will make clear the downsides to execs (not just the workers) and governments of externalizing all manufacturing abroad and out of reach. Look at the chaos caused by a pandemic, now imagine war or purposefully using supply chain as leverage.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paintmakers are running out of the color blue</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/the-color-blue-has-joined-the-growing-list-of-material-shortages</url></story> |
36,286,158 | 36,286,079 | 1 | 3 | 36,285,049 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>version_five</author><text>I didn&#x27;t know what cashiered meant.<p>&gt; Cashiering (or degradation ceremony), generally within military forces, is a ritual dismissal of an individual from some position of responsibility for a breach of discipline.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cashiering" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cashiering</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>In the early 1960s, a 707 landing at Heathrow mistook a nearby WW2 airfield for Heathrow(!). How the pilot[1] got the 707 stopped on that short field is a miracle. But the problem was getting it off the ground again, the runway was too short.<p>They stripped everything out of the aircraft - seats, galleys, everything. Then put in just enough gas to hop over the hedges to Heathrow. They barely made it.<p>[1] The pilot was cashiered.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Logistics challenges of saving Air India’s diverted 777 in Russia</title><url>https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/air-india-russia-diversion/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>timthorn</author><text>Some more detail: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simpleflying.com&#x2F;pan-am-707-raf-northolt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simpleflying.com&#x2F;pan-am-707-raf-northolt&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>In the early 1960s, a 707 landing at Heathrow mistook a nearby WW2 airfield for Heathrow(!). How the pilot[1] got the 707 stopped on that short field is a miracle. But the problem was getting it off the ground again, the runway was too short.<p>They stripped everything out of the aircraft - seats, galleys, everything. Then put in just enough gas to hop over the hedges to Heathrow. They barely made it.<p>[1] The pilot was cashiered.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Logistics challenges of saving Air India’s diverted 777 in Russia</title><url>https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/air-india-russia-diversion/</url></story> |
3,173,849 | 3,173,577 | 1 | 2 | 3,172,273 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dorkitude</author><text>That was me.<p>Sorry if I was confusing/confused -- I have an extreme personality (I'm far too abstract), which is a big part of why complementary cofounders are so important for people like me. Had they been present, I'm sure we would've done better :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>colinplamondon</author><text>What was the company from Office Hours doing Analytics as a Platform?<p>Even if the guy couldn't explain it on stage, it sounds <i>awesome</i>, definite pain point we see, and I'd love to sign up for it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Startup School 2011 Live Stream</title><url>http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>randall</author><text>Yeah, totally wanna know too. It took a bit for him to explain, but I totally got it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>colinplamondon</author><text>What was the company from Office Hours doing Analytics as a Platform?<p>Even if the guy couldn't explain it on stage, it sounds <i>awesome</i>, definite pain point we see, and I'd love to sign up for it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Startup School 2011 Live Stream</title><url>http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/</url></story> |
17,490,090 | 17,490,065 | 1 | 3 | 17,489,644 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brightball</author><text>&gt; Serverless computing is in a much earlier stage of adoption, with nearly half of developers failing to clearly understand what it is.<p>I&#x27;ve seen this called Function as a Service and honestly I think using that term instead of Serverless would go a long way to fixing this issue because 1) it clearly communicates what it is 2) there&#x27;s not actually such thing as serverless since the functions are still running on servers. It&#x27;s a made up term that isn&#x27;t grounded in reality. It&#x27;s not serverless any more than a Heroku Dyno is Serverless.<p>The first time I heard &quot;serverless&quot; I assumed it was a totally in-browser application.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DigitalOcean’s quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud</title><url>https://www.digitalocean.com/currents/june-2018/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lightbyte</author><text>Interesting to see the disconnect between hiring managers and what people say they care about most when considering a job offer (salary). Hiring managers claim there is a shortage of talent and that they do not care about offering a higher salary. Perhaps that talent shortage would mysteriously disappear if they increased their salary offers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DigitalOcean’s quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud</title><url>https://www.digitalocean.com/currents/june-2018/</url></story> |
14,658,844 | 14,656,721 | 1 | 3 | 14,653,469 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acdha</author><text>They did take that kind of principled stand and it hurt them. Firefox was late to support H.264 for that reason and users reacted by switching to Chrome where videos Just Worked. Mozilla resisted EME but that didn&#x27;t delay DRM in any way, it just meant that everyone kept using Flash&#x2F;Silverlight DRM or switched to a browser which didn&#x27;t require them to install plugins to play video.<p>Getting users to make decisions in favor of openness is an unsolved problem and it&#x27;s why Richard Stallman, while laudable for acting on principle, has increasingly little impact. Rather than hectoring Mozilla for not committing suicide, your efforts should be directed to figuring out how to get ordinary people to make different buying decisions so groups like Mozilla aren&#x27;t faced with the decision between standing up for principles and having users.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mehrdada</author><text>To me, Mozilla jumped the shark when they did not take a principled stance against web DRM. At that point, to me, their raison d&#x27;être of advocating the open web was meaningless, since today, in contrast of when they started, the most popular browser is an open-source product anyway and there is a relatively healthy ecosystem of decentralized power across commercial companies in place to check and balance each other. The place where it breaks and a non-profit model would have been helpful was pushing back on DRM, but Mozilla chose to play along sacrificing its principles for popularity as any other commercial entity would.<p>This is why people like Richard Stallman who don&#x27;t compromise on principles are critically important.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goodbye Mozilla</title><url>http://chrislord.net/index.php/2017/06/28/goodbye-mozilla/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Karunamon</author><text>Let&#x27;s be honest here, though. You&#x27;re not the target market if you&#x27;re willing to change browsers on philosophical principle.<p>Principles are fine and dandy until you have to commit suicide to maintain them. Given the good Mozilla does as a going concern, becoming &quot;that one weird browser that can&#x27;t play your videos&quot; would just result in more people using Chrome and Edge.<p>This kinda reminds me of the GCC&#x2F;Clang thing. If I recall right, Clang got a huge influx of attention, in part, due to Stallman&#x27;s unwillingness to allow GCC to export its AST.<p>Perhaps we need a rule for this. &quot;The tech community interprets developer obstinance as damage, and routes around it.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>mehrdada</author><text>To me, Mozilla jumped the shark when they did not take a principled stance against web DRM. At that point, to me, their raison d&#x27;être of advocating the open web was meaningless, since today, in contrast of when they started, the most popular browser is an open-source product anyway and there is a relatively healthy ecosystem of decentralized power across commercial companies in place to check and balance each other. The place where it breaks and a non-profit model would have been helpful was pushing back on DRM, but Mozilla chose to play along sacrificing its principles for popularity as any other commercial entity would.<p>This is why people like Richard Stallman who don&#x27;t compromise on principles are critically important.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goodbye Mozilla</title><url>http://chrislord.net/index.php/2017/06/28/goodbye-mozilla/</url></story> |
34,881,654 | 34,878,142 | 1 | 2 | 34,877,431 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thiht</author><text>CSS is one of the languages that everyone shits on because they never bothered to learn it properly. When you learned your programming language of choice you probably read a formal tutorial, or followed a full fledged course. Well once you spend some time <i>learning</i> CSS, it becomes incredibly easy to do almost everything you want.<p>If you know your basic CSS selectors `.stack &gt; * + *` is very easy to understand. I didn&#x27;t know `* - *` was sometimes referred to as &quot;lobotomized owl selector&quot; but it doesn&#x27;t matter, `&gt;`, `*` and `+` are all basic selectors that everyone working with CSS should know from the top of their head. None of these are &quot;clever&quot;. If you can&#x27;t read `.stack &gt; * + *`, you don&#x27;t know CSS selectors. I&#x27;d even argue if you don&#x27;t use mostly `&gt;` instead of ` ` (space selector) your stylesheets are probably unmaintainable.<p>CSS hacks were a shit show 10 years ago because of browser compatibility, but the thing presented here is not a hack, it&#x27;s just a useful rule.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zoul</author><text>I am increasingly worried about the “smart” CSS solutions. The spec is already huge, the selectors are hard to read and google, the interplay between various features is devilishly complex. And the CSS community seems to be very fond of these smart hacks where people in the know say “Oh, that’s just Foo’s variation on Bar’s flex owl hammer” and you are left to study the CSS lore for hours to decrypt the two or three letters. I just wish we would value simplicity over cleverness.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My favourite 3 lines of CSS</title><url>https://andy-bell.co.uk/my-favourite-3-lines-of-css/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alwillis</author><text>&gt; I am increasingly worried about the “smart” CSS solutions.<p>I&#x27;m not worried.<p>&gt; The spec is already huge, the selectors are hard to read and google, the interplay between various features is devilishly complex.<p>Actually things are getting <i>less</i> complex due the fact we don&#x27;t need to use all of the hacks, work-arounds and polyfills that were once just what pretty much every web developer did not that long ago. And of course, the original sin of the misuse of HTML tables for layout.<p>Sure, it wasn&#x27;t fun to deal with new specs coming out while trying to maintain existing code and attempting to understand when (or if) we can use the new stuff. Sometimes is was like trying to fly a plane while the plane is being retrofitted with new features.<p>The irony: many of the techniques described in the article is how we should have been doing things for along time. Hayden&#x27;s article [1], which is the basis for this, was <i>published nearly 10 years ago</i>—these concepts aren&#x27;t new.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alistapart.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized-owls&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alistapart.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>zoul</author><text>I am increasingly worried about the “smart” CSS solutions. The spec is already huge, the selectors are hard to read and google, the interplay between various features is devilishly complex. And the CSS community seems to be very fond of these smart hacks where people in the know say “Oh, that’s just Foo’s variation on Bar’s flex owl hammer” and you are left to study the CSS lore for hours to decrypt the two or three letters. I just wish we would value simplicity over cleverness.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My favourite 3 lines of CSS</title><url>https://andy-bell.co.uk/my-favourite-3-lines-of-css/</url></story> |
30,044,302 | 30,043,609 | 1 | 3 | 30,041,573 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kgeist</author><text>It&#x27;s not about the callback at all, the example is poor and the explanation is lacking. In Go, many standard I&#x2F;O functions use async I&#x2F;O under the hood. When you call such a function (inside the handler callback, that is), the current goroutine is suspended yielding to other goroutines, so waiting for I&#x2F;O doesn&#x27;t block the OS thread inside the request handler. It&#x27;s basically what you&#x27;d do in C# with async&#x2F;await, except it&#x27;s implicit and you don&#x27;t have to mark functions as asynchronous manually. I.e. you write simple synchronous code and Go makes it asynchronous under the hood. There are several disadvantages, though: it&#x27;s not tunable, and if there&#x27;s a CGO call (call to a C func) which uses I&#x2F;O itself it will block an entire worker thread because the Go runtime isn&#x27;t aware of any of it.<p>As far as I know, Java&#x27;s new virtual threads have the same idea.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ricardobeat</author><text>Which part of the example go code looks synchronous? It’s using a callback function. That’s a hallmark of async code, nothing invisible.<p>I also can’t quite grasp the comparison with Java. It’s passing a class instance to the server handler, and that could be doing <i>anything</i>. Nothing there tells you how async or not the server implementation is, and that `os.write()` call might be using a thread pool underneath.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Golang’s most important feature is invisible</title><url>https://blog.devgenius.io/golangs-most-important-feature-is-invisible-6be9c1e7249b?gi=21e47786496b</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>foolfoolz</author><text>agreed. the examples don’t show the real pain. it is when every method returns Future or Promise. and you have to map each result. and many languages don’t have good support for that so you end up with lots of nesting. writing synchronous function signatures is much simpler to maintain.<p>there’s 2 language level syntax features i see that make this better:<p>one is scalas for comprehension. this lets you write async code that reads like imperative synchronous lines. the other is async&#x2F;await, which let’s you write synchronous code that behaves like async</text><parent_chain><item><author>ricardobeat</author><text>Which part of the example go code looks synchronous? It’s using a callback function. That’s a hallmark of async code, nothing invisible.<p>I also can’t quite grasp the comparison with Java. It’s passing a class instance to the server handler, and that could be doing <i>anything</i>. Nothing there tells you how async or not the server implementation is, and that `os.write()` call might be using a thread pool underneath.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Golang’s most important feature is invisible</title><url>https://blog.devgenius.io/golangs-most-important-feature-is-invisible-6be9c1e7249b?gi=21e47786496b</url></story> |
23,429,835 | 23,428,902 | 1 | 2 | 23,427,647 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jialutu</author><text>Wow, it&#x27;s quite disheartening to read some of the comments here. Let&#x27;s try something shall we:<p>- open up private browsing<p>- press F12 (or however you get the developer console on a mac) and go to the networking tab<p>- go to gmail.com say<p>- enter your gmail credentials<p>- look at the post request generated, and at the request tab, it will contain your password in plain text<p>So passwords don&#x27;t get hashed on transit, this is why having HTTPS is so crucial, which is to prevent someone in the middle (say when you connect to an open Starbucks wifi) from sniffing out your unencrypted password. The password on the server side initially can be unencrypted before it gets hashed to be stored into the database. So in this instance, the password in the database is hashed, but there is a small period where the password is plain text in memory.<p>For a site called hacker news, it&#x27;s really sad how little people here know about hacking.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password</title><url>https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1268611608672194560</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ilamont</author><text>The Axios journalist who did this, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, is a huge thorn in the CCP&#x27;s side - one of the most outspoken, widely read, and retweeted media critics of China&#x27;s domestic policies and international activities.<p>Allen-Ebrahimian has focused on the crackdown against peaceful pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong and the dismantling of &quot;one country, two systems&quot; (1), genomic surveillance of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang (2), and Huawei (3), among other topics. Last week, a CCP mouthpiece publication labelled her an &quot;anti-China journalist&quot; for her work (4).<p>She also uses WeChat for research (5).<p>I believe her WeChat account was very closely monitored, more than the average Western user.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&#x2F;status&#x2F;1263469429435883521" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&#x2F;status&#x2F;12634694294358835...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&#x2F;status&#x2F;1268223947939745792" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&#x2F;status&#x2F;12682239479397457...</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&#x2F;status&#x2F;1206358641424683009" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&#x2F;status&#x2F;12063586414246830...</a><p>4. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&#x2F;status&#x2F;1265793205628555264" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&#x2F;status&#x2F;12657932056285552...</a><p>5. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&#x2F;status&#x2F;1096165952264331264" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&#x2F;status&#x2F;10961659522643312...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password</title><url>https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1268611608672194560</url></story> |
31,033,964 | 31,033,777 | 1 | 2 | 31,032,821 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; If Russia did launch a limited tactical strike on Ukraine, let&#x27;s say super low-yield, honestly not much more than the MOABs we fired off in Iraq, is the USA really going to risk Berlin, or US cities getting vaporized to defend a non-NATO country?<p>The Baltics and Poland have already been pushing for NATO intervention because they want Russia checked because they don&#x27;t want to be next; Article 5 is nice, but they’d rather stop Russia before it&#x27;s on their land.<p>Nuking Ukraine, even a tiny little nuke, ratchets that up enormously and forces the US and Western European NATO powers to decide how to secure the eastern flank of the alliance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oceanplexian</author><text>I don&#x27;t know, I&#x27;m quite worried. I don&#x27;t think this is as cut and try as people make it out to be.<p>If Russia did launch a limited tactical strike on Ukraine, let&#x27;s say super low-yield, honestly not much more than the MOABs we fired off in Iraq, is the USA really going to risk Berlin, or US cities getting vaporized to defend a non-NATO country?</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Unless they are also planning to nuke the rest of the planet, there is no &quot;victory&quot; in that scenario.</text></item><item><author>Barrera</author><text>By any measure, the war is going very badly for Russia. None of its claimed aims have been met, and the sinking adds to a long line of apparent military defeats.<p>This raises the question of what comes next if this kind of thing keeps happening. What does Russia do? Russia appears to have staked the farm on this operation. Can it afford anything less than total victory?<p>The Russian military has made a sizable investment in tactical nuclear weapons with allegedly 2,000 of them on hand [1]. These small weapons can be detonated in ways that produce minimal fallout but lots of destruction [2]:<p>&gt; A tactical nuclear weapon (TNW) or non-strategic nuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon which is designed to be used on a battlefield in military situations, mostly with friendly forces in proximity and perhaps even on contested friendly territory. Generally smaller in explosive power, they are defined in contrast to strategic nuclear weapons, which are designed mostly to be targeted at the enemy interior away from the war front against military bases, cities, towns, arms industries, and other hardened or larger-area targets to damage the enemy&#x27;s ability to wage war.<p>With every conventional defeat faced by the Russian military and with the massive loss of credibility this causes, at what point does Russia decide that it&#x27;s time to take the gloves off?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-60664169" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-60664169</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tactical_nuclear_weapon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tactical_nuclear_weapon</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moskva cruiser sank while being towed in a storm – Russian Defense Ministry</title><url>https://tass.com/russia/1438045</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aorloff</author><text>Ukraine has also not yet attempted to hit Moscow (the city, not the ship) with missiles.<p>Once a nuclear bomb is used, a lot of gloves will come off, not just the Russian ones, and so far Ukraine appears to have a lot of extremely competent military partners and Russia has a reluctant Belarus.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oceanplexian</author><text>I don&#x27;t know, I&#x27;m quite worried. I don&#x27;t think this is as cut and try as people make it out to be.<p>If Russia did launch a limited tactical strike on Ukraine, let&#x27;s say super low-yield, honestly not much more than the MOABs we fired off in Iraq, is the USA really going to risk Berlin, or US cities getting vaporized to defend a non-NATO country?</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Unless they are also planning to nuke the rest of the planet, there is no &quot;victory&quot; in that scenario.</text></item><item><author>Barrera</author><text>By any measure, the war is going very badly for Russia. None of its claimed aims have been met, and the sinking adds to a long line of apparent military defeats.<p>This raises the question of what comes next if this kind of thing keeps happening. What does Russia do? Russia appears to have staked the farm on this operation. Can it afford anything less than total victory?<p>The Russian military has made a sizable investment in tactical nuclear weapons with allegedly 2,000 of them on hand [1]. These small weapons can be detonated in ways that produce minimal fallout but lots of destruction [2]:<p>&gt; A tactical nuclear weapon (TNW) or non-strategic nuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon which is designed to be used on a battlefield in military situations, mostly with friendly forces in proximity and perhaps even on contested friendly territory. Generally smaller in explosive power, they are defined in contrast to strategic nuclear weapons, which are designed mostly to be targeted at the enemy interior away from the war front against military bases, cities, towns, arms industries, and other hardened or larger-area targets to damage the enemy&#x27;s ability to wage war.<p>With every conventional defeat faced by the Russian military and with the massive loss of credibility this causes, at what point does Russia decide that it&#x27;s time to take the gloves off?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-60664169" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-60664169</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tactical_nuclear_weapon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tactical_nuclear_weapon</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moskva cruiser sank while being towed in a storm – Russian Defense Ministry</title><url>https://tass.com/russia/1438045</url></story> |
18,543,814 | 18,544,002 | 1 | 2 | 18,542,830 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maemilius</author><text>Replacing people might be easy, but it&#x27;s never cheap - even in industries with an abundance of candidates.<p>The real issue with having your work-force leave is three-fold. First, you lose all the accumulated knowledge of your team. Second, you lose the cohesiveness of your team. Thirdly, you have to _pay to get a new team_.<p>All of these things conspire to make all but the lowliest of jobs (think Target Associate) much more painful to replace than it seems.<p>In short, there are lots of hidden costs in recruiting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SlowRobotAhead</author><text>While I’d like to try and agree... I think you may be missing a sense of scale and the reality of just how replaceable people are... even magically-gifted google employees.</text></item><item><author>tokai</author><text>&gt;How did you argue against the inevitable &quot;if we don&#x27;t take this contract, dude across the street will&quot;?<p>Collective action. They can hire 14 new guys, but they won&#x27;t have any to instruct the new employees in their work.</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>Damn, good for y&#x27;all for sticking to your values. How did you argue against the inevitable &quot;if we don&#x27;t take this contract, dude across the street will&quot;?</text></item><item><author>nimbius</author><text>Pretty bold. A lot of people are saying this wont work, but speaking from my own experience, you&#x27;d be surprised what companies are amicable to when it comes to business.<p>Im an engine mechanic by trade, and our shops handle bids for cash strapped local governments that outsource their motor pool maintenance. We do things like fire trucks and police cars, but we were working on a new regional idea as a &quot;service center&quot; for municipalities that purchased MRAP combat vehicles for their police departments. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MRAP" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MRAP</a><p>We all, especially the veterans I work with, hated this idea. MRAP&#x27;s are for combat, not police work, and have a dangerous propensity to roll over in city streets or escalate already violent situations. 14 of us sent a signed letter to the owner and senior management detailing our major concerns and heard nothing back for about a month. Then out of the blue we got a call for a meeting with 3-4 very senior managers at a local irish bar.<p>They paid for dinner and tried to explain how the business would be extremely lucrative. we would all see major bonuses, we could hire more workers, and grow the business faster than just large truck repair. It took 3 very emotional hours, but we eventually talked down a handful of people from making a very wrong decision.<p>for a week after, we were all sort of stunned that it actually worked at all. Tire cages meant for MRAP tires were cut up and turned into random parts holders, or as new hangers for air lines...one even replaced our mailbox post.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly</title><url>https://medium.com/@googlersagainstdragonfly/we-are-google-employees-google-must-drop-dragonfly-4c8a30c5e5eb</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>randcraw</author><text>Negotiations like these aren&#x27;t won by convincing the other side through making <i>more</i> points via logic or evidence. You must help decision makers to realize that their choice is not win-win, that hidden costs, unwanted consequences, or just plain bad publicity await. Almost always, bureaucrat decisions are driven more by fear of failure than prospect of success. As a naysayer, your goal is mostly to spread FUD and take the shine off their bauble.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SlowRobotAhead</author><text>While I’d like to try and agree... I think you may be missing a sense of scale and the reality of just how replaceable people are... even magically-gifted google employees.</text></item><item><author>tokai</author><text>&gt;How did you argue against the inevitable &quot;if we don&#x27;t take this contract, dude across the street will&quot;?<p>Collective action. They can hire 14 new guys, but they won&#x27;t have any to instruct the new employees in their work.</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>Damn, good for y&#x27;all for sticking to your values. How did you argue against the inevitable &quot;if we don&#x27;t take this contract, dude across the street will&quot;?</text></item><item><author>nimbius</author><text>Pretty bold. A lot of people are saying this wont work, but speaking from my own experience, you&#x27;d be surprised what companies are amicable to when it comes to business.<p>Im an engine mechanic by trade, and our shops handle bids for cash strapped local governments that outsource their motor pool maintenance. We do things like fire trucks and police cars, but we were working on a new regional idea as a &quot;service center&quot; for municipalities that purchased MRAP combat vehicles for their police departments. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MRAP" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MRAP</a><p>We all, especially the veterans I work with, hated this idea. MRAP&#x27;s are for combat, not police work, and have a dangerous propensity to roll over in city streets or escalate already violent situations. 14 of us sent a signed letter to the owner and senior management detailing our major concerns and heard nothing back for about a month. Then out of the blue we got a call for a meeting with 3-4 very senior managers at a local irish bar.<p>They paid for dinner and tried to explain how the business would be extremely lucrative. we would all see major bonuses, we could hire more workers, and grow the business faster than just large truck repair. It took 3 very emotional hours, but we eventually talked down a handful of people from making a very wrong decision.<p>for a week after, we were all sort of stunned that it actually worked at all. Tire cages meant for MRAP tires were cut up and turned into random parts holders, or as new hangers for air lines...one even replaced our mailbox post.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly</title><url>https://medium.com/@googlersagainstdragonfly/we-are-google-employees-google-must-drop-dragonfly-4c8a30c5e5eb</url></story> |
9,713,113 | 9,713,087 | 1 | 2 | 9,712,225 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rubiquity</author><text>It&#x27;s cool to see a link about learning OCaml so high on HN. I started teaching myself OCaml a few months ago and I really like it. Here&#x27;s a few things I like so far and why I think anyone that uses Go or Rust should give OCaml a look:<p>1. OCaml compiles to a binary like Go and Rust do<p>2. The type system is helpful without being a huge burden on learning&#x2F;productivity (unlike Rust and Haskell)<p>3. Garbage collection<p>4. Pattern matching and algebraic data types (like Rust)<p>5. OCaml is plenty fast at CPU bound work(slower than Rust, faster than Go) despite not being parallel (yet)<p>Those are my takeaways of what I enjoy about OCaml so far. It has been the most approachable typed functional language that I&#x27;ve looked at yet! Depending on the type of things you want to learn and problems you want to solve, Your Mileage May Vary.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A brief introduction to OCaml</title><url>http://www.lexicallyscoped.com/2015/06/06/intro-to-ocaml.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>jordwalke</author><text>This is also great cheat sheet for someone still getting used to the OCaml syntax.<p>I usually advise people to pretend that double semicolons don&#x27;t exist for anything but the interactive top level. In source files, you can forget about double semis entirely as long as you just remember to always assign the result of an imperative statement to the dummy &quot;_&quot; name.<p><pre><code> let _ = print_string &quot;hi&quot;
</code></pre>
Then you can think of ;;&lt;enter&gt; as merely a fancy way of hitting the return key in the interactive REPL. There&#x27;s also a way to use a different key mapping (control+enter) instead of ;; in utop, so there would be no reason to even acknowledge the existence of double semis.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;diml&#x2F;utop&#x2F;issues&#x2F;131" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;diml&#x2F;utop&#x2F;issues&#x2F;131</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A brief introduction to OCaml</title><url>http://www.lexicallyscoped.com/2015/06/06/intro-to-ocaml.html</url></story> |
25,434,692 | 25,434,237 | 1 | 3 | 25,428,091 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;we can&#x27;t compete<p>the issue is even deeper. You can&#x27;t compete without recreating the same issues that those giants already have in the US or China. I don&#x27;t even <i>want to</i> compete with Facebook just to have European Facebook, it&#x27;d suck just as much.<p>I want smaller companies, which don&#x27;t abuse data, which don&#x27;t sacrifice security for &#x27;hypergrowth&#x27;, who are able to moderate their content and comply with laws rather than ignore them, and so on. Companies like this will never compete with American or Chinese giants in a &#x27;free market&#x27;. It&#x27;s like having a green energy company compete with companies that can legally pour their waste into the river.<p>The EU needs to create rules to reward small companies and to curb large ones. Don&#x27;t copy &quot;maximal consumer welfare&quot; doctrines or prioritise convenience, promote decentralisation. It looks like there&#x27;s some good stuff in these new laws, but they don&#x27;t go far enough yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>martindbp</author><text>I&#x27;ve come to realize this: free markets of winner-take-all products are a losing game for Europe. We&#x27;re too late to the game, we can&#x27;t compete with these huge companies, and there&#x27;s no way to catch up in terms of venture capital. There are structural difficulties, namely that there are 50 very different countries on this continent with completely different languages and cultures. There is no way we can support massive tech companies such as Google, even if they would arise here as startups.<p>As such, the only reasonable thing to do is to slowly ween ourselves off American tech in favor of letting our our own grow, just like China did. They probably won&#x27;t be as good, but unless we want to be completely dependent on a foreign power for all our IT, we have no choice. And really, we have no obligation to let American companies pick the fruits of our markets out of some weird sense of &quot;fairness&quot; of free markets. The world is not fair. Of course, there will be retaliations, but for any non-IT tech there are local or Chinese substitutes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-unveil-landmark-law-curbing-power-of-tech-giants/a-55939862</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xxpor</author><text>That seems awfully defeatist. Spotify is winning in music, for example. And that&#x27;s certainly a case where the different languages make a big difference.<p>European culture is more homogeneous than I think a lot of people in Europe appreciate. And that&#x27;s the root of the tech issues, in that the culture doesn&#x27;t foster risk taking.</text><parent_chain><item><author>martindbp</author><text>I&#x27;ve come to realize this: free markets of winner-take-all products are a losing game for Europe. We&#x27;re too late to the game, we can&#x27;t compete with these huge companies, and there&#x27;s no way to catch up in terms of venture capital. There are structural difficulties, namely that there are 50 very different countries on this continent with completely different languages and cultures. There is no way we can support massive tech companies such as Google, even if they would arise here as startups.<p>As such, the only reasonable thing to do is to slowly ween ourselves off American tech in favor of letting our our own grow, just like China did. They probably won&#x27;t be as good, but unless we want to be completely dependent on a foreign power for all our IT, we have no choice. And really, we have no obligation to let American companies pick the fruits of our markets out of some weird sense of &quot;fairness&quot; of free markets. The world is not fair. Of course, there will be retaliations, but for any non-IT tech there are local or Chinese substitutes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-unveil-landmark-law-curbing-power-of-tech-giants/a-55939862</url></story> |
26,148,512 | 26,147,876 | 1 | 2 | 26,146,218 | 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>tqi</author><text>Why is this always framed as a problem caused by people looking for a place to live?<p>I moved to SF for a job. I&#x27;m not the one who decided to not build enough new housing for 30 years. I&#x27;m not the one who decided to approve all those new office buildings. Yet I was the problem for renting an overpriced apartment from an SF native who bought in the 90s, and now pays less than $8K&#x2F;yr in taxes on a place worth over $1M. And now I&#x27;m still the problem if I decide to leave?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California’s affordable housing problem is really a national one</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/business/economy/california-housing-crisis.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>nutshell89</author><text>The problem is that not only is there zero appetite to phase out housing-as-investment boosting policies like the mortgage interest deduction, imputed rent exemption, and cap gains exemption at the federal level, en vogue affordable housing strategies have focused on keeping interest rates low, providing 1st time home-buyer tax credits, and strengthening fair lending regulations.<p>The U.S.(western nations with high housing costs really) are drunk on the housing-as-investment model, and zoning increases and &#x2F; or social housing positive policies will always take a back seat when speculative profits are involved.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California’s affordable housing problem is really a national one</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/business/economy/california-housing-crisis.html</url></story> |
36,472,383 | 36,472,372 | 1 | 2 | 36,471,591 | 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>fweimer</author><text>This research is related to the Koka programming language: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koka-lang.github.io&#x2F;koka&#x2F;doc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koka-lang.github.io&#x2F;koka&#x2F;doc&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FP2: Fully In-Place Functional Programming [pdf]</title><url>https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2023/05/fbip.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zellyn</author><text>I was hoping it would reference roc-lang.org, which is actually doing in-place mutation for efficiency, but I didn’t see any mentions :-(</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FP2: Fully In-Place Functional Programming [pdf]</title><url>https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2023/05/fbip.pdf</url></story> |
21,865,895 | 21,865,777 | 1 | 3 | 21,842,925 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throw_m239339</author><text>&gt; While the US and EU has been focused on donating aid, or through NGOs merely shipping Africans into Europe without much of a plan and then shrugging their shoulders when problems arise, China has been making deals there and investing an utterly staggering amount on an on-going basis into its development and future prosperity.<p>If these really cared about Africa, they would have stopped subsidizing their agriculture. They don&#x27;t. &quot;Aid&quot; here is a way to hinder development.<p>China is being scummy, but who&#x27;s criticizing China here? Europeans who did far worse to the African continent and their inhabitants? talk about lacking of any sense of self-awareness.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cmdshiftf4</author><text>Sub-Saharan Africa feels like a missed opportunity now for Europe and the US.<p>While the US and EU has been focused on donating aid, or through NGOs merely shipping Africans into Europe without much of a plan and then shrugging their shoulders when problems arise, China has been making deals there and investing an utterly staggering amount on an on-going basis into its development and future prosperity.<p>Some will proclaim &quot;But they&#x27;ll owe China! That won&#x27;t end well!&quot;, which is shortsighted, lacking in self-awareness and playing into the &quot;everyone that isn&#x27;t us is the boogeyman&quot; narrative the West likes to maintain.<p>In the same time that China has been spending its money on African investment, the US has been spending literally trillions on literally baseless wars, directly costing the lives of a countless amount of people in doing so and upending the lives of countless others.<p>Good on China, and good for Africa. I hope to live to see that continent prosper, although if any success is in sight I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ll see the US find <i>some</i> <i>reason</i> to deploy the so-richly invested military there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space</title><url>https://qz.com/africa/1772671/ethiopia-launched-its-first-space-satellite-with-chinas-help/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rb808</author><text>China is a big investor but its just one of many. European companies always had a big footprint.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unctad.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;pages&#x2F;newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=2109" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unctad.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;pages&#x2F;newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersion...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cmdshiftf4</author><text>Sub-Saharan Africa feels like a missed opportunity now for Europe and the US.<p>While the US and EU has been focused on donating aid, or through NGOs merely shipping Africans into Europe without much of a plan and then shrugging their shoulders when problems arise, China has been making deals there and investing an utterly staggering amount on an on-going basis into its development and future prosperity.<p>Some will proclaim &quot;But they&#x27;ll owe China! That won&#x27;t end well!&quot;, which is shortsighted, lacking in self-awareness and playing into the &quot;everyone that isn&#x27;t us is the boogeyman&quot; narrative the West likes to maintain.<p>In the same time that China has been spending its money on African investment, the US has been spending literally trillions on literally baseless wars, directly costing the lives of a countless amount of people in doing so and upending the lives of countless others.<p>Good on China, and good for Africa. I hope to live to see that continent prosper, although if any success is in sight I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ll see the US find <i>some</i> <i>reason</i> to deploy the so-richly invested military there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space</title><url>https://qz.com/africa/1772671/ethiopia-launched-its-first-space-satellite-with-chinas-help/</url></story> |
38,486,916 | 38,486,866 | 1 | 2 | 38,485,562 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>e2le</author><text>It sounds like the bug was in the Android app. Shouldn&#x27;t the microcontroller (on the pump) be validating dose values received?<p>(dose &gt; MAX_DOSE) ? return DOSE_TOO_HIGH : return DOSE_ACCEPTED;<p>20 units is obviously dangerous for a single dose.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mtmail</author><text>Non-twitter link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;morganherlocker&#x2F;status&#x2F;1730455721815527429" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;morganherlocker&#x2F;status&#x2F;173045572181552742...</a> (edit: I&#x27;m not the author)<p>&quot;Notified today that my insulin pump controller has a bug where the leading decimal point will be dropped, ie: changing a dose of .21 units to 21 units. I can reproduce randomly ~1 in 5 times so probably a race condition. Easily one of the worst software bugs I have ever heard of.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My insulin pump controller has a bug</title><url>https://twitter.com/morganherlocker/status/1730455721815527429</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>auggierose</author><text>For software like that, not sure how anything other than formally proven correct software is acceptable. And note, no type system is gonna help you with a bug like that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mtmail</author><text>Non-twitter link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;morganherlocker&#x2F;status&#x2F;1730455721815527429" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;morganherlocker&#x2F;status&#x2F;173045572181552742...</a> (edit: I&#x27;m not the author)<p>&quot;Notified today that my insulin pump controller has a bug where the leading decimal point will be dropped, ie: changing a dose of .21 units to 21 units. I can reproduce randomly ~1 in 5 times so probably a race condition. Easily one of the worst software bugs I have ever heard of.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My insulin pump controller has a bug</title><url>https://twitter.com/morganherlocker/status/1730455721815527429</url></story> |
16,269,822 | 16,269,765 | 1 | 2 | 16,269,444 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TaylorGood</author><text>The real gamble was Kodak offering their namesake in a token project for &quot;no direct revenue from the public offering... receive a minority stake in WENN Digital, 3 percent of all KodakCoins issued and a royalty on future revenue.&quot;<p>Minority ownership in a random company owned by a former fraudster and 3% of the tokens with their own name on it? So many things wrong with this. Where is the secret deal that made this happen? Did the Kodak CEO get 40% of the tokens in his personal wallet? For a multi-decade, legacy brand to entrust that guy with their future is rather bizarre. If this fails, it is quite possibly the last nail for Kodak..</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/technology/kodak-blockchain-bitcoin.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftechnology&action=click&contentCollection=technology&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stickfigure</author><text>Also covered by Matt Levine in today&#x27;s Money Stuff, with his trademark hilarity:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-01-30&#x2F;iss-tells-investors-how-they-want-to-vote" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-01-30&#x2F;iss-tells...</a><p>(search down for &#x27;Kodak&#x27;)<p>It&#x27;s sad how far the brand has fallen.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/technology/kodak-blockchain-bitcoin.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftechnology&action=click&contentCollection=technology&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront</url></story> |
34,561,942 | 34,561,496 | 1 | 2 | 34,560,255 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>josephg</author><text>To me, the distinction is whether we put in effort in our dress. It doesn’t matter what we look like; it matter that we spent resources to look like that.<p>People in many industries wear ties to work. I used to wonder what the point is of a tie, or a good suit. I don’t think it’s just fashion, but what? My take now is that it implies you care about how you’re seen by others - that you’re actively going to burn some of your time and money to demonstrate your vulnerability to your reputation. If someone who hasn’t washed and wears pyjamas gets in a fight in the street with someone in a suit, the person in the suit has more to lose. And that means if I want to make a business deal with one of them, I’m going to feel much safer dealing with the person in the suit because if they do wrong by me, they have reputational face to lose. (Or at least that’s the implication).<p>So yeah, I also agree with the GP. I think putting effort into the appearance of our cities and ourselves is effort spent signaling to each other that our society is worth investing in. It can go too far, and it was fun wearing pyjamas out on the street during covid. But I’m glad to live in a place that removes graffiti and where people sometimes dress up to go out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>uneekname</author><text>I try not to argue with strangers much on the internet, but I really disagree with you on this one.<p>What someone wears is a part of their self-expression. In this post, you use the phrases &quot;respect for one&#x27;s appearance&quot; and &quot;care about [one&#x27;s] appearance&quot; to suggest that people have a responsibility to follow certain norms in how they dress in order to make &quot;&#x27;civilization&#x27; aesthetically appealing,&quot; in your words. Aesthetic is a subjective, and I think it&#x27;s funny that you are so eager to project your aesthetic onto others. I for one actively choose to wear pajamas, go barefoot, keep my hair disheveled in public <i>because that is my aesthetic and I think it looks good</i>.<p>I will also clean up my local park, reduce my ecological footprint as much as possible, insert socially responsible behavior here...but you should consider widening your view of what is and isn&#x27;t ok to wear in public.</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>Respect for other people, general social norms, polite behavior, personal dignity, and in general just a respect for one&#x27;s appearance and a desire to make &quot;civilization&quot; aesthetically appealing. People seem to enjoy living in beautiful buildings with green parks nearby, without pollution or noise, and yet somehow think dressing like a slob or putting zero effort into one&#x27;s appearance is unimportant.<p>To be honest, if you don&#x27;t find this obviously true, I&#x27;m not sure any argument is going to convince you. I&#x27;ll also add that in many countries outside of America, it is just <i>the default</i> to care about your appearance when in public.</text></item><item><author>kelseyfrog</author><text>Maybe I have something to learn, but what load-bearing social foundation would public pajama-wearing endanger?</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>A society is made up of people. The way people act, dress, talk, or do anything else has a pretty direct impact on other people in that society. Unless your definition of society is an extremely disconnected one, comprised of alienated individuals that have no interaction with each other, yes, it does affect other people.</text></item><item><author>Zircom</author><text>&gt;being a grown-ass adult in pajamas out in public<p>I&#x27;m with you about all the other things but people wearing whatever clothes they want to affects you in literally no way shape or form.</text></item><item><author>PessimalDecimal</author><text>&gt; People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there&#x27;s someone with loud as exhaust on &quot;sportish&quot; car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am and no one care when I complained.<p>&gt; Police seem to not give a shit anymore. I&#x27;ve noticed what seems to be total lawlessness going on in my world. Folks stealing shit. People driving absurdly dangerously in cars that are not designed to travel like that. (tailgating, lane switch, accelerating at the fastest I&#x27;ve ever seen a beat up Sentra do...) . I never see cops hit lights and sirens at them.<p>Both of these resonate with me. I perceive it as a general decline in the willingness to enforce any sort of standards of behavior by any means (social shaming or formal enforcement by law). Antisocial behavior like drag racing, speeding through neighborhoods, arguing and even fighting on airplanes, being a grown-ass adult in pajamas out in public, etc. You&#x27;re likelier to get resistance for trying to enforce any sort of basic decency than to flout old (but not that old...) standards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?</title><text>Is anyone else noticing that for several 5 year blocks (pentad) the world just seems to get markedly worse? It&#x27;s like no body seems to give a shit about anyone except themselves anymore. Whats the cause of this? What&#x27;s the solution?<p>A bunch of things I&#x27;ve noticed:<p>* Landlords seem extremely greedy and do terrible rent seeking tactics like fees upon fees (250 admin fee to rent here, $75 to apply, $300 non refundable pet deposit, $25 a month pet rent, $12.50 community fee, $15 trash valet, $5 online payment fee, $100 a month community internet (for the $50 a month package), going Month to month after a lease ends is 2x the annual price. And then they use RealPage to collude to make prices higher[1]<p>* People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there&#x27;s someone with loud as exhaust on &quot;sportish&quot; car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am and no one care when I complained.<p>* General worker apathy is endemic everywhere I go people seem aggravated I would dare to check my order and point out they didn&#x27;t put in the ketchup i asked for, or the napkins, or whatever. Or when I dine in the tables are dirty. Or the gym is filthy, the cleaner just drags the mop around looking busy but accomplishing nothing. But in many instances they keep asking for more tips.<p>* Software seems to be overrun by a mentality that any future cost is worth it to save even 1 minute of development time today. And this one I think I&#x27;ve observed the root, it seems that people get promoted away from their problems so they&#x27;re not the ones to solve them. And those who do write good software (albeit slightly slower) are not promotable beacuse they&#x27;re &quot;under performing&quot; their peers. Why does it seem management (and many thusly incentivized engineers) have abandoned decades of experience showing how to create reliable, robust, reusable code that is both great the customer, fast to iterate on, and only a tiny tiny bit slower to write.<p>* Seems like everything is subscription model and you have to pay N times to access something thats only worth 1-3x . Eg: I Netflix for a couple hours a month. At the price for 4k access I can almost go out to a theatre. Video games are all trending to subscription models. I just learned the other day that the PS4 games I got with my subcription to PSN all are locked because I stopped subscribing (nearly 50 games) . So I paid them like $125 for access to these games for 24 months, and now I cannot play any of them? At least I still own NES&#x2F;SNES&#x2F;N64 Game cartridges that will never lock me out.<p>* Police seem to not give a shit anymore. I&#x27;ve noticed what seems to be total lawlessness going on in my world. Folks stealing shit. People driving absurdly dangerously in cars that are not designed to travel like that. (tailgating, lane switch, accelerating at the fastest I&#x27;ve ever seen a beat up Sentra do...) . I never see cops hit lights and sirens at them. And every year our taxes (their paycheck) and our insurance goes up (a consequence of poor driving habits). And at the same time, we get these cases where a dude like Tyre, at least as I see the body cam, seems to be basically complying and the police freak out on him, he basically complies, and they taze and pepper spay him, no wonder he ran away -- what is someone supposed to think when they say &quot;on the ground&quot; and you get on the ground and then just keep getting more and more aggressive. Like are you gonna just lay on your face while they potentially pull their gun and just shoot you in the back of the head? How do you know what&#x27;s going on unless you can face and see them? How can you trust they wont, cause even if it&#x27;s 99.999999% they wont, you only get 1 one chance and if you get it wrong you&#x27;re dead without any coming back.<p>* Over and over again we keep hearing stories of fake people becoming the top paid, respected, or otherwise status people in society. Elizabeth Holmes, Frank&#x2F;JP Morgan scam for $175M[2], fraudulent crypto schemes<p>* And there&#x27;s a ton of little things too like the water is poison, the air is poison, the food system is poison or crashing etc.<p>I&#x27;m aware of pinker&#x27;s general argument that many numbers are getting better. But it seems like people just treat eachother like shit these days.<p>Anyone else have other examples? I am I way off base here?<p>[1]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;26&#x2F;23479034&#x2F;doj-investigating-rent-setting-software-company-realpage<p>[2]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;21&#x2F;business&#x2F;jpmorgan-chase-charlie-javice-fraud.html</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>keiferski</author><text>Some people think that aesthetics is entirely subjective. This is the default view of Western liberal democracies, especially among people that haven’t really thought much about the topic.<p>Some people, including a lot of philosophers and art theorists that can be considered “experts”, disagree. I would consider myself in this camp, although not a credentialed expert by any means. And no, I’m not “projecting my aesthetic” on to others, simply defending the idea of norms and expectations. This is a very different thing.<p>As I said in another comment, if you can’t get beyond the idea that Value is not entirely subjective and that everything isn’t just “your opinion, Dude,” then no argument is probably going to convince you of anything. Hence you will just end up in a situation like the OP posted about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>uneekname</author><text>I try not to argue with strangers much on the internet, but I really disagree with you on this one.<p>What someone wears is a part of their self-expression. In this post, you use the phrases &quot;respect for one&#x27;s appearance&quot; and &quot;care about [one&#x27;s] appearance&quot; to suggest that people have a responsibility to follow certain norms in how they dress in order to make &quot;&#x27;civilization&#x27; aesthetically appealing,&quot; in your words. Aesthetic is a subjective, and I think it&#x27;s funny that you are so eager to project your aesthetic onto others. I for one actively choose to wear pajamas, go barefoot, keep my hair disheveled in public <i>because that is my aesthetic and I think it looks good</i>.<p>I will also clean up my local park, reduce my ecological footprint as much as possible, insert socially responsible behavior here...but you should consider widening your view of what is and isn&#x27;t ok to wear in public.</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>Respect for other people, general social norms, polite behavior, personal dignity, and in general just a respect for one&#x27;s appearance and a desire to make &quot;civilization&quot; aesthetically appealing. People seem to enjoy living in beautiful buildings with green parks nearby, without pollution or noise, and yet somehow think dressing like a slob or putting zero effort into one&#x27;s appearance is unimportant.<p>To be honest, if you don&#x27;t find this obviously true, I&#x27;m not sure any argument is going to convince you. I&#x27;ll also add that in many countries outside of America, it is just <i>the default</i> to care about your appearance when in public.</text></item><item><author>kelseyfrog</author><text>Maybe I have something to learn, but what load-bearing social foundation would public pajama-wearing endanger?</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>A society is made up of people. The way people act, dress, talk, or do anything else has a pretty direct impact on other people in that society. Unless your definition of society is an extremely disconnected one, comprised of alienated individuals that have no interaction with each other, yes, it does affect other people.</text></item><item><author>Zircom</author><text>&gt;being a grown-ass adult in pajamas out in public<p>I&#x27;m with you about all the other things but people wearing whatever clothes they want to affects you in literally no way shape or form.</text></item><item><author>PessimalDecimal</author><text>&gt; People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there&#x27;s someone with loud as exhaust on &quot;sportish&quot; car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am and no one care when I complained.<p>&gt; Police seem to not give a shit anymore. I&#x27;ve noticed what seems to be total lawlessness going on in my world. Folks stealing shit. People driving absurdly dangerously in cars that are not designed to travel like that. (tailgating, lane switch, accelerating at the fastest I&#x27;ve ever seen a beat up Sentra do...) . I never see cops hit lights and sirens at them.<p>Both of these resonate with me. I perceive it as a general decline in the willingness to enforce any sort of standards of behavior by any means (social shaming or formal enforcement by law). Antisocial behavior like drag racing, speeding through neighborhoods, arguing and even fighting on airplanes, being a grown-ass adult in pajamas out in public, etc. You&#x27;re likelier to get resistance for trying to enforce any sort of basic decency than to flout old (but not that old...) standards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?</title><text>Is anyone else noticing that for several 5 year blocks (pentad) the world just seems to get markedly worse? It&#x27;s like no body seems to give a shit about anyone except themselves anymore. Whats the cause of this? What&#x27;s the solution?<p>A bunch of things I&#x27;ve noticed:<p>* Landlords seem extremely greedy and do terrible rent seeking tactics like fees upon fees (250 admin fee to rent here, $75 to apply, $300 non refundable pet deposit, $25 a month pet rent, $12.50 community fee, $15 trash valet, $5 online payment fee, $100 a month community internet (for the $50 a month package), going Month to month after a lease ends is 2x the annual price. And then they use RealPage to collude to make prices higher[1]<p>* People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there&#x27;s someone with loud as exhaust on &quot;sportish&quot; car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am and no one care when I complained.<p>* General worker apathy is endemic everywhere I go people seem aggravated I would dare to check my order and point out they didn&#x27;t put in the ketchup i asked for, or the napkins, or whatever. Or when I dine in the tables are dirty. Or the gym is filthy, the cleaner just drags the mop around looking busy but accomplishing nothing. But in many instances they keep asking for more tips.<p>* Software seems to be overrun by a mentality that any future cost is worth it to save even 1 minute of development time today. And this one I think I&#x27;ve observed the root, it seems that people get promoted away from their problems so they&#x27;re not the ones to solve them. And those who do write good software (albeit slightly slower) are not promotable beacuse they&#x27;re &quot;under performing&quot; their peers. Why does it seem management (and many thusly incentivized engineers) have abandoned decades of experience showing how to create reliable, robust, reusable code that is both great the customer, fast to iterate on, and only a tiny tiny bit slower to write.<p>* Seems like everything is subscription model and you have to pay N times to access something thats only worth 1-3x . Eg: I Netflix for a couple hours a month. At the price for 4k access I can almost go out to a theatre. Video games are all trending to subscription models. I just learned the other day that the PS4 games I got with my subcription to PSN all are locked because I stopped subscribing (nearly 50 games) . So I paid them like $125 for access to these games for 24 months, and now I cannot play any of them? At least I still own NES&#x2F;SNES&#x2F;N64 Game cartridges that will never lock me out.<p>* Police seem to not give a shit anymore. I&#x27;ve noticed what seems to be total lawlessness going on in my world. Folks stealing shit. People driving absurdly dangerously in cars that are not designed to travel like that. (tailgating, lane switch, accelerating at the fastest I&#x27;ve ever seen a beat up Sentra do...) . I never see cops hit lights and sirens at them. And every year our taxes (their paycheck) and our insurance goes up (a consequence of poor driving habits). And at the same time, we get these cases where a dude like Tyre, at least as I see the body cam, seems to be basically complying and the police freak out on him, he basically complies, and they taze and pepper spay him, no wonder he ran away -- what is someone supposed to think when they say &quot;on the ground&quot; and you get on the ground and then just keep getting more and more aggressive. Like are you gonna just lay on your face while they potentially pull their gun and just shoot you in the back of the head? How do you know what&#x27;s going on unless you can face and see them? How can you trust they wont, cause even if it&#x27;s 99.999999% they wont, you only get 1 one chance and if you get it wrong you&#x27;re dead without any coming back.<p>* Over and over again we keep hearing stories of fake people becoming the top paid, respected, or otherwise status people in society. Elizabeth Holmes, Frank&#x2F;JP Morgan scam for $175M[2], fraudulent crypto schemes<p>* And there&#x27;s a ton of little things too like the water is poison, the air is poison, the food system is poison or crashing etc.<p>I&#x27;m aware of pinker&#x27;s general argument that many numbers are getting better. But it seems like people just treat eachother like shit these days.<p>Anyone else have other examples? I am I way off base here?<p>[1]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;26&#x2F;23479034&#x2F;doj-investigating-rent-setting-software-company-realpage<p>[2]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;21&#x2F;business&#x2F;jpmorgan-chase-charlie-javice-fraud.html</text></story> |
21,583,673 | 21,581,279 | 1 | 3 | 21,580,375 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vonmoltke</author><text>Wow, if I&#x27;d had a situation like this when I was in defense I might still be there. Instead, I had managers old enough to be my father, no upward path until I &quot;put in my time&quot;, and an attitude that wanting to move around within the company was &quot;disloyal&quot; to my current management.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnat</author><text>&quot;My supervisor observed that I was anxious to learn new things. He assigned me to the Discoverer project to develop system schematics, interconnection diagrams, and wire harness definition. I was working for the Electrical Systems engineer. His was a very responsible and highly visible position. And like most engineers working in this new field, he was in his early 20’s, just three years older than me. There were senior engineers in management positions, but there were no senior spacecraft engineers. Everyone was learning on the job.&quot;<p>Parallels to Silicon Valley are easy to find. It&#x27;s a valid career path: if you want to progress fast, find a hot young area where there are no senior experts and work hard to keep up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My years working on black programs</title><url>https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3833/1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>This is sort of parallel to very young network engineers and NOC staff, in like 1996, discovering for the first time what an ASN is, what BGP4 is, etc. And the commercial growth of the modern Internet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnat</author><text>&quot;My supervisor observed that I was anxious to learn new things. He assigned me to the Discoverer project to develop system schematics, interconnection diagrams, and wire harness definition. I was working for the Electrical Systems engineer. His was a very responsible and highly visible position. And like most engineers working in this new field, he was in his early 20’s, just three years older than me. There were senior engineers in management positions, but there were no senior spacecraft engineers. Everyone was learning on the job.&quot;<p>Parallels to Silicon Valley are easy to find. It&#x27;s a valid career path: if you want to progress fast, find a hot young area where there are no senior experts and work hard to keep up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My years working on black programs</title><url>https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3833/1</url></story> |
24,086,019 | 24,086,148 | 1 | 2 | 24,085,343 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>&gt; But there is absolutely no business incentive there - rather the opposite. Easy portability of data is not something most companies would want.<p>That depends on what kind of data it is. For example, your home address is not part of your bank&#x27;s primary business model, but keeping it up-to-date is important for it. If data portability in and out of the bank makes it more likely that you&#x27;ll keep it up-to-date, that&#x27;s useful for your bank as well.<p>Legislation and customer demand is also making it more and more palatable. If some data is not critical to your business model, but being the sole guardian of it is a legal&#x2F;reputational liability is, then actually handing control over that data over to someone else and re-using that is very useful.</text><parent_chain><item><author>the_duke</author><text>Actual title: Google and other tech giants are happy to have control over the Web&#x27;s metadata schemas, but they let its infrastructure languish<p>I know that hating on Google is fashionable, but that&#x27;s a bit too much editorializing. Especially considering the content of the post, and Google just being a small side note.<p>---<p>On-topic: I recently looked into using schema.org types as the basis for a information capturing system, but many of the types are somewhat outdated, of questionable quality or just missing. Development indeed seems slow, while changes that are needed by one of the larger involved companies get pushed through quickly.<p>I think a big part of that stagnation is a lack of interest though. The whole semantic web domain has been pretty much inactive.<p>It&#x27;s a real shame: having canonical types for most things in existence, and have those actually be supported as import&#x2F;export formats or for cross-app integrations, would be immensely valuable! But there is absolutely no business incentive there - rather the opposite. Easy portability of data is not something most companies would want.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech giants let the Web's metadata schemas and infrastructure languish</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1291509746000855040.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>jacques_chester</author><text>It&#x27;s a textbook collective action problem. Everyone would gain from having a high-quality shared ontology, but nobody gains enough individually (it&#x27;s a public good).<p>The typical solutions to collective action problems are (1) benefactors who subsidise production (either privately or through taxation), or (2) direct command and control. Google was apparently filling the role of benefactor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>the_duke</author><text>Actual title: Google and other tech giants are happy to have control over the Web&#x27;s metadata schemas, but they let its infrastructure languish<p>I know that hating on Google is fashionable, but that&#x27;s a bit too much editorializing. Especially considering the content of the post, and Google just being a small side note.<p>---<p>On-topic: I recently looked into using schema.org types as the basis for a information capturing system, but many of the types are somewhat outdated, of questionable quality or just missing. Development indeed seems slow, while changes that are needed by one of the larger involved companies get pushed through quickly.<p>I think a big part of that stagnation is a lack of interest though. The whole semantic web domain has been pretty much inactive.<p>It&#x27;s a real shame: having canonical types for most things in existence, and have those actually be supported as import&#x2F;export formats or for cross-app integrations, would be immensely valuable! But there is absolutely no business incentive there - rather the opposite. Easy portability of data is not something most companies would want.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech giants let the Web's metadata schemas and infrastructure languish</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1291509746000855040.html</url></story> |
17,240,486 | 17,240,272 | 1 | 2 | 17,239,128 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>henrypray</author><text>One thing that Adam Grant writes about in his book, &quot;Originals&quot;, is how it&#x27;s a bit of a fallacy that founders often dive head first and risk it all when starting their companies. Could be somewhat of a confirmation bias but he gives some great examples of how risk averse many founders actually are when starting their companies (Warby Parker was the main example if I remember correctly).<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adamgrant.net&#x2F;originals" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adamgrant.net&#x2F;originals</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>joncrane</author><text>Seems like this guy hedged his bets every step of the way:<p>- kept his day job while working on startup
- did fake campaign on FB to gauge demand
- got friends to try product
- croudfunded the first batch<p>This is a really risk averse guy who is making it big. Sort of the opposite of the bombastic risk-it-all founder we often see in SV hero stories.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Former Tesla Staffer Became an Internet Millionaire in His Spare Time</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-05/this-former-tesla-staffer-became-an-internet-millionaire-in-his-spare-time</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonny_eh</author><text>It&#x27;s rather inspiring. It shows you can swing for the fences without sacrificing much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joncrane</author><text>Seems like this guy hedged his bets every step of the way:<p>- kept his day job while working on startup
- did fake campaign on FB to gauge demand
- got friends to try product
- croudfunded the first batch<p>This is a really risk averse guy who is making it big. Sort of the opposite of the bombastic risk-it-all founder we often see in SV hero stories.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Former Tesla Staffer Became an Internet Millionaire in His Spare Time</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-05/this-former-tesla-staffer-became-an-internet-millionaire-in-his-spare-time</url></story> |
5,615,889 | 5,615,661 | 1 | 2 | 5,615,230 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mdasen</author><text>These things are really hard: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#SHA" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#SHA</a>. Here we see the NSA suggesting a modification to SHA-0 to make SHA-1. For years, incredibly smart mathematicians didn't see what the NSA saw. So, I'd say there's a decent enough chance that you'd weaken the security. I don't think many people on here would have the crypto chops to make their on security algorithms - people like cpervica are the exception and even they want to publish their algorithms.<p>I mean, there is a certain logic to what you're suggesting. Let's say you're cpervica and you know what you're doing. You make mistakes like any human being, but you know crypto. So, some cracker gets access to your database. OK, they're probably not smart enough to find a weakness in what you've done and might not even be able to figure it out. But there might be a weakness there.<p>Plus, you have to think: what if someone gets my code and my database? Then they have the modification you made. If the modification doesn't require more computation, then it's just unknown without the source code. So, with the source code, we're back to the trivial to cracking case.<p>The thing is: there are solutions out there to handle this by making the calculations take longer. PBKDF2, bcrypt, and scrypt all exist. They deal with this specific problem in a way that even if someone gets your hashes, salts, and code, you're less vulnerable.<p>tl;dr: with the obscure case, you're not gaining protection if they get your code along with your database.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gruseom</author><text>I have a dumb question about this. It was a smart question when someone asked me it the other day, but it's a dumb question now because I feel like I should know the answer and I don't. Why can't you get away with using some trivial but obscure modification of one of the standard fast hashing algorithms? It will be just as vulnerable as the standard algorithm, of course, once you know what it is. But now the attacker has to figure out which algorithm you modified and how you modified it. How do they do that?<p>I get that this is a bad idea that won't work, blah blah security by obscurity and so on. But when I was asked why it doesn't work, I was unable to give a very satisfying answer.</text></item><item><author>gdeglin</author><text>It's actually very possible for hackers to still decode many of the passwords.<p>An attacker could simply put together a dictionary of 10,000 common passwords then hash them against each user's salt value and see they they get a match for that user's password Hash. Assuming Hashes are stores as SHA-256, with a GPU hashing setup they'll be able to scan through 50 million users in very little time at all.</text></item><item><author>danielpal</author><text>They said they Hashed and Salted password so it's unlikely the hackers will get "actual" passwords by brute-force<p>However what I've seen happen after this attacks is usually they attacker use the e-mail addresses to do phishing attacks and just get passwords that way. They already know their e-mail and that they are living-social customers. Expect a phishing e-mail that looks like coming from living social.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LivingSocial Hacked – 50 Million Customers Affected</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20130426/livingsocial-hacked-more-than-50-million-customer-names-emails-birthdates-and-encrypted-passwords-accessed/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rajivm</author><text>Well if they don't have your source code, why modify the algorithm, you can just use sha1(password + user_salt + site_secret) -- that site_secret just made the sha1 unique to your site. Of course, if they have your source code, then it doesn't matter: they would have your 'site_secret' or your modified algorithm. Better would be not storing your site_secret in a accessible way (not on disk).<p>Edit: See udk1 below -- he's right, sha1 is an outdated algorithm for this purpose. Poor example choice on my part.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gruseom</author><text>I have a dumb question about this. It was a smart question when someone asked me it the other day, but it's a dumb question now because I feel like I should know the answer and I don't. Why can't you get away with using some trivial but obscure modification of one of the standard fast hashing algorithms? It will be just as vulnerable as the standard algorithm, of course, once you know what it is. But now the attacker has to figure out which algorithm you modified and how you modified it. How do they do that?<p>I get that this is a bad idea that won't work, blah blah security by obscurity and so on. But when I was asked why it doesn't work, I was unable to give a very satisfying answer.</text></item><item><author>gdeglin</author><text>It's actually very possible for hackers to still decode many of the passwords.<p>An attacker could simply put together a dictionary of 10,000 common passwords then hash them against each user's salt value and see they they get a match for that user's password Hash. Assuming Hashes are stores as SHA-256, with a GPU hashing setup they'll be able to scan through 50 million users in very little time at all.</text></item><item><author>danielpal</author><text>They said they Hashed and Salted password so it's unlikely the hackers will get "actual" passwords by brute-force<p>However what I've seen happen after this attacks is usually they attacker use the e-mail addresses to do phishing attacks and just get passwords that way. They already know their e-mail and that they are living-social customers. Expect a phishing e-mail that looks like coming from living social.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LivingSocial Hacked – 50 Million Customers Affected</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20130426/livingsocial-hacked-more-than-50-million-customer-names-emails-birthdates-and-encrypted-passwords-accessed/</url></story> |
20,482,903 | 20,482,666 | 1 | 2 | 20,481,225 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adrianmonk</author><text>Once upon a time, Netflix gave away $1 million to contest winners in an attempt to get the best recommendation algorithm they could ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Netflix_Prize" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Netflix_Prize</a> ).<p>Now the recommendations are just not that great. It&#x27;s like they&#x27;re not trying too hard because they are comfy in their market position.<p>I have never watched <i>any</i> anime at all (really not my thing), but Netflix keeps recommending it to me despite the fact that I haven&#x27;t taken the bait once.<p>Also it recommends shows to me that it should know through history I&#x27;ve already watched every episode of. Maybe that&#x27;s on purpose since people watch things again, but I still don&#x27;t find it useful.<p>Also it leaves stuff in &quot;Continue Watching&quot; for like a month after I give it a thumbs down rating and remove it from &quot;My List&quot;. That should be a strong enough signal to act on.<p>And it seems to recommend stuff based on stuff that I only &quot;watched&quot; because it auto-played. That should <i>not</i> be a strong enough signal to act on.<p>The overall point is they seem to have several obvious opportunities to be smarter with content discovery, but they&#x27;re not taking them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>isbjorn16</author><text>My problem with Netflix isn&#x27;t the slate of shows and movies it has in its catalog. It&#x27;s definitely not as nice as it used to be, but there are a jillion and a half shows and movies out there.<p>My problem is that Netflix has taken note that we watch anime a few times a week, which doubtless means we want every single band&#x2F;carousel&#x2F;whatever to be about anime. New Anime, Critically Acclaimed Anime, Popular Anime, Watch it Again Anime, Anime Where Characters Wear Hats, Anime Where Characters Float in Hats, and Anime About Hat Making.<p>For the love of all let me get some other options in the fucking list before I lose my mind. I like comedies, action movies, sci-fi, documentaries, and historical dramatizations or historical fictions too, you know. Not everything has to have a talking cat in it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix CEO may have missed the real reason why US subscriber numbers plunged</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-too-much-content-could-be-hurting-netflixs-subscriber-numbers-2019-07-19</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>randrews</author><text>I have this problem with ML and recommendation systems in general. I hope this fad goes away soon and people go back to making simple, understandable, show-me-the-newest-stuff feeds.</text><parent_chain><item><author>isbjorn16</author><text>My problem with Netflix isn&#x27;t the slate of shows and movies it has in its catalog. It&#x27;s definitely not as nice as it used to be, but there are a jillion and a half shows and movies out there.<p>My problem is that Netflix has taken note that we watch anime a few times a week, which doubtless means we want every single band&#x2F;carousel&#x2F;whatever to be about anime. New Anime, Critically Acclaimed Anime, Popular Anime, Watch it Again Anime, Anime Where Characters Wear Hats, Anime Where Characters Float in Hats, and Anime About Hat Making.<p>For the love of all let me get some other options in the fucking list before I lose my mind. I like comedies, action movies, sci-fi, documentaries, and historical dramatizations or historical fictions too, you know. Not everything has to have a talking cat in it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix CEO may have missed the real reason why US subscriber numbers plunged</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-too-much-content-could-be-hurting-netflixs-subscriber-numbers-2019-07-19</url></story> |
23,010,008 | 23,010,293 | 1 | 2 | 23,008,601 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bargl</author><text>I get really frustrated when people only mention Fox News and not CNN&#x2F;MSNBC in the same sentence. There are people on Fox who are good, I.E. Chris Wallace. I mean he&#x27;s my only example, but Jon Stewart did a skit with him and the quote that got me was, &quot;how many times have you seen your show on my show?&quot; It was a nod to the fact that Chris Wallace does actual news not opinion pieces. I&#x27;d actually say he&#x27;s better and less opinionated than Don Lemon (CNN).<p>This is not me defending FOX. It&#x27;s more of me railing against other forms of news that I also don&#x27;t like but sometimes get a presumed pass. I see them as the opposite side of the coin.<p>EDIT: I know this is going to get down-voted. But if you disagree I&#x27;d really like to know why. I am someone who listens to others, and am curious why you disagree with this sentiment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alasdair_</author><text>&gt;Everything on the news looks ironic<p>I was born and grew up in Scotland. I remember the first time I watched Fox News after moving to the states - for almost fifteen minutes I <i>genuinely</i> thought I was watching some (honestly pretty funny) satire.</text></item><item><author>ordinaryradical</author><text>I used to be wowed by this kind of hypocrisy, but lately I&#x27;ve concluded that these things are happening so frequently because the voters have proved to them sufficiently that they will take no heed provided it &quot;hurts the other team.&quot;<p>Everything on the news looks ironic now because the political class has realized there&#x27;s almost no limit to what they can get away with.</text></item><item><author>karatestomp</author><text>Oh, I thought the headline meant remote voting for, you know, voters, not Senators, and was very surprised to see an R next to one of the sponsor&#x27;s names. The bill&#x27;s just to let the Senate vote remotely. I&#x27;d imagine most of the interesting nuance is about &quot;presence&quot; and quorum-making. This is not about expanding remote&#x2F;by-mail voting in elections, which Republicans have generally been strongly against, including and especially since the Covid-19 crisis started.<p>[EDIT] correction: it&#x27;s not a bill, either, it&#x27;s (as the headline correctly notes) a resolution to change Senate rules.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies</title><url>https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-portman-introduce-resolution-to-maintain-senates-constitutional-responsibilities-and-allow-remote-voting-during-national-emergencies</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>Ah there&#x27;s nothing better than waking up early in some US hotel and watching stupid tv shows at stupid o&#x27;clock. I distinctly recall realizing that I had been watching some insanely offensively stupid advertorial for hunting rifles interrupted by advertisements for erectile dysfunction pills every few minutes for the last 20 minutes or so at some point and reflecting on why the hell I was actually watching that. In my defense, I was pretty jet lagged. Later landed in some morning TV show that was clearly targeting early risers even more tired than me looking to get a head start on rush hour.<p>In any case, I stopped watching broadcast TV a decade ago; especially news shows. The signal to noise ratio is just unacceptable to my brain these days. I get more information out of a 5 second glance at my news feed in the morning and magnitudes more information by doing that for a bit longer. They really dumb down everything on tv until even the most retarded vegetable still watching can grasp the basics and that apparently takes ages and endless repeating of things in 3 word sentences. People with a functioning brain stopped being part of the target audience ages ago.<p>In all fairness, people complaining about how retarded the news is is nothing new and was a popular pass time in 16th &amp; 17th century British press as well as in Roman times even. People, like me, complaining about the quality of reporting is as old as the concept of publishing information in pretty much any form. Information is power and manipulating the masses through any of the channels information spreads is part of the game. And knowing that is the game has been the way to move up in society for just as long.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alasdair_</author><text>&gt;Everything on the news looks ironic<p>I was born and grew up in Scotland. I remember the first time I watched Fox News after moving to the states - for almost fifteen minutes I <i>genuinely</i> thought I was watching some (honestly pretty funny) satire.</text></item><item><author>ordinaryradical</author><text>I used to be wowed by this kind of hypocrisy, but lately I&#x27;ve concluded that these things are happening so frequently because the voters have proved to them sufficiently that they will take no heed provided it &quot;hurts the other team.&quot;<p>Everything on the news looks ironic now because the political class has realized there&#x27;s almost no limit to what they can get away with.</text></item><item><author>karatestomp</author><text>Oh, I thought the headline meant remote voting for, you know, voters, not Senators, and was very surprised to see an R next to one of the sponsor&#x27;s names. The bill&#x27;s just to let the Senate vote remotely. I&#x27;d imagine most of the interesting nuance is about &quot;presence&quot; and quorum-making. This is not about expanding remote&#x2F;by-mail voting in elections, which Republicans have generally been strongly against, including and especially since the Covid-19 crisis started.<p>[EDIT] correction: it&#x27;s not a bill, either, it&#x27;s (as the headline correctly notes) a resolution to change Senate rules.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies</title><url>https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-portman-introduce-resolution-to-maintain-senates-constitutional-responsibilities-and-allow-remote-voting-during-national-emergencies</url></story> |
7,604,354 | 7,603,645 | 1 | 3 | 7,602,876 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Let me play devil&#x27;s advocate for a minute.<p>The guy&#x27;s <i>cash</i> compensation, $500k. That is a about 2x what Google pays their top engineers (about $250k) The rest of his package was stock. [1]<p>The compensation theory goes that if you do well the stock will do well, if you do poorly the stock will do poorly. So most of your compensation is a chunk of stock, in this case about 2.5M shares as &quot;RSUs&quot; (a restricted stock grant with performance tuners tweaked to company performance)<p>de Castro&#x27;s stock did well because of the Alibaba thing <i>not</i> because of what he did. So that left him with a chunk of stock. Had the company done poorly that would have been worthless. It could still become worthless. The filing indicates he got 1.5M shares in restricted stock, he no doubt will have to sell a chunk of that to pay the taxes on those shares (it will be treated as ordinary income by the IRS) and California.<p>When these stories are reported they pick the biggest cash number they can, but the actual value may be significantly less. Large stock grants are a tool to keep executives interests aligned with the company interests, they are given a lot of stock and huge restrictions are placed on their ability to sell that stock.<p>Had he stayed at the company, the restrictions on selling would have prevented him from realizing that stock value immediately.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1011006/000119312514146035/d710905dpre14a.htm#toc710905_32" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;1011006&#x2F;0001193125141...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bedhead</author><text>It&#x27;s really sad how wildly distorted executive compensation has gotten. The best phrase I heard was &quot;entrepreneurial reward for managerial duty&quot;, and I fear it&#x27;s become all-too-common. My eyes popped out of my head recently when I saw that Coca-Cola (yes, that same drink company that&#x27;s done just fine for over a hundred years and whose organic growth rate <i>might</i> be 1% if they&#x27;re lucky) was trying to give management $13 BILLION over the next four years. It&#x27;s insanity. And when it&#x27;s not simple pay, it&#x27;s severance packages that give Fuck-You money to people whose performance provably dreadful. Leo Apotheker made $25 million on his way out the door from HP, after vaporizing over $6 billion in buying a fraudulent company and doing virtually no due diligence. It&#x27;s madness, pure madness. Executive comp is a bubble, these people aren&#x27;t worth anything near this much, but I have no idea when it will pop.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yahoo spends $58 million to fire its chief operating officer</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/17/yahoo-spends-58-million-to-fire-its-chief-operating-officer/?tid=hp_mm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisgd</author><text>God that is the truth. And the push for stock buybacks just continues to gloss over the issue. Stock outstanding continues to decline, but the amount of money spent on buybacks should be pushing shares out down twice as fast. Instead ridiculous stock options (executives need to be invested in the Company!) continue to dilute the impact of buybacks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bedhead</author><text>It&#x27;s really sad how wildly distorted executive compensation has gotten. The best phrase I heard was &quot;entrepreneurial reward for managerial duty&quot;, and I fear it&#x27;s become all-too-common. My eyes popped out of my head recently when I saw that Coca-Cola (yes, that same drink company that&#x27;s done just fine for over a hundred years and whose organic growth rate <i>might</i> be 1% if they&#x27;re lucky) was trying to give management $13 BILLION over the next four years. It&#x27;s insanity. And when it&#x27;s not simple pay, it&#x27;s severance packages that give Fuck-You money to people whose performance provably dreadful. Leo Apotheker made $25 million on his way out the door from HP, after vaporizing over $6 billion in buying a fraudulent company and doing virtually no due diligence. It&#x27;s madness, pure madness. Executive comp is a bubble, these people aren&#x27;t worth anything near this much, but I have no idea when it will pop.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yahoo spends $58 million to fire its chief operating officer</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/17/yahoo-spends-58-million-to-fire-its-chief-operating-officer/?tid=hp_mm</url></story> |
16,138,977 | 16,137,364 | 1 | 3 | 16,129,786 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sundarurfriend</author><text>I like that the article begins with a tl;dr summary of<p>&gt; Ocean salt primarily comes from rocks on land<p>Not many articles do that, but it only made reading the rest of the article more appealing to me, not less.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is the ocean salty?</title><url>https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/whysalty.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>bcaulfield</author><text>Love any science article that provides a clear, scientifically accurate answer to any question my 6 year old asks me.<p>That&#x27;s a lot of salt, though: &quot;if the salt in the ocean could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth’s land surface it would form a layer more than 500 feet thick.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is the ocean salty?</title><url>https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/whysalty.html</url></story> |
3,361,607 | 3,361,269 | 1 | 3 | 3,361,158 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jen_h</author><text>If you aren't already depressed enough following these SOPA hearings, check out this interview with Mr. King:<p><a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010120612252/us/politics-and-economics/rsn-exclusive-a-conversation-with-congressman-steve-king-taking-back-congress.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010120612252/us/politics-and-e...</a><p>Choice bit:<p><i>RSN: Cliff Kincaid recently had a National Press Club conference where he called for resurrection of the Congressional internal security committees along the lines of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Would you support recreation of such committees?<p>King: I would. Something similar. If we called it the House Un-American Activities Committee, that would be lighting up the history of McCarthy in a way that wouldn't be necessary, although I am often quoted as saying "McCarthy was a hero for America." He was. He was right far more times than he was wrong. It is a historical fact. But I would submit a different committee name so that we don't have to deal with the history, and move forward. I think that is a good process and I would support it.</i><p>My inner cynic isn't surprised by this, but that little hopeful light that typically keeps the cynic in check is flickering out.<p>(Nota bene: Under SOPA, RSN could take down Hacker News for this comment, no?)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tweet temporarily derails SOPA debate</title><url>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57343951/sopa-tweet-triggers-political-explosion-delays-vote/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>angersock</author><text>So, does anyone here honestly believe we owe these clowns anything?<p>How many of you in meetings with a VC tweet about being bored and surfing for cats with cheeseburgers?<p>How many of you would keep an employee who did this during an engineering meeting?<p>How many of you would keep working at a job when your boss ignores you so they can check their fantasy football teams?<p>The only funny (morbidly, blackly funny) part of this is that that wasn't what stopped the debate--it was a finicky rule about choice of language, some pieces of which date back over a century and a half.<p>Folks, these are the people running the US. These are the people who have a monopoly on force, and who claim the moral highground to do with you what they will for the nation.<p>Why the fuck aren't you doing something?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tweet temporarily derails SOPA debate</title><url>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57343951/sopa-tweet-triggers-political-explosion-delays-vote/</url></story> |
27,272,913 | 27,272,920 | 1 | 2 | 27,272,589 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cookingboy</author><text>&gt;What makes you think you have any say in the situation?<p>He doesn&#x27;t have a say, but that doesn&#x27;t mean he can&#x27;t have valid opinions as an outsider with a more unbiased perspective.<p>To be clear I&#x27;ve lived in SF Bay Area for 10+ years and I&#x27;ve also traveled extensively&#x2F;lived in other world class cities.<p>SF <i>really</i> is a more expensive shithole. It doesn&#x27;t mean there aren&#x27;t any charms but anyone who doesn&#x27;t acknowledge SF&#x27;s shortfalls vs. other top cities is in complete denial.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yupper32</author><text>&gt; This was my third time in SF.<p>&gt; Also, I&#x27;ve always refused to move to Silicon Valley<p>&gt; The author is in denial.<p>&gt; it is a really expensive shithole<p>I&#x27;m always amazed by people who have visited a place a few times as a tourist and think &quot;I&#x27;m qualified to shit on people who choose to live here&quot;. What makes you think you have any say in the situation?<p>SF has <i>massive</i> neighborhood diversity as far as living situations go. Yeah, the downtown and tourist areas suck. So what? That&#x27;s the case in a ton of cities. I&#x27;ve lived in a neighborhood here for 7 years that has low crime, no shit on the streets, and is generally a great place to live.<p>Yeah, we&#x27;ve got a shit DA right now which hurts the city with increased petty crimes. We&#x27;ll turn it around eventually.</text></item><item><author>84fryb75</author><text>In early 2020, before lockdown, I visited San Francisco as a tourist with my wife. We took a wrong turn at a book store and wound up on a street covered in feces. The next street was fine. Then on the next, we watched a homeless woman shoot up on the street. Then a supercar pulled into a garage.<p>I&#x27;m not the best traveled, I&#x27;ll admit, so I can&#x27;t compare SF to foreign cities. I&#x27;m a simple hillbilly from the Southeast, but I lived in NY for a time and I&#x27;ve visited most of the big cities in the US.<p>This was my third time in SF. Every time I&#x27;ve visited, since 2016 or so, I&#x27;ve collected another story like this.<p>The homeless are way more aggressive than they are in Chicago or Texan cities. The feces. The crime.<p>Now people are moving away. The author is in denial. San Francisco has nice weather and beautiful hills, but it is a really expensive shithole. A really, really expensive shithole.<p>Now look at the leadership in the city, and ask yourself, who is responsible for this?<p>I&#x27;m so glad I chose to live in Texas, but at this point I&#x27;d move to the Detroit area before San Francisco. At least the rent is good there.<p>In any case, the census data shows I&#x27;m not alone. I just hope the Californians moving to Texas don&#x27;t vote for the same laws that made San Francisco such a hole.<p>Also, I&#x27;ve always refused to move to Silicon Valley, despite working in tech. I don&#x27;t regret it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2021/05/24/i-was-robbed-in-san-francisco-while-the-cameras-rolled/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kardianos</author><text>Because we walk around our own cities for YEARS and see less of this then we do on a random walk on a single day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yupper32</author><text>&gt; This was my third time in SF.<p>&gt; Also, I&#x27;ve always refused to move to Silicon Valley<p>&gt; The author is in denial.<p>&gt; it is a really expensive shithole<p>I&#x27;m always amazed by people who have visited a place a few times as a tourist and think &quot;I&#x27;m qualified to shit on people who choose to live here&quot;. What makes you think you have any say in the situation?<p>SF has <i>massive</i> neighborhood diversity as far as living situations go. Yeah, the downtown and tourist areas suck. So what? That&#x27;s the case in a ton of cities. I&#x27;ve lived in a neighborhood here for 7 years that has low crime, no shit on the streets, and is generally a great place to live.<p>Yeah, we&#x27;ve got a shit DA right now which hurts the city with increased petty crimes. We&#x27;ll turn it around eventually.</text></item><item><author>84fryb75</author><text>In early 2020, before lockdown, I visited San Francisco as a tourist with my wife. We took a wrong turn at a book store and wound up on a street covered in feces. The next street was fine. Then on the next, we watched a homeless woman shoot up on the street. Then a supercar pulled into a garage.<p>I&#x27;m not the best traveled, I&#x27;ll admit, so I can&#x27;t compare SF to foreign cities. I&#x27;m a simple hillbilly from the Southeast, but I lived in NY for a time and I&#x27;ve visited most of the big cities in the US.<p>This was my third time in SF. Every time I&#x27;ve visited, since 2016 or so, I&#x27;ve collected another story like this.<p>The homeless are way more aggressive than they are in Chicago or Texan cities. The feces. The crime.<p>Now people are moving away. The author is in denial. San Francisco has nice weather and beautiful hills, but it is a really expensive shithole. A really, really expensive shithole.<p>Now look at the leadership in the city, and ask yourself, who is responsible for this?<p>I&#x27;m so glad I chose to live in Texas, but at this point I&#x27;d move to the Detroit area before San Francisco. At least the rent is good there.<p>In any case, the census data shows I&#x27;m not alone. I just hope the Californians moving to Texas don&#x27;t vote for the same laws that made San Francisco such a hole.<p>Also, I&#x27;ve always refused to move to Silicon Valley, despite working in tech. I don&#x27;t regret it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2021/05/24/i-was-robbed-in-san-francisco-while-the-cameras-rolled/</url></story> |
33,476,740 | 33,476,926 | 1 | 2 | 33,475,530 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cassonmars</author><text>It’s not even clear yet whether this has been a bad investment decision. Zuckerberg is playing a long game here, and the market is notoriously short-term, immediate-profits-driven. Long term investors may actually be quite pleased if this strategy turns out to be generation-defining. Obviously no person can say this with certainty, but they can see his track record — he’s gone against the grain on many occasions, at the peril of short term holders, only to dramatically increase the overall profits of the company exponentially.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Anyone who invested in Facebook directly (rather than via a managed or exchange-traded fund of some sort) did so with the expected awareness that all the voting stock was controlled by Zuckerberg personally. Effectively, FB is a corporate dictatorship and it&#x27;s hard to have sympathy for people who put money into it during the good times and are now surprised to discover that they made a bad investment decision.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.morningstar.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;1061237&#x2F;how-facebook-silences-its-investors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.morningstar.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;1061237&#x2F;how-facebook-si...</a><p>Suing Zuckerberg on the basis that FB has made the world a worse place is one thing, suing him on the basis that a corporate dictatorship has disrupted their portfolio is a joke. They&#x27;d be better off suing the SEC or FTC for failure to regulate effectively.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lawsuit against Meta invokes modern portfolio theory to protect shareholders</title><url>https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/11/04/lawsuit-against-meta-invokes-modern-portfolio-theory-to-protect-diversified-shareholders/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jameshart</author><text>“We never expected the leopards to eat our faces!” say investors in Face-Eating-Leopards inc.<p>Basically this is investors saying they are concerned that they are having to bear some of the externalized costs of Facebook’s business.<p>Traditionally, businesses have been more careful to target those externalities at folks in the third world, or at the very least in poor parts of the state, and avoided impacting the investing classes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Anyone who invested in Facebook directly (rather than via a managed or exchange-traded fund of some sort) did so with the expected awareness that all the voting stock was controlled by Zuckerberg personally. Effectively, FB is a corporate dictatorship and it&#x27;s hard to have sympathy for people who put money into it during the good times and are now surprised to discover that they made a bad investment decision.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.morningstar.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;1061237&#x2F;how-facebook-silences-its-investors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.morningstar.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;1061237&#x2F;how-facebook-si...</a><p>Suing Zuckerberg on the basis that FB has made the world a worse place is one thing, suing him on the basis that a corporate dictatorship has disrupted their portfolio is a joke. They&#x27;d be better off suing the SEC or FTC for failure to regulate effectively.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lawsuit against Meta invokes modern portfolio theory to protect shareholders</title><url>https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/11/04/lawsuit-against-meta-invokes-modern-portfolio-theory-to-protect-diversified-shareholders/</url></story> |
14,869,900 | 14,869,595 | 1 | 2 | 14,868,390 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>root_axis</author><text>Nah man, we don&#x27;t talk about our genitals at work, that&#x27;s just basic level professionalism.<p>Also, do you really think that&#x27;s a funny line? To me, it sounds like the type of joke where the room rolls their eyes and cringes. It&#x27;s not at all clever or original, it&#x27;s the type of joke made by people who think they&#x27;re funny but everyone actually thinks they&#x27;re annoying. I mean shit, at least make some kind of allusion to your genital size through inference, just coming out and saying &quot;LOOK AT THIS BIG THING, MY DICK IS THE SAME SIZE AS THE BIG THING LOL&quot; is about is unfunny as it gets.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tickthokk</author><text>I think a good example is the &quot;Our app is huge, like my dick.&quot; line.<p>As a guy, this line was pretty funny, and I could see myself saying it (on an all male team). I might not say it in front of female coworkers though, but if I worked closely with one I may say it within earshot without thinking about it. It certainly wasn&#x27;t an attack on the poster.<p>Are we just not allowed to talk about genitalia? I guess as a baseline rule it&#x27;s inappropriate, sure, but he&#x27;s not being suggestive or soliciting. As described, it&#x27;s obviously a joke. Not sure where the offense is here other than he said &quot;dick&quot; in the workplace within earshot of someone who doesn&#x27;t want to hear that.<p>I&#x27;ll finish by saying that the rest of it was certainly uncalled for, but this one instance doesn&#x27;t really stand on it&#x27;s own as offensive.</text></item><item><author>spyhi</author><text>This reminds me of an extremely eloquent comment I saw over on Reddit a while ago about how men being assholes to each other is actually a form of male bonding, and there is a delicate nuance to our rough-edged camaraderie. [1] I was raised in a gentle household by a nerd and a feminist, so when I joined the Army as an infantryman, I absolutely had to learn how this worked and can absolutely attest that it&#x27;s a real thing. Given the later apologies, it sounds like it&#x27;s possible the office was bro-ing it up with her and may have even thought they were welcoming her into the tribe, so to speak. (Of course, they could have all just been misogynist assholes, too...sad how there can be little difference)<p>Thing is, most women absolutely DO NOT respond well to that kind of male bonding. And, honestly, they probably shouldn&#x27;t--I think this &quot;emotional sonar&quot; is a maladjusted response to men being told they can&#x27;t express their feelings. Given this, we probably shouldn&#x27;t be exposing women to that kind of environment either.<p>I guess this kind of underscores why you need women in the workplace. It&#x27;s too easy for an all-male space to fall into this kind of emotional language and interaction framework, which is &quot;hostile but comprehensible&quot; to those in the culture, but completely alien to those who aren&#x27;t--women and foreigners alike. At the very least, we (meaning everyone, not just men) should try to be aware that not everyone bonds the same, and bonding activities for some people and genders may be anti-bonding and hostile to others.<p>I want to make clear, I&#x27;m not trying to justify what happened, but I feel like often these articles are kind of one-sided, which can make it difficult to diagnose what&#x27;s going on. The problem with saying &quot;don&#x27;t be misogynist&quot; is I suspect few people identify as one but, on the other hand, we can identify our baggage and try to examine critically how it affects others.<p>Either way, sorry OP had to experience that, whether mismatched bonding attempts or actual hostility and misogyny.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskWomen&#x2F;comments&#x2F;5dpezd&#x2F;girls_what_things_guys_like_to_do_to_each_other&#x2F;da6fi9l&#x2F;?context=3&amp;st=ivp2r7tf&amp;sh=16e79aa2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskWomen&#x2F;comments&#x2F;5dpezd&#x2F;girls_what...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Almost Left Tech Today</title><url>https://code.likeagirl.io/i-almost-left-tech-today-heres-why-6d146a2f7cf2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Are we just not allowed to talk about genitalia?<p>In a work environment, if there isn&#x27;t a solid work-related need to make a literal (not metaphorical) reference to genitalia, it&#x27;s a good idea not to refer to genitalia. I wouldn&#x27;t say “not allowed”, but it wouldn&#x27;t be the worst idea to treat it that way.<p>&gt; As a guy, this line was pretty funny, and I could see myself saying it (on an all male team). I<p>As a guy, this line is the kind of thing I would have found funny the year I started high school, but found obnoxious by the time I finished.<p>&gt; I guess as a baseline rule it&#x27;s inappropriate, sure, but he&#x27;s not being suggestive or soliciting.<p>Perhaps, but while those things would make it <i>more</i> inappropriate, there absence doesn&#x27;t make it appropriate.<p>&gt; As described, it&#x27;s obviously a joke.<p>Sure, but being intended as a joke doesn&#x27;t make it appropriate either. Particular jokes, despite being jokes, can be inappropriate for work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tickthokk</author><text>I think a good example is the &quot;Our app is huge, like my dick.&quot; line.<p>As a guy, this line was pretty funny, and I could see myself saying it (on an all male team). I might not say it in front of female coworkers though, but if I worked closely with one I may say it within earshot without thinking about it. It certainly wasn&#x27;t an attack on the poster.<p>Are we just not allowed to talk about genitalia? I guess as a baseline rule it&#x27;s inappropriate, sure, but he&#x27;s not being suggestive or soliciting. As described, it&#x27;s obviously a joke. Not sure where the offense is here other than he said &quot;dick&quot; in the workplace within earshot of someone who doesn&#x27;t want to hear that.<p>I&#x27;ll finish by saying that the rest of it was certainly uncalled for, but this one instance doesn&#x27;t really stand on it&#x27;s own as offensive.</text></item><item><author>spyhi</author><text>This reminds me of an extremely eloquent comment I saw over on Reddit a while ago about how men being assholes to each other is actually a form of male bonding, and there is a delicate nuance to our rough-edged camaraderie. [1] I was raised in a gentle household by a nerd and a feminist, so when I joined the Army as an infantryman, I absolutely had to learn how this worked and can absolutely attest that it&#x27;s a real thing. Given the later apologies, it sounds like it&#x27;s possible the office was bro-ing it up with her and may have even thought they were welcoming her into the tribe, so to speak. (Of course, they could have all just been misogynist assholes, too...sad how there can be little difference)<p>Thing is, most women absolutely DO NOT respond well to that kind of male bonding. And, honestly, they probably shouldn&#x27;t--I think this &quot;emotional sonar&quot; is a maladjusted response to men being told they can&#x27;t express their feelings. Given this, we probably shouldn&#x27;t be exposing women to that kind of environment either.<p>I guess this kind of underscores why you need women in the workplace. It&#x27;s too easy for an all-male space to fall into this kind of emotional language and interaction framework, which is &quot;hostile but comprehensible&quot; to those in the culture, but completely alien to those who aren&#x27;t--women and foreigners alike. At the very least, we (meaning everyone, not just men) should try to be aware that not everyone bonds the same, and bonding activities for some people and genders may be anti-bonding and hostile to others.<p>I want to make clear, I&#x27;m not trying to justify what happened, but I feel like often these articles are kind of one-sided, which can make it difficult to diagnose what&#x27;s going on. The problem with saying &quot;don&#x27;t be misogynist&quot; is I suspect few people identify as one but, on the other hand, we can identify our baggage and try to examine critically how it affects others.<p>Either way, sorry OP had to experience that, whether mismatched bonding attempts or actual hostility and misogyny.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskWomen&#x2F;comments&#x2F;5dpezd&#x2F;girls_what_things_guys_like_to_do_to_each_other&#x2F;da6fi9l&#x2F;?context=3&amp;st=ivp2r7tf&amp;sh=16e79aa2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskWomen&#x2F;comments&#x2F;5dpezd&#x2F;girls_what...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Almost Left Tech Today</title><url>https://code.likeagirl.io/i-almost-left-tech-today-heres-why-6d146a2f7cf2</url></story> |
36,203,584 | 36,203,128 | 1 | 2 | 36,198,566 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>feoren</author><text>I came here to say &quot;can we worry about building programming languages in twenty-four years instead, please?&quot;. Someone who has gone through your list is <i>exactly</i> who I want actually building the next generation programming languages. Of course your last question is the best one:<p>&gt; eh, why bother<p>This is absolutely the question you need a deep answer for. You need a problem that is burning you up and whose <i>only</i> solution is a new programming language. This might never happen. If it ever does, you&#x27;re the person to do it, exactly because of all the ups and downs and half-started ideas you&#x27;ve thrown away. But you&#x27;re right: the &quot;why bother&quot; stage is not to be ignored. It&#x27;s the most important one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>avgcorrection</author><text>Hmmph. Try my build-no-programming language in 20 years instead:<p>- Be armchair-interested in programming languages<p>- Take some PL-whatever courses in college<p>- Read about PLs<p>- Read about progressively niche PL stuff…<p>- Get idealistic (get ideas)<p>- Read about the grueling design process of useful-in-the-real-world languages<p>- Eventually realize that There Are Always Tradeoffs<p>- Realize that the Tradeoffs are like two thousand parameters that might interact in super-weird and non-obvious ways<p>- Realize that a dozen super-competent PhD-wielders and multi-decade practitioners can easily spend a decade on developing the core of a language<p>- eh, why bother</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building a programming language in twenty-four hours</title><url>https://ersei.net/en/blog/diy-programming-language</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>all2</author><text>I had to change the scope of my desires. I don&#x27;t want to make the next Python. Not even the next Zig or Nim. I just like fiddling with compilers and interpreters. Someone else mentioned <i>Crafting Interpreters</i> and I&#x27;ll bring it up, too. I&#x27;ve been following along in C# and occasionally come back to my C#Lox implementation and work through another chapter. It is quite a lot of fun.</text><parent_chain><item><author>avgcorrection</author><text>Hmmph. Try my build-no-programming language in 20 years instead:<p>- Be armchair-interested in programming languages<p>- Take some PL-whatever courses in college<p>- Read about PLs<p>- Read about progressively niche PL stuff…<p>- Get idealistic (get ideas)<p>- Read about the grueling design process of useful-in-the-real-world languages<p>- Eventually realize that There Are Always Tradeoffs<p>- Realize that the Tradeoffs are like two thousand parameters that might interact in super-weird and non-obvious ways<p>- Realize that a dozen super-competent PhD-wielders and multi-decade practitioners can easily spend a decade on developing the core of a language<p>- eh, why bother</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building a programming language in twenty-four hours</title><url>https://ersei.net/en/blog/diy-programming-language</url></story> |
39,655,870 | 39,655,126 | 1 | 3 | 39,653,895 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Mathnerd314</author><text>I got really excited about call-by-push-value about 15 years ago, when I first encountered it, but at this point I think it is overhyped, particularly the presentation of &quot;values&quot; and &quot;computations&quot; as duals. For example see <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.itu.dk&#x2F;people&#x2F;mogel&#x2F;papers&#x2F;eec.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.itu.dk&#x2F;people&#x2F;mogel&#x2F;papers&#x2F;eec.pdf</a>, it is a CBPV-style lambda calculus except computations are a subset of values and there is no duality. Similarly in Levy&#x27;s book, he discusses &quot;complex values&quot; like 1+2 which allow pure computations to happen inside the &quot;value&quot; type, more evidence that they are not duals at all.<p>If you squint at CBPV, there is exactly one primitive that sequences computation, `M to x. N`. In Haskell this is just the monadic bind `M &gt;&gt;= \x -&gt; N` or `do { x &lt;- M; N}`. If I had to bet, I would place my bet on monads, not CBPV.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I'm Betting on Call-by-Push-Value</title><url>https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/bet-on-cbpv/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>burakemir</author><text>It is nice to see CBPV on HN. It is a calculus that deal with a fundamental choice in PL of how to approach evaluation. For a different take, here is the first part of a mini series of posts on CBPV that aims at working out the connection to logic (&quot;polarised natural deduction&quot;): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;burakemir.ch&#x2F;post&#x2F;cbpv-pt1-small-steps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;burakemir.ch&#x2F;post&#x2F;cbpv-pt1-small-steps&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I'm Betting on Call-by-Push-Value</title><url>https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/bet-on-cbpv/</url></story> |
39,019,627 | 39,019,383 | 1 | 2 | 38,995,035 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>Seems to gloss over the physical space required to have a model train. A video game can come in many sizes from phones to consoles and is much more accessible and even portable.<p>Growing up, we had a 4&#x27;x8&#x27; sheet of plywood covered in the fake grass and then decked out with structures, trees, people, cars, and all sorts of stuff. It was a lot of fun setting it up, building the models, and deciding on a track layout. Took weeks building it. It took days to get bored with it. For some reason, we thought it a good idea to tack down the tracks for better stability, but it made it a nightmare to rearrange the tracks. However, it stayed like that for <i>years</i> and from time to time as I got older would fire it up and quickly bore of it again.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lnrd</author><text>I think what drew people to model trains was the ability to create and automate your tracks. It&#x27;s an interesting and fun thing to do, basically designing a system and going trough all the small things needed to make it work. I can see how today this itch can be scratched by many different videogames (Factorio, just to give one example), while decades ago it was either model train or nothing much else.<p>I think younger generations are drawn to cheaper and easier to access forms of entertainment that provide similar intellectual experience. It&#x27;s a shame for the hobby, but I find it a very reasonable thing to happen.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Enthusiasts struggle to keep model railway industry on track</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/14/an-aged-hobby-enthusiasts-struggle-to-keep-model-railway-industry-on-track</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shagie</author><text>&gt; I think what drew people to model trains was the ability to create and automate your tracks.<p>The original home of many people who became hackers (old use of the word) was the TMRC at MIT. Tech Model Railroad Club - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tech_Model_Railroad_Club" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tech_Model_Railroad_Club</a><p>As told in Steven Levy&#x27;s Hackers book, there were two groups in the TMRC. There was the group that went on train rides and did meticulous models on top of the track... and there was the systems and powers group that worked with wires and automation (from the telephone company) under the track.<p>From the Wikipedia article...<p>&gt; The club was composed of several groups, including those who were interested in building and painting replicas of certain trains with historical and emotional values, those that wanted to do scenery and buildings, those that wanted to run trains on schedules, and those composing the &quot;Signals and Power Subcommittee&quot; who created the circuits that made the trains run. This last group would be among the ones who popularized the term &quot;hacker&quot; among many other slang terms, and who eventually moved on to computers and programming.<p>&gt; ...<p>&gt; At the club itself, a semi-automatic control system based on telephone relays was installed by the mid-1950s. It was called the ARRC (Automatic Railroad Running Computer). It could run a train over the entire set of track, in both directions, without manual intervention, throwing switches and powering tracks ahead of the train. A mainframe program was used to compute the path, and all modifications to the layout had to be compatible with this ability.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lnrd</author><text>I think what drew people to model trains was the ability to create and automate your tracks. It&#x27;s an interesting and fun thing to do, basically designing a system and going trough all the small things needed to make it work. I can see how today this itch can be scratched by many different videogames (Factorio, just to give one example), while decades ago it was either model train or nothing much else.<p>I think younger generations are drawn to cheaper and easier to access forms of entertainment that provide similar intellectual experience. It&#x27;s a shame for the hobby, but I find it a very reasonable thing to happen.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Enthusiasts struggle to keep model railway industry on track</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/14/an-aged-hobby-enthusiasts-struggle-to-keep-model-railway-industry-on-track</url></story> |
9,998,854 | 9,998,292 | 1 | 2 | 9,997,533 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>makecheck</author><text>Maybe there should be a standard to go the other way: a scheme to let web sites communicate monetary requests to browsers in an &quot;official&quot; protocol.<p>A lot of this tracking only seems to exist for advertising schemes, which only exist to monetize the page. We are years past the point where we should have figured out how to make it easy to pay who you&#x27;re looking at.<p>For instance, when you visit the page for Article X on news site Y, maybe Y&#x27;s response includes a header that says it requests a donation, with some suggested value like &quot;10 cents&quot;. And then, in some standard interface, the browser would show this request (e.g. a small icon in the corner with a price, including some given link on how to pay it). The request would require certain things for security; e.g. use of HTTPS and being on the same domain as the majority of the content.<p>And since blatant copy&#x2F;paste stealing and re-posting to blogs, etc. is a money-making scheme in itself, the browser might &quot;protect&quot; monetized pages in some way; e.g. disable the copy&#x2F;paste and printing functions unless the donation interface is used to pay, to at least make it more difficult to outright rip off web sites.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EFF, AdBlock and Others Launch New “Do Not Track” Standard</title><url>https://threatpost.com/eff-adblock-and-others-launch-new-do-not-track-standard/114121</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>As someone who used to run a site that made money from tracking people by showing them ads (and we tried really hard to make those ads unintrusive and relevant), I have mixed feelings on this.<p>On one hand I totally get why people don&#x27;t want to be tracked (I don&#x27;t). On the other hand, for many of these sites, this is their only source of revenue.<p>Whenever I ask, &quot;is it ok for those sites to block you if you are running adblock&quot; usually people say &quot;no, they need to find a different business model!&quot;. But my question back is always: until they do find a new business model, if they can survive by blocking people who use adblock, why shouldn&#x27;t they?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EFF, AdBlock and Others Launch New “Do Not Track” Standard</title><url>https://threatpost.com/eff-adblock-and-others-launch-new-do-not-track-standard/114121</url></story> |
20,762,628 | 20,761,854 | 1 | 2 | 20,736,786 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>strenholme</author><text>The secret to successful dating is the same as real estate: Location, location, location. I had much better luck dating in central Mexico (where a gringo who has had a successful career stands out) than in Silicon Valley.<p>Even with a favorable location, the online dating market favors women. When I was in Mexico, it took about 200-300 matches, which became 40-60 active online chats, which became 12-18 in-person dates, to find the woman who became my wife. So about a 6% match to date ratio.<p>As pointed out in the comments to the linked article, this guy did well because he was in New York, which favors men. Technology hot spots (Silicon Valley, Seattle, etc.) tend to favor women. Places that favor Caucasian men include Latin America (Peru being a really good place; Columbia and Mexico also are favorable), Thailand, the Philippines, Eastern Europe, the Dominican Republic, and large parts of Africa. In the US, the deep South (Alabama, Georgia, etc.) are somewhat better for successful men.<p>With places where the ratios favor the women, it takes about 100 messages to get a date (and a lot of you’re too short&#x2F;too old&#x2F;etc. canned rejections); to date requires I just send the same spam message over and over (“let’s meet for coffee!”) until someone says yes. The hit ratio is just too low for me to get dating success with anything besides spamming.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dating: A Research Journal, Part 1 (2016)</title><url>https://putanumonit.com/2016/02/03/015-dating_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>starpilot</author><text>&gt; To these I will add a crucial tip: make it obviously apparent that you aren’t copy-pasting. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder finds that a huge number of messages on OkCupid are mass copy-pasted spam (he figured this by analyzing keystrokes: if it took you two keys to write 50 words, those keys were Ctrl+V). These spammers aren’t only gems like ‘u R hot want 2 cum ovR’, but also generic missives like ‘Hi, I read your profile and I find you very interesting. I think we should get to know each other.’ Since mass-spamming is so quick and easy, it only takes a few spammers to fill every girl’s inbox. Experienced users sniff these out quickly. I strongly urge against being a spammer yourself: most of your time should be spent searching for the best potential matches. Once you find a great potential partner you should take the time to write them the best message you can come up with.<p>Rudder also talks about why message spamming isn&#x27;t banned, though it is trivial to detect: <i>they often led to successful exchanges</i>. The rest of the article is in this vein; favoring the most politically correct, and gracious to women, interpretations of the data, and not the most rational.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dating: A Research Journal, Part 1 (2016)</title><url>https://putanumonit.com/2016/02/03/015-dating_1/</url></story> |
35,168,251 | 35,167,733 | 1 | 2 | 35,165,798 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bmicraft</author><text>You state multiple times that the Raspberry Pi 3 does not support hardware accelerated h264 decoding, but that&#x27;s simply not true.<p>All Pis (except Pico series) support both accelerated encoding and decoding, and have done so since 2012. The Broadcom VideoCore IV in RPi 3 Model B does hw decode at 1080p30.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pcouy</author><text>Hey there ! Thank you for sharing my blog post. I tried to share it myself earlier, but my post was hidden (probably because my account is new).<p>This is my first technical blog post. I intended for it to be easy to follow along, and tried my best to write in a pleasant style. However, as a non-native speaker, I know that my writing sometimes feels awkward.<p>Please tell me everything that is wrong with this post, whether it&#x27;s from a technical or a linguistic standpoint. Don&#x27;t worry about sounding harsh, this will only help me improve :)<p>I wish you a pleasant read.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop</title><url>https://pierre-couy.dev/tinkering/2023/03/turning-rpi-into-external-monitor-driver.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>sintax</author><text>Did you consider using Sunshine&#x2F;Moonlight? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LizardByte&#x2F;Sunshine">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LizardByte&#x2F;Sunshine</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moonlight-stream">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moonlight-stream</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pcouy</author><text>Hey there ! Thank you for sharing my blog post. I tried to share it myself earlier, but my post was hidden (probably because my account is new).<p>This is my first technical blog post. I intended for it to be easy to follow along, and tried my best to write in a pleasant style. However, as a non-native speaker, I know that my writing sometimes feels awkward.<p>Please tell me everything that is wrong with this post, whether it&#x27;s from a technical or a linguistic standpoint. Don&#x27;t worry about sounding harsh, this will only help me improve :)<p>I wish you a pleasant read.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop</title><url>https://pierre-couy.dev/tinkering/2023/03/turning-rpi-into-external-monitor-driver.html</url></story> |
19,665,344 | 19,665,514 | 1 | 2 | 19,664,309 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>searine</author><text>I&#x27;ve been following TEPCOs media site casually for years. They actually used to have a really great media site showing the latest work being done on decommissioning but its gotten more and more closed off over the years as people care less and less. They used to post these really cool PDFs with technical detail.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photo.tepco.co.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;index-e.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photo.tepco.co.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;index-e.html</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www4.tepco.co.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;library&#x2F;archive-e.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www4.tepco.co.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;library&#x2F;archive-e.html</a><p>For example, the video referenced in the news article is the first video on the TEPCO archive. Worth a watch, the screenshot really doesn&#x27;t do it justice.<p>They still post media, but it tends to be more PR stuff of complete work rather than ongoing work.<p>Here is another cool video :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www4.tepco.co.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;library&#x2F;archive-e.html?video_uuid=vy9uep38&amp;catid=69631" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www4.tepco.co.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;library&#x2F;archive-e.html?vide...</a><p>A robot inside Unit 2 scrapping up samples of the melted-down core. Talk about cutting edge extreme environment robotics!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fukushima: Removal of nuclear fuel rods from damaged reactor building begins</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/15/fukushima-removal-of-nuclear-fuel-rods-from-damaged-reactor-begins</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>petschge</author><text>Note that this is the fuel from the cooling pool of reactor building #3. The cooling pool of reactor building #4 has already been emptied. And the we are still not ready to remove the heavily damaged fuel from the reactor cores.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fukushima: Removal of nuclear fuel rods from damaged reactor building begins</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/15/fukushima-removal-of-nuclear-fuel-rods-from-damaged-reactor-begins</url></story> |
27,971,384 | 27,970,776 | 1 | 3 | 27,969,966 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Witoso</author><text>Apparently this episode is in the public domain, and is available on the columbophile&#x27;s website[0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;columbophile.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;25&#x2F;full-episode-columbo-murder-by-the-book&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;columbophile.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;25&#x2F;full-episode-columbo-mur...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lqet</author><text>One of the earliest (and also one of the best) Columbo episodes (&quot;Murder by the Book&quot;, 1971) was directed by Steven Spielberg. If you watch it, it is <i>immediately</i> clear (even during the initial shot) that this episode is simply in another league. Not only when compared to other Columbo episodes, but also when compared to other TV shows during that era (see for example this short documentary [0]). It is crazy to think that Spielberg was only 25 when he directed this.<p>If I remember correctly, the quality of that Columbo episode was what really started Spielberg&#x27;s career. He got the offer to direct a TV movie afterwards, and he presented Duel [1] (also in 1971), which is simply a masterpiece and got a theatrical release after the TV success. It established Spielberg as a major film director. Just watch the title sequence: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d0707XtiFPs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d0707XtiFPs</a><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Gb62FxCH-Ks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Gb62FxCH-Ks</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Duel_(1971_film)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Duel_(1971_film)</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Columbo: an origin story (2018)</title><url>https://columbophile.com/2018/02/17/columbo-an-origin-story/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NextHendrix</author><text>I was introduced to Columbo by a housemate a few years ago and was instantly hooked. The episode you mentioned is excellent, as are all the Jack Cassidy ones.<p>For me the standout episode is &#x27;Any Old Port in a Storm&#x27; (1973) with Donald Pleasance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lqet</author><text>One of the earliest (and also one of the best) Columbo episodes (&quot;Murder by the Book&quot;, 1971) was directed by Steven Spielberg. If you watch it, it is <i>immediately</i> clear (even during the initial shot) that this episode is simply in another league. Not only when compared to other Columbo episodes, but also when compared to other TV shows during that era (see for example this short documentary [0]). It is crazy to think that Spielberg was only 25 when he directed this.<p>If I remember correctly, the quality of that Columbo episode was what really started Spielberg&#x27;s career. He got the offer to direct a TV movie afterwards, and he presented Duel [1] (also in 1971), which is simply a masterpiece and got a theatrical release after the TV success. It established Spielberg as a major film director. Just watch the title sequence: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d0707XtiFPs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d0707XtiFPs</a><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Gb62FxCH-Ks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Gb62FxCH-Ks</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Duel_(1971_film)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Duel_(1971_film)</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Columbo: an origin story (2018)</title><url>https://columbophile.com/2018/02/17/columbo-an-origin-story/</url></story> |
27,106,456 | 27,105,256 | 1 | 2 | 27,104,867 | 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>Valakas_</author><text>I&#x27;m betting that finally there is an asset that works as store of value that doesn&#x27;t deflate and which is easy to use. Let&#x27;s be honest, BTC could be the best one. Owning gold (or other rare metal) is an assle. Need a safe place to store it and transport it is so risky. Or I need to trust someone else or an institution to hold it if I don&#x27;t want to hold it myself.<p>Real estate takes a lot of time and research to chose a proper investment. Besides, what I want to store 100 dollars only? Or 10000? not enough for that. And REITs again require a lot of research and are not risk-free. Then you have other assets like art and so on, but again, needs research, and what are the likelyhood of findind something exactly at my price range? Besides they can be destroyed in fire or something else.<p>Also not stocks sorry. I don&#x27;t want to risk my hard earned money. Maybe part of it, i can, and I nicely get some positive return. But not all. Also not bonds or bank interest. I don&#x27;t want to have my money stuck for years. I want something where I can easily set and forget, liquid, immaterial, which is safe, and where I don&#x27;t need to trust anybody but myself. It doesn&#x27;t even need to appreciate, just hold its value. What do you propose besides BTC?<p>I don&#x27;t see anything that can be potentially better.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smt88</author><text>If you think of all investments as a bet, what are you betting on when you buy crypto?<p>In my opinion, you&#x27;re betting that crypto will be useful as an exchange of value, which means the people exchanging it are either: A) criminals or B) living in a failed state.<p>Personally, if crypto becomes so widely used that it justifies its market caps, that means a <i>lot</i> of states have failed, and I don&#x27;t want to live in (or bet on) that world.<p>It&#x27;s also scary that some very rich and powerful people are betting against our society continuing to be viable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Berkshire: Bitcoin is ‘contrary to the interest of civilization.’</title><url>https://blog.evergreengavekal.com/four-berkshire-bombshells-plus-the-spac-market-implosion/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jl2718</author><text>Nobody does, but it’s a possibility, and we’re hoping that self-sovereign money makes for a more peaceful transition in those places.<p>If it’s total chaos, the criminals will have total control. We have seen this many times. To see why people buy it, understand their fear of what might happen to them if they don’t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smt88</author><text>If you think of all investments as a bet, what are you betting on when you buy crypto?<p>In my opinion, you&#x27;re betting that crypto will be useful as an exchange of value, which means the people exchanging it are either: A) criminals or B) living in a failed state.<p>Personally, if crypto becomes so widely used that it justifies its market caps, that means a <i>lot</i> of states have failed, and I don&#x27;t want to live in (or bet on) that world.<p>It&#x27;s also scary that some very rich and powerful people are betting against our society continuing to be viable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Berkshire: Bitcoin is ‘contrary to the interest of civilization.’</title><url>https://blog.evergreengavekal.com/four-berkshire-bombshells-plus-the-spac-market-implosion/</url></story> |
39,593,845 | 39,591,697 | 1 | 2 | 39,587,344 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmoy</author><text>&gt; we asked the french equivalent of the 2nd circuit<p>Minor note: not really the French equivalent of the 2nd circuit<p>US (federal) courts are like: district, appeals (e.g. 2nd circuit, 9th circuit, cafc, etc), supreme. The circuit courts are all on the same level, they don&#x27;t hand cases between each other.<p>French court has another layer in there? And moreover, it&#x27;s not geographically separated, but rather by subject matter? (US has only one such court, the cafc).<p>E.g. you can&#x27;t remand from 2nd circuit down to an appeals court, because there is no appeals court underneath the 2nd circuit.<p>But you also can&#x27;t say that court is like the supreme court, because there is a constitutional court above it, which is the analogy to the US supreme court</text><parent_chain><item><author>bdauvergne</author><text>Hi, developper of Lasso from Entr&#x27;ouvert here (sorry for the english, I&#x27;m more used to talk about programming than french law):<p>It took so much time for many reasons :<p>* first the judge advised us to try to mitigate, mitigation failed because Orange&#x2F;FranceTelecom did not want to mitigate anything (we asked in mitigation for nearly what we won in the end),<p>* we returned in tribunal, and the judge asked for an expertise to see if really the fact that Orange linked their program with Lasso inside an Apache module was violating GPLv2,<p>* we lost on first instance,<p>* we made appeal and won but not on the counterfeiting accusation, only on some other kind of violation in French named &quot;parasitism&quot;, the fact is french juridication doctrine on &quot;licences&quot; was that is was a contract, and only a contract and the could only invoke civil contract law and not use counterfeiting laws,<p>* we did not agree with that, and neither did the european justice court, so we asked the french equivalent of the 2nd circuit (Cours de cassation) to overrule the court of appeal doctrine,<p>* we won in the cours de cassation,<p>* so we returned to the appeal court and we won.<p>And here we are.<p>The inefficiency come from many aspects :
* french judiciary lacks money and resources, it&#x27;s not new, everything is slow, budget of ministry of justice by citizen, is half or one third of the same budget is germany, but for specialized justice like counterfeiting of software, it&#x27;s a special court, which should be faster than for usual civil law,<p>* <i>BUT</i> france is not California, litigation about software licences and especially free software licence is extremely rare, and usually between commercial entities which have real contractual obligation between them, so that the court can concentrate on the commercial aspect (you owed so much, you had to deliver this and did not, etc...) here we did not have any commercial relation with Orange on this project (we had a long time ago on other project not related to the one for which they used Lasso)<p>* <i>ALSO</i> france has very special doctrine called (in french) &quot;non cumul de la responsabilité contractuelle et délictuelle&quot;, it means that if there is some kind of contract between you and a third party, that imposed them to not violate some law which can also be an offense&#x2F;crime, the invoked responsibility can only coming from the contract and not from the offense&#x2F;crime law (counterfeiting is an offense in France), so we had to break this doctrine in &quot;Cours de cassation&quot; before being authorized to litigate on counterfeiting.</text></item><item><author>Arech</author><text>&gt; Entr’Ouvert sued Orange in 2010<p>How such a simple thing could take 14 years to untangle?<p>How could anyone trust in courts that have such a spectacular efficiency?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>French court issues damages award for violation of GPL</title><url>https://heathermeeker.com/2024/02/17/french-court-issues-damages-award-for-violation-of-gpl/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mplanchard</author><text>Merci pour l&#x27;explication, je pense que c&#x27;est très claire en anglais!</text><parent_chain><item><author>bdauvergne</author><text>Hi, developper of Lasso from Entr&#x27;ouvert here (sorry for the english, I&#x27;m more used to talk about programming than french law):<p>It took so much time for many reasons :<p>* first the judge advised us to try to mitigate, mitigation failed because Orange&#x2F;FranceTelecom did not want to mitigate anything (we asked in mitigation for nearly what we won in the end),<p>* we returned in tribunal, and the judge asked for an expertise to see if really the fact that Orange linked their program with Lasso inside an Apache module was violating GPLv2,<p>* we lost on first instance,<p>* we made appeal and won but not on the counterfeiting accusation, only on some other kind of violation in French named &quot;parasitism&quot;, the fact is french juridication doctrine on &quot;licences&quot; was that is was a contract, and only a contract and the could only invoke civil contract law and not use counterfeiting laws,<p>* we did not agree with that, and neither did the european justice court, so we asked the french equivalent of the 2nd circuit (Cours de cassation) to overrule the court of appeal doctrine,<p>* we won in the cours de cassation,<p>* so we returned to the appeal court and we won.<p>And here we are.<p>The inefficiency come from many aspects :
* french judiciary lacks money and resources, it&#x27;s not new, everything is slow, budget of ministry of justice by citizen, is half or one third of the same budget is germany, but for specialized justice like counterfeiting of software, it&#x27;s a special court, which should be faster than for usual civil law,<p>* <i>BUT</i> france is not California, litigation about software licences and especially free software licence is extremely rare, and usually between commercial entities which have real contractual obligation between them, so that the court can concentrate on the commercial aspect (you owed so much, you had to deliver this and did not, etc...) here we did not have any commercial relation with Orange on this project (we had a long time ago on other project not related to the one for which they used Lasso)<p>* <i>ALSO</i> france has very special doctrine called (in french) &quot;non cumul de la responsabilité contractuelle et délictuelle&quot;, it means that if there is some kind of contract between you and a third party, that imposed them to not violate some law which can also be an offense&#x2F;crime, the invoked responsibility can only coming from the contract and not from the offense&#x2F;crime law (counterfeiting is an offense in France), so we had to break this doctrine in &quot;Cours de cassation&quot; before being authorized to litigate on counterfeiting.</text></item><item><author>Arech</author><text>&gt; Entr’Ouvert sued Orange in 2010<p>How such a simple thing could take 14 years to untangle?<p>How could anyone trust in courts that have such a spectacular efficiency?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>French court issues damages award for violation of GPL</title><url>https://heathermeeker.com/2024/02/17/french-court-issues-damages-award-for-violation-of-gpl/</url></story> |
39,080,134 | 39,079,432 | 1 | 2 | 39,077,622 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>latency-guy2</author><text>I firmly dislike cherrywood, anything that is more red than brown is absolute shit to me. My parents loved it, thought it was the pinnacle of wealth.<p>Now you might be questioning why I dislike cherrywood. The answer doesn&#x27;t actually matter though, I dislike it. Most importantly, I am not the only one.<p>I like vinyl, because I spent a few weeks of my life (probably at most a few hours total actual wall clock hours on it) replacing flooring in a couple of rooms through a few houses. The beginning, and the rest of my answer here though, also does not matter. It only matters that I like it and will pay money for it over wood. I am also, not the only one.<p>Gray is used for many reasons in new builds, its a neutral color, and because many builders build a house&#x2F;apartment, THEN sell to customers. Very few customers buy a plot of land, contract an architect, make customizations, and then build the building. It comes with the realization that people will substitute out the things they want on their own, not requiring someone else figure out everything they like and being creative all on their behalf for $0.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jszymborski</author><text>I just wanted to echo the gray frustration here. I went to buy vinyl flooring (I can&#x27;t afford hardwood) and the sheer amount of inexplicably &quot;grey wood&quot; planks was staggering. Why! Like, it&#x27;s as if some alien only saw wood in an episode of I Love Lucy and wanted to replicate it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is everything so ugly?</title><url>https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ToucanLoucan</author><text>I blame house flippers honestly. They buy up houses that are in rough shape on the cheap, then renovate strictly to sell, not for personal taste. The incentives at play are to shoot for a very dull, milquetoast instagram-ish aesthetic that anyone can sort of get along with, so you won&#x27;t lose people for not liking whatever hardwood or paint colors you picked.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jszymborski</author><text>I just wanted to echo the gray frustration here. I went to buy vinyl flooring (I can&#x27;t afford hardwood) and the sheer amount of inexplicably &quot;grey wood&quot; planks was staggering. Why! Like, it&#x27;s as if some alien only saw wood in an episode of I Love Lucy and wanted to replicate it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is everything so ugly?</title><url>https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/</url></story> |
35,735,810 | 35,734,018 | 1 | 2 | 35,733,515 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lgessler</author><text>I used XTDB on a side project (written in Clojure) a couple years ago and was blown away by something that I think isn&#x27;t even really stressed as a headliner feature for XTDB. That was the ability to treat queries as first-class data. XTDB&#x27;s datalog queries can be provided as just native Clojure data structures, and that allows you to build complex queries using code. What this means is that it&#x27;s much more DRY than copy-pasting and editing SQL templates, there&#x27;s no ORM gumming up your performance and expressivity as your queries get more complex, and there&#x27;s no half-baked implementation of an API for query composition: the _programming language_ is your tool for query composition. I couldn&#x27;t tell you if there are other ways of getting this, as I&#x27;m not really a software engineer anymore, but it was a jaw-dropping experience for me to see how easy it could be to write a database layer, and far and away the best experience I&#x27;ve ever had writing one in any programming language.<p>I suppose what&#x27;s at the heart of this, more than anything, is that Datalog has a near-trivial syntax that can transparently be accommodated by two simple data structures: lists and hash tables. Not so with SQL, whose COBOL-y nature obscures its syntax and makes it less straightforward to represent in everyday data structures.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>XTDB 2.x Early Access</title><url>https://www.xtdb.com/v2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevinmershon</author><text>We use XTDB 1 and have a multi replica production instance with about 600GB of data at ~100 million transactions. The biggest problem we have is with minor versions bumping the underlying RocksDB i dex version, requiring a full reindex of the main &quot;golden&quot; data store taking days to weeks.<p>AFAIK this is not solved in XTDB 1. I&#x27;m hoping XTDB 2 provides a better upgrade path for modestly sized databases like ours.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>XTDB 2.x Early Access</title><url>https://www.xtdb.com/v2</url></story> |
13,746,748 | 13,746,588 | 1 | 2 | 13,744,825 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avar</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; I don&#x27;t know if there is any research into [needing to
&gt; reorient maps when driving].
</code></pre>
There is! One thing it&#x27;s highly correlated with is whether you&#x27;re either a heterosexual woman, or a homosexual man.<p>There&#x27;s a really good description of this and other brain attributes correlated with gender or male homosexuality in the BBC show &quot;The Making of Me - John Barrowman&quot;. This specific part starts around 6m30s in: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymotion.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;x6a063_the-making-of-me-john-barrowman-4-o_shortfilms" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymotion.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;x6a063_the-making-of-me-joh...</a><p>Here&#x27;s an article about it in New Scientist, &quot;Gay men read maps like women&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;dn7069-gay-men-read-maps-like-women&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;dn7069-gay-men-read-map...</a><p>That&#x27;s not to suggest that you&#x27;re either a homosexual man or a heterosexual woman based on this datapoint alone. There&#x27;s of course plenty of people who don&#x27;t fall into those groups who prefer to read maps that way, just to answer your question about whether there&#x27;s research about it. Yeah, there&#x27;s at least some research showing that spatial recognition is indicative of gender &amp; sexual orientation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>&gt; about 20% of the population could not cope with a map that wasn&#x27;t aligned with the direction they were going<p>That&#x27;s me. I have a tough time orienting maps in my head. I still use a mnemonic for compass directions and (occasionally) use my left hand as an L to make sure I&#x27;m not screwing it up.<p>I don&#x27;t know if there is any research into what the structural differences of brains that suffer from this might be, let alone if there is a name for it.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>I saw Etak back in its early days, and Stan Honey gave me a demo. I still have one of their rate gyro&#x2F;2D level units, and a compass unit. There&#x27;s a motor driving a spinning disk, which warps slightly when the unit is turned, and sensors to detect the warp. The level, for sensing which way is down, is a sealed cup of liquid with the liquid height sensed with four capacitor plates outside the cup. The liquid was proprietary, chosen to not slosh under automotive movement. The whole thing is the size of a soda can. The compass is a 2-axis magnetometer, about 2 inches square. It wasn&#x27;t mounted on a window; it had to be mounted in the horizontal plane, preferably far from metal.<p>The original Etak units always had the map oriented with north at the top. That was the way sailors used maps. Honey said they&#x27;d discovered that about 20% of the population could not cope with a map that wasn&#x27;t aligned with the direction they were going, which is why they started rotating the map based on vehicle travel. Now everybody does that, and that&#x27;s why.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who Needs GPS? The Story of Etak's 1985 Car Navigation System</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/3047828/who-needs-gps-the-forgotten-story-of-etaks-amazing-1985-car-navigation-system</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>learn_more</author><text>If you train yourself to use a static orientation however, you develop a much better &quot;big picture&quot; awareness of the city you drive in, eventually freeing yourself from requiring navigational assistance.<p>The additional cognitive load is worth it for me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>&gt; about 20% of the population could not cope with a map that wasn&#x27;t aligned with the direction they were going<p>That&#x27;s me. I have a tough time orienting maps in my head. I still use a mnemonic for compass directions and (occasionally) use my left hand as an L to make sure I&#x27;m not screwing it up.<p>I don&#x27;t know if there is any research into what the structural differences of brains that suffer from this might be, let alone if there is a name for it.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>I saw Etak back in its early days, and Stan Honey gave me a demo. I still have one of their rate gyro&#x2F;2D level units, and a compass unit. There&#x27;s a motor driving a spinning disk, which warps slightly when the unit is turned, and sensors to detect the warp. The level, for sensing which way is down, is a sealed cup of liquid with the liquid height sensed with four capacitor plates outside the cup. The liquid was proprietary, chosen to not slosh under automotive movement. The whole thing is the size of a soda can. The compass is a 2-axis magnetometer, about 2 inches square. It wasn&#x27;t mounted on a window; it had to be mounted in the horizontal plane, preferably far from metal.<p>The original Etak units always had the map oriented with north at the top. That was the way sailors used maps. Honey said they&#x27;d discovered that about 20% of the population could not cope with a map that wasn&#x27;t aligned with the direction they were going, which is why they started rotating the map based on vehicle travel. Now everybody does that, and that&#x27;s why.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who Needs GPS? The Story of Etak's 1985 Car Navigation System</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/3047828/who-needs-gps-the-forgotten-story-of-etaks-amazing-1985-car-navigation-system</url></story> |
19,097,471 | 19,097,792 | 1 | 2 | 19,096,233 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>undecisive</author><text>Aside from the fact that many countries have ways of limiting lobbyist influence through law, a simple but dramatic way would be to say:<p>0. Lobbying is a right, but one that can only be exercised by individual citizens, not corporations.<p>1. Anyone who wishes to &quot;lobby&quot; congressional candidates or congresspersons must register their financial interests<p>2. Make it illegal to directly accept money for lobbying services (akin to prostitution)<p>Sure, it wouldn&#x27;t make lobbying impossible - but it would make it much harder.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlexB138</author><text>&gt; The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems. That, and enact term limits for Congress. That will fix even more.<p>When you think there are simple answers to big problems it&#x27;s generally because you don&#x27;t actually understand the problem.<p>How would you outlaw lobbyists? Setting aside the fact that it would be unconstitutional, do you think it should be illegal for you to air your grievances to elected officials? That seems to fly directly in the face of democracy. Or should it only be that businesses aren&#x27;t allowed to lobby? What about a small business that is being unfairly impacted by regulations, or being run out of business by a large company abusing a loophole in the law? Seems like them not having a voice in government would be a path to oligopoly or monopoly. If that&#x27;s ok, where&#x27;s the line in which business is allowed to lobby, and how do you keep a large business from simply hiring a small business to lobby on their behalf?</text></item><item><author>chanandler_bong</author><text>The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems. That, and enact term limits for Congress. <i>That</i> will fix even more.</text></item><item><author>otachack</author><text>It&#x27;s not that simple. Companies lobby to keep, even coerce, laws that benefit them and allow these sorts of things to happen. What is the common person, or collection of persons, supposed to do when they are against that kind of force? I believe one way is to actually be involved in politics and get into the seats that govern and make the laws. But it&#x27;s easier said than done.</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>Rather than being outraged at the headline, what are the actual details? Why were they able to pay no taxes? Was it due to carried losses or something like that?<p>Anyone mad at a company for not pay taxes is misdirecting their anger. Companies follow the law. If you don&#x27;t like the law elect different politicians. Don&#x27;t get mad at companies that follow the law.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes</title><url>https://itep.org/netflix-posted-biggest-ever-profit-in-2018-and-paid-0-in-income-taxes/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>Just outlaw legislation <i>written</i> by lobbyists. If Congressmen have to do the actual work of writing, it would end up being simpler than the specially crafted 500pg bills nobody reads. It isn&#x27;t too much to ask elected officials to do the work they signed up for.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlexB138</author><text>&gt; The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems. That, and enact term limits for Congress. That will fix even more.<p>When you think there are simple answers to big problems it&#x27;s generally because you don&#x27;t actually understand the problem.<p>How would you outlaw lobbyists? Setting aside the fact that it would be unconstitutional, do you think it should be illegal for you to air your grievances to elected officials? That seems to fly directly in the face of democracy. Or should it only be that businesses aren&#x27;t allowed to lobby? What about a small business that is being unfairly impacted by regulations, or being run out of business by a large company abusing a loophole in the law? Seems like them not having a voice in government would be a path to oligopoly or monopoly. If that&#x27;s ok, where&#x27;s the line in which business is allowed to lobby, and how do you keep a large business from simply hiring a small business to lobby on their behalf?</text></item><item><author>chanandler_bong</author><text>The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems. That, and enact term limits for Congress. <i>That</i> will fix even more.</text></item><item><author>otachack</author><text>It&#x27;s not that simple. Companies lobby to keep, even coerce, laws that benefit them and allow these sorts of things to happen. What is the common person, or collection of persons, supposed to do when they are against that kind of force? I believe one way is to actually be involved in politics and get into the seats that govern and make the laws. But it&#x27;s easier said than done.</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>Rather than being outraged at the headline, what are the actual details? Why were they able to pay no taxes? Was it due to carried losses or something like that?<p>Anyone mad at a company for not pay taxes is misdirecting their anger. Companies follow the law. If you don&#x27;t like the law elect different politicians. Don&#x27;t get mad at companies that follow the law.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes</title><url>https://itep.org/netflix-posted-biggest-ever-profit-in-2018-and-paid-0-in-income-taxes/</url></story> |
35,692,881 | 35,692,812 | 1 | 3 | 35,692,476 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisco255</author><text>It&#x27;s a trademark application, not a copyright application. Quite different. You see copyrighted material is that which a GPT has been trained on, without any regards to those rights or protections. While a GPT trademark, on the other hand, is an underhanded attempt to leverage that same disregarded legal protection to secure an exclusive brand for itself, in spite of existing uses of the generic acronym.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amrrs</author><text>For those unaware - GPT stands for Generative pre-trained transformers (GPT). It&#x27;s a type of a deep neural network architecture that builds on top of Transformers which was released by Google researchers. I&#x27;m wondering what would happen if someone copyrights &quot;Transformers&quot; now :-&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO</title><url>https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:jtelqq.2.16</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>breck</author><text>Not that it matters much, but I&#x27;m curious who first coined the specific &quot;GPT&quot; term?<p>The first occurrence of that particular term I can find on Google Scholar is in 2019 (&quot;Documentation is all you need&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.com&#x2F;scholar?q=%22Generative+pre-trained+transformers%22&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C5&amp;as_ylo=2010&amp;as_yhi=2019" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.com&#x2F;scholar?q=%22Generative+pre-train...</a>)<p>Edit: it looks like it was OpenAI. (Radford et al, 2018).</text><parent_chain><item><author>amrrs</author><text>For those unaware - GPT stands for Generative pre-trained transformers (GPT). It&#x27;s a type of a deep neural network architecture that builds on top of Transformers which was released by Google researchers. I&#x27;m wondering what would happen if someone copyrights &quot;Transformers&quot; now :-&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO</title><url>https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:jtelqq.2.16</url></story> |
29,431,662 | 29,430,299 | 1 | 2 | 29,426,414 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kqr</author><text>It&#x27;s popular because it doesn&#x27;t ruffle any feathers.<p>I heard somewhere at some point that for organisational values to be useful, they need to provide guidance in making decisions. They need to be trade-offs. They need to reject something in favour of something else.<p>So, rephrasing your bullshit bingo:<p>&quot;We are now pursuing a cultural shift: we will value good attitudes and difference of opinion over efficiency. We will start to ignore some of our personal goals and instead emphasise the goals we have in common.&quot;<p>This is actionable. It can be used to choose a path to proceed when efficiency is pitted against diversity. It actually says something.<p>And yeah, it&#x27;s going to suck if you don&#x27;t agree. Better that than meaningless drivel.</text><parent_chain><item><author>2-718-281-828</author><text>Few months ago I was asked by a colleague to contribute an inspiration for a company development workshop. Frankly speaking - I am pretty damn disillusioned by now and couldn&#x27;t come up with anything meaningful. He insisted, so I googled specifically for &quot;coporate buzzwords&quot; and came up with this:<p>&quot;Further establishing a welcoming and diverse work environment encouraging synergy and collaboration by committing to a common set of strategic goals.&quot;<p>That statement was unanimously received very well and nobody realized that this is basically just sarcasm in action.<p>Practically speaking my colleagues are all very smart (academics, PhDs all over the place) and should be able to detect bullshit bingo. At the bottom line though whether or not to go actively and motivatedly along with this ... bullshit makes a very practical difference with regard to boni. So, I don&#x27;t know. Maybe it&#x27;s me who&#x27;s the idiot.<p>In short: Bullshit bingo&#x27;ing is also often quite lucrative.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Empty and Misleading Communication Takes over Organizations (2020)</title><url>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2631787720929704</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Infernal</author><text>&gt; Practically speaking my colleagues are all very smart (academics, PhDs all over the place) and should be able to detect bullshit bingo.<p>Who says they didn’t detect it? Welcoming, diversity, strategic, collaboration - these are religious tenets that are not allowed to be questioned in any professional context. Much more likely to have been an “emperor has no clothes” situation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>2-718-281-828</author><text>Few months ago I was asked by a colleague to contribute an inspiration for a company development workshop. Frankly speaking - I am pretty damn disillusioned by now and couldn&#x27;t come up with anything meaningful. He insisted, so I googled specifically for &quot;coporate buzzwords&quot; and came up with this:<p>&quot;Further establishing a welcoming and diverse work environment encouraging synergy and collaboration by committing to a common set of strategic goals.&quot;<p>That statement was unanimously received very well and nobody realized that this is basically just sarcasm in action.<p>Practically speaking my colleagues are all very smart (academics, PhDs all over the place) and should be able to detect bullshit bingo. At the bottom line though whether or not to go actively and motivatedly along with this ... bullshit makes a very practical difference with regard to boni. So, I don&#x27;t know. Maybe it&#x27;s me who&#x27;s the idiot.<p>In short: Bullshit bingo&#x27;ing is also often quite lucrative.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Empty and Misleading Communication Takes over Organizations (2020)</title><url>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2631787720929704</url></story> |
23,290,614 | 23,290,267 | 1 | 3 | 23,289,886 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; The Sinclair Scientific was able to reduce complexity by using reverse Polish notation, in which mathematical operators come after the numbers they are operating on—for instance, “5 + 4 =” becomes “5 4 +.”<p>This is a great example of a place where you shouldn&#x27;t use punc-quote formatting. There is no . key on the calculator, but that&#x27;s not obvious while you&#x27;re reading the article.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Classic Calculator Was Reverse Engineered from the Bare Metal</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/this-classic-calculator-was-literally-reverse-engineered-from-the-bare-metal</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Qasaur</author><text>Somewhat off-topic, but why does the IEEE (a non-profit) have annoying ads on their site? I&#x27;m not using an ad-blocker and as soon as I clicked the link I was bombarded by one big half-page ad and a bunch of other ads that are irrelevant to the content of the article.<p>I would have thought that their <i>very</i> expensive membership fees and article&#x2F;publication fees would have covered their operating expenses.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Classic Calculator Was Reverse Engineered from the Bare Metal</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/this-classic-calculator-was-literally-reverse-engineered-from-the-bare-metal</url></story> |
11,574,734 | 11,574,696 | 1 | 3 | 11,574,215 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>It still wouldn&#x27;t help. It&#x27;s cheaper to manufacture electronics in China <i>even if the labor costs are the same</i>. The logistics are vastly better over there. If you need PCBs or components, you can have them direct from the factory on the same day. If you have a production problem, you can get a specialist engineer the same day. If you need a new production line with 200 extra staff, you can have it up and running in two weeks.<p>An established EMS company like Jabil has huge economies of scale and tremendous in-house resources. They have long relationships with suppliers and consultants. A startup can&#x27;t possibly compete with that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>talmand</author><text>I often wonder if costs could be lowered for many of these companies if they would stop locating in some of the country&#x27;s most expensive places to operate and for their employees to live. I know the arguments about workforce availability and all that, but I&#x27;ve never seen a proper look into it.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>A lot of people wonder why large companies can&#x27;t just stay in the US and compete on quality, and here is a great case for why. It doesn&#x27;t matter how great your workers are, you can&#x27;t sell a product for $3,000 when others are selling it for $600. Especially when it&#x27;s a technology still in development.<p>And I know we pay extra for the warm and fuzzies knowing that something is made in the states, but I&#x27;m sure the home tinkerer in Indianapolis doesn&#x27;t get super warm and fuzzy thinking of paying an extra $2000 just to support some exorbitant Brooklyn rent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MakerBot Is Outsourcing Its Brooklyn Manufacturing Jobs to China</title><url>http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2016/04/25/makerbot-partners-with-contract-manufacturer-to-increase-production-flexibility</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Vivtek</author><text>Yeah. MakerBot could easily move to Indianapolis, after all. Or even less expensive locations elsewhere in Indiana, for that matter. Brooklyn is one of the most expensive markets in the United States, yet Indiana has just as many qualified technical people. Perhaps more, to be honest. Purdue is a pretty fantastic engineering school.</text><parent_chain><item><author>talmand</author><text>I often wonder if costs could be lowered for many of these companies if they would stop locating in some of the country&#x27;s most expensive places to operate and for their employees to live. I know the arguments about workforce availability and all that, but I&#x27;ve never seen a proper look into it.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>A lot of people wonder why large companies can&#x27;t just stay in the US and compete on quality, and here is a great case for why. It doesn&#x27;t matter how great your workers are, you can&#x27;t sell a product for $3,000 when others are selling it for $600. Especially when it&#x27;s a technology still in development.<p>And I know we pay extra for the warm and fuzzies knowing that something is made in the states, but I&#x27;m sure the home tinkerer in Indianapolis doesn&#x27;t get super warm and fuzzy thinking of paying an extra $2000 just to support some exorbitant Brooklyn rent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MakerBot Is Outsourcing Its Brooklyn Manufacturing Jobs to China</title><url>http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2016/04/25/makerbot-partners-with-contract-manufacturer-to-increase-production-flexibility</url></story> |
13,796,520 | 13,796,477 | 1 | 2 | 13,796,256 | 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>lifthrasiir</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the initial contributors to the language and went too far with a self-interpreter for Aheui [1] recently. This one is quite old, we have actually had the 10th anniversary event [2] in 2015 (with more than 30 participants)! It surely is a kind of Brainfuck [3] for Koreans.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aheui&#x2F;aheui.aheui&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aheui&#x2F;aheui.aheui&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aheui.github.io&#x2F;aheuicon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aheui.github.io&#x2F;aheuicon</a><p>[3] I&#x27;m of course referring to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esolangs.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brainfuck" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esolangs.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brainfuck</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aheui: Esoteric programming language designed for Hangul</title><url>https://aheui.github.io/specification.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>keepper</author><text>&quot;about 2.6 billion people (36% of the world population) use the Latin alphabet, about 1.3 billion people (18%) use the Chinese script, about 1 billion people (14%) use the Devanagari script (India)&quot;[1]<p>It&#x27;ll be interesting to see how the Latin alphabet preference in computer languages changes over time. I&#x27;m sure whole different paradigms may be possible in different scripts.<p>And people complain about the differences between java and python now... Imagine python vs Aheui or similar lol<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldstandards.eu&#x2F;alphabets&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldstandards.eu&#x2F;alphabets&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aheui: Esoteric programming language designed for Hangul</title><url>https://aheui.github.io/specification.en</url></story> |
8,550,564 | 8,550,568 | 1 | 2 | 8,550,315 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MrJagil</author><text>One problem with this is that, I, as an individual suffering from anxiety, &quot;regularly&quot; suffer form chest pains.<p>This often spirals into the terrible cycle of anxiety -&gt; chest pains -&gt; anxiety about the chest pains being a heart attack.<p>I can only assume that the chest pains will be different and more severe if I should ever have a heart attack.<p><a href="http://www.calmclinic.com/anxiety/symptoms/chest-pain" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.calmclinic.com&#x2F;anxiety&#x2F;symptoms&#x2F;chest-pain</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>robbiep</author><text>Doctor here.
The &#x27;typical&#x27; signs of a heart attack are chest pain usually described as dull, heavy or tight, with radiation to the arm(s) and neck.
The patient often also complains of diaphoresis (sweating) , shortness of breath and perhaps weakness.<p>&#x27;Typical&#x27; signs do not present in everyone: in particular diabetics are at increased risk of having &#x27;silent&#x27; heart attacks,
And chest pain that is not typical may also be a heart attack.<p>An ECG can rapidly demonstrate that a patient is having a heart attack or as we call them myocardial infarcts, and excellent intervention is often possible.<p>If the above condition&#x2F;pain is experienced and there is not a clear ECG picture of a heart attack troponin levels are taken at 6 hrs, an increase f which will demonstrate that there was cardiac specific muscle damage.<p>Without wanting to alarm anyone, there is in the US 250,000 sudden cardiac deaths a year, almost all from a coronary artery called the left main blocking: this vessel supplies a huge percentage of the heart muscle and when it blocks there is no warning and the heart doesn&#x27;t have enough fuel to keep pumping.. These patients unfortunately almost all dead on arrival.
There is very little that can be done to predict this as their first episode of chest pain usually results in death within minutes, and there are rarely indications that the patient is at risk of such a problem.</text></item><item><author>M4v3R</author><text>Can someone with some medical experience write about what are exactly the warning signs for a heart attack?<p>While it&#x27;s definitely wise to call 911 when in doubt, it&#x27;s good to have own understanding first so we don&#x27;t ignore the symptoms AND don&#x27;t flood 911 with false problems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Just had a heart attack</title><text>In the ICU at UNC hospital in chapel hill. Had emergency surgery and it looks like I&#x27;ll be OK.<p>Wish I had some deep insights to share as a result but right now all I can really say is<p>&quot;If you start feeling chest pains, don&#x27;t hesitate to call 911. If I&#x27;d waited much longer I probably wouldn&#x27;t be here to send this. Learn the warning signs and call 911 if in doubt.&quot;</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>werid</author><text>&gt; The &#x27;typical&#x27; signs of a heart attack are chest pain usually described as dull, heavy or tight, with radiation to the arm(s) and neck. The patient often also complains of diaphoresis (sweating) , shortness of breath and perhaps weakness.<p>This is mostly for men, right? I&#x27;ve read previously that the symptoms for women are quite different.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robbiep</author><text>Doctor here.
The &#x27;typical&#x27; signs of a heart attack are chest pain usually described as dull, heavy or tight, with radiation to the arm(s) and neck.
The patient often also complains of diaphoresis (sweating) , shortness of breath and perhaps weakness.<p>&#x27;Typical&#x27; signs do not present in everyone: in particular diabetics are at increased risk of having &#x27;silent&#x27; heart attacks,
And chest pain that is not typical may also be a heart attack.<p>An ECG can rapidly demonstrate that a patient is having a heart attack or as we call them myocardial infarcts, and excellent intervention is often possible.<p>If the above condition&#x2F;pain is experienced and there is not a clear ECG picture of a heart attack troponin levels are taken at 6 hrs, an increase f which will demonstrate that there was cardiac specific muscle damage.<p>Without wanting to alarm anyone, there is in the US 250,000 sudden cardiac deaths a year, almost all from a coronary artery called the left main blocking: this vessel supplies a huge percentage of the heart muscle and when it blocks there is no warning and the heart doesn&#x27;t have enough fuel to keep pumping.. These patients unfortunately almost all dead on arrival.
There is very little that can be done to predict this as their first episode of chest pain usually results in death within minutes, and there are rarely indications that the patient is at risk of such a problem.</text></item><item><author>M4v3R</author><text>Can someone with some medical experience write about what are exactly the warning signs for a heart attack?<p>While it&#x27;s definitely wise to call 911 when in doubt, it&#x27;s good to have own understanding first so we don&#x27;t ignore the symptoms AND don&#x27;t flood 911 with false problems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Just had a heart attack</title><text>In the ICU at UNC hospital in chapel hill. Had emergency surgery and it looks like I&#x27;ll be OK.<p>Wish I had some deep insights to share as a result but right now all I can really say is<p>&quot;If you start feeling chest pains, don&#x27;t hesitate to call 911. If I&#x27;d waited much longer I probably wouldn&#x27;t be here to send this. Learn the warning signs and call 911 if in doubt.&quot;</text></story> |
5,946,482 | 5,946,250 | 1 | 3 | 5,946,171 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>btilly</author><text>This discusses two rulings. DOMA and Proposition 8. I like the DOMA decision. I like the specific result of the Proposition 8 ruling, but do not like the way they got there.<p>The issue with proposition 8 is that California lost, and then chose not to appeal. Lawyers for the group that passed proposition 8 then stepped in and took the case. Their argument basically was that if they were not allowed to do this, then any proposition passed by Californians that the government did not like the government could unpass by posting a lackluster defense and then not appealing it.<p>The 9th circuit did not know whether they should grant standing. They remanded it to the California Supreme Court to decide that. The California Supreme Court said that under California law they did have standing. The 9th heard it. The Supreme Court has now disagreed.<p>But I agree with that argument from the supporters of proposition 8. California gives voters the power to pass proposition that the state does not like. The state has now been handed a legal tool which undermines that in federal court. (I do not understand precedent well enough to know whether state courts will look to the Supreme Court or the California Supreme Court on this.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Supreme Court Strikes Down Defense of Marriage Act</title><url>http://projects.nytimes.com/live-dashboard/2013-06-26-supreme-court-gay-marriage#sha=f2fa9994b</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>bhousel</author><text>Here is the text of the ruling. Supreme Court rulings always start out with a very readable syllabus which provides an overview of the ruling, recommended read:<p><a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-307_g2bh.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;12pdf&#x2F;12-307_g2bh.pdf</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Supreme Court Strikes Down Defense of Marriage Act</title><url>http://projects.nytimes.com/live-dashboard/2013-06-26-supreme-court-gay-marriage#sha=f2fa9994b</url><text></text></story> |
7,477,258 | 7,474,417 | 1 | 2 | 7,474,057 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jaynos</author><text>I was a residential contractor until a few years ago. This would be great for estimating. Nice way to replace a pad of paper with less than stellar drawings on it. When estimating I&#x27;d still take pictures of the rooms to help me recall what it looked like.<p>For most projects a measurement to within half a foot is fine for estimating. If the total width of a room is close to 12 or 15&#x27; (standard carpet roll widths), get an exact number to know if your carpet sub needs to seam two pieces of carpet together.<p>Door heights are standard on most houses. Electrical heights are usually standard. Windows are usually dropped the height of a header.<p>For estimating many projects (painting, flooring, non-custom trim jobs), this app would be more than adequate.<p>When you get the job and go back to do the work, I&#x27;d suggest a Bosch LASER tape measure. Accurate to within 1&#x2F;16&quot; or better. It&#x27;s great for trim work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>roel_v</author><text>Quite disappointed - was hoping this was done through computer vision. Aren&#x27;t there are apps that do this? By the time I&#x27;ve &#x27;scanned&#x27; a room the way it&#x27;s shown in the article, and if that method doesn&#x27;t even give me heights, doors, windows and outlets, <i>and</i> is only accurate to within half a foot - by that time I&#x27;ve measured it with my laser tape measure 3 times over.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room</title><url>http://architizer.com/blog/roomscan-app/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>uptown</author><text>And your laser tape translates those measurements into a floorplan that&#x27;s digitally sharable?</text><parent_chain><item><author>roel_v</author><text>Quite disappointed - was hoping this was done through computer vision. Aren&#x27;t there are apps that do this? By the time I&#x27;ve &#x27;scanned&#x27; a room the way it&#x27;s shown in the article, and if that method doesn&#x27;t even give me heights, doors, windows and outlets, <i>and</i> is only accurate to within half a foot - by that time I&#x27;ve measured it with my laser tape measure 3 times over.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room</title><url>http://architizer.com/blog/roomscan-app/</url></story> |
1,939,898 | 1,939,755 | 1 | 2 | 1,939,464 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qntm</author><text>This quote leapt out at me:<p>"[PowerPoint] wants to organize the talk, to manage the presentation. There's always going to be a slide up, whether you need it there or not. Want to skip over some material? OK, but only by letting the audience watch as you fast-forward awkwardly through the pre-set order. Change the order around to answer a question? Tough..."<p>PowerPoint (and any other presentation software worth its salt) can do this! Press B to replace your current slide with a black screen, W to replace it with a white screen.<p>If you know the slide numbers you can just type a number to jump to that slide and I believe (don't quote me on this, I don't have PowerPoint) you can set keyboard shortcuts to specific slides in advance too. You can set up your display to show a navigator while the projector is showing the current slide, meaning you can pick the next slide manually without exposing the audience to your fumbling. And a little research will reveal many more useful little options. You <i>are</i> in control of your presentation, not the other way around.<p>And the best bit: most people don't even know that these things are possible. So when you do them, it makes you look competent and well-prepared, which makes it more likely that they'll listen to the rest of what you say.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Matt Blaze: No, You Can't Have My Slides</title><url>http://www.crypto.com/blog/slideware</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danilocampos</author><text>I love speaking and especially love speaking from minimalist slides. I'll have whole chunks of the presentation where the slide is just black for a few minutes, because I want to be sure the focus is on the storytelling, not the shiny digital thing.<p>If you've got more than a handful of words on your slide, there's a huge chance you're just doing it wrong. If you've got a paragraph or more up there, you're just wasting everyone's time. Better suited as a book at that point, right?<p>Also, oldie but goodie. Nothing beats Norvig's rendition of the Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint:<p><a href="http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm" rel="nofollow">http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Matt Blaze: No, You Can't Have My Slides</title><url>http://www.crypto.com/blog/slideware</url></story> |
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