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34,266,568 | 34,266,617 | 1 | 3 | 34,266,158 | 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>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>The Mexican cartels use actual cell&#x2F;mobile equipment, and have kidnapped engineers from South Texas to gain additional technical knowledge. Also, these areas surround SLC are not territory they&#x27;re trying to control in the same way. What utility would there be in this network vs simply using encrypted communication over the internet?<p>On the other hand, solar powered mining with just good enough radios to do C2 and send back any hashes found would be an exact match to this scale of equipment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>downrightmike</author><text>I disagree, this sounds _exactly_ like what the drug cartels have been doing in Mexico for years. They build their own network so they can bypass the government. It makes more sense that they are connecting their operations further up north given the amount of security upgrades that the USA has been doing recently.
One Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-mexico-telecoms-cartels-specialreport&#x2F;special-report-drug-cartel-narco-antennas-make-life-dangerous-for-mexicos-cell-tower-repairmen-idUSKCN24G1DN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-mexico-telecoms-cartels-s...</a><p>&quot;Crypto&quot; is just a buzzword that people who don&#x27;t understand tech jump to as a kneejerk reaction.</text></item><item><author>RF_Enthusiast</author><text>SLC&#x27;s recreational trails manager says it might be related to cryptocurrency. This sounds like the Helium crypto network, which is an IoT network offering node owners payment in cryptocurrency, which has plummeted in value ($55.22 in Nov 2021, $1.73 today).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why are antennas popping up over the Salt Lake City foothills?</title><url>https://ksltv.com/516749/why-are-antennas-popping-up-all-over-the-foothills-salt-lake-city-seeks-to-solve-mystery/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Manuel_D</author><text>What does this provide that an encrypted cellphone messenger app does not? I&#x27;m sure they have the know how to acquire SIMs through intermediaries to remain anonymous. That&#x27;s probably a lot less suspicious than setting up random radio towers, in fact this story is evidence of that.<p>Presumably self-operated infrastructure could expand comms to remote areas that don&#x27;t normally have cell service. They makes sense in stretches of the southern border. But right outside salt lake city is covered by cell access.</text><parent_chain><item><author>downrightmike</author><text>I disagree, this sounds _exactly_ like what the drug cartels have been doing in Mexico for years. They build their own network so they can bypass the government. It makes more sense that they are connecting their operations further up north given the amount of security upgrades that the USA has been doing recently.
One Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-mexico-telecoms-cartels-specialreport&#x2F;special-report-drug-cartel-narco-antennas-make-life-dangerous-for-mexicos-cell-tower-repairmen-idUSKCN24G1DN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-mexico-telecoms-cartels-s...</a><p>&quot;Crypto&quot; is just a buzzword that people who don&#x27;t understand tech jump to as a kneejerk reaction.</text></item><item><author>RF_Enthusiast</author><text>SLC&#x27;s recreational trails manager says it might be related to cryptocurrency. This sounds like the Helium crypto network, which is an IoT network offering node owners payment in cryptocurrency, which has plummeted in value ($55.22 in Nov 2021, $1.73 today).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why are antennas popping up over the Salt Lake City foothills?</title><url>https://ksltv.com/516749/why-are-antennas-popping-up-all-over-the-foothills-salt-lake-city-seeks-to-solve-mystery/</url></story> |
28,570,732 | 28,570,824 | 1 | 2 | 28,570,423 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>razemio</author><text>Can someone explain to me why I would use this instead of zerotier? Are there benefits I haven&#x27;t seen?<p>EDIT: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailscale.com&#x2F;kb&#x2F;1139&#x2F;tailscale-vs-zerotier&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailscale.com&#x2F;kb&#x2F;1139&#x2F;tailscale-vs-zerotier&#x2F;</a><p>That is a very fair writeup for a competing product. Nice!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tailscale free for open source projects</title><url>https://tailscale.com/blog/community-github-pricing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevinsundar</author><text>Been using tailscale for over a year and a half to get access to HomeAssistant running on a box at home from my iPhone wherever I am. Works great, have never had any issues. The iPhone app connects quickly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tailscale free for open source projects</title><url>https://tailscale.com/blog/community-github-pricing/</url></story> |
35,578,788 | 35,577,858 | 1 | 3 | 35,576,918 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eiz</author><text>&gt; 4. Describing positional embeddings as multiplicative. They are generally (and very counterintuitively to me, but nevertheless) additive with token embeddings.<p>Worth noting that rotary position embeddings, used in many recent architectures (LLaMA, GPT-NeoX, ...), are very similar to the original sin&#x2F;cos position embedding in the transformer paper but using complex multiplication instead of addition</text><parent_chain><item><author>jaidhyani</author><text>Skimming it, there are a few things about this explanation that rub me just slightly the wrong way.<p>1. Calling the input token sequence a &quot;command&quot;. It probably only makes sense to think of this as a &quot;command&quot; on a model that&#x27;s been fine-tuned to treat it as such.<p>2. Skipping over BPE as part of tokenization - but almost every transformer explainer does this, I guess.<p>3. Describing transformers as using a &quot;word embedding&quot;. I&#x27;m actually not aware of any transformers that use actual word embeddings, except the ones that incidentally fall out of other tokenization approaches sometimes.<p>4. Describing positional embeddings as multiplicative. They are generally (and very counterintuitively to me, but nevertheless) additive with token embeddings.<p>5. &quot;what attention does is it moves the words in a sentence (or piece of text) closer in the word embedding&quot; No, that&#x27;s just incorrect.<p>6. You don&#x27;t actually need a softmax layer at the end, since here they&#x27;re just picking the top token and they can just do that pre-softmax since it won&#x27;t change. It&#x27;s also weird how they talked about this here when the most prominent use of softmax in transformers is actually in the attention component.<p>7. Really shortchanges the feedforward component. It may be simple, but it&#x27;s really important to making the whole thing work.<p>8. Nothing about the residual</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What are transformer models and how do they work?</title><url>https://txt.cohere.ai/what-are-transformer-models/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VMG</author><text>I have to agree. The article summary says<p>&gt; Transformer block: Guesses the next word. It is formed by an attention block and a feedforward block.<p>But the diagram shows transformer blocks chained in sequence. So the next transformer block in the sequence would only receive a single word as the input? Does not make sense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jaidhyani</author><text>Skimming it, there are a few things about this explanation that rub me just slightly the wrong way.<p>1. Calling the input token sequence a &quot;command&quot;. It probably only makes sense to think of this as a &quot;command&quot; on a model that&#x27;s been fine-tuned to treat it as such.<p>2. Skipping over BPE as part of tokenization - but almost every transformer explainer does this, I guess.<p>3. Describing transformers as using a &quot;word embedding&quot;. I&#x27;m actually not aware of any transformers that use actual word embeddings, except the ones that incidentally fall out of other tokenization approaches sometimes.<p>4. Describing positional embeddings as multiplicative. They are generally (and very counterintuitively to me, but nevertheless) additive with token embeddings.<p>5. &quot;what attention does is it moves the words in a sentence (or piece of text) closer in the word embedding&quot; No, that&#x27;s just incorrect.<p>6. You don&#x27;t actually need a softmax layer at the end, since here they&#x27;re just picking the top token and they can just do that pre-softmax since it won&#x27;t change. It&#x27;s also weird how they talked about this here when the most prominent use of softmax in transformers is actually in the attention component.<p>7. Really shortchanges the feedforward component. It may be simple, but it&#x27;s really important to making the whole thing work.<p>8. Nothing about the residual</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What are transformer models and how do they work?</title><url>https://txt.cohere.ai/what-are-transformer-models/</url></story> |
9,895,596 | 9,895,109 | 1 | 3 | 9,893,989 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jsmeaton</author><text>I agree with you. To take the original ruling a step further towards absurdity, why not make ISPs filter out any traffic even mentioning the word grooveshark. And don&#x27;t forget those pesky cables running from an exchange to your house carrying those bits, why not force the local exchanges to filter that traffic. Computer monitor makers; how about forcing them to not display the word grooveshark.<p>The further and further you get from the origin (content producers&#x2F;hosts), the more ridiculous the claim sounds. But the expectation is somehow different.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slimsag</author><text>Our judicial system enabling content authors to go after non-hosting content delivery network services like CloudFlare and making the act of doing so _a successful tactic_ is _dangerous to the public_.<p>Why do I say that? CloudFlare does not host content at all. All content delivery networks do not host content (arguable) but only effectively _relay_ content such that delivery is faster. Once the origin server goes down, so does the content. This is an integral part of how CDNs operate. They should not be subject to DMCA take-down notices either, because they don&#x27;t host content -- just enable it.<p>Its dangerous to the public because this significantly raises the cost in starting such a service, because now you&#x27;re not just enabling faster delivery of content but suddenly you&#x27;re responsible for the content itself. Handling DMCA takedowns quickly becomes fast because these large corporations will abuse the process with automation, and in turn you _must_ respond actively as if each one is 100% correct. If you want a cost-effective solution then suddenly Sony has unrestrained access to delete content from your service. This is serious.<p>It makes sense to have services like Youtube, image hosting sites, or file hosting sites respond to DMCA takedowns because _they are responsible for the content_ and reaching out to the uploader would mean companies need to reveal personal information of uploaders (which would quickly be abused).<p>But CloudFlare or other CDNs and their systems _do not have such knowledge_. They don&#x27;t know who is responsible for uploading content or the ability to investigate if it&#x27;s infringing on someones copyright.<p>If Sony doesn&#x27;t like someone uploading a video to YouTube, they can file away a DMCA takedown for it. Right now Youtube has the _oppertunity_ to look into this case and fight it legally if they feel it is important. The key here is that the DMCA goes to the actual content host, Youtube. But if CloudFlare was serving Youtube and got a DMCA to takedown some video, suddenly Youtube can&#x27;t fight this in court because _its not a DMCA to YouTube but to CloudFlare_.<p>Corporations should be required to go through proper legal systems in which the content host can respond to DMCAs and fight them if they wish to. We should be afraid of giving out giant ban-hammers more than we already have.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Victory for CloudFlare Against SOPA-like Court Order</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/victory-cloudflare-against-sopa-court-order-internet-service-doesnt-have-police</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adventured</author><text>It seems very likely that CDNs will acquire special rights designations when it comes to content responsibility, much like search engines have. Whether that will occur through judicial precedent, or through specific legislation, is the only question.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slimsag</author><text>Our judicial system enabling content authors to go after non-hosting content delivery network services like CloudFlare and making the act of doing so _a successful tactic_ is _dangerous to the public_.<p>Why do I say that? CloudFlare does not host content at all. All content delivery networks do not host content (arguable) but only effectively _relay_ content such that delivery is faster. Once the origin server goes down, so does the content. This is an integral part of how CDNs operate. They should not be subject to DMCA take-down notices either, because they don&#x27;t host content -- just enable it.<p>Its dangerous to the public because this significantly raises the cost in starting such a service, because now you&#x27;re not just enabling faster delivery of content but suddenly you&#x27;re responsible for the content itself. Handling DMCA takedowns quickly becomes fast because these large corporations will abuse the process with automation, and in turn you _must_ respond actively as if each one is 100% correct. If you want a cost-effective solution then suddenly Sony has unrestrained access to delete content from your service. This is serious.<p>It makes sense to have services like Youtube, image hosting sites, or file hosting sites respond to DMCA takedowns because _they are responsible for the content_ and reaching out to the uploader would mean companies need to reveal personal information of uploaders (which would quickly be abused).<p>But CloudFlare or other CDNs and their systems _do not have such knowledge_. They don&#x27;t know who is responsible for uploading content or the ability to investigate if it&#x27;s infringing on someones copyright.<p>If Sony doesn&#x27;t like someone uploading a video to YouTube, they can file away a DMCA takedown for it. Right now Youtube has the _oppertunity_ to look into this case and fight it legally if they feel it is important. The key here is that the DMCA goes to the actual content host, Youtube. But if CloudFlare was serving Youtube and got a DMCA to takedown some video, suddenly Youtube can&#x27;t fight this in court because _its not a DMCA to YouTube but to CloudFlare_.<p>Corporations should be required to go through proper legal systems in which the content host can respond to DMCAs and fight them if they wish to. We should be afraid of giving out giant ban-hammers more than we already have.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Victory for CloudFlare Against SOPA-like Court Order</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/victory-cloudflare-against-sopa-court-order-internet-service-doesnt-have-police</url></story> |
31,170,380 | 31,166,203 | 1 | 3 | 31,153,453 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>camtarn</author><text>The article on ceramic CRTs was fascinating! I had no idea that CRTs could be made out of ceramic - I always assumed they were all glass.<p>A short excerpt:<p>&quot;Scope faceplates used to be round, simply because glass CRT bottles were round, and the faceplate was part of the bottle. Today, most faceplates are rectangular, to provide maximum display area; thus they require tubes that are rectangular in cross-section. In ceramic tubes, the glass faceplate is fused (or &#x27;fritted&#x27;) onto the ceramic envelope. That is, glass bottles <i>are</i> truly &#x27;bottles&#x27;; ceramic envelopes are more like sleeves, or funnels, open at both ends. Such a rectangular envelope requires great structural strength; to make one of glass would mean very thick walls, thus a much heavier tube. (TV cathode-ray tubes, for example, are not rectangular, but bowed on all four sides to achieve the necessary strength. That&#x27;s why your screen is the shape it is.) ... A glass bottle is spun, or blown, inside a cavity; a ceramic one is formed outside of a mold. This gives us control over the internal geometry of the tube - particularly important in post-accelerator (helix-type) CRTs. ... the large-screen CRTs required for our display units and computer terminals rely on ceramic envelopes for the necessary strength, fidelity of image, close-tolerance geometry and reasonable cost.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CRT Manufacturing</title><url>https://vintagetek.org/crt-manufacturing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>speed_spread</author><text>Getting Aperture Science vibes from this. I can&#x27;t help but imagine that everyone in the pictures died a few years later from weird and oddly specific cancers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CRT Manufacturing</title><url>https://vintagetek.org/crt-manufacturing/</url></story> |
23,200,676 | 23,199,353 | 1 | 2 | 23,189,959 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>op03</author><text>You make a very good point, but I&#x27;d like you to believe its not unfortunate.<p>Most people I know would happily sign a document that states &#x27;We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal&#x27;, even though the world shows us every single day that it isn&#x27;t true.<p>In technical fields, getting that document approved would be a nightmare.<p>Maxwell&#x27;s equations on the other hand are easy to get approval for. They are &#x27;self evident&#x27;. Because they describe what we see, not what we want to see.<p>So thank god for Jefferson penning that line down and effecting how everyone thinks, because it shows us for some problems, the ambiguous kind, were truth is what we want it to be, technical fields will struggle to provide answers.<p>Its very fortunate, esp to make progress on all the ambiguous problems, that society props up a Jefferson now and then.<p>How did Jefferson get into that position and not some jackass, is the most important question. And the answer to that, with a modern developing understanding of networks and graph theory, has only recently started moving from the abstract and ambiguous to the more technical - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=07KKYostAJ0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=07KKYostAJ0</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>vivekd</author><text>Yes, this was the opinion I came here to post, certainly my own profession of law is like this, at least where I practice in Toronto Canada but I can&#x27;t imagine other places being much different.<p>I think one advantage of computers is that what you produce at the end has to work - and if the code doesn&#x27;t work or you don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re doing, you&#x27;re quickly exposed as a fraud. This is not the case in other fields like law, academia, politics, and even the corporate world where the results and methods are more abstract and given to opinion.<p>Unfortunately much of the world is run by people who excel in the abstract fields rather than the technical ones.</text></item><item><author>kbos87</author><text>So much of everything is about connections and reputation. Tech in particular holds up a guise that people are chosen and ascend because they are “good”, meaning, they are good at what they do. That’s part of it, but it’s an insufficient part, and you can do pretty well in a career being solidly average at what you do.<p>The real currency in my experience is one thing - relationships. Do I think this person likes, respects, and would vouch for me? Everything else aside, that’s what people optimize for when they choose who to promote, respond to reference requests, and generally in who they engage with at work.<p>Oftentimes It seems like it may not even be a conscious behavior, they just know that’s who they have a gut feeling about.<p>I definitely wish this wasn’t the way of the world, as someone who isn’t a natural when it comes to building relationships in a professional setting. But I also don’t let it get me down. It’s an element of human nature that’s hidden many layers deep in the workplace.<p>When I finally faced this fact and started devoting some of the time I previously spent on hard skills, I realized it was far and away the more impactful way to allocate my resources.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/14/so-much-of-academia-is-about-connections-and-reputation-laundering/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giantDinosaur</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s true that computers are great at exposing this. Software ranges from the concrete (does this button do anything) to the abstract (does this statistical program have an off by one error that&#x27;s invisible to customers other than returning somewhat wrong results?). I think there&#x27;s two competing definitions of &#x27;work&#x27; in software - &#x27;it works&#x27; as in &#x27;allows for use&#x27; which can compete with the &#x27;implements properly&#x27;. Computers and code will brutally expose the former, since it simply will not allow you to do something if it&#x27;s broken. They don&#x27;t necessarily expose the latter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vivekd</author><text>Yes, this was the opinion I came here to post, certainly my own profession of law is like this, at least where I practice in Toronto Canada but I can&#x27;t imagine other places being much different.<p>I think one advantage of computers is that what you produce at the end has to work - and if the code doesn&#x27;t work or you don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re doing, you&#x27;re quickly exposed as a fraud. This is not the case in other fields like law, academia, politics, and even the corporate world where the results and methods are more abstract and given to opinion.<p>Unfortunately much of the world is run by people who excel in the abstract fields rather than the technical ones.</text></item><item><author>kbos87</author><text>So much of everything is about connections and reputation. Tech in particular holds up a guise that people are chosen and ascend because they are “good”, meaning, they are good at what they do. That’s part of it, but it’s an insufficient part, and you can do pretty well in a career being solidly average at what you do.<p>The real currency in my experience is one thing - relationships. Do I think this person likes, respects, and would vouch for me? Everything else aside, that’s what people optimize for when they choose who to promote, respond to reference requests, and generally in who they engage with at work.<p>Oftentimes It seems like it may not even be a conscious behavior, they just know that’s who they have a gut feeling about.<p>I definitely wish this wasn’t the way of the world, as someone who isn’t a natural when it comes to building relationships in a professional setting. But I also don’t let it get me down. It’s an element of human nature that’s hidden many layers deep in the workplace.<p>When I finally faced this fact and started devoting some of the time I previously spent on hard skills, I realized it was far and away the more impactful way to allocate my resources.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/14/so-much-of-academia-is-about-connections-and-reputation-laundering/</url></story> |
12,759,043 | 12,757,996 | 1 | 2 | 12,756,462 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rmc</author><text>&gt; <i>I would not be surprised if a face recognition NN worked better on Europeans rather than Chinese, for the prima facie reason that they have more variable facial features and other aspects like multiple hair colors other than black</i><p>To people who are used to them. i.e. to you.<p>I&#x27;m Irish, and can tell many Irish accents apart. But I&#x27;ve had people from England not being able to hear the difference between Irish accents, thinking they all just sounded Irish.<p>I&#x27;ve literally been in a group of Europeans in Africa, and Africans mixing up several of the women there, because they were all relatively tall, slim build, with longish straight brown hair.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aab0</author><text>It could also reflect what is most distinguishable. Which is easier for a NN to confidently distinguish: black pubic hair on black skin, or black pubic hair on white skin? Darker nipples on black skin, or darker nipples on white skin? etc You&#x27;re doing gradient ascent on confidence of classification, not simply trying to find a plausible input, but the <i>maximal</i> input. There&#x27;s no reason to expect this to be racially unbiased as there are simple objective reasons that higher contrast would be useful. (Similarly, I would not be surprised if a face recognition NN worked better on Europeans rather than Chinese, for the prima facie reason that they have more variable facial features and other aspects like multiple hair colors other than black.)<p>And since Yahoo needs to detect porn of all races and there&#x27;s plenty of black porn out there, it would be odd if their porn detector had such a huge gaping hole in it.</text></item><item><author>niftich</author><text>This is absolutely fascinating.<p>It&#x27;s mesmerizing to see this NSFW detection applied in reverse, and it&#x27;s even more interesting to observe your mind react to the generated images. You can see the sort-of-<i>mons pubis</i> patterns, the maybe-pubic hair, the perhaps-breasts and the suspiciously phallic appendages, complete with realistic colors.<p>Interestingly, all exposed skin suggests that the training dataset for the NSFW detection was skewed towards caucasians, given how the synthesized images are near-completely devoid of skin tones other than light pink. Perhaps this is a good visual indication of unintentional &#x27;bias&#x27; in datasets?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw</title><url>https://open_nsfw.gitlab.io/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HSO</author><text>&gt; <i>Similarly, I would not be surprised if a face recognition NN worked better on Europeans rather than Chinese, for the prima facie reason that they have more variable facial features and other aspects like multiple hair colors other than black</i><p>Hair color, yes, but facial feature variability? I think your perception of more variability in European faces than Chinese ones says more about where&#x2F;how you grew up than about the actual variability. To someone who grew up in an Asian monoculture, without exposure to media with European faces, all Europeans would look alike too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aab0</author><text>It could also reflect what is most distinguishable. Which is easier for a NN to confidently distinguish: black pubic hair on black skin, or black pubic hair on white skin? Darker nipples on black skin, or darker nipples on white skin? etc You&#x27;re doing gradient ascent on confidence of classification, not simply trying to find a plausible input, but the <i>maximal</i> input. There&#x27;s no reason to expect this to be racially unbiased as there are simple objective reasons that higher contrast would be useful. (Similarly, I would not be surprised if a face recognition NN worked better on Europeans rather than Chinese, for the prima facie reason that they have more variable facial features and other aspects like multiple hair colors other than black.)<p>And since Yahoo needs to detect porn of all races and there&#x27;s plenty of black porn out there, it would be odd if their porn detector had such a huge gaping hole in it.</text></item><item><author>niftich</author><text>This is absolutely fascinating.<p>It&#x27;s mesmerizing to see this NSFW detection applied in reverse, and it&#x27;s even more interesting to observe your mind react to the generated images. You can see the sort-of-<i>mons pubis</i> patterns, the maybe-pubic hair, the perhaps-breasts and the suspiciously phallic appendages, complete with realistic colors.<p>Interestingly, all exposed skin suggests that the training dataset for the NSFW detection was skewed towards caucasians, given how the synthesized images are near-completely devoid of skin tones other than light pink. Perhaps this is a good visual indication of unintentional &#x27;bias&#x27; in datasets?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw</title><url>https://open_nsfw.gitlab.io/</url></story> |
23,886,664 | 23,886,599 | 1 | 2 | 23,885,684 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thewarrior</author><text>It&#x27;s not hard to imagine GPT-3 writing a fake paper that gets published in certain academic journals in the social sciences. And then, it&#x27;ll be all over for us. We won&#x27;t have any more funding and our jobs will disappear. I can already hear the protests: &quot;But we&#x27;re not just scientists! We&#x27;re also philosophers!&quot; Well, yes and no. Philosophers are supposed to think about things philosophically, but they don&#x27;t actually do anything about them; they&#x27;re just entertainers. Scientists do something about them. They make things happen. And when those things happen, people take notice. If science and technology have a weakness, it&#x27;s that they work too well. This was probably a strength at one point, but not anymore. In the not-too-distant future, there probably won&#x27;t be any more philosophy professors; there will just be philosophers. But only in the same sense that there are lions and mushrooms.<p>This comment was also written by GPT-3.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>The thing that kills me is that to the <i>vast</i> majority of human beings the nonsensical technobabble above is probably indistinguishable from real, honest, logically consistent technobabble.[a]<p>Soon enough, someone will replicate the Sokal hoax[b] with GPT-3 or another state-of-the-art language-generation model. It&#x27;s not hard to imagine GPT-3 writing a fake paper that gets published in certain academic journals in the social sciences.<p>[a] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Technobabble" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Technobabble</a><p>[b] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sokal_affair" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sokal_affair</a> -- here&#x27;s a copy of Sokal&#x27;s hoax paper, &quot;Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity:&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.nyu.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;sokal&#x2F;transgress_v2&#x2F;transgress_v2_singlefile.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.nyu.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;sokal&#x2F;transgress_v2&#x2F;transgre...</a></text></item><item><author>thewarrior</author><text>I&#x27;ve started working on a version of GPT-2 which generates English text. The purpose of this is to improve its ability to predict the next character in a text, by having it learn &#x27;grammatical rules&#x27; for English. It already works well for predicting the next character when it has seen only a small amount of text, but becomes less accurate as the amount of training text increases.
I have managed to improve this by having it generate text. That is, it creates an &#x27;original&#x27; piece of text about &#x27;topic x&#x27;, then a slightly altered version of this text where one sentence has a single word changed, and this process is repeated many times (about a million). It seems to quickly learn how to vary sentences in a way that seems natural and realistic. I think the reason this works is because it reduces the chance that the grammar it has learned for one specific topic (e.g. snow) will accidentally be transferred to another topic (e.g. dogs).
Of course, this all means nothing unless it actually learns something from the process of generating text. I haven&#x27;t tried this yet, but the plan is to have it generate text about a topic, then have a second GPT-2 system try to guess what that topic is. If the resulting system is noticeably better at this task, then we know the process has increased its ability to generalize.<p>One potential issue with this approach is that the text it generates is &#x27;nonsensical&#x27;, in that it is almost like a word-salad. Although this is a standard problem with neural nets (and other machine learning algorithms), in this case the text actually is a word-salad. It seems that it has learned the rules of grammar, but not the meaning of words. It is able to string words together in a way that sounds right, but the words don&#x27;t actually mean anything.<p>Plot twist: This comment was generated by GPT-3 prompted with some of the comments in this thread.</text></item><item><author>meredydd</author><text>I am deeply enjoying this comment thread - it&#x27;s a bit of a Barium Meal [0] for determining how many people read (a) the headline, (b) the first paragraph, or (c) the whole thing before jumping straight into the compose box.<p>Having read to the bottom, the quality of text generation there absolutely blew me away. GPT-2 texts have a somewhat disconnected quality - &quot;it only makes sense if you&#x27;re not really paying attention&quot; - that this article lacks entirely. Adjacent sentences and even paragraphs are plausible neighbours. Even on re-reading more closely, it doesn&#x27;t feel like the world&#x27;s best writing, but I don&#x27;t notice major loss of coherence until the last couple of paragraphs. I am now <i>really</i> curious about the other 9 attempts that were thrown away. Are they always this good?!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Canary_trap#Barium_meal_test" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Canary_trap#Barium_meal_test</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin</title><url>https://maraoz.com/2020/07/18/openai-gpt3/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thewarrior</author><text>The thing is that this thing has now crossed into the uncanny valley. Earlier it would have great trouble making a single sentence that makes sense. You only ever remember whether the last two sentences made sense and go together. And with GPT-3 any pair of sentences always makes almost perfect sense. By the time you&#x27;re four sentences down you go wait a minute ...</text><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>The thing that kills me is that to the <i>vast</i> majority of human beings the nonsensical technobabble above is probably indistinguishable from real, honest, logically consistent technobabble.[a]<p>Soon enough, someone will replicate the Sokal hoax[b] with GPT-3 or another state-of-the-art language-generation model. It&#x27;s not hard to imagine GPT-3 writing a fake paper that gets published in certain academic journals in the social sciences.<p>[a] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Technobabble" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Technobabble</a><p>[b] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sokal_affair" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sokal_affair</a> -- here&#x27;s a copy of Sokal&#x27;s hoax paper, &quot;Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity:&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.nyu.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;sokal&#x2F;transgress_v2&#x2F;transgress_v2_singlefile.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.nyu.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;sokal&#x2F;transgress_v2&#x2F;transgre...</a></text></item><item><author>thewarrior</author><text>I&#x27;ve started working on a version of GPT-2 which generates English text. The purpose of this is to improve its ability to predict the next character in a text, by having it learn &#x27;grammatical rules&#x27; for English. It already works well for predicting the next character when it has seen only a small amount of text, but becomes less accurate as the amount of training text increases.
I have managed to improve this by having it generate text. That is, it creates an &#x27;original&#x27; piece of text about &#x27;topic x&#x27;, then a slightly altered version of this text where one sentence has a single word changed, and this process is repeated many times (about a million). It seems to quickly learn how to vary sentences in a way that seems natural and realistic. I think the reason this works is because it reduces the chance that the grammar it has learned for one specific topic (e.g. snow) will accidentally be transferred to another topic (e.g. dogs).
Of course, this all means nothing unless it actually learns something from the process of generating text. I haven&#x27;t tried this yet, but the plan is to have it generate text about a topic, then have a second GPT-2 system try to guess what that topic is. If the resulting system is noticeably better at this task, then we know the process has increased its ability to generalize.<p>One potential issue with this approach is that the text it generates is &#x27;nonsensical&#x27;, in that it is almost like a word-salad. Although this is a standard problem with neural nets (and other machine learning algorithms), in this case the text actually is a word-salad. It seems that it has learned the rules of grammar, but not the meaning of words. It is able to string words together in a way that sounds right, but the words don&#x27;t actually mean anything.<p>Plot twist: This comment was generated by GPT-3 prompted with some of the comments in this thread.</text></item><item><author>meredydd</author><text>I am deeply enjoying this comment thread - it&#x27;s a bit of a Barium Meal [0] for determining how many people read (a) the headline, (b) the first paragraph, or (c) the whole thing before jumping straight into the compose box.<p>Having read to the bottom, the quality of text generation there absolutely blew me away. GPT-2 texts have a somewhat disconnected quality - &quot;it only makes sense if you&#x27;re not really paying attention&quot; - that this article lacks entirely. Adjacent sentences and even paragraphs are plausible neighbours. Even on re-reading more closely, it doesn&#x27;t feel like the world&#x27;s best writing, but I don&#x27;t notice major loss of coherence until the last couple of paragraphs. I am now <i>really</i> curious about the other 9 attempts that were thrown away. Are they always this good?!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Canary_trap#Barium_meal_test" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Canary_trap#Barium_meal_test</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin</title><url>https://maraoz.com/2020/07/18/openai-gpt3/</url></story> |
27,831,282 | 27,831,450 | 1 | 2 | 27,830,988 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>breakfastduck</author><text>I mean, they&#x27;ve literally been discussing this as a risk themselves internally, so I&#x27;m not sure how you can be so sure of that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shmageggy</author><text>They&#x27;re in no danger of running out of people to employ. Social safety nets are too weak and economic conditions for the poor are too precarious that there are plenty of people willing to endure abusive conditions for a paycheck. The high turnover rate only ensures that they end up employing the most desperate and vulnerable.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>Isn&#x27;t Amazon&#x27;s fear of running out of people a sign of the market correcting this?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jeff Bezos’ Dystopian Legacy Goes Far Beyond Amazon</title><url>https://thewire.in/tech/jeff-bezos-dystopian-legacy-goes-far-beyond-amazon</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yossarian1408</author><text>It helps that a minimum wage and absurd regulation conspire to eliminate a good size of firms that would otherwise be competing in a fair labour market. And let&#x27;s not get started on the taxes that small and medium sized businesses have to pay, and that Amazon is exempt from.<p>Raising social safety nets would only lead to inflation, and so now you need to put a price ceiling on essential goods&amp;services, which leads to a shortage, and now you&#x27;re in a bigger mess than when you started. Inflation and shortages in the long term does <i>not</i> lead to growth, it leads too stagflation.<p>In this instance, where there is a failure in the labour market, you don&#x27;t actually have to &#x27;fix&#x27; it, you just have to give a fair labour market a chance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shmageggy</author><text>They&#x27;re in no danger of running out of people to employ. Social safety nets are too weak and economic conditions for the poor are too precarious that there are plenty of people willing to endure abusive conditions for a paycheck. The high turnover rate only ensures that they end up employing the most desperate and vulnerable.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>Isn&#x27;t Amazon&#x27;s fear of running out of people a sign of the market correcting this?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jeff Bezos’ Dystopian Legacy Goes Far Beyond Amazon</title><url>https://thewire.in/tech/jeff-bezos-dystopian-legacy-goes-far-beyond-amazon</url></story> |
20,569,972 | 20,568,521 | 1 | 2 | 20,564,382 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Already__Taken</author><text>When there&#x27;s a cure for cancer that prevents Alzheimer&#x27;s and grants immortality I&#x27;ll come to HN to find out why it&#x27;s shitty.<p>There&#x27;s a trove of clever people on HN, I never lookup usernames or track who posts what. It&#x27;s enlightening in a way to remember even smart people are still people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tristor</author><text>I&#x27;m honestly appalled at the number of comments in this thread trying to lambast Project Zero for the good work they do in improving software security. Even if Google specifically started and ran Project Zero to target competitor&#x27;s products (which they didn&#x27;t, and they don&#x27;t, there&#x27;s over 100 bugs found by P0 in Google products), it wouldn&#x27;t matter because the effect would still be that the online world is a safer place with more secure software.<p>Of all places, I thought Hacker News would have a community which understands the critical importance of security research and the fact that fixing software security bugs is a net benefit to everyone, every time, all the time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49165946</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ziddoap</author><text>This echo&#x27;s exactly what I was thinking.<p>I suppose once you hate something, it becomes impossible to acknowledge that any good can come from that thing. Which is unfortunate.<p>There is a plethora of things I really don&#x27;t like about Google, but I make a conscious effort (and it&#x27;s hard sometimes!) to acknowledge the good they do, when they do it.<p>P0 is one of the things in the &quot;good&quot; column of Google.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tristor</author><text>I&#x27;m honestly appalled at the number of comments in this thread trying to lambast Project Zero for the good work they do in improving software security. Even if Google specifically started and ran Project Zero to target competitor&#x27;s products (which they didn&#x27;t, and they don&#x27;t, there&#x27;s over 100 bugs found by P0 in Google products), it wouldn&#x27;t matter because the effect would still be that the online world is a safer place with more secure software.<p>Of all places, I thought Hacker News would have a community which understands the critical importance of security research and the fact that fixing software security bugs is a net benefit to everyone, every time, all the time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49165946</url></story> |
34,154,061 | 34,150,748 | 1 | 2 | 34,149,340 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pookha</author><text>They&#x27;ve operated without the hub-and-spoke model years but they haven&#x27;t had to operate with over 8% of their staff leaving. They&#x27;re understaffed. It was a major issue with Southwest all throughout 2022 and it got brought up on their earnings call with investors. They&#x27;re a budget airline and they can&#x27;t afford to take that kind of staffing hit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>As I understand it, Southwest is particularly badly affected by such issues because they run a lot of flights that are not in a hub-spoke model, but rather serial flights one non-hub city to the next and next (like eventually coming back in a loop). You can see this by going to Flightaware.com for example, and following back a flight&#x27;s previous destinations. See for example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flightaware.com&#x2F;live&#x2F;flight&#x2F;SWA1092&#x2F;history&#x2F;20221223&#x2F;2210Z&#x2F;KSJC&#x2F;KSAN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flightaware.com&#x2F;live&#x2F;flight&#x2F;SWA1092&#x2F;history&#x2F;20221223...</a> and &quot;track inbound plane&quot; a couple times.<p>They jump around the country, much less frequently going back to a hub as other airlines do. That means that the planes and crews have a relatively harder time recovering from system-wide disasters because they don&#x27;t have as part of normal operations as much ability to centralize or pool resources and get people&#x2F;planes reorganized. (everyone go back to base, consolidate passengers, crew, planes and redeploy them and sort things out in one place)<p>Unfortunate, but that&#x27;s their model. Good for some purposes, not so good for others. Maybe it&#x27;s them being quirky and an active choice. I mean, up until a few years ago they did not fly to Hawaii because their scheduling system &#x2F; people &#x2F; processes did not want to have redeye flights.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2022/12/26/1145536902/southwest-flight-cancellations-winter-storm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I don’t fly much but I noticed things like “the same flight number takes off at the same time each day and is always the same plane as a different flight number coming the other direction.”<p>It must really help all the employees with routine and consistency even if it’s not optimal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>As I understand it, Southwest is particularly badly affected by such issues because they run a lot of flights that are not in a hub-spoke model, but rather serial flights one non-hub city to the next and next (like eventually coming back in a loop). You can see this by going to Flightaware.com for example, and following back a flight&#x27;s previous destinations. See for example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flightaware.com&#x2F;live&#x2F;flight&#x2F;SWA1092&#x2F;history&#x2F;20221223&#x2F;2210Z&#x2F;KSJC&#x2F;KSAN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flightaware.com&#x2F;live&#x2F;flight&#x2F;SWA1092&#x2F;history&#x2F;20221223...</a> and &quot;track inbound plane&quot; a couple times.<p>They jump around the country, much less frequently going back to a hub as other airlines do. That means that the planes and crews have a relatively harder time recovering from system-wide disasters because they don&#x27;t have as part of normal operations as much ability to centralize or pool resources and get people&#x2F;planes reorganized. (everyone go back to base, consolidate passengers, crew, planes and redeploy them and sort things out in one place)<p>Unfortunate, but that&#x27;s their model. Good for some purposes, not so good for others. Maybe it&#x27;s them being quirky and an active choice. I mean, up until a few years ago they did not fly to Hawaii because their scheduling system &#x2F; people &#x2F; processes did not want to have redeye flights.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2022/12/26/1145536902/southwest-flight-cancellations-winter-storm</url></story> |
19,806,342 | 19,806,262 | 1 | 2 | 19,802,284 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FartyMcFarter</author><text>They are still misreprenting their self-driving capabilities in their marketing materials:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;en_GB&#x2F;autopilot?redirect=no" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;en_GB&#x2F;autopilot?redirect=no</a><p>In the beginning of this video there&#x27;s the caption &quot;The person in the driver&#x27;s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.&quot;<p>If the lawyers in this lawsuit are any good they will have a field day with this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rolleiflex</author><text>I&#x27;m paraphrasing from the last time this was posted, but Tesla&#x27;s words need to be read <i>very</i> carefully. What they say is:<p><i>&gt; the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision</i><p>What Tesla does <i>not</i> say is that the six seconds the driver&#x27;s hands were not on the wheel was immediately preceding the crash. It is <i>any</i> six seconds before the crash.<p>Admittedly this is a very dark reading, however, this reading is supported by their further claims that the driver &#x27;had multiple warnings&#x27;, which was in fact fifteen minutes ago, and for an unrelated event.<p>This is the kind of sketchiness that makes people wary of Tesla. Funny thing is, they make cool tech, they don&#x27;t need to do any of this, nor things like discounting the &#x27;gas savings&#x27; from the sticker price. I genuinely don&#x27;t understand where their apparent need for pushing the definition of truth to its breaking point is coming from.<p>Had they not openly misrepresented their autopilots&#x27; capabilities, they wouldn&#x27;t have lie in this bed of their own making now.</text></item><item><author>sytelus</author><text>Tesla&#x27;s blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;en_GB&#x2F;blog&#x2F;update-last-week’s-accident" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;en_GB&#x2F;blog&#x2F;update-last-week’s-accident</a><p><i>the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision. The driver had about five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider</i><p>Looks like sensors failed to see concrete divider in nice sunny weather and car slammed in to it at 70mph. Driver was obviously over confident on system&#x27;s ability to self-drive, probably busy looking at phone and ignored warnings to put his hands on steering.<p><i>In the US, there is one automotive fatality every 86 million miles across all vehicles from all manufacturers. For Tesla, there is one fatality, including known pedestrian fatalities, every 320 million miles in vehicles equipped with Autopilot hardware. If you are driving a Tesla equipped with Autopilot hardware, you are 3.7 times less likely to be involved in a fatal accident.</i><p>These stats don&#x27;t help when you read the guy had two kids who will now grow up fatherless for rest of their lives. Humans killing humans is very different thing than machines killing humans even if the fatality rates are 10X lower. Companies need to aggressively enforce, both hands on steering until self-driving is really really really good.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/01/tesla-sued-in-wrongful-death-lawsuit-that-alleges-autopilot-caused-crash/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pteraspidomorph</author><text>That&#x27;s not what I read in this article.<p>&gt; Huang’s hands were detected on the steering wheel only 34 seconds during the last minute before impact.<p>If during the last minute before impact the hands were missing for any 26 seconds, then it makes no sense to say that they were missing for any 6 seconds. The 6 seconds can only be consecutive before the impact, right?</text><parent_chain><item><author>rolleiflex</author><text>I&#x27;m paraphrasing from the last time this was posted, but Tesla&#x27;s words need to be read <i>very</i> carefully. What they say is:<p><i>&gt; the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision</i><p>What Tesla does <i>not</i> say is that the six seconds the driver&#x27;s hands were not on the wheel was immediately preceding the crash. It is <i>any</i> six seconds before the crash.<p>Admittedly this is a very dark reading, however, this reading is supported by their further claims that the driver &#x27;had multiple warnings&#x27;, which was in fact fifteen minutes ago, and for an unrelated event.<p>This is the kind of sketchiness that makes people wary of Tesla. Funny thing is, they make cool tech, they don&#x27;t need to do any of this, nor things like discounting the &#x27;gas savings&#x27; from the sticker price. I genuinely don&#x27;t understand where their apparent need for pushing the definition of truth to its breaking point is coming from.<p>Had they not openly misrepresented their autopilots&#x27; capabilities, they wouldn&#x27;t have lie in this bed of their own making now.</text></item><item><author>sytelus</author><text>Tesla&#x27;s blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;en_GB&#x2F;blog&#x2F;update-last-week’s-accident" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;en_GB&#x2F;blog&#x2F;update-last-week’s-accident</a><p><i>the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision. The driver had about five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider</i><p>Looks like sensors failed to see concrete divider in nice sunny weather and car slammed in to it at 70mph. Driver was obviously over confident on system&#x27;s ability to self-drive, probably busy looking at phone and ignored warnings to put his hands on steering.<p><i>In the US, there is one automotive fatality every 86 million miles across all vehicles from all manufacturers. For Tesla, there is one fatality, including known pedestrian fatalities, every 320 million miles in vehicles equipped with Autopilot hardware. If you are driving a Tesla equipped with Autopilot hardware, you are 3.7 times less likely to be involved in a fatal accident.</i><p>These stats don&#x27;t help when you read the guy had two kids who will now grow up fatherless for rest of their lives. Humans killing humans is very different thing than machines killing humans even if the fatality rates are 10X lower. Companies need to aggressively enforce, both hands on steering until self-driving is really really really good.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/01/tesla-sued-in-wrongful-death-lawsuit-that-alleges-autopilot-caused-crash/</url></story> |
40,763,913 | 40,762,930 | 1 | 3 | 40,754,471 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexwasserman</author><text>A neighbor gave me his aging Apple ColorSync 850 back around 1999&#x2F;2000 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;everymac.com&#x2F;monitors&#x2F;apple&#x2F;applevision_colorsync&#x2F;specs&#x2F;applevision_850.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;everymac.com&#x2F;monitors&#x2F;apple&#x2F;applevision_colorsync&#x2F;sp...</a><p>67.4 lbs, but 20&quot; and 1600x1200, which was incredible 25 years ago. It was by far the best monitor of my friend group, despite the heft.<p>It took a long time to find an LCD to replace it with.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throw0101d</author><text>As one of my last monitors before LCDs took over, I had a 21-inch Sun, and boy was that sucker <i>heavy</i> (&gt;30 kgs (&gt;65 lbs)):<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dogemicrosystems.ca&#x2F;pub&#x2F;Sun&#x2F;System_Handbook&#x2F;Sun_syshbk_V3.4&#x2F;Devices&#x2F;Monitor&#x2F;MONITOR_Color_21_Prem_Flat_CRT.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dogemicrosystems.ca&#x2F;pub&#x2F;Sun&#x2F;System_Handbook&#x2F;Sun_sysh...</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dogemicrosystems.ca&#x2F;pub&#x2F;Sun&#x2F;System_Handbook&#x2F;Sun_syshbk_V3.4&#x2F;Devices&#x2F;Monitor&#x2F;MONITOR_Color_21_Prem_CRT.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dogemicrosystems.ca&#x2F;pub&#x2F;Sun&#x2F;System_Handbook&#x2F;Sun_sysh...</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dogemicrosystems.ca&#x2F;pub&#x2F;Sun&#x2F;System_Handbook&#x2F;Sun_syshbk_V3.4&#x2F;Devices&#x2F;Monitor&#x2F;MONITOR_TOC.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dogemicrosystems.ca&#x2F;pub&#x2F;Sun&#x2F;System_Handbook&#x2F;Sun_sysh...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300</title><url>https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-biggest-crt-ever-made-sonys-pvm-4300/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmitshur</author><text>I had that model too, acquired back when university classrooms were ditching them in favor of their first slimmer LCDs. I let it go during a move, and have missed it ever since.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throw0101d</author><text>As one of my last monitors before LCDs took over, I had a 21-inch Sun, and boy was that sucker <i>heavy</i> (&gt;30 kgs (&gt;65 lbs)):<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dogemicrosystems.ca&#x2F;pub&#x2F;Sun&#x2F;System_Handbook&#x2F;Sun_syshbk_V3.4&#x2F;Devices&#x2F;Monitor&#x2F;MONITOR_Color_21_Prem_Flat_CRT.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dogemicrosystems.ca&#x2F;pub&#x2F;Sun&#x2F;System_Handbook&#x2F;Sun_sysh...</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dogemicrosystems.ca&#x2F;pub&#x2F;Sun&#x2F;System_Handbook&#x2F;Sun_syshbk_V3.4&#x2F;Devices&#x2F;Monitor&#x2F;MONITOR_Color_21_Prem_CRT.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dogemicrosystems.ca&#x2F;pub&#x2F;Sun&#x2F;System_Handbook&#x2F;Sun_sysh...</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dogemicrosystems.ca&#x2F;pub&#x2F;Sun&#x2F;System_Handbook&#x2F;Sun_syshbk_V3.4&#x2F;Devices&#x2F;Monitor&#x2F;MONITOR_TOC.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dogemicrosystems.ca&#x2F;pub&#x2F;Sun&#x2F;System_Handbook&#x2F;Sun_sysh...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300</title><url>https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-biggest-crt-ever-made-sonys-pvm-4300/</url></story> |
36,836,803 | 36,837,000 | 1 | 2 | 36,836,530 | 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>jmclnx</author><text>&gt;Supreme Court might be sympathetic to some of the industry’s arguments<p>No surprise here, the US Supreme Court is now just like the rest of the US Gov, they are very happy to take bribes. And due to how the US Gov is structured, no way to stop them from holding out their hand. So getting appointed to that Court is a great gig, you do not even have to care about the law these days.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Drugmakers are ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ to halt Medicare price negotiations</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/politics/medicare-drug-price-negotiations-lawsuits.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>Justsignedup</author><text>An industry that heavily lobbied for a law which heavily boosts their profits wants to heavily lobby against the destruction of such a law? Shocked. &#x2F;s<p>Honestly I see no theoretical benefit to not allowing the government to negotiate. Maybe there is a practical one?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Drugmakers are ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ to halt Medicare price negotiations</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/politics/medicare-drug-price-negotiations-lawsuits.html</url></story> |
9,116,307 | 9,115,649 | 1 | 2 | 9,115,231 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reissbaker</author><text>This is nice for some pretty limited use cases, but the most common use case for multithreading in app-like programs (which is what Worker-based apps presumably service: these are not documents) is removing latency from the UI thread. But as long as only the main thread can touch the UI, and the main thread also can&#x27;t access shared memory, this limits uses of this to scenarios where copying the entire render state from a Worker is reasonably fast — in which case, Workers currently already solve the problem. This proposed implementation of shared memory doesn&#x27;t actually solve one of the big remaining needs for shared memory, which is when it&#x27;s prohibitively expensive to copy state between a Worker thread and the UI thread at 60fps.<p>For example, Workers aren&#x27;t particularly useful for games in their current iteration: the overhead of copying the state of the world back to the rendering thread is high. This is exactly the problem that shared memory <i>would</i> solve, were it not limited to Workers. This puts web export (or even primary web-based game authorship) at a significant disadvantage as compared to native apps: native code can share memory, and web-based implementations can&#x27;t. In many cases architectures that are optimal for shared-memory threading are pathological when the rendering thread requires copies, meaning that threading gets thrown out the window for web. Even with asm.js-compiled &quot;near-native&quot; performance on the single core, you can only use 25% of the available CPU if you can&#x27;t use multithreading. A 4x performance hit is the difference between 60fps and 15fps... Or 15fps and ~4fps.<p>The title of the blog post got me pretty excited, but the proposal is fairly disappointing in terms of unlocking better performance for web apps. The use cases here are pretty limited to things like CPU-bound number crunching, and I doubt too many people are running machine learning algorithms in a browser as compared to the number people who&#x27;re using browsers to, y&#x27;know, render UIs. By all means scope the problem down to sharing primitive data in ArrayBuffers — we can build abstractions on top of that! — but limiting it to Worker threads makes it near-useless for most web applications. Workers already solve the use cases for UIs that can tolerate copies between the UI thread and the Worker threads, and this proposal doesn&#x27;t allow us to solve needs for UIs that can&#x27;t.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Path to Parallel JavaScript</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2015/02/26/the-path-to-parallel-javascript/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amelius</author><text>Great developments, since, imho, we really need multi-threading to make decent user-interfaces (ones without hick-ups due to blocking of the cpu-resource).<p>I think what we need is immutable data-structures to be shareable between threads. This approach should also allow structural sharing between threads, allowing for efficient and safe data structures.<p>Also, I could see a use for a mechanism where a thread creates a data-structure, then marks it as read-only, such that it can become shared.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Path to Parallel JavaScript</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2015/02/26/the-path-to-parallel-javascript/</url></story> |
10,428,726 | 10,428,710 | 1 | 2 | 10,428,491 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>Using an AOL email without any form of two-factor authentication should preclude you from serving as director of the CIA.<p>How can these top government officials be so clueless about email security when they know first-hand how effective our own intelligence agencies are at reading everyone&#x27;s email?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CIA Director John Brennan emails</title><url>https://wikileaks.org/cia-emails/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nobrains</author><text>The one to change allowed torture techniques from a whitelist to a blacklist is scary. Its even phrased to sound like a good thing &quot;I urge you to consider my proposal to ban the use of certain harsh interrogation techniques expressly prohibited by the Army Field Manual&quot;. And the specific prohibitions looks like a list of Iraq abuse leaked pictures checklist (pose in sexual manner, hood, using dogs, etc.), so the army is free to &quot;invent&quot; new inhuman techniques.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CIA Director John Brennan emails</title><url>https://wikileaks.org/cia-emails/</url></story> |
11,136,741 | 11,136,168 | 1 | 3 | 11,136,041 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tolmasky</author><text>This is a great move and hopefully inspires people to take a different look at what versioning is. Right now it serves two masters: marketing and engineering. If everyone just used semver as almost build numbers with meaning, and completely put aside the &#x27;hidden meanings&#x27; of 1.x.y or 2.z.w, we&#x27;d be in a much better place.<p>The main issue with getting hung up on &quot;what is a 1.0&quot; or &quot;when is this 2.0?&quot; is that even if you finally make sense of it for YOURSELF, everyone outside has such a different interpretation that its meaningless no matter what. However, semver for engineering changes has meaning no matter what. Why hurt your users by introducing a breaking API change in the minor category just because &quot;it doesn&#x27;t feel like a major change&quot;?<p>I wish we could just rename version to build, have it be semver and be done with it. Then version can be whatever you want and is completely ignored by computers and engineers. Call it version 1.0, version dog, version whatever &quot;feels&quot; right, while we start moving to a world where we can start maker safer decisions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Versioning Scheme for React</title><url>https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/02/19/new-versioning-scheme.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>Hovertruck</author><text>Surprised they didn&#x27;t start at 1.0. I understand what they&#x27;re saying with the reasoning, but I don&#x27;t think I agree with it.<p>Not that it really matters, I guess.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Versioning Scheme for React</title><url>https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/02/19/new-versioning-scheme.html</url></story> |
40,798,651 | 40,798,390 | 1 | 2 | 40,786,640 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Perseids</author><text>&gt; At the end of the day it should only matter if Microsoft&#x27;s practices are hurting consumers rather than their competitors.<p>Focusing on short term repercussions for consumers has significantly hurt long term consumer interests and there is evidence that it hurt the economy in general. In the decades preceding the 1980s it was generally understood that competition itself is a necessity for effective free markets and that extreme power concentration (as we e.g. see today in the IT sector) is hard to reconcile with efficient markets and political freedom.<p>See [1] for details, here is an excerpt:<p>&gt; An emerging group of young scholars are inquiring whether we truly benefitted from competition with little antitrust enforcement. The mounting evidence suggests no. New business formation has steadily declined as a share of the economy since the late 1970s. “In 1982, young firms [those five-years old or younger] accounted for about half of all firms, and one-fifth of total employment,” observed Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. But by 2013, these figures fell “to about one-third of firms and one-tenth of total employment.” Competition is decreasing in many significant markets, as they become concentrated. Greater profits are falling in the hands of fewer firms. “More than 75% of US industries have experienced an increase in concentration levels over the last two decades,” one recent study found. “Firms in industries with the largest increases in product market concentration have enjoyed higher profit margins, positive abnormal stock returns, and more profitable M&amp;A deals, which suggests that market power is becoming an important source of value.” Since the late 1970s, wealth inequality has grown, and worker mobility has declined. Labor’s share of income in the nonfarm business sector was in the mid-60 percentage points for several decades after WWII, but that too has declined since 2000 to the mid-50s. Despite the higher returns to capital, businesses in markets with rising concentration and less competition are investing relatively less. This investment gap, one study found, is driven by industry leaders who have higher profit margins.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;HEik3#selection-1737.0-1737.346" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;HEik3#selection-1737.0-1737.346</a> (original: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-the-u-s-antitrust-movement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-the-u-s...</a> )</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wytwwww</author><text>That&#x27;s am understandable perspective but wouldn&#x27;t this more or less apply to any product any large company is selling as part of a bundle?<p>e.g. selling Word&#x2F;Excel&#x2F;PowerPoint together is hurting any start-up that might want to enter the document processing&#x2F;spreadsheet&#x2F;etc markets? Free browsers killed the entire market that was starting to appear in the 90s etc. etc.<p>Should office suites be banned? Should Adobe be only allowed to sell subscriptions&#x2F;licenses for individual apps?<p>At the end of the day it should only matter if Microsoft&#x27;s practices are hurting consumers rather than their competitors.</text></item><item><author>farhadhf</author><text>This essentially killed my (EU-based) startup in the project management and collaborate space. Before MSFT bundled Teams with O365 we were rapidly growing and closing enterprise customers in the automotive, energy and education industries with high retention rates. Right around the time the Teams bundling started our retention dropped, churn went through the roof, growth slowed down, we failed to raise our next round because of it and had to drastically downsize the company, causing even more churn (about 80% net churn in 2 years). This move by the EU is good, but too little too late - 99% of the companies that were hurt by this have already shut down, and the ones still running will take years to recover...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-teams-eu-european-union-antitrust-26d11ada00f504d537d1b054dd6f6bbf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swores</author><text>&gt; <i>At the end of the day it should only matter if Microsoft&#x27;s practices are hurting consumers rather than their competitors.</i><p>On the one hand that&#x27;s a broadly reasonable goal, however the point of having laws preventing anti-competitive behaviour is founded in the logic that one company unfairly preventing there being competition from other companies is in itself a form of consumer harm due to the fact that it both prevents consumers from having choice, and also therefore in the longer term allows the monopolistic company to raise prices without consumers having any option other than to pay more or go without.<p>So in reality the harming or competitors can be considered the harming of consumers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wytwwww</author><text>That&#x27;s am understandable perspective but wouldn&#x27;t this more or less apply to any product any large company is selling as part of a bundle?<p>e.g. selling Word&#x2F;Excel&#x2F;PowerPoint together is hurting any start-up that might want to enter the document processing&#x2F;spreadsheet&#x2F;etc markets? Free browsers killed the entire market that was starting to appear in the 90s etc. etc.<p>Should office suites be banned? Should Adobe be only allowed to sell subscriptions&#x2F;licenses for individual apps?<p>At the end of the day it should only matter if Microsoft&#x27;s practices are hurting consumers rather than their competitors.</text></item><item><author>farhadhf</author><text>This essentially killed my (EU-based) startup in the project management and collaborate space. Before MSFT bundled Teams with O365 we were rapidly growing and closing enterprise customers in the automotive, energy and education industries with high retention rates. Right around the time the Teams bundling started our retention dropped, churn went through the roof, growth slowed down, we failed to raise our next round because of it and had to drastically downsize the company, causing even more churn (about 80% net churn in 2 years). This move by the EU is good, but too little too late - 99% of the companies that were hurt by this have already shut down, and the ones still running will take years to recover...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-teams-eu-european-union-antitrust-26d11ada00f504d537d1b054dd6f6bbf</url></story> |
39,949,575 | 39,949,496 | 1 | 2 | 39,946,169 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chii</author><text>&gt; The use of IDE can make you know less about project at hand<p>i disagree.<p>Someone who&#x27;s not interested in the project might know less (but is still able to accomplish their task), where as without such an IDE, they will have to learn a lot first. It&#x27;s one reason why beginner java courses at university asks you not to use an IDE (at least for the first few tutorials learning the basics).<p>But this isn&#x27;t the fault of the IDE at all, and simply just reflect the motivations of the person using it.<p>An IDE makes someone motivated to learn be more capable. It&#x27;s a multiplier&#x2F;enabler.<p>&gt; less of a thinking person.<p>no, it makes you think less unimportant stuff, and thus have more to dedicate to the important stuff. Effortless navigation in an IDE (like intellij) means you can move through the call graph of an application without having to see&#x2F;understand the entire application completely.<p>The same can be said for LLMs - may be not today&#x27;s, since it&#x27;s still early, but at some point these LLM tools will make trivial&#x2F;unimportant things easy, leaving time for you to focus on the things the LLM can&#x27;t do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thesz</author><text>The reliance on the tool in front of you can constrain you.<p>Some tools are fads, some make you less of a thinking person.<p>When I faced a second wave of IDEs I figured that any IDE is a fad - there will be better IDE in near future and your boss will require you to use it.<p>The use of IDE can make you know less about project at hand, because you always can investigate, as opposed to internalize&#x2F;remember. The difference? If you know internal relations, you can judge changes easier. You are better programmer that way and I would say a better person.<p>The same goes to LMs - they help you not to know&#x2F;remember and&#x2F;or create thoughtfully. LMs constrain you to not know fully.</text></item><item><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>I don’t disagree much with the paper’s premise, except that I am turned off whenever there is a handy new tool for us to use and then some people come up with reasons why using the new tool is a harmful thing to do.<p>We humans evolved to be very flexible and naturally use what is in front of us to solve whatever problems we need to solve. For some tasks LLMs are very useful and for other tasks they don’t offer much help. I feel sorry for people who don’t learn how to use common tools because they are stuck in place or have unreasonable fears.<p>It is reasonable to worry about how powerful actors might use AI for surveillance and removing privacy rights, but I strongly disagree that it is a bad thing for individuals to sometimes save time and sometimes get better results by manually using tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT, and automating things using LLMs as sources of general common sense knowledge, as language processors, data transformation, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03502</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>williamcotton</author><text>And the written word helps you to not remember anything, to paraphrase Socrates, so better get to memorizing the Odyssey so you can be an even better person.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thesz</author><text>The reliance on the tool in front of you can constrain you.<p>Some tools are fads, some make you less of a thinking person.<p>When I faced a second wave of IDEs I figured that any IDE is a fad - there will be better IDE in near future and your boss will require you to use it.<p>The use of IDE can make you know less about project at hand, because you always can investigate, as opposed to internalize&#x2F;remember. The difference? If you know internal relations, you can judge changes easier. You are better programmer that way and I would say a better person.<p>The same goes to LMs - they help you not to know&#x2F;remember and&#x2F;or create thoughtfully. LMs constrain you to not know fully.</text></item><item><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>I don’t disagree much with the paper’s premise, except that I am turned off whenever there is a handy new tool for us to use and then some people come up with reasons why using the new tool is a harmful thing to do.<p>We humans evolved to be very flexible and naturally use what is in front of us to solve whatever problems we need to solve. For some tasks LLMs are very useful and for other tasks they don’t offer much help. I feel sorry for people who don’t learn how to use common tools because they are stuck in place or have unreasonable fears.<p>It is reasonable to worry about how powerful actors might use AI for surveillance and removing privacy rights, but I strongly disagree that it is a bad thing for individuals to sometimes save time and sometimes get better results by manually using tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT, and automating things using LLMs as sources of general common sense knowledge, as language processors, data transformation, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03502</url></story> |
29,068,649 | 29,067,576 | 1 | 3 | 29,064,100 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rcconf</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree. Apple is definitely a cool brand because what is the alternatives in the phone space for being cool? I can guarantee you that no one thinks Android devices are &quot;cool&quot; amongst the younger generation.<p>Apple is doing a fantastic job right now and I believe they&#x27;re going to do great in the next 10 years because of one really simple fact:<p>Apple makes great products that just work and look great. No other company has been able to do that. I was just gifted a Fitbit and it failed about 5 times to pair to my phone. I restarted both the device (5x) and phone and it finally worked. How easy do you think it was for my girlfriend to setup her Apple watch? That&#x27;s when I was reminded why Apple is #1.<p>I think Apple should continue what they&#x27;re doing, create great products that just work and look great. It doesn&#x27;t matter what the next 10 years looks like if they can continue doing that and I really think they can.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>Apple is on the way to having the same problem as Facebook - becoming an uncool brand for older people.<p>The under-30s increasingly care about climate change and other more immediate threats. Unless they have Type 1 diabetes, blood glucose is not an issue for them.<p>Apple under Jobs did a solid job of making <i>cool</i> lifestyle accessories for all ages and genders.<p>Apple under Cook has drifted towards a kind of white picket Disneyfied techtopia, where the sun always shines, people always smile, everyone is very creative and colourful but also professional, fit, and focused. And it&#x27;s somehow very sterile and boring.<p>As a result Apple missed out on the user-generated content wave, which was owned by YouTube and then TikTok. Apple already had some of the basic infrastructure in place with podcasting, but a middle aged outlook meant it missed the (mildly but interestingly) anarchic possibilities.<p>And that&#x27;s going to be a problem for the future. Jobs was anarchic enough to want to shake things up but stable enough to make the shaking work (mostly).<p>Cook is small-c conservative, safe, and suburban in outlook. And now Apple is too.<p>Asking what The Next Big Consumer Thing will be is already missing the point because it assumes a model where there is a Next Big Consumer Thing and it&#x27;s important enough to matter.<p>Ten years from now that&#x27;s going to look like a weird and dated assumption. There will be much more chaos and uncertainty, and I suspect Big Consumer Things will be less important to everyone than they are now, and the people who are in their 10s-20s-30s now will be looking for something entirely different.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple: Ten Years Forward</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/apple-ten-years-forward-10dfabf00706?gi=665f5d3c344f</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>The-Bus</author><text>&gt; As a result Apple missed out on the user-generated content wave, which was owned by YouTube and then TikTok.<p>I don&#x27;t disagree with your take on Apple&#x27;s perception. However, I don&#x27;t think UGC is the end-all be-all. UGC is only useful for companies in the sense that it drives advertising. By changing its Privacy policies, Apple has managed to triple its advertising revenue in the last six months, now at $5B, with expectations of reaching $20B in three years.[1]<p>UGC is nice, but so is having the hardware and OS that the UGC runs on.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;074b881f-a931-4986-888e-2ac53e286b9d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;074b881f-a931-4986-888e-2ac53e286...</a> ($)</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>Apple is on the way to having the same problem as Facebook - becoming an uncool brand for older people.<p>The under-30s increasingly care about climate change and other more immediate threats. Unless they have Type 1 diabetes, blood glucose is not an issue for them.<p>Apple under Jobs did a solid job of making <i>cool</i> lifestyle accessories for all ages and genders.<p>Apple under Cook has drifted towards a kind of white picket Disneyfied techtopia, where the sun always shines, people always smile, everyone is very creative and colourful but also professional, fit, and focused. And it&#x27;s somehow very sterile and boring.<p>As a result Apple missed out on the user-generated content wave, which was owned by YouTube and then TikTok. Apple already had some of the basic infrastructure in place with podcasting, but a middle aged outlook meant it missed the (mildly but interestingly) anarchic possibilities.<p>And that&#x27;s going to be a problem for the future. Jobs was anarchic enough to want to shake things up but stable enough to make the shaking work (mostly).<p>Cook is small-c conservative, safe, and suburban in outlook. And now Apple is too.<p>Asking what The Next Big Consumer Thing will be is already missing the point because it assumes a model where there is a Next Big Consumer Thing and it&#x27;s important enough to matter.<p>Ten years from now that&#x27;s going to look like a weird and dated assumption. There will be much more chaos and uncertainty, and I suspect Big Consumer Things will be less important to everyone than they are now, and the people who are in their 10s-20s-30s now will be looking for something entirely different.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple: Ten Years Forward</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/apple-ten-years-forward-10dfabf00706?gi=665f5d3c344f</url></story> |
30,004,301 | 30,003,044 | 1 | 2 | 29,989,884 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Axsuul</author><text>That&#x27;s so cool! It really feels like tech best practices have made lots of headway in the past 5 years within the U.S. government. Looks like this analytics frontend was brought to us by 18F, with the codebase even hosted on GitHub[0]. Other governments in the US also seem to be using this like the city of Los Angeles[1].<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;18F&#x2F;analytics.usa.gov" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;18F&#x2F;analytics.usa.gov</a><p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;analyticsdash-46.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;analyticsdash-46.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>johnbatch</author><text>I just discover that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;analytics.usa.gov" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;analytics.usa.gov</a> exists to show the number of users on the site and other participating .gov sites in real time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Examining the covidtests.gov architecture</title><url>https://adhoc.team/2022/01/18/covidtests-usps-aws-managed-services/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roughly</author><text>Boy, a look at that site and you see why this was hosted by USPS - almost 200M hits to USPS properties in the last 7 days. I’d been tangentially aware of USPS’s pretty solid improvements to their digital architecture&#x2F;offerings, but I didn’t realize they’d grown that much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>johnbatch</author><text>I just discover that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;analytics.usa.gov" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;analytics.usa.gov</a> exists to show the number of users on the site and other participating .gov sites in real time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Examining the covidtests.gov architecture</title><url>https://adhoc.team/2022/01/18/covidtests-usps-aws-managed-services/</url></story> |
7,412,195 | 7,412,198 | 1 | 2 | 7,411,919 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hobs</author><text>I agree that the title is linkbait, but an ineffective amount of bureaucracy can definitely be turned or perceived as malicious.<p>I read about this originally when they made the rule and it seemed arcane and ridiculous, I dont know how it ever was passed. I believe everyone who some experience with whois info knows the information is either false or hidden behind privacy emails and contact information. If they are not, they are subject to annoying or even abusive misuse. (I remember someone back in the day calling me repeatedly because they found my website after I beat them in some video game, the internet is filled with nutters.)<p>If ICANN wants to know the details, I dont care, but if all the internet wants my phone number, they can take a long walk off of a short pier.</text><parent_chain><item><author>akerl_</author><text>The title is pretty much linkbait.<p>If you change registrar-level things about your domain, they&#x27;re now required to confirm your contact info with you. This isn&#x27;t a &quot;DDoS&quot;, or &quot;deadly&quot;, or any of that nonsense: it&#x27;s a new strategy to ensure whois data stays updated.<p>Whether or not it&#x27;s an <i>effective</i> strategy for keeping whois data accurate is another debate (I don&#x27;t think it is), but talking about it like some malicious act is pointless.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As Deadly as a DDoS: ICANN Unleashes the Whois Accuracy Program</title><url>http://blog.easydns.org/2014/01/21/icann-unleashes-deadliest-ddos-attack-vector-of-2014/?</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>The end of the article raised a good point though: this is going to train people to click on links in emails that look like they came from their registrar.<p>That&#x27;s bad.<p>The registrar is public information. The registrant&#x27;s contact information is public (or at least publicly accessible). So, wait a year for people to get accustomed to clicking on links in emails from their registrar, pick a target domain, forge an email from the registrar, send it to owner contact with a link to a phishing page. Congratulations, enjoy your new domain.</text><parent_chain><item><author>akerl_</author><text>The title is pretty much linkbait.<p>If you change registrar-level things about your domain, they&#x27;re now required to confirm your contact info with you. This isn&#x27;t a &quot;DDoS&quot;, or &quot;deadly&quot;, or any of that nonsense: it&#x27;s a new strategy to ensure whois data stays updated.<p>Whether or not it&#x27;s an <i>effective</i> strategy for keeping whois data accurate is another debate (I don&#x27;t think it is), but talking about it like some malicious act is pointless.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As Deadly as a DDoS: ICANN Unleashes the Whois Accuracy Program</title><url>http://blog.easydns.org/2014/01/21/icann-unleashes-deadliest-ddos-attack-vector-of-2014/?</url></story> |
11,646,667 | 11,646,709 | 1 | 3 | 11,645,428 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ppereira</author><text>There is quite a bit of anger and little fact in this comment. GiveDirectly has been running UBI programs in East Africa for years now. They have an all-star cast of economists examining their performance. Their pilot programs were very successful, which is why they are scaling out further.<p>East Africa, and Kenya in particular, was carefully chosen for two reasons. First, Kenya has a mobile phone network that makes it easy to transfer funds electronically to individuals and then for those individuals to get cash from the funds at local stores. I wish we had this in the West, but we don&#x27;t because of banking regulations. Second, poorer households in certain communities tend to use natural roofing materials rather than aluminum, which makes it easy to target funding by satellite.<p>The UBI is a political football in the West. The Mincome experiment was cancelled because of a change in government.
The potential utility benefits from a UBI are so great that it would be a shame to think that we have to wait for it to be politically palatable in the West before we can get any data on its effectiveness. Also, as far as poverty relief is concerned, money really does help.</text><parent_chain><item><author>scottrogowski</author><text>While I find UBI to be a fascinating idea worthy of consideration, I vehemently disagree with running this experiment in East Africa. The proposal seems to either be blind-to or minimizing the potential for unintended consequences. Decades of trying to alleviate poverty in Africa have taught us, more than anything else, that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Giving food tends to act as “dumping” and weaken the agricultural industry. Providing foreign aid tends to empower corrupt governments. These consequences only became clear after years of hindsight. Who knows what unintended side effects of UBI will be?<p>If we are going to try UBI, a fundamentally Western idea, it’s only right that it should be tried in the West. I’m not saying it won’t work - just that we don’t really know what will happen. East Africa has suffered enough from our neo-colonial experiments.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to East Africa</title><url>https://givedirectly.org/basic-income</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jefe_</author><text>When people in Haiti receive bags of USAID Rice (grown elsewhere) for free, there no longer is a need for Haitian Grown Rice and it hurts local farmers. I&#x27;m not sure this translates to direct injections of cash however. I&#x27;ve spent time in East Africa and everyone always asks, what does Africa &#x27;need.&#x27; I typically say: money. There are lots of great ideas and lots of enterprising people at all social levels of the region, but the one thing between everyone and further development is personal income. There are roads being built by China, Water is the next big infrastructure requirement, but as for the average person in East Africa, an injection of steady cash is world changing. The only way the plan becomes toxic is if the guaranteed income ever goes away, which is an admittedly massive qualifier, but if a plan can be devised to incorporate money management resources and nationwide healthy spending mindsets, and the plan can be supported indefinitely, it has the potential to radically change the day to day experience of many people in the region.</text><parent_chain><item><author>scottrogowski</author><text>While I find UBI to be a fascinating idea worthy of consideration, I vehemently disagree with running this experiment in East Africa. The proposal seems to either be blind-to or minimizing the potential for unintended consequences. Decades of trying to alleviate poverty in Africa have taught us, more than anything else, that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Giving food tends to act as “dumping” and weaken the agricultural industry. Providing foreign aid tends to empower corrupt governments. These consequences only became clear after years of hindsight. Who knows what unintended side effects of UBI will be?<p>If we are going to try UBI, a fundamentally Western idea, it’s only right that it should be tried in the West. I’m not saying it won’t work - just that we don’t really know what will happen. East Africa has suffered enough from our neo-colonial experiments.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to East Africa</title><url>https://givedirectly.org/basic-income</url></story> |
19,799,206 | 19,799,314 | 1 | 2 | 19,796,851 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mc32</author><text>Japan isn’t acting exceptionally with Ghosn. That’s their regular operating procedure.<p>Ghosn allegedly arranged this overt&#x2F;covert payment system because allegedly he was unhappy that compared to euro and American auto execs, he was being under compensated.<p>This scheme if true is unlawful. Euro and American auto execs get paid above board and since there is no need for dual streams (because if you can command 200 million and you can get it, you don’t have to be shamed about it.).<p>In Japan it’s improper to be overcompensated but in order to be on par with other execs’ pay Ghosn arranged this overt&#x2F;covert compensation system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anonu</author><text>Ghosn&#x27;s handling by the Japanese is utterly despicable. No habeas corpus ... no due process.<p>Ghosn is credited with a stunning corporate turnaround and creating billions of dollars of value for a Japanese company and the Japanese people. I am certain foreign corporations who do business in Japan are thinking long and hard about the implications and potential risks of operating there.<p>To be clear - I am not saying Ghosn is innocent. He may very well have created special corporate structures to siphon off cash - and if he did, he certainly didn&#x27;t do it alone. I think he regretted not taking the helm of GM where he saw US top execs easily earning $20, $30mm a year with no complaints from the public...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Examining Carlos Ghosn and Japan's System of 'Hostage Justice'</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/crime-legal/examining-carlos-ghosn-japans-system-hostage-justice/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>2calazm</author><text>Counter-argument: that&#x27;s how most suspects are handled in Japan (sadly), but people care about it only now that it affects a rich westerner, as you comment demonstrates (&quot;stunning corporate turnaround and creating billions of dollars of value&quot;).</text><parent_chain><item><author>anonu</author><text>Ghosn&#x27;s handling by the Japanese is utterly despicable. No habeas corpus ... no due process.<p>Ghosn is credited with a stunning corporate turnaround and creating billions of dollars of value for a Japanese company and the Japanese people. I am certain foreign corporations who do business in Japan are thinking long and hard about the implications and potential risks of operating there.<p>To be clear - I am not saying Ghosn is innocent. He may very well have created special corporate structures to siphon off cash - and if he did, he certainly didn&#x27;t do it alone. I think he regretted not taking the helm of GM where he saw US top execs easily earning $20, $30mm a year with no complaints from the public...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Examining Carlos Ghosn and Japan's System of 'Hostage Justice'</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/crime-legal/examining-carlos-ghosn-japans-system-hostage-justice/</url></story> |
4,172,079 | 4,171,900 | 1 | 2 | 4,171,463 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cageface</author><text>Contrary to a lot of opinions, I think the 7" form factor is actually pretty interesting. I find the iPad large enough that I often just reach for my Macbook Air because it's far more useful and not really much larger.<p>But something closer to the size of a book is less cumbersome and more comfortable for reading and browsing, which is what I'm doing with a tablet 90% of the time anyway.<p>I'm going to go out on a limb a bit here and predict that Apple will regret ignoring this segment and that they're going to eventually have to shake up their developer tooling to deal with varying form factors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>moe</author><text>I think this device will sell like hotcakes, smart move by google.<p>It's the first android tablet that I'm considering, and at this price-point that means I'll probably buy it. I have a hunch I won't be the only one with that train of thought.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 - Mini Review</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/6054/google-nexus-7-mini-review</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>pragmatic</author><text>I agree.<p>I use my Fire at least 2 hours a day (at home and the gym) for reading and surfing. However, it has two major defects.<p>1) Amazon appstore only (I haven't bothered rooting it).<p>2) Wonky interface. It's android and you can tell. It's like using a cheap android phone, unpleasant and slow. (I have a droid bionic that is much faster, but obviously more expensive).<p>At this price point I can easily buy another $200 table and not feel bad about it. Plus I still get the kindle app, my amazon apps will all move over.<p>I use my Fire way too much not to upgrade to something better. I do this for the 7" form factor, the 10" tablet (android or iOS) simply would not be as useful.</text><parent_chain><item><author>moe</author><text>I think this device will sell like hotcakes, smart move by google.<p>It's the first android tablet that I'm considering, and at this price-point that means I'll probably buy it. I have a hunch I won't be the only one with that train of thought.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 - Mini Review</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/6054/google-nexus-7-mini-review</url><text></text></story> |
28,143,051 | 28,143,440 | 1 | 2 | 28,142,850 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>if 0.26% of tether is withdrawn into currency the coin would collapse</i><p>If 0.26% of Tether is withdrawn, it would need to start liquidating assets. That will, most of the time, be fine. Commercial paper is exceedingly liquid.<p>But sometimes, the liquidation will prompt a price fall. This is a fire sale. That, in turn, prompts more redemption, as holders of Tether grow concerned about its stability. This is a bank run. If Tether has a safety buffer between the value of its assets (U.S. dollar money market securities) and its liabilities (Tethers), this will--most of the time--be fine. If the situation spirals, however, a bank run can lead to collapse.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simmerup</author><text>So if 0.26% of tether is withdrawn into currency the coin would collapse? Am I reading that right?</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&gt; With estimated leverage of 383-to-1, Tether would be unable to honour all its tokens after losses of just 0.26%—a safety cushion that regulators would never allow at a bank.<p>So even if they are telling the truth, it is still on the edge.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/08/07/why-regulators-should-treat-stablecoins-like-banks</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FabHK</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s the right way to read it.<p>Currently, all the holders of tether could ask for dollars, and they&#x27;d all get them, and there&#x27;d even be 0.26% of the original balance left. (Under quite some assumptions, namely that they could sell the commercial paper at the value at which they hold it in their accounts.)<p>However, if the value of their assets would shrink, say, by 1%, their equity would be wiped out, and they&#x27;d not have enough dollars to satisfy their liabilities. Then, if people would start demanding their dollars, the last 1%-0.26% = 0.74% of tether holders would get nothing, because there&#x27;d be nothing left.<p>That could trigger a good old bank run - you don&#x27;t want to be among that last percent of bag holders, so better take out your dollars now while they still have some.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simmerup</author><text>So if 0.26% of tether is withdrawn into currency the coin would collapse? Am I reading that right?</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&gt; With estimated leverage of 383-to-1, Tether would be unable to honour all its tokens after losses of just 0.26%—a safety cushion that regulators would never allow at a bank.<p>So even if they are telling the truth, it is still on the edge.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/08/07/why-regulators-should-treat-stablecoins-like-banks</url></story> |
9,503,235 | 9,501,198 | 1 | 2 | 9,500,088 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blisterpeanuts</author><text>SCHiM: &quot;is it things like paradigms that have stuck with you...&quot;<p>For me it&#x27;s always been about <i>problem solving</i> rather than simple fascination with some particular technology. If I can solve a problem with a keyboard macro in Emacs, great. If it <i>requires</i> Perl or Java or javascript, so be it.<p>I try to use the tool that&#x27;s appropriate. If I can solve a problem quickly and move onto something more interesting, one-and-done.<p>If I have to stop and learn something new (e.g., WKWebView in iOS ObjC) to get my task done, so be it, and I&#x27;ll put in some late nights to get there because at my age, I&#x27;m a bit paranoid about <i>looking bad</i> so I try to give the good folks at HQ no reason to doubt me. I spend a lot of time on Stack Overflow and Youtube doing concentrated learning.<p>But the real thing is what others have also mentioned: properly defining a problem that needs to be solved, proper communication, keep good records, and try to maintain transparency, honesty, and pleasant comportment at all times.<p>Honestly the older I get, the less I notice people&#x27;s age. If someone half my age knows something I don&#x27;t, then the way I see it, they have something to teach me. I&#x27;ve been to many conferences and watched many youtube tutorials where the teacher was very young (from my wizened perspective) but the <i>information</i> is why I&#x27;m there and that&#x27;s all I care about.<p>What do I think about young people? (you didn&#x27;t ask but I&#x27;m saying it anyway)<p>I love young people. They have so much spirit, so much energy and creativity. I keep hearing critical (snarky) things about millennials this, X-gen that. But I don&#x27;t see it. The young people I&#x27;ve been around (for a while I was back in school full time, surrounded by 20-somethings and a few 30-somethings) were a joy. Fun, humorous, inquisitive.<p>Everyone has his faults, not least myself, and I believe as we get older we become more tolerant of others&#x27; faults and shortcomings. In fact that may be the single hallmark of growing older (apart from physical issues).</text><parent_chain><item><author>SCHiM</author><text>I can&#x27;t imagine all the technologies and skills you guys have acquired.<p>If I may derail the conversation a little bit, may I ask if&#x2F;how you use the things you&#x27;ve learned today?<p>I mean, is it things like paradigms that have stuck with you like OOP&#x2F;functional&#x2F;w\e, or do you always structure your exception handling in a certain way, no matter the language? Are there skills&#x2F;technologies you&#x27;ve been using since you&#x27;ve started? For example little scripts of basic that you&#x27;ve never let go off that automate things like setting up build servers and the like?</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>I guess I might as well pile on. Turned 50 last year. Got my first paycheck for writing code junior year of high school (writing BASIC code on a Commodore PET!) Working on my fifth startup now.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>Let&#x27;s make it an even 4!<p>Just turned 50 yesterday. Wrote my first contract program in 1982 when I was 17.<p>Today I teach teams how to rock-and-roll. I also keep coding, but mostly as a hobby. It has nothing to do with programming -- I simply have too many irons in the fire to do all of the things I love as much as I want to.</text></item><item><author>blisterpeanuts</author><text>Me 3! 56, first prog job was in &#x27;87. Now I&#x27;m steadily employed in a dream job, working from home, writing mobile apps and exploring new &quot;IoT&quot; technologies. If this job ends, which all jobs do sooner or later, I&#x27;m hoping to starting my own company, finally, and ride that into retirement. But life continues to be an adventure and you never know what lies around the next bend in the road!!! Best of luck to you and to people of all ages in this amazing field.</text></item><item><author>ericssmith</author><text>I am 53 and started programming in 1977. I feel EXACTLY the same as you.</text></item><item><author>michaelangerman</author><text>I am 55 and have been programming computers since 1975 when I was 15 years old. Do the math, I have been programming now for 40 years. Recently, I had a conversation with someone else about this topic and I told them that I have never been so excited about my career, the field of computer science, and most importantly the opportunities that exist today in the field of technology. The excitement surrounding too many topics to list is amazing. I only hope and wish that I am able to stay healthy and continue programming to the day I die.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I would have hired Doug, but...</title><url>http://liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHiredDougBut.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>lisper</author><text>No more BASIC, but I still code in Common Lisp whenever I can. And I&#x27;m using some library code that I wrote when I was in grad school 25 years ago.<p>Once you grok Lisp, everything else is easy. You come to realize that the vast majority of what passes for &quot;new technologies&quot; is really just a re-discovery of something that exists (or is easily implemented) in CL. That makes it a lot easier (if a tad frustrating at times) to keep up.<p>EDIT: CLOS, and generic functions in particular, are a HUGE lever that no other language has co-opted yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SCHiM</author><text>I can&#x27;t imagine all the technologies and skills you guys have acquired.<p>If I may derail the conversation a little bit, may I ask if&#x2F;how you use the things you&#x27;ve learned today?<p>I mean, is it things like paradigms that have stuck with you like OOP&#x2F;functional&#x2F;w\e, or do you always structure your exception handling in a certain way, no matter the language? Are there skills&#x2F;technologies you&#x27;ve been using since you&#x27;ve started? For example little scripts of basic that you&#x27;ve never let go off that automate things like setting up build servers and the like?</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>I guess I might as well pile on. Turned 50 last year. Got my first paycheck for writing code junior year of high school (writing BASIC code on a Commodore PET!) Working on my fifth startup now.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>Let&#x27;s make it an even 4!<p>Just turned 50 yesterday. Wrote my first contract program in 1982 when I was 17.<p>Today I teach teams how to rock-and-roll. I also keep coding, but mostly as a hobby. It has nothing to do with programming -- I simply have too many irons in the fire to do all of the things I love as much as I want to.</text></item><item><author>blisterpeanuts</author><text>Me 3! 56, first prog job was in &#x27;87. Now I&#x27;m steadily employed in a dream job, working from home, writing mobile apps and exploring new &quot;IoT&quot; technologies. If this job ends, which all jobs do sooner or later, I&#x27;m hoping to starting my own company, finally, and ride that into retirement. But life continues to be an adventure and you never know what lies around the next bend in the road!!! Best of luck to you and to people of all ages in this amazing field.</text></item><item><author>ericssmith</author><text>I am 53 and started programming in 1977. I feel EXACTLY the same as you.</text></item><item><author>michaelangerman</author><text>I am 55 and have been programming computers since 1975 when I was 15 years old. Do the math, I have been programming now for 40 years. Recently, I had a conversation with someone else about this topic and I told them that I have never been so excited about my career, the field of computer science, and most importantly the opportunities that exist today in the field of technology. The excitement surrounding too many topics to list is amazing. I only hope and wish that I am able to stay healthy and continue programming to the day I die.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I would have hired Doug, but...</title><url>http://liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHiredDougBut.html</url></story> |
38,904,511 | 38,904,646 | 1 | 2 | 38,903,314 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>&gt; 95&#x2F;98&#x2F;ME&#x2F;2000 because they largely looked similar.<p>That was a feature, for me it was 95, 98, NT4, Windows 2000 then it all started falling apart and Linux and MacOSX because the more attractive alternatives.<p>For those who don&#x27;t remember, we used to call the Windows XP UI the &quot;Fisher Price&quot; UI. It was the first dumbed down Windows UI.<p>I&#x27;d agree, the nostalgia for Windows XP is misplaced, when the version before that was the more attractive option. Overall the quality of Windows 2000 just felt like it was way above Windows XP. All the Windows UI inconsistencies started showing up in Windows XP.<p>In the &quot;Windows XP 2024&quot; video I think it&#x27;s interesting that that the two worst features, the Windows XP UI and the online account activation, have both been preserved.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dagmx</author><text>XP was likely the first memorable intro to windows for many developers in the home context. It was designed to be appealing to look at and a fresh coat of paint.<p>By comparison, you’d be hard pressed to find a non-enthusiast who really remembers the differences between 95&#x2F;98&#x2F;ME&#x2F;2000 because they largely looked similar.<p>Unlike 2000, it was also aimed at home use. The prior home use system was ME which was also not very well received at the time. XP unified the business and home segments.<p>Add to that, the immense PR failure that was Vista, and a very long life for XP, it’s not surprising that it has the most fondness in people’s psyche.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why people like XP so much. Windows 2000 was the ultimate OS: lean, fast, focused, and absolutely zero crapware installed. No stupid internet accounts needed to run your local OS and it did what it was supposed to do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS</title><url>https://overclock3d.net/news/software/windows-xp-2024-edition-is-everything-i-want-from-a-new-os/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bejk22</author><text>Windows 2000 was nothing like Windows 95&#x2F;98&#x2F;Me.<p>2000 isn&#x27;t remembered as much as XP because it was never marketed to end-users but as an upgrade to NT4 and a workstation os. Home computers at the time came pre-installed with Windows Me, that was barely usable. When XP came out, it was so much better than Me that people loved it fondly, but in fact it was mostly Windows 2000 with a shitty Telletubbies theme.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dagmx</author><text>XP was likely the first memorable intro to windows for many developers in the home context. It was designed to be appealing to look at and a fresh coat of paint.<p>By comparison, you’d be hard pressed to find a non-enthusiast who really remembers the differences between 95&#x2F;98&#x2F;ME&#x2F;2000 because they largely looked similar.<p>Unlike 2000, it was also aimed at home use. The prior home use system was ME which was also not very well received at the time. XP unified the business and home segments.<p>Add to that, the immense PR failure that was Vista, and a very long life for XP, it’s not surprising that it has the most fondness in people’s psyche.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why people like XP so much. Windows 2000 was the ultimate OS: lean, fast, focused, and absolutely zero crapware installed. No stupid internet accounts needed to run your local OS and it did what it was supposed to do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS</title><url>https://overclock3d.net/news/software/windows-xp-2024-edition-is-everything-i-want-from-a-new-os/</url></story> |
20,055,120 | 20,052,091 | 1 | 3 | 20,050,428 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>&gt; You&#x27;re not thinking this through.<p>Would you please edit swipes like that (and &quot;you must live in a parallel universe, to put it politely&quot;) out of your comments here? They break the guidelines, lower the signal&#x2F;noise ratio, and invite more of the same from others. Your comments would be just fine without those bits.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>gambler</author><text>You&#x27;re not thinking this through.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t that creators can make fake videos (which would be analogous to DRM). Let them. There is no harm in it. The problem is that users have no way of verifying true videos. This <i>can</i> be solved with cryptography, because both parties involved (creators and viewers) would want this to work.<p>In other words, DRM is about forcing <i>everyone</i> to do a thing. Verification is about allowing <i>willing participants</i> to check a thing. Different scenarios.<p>Companies could make tamper-proof sensor modules that do the signing right where it matters. The important thing is to make sure they aren&#x27;t astronomically priced and don&#x27;t compromise privacy.</text></item><item><author>buildzr</author><text>It&#x27;d be too easy to fake, just replace the sensor in an approved camera with your own data feed.<p>And that&#x27;s assuming it wouldn&#x27;t be somewhat trivial to dump keys from one or more cameras on the market to create a an easy tool or resignvideo.com... which is a massive assumption.<p>As the movie industry has already seen, cryptography doesn&#x27;t help you when you push out the keys to everyone. It&#x27;d be about as effective as DRM is at stopping video piracy.</text></item><item><author>_red</author><text>I would imagine that in the future video encoders will start to automatically include a cryptographic signature every X frames, which then players will become aware of and show an indicator for &quot;original &#x2F; modified&quot; content.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ctrl Shift Face: A growing ‘deepfakes’ YouTube channel</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/28/youtube_deepfakes_channel/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anbop</author><text>Play deepfake on a TV, point signed camera at it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gambler</author><text>You&#x27;re not thinking this through.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t that creators can make fake videos (which would be analogous to DRM). Let them. There is no harm in it. The problem is that users have no way of verifying true videos. This <i>can</i> be solved with cryptography, because both parties involved (creators and viewers) would want this to work.<p>In other words, DRM is about forcing <i>everyone</i> to do a thing. Verification is about allowing <i>willing participants</i> to check a thing. Different scenarios.<p>Companies could make tamper-proof sensor modules that do the signing right where it matters. The important thing is to make sure they aren&#x27;t astronomically priced and don&#x27;t compromise privacy.</text></item><item><author>buildzr</author><text>It&#x27;d be too easy to fake, just replace the sensor in an approved camera with your own data feed.<p>And that&#x27;s assuming it wouldn&#x27;t be somewhat trivial to dump keys from one or more cameras on the market to create a an easy tool or resignvideo.com... which is a massive assumption.<p>As the movie industry has already seen, cryptography doesn&#x27;t help you when you push out the keys to everyone. It&#x27;d be about as effective as DRM is at stopping video piracy.</text></item><item><author>_red</author><text>I would imagine that in the future video encoders will start to automatically include a cryptographic signature every X frames, which then players will become aware of and show an indicator for &quot;original &#x2F; modified&quot; content.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ctrl Shift Face: A growing ‘deepfakes’ YouTube channel</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/28/youtube_deepfakes_channel/</url></story> |
15,495,477 | 15,494,092 | 1 | 3 | 15,492,795 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>musage</author><text>&gt; 1) there are now an infinite number of URLs for every one of your pages that may end up separately stored on various services (mitigated for only some kinds of service if you redirect to correct)<p>No need to redirect, that&#x27;s what canonical links are for:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Link_types" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Link_types</a><p>I don&#x27;t disagree in that I mostly dislike URL slugs, too. Except for some hub pages (&quot;photos&quot;, &quot;blog&quot;, etc.), a numerical ID is more than enough. But the combination of ordering and display modes and filtering can still amount to a huge number of combinations, so canonical links are still needed - to have as many options for the user as possible and allow them all to be bookmarked, but also give search engines a hint on what minor permutations they can ignore safely.<p>I wish search engines would completely ignore words in the URL. If it&#x27;s not in the page (or the &quot;metadata&quot; of actual content on pages linking to it, and so on), screw the URL. If it <i>is</i> in the page (and the URL), you don&#x27;t need the URL. As long as they are incentivized, we&#x27;ll have fugly URL schemes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saurik</author><text>Doing this means that:<p>1) there are now an infinite number of URLs for every one of your pages that may end up separately stored on various services (mitigated for only some kinds of service if you redirect to correct),<p>2) if the title changes the URLs distributed are now permanently wrong as they stored part of the content (and if you redirect to correct, can lead to temporary loops due to caches),<p>3) the URL is now extremely long and since most users don&#x27;t know if a given website does this weird &quot;part of the URL is meaningless&quot; thing there are tons of ways of manually sharing the URL that are now extremely laborious,<p>4) have now made content that users think should somehow be &quot;readable&quot; but which doesn&#x27;t even try to be canonical... so users who share the links will think &quot;the person can read the URL, so I won&#x27;t include more context&quot; and the person receiving the links thinks &quot;and the URL has the title, which I can trust more than what some random user adds&quot;.<p>The only website I have ever seen which I feel truly understands that people misuse and abuse title slugs and actively forces people to not use them is Hacker News (which truncates all URLs in a way I find glorious), which is why I am going to link to this question on Stack Exchange that will hopefully give you some better context &quot;manually&quot;.<p>meta.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;148454&#x2F;why-do-stack-overflow-links-sometimes-not-work&#x2F;<p>Many web browsers don&#x27;t even show the URL anymore: the pretense that the URL should somehow be readable is increasingly difficult to defend. A URL should sometimes still be short and easy to type, but these title slug URLs don&#x27;t have that property in spades.<p>If anything, other critical properties of a URL are that they are permanent and canonical, and neither of these properties tend to be satisfied well by websites that go with title slugs, and while including the ID in there mitigates the problem it leaves it in some confusing middle-land where part of the URL has this property and part of it doesn&#x27;t.<p>If you are going to insist upon doing this, how about doing it using a # on the page, so at least everyone had a chance to know that it is extra, random data that can be dropped from the URL without penalty and might not come from the website and so shouldn&#x27;t be trusted?<p>(edit to add:) BTW, if you didn&#x27;t know you could do this, Twitter is most epic source of &quot;part of the URL has no meaning&quot; that I have ever run across as almost no one realizes it due to where it is placed in the URL.<p>twitter.com&#x2F;realDonaldTrump&#x2F;status&#x2F;247076674074718208</text></item><item><author>yathern</author><text>Great post - I quite like the stackoverflow.com style of `stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;&lt;question-id&gt;&#x2F;&lt;question-title&gt;`, where &lt;question-title&gt; can be changed to anything, and the link still works.<p>This allows for easy URL readability, while also having a unique ID.<p>In the context of this post (the library example) that would look like<p>library.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;1as03jf08e&#x2F;Moby-Dick&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs</title><url>https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/10/API-design-choosing-between-names-and-identifiers-in-URLs.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>simcop2387</author><text>The usual way I&#x27;ve seen to deal with this kind of ambiguity is by doing a 301 redirect so that bookmarks get changed and the url in the address bar is also changed. It doesn&#x27;t fix external parties linking to the site with the now deprecated url but there was never anything you could reasonably do about that.<p>&gt; If you are going to insist upon doing this, how about doing it using a # on the page, so at least everyone had a chance to know that it is extra, random data that can be dropped from the URL without penalty and might not come from the website and so shouldn&#x27;t be trusted?<p>The fragment doesn&#x27;t get indexed by search engines so not many will see it. Along with that, in my understanding, having something human readable in the URL helps with SEO in at least google an bing so doing this could hurt your search rankings which isn&#x27;t a good thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saurik</author><text>Doing this means that:<p>1) there are now an infinite number of URLs for every one of your pages that may end up separately stored on various services (mitigated for only some kinds of service if you redirect to correct),<p>2) if the title changes the URLs distributed are now permanently wrong as they stored part of the content (and if you redirect to correct, can lead to temporary loops due to caches),<p>3) the URL is now extremely long and since most users don&#x27;t know if a given website does this weird &quot;part of the URL is meaningless&quot; thing there are tons of ways of manually sharing the URL that are now extremely laborious,<p>4) have now made content that users think should somehow be &quot;readable&quot; but which doesn&#x27;t even try to be canonical... so users who share the links will think &quot;the person can read the URL, so I won&#x27;t include more context&quot; and the person receiving the links thinks &quot;and the URL has the title, which I can trust more than what some random user adds&quot;.<p>The only website I have ever seen which I feel truly understands that people misuse and abuse title slugs and actively forces people to not use them is Hacker News (which truncates all URLs in a way I find glorious), which is why I am going to link to this question on Stack Exchange that will hopefully give you some better context &quot;manually&quot;.<p>meta.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;148454&#x2F;why-do-stack-overflow-links-sometimes-not-work&#x2F;<p>Many web browsers don&#x27;t even show the URL anymore: the pretense that the URL should somehow be readable is increasingly difficult to defend. A URL should sometimes still be short and easy to type, but these title slug URLs don&#x27;t have that property in spades.<p>If anything, other critical properties of a URL are that they are permanent and canonical, and neither of these properties tend to be satisfied well by websites that go with title slugs, and while including the ID in there mitigates the problem it leaves it in some confusing middle-land where part of the URL has this property and part of it doesn&#x27;t.<p>If you are going to insist upon doing this, how about doing it using a # on the page, so at least everyone had a chance to know that it is extra, random data that can be dropped from the URL without penalty and might not come from the website and so shouldn&#x27;t be trusted?<p>(edit to add:) BTW, if you didn&#x27;t know you could do this, Twitter is most epic source of &quot;part of the URL has no meaning&quot; that I have ever run across as almost no one realizes it due to where it is placed in the URL.<p>twitter.com&#x2F;realDonaldTrump&#x2F;status&#x2F;247076674074718208</text></item><item><author>yathern</author><text>Great post - I quite like the stackoverflow.com style of `stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;&lt;question-id&gt;&#x2F;&lt;question-title&gt;`, where &lt;question-title&gt; can be changed to anything, and the link still works.<p>This allows for easy URL readability, while also having a unique ID.<p>In the context of this post (the library example) that would look like<p>library.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;1as03jf08e&#x2F;Moby-Dick&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs</title><url>https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/10/API-design-choosing-between-names-and-identifiers-in-URLs.html</url></story> |
27,473,814 | 27,473,628 | 1 | 2 | 27,457,696 | 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>otter-in-a-suit</author><text>The state of RGB is such a nightmare, and I am very glad OpenRGB exists.<p>If I wanted to control all LEDs on my relatively new &quot;Gaming&quot; PC (Windows 10), I&#x27;d normally need software from Gigabyte for the GPU (which straight up doesn&#x27;t work [0]), Ducky for the keyboard, a no-name Corsair knockoff software where the name escapes me for the mouse, actual Corsair software for the fans, and NZXT for the AIO.<p>All of them are not only proprietary, they also use a ton of resources and often times cannot be run in parallel, presumably because they try to talk to the same devices (but never all of them!) - analog to an I2C device that only allows one process to access it at a time. Difference being, there is nothing stopping me from trying - everything will just freeze.<p>It&#x27;s fascinating - for something as simple as a bunch of LEDs, these companies must have spent millions of developer hours to produce such heaping piles of garbage - and OpenRGB proves all of them wrong.<p>[0] If anyone knows of a way to control at least the LED backlight on a Gigabyte Auorus XTREME 3080 (ideally the little LCD as well) - please let me know - OpenRGB can&#x27;t do it. The Gigabyte software is so unbelievably broken that it doesn&#x27;t even recognize the GPU, and I feel like I&#x27;ve tried every workaround under the sun. I am unfortunately not very well versed in the Windows world.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenRGB: Open-source RGB lighting control</title><url>https://openrgb.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>_Microft</author><text>Does anyone know how LEDs built into RAM modules are controlled from a hardware point of view? Can you just send control information over the channels that data to be stored in memory also uses to get into the module? Does it mean that you need to install drivers for them? What happens if you do not?<p>Update: DDR4 modules seem to have pins for a built-in SMB&#x2F;I2C bus. Maybe this is used for controlling the LEDs. &#x2F;&#x2F; It looks like it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;comments&#x2F;aiwrt2&#x2F;how_does_rgb_led_control_work_for_dram&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;comments&#x2F;aiwrt2&#x2F;how_does_r...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;CalcProgrammer1&#x2F;KeyboardVisualizer&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;85#note_76665251" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;CalcProgrammer1&#x2F;KeyboardVisualizer&#x2F;-&#x2F;issu...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenRGB: Open-source RGB lighting control</title><url>https://openrgb.org/</url></story> |
20,479,089 | 20,478,866 | 1 | 2 | 20,477,958 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>braythwayt</author><text><i>Dropbox needs to figure out how to stay in a commoditized market where their special sauce is being integrated into OSes and larger offerings (G-Suite.)</i><p>With respect, that is Dropbox&#x27;s problem. Dropbox needs to do that, But I don&#x27;t need Dropbox to do that.<p>The same is true of music-playing apps. Once they cost money and added value. Then platforms all started making &quot;play this music file&quot; free. The purveyors all tried to add more value. And there are a few specialized music players kicking around.<p>But most went away, the business model was no longer viable, and the move into adding lots of functionality pushed them into a niche.<p>I agree that Dropbox is facing an existential crisis. If Apple delivers on some of its promised new iCloud folder sharing functionality, I will end my Dropbox subscription, and no amount of &quot;We&#x27;re a collaboration platform&quot; will change that.<p>Dropbox knows that, and is going in the direction of getting money from someone else. Will they succeed? Maybe, maybe not. But either way, most of their existing user base is finding their less useful and less valuable as they make this transition.<p>Shrug.<p>I have witnessed this so many times over the last thirty-five years. One set of forces acts to take something that was originally just for companies, and &quot;Consumerizes&quot; it. Spreadsheets are common for people to track all kinds of personal things. Kids use them in school.<p>In the opposite direction, companies chasing the money &quot;Enterprise&quot; their consumer offerings, abandoning the users that built them in the first place.<p>Same as it ever was.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>&gt; &quot;But,&quot; you may ask, &quot;so much more you could do! What about task management, calendaring, customized dashboards, virtual white boarding. More than just folders and files!&quot;
&gt;
&gt; No, shut up. People don&#x27;t use that crap. They just want a folder. A folder that syncs.<p>This argument is a good one but it only covers the rise of Dropbox. We are now in a different era.<p>Dropbox&#x27;s functionality is now table stakes and not something new. Windows by default has cloud sync, macOS does as well. We switched at our company from Dropbox to Google Drive Stream. Box is really focused on enterprise solutions -- lots of permissions, probably too much in my opinion but C-suite like that shit.<p>This quora answer is irrelevant in the current context. Dropbox needs to figure out how to stay in a commoditized market where their special sauce is being integrated into OSes and larger offerings (G-Suite.)<p>Maybe a return to simplicity is it? But we moved away from the simple solution because it wasn&#x27;t sufficent for our needs. And others are just never adopting it in the first place because it is built into their OS or their app suite. Dropbox has a long-term relevancy problem here that they have not cracked.</text></item><item><author>CPLX</author><text>This seems like a good time to resurface the worlds best Quora answer, by Michael Wolfe. Answering “Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality?”:<p><i>Well, let&#x27;s take a step back and think about the sync problem and what the ideal solution for it would do:<p>There would be a folder.
You&#x27;d put your stuff in it.
It would sync.
They built that.<p>Why didn&#x27;t anyone else build that? I have no idea.<p>&quot;But,&quot; you may ask, &quot;so much more you could do! What about task management, calendaring, customized dashboards, virtual white boarding. More than just folders and files!&quot;<p>No, shut up. People don&#x27;t use that crap. They just want a folder. A folder that syncs.<p>&quot;But,&quot; you may say, &quot;this is valuable data...certainly users will feel more comfortable tying their data to Windows Live, Apple Mobile Me, or a name they already know.&quot;<p>No, shut up. Not a single person on Earth wakes up in the morning worried about deriving more value from their Windows Live login. People already trust folders. And Dropbox looks just like a folder. One that syncs.<p>&quot;But,&quot; you may say, &quot;folders are so 1995. why not leverage the full power of the web? With HTML 5 you can drag and drop files, you can build intergalactic dashboards of stats showing how much storage you are using, you can publish your files as RSS feeds and tweets, and you can add your company logo!&quot;<p>No, shut up. Most of the world doesn&#x27;t sit in front of their browser all day. If they do, it is IE 6 at work that they are not allowed to upgrade. Browsers suck for these kinds of things. Their stuff is already in folders. They just want a folder. That syncs.<p>That is what it does.
</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Dropbox&#x2F;Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-than-other-programs-with-similar-functionality&#x2F;answer&#x2F;Michael-Wolfe" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Dropbox&#x2F;Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-tha...</a><p>Oh well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/dropbox-silently-installs-new-file-manager-app-on-users-systems/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrlala</author><text>Dropbox can handle a LOT of files. I haven&#x27;t seen any other service that doesn&#x27;t just break.<p>OneDrive cannot handle tons of files. It just doesn&#x27;t work. It ends up freezing, you have no idea what&#x27;s going on. Can&#x27;t speak to macOS related stuff.<p>We finally were able to migrate off of this.. but we had a VERY file hefty folder structure. Instead of databases we chose to keep things in individual files for various reasons. Needless to say this didn&#x27;t scale well, and there were about 750k files on the structure. Most of this was archival, but we simply didn&#x27;t have the time or care enough to reduce the number of files.. we just wanted to be able to sync this to cloud data as is. Many files were super small, so never an absolute size thing just a LOT of files. And a chunk would keep changing throughout the day.<p>Dropbox was able to handle this for years- never an issue. Yeah it was fairly CPU intensive, but it worked very well.<p>I tried OneDrive on this.. what a nightmare. I tried owncloud, bittorrent sync, some others I can&#x27;t even recall. Granted this has been about 3-4 years since I really tried some other ones with lots of files, but I was so annoyed every time I did.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>&gt; &quot;But,&quot; you may ask, &quot;so much more you could do! What about task management, calendaring, customized dashboards, virtual white boarding. More than just folders and files!&quot;
&gt;
&gt; No, shut up. People don&#x27;t use that crap. They just want a folder. A folder that syncs.<p>This argument is a good one but it only covers the rise of Dropbox. We are now in a different era.<p>Dropbox&#x27;s functionality is now table stakes and not something new. Windows by default has cloud sync, macOS does as well. We switched at our company from Dropbox to Google Drive Stream. Box is really focused on enterprise solutions -- lots of permissions, probably too much in my opinion but C-suite like that shit.<p>This quora answer is irrelevant in the current context. Dropbox needs to figure out how to stay in a commoditized market where their special sauce is being integrated into OSes and larger offerings (G-Suite.)<p>Maybe a return to simplicity is it? But we moved away from the simple solution because it wasn&#x27;t sufficent for our needs. And others are just never adopting it in the first place because it is built into their OS or their app suite. Dropbox has a long-term relevancy problem here that they have not cracked.</text></item><item><author>CPLX</author><text>This seems like a good time to resurface the worlds best Quora answer, by Michael Wolfe. Answering “Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality?”:<p><i>Well, let&#x27;s take a step back and think about the sync problem and what the ideal solution for it would do:<p>There would be a folder.
You&#x27;d put your stuff in it.
It would sync.
They built that.<p>Why didn&#x27;t anyone else build that? I have no idea.<p>&quot;But,&quot; you may ask, &quot;so much more you could do! What about task management, calendaring, customized dashboards, virtual white boarding. More than just folders and files!&quot;<p>No, shut up. People don&#x27;t use that crap. They just want a folder. A folder that syncs.<p>&quot;But,&quot; you may say, &quot;this is valuable data...certainly users will feel more comfortable tying their data to Windows Live, Apple Mobile Me, or a name they already know.&quot;<p>No, shut up. Not a single person on Earth wakes up in the morning worried about deriving more value from their Windows Live login. People already trust folders. And Dropbox looks just like a folder. One that syncs.<p>&quot;But,&quot; you may say, &quot;folders are so 1995. why not leverage the full power of the web? With HTML 5 you can drag and drop files, you can build intergalactic dashboards of stats showing how much storage you are using, you can publish your files as RSS feeds and tweets, and you can add your company logo!&quot;<p>No, shut up. Most of the world doesn&#x27;t sit in front of their browser all day. If they do, it is IE 6 at work that they are not allowed to upgrade. Browsers suck for these kinds of things. Their stuff is already in folders. They just want a folder. That syncs.<p>That is what it does.
</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Dropbox&#x2F;Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-than-other-programs-with-similar-functionality&#x2F;answer&#x2F;Michael-Wolfe" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Dropbox&#x2F;Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-tha...</a><p>Oh well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/dropbox-silently-installs-new-file-manager-app-on-users-systems/</url></story> |
5,430,804 | 5,429,871 | 1 | 2 | 5,429,247 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Draco6slayer</author><text>It's probably rude, but I think that the fact about the decreased morale is somewhat hilarious. Just picture the situation where you have a whole bunch of assembly line workers being ousted by pigeons. What would it feel like to know that a bird is better at your job than you? It's just absurd.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Lost_BiomedE</author><text>After working a while with animal behavior and neuro-research, I tend to ask myself if there is proof an animal can't do something rather than if they can. They usually learn slower than humans, depending on animal and task, but they can learn complex tasks. What they fail at usually tends to be due to physical limitations such as visual acuity. I don't think we have found the limits of what many animals can do but we are raising the bar slowly. It takes a lot of thought and work to design an experiment with a complex task correctly.<p>Of Note: Pigeons can classify a Picasso from a Monet at an expert level and peck their answer within 300ms: <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1334394/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1334394/</a>. They were tested on assembly lines to pick out defective parts. They did better than humans but were not used due to decreased moral of other humans on the line. This was done in the early 60's I believe. Here is an article on it in the New Scientist (1962) <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HxU-9UeDCI0C&#38;pg=PA498&#38;lpg=PA498&#38;dq=Pigeon+assembly+line&#38;source=bl&#38;ots=cQ7vOtf7Kg&#38;sig=V6Ro8Mvx3yjs_l7nJYY8bJR1EBo&#38;hl=en&#38;sa=X&#38;ei=liBOUdaAFI3TqQHYooDgBg&#38;ved=0CD8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&#38;q=Pigeon%20assembly%20line&#38;f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=HxU-9UeDCI0C&#38;pg=PA498&#...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brains of the Animal Kingdom: Research shows we've underestimated</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323869604578370574285382756.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>xk_id</author><text>Link to the study about pigeons' discrimination between Picasso and Monet paintings:
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1334394/pdf/jeabehav00221-0041.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1334394/pdf/jeab...</a><p>Still looking for a source for the assembly lines tests.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Lost_BiomedE</author><text>After working a while with animal behavior and neuro-research, I tend to ask myself if there is proof an animal can't do something rather than if they can. They usually learn slower than humans, depending on animal and task, but they can learn complex tasks. What they fail at usually tends to be due to physical limitations such as visual acuity. I don't think we have found the limits of what many animals can do but we are raising the bar slowly. It takes a lot of thought and work to design an experiment with a complex task correctly.<p>Of Note: Pigeons can classify a Picasso from a Monet at an expert level and peck their answer within 300ms: <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1334394/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1334394/</a>. They were tested on assembly lines to pick out defective parts. They did better than humans but were not used due to decreased moral of other humans on the line. This was done in the early 60's I believe. Here is an article on it in the New Scientist (1962) <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HxU-9UeDCI0C&#38;pg=PA498&#38;lpg=PA498&#38;dq=Pigeon+assembly+line&#38;source=bl&#38;ots=cQ7vOtf7Kg&#38;sig=V6Ro8Mvx3yjs_l7nJYY8bJR1EBo&#38;hl=en&#38;sa=X&#38;ei=liBOUdaAFI3TqQHYooDgBg&#38;ved=0CD8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&#38;q=Pigeon%20assembly%20line&#38;f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=HxU-9UeDCI0C&#38;pg=PA498&#...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brains of the Animal Kingdom: Research shows we've underestimated</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323869604578370574285382756.html</url></story> |
32,707,421 | 32,707,693 | 1 | 3 | 32,706,673 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stepupmakeup</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what happened prior to today, but earlier today there was a bomb threat which was apparently removed by the site&#x27;s moderators within minutes, but it hit Twitter anyway. The fact that this isn&#x27;t mentioned anywhere by the people currently leading the &quot;campaign&quot; already proves there&#x27;s an agenda.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slothsarecool</author><text>Just adding some light to the escalations; there were bomb and shoot threats over the last few days.
The userbase on the site upped the tone of their &quot;jokes&quot;&#x2F;threats after the last blog post and thats what caused the final suspension.</text></item><item><author>ffwszgf</author><text>Cloudflare can do whatever it wants but I wish they were honest about it.<p>The claim that there has been some “dangerous escalation” in the past 2 weeks is nonsense. If anything the owner has been monitoring the thread more proactively and making sure people follow the law. This is included not allowing the creation of new accounts and reminding everyone that their data will be turned over to the authorities should it be requested.<p>The only thing that picked up steam in the last two weeks is the campaign to drop Cloudflare and the media attention on the situation. That’s why they caved in. It got big enough to reach Bloomberg&#x2F;wsj&#x2F;congress. Just be honest about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blocking Kiwifarms</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rejectfinite</author><text>There are &quot;bomb and shoot threats over the last few days&quot; on FB, Messenger, Telegram, Signal, CoD&#x2F;CS lobbies etc everyday. Like Kiwifarms the content is removed when reported. What is the issue?</text><parent_chain><item><author>slothsarecool</author><text>Just adding some light to the escalations; there were bomb and shoot threats over the last few days.
The userbase on the site upped the tone of their &quot;jokes&quot;&#x2F;threats after the last blog post and thats what caused the final suspension.</text></item><item><author>ffwszgf</author><text>Cloudflare can do whatever it wants but I wish they were honest about it.<p>The claim that there has been some “dangerous escalation” in the past 2 weeks is nonsense. If anything the owner has been monitoring the thread more proactively and making sure people follow the law. This is included not allowing the creation of new accounts and reminding everyone that their data will be turned over to the authorities should it be requested.<p>The only thing that picked up steam in the last two weeks is the campaign to drop Cloudflare and the media attention on the situation. That’s why they caved in. It got big enough to reach Bloomberg&#x2F;wsj&#x2F;congress. Just be honest about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blocking Kiwifarms</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/</url></story> |
25,240,130 | 25,239,298 | 1 | 3 | 25,237,683 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nonbirithm</author><text>Purposely believing in something that you know is most likely to be incorrect is difficult to me. In this case you have to think illogically on purpose in order to have any chance at succeeding.<p>But that kind of belief doesn&#x27;t foster the mindset of &quot;if I fail, that&#x27;s just life and I will move forward.&quot; Having that much confidence in accomplishing something means staking my self-worth on it, because this is a test of my own effort and nobody else&#x27;s. The results begin and end with my actions only, and the things I want are too important to me to not take seriously. If those things are what I ultimately want to spend my time on Earth succeeding in before I die, then not succeeding is devastating to my mental health.<p>I don&#x27;t understand how not to think like this, because every real success I&#x27;ve fought for and won came as a result of believing my life was over if I didn&#x27;t succeed. In some cases I really would become poor or have no future if I didn&#x27;t succeed, so it grants too much legitimacy to the method.</text><parent_chain><item><author>clay_the_ripper</author><text>There’s no denying that mindset is incredibly important. As a business owner myself I can attest to this. But I think the advice gets twisted. The way I see it is this:<p>Everyone who succeeds in business believes that they can do it.<p>Not everyone who believes they can do it succeeds.<p>Therefore, believing you can succeed is necessary, but only a small percentage of people who believe are actually correct.<p>Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t believe, but chances are you are wrong.</text></item><item><author>cbanek</author><text>&quot;‘Believe in yourself and anything is possible’? Nope, it’s just not true.&quot;<p>This is such a great quote. I honestly hate people that spout nonsense like anything is possible if you just believe, and that if you don&#x27;t, it&#x27;s that you obviously don&#x27;t believe enough. It&#x27;s almost the same as the prosperity gospel nonsense.<p>And later on in the article, talking about grit, I feel like this is the swing the other way. And now we&#x27;re getting messages like &quot;nothing is impossible if you work hard enough at it&quot;, which also shift the burden back to you. If you fail, it&#x27;s not the world that&#x27;s hard or unfair (it naturally is both), but again it&#x27;s a personal failing on your part for not trying hard enough (or believing you are good enough). Everyday I see blog posts with the same kind of thing about how they have accomplished so much before most people have breakfast. Yet that seems to be mostly writing posts about how to get stuff done.<p>Obviously many things in life are hard, and you have to believe that you can do them to put the hard effort in believing you can accomplish them. But leaning so hard one way or the other that you will get some magic power is the kind of nonsense people love to buy, and therefore sell.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2017/05/self-esteem-grit-do-they-really-help.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>chillwaves</author><text>&gt; Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t believe, but chances are you are wrong.<p>So dark and brilliant and illuminating at the same time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>clay_the_ripper</author><text>There’s no denying that mindset is incredibly important. As a business owner myself I can attest to this. But I think the advice gets twisted. The way I see it is this:<p>Everyone who succeeds in business believes that they can do it.<p>Not everyone who believes they can do it succeeds.<p>Therefore, believing you can succeed is necessary, but only a small percentage of people who believe are actually correct.<p>Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t believe, but chances are you are wrong.</text></item><item><author>cbanek</author><text>&quot;‘Believe in yourself and anything is possible’? Nope, it’s just not true.&quot;<p>This is such a great quote. I honestly hate people that spout nonsense like anything is possible if you just believe, and that if you don&#x27;t, it&#x27;s that you obviously don&#x27;t believe enough. It&#x27;s almost the same as the prosperity gospel nonsense.<p>And later on in the article, talking about grit, I feel like this is the swing the other way. And now we&#x27;re getting messages like &quot;nothing is impossible if you work hard enough at it&quot;, which also shift the burden back to you. If you fail, it&#x27;s not the world that&#x27;s hard or unfair (it naturally is both), but again it&#x27;s a personal failing on your part for not trying hard enough (or believing you are good enough). Everyday I see blog posts with the same kind of thing about how they have accomplished so much before most people have breakfast. Yet that seems to be mostly writing posts about how to get stuff done.<p>Obviously many things in life are hard, and you have to believe that you can do them to put the hard effort in believing you can accomplish them. But leaning so hard one way or the other that you will get some magic power is the kind of nonsense people love to buy, and therefore sell.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2017/05/self-esteem-grit-do-they-really-help.html</url></story> |
721,161 | 720,848 | 1 | 2 | 720,779 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dtf</author><text>You (and plenty others) need to stop anthropomorphizing Microsoft and painting them as some kind of single sentient entity. The reason they can be unpredictable is because they're so freaking huge. Even the strategy on their own products doesn't make any sense most of the time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>christopherolah</author><text>For the most part, I agree with Linus. MS shouldn't be excluded, or hated solely because it's MS.<p>But, that doesn't mean they should be welcomed with open arms, either. MS has done some nasty stuff to us (OOXML, FUD campaigns, patent threats, et cetera). I recognize that companies are large and fluid, but they should still be held accountable.<p>MS has recently decreased their evil_count in my books, but they still have a long way to go...<p>With companies I trust, I ``trust, but verify''. With MS, I ``distrust until verified.''</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus: "Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease"</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_Microsoft_Hatred_Is_a_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>redcap</author><text>Which is the normal job that the code gatekeepers do anyway. For any piece of code that wants to swim upstream to the main repository, it gets checked by the respective maintainers along the way.<p>Linus trusts these people to do their job, which sounds fair enough to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>christopherolah</author><text>For the most part, I agree with Linus. MS shouldn't be excluded, or hated solely because it's MS.<p>But, that doesn't mean they should be welcomed with open arms, either. MS has done some nasty stuff to us (OOXML, FUD campaigns, patent threats, et cetera). I recognize that companies are large and fluid, but they should still be held accountable.<p>MS has recently decreased their evil_count in my books, but they still have a long way to go...<p>With companies I trust, I ``trust, but verify''. With MS, I ``distrust until verified.''</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus: "Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease"</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_Microsoft_Hatred_Is_a_Disease_</url></story> |
5,747,610 | 5,747,689 | 1 | 3 | 5,747,418 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>betterunix</author><text>The use of copyrighted material for criticism or comment (e.g. "to make a point") is, in fact, considered fair use:<p><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107" rel="nofollow">http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107</a><p>Additionally, the video was <i>educational</i> (it demonstrated how to create something), further bolstering the claim of fair use. The NYT is entirely out of line with the C&#38;D, and it is particularly troubling that a newspaper -- which <i>frequently</i> engages in fair use, <i>frequently</i> reproducing material as part of their journalism and their criticism -- would send such a letter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>Catchy title, but:<p>" I used their images/video to make a point. I can see how the video could fall under Fair Use"<p>Frankly I don't see <i>at all</i> how that would fall under Fair Use, and The Times is absolutely right to C&#38;D him.<p>Also, "A statement of fact about a company is not a copyright infringement."<p>No, but a statement of fact about a company that is not backed by public data is slander. NYT doesn't even claim that the reference is copyright infringement, the author just assumes that.<p>edit: ok, I actually thought he had put a demo <i>website</i> online in which he used the images, so it would look like the NYT's page (but with lorem ipsum for text or something) but he just made an educational video of it, I can see that could be fair use. So I retract my absolute statement. (as should be done with absolute statements in general! (absolutely)) I still think the 'hundreds of hours' remark isn't cool, but perhaps the law is on his side there too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down</title><url>https://medium.com/meta/503b9c22080b/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ma8ee</author><text>&#62; No, but a statement of fact about a company that is not backed by public data is slander.<p>That is not enough. It also needs to be untrue and it needs to harm the reputation of the company.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>Catchy title, but:<p>" I used their images/video to make a point. I can see how the video could fall under Fair Use"<p>Frankly I don't see <i>at all</i> how that would fall under Fair Use, and The Times is absolutely right to C&#38;D him.<p>Also, "A statement of fact about a company is not a copyright infringement."<p>No, but a statement of fact about a company that is not backed by public data is slander. NYT doesn't even claim that the reference is copyright infringement, the author just assumes that.<p>edit: ok, I actually thought he had put a demo <i>website</i> online in which he used the images, so it would look like the NYT's page (but with lorem ipsum for text or something) but he just made an educational video of it, I can see that could be fair use. So I retract my absolute statement. (as should be done with absolute statements in general! (absolutely)) I still think the 'hundreds of hours' remark isn't cool, but perhaps the law is on his side there too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down</title><url>https://medium.com/meta/503b9c22080b/</url></story> |
4,559,394 | 4,558,964 | 1 | 3 | 4,558,569 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>I've adopted a biphasic sleep pattern of sorts by chance. It started by occasionally falling asleep when putting my son to sleep, and when I'd wake up I'd compensate by staying up longer.<p>After a while I realized it works very well for me to got to sleep for a couple of hours around 8 when he goes to sleep, and then stay up for a few hours before going back to sleep - I usually feel very mellow and relaxed when waking up after my first sleep period, and then very energized after I've been up for a little while. I get far more done this way than by trying to make myself work on stuff at the tail end of a long day. In fact, I'm coming out of my "mellow and relaxed" phase after my first sleep period right now, and is about to start working on a project...<p>Sometimes I end up "exploiting it" by cutting my total number of hours of sleep drastically, and feel little ill effect as long as I compensate with sufficient rest the following evening.<p>Occasionally I'll combine this with a 30 minutes nap at lunch time. If not I'll usually spend that time meditating instead.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rethinking Sleep</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/opinion/sunday/rethinking-sleep.html?src=twrhp</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>macchina</author><text>A. Roger Ekirch "Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isle"
<a href="http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/106.2/ah000343.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/106.2/ah00034...</a><p>This is the seminal article on segmented sleep. Pretty fascinating stuff.<p>And a shorter TED video: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jessa_gamble_how_to_sleep.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/talks/jessa_gamble_how_to_sleep.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rethinking Sleep</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/opinion/sunday/rethinking-sleep.html?src=twrhp</url></story> |
36,782,305 | 36,781,967 | 1 | 2 | 36,781,248 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>&gt; about the noise<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking of getting a fanless case[1] for my Asus PN51. Akasa also makes some for Intel NUCs too[2], amongst others.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akasa.com.tw&#x2F;update.php?tpl=list%2FCHASSIS+POWER.tpl&amp;type=FANLESS+CASES&amp;type_sub=AMD+Mini+PC" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akasa.com.tw&#x2F;update.php?tpl=list%2FCHASSIS+POWER...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akasa.com.tw&#x2F;update.php?tpl=list%2FCHASSIS+POWER.tpl&amp;type=FANLESS+CASES&amp;type_sub=Intel+NUC&amp;nuc=all&amp;generation=all" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akasa.com.tw&#x2F;update.php?tpl=list%2FCHASSIS+POWER...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bfdm</author><text>I <i>have</i> been using a NUC as an HTPC for several years now and it&#x27;s great, though the comments in the previous conversation about them ending the line were right about the noise.<p>I&#x27;m in the market for a similar device to replace my dangerously past EOL desktop, and funny enough I have been circling around Asus&#x27; SFF line.</text></item><item><author>RandomBK</author><text>I find the development quite interesting, and it lends credence to the theory Intel&#x27;s NUC line was <i>technically profitable</i> (or at least not horrifically in the red), but just didn&#x27;t make strategic sense - especially from a &#x27;competing with your own customers&#x27; view.<p>While I never bought one of these NUCs myself, I&#x27;ve used quite a few deployed as thin clients and kiosk machines. Let&#x27;s see what ASUS ends up doing with the product segment.<p>More broadly, I hope the trend of selling off business units rather than closing them outright continues (Google Domains selling to Squarespace being another recent example).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-nuc-systems-agreement.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>j45</author><text>Lenovo has the thinkcentre line<p>Dell has the optiplex<p>Go has the elitedesk and pro desk<p>All in mini&#x2F;usff formfactor similar to the size of a Mac mini.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bfdm</author><text>I <i>have</i> been using a NUC as an HTPC for several years now and it&#x27;s great, though the comments in the previous conversation about them ending the line were right about the noise.<p>I&#x27;m in the market for a similar device to replace my dangerously past EOL desktop, and funny enough I have been circling around Asus&#x27; SFF line.</text></item><item><author>RandomBK</author><text>I find the development quite interesting, and it lends credence to the theory Intel&#x27;s NUC line was <i>technically profitable</i> (or at least not horrifically in the red), but just didn&#x27;t make strategic sense - especially from a &#x27;competing with your own customers&#x27; view.<p>While I never bought one of these NUCs myself, I&#x27;ve used quite a few deployed as thin clients and kiosk machines. Let&#x27;s see what ASUS ends up doing with the product segment.<p>More broadly, I hope the trend of selling off business units rather than closing them outright continues (Google Domains selling to Squarespace being another recent example).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-nuc-systems-agreement.html</url></story> |
7,287,744 | 7,287,695 | 1 | 2 | 7,287,112 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>verroq</author><text>I have written a proxy pool server (<a href="https://github.com/dogestreet/proxypool" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dogestreet&#x2F;proxypool</a>) in Haskell if anybody wants to check it out. It&#x27;s a Stratum to Stratum protocol proxy, it lets you create a mining pool that mines into another mining pool.<p>(Disclaimer, only P2Pool upstreams work for now, I&#x27;m trying to get it to work with stratum-mining).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoin-mining-hard-way-algorithms.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>plg</author><text>Ironically, the most cost efficient way of acquiring BTC today may well be to go out into the world and earn dollars (e.g. a job) and then use them to purchase BTC from an exchange.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoin-mining-hard-way-algorithms.html</url></story> |
41,734,425 | 41,734,045 | 1 | 3 | 41,730,896 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>viraptor</author><text>You got thrown into a class above your skill level. That&#x27;s bad on the teacher for not telling you really. Once you know the basics the rest is easier to build on top of that, but otherwise it&#x27;s like trying to tell someone about design patterns while they&#x27;re still struggling with syntax in programming.<p>If you liked the idea, give it a go with beginners again. You&#x27;ll get back to that higher level soon anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>macintux</author><text>Speaking as someone who tried to take a tap class as an adult, only to discover it was for people who were already experienced dancers: yes, dance training is vastly more complex than exercise.<p>Update: what absolutely killed me is that we would run through a complex step two or three times, and we were expected to be able to practice at home. I didn&#x27;t understand what we were doing <i>while</i> we were doing it, there was no way I could reproduce it.</text></item><item><author>ericmcer</author><text>I don&#x27;t have any science behind this, but it makes sense that training more complex motions would trigger greater brain improvements.<p>Dance vs basketball or some other high coordination&#x2F;skill activity might have less disparity than say dance vs. exercise bike.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)</title><url>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196636</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>UniverseHacker</author><text>I have experience with a few types of dance including salsa and bachata, and also compete as a strength athlete- and find some of the more complex weight lifting moves- such as the push jerk- a lot harder and more technical than anything I’ve learned dancing. If every aspect of your timing and form aren’t perfect, it simply does not work at heavier weights, and can take years of constant practice to perfect. The extra burden of having to output 100 percent effort while trying to do everything else perfect is very mentally demanding.</text><parent_chain><item><author>macintux</author><text>Speaking as someone who tried to take a tap class as an adult, only to discover it was for people who were already experienced dancers: yes, dance training is vastly more complex than exercise.<p>Update: what absolutely killed me is that we would run through a complex step two or three times, and we were expected to be able to practice at home. I didn&#x27;t understand what we were doing <i>while</i> we were doing it, there was no way I could reproduce it.</text></item><item><author>ericmcer</author><text>I don&#x27;t have any science behind this, but it makes sense that training more complex motions would trigger greater brain improvements.<p>Dance vs basketball or some other high coordination&#x2F;skill activity might have less disparity than say dance vs. exercise bike.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)</title><url>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196636</url></story> |
36,849,267 | 36,847,570 | 1 | 3 | 36,846,076 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Skeime</author><text>I strongly disagree that the bold symbols are better, even though they’re what blackboard bold was originally conceived to approximate. The reason: Bold font draws attention (ask a typographer about type color), but usually, the bolder symbols are not the ones requiring that attention. (If I read a text about real analysis, I know that the domains and codomains will be the real numbers, for example.) The blackboard bold versions stick out much less when looking at the greater composition of the page.</text><parent_chain><item><author>enriquto</author><text>&gt; This is for math.<p>Heh.<p>The &quot;tabs vs spaces&quot; debate of mathematical typography is whether these symbols should be used at all in printing, or reserved for actual blackboards.
In LaTeX you can have actual boldface letters, so you should write a boldface letter R to represent the real numbers and so on. Using &quot;blackboard bold&quot; in print looks terribly off to some (many?) people.</text></item><item><author>dietrichepp</author><text>This is for math.<p>In Latex, you get these symbols with \mathbb{}. They are most commonly used to represent to represent number sets, like the set of all integers Z (from the German), set of all natural numbers N, set of complex numbers C, set of all real numbers R, rationals Q (for “quotient”), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for “field”). This explains why many of the letters in this series exist in the basic multilingual plane—because R is very commonly used, but A is not. You can find ℝ in the basic multilingual plane at U+211D.<p>I don’t know why people are interested in the X symbol. It’s just there to complete the alphabet. There are many other ranges like this used for writing mathematical formulas, like the range of bold letters, fraktur, script, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)</title><url>https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>folkrav</author><text>Funny. Coming from a non-math background, having only one symbol to deal with feels less confusing than switching around symbols based on the medium it happens to be written on. Did one of the symbols come &quot;first&quot;?</text><parent_chain><item><author>enriquto</author><text>&gt; This is for math.<p>Heh.<p>The &quot;tabs vs spaces&quot; debate of mathematical typography is whether these symbols should be used at all in printing, or reserved for actual blackboards.
In LaTeX you can have actual boldface letters, so you should write a boldface letter R to represent the real numbers and so on. Using &quot;blackboard bold&quot; in print looks terribly off to some (many?) people.</text></item><item><author>dietrichepp</author><text>This is for math.<p>In Latex, you get these symbols with \mathbb{}. They are most commonly used to represent to represent number sets, like the set of all integers Z (from the German), set of all natural numbers N, set of complex numbers C, set of all real numbers R, rationals Q (for “quotient”), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for “field”). This explains why many of the letters in this series exist in the basic multilingual plane—because R is very commonly used, but A is not. You can find ℝ in the basic multilingual plane at U+211D.<p>I don’t know why people are interested in the X symbol. It’s just there to complete the alphabet. There are many other ranges like this used for writing mathematical formulas, like the range of bold letters, fraktur, script, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)</title><url>https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F</url></story> |
20,200,676 | 20,200,417 | 1 | 2 | 20,199,349 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>feanaro</author><text>Isn&#x27;t the surveillance&#x2F;telemetry problem still as much of a problem as it was on day zero? As far as I know, it hasn&#x27;t been removed nor lessened. As far as I remember, it is absolutely overreaching, collecting your name, email address, browsing history, searches, application usage and more.<p>Microsoft also keeps a copy of your full-disk encryption key. &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;28&#x2F;recently-bought-a-windows-computer-microsoft-probably-has-your-encryption-key&#x2F;&gt;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;28&#x2F;recently-bought-a-window...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>scardine</author><text>Lets not forget WSL. I just got the WSL2 upgrade - it turns a Windows 10 desktop into a quite decent software developer workstation.<p>Seriously guys, if the last time you used Windows was a few years ago it is time to give it a another shot.</text></item><item><author>bdcravens</author><text>&gt; Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years<p>Well if you had asked your typical HN developer a few years ago whether they&#x27;d be using a Microsoft code editor ...</text></item><item><author>paul7986</author><text>Just read Microsoft will allow ad blocker extensions (May build one in) in their new Chromium browser. Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years and use IE again(IE of today).<p>Such a stupid move by the do no evil company! Now they do no stupid too.<p>EDIT: Here is link... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;kateoflahertyuk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;microsoft-just-dealt-a-blow-to-googles-ad-blocking-plans&#x2F;#459c060c16ff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;kateoflahertyuk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;micr...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>uBlock Origin 1.20</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.20.0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>de_watcher</author><text>&gt; Seriously guys, if the last time you used Windows was a few years ago it is time to give it a another shot.<p>What&#x27;s the point? They do it all the time when things start going bad. It&#x27;ll turn to garbage as soon as they have enough of mindshare. Why be among the ones who run back and forth?</text><parent_chain><item><author>scardine</author><text>Lets not forget WSL. I just got the WSL2 upgrade - it turns a Windows 10 desktop into a quite decent software developer workstation.<p>Seriously guys, if the last time you used Windows was a few years ago it is time to give it a another shot.</text></item><item><author>bdcravens</author><text>&gt; Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years<p>Well if you had asked your typical HN developer a few years ago whether they&#x27;d be using a Microsoft code editor ...</text></item><item><author>paul7986</author><text>Just read Microsoft will allow ad blocker extensions (May build one in) in their new Chromium browser. Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years and use IE again(IE of today).<p>Such a stupid move by the do no evil company! Now they do no stupid too.<p>EDIT: Here is link... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;kateoflahertyuk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;microsoft-just-dealt-a-blow-to-googles-ad-blocking-plans&#x2F;#459c060c16ff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;kateoflahertyuk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;micr...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>uBlock Origin 1.20</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.20.0</url></story> |
3,976,922 | 3,976,300 | 1 | 2 | 3,976,004 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stephen</author><text>Wow, range types with non-overlapping constraints:<p><a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/rangetypes.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/rangetypes.html</a><p>CREATE TABLE room_reservation (
room TEXT,
during TSRANGE,
EXCLUDE USING gist (room WITH =, during WITH &#38;&#38;)
);<p>INSERT INTO room_reservation VALUES ('123A', '[2010-01-01 14:00, 2010-01-01 15:00)');<p>INSERT INTO room_reservation VALUES ('123A', '[2010-01-01 14:30, 2010-01-01 15:30)');
ERROR: conflicting key value violates exclusion constraint "room_reservation_room_during_excl"
DETAIL: Key (room, during)=(123A, [ 2010-01-01 14:30:00, 2010-01-01 15:30:00 )) conflicts with
existing key (room, during)=(123A, [ 2010-01-01 14:00:00, 2010-01-01 15:00:00 )).<p>Used to have to rely on the application to do these sorts of constraints.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PostgreSQL 9.2 beta adds JSON</title><url>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/PostgreSQL-9-2-beta-improves-scalability-adds-JSON-1573815.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>gphil</author><text>I think the bigger deal (at least for most existing deployments) are the index-only scans. This is one of the only features of Oracle that I missed after switching to Postgres.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PostgreSQL 9.2 beta adds JSON</title><url>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/PostgreSQL-9-2-beta-improves-scalability-adds-JSON-1573815.html</url></story> |
14,681,013 | 14,680,195 | 1 | 2 | 14,678,504 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>audunw</author><text>And what would the cost&#x2F;benefit analysis of adding security be? Not just the cost of security staff and equipment, but from slowing everyone down and the implicit economic impact on society.<p>Not taking this into account is immoral, because those resources could potentially be spent saving peoples lives in more efficient ways. Terrorism is extremely rare way of dying.<p>I&#x27;m extremely skeptical that this accounting will even show a benefit for airport security, but I don&#x27;t think airport security is mainly about stopping terrorists. It&#x27;s about controlling what people bring on board the plane, as there&#x27;s a lot of things that could inadvertantly cause trouble on a plane. The same can not be said for trains to the same degree.<p>Also, planes themselves can be used as effective weapons if taken over. Don&#x27;t think that goes for trains, especially where they&#x27;re electrified.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aerovistae</author><text>Frankly the lack of security frightens me. It&#x27;s only cool til someone stands up on your car and pulls out an AR. Then suddenly it&#x27;s &quot;what were they thinking.&quot;<p>Happened in France, fortunately with no casualties...</text></item><item><author>gokhan</author><text>I&#x27;m on a vacation in Italy and just used one this morning from Florence to Bologna with Trenitalia. A lot of positive things: The ride was 35 minutes long, doesn&#x27;t include any security theater, you can arrive the station 10 minutes before the departure and hop in a couple of minutes, comfortable, roomy, from city center to almost city center, and many more. And the train continued to all the way to Turin, visiting many cities including Milan in 2-3 hours. Cost was 16ish euros, I guess (deducing from a total payment for four people).<p>Doing the same though air travel would add at least a total of 2-3 hours for the whole thing. Don&#x27;t know about the cost comparison but the user satisfaction is there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail</title><url>http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2017/07/01/a-generational-failure-as-the-u-s-fantasizes-the-rest-of-the-world-builds-a-new-transport-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>imgabe</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s only cool til someone stands up on your car and pulls out an AR<p>It continues to be cool for the thousands of other trips that day and the millions of other trips afterwards where that doesn&#x27;t happen.<p>Better to build a society that doesn&#x27;t create people who feel the need to mow down a train car full of people than to treat everyone else like a criminal a priori.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aerovistae</author><text>Frankly the lack of security frightens me. It&#x27;s only cool til someone stands up on your car and pulls out an AR. Then suddenly it&#x27;s &quot;what were they thinking.&quot;<p>Happened in France, fortunately with no casualties...</text></item><item><author>gokhan</author><text>I&#x27;m on a vacation in Italy and just used one this morning from Florence to Bologna with Trenitalia. A lot of positive things: The ride was 35 minutes long, doesn&#x27;t include any security theater, you can arrive the station 10 minutes before the departure and hop in a couple of minutes, comfortable, roomy, from city center to almost city center, and many more. And the train continued to all the way to Turin, visiting many cities including Milan in 2-3 hours. Cost was 16ish euros, I guess (deducing from a total payment for four people).<p>Doing the same though air travel would add at least a total of 2-3 hours for the whole thing. Don&#x27;t know about the cost comparison but the user satisfaction is there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail</title><url>http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2017/07/01/a-generational-failure-as-the-u-s-fantasizes-the-rest-of-the-world-builds-a-new-transport-system/</url></story> |
23,608,104 | 23,607,897 | 1 | 2 | 23,597,687 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>Traceroute’s trick is amusing. It abuses the TTL field, sending out packets with too-low TTLs and waiting to see who complains about them. When layers reveal themselves they are doing it voluntarily, and those wise to the game can choose not to participate, or to troll it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;15&#x2F;star_wars_traceroute&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;15&#x2F;star_wars_traceroute&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>eat_veggies</author><text>One of my favorite revelations about the network tracing tools (things like `traceroute` and `dig +trace`) that might not be obvious for people like me who work higher up in the stack, is that the data they provide isn&#x27;t usually made available during &quot;normal&quot; usage. Packets don&#x27;t just phone home and tell you where they&#x27;ve been. Something else is going on.<p>When you send a DNS query to a recursive server like your ISP&#x27;s or something like 1.1.1.1, you make a single DNS query and get back a single response, because the recursive DNS server handles all the different queries that Julia outlines in the post. As the client, we have no idea what steps just happened in the background.<p>But when you run `dig +trace`, dig is actually <i>pretending to be a recursive name server</i>, and making all those queries <i>itself</i> instead of letting the real recursive name servers do their work. It&#x27;s a fun hack but that means it&#x27;s not always 100% accurate to what&#x27;s going on in the real world [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;482913&#x2F;is-dig-trace-always-accurate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;482913&#x2F;is-dig-trace-always...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happens when you update your DNS</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/how-updating-dns-works/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LogicX</author><text>Just to add to the discussion -- &#x27;whats happening in the background&#x27; -- more specifically is your operating system&#x27;s stub resolver.<p>So when you ask for www.amazon.com it ends up making multiple DNS lookups, as www.amazon.com is a CNAME record.<p>Nothing about this CNAME lookup gets passed back up the stack to your application; you just get that end-result: the IP address.<p>host www.amazon.com
www.amazon.com is an alias for tp.47cf2c8c9-frontier.amazon.com.
tp.47cf2c8c9-frontier.amazon.com is an alias for www.amazon.com.edgekey.net.
www.amazon.com.edgekey.net is an alias for e15316.e22.akamaiedge.net.
e15316.e22.akamaiedge.net has address 23.204.68.114</text><parent_chain><item><author>eat_veggies</author><text>One of my favorite revelations about the network tracing tools (things like `traceroute` and `dig +trace`) that might not be obvious for people like me who work higher up in the stack, is that the data they provide isn&#x27;t usually made available during &quot;normal&quot; usage. Packets don&#x27;t just phone home and tell you where they&#x27;ve been. Something else is going on.<p>When you send a DNS query to a recursive server like your ISP&#x27;s or something like 1.1.1.1, you make a single DNS query and get back a single response, because the recursive DNS server handles all the different queries that Julia outlines in the post. As the client, we have no idea what steps just happened in the background.<p>But when you run `dig +trace`, dig is actually <i>pretending to be a recursive name server</i>, and making all those queries <i>itself</i> instead of letting the real recursive name servers do their work. It&#x27;s a fun hack but that means it&#x27;s not always 100% accurate to what&#x27;s going on in the real world [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;482913&#x2F;is-dig-trace-always-accurate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;482913&#x2F;is-dig-trace-always...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happens when you update your DNS</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/how-updating-dns-works/</url></story> |
35,971,511 | 35,970,824 | 1 | 3 | 35,945,467 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swyx</author><text>(author here) i suspect this maybe one of those “feels like a bad idea until you try it” things. Multiple times when i wanted to add a feature or be more specific, throwing it into prompt.md knowing the LLM would put it in the right file, or coordinate it across files, for me, was the most delightful experience of the “engineering with prompts” workflow.<p>that said if you see my future directions notes i do think theres room for file specific .md instructions.<p>the shared dependencies file is essentially a plan. i didnt realize it at the moment but now looking at it with fresh eyes i can do a no-op `smol plan` command pretty trivially.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wokwokwok</author><text>Seems like the wrong approach in the long term.<p>Realistically, a large code base LLM generation tool is going to look something like old-school C code.<p>An initial pass will generate an architecture and a series of independent code unit definitions (.h files) and then a &#x27;detail pass&#x27; will generate the code for (.c files) for each header file.<p>The header files will be &#x27;relatively independent&#x27; and small, so they fit inside the context for the LLM, and because the function definition and comments &#x27;define&#x27; what a function is, the LLM will generate consistent multi-file code.<p>The anti-patterns we see at the moment in this type of project are:<p>1) The entire code is passed to the LLM as context using a huge number of tokens meaninglessly. (you only need the function signature)<p>2) 1-page spaghetti definition files are stupid and unmaintainable (just read prompt.md if you don&#x27;t believe me).<p>3) No way of verifying the &#x27;plan&#x27; before you go and generate the code that implements it (expensive and a waste of time; you should generate function signatures <i>first</i> and then verify they are correct before generating the code for them).<p>4) Generating unit tests for full functions instead of just the function signatures (leaks implementation details).<p>It&#x27;s interesting to me that modern language try to move all of these domains (header, implementation, tests) into a single place (or even a single <i>file</i>, look at rust), but passing <i>all</i> of that to an LLM is wrong.<p>It&#x27;s <i>architecturally</i> wrong in a way that won&#x27;t scale.<p>Even an LLM with 1000k tokens that <i>could</i> process a code base like this will be prohibitively slow and expensive to do so.<p>I suspect we&#x27;ll see a class &#x27;generative languages&#x27; emerge in the future that walk the other direction so they are easier to use with LLM and code-gen.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Smol Developer</title><url>https://github.com/smol-ai/developer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>verdverm</author><text>You might like what we are working on, generate an intermediate representation with LLMs, then use deterministic code gen to write the real code. This setup also allows for modifications and updates too, so you can use this the whole time rather than a one time bootstrapping.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;verdverm&#x2F;status&#x2F;1655481985685389313?t=d7u2z6cPoE0f0M40nYqJfQ&amp;s=19" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;verdverm&#x2F;status&#x2F;1655481985685389313?t=d7...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>wokwokwok</author><text>Seems like the wrong approach in the long term.<p>Realistically, a large code base LLM generation tool is going to look something like old-school C code.<p>An initial pass will generate an architecture and a series of independent code unit definitions (.h files) and then a &#x27;detail pass&#x27; will generate the code for (.c files) for each header file.<p>The header files will be &#x27;relatively independent&#x27; and small, so they fit inside the context for the LLM, and because the function definition and comments &#x27;define&#x27; what a function is, the LLM will generate consistent multi-file code.<p>The anti-patterns we see at the moment in this type of project are:<p>1) The entire code is passed to the LLM as context using a huge number of tokens meaninglessly. (you only need the function signature)<p>2) 1-page spaghetti definition files are stupid and unmaintainable (just read prompt.md if you don&#x27;t believe me).<p>3) No way of verifying the &#x27;plan&#x27; before you go and generate the code that implements it (expensive and a waste of time; you should generate function signatures <i>first</i> and then verify they are correct before generating the code for them).<p>4) Generating unit tests for full functions instead of just the function signatures (leaks implementation details).<p>It&#x27;s interesting to me that modern language try to move all of these domains (header, implementation, tests) into a single place (or even a single <i>file</i>, look at rust), but passing <i>all</i> of that to an LLM is wrong.<p>It&#x27;s <i>architecturally</i> wrong in a way that won&#x27;t scale.<p>Even an LLM with 1000k tokens that <i>could</i> process a code base like this will be prohibitively slow and expensive to do so.<p>I suspect we&#x27;ll see a class &#x27;generative languages&#x27; emerge in the future that walk the other direction so they are easier to use with LLM and code-gen.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Smol Developer</title><url>https://github.com/smol-ai/developer</url></story> |
20,379,119 | 20,376,750 | 1 | 3 | 20,375,807 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elcritch</author><text>Fellow Nerves enthusiast here. Having an easy-to-use (YMMV) eInk display library in Elixir makes a whole slew of useful lab&#x2F;tinker equipment feasible! Shoutout to @lawik for taking the effort to port inky over. It&#x27;s fairly tedious to work with all the SPI and image buffer tweaks.<p>eInk&#x27;s have nice readability for &quot;around the lab&quot; type equipment. Having a nice Nerves compatible wrapper lowers that barrier of entry even more. Sure you can do it with Python and a RPi Zero and perhaps some Ansible scripts or PiBakery, but there&#x27;s something great about being able to make a custom (e.g. &lt; 50 MB) embedded Linux sd-card image with proper SSH network&#x2F;credentialing, all in around as long as it takes to download a full Raspbian distro on a busy network... I am planning on building a custom weighing station for simple chemical titration next week and have a nice unused eInk display sitting around.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Running an eInk Display with Elixir, Scenic and Nerves</title><url>http://underjord.io/an-eink-display-with-nerves-elixir.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>umvi</author><text>I&#x27;ve wanted a dual eink display for piano sheet music for a while, but it seems that the only ones on the market are $2-5K+. I might try to dink around with a raspberry pi and a few eink displays to see how hard it would be to make a budget one.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Running an eInk Display with Elixir, Scenic and Nerves</title><url>http://underjord.io/an-eink-display-with-nerves-elixir.html</url></story> |
12,887,881 | 12,887,365 | 1 | 2 | 12,887,007 | train | <instructions>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>And yet even with DST, kids in Alaska manage to get to school despite the sun coming up at 10am. This whole &quot;for the kids@ argument is the worst one.<p>Most workers today would prefer going to work in the dark and having daylight after work. Even farmers will tell you DST doesn&#x27;t make a diffence to them anymore (or ever). The animals get up with the sun regardless of what the clock says.<p>I agree with OP -- in today&#x27;s modern world we should just stick with DST all year.</text><parent_chain><item><author>raldi</author><text>Without Standard Time, it would have been dark out until 7:40am today here in SF. That&#x27;s really tough on people (or children) who have to be at work&#x2F;school by 9 or even 8. By mid-December, sunrise wouldn&#x27;t be until almost 8:30. In Seattle, it would be dark outside until 9am.<p>Losing an hour of sleep in the spring is rough, but I&#x27;d rather do that (and get an extra hour in the fall) than have to get ready in the dark all winter.</text></item><item><author>pixie_</author><text>We need permanent daylight savings time. Yesterday sunset was around 6pm in LA. Today it will be at 5pm. At least I had a little bit of daylight after work, now it&#x27;s just depressing.</text></item><item><author>pfarnsworth</author><text>Getting rid of Daylight Savings makes complete sense, and it&#x27;s something we should really pursue.<p>Getting rid of Time Zones is ridiculous. People know that 6am roughly is morning, and 6pm is roughly the evening. When you&#x27;re dealing with someone internationally, you know not to call them at midnight their time because there&#x27;s a high probability they may be sleeping. Having time roughly follow a standard around the world makes absolute sense <i>because we&#x27;re human</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Time to Dump Time Zones</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/opinion/sunday/time-to-dump-time-zones.html?_r=0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>capkutay</author><text>Yes but when you look at time changes holistically, the CDC and sleep experts are recommending that schools start around 9 or 10 am.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;smart-news&#x2F;sleep-scientists-say-school-days-should-start-later-180956565&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;smart-news&#x2F;sleep-scientists-sa...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startschoollater.net&#x2F;why-change.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startschoollater.net&#x2F;why-change.html</a><p>I&#x27;m more and more convinced that most humans just aren&#x27;t wired to wake up at the crack of dawn. The tech industry owes a lot of its hyper productivity to the fact that they have flexible hours for their engineers which tend to skew later into the day and night.</text><parent_chain><item><author>raldi</author><text>Without Standard Time, it would have been dark out until 7:40am today here in SF. That&#x27;s really tough on people (or children) who have to be at work&#x2F;school by 9 or even 8. By mid-December, sunrise wouldn&#x27;t be until almost 8:30. In Seattle, it would be dark outside until 9am.<p>Losing an hour of sleep in the spring is rough, but I&#x27;d rather do that (and get an extra hour in the fall) than have to get ready in the dark all winter.</text></item><item><author>pixie_</author><text>We need permanent daylight savings time. Yesterday sunset was around 6pm in LA. Today it will be at 5pm. At least I had a little bit of daylight after work, now it&#x27;s just depressing.</text></item><item><author>pfarnsworth</author><text>Getting rid of Daylight Savings makes complete sense, and it&#x27;s something we should really pursue.<p>Getting rid of Time Zones is ridiculous. People know that 6am roughly is morning, and 6pm is roughly the evening. When you&#x27;re dealing with someone internationally, you know not to call them at midnight their time because there&#x27;s a high probability they may be sleeping. Having time roughly follow a standard around the world makes absolute sense <i>because we&#x27;re human</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Time to Dump Time Zones</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/opinion/sunday/time-to-dump-time-zones.html?_r=0</url></story> |
39,440,098 | 39,439,616 | 1 | 2 | 39,427,265 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>betaby</author><text>This is the best, seriously <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;title&#x2F;systemd-networkd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;title&#x2F;systemd-networkd</a> and it&#x27;s not specific to Arch, since systemd is in 99% of distros nowadays.</text><parent_chain><item><author>atoav</author><text>Tangentially related question: Does anybody have a good <i>overview</i> resource how to configure networking in a linux system (exluding graphical tools)?<p>I know there are multiple ways to do similar things and settings are somewhat scattered into different files, but this is why I wondered if there is some kind of <i>overview</i> that I could use as a starting point.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ethernet: The Basics</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2024/02/12/ethernet-for-hackers-the-very-basics/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hiAndrewQuinn</author><text><i>Networking for System Administrators</i> is often my recommendation for this. The author walks all the way up the stack from the physical layer up and name-drops every program and file he uses: `ethtool`, `&#x2F;etc&#x2F;hosts`, `&#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf`, `ipconfig`, `netcat`, `tcpdump` ...<p>I quite liked the accessible style, and got a lot out of making Anki flashcards for all of them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>atoav</author><text>Tangentially related question: Does anybody have a good <i>overview</i> resource how to configure networking in a linux system (exluding graphical tools)?<p>I know there are multiple ways to do similar things and settings are somewhat scattered into different files, but this is why I wondered if there is some kind of <i>overview</i> that I could use as a starting point.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ethernet: The Basics</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2024/02/12/ethernet-for-hackers-the-very-basics/</url></story> |
31,397,109 | 31,396,543 | 1 | 3 | 31,394,226 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>There&#x27;s some truth to your comment, and the one threat you&#x27;ll never run away from is yourself, but it misses a lot.<p>I&#x27;ve been using an Onyx BOOX Max Lumi as my daily driver for about a year. It&#x27;s an e-ink Android tablet, principally intended as an e-book reader (which I use it for), though it also serves quite well for podcasts, web browsing, and general terminal work (Termux &#x2F; SSH).<p>If I really want to minimise distractions, I&#x27;ll disable networking. I can read local content (articles, or my Pocket stash), which is already ample distraction. Or play back downloaded podcasts.<p>It is far more usable outdoors or under bright lighting than any laptop or tablet, which is itself highly useful.<p>Battery life is quite good <i>when reading ebooks</i>. This involves disabling Bluetooth, WiFi, and if possible, the Backlight, and avoiding screen repaints. When used for podcasts or browsing, CPU drain is fairly substantial, though I can get well over a day&#x27;s use per charge typically.<p>There&#x27;s no social media or any other apps on the device. My one authenticating app is Pocket.<p>The UI is not entirely as distraction-free as I&#x27;d like, <i>but it is far more so than any other device I&#x27;ve owned in decades</i>.<p>Lacking colour and high-speed animations <i>is</i> of and by itself a major win on distraction-free status. So, interestingly enough, is the ability to take freehand notes on the device. I&#x27;d not anticipated doing that much, it&#x27;s turned out to be a significant use.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bluescrn</author><text>You could make any PC or laptop into a &#x27;low distraction&#x27; device by disconnecting it from the Internet and having a minimum install of only the required productivity software.<p>It won&#x27;t free you from the distraction of your other devices though, as you&#x27;ve probably got a fully-online phone within reach.</text></item><item><author>elnatro</author><text>I would buy this in an instant.<p>A separated device to write my blog or some short stories would be a godsend to me. With each year it passes, I feel my concentration vanish more and more. A distraction-free device could help me regain some concentration (I think).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Modos Paper Laptop</title><url>https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-laptop</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mtlmtlmtlmtl</author><text>I usually just turn my phone off if I need to focus. If someone &#x2F;really&#x2F; needs to reach me they could always call my workplace. And I avoid phone communication at all cost anyway.<p>I realise this is not an option for everyone of course. There&#x27;s also apps that allow you to time lock your phone with exceptions for important things. Protip: set it up so you can get around it by rebooting the phone, in case you forgot to whitelist something, etc. Smartphones are painfully slow to boot anyway, so it still helps discourage the constant distraction if you can muster the will power to not do the reboot. More effort means you consider it rather than reflexively do it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bluescrn</author><text>You could make any PC or laptop into a &#x27;low distraction&#x27; device by disconnecting it from the Internet and having a minimum install of only the required productivity software.<p>It won&#x27;t free you from the distraction of your other devices though, as you&#x27;ve probably got a fully-online phone within reach.</text></item><item><author>elnatro</author><text>I would buy this in an instant.<p>A separated device to write my blog or some short stories would be a godsend to me. With each year it passes, I feel my concentration vanish more and more. A distraction-free device could help me regain some concentration (I think).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Modos Paper Laptop</title><url>https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-laptop</url></story> |
34,996,903 | 34,997,256 | 1 | 2 | 34,992,219 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jollyllama</author><text>Great, it used to be a nice, chill place to grab a drink and some food but now it&#x27;ll be swamped with tourists.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>5k-year-old tavern with food still inside discovered in iraq</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/5000-year-old-tavern-discovered-in-iraq-180981564/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>Internet Archive Scholar has some interesting results for &quot;Lagash&quot;, it&#x27;s a nice resource. See this from 1956:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;sim_transactions-of-the-american-philosophical-society_1956-09_46_0&#x2F;page&#x2F;211&#x2F;mode&#x2F;1up?view=theater" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;sim_transactions-of-the-american...</a><p>&gt; &quot;This is the dream contained in the famous Cylinder A of Gudea (published in TCL VIII), the ensi of the Sumerian city of Lagash, whose floruit falls about the very beginning of the second millennium B.C. Gudea, ruler of Lagash, desired to build a fitting temple for his god, NinGirsu, and, as was customary throughout the entire span of existence of the Mesopotamian civilization, the latter sent a dream...&quot;<p>These kinds of modern excavations reveal a lot more about ordinary daily life than the older translation of temple documents and royal inscriptions do, however.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>5k-year-old tavern with food still inside discovered in iraq</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/5000-year-old-tavern-discovered-in-iraq-180981564/</url></story> |
13,354,777 | 13,354,303 | 1 | 3 | 13,353,409 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>orthoganol</author><text>You may find it interesting to read about attachment type correlations with certain countries&#x2F; cultures, from a developmental psychology textbook I have:<p>Perhaps surprisingly, the relative incidence of different attachment styles, as measured using Ainsworth’s Strange Situation, varies dramatically across cultures (Thompson, 1998; Van IJzendoorn &amp; Kroonenberg, 1988). Consider, for example, the substantial cultural differences shown in Table 6.2. The majority of German infants studied were measured as insecurely attached (mostly avoidant, or Type A). Japanese infants showed no avoidant attachments whatsoever, and they were almost three times as likely as their American counterparts to show anxious (Type C) attachments. Finally, one group of Israeli children showed almost 10 times as many anxious attachments as Swedish children. Because the procedure used in the Strange Situation is relatively straightforward, it does not seem that these variations can be explained by simple methodological discrepancies in how the assessments were conducted (Harwood et al., 1995; Thompson, 1998; Van IJzendoorn &amp; Kroonenberg, 1988).<p>From &quot;Developmental Psychology: The Growth of Mind and Behavior&quot;, p. 236</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Attachment theory is having a breakout moment</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/yes-its-your-parents-fault.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>gammarator</author><text>Parental genetics are far more important than parenting style in determining what kind of person you turn out to be.<p>And the &quot;nurture&quot; that matters is your peers, not your parents.<p>Skeptical? I highly recommend this book-length treatment of the research literature: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Nurture-Assumption-Children-Revised-Updated&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1439101655&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Nurture-Assumption-Children-Revised-U...</a><p>Unless they are doing twin &amp; adoption studies (hard!), attachment researchers are conflating parenting practices (these warm and loving parents had a warm &amp; loving kid!) with genetics.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Attachment theory is having a breakout moment</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/yes-its-your-parents-fault.html</url></story> |
21,938,183 | 21,938,080 | 1 | 2 | 21,937,888 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_hardwaregeek</author><text>This reminds me of the classic owl meme. Draw two circles, then draw the rest of the damn owl. Writing a hello world does not make WebAssembly easy. I can write a hello world in Rust or in Haskell trivially. That doesn&#x27;t mean I understand borrow checking or monads. Besides the author doesn&#x27;t even go over printing hello world.<p>In fact there&#x27;s quite a lot that&#x27;s inaccurate with this short article. WebAssembly is not really close to Assembly. It offers quite a lot more structure, including control flow and even a concept of functions with types. Also refactoring performance critical code in WebAssembly is not the greatest idea since there&#x27;s a massive interop overhead. Not to mention hand writing WASM is incredibly tedious.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebAssembly is easy – a hello world example</title><url>https://fodor.org/blog/webassembly-hello-world/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Eikon</author><text>&gt; Now that you know how you can easily create and use WebAssembly code, there is nothing stopping you from refactoring performance critical parts of your code using WASM.<p>There is, writing WASM by hand will not only create an unmanageable mess but also should be strongly discouraged, WASM is supposed to be a target not a “language” like the author is mentioning.<p>Also, it’s doubtful WASM is actually faster than plain JavaScript for most use cases when not speaking of benchmark-optimized tests. It’s not the point of WASM.<p>Unfortunately, the way I see it is the ASM part in WASM is going to create a disaster where people really believe it’s an analog to physical machine code.<p>Even speaking of proper assembly code, it’s not advisable to write it by hand except in very rare and specific scenarios such as cryptography as it’s most of the time going to be slower than using an optimizing compiler anyway.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebAssembly is easy – a hello world example</title><url>https://fodor.org/blog/webassembly-hello-world/</url></story> |
18,789,761 | 18,789,508 | 1 | 2 | 18,788,658 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sfifs</author><text>&gt; The Android platform API should simply never allow apps to obtain global system identifiers<p>When the revenue stream of the creator of Android fundamentally depends on being able to tie devices to identity and behaviour, it&#x27;s highly unlikely this is going to happen. They can&#x27;t also keep it only for themselves and block for others or they&#x27;ll get unfair trade practices action on their backs.<p>Thr fact that Apple which could do this without significant adverse monetary impact but has chosen not to do so suggests they want to keep the possibility of re-entering the advertising business (or at least portray so to their shareholders)</text><parent_chain><item><author>nly</author><text>We&#x27;re spoiled in the desktop browser by being able to clear history, cookies, local storage etc, or use a private browser session. There&#x27;s also the importance of the &quot;same origin policy&quot;.<p>The Android platform API should simply never allow apps to obtain global system identifiers (serial numbers, &quot;advertising IDs&quot;, MACs, Wifi network info, EMEIs etc) in the first place. Perhaps even going as far as not providing a shared filesystem.<p>Mobile apps, despite platform API permission, and having some ability to protect their own data, are a lot closer to desktop programs than web apps in many regards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_android/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blfr</author><text>While you make good points about mobile apps, don&#x27;t be too spoiled by the privacy offered by destop browsers. Because of their configuration and various APIs, they&#x27;re almost as easy to fingerprint as mobile devices with advertising IDs.<p>EFF has had a proof of concept online for quite a while <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;panopticlick.eff.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;panopticlick.eff.org&#x2F;</a><p>And HN users are probably even more vulnerable since we will have customized our software making it stand out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nly</author><text>We&#x27;re spoiled in the desktop browser by being able to clear history, cookies, local storage etc, or use a private browser session. There&#x27;s also the importance of the &quot;same origin policy&quot;.<p>The Android platform API should simply never allow apps to obtain global system identifiers (serial numbers, &quot;advertising IDs&quot;, MACs, Wifi network info, EMEIs etc) in the first place. Perhaps even going as far as not providing a shared filesystem.<p>Mobile apps, despite platform API permission, and having some ability to protect their own data, are a lot closer to desktop programs than web apps in many regards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_android/</url></story> |
13,245,073 | 13,244,519 | 1 | 3 | 13,244,337 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisshroba</author><text>I absolutely LOVE format strings. Whereas before, you had to format strings in one of these ways (among other more verbose ways):<p><pre><code> &quot;My name is {} and I am {} years old&quot;.format(name, age)
&quot;My name is %s and I am %s years old&quot; % (name, age)
&quot;My name is {name} and I am {age} years old&quot;.format(name=name, age=age)
</code></pre>
Now, we can finally use f-strings, where anything in brackets is eval&#x27;ed, with the result subbed in:<p><pre><code> f&quot;My name is {name} and I am {age} years old.&quot;</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python 3.6.0 released</title><url>https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2016-December/717624.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>happy-go-lucky</author><text>&gt; PEP 515 adds the ability to use underscores in numeric literals for improved readability. For example:<p><pre><code> &gt;&gt;&gt; 1_000_000_000_000_000
1000000000000000
&gt;&gt;&gt; 0x_FF_FF_FF_FF
4294967295
</code></pre>
&gt; Single underscores are allowed between digits and after any base specifier. Leading, trailing, or multiple underscores in a row are not allowed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python 3.6.0 released</title><url>https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2016-December/717624.html</url></story> |
4,142,402 | 4,142,198 | 1 | 2 | 4,142,089 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sophacles</author><text>Neat project. I like the focus on the positive. IMO this will be a good resource. I really hope this succeeds and takes off in a big way. I like to encourage the women I know in tech to participate in stuff like this, but many times they don't want to because a lot of times "women in tech" issues focus too much on the negative, or the sexism issue rather than the positive or even just the tech.<p>I don't know <i>anyone</i> in Toronto, but I have several nominations around the US, should your scope expansion work out :)<p>(Completely aside: is there any good advice for men who want to further the role of women in tech -- because balance is always a good idea -- to help and encourage without being overbearing or accidentally patronizing? I worry about furthering the problem accidentally so I very rarely bring up this topic, even though I feel strongly about it).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Women and Tech</title><url>http://womenandtech.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>gilrain</author><text>I'd prefer a slightly different slogan. I like "We're not endorsing the obvious," but I feel like "We're really not complaining" is a bit insulting to those who really are highlighting the problems with sexism in technology fields. That's valuable work too, and I don't think it's a positive step to position yourself as, "We're not complainers, like those other women, gosh, am I right?"<p>I love the idea, and I'll be keeping an eye on the site. I just wish the slogan was more like, "We're not endorsing the obvious. We're celebrating the hidden." Or something like that. You can resolve not to focus on (often well deserved and important) "complaining", and I think that's a valuable focus for someone to take, but please don't cast aspersions by implication on those that do speak up about active issues.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Women and Tech</title><url>http://womenandtech.com</url></story> |
7,702,264 | 7,702,170 | 1 | 3 | 7,698,403 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zoomerang</author><text>I agree very strongly, but I can understand the opposite viewpoint.<p>For me, I like to write HTML in HTML. While I&#x27;m primarily a backend programmer these days, I&#x27;ve spend a considerable portion of my career writing HTML, so I&#x27;m very familiar and fluent in it.<p>As such, to me, writing HTML as HTML with annotations for data bindings and loop is a much better approach. Anything else just gets in the way of my workflow. AngularJS is the only tool I&#x27;ve used so far that really nails this properly. (At least since Zope)<p>However a lot of developers aren&#x27;t HTML guys. They think in code, and to them HTML == DOM == a Tree structure. So it makes sense for them to be returning a tree.<p>I quite religiously think the latter is the wrong approach and results in less maintainable code. Instead of having a single template with the entire page clearly laid out, you end up with small snippets of HTML rendered all over the place.<p>This becomes even more jarring when you&#x27;re working with designers that aren&#x27;t coders. I manage a team of 7, and Using HTML-based templates means that my designer can write fluent AngularJS templates without developers having to do a thing. The alternative is for the designer to mock something up, and then for developers to cut it up into tiny little pieces and rewrite it in whatever DOM abstraction is the flavour of the month. Try reskinning a site made up of hundreds of small snippets of DOM vs a few complete HTML templates - the latter is far easier.<p>Some developers like to write Dom in Javascript because they know Javascript and don&#x27;t want to learn another language.<p>To me, the idea that templates are bad because somebody doesn&#x27;t want to learn another language just reeks of anti intellectual bullshit. Angular template aren&#x27;t difficult.<p>I&#x27;ll finish off this post by adding that I <i>much</i> prefer reactive code over imperative observables or dirty-checking, but Angular templates work so ridiculously well it&#x27;d feel like a step backwards moving to another framework that didn&#x27;t have them. My dream toolchain would use something similar to Angular templates, with FRP code behind the scenes.<p>tl;dr To somebody used to writing HTML, building a page by emitting snippets of DOM inside Javascript is about as annoying as trying to write Javascript by emitting snippets of code in XML.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chao-</author><text>Almost everything I&#x27;ve seen about React makes me happy. However there are some parts for which I do not understand everyone else&#x27;s excitement. This presentation contains a great example on slide 53 when it says:<p>&quot;No Templates!&quot;<p>With an exclamation mark, even! What it doesn&#x27;t tell me, is what is wrong with templates in the first place? I happen to like them versus the feeling the alternative gives: Awkwardly-mixed-paradigms and using string concatenation while attempting to represent one language within another.<p>Can someone who dislikes templates explain? Or maybe explain what a template means to you, as perhaps we&#x27;re not all thinking about the same thing when someone says &quot;No Templates!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Case for React.js and ClojureScript</title><url>http://murilopereira.com/the-case-for-reactjs-and-clojurescript</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DougBTX</author><text>&gt; and using string concatenation<p>React.js uses a &quot;virtual DOM&quot; made up of JavaScript objects, so there isn&#x27;t any concatenation of HTML strings, just generation of virtual DOM objects. The next step up from that is their JavaScript variant, JSX, which has HTML-like syntax for instantiating those virtual DOM objects.<p>JSX looks quite like HTML templates, except the programming logic (which in a templating language might be {{if foo}} ... {{&#x2F;if}} etc) is plain JavaScript. Introduction to JSX here: <a href="http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/jsx-in-depth.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;facebook.github.io&#x2F;react&#x2F;docs&#x2F;jsx-in-depth.html</a><p>Slide 49 has a bigger example, and the slide before shows the plain JavaScript version: <a href="http://murilopereira.com/the-case-for-reactjs-and-clojurescript/#/49" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;murilopereira.com&#x2F;the-case-for-reactjs-and-clojurescr...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>chao-</author><text>Almost everything I&#x27;ve seen about React makes me happy. However there are some parts for which I do not understand everyone else&#x27;s excitement. This presentation contains a great example on slide 53 when it says:<p>&quot;No Templates!&quot;<p>With an exclamation mark, even! What it doesn&#x27;t tell me, is what is wrong with templates in the first place? I happen to like them versus the feeling the alternative gives: Awkwardly-mixed-paradigms and using string concatenation while attempting to represent one language within another.<p>Can someone who dislikes templates explain? Or maybe explain what a template means to you, as perhaps we&#x27;re not all thinking about the same thing when someone says &quot;No Templates!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Case for React.js and ClojureScript</title><url>http://murilopereira.com/the-case-for-reactjs-and-clojurescript</url></story> |
7,817,994 | 7,817,551 | 1 | 2 | 7,817,092 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickknw</author><text>Here is a practical everyday example where languages that can represent emptiness in the type system come in handy.<p>He ends up using pointers and mentions: &quot;Using pointers also means that clients of the library will need to perform their own nil checks where appropriate to prevent panics.&quot;<p>Looking forward to using Rust :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go, REST APIs, and Pointers</title><url>https://willnorris.com/2014/05/go-rest-apis-and-pointers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buro9</author><text>PATCH is a nightmare in reality, especially with the default zero nature of Go.<p>We opted for the JSON PATCH notation in RFC 6902: <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6902" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc6902</a><p>Essentially there&#x27;s a standard format for instructions on how to modify an existing JSON document, like this:<p><pre><code> PATCH &#x2F;my&#x2F;data HTTP&#x2F;1.1
Host: example.org
Content-Length: 326
Content-Type: application&#x2F;json-patch+json
If-Match: &quot;abc123&quot;
[
{ &quot;op&quot;: &quot;test&quot;, &quot;path&quot;: &quot;&#x2F;a&#x2F;b&#x2F;c&quot;, &quot;value&quot;: &quot;foo&quot; },
{ &quot;op&quot;: &quot;remove&quot;, &quot;path&quot;: &quot;&#x2F;a&#x2F;b&#x2F;c&quot; },
{ &quot;op&quot;: &quot;add&quot;, &quot;path&quot;: &quot;&#x2F;a&#x2F;b&#x2F;c&quot;, &quot;value&quot;: [ &quot;foo&quot;, &quot;bar&quot; ] },
{ &quot;op&quot;: &quot;replace&quot;, &quot;path&quot;: &quot;&#x2F;a&#x2F;b&#x2F;c&quot;, &quot;value&quot;: 42 },
{ &quot;op&quot;: &quot;move&quot;, &quot;from&quot;: &quot;&#x2F;a&#x2F;b&#x2F;c&quot;, &quot;path&quot;: &quot;&#x2F;a&#x2F;b&#x2F;d&quot; },
{ &quot;op&quot;: &quot;copy&quot;, &quot;from&quot;: &quot;&#x2F;a&#x2F;b&#x2F;d&quot;, &quot;path&quot;: &quot;&#x2F;a&#x2F;b&#x2F;e&quot; }
]
</code></pre>
We&#x27;ve implemented the operations &quot;add&quot;, &quot;remove&quot; and &quot;replace&quot; in our REST API.<p>We don&#x27;t have a meaningful way of doing &quot;move&quot; and &quot;copy&quot;, and &quot;test&quot; can be done by performing a GET and looking at the document (and that can be used in the If-Match).<p>You can see the documentation for our stuff here: <a href="http://microcosm-cc.github.io/#events-single-patch" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;microcosm-cc.github.io&#x2F;#events-single-patch</a><p>And that gives away why we chose to do this... booleans and the default value of false. We wanted it to be more explicit and no room for accidental expression of a value anywhere, regardless of the callee language&#x2F;environment or ours. JSON PATCH makes this very explicit.<p>Of course there&#x27;s the mild inconvenience of handling the value type, but that&#x27;s relatively easily overcome.<p>What was really interesting was handling permissions for the PATCH instructions.<p>For example a user might have permission to issue a PATCH that changed a string, but only the admin could issue a PATCH that updated some special part of a resource.<p>PATCH is relatively easy with the above, and very predictable... fine-grained permissions of which part of a document someone can update... that&#x27;s definitely where the fun is.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go, REST APIs, and Pointers</title><url>https://willnorris.com/2014/05/go-rest-apis-and-pointers</url></story> |
37,787,151 | 37,783,611 | 1 | 3 | 37,782,493 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Too</author><text>So if I understand correctly, vmsplice is more of a mini shared memory mechanism between two processes, if used on both the reader and writer end simultaneously? Meaning both processes need to be exceptionally careful in when they read and write to the buffers and how it is returned after use. Hot, yet scary at the same time.<p>Other main takeaway, it’s a bit sad that the naive implementation everybody will write, is 20x slower than what is possible.<p>Exceptionally written article btw.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)</title><url>https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.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>nh2</author><text>(2022) Previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31592934">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31592934</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)</title><url>https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.html</url></story> |
5,593,324 | 5,593,329 | 1 | 3 | 5,592,886 | 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>tmostak</author><text>Hi all, MapD creator here - I'd be happy to answer any questions. The 700K figure was done by rendering polygon files to textures and using them as lookup tables - it ran pretty fast on the CPU so its not all the GPU there. However if a point falls on a border - perhaps 1% of cases for say a medium-sized raster of the US - you have to do a geometric lookup as usual - which I didn't benchmark. Probably better would be to do some tiled implementation - basically something like textured quad-trees.<p>And as I told the journalist I wasn't sure if I did the PostGIS indexing right - I feel like the quote got taken a little out of context - but the speedups were "high" to "quite high" regardless.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention</title><url>http://data-informed.com/fast-database-emerges-from-mit-class-gpus-and-students-invention/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tmostak</author><text>(MapD creator again) - Also, check out <a href="http://worldmap.harvard.edu/tweetmap" rel="nofollow">http://worldmap.harvard.edu/tweetmap</a> for a live demo - even though its been a bit buggy under Slashdot load and I had to disable GetFeatureInfo requests (i.e. click to get tweet). Also see here for a demo of a new interface I'm messing with that does animation - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foo8pYbSPv4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foo8pYbSPv4</a> .</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention</title><url>http://data-informed.com/fast-database-emerges-from-mit-class-gpus-and-students-invention/</url></story> |
18,370,017 | 18,369,887 | 1 | 2 | 18,367,680 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>candu</author><text>Here&#x27;s the core argument of the article, rephrased slightly: housing cannot both outpace inflation and remain affordable indefinitely.<p>This is not incompatible with <i>some</i> people being able to find affordable housing that is a good investment. All it means is that in the long term - especially when real wages remain relatively constant [1] - these two policy aims are mathematically at odds.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Real_wages" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Real_wages</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>CompelTechnic</author><text>The article is dead wrong about the economics of whether buying a house is a good investment. So much so as to be intellectually dishonest.<p>1. The alternative to buying a home is renting. If the net cost of home ownership is lower than renting, you do not need to make a net profit on the sale of your home for it to be a good decision. The right way to make this decision is to look at all net cash flows, discounted to their present value, such as is done by the New York times rent vs. buy calculator.<p>2. The article ignores the fact that mortgages, which most people use, amplify the gains of inflation.<p>3. The inflation hedging properties of a home make for a good way to protect your future self and retired self from cost of living changes in a way that alternative investments cannot.<p>Many people outside of VHCOL San Francisco have found housing that is both affordable and a good investment.</text></item><item><author>jrnvs</author><text>Great, so you made $50k because your $200k house is now worth $250k - a 25% increase.
You now have a family and bigger income and are looking at a bigger house priced $500k. You are really glad that you “made” $50k on your old house.<p>But wait, if the new house is in the same neighbourhood, it’s price increase was probably <i>also</i> close to 25%. If prices had stayed the same, it would be worth $400k today.<p>So you just gained $50k on your old house but are paying $100k more on the new one.<p>This is only beneficial if you move from a large house in a popular area to a smaller house in a less popular area.<p>If you have kids, they might inherit the wealth gained from your housing “investment” - after splitting with their siblings and after taxes of course. Sounds good, until you realise that they will have to spend it all - and put in extra - on housing because of the price increases.<p>In a world where housing prices stay the same, or become slightly cheaper year by year, everyone is better of. The prices of common utilities such as food and clothing have gone down spectacularly in the last decades while quality has gone up. No one would rather live in a world where these had instead become more expensive.
It’s time we start thinking about housing in the same way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable</title><url>http://cityobservatory.org/housing-cant-be-affordable_and_be-a-good-investment/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hoaw</author><text>&gt; The article is dead wrong about the economics of whether buying a house is a good investment. So much so as to be intellectually dishonest.<p>What part of the article is that? Because that certainly wasn&#x27;t my take away. The article is about whether housing can be affordable and a good financial investment, giving large returns, at the same time. Housing as an &quot;investment&quot; in your life, family or security isn&#x27;t what is meant.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CompelTechnic</author><text>The article is dead wrong about the economics of whether buying a house is a good investment. So much so as to be intellectually dishonest.<p>1. The alternative to buying a home is renting. If the net cost of home ownership is lower than renting, you do not need to make a net profit on the sale of your home for it to be a good decision. The right way to make this decision is to look at all net cash flows, discounted to their present value, such as is done by the New York times rent vs. buy calculator.<p>2. The article ignores the fact that mortgages, which most people use, amplify the gains of inflation.<p>3. The inflation hedging properties of a home make for a good way to protect your future self and retired self from cost of living changes in a way that alternative investments cannot.<p>Many people outside of VHCOL San Francisco have found housing that is both affordable and a good investment.</text></item><item><author>jrnvs</author><text>Great, so you made $50k because your $200k house is now worth $250k - a 25% increase.
You now have a family and bigger income and are looking at a bigger house priced $500k. You are really glad that you “made” $50k on your old house.<p>But wait, if the new house is in the same neighbourhood, it’s price increase was probably <i>also</i> close to 25%. If prices had stayed the same, it would be worth $400k today.<p>So you just gained $50k on your old house but are paying $100k more on the new one.<p>This is only beneficial if you move from a large house in a popular area to a smaller house in a less popular area.<p>If you have kids, they might inherit the wealth gained from your housing “investment” - after splitting with their siblings and after taxes of course. Sounds good, until you realise that they will have to spend it all - and put in extra - on housing because of the price increases.<p>In a world where housing prices stay the same, or become slightly cheaper year by year, everyone is better of. The prices of common utilities such as food and clothing have gone down spectacularly in the last decades while quality has gone up. No one would rather live in a world where these had instead become more expensive.
It’s time we start thinking about housing in the same way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable</title><url>http://cityobservatory.org/housing-cant-be-affordable_and_be-a-good-investment/</url></story> |
5,656,883 | 5,656,538 | 1 | 3 | 5,656,174 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acabal</author><text>I've said it before and I'll say it again: anonymity online and encrypted communications are one of the most important problems we're going to going to face in the coming decades. Hackers should be working on those, not clever ways to serve ads or geolocating your latest locally-sourced coffee.<p>If you don't believe the US is already permanently archiving vast swaths of communication, it's not a big leap of imagination to picture it happening in five or ten years. Likewise the government might not have the computer power to <i>analyze</i> those archives <i>today</i>, but in five or ten years, I'd bet on it.<p>Some people don't mind that the government stores their emails. "I'm fine with it because I know they're going to catch the bad guys" or "I'm fine with it because I have nothing to hide". Those are certainly powerful (though flawed) arguments for the situation <i>today</i>. Those people are perhaps picturing filing cabinets in some dank warehouse filled with paper printouts of their emails, which due to space constraints will be shredded or forgotten in ten years. The reality is that thanks to technology, what we say today is being stored and archived <i>for-ev-er</i> and can be indexed and retrieved <i>easily and indefinitely</i>. Why does that make a difference? Because <i>today</i>, what you say and do might be lawful. But laws and societies change over time, and the government will still be able to go back and dig up what you said decades ago and use it against you.<p>That's really what scares me--because today, I, like most people, don't have much to hide. But who knows what laws or culture will be like in 20 years, and what can be used against me that I said so very long ago? Can you imagine working at the WTC and having a bad day, and jokingly sending an email to a coworker about bombing the place because you're so mad. 9/11 happens a year later, the government looks in its archives for the email you sent, and in a post-9/11 frenzy sends you to Guantanamo to "await trial". Or it doesn't even have to go that far; some government spokesperson lets your name slip in an interview as a "suspect" and the media attention you'll get will forever ruin your life even if the government does nothing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?</title><url>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi-boston</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danbruc</author><text>The first question that comes to my mind - is this technically and economically possible?<p>How many minutes does the average person spend on the phone per day? I found some numbers in the range from 6 to 28 minutes per day. Let's just pick 15 minutes. This times the population of the states (313.9 million) divided by two yields 39,237,500 hours per day. Storing this at 8 kbps requires about 128.5 TiB per day or 45.8 PiB per year.<p>At $40 per TiB this is less than 2 million dollars per year. So technically and economically this should actually be possible. But that is just storing. Performing speech recognition, analyzing the data and extracting information is probably the much harder task and I would guess that it is still infeasible to do this with all phone calls.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?</title><url>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi-boston</url></story> |
31,136,335 | 31,135,756 | 1 | 3 | 31,120,137 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agwa</author><text>Since there are several questions about Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), and I kind of hand waved that section, I thought an example might be useful.<p>Let&#x27;s say the system is running two web server daemons: a multi-tenant blog hosting platform listening on 2001:db8::1, and a multi-tenant bug tracker listening on 2001:db8::2. snid is on 192.0.2.1. Your DNS records would look like this:<p><pre><code> blogs.example.com. A 192.0.2.1
blogs.example.com. AAAA 2001:db8::1
bugs.example.com. A 192.0.2.1
bugs.example.com. AAAA 2001:db8::2
</code></pre>
The various tenants would be CNAMEd to one of these hostnames like:<p><pre><code> blog.domain1.example. CNAME blogs.example.com.
bugs.domain2.example. CNAME bugs.example.com.
</code></pre>
The &quot;decoy&quot; hostnames (the &quot;public_name&quot; in ECH parlance) would be blogs.example.com or bugs.example.com. Thus, ECH would hide which tenant the client is connecting to, but would not hide the service. Note that if the client were connecting over IPv6, an eavesdropper would be able to determine the service anyways by looking at the destination IP address, which is unencrypted.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using SNI proxying and IPv6 to share port 443 between webapps</title><url>https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/using_sni_proxying_and_ipv6_to_share_port_443</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twic</author><text>Some lazy questions ...<p>&gt; Since IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long, but IPv4 addresses are only 32 bits, it&#x27;s possible to embed IPv4 addresses in IPv6 addresses. snid embeds the client&#x27;s IP address in the lower 32 bits of the source address which it uses to connect to the backend.<p>How does this work? snid just makes up an IP address? What socket API calls do you make to do this? Just pick an address and bind, and the kernel is fine with that? And it all gets routed back and forth correctly? Do you have to configure this 64:ff9b:1::&#x2F;48 prefix on the loopback interface?<p>&gt; Encrypted Client Hello doesn&#x27;t actually encrypt the initial Client Hello message. It&#x27;s still sent in the clear, but with a decoy SNI hostname. The actual Client Hello message, with the true SNI hostname, is encrypted and placed in an extension of the unencrypted Client Hello. To make Encrypted Client Hello work with snid, I just need to ensure that the decoy SNI hostname resolves to the IPv6 address of the backend server. snid will see this hostname and route the connection to the correct backend server, as usual.<p>How does the decoy SNI hostname get chosen? This sounds like there needs to be a different decoy hostname for each backend service. Does that come from DNS somehow? The client doesn&#x27;t just make it up at random?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using SNI proxying and IPv6 to share port 443 between webapps</title><url>https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/using_sni_proxying_and_ipv6_to_share_port_443</url></story> |
3,709,078 | 3,709,168 | 1 | 2 | 3,708,837 | 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>lusr</author><text>I think people underestimate how much you can get done if you commit to at least 1-2 hours during the week EVERY DAY, and at least another 12-16 hours on the weekend. Working during the week is critical, even if it's difficult, simply because it keeps the momentum going and motivation fresh (in my experience of trying it every other way). It's also a deceptive 30-80% additional capacity than what you have merely working weekends.<p>Oh and paying attention to what you're doing and how long it took, and making sure not to waste unnecessary time on nice-to-haves or unnecessary research rather than critical functionality. This is particularly important if you're working alone; I find reviewing my source control checkins and my PivotalTracker progress very helpful in this respect.<p>Then again I ended a great relationship for work so perhaps I'm not the best exemplar of priorities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andyokdj</author><text>I worked most nights during the week for a 1-2hrs and every weekend, sometimes spending full days working on the weekends. I found the time when I could and delegated work to my cofounders who did the same. It was just a lot of hard work and extra hours. I sacrificed some social life but still managed to enjoy New York hugely over the past year.</text></item><item><author>upthedale</author><text>This doesn't really address any practical issues you faced in holding down a full-time job whilst also building the startup.<p>Based on the title, I was expecting more. Something like how you managed your time?<p>That said, congrats on launching.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I built a startup while working full-time in Finance</title><url>http://andypickens.tumblr.com/post/19345391305/how-i-built-a-startup-while-working-full-time-in</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>EREFUNDO</author><text>I am also in finance working full-time. I spend about 2 hours a day working on our payments platform. 6 months ago I cut off my cable and it's amazing how much I'm actually getting done! People who use "lack of time" as an excuse to not get anything done should seriously consider adding up all their idle time, you'll be surprised!</text><parent_chain><item><author>andyokdj</author><text>I worked most nights during the week for a 1-2hrs and every weekend, sometimes spending full days working on the weekends. I found the time when I could and delegated work to my cofounders who did the same. It was just a lot of hard work and extra hours. I sacrificed some social life but still managed to enjoy New York hugely over the past year.</text></item><item><author>upthedale</author><text>This doesn't really address any practical issues you faced in holding down a full-time job whilst also building the startup.<p>Based on the title, I was expecting more. Something like how you managed your time?<p>That said, congrats on launching.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I built a startup while working full-time in Finance</title><url>http://andypickens.tumblr.com/post/19345391305/how-i-built-a-startup-while-working-full-time-in</url></story> |
14,797,965 | 14,797,639 | 1 | 3 | 14,797,323 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rramdin</author><text>Sanders lacks fundamental understanding of the stock market, indicated by his unsubstantiated refrain &quot;the business model of Wall Street is fraud.&quot; First, there are already per-trade regulatory fees, so this isn&#x27;t a novel idea. Second, this is necessarily a regressive tax: wider spreads mean worse prices for the ultimate owner of stocks; that tax is applied whether trades are retail (you and me), institutional (big Wall Street firms, i.e. IEX&#x27;s clients), or HFT (small tech firms).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>Remember when Sanders proposed a small fee on every trade on Wall Street to discourage high frequency trading and to recoup some value from the market? Remember how he was widely pronounced deranged for suggesting that there should be a fee associated with trades? How it would destroy the market?<p>Funny, that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wall Street Profits by Putting Investors in the Slow Lane</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/opinion/wall-street-brokers-rebates-kickbacks.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>dsacco</author><text>Your comment, while snarky, isn&#x27;t a refutable statement. As it stands you seem to be endorsing some position, which I&#x27;m inferring is in favor of Sanders and maybe in opposition to HFT. I can&#x27;t really tell what you&#x27;re getting at precisely though.<p><i>&gt; Remember how he was widely pronounced deranged for suggesting that there should be a fee associated with trades? How it would destroy the market?</i><p>Who said this, <i>specifically?</i> What is your point in bringing it up?<p><i>&gt; Remember when Sanders proposed a small fee on every trade on Wall Street to discourage high frequency trading and to recoup some value from the market?</i><p>I&#x27;m getting the sense that you&#x27;d be in favor of this - can you tell me why, in your own words, you believe we should be trying to &quot;recoup value&quot; from the activities of high frequency traders?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>Remember when Sanders proposed a small fee on every trade on Wall Street to discourage high frequency trading and to recoup some value from the market? Remember how he was widely pronounced deranged for suggesting that there should be a fee associated with trades? How it would destroy the market?<p>Funny, that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wall Street Profits by Putting Investors in the Slow Lane</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/opinion/wall-street-brokers-rebates-kickbacks.html</url></story> |
26,617,931 | 26,617,915 | 1 | 2 | 26,615,938 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mysterymath</author><text>Because the objects are probably either relatively deeply encoded inside hundreds of plain-C stack and heap locations, or they&#x27;re not even fully resident in RAM anymore by the time output occurs.<p>It&#x27;s not that uncommon for ol&#x27; C hackers to directly write those stack and heap locations out to disk and call it a &quot;file format.&quot; Trouble is, you&#x27;re almost entirely at the whims of your platform and compiler as to what the actual layout of that is.<p>If you&#x27;re thinking, &quot;well that&#x27;s dumb, why doesn&#x27;t C have a standardized representation for those in-memory objects that hides platform differences&quot;, it does: printf and scanf.<p>Text isn&#x27;t necessarily a <i>great</i> answer to that problem, but it definitely is an answer. Others include packed structs with htonl and friends and low-overhead serialization formats like protobuf, Thrift, and Avro. Inside, say, Google, you have &quot;everything is a protobuf&quot; instead of &quot;everything is text,&quot; and it does end up working roughly as well as you might expect. That is to say, reasonably well, but with its own sets of problems that people won&#x27;t ever stop complaining about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Scene_Cast2</author><text>When I type &quot;ls&quot;, I&#x27;m getting a text-serialized list of objects. Why can&#x27;t I just get the (serializable) list directly? So that I don&#x27;t have to mess with (implicitly) converting text back to objects, often involving regex and hacks.</text></item><item><author>enriquto</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s a very hard problem to solve since everyone has subscribed to Unix&#x27;s philosophy of &quot;everything is text&quot;.<p>Look at it the other way round. Embrace text. Text is not the problem, non-text is. You&#x27;ll take text from our cold, dead hands!</text></item><item><author>junon</author><text>I maintain chalk and a slew of other TTY related things.<p>Terminal emulators are, far and away, the most archaic computer technology we still use daily.<p>Believe me when I say, it&#x27;s a very hard problem to solve since everyone has subscribed to Unix&#x27;s philosophy of &quot;everything is text&quot;.<p>As much as I dislike Microsoft&#x27;s philosophies on software, they had the right idea with Powershell. Its execution is just abysmal.<p>Expect this stuff to change drastically in the next 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Terminal escape sequences in Git commit email field</title><url>https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1375484757916672000</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>theamk</author><text>You are not supposed to parse &quot;ls&quot; (unless this is &quot;ls -1&quot;), because that format is only for humans, and defaults change all the time.<p>If you are parsing &quot;ls -l&quot; output, you are doing something wrong.<p>Use your language built-in features, every language has them (for example in bash, use *-expansion and [-commands). If they don&#x27;t work for some reason, there is &quot;stat -c&quot; and &quot;find .. -printf&quot;, which both produce text which is absolutely trivial to parse.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Scene_Cast2</author><text>When I type &quot;ls&quot;, I&#x27;m getting a text-serialized list of objects. Why can&#x27;t I just get the (serializable) list directly? So that I don&#x27;t have to mess with (implicitly) converting text back to objects, often involving regex and hacks.</text></item><item><author>enriquto</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s a very hard problem to solve since everyone has subscribed to Unix&#x27;s philosophy of &quot;everything is text&quot;.<p>Look at it the other way round. Embrace text. Text is not the problem, non-text is. You&#x27;ll take text from our cold, dead hands!</text></item><item><author>junon</author><text>I maintain chalk and a slew of other TTY related things.<p>Terminal emulators are, far and away, the most archaic computer technology we still use daily.<p>Believe me when I say, it&#x27;s a very hard problem to solve since everyone has subscribed to Unix&#x27;s philosophy of &quot;everything is text&quot;.<p>As much as I dislike Microsoft&#x27;s philosophies on software, they had the right idea with Powershell. Its execution is just abysmal.<p>Expect this stuff to change drastically in the next 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Terminal escape sequences in Git commit email field</title><url>https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1375484757916672000</url></story> |
26,015,723 | 26,015,515 | 1 | 2 | 26,014,421 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>koeng</author><text>Until you also realize you need a Qubit and the library preps and oh now you need NEB next gen enzymes and wow turns out pipette technique really matters.<p>That said, I love Nanopores, I use them in my business, and those error rates you can hack around if you know what’s going on under the hood.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/02/03/sequencing-your-dna-with-a-usb-dongle-and-open-source-code/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samchorlton</author><text>So happy to see this here. While sequencing is quite old, mass adoption still has not come. The benefits are clear - faster infectious disease diagnosis, personalized treatment, tracking the spread of infection, identifying food contamination - the use-cases are endless. However before nanopore sequencing came, it was always out of reach of the masses.<p>We&#x27;ve actually started BugSeq[0] to help labs get into nanopore sequencing - improving these open source tools and also writing our own. Orgs like FDA, USDA, big food co&#x27;s, CDC, etc are now all adopting nanopore sequencing. Happy to see the industry taking off, this will be a step function improvement for public health in general.<p>(disclaimer: founder of BugSeq)
0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugseq.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugseq.com</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/02/03/sequencing-your-dna-with-a-usb-dongle-and-open-source-code/</url></story> |
7,128,562 | 7,128,233 | 1 | 2 | 7,127,760 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shadowmint</author><text>Wow, great article. I&#x27;ve heard of wheels for months, but I&#x27;ve never really understood why I should remotely care about them before (it always seemed to me they solved a problem that didn&#x27;t exist; namely, binary distributions for pure python packages, since you can&#x27;t support c-plugin packages cleanly with wheel anyhow...).<p>Turns out the answer is:<p>1) Yes, you can kind of support packages with c-plugins, if you&#x27;re specific and careful.<p>2) They make server deployments significantly faster.<p>That&#x27;s actually pretty neat.<p>...but damn, they still look like a massive pain to work with.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python on Wheels</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/27/python-on-wheels/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>girvo</author><text>For a language that prides itself on simplicity, this seems really painful...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python on Wheels</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/27/python-on-wheels/</url></story> |
27,031,811 | 27,030,493 | 1 | 3 | 27,029,502 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>emehrkay</author><text>Im doing exactly this, but will use it with a raspberrypi with a 7 inch touch screen as my doorbell. Someone hits the link on the screen, it hits the server, server texts me a link to join the video session and thats it really. I got the core code going (I used a simple tornado [python] implementation as it has web sockets built in)<p>This is the version of the js code that I got going (I couldn&#x27;t reason about straight inline scripting, I had to make unnecessary classes. you dont need them) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;emehrkay&#x2F;1ea9a87a91e00b27843d9b71a3cce96c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;emehrkay&#x2F;1ea9a87a91e00b27843d9b71a3c...</a><p>You also need to tell nginx to serve the wss connection with http 1.1 or the handshakes fail<p>```
location &#x2F;websocket&#x2F;path {
proxy_pass <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;whateverSiteDotCom;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;whateverSiteDotCom;</a>
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Connection &quot;upgrade&quot;;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Origin &#x27;&#x27;;
}
```</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building video chat into my personal website using WebRTC, WebSockets, and Go</title><url>https://mattbutterfield.com/blog/2021-05-02-adding-video-chat</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ejb503</author><text>Not quite so easy as the blog makes out... didn&#x27;t see any mention of turn and stun servers, and multi-peer adds layers of complexity...<p>To stably build a negotiation system you&#x27;ll probably need an infrastructure of websockets and some kind of nosql db to handle identity and other quirks around negotiation...<p>Example... how do you handle refresh from a new tab or after the connection has dropped... some kind of device signature is probably needed too!!<p>(We&#x27;ve just spent a year building this for ecommerce @ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yown.it" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yown.it</a>)<p>BIG thumbs up for the interest in WebRTC though enormous potential...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building video chat into my personal website using WebRTC, WebSockets, and Go</title><url>https://mattbutterfield.com/blog/2021-05-02-adding-video-chat</url></story> |
29,453,156 | 29,451,879 | 1 | 2 | 29,450,415 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xipho</author><text>See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bespokesynth.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bespokesynth.com&#x2F;</a> for a recent, but long time coming newcomer that is amazing, open-source, etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NoiseCraft: Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound and Music</title><url>https://pointersgonewild.com/2021/12/05/noisecraft-a-browser-based-visual-programming-language-for-sound-music/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>carapace</author><text>From the same genius who created Turing Drawings: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maximecb.github.io&#x2F;Turing-Drawings&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maximecb.github.io&#x2F;Turing-Drawings&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NoiseCraft: Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound and Music</title><url>https://pointersgonewild.com/2021/12/05/noisecraft-a-browser-based-visual-programming-language-for-sound-music/</url></story> |
14,718,845 | 14,718,780 | 1 | 2 | 14,718,559 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>makmanalp</author><text>This - I think part of the issue is to stop homework from becoming busywork for grades. If everyone has the understanding that this is supposed to nail down and self-test understanding of material taught in class, then there&#x27;s no reason students should &quot;cheat&quot;. To this end, I like the approach of mentioning repeatedly that homeworks are for the students&#x27; own good, then give a test early on to make students quickly understand they&#x27;ll do badly without practice, and then announce after the test that you&#x27;ll drop the scores, but just DO YOUR DAMN HOMEWORK! :-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>res0nat0r</author><text>You may cheat all you want on your homework, but if calculus tests are like they were when I was in college, taking your exam with no notes or calculator, if you&#x27;ve only cut and pasted from Wolfram Alpha all semester is going to lead you to getting an F in the course.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wolfram Alpha Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to Cheat</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-making-it-extremely-easy-for-students-to-cheat/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>watbe</author><text>Agreed. This headline makes it sound like they&#x27;re cheating in exams, but this is take-home assignments we&#x27;re talking about. If wolfram alpha wasn&#x27;t available, they&#x27;d be asking friends or posting in maths forums. Wolfram alpha is simply more efficient at this job but all take-home assignments have this problem inherently.<p>Students just need to be aware that they should learn from solutions provided by wolfram alpha (there&#x27;s nothing wrong with that), otherwise they&#x27;re going to flunk the closed-book exams anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>res0nat0r</author><text>You may cheat all you want on your homework, but if calculus tests are like they were when I was in college, taking your exam with no notes or calculator, if you&#x27;ve only cut and pasted from Wolfram Alpha all semester is going to lead you to getting an F in the course.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wolfram Alpha Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to Cheat</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-making-it-extremely-easy-for-students-to-cheat/</url></story> |
17,261,365 | 17,260,170 | 1 | 3 | 17,259,082 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jofer</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure externally being held accountable is as important as it would seem.<p>Publicly stated principles such as these give a clear framework for employees to raise ethical concerns in a way that management is likely to listen to.<p>For example, one of my previous employers had ten &quot;tenets of operation&quot; that began with &quot;Always&quot;. While starting each one with &quot;never&quot; would have been more accurate in practice, they were still useful. If you wanted to get management to listen to you about a potential safety or operational issue, framing the conversation in terms of &quot;This violates tenet #X&quot; was _extremely_ effective. It gave them a common language to use with their management about why an issue was important. Otherwise, potentially lethal safety hazards were continually blown off and the employees who brought them up were usually reprimanded.<p>Putting some airy-sounding principles in place and making them very public is effective because they&#x27;re an excellent internal communication tool, not because of external accountability.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ksk</author><text>Historically has anyone succeeded in holding such giant firms accountable to their own stated principles? At the moment, I like those principles more than I like Google.</text></item><item><author>themacguffinman</author><text>I doubt that Google spelling out their moral stance is intended to convince you right away that they&#x27;re all good now. It&#x27;s a public standard that they&#x27;re setting for themselves. If you think their actions don&#x27;t match their words, you now have concrete terms and principles to critique and compare with. It&#x27;s a benchmark to which employees and the public can hold them accountable.</text></item><item><author>EpicEng</author><text>So, I&#x27;m all for giving someone the benefit of the doubt if they have a change of heart upon reconsidering an issue, but this coming after the fact rings a bit hollow to me. I think the only principle at play here is that it became a PR issue. That&#x27;s fine, but let&#x27;s be honest about it.<p>Early emails between Google execs framed this project only in terms of revenue and potential PR backlash. As far as we&#x27;re aware, there was no discussion about the morality of the matter (I&#x27;m not taking any moral stance here just to be clear.) Once this became an internal and external PR issue, Google held a series of all hands meetings and claimed that this was a &quot;small project&quot; and that the AI would not be used to kill people. While technically true, those same internal emails show that Google expected this to become a much larger project over time, eventually bringing in about $250M &#x2F; year[1]. So even then they were being a bit disingenuous by focusing only on the current scope of the deal.<p>And here we are now with a release from the CEO talking about morality and &quot;principles&quot; well after the fact. I doubt many people do anyway, but I&#x27;m not buying the &quot;these are our morals&quot; bit.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bizjournals.com&#x2F;sanjose&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;report-google-thought-military-drone-project-would.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bizjournals.com&#x2F;sanjose&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;report-g...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI at Google: our principles</title><url>https://blog.google/topics/ai/ai-principles/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>testvox</author><text>One example I can think of is private colleges. Many in the US have made public statements dedicating themselves to uphold principles like freedom of speech. Organizations like FIRE do a pretty good job holding them accountable to those principles and there are many instances in which they have documentated policy or enforcement changes made due to their activism.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ksk</author><text>Historically has anyone succeeded in holding such giant firms accountable to their own stated principles? At the moment, I like those principles more than I like Google.</text></item><item><author>themacguffinman</author><text>I doubt that Google spelling out their moral stance is intended to convince you right away that they&#x27;re all good now. It&#x27;s a public standard that they&#x27;re setting for themselves. If you think their actions don&#x27;t match their words, you now have concrete terms and principles to critique and compare with. It&#x27;s a benchmark to which employees and the public can hold them accountable.</text></item><item><author>EpicEng</author><text>So, I&#x27;m all for giving someone the benefit of the doubt if they have a change of heart upon reconsidering an issue, but this coming after the fact rings a bit hollow to me. I think the only principle at play here is that it became a PR issue. That&#x27;s fine, but let&#x27;s be honest about it.<p>Early emails between Google execs framed this project only in terms of revenue and potential PR backlash. As far as we&#x27;re aware, there was no discussion about the morality of the matter (I&#x27;m not taking any moral stance here just to be clear.) Once this became an internal and external PR issue, Google held a series of all hands meetings and claimed that this was a &quot;small project&quot; and that the AI would not be used to kill people. While technically true, those same internal emails show that Google expected this to become a much larger project over time, eventually bringing in about $250M &#x2F; year[1]. So even then they were being a bit disingenuous by focusing only on the current scope of the deal.<p>And here we are now with a release from the CEO talking about morality and &quot;principles&quot; well after the fact. I doubt many people do anyway, but I&#x27;m not buying the &quot;these are our morals&quot; bit.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bizjournals.com&#x2F;sanjose&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;report-google-thought-military-drone-project-would.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bizjournals.com&#x2F;sanjose&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;report-g...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI at Google: our principles</title><url>https://blog.google/topics/ai/ai-principles/</url></story> |
5,769,985 | 5,769,250 | 1 | 2 | 5,768,570 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>antoviaque</author><text>There is an ongoing petition to the European Union ("Citizen initiative") for basic income: <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/REQ-ECI-2012-000028/public/index.do" rel="nofollow">https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/REQ-ECI-2012-000028...</a><p>"On January 14th 2013, the European Commission accepted our European Citizens’ Initiative hence triggering a one-year campaign involving all countries in the European Union."<p>"If we collect one million statements of support for Basic Income from the 500 million inhabitants of the European Union, the European Commission will have to examine our initiative carefully and arrange for a public hearing in the European Parliament."<p><a href="http://basicincome2013.eu/ubi/" rel="nofollow">http://basicincome2013.eu/ubi/</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Cushman</author><text>I'm very predisposed to believe this. In fact, I'll go further and say I'm not sure I can think of a friend of mine who wouldn't do something really cool if you gave them a year's income in cash.<p>My friends, generally speaking, spent a lot of money on a very good education that's not valued by the labor market. To put that another way: My friends are wildly overqualified for what they do, and many of them are poorer than broke.<p>Those without a lot of ambition are pretty much the millenial layabouts you imagine. They're working median-wage retail jobs to pay the rent, smoking a lot of weed, and just generally hanging out. They don't want to work more, and they couldn't really work any less, but they seem pretty happy.<p>Those <i>with</i> ambition aren't living much different. They're working median-wage retail jobs to pay the rent, working second jobs to try to pay down their debt faster, smoking a lot less weed, and using the rest of their time trying hard to find a job in their field of expertise that wouldn't pay much more even if it did exist. These people could <i>easily</i> work a lot less if they wanted to, but they don't. They want to work more, and work harder, but they cannot find work to do. They seem like they're struggling.<p>So say we gave them all an unconditional grant which erases their debt and provides some capital. (A year's income wouldn't do this for most, but set that aside.) Most of the first group, maybe it wouldn't affect that much. They might quit their jobs or cut down on hours, but actually they don't mind their jobs that much. They might smoke more weed, but that's probably not possible. More likely they'll spring for a car or a house or a home theater and just keep on keepin' on.<p>For those in the second group, though, this changes everything. They've instantly jumped a decade into their own future. They'll quit their jobs the same day, immediately start planning a move to where they <i>really</i> want to live. They'll immediately open small businesses. They'll collaborate on epic works of art. Some of them will buy boats; some of them will buy farms. They'll travel, volunteer, teach, research, write, direct, design, produce, and <i>make</i> things. And you know what? They'll probably smoke even <i>less</i> weed.<p>It's just a wishful thought experiment, but it does seem plausible the overall economic effect would be <i>massively</i> positive. The argument against basic income seems to be basically that it would move people from the second category into the first category. Maybe that's the case for people in general, I don't know, but for the poor young people <i>I</i> know it seems far more likely to do the opposite.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.</title><url>http://chrisblattman.com/2013/05/23/dear-governments-want-to-help-the-poor-and-transform-your-economy-give-people-cash/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jamesaguilar</author><text>I think this is extremely applicable in inefficient third world economies, but I can think of a few reasons it might not be as applicable in a first world country like the United States.<p><pre><code> - Most basic skilled services already have many providers.
- The startup costs for these services are significantly higher in first world countries.
- The expectations of consumers are also (probably) much higher.
</code></pre>
So, I want to believe, but I'd like to see some evidence of broader applicability before we leap to conclusions. That brings up another problem, though: this is so much harder to do in a developed country because it is prohibitively expensive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Cushman</author><text>I'm very predisposed to believe this. In fact, I'll go further and say I'm not sure I can think of a friend of mine who wouldn't do something really cool if you gave them a year's income in cash.<p>My friends, generally speaking, spent a lot of money on a very good education that's not valued by the labor market. To put that another way: My friends are wildly overqualified for what they do, and many of them are poorer than broke.<p>Those without a lot of ambition are pretty much the millenial layabouts you imagine. They're working median-wage retail jobs to pay the rent, smoking a lot of weed, and just generally hanging out. They don't want to work more, and they couldn't really work any less, but they seem pretty happy.<p>Those <i>with</i> ambition aren't living much different. They're working median-wage retail jobs to pay the rent, working second jobs to try to pay down their debt faster, smoking a lot less weed, and using the rest of their time trying hard to find a job in their field of expertise that wouldn't pay much more even if it did exist. These people could <i>easily</i> work a lot less if they wanted to, but they don't. They want to work more, and work harder, but they cannot find work to do. They seem like they're struggling.<p>So say we gave them all an unconditional grant which erases their debt and provides some capital. (A year's income wouldn't do this for most, but set that aside.) Most of the first group, maybe it wouldn't affect that much. They might quit their jobs or cut down on hours, but actually they don't mind their jobs that much. They might smoke more weed, but that's probably not possible. More likely they'll spring for a car or a house or a home theater and just keep on keepin' on.<p>For those in the second group, though, this changes everything. They've instantly jumped a decade into their own future. They'll quit their jobs the same day, immediately start planning a move to where they <i>really</i> want to live. They'll immediately open small businesses. They'll collaborate on epic works of art. Some of them will buy boats; some of them will buy farms. They'll travel, volunteer, teach, research, write, direct, design, produce, and <i>make</i> things. And you know what? They'll probably smoke even <i>less</i> weed.<p>It's just a wishful thought experiment, but it does seem plausible the overall economic effect would be <i>massively</i> positive. The argument against basic income seems to be basically that it would move people from the second category into the first category. Maybe that's the case for people in general, I don't know, but for the poor young people <i>I</i> know it seems far more likely to do the opposite.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.</title><url>http://chrisblattman.com/2013/05/23/dear-governments-want-to-help-the-poor-and-transform-your-economy-give-people-cash/</url></story> |
13,608,037 | 13,608,069 | 1 | 3 | 13,606,568 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>a-b</author><text>Fun fact about vim:<p>When vi was originally designed the most popular keyboard was ADM-3A and later IBM XT <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IBM_PC_keyboard#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:IBM_Model_F_XT.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IBM_PC_keyboard#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:IB...</a> The layout of this keyboard has Control on the place where modern keyboards have a CapsLock key. Naturally that&#x27;s why vi and vim was meant to use CTRL-[ to exit to the normal mode.<p>25 years later Apple introduced ToughBar and made ESC key virtual. As result remapped CapsLock-[ make sense again ;)<p>edit: Add ADM-3A keyboard</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/713114/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>a-b</author><text>Vim is great, but hard out of box. That&#x27;s why I&#x27;d like to mention couple community distributions to make it even better:<p>• <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vim.spf13.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vim.spf13.com</a> this distribution is remarkable! Extremely well documented vimrc file is a great source of knowlege by itself <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;spf13&#x2F;spf13-vim&#x2F;blob&#x2F;3.0&#x2F;.vimrc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;spf13&#x2F;spf13-vim&#x2F;blob&#x2F;3.0&#x2F;.vimrc</a><p>• <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;carlhuda&#x2F;janus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;carlhuda&#x2F;janus</a><p>Also, it worth to mention<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spacemacs.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spacemacs.org</a><p>and<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neovim.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neovim.io</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/713114/</url></story> |
6,548,208 | 6,548,307 | 1 | 2 | 6,547,627 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>selmnoo</author><text>That is a hasty oversimplification. Apple stands to make money selling your personal data just like Facebook and Google. And, were it true that Apple makes money <i>only</i> selling hardware, it would not feel the need to purposely confuse an iPhone user into being tracked by using dirty language tricks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>atlanticus</author><text>Facebook and Google make money selling your personal data, Apple makes money selling hardware.</text></item><item><author>nwh</author><text>It&#x27;s not just Facebook, Apple does this too with their &quot;iAd optout&quot; pages too.<p>Limit tracking: [ off | on ]<p>I&#x27;m still not sure which side I want really.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Realistic Facebook Privacy Simulator</title><url>http://toys.usvsth3m.com/realistic-facebook-privacy-simulator/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nwh</author><text><a href="http://advertising.apple.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;advertising.apple.com&#x2F;</a><p>Apple sell your location data to advertising companies too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>atlanticus</author><text>Facebook and Google make money selling your personal data, Apple makes money selling hardware.</text></item><item><author>nwh</author><text>It&#x27;s not just Facebook, Apple does this too with their &quot;iAd optout&quot; pages too.<p>Limit tracking: [ off | on ]<p>I&#x27;m still not sure which side I want really.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Realistic Facebook Privacy Simulator</title><url>http://toys.usvsth3m.com/realistic-facebook-privacy-simulator/</url></story> |
38,439,435 | 38,438,346 | 1 | 2 | 38,429,291 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SlickNixon</author><text>Soldering crimp connectors (that are not otherwise designed for it) will reduce the flexibility of the wire and introduce stress concentrations. Those stress concentrations will reduce the fatigue life of the harness.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>I used to work as an electronics technician.<p>To do some wiring that&#x27;ll be bulletproof and last:<p>1. get wiring rated for under-the-hood heat (the wiring sold at auto parts stores is no good for that)<p>2. get crimp-on connectors<p>3. cut the plastic off the crimp-ons<p>4. put heat shrink tubing on the wire, well away from the end<p>5. crimp the connector on<p>6. solder the crimp joint using a thermostat controlled soldering iron<p>7. move the heat shrink tubing over the joint, and heat it with a bic cigarette lighter to shrink it on<p>8. voila!<p>P.S. Crimped connections don&#x27;t last. After about a year, they&#x27;ll work loose a bit from vibration, and corrosion will creep in, and you&#x27;ll get a loose connection that is very frustrating to find. Soldering it prevents that from happening.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>Tangent, but related:<p>My dad is restoring a 1969 MG Midget. The right turn signal stopped working. Using nothing more than a voltmeter, I found a disconnected wire and a short to the frame.<p>I replaced the entire length of wire that was failing with $3 worth of wire, solder, and heat shrink tubing.<p>The lesson here is repairability and simplicity.<p>We’re constantly lectured to be “environmentally aware” by companies that no longer ensure their products will last a lifetime. There is 0 reason a modern phone couldn’t be used for the rest of your life. My Brother printer is nearing 12 years and is still on the same damn print cartridge. My Neato robotics vacuum has had countless parts replaced and is about the same age.<p>If you truly want to be a good steward of the earth, stop demanding&#x2F;consuming latest and greatest, endless product and UI refreshes, and instead demand 30+ years out of a product (with small repairs).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating</title><url>https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/111480744130939877</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>doublespanner</author><text>Soldering a crimp is not good practice, a correctly done crimp will not come loose (OEM connections are mostly crimped), and you risk making a brittle section if the solder wicks past the crimp.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>I used to work as an electronics technician.<p>To do some wiring that&#x27;ll be bulletproof and last:<p>1. get wiring rated for under-the-hood heat (the wiring sold at auto parts stores is no good for that)<p>2. get crimp-on connectors<p>3. cut the plastic off the crimp-ons<p>4. put heat shrink tubing on the wire, well away from the end<p>5. crimp the connector on<p>6. solder the crimp joint using a thermostat controlled soldering iron<p>7. move the heat shrink tubing over the joint, and heat it with a bic cigarette lighter to shrink it on<p>8. voila!<p>P.S. Crimped connections don&#x27;t last. After about a year, they&#x27;ll work loose a bit from vibration, and corrosion will creep in, and you&#x27;ll get a loose connection that is very frustrating to find. Soldering it prevents that from happening.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>Tangent, but related:<p>My dad is restoring a 1969 MG Midget. The right turn signal stopped working. Using nothing more than a voltmeter, I found a disconnected wire and a short to the frame.<p>I replaced the entire length of wire that was failing with $3 worth of wire, solder, and heat shrink tubing.<p>The lesson here is repairability and simplicity.<p>We’re constantly lectured to be “environmentally aware” by companies that no longer ensure their products will last a lifetime. There is 0 reason a modern phone couldn’t be used for the rest of your life. My Brother printer is nearing 12 years and is still on the same damn print cartridge. My Neato robotics vacuum has had countless parts replaced and is about the same age.<p>If you truly want to be a good steward of the earth, stop demanding&#x2F;consuming latest and greatest, endless product and UI refreshes, and instead demand 30+ years out of a product (with small repairs).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating</title><url>https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/111480744130939877</url></story> |
35,291,108 | 35,291,332 | 1 | 2 | 35,289,044 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tashoecraft</author><text>Elon tried to buy the company and become CEO and OpenAI said no. I also heard that they knew they were going to burn through the 100M, and were counting on the 1B he promised, and couldn&#x27;t raise enough money as a non profit so that&#x27;s why they went for profit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drclau</author><text>As I understand, OpenAI started as a non-profit entity and has taken on large donations. Then, the for-profit entity has been created and is using the technology developed by the non-profit entity, which was developed presumably by using the donated funds.
So, maybe it&#x27;s not about altruism at all, but instead Sam Altman is just protecting himself against potential lawsuits from the donors? There was probably some agreement on how the technology will be used.<p>Elon Musk has donated $100M USD, and does not look happy about the developments, based on his tweets.</text></item><item><author>daniel-thompson</author><text>From the original article linked to by this CNBC story:<p>&gt; Altman also made an unusual decision for a tech boss: He would take no equity in the new for-profit entity, according to people familiar with the matter. Altman was already extremely wealthy, investing in several wildly successful tech startups, and didn’t need the money.<p>&gt; He also believed the company needed to become a business to continue its work, but he told people the project was not designed to make money. Eschewing any ownership interest would help him stay aligned with the original mission.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.semafor.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;03&#x2F;24&#x2F;2023&#x2F;the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.semafor.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;03&#x2F;24&#x2F;2023&#x2F;the-secret-histor...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sam Altman didn’t take any equity in OpenAI, report says</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/openai-ceo-sam-altman-didnt-take-any-equity-in-the-company-semafor.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>corbulo</author><text>As a rule of thumb, its never about altruism.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drclau</author><text>As I understand, OpenAI started as a non-profit entity and has taken on large donations. Then, the for-profit entity has been created and is using the technology developed by the non-profit entity, which was developed presumably by using the donated funds.
So, maybe it&#x27;s not about altruism at all, but instead Sam Altman is just protecting himself against potential lawsuits from the donors? There was probably some agreement on how the technology will be used.<p>Elon Musk has donated $100M USD, and does not look happy about the developments, based on his tweets.</text></item><item><author>daniel-thompson</author><text>From the original article linked to by this CNBC story:<p>&gt; Altman also made an unusual decision for a tech boss: He would take no equity in the new for-profit entity, according to people familiar with the matter. Altman was already extremely wealthy, investing in several wildly successful tech startups, and didn’t need the money.<p>&gt; He also believed the company needed to become a business to continue its work, but he told people the project was not designed to make money. Eschewing any ownership interest would help him stay aligned with the original mission.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.semafor.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;03&#x2F;24&#x2F;2023&#x2F;the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.semafor.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;03&#x2F;24&#x2F;2023&#x2F;the-secret-histor...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sam Altman didn’t take any equity in OpenAI, report says</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/openai-ceo-sam-altman-didnt-take-any-equity-in-the-company-semafor.html</url></story> |
29,990,593 | 29,989,482 | 1 | 3 | 29,988,951 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rossy</author><text>It seems like the database libraries they recommend for security, ksql and sqlbox, mitigate the risk with process separation and RBAC, so the CGI process doesn&#x27;t have full access to the database.<p>It&#x27;s definitely contrary to modern assumptions about web app security, but it&#x27;s interesting to see web apps that are secure because they use OS security features as they were designed to be used, rather than web apps that do things that are insecure from an OS-perspective, like handling requests from multiple users in the same process, but are secure because they do it with safe programming languages.</text><parent_chain><item><author>theamk</author><text>It seems pretty crazy to write web-facing apps in C, with no memory safety at all.<p>(They do have &quot;pledge&quot; but even in the most restricted case, this still leaves full access to database)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BCHS: OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite web stack</title><url>https://learnbchs.org/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>galdosdi</author><text>Funny to reflect that there was a time not so long ago when writing web apps (CGI usually) in C wasn&#x27;t at all unusual (shortly before Perl became much more popular for this). And today, it is indeed kind of crazy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>theamk</author><text>It seems pretty crazy to write web-facing apps in C, with no memory safety at all.<p>(They do have &quot;pledge&quot; but even in the most restricted case, this still leaves full access to database)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BCHS: OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite web stack</title><url>https://learnbchs.org/index.html</url></story> |
12,894,158 | 12,894,067 | 1 | 3 | 12,891,158 | 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>Florin_Andrei</author><text>&gt; <i>So then why can our brains do it?</i><p>Because current NNs only simulate, like, less than 1 mm^3 of brain matter. Someone writing lyrics for a song has millions of such tiny networks working concurrently in their brain - and then there are higher-level networks supervising and aggregating the smaller nets, and so on.<p>Current AI NN architectures are flat and have no high-level structure. There&#x27;s no hierarchy. There&#x27;s no plurisemantic context spanning large time intervals and logic trees. No workable memory organized short-, mid- and long-term. Etc, etc, etc.<p>We&#x27;re not even scratching the surface yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jcoffland</author><text>To the uninitiated these may seem like reasonable results because to the uninitiated hip hop is just a bunch of unintelligible words strung together anyway but these lyrics don&#x27;t make much sense. There&#x27;s no cohesive stream of thought behind the lines. It&#x27;s a semirandom juxtaposition of phrases and a great example of one of the biggest limitations of deep learning softwares. Even the best are only able to maintain very limited context. This is not just a matter of scaling up to larger networks. Current methods require exponentially larger networks to achieve linear increases in context handling. So then why can our brains do it? The answer is simply that our brains are more than neural networks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: DeepRhyme (D-Prime) – Generating dope rhymes with machine learning</title><url>https://swarbrickjones.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/deeprhyme-d-prime-generating-dope-rhymes-with-deep-learning/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gavinpc</author><text>I made a similar point in defense of Shakespeare[0], and one reply pointed out a kind of category error on my part:<p>&gt; The samples from all of the examples are nonsense. What&#x27;s interesting is that they, mostly, follow the <i>form</i> of the original.<p>These examples appear much less nonsensical than those, but that is (I&#x27;d hypothesize) because rap is so much more grammatically and rhetorically liberal. It does make me wonder how we would distinguish &quot;true&quot; semantics from (trained) formal imitations, when the latter are growing in sophistication.<p>Still, it&#x27;s a danger in this kind of article that, to quote again from that thread,<p>&gt; it&#x27;s a usual tendency of NNs to produce output that looks meaningful to non-experts, yet is complete gibberish to experts.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12338081" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12338081</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jcoffland</author><text>To the uninitiated these may seem like reasonable results because to the uninitiated hip hop is just a bunch of unintelligible words strung together anyway but these lyrics don&#x27;t make much sense. There&#x27;s no cohesive stream of thought behind the lines. It&#x27;s a semirandom juxtaposition of phrases and a great example of one of the biggest limitations of deep learning softwares. Even the best are only able to maintain very limited context. This is not just a matter of scaling up to larger networks. Current methods require exponentially larger networks to achieve linear increases in context handling. So then why can our brains do it? The answer is simply that our brains are more than neural networks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: DeepRhyme (D-Prime) – Generating dope rhymes with machine learning</title><url>https://swarbrickjones.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/deeprhyme-d-prime-generating-dope-rhymes-with-deep-learning/</url></story> |
12,470,612 | 12,470,569 | 1 | 3 | 12,470,263 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>humanrebar</author><text>&gt; If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride. And it will encourage you to do another task.<p>It bothers me when people present anecdata like this. I don&#x27;t have a problem with people feeling this way. But it&#x27;s a huge leap of logic to say that this phenomenon is generalizable, especially since there absolutely are counterexamples. I, for one, have never felt this way after making my bed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work</title><url>https://zapier.com/blog/productive-remote-work/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JshWright</author><text>The &quot;you are all dehydrated and need to drink 37 glasses of water a day&quot; myth really needs to die...<p>I&#x27;ll let Dr Carroll rant for me: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hbHp7cu2Ubk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hbHp7cu2Ubk</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work</title><url>https://zapier.com/blog/productive-remote-work/</url></story> |
29,025,592 | 29,024,818 | 1 | 2 | 29,024,572 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rogual</author><text>I love Blender, but have been stuck on version 2.7 due to what I can only describe as some sort of icon dyslexia.<p>For 2.8, all the Blender icons were replaced with monochromatic ones. This is a very popular trend and a lot of programs are replacing their icons in this way, so it&#x27;s obviously fine for most people, and I realize this is probably a niche accessibility need I have.<p>But, to use the new icons, I find I have to check each one every time to find the one I want. Instant recognition is no longer possible. For me, this extra cognitive load makes it difficult to use Blender for more than a few minutes at a time.<p>Blender is a fantastic product and one of the best examples of what open-source can be, but I for one will be appreciating it from afar, and remaining on 2.7 until there is a way to get more usable icons.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blender 3.x roadmap</title><url>https://code.blender.org/2021/10/blender-3-x-roadmap/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrepd</author><text>&gt; The general guideline will be to keep Blender functionally compatible with 2.8x and later. Existing workflows or usability habits shouldn’t be broken without good reasons – with general agreement and clearly communicated in advance.<p>Oh boy. How I <i>wish</i> so much that other software developers would follow this principle... It seems nearly every software I use and rely on has to change its appearance and interface every 6-12 months, breaking familiarity for no objective reason, and simply because &quot;it looks better&quot; to look at (and not necessarily to use!) to the subjective eyes of someone.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blender 3.x roadmap</title><url>https://code.blender.org/2021/10/blender-3-x-roadmap/</url></story> |
22,859,090 | 22,859,214 | 1 | 2 | 22,857,551 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bcrosby95</author><text>The problem is support. Even if you put big caution tape around it, if you break it or change it in a way that isn&#x27;t backwards compatible users will complain loudly about it. And if you have users paying lots of $$$ relying on it, it might force your hand.<p>Building a plug-able system in a way that doesn&#x27;t blow up in your face can be hard. Firefox got a lot of bad press for redesigning their plugin system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a very popular opinion, but for those shipping software, consider having at least one programmatic way to &quot;monkey patch&quot; it. These are things like a plugin API, dynamically linking it, or using a language with an exposed runtime–things that allow programmatic injection of code, so that users who <i>really</i> care about tweaking the tool can do so. It doesn&#x27;t even take much effort, either: my text editor has no plugin interface, but one of the reasons I stick with it is because I can hook its calls to libc to customize some of the things I don&#x27;t like. My preferred mail client happens to lack a certain entitlement that most people don&#x27;t even know about and that enables an entire cottage industry of software for it. Browsers let you specify some JavaScript to run on each page and suddenly the balance of power on the web tilts significantly towards the user. Even (or especially) if your tool is open source, consider supporting such an interface: it&#x27;s much nicer to add on to piece of software than fork it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as it is to use it</title><url>https://malleable.systems/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>denster</author><text>¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯<p>Card carrying member of the disagree-club here (malleable clan), but I think it&#x27;s a tall order to ask users to write procedural code.<p>Tools that are:<p>(1) declarative by nature (HTML, DSLs)<p>(2) based on direct manipulation (PSA: we&#x27;re lucky to have Bret Viktor on this planet)<p>is what will win out in my opinion.<p>Or will we be writing procedural code 30, 50 years out? :)<p>--<p>[1] YMMV, founder of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mintdata.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mintdata.com</a> here, where we recently opened public access &amp; are seeing the above come true.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a very popular opinion, but for those shipping software, consider having at least one programmatic way to &quot;monkey patch&quot; it. These are things like a plugin API, dynamically linking it, or using a language with an exposed runtime–things that allow programmatic injection of code, so that users who <i>really</i> care about tweaking the tool can do so. It doesn&#x27;t even take much effort, either: my text editor has no plugin interface, but one of the reasons I stick with it is because I can hook its calls to libc to customize some of the things I don&#x27;t like. My preferred mail client happens to lack a certain entitlement that most people don&#x27;t even know about and that enables an entire cottage industry of software for it. Browsers let you specify some JavaScript to run on each page and suddenly the balance of power on the web tilts significantly towards the user. Even (or especially) if your tool is open source, consider supporting such an interface: it&#x27;s much nicer to add on to piece of software than fork it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as it is to use it</title><url>https://malleable.systems/</url></story> |
38,303,599 | 38,303,097 | 1 | 3 | 38,299,888 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Thorrez</author><text>Reminds me of this hilarious bug bounty:<p>1. Person reports some vuln in HackerOne itself to HackerOne<p>2. A HackerOne employee tries to reproduce it, and unknowlingly copies and pastes his&#x2F;her cookies into the HackerOne report<p>3. The reporter takes those cookies, and logs in as the HackerOne employee<p>4. The reporter files a new vuln report &quot;You are disclose for me you session. you are gevi me your session on last report. I am can use your session(sorry)&quot;<p>5. $20,000 bounty<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackerone.com&#x2F;reports&#x2F;745324" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackerone.com&#x2F;reports&#x2F;745324</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I analyzed Stack Overflow for secrets</title><url>https://matan-h.com/analyze-stackoverflow</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>onetimeuse92304</author><text>&gt; Turns out, most of it is useless: For using most data, you need more information than just the api key.<p>I think you mean low effort attacks.<p>A determined attacker would attempt to gather more information, for example research the author of the post. Many of the authors give enough clues so that you can identify a person, even if comments are written using different handles.<p>Also some of these secrets go in pairs with something else that is enough to get a successful auth. For example, AWS secret usually goes in pair with everything you need to connect.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I analyzed Stack Overflow for secrets</title><url>https://matan-h.com/analyze-stackoverflow</url></story> |
26,339,565 | 26,339,551 | 1 | 3 | 26,339,126 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Intermernet</author><text>Little Jimmy Tables strikes again.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dt3ft</author><text>If you just want to know how the breach[1] happened: it was SQL injection, where string interpolation was used to construct a query, rather than use parametrized queries.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;rookie-coding-mistake-prior-to-gab-hack-came-from-sites-cto&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;rookie-coding-mistak...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gab Has Been Breached</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/gab-has-been-breached/</url></story> | <instructions>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>drop table fash;</text><parent_chain><item><author>dt3ft</author><text>If you just want to know how the breach[1] happened: it was SQL injection, where string interpolation was used to construct a query, rather than use parametrized queries.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;rookie-coding-mistake-prior-to-gab-hack-came-from-sites-cto&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;rookie-coding-mistak...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gab Has Been Breached</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/gab-has-been-breached/</url></story> |
21,220,798 | 21,220,367 | 1 | 3 | 21,207,991 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gamegod</author><text>There&#x27;s an 881 page thread of people ripping this &quot;Atari&quot; project to shreds on the AtariAge forums. People could smell the BS even back in 2017: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atariage.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;topic&#x2F;266480-new-atari-console-that-ataribox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atariage.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;topic&#x2F;266480-new-atari-console-t...</a><p>At some point in that thread around summer 2019, a photo of their &quot;prototype&quot; hardware was released, and it&#x27;s just a stock embedded Ryzen dev board - not custom hardware at all. After 2 years, they had nothing done. It gets even better: They realized their original case design from 2017 was too costly and had to redesign it in Spring 2019: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@atarivcs&#x2F;atari-vcs-structural-improvements-and-feature-adjustments-ba4ee3af5317" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@atarivcs&#x2F;atari-vcs-structural-improvemen...</a><p>Even in 2019, all they had were renders of both their old and new case designs, and that blog post really goes to show how unprepared they were. Any moron with CAD experience could have told them their original design would have been a nightmare to manufacture&#x2F;assemble.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Atari VCS Lead Architect Quits, Claims Six Months of Design Work Went Unpaid</title><url>https://hothardware.com/news/atari-vcs-lead-architect-quits-claims-six-months-unpaid</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Dotnaught</author><text>From The Register:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;atari_architect_quits&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;atari_architect_qui...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Atari VCS Lead Architect Quits, Claims Six Months of Design Work Went Unpaid</title><url>https://hothardware.com/news/atari-vcs-lead-architect-quits-claims-six-months-unpaid</url></story> |
8,700,659 | 8,700,040 | 1 | 3 | 8,699,845 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noelwelsh</author><text>On Monday I&#x27;m giving a talk at Scala Exchange on my take on idiomatic Scala. For those of you who can&#x27;t make it, I&#x27;ll give a quick rundown. You basically need four patterns:<p>- algebraic data types<p>- structural recursion<p>- fold, map, and flatMap<p>- type classes<p>That, in my experience, will cover the majority of code you need to write in Scala and give a solid basis for a robust and comprehendible code base.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate that in Scala algebraic data types and type classes require a bit more code than in most other functional languages.<p>E.g.<p><pre><code> sealed trait Foo
final case class Bar(...) extends Foo
final case class Baz(...) extends Foo
</code></pre>
vs something like<p><pre><code> data Foo = Bar ... | Baz ...
</code></pre>
for an algebraic data type, but it&#x27;s really not so onerous to type.<p>These patterns are really truly shockingly simple to use. We teach them in introductory courses and the majority of people get them.<p>It&#x27;s true that Scala has some warts, but as software engineers we ought to make decisions based not on our personal biases but on a consideration of the problem domain and tradeoffs involved. If you want 1) static typing, 2) a modern language, and 3) JVM compatibility then Scala is the best choice at the moment IMO. Remove one of those restrictions and other choices come into the picture.<p>Update: If you&#x27;re interested in learning more about these patterns, on Friday we&#x27;re going to send a free excerpt of our &quot;Essential Scala&quot; book to our mailing list. The excerpt will include material on algebraic data types and structural recursion. You can sign up here: <a href="http://underscore.io/newsletter.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;underscore.io&#x2F;newsletter.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A farewell note to a programming language</title><url>http://matthiasnehlsen.com/blog/2014/12/04/Farewell-Scala/</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>tel</author><text>If you like Scala but find it too scattered then there&#x27;s always Haskell* :)<p>(*) Not that there aren&#x27;t a thousand reasons to not choose Haskell. This is merely obligatory temptation dangling.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A farewell note to a programming language</title><url>http://matthiasnehlsen.com/blog/2014/12/04/Farewell-Scala/</url><text></text></story> |
2,845,980 | 2,845,917 | 1 | 2 | 2,845,742 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>petercooper</author><text>Previously (with discussion): <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2824780" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2824780</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stanford "Intro to AI" course to be offered online for free</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/you-you-can-take-stanfords-intro-to-ai-course-next-quarter-for-free</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>steverb</author><text>I can't wait to see how well this works out. If the results are good it could put another nail in the coffin for classroom only education.<p>Although I foresee a lot of those that register for the free online course dropping out. Most people won't put a high enough value on a free class, especially if they're not getting credit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stanford "Intro to AI" course to be offered online for free</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/you-you-can-take-stanfords-intro-to-ai-course-next-quarter-for-free</url><text></text></story> |
37,324,941 | 37,324,929 | 1 | 2 | 37,323,604 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sho_hn</author><text>&gt; 2. This reminds me why I no longer use linux on the desktop<p>Lest anyone read this and nodded along: This was a defect in the LG monitor the OP worked around, not anything to do with Linux.</text><parent_chain><item><author>llimllib</author><text>1. This is impressive debugging work by the author. No individual step is rocket science - especially when the story is the success path and not the forking paths of possible failures - but they kept their eyes on the prize and figured it out.<p>2. This reminds me why I no longer use linux on the desktop</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID</title><url>https://gist.github.com/kj800x/be3001c07c49fdb36970633b0bc6defb</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jauntywundrkind</author><text>Huh. This reminds me of why the world so needs Linux. That they could just take off the shelf tools &amp; plug around for a bit, learning &amp; understanding a complex situation with crude &amp; fast debugging, knowing only a little of the internals, and in the end improve their own situation clearly. And then they could share that knowledge with others in such a clear manner.<p>Nothing else in computing is like this. We just cannot help ourselves &amp; each other in most realms of computing: we must be content with what we are given, as it is.<p>In almost all probability the linux system either doesn&#x27;t have a GPU capable of running this high pixel clock or the cable&#x2F;connector can&#x27;t handle it. I&#x27;d love to know what the Mac &amp; windows machines do; do they run 60Hz too or are they pushing all 144Hz here successfully? This seems very likely to be a cable issue, one I don&#x27;t expect windows nor Mac deal with particularly excellently.</text><parent_chain><item><author>llimllib</author><text>1. This is impressive debugging work by the author. No individual step is rocket science - especially when the story is the success path and not the forking paths of possible failures - but they kept their eyes on the prize and figured it out.<p>2. This reminds me why I no longer use linux on the desktop</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID</title><url>https://gist.github.com/kj800x/be3001c07c49fdb36970633b0bc6defb</url></story> |
28,968,984 | 28,969,178 | 1 | 2 | 28,968,046 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>__s</author><text>Botnets aren&#x27;t smaller (IoT has been quite a boon to them)<p>&amp; according to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.comparitech.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;information-security&#x2F;ddos-statistics-facts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.comparitech.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;information-security&#x2F;ddos-s...</a> their frequency isn&#x27;t declining<p>But yes, the larger sites have gotten their shit together so that the cost to DDoS has gone up<p>Also if you have a botnet you now have to ask: do you want rent out DDoS or do you want to mine crypto?</text><parent_chain><item><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>We still hear about DDoS attacks like this once in a while but it seems it&#x27;s not anywhere near as common as it used to be. What happened? It looks like the bad guys are really having more and more trouble mounting succesful DDoS: how comes? It also looks like, in despair, they&#x27;re targetting smaller fishes. Why? Smaller botnets? Cloudflare and OVH and the likes just being too good at absorbing everything and anything you can throw at them? Simple firewall rules getting rid of 99% of the crap? What&#x27;s the reason it&#x27;s not as prevalent as it used to be?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fastmail, Runbox, and Posteo under DDoS extortion attack</title><url>https://therecord.media/ddos-attacks-hit-multiple-email-providers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>300bps</author><text>A lot of the old DDoS attacks rely on the ability to spoof your IP address. Many networks are now configured to drop packets exiting their network that don’t have an address from their network.<p>For example, in a Smurf attack the attacker finds broadcast IP addresses by sending an ICMP request to an address and counts the number of ICMP replies that come back. A broadcast IP address is one that sends a packet to every host on a network (often with 255 as the last octet like 207.103.0.255 for a Class C network of 207.103.0.0&#x2F;24).<p>After finding suitably large networks with an open broadcast IP address they then send the broadcast IP address packets with a spoof IP address of the victim. The attack is then multiplied by however many hosts are on the broadcast IP address network.<p>DNS reflection is another type of DDoS attack that also relies on the ability to spoof an IP address of the victim.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>We still hear about DDoS attacks like this once in a while but it seems it&#x27;s not anywhere near as common as it used to be. What happened? It looks like the bad guys are really having more and more trouble mounting succesful DDoS: how comes? It also looks like, in despair, they&#x27;re targetting smaller fishes. Why? Smaller botnets? Cloudflare and OVH and the likes just being too good at absorbing everything and anything you can throw at them? Simple firewall rules getting rid of 99% of the crap? What&#x27;s the reason it&#x27;s not as prevalent as it used to be?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fastmail, Runbox, and Posteo under DDoS extortion attack</title><url>https://therecord.media/ddos-attacks-hit-multiple-email-providers</url></story> |
14,673,723 | 14,673,641 | 1 | 2 | 14,673,059 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smaili</author><text>&gt; What irritates me is when people say classes are bad. Or subclassing is bad. Thatʼs totally false. Classes are super important. Reference semantics are super important. If anything, the thing thatʼs wrong is to say, one thing is bad and the other thing is good. These are all different tools in our toolbox, and theyʼre used to solve different kinds of problems.<p>Couldn&#x27;t agree more</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chris Lattner on the Realm WWDC 2017 Swift Panel</title><url>https://oleb.net/blog/2017/06/chris-lattner-wwdc-swift-panel/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geodel</author><text>Interesting interview. Java is mentioned many times as language Swift aspires to replace. He is right about Kotlin:<p>&quot;Kotlin is very reference semantics, itʼs a thin layer on top of Java, and so it perpetuates through a lot of the Javaisms in its model.<p>If we had done an analog to that for Objective-C it would be like, everything is an NSObject and itʼs objc_msgSend everywhere, just with parentheses instead of square brackets. ..&quot;<p>I think Swift has real chance to reach Java level popularity. It is already at #11 in Redmonk ranking. All languages above Swift are at least 15 year older than Swift. And once it server side features like concurrency it can be much more general purpose.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chris Lattner on the Realm WWDC 2017 Swift Panel</title><url>https://oleb.net/blog/2017/06/chris-lattner-wwdc-swift-panel/</url></story> |
6,560,504 | 6,560,439 | 1 | 3 | 6,560,085 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; &quot;Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare&#x27;s?&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not convinced that either of these is really important for a general education. I think educators fixate on romantic ideals of what is important to know while ignoring the subject matter that is relevant to ordinary life.<p>Where I grew up, the required high school curriculum includes a lot about ancient civilizations, creative writing, chemistry and physics, and algebra. It didn&#x27;t teach how to write a persuasive proposal in a business context, string together a logically-sound argument, or form inferences from empirical data, and taught very little about contemporary politics or recent American or world history. It didn&#x27;t teach how to mediate an interpersonal conflict at work, delegate a task, or effectively communicate an idea in a presentation.<p>I lament that I spent so much time &quot;learning&quot; in school and have so little to show for it. I know about different kinds of cloud formations, which extinct native American cultures lived where, the difference between the soil composition in different parts of the country, spectral lines in different gasses, etc. This is trivia.<p>I see the argument made by Snow as simply lamenting that there is under-emphasis on one particular set of romanticized unnecessary knowledge and over-emphasis on a different set. Most of physics, chemistry, etc, are neither directly relevant to your typical person nor readily digestible as being illustrative of more general principles that are relevant. A core educational curriculum would be better served teaching more fundamental concepts directly: scientific method, statistical methods, data analysis, etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Two Cultures</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>netcan</author><text><i>&quot;The number 2 is a very dangerous number: that is why the dialectic is a dangerous process. Attempts to divide anything into two ought to be regarded with much suspicion&quot;</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Two Cultures</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures</url></story> |
29,781,237 | 29,780,320 | 1 | 3 | 29,779,559 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>archsurface</author><text>I realised the multi-purpose device problem one evening when wanting to turn on my living room wifi-iot-light. I picked up my phone to use the light app, saw notifications, checked the news, checked some other things, put the phone down. A few minutes later, I remembered I wanted to turn the light on. Picked up the phone, saw notifications, checked the news, checked some other things, put the phone down. A few minutes later, I remembered the light, picked up the phone, started checking things, and thought wtf am I doing, I&#x27;ve just checked these apps twice already!? Stood dumbfounded and concerned at my obsession, then remembered, oh, the light! Distractions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thenerdhead</author><text>I have tried this many times in the past. The problem I have had with internet addiction is that the phone itself is the cue, craving, response, &amp; reward. I had to resort to locking my phone in one of those timed kitchen containers to make any progress.<p>It&#x27;s sad to admit I do this, but the only way I&#x27;ve found myself to make a clear barrier is by having a physical barrier. I&#x27;ve tried shortcuts, VPNs, mindfulness apps, etc. Nothing really sticks if it&#x27;s on the phone itself.<p>On-top of that, having to give each device a job has worked wonders as well. My phone is my personal&#x2F;entertainment device. I don&#x27;t need it majority of the time if at all. My computer on the other hand is my work device where I do the things I should be doing instead of endlessly scrolling (coding, writing, etc).<p>Screentime on macOS can show you how many times you pick up your phone and it makes me quite sad to see the numbers before doing any of this. There are other apps that count how many times you open a specific app like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;one-sec-take-a-deep-breath&#x2F;id1532875441" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;one-sec-take-a-deep-breath&#x2F;id1...</a> which reveals the same thing on an app basis.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using a mild Twitter addiction to get things done</title><url>https://nick.comer.io/post/ios-shortcuts</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eloeffler</author><text>Curiously, it seems to be the backlight that&#x27;s the cue for me. Anything, a phone, a laptop, a desk screen, can bring me into a distracted state very quickly. I really hope e-ink devices will give me a bit of a relief once they become affordable (which is delayed due to expensive patents, as I understand it).<p>I experience this when trying to read lenghty text on e-ink devices vs. a computer screen or phone. On the other hand, a kindle or remarkable don&#x27;t give me as many options to distract myself so a more versatile device might still distract me even with e-ink.<p>Time will tell but for now it subjectively feels like the light emission (any color) has a very adverse effect on me, unless distraction is what I&#x27;m looking for :(</text><parent_chain><item><author>thenerdhead</author><text>I have tried this many times in the past. The problem I have had with internet addiction is that the phone itself is the cue, craving, response, &amp; reward. I had to resort to locking my phone in one of those timed kitchen containers to make any progress.<p>It&#x27;s sad to admit I do this, but the only way I&#x27;ve found myself to make a clear barrier is by having a physical barrier. I&#x27;ve tried shortcuts, VPNs, mindfulness apps, etc. Nothing really sticks if it&#x27;s on the phone itself.<p>On-top of that, having to give each device a job has worked wonders as well. My phone is my personal&#x2F;entertainment device. I don&#x27;t need it majority of the time if at all. My computer on the other hand is my work device where I do the things I should be doing instead of endlessly scrolling (coding, writing, etc).<p>Screentime on macOS can show you how many times you pick up your phone and it makes me quite sad to see the numbers before doing any of this. There are other apps that count how many times you open a specific app like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;one-sec-take-a-deep-breath&#x2F;id1532875441" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;one-sec-take-a-deep-breath&#x2F;id1...</a> which reveals the same thing on an app basis.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using a mild Twitter addiction to get things done</title><url>https://nick.comer.io/post/ios-shortcuts</url></story> |
35,602,488 | 35,601,910 | 1 | 2 | 35,599,315 | 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>toast0</author><text>If you don&#x27;t want to sideload, then don&#x27;t. If companies don&#x27;t want to be on the platform app store anymore, it&#x27;s not the end of the world. I ran a windows phone for several years; if there&#x27;s no app for something, there&#x27;s usually a website, and Safari is loads more usable than mobile IE or mobile Edge; so you&#x27;re fine for the most part.<p>Yeah, you might lose out on playing FPS games on your phone, but is that really a loss?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mort96</author><text>What happens when the apps which used to be available on the app store get taken down and made sideload-only, like what Epic did with Fortnite on Android?</text></item><item><author>FloatArtifact</author><text>Having the power to choose side load is a net benefit. For those that have any sort of fear, they simply just get apps from the official store.<p>Could and will people be taking advantage of by side loaded apps? The obvious answer is yes, it&#x27;s a risk that allows for responsibility and freedom.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/17/ios-17-will-reportedly-set-the-stage-for-sideloading-apps-on-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>Hamuko</author><text>&gt;<i>like what Epic did with Fortnite on Android?</i><p>Epic pulled Fortnite from Google Play Store in 2018 because they wanted to keep more of Google&#x27;s 30% share and they were back in 18 months because most people aren&#x27;t that determined to get an app outside of the official app store.<p>Any company pulling their apps from the App Store must have a pretty good reason to do so, because they&#x27;re gonna be decimating their download numbers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mort96</author><text>What happens when the apps which used to be available on the app store get taken down and made sideload-only, like what Epic did with Fortnite on Android?</text></item><item><author>FloatArtifact</author><text>Having the power to choose side load is a net benefit. For those that have any sort of fear, they simply just get apps from the official store.<p>Could and will people be taking advantage of by side loaded apps? The obvious answer is yes, it&#x27;s a risk that allows for responsibility and freedom.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/17/ios-17-will-reportedly-set-the-stage-for-sideloading-apps-on-iphone/</url></story> |
30,137,221 | 30,134,782 | 1 | 3 | 30,112,906 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samatman</author><text>&gt; <i>the final surprise is that Bubble Sort takes the crown for small arrays</i><p>This didn&#x27;t need to be a surprise! It was a commonplace bit of wisdom in the microcomputer era, when sorting always came with questions about the application. You can&#x27;t beat it for locality— but you also can&#x27;t beat it for mostly-sorted, small collections.<p>Rather than sorting arrays, the area where bubblesort shines (ok. where bubblesort can still be considered!) is <i>keeping linked lists sorted</i>, especially where the sort order is important rather than critical. So event queues: you want to float the highest priority to the top, but it&#x27;s ok if occasionally #2 is launched before #1, because events aren&#x27;t guaranteed an execution order. We&#x27;re using an intrusive linked list because the scheduler has to take what it&#x27;s given, it can&#x27;t lay out memory.<p>Also, any time spent tinkering with an event queue is wasted time. So every round, walk the event queue and perform one (1) bubble sort. This takes the time it takes to traverse the list, effectively. So if you&#x27;ve placed exactly one event at the end of the queue (head of the list), it ends up precisely where it should be. Two? You leave one of them behind for the next pass.<p>It&#x27;s easy to reason out that when the sort starts performing badly, the problem you have is event congestion, not a poor big-O complexity for your queue sort.<p>Bubblesort is sometimes treated as a pessimal joke like bogosort, it isn&#x27;t, it&#x27;s just that the reason it&#x27;s treated as a basic sort pedagogically has been lost, as the profession&#x27;s center of gravity moves away from these kinds of system-level constructs.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback</title><url>https://blog.reverberate.org/2020/05/29/hoares-rebuttal-bubble-sorts-comeback.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>FrozenVoid</author><text>Why not use combsort, which is generally
does similar swaps and outperforms bubble sort
in all cases?
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Comb_sort" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Comb_sort</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geeksforgeeks.org&#x2F;comb-sort&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geeksforgeeks.org&#x2F;comb-sort&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback</title><url>https://blog.reverberate.org/2020/05/29/hoares-rebuttal-bubble-sorts-comeback.html</url></story> |
16,936,079 | 16,936,098 | 1 | 2 | 16,935,441 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ckuhl</author><text>The real value of Flask is that it makes you appreciate what Django does by default.<p>When I first started learning Python &#x2F; web frameworks, I went with Flask because it was smaller and &quot;simpler&quot;. As my project grew however, I had to organize it. I was basically imitating what Django gives you by default, though less cleanly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BerislavLopac</author><text>I understand that Flask has become popular because it is easy to learn, but my experience is that as your knowledge progresses it just keeps getting in your way. I particularly dislike some design choices which look like afterthought hacks, such as global variables for current request and using abort() functions instead of raising exceptions directly.<p>EDIT: To avoid hollow naysaying, here are some alternatives to Flask I find much better designed:<p><pre><code> - Tornado Web Framework [0]
- Falcon [1]
</code></pre>
[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tornadoweb.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;webframework.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tornadoweb.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;webframework.html</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;falconframework.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;falconframework.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flask 1.0 Released</title><url>https://www.palletsprojects.com/blog/flask-1-0-released/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dfee</author><text>Pyramid is great, lacks the problems (magic) you mentioned, and is now what pypi.org is built on: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.pylonsproject.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;pyramid&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.pylonsproject.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;pyramid&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;in...</a><p>I’ve used it off and on since 2010 (as Pylons) and have been happy with it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BerislavLopac</author><text>I understand that Flask has become popular because it is easy to learn, but my experience is that as your knowledge progresses it just keeps getting in your way. I particularly dislike some design choices which look like afterthought hacks, such as global variables for current request and using abort() functions instead of raising exceptions directly.<p>EDIT: To avoid hollow naysaying, here are some alternatives to Flask I find much better designed:<p><pre><code> - Tornado Web Framework [0]
- Falcon [1]
</code></pre>
[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tornadoweb.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;webframework.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tornadoweb.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;webframework.html</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;falconframework.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;falconframework.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flask 1.0 Released</title><url>https://www.palletsprojects.com/blog/flask-1-0-released/</url></story> |
10,146,864 | 10,146,795 | 1 | 3 | 10,145,874 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tmm</author><text>I guess I&#x27;m in the other camp, I don&#x27;t like it at all. I had to go back and look for the logo after reading your comment and I couldn&#x27;t make out what it was supposed to be until I looked at the URL. Even then my brain didn&#x27;t want to turn it into letters, but was bothered that the gray parts (especially the vertical parts of the &#x27;u&#x27; and the &#x27;n&#x27;) didn&#x27;t line up.<p>And of course since the logo is set in CSS it doesn&#x27;t have alt text so I couldn&#x27;t hover over it and get the company name.<p>That said, I am very pleased that the logo is a link back to the main company page and not to the main blog page; it&#x27;s so irritating to read an article on a company blog, think &quot;hey, I&#x27;m interested in what these folks are selling, let&#x27;s visit their homepage&quot;, click on the logo and be redirected to the main page of their blog and not the company&#x27;s actual web site.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CPLX</author><text>Not to digress from the point of the blog post, but that is one truly fantastic logo that Boundary has.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I took the $300k (2013)</title><url>http://www.boundary.com/blog/2013/05/i-took-the-300k/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frogpelt</author><text>I agree.<p>I wonder how much the logo played into picking that name.<p>EDIT: Turns out, not much. Here&#x27;s the story. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boundary.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-story-of-the-boundary-logo-network-performance&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boundary.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-story-of-the-bounda...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>CPLX</author><text>Not to digress from the point of the blog post, but that is one truly fantastic logo that Boundary has.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I took the $300k (2013)</title><url>http://www.boundary.com/blog/2013/05/i-took-the-300k/</url></story> |
8,213,121 | 8,212,928 | 1 | 2 | 8,212,374 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>billyhoffman</author><text>Does it honestly surprise anyone that Pakistan is a customer of FinFisher, given the history of their ISI service?<p>I&#x27;m not trying to be snarky, I&#x27;m seriously.<p>State actors were a target customer for FinFisher, and it isn&#x27;t that hard to figure out probably customers. Saudi Arabia tried to get Moxie to help them spy on its citizens, so I imagine they are a good bet too.<p><a href="http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thoughtcrime.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;saudi-surveillance&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms</title><url>http://digitalrightsfoundation.pk/2014/08/pakistan-is-a-finfisher-customer-leak-confirms/</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>4k</author><text>Its makes me sad to think a government of a nation with so little prosperity somehow has money to spend on this kind of shit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms</title><url>http://digitalrightsfoundation.pk/2014/08/pakistan-is-a-finfisher-customer-leak-confirms/</url><text></text></story> |
9,846,713 | 9,846,617 | 1 | 2 | 9,845,866 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Houshalter</author><text>See also divisor plot: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.divisorplot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.divisorplot.com&#x2F;</a><p>This guy plotted the table of numbers and their divisors and found lots of patterns in it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Prime Number Patterns</title><url>http://www.jasondavies.com/primos/</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>floatrock</author><text>&gt; The prime numbers are those that have been intersected by only two curves: the prime number itself and one.<p>This is merely a prettier but somewhat obfuscated Sieve of Eratosthenes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sieve_of_Eratosthenes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sieve_of_Eratosthenes</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Prime Number Patterns</title><url>http://www.jasondavies.com/primos/</url><text></text></story> |
11,435,691 | 11,434,129 | 1 | 2 | 11,433,554 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>Just for some perspective, a little over 10 years ago, this $130k turnkey installation would sit at #1 in TOP500, easily beating out hundred-million-dollar initiatives like NEC&#x27;s Earth Simulator and IBM&#x27;s BlueGene&#x2F;L: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.top500.org&#x2F;lists&#x2F;2005&#x2F;06&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.top500.org&#x2F;lists&#x2F;2005&#x2F;06&#x2F;</a> (170 TFLOPS vs. 137 TFLOPS)<p>At the other end, even a single GTX 960 would make it onto the list, placing in the 200s.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Nvidia DGX-1 Deep Learning Supercomputer in a Box</title><url>http://www.nvidia.com/object/deep-learning-system.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>aconz2</author><text>Check out the specs here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.nvidia.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;technologies&#x2F;deep-learning&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;61681-DB2-Launch-Datasheet-Deep-Learning-Letter-WEB.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.nvidia.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;technologies&#x2F;deep-learning&#x2F;...</a><p>though I&#x27;m most curious about what motherboard is in there to support NVLink and NVHS.<p>Good overview of Pascal here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.nvidia.com&#x2F;parallelforall&#x2F;inside-pascal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.nvidia.com&#x2F;parallelforall&#x2F;inside-pascal&#x2F;</a><p>1 question: will we see NVLink become an open standard for use in&#x2F;with other coprocessors?<p>1 gripe: they give relative performance data as compared to a CPU -- of <i>course</i> its faster than a CPU</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Nvidia DGX-1 Deep Learning Supercomputer in a Box</title><url>http://www.nvidia.com/object/deep-learning-system.html</url></story> |
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