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20,481,450 | 20,479,992 | 1 | 2 | 20,479,015 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>curun1r</author><text>&gt; Where do I start? Study the chromium source?<p>I&#x27;m curious why you&#x27;d jump straight to browser detection as the most likely culprit. When I was doing scraping, the far more common case was bot detection by origin and access patterns. It&#x27;s just very difficult to make an automated scraper look like a residential or business user.<p>Where do you run your scraping operation? Is it in AWS or some other hosting provider, because that will get you blocked quickly by a lot of sites? Do you rate limit, including adding random jitter to mimic the way a human might use a browser?<p>There&#x27;s scraping services available that essentially use a network of browsers on residential connections with their extension installed to get around scraping detection. It&#x27;s much slower, but it&#x27;s much more reliable. We also had some success by signing up with a bunch of the VPN providers (PIA, NordVPN, ExpressVPN, etc) and cycling through their servers frequently. Anything to avoid creating patterns that look automated or being tied to an IP that can be blacklisted. I&#x27;d start there before I&#x27;d worry about hacky javascript detection like in this story being what&#x27;s tripping you up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Pinbenterjamin</author><text>I run the division at my company that builds crawlers for websites with public records. We scrape this information on-demand when a case is requested, and we handle an enormous volume of different sites (or sources as we call them). We recently passed 700 total custom scrapers.<p>Recently, we have seen a spike in sites that detect, and block our crawlers with some sort of Javascript we cannot identify. We use headless Chrome and selenium to build out most of our integrations, I&#x27;m starting to wonder if the science of blocking scraping is getting more popular...<p>I don&#x27;t think what I&#x27;m doing is subversive at all, we&#x27;re running background checks on people, and we can reduce business costs by eliminating error-prone researchers with smart scrapers that run all day.<p>I don&#x27;t want to seem like the bad guy here, but what if I wanted to do the opposite of this research? Where do I start? Study the chromium source? Can anyone recommend a few papers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Detecting Chrome headless, the game goes on</title><url>https://antoinevastel.com/bot%20detection/2019/07/19/detecting-chrome-headless-v3.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>floatingatoll</author><text>Reducing your business costs by scraping a public access website is often considered an <i>alternative</i> to paying the business costs of the website operator.<p>Are you saving money at the expense of the site operator by scraping their site for public records, or are you saving money as well as the site operator?<p>If you&#x27;re costing them money to reduce your own bottom line without their express written consent, that makes you &quot;the bad guy&quot;. Offsetting costs onto an unwitting, non-consenting third party is an unethical approach to doing business.<p>I interpret your request as a similar problem to &quot;help me with my homework problem&quot;. I could dig up papers and studies, but at the end of the day, you need to go do your homework. Reach out to each municipality and figure out a business arrangement with them that satisfies your needs. It&#x27;s possible they do not wish you to perform this activity, in which case you will either need to violate their intent for your own profit using scraping or accede to their wishes and stop scraping their municipality. That&#x27;s your homework as a for-profit business.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Pinbenterjamin</author><text>I run the division at my company that builds crawlers for websites with public records. We scrape this information on-demand when a case is requested, and we handle an enormous volume of different sites (or sources as we call them). We recently passed 700 total custom scrapers.<p>Recently, we have seen a spike in sites that detect, and block our crawlers with some sort of Javascript we cannot identify. We use headless Chrome and selenium to build out most of our integrations, I&#x27;m starting to wonder if the science of blocking scraping is getting more popular...<p>I don&#x27;t think what I&#x27;m doing is subversive at all, we&#x27;re running background checks on people, and we can reduce business costs by eliminating error-prone researchers with smart scrapers that run all day.<p>I don&#x27;t want to seem like the bad guy here, but what if I wanted to do the opposite of this research? Where do I start? Study the chromium source? Can anyone recommend a few papers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Detecting Chrome headless, the game goes on</title><url>https://antoinevastel.com/bot%20detection/2019/07/19/detecting-chrome-headless-v3.html</url></story> |
29,867,223 | 29,867,301 | 1 | 2 | 29,835,720 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>selectodude</author><text>Judging by Cinematronics and the long chain of purchases, closures and divestures, it wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if there wasn&#x27;t anybody who even knows who the hell owns the rights at this point. Unfortunately for Microsoft, they&#x27;re <i>very</i> worth suing and consider it not worth it to have that exposure over Space Cadet Pinball.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_fat_santa</author><text>Going down the rabbit hole of some of the referenced articles. I read this one [1] about Microsoft&#x27;s attempts to resurrect the game. The problem seems to be the license agreement does not allow MS to release the game as a standalone copy. Not a lawyer but wouldn&#x27;t it be pretty easy for MS to just re-license it? MS has a market cap of 2.3T, I think they could swing it without too much of a sweat.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20181221-00&#x2F;?p=100535" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20181221-00&#x2F;?p=10...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220106-00/?p=106122</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wildzzz</author><text>No need to relicense and release it again. Space Cadet is part of Full Tilt! Pinball which is hosted online at a certain abandonware website. Until Maxis (or EA) decides to release it again, just download a free copy of it. There are even instructions out there for getting it to work on Windows 10.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_fat_santa</author><text>Going down the rabbit hole of some of the referenced articles. I read this one [1] about Microsoft&#x27;s attempts to resurrect the game. The problem seems to be the license agreement does not allow MS to release the game as a standalone copy. Not a lawyer but wouldn&#x27;t it be pretty easy for MS to just re-license it? MS has a market cap of 2.3T, I think they could swing it without too much of a sweat.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20181221-00&#x2F;?p=100535" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20181221-00&#x2F;?p=10...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220106-00/?p=106122</url></story> |
34,168,772 | 34,167,815 | 1 | 2 | 34,166,193 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Gigachad</author><text>Cool project, but it reminds me of one of the golden rules of AI “if you can solve it with a simple rules based system, you should”<p>Having to tell chatGPT to make sure it gets it’s math right is not confidence inspiring.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mintplant</author><text>Hi HN! I&#x27;ve been playing around with ChatGPT a bunch since it came out. This experiment has a little bit of a backstory. Some friends and I were out at a pho restaurant; one of us put the whole bill on his card, so the rest of us needed to figure out how much to Venmo him. We were talking about how many bill-splitting apps there are, and I made a joke about doing it with ChatGPT. Then I actually tried it out.<p>I OCR&#x27;d the text with Google Lens, described who had what, and after a bit of prompt engineering (e.g., adding &quot;Be sure to get your math correct&quot; to make the AI&#x27;s arithmetic check out, and convincing the AI to split shared items evenly), it totally worked: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;spinda&#x2F;967322dda1c04d9864f3efd45addca13" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;spinda&#x2F;967322dda1c04d9864f3efd45addc...</a><p>Then I started experimenting with describing a hypothetical check-splitting app to the AI, and asking it to feed me JSON commands to update the UI in response to messages from me telling it what the user was doing. The results were promising! And then the similarity to the Redux data loop jumped out, and I built this generic plugin to wire ChatGPT up to apps for real.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Build your front end in React, then let ChatGPT be your Redux reducer</title><url>https://spindas.dreamwidth.org/4207.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>quadcore</author><text>Pretty sure you&#x27;ve invented something here. A coolest form of copilot. A new way of programming. This is really lispy, this is really cool. Love it 10 times.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mintplant</author><text>Hi HN! I&#x27;ve been playing around with ChatGPT a bunch since it came out. This experiment has a little bit of a backstory. Some friends and I were out at a pho restaurant; one of us put the whole bill on his card, so the rest of us needed to figure out how much to Venmo him. We were talking about how many bill-splitting apps there are, and I made a joke about doing it with ChatGPT. Then I actually tried it out.<p>I OCR&#x27;d the text with Google Lens, described who had what, and after a bit of prompt engineering (e.g., adding &quot;Be sure to get your math correct&quot; to make the AI&#x27;s arithmetic check out, and convincing the AI to split shared items evenly), it totally worked: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;spinda&#x2F;967322dda1c04d9864f3efd45addca13" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;spinda&#x2F;967322dda1c04d9864f3efd45addc...</a><p>Then I started experimenting with describing a hypothetical check-splitting app to the AI, and asking it to feed me JSON commands to update the UI in response to messages from me telling it what the user was doing. The results were promising! And then the similarity to the Redux data loop jumped out, and I built this generic plugin to wire ChatGPT up to apps for real.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Build your front end in React, then let ChatGPT be your Redux reducer</title><url>https://spindas.dreamwidth.org/4207.html</url></story> |
14,214,586 | 14,214,742 | 1 | 2 | 14,212,561 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smrq</author><text>Codegen your TS interfaces from your server endpoints. You don&#x27;t need run-time enforcement if you have a compile-time guarantee that the endpoint you&#x27;re hitting will return a specific type back.<p>TypeLite (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nuget.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;TypeLite" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nuget.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;TypeLite</a>) can get you halfway there with C#. I used that for a while before eventually wanting more and rolling my own solution, which takes a WebAPI endpoint and generates typed fetch methods. It&#x27;s not anywhere close to polished or reusable, unfortunately.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anonyfox</author><text>Since 2.1 ts is becoming a de-facto default choice for any serious JS projects I&#x27;d say. In conjunction with VSCode it really shines and makes JS sometimes even enjoyable...<p>But there is an issue that quirks our team almost daily: the bolted-on typesystem provides a false sense of safety. You can look at an API response, write an interface for the data structure, build functionality ontop of it, and when the API response structure changes in subtle ways over time, everything <i>may</i> break without notice. There is no way to enforce an interface through casting anywhere, not even via some code generation or sth like that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TypeScript 2.3</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2017/04/27/announcing-typescript-2-3/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Nemo157</author><text>Use something like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lbovet&#x2F;typson" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lbovet&#x2F;typson</a> to generate a JSON schema for your interfaces, then use a JSON schema validator before casting the API response to your interface.<p>I haven&#x27;t touched TS since ~1.3, but this was all working well back then at least.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anonyfox</author><text>Since 2.1 ts is becoming a de-facto default choice for any serious JS projects I&#x27;d say. In conjunction with VSCode it really shines and makes JS sometimes even enjoyable...<p>But there is an issue that quirks our team almost daily: the bolted-on typesystem provides a false sense of safety. You can look at an API response, write an interface for the data structure, build functionality ontop of it, and when the API response structure changes in subtle ways over time, everything <i>may</i> break without notice. There is no way to enforce an interface through casting anywhere, not even via some code generation or sth like that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TypeScript 2.3</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2017/04/27/announcing-typescript-2-3/</url></story> |
2,306,759 | 2,306,646 | 1 | 3 | 2,306,289 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>msbarnett</author><text>Is this supposed to be satire?<p>Being a hobbyist and learning to program in the 80s meant my dad shelling out hundreds of dollars for THINK Lightspeed Pascal, and yet, somehow I and many others managed to learn to program and become hobbyists and finally professional programmers.<p>They'll sell you a full-featured, modern IDE with all the pro features uncrippled for a measly <i>$5</i>. That's not a death blow to hobbyists, that's maybe one of the cheapest hobbies on the planet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>msg</author><text>It is the difference between free and not free.<p>They are trying to drive developers to use the App Store? Sounds ridiculous coming out of my mouth.<p>They are trying to kill off OSX hobbyist experimentation in favor of iOS? I think I'm getting warmer.</text></item><item><author>ori_b</author><text>This is somewhat strange pricing - it seems ridiculously cheap if they're trying to make significant profits off of it, but pricey enough to prevent tinkerers who don't really know about coding but feel like trying it from getting a start in xcode.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xcode now costs US$ 4.99</title><url>http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id422352214</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stuhacking</author><text>Apple are really driving me to put Linux on both my machines.<p>I'm not happy about that, but it's seems ever more likely since Linux is getting a lot more usable and the Apple tax is getting a lot more expensive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>msg</author><text>It is the difference between free and not free.<p>They are trying to drive developers to use the App Store? Sounds ridiculous coming out of my mouth.<p>They are trying to kill off OSX hobbyist experimentation in favor of iOS? I think I'm getting warmer.</text></item><item><author>ori_b</author><text>This is somewhat strange pricing - it seems ridiculously cheap if they're trying to make significant profits off of it, but pricey enough to prevent tinkerers who don't really know about coding but feel like trying it from getting a start in xcode.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xcode now costs US$ 4.99</title><url>http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id422352214</url></story> |
4,175,750 | 4,175,455 | 1 | 3 | 4,175,261 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>D_Alex</author><text>Unfortunately, while the reddit post seems authoritative, it contains a multitude of errors and ends up somewhat misleading. The most significant error is:<p>"What the front half of a jet engine (the intake/diffuser, and the compressor blades, i.e. all the stuff that happens before fuel is burned) does is; it heats up the air until it's hot enough for fuel to ignite" ...etc.<p>The heating up of air in the gas turbine cycle (Brayton cycle) is an UNDESIRABLE, but difficult to avoid consequence of the ideal gas law. A higher efficiency and power output would be possible if this heating did not occur, hence measures such as water injection or intercooling on large stationary gas turbines.<p>There are a number of other more subtle errors in the post.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How SR-71 Blackbird Designers Overcame Canonical Jet Engine Limitations</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/vouxj/this_sr71_holds_the_flight_airspeed_record_at/c56rwsn</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>jluxenberg</author><text>Neat anecdote about the SR-71's speed from a former pilot <a href="http://www.jumbojoke.com/the_king_of_speed.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jumbojoke.com/the_king_of_speed.html</a><p>(couldn't find a better link; this is an excerpt from <i>Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet</i> by Brian Schul)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How SR-71 Blackbird Designers Overcame Canonical Jet Engine Limitations</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/vouxj/this_sr71_holds_the_flight_airspeed_record_at/c56rwsn</url><text></text></story> |
22,755,018 | 22,753,578 | 1 | 3 | 22,750,850 | 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>jlgaddis</author><text>&gt; <i>Use Ed25519 keys.</i><p>&gt; <i>...</i><p>&gt; <i>You can use Yubikey and pretty much every other solution out there with with OpenSSH now.</i><p>Unfortunately, you can&#x27;t use Ed25519 keys unless you have the latest&#x2F;newest model(s) of Yubikey and that Yubikey came with at least a specific firmware version (5.2.3, IIRC). Even if that weren&#x27;t so, there&#x27;s still loads of popular &#x2F; widely-used software that isn&#x27;t even close to supporting Ed25519 (yet) but <i>has</i> supported RSA for years and years (and will continue to for the foreseeable future).<p>I&#x27;d like to be able to &quot;upgrade&quot; to an Ed25519 key but I can&#x27;t come up with any real reason to expand my collection of Yubikeys any further (I think I&#x27;m up to nine, at last count, and the three newest ones haven&#x27;t even been opened!). I don&#x27;t plan on purchasing another Yubikey until four or five of the ones I already have decide to call it quits, so I won&#x27;t be using an Ed25519 key anytime in the next couple of years, at least.<p>Even if I could start using an Ed25519 key with my Yubikeys today, I&#x27;d likely still have to keep an RSA key around for the &quot;legacy&quot; stuff, in which case I might as well just save myself the trouble and stick with RSA for a while longer.<p>A private RSA (2048+) key on a Yubikey is still much &quot;better&quot;, IMO, than a private Ed25519 key sitting on one&#x27;s hard drive.<p>In an ideal world we could all just switch everything over to Ed25519 at about the same time and then retire RSA shortly afterwards. It&#x27;s gonna be a long time before everyone has ditched RSA keys and moved to Ed25519, though -- RSA isn&#x27;t going anywhere anytime soon!</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ayesh</author><text> - Use Ed25519 keys. They are now supported in pretty much every server out there (all recent OpenSSH versions, GitHub, GitLab, etc). RSA 2048 keys are unbreakable for the foreseeable future, and using 4096 bit keys are just being paranoid with no gain. You can fit 4x Ed25519 keys in a tweet.<p>- Setup and use ssh-agent. They make the life so easy.<p>- You can use Yubikey and pretty much every other solution out there with with OpenSSH now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to SSH Properly</title><url>https://gravitational.com/blog/how-to-ssh-properly/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ddevault</author><text>&gt;Setup and use ssh-agent. They make the life so easy.<p>My #1 ssh usability tip: put this into ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;config:<p><pre><code> AddKeysToAgent yes
</code></pre>
It&#x27;ll automatically add keys to your agent the first time you use them during a session, so you don&#x27;t need a separate step for adding keys every time you log in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ayesh</author><text> - Use Ed25519 keys. They are now supported in pretty much every server out there (all recent OpenSSH versions, GitHub, GitLab, etc). RSA 2048 keys are unbreakable for the foreseeable future, and using 4096 bit keys are just being paranoid with no gain. You can fit 4x Ed25519 keys in a tweet.<p>- Setup and use ssh-agent. They make the life so easy.<p>- You can use Yubikey and pretty much every other solution out there with with OpenSSH now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to SSH Properly</title><url>https://gravitational.com/blog/how-to-ssh-properly/</url></story> |
6,062,340 | 6,062,251 | 1 | 3 | 6,061,816 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to read those comments while thinking of the &quot;other war&quot; the US (and the militarized police force) is fighting. What are the battlefield boundaries of &quot;the war on drugs&quot;? How can the &quot;rules of that battlefield&quot; and &quot;the rules of civilized society&quot; be any different?</text><parent_chain><item><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>This is a good analysis but I think it misses the mark a bit.<p>The problem is very much one of terrorism. The basic idea of terrorism is to erase the boundaries of the battlefield. The worst possible reaction to that is to do the same, but that&#x27;s increasingly what we&#x27;ve been doing. In order to be capable of fighting a war effectively (even while acting purely defensively) the rules of the battlefield must necessarily be very much different from the rules of civilized society.<p>Increasingly the ideas that police should act like soldiers, that soldiers should be used for policing, and that the protections inherent in the criminal justice system are now outmoded and no longer useful in fighting terrorism have taken hold. But this has occurred concomitant with the expansion of the &quot;battlefield&quot; in the &quot;war on terror&quot; to encompass no less than the entirety of human civilization.<p>The result is that while the terrorists may have knocked a few holes in the walls we have put up between civilized society under the rule of law and the near-anarchy of the battlefield the governments of the world have gleefully participated in shooting vastly more holes in those walls.</text></item><item><author>flexie</author><text>The sad and dangerous thing that has happened is that a new category of criminals has been made: Terrorists. Once someone is put in that category all his rights cease to exist. It&#x27;s sort of like the outlaws of medieval Europe.<p>The only right thing to do is to start treating terrorist suspects exactly like those suspected of any other crimes, be it murder, theft, rape etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Drone that Killed my Grandson</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/opinion/the-drone-that-killed-my-grandson.html?hp&_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>ordinary</author><text>While the definition of the term &#x27;war crime&#x27; is fairly recent, the murder of civilians (only one of many types of war crime) during times of conflict is hardly a new phenomenon. The only thing that&#x27;s new to us who have not lived though World War 2 is that a few times, civilians from the West were killed within their own borders. Islamist terrorism, while inexcusable, immoral and criminal, has not erased the boundaries of the battlefield. History shows that even if there were ever any borders on the battlefield, they were erased long ago.</text><parent_chain><item><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>This is a good analysis but I think it misses the mark a bit.<p>The problem is very much one of terrorism. The basic idea of terrorism is to erase the boundaries of the battlefield. The worst possible reaction to that is to do the same, but that&#x27;s increasingly what we&#x27;ve been doing. In order to be capable of fighting a war effectively (even while acting purely defensively) the rules of the battlefield must necessarily be very much different from the rules of civilized society.<p>Increasingly the ideas that police should act like soldiers, that soldiers should be used for policing, and that the protections inherent in the criminal justice system are now outmoded and no longer useful in fighting terrorism have taken hold. But this has occurred concomitant with the expansion of the &quot;battlefield&quot; in the &quot;war on terror&quot; to encompass no less than the entirety of human civilization.<p>The result is that while the terrorists may have knocked a few holes in the walls we have put up between civilized society under the rule of law and the near-anarchy of the battlefield the governments of the world have gleefully participated in shooting vastly more holes in those walls.</text></item><item><author>flexie</author><text>The sad and dangerous thing that has happened is that a new category of criminals has been made: Terrorists. Once someone is put in that category all his rights cease to exist. It&#x27;s sort of like the outlaws of medieval Europe.<p>The only right thing to do is to start treating terrorist suspects exactly like those suspected of any other crimes, be it murder, theft, rape etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Drone that Killed my Grandson</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/opinion/the-drone-that-killed-my-grandson.html?hp&_r=0</url></story> |
12,727,068 | 12,726,799 | 1 | 2 | 12,725,427 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>admax88q</author><text>&gt; The simple fact is that Assange is campaigning for Donald Trump.<p>This is classic US politics. This A vs B mentality is what leads to such a fierce two party system.<p>If you don&#x27;t support choice A, then you are assumed to support choice B. Any attack on Hillary is viewed as support for Trump and vice versa.<p>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a fair interpretation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>No, it&#x27;s pretty well known that Assange <i>claims</i> to have a vendetta against HRC. The details of that vendetta don&#x27;t make much sense. It&#x27;s clearly easier for him and his supporters to claim that they&#x27;re acting out of enmity towards Clinton --- a minor figure in virtually all of Assange&#x27;s dealings with the US --- than to simply cop to the fact that they are aggressively and overly supporting Donald Trump.<p>Nerddom and the left (and I&#x27;m somewhere in the overlapping circles on that Venn diagram) have a powerful rooting interest in Julian Assange and Wikileaks, who many of us see as a vanguard of an effort to disrupt politics and the media, both of whom we as a demographic have little respect for. The simple fact is that Assange is campaigning for Donald Trump. But that&#x27;s very hard for us to admit, regardless of the amount of evidence we&#x27;re confronted with.</text></item><item><author>edanm</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty well known that Assange has a vendetta against Hillary Clinton. Just searching for Assange Clinton on Google brings up lots of articles on the subject.</text></item><item><author>joshuaheard</author><text>I don&#x27;t think Assange is a partisan. He&#x27;s Australian after all and has no stake in this election. I think he is releasing info on Hillary because that is what he has and is timing the release for maximum public exposure. If he had similar info on Trump, I firmly believe he would be doing the same thing.</text></item><item><author>HillRat</author><text>On the other hand, &quot;state actor&quot; could certainly refer to Ecuador deciding to turn off Assange&#x27;s access. WikiLeaks tends to be fairly economical with the truth about its own operations, so being purposefully ambiguous isn&#x27;t anything new for them.<p>And, while Ecuador hasn&#x27;t had to deal with meaningful diplomatic repercussions from sheltering Assange, the high-profile role WL is taking in the 2016 elections, and specifically the partisan and selective nature of their leaks, means that Ecuador is dealing with a very different qualitative situation than when WL was acting as an impartial if indiscriminate journalistic source.<p>In other words, Quito may very well be looking at the situation and deciding that being implicated in attempts to manipulate the US election is way more trouble than it&#x27;s worth.</text></item><item><author>mikeash</author><text>They can&#x27;t possibly isolate it to just Assange, so it must be the whole embassy.<p>My money is on this being an errant backhoe or similar, and Assange is just turning it into a big deal because he can.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>- Is the whole embassy shut down?<p>- Is there any direct reason for the timing (US elections, attack on Mosul or other current headlines)?<p>- Was there any imminent release? (last week there was an announcement of a leak but it didn&#x27;t materialize as far as I know)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;4&#x2F;13159914&#x2F;wikileaks-hillary-clinton-julian-assange-google" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;4&#x2F;13159914&#x2F;wikileaks-hillary...</a><p>- You&#x27;d assume that Wikileaks the organization will continue to work even without Assange having internet access so what exactly will this accomplish other than lending support to Assange&#x27;s stated reasons for hiding in an embassy to begin with?<p>edit: another comment here suggests the reason may be because his extradition is imminent.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;4532984&#x2F;wikileaks-julian-assange-theories&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;4532984&#x2F;wikileaks-julian-assange-theories&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37680411</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; The simple fact is that Assange is campaigning for Donald Trump.<p>One possible explanation for this is that Assange will support the candidate that he believes will hurt US interests most.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>No, it&#x27;s pretty well known that Assange <i>claims</i> to have a vendetta against HRC. The details of that vendetta don&#x27;t make much sense. It&#x27;s clearly easier for him and his supporters to claim that they&#x27;re acting out of enmity towards Clinton --- a minor figure in virtually all of Assange&#x27;s dealings with the US --- than to simply cop to the fact that they are aggressively and overly supporting Donald Trump.<p>Nerddom and the left (and I&#x27;m somewhere in the overlapping circles on that Venn diagram) have a powerful rooting interest in Julian Assange and Wikileaks, who many of us see as a vanguard of an effort to disrupt politics and the media, both of whom we as a demographic have little respect for. The simple fact is that Assange is campaigning for Donald Trump. But that&#x27;s very hard for us to admit, regardless of the amount of evidence we&#x27;re confronted with.</text></item><item><author>edanm</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty well known that Assange has a vendetta against Hillary Clinton. Just searching for Assange Clinton on Google brings up lots of articles on the subject.</text></item><item><author>joshuaheard</author><text>I don&#x27;t think Assange is a partisan. He&#x27;s Australian after all and has no stake in this election. I think he is releasing info on Hillary because that is what he has and is timing the release for maximum public exposure. If he had similar info on Trump, I firmly believe he would be doing the same thing.</text></item><item><author>HillRat</author><text>On the other hand, &quot;state actor&quot; could certainly refer to Ecuador deciding to turn off Assange&#x27;s access. WikiLeaks tends to be fairly economical with the truth about its own operations, so being purposefully ambiguous isn&#x27;t anything new for them.<p>And, while Ecuador hasn&#x27;t had to deal with meaningful diplomatic repercussions from sheltering Assange, the high-profile role WL is taking in the 2016 elections, and specifically the partisan and selective nature of their leaks, means that Ecuador is dealing with a very different qualitative situation than when WL was acting as an impartial if indiscriminate journalistic source.<p>In other words, Quito may very well be looking at the situation and deciding that being implicated in attempts to manipulate the US election is way more trouble than it&#x27;s worth.</text></item><item><author>mikeash</author><text>They can&#x27;t possibly isolate it to just Assange, so it must be the whole embassy.<p>My money is on this being an errant backhoe or similar, and Assange is just turning it into a big deal because he can.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>- Is the whole embassy shut down?<p>- Is there any direct reason for the timing (US elections, attack on Mosul or other current headlines)?<p>- Was there any imminent release? (last week there was an announcement of a leak but it didn&#x27;t materialize as far as I know)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;4&#x2F;13159914&#x2F;wikileaks-hillary-clinton-julian-assange-google" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;4&#x2F;13159914&#x2F;wikileaks-hillary...</a><p>- You&#x27;d assume that Wikileaks the organization will continue to work even without Assange having internet access so what exactly will this accomplish other than lending support to Assange&#x27;s stated reasons for hiding in an embassy to begin with?<p>edit: another comment here suggests the reason may be because his extradition is imminent.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;4532984&#x2F;wikileaks-julian-assange-theories&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;4532984&#x2F;wikileaks-julian-assange-theories&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37680411</url></story> |
5,051,320 | 5,051,318 | 1 | 3 | 5,051,159 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cryptoz</author><text>&#62; People who espouse environmental deregulation should go check it out.<p>This is a very interesting comment. Right now in Canada, we have a Conservative majority government that is absolutely hell-bent on environmental deregulation. Their supporters almost exclusively bring up China as the primary reason why environmental deregulation is so important to them ("if we kept our existing regulations, our economy would tank since China would make so much more money").<p>I very much doubt seeing the skies in Beijing would change anything, but I wonder. Perhaps a campaign in Canada to show images of what China is like would make a difference; on the other hand, the supporters of the environmental deregulation are not the type of people to care about air quality. They value a "strong economy" and money above absolutely everything else, and think that Canada needs to pollute more and more, as much as it can in fact, in order to be a reasonable country in the future.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fnordfnordfnord</author><text>I lived there in '08 and '09. You cannot believe it until you have seen it. The difference during the Olympics was stark. For example, my apartment in Shijingshan had a view of a mountain (~5 mi) and a comm tower (~1 mi). I lived in that apartment for a month before I ever saw either of them. The 'Jing rarely gets full sunlight, rather there is this kind of yellowish lambertian light source in the white-ish gray sky. People who espouse environmental deregulation should go check it out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Scale of 0 to 500, Beijing’s Air Quality Tops ‘Crazy Bad’ at 755 </title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/science/earth/beijing-air-pollution-off-the-charts.html?_r=1&</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fatbird</author><text>I heard that the change during the Olympics was remarkable. How come the actions they took to clean up didn't stick? You would think that when everyone saw the difference, there'd be a lot of support for fixing the underlying problems.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fnordfnordfnord</author><text>I lived there in '08 and '09. You cannot believe it until you have seen it. The difference during the Olympics was stark. For example, my apartment in Shijingshan had a view of a mountain (~5 mi) and a comm tower (~1 mi). I lived in that apartment for a month before I ever saw either of them. The 'Jing rarely gets full sunlight, rather there is this kind of yellowish lambertian light source in the white-ish gray sky. People who espouse environmental deregulation should go check it out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Scale of 0 to 500, Beijing’s Air Quality Tops ‘Crazy Bad’ at 755 </title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/science/earth/beijing-air-pollution-off-the-charts.html?_r=1&</url></story> |
35,122,195 | 35,121,532 | 1 | 3 | 35,119,825 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>idopmstuff</author><text>I&#x27;ll probably get my next paycheck or two, but I&#x27;ll lose my job. You&#x27;re pretty clearly saying here that I should lose my job, along with many other people, because of the bank at which my company&#x27;s cash is stored.<p>&gt; Perhaps they shouldn&#x27;t keep money in the bank in the first place, but find other uses for them.<p>I work at a small startup that&#x27;s raised five million dollars. Not a huge amount of money, but obviously losing all but 250k would be extremely damaging. You&#x27;re talking about concepts of fiscal responsibility here, but then you&#x27;re suggesting that businesses should deploy virtually all of their cash and keeping close to nothing in reserve. Our founders are extremely fiscally prudent and purposely keep a very low burn rate, which is exactly why that money is in the bank instead of being used elsewhere.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tsimionescu</author><text>First of all, even if the company you work for goes bankrupt, you&#x27;re very likely to still receive your salary, as debts to workers are the highest priority in any bankruptcy case. So the risk to workers&#x27; livelihoods is being way overblown. Of course, if a substantial amount of your compensation was company stock, you may lose a lot on that, but that is par for the course with stock.<p>Second of all, the purpose of having a limit to FDIC insured deposits is to limit the government&#x27;s liability in case of bank failures to small-ish depositors. A company thag has millions of dollars to deposit also has more responsibility to evaluate the bank they are depositing in. Perhaps they shouldn&#x27;t keep money in the bank in the first place, but find other uses for them.<p>Note that the true FDIC insurance limit is much larger than the 250k that usually gets cited - since there are various facilities for business accounts which can take that up to a million $ or more (multiple signers on the same account, multiple types of accounts). Should be plenty for most startups to pay their employees&#x27; salary outright, even without going bankrupt.</text></item><item><author>idopmstuff</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty baffled to see so much of this on HN. Like a whole lot of people here, I&#x27;ve worked at startups for my whole career. People here are effectively suggesting that I shouldn&#x27;t get my paycheck and that the company I work for should lose most of its money because our CEO used a well-reputed bank?<p>Absolutely wipe out the equityholders of SVB. They deserve nothing, because that&#x27;s what you should end up with if you own stock in a company that goes bankrupt. Claw back executive pay if that&#x27;s something you can do. But kill a bunch of startups because of their choice of financial institution? I just don&#x27;t get where that comes from.</text></item><item><author>manuelabeledo</author><text>I see a lot of unexpected saltiness and clear misconceptions in any thread about SVB.<p>“Depositors shouldn’t get anything beyond the insured $250,000”. Then what do we do with the billions in remaining assets? Appropriate them, and leave small and mid businesses hanged to dry?<p>“This is a bailout”. It would be if shareholders were to get their money back, which doesn’t seem likely. The government will use the bank assets to make customers, not owners, whole.<p><i>Generic screeching against the tech world</i>. I get the schaudenfreude, but this will not hurt big tech and VCs as much as tens of thousands of small businesses, and the people employed at them. Some billionaires will be upset at some relatively insignificant losses, while hundreds of thousands may lose their jobs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/6a77d81b-7376-4ccf-80a2-3336af04d04b?shareType=nongift</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phamilton</author><text>&gt; So the risk to workers&#x27; livelihoods is being way overblown<p>If this were 2015 I would agree. But it&#x27;s 2023 and thousands of software engineers are already struggling to find work after layoffs. Companies shutting down en masse because of SVB will soften what is already an employer&#x27;s market for talent.<p>This may hurt specific founders and VCs a lot, but total damages (in the form of a softer market for engineers) may hurt the average employee more, even if they aren&#x27;t directly affected.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tsimionescu</author><text>First of all, even if the company you work for goes bankrupt, you&#x27;re very likely to still receive your salary, as debts to workers are the highest priority in any bankruptcy case. So the risk to workers&#x27; livelihoods is being way overblown. Of course, if a substantial amount of your compensation was company stock, you may lose a lot on that, but that is par for the course with stock.<p>Second of all, the purpose of having a limit to FDIC insured deposits is to limit the government&#x27;s liability in case of bank failures to small-ish depositors. A company thag has millions of dollars to deposit also has more responsibility to evaluate the bank they are depositing in. Perhaps they shouldn&#x27;t keep money in the bank in the first place, but find other uses for them.<p>Note that the true FDIC insurance limit is much larger than the 250k that usually gets cited - since there are various facilities for business accounts which can take that up to a million $ or more (multiple signers on the same account, multiple types of accounts). Should be plenty for most startups to pay their employees&#x27; salary outright, even without going bankrupt.</text></item><item><author>idopmstuff</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty baffled to see so much of this on HN. Like a whole lot of people here, I&#x27;ve worked at startups for my whole career. People here are effectively suggesting that I shouldn&#x27;t get my paycheck and that the company I work for should lose most of its money because our CEO used a well-reputed bank?<p>Absolutely wipe out the equityholders of SVB. They deserve nothing, because that&#x27;s what you should end up with if you own stock in a company that goes bankrupt. Claw back executive pay if that&#x27;s something you can do. But kill a bunch of startups because of their choice of financial institution? I just don&#x27;t get where that comes from.</text></item><item><author>manuelabeledo</author><text>I see a lot of unexpected saltiness and clear misconceptions in any thread about SVB.<p>“Depositors shouldn’t get anything beyond the insured $250,000”. Then what do we do with the billions in remaining assets? Appropriate them, and leave small and mid businesses hanged to dry?<p>“This is a bailout”. It would be if shareholders were to get their money back, which doesn’t seem likely. The government will use the bank assets to make customers, not owners, whole.<p><i>Generic screeching against the tech world</i>. I get the schaudenfreude, but this will not hurt big tech and VCs as much as tens of thousands of small businesses, and the people employed at them. Some billionaires will be upset at some relatively insignificant losses, while hundreds of thousands may lose their jobs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/6a77d81b-7376-4ccf-80a2-3336af04d04b?shareType=nongift</url></story> |
36,848,422 | 36,848,426 | 1 | 3 | 36,847,133 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewl</author><text>Pikchr was created by the same small group that did SQLite, and it is what creates the SQLite diagrams like the ones on this page:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;lang_select.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;lang_select.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation</title><url>https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/userman.md</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rcarmo</author><text>This is amazing, considering that I can&#x27;t really use Mermaid because of its puppeteer&#x2F;headless browser requirement, and that the documentation is written in... itself.<p>I&#x27;m going to see if there is a Python wrapper for it already, or try to hack one up over the weekend...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation</title><url>https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/userman.md</url></story> |
33,442,261 | 33,441,875 | 1 | 2 | 33,437,419 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agilob</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using pyroscope oss for about a year now. It&#x27;s more mature, supports more agents, but isn&#x27;t as interactive as Phlare. It integrates with Promethues and Grafana. No complaints, it&#x27;s pretty good.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pyroscope.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pyroscope.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;</a><p>Edit:<p>Just tried to run it in Grafana, but it&#x27;s not easy. Datasource for Phlare is not in a stable grafana image:<p><pre><code> --set image.repository=aocenas&#x2F;grafana \
--set image.tag=profiling-ds-2 \
</code></pre>
flamegraph plugin is in beta behind feature flag<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grafana.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;grafana&#x2F;next&#x2F;panels-visualizations&#x2F;visualizations&#x2F;flame-graph&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grafana.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;grafana&#x2F;next&#x2F;panels-visualizations&#x2F;...</a><p>&gt;Note: This panel is currently in beta &amp; behind the flameGraph feature toggle.<p>With these two issues in mind, announcement of this product feels a bit rushed just to show it during ObservabilityCON, when I can&#x27;t run it locally with stable images and plugins. I hope to see it release in mainstream repos soon!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Phlare: open-source database for continuous profiling at scale</title><url>https://grafana.com/blog/2022/11/02/announcing-grafana-phlare-oss-continuous-profiling-database/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>candiddevmike</author><text>Why can&#x27;t one storage thing be used for everything instead of disparate datastores? I need Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, Prometheus for metrics, and now Phlare for profiling. Three of those are using object storage under the covers, why not one datastore to rule them all?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Phlare: open-source database for continuous profiling at scale</title><url>https://grafana.com/blog/2022/11/02/announcing-grafana-phlare-oss-continuous-profiling-database/</url></story> |
26,578,288 | 26,578,082 | 1 | 3 | 26,577,414 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abhinav22</author><text>One of the most unethical companies that I know. Pushes restaurants to the brink of bankruptcy and pays their riders close to nothing. Abusive human rights in third world countries (much worse than how they treat riders in UK and other markets)<p>Tried to manipulate pricing &amp; food choices with various algorithms (hiding restaurants, making them pay for screen estate)<p>Trying to run ghost kitchens and further capture market share &#x2F; margin with poor quality ingredients and misleading advertising (nice photos make it look like a restaurant but it’s some sweat shop instead, likely with unhygienic conditions and slave labor)<p>With the pandemic receeding, I LOVE walking in fresh air and eating fresh food at a restaurant<p>On a general note, the world is so beautiful and needs to be enjoyed in person. All these apps are a cheap and manipulative substitution that really reduce quality of life for many. I’m looking at you Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Deliveroo etc</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More big investors shun Deliveroo over workers' rights</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56515498</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>colesantiago</author><text>This time the big investors (mainly Amazon) and the founder of Deliveroo have actually admitted their intention to sell before they list this stock.<p>Oh and that &#x27;generous&#x27; £50m stock allocation they are offering the public [0] before the majority investors all sell, combined with a heavily loss making company AND the historic employee classification that the supreme court ruled against Uber [1] recently in the UK?<p>Cocktail for a blindingly obvious scam in broad daylight, and they know it. Just look at how $DASH turned out.<p>This is an easy no buy even when the scam has been admitted to the public and retail investors.<p>Take heed this advice.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.altfi.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;7672_deliveroo-ipo-kicks-off-with-50m-primary-bid-deal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.altfi.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;7672_deliveroo-ipo-kicks-off-w...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-56123668" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-56123668</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More big investors shun Deliveroo over workers' rights</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56515498</url></story> |
16,120,940 | 16,120,288 | 1 | 3 | 16,110,711 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vadimberman</author><text>You know, there is at least a dozen chatbot providers who can handle these nonstructured dialogues with multiple entry points, ESPECIALLY with pizza.<p>In fact, the pizza order is the No. 1 scenario looked at by the chatbot providers.
In fact, it was exactly the scenario my old startup took as a case study and the first application we built with it. It could handle the different toppings, the sizes, and more. You could submit all your requests in one move, it would be parsed and sorted into its little slots.<p>The problem? There is only a handful of scenarios similar to the pizza. In most cases in the real world, you have to select from an external database, look at proprietary product names, and more. Another staple of chatbot demos, plane ticketing, only works well when limited to North America (in the English word). Good luck asking for a flight to Kinshasa, Kuala Lumpur, or even Wagga Wagga in Australia.<p>I am not even talking about the switchboards for multiple domains, like in Alexa. These ones only work with &quot;leaky abstraction&quot; (making the user learn magic keywords).<p>Another problem is really stupid. It&#x27;s the availability of the datasets. The funny thing is, ye olde style semantic frameworks fare better than the machine learning ones, because there is not enough data for the machine learning chatbot frameworks, and without it, their mighty capabilities are pretty much the proverbial spherical cow in vacuum. But because the semantic paradigm is not kosher&#x2F;kewl anymore, very few enterprises agree to deploy it.<p>None of that matters though because the users never liked typing a lot. Back in 1980s - 1990s the adventure type computer games switched from (mostly working) command line interface to point-and-click, and very few users objected.<p>My take is, the key is a conversational UI with strong visual feedback. For the pizza scenario above, I would draw icons of cheese and numbers, so that the user can be sure it worked.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>I think the ultimate goal is to make the &quot;acceptable entry points&quot; so numerous and the variety of acceptable wordings so broad that you can approach the assistant with pretty much any goal you have in mind and it&#x27;ll walk you through how to accomplish that.<p>Imagine if this was a realistic conversation with an assistant:<p>&gt; &quot;Hey Google, I&#x27;d like to order a pizza.&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Sure, what kind?&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Let&#x27;s see... cheese, pepperoni, sausage... and maybe some green pepers?&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Alright. What size?&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Hmm, so I need to feed 4 people...&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Sounds like a large?&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Sure, let&#x27;s go with a large.&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Alright. There&#x27;s a Dominos nearby, I can order that for $8.99.&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Sounds good.&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Alright, I&#x27;ve ordered your pizza. Expected delivery in 15 minutes.&quot;<p>No need for the human to understand what the &quot;entry point&quot; is, because you can approach the assistant with pretty much _any_ entry point and it&#x27;ll give you a useful response. We&#x27;re still not there yet, unfortunately, and I think it&#x27;ll be quite a while before we are.</text></item><item><author>tootie</author><text>Chatbots be they voice or text face the same user interface problems that old school command-line interfaces did 20 years ago before windowing GUIs came about. When you start up, you&#x27;re faced with a void. it&#x27;s extremely difficult to convey to users what the acceptable entry points are and how to phrase them to get what you want. The inputs are far more generous than classic command-line world, but it&#x27;s still vague enough to induce paralysis in end users. If I have a bunch of pull-down menus with clear directives on what I can and can&#x27;t do, I&#x27;m going to be productive much more quickly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook’s Virtual Assistant M Is Dead</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-virtual-assistant-m-is-dead-so-are-chatbots/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>Obvious problem is you didn’t order pizza, you ordered Dominos, and your selection is limited to who ever signs a deal with Google or pays them off for top billing.<p>Correcting that means now you’re arguing with Google&#x2F;Alexa&#x2F;Siri, which is an infuriating experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>I think the ultimate goal is to make the &quot;acceptable entry points&quot; so numerous and the variety of acceptable wordings so broad that you can approach the assistant with pretty much any goal you have in mind and it&#x27;ll walk you through how to accomplish that.<p>Imagine if this was a realistic conversation with an assistant:<p>&gt; &quot;Hey Google, I&#x27;d like to order a pizza.&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Sure, what kind?&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Let&#x27;s see... cheese, pepperoni, sausage... and maybe some green pepers?&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Alright. What size?&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Hmm, so I need to feed 4 people...&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Sounds like a large?&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Sure, let&#x27;s go with a large.&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Alright. There&#x27;s a Dominos nearby, I can order that for $8.99.&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Sounds good.&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Alright, I&#x27;ve ordered your pizza. Expected delivery in 15 minutes.&quot;<p>No need for the human to understand what the &quot;entry point&quot; is, because you can approach the assistant with pretty much _any_ entry point and it&#x27;ll give you a useful response. We&#x27;re still not there yet, unfortunately, and I think it&#x27;ll be quite a while before we are.</text></item><item><author>tootie</author><text>Chatbots be they voice or text face the same user interface problems that old school command-line interfaces did 20 years ago before windowing GUIs came about. When you start up, you&#x27;re faced with a void. it&#x27;s extremely difficult to convey to users what the acceptable entry points are and how to phrase them to get what you want. The inputs are far more generous than classic command-line world, but it&#x27;s still vague enough to induce paralysis in end users. If I have a bunch of pull-down menus with clear directives on what I can and can&#x27;t do, I&#x27;m going to be productive much more quickly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook’s Virtual Assistant M Is Dead</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-virtual-assistant-m-is-dead-so-are-chatbots/</url></story> |
32,666,760 | 32,666,843 | 1 | 3 | 32,666,035 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>Hmm, maybe this is a dumb question, but Numpy, Pandas, Scipy, etc are all libraries. Are libraries considered tooling? When I think of tooling, I think of linters, debuggers, IDEs, and so on.<p>I can definitely see why libraries should be written in faster languages, they are used all over the place. And anyway, something Numpy is most importantly an interface to pre-existing high performance libraries (BLAS, LAPACK) which were already written in faster languages.<p>I think it is less obvious that a tooling in the second sense should be written in a lower level language. There&#x27;s the obvious flexibility tradeoff, the fact that a person interested in a linter for a language probably is most familiar with that language.<p>I&#x27;m not familiar with the computational problems in linters. Is getting better CPU performance a huge concern?</text><parent_chain><item><author>cercatrova</author><text>As I mentioned in another comment [0], compiled languages are the future of interpreted languages&#x27; tooling.<p>&gt; <i>Whereas before one might have thought that a language&#x27;s tooling should be written in said language, there might come a time when that&#x27;s too slow, and we instead need to move to faster languages.</i><p>&gt; <i>That&#x27;s what has happened to Python (numpy, pandas, scipy etc are all written in C and simply provide an interface in Python), and now it&#x27;s happening to Javascript as well, with Deno, swc in Rust, Bun in Zig, esbuild in Go, and so on.</i><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32577837" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32577837</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ruff – a fast Python Linter written in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_hl_</author><text>A counterpoint is the typescript compiler, arguably one of the most complex pieces of dynamic language tooling out there. It&#x27;s written in typescript itself, and reasonably fast given that it has to implement a hugely sophisticated type system.<p>This shows that it&#x27;s entirely possible to write fast tooling in dynamic language if you know how to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cercatrova</author><text>As I mentioned in another comment [0], compiled languages are the future of interpreted languages&#x27; tooling.<p>&gt; <i>Whereas before one might have thought that a language&#x27;s tooling should be written in said language, there might come a time when that&#x27;s too slow, and we instead need to move to faster languages.</i><p>&gt; <i>That&#x27;s what has happened to Python (numpy, pandas, scipy etc are all written in C and simply provide an interface in Python), and now it&#x27;s happening to Javascript as well, with Deno, swc in Rust, Bun in Zig, esbuild in Go, and so on.</i><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32577837" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32577837</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ruff – a fast Python Linter written in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff</url></story> |
7,875,627 | 7,875,032 | 1 | 3 | 7,874,289 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mamcx</author><text>Well, the mytho that a developer get a lot of money only fly in USA, maybe?.<p>Outside it? Well, at least in latin america US 5000&#x2F;Year is <i>normal</i>.<p>A lot of good developers I know are clearly below the hour rate one in USA get. We do it because we love to programming, but here is well know that is very hard to be &quot;rich&quot; as a developer.<p>In fact, that is why I quit my job then do my own projects, consulting and freelance: I still not get a lot of money -however, I charge more than a lot of my peers (us 30-40&#x2F;h), but certainly can work with things I like more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jgmmo</author><text>Seemed like an awfully large amount of developers make less than 20 grand.<p>I did some analysis that I think is a little more useful.<p>Compensation &amp; Job =&gt; filtered by &#x27;US only&#x27;, &#x27;not looking for a job&#x27;, and &#x27;provided a job&#x27;.
<a href="https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey-2#workspaces/18770" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statwing.com&#x2F;demos&#x2F;dev-survey-2#workspaces&#x2F;18770</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Results of Stack Overflow survey of 20,000 developers</title><url>https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey-2#workspaces/18726</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matthewbauer</author><text>Are those people all part-time developers? A $20,000 salary would equate to $9.62 per hour given a 40 hour work week. That doesn&#x27;t seem to make since for a full-time developer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jgmmo</author><text>Seemed like an awfully large amount of developers make less than 20 grand.<p>I did some analysis that I think is a little more useful.<p>Compensation &amp; Job =&gt; filtered by &#x27;US only&#x27;, &#x27;not looking for a job&#x27;, and &#x27;provided a job&#x27;.
<a href="https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey-2#workspaces/18770" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statwing.com&#x2F;demos&#x2F;dev-survey-2#workspaces&#x2F;18770</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Results of Stack Overflow survey of 20,000 developers</title><url>https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey-2#workspaces/18726</url></story> |
15,728,860 | 15,728,828 | 1 | 3 | 15,727,948 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bogomipz</author><text>&gt;&quot;We are a culture obsessed by the how, not the why. A picture of people walking or biking to work does not fit our idea of the &quot;future&quot; as well as one where we ride around in slick glass pods. We have grown custom to doing even the simplest things orders of magnitude less efficient than they need to be.&quot;<p>I disagree with this. Cities have been adding designated bike lanes for years now. And the growth in bike ridership in cities seems to have moved lock-step with this. Using NYC as an example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.citylab.com&#x2F;transportation&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;the-steady-rise-of-bike-ridership-in-new-york&#x2F;390717&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.citylab.com&#x2F;transportation&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;the-steady-ri...</a><p>So clearly a picture of people walking or biking has fit some city planner&#x27;s idea of &quot;future.&quot; The fact that bike lanes continue to be added seems to point to a recognition of their success and place in the future.<p>I think it would be more accurate to say that &quot;A picture of people walking or biking to work&quot; might not fit Google&#x27;s or SV&#x27;s idea of &quot;the future&quot; because it doesn&#x27;t involve collecting data and selling advertising. For example NYC&#x27;s DOT put is putting in the biking lanes. Google(via Sidewalk Labs) converted payphone kiosks ostensibly to provide free internet access. Google provides this in exchange for collecting data and displaying advertising.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jesperlang</author><text>We are a culture obsessed by the <i>how</i>, not the <i>why</i>. A picture of people walking or biking to work does not fit our idea of the &quot;future&quot; as well as one where we ride around in slick glass pods. We have grown custom to doing even the simplest things orders of magnitude less efficient than they need to be.<p>We are also a culture obsessed by image and impression. Look at the image at the top of this article. Images of futurist cities like this drive me nuts, am I looking at a pimped up motherboard or a city where people actually live? What if a sustainable and livable city doesn&#x27;t look very exciting on picture?<p>Cities are complex adaptive <i>social</i> systems that we are nowhere near fully understanding. Formulating a vision of a city with its base in a technological ideal (&quot;smart&quot;) just shows how disconnected you are from reality and how setup you will be for complete failure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-inconvenient-truth-about-smart-cities/#</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>panic</author><text><i>&gt; We are also a culture obsessed by image and impression. Look at the image at the top of this article. Images of futurist cities like this drive me nuts, am I looking at a pimped up motherboard or a city where people actually live? What if a sustainable and livable city doesn&#x27;t look very exciting on picture?</i><p>Jane Jacobs addresses this topic at length in Chapter 19 of <i>The Death and Life of Great American Cities</i>. Here are the first few paragraphs (the whole book is a worthwhile read if you have the chance):<p>-<p><i>When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities.</i> A city cannot be a work of art.<p><i>We need art, in the arrangements of cities as well as in the other realms of life, to help explain life to us, to show us meaning, to illuminate the relationship between the life that each of us embodies and the life outside us. We need art most, perhaps, to reassure us of our own humanity. However, although art and life are interwoven, they are not the same things. Confusion between them is, in part, why efforts at city design are so disappointing. It is important, in arriving at better design strategies and tactics, to clear up this confusion.</i><p><i>Art has its own peculiar forms of order, and they are rigorous. Artists, whatever their medium,</i> make selections <i>from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist. To be sure, the artist has a sense that the demands of the work (i.e., of the selections of material he has made) control him. The rather miraculous result of this process—if the selectivity, the organization and the control are consistent within themselves—can be art. But the essence of this process is disciplined, highly discriminatory selectivity</i> from <i>life. In relation to the inclusiveness and the literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.</i><p><i>To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life.</i><p><i>The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy. In its place, taxidermy can be a useful and decent craft. However, it goes too far when the specimens put on display are exhibitions of dead, stuffed cities.</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>jesperlang</author><text>We are a culture obsessed by the <i>how</i>, not the <i>why</i>. A picture of people walking or biking to work does not fit our idea of the &quot;future&quot; as well as one where we ride around in slick glass pods. We have grown custom to doing even the simplest things orders of magnitude less efficient than they need to be.<p>We are also a culture obsessed by image and impression. Look at the image at the top of this article. Images of futurist cities like this drive me nuts, am I looking at a pimped up motherboard or a city where people actually live? What if a sustainable and livable city doesn&#x27;t look very exciting on picture?<p>Cities are complex adaptive <i>social</i> systems that we are nowhere near fully understanding. Formulating a vision of a city with its base in a technological ideal (&quot;smart&quot;) just shows how disconnected you are from reality and how setup you will be for complete failure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-inconvenient-truth-about-smart-cities/#</url></story> |
8,062,452 | 8,062,176 | 1 | 2 | 8,062,108 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tdicola</author><text>The thing that really shocked me about the Apollo missions was how quickly they jumped from testing the hardware to actual mission to the moon. The _second_ manned launch of Apollo (and _first_ manned launch of the incredible Saturn V rocket) went straight out to the moon and orbited before returning back to Earth! The next missions did a few tests of the lunar lander in space, and the fifth manned mission was Apollo 11 which finally landed. Crazy to think of all the systems, hardware, etc. that just had a couple shakedown flights before the real deal. Incredibly impressive engineering to pull off such a feat without more problems.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013)</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11_40th.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>trothamel</author><text>Perhaps of relevance to Hacker News:<p>Four minutes before the moon landing, the Apollo Guidance Computer began throwing 1202 and 1201 alarms - indicating that it wasn&#x27;t completing its processing loop in time.<p>Here&#x27;s the audio from the flight director and guidance loops, as they troubleshooted the problem in real time, clearing Apollo 11 to land.<p><a href="http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=35230.0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.nasaspaceflight.com&#x2F;index.php?topic=35230.0</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013)</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11_40th.html</url></story> |
26,961,051 | 26,959,569 | 1 | 3 | 26,957,215 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>api</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty rare that I root for a company to crash and burn on principle. I&#x27;m an entrepreneur myself so it takes a lot for me to go there.<p>I hope every single one of these cloud-streamed remote-app or remote-OS plays fails and fails hard. They&#x27;re helping lead the Internet and the computing ecosystem in an even more dystopian direction. I&#x27;ve been happy to see Stadia not really take off.<p>So lets say this succeeds. Then Google or Facebook buys it. Now all your browser sessions including passwords, keys, authentication codes, private messages, etc. are globally visible to be data mined.<p>Who&#x27;s to say they&#x27;re not doing this already?<p>What if this is hacked?<p>This is worse than that Amazon idea of giving Amazon delivery people keys to your house. In the physical world it&#x27;s pretty easy to see people when they come in your front door. In the digital world you have no idea what these people are doing with your data. There is zero situational awareness.</text><parent_chain><item><author>IceWreck</author><text>The Cloud is just someone else&#x27;s computer.<p>As a self hoster, nothing irks me more that more software that takes control from the user to some random third party.<p>And I fail to see why anyone would use this, you need high speed internet capable of streaming 4k for one and if you have access to that, then chances are you also have access to a sufficiently powerful computer capable of running chrome locally.<p>Coming to security, this is a complete disaster. All your traffic including passwords are going to a third party server and you have to trust that server to not do anything shady.<p>This cant be economical either, or will be too expensive.<p>And the testimonial on the website, I find it hard to believe that a CEO of a company cannot afford a powerful computer but can afford a (presumably expensive) subscription service giving them access to a video stream of a browser running on powerful hardware.<p>Like another user said VNC can already do this, and much more without the electron wrapper.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster</title><url>https://www.mightyapp.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>dheera</author><text>I imagine VNC can&#x27;t do this well because it streams pixels with no optimizations other than antiquated compression (it can&#x27;t even match WebRTC screen sharing), and crappy color depth.<p>The idea is interesting for lightweight computers e.g. chromebooks and ultrabooks, but it would irk me a lot to have my browser and personal information running on some other machine that I don&#x27;t control.<p>What I would be super-interested in though is a self-hosted version of Mighty, that I could install on a Linux box anywhere of my choosing. For example, the server runs on my powerful desktop at home, and my ultrabook in the bedroom can be a client.</text><parent_chain><item><author>IceWreck</author><text>The Cloud is just someone else&#x27;s computer.<p>As a self hoster, nothing irks me more that more software that takes control from the user to some random third party.<p>And I fail to see why anyone would use this, you need high speed internet capable of streaming 4k for one and if you have access to that, then chances are you also have access to a sufficiently powerful computer capable of running chrome locally.<p>Coming to security, this is a complete disaster. All your traffic including passwords are going to a third party server and you have to trust that server to not do anything shady.<p>This cant be economical either, or will be too expensive.<p>And the testimonial on the website, I find it hard to believe that a CEO of a company cannot afford a powerful computer but can afford a (presumably expensive) subscription service giving them access to a video stream of a browser running on powerful hardware.<p>Like another user said VNC can already do this, and much more without the electron wrapper.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster</title><url>https://www.mightyapp.com/</url></story> |
37,443,186 | 37,443,213 | 1 | 2 | 37,422,705 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rolae</author><text>People say the title of the article &quot;Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22&quot; is misleading, which is true, this is about Ruby code optimized by JIT outperforming a extension written in C.<p>But to give some context: the author Aaron Patterson is a Ruby and a Rails core team member. The article and headline is clearly targeting the ruby community, where this article has been very well received. I think it&#x27;s a good title for the intended audience.<p>The post clarifies in the first section:<p>&gt; In this post I’d like to present one data point in favor of maintaining a pure Ruby codebase, and then discuss some challenges and downsides of writing native extensions. Finally we’ll look at YJIT optimizations and why they don’t work as well with native code in the mix.<p>edit: added original title of the hackernews post &#x2F; article</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JIT-optimized Ruby can outperform a C extension</title><url>https://railsatscale.com/2023-08-29-ruby-outperforms-c/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chucke</author><text>This article outlines well the paradox that JITs require to be truly more efficient: if more of the target language is available to optimize, it&#x27;ll get waaay more optimized, compared to dropping down to the layer below and try to hand-stitch it.<p>Of course, there is massive overhead in doing so. Just look at go, which had to rewrite practically everything already available in go, and must always require a native implementation (protobuf for example shares the underlying interface across ruby, python, php... but then has a full separate implementation in go, and java I think). And they have the budget for it at least, Google won&#x27;t let go die under the overhead it created for itself.<p>So definitely, write more ruby, enough of those &quot;fast-C gem - rewritten as C extension&quot;, but still keep using low level libraries like libpq.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JIT-optimized Ruby can outperform a C extension</title><url>https://railsatscale.com/2023-08-29-ruby-outperforms-c/</url></story> |
12,429,236 | 12,429,296 | 1 | 2 | 12,428,925 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>The money quote:<p>&gt; &quot;I wish we had put that car on the road and not Tesla,&quot; confided a senior engineer at Porsche. &quot;We have to earn money at the end of the day though.&quot;<p>The article also talks about &quot;how will the German brands win back customers from Tesla?&quot;, but really, if you look at cars like the Mercedes S-class, BMW 7 series or the Audi A8, their sales are unchanged or even increasing since 2012 when the Model S was launched. Audi has been setting record sales numbers in the US, which is Tesla&#x27;s biggest market, for five years straight. So it&#x27;s a bit hard to argue Tesla has taken many of their customers.<p>Maybe most Tesla drivers were never petrolheads in the first place, and drove a boring station wagon before the Model S came along?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants</title><url>http://www.autonews.com/article/20160905/OEM05/309059949/tesla-envy-grips-germanys-giants</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>urlwolf</author><text>Bosch, a German company that serves the auto manufacturers, seems to have bought patents on a battery technology that could be a breakthrough. Remember that &#x27;the German way&#x27; of doing business is not to make noise at all. There have been entire German companies operating without marketing and sales departments, and there still are.<p>I live in Germany.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants</title><url>http://www.autonews.com/article/20160905/OEM05/309059949/tesla-envy-grips-germanys-giants</url></story> |
30,187,226 | 30,186,347 | 1 | 2 | 30,177,362 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bmurphy1976</author><text>All my lights have a physical switch or button. The smarts come in subtle ways:<p>1. Turn lights on 45 minutes BEFORE sunset at any time of year<p>2. Turn lights on and off at specific times, automatically adjust for Daylight Savings Time (I&#x27;ll never have to listen to my wife complain about the lights needing adjustment again)<p>3. Start warming up&#x2F;cooling off my house BEFORE I get home from vacation<p>4. Double click a button in my Family Room to put my whole house into Movie mode<p>5. Some of my buttons are also temperature sensors. This gives me the ability to monitor the temperature of parts of my home very closely. I&#x27;ve had some struggles with our boiler this winter and we also had the insulation redone in our attic. Instead of relying on anecdotes, I have actual concrete data that I can use to make decisions and gauge the effectiveness of various mitigation strategies.<p>6. Put hard stops on devices (such as TVs or connected network devices) (i.e. turn the TV power off at my children&#x27;s bed time).<p>7. Monitor my garage door and notify if it&#x27;s open too long or if it&#x27;s been left open accidentally at night.<p>8. Fans!! I can turn my ceiling fans on and off based on a variety of triggers (temperature, time, etc). I hate having the fans off but my wife can&#x27;t sleep with the fan on. Now the problem is solved and we don&#x27;t even think about it anymore, the fan runs on a schedule.<p>One of my next big projects will be to automate the opening and closing of our front window blinds. They are in an inconvenient place and are difficult to get to, but I really like to have light coming in during the day but have them closed at night.<p>There&#x27;s more but I tire writing this. I hope I made the point. None of this is revolutionary or changes any existing behavior (all the buttons&#x2F;switches we had previously work same as they always did). But boy does it make some things a lot more convenient.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomxor</author><text>Unless it magically cleans and tidies everything I really don&#x27;t see the appeal of home automation. Pressing a switch is far more convenient to me when walking into a room than fishing out a smartphone - whether it be through a raspberry pi or otherwise. Same with central heating, I rarely need to adjust it and I don&#x27;t see the appeal of messing around with some integrated interface, i&#x27;d rather an old fashioned radiator dial or an independent reliable digital central heating timer I might have to tweak for 2 mins once a year.<p>None of these things are analogous to the TV remote control, there&#x27;s a reason why we haven&#x27;t seen similar precursors such as radiator switches on extension cords, we don&#x27;t need to constantly adjust these things at high frequency... and when we do, we are literally walking past it (light switch).<p>&lt;&#x2F;rant&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi</title><url>https://pragprog.com/titles/mrpython/portable-python-projects/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>testmasterflex</author><text>100% agree on this. There are very few things I want to do on a daily basis from my phone instead of from a physical switch. One exception is controlling my bedroom lights which I do with Hue lights from my bed.<p>The other thing I want to automate is music to start playing when I enter the bathroom, to give me privacy in there when my girlfriend is home. And that’s the startup I’m working on: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;Loodio.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;Loodio.com</a> since there are no other solutions for it out there (that aren’t crap)</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomxor</author><text>Unless it magically cleans and tidies everything I really don&#x27;t see the appeal of home automation. Pressing a switch is far more convenient to me when walking into a room than fishing out a smartphone - whether it be through a raspberry pi or otherwise. Same with central heating, I rarely need to adjust it and I don&#x27;t see the appeal of messing around with some integrated interface, i&#x27;d rather an old fashioned radiator dial or an independent reliable digital central heating timer I might have to tweak for 2 mins once a year.<p>None of these things are analogous to the TV remote control, there&#x27;s a reason why we haven&#x27;t seen similar precursors such as radiator switches on extension cords, we don&#x27;t need to constantly adjust these things at high frequency... and when we do, we are literally walking past it (light switch).<p>&lt;&#x2F;rant&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi</title><url>https://pragprog.com/titles/mrpython/portable-python-projects/</url></story> |
15,182,635 | 15,182,732 | 1 | 2 | 15,182,478 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>code4tee</author><text>IBM has some OK offerings but they&#x27;ve really screwed themselves with all this hyped up marketing around Watson. They&#x27;ve become somewhat of a joke within the real data science community and business executives are also increasingly becoming disillusioned when projects based on IBMs mystery black boxes fail to deliver.<p>The MD Anderson situation was a debacle of monumental proportions. Such claims on cancer care are quite unethical in my view given that it gave a lot of very sick people false hopes and diverted a lot of hospital attention and funding away from stuff that actually works.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IBM pitched Watson as a revolution in cancer care, but it’s nowhere close</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/05/watson-ibm-cancer/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yread</author><text>&gt; On a recent morning, the results for a 73-year-old lung cancer patient were underwhelming: Watson recommended a chemotherapy regimen the oncologists had already flagged.<p>&gt; “It’s fine,” Dr. Sujal Shah, a medical oncologist, said of Watson’s treatment suggestion while discussing the case with colleagues.<p>&gt; He said later that the background information Watson provided, including medical journal articles, was helpful, giving him more confidence that using a specific chemotherapy was a sound idea. But the system did not directly help him make that decision, nor did it tell him anything he didn’t already know.<p>I don&#x27;t know, that doesn&#x27;t sound bad at all. Perhaps it&#x27;s just a case of overhyping. But if a computer can do recommend the same treatment as an expensive oncologist with years of training that&#x27;s actually pretty good!<p>On the other hand it is quite baffling why doesn&#x27;t FDA require a clinical trial or any independent review of its capabilities before allowing its use in clinic. It&#x27;s a bit like Boeing certifying its own planes, I guess.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IBM pitched Watson as a revolution in cancer care, but it’s nowhere close</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/05/watson-ibm-cancer/</url></story> |
4,953,872 | 4,952,627 | 1 | 2 | 4,952,128 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zedshaw</author><text>Hey @mwargh could you email me at [email protected]? I got awesome goodies for you.<p>I ended up completely redoing the LxTHW base structure and converted all my books to it, but I haven't got around to updating the repo with the new gear. If you email me I'll hook you up with the latest.<p>The new gear uses dexy (<a href="http://dexy.it" rel="nofollow">http://dexy.it</a>) still, but uses all the features of the newer dexy and switches to rST intead of latex. I also have a converter that converts from the old latex structure pretty well. The results are much easier to host and convert to pdf, mobi, epub, html, etc. and easier to write.<p>So, contact me (or anyone looking to do one of these).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Learn Linux The Hard Way (β version)</title><url>http://nixsrv.com/llthw</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cowboyhero</author><text>Love the idea, the context, and the execution. It's a great project. Not a fan of the name.<p>Zed Shaw has a well-established series of "Learn $topic the Hard Way" online books, with Addison Wesley publishing a 3rd edition of his "Learn Python the Hard Way" this spring. He is building a brand and a business around this name.<p>I'd be surprised to learn that "Learn ... the Hard Way" isn't trademarked, but even if it isn't, it strikes me as disingenuous, misleading, and potentially confusing to name your work after his.<p>As far as I can tell, Mr Shaw has nothing to do with this project, but then the "Learn Linux the Hard Way" name might, to some, imply that he does.<p>Edited to add: I do not have a dog in this fight, just pointing out a potential conflict.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Learn Linux The Hard Way (β version)</title><url>http://nixsrv.com/llthw</url></story> |
6,971,793 | 6,971,785 | 1 | 2 | 6,971,454 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chris_mahan</author><text>I&#x27;ve reached the conclusion that in order to receive constitutional protection of &quot;my papers&quot;, they need to be &quot;on paper&quot;. So, I essentially don&#x27;t put anything on the internet, or even on my computer, unless I&#x27;m comfortable with it being on the internet, permanently (meaning until my great-grandchildren retire, in 120 years).<p>for reference, the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States:<p>&quot;The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.&quot;<p>I would like to think that &quot;papers&quot; in the text would also refer to electronic documents, but alas that seems to not be the case.<p>This is one of those cases where the saying &quot;In Theory, Practice and Theory are the same, but in practice they&#x27;re not.&quot; seems to fit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>noarchy</author><text>Those of you who want a political answer to this surveillance problem should pay attention when these things happen. This is your system, in a nutshell. The legislators, judges, law enforcement officials, etc, are all in on this. Don&#x27;t wait for the president or prime minister to change things. That won&#x27;t happen. You&#x27;ll have to take your security into your own hands to the greatest extent possible. This will including learning to adapt once your government inevitably outlaws your favourite means of protecting your security and privacy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/us/nsa-phone-surveillance-is-lawful-federal-judge-rules.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>sanderjd</author><text>This actually looks more like the system <i>working</i> to me. There are now two important judges who disagree in their interpretation of the issue. The system failed when this was kept secret such that it could not be ruled on by the legal system (and I don&#x27;t believe a &quot;secret court&quot; is a part of a &quot;legal system&quot;), but now that it is being ruled on, it&#x27;s expected and proper that judges may disagree.</text><parent_chain><item><author>noarchy</author><text>Those of you who want a political answer to this surveillance problem should pay attention when these things happen. This is your system, in a nutshell. The legislators, judges, law enforcement officials, etc, are all in on this. Don&#x27;t wait for the president or prime minister to change things. That won&#x27;t happen. You&#x27;ll have to take your security into your own hands to the greatest extent possible. This will including learning to adapt once your government inevitably outlaws your favourite means of protecting your security and privacy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/us/nsa-phone-surveillance-is-lawful-federal-judge-rules.html</url></story> |
28,247,042 | 28,246,674 | 1 | 2 | 28,245,907 | train | <instructions>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>Apps <i>can</i> change behaviors to preserve battery life though. Things like disabling prefetching will likely reduce radio time and thus preserve battery.<p>Delaying maintenance can help too, and that also helps reduce occurances of power failed during complex data operation and the resulting difficulties of resuming from a partial operation when the state may not have been fully persisted at any point, because filesystems and abrupt power loss don&#x27;t tend to go so well together.</text><parent_chain><item><author>angrygoat</author><text>I struggle to see a legitimate reason for an app to be able to access battery level. It&#x27;s pretty unlikely that app is going to change behaviour to preserve battery life – that&#x27;s probably better handled by the OS slowing things down. Better to simply deny the app this information.</text></item><item><author>jadengeller</author><text>There are APIs for this.<p>iOS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;uikit&#x2F;uidevice&#x2F;1620042-batterylevel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;uikit&#x2F;uidevice&#x2F;162...</a><p>Android: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.android.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;android&#x2F;os&#x2F;BatteryManager" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.android.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;android&#x2F;os&#x2F;BatteryMa...</a></text></item><item><author>Kranar</author><text>This should not be something that alleged without evidence. It would be trivial to take multiple phones with different battery levels and compare the prices. You could also vary the distance between the phones. Furthermore, and I could be wrong on this, I don&#x27;t recall there being any API to get the battery life remaining.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber prices seem to increase when phone battery is low</title><url>https://twitter.com/NerdyAndNatural/status/1427614996738068485</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gregoriol</author><text>First things first: you could develop a custom interface within your app, think of games for example, to show the battery level, or simply an icon when it&#x27;s low, in a specific way instead of the system&#x27;s style.<p>Then, depending on what your app does, you can act on a few things to reduce, or not, battery usage when it gets below some thresholds: reduce GPS precision, remove some animations, limit framerate, make less networking requests, ... It could be limited by the system, but it would probably not be as wise regarding to what is important in the context of one app vs another.<p>We have numerous cases where we adapt to the battery level so the user can get the best of our apps and not empty their battery while they still need it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>angrygoat</author><text>I struggle to see a legitimate reason for an app to be able to access battery level. It&#x27;s pretty unlikely that app is going to change behaviour to preserve battery life – that&#x27;s probably better handled by the OS slowing things down. Better to simply deny the app this information.</text></item><item><author>jadengeller</author><text>There are APIs for this.<p>iOS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;uikit&#x2F;uidevice&#x2F;1620042-batterylevel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;uikit&#x2F;uidevice&#x2F;162...</a><p>Android: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.android.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;android&#x2F;os&#x2F;BatteryManager" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.android.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;android&#x2F;os&#x2F;BatteryMa...</a></text></item><item><author>Kranar</author><text>This should not be something that alleged without evidence. It would be trivial to take multiple phones with different battery levels and compare the prices. You could also vary the distance between the phones. Furthermore, and I could be wrong on this, I don&#x27;t recall there being any API to get the battery life remaining.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber prices seem to increase when phone battery is low</title><url>https://twitter.com/NerdyAndNatural/status/1427614996738068485</url></story> |
5,095,338 | 5,095,363 | 1 | 2 | 5,095,293 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bgentry</author><text><i>I’ve come to the conclusion that Heroku must be using adaptive processes to sandbag us. For example, to save on their resources, they must be creating static caches of the pages which are being requested from these cron pings. They could avoid loading my whole app back into memory with a trick like this. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I see no other way for these pings to be successful and my app to still have bad initial load times when it is not visited for a while.</i><p>You are incorrect. We idle single-dyno apps that have not recently received requests. We do no caching, unless you are running an old bamboo app and are therefore going through varnish. See <a href="https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-idling" rel="nofollow">https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-idling</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Heroku shouldn’t be sandbagging paying customers who have low-traffic apps</title><url>http://blog.3solarmasses.com/post/41164909691/heroku-shouldnt-be-sandbagging-paying-customers-who</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>redguava</author><text>Heroku don't hide this, it's in their documentation <a href="https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-idling" rel="nofollow">https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-idling</a>.<p>Imagine how many free apps are created that are never used again. Should Heroku really devote resources to these apps? I think it's perfectly reasonable to idle them after a period of inactivity. If they didn't, they would need more resources and ultimately the customers would be paying for that. They aren't a charity, they are a business.<p>It's pretty simple, if you don't want your app to idle out after 1 hour of inactivity, buy a dyno for $35 p/month.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Heroku shouldn’t be sandbagging paying customers who have low-traffic apps</title><url>http://blog.3solarmasses.com/post/41164909691/heroku-shouldnt-be-sandbagging-paying-customers-who</url><text></text></story> |
27,235,950 | 27,236,305 | 1 | 2 | 27,235,531 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>olivermarks</author><text>I think it is a good thing overall. I remember the furor when McDonalds opened on the Champs Elysee. Let&#x27;s be honest, identical globalist fast food plastic frontages ruin the uniqueness of places. Airports are the ultimate example, you can fly 1000&#x27;s of mile and get off a plane to an airport that is virtually identical to the one you left. This is culturally banal and slowly visually homogenizing the world. The result is insane amounts of tourists heading to the few unique places left in search of differentiation</text><parent_chain><item><author>joshuaheard</author><text>I lived in France for several years, and I find it somewhat amusing how protective France is of their culture. They limit the number of foreign restaurant chains like McDonalds and Chipotle. They are protective of their language. The French dinner meal (&quot;repas&quot;) is a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landmark. This &quot;culture pass&quot; is consistent with the French people&#x27;s love of all things French.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France's 18-year-olds given €300 culture pass</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57198737</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Throwaway371893</author><text>I find it quite sad to see comments like this on HN. Is it amusing to you to see countries trying to protect themselves from absorption by the anglosphere (culturally)? That&#x27;s how I read your comment - I hope I am wrong though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joshuaheard</author><text>I lived in France for several years, and I find it somewhat amusing how protective France is of their culture. They limit the number of foreign restaurant chains like McDonalds and Chipotle. They are protective of their language. The French dinner meal (&quot;repas&quot;) is a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landmark. This &quot;culture pass&quot; is consistent with the French people&#x27;s love of all things French.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France's 18-year-olds given €300 culture pass</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57198737</url></story> |
17,665,421 | 17,665,390 | 1 | 3 | 17,664,948 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>everdev</author><text>Having owned a 20+ person services business I can tell you that the paperwork&#x2F;taxes&#x2F;regulations around employees was frustrating. Yes, you can outsource this stuff, but why make it so complicated? Added to that, it was a virtual company with employees in 10+ states, it was a nightmare.<p>It&#x27;s comparatively much easier to just pay a contractor a higher hourly rate and let them pick their own health care, retirement, time off policy, etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The End of Employees</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-end-of-employees-1486050443</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dv_dt</author><text>I predict that at some point some of these highly outsourced companies will face competition from a former internal &quot;contracting&quot; company (or sets of them) that have been doing substantial portions of the direct work.<p>If a company has fewer and fewer essential &quot;walls&quot; separating what they do at the core vs a possible competitor the risk goes up. If one categorizes a peripheral competency as something that should have been in-house then the company becomes at risk of getting quickly subsumed by a competition hiring contractors that the prime company originally trained. And it might not show up for a while unless some assumption shifts - in the meantime the short term profits might look pretty good.<p>Another risk might be the collapse or disruption at a contracted company where you have less control.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The End of Employees</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-end-of-employees-1486050443</url></story> |
3,559,520 | 3,559,034 | 1 | 2 | 3,558,618 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>"With Storm, I distilled the realtime computation problem domain into a small set of abstractions: streams, spouts, bolts, and topologies. I devised a new algorithm for guaranteeing data processing that eliminated the need for intermediate message brokers, the part of our system that caused the most complexity and suffering."<p>As someone who has gone through the storm source in very fine detail, let me tell you how he did this. He hashed each tuple that needed to be processed then XOR'd it into a variable that started at a value of zero.<p>When the piece that needed to be processed was complete it would get XOR'd back into the variable. Once the variable hit 0 he knew everything was done! Pretty neat if you ask me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Suffering-oriented programming</title><url>http://nathanmarz.com/blog/suffering-oriented-programming.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>csl_</author><text>The biggest problem I have with this approach (and believe me, I love this approach), is that it makes it hard to finish things.<p>For example, over Christmas, I built a small pretend-natural-language CLI controller for iTunes. I made a working version in something like four hours, spent a few days adding in crazy half-thought-out features like speech recognition and a web interface - and then I basically stopped development.<p>I didn't stop development because it got boring - I stopped development because I'd solved my own problem. Not beautifully (certainly not from a coding perspective), not efficiently, but the problem I had was solved.<p>The problem, then, is that once the "suffering" is gone, or sufficiently lessened, there is no real reason to keep building.<p>(oddly, my password for my old account no longer seems to work. I was hebejebelus)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Suffering-oriented programming</title><url>http://nathanmarz.com/blog/suffering-oriented-programming.html</url></story> |
31,900,367 | 31,895,973 | 1 | 2 | 31,895,410 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MrFoof</author><text>Exactly this. One of the bigger “fans” of them — Gordon Murray — is actually producing a road legal one. The T.50, which is Gordon Murray’s attempt to “revisit” the McLaren F1 and do everything he couldn’t do (or hadn’t yet realized was possible) back in the 1990s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;NT8PMXCMrsM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;NT8PMXCMrsM</a><p>For those who aren’t aware, Harry Metcalfe was the founder of EVO magazine and had an outsized behind the scenes influence of Top Gear’s new format in the early 2000s. While Gordon sticks to some of his script, the two get VERY nerdy at points digging into all sorts of non-obvious minutiae and detail. 53 minutes is a lot, but by far it’s the best interview about the car by a large margin.<p>Harry is also a very big EV and renewable electricity nerd, and loves digging into those topics with tons of research.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jccalhoun</author><text>I&#x27;m no expert on cars but according to this article it seems like a &quot;fan car&quot; uses fans to pull air in from under the car to create down force rather than as a primary means of propulsion. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2022&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;watch-electric-fan-car-record-goodwood-hill-climb&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2022&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;watch-electric-fan-car-record...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electric fan car shatters the Goodwood hill climb record</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/watch-an-electric-fan-car-shatter-the-goodwood-hill-climb-record</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eptcyka</author><text>That&#x27;s exactly right, the term usually refers to cars that use fans to generate vacuum for better grip rather than propulsion to go faster. Cars today can easily go super fast in a straight line, the hard bit is putting that power down in corners.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jccalhoun</author><text>I&#x27;m no expert on cars but according to this article it seems like a &quot;fan car&quot; uses fans to pull air in from under the car to create down force rather than as a primary means of propulsion. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2022&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;watch-electric-fan-car-record-goodwood-hill-climb&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2022&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;watch-electric-fan-car-record...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electric fan car shatters the Goodwood hill climb record</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/watch-an-electric-fan-car-shatter-the-goodwood-hill-climb-record</url></story> |
11,013,751 | 11,013,050 | 1 | 2 | 11,012,257 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wnscooke</author><text>I&#x27;ve used <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elgg.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elgg.org&#x2F;</a> and enjoyed it. I&#x27;ve also fiddled with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.humhub.org&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.humhub.org&#x2F;en</a>. Self-hosted!</text><parent_chain><item><author>ritonlajoie</author><text>Nice use of slack.<p>Side question : anybody here using some sort of hosted family social network ? I&#x27;m thinking about doing that. We have a huge family (around 200 alive members who are connected in real life) and thought about installing something, with a facebook&#x2F;g+ login with oauth. I thought about maybe a wordpress + budypress thing but.. maybe I&#x27;m missing something better ?
The first requirement is that anybody must select his parents, so that an ancestry tree can be created, etc...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we use Slack in our family</title><url>http://labs.earthpeople.se/2016/02/my-family-uses-slack/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chappi42</author><text>&gt; Side question<p>what about sandstorm.io, rocket chat (and there are more apps which may fit) ?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ritonlajoie</author><text>Nice use of slack.<p>Side question : anybody here using some sort of hosted family social network ? I&#x27;m thinking about doing that. We have a huge family (around 200 alive members who are connected in real life) and thought about installing something, with a facebook&#x2F;g+ login with oauth. I thought about maybe a wordpress + budypress thing but.. maybe I&#x27;m missing something better ?
The first requirement is that anybody must select his parents, so that an ancestry tree can be created, etc...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we use Slack in our family</title><url>http://labs.earthpeople.se/2016/02/my-family-uses-slack/</url></story> |
32,160,728 | 32,159,766 | 1 | 3 | 32,158,090 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chadash</author><text>A revolving line of credit with a bank. Basically, bank says you have (to make up some numbers) revenues of $15,000,000&#x2F;year and profits of $5,000,000, so we think it would be pretty safe to lend you <i>up to</i> say $1,000,000 that you can borrow whenever you want to run your business and you&#x27;ll pay it down on some agreed upon interest rate (which is likely not fixed, but some percentage over prime rate[1]). Notably, you don&#x27;t <i>have to</i> borrow, it&#x27;s just available with pretty much no questions asked whenever you need it. Kind of like a credit card, but with a lower APR. It&#x27;s very commonly used even for profitable businesses since cash inflows often don&#x27;t match expenditure flows, especially if your company is growing.<p>For example, maybe you grew your company a lot this year and ran out of money in November, but a bunch of your customers will be paying you large sums when annual renewals renew in January. You can&#x27;t just not pay employees in December, so you borrow for a month or two in order to smooth over payroll and other expenses and then pay it back in January.<p>Typically, a revolving line-of-credit is going to help with month-to-month expenses, but won&#x27;t be enough to massively grow your business. For example, if you are a startup, a bank won&#x27;t give you nearly as much money as a VC, but at the same time, you probably don&#x27;t want to give up equity in your company every time you are temporarily behind on payroll. If you are a very large and established company, you&#x27;ll likely have other, cheaper ways of getting money for your day-to-day business. For example, Commercial Paper is basically a short term bond issued by large well-known and creditworthy companies that need to smooth over payroll and other operational expenses. But by the time you are doing things like that, you probably have an entire corporate finance department handling these sorts of things. A revolving line-of-credit is much simpler.<p>[1] prime rate is the interest rate that big banks can borrow at which is typically lower than what <i>you</i> can borrow at. They&#x27;ll borrow at rate Y and charge you rate Y+Z.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mannymanman</author><text>What is a revolver?</text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>To those saying this is boring, there are some interesting tidbits, like this one:<p>&gt; <i>Should we decide to pursue an acquisition of Ring, we will need to move quickly.</i> [redacted] <i>and in order to pre-empt the closing of the Series E round, we will likely need to commit to making an investment</i> [redacted] <i>that converts into the next round of funding should we fail to close the acquisition. This may be required for two reasons: (i) Ring needs to raise capital by the end of the year, otherwise they will have to fund all of their Q4 with their revolver (projected to draw down $32MM by the end of November), and (ii) we will have to put some skin in the game to get them to walk away from the Series E investment.</i><p>It&#x27;s useful to know how potential acquirers see transactions, and what they might be willing to do to get you to walk away from another opportunity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon memo: Here’s why we should acquire Ring (2017)</title><url>https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1549489359459454976</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>berberous</author><text>In case the other answers are not obvious enough, a term loan is borrowed once; you borrow $X, and the pay it back before the end of the term. A revolver for $X can be tapped and repaid many times, so long as the total borrowed amounts outstanding at any one time do not exceed $X.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mannymanman</author><text>What is a revolver?</text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>To those saying this is boring, there are some interesting tidbits, like this one:<p>&gt; <i>Should we decide to pursue an acquisition of Ring, we will need to move quickly.</i> [redacted] <i>and in order to pre-empt the closing of the Series E round, we will likely need to commit to making an investment</i> [redacted] <i>that converts into the next round of funding should we fail to close the acquisition. This may be required for two reasons: (i) Ring needs to raise capital by the end of the year, otherwise they will have to fund all of their Q4 with their revolver (projected to draw down $32MM by the end of November), and (ii) we will have to put some skin in the game to get them to walk away from the Series E investment.</i><p>It&#x27;s useful to know how potential acquirers see transactions, and what they might be willing to do to get you to walk away from another opportunity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon memo: Here’s why we should acquire Ring (2017)</title><url>https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1549489359459454976</url></story> |
21,530,713 | 21,530,219 | 1 | 2 | 21,529,548 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buboard</author><text>Wow we were just talking about selling shovels in a (ML) gold rush.<p>Incidentally, what is the open source alternative of this? Data is so cheap that it should be actually free, unlike counterfeit nike shoes.<p>(Does a bittorrent tracker specifically for research data exist? Edit: there&#x27;s <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;academictorrents.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;academictorrents.com&#x2F;</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Data Exchange</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-data-exchange-find-subscribe-to-and-use-data-products/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>exhilaration</author><text>This is nice, but I don&#x27;t see the pricing after the free trials. The Pitney Bowes data [1] they used as an example in linked article only shows $0 for the free trial, not what it&#x27;s going to cost you afterwards. It&#x27;d be nice to know the long term cost before tying this data into your business.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;pp&#x2F;prodview-bwf7mapyyjzom?qid=1573682854054&amp;sr=0-1&amp;ref_=srh_res_product_title" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;pp&#x2F;prodview-bwf7mapyyjzom...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Data Exchange</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-data-exchange-find-subscribe-to-and-use-data-products/</url></story> |
1,673,055 | 1,672,849 | 1 | 2 | 1,672,624 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>btilly</author><text>I've wondered about this. I've worn a 34"-34" pant for the last 20 years, and I know my waist has expanded over that time. It just didn't add up.<p>On fixing the meaning of the sizing, I'm reminded of someone I knew who took a sewing class in highschool. They started with patterns from the 1950s, and despite the teacher warning the students how different the sizings would be, virtually nobody managed to make clothing that they could squeeze into.<p>Personally I think the best solution is to make it a matter of law that the sizing be accurate. Everyone would hear that the sizing changed dramatically, there would be a brief transition, and we'd soon get used to accurate sizes. Drawing it out gradually would force people to keep on relearning their size, and overall would be more disruptive.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are your pants lying to you? An investigation</title><url>http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/pants-size-chart-090710</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Maciek416</author><text>This could present a significant barrier to reliable online shopping for clothes. It'll be interesting to see in the coming years, as more of these retailers offer online ordering (GAP is finally offering their catalog to us Canadians, for example), whether fitting will be normalized somehow, or whether each retailer will instead stick to a specific size translation table as I've seen some places.<p>Either that or someone will have to build a website or tool that aggregates the investigative work for us. I know I'd pay a small premium to eliminate the guesswork.<p>(EDIT: I wish there was a way to OpenID-ify personal body measurements for this purpose so every clothing site I visited could automatically select the best-fitting clothes for me. GAP small/medium t-shirts are wildly different from Threadless' small/medium American Apparel Ts)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are your pants lying to you? An investigation</title><url>http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/pants-size-chart-090710</url></story> |
23,352,680 | 23,350,453 | 1 | 3 | 23,350,120 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kstrauser</author><text>One day I was getting out of my car to carry groceries into my house. Our nice neighbor was passing on the sidewalk at that moment, saw the EFF hat I was wearing, and asked me about it. &quot;Do you work for the EFF?&quot; &quot;No, but I throw some money at them when I can because I like them.&quot; &quot;Oh. I like them, too. They helped me out a lot once.&quot; &quot;Oh yeah? For what?&quot; He laughed. &quot;I&#x27;m Mark Klein. Go Google me when you&#x27;re finished with your groceries.&quot; I knew his story from following it in the news, but didn&#x27;t recognize his name. I about spit my teeth out when I found out who I was living next to.<p>Super nice guy. Has the only two golden retrievers I&#x27;ve ever been frightened of, and if I were him, I&#x27;d probably have some assertive watchdogs, too.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Room 641A</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ericwood</author><text>Mark Klein, the whistleblower for all of this, wrote a great book on his experience that I highly recommend: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;show&#x2F;6625940-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine-and-fighting-it" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;show&#x2F;6625940-wiring-up-the-bi...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Room 641A</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A</url></story> |
22,736,350 | 22,735,840 | 1 | 2 | 22,731,317 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>appleflaxen</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is the right mental model of coding.<p>It seems a bit too similar to the idea that &quot;most people simply cannot read&quot;.<p>We all accept that nobody can read without instruction, practice, and feedback. Why is coding somehow different? If anything, I think reading is <i>more</i> foreign&#x2F;difficult, because coding is explicit thinking, and we all think. Whereas reading is a completely synthetic act that starts with arbitrary symbols that must be memorized by rote before you can even take the next step of using them.<p>None of us start out life being literate, but few people lack the ability to become literate. Why is coding different?</text><parent_chain><item><author>W0lf</author><text>My personal observation (and view of course) is that most people simply cannot code. And I am not talking about that reverse-a-binary-tree or traverse-a-linked-list type of coding, but more profoundly they just cannot wrap their head around a problem and are able to create a <i>sufficient</i> solution with respect to the context of the code and its environment at the same time. Good software development is strongly connected with ones ability to think clearly about any given problem and the ability to logically deconstruct it in smaller, more digestible thoughts. If there&#x27;s confusion in the mind, there probably will be confusion in the code as well.<p>Also, it just seems as if many are unable to step back and look at the broader side of things when coding. Asking questions like: Are we using the right concepts here? Did we develop sufficient abstractions?
Case in point: I was just refactoring a code base for a client where the code was paved with a `MemoryHolder` type, where simply `Buffer` would have been the better name for the same concept.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cognitive Biases in Software Development</title><url>http://smyachenkov.com/posts/cognitive-biases-software-development/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>z3t4</author><text>People think differently and the higher up in the abstraction level, the more diverse it will get. Like for example some people think in shapes and will get crazy if you do not format the code in the same shapes. Others think in words and writes the code as like they where talking to a human. Others have images in their head and doesn&#x27;t really care how the code looks. Some people annotate their code so that it looks like LLVM. Others think of real world items like containers, ships, streams, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>W0lf</author><text>My personal observation (and view of course) is that most people simply cannot code. And I am not talking about that reverse-a-binary-tree or traverse-a-linked-list type of coding, but more profoundly they just cannot wrap their head around a problem and are able to create a <i>sufficient</i> solution with respect to the context of the code and its environment at the same time. Good software development is strongly connected with ones ability to think clearly about any given problem and the ability to logically deconstruct it in smaller, more digestible thoughts. If there&#x27;s confusion in the mind, there probably will be confusion in the code as well.<p>Also, it just seems as if many are unable to step back and look at the broader side of things when coding. Asking questions like: Are we using the right concepts here? Did we develop sufficient abstractions?
Case in point: I was just refactoring a code base for a client where the code was paved with a `MemoryHolder` type, where simply `Buffer` would have been the better name for the same concept.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cognitive Biases in Software Development</title><url>http://smyachenkov.com/posts/cognitive-biases-software-development/</url></story> |
36,602,744 | 36,602,725 | 1 | 2 | 36,602,193 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mostlysimilar</author><text>Here&#x27;s the non-enshittified version of &quot;I don&#x27;t care about cookies&quot;:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;istilldontcareaboutcookies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;istilldontcar...</a><p>Yes, the web is hostile. It&#x27;s frankly incredible we&#x27;re still allowed the power to control our user agents like we do. If the web was built today it would be a locked down nightmare controlled 100% by corporate interests.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RMPR</author><text>&gt; My own extension StopTheMadness stops web sites from disabling your browser&#x27;s built-in paste and autofill features, a kind of madness commonly implemented by sites that have a misguided, ignorant notion about what makes a login form &quot;secure&quot;<p>Now, this is an extension I didn&#x27;t know I needed. I&#x27;m baffled that there are some things without which the web is unusable for me. Looking at my extension list, on Firefox I have:<p>- ClearURLs
- Clickbait remover for YouTube
- Cookie Autodelete
- Firefox Multi-account container
- I don&#x27;t care about cookies (not updated since bought by Avast)
- Privacy badger
- Tampermonkey
- Tridactyl
- uBlock Origin<p>I feel like I&#x27;m pretty conservative with the add-ons that I install, yet I can&#x27;t comfortably browse the web if I&#x27;m missing one of them. When did everything go so wrong?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 115 can remotely disable any extension on any site</title><url>https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/7/1.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>kentrf</author><text>Try Consent-O-Matic instead of IDCAC.<p>It is possible to reject consent instead of blindly accepting them with IDCAC... and also the Avast thing</text><parent_chain><item><author>RMPR</author><text>&gt; My own extension StopTheMadness stops web sites from disabling your browser&#x27;s built-in paste and autofill features, a kind of madness commonly implemented by sites that have a misguided, ignorant notion about what makes a login form &quot;secure&quot;<p>Now, this is an extension I didn&#x27;t know I needed. I&#x27;m baffled that there are some things without which the web is unusable for me. Looking at my extension list, on Firefox I have:<p>- ClearURLs
- Clickbait remover for YouTube
- Cookie Autodelete
- Firefox Multi-account container
- I don&#x27;t care about cookies (not updated since bought by Avast)
- Privacy badger
- Tampermonkey
- Tridactyl
- uBlock Origin<p>I feel like I&#x27;m pretty conservative with the add-ons that I install, yet I can&#x27;t comfortably browse the web if I&#x27;m missing one of them. When did everything go so wrong?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 115 can remotely disable any extension on any site</title><url>https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/7/1.html</url></story> |
33,911,971 | 33,912,117 | 1 | 2 | 33,910,863 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tobr</author><text>&gt; <i>how do i mix two colors (hexadecimal rgb string) in js</i><p>&gt; <i>ANSWER</i><p>&gt; <i>To mix two colors in JavaScript, you can use the color-mix property. This property takes three parameters: the colorspace, the color to be mixed, and the percentage of that color to mix. For example, to mix the colors #FFFFFF and #8FBC8, you would use the following code:</i><p>&gt; <i>let newColor = document.createElement;</i><p>&gt; <i>&#x2F;&#x2F; Outputs: #8FBC8</i><p>This is all just wrong from beginning to end. It seems to be confusing JS and CSS, too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dvh</author><text>It gives answer that vaguely look like answer should look like but all the important details are wrong.<p>&gt; A solar eclipse is a partial eclipse of the Sun caused by a solar coronal mass ejection . A solar coronal mass ejection occurs when Earth passes directly in front of the sun.<p>&gt; You will also need to calculate number of seconds it takes for earth to rotate around the sun which is calculated as Math.PI * 2 &#x2F; 60</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources</title><url>https://beta.sayhello.so/</url><text>We’ve trained a generative AI model to browse the web and answer questions&#x2F;retrieve code snippets directly. Unlike ChatGPT, it has access to primary sources and is able to cite them when you hover over an answer (click on the text to go to the source being cited). We also show regular Bing results side-by-side with our AI answer.<p>The model is an 11-billion parameter T5-derivative that has been fine-tuned on feedback given on hundreds of thousands of searches done (anonymously) on our platform. Giving the model web access lessens its burden to need to store a snapshot of human knowledge within its parameters. Rather, it knows how to piece together primary sources in a natural and informative way. Using our own model is also an order of magnitude cheaper than relying on GPT.<p>A drawback to aligning models to web results is that they are less inclined to generate complete solutions&#x2F;answers to questions where good primary sources don’t exist. Answers generated without underlying citable sources can be more creative but are prone to errors. In the future, we will show both types of answers.<p>Examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=set+cookie+in+fastapi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=set+cookie+in+fastapi</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=What+did+Paul+Graham+learn+from+users" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=What+did+Paul+Graham+learn...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=How+to+get+command+line+parameters+in+Rust" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=How+to+get+command+line+pa...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=why+did+Elon+Musk+buy+twitter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=why+did+Elon+Musk+buy+twit...</a><p>Would love to hear your thoughts.</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>dannywarner</author><text>They did a Launch HN recently: Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers&#x27;[1]<p>Nothing much has changed since. So they appear to be trying to cash in on the interest in ChatGPT.<p>Interesting they didn&#x27;t include that they are backed by Y Combinator in the recent S23 cohort. Is being backed by YC a negative for startups here now?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32003215" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32003215</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>dvh</author><text>It gives answer that vaguely look like answer should look like but all the important details are wrong.<p>&gt; A solar eclipse is a partial eclipse of the Sun caused by a solar coronal mass ejection . A solar coronal mass ejection occurs when Earth passes directly in front of the sun.<p>&gt; You will also need to calculate number of seconds it takes for earth to rotate around the sun which is calculated as Math.PI * 2 &#x2F; 60</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources</title><url>https://beta.sayhello.so/</url><text>We’ve trained a generative AI model to browse the web and answer questions&#x2F;retrieve code snippets directly. Unlike ChatGPT, it has access to primary sources and is able to cite them when you hover over an answer (click on the text to go to the source being cited). We also show regular Bing results side-by-side with our AI answer.<p>The model is an 11-billion parameter T5-derivative that has been fine-tuned on feedback given on hundreds of thousands of searches done (anonymously) on our platform. Giving the model web access lessens its burden to need to store a snapshot of human knowledge within its parameters. Rather, it knows how to piece together primary sources in a natural and informative way. Using our own model is also an order of magnitude cheaper than relying on GPT.<p>A drawback to aligning models to web results is that they are less inclined to generate complete solutions&#x2F;answers to questions where good primary sources don’t exist. Answers generated without underlying citable sources can be more creative but are prone to errors. In the future, we will show both types of answers.<p>Examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=set+cookie+in+fastapi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=set+cookie+in+fastapi</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=What+did+Paul+Graham+learn+from+users" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=What+did+Paul+Graham+learn...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=How+to+get+command+line+parameters+in+Rust" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=How+to+get+command+line+pa...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=why+did+Elon+Musk+buy+twitter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.sayhello.so&#x2F;search?q=why+did+Elon+Musk+buy+twit...</a><p>Would love to hear your thoughts.</text></story> |
13,992,922 | 13,988,307 | 1 | 2 | 13,987,417 | train | <instructions>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>Societies will need to tread carefully here.<p>Brexit, Trump and other national retrenchment movements are looking more like canaries in the coal mine --a bracing for the waves of displaced workers looking to displace the ebbing but expensive workforces in mature industrialized countries (EU, US, Japan, SK, CA, AU, etc) for less as the need for cheap labor by mature industrialized economies evaporates due to quickly slacking demand caused by automation. [We don&#x27;t need factories overseas making things to sell in Wal<i></i>*mart if we can have robots make them &quot;in-house&quot;.]<p>Question 1 is how will mature economies offer their own population a way to make a living [keep their standard of living]. Question 2. is while globalization enabled billions to emerge from extreme poverty, a pause in demand for labor combined with growing populations in developing countries will result in big messes. If the first world finds it hard to provide for itself, there will be little they do for what were developing economies and even less the governments of those economies will do for their own.<p>We might see some economies ban automation as a way to stave off untenable unemployment in economies with little tax revenue.<p>Interesting times.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Automation is set to hit workers in developing countries hard</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/1316/fourth-industrial-revolution-developing-economies</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ranman</author><text>Having recently spent some time in India where labor is absurdly cheap I do not believe the incentive to automate exists in most places. At least... not yet. I believe automation will eventually take place at a large scale but I don&#x27;t believe it will happen in the next 5-10 years in India.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Automation is set to hit workers in developing countries hard</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/1316/fourth-industrial-revolution-developing-economies</url></story> |
20,647,652 | 20,647,908 | 1 | 3 | 20,641,424 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vesrah</author><text>Not sure why you got downvoted, but this is true. When you replace the battery in a new-ish BMW you need to recode&#x2F;register the battery since BMW changes the way it charges the battery based on age and type.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aejnsn</author><text>Don&#x27;t go buy a BMW anytime soon.<p>Have to recode the battery, and it&#x27;s been that way for years.</text></item><item><author>roboys</author><text>My guess is Apple is bored of truly innovating and now has to resort to nickle-diming customers to hit quarterly numbers.<p>Tim Cook put on his &quot;Make Changing Batteries Expensive Again&quot; hat.</text></item><item><author>sjwright</author><text>It won’t be for no reason.<p>If their battery health tightly calibrated to report on Apple’s OEM battery, it could provide misleading information about third-party batteries.<p>My guess is that Apple is bored of dealing with complaints about devices which have been modified by third parties.</text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>To be clear, you can replace the battery with whatever battery you want, it will just show a message saying it can&#x27;t be verified as an Apple battery. The only user impact is being unable to see battery health. I don&#x27;t even think I can see my battery health on my Android so I don&#x27;t see it as a big deal, but definitely not great if they are hiding this functionality for no reason.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-is-locking-batteries-to-iphones-now</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tfandango</author><text>Even Chrysler is doing things like this. I had a hitch installed, super simple, all of the wires etc plug in to the appropriate places, but if you want to actually use the break lights, you need to visit the dealership to flip a boolean flag somewhere, otherwise the lights just don&#x27;t work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aejnsn</author><text>Don&#x27;t go buy a BMW anytime soon.<p>Have to recode the battery, and it&#x27;s been that way for years.</text></item><item><author>roboys</author><text>My guess is Apple is bored of truly innovating and now has to resort to nickle-diming customers to hit quarterly numbers.<p>Tim Cook put on his &quot;Make Changing Batteries Expensive Again&quot; hat.</text></item><item><author>sjwright</author><text>It won’t be for no reason.<p>If their battery health tightly calibrated to report on Apple’s OEM battery, it could provide misleading information about third-party batteries.<p>My guess is that Apple is bored of dealing with complaints about devices which have been modified by third parties.</text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>To be clear, you can replace the battery with whatever battery you want, it will just show a message saying it can&#x27;t be verified as an Apple battery. The only user impact is being unable to see battery health. I don&#x27;t even think I can see my battery health on my Android so I don&#x27;t see it as a big deal, but definitely not great if they are hiding this functionality for no reason.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-is-locking-batteries-to-iphones-now</url></story> |
15,343,546 | 15,342,419 | 1 | 2 | 15,341,664 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SEJeff</author><text>Just want to leave a shoutout for CoreOS&#x27;s dex[1] identity provider. If you need to hook up kubernetes or (any app that speaks oauth2) with SSO and get pluggable backends, I had it working with $EMPLOYER&#x27;s LDAP infrastructure in 10 minutes.<p>It also works well with bit.ly&#x27;s OSS oauth2_proxy[2].<p><pre><code> [1] http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coreos&#x2F;dex
[2] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitly&#x2F;oauth2_proxy</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Cloud acquires Bitium</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/26/google-cloud-acquires-cloud-identity-management-company-bitium/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jazoom</author><text>For those who (like me) don&#x27;t know this company:<p>&quot;Google Cloud announced today that it has acquired Bitium, a company that focused on offering enterprise-grade identity management and access tools, such as single-sign on, for cloud-based applications.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Cloud acquires Bitium</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/26/google-cloud-acquires-cloud-identity-management-company-bitium/</url></story> |
34,645,169 | 34,644,229 | 1 | 2 | 34,642,289 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codingdave</author><text>It is more about that fact that people talking about sustainable food production do not share many goals with commodity farmers exchanging corn and soybeans for as much cash as possible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tengbretson</author><text>It&#x27;s like everyone who&#x27;s ever watched a YouTube video about planting a 3 sisters garden has an opinion for the people actually staking their livelihood on this now.</text></item><item><author>ilostmyshoes</author><text>What they don&#x27;t seem to be talking about is learning from indigenous farming communities who use things like diversity in crops and rotation to keep soil quality high. These problems were solved decades ago, just not by the industrial farming community</text></item><item><author>mattpallissard</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure why the general tone of HN seems to be that modern farming isn&#x27;t changing at all.<p>Erosion has been on everyone&#x27;s radar for decades. We went from plow -&gt; till -&gt; low till -&gt; no till. Believe me, the folks who do this talk about plowing practices and cover crops. They also discuss GMO crops and the crazy legal restrictions around seed that come with it.<p>&gt; Brown earth has a deep top layer where most of the nutrients are and biological activities take place. At around 20 centimetres deep<p>Fun fact, where I grew up there is over 10 feet of black dirt before you hit bedrock. A lot of the Midwestern US is like that. Even with all that runway those guys _still_ discuss erosion.</text></item><item><author>hammock</author><text>There is so little organic matter in the topsoil due to modern farming practices and it gets worse every year. The result is soil that doesn&#x27;t retain water, it just runs off. This means that irrigation has to be more and more frequent, and it means that fertilizer runs off (causing algal blooms etc) more than it percolates into the soil<p>Lots of places to read more about this issue and here&#x27;s a start: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhm.ac.uk&#x2F;discover&#x2F;soil-degradation.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhm.ac.uk&#x2F;discover&#x2F;soil-degradation.html</a></text></item><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>A remarkable amount of the fertilizer applied via modern industrial farming practices is just wasted:<p>&gt; &quot;According to an average of 13 global databases from 10 data sources, in 2010, 161 teragrams of nitrogen were applied to agricultural crops, but only 73 teragrams of nitrogen made it to the harvested crop. A total of 86 teragrams of nitrogen was wasted, perhaps ending up in the water, air, or soil. The new research was published in the journal Nature Food in July.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eos.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;index-suggests-that-half-of-nitrogen-applied-to-crops-is-lost" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eos.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;index-suggests-that-half-of-nitroge...</a><p>Large-area applications by mechanized systems seem to be part of the problem, but that&#x27;s also necessary to escape the subsitence agriculture trap, i.e. with such systems, it&#x27;s not necessary for half or more of the human population to be working in the fields to grow food, it&#x27;s more like 1 in 50 or 1 in 100.<p>The most promising solution might be AI + robots. If a robot could crawl up and down fields inspecting individual plants for nutrient status and applying small amounts of fertilizer as needed (also weeding and checking for pest infestations), it could cut fertilizer use in half while maintaining the same level of production - and perhaps eliminate the need for most herbicides and pesticides.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The fertilizer shortage will persist in 2023</title><url>https://modernfarmer.com/2022/12/the-fertilizer-shortage-will-persist-in-2023/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mattwest</author><text>No kidding, and furthermore it&#x27;s as if they don&#x27;t take a second to consider scalability, yield, commodity-market efficiency, and labor-force.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tengbretson</author><text>It&#x27;s like everyone who&#x27;s ever watched a YouTube video about planting a 3 sisters garden has an opinion for the people actually staking their livelihood on this now.</text></item><item><author>ilostmyshoes</author><text>What they don&#x27;t seem to be talking about is learning from indigenous farming communities who use things like diversity in crops and rotation to keep soil quality high. These problems were solved decades ago, just not by the industrial farming community</text></item><item><author>mattpallissard</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure why the general tone of HN seems to be that modern farming isn&#x27;t changing at all.<p>Erosion has been on everyone&#x27;s radar for decades. We went from plow -&gt; till -&gt; low till -&gt; no till. Believe me, the folks who do this talk about plowing practices and cover crops. They also discuss GMO crops and the crazy legal restrictions around seed that come with it.<p>&gt; Brown earth has a deep top layer where most of the nutrients are and biological activities take place. At around 20 centimetres deep<p>Fun fact, where I grew up there is over 10 feet of black dirt before you hit bedrock. A lot of the Midwestern US is like that. Even with all that runway those guys _still_ discuss erosion.</text></item><item><author>hammock</author><text>There is so little organic matter in the topsoil due to modern farming practices and it gets worse every year. The result is soil that doesn&#x27;t retain water, it just runs off. This means that irrigation has to be more and more frequent, and it means that fertilizer runs off (causing algal blooms etc) more than it percolates into the soil<p>Lots of places to read more about this issue and here&#x27;s a start: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhm.ac.uk&#x2F;discover&#x2F;soil-degradation.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhm.ac.uk&#x2F;discover&#x2F;soil-degradation.html</a></text></item><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>A remarkable amount of the fertilizer applied via modern industrial farming practices is just wasted:<p>&gt; &quot;According to an average of 13 global databases from 10 data sources, in 2010, 161 teragrams of nitrogen were applied to agricultural crops, but only 73 teragrams of nitrogen made it to the harvested crop. A total of 86 teragrams of nitrogen was wasted, perhaps ending up in the water, air, or soil. The new research was published in the journal Nature Food in July.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eos.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;index-suggests-that-half-of-nitrogen-applied-to-crops-is-lost" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eos.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;index-suggests-that-half-of-nitroge...</a><p>Large-area applications by mechanized systems seem to be part of the problem, but that&#x27;s also necessary to escape the subsitence agriculture trap, i.e. with such systems, it&#x27;s not necessary for half or more of the human population to be working in the fields to grow food, it&#x27;s more like 1 in 50 or 1 in 100.<p>The most promising solution might be AI + robots. If a robot could crawl up and down fields inspecting individual plants for nutrient status and applying small amounts of fertilizer as needed (also weeding and checking for pest infestations), it could cut fertilizer use in half while maintaining the same level of production - and perhaps eliminate the need for most herbicides and pesticides.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The fertilizer shortage will persist in 2023</title><url>https://modernfarmer.com/2022/12/the-fertilizer-shortage-will-persist-in-2023/</url></story> |
37,639,889 | 37,636,796 | 1 | 2 | 37,630,804 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BugWatch</author><text>Why not something akin to &quot;fixed-offset cursor&quot;? Actual cursor&#x2F;pointer is always a centimeter above the finger position (thus always visible [bottom of the screen to be handled as a special case]), and finger movements manipulate position, while hold duration accesses alternate modes.<p>For a somewhat similar implementation (touchscreen is essentially handled as touchpad) look at how Teamviewer handles remote sessions to Windows desktop from smartphones.<p>I would really like any&#x2F;all of those as a toggle-on mode for use on Android itself... selecting text with arthritis fingers is a pain – literally and figuratively.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>This is absolutely a problem, but I&#x27;m not convinced the author has found a solution. I&#x27;d have to try it to know for sure, but from the description, it still sounds finicky.<p>I believe touch screens are fundamentally a bad interface for productivity. Consider the range of actions provided by a mouse: You can hover without clicking, you can left click, or you can right click, all with nearly pixel-level precision. Add in a keyboard and your options expand even further.<p>A smartphone is like a computer with a one-button mouse and an abnormally large, irregularly shaped cursor, where can never be sure which part of the cursor indicates your actual click target. Software on this computer is not aware of the cursor&#x27;s location until after the mouse has been clicked, and portions of the screen are blacked out when you move the mouse to certain positions. Your keyboard only works when you bring up an on-screen overlay which takes up ~35% of your screen real-estate, on a monitor which is abnormally small to begin with.<p>Could any amount of well-designed software make text entry efficient on this machine?<p>This is a hardware problem, not a software problem.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem</title><url>https://jenson.org/text/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hutzlibu</author><text>&quot;A smartphone is like a computer with a one-button mouse &quot;<p>Not quite. A touchscreen can detect many fingers, that can do many gestures.<p>The problem is, exept zooming (pinching with 2 fingers) and moving around (swiping with 2 fingers) the potential is pretty much unused.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>This is absolutely a problem, but I&#x27;m not convinced the author has found a solution. I&#x27;d have to try it to know for sure, but from the description, it still sounds finicky.<p>I believe touch screens are fundamentally a bad interface for productivity. Consider the range of actions provided by a mouse: You can hover without clicking, you can left click, or you can right click, all with nearly pixel-level precision. Add in a keyboard and your options expand even further.<p>A smartphone is like a computer with a one-button mouse and an abnormally large, irregularly shaped cursor, where can never be sure which part of the cursor indicates your actual click target. Software on this computer is not aware of the cursor&#x27;s location until after the mouse has been clicked, and portions of the screen are blacked out when you move the mouse to certain positions. Your keyboard only works when you bring up an on-screen overlay which takes up ~35% of your screen real-estate, on a monitor which is abnormally small to begin with.<p>Could any amount of well-designed software make text entry efficient on this machine?<p>This is a hardware problem, not a software problem.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem</title><url>https://jenson.org/text/</url></story> |
2,524,150 | 2,524,102 | 1 | 2 | 2,523,928 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thinkcomp</author><text>As someone who knows a lot of the people written about here, I think this article says a lot more about the reporter than the people in it. Every now and then the Times publishes a story that completely lacks the kind of level-headedness that one would expect from an editorial process, and this is one of those stories.<p>Most of the people mentioned in the article are smart individuals--I have a lot of respect for Joachim's programming talent especially--but back in 2007, the amazing growth in their respective applications was due to Facebook's poorly-thought-out policies regarding application spam (and these apps all sent an unthinkable amount of spam, much of it misleading), not the Stanford class, and not some formula. It's possible to know this because once Facebook changed those policies (because of apps like the ones mentioned in the article), the growth immediately stopped. Most of the apps haven't existed in any meaningful form, if at all, for years.<p>Where are the articles about startups that have made great advances in tackling the enormous problems that plague the country? Those are the stories I'd rather read.<p>By way of full disclosure, I was Ed's co-founder at a startup he was also running in 2007 called Qubescape--not the one mentioned in the article. A lot of that venture's code became part of FaceCash, which I am currently working on. Ed started new with an app called PhoneBook and then friend.ly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Class that built Apps, and Fortunes</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/technology/08class.html?pagewanted=all</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>Cherian_Abraham</author><text>In an article where many, I am sure, see clear indication of a social bubble, I choose to see unbridled enthusiasm of a young tech community who were quick to see the potential of a growing social network and was equally quick to capitalize on its growth.<p>Sure, many of these apps have no actual depth to talk about, but they stand for "build quick and cheap, perfect later" which resonates with me and many others. Also, what good is a business or technology education that costs you a couple of hundred grand, unless it gives you an opportunity to recoup some of that before you graduate.<p>I really wish there are more "Facebook classes" or just classes where tutors challenge you to build ideas to fruition regardless of whether it makes one a millionaire or not. I am trying to do this in Richmond, Virginia with a couple of others, and trying to signup some patron saints from the business and technology community in the region to help out in this effort. For a region that has three Universities in a 50 mile radius (UR, VCU and UVA), we sure dont have a startup ecosystem here and it seems we have squandered that opportunity so far.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Class that built Apps, and Fortunes</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/technology/08class.html?pagewanted=all</url><text></text></story> |
22,339,561 | 22,337,405 | 1 | 3 | 22,336,598 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>typon</author><text>Out of the tar pit paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;papers-we-love&#x2F;papers-we-love&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;design&#x2F;out-of-the-tar-pit.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;papers-we-love&#x2F;papers-we-love&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master...</a><p>It describes these categories in a lot more detail and the equivalents are:<p>Constants =&gt; User specifications<p>State =&gt; Essential state<p>Cached values =&gt; Accidental state</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three Types of Data</title><url>https://www.brandons.me/blog/three-types-of-data</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>Author here: this is one of those ideas that&#x27;s been stewing in my head for quite some time and I&#x27;m only about 80% happy with how it came out as words. Let me know if I can provide further examples or elaboration.<p>----------------------<p>Edit: I wrote this example in response to a comment which has since been deleted, so I&#x27;ll post it here instead<p>Let&#x27;s say your program stores the positions of two entities that can change arbitrarily over time:<p><pre><code> let pos1 = { x: 0, y: 1, z: 2 };
let pos2 = { x: 1, y: 3, z: 0 };
</code></pre>
And you also want to work with the distance between them:<p><pre><code> let distance = Math.sqrt(
(pos2.x - pos1.x) * (pos2.x - pos1.x) +
(pos2.y - pos1.y) * (pos2.y - pos1.y) +
(pos2.z - pos1.z) * (pos2.z - pos1.z));
</code></pre>
When do you do this computation?<p>If &quot;distance&quot; is thought of like any other state, it&#x27;s unclear, and it&#x27;s easy for it to get out of sync with the values it&#x27;s derived from. Maybe you have some sort of core update or rendering phase and you re-compute it there. Maybe you try and re-compute it every time one of the two values gets modified, either by constraining their modification within methods or by somehow observing their changes. Maybe you have a data structure that allows you to easily compare them to the values the previous computation came from. Deciding which of these strategies to take is non-trivial, but you can simplify the question a little bit by seeing &quot;distance&quot; as not being a normal part of state.<p>If you pull it out into a pure function:<p><pre><code> function getDistance(a, b) {
return Math.sqrt(
(pos2.x - pos1.x) * (pos2.x - pos1.x) +
(pos2.y - pos1.y) * (pos2.y - pos1.y) +
(pos2.z - pos1.z) * (pos2.z - pos1.z));
}
</code></pre>
then &quot;updating&quot; it becomes a singular, clear action:<p><pre><code> let distance;
function updateDistance() {
distance = getDistance(pos1, pos2);
}
</code></pre>
And then <i>when it gets computed</i> becomes an independent question from <i>how it gets computed</i>. You can update it eagerly, or lazily, or implicitly. You can use comparisons, or observables, or whatever.<p>The benefit becomes more clear when the value isn&#x27;t a simple number, but a whole object or object graph. By making it immutable, you have much more leeway when it comes to &quot;refreshing&quot; it, because you can guarantee you won&#x27;t be losing any meaningful information.<p>None of these ideas are especially novel or profound, but as a mental framework they&#x27;ve shed a whole lot of clarity for me in my work over the last year or two.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three Types of Data</title><url>https://www.brandons.me/blog/three-types-of-data</url></story> |
34,888,862 | 34,887,077 | 1 | 3 | 34,871,670 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ignoramous</author><text>&gt; <i>With that in mind I think nobody will replace TCP</i><p><i>Within</i> the data center? AWS uses <i>SRD</i> with custom built network cards [0]. I&#x27;d be surprised if Microsoft, Facebook, and Google aren&#x27;t doing something similar.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieeexplore.ieee.org&#x2F;document&#x2F;9167399" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieeexplore.ieee.org&#x2F;document&#x2F;9167399</a> &#x2F; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;qZGdC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;qZGdC</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>shanemhansen</author><text>This seems like a review of John Ousterhout&#x27;s work w&#x2F; Homa. I highly recommend reading the original. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2210.00714" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2210.00714</a><p>For those who don&#x27;t know Ousterhout created the first log structured filesystem and created TCL (used heavily in hardware verification but also forming the backbone of the some of the first large web servers: aolserver). I was actually surprised to find out he co-founded a company with the current CTO of Cloudflare. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;John_Ousterhout" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;John_Ousterhout</a><p>He has both a candidate replacement as well as benchmarks showing 40% performance improvements with grpc on homa compared to grpc on TCP. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PlatformLab&#x2F;grpc_homa">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PlatformLab&#x2F;grpc_homa</a><p>With that in mind I think nobody will replace TCP and I doubt anything not IP compatible will be able to get off the ground. His argument is essentially that for low latency RPC protocols TCP is a bad choice.<p>We&#x27;ve already seen people build a number of similar systems on UDP including HTTP replacements that have delivered value for clients doing lots of parallel requests on the WAN.<p>I think many big tech companies are essentially already choosing to bypass TCP. I recall facebook doing alot of work with memcache on udp. I can&#x27;t find any public docs on whether or not Google&#x27;s internal RPC uses TCP.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised at all if in the near future something like grpc&#x2F;capnproto&#x2F;twirp&#x2F;etc had an in-datacenter TCP-free fast path. It would be cool if it was built on Homa.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is it time to replace TCP in data centers?</title><url>https://blog.ipspace.net/2023/01/data-center-tcp-replacement.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>opportune</author><text>The problem is not just TCP vs not-TCP. It’s using TCP&#x2F;HTTP to transmit data in JSON, vs picking a stack that is more optimized for service-to-service communication in a datacenter.<p>I am willing to wager that most organizations’ microservices spend the majority of their CPU usage doing serialization and deserialization of JSON.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shanemhansen</author><text>This seems like a review of John Ousterhout&#x27;s work w&#x2F; Homa. I highly recommend reading the original. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2210.00714" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2210.00714</a><p>For those who don&#x27;t know Ousterhout created the first log structured filesystem and created TCL (used heavily in hardware verification but also forming the backbone of the some of the first large web servers: aolserver). I was actually surprised to find out he co-founded a company with the current CTO of Cloudflare. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;John_Ousterhout" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;John_Ousterhout</a><p>He has both a candidate replacement as well as benchmarks showing 40% performance improvements with grpc on homa compared to grpc on TCP. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PlatformLab&#x2F;grpc_homa">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PlatformLab&#x2F;grpc_homa</a><p>With that in mind I think nobody will replace TCP and I doubt anything not IP compatible will be able to get off the ground. His argument is essentially that for low latency RPC protocols TCP is a bad choice.<p>We&#x27;ve already seen people build a number of similar systems on UDP including HTTP replacements that have delivered value for clients doing lots of parallel requests on the WAN.<p>I think many big tech companies are essentially already choosing to bypass TCP. I recall facebook doing alot of work with memcache on udp. I can&#x27;t find any public docs on whether or not Google&#x27;s internal RPC uses TCP.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised at all if in the near future something like grpc&#x2F;capnproto&#x2F;twirp&#x2F;etc had an in-datacenter TCP-free fast path. It would be cool if it was built on Homa.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is it time to replace TCP in data centers?</title><url>https://blog.ipspace.net/2023/01/data-center-tcp-replacement.html</url></story> |
34,737,201 | 34,735,896 | 1 | 2 | 34,734,655 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fredrikholm</author><text>&gt; Every company I&#x27;ve worked for has had some core group of people who cared about doing good work and doing the right thing... but they&#x27;re actually operating adversarially in a way that collects the most rewards with the least effort.<p>Pournelle&#x27;s Iron Law of Bureaucracy! The people who game the system eventually move to further enforce the system (for their own benefit), at the expense of the purpose the for which the system was first put in place.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle&#x27;s_laws" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle&#x27;s_la...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Every company I&#x27;ve worked for has had some core group of people who cared about doing good work and doing the right thing.<p>No company can maintain that dynamic at scale, though. As you grow, you accumulate people who are good at presenting an image of doing the good work, but they&#x27;re actually operating adversarially in a way that collects the most rewards with the least effort.<p>It&#x27;s not just managers. A lot of ICs treat the workplace like a min-max game, where they are trying to maximize their compensation and minimize the work they do. Every time I mention this, there are comments about how that&#x27;s actually a <i>good thing</i> because companies have the same strategy, but the people who do this usually screw their teammates more than the company. Big companies don&#x27;t suffer if random people are slacking off and refusing to do their work, but their teammates who want to get a promotion or build their skillsets are going to suffer the consequences of deadbeat coworkers.<p>Small companies aren&#x27;t immune from these problems, but it&#x27;s so much easier to identify and remove the dead weight in a small company. When you have 20 people in a company, it&#x27;s clearly obvious when someone isn&#x27;t pulling their weight. But when you have 100,000 people in a company, a large number of people are going to find ways to settle into obscure roles where their output is hard to measure and they&#x27;ll coast as much as they can.</text></item><item><author>ethanbond</author><text>Ugh, it’s so much simpler than that.<p>Everyone’s number one objective in any company is to make <i>their</i> individual life easier. Full stop. The most obvious way to do that, if you have the ability&#x2F;budget, is to hire people to do your work for you.<p>Then you can brag about managing higher headcount, you do less work, and you flounder around as a very bad manager with no accountability so long as you keep your workload below the level of <i>your</i> manager (who, remember, hired you just to remove work from their own plate).<p>Now remember that everyone you hired has the exact same incentive.<p>It keeps going til the money runs out or until the company buckles under its own organizational complexity.</text></item><item><author>rippercushions</author><text>This post seems kind of naive? A big part of why big tech companies need so many people is because <i>any</i> big company, especially one sitting on piles of money, becomes a target for all sorts of predators and has to defend itself. So it has to have armies of SOX compliance officers (because it&#x27;s still cheaper than getting sued by the SEC), travel expense auditors (because it&#x27;s still cheaper than shareholder suits after a VP whoops it up in Vegas and sends the bill to the company), mandatory diversity training educators (because it&#x27;s still cheaper than getting sued by various minorities), patent litigation departments (because it&#x27;s still cheaper than losing to patent trolls) etc etc, all of which feel like &quot;bullshit jobs&quot; to the average 3-man startup because the average 3-man startup doesn&#x27;t face any of these problems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why big tech companies need so many people</title><url>https://thebuilderjr.substack.com/p/why-big-tech-companies-need-so-many</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>8note</author><text>Doing the right things tends to also not align with promotions either. The thing that helps your team mates us ignoring the business needs and min&#x2F;maxing the promotion game.<p>That&#x27;s less fun than doing the right things, and more work than min&#x2F;maxing your quality of life</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Every company I&#x27;ve worked for has had some core group of people who cared about doing good work and doing the right thing.<p>No company can maintain that dynamic at scale, though. As you grow, you accumulate people who are good at presenting an image of doing the good work, but they&#x27;re actually operating adversarially in a way that collects the most rewards with the least effort.<p>It&#x27;s not just managers. A lot of ICs treat the workplace like a min-max game, where they are trying to maximize their compensation and minimize the work they do. Every time I mention this, there are comments about how that&#x27;s actually a <i>good thing</i> because companies have the same strategy, but the people who do this usually screw their teammates more than the company. Big companies don&#x27;t suffer if random people are slacking off and refusing to do their work, but their teammates who want to get a promotion or build their skillsets are going to suffer the consequences of deadbeat coworkers.<p>Small companies aren&#x27;t immune from these problems, but it&#x27;s so much easier to identify and remove the dead weight in a small company. When you have 20 people in a company, it&#x27;s clearly obvious when someone isn&#x27;t pulling their weight. But when you have 100,000 people in a company, a large number of people are going to find ways to settle into obscure roles where their output is hard to measure and they&#x27;ll coast as much as they can.</text></item><item><author>ethanbond</author><text>Ugh, it’s so much simpler than that.<p>Everyone’s number one objective in any company is to make <i>their</i> individual life easier. Full stop. The most obvious way to do that, if you have the ability&#x2F;budget, is to hire people to do your work for you.<p>Then you can brag about managing higher headcount, you do less work, and you flounder around as a very bad manager with no accountability so long as you keep your workload below the level of <i>your</i> manager (who, remember, hired you just to remove work from their own plate).<p>Now remember that everyone you hired has the exact same incentive.<p>It keeps going til the money runs out or until the company buckles under its own organizational complexity.</text></item><item><author>rippercushions</author><text>This post seems kind of naive? A big part of why big tech companies need so many people is because <i>any</i> big company, especially one sitting on piles of money, becomes a target for all sorts of predators and has to defend itself. So it has to have armies of SOX compliance officers (because it&#x27;s still cheaper than getting sued by the SEC), travel expense auditors (because it&#x27;s still cheaper than shareholder suits after a VP whoops it up in Vegas and sends the bill to the company), mandatory diversity training educators (because it&#x27;s still cheaper than getting sued by various minorities), patent litigation departments (because it&#x27;s still cheaper than losing to patent trolls) etc etc, all of which feel like &quot;bullshit jobs&quot; to the average 3-man startup because the average 3-man startup doesn&#x27;t face any of these problems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why big tech companies need so many people</title><url>https://thebuilderjr.substack.com/p/why-big-tech-companies-need-so-many</url></story> |
24,922,638 | 24,921,714 | 1 | 3 | 24,915,497 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>klenwell</author><text>NIH or Resume-Driven Development might be another way.<p>From personal experience, I worked with a team years ago where product owners wanted a datetime picker or parser for an app we had built. Senior dev on team decided it would be cool if it included some lite NLP. When product owners heard from him how easy it would be to add, they were on board.<p>He started with a popular existing Python library. But there was a bug with one corner case that was causing problems. So he took the initiative to spend a few extra days on the story to write his own simple NLP date parser.<p>A couple months later, early on Jan 1st, the new feature wished our ops team Happy New Year by taking down our application.<p>I happened to open an issue for the library&#x27;s bug on Github after learning about it from the other dev. The owner there promptly responded to share a simple workaround for the issue. But by that time we already had too much software on our hands.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>&quot;Not too much&quot; is interesting. If I understand you correctly, you can write &quot;too much software&quot;. I can think of at least three ways - bad architecture, too little abstraction forcing repetition, and just bad writing.<p>Did you have something else in mind here?</text></item><item><author>jhardy54</author><text>&gt; Use mostly functions, try to make most of them pure.<p>This reminds me of:<p>&gt; Eat food, not too much, mostly plants
&gt;
&gt; -- Michael Pollan<p>My new mantra: Write software, not too much, mostly functions.</text></item><item><author>adamkl</author><text>I spend a lot of time thinking about these sorts of topics (actually, I just taught a 4 hour session yesterday that used most of the terms in this article), working with newer, less experienced developers, and trying to figure how to distill the essence of &quot;architecture&quot; down to something simple that everyone can start with.<p>This is what I’ve started telling people:<p><i>Use mostly functions, try to make most of them pure.</i><p>I think that can get people (even new devs) 80% of the benefits (testability, composability, loose coupling, and the ability to reason about code) of more complicated, prescriptive architectures (Hexagonal, Onion, Ports &amp; Adapters, Clean, etc) with a minimal amount of ramp up.<p>Of course, this isn&#x27;t the solution to every problem (it obviously depends on the domain you are working in, for me its webDev and backends), but I think maybe its a good way for people to start.<p>Edit: Here is a great talk demonstrating that by following a simple functional approach, your code can naturally fall into a “pit of success”: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;US8QG9I1XW0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;US8QG9I1XW0</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Theory of Software Architecture</title><url>https://danuker.go.ro/the-grand-unified-theory-of-software-architecture.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>rsanheim</author><text>I think &quot;Too much software&quot; comes from product and engineers not being willing to say &#x27;no&#x27; to feature requests and product bloat, rather than any sort of strictly technical thing.<p>If your product or tool lacks a clear focus and goal, then the code base will reflect that, and will grow and sprawl endlessly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>&quot;Not too much&quot; is interesting. If I understand you correctly, you can write &quot;too much software&quot;. I can think of at least three ways - bad architecture, too little abstraction forcing repetition, and just bad writing.<p>Did you have something else in mind here?</text></item><item><author>jhardy54</author><text>&gt; Use mostly functions, try to make most of them pure.<p>This reminds me of:<p>&gt; Eat food, not too much, mostly plants
&gt;
&gt; -- Michael Pollan<p>My new mantra: Write software, not too much, mostly functions.</text></item><item><author>adamkl</author><text>I spend a lot of time thinking about these sorts of topics (actually, I just taught a 4 hour session yesterday that used most of the terms in this article), working with newer, less experienced developers, and trying to figure how to distill the essence of &quot;architecture&quot; down to something simple that everyone can start with.<p>This is what I’ve started telling people:<p><i>Use mostly functions, try to make most of them pure.</i><p>I think that can get people (even new devs) 80% of the benefits (testability, composability, loose coupling, and the ability to reason about code) of more complicated, prescriptive architectures (Hexagonal, Onion, Ports &amp; Adapters, Clean, etc) with a minimal amount of ramp up.<p>Of course, this isn&#x27;t the solution to every problem (it obviously depends on the domain you are working in, for me its webDev and backends), but I think maybe its a good way for people to start.<p>Edit: Here is a great talk demonstrating that by following a simple functional approach, your code can naturally fall into a “pit of success”: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;US8QG9I1XW0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;US8QG9I1XW0</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Theory of Software Architecture</title><url>https://danuker.go.ro/the-grand-unified-theory-of-software-architecture.html</url></story> |
22,839,513 | 22,839,216 | 1 | 2 | 22,834,524 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>knodi123</author><text>&gt; Long only is actually a pretty terrible choice if you want a &quot;solid&quot; portfolio with risk hedging.<p>What if, in exchange for being one of the most powerful people in the most powerful nation on earth, you don&#x27;t get to participate in the same wealth building schemes as everyone else?<p>Instead you get a hefty salary, and the people who say &quot;Nah, I&#x27;d rather get rich in the stock market&quot; are probably not the ones you want wielding all that power anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>Long only is actually a pretty terrible choice if you want a &quot;solid&quot; portfolio with risk hedging.<p>I work in &quot;tech&quot; and I&#x27;m substantially net short &quot;tech&quot; as a hedge for potential layoffs, via options. Unfortunately I can&#x27;t hedge via my employer&#x27;s stock directly (like most companies my employer very explicitly disallows it, plus I&#x27;d be running a high risk of an insider trade accusation; I think it&#x27;s understandable and acceptable).<p>A better idea might be to force people&#x27;s allocation way ahead of time, say any change must be pre-announced 6-12 months ahead of time. That&#x27;s how responsible executives (for example Bill Gates) sell their stock - via long term stock sale programs. Once signed - has to happen, whether good news or bad news.</text></item><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>It would be great if<p>(a) elected officials could hold only cash, bonds, and index funds, specifically bonds and index funds that are open the general public and have at least $XX assets, to prevent engineering an index fund available only one one or a few people.<p>(b) pay them better to make up for the loss of gravy. Sure, the pay raise would not be sufficient to make up for the lost income, but it should be high enough that none of them could complain they can&#x27;t live on the salary. Paying the senate majority leader under $200K &#x2F; year is not enough, considering they often have living expenses in Washington and their home state. Lower ranking members get paid less. Pay the leader $1M&#x2F;year and everyone else $500K&#x2F;year and then prohibit anything but vanilla investments.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Senate Stock Watcher</title><url>https://senatestockwatcher.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>tasty_freeze</author><text>Yes, giving them more freedom would allow them to get more money.<p>But that isn&#x27;t the objective. Allowing them to use only transparent, hard to game investments is offset by doubling or quadrupling their existing base salary. That is the trade off. Some will find other jobs because they want to become megarich. Fine, let them leave; others will be happy to run for their vacant office under the terms of the new deal.<p>Secondly, by investing only in bonds and broad index funds, their goal is to help the economy overall and in the long term. If someone is allowed to buy a ton of Lockheed stock, guess who they are going to steer projects to? If their money is parked in DJIA, to benefit themselves they should do what is right for a broad range of companies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>Long only is actually a pretty terrible choice if you want a &quot;solid&quot; portfolio with risk hedging.<p>I work in &quot;tech&quot; and I&#x27;m substantially net short &quot;tech&quot; as a hedge for potential layoffs, via options. Unfortunately I can&#x27;t hedge via my employer&#x27;s stock directly (like most companies my employer very explicitly disallows it, plus I&#x27;d be running a high risk of an insider trade accusation; I think it&#x27;s understandable and acceptable).<p>A better idea might be to force people&#x27;s allocation way ahead of time, say any change must be pre-announced 6-12 months ahead of time. That&#x27;s how responsible executives (for example Bill Gates) sell their stock - via long term stock sale programs. Once signed - has to happen, whether good news or bad news.</text></item><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>It would be great if<p>(a) elected officials could hold only cash, bonds, and index funds, specifically bonds and index funds that are open the general public and have at least $XX assets, to prevent engineering an index fund available only one one or a few people.<p>(b) pay them better to make up for the loss of gravy. Sure, the pay raise would not be sufficient to make up for the lost income, but it should be high enough that none of them could complain they can&#x27;t live on the salary. Paying the senate majority leader under $200K &#x2F; year is not enough, considering they often have living expenses in Washington and their home state. Lower ranking members get paid less. Pay the leader $1M&#x2F;year and everyone else $500K&#x2F;year and then prohibit anything but vanilla investments.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Senate Stock Watcher</title><url>https://senatestockwatcher.com</url></story> |
40,024,178 | 40,023,519 | 1 | 3 | 40,022,628 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>networked</author><text>My experience has been different: last year I started writing Python again after a long break, and I am yet to regret using types pervasively. If some library has no type definitions, I prefer to have my typed code interact with its untyped code. It is still better than having no types at all. You can sometimes get some useful type safety by annotating your functions with the untyped library&#x27;s classes.<p>Since then, I have used established libraries like Beautiful Soup, Jinja, Pillow, platformdirs, psutil, python-dateutil, redis-py, and xmltodict with either official or third-party types. I remember their types being useful to varying degrees and not a problem. I have replaced Requests with the very similar but typed and optionally async HTTPX. My most objectionable experience with types in Python so far has been having to write<p><pre><code> root = cast(
lxml.etree._Element, # noqa: SLF001
html5.parse(html, return_root=True),
)
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when I used types-lxml with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kovidgoyal&#x2F;html5-parser">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kovidgoyal&#x2F;html5-parser</a>. In return I have been able to catch some bugs early and to &quot;fearlessly&quot;refactor code with few or no unit tests, only integration tests. The style I have arrived at is close to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kobzol.github.io&#x2F;rust&#x2F;python&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;20&#x2F;writing-python-like-its-rust.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kobzol.github.io&#x2F;rust&#x2F;python&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;20&#x2F;writing-pyth...</a>.<p>Admittedly, I don&#x27;t use Django. Maybe I won&#x27;t like typed Django if I do. My choice of type checker is Pyright in non-strict mode. It seems to usually, though not always, catch more and more subtle type errors than mypy. I understand that for Django, mypy with a Django plugin is preferred.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmduke</author><text>Having migrated my application&#x27;s Python and JS codebases to their typed siblings respectively last year, my 2c is that Python typing feels good and worthwhile when you&#x27;re in the standard lib, but _awful_ (and net-negative) once you leave &quot;normal Python&quot; for the shores of third-party packages, particularly ones that lean heavily on duck typing (Django and BeautifulSoup both come to mind.)<p>This is where some of the stuff in the TypeScript ecosystem really shines, IMHO — being able to have a completely typesafe ORM such as Drizzle (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orm.drizzle.team&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orm.drizzle.team&#x2F;</a>) feels like a Rubicon moment, and touching anything else feels like a significant step backwards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shape typing in Python</title><url>https://jameshfisher.com/2024/04/12/shape-typing-in-python/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eloisius</author><text>I agree. Prior to the introduction of types in Python, I thought I wanted it. Now I hate them. It feels like a bunch of rigmarole for no benefit. I don’t use an IDE, so code completion or whatever you get for it doesn’t apply to me. Even strongly typed languages like rust have ergonomics to help you avoid explicitly specifying types like let x = 1. You see extraneous code like x: int = 1 in Python now. Third party libs have bonkers types. This function signature is ridiculous:<p><pre><code> sqlalchemy.orm.relationship(argument: _RelationshipArgumentType[Any] | None = None, secondary: _RelationshipSecondaryArgument | None = None, *, uselist: bool | None = None, collection_class: Type[Collection[Any]] | Callable[[], Collection[Any]] | None = None, primaryjoin: _RelationshipJoinConditionArgument | None = None, secondaryjoin: _RelationshipJoinConditionArgument | None = None, back_populates: str | None = None, order_by: _ORMOrderByArgument = False, backref: ORMBackrefArgument | None = None, overlaps: str | None = None, post_update: bool = False, cascade: str = &#x27;save-update, merge&#x27;, viewonly: bool = False, init: _NoArg | bool = _NoArg.NO_ARG, repr: _NoArg | bool = _NoArg.NO_ARG, default: _NoArg | _T = _NoArg.NO_ARG, default_factory: _NoArg | Callable[[], _T] = _NoArg.NO_ARG, compare: _NoArg | bool = _NoArg.NO_ARG, kw_only: _NoArg | bool = _NoArg.NO_ARG, lazy: _LazyLoadArgumentType = &#x27;select&#x27;, passive_deletes: Literal[&#x27;all&#x27;] | bool = False, passive_updates: bool = True, active_history: bool = False, enable_typechecks: bool = True, foreign_keys: _ORMColCollectionArgument | None = None, remote_side: _ORMColCollectionArgument | None = None, join_depth: int | None = None, comparator_factory: Type[RelationshipProperty.Comparator[Any]] | None = None, single_parent: bool = False, innerjoin: bool = False, distinct_target_key: bool | None = None, load_on_pending: bool = False, query_class: Type[Query[Any]] | None = None, info: _InfoType | None = None, omit_join: Literal[None, False] = None, sync_backref: bool | None = None, **kw: Any) → Relationship[Any]
</code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;20&#x2F;orm&#x2F;relationship_api.html#sqlalchemy.orm.relationship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;20&#x2F;orm&#x2F;relationship_api.html#...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jmduke</author><text>Having migrated my application&#x27;s Python and JS codebases to their typed siblings respectively last year, my 2c is that Python typing feels good and worthwhile when you&#x27;re in the standard lib, but _awful_ (and net-negative) once you leave &quot;normal Python&quot; for the shores of third-party packages, particularly ones that lean heavily on duck typing (Django and BeautifulSoup both come to mind.)<p>This is where some of the stuff in the TypeScript ecosystem really shines, IMHO — being able to have a completely typesafe ORM such as Drizzle (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orm.drizzle.team&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orm.drizzle.team&#x2F;</a>) feels like a Rubicon moment, and touching anything else feels like a significant step backwards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shape typing in Python</title><url>https://jameshfisher.com/2024/04/12/shape-typing-in-python/</url></story> |
7,333,314 | 7,333,145 | 1 | 2 | 7,332,855 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>basicallydan</author><text>Congratulations, Kickstarter.<p>In my opinion, Kickstarter is one of the most important tech startups of the last few years for democratising the process of project funding so significantly. It&#x27;s started to change the way people do business and create things in such a fundamental way.<p>One of my favourite examples to give is the way in which games can now be funded. The truth of the matter is that games can cost a <i>lot</i> more than they used to, but for the last 15 years Publishers have had such a strong influence over which games do or do not make it to market and they <i>know</i> that a mass market game is going to be less risky than something like Double Fine&#x27;s <i>Broken Age</i>. So they probably won&#x27;t fund it, and I can kind of see why.<p>Now thanks to Kickstarter <i>et al.</i>, a developer just has to be able to say to potential fans, &quot;is this a game you want?!&quot; and if they say yes, they essentially pay in advance for their game. It&#x27;s so direct, it&#x27;s so wonderful.<p>Yes, there&#x27;s still an element of having to sell the idea, but at least the idea is being sold to a bunch of regular folks, who have a little bit of money as opposed to somebody in charge of a large business. The decisions are much easier to make, and the risk is much lower for the investors.<p>I hope crowdfunding in this way isn&#x27;t just a flash in the pan. I hope we continue to see projects funded in this way for a long, long time to come. Here&#x27;s to another billion, Kickstarter!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges</title><url>https://www.kickstarter.com/1billion</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toong</author><text>I skimmed over the map to find some interesting data:<p>* Averages are close to $200 per backer<p>* USA has $175 avg per backer, but makes 2&#x2F;3 of that $1B<p>* The middle east (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Koeweit, ..) spends $400 up to almost $800 per backer<p>* Antartica has 11 backers @ $337&#x2F;backer :-) 4th place, after the middle east, After that, Norway ($280), Belgium ($250)<p>Would be interesting to plot this data against the number of citizens, so you can get a view of the participation rate of a country. (The US would top that probably at around 1%)<p>Edit for readability</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges</title><url>https://www.kickstarter.com/1billion</url></story> |
31,593,501 | 31,592,601 | 1 | 3 | 31,591,777 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>&gt; On average, victims of East German doping die 10 to 12 years earlier than the rest of the population.<p>While the comparison with the general population is interesting, I would also like to see a comparison with Olympic athletes in general.<p>To be an Olympics athlete, even without doping, you have to be an outlier physically. In addition, even without doping, there is an intensive training regimen and specialized diet. There is also ultra competitive environment and high stress of competing in front of the whole world and knowing that a fraction of a second may be all the difference between glory winning the gold medal and the obscurity of 4th place. Finally, there is the whiplash where for a few weeks you are the center of attention and then when the Olympics are over, are more or less forgotten, even if you did win the gold.<p>This environment is pretty likely to have physical and psychological consequences, even apart from the doping, and it would be interesting to see what they are in comparison to doping.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>East German Doping Victims Die 10 to 12 Years Earlier (2018)</title><url>https://www.zeit.de/zustimmung?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2Fsport%2F2018-03%2Fdoping-east-germany-research-harald-freyberger-english%2Fkomplettansicht</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mpol</author><text>Original discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17529815" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17529815</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>East German Doping Victims Die 10 to 12 Years Earlier (2018)</title><url>https://www.zeit.de/zustimmung?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2Fsport%2F2018-03%2Fdoping-east-germany-research-harald-freyberger-english%2Fkomplettansicht</url></story> |
29,821,776 | 29,821,734 | 1 | 2 | 29,821,386 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>I mean that&#x27;s the obvious solution, which for some reason most companies seem to forget about. I&#x27;ve done a number of projects where we had to rush a cookie banner, but with a lot of them, if they just did away with Google Analytics or click tracking or whatever, they wouldn&#x27;t need any of it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>EtienneK</author><text>Or just be like Github which has no cookie banner since they only use essential cookies.</text></item><item><author>johnklos</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame there aren&#x27;t more big fines for shitty sites, like stackoverflow.com, that punish people who don&#x27;t accept all cookies by prompting on every visit.<p>If that&#x27;s not bad enough, having an &quot;Accept all&quot; button but requiring another click to have the option of refusing, then making us manually select each category to turn off, then confirming, is certainly not symmetric.<p>These large sites know exactly what they&#x27;re doing. They&#x27;re hoping people will become fed up enough to just accept, or they&#x27;re hoping there&#x27;ll be enough accidents where people click &quot;Accept all&quot;. It&#x27;s rather shitty.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation</title><url>https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-cnil-fines-google-total-150-million-euros-and-facebook-60-million-euros-non-compliance</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lrem</author><text>Follow the spirit of the law? CRAZY TALK!</text><parent_chain><item><author>EtienneK</author><text>Or just be like Github which has no cookie banner since they only use essential cookies.</text></item><item><author>johnklos</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame there aren&#x27;t more big fines for shitty sites, like stackoverflow.com, that punish people who don&#x27;t accept all cookies by prompting on every visit.<p>If that&#x27;s not bad enough, having an &quot;Accept all&quot; button but requiring another click to have the option of refusing, then making us manually select each category to turn off, then confirming, is certainly not symmetric.<p>These large sites know exactly what they&#x27;re doing. They&#x27;re hoping people will become fed up enough to just accept, or they&#x27;re hoping there&#x27;ll be enough accidents where people click &quot;Accept all&quot;. It&#x27;s rather shitty.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation</title><url>https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-cnil-fines-google-total-150-million-euros-and-facebook-60-million-euros-non-compliance</url></story> |
15,761,887 | 15,761,801 | 1 | 3 | 15,760,981 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>People (and by people I mean mostly economists :-)) talk about that all the time. There is an interesting discussion about comparing two economies that are not based on the same fundamental principle (like comparing electric cars to gas cars based on their &quot;miles per gallon&quot; and using an arbitrary metric to transmute kWh into gallons of gasoline).<p>The Chinese government works much more directly in twisting the knobs of the economy, and the government regularly misleads with their economic numbers (sort of like companies that change the accounting rules on the numbers they report). As a result other methods get devised to try to estimate the Chinese GDP and its relative independence from other economies.<p>That said, they are expected to surpass the US on a comparative GDP model, what is less well understood is how durable their form of market management can be.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whack</author><text>The real story is the one no one has been talking about. The US has been the world&#x27;s largest economy for the past 100-150 years. In another ~10 years, that will no longer be the case. Every year that passes afterwards, the US is going to fall further and further behind China, until it eventually gets lapped some time in the mid-21st century. It&#x27;s going to be &quot;interesting&quot; to see what happens then.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;09&#x2F;study-china-will-overtake-the-u-s-as-worlds-largest-economy-before-2030&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;09&#x2F;study-china-will-overtake-the-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Economic-History-At-what-point-did-the-US-become-the-biggest-economy-in-the-world" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Economic-History-At-what-point-did-the...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Britain has abandoned its claim to be the world's fifth largest economy</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/22/news/economy/uk-france-biggest-economies-in-the-world/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>forapurpose</author><text>The other real story, though a few years old now, is the reduction of the individual European powers from world leaders to second-tier powers.<p>The rise of China has made the first tier out of reach to countries with only 60-80 million people (such as the UK, France, and Germany). If the European powers combined - somehow, who knows how - then they would have the weight to be global powers and have more influence to move global affairs in directions the Europeans desire. With only 60 million people, the UK is destined to be a bit player.<p>One wonders why a neighboring second tier Eurasian power would want to disrupt European integration and the resulting arrival of a superpower on their doorstep. Stand together, or hang separately.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whack</author><text>The real story is the one no one has been talking about. The US has been the world&#x27;s largest economy for the past 100-150 years. In another ~10 years, that will no longer be the case. Every year that passes afterwards, the US is going to fall further and further behind China, until it eventually gets lapped some time in the mid-21st century. It&#x27;s going to be &quot;interesting&quot; to see what happens then.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;09&#x2F;study-china-will-overtake-the-u-s-as-worlds-largest-economy-before-2030&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;09&#x2F;study-china-will-overtake-the-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Economic-History-At-what-point-did-the-US-become-the-biggest-economy-in-the-world" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Economic-History-At-what-point-did-the...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Britain has abandoned its claim to be the world's fifth largest economy</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/22/news/economy/uk-france-biggest-economies-in-the-world/index.html</url></story> |
24,114,352 | 24,112,746 | 1 | 2 | 24,110,992 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>it&#x27;s just another sign of the US&#x27;s government technical incompetence.</i><p>Not &quot;the government.&quot; &quot;A person in the government.&quot;<p>The federal government has a very good design system. But for some reason, whoever built this page chose not to follow it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;designsystem.digital.gov" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;designsystem.digital.gov</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>apazzolini</author><text>&gt; The JPEGed giant logo<p>It&#x27;s almost like they ran it through jpegify.me on purpose as a joke, but really it&#x27;s just another sign of the US&#x27;s government technical incompetence.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>This really comes off as a hastily prepared political dig against China, when there are <i>in addition</i> so many other actors and countries trying to take advantage of poor security. The JPEGed giant logo at the top doesn&#x27;t help...<p>Other observations:<p>-- &quot;Remove untrusted applications from US mobile app stores&quot;: so, this would call for even tighter control by Apple, Google, over its app distribution and monopolies?<p>-- Clean Apps: &quot;Prevent untrusted PRC OEMs from installing trusted apps on their apps store... should remove apps to ensure they are not partnering with a human rights abuser.&quot; Umm, seriously, we&#x27;re going to open this can of worms?<p>Edit to add a last thought:<p>I have yet to understand or read a coherent description about how we do not have the technical ability to protect against eavesdropping&#x2F;etc regardless of who owns the physical hardware. Why is CCP-owned infrastructure uniquely susceptible to this? If we can&#x27;t protect our transmissions with encryption, secure data storage techniques, what does it matter that the equipment is supplied by China? What unusual attack do they get access to by owning or manufacturing the equipment?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Clean Network – United States Department of State</title><url>https://www.state.gov/5g-clean-network/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sjs382</author><text>The site uses WordPress and the post author decided to include a thumbnail, scaled up to regular size, rather than using the original: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.state.gov&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;CleanNetwork_NewCleans.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.state.gov&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;CleanNetwor...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>apazzolini</author><text>&gt; The JPEGed giant logo<p>It&#x27;s almost like they ran it through jpegify.me on purpose as a joke, but really it&#x27;s just another sign of the US&#x27;s government technical incompetence.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>This really comes off as a hastily prepared political dig against China, when there are <i>in addition</i> so many other actors and countries trying to take advantage of poor security. The JPEGed giant logo at the top doesn&#x27;t help...<p>Other observations:<p>-- &quot;Remove untrusted applications from US mobile app stores&quot;: so, this would call for even tighter control by Apple, Google, over its app distribution and monopolies?<p>-- Clean Apps: &quot;Prevent untrusted PRC OEMs from installing trusted apps on their apps store... should remove apps to ensure they are not partnering with a human rights abuser.&quot; Umm, seriously, we&#x27;re going to open this can of worms?<p>Edit to add a last thought:<p>I have yet to understand or read a coherent description about how we do not have the technical ability to protect against eavesdropping&#x2F;etc regardless of who owns the physical hardware. Why is CCP-owned infrastructure uniquely susceptible to this? If we can&#x27;t protect our transmissions with encryption, secure data storage techniques, what does it matter that the equipment is supplied by China? What unusual attack do they get access to by owning or manufacturing the equipment?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Clean Network – United States Department of State</title><url>https://www.state.gov/5g-clean-network/</url></story> |
39,336,543 | 39,333,888 | 1 | 2 | 39,333,220 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwboatyface</author><text>My read is that he was one of those early employees that is a huge pain to manage. They want to do what they think is fun and interesting and they have strong opinions about shit that is ultimately inconsequential. It&#x27;s a nightmare to manage an IC who is friends with the CEO and doesn&#x27;t think you&#x27;re making the right choices. But ultimately they don&#x27;t accept accountability for any decisions, they just move bop around and cause problems.<p>One tell-tale sign is endpoint security and using his own device. It&#x27;s the kind of permissive cultural thing that does not scale because of compliance issues and developer productivity overhead. But it&#x27;s very hard to wrench these long-time devs away from their preferred Linux distribution which requires conditional build stuff everywhere to support. Use a work computer for work, let them monitor the updates and stuff, as long as they&#x27;re not using the webcam to record you who cares?<p>The database backup story - my guy you were on the database team. Backing up the databases is job 1. You can&#x27;t just passive-voice away &quot;oh there were no backups&quot;. But of course he&#x27;s more interested in fighting about sharding architecture than actually keeping the site running day-to-day.<p>His big takeaway is that Gitlab didn&#x27;t spend enough time on performance for their hosted offering which was a huge money loser. Just because he thinks performance stuff is fun to do, if the hosted offering is a money pit of course they&#x27;re not throwing more resources at it. You have to make an actual business case for why your thing is more important and makes money more than another project. You don&#x27;t just engineer in a vacuum for the fun of it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cousin_it</author><text>So, he joined as employee #28 reporting directly to the CEO, then gradually more managers were slotted in above him, then one of the managers put him on a PEP, then he got the hint and left. I wanna say this story is pretty standard, and probably a big part of the reason why people in big companies often don&#x27;t do great things.<p>Heck, even if you start a project within a company and it gets successful, the company can just slot in people above you, so you become employee #n in a project that you started, and then these people can say you underperform and so on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What it was like working for Gitlab</title><url>https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/what-it-was-like-working-for-gitlab/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mawadev</author><text>I have that at the current company I work at. Some manager started a successful project with me and the management is too greedy and busy trying to replace me and the manager by bringing in politics, social dilemma and putting layers of management between everyone. Truly a sad state to be in. I learned my lesson as to why you should never truly care about what you do at work. Feels like the project will rather go belly up and disintegrate because of that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cousin_it</author><text>So, he joined as employee #28 reporting directly to the CEO, then gradually more managers were slotted in above him, then one of the managers put him on a PEP, then he got the hint and left. I wanna say this story is pretty standard, and probably a big part of the reason why people in big companies often don&#x27;t do great things.<p>Heck, even if you start a project within a company and it gets successful, the company can just slot in people above you, so you become employee #n in a project that you started, and then these people can say you underperform and so on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What it was like working for Gitlab</title><url>https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/what-it-was-like-working-for-gitlab/</url></story> |
4,717,394 | 4,716,007 | 1 | 3 | 4,715,665 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brudgers</author><text><i>"This account is written to portray Scott as the bad guy"</i><p>Journalistically, the technical term is "hatchet job."<p>The piece flows like an official leak. On the surface the narrative seems plausible as that of a press event. In depth, it is not.<p>Forestall cashed out his shares in May, more than a month before the release of the Maps app was announced and almost five months before the letter of apology. Usually, when a senior executive cashes out, it is a clear statement that the direction of the company is such that it no longer appears to be a wise investment - it expresses a loss of faith in the company.<p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57425920-37/apple-exec-scott-forstall-sells-off-95-percent-of-his-shares/" rel="nofollow">http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57425920-37/apple-exec-sco...</a><p>What I find interesting in this officially unofficial narrative is what its truth would imply about Apple's leadership. In an a distorted reality where Forstall signed the letter rather than Cook, consumers would have said, "Who's that?"<p>More importantly, Wall Street would have said, "Who's in charge?" Forstall would have been taking on the responsibility as the face of Apple, and Cook would have looked ineffectual as a leader by failing to take responsibility.<p>A letter bearing Forstall's signature would be a clear statement that he was so vital to Apple's future that he was allowed to atone for such a grave error rather than being summarily sacked. It would have made it nearly impossible to fire him, because of the contradictory signals leadership would be sending.<p>So I doubt the narrative. I doubt that Apple's leadership is so inept as to have considered anyone but Cook signing a letter. I doubt that Cook is so inept as to not seriously consider not apologizing. I doubt that anyone at Apple is so naive as to have misunderstood what Forstall's stock sale meant.<p>I believe the truth is simple.<p>At his level, it's pretty much up or out for "Type A personalities." Forstall did not succeed Jobs as CEO. Six months after Job's death, he sold his stock. A year later he publicly took the fall for Maps. In return, Apple lets 75,000 options vest while he advises Cook over the next year. By signing the apology, Cook looks compassionate to consumers. By sacking Forstall, he looks decisive to Wall Street.<p>The officially unofficial narrative serves it's purpose. It's more interesting than one about a negotiated severance package and the implementation of a succession plan.<p>And by getting the media to accuse him of acting Jobsian, Forstall displays a Jobsian brilliance. I suspect there is already a queue of companies seeking him as CEO.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Hmm, sounds like the Apple variation of the 3 envelopes joke. I expect the Scott is going take a lot of the heat here as the designated person but with most things I expect the story is more nuanced.<p>This account is written to portray Scott as the bad guy, one could speculate that perhaps he had been arguing all along that there needed to be a different option, which no one accepted, and when the choice to ship turned out to be a poor one and he was asked to take the blame for it, he might have said "No way, I told you we shouldn't ship it, you overrode me, you sign it."<p>The version with Scott as the hero, refusing to compromise his principles, also fits all the 'known' facts (maps kinda sucks, Tim signed the apology) and might be communicated by nameless "people familiar with the matter" who liked Scott.<p>But we won't know. Some folks will know, and some folks will think they know, but having been high enough in the food chain to directly witness some executive shifts like this first hand, and to see how they got spun to the public and to others. the one thing I know is that those of us out here in the peanut gallery, we don't have an ice cube's chance in hell of knowing the 'real' story.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Software Chief Refused to Sign Maps Apology</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204840504578087192497916304.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection</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>aresant</author><text>I had to look up the 3-envelopes joke:<p><a href="http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Prepare_3_Envelopes.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Prepare_3_Envelopes....</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Hmm, sounds like the Apple variation of the 3 envelopes joke. I expect the Scott is going take a lot of the heat here as the designated person but with most things I expect the story is more nuanced.<p>This account is written to portray Scott as the bad guy, one could speculate that perhaps he had been arguing all along that there needed to be a different option, which no one accepted, and when the choice to ship turned out to be a poor one and he was asked to take the blame for it, he might have said "No way, I told you we shouldn't ship it, you overrode me, you sign it."<p>The version with Scott as the hero, refusing to compromise his principles, also fits all the 'known' facts (maps kinda sucks, Tim signed the apology) and might be communicated by nameless "people familiar with the matter" who liked Scott.<p>But we won't know. Some folks will know, and some folks will think they know, but having been high enough in the food chain to directly witness some executive shifts like this first hand, and to see how they got spun to the public and to others. the one thing I know is that those of us out here in the peanut gallery, we don't have an ice cube's chance in hell of knowing the 'real' story.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Software Chief Refused to Sign Maps Apology</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204840504578087192497916304.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection</url><text></text></story> |
19,412,362 | 19,412,174 | 1 | 2 | 19,411,998 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ggreer</author><text>I keep seeing these studies showing that tiny increases in CO2 impair cognition, but I have trouble believing them. The US navy runs their submarines with CO2 levels that vary from 300-11,300ppm.[1] Their own studies show that CO2 levels of 4% (40,000ppm) do not affect cognition[2]:<p>&gt; Thus, CO2 at 40,000 ppm for 2 weeks did not affect performance on multiple tests of cognitive function in physically fit young airmen, a population probably not unlike submariners.<p>CO2 tended to cause poor sleep, headache, and hand tremor before it caused cognitive issues.<p>Another bit of evidence that makes me doubt these recent studies is that the levels of CO2 in your lungs are much higher than what is in the atmosphere. Exhaled air is around 5% CO2. Each breath doesn&#x27;t replace 100% of the air in your lungs. If you have a container that is 5% CO2 and you replace 80% of it with air containing 400ppm CO2, you&#x27;re down to 10,320ppm. Inhale 1,000ppm CO2 and your lungs will be at 10,800ppm CO2. In other words: a 250% increase in atmospheric CO2 levels only causes a 4% increase in lung CO2 levels at the beginning of a breath. If such tiny changes significantly affected cognition, we would see impairment happen in many more circumstances (such as when walking or smoking).<p>If something&#x27;s impairing cognition in stuffy rooms, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s CO2.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nap.edu&#x2F;read&#x2F;11170&#x2F;chapter&#x2F;5#47" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nap.edu&#x2F;read&#x2F;11170&#x2F;chapter&#x2F;5#47</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nap.edu&#x2F;read&#x2F;11170&#x2F;chapter&#x2F;5#54" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nap.edu&#x2F;read&#x2F;11170&#x2F;chapter&#x2F;5#54</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Associations of Cognitive Function with Carbon Dioxide and Ventilation (2016)</title><url>https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/27662232</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tjohns</author><text>The conference rooms at my office often have CO2 sensors on the wall.<p>In the interest of science, I discovered a few strong breaths of air next to the sensor will kick the HVAC on full blast.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Associations of Cognitive Function with Carbon Dioxide and Ventilation (2016)</title><url>https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/27662232</url></story> |
20,998,718 | 20,998,113 | 1 | 2 | 20,997,116 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aetherson</author><text>So the problem of these companies that are many billions of dollars having &quot;most of their value tied up in their brand&quot; is that the brand becomes... kind of inextricable from the operations.<p>Who would buy a $10B brand? Much less a $30B one or whatever? The answer is almost exclusively &quot;companies that already have a better brand than you do.&quot; Like, Apple could buy Uber, and then do its own ride-sharing service, and brand that ride-sharing service Uber... but they don&#x27;t need to. They&#x27;re <i>Apple</i>.<p>Any potential ride-sharing service that would like to build its own operations and the bootstrap itself to wider name recognition by buying Uber&#x27;s brand won&#x27;t be paying tens of billions of dollars.<p>So what&#x27;s left? We and Uber need to reform their own operations to make money, which is the exact problem that nobody thinks they can do. What does their supposedly powerful brand get them?</text><parent_chain><item><author>wayoutthere</author><text>You have a point; $15B is on the high side and I can’t defend it. But they do have a <i>brand</i>, which is what makes an undifferentiated service like office space valuable.<p>I still contend that most of the value of Uber is tied up in their brand, and I think the same is true of We. I’m not sure either of their operations are all that valuable.</text></item><item><author>arbuge</author><text>&gt; WeWork is probably legitimately in the $15B range<p>How do you arrive at that number?<p>I&#x27;ve seen comparisons to firms like IWR &#x2F; Regus that imply a much lower number would be appropriate, even if WeWork was as profitable as those firms (which it isn&#x27;t even remotely... it loses money hand over fist).</text></item><item><author>wayoutthere</author><text>As has been called out by other analyses, the problem here isn’t really WeWork, it’s SoftBank. They thought they could run a pump-and-dump like Goldman did with Uber, but sorely misjudged the market’s view of WeWork.<p>WeWork is probably legitimately in the $15B range, but SoftBank has really tied themselves in a knot with such a high valuation paired with the downside insurance. They‘re in for an 11-figure loss no matter what, because liquidation preferences and huge losses scare off any serious investors they could potentially find.<p>My guess is that WeWork ends up getting massively scaled back and sold to one of its smaller competitors for under a billion. They’re just way too overextended to have any value beyond the brand.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/weworks-back-is-against-a-wall-11568733815?mod=rsswn</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>opencl</author><text>Regus has more locations, owns the buildings instead of subleasing them, is profitable, and is valued at 3.6B. 15B would be not be a sane valuation for Wework even if they weren&#x27;t bleeding money at an alarming rate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wayoutthere</author><text>You have a point; $15B is on the high side and I can’t defend it. But they do have a <i>brand</i>, which is what makes an undifferentiated service like office space valuable.<p>I still contend that most of the value of Uber is tied up in their brand, and I think the same is true of We. I’m not sure either of their operations are all that valuable.</text></item><item><author>arbuge</author><text>&gt; WeWork is probably legitimately in the $15B range<p>How do you arrive at that number?<p>I&#x27;ve seen comparisons to firms like IWR &#x2F; Regus that imply a much lower number would be appropriate, even if WeWork was as profitable as those firms (which it isn&#x27;t even remotely... it loses money hand over fist).</text></item><item><author>wayoutthere</author><text>As has been called out by other analyses, the problem here isn’t really WeWork, it’s SoftBank. They thought they could run a pump-and-dump like Goldman did with Uber, but sorely misjudged the market’s view of WeWork.<p>WeWork is probably legitimately in the $15B range, but SoftBank has really tied themselves in a knot with such a high valuation paired with the downside insurance. They‘re in for an 11-figure loss no matter what, because liquidation preferences and huge losses scare off any serious investors they could potentially find.<p>My guess is that WeWork ends up getting massively scaled back and sold to one of its smaller competitors for under a billion. They’re just way too overextended to have any value beyond the brand.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/weworks-back-is-against-a-wall-11568733815?mod=rsswn</url></story> |
30,136,363 | 30,135,229 | 1 | 3 | 30,134,790 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frankfrankfrank</author><text>If we are talking about a right to software repair, we also need to talk about a right to not have our devices’ performance degraded.<p>A related issue that is somewhat the inverse, which has always bothered me, is the seemingly intentional sabotage of performance and hardware by way of software updates, essentially building in incremental sabotage and obsolescence.<p>What I am referring to is that fundamental performance is negatively impacted by OS updates that are usually mandatory, e.g., an iPhone or windows computer cannot load a basic website as fast as it could in the past, a basic function of the device, due to imposed software updates.<p>There should be a legal requirement that the basic functions and performance of a device cannot degrade without justification over time. Imagine if your car required mandatory computer updates or maintenance that resulted in things like losing 100hp over 5 years, or it took longer and longer between hitting the unlock button and the locks actuating, or the brake responsiveness got worse and worse with every update; and then being told you have to buy a new car to get all those features back.<p>I understand that there are certain things that cause preference degradation, but when it is imposed without real choice and there is no incentive for developers to actually prevent degradation, then there is also San incentive to intentionally sabotage customers.<p>If anyone remembers the push and emphasis on performance that Steve Jobs imposed on apple engineers after using an older apple device, it is clearly possible. I clearly recall that when that update went out, it majorly improved the performance and UX of older apple devices.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One more small step toward the right to software repair</title><url>https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/dec/28/vizio-update-1/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brian-armstrong</author><text>As anyone who has used a Vizio TV knows, the software is really of no particular value. Input lag abounds. They should dump it all out on Github and move on as the software could not possibly be construed as any kind of moat for them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One more small step toward the right to software repair</title><url>https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/dec/28/vizio-update-1/</url></story> |
24,084,441 | 24,084,452 | 1 | 2 | 24,083,260 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ramon</author><text>Lit has been doing this for a while it&#x27;s from that Polymer project.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lit-element.polymer-project.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lit-element.polymer-project.org&#x2F;</a>
Web Components is a huge deal, you can do just web components on plain notepad and not need any build system for something very simple just using module based packages on the browser this is really cool.
Snowpack for me was something huge, getting away from webpack was like getting back hours of work.
But I don&#x27;t know, till now for me I still see the Lit-Element and stuff as being more flexible than this one, the beauty is for example you can have a component in react and another on in Vue, it doesn&#x27;t really matter and another one in JQuery. You can have whatever works best for you for each case.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pcr910303</author><text>Ok, so it looks like the main point of this is fast-components, which is a just a bunch of components styled as MS-style, but I&#x27;m more interested in the fast-foundation package.<p>According to the instructions:<p>&gt; The exports of this package can generally be thought of as un-styled base components that implement semantic and accessible markup and behavior.<p>&gt; it exports parts and pieces intended to be composed into Web Components, allowing you to implement your own design language by simply applying CSS styles and behaviors without having to write all the JavaScript that&#x27;s involved in building production-quality component implementations.<p>Which means... if I want to make my own components, I can just take this package and don&#x27;t worry about making broken components. Since the core HTML&#x2F;JS is properly taken care (by MS, hopefully) I can less worry about re-implementing keyboard access, or things like accessibility which is hard to do properly. This is IMO huge, and should be more universal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Fast Design</title><url>https://www.fast.design/docs/introduction</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>parksy</author><text>edit - to thank everyone who took time out to explain what&#x27;s going on - I&#x27;m still cynical but it all makes more sense now. I also like to think the ignorant guy asking the ignorant questions (in this case me) can sometimes be valuable for others who aren&#x27;t in the club. Previous rant intact below for fun and hijinks.<p>---<p>As a jaded old web developer I&#x27;ve seen so many frameworks along the way all promising this and that.<p>Can someone who is familiar with this answer me this: Does this framework automatically sort out ARIA standards for me? Like tab ordering and stuff is dealt with automatically?<p>I know it seems I am being lazy but I am just fed up.<p>&quot;FAST is a collection of JavaScript packages centered around web standards, designed to help you efficiently tackle some of the most common challenges in website and application design and development.&quot;<p>COOL! (&#x2F;s)<p>&quot;Have you ever needed a reusable set of UI components that you could drop into your app and have an amazing experience? That&#x27;s FAST.&quot;<p>UNIQUE! (&#x2F;s)<p>&quot;Have you ever needed to create your own components, and share them across your company, including across groups that use different, incompatible front-end frameworks? That&#x27;s FAST.&quot;<p>&lt;record scratch&gt;<p>Different, incompatible front-end frameworks?<p>So like, this shit is magic that will let me streamline components between my Oceania team&#x27;s WordPress and my German team&#x27;s Magento frontends?<p>And I don&#x27;t have to learn any new paradigm to make this work?<p>I don&#x27;t have to use their specific, custom HTML in order to leverage it? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fast.design&#x2F;docs&#x2F;components&#x2F;accordion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fast.design&#x2F;docs&#x2F;components&#x2F;accordion</a><p>SWEET! (&#x2F;s)<p>Come on. We&#x27;d have to re-write everything to use this library specifically, and train our teams.<p>Honestly this is to me just another bunch of shit that will get tacked into projects and have to be known and supported, because some sprightly young thing will convince management this is the panacea to seemingly redundant development work.<p>What&#x27;s the actual selling point here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pcr910303</author><text>Ok, so it looks like the main point of this is fast-components, which is a just a bunch of components styled as MS-style, but I&#x27;m more interested in the fast-foundation package.<p>According to the instructions:<p>&gt; The exports of this package can generally be thought of as un-styled base components that implement semantic and accessible markup and behavior.<p>&gt; it exports parts and pieces intended to be composed into Web Components, allowing you to implement your own design language by simply applying CSS styles and behaviors without having to write all the JavaScript that&#x27;s involved in building production-quality component implementations.<p>Which means... if I want to make my own components, I can just take this package and don&#x27;t worry about making broken components. Since the core HTML&#x2F;JS is properly taken care (by MS, hopefully) I can less worry about re-implementing keyboard access, or things like accessibility which is hard to do properly. This is IMO huge, and should be more universal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Fast Design</title><url>https://www.fast.design/docs/introduction</url></story> |
13,994,091 | 13,994,152 | 1 | 2 | 13,991,574 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>angry_octet</author><text>This is huge. A while back this product was offered in the enterprise market for ~$100k per instance.<p>We have been using CesiumJS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cesiumjs.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cesiumjs.org&#x2F;</a>), which is fantastic, partly because Google stopped developing Google Earth. But it would be great to see new features added to a very mature product.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Earth Enterprise Open Source</title><url>http://www.opengee.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>andybak</author><text>From: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;earthenterprise&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Google-Earth-Enterprise-Client-(EC)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;earthenterprise&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Google-Earth-...</a><p>&quot;The Google Earth Enterprise Client (EC) is required to connect to Earth Server and view 3D globes. This client is not open-sourced; but will continue to be maintained by the Google Earth Team.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s a shame.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Earth Enterprise Open Source</title><url>http://www.opengee.org/</url></story> |
22,802,703 | 22,802,620 | 1 | 2 | 22,799,499 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>save_ferris</author><text>&gt; no longer seem to advertise their primary mission as education, but as providing the “college experience.”<p>This was already really noticeable when I enrolled in undergrad 12 years ago at a large public university.<p>I think part of it has been driven by student demand for more parental oversight, but I also think the marketing is what got so many students to take out debt in the first place. So many of my undergrad classmates (perhaps even a slim majority) believed that undergrad was going to be the best 4 years of their lives and they had to make the most of them, which I personally found completely insane.<p>I also think that the financial system around universities warped in such a way that it became easier to establish direct relationships with parents as university became less affordable to those trying to work while studying. Not to mention the absurd amount of money and effort that universities put into alumni communications to drive giving back to the school.</text><parent_chain><item><author>washadjeffmad</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve noticed is that universities in the US no longer seem to advertise their primary mission as education, but as providing the &quot;college experience&quot;.<p>Brochures are rife with amenities and activities like you&#x27;re picking out a resort or extended summer camp where you can safely figure out who you are, make friends, and be protected until you&#x27;re set free, job-pass in hand.<p>These advertisements are also primarily aimed at the parents.<p>My SO got a second degree several years ago, and all of her official and financial paperwork was addressed to &quot;the parents of $SO&quot;. It was a bit shocking that there&#x27;s so little expectation by universities for a legal adult to take agency in the process.<p>I only wonder how much of this process was a result of student demands for more parental oversight and involvement, and if the end result is better outcomes or merely justification of more money spent.</text></item><item><author>neumann</author><text>I work at a University in Australia and have been on both sides of academic and professional. This unravelling was on the horizon for everybody, maybe not so soon, but definitely in the viewport. In an effort to drive up income streams there has been a slow erosion of Australian education (more at some universities than others) to cater for the international (Chinese and Indian predominantly) market. There are all sort of perverse incentives built in to erode educational benefits, hand hold students, make university &#x27;fun&#x27;, something that used to be part of the student body&#x27;s remit, but having crushed that movement it is now where a lot of money is being spent at many universities. Not on academics, not on labs, but on comfort, edtech, busy work and asinine initiatives underpinned by endless erroneous reporting by consultants to make execs feel like they are &#x27;doing good&#x27;. I know - it is hard not to sound bitter, but it is a tragedy of short sightedness. The recruitment of students is predatory and eventually the saturation of subpar graduates from these university degrees would have eventually resulted in the fading of both cultural and brand name prestige of sending your kids to Australia for study. This is also tied to cheap international student labour, housing that pockets the inner cities that nobody who isn&#x27;t a trapped rich international would live in and a segregation of the university student community that is unhelpful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Universities forced to face addiction to foreign students’ money</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-06/universities-forced-to-face-addiction-to-foreign-students-money</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>non-entity</author><text>&gt; My SO got a second degree several years ago, and all of her official and financial paperwork was addressed to &quot;the parents of $SO&quot;.<p>Are there no legal issues that could come up with this? Working with financial documents addressed to someone other than yourself?<p>I briefly touched on this elsewhere in this thread, but as a working professional who happens to still be very young and wanting to get my degree, universities are pissing me off. They create their own definitions of residency and independence that differ from the legal versions that seem to have no purpose but to extract more money from a potential student.</text><parent_chain><item><author>washadjeffmad</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve noticed is that universities in the US no longer seem to advertise their primary mission as education, but as providing the &quot;college experience&quot;.<p>Brochures are rife with amenities and activities like you&#x27;re picking out a resort or extended summer camp where you can safely figure out who you are, make friends, and be protected until you&#x27;re set free, job-pass in hand.<p>These advertisements are also primarily aimed at the parents.<p>My SO got a second degree several years ago, and all of her official and financial paperwork was addressed to &quot;the parents of $SO&quot;. It was a bit shocking that there&#x27;s so little expectation by universities for a legal adult to take agency in the process.<p>I only wonder how much of this process was a result of student demands for more parental oversight and involvement, and if the end result is better outcomes or merely justification of more money spent.</text></item><item><author>neumann</author><text>I work at a University in Australia and have been on both sides of academic and professional. This unravelling was on the horizon for everybody, maybe not so soon, but definitely in the viewport. In an effort to drive up income streams there has been a slow erosion of Australian education (more at some universities than others) to cater for the international (Chinese and Indian predominantly) market. There are all sort of perverse incentives built in to erode educational benefits, hand hold students, make university &#x27;fun&#x27;, something that used to be part of the student body&#x27;s remit, but having crushed that movement it is now where a lot of money is being spent at many universities. Not on academics, not on labs, but on comfort, edtech, busy work and asinine initiatives underpinned by endless erroneous reporting by consultants to make execs feel like they are &#x27;doing good&#x27;. I know - it is hard not to sound bitter, but it is a tragedy of short sightedness. The recruitment of students is predatory and eventually the saturation of subpar graduates from these university degrees would have eventually resulted in the fading of both cultural and brand name prestige of sending your kids to Australia for study. This is also tied to cheap international student labour, housing that pockets the inner cities that nobody who isn&#x27;t a trapped rich international would live in and a segregation of the university student community that is unhelpful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Universities forced to face addiction to foreign students’ money</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-06/universities-forced-to-face-addiction-to-foreign-students-money</url></story> |
41,424,377 | 41,421,262 | 1 | 3 | 41,417,951 | 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>AStonesThrow</author><text>Depression was my soul&#x27;s reaction to about 16 years of systematic abuse, emotional neglect, ridicule and bullying. My intellect finally shut down and I withdrew from reality entirely, or at least that was the goal.<p>At the time my new abuser would ask things like what I was thinking. This was a novelty for me but she was probably trying to figure out ways to torment me more effectively. She also explained that I was trying to hide by sleeping all the time. One teacher wrote a note about my laziness, and I knew he was correct.<p>Depression wasn&#x27;t my fault, and it wasn&#x27;t within my capacity to recover from it. But my family turned it into something exclusively my responsibility. I was drugged over and over; I was permitted to leave home without any means of support or homemaking skills, and I was eventually discarded by means of restraining orders and physical assaults, so I left the state.<p>If a child is depressed then the worst thing to do is blame, medicate, and isolate them with individual treatment. My counselor encouraged morally reprehensible behavior and never questioned my home life.<p>If your child is depressed then you&#x27;d better consider their environment and social networks to be suspect. If you can&#x27;t identify problems, then YOU ARE the problem and you&#x27;ll need to address that with decisive action, in a practical and honest manner.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We've Got Depression All Wrong. It's Trying to Save Us</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shouldstorm/202012/weve-got-depression-all-wrong-its-trying-to-save-us</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ndarray</author><text>&gt; It is time that we start honoring the courage and strength of depressed people. It is time we start valuing the incredible capacity of our biology to find a way in hard times. And it is time that we stop pretending depressed people are any different than anyone else.<p>The article&#x27;s conclusion ends in a call for society to change its ways. Such an appeal is easy to make. What&#x27;s not so easy is telling a depressed person what to do <i>right now</i> under the circumstance that society hasn&#x27;t changed and likely isn&#x27;t going to change.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We've Got Depression All Wrong. It's Trying to Save Us</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shouldstorm/202012/weve-got-depression-all-wrong-its-trying-to-save-us</url></story> |
15,324,682 | 15,324,257 | 1 | 2 | 15,323,842 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drostie</author><text>Yep! The mathematics is pretty simple and recurs in a bunch of other places, from the theory of evolution by natural selection, to the question of why things go viral on the Internet.<p>The basic idea is that these sorts of objects are routinely seeing spontaneous nuclear decays -- there might be billions per millisecond of these. What&#x27;s important is that each nuclear decay is an explosion which releases debris that can cause other nearby nuclei to decay as a result. So it becomes important to know: what is the average number N of nuclei which fall apart as a direct result of getting hit by the shrapnel of one decaying nucleus?<p>Since nothing is terribly exact in physics there are two regimes to consider, N &lt; 1 and N &gt; 1. In that first regime we can roughly calculate that we need to multiply this baseline billions-per-millisecond rate of spontaneous decays by the number<p><pre><code> 1 + N + N² + N³ + ... = 1&#x2F;(1 - N)
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The virality analogy is &quot;Given one person shares it, what is the average number N of their friends who share it?&quot; As you can see as this gets closer to N=1 it goes towards infinity.<p>For N &gt; 1 the same multiplier holds but it cannot be summed infinitely: instead we realize that each term takes a slightly longer time period and thus the growth goes something like e^(k t) for some k, it&#x27;s an exponential growth towards a majority of the sample reacting.<p>For fissile materials like plutonium, an easy way to increase N is to just bring two plutonium rods closer together: free debris from explosions in the one now cause new explosions in the other. This is called forming a &quot;critical mass&quot; hence the language about &quot;criticality&quot;. Another way is to bring in these &quot;neutron reflectors&quot; that reflect the debris back into the same sample, it&#x27;s basically the same principle.</text><parent_chain><item><author>albertgoeswoof</author><text>Is this dangerous? Genuine question, it sounds like I should also be appalled but I don&#x27;t know anything about plutonium.<p>Edit: Answered my own question:<p>&gt; keeping bits of plutonium far apart is one of the bedrock rules that those working on the nuclear arsenal are supposed to follow to prevent workplace accidents. It’s Physics 101 for nuclear scientists, but has sometimes been ignored at Los Alamos</text></item><item><author>raverbashing</author><text>&quot;A critical report earlier this year by the Center for Public Integrity highlighted at a 2011 incident at LANL where eight plutonium rods were placed side-by-side for a celebratory photograph&quot;<p>I am appalled by this. Professionals shouldn&#x27;t be doing this</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Criticality safety event’ occurred at LANL’s plutonium facility</title><url>https://www.abqjournal.com/1067835/report-criticality-event-occured-at-lanl-plutonium-facility.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>dreamcompiler</author><text>It&#x27;s the most dangerous thing that can happen at a nuclear weapons facility. Too much plutonium in one place and it starts going critical. It doesn&#x27;t explode, but lots of radiation comes out suddenly and people die of radiation poisoning. People have died from such incidents in the past.</text><parent_chain><item><author>albertgoeswoof</author><text>Is this dangerous? Genuine question, it sounds like I should also be appalled but I don&#x27;t know anything about plutonium.<p>Edit: Answered my own question:<p>&gt; keeping bits of plutonium far apart is one of the bedrock rules that those working on the nuclear arsenal are supposed to follow to prevent workplace accidents. It’s Physics 101 for nuclear scientists, but has sometimes been ignored at Los Alamos</text></item><item><author>raverbashing</author><text>&quot;A critical report earlier this year by the Center for Public Integrity highlighted at a 2011 incident at LANL where eight plutonium rods were placed side-by-side for a celebratory photograph&quot;<p>I am appalled by this. Professionals shouldn&#x27;t be doing this</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Criticality safety event’ occurred at LANL’s plutonium facility</title><url>https://www.abqjournal.com/1067835/report-criticality-event-occured-at-lanl-plutonium-facility.html</url></story> |
13,832,305 | 13,832,156 | 1 | 2 | 13,830,444 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zug_zug</author><text>I had an interesting experience with triplebyte which wasn&#x27;t as objectively bad as yours, but it also makes me skeptical of the company.<p>First round was multiple choice questions, relatively straight-forward. Second-round was skype-call and just felt incredibly subjective. I was asked questions around building out memcached to support arbitrarily-sized values, and I got the same &quot;smug&quot; vibe you sensed.<p>The interview style was very
&quot;Him: How would you do X?&quot;
&quot;me: Well that&#x27;s not a simple problem, there are a lot of solutions each with tradeoffs.&quot;
&quot;Him: Okay so name one&quot;
&quot;Me: So you could do X&quot;
&quot;Him: BUT THEN Y [GOTCHA!]&quot;
&quot;Me: Yes, that&#x27;s one of the tradeoffs of X&quot;<p>It wasn&#x27;t clear to me what the heck he was even looking for. Was he hoping I&#x27;d list race-condition problems? Had he not even considered race-condition problems? Was he looking for a theoretical solution or a real-world solution? Also he kept going on random tangents (&quot;That brings me to an interesting question, how would you shift a gigabyte of memory 1 bit?&quot;). He seemed very concerned with efficiently bit-packing the header in this problem, which seems silly to me when we&#x27;re talking about storing gigabytes.<p>My understanding was that triplebyte was seeking to be the SATs of engineering, however SATs do heavy validation with test-retest reliability and such, I had no particular reason to suspect triplebyte&#x27;s interview was any more objective than any other company&#x27;s.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>Having interviewed with TripleByte, I think this is a bold and poor decision.<p>Upfront, I didn&#x27;t pass a TripleByte interview I had (one of the few companies I haven&#x27;t passed).<p>My interviewer showed up late initially, then took a break and showed up 10 minutes late after the break. Further, the interviewer nit picked super irrelevant details, and acted exceedingly smug and condescending. Some of the stuff he told me I was wrong about was related to my research. Even after attempting to explain it several times, he just said, &quot;No, you&#x27;re wrong, you don&#x27;t know what you are talking about.&quot;<p>I then literally brought up the paper and sent it to him, before he said something along the lines of... Oh, well I guess that is right.<p>Overall, it was one of the worst interview experiences I have had, and I don&#x27;t believe they are good way to recruit. Hell, I even passed all their coding questions with flying colors. It was the silly video conferencing interview with a smug engineer who really made the interview fall apart.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Triplebyte expands its recruiting platform beyond YC, signs up Apple, Facebook</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/triplebyte-expands-its-recruiting-platform-beyond-yc-and-signs-up-apple-and-facebook/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ammon</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry that the interview went poorly! I&#x27;m especially sorry about the lateness. I just pulled up our notes from your interview, and I was your interviewer! So that makes it especially bad :(<p>I&#x27;m not an expert in all areas. At the end of the interview we have a section where we let the discussion go into whatever technical area the engineer wants to talk about. It sounds like you&#x27;re an expert in an area where I am not. In those cases I try to ask questions and push deep, but (depending on the topic) that can be hard.<p>edit: removed discussion of the specific topic discussed. Sorry, folks below are right<p>Expertise is something our model handles less well (it&#x27;s much harder to standardize). This certainly results in us failing some great people (and it sounds like that may have happened here). I&#x27;m happy to talk about this more. Give me an email at [email protected].</text><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>Having interviewed with TripleByte, I think this is a bold and poor decision.<p>Upfront, I didn&#x27;t pass a TripleByte interview I had (one of the few companies I haven&#x27;t passed).<p>My interviewer showed up late initially, then took a break and showed up 10 minutes late after the break. Further, the interviewer nit picked super irrelevant details, and acted exceedingly smug and condescending. Some of the stuff he told me I was wrong about was related to my research. Even after attempting to explain it several times, he just said, &quot;No, you&#x27;re wrong, you don&#x27;t know what you are talking about.&quot;<p>I then literally brought up the paper and sent it to him, before he said something along the lines of... Oh, well I guess that is right.<p>Overall, it was one of the worst interview experiences I have had, and I don&#x27;t believe they are good way to recruit. Hell, I even passed all their coding questions with flying colors. It was the silly video conferencing interview with a smug engineer who really made the interview fall apart.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Triplebyte expands its recruiting platform beyond YC, signs up Apple, Facebook</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/triplebyte-expands-its-recruiting-platform-beyond-yc-and-signs-up-apple-and-facebook/</url></story> |
18,961,238 | 18,961,302 | 1 | 2 | 18,960,718 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>da_chicken</author><text>Simply put, editorial and opinion sections are <i>supposed</i> to be like that. It&#x27;s not an error; it&#x27;s by design, and it&#x27;s a design that has existed for as long as editorial and opinion sections have existed.<p>You, as the reader, are expected to be know enough about how newspapers are organized to tell that you&#x27;re reading part of the opinion or editorial sections and what that means. In an ideal newspaper practicing journalistic integrity, letters to the editor like the one presented here would be published in future editions of the paper, or, failing that, published in competing newspapers.<p>Yes, everything is subject to bias. <i>Everything</i> is subject to bias. You cannot eliminate it. The point is to be aware of it&#x27;s existence, and newspapers help do that by placing these types of pieces in their opinion and editorial sections.</text><parent_chain><item><author>seibelj</author><text>The opinion section of the NYT, and also many of the long form articles, are selected and shaped by the editorial staff which has an agenda. I’ve noticed that popularized science articles are especially bad, and if the science touches even slightly a controversial issue like race or ancestry the meaning and nuance can be warped to match their agenda.<p>This isn’t only the NYT but given their status as the premier news source in the USA it is the most glaring to me.<p>Also, I know it’s become a trope to post this on HN as it’s basically gospel at this point, but The Submarine essay by Paul Graham gives some nice insight into the PR and media industry <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;submarine.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;submarine.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Letter in Response to Jan. 17 Article in The New York Times</title><url>https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/letter-response-jan-17-article-new-york-times</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unethical_ban</author><text>It&#x27;s from the &quot;Magazine&quot;, not the news section, nor is it opinion ala &quot;This political party sucks and why&quot;. It is the magazine, which is long-form narrative storytelling. I don&#x27;t think that should exempt them from leaving out or otherwise ignoring facts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>seibelj</author><text>The opinion section of the NYT, and also many of the long form articles, are selected and shaped by the editorial staff which has an agenda. I’ve noticed that popularized science articles are especially bad, and if the science touches even slightly a controversial issue like race or ancestry the meaning and nuance can be warped to match their agenda.<p>This isn’t only the NYT but given their status as the premier news source in the USA it is the most glaring to me.<p>Also, I know it’s become a trope to post this on HN as it’s basically gospel at this point, but The Submarine essay by Paul Graham gives some nice insight into the PR and media industry <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;submarine.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;submarine.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Letter in Response to Jan. 17 Article in The New York Times</title><url>https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/letter-response-jan-17-article-new-york-times</url></story> |
40,241,573 | 40,217,208 | 1 | 3 | 40,214,619 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>Users flagged this one—no doubt because these stories are so extremely repetitive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yifanl</author><text>Curiously, linked discussion has been downranked to Page 19 at time of posting.</text></item><item><author>gnabgib</author><text>Ongoing discussion [0] (71 points, 8 hours ago, 91 comments)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40209382">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40209382</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/114effb2-1071-4d93-b53d-00a96a0336a2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>altairprime</author><text>Sounds like the flamewar detector algorithms reacted to it. Happens for a lot of Apple posts too. Y’all could email the mods to have them merge the dupes, and to review the post to make sure it isn’t being brigaded by Tesla fans or whatever. Contact link’s in the footer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yifanl</author><text>Curiously, linked discussion has been downranked to Page 19 at time of posting.</text></item><item><author>gnabgib</author><text>Ongoing discussion [0] (71 points, 8 hours ago, 91 comments)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40209382">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40209382</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/114effb2-1071-4d93-b53d-00a96a0336a2</url></story> |
30,745,244 | 30,745,230 | 1 | 2 | 30,743,841 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Whenever I see strategies like these I consider those two cases since they have influence on how negotiations are done. In the car-sales case, there is an incentive to get the most out of the individual negotiation since you almost certainly will never see each other again. In the business case you are incentivized to prioritize the relationship with your peers over any individual negotiation.<p>Very insightful point.<p>The biggest salary negotiation mistake I see is when people assume the negotiation is of the first type (one-off, never see people again) instead of the latter type (part of an ongoing relationship).<p>If a company works hard to minimize someone&#x27;s compensation expectations and convince them to accept below-market salary, they&#x27;re going to pay for it later when the person wises up and leaves for something better. This scenario is well-known.<p>The less discussed scenario is when a candidate aggressively negotiates a very above-average compensation but subsequently performs in a below-average manner. This is one of the most common complaint scenarios in a private manager forum that I&#x27;m part of: Managers who get wowed by people with excellent interviewing and self-selling skills who end up underperforming their lesser-paid peers later. It generates a lot of guilt and anxiety for managers when they realize they&#x27;ve been duped into inverting the contribution:reward relationship in their compensation structure.<p>These people are the first to go in any downsizing, reorgs, and layoffs (and rightly so), but they&#x27;re often great at talking their way into the next highly paid job almost immediately. This is one of the main reasons experienced managers will go extra deep on reference checks for people with job-hopper resumes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reggieband</author><text>One thing I learned in a class on negotiation was that many people look at negotiation as a one-time thing. Examples like buying a car happen for most buyers once every 5 to 10 years. It is also a negotiation that most often happens with a new sales agent &#x2F; sales manager combo for every transaction.<p>However, a large number of negotiations in business happen with the same group of people over and over again. The example was a set of directors in a large org negotiating over budget. That kind of thing might happen every single business quarter between a stable set of peers.<p>Whenever I see strategies like these I consider those two cases since they have influence on how negotiations are done. In the car-sales case, there is an incentive to get the most out of the individual negotiation since you almost certainly will never see each other again. In the business case you are incentivized to prioritize the relationship with your peers over any individual negotiation.<p>So I don&#x27;t agree with the simplistic conclusion in the article. It seems to only consider fairness within the context of a single transaction&#x2F;negotiation. It does not consider what happens when this strategy is repeated between actors across multiple negotiations.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A better way to divide the pie</title><url>https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/better-way-to-divide-the-pie</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jka</author><text>&gt; One thing I learned in a class on negotiation was that many people look at negotiation as a one-time thing. Examples like buying a car happen for most buyers once every 5 to 10 years. It is also a negotiation that most often happens with a new sales agent &#x2F; sales manager combo for every transaction.<p>You may have been implying this already, but just to reinforce the message: it&#x27;s an asymmetric event frequency.<p>For the buyer, it occurs once every few years. For the seller, it&#x27;s occurring on a weekly or perhaps daily basis.<p>That means that the seller is fairly likely to know most of the common weaknesses and opportunities for buyers, and the ways in which those buyers communicate (or fail to communicate) them. Sellers can choose to do what they want with that information advantage.<p>To me the question is a broader one: why are Alice and Bob accepting to enter into some byzantine challenge where they have to co-operate in order to receive a larger amount of pizza? And why is there an entire book for sale on the topic, when at first-glance it seems to closely (~80%) resemble what can be defined as the prisoners&#x27; dilemma within a paragraph?<p>I think Alice and Bob should publish the ridiculous situation they&#x27;ve been faced with at the pizza restaurant and find somewhere else to go to eat, and I don&#x27;t think they require a book to teach them that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reggieband</author><text>One thing I learned in a class on negotiation was that many people look at negotiation as a one-time thing. Examples like buying a car happen for most buyers once every 5 to 10 years. It is also a negotiation that most often happens with a new sales agent &#x2F; sales manager combo for every transaction.<p>However, a large number of negotiations in business happen with the same group of people over and over again. The example was a set of directors in a large org negotiating over budget. That kind of thing might happen every single business quarter between a stable set of peers.<p>Whenever I see strategies like these I consider those two cases since they have influence on how negotiations are done. In the car-sales case, there is an incentive to get the most out of the individual negotiation since you almost certainly will never see each other again. In the business case you are incentivized to prioritize the relationship with your peers over any individual negotiation.<p>So I don&#x27;t agree with the simplistic conclusion in the article. It seems to only consider fairness within the context of a single transaction&#x2F;negotiation. It does not consider what happens when this strategy is repeated between actors across multiple negotiations.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A better way to divide the pie</title><url>https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/better-way-to-divide-the-pie</url></story> |
14,562,577 | 14,562,534 | 1 | 2 | 14,562,326 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>komali2</author><text>Facebook is playing pretty vicously - adding stories to <i>three</i> of its apps, when realistically the only app that is similar to snapchat is Instagram - but I&#x27;m happy for it either way.<p>Facebook apps do some stupid shit, like in Messenger, why the fuck does the back button take me into a camera looking at my ugly mug? Why does swiping down from the top to get to the top of my messages list sometimes again open a camera to my double chins? What in the <i>shit</i> is going on with the stupid circles smack-dab in the middle of my conversation history? And why on earth can&#x27;t I swap the camera around mid-video in an instagram vid?<p>But it&#x27;s nothing, <i>nothing</i> compared to the crime against humanity that is the Snapchat UX. It is an abomination, and a buggy one at that. I&#x27;ve heard it&#x27;s at least more responsive on iPhone, fine. I&#x27;ve even heard arguments that it&#x27;s esoteric on purpose - you have to be young and &quot;with it&quot; to &quot;get it.&quot; Friends have to ask eachother &quot;omg how did you do that filter&quot; or whatever, which allows a moment of millenial smugness. Fine, that can be a reason, and we can lump it in amongst the thousands of other UX charges we should levy against Snapchat.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Snap's share price sinks, trades just above IPO price</title><url>http://nasdaq.com/article/snaps-share-price-sinks-trades-just-above-ipo-price-20170615-00941</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chollida1</author><text>Well........<p>- no control by stock owners<p>- no immediate plans to produce profits<p>- whistleblower lawsuit in the works by former employee who claims they seriously inflated user metrics<p>- a shitload of shares about to become free trading, with a declining share price, you&#x27;ve got to think alot of employees are going to go stampeding to the exits rather than holding<p>- record short interest by the street<p>- one of the main IPO banks (JP Morgan) just cut their target from $20 to $18 for the stock,<p>- The same bank doesn&#x27;t have an almost guaranteed BUY rating on the stock, and has rated it as a HOLD&#x2F;Neutral, which is the equivalent of a sell in sell side analyst parlance<p>- a miss on their first earnings<p>- their biggest rival, Instagram, is doing well in competing with them, and they have Facebook&#x27;s large pile of money and audience behind them<p>- and the macro climate of people expecting a market cooling coming soon, in those cases people tend to flock away from speculative companies to the old fashioned kind that make money.<p>SNAP might be a long term good company, but its going to be a rocky ride in the short term.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Snap's share price sinks, trades just above IPO price</title><url>http://nasdaq.com/article/snaps-share-price-sinks-trades-just-above-ipo-price-20170615-00941</url></story> |
33,530,217 | 33,528,684 | 1 | 2 | 33,527,296 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rpastuszak</author><text>I&#x27;ve just transitioned from Apple Notes to Obsidian and so far I&#x27;m loving it. In terms of high quality free software (not nec. OSS) it feels like the same league as Blender. It&#x27;s so simple and so powerful.<p>I use it for ad hoc notes and research (e.g. project ideas, an ML-course I&#x27;m taking now, random interesting subjects beyond tech) as well as for daily journaling.<p>I start my day by writing in a &quot;stream of consciousness&quot; app I wrote for myself: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enso.sonnet.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enso.sonnet.io</a>.<p>The format is as follows (ca. 20m each morning, 700-800 words):<p>- 100% unstructured description of my previous day, then<p>- 3-4 things I found beautiful or interesting, then<p>- a short TODO list for the day.<p>Then I just copy past the notes into my new daily note in Obsidian.<p>This seems to work really well for me. If I was to pick one improvement, it would be Apple Reminders treating multi-line text as separate entries when pasting. But again, it takes just a few seconds, and most of my workflow is just muscle memory at this stage.<p>PS. I&#x27;m thinking about writing an Open AI Whisper powered transcription tool for voice notes in Obsidian. If that&#x27;s something you&#x27;d find useful and would be prepared to pay for, please let me know.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tfsh</author><text>There&#x27;s a useful plugin called &quot;Daily Notes&quot; which automatically creates a note each day with your desired template, along with the calendar plugin I have a daily chronology of everything I&#x27;ve done which I deem noteworthy.<p>If anyones interested in Obsidian and daily journalling keep the initial ceremony low. Some people have sections for challenges, achievements, mood, emails, to-dos, etc. That&#x27;ll be far too much cognitive load for anyone - keep it simple and very quickly you&#x27;ll know whether you want to add or remove any of the daily ceremony.<p>I have a &quot;Key tasks&quot; where I include a mostly succinct breakdown of anything worth noting. I did this on Google Docs for 3 years before very recently moving to Obsidian and I wouldn&#x27;t turn back. Tags and back links definitely help me jump between related thoughts and actions much more than grepping in a 50k+ words Google doc :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing down what I do in Obsidian</title><url>https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/writing-down-what-i-do-in-obsidian/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stefandesu</author><text>There&#x27;s also the &quot;Periodic Notes&quot; plugin which additionally allows for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly notes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tfsh</author><text>There&#x27;s a useful plugin called &quot;Daily Notes&quot; which automatically creates a note each day with your desired template, along with the calendar plugin I have a daily chronology of everything I&#x27;ve done which I deem noteworthy.<p>If anyones interested in Obsidian and daily journalling keep the initial ceremony low. Some people have sections for challenges, achievements, mood, emails, to-dos, etc. That&#x27;ll be far too much cognitive load for anyone - keep it simple and very quickly you&#x27;ll know whether you want to add or remove any of the daily ceremony.<p>I have a &quot;Key tasks&quot; where I include a mostly succinct breakdown of anything worth noting. I did this on Google Docs for 3 years before very recently moving to Obsidian and I wouldn&#x27;t turn back. Tags and back links definitely help me jump between related thoughts and actions much more than grepping in a 50k+ words Google doc :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing down what I do in Obsidian</title><url>https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/writing-down-what-i-do-in-obsidian/</url></story> |
7,478,623 | 7,477,691 | 1 | 2 | 7,477,062 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dotBen</author><text>Klout also realized it would never have the granular level of access to the interest graphs on the networks it was - pardon the expression - leaching off of.<p>I remember a senior Twitter staff member pointing out that if Klout really proved a market, they could simply compute all of this information directly rather than inefficiently via the API platform and firehose - with better results from access to more data, and the ability to sell directly to advertisers who they already had relationships with through their sales team.<p>Klout were never going to gain the level of access the needed to the graphs on the various networks they utilized in order to realize their longer-term goals. Which, btw, ultimately highlights yet another fallacy of the platform economy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dpcheng2003</author><text>As a startup founder, let me take the contrarian view on this because I can see how it all went wrong. Klout, for the most part, had a very ambitious goal.<p>Given all our activity (direct or indirect) that is being captured on social networks and general internet activity, there was some inherent value (which we&#x27;ll call a &quot;clout score&quot;) in just knowing who was the &quot;most popular&quot; on these networks.<p>Now imagine you took in all the interest-graph related and search data, and refined that &quot;clout score&quot; to the niches and groups where that individual was most influential. In this hypothetical alternate universe, you can use clout scores and deduce, for example, that &quot;so-and-so&quot; was a more influential voice in the battery materials science community (i.e, cathodes) because her white papers were being shared more often on social networks and getting more backlinks.<p>But Klout didn&#x27;t do that. Klout realized that to get to market quickly, they applied an arbitrary algorithm to social activity, which would encourage artificial activity on Klout to &quot;game&quot; the system. In another different alternate universe, this would be applauded as a successful growth hack and Klout would be filing their S-1 today. But in our universe, people saw the algorithm as hackneyed, particularly when Justin Bieber had a higher Klout score than the US president.<p>This go-to-market strategy was likely (I&#x27;m presuming) influenced by VC investor dollars and the perceived need to be always growing, driven by TechCrunch mentions and HackerNews front page posts. And to some extent, they were successful. They raised a lot of venture dollars, cashed out a few early employees (again, presuming) and convinced some really smart people to join and grow Klout.<p>But now that they&#x27;ve sold out, they can never do what they wanted to do. And in some ways, they&#x27;ve tainted that idea for others who may appreciate the &quot;clout score.&quot; So selling out for $200M--for recurring revenue from large brands, patents associated with social activity scoring (didn&#x27;t fact-check this but guessing) and great employees--is not a bad outcome for Klout or for Lithium.<p>But I&#x27;m sure once upon a time, Joe Fernandez (the founder), had a grander vision. This is hardly a bad consolation prize, but what if...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Klout acquired for $200 million by Lithium Technologies</title><url>http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/26/klout-acquired-for-200-million-by-lithium-technologies/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ThomPete</author><text>I don&#x27;t think anyone is contesting the grander vision.<p>The problem is that they sold out, way before they sold out. They slapped together something that might make it for a social media karme engine game kind of thing but not by any metrics any real valuable personification of influence. Besides what everyone else could already see, and even that they got wrong.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dpcheng2003</author><text>As a startup founder, let me take the contrarian view on this because I can see how it all went wrong. Klout, for the most part, had a very ambitious goal.<p>Given all our activity (direct or indirect) that is being captured on social networks and general internet activity, there was some inherent value (which we&#x27;ll call a &quot;clout score&quot;) in just knowing who was the &quot;most popular&quot; on these networks.<p>Now imagine you took in all the interest-graph related and search data, and refined that &quot;clout score&quot; to the niches and groups where that individual was most influential. In this hypothetical alternate universe, you can use clout scores and deduce, for example, that &quot;so-and-so&quot; was a more influential voice in the battery materials science community (i.e, cathodes) because her white papers were being shared more often on social networks and getting more backlinks.<p>But Klout didn&#x27;t do that. Klout realized that to get to market quickly, they applied an arbitrary algorithm to social activity, which would encourage artificial activity on Klout to &quot;game&quot; the system. In another different alternate universe, this would be applauded as a successful growth hack and Klout would be filing their S-1 today. But in our universe, people saw the algorithm as hackneyed, particularly when Justin Bieber had a higher Klout score than the US president.<p>This go-to-market strategy was likely (I&#x27;m presuming) influenced by VC investor dollars and the perceived need to be always growing, driven by TechCrunch mentions and HackerNews front page posts. And to some extent, they were successful. They raised a lot of venture dollars, cashed out a few early employees (again, presuming) and convinced some really smart people to join and grow Klout.<p>But now that they&#x27;ve sold out, they can never do what they wanted to do. And in some ways, they&#x27;ve tainted that idea for others who may appreciate the &quot;clout score.&quot; So selling out for $200M--for recurring revenue from large brands, patents associated with social activity scoring (didn&#x27;t fact-check this but guessing) and great employees--is not a bad outcome for Klout or for Lithium.<p>But I&#x27;m sure once upon a time, Joe Fernandez (the founder), had a grander vision. This is hardly a bad consolation prize, but what if...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Klout acquired for $200 million by Lithium Technologies</title><url>http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/26/klout-acquired-for-200-million-by-lithium-technologies/</url></story> |
2,443,614 | 2,443,506 | 1 | 2 | 2,442,274 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>muhfuhkuh</author><text>"well, they get discounted frappuchinos at any rate"<p>I've noted your past fixation on English majors and their lack of financial success, and not sure why you single them out. Lit crit-saddled academia and coffeeshops aren't the only path for the English major. Writing is not only a noble pursuit but a lucrative[1] one (even if you skirt the legacy publishing industry), with as much a combination of hard work and dedication to craft (and luck) as, for example, selling bingo card generators for a living, or mobile phone games, or b2b CRUD apps, or facebook farming simulators.<p>Aside from fiction writing, there are ad copy and marketing writers, technical writers, screen and television writers, bloggers, journos, etc. Most of those are salaried positions, not necessarily part time/contract work.<p>It's really not that bad out there. For the record, I've never worked at a coffeeshop :D<p>[1]<a href="http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/will-write-e-porn-for-1-million/9888" rel="nofollow">http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/will-write-e-po...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Capitalism happens? Seriously, anecdotal fresh-out-of-school salaries for talented CS people are near $100k. Anecdotal fresh-out-of-school salaries for talented English majors are near... well, they get discounted frappuchinos at any rate. This is Mr. Market saying "Thanks, I've got enough literary criticism -- can I please, please, please have more code monkeys?"</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stanford CS enrollment increase "downright scary"</title><url>http://computinged.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/guest-post-eric-roberts-on-the-dangers-of-escalating-enrollments/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thirtyseven</author><text>This kind of argument infuriates me. Mr. Market wants lots of things, some of them are good, some aren't. Besides, would a talented English major even want to be a full-time developer? Would you want to work with them?<p>Not everyone lives their lives according to the principles of capitalism, just consider yourself lucky that at this moment, it's working out in our favor as developers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Capitalism happens? Seriously, anecdotal fresh-out-of-school salaries for talented CS people are near $100k. Anecdotal fresh-out-of-school salaries for talented English majors are near... well, they get discounted frappuchinos at any rate. This is Mr. Market saying "Thanks, I've got enough literary criticism -- can I please, please, please have more code monkeys?"</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stanford CS enrollment increase "downright scary"</title><url>http://computinged.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/guest-post-eric-roberts-on-the-dangers-of-escalating-enrollments/</url></story> |
19,045,982 | 19,046,006 | 1 | 3 | 19,044,728 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dominicr</author><text>I think the issues are:
- they were collecting data from users who were below legal age for responsibility and&#x2F;or local laws about collecting data about minors.
- The general public know very little about everything. Companies have a moral duty to not only educate their users but also to not do wrong.<p>Personal responsibility is a flag many people wave but it&#x27;s a farce. That argument can be used for anything, from seatbelts, to smoking, to privacy. It is impossible for everyone to know enough to make informed choices about EVERYTHING. There is a need for societal organisations (governments, NGOs, responsible journalism) to provide guidance to the public and legal limits in order to provide protection to the whole.</text><parent_chain><item><author>macinjosh</author><text>I understand how FB was not using Apple&#x27;s enterprise development program in good faith. Apple clearly has a right to do what they did.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why FB is in hot water with the public for what they did. Users were informed that data collection was taking place and they were compensated for it. Now, was it wise on the users&#x27; part to join this program? Perhaps not, but last time I checked this is still a free country and people can sell their property for as much or as little as they want.<p>On NPR this morning I heard the argument that a lot of the detail of what is collected and how it is used is buried in the T&amp;C. So what? Have we lost sight of personal responsibility? How naive are people? If you are getting something for free from a large corporation you&#x27;re not getting it out the kindness of their heart. They are making money somehow. That is how the world works.<p>Panic, moral or otherwise, about this sort of stuff is going to push the tech industry into realm of regulatory capture. Well funded companies will be able to afford and absorb compliance costs where small bootstrapped startups, lifestyle businesses, and indie developers will be pushed out of the market.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/31/apple-facebook-campus-permissions-revoked-teens-access-data-iphone-app</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aaomidi</author><text>The issue wasn&#x27;t the app exists and people were using it. It was the demographic this app was targeting.<p>The app was targeting 13 to 35 year olds. People under 18 has to get parental permission which was literally just selecting a box.<p>The $20 of free money is a big deal for a kid and they might not have the best idea of what they&#x27;re giving away with agreeing to this.<p>It&#x27;s a really scummy move and possibly illegal to target kids like this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>macinjosh</author><text>I understand how FB was not using Apple&#x27;s enterprise development program in good faith. Apple clearly has a right to do what they did.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why FB is in hot water with the public for what they did. Users were informed that data collection was taking place and they were compensated for it. Now, was it wise on the users&#x27; part to join this program? Perhaps not, but last time I checked this is still a free country and people can sell their property for as much or as little as they want.<p>On NPR this morning I heard the argument that a lot of the detail of what is collected and how it is used is buried in the T&amp;C. So what? Have we lost sight of personal responsibility? How naive are people? If you are getting something for free from a large corporation you&#x27;re not getting it out the kindness of their heart. They are making money somehow. That is how the world works.<p>Panic, moral or otherwise, about this sort of stuff is going to push the tech industry into realm of regulatory capture. Well funded companies will be able to afford and absorb compliance costs where small bootstrapped startups, lifestyle businesses, and indie developers will be pushed out of the market.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/31/apple-facebook-campus-permissions-revoked-teens-access-data-iphone-app</url></story> |
5,252,400 | 5,252,194 | 1 | 3 | 5,251,233 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bcantrill</author><text>I think it's worth (re)reading this comment on the original Storage Pod from several years ago:<p><a href="http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5899-Some-perspective-to-this-DIY-storage-server-mentioned-at-Storagemojo.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5899-Some-perspective-to-th...</a><p>I have essentially have all of the same questions for Storage Pod 3.0 -- and in particular, what does the software stack look like? (This config is absolutely begging for ZFS, but I have a haunting feeling that something janky is afoot upstack.) I would also be curious as to the specific nature of failures that have been seen with the deployed architecture. Have the concerns from three years ago proven to be alarmist or prescient?<p>That said: I think it's very valuable to get configs like this out there for public discussion -- and I think it might be inspiring us (Joyent) to similarly publicly discuss our own high density storage config...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>180TB of Good Vibrations – Storage Pod 3.0</title><url>http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibrations-storage-pod-3-0/</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>kyrra</author><text>The serviceability of those things looks not pleasant. I used to work in the storage industry and got to play with (what is now) NetApp high-density setups [1]. 60 drives in a 4U setup, compared to 45 drives in Storage Pod in the same 4U. But I'm guessing the cost is where Storage Pod really wins out. NetApp gear, even as a JBOD, is really expensive.<p>The NetApp box has same type of padding for all the drives, but they are much easier to access (pull out trays are stable and easy to use).<p>Fun issues I saw with the NetApp box (at least 3 years ago): fully loaded with drives, it went over the weight limit that Fedex or UPS would ship with standard shipping. It required freight shipping to ship a single, full-loaded, E5400.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/e5400/" rel="nofollow">http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/e5400/</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>180TB of Good Vibrations – Storage Pod 3.0</title><url>http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibrations-storage-pod-3-0/</url></story> |
17,286,377 | 17,286,410 | 1 | 2 | 17,286,109 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>EpicEng</author><text>&gt;By that logic they should ban gift cards and in-game currency too.<p>Except that it doesn&#x27;t because people aren&#x27;t buying $10,000+ in gift cards on the hope that they will increase in value and then defaulting on their CC payments because said gift cards crashed.<p>When trying to solve a problem you have to focus on the actual problem at hand, not philosophical musings.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>By that logic they should ban gift cards and in-game currency too.<p>Sure, you can use your checking account, but if my credit card is going to restrict my usage and I&#x27;m going to be hassled into circumventing it, then why even have it?<p>I actually have a Well Fargo credit card, I&#x27;ll be keeping an close eye on these restrictions.</text></item><item><author>philip1209</author><text>On the surface, this looks bad. But, the underlying logic - that Wells Fargo doesn&#x27;t want to loan you money so that you can buy money - seems reasonable to me. If you have cash in a Wells Fargo checking account, you can still buy cryptocurrency with it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wells Fargo Bans Cryptocurrency Purchases on Its Credit Cards</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-11/wells-fargo-bans-cryptocurrency-purchases-on-its-credit-cards</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vxNsr</author><text>Store gift cards are really just store credit and can&#x27;t really be used anywhere else, I&#x27;ve yet to encounter a store that will readily convert store credit&#x2F;gift cards into cash.<p>There is only one place I know of where you can buy cash like gift cards in significant amounts, and many cc companies do post it as a cash advance (with the associated interest and fees). Everywhere else that you can buy visa&#x2F;mc&#x2F;amex gift cards the denomination is usually maxed at $500 and the store won&#x27;t let you do too much, but there is a healthy cottage industry leveraging that (both legit and fraudulent).<p>In-game currency is really just store credit. It cannot be easily converted to cash and is thus not really considered a loan.<p>Selling either in-game currency (where possible) or store gift cards usually requires giving up as much as 20% of the value and thus isn&#x27;t seen as a viable option.<p>CC companies don&#x27;t want you to view them as a cash funding source, they want to be directly between the customer and the store not the customer and his&#x2F;her cash. Especially cards with high &quot;cash back&quot; returns.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>By that logic they should ban gift cards and in-game currency too.<p>Sure, you can use your checking account, but if my credit card is going to restrict my usage and I&#x27;m going to be hassled into circumventing it, then why even have it?<p>I actually have a Well Fargo credit card, I&#x27;ll be keeping an close eye on these restrictions.</text></item><item><author>philip1209</author><text>On the surface, this looks bad. But, the underlying logic - that Wells Fargo doesn&#x27;t want to loan you money so that you can buy money - seems reasonable to me. If you have cash in a Wells Fargo checking account, you can still buy cryptocurrency with it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wells Fargo Bans Cryptocurrency Purchases on Its Credit Cards</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-11/wells-fargo-bans-cryptocurrency-purchases-on-its-credit-cards</url></story> |
26,448,997 | 26,449,223 | 1 | 2 | 26,447,471 | 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>phreack</author><text>It&#x27;s hard for the general public to grasp the difference between a photoshopped image and one generated with ML processes, so I expect both will be called &quot;deep fakes&quot; by the media for the foreseeable future.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blunte</author><text>From TFA (and making assumptions about the woman), I don&#x27;t believe these were &quot;deepfakes&quot;. It sounds like it was just the usual Photoshop kind of stuff. And in that regard, it&#x27;s just another sad story about some people with issues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Woman created deepfake videos to force rivals off daughter’s cheerleading squad</title><url>https://www.inquirer.com/news/bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cyberbullying-deepfake-20210312.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>martey</author><text>I think this quote suggests you are right:<p>&gt; <i>The videos were analyzed, and detectives were able to determine they were “deepfakes” — digitally altered but realistic-looking images — created by mapping the girls’ social media photos onto other images...</i><p>Both this article (and the Inquirer article it is based and basically plagiarizes - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inquirer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cyberbullying-deepfake-20210312.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inquirer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cy...</a>) seem to be confused about the difference between photos and videos and seem to imply that they are interchangeable. It would be interesting to read the actual affidavit and see if it contains the same confusion, or if this is something caused by the Inquirer&#x27;s reporting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blunte</author><text>From TFA (and making assumptions about the woman), I don&#x27;t believe these were &quot;deepfakes&quot;. It sounds like it was just the usual Photoshop kind of stuff. And in that regard, it&#x27;s just another sad story about some people with issues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Woman created deepfake videos to force rivals off daughter’s cheerleading squad</title><url>https://www.inquirer.com/news/bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cyberbullying-deepfake-20210312.html</url></story> |
3,712,622 | 3,712,617 | 1 | 2 | 3,712,411 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sirclueless</author><text>This particularly makes sense for SaaS offerings that are being discontinued. If your product is only available as a service then it is particularly painful when it disappears for those who depend on it. From a business standpoint, open-sourcing is a good way to maintain goodwill and shift the onus of administering the service to those who consume it without leaving them out to dry. All your consumers will have to make a decision on whether the cost of running their own service is worth it, which is a much healthier situation than a bunch of irate customers left with no recourse.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shutting down a product? Open source it.</title><url>http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/19388751626/copycopter-is-now-open-source</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>notphilatall</author><text>That's only an option if you're shuttering the product of your own will. If you're part of a talent acquisition (which is the case with Posterous and Milk), the purchasing company would have to make that call, so you should really address the blog post to them.<p>It's unlikely any of them would: they just paid a bunch of money and acquired the team plus source, and even if they don't use the acquired source, open-sourcing it is extra work and/or a liability. The team, on the other hand, may still have faint hopes that the company will do something with their product.<p>In the cases where it's clear that the team's energies will be focused elsewhere the team could try to include it in the terms of the acquisition, but were I in those shoes I'd probably not want to risk souring the upside or acquisition as a whole.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shutting down a product? Open source it.</title><url>http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/19388751626/copycopter-is-now-open-source</url><text></text></story> |
23,535,719 | 23,534,617 | 1 | 2 | 23,532,662 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rexreed</author><text>He&#x27;s overly simplifying the contribution to profit by not understanding the contribution to expenses. It&#x27;s not his fault because Amazon doesn&#x27;t break it out that way. They don&#x27;t allocate certain expenses to AWS and other expenses to other branches.<p>While there&#x27;s no doubt that AWS is very profitable, to say it contributes a certain percentage to overall profits probably misses the mark tremendously.<p>It&#x27;s probably and most likely very difficult to extricate costs of server farms that support the retail operation from server farms that host client services from overall operating costs. You&#x27;d need far more detail on gross margins and tight definitions for contribution of revenue. For example, do people who order things on Alexa get revenue counted for non-AWS while the Alexa infrastructure is counted as AWS expense? These are not easy questions. This is why it&#x27;s not broken out as you&#x27;d like.<p>I&#x27;d wager that the contribution to profits is not as suggested here, but it&#x27;s hard to know just how far off the calculation is. And it might not matter.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/14/Amazon-profit-from-AWS</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mbesto</author><text>Profit can be a really weird number, especially when it comes to data centers. So looking at pure earning statements numbers is likely going to be misleading no matter how you try to look at (unless you actually look at bank statements, you can create as many interpretations as you want).<p>First, data centers require A LOT of upfront capital. This capital is then capitalized over years, which is how it ultimately affects &quot;profit&quot;. So depending on the capitalization schedule, how much they are investing in future growth, etc. will all affect this number. It&#x27;s why, in short, Bezo&#x27;s doesn&#x27;t ever look at these numbers, but instead free cash flow (FCF).<p>“Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that. So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.”[0]<p>So, the real metric to look at is the FCF&#x2F;DCF generated by AWS. If we had that number, I think you could basically conclude that it&#x27;s &quot;printing money&quot;.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;25iq.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;a-dozen-things-i-have-learned-from-jeff-bezos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;25iq.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;a-dozen-things-i-have-learned-fr...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/14/Amazon-profit-from-AWS</url></story> |
37,400,729 | 37,400,048 | 1 | 2 | 37,385,038 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asimpleusecase</author><text>I knew a lady who was born with very complex spina bifida. Her parents were wealthy and had very manicured lives. They signed her over to an institution at birth. She grew up with people with profound mental retardation. She receive no education. At 20 she was found by an uncle who always suspected something had happened that was not being disclosed. He began to visit her and teach her to read. He explained that she had a right to leave and helped her start her life. In a couple of years she was able to enter University and graduated despite the lack of any education before 20. She developed a friendship with a lady with CP and they were housemates when I met them. She died of pneumonia several years ago due to constricted lung size. She was a lovely friend.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Ones We Sent Away</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/disabled-children-institutionalization-history/674763/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hellotheretoday</author><text>I worked in a facility like this for the first 5 years of my career<p>Many of the clients are very aware they’ve been abandoned. Especially so because there are a select few who do get regular family visits.<p>It was crushingly depressing to work holidays and have the regular crew of kids that never went home or had visitors. If you work with adults it was significantly worse, many of them had no visitors for literal decades<p>Also those places pay terribly but I’m sure that shocks no one. When I worked there it was at one of the places known for paying very well in the industry and they payed 13&#x2F;hr for children and 9&#x2F;hr for adults (2010). AFAIK the rates are only 2-3 dollars more an hour now 13 years later</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Ones We Sent Away</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/disabled-children-institutionalization-history/674763/</url></story> |
13,525,875 | 13,525,962 | 1 | 2 | 13,525,138 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewvc</author><text><i>Why weren&#x27;t the risks better known before?</i><p>I&#x27;m sorry, but the truth here is that DuPont knew for decades and hid those results from the public. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-07-06&#x2F;dupont-loses-third-case-over-teflon-toxin-chemours-to-pay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-07-06&#x2F;dupont-lo...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>philipkglass</author><text>This article is about heavily fluorinated organic compounds -- molecules with a carbon skeleton and all or most of the hydrogen atoms replaced by fluorine. These are not the ionic fluorine compounds that protect teeth against decay (and that cause acute toxicity in case of over-consumption).<p><i>Why are these compounds hazardous?</i><p>- Harmful biological effects in the human body, like hormone-mimic activity.<p>- Low molecular polarity leads to bio-magnification in fats and oils up through the food chain, and persistence in human fat.<p>- The high strength of the carbon-fluorine bonds greatly reduces the rate at which typical environmental degradation mechanisms (hydrolysis, photolysis, atmospheric oxidation, enzymatic breakdown in cells...) act on these compounds, compared to their hydrocarbon counterparts.<p><i>Why are these compounds used?</i><p>The same properties that make them hazards once dispersed -- strong carbon-fluorine bonds that resist breakdown, low polarity -- make them desirable in applications where people want water-repellant surfaces or materials that resist high temperatures and&#x2F;or chemical attack.<p><i>Why weren&#x27;t the risks better known before?</i><p>It&#x27;s a lot easier to test for acute hazards than for chronic ones. By <i>acute</i> toxicity metrics, like feeding a bunch of rats these compounds until the dose is high enough to kill half, these materials are generally less toxic than substances like potassium fluoride. It turns out that for low level <i>chronic</i> exposure, perfluorinated compounds are more hazardous than simple ionic fluorides due to persistence and accumulation.<p>The link between stability and persistence makes up a recurring theme in environmental toxicology: materials with lower acute hazards are often worse hazards in the long term. The very lack of reactivity that makes molecules less acutely hazardous in case of e.g. a fire or a worker accidentally splashing some on skin makes them <i>more</i> likely to be long term problems, because the same basic properties impair how quickly environmental sinks can break them down. Pure methanol ignites more easily than diesel fuel and has worse acute toxicity risks if a worker gets drenched in a spill. But diesel contamination from a leaking storage tank is more persistent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toxic fluorinated compounds found in drinking water of 33 states</title><url>http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/08/unsafe-levels-of-toxic-chemicals-found-in-drinking-water-of-33-states/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snowwrestler</author><text>This is analogous to why scientists and policymakers focus so much on CO2 when worrying about global warming.<p>Other compounds, like water vapor or methane, trap more heat than CO2. But they leave the atmosphere much more quickly: water rains out after a week or two, and methane breaks down in about a decade. But CO2 persists for many decades, perhaps even longer depending on the state of the biosphere.<p>So despite that fact that CO2 is harmless to human health at atmospheric concentrations, and actually beneficial to plants and some animals, the systemic harm due to its longevity can be huge.</text><parent_chain><item><author>philipkglass</author><text>This article is about heavily fluorinated organic compounds -- molecules with a carbon skeleton and all or most of the hydrogen atoms replaced by fluorine. These are not the ionic fluorine compounds that protect teeth against decay (and that cause acute toxicity in case of over-consumption).<p><i>Why are these compounds hazardous?</i><p>- Harmful biological effects in the human body, like hormone-mimic activity.<p>- Low molecular polarity leads to bio-magnification in fats and oils up through the food chain, and persistence in human fat.<p>- The high strength of the carbon-fluorine bonds greatly reduces the rate at which typical environmental degradation mechanisms (hydrolysis, photolysis, atmospheric oxidation, enzymatic breakdown in cells...) act on these compounds, compared to their hydrocarbon counterparts.<p><i>Why are these compounds used?</i><p>The same properties that make them hazards once dispersed -- strong carbon-fluorine bonds that resist breakdown, low polarity -- make them desirable in applications where people want water-repellant surfaces or materials that resist high temperatures and&#x2F;or chemical attack.<p><i>Why weren&#x27;t the risks better known before?</i><p>It&#x27;s a lot easier to test for acute hazards than for chronic ones. By <i>acute</i> toxicity metrics, like feeding a bunch of rats these compounds until the dose is high enough to kill half, these materials are generally less toxic than substances like potassium fluoride. It turns out that for low level <i>chronic</i> exposure, perfluorinated compounds are more hazardous than simple ionic fluorides due to persistence and accumulation.<p>The link between stability and persistence makes up a recurring theme in environmental toxicology: materials with lower acute hazards are often worse hazards in the long term. The very lack of reactivity that makes molecules less acutely hazardous in case of e.g. a fire or a worker accidentally splashing some on skin makes them <i>more</i> likely to be long term problems, because the same basic properties impair how quickly environmental sinks can break them down. Pure methanol ignites more easily than diesel fuel and has worse acute toxicity risks if a worker gets drenched in a spill. But diesel contamination from a leaking storage tank is more persistent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toxic fluorinated compounds found in drinking water of 33 states</title><url>http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/08/unsafe-levels-of-toxic-chemicals-found-in-drinking-water-of-33-states/</url></story> |
11,773,063 | 11,772,864 | 1 | 2 | 11,772,686 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>When I first heard about Docker, I thought it did what Nix does.<p>Then someone handed me a docker image saying, &quot;I got this working on my laptop, deploy this. Isn&#x27;t this great!&quot;. I had no idea how they arrived at that configuration. If something happened to them or that image, I wouldn&#x27;t have known how to reproduce that &quot;working state&quot;.<p>So I am happy to see Nix &#x2F; Guix become popular. It is what I imagined package management to be.<p>Before that we just used rpm and deb packages. For all the hate they get, they are actually well thought out, tested, stable format. With {pre&#x2F;post}-{install&#x2F;uninstall} script support, dependency resolution and so on.<p>But Nix &#x2F; Guix is a qualitatively different things. Hope it becomes popular.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nix as OS X Package Manager</title><url>http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2016/05/nix-as-os-x-package-manager.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>hso1</author><text>Since I discovered Nix, I&#x27;ve been using it as a package manager for OS X and Linux. Every project my team is working on now has a default.nix file. Getting started on a project is so easy for a new hire now: just one `nix-env` away from a fully working dev environment! :D</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nix as OS X Package Manager</title><url>http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2016/05/nix-as-os-x-package-manager.html</url></story> |
16,413,691 | 16,413,765 | 1 | 2 | 16,413,515 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>This is one of those cases where I probably should feel bad for the company being repeatedly hacked to the point of being ripe for being shut down, but I just can&#x27;t muster the will right now.<p>If you are in the business of collecting data without users&#x27; explicit permission, and can&#x27;t protect that data from being accessed or deleted, you shoudln&#x27;t be in business.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7a5k/hacker-wipes-spyware-retina-x-flexispy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewflnr</author><text>They stored the master key to their entire data store in a publicly distributed app?<p>&gt; ...we have been taking steps to enhance our data security measures. Sharing details of security measures could only serve to potentially compromise those efforts.<p>Maybe they used ROT13 on the API key <i>twice</i> this time!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7a5k/hacker-wipes-spyware-retina-x-flexispy</url></story> |
35,790,249 | 35,790,250 | 1 | 2 | 35,787,527 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text>I like to joke there are platforms that were so ahead of their time they are still ahead of ours. The AS&#x2F;400 is one such thing. It concerns me IBM doesn&#x27;t seem to provide enough entry-level resources (and I believe nobody would do a green field project on IBMi that required a company to invest on the platform unless it already had a sizeable investment on it). For all three of their crown jewels, AIX, Z and i, IBM is doing a terrible job in onboarding new clients.<p>BTW, I&#x27;ve been trying to set up a small AIX box to do some software testing (and not make the mistake of making a Unix app dependent on linuxisms) on IBM cloud and, even when you navigate the confusing UI and metaphors (there is no &quot;give me a POWER10 AIX VM with this many vCPUS, this much memory and this much disk&quot; option), it&#x27;s failing for me for unfathomable reasons while trying to create a storage volume with the default options. On a side note, I can create a Linux VM running on s390x from the same flow I create x86 ones, but I can&#x27;t select a z&#x2F;OS disk image, or a POWER processor. If I want a z&#x2F;OS machine, I have to go through an entirely different workflow (one I went through, only to never be able to figure out the IP addresses I could ssh to).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IBM AS/400: Databases all the way down (2019) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDSgJE5mPJM</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LeftHandPath</author><text>I have worked with these extensively - my employer uses one for work, and I have written software both in the greenscreen &#x2F; ILE languages and in the PASE environment &#x2F; IFS to accomplish certain tasks (e.g. setting up an intranet site with PHP to present pretty-fied reports of what&#x27;s in the databases).<p>I think one of my favorite things about it is actually IBM&#x27;s Data Description Specification (DDS) [0]. You use it for the same reason you&#x27;d use a `CREATE TABLE` statement in SQL, but the syntax is much more legible &#x2F; suited for that purpose, and the file is stored permanently (and used to spool up a &quot;physical file&quot; with the given format, where the data is actually stored).<p>Definitely encourage anyone who is curious about these &#x2F; esoteric OS&#x27;s in general to look into them - you can get hands on through IBM&#x27;s &quot;Cloud for Co-Creation and Enablement&quot; (I believe it&#x27;s been renamed) or PUB400 [1].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;i&#x2F;7.3?topic=files-describing-using-data-description-specifications-dds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;i&#x2F;7.3?topic=files-describing-usi...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pub400.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pub400.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IBM AS/400: Databases all the way down (2019) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDSgJE5mPJM</url></story> |
36,373,087 | 36,373,319 | 1 | 2 | 36,368,990 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>donatj</author><text>Windows users who just maximize everything all the time and get giant empty white bars on the sides of their browser shock me. What an insane waste of space. You see windows users with Ultrawides and a maximized browser where the site is centered and 90% of the width of the screen is serving nothing but site border and it just makes me scream.<p>macOS replacing the “Zoom” stoplight buttons with “Full Screen” as the default behavior still irks me. Why would I ever want something full screen other than a video or game?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ralfd</author><text>My go to example to explain the One True Mac Way of Window management is the “The many windows of John Siracusa” podcast from ATP a few years ago.<p>The relevant discussion starts at 1:33:00<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atp.fm&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;96" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atp.fm&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;96</a><p>Siracusa, who grew up as a (classic) Mac user, explains his tiling and overlapping habits to Arment and Liss, who grew up as Microsoft Windows users and later switched, and they gasp in utter horror, shock and awe.<p>For example Siracusa explains that he currently has a dozen terminal windows open, and also 19 overlapping Safari windows, normal for him, in BBEdit he regularly hits 20-40; they ask him if he doesn’t know about tabs and he replies “Oh, I love tabs! Of course every Window has many tabs!”. How would he manage&#x2F;organize hundreds of tabs in multiple applications with a snapping tiling manager? He can’t. It is fun from there. Like, he jokes after a work week his desktop has “sedimentary layers”.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?</title><text>It’s honesty shocking that in 2023, MacOS still has a nonexistent window managing system. Forget us on the outside. How are the tens of thousands of employees who work for Apple not sending the executive team daily feedback on this?</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>bentcorner</author><text>I recently started using MacOS and fell into this habit as well - I just end up leaving windows open floating underneath other apps. I learned about cmd+` which is handy to deal with multiple windows of the same app.<p>In Windows I tend to minimize stuff I&#x27;m not actively working on (but not always). In general while I also have a lot of &quot;background&quot; windows it feels a lot less fiddly than MacOS.<p>Personally I don&#x27;t like how &quot;minimizing&quot; apps on MacOS puts them in the temporary section of the launcher, I&#x27;d rather they minimize back down to where the icon of the app normally lives. I would end up with a bunch of black squares on the launcher in some random order with a tiny icon of each telling me which app this actually is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ralfd</author><text>My go to example to explain the One True Mac Way of Window management is the “The many windows of John Siracusa” podcast from ATP a few years ago.<p>The relevant discussion starts at 1:33:00<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atp.fm&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;96" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atp.fm&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;96</a><p>Siracusa, who grew up as a (classic) Mac user, explains his tiling and overlapping habits to Arment and Liss, who grew up as Microsoft Windows users and later switched, and they gasp in utter horror, shock and awe.<p>For example Siracusa explains that he currently has a dozen terminal windows open, and also 19 overlapping Safari windows, normal for him, in BBEdit he regularly hits 20-40; they ask him if he doesn’t know about tabs and he replies “Oh, I love tabs! Of course every Window has many tabs!”. How would he manage&#x2F;organize hundreds of tabs in multiple applications with a snapping tiling manager? He can’t. It is fun from there. Like, he jokes after a work week his desktop has “sedimentary layers”.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?</title><text>It’s honesty shocking that in 2023, MacOS still has a nonexistent window managing system. Forget us on the outside. How are the tens of thousands of employees who work for Apple not sending the executive team daily feedback on this?</text></story> |
40,984,877 | 40,984,820 | 1 | 3 | 40,983,709 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>9dev</author><text>Time and again, people argue as if everyone was just trying to style their blog. HTML isn&#x27;t only used for documents that roughly look like a printed page, but also for actual web <i>applications</i>. Applications don&#x27;t map too well onto HTML, and while the pedants are hung up on separating content from appearance, the rest of us is busy working on actual software.<p>If nobody &quot;does it right&quot;, maybe right is just wrong?</text><parent_chain><item><author>donatj</author><text>The problem is the modern webs hyper focus on appearance over content. Content first, style second.<p>I still say that the answer is just semantic HTML&#x2F;CSS. You&#x27;re coming at the problem from the wrong direction naming things for how you want them to appear. Name them for what they are. Write the HTML agnostic to how it&#x27;s intended to appear, and then just use CSS as a tool to style the already existing document.<p>SCSS and extending placeholder[1] selectors makes this insanely easy and viable. You can write your &quot;how things appear&quot; classes as placeholder classes, and then simply extend those from your &quot;what they are&quot; classes. Super easy to keep organized.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;naxoc.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;28&#x2F;placeholder-selectors-in-sass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;naxoc.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;28&#x2F;placeholder-selectors-in-sass&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CSS Classes Considered Harmful</title><url>https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-classes-considered-harmful/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prmph</author><text>&gt; Write the HTML agnostic to how it&#x27;s intended to appear, and then just use CSS as a tool to style the already existing document.<p>But it&#x27;s not possible to write HTML agnostic to how it&#x27;s intended to appear, in the general sense. That&#x27;s the issue with CSS. This whole thing about separating content and styling is carried too far leading to very bad UI architectures.<p>Stuff like colors and fonts can be separated from content. Stuff like positioning, hierarchy, etc. cannot be meaningfully separated from content in many cases, and trying to do so is the root of UI evil.<p>This is why the component approach is so powerful. By combining content (with its implied style) with explicit styling in an integrated package, large UI trees become composable and easier to reason about.<p>But many devs still don&#x27;t grasp this, and continue to fantasize about pure content that can exist totally separate from presentation, a pipe dream.</text><parent_chain><item><author>donatj</author><text>The problem is the modern webs hyper focus on appearance over content. Content first, style second.<p>I still say that the answer is just semantic HTML&#x2F;CSS. You&#x27;re coming at the problem from the wrong direction naming things for how you want them to appear. Name them for what they are. Write the HTML agnostic to how it&#x27;s intended to appear, and then just use CSS as a tool to style the already existing document.<p>SCSS and extending placeholder[1] selectors makes this insanely easy and viable. You can write your &quot;how things appear&quot; classes as placeholder classes, and then simply extend those from your &quot;what they are&quot; classes. Super easy to keep organized.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;naxoc.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;28&#x2F;placeholder-selectors-in-sass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;naxoc.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;28&#x2F;placeholder-selectors-in-sass&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CSS Classes Considered Harmful</title><url>https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-classes-considered-harmful/</url></story> |
28,751,403 | 28,751,415 | 1 | 3 | 28,750,930 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nwiswell</author><text>&gt; recent and widespread Facebook-related news story is about the whistleblower<p>With respect I am pretty sure that the most recent and widespread Facebook-related news story is this one.<p>Holistically I agree that this isn&#x27;t the kind of distraction Facebook wants, although it tickles me to imagine Mark in the datacenter going Rambo with a pair of wire cutters.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; The outage has pretty much buried that story,<p>Strongly disagree. The outage has millions of people entering &quot;Facebook&quot; into their search engines. Most engines will conveniently put related news at the top of the search results page. The most recent and widespread Facebook-related news story is about the whistleblower.<p>Plus everyone has a lot of spare time to read the article now that Facebook and Instagram are down.<p>The outage didn&#x27;t bury the story. It amplified it. Any suggestions that Facebook did this on purpose don&#x27;t even make sense.</text></item><item><author>optimalsolver</author><text>I know this is tinhat territory, but it&#x27;s weird this happens right after the FB whistleblower interview on 60 minutes.<p>The outage has pretty much buried that story, and perhaps more importantly, stopped its spread on FB networks.<p>That said, I can&#x27;t see how FB managers and engineers would actually agree to carry out something like this intentionally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-facebook-instagram-whatsapp/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>optimalsolver</author><text>Anecdotal, but I just tried Google + Bing and topline Facebook-related news is all about the outage.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; The outage has pretty much buried that story,<p>Strongly disagree. The outage has millions of people entering &quot;Facebook&quot; into their search engines. Most engines will conveniently put related news at the top of the search results page. The most recent and widespread Facebook-related news story is about the whistleblower.<p>Plus everyone has a lot of spare time to read the article now that Facebook and Instagram are down.<p>The outage didn&#x27;t bury the story. It amplified it. Any suggestions that Facebook did this on purpose don&#x27;t even make sense.</text></item><item><author>optimalsolver</author><text>I know this is tinhat territory, but it&#x27;s weird this happens right after the FB whistleblower interview on 60 minutes.<p>The outage has pretty much buried that story, and perhaps more importantly, stopped its spread on FB networks.<p>That said, I can&#x27;t see how FB managers and engineers would actually agree to carry out something like this intentionally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-facebook-instagram-whatsapp/</url></story> |
35,249,412 | 35,248,314 | 1 | 3 | 35,246,260 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ar7hur</author><text>+1 I came here to write this comment word for word. The speed of IBM-ization of Google is astounding.</text><parent_chain><item><author>endtime</author><text>&gt; This Google Account isn’t supported<p>&gt; Bard does not currently support Google Workspace accounts or when our systems indicate you may be under 18. Learn more<p>Google: 15 years of punishment for being a loyal Dasher&#x2F; Google Apps&#x2F;GSuite&#x2F;Google Workspace user.</text></item><item><author>tauntz</author><text>&gt; Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!<p>Sigh. Google never learns.<p>By the time they add support for using this in my country, there&#x27;s no reason for me to use it anymore as competitors have already swept in.<p>It&#x27;s the same playbook with every US-only launch:<p>1. get everybody hyped up<p>2. make it accessible to only a minor subset of people but advertise it as a &quot;launch&quot; or &quot;open beta&quot; or whatever<p>3. tell the rest of the world that &quot;lol, by &quot;avialable&quot; we mean US-only&quot; or &quot;Open means &quot;open for people with US IP addresses only&quot;&quot; etc.<p>4. Wait till competitors have launched global-from-the-start alternatives<p>5. Open up the service globally<p>6. ...<p>7. Shut down the service because there&#x27;s no uptake
(surprised_pikachu.jpg)<p>Rinse and repeat.<p>Self inflicted wounds and all that..</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Bard waitlist</title><url>https://bard.google.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>mclightning</author><text>Same here, and the account switcher doesn&#x27;t work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>endtime</author><text>&gt; This Google Account isn’t supported<p>&gt; Bard does not currently support Google Workspace accounts or when our systems indicate you may be under 18. Learn more<p>Google: 15 years of punishment for being a loyal Dasher&#x2F; Google Apps&#x2F;GSuite&#x2F;Google Workspace user.</text></item><item><author>tauntz</author><text>&gt; Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!<p>Sigh. Google never learns.<p>By the time they add support for using this in my country, there&#x27;s no reason for me to use it anymore as competitors have already swept in.<p>It&#x27;s the same playbook with every US-only launch:<p>1. get everybody hyped up<p>2. make it accessible to only a minor subset of people but advertise it as a &quot;launch&quot; or &quot;open beta&quot; or whatever<p>3. tell the rest of the world that &quot;lol, by &quot;avialable&quot; we mean US-only&quot; or &quot;Open means &quot;open for people with US IP addresses only&quot;&quot; etc.<p>4. Wait till competitors have launched global-from-the-start alternatives<p>5. Open up the service globally<p>6. ...<p>7. Shut down the service because there&#x27;s no uptake
(surprised_pikachu.jpg)<p>Rinse and repeat.<p>Self inflicted wounds and all that..</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Bard waitlist</title><url>https://bard.google.com/</url></story> |
18,761,861 | 18,761,832 | 1 | 2 | 18,759,771 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baxtr</author><text>What is your experience regarding productivity? There is the wide-held belief that remote teams are less productive than co-located ones. I have no clue if this was ever measured, but my gut tells me there could be something to it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>I manage a team of 20 fully remote devs, so I get to see exactly when everyone is working. When they&#x27;re chatting, when they&#x27;re pushing code. We don&#x27;t force people to be working at any particular time, so I&#x27;m guessing when I see them is when they want to be working.<p>You can tell some people are complete night owls. One guy checks in code at 3am and rarely talks to anyone until the evening. I guess he sleeps when the sun is out.<p>Other people are a bit more ordinary, but still it seems the most productive hours are not quite as early as when most schools or businesses tend to be open. I&#x27;d say maybe 10am is the de facto &quot;opening time&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s also a tendency to have a lull in chat in the early afternoon. People go off to lunch having some ideas about what to do, and then they come back and do it before dinner. Or they are in deep thinking mode and don&#x27;t want to talk, and then check in the code.<p>Having no meeting time and no commute seems to help everyone. It gives everyone an extra work day each week, and they can spend their time when they want to. It also makes managing easier, as I don&#x27;t have to chase everyone at the exact same time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/well/mind/work-schedule-hours-sleep-productivity-chronotype-night-owls.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>Void_</author><text>How do people get anything done in 2-3 hours between 10am and lunch?<p>I always work 7-8am to 12pm, because I need uninterrupted 4-5 hours to get really zoned in. When I come back from lunch, I&#x27;m already in a good place to go back to intense focus.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>I manage a team of 20 fully remote devs, so I get to see exactly when everyone is working. When they&#x27;re chatting, when they&#x27;re pushing code. We don&#x27;t force people to be working at any particular time, so I&#x27;m guessing when I see them is when they want to be working.<p>You can tell some people are complete night owls. One guy checks in code at 3am and rarely talks to anyone until the evening. I guess he sleeps when the sun is out.<p>Other people are a bit more ordinary, but still it seems the most productive hours are not quite as early as when most schools or businesses tend to be open. I&#x27;d say maybe 10am is the de facto &quot;opening time&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s also a tendency to have a lull in chat in the early afternoon. People go off to lunch having some ideas about what to do, and then they come back and do it before dinner. Or they are in deep thinking mode and don&#x27;t want to talk, and then check in the code.<p>Having no meeting time and no commute seems to help everyone. It gives everyone an extra work day each week, and they can spend their time when they want to. It also makes managing easier, as I don&#x27;t have to chase everyone at the exact same time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/well/mind/work-schedule-hours-sleep-productivity-chronotype-night-owls.html</url></story> |
4,103,081 | 4,103,003 | 1 | 3 | 4,102,907 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ColinWright</author><text>I would guess that people aren't aware that it doesn't require moderators to kill an item. There are plenty of people on HN who don't want to see meta, or meta-on-meta, and who will happily flag meta items.<p>Enough flags, and it's dead.<p>Other submissions:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102948" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102948</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102977" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102977</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title></title></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lawnchair_larry</author><text> This is ridiculous. It had 472 upvotes. Moderators, please do not respond to criticism this way.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title></title></story> |
26,394,529 | 26,394,548 | 1 | 2 | 26,392,892 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cwwc</author><text>Yes, the toilets in Taiwan are great —- and free. They have masses of public toilets in park, along with cleaning attendants. But here is the rub —- in the US, they would be overrun with homeless (I’m not saying this is bad; just that it would be the reality) while in TW the people who are attending to them would likely be homeless were they in the US. Is part of this cultural? Yep, probably. Is part of it structural? I think so —- because there are roles for people in TW, the “lowest rung” of society, while the only role stateside is along the side of the road or perhaps a MCD worker.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whatastory</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to seem too accusatory, but this just felt like an angry rant without much research.<p>I&#x27;ve been to a few places on this earth, and while I know there are some Europeans who&#x27;ll proudly talk about how paying for toilets helps keep them clean, I haven&#x27;t noticed them being any better than gas station bathrooms in the US. Some are okay, some are total disaster sites. The only difference is someone or a machine standing at the door taking your money.<p>Meanwhile, in East Asia, I&#x27;ve never encountered a pay toilet. I&#x27;ve also really only encountered truly dirty toilets in the middle of very remote parks. Japan, Taiwan, and Korea all have excellent free toilets. Even China does pretty decently. Parks and urban areas across the country have toilets that are well maintained, and I noticed public bathrooms even in the middle of residential areas around Beijing that were hosed down a few times a day.<p>So no, I don&#x27;t agree that the only way to fix things is to revert to literal nickel and diming. Learn from the countries that manage their systems better instead of giving up and saying it&#x27;s impossible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm</title><url>https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/03/pay-toilets-and-nyt-free-market.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>bbreier</author><text>This is about the same as I felt after reading this-- and his comment explaining Tokyo&#x27;s free public toilets, &quot;No homeless, no drugs, no crime, 100% politeness rate?&quot;, all but confirmed those suspicions for me. It reads more like an ideological rant than a considered treatise on potty economics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whatastory</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to seem too accusatory, but this just felt like an angry rant without much research.<p>I&#x27;ve been to a few places on this earth, and while I know there are some Europeans who&#x27;ll proudly talk about how paying for toilets helps keep them clean, I haven&#x27;t noticed them being any better than gas station bathrooms in the US. Some are okay, some are total disaster sites. The only difference is someone or a machine standing at the door taking your money.<p>Meanwhile, in East Asia, I&#x27;ve never encountered a pay toilet. I&#x27;ve also really only encountered truly dirty toilets in the middle of very remote parks. Japan, Taiwan, and Korea all have excellent free toilets. Even China does pretty decently. Parks and urban areas across the country have toilets that are well maintained, and I noticed public bathrooms even in the middle of residential areas around Beijing that were hosed down a few times a day.<p>So no, I don&#x27;t agree that the only way to fix things is to revert to literal nickel and diming. Learn from the countries that manage their systems better instead of giving up and saying it&#x27;s impossible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm</title><url>https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/03/pay-toilets-and-nyt-free-market.html</url></story> |
36,763,035 | 36,763,013 | 1 | 3 | 36,760,469 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saltcured</author><text>I don&#x27;t have thoughts about anime, but generally dislike movie dubs as they distance me further from the original intent. I don&#x27;t want another team&#x27;s reinterpretation of the movie to completely replace the original expression.<p>So, I&#x27;d only really like a dub if it was a multilingual sound track produced by an original, multilingual team. That should include the original director, writers, and (preferably) actors and producers. To me, the original creative team needs enough fluency to review the alternate language work and keep it from diverging. Otherwise, it&#x27;s about as satisfying as reading a Cliff&#x27;s Notes summary of a novel instead of the actual novel.<p>I&#x27;d also often prefer subtitle translations if they try to hew closer to the original language including temporality. I&#x27;d rather read slightly tortured English subtitles to deliver translated parts of speech in roughly the same order they are being spoken in the original language, exposing a bit of the original language&#x27;s grammar and remaining correlated with the actor&#x27;s tone and timing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>Now here&#x27;s some argument-bait:<p>I prefer Miyazaki movies dubbed in English, rather than as subtitled Japanese.<p>This is not true for ANY other non-English movie, where I always prefer the original language with subtitles.<p>Why? Well, it&#x27;s anime and the characters aren&#x27;t &quot;really&quot; speaking Japanese anyway, so there&#x27;s less lip-mismatch. And apparently the Man himself doesn&#x27;t mind them.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ghibli&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7jef8m&#x2F;miyazakis_views_on_dubs_vs_subs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ghibli&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7jef8m&#x2F;miyazakis_vi...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live is a beautiful relic – and the end of an era</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23797349/how-do-you-live-review-studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seanc</author><text>Fun fact, on Princess Mononoke, Steve Alpert and the director of the English dub had to fight Miramax executives who kept trying to screw up Neil Gaiman&#x27;s English script.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>Now here&#x27;s some argument-bait:<p>I prefer Miyazaki movies dubbed in English, rather than as subtitled Japanese.<p>This is not true for ANY other non-English movie, where I always prefer the original language with subtitles.<p>Why? Well, it&#x27;s anime and the characters aren&#x27;t &quot;really&quot; speaking Japanese anyway, so there&#x27;s less lip-mismatch. And apparently the Man himself doesn&#x27;t mind them.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ghibli&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7jef8m&#x2F;miyazakis_views_on_dubs_vs_subs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ghibli&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7jef8m&#x2F;miyazakis_vi...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live is a beautiful relic – and the end of an era</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23797349/how-do-you-live-review-studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki</url></story> |
40,788,313 | 40,788,348 | 1 | 3 | 40,786,644 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjice</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s some seriously dumb issues with it: Ubuntu snaps are terrible...<p>It&#x27;s so upsetting that Ubuntu went so hard in on Snaps. I just end up with issues caused by their sandboxing with hardware and config access and you end up having to fight to find a normal .deb install for FF instead of that damn default Snap.<p>I hope the journey isn&#x27;t too rough for you though - best of luck!</text><parent_chain><item><author>ryanjshaw</author><text>I&#x27;ve been a Windows user since 3.1. I&#x27;m a professional Microsoft stack developer (.NET, SQL Server, Power Platform, M365). I first tried Linux in the late 90s, never stuck with me.<p>But 2 weeks ago I installed Linux on my home setup to run 24&#x2F;7.<p>There&#x27;s some seriously dumb issues with it: Ubuntu snaps are terrible with no local fonts in FF and other snap-based software has surprising bugs and crashes you don&#x27;t realise are the fault of snaps until you waste hours researching it, everybody pushes AppImages but you can&#x27;t get launcher shortcuts without doing it all manually in a friggin .desktop file* (you could do this 30 years ago in Win3.1 without having to search around for an icon!!!), you can&#x27;t consistently pin stuff to a taskbar, etc.<p>But I think I&#x27;ll be sticking with it all the same. Microsoft could ban my Microsoft account and then what, I can&#x27;t use my PC anymore?!<p>* Yes I know there&#x27;s some software you can download to do it but seriously it&#x27;s not been updated for ages and this should be core OS GUI functionality. I switched to Debian and KDE which at least has more flexibility.</text></item><item><author>xlii</author><text>Geez, the more I read about it the more I think about migrating my gaming machine to something like Pop_OS. I heard people are having great experience, and Steam through Steam Deck has considerably improved gaming on Linux experience.<p>I think I get it - there are plenty of people using Windows as their primary OS and they want bells and whistles while not caring about telemetry. But just.. let people disable things.<p>IMO fact, that Microsoft is pushing spyware on their users and make it harder and harder to disable it is much more important topic than EU focusing on Apple (which is monopoly inside their ecosystem, but not a provider of &quot;default&quot; software used in offices etc.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/microsoft-removes-documentation-for-switching-to-a-local-account-in-windows-11/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>necrotic_comp</author><text>Agreed with the sibling posts. Ubuntu isn&#x27;t a great experience - it feels seamless until it breaks, and then it&#x27;s just a world of pain.<p>Debian&#x2F;Mint&#x2F;etc. are all good distros, but if you&#x27;re willing to step up the learning curve just a bit, I&#x27;d definitely suggest Gentoo. I&#x27;ve been using it as my daily driver for several years now and it&#x27;s made me feel like I&#x27;m actually in control of my machine (compiling all your code with debug flags so you can attach gdb when it&#x27;s behaving weird so you can write a patch?! And then submit it to get sucked into upstream!? Yes please!). There&#x27;s definitely a little work up front, but it&#x27;s without a doubt the best experience I&#x27;ve had with Linux and I&#x27;d recommend it if you&#x27;re up for it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ryanjshaw</author><text>I&#x27;ve been a Windows user since 3.1. I&#x27;m a professional Microsoft stack developer (.NET, SQL Server, Power Platform, M365). I first tried Linux in the late 90s, never stuck with me.<p>But 2 weeks ago I installed Linux on my home setup to run 24&#x2F;7.<p>There&#x27;s some seriously dumb issues with it: Ubuntu snaps are terrible with no local fonts in FF and other snap-based software has surprising bugs and crashes you don&#x27;t realise are the fault of snaps until you waste hours researching it, everybody pushes AppImages but you can&#x27;t get launcher shortcuts without doing it all manually in a friggin .desktop file* (you could do this 30 years ago in Win3.1 without having to search around for an icon!!!), you can&#x27;t consistently pin stuff to a taskbar, etc.<p>But I think I&#x27;ll be sticking with it all the same. Microsoft could ban my Microsoft account and then what, I can&#x27;t use my PC anymore?!<p>* Yes I know there&#x27;s some software you can download to do it but seriously it&#x27;s not been updated for ages and this should be core OS GUI functionality. I switched to Debian and KDE which at least has more flexibility.</text></item><item><author>xlii</author><text>Geez, the more I read about it the more I think about migrating my gaming machine to something like Pop_OS. I heard people are having great experience, and Steam through Steam Deck has considerably improved gaming on Linux experience.<p>I think I get it - there are plenty of people using Windows as their primary OS and they want bells and whistles while not caring about telemetry. But just.. let people disable things.<p>IMO fact, that Microsoft is pushing spyware on their users and make it harder and harder to disable it is much more important topic than EU focusing on Apple (which is monopoly inside their ecosystem, but not a provider of &quot;default&quot; software used in offices etc.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/microsoft-removes-documentation-for-switching-to-a-local-account-in-windows-11/</url></story> |
34,892,839 | 34,892,345 | 1 | 3 | 34,887,276 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Retric</author><text>I don’t think we are talking about the same kind of difficult vs straightforward problems.<p>Think professional chess players. While prepping they can spend very long hours playing&#x2F;studding high level chess but tournaments are another level. Challenging is fun, the limits of human ability are always stressful. People can run for 11 hours in an ultra marathon but they can’t do it at 13+ mph pace of a half marathon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rebeccaskinner</author><text>Funnily enough, I find myself the exact opposite. Give me a really hard engaging problem and I can work 16 hours and barely realize any time has passed, but spending even 1-2 hours on something rote saps my energy for the entire day. My tolerant is even lower for the particularly challenging combination of tasks that are both uninteresting but also tedious.</text></item><item><author>Retric</author><text>Where these discussions trip up is different kinds of programming tasks vary in how mentality draining they are.<p>Some days I can spend 10 long hours working through straightforward problems and come home energized. Other days I mentally check out after spending 3-4 hours beating my head against a really difficult problem then go home and have little desire to do anything but zone out and recover.</text></item><item><author>bavila</author><text>&gt; My conclusions after observing a ton of people in technical and nontechnical jobs is that beyond working 20-25 hours a week, having people do more is useless...<p>I&#x27;m not so sure about this. I was working in a remote &quot;full-stack&quot; (but really 90% front-end role) for 14 months from the start of January 2021 to the end of February 2022. I tracked my hours religiously the entire time I was employed there (not required, but just for my own sake). I had a spreadsheet containing the date, start&#x2F;end times (rounded to the nearest quarter on an hour), task name, and notes.<p>When I left the company, my team lead thought I was one of the hardest working people he had ever worked with. He thought I had to be working 60-hour weeks to be doing what I was doing. I showed him the spreadsheet and calculated the average hours worked per week - came out somewhere between 38~39 hours.<p>My role wasn&#x27;t a senior one so, for the most part, the vast majority hours were spent coding, but of course some was spent in meetings as well. But these were all real hours of real time spent working. It was all very doable and not useless time spent futzing around (I would also stop tracking my time for any break I took - no exceptions).<p>Granted, I think being the type of person that acclimates well to remote work made this all doable. I would not have been this productive in office.</text></item><item><author>vouaobrasil</author><text>When was a mathematician, I worked as hard as I could until I was mentally exhausted. I actually calculated how much I worked per week over a period of two years.<p>On actual &quot;hard thinking&quot;, like working through logic, I spent about 7 hours. There was another 7 hours writing and clarifying topics, and another 6 hours or so on classes, seminars (sort of like meetings, but productive). That gives a total of 20 hours per week on work. Beyond that, I was not productive and so I didn&#x27;t do any math-related work.<p>If you add the administrative overhead of a job, that might be another 5 hours at most, so about 3 full workdays. I think if you are <i>truly</i> just doing productive, meaningful <i>technical</i> work, beyond 3 full days most people can&#x27;t do it. People can do it for short periods of time, but more than 3 days leads to universal burnout.<p>Now, I&#x27;m just talking about mentally demanding, technical work. I can work longer if the work isn&#x27;t very mentally demanding, but even so, not for more than 4-5 hours a day. And now I&#x27;m an independent content creator, so every additional hour I work is proportional to profit.<p>My conclusions after observing a ton of people in technical <i>and</i> nontechnical jobs is that beyond working 20-25 hours a week, having people do more is useless, especially when it comes to fostering people in the long-term (short term is different).<p>I feel the only reason why we have 9-5, Monday to Friday jobs is because of infantile narcissists who have no other purpose in life than to go to work and push people like machines.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World’s largest four-day work week trial finds few are going back</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-21/four-day-work-week-uk-study-finds-majority-of-employers-shifting</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>The payback of such stints can be brutal though, and it won&#x27;t necessarily happen the next day either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rebeccaskinner</author><text>Funnily enough, I find myself the exact opposite. Give me a really hard engaging problem and I can work 16 hours and barely realize any time has passed, but spending even 1-2 hours on something rote saps my energy for the entire day. My tolerant is even lower for the particularly challenging combination of tasks that are both uninteresting but also tedious.</text></item><item><author>Retric</author><text>Where these discussions trip up is different kinds of programming tasks vary in how mentality draining they are.<p>Some days I can spend 10 long hours working through straightforward problems and come home energized. Other days I mentally check out after spending 3-4 hours beating my head against a really difficult problem then go home and have little desire to do anything but zone out and recover.</text></item><item><author>bavila</author><text>&gt; My conclusions after observing a ton of people in technical and nontechnical jobs is that beyond working 20-25 hours a week, having people do more is useless...<p>I&#x27;m not so sure about this. I was working in a remote &quot;full-stack&quot; (but really 90% front-end role) for 14 months from the start of January 2021 to the end of February 2022. I tracked my hours religiously the entire time I was employed there (not required, but just for my own sake). I had a spreadsheet containing the date, start&#x2F;end times (rounded to the nearest quarter on an hour), task name, and notes.<p>When I left the company, my team lead thought I was one of the hardest working people he had ever worked with. He thought I had to be working 60-hour weeks to be doing what I was doing. I showed him the spreadsheet and calculated the average hours worked per week - came out somewhere between 38~39 hours.<p>My role wasn&#x27;t a senior one so, for the most part, the vast majority hours were spent coding, but of course some was spent in meetings as well. But these were all real hours of real time spent working. It was all very doable and not useless time spent futzing around (I would also stop tracking my time for any break I took - no exceptions).<p>Granted, I think being the type of person that acclimates well to remote work made this all doable. I would not have been this productive in office.</text></item><item><author>vouaobrasil</author><text>When was a mathematician, I worked as hard as I could until I was mentally exhausted. I actually calculated how much I worked per week over a period of two years.<p>On actual &quot;hard thinking&quot;, like working through logic, I spent about 7 hours. There was another 7 hours writing and clarifying topics, and another 6 hours or so on classes, seminars (sort of like meetings, but productive). That gives a total of 20 hours per week on work. Beyond that, I was not productive and so I didn&#x27;t do any math-related work.<p>If you add the administrative overhead of a job, that might be another 5 hours at most, so about 3 full workdays. I think if you are <i>truly</i> just doing productive, meaningful <i>technical</i> work, beyond 3 full days most people can&#x27;t do it. People can do it for short periods of time, but more than 3 days leads to universal burnout.<p>Now, I&#x27;m just talking about mentally demanding, technical work. I can work longer if the work isn&#x27;t very mentally demanding, but even so, not for more than 4-5 hours a day. And now I&#x27;m an independent content creator, so every additional hour I work is proportional to profit.<p>My conclusions after observing a ton of people in technical <i>and</i> nontechnical jobs is that beyond working 20-25 hours a week, having people do more is useless, especially when it comes to fostering people in the long-term (short term is different).<p>I feel the only reason why we have 9-5, Monday to Friday jobs is because of infantile narcissists who have no other purpose in life than to go to work and push people like machines.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World’s largest four-day work week trial finds few are going back</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-21/four-day-work-week-uk-study-finds-majority-of-employers-shifting</url></story> |
38,096,699 | 38,096,244 | 1 | 3 | 38,093,353 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FL33TW00D</author><text>Super exciting!
I&#x27;ll be shipping Distil-Whisper to whisper-turbo tomorrow! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FL33TW00D&#x2F;whisper-turbo">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FL33TW00D&#x2F;whisper-turbo</a><p>Should make running in the browser feasible even for underpowered devices:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whisper-turbo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whisper-turbo.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller</title><url>https://github.com/huggingface/distil-whisper</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jankovicsandras</author><text>I&#x27;m using this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;guillaumekln&#x2F;faster-whisper">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;guillaumekln&#x2F;faster-whisper</a>
Smaller, faster, works well with CPU, multiple languages, etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller</title><url>https://github.com/huggingface/distil-whisper</url></story> |
31,241,139 | 31,240,961 | 1 | 2 | 31,239,033 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevstev</author><text>Yeah, pay at the big banks is shit really, especially when you consider the utter lack of work&#x2F;life balance. I left in 2013 making 150k, which was supposed to be supplemented by a ~40% bonus for the level I was at, but each year was &quot;well its been a tough year...&quot; and after getting a token amount one year, and then zeroes the next 2, after working 50-60 hour weeks, I was like I am not only done with this place, but this industry, and left for a 50% pay raise, my TC is now 4x where it was in those days. A neighbor of mine is more or less sitting in my exact seat there, and is somewhere in the 200-250k range.<p>That said, I went back to finance to work at one of the premier hedge funds out there, and they actually lived up to their expectations in terms of comp, that place was more like a tech firm though than any other firm I have ever worked at aside for maybe Knight. 8% annual increases were normal there. You can look in my post history back to 2018 if you want the name, I recently left after 5 years there and just want to stay out of their crosshairs- they monitor social media aggressively and there is deferred comp at stake.<p>At big banks, there are really only a very small number of people who are in tech that are getting paid- you have to know which questions to ask- where is the bonus pool coming from- are you &quot;in the business&quot; or the tech pool, which is a second class of citizen. I would have to be in a pretty bad place to ever consider going back to a bank, it was borderline abusive... always dangling the prospect of that big check that would make it worth it</text><parent_chain><item><author>fullsend</author><text>I appreciate your comment about pay. Recruiters will often tell me &quot;it&#x27;s finance so of course the pay will be substantial.&quot; Then when we get to talking numbers they&#x27;re like &quot;300k a year&quot;. Oh, you mean the going rate at a FAANG? And I have to move to New York or Chicago, work more hours, and actively work for people who I know are taking home paychecks with 7+ zeroes on them? Come on. Sometimes it&#x27;s 400 plus bonus or whatever, which is based on fund performance and yada yada. But it feels way off. I had heard so much about the staggering paydays at these places but it seems you need an ML PHD or some trading chops to be part of that.</text></item><item><author>kevstev</author><text>I worked in algo trading for years, eventually got out because quite frankly the level of risk I was carrying on my shoulders everyday for what I was being paid were just way out of whack, I at least personally never got the huge pay days that people talked about until after I left finance for more pure tech. Interestingly, I worked at Knight and my team pioneered trying to blow up the firm, but that was in 2004, and things were much friendlier- instead of front page news, it was a small blurb on page 3 of the markets section of the WSJ.<p>Anyway, I still have friends in that business. It hasn&#x27;t really changed, they have too few people covering systems that are quite complex and while there are checks and such, no one really understands things entirely from end to end in detail that can prevent all problems.<p>I will never invest directly in an investment bank- either through carelessness or maliciousness I could have easily caused a 9 figure loss, if not more, and there were probably a thousand other people in the same position.<p>When I read the detailed writeup around this a few years back, I think by far the biggest issue was reusing a tag that had been previously used to denote which strategy to use. I understand why they may have chosen to do so, at the Big Bank I was working at, getting a new fix tag to be passed through all the layers properly would involve at least two other teams and coordinating releases and probably several weeks worth of meetings. If you just reuse an old value you can avoid all that since everything is already set up.</text></item><item><author>bfm</author><text>The OP details how poor software engineering practices brought down a 1.4B market marker with 1400 employees in 2012.<p>Some of the issues mentioned include:<p><pre><code> - Keeping synthetic test data generation as part of a production build.
- Keeping dead code for years.
- Re-purposing a feature flag.
- Refactoring without regression tests.
- Manual deployments without peer reviews. They forgot to update one of their servers with the new code.
- Automated alerts sent via email were ignored.
- Rolled back to a version of the code running on the server they forgot to update, making things worse.
- Rushing out a release without proper software engineering hygiene.
</code></pre>
The article suggests improvements that could have prevented the chain of events.<p>For those here who are in HFT circles, have things improved after the Knight Capital Group debacle?<p>edit: formatting</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019)</title><url>https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/06/project-failure-case-study-knight-capital.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>caffeine</author><text>The attitude that finance pays more is a leftover from a previous era. 10-15 years ago it was true: the profits from HFT were so also way, way bigger and split up amongst a much smaller group of firms.<p>Now those firms are all in a completely competitive industry squeezing each other for basis points.<p>Meanwhile the definition of a FAANG is that it has an effective monopoly, and these companies are taking in way more money than the HFT industry. (Netflix is losing its monopoly but we can’t really drop N from the acronym without a replacement..)</text><parent_chain><item><author>fullsend</author><text>I appreciate your comment about pay. Recruiters will often tell me &quot;it&#x27;s finance so of course the pay will be substantial.&quot; Then when we get to talking numbers they&#x27;re like &quot;300k a year&quot;. Oh, you mean the going rate at a FAANG? And I have to move to New York or Chicago, work more hours, and actively work for people who I know are taking home paychecks with 7+ zeroes on them? Come on. Sometimes it&#x27;s 400 plus bonus or whatever, which is based on fund performance and yada yada. But it feels way off. I had heard so much about the staggering paydays at these places but it seems you need an ML PHD or some trading chops to be part of that.</text></item><item><author>kevstev</author><text>I worked in algo trading for years, eventually got out because quite frankly the level of risk I was carrying on my shoulders everyday for what I was being paid were just way out of whack, I at least personally never got the huge pay days that people talked about until after I left finance for more pure tech. Interestingly, I worked at Knight and my team pioneered trying to blow up the firm, but that was in 2004, and things were much friendlier- instead of front page news, it was a small blurb on page 3 of the markets section of the WSJ.<p>Anyway, I still have friends in that business. It hasn&#x27;t really changed, they have too few people covering systems that are quite complex and while there are checks and such, no one really understands things entirely from end to end in detail that can prevent all problems.<p>I will never invest directly in an investment bank- either through carelessness or maliciousness I could have easily caused a 9 figure loss, if not more, and there were probably a thousand other people in the same position.<p>When I read the detailed writeup around this a few years back, I think by far the biggest issue was reusing a tag that had been previously used to denote which strategy to use. I understand why they may have chosen to do so, at the Big Bank I was working at, getting a new fix tag to be passed through all the layers properly would involve at least two other teams and coordinating releases and probably several weeks worth of meetings. If you just reuse an old value you can avoid all that since everything is already set up.</text></item><item><author>bfm</author><text>The OP details how poor software engineering practices brought down a 1.4B market marker with 1400 employees in 2012.<p>Some of the issues mentioned include:<p><pre><code> - Keeping synthetic test data generation as part of a production build.
- Keeping dead code for years.
- Re-purposing a feature flag.
- Refactoring without regression tests.
- Manual deployments without peer reviews. They forgot to update one of their servers with the new code.
- Automated alerts sent via email were ignored.
- Rolled back to a version of the code running on the server they forgot to update, making things worse.
- Rushing out a release without proper software engineering hygiene.
</code></pre>
The article suggests improvements that could have prevented the chain of events.<p>For those here who are in HFT circles, have things improved after the Knight Capital Group debacle?<p>edit: formatting</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019)</title><url>https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/06/project-failure-case-study-knight-capital.html</url></story> |
30,337,351 | 30,336,934 | 1 | 2 | 30,334,094 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tablespoon</author><text>&gt;&gt; This type of revelation will likely be commonplace in the days&#x2F;weeks ahead as militant extremists are exposed.<p>&gt; There will always be some opportunistic groups looking to cause more mayhem in chaotic situations like this. These protests have been literally “mostly peaceful” no?<p>Exactly. Didn&#x27;t &quot;Bugaloo Bois&quot; try to hijack the Black Lives Matter protests?<p>I think it&#x27;s important to be careful, and not try to paint an entire protest movement with a small unreasonable minority that may be within or adjacent to it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>redisman</author><text>There will always be some opportunistic groups looking to cause more mayhem in chaotic situations like this. These protests have been literally “mostly peaceful” no?</text></item><item><author>cf100clunk</author><text>This type of revelation will likely be commonplace in the days&#x2F;weeks ahead as militant extremists are exposed.</text></item><item><author>talentedcoin</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;calgary&#x2F;coutts-protest-blockade-arrests-rcmp-monday-1.6351112" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;calgary&#x2F;coutts-protest-blocka...</a><p>Mounties said in a release Monday that they became aware of a small organized group within the larger protest at Coutts.<p>They say they had information that the group had access to a cache of firearms and ammunition. Officers seized long guns, handguns, multiple sets of body armour, a machete, a large quantity of ammunition and high-capacity firearm magazines.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/leak-site-says-it-has-been-given-list-canada-truck-convoy-donors-after-reported-2022-02-14/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&gt; These protests have been literally “mostly peaceful” no?<p>That&#x27;s fair, yes. Economically disruptive, but largely peaceful.<p>I&#x27;d wager the left isn&#x27;t going to pass &quot;it&#x27;s legal to run over protesters&quot; in response to these, though. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;4&#x2F;25&#x2F;22367019&#x2F;gop-laws-oklahoma-iowa-florida-floyd-blm-protests-police" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;4&#x2F;25&#x2F;22367019&#x2F;gop-laws-oklahoma-iow...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>redisman</author><text>There will always be some opportunistic groups looking to cause more mayhem in chaotic situations like this. These protests have been literally “mostly peaceful” no?</text></item><item><author>cf100clunk</author><text>This type of revelation will likely be commonplace in the days&#x2F;weeks ahead as militant extremists are exposed.</text></item><item><author>talentedcoin</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;calgary&#x2F;coutts-protest-blockade-arrests-rcmp-monday-1.6351112" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;calgary&#x2F;coutts-protest-blocka...</a><p>Mounties said in a release Monday that they became aware of a small organized group within the larger protest at Coutts.<p>They say they had information that the group had access to a cache of firearms and ammunition. Officers seized long guns, handguns, multiple sets of body armour, a machete, a large quantity of ammunition and high-capacity firearm magazines.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/leak-site-says-it-has-been-given-list-canada-truck-convoy-donors-after-reported-2022-02-14/</url></story> |
17,807,474 | 17,807,469 | 1 | 2 | 17,806,459 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>r_singh</author><text>I personally think that they&#x27;ve rectified this in a smart way by introducing 2 tracks: the advisor track and a normal one (this is just a guess since I received mail saying I&#x27;ve been accepted to the &#x27;advisor track&#x27;).<p>So YC is giving forum access to all the companies that applied but advisor access only to a subset of all the companies that applied. Is that correct?</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwmeoutoft11</author><text>Unpopular opinion here.<p>The value of startupschool (as a previous graduate) is the individual attention we got from a hand selected instructor.<p>I know yc screwed up with the emails, and their response was to please those that they have misled, accidentally of course. But I think they also devalued the class. It&#x27;s gonna be much harder to offer the quality attention of the past.<p>I think the right thing they should have done, which is harder, was for yc to apologize for their mistake and move on. I know it sucked for those who were selected then deselected, but if you are a startup owner you need to be prepared to be rejected, cause someone will reject you.<p>I don&#x27;t know what criteria startupschool goes through to select a company, but I think they must have seen something unique in those four thousands.<p>I do congratulate them for this decision still because obviously the influx of students is gonna be a great challenge to surmount.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-every-company-that-applied-is-now-accepted/</url></story> | <instructions>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>You make a good point about withstanding rejection. But from the discussions that I overheard this afternoon, part of the motivation is that it&#x27;s what the YC partners wanted to do anyway. That is, it&#x27;s not only about making people feel better (though we certainly do want that), but also about realizing the original vision. I think Adora is planning to write a blog post about this.<p>If it works out, then the mistake will turn out to have been more of a catalyst than a mistake, which would be a good outcome. Hopefully people will feel that way in the end.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwmeoutoft11</author><text>Unpopular opinion here.<p>The value of startupschool (as a previous graduate) is the individual attention we got from a hand selected instructor.<p>I know yc screwed up with the emails, and their response was to please those that they have misled, accidentally of course. But I think they also devalued the class. It&#x27;s gonna be much harder to offer the quality attention of the past.<p>I think the right thing they should have done, which is harder, was for yc to apologize for their mistake and move on. I know it sucked for those who were selected then deselected, but if you are a startup owner you need to be prepared to be rejected, cause someone will reject you.<p>I don&#x27;t know what criteria startupschool goes through to select a company, but I think they must have seen something unique in those four thousands.<p>I do congratulate them for this decision still because obviously the influx of students is gonna be a great challenge to surmount.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-every-company-that-applied-is-now-accepted/</url></story> |
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