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33,983,139 | 33,981,772 | 1 | 3 | 33,975,926 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fatnoah</author><text>&gt; If you want to see what you should never do as a software engineer if you like not being in jail, this is it.<p>Not quite the same level, but in my early days working on a payment system, a request from the product team was to create a summary screen where customer service reps could see payment histories AND THE CC INFORMATION USED FOR THE PAYMENTS. In my mind, there was no way that would end well, so I strenuously objected and had to endure some very heated conversations over the course of a month or two. Eventually product team agreed to last 4 digits + expiration.<p>Nowadays it wouldn&#x27;t even be a conversation, but in the early 2000&#x27;s, it was a different world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; Only Singh, Bankman-Fried and a few other top FTX and Alameda executives knew about the exemption in the code, according to three former executives briefed on the matter. A digital dashboard used by staff to track FTX customer assets and liabilities was programmed so it would not take into account that Alameda had withdrawn the client funds, according to two of the people and a screenshot of the portal that Reuters has previously reported.<p>If you want to see what you should never do as a software engineer if you like not being in jail, this is it.<p>Singh will definitely get prison time as well, though I&#x27;m sure all the higher-ups in FTX are trying to point fingers to get deals. In the Madoff scandal, 2 of Madoff&#x27;s programmers were sentenced to 2 1&#x2F;2 years each. In this case, Singh has much more culpability as a higher-up (not to mention a pre-collapse billionaire).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A software change allowed FTX to use client money</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/how-secret-software-change-allowed-ftx-use-client-money-2022-12-13/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jwmoz</author><text>My claim to fame is that I dealt with SBF and Nishad to get some Python code for their api client merged in, the first non-FTX committer. I coded up a lot of the api functionalities that were missing. They never gave me a tip. A couple years later when I pitched for investment they declined it as they &quot;were looking for more volume&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; Only Singh, Bankman-Fried and a few other top FTX and Alameda executives knew about the exemption in the code, according to three former executives briefed on the matter. A digital dashboard used by staff to track FTX customer assets and liabilities was programmed so it would not take into account that Alameda had withdrawn the client funds, according to two of the people and a screenshot of the portal that Reuters has previously reported.<p>If you want to see what you should never do as a software engineer if you like not being in jail, this is it.<p>Singh will definitely get prison time as well, though I&#x27;m sure all the higher-ups in FTX are trying to point fingers to get deals. In the Madoff scandal, 2 of Madoff&#x27;s programmers were sentenced to 2 1&#x2F;2 years each. In this case, Singh has much more culpability as a higher-up (not to mention a pre-collapse billionaire).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A software change allowed FTX to use client money</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/how-secret-software-change-allowed-ftx-use-client-money-2022-12-13/</url></story> |
18,618,788 | 18,618,675 | 1 | 2 | 18,617,586 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;I feel like this article isn’t making good faith arguments.&quot;<p>The EFF is an advocacy organization. It definitely &quot;advocates&quot;, and does not generally make &quot;rational&quot; arguments. If you always like everything they do, you may have a hard time seeing this, but if you&#x27;ve ever seen them speak about something you are either ambivalent about (probably a lot of people on this matter today) or even outright disagree with them on (as I have), it becomes clear.<p>I&#x27;m not particularly trying to be critical of them here. They advocate; it&#x27;s what they say they do, it&#x27;s what they are set up to do, and they&#x27;re generally in a space that nobody else is even close to advocating for. But I do think it&#x27;s important to understand them for what they are.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dahart</author><text>Yes, the exact guidelines are going to be vague, that’s a <i>good</i> thing. It might just show they understand that it should be okay to allow art and breastfeeding and other forms of nudity that aren’t explicitly pornographic.<p>I feel like this article isn’t making good faith arguments. Every single sentence is trying to tear down Tumblr’s announcement word by word without attempting to understand their position, making the worst case assumption about their intent rather than assuming reason, and Tumblr’s position seems to be completely reasonable. Tumblr isn’t for porn anymore, just like most other web sites on the planet.<p>Plus, if they lost a spot on the Apple App Store due to porn, then the title isn’t true, removing the porn and getting back on the App Store will definitely make their situation better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/dear-tumblr-banning-adult-content-wont-make-your-site-better-it-will-harm-sex</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>freeone3000</author><text>Pornography is not just removed from the app, but also the website. Previously, apple users could browse to the website. Now, they no longer have this option. This is worse.<p>Also, the burn-down-the-world response to child pornography by removing every single female-presenting nipple is such an overwhelming response it&#x27;s hard to believe this is appropriate. Even assuming they could do it correctly - their current implementation flags pictures of chrysanthemums as lewd content.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dahart</author><text>Yes, the exact guidelines are going to be vague, that’s a <i>good</i> thing. It might just show they understand that it should be okay to allow art and breastfeeding and other forms of nudity that aren’t explicitly pornographic.<p>I feel like this article isn’t making good faith arguments. Every single sentence is trying to tear down Tumblr’s announcement word by word without attempting to understand their position, making the worst case assumption about their intent rather than assuming reason, and Tumblr’s position seems to be completely reasonable. Tumblr isn’t for porn anymore, just like most other web sites on the planet.<p>Plus, if they lost a spot on the Apple App Store due to porn, then the title isn’t true, removing the porn and getting back on the App Store will definitely make their situation better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/dear-tumblr-banning-adult-content-wont-make-your-site-better-it-will-harm-sex</url></story> |
18,435,241 | 18,434,681 | 1 | 2 | 18,427,259 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Erik816</author><text>Our culture is obsessed with talking about or thinking about losing weight, preferably with no discomfort or sacrifices involved. So the exact opposite of actually doing something really hard that will result in losing weight. That doesn&#x27;t sell books.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jshevek</author><text>Hiking and camping in cold weather can be an extremely effective weight loss strategy. If done with good nutrition, enough sleep, proper gear, it can even be a healthy weight loss strategy. I&#x27;m surprised no one seems to ever discuss this, with so much of our culture seemingly obsessed with losing weight.</text></item><item><author>jniedrauer</author><text>The closest I&#x27;ve ever come to getting a glimpse of what these two are going through is a 1100 mile trek through the Appalachian mountains one winter. It was fun, but I don&#x27;t think I ever want to do that again. When the temperature drops below about 0* F, there are only two things you can do: Move, or get in your sleeping bag. After a couple months of 14 hours a day alone in the frigid darkness, you start to lose your sanity a little bit. You start to forget what your body looks like. And when you do get a chance to check yourself when you cross civilization, you look almost unrecognizable from the weight loss.<p>And this is all in the continental United States, a few hours from civilization. It&#x27;s almost incomprehensible to me to do what these two are doing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Two men are trying to become the first person to cross Antarctica alone</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/11/sports/antarctica-race.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>xeromal</author><text>Hiking and camping in cold weather requires a certain fortitude that most people don&#x27;t have automatically. It&#x27;s going to take a bit of willpower to subject oneself to cold and misery. haha. It eventually becomes fun though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jshevek</author><text>Hiking and camping in cold weather can be an extremely effective weight loss strategy. If done with good nutrition, enough sleep, proper gear, it can even be a healthy weight loss strategy. I&#x27;m surprised no one seems to ever discuss this, with so much of our culture seemingly obsessed with losing weight.</text></item><item><author>jniedrauer</author><text>The closest I&#x27;ve ever come to getting a glimpse of what these two are going through is a 1100 mile trek through the Appalachian mountains one winter. It was fun, but I don&#x27;t think I ever want to do that again. When the temperature drops below about 0* F, there are only two things you can do: Move, or get in your sleeping bag. After a couple months of 14 hours a day alone in the frigid darkness, you start to lose your sanity a little bit. You start to forget what your body looks like. And when you do get a chance to check yourself when you cross civilization, you look almost unrecognizable from the weight loss.<p>And this is all in the continental United States, a few hours from civilization. It&#x27;s almost incomprehensible to me to do what these two are doing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Two men are trying to become the first person to cross Antarctica alone</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/11/sports/antarctica-race.html</url></story> |
4,590,497 | 4,590,055 | 1 | 2 | 4,589,554 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>natch</author><text>Authentication mechanisms and they way they are implemented can have bleedover into the ability of a user to maintain control of their anonymity and privacy.<p>Has there been any writeup that explains the potential impact of Persona on privacy? Not just the impact when used as intended, but also any unintended effects?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Persona - Mozilla's decentralized and secure authentication system</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona</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>y0ghur7_xxx</author><text>Previous discussion: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580986" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580986</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Persona - Mozilla's decentralized and secure authentication system</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona</url><text></text></story> |
13,368,067 | 13,367,475 | 1 | 2 | 13,366,498 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jameslk</author><text>I keeping hearing the narrative from this crowd that the MBP is on its way out of being in vogue for developers, but I don&#x27;t buy it at all.<p>First of all, this is market share up to the release of the new MBP. It&#x27;s not surprising that their market share has been slipping given that up to this point they haven&#x27;t released a significant update to the MBP since 2013.<p>But getting to the point, the Mac ecosystem is now ingrained into open source development. Believe me I used to use a PC not too long ago and nothing would work because OS software is designed to run on top of a NIX environment. I recently had to go through this exercise with a colleague who was in denial. But over time, it ends up the same: software built to run on Linux servers runs best under an environment that is designed more like Linux. He now owns a MBP.<p>So Windows is out (for non .NET devs). That leaves us with what, Linux itself as the OS? Anyone who suggests doing this either hasn&#x27;t done it before or has way too much time on their hands. I use macOS because I don&#x27;t have time to hunt for drivers, trying to understand an obscure error discussed in a long forum thread or having all my software no longer work just because I updated a package. I&#x27;ve already tried that twice once with Gentoo and then with Ubuntu years later hoping it would be different. I know plenty of others who have as well. Ultimately we have jobs and we need to debug our own software.<p>Which brings us back to the Mac. I fully expect this release to be their Windows 8 moment, a beta event from which they will recover from given time for hardware to catch up. Not every release can be a stellar event. Give it time.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mac’s share falls to five-year low</title><url>http://www.computerworld.com/article/3155088/apple-mac/macs-share-falls-to-five-year-low.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>eridius</author><text>PSA: This &quot;news&quot; comes courtesy of a company called Net Applications, which I&#x27;ve never heard of before. Looks like they&#x27;re a web analytics firm. So take this with a huge grain of salt, because they can&#x27;t actually see real user share, all they can see is the share of people who browse to their clients&#x27; sites.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mac’s share falls to five-year low</title><url>http://www.computerworld.com/article/3155088/apple-mac/macs-share-falls-to-five-year-low.html</url></story> |
16,591,797 | 16,591,911 | 1 | 2 | 16,588,564 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wjnc</author><text>My rant was more against the whole cheap plastic toy industry. The big chains definitively sell more cheap stuff (daresay shit) than my eco-self would like. But you&#x27;re right: Legos, Playmobil and indeed Barbies (my girl is a few weeks old, so yet to start on that avenue) are all very durable plastic toys and a large staple of what Toys R Us and other big toy stores sell. I agree with the other commenters that Amazon and Alibaba online and local discounters locally only serve to enhance the get-plastics-for-nearly-free market in toys.<p>An example: The metal miniature cars of the 80s still survive to this day. The plastic miniature cars, even those with metal tops, of the 10s get ruined by my boys in 24-48 hours. I don&#x27;t even think they play like little monsters. A few good falls and it&#x27;s gone. Then I get to toss it away and I really cringe. I blame toy stores for that, but that&#x27;s totally naive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>Does ToysRUs sell bad quality toys? My mom always bought us name brand toys and they were all excellent, we got Ghost Busters, Jurassic Park, Power Rangers, Action Man. All got years and years of play from both me and my little brother. Don&#x27;t they also sell Lego, Playmobil and Barbie? I hardly think toy quality has to do with their problems. I think the answer is just &#x27;Amazon&#x27;, as it is to most of the world&#x27;s retail industry.<p>I don&#x27;t think wood is a very suitable material to make children&#x27;s toys with, but to each his own.</text></item><item><author>wjnc</author><text>By far the best toy store in our hometown is a 30-yr old store that sells mainly wooden toys, board games, kites and nice dolls. They&#x27;ve survived and even improved in recent years, while the big toy stores merge and get less numerous. That&#x27;s awesome and I happily applaud being part of that as a customer.<p>Every play toy should last multiple children as a rule. We don&#x27;t take that to the extreme as parents, but the basic rule is sound. Even children like it that their cousins play with the same toys they&#x27;ve played with when younger. Buy good stuff. Share. Bye bye Toys R Us.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toys R Us to close all 800 of its U.S. stores</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/03/14/toys-r-us-to-close-all-800-of-its-u-s-stores</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>virtualritz</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t think wood is a very suitable material to make children&#x27;s toys with, but to each his own.<p>I grew up with Brio railway[1]. I still remember the vast networks my brother and I built. 40 years later these same toys are used by our own children.
These wooden toys have stood the test of time much better than any plastic ones we had at the time.
In every regard.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brio.us&#x2F;products&#x2F;all-products&#x2F;railway" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brio.us&#x2F;products&#x2F;all-products&#x2F;railway</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>Does ToysRUs sell bad quality toys? My mom always bought us name brand toys and they were all excellent, we got Ghost Busters, Jurassic Park, Power Rangers, Action Man. All got years and years of play from both me and my little brother. Don&#x27;t they also sell Lego, Playmobil and Barbie? I hardly think toy quality has to do with their problems. I think the answer is just &#x27;Amazon&#x27;, as it is to most of the world&#x27;s retail industry.<p>I don&#x27;t think wood is a very suitable material to make children&#x27;s toys with, but to each his own.</text></item><item><author>wjnc</author><text>By far the best toy store in our hometown is a 30-yr old store that sells mainly wooden toys, board games, kites and nice dolls. They&#x27;ve survived and even improved in recent years, while the big toy stores merge and get less numerous. That&#x27;s awesome and I happily applaud being part of that as a customer.<p>Every play toy should last multiple children as a rule. We don&#x27;t take that to the extreme as parents, but the basic rule is sound. Even children like it that their cousins play with the same toys they&#x27;ve played with when younger. Buy good stuff. Share. Bye bye Toys R Us.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toys R Us to close all 800 of its U.S. stores</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/03/14/toys-r-us-to-close-all-800-of-its-u-s-stores</url></story> |
19,069,831 | 19,069,921 | 1 | 2 | 19,069,450 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about other cities, but to understand the strong political push back against congestion pricing in NYC requires a bunch of local context.<p>Neither the rich+, nor the poor, nor the vast majority of the middle class regularly commute into Manhattan by car. The poor and the lower&#x2F;middle middle class because parking is prohibitively expensive. The upper middle class and the rich because they either live in Manhattan or they&#x27;d rather take commuter rail than sit in traffic. To the extent the latter take ubers or similar such services already pay congestion charges and there isn&#x27;t too much fuss (except from the drives who don&#x27;t have much political muscle).<p>The bulk of car commuters into Manhattan are instead those with de jure or de facto free parking. That&#x27;s largely government workers (e.g. teachers, cops, firefighters) and members of the trades (i.e. construction workers).<p>For those with de jure free parking congestion pricing isn&#x27;t a big deal, whatever authority is setting aside parking will either pay the congestion charge or get it waived. It&#x27;s the beneficiaries of police and traffic control refusal to enforce the law with respect to certain favored populations that are up in arms about congestion charges. Because a congestion charge is likely to be enforced by an automated mechanism which, unlike parking control, will not engage in public corruption on their behalf. And these groups, unlike the uber drivers, do have a great deal of political muscle.<p>+At least the ordinary rich, hecto-millionaires and billionaires might be a different story</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things that are more inequitable than road pricing</title><url>http://cityobservatory.org/ten-things-more-inequitable-that-road-pricing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonstewart</author><text>In Northern Virginia outside DC, I-66 had been subject to directional rush hour restrictions on single occupancy vehicles. It was illegal to drive a car with just yourself for a few hours every weekday and you risked a ticket if you were caught. People put blow up dolls in their passenger seats.<p>Last year they rolled out automatic congestion pricing for SOVs. All the news stories were about how the toll could hit a ridiculous-seeming price of $40+, but that was usually only for a few minutes in the morning rush. Buried in the articles several paragraphs in would be a note that, oh yeah, it had been illegal to drive alone. Now a year later, peoples’ habits have changed and the toll has done its job. Commuters have effectively time-shifted, alleviating and smoothing congestion. It has been so effective that the length of I-66 subject to this treatment will be extended.<p>I’m a smalltime neighborhood elected official in DC and I really hope I can convince DDOT to roll out bus lanes faster.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things that are more inequitable than road pricing</title><url>http://cityobservatory.org/ten-things-more-inequitable-that-road-pricing/</url></story> |
25,707,719 | 25,707,661 | 1 | 2 | 25,707,049 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>function_seven</author><text>Is that the video where it appears she&#x27;s rubbing an onion into her eye?<p>Anyway, for another example of &quot;they also didn&#x27;t seem to understand it was serious,&quot; the quote from the feet-up-on-the-desk guy:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;I&#x27;ll probably be telling them this is what happened all the way to the D.C. jail,&quot; Mr. Barnett said.</i><p>He&#x27;s glib about it the same way you might be about spending a night in the drunk tank after getting a little too crazy at Mardi Gras.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Nursie</author><text>They don&#x27;t seem to think what they did was wrong - but they also didn&#x27;t seem to understand it was serious.<p>There is a youtube video of a young woman expressing her utter shock and dismay at being maced as she literally tried to storm congress and disrupt the national democratic process. It is amazing to watch, just for how weirdly naive and entitled she is while right up saying they were trying for a revolution. What the hell did you think was going to happen?</text></item><item><author>flycaliguy</author><text>I don’t think these people had or have any interest in being anonymous. They are standing up for what they believe in. A public display is an important part of this all, it’s part of their statement as Americans in America.</text></item><item><author>optimalsolver</author><text>My favorite of these guys was West Virginia state legislator Derrick Evans:<p>&gt;The video shows a crowd surging through a Capitol door, past security, while an alarm repeatedly blares. As Evans enters an area called National Statuary Hall he celebrates and states his own name: “We’re in! We’re in! Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wvmetronews.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;09&#x2F;derrick-evans-resigns-w-va-house-after-entering-u-s-capitol-with-mob&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wvmetronews.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;09&#x2F;derrick-evans-resigns-w-v...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FBI Seeking Information Related to Violent Activity at the U.S. Capitol Building</title><url>https://tips.fbi.gov/digitalmedia/aad18481a3e8f02</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neutronicus</author><text>They think Law Enforcement and the military are on their side and that this protects them from consequences.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Nursie</author><text>They don&#x27;t seem to think what they did was wrong - but they also didn&#x27;t seem to understand it was serious.<p>There is a youtube video of a young woman expressing her utter shock and dismay at being maced as she literally tried to storm congress and disrupt the national democratic process. It is amazing to watch, just for how weirdly naive and entitled she is while right up saying they were trying for a revolution. What the hell did you think was going to happen?</text></item><item><author>flycaliguy</author><text>I don’t think these people had or have any interest in being anonymous. They are standing up for what they believe in. A public display is an important part of this all, it’s part of their statement as Americans in America.</text></item><item><author>optimalsolver</author><text>My favorite of these guys was West Virginia state legislator Derrick Evans:<p>&gt;The video shows a crowd surging through a Capitol door, past security, while an alarm repeatedly blares. As Evans enters an area called National Statuary Hall he celebrates and states his own name: “We’re in! We’re in! Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wvmetronews.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;09&#x2F;derrick-evans-resigns-w-va-house-after-entering-u-s-capitol-with-mob&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wvmetronews.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;09&#x2F;derrick-evans-resigns-w-v...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FBI Seeking Information Related to Violent Activity at the U.S. Capitol Building</title><url>https://tips.fbi.gov/digitalmedia/aad18481a3e8f02</url></story> |
35,222,644 | 35,222,647 | 1 | 2 | 35,221,562 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Dig1t</author><text>This reminds me of the story from A Scanner Darkly. One of the characters tells a story about a con artist who was pretending to be a famous con artist. His whole shtick was going around to talk shows recounting how he had played all these outlandish characters and conned people out of all kinds of money, in the end the only character he ever played was that of a con artist.<p>Maybe that story was based on the Catch Me If you Can guy, but I think possibly not because A Scanner Darkly came out before that movie.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman lied about his lifetime of lies</title><url>https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/catch-me-if-you-can-conman-frank-abagnale-lied-about-his-lies/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>diego_moita</author><text>Of course, what makes you famous is how good is your &quot;reality distortion field&quot;. No one buys &quot;facts&quot;, people buy &quot;stories&quot;.<p>Steve Jobs never really invented anything but he knew how to play the role.<p>&quot;The Wolf of Wall Street&quot; also invented most of the stuff in the movie&#x2F;book but he knew how to play the role.<p>Buffalo Bill was just an exhibitionist showman that never did anything heroic but he knew how to pretend it.<p>And Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, ...<p>Well, you got the idea...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman lied about his lifetime of lies</title><url>https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/catch-me-if-you-can-conman-frank-abagnale-lied-about-his-lies/</url></story> |
18,333,511 | 18,333,573 | 1 | 2 | 18,326,085 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mediumdeviation</author><text>Regarding disposable plates and utensils, I actually don&#x27;t see much of them unless you ask for takeout. I suspect in the area you&#x27;re in the cost of dish washing is more expensive than the cost of plates and refuse collection. A tax on disposables would be great.<p>Singapore is actually getting better on reducing disposables, though slower than I would like. Cashiers don&#x27;t double bag items anymore, and try to pack as much into one as possible. Paper takeout boxes and bags have replaced styrofoam and plastic in many places, and it&#x27;s currently trendy to not offer plastic straws for drinks.<p>Another reason for disposable chopsticks, (though this applies more in China, Taiwan and Malaysia) is that the customers may not trust the hygiene of the place they&#x27;re eating in. Disposable chopsticks are cut with the centers intact so it&#x27;s impossible to put them back together and resell them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Sureai</author><text>I am right now in Singapore for a visit and personally I don&#x27;t have the feeling of a very clean city. There are some things that drive me crazy as a european. I went to a hawker with some Singaporeans and we got new disposable chopsticks for every dish. Wich means I ended up with three pairs of chopsticks. All plates were disposable. Either of plastic or styrofoam. Like in the article we didn&#x27;t clean our trays, a cleaner took them the second we finished eating. I asked the Singaporeans how they feel about all the plastic and they just replied that&#x27;s just how it is. Especially, that you get a plastic bag for every two items in the supermarket drives me nuts. Even when I am holding a backpack directly in front of the cashier he starts packing the items faster in a plastic bag than I can say anything. They even have watered sponges for their finger tips so they can be quicker with the plastic bags.<p>Needless to say, that all the trash ends up somewhere. Maybe not so much in percentage, but you will definitely find litter every few meters. The difference to my hometown in Germany is, that the litter there stays for years but also not so much new litter per day is produced. Maybe the Singaporeans should place more public trash bins or get some moop bags.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The cost of keeping Singapore squeaky clean</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20181025-the-cost-of-keeping-singapore-squeaky-clean</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kirvyteo</author><text>It is definitely a &quot;cleaned&quot; city. The level of cleanliness has gone now and litter has increased. Public awareness of this has gone down. If you know Singapore, there has always been a history of govt-led campaigns.<p>15 years ago, it wasn&#x27;t like that. People bring their own tupperware to do take aways. All the cutlery were washed and cleaned. This meant more time and energy from the hawkers. In the name of efficiency, low cost, disposable plastic&#x2F;styrofoam&#x2F;chopsticks is a convenient solution, unfortunately.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Sureai</author><text>I am right now in Singapore for a visit and personally I don&#x27;t have the feeling of a very clean city. There are some things that drive me crazy as a european. I went to a hawker with some Singaporeans and we got new disposable chopsticks for every dish. Wich means I ended up with three pairs of chopsticks. All plates were disposable. Either of plastic or styrofoam. Like in the article we didn&#x27;t clean our trays, a cleaner took them the second we finished eating. I asked the Singaporeans how they feel about all the plastic and they just replied that&#x27;s just how it is. Especially, that you get a plastic bag for every two items in the supermarket drives me nuts. Even when I am holding a backpack directly in front of the cashier he starts packing the items faster in a plastic bag than I can say anything. They even have watered sponges for their finger tips so they can be quicker with the plastic bags.<p>Needless to say, that all the trash ends up somewhere. Maybe not so much in percentage, but you will definitely find litter every few meters. The difference to my hometown in Germany is, that the litter there stays for years but also not so much new litter per day is produced. Maybe the Singaporeans should place more public trash bins or get some moop bags.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The cost of keeping Singapore squeaky clean</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20181025-the-cost-of-keeping-singapore-squeaky-clean</url></story> |
6,312,252 | 6,312,227 | 1 | 3 | 6,311,717 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>x0x0</author><text>oh, and if we&#x27;re discussing a certain emr company in madison...<p>in the beginning, in the 70s or so, ram was very tight and the source was interpreted, not compiled; variable names were shortened to save memory. So the oldest core routines have single letter variable names<p>variables aren&#x27;t declared; when you use a name, the interpreter just travels up the call stack looking for somewhere that variable is defined. so if you accidentally use the wrong name, especially with the strong bias to very short variable names, in nested enough code you will find that variable. This led to some amazing bugs<p>the prefix of the command to delete a node in the internal db (really just global sparse arrays) deleted everything. A coworker fat fingered that in a customer&#x27;s prod systems and took down a hospital chain you&#x27;ve heard of. I just heard him wail, &quot;Oh SHIT&quot; and sprint out of our office; I later found out he ran for the recovery team.<p>they also had 15mm lines of vb6<p>oh, and they love h1b slave labor. Bring them over, abuse them, threaten to fire them if they don&#x27;t work their asses off, and leave them with no transferable job skills. I presume the ceo uses her billions to salve her conscience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rwmj</author><text>Kind of reminds me of MUMPS, which is a real bunch of crazy that I had to use for a time.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MUMPS</a><p>Edit: The examples on the wikipedia page make it look less crazy than it is. For example every keyword can be abbreviated to a single letter, and <i>was</i> abbreviated to a single letter in the code I had to read. Also, each variable is connected to a global database which (in 1990) had no ACID properties or staging system, so better hope your undebugged program didn&#x27;t delete any patient data (or worse, randomly modify it).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Worst Programming Environment in the World?</title><url>https://github.com/jloughry/BANCStar/blob/master/README.md</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>perturbation</author><text>Every time they have an &quot;X language is terrible&quot; link, people slag off MUMPS. I program in a modern variant of MUMPS almost every day. It <i>can</i> be obfuscated as in the examples, but with proper programming practice (conventions for declaring variables, function names, <i>not</i> using goto where not appropriate, etc.) it&#x27;s really not all that bad.<p>What I miss the most from other programming languages are features like public&#x2F;private variables&#x2F;methods, objects&#x2F;classes + inheritance, type-checking, first-class functions, etc. (It does support try-catch and exception handling, however.) Even the above gripes aren&#x27;t entirely 100%, as Intersystems extended MUMPS to have object-oriented features with Cache Objectscript, however, no one uses these so as not to be locked in to one vendor&#x27;s non-standard implementation of the lagnguage. When comparing to say, Fortran-77, there&#x27;s just no contest in my mind- out of everything I&#x27;ve programmed in, including VB, I hate Fortran by far the most.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rwmj</author><text>Kind of reminds me of MUMPS, which is a real bunch of crazy that I had to use for a time.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MUMPS</a><p>Edit: The examples on the wikipedia page make it look less crazy than it is. For example every keyword can be abbreviated to a single letter, and <i>was</i> abbreviated to a single letter in the code I had to read. Also, each variable is connected to a global database which (in 1990) had no ACID properties or staging system, so better hope your undebugged program didn&#x27;t delete any patient data (or worse, randomly modify it).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Worst Programming Environment in the World?</title><url>https://github.com/jloughry/BANCStar/blob/master/README.md</url></story> |
3,484,299 | 3,484,223 | 1 | 2 | 3,483,913 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dhimes</author><text>I agree. To counter his point, we laid low for the Patriot Act and the masses didn't suddenly awaken.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guelo</author><text>What Maddox doesn't seem to understand is that "raising awareness" is the only way you win these battles long term in a democracy. For example, gay marriage is slowly becoming a reality because over the last 20 years gays have opened people's eyes to their plight. Once a cause becomes a moral issue for most Americans it wins. But most people have no idea what us tech geeks are bitching about so we have to educate them about our causes. And that is exactly what yesterday was about.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Maddox - I hope SOPA passes</title><url>http://maddox.xmission.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>irishcoffee</author><text>This may upset people, but in my humble opinion, gay marriage has been a pawn used by DC for political gain. Raising awareness worked because DC figured out a way to twist it into a campaign talking point. Makes me sick.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guelo</author><text>What Maddox doesn't seem to understand is that "raising awareness" is the only way you win these battles long term in a democracy. For example, gay marriage is slowly becoming a reality because over the last 20 years gays have opened people's eyes to their plight. Once a cause becomes a moral issue for most Americans it wins. But most people have no idea what us tech geeks are bitching about so we have to educate them about our causes. And that is exactly what yesterday was about.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Maddox - I hope SOPA passes</title><url>http://maddox.xmission.com/</url></story> |
35,388,759 | 35,388,557 | 1 | 3 | 35,387,000 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PuppyTailWags</author><text>What are you talking about? Small cities are just as rife with corruption. The nationwide &quot;cash for kids&quot; scandal occurred in a small city in Philadelphia. Pasco County, whose largest city is less than 20,000 in populace, literally collected lists of children&#x27;s names and families for extra surveillance under the assumption they would be future criminals regardless of actual criminal history. Sundown Towns, a notion where hate crimes are effectively legal after dark, were enforced by local law enforcement (i.e. the law enforcement were lynching black people).<p>There&#x27;s no reason not to believe that law enforcement everywhere can and does turn dangerous to the local population without stringent education, repercussions for bad behavior, and transparency.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>NYC, SF, and other big cities behave this way, but most of the rest of the country doesn&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>fakedang</author><text>Looks like USA is a police state after all. The irony.</text></item><item><author>crop_rotation</author><text>This reminds me of San Francisco Police Strike 1975 where the Police ignored court orders and called the court order &quot;Unconstitutional&quot;. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1975&#x2F;08&#x2F;20&#x2F;archives&#x2F;police-out-san-francisco-faces-fire-and-transit-strikes-new-tieups.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1975&#x2F;08&#x2F;20&#x2F;archives&#x2F;police-out-san-f...</a>)
In the end they got what they wanted too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance tech laws</title><url>https://www.dailydot.com/debug/nypd-violating-post-act-inspector-general/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paxys</author><text>Small town police departments are worse. They just don&#x27;t get all the press.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>NYC, SF, and other big cities behave this way, but most of the rest of the country doesn&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>fakedang</author><text>Looks like USA is a police state after all. The irony.</text></item><item><author>crop_rotation</author><text>This reminds me of San Francisco Police Strike 1975 where the Police ignored court orders and called the court order &quot;Unconstitutional&quot;. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1975&#x2F;08&#x2F;20&#x2F;archives&#x2F;police-out-san-francisco-faces-fire-and-transit-strikes-new-tieups.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1975&#x2F;08&#x2F;20&#x2F;archives&#x2F;police-out-san-f...</a>)
In the end they got what they wanted too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance tech laws</title><url>https://www.dailydot.com/debug/nypd-violating-post-act-inspector-general/</url></story> |
33,608,143 | 33,608,139 | 1 | 3 | 33,607,032 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>That is perfectly scientific. It becomes unscientific is when people pretend it worked, or that they&#x27;d ever seen it work.<p>Materials science follows in the footsteps of the alchemists, keeping alive the grand tradition of mixing random stuff together to see what happens. They too are frequently mixing things together in the hope of getting specific outcomes - usually it doesn&#x27;t work.<p>Science is about how people deal with evidence. There wasn&#x27;t any reason to think that gold couldn&#x27;t be produced by mixing stuff together in the days when alchemy was popular. After all, a bunch of other substances could be made by mixing things, and it is obviously possible to mix liquids and get solids.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheLoafOfBread</author><text>Alchemy is unscientific by its nature - let&#x27;s mix random substances to get gold.</text></item><item><author>viraptor</author><text>I&#x27;ve definitely been taught about a few of the early ideas around biochem. Alchemy, will to live, the misunderstanding around ether in physics, the various conflicts around how life begins, and probably others I forgot. You don&#x27;t learn &quot;the unscientific woo&quot;, you learn the historical context of how we got to the current understanding.</text></item><item><author>zozbot234</author><text>&gt; has been decolonised and now invokes the concept of mauri, or life force, to give the atomic theory a new spiritual dimension.<p>Uh, last I checked, Euro-centric biology or chemistry didn&#x27;t involve talking about <i>Wille zum Leben</i> or <i>élan vital</i>. Why does &#x27;decolonized&#x27; science need to get involved with this totally unscientific woo?</text></item><item><author>causi</author><text><i>In this world view it is not insulting to suggest non-Europeans prefer ‘other ways of knowing’ to rationality and science.</i><p>This reminds me of that &quot;racial sensitivity guide&quot; that told employees punctuality and logical objectivity were &quot;white expectations&quot; not to be applied to persons of color.<p><i>In New Zealand the school chemistry and biology syllabus has been decolonised and now invokes the concept of mauri, or life force, to give the atomic theory a new spiritual dimension.</i><p>I went to high school and college so deep in the bible belt you could put an empty Coke can to your ear and hear banjo music and our textbooks <i>still</i> didn&#x27;t have anything like that bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics</title><url>https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-sinister-attempts-to-decolonise-mathematics/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Joker_vD</author><text>...okay, forget all the physical and chemical knowledge you have that was discovered after the year 1300 and propose a better method to learn how to produce gold. Where would you even start?</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheLoafOfBread</author><text>Alchemy is unscientific by its nature - let&#x27;s mix random substances to get gold.</text></item><item><author>viraptor</author><text>I&#x27;ve definitely been taught about a few of the early ideas around biochem. Alchemy, will to live, the misunderstanding around ether in physics, the various conflicts around how life begins, and probably others I forgot. You don&#x27;t learn &quot;the unscientific woo&quot;, you learn the historical context of how we got to the current understanding.</text></item><item><author>zozbot234</author><text>&gt; has been decolonised and now invokes the concept of mauri, or life force, to give the atomic theory a new spiritual dimension.<p>Uh, last I checked, Euro-centric biology or chemistry didn&#x27;t involve talking about <i>Wille zum Leben</i> or <i>élan vital</i>. Why does &#x27;decolonized&#x27; science need to get involved with this totally unscientific woo?</text></item><item><author>causi</author><text><i>In this world view it is not insulting to suggest non-Europeans prefer ‘other ways of knowing’ to rationality and science.</i><p>This reminds me of that &quot;racial sensitivity guide&quot; that told employees punctuality and logical objectivity were &quot;white expectations&quot; not to be applied to persons of color.<p><i>In New Zealand the school chemistry and biology syllabus has been decolonised and now invokes the concept of mauri, or life force, to give the atomic theory a new spiritual dimension.</i><p>I went to high school and college so deep in the bible belt you could put an empty Coke can to your ear and hear banjo music and our textbooks <i>still</i> didn&#x27;t have anything like that bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics</title><url>https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-sinister-attempts-to-decolonise-mathematics/</url></story> |
34,392,972 | 34,393,032 | 1 | 2 | 34,389,023 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>parker_mountain</author><text>They worst of them are referred to as the Censored Eleven, although you can easily find them intact (albeit, with a warning). It&#x27;s not a complete list - others have been added to the list since, such as WWII cartoons with highly racist anti-Japanese charactures.<p>An example of one illustrates why the content might be considered problematic: &quot;Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs&quot;. A contemporary review said, &quot;A satire on Snow White done in blackface, set in modern swing, this is the best in a long time. It&#x27;s very funny.&quot;<p>The &quot;atrocities&quot; include rampant racism, sexism, and other needless offenses with the intent of comedy. Other media of the time, such as Theodore Geisel&#x2F;Dr Suess&#x27; wartime cartoons, often show up on these lists as well.<p>In my opinion, it&#x27;s good that these cartoons are accessible, with content warnings, yet kept out of normal playback rotation. They&#x27;re relics of an age gone, thankfully, past.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CharlesW</author><text>Do you have a list of these classic, summarily-banished works? In a world where <i>Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever</i> is available on mainstream streaming services, it&#x27;s hard to imagine what atrocities you&#x27;re thinking of.</text></item><item><author>mortenjorck</author><text><i>&gt; There are vile ethnic caricatures and slurs in those patriotic cartoons from the Second World War, and to its immense credit, Warner Bros. has often worked to contextualize and preserve those shorts. In several cases, it has included those works in separate subsections on home-video releases, so that they won’t autoplay with the rest of the cartoons.</i><p>If only more shared this view that we should thoughtfully and critically engage with problematic elements of classic works rather than summarily banishing them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HBO Max’s Great Looney Tunes Purge</title><url>https://slate.com/culture/2023/01/looney-tunes-hbo-max-removed.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>RichardCA</author><text>Here&#x27;s a good example. I rememeber seeing this back in the 90&#x27;s when they would have weekend &quot;mini-Cons&quot; in L.A. at places like the Ambassador Hotel for animation and Anime fans. They had to project it on 16mm film.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymotion.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;x6q8qen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymotion.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;x6q8qen</a><p>The &quot;Scat&quot; version of Nagasaki was provided by Leo &quot;Zoot&quot; Watson: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;looneytunes.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Leo_Watson" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;looneytunes.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Leo_Watson</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>CharlesW</author><text>Do you have a list of these classic, summarily-banished works? In a world where <i>Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever</i> is available on mainstream streaming services, it&#x27;s hard to imagine what atrocities you&#x27;re thinking of.</text></item><item><author>mortenjorck</author><text><i>&gt; There are vile ethnic caricatures and slurs in those patriotic cartoons from the Second World War, and to its immense credit, Warner Bros. has often worked to contextualize and preserve those shorts. In several cases, it has included those works in separate subsections on home-video releases, so that they won’t autoplay with the rest of the cartoons.</i><p>If only more shared this view that we should thoughtfully and critically engage with problematic elements of classic works rather than summarily banishing them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HBO Max’s Great Looney Tunes Purge</title><url>https://slate.com/culture/2023/01/looney-tunes-hbo-max-removed.html</url></story> |
29,893,268 | 29,893,026 | 1 | 3 | 29,891,608 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tharne</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why people keep expressing surprise at things like this.<p>Contrary to what the U.S. Supreme Court would have you believe, corporations are not people and do not have morals or values. They are organizations that seek to maximize profit and grow.<p>Any values a corporation projects are merely reflections of whatever the dominant moral force is in a given time and place.<p>American corporations in the U.S. in 2022 project values of wokeness because the woke left is presently the dominant cultural force in the U.S. In 1950&#x27;s America, the dominant cultural force was cultural conservatism and patriotism so naturally corporations projected conservative and patriotic values. So it shouldn&#x27;t surprise anyone that a large corporation operating in China in 2022 will reflect the values of the CCP.<p>I&#x27;m not saying this is a good thing, but expecting a corporation to have meaningful morals in the same way a human does is like expecting your dog to do the dishes. Based on what they are, they&#x27;re simply not capable of the task.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter</title><url>https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/intel-deletes-reference-to-xinjiang-after-backlash-in-china</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>analyst74</author><text>Isn&#x27;t the new wording more morally consistent?<p>It still means they are against slave labor, including those in Xinjiang, but not blindly banning anything from the region.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter</title><url>https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/intel-deletes-reference-to-xinjiang-after-backlash-in-china</url></story> |
28,844,892 | 28,844,563 | 1 | 2 | 28,843,122 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>barbacoa</author><text>And don&#x27;t get me started on the Romans.<p>After the Romans captured Carthage they murdered 450,000 of its inhabitants.<p>This makes Caesar&#x27;s Place in Las Vegas very culturally problematic.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gorwell</author><text>Long dead Hitler and Goebbels are included too, but why stop there? Where&#x27;s Joseph Stalin and Vlad the Impaler.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;21083819&#x2F;pages&#x2F;facebook-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-list-reproduced-snapshot-p65-large.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;21083819&#x2F;pages&#x2F;facebo...</a></text></item><item><author>jdhn</author><text>They have Ted Kaczynski on that list despite the fact that he&#x27;s in prison for the rest of his life, and that he wouldn&#x27;t use Facebook even if he was out. Is his presence on this list an indicator that Facebook is paying more attention to users&#x2F;groups that talk about him a lot or share his ideals?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Reproduced Snapshot)</title><url>https://theintercept.com/document/2021/10/12/facebook-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-list-reproduced-snapshot/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adventured</author><text>Exactly. Where&#x27;s Che Guevara? Another of the monsters of the 20th century and still quite popular as an icon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gorwell</author><text>Long dead Hitler and Goebbels are included too, but why stop there? Where&#x27;s Joseph Stalin and Vlad the Impaler.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;21083819&#x2F;pages&#x2F;facebook-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-list-reproduced-snapshot-p65-large.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;21083819&#x2F;pages&#x2F;facebo...</a></text></item><item><author>jdhn</author><text>They have Ted Kaczynski on that list despite the fact that he&#x27;s in prison for the rest of his life, and that he wouldn&#x27;t use Facebook even if he was out. Is his presence on this list an indicator that Facebook is paying more attention to users&#x2F;groups that talk about him a lot or share his ideals?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Reproduced Snapshot)</title><url>https://theintercept.com/document/2021/10/12/facebook-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-list-reproduced-snapshot/</url></story> |
11,521,538 | 11,521,552 | 1 | 2 | 11,521,009 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Quagga&#x2F;Zebra is a giant C project. The industry is moving away, as much as it can, from serving critical infrastructure on giant C programs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>devnull42</author><text>So at the moment I see no reason why Go written BGP would be better than standard Quagga&#x2F;Zebra. There aren&#x27;t really concurrency or resource issues with large scale Quagga in my experience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GoBGP: BGP Implemented in Go</title><url>https://github.com/osrg/gobgp</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elliotf</author><text>I would imagine&#x2F;hope that it&#x27;s more about integration with other code than using it solely as a BGP daemon. The repo seems to be related to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;osrg.github.io&#x2F;ryu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;osrg.github.io&#x2F;ryu&#x2F;</a> which is a &quot;software-defined networking framework&quot;<p>Off-hand, you could use GoBGP to do cheap loadbalancing-ish things without external dependencies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>devnull42</author><text>So at the moment I see no reason why Go written BGP would be better than standard Quagga&#x2F;Zebra. There aren&#x27;t really concurrency or resource issues with large scale Quagga in my experience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GoBGP: BGP Implemented in Go</title><url>https://github.com/osrg/gobgp</url></story> |
4,696,030 | 4,696,057 | 1 | 3 | 4,695,791 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>I personally like the model "try to do something illegal and then complain on the Internet". When people realize the laws are wrong, they'll change them. (Remember how epically SOPA failed? Awareness is a key catalyst for change and many laws are for special interest groups rather than general interest.)<p>But even ignoring that, this article is crap. It basically claims that taxi licensing exists for safety and that Uber is jepordizing the safety of the average man for the benefit of the out-of-touch Silicon Valley elitist. Using facts to support this view, however, is difficult as there are none. Uber uses licensed car services that are licensed to transport passengers but not to pick up people without a certain amount of notice. The law that's being broken is saying "I want a car now" when the law says you have to say "I want a car in one hour" or otherwise hail a medallion vehicle. Presumably the licensing process for drivers of cabs and car service cars is around the same (drivers must not rape their passenger, to use the example from the article).<p>The worst side effect of letting car services pick up passengers immediately is that the artificial value of taxi medallions will return to its true value of zero dollars, making a lot of people very poor very quickly. There is an argument to limiting the number of cabs as a traffic-calming measure, but there is really no reason to discriminate based on vehicle type -- just implement a congestion charge and everything will work itself out.<p>Anyway, I like to see counterpoint articles on HN so I'm glad this was posted. But writing a whiney blog post about how Uber is sticking it to the poor man is tiresome.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Travis Shrugged</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>clarkm</author><text>I'm still trying to figure out the point of this article. I think the author is trying to discredit Travis Kalanick and Uber by associating them with Ayn Rand, but the argument seems to backfire.<p>Besides the fact that the article is annoyingly snarky, it just doesn't make good arguments. There are much better ways to criticize Uber than raving about some Ayn Rand connection. The writing meanders through several topics, but seems to be just grasping at threads. The author wants us to believe that Travis is some sort of Objectivist Fundamentalist, but fails to tie them together with anything more substantive than a Twitter profile picture and three year old forum post.<p>However, I do have to give him credit for creative character assassination. He includes lots of suggestive anecdotes (e.g. caricaturing Travis as "downright adolescent"), re-educates us with some condescending philosophical mischaracterizations (though he seems rather desperate in his attempts to portray Rand as the Worst Person In The World), and tops it off with some complete non-sequiturs (like trying to convince us that, <i>hypothetically</i>, if faced with Airbnb's problems, Travis would've ruined everything, all because of Ayn Rand).<p>I honestly can't tell if this article was motivated more by the author's hate of Travis or his hate of Ayn Rand. I imagine he already hated Travis, but upon noticing Travis' twitter icon, became irate and penned this screed.<p>My favorite part:<p>&#62; Worse still, Rand inspired Paul Ryan, The Tea Party and the Koch Brothers.<p>You read right -- Uber is basically The Tea Party. So overall, I think the author does a better job of discrediting himself than anything else.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Travis Shrugged</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/</url></story> |
9,257,393 | 9,250,869 | 1 | 3 | 9,248,691 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leejoramo</author><text>In my experience most long-time advanced OS X learn all of the somewhat hidden keyboard and mousing short cuts of which there are many. Most advanced users don&#x27;t directly improve or replace the Finder with more GUI mousing tools such as Path Finder, XtraFinder and the like.<p>Instead we use tools that keep our hands on the keyboard and automate workflows. I have been a user of LaunchBar for over 15 years since OS X Beta. Other people use Alfred or Quicksilver for the same reasons. Any of these apps will address most of the issues people have mentioned in these comments. Each of these apps has a slightly different focus and style so it is worth testing each to see which fits you the best.<p>For the few things that LaunchBar can&#x27;t do, or for much more complicated workflow automation, I use Keyboard Maestro.<p>* <a href="http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.obdev.at&#x2F;products&#x2F;launchbar&#x2F;index.html</a><p>* <a href="http://www.alfredapp.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alfredapp.com</a><p>* <a href="http://qsapp.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qsapp.com</a><p>* <a href="http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keyboardmaestro.com&#x2F;</a><p>Fun Note: you can still download versions of LaunchBar back to pre-OS X NEXTSTEP.<p>EDIT: immediately after posting, I saw this review in my RSS stream. They pick Alfred, but discuss the rest. <a href="http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/our-favorite-os-x-launcher/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thesweetsetup.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;our-favorite-os-x-launcher&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sauere</author><text>Semi-OT: i just recently started using OSX (coming from Xubuntu&#x2F;XFCE). The Finder is my number #1 problem with the OS. I find it very uncomfortable and cumbersome to use, maybe i just don&#x27;t grasp the concept... whatever.<p>Is there any alternative? Also open to a command line file navigator.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FinderPath</title><url>http://bahoom.com/finderpath/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spython</author><text>Forklift is a dual pane file manager that works well for me. With FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3 and so on.<p><a href="http://www.binarynights.com/forklift/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.binarynights.com&#x2F;forklift&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sauere</author><text>Semi-OT: i just recently started using OSX (coming from Xubuntu&#x2F;XFCE). The Finder is my number #1 problem with the OS. I find it very uncomfortable and cumbersome to use, maybe i just don&#x27;t grasp the concept... whatever.<p>Is there any alternative? Also open to a command line file navigator.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FinderPath</title><url>http://bahoom.com/finderpath/</url></story> |
8,244,641 | 8,244,537 | 1 | 2 | 8,244,260 | 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>sivers</author><text>Don&#x27;t knock it &#x27;til you actually read it. The succinct snippets given on CodingVC&#x27;s blog don&#x27;t do it justice.<p>It&#x27;s one of the most interesting business books I&#x27;ve ever read - one of the only that&#x27;s worth reading multiple times.<p>You can see my more detailed notes from it, here:<p><a href="http://sivers.org/book/ArtOfProfitability" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sivers.org&#x2F;book&#x2F;ArtOfProfitability</a><p>Or if you&#x27;re the video type, I did a conference presentation about it, here:<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/15088740" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;15088740</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Art of Profitability</title><url>http://codingvc.com/the-art-of-profitability</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>idlewords</author><text>Profitability is like weight loss. Extremely straightforward, in principle. Charge money and keep more of it than you spend. What could be so hard about that?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Art of Profitability</title><url>http://codingvc.com/the-art-of-profitability</url><text></text></story> |
27,961,429 | 27,961,031 | 1 | 3 | 27,959,722 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cactus2093</author><text>I also lived in Japan in the mid 90&#x27;s. I was a kid so of course my memory is probably pretty skewed and I have no idea about grownup things like ATMs, but I remember the tech being absolutely amazing. All the game consoles were Japanese (nintendo, sega, playstation) and often got releases first before the US. The arcades were incredible, I remember playing arcade versions of essentially DDR and guitar hero&#x2F;rockband like 5 years before they caught on in the US. Cell phones also seemed to be a few years ahead of the US (back when flip phones were the rage and smaller was better). Complex vending machines were pretty common, e.g. making things like multi-step hot coffee drinks, I think it was probably a full 15 years later that I first saw one of these in the US.<p>It&#x27;s fascinating and also kind of sad to me how much less relevant Japan today seems to be as far as consumer tech goes.<p>Looking back, I also think a big part of it was Tokyo as a city just being on a totally different scale than anything else I had experienced. In the 90&#x27;s I don&#x27;t think there was anywhere in the US remotely similar to a place like Shinjuku. Now days I think parts of midtown Manhattan or perhaps in other ways the Vegas strip might have a little bit of a similar energy, but I had never been to either of those as a child, and back then they were much different than they are today anyway.<p>The ease of getting around by fast, reliable trains (and especially bullet trains) also seemed super futuristic to me back then. Of course that part is still pretty far ahead of the US to this day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stopnamingnuts</author><text>I suspect I hit the sweet spot when I lived in Japan from 1993-1995 if I interpret your comment correctly. I remember being impressed by the tech. For example: ATMs into which one inserted not only a card, but also a transaction book which would be mechanically updated (versus spitting out a slip). I still have mine. We&#x27;re talking about Japan so, naturally, my bank book features Snoopy prominently on its cover.</text></item><item><author>drstewart</author><text>&gt;I think the state of digital technology is due to structural &#x2F; hierarchical social reasons that these initiatives don&#x27;t really address.<p>Maybe a trite &#x2F; cliche saying now, but the quote about Japan being the most futuristic society you could imagine in the 1990s just rung so true after visiting.</text></item><item><author>alephnan</author><text>Bank ATMs in Japan stop working between 6-9PM, and on weekends.<p>My debit card got de-magnetized ( like a flaky hotel room key ) and stopped working at the official bank ATM. It doesn&#x27;t work at most third party ATMs, but I&#x27;ve found the 7-11 ATMs are quite robust and is actually able to transact. Seems like a weird security mechanism if the official bank ATM can&#x27;t authenticate the card, but somehow 7-11 ATMs can bypass this and allow me to withdraw money.<p>The bank&#x27;s website also has a very strange username &#x2F; password rules. They can only contain numbers and letters, case insensitively. Also, you can&#x27;t have more than 2 consecutive numbers or letters. For example, &#x27;foo2bar&#x27; would not be valid, nor would &#x27;fo911baz&#x27;. &#x27;fo23ba23&#x27; works.<p>One of my friends in Japan is a doctor from Belarus, one of the poorest countries in Eastern Europe. She came to Japan thinking it was technologically advanced, and was shocked to find that in some aspects Belarus is more technologically modern.<p>I have a very cynical theory about why technology is seemingly archaic here. I think the state of digital technology is due to structural &#x2F; hierarchical social reasons that these initiatives don&#x27;t really address. Not directly related to the hierarchical constructs, but examples of traditional practices include:<p>- resumes must be hand-written<p>- the stack of paperwork you need to sign for an apartment is about 1 inches thick. If you&#x27;re purchasing a property, you&#x27;ll probably need a couple binders.<p>- you need to create Hanko ( personal seal stamp ) as your official signature for some paperwork</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japan pitches 'Society 5.0' to keep its edge in tech and science</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/Japan-pitches-Society-5.0-to-keep-its-edge-in-tech-and-science</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jholman</author><text>Bank books worked like that in Canada in the late 80s or early 90s, yeah. It&#x27;s interesting what seems impressive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stopnamingnuts</author><text>I suspect I hit the sweet spot when I lived in Japan from 1993-1995 if I interpret your comment correctly. I remember being impressed by the tech. For example: ATMs into which one inserted not only a card, but also a transaction book which would be mechanically updated (versus spitting out a slip). I still have mine. We&#x27;re talking about Japan so, naturally, my bank book features Snoopy prominently on its cover.</text></item><item><author>drstewart</author><text>&gt;I think the state of digital technology is due to structural &#x2F; hierarchical social reasons that these initiatives don&#x27;t really address.<p>Maybe a trite &#x2F; cliche saying now, but the quote about Japan being the most futuristic society you could imagine in the 1990s just rung so true after visiting.</text></item><item><author>alephnan</author><text>Bank ATMs in Japan stop working between 6-9PM, and on weekends.<p>My debit card got de-magnetized ( like a flaky hotel room key ) and stopped working at the official bank ATM. It doesn&#x27;t work at most third party ATMs, but I&#x27;ve found the 7-11 ATMs are quite robust and is actually able to transact. Seems like a weird security mechanism if the official bank ATM can&#x27;t authenticate the card, but somehow 7-11 ATMs can bypass this and allow me to withdraw money.<p>The bank&#x27;s website also has a very strange username &#x2F; password rules. They can only contain numbers and letters, case insensitively. Also, you can&#x27;t have more than 2 consecutive numbers or letters. For example, &#x27;foo2bar&#x27; would not be valid, nor would &#x27;fo911baz&#x27;. &#x27;fo23ba23&#x27; works.<p>One of my friends in Japan is a doctor from Belarus, one of the poorest countries in Eastern Europe. She came to Japan thinking it was technologically advanced, and was shocked to find that in some aspects Belarus is more technologically modern.<p>I have a very cynical theory about why technology is seemingly archaic here. I think the state of digital technology is due to structural &#x2F; hierarchical social reasons that these initiatives don&#x27;t really address. Not directly related to the hierarchical constructs, but examples of traditional practices include:<p>- resumes must be hand-written<p>- the stack of paperwork you need to sign for an apartment is about 1 inches thick. If you&#x27;re purchasing a property, you&#x27;ll probably need a couple binders.<p>- you need to create Hanko ( personal seal stamp ) as your official signature for some paperwork</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japan pitches 'Society 5.0' to keep its edge in tech and science</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/Japan-pitches-Society-5.0-to-keep-its-edge-in-tech-and-science</url></story> |
33,930,784 | 33,928,278 | 1 | 2 | 33,925,735 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eshack94</author><text>&gt; I felt MV3 is really about limiting what the extensions can do.<p>You felt that way because that&#x27;s exactly what it&#x27;s about. It&#x27;s about doing everything possible to increase ad revenue in the name of &quot;increased security&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ranting-moth</author><text>I was writing an extension a few weeks ago. I decided to go with MV3.<p>Most of the examples and documentation said something like &quot;this has been copied from the MV2 documents or example. It might not work.&quot; It was awful.<p>I felt MV3 is really about limiting what the extensions can do.<p>I ended up having it Firefox only and MV2. Probably works in Chrome too, but I wasn&#x27;t going to waste time on it since it was about to be removed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HellsMaddy</author><text>I developed an extension[1] after the Chrome Store stopped accepting MV2, but before Firefox support for MV3 in stable. I had to write some custom build scripts to build the extension with MV2 for Firefox and MV3 for Chrome. Pretty annoying.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;b0o&#x2F;aws-favicons-webextension" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;b0o&#x2F;aws-favicons-webextension</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ranting-moth</author><text>I was writing an extension a few weeks ago. I decided to go with MV3.<p>Most of the examples and documentation said something like &quot;this has been copied from the MV2 documents or example. It might not work.&quot; It was awful.<p>I felt MV3 is really about limiting what the extensions can do.<p>I ended up having it Firefox only and MV2. Probably works in Chrome too, but I wasn&#x27;t going to waste time on it since it was about to be removed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E</url></story> |
10,732,193 | 10,732,355 | 1 | 2 | 10,728,756 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>benbreen</author><text>This is an interesting essay - I definitely think there&#x27;s a lot to be learned about graphic design from 18th century print culture, especially people like William Hogarth with his &quot;Line of Beauty.&quot; Incidentally, John Overholt, who offers up a comment excerpted at the end of the piece, is one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter. He&#x27;s the curator of early modern books at Harvard&#x27;s Houghton Library so it&#x27;s basically a series of gems that he unearths in the stacks:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;john_overholt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;john_overholt</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens (2014)</title><url>http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2014/02/_thats_one_of_t.php</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avian</author><text>&gt; The point being, of course, that the ergonomics of smartphones as reading devices are not only kind of rad, but historically so.<p>You can also turn this around and say that smartphones throw away three centuries worth of ergonomic improvements in reading. I personally find smartphones completely unusable for any kind of longer text.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens (2014)</title><url>http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2014/02/_thats_one_of_t.php</url></story> |
5,019,555 | 5,019,460 | 1 | 3 | 5,019,078 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dkarl</author><text>I was expecting to read an article about understanding human nature without morality and respect clouding your judgment. Instead I read that psychopaths are clever at thinking up nefarious schemes to get what they want. I don't buy it as "wisdom." Anyone can think of evil ways to get what they want, as long as the situation is hypothetical. Just yesterday I posted a comment describing how if I ran a dating site I would screw over my customers by giving them the exact opposite of what was good for them because it would be more profitable for me [1]. Most people have fantasized about violence from time to time, and half the internet seems to advocate being a psychopath as the best way to get laid. It's the reality of a situation that stops people from being as "wise" as a psychopath, and, I would argue, there's no loss, because in a practical situation there's no point in seeing solutions that you won't execute in real life. Did the author's friends use the asbestos solution? I think not. It would be awkward to explain to friends, they would have moral scruples, and it might very well be illegal. If a non-psychopath and a psychopath both limit their imaginations to plausible options, the psychopath isn't any more wise for seeing options the non-psychopath doesn't.<p>[1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5015068" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5015068</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wisdom from Psychopaths?</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=wisdom-from-psychopaths</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Xcelerate</author><text>I find psychopaths incredibly interesting. Probably because I recognize that I am about the furthest thing from one. I incessantly worry about the future and the consequences of what I'm currently doing. I always wonder what people are thinking, what they are thinking about others, and what they are thinking about me. It takes me 50 minutes to type a short email because I'm constantly playing out the scenarios of how it comes across to others in my mind. In fact, I'd say I edit almost all the posts I make on HN multiple times after I've posted them. And finally, I have a tendency to become really sad upon hearing sad news. I avoid the news for this reason. And although I love reading about startups, I could never imagine myself leaving a secure, stable job unless I had very high confidence that my startup would succeed.<p>This sort of thinking has obvious negative drawbacks. Social interaction becomes a chore because you think you're never going to come across positively, so why interact at all?<p>I've always wished that for just a day, I could have a psychopathic personality -- just to see how things work out differently. (Realize that psychopathy is not the same thing as evil or immoral by the way).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wisdom from Psychopaths?</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=wisdom-from-psychopaths</url></story> |
41,354,196 | 41,353,760 | 1 | 3 | 41,353,284 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>solatic</author><text>Especially when writing a tutorial for beginners - please use the long-form flags (e.g. sudo usermod --append --groups sudo newuser) instead of short-form flags (e.g. sudo usermod -aG sudo newuser). Short-form flags make commands look like arcane voodoo magic. They make sense only to help you save time entering commands if you know them by heart already. Tutorials are read by beginners who are not necessarily familiar with the commands in the first place - long-form flags help communicate what these commands are actually doing and thus make for a more effective tutorial.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Server Setup Basics for Self Hosting</title><url>https://becomesovran.com/blog/server-setup-basics.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>hobobaggins</author><text>I&#x27;d switch to Userify if you have a team to distribute keys for, because it&#x27;s ultra-lightweight and also keeps you from messing up permissions on the ssh key&#x2F;directory, which I&#x27;ve done too many times! (also it does sudo which is quite nice)<p>Also, restarting ssh will not boot you out of the session (your session has already been forked as a different process), so leave your terminal window open (to fix any screwups) and then log in on a separate window on the new port and just make sure you can get in.<p>For backups, don&#x27;t set up logins from your main server(s) to your backup server; log in from your backup server to your main server. That way, if someone breaks into your main server, they can&#x27;t get into your backup server.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Server Setup Basics for Self Hosting</title><url>https://becomesovran.com/blog/server-setup-basics.html</url></story> |
27,278,698 | 27,276,372 | 1 | 3 | 27,275,906 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>somethingAlex</author><text>What are consumers intuitively expecting compliance with this law to look like?<p>Data from one service may be in an entirely different schema than the service you want to import it too - let alone format. Service A may summarize your data and throw away the granular stuff, but service B runs on the granular data.<p>Are consumers going to implement ETL pipelines to achieve portability? Are they expecting to hook up streaming mechanisms for enormous swathes of data?<p>Just as an example, if I wanted to get a list of every song I liked on Spotify and import it into Apple Music, how would that even work? The songId of Spotify is undoubtedly different than the one Apple uses. Are Apple and Spotify supposed to agree on a common file format?<p>I agree with the intent of the law but I&#x27;m not surprised most services do not offer an automated way to take out data. It&#x27;s a rare case, often a heavy workload, and there&#x27;s really no way to guarantee the data you receive is actually portable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR</title><url>https://www.alias.dev/report</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beyondcompute</author><text>Absolutely! I remember asking to export my data from one of the services and the support pretty much ignored me (they replied in general but “forgot” to mention anything related to that question).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR</title><url>https://www.alias.dev/report</url></story> |
11,562,331 | 11,561,985 | 1 | 3 | 11,561,340 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryuuchin</author><text>The solution (currently sans kernel patching) is to just seed &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom yourself at system startup to avoid the issue of it not being seeded. Don&#x27;t most distro&#x27;s do this anyway?<p>After that it&#x27;s just down to using &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom[1] or the getrandom syscall (which is the same as using &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom). Also the getrandom syscall actually has the behavior you&#x27;re talking about.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sockpuppet.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;25&#x2F;safely-generate-random-numbers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sockpuppet.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;25&#x2F;safely-generate-random...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>aidenn0</author><text>Has anybody made a set of patches to give linux the BSD behavior (block until seeded, then never block again)? I run into issues with &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random regularly and while I can patch every single application, that feels like playing whack-a-mole compared to patching the kernel.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This proposed design comprehensively ratifies Linux&#x27;s nonsensical legacy random&#x2F;urandom division; for instance, it maintains a &quot;512 bit emergency entropy level&quot; in case urandom becomes &quot;stressed&quot;. It appears to be motivated principally by concerns about the quality of entropy being fed continually into the LRNG --- which is a nonproblem.<p>This is silly.<p>There are three problems a kernel CSPRNG needs to address:<p>1. It needs to seed itself reliably and not provide output when it&#x27;s not securely seeded.<p>2. It needs to re-key itself regularly to provide forward secrecy and recovery from attacks.<p>3. It needs to be performant enough to be used in applications to the exclusion of all other RNGs.<p>That&#x27;s it. Once problem (1) is addressed, there is never again for the uptime of the system a concern about the quality or &quot;level&quot; of entropy in the LRNG. DRBGs like this document proposes are effectively stream ciphers (in fact: Salsa20, the new hotness in bulk cipher designs, is essentially a hash DRBG --- and, in the BSDs, a [crappy] stream cipher <i>was</i> the RNG). &quot;Entropy&quot; keys the cipher. The idea that you can &quot;run low&quot; on entropy is the same as the idea that you can &quot;run low&quot; on key. No.<p>Kernel CSPRNGs do need continually updated entropy pools. But not because their original entropy is depleted! Rather: you want your RNG to be updated so that its &quot;key&quot; changes regularly, so that if your system is compromised transiently, you&#x27;ll recover.<p>And, of course, the division between &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random and &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom sabotages goal (3) --- arguably the most important goal. Almost every time you&#x27;ve read about some crypto randomness catastrophe --- from Debian commenting out their RNG and reducing SSH key space to 16 bits, to Bitcoin wallets coughing up private keys by repeating nonces --- you&#x27;ve been reading about <i>userspace RNG failures</i>. People use userspace RNGs because they think the kernel RNG is too slow. And they think the kernel RNG is too slow because they use &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random, which obstinately refuses to provide output when --- wait, I&#x27;m not dignifying &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random: it refuses to provide output <i>at random</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>/dev/random – a new approach</title><url>http://lwn.net/Articles/684568/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nshepperd</author><text>If you&#x27;re using udev, you can configure it to make &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random a symlink to &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom (eg. [1]). Sadly that doesn&#x27;t give you the &quot;block until seeded&quot; behaviour though, and I don&#x27;t know of any kernel patch doing that yet.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;309840&#x2F;how-can-i-point-dev-random-to-dev-urandom" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;309840&#x2F;how-can-i-point-dev-ra...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>aidenn0</author><text>Has anybody made a set of patches to give linux the BSD behavior (block until seeded, then never block again)? I run into issues with &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random regularly and while I can patch every single application, that feels like playing whack-a-mole compared to patching the kernel.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This proposed design comprehensively ratifies Linux&#x27;s nonsensical legacy random&#x2F;urandom division; for instance, it maintains a &quot;512 bit emergency entropy level&quot; in case urandom becomes &quot;stressed&quot;. It appears to be motivated principally by concerns about the quality of entropy being fed continually into the LRNG --- which is a nonproblem.<p>This is silly.<p>There are three problems a kernel CSPRNG needs to address:<p>1. It needs to seed itself reliably and not provide output when it&#x27;s not securely seeded.<p>2. It needs to re-key itself regularly to provide forward secrecy and recovery from attacks.<p>3. It needs to be performant enough to be used in applications to the exclusion of all other RNGs.<p>That&#x27;s it. Once problem (1) is addressed, there is never again for the uptime of the system a concern about the quality or &quot;level&quot; of entropy in the LRNG. DRBGs like this document proposes are effectively stream ciphers (in fact: Salsa20, the new hotness in bulk cipher designs, is essentially a hash DRBG --- and, in the BSDs, a [crappy] stream cipher <i>was</i> the RNG). &quot;Entropy&quot; keys the cipher. The idea that you can &quot;run low&quot; on entropy is the same as the idea that you can &quot;run low&quot; on key. No.<p>Kernel CSPRNGs do need continually updated entropy pools. But not because their original entropy is depleted! Rather: you want your RNG to be updated so that its &quot;key&quot; changes regularly, so that if your system is compromised transiently, you&#x27;ll recover.<p>And, of course, the division between &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random and &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom sabotages goal (3) --- arguably the most important goal. Almost every time you&#x27;ve read about some crypto randomness catastrophe --- from Debian commenting out their RNG and reducing SSH key space to 16 bits, to Bitcoin wallets coughing up private keys by repeating nonces --- you&#x27;ve been reading about <i>userspace RNG failures</i>. People use userspace RNGs because they think the kernel RNG is too slow. And they think the kernel RNG is too slow because they use &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random, which obstinately refuses to provide output when --- wait, I&#x27;m not dignifying &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random: it refuses to provide output <i>at random</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>/dev/random – a new approach</title><url>http://lwn.net/Articles/684568/</url></story> |
23,994,520 | 23,994,440 | 1 | 3 | 23,993,259 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rabidrat</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how this is any different from the current group of &quot;unskilled&quot; workers who aren&#x27;t valued (even if they are &quot;essential&quot;). At least with UBI they can live reasonable lives and create their own meaning, through community or art or activism or religion. Any of which are better outcomes than sacrificing most of their time on bullshit jobs which break their backs and&#x2F;or their spirits.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jonstaab</author><text>The problem I see with that is that if a huge number of people take that route and happily (let&#x27;s assume) live their lives without working, they lose access to the ability to participate in a meaningful way in the economy by producing something of value; if they&#x27;re not producing value, no one is going to value them, and they&#x27;ll eventually be locked out of the new, smaller elite group that controls the means of production, and the power that goes along with that.</text></item><item><author>treyfitty</author><text>There are a lot of people here dissenting on the idea of UBI on the premise that they find meaning in work, and to take the incentive to work away will lead others (themselves included) not to have meaning in life.<p>I’ve taken a year off of work to start a business that failed and spent the past few months hanging out with my kids. At first, my stress levels were high because daycares were shut down and I was panicking about my business. When I accepted the fate of my business, I chilled out and just hung out with my kids. These past few months were amazing. I loathe finding a new job now. Instead, I’ve built a mechanical keyboard, explored streaming, learned how to cook, read useless books, and learned how to be present.<p>I see the choice of UBI as: “do I toil away for the wealthy class? Or do I took away for myself?” No way will I toil for someone else if I had a choice.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0</title><url>https://timjrobinson.com/universal-basic-income-is-capitalism-2-0/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>czbond</author><text>From a nilhistic point of view, isn&#x27;t most work already performed by human useless and pointless in both the grand and minor scale? I do agree that my observation even from the Covid lockdown, is that many people&#x27;s default state to pursue is activities with &#x27;ease or non-challenged&#x27; rather than &#x27;difficult &#x27;. To me, Covid lockdown proved why UBI was a bad idea.<p>If humans have free time, they create dance videos on Tik-tok.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jonstaab</author><text>The problem I see with that is that if a huge number of people take that route and happily (let&#x27;s assume) live their lives without working, they lose access to the ability to participate in a meaningful way in the economy by producing something of value; if they&#x27;re not producing value, no one is going to value them, and they&#x27;ll eventually be locked out of the new, smaller elite group that controls the means of production, and the power that goes along with that.</text></item><item><author>treyfitty</author><text>There are a lot of people here dissenting on the idea of UBI on the premise that they find meaning in work, and to take the incentive to work away will lead others (themselves included) not to have meaning in life.<p>I’ve taken a year off of work to start a business that failed and spent the past few months hanging out with my kids. At first, my stress levels were high because daycares were shut down and I was panicking about my business. When I accepted the fate of my business, I chilled out and just hung out with my kids. These past few months were amazing. I loathe finding a new job now. Instead, I’ve built a mechanical keyboard, explored streaming, learned how to cook, read useless books, and learned how to be present.<p>I see the choice of UBI as: “do I toil away for the wealthy class? Or do I took away for myself?” No way will I toil for someone else if I had a choice.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0</title><url>https://timjrobinson.com/universal-basic-income-is-capitalism-2-0/</url></story> |
6,279,094 | 6,277,196 | 1 | 2 | 6,276,296 | 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>SiVal</author><text>Yes, this is a &quot;map of America&#x27;s racial <i>distribution</i>&quot;. Calling it a &quot;map of America&#x27;s racial <i>segregation</i>&quot; means someone is pushing a political agenda. Calling it a map of racial integration would be just as accurate but probably didn&#x27;t support the right narrative.<p>As a map of <i>distribution</i>, you would expect significant clustering from randomness alone. We&#x27;ve all seen the &quot;which of these dot patterns is actually the random one?&quot; tests, where few people guess the correct answer: the one with all the clusters.<p>If you take that clustered map as a seed, then add <i>any</i> affinities, you get positive feedback, increasing the clustering. Those affinities don&#x27;t have to be racial selection but can just be in the general form of, &quot;I make decisions based on what I hear, and I hear more from people I know than from people I don&#x27;t know.&quot;<p>So, you hear from your cousin that there is a new apartment building opening across the street from him. You hear from several members of your church that X is the best school district. A factory in your town closes and the laid off employees discuss their options and decide to go check out a company in the next town that is hiring (with lots of reasonably-priced apartments nearby).<p>Just getting more information from people you know than people you don&#x27;t know could be sufficient for Schelling&#x27;s model, but add to that the tendency to get more information from people from your background (whether you actually know them or not), because it&#x27;s likely to be more relevant to you, and you magnify the effect significantly. An urban liberal and his soccer-loving Mexican gardener don&#x27;t have to dislike each other for the former to read more NY Times and the latter to watch more Univision, and the information about where the opportunities are as presented in those two media outlets are not the same.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean that there is no race-based component in deciding where to live. It just means that, as the Schelling model demonstrates, you can&#x27;t tell how much there is by looking at how much clustering there is on a map.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WA</author><text>I watched once a lecture on Coursera about Schelling&#x27;s model of segregation, which I found extremely insightful.<p>If you see maps like that with strong segregation, one of the first attempts to explain it is &quot;racism&quot;. However, if you divide your neighborhood in 9 blocks such that you are in the center, you have 8 neighbors.<p>Schelling&#x27;s model now shows that even in cities where most people say:&quot;I&#x27;d like to live next to only 35-40% of people who are similar to me (whatever that means exactly, could be ethnical background, skin color, income, ...) and I&#x27;d accept 60% of neighbors who are different from me&quot;, you would still get a segregation of 80-90% in the city.<p>So, the reason for strong segregation is not necessarily that people are racists. People can be very tolerant, but if you try to fulfill the minimum requirement (40% like me), you end up with strong segregation patterns just because there&#x27;s no other way to fulfill the minimum requirement for most people.<p>Note: Numbers aren&#x27;t exact, but pretty close.<p>Edit: Link to lecture: <a href="https://class.coursera.org/modelthinking-003/lecture/16" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;class.coursera.org&#x2F;modelthinking-003&#x2F;lecture&#x2F;16</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Map of America's Racial Segregation</title><url>http://www.wired.com/design/2013/08/how-segregated-is-your-city-this-eye-opening-map-shows-you</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twic</author><text>Reminds me of a similar thing in developmental biology, where if you have two populations of cells, each having a slighly higher affinity for other cells of its own type, then they will very efficiently sort themselves into separate compartments. This is thought to be a pretty important mechanism in the formation and maintenance of structures in the body.<p>In case anyone&#x27;s interested, here is a nice (if now rather old, although to be honest scientific writing was so much better back in the &#x27;90s) review on the whole business:<p><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867400812970" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0092867400...</a><p>In which we find a paragraph describing this process:<p>&quot;The selector genes do more than specify the pattern and the structures that the compartments will eventually make—they also specify, indirectly, a surface property. This property has been termed cell affinity, meaning that cells that share the same affinity, owing to the same binary code of selector genes, will intermingle during growth. There are a number of different experiments that lead to this conclusion, but perhaps the simplest is the observation that when the selector gene engrailed is removed, in vivo, from a posterior clone of cells in the wing, those cells gain anterior affinity: they now sort out from posterior cells and, if they are in contact with anterior cells, will sort into and mingle with them. Cells from neighboring compartments will have different affinities and tend to minimize their mutual contact, so that where the two compartments abut, there is a relatively straight line across which the cells do not stray.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>WA</author><text>I watched once a lecture on Coursera about Schelling&#x27;s model of segregation, which I found extremely insightful.<p>If you see maps like that with strong segregation, one of the first attempts to explain it is &quot;racism&quot;. However, if you divide your neighborhood in 9 blocks such that you are in the center, you have 8 neighbors.<p>Schelling&#x27;s model now shows that even in cities where most people say:&quot;I&#x27;d like to live next to only 35-40% of people who are similar to me (whatever that means exactly, could be ethnical background, skin color, income, ...) and I&#x27;d accept 60% of neighbors who are different from me&quot;, you would still get a segregation of 80-90% in the city.<p>So, the reason for strong segregation is not necessarily that people are racists. People can be very tolerant, but if you try to fulfill the minimum requirement (40% like me), you end up with strong segregation patterns just because there&#x27;s no other way to fulfill the minimum requirement for most people.<p>Note: Numbers aren&#x27;t exact, but pretty close.<p>Edit: Link to lecture: <a href="https://class.coursera.org/modelthinking-003/lecture/16" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;class.coursera.org&#x2F;modelthinking-003&#x2F;lecture&#x2F;16</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Map of America's Racial Segregation</title><url>http://www.wired.com/design/2013/08/how-segregated-is-your-city-this-eye-opening-map-shows-you</url></story> |
2,891,690 | 2,891,770 | 1 | 2 | 2,891,489 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yan</author><text>"For security reasons, data: and javascript: URIs no longer inherit the security context of the current page when the user enters them in the location bar; instead, a new, empty, security context is created. This means that script loaded by entering javascript: URIs in the location bar no longer has access to DOM methods and the like, for example. These URIs continue to work as before when used by script, however."<p>Good bye bookmarklets?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 6 for web developers</title><url>http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/08/firefox6/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gchucky</author><text>&#62; WebSockets are back!<p>I have a feeling that's going to make a lot of people very happy. Good to see that they were able to solve the security issues.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 6 for web developers</title><url>http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/08/firefox6/</url></story> |
10,881,280 | 10,881,263 | 1 | 2 | 10,880,931 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>praseodym</author><text>They have a lot more software in the works, such as Cassanda, MongoDB and Spark [1]. It&#x27;s a push to have good software support for the IBM LinuxONE machine [2], essentially an IBM z Systems (z13) mainframe that will only run Linux on KVM (i.e. without expensive z&#x2F;OS or z&#x2F;VM &#x27;legacy&#x27;).<p>I&#x27;m not sure about the costs, but it might make for a compelling platform as a &#x27;private cloud&#x27; solution. A single mainframe is a lot easier to maintain than racks full of x86 boxes. Apparently one LinuxONE Emperor machine can run up to 8,000 Linux VMs [3] (not sure with what load).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linux-on-ibm-z" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linux-on-ibm-z</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-03.ibm.com&#x2F;systems&#x2F;z&#x2F;os&#x2F;linux&#x2F;linux-one.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-03.ibm.com&#x2F;systems&#x2F;z&#x2F;os&#x2F;linux&#x2F;linux-one.html</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;linuxone-ibms-new-linux-mainframes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;linuxone-ibms-new-linux-mainfra...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IBM ported Go to s390x mainframes</title><url>https://github.com/linux-on-ibm-z/go</url></story> | <instructions>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>Hmm <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linux-on-ibm-z" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linux-on-ibm-z</a> has got all kinds of cool goodies: Docker, Cassandra, Kubernetes, Spark</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IBM ported Go to s390x mainframes</title><url>https://github.com/linux-on-ibm-z/go</url></story> |
17,503,196 | 17,503,040 | 1 | 2 | 17,501,970 | train | <instructions>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>&gt; Is the word &quot;Taiwan&quot; such a bad word in China that, instead of some reasonable action, it crashes the OS?<p>From my reading of the article, the intention was not to crash the device, but to hide the Taiwanese flag emoji - and the crash was because the code intended to do that was buggy.<p>So no - it&#x27;s not _that_ bad a word.<p>&gt; Is the Chinese government so upset about Taiwan they&#x27;re insisting manufacturers hide the flag from the keyboard?<p>Yes, it seems this is true - and while I&#x27;ve never needed to deal with requests like that from a nation state, it does seem kinda cowardly on Apple&#x27;s part to agree to that, and it seems quite at odds with the resistance to the FBI getting a screenlock bypass to that iPhone 5 a while back...</text><parent_chain><item><author>parliament32</author><text>I thought Apple was supposed to be the great government-resistant pro-user-rights stronghold.<p>Why is this code even present on US devices? Is the word &quot;Taiwan&quot; such a bad word in China that, instead of some reasonable action, it crashes the OS? Is the Chinese government so upset about Taiwan they&#x27;re insisting manufacturers hide the flag from the keyboard?<p>All aspects of this are mind-boggling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone crashing bug likely caused by code added to appease Chinese government</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/iphone-crashing-bug-likely-caused-by-code-added-to-appease-chinese-govt/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NamTaf</author><text>According to the CCP, there is no Taiwanese flag. Taiwan is just part of China.<p>Qantas just folded over CCP pressure to change their stance on calling Taiwan a nation rather than a territory. [1] China is really sensitive about this and pushes its influence heavily on this particular point.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018-06-04&#x2F;qantas-to-refer-to-taiwan-as-territory-following-chinese-demands&#x2F;9833606" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018-06-04&#x2F;qantas-to-refer-to-tai...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>parliament32</author><text>I thought Apple was supposed to be the great government-resistant pro-user-rights stronghold.<p>Why is this code even present on US devices? Is the word &quot;Taiwan&quot; such a bad word in China that, instead of some reasonable action, it crashes the OS? Is the Chinese government so upset about Taiwan they&#x27;re insisting manufacturers hide the flag from the keyboard?<p>All aspects of this are mind-boggling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone crashing bug likely caused by code added to appease Chinese government</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/iphone-crashing-bug-likely-caused-by-code-added-to-appease-chinese-govt/</url></story> |
7,451,401 | 7,451,319 | 1 | 2 | 7,450,140 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CJefferson</author><text>So if we were (for example) sure a person had committed rape, and had good evidence they also committed murder, it is up to the prosecutor to decide if they should risk pursuing a murder charge, risking a person going free for a rape which they would certainly be convicted for?<p>Also, if you do murder someone, you may as all rape them too, as it can&#x27;t lead to any more sentence?</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnoway</author><text>I was just thinking about this. Why do we allow multiple charges per trial?<p>What would happen if we only allowed one charge per trial, and it was a prosecutor&#x27;s job to determine (along with existing duties) which one of the possible charges would be tried? Double jeopardy would be prevented by requiring submission to the court of all considered charges; attempting to bring a new charge for an already-adjudicated matter would be handled like a failure to disclose exculpatory evidence is today - the charge would be thrown out and the prosecutor would be reprimanded however that happens today.</text></item><item><author>lessnonymous</author><text>I&#x27;d go further. The jury must convict on <i>all</i> presented charges or none. Throwing 900 charges at someone, as the article says, is a way to force a plea bargain from someone who may well be innocent. (And removing a charge after failing the plea bargain tactic, but before court can&#x27;t be allowed either.)</text></item><item><author>bostik</author><text>In some of my not-entirely-sober states of mind I have sometimes thought of ways to eliminate prosecutorial overreach. (It&#x27;s a problem outside US too.)<p>A very simple approach would be that for each count that the defense can strike off as irrelevant or spurious, they would also get to strike off <i>any</i> other charge of their choosing. That alone would make prosecutors extremely wary of bringing up random charges in hopes of seeing which they can make stick. They would need to have solid evidence for each charge or risk having the most serious ones nullified.<p>On the other hand, I&#x27;m not naive enough. The cure could well be worse than the poison it was meant to address.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything Is a Crime</title><url>http://columbialawreview.org/ham-sandwich-nation_reynolds/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gamblor956</author><text>We allow multiple charges today because a person can be guilty of multiple different crimes for the same act.<p>Your suggestion makes no sense. It would incentivize people to commit as many crimes simultaneously as possible, knowing that they could only ever be charged for one of them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnoway</author><text>I was just thinking about this. Why do we allow multiple charges per trial?<p>What would happen if we only allowed one charge per trial, and it was a prosecutor&#x27;s job to determine (along with existing duties) which one of the possible charges would be tried? Double jeopardy would be prevented by requiring submission to the court of all considered charges; attempting to bring a new charge for an already-adjudicated matter would be handled like a failure to disclose exculpatory evidence is today - the charge would be thrown out and the prosecutor would be reprimanded however that happens today.</text></item><item><author>lessnonymous</author><text>I&#x27;d go further. The jury must convict on <i>all</i> presented charges or none. Throwing 900 charges at someone, as the article says, is a way to force a plea bargain from someone who may well be innocent. (And removing a charge after failing the plea bargain tactic, but before court can&#x27;t be allowed either.)</text></item><item><author>bostik</author><text>In some of my not-entirely-sober states of mind I have sometimes thought of ways to eliminate prosecutorial overreach. (It&#x27;s a problem outside US too.)<p>A very simple approach would be that for each count that the defense can strike off as irrelevant or spurious, they would also get to strike off <i>any</i> other charge of their choosing. That alone would make prosecutors extremely wary of bringing up random charges in hopes of seeing which they can make stick. They would need to have solid evidence for each charge or risk having the most serious ones nullified.<p>On the other hand, I&#x27;m not naive enough. The cure could well be worse than the poison it was meant to address.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything Is a Crime</title><url>http://columbialawreview.org/ham-sandwich-nation_reynolds/</url></story> |
7,521,802 | 7,521,577 | 1 | 2 | 7,521,008 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Orva</author><text>In NUMA front Linux is, as far as I know, leaps and bounds ahead of FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows. All four platforms offer ways to tune process and memory allocations by hand, but Linux is only platform that puts lot of work to make automatic NUMA scheduling actually work. It is actually pretty difficult problem. Something to read if you are interested:<p><a href="http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2513149" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;queue.acm.org&#x2F;detail.cfm?id=2513149</a>
<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/591995/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;591995&#x2F;</a>
<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/568870/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;568870&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>davidpardo</author><text>Being a user of both Linux and PostrgreSQL, I&#x27;m very interested in this issue, but I only understand some of the words...<p>Could everybody wiser than me tell me if I should be concerned and the possible implications of these decisions? Should I invest in alternative platforms?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title> Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL </title><url>http://rhaas.blogspot.in/2014/04/subtly-bad-things-linux-may-be-doing-to.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>ars</author><text>These are very minor issues and will be noticed by very few.<p>If you are running a huge database and need every possible bit of performance this will matter, otherwise it&#x27;s not something to worry about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>davidpardo</author><text>Being a user of both Linux and PostrgreSQL, I&#x27;m very interested in this issue, but I only understand some of the words...<p>Could everybody wiser than me tell me if I should be concerned and the possible implications of these decisions? Should I invest in alternative platforms?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title> Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL </title><url>http://rhaas.blogspot.in/2014/04/subtly-bad-things-linux-may-be-doing-to.html</url></story> |
30,802,145 | 30,799,760 | 1 | 2 | 30,795,846 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>inetknght</author><text>&gt; <i>In Gnome, from the lock screen, I simply start typing my password. As soon as I type the first letter of the password, the password prompt appears, and when I&#x27;m done I hit enter and it unlocks.</i><p>Congratulations! You were able to recognize that it&#x27;s a _login screen_ without seeing that there&#x27;s a hidden password field.<p>The first time I booted to Gnome I waited damn near ten minutes for it to tell me it&#x27;s ready for my login before I decided to start typing things to see if it was stuck.<p>It&#x27;s _not_ intuitive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Derbasti</author><text>&gt; In modern Windows, press Win-key and start to type, oops, it missed the first keypresses, presented the completely wrong results and made a mess of your workflow.<p>The worst offender is the login prompt. In Gnome, from the lock screen, I simply start typing my password. As soon as I type the first letter of the password, the password prompt appears, and when I&#x27;m done I hit enter and it unlocks.<p>On Windows, the first letter merely makes the prompt appear, but does not yet type into the prompt. In fact, it will only start feeding letters into the prompt once the little prompt-appearing-animation has finished. If I just start typing my password, it will eat the first three or four letters. So I hit enter, wait for the animation to finish, and only then start typing.<p>That&#x27;s not the end of the world, honestly. But it is a learned gesture that the system taught me by failing to do what I&#x27;d asked it to do. It just goes to show the attention to detail that makes a UI feel fluid and frictionless.</text></item><item><author>Flow</author><text>I really miss a consistent user experience. A core idea that I as a user can rely on to predict how a new app will work. I was in awe when I discovered as a kid that user interface were a research area. Things like Fitt&#x27;s Law and so on. It was not just opinion.<p>Today I get the feeling it&#x27;s mostly just opinion. Either the designer&#x27;s opinion or the wish to copy the look of something.<p>Whenever I see a hamburger menu I silently think &quot;Here someone has given up&quot;.<p>And there are a lot of behaviors that are not functioning well.<p>Is something a button? Should I click it or double-click it? How about long-press on it? How can I know when there&#x27;s no visual clues?<p>Things like &quot;Hide cursor while typing&quot; in Windows. It has not worked properly for decades and today only work in some super old apps like Notepad.<p>Another thing is type-ahead. I remember in classic MacOS, people pressed shortcuts and started to type the filename or whatever. It was all perfectly recorded and replayed. In modern Windows, press Win-key and start to type, oops, it missed the first keypresses, presented the completely wrong results and made a mess of your workflow.<p>I feel confused and disrespected as a user every day and I&#x27;ve been using WIMP graphical user interfaces since 1986. Sure, computers do more today, but there&#x27;s less consideration of almost everything.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The end of the nice GTK button</title><url>https://blog.brixit.nl/the-end-of-the-nice-gtk-button/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fxtentacle</author><text>That is one of the main reasons why I switched from XCode to CLion. XCode lost keystrokes, which drove me crazy. The other thing was that I could reliably type faster than XCode could display the letters, which made me feel like I&#x27;m drunk.<p>CLion seems to be quite excellent at recording and replaying everything, including stuff I type while the auto-completion is loading. Plus it has a really fast key to screen loop.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Derbasti</author><text>&gt; In modern Windows, press Win-key and start to type, oops, it missed the first keypresses, presented the completely wrong results and made a mess of your workflow.<p>The worst offender is the login prompt. In Gnome, from the lock screen, I simply start typing my password. As soon as I type the first letter of the password, the password prompt appears, and when I&#x27;m done I hit enter and it unlocks.<p>On Windows, the first letter merely makes the prompt appear, but does not yet type into the prompt. In fact, it will only start feeding letters into the prompt once the little prompt-appearing-animation has finished. If I just start typing my password, it will eat the first three or four letters. So I hit enter, wait for the animation to finish, and only then start typing.<p>That&#x27;s not the end of the world, honestly. But it is a learned gesture that the system taught me by failing to do what I&#x27;d asked it to do. It just goes to show the attention to detail that makes a UI feel fluid and frictionless.</text></item><item><author>Flow</author><text>I really miss a consistent user experience. A core idea that I as a user can rely on to predict how a new app will work. I was in awe when I discovered as a kid that user interface were a research area. Things like Fitt&#x27;s Law and so on. It was not just opinion.<p>Today I get the feeling it&#x27;s mostly just opinion. Either the designer&#x27;s opinion or the wish to copy the look of something.<p>Whenever I see a hamburger menu I silently think &quot;Here someone has given up&quot;.<p>And there are a lot of behaviors that are not functioning well.<p>Is something a button? Should I click it or double-click it? How about long-press on it? How can I know when there&#x27;s no visual clues?<p>Things like &quot;Hide cursor while typing&quot; in Windows. It has not worked properly for decades and today only work in some super old apps like Notepad.<p>Another thing is type-ahead. I remember in classic MacOS, people pressed shortcuts and started to type the filename or whatever. It was all perfectly recorded and replayed. In modern Windows, press Win-key and start to type, oops, it missed the first keypresses, presented the completely wrong results and made a mess of your workflow.<p>I feel confused and disrespected as a user every day and I&#x27;ve been using WIMP graphical user interfaces since 1986. Sure, computers do more today, but there&#x27;s less consideration of almost everything.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The end of the nice GTK button</title><url>https://blog.brixit.nl/the-end-of-the-nice-gtk-button/</url></story> |
38,179,134 | 38,179,067 | 1 | 2 | 38,178,123 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pchristensen</author><text>I&#x27;m very pro-housing, but one valid concern is that residential real estate generally doesn&#x27;t pay its way, especially with school-age children, and California&#x27;s Prop 13 makes this problem worse over time by freezing tax rate growth. So any housing in your municipality is a fiscal negative to start that gets worse over time.<p>Normally I would say that the tax code isn&#x27;t set in stone, but in California&#x27;s case, it is in the state constitution.</text><parent_chain><item><author>renewiltord</author><text>My god. The comments here are like they&#x27;re generated by an LLM. &quot;Google cancel project. One more to the dead google project lol&quot;<p>Even the slightest awareness of local conditions would have improved these comments. The Google developments suffered from the same opposition any residential developer faces in the Bay Area.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextcity.org&#x2F;features&#x2F;why-one-silicon-valley-city-said-no-to-google" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextcity.org&#x2F;features&#x2F;why-one-silicon-valley-city-sa...</a><p>In addition, the towns of the Bay also made a big fuss about &quot;company towns&quot;.<p>For those who aren&#x27;t acquainted with the Bay Area, residents of the region in general strongly oppose any housing. Explanations given range from &quot;The Bay Area is full&quot; to &quot;People shouldn&#x27;t be living like sardines on top of each other&quot; to &quot;Where will my friends park when they visit&quot;. A housing project being cancelled after years of opposition is normal not, out of the ordinary.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions"</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-cost-cutting-ends-deal-to-build-thousands-of-affordable-housing-units/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>p_j_w</author><text>&gt;The comments here are like they&#x27;re generated by an LLM. &quot;Google cancel project. One more to the dead google project lol&quot;<p>I understand why people post such low effort trash: &quot;make number bigger&quot;. What I don&#x27;t quite understand is why people upvote the same dorky joke they&#x27;ve seen others post a million times. It&#x27;s baffling to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>renewiltord</author><text>My god. The comments here are like they&#x27;re generated by an LLM. &quot;Google cancel project. One more to the dead google project lol&quot;<p>Even the slightest awareness of local conditions would have improved these comments. The Google developments suffered from the same opposition any residential developer faces in the Bay Area.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextcity.org&#x2F;features&#x2F;why-one-silicon-valley-city-said-no-to-google" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextcity.org&#x2F;features&#x2F;why-one-silicon-valley-city-sa...</a><p>In addition, the towns of the Bay also made a big fuss about &quot;company towns&quot;.<p>For those who aren&#x27;t acquainted with the Bay Area, residents of the region in general strongly oppose any housing. Explanations given range from &quot;The Bay Area is full&quot; to &quot;People shouldn&#x27;t be living like sardines on top of each other&quot; to &quot;Where will my friends park when they visit&quot;. A housing project being cancelled after years of opposition is normal not, out of the ordinary.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions"</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-cost-cutting-ends-deal-to-build-thousands-of-affordable-housing-units/</url></story> |
24,964,522 | 24,964,429 | 1 | 2 | 24,963,821 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lexi-lambda</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s a better alternative though?<p>I’m not really suggesting there needs to be an alternative. Using newtypes to achieve safety via encapsulation is fine, good even, and I say as such at several points in the article.[1] The point is twofold:<p>1. A lot of uses of newtypes in the wild are “safety theater” and provide zero actual safety benefit.<p>2. The uses of newtypes that <i>do</i> add safety provide it in a weaker sense than correct-by-construction data modeling.<p>The point is not that newtypes are always useless. In fact they are often by far the most practical tool for the job. The blog post just advocates being conscious and considerate of the limitations of the techniques.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24964494" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24964494</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>&gt; Newtypes are useful when carefully applied, but their safety is not intrinsic, no more than the safety of a traffic cone is somehow contained within the plastic it’s made of. What matters is being placed in the right context—without that, newtypes are just a labeling scheme, a way of giving something a name.<p>What&#x27;s a better alternative though?<p>I like this approach for tagging e.g. user input that has been checked to be free of HTML&#x2F;JS injection hacks to stop you from outputting user input that hasn&#x27;t been checked first (Angular does something like this with TypeScript I think). Obviously you could tag something as safe that isn&#x27;t by mistake but at least the places in your code this decision is made is explicit and you can&#x27;t forget to do it.<p>I&#x27;m not seeing a practical alternative that would be significantly better. If you want to be able to capture any property you can think of in the type system (like bounded integers or bounded lists), you&#x27;re inevitably going to need dependent types and they&#x27;re about as far from practical as you can get (where either you or the computer will then have to write difficult maths proofs before you know your code is correct).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Names are not type safety</title><url>http://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/11/01/names-are-not-type-safety/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codebje</author><text>In Haskell, you would use an algebraic data type that can only hold legal values. You would typically only use a newtype when you&#x27;re just giving a new name to the same type.<p>Having a Magnitude newtype over Int doesn&#x27;t change the range of permissible values but does prevent using a Length where a Magnitude was expected, for example.<p>In all typed languages you&#x27;ll eventually see a function with multiple arguments of the same type and have to check the documentation (or worse, implementation) to know what each is for. Having a zero cost type alias to make it clear is an improvement and IMO is a form of type safety.<p>Having a data type that can hold illegal values is a bad idea. Using an Int for Length implies you know what to do with negative lengths, for example. A newtype won&#x27;t help there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>&gt; Newtypes are useful when carefully applied, but their safety is not intrinsic, no more than the safety of a traffic cone is somehow contained within the plastic it’s made of. What matters is being placed in the right context—without that, newtypes are just a labeling scheme, a way of giving something a name.<p>What&#x27;s a better alternative though?<p>I like this approach for tagging e.g. user input that has been checked to be free of HTML&#x2F;JS injection hacks to stop you from outputting user input that hasn&#x27;t been checked first (Angular does something like this with TypeScript I think). Obviously you could tag something as safe that isn&#x27;t by mistake but at least the places in your code this decision is made is explicit and you can&#x27;t forget to do it.<p>I&#x27;m not seeing a practical alternative that would be significantly better. If you want to be able to capture any property you can think of in the type system (like bounded integers or bounded lists), you&#x27;re inevitably going to need dependent types and they&#x27;re about as far from practical as you can get (where either you or the computer will then have to write difficult maths proofs before you know your code is correct).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Names are not type safety</title><url>http://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/11/01/names-are-not-type-safety/</url></story> |
6,663,361 | 6,663,139 | 1 | 3 | 6,662,728 | 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>mbubb</author><text>Heh - I used to live in Greenpoint and would reverse commute up to Queens Plaza to avoid the &quot;G to the L to the BDFQ&quot; into midtown...<p>On the contrary, Hoboken - where I now live - has a wealth of options to commute into both midtown and downtown NYC. Within a few blocks of my apartment: a subway trip of less than 20 mins to either Wall Street or 32nd (Midtown); ferry (a very pleasant 40 min trip to my office in the 40s); bus about 30 mins to midtown depending upon traffic. I love the ferry - it is the least efficient and most expensive option. I take it about 30% of the time to enjoy the river in the morning or evening.<p>This kind of access to NYC has made Hoboken (and downtown Jersey City) a much more desirable location than other small cities in the area. And I have more options than many of my colleagues in Brooklyn or Queens - and a quicker commute than some colleagues in the Upper West side of Manhattan.<p>Go a few miles further into NJ and commuting becomes a mess. The first time I googlemapped our new datacenter in the Meadowlands of NJ - I was pleasantly surprised that it was ~5 miles from NYC office and roughly the same from my Hoboken apartment. And ~1 mile from a transit stop.<p>Thought I could ride my bike but the trip is through MadMax NJ wasteland, unmaintained roads on which semis rule and on which there are no sidewalks. I am not brave enough. Even the wildlife is scary - a giant groundhog grumpily rules the front gate area of the datacenter. And those 8 foot tall reeds are everywhere - I can just imagine full of rats and albino sewer alligators of immense size. I take a $15 cab from the nearest light rail stop.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens</title><url>http://m.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/05/very-brief-history-why-its-so-hard-get-brooklyn-queens/5738</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulgb</author><text>There&#x27;s an interesting follow-up article which attempts to debunk the &quot;Great American Streetcar Scandal&quot;<p><a href="http://m.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/06/be-careful-how-you-refer-so-called-great-american-streetcar-scandal/5771/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.theatlanticcities.com&#x2F;commute&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;be-careful-ho...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens</title><url>http://m.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/05/very-brief-history-why-its-so-hard-get-brooklyn-queens/5738</url></story> |
11,521,237 | 11,520,987 | 1 | 3 | 11,520,378 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>junko</author><text>This is super refreshing! I really hope that this community lasts. For me, even though I passionately believe in my project, the biggest problem is that I can&#x27;t motivate myself on a <i>day-to-day</i> basis, so I end up getting distracted. But I do notice that when I discuss my project with friends and family, I can get rolling again. Going to a startup event gives that effect too, but lesser as I always feel out of place - I don&#x27;t want external funding as huge as VC&#x27;s, nor am I in a hurry to scale it asap and so on. It seems that &quot;organic&quot; growing is most suitable for my profile; yes I want to make a profit but I also want to make it a personal enrichment (my project is art&#x2F;education based). But without peer &quot;push&quot;, the project can stretch for years at this rate! A community like this could be a game-changer :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Barnacl.es, a community news site for never-funded bootstrappers</title><url>https://barnacl.es/s/8skxre/welcome_to_barnacles</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>squeaky-clean</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;barnacl.es&#x2F;s&#x2F;bwd2dt&#x2F;please_upvote_the_show_hn_on_barnacles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;barnacl.es&#x2F;s&#x2F;bwd2dt&#x2F;please_upvote_the_show_hn_on_bar...</a><p>:( C&#x27;mon, aside from being uncool, doing this is likely to get the post automatically removed from the front page.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Barnacl.es, a community news site for never-funded bootstrappers</title><url>https://barnacl.es/s/8skxre/welcome_to_barnacles</url></story> |
11,269,690 | 11,269,083 | 1 | 2 | 11,268,273 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mc32</author><text>This may be an unpopular take but I think it has some merit.<p>Cryptography is not the answer to surveillance. It has its place but that place is not to keep everyone&#x27;s data secret _and_ irretrievable as plaintext except by its holder (never mind owner), if they retain the key.<p>The answer will be legal and political.<p>I cannot see the endgame where all data is forever gone, with the exception where people proactively plaintext their data for future generations.<p>Let&#x27;s say instead of iPhone contacts or chat conversations we begin keeping tax records, transactions, commerce, etc. secret, except for the person or entity encrypting the data (who may or may not be the owner). What if the heirs need that data or third parties, lawfully? What about discovery in court cases? What if someone comes up with malware which encrypts your data and you have no backup?<p>How do we reconcile wanting data to be available (free) with also wanting everything encrypted for posteriority --do we just forgo that treasure trove of data?<p>I&#x27;m not saying don&#x27;t encrypt on transmission, or even at rest, simply (or complicatedly) that we have a way to data once it&#x27;s lawfully determined it can be should be made available to second and third parties, including the public.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aftbit</author><text>We will fight this battle over and over every few years until we lose, just like every battle for our civil rights.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?</title><url>https://medium.com/@stevenlevy/b5310a423295#.v775mh4mp</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VonGuard</author><text>Agreed, but I really feel like this time, the public vaguely understands and has more of a stake in it than before. Now, keep in mind, this is just as important to the day-to-day user as it was in the cypherpunk days, but now, everyone has a device in their hands that they can touch, and know is related to this. The public knows how precious its data is, now.<p>The last time this fight occurred... the last two times this fight occurred, actually, no one in the public had any clue what we were all talking about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aftbit</author><text>We will fight this battle over and over every few years until we lose, just like every battle for our civil rights.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?</title><url>https://medium.com/@stevenlevy/b5310a423295#.v775mh4mp</url></story> |
7,525,391 | 7,525,435 | 1 | 3 | 7,525,198 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>It speaks a lot to his integrity that he didn&#x27;t. Would you rather have a CEO who says one thing in public and then goes and does another thing surreptitiously, or one who stands up for his beliefs even when they&#x27;re unpopular?</text><parent_chain><item><author>phillmv</author><text>From the recode recap - <a href="http://recode.net/2014/04/03/mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich-resigns-as-ceo-and-also-from-foundation-board/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;recode.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich...</a><p>&gt;“It’s clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting,” said Baker, who added that she would not and could not speak for Eich. “The ability to lead — particularly for the CEO — is fundamental to the role and that is not possible here.”<p>The most damning aspect of this was their a) inability to predict this would be an issue and b) their inability to deal with it once it did.<p>All he had to do was lie and say &quot;I understand how my activities can be seen as divisive and wrong and inconsistent with my commitment to upholding the diverse values underpinning the Mozilla community and I apologize for my behaviour at the time. I will do everything in my power to make up for it and I hope the community can judge me based me on my record from this point onwards&quot;.<p>Then, find ways to anonymously engage in whatever political causes he supports, or wait till he&#x27;s no longer CEO.<p>The tone deafness of his last interview was kind of the last straw.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>radicalbyte</author><text>&gt; All he had to do was lie<p>I may be diametrically opposed to Brendan&#x27;s views, but he has earned my respect by being honest and sticking to his values.</text><parent_chain><item><author>phillmv</author><text>From the recode recap - <a href="http://recode.net/2014/04/03/mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich-resigns-as-ceo-and-also-from-foundation-board/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;recode.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich...</a><p>&gt;“It’s clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting,” said Baker, who added that she would not and could not speak for Eich. “The ability to lead — particularly for the CEO — is fundamental to the role and that is not possible here.”<p>The most damning aspect of this was their a) inability to predict this would be an issue and b) their inability to deal with it once it did.<p>All he had to do was lie and say &quot;I understand how my activities can be seen as divisive and wrong and inconsistent with my commitment to upholding the diverse values underpinning the Mozilla community and I apologize for my behaviour at the time. I will do everything in my power to make up for it and I hope the community can judge me based me on my record from this point onwards&quot;.<p>Then, find ways to anonymously engage in whatever political causes he supports, or wait till he&#x27;s no longer CEO.<p>The tone deafness of his last interview was kind of the last straw.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/</url></story> |
35,320,009 | 35,316,849 | 1 | 2 | 35,315,542 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>barking_biscuit</author><text>&gt;ChatGPT failed to understand that the raycaster works on the CPU, but the displacement map of the material is applied on the GPU side, so the displaced geometry won&#x27;t be used, only the original one. It managed to explain this to me, that this was not possible, but each sample code repeatedly did as if it was possible, until I gave up.<p>Reflecting on it, what&#x27;s crazy is that this comment will likely wind up in the training data for GPT-N+1, and then GPT-N+1 will get it right.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qwertox</author><text>This week I created a Microsoft account just to check how they are integrating GPT into Bing, and while they made me believe that I was using a Chat-enabled Bing, it was worthless for me.<p>I basically wanted to know how I can do raycasting in Three.js, but after a lot of using ChatGPT for trying to solve my issue, I learned that I can&#x27;t do what I want by using the normal raycaster integrated Three.js: Intersect a geometry which has a displacement map on it.<p>ChatGPT failed to understand that the raycaster works on the CPU, but the displacement map of the material is applied on the GPU side, so the displaced geometry won&#x27;t be used, only the original one. It managed to explain this to me, that this was not possible, but each sample code repeatedly did as if it was possible, until I gave up.<p>Then I created the Microsoft account and started to ask for solutions, and it was the most useless garbage, despite of the web claiming that it is using GPT-4.<p>In my eyes MS has failed at integrating a chatbot; maybe it&#x27;s ok for cooking or having fun, I haven&#x27;t tried that. And OpenAI has nothing else but a chatbot and other nice AI. Let someone better come and OpenAI will be a remarkable entry in the history books (first popular AI application) with a final entry that OpenAI got acquired by Microsoft.<p>Let&#x27;s see what Google makes out of it.</text></item><item><author>carlycue</author><text>OpenAI with 400 employees are breaking Google’s ankles on the court. What do you guys think? Is Google in trouble? Their entire business model is in jeopardy. If Google releases a oroduct as as good as ChatGPT 4, which is unlikely, they’ll
kill their revenue. If they don’t release it, they’ll gradually lose market share. They are in an unwinnable situation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using ChatGPT Plugins with LLaMA</title><url>https://blog.lastmileai.dev/using-openais-retrieval-plugin-with-llama-d2e0b6732f14</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rvnx</author><text>I can tell you what will be the answer of Bard:<p>&quot;I am just an AI language model, I can&#x27;t help you&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>qwertox</author><text>This week I created a Microsoft account just to check how they are integrating GPT into Bing, and while they made me believe that I was using a Chat-enabled Bing, it was worthless for me.<p>I basically wanted to know how I can do raycasting in Three.js, but after a lot of using ChatGPT for trying to solve my issue, I learned that I can&#x27;t do what I want by using the normal raycaster integrated Three.js: Intersect a geometry which has a displacement map on it.<p>ChatGPT failed to understand that the raycaster works on the CPU, but the displacement map of the material is applied on the GPU side, so the displaced geometry won&#x27;t be used, only the original one. It managed to explain this to me, that this was not possible, but each sample code repeatedly did as if it was possible, until I gave up.<p>Then I created the Microsoft account and started to ask for solutions, and it was the most useless garbage, despite of the web claiming that it is using GPT-4.<p>In my eyes MS has failed at integrating a chatbot; maybe it&#x27;s ok for cooking or having fun, I haven&#x27;t tried that. And OpenAI has nothing else but a chatbot and other nice AI. Let someone better come and OpenAI will be a remarkable entry in the history books (first popular AI application) with a final entry that OpenAI got acquired by Microsoft.<p>Let&#x27;s see what Google makes out of it.</text></item><item><author>carlycue</author><text>OpenAI with 400 employees are breaking Google’s ankles on the court. What do you guys think? Is Google in trouble? Their entire business model is in jeopardy. If Google releases a oroduct as as good as ChatGPT 4, which is unlikely, they’ll
kill their revenue. If they don’t release it, they’ll gradually lose market share. They are in an unwinnable situation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using ChatGPT Plugins with LLaMA</title><url>https://blog.lastmileai.dev/using-openais-retrieval-plugin-with-llama-d2e0b6732f14</url></story> |
16,250,977 | 16,250,651 | 1 | 2 | 16,249,936 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bsder</author><text>&gt; If you need that whole paragraph to understand (* ++argv)[0], you might be an awesome programmer, but you&#x27;re not yet a reasonably experienced C programmer. ;)<p>Lines like that have far too much information density for my old brain, anymore.<p>Things that went through my poor brain: &quot;Why pre-inc&#x2F;decrement? Why the +1 on the for? Did he actually get the precedence of the operators correct? Okay, it looks like argc and argv will be mangled if you actually want to do anything else with them. I see comparing to &#x27;\0&#x27; with no count limit--is there a buffer overrun lurking here?. Does that error handling actually work--that loop can&#x27;t exit with that condition unless the second clause does something.<p>And that was like--30 seconds?<p>I&#x27;d assign argc and argv to something else so if I need them later for something they are in their original state. I&#x27;d give myself a variable that points to each individual argv on each iteration, and I&#x27;d call it something. I&#x27;d make the error handling more explicit so if I had to add another case later I wouldn&#x27;t have to rack my brain about whether the error gets handled. Etc.<p>Apparently I&#x27;ve become an inflexible, washed-up, old fart because I just don&#x27;t enjoy writing C code with that kind of puzzle-like quality anymore.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomsmeding</author><text>I have to say, to reasonably experienced C programmers, this code should be pretty clear. If you need that whole paragraph to understand (* ++argv)[0], you might be an awesome programmer, but you&#x27;re not yet a reasonably experienced C programmer. ;)<p>I do think this is even more concise than they would have written in maintained code. In particular, I believe the missing {}&#x27;s for the &#x27;while&#x27; and &#x27;for&#x27; loops whouldn&#x27;t have been left away, but I might be mistaken. Compare, for example, with this gem:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.princeton.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;archive&#x2F;spr09&#x2F;cos333&#x2F;beautiful.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.princeton.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;archive&#x2F;spr09&#x2F;cos333&#x2F;be...</a> (submitted as <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5672875" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5672875</a> some time ago)<p>There Kernighan talks about a piece of code written by Rob Pike for inclusion in a different book; the code was written to be as small as possible while still including some useful functionality. In particular, Pike made well-considered choices about which functionality to include and which to exclude, but there are also some of those expressions that will not be completely transparent to the beginner C programmer. But the goal was writing <i>short</i> code, and <i>clarity</i> came secondary, but also emerged partly as a result of the first.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments</title><url>http://www.usrsb.in/How-Old-School-C-Programmers-Process-Arguments.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>vultour</author><text>I am not a C programmer, nor a veteran in any other language and this code was pretty clear.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomsmeding</author><text>I have to say, to reasonably experienced C programmers, this code should be pretty clear. If you need that whole paragraph to understand (* ++argv)[0], you might be an awesome programmer, but you&#x27;re not yet a reasonably experienced C programmer. ;)<p>I do think this is even more concise than they would have written in maintained code. In particular, I believe the missing {}&#x27;s for the &#x27;while&#x27; and &#x27;for&#x27; loops whouldn&#x27;t have been left away, but I might be mistaken. Compare, for example, with this gem:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.princeton.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;archive&#x2F;spr09&#x2F;cos333&#x2F;beautiful.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.princeton.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;archive&#x2F;spr09&#x2F;cos333&#x2F;be...</a> (submitted as <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5672875" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5672875</a> some time ago)<p>There Kernighan talks about a piece of code written by Rob Pike for inclusion in a different book; the code was written to be as small as possible while still including some useful functionality. In particular, Pike made well-considered choices about which functionality to include and which to exclude, but there are also some of those expressions that will not be completely transparent to the beginner C programmer. But the goal was writing <i>short</i> code, and <i>clarity</i> came secondary, but also emerged partly as a result of the first.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments</title><url>http://www.usrsb.in/How-Old-School-C-Programmers-Process-Arguments.html</url></story> |
22,043,849 | 22,043,334 | 1 | 3 | 22,041,120 | 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>harimau777</author><text>I often see people say that we don&#x27;t have an expectation of privacy in public. However, it seems to me that ignores the nuance of actual social norms.<p>- Eavesdropping is generally considered anti-social.<p>- Taking up-skirt pictures in public is, I presume, illegal.<p>- If someone buys their prescriptions at a public grocery store, would it be alright for someone in the store to photograph their medical data?<p>It seems to me that the law needs to differentiate between the general sense in which one doesn&#x27;t have privacy in public (e.g. the public probably has the right to know if a &quot;family values&quot; politician goes to a strip club) and actively spying on someone.<p>This is particularly the case when technology makes spying possible in a way that it wasn&#x27;t previously. For example, I imagine it&#x27;s not uncommon for many people to carry confidential information openly (say carrying a prescription in your hand as you walk to the grocery store) because it&#x27;s not realistically possible for someone to read it and connect it to you. However, that changes with high speed photography, OCR, and facial recognition.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Secretive Surveillance Company Is Selling Cops Cameras Hidden in Gravestones</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdp95/this-secretive-surveillance-company-is-selling-cops-cameras-hidden-in-gravestones</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rahuldottech</author><text>Previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22022010" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22022010</a><p>Copying my comments from there:<p>---<p>&gt; In warning the site not to disclose the brochure, SSG’s attorney reportedly claimed the document is protected under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), though the notice did not point to any specific section of the law, which was enacted to regulate arms exports at the height of the Cold War.<p>We really need an overhaul of all these old laws that were enacted for a completely different era, which are now being misused. Another example is 200 year old laws being used to get companies to break encryption.<p>---<p>I don&#x27;t know how I feel about hidden surveillance cameras in public. I know I shouldn&#x27;t have any expectation of privacy in public and all that, but CCTV cameras in plain view are a different matter.<p>Are we going to live in a world where we&#x27;re constantly being recorded and analysed by hidden cameras? This makes me very uneasy. Whatever happened to the idea that democratic governments should be for the people?<p>I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s no way that this can ever possibly be misused &#x2F;s.<p>If agencies are using these for surveillance on specific targets then that&#x27;s maybe okay, but as far as I&#x27;m aware, there is not much regulation regarding hidden cameras in public - at least, not in many parts of the world.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Secretive Surveillance Company Is Selling Cops Cameras Hidden in Gravestones</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdp95/this-secretive-surveillance-company-is-selling-cops-cameras-hidden-in-gravestones</url></story> |
37,550,967 | 37,539,711 | 1 | 2 | 37,538,426 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>turquoisevar</author><text>Wouldn’t it be more reasonable for projects with few maintainers, or even run solo, to have the individuals who reported a bug to each spend 10-15 minutes to validate if the issue still exists instead of the sole maintainer having to spend days if not weeks to do the validation?<p>Especially considering that the reporter is likely better attuned to observing the bug if it’s a bit more fickle or complex than the maintainer who may or may not be able to reproduce it on their end to begin with?<p>This might shift a bit when there’s a bigger team involved or when it’s a companion project to a commercial service.<p>What I tend to see with many (F)OSS projects is that very few are willing to roll up their sleeves while simultaneously spending significant amount of time to make it known how essential the project is to them, making demands and giving copious suggestions.<p>The vast majority just create new issues to make their wishlist known and&#x2F;or supply a very vague bug report.<p>A subset of them might bother to submit a decent bug report and that’s about the extent their willingness to contribute goes.<p>Personally I don’t have the character to maintain a project simply due to not having the will to handle most of the comments I often see in a diplomatic manner.<p>That said, I do always try to track down the cause of an issue and submit a PR to fix the issue I’m reporting in an effort to do my part.</text><parent_chain><item><author>erik_seaberg</author><text>As jwz put it<p>&gt; This is, I think, the most common way for my bug reports to open source software projects to ever become closed. I report bugs; they go unread for a year, sometimes two; and then (surprise!) that module is rewritten from scratch—and the new maintainer can’t be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR</title><url>https://twitter.com/danielcroe/status/1703127430523703432</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neilv</author><text>And a variation on that: the issue was reported against one major release, but a new major release (just incremental changes, not rewrite) is coming out, so close all issues against the old release, because the problem <i>might</i> no longer exist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>erik_seaberg</author><text>As jwz put it<p>&gt; This is, I think, the most common way for my bug reports to open source software projects to ever become closed. I report bugs; they go unread for a year, sometimes two; and then (surprise!) that module is rewritten from scratch—and the new maintainer can’t be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR</title><url>https://twitter.com/danielcroe/status/1703127430523703432</url></story> |
19,885,985 | 19,885,714 | 1 | 2 | 19,885,627 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marktangotango</author><text>For those of us who reject the new ui<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sysadmin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;bn38pp&#x2F;oracle_wallet_master_key_lost&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sysadmin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;bn38pp&#x2F;oracle_wal...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oracle Wallet Master Key Lost</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/bn38pp/oracle_wallet_master_key_lost/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>technion</author><text>I&#x27;ve been in a number of these situations where the basic workflow was &quot;encryption = good&quot; with no consideration for these scenarios.<p>I&#x27;ve seen several organisations decide they need to encrypt backups. The first thing I ask is &quot;where is that key saved&quot; and the answer has always been &quot;in a file, written to those backups&quot;. It&#x27;s amazing how many times &quot;encryption&quot; leaves someone one ransomware away from losing everything.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oracle Wallet Master Key Lost</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/bn38pp/oracle_wallet_master_key_lost/</url></story> |
27,649,246 | 27,649,078 | 1 | 2 | 27,648,735 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cu3PO42</author><text>I have had the pleasure of visiting AbsInt and hearing talks on, amongst other things, CompCert. It really is a fascinating piece of software. I would highly recommend looking at the 2016 paper [1] for a bit more detail on how it works. If you&#x27;re interested you can find other publications as well.<p>The core idea is that every phase of the compiler is proven not to change the behavior of the program. I.e. if you ran any intermediate representation you&#x27;d always get the same behavior.<p>The main limitation is, in my opinion, that the C specification isn&#x27;t available in any form that a proof assistant can consume. Therefore, they had to translate the specification into that form manually. It is possible that this step contains mistakes. On the upside, every C compiler has this problem.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hal.inria.fr&#x2F;hal-01238879" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hal.inria.fr&#x2F;hal-01238879</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CompCert – Formally-verified C compiler</title><url>https://github.com/AbsInt/CompCert</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>I think a lot of others here are going to have the question &quot;what does it do with UB&quot;, which is partially answered in the doc:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;compcert.org&#x2F;man&#x2F;manual005.html#language-reference" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;compcert.org&#x2F;man&#x2F;manual005.html#language-reference</a><p><i>Overflow in arithmetic over signed integer types is defined as taking the mathematically-exact result and reducing it modulo 2^32 or 2^64 to the range of representable signed integers. Bitwise operators (&amp;, |, ^, ~, &lt;&lt;, &gt;&gt;) over signed integer types are interpreted following two’s-complement representation.</i><p>...so at least for that case, it behaves sanely, but it&#x27;s unclear what happens for other types of UB.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CompCert – Formally-verified C compiler</title><url>https://github.com/AbsInt/CompCert</url></story> |
7,668,276 | 7,668,306 | 1 | 2 | 7,667,976 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DoubleMalt</author><text>This not necessarily the case. Most advertisers will have fixed budgets to spend on AdSense.<p>Under this assumption banning a publisher would not diminish the revenue stream but just diverting the ads to other not yet banned publishers.<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean the scheme as described is true, but it&#x27;s not as obviously stupid as your first paragraph makes it seem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>birken</author><text>Let&#x27;s think about this logically. Google takes 32% of every adsense click [1], so assuming an account makes $5,000&#x2F;month, Google is making $2,352&#x2F;month from that account. So by banning the account, they are making $5,000 one-time, and losing $2,352&#x2F;month forever. No company is stupid enough to do that.<p>However, considering a site making $5,000 or $10,000&#x2F;month is generating quite a few clicks, I think it makes perfect sense for any account reaching these thresholds to be manually reviewed to ensure they are valid sites. The quality of Google&#x27;s clicks is one of its main selling points, and by cutting out spammy sites at the source it both improves the quality of its own program and at the same time removes a lot of the financial incentive to run a scummy site.<p>So my guess is these policies (or similar policies that involve manual reviews of sites) make perfect sense, are not illegal in any way, and this whole posting is as bogus as it looks.<p>1: <a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/180195?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;adsense&#x2F;answer&#x2F;180195?hl=en</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google AdSense leak?</title><url>http://pastebin.com/qh6Tta3h</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>owlmanatt</author><text>&gt; Google takes 32% of every adsense click [1], so assuming an account makes $5,000&#x2F;month, Google is making $2,352&#x2F;month from that account.<p>The publisher (ie your website showing ads) isn&#x27;t the one paying them that money; they aren&#x27;t losing any recurring revenue by banning them.<p>Since they&#x27;re Google AdSense, it&#x27;s very likely that they have plenty of new signups to show those ads on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>birken</author><text>Let&#x27;s think about this logically. Google takes 32% of every adsense click [1], so assuming an account makes $5,000&#x2F;month, Google is making $2,352&#x2F;month from that account. So by banning the account, they are making $5,000 one-time, and losing $2,352&#x2F;month forever. No company is stupid enough to do that.<p>However, considering a site making $5,000 or $10,000&#x2F;month is generating quite a few clicks, I think it makes perfect sense for any account reaching these thresholds to be manually reviewed to ensure they are valid sites. The quality of Google&#x27;s clicks is one of its main selling points, and by cutting out spammy sites at the source it both improves the quality of its own program and at the same time removes a lot of the financial incentive to run a scummy site.<p>So my guess is these policies (or similar policies that involve manual reviews of sites) make perfect sense, are not illegal in any way, and this whole posting is as bogus as it looks.<p>1: <a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/180195?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;adsense&#x2F;answer&#x2F;180195?hl=en</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google AdSense leak?</title><url>http://pastebin.com/qh6Tta3h</url></story> |
39,593,430 | 39,593,717 | 1 | 3 | 39,592,288 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nerdjon</author><text>I have long been torn on the idea of touch screen on a Mac. I feel like by now Windows should have shown us that the different ways in controlling the OS leads to problems and just doesn&#x27;t mesh well.<p>You end up with buttons that are way to large to allow for finger taps that make no sense with a mouse, so a lot of wasted space.<p>Forcing stupid gestures and UI animations that make zero sense with a keyboard and mouse.<p>And of course, the fact that you have legacy applications that will never be updated to fully support it (and likely even new ones) and the experience will never be great.<p>A single device that is meant to be fully usable with a k&#x2F;m and touch screen is always going to be a compromise for one (or both) setups. At least iPad OS while you can attach a k&#x2F;m (with decent results if really not how it was designed to be used) the OS is clearly touch first.<p>I doubt we are ever going to truly see an OS that can handle both with the respect that each input method deserves. The only way I really see that possible is if the OS forces every application to use built in libraries for navigation, buttons, etc (and I mean force!, like it would not run if you don&#x27;t use it) and the OS then shifts between the 2. But even then you could not naturally switch between, oh I am typing but let me just press this button on the screen because the OS would be on a specific mode.<p>Its easy to say that Apple just wants to sell us another device, but let&#x27;s not forget that Microsoft tried and failed... horribly... And we still see the problems with this idea in Windows 11.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacPad: I created the hybrid Mac-iPad laptop and tablet that Apple won't make</title><url>https://www.macstories.net/stories/macpad-how-i-created-the-hybrid-mac-ipad-laptop-and-tablet-that-apple-wont-make/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moolcool</author><text>Does anyone else remember the Modbook from the early 2010s?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Modbook" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Modbook</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacPad: I created the hybrid Mac-iPad laptop and tablet that Apple won't make</title><url>https://www.macstories.net/stories/macpad-how-i-created-the-hybrid-mac-ipad-laptop-and-tablet-that-apple-wont-make/</url></story> |
16,864,982 | 16,863,610 | 1 | 2 | 16,862,925 | 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>sametmax</author><text>Yeah but you miss in the parallel session. Having several github and twitter accounts, it&#x27;s very handy.<p>I never disconnect from anything, i just open a non container tab. I never connect to anything on my laptop, i open the site in the desired account container.<p>This website is in a state I don&#x27;t want ? New container, and it&#x27;s sees me as a new customer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>07d046</author><text>I used Firefox&#x27;s containers for about a day, and then I discovered the privacy.firstparty.isolate option (in about:config), which effectively gives every site its own container with no user effort. That, combined with Cookie AutoDelete, seems to work well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Container for Firefox</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/facebookcontainer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SparkyMcUnicorn</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t work for me.<p>I have a &quot;personal&quot; container that I use for my Google&#x2F;PayPal login, and sites that I use Google oauth with, same for a &quot;work&quot; container.<p>If each site used it&#x27;s own container, I couldn&#x27;t sign in with Google without signing in multiple times (let alone the mess of signing out old sessions, which I do once in a while).</text><parent_chain><item><author>07d046</author><text>I used Firefox&#x27;s containers for about a day, and then I discovered the privacy.firstparty.isolate option (in about:config), which effectively gives every site its own container with no user effort. That, combined with Cookie AutoDelete, seems to work well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Container for Firefox</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/facebookcontainer</url></story> |
1,046,322 | 1,046,044 | 1 | 2 | 1,045,879 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thejo</author><text>Many SaaS products, especially enterprise software, have a "login as a different user" feature that engineers use for debugging. It's good that non tech savvy users aren't always aware of the amount of information leakage that happens in situations where privacy is important. It would lead to a mega freak out.<p>For example, if you receive SMS alerts from your bank about transactions, account balance etc. there are multiple engineers in the chain who have access to the information, but should not -<p>* At the SMS gateway company to which the bank has outsourced the services<p>* Your mobile service provider<p>* People who run the SMSC (if the mobile operator has outsourced that)<p>Unfortunately, there is no way to secure it end to end in its current form. The same is applicable to a lot of services.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee</title><url>http://therumpus.net/2010/01/conversations-about-the-internet-5-anonymous-facebook-employee/?full=yes</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>potatolicious</author><text>The Facebook employee:<p>- checked a guest named "Phil Wong" into the new Facebook office in the recent past (after the move)<p>- is a woman<p>Holy shit guys, "anonymity"? Protecting her job? I think not.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee</title><url>http://therumpus.net/2010/01/conversations-about-the-internet-5-anonymous-facebook-employee/?full=yes</url></story> |
37,171,206 | 37,168,146 | 1 | 2 | 37,166,986 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>Humans could have lived nicely in harmony for hundreds of thousands of years in times of abundance, and when sudden cataclysms caused great famines or suffering they could have resorted to more drastic measures that caused large scale fires.<p>Doesn’t mean this is what I think happened, but sounds just as plausible as comets causing havoc to me.<p>In the end IMO this field has been greatly disserviced by Hancock. The yDIH just as well might have been the correct explanation but this guy won’t stop yapping about aliens alongside the same. So the “establishment” academics seem to be very wary of this hypothesis and being associated with him. Now it’s clear that’s dumb of the academics as well, they should be logical and choose the correct hypothesis no matter what flavor it associates them with. Sad that one of the likely most important times of human history has become so contentious due to human emotion and ego coming in the way of scientific rigor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pmayrgundter</author><text>Seems that Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis might fit these observations too.<p>&quot;We obtained radiocarbon dates on 172 specimens from seven extinct and one extant species... spanning 15.6 to 10.0 thousand calendar years before present (ka).&quot;<p>YDIH event is estimated at 12900 BP and includes vast wildfires in its scenario, including in North America.<p>Contrast that with the idea that humans have been in Sapiens form for 200kya+, using fire for longer even than we have been Sapiens and have probably been in the Americas far before 13kya. Is the idea that despite the capability, we only at this specific time started the extinction program? At just the moment when there&#x27;s sign of a globally catastrophic impact?<p>YDIH seems more parsimonious, yet the paper doesn&#x27;t mention it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Talk:Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesis" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Talk:Younger_Dryas_impact_hypo...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ancient fires drove large mammals extinct, study suggests</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/science/climate-paleontology-mammals.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>pmayrgundter</author><text>A little more reading..<p>&quot;All extinct mammals dated in this study have last occurrence dates older than 13.00 ka, with a modeled extirpation time estimate across all taxa of 13.07 to 12.89 ka [using the Gaussian-Resampled Inverse-Weighted McInerney (GRIMW) extinction estimator&quot;<p>Even tighter bound than my comment and still a tight fit around 12900. Figure 1 in their paper shows this as well.<p>In other news, there was recently a &quot;comprehensive refutation&quot; of YDIH (pre-print) that a fave of my, Martin Sweatman, takes a good look at.<p>A lot of this debate comes down to careful dating, error bars, etc.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;martinsweatman.blogspot.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;debunking-holliday-et-als-comprehensive.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;martinsweatman.blogspot.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;debunking-hollid...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pmayrgundter</author><text>Seems that Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis might fit these observations too.<p>&quot;We obtained radiocarbon dates on 172 specimens from seven extinct and one extant species... spanning 15.6 to 10.0 thousand calendar years before present (ka).&quot;<p>YDIH event is estimated at 12900 BP and includes vast wildfires in its scenario, including in North America.<p>Contrast that with the idea that humans have been in Sapiens form for 200kya+, using fire for longer even than we have been Sapiens and have probably been in the Americas far before 13kya. Is the idea that despite the capability, we only at this specific time started the extinction program? At just the moment when there&#x27;s sign of a globally catastrophic impact?<p>YDIH seems more parsimonious, yet the paper doesn&#x27;t mention it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Talk:Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesis" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Talk:Younger_Dryas_impact_hypo...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ancient fires drove large mammals extinct, study suggests</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/science/climate-paleontology-mammals.html</url></story> |
15,687,937 | 15,687,251 | 1 | 3 | 15,686,220 | 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>simias</author><text>I can&#x27;t think of any way out honestly. You can say anything you want about EA but I&#x27;m sure they act very rationally. If despite the heavy backlash over the years they keep doing what they&#x27;re doing then it must be working for them.<p>That&#x27;s the problem with these lootboxes, given how fast they spread to every AAA games these days (including single player games where they hardly make sense in the first place) it&#x27;s obvious that the maths work out for them. The amount of principled gamers ending up not buying the game is probably more than compensated by the dividends of microtransactions. There are not enough gamers who care enough about the issue to stop buying the game. The marketing and network effect is simply too strong. A mob downvoting a comment on reddit won&#x27;t change anything, it&#x27;s nothing but slacktivism. Might as well sign an e-petition at this point.<p>It&#x27;s not the first time it&#x27;s like this. &quot;We don&#x27;t want always online DRM! We won&#x27;t buy your game!&quot;, &quot;We want to be able to host our own dedicated servers for multiplayer! We won&#x27;t buy your game!&quot;. And now it&#x27;s the new normal, hardly anybody expects these things from new releases or even mentions them. Lootboxes and microtransactions are headed down the same path IMO.<p>Here&#x27;s my prediction: five years from now every big release will contain microtransactions one way or an other and nobody will find it surprising or inappropriate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>I&#x27;m continually fascinated by the gaming community&#x27;s relationship with EA.<p>It&#x27;s like, &quot;Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let&#x27;s throw another 60 quid in this hole. I&#x27;m sure this time it&#x27;ll be different.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/seriously_i_paid_80_to_have_vader_locked/dppum98/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bjt2n3904</author><text>Gamers aren&#x27;t known for their resolve. I remember when Modern Warfare 2 came out (eight years ago) without the option to run private servers, which resulted in this rather famous image:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;MLZ0bMu.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;MLZ0bMu.png</a><p>That being said, 40 hours doesn&#x27;t seem like an awful amount of time to sink into a game to unlock a character. Heck, I&#x27;m ashamed to talk about how many hours I&#x27;ve put into CS:GO, and it&#x27;s only triple digits.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>I&#x27;m continually fascinated by the gaming community&#x27;s relationship with EA.<p>It&#x27;s like, &quot;Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let&#x27;s throw another 60 quid in this hole. I&#x27;m sure this time it&#x27;ll be different.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/seriously_i_paid_80_to_have_vader_locked/dppum98/</url></story> |
22,294,869 | 22,294,440 | 1 | 3 | 22,288,675 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jiofih</author><text>Wait, are you replying to a guide on FE performance, completely ignoring the content, to say nothing is being said on FE performance and then promote your own stuff??</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmeyer2k</author><text>Front-end performance optimization is surprisingly lacking when it comes to web apps. We focus so much on shaving off 50 ms when it comes to server response time, but we&#x27;re fine with a 7 second load time for front-end. It&#x27;s very surprising that there isn&#x27;t as much focus on front-end architecture performance.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Performant Front-End Architecture</title><url>https://www.debugbear.com/blog/performant-front-end-architecture</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FailMore</author><text>Just for balance, the company behind the blog post is also a developer-ran performance monitoring service: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.debugbear.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.debugbear.com&#x2F;</a> (Disclosure: this person is not me, but I have used the service and I do know the person)</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmeyer2k</author><text>Front-end performance optimization is surprisingly lacking when it comes to web apps. We focus so much on shaving off 50 ms when it comes to server response time, but we&#x27;re fine with a 7 second load time for front-end. It&#x27;s very surprising that there isn&#x27;t as much focus on front-end architecture performance.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Performant Front-End Architecture</title><url>https://www.debugbear.com/blog/performant-front-end-architecture</url></story> |
20,101,883 | 20,100,999 | 1 | 2 | 20,100,530 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmode</author><text>I would highly encourage international students to reconsider their plans of studying in the US. I am coming from my own personal experience, but as you can read from this thread or any immigration forum, the policies of the current administration are increasingly hostile towards immigrants. Especially, Chinese and Indian students should rethink. Few reasons why not to study in the US:<p>1. USCIS has made the OPT process increasingly difficult as yo u can read from this article. However, OPT is the only option if you want to work in the US post graduation. Chances of getting an employer prior to graduation, who can file your H1 in April and wait for you to join in October is close to zero<p>2. H1 visa is a crapshoot lottery and if you are not a STEM student, you will most likely get one shot at it. If you are not picked, that&#x27;s the end of it<p>3. Even if you get selected in H1, 70% of cases result in RFE for BS reasons that a hostile USCIS agent made up on the spot. H1 laws are so vague that a rogue USCIS officer can make up any reason to deny your petition.<p>4. Even if you get an approved H1 petition, it comes with a ton of strings attached. And if you travel out of the country you have to get a visa from your home country or Canada or Mexico. The visa process also been made extremely difficult, with routine delays and 3-6 months wait in many cases. Imagine being stuck abroad and having to let your employer know that they have to wait months before you can be back.<p>5. If you are an Indian student currently, the path to green card simply doesn&#x27;t exist. There is a 100 year wait for a green card<p>6. Points #1-5 above are not bugs, but features. US education only makes sense for rich students, who want to study for a few years and return. But then, why would you want to study in the US and deal with the harassment in US consulates and embassies to get an F-1 visa or deal with hostile CBP agents who treat you like enemies after flying for 40 hours.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US International Students Lose Internships Because of Outdated Work Policies</title><url>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2019/06/princeton-opt-joint-letter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>diebeforei485</author><text>Sounds like Princeton should be offering a CPT course for credits during the summer like pretty much every other top-ranked university. Students would likely have to pay some amount of tuition for those credits, but that is not too bad in the context of a paid internship.<p>USCIS (the agency that adjudicates OPT cases) is likely massively overloaded with processing border asylum cases at the moment - and recent media reports suggest they have been roping in employees who would usually work other parts of the immigration system to work asylum cases.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US International Students Lose Internships Because of Outdated Work Policies</title><url>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2019/06/princeton-opt-joint-letter</url></story> |
19,166,881 | 19,166,345 | 1 | 3 | 19,165,877 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>XaspR8d</author><text>If you ever find yourself near Yuma, AZ, and have a sense for &quot;weird travel&quot; like I do, I&#x27;d recommend taking a jaunt into Los Algodones (AKA Molar City) immediately across the border. You can park at the border station and walk in. The tiny city is pretty much entirely dedicated to discount medical sales and is packed to the brim with dentists, pharmacists, opticians, and cosmetologists. When I was there, salesmen would literally call out &quot;cavity? cavity?&quot; to the passersby on the street. It&#x27;s like some eerie alien recreation of Las Vegas where gambling is replaced with curbside botox and root canals.<p>We only spent about 20 minutes walking around (probably spent more time in the border office), but it was a super memorable pit stop for me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Americans Cross Border into Mexico to Buy Insulin</title><url>https://khn.org/news/americans-cross-border-into-mexico-to-buy-insulin-at-a-fraction-of-u-s-cost/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomca32</author><text>Not sure about some of the numbers there. They say that a 3 month supply is $3700.<p>Humalog without insurance costs $95 per 3 ml cartridge, let&#x27;s say it&#x27;s a $100. This would mean that this child needs 37 cartridges for 3 months, or 12 cartridges per month, 3 per week.<p>That&#x27;s a pretty crazy amount of insulin. I&#x27;m a T1 diabetic, that doesn&#x27;t eat particularly healthy, and I need 2-3 cartridges a month, almost an order of magnitude less than the person in the article.<p>I don&#x27;t think those numbers are right.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Americans Cross Border into Mexico to Buy Insulin</title><url>https://khn.org/news/americans-cross-border-into-mexico-to-buy-insulin-at-a-fraction-of-u-s-cost/</url></story> |
39,667,156 | 39,667,028 | 1 | 3 | 39,666,369 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jijijijij</author><text>You do not understand the issue at hand. Whatever you experienced was way less severe, because evaporative cooling obviously was still possible. There is a point where you simply cannot cool yourself passively. That&#x27;s the point where survival is at risk regardless of health.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wet-bulb_temperature" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wet-bulb_temperature</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>donatj</author><text>I grew up poor and without AC in Minnesota where we regularly get spells of 100°F+ (37.7°C) at VERY high humidity thanks to all the lakes. It’s survivable, it’s absolutely not pleasant though and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.<p>Fans and wet rags help some. I used to fill a 2-liter bottle with cold water and hold it against my chest. A lot of sleepless nights. When we got a local second run $2 movie theater, it was a literal godsend.</text></item><item><author>cromulent</author><text>A friend of mine who lives in Queensland (Sunshine Coast) was talking about a recent spell of 32° and 100% humidity and how oppressive it was.<p>My understanding is that such weather is not survivable long term [1] without air conditioning. A power failure would be disastrous.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psu.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;research&#x2F;story&#x2F;humans-cant-endure-temperatures-and-humidities-high-previously-thought&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psu.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;research&#x2F;story&#x2F;humans-cant-endure-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/extreme-heat-tolerance/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brazzy</author><text>The point is that at some sufficiently high humidity, fans and wet rags <i>do not help any more, at all</i>! Combine that with sufficiently high temperatures, and it&#x27;s not survivable. And will kill people with weak circulatory systems (i.e. the elderly and babies) quite a bit earlier.</text><parent_chain><item><author>donatj</author><text>I grew up poor and without AC in Minnesota where we regularly get spells of 100°F+ (37.7°C) at VERY high humidity thanks to all the lakes. It’s survivable, it’s absolutely not pleasant though and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.<p>Fans and wet rags help some. I used to fill a 2-liter bottle with cold water and hold it against my chest. A lot of sleepless nights. When we got a local second run $2 movie theater, it was a literal godsend.</text></item><item><author>cromulent</author><text>A friend of mine who lives in Queensland (Sunshine Coast) was talking about a recent spell of 32° and 100% humidity and how oppressive it was.<p>My understanding is that such weather is not survivable long term [1] without air conditioning. A power failure would be disastrous.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psu.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;research&#x2F;story&#x2F;humans-cant-endure-temperatures-and-humidities-high-previously-thought&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psu.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;research&#x2F;story&#x2F;humans-cant-endure-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/extreme-heat-tolerance/</url></story> |
29,292,637 | 29,292,270 | 1 | 2 | 29,291,392 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>soapdog</author><text>Whenever Gemini is mentioned here in HN people will ask: &quot;Why not a subset of HTML with HTTP&quot; or some similar &quot;Why not $SOME_OTHER_TECH&quot; question. Which for me is the same as hearing &quot;Why not chocolate cake?&quot; after saying &quot;I like strawberry tarts&quot;.<p>What people don&#x27;t realise is that Gemini is a different thing for each person involved with the ecosystem. Some people are in it because it is easy to implement, something that can&#x27;t be said about the recent specs of HTTP&#x2F;HTML specs. Others enjoy having a spec that is easy to understand and absorb, even if they&#x27;re not developing with it. There are those that like how clients decide how to present the content, and that some clients allow for a ton of customisation thus placing the user in control of the presentation. Each person is enjoying the ecosystem for their own reason, and that doesn&#x27;t need to be a reason that serves as an answer to &quot;why not HTML and HTTP?&quot;<p>Mostly, people do Gemini stuff because they&#x27;re having fun, and that is enough.<p>Lagrange is a great client. There are a gazilion others. Pick one up for a ride, have fun.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lagrange: A desktop GUI client for Gemini</title><url>https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zenojevski</author><text>(This is a bit of a shameless plug, but hopefully it&#x27;ll be interesting to the general discussion about gopher-like protocols and graphical browsers)<p>It doesn&#x27;t support Gemini (just yet) but here&#x27;s my take at a modern, fully-featured graphical Gopher client: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zenoamaro&#x2F;unnamed-gopher-client" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zenoamaro&#x2F;unnamed-gopher-client</a><p>I tend to spend hours browsing Gopherholes and Phlogs, but I tend to lose track of where I am. So I implemented a navigation system that I have yet to see in any other Gopher client (or web, for that matter):<p>- <i>Drill-down Columnar Navigation.</i><p>It is heavily inspired by Finder&#x27;s own column navigation, so if you like that, you&#x27;ll be at home.<p>In addition, it has other features that every modern browser should have:<p>- A tabbed interface<p>- An omnibar with search capabilities (Using Veronica-2)<p>- Files and folders view<p>- Inline image previews with zooming<p>- Caching<p>I have many more ideas to contribute back to the Gopher ecosystem without losing its essence (see the roadmap), so if you want to contribute, send ideas, share your opinions, or just show support, please let me know! I hope you like it!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lagrange: A desktop GUI client for Gemini</title><url>https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange</url></story> |
11,477,467 | 11,477,533 | 1 | 2 | 11,476,786 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vhab</author><text>While not Docker Cloud specifically, when we eyeballed UCP we found it very underwhelming when pitted against Kubernetes.<p>To us it appeared yet another in a sea of many orchestration tools that will give you a very quick and impressive &quot;Hello World&quot;, but then fail to adapt to real world situations.<p>This is what Kubernetes really has going for it, every release adds more blocks and tools that are useful and composable targeting real world use (and allow many of us crazies to deal with the oddball and quirky behavior our fleet of applications may have), not just a single path of how applications would ideally work.<p>This generally has been a trend with Docker&#x27;s tooling outside of Docker itself unfortunately.
Similarly docker-compose is great for our development boxes, but nowhere near useful for production.
And it doesn&#x27;t help Docker&#x27;s enterprise offerings still steer you towards using docker-compose and the likes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>huslage</author><text>I&#x27;m admittedly biased, but have you checked out Docker Cloud? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.docker.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.docker.com</a></text></item><item><author>jordanthoms</author><text>Switching from ECS to GKE (Google Container Engine) currently. Both seem overcomplex for the simpler cases of deploying apps (and provide a lot of flexibility in return), but I have found the performance of GKE (e.g. time for configuration changes to be applied, new containers booted, etc) to be vastly superior. The networking is also much better, GKE has overlay networking so your containers can talk to each other and the outside world pretty smoothly.<p>GKE has good commandline tools but the web interface is even more limited than ECS&#x27;s is - I assume at some point they&#x27;ll integrate the Kubernetes webui into the GCP console.<p>GKE is still pretty immature though, more so than I realized when I started working with it. The deployments API (which is a huge improvement) has only just landed, and the integration with load balancing and SSL etc is still very green. ECS is also pretty immature though.</text></item><item><author>sandGorgon</author><text>Can you talk about this? I have been spectacularly unsuccessful at using ECS (and currently run my VMs on a vanilla Debian ec2 instance)</text></item><item><author>gtaylor</author><text>I&#x27;ve been overall very impressed with the direction of Google Cloud over the last year. I feel like their container strategy is much better than Amazon&#x27;s ECS in that the core is built on open source technology.<p>This can wipe away a lot of goodwill, though. A worldwide outage is catastrophic and embarrassing. AWS has had some pretty spectacular failures in us-east (which has a huge chunk of the web running within it), but I&#x27;m not sure that I can recall a global outage. To my understanding, these systems are built specifically <i>not</i> to let failures spill over to other regions.<p>Ah well. Godspeed to anyone affected by this, including the SREs over at Google!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GCE down in all regions</title><url>https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akanet</author><text>Not to bash, but the page you linked is classic Docker - it says literally <i>nothing</i> about what &quot;Docker Cloud&quot; is.<p>&quot;BUILD SHIP &amp; RUN, ANY APP, ANYWHERE&quot; is the slogan they repeat everywhere, including here, and it means even less everytime they do it. What IS Docker Cloud? Is it like Swarm? Does it use Swarm? What kinds of customers is Docker Cloud especially good at helping? All these mysteries and more, resolved never.</text><parent_chain><item><author>huslage</author><text>I&#x27;m admittedly biased, but have you checked out Docker Cloud? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.docker.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.docker.com</a></text></item><item><author>jordanthoms</author><text>Switching from ECS to GKE (Google Container Engine) currently. Both seem overcomplex for the simpler cases of deploying apps (and provide a lot of flexibility in return), but I have found the performance of GKE (e.g. time for configuration changes to be applied, new containers booted, etc) to be vastly superior. The networking is also much better, GKE has overlay networking so your containers can talk to each other and the outside world pretty smoothly.<p>GKE has good commandline tools but the web interface is even more limited than ECS&#x27;s is - I assume at some point they&#x27;ll integrate the Kubernetes webui into the GCP console.<p>GKE is still pretty immature though, more so than I realized when I started working with it. The deployments API (which is a huge improvement) has only just landed, and the integration with load balancing and SSL etc is still very green. ECS is also pretty immature though.</text></item><item><author>sandGorgon</author><text>Can you talk about this? I have been spectacularly unsuccessful at using ECS (and currently run my VMs on a vanilla Debian ec2 instance)</text></item><item><author>gtaylor</author><text>I&#x27;ve been overall very impressed with the direction of Google Cloud over the last year. I feel like their container strategy is much better than Amazon&#x27;s ECS in that the core is built on open source technology.<p>This can wipe away a lot of goodwill, though. A worldwide outage is catastrophic and embarrassing. AWS has had some pretty spectacular failures in us-east (which has a huge chunk of the web running within it), but I&#x27;m not sure that I can recall a global outage. To my understanding, these systems are built specifically <i>not</i> to let failures spill over to other regions.<p>Ah well. Godspeed to anyone affected by this, including the SREs over at Google!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GCE down in all regions</title><url>https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007</url></story> |
4,922,538 | 4,922,422 | 1 | 3 | 4,922,304 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hyperbovine</author><text>Oh, that is such a straw man. In America, the country in which I (and presumably you) live, what's the body count on the ol' oppressive regime-vs-AR15 wielding madman debate anyways? I'm thinking it's on the order of 0 to a couple hundred thousand. If everybody in North Korea owned a shotgun, yes, the world would be a better place. I don't understand why that means children should be murdered en masse, or that I should have to dodge bullets in my own neighborhood (yes, really), all so that you can sleep easier at night knowing that the far-off, nebulous specter of the 'oppressive regime' is held safely at bay by your Colt 45.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>I say the same thing when people in oppressive regimes are silenced with no recourse because the government has no reason to fear it's own citizens. Sigh. I did not downvote your post, but frankly I'm angry that you just assume everyone who is pro-2nd amendment just isn't as enlightened as you are.</text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>I can't wait until the part where we all don't talk about gun control and carry on as usual. Sigh.<p>EDIT: I see my post is being downvoted. I know that it may come across as insensitive to immediately leap to the gun control debate, but frankly I'm more angry than upset by this news. How many times does it have to happen? We have a good 48 hours of emotional outpouring and then everyone forgets it ever happened.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut</title><url>http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/14/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school/?hpt=hp_t1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>untog</author><text><i>frankly I'm angry that you just assume everyone who is pro-2nd amendment just isn't as enlightened as you are.</i><p>Where exactly do I make that assumption? You'll notice that I didn't even call for a blanket ban on guns, just that, as a nation, we could actually sit down and have a serious talk about whether people should be able to own weapons like this one for private use:<p>[EDIT: I regret posting the link to the rifle, there's clearly plenty of debate about it that detracts from the main topic of discussion- and we don't know any details for definite.]<p><a href="https://twitter.com/MarlowNYC/status/279655599585775616" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/MarlowNYC/status/279655599585775616</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>I say the same thing when people in oppressive regimes are silenced with no recourse because the government has no reason to fear it's own citizens. Sigh. I did not downvote your post, but frankly I'm angry that you just assume everyone who is pro-2nd amendment just isn't as enlightened as you are.</text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>I can't wait until the part where we all don't talk about gun control and carry on as usual. Sigh.<p>EDIT: I see my post is being downvoted. I know that it may come across as insensitive to immediately leap to the gun control debate, but frankly I'm more angry than upset by this news. How many times does it have to happen? We have a good 48 hours of emotional outpouring and then everyone forgets it ever happened.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut</title><url>http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/14/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school/?hpt=hp_t1</url></story> |
11,914,950 | 11,914,471 | 1 | 2 | 11,913,825 | 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>stared</author><text>As an ex-physicist (quantum physics, now - data science), I am still puzzled why computer scientist consider computational complexity something metaphysical. Or even worse - a rule which universe should care about; look up considerations of non-local boxes and computational complexity (a generalization of quantum correlations; see Popescu-Rohrlich box).<p>First, even the CS&#x27;s nightmare (where P=NP) may mean little practical difference (e.g. the simplest &#x27;NP&#x27; takes O(n^1000)).<p>Second, for many problems even O(n^2) is too much (think of big data problems). (Also, given that computation requires physical resources, you cannot scale it arbitrarily.) So even in P the actual exponent matters a lot.<p>One interesting, physical case is the spontaneous emission of a photon from an excited atom. It looks like an exponential decay, but the theory shows that the decay have to be polynomial (I don&#x27;t remember it&#x27;s power, if more like 1&#x2F;t^3 or 1&#x2F;t^6, but not too high). Up to my knowledge, we haven&#x27;t detected the polynomial tail (because when it is, the probabilities are so low).<p>So, is there a physical effect that <i>cares</i> about computational complexity? Or a phenomenon in which it matters that we can simulate it in &quot;only&quot; O(n^100), not O(2^n)?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eru</author><text>Also compare the The Ghost in the Quantum Turing machine (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottaaronson.com&#x2F;papers&#x2F;giqtm3.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottaaronson.com&#x2F;papers&#x2F;giqtm3.pdf</a>) by the same author, and his marvellous blog at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottaaronson.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottaaronson.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;</a> .<p>There&#x27;s also a slatestarcodex post about Scott Aaronson: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;01&#x2F;untitled&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;01&#x2F;untitled&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf</url></story> |
33,517,482 | 33,517,294 | 1 | 2 | 33,516,918 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jabl</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using dma for some Linux servers in a simple &#x27;smart host only&#x27; configuration (that is, all mail is forwarded to some central &#x27;real&#x27; MTA), mostly in order to deliver mails from cron. As the commit message notes, DMA is not a full-featured MTA like sendmail or postfix, but rather a minimalistic MTA. Makes sense to have as the default one; those who have a need for a &#x27;real&#x27; MTA can install and setup such a thing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mail: Make The Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) the default mta</title><url>https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=a67b925ff3e58b072a60b633e442ee1d33e47f7f</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>linsomniac</author><text>This is your sendmail therapy thread. Relate how sendmail scarred you here. :-)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mail: Make The Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) the default mta</title><url>https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=a67b925ff3e58b072a60b633e442ee1d33e47f7f</url></story> |
11,978,309 | 11,977,366 | 1 | 2 | 11,977,162 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shykes</author><text>I would advise finding another name for the tool. &#x27;mac&#x27; is an obvious trademark infringement and it&#x27;s only a matter of time before Apple lawyers come knocking on your door. Honestly I find it uncool to piggyback on someone else&#x27;s brand in this way. The protagonists are different but it&#x27;s the same fundamental issue as the &quot;Ubuntu vs OVH&quot; and &quot;Let&#x27;s Encrypt vs Comodo&quot; stories we&#x27;ve seen recently.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mac CLI – OS X command line tools for developers</title><url>https://github.com/guarinogabriel/mac-cli/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Etheryte</author><text>As a seasoned dev on OS X I&#x27;m not sure if I see the benefits here. You get the same set of instructions but lose (or rather, don&#x27;t gain, as a beginner) the chance to use google-fu.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mac CLI – OS X command line tools for developers</title><url>https://github.com/guarinogabriel/mac-cli/</url></story> |
14,529,745 | 14,529,705 | 1 | 3 | 14,529,376 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>myth_buster</author><text>&gt; given that content creators intentionally volunteer their content to AMP<p>This is certainly not true. The reason no many content creators and publishers moved to AMP is to not hurt their SEO.
If you check most of the AMP articles targeted to publishers, it&#x27;s addressed as get on the AMP wagon now or else you are doomed when Google starts ranking AMP pages higher.</text><parent_chain><item><author>endorphone</author><text>Do you think there would be an uproar? Apple introduced reading mode, built-in content&#x2F;ad blocking, etc. AMP actually fits in the profile of Apple -- prioritizing a fast, usable solution.<p>This author notes that they &quot;feel bad&quot; about consuming AMP content. Which is extremely weird given that content creators intentionally volunteer their content to AMP (aside from this user who got famous claiming that Google was stealing their content because they had enabled a Wordpress plug-in haphazardly).<p>If Google blacklisted non-AMP content, or even just deranked it, sure there&#x27;s an argument, but as of yet this notion that it&#x27;s some content theft is quite strange.<p>Google&#x27;s intention with AMP is obvious, and obviously not anti-web: Facebook is becoming a primary medium where users are accessing a lot of content. I personally read all news via Facebook now, where they&#x27;ve integrated it heavily with a built-in browser and now instant articles (Facebook&#x27;s AMP). Compared to this, the traditional web is just an obnoxious mess, not because of the web but because of the abuse that AMP restricts.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>I&#x27;m trying to imagine the uproar if Apple had done AMP instead of Google. Somehow AMP has some staunch defenders, but everything, and I mean <i>everything</i> about how it&#x27;s been approached has felt very anti-web and pro-Google. The overall concept may be sound, but the implementation, and the inability to escape it, has significantly hurt my opinion of Google. In fact, I no longer use Google&#x27;s search because of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Please Make Google AMP Optional</title><url>https://www.alexkras.com/please-make-google-amp-optional/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeffbax</author><text>I don&#x27;t think its comparable to Apple. Apple is trying to make the user experience of existing content better (where it is located)<p>Google is taking the content and serving it themselves.<p>The problem is sites being slow in the first place, but Apple isn&#x27;t commandeering the content itself like Google is by creating a mode where the browser can enhance legibility of any article.</text><parent_chain><item><author>endorphone</author><text>Do you think there would be an uproar? Apple introduced reading mode, built-in content&#x2F;ad blocking, etc. AMP actually fits in the profile of Apple -- prioritizing a fast, usable solution.<p>This author notes that they &quot;feel bad&quot; about consuming AMP content. Which is extremely weird given that content creators intentionally volunteer their content to AMP (aside from this user who got famous claiming that Google was stealing their content because they had enabled a Wordpress plug-in haphazardly).<p>If Google blacklisted non-AMP content, or even just deranked it, sure there&#x27;s an argument, but as of yet this notion that it&#x27;s some content theft is quite strange.<p>Google&#x27;s intention with AMP is obvious, and obviously not anti-web: Facebook is becoming a primary medium where users are accessing a lot of content. I personally read all news via Facebook now, where they&#x27;ve integrated it heavily with a built-in browser and now instant articles (Facebook&#x27;s AMP). Compared to this, the traditional web is just an obnoxious mess, not because of the web but because of the abuse that AMP restricts.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>I&#x27;m trying to imagine the uproar if Apple had done AMP instead of Google. Somehow AMP has some staunch defenders, but everything, and I mean <i>everything</i> about how it&#x27;s been approached has felt very anti-web and pro-Google. The overall concept may be sound, but the implementation, and the inability to escape it, has significantly hurt my opinion of Google. In fact, I no longer use Google&#x27;s search because of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Please Make Google AMP Optional</title><url>https://www.alexkras.com/please-make-google-amp-optional/</url></story> |
13,856,953 | 13,856,171 | 1 | 2 | 13,855,763 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kstenerud</author><text>Blogspam that doesn&#x27;t even get the original story right. According to the WSJ that TNW is supposedly quoting, drivers are NOT being forced to listen to anything.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;uber-gears-up-to-block-bid-to-form-a-union-in-seattle-1489237201" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;uber-gears-up-to-block-bid-to-f...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-union propaganda</title><url>https://thenextweb.com/us/2017/03/13/uber-is-forcing-drivers-in-seattle-to-listen-to-anti-union-propaganda/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>OskarS</author><text>Imagine doing a podcast solely for your employees full of propaganda with the purpose of preventing them from unionizing. Seems like a very disturbing company culture.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-union propaganda</title><url>https://thenextweb.com/us/2017/03/13/uber-is-forcing-drivers-in-seattle-to-listen-to-anti-union-propaganda/</url></story> |
3,866,028 | 3,866,108 | 1 | 2 | 3,865,744 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sidman</author><text>&#62; <i>ALL of these people are at the greatest risk - what will happen if this bubble bursts. We will be FUCKED</i><p>I have the same thoughts exactly. I was a junior at university when the last bubble burst so i have no idea what it was like. Currently i have been running my startup after quitting my job for almost a year and we are doing OK but this talk of bubble worries me because i dont know what to expect.<p>Will it only effect startups that are social types that dont exactly generate revenue but through capital injection( which i assume is what will evaporate the fastest during a pop) have the potential to become massive such as instagram etc or will it also effect the startups that actually do turn up a profit every month so that the founders can eat and re-invest their money back in the business.<p>When i try to draw parallels from 2000 from a technology stand point, i assume the bubble pop killed the tech industry because getting a startup of the ground required tons of cash, it didnt matter whether you could charge from day one or it was a great idea but needed to get to scale before you could make money, you still needed to buy servers, hosting and your development team was larger because there were no frameworks etc .. basically there was alot to spend before you could turn a profit, so when capital dried up so did the ability to start a new company or even continue to run an existing one. As a founder, unless you were already wealthy you could not <i>bootstrap</i><p>Now with amazon, great frameworks that cut down development time many times over and other things of the like, founders can take savings of 10-15k and start a business that can return that investment maybe after 4-5 months and start making profit soon after.<p>The question is, do these kinds of startups still survive, could this be the differentiating factor this time if the bubble pops.<p>Maybe after the bubble pops we wont get those massive social startups that require millions of dollars worth of injection for a while but instead get many smaller bootstrapped <i>business</i> types that take a small investment and return a profit monthly that eventually grow into large business. Its slower but similar to more traditional businesses. If this is the case then i feel its OK, at least if we find an area there people still have a need and technology solves that need we can still make a living doing our own startup and work on things we love.<p>Im also interested because we are bootstrapped and we have managed to get our small startup to give us back about 60% of our salary that we used to get at our 9-5. its enough to live of and not make us wonder where we are going to get our next dinner, however we are thinking of starting something new because we feel there is a ceiling to what we can achieve with our current startup and its important for us to decide what startup to do next if we actually are heading into a bubble that may pop midway through our next project, 1,2 maybe 3 years down the line<p>What do you guys think the tech scene will look like in the valley and possibly around the world if such an event would occur again ?<p>Sorry for the long post but i thought it important to get ideas from the HN community on this topic.</text><parent_chain><item><author>samstave</author><text>I am not interested in any of the "we are in a bubble" posts as much as I am interested in "What the fuck will happen when this bubble bursts!"<p>I have been in tech in SV since 1997. I was here for the build, frenzy and pop of the last bubble.<p>In 2001 I had a BBQ at my place - 50 people came and we ate and drank by the pool. Of those 50 - all tech workers - 4 had jobs.<p>I was out of work for 18 months (6 of which I traveled the world) - and luckily I have more than just tech skills which I was able to fall back on.<p>On HN we are really focused on technical ability - but there are millions of employees in all our tech companies that are not technical: think of any department outside of IT and Development == Sales, Facilities, HR, Marketing, Finance (although this is the class of people most responsible for this problem), etc...<p>ALL of these people are at the greatest risk - what will happen if this bubble bursts. We will be FUCKED.<p>What will it look like</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We are in a Bubble</title><url>http://sfard.posterous.com/we-are-in-a-bubble</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulsutter</author><text>People didn't die in the last collapse, my goodness. Many of them went back to banking (B2B) or back to Cleveland (B2C).<p>Nobody was F<i></i>*'d, although there was a lot of self-centered melodrama.<p>The same thing will happen again and again. Areas of the economy will get overheated, and subsequently get overcooled. Fortunes will be made, fortunes will be lost.<p>And in the end it's just life as usual.</text><parent_chain><item><author>samstave</author><text>I am not interested in any of the "we are in a bubble" posts as much as I am interested in "What the fuck will happen when this bubble bursts!"<p>I have been in tech in SV since 1997. I was here for the build, frenzy and pop of the last bubble.<p>In 2001 I had a BBQ at my place - 50 people came and we ate and drank by the pool. Of those 50 - all tech workers - 4 had jobs.<p>I was out of work for 18 months (6 of which I traveled the world) - and luckily I have more than just tech skills which I was able to fall back on.<p>On HN we are really focused on technical ability - but there are millions of employees in all our tech companies that are not technical: think of any department outside of IT and Development == Sales, Facilities, HR, Marketing, Finance (although this is the class of people most responsible for this problem), etc...<p>ALL of these people are at the greatest risk - what will happen if this bubble bursts. We will be FUCKED.<p>What will it look like</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We are in a Bubble</title><url>http://sfard.posterous.com/we-are-in-a-bubble</url></story> |
14,438,899 | 14,438,804 | 1 | 3 | 14,437,007 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chubot</author><text>FWIW I wrote a pretty complete shell in ~11K lines of Python:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oilshell&#x2F;oil" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oilshell&#x2F;oil</a> (osh&#x2F; and core&#x2F; directories):<p>Right now the goal is to clone bash but have better parse time and runtime errors. I hope to make an initial release this summer. But the project is much larger (see the blog if interested).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing a Unix Shell</title><url>https://indradhanush.github.io/blog/writing-a-unix-shell-part-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>luckydude</author><text>Marc Rochkind&#x27;s Advanced Unix Programming is a very approachable book that walks you through, among other things, writing a shell.<p>It&#x27;s a good book, give it a read.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing a Unix Shell</title><url>https://indradhanush.github.io/blog/writing-a-unix-shell-part-1/</url></story> |
14,910,401 | 14,908,272 | 1 | 2 | 14,901,051 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drawkbox</author><text><i>Is it really likely that every developer working on a popular BigCorp app....</i><p>Not to mention, rarely does app size register to clients, PMs, bizdev in terms of a worthy task. Only when you end up at the top of the app sizes list is time given to optimize.<p>We work to keep down app sizes and offer line item tasks for app size optimization on updates, noone finds it needed until they start to risk being near the top of the app list on a users device when they want to delete some apps.<p>In games, many toolkits&#x2F;engines like Unity and Unreal in mobile also add quite a large chunk. Building your own engine is rarely an option anymore in terms of competitive launch. Many games built with Unity&#x2F;Unreal even with moderate assets can reach 200-300MB easily and easily creep up further on updates.</text><parent_chain><item><author>habosa</author><text>I am surprised at all of the app developer shaming in this thread. Is it really likely that every developer working on a popular BigCorp app is an idiot who imports 10MB libraries every time he&#x2F;she faces the slightest challenge?<p>It&#x27;s much more likely that app developers are optimizing for many things, including app size, but reducing app size has a bad cost&#x2F;benefit ratio. Here are some decisions that may bloat your app:<p><pre><code> * Want your network calls to be fast and reliable? Better use that cool new HTTP library rather than writing your own.
* Want to keep everything secure? Rule #1 of hacker news is never roll your own crypto so better import the best lib out there.
* Want to delight your users and their fancy QHD screens? Time to include some high res images and animations. Oh and you can&#x27;t use vectors, they kill performance.
* Want to access new markets? Time to translate your strings into 80 common languages. Oh and some of these may require custom fonts to look right in your app.
* Want your Android game to have blazing fast graphics? Import that native library, and don&#x27;t forget multiple architectures.
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The biggest app I ever worked on was Google Santa Tracker. It was about 60MB. We spent a lot of time optimizing the app size in this year&#x27;s version. We managed to drop 10MB while adding a few new games to the app. I&#x27;m proud of it, but if I didn&#x27;t have the freedom to pursue app size I certainly would have taken the extra bloat to ship the new content.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;android-developers.googleblog.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;getting-santa-tracker-into-shape.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;android-developers.googleblog.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;getting-sa...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>App sizes are out of control</title><url>https://trevore.com/blog/posts/app-sizes-are-out-of-control/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>For some reason reducing APK size talks have been a constant presence in the last three Google IO and WWDC as well.<p>If you need to advocate this, it tells a lot about how much app devs care about the issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>habosa</author><text>I am surprised at all of the app developer shaming in this thread. Is it really likely that every developer working on a popular BigCorp app is an idiot who imports 10MB libraries every time he&#x2F;she faces the slightest challenge?<p>It&#x27;s much more likely that app developers are optimizing for many things, including app size, but reducing app size has a bad cost&#x2F;benefit ratio. Here are some decisions that may bloat your app:<p><pre><code> * Want your network calls to be fast and reliable? Better use that cool new HTTP library rather than writing your own.
* Want to keep everything secure? Rule #1 of hacker news is never roll your own crypto so better import the best lib out there.
* Want to delight your users and their fancy QHD screens? Time to include some high res images and animations. Oh and you can&#x27;t use vectors, they kill performance.
* Want to access new markets? Time to translate your strings into 80 common languages. Oh and some of these may require custom fonts to look right in your app.
* Want your Android game to have blazing fast graphics? Import that native library, and don&#x27;t forget multiple architectures.
</code></pre>
The biggest app I ever worked on was Google Santa Tracker. It was about 60MB. We spent a lot of time optimizing the app size in this year&#x27;s version. We managed to drop 10MB while adding a few new games to the app. I&#x27;m proud of it, but if I didn&#x27;t have the freedom to pursue app size I certainly would have taken the extra bloat to ship the new content.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;android-developers.googleblog.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;getting-santa-tracker-into-shape.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;android-developers.googleblog.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;getting-sa...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>App sizes are out of control</title><url>https://trevore.com/blog/posts/app-sizes-are-out-of-control/</url></story> |
303,834 | 303,821 | 1 | 3 | 303,780 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fallentimes</author><text><i>Though I had a Stanford MBA and regularly consulted on multimillion-dollar projects, I didn't know the first thing about starting a business.</i><p>Truer words have never been spoken.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How My Start-Up Failed</title><url>http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1999/julaug/articles/condoms.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>pavelludiq</author><text>A friend of mine has one of those with a condom and a cigar on his wall. It's been there for years, he isn't that good with girls and doesn't smoke.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How My Start-Up Failed</title><url>http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1999/julaug/articles/condoms.html</url></story> |
39,926,135 | 39,926,071 | 1 | 3 | 39,919,401 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Hermel</author><text>There are various valid use cases for companies without business. Examples include:<p>- International holding companies: if there is Coca Cola France and Coca Cola Germany that economically belong together, you might not be able to just merge them into one entity for legal reasons (both countries might require you to have a locally incorporated presence). So to ensure that both always have the same owners, you create an international holding company that owns both of them.<p>- Investment funds: investment funds (especially passive ones) are companies whose only business is to own shares in other companies. There is no &quot;real&quot; operating business.<p>- Feeder funds: sometimes, the law requires foreign investment funds to create a local shell company to be allowed to accept investments from local retail investors. In this case, the only purpose of the shell company is to fulfill local regulatory requirements with regards to the legal form if the investment vehicle and to provide investors with someone local that they can hold liable in case things go wrong. There is no real business in such companies.<p>In fact, it is often regulation that requires you to create shell companies. If you want to get rid of shell companies, you should start by removing regulation that requires the creation of shell companies with no real business except to satisfy the regulators.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BLKNSLVR</author><text>&quot;Shell corporations are companies that don’t actually do any business&quot;<p>This, I think, is a fairly key differentiator between valid and invalid use of incorporation. If a company doesn&#x27;t do any business, then it shall not have a right to exist as it has no reason to exist, as the reason companies exist is to do business.<p>One may argue there are other reasons a company may exist, but I&#x27;d argue those reasons only exist as an unintended consequence of the ability to exist as &#x27;shields&#x27; or &#x27;cut-outs&#x27; as discovered by those familiar with the peculiarities of international law and accounting&#x2F;finance.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners</title><url>https://gijn.org/stories/tracking-shell-companies-secret-owners/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>defrost</author><text>&gt; If a company doesn&#x27;t do any business, then it shall not have a right to exist as it has no reason to exist, as the reason companies exist is to do business.<p>One <i>typical</i> use of shell companies in mineral exploration is to obfuscate regions of interest from the prying eyes of competitors.<p>If some wants to gather lease ownership of a large number of small leases in (say) a province of Canada then it&#x27;s a matter of public record that mining|exploration leases change ownership in public records.<p>The end goal here is to <i>publicly</i> declare ownership <i>after</i> exploration results (geochimistry, prelim drilling, etc) have been assesed by third party technical reports and put a prospect on the stock market to attract investors. This gets a bit complex when someone else owns a band of rights dead centre through your ROI.<p>This is a use of shell companies that&#x27;s distinct from hiding assets from taxation, it&#x27;s obfuscation for the purpose of getting ducks lined up before going public.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BLKNSLVR</author><text>&quot;Shell corporations are companies that don’t actually do any business&quot;<p>This, I think, is a fairly key differentiator between valid and invalid use of incorporation. If a company doesn&#x27;t do any business, then it shall not have a right to exist as it has no reason to exist, as the reason companies exist is to do business.<p>One may argue there are other reasons a company may exist, but I&#x27;d argue those reasons only exist as an unintended consequence of the ability to exist as &#x27;shields&#x27; or &#x27;cut-outs&#x27; as discovered by those familiar with the peculiarities of international law and accounting&#x2F;finance.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners</title><url>https://gijn.org/stories/tracking-shell-companies-secret-owners/</url></story> |
12,980,663 | 12,980,186 | 1 | 3 | 12,979,074 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arjie</author><text>I&#x27;ve been hearing this sort of thing a lot lately and it has just reinforced, in my mind, that the Catholic Church at the time was a pretty repugnant institution (though this is not nearly the worst of its actions). All of your clarifications only reinforce the belief that Galileo was in the right and the Catholic Church was in the wrong. Abusing power to persecute someone because you were insulted doesn&#x27;t exactly move someone closer to being right.<p>One could make the argument that at the time it was normal to persecute someone because they insulted you and I don&#x27;t want to get into that whole debate about moral relativism, but that&#x27;s not the defence you&#x27;ve brought up.<p>I mean, ultimately they convicted him of heresy for his claims. It&#x27;s not like they were &quot;We condemn you to house arrest for being a dick!&quot;. They were like &quot;We condemn you to house arrest for heresy since you claimed the Earth goes around the Sun!&quot;. And on top of that they go and repudiated his ideas. So not only did they say that the claim was false, they also said that it was such a terrible claim that it qualified for one of the highest kinds of crimes (heresy).<p>There&#x27;s no need for anti-Catholicism here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>Up until college, I had always heard the story of the Catholic Church persecuting Galileo as sort of the prototypical example of the church&#x27;s attitude toward science. As a Catholic, I figured it was an episode where Galileo was clearly in the right and the Church was clearly in the wrong.<p>In college, though, I discovered that many influential Catholics strongly reject the idea that Galileo was persecuted by the Catholic Church because the Church disagreed with his theory or felt it threatened to undermine its teachings:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catholic.com&#x2F;tracts&#x2F;the-galileo-controversy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catholic.com&#x2F;tracts&#x2F;the-galileo-controversy</a><p>tl;dr - It&#x27;s more complicated than the typical anti-Catholic narrative suggests. The episode was primarily a clash of personalities (Galileo was a jerk and insulted thin-skinned Vatican officials who misused their power to punish him), rather than a dispute about science, or even a dispute about the intersection of science and religion.</text></item><item><author>mike_ivanov</author><text>&quot;Update 11&#x2F;15: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Galileo was executed for his beliefs.&quot; -- that should serve as a hint about the overall quality of the article.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Catholics Built Astronomical Features into Churches</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/catholics-built-secret-astronomical-features-into-churches-to-help-save-souls</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>Except the standard narrative is fairly honest, if reductionist. Of course the details are far more interesting, but I find there&#x27;s this new historic revisionism that&#x27;s trying to whitewash Catholic history and its fairly repugnant. Look at your comment. Putting in qualifiers like Galileo was a jerk and those selfless Vatican officials were just a little &quot;thin-skinned&quot; is making excuses to promote a pro-Church narrative and to blame Galileo. You are aware we are discussing the Inquisition here which, if we include the entire church all through Europe, led to the deaths of over 125,000 people. This wasn&#x27;t some protocol slight taken overly-wrongly, but an active system of censorship, oppression, imprisonment, and mass murder Galileo was on the receiving end of.<p>I hate when the &quot;Oh, there&#x27;s more to this story&quot; attitude is used to defend the wrong narrative. I see it all the time on the internet. Edison is on par with Hitler for some reason, Lincoln is a war mongering criminal for going against the peace loving Confederate states, etc. The larger narrative is dismissed for smaller details that are presented in a way to distract or contradict the larger narrative. Its purposely viewing the trees and ignoring the forest. Sadly, its a popular way for disingenuous people to promote their views.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>Up until college, I had always heard the story of the Catholic Church persecuting Galileo as sort of the prototypical example of the church&#x27;s attitude toward science. As a Catholic, I figured it was an episode where Galileo was clearly in the right and the Church was clearly in the wrong.<p>In college, though, I discovered that many influential Catholics strongly reject the idea that Galileo was persecuted by the Catholic Church because the Church disagreed with his theory or felt it threatened to undermine its teachings:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catholic.com&#x2F;tracts&#x2F;the-galileo-controversy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catholic.com&#x2F;tracts&#x2F;the-galileo-controversy</a><p>tl;dr - It&#x27;s more complicated than the typical anti-Catholic narrative suggests. The episode was primarily a clash of personalities (Galileo was a jerk and insulted thin-skinned Vatican officials who misused their power to punish him), rather than a dispute about science, or even a dispute about the intersection of science and religion.</text></item><item><author>mike_ivanov</author><text>&quot;Update 11&#x2F;15: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Galileo was executed for his beliefs.&quot; -- that should serve as a hint about the overall quality of the article.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Catholics Built Astronomical Features into Churches</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/catholics-built-secret-astronomical-features-into-churches-to-help-save-souls</url></story> |
39,931,598 | 39,930,469 | 1 | 3 | 39,929,842 | 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>retrac</author><text>Heat storage has an aspect that was counterintuitive to me, but follows from basic geometry. It benefits greatly from large scale, since the ratio of the volume to surface area [1] decreases the larger you make a container. Accordingly, if a heat tank is large enough, the surface area becomes negligible relative to its volume, and it, in effect, becomes well-insulated by its own mass. For really big tanks, like might be used for an entire town to heat itself over a winter, practical self-discharge rates can be just a few % per month, which is better than most rechargeable battery technologies.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Comparison_of_surface_area_vs_volume_of_shapes.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Comparison_of_surfac...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Government funds pilot project for heated sand energy storage</title><url>https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/04/04/us-government-funds-pilot-project-for-heated-sand-energy-storage/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ejb999</author><text>I am really intrigued by using sand for energy storage - what I don&#x27;t get (not my field) is given a typical 2000sf house, located in the colder part of the country as an example, how much heat could be stored for how long? i.e. is it even feasible to use solar panels to power resistance heaters all spring&#x2F;summer&#x2F;fall, to save up enough heat to keep a house warm for the entire winter? if so, how many panels would you need and how big a sand battery would it take.<p>I am not planning on doing this, but explaining it on a scale that I can relate to would be helpful, because I know, for example, that said house can store a winter&#x27;s worth of heat in a 1000 gallon oil tank, or small woodshed big enough for 6 cords of wood.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Government funds pilot project for heated sand energy storage</title><url>https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/04/04/us-government-funds-pilot-project-for-heated-sand-energy-storage/</url></story> |
11,569,494 | 11,568,255 | 1 | 2 | 11,563,475 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eggy</author><text>Yes, AI and art has been around for a while now, but I thought they were going to show Minecraft running with enhanced textures. I saw the still shot at the end of the article, and was curious. When I went further, and saw a class being offered, I was really excited only to find out it started October 15th 2015, and still has the sign-up listed. Then I tried to possibly join, but after seeing I would need to spend upwards of $388 per year to listen to a conference recording, I bowed out. I am not against paying, but as a hobbyist, I would venture $120 &#x2F; year for access to conference and broadcast recordings, resources and forums. I can see sandboxes and courses being additional.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Minecraft, Enhance :Using Neural Networks to Upscale and Stylize Pixel Art</title><url>https://nucl.ai/blog/enhance-pixel-art/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eropple</author><text>This looks really, really cool. I&#x27;m curious how it handles tiling; I only glanced at the examples but retaining repetition behavior is pretty important for this sort of thing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Minecraft, Enhance :Using Neural Networks to Upscale and Stylize Pixel Art</title><url>https://nucl.ai/blog/enhance-pixel-art/</url></story> |
27,956,197 | 27,955,043 | 1 | 2 | 27,952,176 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jhoechtl</author><text>I call this talking in superlatives. It probably isn&#x27;t exactly the same as the article is talking about but it is related. Especially the youth today prefers talking (and thinking?) in black and white. I think it is the effect of two things:<p>* Media which tries to sell rather mundane news as sensational (exaggerating)
* Management literature which tried the last 30 years hard to push people to the limits, to walk the last mile, to strive for the best, greatest, mediocrity is the evil.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Zak</author><text>The phrases that the study treats as overgeneralizing are:<p><i>all of the time, all of them, all the time, always happens, always like, happens every time, completely, no one ever,
nobody ever, every single one of them, every single one of you, I always, you always, he always, she always, they
always, I am always, you are always, he is always, she is always, they are always</i><p>It&#x27;s not <i>always</i> overgeneralizing to use one of these. &quot;Every single one of them wore black&quot; is (potentially) completely factual. A large increase in their use in books, however suggests that authors are overgeneralizing more than they did previously.<p>Phrase list: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;pnas&#x2F;suppl&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;22&#x2F;2102061118.DCSupplemental&#x2F;pnas.2102061118.sapp.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;pnas&#x2F;suppl&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;22&#x2F;210206111...</a></text></item><item><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>If you look up at the sky and say &quot;oh its sunny today&quot;, you are overgeneralizing because you haven&#x27;t seen the rest of the city. If you had worn masks or started being cautious before COVID was widely acknowledged, you were catastrophizing. If you ever talk or act based on a mental model you have of a friend, you are mindreading.<p>&quot;Cognitive distortions&quot; are the only tools we have to reason about <i>anything</i> in the presence of limited information (which is basically always). Its basically a toolbox to let you discredit <i>any</i> thought whatsoever, which is convenient when a patient writes down negative thoughts and the psychiatrist can just hand them a list. But it would work just as well on positive thoughts or any thought whatsoever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades</title><url>https://www.pnas.org/content/118/30/e2102061118.full</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BeFlatXIII</author><text>Folks who overgeneralize like that are incredibly easy (and unsatisfactory, due to the predictability of a negative response) to troll. Merely be pedantic, provide a counter example, or suggest a thought experiment in which their generalization may not be true.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Zak</author><text>The phrases that the study treats as overgeneralizing are:<p><i>all of the time, all of them, all the time, always happens, always like, happens every time, completely, no one ever,
nobody ever, every single one of them, every single one of you, I always, you always, he always, she always, they
always, I am always, you are always, he is always, she is always, they are always</i><p>It&#x27;s not <i>always</i> overgeneralizing to use one of these. &quot;Every single one of them wore black&quot; is (potentially) completely factual. A large increase in their use in books, however suggests that authors are overgeneralizing more than they did previously.<p>Phrase list: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;pnas&#x2F;suppl&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;22&#x2F;2102061118.DCSupplemental&#x2F;pnas.2102061118.sapp.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;pnas&#x2F;suppl&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;22&#x2F;210206111...</a></text></item><item><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>If you look up at the sky and say &quot;oh its sunny today&quot;, you are overgeneralizing because you haven&#x27;t seen the rest of the city. If you had worn masks or started being cautious before COVID was widely acknowledged, you were catastrophizing. If you ever talk or act based on a mental model you have of a friend, you are mindreading.<p>&quot;Cognitive distortions&quot; are the only tools we have to reason about <i>anything</i> in the presence of limited information (which is basically always). Its basically a toolbox to let you discredit <i>any</i> thought whatsoever, which is convenient when a patient writes down negative thoughts and the psychiatrist can just hand them a list. But it would work just as well on positive thoughts or any thought whatsoever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades</title><url>https://www.pnas.org/content/118/30/e2102061118.full</url></story> |
19,006,590 | 19,006,270 | 1 | 3 | 19,003,974 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drawkbox</author><text>&gt; America is the most powerful nation in the world today not because it has the most number of people, but because it has the best and the brightest, gathered from around the world.<p>I agree, there is a non-quota limited O visa for temporary workers for the best and brightest [1].<p>&gt;&gt; <i>The O-1 nonimmigrant visa is for the individual who possesses extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or who has a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry and has been recognized nationally or internationally for those achievements.</i><p>H-1B is also required for jobs that can&#x27;t be filled but is definitely being abused.<p>The best and brightest from around the world can ALWAYS get in with no limit with the O visa [2].<p>&gt;&gt; <i>There is a misconception about the H-1B program that it was designed to allow companies to import workers with unique talents. There has long been a visa program for exactly that purpose. The O (for outstanding) visa program is for importing geniuses and nothing else. Interestingly enough, the O visa program has no quotas. </i><p>The H-1B abuse is more a situation where large companies are abusing it to lower labor costs and wages while owning employees. It will never affect the best and brightest from working in the US by getting an O visa though.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uscis.gov&#x2F;working-united-states&#x2F;temporary-workers&#x2F;o-1-visa-individuals-extraordinary-ability-or-achievement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uscis.gov&#x2F;working-united-states&#x2F;temporary-worker...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cringely.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;23&#x2F;what-americans-dont-know-about-h-1b-visas-could-hurt-us-all&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cringely.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;23&#x2F;what-americans-dont-know...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>petilon</author><text>America is the most powerful nation in the world today not because it has the most number of people, but because it has the best and the brightest, gathered from around the world.<p>There are 4x as many geniuses in China as in the US. This is not because they are superior genetically. This is simply because the population of China is 4x that of USA. If one in 1,000,000 people are geniuses, then China must have 4x more geniuses than the US. That&#x27;s a threat to the US. If our economy is to remain strong and if we are to remain a superpower we should invite the smartest of the Chinese to immigrate to the US.<p>Abuse of H1B must be stopped. It is not intended as a mechanism for undercutting American workers. But the baby should not be thrown out with the bathwater. We should expand the H1B system and make it easier for immigrants to become citizens, while at the same time preventing abuse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/25/h-1b-oracle-favored-hiring-foreign-graduates-of-u-s-colleges-over-american-grads-feds-allege</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jazzyk</author><text>Legal and controlled immigration is absolutely beneficial for the US overall.<p>But targeting specific industries is unfair - the software industry has been the main target, lowering the income levels respective to other, protected professions (physicians, etc.), or business executives.<p>Since people in the trades like plumbers or electricians do not fall under the umbrella of &quot;importing the best &amp; brightest&quot;, their hourly rates have been going up steadily (for self-employed people).</text><parent_chain><item><author>petilon</author><text>America is the most powerful nation in the world today not because it has the most number of people, but because it has the best and the brightest, gathered from around the world.<p>There are 4x as many geniuses in China as in the US. This is not because they are superior genetically. This is simply because the population of China is 4x that of USA. If one in 1,000,000 people are geniuses, then China must have 4x more geniuses than the US. That&#x27;s a threat to the US. If our economy is to remain strong and if we are to remain a superpower we should invite the smartest of the Chinese to immigrate to the US.<p>Abuse of H1B must be stopped. It is not intended as a mechanism for undercutting American workers. But the baby should not be thrown out with the bathwater. We should expand the H1B system and make it easier for immigrants to become citizens, while at the same time preventing abuse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/25/h-1b-oracle-favored-hiring-foreign-graduates-of-u-s-colleges-over-american-grads-feds-allege</url></story> |
35,419,243 | 35,419,020 | 1 | 2 | 35,400,562 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>I come from a pretty precarious background but through circumstance and luck I&#x27;ve ended up in much higher status environments from a fairly young age. (private school, later tech jobs)<p>The one thing I always cared more about than a lot of kids was money but not status. People who grow up poor tend to really be aware of how much it sucks to not have money. You see it in entrepreneurs in China or former Eastern bloc countries. People who grew up in insecurity tend to be very conscious about access to resources and are very competitive.<p>But status is a different thing. Most people who come from precarious backgrounds in my opinion hate status games because the people who play them the most are anxious upper-middle class people afraid of falling downwards. I think I&#x27;ve probably harmed my career prospects by just being allergic to networking or not going to posh events because of how fake they seem.<p>Also important to point out that status is a complex thing in the sense that a lot of high status people are &quot;performatively broke&quot; because that&#x27;s paradoxically the only way to flex even more if you&#x27;re rich (tech CEOS living in crap houses and sleeping on old mattresses etc), so that makes advice like this even more complicated because it&#x27;s difficult to tell if it&#x27;s genuine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tqi</author><text>On the one hand, sure, status probably is a trap and won&#x27;t bring &quot;true happiness.&quot; And I think this is well meaning advice.<p>But on the other hand, I think it&#x27;s possible that an Ivy League educated founder&#x2F;VC partner&#x2F;executive coach might not be in the best position to see the whole picture. To paraphrase the Aviator[1], you don&#x27;t care about status because you&#x27;ve always had it. I think that for many people who have experienced precarity, rather than being driven by vanity, this pursuit of status is a rational way to increase security.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;br-ljup5Bow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;br-ljup5Bow</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pursuing status will never bring true happiness</title><url>https://every.to/no-small-plans/the-status-trap</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geodel</author><text>True. The way I see is one category of people who would need first hand experience to know status really matters or not. They wouldn&#x27;t find this advice much useful. But there is other group who would rather take the word of someone with status to believe status doesn&#x27;t matter if they are saying so. Simply because they have status so they know better about it.<p>I think at core most of advice from <i>haves</i> to <i>have nots</i> has different effect on smart vs average <i>have nots</i>. Smarts tend to see a kind of hypocrisy in these proclamations. Whereas average folks just see the real world the way it is. So these advise seems useful info coming from important people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tqi</author><text>On the one hand, sure, status probably is a trap and won&#x27;t bring &quot;true happiness.&quot; And I think this is well meaning advice.<p>But on the other hand, I think it&#x27;s possible that an Ivy League educated founder&#x2F;VC partner&#x2F;executive coach might not be in the best position to see the whole picture. To paraphrase the Aviator[1], you don&#x27;t care about status because you&#x27;ve always had it. I think that for many people who have experienced precarity, rather than being driven by vanity, this pursuit of status is a rational way to increase security.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;br-ljup5Bow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;br-ljup5Bow</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pursuing status will never bring true happiness</title><url>https://every.to/no-small-plans/the-status-trap</url></story> |
25,629,029 | 25,628,953 | 1 | 2 | 25,626,389 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jaspax</author><text>I could not agree with the author&#x27;s main point more. Do you know where genuine bohemian living is to be found today? Certainly not in NYC or any other major urban centre. Instead, you need to run off to a dying rust-best town in Ohio and buy out an empty storefront where your neighbours will be a liquor store and a Pentecostal church. There are places where you can pay $200&#x2F;month in rent, or buy a house for under $50k. Go to one of those and build yourself an artistic utopia.<p>Of course my interests are not neutral here. I&#x27;m from a place like this, and after a decade of urban living I decided to move back. It&#x27;s not trendy or sexy, but I encourage people to give it a try.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism</title><url>https://www.granolashotgun.com/granolashotguncom/2mvygaw3y67fx5bqrvno2lp452zifc</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>Berlin is going through this at the moment. From being &quot;poor but sexy&quot; to having everything safe, clean and nice and the rents doubled.<p>Artists (of any kind) don&#x27;t make any money, and don&#x27;t want to waste time making money when they could be making art. So they need cheap places to live. Cheap places are cheap for a reason: there&#x27;s no heating, or the roof leaks, or the kitchen isn&#x27;t really a kitchen, or it&#x27;s miles from anywhere you&#x27;d want to go. That doesn&#x27;t matter if what you really want to do is spend every waking moment creatively and around likeminded people.<p>Apparently Leipzig is where the artists from Berlin are moving now, because it&#x27;s cheap. But who wants to live in Leipzig? It&#x27;s a nothing place.<p>Until 20 years from now, when it&#x27;ll be a cultural centre because of all the artists there... and they&#x27;ll have to move on because the rents will be rising.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism</title><url>https://www.granolashotgun.com/granolashotguncom/2mvygaw3y67fx5bqrvno2lp452zifc</url></story> |
19,791,853 | 19,788,528 | 1 | 3 | 19,788,157 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>idlewords</author><text>As someone who runs a tiny archiving operation (about 70 hard drives) I find these stats invaluable and am so grateful to you for publishing them! You make it a lot easier to navigate an expensive and intimidating world of hardware options.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019</title><url>https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikepurvis</author><text>How have they got 2k boot drives for 100k data drives? Are these special motherboards with 50 (!) SATA connectors on them? Or is it many machines netbooting and share-mounting root from a handful of control nodes? I get that it&#x27;s backup, so most of the data is at rest most of the time, but that still seems like a really high ratio of network ports to disk drives.<p>Either way, interesting that the boot drives are actual drives and not SD card pairs or something, like how vSANs are often set up.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019</title><url>https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/</url></story> |
13,143,302 | 13,143,397 | 1 | 2 | 13,142,418 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pedrocr</author><text>Paper elections are cheap, reliable and more importantly trustworthy even to people that have no idea what a symmetric key, hash or blockchain even is. But we had to go and screw up by creating extremely insecure voting machines and then come up with crazy schemes like this one to fix them. Do people really think all this complexity is a good thing? Paper elections are very well understood but you can easily come up with various exploits to at least disrupt an election under these systems. Once you give me all this shiny new attack surface I can:<p>- Hack the voting machines to just turn on the &quot;duress&quot; mode for everyone, or do it just in the precincts that tend to vote for my opponent<p>- Use my great new paper receipt to prove I have voted for candidate A and collect my bribe as if the paper receipt doesn&#x27;t encode the candidate it&#x27;s useless. I don&#x27;t care to verify if my vote was counted if I can&#x27;t verify that it was counted for my candidate<p>- Hack the voting machines to record candidates at random ignoring the key presses, turning the election into disarray<p>- Selectively deny network access at polling places to create longer queues at the sites where my opponent is stronger<p>I&#x27;m sure you can cause a riot or two pretty easily. The fact that paper is dumb and paper elections use extremely simple technology, math and process is a feature not a bug.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Votebook – A proposal for a blockchain-based electronic voting system [pdf]</title><url>http://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/nyu.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>badsock</author><text>Looking at the &quot;Voting Machine Security Specifications&quot;, it&#x27;s a verified OS image connecting to a VPN over the internet on election day.<p>This means that you have to trust the:<p><pre><code> * VPN
* OS
* Network stack
* Display and input drivers (HW and SW)
* SSD controller
* CPU
* CPU&#x27;s &quot;Management Engine&quot; or equivalent
* Mainboard chipset
</code></pre>
To all be free of exploits and backdoors. You&#x27;re trusting many, many thousands of people, from hundreds of different companies in several different nations, to not have put backdoors in, despite the fact that backdoors and exploits have been discovered after the fact in essentially all of the listed components.<p>I don&#x27;t say this lightly: the authors are dangerous fools. They&#x27;re fools to think that this is secure enough for an election. And they&#x27;re dangerous because someone in power might believe them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Votebook – A proposal for a blockchain-based electronic voting system [pdf]</title><url>http://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/nyu.pdf</url></story> |
20,245,707 | 20,245,408 | 1 | 3 | 20,244,459 | 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>wahern</author><text>* Adding a new field or method to an object at runtime doesn&#x27;t change the AST.<p>* You don&#x27;t translate from bytecode to AST.<p>* In tiered JIT architectures--typical for dynamically-typed languages like JavaScript where as you point out effective types can mutate at runtime--most code is executed by an interpreter, not as compiled machine code.[1] Interpreters are more efficient when executing a bytecode than walking an AST.<p>* Translating an AST straight to machine code is much more difficult than translating a low-level intermediate representation, and such representations are often easy to express as simple bytecodes. Compilers like GCC and LLVM use intermediate representations: RTL and IR. Both are effectively assembly languages, and like all assembly languages trivial to express as bytecode. GCC also has GIMPLE, a higher-level intermediate representation earlier in the pipeline which expresses a generic AST. The fact that GIMPLE and RTL coexist drives home the point that you don&#x27;t want to be translating tree-like representations straight to machine code.<p>* You don&#x27;t need to take my word for this, or the word of anyone else. Every programmer should have experience writing parsers, compilers, and interpreters, regardless of whether they took a class or even went to university. By doing this most of the reasons for the way things are done will become immediately clear to you. Note that splitting strings with regular expressions does not count as parsing, not for these purposes. A good project, however, would be to write a regular expression parser, compiler, and interpreter. There are many examples to follow and you can copy their designs exactly; just don&#x27;t copy+paste as actually going through the motions and understanding the complexities inherent in the implementations is how everything will become clear.<p>[1] How this mutation is handled and why tiered architectures are preferable is another topic entirely.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cogman10</author><text>I&#x27;m unclear, why transform to a bytecode as a first step?
Wouldn&#x27;t it be simpler to instead to transform to an AST and work against that for everything? Wouldn&#x27;t it make sense to generate the bytecode as sort of a last step before doing heavy duty optimizations?<p>Seems like with JS you would be constantly transforming from bytecode -&gt; AST -&gt; bytecode -&gt; machine code, such as every time a method adds a new field to an object or some optimization assumption is violated. It doesn&#x27;t seem like it would be easier or faster to work with. I&#x27;m guessing there wouldn&#x27;t be a whole lot of memory benefits either.<p>Would someone mind illuminating me on this design choice? (Granted, I&#x27;ve not taken a compilers course, so feel free to call me an idiot for not knowing something basic about how compilers work).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore</title><url>https://webkit.org/blog/9329/a-new-bytecode-format-for-javascriptcore/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pizlonator</author><text>AST is less transformable. We transform our bytecode as if it was just an IR.<p>ASTs are a pretty annoying form to use as a source of shared truth for OSR. JSC has 4 tiers so we need a convenient-to-use shared truth IR. That’s what bytecode is for. For example, bytecode offers high-scalability answers to questions like “where should I exit” and “what is live when I get there”.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cogman10</author><text>I&#x27;m unclear, why transform to a bytecode as a first step?
Wouldn&#x27;t it be simpler to instead to transform to an AST and work against that for everything? Wouldn&#x27;t it make sense to generate the bytecode as sort of a last step before doing heavy duty optimizations?<p>Seems like with JS you would be constantly transforming from bytecode -&gt; AST -&gt; bytecode -&gt; machine code, such as every time a method adds a new field to an object or some optimization assumption is violated. It doesn&#x27;t seem like it would be easier or faster to work with. I&#x27;m guessing there wouldn&#x27;t be a whole lot of memory benefits either.<p>Would someone mind illuminating me on this design choice? (Granted, I&#x27;ve not taken a compilers course, so feel free to call me an idiot for not knowing something basic about how compilers work).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore</title><url>https://webkit.org/blog/9329/a-new-bytecode-format-for-javascriptcore/</url></story> |
2,740,041 | 2,739,378 | 1 | 3 | 2,737,645 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prawn</author><text>My brother and I were talking about technology gaps today, specifically about how some older people get stuck day after day in front of their TVs watching trash because they never picked up anything past the VCR, or even the VCR at all (in the case of my grandparents).<p>We talked about a simplified Netflix-type account/device that would make suggestions, be dead simple to use, and allow an 80-90 year old to re-watch old classics, view documentaries and the like without commercials, repeats, confusion, etc. If something reasonable existed, who wouldn't shout their elderly parents or grandparents something like this for $xx/mo. Ideally, older generations would have a diverse range of friends and social activities to while away their hours, but often this just isn't the case and they are stubborn, have language barriers if immigrants, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ajays</author><text>Sometimes I think technology just leaves people behind, with no hope of catching up.<p>About 10 years ago, one weekend I drove up to an ATM in Upstate NY, and found an elderly couple standing there, looking confused. After a minute, I stopped the car and got out. Both were well-dressed (probably coming home from church); the gentleman was about 90; his wife was a similar age.<p>"Is everything OK?" I asked.<p>"Could you help us?", she said (he was too proud to ask for help, I guess).<p>"Sure! What can I do for you?" I replied.<p>"You see, the bank sent us this card and said we should be using it, instead of going to the teller inside. But we don't know what to do with it."<p>Wow. I was shocked. The bank (HSBC) had not even told them how to use the card. And I was surprised that there existed people who didn't know how to use an ATM in this country!<p>So I showed them where to insert the card; told him to enter his PIN (while I looked away so I wouldn't see it). I advised them about the security implications; and how to always collect the card after you're done (those ATMs kept the card for the duration, unlike newer ones where you just swipe).<p>I was left with a sad feeling after that, which I can still remember. If I'm ever designing software for general use, I always think about that couple and try to see it from their eyes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer</title><url>http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/user-testing-in-the-wild-joes-first-computer-encounter/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>Our ATMs (Portugal) are very explicit: <a href="http://casinoonline.co.pt/images/thumbs/casinomultibanco.gif" rel="nofollow">http://casinoonline.co.pt/images/thumbs/casinomultibanco.gif</a><p>The real version is animated (you seen the card entering the slot)
EDIT: <i>Someone made a video...</i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zzEXfX_Otk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zzEXfX_Otk</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ajays</author><text>Sometimes I think technology just leaves people behind, with no hope of catching up.<p>About 10 years ago, one weekend I drove up to an ATM in Upstate NY, and found an elderly couple standing there, looking confused. After a minute, I stopped the car and got out. Both were well-dressed (probably coming home from church); the gentleman was about 90; his wife was a similar age.<p>"Is everything OK?" I asked.<p>"Could you help us?", she said (he was too proud to ask for help, I guess).<p>"Sure! What can I do for you?" I replied.<p>"You see, the bank sent us this card and said we should be using it, instead of going to the teller inside. But we don't know what to do with it."<p>Wow. I was shocked. The bank (HSBC) had not even told them how to use the card. And I was surprised that there existed people who didn't know how to use an ATM in this country!<p>So I showed them where to insert the card; told him to enter his PIN (while I looked away so I wouldn't see it). I advised them about the security implications; and how to always collect the card after you're done (those ATMs kept the card for the duration, unlike newer ones where you just swipe).<p>I was left with a sad feeling after that, which I can still remember. If I'm ever designing software for general use, I always think about that couple and try to see it from their eyes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer</title><url>http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/user-testing-in-the-wild-joes-first-computer-encounter/</url></story> |
18,826,203 | 18,825,922 | 1 | 2 | 18,823,286 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>manfredo</author><text>The absence of content on the AfD could also be due to the relatively young age of the party. It has only existed for 5 years which is extremely young for politics. Even if the leak contains recent data, there has been considerably less time to compromise party members. Being a young party could also mean the party&#x27;s computer infrastructure and practices are more up to date.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Quanttek</author><text>The hack is clearly politically motivated, targeting all but the far-right parties (i.e. AfD is conspicuously missing) and left-leaning public figures. The data is often highly personal, including iCloud dumps, private photos, emails, and messages.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German politicians targeted in mass data attack</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46757009</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chopin</author><text>You mean such data as is collected by the BND at DE-CIX? I have only little sympathy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Quanttek</author><text>The hack is clearly politically motivated, targeting all but the far-right parties (i.e. AfD is conspicuously missing) and left-leaning public figures. The data is often highly personal, including iCloud dumps, private photos, emails, and messages.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German politicians targeted in mass data attack</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46757009</url></story> |
36,946,980 | 36,944,398 | 1 | 3 | 36,942,651 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tracker1</author><text>Given the new 128-core AMD server parts are on-par with ARM in terms of power efficiency and capable of more raw compute, it may even grow a bit.<p>I think there&#x27;s lots of room for ARM, Risc-V and x86_64 in the future. There&#x27;s reasons to support any of them over the others. And given how well developer tool are getting support across them all, it may actually grow a lot. I think the down side is a lot of the secondary compute accelerators, such as what intel is pushing and what the various ARM and Risc-V implementations include in practice.<p>The further from a common core you get, the more complex porting or cross platform tooling gets. Even if for big gains in some parts. For example, working on personal&#x2F;hobby projects in ARM boards that aren&#x27;t RPi is sometimes an exercise in frustration, with no mainline support at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slfnflctd</author><text>When I think about how long chips like the 6502 have still been in active use (almost 50 years now), it is hard to conceive of a world where there isn&#x27;t a significant presence of x86 activity for the rest of my life.<p>The majority of &#x27;the market&#x27; may go elsewhere, but for a gazillion reasons, x86 will not be disappearing for quite a while. At this point it would honestly surprise me if we didn&#x27;t at least have high quality emulation available until the end of the human race as we know it.<p>Sure, we&#x27;ve probably lost most of the software ever written on it, but a whole lot of interesting artifacts from a key transition point for our species still remain locked up in this architecture.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>x86 is dead, long live x86</title><url>https://engineering.mercari.com/en/blog/entry/20230731-x86-is-dead-long-live-x86/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>riffic</author><text>A thing&#x27;s future longevity can sometimes be predicted by how long it&#x27;s already been around.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slfnflctd</author><text>When I think about how long chips like the 6502 have still been in active use (almost 50 years now), it is hard to conceive of a world where there isn&#x27;t a significant presence of x86 activity for the rest of my life.<p>The majority of &#x27;the market&#x27; may go elsewhere, but for a gazillion reasons, x86 will not be disappearing for quite a while. At this point it would honestly surprise me if we didn&#x27;t at least have high quality emulation available until the end of the human race as we know it.<p>Sure, we&#x27;ve probably lost most of the software ever written on it, but a whole lot of interesting artifacts from a key transition point for our species still remain locked up in this architecture.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>x86 is dead, long live x86</title><url>https://engineering.mercari.com/en/blog/entry/20230731-x86-is-dead-long-live-x86/</url></story> |
41,208,089 | 41,205,422 | 1 | 2 | 41,200,881 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atoav</author><text>If you truly worry about the performance of your webpage there are many, <i>many</i> places to optimize before ever considering the problematic CDN option. I suggest optimizing everything else first. How many pages I have seen that load 3 fonts with 8 variants each while using <i>one</i> font with two variants is too damn high. The amount of people who don&#x27;t know how to scale and compress images as well.<p>I know this is not how most sites operate these days, but consider that your visitor wants to visit <i>you</i> and getting <i>your</i> website. Whenever you embed stuff from other servers you not only gift away your user-data and breach their trust, you just doubled your attack surface and lowered the reliability of your site. And for <i>what</i> exactly?<p>My suspicion is that developers find it easier to paste a CDN include than downloading the file and including it themselves. Because performance my ass.<p>That&#x27;s a bit like that cookie notice thing. Guess what: if you don&#x27;t collect personal data and store it on your users computer, you don&#x27;t need to ask them for consent and suddenly your site looks a lot cleaner and needs to deliver less data.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Security and privacy risks of public JavaScript CDNs</title><url>https://httptoolkit.com/blog/public-cdn-risks/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>antifa</author><text>Regarding the alleged performance benefits of using a public CDN: if there ever was a cache hit because a user visited one site then yours that coincidentally used the same CDN and query version (pro tip: never happened), and in a short enough time to not suffer a cache eviction, the user did not notice.<p>When the CDN was slow, every user noticed and thought your website was slow.<p>You gave away free analytics and made your website worse, there wasn&#x27;t even a trade off.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Security and privacy risks of public JavaScript CDNs</title><url>https://httptoolkit.com/blog/public-cdn-risks/</url></story> |
32,925,945 | 32,925,841 | 1 | 3 | 32,924,587 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>catapart</author><text>One thing I really like about CloudFlare is that they seem to have people who can correctly identify friction-points for developers and have a solid plan on how to solve them. Looking forward to messing with this!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloudflare’s Zero Egress Fee Object Storage, R2, Is Now GA</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-ga/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fabian2k</author><text>I find it much easier to reason about pure storage-based pricing compared to storage and egress-based pricing. I can much easier limit how much people can store in my application than add something much harder to understand like transfer quotas. So independent of how R2 compares purely on price I think having a big entry with a much simpler pricing scheme is a win already.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloudflare’s Zero Egress Fee Object Storage, R2, Is Now GA</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-ga/</url></story> |
9,962,601 | 9,962,182 | 1 | 2 | 9,961,537 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>parasubvert</author><text>Ultimately I&#x27;d say Cloud Foundry solves the problem but requires a lot of &quot;support&quot; VMs to make it work such that it might be overkill for your situation.<p>For example:<p>- What underlying OS? CF provides a minimal Ubuntu Linux &quot;stemcell&quot; and then has a standard &quot;rootfs&quot; for Linux containers<p>- a Python buildpack to assemble the container on top of this OS for your Flask server<p>- a built-in proxy&#x2F;LB so you don&#x27;t need one, if you want a static web server there&#x27;s a static buildpack for Nginx<p>- an on demand MariaDB Galera cluster for your database if you want HA; PostgreSQL is there too but non-HA I think<p>- A standard environment variable based service marketplace &amp; discovery system for connecting the containers to each other or to the database<p>- high availability (with load balancer awareness) for your containers at the container, VM or rack level<p>- reliable log aggregation of your containers (which you can divert to a syslog server).<p>As I said the only trouble is when you want to make this &quot;bulletproof&quot; is that there are a dozen &quot;support VMs&quot; are all there to make your app bulletproof and secure, e.g. an OAuth2 server, the load balancer, an etcd cluster, Consul cluster, and the log aggregator, etc. So it&#x27;s overkill for one app, but good if you have several apps.<p>For single tenants and experimental apps, there&#x27;s <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lattice.cf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lattice.cf</a> which runs on 3 or 4 VMs and is a subset of the above, but not what I&#x27;d call &quot;production ready&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>therealmarv</author><text>I would be sold on Docker if that would be easy. I have e.g. this stack:<p>- 1 webserver&#x2F;proxy, let&#x27;s say nginx<p>- 1 simple Rest API server, let&#x27;s say in flask<p>- 1 database, let&#x27;s say PostgreSQL<p>and I want to connect all 3 things and I want to preserve logs for the whole time and preserve the state of the database (of course). Also not to forget make all bulletproof for the Internet.<p>And here all sorts of problems arise: What underlying OS, how to connect this containers, how to preserve state of my database and logs (it&#x27;s not trivial as the article proofs again).
So overall Docker makes life not easier on this simple use-case, it makes life (of the sysadmin) more complicated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production</title><url>http://sirupsen.com/production-docker/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Benjamin_Dobell</author><text><i>- 1 webserver&#x2F;proxy, let&#x27;s say nginx</i><p><i>- 1 simple Rest API server, let&#x27;s say in flask</i><p>Dokku - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;progrium&#x2F;dokku" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;progrium&#x2F;dokku</a><p>Can&#x27;t really beat `git push deploy&#x2F;uat`<p><i>- 1 database, let&#x27;s say PostgreSQL</i><p>I just run PostgreSQL on the host and connect to it from the containers. Sure I could containerise PostgreSQL itself but I don&#x27;t really see the point.<p>I then run my own Dokku plugin (dokku-graduate: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;glassechidna&#x2F;dokku-graduate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;glassechidna&#x2F;dokku-graduate</a>) for graduating my apps from UAT to production.</text><parent_chain><item><author>therealmarv</author><text>I would be sold on Docker if that would be easy. I have e.g. this stack:<p>- 1 webserver&#x2F;proxy, let&#x27;s say nginx<p>- 1 simple Rest API server, let&#x27;s say in flask<p>- 1 database, let&#x27;s say PostgreSQL<p>and I want to connect all 3 things and I want to preserve logs for the whole time and preserve the state of the database (of course). Also not to forget make all bulletproof for the Internet.<p>And here all sorts of problems arise: What underlying OS, how to connect this containers, how to preserve state of my database and logs (it&#x27;s not trivial as the article proofs again).
So overall Docker makes life not easier on this simple use-case, it makes life (of the sysadmin) more complicated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production</title><url>http://sirupsen.com/production-docker/</url></story> |
18,680,035 | 18,679,904 | 1 | 3 | 18,675,776 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>romanovcode</author><text>Using .NET Core on production here.<p>&gt; but delivering solutions on time and with minimum maintenance requirements afterward is just easier in python or JAVA<p>I would agree if you would replace Python&#x2F;Java with Node, but with these languages I don&#x27;t see it.<p>&gt; on time and with minimum maintenance requirements afterward<p>This is my Dockerfile, it is serving me without changes (technically replacing 2.1 with 2.2 is a change) for more than 6 months.<p><pre><code> # Build assets
FROM node:8-alpine AS assets
WORKDIR &#x2F;app
COPY src&#x2F;Website&#x2F;Package.json .&#x2F;Website&#x2F;package.json
COPY src&#x2F;Website&#x2F;Gulpfile.js .&#x2F;Website&#x2F;
COPY src&#x2F;Website&#x2F;Static&#x2F;. .&#x2F;Website&#x2F;Static
WORKDIR &#x2F;app&#x2F;Website
RUN npm install
RUN npm run build
# Build project
FROM microsoft&#x2F;dotnet:2.2-sdk-alpine AS build
WORKDIR &#x2F;app
COPY src&#x2F;Website&#x2F;*.csproj .&#x2F;Website&#x2F;
WORKDIR &#x2F;app&#x2F;Website
RUN dotnet restore
WORKDIR &#x2F;app
COPY src&#x2F;Website&#x2F;. .&#x2F;Website&#x2F;
WORKDIR &#x2F;app&#x2F;Website
RUN dotnet publish -c Release -o dist
# Run project
FROM microsoft&#x2F;dotnet:2.2-aspnetcore-runtime-alpine AS runtime
WORKDIR &#x2F;app
COPY --from=build &#x2F;app&#x2F;Website&#x2F;dist .&#x2F;
COPY --from=assets &#x2F;app&#x2F;Website&#x2F;Static&#x2F;dist .&#x2F;Static&#x2F;dist
RUN rm &#x2F;app&#x2F;Data&#x2F;Log&#x2F;.gitkeep
ENTRYPOINT [&quot;dotnet&quot;, &quot;Website.dll&quot;]
</code></pre>
&gt;But maybe I’m missing something?<p>I think you might be.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>Do people really use .NET core, and if so, why?<p>We’ve been a C# house for several years, decades really, and I’ve always preferred it to JAVA so I’m actually excited for Core.<p>But we rarely use it. Not because it’s not great, rather because we’re more productive with flask or Django. For Core to really make sense for us, it’d would have to stop being so damn low level, but I guess that maybe it can’t without sacrificing too much efficiency. More importantly it needs better libraries for things that aren’t “built-in”.<p>I can certainly see why .NET developers welcome it, because they finally have good cross platform ability. At least until they need to do authentication on a non-standard SAML token, that though easily supported by ADFS but is a bitch in any .NET setup.<p>I know we aren’t most use cases, being the public sector and running a gazillion different tech stacks at once, but .NET has never played well once you stepped outside it’s comfortzone and it’s always been so low level that writing library extensions were a bitch. And that may have worked out, so far, but I just don’t see why people stick with it when there are more productive alternatives.<p>I say productive, because I don’t think .NET core is lacking technically, but delivering solutions on time and with minimum maintenance requirements afterward is just easier in python or JAVA and I’d imagine others as well.<p>But maybe I’m missing something?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Exploring the .NET Core Runtime</title><url>http://www.mattwarren.org/2018/12/13/Exploring-the-.NET-Core-Runtime/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kungito</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked in many languages including C#, Python,Javascript, Typescript, Haskell and while I understand Python and Javascript are amazing for prototyping, I don&#x27;t see the advantage in the &quot;on time with minimum maintenance&quot; which Python has against C#.<p>Could you please expand on this one?</text><parent_chain><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>Do people really use .NET core, and if so, why?<p>We’ve been a C# house for several years, decades really, and I’ve always preferred it to JAVA so I’m actually excited for Core.<p>But we rarely use it. Not because it’s not great, rather because we’re more productive with flask or Django. For Core to really make sense for us, it’d would have to stop being so damn low level, but I guess that maybe it can’t without sacrificing too much efficiency. More importantly it needs better libraries for things that aren’t “built-in”.<p>I can certainly see why .NET developers welcome it, because they finally have good cross platform ability. At least until they need to do authentication on a non-standard SAML token, that though easily supported by ADFS but is a bitch in any .NET setup.<p>I know we aren’t most use cases, being the public sector and running a gazillion different tech stacks at once, but .NET has never played well once you stepped outside it’s comfortzone and it’s always been so low level that writing library extensions were a bitch. And that may have worked out, so far, but I just don’t see why people stick with it when there are more productive alternatives.<p>I say productive, because I don’t think .NET core is lacking technically, but delivering solutions on time and with minimum maintenance requirements afterward is just easier in python or JAVA and I’d imagine others as well.<p>But maybe I’m missing something?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Exploring the .NET Core Runtime</title><url>http://www.mattwarren.org/2018/12/13/Exploring-the-.NET-Core-Runtime/</url></story> |
37,849,723 | 37,848,285 | 1 | 2 | 37,842,006 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>svat</author><text>(1972), reprinted as Chapter 11 of <i>Selected Papers on Computer Science</i> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.stanford.edu&#x2F;~knuth&#x2F;cs.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.stanford.edu&#x2F;~knuth&#x2F;cs.html</a>) [Changes are usually minor but in this case there&#x27;s an erratum published in 1976, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;800127.804066" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;800127.804066</a> p 108.]<p>Fun fact: to write this paper, Knuth actually learned ancient Akkadian and Sumerian (at least enough to look up dictionaries):<p>&gt; <i>Most of the Babylonian mathematical tablets have never been translated into English. The translations above have been made by comparing the German of [3, 4, 5] with the French [8]; but these two versions actually differ in many details, so the Akkadian and Sumerian vocabularies published in [4, 8, 6] have been consulted in an attempt to give an accurate rendition.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ancient Babylonian Algorithms</title><url>https://fermatslibrary.com/s/ancient-babylonian-algorithms</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xylol</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au&#x2F;units&#x2F;CITS1001&#x2F;extension&#x2F;ancient-babylonian-algorithms.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au&#x2F;units&#x2F;CITS1001&#x2F;extension&#x2F;an...</a><p>Link to pdf</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ancient Babylonian Algorithms</title><url>https://fermatslibrary.com/s/ancient-babylonian-algorithms</url></story> |
24,592,047 | 24,591,502 | 1 | 2 | 24,590,174 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gkoberger</author><text>Mozilla (the Company) has always had problems. They want to be something they&#x27;re not. But the people on the Mozilla engineering team are top-notch and rarely affected by company drama (and probably feel the same way as you do about it).<p>Mozilla is one of the few places you can do this specific type of really interesting engineering work, without having to be at Google&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;etc.<p>(ex-Mozillian here :) )</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjordan</author><text>It&#x27;s nice to see some actual good news involving Firefox. With all of the leadership and financial struggles lately, it&#x27;s made me worry that the browser I&#x27;ve been using for the last 17 years doesn&#x27;t have long to live. Hopefully that is not the case.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/1PHhxBxSehQ</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>The_Colonel</author><text>&gt; years doesn&#x27;t have long to live<p>the market share is really worrying but OTOH Mozilla just secured another multi year deal with Google so in the short-medium term they are fine financially. I hope that a reason for all those projects cuts is at least partially creation of finacial reserves, in theory they do have enough cash and momentum to stay technologically relevant for at least 10 years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjordan</author><text>It&#x27;s nice to see some actual good news involving Firefox. With all of the leadership and financial struggles lately, it&#x27;s made me worry that the browser I&#x27;ve been using for the last 17 years doesn&#x27;t have long to live. Hopefully that is not the case.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/1PHhxBxSehQ</url></story> |
27,032,263 | 27,032,428 | 1 | 3 | 27,030,399 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>Anything that&#x27;s a monopoly good whose supply is fixed &amp; unchangeable. Things like the electromagnetic spectrum, satellite orbitals, fisheries, carbon emissions, rights-of-way, drilling rights, etc. Note that there&#x27;s a bit of a continuum between &quot;natural resource&quot; and &quot;externality&quot; - on one hand you have something like land, on the other carbon emissions, but those are just two sides of the same concept.<p>If we moved to a system where data about a person was owned by the person rather than the corporate entity that collected the data, then usage of that data is another good candidate for taxation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fighterpilot</author><text>Land taxes are one of the few taxes that don&#x27;t disincentive productive activity.<p>Are there any others like it (aside from externality taxes)?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2020)</title><url>https://www.mercatus.org/publications/urban-economics/liberalizing-land-use-regulations-case-houston</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dcolkitt</author><text>Theoretically, any good with a perfectly inelastic supply.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fighterpilot</author><text>Land taxes are one of the few taxes that don&#x27;t disincentive productive activity.<p>Are there any others like it (aside from externality taxes)?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2020)</title><url>https://www.mercatus.org/publications/urban-economics/liberalizing-land-use-regulations-case-houston</url></story> |
23,181,421 | 23,179,575 | 1 | 3 | 23,178,123 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>polskno288</author><text>Washington politicians know American workers won’t organize a work stoppage<p>Or even put up a serious threat of one<p>Tech workers especially have little excuse, since it’s a matter of leaving that work laptop closed<p>No one in tech seems to remember SOPA<p>Workers seem oblivious to what recent teacher strikes achieved<p>Hong Kong protests in the face of a tyrant<p>Y’all bloviate all over your screens<p>Who is more exceptional?</text><parent_chain><item><author>badrabbit</author><text>Actual terrorists(like 9&#x2F;11 type, well funded) know better than to even touch anything digital for comms. They literally get a drone strike for having called a known terrorist or for going to a wedding other terrorists with cell phones go to.<p>For home grown terrorism, how many school shootings happen when the people who know the shooter literally tell police&#x2F;fbi beforehand about the state of the shooter. Are school shooters not terrorists? They have a social&#x2F;political gripe and the terror is their way to get their voice out, avenge (like jihad) or inflict change. So why are they failing so bad even after almost 20 years of patriot act?<p>Politicians don&#x27;t want to be blamed because they know the next terrorist attack will happen soon and it can&#x27;t be prevented,except the politicians that gut the patriot act will be blamed for it. On the flip side,information on voters,tracking them like this helps politicians</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/13/us_spying_laws/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JoeSmithson</author><text>&gt; Actual terrorists(like 9&#x2F;11 type, well funded) know better than to even touch anything digital for comms<p>Shit like this is said all the time on HN with absolutely nothing to substantiate it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>badrabbit</author><text>Actual terrorists(like 9&#x2F;11 type, well funded) know better than to even touch anything digital for comms. They literally get a drone strike for having called a known terrorist or for going to a wedding other terrorists with cell phones go to.<p>For home grown terrorism, how many school shootings happen when the people who know the shooter literally tell police&#x2F;fbi beforehand about the state of the shooter. Are school shooters not terrorists? They have a social&#x2F;political gripe and the terror is their way to get their voice out, avenge (like jihad) or inflict change. So why are they failing so bad even after almost 20 years of patriot act?<p>Politicians don&#x27;t want to be blamed because they know the next terrorist attack will happen soon and it can&#x27;t be prevented,except the politicians that gut the patriot act will be blamed for it. On the flip side,information on voters,tracking them like this helps politicians</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/13/us_spying_laws/</url></story> |
23,114,792 | 23,114,580 | 1 | 3 | 23,113,600 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ken</author><text>&gt; Yeah, the story is about firing whistleblowers, not about a random Canadian Distinguished Engineer’s reaction to it. So news organizations should follow the primary sources, not me.<p>Yes and no. I appreciate where he&#x27;s coming from, but &quot;mega-corporation exploits and mistreats blue-collar workers&quot; isn&#x27;t new. That happens every day, and has since corporations have existed.<p>&quot;White-collar worker quits over own company&#x27;s treatment of blue-collar workers&quot; <i>is</i> news. It points to a shift: even the people profiting off this are starting to think it&#x27;s getting ridiculous.<p>I&#x27;m having trouble thinking of any other cases where this has occurred. The only thing that comes to mind is Gates and Buffet saying they should pay higher taxes, but that has much less personal impact on them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On responses to “Bye, Amazon”</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/05/06/Answers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tybit</author><text>Brad Porters response is really disappointing.<p>It’s possible that he and his team are doing everything in their power but that Amazon completely fails it’s warehouse workers nonetheless.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On responses to “Bye, Amazon”</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/05/06/Answers</url></story> |
12,297,098 | 12,296,250 | 1 | 3 | 12,295,458 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saturn_vk</author><text>Its almost exactly the same as gradle java projects. Each module there has a &#x27;src&#x27; directory where all code and whatnot lives. And nothing&#x27;s stopping you from having a one-liner bash script that sets up the base as the GOPATH and then running `go build`&#x2F;</text><parent_chain><item><author>bschwindHN</author><text>It&#x27;s opinionated, and not the good kind. Some people like having simply a `projects` directory with <i>all</i> coding projects inside. For almost any language, I can clone into this directory and run the associated build scripts. But Go has to be special and use a <i>special</i> directory or else it throws a hissy fit.<p>Aside from that, I do enjoy the language a fair amount.</text></item><item><author>thewhitetulip</author><text>If you mean the $GOPATH directory notation, then I beg to differ, it is one of the favorite things about Go for me, because it is the repo which has all my Go code.<p>For other languages I have a `code` folder which has individual language folders and it contains project. Go has it by default.</text></item><item><author>deallocator</author><text>I must admit I was kind of hoping they&#x27;d fixed their horrible requirements for your directory structure, interesting article nonetheless</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7</title><url>https://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2016/08/go-1.7-ssa.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>gernest</author><text>You can make a sub directory of your `projects` your GOPATH.<p>Something like `projects&#x2F;go`<p>I have multiple GOPATH for personal reasons and use long running tmux sessions which exports the different GOPATH.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bschwindHN</author><text>It&#x27;s opinionated, and not the good kind. Some people like having simply a `projects` directory with <i>all</i> coding projects inside. For almost any language, I can clone into this directory and run the associated build scripts. But Go has to be special and use a <i>special</i> directory or else it throws a hissy fit.<p>Aside from that, I do enjoy the language a fair amount.</text></item><item><author>thewhitetulip</author><text>If you mean the $GOPATH directory notation, then I beg to differ, it is one of the favorite things about Go for me, because it is the repo which has all my Go code.<p>For other languages I have a `code` folder which has individual language folders and it contains project. Go has it by default.</text></item><item><author>deallocator</author><text>I must admit I was kind of hoping they&#x27;d fixed their horrible requirements for your directory structure, interesting article nonetheless</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7</title><url>https://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2016/08/go-1.7-ssa.html</url></story> |
23,344,082 | 23,341,844 | 1 | 3 | 23,336,247 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cl0rkster</author><text>I agree completely. Reading these responses, there&#x27;s a lot of negativity to communicating with your manager. While I&#x27;ve been in times that I completely understand this, I chose my latest job purely on manager. It pays less and I couldn&#x27;t be happier. He was innovative in using a shared Google doc that gets updated with tasks, goals, and progress by both of us daily. We meet officially on a schedule once a week, but often chat in the interim. Personally, I use the Google doc as my running, living Todo list. It helps keeps thoughts organized, and my manager sees a lot more than he ever could in a daily stand up. Sometimes, here&#x27;s even able to proactively assist. Which, if you work hard, is an excellent thing. My manager and I would never hang out as friends, but we&#x27;re both fascinated by technology and business culture and speak on it often. Worry more about positive relationship than specific method, I&#x27;d say. And if you hate your manager, job search on primarily that criteria and take a job your want with enthusiasm even if it pays less. You can&#x27;t quantify peace in dollars.</text><parent_chain><item><author>moriarty-s3a</author><text>This is completely cultural. I had a manager that I didn&#x27;t meet in person for over a year and he was constantly sharing stuff like this with me, frequently multiple times a day. As the sibling points out, if you aren&#x27;t speaking with your manager weekly, or really almost daily, then something is very wrong.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&gt; This is doubly true of my bosses. It sucks, but there&#x27;s no way around it.<p>So many opportunities in my life have come from casual interactions with my bosses, i.e. they spot something in an email and because I am sitting nearby, they propose it to me or they are coming out of a meeting and mention some corporate goal.<p>Working remotely, I do not even speak to my boss every week now. I am a microservice outputting work.</text></item><item><author>ahh</author><text>Humans don&#x27;t have emotional object permanence.<p>My ex-girlfriend described herself this way to me once and I thought it was funny, but it&#x27;s in fact true of people in general: if you&#x27;re not physically present near them, they will forget that you really exist as a human and a social peer. It&#x27;s unfortunate but it&#x27;s true: you are going to naturally think more about and have better feelings about the coworkers you see every day in person. No, VC doesn&#x27;t count. I think this is pretty much a human universal; the only exceptions I know are quite far on the autism spectrum. (Even I notice myself doing this, and I&#x27;m definitely somewhere on that line.)<p>Given that, I want to be in the room with my coworkers. I want them to unconsciously think of me as part of their tribe, and I want to feel the same way about them; that means we need to be able to perform regular in-person social petting. This is doubly true of my bosses. It sucks, but there&#x27;s no way around it.<p>(Also, while this is less universal, there are plenty of extroverts, even on HN. I&#x27;m one. It&#x27;s ironic, in that I <i>also</i> suffer from pretty nasty social anxiety; large rooms of strangers scare me and choke me up. But lock me in a room by myself for a month and I go crazy. I am happier, by far, when I can be in the same room as people I like.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/remote-work-perks-until-want-promotion/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MattGaiser</author><text>Fair, it is going to depend on the boss and how your office interactions were before everything went remote.<p>&gt; if you aren&#x27;t speaking with your manager weekly, or really almost daily, then something is very wrong.<p>I am someone who likes a lot of autonomy.<p>In-office, beyond my Scrum team, I am otherwise trusted to deliver what I need to deliver. That leads to few check-ins and mostly social banter with my boss as I will be in touch if I require anything. No news means all is well.<p>It is just that remote removes most of the social banter and problems don&#x27;t pop up for weeks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>moriarty-s3a</author><text>This is completely cultural. I had a manager that I didn&#x27;t meet in person for over a year and he was constantly sharing stuff like this with me, frequently multiple times a day. As the sibling points out, if you aren&#x27;t speaking with your manager weekly, or really almost daily, then something is very wrong.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&gt; This is doubly true of my bosses. It sucks, but there&#x27;s no way around it.<p>So many opportunities in my life have come from casual interactions with my bosses, i.e. they spot something in an email and because I am sitting nearby, they propose it to me or they are coming out of a meeting and mention some corporate goal.<p>Working remotely, I do not even speak to my boss every week now. I am a microservice outputting work.</text></item><item><author>ahh</author><text>Humans don&#x27;t have emotional object permanence.<p>My ex-girlfriend described herself this way to me once and I thought it was funny, but it&#x27;s in fact true of people in general: if you&#x27;re not physically present near them, they will forget that you really exist as a human and a social peer. It&#x27;s unfortunate but it&#x27;s true: you are going to naturally think more about and have better feelings about the coworkers you see every day in person. No, VC doesn&#x27;t count. I think this is pretty much a human universal; the only exceptions I know are quite far on the autism spectrum. (Even I notice myself doing this, and I&#x27;m definitely somewhere on that line.)<p>Given that, I want to be in the room with my coworkers. I want them to unconsciously think of me as part of their tribe, and I want to feel the same way about them; that means we need to be able to perform regular in-person social petting. This is doubly true of my bosses. It sucks, but there&#x27;s no way around it.<p>(Also, while this is less universal, there are plenty of extroverts, even on HN. I&#x27;m one. It&#x27;s ironic, in that I <i>also</i> suffer from pretty nasty social anxiety; large rooms of strangers scare me and choke me up. But lock me in a room by myself for a month and I go crazy. I am happier, by far, when I can be in the same room as people I like.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/remote-work-perks-until-want-promotion/</url></story> |
32,167,346 | 32,167,078 | 1 | 2 | 32,155,610 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dspillett</author><text><i>&gt; We had to spend a week back and forth with</i><p>We&#x27;ve had similar out of a pen test that noted we were using nginx for some of our internal dashboards&#x2F;tools and the version running (1.18 IIRC) was officially EOLed upstream so a high security issue.<p>They initially wouldn&#x27;t listen to the argument that we use stable&#x2F;LTS Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu release only, and those hold functionality stable (which is one of the key reasons to use them) and backport security updates where relevant. We pointed them at the package changelogs and they were convinced that there was still a vulnerability not patched but for some reason didn&#x27;t want to tell us which, when we finally got that out of them it turned out to be one that was introduced in a later version so was never relevant in the first place for the one the stable repositories included.<p>You would think a penetration testing company would have a clue about something so common…</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacobyoder</author><text>Had to deal with some automated scan tool telling a client &quot;you have log4j - you&#x27;re vulnerable!&quot; when... we didn&#x27;t. A project was including a dependency on SLF4J and <i>that</i> project pulled in slf4j-log4j (IIRC). But it was not configured, wasn&#x27;t compiled in to the final jar, and ... even it was, it was <i>very old</i> log4j (1.1 or 1.2 IIRC?). The vulnerability didn&#x27;t affect that older version.<p>We had to spend a week back and forth with<p>&quot;no, we&#x27;re not vulnerable&quot;.<p>&quot;But we see log4j is right there in the a file in the directory&quot;.<p>&quot;No, it&#x27;s not vulnerable and it&#x27;s not being used and we can&#x27;t reasonably fork the entire dependency just to remove that one sub-dependency from our project&#x27;s dependency&quot;<p>&quot;But we see log4j is right there in the a file in the directory&quot;.<p>Also, there was no budget to do any sort of rewrite&#x2F;refactor&#x2F;etc anyway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Log4j: The pain just keeps going</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/log4j-the-pain-just-keeps-going-and-going/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>Been in similar situations, it is not fun.<p>&quot;You have a vulnerable version of netty&quot;<p>&quot;No, we don&#x27;t, that&#x27;s a false positive&quot;<p>&quot;No see, the tool says you need netty 4.x and that&#x27;s version 1.x, you need to update&quot;<p>&quot;OK, but the tool is wrong, it&#x27;s just picking up anything with &#x27;netty&#x27; in the name, and that component is a wrapper around netty for some other thing, it only goes up to 1.8&quot;<p>&quot;You have to update it to 4.x, this is a vulnerability&quot;<p>&quot;Do you understand this isn&#x27;t part of the thing you&#x27;re concerned about&quot;<p>&quot;I am only concerned about shipping a product without vulnerabilities&quot;<p>&quot;Well this isn&#x27;t one, because it&#x27;s a false positive, here&#x27;s the CVE, here&#x27;s what it applies to, here&#x27;s the link to this package on maven central, it&#x27;s not part of netty, back off&quot;<p>&quot;But it&#x27;s insecure, the tool says so&quot;<p>We went round and round for about 3 hours until I told the guy (an infosec &#x27;pro&#x27;) to leave me alone until he&#x27;d figured out how to do his job... he came back to me the next morning for another 3 hour slack argument along the exact same lines at which point I told him to leave me alone permanently and communicate through management if he had anything to say. I&#x27;m not massively impressed with infosec as a profession after a few similar encounters.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacobyoder</author><text>Had to deal with some automated scan tool telling a client &quot;you have log4j - you&#x27;re vulnerable!&quot; when... we didn&#x27;t. A project was including a dependency on SLF4J and <i>that</i> project pulled in slf4j-log4j (IIRC). But it was not configured, wasn&#x27;t compiled in to the final jar, and ... even it was, it was <i>very old</i> log4j (1.1 or 1.2 IIRC?). The vulnerability didn&#x27;t affect that older version.<p>We had to spend a week back and forth with<p>&quot;no, we&#x27;re not vulnerable&quot;.<p>&quot;But we see log4j is right there in the a file in the directory&quot;.<p>&quot;No, it&#x27;s not vulnerable and it&#x27;s not being used and we can&#x27;t reasonably fork the entire dependency just to remove that one sub-dependency from our project&#x27;s dependency&quot;<p>&quot;But we see log4j is right there in the a file in the directory&quot;.<p>Also, there was no budget to do any sort of rewrite&#x2F;refactor&#x2F;etc anyway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Log4j: The pain just keeps going</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/log4j-the-pain-just-keeps-going-and-going/</url></story> |
2,739,428 | 2,739,465 | 1 | 2 | 2,739,047 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>This is totally besides the point. He was simply responding to the notion that the ease of the act mitigated the severity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>speckledjim</author><text>Not a great analogy. Nothing was taken.<p>It would be more accurate to say that you left your curtains open, and someone took a picture of the inside of your house through the windows.<p>Maybe an invasion of privacy, but not theft.</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&#62; While some of the "hacking" was no more than calling into voicemail accounts with no pin/password set...<p>Taking stuff from my house is still robbery even if I left the front door open.</text></item><item><author>dspillett</author><text>While some of the "hacking" was no more than calling into voicemail accounts with no pin/password set (though most instances would have involved at least caller-id spoofing), it will hopefully (yeah, right, says the cynic in me) make the tabloid rags more careful about overstepping their bounds in future.<p>The scandal, which blew up massively again after evidence was presented of them interfering with a missing-persons/murder enquiry and has only got worse after evidence that the families of bombing victims and those injured/killed in overseas conflicts were also subject to similar invasion of privacy, has caused significant activity in government and a large amount of embarrassment for News International - possibly to the point of threatening their attempt to buy the rest of Sky.<p>I wonder how many more phone and email hacking/monitoring scandals, involving the media or other organisations, will drop out of the woodwork following (or during the investigation of) this one...<p>edit: removed the quotes from "news"paper in the title. A tad hypocritical of me to editorialise like that while taking shots at a tabloid!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Newspaper to close its doors over hacking scandal.</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&#62; It would be more accurate to say that you left your curtains open, and someone took a picture of the inside of your house through the windows.<p>And if I was naked at the time, and if they then sold those pictures of me, I'm fairly certain it would be a crime.</text><parent_chain><item><author>speckledjim</author><text>Not a great analogy. Nothing was taken.<p>It would be more accurate to say that you left your curtains open, and someone took a picture of the inside of your house through the windows.<p>Maybe an invasion of privacy, but not theft.</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&#62; While some of the "hacking" was no more than calling into voicemail accounts with no pin/password set...<p>Taking stuff from my house is still robbery even if I left the front door open.</text></item><item><author>dspillett</author><text>While some of the "hacking" was no more than calling into voicemail accounts with no pin/password set (though most instances would have involved at least caller-id spoofing), it will hopefully (yeah, right, says the cynic in me) make the tabloid rags more careful about overstepping their bounds in future.<p>The scandal, which blew up massively again after evidence was presented of them interfering with a missing-persons/murder enquiry and has only got worse after evidence that the families of bombing victims and those injured/killed in overseas conflicts were also subject to similar invasion of privacy, has caused significant activity in government and a large amount of embarrassment for News International - possibly to the point of threatening their attempt to buy the rest of Sky.<p>I wonder how many more phone and email hacking/monitoring scandals, involving the media or other organisations, will drop out of the woodwork following (or during the investigation of) this one...<p>edit: removed the quotes from "news"paper in the title. A tad hypocritical of me to editorialise like that while taking shots at a tabloid!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Newspaper to close its doors over hacking scandal.</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733</url></story> |
16,762,241 | 16,762,215 | 1 | 3 | 16,755,530 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mekoka</author><text>Just because you can&#x27;t see the destructive nature of a technology does not mean it doesn&#x27;t have one. Sometimes it&#x27;s a matter of perspective and context.<p>When gunpowder was invented the purpose was medicinal, three centuries later we had cannons.<p>Many things in our world seem positive on the onset, but give it some time and start looking from different angles and you&#x27;re bound to find some potentially detrimental use.<p>Granted some inventions like nuclear energy and nitroglycerin, both intended for constructive purposes, have a more obvious destructive potential. An example that better connects with your question is a company such as Monsanto.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jsilence</author><text>please help me understand how a substance that turns sand into soil, developed to green the deserts, can be used as a weapon.<p>To me this argument that &quot;anything can be used in evil ways&quot; is a poor excuse used to distract from the issue.</text></item><item><author>colordrops</author><text>Almost any technology can be weaponized. It&#x27;s not about the particular technology you work on, but who it&#x27;s being built for and the intended application.</text></item><item><author>cmontella</author><text>As a roboticist at the beginning of my career working on drones, I decided then and there that I would never make &quot;bombs&quot;, a metaphor I used to mean anything that could be weaponized. I realized a lot of the work I was doing was funded by DARPA, and I was very cognizant about my research being used in this way. And like Dr. Kearns suggests, it&#x27;s not entirely black and white. Would my path planning algorithm be used to more efficiently deliver scientific payloads to the atmosphere, or would it be used to route missiles to maximize casualties? Hard to really say, but I&#x27;ve avoided overtly military applications (even things like BigDog, designed to carry equipment for troops).<p>Sometimes the distinction is even more insidious. I did work on perpetual flight for drones, and Facebook had a perpetual flight project that had the goal of bringing internet access to remote locations in Africa. Sounds humanitarian, but I also didn&#x27;t want to be responsible for subjecting poor Africans to what I consider Facebook&#x27;s panopticon. Or maybe it would have been a net boon for the region? It&#x27;s really hard to tell a priori, so the best I have managed for myself is just to try and stay in theory, where developments are further removed from direct consequence.</text></item><item><author>betolink</author><text>From the movie &quot;Flash of Genius&quot; about Robert Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper:<p>&quot;I can&#x27;t think of a job or a career where the understanding of ethics is more important than engineering,&quot; Dr. Kearns continues. &quot;Who designed the artificial aortic heart valve? An engineer did that. Who designed the gas chambers at Auschwitz? An engineer did that, too. One man was responsible for helping save tens of thousands of lives. Another man helped kill millions.&quot;<p>&quot;Now, I don&#x27;t know what any of you are going to end up doing in your lives,&quot; Dr. Kearns says, &quot;but I can guarantee you that there will come a day when you have a decision to make. And it won&#x27;t be as easy as deciding between a heart valve and a gas chamber.&quot;<p>To me this is incredibly valid for Silicon Valley engineers these days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-ceo-pentagon-project.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>headsoup</author><text>Depends on whether you see this &#x27;greening the desert&#x27; as destructive to the environment or not I suppose.<p>And then perhaps there&#x27;s a question of who owns this now greened and more usable desert?...</text><parent_chain><item><author>jsilence</author><text>please help me understand how a substance that turns sand into soil, developed to green the deserts, can be used as a weapon.<p>To me this argument that &quot;anything can be used in evil ways&quot; is a poor excuse used to distract from the issue.</text></item><item><author>colordrops</author><text>Almost any technology can be weaponized. It&#x27;s not about the particular technology you work on, but who it&#x27;s being built for and the intended application.</text></item><item><author>cmontella</author><text>As a roboticist at the beginning of my career working on drones, I decided then and there that I would never make &quot;bombs&quot;, a metaphor I used to mean anything that could be weaponized. I realized a lot of the work I was doing was funded by DARPA, and I was very cognizant about my research being used in this way. And like Dr. Kearns suggests, it&#x27;s not entirely black and white. Would my path planning algorithm be used to more efficiently deliver scientific payloads to the atmosphere, or would it be used to route missiles to maximize casualties? Hard to really say, but I&#x27;ve avoided overtly military applications (even things like BigDog, designed to carry equipment for troops).<p>Sometimes the distinction is even more insidious. I did work on perpetual flight for drones, and Facebook had a perpetual flight project that had the goal of bringing internet access to remote locations in Africa. Sounds humanitarian, but I also didn&#x27;t want to be responsible for subjecting poor Africans to what I consider Facebook&#x27;s panopticon. Or maybe it would have been a net boon for the region? It&#x27;s really hard to tell a priori, so the best I have managed for myself is just to try and stay in theory, where developments are further removed from direct consequence.</text></item><item><author>betolink</author><text>From the movie &quot;Flash of Genius&quot; about Robert Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper:<p>&quot;I can&#x27;t think of a job or a career where the understanding of ethics is more important than engineering,&quot; Dr. Kearns continues. &quot;Who designed the artificial aortic heart valve? An engineer did that. Who designed the gas chambers at Auschwitz? An engineer did that, too. One man was responsible for helping save tens of thousands of lives. Another man helped kill millions.&quot;<p>&quot;Now, I don&#x27;t know what any of you are going to end up doing in your lives,&quot; Dr. Kearns says, &quot;but I can guarantee you that there will come a day when you have a decision to make. And it won&#x27;t be as easy as deciding between a heart valve and a gas chamber.&quot;<p>To me this is incredibly valid for Silicon Valley engineers these days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-ceo-pentagon-project.html</url></story> |
23,194,570 | 23,189,924 | 2 | 3 | 23,170,881 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>The problem with &quot;by top score&quot; is it would itself influence the scoring, even if only some people used it. The oldest comments would stay at the top of such a list, because they get seen more and thus have more opportunities for upvotes, creating a self-sustaining cycle. You always need a time counterweight.</text><parent_chain><item><author>n_t</author><text>Is it possible to add some basic sort options for comments - latest and top score?</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>If you want to reply about comment sorting and ordering, do so here.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>Replies to this top comment have been quite a job to juggle. My approach has been to reply and then detach them, so as to minimize distraction at the top of the thread. Unfortunately, that has led to the same questions being asked over and over, so I&#x27;m going to move all the replies underneath this stub, and then collapse it. The reason for a stub root comment rather than just collapsing all the replies is that a list of dozens of collapsed replies would take up most of the page.<p>I&#x27;m also going to partition them by topic, since there are so many.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>All: apologies for the interruption, but don&#x27;t miss that there are multiple pages in this thread, with over 2000 posts by now. You have to click through the More links at the bottom to see them all. Later pages have all kinds of stuff that is just as interesting. It&#x27;s kind of incredible.<p>(We intend to get rid of pagination once the next implementation of Arc is ready.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?</title><text>For those who are still under lockdown, what are you working on &#x2F; building &#x2F; learning?<p>I&#x27;ve been making excessive amounts of bread.</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>p4bl0</author><text>That would be nice. And also a way to wrap all comments that are replies to first-level comments so that we can see all these and only reaf discussions on projects that interest us.</text><parent_chain><item><author>n_t</author><text>Is it possible to add some basic sort options for comments - latest and top score?</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>If you want to reply about comment sorting and ordering, do so here.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>Replies to this top comment have been quite a job to juggle. My approach has been to reply and then detach them, so as to minimize distraction at the top of the thread. Unfortunately, that has led to the same questions being asked over and over, so I&#x27;m going to move all the replies underneath this stub, and then collapse it. The reason for a stub root comment rather than just collapsing all the replies is that a list of dozens of collapsed replies would take up most of the page.<p>I&#x27;m also going to partition them by topic, since there are so many.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>All: apologies for the interruption, but don&#x27;t miss that there are multiple pages in this thread, with over 2000 posts by now. You have to click through the More links at the bottom to see them all. Later pages have all kinds of stuff that is just as interesting. It&#x27;s kind of incredible.<p>(We intend to get rid of pagination once the next implementation of Arc is ready.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?</title><text>For those who are still under lockdown, what are you working on &#x2F; building &#x2F; learning?<p>I&#x27;ve been making excessive amounts of bread.</text></story> |
41,728,636 | 41,727,513 | 1 | 2 | 41,726,452 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gillesjacobs</author><text>In Belgium, it is relatively easy to get &quot;artist-statute&quot; which is a subsidized higher monthly welfare income (Basic Income for artists). Belgium runs on the &quot;subsidize-and-conquer&quot; paradigm, the tax burden is one of the highest in the world. The government keeps lower class happy with welfare, the upperclass with culture and mainly business subsidies. The productive middleclass is effectively squeezed.<p>The art sector here is mostly publicly funded. This too has advantages for our gov: no artists will criticize the subsidizer of their lifestyle, so no real anti-authoritarian culture takes hold. Don&#x27;t bite the hand that feeds.<p>You&#x27;d think Belgium would have some impressive world-class artists, since so many can work unbothered by the oppressive forces of market trends. Not surprisingly, mediocrity, irrelevance and low-output are the norm.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who Pays for the Arts?</title><url>https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a62394281/who-pays-for-the-arts/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>julianeon</author><text>I&#x27;m reading a book called Culture Crash, which is relevant here. I also read Sinykin&#x27;s Big Fiction a while back, so you could say I&#x27;ve been reading abou the culture industry.<p>Culture Crash makes this interesting point: Did you know there used to be widely read, culturally relevant, AND Nobel Prize worthy (like actual contenders to win), poets? Unimaginable now but true in living memory. They didn&#x27;t even have to be attached to a University, financially speaking. Like your male or female co-worker might hear that such an such a poet was coming out with a new book, and buy it, and then for a few weeks the cultural conversation would be dominated by this - a book of poetry. Which people 50 years from now would be reading in lit classes.<p>The general point of these books (summarizing a lot here) is that the cultural infrastructure has been falling away for decades now, and there isn&#x27;t much left. At this point literature has been &quot;captured&quot; by the University, but it&#x27;s for a good reason: you can&#x27;t survive as a fiction writer without it. People complain &quot;but they&#x27;re so insular&quot; but the truth is: they don&#x27;t have an alternative. You can work at a University or you can not be a full-time writer: that&#x27;s your choice.<p>This is true of other industries too. Music: you used to be able to support yourself as a studio musician. You might also be the guy who was the resident expert on classical music for the neighborhood at the store, who would recommend operas conducted by Karajan and the best recordings from Deutsche Grammophone (I remember those guys). Art: you could paint signs or design posters, back when there was a real demand. Writing: you could write for the alternative weeklies (I&#x27;d read those) or be a regular journalist, writing as little as one story a day. Movies: you could be a video clerk (I also remember this). And those &#x27;subcultures&#x27; were incubators. Quentin Tarantino graduated from the video store in a sense. Who can follow him, if there are no video stores anymore?<p>So this crisis in nonprofit funding really is coming at the end of a much longer crisis in the arts in general. It should be seen in that context.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who Pays for the Arts?</title><url>https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a62394281/who-pays-for-the-arts/</url></story> |
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